WEBVTT - Steve Hawkins in for Thom 12/26/2025 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.400 Money, money, money, money news is like potato chifs I 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:08.880 can't get enough as long as they're rippled. This is 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.400 the Bloomberg money minutes on seven hundred WLW. 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:16.360 This is a Bloomberg money minute. Gold and silver shimmering 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:18.959 this morning, surging to an all time high, partly on 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:23.320 global political instability after record highs for the Dow on 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:27.280 SMP the day before Christmas holiday, stock futures indicating a 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:31.600 lower open for the Dow this morning. China announcing sanctions 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:35.400 against some US defense companies and also some executives in 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:39.720 response to US ARM sales to Taiwan. Northrop Grumman, L Three, 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:44.040 Harris Maritime Services, and Boeing's operations in Saint Louis among 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:48.040 those mentioned. The sanctions seen as largely symbolic, and after 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:52.440 years of kids clubs, luxury resorts are leaning into family 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.920 camp with hotels offering activities the whole family can do 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.680 together instead of sending kids to those kids clubs. The 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.600 programs aimed to bridge the interest of parenting kids with 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:07.160 activity like scavenger hunts, spot dates, and storytelling sessions as 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.960 adults look to make memories with their children together while traveling. 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.600 Now Denise Pellagreedy Bloemberg Radio. 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:14.520 Thanks Denise. 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:19.080 It's just about eight ten on seven hundred WLW. It's 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.720 a Friday of the day after Christmas. Steve Hawkins in 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:25.440 for Tom Brenneman. We always get to talk to Matt 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:27.560 Roush talking TV at this time. 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:28.960 Hey, good morning, Matt. How are you. 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.360 I'm hanging in there about you. A happy day after Christmas? 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.000 Absolutely, I hope you had good holiday, you and your 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:36.560 family and friends and everything. 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:38.120 Everything's great. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:38.959 Yeah, that's good. 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.720 There's not much going on here for the week between 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.920 Christmas and New Year's even Netflix pretty much mostly quite 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.720 except for that stranger things. 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:50.280 They're going to wrap it up on New Year's Eve. 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.560 Yeah, got a few things, of course, because Netflix never 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.480 slows down. But yeah, this is that very very brief 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:02.280 pause in the world of television where things are relatively quiet, 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.560 that we're heading toward New Year's Eve. So there are 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.400 a few things though happening. I will say, the big 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.120 thing that everybody's looking for that I'm hearing from anyway 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:15.440 on today or tonight, is that HBO Max the streamer 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.120 is closing out their first season of a show that 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:22.040 has created quite a bit of buzz in all kinds 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.400 of corners, but it is called Heated Rivalry. This series, 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.919 only six episodes of the first season comes from Canada, 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.160 is an acquisition that HBO had. But this is a 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.120 show about hockey, but it's really a love story. It's 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.480 set in the world of hockey. It's a gay love story. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.280 The two young men, one from Canada one from Russia 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:44.120 on opposing teams and the media has made them real rivals. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.600 But what they don't know is that secretly they have 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.520 basically fallen for each other. So but of course, in 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:51.720 the world of sports, it's very hard for people to 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.760 be who they really are if they're not playing by 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.359 the regular rules. So anyway, that has been playing out 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.800 over several years during this during the first season, if 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.080 he did, Rivalry based on a series of young adult 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.400 novels that are also quite popular. So anyway, the final 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.680 episode drops today and I would call this episode the 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:14.560 Summer that Changed Everything. They spend some time together between seasons, 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:16.920 but anyway, this is one of those shows that has 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.200 become quite an addiction to those who have found it. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.040 But it'll be back for another season at some point, 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.160 and maybe they'll do more than six episodes. That is 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.080 sort of the streaming way though, shorter seasons, long breaks 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.240 between seasons. But I have a feeling when he did 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.440 Rivalry comes back, it'll also be pretty hot. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.079 Well, why are they doing like six episodes? Why don't 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.760 they do like twenty or twenty five episodes like the 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:37.960 regular TV. 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:38.280 Used to do. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:40.760 Well, it's the way that streaming kind of works. I mean, 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.440 even Netflix, I mean, their series tend to be about 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.440 eight to ten episodes max. I mean even some of 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.600 the really popular ones are only about eight episodes. There 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.840 must be some kind of algorithm that tells them that, 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.520 especially for shows that drop all at once. I mean 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.560 this has been avera weekly on HBO, But this sort 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:02.560 of streaming thing is that they do. It's the economics too, maybe, 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.560 but they do fewer episodes. You watch them like all 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.920 at once, especially on Netflix, and then it takes them 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.320 a long time to make another season and they don't 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.600 air them weekly. So it is just the way that 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.080 streaming has kind of played the rules. I don't always 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.800 agree with it. I love the roll out, the weekly 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.760 rollout of episodes of the series, but Netflix has kind 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.880 of changed the equick equation. They figure that if they 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:26.719 put a show on They're going to give it to 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:28.479 you and you can watch it as you want to 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.680 watch it, as opposed to waiting every week for the 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:34.240 next episode, which is you know, it works for some series, 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.240 it doesn't work for some. And the danger, of course, 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.680 when you produce as much as Netflix does, is that 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.240 even a really good show can sometimes get lost in 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.599 the wash if it drops all at once. It's like 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.719 you're only writing about it, only talking about it on 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.080 the time that it premieres, and then it's really up 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.479 to you whether you can actually find the series if 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.960 you know, two days later, four more series premiere. So 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.520 it's a lot. The world of streaming is still a 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.640 work in progress in many ways, but in this particulicular case, 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.000 this show broke out for HBO Max and it doesn't 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.440 air on regular HBO. You have to you have to 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.080 be streaming to watch it or watch it online. But 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.200 it has been a real success for HBO. I think 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:12.400 nobody saw this one coming. 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.200 I was talk about Tuesday Night Netflix. They got some 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.480 comedy going on there, right they do. 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.560 Ricky Gervais, one of their more popular personalities is his 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.360 fourth stand up special. He's also created several series for them, 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.800 one in particular Afterlife as one of the really good 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.720 series that rich Ricky Gervais did. Of course, Ricky Gervaise 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.120 became famous for starring and and creating the original British 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.440 version of the Office, which of course then became a 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.280 huge hit for NBC with Steve Carell. But uh, but 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.800 Ricky Gervaise very bold, very remember him when we used 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.880 to host the Cold Globes. Yeah, never really, never really 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.839 shies from controversy. But in this stand up special that 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.760 drops on Tuesday on Netflix, it's called Mortality, and he's 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.159 going to be confronting mortality and death and all kinds 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.720 of other funny things. It'll be a little bit dark, 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.240 but he says it's his most honest comedy special that 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:00.920 if you're a fan of your bage, you're gonn want 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:02.840 to check that out. That's on Tuesday on Netflix. 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.440 Hey, when I was a kid, mom and dad went 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.520 out for New Year's Eve. The rest of us got 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.080 to stay home with Grandma and order a pizza and 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.680 watch Dick Clark's rocking New Year's Eve. And it's that 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.800 time of year again coming up next week. Tell me 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:18.320 about it. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.240 Okay, Well, definitely, this is the one that most people 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:23.880 were going to be watching. If you're staying home to 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.640 watch TV, you're probably got it on ABC for what 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.000 they still call Dick Clark's New York's New Year's Rock 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.840 and Eve, even though now it's hosted by Ryan Seacrest, 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.599 who's picked up the banner for quite a few years now. 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:36.719 But it's always like, who are they going to do 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:38.400 to bring in the New year? Who's when the ball 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.919 drops on Times Square? Who's going to be singing this year? 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:45.000 That honor goes to Diana Ross. So they have found 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.680 a real living legend diva. You know, we just had 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.839 Share on Saturday Night Live. But now we're going to 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.760 get Diana Ross in Times Square doing the doing the 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:54.560 ball drops, So that's going to be a big deal. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.240 But they've expanded the focus of this New Year's Rock 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.560 and Eve last few years, so it's not just New 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:01.880 York they're doing this stuff. You're also going to get 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:06.080 segments from Chicago and Las Vegas and Puerto Rico. You're 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.479 even going to get a bit from Kansas City. Chaperone's 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.680 going to be singing from Kansas City, Post Malone from Nashville. 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.480 But you've got all these different cities that'll be doing 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.520 the ball drop. So that's a big deal. That is 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.280 always going to be the number one. But if you 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.360 don't want to watch ABC, there's other ways to watch 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:27.560 the New Year's happening on television. CBS stays in Nashville 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.320 for five hours from like ten o'clock until you know, 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.120 the wee hours. There's a two hour toast what they 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.520 call a Toast to twenty twenty five on NBC. We're 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.240 just hosted by Today personalities Jenna Bush and Hoda Kotby, 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.920 and that's more of sort of an NBC centric I think, 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.560 not so much entertainment on that one. CNN, of course, 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.280 as we have for many years now, Andy Cohen from 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:53.880 Bravo teams up with Anderson Cooper to sort of get 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.200 a little toasty as they get into the new year. 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.160 They do that, yeah, and then they do that in 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.040 New York and then do reports across the globe. So 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.680 you'll see the way that all these other work those 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:07.360 countries are going to be bringing in the year. So 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.119 CNN has the wide focus, but I think most people 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.360 will be watching the entertainers on ABC that that is 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.800 the one that has, like you said, it is it 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.360 is the tradition that when I was a kid, it 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.320 was Guy Lombardo and it was very, very sedate. But 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.720 now ever since Dick Clark, Dick Clark did it, it'll 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.640 be a way to run to welcome in twenty twenty six, 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.080 which can't get here soon enough. 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.640 If you ask me, Oh my goodness, Guy Lombardo, you 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:33.960 do there's grandma. I have my grandma watching that one. 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.800 We wanted to watch, Dick Clark. Do they do you know, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.079 they do the one for the East Coast, do they 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:42.600 repeat it in the other time zones or do they 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.720 actually do some of those portions live again after. 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.400 They they stay on pretty LATEV shows that there didn't 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.560 be like a one o'clock you know, our time would 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:53.680 be there, so an after show, or they might do 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.640 some repeat segments. But the way the idea though, of course, 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:58.400 is that this stuff is going to be continuing to 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.560 air an other time zone, that even maybe even Hawaii 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.920 gets to see some of this even as they're welcoming 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:07.120 the new year. Who knows. But yeah, but the TV 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.960 is one way of bringing in the new year, and yeah, 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:10.960 it's coming, like it or not? 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:11.800 All right? 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.720 And I got to put you on the spot here 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:17.400 to wrap things up, this link to your top ten 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:18.760 shows of twenty twenty five. 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.520 Our listeners can get that right yeah. 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.680 On tv insider dot com, which is our website, you 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.319 can see what I chose as my top ten shows. 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.720 If you want to quick run down for a second, 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.400 I will tell you that Apple TV did very well. 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.480 I had three shows from Apple on their severance, Pluribus 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.480 and The Studio, which won the Emmy for Best Comedy, 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.520 really great Hollywood satire. But my number one show is 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.439 The Pit and good News about Fans of The Pit, 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:49.480 which air on HBO Max. Hospital drama that brought Noah 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.880 Wyley back to the er. He won an Emmy. The 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.800 show won the Emmy for Best Drama. A terrific ensemble 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.520 show that set every season is set in one day, 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:03.040 one shift. Every hour is one hour episode, gripping, emotionally wrenching, 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.319 everything you want in a hospital drama and wonderful cast 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.080 in this show. Season two is coming on the Horizon 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.600 on one week from January first, which is January eighth. 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:17.400 They'll begin airing episodes weekly, fifteen episodes. This one kind 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:19.679 of breaks the streaming rules. This one feels more like 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:21.719 a regular network series on when they can push a 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:23.520 little bit further. It's a great show. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.559 And is it about the hospital or the emergency room 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:27.720 or the entire hospital? 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.280 What is it? It is an ER show. Okay, the 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.719 pit is the sort of the it's set in Pittsburgh, 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.880 and that is sort of the jokey name for anything 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.160 where nothing is a joke in the er. But it 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.640 is basically an ER show. It kind of reinvents Er 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:42.360 in some ways when you think about what a huge 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.160 hit that was for NBC back in the day, made 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.800 Know a wiliest star, and now he and several people 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.040 who are producing the show also are veterans from the 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.760 regular Er series. But I think they've taken it to 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.360 a new level with the intensity of your following some 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.199 of these cases hour after hour in this one day, 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.040 So it doesn't have that sort of everything wraps up 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.360 in one hour. It just sort of escalates since you 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.200 follow some of these cases and some of these people 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.280 because they come into the er and then you know, 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.960 you have to like let things play out, and some 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.360 of them are quite emotional. It's a really great series, 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.520 but also just the cast is so good. These young 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.840 interns and now a new bunch of medical students, because 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.720 we've jumped forward ten months from the last season and 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.120 it's on the fourth of July, so a lot's happened 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.440 on the fourth of July. So that's the idea of 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.960 the second season of The Pit. It will probably be 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.079 on my list of top ten shows for next year too, 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:32.520 we'll see. 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:34.440 All right, I'm gonna have to watch that one because 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:36.160 I need a new show. Matt Rash, how do we 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:36.800 connect with you? 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.920 Well? TV Guide magazine and then daily on TV insider 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:41.480 dot com. 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:42.840 Thanks Matt, we'll talk to you next week. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.600 Have a great new year, you too, talk to you then. 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:49.040 Alrighty, Chuck Ingram's in here at a twenty working on 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.559 the roads of Cincinna. What are you seeing? I am 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:56.000 seeing some pretty light traffic. Do they probably next week too? 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:57.760 I would think so sure. 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.840 When you're gonna put the holidays on a Thursday, there's 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:02.640 not a whole lot of people that want to work 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.160 on a Friday, But you and I are here. 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.600 That's well, yeah, there's three people here. You mean Sandy 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.520 in the newsroom. Oh we got Dana. Oh no, don't 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:16.120 forget yeah, heaven forbid? How could you forget Dane? I 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.240 couldn't forget him. No, But that's good light traffic next 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.679 week or so. That sounds good to me. From the 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:22.880 you see Health traffic center. 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.079 You see Health, you'll find comprehensive care that's so personal 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.280 it makes your best tomorrow possible. 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In this morning, I 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:46.040 thought we would go out to the Strong National Museum 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.760 of Play and talk to one of their curators, Merrik 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:50.680 Stoley with us. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.160 Hey, good morning, thanks for joining us. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:54.320 Hi, thank you for having me. 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:56.000 If I understand. 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:59.280 Correctly, you guys are in charge of the National Toy 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.920 Hall of Fame, and every year at this time you 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:07.480 induct different toys and or board games and things like that. 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:09.400 Yes, that's correct. 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:10.960 What did you induct this year? 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.520 So this year we inducted two board games, so those 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.560 were Battleship and Trivial Pursuit, and then one toy Slime 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.080 though I guess toy is a broader label, but yes. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:27.240 So how do how do you how'd you get down 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.560 to those three? Did you start off with more toys 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.200 and games and weed it down? 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.320 Yes, we start with many more. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.920 So there's a public submission period, so we have a 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:40.400 form on our website. We received more than twenty one 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:44.360 hundred nominations this year, and those were for three hundred 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:45.720 and eleven different toys. 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.080 So from there we narrow that down to twelve. 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.440 We have a committee of toy historians and experts from 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.440 the industry who narrow it down to twelve finalists and 0:15:56.480 --> 0:16:01.480 then we vote on those with them to determine the 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:02.880 three inductees. 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.440 And so there's is it three every year or can 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.040 it be more getting than inducted? 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.760 I believe there have been one or two years where 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.200 we've done four, but it is typically three. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.760 He and what other toys or things are in the 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:17.600 Toy Hall of Fame? 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:20.840 Oh, well, there are many things, a lot of things 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.040 you might expect. So in terms of like board games, 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.600 of course, we have Monopoly, the Game of Life, but 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:31.680 also things like Barbie, of course is in there, and 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.720 more unconventional toys, but things that I. 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:38.560 Think are widely played with. We inducted sand within the 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.720 last five years or so. Yes, that was a big one. 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:45.760 There was some controversy in the early two thousands, I 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.120 believe when we inducted the stick. 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:50.640 Things like the cardboard box. 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.480 These very imaginative sort of toys that are they're very ubiquitous, 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.480 but they're not necessarily what we think of as toys. 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:02.040 Is slinky in there, That's a good question. 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.960 I believe slinky is, but I'm not totally. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:05.480 That's all right. 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:10.600 I believe playdough was invented here in Cincinnati. I get 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.560 playto in the Strong National Museum of Play. Where are 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:14.880 you guys located. 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:17.720 We are located in Rochester, New York. 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.600 And it is a It is a museum. 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.720 We can walk in and see everything hanging on the 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:23.520 walls and stuff. 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:24.720 Yes. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.639 Absolutely, we are one of the largest history museums in 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:32.040 the country. We have many exhibits on all sorts of things, from. 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:33.960 Toys to video games. 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.800 You know, we focus on interactive sort of exhibits as well, 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:41.240 so a lot of things you can play with, you 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.480 can touch, but of course see lots of antique toys 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:46.960 and learn a lot of history as well. 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:51.719 That's excellent. Battleship, trivial Pursuit, and Slime. I like slime. 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.119 All inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame, the National 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:58.240 Toy Hall of Fame. Merrek Slowly one of the curators there. 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.000 Thanks so much for your time this morning. I appreciate it. 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:01.920 Yeah, thank you so much. 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:05.080 All right, it's coming up at eight forty five, Chuck, 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:06.240 before we do traffic. 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.480 I was just wondering, have you played Battleship recently? 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.879 Not recently, but I was kind of surprised that it 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:15.080 wasn't already in the I was gonna say I loved 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.480 battles I remember Light Bright. Oh yeah, Oh I loved 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.879 light Bright. Light Bright was special. Slime isn't you've stepped 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.920 on one of those pegs. It's like a lego or something. Yeah, 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.320 exactly what else is that? I was just looking them 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.520 up here? Transformers were inducted last year, my little pony 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:32.720 last year. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:34.879 The top. 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:40.600 Two years ago baseball cards were inducted. Is that a toy? 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:41.119 I don't know. 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.760 I guess to some because I probably lost an awful 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:49.080 lot of money and rookie cards and bike spokes my kids. 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.760 My kids over the over things, having holiday played risk 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.760 the whole week. Oh yeah, remember that one absolutely? And 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.959 Clue is big at my house. Clue, okay, Battleship. What 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:02.359 else I'm looking at here? The rubber duck, Yeah, thank you, Ernie. 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:04.960 The American girl dolls were in there too. 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:05.280 Yeah. 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.719 I had kids go through that face. Did you do 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:12.000 the Atari? Twenty six hundred games sell. Absolutely that was you. Yeah, 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.720 all right, there you go. Gotta play some pong every 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:15.280 now and then. 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:19.160