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Alrighty, we say good morning once more to Matt Piper
from the Bloomberg newsroom in New York City. And Matt,
I read the headline Ford recalling hundreds of thousands of
its vehicles.
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Yeah, that's right, two hundred and fifty five thousand vehicles
in all time. These are Lincolns and Explorers. It's all
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camera and other features. So the government says that image
processing software in these vehicles could reset, leading to a
loss of the rearview camera image at advanced driver assistance
features those things like pre collision assists, lane keeping assist,
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mail letters to affected owners next week to get them
in the mail.
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Matt, you must be in the fast food sort of
mood this morning, because earlier we were talking about what
McDonald's and now we're talking about KFC, where pickles are
all the rage. But you say there's a catch.
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for the next month, diners at the chain can get
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a Pepsi Max served with a side of pickled juice.
So no word on if the dill will come to
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the US. But yes, I have been hitting the fast
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cars sometimes do that.
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Speaker 2 (02:02):
Good morning, Welcome to the morning show here on seven
hundred WLW if you weren't with us bright and early
this morning, really early this morning at five when we
came on the air, we were supposed to have Todd Fraser,
former Red's great home run Derby champ during the All
Star Game on in this half hour. And then he
notified me last night that he had to undergo a
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medical treatment, nothing serious, nothing to worry about. But they
had scheduled it, they had changed it to a different time,
so we couldn't be on. We will have Todd Fraser
on next week now, coming up at eight thirty eight.
Have you ever heard of the game Majong? I mean,
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it's like all the Danny you said You've played it? Right?
Was it hard to learn? No? Not really? Okay, all right,
because woman here in Cincinnati named Tara Reardon, she is
one of the fore most experts at playing majon. More
(03:06):
importantly for her teaching you and me how to play majong.
It is quite the rage. It's been around for hundreds
of years. But we're going to talk with her about
you know, who's playing the game. It's kind of like
the equivalent a board game, equivalent, if you will, of pickleball.
It's all of a sudden, just exploding everywhere. So you
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might want to tune in for that. Meanwhile, I want
to get to a couple of things that have been
in the news. Maybe you read about, maybe you didn't
read about. Okay, let's start with did you hear about
the Reacher star Alan Richson? He gets into this big
brew haha. And I gotta be honest with you. I
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see both sides of this. If you didn't hear about it.
He lives in this really nice neighborhood okay, and in Nashville,
and he is blowing through this neighborhood on a motorcycle
that is just deafening. And he's driving really fast. And
this is a neighborhood, neighborhood sidewalks, looks like a big
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money neighborhood. And he's flying around this neighborhood. There's video
of it out there. A neighbor comes out and stands
directly in front of him as he is coming past
this neighbor's house on his motorcycle. So you start with that,
that's dangerous in and of itself, not a smart move. Well,
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rich And all of a sudden gets into it with
a guy thought that you know. The neighbor is saying that, hey,
look you're you're you're driving too fast through here. There
are children around here, it's too loud, et cetera, et cetera.
And the guy have you ever seen this Richson guy?
(05:03):
This guy's a monster. I mean, he looks like he
just walked out of training with the green Berets. So
this brave guy, I guess stupid guy depending on how
you look at it. He confronts Richon and police to
determine after Richon gets into a brawl with this guy,
(05:26):
and you can figure out who won that fight. Police
have said, hey, look, Richon didn't instigate this fight with
his neighbor. He was pushed off his bak twice by
the man before the actual video recorded what turned into
a beatdown. So you don't see the pushdown twice earlier.
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I mean you would think when you're messing with a
guy like that, if you want to get your point across, okay, fine,
but when you start pushing him, you are asking for
serious trouble. And the police have said all Richan was
doing was in self defense. Now we turn our attention
(06:07):
to Chicago. I gotta tell you if there's a more
screwed up place on the planet. Now go figure this
one for me. Okay, please explain to me, if you
are a Democrat, how in the world you can connect
the dots on this one. A student in Chicago, Sheridan Gorman,
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was brutally killed by an illegal immigrant. It's awful. It's
a terrible story. This is a college girl going to
school in Chicago, in the urban area, and out of
nowhere she is brutally murdered. Now we know where Illinois
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Governor JB. Pritzker and the mayor of Chicago, we know
where they stand on ICE illegal immigrants. They favor illegal
immigrants over people like you and me, normal Americans. Okay,
And it can't even be remotely remotely debated. Yesterday, Illinois
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Governor JB. Pritzker blamed Donald Trump for this murder. Now
listen to this, all right. This is a sanctuary city
that is doing everything it can not to cooperate with
ICE about arresting illegal immigrants and getting them back to
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their home country. Chicago fights it at every turn. And
here's what JB. Pritzker said, If you you could write
this stuff and sell it to Hollywood. He comes out
yesterday and he says it is the job of the
federal government to go after immigration enforcement, and he says
(08:07):
Trump's policy of deporting migrants and defended the Democrats imposition
of an amnesty zone in Chicago and in Illinois. Okay. Now,
these are the people now in the Democratic Party that
are blocking funding for ICE, which ultimately is leading to
long lines at the airport because ICE falls under the
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umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security. He says, it
is a job of our local and state law enforcement
to prosecute and catch violent criminals and prosecute them, and
we should continue to do that on the state level
and the national level. Even though this guy who committed
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the murder was released by a prosecutor. In Chicago, the
mayor there, Brandon Johnson, is also trying to dodge responsibility
for lacks policing of illegal immigrants. He says, the Welcoming
City Ordinance was passed forty years ago by the first
black mayor in the history of Chicago. What's that got
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to do with anything? What color the mayor was, And
the statewide Ambassy Zone Act was passed and it was
under a Republican governor. They go on to say, if
there's can you imagine if you were the parents of
this girl, And the mayor of the town where it
occurred stands up and says, if there is anything to
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address in this country that's illegal, it's everything about the
Trump administration. This guy was from Venezuela. This girl was
out on a walk along the Chicago Lake Shore eighteen
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years old, murdered, and yet the city of Chicago and
the Governor of Illinois somehow someway in the ultimate act
despicably of trump deranged syndrome. Somehow they are blaming this
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girl's death on Donald Trump. I don't know how you
put your head on a pillow at night if you're JB. Pritzker,
I really don't. On a more positive and upbeat note,
why not. This is a great story stories like this
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is what happened. If you may remember years ago to Greaters,
when Oprah Winfrey talked about Greater's ice cream on her
television show. This is about a small Florida bakery having
its Hollywood moment, and the surge in orders are through
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the roof. They can barely handle it. Why because actor
Ryan Gosling gave it a totally unexpected plug when he
was on Late Night with Seth Myers. He was raving
about this Tallahassee shop known for its homemade pastries, and
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the actor singled out it's called the Cake Shop, praising
its pop tart style treats and urging viewers to check
it out. Well, the company had no idea this was coming.
So the woman who owns the shop, is the sister
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of the wardrobe supervisor Okay, of that show and on
Saturday Night Live. Her name is Donna Richard. She owns
a bakery in Tallahassee and on goes gozzling about how
great they are, etc. Etc. The bakery was flooded with
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calls and request and the owner says a total shock.
Had no idea it was coming, no clue. The cake
shop's pastry is called the popped as in popped tart,
and Richard said Gosling asked for the strawberry flavor when
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he came in, but the treats also come in blueberry, cinnamon,
peanut butter, and jelly. They've been in business for over
twenty five years, doing a good business, but now all
of a sudden they can't make them fast enough. Love
hearing stories like that. Good for Ryan Gosling. He seems
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like a pretty good dude, great actor. I know who's
all about popped tarts? Hit the music for traffic please,
you got that right? I'm thinking road trip is a Hey, Tallahassie,
this time of year might be a pretty good place
to hang out. I mean, those things look unbelievable, you know,
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so you know what a pop tart is, right? What? Okay? Well,
I'm just I mean, I'm trying to create the mental
picture for somebody in their car right now, I see, okay,
So then what they do is they top a pop
tart with these whatever it is, right, different flavors. And
I gotta tell you this picture, I mean for a
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cat who gave up dessert for let It's like every
time I turn around, whether it's you, our calendar day,
even Matt Piper from Bloomberg, it's like you guys are
trying to make the next ten days of my life miserable.
(13:51):
You got that right? All right? All right, all right,
I'm gonna have to go down a glass of water,
go find something trulyas fretting would be proud of you. Yeah,
I'm sure she would. My stomach, I doubt it. She
likes you better anyway. Ticks me off. What's going on
out there?
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WCPO nine first Warning fore cast. Percent of our buddy
Jennifer catch Mark. It's already a beautiful morning out there.
It's gonna be an even nicer day. Some of the
clouds out there right now will get out of here,
sunshine will come out. We'll be knocking on the door
of seventy degrees today now tonight. Don't be alarmed. It's
gonna rain overnight, and it might be raining when you
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get up tomorrow morning and you're thinking, man, I'm going
down to opening day or I'm going down to the
banks or whatever. Don't worry about it. Forget about it.
It's gonna be sunshine and eighty tomorrow. The rain will
be finished by nine. So if you're taking the kids,
maybe they're on spring breakdown to the friendly Market parade.
Maybe you're going with some of your coworkers. Don't bring
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an umbrella. You don't need to worry about it. Tomorrow night.
Tomorrow rain comes in and will rain most of the
night tomorrow night, and behind it comes a cold front.
So are high after being eighty tomorrow, are high on Friday,
will be forty nine degrees. All right, We're gonna be
joined by Tara Rearden. I'm gonna call her the Queen
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of Majong. I better make sure she's okay with that title.
But she owns Majon Monkey. Would you like to learn
or hear more about Majong? It's all the rage right now.
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Speaker 2 (17:20):
HI, welcome to the morning show. You're on seven hundred WLW.
All right now, I liken this next topic to sort
of the pickleball range a little bit because I saw
it with my wife and some of her friends. I've
heard about it from a number of other people, and
that is the game of Majong, and I introduced her earlier,
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and I meant to ask you before you came on
the air, Tara at Reardon, founder of Majong Monkey. I
referred to you as the queen of Majong, and I said,
I'm not so sure she's comfortable with that. So if
that offends you in any way, I've offended a lot
of people in my life. I prayed that didn't all right,
So let me ask you. Joined by Tara Reardon. She
is a founder owner of Majong Monkey. If I'm thinking
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about a new hobby, or if I'm thinking about getting
into something that I've never tried before, why is Majong
the answer for me or anybody listening.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
So Tom not offended at all. It might have been
a little overly generous, but I'm not offended. So you're
absolutely correct.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Majong has grown exponentially, but there are foundational reasons why
it's so popular. So number one, it's good for you.
It's great brain exercise. The pattern recognition, the memory recall,
even learning the rules and the etiquette in advance of
actually playing. All of that is wonderful brain exercise. It's
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also in today's era a novel concept of screen free,
face to face precisely fun that allows people to connect
in a communal way that we don't have that often otherwise.
But it's fascinating because to your point about the rise,
Majong has replaced book clubs and wine clubs amongst women's
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It has become the game of family game night. It
is a professional networking tool. It is omnipresent at the moment.
You can't turn a TV station on. You mentioned Reacher earlier.
It was even mentioned in the last series of Readers.
It was the answer on several Jeopardy questions last year.
It was featured in the Emmys and twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
I mean, you name it. Movies.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Everybody references the movie Crazy Rich Asians. But it's way
beyond that. It's in the New York Times, it's every
print piece, it's social media, it's everywhere. So but the
reasons why are the good brain benefits, the social benefits,
and so as a result, it's no longer something that
fits a specific demographic of Chinese or Jewish Americans or
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kind of the academic and financial elite.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Right, It's every body nowadays.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
So it's not a rich person's game. I mean due
to its heritage, and it's interesting when you were sharing
with me some of the information about it started well
over a couple of hundred years ago in China, primarily
for men. Is it safe to say that you're going
out and doing these lessons, You're going and given seminars
all over the region and all over Greater Cincinnati. Is
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it still more primarily women who are getting involved or
are you seeing now more and more men or even kids?
Speaker 6 (20:30):
So definitely, ladies still dominate the Lajong tablescape. However, men
and children are increasingly becoming players. So of the eight
hundred plus people I've taught, definitely the majority our ladies.
But what often happens is ladies gather and learn, and
then they take it home and they teach their children,
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or they want to have a date night with their
girlfriends and their husbands, and so I'll go back and
teach the husbands, or We'll have some children events this
summer coming up.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
So it is all genders.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
It doesn't discriminate in any kind of demographic or anything.
So we're seeing men, women, children, everybody's playing.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Okay, now, we had one of these at our house
where you came to our house and I walked in
the room and you know, there's six seven women around.
You're there instructing. I'm looking down at the for lack
of a better term, you tell me if it's right.
You've got all kinds of tiles, you have a big board,
you have these cards which we'll get into, the brand
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new one coming out out of New York this week.
It looks when I looked at it, I'm like, whoa man,
there's no way I can handle that. But you tell
me that actually, once you just start to acclimate and
learn from the very beginning some of this, some of
that apprehension can immediately be taken away, or if not immediately,
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shortly thereafter. Yes, because my eyes were rolling in the
back of my head, I'm.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Not surprised to hear that.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
It is intimidating first, But when you digest it into
smaller pieces and kind of come about it with a
methodical approach, it's certainly feasible to learn this game and
play it well. So it takes a little practice, but
absolutely you'd be great at it.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Do you need a lesson?
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Tom?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I do? I need to listen to a lot of things.
The etiquette part that you brought up might help immediately,
you know, But seriously, I mean, I looked at it
and I'm just like, my god, this looks like a
spreadsheet and I'm not My mind just doesn't work like that.
I mean, heck you you got an MBA from the
University of Oxford in England for crying out loud, so
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you know your brain probably does work like that. But
all I can speak from is when my wife Polly
tells me about being a part of this group and
her and four other women started with you, and that's
where you and I met. She so much enjoys the
fact that at least with her group, and we'll get
into this isn't necessarily a prerequisite for everybody else, but
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not only to learn something new engaging your brain, but
actually spending time with your friends and setting a time
which we so infrequently do, to get together with your
friends and start something brand new.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Absolutely, and that is kind of the joy of the game,
is the community and the social aspect and spending time
with each other, whether it's your girlfriends or your family.
So you've hit the nail on the head. It's exactly
for me. Everybody has a different thing. Some players want
to be super competitive. They want to go to a tournament,
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they want to be the victor in the league and
win a prize.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Whatever.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Everybody's different motivational driver, but I would say the majority
of players are more on the social end of the
spectrum and enjoying it for the reasons that you just identified.
So you've called it out and your first impression of
the card is not unique the card this year in
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twenty twenty six, which is arriving in mailboxes across the
country this week.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
And that's a big deal. It is a big deal,
really big deal.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
It's a huge deal.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
But for perspective, when you're playing majong, you're trying to
align tiles with the patterns on the card, and the
first person to align their tiles with a pattern is
the winner, and then the game resets and you start
over with a fresh game. But this year's card has
seventy two printed hands, and so that's fourteen tiles times
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seventy two. So those digits on a paper are certainly
overwhelming to people. But then tom there's fine print that
opens each winning hand up with lots of optionality. So
without getting into the details, there are one thousand and
seventy seven different ways to win American Majong in twenty
twenty six. So there's a way to win, but it
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is somewhat, you know, an interesting challenge to learn. But
part of the game too is learning flexibility and ability
to pivot. So you may be pursuing one route to
win your game, and then you have to go a
different way because you've seen people's discords and realized that
that you can't achieve your goal, which you know, all
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of life is like that, So it's good to be
flexible at all.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Well, I mean it's very similar to I mean pick football.
I mean, all of a sudden, you start with a
plan on how to win, and then all of a
sudden you realize what maybe the opponent is doing or
what the game is doing, and so you say, okay,
I got to make some adjustments here, and I got
to I got to go in a different direction. Sounds
perfectly logical, correct, All right? Okay, Now, in your business
at Majong Monkey, for people who are interested in learning
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how to play this game, I want to start with
the fact that you have a couple of things coming up.
First of all, you have an event coming up in
regard to the New Card. Talk about that, yes, So.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
I have actually several, but the one to talk about
today is we're going to have an event on April thirteenth,
and it's going to be at the Kenwood Movie Theater
and folks are going to learn about the new Card
and then have an opportunity for an open play and
to watch a movie afterwards while we play. So it's
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going to be kind of a really unique setting that
I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
So that's one of several.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
We're going to have a guest, a surprise guest come
on the big screen that all the maj On community will.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Be familiar with when they see your face.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
So that is going to be, in an odd way,
very exciting for the maj On people, and so I'm
excited for that. So that's kind of a unique way
to launch the card here in town. And so I
do a lot of events, school fundraisers, charitable fundraisers, that
sort of thing, but these social ones are where I
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can kind of get my community of people i've taught
together because to your point, not everybody has a foursome
to play with. So it's really awesome, especially at something
like this, to bring people together to sit down at
the table and enjoy the game.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Well, you bring up something that I was going to
follow this up with, and that is, okay, maybe you
don't have three or four other men or women that
you could commit, say to meeting every Tuesday night at
six o'clock at somebody's house whatever, right, right, And you
just want to learn the game itself, and maybe you're
just going to have to start going by yourself. So
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you're creating some flexible sort of outings. What in the
month of June, right for somebody who just like maybe
wants to walk in. I want to learn about it.
I don't have to bring anybody else. And maybe I'm
a little uncomfortable, And here I am, and what are
you doing in June?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
That is true?
Speaker 6 (27:39):
So in June, I am launching what we are calling
a Scramble. So it's going to be Cincinnati's Scramble and
for one kind of relatively low fee, you can play anytime, anywhere,
Unlimited majong matches, all levels are going to be welcome,
and there's going to be a portal that allows people
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to arrange their games once they join the Scramble network.
So many more details to follow, but this is everybody's welcome,
especially those that want to compete and gather points and
those foursomes that want to go out and have fun together.
But this is also especially beneficial for the individual that
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doesn't have a standing for some theme. So I'm really
excited to give everybody in town an opportunity to play
more frequently. And so this league is it actually occurs
in other cities already. Charlotte is where this launched, and
I've partnered with the founders of the Scramble concept and
I'm bringing it to town. I'm super excited and if
your listeners are interested, you can go to majang monkey
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dot com and express interest. It's right there on the
pop up and I'll send you all the registration information
once we start sign ups. But it'll be an eight
week league, maybe nine, but it will run from the
first week of June through August, and that will be
our summer season and then we'll do fall and winter, etc.
To your point, Tom, a lot of people don't have,
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you know, with family life and professional careers, the flexibility
to commit to a standing appointment every week. So this
is going to be great for folks who need a
little more flexibility in their schedule.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
And before I let you go, you know your story
of how you started this whole thing. You've had Malajeong
Monkey going back to two thousand and four. I mean,
did you twenty twenty four? Oh, I'm sorry, you've had
it now for three years. But did you, in your
wildest dreams believe that it would be where it is
now and where it's going when you started because you
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were in the world of banking. You were working in
different cities all over the country, you were working overseas,
and all of a sudden you were sharing with me
your mother, God bless her, comes down with cancer and
she's still going strong, Thank God for that she is.
But you decided, Okay, I can't work in that world.
I got to find something else to do. Is I'm
taking care of her. So you started this. Did you
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ever picture it would be like this?
Speaker 6 (29:59):
I never picture it, So for me, you summarized that beautifully.
I'm on a career, professional career prose, a corporate career pause,
I should say, and loving this time, you know, with
my mom. But I was kind of missing the mental
challenge and the social interaction of my prior career.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
So I started.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Playing a lot of Majong, and my first lesson was
actually to my in laws on a cruise. I figured,
if we can handle this year, we can do it.
They're great, we can do it anywhere, right. So then
when I got back to Cincinnati soon after, launched officially
Majong Monkey after teaching others. But I never imagined in
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twenty twenty four that this kind of renaissance of Majong
would peak. I don't even think we're at the peaktre honestly,
that it would escalate to the point it's at and
then kind of continue with the longevity.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
I used to say, oh, it's the next pickleball.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Well, I might argue it is equivalent to pickleble, Sure,
I say yeah. And I've even done a Majong boot
camp at ACES, which is one of the premiere pickleball
facilities here at Factory fifty two in town. So I
love that activity. But they're obviously uh on. One's exercising
the body, ones exercising the brain, but not entirely dissimilar.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Okay, one more time, How they can reach you? Find
you if people are interested in starting to learn.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Majoh, thank you, yes, So come to my website majong
monkey dot com, especially if you want to schedule a lesson,
and then I often use Instagram stories, so Majong dot
monkey on Instagram to publicize different events. I have book
recommendations for people who internalize and learn that way, can
(31:47):
recommend online apps and tools. Online tools are wild. There's
even software built into Tesla to play Majong. There's a
webcins game for children to learn tile matching. Like it's
It's everywhere. So come to to my Instagram, Majong dot monkey,
come to my website, majong monkey dot com. Give me
a call, come to an event. I'd love to see
everybody and share Majong with more people.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Thank you so much for coming in today. Thank you
alrighty Tara Reardon majong Monkey check it out dot com.
All right, dum chuck Ingram sounds like a Majong kind
of guy to me. You know what, I just learned
an awful lot.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I thought it was just a game where I was
matching tiles on from some at on my phone, but
it is obviously much bigger than I ever anticipate.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Well, Like I talked about my wife's part of this
women's group, friends of hers in our neighborhood, and they decided, hey,
why not try this thing out? And Tara came over
and they are loving it. I mean, look a little
bit at first, like holy mackerel. You know, this is
like hard to look. And then all of a sudden,
another week goes by, another week goes by another, and
they're loving it. I mean, I don't know, I don't
(32:52):
know what to tell you. Awesome, sounds like something good
for you. Chuck, thank you. Ye, somebody brings a lot
of food. Yes, I always have to work on the
mental game. Yes, we all have to work on the
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Matt, you must be in the fast food sort of
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McDonald's and now we're talking about KFC, where pickles are
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for the next month, diners at the chain can get
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Good morning, Welcome to the morning show here on seven
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this morning, really early this morning at five when we
came on the air, we were supposed to have Todd Fraser,
former Red's great home run Derby champ during the All
Star Game on in this half hour. And then he
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so we couldn't be on. We will have Todd Fraser
on next week now, coming up at eight thirty eight.
Have you ever heard of the game Majong? I mean,
(02:45):
it's like all the Danny you said You've played it? Right?
Was it hard to learn? No? Not really? Okay, all right,
because woman here in Cincinnati named Tara Reardon, she is
one of the fore most experts at playing majon. More
(03:06):
importantly for her teaching you and me how to play majong.
It is quite the rage. It's been around for hundreds
of years. But we're going to talk with her about
you know, who's playing the game. It's kind of like
the equivalent a board game, equivalent, if you will, of pickleball.
It's all of a sudden, just exploding everywhere. So you
(03:32):
might want to tune in for that. Meanwhile, I want
to get to a couple of things that have been
in the news. Maybe you read about, maybe you didn't
read about. Okay, let's start with did you hear about
the Reacher star Alan Richson? He gets into this big
brew haha. And I gotta be honest with you. I
(03:54):
see both sides of this. If you didn't hear about it.
He lives in this really nice neighborhood okay, and in Nashville,
and he is blowing through this neighborhood on a motorcycle
that is just deafening. And he's driving really fast. And
this is a neighborhood, neighborhood sidewalks, looks like a big
(04:19):
money neighborhood. And he's flying around this neighborhood. There's video
of it out there. A neighbor comes out and stands
directly in front of him as he is coming past
this neighbor's house on his motorcycle. So you start with that,
that's dangerous in and of itself, not a smart move. Well,
(04:42):
rich And all of a sudden gets into it with
a guy thought that you know. The neighbor is saying that, hey,
look you're you're you're driving too fast through here. There
are children around here, it's too loud, et cetera, et cetera.
And the guy have you ever seen this Richson guy?
(05:03):
This guy's a monster. I mean, he looks like he
just walked out of training with the green Berets. So
this brave guy, I guess stupid guy depending on how
you look at it. He confronts Richon and police to
determine after Richon gets into a brawl with this guy,
(05:26):
and you can figure out who won that fight. Police
have said, hey, look, Richon didn't instigate this fight with
his neighbor. He was pushed off his bak twice by
the man before the actual video recorded what turned into
a beatdown. So you don't see the pushdown twice earlier.
(05:46):
I mean you would think when you're messing with a
guy like that, if you want to get your point across, okay, fine,
but when you start pushing him, you are asking for
serious trouble. And the police have said all Richan was
doing was in self defense. Now we turn our attention
(06:07):
to Chicago. I gotta tell you if there's a more
screwed up place on the planet. Now go figure this
one for me. Okay, please explain to me, if you
are a Democrat, how in the world you can connect
the dots on this one. A student in Chicago, Sheridan Gorman,
(06:34):
was brutally killed by an illegal immigrant. It's awful. It's
a terrible story. This is a college girl going to
school in Chicago, in the urban area, and out of
nowhere she is brutally murdered. Now we know where Illinois
(06:56):
Governor JB. Pritzker and the mayor of Chicago, we know
where they stand on ICE illegal immigrants. They favor illegal
immigrants over people like you and me, normal Americans. Okay,
And it can't even be remotely remotely debated. Yesterday, Illinois
(07:20):
Governor JB. Pritzker blamed Donald Trump for this murder. Now
listen to this, all right. This is a sanctuary city
that is doing everything it can not to cooperate with
ICE about arresting illegal immigrants and getting them back to
(07:42):
their home country. Chicago fights it at every turn. And
here's what JB. Pritzker said, If you you could write
this stuff and sell it to Hollywood. He comes out
yesterday and he says it is the job of the
federal government to go after immigration enforcement, and he says
(08:07):
Trump's policy of deporting migrants and defended the Democrats imposition
of an amnesty zone in Chicago and in Illinois. Okay. Now,
these are the people now in the Democratic Party that
are blocking funding for ICE, which ultimately is leading to
long lines at the airport because ICE falls under the
(08:28):
umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security. He says, it
is a job of our local and state law enforcement
to prosecute and catch violent criminals and prosecute them, and
we should continue to do that on the state level
and the national level. Even though this guy who committed
(08:50):
the murder was released by a prosecutor. In Chicago, the
mayor there, Brandon Johnson, is also trying to dodge responsibility
for lacks policing of illegal immigrants. He says, the Welcoming
City Ordinance was passed forty years ago by the first
black mayor in the history of Chicago. What's that got
(09:11):
to do with anything? What color the mayor was, And
the statewide Ambassy Zone Act was passed and it was
under a Republican governor. They go on to say, if
there's can you imagine if you were the parents of
this girl, And the mayor of the town where it
occurred stands up and says, if there is anything to
(09:34):
address in this country that's illegal, it's everything about the
Trump administration. This guy was from Venezuela. This girl was
out on a walk along the Chicago Lake Shore eighteen
(09:55):
years old, murdered, and yet the city of Chicago and
the Governor of Illinois somehow someway in the ultimate act
despicably of trump deranged syndrome. Somehow they are blaming this
(10:18):
girl's death on Donald Trump. I don't know how you
put your head on a pillow at night if you're JB. Pritzker,
I really don't. On a more positive and upbeat note,
why not. This is a great story stories like this
(10:39):
is what happened. If you may remember years ago to Greaters,
when Oprah Winfrey talked about Greater's ice cream on her
television show. This is about a small Florida bakery having
its Hollywood moment, and the surge in orders are through
(11:00):
the roof. They can barely handle it. Why because actor
Ryan Gosling gave it a totally unexpected plug when he
was on Late Night with Seth Myers. He was raving
about this Tallahassee shop known for its homemade pastries, and
(11:20):
the actor singled out it's called the Cake Shop, praising
its pop tart style treats and urging viewers to check
it out. Well, the company had no idea this was coming.
So the woman who owns the shop, is the sister
(11:41):
of the wardrobe supervisor Okay, of that show and on
Saturday Night Live. Her name is Donna Richard. She owns
a bakery in Tallahassee and on goes gozzling about how
great they are, etc. Etc. The bakery was flooded with
(12:02):
calls and request and the owner says a total shock.
Had no idea it was coming, no clue. The cake
shop's pastry is called the popped as in popped tart,
and Richard said Gosling asked for the strawberry flavor when
(12:24):
he came in, but the treats also come in blueberry, cinnamon,
peanut butter, and jelly. They've been in business for over
twenty five years, doing a good business, but now all
of a sudden they can't make them fast enough. Love
hearing stories like that. Good for Ryan Gosling. He seems
(12:46):
like a pretty good dude, great actor. I know who's
all about popped tarts? Hit the music for traffic please,
you got that right? I'm thinking road trip is a Hey, Tallahassie,
this time of year might be a pretty good place
to hang out. I mean, those things look unbelievable, you know,
(13:10):
so you know what a pop tart is, right? What? Okay? Well,
I'm just I mean, I'm trying to create the mental
picture for somebody in their car right now, I see, okay,
So then what they do is they top a pop
tart with these whatever it is, right, different flavors. And
I gotta tell you this picture, I mean for a
(13:31):
cat who gave up dessert for let It's like every
time I turn around, whether it's you, our calendar day,
even Matt Piper from Bloomberg, it's like you guys are
trying to make the next ten days of my life miserable.
(13:51):
You got that right? All right? All right, all right,
I'm gonna have to go down a glass of water,
go find something trulyas fretting would be proud of you. Yeah,
I'm sure she would. My stomach, I doubt it. She
likes you better anyway. Ticks me off. What's going on
out there?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
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Southbound seventy five in the Lachland split is going to
keep traffic slow there for a bit. Northbound seventy five.
That is improving, just a couple of extra minutes needed.
Now out of her linger into the cut. I'm seeing
slow traffic. Things to a work crew on eastbound two
seventy five from Dixie to Madison Pike. Southbound seventy one.
There's a wreck it just after you got past Fields eartle.
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Speaker 2 (14:51):
WCPO nine first Warning fore cast. Percent of our buddy
Jennifer catch Mark. It's already a beautiful morning out there.
It's gonna be an even nicer day. Some of the
clouds out there right now will get out of here,
sunshine will come out. We'll be knocking on the door
of seventy degrees today now tonight. Don't be alarmed. It's
gonna rain overnight, and it might be raining when you
(15:14):
get up tomorrow morning and you're thinking, man, I'm going
down to opening day or I'm going down to the
banks or whatever. Don't worry about it. Forget about it.
It's gonna be sunshine and eighty tomorrow. The rain will
be finished by nine. So if you're taking the kids,
maybe they're on spring breakdown to the friendly Market parade.
Maybe you're going with some of your coworkers. Don't bring
(15:35):
an umbrella. You don't need to worry about it. Tomorrow night.
Tomorrow rain comes in and will rain most of the
night tomorrow night, and behind it comes a cold front.
So are high after being eighty tomorrow, are high on Friday,
will be forty nine degrees. All right, We're gonna be
joined by Tara Rearden. I'm gonna call her the Queen
(15:58):
of Majong. I better make sure she's okay with that title.
But she owns Majon Monkey. Would you like to learn
or hear more about Majong? It's all the rage right now.
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Speaker 2 (17:20):
HI, welcome to the morning show. You're on seven hundred WLW.
All right now, I liken this next topic to sort
of the pickleball range a little bit because I saw
it with my wife and some of her friends. I've
heard about it from a number of other people, and
that is the game of Majong, and I introduced her earlier,
(17:43):
and I meant to ask you before you came on
the air, Tara at Reardon, founder of Majong Monkey. I
referred to you as the queen of Majong, and I said,
I'm not so sure she's comfortable with that. So if
that offends you in any way, I've offended a lot
of people in my life. I prayed that didn't all right,
So let me ask you. Joined by Tara Reardon. She
is a founder owner of Majong Monkey. If I'm thinking
(18:07):
about a new hobby, or if I'm thinking about getting
into something that I've never tried before, why is Majong
the answer for me or anybody listening.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
So Tom not offended at all. It might have been
a little overly generous, but I'm not offended. So you're
absolutely correct.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Majong has grown exponentially, but there are foundational reasons why
it's so popular. So number one, it's good for you.
It's great brain exercise. The pattern recognition, the memory recall,
even learning the rules and the etiquette in advance of
actually playing. All of that is wonderful brain exercise. It's
(18:47):
also in today's era a novel concept of screen free,
face to face precisely fun that allows people to connect
in a communal way that we don't have that often otherwise.
But it's fascinating because to your point about the rise,
Majong has replaced book clubs and wine clubs amongst women's
(19:08):
It has become the game of family game night. It
is a professional networking tool. It is omnipresent at the moment.
You can't turn a TV station on. You mentioned Reacher earlier.
It was even mentioned in the last series of Readers.
It was the answer on several Jeopardy questions last year.
It was featured in the Emmys and twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
I mean, you name it. Movies.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Everybody references the movie Crazy Rich Asians. But it's way
beyond that. It's in the New York Times, it's every
print piece, it's social media, it's everywhere. So but the
reasons why are the good brain benefits, the social benefits,
and so as a result, it's no longer something that
fits a specific demographic of Chinese or Jewish Americans or
(19:55):
kind of the academic and financial elite.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Right, It's every body nowadays.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
So it's not a rich person's game. I mean due
to its heritage, and it's interesting when you were sharing
with me some of the information about it started well
over a couple of hundred years ago in China, primarily
for men. Is it safe to say that you're going
out and doing these lessons, You're going and given seminars
all over the region and all over Greater Cincinnati. Is
(20:23):
it still more primarily women who are getting involved or
are you seeing now more and more men or even kids?
Speaker 6 (20:30):
So definitely, ladies still dominate the Lajong tablescape. However, men
and children are increasingly becoming players. So of the eight
hundred plus people I've taught, definitely the majority our ladies.
But what often happens is ladies gather and learn, and
then they take it home and they teach their children,
(20:53):
or they want to have a date night with their
girlfriends and their husbands, and so I'll go back and
teach the husbands, or We'll have some children events this
summer coming up.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
So it is all genders.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
It doesn't discriminate in any kind of demographic or anything.
So we're seeing men, women, children, everybody's playing.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Okay, now, we had one of these at our house
where you came to our house and I walked in
the room and you know, there's six seven women around.
You're there instructing. I'm looking down at the for lack
of a better term, you tell me if it's right.
You've got all kinds of tiles, you have a big board,
you have these cards which we'll get into, the brand
(21:29):
new one coming out out of New York this week.
It looks when I looked at it, I'm like, whoa man,
there's no way I can handle that. But you tell
me that actually, once you just start to acclimate and
learn from the very beginning some of this, some of
that apprehension can immediately be taken away, or if not immediately,
(21:51):
shortly thereafter. Yes, because my eyes were rolling in the
back of my head, I'm.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Not surprised to hear that.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
It is intimidating first, But when you digest it into
smaller pieces and kind of come about it with a
methodical approach, it's certainly feasible to learn this game and
play it well. So it takes a little practice, but
absolutely you'd be great at it.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Do you need a lesson?
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Tom?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I do? I need to listen to a lot of things.
The etiquette part that you brought up might help immediately,
you know, But seriously, I mean, I looked at it
and I'm just like, my god, this looks like a
spreadsheet and I'm not My mind just doesn't work like that.
I mean, heck you you got an MBA from the
University of Oxford in England for crying out loud, so
(22:37):
you know your brain probably does work like that. But
all I can speak from is when my wife Polly
tells me about being a part of this group and
her and four other women started with you, and that's
where you and I met. She so much enjoys the
fact that at least with her group, and we'll get
into this isn't necessarily a prerequisite for everybody else, but
(23:00):
not only to learn something new engaging your brain, but
actually spending time with your friends and setting a time
which we so infrequently do, to get together with your
friends and start something brand new.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Absolutely, and that is kind of the joy of the game,
is the community and the social aspect and spending time
with each other, whether it's your girlfriends or your family.
So you've hit the nail on the head. It's exactly
for me. Everybody has a different thing. Some players want
to be super competitive. They want to go to a tournament,
(23:34):
they want to be the victor in the league and
win a prize.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Whatever.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Everybody's different motivational driver, but I would say the majority
of players are more on the social end of the
spectrum and enjoying it for the reasons that you just identified.
So you've called it out and your first impression of
the card is not unique the card this year in
(24:01):
twenty twenty six, which is arriving in mailboxes across the
country this week.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
And that's a big deal. It is a big deal,
really big deal.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
It's a huge deal.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
But for perspective, when you're playing majong, you're trying to
align tiles with the patterns on the card, and the
first person to align their tiles with a pattern is
the winner, and then the game resets and you start
over with a fresh game. But this year's card has
seventy two printed hands, and so that's fourteen tiles times
(24:30):
seventy two. So those digits on a paper are certainly
overwhelming to people. But then tom there's fine print that
opens each winning hand up with lots of optionality. So
without getting into the details, there are one thousand and
seventy seven different ways to win American Majong in twenty
twenty six. So there's a way to win, but it
(24:54):
is somewhat, you know, an interesting challenge to learn. But
part of the game too is learning flexibility and ability
to pivot. So you may be pursuing one route to
win your game, and then you have to go a
different way because you've seen people's discords and realized that
that you can't achieve your goal, which you know, all
(25:16):
of life is like that, So it's good to be
flexible at all.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Well, I mean it's very similar to I mean pick football.
I mean, all of a sudden, you start with a
plan on how to win, and then all of a
sudden you realize what maybe the opponent is doing or
what the game is doing, and so you say, okay,
I got to make some adjustments here, and I got
to I got to go in a different direction. Sounds
perfectly logical, correct, All right? Okay, Now, in your business
at Majong Monkey, for people who are interested in learning
(25:41):
how to play this game, I want to start with
the fact that you have a couple of things coming up.
First of all, you have an event coming up in
regard to the New Card. Talk about that, yes, So.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
I have actually several, but the one to talk about
today is we're going to have an event on April thirteenth,
and it's going to be at the Kenwood Movie Theater
and folks are going to learn about the new Card
and then have an opportunity for an open play and
to watch a movie afterwards while we play. So it's
(26:14):
going to be kind of a really unique setting that
I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
So that's one of several.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
We're going to have a guest, a surprise guest come
on the big screen that all the maj On community will.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Be familiar with when they see your face.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
So that is going to be, in an odd way,
very exciting for the maj On people, and so I'm
excited for that. So that's kind of a unique way
to launch the card here in town. And so I
do a lot of events, school fundraisers, charitable fundraisers, that
sort of thing, but these social ones are where I
(26:48):
can kind of get my community of people i've taught
together because to your point, not everybody has a foursome
to play with. So it's really awesome, especially at something
like this, to bring people together to sit down at
the table and enjoy the game.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Well, you bring up something that I was going to
follow this up with, and that is, okay, maybe you
don't have three or four other men or women that
you could commit, say to meeting every Tuesday night at
six o'clock at somebody's house whatever, right, right, And you
just want to learn the game itself, and maybe you're
just going to have to start going by yourself. So
(27:24):
you're creating some flexible sort of outings. What in the
month of June, right for somebody who just like maybe
wants to walk in. I want to learn about it.
I don't have to bring anybody else. And maybe I'm
a little uncomfortable, And here I am, and what are
you doing in June?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
That is true?
Speaker 6 (27:39):
So in June, I am launching what we are calling
a Scramble. So it's going to be Cincinnati's Scramble and
for one kind of relatively low fee, you can play anytime, anywhere,
Unlimited majong matches, all levels are going to be welcome,
and there's going to be a portal that allows people
(27:59):
to arrange their games once they join the Scramble network.
So many more details to follow, but this is everybody's welcome,
especially those that want to compete and gather points and
those foursomes that want to go out and have fun together.
But this is also especially beneficial for the individual that
(28:19):
doesn't have a standing for some theme. So I'm really
excited to give everybody in town an opportunity to play
more frequently. And so this league is it actually occurs
in other cities already. Charlotte is where this launched, and
I've partnered with the founders of the Scramble concept and
I'm bringing it to town. I'm super excited and if
your listeners are interested, you can go to majang monkey
(28:42):
dot com and express interest. It's right there on the
pop up and I'll send you all the registration information
once we start sign ups. But it'll be an eight
week league, maybe nine, but it will run from the
first week of June through August, and that will be
our summer season and then we'll do fall and winter, etc.
To your point, Tom, a lot of people don't have,
(29:03):
you know, with family life and professional careers, the flexibility
to commit to a standing appointment every week. So this
is going to be great for folks who need a
little more flexibility in their schedule.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
And before I let you go, you know your story
of how you started this whole thing. You've had Malajeong
Monkey going back to two thousand and four. I mean,
did you twenty twenty four? Oh, I'm sorry, you've had
it now for three years. But did you, in your
wildest dreams believe that it would be where it is
now and where it's going when you started because you
(29:35):
were in the world of banking. You were working in
different cities all over the country, you were working overseas,
and all of a sudden you were sharing with me
your mother, God bless her, comes down with cancer and
she's still going strong, Thank God for that she is.
But you decided, Okay, I can't work in that world.
I got to find something else to do. Is I'm
taking care of her. So you started this. Did you
(29:57):
ever picture it would be like this?
Speaker 6 (29:59):
I never picture it, So for me, you summarized that beautifully.
I'm on a career, professional career prose, a corporate career pause,
I should say, and loving this time, you know, with
my mom. But I was kind of missing the mental
challenge and the social interaction of my prior career.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
So I started.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Playing a lot of Majong, and my first lesson was
actually to my in laws on a cruise. I figured,
if we can handle this year, we can do it.
They're great, we can do it anywhere, right. So then
when I got back to Cincinnati soon after, launched officially
Majong Monkey after teaching others. But I never imagined in
(30:41):
twenty twenty four that this kind of renaissance of Majong
would peak. I don't even think we're at the peaktre honestly,
that it would escalate to the point it's at and
then kind of continue with the longevity.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
I used to say, oh, it's the next pickleball.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Well, I might argue it is equivalent to pickleble, Sure,
I say yeah. And I've even done a Majong boot
camp at ACES, which is one of the premiere pickleball
facilities here at Factory fifty two in town. So I
love that activity. But they're obviously uh on. One's exercising
the body, ones exercising the brain, but not entirely dissimilar.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Okay, one more time, How they can reach you? Find
you if people are interested in starting to learn.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Majoh, thank you, yes, So come to my website majong
monkey dot com, especially if you want to schedule a lesson,
and then I often use Instagram stories, so Majong dot
monkey on Instagram to publicize different events. I have book
recommendations for people who internalize and learn that way, can
(31:47):
recommend online apps and tools. Online tools are wild. There's
even software built into Tesla to play Majong. There's a
webcins game for children to learn tile matching. Like it's
It's everywhere. So come to to my Instagram, Majong dot monkey,
come to my website, majong monkey dot com. Give me
a call, come to an event. I'd love to see
everybody and share Majong with more people.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Thank you so much for coming in today. Thank you
alrighty Tara Reardon majong Monkey check it out dot com.
All right, dum chuck Ingram sounds like a Majong kind
of guy to me. You know what, I just learned
an awful lot.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I thought it was just a game where I was
matching tiles on from some at on my phone, but
it is obviously much bigger than I ever anticipate.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Well, Like I talked about my wife's part of this
women's group, friends of hers in our neighborhood, and they decided, hey,
why not try this thing out? And Tara came over
and they are loving it. I mean, look a little
bit at first, like holy mackerel. You know, this is
like hard to look. And then all of a sudden,
another week goes by, another week goes by another, and
they're loving it. I mean, I don't know, I don't
(32:52):
know what to tell you. Awesome, sounds like something good
for you. Chuck, thank you. Ye, somebody brings a lot
of food. Yes, I always have to work on the
mental game. Yes, we all have to work on the
mental game. What's chopping out there from the UC Health
Traffic Center.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
The UC Health Women's Sports Medicine Program provides specialized care
for female athletes at all levels. Scheduling appointment online and
you seehealth dot com earlier accidents clear and out of
the way. Now it's a matter of getting rid of
a couple of backups southbound seventy five in and out
of Lachlan.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
That's good for an extra three to four minutes.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Saying for northbound seventy five out of Erlanger into the
cut and still seeing a bit of slow traffic eastbound
on two seventy five near Turkey Foot for a work
crew before Madison Pike.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Chuck Ingram News Radio seven hundred WLW
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