Rocky & Jason -- 12/2/25

Rocky and Jason talk with Jim Moehrig, Tanya O'Rourke, Alex Stone, and more on 700 WLW!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It is Eddie and Rocky Show. Eddie's out. I'm alongside
Jason Williams. And Jason, you brought this to my attention
yesterday and I thought it was interesting, and uh so
we're going to talk about it. I didn't know this.
I've been a lot of folks that live in Cincinnati
did not know this. But uh, there is uh you know,
the new Convention Hotel, a big, big project right. Well

(00:24):
apparently it's just I guess gone through a committee here.
A proposal is going to add a one percent fee
to bills at some downtown Cincinnati restaurants to help fund
the new hotel. That's not just a dollar on you.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
It's a one percent if you're eating at a really
nice restaurant, that's that's a chunk of change there. And
why did I bring this to your attention, rock Because
anytime there's an extra fee or a tax, it's raised. Man,
and I learned the same things, especially on things like this.
It's like and I know, like people will say, well,

(00:59):
we did figure out how to pay for it. Uh
you know, they'll say, this is a user fee. So yeah,
I know, I know, I know what they're thinking. I
know they who are the folks who are you know,
who are the leaders who are thinking this are like, oh, well,
out of towners will pay this, you know, it's like
the hotel tax, like, well, those are mostly out of town,

(01:19):
those are convention goers. Those are people coming in from uh,
you know, Columbus to go to a Bengals game. Like
they won't even notice it on their bill. And most
people don't really notice these things. Yeah, I can kind
of see the argument on both sides on this. Just
so it's not an extra, it's not another tax. Well
it's on you, and well it could be though. He's

(01:42):
coming up here right uh. And then yeah, we're gonna
bring on our good friend Jim mooreing. Of course we
love him.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
He's an owner of purveyor, dominator of the Holy Grail.
He's a good down he's good to us, Santa You, Cincinnati,
there's no doubt about it. And Jim, welcome on the program, buddy,
how are you?

Speaker 4 (01:59):
We don't gents on this snowy Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
We're good. We are good. So now I don't I
don't believe that this is going to affect your businesses
because it's just a certain area. So the district boundaries
where they're gonna potentially add this one percent taxes Central
Avenue to Main Street and Third Street to Seventh Street.
So I believe you're out of that, but I mean
you've seen things like this, you know, kind of come

(02:24):
your way and include you what's your thoughts on this?

Speaker 4 (02:29):
So you know we are not in this district, we're
outside of it.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
But you know what, we we essentially have the exact
same program that we did down the banks, but we
did it voluntarily, So we essentially have a one percent
you know, you can call it tax, you can call
it a up charge, whatever you want to say. We
enacted this back six years ago now, so in nineteen

(02:56):
I think it was as a marketing aspect of it,
and we did it as hey, we want to capture
some dollars to market our area, get the exposure going.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
And you know, once we started doing.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
It, we realized that we had, you know, a very
good synergy amongst all the businesses down there to enact
a bunch of different things. A couple of them are
you know, we brought the Saint Patrick's Parade back to
the banks. We philanthropically will give money away to you know,
the full of air plunge. You know, we spread it

(03:32):
out amongst the things that we want to do. But
there's also a marketing aspect to it, in a marketing
arm that all of us embraced and said, you know,
as one as the saying goes, you know, tides raise
all boats.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
And what we wanted to do was elevate the banks.
And how we enacted it is I would assume what
these guys are going to try to do up there.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
We voluntarily decided, okay, we can either put it on
a check or we just eat it. Some of us us,
you know, being the holy Grail, we just eat it.
We understand it to cost doing business. We approved that,
we understood it. Other places didn't have that same luxury.
And if you're a publicly traded company, I found out

(04:15):
through this process you can't just quote unquote eat it.
You have to be fully full disclosure.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
So they put it on checks.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
So some of the places down to the banks have
to put it on people's check.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
I've noticed, I think you what's the yard house? I
think puts it on there?

Speaker 6 (04:35):
Right?

Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah, so your house a part of garden. They have
to has to a couple of other ones.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
We you know, we understood what it was, know what
it was, so we stopped, never passed it along. We
just understood it as one percent that we think expands
all the businesses down there, you know, for the hotel.
I understand it, and I understand people's trepidation with it,
but the reality is these businesses will expand if this

(05:07):
project moves forward. There's a funding gap here, and I
think there's been a funny gap for it for a while.
It's innovative, it's creative, and depending.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
On what side you want to fall on, you can say, hey, yeah,
you can.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
See it as another tax, or if you're a prospective business.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
Looking at it, saying, you know what, I think.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
The hotel, if it's two blocks away, three blocks away,
associated with the convention center, is going to bring our
business up another twenty twenty five, thirty forty percent or
my businesses based on this, then it makes sense. So
I think I think the voluntary side of this, to
me makes all the sense.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
In the world. You know, on that standpoint, they're not
they're not jamming it down.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
Anybody's broke the say hey you want to help out,
help out. If you don't, don't we understand it and
they already have some businesses committed.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
To doing that.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Jim, that's good stuff, good perspective, and you know, not
only I mean you've you you're you're one of the
great business owners in downtown. With the holy Grail you've done.
You've been working in downtown for a long time. You've seen, uh,
with the work you've done over at the arena, you've
seen anything and everything proposed. When it comes to these
types of things, generally does you don't probably don't get

(06:25):
a lot of pushback right from customers slash uh you know, uh,
you know, I guess taxpayers or in this case it's
be more customers, but there's probably not a lot of
pushback right.

Speaker 7 (06:41):
Well.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
You know, I think as we've seen creep and things.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
Coming at our back door get more and more expensive, yep,
people start to look at it more and more.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
And that's you know, unfortunately happened over the last couple
of years.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
But you know, we try to keep ourselves affordable, so
we we're kind of a different business model. I think
the higher end place is the ones where you know,
to your point, I don't think anybody's going to notice
that our five dollars beer you know is have we
raised it?

Speaker 4 (07:12):
We went to five oh five for a beer. It's
not like the old days.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
You know, when I first started in its industry at paddies,
everything was cash.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
And you know.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
When you're at two dollars a beer and somebody had
twenty dollars bill and you're giving them back, you know, seventeen, sixteen,
eighteen dollars, whatever it is. People noticed it, I personally
and my family. I was actually with my brother Mike,
consistant multeen a little bit ago, and I was trying
to give this analogy the younger set. These days, it's

(07:42):
almost like the casino theory. You're right, casinos used to
be cash. They went to chips. They went to chips
because it's an inanimate object and you're placing that in
front of you and you don't equate it to what
it is.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, I certainly understand what you're saying. I think that
I always make that argument for why I like to
pay cash for certain things versus a car, because it
does it doesn't feel real. It's like, well, sure, if
it's ten dollars or twenty dollars, what's the difference. I'm
just gonna be the same swipe that the pain, Yeah,
the pain of actually pulling an extra ten bucks or

(08:20):
twenty bucks out of my wallet, that'll actually hit you.
So I guess my question for this instance, and we're
talking about you know, there's some business is adding a
one percent charge on their bill to pay for the
convention Hotel if you live within this district's boundaries in

(08:41):
some businesses. Again, according to this six downtown property owners
in about twenty eight of their tenants have signed up
and said, yes, we'll put that one percent charge on there.
They'll have to disclose that, but if you live in
that or your businesses within that area, you don't have
to write. So technically you could enjoy the benefits of
the hotel getting built faster and better without actually contributing

(09:04):
to this.

Speaker 5 (09:04):
Right, that's correct, And I think one of the bigger
drivers I saw that, you know, Steve Lofton over at
the Aaronoff Center, agreed to put on a dollar per ticket.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
I think that's big, you know, I think that for
the amount of people that they that they turned through there.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
But you have to, you know, from my perspective, if
you want to see this hotel and the convention center,
look the County and the amount of money that they
spent on this is is mind boggling. But I think
the driver to it is real. So if you have
a business close by, specifically a restaurant, you know you're

(09:40):
going to look at it and say, my business is
going to grow. I want to do this right and
you know, but it is voluntary. I get it, but
it's not surprising to see the people who've already signed
up for it are good stewards for.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Our city to begin with.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
So you know, I literally when this came up, we
were there's a text chain going on amongst us, so
it's down the banks and my first thing was, Hey,
you think we can do one of these for them?

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Re Ena and I got a bunch of thumbs ups,
So you.

Speaker 5 (10:14):
Know, it's it's hey, if you're you want skin in
the game and you want to be responsible and you
want to drive something like this, you.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Know, I'm gonna say it's the cost of business, but
a lot of ways it's the cost of business. It's
in the end. Do I think the's got the folks.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
Who are supporting are going to win without a doubt?

Speaker 8 (10:33):
Is it maybe a tack?

Speaker 4 (10:34):
Maybe maybe it is a tax.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
I don't see it that way because of the way
we do things, but you know, you could, you could,
you could definitely say that that's the case.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Jim Moore is our guest, the owner of the Holy
Grailed Downtown, and I guess just to play the other side, Jim,
I mean, your industry, in my opinion, has it harder
than any industry out there, especially since COVID. I mean,
it's it was you know, people can't you can't go
and eat and rest your and then it was the
price of food and the price of chicken wings, and
then it was this. It was that. I mean, at

(11:06):
some at what point or if you ever noticed at
any point in your career a point where people are
just like, you know what, that's it. I can't do
this anymore. I can't do or you, as a business owner, say,
got just every little add on you know that this fee,
that fee. Is there ever a saturation point where people
that you've seen us say, you know what, Nope, I'm
not doing I'm not eating there, I'm not drinking there.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
Yes, And I think I think everybody in our industry
is frustrated by it. You've watched your margins continually get crushed.
You know, the old adage of you're chasing dollars to
make pennies in the restaurant industry is true where it's
really frustrating. It's an independent restaurant when you see the
chain to have the buying ability and the buying power

(11:51):
to be able to do the things that they're doing.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yeah, it does get frustrating.

Speaker 6 (11:55):
It is.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
You know, you're you're constantly combating.

Speaker 5 (11:58):
It on every level that you can, and you try
to do everything you can and push every to every
level that you can to make sure that.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
Your business is successful.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
And I would not I'd be lying to you if
I didn't say, yeah, there's been more than a couple
of times I'm like, what am I doing?

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Gimeral? Oh go ahead, go ahead?

Speaker 3 (12:22):
No good, No, sorry, real quick, I want to ask
you just what it was the last week, couple of
weeks ago that there's an announcement of some an idea or
a proposal to complete the banks and do other things.
Not asking you to comment on that necessarily, but as
a successful business that has withstood the test of time
and all the challenges at the banks, what's the most

(12:43):
important thing that needs to be built at the banks
to then help sustain all everybody else, including Holy Grail.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
I would like there to be our priority number one,
and I think the city understand that is security.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
Right now, hands down security, building wise, Anything that brings
density to our area is fantastic, and it doesn't matter
what that is. You know, there's different proposals. Unfortunately I
wasn't in on any of those.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
I didn't get to see that or have input into that.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
I understand what everybody's trying to do, anything that they
can do to bring density to the area.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
Sustainable density.

Speaker 5 (13:33):
And I don't know if that's apartments, I don't know
if that's condominiums.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
I truly you know at once, you know, I.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
Had this happen prior to twenty twenty one to said
off the buildings, we need more office buildings, We need
the office tenants, get the density going. And obviously that
is not the case these days, or at least you don't
feel like it is unless you you know, you see
a crower that's going back to work five days a week.
Fifth third, you know that the companies in Cincinnati that
are saying, hey, we understand we need a thriving downtown

(14:01):
and to support that we're going to have our folks
go back to work, you know, five days, four days
a week.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
That's been great.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
To answer your question bluntly, anything that's sustainable that brings
people down there, I think it's great.

Speaker 9 (14:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
And one of the biggest, uh, I think factors for
a man and a woman has a family is we
want to make sure wherever we go it's safe. So
that makes uh, that makes it tough to live there
or you're visiting there, right right? Great stuff? Well, Jim, yeah,
listen here. We really appreciate Jim Mourning, owner of the
Great Holy Grail, and we'll talk to you to my friend.
Thank you so much, Thanks Jim, Thanks Jim. Yeah, that's interesting.

(14:38):
But yeah, I feel like there is a saturation point
where you're like, you know what, just it's like any
any time you go every election here, there's always some renewal,
some tax you know, and you're like, Okay, this is great,
love this, love that. But at some point you go, oh,
it gets to be too much. It gets to me
you want to just get too easy? Does it get
too easy for the convention center stuff? By a thousand taxes,

(14:59):
isn't it? Really?

Speaker 3 (15:00):
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and for those who've lived here forever, you've you've seen that,
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Speaker 2 (17:05):
Are you drinking too much? Is alcohol affecting your relations?
Hundreds of inches of snow, everyone's trapped in their house,
accidents everywhere? Or maybe not. Maybe it was just kind of.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Like a normal no bread and milk at Croker exactly,
people are rationing water?

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Are such website and someone who I think feels the
same way as we do, and she, of course is
the queen of since then media, of course is the
one you only Tanya or Tanya, me and Jason saw
your your post on what was I either extra Instagram

(17:45):
there about how you know, everything was actually okay and
we're going to get through this with the snow, right?

Speaker 16 (17:51):
It was fine? Fun in the morning.

Speaker 17 (17:54):
Was it fine at six in the morning, seven in
the morning, at eight in the morning, was it fine?

Speaker 15 (17:58):
No?

Speaker 16 (17:58):
Probably not ten am?

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, it was fine.

Speaker 17 (18:02):
Yeah, And so I hope all those kids enjoyed that
fun day, because my goodness, it.

Speaker 16 (18:07):
Could have been to two or three hour delay.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
So whatever happened at the two hour delay, because schools
have apparently unlimited amounts of those, but uh, we just
we've just forgot about using those.

Speaker 17 (18:17):
Yeah, I don't think I think that that is not
I like, I don't feel like they do that anymore.
Like a one hour of delay at two or delay.
I felt like that was such a thing. I would
wait up and listen to the radio. Oh please, let's
have an hour delay.

Speaker 16 (18:30):
I mean, while I'm staying up two hours later, just
to hear if it's happening. And you know, but I
don't feel like it happens how much anymore.

Speaker 17 (18:36):
I may be wrong, but I just don't hear about
It's usually, well, we're just canceled, we're off. I don't
even know are they even doing like online school when
they're off now?

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Or my kids are sled riding sled and went to
Chick fil a and now they're going back out. Oh yeah,
it's there's no school.

Speaker 16 (18:56):
It's a big doing. Okay, So you guys are kids
school age kids. I don't anymore.

Speaker 17 (19:01):
Do you look forward to them? I mean, you're going
to work. But is it like, oh great, this is
so fun for them, or is it.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Like, oh god, come on, I think look every every
great one swan. I think it's cool from that, like
today was cool, like you know, because it was actually
a good snow where they could sled ride and it
wasn't like just miserable.

Speaker 16 (19:18):
Out there snowball snow correct.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Correct, I pelted my kids with multiple of them before
I left the house. But yeah, so I'm fine with
it as long as it isn't all the time. And
to your point, yeah, I wonder if is it like
a bus thing where like the one two hour delay thing,
as it affects the bust scene and they just sound
heck with it, you know.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 17 (19:38):
Maybe it messes up parents who have to get to work.
They'd rather just feel like just cancel the day. I
don't I don't know, Yeah, I know, like my coaker
Adrian said that his son was outside playing this all day,
and I'm like, well, he's going to sleep well to
night and that is sort of a benefit. Don't you
think they get some good fresh air running around in snow.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's like it's good. No, they will eat to night
at whatever seven o'clock or so and boom be out, Tanya.
Are we right night, guys?

Speaker 6 (20:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Are go ahead? Are we weaker on the snow? Like
growing up? And I grew up in southeast Ohio in
the foothills like windy country roads, so like when it's
snow because I had to ride a bus for forty
five minutes to school, so when it's snows, right, yeah, backwards,
so when it's snowed there you got it because they

(20:27):
didn't get some of our back roads for a while.
But you know, we live in civilization here in Cincinnati,
And uh, I mean, are we is it just my imagination?
I did live in Minnesota for three years, and or
are we just bigger whimps about it nowadays?

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Is it just me? Or is this a real thing?

Speaker 16 (20:48):
I mean I went to freaking Town High School?

Speaker 17 (20:50):
Okay, Yeah, so there were no like if there were
buses to any town. I'm sure some kids road buses,
but we didn't. We had to either walk or get
a ride.

Speaker 15 (20:59):
Right.

Speaker 16 (20:59):
It was just it's like a bedroom community. Wasn't that big,
you know? And wow, we did not get snow days.
I challenge anyone listening to me who grew.

Speaker 17 (21:09):
Up in that like Finnytown, Green Hills, that type of thing,
all that area. And you know, I'm talking like late eighties, nineties.

Speaker 16 (21:16):
I don't think we got days off like they get now. Well,
it's such a it was such a big deal.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah, the one that gets me now that we honestly
never had is when it gets below a certain temperature
they cancel school. That never happened. It could get down
to zero. Yeah that I've seen that a couple of
times in the last few years, where it's like, oh,
it's uh, you know, it's like in the in the teens,
So we got to cancel school? What on? In school's

(21:44):
got heat?

Speaker 16 (21:44):
Going outside a lot? Well maybe they don't have heat.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 16 (21:48):
Oh no heat, get it. But I don't have heat.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
That would be weird. But the school is heat. Like,
let him go to school and sit in a warm
classroom and do their studies.

Speaker 16 (21:59):
Yeah, wouldn't that be a sutter thing? I don't know.
I mean, look, I used to beg for snow days
as a kid.

Speaker 17 (22:07):
I mean, you know the whole I was. I mean,
we would just all we do is listen to the radio,
hoping and praying, and it was so great. When you
got a snow day, it was like just and you
just watched reruns all day long and ate crummy food.

Speaker 16 (22:19):
It was crazy.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (22:20):
Well, so I don't blame these kids are being excited
because I was excited as a kid.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah, I mean, anymore yeah, those and there's you do
miss the the de pensive joy of like okay, you
know my you know whatever, say it was you know,
I don't know Saint James or something right, and like
you're waiting to the asses and you're like, okay, come on,
here we go. Then you don't hear like no, no,
and now you are right right, yeah.

Speaker 17 (22:44):
You missed it, like because we were finish town and
they were all on the hes and you're like, Harrison,
oh gosh, I missed. I gotta listen all so another
twenty minutes goes by.

Speaker 14 (22:54):
That's how it was.

Speaker 16 (22:54):
You listen for it. Now it's just you get a text.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yeah, we get Yeah, I got a text that like
you know, five thirty am. And then a call and
then another call and it's.

Speaker 16 (23:04):
Just like yeah, at some point, do you yell I know, I.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Know I understand this, Tanya.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
Do you in the newsroom do you guys get blown
up by still a lot of calls even though it
is it's a lot of texts, and you do do
you do the ticker and you are.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
There still people calling like hey is my school out?

Speaker 15 (23:23):
There?

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Is my kids school out tomorrow? Do people do that?

Speaker 16 (23:27):
You know? I don't know if that is the kind
of call we get.

Speaker 15 (23:29):
It.

Speaker 17 (23:29):
Kind of call we get is like, oh, you don't
have us exactly correct or something like that, you know,
like can you.

Speaker 16 (23:34):
Make sure this?

Speaker 17 (23:35):
Or we get a lot of calls from and I
get it like small businesses saying can you list you know,
the ABC School of Dance, I'm just making this up?
Is canceling it and we're like, we can't put everything up.
So we tried, you know what I mean, But we
try to as many as we can, and then like
on air, we'll say like, look, most everything shut down,

(23:57):
so call.

Speaker 16 (23:58):
Before you'd get in the car and go to your
dance class or whatever it is.

Speaker 17 (24:01):
So but it is you know, as you know from
being in a newsroom, it used to be insane amount
of phone calls and he'd say, well, we have it
on area right now, just tune in you'll see it.
Or we would check for people all the time. But
it was it was kind of crazy. But I don't
feel like we get those calls as much anymore because
it's just too technologically, you know, advance.

Speaker 16 (24:22):
Now I think everything is and isn't that better?

Speaker 17 (24:27):
I mean, you know, I I'm waxing poetic about the
days when we start to weight up and listen to
the radio.

Speaker 16 (24:34):
But wouldn't it be better to just get your text.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
And be like it's easier. Yeah, I guess of course
we are, all, you know, just reliving the glory days
when we were kids.

Speaker 16 (24:45):
But well I had to go to school. It was
just terrible, right, just terrible.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Well, I guess we're going to get a little more
maybe Wednesday. But I don't think it's gonna be too bad,
so hopefully. Uh No, I.

Speaker 16 (24:57):
Think i'd be okay, it's just might be cold. I
get into the twenties and.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Team canceled school temperature weather day.

Speaker 18 (25:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
Interesting. All right, well Tan you listen. We appreciate your
time as always on Tuesdays, and we'll talk to you soon.
Thank you.

Speaker 16 (25:14):
Okay, guys, have a good one.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Bye, Well we'll see you. And now, dude loving to death.
But seg didn't didn't come in. He did, he worked
from home today, but he is.

Speaker 15 (25:25):
He is.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Report he has earned the right right because he's been
here a long long time. But if there is one
morsels snow, he is not coming in. That's just take
it or leave it. That's how it goes.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Wow, yeah, dude, I became I lived in, like I said,
in Minnesota for three years writing for the Saint Paul Paper.
I'll never forget two things. I was in the news first,
the first five I went there. I moved there in
the spring of what five, I think four. So then
I'm in the newsroom and at that point there's still

(26:00):
a lot of old newspaper guys and there, crusty old
like dude, the other stereotypical a.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
So whatever it was.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
It was maybe this October and like I look out
the window and like it's just snowing like crazy, and
I was like, oh, well it h oh it will
it stick? And this guy goes, it's everything sticks here, dude.
And then like the next the next time, like there

(26:28):
was this massive snow when I was at home. I
walked out of my apartment. There were I'm not kidding you,
there were more people out than there were when it
was you know, seventy two and sunny a couple months earlier.
It wasn't. I mean, they love it there. They know
how to clean the streets there too. First and only
time I've ever seen people wear actually literally snow shoes
just walking around.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Walking around Yeah, No, Minnesota. I I think for the
most part people here know how to deal with that.
And if you don't, you should, like we get enough
snow where this isn't like some foreign subst It's like
when I lived in Nashville, it would snow like every
couple of years, and then people would freak out, and
rightfully so. But yeah, Minnesota, buddy, it's cold and snows

(27:10):
a lot up there. You better be ready. Yes, let's
go in Jeck some traffordan weather.

Speaker 6 (27:15):
Yeah.

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o'clock news, we have Ron Glasgal gonna join us. He's
a financial strategist talking about how you know, younger people
anymore aren't even you know, looking to try to buy
a home. It's they're putting their money in the stock market.
Is that a good thing? Is that? I think it's

(28:54):
bit's interesting. So we're going to talk about it with him.
But have a couple of minutes here, Jason, I wanted
to give a shout out to my boy, my dog Elvis. Okay,
and this is unbelievable. If you follow me on social
at Rocky Boyman fifty and at Rocky Boyman in ESPN
on Instagram. Sixteen years old. Wow, a Golden Retriever is

(29:17):
sixteen years old. I mean, he just keeps going and
he is I'd say he's close to the end. But
I thought, me and my wife thought he's close to
the end for three years. Yep, you know, and he
he you know, he doesn't move around hardly at all,
but you know he does enough. And he's he's mostly blind,

(29:39):
mostly deaf, but he still hang out, hangs out and
does okay, and you take him for a walk and
walk around a little bit. So, uh, I mean, a
true miracle dog, A true miracle dog. I I again,
I posted a picture of him today on his sixteenth birthday.
I look back through my pictures and it's like last
year and the year before and the year before and
the year before I have a picture with him. Think

(30:01):
that the last. Yeah, I'm like, no, this might be
the last picture I take with Elvis. And here we are,
like four years later. I mean, a truly miracle dog
heading down to the BMV to get his license. Yeah
that's it. Yeah, that's it. Wow about birthday. So, I mean,
just to put in perspective, I got him right after
I retired I and so I played my last game

(30:24):
January first of twenty ten, and I got him like
two weeks later. So I always always backtrack his birth
because usually pick up a puppy at like what six seven,
between six and eight weeks, so I was that day.
His birthdays around December first, right, so that's when we
always celebrate it. So he is like my last connection
to life before I knew my wife and kids yep,

(30:46):
which is pretty cool. And he, I dud was there
for me when you know you're making the transition and
things ain't going that great and.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
Uh my boy, i'd kind of dog like a dog
that got me through. And you know, I had him
before wife, two kids, and yeah, we put him down
in twenty eighteen. But Chocolate Lab who's twelve and so
I can relate that, you know that was got you
some times there.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
You know it's just you and him. It's no doubt. Well,
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Speaker 13 (31:28):
Talking money. The full rollback this year means just partial
next year. With the four o'clock report, I'm Jack Crumley
breaking now. Hamilton County commissioners met today finalizing the decision
about how much of a property tax rollback or PTR
homeowners are going to get next year in the deal
that pays for the Stadium's County administrator, Jeffaludo, we would.

Speaker 21 (31:51):
Prefer to recommend a full PTR every single year. However,
our primary concern has been ensuring that the county's general fine,
which pays for sheriff's deputies, election workers and I'm one
one operators, does not ultimately need to support the operations
of Paper Stadium or Great American Baulpark, especially when the
general fund is as strained as it is.

Speaker 13 (32:13):
He says, because the full rollback of thirty percent was
given this past year, the reserves and the fund are
now under fifty percent. To get them back up. Aludo
says four and a half percent is all he can recommend.

Speaker 22 (32:24):
Commissioner Alisha resee, if you're fighting for the Bengals to
keep their commitment, I'm fighting for the taxpayers to keep
their commitment. It was irresponsible to give a commitment to
the homeowners that it was an irresponsible commitment.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
To give to the stadium.

Speaker 13 (32:38):
She's now introduced a county wide petition for people to
voice their support for the full rollback if that's what
they support, though Reese hasn't said how both the stadium
fund and the full rollback would be paid for. The
other two commissioners voted in favor of giving back four
and a half percent next year, with hopes of more
in years to come. Reese will be Scott Sloan's guests
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Speaker 24 (35:13):
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Speaker 2 (36:31):
This report it's sponsored by Land of Illusion, Christmas Glow inside,
Jason Williams and Jason for the longest time in America.
You know, one of the first things, especially a young couple,
a young person would try to do as they were
entering into adulthood was wanted to get a house. And
that was kind of your next bag, you know, that

(36:52):
was you put some equity into it, and you improved it,
and then somewhere down the line you'd be able to
sell that and make a little bit of more money
and then they'd buy a bigger house or a different house.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
But that doesn't seem the case to be the case
anymore for a lot of reasons. And uh, I'm reading
a lot about how younger folks gen zers are foregoing
home and ownership to invest in the stock market. On
one hand, the stock market's been on fire for the
most part, but it's also very volatile. So is this
a good strategy or not? And join us right now.

(37:25):
We're pleased to be joined by Ron Glass guy. He's
a financial strategist. He knows all about such things. Ron,
Welcome to the program. How are you?

Speaker 6 (37:33):
I do great? Thank you very much for having me.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
All right, so first question, navigate the big one here.
Is this a trend that you would recommend to people
put off home ownership and instead just throw your money
in the stock market and see what happens.

Speaker 6 (37:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (37:49):
No, I mean the number one, everyone's different. Everyone has
to write to do whatever they want with their money.
So if someone wants to rent that invests, then then
you know, I can make a case that that supruval
are that makes sense for that particular person. But the
thing that kind of concerns me about this is it
looks like a lot of the gens years are getting
going back to this sort.

Speaker 6 (38:08):
Of a day trading mentality.

Speaker 15 (38:09):
So I started my career at two thousand and one
right at the very tail end of the tech wreck.
If you remember that, and you know, it was devastating,
and you know, people everyone thought that stocks just couldn't
go down, particularly tech stocks, and everyone quit their jobs
or day trading, and you know.

Speaker 6 (38:23):
Those things typically come to an end.

Speaker 15 (38:25):
So that concerned me a lot more is how they're investing.
More than that they're investing versus buying home.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
And again, on the surface here I'm a novice on
this stuff. But it's so you're gonna put money in
the stock market as a gen zer, but you're not
gonna buy a house, but you're gonna pour basically probably
more money into rent. Right, it doesn't the math doesn't
seem to at the end of the day, right work
out long term for you.

Speaker 26 (38:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (38:53):
Well, I mean how many twenty five year old kids
plot out a self spreadsheet on.

Speaker 6 (38:56):
You know, the pros and cons of investing money? Right?
You know I certainly didn't. So that's part of me.

Speaker 15 (39:02):
But another big piece of it, I think it's two fold.
I think one, the cide MARKT has been on this
terrific bowl run forever.

Speaker 6 (39:08):
It is led by the.

Speaker 15 (39:09):
Magnus at seven, and that generation really identified to those
stocks in those companies. Also, it's very easy to invest.
You know, when I opened my first investment town, I
had to call make an appointment, go in see the
guy open you know, thought the forums. Now you can
literally do it on your phone in a few minutes
and you're trading away. So I think that's one half
of it. The other half is that real estate is

(39:29):
getting out of control. You know, I moved from the
Midwest originally very modest real estate, moved to Dallas.

Speaker 6 (39:35):
Area about eight years ago.

Speaker 15 (39:36):
And even here at that time, you know, Dallas was
known as a moodus.

Speaker 6 (39:40):
Real estate market.

Speaker 15 (39:41):
Now it's it's gotten very expensive. So if you're twenty
five thirty years old, you know, and your house is
half a million dollars, that's part of about with one
hundred grand for that twenty percent that payment.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Yeah, I think you nailed it right there. I mean, yeah,
I remember, you know, twenty years ago you could buy
a very nice house in the Midwest one hundred and
eighty grand, brand new and had all kinds and I
mean all kinds of features anything like that. And those
days are are completely over on that point right there. Ron,

(40:12):
Do you see housing prices going down at all or what?

Speaker 27 (40:16):
What?

Speaker 2 (40:16):
What's going to cause that to happen? Because I feel
like it certainly needs to.

Speaker 8 (40:22):
Yeah, well, you know it.

Speaker 15 (40:24):
Is sort of you're talking sort of longer term or
shorter terms. So here in Texas we were in just
the most booming of real estate markets. Tons of tons
of people are moving down here as you know.

Speaker 6 (40:36):
The market was just crazy. Well that has called out
quite a bit.

Speaker 15 (40:39):
It's it's pretty lean. I think it's a lot more
lean than the media sort of let on kind of
they want to protect it, and you know, everyone wants
to beat their.

Speaker 6 (40:46):
Home prices up. But you know, I know a lot.

Speaker 15 (40:49):
Of realtors things have been extremely slow. Some people haven't
even been getting a deal or maybe one deal a
whole year. So houses are just sitting a lot longer.
But that goes all on. Prices will come down. So
but I think that's very much sort of a short
term trend. And to find short term how you will
one year, two year, or three years whatever. But over
the long term, howsing is just going to continue to

(41:11):
get more and more expensive. And a big reason for
that is, you know, people in my industry and financial
services have largely invested in commercial real estate historically, and.

Speaker 6 (41:20):
Now that's that's gone. Now they're going in and buying
you know.

Speaker 15 (41:23):
Huge tracks and building residential homes and investment properties, and
that sort of sets an artificial price that just is.

Speaker 6 (41:31):
It what it would be if it was the old
way of the Bear Country.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
Well, and along those lines too, is you hear about
a housing shortage?

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Number one? Is that? Is that really true?

Speaker 3 (41:41):
And number two, if it is, like, is that what's
driving the cost of houses up higher? And is that
what's keeping some of these gen zers away?

Speaker 15 (41:50):
Yeah, I mean, you know, it's all with real estate especially,
it's always the location and the market. You know, for example,
everybody said, you know, office was.

Speaker 6 (41:59):
Dead coming out of Covid.

Speaker 15 (42:00):
Well, if you look at Frisco, which is a suburb
of north of Dallas, I think they're on pace in
the next six or seven years. They have more office
space than downtown Dallas has, which is insane to me.

Speaker 6 (42:09):
So location does matter.

Speaker 15 (42:11):
But you know it's the millennials, I think, you know,
it's a combination of not having the down payment, it's
you know, both of them sort of live in more
major metros, you know, downtown versus the suburbs.

Speaker 6 (42:22):
They're younger, so you.

Speaker 15 (42:23):
Know it's kind of hard to buy to some of
those hiring condos and maybe you don't want to be
there forever. You just want to be there a couple
of years. But then I think, you know, people read
the headlines. You know, the interest rates just kicked up
quite a bit. It was very unreasonable that I had
a mortgage at three point one eight at one point.
It's very normal that I have a mortgage at five
of the quarter, although it's still stinks.

Speaker 6 (42:44):
I would much whether it be in my old grade.

Speaker 15 (42:46):
But you know, I remember, I want to say, my
dad bought our house in eighty one for like eighteen
percent interest. So these things do go up and down.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
Unfortunately, Ron Glasgow is our guest. He has a Glasgow
Investment Solutions, He's a financial strategy and Ron, let me
let me switch gears all this topic because I saw
this and I thought it was amazing. I love your thoughts.
So everything I hear, and frankly I believe is that
you know, there's it's a tough economy right now. I mean,
certainly go to the grocery store and things cost a

(43:16):
lot more than they than they used to. But but
then I see this Ron Black Friday, all right, Black
Friday consumers spent eleven point eight billion dollars online, up
nine percent from last year and then Cyber Monday, which
would be this Monday or was that?

Speaker 6 (43:34):
Was that a couple of days?

Speaker 2 (43:35):
I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah, they spent fourteen point two billion
dollars in one day. So what is it? Are we
going to struggling economy ron or and and or do
people have money to burn?

Speaker 15 (43:46):
What is it? Yeah, you know, it's something to figure out.
I actually did a radio show last week and the
study said that people are going to spend less money
between Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
It was.

Speaker 15 (43:57):
There was a several.

Speaker 6 (43:58):
Articles about it. Yeah they were wrong.

Speaker 15 (44:01):
I think I think people feel the pain or see
the pain that they haven't felt it yet.

Speaker 6 (44:06):
That's not everybody. Some people had.

Speaker 15 (44:08):
But you know, I notice it too when I when
I it's just me and my wife, we don't have kids,
and we go to the store. I've never noticed the
price of groceries. Have to sound snobby, I just you know,
the only two of us. Now, it's it's mind bigling
to me how much things cost. And I always go
back to sort of remember that that goody jingle, A
five dollars five dollars foot long on the subway. Yeah,
I mean I don't know how much that how long
ago that was, but.

Speaker 6 (44:27):
I just had to have my oil change.

Speaker 15 (44:29):
So I stopped at the subway for the first time
in a long time, and the cheapest sub on the
menu was a Vengeance out of ten dollars and twenty cents.
So I can't remember exactly when that jingle stopped, but
I know nobody's incomes doubled at that.

Speaker 6 (44:39):
Time, and that's the problem.

Speaker 15 (44:41):
But credit is very loose right now too, and so
that's that's the real problem that people are just barming.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Well, yeah, yeah, that's good. What is going to bring
prices down?

Speaker 6 (44:51):
Ron?

Speaker 2 (44:52):
I hate to say it. Is it a recession? Does
this thing have to kind of blow up a little
bit in order for things to reset a little bit?
I mean, no one once that, But is that the
thing that's going to get prices back under control?

Speaker 6 (45:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (45:03):
I don't think prices ever get under control.

Speaker 6 (45:06):
You know, I did one.

Speaker 15 (45:06):
I did a media spot and that day in place
you came in, it's three percent.

Speaker 6 (45:12):
It's got a three.

Speaker 15 (45:13):
Point one and the mark is hit it all time
of high. It's in ridiculous if we nobody cares about
that except heads like me. Right, So three percent, three
point one.

Speaker 6 (45:21):
That doesn't matter to anyone.

Speaker 15 (45:22):
It's because you've had this massive run up and now
it's under control, but you've already heard tug control on
top of that run up, so people are gonna hurt.
I don't see prices coming down significantly, especially with some
of the tariff news. I think that could be beneficial
long term to pining on the strategy, but the short
term that's that's gonna certainly pitch a little bit too.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
Yeah, you alluded to it there, And this is kind
of as we talk about this, like it makes me
wonder if people just, hey, are they Are they just
willing to go in debt more nowadays, or be they're
just willing to not save as much moneys now like you're.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
Going in debt and now it's like everybody is so
big deal god question.

Speaker 6 (46:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (46:02):
I mean even in my career, you know, starting in
two thousand and one, I've seen a massive shift.

Speaker 6 (46:05):
On the thoughts on debt.

Speaker 15 (46:07):
Feel a lot of people just.

Speaker 6 (46:08):
Have it, you know, they do. Another thing is sometimes.

Speaker 15 (46:11):
People are taking money out that they earned. Real estate
has been a huge boom, you know for years and years,
So if people have their own home or they take
a whole equity line or if they have the rental properties,
certainly there's money there that they can access. And the
stock market as well. I mean, basically everything is at
an all time high, which makes it very difficult for
someone like me. It's hard to know what to put

(46:32):
people in interesting.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Well, Ron, listen, we appreciate your time. Ron Glasgow. He's
the head of Glasgow Investment Solutions. If folks want to
find out more about you, Ron, where can they go?

Speaker 15 (46:44):
Yeah, this to my website use placed Glasgow Investments dot com.
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Speaker 2 (46:50):
Ron has been great, Thank you, I thank you, guys,
appreciate thank you. Ye Mosiah all it was good stuff.
But yeah, I because I saw the same thing. All
spendings going to be down this year and the amount
of deals they're offering aren't as good as they've been
in years past and break records.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
Oh and then last week, last wild week, Yeah you you,
they were lined up on the highway right outside here
to get into to go to Kenwood Town Center. I
mean the traffic was backed up on seventy one at
the exits. Yea to just go to ken like I
heard there was a clip on like Jack Crumley had it.
A guy who's saying, I've been coming this mall for

(47:28):
years and never seen it this this busy ye wild.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Speaking of Jack Crumley, he just passed me a note
here a bit ago. I guess there's gonna be some
intermittent closures of some highways here. So at approximately four
thirty pm today, which is right now, Across County Highway
will be closed in both directions between US forty two,
which is Raiding Road and East Galberth Road for up

(47:54):
to fifteen minutes while cruise supporting. And I guess an
upright and existing pole that was there, So again rond
Reagan Cross County Highway both direcon directions from US forty
two Reign Road and East Galberth for up to fifteen minutes,
So watch out for that. Let's go ahead and check
some trafficking weather. How are we looking? That's right and

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(48:37):
both directions, so Cruise can transfer the power lines there
at that location as well, so that'd be a little
bit later tonight as well. Seventy five southbound approaching Cooper
accident has two left lanes blocked, and we've got two
seventy five westbound before seventy four our left lane taken
up here to lay us back to Blue Rocke. That's
about a twenty minute slowdown right now. Seventy five southbound

(48:58):
near two seventy five acts down their shoulder and we
have two seventy five sewing between US fifty two and
five mile with the ongoing road to work here and
that's going through the twenty second of the month. Supplant
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and the forecast tonight mostly cloudy with a low of
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Don't get caught out in the cold. Call the prose
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Van Habrit of the tree tops of an Oak grove
on campus to protest the university's plans to demolish over
an acre of forest to build a new athletics center,
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(51:42):
the longest tree sit ins in history lasted six hundred
and forty nine days. What year was that, two thousand
and six? You know, of course, tree sit ins are
a form of civil disobedience. At his peak, the Berkeley
protests saw over a dozen people on limbs of the
groves oak and redwood trees. Volunteers and others would bring

(52:04):
them food, water, and supplies. In addition to the tree sitters,
the university face pushback from the Sierra Club in the
California Native Plant Society. That's the thing about California. There's
always a society, and there's always a division of a
subdivision of a special interest NGO thing. Yes, and was

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being sued by three other parties, including the Berkeley City
Council of the project's proximity to the dangerous Hayward Fault.
According to one conservation analyst, the grove provided sustenance for
over three hundred animal species, what like squirrels and rabbits
and birds. A two thousand and seven, injunction by the

(52:51):
Almeada County Judge paused plans to cut down the grove,
but in July two thousand and eight, the court ruled
in the university's favor, using police to begin arresting protesters
to clean out these encampments.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Well.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
The case was a Piota State appeals court in September
of two thousand and eight refused to block construction that
allowed the university to cut down the entire grove in
the following three days. Within a week, the remaining four
tree sitters were coached into climbing down and they were
subsequently arrested. Finally, they gave it hell. You know what

(53:28):
I mean. They gave it hell. Two years sitting in
a what an effort tree. I like the wild Man's
Cause much better. Yeah, very similar one.

Speaker 15 (53:38):
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They went up on a billboard until the until the
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Speaker 31 (53:55):
Emergency Utility working pacting rush hour traffic on Reagan. But
the four point thirty report, I'm Sean Gaalbager Breaking Now.
Oh NOD says to expect short term intermittent full closures
along Ronald Breaking Cross County Highway this afternoon and evening
while DOUK Energy performs the emergency repairs to a utility
poll in lines. Right now, Ronald Reagan is closed both
ways between Reading Road and East Galbert for fifteen minutes

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as they fix the existing poll. Then at seven o'clock
this evening, there will be three short term closures about
the fifteen minutes in both directions for CRUIS to transfer
power lines over the highway. Motorists are encouraged to take
alternate routes during these short term closures. Earlier today, Hamilton
County Commissioners are proving up four and a half percent
property tax rollback for twenty twenty six. Commission President Dinis Treehouse.

Speaker 32 (54:39):
We did thirty percent last year, and so now we're
in a position to do less this year because we
simply can't afford to bankrupt this fund, and so this
four point five is very conservative. I would admit I
am hopeful that if we were to pass that this year,
we put ourselves in a position where we can once
again gradually in reese the PTR.

Speaker 31 (55:02):
The fund that is used for maintenance on Great American
Ballpark and pay Course. City was said to be now
under fifty percent at least. J reesed the loane no
vote and plans to file an online petition for property
owners to sign if they support her motion for the
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trailer on its side in the median southbound seventy five
approaching Cooper. Two lanes are blocked and you're laying bank
to Glendale Milford being then on Ronald Reagan Highway between
Writing and gold Breadth, we do have the rontal Ringe
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Reading and gold Breath. Crews are uprighting and supporting a

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damage utility fold. Then later tonight around seven they will
have three short term up to about fifteen minute closures
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Speaker 31 (56:25):
We will see a mostly cloudy sky tonight to low
down to twenty mostly sunny Wednesday highs in the mid thirties,
partly sunny Thursday high of thirty one, cloudy and currently
twenty nine degrees. News Service Upplot Center. The tri State
seen a new daily record snowfall CVG, reporting four point
two inches of snow fell overnight, which passes the previous
record of two point two inches set on this day

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in nineteen twenty nine. The City of Cincinnati scene its
new snow removal plan put into action. Mark Bridley, who
was hired to head up the city's public services department,
said weather stations have been established in every neighborhood to
monitor conditions, which led to a quicker response to snow fells.

Speaker 7 (57:02):
Given us a visual at those locations we get actually
from our phone see what the royal conditions are and
also see how traffic is smoothing, because we want to
make sure that the roads are passable.

Speaker 31 (57:13):
The city has also introduced a new live snowplow tracker,
which Riley says experience some technical problems as the server
cannot handle the large number of people trying to access it.
Riley did note that old primary roads in Cincinnati retreated
when he was eighteen years old. Ohio U S Senator
in Bernie Moreno, who was born in Columbia, gave up
dual citizenship and announces Columbian citizenship. Moreno now proposing to

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build up an end dual citizenship, forcing US citizens who
are currently citizens of other countries to make a tough
decision within a year, saying in the statement that if
they want to be Americans, it's all or nothing. This
could complicate matters for President Trump's family, as the first
Lady and her son Baron and their son Baron are
both reportedly citizens of both the US and Slovania.

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Speaker 18 (59:00):
Do a weather topic and in light of the white
death that we got last night, Jason, millions and millions
of tons of snow that we had descend upon a
tri state.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
We love a good weather story. Yes, we're get your
thoughts on your stories on the worst weather you ever seen,
but that'll be five o'clock. I did see this during
the break here, Jason. President Trump has just announced quarany
ud quote no more Somalions in the United States. He's done.
Their country stinks, they contribute nothing quote unquote. I don't

(59:36):
want them. Some say it's not politically correct. I don't care.
I don't want them in our country. Their country is
no good for a reason. Understanding Simulions ripped off Minnesota
for billions of dollars. The welfare is like eighty eight percent,
and you have some stats on that as well. How's
how you really feel, President Trump.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
I think this is probably in the wake of the
cabinet meeting today which Homeland Security Secretary Homeland Security Secretary
of Christy Nome revealed in that cabinet meeting with President
Trump that half of all Minnesotans have submitted fraudulent visa applications.
I don't know if that's a typo or in the

(01:00:18):
New York Post story or half of all folks who
I don't know if that's half of all Somali of it,
because it seems like that's a lot like half of
everyone who lives in Minnesota. Anyway, that's what the story says,
quote from Nome, quote, you told me to look into
Minnesota and they're fraud on visas in their programs. Fifty

(01:00:39):
percent of them are fraudulent, which means that wacko governor
Walls either as an idiot or he did it on purpose,
and I think he's both. Sir Nooam told the President
and other cabinet members, he brought people in there illegally
that never should have been in this country. Said they
were somebody that they're not. They said they were married

(01:01:01):
to somebody who was their brother or somebody else, Nome said.
And then the story said that was a possible reference
to accusations against the representative elon Omar squad member as
we as well, well, who's a representative there in Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Well, I mean there's a big what they call it,
little mogadishue there in Minnesota. And this is all statistics
and fact based, and you can't deny it. I mean
enormously high unemployment rates there, okay, and it's long been
a hot spot for like terroristic recruitment and things like that.

(01:01:38):
And it's a community that has zero desire to assimilate
into American culture, zero none. They don't want to, like,
you know, learn the American way and learn the American
And that's always been my biggest problem. Has nothing to
new with skin color or anything like that, but if
you come to this country, you should assimilate what it
is to be American in the American tradition and the

(01:02:00):
things that we do here and holidays we celebrate and
things we find important and and all that. I always think, Uh,
former Governor Honors Horzenegger says the best he goes, you
got to realize because he's I think, does it the
right way. He is not obviously a natural American citizen,
but he says, look, if you were coming here, you're
an immigrant. You are a guest. You're a guest in

(01:02:21):
someone's house. So if I invite you into my home,
or if someone comes in your home, they're expected to
kind of go with the flow. Yep, Right, you don't
walk in that into my house or your house or
anybody's house and started saying, well, I don't like the
couch over there, And I understand why you have that
picture on the wall, and I understand why you guys

(01:02:42):
are eating dinner at steven whoa, whoa, whoa. You're a
guest here, you kind of just go along with the
flow and you assimilate into how we're doing things here.
That's always been been my thing. And I don't want
any immigrant in here that doesn't want to assimilate into
American culture.

Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
Well, and that's the beauty of America is that we are.
We are a country of immigrants in our generations of
your family, my family, most people's family, you know, us
from another country that can't be a taker.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
My grandparents weren't.

Speaker 15 (01:03:12):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
It's a lot of these folks, you know, they're they're takers.
They take and they don't want to assimilate in.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
And that problem that that right, And then if you
throw on top of that that it's you know, you've
and again this is the accusation against Walls, who I
tend to think is not a good politician, and and
who knows that you know, certainly some of this is
political bluster and hyperbole.

Speaker 6 (01:03:43):
But.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
Like right where where is the I think the challenge
with this is that you know you're you're abroad here.
You know, you didn't you didn't come here illegally necessary
obviously through the you know you you jut you went
through the border. You came here as part of a
program of that some politicians set up to eventually, you know,

(01:04:10):
have have a community of folks from some country, uh,
whatever country that is. And but then you wonder like
where where where's the then process of becoming uh you
know the way you said assimilating into America, like American culture,

(01:04:33):
you know, just learning you know, civic I guess basic
one on one civics, which is an individual to America.
You go through all those those courses that and again
I don't I don't know, I'm not I don't know
this well enough to know, like in terms of like
when you bring is it refuge, Like I don't even
know the whole story of this, Like the Somalians that

(01:04:55):
went to Minnesota, like where you did were there then
a whole was there a whole citizenship process when folks
and again that there are other countries, when pockets around
the country where people are from a certain country, whether
you know they'll come to an area or neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Are they are there programs there's Italian parts of town
and general ruts down and you can still celebrate your country.
Are their programs?

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
But are their programs in terms of American citizenship programs?

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
Like there may be programs where they have no desire
to to actually you know, partaken the like for real,
and maybe you go through it, Okay, you read the paper. Sure, fine, right,
there's no effort at all whatsoever, no effort to do
assimilate and and then there's no desire to be a
productive member of society. I mean, the welfare rates there

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and the amount of you know, the money that is
spent and spent and spent and spent is crazy. And
that's money that could be spent on people and hard
times that are here in America that want to be
a part of the you know, but a neat little
hand up. I don't think anybody has any problem with that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:04):
And you think about I don't know, again, I don't
know the statistics or whatever, but I assume there are
tens of thousands of people probably throughout the course of
a year, if not a week or whatever, they were
looking to come to this country legally and you know,
either via a legal visa or become a legal citizen,

(01:06:25):
you know, And so how's that fair to those folks
and again from all over the world trying to come
here and want to go through the process of trying
to be just like you know whatever. You know, folks
that came to Ellis Island and became you know, went
through all the processes of doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
There there's but it's also I mean we're talking you know,
many many.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
Many years we are. But I mean, I think there's
a different world. But the principle of coming to the
country a.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Welfare system when people came over from Ellis Island, you you.

Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
Had to had to produce or But that's the point.
That's the point I'm making. Sorry I wasn't clear about it.
Are those folks who are currently trying to come into
the country, they're not coming here. I'm going to go
out on a limb and assume they're not coming here
to try to live on welfare. They're coming here because
they they are looking, they know this is a country
that has jobs or there's a specific I think there's

(01:07:19):
I think there's some that that look at it like
that you talk, the stats would tell you the Simonian population.
I'm talking about people wanting to come to this country legally.
They want to go through the process of legally. Okay, yeah, no, I.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Think they desire to do that and that, and that
the system gets wrecked by the ones that just want
to take and have no desire to are those flks
who want to come here legally. Here here's the thing, Like,
if you're not from this country, you don't you don't
value some of the things that that have been a
part of our like like take the Second Amendment. Whatever
you feel about the Second Amendment, Like, there's a history

(01:07:53):
there of why hey, because you know, a couple hundred
years ago we had to pick up arms and and
and and overthrow a tyrannical government. But if you're from
a country or you never had that where your country
lived under a king or something forever, you have, no,
you don't understand what it's like to why that's something
that people value here.

Speaker 3 (01:08:12):
But that's what you see if you seek if you
seek legal citizenship, that's all part of the civics process
that you go through that you are those are all
there are courses that you take legal citizens dam but
then I mean, and then that's when it's determined whether you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
Show me that you actually crosses are are are actually
you're considering them and want to do with them and
follow through with them. I don't I don't think you
see that with especially in in like these some all
your communities.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
Well, and then well that's I mean, I think we're
talking about two separate things because and then what what
Gnome is saying here is that her claim is that
a big chunk of half of them, half of the
visa applications are fraudulent, and so she's now accusing Walls basically,

(01:09:08):
you know, faking the whole thing to.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
Just bring people here illegally. Essentially is the vote and
you know, throw the American system, which is that that's
a that's a game plan.

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
But see, so there's the difference there, and like I feel,
whether yeah, right or whether you're literally trying to seek
coming into this country the right way, and you know,
what are your motives for wanting to come into this
country the right way?

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
Your motives should be when you come to this country
is I want to be a productive sism. I not
only want to let my life in my family's life,
but I also want to lift up this country. That's
that should be the requirement period.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
I completely agree with you, and I think probably people
that do seek to come to this country legally, I
think probably have that motive in my sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
But they get pushed aside for you know, the millions
and millions of illegal immigrants. I fear up to me like,
there will just be a total pause on the whole
deal for a year, and let let's let let's let
our society absorb and let's let's figure it out and
we're allocate resources and all that instead of just bringing
millions and millions a year. And that's what Trump is doing.
And I applaud yep I apploid. All right, let's go

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Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
Twenty for rower. Let's keep going. I saw this and
this kind of relates to the topic we discussed to
open the show at three o'clock, and that was that
to build a new convention hotel downtown YEP. There's a
certain district down there that's going to that's being asked
and going to put on a one percent tax that's

(01:12:55):
going to help just going to go directly to help
pay for this bill seven hundred room Marion. And look,
I applaud the fact that it's not being forced on them.
They're they're asking these businesses and I guess they do
the They think it out and go, well, you know,
if this thing gets built, this means more foot traffic,
more people going to come to our our restaurant or
bar or whatever. It's so fine, yea, I will say, yeah,

(01:13:18):
I find that really it's interesting dynamic there. And what
I would wonder is when that hotel was built, does
that tax come off those bills or is it any
they hang on for a little bit longer? You know
the answer that right exactly. That's I guess my issue.
But uh, here's I talk about this one though. This
is in Chicago, which is dead broke, right they uh,

(01:13:40):
Chicago facing roughly one point one five billion dollar projected
shortfall for this upcoming yearash, so you're a billion dollars
shortfall for their city in twenty twenty six. How do
you keep electing the same folks if you're in the
hole that big.

Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
Again.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
I mean again, that's where polical question it. Apparently there
hasn't been enough paid. Apparently there needs to be more
because people just works it the same way.

Speaker 15 (01:14:09):
Um.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
So you know, Governor Johnson ther he proposed a sixteen
point six billion dollar budget to close the shortfall by
a significant aspect of his plan and proposed twenty one
dollars monthly tax per employees for companies with one hundred
or more workers. That was, thank god, struck down by
the Finance Committee over concerns that would you know, drive

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corporations out of the city.

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
So they won the So there there, you worked in
a in a company in Chicago. You were, you were?
He wanted to tax an extra twenty one dollars one
hundred more workers. Then that's an extra twenty one bucks
a month per employee.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
Oh my gosh. Yeah. So but that again that got
shot down. So but again they're trying to trying to
bridge a gap of one point one five billion. Okay,
so it's a pretty tall order and fifty two dollars
a year right there, or for one employee. Here's with
somebody a council member Alderman Gilbert Vilagas proposed an initiative

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that would potentially charge residents a dollar twenty five for
every package delivered. So Amazon pulls up your door and
delivers a package that you bought a dollar and twenty
five cent tax on it? What? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:15:25):
For Like.

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
Where does that even come? Like where would you even
come up with that idea? Like what would be the
extra charge for animal? Because they need it and they
don't have it? But it makes no sense, Like it
doesn't right of course it doesn't. Like what what does
it cost for the Amazon which pulls up to my
house way too often?

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
Yeah? For the Amazon on tin bucks a day? Yeah,
for the.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
Amazon to literally pull up in front of your house
in there most of the time at they're an electric van.
I don't think that even matters. And lady or the
guy get out come up to my porch either. If
I'm there, they hand it to me. If not, they
just set it on the front of the door. Like
what what's the expense in that? They're not They just
need the money and they don't have any other ways.

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And they know that everybody orders packages, everybody gets things
delivered to their house anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
So this is the way that I get it brutal.
It got shot down or got rejected, as you say,
and folks are claiming it would need state approval to implement,
but the guy who introduced it says that it does
not need state approval. Other things that they've put in
place along with they have a grocery delivery fee, another

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fee on top of the grocery fee, okay, that goes
directly to the city. A group of suggested nearly doubling
the city's garbage collection fee, which has been nine to
fifty per month since it was implemented in twenty fifteen.
So they would take that thing up to nineteen bucks
to get your garbage collected. Okay. So now again all
this so you got that, you got that, You got

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the proposal of a dollar and twenty five cent uh
charge for every package delivered. This is just months after
the city dropped nearly six hundred and forty million dollars
on illegal immigrants. I mean, if you live there, you
can go huh what right? The pushback on this is

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you would think would be incredible, But again, these same
people get elected. I just crime there. I mean, where
is the benefit, Where's the benefit of living in Chicago
and no. Look, if you're wealthy and you got a
two million dollar penhouse you know somewhere there, you know,
in Lincoln Parkers, Okay, whatever, fine, perfect, that's great. You're

(01:17:44):
not gonna none of this affects you, right, and even
a package fee wouldnt affect you. But for the normal
person living around there, there's no way you could This
is sustainable.

Speaker 3 (01:17:54):
And you can you can get bringing it back to
the you know, the fee. You know, like you get
the restaurant fee. Well, ultimately a lot of a big
chunk of the folks are going to eat in the
restaurants or you know, there's a calculation there are going
to be staying in that hotel. So it's almost like
a user fee, right, so you get that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
You get that this one. There's no collection connection out
all right, we're way late for the break. When we
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Speaker 13 (01:18:38):
Trying to balance obligations to the stadiums and homeowners with
the five o'clock report. I'm Jack Crumley breaking now Hamilton
County commissioners this morning deciding how much of a property
tax rollback or PTR will be granted to homeowners in
twenty twenty six. When the stadium deal was passed back
in the nineties, the promise was thirty percent as the

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full pace.

Speaker 21 (01:19:00):
The board has in fact provided full PTRs on several
occasions going back to twenty eleven.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
You can further see that it's.

Speaker 21 (01:19:09):
Not abnormal that following a full PTR year to follow
that with a couple of years of rebuilding reserve, which
is what I'm recommending for a twenty twenty six.

Speaker 13 (01:19:21):
County Administrator Jeffaludo recommending four and a half percent to
build up those reserves after the full amount was sent
back this past year.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
Commissioner at lish Reiz, I truly believe and I want
to say, it was.

Speaker 22 (01:19:32):
Not fiscally irresponsible to keep the promise of thirty percent,
because you jumped up and said it wasn't fiscally irresponsible
to do an eight hundred plus million dollar plus deal
with debt on taba debt on taba debt.

Speaker 2 (01:19:47):
You said we got to keep our commitment. Well, why
don't we have to keep the commitment to the people.

Speaker 13 (01:19:54):
She was the lone no vote today commissioners agreeing to
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the accident here with the semi on its side and
the clean up under window delays. Go back to Blue
Rock and it's about a half hour slow down in
Kentucky seventy five northbound after Dixie Highway crash on the shoulder,
and we have bridgetown at Fiddler's Green with an accident.
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The crews are going to have closures here as they
support a damaged utility poll and then later tied around
seven the roadway will be shut down for three fifteen
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Speaker 13 (01:21:05):
I got a report of a crash now westbound on
Ronald Reagan just before Ridge Avenue. Have another crash reported
just with minor slowdowns northbound seventy one just north of
Ronald Reagan.

Speaker 7 (01:21:16):
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No Fear Dentist dot Com. Staying cloudy tonight, a low
down to twenty degrees. We are expecting the sun to
come out tomorrow with a high of thirty five, hopefully
melting a little bit of that snow that fell today.
There is a slight chance of snow tomorrow night, but
no real accumulations expected. Then for Thursday, cloudy, gradually turning sunny,
but a high right around the freezing mark. Great art

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right now shows just clouds in the tri State. It's
twenty eight degrees.

Speaker 7 (01:21:49):
Sending a supervisor to Denver, I wanted them to see
something outside of Cincinnati. I wanted them get an opportunity
to see how other cities do winter operations.

Speaker 13 (01:21:58):
Cincinnati's new Director of Public Safety, Mark Riley, giving a
report to council this morning on all the improvements that
the city has made in snow response versus last season,
when hundreds of streets went untouched following a big blizzard.
Those changes worked, the city response considered much better for
the snow that fell overnight. Four point three inches of
snow recorded at CVG north of there. In Hamilton and

(01:22:19):
Middletown came in around four and a half more than
five inches of snow reported in much of Warren County,
and one of Ohio's Republican senators is looking to have
certain Americans make a tough choice.

Speaker 29 (01:22:30):
US Senator Bernie Moreno has introduced a bill that would
end dual citizenship. When he was eighteen, the Republican from
Ohio renounced his citizenship in Columbia. He says in a
statement that if you want to be an American, it's
all or nothing. Senator Moreno's bill would provide a year
before people with dual citizenship.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
Can renounce one or the other.

Speaker 29 (01:22:51):
But now the current policy, he says, may create conflicts
of interest and divided loyalties. Senator Moreno's bill could affect
the press president's family. The first lady and their son
are reportedly citizens of both the US and Slovenia. I'm
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Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
A decade ago, I was on the trip Hire we Go,
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calls on worst weather, and I mean I want it bad.
I want the worst weather you've ever experienced. Five one, three, seven, four, nine,
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was that bad. But what about you? And I know
you lived on a farm, you lived in Minnesota. What's
the worst weather you've been a part of our scene? Well,
the worst weather, hands down. When you said this was.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
I drove so when remember the Bengals played the last
time they were in the playoffs, they played in Kansas City. Yes,
and I drove to Kansas City, run into a big,
big SUV Nissan Armada, and drove to Kansas City and
on the way back hit.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
About Greensburg, Indiana that maybe an hour out and just no, no,
nothing normal normal. I mean it's cold, it's obviously January,
and I just start, I like, people are sliding everywhere
and it just comes out of nowhere and I fortunately
I had seen it up ahead enough, but it was

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black ice from there all the way in through Harrison
and it would.

Speaker 6 (01:25:30):
I mean it, I was.

Speaker 3 (01:25:33):
That was the most scared I've ever been in terms
of like a weather, because I'm like, and I wasn't
like number number one, like, am I going to fall
off the road here?

Speaker 6 (01:25:43):
And I you know.

Speaker 2 (01:25:45):
What's gonna happen?

Speaker 6 (01:25:45):
I number two?

Speaker 3 (01:25:46):
I was worried about someone else coming through here in
all these semis and you're like, holy and it was
you barely touch that gas and boom you start to spend.

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
Okay, because you can have an R model, you can
have the biggest car, you can have a tank and
black ice. You going to sleep, buddy?

Speaker 4 (01:26:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
Man, that was scary.

Speaker 4 (01:26:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
That is usually the worst when you get that that
cold rain and it's cold enough to where it can freeze,
so it looks like it's bad, but it's bad. That
was late January, mid late January of twenty twenty three,
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (01:26:22):
You go?

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
Yeah, we got a couple of calls rolling in. Let's
go to gym and a million jim fire away please.

Speaker 1 (01:26:29):
Hey guys, thanks seventy nine. I got up to Walkegan,
Illinois in the Navy with a couple of days before Thanksgiving,
which is right about now. Got off the bus first
day and anyway, the grass is on the ground, and
then it snowed and I did. We didn't see the

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ground for twelve weeks. And this is in Walkegan, Illinois, Okay,
and it maybe people were remember that that time of
the of the history, but it was accumulated by the
time of twelve weeks, it was like eighty over eighty
inches of accumulated snow.

Speaker 26 (01:27:12):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
Yeah, that does ungodly am that of snow.

Speaker 1 (01:27:17):
And here's the kicker. You had to we had to
have snow duty. And they'd wake up in the middle
of the night and and shovel the grinder off between
the divisional buildings. And it was like the other wear
a towel over your face. We're not talking like thirty degrees.
We're talking minus twenty degrees with the wind.

Speaker 4 (01:27:35):
Okay, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:27:38):
And the thing and the thing was when you woke
up up in the morning, there was ice on the
inside of our divisional barracks from people. The it was
so called that our transparration throws on the inside of
the windows.

Speaker 2 (01:27:56):
Yeah, so you would breathe out and that would that
would would freeze the windows. Yeah, and it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:02):
Was like it was like the most unbelievable and like
it was really cool. But thanks guys.

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
Yeah, good stuff. Yeah, that's that's brutal.

Speaker 6 (01:28:12):
Here.

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
Let's go to go to mic and a Million Mike
farre Away.

Speaker 34 (01:28:17):
Yeah, my wife got me tickets to see the Bulls
the last year of Michael Jordan's run there. It was
early March and we were heading up there. Lazy day
to get started to dig. Game wasn't until the next day.

Speaker 8 (01:28:33):
Uh, but we got off.

Speaker 34 (01:28:35):
We got up to Lafayette and the cops got us
off the road and they said there was a bad
snowstorm or like whatever.

Speaker 8 (01:28:42):
I don't even see anything. So we got on a
parallel highway back in the map stays you know, no
no GPS or anything like that. We started heading north
and I had heard of a white out before. I
had never.

Speaker 34 (01:28:54):
Experienced a white out. It just was snowing so hard.
I couldn't see the front of my hood. I we
were I finally came up on a semi and we
were begging for tree lines and stuff like that just
to let up, uh, just so I can see.

Speaker 8 (01:29:08):
And I just rode this semi. Well.

Speaker 34 (01:29:10):
Where it's funny is we had subway earlier and uh,
I down a big old big gold or whatever, and uh,
driving in this white out, there was no stopping, you know,
there was no pulling off, there was no nothing. And
I said, I need that cup over there. Well, but
let's just say the cup wasn't enough and uh.

Speaker 8 (01:29:36):
Uh uh, I said, You're gonna have to dump this
out because I'm filling this up. And instead of going
with the way, she went against the winning went.

Speaker 2 (01:29:47):
All up for arm Yeah man white out.

Speaker 8 (01:29:54):
Yeah, yeah, the game was great.

Speaker 2 (01:29:59):
Much please you got to see Jordan his last year.

Speaker 6 (01:30:02):
But you made it alive. I mean, I mean I
was made it to the game.

Speaker 2 (01:30:07):
Did anybody make the joke? Got a dumb and dumber
who he fills up like eight bottles?

Speaker 6 (01:30:13):
Right?

Speaker 8 (01:30:13):
Yeah, tick officer, Yeah exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:30:16):
And you're still married, right.

Speaker 8 (01:30:19):
Uh thirty years next year?

Speaker 12 (01:30:21):
Yes, yes, all.

Speaker 2 (01:30:26):
Right, thanks, I appreciate that's a great call. That's good.
Let's go to west Chester and talk to David. David
fire away. Please, Hey, guys, how you doing? Good Bye?

Speaker 4 (01:30:38):
This came to mind.

Speaker 15 (01:30:40):
This is probably I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:30:41):
Nineteen ninety. We were in Denver, Colorado.

Speaker 28 (01:30:44):
We were driving back from actually a funeral from Colorado Springs,
and we hit a white out and like the guy
before was saying, I could barely see my headlights and
it was just staring a foot in front of my
car or the car. And we had four with Chevy Blazer,
and still couldn't tell. I just kept following what looked
like tracks. All of a sudden, a car coming the

(01:31:07):
wrong way past my driver's door, close enough that I
could see the look of the face of the guy
going south on the northbound lanes beside me, and I
was shaking.

Speaker 1 (01:31:20):
I squeezed so hard on that steering wheel I got home.

Speaker 28 (01:31:24):
My hands were tramping. It took us hours to get
back up to where we were. That's the worst scariest
driving I've ever done.

Speaker 4 (01:31:32):
Well, that was bad.

Speaker 2 (01:31:33):
Well, I mean that's the thing in a white out.
I mean, you don't know what's ahead of you, and
there could be a you know, ten wrexed cars in
front of you, and you don't see him in boom.
That's it.

Speaker 6 (01:31:41):
Yep.

Speaker 28 (01:31:42):
We could see headlights once in a while go off
in some while direction. We'd just say shoot to go
somebody else off the road, and we just kept looking.
I couldn't see the headlights, but I thought I could
see tracks in front of me.

Speaker 4 (01:31:54):
And that's all I did was just try to follow those.

Speaker 28 (01:31:57):
My wife just sat there, wide eyed and just kept
her mouth shut, just held on and.

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
Just wait to get old. Well, and you don't know
what to do because you don't want to pull over
because people are all over the road and they could
reckon to you, so you keep going. But that's not safe.
You're just kind of stuck, man.

Speaker 28 (01:32:12):
You know, we had no idea how long we if
we had stuck for anything or got stuck, how long
were we going to be there?

Speaker 15 (01:32:18):
How long until.

Speaker 2 (01:32:19):
Somebody got there for us?

Speaker 4 (01:32:21):
So we didn't know.

Speaker 2 (01:32:23):
Yeah, I was wicked.

Speaker 28 (01:32:24):
That's that's way up there on the Holy Cow list.

Speaker 4 (01:32:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
No, no, And glad you you made it that okay, David,
thank you, thank you for the story. Yeah. See, I
mean in Colorado and some some places out well, you
get some real snows and when you were in Minnesota
you have seen some crazy stuff. Yeah, but I never.
I never did a white out, man, Yeah, that's I mean,

(01:32:50):
I've been into I don't know if I would consider
a white out, but there's been some snows i've been
in were I mean, yeah, same deal. You can't really
see that far in front, and that's a that's a
scary problem. That's scary. Let's go to Let's go to
Mainville and talk to Brian. Brian fire Away.

Speaker 9 (01:33:09):
Hey, I don't know if you guys ever been to Erie,
Pennsylvania before, but there's a stretch of an eye ninety
that runs between Cleveland and area and it's like the
Bermuda Triangle in the winter. And we were in a
hotel lobby. We had checked out of our hotel and
this they were predicting all this white out snow. And
met another guy in the lobby. He said, man, I'll
make a run for it if you want to make

(01:33:30):
a run for it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:31):
He had two little kids. We had two little kids.

Speaker 9 (01:33:33):
So we're like, yeah, let's just stick together till we,
you know, get to Cleveland. So going down ninety, going
about maybe thirty miles an hour, can hardly see and
all of a sudden I heard a thud, Like I mean,
I thought my car blew up and it was a
chunk of ice from an overpass, a snowplow, and my
windshield just shattered.

Speaker 15 (01:33:52):
I couldn't see anything.

Speaker 9 (01:33:54):
I had a one eye all the way down to
get off the highway.

Speaker 4 (01:33:58):
He didn't get my wind children place it was.

Speaker 8 (01:34:00):
It was hairly.

Speaker 2 (01:34:02):
Wow, man, you're so like blew off a truck or
an overpass or something right into your windshow Huh.

Speaker 9 (01:34:08):
Yeah, I guess them gathered. It was a snowplow coming
across an overpaths and he knocked off a huge chunk
of ice.

Speaker 6 (01:34:13):
And I mean it hit.

Speaker 9 (01:34:14):
The odds that hit and square on the driver's side
in front of me and me not swerving off the road.
I don't know what the odds of that are, but
you know we survived.

Speaker 2 (01:34:23):
Yeah, and and and Brian, thank you. Yeah. The best
place to be in a white out like that is
in your home, you know. And Withers, I gotta say
this because you want. My dad plowed streets for thirty
years working for Green Township. So I got a soft

(01:34:46):
spot spot in my heart for those guys. You're ever
out there, you know, let those guys do their job.
They're doing it it's a hard job. My dad U
saw say. People don't understand the snowplows. All they do
is push. No, you you can't scoop it up right,
So it's gotta go somewhere. It's natchally gonna you know,
it's gonna unfortunately shove some onto your driveway and people

(01:35:07):
shove it right back out the middle and they get
shoved right back there. And but anyway, yea be kind
to those guys all do you and all you guys
out there that are plowing. And it might be some
more weather here on Wednesday. From what they're saying, Uh,
make sure you be safe out there and uh in
God's speed. So but yeah, it's uh that there's yeah,
some of those uh you know, even those big truck

(01:35:29):
you're talking with, black ices, big trucks like that. Those
things will spin around and go right out it go
out of the way. Matter we'll drive, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 (01:35:37):
You got it all.

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
Let's go and check some trafficking weather. How are we looking?

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left shoulder axcellent and telling me the rang up too
with seventy five northbound. It's the all ramp to westbound

(01:36:03):
seventy four. Police are on the scene and good news
on two seventy five now westbound before seventy four a
semi trailer has been removed and lane restrictions lifted. Here
just before seventy four that semi trailer was on its side.
Seventy five southbound as their Charles of the bren Spence
Bond A five minute drive and we have the sow
down through the boatwork on seventy five south from Moonal

(01:36:24):
Reggae Highway down to Norwood Lateral a couple of minute delay.
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Speaker 2 (01:36:33):
In the forecast Tonight mostly cloudy with a low of
twenty and then tomorrow mostly sunny with a higher thirty five,
and then Wednesday night a slight chance of some more snow. Overnight,
partly cloudy, a low of twenty five right now the
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Speaker 11 (01:36:53):
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Jason for the awareness of what's in our food right
A lot the dies and the ultra process stuff that's

(01:37:36):
out there. A lot of people are asking questions, which
I think is a good thing is in wondering how
these things have been affecting our health over the last
to hover many years. But right now, I guess San
Francisco is going to sue ultra processed food companies. I
feel like San Francisco has a lot of other issues,
but nevertheless, Alex Stone from ABC is joining us Alex,

(01:37:57):
What is the latest with San Francisco gonna sue these
ultra processed food companies.

Speaker 35 (01:38:03):
Yeah, and this is a rare moment when liberal San
Francisco and the Trump administration agree on something. And what
Robert Kennedy has been doing on ultra process foods and
all of these efforts, but on this they do. And
I got to say that the fun police came out
today during this announcement that there is a big table
of things that a lot of us have eaten, you know,
growing up, and a lot of people eat on the

(01:38:25):
regular like wheat thins and neutral grain bars and special
k bars and Cheerios and lean cuisine, along with other
things like Oreos and craft Mayo and Chef Boyard and
Launchables and Cheetos and hot pockets and fun set of
yelf on the shelf, Billsbury cake frosting. But all of
these items and a lot more. San Francisco's to the
attorney David Chu, saying today they are making us fat,

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disease prone, and making us overall unhealthy. He put it
like this, Our.

Speaker 27 (01:38:52):
Case is about companies who design food to be harmful
and addictive and marketed their products to maximize profits like
the tobacco industry, They knew their products make people very sick,
but hid the truth from the public, profited from untold billions,
and left Americans to deal with the consequences.

Speaker 35 (01:39:14):
So the allegation in the San Francisco lawsuit is that
this started with tobacco companies back in the sixties and
seventies buying food companies, and that the food companies today
use tobacco industry tactics and now use chemicals to get Americans,
especially children, especially low income Americans, addicted to these high
processed foods, and that it is those chemicals that make

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you unknowingly. The allegation is addicted to them like it
was to tobacco or anything else that's been addictive, where
you don't know that you need more of it. And
they're claiming that what's being produced is sold as food
but is not really food because it's got the chemicals
in it.

Speaker 26 (01:39:50):
They added this, the industry has created thousands of new
chemicals which the body metabolizes and craves differently, and they
are designed to be addictive.

Speaker 15 (01:40:01):
Addiction.

Speaker 26 (01:40:01):
This is a feature, not a bug.

Speaker 35 (01:40:04):
So they're naming a bunch of companies, including Craft and
posts and Coca Cola and others, And the allegation is
that these companies have taken part in unfair and deceptive
practices lying about the foods being healthy in some cases
like wheat thins and nutri grain bars, and have not
disclosed chemicals that they put in them to make them addictive.
And we heard from one doctor today she says seventy
percent of what the calories the kids eat now are

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coming from these foods, and fifty percent of what adults
eat or more, leading to type two diabetes and cancer
and depression and a bunch of other diseases. And they
say this is decades in the making, that we don't
even really realize that some of the foods that we
are eating are these highly produced foods because we grew
up with them. You think you're making a healthier choice
and that these foods are in there. We reached out

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guys to the companies that are named in this, and
their industry trade group responded on their behalf saying that
they support making healthier choices, that they have worked increased
protein and fiber, sugar and sodium, takeout synthetic color addatives.
But they argue there is no agreed upon definition of
what is ultra processed food. And they say that their

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food is being demonized by ignoring the nutrient content, just
saying that it's highly processed and not looking at at
what the nutrients.

Speaker 4 (01:41:17):
Are in there.

Speaker 35 (01:41:17):
But San Francisco this lawsuit, they're letting these companies know
their food is making us sick, but have sold it
anyway and continue like tobacco did, to make money off
of it. And so we'll see where the lawsuit goes
and if it has any legs.

Speaker 3 (01:41:33):
This is pretty wild, Nick, You mentioned all the company
I mean it's a who's who of a food food
processing companies. I mean you throw in Pepsi and Coke
and General Mills and Hines and craft And is the
is the end goal here, Alex? That these companies will
then put almost like a cigarette type of related thing,
you know, warning on their front of their package.

Speaker 6 (01:41:54):
You know what is it?

Speaker 3 (01:41:55):
You know for cigarettes? It's this this product may cause cancer?
Is this the thing where hey, this this product has
processed foods that may cause you know whatever whatever, you know,
cancer and heart disease and blah blah blah.

Speaker 15 (01:42:11):
Is that the end?

Speaker 2 (01:42:11):
Is that the end goal here?

Speaker 35 (01:42:13):
Well, I think their end goal is that this stuff
isn't sold, that the food companies find other ways to
make it, or that they don't make it an America,
especially in low income areas, where that is the food
that is available and can be affordable to Phillip bellies
at home, that that that is not what is there.
But the reality is that that would take a big shift.
They said this, this has been going on since the

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sixties and growing to where we are today, that it
would take a lifetime to to make it wind back
down if they were able to do it. But otherwise, yeah,
warning labels or changing the ingredients or taking out these
alleged chemicals that they say are in there just to
make you addicted to it without you knowing they're even

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in there. That all of that, So it's kind of
all of the above. Their ultimate goal, though, would be
that we're eating greens out of the garden and lean
proteins and and that sort of thing. But the reality
of it is in the mass that these companies have
to make it that that's not really possible and getting
into every grocery store across really around the world, but

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across the country to be able to feed that there
are still going to be foods that you get it
at seven eleven or you at the grocery store that
are in boxes and they've got to be shelf stable.
So that's not something that that's really realistic. But ultimately
they want us to stop eating them.

Speaker 2 (01:43:34):
All right With that, Alex, we appreciate your time on this.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 9 (01:43:38):
You got it.

Speaker 35 (01:43:38):
Thanks guys, thanks saw it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:40):
I applaud this, And I mean just take a go
to your cupboard and take out a box of cereal,
some brand flakes. You're like, oh, okay, it's got to
be wheat and you know flour and you know some
sugar is not like forty different ingredients things you don't
even want?

Speaker 6 (01:43:55):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (01:43:56):
What's about basic food? And yeah, most of the names
are are four syllables and you have no idea what
they are. It's it's it's really as amazing. So I
hope something happens that the change, because it was what
we are eating right now is killing it. And I
saw this thing too where it's like everyone says, oh,
I eat that as a kid. It's to say no,
they're different, like oreos, Now, what's in those things and

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what they make? Oreos? Out of now is different than
than when you and I were kids. It's a lot
more chemicals and this and that and that sort of thing,
so things that ultimately they can make them, to make
them on the cheap, right exactly, Keep on, all Right's
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