Sterling Saturday -- 11/15/25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I state not the best of times for those football
bear Cats at Nippert they fall thirty twenty four of
the Wildcats at Arizona Big twelve matchup gone wrong. Basketball
bear Cats in action tomorrow should be a tune up game,
but don't take them too lightly. Mount Saint Mary's at
fifth third Arena right here on seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
You will hear that. Hope you're doing all right.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Lots going on, Drew western Het, he's here producing, got
rick Yucino with news coming up, a lot of ground
to cover, including trump Bucks. Got a bunch of people
reaching out to me, going what about the two thousand dollars?
When's the two k coming? We'll touch on that in
a bit. Also, I want to start with we touched
on this last week. I had people sending me blurbs

(00:45):
of stories and photos from social media and elsewhere about
this kid, Cincinnati Public Schools child who was being transported
from Roberts Academy to Kids Thrive. Apparently he has behavioral issues,
they work with them regularly. Apparently was acting out, didn't

(01:07):
want to go. Allegedly they had him in the back
of a van. He gets to the Kids Thrive place,
there's pictures shared with the fathers trying to figure out
why his kid was basically in this van with well,
he was tied in some fashion, not like a hog tide,
but his hands, wrists and his feet, ankles, legs were tied,

(01:34):
whether to keep him in the vehicle from going wild
in the vehicle or otherwise. Now investigations going on. Four
staff members have in fact been put on leave and
it's challenging. And I mentioned this last night. I had
a traveling nurse who called and she was like, well,
you just don't really know what they were dealing with

(01:55):
and what their protocols are, and that's what the investigations for.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
And that's absolutely right.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Here's what I want to know, though, whether it's a
child that's known to have behavioral issues or otherwise, and
you're in the business of transporting youth children who have
some type of issue like this from point A to
point B. If it's your kid, if you're an administrator
and educator, if you're someone who deals in law enforcement
or otherwise, my question to you is how prepared are you?

(02:22):
And I gotta say, if you've seen these pictures in
this kid in the way he's sort of like tied
up or whatever else that sort of goes along with that.
You kind of go, well, how do you deal with
a kid who's having a meltdown, who's freaking out, who's
having some type of issue? If you were pulled over
in and around the tri state with a kid yours

(02:45):
or not one entrusted in your care, a child minor
in your car in the back seat, in the back
of the van, tied up such as this, my question
to you is what do you think law enforcement would
do or two four one kids being called would do
to you as a result of dealing with the kid
acting out. Would they go, well, hey, you kept the

(03:06):
kid from jumping out of the vehicle and ending up
as a cautionary tail thump by traffic because he had
lost his or her mind in this situation, right, Or
would they go, you know, you did a good thing
there in that situation, because you could have been much worse.
Should they have more preparation in a way to strap
in a kid who's you know, over the edge? Law

(03:27):
enforcement deals with this all the time from grown ups
and sometimes you who have somehow lost their way in
negotiating playing in the big sandbox, a life that we have,
whether they get those spit guards or whatever else that
you may see on lock up or jail or whatever.
Some of the stuff they film, like a downtown at
the jail right near the casino and all that, or

(03:52):
some other type of facility. You see it a lot
in Las Vegas, these other places where they show these
cops type of shows or jail shows, and you see
somebody who's spitting or being aggressive, a danger to themselves
or others, or whatever else that goes with it. A
lot of people out and about today, a lot of
people and enjoying maybe one of the last few really
almost picture perfect days in the Tri State. And I
know this is a serious type of conversation in an issue,

(04:15):
But as someone who does not have kids but has
been a kid, I have seen kids act out. I've
seen it in a place where I was working retail.
Out in about with the public. You may see people
occasionally have a freak out in some fashion. How best
does one deal with this? If you're driving and a

(04:36):
kid freaks out, what have you done? Here's the other
question that I have with this, because times have changed.
If you're a child of the seventies or the eighties
or the eighties to the nineties or the two thousands
to where we are right now this November fifteenth, twenty
twenty five. The expectation of what is acceptable and how
to deal with the kid who's just acting out and

(04:57):
not handling themselves appropriately, a danger to themselves or others,
or just in fact needing some type of correction. What
is acceptable, whether it's the belt, whether it's the switch,
whether it's when I was an elementary or primary school,
if you got in trouble, they would put you in
a closed coat room in the dark.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
It happened to me once.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
I've seen it and saw it happen to kids time
and time again. And if you did that to a
kid today, there would be all kinds of problems with
litigation and interference and questions about how you deal with
the child and the effects of that. And you go
ahead a decade and beyond. The question is about coddling
and everything else. And we know that there are kids

(05:42):
who are autistic and other issues, who have other behavioral
problems and trying to be sensitive to that in one
fashion or another. I want to know what you think.
I want to know what you've dealt with. I want
to know if you have been that child, now grown
or otherwise who's had a freak out, who's been out
of control, Well, what did your family or school administrators

(06:03):
or someone else do to keep you in check from
becoming a danger to yourself or someone else.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
It's an ugly bad spot.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
One would think that if it was an aberration, it
was an irregular, out of the ordinary circumstance, that you
might think, Okay, we didn't have anything better in a
manner in which to deal with the child. Is this
case that's gotten all kinds of attention as a result
of it? Maybe because that's the business of an educator,

(06:34):
that's a business to someone who's transporting kids in, someone
who's dealing with kids who have behavioral problems, that's your wheelhouse.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Right.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
You don't go to a restaurant and unless it's like
an Ethiopian place, and they would even have silverware because
a lot of people still like to use flatwear and
not their hands. But you wouldn't go to an Ethiopian
restaurant and necessarily be surprised at people eating with their
hands and not having as many, say, utensils as you
would at other places. And that's not an I love youth,
the Opian food, have friends that are eat the Opian

(07:02):
That's why I mentioned it. But but the bottom line
is they're eating their style and so forth. May be different.
If you're dealing with a kid who is a problem,
who was a danger, who is some type of behavioral
maybe at risk situation for one of a better way
to describe it, and that is your wheelhouse, you're going

(07:22):
to be more prepared than someone who just comes across
it irregularly. Right, So what do you do with the
kid like that? There's a lot, There's more and more
of them anywhere you go. If it's packed. Right now
ken Wood Town Center just down Montgomery Road from where
I sit in this room with a window window a
hallway doing the show, I guarantee you there are people
there today with some kids who are going to be

(07:43):
hopped up on sugar, excited by flashing lights and sounds
and everything that is going to the mall and there's
going to be a freak out or two, and there's
going to be a parent or two. They're going to
navigate them. It's been several Christmases ago. This has happened
twice to me, once Keedwin Town Center, once in Columbus

(08:04):
years ago when I was living there and working there,
and it was almost the identical circumstance. I am there,
I'm shopping, I got coffee or beverage. I am carrying
a bag with stuff for the woman that I'm with,
and in and around me in the hustle and bustle
of things. There are parents that had their kids effectively unleashes,

(08:26):
stretchy chords, almost like those you know dog walking kind
of the deals where it retracts and so forth, But
it was stretchy the one case. The kids are running
so wild they encircle me and someone else and we
are tangled up in these leashes, for one of a
better way to describe it. And I'm just holding the bags,

(08:49):
trying not to spill my coffee, and just observing the chaos. Now,
my mother, when I was a kid growing up, would
have given me a slight correction. She would not have
probably thought that I needed to be on a lead.
But perhaps there are kids obviously out there who are
I will never forget the woman who was in charge
of those kids and some of those other adults with
them looked at me like I was the problem. I'm

(09:09):
like you, your wild child, children have wrapped me up
in their leads, their leashes, whatever it is, how am
I the problem? So, whether you keep your kids on leashes,
whether you keep them in some type of subdued you
probably can't walk your kid with a straight jacket through
a facility, and nor should you be able to. And

(09:30):
maybe if you've got a kid who's not handling stuff
like that for you, maybe you take them somewhere else? Right,
how do you deal with this? And my guess is
if you're the parent, and do you know, even if
your kid does have behavioral problems, do you expect it
to be handled more professionally than tying hands and feet together?

(09:51):
In a situation like this? Do you expect more? Do
you hope there to be more? How do you cope
with that? Five p one to three, seven, four, nine, seven,
eight hundreds, the big one? Pick up the phone, give
it the finger. You can talk back on the iHeartRadio app.
We have a lot of ground to cover today, a
short amount of time before chick a lovedwig steps in
here after six the some sports talk, we'll give you

(10:14):
a chance to sound off. I'm just curious how you cope.
I've had numerous people reach out to me and they say, well,
you were a latchkey kid, which is true. I've talked
about it here many times, and how I am. You know,
I just roamed around and observed things, taking the bus
downtown and everything else. And maybe it's just we take
better care of kids now than we used to. This

(10:36):
is something irregular. My guess is this probably happened more
regularly than it does now. That's why this maybe has
made the news. I'm sure there's gonna probably be some
conversations and consideration for litigation. I know some lawyers who
were probably salivating at this story, thinking it was time
for a big, fat money check payday circumstance for them
and for their future client, they would hope. But the

(10:59):
bottom line is you don't want a kid to have
some type of mental issue beyond the freak out in
trying to navigate and make sense as to why they
were tied up in the back of a van. I'm
just guessing maybe it's me, let's get one in here
or two before the break and give you a chance
to sound off. Katherine's first in Loveland five point three

(11:19):
seven fe eight hundred. The big one was Stirling on
a Saturday afternoon, Catherine.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
How are you good?

Speaker 4 (11:25):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (11:26):
I'm okay.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
I've not been tied up recently and thrown in the
back of a van, so I feel fine.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:33):
It's just perfect because I just got done dealing with
a situation where I'm going through like custody battles. So
I'm going through like JFS supervised visits and it's hard
to discipline my child. And I had one child wailing
at another child, and I was like, oh my goodness,

(11:56):
how do you act in the situation?

Speaker 2 (11:58):
What what did they tell me?

Speaker 1 (12:00):
It's hard to uh, you know, deal with them or
to correct them in some fashion. So what would you
normally want to do that you are reluctant to do
because you're being looked at by children's services.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
I'm like, I just put them in time out, like
like go to your room. No no social media, no phone,
no anything, you know.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, and ye and go ahead. I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
So just basically like like the security guy, like it
happened right in from the security guy and I'm like,
oh no. So he's like I'm gonna call my dad
and he's.

Speaker 6 (12:35):
Gonna pick me up.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Like fine, I'm gonna talk to your dad too, and
it was just like, all right, you know, you just
have to like still like I have to be bad
cop and sit down my foot. But I'm like, I'm
still your mom, and this is not good behavior.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
How old is the child?

Speaker 1 (12:53):
I'm just curious because I mean, that's an odd thing,
and I've seen it with friends who maybe play parents
against each other, but in a divorce or separation situation
and custodial issues, it gets it gets deep fast.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
Yeah, because basically he's eleven about to be twelve, so
he's going through preteen good times and yeah, so it's like, oh,
here's my preteen child acting out because he's a good
street a student and stuff. And then finally I got

(13:27):
to like textas dad and everything, and we talked about
it and I'm just like, okay, well, the way we're
going to have to handle this with him laughing out
like he's alreay expressed he wants to be in therapy,
Like all right, let's get them signed up for therapy.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well that's pretty good. Maybe I should have asked for
someone I might be healthier. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
At any point in time, and this is difficult to ask.
But since you're here, I'm going to do a Catherine. So,
in this case that we're talking about, which they're investigating,
and you have these people from CPS that are on
leave at this point or whatever, have been suspended while
the investigation happens. They used socks to tie this kid up.
Would you ever restrain your child with socks or otherwise

(14:09):
if in fact they were somehow acting out in the car?
Where's the line? What's okay and not okay?

Speaker 2 (14:14):
With that?

Speaker 4 (14:15):
I just say it's it's like you, you set the rules,
you set your boundaries. It doesn't mean like physically having
to do anything with them, but you make it known
that they are in trouble. You take away their little privileges.
They're like, all right, you sit here and think about
what's he done?

Speaker 1 (14:32):
There you go, Well, Katherine, good luck with the whole
separation and custodial issue. I appreciate you listening to be
a part of the show. I know it sucks. Not
the show sucking, but I mean your circumstance. I hope
that you made the show better. I may not be
making a great gool. Try take care of yourself, Katherine.
I appreciate you being here. Randy Mike, others your chance
to get interactive. Is it ever appropriate to tie your

(14:53):
kid up like that? Socks or otherwise electrical cord? I
mean you hear all these stor rrible stories from children's
services historically in headlines, in leading the newscast in the past.
Here's a situation where people in this case you would
think would be prepared to handle it better. But maybe
the socks tying the kid up was the best pat

(15:14):
to keeping him safe? Or am I crazy? Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
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kids and restraining them and where the line is quickly
get to La Mike with Sterling on seven hundred WLW
got about a minute.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
How far is too far?

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Is tying up this kid with socks over the top
when it comes to trying to restrain him if in fact,
he was a danger to himself.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
You're talking to Mike, right, Yeah, I'm talking to you, Mike.

Speaker 6 (16:00):
Okay, brother, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
No, you're in the game. You're good.

Speaker 6 (16:04):
But I don't know how to feel about that. That's
a tough one because you don't want there and you
don't know what the hell happened. I mean, I can
see where it has some validity. I mean, if the
kid's gonna make me jump out of the dog on car,
what are you supposed to do? Well, maybe you could
pull over and call the cops, or you know, whatever
you got to do and get somebody to I don't know,

(16:25):
that's a tough one without knowing. They're really tough detailed
what went down, right.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, I'd say so, and that's why the investigation's taking place.
But I just imagine, if you know, if my mom
had tied me up like that and been pulled over,
somebody would have called two four to one kids and
she'd be answering a lot of questions. Here are professionals
supposed to be transporting a kid to a place they
deal with behavior issues. You might think that they would
be a little bit more prepared. I hate to be brief, Mike.

(16:52):
We're against the all time. I appreciate you holding it
certainly being a part of the show. Fourth there to
report straight away, rick Yucino, how do you smell just
the person you were with or people that you know
have some serious bo body odor, can in fact improve
your status in our world? You'd think it'd be the
other way. I'll explain after the news Sterling seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
And it was not the best of times.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
I would never football beercats ball thirty twenty four to
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luquig after that. Americans spend between seven and eight billion,
that is with a b billion dollars seven to eight
billion dollars a year on cologne, perfume, od toilette and

(17:40):
random other products. It does not necessarily mention lotions that
also may have a fragrance. And this crosses a lot
of lines from the super expensive luxurious for a fragrances
to you know, the British sterling for instance, that my
Anileen used to get me all the time. Then she
stopped what I mentioned it on the radio because I
thought it was funny, now I miss giving me the

(18:00):
British sterling.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
But that's neither here nor there.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
The average bottle in America, and this is crazy spend
a cost between eighty and one hundred and fifty dollars
a niche luxury perfumes somewhere at least two hundred, sometimes
more three hundred dollars a bottle, and I'm sure there's
some stuff higher in than that. So obviously, scent and
smell is a big deal. And some people wear it

(18:23):
to cover up like their stink, their body odor. Some
because well it makes them feel good because other people
maybe smell it and it makes them smell good to them, right,
I mean, it's pretty basic stuff. So what I want
to know is how much smell impacts your attractiveness to
someone else?

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Right?

Speaker 1 (18:46):
New study came out and check this out. They say
men with higher testosterone naturally produce body odors that other
people find to be dominant, maybe more pleasant, sometimes less
pleasant to be around or to smell. They can affect

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their dominance and how people look at them. It can
affect obviously their attractiveness. If somebody stinks, you're probably not
going to be too interested in them. But apparently both
male and females rating similar smells and noticing testosterone, and
how that lends one to apparently have a different view

(19:30):
of somebody in their dominance. So if you stink a little,
it might be a good thing as a guy for
us to have a little nasty stink on us, if
in fact that's what it is, is testosterone has a
bit of stink. I don't know, if you've been to
the gym, you've been working outside. See, I think that's
a part of it. It's almost like we're getting something done.
And the women in our lives are significant others. There's

(19:50):
others around us go clearly dominant. Maybe they don't really
have all the answers with the study, but I started
thinking about that. So what smell? When you smell it?
Like I will tell you, and you gotta be careful.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
To say it.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
There are certain sense and this is a weird one
and it might go back to my fixation with like
hippie chicks, not necessarily the unshaven under arms so much,
but this smell of patually like I mean, you could
almost put that like on a door and I'd be like, hey,
what is that door about? I'd like to talk to
the door, which is probably I mean, that's a weird

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sickness in my head. I don't know, but I mean,
I will be at a show, I'll be at Bogart's,
I'll be wherever else, you know, the Brady wherever there's
a show someplace, and all of a sudden, I'll smell
like patually and I'm like, holy crap. So what I'm
wondering is what smell do you smell? And you immediately like,
uh oh, I got to find her. I got to
find him or man, I love it when she or

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he's you know, whatever wears this smell or that smell.
Is there a smell that you and sometimes it's other stuff, right,
maybe it's the smell of cookies. Like you're shopping for
a house or something. You're gonna go look for a
new place to live, and all you notice that they
got can handles that smell like sugar cookies or something
along those lines. We are motivated by scent in a

(21:05):
major way. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand,
eight hundred the big one. You can talk back the
iHeartRadio app, click on that microphone. I think I find
that just really incredibly interesting In the just the smell factor,
and we spend a ton of money on it, and
most of the time it may not be for the
smell of ourselves, like if you spray yourself and some

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people and I I used to have a producer years ago,
and it was a different type of studio setting that
we have here at the Big One. Because I left
here and took a job somewhere else. Because you know,
you come up behind Marconi winning ratings and revenue monsters,
opportunities are fewer and far between, so I had to

(21:47):
find gainful employment. So I had an offer that came up.
I went someplace else. I worked someplace. I shared a
room with the producer directly in the studio space. When
we were on the air, producer would take calls, screen
calls and everything else. We be, you know, on the
other side of the counter space for one of a
better way to describe it. Now, this woman who was
very talented, and I still consider her a friend, but

(22:09):
at the time, this is some years ago, she would
douse herself with I mean it literally was like she
took a shower in some type of perfume. Now, I
don't know if she had a body odor problem. Maybe
if her nose or it didn't quite work correctly, she
couldn't tell that it was super strong. I noticed this
a lot of times with a lot of elderly people,
senior citizens. Sometimes no disrespect. I want to live that

(22:31):
long someday. But there are some people who will just
stay like literally they just spray the whole bottle on them,
and they're like, that's probably good enough, and then they
show up. I had her friend who's a doctor, and
it tells me all the time, like a dentist stuff,
and it tells me all the time. People come in
there and they're doused with all the like their clone
or perfume, and it makes it challenging to do the
work as they're tooling around in their skull. So and

(22:54):
that already smells weird. When you're digging around in somebody's mouth,
I would imagine, right there's all you start flossing places
they missed. You're like, that is not good. I guess
everybody has that one stink tooth, you know what I'm
talking about. When you floss, you're like, oh, yeah, I
got to do that more often than twice a day.
So I'm just wondering, what is that smell. Is there
a smell? Can you smell someone like it?

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Do you?

Speaker 1 (23:15):
And this research is weird to me, And I love
research studies in polls, but I don't think I've ever
smelled someone in with Well, that guy's dominant. He's clearly
an alpha because he stinks more or or somehow. Now
maybe it's more of a female noticing that kind of
scenario than other dudes, But apparently this goes both ways

(23:36):
when it comes to some type of acknowledgment or notice
with the smell. But definitely there are sometimes you smell someone,
is that someone smells great?

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Right?

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Like you encounter someone and you, man, you smell great,
but it's very good. Women will wear the perfume and
they know that we smell it. But if you compliment
and said, man, you smell so good. What is that
you're wearing? You got to be careful how you say it,
because then they look at you like somehow you're Leccheris
or something.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
And I may or may not be Leicherius, you may
or may not be.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
But you got to carefully broach that type of compliment
kind of situation because you just don't know where things
lay right now. You might get meet too it or something.
I'm probably exaggerating, just minimally. Five point three seven four
ninety seven thousand, eight hundred, The Big One talk Back,
the iHeartRadio app. I had somebody else I used to
know would work in doing like an asphalt work, blacktop,

(24:27):
right ceiling and so forth. They do sometimes do roadwork.
Sometimes they contract out and do like parking lots and stuff.
And he definitely you get together, maybe meet up for beers.
There was a smell like like if you're driving on
two seventy five not far from Microcenter, and if the
wind is blowing the right way, you have the vent
open in your vehicle, you can get a whiff of

(24:49):
that asphalt smell, right, is it? Because they're making it
right there where they sort of rehab or rework that.
I can't remember the name of that place, but you
know what I'm talking about. If you're you could be
driving by their right now and go, yeah, Sterling, I
get it now. This is what my buddy smelled like
a lot of the time. You go out for beers.
And I don't know if he was like super more
attractive than us, but he would get looks from other

(25:10):
women and stuff like that when we were out be
a group of guys or whatever. And I don't know
if that was because he just looked like he was
out there getting it done, or if he smelled like
asphalt and they interpreted that as somehow him being more dominant.
It's a very odd thing. So what smells do you
smell and go, yeah, that's good. Another it's tough five
point three seven four nine, seven thousand, eight hundred, the

(25:30):
big one, your chance to get interactive. There's a lot
of other stuff to get to as well. But I
just I love research studies, and that isn't just an
honestly an odd one. You would figure maybe a scent
company or someone of a business that's involved in that
would try to figure it out and sort of go
that way. We already know that there are, in fact,

(25:51):
sense that come out every holiday, like candles. There's a
mustard candle or you know, a chili candle or whatever else.
So we are all motivated by pleasure and pain. Some
smells are more pleasurable, some are more painful, and sometimes
the whiff of that. For instance, my friends up in
Dark County, Miami County area, some of them are in

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the business of like raising hogs for like bacon or
you know, pork loin or whatever else. Right, and there
is a smell about some of what they do with
their waist, just like others and farms and stuff. And
you'll get a whiff. And if you're not familiar with it,
you know that smells like crap, literally and figuratively.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
I hate it.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
But you talk to somebody who's living around there in
that business, I go, that is the smell of money.
And for somebody else in that situation, they go to
that guy, looks great. You've got a lot of hogs
smelling up and stinking the joint up, but there's money there.
To Milford, and Steve was sterling on the big one
seven hundred WLW Steve, what smells good or bad?

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Do you?

Speaker 5 (26:54):
Well?

Speaker 7 (26:54):
You know you've wrought back memories of my hippie girlfriend
back in the late of the early ages of chili.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (27:03):
And she was just and she would wash her hair
with that herbal essens, that green shampoo, and she would
come out of that bathroom with a combination of the
chili and that essence of shampoo of whatever it was called.
And then of course my favorite is yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Mean, you're probably I think anything like that a little
bit over the top that I appreciate that. Yeah, smell
is a part of the motivation that goes into that.
We had two Alex's, one Alex Egan, who produces here.
Sometime he says his parents spend one hundred and fifty
dollars on a hotel ambient sprayer. They say it's better

(27:47):
than a candle and great aroma, and people certainly like that,
you know.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
And here's the other thing that reminds me.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
You go to Vegas and I don't know if they're
still doing I haven't stayed there in a little while
at the Luxe work, but Luxer had a specific scent
when you would walk in there. I don't know if
it smells like tombs of old you know, pyramid. I
don't know where they got it, but it started. Even now,
my scent memory takes me back to be in at
the Luxor. There is something about it and the people

(28:17):
in the business of casinos. Aside from a little in
the way of windows and clocks to keep you feeling
good and a scent that keeps you feeling positively, scent
is a major deal.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
There is no question five, one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
eight hundred the big one to Mount Washington with Doug
on seven hundred. WLW Doug, what stinks and what smells good?

Speaker 3 (28:40):
What's up?

Speaker 5 (28:40):
Guy? You bought it up? I'm not bad brother. Back
in the day out of a piping layer and a
specialist worker, right out of high school about nineteen ninety eight,
and I used to work in all the nasty, really
really foul chemical plants down on st Avenue right behind

(29:01):
Ivory Dale, and one of them they rendered animal fat.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Oh yes, And my uncle told.

Speaker 5 (29:09):
Me he was a boiler maker and I was only
making like ten and change an hour. Bro, Like I
had taken a pay cut to get in the unions.
He said, just tell yourself, it smells like money. And
I remember the first time that kicked that in.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
I walked in.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
I walked in on a Sunday to work at there.
I was pulling seven twelves and I said, screw it.
Went out really late now on a Saturday night, got
off twisted up and I walked in and I had
the smell of that animal fat, and I, yeah, you know,
it got real bad, but a good smell.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Though the smell of money is good.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Smell like money starling.

Speaker 5 (29:47):
Let me tell you, big dog, then there was nothing
about money with that sting, I understand. I have one
other bad smell, and it's my ex fiance's perfume. I
won't even mention it on the air, but it Why
I ever run into another woman wearing it out run?

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Now?

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Is it because it reminds you of her? Or is
it because it actually smells bad?

Speaker 5 (30:08):
No, it was a beautiful smell, but it reminds me
of her. And if another woman's wearing it, it's all bad.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah, she ain't gotten it.

Speaker 5 (30:15):
He's probably terrible.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Take you to the bad spot. Yeah yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:19):
But then I have one more my mother. While my
whole teenage, literally teen years, my mother were round and
they said that it had human pheromones in it, and
my mom always used a joke. My mom was a player, bro.
She didn't mess around. Oh God, blessed chaos, but she
that smell. To this day, it's usually on an old lady.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
I'll smell it and it just like it may.

Speaker 5 (30:44):
It brings tears in my eyes, man, because it makes
me think of my mother.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yes, that's it takes you right back, though, Doug, I
appreciate the call me and thank you for listening to
being part of the show. We got time for one
more and let's get Westwood. John talking about the smells,
the good, the bad, the ugly. I suppose was Sterling
on the Big One, John, what's up?

Speaker 8 (31:00):
There's nothing like the smell of geta bacon and eggs
cooking in the morning. But aside for that, I want
to hear more about that hippie chick from the eighties
with the herbal lessens.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Yeah, no, kid, it's true. It's always good. Yeah, breakfast
does smell good. I mean you get a little bit
of that maple, with a little bit of that pork
smell a little bit of all that with the getta. Yeah,
I mean the smell of bacon is good. Just in general.
I kind of find it hot. But I mean, I'm
not trying to get weird. I'm just saying it's a Saturday, Sterling.
If I've won three, seven, four, nine, eight hundred the

(31:32):
big one, seven hundred double, welw place to be for
a football bear Cat team that well, they got upset.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
I guess technically right.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Wildcats Arizona in Town Neffork Football bear Cats fall thirty
twenty four basketball of Bearcats tomorrow face off Saint Mary
should be a tune up game and Bengals on the
road in the Berg looking to uh, you get back
to some winning ways there, right, let's hope. So we'll
see how that goes into some inact too. Schmark Store
one of those apparently not playing too, so we'll get

(32:02):
more on that throughout the afternoon. On the way in
today I saw something. Was it made very fast of
all of a sudden. I have a number of neighbors
that have already gone full on from they went from
Halloween within I think they took a week off maybe
after getting rid of the Halloween decorations, and they've gone
full on holiday Christmas mode. Nothing in between, I guess

(32:26):
for Thanksgiving. But on seventy five I saw a transport
of Christmas trees.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
On a truck.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
I don't know how many were on there, but it
was a whole lot of them, and they had various
size as you could see because of where they actually
cut the trunk and it was trunked to the back
of the vehicle and you could see a smaller ones
sort of not quite as bad as the Charlie Brown
Christmas kind of tree, because his was more like a
a well, it was like dead almost, but it made

(32:55):
you feel good as a kid, like your heart was like, yeah,
that's a good tree. It's a good tree as trees goes.
The look fantastic. That one of those on there almost
looked like it could be like, you know, Fountain Square,
Big or something along those lines. So we'll talk on
holiday stuff in a bit. Bengals Steelers tomorrow. Of course,
here on the big One, Ricky Chino has your five
o'clock report moments away and up there on everything that's

(33:16):
going on. Chick Ludwig follows me today, are you ready
for trump Bucks? I'll ask you that, would you say
no to that two thousand dollars if in fact there's
a way to get some trump Bucks to your pocket
for these hard times and the tariff taxes that go
along with it. We'll try to make sense of that
and a whole lot more next hour as well. I

(33:37):
had a neighbor of mine. I love talking to my
neighbor's good neighborhood and good people, and buddy of mine.
He's like, I want my trump dollars trump Bucks. He says,
it's not like Obama dollars, but it'd be trump Bucks.
It'd be good. I could use them. He goes, I
don't even care about the budget. I'm like, what do
you mean. He goes, well, I know it's gonna screw
the budget. I'm like, I'm just trying to walk my dog.
I really don't want to get into all this, and
he goes, I just want my money back. He goes

(33:59):
those tariffs go. I'm like, I feel you, man. So
we'll touch on that. He was very excited, very gleeful.
We mentioned it yesterday, hit me again today on the
way in on it. He's like, I'll be listening to guy,
what my two thousand dollars. I'm like, okay, So we'll
see how that goes. Uchino has news straight away five
o'clock report, where the Woday play tomorrow, tried to get
a win, where the Bearcats fell today, the Wildcats at

(34:19):
Knippert and where the basketball Bearcats face off against Mount St.
Mary's tomorrow. Right here, News Radio seven hundred wluble the
little window into a hallway. He's up next, gets ready
for some Saturday early evening sports talk. And it's already
been a tough day for football. Bearcat fans since the
Wildcats at Arizona came in Big twelve match up at

(34:40):
Knipport thirty twenty four for the visitors for Bearcats basketball.
Bearcats hosting Mount Saint Mary's tomorrow, so hopefully to get
back on the winning side. It wasn't the best of
times for Xavier's Musketeers last night at Iowa. They took
a loss, so looking to turn things around. F C
Cincinnati continuing to play on MLS Cup playoffs, but that's

(35:00):
a week out, and the Bengals on the road at
the Stillers Place in the burg Land of Scrapple and
so much more like Andy Warhol and so forth, and
that'll be here one o'clock kickoff, seven hundred WLW. All right,
A number of things I want to get into, first
of all, because I've had numerous people mention it. Do

(35:23):
you expect to get the trump bucks? I don't know
what else should call them? An Obama dollars float off
the tongue. Trump Bucks is what we use last time
during COVID when there were moneys sent to people and
so forth. The tariff tax. Apparently it's making all of
us rich. I'm just wondering, are you ready for your
two K? Will you turn it down? Say, I don't

(35:43):
know anybody who's going to turn down the two thousand
dollars if we actually were to get the two thousand
dollars in relation to this, and I can hear a
collective like deep breath and uncomfortable feeling for a lot
of people about this. But let's be honest. Prices have
gone up. Harris effectively attacks on the stuff that we buy,
that we consume on a regular basis, And there's a

(36:06):
lot of stuff going on. Who who could say no
to an extra two thousand dollars? Not a lot of
people five one, three, seven, four nine, seven thousand, eight hundred,
the big one. Don't worry about the math, don't worry
about how it's going to affect the budget. Don't worry
about the fact that experts who deal with the government
issues of funding and so forth in the kitty that

(36:29):
are saying the two thousand dollars for the low and
middle income people is going to end up crossing over
to well basically deficit spending from the tear at tax
because they haven't raised as much as it would be
going out for the two K. But if they have
some weird fuzzy math and it were to work out
in that fashion. Are you gonna say no to two k?

(36:50):
I wouldn't say no to two k. It may not
be fiscally responsible, but who cares. Just kick that can
down the way, you know. I mean, they're making snap
people have to like apparently reapply. I think that's the
news now for their benefits. Situation is stuff is trying
to get back to normal for people that are food
and secure and so forth. So I mean, maybe the
two k could go to help the hungry, But right

(37:11):
now I'm thinking an extra two k in Sterling's pocket
fat would cash money in time for the holidays.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
That will be sweet? No or yes?

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Five point three seven four nine seven, eight hundred, big one?
Do you think you'll get the trump Bucks? Is it
just talk? Is it just a distraction or otherwise? I
want to know how you're feeling and what you think
on that. My neighbor is the last couple of days
has been all every time I see the guy.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
I want my trump Bucks man.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
I don't know if he thinks I'm somehow connected that
I can go to the Treasury and just somehow get
him a two thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Check.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
I am not connected in that fashion, but I would
accept a two thousand dollars to direct a posit the
account of mine, that is for sure. I'm just wondering
how you're navigating those waters or if you care, will
you see it? Will it make it make a difference? Yeah,
an extra two k would definitely make a difference. Might alsome,
make stuff costs more? Is more people spend more money
or whatever else too, But tough times, I mean, what

(38:03):
are you gonna do? It's kind of difficult. It really
isn't in relation to that or or is it a
big distraction from questions about the Epstein files and so forth?
And I'm mentioning this because I've had numerous people reach
out to me, and oftentimes I realized that, you know,
it's it's a misnomer to assume that emails or people
direct messaging on X or Twitter or whatever you want,

(38:26):
that it's actually what people are thinking about and talking
about right now. But overall, because you can't get away
from it in the news, you know, the idea of
underage teenage children effectively raped, abuse, sex trafficked or otherwise.
And Jeffrey Epstein, whether he committed suicide or whether he
was somehow executed, murdered or what have you on the

(38:48):
down low while he was in custody. Probably, you know,
maybe maybe that makes some question about stuff. Maybe you know,
the Joel Maxwell whatever her name is, in her now
a country club prison situation. After doing some more communicate
about it, emails coming out and apparently the president being

(39:11):
mentioned in some of those, but he wants to go
after Democrats. So maybe that two thousand dollars would distract
anybody who's paying close attention or has interest in protecting
the so called children and the abusers. You can spend
two grand to go, you know, by Christmas presents or
holiday gifts, or just an extra two k to shut
your mouth, right, I mean, if you're concerned about the

(39:33):
Epstein stuff, that's a legitimate way to look over here
at the shiny object rather than maybe something else. Or
if I crossed the line, I mean one way or
the other, you would hope there'd be justice and it
would be handled appropriately. Right, You would hope that those
things would be shared and communicated. They'll vote on that
lawmakers this coming week, right, I mean that's probably reasonable

(39:55):
and rational. I don't think that one thing necessarily has
to do with the other. Concerned about the children and
those young girls or women that were sex trafficked and abused,
and it's happening all over the place all the time
anyway in some fashion, just not at that level, and
still want to get the details out and people who
are responsible would be to hell account. On the other

(40:17):
side of it, I still want my two thousand dollars.
Do you want your two thousand dollars? Do you want
your Trump bucks? Or is it just all a bunch
of static five one to three, seven, four, nine, seven,
eight hundred the Big One having a little fun on
a Saturday afternoon's talk to Ray in Dell High with
Sterling on the Big One.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
Hey Ray, we'll go.

Speaker 8 (40:37):
Up the two thousand Trump dollars.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Sterling, you don't want the two k? Can I have
your two k?

Speaker 9 (40:43):
You know?

Speaker 8 (40:44):
I want to give it to the debt. The debt
needs to be handled. I mean, some people got it.
We got to start, you know, tightening our buttet their
belt buckle a little bit tighter. I think there's a
little bit too much money flying around and that kind
of stuff.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
I'd like to see the debt come down it's.

Speaker 8 (41:01):
Thirty three percent of our national budget, just the interest payments.
I'd like to see that debt clock go the opposite
direction of what it's going right now.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
And so, what do you think the point of the
two K is? I mean, is it really going to
help people? Is it just a distraction? What is the
point and a purpose of it?

Speaker 3 (41:21):
I hate to say it, it's votes.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
It's votes.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Well, who's you can't vote for Trump anymore. He's already
in there for a second term.

Speaker 9 (41:30):
I know he is, but you know it's still going
to have, you know, a.

Speaker 8 (41:34):
Little bit of votes for the party.

Speaker 7 (41:37):
Now.

Speaker 8 (41:38):
Just for the record, I'm a Republican sixty nine year
old white male. I'm okay, I'm doing okay. I just
think that we just we just need to handle this
the economy a little bit better.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
I think.

Speaker 8 (41:53):
I don't think two thousand dollars is going to do
it anybody any good. I don't think it has shown
in the past that the these rebates that we've gotten
everything is really boosted the economy and put us out
of debt and all this other kind of stuff. It's
done nothing. People just spend it on you know what.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
Well, I don't know what you know, what is. But
if people go spend money on food or clothes for
their kids, if they're low income people, let's just say,
or even others where it's just extra cash, they are
likely to spend it and that'll help the economy. But
that also could infect inflation too, couldn't it.

Speaker 6 (42:29):
It could?

Speaker 8 (42:30):
But I think you know, the low income people, they've
got SNAP and some other benefits and things like that.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
I don't think that.

Speaker 8 (42:40):
I don't think that the two thousand dollars they're going
to get, they're gonna end up spending on things that
are not going to be beneficial to the national economy.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
I got you, Ray, I appreciate the call man. Maybe
maybe he's right five three, seven hundred, The big one.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
I know.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
I'll just look at it this way because I think
this is the way most people think. None of them,
that's my problem. I'm just trying to get paid. And
if you can get an extra two thousand dollars in
your pocket, what do you care?

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Right?

Speaker 1 (43:06):
You want your Trump Bucks? Am I crazy? Five one
three seven four nine seven thousand, eight hundred the big one?
Is it going to make a difference? I can tell
you that if you are one of those people that
are on the margins, one of those people that are
on the edges, even somebody who's middle income. An extra
two thousand dollars goes a long way to put food

(43:28):
on the table, to pay down credit card debt, to
pay your utilities as prices rise on those, and a
lot of other stuff.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
It could be, it could be a winner. No.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Five went three, seven four nine, seven thousand, eight hundred,
The Big One, your chance to get interactive straight away.
I'm just kind of curious if that's a I mean,
you think it's gonna help. Is it not gonna help?
Maybe we'll see quick break will come back, give you
a chance to get interactive. It's a Saturday night, sterling
here in the nation station. What you're listening to, I
appreciate you being here. Seven hundred WLW First Warning forecast

(44:01):
on the Big One, down to forty four tonight, middle
fifties for your Sunday the same from a Monday and
Tuesday rain closer to fifty.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
It's sixty nine right now, best day will have in
a while. They say. It's fifteenth of November ju nine.
First Wary forecasts.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
If your weather station, what you're listening to seven hundred
W WELW asking about those trump Bucks. They called them
Obama dollars trump Bucks. So it came out initially during
the COVID stuff, right, I think he did that. Now
he's floating the idea of two thousand dollars cash money
to middle and low income people. I don't know where
I fall on that, but I think I get two
K out of this deal. Do you want the two k?

(44:37):
Would you say no, I'm all right with it. Put
it towards the debt, or you like everybody else, including
our lawmakers, who go, you know what, forget about the budget,
forget about living within our means. The government is truly
definitely not the same as your budget or my personal
budget or a regular businesses budget, just generally. But maybe
is this a distraction or otherwise? Oh, will you keep

(44:59):
your t Trump dollars or trump bucks if they come
through West Hamilton, Tina, you're Wes Sterling and Charlie and
Richard after that on seven hundred WLW Tina and what's up?

Speaker 10 (45:09):
I am calling them the beautiful Hills of Hamiltucky.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
My friend mister k used to call that place home.
I've been there many a time I like Hamilton.

Speaker 10 (45:19):
Yeah, yeah, I would take the two thousand, but I'm
not going to hold my breast waiting on that. However,
I would be willing to forfeit, not take it, if
I could see whose names are on that Epstein list.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Oh so you would tray two thousand dollars a trump
Bucks trump dollars to see all the Epstein files rather
than what keep them secret is? Because I thought that
was one of the things that was all about letting
those pedophiles known out there with all the documents released, You're.

Speaker 10 (45:53):
Right, Yeah, I would give up my teenth output and
my own money with it too.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
I want to see the names there you go.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
I'd like to see some justice in it, that's for sure, Tine.
I appreciate the call.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
I think I want to keep my two k and
the we can hope that lawmakers do their bidding and
what they're supposed to do with that, or is something
being hidden maybe to fort Wayne and Charlie. Do they
call you Chuck or Charlie or Charles? What what? I
guess Charlie's on the sheet or the call screen, Charlie,
I'll just call you.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Charlie is that all right, I am Charlie.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
You are Charlie. I'm sterling. What's going on? What about
your Trump bucks man?

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Who says, notice Santa Claus say again? I said, who
says no to Santa Claus?

Speaker 2 (46:39):
That's true, I mean, if somebody.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
But I don't like the idea because when they did
the stimulus under Biden, inflation laying up. And do you
recall the time when the store shelves were empty and
you couldn't go to the store and get what you need.
I do.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
I don't know if that was because of money coming
as a result of bonus in come or.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
It's all the disposable money that has been putting the
people's pocket that they wouldn't be going out and buying
all this stuff. I mean, yeah, like I said, he says,
not of standing clothes. But I don't like the idea
Trump the and as far as they have staple let
they guess all this the distraction from where the government

(47:25):
was shut down and the Democrats did all this to
the country.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
But you know, norm only the devil's advocate here. There's
a couple of things. First, the issue of supply chain
issues during the cut COVID shutdown, was not about so
many people spending so much money as much as stuff
being able not to come to market on those shelves
during that time.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
In addition to that you just mentioned, uh, what was
what was the next thing you just mentioned there?

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Yeah, the Epstein files.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
I think it was President Trump who was pushing to
have all that stuff released when he was running for
office again, So he was the one who called it
out there and then it got quiet, and he's the
one now saying that it's a distraction When he started
that objectively, wouldn't you agree to you?

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Do you remember that? Or am I did? I have
one too many blunt head traumas.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
But this is just a smoke screen to the shutdown
is taking off the front page where the Democrat Party
attacked the citizens by shutting off the snap you know,
not paying government workers, you know, right, That's why I
saw it distraction, you know, That's why that's my opinion.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
So before that with the Epstein thing, you think that
that was a distraction by Trump to have people pay
attention to what.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Now was just distraction now?

Speaker 5 (48:45):
Right?

Speaker 2 (48:45):
But before.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
But didn't he run on the idea that he was
going to get that stuff released?

Speaker 3 (48:53):
The government released twenty three thousand pages, and the Democrats
released what three pages that were heavily redacted that had Trump's.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
Name on the Well, they'll vote this week. They'll be
voting to see about releasing a whole bunch more. So
we'll see how that goes. But I don't think revisionist
history necessarily floats along with that. But I get what
you're saying.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
I don't think it is revusiness history. It's happening right now,
in front of your eyes.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
It's happening.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
I can't to hear him talk about the shutdown. Was
the last time, Well talk about the sheddowns.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
It's open now, it's back open now. That's what else
are they supposed to talk about?

Speaker 3 (49:30):
But we're not talking about what they did. You know,
the Democrats, the Democrats, well.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
The Republicans didn't get it open either.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
The Republicans getn't getting up because all the Democrats voted
against it.

Speaker 6 (49:45):
Knuckleheag.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
You need sixty votes.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
In the Senate, right right, So it's the Democrats who
did that. It's the Democrats who are now trying to
hide the Epstein. You shut that down because of the Epstein.
I got you, I got you. Charlie, I appreciate the call.
That's true. It must be the Democrats. I don't know
what I'm thinking. We want our trump Bucks, and it's
the democrats fault that they're distracting us from the Epstein
with the Epstein files, it's a shiny object. Not that

(50:10):
Trump ran on the idea of releasing all the info.
I'm look, I'm an equal opportunity of fender. I'm just
calling it like I see it. Quick break, come back
after your five thirty report. By the way, at Sterling
Radio on X take a look, we are the big
one and we definitely have the biggest bells of them all.
At Sterling Radio seven hundred WLW. Sean McMahon keep me

(50:30):
on time and in line as best he's able. We're
talking about the trump Bucks. You can sound up on that.
If you'd like two, five, one, three, seven, four, nine,
eight hundred, the big One, you just pick up the phone,
give it the finger I mentioned earlier. You know this
is the big One, seven hundred WLW. Right, we have
big bells too. In time for the holiday, we are
decked out. The halls have been decked here in preparation

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for the holiday season. I don't know who did it
a little elves overnight. You know, I'm only here a
few days a week, so I'm not sure who's responsible.
But what I did notice last night is we have
the biggest bells I think I have ever seen. If
it's with the big one at Sterling Radio, you can
see as I demonstrate the sheer girth and the size
of these big bells of ours here at the big

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one that's at Sterling Radio on X if you want
to give it a look. But it leads me to
something else. And I mentioned this earlier today. And I
don't know about you. I'm not exactly the most forward
decorative kind of guy. The women in my life tend
to be that way. I'm not like, well, I got
to deck the halls, man, But I will follow direction

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and get the box out of the basement or out
of the attic and then get stuff put together before
we put up the Honka bush and the Christmas tree
and all the other stuff that goes along with it.
I had a friend of mine who's a family they
never really took down their holiday stuff. In fact, the
Big House and was one of those houses that had
like we're all about the Christmas tree. Like some people

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have one Christmas tree. Maybe they have an evergreen or
some type of pine a tree out in the yard,
and they may decorate that in addition to or in
lieu of a tree inside. It just depends, right, I
mentioned earlier I saw the big tractor trailer or flatbed
anyway truck bringing a bunch of Christmas trees, one would assume,

(52:24):
to market someplace. It was going south on seventy five.
So from whence it came, I don't know, but north
certainly wherever the Christmas trees grow in abundances. They were
hacked down and ready to be, you know, soaked in
water so that they don't try out and all the
other stuff that goes with it. Is it too early
to put the Christmas up at this point? I mentioned

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this just a bit ago, but I bring it up
again because I have two neighbors. One was like, literally
it was like, I think what Halloween was like? I
think a Friday night if I'm not mistaken, before the weekend.
After that was done, that's Saturday or Sunday. He was
out on the roof doing all the stuff that they do,
with some new additions for their Christmas display. And now

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there's another and a lot of people have lights and stuff.
I'm just wondering, how early do you put up your
holiday decorations, whether it's Christmas, kwan Zahnka picks something in
between that is decorative.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
I just the whole thing. You got to tear him down.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
And I used to be like really passionate about the
fact that, like after Christmas, you know, New Year's comes,
I'm like, get that crap off the house. But now
I'm in a different mindset. I'm all about keep the
I like Christmas all year. I don't mind. I like
the lights. I like especially with the dark early. You know,

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we fall back in time and it changes. You know,
this time of year, the axis of the Earth is
shifted and it's darker, longer on our part of the
Hemis planet, in our hemisphere than it will be. I'd
like say, down in New Zealand, Australia, way uh their
summer to our winter. You know how that goes. They'll
get longer days, we get shorter ones. You'll hear more
about people getting hit by cars because they're walking in

(54:07):
the dark and people aren't paying attention and distracted. But
I am all about the decorations to help us get
through the really just nasty frozen tundra of the tri
State at Christmas time. It's great for football weather, and
it's fine. I mean, this is an unusually warm day.
This is warmer than normal. I mean right now it

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is still sixty nine degrees and it will be the
best day we deal with in a while. So I'm
just ready, and I mean I'm looking forward to to
like a new tree, like a Christmas like Hanika Bush,
I'll explain that every year I talk about the tree
that attacked my mom when I was a little kid.
So and people always want to hear the story, but
I wait till Christmas to do that.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
Won't do it now?

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Let's get to Cindy and Florence then, Richard, I want
to know, is it too early to do the holiday
decorating or you, like my neighbors al ready to deck
the halls.

Speaker 11 (54:57):
Come on, Sterling, it is never to early to decorate
for Christmas. Do you know what? I just picked up?
Tree sixth, a live tree, my sixth and final tree.
When I'm done decorating it, I'm done.

Speaker 9 (55:10):
I have the.

Speaker 11 (55:10):
Outdoor lights up, I have a shower curtain, I have dishes, mugs,
I have a Christmas tree farm. I have a lights
in the windows, everything everywhere you look at Christmas.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Man, you were just oozing festiveness. I'm telling you, so
I want to make sure that because the phone was
a little weird. Cindy, did you say you just acquired
your sixth tree?

Speaker 6 (55:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (55:37):
All the rest are artificial and they're already up.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
Okay, so you got one live, my live tree.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
Now did you do it the old fashioned way? Did
you go hunting and hack that tree down? Or did
you do it the way like when I worked at
the grocery bar and people would come to the lot,
grab one, and they'd give me a couple of bucks.
I'd tie it to the roof of their car, and
then away they would go.

Speaker 11 (55:56):
We used to top it up, top one down when our
children were but it's kind of hard for us to
do that now. So we went and purchased one at
a nursery.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
That's excellent. See I've grown to embrace the holidays. See
there was a tree that fell. It was a big
nasty thing when I was a kid. So then we
embraced the smaller sort of Christmas honic a bush because
it's less dangerous. But the biggest problem is just keeping
them moist, right, So you've got to keep that thing watered.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
Do you keep this at the tree?

Speaker 1 (56:22):
If you keep it moist, do you keep it through
like New Year's or when do you get rid of
the live tree?

Speaker 11 (56:28):
I don't take anything down until Epiphany, so about two
weeks after Christmas, I like it. I mean two weeks
Epiphany is when it comes down in January?

Speaker 2 (56:39):
Gotcha?

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you, So you beyond Boxing Day,
our friends in the UK would say. And then a
little bit longer is when that switchover? Now do you
immediately then go to like Valentine's decorations and then like
Saint Patrick's Day decorations or do you have like a
window of time where there's a lot of nothing at
the House of Cindy.

Speaker 11 (56:57):
Well, because it takes me so long to do the
outdoor lights and the inside and the dishes and everything.
It takes so long that I start in October and
that's pretty much all I decorate.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
For is Christmas.

Speaker 11 (57:10):
I used to love to decorate for Thanksgiving. I used
to love to get the bails of hay and the
moms and the pumpkins and the gorge, but Christmas took over.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Well that's all right.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
I feel the festiveness through the phone, so it's a
beautiful thing.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
And you sound very happy.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
It might just be that you're happy to talk to me,
but I think it's about the holiday, right, It's both.

Speaker 11 (57:32):
But I love Christmas more than anything. I hate when
it's I love everything about it.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
Well, I hope it's a fantastic Christmas and I hope
to talk to you again. I appreciate you listening and
contributing to the show.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
Cindy, Oh, thank you so.

Speaker 11 (57:45):
Much to having a wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
Lots to be thankful for. Thank you you too much
to be grateful for. Including Matt calling from pleasant Ridge
with Stirling on the Big One. Do you have the
tree up? Have you gone hunting and hacking? And have
you got the lights up? Or you're feeling festive?

Speaker 9 (58:00):
Met I don't have a tree, but I put my
lights out, and usually it's just lights around the flowerbed
in this tree in my yard. But I did it
last weekend because I worked for a hospital and I
do snow removal. Oh yeah, and the way the weather
then I thought, you know, I probably should do it now,

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but I didn't turn anything on, so that won't be
until Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
No, wait a minute, So what you're telling me For
the next week and a half to Thanksgiving they sit
there dormant.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
I think I would be. I would. It's like a
little kid. I would. I would have to plug them in,
I'd have to hit the on button.

Speaker 9 (58:35):
Well, I've tested them because I tested them all in
the basement, and when I brought them up and put
them in the flower bed, half those strands stopped working.
And I'm over like a hundred and trying to fix
strands of lights. It just doesn't happen. And it's cheaper
just to dispose of them and buy a new box.

Speaker 7 (58:55):
Sure, And.

Speaker 9 (58:58):
I used to hang them on the gutter and uh,
one year the icicle lights on one side went out
and I replaced them, and then when I got them,
the other side went out. So I don't do it.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
I don't. Yeah, I don't blame me. And you also
got to be careful.

Speaker 1 (59:13):
I mean, if you're not going to hire somebody to
do that, you'll want to be like our Willie and
end up being immortalized, you know, by calling for help
because you can't get down off the roof, or my
buddy Scott who took a fall because his teenage boys
didn't help him. So I totally did Matt. I appreciate
the call man, Thank you. I totally get that. I'm
feeling festive to take care of yourself.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
That's great.

Speaker 1 (59:31):
Five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred the
big one. And the other thing is now they have
in another buddy of mine, he was just like, dude,
I got rid of all my old lights, and he's like,
I've gone led. It's cheaper too, and apparently from what
he was saying, and I don't know, because I have
some lights that are LED and some that are older.
But if the older ones I know that, then you

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have to go in search of that burnt bulb unless
it's a cord problem. When you go searching for why
the strand of lights is out, and it is just
a pain in the backside. I mean, it's just a hassle.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
Is it too early? Have you decked the halls? Are
you ready?

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
And would you like to see the big ones big
bells at Sterling Radio on X I am demonstrating because
I don't know who's responsible, but the halls have been
decked and we are ready for the holiday. Here at
seven hundred WLW