Eddie & Jason -- 11/4/25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jase here, it is election day. Do you miss the
old you were on the on the political beat there
for a minute or two?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Oh yeah, man, I do miss it. And uh I
miss I missed the adrenaline rush of being in the
newsroom on election night. However, you get that adrenaline rush
a lot more in sports on every every Sunday. Covering
a Bengals game reminds me a lot of of covering
an election. I'm not I'm not being faceted. That's actually

(00:30):
we joke about in sports because it's like there's a
lot of election nights on the sports side of things.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Well, this guy has been involved in many an election night.
He is polysi at UC. He is a great friend
of this show. He is professor doctorate if you will,
David Niven from the University of Cincinnati. Uh, Dave, how you.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Doing man, I'm doing well, Addie. That's that's quite the
intro here. I got to sound with that man.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
We tried to build you up to get you keep
coming back, Eddie.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
I missed talking to this guy, calling him up and
blowing him up about everything. But I know he's apprecive
that I'm not calling him all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, let me ask you, besides this a stupid radio
host to bugging you all the time, David, what did
guys like Jason be bugging you all the time as well?

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean I got every every everybody
in the election world today, and then I had to
wake up this morning and talk about our former Vice
president Dick Cheney.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
So it's been a busy day.

Speaker 6 (01:36):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Well, let's talk about this election, and first off, the
local ramifications here. Do you see all the rigmar role
going on with the mayor and the police chief having
any effect at all? Or do the people in the
outlet in the in the burbs really pay that much
attention to what's going on downtown? You told me.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
I mean, I think the short answer is if this
were a competitive rates it's this, you know, we're two
candidates on reasonably equal footing, then the whole election could
hinge on this. But I mean, you've got a couple
of things going on, you know. One you know is
this is the first Republican in in Baumann running for

(02:17):
mayor in more than fifteen years. For a reason, because
this is this is not an easy task, and you know,
this is not a particularly fruitful path. And then, of
course the other aspect of this is Cincinnati has such
an odd system of government. You know, in a in
an we'll call it normal city, a mayor could fire
the police chief and would have a much more direct

(02:39):
line of authority accountability over things. You know, Cincinnati kind
of breaks everything into into pieces, and those pieces into pieces,
so you know, it kind.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
Of muddies the water.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Certainly Mayor Pirval would have preferred not to have this
bit of turmoil you know, on the agenda right now.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
But you know it's just.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
A question of you know, is it a a sixty
point win or a seventy point win.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, Professor Niven, I thought of this, I don't know,
within the past week or so, just with all the
stuff that's going on with crime and the police chief,
and you know, videos coming out about the brawl, and
you know that that being continuing to be a narrative
in this election. If you're the again, this is something

(03:23):
to talk about tomorrow and days after. But I think
we all know how you just said, the results of
this AFTAB is going to win if you are the
Republicans and the Charter rights. Are you sitting here kicking
yourself thinking knowing, knowing now what's come about, and if
they would have put up a more better known, well
funded candidate, would that candidate potentially have had a shot.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
I mean, I think, yes, you're kicking yourself just because
this opportunity, this window isn't going to open in every
every cycle. And you know, what you have is based
this this kind of part time you know, mayoral candidate
who you know, it was a nice oddity and got

(04:08):
a little attention, but wasn't seriously running to be mayor
of Cincinnati. And you know, obviously we saw four years ago,
you know, in David Mann, you know, a credible a
credible opponent for for now mayor pure ball and it
still isn't easy and he got his clock cleaned. But

(04:28):
you know, that's that's the very first rule.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
Of all of this.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
You know, when when you talk about well, you know,
how does you know, how does the how does the
party that's the underdog, how does it ever win? You know,
how do the Democrats have the governor's office in Kentucky?
Well they have the governor's office because they put up
a credible candidate, and you know, how are you ever
going to knock in? You know, and get yourself in
the in the mayor's office, knock in that door. We

(04:53):
better start with a super credible candidate. And it is
particularly ironic that we have this kind of alumni force
former council members running for council in this cycle, you know,
rather than one of them running for mayor.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Right, we're talking to David Niven and Dave, let's talk
about the national ramifications of what President Trump has done
his first year in office. How is that gonna? I mean,
we're looking at we're looking at the mayoral race in
New York City. Everybody's all wound up about that New
Jersey governor, Virginia governor, the redistrict in California. What do

(05:31):
you see happening nationwide with all this stuff?

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Well, truth is, of course, it's a little silly to
talk about, but it's actually a very real effect that
you know, national politics matters all the way down even
into these Cincinnati races in terms of we're seeing turnout
boosts in every special election and every local election this
year heading into today, and it's based on people wanting

(05:59):
to have a chance to vote and voice their disagreement
with the administration. And I mean literally have seen this
in special elections in several states for state legislative offices,
and we've seen this in city races, so you know,
I do think it is a there's going to be
a telling set of numbers when the day is done.
You know, if we see a Democratic boost, you know

(06:22):
in those states that you mentioned, like New Jersey and Virginia,
but also even just in Cincinnati, I mean, they're going
to be people who show up to vote not because
they particularly care about the city council or the mayor's race,
but just because they want to participate.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, it's kind of piggybacking along those lines with all
this stuff about Mom don Mamdani in New York and
how that's become a national story. And I guess you
know a lot of times, you know, those of us
across the country at least pay attention of politics on
a casual basis, kind of know who the mayor of
New York is? Right? Do you? Are you reading deeper

(07:01):
into that.

Speaker 7 (07:04):
Or are you?

Speaker 2 (07:05):
I don't know. There are three guys in that race,
and if that were a head to head between Cuomo
and Mom Donnie, is that a different story there.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
I mean, I do think it would be a different race.
But you know, Cuomo has done one of the most
spectacular jobs you know, in the history of politics of
getting a segment of the population to seriously dislike him,
you just despise him. I mean, that's a unique talent.
Not everybody can pull that up. He's done it, true,

(07:38):
So I do think the dynamic would be different one
on one, But I think the bottom line in the
end would be, you know, people would enthusiastically vote against him,
and others would have to be dragged to the polls
holding their nose to vote for him. So I don't
think he wins. That wins that either way. But this
does absolutely make make the Cuomo scenario even less.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Like, what do you what do you make of the
fact that, you know, all the socialist thing of mom,
Donnie and and I know there's fear mongering from at
least certain certain media outlets or whatever about you know,
a socialist getting elected to such a big seat like that.
I saw George will on Bill Maher last week saying,

(08:21):
this is a good thing. You know, every once in
a while you need to you need to show the
country that socialism doesn't work. But what do you make
of that? Is that does this give hope to the
socialist movement so to speak, across the country or is
this just kind of one off and everybody will see
that this really doesn't work.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
Well, you know, it's it's been a tough century or
two for the socialist political.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Movie sure when it started give them a.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Moment in the sense. I mean, I think the bottom
line is this is this is people driven. You know,
it's easy to throw labels out there, but if they
didn't have a very, very talented candidate, you know, then
we wouldn't be having this conversation. And I think that's
that's true across the board. And you know what makes

(09:12):
New York compelling, you know, New York City compelling, why
we we should be talking about it is it's got
a government that's as big as a state. So you know,
this is you know, you know, a a government structure
that's bigger than the structure of the government of Ohio.
A significant figure. But you know, let's keep in mind,

(09:33):
you know, the Democratic Party is strong there and it
is going to assert its will. You know, for all
of the tumult of the Adams administration in New York,
you know, it's still a city that pursues policies well
inside the mainstream of the Democratic Party, and I would
look for that to continue. It's, you know, it's nice

(09:54):
to have a you know, a prominent mayor on the
socialist side from the socialist perspective, but that the doesn't
mean you suddenly get your way on everything.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
As as they say, campaigning is different than governing.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Right, right, It's very different. And you know, a famous
Onion headline, I won't quote a word for word, but
you know it's it's a mock headline in the voice
of Bill Deblasio saying, well, well, well, well it's not
so easy to get a mayor who isn't terrible? Is
it New York? And you know, it's a it's a

(10:26):
really really challenging job. I mean, no, no joking terms,
it's a challenging job. And you know, I think the
folks who've thrived in it, people like Bloomberg who who
certainly thrived as mayor, you know, had a certain levelness
to them and you know, an ability to just literally
show up and do the job. It's it's it's i think,

(10:47):
ultimately a job that reveals your you know, lack of
attention span or or lack of clarity of purpose, and
that's certainly eaten up a number of recent mayors.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
All right, with that, Dave, we will let you go, buddy,
Thanks so much, great stuff.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
All right, boys, it was a pleasure, Thanks so much.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Thank you, David Niven Polysi you see and yeah, great
insight to what's going on around here and what's going
on around the country.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Always great insight. There's a reason why we all call
him because he knows a lot about a lot and
gives you a great common sense perspective on all this stuff.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
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Back with Eddie and Jason Williams from the Inquire in
for Rocky Today. Rock is in Toledo, lovely Toledo, Ohio.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
It's uh, it's November, so that means it's ma action.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, he's going to be doing I think he's got
the Uh, he's going to be in my Knox for
next week. He's got to Miami game.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
He does. He does have the game Miami next week,
Toledo tonight.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
So Jason, everybody's these days talking about we've been all
wound up about the price of eggs now for about
five years and uh, and now everything is just more expensive,
it seems like day to day. And we've all heard

(15:28):
what was the what's the shrink flation?

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Shrink flation?

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yes, when you know, you get a bag of chips,
and it used to and it doesn't sound like much,
but it used to whatever it used to be twelve ounces,
and now it's ten and a half or something. Yeah, yeah,
same same size bag, right, same size bag, a little
more air, same price, yeah, or more or even more.
But now we are besides shrink flation, we have skimpflation

(15:54):
and sneak flation and flation flation. Hell, I don't know
what else, what kind of flation way half, But we're
gonna be talking to a good friend, Bill Dendy, our
financial guy, about all this stuff. And you know, that's
it's one of those things that I uh And by
the way, we we don't have tanyasue they have election

(16:15):
day to day obviously, so they're they're quite busy at nine.
But and that's one of those things. And I think
everybody had noticed this along the way. Get a bag
because I love me some potato chips. Get a bag
of chips, and you open the damn thing and all
of a sudden, what's all that air comes out of there?

(16:37):
And you're reaching that bag and you reach halfway and
you're half of your arm has disappeared into the bag
before you strike chip.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
You know what I'm saying. It's going even deeper now
into absolutely and you're paying more for it.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Yeah, And sneak flation is that that has to do
with it. Well, well, we'll just curious what Bill says.
But gimpflation.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
That sounds a.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Little but it's all you know, look Riskue and we've
talked about restaurants before. It's got to be real tough
to be in the restaurant business right now. I don't
envy those folks at all.

Speaker 14 (17:15):
Man.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
No, And it feels like I've talked with our you know,
well you've had him on the are you like Keith
Pandolfhi from the Inquiries that they did a story on,
you know, a couple of years ago, and h he
and I talked. I'm like, man, it's crazy how many
restaurant closings there seem to be like every month, like
you see something that's closing yep, and uh. And then

(17:38):
when I see a new restaurant go in somewhere, I'm like,
good luck, good luck fellas or ladies like you ever
opened it, because uh, that's a tough go.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
We're gonna be talking to Bill Dendy about all this
shrink flation whatever flationflation. It's coming up after the news
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Cincinnati deciding who's in the driver's seat downtown with the
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I'm Jack Crumley breaking. Now, what do you think about
the possibility of a divided council.

Speaker 16 (18:14):
We'll see how that goes later today, but what are
your thoughts are working for it?

Speaker 17 (18:19):
It's hard to predict what's going to happen later today,
But what I'm focused on for the rest of today
is reminding folks of all of the incredible work this
council has done over the past four years to grow
our economy, to invest in public safety, to grow our
affordable housing supply, and you know, the future is bright.

Speaker 18 (18:35):
We just got to keep going.

Speaker 15 (18:36):
Incumbent Cincinnati Mayor f tab Pirval speaking today on this
election day. He is running for reelection against Republican Corey Bowman.

Speaker 16 (18:43):
All of that depends on who shows up today. Obviously,
based on the numbers that we're seeing from early voting,
I'm a very encouraged mayoral candidate.

Speaker 19 (18:51):
Corey Bowman says he'll win if enough people go to
the polls. At a political event here at price he'll
chili this aftern and he said there's a real chance
of beating Mayor Puervoll.

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We're working like crazy throughout the day to make sure
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So in these winter months, you know it might it's
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Back with Eddie and Jason Williams in for Rocky Today
and Jace. We were talking about it going into going
into the news. We've all heard a shrink flation, but
there's well now there's more flation stuff going on. And
here to discuss is is our good friend, our financial guy,

(24:03):
our money manager CPA. He knows all, he sees all
when it comes to your finances. He is our good friend,
Bill Dendy. Bill, welcome back to the program.

Speaker 7 (24:14):
Guys.

Speaker 18 (24:14):
It's great to be with you.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
So, Bill, we're talking about this stuff and we've you know,
we've all heard of the shrink flation where you know,
you used to get whatever, fifteen ounces of potato chips
and now you get thirteen ounces in the same sized
bag and that and on and on and on. But
now we have skimflation and sneak flation.

Speaker 18 (24:36):
Explain well, it's kind of funny.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
Companies are looking for ways to lower their calls to
production without messing up their margins. And one of the
things that they're turning to is using lower quality ingredients.
That's skimflation. When they're like, well, gosh, we can't charge more,
the consumers will quit buying our product, and so we

(25:01):
can put less product in the package and that helps.
Or instead of using real butter, we can use something else.
Or instead of being ice cream, let's make it a
frozen dairy treat. Instead of being chicken, let's make chicken
pieces or chicken like substance. And if people can't tell
the difference. Well, then we get to increase the margins

(25:25):
without increasing the prices. And this is kind of a
it'd be great if it really worked, but the problem
is you can taste the difference. You can tell it's
not the same product, and it's only after you take
the time to read the fine print you're like, oh
my gosh, they've changed the ingredients. The grains that they're
using are less expensive in the granola. The sugar that

(25:47):
they're using is now going to be the corn syrup.
The creams are no longer creams. It's a milk and
buy products and it's not the same. And so for consumers,
it feels dishonest when you become the victim of ski inflation.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Bill A. Is there an example of a company out
there who's in the crosshairs of this very thing? And
then b are companies doing this because of you know,
higher costs of shipping they're trying to hedge here and
cut off or you know what's going on with that.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
Well, for a while, it was the price of oil
and the shipping costs, and we had that backlog. But
at this point, this is more the result of the
high inflation we experienced a couple of years ago, finally
to catch up with cost. You know, companies, when they
had the higher prices of their supplies, their inputs, a
lot of them didn't raise their prices. They started absorbing

(26:47):
some of the negative impacts of inflation, and they didn't
want to raise their prices because if they raised their prices, they.

Speaker 18 (26:54):
Ran the risk of losing market share.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
And so instead of raising the prices, they reduced the
porch size, and we got used to seeing that, and
then the next step was, well, if nobody else is
raising their prices.

Speaker 18 (27:06):
And that's the first thing consumer see. If we can't.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
Lower the portion size, let's lower the cost of what
we're putting into the ingredients. And that was the ski inflation.
But when you change ingredients or manufacturing processes, even when
you change packaging, it takes a while from the corporate
boardroom where the decision is made to not raise the
prices but to combat inflation to do something else, to

(27:30):
the time it gets to the shelves. And so I
think what we're seeing this year is a lot of
this stuff has finally just found it to the shelves
and consumers are noticing it. But it's the impact of
the inflation we all witnessed a couple of years ago
and companies choosing not to raise their prices because studies
have shown that if you raise your prices, you're four
times more likely to get a negative response from a consumer,

(27:52):
that is, they go someplace else, Versus if you just
cut the package size or cut the cost of ingredients,
they're less likely to leave you. They may be frustrated,
but they're less likely to go away. And then the
other thing that you know we talked about is sneak flation,
where it's not so much at the grocery store, but
when they start charging for things that used to be free.

(28:13):
My personal example was a trip to Vegas a couple
months ago. I was surprised with the airline that you know,
you want a seat on this plane, Well you got
you got a space, but you don't have a seat.
There is a charge for any seat unless you want
the last roll that doesn't reclimb. You got a free
seat there, but every other seat's going to cost you.
And you want to take a bag, well the carry

(28:35):
ons now charge cost as well.

Speaker 18 (28:38):
And these things used to be free.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
And then you get to the hotel and they're like, uh, yeah,
the hotel price is this, but there's a forty dollars a.

Speaker 18 (28:45):
Night resort fee.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
I'm like, well, what do you get for the resort
fee and they say, well, you get to use our
swimming pool and you get free internet. I'm like, for
forty dollars a night that should have been disclosed somewhere
because that didn't used to be the case at this place.
And they're like, yeah, but everybody else is doing it.
So instead of raising the prices of the hotel, or
instead of raising the prices of the airline tickets, they

(29:08):
sneak in something else that used to be free at
an additional cost, and studies have shown that over several years.
The Senate report said the airlines have made about twelve
billion dollars from seat selection fees over the past five years,
from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three. So it's replacing
lost revenues that they would have had had they raised

(29:29):
their prices. They didn't have to raise their prices, but
they increased their revenues to offset some of their additional costs.
With this sneaky way of adding costs to things that
used to be free.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
We're talking to Bill Dendy and Bill. Yeah, I was
reading a story not too long ago that it's starting
to Vegas is starting to get backlash on that because
they're most notorious for it. Where yeah, you know it
used to be able to Well that's cool. You can
get a room on the strip for you know, seventy
five dollars a night. That's great. Well, then they charge

(30:01):
you a seventy five dollars you know, resort fee. Like
you said, they they charge you seventy bucks to park,
and the buffet that used to be five ninety nine
is now seventy nine ninety nine. So yeah, they get
you man, And people are starting with that push back.

Speaker 18 (30:20):
We could have had a Caribbean vacation or something.

Speaker 7 (30:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
It's gonna take a lot of consumers voting with their pocketbooks,
and I think the consumers will. I think that a
lot of corporations will rethink these policies. But we we
haven't had this kind of fight with inflation for a
couple of decades, and so they have inflation come back,
and companies aside, instead of raising prices, we're gonna figure

(30:47):
we're gonna solve it some other way. Well, I think
they're gonna find that their solutions are going skinpy on
the ingredients will cost them customers. Eventually, they'll just take
customers a while to figure out who's.

Speaker 18 (30:57):
Still offering quality. And I think that the.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
Places like Vegas who over googs will one day find
that they're not bringing in more tourists because of that,
and those that come back and say, here's the real deal,
even if it's eighty dollars a night, they'll actually attract
happier consumers and the markets will self adjust. But for now,
I think a lot of consumers are going to need
to be a little bit more vigilant than what we've

(31:21):
been in the past and be aware of what are
we actually getting when we make our purchase. Is it
the same ingredients as it used to be? Are there
any hidden fees or additional costs that are oh there,
they are right there, and the fine print at the
bottom that are not shown on the front line when
they have the price shown on the cost per nde
or the.

Speaker 18 (31:41):
Costs for your airfare.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
And I think consumers are getting more savvy, but I
think a lot of people were hit with this all
at the same time, so there is a consumer backlash
and some consumers say, not fair, you're going to change
the ingredients. Congress should make a law. There would be
a law against that, sure enough. There might be laws
coming out real soon that say, going to change your ingredients,
you have to say not the old ingredient, or new

(32:04):
packaging or new pricing, or not as much as it
used to be in this package. I don't know what
they're going to do, but I hate more laws. But
I do think that consumers have been caught off guard.
And it was a dangerous game that companies were deciding
to play when they decided not to just go ahead
and raise their prices and pass on the cost to
the consumer directly, but try to hide it in some other.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Way, build kind of a bigger picture of what you're
all the stuff that you're talking about here are high
grocery prices, or the grocery prices, you know, the food
prices even restaurants, whatever the price we're paying for food.
And it seems like it's been here for a while.
Now are those here to stay or the It just

(32:45):
it's hard to see going back now, right Are we
going to go back to the day I don't know
prior to when it all kind of go crazy, like
right right after the pandemic. When we go back to
the pre pandemic, you know, food price is or yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
I like your question because you know, a lot of
people believe that when inflation's under control, it means that
everything goes back to where it was.

Speaker 18 (33:10):
But that's not what it means.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
It means that price is quite increasing by the hyper
fast rate. They just increased at a slower rate, but
they generally don't go down yet. Some companies, I think
it was McDonald's, got a lot of backlash because their
meals were gotten up to fifteen dollars plus, and so
they responded back after the negative backlash by saying, okay,

(33:33):
here is the new five dollars meal deal, and the
five dollar meal deal came back. It wasn't the same,
it was the trimmed down versions perhaps, but they responded
positively back and regained some market share, perhaps because they
were the only ones offering the real deals. And going back,
we see how Walmart rolled back the prices to where

(33:54):
they used to be, but it's rare. Generally, once you
have inflation, thing don't go back down. But the one
thing you mentioned just a few moments ago, was it
is that the high costs of transportation causing these things
to go up, and it had been, but the price
of oil has come down dramatically. And I spent some

(34:15):
time in Midland, Texas just yesterday talking to those in
the oil patch, saying that it's amazing that now we
have more production coming out of the United States of
America than they have in the Soviet Union, more production
than coming out of Saudi Arabia. The United States has
taken over the oil is number one oil producer again,
which is wonderful, and then not so wonderful for the

(34:37):
price of oil.

Speaker 18 (34:38):
They're saying. The price of oil has gone down.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
So it's one thing that you did see come down
over the past few years as we've increased our production.
We have plenty of supply, and had that not come down,
we would see a lot worse inflationary numbers in our systems.
Here today, we still have inflation, but not as bad
as it would have been if oil prices that stayed
at those higher levels. And I think that we do

(35:01):
have some areas. Everything's transported, so when price of oil
is up, it costs a little bit more from most
goods that you're going to purchase. And then many primary
ingredients of products come from oil, and so the petroleum
industry having lower costs for a lot of our inputs
means that we have controlled some inflation. But I don't

(35:24):
think prices are going back to where they were in
nineteen ninety five.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
All right, with that, build DNDY. We will let you go, buddy.
It is always our pleasure. Thanks so much for joining us.

Speaker 18 (35:34):
God bless you. It's been a real pleasure.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Thank you to our financial strategists to build Dundy. With
the sneak flation, skimpflations, some cheery cheery news, shrink flation. Yeah,
uh huh no, none of that's good.

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Speaker 8 (35:51):
I just opened up a half bag of chips last night,
right that I've paid full price for it.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Of course, what's killing me is like the same bag
of chips now has less in it, but it costs
about fifty cents more.

Speaker 7 (36:04):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, there ought to be a law. He's right.

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He knows all, he sees all. Our good friend, Dave Hatter. Dave, No,
You're always sending to the stories. And one that really
caught my eye this week is the headline is Russia. Russia,
China increasingly using AI to escalate cyber attacks in the
United States. So let me I just got me to

(38:11):
think in this and I'm in the most simple terms
that I can think of, and I'm pretty simple. Are
we constantly being barraged with cyber attacks from all sides
every single minute of every single day?

Speaker 14 (38:27):
Now, well, Eddie, I would say, you're not only right,
you're underestimating. It's more like barads by cyber attacks from
all sides every millisecond of the day. You know a
lot of people who've been in this for a while
may remember all kinds of like personal firewall tools like
the alarm where you could set it up on your

(38:48):
personal computer and it would show you the sheer number
of outside let's say, queries or probes against your computer
and it would usually be mind blowing people. I would
bet you if you win and you asked your I
people there at iHeart to tell you how often in
a day is there some sort of probe against our firewall?

(39:09):
It would be mind botteling to you what they would
tell you. And yes, these attacks are coming from everywhere. Now,
this article from Security Week, you know, points out some
important things. I'll get back to you. But I think
the thing people often misunderstand about this is, in many cases,
this is not where some guys sitting in this mom's
basement thinking, Hey, I think I'll attack iHeart today. Now,

(39:31):
I'm not saying that doesn't happen, it does. You know,
businesses aren't targeted because they have specific information that the
hackers want to steal, you know, trade secrets, military secrets, whatever.
But a lot of this stuff is fully automated, and
AI is making it's worse and they're literally just scanning
the Internet for anything that's connected they find. This is
one of the reasons why you should never answer a

(39:53):
call you don't know. It's the same kind of thing.
But you know, to people they're just scanning and they
find something connected, then they can scan it and say, okay,
can I determine what this thing is? Can I determine
does it have any known vulnerabilities because they haven't installed
the software updates we talk about all the time, and
you know, do work backwards from there. So there's automated

(40:13):
scanning at scale, especially for nation state actors like China
and Russia, rand in North Korea. Kind of the evil
access of cybersecurity, if you will. Yeah, it's it's continuous,
it's around the cloth. It's increasing as the speed of
their systems gets faster and can scan more. And I
think that's the thing people don't get. This isn't someone
thinking today is the day I'm going to target the

(40:36):
local grocery store or you know, the corner mechanic shop.
They're just looking for things that are connected to the Internet,
which is increasingly everything, and then trying to figure out
how they can get in to steal money from there,
and then you know likewise they're targeting people with fishing
and fishing, et cetera.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
Why, maybe it's a silly question, but hear me out, Daves.
You know, in Russia, obviously the adversaries of the US
are attacking the US. But why is the US more
prime for cyber attacks? Besides the obvious that those two
countries aren't our friends. But there are other rich nations

(41:16):
out there. But what makes us more vulnerable beyond the
fact that those are our adversaries? Is it because we
have a lot of money? Is because it is our
basically our our it general infrastructure not as good as
Saudi Arabia or Japan or what.

Speaker 14 (41:36):
Well, that's a good question, and it's certainly not exclusive
to US, Jason. In fact, I just saw a headline
which I don't have the fun of me, but apparently
at least five different water plants have basically they've been
attacked in the UK. You know this is happening everywhere.
You don't have to look too far. You know, the
US is a prime target because obviously you could argue
we are the sole superpower. People would argue, well, you've

(41:58):
got China out there. That's kind of reached with us.
Yeah maybe, Yeah, we have a lot of money. And
you know, I would argue, because I'm talking to businesses
about this all day long and trying to get people
to take it seriously, that many folks really underestimate what
the damage of a cyber attack can be to their organization,

(42:18):
you know, business, nonprofit, whatever, you know. It could be
theft of sensitive data, it could be reputational damage, it
could be expensive downtime that in some cases you don't
ever recover from. I don't know if you guys saw
in the story. You know, range Rover in the UK
recently got hit with a devastating cyber attack, was down
roughly two months, and the numbers I've seen are in

(42:39):
the billions of dollars lost. People laid off from range Rover,
people laid off from range Rovers suppliers. So it's certainly
not exclusive to us, you know, depending on what the
hackers are after, which in most cases, outside of these
nation state attacks like China, it's money, right, they're looking
for money. But you know, businesses can have their email
accounts taken over the next thing, you know, fraudulent invoices

(43:01):
go out to the team of tens of thousands to
millions of dollars lost. So it's not just downtime, it's
not just data theft. It's outright, you know, fraud and
theft of dollars through deceit. And you know, again it's
not just us. But I think part of what makes
us a target is, yes, we have a lot of
money and businesses, organizations have all shapes and sizes. Guests

(43:24):
do not take this seriously enough. You know, do you
have insurance for firing your plant? Probably? Are you likely
to have a fire? Probably not? Do you have sprinklers,
the smoke detectors and all those sorts of things start
were all on. I mean, I think people understand the
threat in the physical world, but I think a lot
of people still think I'm too small, I don't have
anything we're stealing. And as a result of that, and frankly,

(43:48):
because you know, there's a lot of confuse opoly around
this and a lot of nerds running around with a
lot of jargon who probably aren't doing the world a
favor by not trying to focus on this from a
business perspective and risk perspective, which is what I'm always
trying to get people to focus on. Forget all the technology,
forget the nurdery. Think about your business and think about
the risk. You know, how much downtime can you withstand?

(44:10):
But because there is often not a focus on that,
businesses are not taking it seriously and as a result
making themselves easy targets.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
Well, let me let me ask you, Dave, with all
considering all this stuff, how how valid is your cyber
security system anymore? I mean, if I'm going to get
one of these things for my whatever, my desktop or
my laptop or whatever the case might be, is it
inevitable that I'm going to get hacked?

Speaker 14 (44:39):
I wouldn't say it's inevitable, but it's it's very highly likely,
especially if you don't believe that's ever going to happen
to you, Right, And Yeah, the focus has shifted over
time because I want to be really clear, guys. If
it's let's say China or Russia decides that you have
something they want, they're probably eventually going to get it
because they have unlimited time, unlimited resources.

Speaker 7 (45:01):
You know.

Speaker 14 (45:01):
The FBI had recently said in the past they believe
that China had a fifty to one advantage of attackers
versus defenders here in the United States. You guys may
have seen the stories here in North Korea also part
of that access of evil, and the FBI has talked
about this. Anyone that's listening to this can go confirm
everything I'm saying here just by business the FIS website

(45:23):
search on this stuff. North Korea is raising enormous amounts
of money. They used to run their government through cyber attacks,
including having North Koreans pretend to be legitimate workers, get hired,
get inside a company, and then steal stuff. You know,
remote work is a big thing, right, everybody works remotely.
Now you need a programmer, you hire a person that's remote.

(45:46):
I think we talked about this, guys. You may recall
there was a guy in Nashville who basically set up
a server farm and had these remote hackers remoting into
his servers in Nashville, so they appeared to be in
America and then working for companies where they were stealing stuff,
dealing money, dealing trade secrets, et cetera. So you know,
there's nothing you can do to be completely impervious to

(46:08):
this stuff, and anyone that tells you otherwise sort of
getting off the grid and going like Ted Kazinski, it's
not real. But what you can do is take what
we nerds like to call a defense and depth approach,
multiple layers. So you're trying to shield yourself, your employees,
your organization, your family from as much of this as possible,
trying to keep as much of the bad stuff out

(46:30):
as possible, trying to train folks so they know what
to look for, so they have awareness, they're more skeptical,
they're less likely to click on the bad thing, and
then ultimately build systems that are resilient so that in
the event there is a successful attack, you can recover
from it quickly, minimal downtime, don't need to pay a ransom.
Doesn't mean there won't be consequences, like they'll leak your

(46:51):
sensitive data base, gold or whatever. But you know a
lot of companies that there's another company in the UK
you can't roughly talked about this or not one hundred
and fifty eight years old company because of bad passwords,
bad guys get in hit it with ransomware. They're out
of business. That seven hundred people lost their job. Well
document easy to look up, so you know, if you
had the resilient piece right, they defeated your systems. If

(47:15):
you had the resiliency piece in place. Ideally, you just
wipe those systems. You're back online in a minimal amount
of time. At least you're still in business, right, You're
not gone as a result, and all of these things
are very doable. Again, a lot of it, though. You
need to focus on risk and you know, are you
spending your money on the right things in the right places,
and what's your risk tolerance? Guys. I've had guys tell me, yeah,

(47:39):
I don't care about that. I just you know, if
I got hit with a cyber attack, I just go
out and buy all new computers to start over. Okay,
if that works for your business, and you've considered what
that would look like in terms of downtime and impact
on your customers, Okay, I don't think most people don't
have thought too what a really serious attack might do
and how they might not return over from it.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
Yeah, it's not a good look when you just start
shutting everything down. Uh, with the with that Dave had
or we will let you go, buddy. It is always
our pleasure, Thank you.

Speaker 14 (48:13):
So much, my pleasure. You guys have a building.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
And there he uh, there he goes back down into
his bunker. And we didn't even get into talking about
the new color toilet that has a camera in it
that analyzes the contents of your body. That's I do
you want me? Do you want that? I don't think

(48:39):
I want an instant update on what's going on inside
me every time I go to the bathroom. Right, it's like, uh, yeah,
it just give you a readout what happens. Man to
ask you.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Dave about that one next time because that sounds like, uh,
that's something I told me. He's up in arms about
the coffee maker. That's right. Yeah, let alone in the
camera that's looking right, that's good. Yeah, And what's coming
out of Yeah.

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I don't want to know with the I have a
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Speaker 1 (51:14):
It's a win win Rocky today. So the trade deadline
has passed, Jase, It indeed has, and it's pretty pretty
much status quo since Save Angeles, except for the fact
that he, as you heard there on our newscast, Logan Wilson,
veteran linebacker, traded earlier today to the Dallas Cowboys for

(51:35):
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which is kind of like you basically just got his
salary off your books. Is essentially I was going to
say the salary move right, because.

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Let's be honest, this is a team that Now there
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they can find diamonds in the rough in the six
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Speaker 1 (51:58):
Correct, But it just goes to it just goes without
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Speaker 2 (52:05):
He remains a Bengal on the in the last year
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they don't change much and they've never been a team
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the the Joe Flacco trade was pretty pretty miraculous for

(52:27):
their standards a month ago, but you know, this is
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Is that, you know, the New York Jets basically said
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that's a guy who's it's not that not that old.

(52:49):
But they just basically said, all right, we're going into
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done with their defense. But they're in a really bad
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I mean supposedly going to be coming back at the
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(53:11):
so they're in a really tough position because this is
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that defense.

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I'm Jack Crumbley breaking now.

Speaker 16 (53:47):
What we're going to see at the end of the day,
I believe, is a statement that people are not happy
with the current setup of city Hall.

Speaker 17 (53:55):
We're optimistic for a good night and like I said,
really proud of this council and the record of achievement.

Speaker 15 (54:01):
Positive statements from both sides Republican Corey Bowman and incumbent
Democrat aftab Pureval in the race for Cincinnati Mayor, one
of the few big races on the ballot this election, Day,
twenty twenty five. All nine seats on Cincinnati City Council
are open as well, with more than two dozen people
running for them. Polls in Ohio or open until seven thirty.
We did get word about an issue in Butler County.

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The Board of Elections says there was an incident at
the Riley Township Community Center polling location. A candidate currently
running for office was placed as a precinct election official
at the polling location in his precinct, as he's done
for the last several years before he became a candidate.
Him being an official in his own precinct and as
a candidate is not allowed under Ohio law. That person

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in question was not wearing any campaign attire and left
the location without incident. Today to have some incidents going
on the roads this Tuesday afternoon, Let's check the latest
traffic and weather together.

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Madeira with about a ten minute trip now seventy one
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seventy one from Fields Eardle to two seventy five is
also filling in. And we do have the ramp seventy
five northbound to US forty two and Kentucky shut down
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Speaker 15 (56:00):
A call in the newsroom about that crash northbound seventy
five near forty two in Florence, saying potentially one vehicle
went off the road in that collision. We are also
seeing a pretty big backup on southbound Madison Pike as
you approach to seventy five, you're backed up before you
get to the ramps, and you stay backed up once
you get south of there. There is road work in
that area.

Speaker 13 (56:19):
Now the ladies forecast from the Train Heating and Cooling
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Speaker 15 (56:26):
Well enjoy the weather wall. It lasts partly cloudy tonight,
a low forty seven degrees. Tomorrow sunny and nice with
a high pushing seventy. Thursday's looking sunny with high in
the upper fifties, and then on Friday, rain with storms possible,
high in the mid sixties. Still looking at sunny with
temperatures in the sixties on Saturday, but by Monday next
week we're looking at highs more in the forties. Rad

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We are one percent confident in the President and his
team's legal argument in the merits of the law in
this case, and we remain optimistic that the Supreme Court
is going to do the right thing.

Speaker 15 (57:09):
That is, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt speaking today
as the US Supreme Court will take up the case
of President Trump's tariffs tomorrow. It's over whether or not
the president has the power to impose tariffs on his own.
The Constitution says it's Congress's responsibility, but lawmakers over the
years have passed on some of that power to a president,
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remains shut down, now tying the longest ever record thirty
five days in a row, set during the first Trump administration.
Two federal courts have ordered the White House to use
money from a contingency fund to support snap food benefits
for tens of millions of Americans. And even though President
Trump this morning posted online saying he's not going to
do that, the White House today said it is happening,

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just like the agg Department told a court yesterday. On
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Speaker 21 (58:09):
Here's the Bengals update, brought to you by Good Spirits
and Party ten thirteen locations in Northern Kentucky. The Bengals
trading linebacker Logan Wilson of the Dallas Cowboys today for
a seventh round draft pick.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
Here's Evan McPherson.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
Yeah, it's tough to see see him go, but that's
part of the NFL.

Speaker 21 (58:23):
Jess Corner and former UC standout Sauce Gardners headed to
the Indianapolis colt for two first round draft picks. College
football tonight, Miami RedHawks up against Ohio. You at seven
o'clock Red's update. The Reds have signed free agent and
former Chicago Cubs right hander Keegan Thompson Bill Edison seven
out of WLW Sport, and.

Speaker 15 (58:41):
We are past that four o'clock NFL trade deadline. That
trade you heard about from Seg about Logan Wilson is
the extent of the activity for the Bengals today. I'm
Jack Crumley. Our next update at five o'clock Breaking News,
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to purchase for your previous.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
Back with Eddie and Jason Williams in for Rocky today.
Rock is back on Thursday. I do believe he's in Toledo.
I'm not sure if that game's Deny or no.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
That's tomorrow, yes, tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
Well, Jace, we've been A lot has been said about
the Bengals in the game the other day. I don't
know what else there is to say, but damn it,
we're going to say it. But we have our guest
right here, our old buddy, love this guy, guy who's
been on these airwaves many many times. He is our
good friend. Mark Amazon and Mark you you send me

(59:39):
h I when I put out the tenerary today, I said,
Mark Amazon, disgruntled Bengals fan and I can vouch for that.
Yes he did say that. And uh but dude, what
you said? You got a lot on your chest and
let's get it off. What Mark your thoughts, because I mean,
I know I've a buddy of mine's been years long

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season ticket holder and he's beside himself right now. Man,
he's boiling.

Speaker 22 (01:00:07):
Well, the scruntled season ticket holder is like one of
the same, right, I mean, it's Bengals fan and disgruntled
go hand in hand.

Speaker 5 (01:00:13):
It's it is.

Speaker 22 (01:00:16):
It reminds me of the late eighties right when we thought,
but we got Boomer and Tim McGee and Eddie Brown
and these guys are and this team is set to
do this for a while.

Speaker 5 (01:00:28):
But I think it's about to get really really bad. Guys.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Yeah, I'm with you on that, Mark, with the c Amazon,
I think that this team is heading for another dark
periods in its history. And I don't mean that a
decade or it just seems everything that's there's some nineteen
nineties vibes and esque things that are happening right now.

(01:00:56):
And when you really dig into it, I don't even
think you really need to dig that deep this defense
that it is. The problems are so deep and are
not something that's going to be fixed. Knowing how this
franchise operates in one off season, maybe in two off seasons,
maybe in three off seasons. So when you look at

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how this team drafts, this team has now got what
forty some percent of its money tied up or this
year's payroll tied up in what three or four players,
and you know, put so much money on the offensive side, Like,
how are you going to fix this defense? And we
all we've seen enough of a sample size now, Mark
to know you can't outscore teams and make think that

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that's a sustainable plan for making the playoffs, let alone
the Super Bowl.

Speaker 22 (01:01:45):
Yeah, ja Z, you're absolutely right. So think about this
for a second. You're saying two or three years. That's
if you get the.

Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
Draft, right, Okay, that's if you.

Speaker 22 (01:01:52):
Don't draft Miles Murphy, if you don't draft Shamar Stewart,
if you don't draft Chris Jenkiins, if you don't draft
McKinley Jackson, who, by the way, during the draft they
said with a sixth round pick and the Bengals took
in the third round. But I'm going to tell you something,
and this is kind of you know, inside baseball, so
to speak.

Speaker 5 (01:02:07):
But you guys know this, Jason, I know you know this.

Speaker 22 (01:02:11):
The game changed fundamentally in a huge way a couple
of years ago. The Bengals have always been behind the
times and behind the curve. But now we're in the
nil era, which means these guys are drafted haven't already
made million dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:02:24):
So let's look at Shamar Stewart. Shamar Steorart made.

Speaker 22 (01:02:27):
About four million dollars at Texas A and M, so
you know this is not the NFL where in the
early eighties the Bengals could take Ricky Hunley and say
take it or leave it. You know, it's not like
with Alfred Williams in the nineties where they could force
you to play. Shamar Steuart comes in, he's made four
million dollars. Okay, he get the guaranteed contract nineteen million.

Speaker 5 (01:02:47):
Dollars ten point four up front.

Speaker 22 (01:02:49):
So as of right now, Shamar Storage has made about
fifteen million dollars. When he's done with this four year deal,
assuming the Bengals don't exercise the fifth year, he's gonna
have made twenty three million dollars.

Speaker 14 (01:02:59):
You know what that means.

Speaker 22 (01:03:01):
You screw with him in the contract negotiations, right, and
you start with two strikes against you. That's why Samar
Stewart at a press conference after a game can laugh
and say, yeah, we'll catch you guys on Monday. He
doesn't care.

Speaker 5 (01:03:13):
He doesn't care.

Speaker 22 (01:03:14):
And it's such a bad way of doing business because
you start these relationships in you know you're behind the
eight ball from the very beginning, and that's going to
work against the Bengals. I think these guys don't need
a second contract anymore. Guys they can live on college
money and first round, four or five year money.

Speaker 5 (01:03:33):
They don't need a second deal.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
True, and Mark, let me, we're talking to Mark Amazon
and people keep talking about the window of opportunity for
the Bengals. The window is open. Is the window?

Speaker 19 (01:03:47):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
Blah blah blah. But how long does it take before
your your Burrows and your Chases and your Higgins get
frustrated by this bending their tires? Man? Sooner or later,
it's just got to frustrate the hell out.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
Of these guys.

Speaker 5 (01:04:01):
Well, you know this is starting roma. You guys have
been here for a long time.

Speaker 22 (01:04:04):
And so you remember where were you guys February tenth,
two thousand.

Speaker 5 (01:04:08):
Remember that day? That was the day Ken Griffy Jr.
Came to town, right, and it was.

Speaker 22 (01:04:16):
It was a holiday, man, But the Red told King
Griffy Jr. We're gonna get some pictures, right, And they
never got the pictures and things soured really quickly. And
I got to think it's a similar deal with Burrow. Hey,
we're gonna get your team, We're gonna get to Chase,
We're gonna get a workuble defense.

Speaker 14 (01:04:33):
The way this thing is headed, this is going to
become Carson.

Speaker 5 (01:04:36):
Palmer two point zero.

Speaker 22 (01:04:37):
Where Burrow's gonna get tired of wasting year after year
nine and seven.

Speaker 5 (01:04:43):
Throw for five thousand yards.

Speaker 14 (01:04:45):
Score thirty eight points and lose games.

Speaker 22 (01:04:47):
I'm gonna say something and people are gonna think I'm
the biggest idiot in the world. And you can't do
it right now without his permission. I would think about
trading Joe Burrow.

Speaker 5 (01:04:56):
Wowing about that, think.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
About it, talk about starting over. That would do it.

Speaker 22 (01:05:05):
Well, he's got a full note trade cause. First off,
but he's gonna make a hundred million dollars the next
two years, right, that's his base and the pro rated
signing bonus. That's one hundred million dollars. Do you know
what one hundred million dollars buys you defensively in the
free agent market. I mean, you could go into last
year and take the top three guys with the Joe

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Burrow money. And look, I love Joe Burrow. There's nothing
against Joe Burrow. He is phenomenal.

Speaker 5 (01:05:32):
We're scoring thirty eight.

Speaker 22 (01:05:34):
Points with Joe Flacco who's forty and can't raise his arm.
I mean, Jamar Chase is so good to me. He
is so far and away the best receiver in football.
He made Jake Browning look good two years ago. He's
making Jake Joe Flacco look elite. Maybe with a decent
quarterback and Higgins and Chase and some defenders with the

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Joe Burrow money, could that look better?

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
Argument here, Mark, because I'm I'm of the mind that
I think you're now in that territory of there's been
he's been hurt, he's injury prone. I think we can
call him that now we're at that point. And I
also just wonder and you and again, this is just
what I wonder. I'm wondering and out loud with you guys,
that is he ever going to be the same because

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at some point one of these injuries, if another injury happens,
or maybe it's the next one or the one after that,
he's not going to be the same. At some point
after one of these injuries, who knows which one it is?
Is it this one? This is what is now fourth
major injury in his career, what his fourth surgery right
in his career? I guess you count the Pennix being
one of them, and this is what is fifth injury

(01:06:44):
with the calf at some point here, Yeah, you wonder
if Joe Burrow is going to be Joe Burrow as
we know him, even in a Bengals uniform or whatever
uniform he's in.

Speaker 22 (01:06:58):
That's a very fair point. I mean, look, this is
again I mentioned this to my son the other day.
He is like, you kidd me. I mean, you know
this is not the way the NFL works, right, You
get a quarterback and you ride that quarterback. But the
secret sauce to all of it is when you get
a quarterback in his rookie deal in his first five years.
That was the beauty of the Bengals Super Bowl run.
As they were paying you know, restricted money to Joe

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Burrow and they had that money and at the time
they had the Awoozia's and the guys they brought in,
the Von Bells and the Mike Hiltons and guys like that.
I mean, this defense is so incredibly bad, and I
feel like America is finally getting to see it that
Colston Lovelin play with his joke guys. I mean, you know,
Logan Wilson got created today. I look, is Logan Wilson

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as good as he was three or four years ago?

Speaker 5 (01:07:45):
No, right, there's no doubt about it.

Speaker 22 (01:07:46):
But he's a pro, like you know, he stands in
there and plays the game. I mean, these guys made
two different business decisions not to get run over. That
one guy's moving away from the play, which is inexplicable,
and you know they're there's no consequence, there's no consequence,
there's no accountability.

Speaker 5 (01:08:03):
Guys are in the locker rooms.

Speaker 22 (01:08:04):
They we'll talk to you on Monday.

Speaker 5 (01:08:06):
It's bad.

Speaker 6 (01:08:07):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
Let me let me ask you guys this, because of
all these these defensive moves they've made, these faux paus.
What is that attributable to just you know, the old
school thinking, gonna stand my ground, We're not going to
overpay you, even though it wouldn't have hurt to pay
a von Bell or something or a Hilton somebody like
that to stay. What what the hell is that? What's

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the thinking here?

Speaker 22 (01:08:31):
I mean from my part, I mean, look, those guys
are diminished, right, I mean Von Bell, Mike Hilton were diminished.
The bigger problem is you got to replace these guys.
And the draft has been so awful. And I mean, look, man,
have you seen Duke COVID's resume? Have you if you
take the time to look at Duke Covid his resume.
You know at the top you have present, there's nothing

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under it, like this is the only job he's ever had.

Speaker 14 (01:08:56):
Man, I mean it is.

Speaker 22 (01:08:57):
You know, I hate to throw like defo baby out,
but I mean he comes from a football family. He
played a little bit. He's never done anything else. He
has been here for twenty years with the smallest staff
in football, and it is with after wiff after whiff
the last five years. Now, there was some good, right,
the Jermaine Pratt, the Logan Wilson. For a while they

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were crushing these third and fourth round picks. But the
last four years they are absolutely desolate. And look, even
if a Marius Mims becomes a great tackle, Miles Murphy's done.
Like there is not a professional pass rusher there. And
the Shamar Stewart thing was boxed. I mean, these guys
don't need.

Speaker 5 (01:09:39):
It the way they used to.

Speaker 22 (01:09:41):
You don't have the level of control that he.

Speaker 5 (01:09:43):
Used to have.

Speaker 22 (01:09:44):
And the Browns and Duke Tobin they haven't learned that.
They haven't gotten that memo yet.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
Very very well said Mark, and along those lines to
piggyback off what you said. My thoughts on this is
that they are now fully exposed. And that what they
did in the Joe Burrow area was they decided that
money wise, they were going to go all in on
this offense. They are obsessed with offense. You know, they've
paid big, big money to Joe Burrow, to Jamar Chase,

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to T Higgins, a guy that I think that they
didn't need to bring back, but Joe Burrow want him back,
so they decided to pay big money to him. They
paid big money to Orlando Brown Junior. They brought in
Kappa who's no longer here, they paid big money to him.
They paid big money to Ted Carris. And so when
you've you know, in the NFL with the salary cap,
when you've decided you're going to spend all your money

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on that side, well then you better dog on well
draft really well on the defensive side. And they just don't.

Speaker 7 (01:10:42):
They do.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
They are not good at evaluating talent. And that's been
very historical for them. That's not an overnight thing where
they just all of a sudden, they just don't know
how to evaluate talent. You know, you can get a
Joe Burrow in the first round, and that's a slam dunk.
He's going to be great for any team. Jamar Chase
is going to be great for him team. These are
generational talents, and so you were so bad for so

(01:11:04):
long you fall into getting those draft picks. So you
don't really get a lot of credit for drafting those guys.
It's those guys that you're drafting the second and third
and fourth and fifth rounds. And go look at what
they've drafted here on defense over the last you know,
I think somebody had a stat that they've drafted sixteen
players defensive players since twenty twenty two, and not a

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one of those guys as a significant contributor for this
football team right now. And that's it right there. That's
the story that they are just not good at drafting
and they were forced by their decision to spend all
this money on the offense. They forced themselves into then, okay,
we're going to build the defense to the draft, and

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we see that that hasn't worked out because they have
the smallest scouting staff in the NFL. You know, they'll
say that Duke's not the general manager, and like the
whole thing is just needs to be completely overhauled and
they need to add more and we can go on
and on. Eddie's given me the we got to cut

(01:12:07):
this off signals. So because Mark, we could keep going
all the way up until Lance's in here in an
hour and then he's gonna pick it up. He's gonna
run with it for three hours, three hours.

Speaker 22 (01:12:20):
What let me let me throw one last thing out,
because you know, I keep seeing people in the media
and fans say, well, you know, if fans stop buying tickets.

Speaker 5 (01:12:29):
To send a message, that means nothing.

Speaker 22 (01:12:31):
Like the last piece about this is when this changes.
And the only time this ever changes is when sweet
sales go down. If Bengals don't sell ten thousand tickets
for a game, ticket prices are tickets revenues are aggregated
divided by thirty two right around the league. So if
the Bengals don't sell out, nobody cares about that.

Speaker 5 (01:12:51):
So they don't care. It's when they don't sell sweets
that it makes the difference.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
But yeah, because Mark, they made The Bengals made four four,
one hundred and thirty seven million dollars last year in
the NFL revenue sharing. That's whether they're good or bad,
or they don't put one fan in the stands. They
made that off of the TV deal alone.

Speaker 5 (01:13:13):
Yep, that's what matters to them.

Speaker 22 (01:13:15):
I mean it is you know, you're sharing with the
Dallas Cowboys and the stuff that.

Speaker 5 (01:13:20):
Is uniquely yours is what matters to them. But I mean, look,
you talked about this is not a new thing.

Speaker 22 (01:13:26):
I mean, Paul Brown lay on his deathbed and among
his final words to Mike Brown were don't draft David Klingler.

Speaker 5 (01:13:32):
Right, how'd that work out?

Speaker 22 (01:13:34):
I mean, you know this is this is rotten from
the from the top down, and uh, it ain't changing
anytime soon. Guys, he was fun brainstorming with you. I
would love it if they would take this one of
these ideas. It ain't happening. We all know it all right.

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
With that, Mark, we will let you go, buddy, real pleasure.
Thanks so much, Mike the bet, thanks many, Mark Amazon
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To the show. Happy to be here with you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
So Dean, I was I heard you were doing this
event tomorrow night, and I did not realize that it's
the supermoon is back.

Speaker 7 (01:16:01):
Yes, the supermoon is back. It is the largest closest
full moon of the year, and it'll be Wednesday night
rising up about five twenty five pm. And I don't
know if people saw the moon last night, but boy
it was pretty bright. So it's getting super every day here. Now,
I mean, this isn't that huge of a deal. Like,
it's not like the moon's gonna be twice as big

(01:16:22):
as normal. It will be noticeably larger and really bright
as it rise up higher, you're gonna see it shining
your window. And so for me, I think it's just
a great excuse to get people out there do some
stargazing and check this thing out.

Speaker 2 (01:16:36):
What do you when you're looking at at all Park?
Are you looking at it with the naked eye or
are you looking at it with telescopes or what all
do you do out there?

Speaker 7 (01:16:47):
Yeah, the public event, I'm leading as you at the
top of allt Park where the pavilion is. We're gonna
some telescopes set up up there, watch the moon rise
up there, and then it's really some people are posting
this and I agree, it's like not the best time
to look at it through a telescope. It's almost blindingly
bright through a telescope, and you don't get to see
quite as many of the detail, like the shadows aren't

(01:17:09):
on there quite as much. Uh So we'll be looking
at that with the naked eye, do a little howling,
and then go to the other show that is looking
through the telescope and showing people Saturn in the telescope,
and that just looks dynamite. It looks like this cartoon
little planet with a ring around it. And so we'll
show people that. So yeah, we've got a whole bunch

(01:17:31):
of different things happening for that at All Parks. So yeah,
moon rise is about five twenty five pm and then
the event goes from six to eight, so you can
just come on up free to the public and uh yeah,
we'll check out some stars and the.

Speaker 1 (01:17:43):
Full moon and so yeah, it's going to be cool
to be driving home tomorrow night being over to sound it. Yea,
but Dean, let me let me ask you, where's the
best viewing for stargazing and stuff like the moon. I mean,
obviously ALLT Parks is a beautiful place, but it's there

(01:18:04):
with all the city lights surrounding it. I mean as
far out the country as you can get. Is that
pretty much your optimal situation?

Speaker 7 (01:18:12):
Oh yeah, I mean to see more stars. Definitely want
to get away from the city lights. With that moon
up there. Good luck, You're going to be hard pressed
finding a dark skies anywhere right now for that because
that moon is going to be so bright. So yeah,
we usually recommend people get out to the state parks
that are out of town, but for people that are
in the city, the Cincinnati Parks system is awesome. I

(01:18:35):
mean they are. Most of the parks are open till
ten o'clock at night, and you get some pretty good
views and you can get away from a little bit
of the city lights and places like Alt Park and
Alms Park and Mount Echo and some other places around town.
So yeah, it's you know, it's just I just like
to get people to look that's the big thing, and

(01:18:57):
take the time. And I got to be honest, when
the supermoon thing happened, like maybe ten years ago, when
I first came around, I was like, Eah, this thing,
I mean, so nobody's gonna notice, and so we didn't
have I did an event grudgingly, and I found it.
People loved it. I mean they were just like sitting
on the grass there watching the moon rise. Their phones

(01:19:18):
were off, they're talking to each other. So I was
a supermoon convert. I'm like, hey, yeah, people go out
and watch this.

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
I'm all for that, Dean, for those of us who
are have to read outer space for dummies to understand
and listen to you. Of course, what you said, this
only comes around what once every ten years? And why
is that? And is it the Earth is closer to
the Moon than a certain point here, like can you
explain kind of the the one oh one of the supermoon.

Speaker 13 (01:19:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:19:51):
Absolutely. I mean the Moon goes around the Earth, but
it doesn't go around in like a perfect circle. So
there's sometimes in its orbit where it's closer to the
Earth than sometimes it is farther from the Earth. And
so it's one of those things where it matches up
where it's closest to the Earth and a full moon
at the same time. And there's some other things like

(01:20:12):
some of the NASA websites they've been trying to milk
this thing, and they make like three super moons every year,
like where it's close and kind of big. I always
like to opt for the one, you know, let's just
do it one time, and so this one is the closest.
There was a pretty good one last month, and they'll
be a pretty good one next month, but this one
will be technically the best. And if people really want

(01:20:34):
to get nerdy about this, the moon rise is not
the closest approach will be to the Moon. It'll be
at around midnight tomorrow night, where the moon will be
only two hundred and eighteen thousand miles away. That's about
as close as you're gonna get to the moon, ever,
and because usually the moon's about two hundred forty thousand
miles away, so this is a pretty good chunk of distance,

(01:20:56):
a little bit closer to us.

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
Hey, you know, putting that perspective, I got a two
hundred four forty one thousand miles on my truck, so
that's not that far away.

Speaker 7 (01:21:03):
You've you've driven enough to go to the moon, not back,
but to the moon at least yep.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
So, and let me get because Dean, we talked about
this before. What is this going to look like? Because
I think I told you this has been years and
years ago. I remember. I don't know if it was
just the perspective that I had, but man, the it
was about this time of year and the sun or
the moon came up and it looked like it took

(01:21:32):
up half of this horizon as it was rising. Now,
I don't know what what does that do to when
you get that kind of view that it looked like,
you know, five times the size of the moon. Regular.

Speaker 7 (01:21:45):
Yeah, it's really cool when you watch the moon rise.
I think that's the best part, the best time, because
when it's lower on the horizon, it does have this
like optical illusion. This makes me seem bigger in your
brain than it actually is, and then when it's up
higher in the sky, it takes kind of its normal
size and your brain. And so astronomers and scientists have

(01:22:06):
been studying this phenomenon. It's called the moon illusion. And
it was first thought that it's just because you have
these reference points like trees and houses and that kind
of stuff. And so some of the smarter eggheads were like, yeah,
it's not really that, because it doesn't it's not actually bigger.
It just looks bigger in our brain. And so it's
a brain illusion. Our brains are fooling ourselves into thinking

(01:22:30):
it's actually bigger. It's really is the same size. It
just looks like it to us. And so I used
to do this TV show on PBS called Stargazers, if
anybody remembers, that would fly through space on hoverboards, and
it was always on at a convenient one am, So
if you didn't see it, I'm not too hurt. But

(01:22:52):
I inherited that show from a guy named Jack Horkheimer.
He was the guy that would come on PBS late
at night and talk about what's up in the space.
And he said, the way you come back the moon
illusion I am not joking. Is you turn your back
to it, look upside down, through your legs backwards at
the moon upside down, and they'll turn normal size. Now

(01:23:14):
I thought he was joking with me, and I thought
I thought, I thought, man, okay, so he's pulling this thing,
and I'm I'm not going to do it. I'm not
going to do it in front of him, that's for sure.
So there was one night where I had the full
moon rise and nobody was around, and I did it,
and I swear it worked. So I I encourage people

(01:23:34):
to try this at home when nobody's looking, and who knows,
maybe tomorrow night at all Park, I'll do it too
with everybody looking. I don't know. We'll see how it works.
But it's like one of those things I thought, this
is a joke, come on, and then I did it
and actually did work.

Speaker 13 (01:23:50):
You have to go.

Speaker 2 (01:23:51):
You have to do with the group tomorrow.

Speaker 25 (01:23:53):
You have.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
Everybody, We're going to do some yoga moon gazing here
just for a few minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:24:00):
Take a picture and put that on a social Dude,
you all get a million views.

Speaker 7 (01:24:04):
I mean, the problem is, I don't know if I'll
be able to get back up. That's the thing. I
doesn't go down there now, but I don't know about
getting back up again, so I might need some help.

Speaker 1 (01:24:13):
So yeah, go ahead, Oh go ahead?

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
Oh what is it? Forgive again? Forgive my ignorance on this?
Like you go to Alt Park? Is it does it
just being up on a hill even allow for a
better view or is it just because that's a big
gathering space.

Speaker 7 (01:24:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, anybody can see it anywhere. I'm doing
it at All Parks just because I love All Park.
It's and I been working with the Cincinnati Parks for
a long time and it's a great place. It's a
good gathering spot. The Yeah, it really is. And it's
pretty decently dark up there too, So I always go
up to All Park to if I want to look

(01:24:53):
at something low on the horizon, because it's got good
views to the horizon. But yeah, we'll be showing people
sad and also tomorrow night that's going to be a
real cool highlight and it's yeah, it's almost like an
excuse to get people out under the stars and then
we'll show them Saturn and then that's what they're gonna be. Like,
Saturn is the real highlight.

Speaker 1 (01:25:13):
And not how many telescopes would you say you have
scattered about there?

Speaker 7 (01:25:17):
Good question. So far. I'm still rounding up the troops here,
so I'm not sure how we're gonna end up with.
But it'll be enough for everybody to see some stuff,
that's for sure, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:25:27):
And what else is as far as the heavens go,
that's coming up here.

Speaker 7 (01:25:33):
Well, So on Saturday, people, if you want to check
out actual rocks from outer space, I'm doing an event
at the north Side Library Saturday at three o'clock where
we're gonna have a meteorite event, meteor right displays. Some
of my buddies are going to bring some of their
meteorites from the asteroid belts, some Moon meteorites, some Mars meteorites,

(01:25:54):
and people can see and hold and touch them and
at the free event sets at the north Side Library
at three o'clock. And then for meteor shower gazers, we've
got the Lioned meteor Shower coming up November seventeenth, eighteenth.
That's when it peaks where you can maybe see a
dozen shooting stars an hour going across the sky, and
that's always a pretty good one, and you can maybe

(01:26:15):
even see some earlier in the week two, once the
full moon gets out of the way. So yeah, those
are the big events coming up. So lots to see
up there.

Speaker 2 (01:26:24):
Some of your your friends in the in the stargazing world,
you said, have some meteorite rocks. Where would one go
to get those?

Speaker 7 (01:26:34):
Oh, believe me, I got a guy for you, that's
for sure. I know that's yeah. So yeah, there's legitimate
meteorite dealers. How you get started in that field, I
have no idea, but anyway, these are these are fellows
that and the women and men that have been like
in this field for a while. They they don't just

(01:26:56):
like go out and collect them. Some of them do,
but mostly they they deal with reputable fines, reputable falls.
Where they have these rocks at the sell from space.
Most of them are gathered in the Sahara Desert and
the Antarctic continent because it's on top of the sand
or on top of the snow, and so it's a

(01:27:17):
little bit easier. You can just pick things up on
top of whatever's on top fell from up above. And
so yeah, people do ask me, they're like, what do
you trust these guys? Like, I mean, what if they're
just giving you like limestone from you know, from the
East End or something like that. And the thing is,
if they ever sell a non meteorite, they are done.

(01:27:37):
That is that is, that is their reputation is on.
They'll never Yeah, meteorite people don't mess with Uh, don't
mess with them because yeah, but I've got a small
collection myself. But the ones that are coming on Saturday,
they are some pretty impressive specimens and people can like
hold them and they're really cool cool rocks, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:28:00):
All right with that, Dean, don't pick up any bogus
space rocks and people can catch you tomorrow night at
the at Alt Park.

Speaker 7 (01:28:09):
Yeah, tomorrow up at All Park will be great. Like
I said that, the event goes six to eight, but
move a little bit earlier at five twenty five. So
come on up a little early if you like to
hang out. Uh, and yeah, bring some space rocks too,
why not come on up with that?

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
All right, buddy, love it?

Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
Thanks so much.

Speaker 7 (01:28:25):
Hey, thanks guys, and keep looking up there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:28:28):
Astro dean is dot com is his website. No, I'll
tell you talk about a specialized gig, dude, go one
be in a meteor Uh, it's a sales guy.

Speaker 2 (01:28:44):
Well that sounds wonder like. And he said it there
you can go to the Sahara doesn't And I know
they're probably not just Oh, they're all over the place
and you can just if you get it right, if
you just travel there, you're gonna find one.

Speaker 1 (01:28:56):
I'm sure they're very rare to find in those spaces.
But you know it seems like think that would be
kind of a hard business. Yeah, get that's what I mean, right, Like,
you know, it's like being a moon rock guy. Where
do you start first?

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Speaker 1 (01:31:01):
All right, back with Eddie and Jason Williams from the
Inquiry and for Rocket Today. Just a little while longer,
but before we get out of here on Election Day, Jase.
Of course, it seems like every year it gets this
type of thing gets more and more prevalent. Let's talk
to our good friend Don Mahallick. He is the law

(01:31:23):
enforcement contributor retired senior service agent for ABC News. And Don,
what's the latestest thing out of Jersey.

Speaker 14 (01:31:31):
Huh?

Speaker 6 (01:31:33):
Well, Jersey apparently has gotten a bunch of threats directed
towards the polling places, and those threats have forced the
polling place to be closed down for a while while
the Jersey law enforcement agencies go in and actually sweep
and check the places. These are legit bomb threats that
are coming in which after investigation turned out to be hoaxes.
But you know what raises the issue once again about

(01:31:55):
election security and election safety and the fact that we're
dealing with an vironment where the voter is being targeted
and to move the voter in a different direction or
to dissuade the voter from voting and participating in democracy.
And those threats come from foreign actors or domestic actors
a lot online, but also now we're seeing it in live,

(01:32:16):
real time with a legit, you know, old school threat
of a bomb, a bomb at one of these polling locations.
It's a sad status, but thankfully it seems like the
people in New Jersey are handling it appropriately.

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
Is there something in particular on the ballot in New
Jersey that's very hotly contested this year? I know here
in Ohio we don't have there's not a lot of
hotly contested things on the ballot, but and just wondering
if that is New Jersey specific thing going on to governors.

Speaker 6 (01:32:46):
The governor's race in New Jersey is a very hot
contest because it's probably closer than people think, and I
think the bomb threats are a response to that. It's
interesting to bomb threats coming. I think they were focused
around Newer New Jersey versus some other parts of the state,
so that might be an indication of the where the
threats are emanating from. But either way, it just interferes

(01:33:09):
with the democracy. It interferes with people's voting choices. And
in a case like that, it frightens voters from going
to the polls and voting. So, you know, the voter
is being targeted across the US. We saw it last
year in twenty twenty four. We're seeing it again in
this and this is a quieter election than last year
with the presidential election. So let's hope the law enforce

(01:33:32):
and agencies are responding appropriately and the voters are making
smart choices when we're going.

Speaker 5 (01:33:37):
To the polls.

Speaker 1 (01:33:38):
Domaholis our guest, and don let me ask you, as
retired secret Service how long does it take to come
in sweep that and clear it with dogs and such?
I assume as what they use.

Speaker 6 (01:33:52):
It all depends on where the voting location is, if
it's a small polling place or a big polling place.
A lot of places they use schools, and they use
you know, government buildings as polling places, which generally are
on the smaller side, but you know, in a place
like Newark, it potentially could be a larger building because
of the size of the population. So it really depends

(01:34:13):
on the size of the facility they're sweeping and how
many you know, K andnine assets and search teams they.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
Use down to these uh you know, in particular today,
these come in by telephone or do they come in
by a text? Do they come in through a social media?

Speaker 14 (01:34:29):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (01:34:29):
This? Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:34:30):
You know this certain?

Speaker 6 (01:34:32):
Do you know?

Speaker 2 (01:34:32):
How do you do you know the how they originate?

Speaker 7 (01:34:35):
I don't. Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:34:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:34:39):
In a case in New Jersey, I think I think
they came in via old school phone call. Somebody called
it a bomb threat and named the polling location, which
hopefully will help them in tracking where the threat came from.
But the bottom line is between the internet the cell phones. Uh,
you know, there's multiple pathways to to issue with ret

(01:35:00):
and it's a lot of work for the law enforcement
agencies involved. And when these threats come in and try
to try to track him down and then hopefully arrest
who's responsible.

Speaker 1 (01:35:09):
And is it an immediate response on that don I
would assume as soon as they get it, and they're
just like, okay, clear the clear of the building. There's
no you know, there's no zero reason to wait around
and see it. Okay, this is a correction now.

Speaker 6 (01:35:23):
Now, when a bomb threat comes in, they typically you know,
you want to treat every call as if it's real
until you prove it's a hoax. So when these calls
come in, the buildings are immediately evacuated. The laws and
agencies arrive, they clear, they search the area, they clear,
and once it's clear, they'll let people back into the building.
These days, a lot of law enforcement agencies around the country,

(01:35:45):
particularly in the bigger metropolitan cities, will tend to set
up task forces around election day to monitor the polls,
to monitor what's going on in the polls, and to
be able to respond, as you know, as needed to
the polling locations should an issue arise. So I would
thing Jersey is set especially in an area like Newark,
is set up like that as well.

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
On you're uh, you know, you're retired senior Secret Service agent,
so you know you've seen everything. Are bomb threats harder
to track in today's world of technology versus when we're
back when everyone used landlines and payphones or is it
is it? Is it harder? Is it easier? What you

(01:36:26):
know is it completely changed the game with cell phones
and uh, you know it's completely changed.

Speaker 6 (01:36:32):
Uh you missed the days of the old rotary phone.
It's completely changed the game with cell phones because you
have that that mobility. Uh, that's that's present now with
a cell phone call or even the Internet, and then
you wants to have the issue of having to go
through the Internet to find somebody. Whereas in the old days,
if somebody called call from an old style rotary phone

(01:36:54):
or even a push button phone, it was a direct
line from that individual's home to whoever they were calling. Now,
because of the Internet, because a lot of calls are
made digitally, we have these voice over Internet protocols where
there's IP addresses involved, and you know, you can change
your IP address or hydri IP address with a VPN,
So it makes it real challenging for law enforcement to

(01:37:16):
backtrack in these cases. They're able to do it, and
a lot of times the vendors, the phone companies are
helpful in these situations, but it's still it's a lot
more work and a lot harder than it probably was
in the old days.

Speaker 1 (01:37:30):
All Right, with that, Don, we will let you go, buddy,
Thanks so much.

Speaker 6 (01:37:34):
Thanks for having me. Guys appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (01:37:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:37:36):
John Don Mulhullakey is a retired secret service working with
ABC News and man, it just seems like Jason, every
year it gets worse and worse.

Speaker 2 (01:37:47):
Yeah, and just to think that it's not even a
presidential year. And you know how much of this stuff happens,
you know, in a presidential year or where it's going
to keep happening because people see this like oh yeah,
and you know they're they're evil devy uh evil people.

Speaker 1 (01:38:03):
Out there, Jason uh in other news. And let's get
off the political bead here for a minute and get
it do a cute cat story.

Speaker 2 (01:38:17):
You know, you know, do you have a cat?

Speaker 14 (01:38:19):
Cat?

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
We are not cat people.

Speaker 14 (01:38:23):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:38:24):
This this happened in New Hampshire.

Speaker 7 (01:38:27):
Ray Ray.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
The cat sounds like probably a cat that's like a dog.

Speaker 14 (01:38:33):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:38:35):
Well, you know, I don't know where you get Ray Ray. Well,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:38:39):
I don't I don't mind a cat that's like a dog,
by the way, but anyway, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:38:42):
You're not a cat guy, No, I'm I got no
problem with cats. I'm allergic to them, but I don't
But anyways, Ray Ray. So they were going from a
little town in Pennsylvania to Keen, New Hampshire. They're at
the beginning of October. The cat, a little Ray Ray,
apparently didn't want to be left behind. So after driving

(01:39:07):
about one hundred miles, Tony DiNardo Ray Ray's owner stopped
the van for a bathroom break and discovered ray Ray,
the eight year old cat, clinging to the car's roof.

Speaker 2 (01:39:20):
Oh no, I had a feeling you were going to
have a Christmas fake care. What was the summer vas right?

Speaker 22 (01:39:27):
That was?

Speaker 1 (01:39:27):
Yeah, that was Christmas vacation with whatever they had Clara,
whatever her name was, the dog dogs attached.

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
To the bumper. Yeah, I thought you were adding that direction,
he said. They left for a trip clinging to the roof.

Speaker 1 (01:39:42):
Said the mom, Margaret, how did the cat stay up there?
And he seemed completely unfazed. The family believed that ray
Ray lodged himself between the luggage. You know they you know,
just like the family vacation. Yeah, you know, they had
the luggage rack on the top there. So apparently old

(01:40:05):
ray Ray got himself lodged in there under the suitcases
and put his claws into one of the straps or something.
It just went for a ride and uh he So
they stopped at a pet store, got him, got him
a little food, got him a leash. So, uh, I

(01:40:27):
guess one of the reasons they were going to this
little town in New Hampshire was that they have a
marathon that this guy Tony was running in so he
carried I guess they were.

Speaker 2 (01:40:43):
Yeah, he was in.

Speaker 1 (01:40:44):
It was in this blah blah blah. He uh, I
guess his wife met him along the way and he
carried the cat across the finish line. Oh so uh,
Ray Ray seemed to be very happy and now she
plays is to write a children's book about her pet's adventures.

Speaker 2 (01:41:04):
So it's a happy ending there for Ray Ray and
the family because it could have gone really, really bad.
Well see it's good Ray Ray could have been like
a bug on a windshield for someone, and well that
had been bad for the other guy too.

Speaker 1 (01:41:21):
Can you imagine you're driving down the interstate, you know,
you're going seventy seventy five miles an hour of sudder
cat in your wind you know, like a bug on
your windshield, except it's a you know, fifteen pound cat.

Speaker 2 (01:41:36):
That's gonna do a little damage to your windshield too.
Thank thank, thank goodness, Ray Ray safe and had a
fun trip. And I'm sure they had to spend a
little extra money there on the cat carrier, and.

Speaker 1 (01:41:50):
Well I'm sure they had to take that car through
a car wash up top of you know what, I'm saying,
oh yeah, and their luggage had to have a little
cat excrement attached to it in some way.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
She might have been coming out of both ends for Ray, Ray,
as scared.

Speaker 1 (01:42:05):
As he was, I could just see that cat go
and tell the other just holding on for his dear
little cat life.

Speaker 13 (01:42:16):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:42:16):
With that, let's get on out of here. But before
we do, let's check traffic and weather. What is going
on

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