Eddie & Rocky -- 11/24/25

Eddie and Rocky talk Bengals, High School NIL, check in with Nick Neonakis and ABC News, and more on 700 WLW!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And rock.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Well, the loss is a loss, but close close, but
no Cigar defense played better.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
I got better stands. That was very impressive.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Say, they had the had the goal line stand with
eight minutes to go in the third quarter. Patriots were
up seventeen thirteen. They held him on fourth down. That
was great. And there was six minutes ago in the
fourth quarter held on a goal line stand that forced
the Patriots to kick a field goal. So so that
was good. I mean, Barrett Carter, who's much maligned this

(00:33):
year as a linebacker, had sixteen tackles, so good for
him to come back out, and he looked good. I
didn't see as many blatant missed tackles, certainly as a
week before against Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
That was hopefully the worst that it will ever hit.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
But look, it's you know, that's just kind of the
what's been going on to this team. It's just, you know,
both sides of the ball have never played great, right.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm the same day, yeah, in the same day, exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah. So and in this case, you know, Joe Flacco
I think finally looked older and a little beat up.
I mean, I mean, God, love the guy. You know,
he's got a hurt shoulder. You know, I'm sure they're
shooting him up with all kinds of stuff. Then he
had the finger, he had the looked like he had
to pop back and soccer and you know, went out
there and.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Then throws a strike yeah to Tinsley.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, yeah, so but it's hard to win when you
don't have Burrow, Chase Hendrickson and t Higgins, your four
highest paid guys. They're not on the field. It's it's very,
very tough. And it was still a twenty six to
twenty game.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
So let me let me ask you this New England.
Are they for real? Because I'll tell you what, man,
I was impressed, especially by Drake May. I didn't see anything. Well,
he was bad early, big time, but then second half. Yeah,
because going into that game double I was sitting there
watching and I said, no, I tell you they could
ask for a better day to play football.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, in the middle of November, right, yeah, it's perfect,
no wind. Yeah, it was great. But I think I
think they're good. You know, I'm sure they're riding some
momentum and stuff, but I mean, I got the best
record in the first team to the ten wins. It's crazy,
but you have some of.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Those passes that may sailed.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
I was like, what the hell, man, Yeah, a lot
of hype this kidnight, but he was he was good
when he had to be. Later in the game, found
Hunter Henry for like this twelve thousandth time complete a
big pass. So well, that's it.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
The chat today, of course, is is a Burro going
to play on Thursday night?

Speaker 2 (02:36):
It would seem to be that's the case. That's what
everything I read and I hear that. Yeah, and you
know last week him not playing or yesterday not playing.
All along, I never thought it made sense to have
him come back for his first game and then on
a short week go to Baltimore and play. So probably

(02:57):
good to get a little extra time here and get
that one out of the way. I mean, the problem
is is they're not mathematically eliminated, but it's pretty much it's.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Going to have to collapse right in the division. The division.
Luckily for them, the division is not good. We've talked
about that before.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
I know it makes it all the more painful if
they just won those games, two games, you know, like
that that Chicago game. You know you've winn that one.
All of a sudden you're You're actually right there. It's
it's very very unfortunate. It's just one thing to have
a good team in a year that the rest of

(03:34):
the division is just killing it, but on a year
where it's a down year and you just you know,
happen to have a year where it doesn't work out
either as bad.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
So we were talking about Burrow, but let's talk about
Flacco for a second. Jason Williams were in a nice
column today talking about, you know, Joe Flacco appreciation a
true pros pro man, that guy. You went like you
were saying, I pop my finger back in a place
I'm I'm gonna go out there and throw a touchdown bad.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah. But by the way, I think if if, if
Jamar Chase plays, I think they win that game because
I mean, you know, one thing Joe Flacco did was
very smartly get the ball to number one where's he at?
And I think that affected him a little bit.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
I mean, it would have been.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
More consequential to have Chase play than Burrow in that game.
I think I think they could win. That could have
won that game if Chase is out there. But you know,
and then t Higgins goes down.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
I mean you're did you see him?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Man, didn't that did not as soon as he that
he's gonna cast hit hard.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
So hope hopefully he's okay and don't keep him out
a while. Well, we'll talk to lap later and we'll
get an injury report or something.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
So but then, way you were talking about Flago looking
looking at his age, now, I'll tell you that pick
six that he threw, I was as soon you could
see it happening. Yeah, just the angle they had on
the camera, you could saw you saw what was going
to happen, and I thought, oh there was I think
this can't be that obvious to everybody. There has to

(05:05):
be a penalty someplays.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Nope, Nope, no, not at all. I mean you could
tell he just went through his progression. And you know
a lot of times the quarterback just you know, more
or less assumes the checkdown is going to be wide open. Right,
it's okay, that's not there, Okay, we'll check it down. Oops.
That guy just happened. He made a great play, and
and that's the way it goes. I mean, Flack, we
even said after the games, I just I didn't see
him not one bit. He was trying to find Higgins,

(05:29):
I believe, And Okay, that's not there. Let's check the
ball down. Nope, and uh g Stone had an interception.
He played better, He had thirteen tackles after having maybe
the worst game ever the last Pittsburgh game.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
So well man. And also we were getting back to
Burrow for a second. Don't you think that when he
comes back he wants to make a dramatic entrance, Hence
coming back on Thanksgiving Night. I think he's really set
his sights on that on Nash Television Thanksgiving Night, It's
going to be a giant audience. Blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
That could be. I think even even if there was
a possibility he was going to play on Sunday, I
think the fact that he said, wait a minute, my
guy Chase isn't gonna be out there. Let's let's make
it next week. You know. Yeah, I don't know either.
I have to believe that was a factor, either Burrow
saying that or the organization and Zach Taylor saying, Okay,

(06:26):
we're gonna really bring our guy back, ever being off
for two months and him not have his his best
weapon and we play in six days later. No, let's
let's let's try this five days later.

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Speaker 2 (08:19):
You assed away. Freddy Murcer, I remember that was eleven.
I remember this being a pretty big deal.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
The song or Freddie Murger of course, the song, but
Frey Murcery dared.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Then death came just one day after he announced his
diagnosis of age to the press. Co founded Queen of
Course in nineteen seventy, as well as the front man
and uh pretty damn good singer.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah for my money, one of them from the best.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
I think he's got to be in the top five
rock lead for sure vocalists of all time.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
But I will tell and I think you you listened
to it one time George Michael when I was the
salute to Freddie Mercury. They did a big show for
him and they had different people come and sing songs,
and George Michael did Somebody to Love by Queen and Neil.
He sounded exactly like him. Really, yeah, it's damn good. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Well, and did you see the the document or not
a documentary, but the movie.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, was that good? Really? You never liked those things? Yeah,
you watch them all, but you know you usually are
not moved.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah, well, I told you the the Dylan one, I
started watching that this isn't good.

Speaker 7 (09:41):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
The same with the Queen thing. I thought was all right,
but you know you read how much how good the
guy was in it and stuff. He was good, I guess,
But you know it's it's so hyped and everything's so warped.
They combine events and all this crap, you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, and that is what happens, is the embellishing of
certain things, and then the right and they don't talk
about this, and then it's mad about that, and it
was hard to do it in a two hour movie.
I guess I understand, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
It's dude. Next year now I'll be seeing these movies.
They're doing four movies about the Beatles. They're doing John, Paul, George,
and Ringo. Each of them get in their own movie
really about them. Yeah that's cool. Yeah, it will be cool.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
I don't hate it, but you hate you ass terrible.
They forgot this this one time. George was at this
pub and he wrote dead lines of this song. They
didn't even talk about it exactly.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
That didn't happen there. But yeah, that would be pretty cool.
So Rock I saw this story of the Weekend and
I told my wife. I says to my wife, I
was like, if I find out, if I found out
this was you, uh, you would be subjected to us
a slow, painful death.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
She's like, what, Yes, please tell me. I need to know.
A guy in Michigan, a thirty three year old guy
who was to remain anonymous, just won a million dollars
top prize in the Blazing Suits scratch off lottery up there.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Wow, million bucks and a scratch off in a scratch off? Wow?

Speaker 1 (11:25):
How did he want it, you say, well, let's talk
to the winner. There was a blazing suit's ticket set
aside on the counter that someone else had decided not
to purchase, so I bought it. I scratched the ticket
off and couldn't believe it when I saw it was
worth a million dollars.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Wow, So where was it at on the counter?

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Like I guess maybe the person inline before him had said, yeah,
give me one of those whatever it's called blazing suits things,
and then I don't know, maybe it didn't have enough money,
and like, unscrew it. Just take the lottery ticket back
the next person line. So that guy comes up and like,
what's the lountery ticket doing? Sit in there? It was
like that lady said she doesn't wonder whatever. Oh my god,
he said, hell, I'll take it.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
See And you know that person knows who they are,
because like, okay, it was it was at the whatever
convenient mark. I was there about that time. Oh my god, yeah,
how would how would you feel? I thought?

Speaker 1 (12:24):
That's why I told her. I was like, if you
read this story and go, you know what, I think
that was me?

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah, you know I was in that same store that day, huh.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
And I was going to buy a lottery ticket, but
I said, ah, no, we don't need I'm good.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
He it'd be hard when I lived down big time,
Like here's your just absolute just sent from the heavens.
Here's your undeserved prize or maybe deserved prize.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
And well that's one of those where you start thinking
of that the rest of your life. You'd be like,
what if in yourself, Oh yeah, that would have happened.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Oh man, every time you face a little bit of
money challenge, he's like, god, we just yeah, had you know,
Linda just bought the damn cricket When we sit.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
Here, yep, yeah, the guy uh opted for the one
time payment, which would be six hundred ninety three thousand dollars,
and I allowed bad little payday. Waiting is a great feeling,
he said, But it's also a lot of pressure because
your your mind starts thinking of all the different things
you can do with this amount of money. Now, see, now,

(13:28):
what always happens to these guys. They win six hundred
and ninety three thousand dollars, but then they make four
million dollars with the plan correct, right, It's exactly right.
And that's the reason to hear about all these guys
going bankrupt.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
I mean have we've talked about this at length, but
you have to you have to make one like smart,
like okay, here, here's a bill or a car or
some sort of thing that we have, like, okay, let's
use that to take care of that. Wipe off a
car payment or two car payments, or a house payment
or something like.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
A quarter million whatever a certain percentage to put it
in investments.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Exactly if you should take a quarter to a third
and put it in some r you know, ira sort
of thing, and then just not think about it until
you are getting ready to retire.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
But like you said, pay off your house, pay off
this one down the line by yourself, a nice car,
but don't be going out and getting a two hundred
thousand dollars whatever. You know, there would.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Disappeared out of the sky.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Except for that person who laid that ticket back.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Wow, so painful.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Coming up speaking of money being on the table, Yeah,
happening in Ohio.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Now, Yeah, this is pretty interesting. So the OHSAA member schools,
they passed the nil referendum proposal, and we are going
to have Tim Streed, who is the director of media
relations for the OHSA. It kind of lay this out,
like what all does this mean? Can we just start
willing nearly paying guys? Is it true? Nil? Where is

(15:02):
there a gray areas to it? Because I mean this
has the potential to really change the landscaping big time
when it comes to high school sports in Ohio.

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their name, image and like this. Tim Stree with the
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as to how much such a high school athlete.

Speaker 7 (18:01):
Can make you know in a small town, a student
athlete receiving one hundred dollars to endorse the local pizza
shop to what we've all seen with you know, and
in fact, actually the student athlete that signed the first
NIL deal last month that was one hundred and fifty thousand.

Speaker 9 (18:17):
Dollars, and that student athlete was jamieor Brown, a junior
wide receiver at Lane High School in the Dayton area
who was already committed to Ohio State. His lawsuit led
to a Franklin County judge granted a temporary injunction recently
blocking the association's ban on NIL and ultimately forced the
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Speaker 1 (20:28):
And I didn't realize that Ohio.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Is so far behind the crew on not anymore getting
it done out of furry, getting it done in a hurry.
So yeah, news came down today. Member schools of the
Ohio High School Athletic Association have voted in favor of
an emergency bylaw referendum on name, image and likeness, making
Ohio the forty fifth state to allow nil at the

(20:52):
high school level. And join us right now. A great
guy I always enjoyed talking with him is the director
of media relations for the OHSAA, Tim Street. Tim, how
are you?

Speaker 7 (21:04):
I'm great guys, great to be with you again, and yeah,
we're behind a little bit, but what a historic day
in Ohio.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
It really is.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Tim If you could just just take the listeners through
just kind of the reader's digest version of how we
got here and just what, you know, just how we
got to this point right now.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
With us ruling sure.

Speaker 7 (21:24):
Well, you know, it really all began back when the
NCAA lost their battle against NIL, and once that happened,
states started falling kind of like Domino's with allowing NIL
in their state. I think California was the first. You know,
we put up a referendum to our schools back in
twenty twenty two that they voted down. But back then

(21:48):
NIL was still a little young. It was kind of
in its infancy at the high school level. But since then, uh,
year after year, more and more states allow it. And
you know, we were going to put this up to
our schools to vote on in May, but of course
the lawsuit that got filed in October sped up that
whole timeline a little bit, and our schools voted last

(22:10):
week and they voted yes on NIL.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, Jim on, that's what that was a question. I
was going to ask you how long this process has
been going on, and you said since twenty two. Huh,
that's crazy.

Speaker 7 (22:21):
Yeah, you know, we you know, in twenty twenty two
we had an idea to try to get out in
front of it and put our plan in place, which
has guardrails, which has precautions and a system for how
NIL deals would take place. But our first proposal, I'm
not surprised it did not pass. It was a little complicated.

(22:43):
It put a lot of work on the schools. We've
learned a lot since then. We've seen is what works well,
what does not work well in other states. As you mentioned, Rocky,
there's you know, we're now the forty fifth state that
allows it. So we were a little slow to the party,
which is okay, but you know, the lawsuits certainly sped

(23:04):
things up.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
And the final results, Tim, were four hundred and forty
seven schools voted to be in favor of the referendum
to be in favor of NIL, one hundred and twenty
one schools voted against. Two hundred and forty seven schools
abstained at all from voting. Tim, I'm just curious if
you've talked to any schools or coaches out there. I

(23:25):
would like to hear what the general argument for schools
that are in favor of this. So the schools that say, hey,
we want this done and voted yes on this, what
do they say is their reasoning why they think this
is a good idea?

Speaker 7 (23:38):
Sure, well, you know, a school that voted yes on
this referendum proposal may not necessarily love nil. That's a
part of this whole story is you know, our by
law that our schools just voted yes on has guardrails.
It has a process for how this would happen if

(24:01):
our schools did not vote yes on this proposal. What
that means is the court would decide our by law
on this. And we saw how that worked out at
the NC double A level.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Not good.

Speaker 7 (24:15):
And you know, basically, now that we have this bylaw
in place, we are anticipating that the lawsuit will be dismissed.
A version of nil is permitted, and so a yes
vote means our schools wanted this language for NIL rather
than risk letting the court decide what that would look like.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Okay, So this is a way for the Ohio schools
to get out in front of it rather than you know,
the NC double A come in and say boom, this
is how it's going to be. The schools I've voted
for it felt like this was a way they could
have control it to some degree. Is that is that
a good summary?

Speaker 7 (24:53):
That's a good summary. Yeah, that's absolutely right. And you know,
our schools looked at this as a way for them
to control the bylaw and to control what the regulations
would be around NIL. Because guys, if our schools voted
this down, it goes back to court here in Franklin County.
The lawsuit continues, and as you can imagine, the OHSAA

(25:17):
would not win that court battle. We would lose in
a heartbeat, because we've already lost on other things. You know,
it's forty four other states that have already fallen to
the NIL regulation, and this was our best foot forward
on trying to allow some NIL activity, which some of

(25:37):
it's not bad, you know, there are good things about
it too, But this has some some regulations that our
schools thought would.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Be a good idea. Tim Street of the OHSAA join
us right now, and Tim, what can you tell us
about the details of how this NIL is going to
manifest itself? How is it? You know, how are payments made.
How do these kids make money? What restrictions are on
the whole smash?

Speaker 7 (26:00):
Sure? Well, the really short answer on what a student
athlete can do is he or she could endorse a product,
could get paid to do a commercial, could get paid
to have their image on a poster advertising a company,
advertising a restaurant, a car, whatever, similar to what you
see at the college level. But really the bigger focus

(26:22):
on this is what a student athlete cannot do, and
what he or she cannot do is they could not
endorse products or do anielectivities in their school uniform on
school property. They cannot do that during the school day.
And the other thing too, that's really different about this

(26:43):
than what we see at the college level. This by
law that our school's voted on says no collectives. There
will be no collectives at the high school level in
Ohio because we don't want schools paying athletes directly like
what we see at the college level.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Right, And that was kind of what I was gonna
get at is. Look, I don't think tim anybody out
there in Ohio has a problem with a local pizza
joint paying a high school athlete twenty five hundred bucks
to be in an advertisement form. I think everybody's fine
with that. Folks are concerned of it is do do
companies get together or certain people get together? And now

(27:22):
all of a sudden, this payment isn't so much about
an advertisement for their business. It's more of a hey,
we'll give you this to come to our school. In
the NC double A, that rule has been just bastardized
to hell, right. I mean they have found ways, they
find loopholes in that thing to where it has turned
out to pay for play versus true nil. So you

(27:43):
feel like the way the rule states now it'll stop
that sort of thing from happening. That the play the
play for play for play situation.

Speaker 7 (27:54):
We're gonna try. And you know this language which we
included the full text of the bio law in our
press release which is on the front of our site
right now. People can look at.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
That and read it and make your.

Speaker 7 (28:06):
Own opinion about it. It was the best attempt we
could do to have some controls. And you know, like
all of our by laws that we have at the OHSAA,
it depends on our schools taking ownership and helping us
enforce those. That's a big difference between OHSA and nc Doubla.
NCUBA has hundreds of enforcement staff that sometimes camp out

(28:29):
at universities and colleges and do their work.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
We don't have that.

Speaker 7 (28:34):
We have twenty four employees here and we have eight
hundred and fifteen schools, so we need our school administrators
and our coaches to know the bylaws help enforce them.
Our membership has now voted this into our constitution and bylaws,
so we're going to need help enforcing it, certainly, but

(28:54):
it is going to be more work for the OHSA
to track these and help fororce are transfer and recruiting
by laws.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
So tim one exactly is this going to go into effect?
Because so from from what we're hearing it sounds almost immediate.

Speaker 7 (29:10):
It is immediate, yep, it is effective right now. In fact,
here's kind of the interesting thing, guys. The lawsuit was
filed back on what October twenty fourth or twenty fifth,
that lawsuit when the judge issued the tro against the OHSAA.
That is actually when NIL first began because the judge's

(29:33):
decisions that we cannot enforce our by law on this topic.
So actually NIL began in late October. Here's the funny
thing though, from late October when that tro is issued.
Until today, there were no rules because we had no
by law that allowed it. Judge that can't enforce it.
So actually today is when the rules start.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, I get I'm trying to think through all the
nightmare scenarios, and I guess I just wanted to say,
you have a school that's in a school district that's
kind of a wealthier community, more businesses, and you know,
they start doling out payments to kids that to transfer
from other schools that maybe don't have those kind of
businesses that can offer him money, right, and they don't

(30:17):
even look at it as like a this is going
to be good for our business. So you've got a
wealthy business owner and says, okay, great, whether this gives
me any ROI at all or not, I'm going to
dish out some money and get some players. They transfer
from that school to that school and they get loaded.
I feel like that's a is that a concern?

Speaker 7 (30:37):
Well, I'll tell you. Our transfer by law is still
in effect. And if a student transfers from school A
to school B, especially after they have established their eligibility
at school A, there is a lengthy process that they
go through and that will.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Catch most of those.

Speaker 7 (30:58):
Now, the most common transfer, Let's say a student is
enrolled at Turpin where my wife went, and that student
and their family moved to Toledo. Well, that's a pretty
easy acceptance on the transfer. If there is a student
that goes from school A to school B and they're
only five miles apart, that's a red flag. And that

(31:19):
is when our office does its due diligence to find
out why is this transfer happening? And that honestly catches
most of them.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
What are the things that the OHSA needs to see
for there to be a valid transfer. Let's say it's
something the word isn't from one corner of the state
to the other. Let's say it's just a kind of
a more of a local thing. What are some of
the parameters that the OSHA SAA says, Okay, if this, this,
and this, you're saying this is what's the reason for
the transfer, it's okay versus different reasons.

Speaker 7 (31:50):
How much time do you have?

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Very good?

Speaker 7 (31:55):
Now, we we we have several people here in our
eligibility department that transfer that piece of paperwork. It's a
paper that it's an application that the families and the
receiving school fills out that has a lot of questions
on it. It asks a lot of information about why
the transfer is happening, and then per our transfer. By law,

(32:18):
there are eleven potential exceptions that a student athlete may
fit into, so it's one of those, and some of
them are very basic, for example, moving more than fifty
miles away, or a change of residents, those kind of things.
That's the most common type, but there certainly are others similar.

(32:41):
It could be there's a transfer exception for a military
families for example, things like that. So there's the whole process.
Our staff uses to go through that and they took
a look at each one individually.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Awesome, well with him, listen, we really appreciate you come
on and talking about this. I'm sure there'll be many
more questions that come up as as this starts to
become clear of how this is gonna go, But we
appreciate your time. I'm sure we'll talk again soon. Thank you, Tim.

Speaker 7 (33:10):
Sounds good, My pleasure guys anytime.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yep, take care, Thanks Tim. I'm with you, man, I
just what I can at worms really.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
It is because you see, even at the college level,
it's like, yeah, we're gonna allow these athletes to make
money off their name, image and likeness. But it's not
how it's worked out, and there's different there's so many subjective,
gray area things you can do. Again, no one has
a problem with the local hardware store paying a kid
a few bucks to use their name, image and likeness

(33:40):
to help advertising. No one has a problem with that.
I don't think it's does that company are they sincere
and in their ploy that this is gonna help our
business or just like, hey, we've got a lot of
money and we got a certain kind of amount set
off over here, whether it really gives us any return
on our investment or not. Boys going to get some

(34:00):
really good players to come here.

Speaker 15 (34:02):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
I don't see how you stop that because it's a
little wink, it's a little nod, but it's you know,
technically it all falls under the right things.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Okay, well you said it. We're seeing what's happening in
college man college game right now?

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Is way?

Speaker 1 (34:18):
It's it's about the same game.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Yeah, and then I mean, where's it end? Middle school
in Iol? Youth football in Iol. I'll tell you what
I coach youth football if if I get parents starting
demanding payments from me. I'm going to buy the condo
next to you, and I'm quitting. That's it.

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(38:35):
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Speaker 1 (44:10):
The osepic is changing a lot of things.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
A lot of things. It is certainly the hottest thing
out there when it comes to weight loss and all
that sort of thing. And this is a new one
o Zembic menus with I guess smaller meals are appearing
on restaurants menus.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
That's pretty amazing and here to discuss whether it is
Our restaurant experts always love having them on. Nick nia
A Nakas, he heads up the Franchise Consulting Company and
the Great American Franchise Expo, author of the Franchise NBA. Nick,
Welcome back, buddy, Thanks, it's great to be here.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
So Nick, this.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
That seems to be a trend and these I mean
these things that I'm reading here. It's essentially like say
they were talking about this one restaurant where you go
in instead of you got a the Ocmpic burger, it
comes with a burger the size of a slider, with
a shot glass with a few French fries in it

(45:15):
and a tiny dab of ketchup, and it comes with
your choice of a tiny beer, a tiny martini or
a tiny wine.

Speaker 22 (45:26):
It's like the scene and Zoolander when they're finding the
smaller and smaller phones, right, and it's like.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
The size of a thumbnail.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
Eventually, Yeah, you know, it's.

Speaker 22 (45:35):
Like, first we all got fat, we all wanted more food,
all you can eat buffets, all this kind of stuff.
Then we all got skinny. Everybody's on a zepic and
now everyone's feeling bad because they can't finish their other meal,
and restaurants are going to capitalize on it. I mean,
they've had a pretty tough go of it the last
couple of years. So being able to sell you smaller portions,

(45:56):
keep your food costs down, and still charge you a
fair amount, I think it's probably not a terrible thing.
And you're seeing a lot of restaurants now trying to
figure out how to.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Capitalize on it. And I don't fault them because I
would do the same thing to your point, where the
restaurants have gone through hell in the last five years.
But yeah, I feel like this is more of a ploy,
not so much to cater to these zembic people. More
we can we can keep our food costs down, still
charge of percentage a little bit, you know, higher amount,
and make a few bucks.

Speaker 21 (46:25):
Right, That's it.

Speaker 22 (46:27):
You know, anything that they can do to keep the
clients coming in is a wise move. And you're seeing
a whole bunch of change rolling out test markets in this.
You know, Olive Garden is doing a lighter portions entry entree,
PF Chang's is offering a menu with two different sizes,

(46:48):
So I think you're going to seeing this become more
and more pervasive. But then the question is if you
eat it and you're still hungry, then what.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Do you do?

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Right to me, that's kind of a problem there, right, give.

Speaker 22 (47:03):
Me another mini burger, I'm still hungry. By the time
you leave, it's three times what you would have paid
for the regular burger, right, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Mean I'd go in there and have to buy three
burgers and he's forty seven dollars, get a.

Speaker 22 (47:18):
Bag of flyers. They like gas, so they'll treat you right,
at least for about an hour.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
And what one thing Nick, I've always wondered is why
don't they let people order off the kids menu? You know,
I mean a meal is a meal, right, You're selling
food as people. It tends to be older people I think,
who don't obviously don't eat as much as they used to.
Is there a reason for that? Because I don't think
that'd be an easy fix right there.

Speaker 22 (47:45):
Well, you know, it's interesting because it brings up a
lot of questions about.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
You know, what can you and can't you do?

Speaker 20 (47:51):
Right?

Speaker 22 (47:51):
If you're selling something, you should allow anybody to use it.
It's kind of like the airlines when they said, you know,
if I'm gonna fly for from you know, Miami to Cincinnati,
but I can get a cheaper flight going from Miami
Cincinnati to Detroit and then I get off in Cincinnati,
why should I be penalized for that? So I don't

(48:13):
think there's any really good reason for that. It's like,
you know, if I order something and then I don't
eat all of it, can you charge me more for
leaving the food behind? So I think there's a lot
of rules out there that when you look at them,
they're pretty wonky, and ultimately the consumer is going to
make the choice. And so that's what I think is

(48:34):
happening now with the ozenbic lighter portion meals and you know,
to be determined. Are people going to embrace them? Are
they going to want to go out more? Are people
not eating out because they feel like I'm wasting food?
Or whatever? Happened to the old fashioned doggie bagh?

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Yeah, that's the thing where yeah, a lot of folks
maybe they don't eat everything there, but take a little
bit to go home. I guess yeh. I mean, so
you're saying in the industry that this is like a
big thing that every restaurant has meetings about and trying
to figure out how we can kind of catch onto
this ozempic crise.

Speaker 22 (49:13):
You know, I think they're meetings that are going on
right now, but they're really around how can we entice
people to come in more often? And if this is
the you know, flavored DuJour, then let's see if that sticks.

Speaker 15 (49:26):
Right?

Speaker 22 (49:27):
Is that the price elasticity of the meal. Is that
going to bring somebody in? We're charging forty percent less
because you know, are you getting forty percent less food
or you getting seventy percent less food? That's the part
that you know, I haven't quite figured out yet because
it's it's such a new trend that you guys picked
up on that you know, the data just isn't out

(49:49):
there yet. But it would be very interesting to go
and way the regular burger versus the minio zempic burger
and see what are you getting for what price? Usually
when you buy less, you pay more, right.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
Correct, Well, that's exactly what's gonna happen too. Yeah, you think, uh, Nick,
Nick and Neonagas is our guest, and Nick, any other
trends that we should be keeping an eye out for
the restaurant business these days, because, like Rocky pointed out,
they have been going through hell in the last five
six years they have.

Speaker 22 (50:19):
You know, I was with a bunch of restaurant executives
a couple of days ago. They were talking about how
they could decrease their costs, and they were talking about
a topic you guys brought up in a previous show, waste,
the cost of waste of trash. And this company, Subcontained
Subcontained dot com is their website, is doing amazing things

(50:40):
in commercial trash colledge with their vertical in ground dumpsters,
saving restaurants a lot of money. So I think a
lot of areas like that is what companies are looking at.
It's around labor, it's around food costs, it's around ancillary costs.
You know, I don't know if it's selling a burger
for forty percent less is going to move the needle

(51:02):
all that much. But if you can take you know,
three or four or five net percentage points out of
all your expenses, that really adds up for these guys,
and that's where they're focusing their attention.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
What what what in your opinion, what are the major
hurdles for a restaurant. Obviously, the cost of the food,
the cost of the protein in particular, is the highest cost.
But what, what, in your opinion and experience, has the
biggest potential to be I guess curtailed, you know right.

Speaker 22 (51:32):
Now, it's labor, you know, I mean food is a big,
big problem.

Speaker 7 (51:36):
Labor.

Speaker 22 (51:36):
I mean, you know, these these kids, they don't want
to work for minimum wage, had long hours like we
used to back in the day, walking uphill, you know,
both ways to school. Yes, but you know, finding people
to work in restaurants has been really tough, and so
robotics has been a huge trend over the last couple
of years. Whether it's in the ordering, you know, you

(51:59):
go up to the drive or you might not be
talking to the person at the cash register, you might
be talking to somebody in the Philippines. And then in
the kitchen. How do you take labor out of that?
So anything that restaurants can do to decrease labor, they're
going right at that as hard as they can because
that's a huge cost component along with the food cost.

(52:19):
You can't do much about food cost, right It's not
like hey, now serving cheaper meat to bring the price down,
you know, our grade D meat is going to save
you ten percent off the price of your burger. But
if you can figure out how that fewer people in
the back, yeah, that's going to move the needle. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
And I'm wondering to us, can you get a finger
on why exactly? It seems like and it is younger
people that generally wait the tables and whatnot, that just
the attitude has really gotten bad in a lot of cases.
I don't ever remember going to a restaurant and having
someone just absolutely not disdain me, but kind of like

(53:00):
not really give two damns about what I want or
what I'm doing.

Speaker 23 (53:04):
There.

Speaker 22 (53:05):
We're putting fingers on the ed Finger show on the
there you go, you know. You know, I think it's pervasive,
it's everywhere. It's like, all of a sudden, everybody just
kind of doesn't care, you know. And I think you
can point back to the pandemic. I think we're still,
you know, dealing with that hangover. But in general, you know,

(53:28):
I used to have this metric. I called it the
burger metric, okay, And it would be when I'd go
into a fast food place, how was the burger built?
When I got it? Like, was the was the burger
falling off, the bun? Was the ketchup all over the place?
Everything was just a mess, like they just threw it together.
And I would say that's a very low scoring restaurant.

(53:51):
And sometimes you'd go to a fast food place and
everything would line up perfectly right, like somebody with OCD
put that burger together. I'd give them pretty high score.
It seems lately like you know, the ketchup is being
squirted on the outside.

Speaker 15 (54:04):
Of the back.

Speaker 22 (54:07):
Yeah, that's where it's covered to. So I think it's
I think it's the pandemic. I think it's just a
general lack of care. I think the labor market's tight,
so managers aren't saying, you know, look, if you're not
doing a good job, we're going to fire you, and
people buying large. You know, employees are kind of taking
that to heart and saying, well, there's not a whole

(54:27):
lot of ramifications here. I'll go get another job if
I get fired.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
It's not good for the country, agreed.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Where's the restaurant business?

Speaker 21 (54:35):
You know?

Speaker 1 (54:36):
With that nick, we will let you go. People want
to find out more about it is that you do.
Where can they go?

Speaker 22 (54:42):
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Speaker 20 (55:07):
Nick.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
We appreciate it. Man, thanks so much.

Speaker 22 (55:10):
Thanks guys, have a happy Thanksgiving everybody.

Speaker 15 (55:12):
You do this.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Thanks Nick, good friend. Nick.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
I feel like this is similar to shrink flation, right
where all of a sudden, instead of a two liter
of pop, it's a one point eight liter. But it
never goes back right like this, you just started getting
the smaller menu items at the restaurant. When this trend switches,
which it obviously always does, it goes back and forth.

(55:36):
Wan more wan the last went more and want less.
You're never going to get that you know, huge burger
again that you once got at that place. It's it's
going to always stay a little bit smaller.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
And see that's the thing we're going to We're going
to age out and go away. And so yeah, they're
they're for you know, it's the long play for those
guys obviously, right, So, hey, your twenty year old, that's
the burger they've always had.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
That's a great point, yeah, because you know, maybe the
older generation does remember the good old days when you
got a massive ton of food in the buffets and
in all that, the younger folks are like, oh, this
kind of it's always been. How'll they get you?

Speaker 7 (56:17):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (56:17):
With that, we head to traffic and weather. What is
going on.

Speaker 11 (56:21):
From the uc Health Traffic Center in the UC Health's
Epilepsy Center is leading the way toward better days for
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Expect moreuc health dot com Well. Traffic is swing on
two seventy five westbound off ramp for Reid Hartman. A
breakdown here is on the rampant. Cruise around the scene

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from ronalreg And Highway to nor Was that all about
a ten minute drive? Now with traffic sowing from right
around Shepherd because of that road to work River Road
westbound at Evans, it's a crasher that has traffic swing
from Freeman in Kentucky, the right lane taking up two
seventy five eastbound manual of the Park to seventy five
and then seventy five north. At Turfoy the right shoulder

(57:04):
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Seventy five south as the trials to the Brand Spence
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Speaker 23 (57:35):
This week, Americans give thanks and there's a lot to
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Eddy and Rocky and Rocky it is Monday and love
this week though Thanksgiving week's always you know, gam packed
best holiday right Yeah, for my money, I was nice
and relaxing. Just make yourself a boat ton of food
and uh and you've see. Okay, let's just talk about

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it briefly. Rocky started his fasting diet that we talked
about last yek.

Speaker 15 (58:41):
It is so.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
We talked with PJ last week on Thursday and I
and I told you for a while I wanted to
just I you want to try? You know you hear
a lot about those fasts that people do, twenty four
hour fast and PJ actually up the challenge. He said,
do it like a week long thing, like eat a
day off day, eat a day off a day. So
to day is my first day with no food. I'n't

(59:02):
been too cranky, have I?

Speaker 7 (59:04):
No?

Speaker 2 (59:05):
I'll say that for Kelly. Want to get homp. Sure,
but then I'll eat tomorrow, which is Tuesday, eat not
eat Wednesday, eat Thursday. I was smart enough to make
sure I didn't. I didn't have my non eating day
on Thanksgiving. That would be brutal. And then Noah four
go Friday, eat Saturday, nothing Sunday, and then Monday, I'll

(59:28):
pick back up and I'm going to report back to
see whatever it did, it helped me, It helped my brain,
did it ruin my marriage? Did it whatever?

Speaker 7 (59:35):
You know.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
We'll keep you posted. But now it's the news News
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Speaker 9 (59:49):
Trump's plan to prosecute political opponents, it's a legal roadblock
with the four point thirty report. I'm Sean Gallagher breaking now.
Indictment's brought against former FBI director James. Call me in
New Yorkttorney General Letitia James have been dismissed by a
judge rolling that the appointment of Lindsay Halligan as US
Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. Halligan
is President Trump's former attorney who was handpicked by him

(01:00:12):
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Comy and James, two of his political opponents, as Trump
is also pushed for other political foes to be indicted.

Speaker 24 (01:00:20):
The sequence of events with President Trump tweeting, posting on
social media about the case, the notion that the previous
Trump appointed US attorney had basically decided not to move
forward with prosecutions these indictments, and now the question that
the process itself was unlawful, and so now there is

(01:00:40):
a huge question at DJ in terns of whether these
cases should proceed or not.

Speaker 9 (01:00:46):
ABC News Chief Justice correspondent here Thomas. The indictments dismissed
without prejudice, meaning charges could be filed again.

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Now.

Speaker 5 (01:00:54):
The latest traffic and weather together.

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roadwork from Ronal Ring and Highway to Norwood Lateral about
a seven minute delay now and we have a two

(01:01:19):
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breakdown at the end of the ramp and the crews
are there. In Kentucky, traffic solows on seventy five north
a turfway crash on the shoulder and then two seventy
five east bound Manual to Pike to seventy five on
the right shoulder we have an accident and traffic is sluggish.
Heavier pockets to seventy five northbound U West forty two

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to the Brench Spence and on seventy five northbound between
Mitchell and Paddock, about a five minute drive.

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Now.

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And it is going to be showers, rain, and we'll
see a four nine at seven am in the morning.
Now for our Tuesday, more rain, a few afternoon showers,
a high as sixty at night, cloudy, a chance of
wet weather in forty eight. Does look cold and windy
on Thanksgiving. From your severe Weather station, I'm nine First
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Speaker 9 (01:02:22):
Cloudy skies right now it's fifty two degrees. Rhoads will
be busy during the Thanksgiving weekend, and there's also a
plan in place to alleviate traffic backups on Black Friday,
with many expected to be out shopping.

Speaker 16 (01:02:34):
Oh DoD police and the Kenwood Town Center all working
together to try to reduce the backups that are coming
this weekend.

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On Friday, we will be implementing a traffic management plan
on I seventy one in Montgomery Road that should ease
congested and make traveling less stressful.

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Doug Groover with the Ohio Department of Transportation says they'll
also be adjusting the signal timings that on and off
ramps to better manage a huge traffic volume in the
area of the ball.

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Temporary signage and message boards to alert motorists of increased traffic,
and the use of alternate routes such as State Route
one twenty six and Ronald Reagan Highway and Kenwood Road.

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Speaker 14 (01:04:01):
I anticipate him playing, but we'll continue to work through
the week. I'm not going to declare that definitively. He
looks like he's in good shape right now. He'd be
ready to go.

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That means we're we be talking to our good buddy
Dave Lapham lap at the ta after the five plots.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
Yes, but first aid, how about a few stories about
found treasure.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
Yeah, we've had a couple of those, we we have, So.

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
This one here is pretty interesting. So this is back
in seventeen eight, So this is right around the time
Willie was playing for Thomas Funerhome. Right, there was a
Spanish galleon called the San Jose. Okay, it sank after
being attacked by an English fleet, all right, and it
had always been rumored. Okay, what I think they got
a bunch of you know, treasure and gold and stuff

(01:05:30):
on this sort of thing. Uh So they finally finally
located this thing back in twenty fifteen. Okay, right where
it is. Here's where word it's at. The ship is
believed to hold eleven million gold and silver coins, emeralds
and other precious cargo head. Dang, So where's your oxygen
tank and your flippers and your snorkel mask, dude, let's

(01:05:51):
go get it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
Remember we had those guys on a while back that
were from the area that did treasure hunting.

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
Yeah, we did.

Speaker 15 (01:05:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
I don't know if it was this particular one.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
I know, yeah, it'd be. I just wanted to. I
just think it's interesting, you know. Oh yeah, I mean
if it would seem to be really hard, but if
you'd found something obviously very lucrative.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
Well they think that it could be worth twenty billion
dollars only if recovered. Yes, so much. Treasures on board
that wreck has become known as the Holy Grail of shipwrecks.
The ship was on Suey to Spain.

Speaker 25 (01:06:28):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
There was going to be the uh, you know, the
the capture of King Philip the fifth when it sank
along with six hundred sailors. And this is a pre
wild store. Only seven of the or shooting. Only eleven
seamen on that on that boat actually actually survived. This
is in uh and it's in the Caribbean Sea, so

(01:06:52):
that Columbia has found it, which is a pretty upstanding country,
so you'll love this sort of so uh. President Gustavo
Petro's government said that the purpose of the deep water
expedition ed is research and not the seizure of the treasure.
Of course, come on, get your head out of the

(01:07:13):
We want to ghett old fashion research. We want to
really find out what happened to this this galleon back
in the day.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
Uh huh that happens to have twenty billion dollars of
gold on it. That that just that's a little side bonus.

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
So I guess the first thing they brought up was
a cannon, and I you know, I didn't print them out,
but I saw pictures of it. Were like, it's pretty
It's a cannon, right, Like it's pretty neat. So anyway,
crusted it over with the you know the stuff that, yeah,
stuff from arnacles or whatever.

Speaker 7 (01:07:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:07:46):
The wreckage is six.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
Hundred meters deep, and I think while we're seeing all this,
it didn't specify on this particular one. But you know,
they got this new it's called radars called LDAR right
where it kind of you know, admits like a they're
finding all this stuff like in the Amazon rainforest because
it can kind of shoot down below the surface of
things and foliage and water and kind of see what's going.

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
On down on like the imaging kind of things.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
Yeah, I got three D imaging kind of kind of
situation where you can find out where this this ship
went down Spain six centimeters is two thousand feet deep.
That's why they haven't found the thing in three hundred years.

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
Whatever happened, weren't they supposed to have found Amelia Earhart's
playing a while back. Yes, I never did hear anything
more about that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
I've seen a few things. I don't know if anything
definitive has come out, but that would be cool.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
Oh, I just saw a story about it. Her last
Did you see this last week? It was her last
radio transmission. No, they found a record of it and
see I thought it was going to be helper going
down and it goes, you know, go dead. No, it
was like her coordinates where the last direction she was heading.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
But that was it that was disappeared. Here want to
hear again? You love this line? Colombia is an arbitration
litigation with the U S search of Mata, a group
of US investors for the economic rights of the San Jose.
So this group of you know, venture capitalists basically for America,

(01:09:20):
said hey, we found that. That's ours to me saying no,
uh huh, even though it's about the research. Ed, still
it's still like, as a consolation, more than twenty billion dollars.
And it's the group that's saying it's for the research
or the Columbia cy Columbia research. Yeah, right, yeah, the
venture capitalist group saying we're here to find treasure and
get rich. Correct he Colubia saying no.

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
Nah baby nah, yes, oh hey, good luck to everybody concerned.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
And another one ed, how about this? See this painting here?
What does that look like? Yeah, Virgin Mary and a baby. Right, well,
that's what it looks like. So this is a Renaissance
pain was found in a dusty garage not long ago.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
Of course.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
The work which depicts the madonna and child is believed
to be by fifteenth century painter Pietro Vanucci. It was
just sold to a private buyer for what's seven hundred
thousand pounds like a million bucks? Yeah, something like that,
maybe a little at one point two something like that. Yeah,

(01:10:27):
sold after a fifteen minute online bidding war. The auction
house JS Fine Arts in Banbury, Oxfordshire. But Bye Bop. Yeah,
it believes to be by fifteenth century painter Pietro Venucci, who,
by the way, was a student of or No, his
student was the famous painter Raphael Oh wow, yeah, so

(01:10:50):
that's pretty cool. But yeah, Venucci died in fifteen twenty three.
But he painted this great picture.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
And there you go in a crazy haul. Those great
folks kind of hung out together or they somehow knew
each other, and they were all really good at what
they did. Lanslow and yeah, the same with the you know,
the old composers, those guys. Yeah, I mean, I don't know, Beethoven,
Mozart around the same time. But that's what I'm wondering,

(01:11:15):
you know, I get it all, remember, or maybe we
just kind of lump them, want to correct? That's two
years between them, I don't know, hanging out with Lennon
and McCartney and Elvis, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
But but this brings up to my point the other day.
But there's no least modern art pieces paintings that I
see that to me look like true talent in this.
I mean, look at that like that. This is a
great radio by the way, but you know, the.

Speaker 1 (01:11:40):
Sure absolutely that is like like a classic paint.

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
You to look at that and say, God, that is it.
That takes true talent. They get the image of the
face and the baby and the lighting and the modern
art stuff is like like splotches of paint thrown on
a thing and.

Speaker 1 (01:11:54):
A banana taped to a wall with a frame.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
Right, what was the one too? About the It was
like a painting of so there was like a blank frame.
We just empty frame, man, And it went like a
couple hundred grand I forget, but it was very expensive,
good money if you can look if somebody's dumb enough

(01:12:17):
to pay me for that. Oh you want another one?
I have nothing painting too. Yeah, it's better than the first.
Just to go over double what that one went for.
That's bigger.

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
So see rock right this the frame is twice as
big as you get twice the amount of nothing. Uh
rocking and other news. This happened where all interesting things
happened happened Iowa, Okay and Iowa man. I wanted to

(01:12:50):
shake off the winter blues. So twice last month, uh
cops say danon Airy thirty sit against the rear of
his twenty or his twenty twelve Chevrolet and palla with
his pants and underwear removed to his anchors and he
had no shirt on. He are you sure he lifted

(01:13:12):
his shirt to casually expose his junk and his belly
to oncoming traffic. When questioned by police, Airy reportedly confessed
to the indecent exposure. According to the complaint, he said
quote this behavior was fulfilling or no. This says he
said the this behavior was fulfilling and exciting and it

(01:13:37):
was currently missing from his life in his blah existence.
So investigators sayd that Ari knew that the behavior was inappropriate.
So I guess somebody said that guy's not Yeah, so
I've asked got to say that Airy knew this behavior
was inappropriate and unacceptable as well as offensive to others

(01:14:00):
who viewed him. So and it says he has a
lengthy wrap sheet. So this just sounds like this dude
want to go back to jail. Yeah right, Yeah, weird thing.
He's just like some people just can't really function outside,
so they want.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
To go back.

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
That just that's what it sounds like. We ees, they
guy's got a rap sheet. Why would you go out
and just you know, get naked on the side of
the road. And think nothing was going to happen to you.
That's just the screams that he wants to go back
to jail.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
Yeah, well it's in the shawsh a redemption, right. They
couldn't function outside the four walls.

Speaker 1 (01:14:37):
So was Red. So it was Red Brooks was here
with that. We check in with traffic and weather. Another
day in Iowa, Just another day in Iowa. You can
only look at so many cornfields, brother, before you just
have to wave.

Speaker 11 (01:14:53):
Your junk as those of us who have been in
Iowa and lived there and a near but there, Yeah,
I can attend to that. It's not a lot to
look at. From the Ucratic Center.

Speaker 15 (01:15:06):
You see.

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We'll Reagan Highway to Norwoo latter it is about just
a five minute trip now delays back to Sheppard and
the accident on seventy five north by a turfway still

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Two seventy five at Minuela Pike to seventy five is
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do have the sow downs at the Carrol Cropper Bridge
to seventy five west and south with the wark continuing
on the bridge westbound delayers back to the Petersburg exit
in Kentucky and southbound back to US fifty in Indiana,

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Twenty one back with Idian Rocky. I'm gonna be talking
to Lap coming up after the five o'clock news. So
a couple of things to hit the Lap up with.
Is that looks like it's fishing now. Joe Burrow is
going to play on Thursday night? Is that's what we're
reporting it? That's the word?

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Yeah, so good?

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
Good idea or no.

Speaker 2 (01:17:24):
I've been saying this all along, and I'm consistent with it.
If he is one hundred percent healthy, right, if he is,
and also that and that means no restrictions. I don't
think there should be a well, you know, we can't
you know, roll him out to the right because that's
going to put unneeded stre No. I don't want any
of that. It's like, if you're going, then you're going.
If it's like, well, we probably shouldn't allow him to

(01:17:47):
do this, this and this, then I don't think he
should play. But if he's if he's fine, and if
the recovery was if the initial injury wasn't as bad
as it maybe we were let on to believe, and
the recovered so well and he's one hundred percent ready
to go, then yes, if there's any any sort of
like we think will be, no, and he should. But

(01:18:10):
it sounds like that is he isn't feeling good and
good to go.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
He's he's chomping at the bid, for sure, There's no
question about that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Yeah, and look you like that, of course. But it's
also I will say, because a lot of people have said, well,
it's just not a good look in the locker room.
What are the other players going to think if they
just hold Joe Burrow out even though he probably can't play,
It's like, well, you ain't Joe Burrow. There's you know,
there was injuries. I had to go out and crawl

(01:18:39):
out on the field with Okay that Peyton Manning would
have expected to go out there, right, I'm not Peyton Manning, right,
and no one else on that team is Joe Burrow
So if the organization says, you know what, we're just
gonna be a little more cautious and the arrest of
the team don't like it, well that's that's their problem.
It's just that's the harsh reality of life. And how

(01:18:59):
I usually happens with greatness is there are different rules,
and that's the way it is.

Speaker 1 (01:19:05):
Well, And I also want to pat my partner on
the back here for saying early because I heard just
talking about this with Willie. In regard to Hendrickson, you
said before the season, yeah, this is where an injury
happens every single time. And look at what's happening now.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
Yeah, no training camp, no, no this and that and all.
He's a workout warrior, won't matter.

Speaker 15 (01:19:27):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
Well, I'm not sure that that's not all of it.
I have to believe it's it's some of it. But
the fact is he's just thirty one years old, and
he's you know, bod he's not able to do it anymore.
That was I mean, what an awful way for that
thing to go. I really like him, a great player,
and I'm sad to see he's kind of falling apart
right now. But but I also don't love the fact

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that you know he's a team captain and you know
he's not not traveling to the What was that the
game last week the week before?

Speaker 1 (01:19:58):
Now is he is he not allowed to travel with
the team or he just chooses he chose not to.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
They probably give an OPTIONY, do you want to stay
back and do rehab or doing all? No, I think
you're a captain. I think you should get on that
plane and be there on the sideline. That's what I think.

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
We'll talk to Lap about it coming up, so Rock.
In other news, David, are you afraid of sharks? You've
been swimming in the ocean line starkings. Yeah, we went
we went to Belize last year and we swam with sharks.
Now there was absolutely no danger of anything like any

(01:20:35):
of them biting us. It was like a little nurse
sharks and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
Yeah. But I mean, just in general, Ed, I I am.
I'm pretty good on land, right. I can still run
a little bit, it can move around pretty good. I
am a dead duck in the water, literally sink like
a stone. So I get a little a little weary
about being being in the water because I just know

(01:20:59):
I ain't No, damn.

Speaker 1 (01:21:00):
Well, here's a woman in Oregon, Colleen Dunns her name.
She was walking her dogs on the beach in Manzanita, Oregon.
It was early one evening a couple of weeks ago.
She came upon a beached shark. Okay, all right, I
know this is going so rather than steering clear or

(01:21:22):
calling somebody, she said, I made the quick decision to
get him back in the water in the ocean myself,
grab him by the tail. A veteran, it says, a
veteran viewer viewer of Shark Week. She knew that if
she dragged the shark by its tail, it wouldn't be
able to bite her. So she, with a lot of efforts,

(01:21:43):
she was able to drag the shark first into the
shallow water and then push it into the water deep
enough for it to swim away. Now see, I would
be of the mind that as soon as the shark
is able to swim, he's going to turn around. It's
not going to be hey, thanks, he's going to turn
around and buy my leg off.

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
Why because he's a shark. He's not gonna be There's
no moral compass about these things.

Speaker 1 (01:22:12):
Cheerus, tip of the hat, and off he swims.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
I think if the shark was small enough where I
could like pick it up in the tail and kind
of like you know, do like a shot put kind
of spin and toss it out there, I would do it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:25):
Other than that, Sorry, Bud, right, I'll pour some of
my water on you. And that's when I told you.
When I took the I got called over to my
elderly neighbor's house back when I lived in Oakley, and
there was a rat in her toilet in the basement.

(01:22:46):
So I managed. So I went in there with my
I think I told you about this. I went in
there with my tongs from my grill, those big long guys,
and uh. So I came in there, and sure enough
there's the rat just kind of peeking out over the
edge of the toilet. And so I managed, and I
tied a bucket with me. So I managed to grab

(01:23:09):
him with the tongs and I threw him in the
bucket and just spun the spinning the bucket around while
I walked out to the back door and threw him
out in the woods.

Speaker 2 (01:23:18):
Wait, sir, you're you're telling me you used centripetal force
to get that that rat out of there.

Speaker 1 (01:23:25):
No, I was to confuse him and to keep him
in the bucket because I didn't want him to jump
up out of it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
Did the bucket have a lid on it? No, That's
what I'm saying. So you kind of kept swinging around.
I didn't do that. I was like, it was, you know, like, okay,
all right, yeah, I'm still very smart of you or
very stupid one of the others. I choose.

Speaker 1 (01:23:44):
That's what my wife said. That was pretty stupid. What
you like, What did you think I was gonna do?

Speaker 24 (01:23:49):
Way?

Speaker 1 (01:23:50):
I didn't know what else to do, But you.

Speaker 3 (01:23:51):
Got it out.

Speaker 2 (01:23:52):
I got him out for you.

Speaker 1 (01:23:53):
Hey, he rode the day.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
Now, where where was this at?

Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
Again?

Speaker 2 (01:23:56):
Remmy it was.

Speaker 1 (01:23:57):
At my my neighbor's house when I lived in Oaklean. Okay,
it was before or we're married.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
She better have been impressed and you put the full
display on. Of course.

Speaker 1 (01:24:08):
That's right. That's my man, her man, the rat tamer.
I've been call wars with that. We chick it with
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Two of the presidents so called enemies. When a major
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matt Reee breaking now. A federal judge is dismissing the
indictments of former FBI Director James Comy and the New
York Attorney General, Letitia James. The judge as the appointment
of Lindsay Halligan as US Attorney was invalid. Halligan was

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assigned the job by President Trump specifically so she could
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Speaker 27 (01:25:00):
The President had put an immense amount of pressure on
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He said at the time, we cannot delay any longer.
It's killing our reputation and credibility.

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ABC's Karen Traverse Colby was indicted on charges of giving
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over the weekend. Total of seven people shot in both
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increase in police visibility and that part of Over the
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crossings in Hamilton. Train was about two and a half
miles long, but now Hamilton Police say the train's been cleared.
Checking the wait times at Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport
right now on their website, minutes at the TSA pre
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general check in. Busy there and across the country this

(01:28:17):
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Working with police and the Ohio Department of Transportation on
traffic plans it gets shoppers in and out.

Speaker 26 (01:28:36):
This coming weekend on Friday, we will be implementing a
traffic management plan on I seventy one and Montgomery Road
that should ease congested and make traveling less stressful.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
Doug Groover is with the Ohio Department of Transportation.

Speaker 26 (01:28:48):
Temporary signage and message boards to alert motorists of increased
traffic and the use of alternate routes such as State
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Mall and police all trying to make it as stress
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Black Friday and into the weekend. Jeff Birding with FC
Cincinnati talking about a Thanksgiving tradition for runners in the
Western and Southern Race. On Thursday, there's a kids race,

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the Western and Southern ten k and the Chick fil
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Speaker 22 (01:29:24):
We have one of the oldest and largest ten k's
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Speaker 20 (01:29:27):
It's the one hundred and sixteenth running of the Western
and Southern Thanksgiving Day Race and brings the community together
over eleven thousand runners of walkers.

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Jeff Birding with FC Cincinnati Bill Cunningham show helping him
promote the race. The beginning and the end are at
TQL Stadium and the finish lines on the field where
FC Cincinnati plays.

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Joe Burrow star Thirdnesday night for the Bengals at Baltimore.
Head coach Zach Taylor.

Speaker 14 (01:30:03):
I anticipate him playing, but we'll continue to work through
the week. I'm not going to declare that definitively. He
looks like he's in good shape right now he'd be
ready to go.

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As TEMs begin to drop, it's here. It is Monday,
around about this time. We always like to talk to
this villa right here. Our good friend Dave Lapham, Lap,
How are we doing today?

Speaker 28 (01:31:19):
Boys?

Speaker 20 (01:31:19):
How you doing?

Speaker 15 (01:31:20):
What's the good word today?

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
We're good?

Speaker 1 (01:31:22):
Lap?

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
I thought the defense was better, not great, but better.
What did you see calling that game?

Speaker 15 (01:31:29):
Yeah? I thought the defense was was better as well.
I mean you you know you'd say, oh, jeez, well,
twenty six points by the Patriots. Now defense is only
responsible for nineteen of them. You know they had a
special team score there. So I think I think the
defense is getting better. I think it's improving. I do
think they've got miles to rest before Miles will work

(01:31:52):
it before they rest, though. They get a lot of
improvement to do. But I do think that they are
starting to understand what al Golden and sex expectations are
and you know, what what he wants from them in
terms of understanding his scheme and applying it to you know,
the to the opponent and studying the opponent and understanding
tendencies the opponent and all the things you need to

(01:32:14):
get done to win football games.

Speaker 2 (01:32:16):
I think, in particular, bark Carter played probably his best game.
He had sixteen tackles, and he's been kind of under
the gun a little bit the last few weeks for
not playing very well, and he's certainly had his best game.

Speaker 15 (01:32:29):
I agree with you, Rock, I mean, he's sixteen tackles
is a that's a huge number. I mean, particularly in
the National Football League. Man, that's you know, that's a
that's a tackling machine type number. You know. I think
he is feeling a lot more comfortable. I think he's
he's uh, he's playing a lot freer. It seems like,

(01:32:50):
you know, he's got he's got physical talents. Man, the
kid's got significant abilities. There's no question about it. He
played you know, at Clemson, he played a level of
college football. So you know, this kid knows what he's doing.
And I think Al Golden believes in him, likes him.
He respects Al Golden, and he likes Al Golden. Uh So,

(01:33:12):
I do think the defensive football team, to uh give them,
you know, a fair shake, is that they they don't quit. Man.
They play hard. You know, they're they're still working at it,
they're trying hard. They're still making too any mistakes though,
that's the problem. You know, they're gonna get that figured
out because those those mistakes. You know, Rock and the
National Football League man one one one of the eleventh

(01:33:34):
one one guy of the eleventh of the eleven players
makes a mistake, he can end up they're dancing in
the end zone and celebrating.

Speaker 1 (01:33:43):
Well, anybody else stand out for yesterday lap Like we
were saying, the defense definitely stepping up. Anybody jump out
at you and uh, because it just seemed like they
were really hustling yesterday. I don't know that I've tackled
tackling better, playing through and stuff like that. Is that

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what you were saying?

Speaker 21 (01:34:06):
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 15 (01:34:07):
And you know, I think I think the effort, uh,
you know, was was significant excuse me, significantly improved. I
thought I thought they they did. I thought they get
after it and and that that side of things, you know,
DJ Turner, I thought, you know, played played a really
good football game. I mean, the kid, he's a good tackler.
He might be the best tackler that they've got on

(01:34:28):
the football field. I mean when he when he gets
uh his head in front of people and wraps his
arms up, he gets them on the ground. He doesn't
miss a whole lot of tackles. And they need they
need more like him. They need guys to to uh,
you know, to get get people on the ground and
and plays not hit him and then allow him to

(01:34:48):
break through the tackle and pick up extra yards yards
after contact. Uh they get to get him on the
ground right now.

Speaker 3 (01:34:55):
Uh, Lap.

Speaker 2 (01:34:56):
It looked like during the game, you know, Joe Flaka,
I guess his finger popped out of a socket and
popped out a joint. Had to go back. And now
I have to imagine all your years playing offensive line
lab that has to have happened to you. Can you
take us through a story when you had a finger
come out of a joint and they had a gum
pop that thing back in.

Speaker 15 (01:35:16):
Yeah, I think I probably had. I know I had four,
maybe five, so the probably almost half the fingers, you know,
one thumb dislocation too. That one hurt me and that
one was not. It was not a pleasant, pleasant dynamic.
And yeah, I remember, I guess. I guess the story
that would be interesting was against the Pittsburgh Steelers, the

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Steel Curtain defense. I just located finger in the low
red zone against Joe green Man and just kind of
popped that thing back in the place. You know, it
wasn't you know, didn't want to stay on the ground,
you know, waste the time out or any of that.
So I just kind of got up and on my
way back to probably popped it back in the place.
And uh then when then when I got to the sideline,
and uh talked to Mark Paulas and train him like,

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and I got a little problem here, and the thing
was still a little crooked, you know, so he straightened
it out.

Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
He finished it.

Speaker 1 (01:36:09):
A little problem here, a lot of my fingers pointing
that way that way.

Speaker 15 (01:36:15):
Yeah, it was pointing north east and west instead of
north and south, you know. And uh and he taped
that bad boy up and he got me through the
rest of the game.

Speaker 2 (01:36:23):
So it was it was crazy God love and one
of the best people in the world, Anthony Munios. But
if you've ever seen him and seen him tall, he's
got that one finger lapped that buddy that don't look good.
Have you guys ever talked about that.

Speaker 15 (01:36:38):
He does. Man, it's like, you know, it's like, I'm like,
you know, maybe you need to get a little searchery
of that. Yeah, because people are thinking exactly that's what
he said. He goes, yeah. The doctor said, you know, boy,
that'd be a significant, significant situation there, and and uh,
I said, man, he goes, yeah, I use it.

Speaker 24 (01:36:57):
You know.

Speaker 15 (01:36:58):
During my speeches during talks like if and I'll say, yeah,
it's a dangerous game, and I'll hold my hand up
in there. Everybody's oh, all the women, all the women
are getting the sick going to the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (01:37:08):
You know, gee, that's funny. Well, speaking of uh, I
guess well, moving on from Joe Flacco and look, I
did a fantastic job under just unbelievably tough circumstances. But
it looks like lap of the word is Joe Burrow
is going to start this Thursday night against the Ravens.

(01:37:29):
What are you hearing and what's uh?

Speaker 15 (01:37:31):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:37:31):
What do you think the decision comes down to?

Speaker 15 (01:37:34):
Yeah, I'm hearing the same thing. Rock. I think I think, uh,
Joe Burrow will get the start, you know, against the
against the Ravens in Baltimore. And I think it's going
to come down to how does Joe Burrow feel about it.
I think Joe's going to make the final call, the
final decision. I think that I don't think the coaches
will overrule if he says, look, I had a good
week of practice, moving around and everything. I'm a hundred

(01:37:56):
percent you know, I feel as good as I'm going
to feel it's not gonna really get any better. There's
no guarantees he's not going to reinjure it. I mean,
there's no guarantee anybody goes out there and doesn't get injured,
you know, But I do I think he'll go out
there and play well against the Baltimore Ravens. I was
talking to him in the locker room today and he's like, yeah,
I'm not gonna let him off the hook man. He's

(01:38:16):
had great success against the Ravens and they don't want
any part of number nine out there man firing bullets
around the around the football field. And you know he'll
have Jamar Chase, but he you know, he won't to
have T Higgins. Unfortunately, T Higgins got wrong, He got
dinged and got a concussion, and he has to take
care of that and deal with that. So you got
to hope at some point in time every weapon will

(01:38:37):
be there, the big three. You know, you'd love to
have number nine, number one, and number five. You'd love
to have Burrow and Jamar Chase and T Higgins all
working together and operating for that offense for the Cincinnati Bengals,
for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:38:49):
So speaking to both of you guys, here talking about
tea and the and the concussion. How long is that?
Is that just day by day you just take it
as it comes or is there a rule of thumb
with these things?

Speaker 15 (01:39:03):
Yeah, I mean it is day by day. Like you say,
they're all different. You know, I had had more than
one of those as well during the course of the
playing playing cread I know you must have rocked the
way you were hitting people and coming downhill as a linebacker.
I mean, it's part of the game, I guess. And
you know, the Players Association is the Unions tried to help,

(01:39:25):
you know, guys, that's one thing that some guys are
dealing with. They get real real bad memory issues and
problems with you know, with their brains after suffering significant
concussions and multiple concussions.

Speaker 2 (01:39:36):
So it's no joke.

Speaker 15 (01:39:38):
It's it's part of the game. But it's a tough
part of the game.

Speaker 2 (01:39:41):
And the Ravens lap kind of an interesting team. They
start off with one in five, right, and then they
rattled off. They've won the last five, albeit against some
you know, kind of some bad teams. The Bears win
was pretty good within the Dolphins, Vikings, Browns, and Jets,
and they kind of had a really kicking into gear
to beat the Jets on yesterday. So what's your thoughts?

(01:40:06):
Is this a is this a good good Ravens team? Average, supreme?
What do you think?

Speaker 15 (01:40:13):
Yeah? I think it's probably fairly average as far as
you know Ravens are concerned. Uh, they're six and five,
you know, they're they're hanging in there there the division.
Nobody is running away with the AFC North, that's the thing.
But in that five game winning streak, their offense has
woken up. I mean their offense is scoring. Man scored
thirty against Chicago, twenty eight against the Dolphins, twenty seven

(01:40:34):
against Minnesota, twenty three against Cleveland, twenty three against the Jets.
I mean they're they're scoring points. So the Bengals defense
is going to have to, you know, bring it man.
It's uh, you're on the road. The crowd is going
to be very supportive of what the what the Baltimore
Ravens you know, offensive football team is doing. Lamar Jackson

(01:40:55):
is starting to play, you know, good football. He's uh,
he's always played good football. All against the Bens. He's
played great football. He's as big a two way threat.
He's like an old school two way threat because he
can fire the ball man. I mean, he can rifle
distances down the football field. Ex Accuracy sometimes leaves something
to be desired. But but he and he runs, you know, shoot,

(01:41:18):
he probably runs like high four to two s low
four threes. I mean he can fly and he's he
can pick him up and put him down. Boy, that
guy is a problem. And I remember, you know Marvin
Lewis who I just caught up with here recently, Hughes.
He did the Bengals game against the Patriots for one
of the networks. He was doing color on the radio.
And he's just a Baltimore Raven team. When you're a

(01:41:40):
defensive coordinator, your biggest nightmare is a quarterback that can
hurt you both ways. You know, that can hurt you
with that throwing arm, then Kentucket and and run like
a running back and hurt you in that regard as well.

Speaker 1 (01:41:52):
So Lap, before we let you go, we might have
seen the last of Joe Flacco this year. And Brock
and I were talking about it earlier. Jason Williams in
The Inquire Today wrote a nice article in praise of
Joe Flacco, and honestly, Buddy could you ask for more
from this guy what he's done here, No, I don't.

Speaker 15 (01:42:12):
Think so any I mean the guy, the guy came
in and he, you know, saved the ship, you know.
I mean, he's he's played a lot of football, eighteen
years in the National Football League, forty years old, and
he takes care of himself. You know, he's still in
real good physical shape, and he's still got his arm strength,
and even with that shoulder issue that he had, he's

(01:42:33):
still firing the football pretty well. Unfortunately, that shoulder problem
last week caused him a little bit of accuracy issue there.
I mean, he missed some thrills he wouldn't have missed otherwise.
But I'll tell you what he's he's done a hell
of a job and I think I think he has
basically earned himself an opportunity to come back next year.
I know they just you know, signed him for the

(01:42:53):
rest of this season. But and I'm not saying a
long term contract when you're forty over forty years old,
you don't necessarily do that. But I'll tell you that's
a one two punch that's pretty damn good. You know,
you get Joe cool and uh and uh, you know,
Joe Chill and and they Uh that's good one two
punch for anybody for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:43:13):
All right, Lap, what do you got coming up on
the show tonight?

Speaker 15 (01:43:16):
Yeah, we got a bunch of a bunch of uh
sound from from the locker room different players. And also
we got you know, the two pressures that were covered
pretty well, we got all kinds of sound from that
as well. And you know that was Joe Flacco and
uh and and uh of course head coach Zach Taylor.
So yeah, we got plenty of plenty for people to
listen to. I think, uh, you know, we the the

(01:43:39):
sound will help us uh put this one to bed,
this loss of the Patriots and and hopefully learn something
about getting ready for the to go out and try
to get a win on the road in the division
against the Ravens.

Speaker 1 (01:43:51):
All right, Lap, have yourself a great Thanksgiving buddy, You.

Speaker 15 (01:43:56):
Do the same, guys. Happy Thanksgiving. Uh you guys will
best appreciate you to visit. I'll be the best buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
Thanks.

Speaker 6 (01:44:03):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:44:03):
With that, we check in with traffic and weather.

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Speaker 1 (01:45:39):
Guys, you've heard it all right back with Eddie and
Rocky just a little while longer in rock I hadn't
heard a whole lot about this story. Maybe I saw
it in passing or something, but this is crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:45:49):
Yeah, this was crazy, which is why I wanted to
get an update on this. A pretty pretty harrowing situation.
Eighteen year old who died on a cruise and here
with us from ABC. Sasha peznik adjoins us. Sasha, what
is the latest?

Speaker 11 (01:46:04):
Hey?

Speaker 28 (01:46:05):
Yeah, that's exactly right. What started out is what you
would imagine is a dream vacation for a tight knit,
flendid family, soon thrust them into complete shock and anguish
when one of their own, this beloved teenage girl, was
discovered dead on their carnival cruise ship earlier this month,
and even more baffling than that the person who her
family has come to find out from authorities is suspected

(01:46:26):
in her death. Her teenage step brother, The eighteen year
old Anna Kepner's body was discovered concealed under a bed
on that cruise ship where she, her grandparents, her dad,
his new wife, her children from a previous marriage were
all enjoying this Stanley holiday together. And we're just getting
in that the death certificate issued today and her death

(01:46:47):
has in fact been ruled a homicide, according to a
copy of the death certificate provided to ABC News by
Anna's family, and Anna's grandparents are now breaking their silence
for the first time in an interview with ABC News,
sharing the difficult details of what they know so far
about what happened on that ship. Jeffrey and Barbara Kepner

(01:47:08):
say the last time they saw Anna was the night before,
when she said her dental braces were hurting her at dinner,
but was still determined to join in the fawn, popping
in and out to see them. Then the next morning,
her grandfather says he heard a medical alert blaring over
the ship's loudspeakers and the room it was needed for
a boy. It was all too familiar to him. Now,

(01:47:32):
Anna's death certificate says that she was asphyxiated, and Anna's
grandma says one possibility they're considering is whether it was
caused by this kind of so called like a bar hold,
which is an arm kind of across the neck. They
were told. The grandparents say that their granddaughter's bodies showed

(01:47:52):
no signs of sexual assault or drugs or alcohol in
her system. So we're still awaiting the official topsy and
toxicology reports. But here's what's interesting and sort of unusual
about this case so far. Often in a suspected homicide
like this, you hear who the suspect is, who might

(01:48:14):
be responsible. You hear that from authorities, from the cops.
Right in this case, in a court filing in a
completely unrelated custody dispute, Anna's stepmother has called her own son,
who is a minor, a suspect in Anna's death. That's
the stepbrother. Now, his stepbrother has not been arrested or
charged with the crime at this point, but and his

(01:48:37):
grandparents tell us that authorities told the family the stepbrother,
per security cameras on the ship, was the only one
scene going in and out from the room that he
had been sharing with Anna. And her grandparents also say
Anna and her stepbrother actually were, to their knowledge, pretty close.
They called them two peas in a pod, and in
fact they wanted to room together on the ship, even

(01:48:59):
though they had the option not to. Barbara Kaepner, or
the grandma, said that she actually sat in on some
of the step brothers interview with the FBI after the
whole ordeal that happened on the ship. He was an
emotional mess, told her that he didn't remember what happened
after the boat docked. He was half hospitalized for a
psychiatric observation and then released to stay with a family member.

(01:49:23):
But that's what we're what we know so far, and
the grandparents, you know, want to remember Ann as a
mighty young woman with her whole life ahead of her
that ally was cut short.

Speaker 2 (01:49:34):
So, given the fact this was a step brother situation,
is there any concerns this was there was something else
going on in this relationship between them.

Speaker 28 (01:49:45):
So that that's an open question, and it's something that
authorities are going to be pouring over. They want to
talk to everyone, They want to pour over all of
these security cameras from the ship understand the whole scope
of what might have been going on with the family
at this point, though, you know, what the family has
heard is that there was no sign of sexual assault

(01:50:07):
or drugs or alcohol. So at this point all we
know is that it looks like a homicide and that
the cause of death was mechanical asphyxiation. And the grandparents
also said.

Speaker 24 (01:50:18):
That they.

Speaker 28 (01:50:20):
Heard from authorities that there were indeed bruises on her neck,
so no sign of sexual assault. That we don't know
much more than that at this point. We're just going
to have to wait to find out as authorities quen.

Speaker 1 (01:50:30):
More crazy stuff. Sasha pass and we appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:35):
You Butt, thank you Christ, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:50:37):
Rock and other news. Crime of a less serious manner.
This happened in Missouri. This was a shoot just the
other day. As a matter of fact, the guys was
arrested in being charged Cold Birtles is the fellaw's name.
Thirty three was arrested for breaking into a Circle K

(01:50:59):
store at two fifteen in the morning and stealing a
bag of beef jerky.

Speaker 2 (01:51:05):
Now, in their defense, beef jerky is good but very expensive.

Speaker 1 (01:51:12):
Well, I don't know if I kicked the door in,
but he had a good reason Okay, right, okay, besides
why kinds of wanting it? A little munchie? Uh this
Birdles fella, it's in Saint Charles, Missouri. He kicked in
the front glass door of the convenience store, then climbed
into the locked business and proceeded to eat a bag
of beef jerky and a sweet tea and drink a

(01:51:33):
sweet tea with it. When cops arrived at Circle K,
Burdles was detained and asked about the break in. He
apparently confessed saying that quote the voices in my head
told me to kick it open since it was locked,
And he said, I just wanted to use the bathroom
voices in his head. Huh yep, he said, blah blah

(01:51:56):
blah blah blah. What was the one line I wanted
to say?

Speaker 7 (01:51:59):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:52:00):
Okay, yeah, he told police, I know you're going to
think I'm crazy, but there's an AI intelligence speaker in
my neck. Really, goo goo got got this, fellow, Birtles,
check this out. Birtles, whose residence is about forty miles
from this store in Missouri, added that he had walked

(01:52:21):
to the Circle K from Illinois.

Speaker 2 (01:52:25):
He walked forty miles to the Circle K to get some.

Speaker 1 (01:52:28):
You walk forty miles, you're gonna be hungry, hass.

Speaker 2 (01:52:31):
Yeah, you're not walking out of there with nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:52:35):
So yeah, he's been. He was locked up in lieu
of twenty five hundred dollars bond. He has also been
ordered to have no contact with Circle K and submit
to a mental health examination if he does indeed bond
out of custody.

Speaker 2 (01:52:50):
The voices in his head huh yip, your head, voices
in your head? Uh sure, a bad trip or anything.
Back in the seventies, now.

Speaker 1 (01:52:59):
Nah, No, there was. There was one time, perhaps I
had imbibed substance and I visit my old girlfriend's apartment
and I we're listening to music and she's doing some
stuff and I'm just laying there, like reading a magazine
or something. And it started to get the the bat
of me, shall we say, And so I just put

(01:53:22):
the covers over my head and I just lay it
on her bed and listened to music. And she asked
me if I was okay, and I said, I'm fine.
I'm just laying here under the covers.

Speaker 2 (01:53:32):
Yeah. Yeah, she said, okay, carry on, do.

Speaker 22 (01:53:37):
What you gotta do.

Speaker 1 (01:53:40):
I was there for an hour or two.

Speaker 2 (01:53:42):
Pop that.

Speaker 1 (01:53:43):
Yeah, once you get once you get a grip, you
know what I'm saying, That's that's all you need. Now,
this is this sounds like something I might have thought
about in that instance. There's an underwater cave on the
border between Greece and Albania. Scientist said discovered a spider
web there that covers one thousand and seventy six square

(01:54:06):
feet along a wall. Wow, a spider web. The web
is home to an estimated one hundred and ten thousand
spiders of two different species. Now, if you're afraid of spiders,
I think that would.

Speaker 2 (01:54:21):
Go not the place you want to go. See. I
am not afraid of spiders, are you? Nah? My wife is.

Speaker 7 (01:54:28):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:54:29):
Doesn't bother me at all, forget it.

Speaker 1 (01:54:32):
Yeah, the spiders creep me out on a bit, But
you know, I there were the only the only thing
about spiders is the surprise angle of a of a spider,
you know what I'm saying. There was one. It was
in my old house and we had a sliding glass
door in our basement and we never used it. I

(01:54:54):
don't even know why I had to put in, but anyway,
so I was going to kind of clean to the
windows and stuff and moving some debris around down there.
And since we hadn't opened that door in a while,
obviously there was some webs and stuff on it. And
I'm getting I'm carrying something out out that door, and
I opened the sliding glass and I start to walk

(01:55:15):
through the door, and I mean I stopped literally about
two inches away from a big spider web and a
wolf spider about that big I'm holding about three inches
in diameter, And that took me back a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:55:29):
Oh man, Yeah, but I'm sure you've been going through
the woods or something, and just for sure, certain times
a year, like if you're on a quad going through
the woods, your face is just getting I mean I
literally rigged up like a I got a stick that
looked like a giant crucifix to be able to knock
down the spider webs in front of you, because that's
that's no fun when you get them over your face.

Speaker 1 (01:55:50):
With that, we check in with traffic and weather, what
is going on