12/03/2025 - Almost Quit

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Man, I'll tell you, Sarah Elicice the big story that
happened while the time off that I was reading. I mean,
I know it's probably not gigantic for for everybody, but
they're looking to because media is so condensed now, it
looks like Channel nine and Channel twelve are trying to merge.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
I did see something about that, which is crazy that
that would I mean that means like big people that
you know would be out of work.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Ooh, like who, well, I don't know, I mean, who
do you who do you want fired? Let's go through it.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I don't want to see any of their jobs no longer.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
I know that's you know, how crazy is that?

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Like?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
But but good for him. He's going back home.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
I know.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
But we we is that where he's heading?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, I think we can say that.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, and we knew this was happening because when he
was in here playing his guitar and stuff with us
and all that, we talked to him off the air
and we knew he was bailing.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Really good guy. I need to see him leave Cincinnati.
But I'm happy for him.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, knew that during the summertime he was telling us
how he was splitting.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
We'll definitely miss him here. Yeah, and you know what,
he's a mis merged thing though. Yeah, when would this happen?
Do you think?

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:15):
No, they got to get that cleared through the SEC
because you know, there's all these rules that are I
think way old now where you can only own a
certain part of you know, like a city, as far
as media and all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
They don't want you owning everything.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, but at this point it's like, well, you gotta
let people own stuff or else they're all gone. And
I don't know, but yeah, and it doesn't even matter
because it's like, what's it matter if one company owns
every TV station Because if you work at one place,
you can't work anywhere else anyways because you're not allowed to.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
You got to wait six months or lower.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yeah, it doesn't even matter.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
So it's either lighting up on those rules or just
let them own everything anyway, So who cares?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
I feel like I watched a lot of local news
over the past few days, and I love the snow coverage.
That's my favorite. They used the.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
Ruler out there.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
I know it's the same form, it's the other thing.
They all do the same thing, So let them all
own each other.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Who cares.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
It's so funny. The night before the snow came, my
husband and I were watching one of the stations, YEP,
and we were watching from six to six thirty, and
we had a bet, how many times are they going
to mention the weather in just this thirty minutes slot?
It twelve times? Yeah, it's a weather breaks.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well that's the one thing though that'll suck is if
they do own each other, if they end up where
it's one company, what do you do?

Speaker 3 (02:43):
I mean, then you just well, then it's on a fight.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
For ratings anymore, I guess, yeah, because then they're owned
by one Yeah, I don't know. And then it's not
a a Then it's not a war of you know,
John May versus the other guy that you know, who
saving war on you know, it's on a war of
who gets the exclusive interview with the governor and all
that stuff.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
So yeah, it's just who has the most weather coverage.
That's what's really important, right. But it was so funny
because they had one person out doing a live drive,
then they had one of the people into in studio
breaking down the weather. Then they had somebody with like
the salt trucks and somebody doing an interview with O.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Dot and I'm like the guy standing in front of
the salt pile.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
We haven't even conto his hands in his car.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Heart.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
We're prepared. We're always prepared.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
We got the crews oud and out at midnight.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
And then the guy holding got the app showing right
now I could get on there showing where you could
see the where the plowers are going to be. So
right now the app is working. We'll see you later
on today. Back to you, dude.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
It's so good. And a lot of these stations had
their meteorologists staying the night overnight. I'm starting the next
day earlier. Of course, not a shortage of weather.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
It's so great.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
It is so great, and now it's what's gone. I
know the roads are perfect.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh yeah, I had no problems getting around yesterday. They
got stuff cleared up pretty well.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
It was My daughters were so excited. I was off
and so I was home, but you know, I was
still up. I was at the Starbucks at four am.
I walked to the Starbucks. Yesterday. I'm like, I'm gonna
brush off my car four point thirty. I was up
at four I just that's when I get up. So
I was up at four.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
We are an old man.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
I was up at four, and I just, well, I've
been doing this for twenty something years, so I'm not
going to change my clock.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
So I was up, laying in bed.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
If you don't have to gus, I don't want to.
So I'm I'm laying in bed. And then I turn
on and I listened to all the weather coverage, listening
to the radio and stuff, and I'm just laughing listening
to everybody's chaos and.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Everyone getting into work late.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
All the news people are on their phones calling in
talking about how their life sucks, and oh my god,
I haven't been late.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
For work in forty years.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
And I'm at home laughing.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
And then and I get the good one of our
own ear at seven.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
And then I get my text from the Loveland schools
where my daughters go, so I had to text them
to tell them that day school today. And then they're
all digging me back, going yeah, all excited.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
That's the best feeling in the world.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
So then I got up and I just put my
boots on and hiked the Starbucks.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Well, it's going to be a long day with the
Ghettow's gotta start with the gaffe.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Oh it was great. H So yeah, that was it.
That was it for me.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
But I think we're supposed to be getting more snow.
I saw our buddy John Gum talking about it yet
the other day. How Thursday morning, it's going to be
around two. It's just not as much, I guess.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
No.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Now, it'll be fine.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
That's Sarah.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Alice's so good to be back together again.

Speaker 6 (05:51):
Stop.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
I was lonely in here with I'll the last couple
of days. Yeah, sure, Mike, I think I am kind
of starting to miss this guy down in Florida. Yes, God,
a lot warmer than it is here. Also making the headlines,
this woman says a video that was captured from her
ring camera is maddening. Trina Brown says she and her family.

(06:20):
She says, I don't know if that's I don't know either.
I did some research, but I couldn't figure it out either.
Trina says that she and her family ordered some food
through door dash the other day and on the video
you can see the driver setting the food down on
the front porch. The package happens to open up and

(06:40):
out pops a wing, a little buffalo chicken wing.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
You can put it fly away.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Not not exactly. I'm sure they wish it would have.
The dude picks it up, puts it back in the
container after it was just on their porch, then licks
his fingers and uses his foot to wipe up the
sauce where the wing had dropped.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Now it's concrete.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Who can't gross concrete?

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Wait, it was on the ground. You don't put it
back in the container, and you don't touch the container.
Just keep it all in the bag.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
The concrete though, gross, so germs on concrete.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Nasty fingers. Touching other people's food too to drop it
off later, Well, he's eating it on the way in.
I don't know if I trust all those delivery services.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I don't use it simply because it's not the trusting,
it's the waste of cash.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
You're burning cash while doing that.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
You're adding an extra ten dollars anytime you order that
food too.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Do you realize the madness I had to go through
during the seven days I was at home pacing and
just nagging my ex, who has nothing to do with this,
about buying a new laptop.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
Spending my own money to buy a laptop.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I have no idea how we got here from the food,
but because you end up getting the money. Oh, I
hate spending money. I eat it. Nobody legs to spend it.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
No, I know, but I was going out of my mind.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
The worst is when you have to spend it.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
I mean I had to spend it.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, when you weren't planning on it, or like an
emergency pops up. But anyway, the whole food delivery thing,
it's like, just get in your car and go pick
it up. There are drivers for a reason exactly.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
Well.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Listen, when I'm at Starbucks first thing in the morning,
it's all all the people that come in first thing
are all Uber drivers picking or Uber eats drivers picking
up orders for people. It's the same guys coming in
four or five times in a morning.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh yeah, your coffee's going to go from five bucks
to twenty real fast. And I'm not even exaggerating that.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah, and it's lazy, lazy people.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Trina said. Luckily the family saw all of this happen
before they ate their food. They were completely disgusted by
the entire thing. She said, charges need to be made,
and she feels that the drivers need to have some
sort of training.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Too lazy to answer the door, sit on their fat
asses and looking at the camera.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
I was gonna say, like, when I saw that article,
I'm like, are they all just sitting in the living
room watching this guy on camera?

Speaker 7 (09:07):
Like?

Speaker 2 (09:08):
How did you happen to capture this before you ate
the food? So door Dash says that they're investigating, and
they issued a warning to the dasher.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Oh the dasher. Nobody's dashing at all. Nobody's in a
hurry to get food. Nobody's in a hurry to answer
the door. No, one's in a hurry for anything.

Speaker 7 (09:29):
No.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
And this delivery stuff usually takes a long time. I
mean it's about an hour anytime you deliver or anytime
you order from something like that. So Trina said she
hasn't ordered food to be delivered since this incident.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Someone's calling, let's see if you actually add something.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Hello, good morning, here.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Good mor month.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Go ahead, flush.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh it's our buddy, Tyler. Tyler.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
He's like, what is he going to add to the story?
Go ahead, what's up? Okay?

Speaker 5 (10:07):
Alright?

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Why is it so muffled where he's at?

Speaker 4 (10:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
That sucks? There you go, well, okay, thank you, Sarah.
At least all right, We're back.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
We're so back.

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Speaker 2 (10:36):
Oh yeah, Seggie, did you miss us?

Speaker 9 (10:38):
Of course, wasn't the same without you around here? Energy
level went up.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Probably quiet energy level.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
That's a nice one. Next way of putting it. Here's
a lobby in here, right down.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
And then all of a sudden, there we.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Go, Segre are going to be at our company party tonight.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Tonight this afternoon. Yeah, I was gonna say.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
You got older gentlemen there. We got to get him
out early.

Speaker 9 (11:03):
If it goes past tonight, they may be waiting for us.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
It starts at three. It's over for me at three
or five.

Speaker 9 (11:09):
Red's Day. Mark Sheldon at MLB dot com reports the
Reds remained among the teams still in contention to sign
free agent slugger Kyle Schwarber. You know he's out of Middletown.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Man here, Okay, hurry up against the Phillies.

Speaker 9 (11:24):
Phillys a couple of the teams you never know, you know, well.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
I'd like to see some schwarp bombs happening at.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
GAB College Basketball.

Speaker 9 (11:32):
It was Miami going to seven and oh they beat
IU East one oh nine sixty five. Dayton tops East
Tennessee State eighty eight seventy one. The Flyers are seven
and two. Derek Dixon's layup with sixteen seconds ago. Sat
Number sixteen North Carolina past number eighteen Kentucky. Last night
at Reparena sixty seven sixty four. The Wildcats are five
and three Tonight NKU and Cleveland State. Wright stayed up

(11:55):
against Youngstown State and Louisville battles. Arkansas High School football
Anderson take on Avon tomorrow and the Ohio Division two
state championship in Canton. Saint X Bombers go for the
Division one crown Friday night in Canton, and the Bengals
allowed both the Raptors and the Bombers to use their
indoor facility for practice to get ready for the game.
How about that that's off to the Bengals.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, I like w go.

Speaker 9 (12:18):
National Signing Day for high school players. No National Signing
Day if they needed tickets to get in.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
No, they didn't know. They didn't.

Speaker 9 (12:28):
National Signing Day for high school players. Moller four star
quarterback Matt Ponaitowski plans to now sign today with Kentucky.
He was planning to wait till February, but moved up
because UK signed Will Stein as the new head football
coach the offensive coordinator Oregon. So Ponitowski's headed to UK.

(12:49):
Saint X star safety and linebacker Braydon Riley's going to Clemson.
Taff's Adam Kirkley is going to sign with the Cincinnati Bearcats.
Bengals update. Back at work today, get ready for that
road contest Sunday at Buffalo. Weather Man says, cold Sunday
in Buffalo high of twenty nine.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
That's a big deal for they go to the beach.

Speaker 9 (13:08):
Yeah right, well for Buffalo bad Hey, let's go getting
a bunch of snow. On soccer, former former Mount Notre
Dame Starr and NWSL champion Rose Levelle is nominated for
the US Soccer Female Player of the Year Award. In hockey,
the ten and four Miami RedHawks are ranked nineteenth in

(13:30):
the nation this week in the United States College Hockey
Division one pole.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
You know it's speaking of hot pole.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
I'm hoping to get out to the see the blue
Jackets on the twenty eighth of December.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
The Islanders are in Townso how about that.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Oh, that's a fun game up there.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yeah, I never bet.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
It's a really nice arena.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Yeah, very beautiful. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
I'm hoping to get out there for that, so that
would be good.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Our Cyclone's not back here at home ice until next Friday.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
We had a lot of home games for at the
beginning of the season.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
He did not a whole lot here in December.

Speaker 9 (13:57):
Take on the Indie Fuel this weekend, right, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
I think so.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
I feel like that's a safe bet.

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Speaker 4 (14:21):
Sun me and kissed my baby.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
My hike's on fire.

Speaker 9 (14:26):
If you refuse me, honey, you lose me, then you'll
be left you lol, baby, telephone and tell me I'm
your own.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
That's your segment here.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
It's the kid Christia one O two seven, W E
V and Sarah Elise in the studio with someone that
you know and I just met him. I never met
him in person, used to see him on the TV.
He was here for a while. Brandon Saho right, Yes, Now,
Brandon is the only connection to him and I have is.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
That we both are dark fellows.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
As far as not that you know, we're you know, dark,
as far as our complexion or anything. We're very white exaccurate.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Ye affirm that.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
But we had our mental state are are questionable. I
guess I could say.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
You had work in media here in Cincinnati and said,
at the height of your career, you said I'm stepping
I got.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
To get out.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, and just when everything looked so great on the outside,
on the inside you were like, I'm out, No, this
is not okay.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (15:35):
It was crazy, like no one knew I was suicidal.

Speaker 11 (15:37):
You know, three years ago, when the Bengals are going
to the Super Bowl and I'm on the sideline at
the Ancy Championship game interviewing you know, Jamar Chase and
and you know, he's crying to me as They're going
to the biggest game of his life. And for me,
I'm a Cincinnati sports fan. You never won anything my
entire life. You guys know that if you're listening. But
like on top of the world, on top of the world,
but no one knew that I had lost three family
members in three months. The woman that I thought I

(15:59):
was going to marry her and I were going through
really toxic breakup. Had all this pressure on me, and
so yeah, I was suicidal every second every day.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
No one knew.

Speaker 11 (16:06):
Thank god, I had the courage to tell my mom
and ask for help, and you know, the Lender Center
of Hope in Mason here in Cincinnati really helped me
those first two weeks in the hospital, start therapy and
really take this new path to take care of my
mental health for the first time.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Oh well, so it got so bad that you should
up hospitalized.

Speaker 11 (16:23):
Yeah, yes, so I was in therapy for about a year,
but obviously wasn't being as open as I should have
been with my therapists with the alcoholism, the suicidal thoughts,
the break up, all this stuff going on, and so yeah,
I was hospitalized up here in Mason, and it wasn't
like two weeks go by snap of the finger, You're
all okay. But I learned things that I should have

(16:44):
learned alongside math, English and science in school about how
to take care of your mental health. Grief, depression, anxiety,
coping mechanisms, all these things that I didn't.

Speaker 10 (16:55):
Know what they were. But guess what, I was doing
a lot of it wrong.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's definitely something not taught in
the schools now.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Dudes don't deal with that.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
You know.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
What it's important for guys, I think is hanging out
with each other. Yeah, ball breaking, I think that's is
it that, that's part of it. We gotta I think
that's important for guys. And I think as we get
and they say social media hurts, you know, because it's
like we're not allowed to ball break and all that
stuff because of you know, words hurt and all that,

(17:27):
maybe it does, but also I think guys need that.

Speaker 10 (17:30):
Yeah, you do need it.

Speaker 11 (17:31):
And I think, you know, when I told my dad
I was going to take my own life on the
phone that night before I checked into a hospital, he
told me, and I got to censor myself because I'm
on the radio, but be a blanket man, suck it
up all this stuff, and it shocked me. But it's
because he never took care of his mental health. He
never opened up about losing his father or going to
therapy or anything like that, and so we have a

(17:51):
much better relationship now. People love and care about you,
they will help you. But men, we have this stigma
that you got to play hurt rub dirt on it. Yeah,
you know, and you mentioned social media. There's obviously I
see a lot of bad things that can come on
social media, but for people struggling, sometimes you can find
stuff there that really helps you. You know. I've been
grateful to have some really big names on my show,
and Terry Crews was was someone that talked about when
he talked about his porn addiction for the first time

(18:14):
on Facebook, all these sponsors pulled out and people like
got all nervous, but he saw how much it helped
people that he was open on Facebook live and telling
his story. And so I think that's obviously a huge example.
But just seeing comments back and forth between men everyone
in your community talking about it, it really does help you.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
It's so important what you're doing raising awareness about men's
mental health. I don't think it's talked about enough.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
How far did you think about like, what were what
were your thoughts? Would you compare notes?

Speaker 10 (18:43):
Uh, just like at suicides? How are you talking about Chris?

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Chris is very open about this mental hope.

Speaker 11 (18:47):
I can say this real quick, and I didn't get
a chance to talk to you before, but like I
remember listening to you before I met you. You know,
I would say the ten to fifteen years ago Chris
is a lot different than the today Chris. Yeah, and
I mean that in a good way, because you that
ball breaker that like it was like maybe talking some
smack rather than being emotional and having a conversation. So
thank you for being open. I know, Sarah, you and

(19:08):
I have talked about you and your cousin and your
mental health. Thank you guys both. But yeah, it is
really important and you I think the ball breaking is important.
A lot of people disagree with me on that because
it was I needed that.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
I love it to laugh to keep from crying.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, and I do do that still, but I keep
it off the air because some people don't take it
the right way.

Speaker 11 (19:29):
It depends on if you can feel that love when
you're having the conversation, because you should still be able
to be friends if someone's making funny Now, if it's
completely rude and off site, like that's okay, Hey, I
know we shouldn't have that.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
I'm saying, like because I'll make jokes about myself, yeah,
and the people get upset with me about it, and
it's like I'm making this joke about me right well,
and also the one going.

Speaker 11 (19:50):
Through it, and when we're talking about our mental health
and even suicidal thoughts, like sometimes it is a very
serious thing. And either the question about like how close
was I I mean that rob Bridge downtown is something
that that will always be a special place in my
heart because I walked over it blacked out drunk, coming
home from the bars after being on TV till eleven
and going to the bars until three four, shutting them down,

(20:12):
falling asleep at the banks. And I had so many
nights where I sat there and thought about, you know,
taking my own life on that bridge. And so it's
it's something that's really special to me. Every time I
come home, even like when it's snowing like today, I'm
gonna make sure when I get back, I'm gonna take
my walk because I'm just so grateful for having that moment.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's amazing that you can you got to
have for that bridge.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, you have to feel feeling See why why is
it that when when you go through that it's like
they they'll say to you like, oh, well, don't go
back there.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
Why do you do that?

Speaker 4 (20:44):
You know what I mean? But I think it's important.

Speaker 11 (20:46):
It's a mental health Like the first question I ask
everyone on my show is what does mental health mean
to you? And that answer is always going to be different.
But we all go through this thing called mental health,
and so for me it helps me, but for you
it might not. So I understand Dan, what like the
question why people say maybe don't go back like it's
kind of like, uh, so I'm not going to call
my ex girlfriend that I went through all that stuff with, Right,

(21:08):
That's a good one to avoid for me, and I
hope she's well and amazing and all that. But like
for me going back to that bridge, it like I'll
play my favorite song that I've listened to a million
times when I was almost about to take my life there.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Can you shed a few tears?

Speaker 6 (21:20):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (21:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (21:21):
Marky Bassey he's an R and B singer. It's called
Feel Different and it's all about feeling different. And I
got to have him. He was my third ever guest.
I got to go to his house have him on here.
Why he wrote those things like music helps your mental
health so much. And the reason it does is because
they write that as their journal. Those lyrics are their feelings,

(21:42):
their emotions, their rock bottoms. And so I got to
meet him, learned about his heartbreak. His was a little
bit different than mine. His girlfriend left him for this
guy named zac Efron, which I think is obviously super
traumatic to see all over the all over billboard and everything,
but again finding you know, your purpose in that rock bottom.
In those next eight months, he wrote his two biggest
songs that took him around the world top one hundred.

(22:03):
I'm sure they were playing all across iHeart. It's crazy
how it happened. He was that you said, come on
my show. Your song almost maybe leap off a bridge.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
No, your song was so deep into my song.

Speaker 11 (22:17):
Dang it, this is like, uh, we were so the
Mental Game podcast. We were so close to being like
the version of kid Chris that's compassionate.

Speaker 10 (22:25):
And you had to get on in there.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Big fan of the dark comedy.

Speaker 11 (22:29):
No no, no, but I'm the same way with dark comedy.
But no, he was, uh, what's crazy about this life?
And obviously this week's been insane, like with the Oprah
episode coming out yesterday, which is just weird to say
out loud. But I'm like friends with him now, like
he saw that yesterday and hit me up. I go
to his shows all the time. But it's like the
ultimate thing that you know a musician can get compliment wise.

(22:51):
But it was interesting, like hearing that he had also
lost people important to him go through a breakup. That's
why he wrote the song. I'm like, shoot, literally the
same exact thing, minus like dating a model and her
leaving me for Zac Effron.

Speaker 10 (23:03):
Like we're very very close our stories now alone. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Now you talked about the bridge. I saw that you
were getting signage added to the bridge. Yeah, don't do it,
you are important or what does that signage look like?

Speaker 11 (23:15):
Yeah, so we put out I put out a tweet
like walking on that same spot maybe a year and
a half ago. It was like, how do I get
bridges here? And or how do I get signs here
on these bridges? And I've been really lucky that the
Purple People Bridge was the first one that we put
them up in May, and it was the first of
five thousand signs and forty two states, all free through
either the Mental Game or go fundme or people that

(23:36):
helped donate and we sent them.

Speaker 10 (23:37):
I packed them all up.

Speaker 11 (23:39):
You can go to the Mental Dot game and apply
for signs now for your school community bridges. I'm working
still with the State of Kentucky that owns, you know,
those bridges to hopefully get some signage up. As you
guys know, some government stuff takes some time sometimes, but
it's really cool because you know, for me, my hope
is that someone's walking on one of those bridges here
in Ohio, Kentucky, Indian or anywhere, and they scan it

(24:02):
and they have a resource to get help, unlike what
I had. Yeah, I didn't have that, and that's why
I'm trying to speak up or do things like that.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Well, thank god, we don't have a huge problem with
that here. I know in San Francisco, when I lived
in Sacramento, they had that problem obviously, with that big bridge. Yeah,
and there's a documentary about that. And I actually had
on my show one of the guys that survived that.

Speaker 10 (24:23):
Kevin Hines.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah, yes, yeah, great guy, and he talked about being
like falling and going, oh my god, I made the
biggest mistake.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
So he actually survived his jump. Yes, oh my gosh, yeah, wow,
what a miracle.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Brendon Sejo is here in the studio with us talking
to it. By the way, what is your podcast.

Speaker 10 (24:42):
The Mental Game?

Speaker 4 (24:43):
All right, The Mental Game.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
It's got thousands of subscribers, making a huge difference.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
He was here in town doing sports on TV or
one of the TV stations, and then decided one day,
I'm out of here.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
I'm going out of my mind. I gotta go get
refreshed in my head.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Now he's inter doing famous athletes and celebrities and getting
the word out about how important mental health is.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah, and and and that's his gig. Now now off there.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
You're talking about how you spoke at schools and stuff,
And I told you that would be the hardest part
for me, because then then you feel like a responsibility,
uh to these people that like, if someone's going through stuff,
then there's something to hit you up. And then if
something goes bad then and then you feel like it's
it's on not noting that it's on you, but like

(25:29):
for me, I would feel I would feel horrible.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (25:32):
I think back to when I was in school and
I don't remember like anything about mental health at all ever. Yeah,
and I went to a great school, great teachers, staff,
everyone around me. But that is my favorite thing that
I get to do. I'm on the road almost every week.
I was just in where was I was somewhere in Texas,
a small town in Texas two days ago, and then

(25:53):
in Dallas yesterday and got here late last night and
then But what I do is I share my story
and I share resources, tools, hoping mechanisms and.

Speaker 10 (26:00):
Make it really a safe space that I didn't have.

Speaker 11 (26:03):
And one thing that happens every single time, no matter
if it's a small town in Texas or a basketball
arena like this weekend in Indianapolis for IU Louisville, is
one person usually Moor come up to me and say, hey, Brandon,
I've never told anyone this.

Speaker 10 (26:15):
I'm suicidal right now? Where do I go? Where do
I get help?

Speaker 11 (26:19):
So I have resources there for them at that moment,
and it breaks my heart, but it also shows that
we're helping people. And so yeah, I mean, I understand
it does take a toll on you hearing some I've
heard the worst days of people's life every single day.
But it's my favorite thing that I get to do
because I get to have those conversations one on one
face to face like we're doing right.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Now, and Brandon has been really involved with helping my
family out with recovery after my cousin, Jonah, who was
a Lass South student only eighteen years old, he took
his life last December fourteenth. And yeah, Brendan was one
of the first people to reach out to me and
has been there for my aunt. You just did a
podcast recently talking to moms that had their sons commit suicide.

(27:02):
Is that correct?

Speaker 11 (27:03):
Yeah, it was one of the most powerful moments in one.
I love you and I'm so sorry for your loss,
and I just getting close to Jonah and your family
and the local community. It meant a lot to meet
obviously reach out to you right away, but his mom
was one of the moms that came to a mom's
mental health meet up. I never did it before, and
we had about twenty show up and we cried, laugh

(27:24):
told stories together for about five hours here in Cincinnati,
and then that episode became one of the most viral
things I've ever done, just because we sat down and
told their stories and what they wish they could have
told their kids who were struggling, and their advice to
kids that might be going through those same thoughts and so, yeah,
it's really special to be able to have those conversations

(27:45):
and it almost it helps the moms, it helps me.
We're able to grieve together and be able to hopefully
help save lives in the future.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Is it really Yeah? How do you stay strong through
all those?

Speaker 4 (27:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (27:55):
And is it hard to?

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Like? Where do you find the balance?

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Sometimes I just stay out of stuff because I'm like, well,
I'm supposed to be here to tell jokes and all that.
But then it's like some days I'm like that I'm
going to come in and say, yeah, I wasn't feeling
it today, you know, And then I'm like, you know,
and I want to make the joke that I feel
like just driving off the bridge today, you know what
I mean, But that's what I'm feeling. Yeah, it's where
do you find a balance to where it's like I

(28:20):
want to call my shot here and make a joke.

Speaker 11 (28:22):
I think being the mental health guy now I really
got to watch it with where I like go with
jokes and stuff. But I think authenticity wins and being
yourself to the public. That's important because you can't be fake,
but it's more important to that person in the mirror
because if you don't love yourself, if you're not comfortable
in your own skin and who you are, you can't
be happy. And so that's the thing for me with

(28:44):
my own mental health journey. I was always looking for
outside things, whether it was job, women, relationship, money. I
had to find it within myself. I didn't truly love
myself until like a year and a half ago. And
it's a really beautiful thing. But yeah, you just got
to be yourself and be open and guess what people
might make fun of you. People might, you know, not
be your friend anymore. But if people truly love and

(29:05):
care about you, they will support and love you no
matter what.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Yeah, people don't matter.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
Yeah, exactly, I don't.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
Care about that. It's uh, what is Well, when did
you quit the TV?

Speaker 11 (29:14):
I would have been it was August twenty twenty two,
so just over three years ago.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Yeah, And when was the moment where you were like,
I love myself? Like, what was that? Turning?

Speaker 5 (29:23):
God?

Speaker 1 (29:24):
I can't do that until because I can't love myself
until whatever the research comes out and says happiness off
a lot of all right, it's about research. Whatever the
research has iHeart tells me what what I can and
cannot do well.

Speaker 11 (29:38):
Unfortunately, the real well numbers wise research is there's a
lot more men that struggle with their mental health and
go through suicidal thoughts and anyone else.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
We gotta wait till research elses well.

Speaker 10 (29:49):
I'll tell you what My moment though, is what you asked.

Speaker 11 (29:52):
It was just yeah, the first time I kind of
woke up and was like not worried about meeting my
wife every day and why I'm not alone? Do I
still want that stuff, yes, of course, but it's like
that was the biggest thing for me, was feeling alone
because I grew up on the West Side. It's like
meet your high school sweetheart, live here forever, have that
perfect family and house and root for your team, Like
I want to understand that west and it tore me

(30:13):
up to not have that. But now I'm finally like,
okay on my own and okay alone. Do I feel alone? No,
but I'm okay on my own if it makes sense alone.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
But you're not lonely, yes, exactly.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
I go like I go to the movies by myself,
I myself.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
I love it. I love it.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
But what's important is that you guys have gotten the right, medication, therapy,
everything to get exactly where you are today. Because you
have taken those steps before.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
We let you go, Brandon, because I know, uh, you know, uh,
you got to go and do other stuff for other.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
Radio stations by day.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
What was your first time?

Speaker 1 (30:49):
I remember my first time was in high school thinking
where I was, like, something's going on with me?

Speaker 4 (30:55):
I was.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
It was my I had a girl friend, my first
like real girlfriend at the time, and her name was Kathy,
and it was done. And I remember walking home and
seeing train tracks and going, what if I just stood there?

Speaker 11 (31:09):
I mean, that breaks my heart to think about because
I've been the same. I was a freshman at Lasal
and I'm just gonna be very, very open and honest.
I know it's seven thirty forty in the morning. Yeah,
but I had a girl that sent a nude picture
of me to an entire student section in two thousand
and seven at Elder and I went home that night
and that was the first time I thought, Wow, I'm

(31:30):
always gonna be made fun of my entire life for this.
I'm never gonna be okay. I'm always gonna feel alone.
And it took me like two or three months to
get out of that hole. But we didn't talk about it.
I didn't go to therapy. I had a couple of
friends that saw I was down and they like hung
out with me and no one else would. But yeah,
that moment, and I didn't share that story for a
long time, but I realized that, I mean, that was

(31:51):
back when we were like just on MySpace and I
was the first grade to have a phone.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Yeah it's a girl doing that.

Speaker 10 (31:56):
It's yeah wow, yeah, but I mean.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Look before social media, before.

Speaker 10 (32:00):
Snapchat was a thing. But I always share that.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
Social slowers don't do that kind of thing.

Speaker 10 (32:04):
That's here.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
It's not very precious.

Speaker 11 (32:06):
It sounds funny, it's here's the thing. Snapchat, social media.
There's a lot of things that can go wrong. And
sometimes when I go to schools, they get nervous about
me talking about that or my alcohol or my addiction.
You got to be honest with you and your kids.
These are the biggest things they're going through. Have these conversations.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
It's real.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
That's what sounds normal. It's either all of it or nothing.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yep, I agree, Yeah, yeah, you got to talk about
all of it or nothing. You can't tiptoe your way
through this stuff, and that's why it's.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
So important what you're doing, and you're staying vulnerable and
you're also transparent and you're raising awareness in schools like Losole.
So thank you so much for everything that you're doing.
You can check out Brandon on the Mental Game podcast.

Speaker 10 (32:44):
Yes, and check out Oprah.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (32:46):
Yeah, he's on Oprah, which is insane to say out loud.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, that's when you know he's kind of a big deal.
That Oprah was like, can you please join me on
my podcast?

Speaker 4 (32:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (32:54):
Yeah, and she does she give you some money, no money,
but I did get to have some What's crazy in
your car? I didn't get a car. I'll tell this
story real quick. As my flight was getting delayed a
couple of nights ago, trying to get in, I got
a text, Hey, this is Oprah. This isn't a hoax.
Can I call you to talk about the podcast that's
coming out tomorrow morning?

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Like Oprah literally texted.

Speaker 10 (33:16):
I will show you this after this.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (33:18):
And I got to have a conversation just with like, hey,
thanks for having me on. I really appreciate it. She
was in Australia getting ready for some event and I'm like,
this is insane. All right, I love you by, But
it was really cool because that episode is all about
male loneliness and men's mental health, and I was very
fortunate to be one of the guests on that show,
and I gotta have a moment with her and Gail
King afterwards backstage where I told you guys this off

(33:39):
air where I just had ten seconds of going, Man,
all that pain, the knights on the Robling Bridge, all
that's struggling, not wanting to be here anymore, that loneliness.
You're living your moment right now with one of the
most famous people in the world. Soak it in and
keep doing this because it's motivation.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
So that's so cool.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
So I just talked about all this stuff. Well, the
Rock call me? Can I get the Rock to call me?

Speaker 10 (33:59):
I can help you find his manager. I promise you
that I can get that.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
I don't want to manager everyone.

Speaker 11 (34:05):
Look, I live in La now and there's always red
tape everywhere you go.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Well, I know that you're working really hard, Brandon, because
you are getting some really impressive big names on your podcast.
It's really cool what you're doing.

Speaker 10 (34:16):
Thank you.

Speaker 11 (34:17):
Terry Crews, Kevin Gates, Kate Flannery, Sam Hubbard my first
ever guest.

Speaker 10 (34:20):
I'm going to text him today.

Speaker 11 (34:22):
Because I saw him like the Oprah stuff on Instagram,
but without him saying hey, on my off day, let's
try it out my house. Three and a half years ago,
none of this happens. So thank you Sam Forever for that.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Just two local dudes making it happen very well.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Thank you for coming in. It was nice meeting you.

Speaker 4 (34:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (34:37):
Well, and thanks for being a vulnerable guy and not
the kid Chris that is just throwing punches.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Bear well, I'll do that too, okay.

Speaker 10 (34:46):
I love you for both.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
Well.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Sarah Leice, what are we planning next year on the
Kid Chris Show?

Speaker 2 (34:52):
We're going to talk about a wild liquor store break in.
You don't want to miss this. It's crazy.

Speaker 11 (35:00):
I don't know, I hope not the way.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Oh hi, got a lot going on today. But in Virginia,
they had a little problem at a liquor store, a
little furry problem. The other day. Police were got out
to this store after they got a call of a
break in. According to the cameras and the actual proof

(35:28):
on the bathroom floor.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
It was a little Irish man named Chris Close.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
The masked Bandit turned out to be a raccoon.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Drunk.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Look at him, this raccoon. He broke in while the
store was closed, they say, ransacked several shelves, damaged a
bunch of merchandise, got into the liquor then passed out
on their bathroom floor, completely intoxicated, right next to the toilet.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
Because he's liberal. Judges keep letting them out in the.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Bathroom of the liquor store. Who let this guy out?
Look at the damage that he did to the store, Yeah,
officers say. They called him up. They said, hey, we
secured a very intoxicated raccoon, took him to an animal
shelter to recover. They ended up naming this this little

(36:28):
raccoon Rocky. They told the shelter. Yes, they told the
shelter that he snuck in the store through the ceiling
and he took all the cameras down with him. When
he got in. He knew what was up.

Speaker 4 (36:41):
They got the audio of him.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
He's like, look, I got to cover my tracks up here.
He's singing, just this little intoxicated raccoon and he's just
completely flat leg spread out, face down on the floor.
Were like, yeah, we've all been in that position before.

(37:04):
Right there on the cold floor next to the toilet
when you have too much liquor.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
Throwing up down the side of my bed.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
I don't know if the raccoon threw up or not.
So when a little Rocky woke up, the shelter said
that he wasn't showing any signs of being hurt, but
they said he's probably pretty hungover. Yeah, yeah, and then
they just released him back into the wild.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
It is, so you don't want to hungover raccoon around.

Speaker 5 (37:33):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Yeah, they're cute, but you want you don't want to
get too close to them, especially if they've had the
liquor and they're not feeling their very best. You got
a bad headache. I know, I'm crank if I drink
all of the liquor, like expensive stuff. I've got the picks.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
Some top shelf for the raccoon.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
I mean, look at these balls. Yeah they didn't say
exactly what the rands were or exactly how much he had. Yeah,
but enough with your little feet behind him lying on
the floor like this, just get completely flattened as a pancake.
This is making the headlines everywhere, absolutely hilarious. Where you are,

(38:27):
I'm glad the raccoon is okay.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
But calling up all the girls he knows. Let me
come on over you where you are you up?

Speaker 2 (38:36):
I just knocked out the cameras. Yeah, a couple bottles
you want to get crazy?

Speaker 4 (38:41):
Were the bathroom?

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Nobody's here right now.

Speaker 12 (38:45):
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Speaker 3 (39:00):
Stuart W. Penrose is here from the Manilo Law Group
at five nine one two seven. I've got Natasha Aaron
on the phone and Leslie. We'll do Leslie real quick.
We'll get to the others here. What's up, Leslie? You
got a quick question for Stuart W.

Speaker 13 (39:15):
Pndros I do all right?

Speaker 4 (39:17):
Good?

Speaker 7 (39:19):
So I have a teenage daughter who went to a
party after a football game. The parent homeowner pulled his
son so they can have about fifteen friends. Over two
hundred kids show up and two kids decided to bring
guns over over a girl and my daughter's car was
the collateral damage and if leaves were involved, they collected

(39:42):
the bullets from it. They were doing an investigation. But
can I see the homeowner for the damages because we
not only shot out two windows out of the car,
but we also have bullet holes in the fender in
the hood and we're just the windows to be able
to have it driveable. Cost me around seven hundred bucks.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
But give me some won't give me give me some
more information on this. So the homeowner he a parent
of one of the kids, I guess, and he said
the kid could have fifteen friends over. And then were
they there or what was the deal?

Speaker 7 (40:10):
No, no, the dad works night shift, so he wasn't
even there. And then of course there's alcohol and the bodfire.

Speaker 13 (40:16):
But sure, yeah.

Speaker 7 (40:17):
The cops told me there were two hundred kids that
showed up to the far Wow.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Wow, how do you know?

Speaker 4 (40:24):
Well, there's still a lot.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Was this a ticketed event?

Speaker 7 (40:28):
No, no it was not.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
I could see some guy. I could certainly see some
culpability on the part of the homeowner there, of course,
not you know, monitoring that, not mountitering team, drinking, all
of that, and it leads to something like this, Sure yeah,
and then.

Speaker 7 (40:42):
They won't come up with The homeowners said that they
think that the shooter was a nephew or something, but
he doesn't know his name to He only knows his
name on Instagram, which sounds insane to me.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
It's not that hard to look up somebody's name and
figure that out.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
I mean, it should be all over the easiest pirate yep.

Speaker 4 (41:02):
Yeah, but yeah, certainly compability in the part of that
homeowner there, absolutely, yeah.

Speaker 7 (41:06):
Yeah, homeowners. I mean I was just figuring I was
going to follow it and just small claims for the county.

Speaker 4 (41:12):
I know, I depends on how much your damages are
at the end of the day there. I mean, I
claims that in Hamilton County is like three thousand dollars
or less.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
So and I know he's gone now, but I heard
it was Joseph Mixon. O. God, what.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
He's rejuvenated after his week off.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
Well good, good luck with that.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
And uh, you know, I have no problem with you
strangling your daughter as far as who she hangs out with.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
Oh, I'm glad, I'm glad nobody was hit. Yeah, no kidding.

Speaker 7 (41:40):
Hopefully if she would have been in the car, she
would be dead right right since her where the where
the driver would sit and crossed over, hit her phone
mount and exited out the passenger window.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
Damn. What school district.

Speaker 7 (41:55):
Is this Franklin?

Speaker 4 (41:58):
Okay, yeah, okay.

Speaker 7 (41:59):
Good already was some Springborough kids, so the figure nicer school.
But yeah, she's in trouble. She's going to pay for
the damages until I get it from however.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Yeah, it sounds like you're doing everything right as a mama.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
Now, now how old your daughter?

Speaker 7 (42:15):
Well, seventeen and a half. But I told her nothing
good comes up to eleven thirty to be home at
eleven thirty, and the shooting was at twelve twenty, So
if she had been home on time, I mean, she
would have not had the problem.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
I know, Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
That's a whole separate issue.

Speaker 4 (42:31):
I know, what do you do?

Speaker 3 (42:31):
She's a lot and then here's what like, what do
you do now?

Speaker 4 (42:34):
Though?

Speaker 1 (42:34):
I mean you can't because if you start, if you
start clamping down, then the rebelling starts and it gets worse.

Speaker 7 (42:41):
We've already been through that. You you don't have enough
time on your show for all of that, right now.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
That's accurate.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
He can make a whole new show about that.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
You know, we'll meet later.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
We'll meet later. She got an attitude under the size
of Texas.

Speaker 7 (42:55):
Yeah, she was adopted with a lot of trauma. So
for some some kids trauma. She wasn't even freaked out.
I was hysterical when the cops came to when the
ballistics team came to pull the bullets out of the car.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Oh my god, listen again, it's better than pulling out
of her. And you gotta go.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
Anytime you got to go identify a body or something,
forget it.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Yeah, she's alive and all of these things can be
fixed and this will eventually be solved.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
She should be more shook up because you're shook up.
So let's hope that's the case.

Speaker 7 (43:25):
It doesn't work with kids with trauma sometimes, so they
don't they don't see violence in the same way that
somebody who has a normal, emotional regulated person.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
I blame the music.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
She listened to you, But I have a question. How
old was she when you adopted her. She's now seventeen
and a half, But how old was she?

Speaker 13 (43:48):
She was.

Speaker 7 (43:50):
Five years ago, so she was, you know, like sixth
or sixth grade something like that. So we had she's
had a lot of issues and she's gotten a lot
of help. But you can't undo all of the DNA,
you can't undo all the trauma. You can continue to
work at it. But it's been it's been difficult.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
Sure, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Well it sounds like you're doing great on your end,
and I'm sure that is very challenging and.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
You're trying to do that your best. You're like, you
don't want to be like, uh, you know, no, you're
not gonna go hang out with your friends, because then
you don't want to be like this sucks too.

Speaker 3 (44:21):
Deny those and then look what happens.

Speaker 7 (44:24):
Yeah, she's the younger of the youngest of four teenage girls.
The three of the four are adopted, and so she's
she has been the pinnacle of issues though it's just
bad luck seems to follow her kind of everywhere.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
Yeah, well do you have the receipt still? Jesus Christ,
I'm just kidding, all right, good luck with.

Speaker 7 (44:48):
That, thank you.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Yeah, that's to let things.

Speaker 7 (44:51):
Yeah, I'll send into bullet whole pictures. You'll you'll, you'll die.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
No, I don't want to see that. I don't want
to see it. No, that's scary. I only like my
violence in my rap music. That's it, all right, Thanks Leslie.

Speaker 13 (45:07):
Thanks God, all right, bye.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
That is that's a lot.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
Doesn't make a question, have a kids.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
Stuart, she chose all that I know. I know, I know,
so did you?

Speaker 2 (45:23):
He doesn't birth control every day we were talked into it.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
Kyle has a legal question for Stuart W. Penrose, Right, Kyle.

Speaker 4 (45:33):
Kyle, Kyle, did you hit the right button? Chris? Hold on?
When'd you hit it? Go ahead? Kyle, Hi, good morning,
go ahead.

Speaker 6 (45:42):
A Back in two thousand and two, I was charged
with domestic violence. I was never told I wasn't allowed
to own any guns or anything like that. And I
have currently have my cc W. I have a bunch
of guns, and I put a couple of guns in
on t of more times. I want to go get

(46:02):
them out, and they said I was blocked from getting
them out.

Speaker 14 (46:09):
Interesting, okay, And they told me to call it a
ATF to ATF really couldn't get me any information.

Speaker 6 (46:20):
So I don't know what to do about getting my
guns back.

Speaker 4 (46:23):
When did you get your CCW? Because I mean, typically speaking,
I mean your gun rights are taken away, even for
a misdemeanor domestic violence, it tends to be a lifetime ban.

Speaker 13 (46:34):
Yeah, I got I got way after way after that charge.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
And that was back in two thousand and two.

Speaker 14 (46:43):
Misdemeanor misdemeanor M one or lower, well lower lower. Yeah,
if it's it was first time, first time ever charged.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
Well if if if you played to something less than
a than an M one, why don't should talk to
my colleague Rob Healey and see if that's expungable. Okay,
perhaps that could help restore your gun rights. I'm not
one hundred percent sure how that works. He could talk
to you about that, but I mean, if it's something
that's expungable. Dv's typically aren't expongible. But if it's less
than an M one, you're gonna want to look into this. Okay, Yeah,

(47:20):
why don't we get your information? You can talk to
Rob Heally in my office. There you go, Okay, pretty simple.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
What happened?

Speaker 2 (47:29):
I want to know.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
If our firm is going to represent you. We don't
want you to staying too too much about the facts.
Oh really yeah right?

Speaker 3 (47:39):
Well was it a wife? What happened?

Speaker 4 (47:41):
Jesus Chris?

Speaker 13 (47:43):
What happened?

Speaker 3 (47:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (47:47):
I was actually at work. My wife came up to
work my job. She thought I was cheating on her. Oh,
because there was a bunch of other colleagues I worked
with that we're females. I ended up driving home to
its pregnant at the time, and she snatch the key
down my car, called the police and said I punched

(48:07):
her in the stomach. Oh and then the state of Florida,
I was considered the agressor.

Speaker 13 (48:15):
But the opicer wrote on.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
There that this is in Florida. Yeah, you need somebody
in Florida. Okay, Yeah, you need somebody that in Florida
and that jurisdiction that can help you down there. Okay,
and you'll likely have to make an appearance as well.

Speaker 13 (48:33):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (48:34):
Yeah, so you need somebody familiar with Florida criminal laws
and what's expungable in Florida. So I was thinking with
my Ohio mind.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
See you see, there you go. That's why it's why
it's good, That's why I'm here to ask these questions.
Yeah right, yeah, yeah, well there you go.

Speaker 6 (48:49):
I just don't understand how I got a CTW.

Speaker 14 (48:52):
I mean, I went through the Butler County Sheriff's office
and because mistakes happen.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
Yeah, yeah, things happened. They probably thought it happened here,
who knows. Yep, now and we got it. We heard
your story, So there you go. Mistakes happened, all right, brother.

Speaker 13 (49:06):
All right, thank you.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
We should have asked if he divorced her.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
Yeah, maybe, or maybe you imagine that they're not or
maybe the body they haven't found yet, or fit at
the alligators.

Speaker 4 (49:18):
You can do that in Florida.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
Yeah, yeah, you're allowed to. Hey, Color you're on there,
you are you have they are the question for Stuart W. Penrose.
You're on the air with him.

Speaker 13 (49:26):
Go yeah, I got a question about time Share. I'm
trying to get out of.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Oh, you get wrapped up into that.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
That like the biggest houses.

Speaker 13 (49:40):
I was the young dumb and in Chicago. I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
Who buys a timeshare in Chicago?

Speaker 7 (49:47):
The mob?

Speaker 4 (49:48):
The time share is in Chicago?

Speaker 15 (49:51):
Uh no, I bought it when I was in Chicago's
through Hilton Grand Vacations, Okay, and they're basically big scam
artists through Hilton themselves.

Speaker 13 (50:02):
I don't know, all right.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
The timeshare out.

Speaker 13 (50:07):
And they give you a point system. It's not like
a certain week.

Speaker 4 (50:11):
You can cash it in for different places. My grandmother
has right inherited that I used it a few times
down in Mexico. For myself, it was a it was
a good time. Is there any way to get out
of it, like legally or no, Well, what's the deal?
What did you sign up for? I mean, is there
a length of time or a mortgage?

Speaker 13 (50:31):
Yeah, it's like a mortgage payment.

Speaker 4 (50:32):
Okay, how long have you had the time? Five?

Speaker 13 (50:39):
Six years?

Speaker 4 (50:40):
Okay? Out of sheer curiosity.

Speaker 13 (50:43):
I've paid what it would be probably like fucking.

Speaker 4 (50:47):
Watch your language on the air, out of sheer curiosity.
How much do these time shares run? How much is
the fees per year that you have to pay up
keep this? I'm curious.

Speaker 13 (50:59):
That for a base price, if you have cash, well,
you could probably paid forties. I probably paid forty thousand already.

Speaker 4 (51:07):
But mansion here.

Speaker 13 (51:13):
Again. You know budgets when you're when you're twenty five
years old.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
No one taught me that in school, but we all
made down mistakes.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
This is mob related.

Speaker 13 (51:26):
No, no, I'm in Chicago, so it's got to be
the mob, right.

Speaker 4 (51:29):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
But are you paying.

Speaker 13 (51:36):
Cash anyway?

Speaker 4 (51:38):
Yeah? I just got a good, good point for twenty
five year old at the time.

Speaker 13 (51:41):
I'm sure, dude. Yeah, my mom my mom passed away
and left me a get chunk of change, and that's how.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
You respect it by buying one of those. Damn.

Speaker 13 (51:51):
I thought so I thought it would be a great investment.
I'm sorry it wasn't.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
Yeah, can you can you sell your time share? Have
you tried to sell it? Yeah? I don't work in
timeshare law I can tell you that, but uh, if
you could try to sell it, that's probably your best
your best circumstance. I've seen ads for different companies and
lawyers that try to get people out of time shares.
I'm not sure what that's all about. At the end
of the day.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
Yeah, there's a guy.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
All right, we play a commercial for a guy who goes, hey,
I doing Man, I'm not a lawyer, but I could
get you out of your time share.

Speaker 13 (52:21):
Call that guy who it sounds like the Tiger King.

Speaker 4 (52:25):
You want me to call that coach?

Speaker 7 (52:27):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (52:27):
Yeah, I mean he's a scams for another ten grand
maybe who knows.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
I mean, it gets you out of it.

Speaker 4 (52:35):
It's a contract. The language of the contract is what's
going to ragn and what matters there? Yeah, what's the
jurisdiction the contracts in? Is there an arbitration clause? I'm
sure that it is written in a way that's friendly
to the timeshare.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
But of course, man, I'm sure somebody else has gotten
out of it. So there's gotta be there's got to
be a cut and paste. Someone else got it.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
I'm sure it's not gonna be free to get out
of it.

Speaker 13 (52:55):
Yes, no, of course not. Lawyers are never free. But
I'm just saying, if you had any experience with it, no,
thank you sir.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
All right, man, good luck though, Just just typing into
Google or chat GVT and see if someone else has
done it, other people have done yeah, yeah, and follow
the and follow the tracks and see.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
Dude, and see what happens.

Speaker 13 (53:16):
Yeah, find out, let's go, man, I might I might
just stop paying on it.

Speaker 3 (53:20):
And yeah, right, I have the military surrender right exactly?
Have them they boot you? What could happen?

Speaker 7 (53:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (53:27):
Well, what's it gonna hurt my credit?

Speaker 16 (53:29):
Right?

Speaker 4 (53:30):
Yeah? You got cash?

Speaker 2 (53:32):
Well keep us posting on this because I'm invested.

Speaker 4 (53:35):
Now, do you have any weeks left that you want
to give to us?

Speaker 3 (53:37):
He's gone, huh, he's mad. Now enough winding it down
though with Stuart W.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Penross and I guess later today we'll see you, right,
Are you gonna be at the holiday party?

Speaker 4 (53:45):
Probably? Make it cam you. I forgot I forgot about it.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
Yeah, today is our holiday party that we invite all
our partners in business here. And what's funny is is, uh,
this is before I got here. But like segment was
talking about this earlier with us and some of the
other people at work here. They've been here for many,
many years at the iHeart Cluster. Is Yeah, how like

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kind of insulting it is for our old partners because
years ago they used to have it where they would
have like a big dinner at when some big like
like a nice restaurant all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (54:17):
With all our partners. Now it's uh, it's come to
our lobby.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
Yeah, we hang in the lobby. That is accurate.

Speaker 4 (54:25):
Here's a pastry. With that said, we have so many
holiday dinners and everything to go to two three nights
a week the whole damn month. I can kind of
appreciate a come and go as you please, go to
the lobby.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
Plus you can come and go nice spin.

Speaker 4 (54:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
No, people want to come and go thing. It's not
a saving money something you.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
Don't want three nights a week taking up a holiday party.
That's what it is.

Speaker 16 (54:48):
A lot.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
It's a lot too much.

Speaker 4 (54:50):
That's it's the busiest time for my business and most
people's business. You got kids and everything. Yeah. Sure, but
it's like everybody's on your ass at one point. That's
exactly your life. That's exactly what they said.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
They said, you know what, our partners they don't want
to be wind and dine. They want they want quick
pastries in our lobby.

Speaker 4 (55:10):
Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna skip the pastry.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
But you know, yeah, hey we do have an open bar.
If that makes you feel better, Oh yeah, that's right.

Speaker 4 (55:17):
It makes me exactly what I need on a Wednesday afternoon.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
For any of our partners that are listening, don't blink
because you'll miss me.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
How long do you plan on staying Chris?

Speaker 3 (55:28):
It doesn't matter because nobody talks to me about I'm
at this thing anyway.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
You last year you talked to me, that was it,
and you talked to the catering people like you were
talking Chris, I.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Was talking to the catering people.

Speaker 5 (55:39):
Yes, no, people love him.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
Oh yeah, call her hello Natasha, Hello, Hi.

Speaker 4 (55:48):
Natasha. I just think of the evil Natasha that's on
what is that?

Speaker 11 (55:53):
No?

Speaker 4 (55:53):
Uh underdog their cartoon?

Speaker 5 (55:57):
Remember that?

Speaker 4 (55:59):
Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 12 (56:00):
You is that you?

Speaker 13 (56:02):
No?

Speaker 4 (56:02):
That's not me?

Speaker 7 (56:04):
You?

Speaker 4 (56:05):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (56:05):
You got a question for Stuart W Penrose, I do.

Speaker 16 (56:09):
About two months ago, I bought a new dirt bike
and had it shipped to my house.

Speaker 4 (56:13):
Well, okay, a chick on a dirt bike.

Speaker 5 (56:20):
Well, you know I like to get out there with
the guys and have fun.

Speaker 4 (56:23):
Yeah, well she seems like fun. Yeah.

Speaker 16 (56:27):
I paid an extra three to have it certified by
a mechanic and fully put together.

Speaker 5 (56:33):
Well, when I got it, I you know, unpackaged.

Speaker 16 (56:36):
It got on it, put the gas in, it, got
on it, started it up, went down the street, and
the breaks didn't work. The HANDI war splipped forward, I wrecked.
I ended up having surgery. I lost my job over
it because I wasn't there long enough to get my disability.

Speaker 4 (56:54):
You knew something bad was going to happen here.

Speaker 8 (56:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (56:57):
Yeah, that dirt bike was gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
That's how she's on the airwaves right now.

Speaker 4 (57:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (57:02):
I was wondering because I paid that three hundred dollars
to have it certified by a mechanic to be fully
put together.

Speaker 5 (57:11):
Isn't that a breach of contract?

Speaker 4 (57:13):
Do you have documentation of what you signed and what
they were supposed to do and did they have Yeah?
I have all the paperwork and so Okay, Well what happened?
I mean, how quickly did you go down on this bike?

Speaker 6 (57:28):
I mean I was on it.

Speaker 5 (57:29):
Maybe I got up.

Speaker 16 (57:32):
To third year and the fandlebars just flipped forward and
I just held on for dear life because I didn't
want to flip down the sidewalk.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
Sir. I just so we're talking at a couple of
minutes on the bike. It's not like you went out
for a ride for a half hour and then all
of a sudden something happens.

Speaker 8 (57:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (57:47):
No, it was like instantly, did you hurt your balls? Well? Yeah,
I would.

Speaker 4 (57:54):
Seriously for a second, do you have do you have
documentation that shows what they were supposed to do? What
they do? I mean, what documentation do you have about this?

Speaker 16 (58:05):
I have the paperwork that says that I paid for
it and that they are supposed to have everything put together.

Speaker 5 (58:13):
It is only gas, ad and ride.

Speaker 4 (58:15):
Okay, when did this happen? And where did this happen?

Speaker 16 (58:19):
It happened about two months ago. I still can't use
my thumb.

Speaker 5 (58:23):
I'm not allowed to work.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
Where where did this happen?

Speaker 5 (58:26):
They happened right in front of my house and in Ohio.

Speaker 4 (58:30):
And Moray Okay, you're a Moraine Okay, yeah, how they
how are they going to prove that that? I'd be
happy to take a look at it, to take a
look at what you have. We can get your information,
I can talk to you. It's gonna be it's gonna
to be way later today or tomorrow, but I will
get back in touch with you.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
Is there camera footage, like maybe like a rate camera footage.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
I'm sure there's probably an an excellent for me.

Speaker 5 (58:51):
I guarantee there's not an accident report, But I.

Speaker 4 (58:55):
Mean, what what do you have that documents this accident?

Speaker 5 (59:00):
I had surgery, I have doctors appointments, I have.

Speaker 4 (59:04):
Did the ambulance come and get you and take you
to the hospital? Is there gonna be ans report? How
quickly did you seek treatment immediately?

Speaker 5 (59:14):
Because rude?

Speaker 16 (59:16):
Yeah, I tore the ligament and broke the thumb, so
they had to go in and tack the ligament down
to my bone. And they couldn't get the screws in
because it was such a small place that they just
anchored it is what they called it.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
Was there damage onto the bike because that might help
prove the accident.

Speaker 5 (59:34):
Oh yeah, there's scratches all down the side.

Speaker 4 (59:38):
Did you ever did you ever contact this company?

Speaker 16 (59:42):
Yeah, I've contacted them twice and they won't return my goals.

Speaker 4 (59:45):
Okay, well they gonna do is say that she how
do we know it was?

Speaker 3 (59:49):
She didn't hit a tree?

Speaker 4 (59:51):
I don't disagree. That's why I'm trying to ask these questions.
To put it together.

Speaker 16 (59:55):
Maybe I could find a neighbor with a ring camera,
because they're everywhere.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
Yeah, in two months though, Yeah, if there's footage for
two months far on a ring camera, yeah mine, Mine
saves a long time. Let's get your information. I'll talk
with you later about it and try to unpack it
with you. I have a phone number.

Speaker 5 (01:00:12):
Okay, that's great.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Yeah, Natasha, I have your phone number.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
I'll give it to There has to be a lot
to be put together in order to try to prove
a case here. Yeah, okay, but I certainly understand the
gist of what you're talking about. I get it right.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
The ring camera footage would help immensely. I can tell
you that.

Speaker 5 (01:00:29):
Okay.

Speaker 16 (01:00:29):
Well, when I get home today, I will knock on
my neighbor's doors and see if I can.

Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:00:34):
When I know one of them, Scott one that scene
it I think they had.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
To back to the scene of the crime.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
Yeah, and do me a favorite personal footage of you
trying to ring the doorbell with that bump thumb.

Speaker 5 (01:00:49):
I will definitely ring with the bump flubs.

Speaker 11 (01:00:53):
I like you.

Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
Yeah, I like Natasha my brace.

Speaker 5 (01:00:56):
I made it bingles colors.

Speaker 6 (01:01:00):
Really like.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Yeah, that's Christmas absolute favorite.

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
Two steps back now? Yeah, all right, Natasha, you you
take care. I'll give your number two uh to Stuart
and hopefully we get footage of this so we can
move forward.

Speaker 5 (01:01:12):
Okay, awesome, sounds great.

Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
You guys have a Christmas all.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
Thanks Natasha, Well Stuart, once again another successful run. Yeah,
and today I look look forward to uh calling you
an uber ride home and you get drunk and start
gibber jabbering all day long.

Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
At this part, it's not gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
Uh. So where can people reach you?

Speaker 4 (01:01:34):
At the Manila log group at five one, three, seven, three,
sixteen hundred very low accidents, bankruptcy duuys give us a call, yeah,
or motorcycle accidents, motorcycle accidents, big truck accidents.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
Was it a dirt bike?

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
Yes, got a dirt bike. She was running in front
of her house and it fell apart. Look at the
cartoons that yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:01:53):
Piano fell.

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
Yes for insurance, so I will figure that out. Yeah, yeah,
you got this, Stuart. We'll get camera footage. It'll be
all good.

Speaker 5 (01:01:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
I want to see that ring camera flooded. The proof
is in the pudding.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
We see her thumb is big and red and throbbing
like at the cartoons.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
With their little Bengals band aid birds sliding around her head.

Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
All right, Stuart, we will see you again next week.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
We'll see you later today too,