Eddie & Rocky -- 12/10/25

Eddie and Rocky talk with Bill Cunningham, Alex Stone, Dan Monk, and more on 700 WLW!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Affects everybody basically in the sound of our voice, that's right.
I'm not everybody shots at Kroger, obviously, but I'd say
a large majority.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Dough, Yeah, but a lot of folks are affected by
just that big behemoth of a company that is. And look,
this concept of remote work, that is one of the
things that sprung from COVID, right, and everyone had to
work or we had to work from home. And then
it got to be where people were like, what's work
from home? Thing? Ain't bad? I the boss ain't there.

(00:31):
I can walk my dog if I have five minutes.
But I think a lot of companies found that in essence,
while you may like to work from home, you most
people don't necessarily work well from home, right, they don't,
you know.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's apparently Kroger has found that out. Correct. Circling back
to our conversation about Kroger, is that downtown, that giant
building that's been down there as long as I remember,
since I and I moved, been down fifty years ago.
It has been kind of non occupied.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Right, So yeah. According to Dan Monk's article, Kroger has
about forty eight hundred local office employees and come the
first of the year. They're demanding that all of them
come back to the office.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
And we have that man with us right here, Dan
Monk from the I team WCPO nine News. And so, Danielle,
you're your story. You had this on a little while back,
but we hadn't heard about it. But it's the first
of the year, right, it's expected to do one hundred
percent attendance.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Now, right, that's by the way, I'm working from home
right now.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yes, well, yeah, you're on the phone.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Actually maybe you shouldn't tell the boss that, but I am.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I'm working.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
I'm really working.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
But Dan, I mean, but they're making a big issue
out of the fact that a lot of the small businesses,
and I was going to ask you about that, where
a lot of the small businesses they're kind of clamoring
for this.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, they have been, and Kroger has gradually been bringing
people back. I think last year it was they brought
him back to maybe three days a week, and now
they're bringing everybody back full time. But that is welcome
news to the folks at three c DC. They say
it's going to be a shot in the arm for
small businesses. And what Joe Rudemiller the folk's been for

(02:28):
three c DC told me is that you can still
tell on Monday and Friday that people still work from
home a lot. But he thinks a lot of the
traffic and the pedestrian traffic, the energy of downtown has
really come back from that Tuesday to Thursday stretch. And

(02:48):
you know, they're getting some additional traffic from the fact
that more people are living downtown, and so you know,
he thinks downtown is making a comeback. But the fact
that the you know, the biggest company in town is
is mandating full time work at the downtown and all
the local corporate offices, that's good news for the for

(03:12):
the surrounding businesses.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Well, I have to imagine the local restaurants and I
have to be the biggest benefactors here. You're talking forty
eight hundred employees that are now going to be back
downtown on a more consistent basis, that that's going to
be a big help to them.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, that's definitely true. And you hear that from restaurant tours,
especially the ones on the sort of the east and
the and the northern part of town where Kroger is based.
And then you've got PNG and Western Southern you know,
on the southeast corner of downtown, and the people that
operate businesses near there are grateful for the fact that

(03:51):
Western Southern pretty much had full time you know, work
in the office very shortly after the pandemic ended. Now
a lot of people are still working from home. It's
like thirty five million people still work from home according
to the Labor Department. That's their most recent testament in

(04:11):
September of last year. And the executive search firm Robert Half,
they did a survey and they found that eighty eight
percent of employees are still offering hybrid work options. So
it's it's not something that's going to go away forever.
People like working at home and they demand it.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, yeah, and according to your stats, are at thirty
five million number. According to your request, twenty two percent
of the workforce, the US workforce, that's I think it
was a quarter of the American workforce works from home
at least some of the time. So we know that
Kroger bringing you in person work back is going to help,
you know, the local community and the businesses. But what

(04:52):
is Kroger's reason. They come out and explicitly said the
reason why they want their folks back in the office.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
They've said that with their stores and manufacturing plants and
distribution centers opening and operating around the clock, they feel
like in office, expectations have to be greater for them.
They think that the workplace encourages collaboration and it helps

(05:20):
Kroger manage their business better.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, and flipping the script here for a second, we're
talking to Dan Monk from the IT team from Channel
nine while they're talking about having more people in the building,
the office building downtown. What's with the delivery situation that
got going on? Where they're going with AI? What exactly
I was? You know, I heard their story and read

(05:45):
the story, and I still don't think I get what's
going on there.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Okay, Well, Kroger has been trying to figure out the
best way to do home delivery since twenty eighteen, and
what they started with was a fleet of robot powered warehouses.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
They have a big one in Monroe, the.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Fifty five million dollar facility where computers run around on
grids and they pick the groceries and they're put in
those blue trucks and they ship them to places all
over all over Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. So that hub
has four different satellite facilities in the Independence, Kentucky, Louisville, Indianapolis,

(06:30):
and Columbus. And that's how Kroger delivered groceries to those markets,
you know, for the last eight years. And now they're
changing that because that system is geared toward next day service.
That's not fast enough for Americans now and they want

(06:51):
the capability to do same day service and they really
need it because Amazon has one of a thousand cities
now where you can get same day delivery of grocery.
So they got to keep up with their competitors. So
they're changing things around, and they've closed several of their
distribution facilities to save money and also to.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Make sure that.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
The ones they have are operating, you know, at full capacity.
And then at the same time, they've signed deals with instacart,
door Dash, and Uber Eats to deliver groceries on a
same day basis. And so what my story is about
is the implications of that for customers. And one of

(07:41):
the things they're doing with Instacart, for example, is Instacart
has an artificial intelligence tool. They call it KRT Assistance,
and it's basically a chatbot that helps you build your
grocery list or build your grocery order based on your preferences.
And so what they say is it's a tool for

(08:02):
meal planning and budgeting and nutrition. You can ask it
to find a recipe that's healthy and it'll give you
the ingredients, and they say it'll save time. But what
a lot of privacy activists claim is that AI is
really a tool for what they call surveillance pricing, which

(08:23):
is arguably a predatory form of pricing, where companies collect
a lot of data about you, They create a profile
about you, and the whole goal there is to determine
how badly you need a product, how much you'll pay
for it, and whether they can get a higher price
from you.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Right, And then what the thought being if they all
of a sudden look at the data, or I should say,
AI looks at the data and data and instantaneously says, boy,
this section of Cincinnati, for whatever reason, is ordering a
lot of bananas. We can up the price of bananas
by three cents. Right, That's kind of what they I
guess the fears are that is going to happen.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
That's the fear. Yeah, And you know, I don't think
the evidence is in on either side of this. You know,
what Kroger said to me this week was that the
customers who choose Instacart, that you know, the fear is
that you're putting an AI tool on the Kroger app,
and what kind of data will it have access to?
What's it going to do with that data. At the

(09:26):
same time, Kroger and Instacart are selling access to their
customers to advertisers, and so one of the what one
of the people told me from one of the privacy
groups was, how do you know whether Kroger is giving
you the best deal or they're just giving you a
deal that makes them the most money because they have

(09:47):
advertisers paying for access to your customers. And now that
you introduce Instacart to the to the equation, how do
you know it's the Instacart app that's not making the
money or Instacart made in the money. So you got
conflicting you know, I guess wishes here. Kroger wants to

(10:08):
make money, Instacart wants to make money. The consumer wants
the lowest price. What Kroger ultimately told me was that
customers who choose Instacart as their delivery provider through the
Kroger app will pay the same price as in store customers,
and they'll do it in a transparent way that creates
value for consumers.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
All right, Well, fascinating stuff, Dan Monk, We always appreciated, buddy.
Thanks so much. Yep, thanks gray stuff, Dan, thank you
big stuff coming to Kroger. And you think about going
back to what we were talking about with the office
space being filled downtown. I think you see some of
these old pictures and I say old pictures of Cincinnati.

(10:50):
I'm talking you know, yeah, mid nineties when downtown was
packed right during the day. You go downtown right now,
there's there's no there in the afternoon, nothing, nothing going on. No,
we'll see if that that helps. Well that we head
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Speaker 2 (12:58):
He's notice Reading, singer of this song killed in a
plane crash, aged twenty six. Yeah, I did not know
he was that young. Ready Its Yeah, his band they
made an appearance in Cleveland, Ohio on a local television show.
Playing was carrying oas Ready and his band crashed around
three twenty eight pm into a lake Monoma near Madison.

(13:21):
Reading was killed along with members of his band, The
bar Jay's Jimmy King were on cardwell Faelan James, Carl Cunningham,
trumpet player Ben Cauley. He was actually the only man
to survive the crash. Yeah, it was right after that.
That's sitting on the dock of the bacon right here,
cranks up a little bit awesome. This was the first

(13:43):
dance at my wedding. Oh is that right? This was
our first dance name Kellen. I chose a band, a
band with you, the great song this these arms of
Mine sitting on the dock of the bay. A short
amount of time.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
I was just going to say, these arms of mine?
What Devin I danced too?

Speaker 2 (14:05):
For that's about that's a fact you and I had
the ready first first dance. Yeah, here you go. There's
a good part.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
See we go back to what I was talking about
kids these days, trying to lecture my sons on music
to listen to when you're trying to get.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
In the mood with your lady.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
And I'm like, guys, little Otis Redding, a little Algrenlo
little yeah, some little Marvin Gaye. Yeah, you can't go wrong. Yes,
And they're like, we don't know who that is dead?
Oh my god, Well find out find out you were
my kids.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah. I thought I raised you better than that, right exactly.
But yeah, on this day in history, nineteen six, I
can't twenty six years old.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Crazy, Well that's you think back on guys, like that
that tunneled at twenty six. But also and not to
lean on my Beatles thing too hard, But I will
think about those guys. Lennon McCartney were like twenty five
when they wrote some of the best pop songs of
all time, when they were only like, you know, twenty

(15:23):
years old. They wrote I want to hold your hands,
she loves You. But you know, they're like twenty five
twenty six writing I Am the Walrus and uh, you know,
day in the Life.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, it's funny, Like when I'm young, I'm thinking, Okay,
these guys are like, you know, thirty five forty. They've
been doing us for a long time. It's why they're
so good. Well, they just had it.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
They broke up before they were thirty. That that in
of itself is crazy.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Now, Now when did they stop doing because they famously
didn't perform live right after a certain time after sixty six.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yeah, and they.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
After nineteen sixty six, they never performed a concert.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Well, that rooftop thing, the Roofstop and that would be
sixty nine, Winner of sixty nine, and that's about as
far as they went. They released Let It Be came
out in like early spring of seventy and that was that.
But that album had been done before their last album,
which was Abbey Road.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Now do you realize that if the Beatles were around today,
they couldn't survive, not torn. The only way you can
make these days was by touring, because there's you know,
you don't get paid nothing for the Spotify's and the
wherever the hell you get music these days.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Well, yeah, those guys make nothing. Well that's the reason
people are always saying, well, why are the Stones still
touring and all these old guys still touring? Well, they
don't make any money.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
And also that's the reason these artists have all sold
off their catalogs. You know, Neil Young whatever, somebody paid
him hundreds of millions of dollars for his catalog and
people were like, why did you do that?

Speaker 9 (16:59):
Now?

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Are you're going to hear it like in a Chevy ad.
You're going to hear them playing rocking in the free world, goes,
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
You get to a certain age and you go, I
don't care. I I've did this and I wanted to
pay off for me what I can't take it with
me to my death? What's what's the difference?

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, right, you're taking care of your kids, kids, kids, kids, kids, right,
end of story.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, but no, I mean now music is being created
by a I ercent AI music is out and it's good.
There's something that's good.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Well that when the number one country song a couple
of weeks back when then AI song?

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yeah yeah, but there is pushback, which which leads me
to my next story here, ed, Uh have you seen
them McDonald's commercial that was one hundred percent AI created.
I never saw it on TV, but I know I
guess it was coming out.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Okay, So I didn't see it. I was reading the
same story you have there, but I didn't see.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah, okay, so they again they did this commerce So
that was one hundred percent AI, and the blowback from
it is fierce. You know, people are are pushing back.
They're like, wait a minute, we want real people, we
want like what is this? People just are pushing back
on all this artificial intelligence that's coming. So, uh but

(18:18):
I saw it. You wouldn't. You wouldn't know that it
was Oh is that right? Yeah? Yeah, but it is.
We're going to see that more and more.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
I told you it was. Shoot, it was probably a
year or so ago that there was a thing that
popped up on I want to say my Facebook whatever.
It was promo for a friends reunion show. Well, it's
probably it's been a couple of years ago because it
was about when what's his name died, Matthew Barry died,

(18:49):
and so they and they were getting they put together
a reunion show that they were all going to go
to his They were all getting together go to his funeral,
and I saw I was like, I can't believe they're
doing this. Wow, that's kind of strange and weird. But
I guess they're just trying to salute their buddy. And

(19:10):
I said something to one of my sons again they're going, yeah,
that's AI. It's like fold me.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Increasingly, more and more you see video and yet you
don't know if it's real. You see a tweet, you
see something, and it makes you question even when somebody
we talked about this years ago, when something is real,
you're going to go, I don't know that could be
AI generated.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Well, something serious is going to happen, and you know
it is. Something serious is going to happen, and it's
going to be one of those things where whatever a
certain percentage of population is going to go I don't
believe that's not real.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, and people are going to know this is real
and they're like, all right, sure that all the time.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
It's going to be more of the World's Part two
from back in the thirties. Yeah, you know, people are
gonna freak out because somebody's gonna put out there here,
look at this. This Martian is walking down my street
right now, and people are going to freak out.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Would it change your opinion of a song if you
knew it was AI another word? You heard a song
like damn, that's really catch. That guy's got a great voice.
Would you would inhibit your feeling of this song and
whether you listen to it more or if you knew
it was AI.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
No, not really see it would be See I'm pushing
back on it, but I think I just don't know.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Are we gonna get to a point where we don't
know if a song is AI or real or is
it gonna be kind of two separate categories like Okay,
you know, here's music that's so created the old way,
and we can appreciate that, but we can also appreciate
this AI generated song that's just happens to be very catchy.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
I don't know, see, that's what I would like to
think that I would push back on it, but I've
finally given up the thought on it because it's kind
of in my mind, it's kind of like types of food.
You just kind of you just said it right there. Okay,
there's good kinds of there's good kinds of country music.
You're just cutting kind of opera that rock music, soul music,

(21:11):
rap music. Okay, now there's gonna be good kinds of
AI music. Does that make sense? Yeah, so you know
it that falls into its own category as far as
I'm concerned, Well, I hope it doesn't end up taking over.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
But can you truly appreciate the soulfulness of the song
and the meaning for sure, knowing that it's not done
by a person who had a real experience.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Dude, you just played that Otis Redding song. There No
computer can do that.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
I don't think so, But I think they can. That's
what's scary. It's gonna try it can create a voice
as good as his soulful, But again, knowing that that's
a real person and the struggles and all that, I
think it makes you appreciate the song. But if it
was just completed on a on a computer or keyboard.
Would you feel the same about that otis writing song

(22:03):
that remains to be seen. I don't think I would,
but you know, but then again, does like most things,
over time, you just kind of say, well, I enjoy this, So.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
That's kind of That's what That's the way I'm looking
at it. I think that we're all going to cave
to it sooner or later as it well, because right now,
the thought of AI actors and stuff like that, it's
freaking everybody out. But hey, the next five years, you know,
I'll go see an AI movie just if somebody tells
me it's good.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
I don't know. I don't know how how I feel
about it, but I know initially i'll push back. But
does it get the point where you go, why why
fight this? I'm I mean, you know it's enjoyable, so
do it.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
Well, let's see what's going on with the real life
traffic outside. I don't know if he's.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Real or not.

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Hey, just remember I heard we're getingaranteed human We don't
have to worry about this stuff so far.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Guaranteed. Who's the end of the year.

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Don't look over your shoulders Son.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Just check your email.

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From our activity off the air. The University of Eastern
Finland has set out to see who uses the F
word the most of English speaking countries. So they went
with the most common or most thought of English speaking countries, America,

(25:21):
Australia and the UK. Americans by far outnumber everybody else.
Drop in the F bomb.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Really, I would have thought in the UK, they I
know folks over there and they say it a lot too.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, they came in second then Australia. But I love
this Australians. They found that Australians are the most creative
in their use of them.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
They used it as adverbs and past participleism, all that. Well.

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The Brits used some words that if you use that
in common conversation here people, we're gonna uh a woman
especially smack them out of you. Yes, but how they
accomplished this. The team examined over four point eight billion
words posted by four hundred over four hundred and thirty

(26:17):
five thousand X users from the United States, UK and
Australia between six and twenty three. They blah blah blah
focused on the F bomb the but it said most
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but it said contrary to that. That's the reason they
get the most creative because like you said, they're those
people that stick it in the middle of a three
syllable word. You know what I'm saying, I appreciate a
good creative use of the F word. Correct the swear words.

(27:02):
Smith's from down under blah where they get the creator
the creative part use twenty one hundred and sixty spelling
variants of the word, compared to nineteen hundred and sixty
nine in the United twenty one hundred and sixty spelling
variants on it.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
So you replace the C with a Q and all
that kind of stuff there along the way. And according
to Blah Blah blah, drop f bombs and social media,
it's swearing with the exceedingly rear in circles of fewer
than fifteen people, no matter how much they know each other.
So in other words, if it's just me and you talk,

(27:39):
I'm more more likely to drop the F bomb. And
that for a bunch of people around are going to
be like, you know, mind your p's and q's.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
I try to stop cussing. I think it might be
my New Year's resolution. Of course it's been a year
New Year's resolution many times. But I can't you stop
fighting it. I did. I gave up a long time.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
With that. We coming up speaking of a dropping F bomb.
We're gonna be talking about football.

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Yes, we got Glenn Clark. It's Ravens Week again and
we talked to our good buddy Glenn Clark of the
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Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yes, it is and ed. While the Bengals realistic hopes
for the playoffs are all but gone. I mean there
is a mathematical scenario if he involves some ties, and
I think the you know, the Hayley's common has to
come by at a certain time of the year. The
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the AFC North and that's their path is the one.
The division. Steelers are on top right now, and we
always love Steelers excuse me, Ravens week because it allows
us to talk to our good buddy Glenn Clark of
the Glen Clark Radio Show. Glenn, how are you, brother Iraqi?

Speaker 16 (34:56):
What's going on?

Speaker 4 (34:57):
Man?

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Eddie?

Speaker 16 (34:58):
I need to ask you because Rock was on with
me this morning and like really made it seem like
it is about the worst week in Cincinnati there's ever been.
And I'm struggling with that because you know, the Bengals
just pasted the race in two weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
On the well, I think Rock might have been talking
about the overall experience of like the last two weeks. Glenn, Right,
Swarber is not a possibility now, but then what it
was two weekends ago? All the basketball teams lost, the
football teams all lost. Yeah, Now Schwarz is not coming

(35:34):
to town. That's there'll be a blue Christmas run here, Glenn.

Speaker 16 (35:39):
Sudden, Suddenly in Baltimore things not that believe because we
got Pete Alonzo, so all of a sudden, things aren't
that bad here in Baltimore. We were disappointed about obviously,
I get that it's different because he's from there. But
we were bummed a best Schwarber too, but they made
up for that besigning Pete alonzo O today, gotcha.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
So so Glenn, the way, what I'm reading here is
for the Ravens, their path to the playoffs is the
win the division whin the FC North, which has been
pretty mediocre overall this year. So what they would have
to new is they got to beat the Bengals. They
got to beat the Steelers in Week eighteen, and then
they got two other games that are not easy, got
the Patriots and the Packers. I guess they got to

(36:16):
split those and that would propel them to the top.
Is that how you see it?

Speaker 16 (36:22):
Yeah, but they would still require the Steelers, like you
can assume they would probably lose the Lions in there.
But if the Steelers don't lose three games, the Ravens
really do have to win out. So it might require
the Steelers having to lose the Dolphins on Monday Night
as well, which is you know, the Dolphins are red hot,
right they won five of their last six. Maybe that's possible,

(36:44):
but it is in Pittsburgh, so I wouldn't feel good
about it, like it is venturing into the territory of
the Ravens might well have to win out in order
to get in, and like that is really perilous given
the skin schedule that you're talking about. Like they look,
if the Steelers go three and one, or the Steelers

(37:04):
go two and two, they go three and one, they
can make up the game. They get the Steelers and
you're just playing with the tide breakers and they should
have the common opponent's tide breakers, So like it's possible,
but man, you're playing with fire different that And the
problem is whether it's three and one or four and oh, Rack,
there's just no reason to feel good about this team

(37:24):
winning any of these games. Like the easiest win that
was left on their schedule was at home against Pittsburgh
and they lost that game. So I don't know how
anybody feels good about anything that's ahead for this Ravens
team at the moment.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Yeah, so it's possible, but yes, it's not going to
be easy. But Okay, then it comes down to are
the Baltimore Ravens a team that can make a run
and win this thing out late in the season here,
And to me, that all comes down to lamar Jack. Look,
it always comes down to your team's best player. How
are they performing late in the season, your best players?

(37:59):
I should say I don't know, Glenn, Lamar Jackson a
couple weeks ago that the Thanksgiving Night game against the Bengals,
he just does not look himself. He hasn't looked him
the dynamic, just ultimate threat that he's looked in the past. Glenn,
is that a mirage or is that something that's going
to get better? How do you see Lamar Jackson in

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his future? Here?

Speaker 16 (38:21):
It's funny what you're saying, Rock, because the question is
the answer. The answer is the question right Like, yes,
the Ravens still have a chance because they do have
Lamar Jackson. And if suddenly on Sunday in Cincinnati Lamar
Jackson looks like Lamar Jackson again, then they're gonna have
a chance to win any game that they can play,
because that's what their organization has been for the last
few years they've been. They've been good teams, but they've

(38:43):
been good teams wildly propped up by Lamar Jackson being
either the best or one of the two or three
best players in the entire league. To your point, he
hasn't been anything close to that of late, and it's
a complicated story. The offensive line is terrible. The guard
position has been a massive problem for the Ravens this season.
They haven't really experimented with trying anything else. I just

(39:05):
continue to stick it out and they're not getting better results.
Then you add to it the number of injuries. The
hamstring injury that cost him three weeks, and then after
he came back, he missed practices with designations to the knee,
the toe, and the ankle, and then today he just
didn't practice again, and the Ravens are just saying, well,
this is just a rest day, and like, you sure, fine.

(39:27):
I mean, he's dealt with a lot of injuries, but
what you've seen on the field has looked like a
team that's needed to have more days working together because
it's just not working. So could it happen? I guess
it could happen. But he's not been right rock Like,
he's just been a shell of himself, frankly, And some

(39:49):
of that might be him trying to adjust to I
want to extend my career, I don't want to run
more in general, but there have been times there have
been large swaths of real estate in front of him
on third down plays and he simply said, I'm not
going to run, which makes you assume it's more related
to all the injuries he dealt with this season, and
he got stepped on again at practice last week. It

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is really difficult to figure it out. In the second
half against the Steelers, there were moments where he looked
like himself again. If maybe he's coming around, then who knows.
But they're out of time for it to happen.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Glenn, I was going to ask you that the very
question is in a matter of him not him not
being able to do it or not wanting to do it.

Speaker 16 (40:35):
Yeah, it's a great question, and he's been asked the
question a number of times, and he's sort of dodgy
whenever anyone asks them about the injuries, like he says, well,
I'm out there, so I'm good, right, Like he just
doesn't And then John Harbaugh's dodgy when asked about it.
And a year ago we started to see Lamar try

(40:57):
to run a little bit less, and then now he's
ad historic numbers this year. This is by far the
least he's ever run per game. But here ago we
started to see it, and then there was a famous
moment where he kind of laughed and said, yeah, my
mom was cussing me out because I'm not running enough.
And we could tell that there was a purposeful change
that he wanted to hang in the pocket more and

(41:20):
let plays develop. And I get it, like he doesn't.
He wants his career to last until he's forty. And
I understand all of those things. But this season has
not been.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
The year for that.

Speaker 16 (41:31):
Like they they don't have the offensive line for him
to hold up and it's just not working, and the
fact that he's still unwilling to do it. I keep
leaning back to it. It's got to be the totality
of the injury.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
It's such a hard thing, Glenn, when you talk about
a quarterback, and especially a guy who's a dual threat
or a runner like or not adul threat like Lamar Jackson.
It's so hard to say, boy, he's got a change
and has evolved, he's got to run less, because it's
like you kind of are what you are, and you
got to you on one hand, you got to play to
your strengths. We can talk about Joe Flaccough and how

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he does such a good job of getting rid of
the ball and not taking sacks and throwing the ball
in the dirtble. Joe Flacco's never been able to run
and if he if he could, he would have, right,
So you kind of in a way you want to,
you know, extend your career. But on the other hand,
if you want to be the best, you got to
do what got you there, right, And you know this

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really well.

Speaker 16 (42:30):
I'll give you an example on Sunday against the Steelers.
In the first half, the Steelers thought Lamar was such
a non threat to run that in a short yarded situation,
they ran at a run play to Derrick Henry and TJ.
Watt didn't even bother looking at Lamar and he got
Derrick Henry for a four yard loss in the backfield.
And you would never see that in a world where

(42:53):
on film they're running our pos Lamar's taking off. You
have to be honest, you have to stay in the lane,
and that presents him the opportunity to make the one
on one play. And so I'm really interested in like
they have to be seeing the same things on film.
And they, by the way, they did start running some
RPOs in the second half and it worked. They actually

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scored a touchdown to play the one that counted to
Isaiah Likely when like the three defenders all think that
Lamar is going to keep the ball because they had
seen a couple of RPOs run on the same drive
and then they left Isaiah Likely wide open in the
end zone. But this argument has existed for forever that
Lamar was going to have to run less. And as

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I've said a million times the injury argument, quarterbacks get
hurt in the pocket statistically more than they get hurt
wield and Lamar Jackson in particular, you know, I was
so fast that he never took big hits downfield, like
all of the big hits he took were in the
pocket because he knew when the hits were coming and
he avoided them. He got down or he got out

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of bounds. So this hasn't a really complicated topic that
he just doesn't give clear answers about. And that makes
it frustrating because when he's full Lamar Jackson, he is
one of one. He is the most unique talent we.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
May have seen in the NFL.

Speaker 16 (44:13):
When he's Lamar Jackson doesn't run, he's still an incredibly
capable thrower of the football. He's one of the more
precise throwers of the football in the league the last
couple of years. But he's not one of one. He's
a good football player. That guy is one of the
best that we've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Correct, Glenn Clark's join us. Make sure you check him
out on Twitter at Glenn Clark Radio and Glenn Last question,
I did not watch the Ravens Steelers game last week.
Let's take Lamar Jackson and his health and his play
out of it. What is the biggest strength of this
Ravens team as you see it right now, and what's
their biggest vulnerability?

Speaker 16 (44:48):
Wait, I'm struggling to figure out what their strength is. Talent. Yeah,
there's not a lot that they do terribly well. I mean,
their defensive started laying better. It had been woeful for
the first few weeks the season, had started playing better
for five weeks, and then the Bengals game happened and
Joe Burrow did whatever he wanted to do in the

(45:09):
second half, and they haven't recorded a sack in the
last couple of weeks. After things had been a lot
better with Raymond Jones. I still think their secondary is
pretty good, but your secondary can only be so good
if there's no pressure, Like, if you're letting Joe Burrow
have an eternity, he's gonna pick you apart.

Speaker 4 (45:26):
And he's Joe Burrow.

Speaker 16 (45:27):
He's one of the best players in the NFL. So
I don't know short of you know, when Lamar Jackson
looks like Lamar Jackson again, then this team looks good.
Keaton mitchellill give you. I'll give you one name if
Keaton Mitchell plays, and he'd practiced today, so I think
there's a good chance. Keaton Mitchell was an undrafted running
back out of East Carolina. His father was a rave
and won a Super Bowl here. He's a great story,

(45:48):
but he has really provided them because they have not
been able to run between the tackles with Derek Henry
the way they did last year. That's how bad the
guard play is. He gets to the edge and he
makes plays. He it's a burst. So that's one thing
that's been a really pleasant story line for the Ravens.
He was inactive earlier, but he's made a huge difference.
That's one thing to keep an eye on.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
All right, With that, Glenn, we will let you go, buddy,
Thanks so much.

Speaker 16 (46:12):
Always a pleasure, Eddie Rocky, Happy holidays, appreciate you guys,
and the same to.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
You, sir, Well you're the man, buddy, Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Glenn Clark. We'll see. But yeah, like you said, a
lot of faith in him right now, Jackson. Why I
love what he said there when when Jackson's Jackson, he's
he is one of one.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
He's good and he does make a good point because
I've always felt the same way, and the numbers show
it a lot of times. You know, the most of
the injuries of a quarterback happened in the pocket, taking
the blind side hit and you know and all that,
and Lamar Jackson, you rarely see him take a big shot,
unlike you know, Jackson Dart who took off and ran

(46:53):
down and shid he took from the bail. My god,
he's running down the sideline, just gets absolutely just I mean,
just hit stick out of bounds, as if he didn't
know that the linebackers are actually going to hit him.
But mar Jackson need he don't take those hits. He
gets down. He knows how to do it, so I
don't know they need him to just cut of loose

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and let it rip, hopefully for the Bengals sake.

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Speaker 2 (49:37):
And these days, what are the two most popular numbers? Oh?
What is it? The sixty six seven? Six seven? And
this is one of those things if if someone was
for another planet and you tried to explain why everyone,
young people especially literally lose their mind when six seven,

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sixty seven or those numbers come up, you would it
would be impossible to explain exactly what it is. And
of course, so if you go back in the history
of it, there was like a like a song by
Scrilla that had that in it, and then it became
you know, then there was a tribute. There's like a
Cincinnati guy was involved in it somehow, because we're always
the center of the universe here in Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Six to seven is like a basketball player that was
in the song.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
And yeah, the old balls six seven, and then something
like like was it right an six seven? Anyway, But
it's like jen alpha, which I guess is the new
term for like the young young people just just absolutely
lose their minds. And if you've seen online, if you're
at a store or someplace and sixty seven gets mentioned,

(50:46):
or a score of a game is six to seven,
lose their minds. Sure well, the ones I've seen these
viral videos of In and Out Burger were like literally
like mobs and mobs of kids all arm was selling phones.
Sit in an In and Out Burger and wait for
you know, order number sixty one, order number sixty two,

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and then when order sixty seven comes up, just completely
lose it like it's the greatest thing in the world,
like they just found a million dollars. Right. So In
and Out has removed sixty seven from their ordering system.
In and Out one of the many fast food restaurants
that harness system that links a customer's order with a

(51:28):
certain number, you know, between one and ninety nine. In September,
a customer filmed the exuberant scene that unfolded inside the
burger changed locations when an employee caught out sixty seven,
just as I described. According to people, multiple In and
Out employees recently noticed the ordering system has jumped from

(51:48):
sixty six to sixty eight, with one worker at a
restaurant in La telling the outlet sixty seven suddenly disappeared
around a month ago, and they also said that the
number sixty nine has also disappeared. Now see now that
was the number that we all thought was funny when
I was young.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
For sure, absolutely since whatever happened to sixty nine, yeah,
that made more sense and that was that was good humor.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
But sixty whatever. Uh, there's no telling of the change
will be a permanent one. Uh. There's some evidence that
suggests the trend, you know, it might have kind of
flamed out a little bit, but still well so, very
much alive in many parts of the country.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
As with anything like this, when adults start noticing it's happening,
the kids lose interest.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Right because then when the adults start it's like, oh,
sixty seven, they're like, it's lame now, so we gotta
exactly yeah, And I mean my five year old, we'll
run around the house going six seven, six seven and
again sold like a football game, and it was seven
to six. He goes six seven, like what is going on?
And then they all the other two just pi along

(53:01):
because they think it's hilarious, and I don't.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
Know, well, see that's your kids are just now getting
to that age. Yeah, my boys are they're they're they're
twenties now, and I'll tell something that I think is
cool and they give you the look of h well,
it's like I toold earlier. We were talking about soul music.

(53:25):
When I said, hey, man, listen, listen, notice ready, listen
to Marvin Gaye that kind of stuff. They're like, yeah, okay,
I got.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
A pin in it there.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Yeah, yeah, uh rock And speaking of the youngsters, this
happened in northern China and unidentified twenty three year old
man there one contest. It was at a shopping mall.

(53:56):
What kind of contest did he win? Funny you should ask.
He was the winner in the lying flat on a
mattress contest? How long get it to me? The contest
at the mall started. This was happened a couple of
weeks back. Started with about two hundred and forty people
lying flat on mattresses. One hundred and eighty six of

(54:18):
them had quit within twenty four hours. After thirty three
hours and nine minutes, just three contestants were left. And
that's when the organizers up the competition by making the
contestants raise their arms and legs so This is like
one of those old dance marathons you see from like

(54:38):
the nineteen twenties or something, where people were dancing until
they passed out and stopped.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Are those contests were you could kiss the longest time?
And all that?

Speaker 1 (54:48):
We did that at EBN? What time there was who
could kiss a car the longest or some siche?

Speaker 2 (54:53):
I forget what did they win the car? Somebody did?
You well?

Speaker 1 (54:56):
So they just basically everybody else passed hours? Uh, I
said the prize winner. My girlfriend had sent me the
link to the competition and suggested I give it a shot.
His prize rock Check this out? You think the powerball something?
The kid won four hundred and twenty bucks.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
That's it for How long do you leg in?

Speaker 3 (55:23):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (55:23):
For about thirty over thirty three hours? About three three
and a half hours. Apparently, Wow, is he allowed to
flip over? I see it after a while. You have
to it just says lying flat. So I don't know
if you just have to lay there with your arms
and legs stretched out flat on your lea.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
And I was wondering, too, are you could you have slept?
I guess doesn't have Probably be the best way to
do it. If you could sleep, but if you don't toss.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
And turn, then there you go, you'd probably roll over.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
Hey real quick, I'm sorry, I'm just seeing this breaking
news here again. This is from Pete Famil at ESPN.
Sharon Moore has been fired by Michigan.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
Yeah, the fire is set to be for cause. Oh
so what does that mean? ESPN's sources of Michigan has
fired head coach Sharon Moore. That's that's wild. Who knows
for cause? For cause? Now? What's what my first thought

(56:32):
is is, I don't know if you knew this, but
the great Kerry Combs just last week signed to be
the Special teamis coach at Michigan's. So what does that
mean for him? And everybody?

Speaker 3 (56:43):
I know?

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Austin, our producer is crying and i'man just a puddle
of tears right now, that of this negative news about Michigan,
but that school up north that's shocked to hear this. Guys,
really you can't believe it. Cobsmacked, I tell you, Do
you have any theories Austen on what happened or I've

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just I just saw it. I didn't know any if
any other news was out. There's some reports about maybe
some inappropriate relations. But we don't know that for sure yet,
but I wouldn't be surprised. But yeah, but you don't
want to speculate. Yeah, I wish would have to do that.
Not in that business. We don't do that rules up there.
I don't think they do.

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Speaker 2 (59:31):
Yeah, Sharon Moore has been fired. And let's see here
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had it. Huh, let me go.

Speaker 4 (59:45):
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was found that Coach Moore engaged in an inappropriate relationship
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Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
I tell you it's of course, it's tempting, and of
course it's easy when you're around somebody like that every
single day.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
But just can't do it. And I guess these these coaches,
you know, they they it is a hard, stressful thing,
and I guess you know, maybe you just need a
five minute just escape. Not justifying it, but I'm saying
that's what I think happens. I'm sure you know, getting
four hours of sleep every night you and then you're like,

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God needs something to kind of distract me.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
Stress relief, stress relief. Yeah, that's all it is. Maybe
that's what happened with Belichick. He's been frustrated all these years,
so finally he snapped after he got out of coaching
and just took up with a twenty three y old girl.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Yeah. Austin is reporting that Brian Kelly is being considered
as I'm just kidding. I made that up, but he would.
He said that in the hallway, and I was like,
that would be fantastic. I should go after Scott Saderfield. Guys, uh,
I said Tom Brady gave him to go back and coach.

(01:01:17):
He wouldn't do it in a million years member making
ten million a game calling games.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
Right, jeez, And look, well that's a topic for another day.
But play by play guys who kind of have flamed out,
And I don't know that that never seemed like a
good I did in me rock Tom Brady, don't play
by play or analysts.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Analysts. Yeah, I think he's okay. I don't think he's phenomenal,
But he's no boyman. He's no appointment, No, of course not.
But but Uh, yeah, he's getting paid lot of money.
I just never I did the math. I'm like, how
they I mean, what they're making per game must be

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just absolutely extraordinary to give him a you know, million
dollar contract.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
That's what I'm going to ask you. I mean, obviously
you know a lot more about that kind of stuff
than than your average bear. But when that number came out,
it was like, how you are you guys making way
more money on games that not aware of It's insane.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
I know what I make a game, and it ain't that.
Yeah it was ten years, Yeah, I was, you know
about ten years, three hundred and seventy five million dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
That's nuts, man, Hey, not badcoined if you can, if
you get.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
It, man, good, good for him, good for him. Well
maybe so it is Wednesday, and so maybe we'll talk
about h this the shrowing Moore situation with a good
friend really cunning him.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
Get to will He started on, well, look, we know
what's gonna happen as soon as we start talking about that,
just like I went to Belichick, He's going to switch
immediately to talking about Belichick and his twenty five year
old girlfriend.

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It was easily maybe we should do this either this
one's there. Next revisit his favorite topics of the year.
And I already know what number one is. It's Jordan
Hudson and Bill belichicks exactly. That carried thirty five percent
of his content. Oh for the year question, no question

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I bet you that was half of his shoe.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
That's that's pretty easy. Cats right there. I ain't gonna
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Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
For Let Back with Eddie and Rocky here on Wednesday,
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Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
Yeah, and ed you know what, I thought it was
time for Notre Dame to get out of the news
right now, notarding was having a little bit of a
rough forty eight hours to and their decision to not
play in a bowl game and some comments made by
the ad Well, I think we've found the way to
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Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
Not so fast, as we talked to this fella right
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Speaker 4 (01:10:21):
Yes, well, you know, I'm kind of looking at the
amount of money he paid for this indiscretion. It says
here that Sharon Moore signed a five year, thirty million
dollar contracts in September of twenty four and there were
bonuses involved, so you know, it was about five or

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six million dollars a year and then if he had
another successful year, the top rocket would know better. But
I think the top football coaches in college make ten
to twelve million, yep. And so he was. He was
thrown away. I don't know, fifty million dollars. Do we
better have enjoyed his moments at the Hull day end
with the staff or I guess she's the name too,

(01:11:02):
but I'm reluctant to use her name until we have
some sort of confirmation. But if he gets fired, why
doesn't she get fired?

Speaker 16 (01:11:10):
Eddie?

Speaker 4 (01:11:11):
What did she do? Allegedly she's still employed by University
of Michigan. That is Tom weedman all angry about this thing.
But shouldn't a woman also be fired? I mean she's
some child and capable of saying no and capable of
guarded guarding her own sexual predilections. How come the man
gets it all and a woman gets nothing. That's what

(01:11:32):
I want to know.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
Sexual pre election, that's that's a great word said. I
imagine eventually she she.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
Will say, they're at least going to put up the
smoke screen of she is going to be she's on
whatever administrative leave.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
Yeah. And if you're just doing and we're talking about
Michigan just like with you. The news broken last fifth
teen minutes. UM head coach Saran Moore has been terminated
with calls effective immediately. Following a university investigation. Credible evidence
was found that coach More engaged in an inappropriate relationship

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with a staff member, violates her constitution, clear violation of
the policy, blah blah blah blah blah. So that is
that is the that's the story.

Speaker 4 (01:12:25):
And we also have Michigan sources believe the affair resulted
in a pregnancy, which is ultimately terminated through an abortion
paid for by more So. In addition to dipping his
pen in the company, inc. He also paid to have
his own baby killed. And so that's I guess that's
irrelevant in today's world, but to me, that's important. The woman's

(01:12:47):
first name is Paige. I won't give her last name.
Executive assistant to the coach, to the head coach. She
was assisting the head coach, Sharon Moore and losing the
Ohio state by like twenty five points.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
No, that's a big deal.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
And her backstory is is she married as well?

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
It's there's stuff on the internet, but I'm reluctant.

Speaker 4 (01:13:12):
To We only deal with facts. We did. We never.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
We don't, you know, we don't take a story and
just start elaborating without confirmed sources. But look, no, no, no, no, no,
it's undefeated, untied on, scored upon, Willie correct.

Speaker 4 (01:13:31):
Gravitate, gravity, I mean gravity, uh, you know, I mean nothing,
the size of the sun. We're talking about empires, We're
talking about presidents. We're talking about some lowly football coach
at Michigan could not keep his pen out of the
company inc. And And one of those things in Michigan
are a bunch of liberals there. They they think, you know,

(01:13:52):
you can't do that, but you know, killing the baby
is that's almost an article of faith among liberals.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
You know, got to kill your baby.

Speaker 4 (01:13:59):
But I guess that don't make much difference.

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
He may get bonus points from that crowd for doing that.
You never know, you never know, well, well, they.

Speaker 4 (01:14:08):
Maybe didn't want to live anyway, I didn't want to.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
We were also speculating that perhaps the everyday stress of
a situation like these coaches are in might have led
to this indiscretion. And uh, that's what Rock and I
I was speculating that perhaps that's what happened with Bell Belichick,
that after years foregoing this kind of temptation, he finally

(01:14:31):
snapped when the twenty four year old girl gives you
that wink, you know, game on.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
Game on.

Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
For the Belichick weighs about two hundred pounds. I'm sure
he's an attractive male to a female fifty years or junior.
And I'm sure it's love. Has nothing to do with
her getting the eight million dollars in a condo given
to her by Bill Belichick. I can imagine the Thanksgiving
dinner wasn't roundly celebrated to the Belichick household because Bill's
daughter in law is firing on Bill Belichick with all cylinders.

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And now there's rumors I'll send the rock later tonight,
more rumors about Jordan Hudson and what our future plans are.
They want to get married by the year's end for
tax reasons. So I'm thinking, well, you know you can
by December thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
First I quit.

Speaker 4 (01:15:22):
Well, I'm just saying that, you know, married couples have
more tax benefits than stingleing. She's thinking, we get married
in the next two three weeks, we have tax benefits,
and so the here Sharon gave up thirty to fifty
million dollars. He'll be radioactive. He wasn't that good anyway.
I don't think he did beat Ohio State last year,
but this year he got lit up pretty good. And

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I don't know. You take Bill Belichick and Sharon throwing
Notre Dame. Of course, Rocky wants to forget.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
About Notre Dame.

Speaker 4 (01:15:51):
He's two biggest first their bridges. Notre Dame thinks they're
better than college football, and all these other ads are
launching on Notre Dame AD right now for acting a zip.
Who who the hell are you to tell us how
to run the acc See, Notre Dame thinks they're bigger
than the sport, much like saaks think they're bigger than
the GCL, and someone needs to put them in their place.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
They're just smarter and not and they're not going to
be pressured into doing something that is not advantageous for
their university or its football team. There how to work
out this year? Rock Well, I mean, you know, Alabama
got in over one day one shouldn't have happened at all.

Speaker 1 (01:16:31):
I mean, so let me let me ask you something, Rock.

Speaker 11 (01:16:36):
Do.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
Yeah, you know, the kind of the story behind the
story is this was this a group decision, a team decision?
Did the AD decide this was going to happen? Did
it come from the top down?

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
Apparently the players were like, we're not interested in playing
this thing. And I think the coach looks at it
and says, ten to twelve or more of our best
players are going to opt out of this thing, okay,
because they're going to go in the higher rounds. Of
the draft or maybe some of them might you know,
transfer out something like that, so it's not gonna be
our true team. Brought this up earlier a couple of

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years ago. Florida State they had a I think it
was a thirteen to o season, but their quarterback got hurt.
They didn't get into the college football playoff at the time,
and that was Forguret. How many was that eight? When
it was at eight? Then anyway, they didn't get in.
So in the bowl game, all of their players, like
all of them opted out and they wound up playing Georgia. Right, oh,

(01:17:30):
we're gonna go play Georgia, and they got it. It
was like sixty three to nothing. It was something, and
you could point to that that game, in that moment
as the time that started the whole precipitous fall of
Florida States. That's lasted two years. They finished two and
something two years ago, five and seven this year. So
in their names like, why are we gonna do it?

(01:17:51):
We can't put our best foot forward. You know, we're
already pissed about it, and we want to you know,
on the way out, we want to say a little bit,
you know. Cau Then we said a little precedent here
for the future. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:18:02):
Well, the other thing you're you're ignoring. The other big
story is Carrie Combs could become the head football coach
at Michigan. He was just hired by Sharone. Carry Combs
is now right there. All the good coaches are gone,
there's no one else to hire, and there's six Carry
Combs with Cole Raine. He went to Nashville, you see

(01:18:23):
Ohio State. Why not Carry Combs the next head football
coach at Michigan.

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
And he's got to go as the interim at this point,
isn't he Now? The fact that he's been there, like,
you know, six days might not help the case. But uh,
he has experience. He's been an interim coach before, you see, right.

Speaker 4 (01:18:40):
And and he's you know, I mean, he's been the
interim coaching and he's a great guy. And can you
imagine him taking over Michigan. He won't act up, he
won't put.

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
His power and that's it. Yes, he's too old for that.

Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
He's in his sixties.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
I say, I said, Carry Combs for Michigan head coach?
Are they ball?

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
I haven't underd I haven't seen that part. I haven't
remember well, they got.

Speaker 4 (01:19:05):
To be then Tohito Friedo ball.

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
You guys are kind of making my point right now,
why Notre Dame didn't play like we're talking about Michigan
and no one can understand or knows what ball they're in.
They're in a Citrus Bowl, by the way, and.

Speaker 4 (01:19:19):
Well and also, oh no Cinsrus. I think within three
years there'll be no bowl games. They're going to expand
get it from twelve to like and maybe sixteen teams
and there'll be eight to eight four two and one.
That's they'll be. They'll be fifteen bowl games. They eight
four two and'll be fifteen bowl games, go to sixteen
and the bowl games don't matter if you get in

(01:19:41):
those games to play for the national title. The good
players that want to play to enhance their value otherwise
should get rid of Navy playing in the Liberty Bowl
against UC When Satafield have trouble fielding a team, he's
got six or seven players, I think he's going to
go to the NFL. So the Bearcats aren't going to
have a team to play against Navy. I'm picking the
maybe to beat the bear Cats, That's what I'm saying.

(01:20:02):
And I'm picking carry combs carry Combs to be the
new head coach of Michigan Wolverine. How about those predictions?

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
Love it? I bet well? Well?

Speaker 1 (01:20:10):
I also I heard when you went uh and the
Stooge when you were talking to to Rock and Seg
and you were trying to list some of the some
of the bowl games you one that just skipped over
was the Snoop Dog Bowl down in there. And there
is such a thing.

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
I don't was that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
Has that been going a while and.

Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
This is the second year for it? Okay? Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:20:35):
Is it sponsible by marijuana growers? Well? What is the
Snoop Dogg? What is the Snoop Dog Bowl? What is that?

Speaker 2 (01:20:42):
I have no Miami the Red Hawks are playing it
is that? What the Yeah? That's where I came from. Yeah, yeah,
they're doing without their I just saw the their best player,
the defensive end, Adam Trick, has entered a transfer portal.
So again they're gonna go to a what is now
you know, a good bowl? Believe it or not. The
Snoop Dogg Bowl was a good bowl all things considering.

(01:21:02):
And now they're going without one of their best players.

Speaker 4 (01:21:05):
That's nuch. You got to smoke pot to watch the game.
I mean, I I think college football is more screwed
up by the time in another two or three years.
Why would Ohio State High State not spend one hundred
million dollars what they spend this year rock about forty?

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
Wait?

Speaker 4 (01:21:25):
What state football?

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
Oh, I think that much? I know it was twenty
two last year when they won it all. I think
it was certainly upwards that this year.

Speaker 4 (01:21:35):
Yeah, at some point, what At some point you say,
why are we doing this? I mean, Xavier is spending
six million, they want to spend ten million. I'm being
solictited to donate money to Xavier. They want to get
to ten million dollars. I'm making ten million dollars. A
guy named Carol who's twenty two to twenty three years old,
comes here for one year making about one million dollars.

(01:21:57):
Now he's gonna he has thirty points of as you see,
he's dominated. He's wonderful. Next year somebody else comes in. Well,
where's the glory of giving money and watching someone develop
over two to four years, like a Romain Sado who
started off almost not playing. By the time he was
a senior, he was an All American. To watch that
development and why do schools play that game. I think

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it's gonna be hard to get the money.

Speaker 2 (01:22:22):
I think if we enter a time period which looks
like it is coming where year after year it's going
to take upwards of call it, thirty forty million dollars
to put a roster together, and then you're paying a
coach like Kirby Smart makes thirteen million a year and
then his staff makes another harmon. At what point? I
always say this, At what point, even if you win,

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you do all that and you win the national title,
what point do you still end up in the red Well?
You are losing massive amounts of money to your athletic department,
your school and everything because of all the the upfront
costs you got to pay to do what it takes
to have a roster that can win it. At what
point is it do you just say, you know what,
maybe it's better being no, you know, the tenth ranked
team in the country, and you know, we're making money

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and kids are coming to school and kids people are
enjoying the games, and it's great.

Speaker 4 (01:23:11):
What is the cost to attend? What is the cost
to attend like a Notre Dame football game in South Bettle,
I would think a season ticket for six or seven
games might be five or six thousand dollars to watch
kids play football. To go to a baseball game in
Cincinnati's going to be two to three hundred FC. The
good tickets are three hundred dollars each. And at Bengals game,

(01:23:34):
I think are three to four hundred dollars a game
to go.

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
Oh by the time, I mean it's eighty bucks cash
to park, right, and then you got the hot dogs
and the hamburgers, and the kids want some you know,
frosty malls. They don't have those anymore.

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Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
You're all right back with Eddie and Rocky a little
while longer. But rock this is a story that I've
been hearing about this and I was wondering exactly what
we're going to be talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
Well, when you were gone, we had someone on talk
a little bit because it was just in the kind
of introductory phase of what was going on in Australia,
getting ready to ban kids from social media, and I
guess it's it's gone through here and Alex Stone is
for MAYBC here to describe more about it than well,
I guess first, Alex, I think there's a lot of
people in America that are interested to see how this

(01:26:55):
works out.

Speaker 18 (01:26:56):
Yeah, very much so. Yeah, beginning today in Australia became
a law that the children under sixteen years old cannot
access social media platforms and there are big fines for
the social media companies if they allow kids to get
into their platforms like TikTok and Instagram and even YouTube.
And because it's already tomorrow morning in Australia, we know

(01:27:19):
how today and Australia went and a lot of kids
said that they could get around this new law but
just changing their birth date on the apps to make
it so they were over eighteen or over sixteen in
Australia's case. So doesn't seem like this is fool proof
yet that I have. All they've got to do is
go on and say well I was born this year
in Boom. All of a sudden they have access into

(01:27:40):
the apps. But not surprisingly Australian kids, they don't like
this new band and here's what they're saying.

Speaker 19 (01:27:45):
We will be completely silenced and cut off from our country.

Speaker 18 (01:27:51):
And they're still but there are a lot of American
adults and doctors and social media safety groups who think
American kids should be kept away from social media as well.
This is Sarah Gardner, the CEO of the Child safety
group HEAT Initiative. She says, the US needs to do
this as well.

Speaker 5 (01:28:07):
Jillian's will be.

Speaker 19 (01:28:08):
Taking the lead and the question is what se that's
going to do.

Speaker 18 (01:28:10):
Yeah, in Australia is taking the lead in this. They
are the first that she and others that they've been
protesting outside of Apple stores demanding that Apple add in
safeguards to protect children from different social media dangers. And
she says keeping kids off of social media that this
is something that the US needs to do, but that
parents need to do as well.

Speaker 19 (01:28:30):
It's not just the addiction, which is enough of a
harming in of itself, it's exposure to eating disorder, content,
to suicide, content to child's sexual decuterial and even real
dangerous that keeps experience on these platforms.

Speaker 18 (01:28:42):
And that's the argument. In Australia, they say social media
US it leads to a spike they say the data
is there and serious problems for children. Four years ago,
there were internal documents from Meta, the parent company of
Facebook and Instagram, that leaked out showing that social media
platforms contributed to suicidal thoughts and body image problems in teenagers,
and Meta says, well, they've now implemented safety features to

(01:29:04):
address some of that. But there are parents who are
saying this is what Australia is doing is a good thing,
and that the US needs to say, hey, we've got
to do more. That most of this was created in
the US from social media companies here, and then now
the US needs to crack down well.

Speaker 19 (01:29:21):
On a day to day basis protect a lot of
kids from exploitation and predators and inappropriate content that is
being pushed at them every day by these companies.

Speaker 18 (01:29:30):
So Malaysia and Denmark they're looking at band similar to
what Australia is doing. The US we don't know of
any real serious effort, any bills or anything yet to
do anything here, but there are these calls from different
groups and parents to do it. But Australia is the first,
and now we'll see if the US will follow.

Speaker 1 (01:29:45):
Now what do we we're talking Alex Stone from ABC, Alex,
is there a rough list of the of the sites
we're talking about here when you say social media? Are
there ten of them? Are there twenty of them?

Speaker 16 (01:29:58):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:29:59):
I obviously you know instat Yeah, yeah, them X and
all that stuff.

Speaker 18 (01:30:05):
Yeah, I haven't seen an exact list of them, but
it's definitely the big ones of X, TikTok, Instagram. They're
going as far as YouTube as being social media, which yeah,
that's arguable if it's social media or if it's an
entertainment platform or whatever it is. But they're included in this.
So the government is figuring out of Australia what it

(01:30:25):
counts as being social media. If it were to go
in the US, they would have to do the same
thing here.

Speaker 2 (01:30:30):
So Alex, again, what is the main driver of this
in terms of why Australia wants to do this? Is
it safety in protecting kids from child predators or is
it protecting kids from their brains rotting? Right, there's lots
of great data out there about you know, young people
and they're developing brains and the effect of negative effect
of social media. What's the main driver of why they're

(01:30:52):
doing this?

Speaker 18 (01:30:52):
It is all of the above, but the biggest part
of it is mental health. Of the impact of kids
seeing the the day to day algorithm of what pops
up on your Instagram feed or you're probably not Facebook
for most kids any longer. But TikTok feed, any of
the different platforms of what it can do to to

(01:31:14):
mental health and bullying and body shaming and suicidal thoughts
and all of that that. Yeah, they want to protected
them and in all ways, but a lot of this
is really about mental health.

Speaker 1 (01:31:24):
All right, Well, we'll see how this shakes out and
see if it makes the trip across well I'm going
to say across the pond, but basically around the world.

Speaker 18 (01:31:33):
That is true.

Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
All right, with that, Alex, we will let you go. Buddy,
Thanks so much.

Speaker 18 (01:31:38):
You got it. Thanks, And I.

Speaker 1 (01:31:41):
Boy, that's rough because these kids, man, they are so
married to that stuff. It's insane.

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
You but is it a thing?

Speaker 1 (01:31:50):
Yeah, they are, but they're totally invested.

Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
And I don't necessarily care about the rights because you're
talking about kids under kids sixteen and under, so you know,
I don't care about your rights. I think it's a
job of adults and parents to say time, we think
this is better for you and if you don't like it, well,
just you know, wait a couple of years and then
you can do whatever you want. So I think it'll
be interesting to see all the data that'll come out

(01:32:16):
in the next couple of years about you know, just
not only just the safety aspect, but in the mental
health aspect, but also just how negatively is it affecting
the kids' minds? Well rock.

Speaker 1 (01:32:29):
In other news, speaking of mental health, this happened down
in go Figure, Florida. Of course, after crashing a maybe
you saw this story. After crashing a stolen BMW the
other day of Florida, man denied swiping the car and
explained the cops that he had actually been teleported into

(01:32:50):
the car.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
Honey, I was teleported into the bar.

Speaker 1 (01:32:55):
I didn't go there, and the police alleged that Calvin Johnson,
thirty six, took the twenty eighteen BMW convertible while the
owners were walking their dog around the local park. He
apparently broke into the car, found the keys and the well,
I guess apparently didn't have to break into the car
because the keys were in there in a cup holder.

(01:33:17):
Who's going to leave their beamer convertible with the keys
and a cup holder. But anyways, so with that, he
got in there, took the car, and very shortly later,
mister Johnson, driving over one hundred miles an hour, crashed
the car. Passing motorists helped get him out of the car.

(01:33:39):
When cops arrived at the scene, Johnson told the told
the cops, thank god you saved me from the aliens.
My boy's got some issues. He was taken into custody
and he's on a you know, a crazy person watch
at the local hospital. He uh is an extensive criminal record,

(01:34:03):
which includes convictions for just the past year for trespass, obstruction, loitering, resisting,
and grand theft for stealing a fifteen hundred dollars bicycle.
Asked why he stole the bike, mister Johnson answered, what
I just felt.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
Like felt like and it looked expensive and nice.

Speaker 1 (01:34:23):
Well, you know, hey, look man, I would have stuck
with the alien thing. If you're gonna pin something on
the aliens, just stick with it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:31):
I believe I saw the betting markets the poly markets
have said that the uh UH the chance Trump declassified
declassifies UFO files before twenty twenty seven, It has jumped
up to like eighty percent, Like literally in the last
couple of days, it was like around twenty and then
it jumped eighty. So does somebody know something that a

(01:34:55):
lot of folks may not. When it comes to the gamblers,
they he usually.

Speaker 1 (01:35:01):
Know what's going on, sniffing something out.

Speaker 2 (01:35:02):
I mean, they're the best predictor, like the poly market,
the best predictor of election results there is, right, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:35:08):
So now, I we've talked about this before and we
don't have a lot of time, but think about just
the repercussions if it's if they've known all along that
there is life.

Speaker 2 (01:35:25):
Yeah, we've known about this since nineteen fifty. We just
didn't think y'all could handle it, right, But here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:35:33):
And how do you think we got to the moon?
They told us how to get to the moon. They
gave us directions or something such.

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
I don't know. I mean that that would be the
wild part, right, It is, like, how did all these
things you know that we thought were just invented in
a you know, by some guy who was all ice. Yeah,
elon musk.

Speaker 17 (01:35:48):
No, we.

Speaker 2 (01:35:51):
Had this thing, we reverse engineered it and put up
from plea tarts and do this, do this, and mix
that with that and weld that and there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:36:00):
You're good to go. We'll find out soon enough, apparently.
With that, we check in with traffic and weather, what
is going on.