Eddie & Rocky -- 10/29/25

Eddie and Rocky talk with Miranda McGee, Bill Cunningham, and Alex Stone on 700 WLW!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A little wired, but I'm raided rock man. Uh missed you.
By the way. Everybody like I'd say, about one third
of my plane coming from Atlanta back to Cincinnati at
lanted about one one third of the plane is like,
are you gonna made it for the show? And I'm like, yeah, man,
I'm like, Eddie misses me. I'm definitely gonna be there.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
So that's right. I can't carry on another day without
your son.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Right, But you were in you were in uh uh
well well down outside Austin.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah. I was in San Marcos, Texas for the big
JMU at Texas State game last night on ESPN two.
It was a good game for half and then it wasn't.
JAMU is really good. I think they could make the
college football Playoff, for what that's worth. But nevertheless, while
I was gone, ed, I saw this news and and

(00:51):
and obviously you did two. Amazon is laying off thirty
thousand people, okay, and these are largely like know, like
corporate kind of desk jobs. And it's all because of AI.
And you know how that is just made the workplace
so different anymore. And there's it does make you wonder

(01:14):
and you and I have had guests on about this
before Edin. We're tracking down our guy right now. Throughout history,
it's always like, you know, inventions and technology have increased
jobs and have have made things better. You and I
talk all the time. I disagree, Like, I really wonder

(01:34):
if AI is something that's going to spur a bunch
of new jobs or is it just going to take
over you know, blue collar jobs, white collar jobs, and
anything involving technology. Why would you hire a person to
do it when a computer can do it and instantaneously
and so much more efficient than than you or I

(01:55):
or any any human being can. So what do people
do for work in the future. If you're a a
guy and a kid, a girl, a guy in high
school right now and you're thinking about going into you know,
coding or something like, are you going to have a job?
Is there something you know in that field anymore? What's
the modern workforce look like for for people, especially young

(02:17):
young folks.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Well, that's the thing is that everybody's been saying AI
is going to replace jobs, this and that and the other,
and the people were saying, oh no, they're going to
be you can, you'll get another job. Well, these people
aren't getting new jobs.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Dude, No, I feel like and we'll talk to our
guests about it. I mean, I think, at least for
the time being, more more blue collar jobs like construction
things like that will open up. But you know, there's
a lot of people sitting in a in a college
and a freshman you know, computer class right now. That's saying, look,
I don't necessarily want to frame houses, so you know,

(02:54):
you know, but do you have an option at this point?
Do you have or is there any future in some
of these the tech fields that were have been a
part of many jobs for god the last couple of decades.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Well, and that's we've had guests on about that too.
Rock is that more and more young people have have
switched to more of a blue collar type of approach
to it. And hey, the world needs plumbers and welders
and builders, Hamstring. I mean more than you need another
computer programmer. Obviously you do.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
But I feel like it's happened so fast that you know,
how much how long is that correction going to take
where a young person that's in high school getting ready
to go to college, are they going to be able
to wrap their mind around that change fast enough to
be able to go into a field where they can
have a job and you know, and make make money

(03:50):
and support a family and all that sort of thing.
It kind of remains to be seen. And the other thing, too,
is you wonder what is the for people that don't
don't fully understand the ins and outs of AI, Like
how far behind are you?

Speaker 3 (04:06):
You know?

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Like I understand some of it, I don't. I can't
say I utilize it a ton. I usialize it a
little bit day to day. But if you're somewhere out
there that has no idea how it works, doesn't want
to know how it works, what's your future in this thing?

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Well?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
I will tell you that my youngest son, Luke has. Yeah,
he did. He did the usual kid stuff and worked
serve you know, he worked at the fast food joint,
and he did this and that and the other, and uh,
he got a job working in a small factory metal
metal fabrication and theres nothing about it. But you know

(04:43):
what he did. He went in and put his nose
to the grindstone and just started watching what those guys do.
And now he is. He's not a foreman. He's only
been he's been there less than a year. He's not
a foreman, but he is moving, He's rapidly moving up
the chain. I told him, I'm like, dude, you keep
this up, you're going to own this place in like
two years.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah. Yeah, But but that's that's the mentality it's going
to take. Is is making a kind of a quick
correction turn and into what you want to do, and
and and figuring that out and and you know, and
being able to go.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
With the flow.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
I think if you're I hate to say it, but
if you're at a point where you're very resistant to
all of these new things that AI brings along and
and the replacement of jobs, that you're going to be
kind of s o l here moving forward. See.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Well, I've always said that if I couldn't have done this,
I don't know what the hell had ended up doing.
I'm not lying to yet.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
I'd be a bar Just see trap it on a
tool belt and with your pipe is you know, pipes
and your wrenches and.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
You haven't seen me try to build something, dude.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Uh, that's a great mental image, by the way, right, No,
your cigarette throwed up in your in your your shirt there.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Actually, when I was a younger guy, it was one
of those things where whilst I put my nose to it.
I my first house I bought. I did do some
work in that house and uh, hunk some I hunk
some drywall and blum and finish hunk and finished drywall.
I did that for a little bit in high school
and just stuff like that. But basic plumbing and why

(06:20):
and electric especially, Man, I don't know if you can
deal with electricity knock yourself out because I did not
want to touch that stuff.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
I feel like you do have to again and find
a way where you got to make a figure out
a way to make the machines and technology work for you.
You can't work for it, if that makes sense, you know.
And some of these a lot of these you know,
computer jobs, even corporate jobs that you know have to
do with filing and you know and and all that

(06:51):
sort of thing that those are going to be gone.
But if you can figure out a way to make
the technology work for you, that's I think that's the
path that do it. And I don't know it's but
it's definitely changing pretty quickly.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Watty quickly, based on what we were just going to
be talking about. Pretty soon we're going to be working
for technology, you know, what I mean, that's the thing.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Is there a future? Yeah, well that's the thing. I
think that and I'm just you know, I'm just thinking
out loud. But you know, if you're working for that stuff,
I don't know what the future is. But if you
can figure out a way to make the technology work
for you, then you may have a have a future
and you can you know, go and make a bunch

(07:34):
of money and go about that way. But yeah, if
you're just sitting there waiting on you know, being able
to do kind of normal tech jobs that have been
around for again, ten twenty years, those probably aren't gonna
be there anymore.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
All right, with that, let's check in with traffic and weather.
What is going on?

Speaker 5 (07:53):
Always remember measure twice cut Once there you go, just
a little bit of helpful and transitioning into another technical caps.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yep, you know this show is fun and educating too.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
There you go.

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Halloween activity going to a college campus. I'm assume maybe
there were maybe so a few Halloween costumes along the
way or.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Some say, yeah, my wife usually grounds upon me attending
like uh sorority parties and things like that while I'm
on the road. But but at the game, I yeah
there was. There's some folks decked out at Texas State
and some some costumes. So it's cool, is that time
of year?

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Yeah, that's why I.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Know why she always does that. By the way, you know,
there's just some you know, young women that you know,
they maybe need a little guidance and maybe some things
I can impart, some wisdom I can part on them.
But yeah, what Kelly just doesn't isn't really up on it.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
See that that that's sad to me, surprising, right, it's
kind of selfish. Yeah, it really is selfish. That she
wouldn't let you minister to these young ladies and share here.

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Just here to help, ad. I'm just here to help, right.
I went to college, Yeah right, yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
And I'll go along with you. And I'm like, and see,
I'm way older than him, so you don't even know
double creeped out on this.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Think of the wisdom you and I could impart on
a sorority boy, We sure could, I'm telling you.

Speaker 6 (11:10):
Rock.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
In other news, speaking of such activity only in Amsterdam,
this happened at the uh, you know, at the Reichs
Museum there, which is the fancy place, you know, that's
where they have all the ven goes, the rembrands and whatnot.
Of course, they had an exhibition called safe Sex. As

(11:34):
part of the the display, they had a condom from
eighteen thirty that's enhanced with an erotic art. The the condom,
the prophylactic, is made from a sheep's appendix sorry to
say appendage right now, appendix and the and then the

(12:00):
display is meant to show the playful and serious in
both the playful and serious side of sexual health with
the on. The design on the prophylactic is the image
of a nun and three clergymen. The phrase this is
my choice is written in French along the link of

(12:20):
said sheep bladder. God, where did let me ask you? Well,
the only reason I did that story is because all
I could think of is where do you find something
like that? A two hundred year old rubber now made

(12:42):
of a sheep's appendix?

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Is it on display or is it up for auction?

Speaker 2 (12:51):
It was on display. I don't know what kind of
draw that is, but yeah, it's uh, let's put it
this way. Would you make that a point of stoppage
on your trip to Amsterdam? You'd have to go to
the Reichs Museum because it is cool.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
I guess if I was in the Reichs Museum already,
I would I would wander over to the West wing
and just check that out for odd curate curiosity. But
I don't know if it would get me to actually
take a trip to the museum.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
In other news, moving across the pond over our way
to you know, Florida Police in Florida are looking for
a suspect who quote unquote fondled a six hundred and
fifty dollars ferret for some time at a pet Land
store and then shoved the animal down his pants and

(13:47):
walked out.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Wait first, that is the most shocking part of this
That costs six hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well, that that caught me. I gotta lie.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
That might be the most shocking thing about that.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Hole in that area. That a ferret costs six fifty
Who knew? Greasy little rat looking whatever. But anyways, it
was reported that the band brows the ferret. Here's why
it gets me too. At Petland, the man browsed the
ferret section of the store, so they've got a whole

(14:22):
section dedicated to ferrets.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
I've never seen anything like that here in Cincinnati, but
in Florida, anything goes.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
He browsed the section for quite some time before he left,
holding quote the crowcherry of his pants to support the ferret.
A Petland manager tried to chase him, but couldn't get
the license plate number of the van he was driving.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Now, so he made away with it. Wow, yeah, well,
how do you six hundred bucks?

Speaker 8 (14:52):
Man?

Speaker 1 (14:52):
You gotta do what you gotta do sometimes.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
How do you? I got a couple of questions, how
do you run with a fair in your pants? And
once I thought about it, I'm thinking I'd run pretty fast.
If I had a ferret in my.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Pants, I think I would run pretty fast. Don't you
worry about it? Kind of nibbling around a little bit ed?

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Well, hey, look you're in it for the long haul, buddy.
You just gotta do what you gotta. Gotta take your
lumps man.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, how worth it is it for you to have
that ferret at your house?

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Ask the question the six hundred and fifty bucks ferret?

Speaker 4 (15:30):
Now?

Speaker 2 (15:31):
I want to talk to some ferret owners here in
the very inner future. And see, I see, I thought
therese were something that you had. It kind of adopted,
you felt sorry for him. I didn't know they caused
that much money.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
I had no idea. Yeah, I mean, what do you
do with them? Is it kind of like a like
a like a cat. Yeah, just kind of runs around
and it didn't do any tricks or anything. Well, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Maybe teach it how to do tricks, you know what
I mean?

Speaker 8 (16:00):
Ah.

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That's good stuff. Yeah, that's another.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Reason I wanted to become the bass player, because I
was I was going to be the guy of the back,
smoking weed and like, okay, call me when you need me.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
It's one of those things because like on the surface,
you say, okay, you know the bass player, you can't
really hear it, but you can, but you can really
hear it when it's not there, right, If that makes sense,
you know, you instantly go, like, you know, like a
normal song, if you know, if you ask people like,
what's that bassline? Like there, like I don't know, just
kind of part of the song. But if all of

(22:04):
a sudden there isn't any bass, you immediately go, what
the hell's wrong with this band? Like that? It doesn't
sound right? Some a big hole. There's a big hole
in this song. It's missing right.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Well, that's what I read a thing not too long ago.
Somebody said, yeah, listen to McCartney's bass line in something
you know, there's some thing the George song, and listen
to Paul's bassline, and that I was like, that's a
bass I've never heard a song a million times, I've
never thought about it to have a bass in it.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
I mean, you can go online and go on YouTube,
I think, and and uh, you know they'll have songs
that well, they'll take instruments out. You know, you can
say like whatever such and such song without minus the bass,
and it's like, god, it's really really crazy. Now. The Doors,
of course, the best band of all time, famously did

(22:57):
not have a bass player, well really until their last
stylum La Woman had a bass player on it. But
before that, Raymond Zeric played a bass organ with his
left hand and then played like regular piano organ with
his right hand, which is kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
See that's a that's another thing. I'm not nearing ambidextrous
enough to ever try to do something like that. I
can completely can't do crap with my left hand. You
know what I'm saying, Really, well, what happens if you
break your right hand head? And I mean, well, I'm
gonna have to learn something at the at the ripe
old age of sixty eight.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Tough.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Well, I think maybe if I was younger and I'd
have tried more back then, but you know, you just
kind of if you haven't used your your left hand
in uh, you know, fifty years, then it just uh
it says, well, I'll let the right hand do everything.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
There you go. That's uh inn other news that this
is an article that this is like right out of
a sci fi movie. Okay, this is in Mississippi, so
close to Florida. So there's these they had these primates, right,
monkeys that were used in scientific research okay at Tulane. Okay,

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in Tulane University's National and Biomedical Research Center. But they
were they're traveling from one site to another, and again,
right out of a sci fi movie, the truck overturns
and boom, spill out onto the highway and eventually escape.
Are all these monkeys that are carrying hepatitis, c herpes,

(24:39):
and COVID. So they're just like running around the Deep
South right now? Yeah, I know as yeah. As for
the primates that fled, authorities are working with experts at
the Mississippi Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to quote destroy
their remain so they don't want the things getting out

(25:00):
and you know, infecting everything else with with hepsi, herpes,
and COVID. And that's a bad combination. If you have
all three of those, I would.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Think, no, kid, Well, those poor monkeys, what are they
just shoot them up? With anything they can think of.
I reckon, I don't know. I guess and test them,
but it really is, dude, right out of a out
of a fricking movie. Huh.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
If you've seen the movie Army of the Dead, it's
one of those new I was, said the director. He's
kind of like with those new hot directors. And a
Batista's in and Zombie the one that said break out
in Las Vegas and Vegas. Yeah, yep, I saw that.
And that's how this movie starts.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
Right.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
They're transporting this one like zombie thing and there's a
wreck on the highway and he escapes and then kind
of founds this whole zombie colony in Vegas. It's actually
a pretty good movie. It's it's super far fetched, of course,
but uh yeah, man, that's how it starts, just like this.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Well, let's get back to the rock for just a second.
Rocky and talked to Russ and Marrimont. Hey Russ, what
do you got buddy?

Speaker 8 (26:06):
Hi guys too for you Phil Lesh from the Dead he.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Played a thump and six string bass, and then of
course Jack Bruce from Cream.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Thanks guys, see you buddy, Yeah, I was, I've always
been a Jack Bruce guy too.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
He was with cream I don't know, okay.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah, listen, listened to like Sunshine of Your Love or
something like that. And obviously the guitars pretty damn fine.
But well, every one of those guys. You and I've
talked about Ginger Baker before the drummer he was nuttier
of Fruitcake. But damn he was good.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
He was good. Well, of course, we have maybe one
of the most famous bass players of all time, Bootsy Collins,
right here in the.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Natty right right, and certainly I think in Rolling Stone
he was certainly top ten, if not top five, of
all time. That's pretty impressive, buddy, that's correct. Yeah, absolutely, nay.
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Speaker 2 (28:47):
Me talking to our old friend Miranda McGhee. She's one
of the guys for Mega American Legacy Tours here in town,
doing the ghost Walk tours and such.

Speaker 9 (28:58):
She has seen a lot.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
The haunted places all throughout the Try States.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
She's going to tell us all about the things she
has seen. I love it, love it and a cool gig.
It is apparently because my my son knows her quite well,
and they were talking and he said that sounds like
something you know, I might like to do sometime is
to take the It would be a tour guide if
you guys are looking for him. I love that stuff.

(29:25):
She goes, well, uh, it's fun.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
He goes.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
She goes, we uhould take a tour and he goes, oh, okay,
that's cool. Me and my girlfriend go with you or something,
and she goes, no, you don't want to go with me.
I'm too I'm too afraid. Yeah, she's told us that before.
She's those tours and I get freaked out.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Suposed to like just eat, sleep and breathe this stuff
because you know, but it makes it all the better
that she's uh, he knows how.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Scared it wants to be on the beer cellar beat
right right?

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Another news that what's one thing that I absolutely love?

Speaker 2 (30:05):
World records?

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yes, and here we are. It's that time of year,
it's fall, Halloween around the corner, and two brothers have
just set a Guinness World Record for the heaviest pumpkin. Okay,
and these folks are in where they at, They're in
England somewhere, and the the pumpkin that they have grown,

(30:32):
they set the world record two and nineteen pounds damn
crazy big right now. And of course went down a
rabbit hole with this. And there's like a belief in
the the pumpkin growing community there's no limits on how
big a pumpkin can grow. It's not like, you know,

(30:52):
like a sunflower, for instance, it's only going to get
so big, right, But a pumpkin, you know, they can
they can keep get get bigger and bigger. And the
evidence of that is you go back ten years ago
and a a two thousand pound pumpkin was like, that's
like as big as it gets, right, that's that was
the biggest ones. And now the Holy Grail, of course,

(31:15):
is trying to find one that is three thousand pounds.
These guys are what about you know, lots just shy
of two hundred pounds off of that. They also said
the record, Yeah good.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
No, I was going to say, I don't know how
you tend to something like that, but go ahead, we'll
talk about it.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Well, I will tell you because again I went down
the rabbit hole. And obviously it's it's like anything, it
starts with the seed and you can't just go get
a normal pumpkin seed and expect to grow a pumpkin
that's you know, hundreds and hundreds of pounds, if not
thousands of pounds. So but but outside of that, it
is after you get the right seed that's been you know,

(31:52):
it's been modified to grow big, and it's actually like
a form of squash. And after that, it's just kind
of selecting the right place in the right fertile ground
and having enough space and watering it and then you
got to prune the vines and and all that. But
I mean, these guys have been doing this for decades

(32:12):
and they this is like their thing missing is I mean,
it's the size of like a like a bison, right,
I mean nodding over a ton, I mean good night.
I don't well, giant. Yeah, when we go and get
into how do you transport the damn thing? You got
to get a rigular and well you can see this

(32:34):
picture I have here. I mean this is all it's Yeah,
see it's on a It takes a forklift. It's a
palette and a forklift to wheel this thing around. But
I mean that'll be wild. I mean here in a
couple of years that we'll be talking about a three
thousand pound pumpkin. And I feel like we've we've talked
about this before, and I feel like we had a

(32:54):
caller call in and talk with that that did this
or kind of knows the ins and outs and doing it.
If you're listening right now, call the show just how
you go about growing these world record size pumpkins, because yeah,
it's uh pretty cool.

Speaker 11 (33:09):
These.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
By the way, these same guys also set the record
for the biggest circumference of a of a pumpkin, So
there you go.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yeah, I remember when when you first brought that up.
I was thinking. We did talk to somebody from around
here describing how you do that stuff, and it is
pretty involved. I mean, it's like shading at sometime from
the hot sun and just keep them maintaining.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
The other thing you gotta do and you gotta I
think this is with all pumpkins, so I'm not mistaken.
You farmers out there would would be able to correct me.
But I think you gotta, like, you gotta rotate them
around because if they just lay on in the same spot,
they get really flat. So you gotta kind of roll them,
and you know that that sort of thing. I've actually
seen people take like a mold and kind of grow

(33:54):
the pumpkin inside the mold, and you can get a
pumpkin that has like a whatever of vampire face or something,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Oh, I've seen those guys make yeah, you know, on TV.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
And it's like a like a like a block, you know,
or like a square kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah, they but yeah, I guess you would put in
a mold or something. But but those people who carve
pumpkins and you see them on TV and it looks
exactly like they can make it look like you or
me or you know, wherever they hell they got Trump
or something like that or whatever you wanted to take. Yeah,
Trump pumpkin. But I don't know how you learn how
to do that. Man, that's I have to say. That's

(34:31):
a great talent. But I wouldn't begin to know how
to do that.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, it's just it's just, you know, it's just cool.
It's just to see the things people are into. And again,
these guys have been doing this for decades and decades.
They're two brothers and they you know, they know how
to do it. And I'm not sure what kind of
I didn't say what kind of prize money is in
this thing? Like, I mean, you're talking like a lot
of time and resources and dedication. It should at least

(34:58):
be a fifty thousand other pride or something. Should there?

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Well, you get a hell of a lot of punk
and pie if nothing else, buddy.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yes, yes, puking buza. Feed the whole village with that.

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A cut in interest rates, but looks like that's all
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Now, conditions in the labor market appeared to be gradually cooling,
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Man's a Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Paul on
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Our goals and in light of the balance of risks
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Bit because of this.

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Speaker 2 (41:24):
Yes, Rocket is Halloween week?

Speaker 1 (41:30):
What are you going out here this year?

Speaker 4 (41:32):
Ed?

Speaker 1 (41:32):
You're going with the slutty bartender outfit again? I was
going to go slutty nurse this year and just that
works out for me? Switch you know, yeah, man? Why not?

Speaker 2 (41:42):
You know it's worked in the past.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
How about you, Slutty Fireman? Slutty Fireman isn't one this year?
I get well, Bo would go out by himself. He's
old enough to go by himself. But do you take
the little guys out someplace? Yeah, we'll find somewhere Iron go.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Do you go with them? Or does uh? Does Kelly
go with.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
I feel like I thought last year I was out
of town. I had a game or something, and so
I can't. Hey, whatever, we'll figure it out.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
You know what you need to do is take them
on a ghost tour, and I have just there you go,
and I have just the person for you, all right.
It is our guest from American Legacy Tours. And of
course we're talking about the ghost tours they have going
on right now and the stuff she is seeing along
the way on said ghost tours. She is our good friend,

(42:42):
Miranda Magee. Miranda, always our pleasure.

Speaker 18 (42:47):
I'm so glad you called. I was working on my
slutty kangaroo costume. Sorry, this is great timing, guys, So
maybe we should all meet up together.

Speaker 12 (42:57):
Slutty Floaty like Sludykinger.

Speaker 18 (43:02):
It's got a really good big pouch. I'll tell you that.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
That sounds like the beginning of a really good job.

Speaker 18 (43:08):
I've gone too far. I've gone too far, guys.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
Oh, you're on the Eddie Rocky Show. You're not gone
too far.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
So Miranda, I'm looking at your guys's schedule here and
it looks as though you have just a couple of
tours for like for Tomorrow night and on Halloween night,
just a couple.

Speaker 18 (43:30):
Yeah, and and on Saturday as well November first. But
they are selling out like crazy, So if you want
to get in, now is the time, which is great
for us because everybody the spirits have been incredibly active
this season. I'm so glad you texted me last night, Eddie,
to be like, hey, do you want to talk about it?
Because my husband won't listen to my ghost stories anymore.
He's like, oh my gosh, just what November come already?

(43:52):
And I'm like, but wait, did this happens. He's a
huge skeptic, so he doesn't believe any of it. And
I'm like, but then, okay, you guys get this, Eddie
Rocky all right. So I took him down to the
tunnels where we go for our Nightmare on Elm Street
tour because somebody proposed down there and they wanted to
have me hide the ring. I don't know, they're like
history buff. We get down into the tunnels, just the

(44:13):
two of us, and he started to look a little nervous.
He was like, oh, it is kind of spooky down here.
That's my that's my Lexington.

Speaker 22 (44:20):
Accent here from Lexington and by the way, yeah.

Speaker 18 (44:25):
Yeah, it's like good. He's like, oh, it is kind
of freaky, and he was getting increasingly freaked out while
I'm trying to work out where to hide the string
and Finally he just yelled out, just yelled to the tunnels.
He said, well, y'all can't hurt me because because Jesus,
he just yelled out, Jesus. Solid argument.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
As long as I just went and down, does Jesus.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
Esus you got me?

Speaker 18 (44:57):
I thought it anyway, So that's why I was glad.
He's like, I'm glad just talking to Eddie and Rocky,
so I don't have to listen to it anymore.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
Okay, So well let's we We talked to you over
the last couple of years, and every year you've got stories.
What are some of the latest?

Speaker 18 (45:12):
So I don't know if I ever talked to you guys,
because I just saw this the other day at the
Campbell County Courthouse. Have you guys ever been there? I mean, Rocky,
you must have been there a few times, right the courthouse.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
I haven't been in trouble with the laws that it's
the last time you went on a slutty fire about
out there.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
Yeah, it was a big hit in the case.

Speaker 18 (45:38):
That's what I thought. So the Campbell County Courthouse, which
by the way, was built between eighteen eighty three and
eighteen eighty four for a whopping one thousand dollars. Wow,
I know inflation right by the way, you guys, my
friends hate, but I have this job. We're like walking
down the street and I'm like, you know, in eighteen

(45:59):
fifty They're like, oh my gosh, stop it. Anyway to
the courthouse. That was the last execution that was done
there was for the murderers of Pearl Brian. Do you
guys remember Pearl Brian. Have you heard about her?

Speaker 8 (46:12):
No?

Speaker 1 (46:12):
I don't think so.

Speaker 18 (46:13):
Okay, it may start sounding familiar. It made pretty massive
news around here in the eighteen hundreds, but it still
talked about today. She was a young lady in the
late eighteen hundreds eighteen ninety six. She was twenty two
years old from Indiana, and a guy from Cincinnati, Scott Jackson,
decapitated her because she got pregnant out of wedlock and

(46:34):
he didn't want to have to deal with the baby,
so he decapitated her while she was still alive. And
it's rumored the head was never found, and it's rumored
to be under where Bobby Mackie's used to be, which
is why Bobby Mackie's was felt wanted over the other
side of the river.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (46:48):
Sure, and anyway, so they get these guys, Scott Jackson
and Alonso Walling. They drugged her with cocaine and then
decapitated her in Fort Thomas and left the body but
took the head and they took it like. Once they
decapitated her, they put her head in a bag and
then went to a pub and they gave the bag

(47:09):
to the bartender to take care of while they were drinking.
And the bartender was like, oh, this is heavy. Is
there a bowling ball in here? And Scott Jackson, the
guy that murdered, he just smiled. He was like yes.
And then when they were hanged on the lawn right
in front of Newport, in front of Campbell County Courthouse,
the ropes were not measured correctly, so instead of jumping
and having their necks broken, they slowly strangled to death

(47:31):
over a few minutes, which I call karma. But because
of that, throughout campbellto County Courthouse. The other day, there's
a man that stands in the bell tower and we
think that's Scott Jackson still because he died in a
slow way, that his spirit is still hanging around as
it should be because he did a really terrible thing.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
Yes. Now, what do you when you see something like that?
Are you just seeing a shadowy figure or is there
a face attached to it?

Speaker 18 (47:58):
Or what it was? And I saw him. We were
there sort of late at night training on a tour
and I looked up and I just saw like it
looked like there was a man in the bell tower.
And I looked up and I turned to my fellow guy, Laura.
I was like, Hey, there's a guy up there. And
then we looked back and he wasn't there. And She's like,
no one's ever in the Bell Tower. You must have
seen the ghost of Scott Jackson. Wow.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Now wow.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
So and this is like, I mean, is this a
pretty well known one or is this a little bit
more obscure?

Speaker 18 (48:27):
I guess Pearl Brian made like nationwide news in the
eighteen hundreds, and people just know because Bobby Mackie's used
to like really sort of cash in and on that
story because they never did find her head, and there
was rumors that there was a satanic cult in the
basement of Bobby Mackie's and so, and they apparently brought

(48:47):
the head there as an offering to their dark lord.
I know. Anyway, Bobby Mackie's isn't there anymore.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
But let me ask you that because that's a we'd
years ago on the boarding show. We spent and well,
we had our producers spend the night in there, and uh,
it just so happens that a couple of day other
guys from the show stayed there and hid in the
uh in the attic or something, and they were they
were putting, they were making noise and banging on pipes

(49:14):
and stuff, and that poor guy had wet himself so
hard by the time we got there in the morning
he could barely talk.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
But it is.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
I'm not kidding you. Yeah, and uh, well and well
you well, you know this story Marianda, that wasn't there
always like a rose scented perfume or something connected with
her appearance or I forget what it was. But they
they sprayed like you know, some of the like room

(49:45):
deodorizer stuff with the floral scent to it. And He's like,
I smelled the flowers. I smelled the flowers. I heard
the noise. Uh you know that was a funny.

Speaker 18 (49:58):
I love that you started to say we spent the
night there. Then you're like, no, after we didn't go
we just so.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
So so now you've talked before about having actual physical
contacts with these things. Has anything like that happened here lately?

Speaker 11 (50:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (50:16):
So on our Ultimate Queen City Haunted Tour, which is
really cool, we go through, like you know, you hear
the dark history of Washington Park, which you gentlemen know
about that it used to be three separate cemeteries and
half the park has never been dug up. So there's
still heaps of bodies in Washington Park, which is exactly
why the dog park is paved over because they don't
want the little pappas digging around like coming up with

(50:38):
a femur.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
Wow, I didn't notice that.

Speaker 18 (50:44):
Yeah, the children's playground is all there's heaps of bodies
under the children's playground as well. So the record was
destroyed through the fires we've had at city Hall and
the courthouse, So nobody knew about the bodies until twenty
eleven when they did the forty eight million dollar renovation
and dug out the underground parking garage. Then they found
all the bodies.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
Now, how many how many do you think or how
many do they say that there are down there? Would
they guess?

Speaker 4 (51:10):
So?

Speaker 18 (51:11):
Down the north end the part they dug out for
the underground parking garage, they found seventy three graves because
at the time, in eighteen sixty, they used to be
three separate cemeteries. This is hilarious, you guys. In the
eighteen sixties they decided they wanted to do something nice
for over the Rhine because it was three separate cemeteries.
They're like, you know what, let's change this into a park.

(51:32):
So they put out a city wide announcement saying, Hey,
if you have people buried here, can you come get them?
Because they're trying to build a park. I know, right.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
I was like, are a major inconvenience here? Yeah? What
a nuisance Grandpa.

Speaker 18 (51:48):
You know, I was really upset when the metro went
up by like ten percent. I was like two dollars
twenty to ride the metro. Now, I imagine going to
be asked to pick up like your relatives is probably
a bigger aft. So I had to think about that perspective.
I was like, Okay, I can get twenty cents. I
don't have to go dig up great great uncle George.
So they put out a city wine announcement saying, yeah,

(52:08):
can you come get your relative a few people did,
but a lot of people were like, no, we're not
doing that. So then the city, because it was eighteen sixty,
they just plucked out the headstones, put three feet of
dirt on top, and cold it a day. Because it
was eighteen sixty, They're like, who's gonna know? Wow, And
this is that you don't know until you know, cooky.

(52:30):
And then twenty eleven is when we found that out
that all those bodies there. So we found seventy three
graves in the north end. The South end which hasn't
been dug up. We've used ground penetrating radar. There are
so many bodies from the South end. So, you know,
those beautiful lawns. Somebody on my tour the other day
we walked into Washington Park. She said, oh my gosh,
I got married right on these lawns and I had

(52:51):
to do it. I was like, oh, people were dying
to go to that wedding. Do you guys like that joke? Yeah? Perfect,
thank you. So that's it's.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
So funny, by the way, Yeah, go ahead, I'm sorry, No.

Speaker 18 (53:09):
What's funny by the way, Sorry, yeah, no, I was.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Just saying like we think that, like, oh, and you know,
back in the day, things were, you know, a little
more pure and refined. No, we just just put more
dirt over these bodies here no one, No one cares,
you know, or dig a mob, whatever, doesn't matter.

Speaker 18 (53:29):
It was the worst back then, and the medical colleges
at the times eighteen hundred, the only bodies they could
get to practice on the medical students were from executed prisoners.
It was taboo to donate your body to science, and
so Ohio Medical College did an unprecedented thing. They were
located on Mine Street. They started saying, hey, if you

(53:50):
give us a body, because obviously they were desperate for bodies,
They're like, if you give us the body, we will
pay you one hundred and twenty five dollars, no questions asked.
So two things we hear incredibly popular Cincinnati murder and
grave robbing. The Ohio Medical College became known as the
Ohio Murder College because they had so many bodies that
started selling them to different universities like the University of Michigan.

(54:11):
Uh and then they had to rebrand, so now they're
the College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
So go back caps Well, well, if you know this story,
I mean tied to that though, is you know Bill Cunningham,
right of course? Uh noon to three. One of his ancestors,
Old Cunney, was a grave robber in Cincinnati. This is true,
honest to god facts. Ask him about it and he'll
tell you. We'll probably have to we're going to talk

(54:36):
to him at five o'clock again. We have to ask
him to go through all this. But yeah, he was.
He was a grave robber for that very reason. It
was profitable, so he was a.

Speaker 18 (54:45):
Very rich man. I can't we were making a dollar
twenty five a day and one hundred and twenty five
dollars to a body.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
I was going to say, one hundred and twenty five
dollars a body that went a long way back then, man, huge,
Yeah he did.

Speaker 18 (54:58):
It's about I think it's about fifteen hundred dollars today,
but to go way back. Sorry, you guys asked me
if i'd had the experiences recently on that tour Queen
City Haunted. Not only do we go through Washing Park,
but we go into the Symphony Hotel. Have you guys
been to the Symphony Hotel right by Music Hall.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
I've seen it, but I have never been.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
I have not.

Speaker 18 (55:19):
That's because you guys probably give it a wide berth.
You're like, oh, it feels creepy. You should send your
producers in there.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Yeah, spend the night.

Speaker 18 (55:29):
Yeah, tell him to spend the night in the Mozart room.
So the Symphony Hotel back in the nineteen forties was
called the Clyde Hotel, which you could rent a room
for just a couple of hours. And there was a
Lady of the night. We'll call her Monica. Her name
is actually Monica, but we'll call her a lady of
the night, but you know what she kind of did
for work, And in the Mozart room she was murdered

(55:52):
by a client who was unsatisfied, and then he rolled
her in the carpet and stuffed her under the bed.
And she is very active in that room. The other week,
I had a couple on the tour. The boyfriend obviously
didn't want to be there. He'd been like dragged there
and we left them motes that room, and he's like, Miranda,
I just had something really weird happened. I thought my
girlfriend took her arm around my waist, but then I

(56:13):
looked at her and she was like on the other
side of the room. So Monica still likes to flirt
with the men. And if you stay the night in
the room, as your producer will obviously do, if you're
laying alone in the bed, you'll feel the bed settle
next to you as if somebody has gotten into the
bed with you, and the sheets get flipped up and
people get their feet tickled. So we think it's Monica
still doing her job.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Wow, that sounds like my single days. The with that, Miranda,
we will, we will let you go. People want to
find out more about these ghost tours, where can they go?

Speaker 18 (56:46):
Just to American Legacy tours dot com. I would encourage
them to book soon because we are filing up to
this last weekend appointed season. And Eddie, now, I'm just
thinking about your single days and your feet being tickled,
so I guess you guys can talk.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Could have been a ghost kudos. I don't know what
was going on. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. I'm Miranda,
Thanks so much.

Speaker 18 (57:08):
All right, I can't wait to see you guys in
floody costumes out together. It'd be great.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
Get your get your kangaroo together and kangaroo and ready
off we go. I love it, alright, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
With that, we check in with traffic, Kid Weather, What's
going on.

Speaker 5 (57:29):
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Speaker 2 (58:04):
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Speaker 7 (58:18):
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Speaker 7 (58:24):
Is it true that as a child Tom Brenneman hit
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Hulk jammies. Well, that's one of those yes and those
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Tom Brenneman tomorrow morning at five am on seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
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This is Leehabe post of our America Stories.

Speaker 5 (59:00):
On our next episode, we'll share the story of one
of the most legendary fights.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
Talk to him about it, I said, Grave Grave Robin Grandpa.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Yeah. We just had Randon McGee on with American Legacy
Tours and she was talking about all the well the
bodies that are still buried underneath Washington Park and that
kind of led to the grave robbering topic and we're like, well,
we know a family member of maybe one of the
most infamous grave robbers in Cincinnati history, William Cunningham a

(59:34):
ka Ole Cunney. Okay, so We're gonna have to we
have to have Willie refresh us on his uh, his
tech glacious history. Yeah, and other news that here. Did
you know that Japan has bears? Did you know that?

Speaker 2 (59:55):
I did not know.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
I did not know either, But apparently like they have
like a lot of bears, all right, Again, these are
the things that maybe only interest me. Uh, there's only
something no, not at all. So there's only was there
two hundred ish countries in the world, right where only
sixty countries on the planet have bears. Japan is one

(01:00:20):
of them, all right, has upwards of sixty thousand bears
estimates forty four thousand black bears and twelve thousand of
the brown bears. Those are the ones you gotta worry about,
the brown bears anyway, I guess. Apparently there's like an
unprecedented spike in bear attacks in Japan. The resulted in

(01:00:43):
a record high annual death toll why injury more than
one hundred people this year alone. So long story short,
the Yeah, the the military right has has has been
called out to the Ministry of Defense of Japan has
been called out to go and just want down these
bears and kill them because they're causing a big nuisance.

(01:01:03):
Who knew.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
Yeah, I'm surprised that down in the Gatlinburg area, down
in the Smokies that you don't hear more about bear
attacks because people are so freaking stupid, you know they.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
Yeah, I'm just selfie by the bear.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
And yeah, and guess what you don't like the goons
that go to Yellowstone and think they can walk up
and pet a bison. Guess what there are wild animals,
you idiot? Yeah, you idiot, idiot.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
But yeah, you know, it's it's that time of year,
hibernation is coming around. I guess they get a little
little cranky around there and a little more active. So yeah,
I'm bringing the army guns, the whole deal, get rid
of them.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
See it is that time of year when you start thinking.
When I lived in the old place, we had those
woods in our backyard, when you have woods all around
your house, to see how active the squirrels get. Man,
when they're out there, it's all man. We had a
little right next to our driveway and around the back
of our house that came back that's where you entered

(01:02:11):
the garage, and there was a little i don't know,
I'll say eight by eight little dirt patch there between
the deck and the driveway, and so we just put
little shrubs and stuff and flowers in there, and dude,
in the springtime, you know, and I'd go out there
and just clean up whatever. And they're every there in

(01:02:33):
that little eight by eight patch. I guarantee you. They
were always ten or twelve little mounds. And you dig
down in there a couple of inches and sure enough
there was a walnut or an acorn or some such
that they were they were burying for later on.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
Yeah, No, at my house, man, Like if you go
down my driveway, it's like I mean, and this is
you know, before you get to the moat and the
dragon and all that, but if you get after you
get past that, it's like the squirrels play Russian roulette.
Like they dart across the driveway. I mean like four
and five of them, I mean from the beginning to

(01:03:10):
the end, and it's you know, sometimes you know, you
hit one, it's the worst thing ever. But yeah, those
things are running all over the place. Well, that was
a lot of you know, walnuts and stuff with a
lot of water trees. So there's a million of them round.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
I was going to say It is amazing how many
times you're driving along and a squirrel darts out in
front of you and you could swear there is absolutely
no way in hell you miss that thing, no way right,
And sure then you look into your rear view he's gone.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
Yeah, boom, he's gone yeah yeah. I don't know how
they do it, but it's like, yeah, they run toward
the car, but then somehow, Yeah, they're just super nimble
obviously and figure out a way to get out of it.
But a bear not as much. Have you hit a
bear with your car, it's going to do a little
damn well.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
We had a story yesterday where the this was the
Zimbabwe Jason and I were talking about it and some
people driving down the highway you know, you're in Africa.
Guess what they ran into an elephant. They hit this
elephant in the butt. And you know, a car hits

(01:04:21):
an elephant, all it did was pissed the elephant off,
and the elephant turns around and attacks the car and
killed a guy. Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
Now, if you have you seen a bear like in
the wild, I have not. I have not, you know,
and I got you know, I'm an outdoorsy guy who
you know, gone on backpacking trips and the whole deal.
I've never seen a bear not at the zoo, and.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
I've seen them. I saw a couple of them done
in Tennessee, and I saw a couple in California. As
a matter of fact. We were hiking up there in
the mountains around Tahoe and we were on a trail,
but I heard, I could hear something behind us, and

(01:05:04):
it's just being deb and I kind of look back
and I don't know if I don't think, I don't
know he was stalking us or not. But this bear
was kind of keeping his distance, but he was walking.
He was pacing us, but he was about yeah, twenty
five thirty thirty yards off to one side and about

(01:05:25):
that far behind us. But I could see him through
the trees and he was walking at our pace, and
I'm like, we should probably pick up our pace. And uh,
She's like why. I was like, just keep moving.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
He just keep moving. Yeah, I don't want to get
get him panicked, you know, just keep going.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
Hopefully some mountain bike guys are going to come along
so he has something else to follow.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
Yeah. I've told the story of form to listen to podcasts,
and I guess one like just a huge outdoor guy
always said, if you see a brown bear and it's
ninety yards from you and it's running at you, you're dead.
It's over. You know, that's just how fast those things.
I saw a video the other day of a bear
like climbing up like a mountain. I think it's like,

(01:06:10):
you know, this thing's you know, five hundred plus pounds
just shooting up this thing like a like a gazelle.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Well that's the thing though, we as humans, basically our
own people always say play dead. That kind of is
your only option. You can't fight the thing, and if
you do try to climb a tree right quick, they
can climb it three times faster than you can.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
Yeah, I just don't know if in that moment I
could play dead. It's how you're giving up, but you
know it's likely the best scenario, but I don't know. Well,
hopefully I'll never have to worry about that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
I'd rather try to play dead than to keep try
to run away from it even though I know I can't,
and just and just make it mad.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Yeah, it's like stay there. I mean, something bats around
a little bit and I'll leave. But you're pissing me off.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Now, see that's the you've never seen blazing saddles, but
that's one of the best lines in there. The mango guy,
he's the big beast guy that comes into town to
get the sheriff. And the sheriff's talking to his buddy,
the gunfighter, and he goes, well, I guess I just
shoot him, And then the other guy goes, we don't

(01:07:23):
want to shoot him, you just make him mad.

Speaker 6 (01:07:28):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
In other news rock, this happened in Tajas. These cops
are out on a mounted patrol, just kind of doing
their routine thing. They stopped a guy who was walking
in the street rather than on the sidewalk. The officers
thought the forty two year old fella, Joseph Ramirez, was

(01:07:51):
acting suspiciously and when they asked to check his pockets,
he said no. Then one of the cop said, well,
this horse, you know, is a narcotic smelling horse, and
with that, the guy took off running.

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
Yeah they're wrong kind so h and the cops said,
well he took it seriously and the race was on.
They didn't take it, didn't take long to catch him,
and blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
They charged him and his but the other cops said,
chasing bad guys is part of the fun in it
for us. So when you get to chase down a
bad guy and a horse and not even get tired,
it's a good day. So that would be fun if
you you know, well, don't they let him last on them?
You know, like in the rodeo or something. You know

(01:08:41):
what I'm saying, lasso a bear of the horse. Oh no,
a criminal? Oh okay, yeah, just like in the movies.
You know, you're running behind them and get them by
the by the feet, string them up.

Speaker 1 (01:08:55):
Everybody's like dreamed of being able to do that. I've
never tried it, but like to throw the old lass
around some something.

Speaker 6 (01:09:03):
I try to.

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
Kelly, I just get over here, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
That's that's what you do. That's what.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
They like.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
That's he That's what what we'd use our powers for.
If we could do a lot of things, we'd always
use it on our wives.

Speaker 1 (01:09:18):
That's right. You have all the limitless possibilities. We know
we're going to use our lass set through on our
wives and piss them off a straight plan.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
It's fun though. With that, we check in with traffic
and weather, what's going.

Speaker 5 (01:09:32):
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Speaker 7 (01:10:48):
Rising downtown violence and political pressure have catalyzed the chaos
regarding the Cincinnati Police chief. While the interim chief steadies
the ship, will community leaders turned to a tried and
true veteran to become police chief permanently or will a
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This is Leehabi post of our American Stories. On our
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Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Annie coming up to the top of the hour news,
We're gonna be talking to Willy for Wednesdays with Willie
talking about is a great great Grandpa Old Connie the grave.

Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
Robber, the grave robber, one of the most notorious villains
in Cincinnati history.

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
But that's after the news right now, though, Let's get
to the phone and talk to Dirk and Morrow. Dirk Quiver,
we're just talking about bears and whether or not you
can fight a bear. Sir, you have actually wrestled a bear,
Is that correct?

Speaker 25 (01:11:57):
Ellas I was a naive rafting twenty five year old,
it hadn't been well forty years ago up in Indianapolis
at the Boat and Travel show, and you probably can't
even do it nowadays. And you kind of stirred a
repress memory on me because I tried to forget about
how this bear had its way with me. But you know,

(01:12:18):
there's a group of us up there running the boost
for the show, and you're up there for ten days,
and a couple of them said, well, you know who
would wrestle that bear? And this big old qulkin bear,
he's got his muzzle on, so I guess he doesn't
bite you. I don't remember what they did about the claws,
but I said, well, I had a beer too. I

(01:12:40):
said I'll wrestle that bear and probably cost me five
bucks to boot. But I get out there and the
guy's like, okay, you're ready to go. And I'm six foot,
you know, two hundred pounds played football, and I think, I,
you know, I'm got to hold my own against this beer.

Speaker 18 (01:12:56):
I got to show him.

Speaker 25 (01:12:58):
That bear came up, but it shook pauls on my
shoulders and just like it flicked me onto the ground,
rolled me over, got on my back. You've heard of
a bear hug before. Well he mounted me, and so
now I'm not I'm not only I'm on the ground
with this bear with a muzzle right up against my face,

(01:13:19):
with drool rolling down onto me, the smell of a
bear that probably hasn't showered in a lifetime, and I'm
thinking I got to get out of this situation. Well,
he pretty quickly got me down, flipped over, and.

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
And I tapped out.

Speaker 25 (01:13:39):
You know, I don't really recall exactly how the guy
pulled him off, you know, like, come on, Bobo, you
know you've had your way with this guy, and I
mean ever since then, you know, I think about that
and how just the pure strength of that bear and
a man just wouldn't stand a chance, you know, particularly
in the while without a muzzle, without unsharpened claws or

(01:14:03):
whatever that this bear had. And and you know, it's
been forty years and he hasn't written me, hasn't called
me that that bear.

Speaker 1 (01:14:14):
That's a bold move, because I mean it's an animal.
You don't know what that thing's gonna do or how
strong it is, and you just.

Speaker 25 (01:14:23):
You know, whatever the ring was all about, I don't know,
just to keep you from immediately running away. I got
a couple of beers out of it afterwards, and I
took a good shower.

Speaker 6 (01:14:40):
I think the bear did too, thankfully.

Speaker 1 (01:14:42):
Well, you've done something I've I've not done. That's quite
an experience. I commend you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
Thanks, buddy.

Speaker 25 (01:14:48):
You probably can't do it nowadays that Peter would stop
being a hard peak.

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
Probably, thanks buddy. And yeah, I remember going, you know,
at the carnivals and stuff like that. They had bear
bear wrestling and they had like the bear really they
had bare knuckle fights. Stricker's Grove they used to have

(01:15:12):
all bare knuckle fights and.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
They were sugar I've been to Sugars Grove a hundred times.
I don't know they had bear wrestling bear fights.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
I don't know if they had bear wrestling. Maybe it
was part of that. But yeah, for years they used
to have you know, uh, tough man competitions. So maybe
there might have been a bear bruddle long just to
see how tough you are.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
He has a tough guy. You can fight Leonard right there,
or you can fight uh Smoky the bear.

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
Oh boy Bobo over there, he's hungry. Yeah, We're gonna
be talking to Willie after the news, but that is
coming up. Seven hundred w l W News Traffic and
Weather News Radio, seven hundred w l W, Cincinnati.

Speaker 6 (01:15:57):
The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, but no more cuts
expected this year. This is the five o'clock report. I'm
Matt Reeves breaking now, borrowing money, getting a little bit cheaper.
Federal Reserve announcing today it's cutting interest rates a quarter point.
It's second straight reduction, but probably the last of the year,
according to the boss at the Fed, Jerome Powell.

Speaker 12 (01:16:20):
At a time when we have tension between our two goals,
we have strong views across the committee. As I mentioned,
there were strongly differing views today and the takeaway from
that is that we haven't made a decision about December.

Speaker 6 (01:16:34):
Ben Chairman Jerome Paul. Today's cut follows the first cut
they made this year, that was back in September. He says,
the outlook on the economy's muddy, with higher than normal
inflation and the job market is slowing. Lackluster reaction on
Wall Street, by the way, except for Nasdaq, those numbers
in just a moment. We have a rainy drive home

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On the southbound side of seventy five. Northbound seventy five
Mitchell to paddocksows In seventy one mlk to the bren
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Lane and Nagel accident with traffic being directed around that

(01:17:41):
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Highway to Norwood. Later through the long term work and
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Speaker 6 (01:18:06):
Rain continues today, dropping down to forty five, rain and
windy Tomorrow, high fifty, Partly cloudy Tomorrow night, thirty nine
for Halloween Friday, mostly sunny fifty four for the high.
No rain on Halloween Friday, by the way, low thirty
nine Friday night, and partly sunny on Saturday, with a

(01:18:27):
high of fifty five forty eight degrees. Right now fog,
mist and rain. Heaviest rain in the Lawrenceburg area. Latest
on Hurricane Melissa now set to hit the Bahamas with
heavy winds and rain that will lead to flooding through tonight.
Melissa brought devastating flooding to Cuba after slamming Jamaica yesterday.

Speaker 13 (01:18:50):
These officers, in one moments, were here to help on
a welfare check and then on a blink of an.

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
Eye, had to defend their lives.

Speaker 6 (01:19:00):
An update today from the interim Cincinnati Police Chief Adam
Henney on the shooting by a police officer of an
eighty nine year old man in his home in Madisonville.
Yesterday elderly man survived. He illegedly pulled a gun and
was shot.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
Doing this job.

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You know that we asked Helen demand. Well, I think
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Speaker 6 (01:19:29):
A shooting occurred during a welfare and check which turned violent.
It's not known yet whether there will be any charges
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degree murder and the shooting death of Sonia Massy. She
had called nine to one one asking for help, was
shot and killed. Sean Grayson could be sentenced to twenty

(01:19:52):
years in prison or simply to probation. Grayson was originally
charged first degree murder, but the jury was given the
option to consider second degree murder instead.

Speaker 26 (01:20:02):
Prosecutors getting their conviction here but not getting the first
degree charge that many family members of Sonya Massey were
certainly hoping to hear.

Speaker 9 (01:20:09):
We are going to hear.

Speaker 26 (01:20:11):
From both the prosecutors and representatives of Massey's family at
a press conference here shortly. No doubt they're going to
be at least members of the family disappointed to some
degree that that first murder degree first degree murder charge
was not to be happened.

Speaker 6 (01:20:24):
And ABC's Matt rivers that shooting happened in the summer
of last year after Massey had called for help over
a potential intruder in her home. The defense says Grayson
was acting in self defense because he believed Massey was
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That stuff that was good fun in the seventies and eighties,
Right yeah, right on, see some cars, get some cotton
candy and wrestle of.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
Bear with I bet you this guy as a wrestled
a bear or two in his life. Let's if he hasn't.
He will tell us he has. He is our good friend,
Willie Cunningham. It is Wednesdays with Willy being brought to
you by the fine folks at Joseph Automotive. Willie, before
we get to the top of get hand, have you
ever wrestled an animal of any nature?

Speaker 8 (01:22:27):
It was nineteen eighty six. There was a ring put
together at then known as Latonia Racecourse and the bear
was named Victor the Wrestling Bear. Andy Furman was the
pr director. He wanted to get some radio personalities and
those in TV had more sense, but Victor. A ring

(01:22:48):
was set up at the race course and now it's
a gamely casino, I believe, and turf way. It was
known as Latonia and I was recruit by Latonia and
Mike Pataglia to wrestle Victor. And there were two personalities involved.
One was Gary Burbank and the other was yours truly.

(01:23:11):
And the ring was set up with I think there
was a thousand or so people. There were nurses and
much like a high school football game, there was an
ambulance available. And so when we get there, we were
cheered up and screamed up. And I'm talking to Gary
I said, look, let's flip a coin and see who
goes first. At that point, I was quite a droit
at flipping a coin in such a way that I

(01:23:32):
knew which way it was going to turn out. So
I suggested that Gary, why didn't you call heads or tails?
And when he set heads, I'd flipped the coin in
a certain way and flipped it sly of hand that
it was tails. I mean, Gary, you're going first. So
Gary Burbank jumps in the ring with Victor. The crowds
are going nuts, and Victor had a muzzle on it,
but he had a large hole right at the front

(01:23:54):
of his teeth, which I wasn't sure about why the
hole was there until I discovered later the reason. So
at this point, Gary Burbank latches into Victor much like
a pro wrestler with that hole, to begin to match.
Victor picked him up, twirled Gary around like it was
a frisbee, and dropped him on the mat. At this point,

(01:24:15):
Gary is screaming and hollering help, help, and I yelled
at him as the crowd and joined me to follow.
I said, Gary, you're on your own. At this point,
Victor got on top of Gary, put his paws on
either side of his head, and the hole in the
muzzle hit a fourteen inch long, yellow encrusted tongue. So

(01:24:36):
the tongue of Victor comes out and starts licking Gary
from the bottom of his atom's apple to the top
of his head. At this point, Gary's losing his breath
and he's saying help help. The crowd's laughing. I'm yelling,
you're on your own. Doc Wolf was off to the right.
He was the so called manager. He's laughing, I'm looking

(01:24:56):
at Gary's eyes, and Gary's eyes are not having a
good time. So the tongue started licking Gary's face, leaving
the bear crud up his nostrils, in his eyes and in.

Speaker 1 (01:25:07):
His mouth as he's yelling help help.

Speaker 8 (01:25:10):
At this point it's my turn to get in the
get of the ring. Gary is pulled out by Doc
Wolf by the ankles off.

Speaker 1 (01:25:15):
To the side.

Speaker 8 (01:25:16):
The crowd's going nuts. So I say, Penny, is there?
A nurse is there? Her name was Sandy Joseph, Bless
her soul, and she was in her nurse's outfit. She
looked pretty good, but nonetheless, I jumped into the ring
under the urging of the crowd. At this point, Victor
anticipates I'm gonna hook up with him Mono a mono,

(01:25:37):
but not Willie. I start running around the ring, and
the and the trainer's yelling, don't do that. You're gonna
You're gonna piss them off. Don't do it, Victor, don't
do it. And I'm running faster and Victor's coming after me.
Just as he lunges at me, I jump at the
top rope. He hits behind me on the top rope,

(01:25:58):
the whole ring collapses into the front three rows of
the crowd. Victor is now running loose in the crowd
a turnfoy Latonia. He's running around and people are jumping
on top of Victor to try to calm him down.
At this point, complete chaos, chaos, and zeus. It takes
about a half an hour to put the ring back together.

(01:26:19):
So at this point you had to pay like one
hundred dollars the wrestle Victor and the winner got ten
thousand dollars. If you actually could pin Victor. Try penning
a five hundred pound bear. Good luck. They collected one
or two thousand dollars. I left the ring and I'm
done wrestling animals I'm done.

Speaker 1 (01:26:42):
Now, that's quite a story and nice story. And here
I am thinking he didn't have a story for this.
Of course he's got a story for course he does.
Of course he does.

Speaker 8 (01:26:50):
Correct, But don't be a victor. In the eighties, seventies
and eighties he was a legendary bear Victor. But don't
let him lick you.

Speaker 1 (01:27:01):
And it's a bear. He don't stand a chance.

Speaker 8 (01:27:03):
Bear.

Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
That's the easiest hundred bucks you could ever accumulate.

Speaker 8 (01:27:10):
Well, yeah, there were two guys that wrestled Victor, and
he tended two guys.

Speaker 25 (01:27:16):
These guys weighed two hundred.

Speaker 8 (01:27:17):
And fifty pounds each and they thought they were going
to handle Victor. Each got on a leg or an arm.
He treated them like rag dolls. He threw them off
and got on top of them, and at one point
he lifted a leg and piss on one of the guys.
That was part of the act too. I figured the
victor had to relieve himself.

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
All right, Well, there was something else we wanted to
talk about, Willie Wow.

Speaker 27 (01:27:37):
Yeah, so the math of bear is what I'm saying.
Don't wrestle a bear another thing you shouldn't do. So
we had Miranda McGee on earlier. She is head of
American Legacy Tours. They do the ghost tours.

Speaker 1 (01:27:53):
Here in town. And she got a talking about Washington
Square and then you know there's you know, they about
fIF teen years ago they found out there was a
dug up a bunch of bodies while they were renovating
the park, and there's still a bunch of bodies there.
And led the conversation about how back in the day,
like a day's wage was a dollar twenty five but

(01:28:13):
if you could you know, you know, have a you know,
find a body and give it to science, that was
worth one hundred and twenty five bucks. And we said, well, look,
I mean our our afternoon, our noon three hosts. Here
is maybe one of the most notorious grave robber family
members this side of Cincinnati. Here, that is you and

(01:28:36):
old Cunny. So we wanted you to tell the story
about your grave robbing ancestors. Past.

Speaker 8 (01:28:44):
Well, I went to Wikipedia and I haven't potted up now.
It's called William Cunningham eighteen o seven to eighteen seventy
one was a well noted body snatcher who lived in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He was a professional resurrectionist. Cunningham provided corpses to area
physicians and medical colleges from eighteen fifty five to eighteen

(01:29:06):
seventy one at the Washington Park and the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio.
At the time, it wasn't the suburbs. At the time
it was, but not now because on today popularly known
as Old Cunny. Other names attributed to Willie Cunningham was
Old Man Dead and the Ghoul, The Ghouls the got
it long. He was born in Ireland in eighteen oh seven.

(01:29:30):
A corner estimated by the time of his death he
had reinturned well over several hundred bodies in Washington Park.
He possibly lived in the state of Virginia before he
moved to Cincinnati, where he flourished in life and death.
He was a mortician who would pay the pay there
in turn the dead person in the Washington Park, and

(01:29:51):
they had this ingenious system where he had tubes down
to the shoulders of the casket. He put them in
the ground, awaited three days, he went back at night
and pulled them and put the hooks in the ground
through the tubes under the shoulders and pulled the people
pulled the corpses up, often leading an arm or leg
inside the casket, but he pulled up the casket and

(01:30:12):
pulled up the dead body and took it to the
Medical College of Ohio for hundreds of dollars per body. Now,
his personal life was somewhat different. He married my mother's
great great grandmother. My mother's name was Mary, and he
married Mary Cunningham, who assisted him was stealing the bodies.
He was arrested several times that would bribe the police
with liquor and money to let him go. That's my

(01:30:35):
family's history at.

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
Washington Park.

Speaker 6 (01:30:39):
Wow and Wow.

Speaker 8 (01:30:42):
My rooms are deep in the ground of Cincinnati. And
then after a while the family moved to Arline or
an elsewhere because they were chased out of town. They
wanted to get into Kentucky where they had more lax
laws when it came to disinturing bodies.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
Now did he survive all of this? I mean without
going to say, without going to jail or being hung
or whatever.

Speaker 8 (01:31:05):
Bill Cunningham. Bill Cunningham was considered the most infamous bodies
natural Ohio and he finally died in eighteen seventy one
of alcohol abuse. He was a drunkard.

Speaker 9 (01:31:17):
He had a bugy.

Speaker 25 (01:31:17):
At night he would roll around.

Speaker 8 (01:31:19):
Between the River between the flats and up to Washington
Park with a dead body next to him, and he
had a sense of humor. He'd hit the dead body
and say, he says, that is smart, say something stupid
as he passed people and people would laugh at him
until they found out that he was feeling these are lives,
these are dead bodies.

Speaker 2 (01:31:35):
So the.

Speaker 8 (01:31:37):
Case and so the police. At some point he said,
we got to arrest this guy. So they arrested him,
convicted him, but then he broke out of the Hamley
County jail and went to Northern Kentucky, where he applied
his trade in Latonia and Ellesmere for years and lived
on Shaw Street. And my mother, when I was a kid,
would take me along the route of William Cunningham Bill

(01:32:00):
cunning In from Washington Park over to northern Kentucky. He
finally died, and then his wife and his children continued
the business. But they didn't have the slight of hand
of old Old County. So mom Mary spent some time
in jail and the boys took up other occupations.

Speaker 1 (01:32:17):
I didn't have the magic touch that Old Cunny had,
your ancestor your great great great grandfather.

Speaker 8 (01:32:24):
Yes, it was a look at Wikipedia page looking up
William Cunningham. He left the legacy of body snatching which
is unmatched in Cincinnati's history. I don't know what wow.

Speaker 6 (01:32:39):
And that's And by the.

Speaker 8 (01:32:40):
Way, after the nineteen eighteen nineteen nineteen flu outbreak which
killed thousands, they shut down Washington Park and that's where
Spring Grove Cemetery was created. So they went way into
the country to Spring Grove because Washington Park had too
They were buying bodies on bearing on top of bodies,
like stacked like boloney, and so they wanted to do

(01:33:03):
their best to get all.

Speaker 1 (01:33:04):
The bodies out.

Speaker 8 (01:33:05):
But my ancestors did their best too. But Washington Park
became Spring Growth Cemetery where Pale Crossley is buried today.

Speaker 2 (01:33:14):
Well, you know, WILLI and talking to Miranda, she was talking.
And that's something that Rocky and I I had no
idea about this is that there's still tons of bodies
buried there in Washington.

Speaker 8 (01:33:26):
Hundreds of f It was the place to bury individuals.

Speaker 9 (01:33:30):
And the Civil.

Speaker 8 (01:33:31):
War was another terrible event in which numerous Union soldiers
had nowhere to bury them, and many times they put
them in the river to float down to Louisville.

Speaker 18 (01:33:40):
Have to fish eat them.

Speaker 8 (01:33:41):
But if you had some money, you could hire a
mortician to bury bury your love one at Washington Park.
And they started stacking them on top of each other
because there's less and less space. So really my ancestors
were like an urban renewal, get rid of some of
the bodies out of there, to have more fresh space
to put more dead people family.

Speaker 1 (01:34:00):
I'm sure that was.

Speaker 8 (01:34:01):
Kind of the eighteen Night.

Speaker 1 (01:34:03):
Yeah, I'm sure that was kind of their pitch. Right, Look,
you think I'm doing a ghastly deed. I'm actually doing
everybody a favor here, of course to my my wealth
and benefit. But nevertheless, right.

Speaker 8 (01:34:15):
The Cunningham wealth is built on the dead bodies of
Washington Park, That's all I can tell you. And we
moved in our Lanter and Ellesmere to get out of town.
People got angry if they saw their grandma coming down
on a buggy losing an arm next to my great
great granddad, William cunn old toney.

Speaker 1 (01:34:33):
That's funny.

Speaker 8 (01:34:33):
And so he was chased out of town by a mob,
according to the inquiry, chase out of town by a mob.
Looking up Wikipedia, William Cunningham body snatcher.

Speaker 2 (01:34:47):
It's all right, there we will I'm we're going to
be checking into that. Do you have any do you
have any plans for Halloween? You're going to try to
have a seance and revisit the if the ghost of
Cunny will visit you.

Speaker 8 (01:35:01):
He donated his body to the Medical College of Ohio,
which is now you see medical school. It was there
for decades nothing but bones. And I've won, I've asked,
I've asked John Barrett, you know William and his brother
runs you see Medical I like to get my bodies.
I like to get the bones back, but they can't
locate my great great granddad's bones. He donated his own

(01:35:21):
body to science. He was a humanitarian. So somewhere my
great great bones are somewhere. And if I get him,
I'm going to go to Washington Park.

Speaker 6 (01:35:31):
Late at night and bury him there.

Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
That's where he belongs.

Speaker 1 (01:35:33):
One of the pioneers that before you get like one
hundred and twenty five bucks for it, right, I mean
the bodies. It was entrepreneurial.

Speaker 8 (01:35:41):
He also went rifled through the pockets and steal the
money people left behind, wristwatches and coins and cold teeth.

Speaker 2 (01:35:47):
Yeah, welly uh yeah, thanks so much for sharing your
family memories in your bear wrestling episode.

Speaker 8 (01:35:54):
Yeah, it's kind of victor of the wrestling bear. Gary
survived that I I wasn't going to wrestle some friggin
bay and licked my face into Oh. Gary looked on
it's not coming out of his nose.

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
We get okay, Thanks buddy, see you later. Thanksually, Well
we got a two for two stories for the price
of one.

Speaker 1 (01:36:15):
Well, that was well worth the time right there.

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Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
Back with Eddie and Rocky and just a little while longer.
But before we get out of here, we always like
to talk to our friends at ABC, especially this fellow, right, Yeah,
our good friend Alex Stone. Now Alex Well, rock you
were flying just this morning. Did you run in at
the trouble as for is getting in and out of places.

Speaker 1 (01:38:11):
No, none at all. You know TSA was the line
was moving. So I haven't felt anything over the last
couple of weeks with the shutdown with air traffick controllers.
But it doesn't mean it's not happening.

Speaker 2 (01:38:24):
Yeah, let's talk to Alex Stone about it. Alex, what
are we seeing?

Speaker 28 (01:38:28):
Yeah, so the big issue here being the Favor workers.
Even though they quote unquote haven't been getting paid now
for a number of weeks, this is now the first
week that they have actually gone where the zero dollar
paycheck that yesterday was they were going to get paid
their previous pay period of two weeks ago. They got
a little bit in that paycheck from before the shutdown,

(01:38:51):
but now they're fully in it. So they got no
money on Tuesday when typically they would have had a paycheck.
So this is more real than it has been since
the shutdown started. And so now air traffic controllers they
are turning to food banks and regular banks looking for
zero interest loans, looking for some help. This week, air
traffic controllers began handing out leaflets at airports across the

(01:39:15):
country calling for an end to the shutdown and saying
that they look at they work six days a week,
oftentimes mandatory over time because the FAA was already thirty
five hundred air traffic controllers short of target levels before
the shutdown, so they've got to work. And it's also
why control towers and air traffic control centers are being

(01:39:38):
shut down or reduced in what they're able to do
almost every day now where the numbers are going down.
But Mark Ralsh is a controller handing out pamphlets and
airport and he says, they're really hurting that you continue
to come to work each and every day.

Speaker 29 (01:39:52):
We're a proud bunch, we're a professional bunch, and we're
all showing up to work every day for no pay,
asking the public support to help us end the shuttle.

Speaker 28 (01:40:02):
And he says, yeah, controllers are now getting second jobs
or driving for Uber and door dash and instacart to
make ends meet, to make some money. But that adds
a new layer of distraction, and they're not sleeping during
that time. They work these long hours anyway, and then
now they get off and they're either handing out pamphlets
or they're driving for Uber, and then they go in

(01:40:23):
and they control that flight that you're on that that
it adds in a layer of risk into the flying system.
He says that they don't like you.

Speaker 29 (01:40:30):
Don't want to introduce a distraction into an air traffic controller.
And they're plugging in and looking at the runways and
in the back of their head that I just ran
out of money. I had zero dollars in my bank account.
How am I going to refill my vehicle so I
can come back tomorrow to not get paid? How am
I going to How am I gonna put food on
the table? How am I going to pay to that?

Speaker 28 (01:40:49):
And guys. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is saying forty four
percent of delays on Sunday, and they had quite a
few of them were because of staffing. As people are
saying more and more, I can't come in even though
mandated to come in. I can't come in because of
any number of things childcare, food, gasoline. But that's why
towers and air traffic control centers are being heavily impacted
and shut down for a period of time every day

(01:41:12):
and all over the country. But Duffy is saying, the
controllers are sending a very clear message they want this
shut down to end right now, or at least a
stop gap. He says, this is their message.

Speaker 30 (01:41:23):
Thinking out how you guys can negotiate, have a conversation,
but pay us in the introm make sure we get
paid for the work that we provide to the American people.

Speaker 28 (01:41:33):
Speaking for the controllers there, but he says, a president
is not going to get wiggle room on this to
make this stop and end right now if it means
wiggle room with Democrats.

Speaker 30 (01:41:42):
And so I don't think you're going to see the
president and negotiate here because he's nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:41:48):
To give up.

Speaker 28 (01:41:49):
So the controllers are saying, yeah, okay, but they need
to get a paycheck. PSA officers the same thing where
they get paid a lot less average around twenty four
dollars an hour, where they're they're hurting and going to
food banks too. So it's it's a tough spot for
them to be in. But the air traffic controllers, they
are now out at airports asking you to take the
pamphlet telling you to call your congress person and email

(01:42:09):
them to make the point that they want this thing
to be over.

Speaker 2 (01:42:13):
You would you would think there'd be some kind of
emergency funding available for this wouldn't you guys. I mean,
I don't know where that would come from, but just.

Speaker 28 (01:42:21):
Remembers of Congress. Yeah, Congress is getting paid, the FBI
agents are getting paid, but air traffic controllers and TSA
officers they are.

Speaker 2 (01:42:29):
Not all right with that. Alex, I'm sorry right now.

Speaker 1 (01:42:33):
I was just gonna say, until you know, something gets passed,
which will never happen, that you know, if a government
shut down happens, then folks in Congress don't get paid.
I mean, that'll expedite process. Until that happens, they ain't
ever gonna be solved out thing.

Speaker 28 (01:42:49):
Yeah, I mean, they're getting a paycheck. And then that's
kind of where the air traffic controllers come down, where
they say that the people who can make the difference,
they don't feel like are really feeling it right now.
Compare the working man and woman who is showing up
every day. And in the case of the TSA, they
got to be in uniform and look presentable and all
of that. And the air traffic controllers are highly trained

(01:43:12):
and they went to the academy. There's an air traffic
control academy. They got through that. They deal with a
lot of stress every day and they are considered vital.
I mean they are very vital to what all of
us do when we travel, and right now they're not
getting any paychecks.

Speaker 2 (01:43:25):
All right with that, Alex, we will let you go, buddy,
Thanks so much. You got a pass our good friend
Alex Stone from EBC rock in other news, and that's
cool that you've been traveling have a run into that
type of thing. But we'll see how it all develops
in other news. This is kind of like a nightmare.

(01:43:47):
With all the stuff that goes on with social media
these days, you can get caught up in something like this.
Megan Davis is a college student down in Texas, doesn't
say what town. She is not a server at Olive
Garden in Saint Louis, and she didn't get arrested for
assault after throwing a basket of breadsticks at a customer,

(01:44:11):
But her life has been turned upside down since a
Facebook account called pure Videos I guess they have on
their own page posted a a real mugshot of Megan
Davis and claimed she had retaliated for a bad tip
by tossing the breadsticks at a diner there. Says she
is probably like my worst nightmare coming to reality. She

(01:44:35):
admitted that the mugshot was real and it came from
a night in August, soon after her mother died, when
she was arrested for public intoxication. But this post has
garnered harassment and creepy comments from all around the country.
People are disgusting out there, she said, and scary, like,
how do I even fix this? So can you imagine

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if like something like that got posted on you and
people jumped all over it without bothering to see if
it was really you or not.

Speaker 1 (01:45:08):
Oh yeah, boom, and everybody has their opinion. They see
a video there's no context, and they're ripping you to shreds,
and you're like, it's not even me, not even one
that did it right.

Speaker 2 (01:45:18):
And that's that's a cruel place. That's the uh, that's
the thing. You can't You can't defend yourself in an
open form like that, right.

Speaker 1 (01:45:27):
No, because there's I mean, you know, thousands, if not
hundreds of thousands of people that can jump onto this thing,
and I guess over time you can it sorts itself out.
But that's the thing about the Internet. It's it's what's
the the saying with it. It's not as important anymore.
To be accurate. It's important to be first. So if

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you can be the one to, you know, break some
story about some horrible lady that's not even her and
everyone jumps on it, that's that's what matters.

Speaker 2 (01:45:58):
In other news. So you gotta watch what your kids do.
Your kids shove I'm sure not the older ones anymore.
But does the little guy shove anything in his mouth
and swallow it?

Speaker 1 (01:46:11):
No, yeah, we're past that. He's five, so we're past
the shoving weird things in your nose, your mouth, your
ears faced.

Speaker 2 (01:46:20):
Thankfully. This happened with a thirteen year old in New
Zealand recently swallowed nearly two hundred high powered magnets. What
uh he thought? I don't know again talking about stuff
you pick up online. Apparently he had seen somewhere online

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that if you ate a magnet, it would help you.
So if you eat one magnet, why not eat two hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:46:51):
If one is good, two hundred must be better. We
live by that philosophy at.

Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
So you'll be freaking superman. Unsurprisingly, he didn't get the
health supplement that he was looking for. He needed some
of his bowels extracted.

Speaker 1 (01:47:09):
Oh man, yeah, you're that's gonna take a little surgery.

Speaker 2 (01:47:13):
The doctors at the local hospital there had to go
on a scavenger hunt and the kid's belly, discovering four
separate linear chains of metal objects. Once inside these magnets,
which are I guess marketed is I guess like you
may string them together or something, and it says they're

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marketed as toys. They obviously would attach to each other.
They uh da da da da dad. They clogged up
his bowels. The legal experts are now pointing out the
alarming difficulty of enforcing a domestic safety band when overseas
retailers operate without restraint. So these kids or you know,

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parents are ordering stuff online we've talked about before. Oh yeah,
you know, stuff can only be police so so well,
so the kid goes on and cool, I want to
get some of these little magnets to play with. Mom, okay,
cool whatever, Yeah cool, tuck yourself out, yeah right, and
then he eats them.

Speaker 1 (01:48:21):
We probably saw some video and then that had another
video that's saying it was good for you or it
did something cool, and yeah, it's just these kids are
just surrounded by this stuff, a lot of so much
information and a lot of it that's frankly not true.

Speaker 2 (01:48:40):
Uh So let me ask you, because Jason Knight in
the Vega before we get out of here, we've only
got a little bit of time. What uh we are
your kids in Halloween? Because where you live, you don't
you won't get any trigger treaters.

Speaker 1 (01:48:55):
No, no, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:48:58):
So when your kids go out, I would assume you're
going to take them to a neighborhood or something. We
used to do that sometime with our kids because of
what the house was. There was there was like a
house next to us in a house at the end
of our driveway, and then there was a neighborhood across
the road, so we had to take them around to
a neighborhood and turn them loose. Now, when you were

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a kid, what did you do?

Speaker 1 (01:49:22):
Yeah, a bunch of different things. I remember we'd go
over my grandma's she lived over on Deal Road, which
is off the North Bend, and there was you know,
a lot of houses. I mean that's what you're looking for,
a lot of houses in a small space, right that
where you can just really increase your your your profits there.
So yeah, we did that. I've all every house I've

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ever lived in, I mean, grown up and of course
now has always been like down a long driveway. No
neighbors know nothing, so I've never I can honestly say,
I don't know if I ever had any trigger treat
has come to my house. I guess maybe when I
lived in I lived in Nashville, I had a house

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that was in a neighborhood, and you know, a couple
of neighborhood kids would come by, whether or not that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:09):
Yeah, Well, keeping my go buy extra a candy this year,
just like Tanya Rourke was talking yesterday, she's buying like
two hundred dollars worth of candy. Apparently with that, we
check in with traffic and weather, what is going on