WEBVTT - Sterling 1-2-26 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:11.000 Well, well, happy New Year to you. An ugly Liverty 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:15.680 Bowl experience for the football bear Cats thirty five thirteen 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:20.600 Navies midshipman handling them relatively easily. How you doing? It's 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.079 sterling sick for a second New Year's in a row, 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.799 hopped up on goofballs and Nike will and we'll try 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.800 to get this out of our systems. You know, let's 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.879 do this. I would like to open up the phones 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.839 immediately if we can. And what I would like to 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:42.640 do is see exactly where people stand and feel about 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.839 this Cincinnati football bear Cat team. And you know, you 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:49.280 talk about the portal, You talk about guys being able 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:51.640 to go from one school to another and better their 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.800 situation and have really the ability to move like a 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.160 lot of us in the regular world of going to 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.400 make some money and make the most money we can 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.600 for the work that we do. And certainly that's what 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.440 these young college athletes are doing. But you get a 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:11.440 quarterback who you know, bounces out because there's opportunity to 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.240 go somewhere else. I have a lot of questions about 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.840 the inner workings of how that plays. Does that mean 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.880 that the future school that they may be going to 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.600 once they enter the portal has reached out to them 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.160 or their management and said, hey, we're looking for you 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.800 and we're gonna bring you know whatever amount of cash 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.400 money to you. And then you kind of go, all right, well, 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:34.720 i don't need to be there for that bowl game. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.839 I'm moving on up or in this situation. And coaches 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.120 have been doing it for a long time. Cincinnati's dealt 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.360 with that too, And what was interesting to hear Dan 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.720 Horde and you know, you know, think about that with 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.640 Tony Pike and you hear not so much of it, 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.120 and be interested to hear coaches show about this because 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.400 a lot of people hating on Saturfy like it's his fault. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.840 Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But what is wild 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:01.120 to me is you look at this and you kind 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:06.240 of go, I guess the regular season is the regular season, 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.320 and then you get to boll time, and unless you're 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.960 in a top tier college football playoff bowl scenario or 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.640 something like that, or the school's already backed up the 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:18.880 truck forverbially speaking, to give you whoever it is that 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.560 is looking to bounce a way to stay because they're 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.280 going to bring them more love when it comes to 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.600 cash money. Because that's what this is all about. Then, 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.440 I don't know how you navigate this. And what was 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:35.640 interesting is during the broadcast is they're talking about Navy, 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.320 and they talk about Army, and they're talking about the 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.679 military teams in general. Those guys don't have the portability 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.720 because they're in the military. They may be going to school, 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:48.320 they may be student athletes, but in the end, they're 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:52.600 still in a situation where effectively they're on the hook 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.720 for whatever amount of years that they're giving up to 0:02:55.840 --> 0:03:00.160 serve this nation in a uniform in some capacity. And 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:05.160 UC doesn't have that luxury. Kentucky doesn't have that luxury. Indiana, 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.720 who continues to play on in the College Football Playoff, 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.480 does not have that luxury. No one else but these 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:14.480 military teams. So that's an interesting wrinkle to it. Five one, three, seven, four, 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.320 ninety seven, eight hundred, the big one. You can pick 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.600 up the phone, give it the finger, as mister k 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:21.560 used to say, go old friend of mine. You can 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:23.760 talk back on the iHeartRadio app. We have a lot 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.400 of ground to cover. Later on, by the way, we'll 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.760 talk to Chick Ludwig. We'll break down the Bengals game 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:30.640 as they wrap up their season. We'll talk a little 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.680 bit more about portability and how the college game has 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.960 been forever changed, at least until they do something different, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:40.960 I suppose is the best way to look at that. 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.760 We'll also talk to uc Helse doctor Christine O'Shea about 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.240 living better in the new year and getting healthy and 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.400 navigating perhaps what is an extended long holiday hit the 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:56.360 bottle kind of over celebration situation in the new year 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.600 that is just a baby twenty twenty six, as well 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:01.800 as the flu season, which I do not know if 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:03.680 I have the flu or not. I called the doctor 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:05.280 and they were like, don't come here, go to the 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.400 urgent care, which sort of defeats the purpose of having, 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:11.960 you know, a doctor is sort of the way I 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:13.400 look at it. So we'll talk to her about that 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.640 as well. Doctor Dona Schlit going to join us former 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.560 out of political science at Right State talk about the 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.000 terrorist attack that was foiled thanks to the FBI. She 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.000 wrote the first textbook on terrorism, so we'll get into 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:28.159 her head about the threat and how much greater or 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.680 not as great as it is in the past and 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.159 in the United States, and the danger that is out there. 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.880 So in the meantime, give you a chance to sound 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.000 off about those football Bearcats, about this Bowl loss thirty 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:44.760 five thirteen to Navy West Side. David is first Jay 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.960 after that in Room for You, and again the number 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.960 seven four nine, seven, eight hundred, the big one was Sterling, David, 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.280 I appreciate your patience. Happy New Year, and how about 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:53.880 those football Bearcats. 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.880 Happy new Year, Sterling, loveless Dentilia and just right when 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.440 you started it got me five. I'm a season ticket 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:06.680 older for both basketball and football, and uh, I just 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.479 basically have gotten to the point where I keep telling 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.919 and Joko and my friends were, we're mediocre. We're just 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:18.880 happy to be okay, and I'm tired of its. 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:20.320 I don't think that's the right way to live. 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.960 I know I agree with it. And we we're Cincinnati, 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.400 for God's sakes. We've got we you know. Brian Kelly 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.840 and uh Luke Fickle put us back on the map. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.360 Bob Huggins put us on the map, and Luke and 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:33.440 Nick Crony kind. 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:33.960 Of kept us there. 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.680 And I don't know what this athletic director and Pinto 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.640 on down. They just don't care and they don't realize 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:44.160 that sports, Yes, academics drive at university but shoot me, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:48.000 academics drive university with sports really drives it because of 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.440 the reputation and that I'm I'm I'm so depressed. I'm 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:52.840 just tired of just sucking. 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.200 I really wasn't trying to bring it down, but it is. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:01.080 It's a difficult circumstance that we're all sort of navigating. 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.320 What I wonder is this because I mean, here's a 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.880 football program at the University of Cincinnati. It's only been 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.120 in the Big twelve a little while. They've got to 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.320 navigate trying to find players and bring them in to say, hey, 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.279 we're trying to get to the next level in the 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.960 Big twelve and there and they're having to compete with 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:21.200 everybody else. So I mean, this whole circumstance is a 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:26.039 lot more challenging and difficult than anything that's been navigated before. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.160 How much in short oord because it go about thirty seconds. 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:30.520 I want to be on time for news for once 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.840 this year to start yep and go from there. I mean, 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.240 who do you blame the most? Is it the system? 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.279 Is it the university and the way they navigated which 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:40.560 is what you initially said, or. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.520 What great question? 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.320 I think it all? I mean it starts with winning. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.640 And that's what Sadderfield got brought in to do, to win, 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.440 and that starts with John Counningham for hiring him. You've 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.359 got to go with the tools that you have, and 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:53.960 when you start winning, that can take. 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:54.560 A little bit less. 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:56.480 You can make a little bit. You can make. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.960 Another player come this way. If you're winning, you're getting 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.360 on TV and you're doing some great things, and then 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.040 they may take a little bit less to come there. 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.159 But it's all about reputation. It's all about perception, and 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.880 it starts at the top. And you know what, that's 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:10.480 where he's getting paid for it, and he's not doing 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:10.880 his job. 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:12.680 David, I hope you have a great in. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:14.400 In my opinion. 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.760 My opinion, Well I got you. I mean, the record 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.400 is the record. The final score tonight is the final 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.400 score of this Liberty Bowl in Memphis, which I love 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:26.040 Memphis barbecue. By the way, thirty five thirteen Bearcats falled 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:27.720 in Navy? What else you got before I bounce you 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:28.760 your final thought. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:30.280 I'll leave you go on. That's the good news? 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.480 Was is I bet against the Bearcats on draftings that 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:33.280 I cast in. 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:38.320 Oh oh, that's terrible, Greg Jay Terry others will hit 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.240 the phones after or NOTHINGY know, what's going on? A 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.600 rim planet Earth And here in the Tri State it's 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:46.200 a Friday, sterling. The weekend is here. Bearcat's a tough 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.160 time in Memphis town as they fall to Navy. Give 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.400 you a chance to sound off straight away seven hundred 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.320 wulw that after falling in Memphis the Liberty Bowl for 0:07:55.480 --> 0:08:00.920 the shipman midshipman of a Navy thirty five thirty. The 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:04.960 portal and ability for players to move around bit the 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.440 Bearcats at the back end, maybe a little bit. Some 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.680 say it was at Sadderfield, or some say it's the 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:13.160 way it was managed to the university. I think it's 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.920 challenging in general, probably for any program, let alone bounce 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.800 it into a relatively new to the big twelve stills 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:21.840 trying to figure that out, get to the next level 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:23.760 in this But and I'm not trying to be an apologist. 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.080 I'm gonna know what you think. Five point three seven 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.080 four nine seven eight hundred the big one long holiday 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.920 weekend last couple of weeks. I'll disjoin it with the 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.439 holidays falling in the middle of the week. I'm just 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:38.320 kind of curious, do you think that now because everybody thought, well, 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.319 this is the way a team can get better fast 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:44.680 by going out effectively with free agency and getting players 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:48.240 that were sort of held hostage previously when they're athletic 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:52.440 directors or coaches would regularly bounce. Cincinnati dealt with it. 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.880 Other schools have dealt with it with their head coach, 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.720 and all of a sudden disappears before a bowlgamer Otherwise. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.360 Now you get starting quarterbacks going in what a portal time, 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.040 bouncing somewhere else. They're back in the truck up to 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.600 pay me, and you kind of got to figure out, well, then, 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:08.400 what level are you on when it comes to the 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.360 money that you can bring for these players, because like 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.520 all of us, they're looking out for themselves because they 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.839 have to. Five point three seven four nine seven eight 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.400 hundred the big one Mount Carmel, Terry, appreciate your holding 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.160 with Sterling. Happy new year here on seven hundred WLW. 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.160 What's going on, Sterling? 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:25.560 How are you? 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:27.640 I think I'm all right as far as I know you. 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.640 Hey, I think I think money is completely ruined this sport. 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.400 I don't agree with this this transfer porter at all 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.439 to me. The stores beat character that kind of epitomizes 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.480 that he hasn't even picked what school he goes to 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:43.200 and he sells out his team. Yeah, I just I 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:47.520 just think it's completely Runney. Is this completely run college football? 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:49.880 I mean, what if I get a scholarship? I mean, 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:50.720 how do we deal with that? 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:51.200 You know? 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.160 So if somebody gets a scholarship, do they get to 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.440 take the scholarship with them? If they transfer up their 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:57.400 another school. 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:01.400 That's probably up for negotiation, right how many? 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:04.440 Yeah? I don't blame Thater for it. I mean this 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.600 is like the second year in a row this has happened. 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:07.199 Do you see it? 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.600 You know, with a transfer porter and all these guys 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.640 lean to get a bowl game. I mean, to me, 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.920 you know if they shouldn't be allowed you know, it 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.240 is what it is. But to me, they shouldn't be 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.400 allowed to transfer out. You have you know, you're done 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:24.640 with the season, you get a bowl game. You know, 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.200 that's just basically it didn't play your ball game? Didn't 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.280 you transfer out? Because to me, just like to sell 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.400 them uc out man. Basically, I don't know. 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.280 Thank you, sure, no terror, I appreciate the comments. Thank you. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.440 It's a tough spot. I mean, what do you do 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.200 if you're a parent, and I don't mean of a 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.320 current student who's a fan. I'm talking about if you're 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.160 a parent of a player who's lucky enough to have 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.439 the talent and have somehow found their way to the 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.560 University of Cincinnati or any other school around the country 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.480 that gets to a point where it's bowl season and 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.040 you're on the cuspa of being at the ball And 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:58.400 it wasn't just quarterback. I mean a lot of other 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.040 guys do the same thing. And it was really an 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:06.920 amazing thing and arguably somewhat surprising that this Bearcats football 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:10.880 team did as well as they did. I mean, and 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.800 maybe I'm a little like being soft as far as 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.400 the critical nature of the way that I'm looking at it, 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.080 but I mean, it's challenging. I'm not sure how you 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.160 navigate that unless you're at a higher level with more money. 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.120 But if you're a parent, or if you're a player 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:29.680 or those counseling them, and you're looking at, well, do 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.679 I play in this ballgame and I can get my 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.640 leg broken, I can get my shoulder ripped off, I 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.760 could get a Joe Burrow toe situation or something else 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.440 along those lines. And then wherever you were trying to 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.240 go probably not the opportunity that you thought it was 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.720 going to be, and then you kind of go, well, 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.400 where do you fall where you are, whether it's at 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.000 UC or another school, in that sipe of situation, it's 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.960 very difficult. And unless you have a contract that is 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.360 written with the player the way you would at the 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.360 pro level or in just about any other business that says, 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.840 here's the deal. You stay for a bowl game if 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.560 it's at this level, and there's this kind of bonus money, 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.000 and then there's that kind and I don't when I 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.480 talk to Chick Ludwig later, who's covered Bengals and bear 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.920 Cats and everything else from the ND five hundred do 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.280 you name it? You hear him here on the Big 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.280 One all the time. You'll hear him getting you ready 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:23.160 for some stuff tomorrow night here on seven hundred WLW. 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:24.960 He'll join me in just well less than an hour 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.640 now and we'll talk about all of this as well. 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.080 I'm just wondering, as a fan to U see, as 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.280 a parent, to U see students, as someone who is 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.400 in and around the tri State, how much of this 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.679 it's sort of I'm trying to think of the best 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:43.440 way I can describe it. There was a point in 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:47.360 time when I was a kid, and it was very 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.080 short because I'm in the window of maybe the generation 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.960 before me as a Reds fan, as a Bengals fan, 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.800 where you had guys that you grew up watching and 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.760 hearing being talked about on the big one, and you 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:04.080 go to Riverfront and then Synergy and then pay Corps, 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:08.480 and then you would watch and at some point in 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.680 that window of time when I was a tiny sterling, 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.600 you'd see these players that would then be able to 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:17.160 go to another team to better their financial situation with 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.440 free agency and so forth, and all those things that 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.160 have changed the game and the portability of the pro 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.440 player in some ways has made it very difficult to 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.400 have that same type of good feeling after that first 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.679 contract or two coming up from the minor leagues in 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.959 baseball or otherwise, and even in the NFL now, I mean, 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.160 things have changed a bit, but the college thing, it's 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.360 not as pure as is one would hope it would 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.800 be in that regard. But the idea I've heard. I 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:46.520 had a neighbor given me grief yesterday about this. It 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.200 wasn't really grief. Let me just say he was complaining 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.880 he was bitching and moaning about it, and he was saying, 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.080 you know, it's unfair and these kids should just stay 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.960 and all this or what about the student athlete, Well, 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.319 they haven't just been student athletes for a long time, 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.040 and there have been coaches that have been making millions 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.400 and millions of dollars for a long time. And it 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.600 wasn't that long ago that Maurice Clarek, for instance, and 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.320 a lot of other players around, and he was at 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.080 Ohio State. Of course, who ends up getting involved in 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.080 something else trying to us to make a little bit 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.080 of extra money. I think he sold like one of 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:18.800 those little trinkets or something with the you know, the 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.760 pants that are gold or whatever for the Buckeyes to 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.640 sit and chickle. Know that because he lives it and 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:27.040 breezes it. But in that situation, you know, they couldn't 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.280 even take a part time job the way I did 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.480 working at the college radio station, because it would cross 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.240 the line of one them being able to do what 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.960 they're doing for a football program or a basketball program, 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.840 depending whatever it is. And that also it would as 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.800 their favorability because there's something impropriety wise being looked at 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.480 or talked about in the way that you know their 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:51.680 finances are done compared to someone else is very odd. 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:53.640 And it's been that way, or was that way for 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.280 a long long time. Now what we're seeing is sort 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.520 of the real world in a small little window that 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:03.400 we thought with something else is pure. Now it's just 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.360 like everything else. I suppose. I'm not quite sure what 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.440 it means to us as fans. But if you're a 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.520 player in that situation, what else you're gonna do protect 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:16.040 yourself and your future? I mean, it's on to the 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.280 next one. Mount healthy, David, you're with Sterling five one, three, seven, four, nine, 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.720 eight hundred, the big one. What about these football Bearcats 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.880 who fell in Navy tonight thirty five thirteen at the 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:24.480 Liberty Bowl. 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.120 Yeah, well, you know, Saturfield probably isn't the right guy 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:29.480 to be head coach bat Higher. 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.000 But really, what I wanted. 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.800 To say is it's time to get rid of the 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:34.680 Bowl games. 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:36.320 Right their time has passed. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.040 They were nice, but the world's moved on and their 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.680 meaningless exhibition games. And if you're not going to get 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.360 rid of all of the Bowl games, should at least 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.160 reduce them down to a couple handful. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.960 And the problem you know that might be the case. 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.160 So the only ones you keep are what the college 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.400 football playoff and then the rest of the teams do 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.920 what in the smaller conferences or teams that aren't quite there. 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.080 Well, you know, if you don't make the playoffs, I mean, 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:02.880 your season's over, just like if you don't make the 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.120 you know, the big tournament. I guess they could start 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.320 doing littler playoffs. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:09.680 Or something like that. 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:11.720 You know, everyone's always gonna try to want to make money, 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.920 but frankly they should just you know, if you're out 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:19.000 playing exhibition, it's contact football. People are going to get hurt, 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.120 So there's no reason for supposed to be risking that 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.000 kind of stuff. But the game's meaningless. 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:24.560 Do you play games. 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.920 Football games that have meaning to them because it's such 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:28.880 a risky, high impact sport. 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.680 Well, you're quite right in a fashion. I mean, for 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.040 a long time, there have been so many, you know, 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.680 Bowl games in the first place, that it was like overwhelming. 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:39.840 It's like, you know, day after day after day week 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.480 it seems like a couple of weeks there's been Bowl 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.160 games almost twenty four to seven. I'm only exaggerating a 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.880 little bit. So you know, you bring good yeah. 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.600 Well, when you have six and six teams and five 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.240 and seven teams and seven and six teams, you know, competing, 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:59.240 it's it's frankly, it's poor competition. And uh yeah, and 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.880 that's why I know I was up to play. And 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.720 this leads everyone frustrated. So we it's time for the 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:05.399 world to move on. 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.840 David, I appreciate the com man, thank you. And that's 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.280 challenging because you have all these sponsors, you have all 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.720 these cities, you have all these stadiums, you have all 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:18.280 these college football teams, and the idea of some type 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.959 of celebration on a mediocre or six and you know, 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:22.800 a five hundred season, you get to a bowl game 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.600 of some sort. But there's TV money at stake, and 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.840 that's a lot of money. So maybe you have a 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.119 larger pool of money from each of these bowl games 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.639 that goes to the players on top of it to 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.760 make it worth their while to stay I suppose, I mean, 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:43.040 I I'm just you know, spitballing thinking of ideas here 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:47.399 that might actually avoid a circumstance like the you know, 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.200 everybody who's a football Bearcat fan and a whole lot 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.639 of other teams around the country having to sort of 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.480 make sense of what this circumstance is here as well. 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.359 If you didn't hear it earlier, if you didn't watch 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:00.480 it earlier, you're on the road hanging out out you know, 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:04.840 long New Year's Weekend, seven hundred WLW Sterling hanging out, 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.600 Dan Hord earlier, Tony Pike, mowegor you heard him from Memphis, 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:13.399 the Liberty Bowl, Navy all over, the Cincinnati Bearcats thirty 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.840 five thirteen. And you get a quarterback who bails out 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.720 onto the next school. Perhaps you're right for more money. 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.359 That's what it's about. Other players as well, So they 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.840 got to go deeper into the depth chart. And these 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.439 military teams say, that's a very interesting circumstance because you 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:32.119 can't just bail out on the military. You go a waywall. 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.560 Oh I'm gonna go to another school and make more money. No, 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:36.720 you'll go to prison, You'll go to the brig You 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.880 can't do that. It's different for everybody else. The Green 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.320 Township in Nate was Sterling on seven hundred WLW Nate. 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.320 What do you think, Hey, how's it going? 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.240 That's you know, if you're a Bearcats fan, not good. 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.560 But otherwise I've got the flu. I'm fine, I'm hopped 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.080 up on caffeine and emergency. I'm great. 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.600 That's good. Yeah, this is gonna get a lot, but 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.439 I'm try get our quickly. For so, I think the 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:05.640 way that you fix this this whole thing is one 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.240 you've got to have some sort of clause and coaches 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.440 contracts five or ten million dollars at the school that 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.320 they're going to go to has to pay as a fee, 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:18.040 which is you know, small peanuts for some schools. But 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.800 I think there should be a coaching change window, much 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:27.359 like the transfer portal window opening that starts after the 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:32.680 college football playoff concludes, and then the transfer portal doesn't 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:35.720 open until after that's done. I think that's kind of 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:40.399 the first thing. And then once that, once that all 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.280 gets done, there also needs to be some some sort 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:47.879 of penalization for the players that try to transfer that 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:51.840 are going to stay in school, obviously, and if they're 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.600 not going to stay in school, then there needs to 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:58.119 be there's some elegitibility hits or something that stopped them 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.240 from going to school to school, so that would keep 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:04.879 if they're not declaring for the NFL draft, obviously, you 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:06.720 know there's going to be some sort like it used 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:09.320 to be. And if they are going to declare, then 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:11.360 they can sit out the bowl game. But I think 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:13.719 that there needs to be some sort of requirement that 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.520 they also have to play in a bowl game if 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:17.560 they're going to stay in school. 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.680 Yeah, that's an interesting angle on that, and that could 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.880 solve some of it. And then it's tough. I think 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.040 you'll start hearing guys beg out because of some type 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:28.440 of injury because when that portal comes staying in school 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:32.160 or otherwise to another place. Because again, there's so much 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:36.040 money at stake. I mean, unless it's just purely about winning, 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.560 but let's be honest, this is about their future and 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.560 making more money than they would likely make generally if 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:45.960 they just graduated and got a real life job. So 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:47.600 I mean, this is their chance to get as much 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:50.440 as they can for as long as they can, because 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:52.440 the NFL is certainly no guarantee. 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:55.480 Yeah, yeah, I mean it's a good point. 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:59.680 It's tough. Well, I don't have any better ideas. I'm 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:01.920 not hating on it. I'm just saying it's a lot 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:04.879 to sort of process. I think, what's the thing my 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:06.320 mom used to tell me when I was a kid, 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.440 like an unintended consequences. Sometimes right you try and I've 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:11.920 lived with this, or you try to do the right 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:13.760 thing and try to be nice and it comes back 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:15.919 and bite you. This might be it. I appreciate the 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.240 call man. Thank you one more here before the break, 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.439 Paul and Xenia. I played putt Putton Zenia and there 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:24.080 was a horrible tornado there about fifty one years ago too, 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:26.000 which I didn't mean to bring up bad times. Paul, 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:27.200 how are you? Hell's everything? 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:32.359 Well, I'm doing okay, staring. I just won't take this 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:36.920 opportunity to race you and your mode On a related 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:38.440 Happy New Years. 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:39.960 Well, thank you, Happy New Year to you as well. 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:43.159 What about these football bearcats in this situation with the portal. 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:46.040 I'm not gonna say the loss today was strictly that, 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:48.919 but it certainly was a kick to the junk. 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:56.240 Well starting as you probably know, the attard of me, 0:21:56.520 --> 0:22:03.120 the Labor Academy, Point and the Air Force Academy. They're 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:05.600 all highly displined. 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:07.240 They are. 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:10.840 They are so much disperence than the average college team. 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:13.560 And it comes as no surprise to. 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:19.120 Me that that the Naval Academy mid Stippland they were 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:24.240 going away over our recovered U versus centinary vertex. 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:26.320 Do you think it's just the discipline. I think it's 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:30.040 probably the players bouncing out to better their situation that 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:32.119 may be contributed. But maybe fifty to fifty on that. 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:35.160 It's tough to say, but I guess in the. 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:40.520 Naval Academy, you commit as a prishman, and you're there 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:44.639 four years to graduate, right, and then you stucking out 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:49.920 after a freshman year, a sophomore year, you're you're there, Uh, 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:51.760 you're there for the. 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:56.800 Whole ride, correct, and then that three or five year 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:59.359 hitch or whatever it is that they initially signed up 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:01.840 to because they are serving this nation at the same 0:23:01.920 --> 0:23:04.480 time and then into the future a little bit differently 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:08.359 than the rest of us, or at least most of us, right, and. 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:13.560 They it really takes a different breed of human being 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:20.119 to successfully complete a four year education in the West 0:23:20.160 --> 0:23:24.000 Point for the army, or the Naval Academy for the 0:23:24.040 --> 0:23:27.480 midshipman most definitely, or the Air Force Academy for the 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:32.640 Air Force yep. I mean, they have to be truly dedicated, stilling, 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:36.760 and they really have to want that is their goal, 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:40.520 and they really have to want They put everything else aside, 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:44.160 and they concentrate for four years to achieve their goal. 0:23:44.400 --> 0:23:46.119 That's true. It's true. I don't have that stick to 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:48.840 it of just now, and I'm grown Paul. I appreciate 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:50.920 the call, Happy New Year, take care of yourself. I 0:23:50.960 --> 0:23:54.280 appreciate the perspective and the take as well. Coming up 0:23:55.000 --> 0:23:58.159 after the nine o'clock report, we'll talk some movies with 0:23:58.240 --> 0:24:00.199 Kevin Carr, Fat guys of the movie SI Forget. Go 0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:02.720 on Substack. We used to do this podcast together called 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:04.800 Chubby and Stick, which is still somewhere out there in 0:24:04.840 --> 0:24:06.919 the cloud somewhere. You can stream it if you'd like to. 0:24:07.720 --> 0:24:09.840 What else we got going on? Oh, chick a logwig 0:24:09.840 --> 0:24:11.760 is going to join me. We'll talk more on Bearcats. 0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:14.040 We'll talk on Bengals Sunday as they wrap up their 0:24:14.040 --> 0:24:18.840 twenty five twenty six season, unfortunately in a playoffs for them. 0:24:18.960 --> 0:24:20.840 We'll give you more of a chance to sound off 0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:22.760 on this as well. A lot of ground to cover 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:26.840 later on. Also, you see health doctor Christino Day going 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:29.240 to talk about living better in the New year, being 0:24:29.359 --> 0:24:32.520 healthier and maybe trying to get rehydrated after a long 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:35.800 New Year celebration, maybe consuming some adult beverages, if you 0:24:35.840 --> 0:24:38.000 know what I'm saying, and as well as a nasty 0:24:38.000 --> 0:24:40.920 flu season and doctor Donas Schleck from Wright State, former 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:42.760 head of political science, they are going to join us 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:47.000 talk about terrorism and a foiled attack plan that they 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:50.239 put the kaibash on over the new Year that the 0:24:50.320 --> 0:24:52.320 FBI has come out to talk about, and she put 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:56.119 actually the first textbook of terrorism ever published out, So 0:24:56.160 --> 0:24:57.960 we'll get into her hat about that. A whole lot 0:24:57.960 --> 0:25:01.159 of other ground to cover tonight, Friday Night. Sterling on 0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:04.360 a tough one for the Cincinnati Football Bearcats in Memphis, 0:25:04.440 --> 0:25:07.439 falling in the Liberty Bowl to the Navy Midshipman thirty 0:25:07.480 --> 0:25:11.520 five thirteen on seven hundred WLW. It'll have. It's been 0:25:11.520 --> 0:25:14.040 two weeks of what seems like almost a weekend for 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:17.360 most people. I've been working, but I know a whole 0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:19.520 lot of other people who have been burning up vacation, 0:25:19.800 --> 0:25:23.320 traveling all over Hill and Dale's to Grandma's house and 0:25:23.359 --> 0:25:26.040 everything else. And happy Neod here to you and yours 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:32.840 is fine. Second of January twenty twenty six, rested, relaxed, fat, sassy, tanned, 0:25:33.320 --> 0:25:36.199 and I think he waited to get sick until he 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:39.760 came home from vacation, Kevin Carr, Silver Gecko on the 0:25:39.760 --> 0:25:42.760 sub Stack, My Chubby and Stick Partner podcast gone by, 0:25:43.280 --> 0:25:45.360 and of course of fat guys at the movies. How 0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:47.840 are you? How's the family car? And Happy New Year? Brother? 0:25:48.440 --> 0:25:52.720 Yeah? Happy nud here. Yeah, everything's good. You're right. I 0:25:53.000 --> 0:25:55.919 did get sick. I was on vacation over Christmas. I 0:25:56.000 --> 0:25:59.159 got sick right when I was traveling home. So if 0:25:59.200 --> 0:26:01.040 you're gonna get sick on, that's the time to do 0:26:01.080 --> 0:26:01.920 it on your way back. 0:26:02.040 --> 0:26:04.679 Yeah, why not be miserable at the house rather than 0:26:04.720 --> 0:26:07.119 wherever it is that you go to sun yourself or 0:26:07.119 --> 0:26:09.800 ski or whatever it is that makes you happy. It's terrible. 0:26:09.880 --> 0:26:12.680 Well yeah, I mean it's already no fun going home, 0:26:13.680 --> 0:26:15.920 you know, I'm not thinking it already sucks to drive 0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:19.159 back or fly back or take a boat back or whatever. 0:26:19.760 --> 0:26:22.720 The return trip always is not nearly as fun as 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:25.199 the anticipation of going. So yeah, but I know, I 0:26:25.200 --> 0:26:27.400 get hit by this blue and that thing. Oh that's 0:26:27.400 --> 0:26:29.920 no joke, man, No, it knocked me on my butt. 0:26:30.160 --> 0:26:32.040 It's been pretty bad for me for a couple of days, 0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:35.120 but no fever. So I came in trying to stay 0:26:35.160 --> 0:26:38.040 away from everybody, and I'll spray everything down in here. 0:26:38.560 --> 0:26:41.600 I've been bathing in like antibacterial stuff and hopped up 0:26:41.600 --> 0:26:44.720 on like emergency and goofball. So everything is fine. 0:26:45.320 --> 0:26:47.520 I'm good to hear get pulled over on the way home. 0:26:48.119 --> 0:26:49.840 I no, no, everything's fine. I'm not doing it while 0:26:49.840 --> 0:26:50.119 I'm here. 0:26:50.200 --> 0:26:52.640 No, No, I'm just chugging the costs. 0:26:53.000 --> 0:26:56.960 Yeah, correct, correct, everything's great. So think of it back 0:26:56.960 --> 0:26:59.560 at twenty five, because you know, you always tell us 0:26:59.600 --> 0:27:02.840 what's new and picks to watch and everything else. Is 0:27:02.880 --> 0:27:04.680 there anything new? This is a weird window of time, 0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:07.360 the way Christmas and New Year's has fallen. Is anything new? 0:27:07.400 --> 0:27:09.680 Before I start picking your brain about maybe what we've 0:27:09.680 --> 0:27:11.840 missed and stuff to catch up on from twenty five? 0:27:12.400 --> 0:27:14.320 Well, I mean there's like a couple of smaller things. 0:27:14.359 --> 0:27:16.200 There are a lot of times you get limited release stuff. 0:27:16.440 --> 0:27:20.320 The first weekend always that New Year, whatever that New 0:27:20.400 --> 0:27:24.640 Year's weekend is is always kind of an off weekend. 0:27:24.680 --> 0:27:27.639 So there's nothing big even like what was weird? Is 0:27:27.680 --> 0:27:31.840 there weren't any real big opening on Christmas Day movies? 0:27:31.920 --> 0:27:33.880 I mean there was Anna Condo, which I still want 0:27:33.880 --> 0:27:37.159 to see because it just looks stupid and fun. Ye, 0:27:38.119 --> 0:27:41.640 but there was a song sung Blue, which is that 0:27:42.240 --> 0:27:45.840 Neil Diamond tribute kind of. It's it's based on a 0:27:45.880 --> 0:27:50.520 true story starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson. And that's 0:27:50.560 --> 0:27:54.160 that's fine, But there was no big Christmas Day movie 0:27:54.200 --> 0:27:57.280 where sometimes things are like opening Christmas Day and I 0:27:57.280 --> 0:28:00.320 think that they knew that Avatar was gonna snuck the 0:28:00.320 --> 0:28:02.480 air out of the room, so they everyone just kind 0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:04.800 of vacated the next week and then this week is 0:28:04.800 --> 0:28:08.040 always a dead week and then we you know, hit 0:28:08.080 --> 0:28:13.600 it hard like next week with Primate, the Killer Chimpanzee 0:28:13.640 --> 0:28:19.080 movie and the in the green Land two movie. If 0:28:19.119 --> 0:28:21.360 it wasn't enough to watch Gerard Butler try to save 0:28:21.359 --> 0:28:25.520 his family from everything on the planet, uh, you got 0:28:25.600 --> 0:28:27.120 him coming back in this one as well. 0:28:27.680 --> 0:28:32.119 Nice, that's pretty good. Uh it is. First of all, 0:28:32.200 --> 0:28:35.720 let me ask you about this the movie that you 0:28:35.840 --> 0:28:39.000 just mentioned about Neil Diamond, But it's not really about him. 0:28:39.040 --> 0:28:43.240 That's about right, that's about these people who basically are 0:28:43.440 --> 0:28:45.320 a what do you want to call it a cover act? 0:28:45.400 --> 0:28:49.320 Right? Yeah, well they like to call themselves a Neil 0:28:49.360 --> 0:28:53.520 Diamond experience. You know, it's not even a tribute but inexperience. Uh, 0:28:53.560 --> 0:28:55.160 and it's it is based on a true story. There 0:28:55.200 --> 0:28:58.880 was a documentary about it about this guy who just 0:28:58.880 --> 0:29:01.400 loves Neil Diamond so much he kind of does the 0:29:01.440 --> 0:29:04.520 tribute band, meets another impersonator share her big thing is 0:29:04.520 --> 0:29:07.480 Patsy Klein. But then they work together to kind of 0:29:07.480 --> 0:29:08.840 do and they fall in love and they have this 0:29:08.880 --> 0:29:11.800 whole story. And with any story, there's ups and downs 0:29:11.840 --> 0:29:14.920 and good and bad things happening. And I mean that's 0:29:14.960 --> 0:29:17.160 it's a sweet enough story. It pushes all the right buttons. 0:29:17.160 --> 0:29:20.440 It's predictable, but you know that's the thing life kind 0:29:20.440 --> 0:29:22.080 of predictable for a lot of you. You know, you 0:29:22.160 --> 0:29:24.960 know something bad's gonna happen. You some know there's gonna 0:29:24.960 --> 0:29:27.400 be bouncing back and all that kind of stuff. But 0:29:27.440 --> 0:29:30.880 I mean, it's just a fine little movie. It does 0:29:30.880 --> 0:29:32.800 get a little heavy on the Neil Diamond songs, if 0:29:32.800 --> 0:29:34.720 you might. If you find that hard to believe. 0:29:34.440 --> 0:29:35.840 Well you got to be a fan of Neil Diamond, 0:29:35.880 --> 0:29:37.640 you're probably not gonna watch anyway. Which it leads me 0:29:37.720 --> 0:29:40.600 to an interesting thing. I just read something that said 0:29:40.600 --> 0:29:43.480 one of the family members of I guess these people 0:29:43.960 --> 0:29:46.280 were not happy with the way they were portrayed or 0:29:46.280 --> 0:29:48.600 how the movie came out. Yet I've heard people say 0:29:48.640 --> 0:29:50.720 good things about the movie. So that's a weird thing. 0:29:50.920 --> 0:29:54.080 Great movie, but apparently not true to form, or at 0:29:54.160 --> 0:29:56.720 least the family members not happy with what they saw. 0:29:56.720 --> 0:29:59.560 What does that? Well, here's the thing when it comes 0:29:59.600 --> 0:30:05.120 to when it comes to true stories, is true, it's 0:30:05.280 --> 0:30:07.280 no one wants to see it. It's a boring movie. 0:30:07.360 --> 0:30:11.720 If everybody is always good and perfect and honest and 0:30:11.800 --> 0:30:15.200 above board, and nobody's like that. Everybody has their dark side, 0:30:15.240 --> 0:30:17.560 everybody has their flaws, everybody has their ups and downs 0:30:17.760 --> 0:30:19.920 and their good days and they're bad days. And so 0:30:20.000 --> 0:30:23.680 when I see a movie that's especially if it's even 0:30:23.720 --> 0:30:27.240 if it's a famous person biopic and it's like approved 0:30:27.320 --> 0:30:30.120 completely by the family, I was kind of like, well, 0:30:30.160 --> 0:30:33.400 that's probably not that good because you don't get the downside. 0:30:33.440 --> 0:30:36.560 Like there's a movie and there's still slight against Jesse Owens. 0:30:36.600 --> 0:30:39.160 He was an absolute hero. But there's a movie called 0:30:39.280 --> 0:30:42.880 Race that came out I don't ten years fifteen years ago, 0:30:43.200 --> 0:30:46.840 and it was a biopic about Jesse Owens and him 0:30:46.880 --> 0:30:48.520 going to the Olympics and winning and all that kind 0:30:48.520 --> 0:30:53.120 of stuff, but it was like like produced by his family, 0:30:53.160 --> 0:30:56.240 and I'm like, not that Jesse Owens had these dark 0:30:56.280 --> 0:30:59.440 skeletons in the closet or anything like that, but there 0:30:59.520 --> 0:31:02.560 was Everybody has ups and downs, and everybody has good 0:31:02.600 --> 0:31:05.240 points and bad points, and the movie did feel a 0:31:05.240 --> 0:31:08.920 little bit sanitized, whereas if it's a you know, so 0:31:09.000 --> 0:31:12.080 it may have shown something that's true. It's just maybe 0:31:12.080 --> 0:31:14.360 the family didn't like what was shown. I'm not a 0:31:14.400 --> 0:31:18.120 biographer of this these people, but that's one of the 0:31:18.160 --> 0:31:20.080 things you run into or they feel that they focus 0:31:20.120 --> 0:31:22.040 too much on this because it made them look a 0:31:22.040 --> 0:31:25.280 certain way and not enough about this. I mean, it's 0:31:25.320 --> 0:31:27.760 like anything. If anyone did a story of your well, 0:31:27.880 --> 0:31:29.160 I don't know. For me, it could be one of 0:31:29.200 --> 0:31:30.640 those things I'd watched and I'd be like, well, you 0:31:31.280 --> 0:31:32.440 kind of improved on things. 0:31:32.560 --> 0:31:36.200 So I'm living the life. I could write it better 0:31:36.200 --> 0:31:40.520 than I'm living. Yes, I absolutely could for me anyway. 0:31:40.960 --> 0:31:45.040 Talking to Kevin Carr silver Gecko on Substack with Sterling 0:31:45.040 --> 0:31:48.880 on seven hundred WLW. So all right, so let's move 0:31:49.520 --> 0:31:53.000 I guess back and look at at twenty five if possible, 0:31:53.200 --> 0:31:55.840 Because there are always so many things that are put 0:31:55.880 --> 0:31:58.760 out and now was streaming, it's even more so, what 0:31:58.920 --> 0:32:00.200 is there? I mean, I don't know how many have. 0:32:00.280 --> 0:32:02.680 If it's ten, if it's five, what are the like? 0:32:02.880 --> 0:32:05.920 If you miss this, must see go back stream it, 0:32:06.080 --> 0:32:09.120 find it because there are a lot of good things 0:32:09.120 --> 0:32:11.240 that just fall through the cracks because there's just simply 0:32:11.400 --> 0:32:12.920 so much stuff to watch. 0:32:13.560 --> 0:32:16.520 Yeah, well, and I mean like like certain ones. Obviously, 0:32:16.560 --> 0:32:19.320 people know I really loved Superman. You know that. You 0:32:19.400 --> 0:32:22.120 remember me talking about that, and that was that was 0:32:22.160 --> 0:32:24.400 a lot of fun. But but like some of that 0:32:24.520 --> 0:32:26.880 kind of maybe were lesser seen, and some of these 0:32:26.920 --> 0:32:31.520 are darker movies. I tend to fall into the horror appreciation. 0:32:32.160 --> 0:32:36.400 There was a movie that was called Good Boy and 0:32:36.520 --> 0:32:39.120 it came out I don't know, about four months ago, 0:32:39.240 --> 0:32:41.560 and it was about a dog and it's a horrory 0:32:41.600 --> 0:32:44.880 told from the dog's perspective. And it starts a dog 0:32:44.960 --> 0:32:47.200 named Indy. Who's who's Who's should be in the running 0:32:47.200 --> 0:32:50.720 for best actor of any category of anything. You know, 0:32:50.840 --> 0:32:53.160 it should he should get the oscar. Oh, he's a 0:32:53.280 --> 0:32:57.160 very good boy. And it's it's it's a really interesting approach, 0:32:57.520 --> 0:33:00.920 and you know, it's got The Best Being Subject as well, 0:33:01.120 --> 0:33:03.280 so that one is really good. If you haven't seen that, 0:33:03.360 --> 0:33:04.920 check that out. I think it's on shutter. You can 0:33:04.920 --> 0:33:08.239 probably find it elsewhere. I also was a big thing. 0:33:08.280 --> 0:33:12.720 You had two fantastic Stephen King adaptations. One of them 0:33:12.800 --> 0:33:15.960 was The Long Walk, which is difficult to watch, came 0:33:16.000 --> 0:33:18.440 out I think in this late August or late summer 0:33:18.520 --> 0:33:22.240 August area. Very difficult to watch because it has heavy 0:33:22.240 --> 0:33:25.600 devy subject matter. But it's a fantastic adaptation of the 0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:29.440 original Richard Bachmann book that Stephen King kind of wrote 0:33:29.520 --> 0:33:32.800 under a pseudonym back in the seventies. But he also 0:33:32.840 --> 0:33:36.840 did The Monkey Oggur Perkins, the son of Anthony Perkins 0:33:36.880 --> 0:33:42.320 who played Norman Bates. He directed this this over the top, 0:33:42.520 --> 0:33:46.800 crazy violent tale about this this this little uh well, 0:33:46.800 --> 0:33:49.800 it used to have like this symbol monkey had the symbols. 0:33:50.040 --> 0:33:52.000 They had to change it to him hitting a drum, 0:33:52.360 --> 0:33:53.840 the monkey with a drum for the movie. 0:33:53.920 --> 0:33:55.640 Well, what was that? Because they were going to sue 0:33:55.680 --> 0:33:57.360 them or they didn't like the way that the toy 0:33:57.520 --> 0:33:58.880 was being shown or something or what. 0:33:59.040 --> 0:34:02.600 I I think that some other company, like maybe it 0:34:02.680 --> 0:34:04.760 might have been like a toy story thing has a 0:34:04.760 --> 0:34:08.080 monkey with symbols, and so they said, let's just avoid 0:34:08.120 --> 0:34:11.240 that completely, even though the original story was a monkey 0:34:11.239 --> 0:34:14.399 with symbols. And it's just a bonkers movie. And if 0:34:14.440 --> 0:34:17.560 you like sort of these insane, over the top at 0:34:18.520 --> 0:34:22.400 darkly funny movies, the monkeys are fantastic. It's kind of 0:34:22.400 --> 0:34:25.120 off brand for Osbud Perkins because the stuff you saw 0:34:25.200 --> 0:34:28.160 long legs, I mean, that thing was heavy and grim. 0:34:28.239 --> 0:34:31.960 But this one, I mean, it's an over the top splatterfest. 0:34:32.160 --> 0:34:33.759 Well there's nothing wrong with that. I mean, you got 0:34:33.880 --> 0:34:35.640 to be in the right mood, but I'm all for that. 0:34:36.920 --> 0:34:38.719 Tell me. But I know you have others on the list, 0:34:38.719 --> 0:34:41.560 but I'm just thinking about this one battle after another. 0:34:43.000 --> 0:34:44.799 Is that one of those that you would say this 0:34:44.920 --> 0:34:46.480 is that this is one of the better ones of 0:34:46.560 --> 0:34:51.759 ninety five or five? Oh, I just flashed back thirty years. 0:34:52.040 --> 0:34:54.239 I'm about to say that that's pt Anderson, that's in 0:34:54.280 --> 0:34:59.360 his infancy. No, this one's good. I mean I'm not, 0:34:59.719 --> 0:35:03.080 I'm not the total acolyte of pt. Anderson, but this 0:35:03.239 --> 0:35:05.320 was a This was a good movie. It's one of 0:35:05.360 --> 0:35:08.879 those ensemble movies because Leonardo Dicapriro does a great job 0:35:08.880 --> 0:35:12.359 in it, Chase Infinity, who plays his daughter. She does 0:35:12.400 --> 0:35:15.920 a great job in it. Sean penn As wickedly evil 0:35:16.000 --> 0:35:22.239 as the bad guy. Excuse me. Vaneciel del Toro is 0:35:22.280 --> 0:35:25.239 a hoot in this movie. So that, yeah, that was 0:35:25.280 --> 0:35:27.880 worth seeing. If you've not seen it, it is an experience. 0:35:27.960 --> 0:35:30.120 It's a little long, so I do warn you about that, 0:35:30.200 --> 0:35:33.600 but actually want to know it's real bonkers. Check out 0:35:33.600 --> 0:35:37.840 Begonia sometimes. That's the one where Emma Stone plays like 0:35:37.880 --> 0:35:42.320 a CEO and Jesse Plemon's kidnaps her thinking she's an alien, 0:35:42.640 --> 0:35:45.799 shaves off her head and and and is keeping her 0:35:45.800 --> 0:35:48.239 in her his basement because he doesn't want her to 0:35:48.640 --> 0:35:52.120 he wants to stop the alien invasion. It is. It 0:35:52.200 --> 0:35:56.120 is chilling because you're like, you'd watch the movie and 0:35:56.160 --> 0:35:59.080 you'd be like, yeah, I know somebody like that. I 0:35:59.080 --> 0:36:02.400 don't know somebody who would who might try that, you 0:36:02.440 --> 0:36:05.160 know what I mean? And it's it's very very disturbing 0:36:05.200 --> 0:36:05.640 at times. 0:36:05.640 --> 0:36:10.000 She's made some really really good films, hasn't she amazing? 0:36:10.880 --> 0:36:13.239 Well? And this is It is directed by Yorgus Lathomos, 0:36:13.239 --> 0:36:16.920 who did poor things which she won what are her 0:36:16.920 --> 0:36:21.640 oscars for? So you see you see less of emastone 0:36:21.800 --> 0:36:22.920 in this one, then you do important. 0:36:22.920 --> 0:36:24.879 But you saw all of themistone, all of her, Yes 0:36:24.960 --> 0:36:27.359 she did, and that's not all bad as for sure. 0:36:27.600 --> 0:36:29.879 Anything else of the like well, because you mentioned from 0:36:29.920 --> 0:36:32.600 one two through Stephen King movies, Long Walk, The Monkey, 0:36:32.640 --> 0:36:36.880 Good Boys, Superman. Uh you mentioned Bona, what what else? 0:36:37.360 --> 0:36:39.920 Any weapons? Weapons is a great movie if you've not 0:36:40.000 --> 0:36:42.880 seen that one. It's directed by it's written directed by 0:36:43.000 --> 0:36:45.319 Zach Craiger. He did barbarian A couple of years ago. 0:36:46.120 --> 0:36:48.840 Originally started out in comedy doing the Whitest Kids you 0:36:48.880 --> 0:36:53.120 know and Lo and Behold. He's a brilliant horror director. 0:36:53.239 --> 0:36:57.600 So Weapons is a fantastic movie, almost impossible to spoil 0:36:57.680 --> 0:37:00.960 because it's so twisted and convo looted in what it's 0:37:01.000 --> 0:37:07.040 trying to do. It's uh, it's you keep guessing even 0:37:07.080 --> 0:37:08.880 if you know what's going to happen. So it's an 0:37:08.960 --> 0:37:11.240 Amy Madigan is fantastic in that movie. 0:37:11.360 --> 0:37:15.360 Nice, Okay, good good? I like it. Anything else of 0:37:15.400 --> 0:37:18.960 consequence before like, we let you rest and convalesce and 0:37:19.000 --> 0:37:20.879 do whatever it is you have to do. Hydrate, That's 0:37:20.880 --> 0:37:23.560 what I've been doing. I really I joke about the 0:37:23.560 --> 0:37:25.840 big drinks when we've gone to the movies together, whatever, 0:37:25.880 --> 0:37:28.600 in the catheter. But I have been consuming so much 0:37:28.840 --> 0:37:30.799 in the way of fluids to try to get through 0:37:30.800 --> 0:37:35.040 this sickness that a catheter, which I just went thinking about, 0:37:35.280 --> 0:37:36.759 might actually save me some time. 0:37:37.400 --> 0:37:39.640 Well yeah, well then the key is if you're sick, 0:37:40.120 --> 0:37:42.600 you don't want to have anything with too much caffeine 0:37:42.600 --> 0:37:44.239 in it. Now, you can have tea like to drink 0:37:44.280 --> 0:37:47.040 and so your soues your throat. But no, that's why 0:37:47.080 --> 0:37:48.520 you go with like sprite seven up. 0:37:48.920 --> 0:37:50.440 Water, dalyite whatever. 0:37:50.640 --> 0:37:53.600 Yeah, yeah, pedlte or you know, cater Raide or something 0:37:53.680 --> 0:37:53.960 like that. 0:37:54.040 --> 0:37:58.080 So this thirty ounce container the mug of ice coffee 0:37:58.120 --> 0:37:59.000 is a bad choice. 0:37:59.560 --> 0:38:01.799 Probably not a great idea. That's that's that's a lot 0:38:01.800 --> 0:38:04.520 of that's a lot of caffeine. Caffeine will dehydrate, you'll 0:38:04.560 --> 0:38:06.000 you'll expel more than you take in. 0:38:06.120 --> 0:38:09.080 That might explain my need to go Yeah, okay. 0:38:09.000 --> 0:38:11.399 Well yeah, but uh no, I would say. The only 0:38:11.400 --> 0:38:13.600 other thing I I I that that's really on my 0:38:13.719 --> 0:38:16.480 radar is you got the finale of Stranger Things that 0:38:16.560 --> 0:38:19.960 dropped on on it was it New Year's Eve or 0:38:19.960 --> 0:38:22.719 New Year's day. Uh, it was New Year's Eve and 0:38:24.320 --> 0:38:25.879 it was a great wrap up to the show. I'm 0:38:25.880 --> 0:38:29.360 not going to spoil or anything, but it's it's definitely 0:38:29.400 --> 0:38:31.920 worth checking out. If you've been waiting to borrow somebody's 0:38:32.160 --> 0:38:35.520 Netflix password, now's the time to do it. You've got 0:38:35.560 --> 0:38:38.600 there's forty two episodes, which amounts to, well, I don't 0:38:38.600 --> 0:38:40.719 know what one hundred and eighty six hours of Eve. 0:38:40.760 --> 0:38:41.719 Is really a lot? 0:38:42.200 --> 0:38:45.520 Yeah, but it's good. It's worth worth checking out. 0:38:45.760 --> 0:38:48.319 And did I read or did you didn't tell me something? 0:38:48.560 --> 0:38:50.839 Is there going to be a movie about that? Or 0:38:50.880 --> 0:38:52.920 is that just what I don't did? I? 0:38:53.280 --> 0:38:53.400 No? 0:38:53.400 --> 0:38:57.080 No, no. They they released the two hour series per 0:38:57.120 --> 0:39:00.760 me series finale. Did you like this week? 0:39:00.920 --> 0:39:01.360 I gotcha? 0:39:01.520 --> 0:39:03.360 And it made like twenty million dollars. 0:39:03.520 --> 0:39:05.120 That's better than a lot this year. 0:39:05.800 --> 0:39:07.600 Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean and it was it was 0:39:07.640 --> 0:39:10.160 sort of that that like Batham event kind of one 0:39:10.239 --> 0:39:13.640 time one or two night thing. But I mean it 0:39:13.719 --> 0:39:16.920 is cinematic. It's a great to you know, sometimes you 0:39:16.960 --> 0:39:18.840 go and you watch like the two hour finale and 0:39:18.920 --> 0:39:21.960 you know, like that could have been forty five minutes. Yes, yeah, 0:39:22.200 --> 0:39:25.000 this one it does take its time and you have 0:39:25.600 --> 0:39:30.680 you definitely have a nice dinu maw you know day. 0:39:31.360 --> 0:39:33.800 It's not like they like wrap up the bad stuff 0:39:33.800 --> 0:39:37.239 and then roll credits. They they it's a little bit 0:39:37.920 --> 0:39:41.200 Return of the King trying to you know, wrap everything 0:39:41.280 --> 0:39:43.160 up at the end. So but it's worth it if 0:39:43.200 --> 0:39:46.719 you if you've stayed through all five seasons, you know, 0:39:46.800 --> 0:39:48.879 watch these twenty some year old kids graduate from high 0:39:48.880 --> 0:39:51.160 school or something like that. Yeah, and that's the kind of. 0:39:51.120 --> 0:39:55.359 Thing something to do, I suppose, Uh, yeah, it's it's 0:39:55.360 --> 0:39:58.600 a weird thing. I'm wondering. Uh at this point, are 0:39:58.600 --> 0:40:02.000 there too many options? As far as you would. 0:40:01.800 --> 0:40:04.359 Never say that, No, I would never say that. That's 0:40:04.640 --> 0:40:07.640 that's like, that's like that's like what your wife's coming 0:40:07.719 --> 0:40:11.280 home like, sorry, honey, we're just having way too much sex. 0:40:12.120 --> 0:40:17.480 No, there's I mean, there's I've seen a lot of movies, now, 0:40:17.560 --> 0:40:19.560 not as many as you because it's been your life, 0:40:19.760 --> 0:40:23.200 but I uh, and I've had some sex. I gotta say, 0:40:23.239 --> 0:40:26.080 Kevin Carr, I have never not once ever like compared 0:40:26.120 --> 0:40:29.560 I mean equality film to even bad sex. I mean, 0:40:29.640 --> 0:40:31.040 I don't know. 0:40:31.200 --> 0:40:33.160 Well, no, I mean, you know, what's that whole thing, 0:40:33.200 --> 0:40:35.800 you know, like you have pizza, pizza, even bad pizzas good. 0:40:35.880 --> 0:40:39.279 Right, right, I mean, how many movies have you like, gone, 0:40:39.480 --> 0:40:41.120 this is a complete waste of time. I want to 0:40:41.120 --> 0:40:43.480 get the hell out of this theater or fallen asleep 0:40:43.560 --> 0:40:46.120 or otherwise. I mean, I have bolted out of theaters 0:40:46.120 --> 0:40:48.000 and gone across the hall because I'm like, I'm never 0:40:48.000 --> 0:40:50.439 getting that part of my life back. Ever, I've never 0:40:50.480 --> 0:40:52.920 been the mist of sex and gone. I got to 0:40:52.960 --> 0:40:54.640 get out of here maybe once. 0:40:55.160 --> 0:40:58.000 Well yeah, but I mean it's not a perfect comparison, 0:40:58.160 --> 0:40:59.520 but I mean it is. It is one of the 0:41:00.040 --> 0:41:03.120 but the whole these are too many options. I love 0:41:03.160 --> 0:41:05.319 the fact that we have options. I love the fact 0:41:05.360 --> 0:41:08.879 that there's more stuff than because this is the thing. 0:41:08.920 --> 0:41:11.080 You can bolt. You can bail if you start watching 0:41:11.120 --> 0:41:13.319 something and you're like this is boring, I can go 0:41:13.360 --> 0:41:14.040 to something else. 0:41:14.120 --> 0:41:14.520 That's true. 0:41:14.560 --> 0:41:16.920 God, do you remember the back everyone is complaining about 0:41:17.080 --> 0:41:19.120 too many options? Remember back in the day, we had 0:41:19.239 --> 0:41:24.200 three three channels Lucky maybe PBS was showing money Python. 0:41:23.960 --> 0:41:26.200 Well, but other than that, you're right, and and I 0:41:26.320 --> 0:41:28.520 and if you were like me, and we've discussed this before. 0:41:28.600 --> 0:41:31.080 Kevin Carr, by the way, is silver Gecko on the 0:41:31.080 --> 0:41:33.360 sub stack talking movies and so forth with Stirling on 0:41:33.400 --> 0:41:36.240 the Big One. I mean, I thought my only purpose 0:41:36.280 --> 0:41:39.359 in life as a young tiny sterling was to hold 0:41:39.400 --> 0:41:42.480 the antenna and stand appropriately so we might be able 0:41:42.480 --> 0:41:44.279 to get more than the three. So we could get 0:41:44.560 --> 0:41:47.239 eet and sixteen out of Dayton. So we could get 0:41:47.320 --> 0:41:49.960 nineteen and then maybe twenty two out of Dayton. You know, 0:41:50.040 --> 0:41:52.399 in that type of situation and the weather was really good, 0:41:52.440 --> 0:41:55.120 maybe you get a Columbus station or an Indianapolis station. 0:41:55.440 --> 0:41:57.200 And that might have been if I took the foil 0:41:57.239 --> 0:41:59.600 and wrapped it around the top of the room. 0:42:00.120 --> 0:42:01.759 Yeah, I mean, I grew up in Columbus. We had 0:42:01.760 --> 0:42:04.359 three stations and PBS and that was it. We didn't 0:42:04.360 --> 0:42:09.080 get independent TV stations until the mid eighties. And I 0:42:09.160 --> 0:42:11.160 remember we'd go up and visit my family in Cleveland. 0:42:11.160 --> 0:42:12.960 They had a couple of them. I thought it was 0:42:12.960 --> 0:42:16.880 great that channel surfing. You could go seven stations before 0:42:16.920 --> 0:42:20.000 you got back to the Brady Bunch again. So look, 0:42:20.080 --> 0:42:24.480 I mean, I will take more content over nothing any day. 0:42:24.520 --> 0:42:26.920 And I love the fact that people promote, Oh but 0:42:27.080 --> 0:42:30.120 Blockbuster's close, you can't. Oh, I'm sorry. You go to 0:42:30.160 --> 0:42:32.080 Blockbuster and you can't all agree on a movie and 0:42:32.080 --> 0:42:34.719 then it be out. You know, you can't wait six 0:42:34.840 --> 0:42:38.000 years to go see my best friend's wedding because the 0:42:38.120 --> 0:42:40.839 entire wall at Blockbuster's gone. No, I mean, you can 0:42:40.880 --> 0:42:42.840 just watch whatever you want to. I will never complain 0:42:42.880 --> 0:42:43.279 about that. 0:42:43.520 --> 0:42:46.440 There you go, don't complain. Options are good. It's good 0:42:46.440 --> 0:42:50.000 to have choices. I mean, yeah, that's the bottom line. Absolutely, 0:42:50.080 --> 0:42:52.759 Kevin Carr, thank you for making time. I know that 0:42:52.800 --> 0:42:56.360 you're convalescing. You're sickly, but tan and rested into the 0:42:56.360 --> 0:42:58.359 new year. So I wish you and the family car 0:42:58.480 --> 0:43:01.120 the best and I look forward to hanging out and 0:43:01.360 --> 0:43:04.239 talking more movies and whatever else comes in twenty twenty six. 0:43:04.360 --> 0:43:07.120 Thank you for jo We'll talk to you later, absolutely, Man, 0:43:07.160 --> 0:43:09.839 take care of yourself. More sterling coming back sooner than later. 0:43:09.920 --> 0:43:11.840 Chick Ludwig's gonna join me on the other side of 0:43:11.880 --> 0:43:14.960 your nine thirty report. We got a Brady Hopkins with 0:43:15.000 --> 0:43:18.280 the news. Chick will join us. We'll talk on Bengals, 0:43:18.440 --> 0:43:21.080 and of course we'll talk on those football bear Cats 0:43:21.120 --> 0:43:24.520 as well, and the issue of portability, which there is 0:43:24.560 --> 0:43:28.960 no portability, by the way. With the scholarship Russ Jackson 0:43:29.200 --> 0:43:31.399 sort of helped dig deeper into that as we had 0:43:31.440 --> 0:43:34.160 a guy earlier and we were talking about Bearcats and 0:43:34.440 --> 0:43:38.080 the Navy midshipman and how that game played out earlier 0:43:38.080 --> 0:43:39.879 in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis. You heard it here 0:43:39.920 --> 0:43:43.800 on the Big One thirty five thirteen Bearcats fall to Navy. 0:43:44.360 --> 0:43:47.760 We'll talk to Chick about the Bearcats. We'll talk about 0:43:47.760 --> 0:43:50.640 the portal and what that's done to well, you see, 0:43:50.640 --> 0:43:53.080 and a lot of other schools in the situation ahead, 0:43:53.239 --> 0:43:55.440 and about the Bengals who look to wrap up this 0:43:55.480 --> 0:43:58.880 season Sunday with the Browns making the trip down seventy 0:43:58.920 --> 0:44:01.880 one to pay Corps for one o'clock kickoff here on 0:44:01.960 --> 0:44:06.920 News Radio seven hundred double WELW Cincinnati. Glad they're along. 0:44:07.040 --> 0:44:14.319 It's nice second day of January twenty twenty six. We'll 0:44:14.360 --> 0:44:17.160 get in conversation a little later about that poor eleven 0:44:17.239 --> 0:44:20.000 year old girl was shot at the Cincinnati playground and 0:44:20.040 --> 0:44:23.319 the issues with the family having a sort of not 0:44:23.400 --> 0:44:25.440 getting the attention I think of the love as it's 0:44:25.480 --> 0:44:27.880 been reported at the hospital that one would think they 0:44:27.880 --> 0:44:31.239 would be after losing their baby. We will get into 0:44:31.280 --> 0:44:34.200 that a bit later. Also, Doctor Donald schleg from Wright 0:44:34.239 --> 0:44:36.360 State former head of political science, going to talk on 0:44:36.880 --> 0:44:41.080 terrorism threats and the FBI putting the hammer down and 0:44:41.120 --> 0:44:44.320 at least stopping one of those that they've reported publicly 0:44:44.920 --> 0:44:47.439 over the last couple of days. A lot of other 0:44:47.440 --> 0:44:50.080 stuff to get to as well. Chick, Ludwig kind that 0:44:50.120 --> 0:44:52.560 i'd give us some time, you know, Chick, you love chick. 0:44:52.960 --> 0:44:56.439 Coffee in hand, computer, all over, the Bengals, all over, 0:44:56.480 --> 0:45:00.600 the Bearcats. You covered everything in sport other than maybe 0:45:00.640 --> 0:45:04.160 ping pong and Indonesia gambling late at night, and maybe 0:45:04.239 --> 0:45:06.000 he did that too. I don't know, Chick. How are 0:45:06.040 --> 0:45:07.520 you happy New Year? How's everything? 0:45:08.320 --> 0:45:10.360 Fantastic? Sterling great to hear from me. 0:45:10.400 --> 0:45:13.360 As far as gambling goes, I do not gamble, but 0:45:13.960 --> 0:45:16.120 I think I made some folks some money because I 0:45:16.200 --> 0:45:19.280 told him to take Miami, the Hurricanes and the points. 0:45:19.600 --> 0:45:24.480 Oh so yeah, the buck eyes out right time. 0:45:24.600 --> 0:45:28.400 It was ugly. There was not a good thing. And 0:45:28.480 --> 0:45:30.560 speaking of something else because I know you're going to 0:45:30.560 --> 0:45:32.920 get into a whole lot of this tomorrow when you're in. 0:45:33.360 --> 0:45:36.760 But I wanted to ask about the Bearcats because initially 0:45:36.760 --> 0:45:38.640 I wanted to talk about Bengals, and then the Bearcats 0:45:38.640 --> 0:45:44.360 thing with sideways. Tell me about this portal problem, because 0:45:44.400 --> 0:45:47.759 it is a portal problem, and people are upset. They 0:45:47.800 --> 0:45:50.280 want to blame Sadderfield, they want to blame the University 0:45:50.320 --> 0:45:53.400 of Cincinnati. How much of this is the nature of 0:45:53.480 --> 0:45:57.400 what the business of college football is today compared do 0:45:57.480 --> 0:46:00.200 you think the way it's being run in the program 0:46:00.000 --> 0:46:01.640 at the University of Cincinnati. 0:46:02.520 --> 0:46:05.160 Well, so much of it is is the portal and 0:46:05.200 --> 0:46:09.719 the problems to deal with. And first things first, uh, 0:46:10.360 --> 0:46:14.359 Navy was the superior team on so many levels. First 0:46:14.400 --> 0:46:17.560 of all, they're used to water, okay, in the driving 0:46:17.680 --> 0:46:21.080 rain in the Memphis. They know how to swim, and 0:46:21.120 --> 0:46:24.799 they know how to row okay. And they brought everybody 0:46:24.960 --> 0:46:29.640 with them, and you see was down a dozen players, 0:46:30.560 --> 0:46:33.880 all of them opting out, most of them, you know, 0:46:34.040 --> 0:46:38.200 entering the portal. A couple guys including Dante Corleone, you know, 0:46:38.360 --> 0:46:42.200 preparing for the NFL draft. So to beat down eight 0:46:42.280 --> 0:46:47.040 defensive backs, this was just a no brainer. 0:46:47.080 --> 0:46:48.040 Pick a Navy to day. 0:46:48.160 --> 0:46:51.640 But anyway, you know, to go in there with you know, 0:46:52.200 --> 0:46:55.239 your second and third string quarterbacks, you see, just had 0:46:55.280 --> 0:47:00.319 no chance to day against the midshipman. And it's just 0:47:00.360 --> 0:47:04.200 brutal to think, now, where do you you need a quarterback? 0:47:04.400 --> 0:47:07.080 Is it going to be some I. J. Shones or 0:47:07.400 --> 0:47:10.960 or somebody else next year? So it's like you're always fighting, 0:47:11.920 --> 0:47:17.440 uh yeah, fighting from behind to to measure up. They 0:47:17.560 --> 0:47:19.680 they've lost five in a row. They started seven and 0:47:19.760 --> 0:47:23.880 one and uh and then get sunk today, you know 0:47:23.920 --> 0:47:27.479 by the midship and it in this Liberty Bowl. 0:47:27.640 --> 0:47:30.440 Didn't they lose five in a row last year as 0:47:30.480 --> 0:47:31.360 well at the end. 0:47:32.320 --> 0:47:37.600 They were They're one and eleven in November under Scott Sadderfield. So, uh, 0:47:37.760 --> 0:47:41.680 they've got to find a way number one, to retain guys. Yes, 0:47:42.040 --> 0:47:46.080 in number two, Yeah, find a way that a mid 0:47:46.120 --> 0:47:50.240 season to stand on the gas and not uh not crumble. 0:47:50.760 --> 0:47:51.120 Is it? 0:47:51.160 --> 0:47:53.319 Is it all about the money chick Ludwig by the way, 0:47:53.360 --> 0:47:57.160 sterling seven hundred WLW Because to retain these guys, these guys, 0:47:57.400 --> 0:47:59.719 they they opt out that they put themselves in the 0:47:59.719 --> 0:48:03.759 poor you know, a dozen players, a starting quarterback, eight 0:48:03.840 --> 0:48:07.680 defensive backs, and you look at that and you kind 0:48:07.680 --> 0:48:10.520 of go, it's a shell of the team, and you 0:48:10.600 --> 0:48:12.840 see it is not the only team navigating this. But 0:48:13.080 --> 0:48:16.000 they're relatively new to the big twelve they're still trying 0:48:16.040 --> 0:48:18.040 to get to the top tier of that and build 0:48:18.040 --> 0:48:21.040 this program and having to navigate it. Is there a 0:48:21.080 --> 0:48:24.600 way to say, And maybe it would be unfair because 0:48:24.760 --> 0:48:27.279 I'm of the idea that players should have the portability 0:48:27.320 --> 0:48:29.680 the coaches have had for years where we've seen it 0:48:29.719 --> 0:48:32.120 at UC check where you know, you come to bowl 0:48:32.200 --> 0:48:33.799 time and all of a sudden the coach has gone. 0:48:33.880 --> 0:48:36.160 You're like, well, what what's that about, Well, coach took 0:48:36.200 --> 0:48:39.360 another job. Now, so these players are in that situation. 0:48:39.840 --> 0:48:41.799 Do you say, look, you've got to stay through the 0:48:41.800 --> 0:48:44.880 bowl game, which risk them and their opportunity to be 0:48:44.960 --> 0:48:46.960 healthy to get to the next place if it's not 0:48:47.000 --> 0:48:49.160 going to be you seen, because they could come down. 0:48:49.040 --> 0:48:52.839 To signing contracts. You know, with players, you have to 0:48:53.120 --> 0:48:56.319 you know, you have to fulfill your responsibility, whatever it 0:48:56.440 --> 0:48:59.759 is a year or two or staying through the bowl 0:48:59.840 --> 0:49:03.359 game aim and to get paid. So, yeah, a lot 0:49:03.400 --> 0:49:07.719 of it is about money and then opportunity. Uh gosh, 0:49:07.760 --> 0:49:10.879 you look at a Fernando Mendoza, you know, buried out 0:49:10.920 --> 0:49:15.040 in cal and then the opportunity that he gets at 0:49:15.040 --> 0:49:20.680 the at Indiana University. Just a phenomenal story. And yeah, 0:49:20.840 --> 0:49:23.640 now we're looking at the Brendan Soresby. You know, we'll 0:49:23.680 --> 0:49:26.439 find out what in a day or two, hopefully soon 0:49:27.000 --> 0:49:29.640 you know where he'll wind up, where he'll end up. 0:49:29.760 --> 0:49:32.080 But got he started at Indiana, then he was at 0:49:32.200 --> 0:49:35.600 uc and uh yeah, he's going to get a big 0:49:35.640 --> 0:49:39.600 pay day. So it's man, it's like a you're in 0:49:39.640 --> 0:49:42.720 a washing machine here, a never ending cycle and it's brutal. 0:49:43.120 --> 0:49:47.480 And our schools in the lower I'm going to say 0:49:47.520 --> 0:49:49.120 that you see as a lower tier. The whole idea 0:49:49.160 --> 0:49:50.640 of going to the Big twelve is going to the 0:49:50.680 --> 0:49:54.160 next level, you know, bigger and more market share and 0:49:54.200 --> 0:49:57.359 showcasing and all that stuff. But it seems like they 0:49:57.719 --> 0:50:00.520 don't have the money that some of these other programs do. 0:50:01.239 --> 0:50:04.960 Even though you're absolutely right look at the guy, like, 0:50:05.480 --> 0:50:07.440 oh what we saw last night. I have an ole 0:50:07.560 --> 0:50:13.600 Miss quarterback Trendidad Shambliss. He came from Farris State Division 0:50:13.600 --> 0:50:17.680 two national champion and now he surfaces at ole Miss 0:50:17.880 --> 0:50:21.640 and they beat Georgia. Just just an incredible story. So 0:50:22.040 --> 0:50:24.840 you love to hear those stories. But I'm wondering, you know, 0:50:25.520 --> 0:50:27.800 what's going on with eight defensive backs at at the 0:50:27.840 --> 0:50:32.160 University of Cincinnati entering the transfer. Man, is it is 0:50:32.200 --> 0:50:35.360 it a money grab? Is it an opportunity? It's probably 0:50:35.400 --> 0:50:38.480 a combination of both. And it's uh yeah, it put 0:50:38.520 --> 0:50:42.080 Scott Saderfield in a you know, a tough situation and 0:50:42.239 --> 0:50:44.920 all the folks that you see, you know, trying to 0:50:44.960 --> 0:50:49.160 get players and uh yeah, they'll get players. Now, how 0:50:49.320 --> 0:50:52.919 you know, how good are they? We're in a big 0:50:52.960 --> 0:50:54.600 time here, this is the Big twelve. 0:50:54.800 --> 0:50:58.640 I mean, it's it's challenging. It really is. Time it is, 0:50:59.239 --> 0:51:01.480 it's huge, and I know people want to point the 0:51:01.560 --> 0:51:04.480 finger and how you know, for such a long time 0:51:04.520 --> 0:51:06.799 it was coaches who had the bordability, you know, and 0:51:06.800 --> 0:51:08.960 and and everyone else, and the kids were sort of 0:51:09.040 --> 0:51:12.399 tethered to the school generally unless they were kicked out 0:51:12.400 --> 0:51:14.279 of the program for some reason, which that you know, 0:51:14.320 --> 0:51:16.640 unless they're a problem, that's probably not going to happen. 0:51:16.960 --> 0:51:18.239 I want the kids to be able. 0:51:18.280 --> 0:51:20.960 It could come down to you know, one transfer, yeah, 0:51:21.120 --> 0:51:23.360 you know at uh you know, after a year or 0:51:23.440 --> 0:51:26.319 two or whatever, you get one transfer. So you know, 0:51:26.360 --> 0:51:28.440 the powers that be are going to have to you know, 0:51:28.520 --> 0:51:32.440 straighten this all out. Change some dates, Oh my gosh, 0:51:32.480 --> 0:51:36.440 with with coaches leaving and players opting out here that 0:51:37.400 --> 0:51:41.239 you know today, you know, And I was asked, could 0:51:41.320 --> 0:51:44.520 Brandon's Brandon Soursby? Could it be because could he have 0:51:44.640 --> 0:51:48.160 played today and then entered the transfer portal. Well, he's 0:51:48.160 --> 0:51:51.560 not going to take that gamble on a a bad game, 0:51:51.800 --> 0:51:55.560 bad performance, or an injury. So as soon as the 0:51:55.640 --> 0:51:59.719 season ended, he uh, you know, he opted out. We'll 0:51:59.760 --> 0:52:01.160 find doubt where he's going next. 0:52:02.160 --> 0:52:05.000 Chick Ludwig all over a bear catch you got the 0:52:05.120 --> 0:52:09.480 Bengals stuff obviously too. Sunday they wrapped up. 0:52:09.760 --> 0:52:14.040 Leaving Culture tomorrow at the Wings and Rings Liberty Township 0:52:14.600 --> 0:52:17.959 from five thirty to eight thirty, the final post game 0:52:18.000 --> 0:52:19.120 show of the season. 0:52:20.480 --> 0:52:22.879 That'll be all right now, did you when you look 0:52:22.920 --> 0:52:26.120 at this Bengals team and you know it's the Browns 0:52:26.160 --> 0:52:28.560 and it's the AFC North and anything can happen. They 0:52:28.640 --> 0:52:31.160 come in here Sunday one o'clock kickoff on the Big 0:52:31.160 --> 0:52:34.200 One and you'll be doing the postgame show with the Culture. 0:52:34.239 --> 0:52:39.719 It was always great too. I just it's frustrating. We've 0:52:39.719 --> 0:52:41.279 seen it with the Bengals. You know, Oh, you want 0:52:41.280 --> 0:52:43.239 a faster start, they had a faster start. You want 0:52:43.239 --> 0:52:46.160 a better defense. Well, we saw the defense mature. We 0:52:46.200 --> 0:52:48.480 want to see them finish strong. I mean they're doing 0:52:48.560 --> 0:52:50.239 all the things that you would expect them to be 0:52:50.320 --> 0:52:53.520 doing once they're closer to full strength. Offensively, the defense 0:52:53.560 --> 0:52:57.360 has grown too. How do you as a fan keep 0:52:57.800 --> 0:53:00.359 the most positive way of looking at it without being 0:53:00.440 --> 0:53:02.080 like some of my friends who were just like, that's 0:53:02.080 --> 0:53:03.759 just what the Bengals do. They play well at the 0:53:03.840 --> 0:53:06.480 end and then they suck. And I've heard that time 0:53:06.560 --> 0:53:07.480 and time again. 0:53:08.360 --> 0:53:13.080 Yeah. What I've tried to tell fans, what we've learned 0:53:13.120 --> 0:53:16.480 and seen the last two weeks against the Miami Dolphins 0:53:16.600 --> 0:53:22.319 and Arizona Cardinals, a reminder of what might have been, 0:53:22.840 --> 0:53:26.160 what could have been, and hopefully what will be next year. 0:53:26.320 --> 0:53:30.640 The whole key here is keeping your quarterback Joe Burrow healthy. 0:53:31.320 --> 0:53:34.320 And I just looked this up. The Bengals have played 0:53:34.600 --> 0:53:38.400 one hundred regular season games since he was drafted in 0:53:38.440 --> 0:53:42.720 two thousand. He's played in seventy six and his record 0:53:42.760 --> 0:53:48.759 is forty three and thirty two and one, and he's 0:53:48.760 --> 0:53:52.680 five and two this year, fourteen touchdown passes, four interceptions 0:53:53.200 --> 0:53:57.560 played in seven games. And keeping him healthy and then 0:53:57.840 --> 0:54:03.000 upgrading just all fasted so the defense next year, better 0:54:03.080 --> 0:54:08.080 defensive lineman, you know, adding another linebacker and the dbs 0:54:08.840 --> 0:54:11.680 because when you can get instant pressure on a quarterback, 0:54:11.680 --> 0:54:14.840 it just helps the defensive backs, the safeties in the 0:54:14.880 --> 0:54:18.520 corners just so much. So they've got to improve all 0:54:18.560 --> 0:54:23.560 three tiers of that defense. And we saw this young defense. 0:54:23.719 --> 0:54:27.440 We yeah, we're starting to see them mature, getting better. 0:54:28.120 --> 0:54:31.120 And you know, they gambled on defense this year and 0:54:31.160 --> 0:54:35.080 it backfired and everything went south when Joe got injured. 0:54:35.520 --> 0:54:37.600 So Flacco did a great job. Would love to have 0:54:37.760 --> 0:54:40.200 him back next year as a backup. We'll see if 0:54:40.200 --> 0:54:45.080 that happens. But yeah, and then adding to the offensive line, 0:54:45.160 --> 0:54:48.200 so just keep just keep upgrading. 0:54:48.840 --> 0:54:54.879 It's tough, check Ludwig, how much do you We've saw 0:54:54.960 --> 0:54:57.440 the improvement on the defense in the last half of 0:54:57.480 --> 0:55:01.240 the season, especially last several weeks, and that's what you want. 0:55:01.400 --> 0:55:03.600 And if the offense have been clicking even half as 0:55:03.600 --> 0:55:05.719 well as it had been just with Joe there, And 0:55:05.760 --> 0:55:09.120 it's as much as Flacco as an elder statesman under 0:55:09.200 --> 0:55:12.080 center is you know, all the experience he has and 0:55:12.120 --> 0:55:15.359 everything else. It is a tough transition. I mean, how 0:55:15.440 --> 0:55:18.120 much more can you ask of a team to navigate 0:55:18.160 --> 0:55:20.400 what they did with the loss of a Joe Burrow 0:55:20.480 --> 0:55:23.120 because there's very few out there in any organization that 0:55:23.160 --> 0:55:26.120 are at his level or have ever been at his level. 0:55:27.600 --> 0:55:30.160 That's that's right, and it just underscores, you know, his 0:55:30.280 --> 0:55:34.359 importance to this team, that franchise, this city, the face 0:55:34.400 --> 0:55:37.600 of the city, the most important player in Bengals history. 0:55:38.280 --> 0:55:44.080 So it's it's like the team's always at a crossroads, 0:55:44.680 --> 0:55:48.120 and I know the frustration of the fans and hey, 0:55:48.480 --> 0:55:52.839 sitting down, sit down, your big three, don't get let 0:55:52.880 --> 0:55:56.600 him get hurt. No, this team has to continue to 0:55:56.719 --> 0:55:58.320 evaluate players. 0:55:58.840 --> 0:56:00.879 And you said million. 0:56:00.600 --> 0:56:03.359 Times you're not only playing for your team, you're playing 0:56:03.400 --> 0:56:07.400 for thirty one others. So the evaluation process is critical. 0:56:07.480 --> 0:56:10.000 The coaches, they have to find out who can play 0:56:10.000 --> 0:56:14.759 for this team next season and book around the locker room. 0:56:15.000 --> 0:56:17.520 Tomorrow a bunch of guys are going to be gone. 0:56:17.680 --> 0:56:18.839 And it happens every year. 0:56:19.000 --> 0:56:19.160 You know. 0:56:19.200 --> 0:56:21.320 It's an amazing thing. Though when you look at this offense, 0:56:21.480 --> 0:56:24.200 and I know defense is where it's been thinner, but 0:56:24.360 --> 0:56:26.680 they've come up strong lately. But as you look at 0:56:26.800 --> 0:56:33.120 chick aside from Jamar Chase, aside from Higgins, aside from 0:56:33.440 --> 0:56:37.640 Chase Brown, aside from p Ryan, aside from obviously Burrow. 0:56:38.040 --> 0:56:40.120 And you look at the weapons that Burrough has aside 0:56:40.120 --> 0:56:44.280 from those guys, in what those guys in the running 0:56:44.280 --> 0:56:46.680 backs have been able to do, and that in between stuff. 0:56:46.760 --> 0:56:50.520 The weaponry is so deep. It's just to be nice 0:56:50.560 --> 0:56:52.880 if you could see them put that together with the 0:56:52.960 --> 0:56:56.279 defense that is serviceable for a whole season. But I 0:56:56.280 --> 0:56:58.400 guess that's the magic and why only a handful of 0:56:58.400 --> 0:57:01.520 teams are consistently in the play offs. And you know, 0:57:01.760 --> 0:57:03.680 it's a dream to get to the super Bowl, let 0:57:03.719 --> 0:57:05.480 alone play deep into the postseason. 0:57:06.440 --> 0:57:09.400 And we saw that this year when the offense played well, 0:57:09.600 --> 0:57:13.040 the defense struggled when the defense up came on and 0:57:13.200 --> 0:57:17.840 the offense had it its issues. So yeah, getting putting 0:57:17.880 --> 0:57:23.320 an entire game together, putting entire season together is is 0:57:23.360 --> 0:57:27.800 it just a huge challenge? And people want Zach Taylor's head, Well, 0:57:27.840 --> 0:57:30.320 then what are you going to start all over with, 0:57:30.560 --> 0:57:32.919 you know, with a new offense, you know, a new 0:57:33.440 --> 0:57:36.800 head coach, whold new offensive scheme. No, they're going to 0:57:36.920 --> 0:57:40.959 keep Zach Taylor. However, if they start slow next year, 0:57:41.560 --> 0:57:45.440 I'm gonna use my favorite word armageddon next year. If 0:57:45.480 --> 0:57:48.520 they start slow, it's uh yeah, all bets are off. 0:57:48.680 --> 0:57:52.360 So you and David Poulcher Sunday after Bengals and Brown's 0:57:52.480 --> 0:57:55.479 kick off one o'clock at pay Corps and then where 0:57:55.520 --> 0:57:57.439 are you two guys hanging out after with the. 0:57:57.320 --> 0:58:01.200 Sar At Wings and Rings Liberty Dry I have Liberty Township, 0:58:01.600 --> 0:58:04.160 so looking forward to it. 0:58:04.360 --> 0:58:07.640 Yeah, can we shift just a minute. I mean, I 0:58:07.680 --> 0:58:11.680 find this part of the college basketball season turning into 0:58:11.960 --> 0:58:14.440 a pretty exciting time because all of a sudden it's 0:58:14.520 --> 0:58:18.880 conference time, Big Twelve, Big East, Horizon League with NKU 0:58:19.000 --> 0:58:22.200 and Wright State Miami up the way. I mean, we 0:58:22.240 --> 0:58:24.200 are really kind of in the land of plenty with 0:58:24.280 --> 0:58:25.439 college basketball too. 0:58:26.280 --> 0:58:29.120 Oh gosh, we're at the We think we're at the 0:58:29.160 --> 0:58:36.160 epicenter here, you know, gosha, what's the arithmetic? Gosh the drug? 0:58:36.200 --> 0:58:39.800 You draw the perimeter around the Cincinnati Dayton area. 0:58:39.720 --> 0:58:42.280 You drive ninety minutes to two hours, Yeah, you drive 0:58:42.280 --> 0:58:43.960 one hundred miles. I mean you can. 0:58:44.120 --> 0:58:47.760 It's tremendous, phenomenal it is. And it all starts for 0:58:47.920 --> 0:58:51.120 UC tomorrow. They're eight and five, second last in the 0:58:51.120 --> 0:58:54.840 Big Twelve. The loss that hurt, that was just that 0:58:55.080 --> 0:58:58.600 crippled them is at home against Eastern Michigan and that's 0:58:58.600 --> 0:59:01.120 going to look really bad on as I may, but 0:59:01.360 --> 0:59:04.840 it can all man, the arrow can start pointing up 0:59:04.920 --> 0:59:09.160 if they can beat Houston tomorrow at home fift third 0:59:09.200 --> 0:59:13.040 Arena at two o'clock tomorrow. The Big Twelve starts. It 0:59:13.120 --> 0:59:15.520 got the Big East started, got it filt like. 0:59:15.480 --> 0:59:16.600 Two weeks ago it did. 0:59:16.720 --> 0:59:20.280 Now we're finally Big twelve play and you've got what 0:59:20.760 --> 0:59:24.520 half dozen teams in the top twenty in that conference. 0:59:24.560 --> 0:59:25.680 So it's it's a monster. 0:59:26.360 --> 0:59:28.840 Is that the toughest conference? You think Big East? Big 0:59:28.880 --> 0:59:30.200 twelve is pretty strong too. 0:59:30.160 --> 0:59:33.080 I honestly do. Yeah, the Big Ten will beat you up. 0:59:33.760 --> 0:59:39.600 The Big twelve is extremely skilled, and yeah, it's it's 0:59:39.640 --> 0:59:42.800 a phenomenal, phenomenal conference, it really is. 0:59:42.960 --> 0:59:44.919 And you know, just to see the Goomers come into town. 0:59:45.000 --> 0:59:47.480 And Houston's been pretty good no matter where they have 0:59:47.600 --> 0:59:50.600 been conference wise. I mean, they've had stretches where it's 0:59:50.600 --> 0:59:53.200 been somewhat anemic and not great, but they have found 0:59:53.200 --> 0:59:56.080 a way consistently to be a winner. And just you know, 0:59:56.160 --> 0:59:58.760 from the Big Twelve and they just grow even more. 0:59:58.760 --> 1:00:00.919 It's an amazing thing. That they've been able to put together. 1:00:00.960 --> 1:00:03.600 It really is with with Kelvin Samson there, they they've 1:00:03.680 --> 1:00:07.320 really stepped up their game and gosh, they're reminding you 1:00:07.400 --> 1:00:11.160 of the good old days with Gosh tim olajuh wad 1:00:11.360 --> 1:00:15.200 yes and gosh the fly five Slam of jama days. 1:00:16.040 --> 1:00:17.400 Different times, that's for sure. 1:00:17.520 --> 1:00:17.720 Yeah. 1:00:17.760 --> 1:00:20.960 It all starts tomorrow for the Bearcats at home, the 1:00:21.000 --> 1:00:24.680 big twelve opener against Houston. It's uh, that place to 1:00:24.840 --> 1:00:30.080 be rocking, and hey, Bearcats go out and do a number. 1:00:30.280 --> 1:00:31.000 That's all you can do. 1:00:31.920 --> 1:00:36.640 Go out and James going and Baba Miller and they 1:00:36.720 --> 1:00:41.560 got to get the freshman showing a by you getting him, gosh, 1:00:41.600 --> 1:00:46.480 a five star you know McDonald's all American. Uh, get 1:00:46.560 --> 1:00:50.360 him going either as the sixth man or you know, 1:00:50.400 --> 1:00:53.080 he's a three point sharpshooter and he's been struggling. 1:00:53.280 --> 1:00:59.560 So yeah, Is it easier for Wes Miller than say 1:00:59.640 --> 1:01:03.240 Saturdy Field on the hoop side of things, putting it together, 1:01:03.440 --> 1:01:05.120 navigating the portal and so forth. 1:01:05.160 --> 1:01:07.320 I mean it's a challenge either way. We've seen how 1:01:07.400 --> 1:01:09.040 Xavier has found a way to do that in the 1:01:09.040 --> 1:01:11.920 Big East. But I mean, is football harder to do 1:01:11.960 --> 1:01:13.280 that or is it hoopes. 1:01:13.000 --> 1:01:17.440 Do you think, Wow, that's a good question, because it's, uh, 1:01:19.040 --> 1:01:22.560 it's tough all the way around. Uh, Xavier had to 1:01:23.920 --> 1:01:27.360 Richard Patino had to bring in an entirely different, you know, 1:01:27.480 --> 1:01:33.560 new new team and and really the only player, only 1:01:33.640 --> 1:01:37.200 one from UC has played in the Xavier in the 1:01:37.280 --> 1:01:42.040 Xavier rivalry, so that that's just crazy. But hold new 1:01:42.040 --> 1:01:44.880 team there too. For for west Miller basically, so. 1:01:45.800 --> 1:01:47.360 Uh, different times. 1:01:47.840 --> 1:01:53.040 It just is it's, uh, everything's fluid, everything's in transition, Stirling, 1:01:53.680 --> 1:01:55.880 and it's so tough for a fan. I don't know 1:01:55.960 --> 1:01:58.680 these players. I want to get to know them, but 1:01:58.760 --> 1:02:01.240 they don't stick around long enough to find out what 1:02:01.280 --> 1:02:02.920 they're even what their name is. 1:02:03.760 --> 1:02:06.480 It'll be interesting to see over a few years how 1:02:06.560 --> 1:02:09.240 some of these players develop it, you know, they come back, 1:02:09.280 --> 1:02:11.560 do the education thing more or whatever. Because I mean, 1:02:11.600 --> 1:02:14.000 let's be honest, the vast majority, whether it's football players, 1:02:14.080 --> 1:02:16.400 basketball players, they're not going to go on to play 1:02:16.440 --> 1:02:20.720 Pro ball, NBA, NFL. Some will, but not many overall, right, 1:02:20.920 --> 1:02:22.800 you know, and maybe they'll go to Europe and player 1:02:22.840 --> 1:02:25.000 or whatever else and in some of these other underleagues 1:02:25.160 --> 1:02:28.280 in football, But I mean, so these guys got to 1:02:28.320 --> 1:02:30.360 get as much money as they can and then hopefully 1:02:30.360 --> 1:02:32.520 get that education and do something with it later. But 1:02:32.560 --> 1:02:36.280 it's hard to build the relationship and the name recognition 1:02:36.880 --> 1:02:39.400 in a market where you see guys who stick around 1:02:39.440 --> 1:02:43.200 at Cincinnati and in other places to do broadcasting and 1:02:43.240 --> 1:02:45.640 be a part of the community. So that's a whole 1:02:45.680 --> 1:02:47.160 shift that we're going to see too in the next 1:02:47.240 --> 1:02:48.200 five ten years. 1:02:48.800 --> 1:02:49.920 You know, you're absolutely right. 1:02:50.000 --> 1:02:53.120 You stick around for four or five years. Uh, You've 1:02:53.160 --> 1:02:56.200 got alumni more than willing to help you get a job, 1:02:56.840 --> 1:02:58.760 and all of a sudden, you're here one year and 1:02:58.800 --> 1:03:01.520 you're gone. You know, where are your roots as a player, 1:03:02.080 --> 1:03:05.320 So you don't have any You're a You're a vagabond, 1:03:05.320 --> 1:03:07.160 You're a gypsy, and it's. 1:03:08.360 --> 1:03:10.320 Unless you find a home like here with a big one. 1:03:10.400 --> 1:03:16.520 I mean, really, come on down there, you go. Well, listen, 1:03:16.680 --> 1:03:18.800 I appreciate you making time. I love you. Check you're 1:03:18.800 --> 1:03:19.440 a good man. 1:03:19.640 --> 1:03:19.880 Uh. 1:03:20.200 --> 1:03:24.760 David Folger Chick Ludwig hanging out Sunday after Bengals Browns 1:03:24.800 --> 1:03:26.800 at Paycoorp and on the big one again. Where is 1:03:26.840 --> 1:03:27.440 it you're going to be? 1:03:28.480 --> 1:03:32.240 Yeah, Liberty Township, Wings and Rings, we will bring the 1:03:32.400 --> 1:03:35.280 energy fultures, vultures in the chick magnets. 1:03:35.280 --> 1:03:35.640 There you go. 1:03:35.760 --> 1:03:35.960 Check. 1:03:36.000 --> 1:03:37.840 Thank you for doing what you do and making time 1:03:37.880 --> 1:03:41.360 in your good Thank your brother, Happy new you take 1:03:41.360 --> 1:03:44.200 care of yourself. Sterling. Coming back, you're ten o'clock reports 1:03:44.200 --> 1:03:46.720 straight away, Doctor Donas schleg former had a political science 1:03:46.720 --> 1:03:49.160 going to join me talking about an FBI reported thwarting 1:03:49.200 --> 1:03:51.840 of a New York's Eve attack. We'll also talk about 1:03:51.840 --> 1:03:54.240 that poor eleven year old girl a gun down in 1:03:54.280 --> 1:03:57.360 a park and still looking for the perpetrators at that crime, 1:03:57.360 --> 1:03:58.880 and a whole lot of other ground to cover on 1:03:58.920 --> 1:04:01.360 a fine Friday nights, Sterling, Happy new Year to you 1:04:01.440 --> 1:04:03.960 and yours, and a tough one for those football bearcats 1:04:03.960 --> 1:04:06.680 and the liberty of falling to navy. Tonight here on 1:04:06.760 --> 1:04:11.600 news radio seven hundred WLW Cincinnati says full lawn, seven 1:04:11.720 --> 1:04:20.120 hundred WLW, Sterling, that's me all the time, the FBI, 1:04:20.880 --> 1:04:25.040 Secret Service, local law enforcement, county sheriff, state patrol, you 1:04:25.200 --> 1:04:30.560 name it, border to border, coast to coast, and our 1:04:30.600 --> 1:04:36.240 interests globally. The threat of terrorism and danger of bad 1:04:36.280 --> 1:04:39.520 actors is constantly out there in the talk of us 1:04:39.760 --> 1:04:42.160 needing to be more vigilant or vigilant and keeping an 1:04:42.200 --> 1:04:45.440 eye out and seeing something and saying something is something 1:04:45.440 --> 1:04:47.600 we've been living with more openly the better part of 1:04:47.680 --> 1:04:50.360 the last what twenty four years, since nine eleven, two 1:04:50.360 --> 1:04:54.320 thousand and one, I suppose, and looking back at history, 1:04:54.720 --> 1:04:56.880 there were maybe more dangerous times when it comes to 1:04:57.520 --> 1:05:00.400 terrorist threats and domestic terrorism in so far for someone 1:05:00.440 --> 1:05:03.360 who put out the first textbook published the first one 1:05:03.880 --> 1:05:07.880 about terrorism. Here is also the former head of political 1:05:07.920 --> 1:05:11.040 science at Right State now, Professor Mariti, doctor Donna Schleheck. 1:05:11.160 --> 1:05:14.040 Welcome to seven hundred wlw we Sterling. How are you 1:05:14.080 --> 1:05:15.440 happy New Year? How's everything? 1:05:17.000 --> 1:05:21.200 Good evening? And happy new Year. I was very interested 1:05:21.240 --> 1:05:25.720 to hear the report that you mentioned. The New York 1:05:25.720 --> 1:05:29.840 Police Department counter Terrorism had a piece of this tracking 1:05:30.560 --> 1:05:32.360 this potential terrorist and. 1:05:32.600 --> 1:05:36.960 It seems to be related to isis he regularly is 1:05:37.000 --> 1:05:38.720 that it seems like they are sort of like the 1:05:38.840 --> 1:05:45.360 pre eminent foreign actor or loosely organized bunch of sympathizers 1:05:45.360 --> 1:05:49.200 who look to do US or other freedom type. I mean, 1:05:49.440 --> 1:05:52.640 who were they targeting besides US ISIS in general anyone 1:05:52.640 --> 1:05:54.040 who doesn't agree with them or what. 1:05:55.640 --> 1:06:01.160 Anyone who might not agree, but particularly American targets. They 1:06:01.200 --> 1:06:04.400 of course killed three Americans who were on active duty 1:06:04.440 --> 1:06:10.240 in Syria last month. And this individual was spotted, you know, 1:06:10.320 --> 1:06:14.080 by a New York Police officer on the counter terrorism 1:06:14.160 --> 1:06:18.720 team tracking people online. So this was a cyber operation. 1:06:20.160 --> 1:06:22.600 I'm so glad you wanted to talk about it tonight 1:06:22.640 --> 1:06:27.960 because this is one of those successful preventions, right, this 1:06:28.040 --> 1:06:31.520 is what we most desperately want. It probably would have 1:06:31.560 --> 1:06:37.080 been another lone wolf attack Charlotte, North Carolina. You know, 1:06:37.160 --> 1:06:40.280 a year ago we were getting over the New Orleans 1:06:40.400 --> 1:06:44.920 attack with a truck right and automatic weapons. This past 1:06:45.080 --> 1:06:48.840 Halloween there was a report of another planned attack that 1:06:49.040 --> 1:06:53.520 was cyber aborted as well, detected early and shut down. 1:06:54.200 --> 1:06:58.520 He was those people were talking about a potential attack 1:06:59.560 --> 1:07:04.960 in here in Ohio, so up at Cedar Point. So 1:07:05.040 --> 1:07:09.520 the small attacks, where do people gather, often in large numbers, 1:07:09.840 --> 1:07:15.760 what happened in Australia of course, the Bondai attack before Christmas. 1:07:15.400 --> 1:07:20.720 It's a classic example of people gathering in large public 1:07:20.840 --> 1:07:25.720 places vulnerability. And you know the fact that we can 1:07:25.840 --> 1:07:29.080 now talk to the public about the importance of you know, 1:07:29.160 --> 1:07:31.920 the protective efforts that are going on behind the scenes 1:07:32.000 --> 1:07:35.320 twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. This 1:07:35.400 --> 1:07:39.080 individual had been tracked for months to try to prove 1:07:39.120 --> 1:07:42.160 you know, a New York police officer, obviously we're thinking 1:07:42.160 --> 1:07:46.840 about Times Square. No, they've aboarded an attack in Charlotte, 1:07:46.880 --> 1:07:51.760 North Carolina. It's the case hasn't fully played out in court. 1:07:52.680 --> 1:07:57.520 Another troubled individual. I was struck by how many similarities 1:07:57.560 --> 1:08:01.360 there seemed to be sterling with the individual who was 1:08:01.720 --> 1:08:06.160 finally arrested for planning those pipe bombs you remember at 1:08:06.160 --> 1:08:10.120 the RNC and the DNC headquarters in January of twenty 1:08:10.160 --> 1:08:14.480 twenty one. These investigations take take a long time, but 1:08:14.800 --> 1:08:18.800 talking to the public about the ongoing threat, all the 1:08:18.960 --> 1:08:24.479 efforts being taken to identify these individuals online, ISIS has 1:08:24.520 --> 1:08:29.400 a global reach. Americans are favorite targets. Some of these 1:08:29.439 --> 1:08:32.960 attacks last year at this time were taking place in 1:08:33.280 --> 1:08:38.240 the big Christmas markets and Christmas fairs in Germany and elsewhere, 1:08:38.439 --> 1:08:44.040 so Western targets, particularly in this case, you know, holiday crowds, 1:08:44.120 --> 1:08:48.839 and kudos to the counter terrorism squad. It's a state, local, 1:08:48.920 --> 1:08:52.519 and federal effort. You pointed out, we're going to be 1:08:52.560 --> 1:08:55.840 coming up this September hard to believe it. On the 1:08:55.880 --> 1:09:00.160 twenty fifth anniversary of nine to eleven, we've had We've 1:09:00.240 --> 1:09:04.800 learned a lot, and like like in medicine, prevention is 1:09:04.840 --> 1:09:10.080 the absolute best approach to take, and it is. It's 1:09:10.120 --> 1:09:13.360 a good evening when we can talk about the prevention 1:09:13.560 --> 1:09:15.720 of this sort of an attack on Americans. 1:09:15.800 --> 1:09:18.639 Yeah, I prefer to talk about this in the news 1:09:18.800 --> 1:09:22.400 rather than carnage, lost life, in the suffering of individuals 1:09:22.400 --> 1:09:25.120 subsequent to some type of attack, which is exactly what 1:09:25.200 --> 1:09:27.920 was going on a year ago in and around Bourbon 1:09:27.960 --> 1:09:30.519 Street in New Orleans, and as you mentioned, the Christmas 1:09:30.560 --> 1:09:34.439 holiday markets elsewhere as well. It's troubling. Doctor Donnas Schles 1:09:34.479 --> 1:09:37.960 former had of political science, now professor Merita Wright State University. 1:09:38.200 --> 1:09:41.440 She's a Cincinnati kid with Sterling. On seven hundred WLW, 1:09:41.920 --> 1:09:46.080 you mentioned the DNC RNC pipe bombs that were left 1:09:46.360 --> 1:09:50.360 leading up to January sixth in what happened obviously at 1:09:50.360 --> 1:09:53.840 the Capitol and everyone you know either way you looked 1:09:53.840 --> 1:09:56.360 at it like kind of people were questioning, well, it 1:09:56.400 --> 1:09:59.719 was at both political party headquarters, what does this mean? 1:10:00.080 --> 1:10:03.080 And it turns out that this guy allegedly was not 1:10:03.240 --> 1:10:07.720 particularly partisan, disgusted, fed up and wanting to act out 1:10:07.760 --> 1:10:11.120 in some fashion against the system itself in both parties. 1:10:11.479 --> 1:10:16.760 How much is that disgruntled, dissatisfied, sort of marginal on 1:10:16.840 --> 1:10:20.280 the fringe type of player or person out there that 1:10:20.439 --> 1:10:24.479 is so vulnerable either to be manipulated by others groups 1:10:24.560 --> 1:10:27.280 be an ISIS or those that they can sympathize with 1:10:27.520 --> 1:10:29.360 to sort of stir them up, because right now on 1:10:29.479 --> 1:10:33.240 social media there is so much out there that is 1:10:33.320 --> 1:10:36.640 constantly going on where they are trying to find the 1:10:36.720 --> 1:10:40.880 disillusioned to do really horrible things and they just need 1:10:40.880 --> 1:10:42.400 poked and prodded in the right way. 1:10:42.520 --> 1:10:48.800 Yes, it is such a vulnerable population for recruitment by ISIS, 1:10:49.280 --> 1:10:52.360 and it seems to fit exactly the case that we 1:10:52.479 --> 1:10:55.519 currently have in front of us out of Charlotte, very young, 1:10:56.000 --> 1:11:02.840 eighteen nineteen years old, not well adjusted, and online, constantly online. 1:11:04.439 --> 1:11:06.960 It makes you wonder how many of these cases they're 1:11:07.000 --> 1:11:10.400 tracking on any given day. But this individual was tracked 1:11:10.400 --> 1:11:13.920 for weeks. The FBI has been assuring the public that 1:11:14.000 --> 1:11:16.200 he was, you know, at no time a threat to 1:11:16.320 --> 1:11:21.360 the general public. And yet if we think about some 1:11:21.439 --> 1:11:25.720 of the other recent lone wolf attacks, luigim Angioni not 1:11:26.080 --> 1:11:29.960 one of those you know, unsuccessful people, the young man 1:11:30.040 --> 1:11:35.639 who assassinated Charlie Kirk. But they do seem to still 1:11:35.680 --> 1:11:42.120 fit in that loan, very dissatisfied looking, you know, looking 1:11:42.280 --> 1:11:46.160 for something and finding those answers. As you said, in 1:11:46.320 --> 1:11:51.280 social media, law enforcement is there. You know that that 1:11:51.280 --> 1:11:54.559 that cyber sphere is clearly where they are tracking what 1:11:54.640 --> 1:11:59.040 ISIS is doing as well. But it's global and it's 1:12:00.200 --> 1:12:02.800 it's it's going to be interesting to see what the 1:12:02.840 --> 1:12:05.680 social media techs are going to be able to do 1:12:05.760 --> 1:12:10.160 to work with law enforcement. We are we're too vulnerable. 1:12:10.240 --> 1:12:13.680 We have big public, public gatherings. The holidays may have 1:12:13.800 --> 1:12:16.200 ended now, but you know the next planning will be 1:12:16.240 --> 1:12:19.640 for you guessed it, the Super Bowl, right, and I 1:12:19.720 --> 1:12:23.360 will be wondering again, you know how how many layers 1:12:23.400 --> 1:12:26.120 of security they have going in. That's one of the 1:12:26.160 --> 1:12:30.439 things I was watching on New Year's Eve, and that 1:12:30.760 --> 1:12:33.800 they have it down to pretty much an art right 1:12:33.840 --> 1:12:37.400 now in New York. And the the interesting, the irony, 1:12:37.439 --> 1:12:40.360 the coincidence that one of those New York officers would 1:12:40.360 --> 1:12:42.880 have been the one who identified this this gentleman I 1:12:42.880 --> 1:12:45.639 think his name is Garza uh and and to track 1:12:45.720 --> 1:12:49.080 him and to catch him before he could hurt anyone. 1:12:49.360 --> 1:12:53.760 But it is isis, it was, isis connected, and that 1:12:54.000 --> 1:12:58.120 seems to be where the action is. Not the American cases, 1:12:58.200 --> 1:13:02.600 not Charlie kirk Uh, not Luigi Manngioni, and certainly not 1:13:02.720 --> 1:13:08.280 the attacks on President Trump either fallen into this category. 1:13:08.439 --> 1:13:12.759 But we may forget about terrorism. It certainly doesn't forget 1:13:12.800 --> 1:13:14.479 about us, definitely does not. 1:13:14.600 --> 1:13:16.640 Doctor Donna Schlez, the former had of political science at 1:13:16.680 --> 1:13:19.720 Right State now professor Emerita. You know after nine to 1:13:19.720 --> 1:13:22.160 eleven what had been talked about, and it was just 1:13:22.320 --> 1:13:25.120 recently in the last year, I think really the beginning 1:13:25.120 --> 1:13:27.280 of the second term for President Trump, a lot of 1:13:27.320 --> 1:13:31.280 talk about surveillance society in which we live, how much 1:13:31.360 --> 1:13:33.880 is being looked at, whether it's our phones and what's 1:13:33.920 --> 1:13:36.800 being shared by the companies that we buy service from, 1:13:37.080 --> 1:13:40.000 whether it's what we're watching, what we're reading online, pick 1:13:40.000 --> 1:13:43.400 a device of choice, any type of communication that goes 1:13:43.400 --> 1:13:45.800 with it. And we talk about giving up our freedoms, 1:13:46.080 --> 1:13:49.320 but there is an inherent vulnerability with our freedom rather 1:13:49.360 --> 1:13:52.280 than being in some other type of place around the 1:13:52.280 --> 1:13:55.280 world where there is no freedom, where there is no liberty, 1:13:56.320 --> 1:13:59.720 So where is that line and how do we navigate 1:13:59.760 --> 1:14:01.720 it because at this point they go, well, and I 1:14:01.840 --> 1:14:03.880 kind of the opinion, I have nothing to hide. They're 1:14:03.880 --> 1:14:06.840 in my stuff anyway, probably searching, and it's okay. But 1:14:06.960 --> 1:14:09.599 the other end of it, where does that line stop 1:14:09.960 --> 1:14:13.320 when it comes to surveilling the people of the United States, 1:14:13.680 --> 1:14:16.080 our freedom for our security, because that, I guess is 1:14:16.120 --> 1:14:18.360 the eternal question that we have to ask. 1:14:20.000 --> 1:14:25.120 And at what point does it become entrapment? I think 1:14:25.160 --> 1:14:29.080 an officer and agent posing as an ISIS person, you know, 1:14:29.520 --> 1:14:33.959 an ISIS recruiter or an ISIS expert online would probably 1:14:34.000 --> 1:14:37.320 have a pretty convincing argument, you know, if it went 1:14:37.400 --> 1:14:41.480 to a jury trial. But your bigger point about privacy, 1:14:41.840 --> 1:14:45.120 what we say, what you know, with whom we communicate, 1:14:45.439 --> 1:14:49.840 what we put in writing. If you read the Patriot 1:14:49.880 --> 1:14:53.520 Act that Congress passed after the nine to eleven attacks, 1:14:54.240 --> 1:15:00.800 law enforcement has very broad authority, very broad. And the 1:15:00.840 --> 1:15:04.120 cyber realm, as you know, is global and it's all encompassing, 1:15:04.160 --> 1:15:06.240 and it's well, hey, it's in your phone right now 1:15:06.800 --> 1:15:09.680 if they want to track with whom you are communicating. 1:15:10.040 --> 1:15:13.559 But if it's an ISIS operative or someone posing as 1:15:13.600 --> 1:15:17.840 an isis operative? I think an average American would say, 1:15:18.600 --> 1:15:21.840 that's the sort of law enforcement and you know, protective 1:15:21.880 --> 1:15:27.400 and preventive action that we want to see, not you 1:15:27.400 --> 1:15:30.600 know necessarily what the politics are that you're discussing. But 1:15:30.680 --> 1:15:35.559 if there are weapons and attacks and planning taking place, 1:15:36.360 --> 1:15:39.559 I think, Sterling, you know, we're way past that line 1:15:39.960 --> 1:15:44.400 of entrapment. We're talking about actual threats to Americans. 1:15:44.520 --> 1:15:47.439 Yeah, it's not a good scenario looking back at this 1:15:47.479 --> 1:15:51.200 because doctor Schleck, you published the first textbook on terrorism, 1:15:51.640 --> 1:15:56.360 so historically, when we look back across the country and 1:15:56.400 --> 1:15:59.000 for that matter, around the world, and I was a 1:15:59.040 --> 1:16:03.400 hatchling in the seventies, just a tiny sterling, but I 1:16:03.479 --> 1:16:05.640 look back at it, and you heard, at least in 1:16:05.680 --> 1:16:08.280 the early part of the seventies, mid seventies, in the 1:16:08.400 --> 1:16:11.680 late sixties, there was a lot of terrorism of one 1:16:11.720 --> 1:16:14.160 type or another done domestically. I mean, there were department 1:16:14.200 --> 1:16:16.439 stores that were being bombed. There were a lot of 1:16:16.479 --> 1:16:19.920 different pieces and parts going on with unrest in this 1:16:20.120 --> 1:16:22.960 nation in a lot of ways. Are we not safer 1:16:23.040 --> 1:16:26.479 now from terrorism than we were? Are we more scared 1:16:26.680 --> 1:16:30.200 unreasonably from it? Or I mean, where do we stand 1:16:30.240 --> 1:16:33.439 now in twenty six the second of January, compared to say, 1:16:33.520 --> 1:16:36.519 nineteen seventy six in the bi centennial year with two 1:16:36.600 --> 1:16:37.559 fifty in front of us. 1:16:38.920 --> 1:16:42.479 Oh, what a great question. You know, the sixties and 1:16:42.520 --> 1:16:45.320 the seventies there was there was a anti war movement 1:16:45.439 --> 1:16:50.000 going on, and another number of many other movements. We 1:16:50.120 --> 1:16:52.720 fast forward up to two thousand and one. What was 1:16:52.760 --> 1:16:56.120 the FBI saying at the time was the greatest threat 1:16:56.680 --> 1:17:02.600 of terrorism in our country environmental terrorism? They completely you know, 1:17:02.640 --> 1:17:05.559 we we were not even in the right part of 1:17:05.800 --> 1:17:10.559 the conversation. Think about people who've grown up, say you 1:17:10.600 --> 1:17:14.080 know gen Zs and others, they've lived a whole lifetime 1:17:14.360 --> 1:17:16.960 where there's there's always been a nine to eleven and 1:17:17.080 --> 1:17:22.200 there's always been massive social media life going on. I 1:17:22.240 --> 1:17:24.880 think they, you know, people who are twenty five may 1:17:24.960 --> 1:17:29.040 find it a lot easier to expect both law enforcement 1:17:29.439 --> 1:17:35.040 intrusions and privacy to be happening, almost taking it for granted. 1:17:35.040 --> 1:17:38.040 Where as a person your age or my age, you know, 1:17:38.280 --> 1:17:42.759 raises these questions about privacy, but the threat is small. 1:17:43.120 --> 1:17:47.240 But what happens when it actually occurs a large public venue, 1:17:48.000 --> 1:17:56.040 massive civilian casualties, incredible media coverage, you know, everyone is 1:17:56.200 --> 1:18:00.320 riveted by the attention and then comes to a cult 1:18:00.360 --> 1:18:03.519 part about knowing how to react or as we often do, 1:18:03.560 --> 1:18:06.280 if we go back to two thousand and one, overreact 1:18:07.640 --> 1:18:12.760 rather than you know, find the really most effective and 1:18:13.040 --> 1:18:18.439 least costly to democracy solutions to these problems. We've been 1:18:18.680 --> 1:18:22.280 down a very steep learning curve in terms of terrorism. 1:18:22.720 --> 1:18:26.759 What happened with this aborted attack in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1:18:27.160 --> 1:18:31.599 I think is evidence that law enforcement now knows that 1:18:32.120 --> 1:18:36.439 terrorism is also a game of prevention. This is not 1:18:36.640 --> 1:18:41.599 just finding them and prosecuting them. To truly protect the public, 1:18:42.120 --> 1:18:46.840 it has to be protective and preventive. My heart goes 1:18:46.880 --> 1:18:49.599 out to the people in Australia. I don't know if 1:18:49.640 --> 1:18:52.759 you saw the big demonstration on New Year's Day, people 1:18:52.840 --> 1:18:56.160 showing up just to show their solidarity with the Jewish 1:18:56.160 --> 1:19:00.479 community in Australia. But you know, the threats are so small, 1:19:01.240 --> 1:19:05.400 and yet when they do happen, they're enormous. Uh and 1:19:05.400 --> 1:19:08.599 and they're there. These are average Americans. Write somebody down 1:19:08.640 --> 1:19:12.080 in New Orleans. You know, for for a big gathering, 1:19:12.120 --> 1:19:16.640 it's people just like us, wrong place, wrong time. It 1:19:16.640 --> 1:19:19.879 could be any of us and that's why it strikes 1:19:19.880 --> 1:19:23.439 people with the intense media coverage, the shocking nature of 1:19:23.479 --> 1:19:27.280 the violence. Uh So it has grabbed our attention again. 1:19:27.360 --> 1:19:29.960 You're right, the numbers of Americans who die from this 1:19:30.840 --> 1:19:33.200 very small, but you know you're you're at much greater 1:19:33.360 --> 1:19:37.680 risk driving your car in American traffic. Uh But nonetheless, 1:19:37.720 --> 1:19:41.440 when it does happen, everybody can be everybody. 1:19:41.760 --> 1:19:45.680 Yeah, and it's it's horrific for the individuals involved. And 1:19:45.720 --> 1:19:48.200 then the nature of it is to to instill fear. 1:19:48.720 --> 1:19:51.519 And I refuse to let someone dictate how I'm going 1:19:51.600 --> 1:19:53.719 to live my life out of the idea of fear. 1:19:54.120 --> 1:19:56.679 But it's it's a very effective tool. Doctor donas Schleig, 1:19:56.720 --> 1:19:58.920 former had a political science at Right State Now. Professor 1:19:58.960 --> 1:20:02.160 Merida was stirling on the we're short on time, and 1:20:02.160 --> 1:20:04.400 I appreciate you making so much time of it as 1:20:04.400 --> 1:20:06.719 here on the second day of January twenty six talking 1:20:06.720 --> 1:20:11.640 about this quash attack. Thankfully that did not happen in Charlotte. 1:20:11.680 --> 1:20:13.240 There are a lot of them that we never hear 1:20:13.280 --> 1:20:18.760 about constantly. Law enforcement pick a layer of that from 1:20:18.800 --> 1:20:22.360 the federal level on down to local police, county sheriffs, 1:20:22.360 --> 1:20:25.240 and so on. In people eyeballing things and letting people 1:20:25.320 --> 1:20:27.320 know about the danger or what they perceive as a 1:20:27.400 --> 1:20:29.760 danger that could be a threat. But we also look 1:20:29.760 --> 1:20:32.040 at state actors. Iran is one of those who has 1:20:32.040 --> 1:20:35.360 helped sort of facilitate terrorism globally, as it's been reported, 1:20:35.880 --> 1:20:39.680 whether it's hamas other organizations. The president just came out 1:20:39.680 --> 1:20:41.720 with a public warning which may or may not be 1:20:41.800 --> 1:20:46.200 unusual about their treatment of what considered peaceful protesters there 1:20:46.400 --> 1:20:48.960 to the extreme, which is ironic because there's been talk 1:20:49.040 --> 1:20:51.600 of protesters here and how they'd be dealt with two. 1:20:51.680 --> 1:20:54.720 But they're a part of this as well. In the 1:20:54.800 --> 1:20:58.720 idea of a nation state in sponsoring either terrorism or 1:20:58.720 --> 1:21:01.680 an attack. You think of infrastructure, right, you think of 1:21:01.760 --> 1:21:04.559 knocking off social media, You think about the electricity, you 1:21:04.600 --> 1:21:07.400 think about water, You think about all these vulnerabilities that 1:21:07.439 --> 1:21:10.840 are out there. And then the very cheap individual either 1:21:11.320 --> 1:21:16.360 loose cannon off the rails, unhinged, motivated by or really 1:21:16.400 --> 1:21:20.240 affiliated with another organization, state sponsored or isis type or 1:21:20.240 --> 1:21:24.559 what It doesn't take much to cause great loss of life, 1:21:24.720 --> 1:21:27.360 carnage and fear. I mean that is I guess one 1:21:27.360 --> 1:21:30.760 of the the upsides if someone is the idea of 1:21:30.800 --> 1:21:33.360 affecting terrorists and how it affects a society, is it not. 1:21:35.439 --> 1:21:39.519 It is very much in that public response component. You're right, 1:21:40.160 --> 1:21:46.120 and what can people do? Be informed, be aware, and 1:21:46.520 --> 1:21:50.799 have these conversations about you know what you see here, 1:21:51.120 --> 1:21:56.800 learn on social media. Americans are very safe in their 1:21:56.840 --> 1:22:01.400 lives and in their property. We are very safe. And 1:22:01.479 --> 1:22:06.360 yet even with the newness of this terrorism threat, every 1:22:06.400 --> 1:22:10.479 time I'm recalling both Bondai and a year ago in 1:22:10.560 --> 1:22:15.560 New Orleans, the public reaction because we all see ourselves 1:22:15.600 --> 1:22:19.320 in those victims. Any of us could been there. It 1:22:19.400 --> 1:22:24.120 is the powerful weapon of the week of the impotent, 1:22:24.240 --> 1:22:28.920 turning many of our strengths against us. And that is 1:22:28.960 --> 1:22:33.200 why the public conversation, the awareness, bringing to light the 1:22:33.280 --> 1:22:37.080 story of this something that didn't happen right. This is 1:22:37.120 --> 1:22:40.640 the great lesson for the public to be appreciative of 1:22:40.680 --> 1:22:43.439 the work that goes on twenty four hours a day 1:22:43.800 --> 1:22:48.120 trying to track these groups. The affiliations with isis make 1:22:48.200 --> 1:22:51.679 it possible for law enforcement to do this work. The 1:22:51.720 --> 1:22:56.400 lone wolf actors, though, those are the really you know, 1:22:56.439 --> 1:23:01.720 the real truly difficult challenges if you are completely if 1:23:01.760 --> 1:23:04.000 you're not reaching out on social media to talk to 1:23:04.040 --> 1:23:06.400 someone you think is an isis and knows how to 1:23:06.439 --> 1:23:10.200 mix explosives. Uh, it will be very difficult to bring 1:23:10.240 --> 1:23:12.880 you to the attention of law enforcement. So this is 1:23:12.920 --> 1:23:16.640 another one of those many edges in social media we 1:23:16.760 --> 1:23:21.480 keep discovering. And whether or not we're getting much cooperation 1:23:21.720 --> 1:23:25.680 from the social media text I don't know, but kudos 1:23:25.760 --> 1:23:29.960 to the team in New York. Uh, Times Square was safe, 1:23:30.000 --> 1:23:32.920 and now it turns out this little town, little community 1:23:32.920 --> 1:23:36.799 in Charlotte will be safe as well. I'll be following 1:23:36.840 --> 1:23:40.280 this one. They were, They've got There are a couple 1:23:40.360 --> 1:23:43.600 of interesting twists and comparisons, as I said to the 1:23:43.880 --> 1:23:47.800 gentleman who was arrested for the DC pipe bombing attacks, 1:23:48.160 --> 1:23:52.719 but people need to be informed, and when it does happen, 1:23:54.600 --> 1:23:59.280 the immediate desire for this, you know, the swiftest, most potent, 1:23:59.439 --> 1:24:03.040 most power or full of striking response is probably not 1:24:03.160 --> 1:24:04.240 going to be the best one. 1:24:05.800 --> 1:24:07.960 Sometimes it's not the hammer that you needed. Something I 1:24:08.000 --> 1:24:09.240 guess smaller. 1:24:10.000 --> 1:24:11.320 Well put, well put. 1:24:11.400 --> 1:24:14.920 What's interesting about this is it all sort of comes together? 1:24:15.000 --> 1:24:15.160 Is it? 1:24:15.200 --> 1:24:17.439 Statistically we are safer than we've ever been, but there's 1:24:17.479 --> 1:24:20.040 in some ways more danger and threat out there. And 1:24:20.080 --> 1:24:23.519 the instantaneous sharing of information, which we did not have 1:24:23.680 --> 1:24:26.479 decades ago, is there as well. It's not just checking 1:24:26.520 --> 1:24:29.000 you know, somebody's library card history that they took out 1:24:29.080 --> 1:24:31.200 or stole the you know, the anarchist cookbook from the 1:24:31.240 --> 1:24:35.200 library downtown. It's online who they were talking to, what 1:24:35.240 --> 1:24:38.680 they've been doing, and information they've been searching, and then 1:24:38.800 --> 1:24:41.639 credit card records and everything. I mean, it's out there. 1:24:41.680 --> 1:24:44.519 The information. Hard to hide your trail. If you're out 1:24:44.520 --> 1:24:46.080 there looking to do bad things. 1:24:47.280 --> 1:24:50.519 It is hard to hide your trail. It's also hard 1:24:50.600 --> 1:24:54.439 to fight an ideology, and that is what I as 1:24:54.560 --> 1:24:58.360 and it appeals. It has a certain appeal. I think 1:24:58.439 --> 1:25:01.479 that that that that instruct us where to watch who 1:25:01.560 --> 1:25:05.240 might be susceptible, as you mentioned earlier, But it is 1:25:05.280 --> 1:25:08.519 an idea and that is always going to be the 1:25:08.520 --> 1:25:10.479 most difficult one to try to control. 1:25:10.600 --> 1:25:12.559 There you go, well, hopefully there's more good news about 1:25:12.600 --> 1:25:15.120 something like this being put down rather than having us 1:25:15.320 --> 1:25:17.880 you do the reaction after so heads off to law 1:25:17.960 --> 1:25:20.400 enforcement and all those involved doing it, and save for 1:25:20.479 --> 1:25:22.920 forrest through the second day of January twenty sixth, Doctor 1:25:22.920 --> 1:25:25.479 Donashle like, thank you for making time in doing what 1:25:25.520 --> 1:25:28.360 you do. Former head of political science. She's Professor Meredith 1:25:28.400 --> 1:25:32.080 from Wright State University and Cincinnati's her hometown. Happy New 1:25:32.160 --> 1:25:34.080 Year to you and thank you, and we'll catch up 1:25:34.080 --> 1:25:34.559 against him. 1:25:35.800 --> 1:25:36.519 Talk to you soon. 1:25:36.600 --> 1:25:39.240 Thanks Sterling, take care of yourself. More Sterling coming back 1:25:39.240 --> 1:25:42.120 your ten third reports straight away. Brady Hopkins has that, 1:25:42.360 --> 1:25:46.040 and we will get a little bit into this story. 1:25:46.040 --> 1:25:48.200 It's horrific about this eleven year old girl who was 1:25:48.360 --> 1:25:51.080 gunned down in the park. Details straight away here seven 1:25:51.160 --> 1:25:58.640 hundred WLW and already talk of a senseless killing and 1:25:58.760 --> 1:26:05.479 Cincinnati year old girl shot killed playing in the West 1:26:05.560 --> 1:26:13.439 End Thursday night, New Year's and it's just bewildering, to 1:26:13.479 --> 1:26:16.960 be honest with you. Laura playground, it's right there at 1:26:16.960 --> 1:26:22.840 West Liberty in John Street about six o'clock. Heard it 1:26:22.880 --> 1:26:25.760 on the news just a few minutes ago, Brady and 1:26:26.680 --> 1:26:30.280 wcpo's got a great coverage of this as well. Girl 1:26:30.560 --> 1:26:34.040 Queen heer a reed just eleven. So you're talking what fifth, 1:26:34.120 --> 1:26:38.240 sixth grade something like that. She's taken to children's hospital 1:26:38.280 --> 1:26:40.680 after being a shot. She was playing with their relatives 1:26:40.760 --> 1:26:47.200 kids in the in the park and just one gunshot wound. 1:26:47.760 --> 1:26:52.200 Nobody at this point has been detained, as I understand it, 1:26:52.320 --> 1:26:54.760 or arrested. At this point. They are in search of 1:26:55.439 --> 1:26:59.720 and hoping that someone can point the finger and identify 1:26:59.840 --> 1:27:07.120 individual responsible or individuals responsible for this. It is mind numbing. 1:27:07.439 --> 1:27:11.920 It is bewildering day after day, week after week, month 1:27:11.960 --> 1:27:14.599 after month, now year after year. And I know crime 1:27:14.680 --> 1:27:17.720 status that were just published recently showing a downtick and 1:27:17.800 --> 1:27:22.599 crime generally across the country in most cities around the country, 1:27:22.880 --> 1:27:25.280 violent crime and so forth. But there are spots that 1:27:25.360 --> 1:27:28.880 it is an everyday occurrence. In one of those things 1:27:28.880 --> 1:27:32.880 that happens a lot, you know, in a neighborhood that 1:27:32.960 --> 1:27:36.920 has somewhere less than seven thousand people living there on 1:27:36.960 --> 1:27:42.759 a very regular basis. Down there you get thirty people, 1:27:42.960 --> 1:27:46.200 forty people shot, as it's been reported time and time again. 1:27:47.000 --> 1:27:50.400 And what has been done. More street patrols have been 1:27:50.439 --> 1:27:53.400 talked about over this last summer. Obviously, you got you know, 1:27:53.439 --> 1:27:56.880 a former police chief who's on the sideline, interim police 1:27:56.920 --> 1:27:59.160 chief hand. He's come out to talk about how horrible 1:27:59.200 --> 1:28:03.120 this is, senseless act of violence and heartbreaking. Yeah, it is, 1:28:03.200 --> 1:28:06.080 for sure, But I want to I just want what 1:28:06.360 --> 1:28:12.120 exactly is the deal with this, why is this going? 1:28:12.160 --> 1:28:13.760 And we don't know who to blame at this point 1:28:13.800 --> 1:28:16.400 other than someone who was out there discharging a firearm 1:28:16.479 --> 1:28:18.439 who had no business one in their hand, in their 1:28:18.439 --> 1:28:22.120 possession doing dumb ass things, whether it was with deliberate 1:28:22.120 --> 1:28:25.599 intent gunning down and firing at these kids, and this 1:28:25.640 --> 1:28:28.160 poor little girl eleven years old and her family dealing 1:28:28.240 --> 1:28:32.679 with the aftermath of this, trying to make sense of it. 1:28:32.680 --> 1:28:38.240 It's just heart wrenching and it's hard to process. And 1:28:38.360 --> 1:28:40.559 one of the things that came up in the w 1:28:40.760 --> 1:28:45.400 cpo's report on this, they talked to Noah O'Brien's West 1:28:45.479 --> 1:28:48.799 End Community Council member right there talking about the issue 1:28:48.800 --> 1:28:51.400 of violence in the neighborhood, says, you know, and in 1:28:51.439 --> 1:28:53.040 some of the stuff that we've talked about time and 1:28:53.080 --> 1:28:55.200 time again on my show, and you've heard it all 1:28:55.240 --> 1:28:57.360 over the Big One. You heard it being talked about 1:28:57.360 --> 1:29:01.400 time and time again. You know, more police, more people 1:29:01.479 --> 1:29:06.640 being more aware, the idea of deconcentrating poverty, which in 1:29:06.680 --> 1:29:08.760 some cases I guess could be it. But you know what, 1:29:08.840 --> 1:29:10.560 I grew up poor and I wasn't out on the 1:29:10.600 --> 1:29:13.200 street doing crime and hurting other people. So I don't 1:29:13.280 --> 1:29:18.040 necessarily believe that poverty or being poor in that desperation 1:29:18.920 --> 1:29:21.880 is the causation of somebody gunning down a kid on 1:29:21.920 --> 1:29:24.639 a playground, but certainly for a lot of other crime 1:29:24.680 --> 1:29:27.880 that's going on, perhaps you had that desperation and looking 1:29:27.920 --> 1:29:30.240 to cash, you know, get cash that you worked for, 1:29:30.400 --> 1:29:32.760 that I worked for, or in the stuff that we've 1:29:32.800 --> 1:29:36.200 bought to grab to sell, or drug addle behavior, whatever 1:29:36.240 --> 1:29:38.920 else it is, I don't know. And then the other 1:29:38.960 --> 1:29:43.439 thing in this story that is and I wasn't there. 1:29:43.960 --> 1:29:48.360 Chances are you weren't there. This is the family's grieving 1:29:48.360 --> 1:29:50.240 and dealing with this. They go to the hospital and 1:29:50.280 --> 1:29:54.240 apparently then there were issues in their communication and being 1:29:54.280 --> 1:29:57.840 able to grieve and see the baby girl eleven years 1:29:57.880 --> 1:30:00.360 old after she had passed in stoad up to it 1:30:00.439 --> 1:30:02.800 and waiting, as it's been reported to end up going 1:30:02.800 --> 1:30:06.960 to the funeral home to navigate that, which is a 1:30:07.000 --> 1:30:10.160 whole nother layer of insult to injury if it's accurate 1:30:10.320 --> 1:30:12.880 as it's been reported in that type of circumstance. And 1:30:13.280 --> 1:30:17.080 I know people get emotional and so forth when you 1:30:17.160 --> 1:30:18.960 have something like this happen. I want to open up 1:30:18.960 --> 1:30:21.240 the phones give you a chance to sound off. I 1:30:21.240 --> 1:30:24.599 would like to know in all seriousness, because I mean, 1:30:25.320 --> 1:30:27.160 you know a lot of people come out there talk 1:30:27.200 --> 1:30:29.439 about you know what the solution is, how do you 1:30:29.560 --> 1:30:34.000 prevent this because we don't know who's responsible yet. I mean, 1:30:34.040 --> 1:30:35.439 there was a story the other day. I think it's 1:30:35.640 --> 1:30:37.720 a fourteen year old or an eleven year old is 1:30:37.840 --> 1:30:40.559 ends up being held accountable for or held as a 1:30:40.560 --> 1:30:42.760 result of a shooting of another kid. It was either 1:30:42.760 --> 1:30:44.880 an eleven year old shooting a fourteen year old, a 1:30:44.880 --> 1:30:46.640 fourteen year old shooting an eleven year old. I think 1:30:46.680 --> 1:30:50.240 it was up in Dayton. And this is happening all 1:30:50.280 --> 1:30:54.559 over the place, even while overall crime violent crime has 1:30:54.600 --> 1:30:59.000 gone down. So I mean, it's all the usual things right, 1:31:00.160 --> 1:31:04.240 got parenting, You could argue God needing to be more involved. 1:31:05.760 --> 1:31:08.960 Whatever it is, there's something missing from the individual's lives 1:31:08.960 --> 1:31:12.599 who have decided that being quick to the gun. Whether 1:31:12.640 --> 1:31:16.200 it's a stolen firearm that somebody did not maintain control 1:31:16.240 --> 1:31:20.480 of as they should, or someone who did not maintain 1:31:20.520 --> 1:31:22.120 control of it in the house and a kid gets 1:31:22.160 --> 1:31:25.960 their hands on it, or it's criminals doing criminal stuff. 1:31:26.920 --> 1:31:29.920 And I have the opinion that you know what, it's 1:31:30.160 --> 1:31:35.280 criminals killing criminals. I'm kind of alright with that, because 1:31:35.320 --> 1:31:40.479 that's I mean, that's just criminals doing criminal stuff. But 1:31:40.560 --> 1:31:44.120 when it's individuals that are innocent, that are minding their 1:31:44.120 --> 1:31:47.600 own business that are victims of either the crime or 1:31:47.640 --> 1:31:51.240 in this case, a senseless act of violence an eleven 1:31:51.320 --> 1:31:55.439 year old child, it makes no sense to me. Five 1:31:55.400 --> 1:31:58.680 point three seven four nine seven, eight hundred the big one. 1:31:58.720 --> 1:32:01.840 You can use the talk bag feature on the iHeartRadio app. 1:32:01.880 --> 1:32:05.040 If you're streaming there, click on the microphone. I mean, 1:32:05.360 --> 1:32:08.360 what more can you do? I mean, you'd like to 1:32:08.360 --> 1:32:11.400 be of the idea of prevention. You know, we're talking 1:32:11.400 --> 1:32:14.439 about more people on the street in law enforcement doing it, 1:32:14.560 --> 1:32:16.799 and that's what they've done in Cincinnati with the Ohio 1:32:16.840 --> 1:32:20.080 State Patrol and partnering up with them, and it has 1:32:20.120 --> 1:32:22.600 in fact beefed up felony arrest and getting some of 1:32:22.600 --> 1:32:25.960 those repeat offenders off the streets and going after those 1:32:25.960 --> 1:32:28.360 who already had warrants on them and getting them locked 1:32:28.439 --> 1:32:31.439 up and keeping them locked up. Because so much of 1:32:31.479 --> 1:32:33.600 the crime and the stuff that makes the news and 1:32:33.640 --> 1:32:37.680 the headlines are individuals who are in the business of 1:32:37.720 --> 1:32:42.080 criminal behavior and repeat offenders. We don't know yet this 1:32:42.160 --> 1:32:45.440 particular case and who should be held accountable and culpable 1:32:45.840 --> 1:32:48.280 for this horrible thing. But what do you do? What 1:32:48.320 --> 1:32:53.400 do you tell this child's family, the mom and the kids, 1:32:53.400 --> 1:32:55.479 they weren't they're not even from here, they were visiting 1:32:55.479 --> 1:33:00.280 for like the holiday. I mean, it's just horrible. I 1:33:00.320 --> 1:33:02.160 want to know what you think. To West Union, Steve's 1:33:02.160 --> 1:33:03.720 first was Sterling on the Big One and room for 1:33:03.760 --> 1:33:07.320 you five one, three, seven, nine hundred the Big One. Hey, Steve, 1:33:07.320 --> 1:33:07.720 what do you know? 1:33:09.960 --> 1:33:10.360 Sterling? 1:33:10.840 --> 1:33:12.240 Happy New Year? 1:33:13.479 --> 1:33:13.719 Hey? 1:33:14.720 --> 1:33:17.479 Doesn't everybody have a phone that has a camera on it? 1:33:17.680 --> 1:33:18.280 Most of us? 1:33:19.680 --> 1:33:19.880 Yeah? 1:33:19.960 --> 1:33:25.920 How about we can do that with our cities. I mean, 1:33:26.000 --> 1:33:29.280 how much could it cost? I mean, one little girl's life? 1:33:30.920 --> 1:33:33.120 But a million dollars? Two million dollars? 1:33:34.320 --> 1:33:36.880 I mean, I don't know how you can't. Yeah, I 1:33:36.880 --> 1:33:38.920 mean there are a lot of cameras all over the place, 1:33:38.960 --> 1:33:40.120 but apparently not enough. 1:33:41.640 --> 1:33:46.360 Eat More and zoning needs to change the rules when 1:33:46.360 --> 1:33:51.280 they make playgrounds to put block walls attractive block walls 1:33:51.960 --> 1:33:54.960 around the playground to about five feet. 1:33:56.320 --> 1:33:57.879 That'll stop a lot of it. 1:33:57.880 --> 1:34:00.519 It could. Well, here's the other side. Then you have 1:34:00.560 --> 1:34:02.360 a wall, and then if you're in the park and 1:34:02.439 --> 1:34:05.240 somebody wants to do no good inside the park, then 1:34:05.240 --> 1:34:07.240 you're sort of trapped with the wall. You have to 1:34:07.280 --> 1:34:09.800 then figure a way to get out and navigate it too. 1:34:10.040 --> 1:34:12.719 A lot of kids, they're going to make a fuss 1:34:12.720 --> 1:34:15.479 and parents are going to be in there and they're 1:34:15.479 --> 1:34:18.080 going to take care of business. But it's going to 1:34:18.160 --> 1:34:20.920 stop drive by shootings across playgrounds. 1:34:21.240 --> 1:34:24.040 It could be. I'm not sure at this point, and 1:34:24.280 --> 1:34:26.200 I was looking at trying to find every bit of 1:34:26.240 --> 1:34:28.640 information I could about this, because I try to have 1:34:28.760 --> 1:34:30.840 half an idea what I'm talking about before I open 1:34:30.880 --> 1:34:34.200 my mouth, though it may not always sound like it. 1:34:34.800 --> 1:34:39.000 Technology has the solution out there. You just got to 1:34:39.040 --> 1:34:42.599 put it where it needs to be. And the Cinnati 1:34:42.680 --> 1:34:47.120 is not necessarily doing that because they're very reactive and 1:34:47.280 --> 1:34:52.080 they don't do things until something really bad happens. Another 1:34:52.240 --> 1:34:55.840 thing that I'm a little bit concerned with was these 1:34:55.880 --> 1:35:00.880 people when they took their when their daughter was taken emergency, 1:35:00.960 --> 1:35:02.639 they were treated very badly. 1:35:02.960 --> 1:35:04.120 That's what I've heard too. 1:35:05.360 --> 1:35:09.320 And I think that's just atrocious. What it does. It 1:35:09.479 --> 1:35:13.400 happen so much that these people are just numb to 1:35:13.600 --> 1:35:14.760 it and just don't care. 1:35:15.439 --> 1:35:15.719 Well. 1:35:16.080 --> 1:35:18.920 I mean, I would like to know what happened, and 1:35:18.960 --> 1:35:21.519 they're going to have to wade through it, and the 1:35:21.560 --> 1:35:23.439 hospital is going to have to figure out how they 1:35:23.479 --> 1:35:25.000 put a good spin on it. But it is a 1:35:25.040 --> 1:35:28.840 bad look if it as as reported that this went 1:35:28.880 --> 1:35:31.560 down that way, And you know, people get very emotional 1:35:31.680 --> 1:35:34.559 sometimes and it's hard to navigate maybe a large group 1:35:34.560 --> 1:35:37.320 of people. But I wasn't there. I didn't witness it. 1:35:37.360 --> 1:35:39.320 I haven't seen any video of it. But what it 1:35:39.400 --> 1:35:43.120 has been described as this situation as you're talking about, Yeah, 1:35:43.120 --> 1:35:45.880 it sounds like the family was treated less than decently. 1:35:47.120 --> 1:35:50.360 The thing is that if you have the cameras in place, 1:35:50.439 --> 1:35:55.320 you're going to catch these culprints a lot because you 1:35:55.320 --> 1:36:00.560 don't have film, and it'll stop eventually. I can't imagine 1:36:00.880 --> 1:36:05.519 there's more than six five hundred thugs and Cincinnati making 1:36:05.600 --> 1:36:07.000 it awful forever money. 1:36:07.360 --> 1:36:10.400 Yeah, And that's what they've talked about, and that's one 1:36:10.439 --> 1:36:12.040 of the things that they've tried to go after these 1:36:12.040 --> 1:36:14.680 felony warrants in these repeat offenders because it is a 1:36:14.720 --> 1:36:17.160 small number of people generally that they're wreaking a lot 1:36:17.200 --> 1:36:19.160 of the having Steve, I appreciate the comment. Thank you, 1:36:19.240 --> 1:36:20.680 and have a great new year. It's good to talk 1:36:20.680 --> 1:36:22.840 to you. I'm sorry it's about a horrible topic like this, 1:36:22.960 --> 1:36:25.160 but I figured it needed to be talked about. Take 1:36:25.200 --> 1:36:32.760 care of yourself, Steve. Thanks. You know it's for a 1:36:32.840 --> 1:36:35.200 talk show host to be speechless is probably not a 1:36:35.200 --> 1:36:39.479 great thing to admit. But I really have a hard 1:36:39.560 --> 1:36:46.519 time just understanding, you know, and we don't know who's 1:36:46.600 --> 1:36:50.519 responsible yet for this. Kids should be able to go 1:36:50.560 --> 1:36:52.800 to a park six o'clock. I mean it's you know, 1:36:52.920 --> 1:36:58.439 it maybe after dark, but there's lights and it's six o'clock, 1:36:58.600 --> 1:37:00.599 and you figure the park could be a safe place 1:37:00.680 --> 1:37:02.400 to go and it's not something you should have to 1:37:02.439 --> 1:37:07.080 worry about, is you know, gunfire and rounds whizzing by 1:37:07.160 --> 1:37:10.840 your head or you know, killing your child at eleven 1:37:10.920 --> 1:37:14.360 years old? Who you would think the park is where 1:37:14.360 --> 1:37:17.360 you'd be safe in doing what you're supposed to be doing, 1:37:18.160 --> 1:37:21.599 which is playing in off the street in a way 1:37:21.680 --> 1:37:27.040 from trouble. And you know, whether it's somebody out there 1:37:27.840 --> 1:37:30.920 firing rounds indiscriminately from a distance, or if it was 1:37:30.960 --> 1:37:35.519 something more intentional directly or otherwise you know, if not 1:37:35.640 --> 1:37:39.679 negligent either way, somebody should be held accountable. And too 1:37:39.720 --> 1:37:45.280 many stories, I mean just in the last week to 1:37:45.320 --> 1:37:49.080 ten days, and I mentioned this on the show that 1:37:49.160 --> 1:37:52.240 it was in New Year's Eve, and I talked about 1:37:52.280 --> 1:37:58.280 my time in New Orleans and celebratory gunfire, which is 1:37:58.880 --> 1:38:04.680 really a misnomer to me in that it's commonplace for 1:38:04.760 --> 1:38:07.760 people to pop off some rounds for New Year's or 1:38:07.800 --> 1:38:11.920 pop off some rounds because it's Christmas, or pick another 1:38:11.960 --> 1:38:15.559 reason to celebrate. I've never once thought I'd grab a 1:38:15.560 --> 1:38:18.719 weapon out of the box at home or the closet 1:38:18.840 --> 1:38:23.080 or whatever and go out and fire some rounds up 1:38:23.160 --> 1:38:26.240 into the sky. And in New Orleans, what happened New 1:38:26.320 --> 1:38:28.720 Years years ago when I was there working before I 1:38:28.760 --> 1:38:32.640 came back home to Cincinnati and Ohio, here is a 1:38:32.680 --> 1:38:38.920 woman ended up fallingbeknownst to anyone around or initially trying 1:38:38.920 --> 1:38:41.200 to figure out what happened to her. Because she collapsed 1:38:41.600 --> 1:38:43.160 is because she took a round to the top of 1:38:43.160 --> 1:38:46.280 her head because somebody was firing into the sky to 1:38:46.360 --> 1:38:50.760 celebrate the New year, and it dropped her dead. And 1:38:50.840 --> 1:38:53.040 there was a story in the last week to ten 1:38:53.120 --> 1:38:55.519 days about a guy who had a new weapon, and 1:38:55.560 --> 1:38:58.920 he went out in his backyard and started, you know, 1:38:59.040 --> 1:39:02.280 a target practice it like a can or a couple 1:39:02.280 --> 1:39:07.440 of cans, and apparently that one round of his travels 1:39:07.800 --> 1:39:10.599 a couple of blocks, because yeah, they don't just stop 1:39:11.080 --> 1:39:13.880 where you want the round to stop, and then ended 1:39:13.960 --> 1:39:15.760 up hitting an older woman who had a baby in 1:39:15.800 --> 1:39:18.559 her arms. Thankfully didn't hit the child, but it hit 1:39:18.600 --> 1:39:20.920 her either threw her arm, clipped her arm and into 1:39:20.960 --> 1:39:24.880 her chest cavity, and ended up killing her. So, whether 1:39:25.000 --> 1:39:30.760 it's indiscriminate gunfire to the sky, somebody else being an 1:39:30.800 --> 1:39:34.240 idiot and a moron firing target practice without a proper 1:39:34.320 --> 1:39:37.760 stop to keep those around them safe, or if it 1:39:37.880 --> 1:39:40.320 was someone up to no good driving around looking to 1:39:40.360 --> 1:39:44.559 gun people down, or someone indiscriminately firing her weapons, someone 1:39:44.600 --> 1:39:47.439 needs to be found and held accountable for this. And 1:39:47.479 --> 1:39:50.360 as far as I'm concerned, if it's a parent that 1:39:50.479 --> 1:39:53.200 had a weapon that got into the hands of a 1:39:53.280 --> 1:39:55.920 child who shouldn't have had it, then the parents need 1:39:55.920 --> 1:40:00.439 to be held responsible for not maintaining control of that firearm. 1:40:00.760 --> 1:40:03.679 And that's in any situation, not just one here where 1:40:03.680 --> 1:40:08.240 it ends up somebody you know, loses their child. It's devastating. 1:40:09.040 --> 1:40:14.000 I mean it, And I don't want to sound like 1:40:14.120 --> 1:40:17.200 ranning and raving and you know and hate mongering or 1:40:17.240 --> 1:40:22.760 anything else. But it's just unnecessary. Life's hard enough, you know, 1:40:22.920 --> 1:40:25.840 celebrate New Year's hanging out with family, You're at the park. 1:40:26.400 --> 1:40:29.000 You should be safe. You shouldn't have to worry about this. 1:40:30.080 --> 1:40:33.120 Let's get Jake here seven hundred WLW with Sterling Jake, 1:40:33.120 --> 1:40:34.400 thanks for holding Happy New Year. 1:40:34.400 --> 1:40:36.719 What's up, hey, Charlotte, happening here? 1:40:38.000 --> 1:40:41.240 You know, I went to the University of Cincinnati in 1:40:41.280 --> 1:40:46.720 the nineties early nineties, and I experienced I don't think 1:40:46.720 --> 1:40:52.439 it's changed much. It's I got into a situation where 1:40:52.439 --> 1:40:55.840 we were just oking up. We were guys getting ready 1:40:55.880 --> 1:41:00.120 to go to a party liberally on East University air 1:41:00.240 --> 1:41:03.680 sided short ning and a couple of young guys come 1:41:03.760 --> 1:41:07.120 up to us. We were loading up beers like there 1:41:07.160 --> 1:41:07.839 was some beers. 1:41:08.000 --> 1:41:08.960 No, we don't want that. 1:41:09.400 --> 1:41:10.680 We just let us go. 1:41:10.800 --> 1:41:10.920 You know. 1:41:11.280 --> 1:41:12.240 Nexty, I know, I'm in a. 1:41:12.280 --> 1:41:16.320 Fight, leaning in the middle of the road. Tops come by, 1:41:16.439 --> 1:41:21.639 don't do anything fight, and I'm running with like, let's 1:41:21.640 --> 1:41:23.519 get out of here on my ale. 1:41:23.840 --> 1:41:26.200 Let's know, I run down to the. 1:41:25.920 --> 1:41:29.519 Corner park old with young people. 1:41:30.800 --> 1:41:32.080 Uh. 1:41:32.120 --> 1:41:34.760 Oh, I ain't gonna fight all them. Next you know, 1:41:35.280 --> 1:41:38.439 young kids run up to me. Fire's a gun off 1:41:38.520 --> 1:41:44.000 next to my head. No, no, no, it's still to 1:41:44.040 --> 1:41:48.479 this day something I don't forget. I didn't know if 1:41:48.479 --> 1:41:49.760 I was dead or ali at the time. 1:41:49.960 --> 1:41:52.439 Yeah, you tend to remember when somebody points a gun 1:41:52.439 --> 1:41:55.160 at you or discharges it close to you in a 1:41:55.240 --> 1:41:58.360 threatening manner. I had a guy in the furniture store 1:41:58.439 --> 1:41:59.800 my mom worked at when I was a kid. I 1:41:59.800 --> 1:42:01.600 don't think I was yet six. I don't think I 1:42:01.640 --> 1:42:04.320 was in kindergarten maybe first grade of most and they 1:42:04.360 --> 1:42:07.000 came in and robbed the furniture store, and they put 1:42:07.000 --> 1:42:08.439 a gun in my face, told me to go to 1:42:08.439 --> 1:42:11.160 the bathroom and stay there. They couldn't find me after. 1:42:11.600 --> 1:42:13.320 You know, when the police came, initially they were trying 1:42:13.320 --> 1:42:16.080 to figure out where I had gone because I kind 1:42:16.080 --> 1:42:17.680 of picked up on the idea that the gun in 1:42:17.720 --> 1:42:20.600 my face was fairly serious. And I stayed in that 1:42:20.640 --> 1:42:23.360 bathroom until they were like, hey, where are you? Because 1:42:23.840 --> 1:42:27.320 you know, I realized the danger. It will rattle you. 1:42:27.400 --> 1:42:28.200 It stays with you. 1:42:28.680 --> 1:42:30.800 Oh, it did it completely. And the thing was. 1:42:31.080 --> 1:42:33.040 You know, I lived in the dorm there and. 1:42:34.880 --> 1:42:38.360 On campus and I lived off campus, and it's really 1:42:38.400 --> 1:42:41.240 not changed much. I mean from what i'm I have 1:42:41.360 --> 1:42:43.640 lived there in years. I'm fifty now. I mean that 1:42:43.720 --> 1:42:47.240 was twenty five years ago. But from what here now, 1:42:47.439 --> 1:42:50.599 it wasn't safe in the nineties. In the early nineties. 1:42:50.720 --> 1:42:53.360 I mean, we had we. 1:42:53.240 --> 1:42:55.600 Went to a concert at Bogart's one time when we 1:42:55.720 --> 1:43:00.160 parked down the road from there, and it was I 1:43:00.320 --> 1:43:02.680 there's a Catholic church there where it's just below the 1:43:03.560 --> 1:43:08.120 road level, and some young punks come up and just 1:43:08.160 --> 1:43:12.400 started urinating on the front of the car above huh, 1:43:12.400 --> 1:43:16.479 and we ran to get police. They did eventually show up, 1:43:16.680 --> 1:43:19.479 and then but before that they came down and ran down, 1:43:20.439 --> 1:43:22.479 you know. I mean, it was just it was not 1:43:22.720 --> 1:43:24.920 a fun time in the nineties either. 1:43:25.080 --> 1:43:28.320 No, it wasn't. I can remember when I was before 1:43:28.439 --> 1:43:30.720 Kisses Kiss one O seven. It was Channel Z and 1:43:30.760 --> 1:43:32.559 I had a lot of knights, of bowguards, a lot 1:43:32.560 --> 1:43:35.040 of clubs and around their top cats, et cetera, short 1:43:35.120 --> 1:43:38.320 vine all that, you know, and regularly it was a 1:43:38.360 --> 1:43:41.040 lot of skater punks and others begging for change, meth 1:43:41.080 --> 1:43:44.000 heads and that type of thing. And uh yeah, I 1:43:44.040 --> 1:43:46.600 mean I think every there's always going to be a 1:43:46.640 --> 1:43:48.080 little of that. It's kind of like when you turn 1:43:48.120 --> 1:43:51.120 a light on and roaches flee. That's kind of one 1:43:51.160 --> 1:43:52.639 of a better way to say it that I think 1:43:52.680 --> 1:43:55.040 a lot of that is and it's constant, but you 1:43:55.120 --> 1:43:57.960 can't condone it. And it's the little stuff too, you know. 1:43:58.000 --> 1:43:59.519 And that's the thing. I just don't know how you 1:43:59.560 --> 1:44:02.160 explained of somebody that they're eleven year old kid is 1:44:02.200 --> 1:44:04.719 dead because they went to a playground on New Year's 1:44:04.760 --> 1:44:08.680 Day and didn't get out of the park alive. Effectively, 1:44:09.960 --> 1:44:10.599 it's insane. 1:44:11.720 --> 1:44:15.599 It's the youth they need since there's a big. 1:44:15.439 --> 1:44:15.920 Problem with it. 1:44:15.920 --> 1:44:17.640 I mean, I don't know where is no Jake, I 1:44:17.640 --> 1:44:19.360 appreciate the comment. I hope you have a great New year. 1:44:19.400 --> 1:44:21.439 Thank you for sharing that. I'm sorry you've dealt with that. 1:44:21.520 --> 1:44:25.000 And here's the thing, I've been really lucky in that. 1:44:25.320 --> 1:44:29.160 I Mean a lot of people tell me how scared 1:44:29.280 --> 1:44:32.160 or uncomfortable they are going here or there around downtown 1:44:32.280 --> 1:44:35.720 or OTR or other places, and maybe I'm I'm an 1:44:35.720 --> 1:44:38.960 idiot or something. I mean, I try to be aware. 1:44:39.040 --> 1:44:43.880 I've been raised to be aware. But I go to restaurants, 1:44:44.040 --> 1:44:46.880 I go get drinks here and there, and I've been 1:44:46.960 --> 1:44:49.519 lucky to not have, you know, many problems aside from 1:44:49.560 --> 1:44:52.120 you know what I mentioned as a kid the first time, 1:44:52.160 --> 1:44:54.200 and I've had somebody pointing gout to me more than once. 1:44:54.720 --> 1:44:57.639 But it does rattle you, it will stick with you. 1:44:57.880 --> 1:45:00.720 And you know, I was always raised in tall subsequent 1:45:00.800 --> 1:45:04.200 to that, you know, you don't point a weapon at 1:45:04.280 --> 1:45:07.400 somebody or something unless you plan to destroy it or 1:45:07.400 --> 1:45:09.720 are willing to do so. So I tend to take 1:45:09.720 --> 1:45:13.519 that fairly seriously. But we have a major problem with 1:45:15.600 --> 1:45:19.080 a devaluation of life in a lot of circles, and 1:45:19.200 --> 1:45:23.040 the quick nature of solution and problem solving with a 1:45:23.080 --> 1:45:26.960 gun rather than other ways to de escalate, and the 1:45:27.040 --> 1:45:30.919 value of life for certain people is very small, including 1:45:31.479 --> 1:45:36.320 their own self respect. And that is you know, not 1:45:36.520 --> 1:45:39.920 knowing who's responsible for the shooting of this eleven year 1:45:39.920 --> 1:45:43.639 old child and taking her life. But just in general, 1:45:43.680 --> 1:45:46.479 we have a problem with that, even though overall our 1:45:46.520 --> 1:45:51.000 crime numbers are down around the country, it is a 1:45:51.040 --> 1:45:54.519 systemic issue. It is a sickness of some sort, and 1:45:54.760 --> 1:45:56.960 I guess there is no real easy way to get 1:45:57.000 --> 1:45:58.920 to a solution. My heart goes out to this family 1:45:58.920 --> 1:46:02.040 and I hope they get some justice and someone will 1:46:02.080 --> 1:46:05.760 be able to speak to those responsible for this to 1:46:05.800 --> 1:46:08.479 pay a price for taking this girl's life and putting 1:46:08.479 --> 1:46:11.559 this family through the pain that they're going through. Your 1:46:11.720 --> 1:46:14.360 eleven o'clock report is straight away. I had a conversation 1:46:14.439 --> 1:46:18.000 with University of Cincinnati's doctor Christino Day about living better 1:46:18.000 --> 1:46:20.240 in the new year. An update on the flu which 1:46:20.280 --> 1:46:24.000 is getting around pretty nasty, and maybe some over over 1:46:24.040 --> 1:46:28.120 indulgence still going on this New Year's weekend with a 1:46:28.120 --> 1:46:31.439 whole lot of people partying and probably having some issues 1:46:31.439 --> 1:46:34.599 with dehydration and hangovers. That's coming up after your eleven 1:46:34.640 --> 1:46:37.639 o'clock report. Right here on the home of the football 1:46:37.640 --> 1:46:41.160 Bearcats who lost in Liberty Bowl earlier tonight, you got 1:46:41.160 --> 1:46:43.880 some basketball bear Cats in action. Tomorrow, you got the 1:46:43.920 --> 1:46:46.519 Bengals in action Sunday to wrap up this season with 1:46:46.560 --> 1:46:48.960 the Browns coming to town. And this is the home 1:46:49.280 --> 1:46:52.800 of the best Bengals coverage. News Radio seven hundred WLW 1:46:52.880 --> 1:46:58.280 Cincinnati seven hundred w Welw Sterling hanging out, trying to 1:46:58.280 --> 1:47:01.280 be healthier on a New Years My first resolution this 1:47:01.400 --> 1:47:03.680 is the second New Year's in ear row where I 1:47:03.800 --> 1:47:06.360 found myself with what my Anileen would call it the croup. 1:47:06.439 --> 1:47:09.320 I think some people call it maybe bronchias. The flu 1:47:09.479 --> 1:47:12.240 is going around big time, and what I initially thought 1:47:12.240 --> 1:47:15.320 it was was allergies, but clearly I've got something more. 1:47:15.600 --> 1:47:18.200 But thankfully on the phone, not in person, not having 1:47:18.240 --> 1:47:21.639 to deal with that possibility. Is doctor Christine O'Day from 1:47:21.760 --> 1:47:25.280 UC Health. Welcome to seven hundred w welw, Happy New Year. 1:47:26.280 --> 1:47:28.479 Happy New Year, Thanks so much for having me. 1:47:28.920 --> 1:47:31.400 Let's start with flu stuff before we start talking maybe 1:47:31.400 --> 1:47:34.479 about resolutions and living better and people hitting the bottle 1:47:34.520 --> 1:47:36.400 of New Year's who were amateurs who need to like 1:47:36.439 --> 1:47:39.719 reevaluate some things, maybe even right now, hopefully not behind 1:47:39.720 --> 1:47:43.519 the wheel. So doctor oday, flu season, because and I 1:47:43.800 --> 1:47:45.920 kind of sickly, I called the doctor like, don't come here. 1:47:46.160 --> 1:47:47.679 How bad is this flu season? 1:47:49.360 --> 1:47:53.000 Well, we're definitely seeing that cases are on the rise 1:47:53.040 --> 1:47:56.559 over the last few weeks. You know, we see this 1:47:56.720 --> 1:48:00.919 often during the holidays, when people are inside, they're at parties, 1:48:00.960 --> 1:48:04.720 they're exposed to a lot of germs. So we're definitely 1:48:04.800 --> 1:48:10.760 seeing a rise in influenza in particular, and particular influenza A, 1:48:11.960 --> 1:48:15.240 and so it is definitely going up at this time 1:48:15.280 --> 1:48:15.679 of year. 1:48:16.360 --> 1:48:18.840 I was good. I tend to get my shots. I 1:48:18.880 --> 1:48:21.240 take the dog and then I go to my pharmacy 1:48:21.400 --> 1:48:23.600 and get my jabs as well with the covid, the 1:48:23.600 --> 1:48:26.160 flu vaccine and everything. You mentioned the type of a 1:48:26.320 --> 1:48:29.920 strain I guess of this flu doctor oday. So this 1:48:30.000 --> 1:48:33.479 from what I understand, the prevalent see of that is 1:48:33.560 --> 1:48:36.080 not exactly what was under the umbrella of what this 1:48:36.200 --> 1:48:38.639 flu shot was targeting. But the flu shot still helps, 1:48:38.680 --> 1:48:39.320 is that correct? 1:48:40.600 --> 1:48:45.000 That's correct. We are seeing a new variant, and you know, 1:48:45.080 --> 1:48:49.880 the influenza virus does change every year. That's why we 1:48:50.000 --> 1:48:52.920 have to get a flu shot every year, because we 1:48:53.320 --> 1:48:57.280 create a new flu vaccine to cover whatever variants we 1:48:57.360 --> 1:49:00.720 think are going to be out there. There is a 1:49:00.800 --> 1:49:06.200 new variant that is partially covered by this by the 1:49:06.240 --> 1:49:08.960 flu shot that's out there, So we encourage people for 1:49:09.000 --> 1:49:13.920 sure to get their flu shot. The new variant is 1:49:14.400 --> 1:49:18.120 we think maybe causing a little bit more severe of 1:49:18.720 --> 1:49:23.320 a flu season, and so it is important to take 1:49:23.400 --> 1:49:26.720 all precautions that you can in terms of first of all, 1:49:26.760 --> 1:49:30.240 getting the flu shot, like you said, and you know, 1:49:30.360 --> 1:49:34.120 doing what you can to stay healthy, so eating well 1:49:34.200 --> 1:49:39.919 and healthy, getting enough sleep, drinking enough fluids, and certainly 1:49:40.040 --> 1:49:43.160 if you're sick, if you have a cough, cold fever, 1:49:43.680 --> 1:49:46.240 stay home if you can. If you have to go out, 1:49:47.439 --> 1:49:50.360 wear a mask so you're not passing those germs along 1:49:50.400 --> 1:49:51.120 to other people. 1:49:51.360 --> 1:49:53.920 Yes, this is the season of sharing germs and a 1:49:53.920 --> 1:49:56.040 whole lot of celebration and stuff along with it. From 1:49:56.120 --> 1:49:59.599 University of Cincinnati. It's a doctor Christine O'Day was sterling 1:50:00.040 --> 1:50:03.240 men eating better and sleeping which I could do better 1:50:03.280 --> 1:50:06.559 of hydrating in the right fluids, right, and we're not 1:50:06.640 --> 1:50:09.840 necessarily talking about boozing it up in celebration and maybe 1:50:09.880 --> 1:50:12.519 the last couple of weeks with the holidays, how bad 1:50:12.880 --> 1:50:17.439 does that stretch of holiday celebration affect people as they 1:50:17.520 --> 1:50:20.240 start thinking into the new year of living better? Because 1:50:20.439 --> 1:50:22.120 that's one of those things that I'm always trying to 1:50:22.120 --> 1:50:24.519 talk about on the show and just in life, which 1:50:24.560 --> 1:50:26.240 is to try to get to the next level and 1:50:26.320 --> 1:50:29.559 hopefully stick around healthier longer. On this a little big 1:50:29.600 --> 1:50:31.280 blue marble, I guess is what we want to call it. 1:50:31.280 --> 1:50:34.040 A earth Well, I think you know, the New Year 1:50:34.320 --> 1:50:37.719 is a really good time to kind of think about 1:50:37.760 --> 1:50:41.920 how do we get healthy. Certainly during the holidays, many 1:50:41.960 --> 1:50:44.680 of us kind of fall out of our usual routines. 1:50:44.800 --> 1:50:47.920 Maybe we don't exercise as much as usual, and we're 1:50:48.439 --> 1:50:52.320 eating foods that are maybe not as healthy as we 1:50:52.360 --> 1:50:52.880 would like. 1:50:52.920 --> 1:50:55.479 But they're so good. Why are all the bad foods, 1:50:55.479 --> 1:50:58.480 by the way, doctor O'Day so good? Seriously? 1:51:00.560 --> 1:51:04.040 Yeah, yeah, it's tough, but there's lots of really good 1:51:04.040 --> 1:51:07.479 foods that are healthy, right, True is a good time 1:51:07.720 --> 1:51:09.640 at the new year to kind of get back on 1:51:09.720 --> 1:51:15.120 the bandwagon and to maybe set some goals for yourself 1:51:16.040 --> 1:51:18.400 to become a little bit more healthy. And you know, 1:51:18.520 --> 1:51:21.760 it's it's hard to make changes. It's hard to make 1:51:21.800 --> 1:51:24.800 a lot of big changes all at once. So what 1:51:24.880 --> 1:51:28.799 I really encourage patients to do is to maybe choose 1:51:28.880 --> 1:51:32.960 one small thing to work on. Instead of just saying 1:51:33.000 --> 1:51:37.040 I'm gonna try to live healthier or try to change 1:51:37.040 --> 1:51:41.200 my diet, maybe just choose one thing and work on that. 1:51:41.280 --> 1:51:47.040 So we talk about things like smart goals, where s 1:51:47.200 --> 1:51:50.080 is a specifical So instead of saying I'm just gonna 1:51:50.200 --> 1:51:53.400 eat healthier, maybe say, Okay, I'm going to try to 1:51:53.439 --> 1:51:57.519 eat more fruits and vegetables as my specific goal. And 1:51:57.600 --> 1:52:01.080 then M stands for measurable seat of just more fruits 1:52:01.120 --> 1:52:04.280 and vegetables. Set a goal of say, three fruits and 1:52:04.400 --> 1:52:09.400 vegetables every day, and make it something achievable, something that 1:52:09.439 --> 1:52:12.200 you can actually change in your diet or something that 1:52:12.240 --> 1:52:17.040 you can change in your life. Our stands for reasonable relevant, 1:52:17.880 --> 1:52:20.439 something that you feel like you can actually achieve. And 1:52:20.479 --> 1:52:24.720 then finally, TEA stands for time, So that means that 1:52:25.200 --> 1:52:28.840 you set a time bound goal for yourself so that 1:52:28.960 --> 1:52:32.679 I'm going to start eating three fruits and vegetables every 1:52:32.760 --> 1:52:36.520 day for the next month, and then you can celebrate 1:52:36.600 --> 1:52:42.040 those those small changes and celebrate those winds, and that 1:52:42.080 --> 1:52:46.360 makes it a little bit easier and I think it's 1:52:46.400 --> 1:52:49.920 more achievable to actually make those changes. 1:52:50.040 --> 1:52:52.640 So baby steps, So we do that, don't we. We make 1:52:52.680 --> 1:52:55.240 these grand ideas that we put in front of us 1:52:55.400 --> 1:52:57.840 that are challenging, and then within the first quarter of 1:52:57.840 --> 1:52:59.240 the new year, you know, I'm going to go to 1:52:59.280 --> 1:53:01.719 the gym every week, I'm going to let me eat better, 1:53:01.800 --> 1:53:04.080 I'm going to drink less, I'm going to sleep all 1:53:04.120 --> 1:53:06.840 these things that we just talked about doctor oday. And 1:53:06.880 --> 1:53:11.040 then people are disillusions, dissatisfied, and they're off the rails 1:53:11.120 --> 1:53:14.719 before summer gets here. So I guess living better maybe 1:53:14.800 --> 1:53:17.479 I want to say living better through lowered expectations, but 1:53:17.720 --> 1:53:21.040 just small incremental changes can make a big difference. 1:53:22.400 --> 1:53:26.400 Yeah, absolutely, I think that really helps a lot because 1:53:26.840 --> 1:53:30.640 you get more motivated than when you've achieved something, and 1:53:30.720 --> 1:53:35.360 then you can move on to your next, smaller, next goal. Right, So, 1:53:35.800 --> 1:53:39.240 once you say, set a goal to start exercising and 1:53:39.439 --> 1:53:43.120 walking maybe fifteen minutes three times a week, then you 1:53:43.160 --> 1:53:46.519 can increase that to twenty minutes. And once you've done that, 1:53:46.640 --> 1:53:48.880 then you can increase it a little bit more, and 1:53:48.920 --> 1:53:51.799 so it's a little bit easier to make those changes. 1:53:51.960 --> 1:53:56.200 So and I also encourage folks to write those goals 1:53:56.240 --> 1:53:59.960 down and share them with somebody, so it's always easier 1:54:00.080 --> 1:54:02.680 to do something. Is that a goal? When you have 1:54:02.720 --> 1:54:06.640 a partner, you know who you're accountable to, and that 1:54:06.720 --> 1:54:09.080 maybe you're working on the same goal together. 1:54:09.280 --> 1:54:10.720 The thing text you and call you and tell you 1:54:10.840 --> 1:54:12.400 to get out of the house and that you're supposed 1:54:12.400 --> 1:54:14.559 to be here now go. You know that kind of scenario. 1:54:14.720 --> 1:54:16.720 It does help to have a buddy and working out 1:54:16.800 --> 1:54:20.040 or anything else. Absolutely, Doctor Christino Days from University of 1:54:20.040 --> 1:54:23.920 Cincinnati talking about living better in the new year. Who's 1:54:24.000 --> 1:54:26.760 worse at taking care of themselves? Men or women? I 1:54:26.760 --> 1:54:29.920 get told that. You know, I can't speak for all dudes, 1:54:30.520 --> 1:54:33.840 but I can say that we maybe are a little 1:54:33.880 --> 1:54:36.840 bit more animated in wine, in our misery, whether it's 1:54:36.880 --> 1:54:39.360 the sickness that I have now or other stuff, compared 1:54:39.400 --> 1:54:43.120 to women. But overall with caring for ourselves, is there 1:54:43.320 --> 1:54:46.360 a trait that men or women in one way or 1:54:46.360 --> 1:54:47.680 the other are better or worse? 1:54:49.720 --> 1:54:52.120 You know, I'm not sure that I know the answer 1:54:52.160 --> 1:54:54.520 to that, nor do I want to weigh in on 1:54:54.560 --> 1:55:00.160 that one. But it's a good question. But now, how 1:55:00.200 --> 1:55:01.800 was the time of year for all of us to 1:55:01.880 --> 1:55:02.680 kind of work on that? 1:55:02.800 --> 1:55:04.840 I think, Yeah, I think so. It's just one of 1:55:04.840 --> 1:55:06.280 those things. I think a lot of us guys will 1:55:06.280 --> 1:55:09.240 put stuff off, oftentimes not being proactive. We'll think about 1:55:09.240 --> 1:55:10.760 it and take care of the car better than we 1:55:10.800 --> 1:55:13.120 do ourselves sometimes with just regular maintenance. 1:55:14.200 --> 1:55:16.840 Well, you know, I think it's always good to have 1:55:17.040 --> 1:55:20.839 a partner who is going to support you in your 1:55:21.360 --> 1:55:26.200 lifestyle and health goals. Right, Yeah, And so you know, 1:55:27.640 --> 1:55:30.800 having somebody who can encourage you. First of all, like 1:55:31.040 --> 1:55:34.080 to eat healthy and being around somebody who's also eating 1:55:34.160 --> 1:55:37.840 healthy is really important. And also somebody who's going to 1:55:37.960 --> 1:55:42.280 encourage you to, for example, get a primary care provider 1:55:42.320 --> 1:55:45.560 if you don't have one, and see your you know, 1:55:45.680 --> 1:55:48.560 your primary care provider regularly. It's just good to be 1:55:48.640 --> 1:55:51.000 around people who are going to support you in a 1:55:51.000 --> 1:55:51.880 healthy lifestyle. 1:55:52.000 --> 1:55:54.840 Talking to doctor Christino Day from University of Cincinnati, and 1:55:54.880 --> 1:55:58.080 you've worked a little bit more with accessibility in primary 1:55:58.120 --> 1:56:00.680 care situations around the tri State with you see as well. 1:56:00.760 --> 1:56:06.880 Yeah, absolutely. Our goal that you see is for everybody 1:56:06.920 --> 1:56:09.720 to be able to have a primary care provider and 1:56:09.840 --> 1:56:13.600 to make Cincinnati a healthy city, and we know that 1:56:13.680 --> 1:56:17.160 primary care providers are really an important way to. 1:56:18.880 --> 1:56:19.200 Do that. 1:56:19.440 --> 1:56:23.520 So you know, if somebody doesn't have a primary care provider, 1:56:23.600 --> 1:56:27.720 I do encourage them to reach out and establish before 1:56:28.080 --> 1:56:32.840 you get sick, and also then you can so when 1:56:32.880 --> 1:56:35.120 you get sick you have somebody to call, but also 1:56:35.360 --> 1:56:37.960 to check in once a year just to make sure 1:56:38.000 --> 1:56:40.200 that you're up to date on all the health maintenance. 1:56:41.160 --> 1:56:44.400 There's a lot of immunizations now that are available and 1:56:44.480 --> 1:56:47.760 important for adults to get as well as kids. And 1:56:48.160 --> 1:56:50.840 also there's just a lot of important screenings that need 1:56:50.920 --> 1:56:54.280 to be done for things like breast cancer screening, cervical 1:56:54.320 --> 1:56:58.280 cancer screening, colon cancer screening. So I do encourage people 1:56:58.280 --> 1:57:01.640 to get a primary care provider and establish and see 1:57:01.680 --> 1:57:03.040 them regularly. 1:57:02.560 --> 1:57:05.800 And doctor Christino days a share of family and community medicine. 1:57:05.800 --> 1:57:09.120 You see hell Sterling seven hundred WLW New Year's Eve 1:57:09.160 --> 1:57:11.840 a lot of people out and about, but oftentimes it's 1:57:11.880 --> 1:57:15.520 amateur night. It's people that over indulge, who don't drink 1:57:15.720 --> 1:57:17.680 very much at all, if ever, and then they end 1:57:17.760 --> 1:57:20.640 up a mess and hungover and miserable with a brown 1:57:20.680 --> 1:57:22.920 bag flu to in this case because of the way 1:57:23.160 --> 1:57:25.560 the New Year falls, maybe skipping out work if they 1:57:25.600 --> 1:57:28.040 don't already have time off, or just miserable and more 1:57:28.120 --> 1:57:30.400 vulnerable for some of this flu and other stuff there too. 1:57:30.680 --> 1:57:33.240 What do you tell people who are out and about 1:57:33.240 --> 1:57:36.480 tonight or are going to be even at home maybe listening, 1:57:36.680 --> 1:57:38.760 we're probably hitting it a little bit harder than normal. 1:57:38.800 --> 1:57:42.760 How do they avoid ending up waking up absolutely miserable 1:57:42.800 --> 1:57:45.280 with that head throb and trying to figure out what 1:57:45.320 --> 1:57:46.920 food they should eat or have hair of the dog 1:57:46.960 --> 1:57:48.360 of the bite. 1:57:50.040 --> 1:57:53.840 Yeah, so we're learning so much more about how alcohol 1:57:53.920 --> 1:57:58.320 affects our bodies. And really what we're learning is that 1:57:58.360 --> 1:58:00.640 there's no safe amount of alcohol. 1:58:01.640 --> 1:58:09.160 So the horrible I mean seriously, I think bourgelais nouveaux 1:58:09.240 --> 1:58:11.920 up in Mount Adams, so no alcohol at all. So 1:58:12.000 --> 1:58:14.560 the idea of moderation isn't even really a good idea. 1:58:15.760 --> 1:58:21.160 Well, what I'm saying is that there if you're going 1:58:21.200 --> 1:58:24.960 to drink, drink and moderation. What we recommend for women 1:58:25.120 --> 1:58:28.320 is no more than two drinks per sitting and for 1:58:28.480 --> 1:58:31.480 men no more than three drinks per sitting. And what 1:58:31.520 --> 1:58:35.360 we define as a drink is a twelve ounce bottle 1:58:35.360 --> 1:58:40.720 of beer, six ounces of wine, or one shot, And 1:58:40.840 --> 1:58:45.520 so if you choose to drink, limit it to that amount. 1:58:46.240 --> 1:58:49.879 If you're going to be drinking, make sure you're drinking, 1:58:50.200 --> 1:58:54.440 you're drinking lots of fluids and non alcoholic beverages as well. 1:58:55.080 --> 1:58:58.280 Make sure that you're eating while you're drinking as well, 1:58:58.440 --> 1:59:01.160 and that you're kind of pacting yourself so that you're 1:59:01.160 --> 1:59:04.720 not drinking very quickly, that you're spacing it out over 1:59:04.760 --> 1:59:05.880 the course of the evening. 1:59:06.040 --> 1:59:08.320 Yeah, I think the older we get, we get more experience. 1:59:08.400 --> 1:59:10.440 But a lot of times you think of college kids 1:59:10.560 --> 1:59:12.760 and so forth, who you know are just out free 1:59:12.840 --> 1:59:15.040 for the first time in their lives, over indulging in 1:59:15.120 --> 1:59:16.760 sort of learning the hard way with it. But it 1:59:16.760 --> 1:59:19.040 seems like this continues for a lot of us grown 1:59:19.160 --> 1:59:21.840 ups as well, around the holidays, New Years, et cetera. 1:59:21.960 --> 1:59:22.080 Two. 1:59:22.200 --> 1:59:27.560 Yeah, Yeah, alcohol does affect our bodies, and it affects our 1:59:27.640 --> 1:59:32.720 liver and affects our blood pressure, our hearts, and so 1:59:32.880 --> 1:59:36.960 as we're learning more about alcohol, we realize that it 1:59:37.040 --> 1:59:40.520 really can have quite a bit of effects negative effects 1:59:40.560 --> 1:59:43.640 on our body. So if you're going to drink, you know, 1:59:43.760 --> 1:59:48.400 drink and moderation and make sure that you're drinking lots 1:59:48.400 --> 1:59:51.680 of other fluids as well and eating at the same time. 1:59:51.880 --> 1:59:55.080 Talking to doctor Christino day Chair Family and Community Medicine, 1:59:55.080 --> 1:59:58.640 you see how Sterling seven hundred w welw final question here. 1:59:59.000 --> 2:00:00.880 When I was in Las Veig, just working before I 2:00:00.920 --> 2:00:03.320 came back here some years ago, I had a guy 2:00:03.360 --> 2:00:06.000 on the show and he was talking about IVS for 2:00:06.080 --> 2:00:08.920 people not just being dehydrated hanging out in the desert, 2:00:08.960 --> 2:00:11.680 but after over indulging, and he was doing quite a 2:00:11.680 --> 2:00:15.040 bang up business with people getting IVS at his wellness center, 2:00:15.080 --> 2:00:18.760 as he called it, after a hangover. And I've seen 2:00:18.800 --> 2:00:21.440 these things brought up all over the Tri State as well. 2:00:21.480 --> 2:00:23.480 What do we know about that is that just like 2:00:23.560 --> 2:00:25.960 somebody selling I don't know, snake oil or whatever you 2:00:26.000 --> 2:00:26.880 want to call it or what. 2:00:28.280 --> 2:00:31.600 Well, I think what we see is that it is 2:00:31.720 --> 2:00:36.920 really important to stay really really hydrated and to drink 2:00:36.960 --> 2:00:39.720 fluids that have lots of electrolytes in them. And so 2:00:39.840 --> 2:00:42.560 that's kind of what you're getting when you're getting one 2:00:42.600 --> 2:00:46.919 of the IV fluids, is you're just getting lots of fluid. 2:00:47.160 --> 2:00:51.120 And so unless you're vomiting, unless you're not able to 2:00:51.200 --> 2:00:55.440 keep fluids down, you know, I think most people can 2:00:57.160 --> 2:01:01.200 drink and take those fluids orally so things even like 2:01:01.280 --> 2:01:05.680 the electrolyte drinks like GLA or things like that. Yeah, 2:01:05.880 --> 2:01:09.080 those have a lot of the salts and the electrolytes 2:01:09.160 --> 2:01:14.000 in them, and so just staying really well hydrated is 2:01:14.000 --> 2:01:16.480 so important and will help people feel better. 2:01:16.640 --> 2:01:16.800 Well. 2:01:16.840 --> 2:01:18.800 I really appreciate your timing, your insight. I hope you 2:01:18.800 --> 2:01:22.240 have a fantastic new Year and hopefully people will be 2:01:22.320 --> 2:01:24.680 healthier and we can maybe contributed to that a little 2:01:24.680 --> 2:01:28.920 bit and with your help, certainly Chairfamily Community Medicine youseehealth 2:01:28.960 --> 2:01:31.520 dot com. You can find out more there. Doctor Christino Day, 2:01:31.680 --> 2:01:33.400 Happy New Year, Thank you for making time. I hope 2:01:33.400 --> 2:01:34.680 you'll come back and we can do this again. 2:01:35.720 --> 2:01:38.480 Thank you so much for having me, Sterling, and Happy New. 2:01:38.440 --> 2:01:42.840 Year, Happy New Year, more Sterling. Seven hundred WLW same 2:01:42.920 --> 2:01:45.960 Sunday and close to fifty on Monday, which that's not 2:01:46.040 --> 2:01:48.800 too bad for first part of January. It's a ball 2:01:48.880 --> 2:01:53.200 me twenty seven. Now you're severe Weather station seven hundred WLW. 2:01:53.400 --> 2:01:58.440 Glad you're along. It's pretty wild. Well, let me to 2:01:58.480 --> 2:02:01.200 mention this. It's not great new I mean maybe if 2:02:01.240 --> 2:02:04.280 you've been under a rock, unplugged, unaware, you know, I 2:02:04.280 --> 2:02:07.320 mean a New Year's week, it's kind of wild holidays 2:02:07.320 --> 2:02:11.280 I understand. Maybe football bear Cats had a hard time 2:02:11.640 --> 2:02:16.360 in Memphis Town the Liberty Bowl. Navy's midshipman handled the 2:02:16.400 --> 2:02:19.000 bear Cats pretty easily. They were down a whole lot 2:02:19.000 --> 2:02:22.600 of defensive back, starting quarterback entering the portal. Those guys 2:02:23.000 --> 2:02:26.640 onto the next place looking to get paid more, and 2:02:27.120 --> 2:02:29.880 the Bearcats had to carry on without them, and they 2:02:29.920 --> 2:02:33.760 fall thirty five thirteen and to wait till next year 2:02:33.800 --> 2:02:35.880 to try to better their situation, and they have to 2:02:35.920 --> 2:02:39.560 go shopping for some more talent. I'm all for these 2:02:39.640 --> 2:02:42.920 athletes getting paid, but it gets very weird trying to 2:02:42.920 --> 2:02:46.320 put together a team every year from scratch or nearly 2:02:46.400 --> 2:02:49.320 from scratch, depending on the circumstance. It's tough. You know, 2:02:49.360 --> 2:02:51.600 who really did well in the midst of portal and 2:02:51.640 --> 2:02:54.960 rebuilding and reconstructing a team. It's a team for almost 2:02:54.960 --> 2:03:01.480 my entire childhood that sucked, which is the dais uh? 2:03:01.560 --> 2:03:03.920 You know they play on in the college football playoff. 2:03:04.000 --> 2:03:07.520 If I'm not mistaken, they're undefeated, and it seemed like 2:03:07.560 --> 2:03:09.960 my entire childhood all they did was get beat up 2:03:10.000 --> 2:03:13.800 and lose. It's tough. I mean, seriously, five point three 2:03:13.840 --> 2:03:16.160 seven four nine seven, eight hundred. The big one. Your 2:03:16.240 --> 2:03:19.360 chance to get interact with Kevin Carr, conversation with him about, well, 2:03:19.560 --> 2:03:21.480 what's new with the movies this week? And maybe look 2:03:21.520 --> 2:03:24.280 back at twenty five at anything that's worth our time, 2:03:24.400 --> 2:03:27.000 maybe playing catch up on because there's just so many 2:03:27.040 --> 2:03:30.480 things to see. I will never if there is nothing 2:03:30.560 --> 2:03:33.200 else new created to be added to any of my 2:03:33.400 --> 2:03:36.080 next list or cues or whatever. Else do you want 2:03:36.080 --> 2:03:39.520 to call it? Pick a streaming service. I could start 2:03:39.600 --> 2:03:43.280 watching stuff now and probably not even get through the 2:03:43.360 --> 2:03:49.480 Netflix watch list, let alone Prime in Hulu, in HBO, 2:03:50.120 --> 2:03:53.160 and on and on it goes. I mean, it is unreal. 2:03:53.480 --> 2:03:56.280 And if you are one of those souls who remember MTV, 2:03:56.960 --> 2:03:59.240 h the beginning of the year brought basically the end 2:03:59.360 --> 2:04:01.760 to I think, if not all, of most of their 2:04:01.800 --> 2:04:05.320 all music channels have gone the way of the most 2:04:05.360 --> 2:04:08.840 phone booths, which is history, which is kind of weird. 2:04:09.280 --> 2:04:11.400 And they ended the way they started, which is video 2:04:11.480 --> 2:04:14.960 killed the radio star, which it didn't because they're still 2:04:15.080 --> 2:04:18.200 doing it in the iHeartRadio is bigger than ever and 2:04:18.240 --> 2:04:19.840 on demand. And you can leave me a message just 2:04:19.840 --> 2:04:21.600 by clicking on that microphone. See how I did that. 2:04:21.600 --> 2:04:24.320 I'm a professional. I put it together quickly. Let's get 2:04:24.320 --> 2:04:26.480 to Sue and Covington. She says, as a cure for 2:04:26.560 --> 2:04:29.080 my sickness before the news you got about thirty seconds. 2:04:29.120 --> 2:04:29.880 Can you heal me? 2:04:29.960 --> 2:04:30.880 Sue? 2:04:31.160 --> 2:04:31.880 Yes, I can. 2:04:32.080 --> 2:04:33.680 I wish somebody would. What do you have? 2:04:34.680 --> 2:04:37.520 Are you sure it's bronchitis or in your chest? 2:04:38.080 --> 2:04:40.680 I had chest everything. I'm feeling a little better now, 2:04:40.680 --> 2:04:43.480 but I've had gallons of water and emergency and too 2:04:43.560 --> 2:04:44.240 much coffee. 2:04:44.640 --> 2:04:47.760 Okay, all right, I head Every year I would get 2:04:47.800 --> 2:04:51.680 a case of bronchitis because I taught at school and 2:04:52.040 --> 2:04:54.880 my doctor. One year I went three months in a row. 2:04:55.000 --> 2:04:57.720 He gave me prescriptions, got rid of it for a 2:04:57.720 --> 2:04:59.800 couple of weeks. Then it came back the third time. 2:04:59.840 --> 2:05:02.920 I when he gave me a canful of samples, and 2:05:02.960 --> 2:05:05.560 I thought, I'm not calling with this. I had bought 2:05:05.600 --> 2:05:08.960 a book at a book sale by a French herbalist 2:05:09.040 --> 2:05:12.440 whose father was a French herbalist. I looked up everything 2:05:12.600 --> 2:05:16.200 dealing with head, nosed, throat and chest. Yes, the one 2:05:16.360 --> 2:05:20.040 recurring thing was the turnip cure, which all my friendings 2:05:20.120 --> 2:05:22.839 would do the except sign and say. 2:05:22.720 --> 2:05:25.840 No, no, I love turnips. What do you do with 2:05:25.880 --> 2:05:26.400 the turnative? 2:05:27.400 --> 2:05:30.240 Well, I didn't like turnips, and going to the grocery, 2:05:30.320 --> 2:05:32.760 I told mother to remind me to get turnips, and 2:05:32.800 --> 2:05:34.600 if she'd been driving, she would have been up a 2:05:34.640 --> 2:05:38.160 telephone pole. What you do is you get a couple 2:05:38.160 --> 2:05:41.240 of medium sized, well smaller, depending if you want to 2:05:41.280 --> 2:05:45.000 just give it a try at the beginning turnips, feel them, 2:05:45.200 --> 2:05:48.320 dice them up, cook them because they'll cook quicker when 2:05:48.360 --> 2:05:49.200 they're diced small. 2:05:49.400 --> 2:05:51.840 Sure, drain them, put them in. 2:05:51.800 --> 2:05:55.920 A mount blender, add enough milk that it's sort of 2:05:56.120 --> 2:06:00.320 like a shape medium, and then add honey. 2:06:03.200 --> 2:06:03.920 You know you got. 2:06:03.880 --> 2:06:05.920 Turnips and honey are great. I'm not a big fan 2:06:06.000 --> 2:06:07.959 of the milk. If I can, I have chocolate milk. 2:06:07.760 --> 2:06:08.200 With it. 2:06:10.520 --> 2:06:14.640 If you want to. Chocolate wasn't increased in there, but 2:06:14.960 --> 2:06:16.000 you could give it a try. 2:06:16.120 --> 2:06:16.640 I'll try it. 2:06:16.680 --> 2:06:21.000 I actually I had not had a case of bronchis 2:06:21.200 --> 2:06:24.320 since then, and that was like years ago. 2:06:24.440 --> 2:06:26.640 Well, Sue, I tell you what, I will try it. 2:06:26.720 --> 2:06:29.440 I'll track down some turnips tomorrow and I'll do it 2:06:29.480 --> 2:06:31.560 before next year. If I have a third New year 2:06:31.760 --> 2:06:34.600 sick with this nastiness, I'm just gonna call it quits. 2:06:34.600 --> 2:06:36.960 I appreciate you listening and helping, Sue. Thank you. I'll 2:06:37.000 --> 2:06:39.400 go in search of turnips like the dead Leonard Nimoy 2:06:39.600 --> 2:06:42.320 Brady Hopkins is like, really, turnip talk made me late 2:06:42.360 --> 2:06:45.520 for news. I'm sorry, he's got your eleven thirty report 2:06:45.520 --> 2:06:47.480 a minute late. Then Kevin Carr joins me on the 2:06:47.520 --> 2:06:51.360 other side. Sterling seven hundred WLW Did I blame it? 2:06:51.400 --> 2:06:54.919 On the cold medicine. How you doing? It's that season, 2:06:55.800 --> 2:06:58.200 and uh, I'm just trying to get through it. I 2:06:58.240 --> 2:07:00.440 am so hydrated. I was telling Russ off the I 2:07:00.480 --> 2:07:02.960 think the last three days, I've had probably better part 2:07:02.960 --> 2:07:06.520 of two gallons of water each of these days, plus coffee, 2:07:06.520 --> 2:07:08.480 which I should not have had. The good doctor made 2:07:08.480 --> 2:07:11.720 a point of that, and all I can tell you 2:07:11.880 --> 2:07:14.280 is that I spent a lot of time getting up 2:07:14.640 --> 2:07:17.640 and going to the bathroom, and I'm probably more hydrated 2:07:17.680 --> 2:07:20.080 than I've ever been, but maybe hopefully getting rid of 2:07:20.080 --> 2:07:23.800 this nasty sickness faster. But it is ridiculous, and I 2:07:23.840 --> 2:07:26.280 want to apologize now and get out in front of it, 2:07:26.320 --> 2:07:28.560 because it's better to get in front of it than after. 2:07:29.560 --> 2:07:32.480 So we used to have in the old days. You know, 2:07:32.520 --> 2:07:35.440 at different times in the studio space you could see 2:07:35.440 --> 2:07:38.080 the news person. But I have a window into a hallway, 2:07:38.200 --> 2:07:41.720 so does Russ. Travis lair Is doing news has like 2:07:41.760 --> 2:07:44.120 a big, super deluxe facility on the other side of 2:07:44.120 --> 2:07:47.160 the building. And I didn't realize that like Brady had 2:07:47.160 --> 2:07:50.160 tagged out, or that Matt Reese had tagged out, And 2:07:50.200 --> 2:07:52.400 then I introduced to the wrong guy, and then Travis 2:07:52.480 --> 2:07:54.680 is like no love, No, we love Travis. He is 2:07:54.720 --> 2:07:57.120 back with your midnight Report in about twenty one minutes. 2:07:57.400 --> 2:08:00.040 In the meantime, I talk about sickness and hydration and 2:08:00.360 --> 2:08:02.880 a guy who left town partner in the Chubby and 2:08:02.880 --> 2:08:06.040 Stick podcast that you might be able to find streaming someplace. 2:08:06.440 --> 2:08:08.520 It was one of the fat guys in the movies. Now, 2:08:08.520 --> 2:08:12.040 of course, silver Gecko on the sub stack. I'm talking 2:08:12.080 --> 2:08:16.280 about Kevin Carr, back from vacation, rested, relaxed, and tan, 2:08:16.880 --> 2:08:19.600 and he waited, of course, to get sick until he 2:08:19.640 --> 2:08:23.120 came home. How are you, how's life? How is everything car? 2:08:24.080 --> 2:08:28.360 Yeah? Happy nude ere Yeah, everything's good. You're right. I 2:08:28.680 --> 2:08:31.600 didn't get sick. I was on vacation over Christmas. I 2:08:31.640 --> 2:08:34.800 got sick right when I was traveling home. So if 2:08:34.840 --> 2:08:36.600 you're gonna get sick on vacation, that's the time to 2:08:36.600 --> 2:08:37.560 do it on your way back. 2:08:37.680 --> 2:08:40.360 Yeah, why not be miserable at the house rather than 2:08:40.400 --> 2:08:42.760 wherever it is that you go to sun yourself or 2:08:42.800 --> 2:08:44.640 ski or whatever it is that makes you happy. 2:08:44.800 --> 2:08:47.400 It's terrible, Well yeah, I mean it's already no fun 2:08:47.720 --> 2:08:51.880 going home, you know, it already sucks to drive back 2:08:52.000 --> 2:08:54.800 or fly back or take a boat back or whatever. 2:08:55.400 --> 2:08:58.400 The return trip always is not nearly as fun as 2:08:58.400 --> 2:09:00.840 the anticipation of going. So yeah, but I know, I 2:09:00.840 --> 2:09:04.200 get hit by the flu and that thing. That's no joke, man, No, 2:09:04.520 --> 2:09:05.560 that's knocked me on my butt. 2:09:05.800 --> 2:09:07.720 It's been pretty bad for me for a couple of days. 2:09:07.720 --> 2:09:10.800 But no fever. So I came in trying to stay 2:09:10.800 --> 2:09:13.680 away from everybody, and I'll spray everything down in here. 2:09:14.200 --> 2:09:17.240 I've been bathing in like antibacterial stuff and hopped up 2:09:17.280 --> 2:09:21.400 on like emergency and goofballs. So everything is fine, good. 2:09:21.320 --> 2:09:23.200 To hear, nobody to get pulled over on the way home. 2:09:23.760 --> 2:09:25.480 I no, no, no, everything's fine. I'm not doing it while 2:09:25.520 --> 2:09:25.800 I'm here. 2:09:25.840 --> 2:09:28.320 No, no, I'm just chugging the costs. 2:09:28.640 --> 2:09:32.600 Yeah, correct, correct, Everything's great. So think of it back 2:09:32.640 --> 2:09:35.240 at twenty five, because you know you always tell us 2:09:35.240 --> 2:09:38.480 what's new and picks to watch and everything else. Is 2:09:38.520 --> 2:09:40.320 there anything new? This is a weird window of time, 2:09:40.360 --> 2:09:43.000 the way Christmas and New Year's has fallen. Is anything new? 2:09:43.040 --> 2:09:45.320 Before I start picking your brain about maybe what we've 2:09:45.320 --> 2:09:47.480 missed and stuff to catch up on from twenty five? 2:09:48.080 --> 2:09:50.000 Well, I mean there's like a couple of smaller things. 2:09:50.000 --> 2:09:51.600 There are a lot of times you get limited released 2:09:51.640 --> 2:09:55.760 huff the first weekend always that New Year, whatever that 2:09:55.840 --> 2:09:59.960 New Year's weekend is is always kind of an off wee. 2:10:00.360 --> 2:10:03.320 So there's nothing big even like what was weird is 2:10:03.320 --> 2:10:07.480 there weren't any real big opening on Christmas Day movies. 2:10:07.560 --> 2:10:09.480 I mean, there was Anna Condo I still want to 2:10:09.520 --> 2:10:13.920 see because it just looks stupid and fun. But but 2:10:14.800 --> 2:10:17.960 there was a song sung Blue, which is that Neil 2:10:18.040 --> 2:10:21.520 Diamond tribute kind of it's it's based on a true 2:10:21.560 --> 2:10:26.560 story starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, and that's that's fine, 2:10:26.720 --> 2:10:29.840 But there there was no big Christmas Day movie where 2:10:29.880 --> 2:10:32.840 sometimes things are like opening Christmas Day and I think 2:10:32.880 --> 2:10:35.720 that they knew that Avatar was going to suck the 2:10:35.720 --> 2:10:37.680 air out of the room, so they did. Everyone just 2:10:37.760 --> 2:10:40.080 kind of vacated the next week and then this week 2:10:40.160 --> 2:10:43.200 is always a dead week and then we you know, 2:10:43.320 --> 2:10:47.720 hit it hard, like next week with Private the Killer 2:10:48.240 --> 2:10:53.920 Chimpanzee movie and the In the green Lands two movie. 2:10:54.360 --> 2:10:56.600 If it wasn't enough to watch Gerard Butler try to 2:10:56.600 --> 2:11:01.000 save his family from everything on the planet, you got 2:11:01.040 --> 2:11:02.560 him coming back in this one as well. 2:11:03.120 --> 2:11:07.720 Nice, that's pretty good, uh is. First of all, let 2:11:07.760 --> 2:11:11.360 me ask you about this the movie that you just 2:11:11.440 --> 2:11:14.440 mentioned about Neil Diamond, But it's not really about him. 2:11:14.480 --> 2:11:18.680 That's about right, that's about these people who basically are 2:11:18.880 --> 2:11:20.760 a what do you want to call it a cover act? 2:11:20.840 --> 2:11:24.760 Right? Yeah, Well they like to call themselves a Neil 2:11:24.800 --> 2:11:28.160 Diamond experience. You know, it's not even a tribute but inexperience, 2:11:29.000 --> 2:11:30.560 and it's it is based on a true story. There 2:11:30.640 --> 2:11:34.320 was a documentary about it about this guy who just 2:11:34.320 --> 2:11:36.840 loves Neil Diamond so much he kind of does the 2:11:36.880 --> 2:11:39.960 tribute band, meets another impersonator share her big thing is 2:11:39.960 --> 2:11:42.920 Patsy Klein. But then they work together to kind of 2:11:42.920 --> 2:11:44.280 do and they fall in love and they have this 2:11:44.320 --> 2:11:47.240 whole story. And with any story, there's ups and downs 2:11:47.240 --> 2:11:50.360 and good and bad things happening. And I mean that's 2:11:50.400 --> 2:11:52.600 it's a sweet enough story. It pushes all the right buttons. 2:11:52.600 --> 2:11:55.840 It's predictable, but you know that's the thing. Life kind 2:11:55.880 --> 2:11:57.520 of predictable for a lot of you. You know, you 2:11:57.600 --> 2:12:00.200 know something bad is gonna happen, you know that is 2:12:00.200 --> 2:12:02.200 gonna be bouncing back and all that kind of stuff. 2:12:02.720 --> 2:12:05.400 But I mean, it's it's a fine little movie. It 2:12:06.120 --> 2:12:08.080 does get a little heavy on the Neil Diamond songs, 2:12:08.080 --> 2:12:10.160 if you might If you find that hard to believe. 2:12:09.840 --> 2:12:11.280 Well you got to be a fan of Neil Diamond. 2:12:11.280 --> 2:12:13.240 You're probably not gonna watch anyway, which leads me to 2:12:13.280 --> 2:12:16.200 an interesting thing. I just read something that said one 2:12:16.200 --> 2:12:19.600 of the family members of I guess these people were 2:12:19.640 --> 2:12:21.840 not happy with the way they were portrayed or how 2:12:21.880 --> 2:12:24.200 the movie came out. Yet I've heard people say good 2:12:24.240 --> 2:12:27.000 things about the movie. So that's a weird thing. Great movie, 2:12:27.040 --> 2:12:29.880 but apparently not true to form, or at least the 2:12:29.960 --> 2:12:31.840 family members not happy with what they saw. 2:12:32.160 --> 2:12:36.720 What. Well, here's the thing when it comes to when 2:12:36.760 --> 2:12:41.000 it comes to true stories, is true, it's no one 2:12:41.040 --> 2:12:44.160 wants to see it. It's a boring movie. If everybody 2:12:44.280 --> 2:12:47.800 is always good and perfect and honest and above board, 2:12:47.880 --> 2:12:51.000 and nobody's like that. Everybody has their dark side, everybody 2:12:51.040 --> 2:12:53.240 has their flaws, everybody has their ups and downs and 2:12:53.240 --> 2:12:55.600 their good days and they're bad days. And so when 2:12:55.640 --> 2:12:59.240 I see a movie that's especially if it's even if 2:12:59.280 --> 2:13:03.280 it's a famous person biopic and it's like approved completely 2:13:03.320 --> 2:13:05.760 by the family, I was kind of like, well, that's 2:13:05.760 --> 2:13:08.840 probably not that good because you don't get the downside. 2:13:08.880 --> 2:13:12.000 Like there's a movie and there's no slight against Jesse Owens. 2:13:12.040 --> 2:13:14.440 He was an absolute hero. But there was a movie 2:13:14.440 --> 2:13:17.760 called Race that came out I don't ten years fifteen 2:13:17.840 --> 2:13:20.520 years ago, and it was it was a biopick about 2:13:21.280 --> 2:13:23.440 Jesse Owens and him going to the Olympics and winning 2:13:23.480 --> 2:13:26.600 and all that kind of stuff. But it was like 2:13:26.600 --> 2:13:30.080 like produced by his family. And I'm like, not that 2:13:30.200 --> 2:13:33.040 Jesse Owens had these dark skeletons in the closet or 2:13:33.080 --> 2:13:37.240 anything like that, but there was everybody has ups and downs, 2:13:37.240 --> 2:13:39.960 and everybody has good points and bad points, and the 2:13:40.000 --> 2:13:42.880 movie did feel a little bit sanitized, whereas if it's 2:13:42.920 --> 2:13:46.080 a you know, so, it may it may have shown 2:13:46.120 --> 2:13:48.440 something that's true. It's just maybe the family didn't like 2:13:48.520 --> 2:13:52.160 what was shown. I'm not a biographer of this these people, 2:13:52.240 --> 2:13:54.440 but that's one of the things you run into where 2:13:54.480 --> 2:13:56.600 they feel that they focused too much on this because 2:13:56.640 --> 2:13:58.640 it made them look a certain way and not enough 2:13:58.680 --> 2:14:01.680 about this. I mean, it's it's like anything if anyone 2:14:01.680 --> 2:14:03.960 did a story of your well, I don't know, for me, 2:14:04.040 --> 2:14:05.320 it could be one of those things I'd watch and 2:14:05.360 --> 2:14:07.840 I'd be like, well you kind of improved on things. 2:14:07.920 --> 2:14:11.280 So I mean I'm living the life. I could write 2:14:11.280 --> 2:14:15.280 it better than I'm living. Yes, I absolutely could. For 2:14:15.320 --> 2:14:19.320 me anyway, talking to Kevin Carr Silver Gecko on Substack 2:14:19.840 --> 2:14:23.560 with Sterling on seven hundred WLW. So all right, so 2:14:23.800 --> 2:14:27.520 let's move I guess back and look at it twenty 2:14:27.560 --> 2:14:30.800 five if possible, because there are always so many things 2:14:30.840 --> 2:14:33.080 that are put out, and now with streaming it's even 2:14:33.200 --> 2:14:35.080 more so. What is there? I mean, I don't know 2:14:35.080 --> 2:14:36.960 how many you have. If it's ten, if it's five, 2:14:37.360 --> 2:14:40.120 what are the like? If you miss this, must see 2:14:40.280 --> 2:14:43.720 go back stream it, find it because there are a 2:14:43.720 --> 2:14:45.600 lot of good things that just fall through the cracks 2:14:45.600 --> 2:14:48.320 because there's just simply so much stuff to watch. 2:14:48.960 --> 2:14:51.960 Yeah, well, and I mean like like certain ones. Obviously, 2:14:51.960 --> 2:14:54.680 people know I really loved Superman. You know that. You 2:14:54.800 --> 2:14:57.440 remember me talking about that, absolutely, and that was that 2:14:57.520 --> 2:14:59.760 was a lot of fun. But but like some that 2:15:00.160 --> 2:15:02.480 and maybe we're lesser seen, and some of these are 2:15:02.960 --> 2:15:06.960 darker movies. I tend to fall into the horror appreciation. 2:15:07.560 --> 2:15:11.800 There was a movie that was called good Boy, and 2:15:11.920 --> 2:15:14.560 it came out I don't know, about four months ago, 2:15:14.680 --> 2:15:16.800 and it was about a dog and it's a horror 2:15:16.800 --> 2:15:20.120 moy told from the dog's perspective. And it starts a 2:15:20.160 --> 2:15:22.280 dog named Indy, who who's Who's should be in the 2:15:22.320 --> 2:15:26.160 running for best actor of any category of anything. You know, 2:15:26.240 --> 2:15:28.600 it should he should get the oscar. Oh, he's a 2:15:28.680 --> 2:15:32.560 very good boy. And it's it's it's a really interesting approach. 2:15:32.920 --> 2:15:36.360 And you know, it's got the best main subject as well, 2:15:36.560 --> 2:15:38.680 So that one is really good. If you haven't seen that, 2:15:38.800 --> 2:15:40.360 check that out. I think it's on shutter you can 2:15:40.360 --> 2:15:43.640 probably find it elsewhere. I also was a big thing. 2:15:43.720 --> 2:15:48.120 You had two fantastic Stephen King adaptations. One of them 2:15:48.200 --> 2:15:51.360 was The Long Walk, which is difficult to watch, came 2:15:51.400 --> 2:15:53.840 out I think in this late August or late summer 2:15:53.920 --> 2:15:57.640 August area. Very difficult to watch because it has heavy, 2:15:57.680 --> 2:16:01.000 dety subject matter. But it's a fantastic adaptation of the 2:16:01.040 --> 2:16:04.840 original Richard Bachman book that Stephen King kind of wrote 2:16:04.920 --> 2:16:08.240 under a pseudonym back in the seventies. But he also 2:16:08.280 --> 2:16:12.240 did The Monkey Osgod Perkins, the son of Anthony Perkins 2:16:12.280 --> 2:16:17.760 who played Norman Bates. He directed this this over the top, 2:16:17.920 --> 2:16:22.200 crazy violent tale about this this this little uh, well 2:16:22.240 --> 2:16:25.200 it used to have like this symbols, monkey had the symbols. 2:16:25.480 --> 2:16:27.400 They had to change it to him hitting a drum, 2:16:27.800 --> 2:16:29.240 the monkey with a drum for the movie. 2:16:29.360 --> 2:16:31.200 Well, what was that? Because they were going to sue them, 2:16:31.240 --> 2:16:33.000 or they didn't like the way that the toy was 2:16:33.040 --> 2:16:34.320 being shown or something or what. 2:16:34.440 --> 2:16:38.240 I think that some other company, like maybe it might 2:16:38.240 --> 2:16:40.520 have been like a toy story thing has a monkey 2:16:40.520 --> 2:16:44.240 with symbols, and so they said, let's just avoid that completely, 2:16:44.680 --> 2:16:47.200 even though the original story was a monkey with symbols. 2:16:47.680 --> 2:16:50.080 And it's just a bonkers movie. And if you like 2:16:50.160 --> 2:16:55.959 sort of these insane, over the top at darkly funny movies, 2:16:56.000 --> 2:16:58.400 the monkeys are fantastic. It's kind of off brand for 2:16:58.440 --> 2:17:01.440 Osgod Perkins because the stuff you saw long legs, I mean, 2:17:01.440 --> 2:17:05.520 that thing was heavy and grim, but this one, I 2:17:05.560 --> 2:17:07.360 mean it's an over the top splatterfest. 2:17:07.600 --> 2:17:09.280 Well there's nothing wrong with that. I mean, you got 2:17:09.280 --> 2:17:11.039 to be in the right mood. But I'm all for that. 2:17:11.560 --> 2:17:13.800 Uh tell me, But I know you have others in 2:17:13.840 --> 2:17:16.200 the list, but I'm just thinking about this one battle 2:17:16.240 --> 2:17:19.840 after another. Is that one of those that you would 2:17:19.879 --> 2:17:21.600 say this is that this is one of the better 2:17:21.600 --> 2:17:26.160 ones of ninety five. Or oh I just flashed back 2:17:26.200 --> 2:17:26.760 thirty years. 2:17:27.440 --> 2:17:29.640 I'm about to say that that's pt Anderson, that's in 2:17:29.720 --> 2:17:34.880 his infancy. No, this one's good. I mean, I'm not 2:17:34.920 --> 2:17:38.200 a I'm not a total acolyte of pt Anderson, but 2:17:38.360 --> 2:17:40.720 this was a This was a good movie. It's one 2:17:40.720 --> 2:17:44.000 of those ensemble movies because Leonard Dicapiro does a great 2:17:44.080 --> 2:17:47.440 job in it, Chase Infinity, who plays his daughter, she 2:17:47.640 --> 2:17:50.279 does a great job in it. Sean Penn as wickedly 2:17:50.959 --> 2:17:56.240 evil as the bad guy. Excuse me. Then cl del 2:17:56.320 --> 2:18:00.400 Toro is a hoot in this movie. So that, yeah, 2:18:00.400 --> 2:18:02.360 that was worth seeing. If you've not seen it, it 2:18:02.440 --> 2:18:04.640 is an experience. It's a little long, so I do 2:18:04.720 --> 2:18:07.400 warn you about that, but actually want to know what's 2:18:07.440 --> 2:18:12.080 real bonkers, check out Begonia Sometimes. That's the one where 2:18:12.080 --> 2:18:16.560 Emmastone plays like a CEO and Jesse Plemmon's kidnaps her 2:18:16.600 --> 2:18:20.400 thinking she's an alien, shaves off her head and and 2:18:20.400 --> 2:18:22.560 and is keeping her in her his basement because he 2:18:22.959 --> 2:18:25.760 doesn't want her to he wants to stop the alien invasion. 2:18:26.000 --> 2:18:31.160 It is. It is chilling because you're like you'd watch 2:18:31.160 --> 2:18:33.720 the movie and you'd be like, yeah, I know somebody 2:18:33.760 --> 2:18:36.879 like that, and I don't know somebody who would who 2:18:37.000 --> 2:18:39.119 might try that, you know what I mean? And it's 2:18:38.760 --> 2:18:41.040 it's very very disturbing at times. 2:18:41.080 --> 2:18:43.879 She's made some really really good films, hasn't she? 2:18:45.680 --> 2:18:48.640 Yeah? Well, and this is its dirrected by Yorgus Latmos, 2:18:48.640 --> 2:18:52.280 who did poor things which she won. What are her 2:18:52.360 --> 2:18:57.040 oscars for? So you see you see less of Emmastone 2:18:57.200 --> 2:18:58.840 in this one, then you do important, But you saw. 2:18:58.680 --> 2:19:00.720 All of Emma Stone, all of her, Yes she did, 2:19:00.760 --> 2:19:03.680 and that's not all bad as for sure? Anything else 2:19:03.720 --> 2:19:05.800 of the like well, because you mentioned in one two 2:19:05.800 --> 2:19:09.359 through Stephen King movies, Long Walk, The Monkey, Good Boys, Superman. 2:19:09.959 --> 2:19:12.280 Uh you mentioned Begonia? What what else? 2:19:12.800 --> 2:19:15.320 Any weapons? Weapons is a great movie if you've not 2:19:15.400 --> 2:19:18.199 seen that one. It's directed by it's written a director 2:19:18.240 --> 2:19:20.760 by Zach Craigor. He did Barbarian a couple of years ago. 2:19:21.560 --> 2:19:24.360 Originally started out in comedy doing the Whitest Kid, you know, 2:19:24.640 --> 2:19:28.520 Oh yeah, and lo and behold. He's a brilliant horror director. 2:19:28.640 --> 2:19:33.000 So Weapons is a fantastic movie, almost impossible to spoil 2:19:33.120 --> 2:19:36.640 because it's so twisted and convoluted in what it's trying 2:19:36.680 --> 2:19:42.640 to do. It's uh, it's you keep guessing even if 2:19:42.640 --> 2:19:44.680 you know what's going to happen. So it's and Amy 2:19:44.720 --> 2:19:46.680 Madigan is fantastic in that movie. 2:19:46.760 --> 2:19:50.760 Nice, okay, good good. I like him. Anything else of 2:19:50.800 --> 2:19:54.360 consequence before like we let you rest in, convalesce and 2:19:54.400 --> 2:19:56.280 do whatever it is you have to do. Hydrate. That's 2:19:56.320 --> 2:19:58.959 what I've been doing. I really I joke about the 2:19:58.959 --> 2:20:01.240 big drinks when we've gone to the movies together whatever 2:20:01.280 --> 2:20:04.000 in the catheter. But I have been consuming so much 2:20:04.240 --> 2:20:06.200 in the way of fluids to try to get through 2:20:06.240 --> 2:20:10.440 this sickness that a cather which I just went thinking about, 2:20:10.680 --> 2:20:12.199 might actually save me some time. 2:20:12.840 --> 2:20:15.040 Well yeah, well then the key is if you're sick, 2:20:15.520 --> 2:20:18.040 you don't want to have anything with too much caffeine 2:20:18.040 --> 2:20:19.640 in it. Now you can have tea like to drink 2:20:19.680 --> 2:20:22.480 and so your sues your throat. But no, that's why 2:20:22.480 --> 2:20:26.800 you go with like sprite seven up water whatever yeah, yeah, 2:20:26.879 --> 2:20:29.400 PD alighte or you know, cater raid or something like that. 2:20:29.480 --> 2:20:33.480 So this thirty ounce container the mug of ice coffee 2:20:33.520 --> 2:20:35.000 is a bad choice. 2:20:35.040 --> 2:20:37.200 Probably not a great idea. That's that's that's a lot 2:20:37.200 --> 2:20:39.880 of that's a lot of caffeine. Caffeine will dehydrate you'll 2:20:39.959 --> 2:20:41.360 you'll expel more than you take in. 2:20:41.520 --> 2:20:45.680 That might explain my need to go Yeah, okay, well yeah. 2:20:45.200 --> 2:20:47.480 But no, I would say. The only other thing I 2:20:47.480 --> 2:20:50.039 I I that that's really on my radar is you 2:20:50.120 --> 2:20:54.200 got the finale of Stranger Things that dropped on on 2:20:54.400 --> 2:20:56.000 it was it New Year's Eve or New Year's Day? 2:20:56.959 --> 2:21:00.360 It was New Year's Eve and it was a great 2:21:00.360 --> 2:21:02.400 wrap up to the show. I'm not gonna spoil or anything, 2:21:02.440 --> 2:21:05.800 but it's it's definitely worth checking out. If you've been 2:21:05.800 --> 2:21:10.240 waiting to borrow somebody's Netflix password, now's the time to 2:21:10.280 --> 2:21:13.760 do it. You've got there's forty two episodes, which amounts to, well, 2:21:13.800 --> 2:21:15.480 I don't know what, one hundred and eighty six hours 2:21:15.480 --> 2:21:15.879 of eve. 2:21:16.040 --> 2:21:19.520 It's really a lot. Yeah, but it's good. 2:21:19.600 --> 2:21:20.920 It's worth worth checking out. 2:21:21.160 --> 2:21:23.720 And did I read or did you didn't tell me something? 2:21:23.959 --> 2:21:26.200 Is there going to be a movie about that? Or 2:21:26.280 --> 2:21:29.080 is that just what? I don't No, no, no. 2:21:29.080 --> 2:21:33.160 They they released the two hour series permi see the 2:21:33.200 --> 2:21:37.400 series finale that is the this week and it made 2:21:37.440 --> 2:21:38.800 like twenty million dollars. 2:21:38.959 --> 2:21:40.520 That's better than a lot this year. 2:21:41.200 --> 2:21:43.000 Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean and it was it was 2:21:43.040 --> 2:21:45.920 sort of that that like Bathom event kind of one time, 2:21:46.120 --> 2:21:49.760 one or two night thing. But I mean it is cinematic. 2:21:49.840 --> 2:21:52.560 It's a great to you know, sometimes you go and 2:21:52.879 --> 2:21:54.920 watch like the two hour finale and you're like, that 2:21:54.959 --> 2:21:58.160 could have been forty five minutes. Yes, yeah, this one 2:21:58.320 --> 2:22:01.080 it does take its time. I mean, you have you 2:22:01.200 --> 2:22:07.000 definitely have a nice dinu ma you know date. It's 2:22:07.000 --> 2:22:09.320 not like they like wrap up the bad stuff and 2:22:09.320 --> 2:22:13.720 then roll credits. They it's a little bit return to 2:22:13.760 --> 2:22:16.920 the King trying to you know, wrap everything up at 2:22:16.920 --> 2:22:18.879 the end. So but it's worth it if you if 2:22:18.879 --> 2:22:22.840 you've stayed through all five seasons, you watch these twenty 2:22:22.840 --> 2:22:24.840 some year old kids graduate from high school or something 2:22:24.879 --> 2:22:25.039 like that. 2:22:25.120 --> 2:22:27.880 Yeah, and that's the kind of thing something to do. 2:22:27.959 --> 2:22:33.360 I suppose it's it's a weird thing. I'm wondering at 2:22:33.360 --> 2:22:36.680 this point, are there too many options? As far as 2:22:36.920 --> 2:22:37.439 I would. 2:22:37.240 --> 2:22:39.800 Never say that, No, I would never say that. That's 2:22:40.080 --> 2:22:42.879 that's like, that's like that's like your what your wife's 2:22:42.879 --> 2:22:46.120 coming home like, sorry, honey, we're just having way too 2:22:46.200 --> 2:22:46.680 much sex. 2:22:47.520 --> 2:22:52.640 No, there's I mean, there's I've seen a lot of movies, 2:22:53.000 --> 2:22:54.840 not as many as you because it's been your life. 2:22:55.200 --> 2:22:58.160 But I uh, and and I've had some sex. I 2:22:58.160 --> 2:23:00.600 gotta say, Kevin Carr, I have never, not once ever 2:23:00.879 --> 2:23:04.480 like compared I mean, equality film to even bad sex. 2:23:04.680 --> 2:23:06.440 I mean, I don't know. 2:23:06.600 --> 2:23:08.560 Well, I mean, yeah, you know, what's that whole thing? 2:23:08.600 --> 2:23:11.279 You know, like you have pizza, pizza, even bad pizzas good. 2:23:11.280 --> 2:23:14.760 Right, right, I mean, how many movies have you like, gone, 2:23:14.879 --> 2:23:16.560 this is a complete waste of time. I want to 2:23:16.560 --> 2:23:18.880 get the hell out of this theater or falling asleep 2:23:18.959 --> 2:23:21.520 or otherwise. I mean I have bolted out of theaters 2:23:21.560 --> 2:23:23.400 and gone across the hall because I'm like, I'm never 2:23:23.440 --> 2:23:25.840 getting that part of my life back. Ever, I've never 2:23:25.920 --> 2:23:28.360 known the mist of sex and gone, I got to 2:23:28.400 --> 2:23:30.040 get out of here. Maybe once. 2:23:30.600 --> 2:23:33.400 Well yeah, but I mean it's not a perfect comparison, 2:23:33.600 --> 2:23:35.360 but I mean it is. It is one of those things. 2:23:35.360 --> 2:23:38.520 But the whole these are too many options. I love 2:23:38.600 --> 2:23:40.760 the fact that we have options. I love the fact 2:23:41.200 --> 2:23:44.280 that there's more stuff than because this is the thing 2:23:44.320 --> 2:23:46.480 you can bolt. You can bail if you start watching 2:23:46.520 --> 2:23:48.720 something and you're like this is boring, I can go 2:23:48.760 --> 2:23:49.440 to something else. 2:23:49.520 --> 2:23:49.920 That's true. 2:23:50.120 --> 2:23:52.680 Do you remember the back everyone is complaining about too 2:23:52.680 --> 2:23:54.920 many options. Remember back in the day we had three 2:23:55.480 --> 2:23:58.840 three channels lucky. Maybe PBS was showing money. 2:23:58.879 --> 2:24:02.200 But don well, you're right, and and I and if 2:24:02.200 --> 2:24:04.240 you were like me, and we've discussed this before. Kevin 2:24:04.280 --> 2:24:06.640 carr By, by the way, is silver Gecko on the 2:24:06.680 --> 2:24:08.960 sub stack talking movies and so forth with Stirling on 2:24:09.000 --> 2:24:11.840 the big one. I mean, I thought my only purpose 2:24:11.879 --> 2:24:14.959 in life as a young tiny sterling was to hold 2:24:15.000 --> 2:24:18.080 the antenna and stand appropriately so we might be able 2:24:18.080 --> 2:24:19.880 to get more than the three, so we could get 2:24:20.120 --> 2:24:22.840 eet and sixteen out of Dayton, so we could get 2:24:22.920 --> 2:24:25.560 nineteen and then maybe twenty two out of Dayton. You know, 2:24:25.640 --> 2:24:28.000 in that type of situation and the weather was really good, 2:24:28.040 --> 2:24:30.720 maybe you get a Columbus station or an Indianapolis station. 2:24:31.040 --> 2:24:32.800 And that might have been if I took the foil 2:24:32.840 --> 2:24:34.879 and wrapped it around the top. 2:24:34.720 --> 2:24:37.119 Of the room. Yeah, I mean I grew up in Columbus. 2:24:37.120 --> 2:24:39.280 We had three stations in PBS and that was it. 2:24:39.600 --> 2:24:43.760 We didn't get independent TV stations until the mid eighties. 2:24:44.240 --> 2:24:46.240 And I remember we'd go up and visit my family 2:24:46.240 --> 2:24:48.360 in Cleveland, they had a couple of them. I thought 2:24:48.360 --> 2:24:50.959 it was great that channel surfing. You could go seven 2:24:51.040 --> 2:24:54.160 stations before you got back to the Brady bunch again. 2:24:54.520 --> 2:24:58.959 So look, I mean, I will take more content over 2:24:59.280 --> 2:25:02.280 nothing any day. And I love the fact that people promote, oh, 2:25:02.640 --> 2:25:05.720 Blockbuster's closed. You can't. Oh I'm sorry. You go to 2:25:05.760 --> 2:25:07.680 Blockbuster and you can't all agree on a movie and 2:25:07.680 --> 2:25:10.320 then it be out. You know, you can't wait six 2:25:10.440 --> 2:25:13.560 years to go see my best friend's wedding because the 2:25:13.720 --> 2:25:16.440 entire wall at Blockbuster's gone. No, I mean, you can 2:25:16.480 --> 2:25:18.440 just watch whatever you want to. I will never complain 2:25:18.480 --> 2:25:18.920 about that. 2:25:19.120 --> 2:25:22.039 There you go, don't complain. Options are good. It's good 2:25:22.040 --> 2:25:25.600 to have choices. I mean, that's the bottom line absolutely. 2:25:25.680 --> 2:25:28.360 Kevin Carr, thank you for making time. I know that 2:25:28.400 --> 2:25:31.959 you're convalescing. You're sickly, but tan and rested into the 2:25:31.959 --> 2:25:33.959 new year. So I wish you and the family car 2:25:34.080 --> 2:25:36.520 the best, and I look forward to to hanging out 2:25:36.600 --> 2:25:39.240 and talking more movies and whatever else comes in twenty 2:25:39.280 --> 2:25:40.720 twenty six. Thank you for doing it. 2:25:40.760 --> 2:25:41.920 Sounds good. We'll talk to you later. 2:25:42.440 --> 2:25:44.760 There you go. It's all for me. Thank you. Russ 2:25:44.879 --> 2:25:48.800 Jackson Travis Laird has news straightaway Get red Eye Radio. 2:25:48.840 --> 2:25:53.360 I'll be back Monday, Bearcat Basketball tomorrow, Bengals Sunday. Home 2:25:53.400 --> 2:25:56.520 of the best Bengals coverage. News Radio seven hundredu W WELLW, 2:25:56.760 --> 2:25:57.400 Cincinnati