Sterling 1-2-26

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Well, well, happy New Year to you. An ugly Liverty
Bowl experience for the football bear Cats thirty five thirteen
Navies midshipman handling them relatively easily. How you doing? It's
sterling sick for a second New Year's in a row,
hopped up on goofballs and Nike will and we'll try

(00:26):
to get this out of our systems. You know, let's
do this. I would like to open up the phones
immediately if we can. And what I would like to
do is see exactly where people stand and feel about
this Cincinnati football bear Cat team. And you know, you
talk about the portal, You talk about guys being able

(00:49):
to go from one school to another and better their
situation and have really the ability to move like a
lot of us in the regular world of going to
make some money and make the most money we can
for the work that we do. And certainly that's what
these young college athletes are doing. But you get a
quarterback who you know, bounces out because there's opportunity to

(01:11):
go somewhere else. I have a lot of questions about
the inner workings of how that plays. Does that mean
that the future school that they may be going to
once they enter the portal has reached out to them
or their management and said, hey, we're looking for you
and we're gonna bring you know whatever amount of cash
money to you. And then you kind of go, all right, well,

(01:33):
i don't need to be there for that bowl game.
I'm moving on up or in this situation. And coaches
have been doing it for a long time. Cincinnati's dealt
with that too, And what was interesting to hear Dan
Horde and you know, you know, think about that with
Tony Pike and you hear not so much of it,
and be interested to hear coaches show about this because
a lot of people hating on Saturfy like it's his fault.

(01:53):
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But what is wild
to me is you look at this and you kind
of go, I guess the regular season is the regular season,
and then you get to boll time, and unless you're
in a top tier college football playoff bowl scenario or
something like that, or the school's already backed up the

(02:14):
truck forverbially speaking, to give you whoever it is that
is looking to bounce a way to stay because they're
going to bring them more love when it comes to
cash money. Because that's what this is all about. Then,
I don't know how you navigate this. And what was
interesting is during the broadcast is they're talking about Navy,

(02:35):
and they talk about Army, and they're talking about the
military teams in general. Those guys don't have the portability
because they're in the military. They may be going to school,
they may be student athletes, but in the end, they're
still in a situation where effectively they're on the hook
for whatever amount of years that they're giving up to
serve this nation in a uniform in some capacity. And

(03:00):
UC doesn't have that luxury. Kentucky doesn't have that luxury. Indiana,
who continues to play on in the College Football Playoff,
does not have that luxury. No one else but these
military teams. So that's an interesting wrinkle to it. Five one, three, seven, four,
ninety seven, eight hundred, the big one. You can pick
up the phone, give it the finger, as mister k
used to say, go old friend of mine. You can

(03:21):
talk back on the iHeartRadio app. We have a lot
of ground to cover. Later on, by the way, we'll
talk to Chick Ludwig. We'll break down the Bengals game
as they wrap up their season. We'll talk a little
bit more about portability and how the college game has
been forever changed, at least until they do something different,
I suppose is the best way to look at that.
We'll also talk to uc Helse doctor Christine O'Shea about

(03:44):
living better in the new year and getting healthy and
navigating perhaps what is an extended long holiday hit the
bottle kind of over celebration situation in the new year
that is just a baby twenty twenty six, as well
as the flu season, which I do not know if
I have the flu or not. I called the doctor
and they were like, don't come here, go to the

(04:05):
urgent care, which sort of defeats the purpose of having,
you know, a doctor is sort of the way I
look at it. So we'll talk to her about that
as well. Doctor Dona Schlit going to join us former
out of political science at Right State talk about the
terrorist attack that was foiled thanks to the FBI. She
wrote the first textbook on terrorism, so we'll get into
her head about the threat and how much greater or

(04:28):
not as great as it is in the past and
in the United States, and the danger that is out there.
So in the meantime, give you a chance to sound
off about those football Bearcats, about this Bowl loss thirty
five thirteen to Navy West Side. David is first Jay
after that in Room for You, and again the number
seven four nine, seven, eight hundred, the big one was Sterling, David,

(04:50):
I appreciate your patience. Happy New Year, and how about
those football Bearcats.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Happy new Year, Sterling, loveless Dentilia and just right when
you started it got me five. I'm a season ticket
older for both basketball and football, and uh, I just
basically have gotten to the point where I keep telling
and Joko and my friends were, we're mediocre. We're just
happy to be okay, and I'm tired of its.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
I don't think that's the right way to live.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
I know I agree with it. And we we're Cincinnati,
for God's sakes. We've got we you know. Brian Kelly
and uh Luke Fickle put us back on the map.
Bob Huggins put us on the map, and Luke and
Nick Crony kind.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Of kept us there.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
And I don't know what this athletic director and Pinto
on down. They just don't care and they don't realize
that sports, Yes, academics drive at university but shoot me,
academics drive university with sports really drives it because of
the reputation and that I'm I'm I'm so depressed. I'm
just tired of just sucking.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
I really wasn't trying to bring it down, but it is.
It's a difficult circumstance that we're all sort of navigating.
What I wonder is this because I mean, here's a
football program at the University of Cincinnati. It's only been
in the Big twelve a little while. They've got to
navigate trying to find players and bring them in to say, hey,
we're trying to get to the next level in the

(06:14):
Big twelve and there and they're having to compete with
everybody else. So I mean, this whole circumstance is a
lot more challenging and difficult than anything that's been navigated before.
How much in short oord because it go about thirty seconds.
I want to be on time for news for once
this year to start yep and go from there. I mean,
who do you blame the most? Is it the system?

(06:36):
Is it the university and the way they navigated which
is what you initially said, or.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
What great question?

Speaker 2 (06:42):
I think it all? I mean it starts with winning.
And that's what Sadderfield got brought in to do, to win,
and that starts with John Counningham for hiring him. You've
got to go with the tools that you have, and
when you start winning, that can take.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
A little bit less.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
You can make a little bit. You can make.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Another player come this way. If you're winning, you're getting
on TV and you're doing some great things, and then
they may take a little bit less to come there.
But it's all about reputation. It's all about perception, and
it starts at the top. And you know what, that's
where he's getting paid for it, and he's not doing
his job.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
David, I hope you have a great in.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
In my opinion.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
My opinion, Well I got you. I mean, the record
is the record. The final score tonight is the final
score of this Liberty Bowl in Memphis, which I love
Memphis barbecue. By the way, thirty five thirteen Bearcats falled
in Navy? What else you got before I bounce you
your final thought.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
I'll leave you go on. That's the good news?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Was is I bet against the Bearcats on draftings that
I cast in.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Oh oh, that's terrible, Greg Jay Terry others will hit
the phones after or NOTHINGY know, what's going on? A
rim planet Earth And here in the Tri State it's
a Friday, sterling. The weekend is here. Bearcat's a tough
time in Memphis town as they fall to Navy. Give
you a chance to sound off straight away seven hundred
wulw that after falling in Memphis the Liberty Bowl for

(07:55):
the shipman midshipman of a Navy thirty five thirty. The
portal and ability for players to move around bit the
Bearcats at the back end, maybe a little bit. Some
say it was at Sadderfield, or some say it's the
way it was managed to the university. I think it's
challenging in general, probably for any program, let alone bounce

(08:16):
it into a relatively new to the big twelve stills
trying to figure that out, get to the next level
in this But and I'm not trying to be an apologist.
I'm gonna know what you think. Five point three seven
four nine seven eight hundred the big one long holiday
weekend last couple of weeks. I'll disjoin it with the
holidays falling in the middle of the week. I'm just
kind of curious, do you think that now because everybody thought, well,

(08:38):
this is the way a team can get better fast
by going out effectively with free agency and getting players
that were sort of held hostage previously when they're athletic
directors or coaches would regularly bounce. Cincinnati dealt with it.
Other schools have dealt with it with their head coach,
and all of a sudden disappears before a bowlgamer Otherwise.
Now you get starting quarterbacks going in what a portal time,

(09:01):
bouncing somewhere else. They're back in the truck up to
pay me, and you kind of got to figure out, well, then,
what level are you on when it comes to the
money that you can bring for these players, because like
all of us, they're looking out for themselves because they
have to. Five point three seven four nine seven eight
hundred the big one Mount Carmel, Terry, appreciate your holding
with Sterling. Happy new year here on seven hundred WLW.

(09:23):
What's going on, Sterling?

Speaker 5 (09:25):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (09:25):
I think I'm all right as far as I know you.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Hey, I think I think money is completely ruined this sport.
I don't agree with this this transfer porter at all
to me. The stores beat character that kind of epitomizes
that he hasn't even picked what school he goes to
and he sells out his team. Yeah, I just I
just think it's completely Runney. Is this completely run college football?
I mean, what if I get a scholarship? I mean,

(09:49):
how do we deal with that?

Speaker 3 (09:50):
You know?

Speaker 4 (09:51):
So if somebody gets a scholarship, do they get to
take the scholarship with them? If they transfer up their
another school.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
That's probably up for negotiation, right how many?

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yeah? I don't blame Thater for it. I mean this
is like the second year in a row this has happened.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Do you see it?

Speaker 4 (10:07):
You know, with a transfer porter and all these guys
lean to get a bowl game. I mean, to me,
you know if they shouldn't be allowed you know, it
is what it is. But to me, they shouldn't be
allowed to transfer out. You have you know, you're done
with the season, you get a bowl game. You know,
that's just basically it didn't play your ball game? Didn't

(10:28):
you transfer out? Because to me, just like to sell
them uc out man. Basically, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Thank you, sure, no terror, I appreciate the comments. Thank you.
It's a tough spot. I mean, what do you do
if you're a parent, and I don't mean of a
current student who's a fan. I'm talking about if you're
a parent of a player who's lucky enough to have
the talent and have somehow found their way to the
University of Cincinnati or any other school around the country
that gets to a point where it's bowl season and

(10:55):
you're on the cuspa of being at the ball And
it wasn't just quarterback. I mean a lot of other
guys do the same thing. And it was really an
amazing thing and arguably somewhat surprising that this Bearcats football
team did as well as they did. I mean, and
maybe I'm a little like being soft as far as
the critical nature of the way that I'm looking at it,

(11:16):
but I mean, it's challenging. I'm not sure how you
navigate that unless you're at a higher level with more money.
But if you're a parent, or if you're a player
or those counseling them, and you're looking at, well, do
I play in this ballgame and I can get my
leg broken, I can get my shoulder ripped off, I
could get a Joe Burrow toe situation or something else

(11:37):
along those lines. And then wherever you were trying to
go probably not the opportunity that you thought it was
going to be, and then you kind of go, well,
where do you fall where you are, whether it's at
UC or another school, in that sipe of situation, it's
very difficult. And unless you have a contract that is
written with the player the way you would at the

(11:58):
pro level or in just about any other business that says,
here's the deal. You stay for a bowl game if
it's at this level, and there's this kind of bonus money,
and then there's that kind and I don't when I
talk to Chick Ludwig later, who's covered Bengals and bear
Cats and everything else from the ND five hundred do
you name it? You hear him here on the Big
One all the time. You'll hear him getting you ready

(12:19):
for some stuff tomorrow night here on seven hundred WLW.
He'll join me in just well less than an hour
now and we'll talk about all of this as well.
I'm just wondering, as a fan to U see, as
a parent, to U see students, as someone who is
in and around the tri State, how much of this
it's sort of I'm trying to think of the best

(12:41):
way I can describe it. There was a point in
time when I was a kid, and it was very
short because I'm in the window of maybe the generation
before me as a Reds fan, as a Bengals fan,
where you had guys that you grew up watching and
hearing being talked about on the big one, and you
go to Riverfront and then Synergy and then pay Corps,

(13:04):
and then you would watch and at some point in
that window of time when I was a tiny sterling,
you'd see these players that would then be able to
go to another team to better their financial situation with
free agency and so forth, and all those things that
have changed the game and the portability of the pro
player in some ways has made it very difficult to

(13:26):
have that same type of good feeling after that first
contract or two coming up from the minor leagues in
baseball or otherwise, and even in the NFL now, I mean,
things have changed a bit, but the college thing, it's
not as pure as is one would hope it would
be in that regard. But the idea I've heard. I
had a neighbor given me grief yesterday about this. It
wasn't really grief. Let me just say he was complaining

(13:49):
he was bitching and moaning about it, and he was saying,
you know, it's unfair and these kids should just stay
and all this or what about the student athlete, Well,
they haven't just been student athletes for a long time,
and there have been coaches that have been making millions
and millions of dollars for a long time. And it
wasn't that long ago that Maurice Clarek, for instance, and
a lot of other players around, and he was at

(14:10):
Ohio State. Of course, who ends up getting involved in
something else trying to us to make a little bit
of extra money. I think he sold like one of
those little trinkets or something with the you know, the
pants that are gold or whatever for the Buckeyes to
sit and chickle. Know that because he lives it and
breezes it. But in that situation, you know, they couldn't
even take a part time job the way I did
working at the college radio station, because it would cross

(14:32):
the line of one them being able to do what
they're doing for a football program or a basketball program,
depending whatever it is. And that also it would as
their favorability because there's something impropriety wise being looked at
or talked about in the way that you know their
finances are done compared to someone else is very odd.
And it's been that way, or was that way for

(14:53):
a long long time. Now what we're seeing is sort
of the real world in a small little window that
we thought with something else is pure. Now it's just
like everything else. I suppose. I'm not quite sure what
it means to us as fans. But if you're a
player in that situation, what else you're gonna do protect
yourself and your future? I mean, it's on to the

(15:16):
next one. Mount healthy, David, you're with Sterling five one, three, seven, four, nine,
eight hundred, the big one. What about these football Bearcats
who fell in Navy tonight thirty five thirteen at the
Liberty Bowl.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
Yeah, well, you know, Saturfield probably isn't the right guy
to be head coach bat Higher.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
But really, what I wanted.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
To say is it's time to get rid of the
Bowl games.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Right their time has passed.

Speaker 6 (15:36):
They were nice, but the world's moved on and their
meaningless exhibition games. And if you're not going to get
rid of all of the Bowl games, should at least
reduce them down to a couple handful.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
And the problem you know that might be the case.
So the only ones you keep are what the college
football playoff and then the rest of the teams do
what in the smaller conferences or teams that aren't quite there.

Speaker 6 (15:59):
Well, you know, if you don't make the playoffs, I mean,
your season's over, just like if you don't make the
you know, the big tournament. I guess they could start
doing littler playoffs.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Or something like that.

Speaker 6 (16:09):
You know, everyone's always gonna try to want to make money,
but frankly they should just you know, if you're out
playing exhibition, it's contact football. People are going to get hurt,
So there's no reason for supposed to be risking that
kind of stuff. But the game's meaningless.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
Do you play games.

Speaker 6 (16:24):
Football games that have meaning to them because it's such
a risky, high impact sport.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Well, you're quite right in a fashion. I mean, for
a long time, there have been so many, you know,
Bowl games in the first place, that it was like overwhelming.
It's like, you know, day after day after day week
it seems like a couple of weeks there's been Bowl
games almost twenty four to seven. I'm only exaggerating a
little bit. So you know, you bring good yeah.

Speaker 6 (16:48):
Well, when you have six and six teams and five
and seven teams and seven and six teams, you know, competing,
it's it's frankly, it's poor competition. And uh yeah, and
that's why I know I was up to play. And
this leads everyone frustrated. So we it's time for the
world to move on.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
David, I appreciate the com man, thank you. And that's
challenging because you have all these sponsors, you have all
these cities, you have all these stadiums, you have all
these college football teams, and the idea of some type
of celebration on a mediocre or six and you know,
a five hundred season, you get to a bowl game
of some sort. But there's TV money at stake, and
that's a lot of money. So maybe you have a

(17:28):
larger pool of money from each of these bowl games
that goes to the players on top of it to
make it worth their while to stay I suppose, I mean,
I I'm just you know, spitballing thinking of ideas here
that might actually avoid a circumstance like the you know,
everybody who's a football Bearcat fan and a whole lot

(17:50):
of other teams around the country having to sort of
make sense of what this circumstance is here as well.
If you didn't hear it earlier, if you didn't watch
it earlier, you're on the road hanging out out you know,
long New Year's Weekend, seven hundred WLW Sterling hanging out,
Dan Hord earlier, Tony Pike, mowegor you heard him from Memphis,
the Liberty Bowl, Navy all over, the Cincinnati Bearcats thirty

(18:13):
five thirteen. And you get a quarterback who bails out
onto the next school. Perhaps you're right for more money.
That's what it's about. Other players as well, So they
got to go deeper into the depth chart. And these
military teams say, that's a very interesting circumstance because you
can't just bail out on the military. You go a waywall.
Oh I'm gonna go to another school and make more money. No,

(18:34):
you'll go to prison, You'll go to the brig You
can't do that. It's different for everybody else. The Green
Township in Nate was Sterling on seven hundred WLW Nate.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
What do you think, Hey, how's it going?

Speaker 1 (18:46):
That's you know, if you're a Bearcats fan, not good.
But otherwise I've got the flu. I'm fine, I'm hopped
up on caffeine and emergency. I'm great.

Speaker 7 (18:55):
That's good. Yeah, this is gonna get a lot, but
I'm try get our quickly. For so, I think the
way that you fix this this whole thing is one
you've got to have some sort of clause and coaches
contracts five or ten million dollars at the school that
they're going to go to has to pay as a fee,
which is you know, small peanuts for some schools. But

(19:19):
I think there should be a coaching change window, much
like the transfer portal window opening that starts after the
college football playoff concludes, and then the transfer portal doesn't
open until after that's done. I think that's kind of
the first thing. And then once that, once that all

(19:40):
gets done, there also needs to be some some sort
of penalization for the players that try to transfer that
are going to stay in school, obviously, and if they're
not going to stay in school, then there needs to
be there's some elegitibility hits or something that stopped them
from going to school to school, so that would keep

(20:01):
if they're not declaring for the NFL draft, obviously, you
know there's going to be some sort like it used
to be. And if they are going to declare, then
they can sit out the bowl game. But I think
that there needs to be some sort of requirement that
they also have to play in a bowl game if
they're going to stay in school.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, that's an interesting angle on that, and that could
solve some of it. And then it's tough. I think
you'll start hearing guys beg out because of some type
of injury because when that portal comes staying in school
or otherwise to another place. Because again, there's so much
money at stake. I mean, unless it's just purely about winning,
but let's be honest, this is about their future and

(20:39):
making more money than they would likely make generally if
they just graduated and got a real life job. So
I mean, this is their chance to get as much
as they can for as long as they can, because
the NFL is certainly no guarantee.

Speaker 7 (20:53):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's a good point.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
It's tough. Well, I don't have any better ideas. I'm
not hating on it. I'm just saying it's a lot
to sort of process. I think, what's the thing my
mom used to tell me when I was a kid,
like an unintended consequences. Sometimes right you try and I've
lived with this, or you try to do the right
thing and try to be nice and it comes back
and bite you. This might be it. I appreciate the

(21:15):
call man. Thank you one more here before the break,
Paul and Xenia. I played putt Putton Zenia and there
was a horrible tornado there about fifty one years ago too,
which I didn't mean to bring up bad times. Paul,
how are you? Hell's everything?

Speaker 8 (21:28):
Well, I'm doing okay, staring. I just won't take this
opportunity to race you and your mode On a related
Happy New Years.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Well, thank you, Happy New Year to you as well.
What about these football bearcats in this situation with the portal.
I'm not gonna say the loss today was strictly that,
but it certainly was a kick to the junk.

Speaker 8 (21:50):
Well starting as you probably know, the attard of me,
the Labor Academy, Point and the Air Force Academy. They're
all highly displined.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
They are.

Speaker 8 (22:07):
They are so much disperence than the average college team.
And it comes as no surprise to.

Speaker 9 (22:13):
Me that that the Naval Academy mid Stippland they were
going away over our recovered U versus centinary vertex.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Do you think it's just the discipline. I think it's
probably the players bouncing out to better their situation that
may be contributed. But maybe fifty to fifty on that.
It's tough to say, but I guess in the.

Speaker 8 (22:35):
Naval Academy, you commit as a prishman, and you're there
four years to graduate, right, and then you stucking out
after a freshman year, a sophomore year, you're you're there, Uh,
you're there for the.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Whole ride, correct, and then that three or five year
hitch or whatever it is that they initially signed up
to because they are serving this nation at the same
time and then into the future a little bit differently
than the rest of us, or at least most of us, right, and.

Speaker 8 (23:08):
They it really takes a different breed of human being
to successfully complete a four year education in the West
Point for the army, or the Naval Academy for the
midshipman most definitely, or the Air Force Academy for the

(23:28):
Air Force yep. I mean, they have to be truly dedicated, stilling,
and they really have to want that is their goal,
and they really have to want They put everything else aside,
and they concentrate for four years to achieve their goal.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
That's true. It's true. I don't have that stick to
it of just now, and I'm grown Paul. I appreciate
the call, Happy New Year, take care of yourself. I
appreciate the perspective and the take as well. Coming up
after the nine o'clock report, we'll talk some movies with
Kevin Carr, Fat guys of the movie SI Forget. Go
on Substack. We used to do this podcast together called
Chubby and Stick, which is still somewhere out there in

(24:04):
the cloud somewhere. You can stream it if you'd like to.
What else we got going on? Oh, chick a logwig
is going to join me. We'll talk more on Bearcats.
We'll talk on Bengals Sunday as they wrap up their
twenty five twenty six season, unfortunately in a playoffs for them.
We'll give you more of a chance to sound off
on this as well. A lot of ground to cover
later on. Also, you see health doctor Christino Day going

(24:26):
to talk about living better in the New year, being
healthier and maybe trying to get rehydrated after a long
New Year celebration, maybe consuming some adult beverages, if you
know what I'm saying, and as well as a nasty
flu season and doctor Donas Schleck from Wright State, former
head of political science, they are going to join us
talk about terrorism and a foiled attack plan that they

(24:47):
put the kaibash on over the new Year that the
FBI has come out to talk about, and she put
actually the first textbook of terrorism ever published out, So
we'll get into her hat about that. A whole lot
of other ground to cover tonight, Friday Night. Sterling on
a tough one for the Cincinnati Football Bearcats in Memphis,
falling in the Liberty Bowl to the Navy Midshipman thirty

(25:07):
five thirteen on seven hundred WLW. It'll have. It's been
two weeks of what seems like almost a weekend for
most people. I've been working, but I know a whole
lot of other people who have been burning up vacation,
traveling all over Hill and Dale's to Grandma's house and
everything else. And happy Neod here to you and yours
is fine. Second of January twenty twenty six, rested, relaxed, fat, sassy, tanned,

(25:33):
and I think he waited to get sick until he
came home from vacation, Kevin Carr, Silver Gecko on the
sub Stack, My Chubby and Stick Partner podcast gone by,
and of course of fat guys at the movies. How
are you? How's the family car? And Happy New Year? Brother?

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah? Happy nud here. Yeah, everything's good. You're right. I
did get sick. I was on vacation over Christmas. I
got sick right when I was traveling home. So if
you're gonna get sick on, that's the time to do
it on your way back.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, why not be miserable at the house rather than
wherever it is that you go to sun yourself or
ski or whatever it is that makes you happy. It's terrible.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Well yeah, I mean it's already no fun going home,
you know, I'm not thinking it already sucks to drive
back or fly back or take a boat back or whatever.
The return trip always is not nearly as fun as
the anticipation of going. So yeah, but I know, I
get hit by this blue and that thing. Oh that's
no joke, man, No, it knocked me on my butt.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
It's been pretty bad for me for a couple of days,
but no fever. So I came in trying to stay
away from everybody, and I'll spray everything down in here.
I've been bathing in like antibacterial stuff and hopped up
on like emergency and goofball. So everything is fine.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
I'm good to hear get pulled over on the way home.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
I no, no, everything's fine. I'm not doing it while
I'm here.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
No, No, I'm just chugging the costs.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, correct, correct, everything's great. So think of it back
at twenty five, because you know, you always tell us
what's new and picks to watch and everything else. Is
there anything new? This is a weird window of time,
the way Christmas and New Year's has fallen. Is anything new?
Before I start picking your brain about maybe what we've
missed and stuff to catch up on from twenty five?

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Well, I mean there's like a couple of smaller things.
There are a lot of times you get limited release stuff.
The first weekend always that New Year, whatever that New
Year's weekend is is always kind of an off weekend.
So there's nothing big even like what was weird? Is
there weren't any real big opening on Christmas Day movies?
I mean there was Anna Condo, which I still want

(27:33):
to see because it just looks stupid and fun. Ye,
but there was a song sung Blue, which is that
Neil Diamond tribute kind of. It's it's based on a
true story starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson. And that's
that's fine, But there was no big Christmas Day movie

(27:54):
where sometimes things are like opening Christmas Day and I
think that they knew that Avatar was gonna snuck the
air out of the room, so they everyone just kind
of vacated the next week and then this week is
always a dead week and then we you know, hit
it hard like next week with Primate, the Killer Chimpanzee
movie and the in the green Land two movie. If

(28:19):
it wasn't enough to watch Gerard Butler try to save
his family from everything on the planet, uh, you got
him coming back in this one as well.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Nice, that's pretty good. Uh it is. First of all,
let me ask you about this the movie that you
just mentioned about Neil Diamond, But it's not really about him.
That's about right, that's about these people who basically are
a what do you want to call it a cover act?

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Right? Yeah, well they like to call themselves a Neil
Diamond experience. You know, it's not even a tribute but inexperience. Uh,
and it's it is based on a true story. There
was a documentary about it about this guy who just
loves Neil Diamond so much he kind of does the
tribute band, meets another impersonator share her big thing is
Patsy Klein. But then they work together to kind of

(29:07):
do and they fall in love and they have this
whole story. And with any story, there's ups and downs
and good and bad things happening. And I mean that's
it's a sweet enough story. It pushes all the right buttons.
It's predictable, but you know that's the thing life kind
of predictable for a lot of you. You know, you
know something bad's gonna happen. You some know there's gonna
be bouncing back and all that kind of stuff. But
I mean, it's just a fine little movie. It does

(29:30):
get a little heavy on the Neil Diamond songs, if
you might. If you find that hard to believe.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Well you got to be a fan of Neil Diamond,
you're probably not gonna watch anyway. Which it leads me
to an interesting thing. I just read something that said
one of the family members of I guess these people
were not happy with the way they were portrayed or
how the movie came out. Yet I've heard people say
good things about the movie. So that's a weird thing.
Great movie, but apparently not true to form, or at
least the family members not happy with what they saw.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
What does that? Well, here's the thing when it comes
to when it comes to true stories, is true, it's
no one wants to see it. It's a boring movie.
If everybody is always good and perfect and honest and
above board, and nobody's like that. Everybody has their dark side,
everybody has their flaws, everybody has their ups and downs

(30:17):
and their good days and they're bad days. And so
when I see a movie that's especially if it's even
if it's a famous person biopic and it's like approved
completely by the family, I was kind of like, well,
that's probably not that good because you don't get the downside.
Like there's a movie and there's still slight against Jesse Owens.
He was an absolute hero. But there's a movie called

(30:39):
Race that came out I don't ten years fifteen years ago,
and it was a biopic about Jesse Owens and him
going to the Olympics and winning and all that kind
of stuff, but it was like like produced by his family,
and I'm like, not that Jesse Owens had these dark
skeletons in the closet or anything like that, but there

(30:59):
was Everybody has ups and downs, and everybody has good
points and bad points, and the movie did feel a
little bit sanitized, whereas if it's a you know, so
it may have shown something that's true. It's just maybe
the family didn't like what was shown. I'm not a
biographer of this these people, but that's one of the
things you run into or they feel that they focus

(31:20):
too much on this because it made them look a
certain way and not enough about this. I mean, it's
like anything. If anyone did a story of your well,
I don't know. For me, it could be one of
those things I'd watched and I'd be like, well, you
kind of improved on things.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
So I'm living the life. I could write it better
than I'm living. Yes, I absolutely could for me anyway.
Talking to Kevin Carr silver Gecko on Substack with Sterling
on seven hundred WLW. So all right, so let's move
I guess back and look at at twenty five if possible,

(31:53):
Because there are always so many things that are put
out and now was streaming, it's even more so, what
is there? I mean, I don't know how many have.
If it's ten, if it's five, what are the like?
If you miss this, must see go back stream it,
find it because there are a lot of good things
that just fall through the cracks because there's just simply
so much stuff to watch.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Yeah, well, and I mean like like certain ones. Obviously,
people know I really loved Superman. You know that. You
remember me talking about that, and that was that was
a lot of fun. But but like some of that
kind of maybe were lesser seen, and some of these
are darker movies. I tend to fall into the horror appreciation.
There was a movie that was called Good Boy and

(32:36):
it came out I don't know, about four months ago,
and it was about a dog and it's a horrory
told from the dog's perspective. And it starts a dog
named Indy. Who's who's Who's should be in the running
for best actor of any category of anything. You know,
it should he should get the oscar. Oh, he's a
very good boy. And it's it's it's a really interesting approach,

(32:57):
and you know, it's got The Best Being Subject as well,
so that one is really good. If you haven't seen that,
check that out. I think it's on shutter. You can
probably find it elsewhere. I also was a big thing.
You had two fantastic Stephen King adaptations. One of them
was The Long Walk, which is difficult to watch, came
out I think in this late August or late summer

(33:18):
August area. Very difficult to watch because it has heavy
devy subject matter. But it's a fantastic adaptation of the
original Richard Bachmann book that Stephen King kind of wrote
under a pseudonym back in the seventies. But he also
did The Monkey Oggur Perkins, the son of Anthony Perkins
who played Norman Bates. He directed this this over the top,

(33:42):
crazy violent tale about this this this little uh well,
it used to have like this symbol monkey had the symbols.
They had to change it to him hitting a drum,
the monkey with a drum for the movie.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Well, what was that? Because they were going to sue
them or they didn't like the way that the toy
was being shown or something or what.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
I I think that some other company, like maybe it
might have been like a toy story thing has a
monkey with symbols, and so they said, let's just avoid
that completely, even though the original story was a monkey
with symbols. And it's just a bonkers movie. And if
you like sort of these insane, over the top at
darkly funny movies, the monkeys are fantastic. It's kind of

(34:22):
off brand for Osbud Perkins because the stuff you saw
long legs, I mean, that thing was heavy and grim.
But this one, I mean, it's an over the top splatterfest.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Well there's nothing wrong with that. I mean, you got
to be in the right mood, but I'm all for that.
Tell me. But I know you have others on the list,
but I'm just thinking about this one battle after another.
Is that one of those that you would say this
is that this is one of the better ones of
ninety five or five? Oh, I just flashed back thirty years.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
I'm about to say that that's pt Anderson, that's in
his infancy. No, this one's good. I mean I'm not,
I'm not the total acolyte of pt. Anderson, but this
was a This was a good movie. It's one of
those ensemble movies because Leonardo Dicapriro does a great job
in it, Chase Infinity, who plays his daughter. She does

(35:12):
a great job in it. Sean penn As wickedly evil
as the bad guy. Excuse me. Vaneciel del Toro is
a hoot in this movie. So that, yeah, that was
worth seeing. If you've not seen it, it is an experience.
It's a little long, so I do warn you about that,
but actually want to know it's real bonkers. Check out

(35:33):
Begonia sometimes. That's the one where Emma Stone plays like
a CEO and Jesse Plemon's kidnaps her thinking she's an alien,
shaves off her head and and and is keeping her
in her his basement because he doesn't want her to
he wants to stop the alien invasion. It is. It
is chilling because you're like, you'd watch the movie and

(35:56):
you'd be like, yeah, I know somebody like that. I
don't know somebody who would who might try that, you
know what I mean? And it's it's very very disturbing
at times.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
She's made some really really good films, hasn't she amazing?

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Well? And this is It is directed by Yorgus Lathomos,
who did poor things which she won what are her
oscars for? So you see you see less of emastone
in this one, then you do important.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
But you saw all of themistone, all of her, Yes
she did, and that's not all bad as for sure.
Anything else of the like well, because you mentioned from
one two through Stephen King movies, Long Walk, The Monkey,
Good Boys, Superman. Uh you mentioned Bona, what what else?

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Any weapons? Weapons is a great movie if you've not
seen that one. It's directed by it's written directed by
Zach Craiger. He did barbarian A couple of years ago.
Originally started out in comedy doing the Whitest Kids you
know and Lo and Behold. He's a brilliant horror director.
So Weapons is a fantastic movie, almost impossible to spoil

(36:57):
because it's so twisted and convo looted in what it's
trying to do. It's uh, it's you keep guessing even
if you know what's going to happen. So it's an
Amy Madigan is fantastic in that movie.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Nice, Okay, good good? I like it. Anything else of
consequence before like, we let you rest and convalesce and
do whatever it is you have to do. Hydrate, That's
what I've been doing. I really I joke about the
big drinks when we've gone to the movies together, whatever,
in the catheter. But I have been consuming so much
in the way of fluids to try to get through
this sickness that a catheter, which I just went thinking about,

(37:35):
might actually save me some time.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
Well yeah, well then the key is if you're sick,
you don't want to have anything with too much caffeine
in it. Now, you can have tea like to drink
and so your soues your throat. But no, that's why
you go with like sprite seven up.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Water, dalyite whatever.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
Yeah, yeah, pedlte or you know, cater Raide or something
like that.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
So this thirty ounce container the mug of ice coffee
is a bad choice.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
Probably not a great idea. That's that's that's a lot
of that's a lot of caffeine. Caffeine will dehydrate, you'll
you'll expel more than you take in.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
That might explain my need to go Yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Well yeah, but uh no, I would say. The only
other thing I I I that that's really on my
radar is you got the finale of Stranger Things that
dropped on on it was it New Year's Eve or
New Year's day. Uh, it was New Year's Eve and
it was a great wrap up to the show. I'm
not going to spoil or anything, but it's it's definitely

(38:29):
worth checking out. If you've been waiting to borrow somebody's
Netflix password, now's the time to do it. You've got
there's forty two episodes, which amounts to, well, I don't
know what one hundred and eighty six hours of Eve.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Is really a lot?

Speaker 3 (38:42):
Yeah, but it's good. It's worth worth checking out.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
And did I read or did you didn't tell me something?
Is there going to be a movie about that? Or
is that just what I don't did? I?

Speaker 4 (38:53):
No?

Speaker 3 (38:53):
No, no. They they released the two hour series per
me series finale. Did you like this week?

Speaker 1 (39:00):
I gotcha?

Speaker 3 (39:01):
And it made like twenty million dollars.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
That's better than a lot this year.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean and it was it was
sort of that that like Batham event kind of one
time one or two night thing. But I mean it
is cinematic. It's a great to you know, sometimes you
go and you watch like the two hour finale and
you know, like that could have been forty five minutes. Yes, yeah,
this one it does take its time and you have
you definitely have a nice dinu maw you know day.

(39:31):
It's not like they like wrap up the bad stuff
and then roll credits. They they it's a little bit
Return of the King trying to you know, wrap everything
up at the end. So but it's worth it if
you if you've stayed through all five seasons, you know,
watch these twenty some year old kids graduate from high
school or something like that. Yeah, and that's the kind of.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Thing something to do, I suppose, Uh, yeah, it's it's
a weird thing. I'm wondering. Uh at this point, are
there too many options? As far as you would.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Never say that, No, I would never say that. That's
that's like, that's like that's like what your wife's coming
home like, sorry, honey, we're just having way too much sex.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
No, there's I mean, there's I've seen a lot of movies, now,
not as many as you because it's been your life,
but I uh, and I've had some sex. I gotta say,
Kevin Carr, I have never not once ever like compared
I mean equality film to even bad sex. I mean,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
Well, no, I mean, you know, what's that whole thing,
you know, like you have pizza, pizza, even bad pizzas good.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Right, right, I mean, how many movies have you like, gone,
this is a complete waste of time. I want to
get the hell out of this theater or fallen asleep
or otherwise. I mean, I have bolted out of theaters
and gone across the hall because I'm like, I'm never
getting that part of my life back. Ever, I've never
been the mist of sex and gone. I got to
get out of here maybe once.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
Well yeah, but I mean it's not a perfect comparison,
but I mean it is. It is one of the
but the whole these are too many options. I love
the fact that we have options. I love the fact
that there's more stuff than because this is the thing.
You can bolt. You can bail if you start watching
something and you're like this is boring, I can go
to something else.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
God, do you remember the back everyone is complaining about
too many options? Remember back in the day, we had
three three channels Lucky maybe PBS was showing money Python.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Well, but other than that, you're right, and and I
and if you were like me, and we've discussed this before.
Kevin Carr, by the way, is silver Gecko on the
sub stack talking movies and so forth with Stirling on
the Big One. I mean, I thought my only purpose
in life as a young tiny sterling was to hold
the antenna and stand appropriately so we might be able
to get more than the three. So we could get

(41:44):
eet and sixteen out of Dayton. So we could get
nineteen and then maybe twenty two out of Dayton. You know,
in that type of situation and the weather was really good,
maybe you get a Columbus station or an Indianapolis station.
And that might have been if I took the foil
and wrapped it around the top of the room.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Yeah, I mean, I grew up in Columbus. We had
three stations and PBS and that was it. We didn't
get independent TV stations until the mid eighties. And I
remember we'd go up and visit my family in Cleveland.
They had a couple of them. I thought it was
great that channel surfing. You could go seven stations before
you got back to the Brady Bunch again. So look,
I mean, I will take more content over nothing any day.

(42:24):
And I love the fact that people promote, Oh but
Blockbuster's close, you can't. Oh, I'm sorry. You go to
Blockbuster and you can't all agree on a movie and
then it be out. You know, you can't wait six
years to go see my best friend's wedding because the
entire wall at Blockbuster's gone. No, I mean, you can
just watch whatever you want to. I will never complain
about that.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
There you go, don't complain. Options are good. It's good
to have choices. I mean, yeah, that's the bottom line. Absolutely,
Kevin Carr, thank you for making time. I know that
you're convalescing. You're sickly, but tan and rested into the
new year. So I wish you and the family car
the best and I look forward to hanging out and
talking more movies and whatever else comes in twenty twenty six.

(43:04):
Thank you for jo We'll talk to you later, absolutely, Man,
take care of yourself. More sterling coming back sooner than later.
Chick Ludwig's gonna join me on the other side of
your nine thirty report. We got a Brady Hopkins with
the news. Chick will join us. We'll talk on Bengals,
and of course we'll talk on those football bear Cats
as well, and the issue of portability, which there is

(43:24):
no portability, by the way. With the scholarship Russ Jackson
sort of helped dig deeper into that as we had
a guy earlier and we were talking about Bearcats and
the Navy midshipman and how that game played out earlier
in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis. You heard it here
on the Big One thirty five thirteen Bearcats fall to Navy.
We'll talk to Chick about the Bearcats. We'll talk about

(43:47):
the portal and what that's done to well, you see,
and a lot of other schools in the situation ahead,
and about the Bengals who look to wrap up this
season Sunday with the Browns making the trip down seventy
one to pay Corps for one o'clock kickoff here on
News Radio seven hundred double WELW Cincinnati. Glad they're along.
It's nice second day of January twenty twenty six. We'll

(44:14):
get in conversation a little later about that poor eleven
year old girl was shot at the Cincinnati playground and
the issues with the family having a sort of not
getting the attention I think of the love as it's
been reported at the hospital that one would think they
would be after losing their baby. We will get into
that a bit later. Also, Doctor Donald schleg from Wright
State former head of political science, going to talk on

(44:36):
terrorism threats and the FBI putting the hammer down and
at least stopping one of those that they've reported publicly
over the last couple of days. A lot of other
stuff to get to as well. Chick, Ludwig kind that
i'd give us some time, you know, Chick, you love chick.
Coffee in hand, computer, all over, the Bengals, all over,
the Bearcats. You covered everything in sport other than maybe

(45:00):
ping pong and Indonesia gambling late at night, and maybe
he did that too. I don't know, Chick. How are
you happy New Year? How's everything?

Speaker 3 (45:08):
Fantastic? Sterling great to hear from me.

Speaker 10 (45:10):
As far as gambling goes, I do not gamble, but
I think I made some folks some money because I
told him to take Miami, the Hurricanes and the points.
Oh so yeah, the buck eyes out right time.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
It was ugly. There was not a good thing. And
speaking of something else because I know you're going to
get into a whole lot of this tomorrow when you're in.
But I wanted to ask about the Bearcats because initially
I wanted to talk about Bengals, and then the Bearcats
thing with sideways. Tell me about this portal problem, because
it is a portal problem, and people are upset. They

(45:47):
want to blame Sadderfield, they want to blame the University
of Cincinnati. How much of this is the nature of
what the business of college football is today compared do
you think the way it's being run in the program
at the University of Cincinnati.

Speaker 10 (46:02):
Well, so much of it is is the portal and
the problems to deal with. And first things first, uh,
Navy was the superior team on so many levels. First
of all, they're used to water, okay, in the driving
rain in the Memphis. They know how to swim, and
they know how to row okay. And they brought everybody

(46:24):
with them, and you see was down a dozen players,
all of them opting out, most of them, you know,
entering the portal. A couple guys including Dante Corleone, you know,
preparing for the NFL draft. So to beat down eight
defensive backs, this was just a no brainer.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
Pick a Navy to day.

Speaker 10 (46:48):
But anyway, you know, to go in there with you know,
your second and third string quarterbacks, you see, just had
no chance to day against the midshipman. And it's just
brutal to think, now, where do you you need a quarterback?
Is it going to be some I. J. Shones or
or somebody else next year? So it's like you're always fighting,

(47:11):
uh yeah, fighting from behind to to measure up. They
they've lost five in a row. They started seven and
one and uh and then get sunk today, you know
by the midship and it in this Liberty Bowl.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
Didn't they lose five in a row last year as
well at the end.

Speaker 10 (47:32):
They were They're one and eleven in November under Scott Sadderfield. So, uh,
they've got to find a way number one, to retain guys. Yes,
in number two, Yeah, find a way that a mid
season to stand on the gas and not uh not crumble.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (47:51):
Is it all about the money chick Ludwig by the way,
sterling seven hundred WLW Because to retain these guys, these guys,
they they opt out that they put themselves in the
poor you know, a dozen players, a starting quarterback, eight
defensive backs, and you look at that and you kind
of go, it's a shell of the team, and you
see it is not the only team navigating this. But

(48:13):
they're relatively new to the big twelve they're still trying
to get to the top tier of that and build
this program and having to navigate it. Is there a
way to say, And maybe it would be unfair because
I'm of the idea that players should have the portability
the coaches have had for years where we've seen it
at UC check where you know, you come to bowl
time and all of a sudden the coach has gone.

(48:33):
You're like, well, what what's that about, Well, coach took
another job. Now, so these players are in that situation.
Do you say, look, you've got to stay through the
bowl game, which risk them and their opportunity to be
healthy to get to the next place if it's not
going to be you seen, because they could come down.

Speaker 10 (48:49):
To signing contracts. You know, with players, you have to
you know, you have to fulfill your responsibility, whatever it
is a year or two or staying through the bowl
game aim and to get paid. So, yeah, a lot
of it is about money and then opportunity. Uh gosh,
you look at a Fernando Mendoza, you know, buried out

(49:10):
in cal and then the opportunity that he gets at
the at Indiana University. Just a phenomenal story. And yeah,
now we're looking at the Brendan Soresby. You know, we'll
find out what in a day or two, hopefully soon
you know where he'll wind up, where he'll end up.
But got he started at Indiana, then he was at

(49:32):
uc and uh yeah, he's going to get a big
pay day. So it's man, it's like a you're in
a washing machine here, a never ending cycle and it's brutal.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
And our schools in the lower I'm going to say
that you see as a lower tier. The whole idea
of going to the Big twelve is going to the
next level, you know, bigger and more market share and
showcasing and all that stuff. But it seems like they
don't have the money that some of these other programs do.

Speaker 10 (50:01):
Even though you're absolutely right look at the guy, like,
oh what we saw last night. I have an ole
Miss quarterback Trendidad Shambliss. He came from Farris State Division
two national champion and now he surfaces at ole Miss
and they beat Georgia. Just just an incredible story. So

(50:22):
you love to hear those stories. But I'm wondering, you know,
what's going on with eight defensive backs at at the
University of Cincinnati entering the transfer. Man, is it is
it a money grab? Is it an opportunity? It's probably
a combination of both. And it's uh yeah, it put
Scott Saderfield in a you know, a tough situation and

(50:42):
all the folks that you see, you know, trying to
get players and uh yeah, they'll get players. Now, how
you know, how good are they? We're in a big
time here, this is the Big twelve.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
I mean, it's it's challenging. It really is. Time it is,
it's huge, and I know people want to point the
finger and how you know, for such a long time
it was coaches who had the bordability, you know, and
and and everyone else, and the kids were sort of
tethered to the school generally unless they were kicked out
of the program for some reason, which that you know,
unless they're a problem, that's probably not going to happen.

(51:16):
I want the kids to be able.

Speaker 10 (51:18):
It could come down to you know, one transfer, yeah,
you know at uh you know, after a year or
two or whatever, you get one transfer. So you know,
the powers that be are going to have to you know,
straighten this all out. Change some dates, Oh my gosh,
with with coaches leaving and players opting out here that
you know today, you know, And I was asked, could

(51:41):
Brandon's Brandon Soursby? Could it be because could he have
played today and then entered the transfer portal. Well, he's
not going to take that gamble on a a bad game,
bad performance, or an injury. So as soon as the
season ended, he uh, you know, he opted out. We'll
find doubt where he's going next.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Chick Ludwig all over a bear catch you got the
Bengals stuff obviously too. Sunday they wrapped up.

Speaker 10 (52:09):
Leaving Culture tomorrow at the Wings and Rings Liberty Township
from five thirty to eight thirty, the final post game
show of the season.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
That'll be all right now, did you when you look
at this Bengals team and you know it's the Browns
and it's the AFC North and anything can happen. They
come in here Sunday one o'clock kickoff on the Big
One and you'll be doing the postgame show with the Culture.
It was always great too. I just it's frustrating. We've
seen it with the Bengals. You know, Oh, you want

(52:41):
a faster start, they had a faster start. You want
a better defense. Well, we saw the defense mature. We
want to see them finish strong. I mean they're doing
all the things that you would expect them to be
doing once they're closer to full strength. Offensively, the defense
has grown too. How do you as a fan keep
the most positive way of looking at it without being
like some of my friends who were just like, that's

(53:02):
just what the Bengals do. They play well at the
end and then they suck. And I've heard that time
and time again.

Speaker 10 (53:08):
Yeah. What I've tried to tell fans, what we've learned
and seen the last two weeks against the Miami Dolphins
and Arizona Cardinals, a reminder of what might have been,
what could have been, and hopefully what will be next year.
The whole key here is keeping your quarterback Joe Burrow healthy.

(53:31):
And I just looked this up. The Bengals have played
one hundred regular season games since he was drafted in
two thousand. He's played in seventy six and his record
is forty three and thirty two and one, and he's
five and two this year, fourteen touchdown passes, four interceptions

(53:53):
played in seven games. And keeping him healthy and then
upgrading just all fasted so the defense next year, better
defensive lineman, you know, adding another linebacker and the dbs
because when you can get instant pressure on a quarterback,
it just helps the defensive backs, the safeties in the

(54:14):
corners just so much. So they've got to improve all
three tiers of that defense. And we saw this young defense.
We yeah, we're starting to see them mature, getting better.
And you know, they gambled on defense this year and
it backfired and everything went south when Joe got injured.

(54:35):
So Flacco did a great job. Would love to have
him back next year as a backup. We'll see if
that happens. But yeah, and then adding to the offensive line,
so just keep just keep upgrading.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
It's tough, check Ludwig, how much do you We've saw
the improvement on the defense in the last half of
the season, especially last several weeks, and that's what you want.
And if the offense have been clicking even half as
well as it had been just with Joe there, And
it's as much as Flacco as an elder statesman under

(55:09):
center is you know, all the experience he has and
everything else. It is a tough transition. I mean, how
much more can you ask of a team to navigate
what they did with the loss of a Joe Burrow
because there's very few out there in any organization that
are at his level or have ever been at his level.

Speaker 10 (55:27):
That's that's right, and it just underscores, you know, his
importance to this team, that franchise, this city, the face
of the city, the most important player in Bengals history.
So it's it's like the team's always at a crossroads,
and I know the frustration of the fans and hey,

(55:48):
sitting down, sit down, your big three, don't get let
him get hurt. No, this team has to continue to
evaluate players.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
And you said million.

Speaker 10 (56:00):
Times you're not only playing for your team, you're playing
for thirty one others. So the evaluation process is critical.
The coaches, they have to find out who can play
for this team next season and book around the locker room.
Tomorrow a bunch of guys are going to be gone.
And it happens every year.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
You know.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
It's an amazing thing. Though when you look at this offense,
and I know defense is where it's been thinner, but
they've come up strong lately. But as you look at
chick aside from Jamar Chase, aside from Higgins, aside from
Chase Brown, aside from p Ryan, aside from obviously Burrow.
And you look at the weapons that Burrough has aside

(56:40):
from those guys, in what those guys in the running
backs have been able to do, and that in between stuff.
The weaponry is so deep. It's just to be nice
if you could see them put that together with the
defense that is serviceable for a whole season. But I
guess that's the magic and why only a handful of
teams are consistently in the play offs. And you know,

(57:01):
it's a dream to get to the super Bowl, let
alone play deep into the postseason.

Speaker 10 (57:06):
And we saw that this year when the offense played well,
the defense struggled when the defense up came on and
the offense had it its issues. So yeah, getting putting
an entire game together, putting entire season together is is
it just a huge challenge? And people want Zach Taylor's head, Well,

(57:27):
then what are you going to start all over with,
you know, with a new offense, you know, a new
head coach, whold new offensive scheme. No, they're going to
keep Zach Taylor. However, if they start slow next year,
I'm gonna use my favorite word armageddon next year. If
they start slow, it's uh yeah, all bets are off.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
So you and David Poulcher Sunday after Bengals and Brown's
kick off one o'clock at pay Corps and then where
are you two guys hanging out after with the.

Speaker 10 (57:57):
Sar At Wings and Rings Liberty Dry I have Liberty Township,
so looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
Yeah, can we shift just a minute. I mean, I
find this part of the college basketball season turning into
a pretty exciting time because all of a sudden it's
conference time, Big Twelve, Big East, Horizon League with NKU
and Wright State Miami up the way. I mean, we
are really kind of in the land of plenty with
college basketball too.

Speaker 10 (58:26):
Oh gosh, we're at the We think we're at the
epicenter here, you know, gosha, what's the arithmetic? Gosh the drug?
You draw the perimeter around the Cincinnati Dayton area.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
You drive ninety minutes to two hours, Yeah, you drive
one hundred miles. I mean you can.

Speaker 10 (58:44):
It's tremendous, phenomenal it is. And it all starts for
UC tomorrow. They're eight and five, second last in the
Big Twelve. The loss that hurt, that was just that
crippled them is at home against Eastern Michigan and that's
going to look really bad on as I may, but
it can all man, the arrow can start pointing up

(59:04):
if they can beat Houston tomorrow at home fift third
Arena at two o'clock tomorrow. The Big Twelve starts. It
got the Big East started, got it filt like.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
Two weeks ago it did.

Speaker 10 (59:16):
Now we're finally Big twelve play and you've got what
half dozen teams in the top twenty in that conference.
So it's it's a monster.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
Is that the toughest conference? You think Big East? Big
twelve is pretty strong too.

Speaker 10 (59:30):
I honestly do. Yeah, the Big Ten will beat you up.
The Big twelve is extremely skilled, and yeah, it's it's
a phenomenal, phenomenal conference, it really is.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
And you know, just to see the Goomers come into town.
And Houston's been pretty good no matter where they have
been conference wise. I mean, they've had stretches where it's
been somewhat anemic and not great, but they have found
a way consistently to be a winner. And just you know,
from the Big Twelve and they just grow even more.
It's an amazing thing. That they've been able to put together.

Speaker 10 (01:00:00):
It really is with with Kelvin Samson there, they they've
really stepped up their game and gosh, they're reminding you
of the good old days with Gosh tim olajuh wad
yes and gosh the fly five Slam of jama days.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
Different times, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:00:17):
It all starts tomorrow for the Bearcats at home, the
big twelve opener against Houston. It's uh, that place to
be rocking, and hey, Bearcats go out and do a number.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
That's all you can do.

Speaker 10 (01:00:31):
Go out and James going and Baba Miller and they
got to get the freshman showing a by you getting him, gosh,
a five star you know McDonald's all American. Uh, get
him going either as the sixth man or you know,
he's a three point sharpshooter and he's been struggling.

Speaker 11 (01:00:53):
So yeah, Is it easier for Wes Miller than say
Saturdy Field on the hoop side of things, putting it together,
navigating the portal and so forth.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
I mean it's a challenge either way. We've seen how
Xavier has found a way to do that in the
Big East. But I mean, is football harder to do
that or is it hoopes.

Speaker 10 (01:01:13):
Do you think, Wow, that's a good question, because it's, uh,
it's tough all the way around. Uh, Xavier had to
Richard Patino had to bring in an entirely different, you know,
new new team and and really the only player, only

(01:01:33):
one from UC has played in the Xavier in the
Xavier rivalry, so that that's just crazy. But hold new
team there too. For for west Miller basically, so.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
Uh, different times.

Speaker 10 (01:01:47):
It just is it's, uh, everything's fluid, everything's in transition, Stirling,
and it's so tough for a fan. I don't know
these players. I want to get to know them, but
they don't stick around long enough to find out what
they're even what their name is.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
It'll be interesting to see over a few years how
some of these players develop it, you know, they come back,
do the education thing more or whatever. Because I mean,
let's be honest, the vast majority, whether it's football players,
basketball players, they're not going to go on to play
Pro ball, NBA, NFL. Some will, but not many overall, right,
you know, and maybe they'll go to Europe and player
or whatever else and in some of these other underleagues

(01:02:25):
in football, But I mean, so these guys got to
get as much money as they can and then hopefully
get that education and do something with it later. But
it's hard to build the relationship and the name recognition
in a market where you see guys who stick around
at Cincinnati and in other places to do broadcasting and
be a part of the community. So that's a whole

(01:02:45):
shift that we're going to see too in the next
five ten years.

Speaker 3 (01:02:48):
You know, you're absolutely right.

Speaker 10 (01:02:50):
You stick around for four or five years. Uh, You've
got alumni more than willing to help you get a job,
and all of a sudden, you're here one year and
you're gone. You know, where are your roots as a player,
So you don't have any You're a You're a vagabond,
You're a gypsy, and it's.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Unless you find a home like here with a big one.
I mean, really, come on down there, you go. Well, listen,
I appreciate you making time. I love you. Check you're
a good man.

Speaker 10 (01:03:19):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
David Folger Chick Ludwig hanging out Sunday after Bengals Browns
at Paycoorp and on the big one again. Where is
it you're going to be?

Speaker 10 (01:03:28):
Yeah, Liberty Township, Wings and Rings, we will bring the
energy fultures, vultures in the chick magnets.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
Check.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
Thank you for doing what you do and making time
in your good Thank your brother, Happy new you take
care of yourself. Sterling. Coming back, you're ten o'clock reports
straight away, Doctor Donas schleg former had a political science
going to join me talking about an FBI reported thwarting
of a New York's Eve attack. We'll also talk about
that poor eleven year old girl a gun down in
a park and still looking for the perpetrators at that crime,

(01:03:57):
and a whole lot of other ground to cover on
a fine Friday nights, Sterling, Happy new Year to you
and yours, and a tough one for those football bearcats
and the liberty of falling to navy. Tonight here on
news radio seven hundred WLW Cincinnati says full lawn, seven
hundred WLW, Sterling, that's me all the time, the FBI,

(01:04:20):
Secret Service, local law enforcement, county sheriff, state patrol, you
name it, border to border, coast to coast, and our
interests globally. The threat of terrorism and danger of bad
actors is constantly out there in the talk of us
needing to be more vigilant or vigilant and keeping an

(01:04:42):
eye out and seeing something and saying something is something
we've been living with more openly the better part of
the last what twenty four years, since nine eleven, two
thousand and one, I suppose, and looking back at history,
there were maybe more dangerous times when it comes to
terrorist threats and domestic terrorism in so far for someone
who put out the first textbook published the first one

(01:05:03):
about terrorism. Here is also the former head of political
science at Right State now, Professor Mariti, doctor Donna Schleheck.
Welcome to seven hundred wlw we Sterling. How are you
happy New Year? How's everything?

Speaker 12 (01:05:17):
Good evening? And happy new Year. I was very interested
to hear the report that you mentioned. The New York
Police Department counter Terrorism had a piece of this tracking
this potential terrorist and.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
It seems to be related to isis he regularly is
that it seems like they are sort of like the
pre eminent foreign actor or loosely organized bunch of sympathizers
who look to do US or other freedom type. I mean,
who were they targeting besides US ISIS in general anyone

(01:05:52):
who doesn't agree with them or what.

Speaker 12 (01:05:55):
Anyone who might not agree, but particularly American targets. They
of course killed three Americans who were on active duty
in Syria last month. And this individual was spotted, you know,
by a New York Police officer on the counter terrorism
team tracking people online. So this was a cyber operation.

(01:06:20):
I'm so glad you wanted to talk about it tonight
because this is one of those successful preventions, right, this
is what we most desperately want. It probably would have
been another lone wolf attack Charlotte, North Carolina. You know,
a year ago we were getting over the New Orleans

(01:06:40):
attack with a truck right and automatic weapons. This past
Halloween there was a report of another planned attack that
was cyber aborted as well, detected early and shut down.
He was those people were talking about a potential attack
in here in Ohio, so up at Cedar Point. So

(01:07:05):
the small attacks, where do people gather, often in large numbers,
what happened in Australia of course, the Bondai attack before Christmas.
It's a classic example of people gathering in large public
places vulnerability. And you know the fact that we can

(01:07:25):
now talk to the public about the importance of you know,
the protective efforts that are going on behind the scenes
twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. This
individual had been tracked for months to try to prove
you know, a New York police officer, obviously we're thinking
about Times Square. No, they've aboarded an attack in Charlotte,

(01:07:46):
North Carolina. It's the case hasn't fully played out in court.
Another troubled individual. I was struck by how many similarities
there seemed to be sterling with the individual who was
finally arrested for planning those pipe bombs you remember at
the RNC and the DNC headquarters in January of twenty

(01:08:10):
twenty one. These investigations take take a long time, but
talking to the public about the ongoing threat, all the
efforts being taken to identify these individuals online, ISIS has
a global reach. Americans are favorite targets. Some of these
attacks last year at this time were taking place in

(01:08:33):
the big Christmas markets and Christmas fairs in Germany and elsewhere,
so Western targets, particularly in this case, you know, holiday crowds,
and kudos to the counter terrorism squad. It's a state, local,
and federal effort. You pointed out, we're going to be
coming up this September hard to believe it. On the

(01:08:55):
twenty fifth anniversary of nine to eleven, we've had We've
learned a lot, and like like in medicine, prevention is
the absolute best approach to take, and it is. It's
a good evening when we can talk about the prevention
of this sort of an attack on Americans.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
Yeah, I prefer to talk about this in the news
rather than carnage, lost life, in the suffering of individuals
subsequent to some type of attack, which is exactly what
was going on a year ago in and around Bourbon
Street in New Orleans, and as you mentioned, the Christmas
holiday markets elsewhere as well. It's troubling. Doctor Donnas Schles
former had of political science, now professor Merita Wright State University.

(01:09:38):
She's a Cincinnati kid with Sterling. On seven hundred WLW,
you mentioned the DNC RNC pipe bombs that were left
leading up to January sixth in what happened obviously at
the Capitol and everyone you know either way you looked
at it like kind of people were questioning, well, it
was at both political party headquarters, what does this mean?

(01:10:00):
And it turns out that this guy allegedly was not
particularly partisan, disgusted, fed up and wanting to act out
in some fashion against the system itself in both parties.
How much is that disgruntled, dissatisfied, sort of marginal on
the fringe type of player or person out there that

(01:10:20):
is so vulnerable either to be manipulated by others groups
be an ISIS or those that they can sympathize with
to sort of stir them up, because right now on
social media there is so much out there that is
constantly going on where they are trying to find the
disillusioned to do really horrible things and they just need

(01:10:40):
poked and prodded in the right way.

Speaker 12 (01:10:42):
Yes, it is such a vulnerable population for recruitment by ISIS,
and it seems to fit exactly the case that we
currently have in front of us out of Charlotte, very young,
eighteen nineteen years old, not well adjusted, and online, constantly online.

(01:11:04):
It makes you wonder how many of these cases they're
tracking on any given day. But this individual was tracked
for weeks. The FBI has been assuring the public that
he was, you know, at no time a threat to
the general public. And yet if we think about some
of the other recent lone wolf attacks, luigim Angioni not

(01:11:26):
one of those you know, unsuccessful people, the young man
who assassinated Charlie Kirk. But they do seem to still
fit in that loan, very dissatisfied looking, you know, looking
for something and finding those answers. As you said, in

(01:11:46):
social media, law enforcement is there. You know that that
that cyber sphere is clearly where they are tracking what
ISIS is doing as well. But it's global and it's
it's it's going to be interesting to see what the
social media techs are going to be able to do
to work with law enforcement. We are we're too vulnerable.

(01:12:10):
We have big public, public gatherings. The holidays may have
ended now, but you know the next planning will be
for you guessed it, the Super Bowl, right, and I
will be wondering again, you know how how many layers
of security they have going in. That's one of the
things I was watching on New Year's Eve, and that

(01:12:30):
they have it down to pretty much an art right
now in New York. And the the interesting, the irony,
the coincidence that one of those New York officers would
have been the one who identified this this gentleman I
think his name is Garza uh and and to track
him and to catch him before he could hurt anyone.
But it is isis, it was, isis connected, and that

(01:12:54):
seems to be where the action is. Not the American cases,
not Charlie kirk Uh, not Luigi Manngioni, and certainly not
the attacks on President Trump either fallen into this category.
But we may forget about terrorism. It certainly doesn't forget
about us, definitely does not.

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
Doctor Donna Schlez, the former had of political science at
Right State now professor Emerita. You know after nine to
eleven what had been talked about, and it was just
recently in the last year, I think really the beginning
of the second term for President Trump, a lot of
talk about surveillance society in which we live, how much
is being looked at, whether it's our phones and what's
being shared by the companies that we buy service from,

(01:13:37):
whether it's what we're watching, what we're reading online, pick
a device of choice, any type of communication that goes
with it. And we talk about giving up our freedoms,
but there is an inherent vulnerability with our freedom rather
than being in some other type of place around the
world where there is no freedom, where there is no liberty,
So where is that line and how do we navigate

(01:13:59):
it because at this point they go, well, and I
kind of the opinion, I have nothing to hide. They're
in my stuff anyway, probably searching, and it's okay. But
the other end of it, where does that line stop
when it comes to surveilling the people of the United States,
our freedom for our security, because that, I guess is
the eternal question that we have to ask.

Speaker 12 (01:14:20):
And at what point does it become entrapment? I think
an officer and agent posing as an ISIS person, you know,
an ISIS recruiter or an ISIS expert online would probably
have a pretty convincing argument, you know, if it went
to a jury trial. But your bigger point about privacy,

(01:14:41):
what we say, what you know, with whom we communicate,
what we put in writing. If you read the Patriot
Act that Congress passed after the nine to eleven attacks,
law enforcement has very broad authority, very broad. And the
cyber realm, as you know, is global and it's all encompassing,

(01:15:04):
and it's well, hey, it's in your phone right now
if they want to track with whom you are communicating.
But if it's an ISIS operative or someone posing as
an isis operative? I think an average American would say,
that's the sort of law enforcement and you know, protective
and preventive action that we want to see, not you

(01:15:27):
know necessarily what the politics are that you're discussing. But
if there are weapons and attacks and planning taking place,
I think, Sterling, you know, we're way past that line
of entrapment. We're talking about actual threats to Americans.

Speaker 1 (01:15:44):
Yeah, it's not a good scenario looking back at this
because doctor Schleck, you published the first textbook on terrorism,
so historically, when we look back across the country and
for that matter, around the world, and I was a
hatchling in the seventies, just a tiny sterling, but I
look back at it, and you heard, at least in

(01:16:05):
the early part of the seventies, mid seventies, in the
late sixties, there was a lot of terrorism of one
type or another done domestically. I mean, there were department
stores that were being bombed. There were a lot of
different pieces and parts going on with unrest in this
nation in a lot of ways. Are we not safer
now from terrorism than we were? Are we more scared

(01:16:26):
unreasonably from it? Or I mean, where do we stand
now in twenty six the second of January, compared to say,
nineteen seventy six in the bi centennial year with two
fifty in front of us.

Speaker 12 (01:16:38):
Oh, what a great question. You know, the sixties and
the seventies there was there was a anti war movement
going on, and another number of many other movements. We
fast forward up to two thousand and one. What was
the FBI saying at the time was the greatest threat
of terrorism in our country environmental terrorism? They completely you know,

(01:17:02):
we we were not even in the right part of
the conversation. Think about people who've grown up, say you
know gen Zs and others, they've lived a whole lifetime
where there's there's always been a nine to eleven and
there's always been massive social media life going on. I
think they, you know, people who are twenty five may

(01:17:24):
find it a lot easier to expect both law enforcement
intrusions and privacy to be happening, almost taking it for granted.
Where as a person your age or my age, you know,
raises these questions about privacy, but the threat is small.
But what happens when it actually occurs a large public venue,

(01:17:48):
massive civilian casualties, incredible media coverage, you know, everyone is
riveted by the attention and then comes to a cult
part about knowing how to react or as we often do,
if we go back to two thousand and one, overreact
rather than you know, find the really most effective and

(01:18:13):
least costly to democracy solutions to these problems. We've been
down a very steep learning curve in terms of terrorism.
What happened with this aborted attack in Charlotte, North Carolina,
I think is evidence that law enforcement now knows that
terrorism is also a game of prevention. This is not

(01:18:36):
just finding them and prosecuting them. To truly protect the public,
it has to be protective and preventive. My heart goes
out to the people in Australia. I don't know if
you saw the big demonstration on New Year's Day, people
showing up just to show their solidarity with the Jewish
community in Australia. But you know, the threats are so small,

(01:19:01):
and yet when they do happen, they're enormous. Uh and
and they're there. These are average Americans. Write somebody down
in New Orleans. You know, for for a big gathering,
it's people just like us, wrong place, wrong time. It
could be any of us and that's why it strikes
people with the intense media coverage, the shocking nature of

(01:19:23):
the violence. Uh So it has grabbed our attention again.
You're right, the numbers of Americans who die from this
very small, but you know you're you're at much greater
risk driving your car in American traffic. Uh But nonetheless,
when it does happen, everybody can be everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
Yeah, and it's it's horrific for the individuals involved. And
then the nature of it is to to instill fear.
And I refuse to let someone dictate how I'm going
to live my life out of the idea of fear.
But it's it's a very effective tool. Doctor donas Schleig,
former had a political science at Right State Now. Professor
Merida was stirling on the we're short on time, and

(01:20:02):
I appreciate you making so much time of it as
here on the second day of January twenty six talking
about this quash attack. Thankfully that did not happen in Charlotte.
There are a lot of them that we never hear
about constantly. Law enforcement pick a layer of that from
the federal level on down to local police, county sheriffs,

(01:20:22):
and so on. In people eyeballing things and letting people
know about the danger or what they perceive as a
danger that could be a threat. But we also look
at state actors. Iran is one of those who has
helped sort of facilitate terrorism globally, as it's been reported,
whether it's hamas other organizations. The president just came out
with a public warning which may or may not be
unusual about their treatment of what considered peaceful protesters there

(01:20:46):
to the extreme, which is ironic because there's been talk
of protesters here and how they'd be dealt with two.
But they're a part of this as well. In the
idea of a nation state in sponsoring either terrorism or
an attack. You think of infrastructure, right, you think of
knocking off social media, You think about the electricity, you
think about water, You think about all these vulnerabilities that

(01:21:07):
are out there. And then the very cheap individual either
loose cannon off the rails, unhinged, motivated by or really
affiliated with another organization, state sponsored or isis type or
what It doesn't take much to cause great loss of life,
carnage and fear. I mean that is I guess one
of the the upsides if someone is the idea of

(01:21:30):
affecting terrorists and how it affects a society, is it not.

Speaker 12 (01:21:35):
It is very much in that public response component. You're right,
and what can people do? Be informed, be aware, and
have these conversations about you know what you see here,
learn on social media. Americans are very safe in their

(01:21:56):
lives and in their property. We are very safe. And
yet even with the newness of this terrorism threat, every
time I'm recalling both Bondai and a year ago in
New Orleans, the public reaction because we all see ourselves
in those victims. Any of us could been there. It

(01:22:19):
is the powerful weapon of the week of the impotent,
turning many of our strengths against us. And that is
why the public conversation, the awareness, bringing to light the
story of this something that didn't happen right. This is
the great lesson for the public to be appreciative of

(01:22:40):
the work that goes on twenty four hours a day
trying to track these groups. The affiliations with isis make
it possible for law enforcement to do this work. The
lone wolf actors, though, those are the really you know,
the real truly difficult challenges if you are completely if

(01:23:01):
you're not reaching out on social media to talk to
someone you think is an isis and knows how to
mix explosives. Uh, it will be very difficult to bring
you to the attention of law enforcement. So this is
another one of those many edges in social media we
keep discovering. And whether or not we're getting much cooperation
from the social media text I don't know, but kudos

(01:23:25):
to the team in New York. Uh, Times Square was safe,
and now it turns out this little town, little community
in Charlotte will be safe as well. I'll be following
this one. They were, They've got There are a couple
of interesting twists and comparisons, as I said to the
gentleman who was arrested for the DC pipe bombing attacks,

(01:23:48):
but people need to be informed, and when it does happen,
the immediate desire for this, you know, the swiftest, most potent,
most power or full of striking response is probably not
going to be the best one.

Speaker 1 (01:24:05):
Sometimes it's not the hammer that you needed. Something I
guess smaller.

Speaker 12 (01:24:10):
Well put, well put.

Speaker 1 (01:24:11):
What's interesting about this is it all sort of comes together?

Speaker 3 (01:24:15):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (01:24:15):
Statistically we are safer than we've ever been, but there's
in some ways more danger and threat out there. And
the instantaneous sharing of information, which we did not have
decades ago, is there as well. It's not just checking
you know, somebody's library card history that they took out
or stole the you know, the anarchist cookbook from the
library downtown. It's online who they were talking to, what

(01:24:35):
they've been doing, and information they've been searching, and then
credit card records and everything. I mean, it's out there.
The information. Hard to hide your trail. If you're out
there looking to do bad things.

Speaker 12 (01:24:47):
It is hard to hide your trail. It's also hard
to fight an ideology, and that is what I as
and it appeals. It has a certain appeal. I think
that that that that instruct us where to watch who
might be susceptible, as you mentioned earlier, But it is
an idea and that is always going to be the

(01:25:08):
most difficult one to try to control.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
There you go, well, hopefully there's more good news about
something like this being put down rather than having us
you do the reaction after so heads off to law
enforcement and all those involved doing it, and save for
forrest through the second day of January twenty sixth, Doctor
Donashle like, thank you for making time in doing what
you do. Former head of political science. She's Professor Meredith
from Wright State University and Cincinnati's her hometown. Happy New

(01:25:32):
Year to you and thank you, and we'll catch up
against him.

Speaker 12 (01:25:35):
Talk to you soon.

Speaker 1 (01:25:36):
Thanks Sterling, take care of yourself. More Sterling coming back
your ten third reports straight away. Brady Hopkins has that,
and we will get a little bit into this story.
It's horrific about this eleven year old girl who was
gunned down in the park. Details straight away here seven
hundred WLW and already talk of a senseless killing and

(01:25:58):
Cincinnati year old girl shot killed playing in the West
End Thursday night, New Year's and it's just bewildering, to
be honest with you. Laura playground, it's right there at
West Liberty in John Street about six o'clock. Heard it

(01:26:22):
on the news just a few minutes ago, Brady and
wcpo's got a great coverage of this as well. Girl
Queen heer a reed just eleven. So you're talking what fifth,
sixth grade something like that. She's taken to children's hospital
after being a shot. She was playing with their relatives
kids in the in the park and just one gunshot wound.

(01:26:47):
Nobody at this point has been detained, as I understand it,
or arrested. At this point. They are in search of
and hoping that someone can point the finger and identify
individual responsible or individuals responsible for this. It is mind numbing.
It is bewildering day after day, week after week, month

(01:27:11):
after month, now year after year. And I know crime
status that were just published recently showing a downtick and
crime generally across the country in most cities around the country,
violent crime and so forth. But there are spots that
it is an everyday occurrence. In one of those things
that happens a lot, you know, in a neighborhood that

(01:27:32):
has somewhere less than seven thousand people living there on
a very regular basis. Down there you get thirty people,
forty people shot, as it's been reported time and time again.
And what has been done. More street patrols have been
talked about over this last summer. Obviously, you got you know,

(01:27:53):
a former police chief who's on the sideline, interim police
chief hand. He's come out to talk about how horrible
this is, senseless act of violence and heartbreaking. Yeah, it is,
for sure, But I want to I just want what
exactly is the deal with this, why is this going?
And we don't know who to blame at this point

(01:28:13):
other than someone who was out there discharging a firearm
who had no business one in their hand, in their
possession doing dumb ass things, whether it was with deliberate
intent gunning down and firing at these kids, and this
poor little girl eleven years old and her family dealing
with the aftermath of this, trying to make sense of it.
It's just heart wrenching and it's hard to process. And

(01:28:38):
one of the things that came up in the w
cpo's report on this, they talked to Noah O'Brien's West
End Community Council member right there talking about the issue
of violence in the neighborhood, says, you know, and in
some of the stuff that we've talked about time and
time again on my show, and you've heard it all
over the Big One. You heard it being talked about
time and time again. You know, more police, more people

(01:29:01):
being more aware, the idea of deconcentrating poverty, which in
some cases I guess could be it. But you know what,
I grew up poor and I wasn't out on the
street doing crime and hurting other people. So I don't
necessarily believe that poverty or being poor in that desperation
is the causation of somebody gunning down a kid on

(01:29:21):
a playground, but certainly for a lot of other crime
that's going on, perhaps you had that desperation and looking
to cash, you know, get cash that you worked for,
that I worked for, or in the stuff that we've
bought to grab to sell, or drug addle behavior, whatever
else it is, I don't know. And then the other
thing in this story that is and I wasn't there.

(01:29:43):
Chances are you weren't there. This is the family's grieving
and dealing with this. They go to the hospital and
apparently then there were issues in their communication and being
able to grieve and see the baby girl eleven years
old after she had passed in stoad up to it
and waiting, as it's been reported to end up going
to the funeral home to navigate that, which is a

(01:30:07):
whole nother layer of insult to injury if it's accurate
as it's been reported in that type of circumstance. And
I know people get emotional and so forth when you
have something like this happen. I want to open up
the phones give you a chance to sound off. I
would like to know in all seriousness, because I mean,
you know a lot of people come out there talk

(01:30:27):
about you know what the solution is, how do you
prevent this because we don't know who's responsible yet. I mean,
there was a story the other day. I think it's
a fourteen year old or an eleven year old is
ends up being held accountable for or held as a
result of a shooting of another kid. It was either
an eleven year old shooting a fourteen year old, a
fourteen year old shooting an eleven year old. I think
it was up in Dayton. And this is happening all

(01:30:50):
over the place, even while overall crime violent crime has
gone down. So I mean, it's all the usual things right,
got parenting, You could argue God needing to be more involved.
Whatever it is, there's something missing from the individual's lives
who have decided that being quick to the gun. Whether

(01:31:12):
it's a stolen firearm that somebody did not maintain control
of as they should, or someone who did not maintain
control of it in the house and a kid gets
their hands on it, or it's criminals doing criminal stuff.
And I have the opinion that you know what, it's
criminals killing criminals. I'm kind of alright with that, because

(01:31:35):
that's I mean, that's just criminals doing criminal stuff. But
when it's individuals that are innocent, that are minding their
own business that are victims of either the crime or
in this case, a senseless act of violence an eleven
year old child, it makes no sense to me. Five

(01:31:55):
point three seven four nine seven, eight hundred the big one.
You can use the talk bag feature on the iHeartRadio app.
If you're streaming there, click on the microphone. I mean,
what more can you do? I mean, you'd like to
be of the idea of prevention. You know, we're talking
about more people on the street in law enforcement doing it,
and that's what they've done in Cincinnati with the Ohio

(01:32:16):
State Patrol and partnering up with them, and it has
in fact beefed up felony arrest and getting some of
those repeat offenders off the streets and going after those
who already had warrants on them and getting them locked
up and keeping them locked up. Because so much of
the crime and the stuff that makes the news and
the headlines are individuals who are in the business of

(01:32:37):
criminal behavior and repeat offenders. We don't know yet this
particular case and who should be held accountable and culpable
for this horrible thing. But what do you do? What
do you tell this child's family, the mom and the kids,
they weren't they're not even from here, they were visiting
for like the holiday. I mean, it's just horrible. I

(01:33:00):
want to know what you think. To West Union, Steve's
first was Sterling on the Big One and room for
you five one, three, seven, nine hundred the Big One. Hey, Steve,
what do you know?

Speaker 5 (01:33:09):
Sterling?

Speaker 1 (01:33:10):
Happy New Year?

Speaker 3 (01:33:13):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (01:33:14):
Doesn't everybody have a phone that has a camera on it?

Speaker 1 (01:33:17):
Most of us?

Speaker 13 (01:33:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:33:19):
How about we can do that with our cities. I mean,
how much could it cost? I mean, one little girl's life?
But a million dollars? Two million dollars?

Speaker 1 (01:33:34):
I mean, I don't know how you can't. Yeah, I
mean there are a lot of cameras all over the place,
but apparently not enough.

Speaker 5 (01:33:41):
Eat More and zoning needs to change the rules when
they make playgrounds to put block walls attractive block walls
around the playground to about five feet.

Speaker 3 (01:33:56):
That'll stop a lot of it.

Speaker 1 (01:33:57):
It could. Well, here's the other side. Then you have
a wall, and then if you're in the park and
somebody wants to do no good inside the park, then
you're sort of trapped with the wall. You have to
then figure a way to get out and navigate it too.

Speaker 5 (01:34:10):
A lot of kids, they're going to make a fuss
and parents are going to be in there and they're
going to take care of business. But it's going to
stop drive by shootings across playgrounds.

Speaker 1 (01:34:21):
It could be. I'm not sure at this point, and
I was looking at trying to find every bit of
information I could about this, because I try to have
half an idea what I'm talking about before I open
my mouth, though it may not always sound like it.

Speaker 5 (01:34:34):
Technology has the solution out there. You just got to
put it where it needs to be. And the Cinnati
is not necessarily doing that because they're very reactive and
they don't do things until something really bad happens. Another
thing that I'm a little bit concerned with was these

(01:34:55):
people when they took their when their daughter was taken emergency,
they were treated very badly.

Speaker 1 (01:35:02):
That's what I've heard too.

Speaker 5 (01:35:05):
And I think that's just atrocious. What it does. It
happen so much that these people are just numb to
it and just don't care.

Speaker 3 (01:35:15):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:35:16):
I mean, I would like to know what happened, and
they're going to have to wade through it, and the
hospital is going to have to figure out how they
put a good spin on it. But it is a
bad look if it as as reported that this went
down that way, And you know, people get very emotional
sometimes and it's hard to navigate maybe a large group
of people. But I wasn't there. I didn't witness it.

(01:35:37):
I haven't seen any video of it. But what it
has been described as this situation as you're talking about, Yeah,
it sounds like the family was treated less than decently.

Speaker 5 (01:35:47):
The thing is that if you have the cameras in place,
you're going to catch these culprints a lot because you
don't have film, and it'll stop eventually. I can't imagine
there's more than six five hundred thugs and Cincinnati making
it awful forever money.

Speaker 1 (01:36:07):
Yeah, And that's what they've talked about, and that's one
of the things that they've tried to go after these
felony warrants in these repeat offenders because it is a
small number of people generally that they're wreaking a lot
of the having Steve, I appreciate the comment. Thank you,
and have a great new year. It's good to talk
to you. I'm sorry it's about a horrible topic like this,
but I figured it needed to be talked about. Take
care of yourself, Steve. Thanks. You know it's for a

(01:36:32):
talk show host to be speechless is probably not a
great thing to admit. But I really have a hard
time just understanding, you know, and we don't know who's
responsible yet for this. Kids should be able to go
to a park six o'clock. I mean it's you know,

(01:36:52):
it maybe after dark, but there's lights and it's six o'clock,
and you figure the park could be a safe place
to go and it's not something you should have to
worry about, is you know, gunfire and rounds whizzing by
your head or you know, killing your child at eleven
years old? Who you would think the park is where

(01:37:14):
you'd be safe in doing what you're supposed to be doing,
which is playing in off the street in a way
from trouble. And you know, whether it's somebody out there
firing rounds indiscriminately from a distance, or if it was
something more intentional directly or otherwise you know, if not

(01:37:35):
negligent either way, somebody should be held accountable. And too
many stories, I mean just in the last week to
ten days, and I mentioned this on the show that
it was in New Year's Eve, and I talked about
my time in New Orleans and celebratory gunfire, which is

(01:37:58):
really a misnomer to me in that it's commonplace for
people to pop off some rounds for New Year's or
pop off some rounds because it's Christmas, or pick another
reason to celebrate. I've never once thought I'd grab a
weapon out of the box at home or the closet
or whatever and go out and fire some rounds up

(01:38:23):
into the sky. And in New Orleans, what happened New
Years years ago when I was there working before I
came back home to Cincinnati and Ohio, here is a
woman ended up fallingbeknownst to anyone around or initially trying
to figure out what happened to her. Because she collapsed
is because she took a round to the top of
her head because somebody was firing into the sky to

(01:38:46):
celebrate the New year, and it dropped her dead. And
there was a story in the last week to ten
days about a guy who had a new weapon, and
he went out in his backyard and started, you know,
a target practice it like a can or a couple
of cans, and apparently that one round of his travels

(01:39:07):
a couple of blocks, because yeah, they don't just stop
where you want the round to stop, and then ended
up hitting an older woman who had a baby in
her arms. Thankfully didn't hit the child, but it hit
her either threw her arm, clipped her arm and into
her chest cavity, and ended up killing her. So, whether
it's indiscriminate gunfire to the sky, somebody else being an

(01:39:30):
idiot and a moron firing target practice without a proper
stop to keep those around them safe, or if it
was someone up to no good driving around looking to
gun people down, or someone indiscriminately firing her weapons, someone
needs to be found and held accountable for this. And
as far as I'm concerned, if it's a parent that
had a weapon that got into the hands of a

(01:39:53):
child who shouldn't have had it, then the parents need
to be held responsible for not maintaining control of that firearm.
And that's in any situation, not just one here where
it ends up somebody you know, loses their child. It's devastating.
I mean it, And I don't want to sound like

(01:40:14):
ranning and raving and you know and hate mongering or
anything else. But it's just unnecessary. Life's hard enough, you know,
celebrate New Year's hanging out with family, You're at the park.
You should be safe. You shouldn't have to worry about this.
Let's get Jake here seven hundred WLW with Sterling Jake,
thanks for holding Happy New Year.

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
What's up, hey, Charlotte, happening here?

Speaker 13 (01:40:38):
You know, I went to the University of Cincinnati in
the nineties early nineties, and I experienced I don't think
it's changed much. It's I got into a situation where
we were just oking up. We were guys getting ready
to go to a party liberally on East University air

(01:41:00):
sided short ning and a couple of young guys come
up to us. We were loading up beers like there
was some beers.

Speaker 4 (01:41:08):
No, we don't want that.

Speaker 3 (01:41:09):
We just let us go.

Speaker 5 (01:41:10):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:41:11):
Nexty, I know, I'm in a.

Speaker 13 (01:41:12):
Fight, leaning in the middle of the road. Tops come by,
don't do anything fight, and I'm running with like, let's
get out of here on my ale.

Speaker 10 (01:41:23):
Let's know, I run down to the.

Speaker 13 (01:41:25):
Corner park old with young people.

Speaker 14 (01:41:30):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (01:41:32):
Oh, I ain't gonna fight all them. Next you know,
young kids run up to me. Fire's a gun off
next to my head. No, no, no, it's still to
this day something I don't forget. I didn't know if
I was dead or ali at the time.

Speaker 1 (01:41:49):
Yeah, you tend to remember when somebody points a gun
at you or discharges it close to you in a
threatening manner. I had a guy in the furniture store
my mom worked at when I was a kid. I
don't think I was yet six. I don't think I
was in kindergarten maybe first grade of most and they
came in and robbed the furniture store, and they put
a gun in my face, told me to go to
the bathroom and stay there. They couldn't find me after.

(01:42:11):
You know, when the police came, initially they were trying
to figure out where I had gone because I kind
of picked up on the idea that the gun in
my face was fairly serious. And I stayed in that
bathroom until they were like, hey, where are you? Because
you know, I realized the danger. It will rattle you.
It stays with you.

Speaker 3 (01:42:28):
Oh, it did it completely. And the thing was.

Speaker 6 (01:42:31):
You know, I lived in the dorm there and.

Speaker 13 (01:42:34):
On campus and I lived off campus, and it's really
not changed much. I mean from what i'm I have
lived there in years. I'm fifty now. I mean that
was twenty five years ago. But from what here now,
it wasn't safe in the nineties. In the early nineties.

Speaker 3 (01:42:50):
I mean, we had we.

Speaker 13 (01:42:53):
Went to a concert at Bogart's one time when we
parked down the road from there, and it was I
there's a Catholic church there where it's just below the
road level, and some young punks come up and just
started urinating on the front of the car above huh,
and we ran to get police. They did eventually show up,

(01:43:16):
and then but before that they came down and ran down,
you know. I mean, it was just it was not
a fun time in the nineties either.

Speaker 1 (01:43:25):
No, it wasn't. I can remember when I was before
Kisses Kiss one O seven. It was Channel Z and
I had a lot of knights, of bowguards, a lot
of clubs and around their top cats, et cetera, short
vine all that, you know, and regularly it was a
lot of skater punks and others begging for change, meth
heads and that type of thing. And uh yeah, I
mean I think every there's always going to be a

(01:43:46):
little of that. It's kind of like when you turn
a light on and roaches flee. That's kind of one
of a better way to say it that I think
a lot of that is and it's constant, but you
can't condone it. And it's the little stuff too, you know.
And that's the thing. I just don't know how you
explained of somebody that they're eleven year old kid is
dead because they went to a playground on New Year's
Day and didn't get out of the park alive. Effectively,

(01:44:09):
it's insane.

Speaker 13 (01:44:11):
It's the youth they need since there's a big.

Speaker 3 (01:44:15):
Problem with it.

Speaker 1 (01:44:15):
I mean, I don't know where is no Jake, I
appreciate the comment. I hope you have a great New year.
Thank you for sharing that. I'm sorry you've dealt with that.
And here's the thing, I've been really lucky in that.
I Mean a lot of people tell me how scared
or uncomfortable they are going here or there around downtown
or OTR or other places, and maybe I'm I'm an
idiot or something. I mean, I try to be aware.

(01:44:39):
I've been raised to be aware. But I go to restaurants,
I go get drinks here and there, and I've been
lucky to not have, you know, many problems aside from
you know what I mentioned as a kid the first time,
and I've had somebody pointing gout to me more than once.
But it does rattle you, it will stick with you.
And you know, I was always raised in tall subsequent

(01:45:00):
to that, you know, you don't point a weapon at
somebody or something unless you plan to destroy it or
are willing to do so. So I tend to take
that fairly seriously. But we have a major problem with
a devaluation of life in a lot of circles, and
the quick nature of solution and problem solving with a

(01:45:23):
gun rather than other ways to de escalate, and the
value of life for certain people is very small, including
their own self respect. And that is you know, not
knowing who's responsible for the shooting of this eleven year
old child and taking her life. But just in general,

(01:45:43):
we have a problem with that, even though overall our
crime numbers are down around the country, it is a
systemic issue. It is a sickness of some sort, and
I guess there is no real easy way to get
to a solution. My heart goes out to this family
and I hope they get some justice and someone will
be able to speak to those responsible for this to

(01:46:05):
pay a price for taking this girl's life and putting
this family through the pain that they're going through. Your
eleven o'clock report is straight away. I had a conversation
with University of Cincinnati's doctor Christino Day about living better
in the new year. An update on the flu which
is getting around pretty nasty, and maybe some over over
indulgence still going on this New Year's weekend with a

(01:46:28):
whole lot of people partying and probably having some issues
with dehydration and hangovers. That's coming up after your eleven
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(01:46:49):
of the best Bengals coverage. News Radio seven hundred WLW
Cincinnati seven hundred w Welw Sterling hanging out, trying to
be healthier on a New Years My first resolution this
is the second New Year's in ear row where I
found myself with what my Anileen would call it the croup.
I think some people call it maybe bronchias. The flu

(01:47:09):
is going around big time, and what I initially thought
it was was allergies, but clearly I've got something more.
But thankfully on the phone, not in person, not having
to deal with that possibility. Is doctor Christine O'Day from
UC Health. Welcome to seven hundred w welw, Happy New Year.

Speaker 14 (01:47:26):
Happy New Year, Thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:47:28):
Let's start with flu stuff before we start talking maybe
about resolutions and living better and people hitting the bottle
of New Year's who were amateurs who need to like
reevaluate some things, maybe even right now, hopefully not behind
the wheel. So doctor oday, flu season, because and I
kind of sickly, I called the doctor like, don't come here.
How bad is this flu season?

Speaker 14 (01:47:49):
Well, we're definitely seeing that cases are on the rise
over the last few weeks. You know, we see this
often during the holidays, when people are inside, they're at parties,
they're exposed to a lot of germs. So we're definitely
seeing a rise in influenza in particular, and particular influenza A,

(01:48:11):
and so it is definitely going up at this time
of year.

Speaker 1 (01:48:16):
I was good. I tend to get my shots. I
take the dog and then I go to my pharmacy
and get my jabs as well with the covid, the
flu vaccine and everything. You mentioned the type of a
strain I guess of this flu doctor oday. So this
from what I understand, the prevalent see of that is
not exactly what was under the umbrella of what this
flu shot was targeting. But the flu shot still helps,

(01:48:38):
is that correct?

Speaker 14 (01:48:40):
That's correct. We are seeing a new variant, and you know,
the influenza virus does change every year. That's why we
have to get a flu shot every year, because we
create a new flu vaccine to cover whatever variants we
think are going to be out there. There is a

(01:49:00):
new variant that is partially covered by this by the
flu shot that's out there, So we encourage people for
sure to get their flu shot. The new variant is
we think maybe causing a little bit more severe of
a flu season, and so it is important to take

(01:49:23):
all precautions that you can in terms of first of all,
getting the flu shot, like you said, and you know,
doing what you can to stay healthy, so eating well
and healthy, getting enough sleep, drinking enough fluids, and certainly
if you're sick, if you have a cough, cold fever,

(01:49:43):
stay home if you can. If you have to go out,
wear a mask so you're not passing those germs along
to other people.

Speaker 1 (01:49:51):
Yes, this is the season of sharing germs and a
whole lot of celebration and stuff along with it. From
University of Cincinnati. It's a doctor Christine O'Day was sterling
men eating better and sleeping which I could do better
of hydrating in the right fluids, right, and we're not
necessarily talking about boozing it up in celebration and maybe
the last couple of weeks with the holidays, how bad

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does that stretch of holiday celebration affect people as they
start thinking into the new year of living better? Because
that's one of those things that I'm always trying to
talk about on the show and just in life, which
is to try to get to the next level and
hopefully stick around healthier longer. On this a little big
blue marble, I guess is what we want to call it.

Speaker 14 (01:50:31):
A earth Well, I think you know, the New Year
is a really good time to kind of think about
how do we get healthy. Certainly during the holidays, many
of us kind of fall out of our usual routines.
Maybe we don't exercise as much as usual, and we're
eating foods that are maybe not as healthy as we

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would like.

Speaker 1 (01:50:52):
But they're so good. Why are all the bad foods,
by the way, doctor O'Day so good? Seriously?

Speaker 14 (01:51:00):
Yeah, yeah, it's tough, but there's lots of really good
foods that are healthy, right, True is a good time
at the new year to kind of get back on
the bandwagon and to maybe set some goals for yourself
to become a little bit more healthy. And you know,
it's it's hard to make changes. It's hard to make

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a lot of big changes all at once. So what
I really encourage patients to do is to maybe choose
one small thing to work on. Instead of just saying
I'm gonna try to live healthier or try to change
my diet, maybe just choose one thing and work on that.
So we talk about things like smart goals, where s

(01:51:47):
is a specifical So instead of saying I'm just gonna
eat healthier, maybe say, Okay, I'm going to try to
eat more fruits and vegetables as my specific goal. And
then M stands for measurable seat of just more fruits
and vegetables. Set a goal of say, three fruits and
vegetables every day, and make it something achievable, something that

(01:52:09):
you can actually change in your diet or something that
you can change in your life. Our stands for reasonable relevant,
something that you feel like you can actually achieve. And
then finally, TEA stands for time, So that means that
you set a time bound goal for yourself so that
I'm going to start eating three fruits and vegetables every

(01:52:32):
day for the next month, and then you can celebrate
those those small changes and celebrate those winds, and that
makes it a little bit easier and I think it's
more achievable to actually make those changes.

Speaker 1 (01:52:50):
So baby steps, So we do that, don't we. We make
these grand ideas that we put in front of us
that are challenging, and then within the first quarter of
the new year, you know, I'm going to go to
the gym every week, I'm going to let me eat better,
I'm going to drink less, I'm going to sleep all
these things that we just talked about doctor oday. And
then people are disillusions, dissatisfied, and they're off the rails

(01:53:11):
before summer gets here. So I guess living better maybe
I want to say living better through lowered expectations, but
just small incremental changes can make a big difference.

Speaker 14 (01:53:22):
Yeah, absolutely, I think that really helps a lot because
you get more motivated than when you've achieved something, and
then you can move on to your next, smaller, next goal. Right, So,
once you say, set a goal to start exercising and
walking maybe fifteen minutes three times a week, then you

(01:53:43):
can increase that to twenty minutes. And once you've done that,
then you can increase it a little bit more, and
so it's a little bit easier to make those changes.
So and I also encourage folks to write those goals
down and share them with somebody, so it's always easier
to do something. Is that a goal? When you have
a partner, you know who you're accountable to, and that

(01:54:06):
maybe you're working on the same goal together.

Speaker 1 (01:54:09):
The thing text you and call you and tell you
to get out of the house and that you're supposed
to be here now go. You know that kind of scenario.
It does help to have a buddy and working out
or anything else. Absolutely, Doctor Christino Days from University of
Cincinnati talking about living better in the new year. Who's
worse at taking care of themselves? Men or women? I
get told that. You know, I can't speak for all dudes,

(01:54:30):
but I can say that we maybe are a little
bit more animated in wine, in our misery, whether it's
the sickness that I have now or other stuff, compared
to women. But overall with caring for ourselves, is there
a trait that men or women in one way or
the other are better or worse?

Speaker 14 (01:54:49):
You know, I'm not sure that I know the answer
to that, nor do I want to weigh in on
that one. But it's a good question. But now, how
was the time of year for all of us to
kind of work on that?

Speaker 1 (01:55:02):
I think, Yeah, I think so. It's just one of
those things. I think a lot of us guys will
put stuff off, oftentimes not being proactive. We'll think about
it and take care of the car better than we
do ourselves sometimes with just regular maintenance.

Speaker 14 (01:55:14):
Well, you know, I think it's always good to have
a partner who is going to support you in your
lifestyle and health goals. Right, Yeah, And so you know,
having somebody who can encourage you. First of all, like
to eat healthy and being around somebody who's also eating
healthy is really important. And also somebody who's going to

(01:55:37):
encourage you to, for example, get a primary care provider
if you don't have one, and see your you know,
your primary care provider regularly. It's just good to be
around people who are going to support you in a
healthy lifestyle.

Speaker 1 (01:55:52):
Talking to doctor Christino Day from University of Cincinnati, and
you've worked a little bit more with accessibility in primary
care situations around the tri State with you see as well.

Speaker 14 (01:56:00):
Yeah, absolutely. Our goal that you see is for everybody
to be able to have a primary care provider and
to make Cincinnati a healthy city, and we know that
primary care providers are really an important way to.

Speaker 3 (01:56:18):
Do that.

Speaker 14 (01:56:19):
So you know, if somebody doesn't have a primary care provider,
I do encourage them to reach out and establish before
you get sick, and also then you can so when
you get sick you have somebody to call, but also
to check in once a year just to make sure
that you're up to date on all the health maintenance.

(01:56:41):
There's a lot of immunizations now that are available and
important for adults to get as well as kids. And
also there's just a lot of important screenings that need
to be done for things like breast cancer screening, cervical
cancer screening, colon cancer screening. So I do encourage people
to get a primary care provider and establish and see

(01:57:01):
them regularly.

Speaker 1 (01:57:02):
And doctor Christino days a share of family and community medicine.
You see hell Sterling seven hundred WLW New Year's Eve
a lot of people out and about, but oftentimes it's
amateur night. It's people that over indulge, who don't drink
very much at all, if ever, and then they end
up a mess and hungover and miserable with a brown
bag flu to in this case because of the way

(01:57:23):
the New Year falls, maybe skipping out work if they
don't already have time off, or just miserable and more
vulnerable for some of this flu and other stuff there too.
What do you tell people who are out and about
tonight or are going to be even at home maybe listening,
we're probably hitting it a little bit harder than normal.
How do they avoid ending up waking up absolutely miserable
with that head throb and trying to figure out what

(01:57:45):
food they should eat or have hair of the dog
of the bite.

Speaker 14 (01:57:50):
Yeah, so we're learning so much more about how alcohol
affects our bodies. And really what we're learning is that
there's no safe amount of alcohol.

Speaker 1 (01:58:01):
So the horrible I mean seriously, I think bourgelais nouveaux
up in Mount Adams, so no alcohol at all. So
the idea of moderation isn't even really a good idea.

Speaker 14 (01:58:15):
Well, what I'm saying is that there if you're going
to drink, drink and moderation. What we recommend for women
is no more than two drinks per sitting and for
men no more than three drinks per sitting. And what
we define as a drink is a twelve ounce bottle
of beer, six ounces of wine, or one shot, And

(01:58:40):
so if you choose to drink, limit it to that amount.
If you're going to be drinking, make sure you're drinking,
you're drinking lots of fluids and non alcoholic beverages as well.
Make sure that you're eating while you're drinking as well,
and that you're kind of pacting yourself so that you're

(01:59:01):
not drinking very quickly, that you're spacing it out over
the course of the evening.

Speaker 1 (01:59:06):
Yeah, I think the older we get, we get more experience.
But a lot of times you think of college kids
and so forth, who you know are just out free
for the first time in their lives, over indulging in
sort of learning the hard way with it. But it
seems like this continues for a lot of us grown
ups as well, around the holidays, New Years, et cetera.

Speaker 5 (01:59:21):
Two.

Speaker 14 (01:59:22):
Yeah, Yeah, alcohol does affect our bodies, and it affects our
liver and affects our blood pressure, our hearts, and so
as we're learning more about alcohol, we realize that it
really can have quite a bit of effects negative effects
on our body. So if you're going to drink, you know,

(01:59:43):
drink and moderation and make sure that you're drinking lots
of other fluids as well and eating at the same time.

Speaker 1 (01:59:51):
Talking to doctor Christino day Chair Family and Community Medicine,
you see how Sterling seven hundred w welw final question here.
When I was in Las Veig, just working before I
came back here some years ago, I had a guy
on the show and he was talking about IVS for
people not just being dehydrated hanging out in the desert,
but after over indulging, and he was doing quite a
bang up business with people getting IVS at his wellness center,

(02:00:15):
as he called it, after a hangover. And I've seen
these things brought up all over the Tri State as well.
What do we know about that is that just like
somebody selling I don't know, snake oil or whatever you
want to call it or what.

Speaker 14 (02:00:28):
Well, I think what we see is that it is
really important to stay really really hydrated and to drink
fluids that have lots of electrolytes in them. And so
that's kind of what you're getting when you're getting one
of the IV fluids, is you're just getting lots of fluid.
And so unless you're vomiting, unless you're not able to

(02:00:51):
keep fluids down, you know, I think most people can
drink and take those fluids orally so things even like
the electrolyte drinks like GLA or things like that. Yeah,
those have a lot of the salts and the electrolytes
in them, and so just staying really well hydrated is

(02:01:14):
so important and will help people feel better.

Speaker 3 (02:01:16):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:01:16):
I really appreciate your timing, your insight. I hope you
have a fantastic new Year and hopefully people will be
healthier and we can maybe contributed to that a little
bit and with your help, certainly Chairfamily Community Medicine youseehealth
dot com. You can find out more there. Doctor Christino Day,
Happy New Year, Thank you for making time. I hope
you'll come back and we can do this again.

Speaker 14 (02:01:35):
Thank you so much for having me, Sterling, and Happy New.

Speaker 1 (02:01:38):
Year, Happy New Year, more Sterling. Seven hundred WLW same
Sunday and close to fifty on Monday, which that's not
too bad for first part of January. It's a ball
me twenty seven. Now you're severe Weather station seven hundred WLW.
Glad you're along. It's pretty wild. Well, let me to

(02:01:58):
mention this. It's not great new I mean maybe if
you've been under a rock, unplugged, unaware, you know, I
mean a New Year's week, it's kind of wild holidays
I understand. Maybe football bear Cats had a hard time
in Memphis Town the Liberty Bowl. Navy's midshipman handled the
bear Cats pretty easily. They were down a whole lot

(02:02:19):
of defensive back, starting quarterback entering the portal. Those guys
onto the next place looking to get paid more, and
the Bearcats had to carry on without them, and they
fall thirty five thirteen and to wait till next year
to try to better their situation, and they have to
go shopping for some more talent. I'm all for these

(02:02:39):
athletes getting paid, but it gets very weird trying to
put together a team every year from scratch or nearly
from scratch, depending on the circumstance. It's tough. You know,
who really did well in the midst of portal and
rebuilding and reconstructing a team. It's a team for almost
my entire childhood that sucked, which is the dais uh?

(02:03:01):
You know they play on in the college football playoff.
If I'm not mistaken, they're undefeated, and it seemed like
my entire childhood all they did was get beat up
and lose. It's tough. I mean, seriously, five point three
seven four nine seven, eight hundred. The big one. Your
chance to get interact with Kevin Carr, conversation with him about, well,
what's new with the movies this week? And maybe look
back at twenty five at anything that's worth our time,

(02:03:24):
maybe playing catch up on because there's just so many
things to see. I will never if there is nothing
else new created to be added to any of my
next list or cues or whatever. Else do you want
to call it? Pick a streaming service. I could start
watching stuff now and probably not even get through the
Netflix watch list, let alone Prime in Hulu, in HBO,

(02:03:50):
and on and on it goes. I mean, it is unreal.
And if you are one of those souls who remember MTV,
h the beginning of the year brought basically the end
to I think, if not all, of most of their
all music channels have gone the way of the most
phone booths, which is history, which is kind of weird.
And they ended the way they started, which is video

(02:04:11):
killed the radio star, which it didn't because they're still
doing it in the iHeartRadio is bigger than ever and
on demand. And you can leave me a message just
by clicking on that microphone. See how I did that.
I'm a professional. I put it together quickly. Let's get
to Sue and Covington. She says, as a cure for
my sickness before the news you got about thirty seconds.
Can you heal me?

Speaker 3 (02:04:29):
Sue?

Speaker 15 (02:04:31):
Yes, I can.

Speaker 1 (02:04:32):
I wish somebody would. What do you have?

Speaker 15 (02:04:34):
Are you sure it's bronchitis or in your chest?

Speaker 1 (02:04:38):
I had chest everything. I'm feeling a little better now,
but I've had gallons of water and emergency and too
much coffee.

Speaker 15 (02:04:44):
Okay, all right, I head Every year I would get
a case of bronchitis because I taught at school and
my doctor. One year I went three months in a row.
He gave me prescriptions, got rid of it for a
couple of weeks. Then it came back the third time.
I when he gave me a canful of samples, and
I thought, I'm not calling with this. I had bought

(02:05:05):
a book at a book sale by a French herbalist
whose father was a French herbalist. I looked up everything
dealing with head, nosed, throat and chest. Yes, the one
recurring thing was the turnip cure, which all my friendings
would do the except sign and say.

Speaker 1 (02:05:22):
No, no, I love turnips. What do you do with
the turnative?

Speaker 15 (02:05:27):
Well, I didn't like turnips, and going to the grocery,
I told mother to remind me to get turnips, and
if she'd been driving, she would have been up a
telephone pole. What you do is you get a couple
of medium sized, well smaller, depending if you want to
just give it a try at the beginning turnips, feel them,
dice them up, cook them because they'll cook quicker when

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they're diced small.

Speaker 1 (02:05:49):
Sure, drain them, put them in.

Speaker 15 (02:05:51):
A mount blender, add enough milk that it's sort of
like a shape medium, and then add honey.

Speaker 3 (02:06:03):
You know you got.

Speaker 1 (02:06:03):
Turnips and honey are great. I'm not a big fan
of the milk. If I can, I have chocolate milk.

Speaker 3 (02:06:07):
With it.

Speaker 15 (02:06:10):
If you want to. Chocolate wasn't increased in there, but
you could give it a try.

Speaker 1 (02:06:16):
I'll try it.

Speaker 15 (02:06:16):
I actually I had not had a case of bronchis
since then, and that was like years ago.

Speaker 1 (02:06:24):
Well, Sue, I tell you what, I will try it.
I'll track down some turnips tomorrow and I'll do it
before next year. If I have a third New year
sick with this nastiness, I'm just gonna call it quits.
I appreciate you listening and helping, Sue. Thank you. I'll
go in search of turnips like the dead Leonard Nimoy
Brady Hopkins is like, really, turnip talk made me late
for news. I'm sorry, he's got your eleven thirty report

(02:06:45):
a minute late. Then Kevin Carr joins me on the
other side. Sterling seven hundred WLW Did I blame it?
On the cold medicine. How you doing? It's that season,
and uh, I'm just trying to get through it. I
am so hydrated. I was telling Russ off the I
think the last three days, I've had probably better part
of two gallons of water each of these days, plus coffee,

(02:07:06):
which I should not have had. The good doctor made
a point of that, and all I can tell you
is that I spent a lot of time getting up
and going to the bathroom, and I'm probably more hydrated
than I've ever been, but maybe hopefully getting rid of
this nasty sickness faster. But it is ridiculous, and I
want to apologize now and get out in front of it,
because it's better to get in front of it than after.

(02:07:29):
So we used to have in the old days. You know,
at different times in the studio space you could see
the news person. But I have a window into a hallway,
so does Russ. Travis lair Is doing news has like
a big, super deluxe facility on the other side of
the building. And I didn't realize that like Brady had
tagged out, or that Matt Reese had tagged out, And

(02:07:50):
then I introduced to the wrong guy, and then Travis
is like no love, No, we love Travis. He is
back with your midnight Report in about twenty one minutes.
In the meantime, I talk about sickness and hydration and
a guy who left town partner in the Chubby and
Stick podcast that you might be able to find streaming someplace.
It was one of the fat guys in the movies. Now,
of course, silver Gecko on the sub stack. I'm talking

(02:08:12):
about Kevin Carr, back from vacation, rested, relaxed, and tan,
and he waited, of course, to get sick until he
came home. How are you, how's life? How is everything car?

Speaker 3 (02:08:24):
Yeah? Happy nude ere Yeah, everything's good. You're right. I
didn't get sick. I was on vacation over Christmas. I
got sick right when I was traveling home. So if
you're gonna get sick on vacation, that's the time to
do it on your way back.

Speaker 1 (02:08:37):
Yeah, why not be miserable at the house rather than
wherever it is that you go to sun yourself or
ski or whatever it is that makes you happy.

Speaker 3 (02:08:44):
It's terrible, Well yeah, I mean it's already no fun
going home, you know, it already sucks to drive back
or fly back or take a boat back or whatever.
The return trip always is not nearly as fun as
the anticipation of going. So yeah, but I know, I
get hit by the flu and that thing. That's no joke, man, No,
that's knocked me on my butt.

Speaker 1 (02:09:05):
It's been pretty bad for me for a couple of days.
But no fever. So I came in trying to stay
away from everybody, and I'll spray everything down in here.
I've been bathing in like antibacterial stuff and hopped up
on like emergency and goofballs. So everything is fine, good.

Speaker 3 (02:09:21):
To hear, nobody to get pulled over on the way home.

Speaker 1 (02:09:23):
I no, no, no, everything's fine. I'm not doing it while
I'm here.

Speaker 3 (02:09:25):
No, no, I'm just chugging the costs.

Speaker 1 (02:09:28):
Yeah, correct, correct, Everything's great. So think of it back
at twenty five, because you know you always tell us
what's new and picks to watch and everything else. Is
there anything new? This is a weird window of time,
the way Christmas and New Year's has fallen. Is anything new?
Before I start picking your brain about maybe what we've
missed and stuff to catch up on from twenty five?

Speaker 3 (02:09:48):
Well, I mean there's like a couple of smaller things.
There are a lot of times you get limited released
huff the first weekend always that New Year, whatever that
New Year's weekend is is always kind of an off wee.
So there's nothing big even like what was weird is
there weren't any real big opening on Christmas Day movies.
I mean, there was Anna Condo I still want to

(02:10:09):
see because it just looks stupid and fun. But but
there was a song sung Blue, which is that Neil
Diamond tribute kind of it's it's based on a true
story starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, and that's that's fine,
But there there was no big Christmas Day movie where

(02:10:29):
sometimes things are like opening Christmas Day and I think
that they knew that Avatar was going to suck the
air out of the room, so they did. Everyone just
kind of vacated the next week and then this week
is always a dead week and then we you know,
hit it hard, like next week with Private the Killer
Chimpanzee movie and the In the green Lands two movie.

(02:10:54):
If it wasn't enough to watch Gerard Butler try to
save his family from everything on the planet, you got
him coming back in this one as well.

Speaker 1 (02:11:03):
Nice, that's pretty good, uh is. First of all, let
me ask you about this the movie that you just
mentioned about Neil Diamond, But it's not really about him.
That's about right, that's about these people who basically are
a what do you want to call it a cover act?

Speaker 3 (02:11:20):
Right? Yeah, Well they like to call themselves a Neil
Diamond experience. You know, it's not even a tribute but inexperience,
and it's it is based on a true story. There
was a documentary about it about this guy who just
loves Neil Diamond so much he kind of does the
tribute band, meets another impersonator share her big thing is
Patsy Klein. But then they work together to kind of

(02:11:42):
do and they fall in love and they have this
whole story. And with any story, there's ups and downs
and good and bad things happening. And I mean that's
it's a sweet enough story. It pushes all the right buttons.
It's predictable, but you know that's the thing. Life kind
of predictable for a lot of you. You know, you
know something bad is gonna happen, you know that is
gonna be bouncing back and all that kind of stuff.
But I mean, it's it's a fine little movie. It

(02:12:06):
does get a little heavy on the Neil Diamond songs,
if you might If you find that hard to believe.

Speaker 1 (02:12:09):
Well you got to be a fan of Neil Diamond.
You're probably not gonna watch anyway, which leads me to
an interesting thing. I just read something that said one
of the family members of I guess these people were
not happy with the way they were portrayed or how
the movie came out. Yet I've heard people say good
things about the movie. So that's a weird thing. Great movie,
but apparently not true to form, or at least the

(02:12:29):
family members not happy with what they saw.

Speaker 3 (02:12:32):
What. Well, here's the thing when it comes to when
it comes to true stories, is true, it's no one
wants to see it. It's a boring movie. If everybody
is always good and perfect and honest and above board,
and nobody's like that. Everybody has their dark side, everybody
has their flaws, everybody has their ups and downs and

(02:12:53):
their good days and they're bad days. And so when
I see a movie that's especially if it's even if
it's a famous person biopic and it's like approved completely
by the family, I was kind of like, well, that's
probably not that good because you don't get the downside.
Like there's a movie and there's no slight against Jesse Owens.
He was an absolute hero. But there was a movie

(02:13:14):
called Race that came out I don't ten years fifteen
years ago, and it was it was a biopick about
Jesse Owens and him going to the Olympics and winning
and all that kind of stuff. But it was like
like produced by his family. And I'm like, not that
Jesse Owens had these dark skeletons in the closet or
anything like that, but there was everybody has ups and downs,

(02:13:37):
and everybody has good points and bad points, and the
movie did feel a little bit sanitized, whereas if it's
a you know, so, it may it may have shown
something that's true. It's just maybe the family didn't like
what was shown. I'm not a biographer of this these people,
but that's one of the things you run into where
they feel that they focused too much on this because
it made them look a certain way and not enough

(02:13:58):
about this. I mean, it's it's like anything if anyone
did a story of your well, I don't know, for me,
it could be one of those things I'd watch and
I'd be like, well you kind of improved on things.

Speaker 1 (02:14:07):
So I mean I'm living the life. I could write
it better than I'm living. Yes, I absolutely could. For
me anyway, talking to Kevin Carr Silver Gecko on Substack
with Sterling on seven hundred WLW. So all right, so
let's move I guess back and look at it twenty
five if possible, because there are always so many things

(02:14:30):
that are put out, and now with streaming it's even
more so. What is there? I mean, I don't know
how many you have. If it's ten, if it's five,
what are the like? If you miss this, must see
go back stream it, find it because there are a
lot of good things that just fall through the cracks
because there's just simply so much stuff to watch.

Speaker 3 (02:14:48):
Yeah, well, and I mean like like certain ones. Obviously,
people know I really loved Superman. You know that. You
remember me talking about that, absolutely, and that was that
was a lot of fun. But but like some that
and maybe we're lesser seen, and some of these are
darker movies. I tend to fall into the horror appreciation.
There was a movie that was called good Boy, and

(02:15:11):
it came out I don't know, about four months ago,
and it was about a dog and it's a horror
moy told from the dog's perspective. And it starts a
dog named Indy, who who's Who's should be in the
running for best actor of any category of anything. You know,
it should he should get the oscar. Oh, he's a
very good boy. And it's it's it's a really interesting approach.

(02:15:32):
And you know, it's got the best main subject as well,
So that one is really good. If you haven't seen that,
check that out. I think it's on shutter you can
probably find it elsewhere. I also was a big thing.
You had two fantastic Stephen King adaptations. One of them
was The Long Walk, which is difficult to watch, came
out I think in this late August or late summer

(02:15:53):
August area. Very difficult to watch because it has heavy,
dety subject matter. But it's a fantastic adaptation of the
original Richard Bachman book that Stephen King kind of wrote
under a pseudonym back in the seventies. But he also
did The Monkey Osgod Perkins, the son of Anthony Perkins
who played Norman Bates. He directed this this over the top,

(02:16:17):
crazy violent tale about this this this little uh, well
it used to have like this symbols, monkey had the symbols.
They had to change it to him hitting a drum,
the monkey with a drum for the movie.

Speaker 1 (02:16:29):
Well, what was that? Because they were going to sue them,
or they didn't like the way that the toy was
being shown or something or what.

Speaker 3 (02:16:34):
I think that some other company, like maybe it might
have been like a toy story thing has a monkey
with symbols, and so they said, let's just avoid that completely,
even though the original story was a monkey with symbols.
And it's just a bonkers movie. And if you like
sort of these insane, over the top at darkly funny movies,

(02:16:56):
the monkeys are fantastic. It's kind of off brand for
Osgod Perkins because the stuff you saw long legs, I mean,
that thing was heavy and grim, but this one, I
mean it's an over the top splatterfest.

Speaker 1 (02:17:07):
Well there's nothing wrong with that. I mean, you got
to be in the right mood. But I'm all for that.
Uh tell me, But I know you have others in
the list, but I'm just thinking about this one battle
after another. Is that one of those that you would
say this is that this is one of the better
ones of ninety five. Or oh I just flashed back
thirty years.

Speaker 3 (02:17:27):
I'm about to say that that's pt Anderson, that's in
his infancy. No, this one's good. I mean, I'm not
a I'm not a total acolyte of pt Anderson, but
this was a This was a good movie. It's one
of those ensemble movies because Leonard Dicapiro does a great
job in it, Chase Infinity, who plays his daughter, she

(02:17:47):
does a great job in it. Sean Penn as wickedly
evil as the bad guy. Excuse me. Then cl del
Toro is a hoot in this movie. So that, yeah,
that was worth seeing. If you've not seen it, it
is an experience. It's a little long, so I do
warn you about that, but actually want to know what's
real bonkers, check out Begonia Sometimes. That's the one where

(02:18:12):
Emmastone plays like a CEO and Jesse Plemmon's kidnaps her
thinking she's an alien, shaves off her head and and
and is keeping her in her his basement because he
doesn't want her to he wants to stop the alien invasion.
It is. It is chilling because you're like you'd watch
the movie and you'd be like, yeah, I know somebody

(02:18:33):
like that, and I don't know somebody who would who
might try that, you know what I mean? And it's
it's very very disturbing at times.

Speaker 1 (02:18:41):
She's made some really really good films, hasn't she?

Speaker 3 (02:18:45):
Yeah? Well, and this is its dirrected by Yorgus Latmos,
who did poor things which she won. What are her
oscars for? So you see you see less of Emmastone
in this one, then you do important, But you saw.

Speaker 1 (02:18:58):
All of Emma Stone, all of her, Yes she did,
and that's not all bad as for sure? Anything else
of the like well, because you mentioned in one two
through Stephen King movies, Long Walk, The Monkey, Good Boys, Superman.
Uh you mentioned Begonia? What what else?

Speaker 3 (02:19:12):
Any weapons? Weapons is a great movie if you've not
seen that one. It's directed by it's written a director
by Zach Craigor. He did Barbarian a couple of years ago.
Originally started out in comedy doing the Whitest Kid, you know,
Oh yeah, and lo and behold. He's a brilliant horror director.
So Weapons is a fantastic movie, almost impossible to spoil

(02:19:33):
because it's so twisted and convoluted in what it's trying
to do. It's uh, it's you keep guessing even if
you know what's going to happen. So it's and Amy
Madigan is fantastic in that movie.

Speaker 1 (02:19:46):
Nice, okay, good good. I like him. Anything else of
consequence before like we let you rest in, convalesce and
do whatever it is you have to do. Hydrate. That's
what I've been doing. I really I joke about the
big drinks when we've gone to the movies together whatever
in the catheter. But I have been consuming so much
in the way of fluids to try to get through
this sickness that a cather which I just went thinking about,

(02:20:10):
might actually save me some time.

Speaker 3 (02:20:12):
Well yeah, well then the key is if you're sick,
you don't want to have anything with too much caffeine
in it. Now you can have tea like to drink
and so your sues your throat. But no, that's why
you go with like sprite seven up water whatever yeah, yeah,
PD alighte or you know, cater raid or something like that.

Speaker 1 (02:20:29):
So this thirty ounce container the mug of ice coffee
is a bad choice.

Speaker 3 (02:20:35):
Probably not a great idea. That's that's that's a lot
of that's a lot of caffeine. Caffeine will dehydrate you'll
you'll expel more than you take in.

Speaker 1 (02:20:41):
That might explain my need to go Yeah, okay, well yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:20:45):
But no, I would say. The only other thing I
I I that that's really on my radar is you
got the finale of Stranger Things that dropped on on
it was it New Year's Eve or New Year's Day?
It was New Year's Eve and it was a great
wrap up to the show. I'm not gonna spoil or anything,
but it's it's definitely worth checking out. If you've been

(02:21:05):
waiting to borrow somebody's Netflix password, now's the time to
do it. You've got there's forty two episodes, which amounts to, well,
I don't know what, one hundred and eighty six hours
of eve.

Speaker 1 (02:21:16):
It's really a lot. Yeah, but it's good.

Speaker 3 (02:21:19):
It's worth worth checking out.

Speaker 1 (02:21:21):
And did I read or did you didn't tell me something?
Is there going to be a movie about that? Or
is that just what? I don't No, no, no.

Speaker 3 (02:21:29):
They they released the two hour series permi see the
series finale that is the this week and it made
like twenty million dollars.

Speaker 1 (02:21:38):
That's better than a lot this year.

Speaker 3 (02:21:41):
Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean and it was it was
sort of that that like Bathom event kind of one time,
one or two night thing. But I mean it is cinematic.
It's a great to you know, sometimes you go and
watch like the two hour finale and you're like, that
could have been forty five minutes. Yes, yeah, this one
it does take its time. I mean, you have you
definitely have a nice dinu ma you know date. It's

(02:22:07):
not like they like wrap up the bad stuff and
then roll credits. They it's a little bit return to
the King trying to you know, wrap everything up at
the end. So but it's worth it if you if
you've stayed through all five seasons, you watch these twenty
some year old kids graduate from high school or something
like that.

Speaker 1 (02:22:25):
Yeah, and that's the kind of thing something to do.
I suppose it's it's a weird thing. I'm wondering at
this point, are there too many options? As far as
I would.

Speaker 3 (02:22:37):
Never say that, No, I would never say that. That's
that's like, that's like that's like your what your wife's
coming home like, sorry, honey, we're just having way too
much sex.

Speaker 1 (02:22:47):
No, there's I mean, there's I've seen a lot of movies,
not as many as you because it's been your life.
But I uh, and and I've had some sex. I
gotta say, Kevin Carr, I have never, not once ever
like compared I mean, equality film to even bad sex.
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:23:06):
Well, I mean, yeah, you know, what's that whole thing?
You know, like you have pizza, pizza, even bad pizzas good.

Speaker 1 (02:23:11):
Right, right, I mean, how many movies have you like, gone,
this is a complete waste of time. I want to
get the hell out of this theater or falling asleep
or otherwise. I mean I have bolted out of theaters
and gone across the hall because I'm like, I'm never
getting that part of my life back. Ever, I've never
known the mist of sex and gone, I got to
get out of here. Maybe once.

Speaker 3 (02:23:30):
Well yeah, but I mean it's not a perfect comparison,
but I mean it is. It is one of those things.
But the whole these are too many options. I love
the fact that we have options. I love the fact
that there's more stuff than because this is the thing
you can bolt. You can bail if you start watching
something and you're like this is boring, I can go
to something else.

Speaker 1 (02:23:49):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (02:23:50):
Do you remember the back everyone is complaining about too
many options. Remember back in the day we had three
three channels lucky. Maybe PBS was showing money.

Speaker 1 (02:23:58):
But don well, you're right, and and I and if
you were like me, and we've discussed this before. Kevin
carr By, by the way, is silver Gecko on the
sub stack talking movies and so forth with Stirling on
the big one. I mean, I thought my only purpose
in life as a young tiny sterling was to hold
the antenna and stand appropriately so we might be able
to get more than the three, so we could get

(02:24:20):
eet and sixteen out of Dayton, so we could get
nineteen and then maybe twenty two out of Dayton. You know,
in that type of situation and the weather was really good,
maybe you get a Columbus station or an Indianapolis station.
And that might have been if I took the foil
and wrapped it around the top.

Speaker 3 (02:24:34):
Of the room. Yeah, I mean I grew up in Columbus.
We had three stations in PBS and that was it.
We didn't get independent TV stations until the mid eighties.
And I remember we'd go up and visit my family
in Cleveland, they had a couple of them. I thought
it was great that channel surfing. You could go seven
stations before you got back to the Brady bunch again.
So look, I mean, I will take more content over

(02:24:59):
nothing any day. And I love the fact that people promote, oh,
Blockbuster's closed. You can't. Oh I'm sorry. You go to
Blockbuster and you can't all agree on a movie and
then it be out. You know, you can't wait six
years to go see my best friend's wedding because the
entire wall at Blockbuster's gone. No, I mean, you can
just watch whatever you want to. I will never complain
about that.

Speaker 1 (02:25:19):
There you go, don't complain. Options are good. It's good
to have choices. I mean, that's the bottom line absolutely.
Kevin Carr, thank you for making time. I know that
you're convalescing. You're sickly, but tan and rested into the
new year. So I wish you and the family car
the best, and I look forward to to hanging out
and talking more movies and whatever else comes in twenty

(02:25:39):
twenty six. Thank you for doing it.

Speaker 3 (02:25:40):
Sounds good. We'll talk to you later.

Speaker 1 (02:25:42):
There you go. It's all for me. Thank you. Russ
Jackson Travis Laird has news straightaway Get red Eye Radio.
I'll be back Monday, Bearcat Basketball tomorrow, Bengals Sunday. Home
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