10-17-25 Friday Night Sterling

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we are. We've made it to a Friday. Jack
Crumley has got news in about twenty three minutes. He
is giddy, giddy with the news of people getting passes
for bizarre behavior and commuted sentences and everything else. We'll
get into the weirdness of New York and world politics

(00:23):
a bit later. How you doing It's sterling, mister Waddell
in charge keeping me online on screening calls and producing tonight.
A lot of ground to cover on this fine Friday.
The weekend is here. We will talk to Amoe Egger
a little bit later about the nine thirty five give
or take about the hood ay, the improbability of Joe
Flacco from Joe's Toe to Joe Flacco in a couple

(00:46):
of weeks of in between because it just didn't work out.
And now all of a sudden, people's attitude, the way
they walk, the tone, the energy of Bengals world is
totally different. It just is. And here we are leading
our way towards Halloween and the stuff that scares us.

(01:11):
I have friends with kids that have been looking forward
to this Friday night, this weekend to get out and
some haunted places, scary stuff, taking tours in and around
Cincinnati and elsewhere, on top of just all the other
good stuff to do. Kevin Carr, by the way, gonna
Jona's talking about the new phone booth too, movie and
some other stuff that scares us as well. So I

(01:32):
appreciate you being along. I want to start with something
that is Oh, there's also no King protests tomorrow. A
lot of people excited about that or angry about that.
I guess pick a side depending on how that goes.
And there's more shooting stuff downtown. Cincinnati's vibrant downtown, exciting,

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lots of stuff going on, lots of stuff to do,
great food, entertainment options. It was hopping last night Thursday
day night football, the big wide out at Pey Corps
and the Bengals with the big win over the Steelers
last night, which you heard here on seven hundred WLW.
They continued talk of well, maybe they'll punt, they'll fire

(02:14):
the police chief, because really the police chief is clearly
the problem. In the midst of everything, I want to
open up the phones, give you a chance to sound
off on a just really your vibe, a pulse of
the tri State right now five three, seven, four, nine,
eight hundred the big Win. The iHeartRadio app. You can
click on that microphone and leave a message there on

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the talkback. I'm also on exer Twitter at Sterling Radio.
So this is an ongoing, never ending question that has
probably been in place since the beginning of society as
we know it. People go, Okay, it's the police. Get
rid of the police chief because there's a violent crime
and idiots doing idiotic things and victimizing people in and

(03:00):
around Cincinnati, all over the country, all over the world
for that met And then people go, okay, well, it's
the police chief, or it's the mayor, because I regularly
see a mayor of a city out on the street
going after criminals. So I don't know. Then you got
a city manager actually is the person who's capable of
firing a police chief. I do know. That's how Cincinnati works.

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And that was something from a vote some years ago
which has gotten some attention as of late. And reinforcement
and alteration to curfews and kids downtown, let's start there.
If you've got teenagers downtown smoking weed out in the open,
running around, I would say that curfew or no curfew,
legal weed or otherwise, you're not supposed to smoke it

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in public. You got to be smarter than that. Get
some gummies, get some edibles, get a beverage that would
be an adult beverage, and you know, handle your business.
But instead, instead they go, we're going to go after them. Now, well, yeah, obviously,
what are the what are the solutions? What is the causation?
I'm going to go down the list. Better policing that

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is that the need, because you know, I've had all
these people talk to me and they tell me, they say, sterling,
the cops aren't doing their job. The cops say that
they feel like their job doesn't matter because they're not
getting backed up by the bench, the courts, the jury system,
the criminal justice system in general, and the people got

(04:28):
to take some responsibility for themselves and what they do
and how they handle themselves. Do they not. If you
make a shoddy product and it is your child that
is a shoddy product that is out there victimizing the
general population, they need to be handled. And parents need
to be handled for their minor children in some fashion
for not controlling them and handling them. I mean, it's

(04:50):
just that simple. And police need to go out there
and enforce the laws that are on the books, and
they need to be respectful about it, and they need
to treat people with respect and dignity. And people who
are out there engaged with law enforcement, it's obvious what
they need to do. If the coppa pulls you over,
be respectful. Let your hands be seen on that steering wheel.

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Put that if it's out at night, turned that light
on the overhead up so cops know what they're walking into.
And yes, sir, no, sir, be respectful, right, And if
they are on the street and going after bad guys
and that are doing bad things, then they get them
locked up. Prosecutors press charges, court proceedings take place. You

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don't the thing that I can't wrap my brain around.
And maybe I'm not smart enough, but if you've got
violent offenders, you don't turn them back up onto the street,
especially kids in that situation apparently to go do it
again and again and again in the midst of waiting
for a court appearance, or in fact, if in fact

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they've been convicted to do you know, back out and
do it again without doing time or otherwise. I mean,
maybe I'm missing something. By the way. A Henny A. Suarez,
former Red Big Grand Slam helping the Mariners take a
three to two lead in this American League Championship Series.

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That game just wrapping up, so win for them next
up and then they're onto the World Series and Dodgers
making quick and easy work it seems of the Brewers,
which seems somewhat shocking and somewhat surprising to me. But
we'll see how it goes. It'd be nice to see
Dodgers and Mariners. That'd be a great matchup. I want

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to step back in and give you a chance to
sound off, because I ranted and rambled and laid out
a bunch of problems that are being dealt with in
the streets of Cincinnati, as they are in the streets
of cities across this country and generally. And I've been lucky.

(07:02):
I mean, I grew up in dating and spend a
lot of time Cincinnati, moved around, have lived in Cincinnati,
going back to the first time living here in the
mid nineties, ended up behind this microphone after being at
another radio station that became Kiss, which was Channel Z
was there and things haven't really changed, and the real
basic nature of things from then to now or in

(07:25):
history in general. Right if bad people are doing bad things.
You want to try to intervene early, especially if they're young,
and get them back on the right track. And that
doesn't mean not punishing them for bad behavior illegal behavior.
It means trying to rehabilitate, which then leads to the

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juvenile justice system and how our prisons and jail system work,
which is housing people who are often either become victimized
while they're in there, or they get themselves a degree
in higher education and criminal behavior while they're in the
jail or the prison system. Also, especially if they're young,
you want to have an intervention and try to avoid
that particular pathway because long term, when they get back out,

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re offense or recivitism is a major problem. And it
has been discussed for months and months and months by police,
by the administration of Cincinnati, by experts in the science
as much as there is a science of criminal justice
and behavior and social like stuff. They say that you know,

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you got crime, you got desperation, economic issues, social issues,
you got parents not being involved, you got not enough God,
pick a faith of choice, whatever it is, a higher power.
You know, my biggest thing coming up was not wanting
to disappoint my family. I also never had in me

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the want of the desire to go victimize somebody else
for profit or for entertainment. That's a disconnect some people have,
whether it's genetic, whether that's learned behavior, whether that's something
they've fallen into by the wrong crowd. And you are
who you hang out with generally, So that goes into parenting.
That means going to school and showing up and being

(09:11):
ready to do the work and having parents get those
kids ready to learn as well. But I mean, do
you blame the police for not doing the job. Do
you blame the courts for not doing their job? Do
you believe the jail, the juvenile justice, lock up situation
or home imprisonment, home, stay, whatever it is, put an

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ankle monitor on and just stay at home until your
core proceedings or whatever else? Who do you blame? Since
we're all about the blame game, and that's all we
do is here about pointing the finger. It's the liberal
this or the conservative that. We're all just people and
at some point you got to own and handle your

(09:54):
responsibility for what you do. And these people you know,
leaving shooting it people down town, in cars, in restaurants,
you name it. I don't spend as much time as
I used to when I lived in East Walnut Hills.
I was downtown a couple of nights a week, couple
of days a week, riding my bike, having a good time.
But I will tell you it feels more comfortable and

(10:16):
safer now than it did in the late nineties early
two thousands. For what it's worth, somebody who's a victim
of crime probably doesn't necessarily have that same feeling, certainly,
And I'll often say, again what has been espoused by
many others. I did not coin this phrase, but it's

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true for the most part. Not a whole lot goods
going down after midnight. And if you're a mier child
and you're not working on a job of some sort
like I used to be at fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old,
sometimes working until midnight one two in the morning, whether
it was at a concert venue, entertainment venue, or when
I was working at a minigolf putt putt or a

(10:58):
grocery store at one time or another, shagging carts and
bagging groceries and working produce. I was home. I have
no other business to be out. You got kids out
there running around acting like idiots and morons. Then they
should be treated like idiots and morons, and their parents
not keeping track of them, should be treated like idiots

(11:18):
and morons because they've created a defective product. And if
the cops aren't doing their job, on to the next one.
Let's get more. And if the you know, the those
that are on the bench, the judges aren't doing their job,
on to the next one. We go. What are the answers?
What are the questions? I'm filled with them? What do

(11:38):
you have? It's a Friday night. We'll get to other
stuff that's fearing in loathing and phobias in the holiday season,
that is scary upon us in Halloween all before Mowagger
and Kevin Carr joining me, talking Bengals and Bearcats and
new movies and a whole lot more with you five three, seven, four, nine, seven,
eight hundred. The big one is get to Deer Park,

(11:59):
Sean real quick before the break and room for you
on a Friday night, sterling on seven hundred wulw Sean,
what's up? Got it? I can't no, Yeah, you can't
do that. I mean it's you wait all that time
about work and which you can't do that. It's a
wholesome family show. Quick break, We'll regroup, come back, give

(12:19):
you a chance to get interactive. Five one, three, seven
four nine, seven thousand, eight hundred The Big One. I'm
sorry I wasn't all jokes and fun. I know it's Friday.
I should be light and talking about the joy of
having one of the most prolific liars and politics out
there back on the streets thanks to a presidential power,
which we'll get into a bit later as well. It's

(12:40):
Friday night. Glad you're along the nation station. What you're
listening to? Seven hundred WULW nine first warning forecast on
the Big One Friday night got to fifty five tomorrow,
rain late, but low eighties for Saturday. It's not too
bad as we are in the back end of October
at this point, sixties back to a more seasonable temperature

(13:01):
Sunday and Monday, and we need more rain. And I
heard Lance earlier complaining about having to not mow his
lawn for weeks, and then Naw's had to mow. He's
like a two a week mowing stretch. And I know
exactly what he's thinking. I'm thinking next year, I may
embrace the goats because I think they would do a
good job. I'd like to get the fainting goats, and

(13:22):
then the fainting goats you can have occasionally faint for
entertainment purposes, but then they would serve a purpose also
of keeping the yard straight. I don't know if the
neighbors would mind, but I've got neighbors with chickens at
this point, within a walk of about a mile, there's
like five different houses that have a variety of chickens,
and people were offering to give me eggs. So I

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guess there's a high side. If I have goats, I
could then loan them out for other people to take
care of their launch. So I mean, I'm thinking ahead
right now. It's a ball ME sixty one. You're severe
Weather Station seven hundred wl W, Glad you're along. Bengals
huge win, surprising when in many cases for a lot
of people, including the Steelers, were shocked. And I loved it.
Thursday Night football a big wide out pay corps and

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you heard it here on seven hundred WLW. Bengals handling
business Joe Flacco under center from one Joe who had
a toe issue to Joe Flacco who's four centuries in sorry,
four decades in not centuries, maybe four hundred years old
football time. But he's moving around like a twenty five
thirty year old out back there, just calm and cool

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and collective and just handling his business. The big win
for the WHO day yesterday Bearcats in action at Oklahoma
State tomorrow. They are ranked twenty fourth in the country.
Looked to better their situation in the Big twelve. We'll
talk to Moegger about that after your nine to thirty report.
I don't know that somebody send me this. I find
this hard to believe. Apparently lays potato chips. So, by

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the way, I'm not getting any money to talk about this.
They had gone away from calling their chips potato chips.
They just called them like chips in different times. You know,
you get like a ruffle or you know, wavy or whatever.
Now apparently they're bringing back the term potato chips to
let people actually know they come from potatoes, which then

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leads me to like a whole bunch of stuff that
people maybe don't realize is actually what stuff is or
something which is very weird to me. I mean, what
else would the chips come from? I mean, really, if
not potatoes. It's it's just odd. I don't know. It's
not like being sent out into the woods when I

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was a tiny sterling to go snipe hunting with, you know,
the relatives and kids in the neighborhood with a flashlight
and a bag into the woods at night, looking up
into the trees for some creature that is non existent,
you know. But potato chip a chip. Who doesn't know?
And they be some one hundred years that they've been

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around aside from getting rid of all you know, artificial
colors and some flavors and everything else, pretty basic stuff.
And we certainly got some local chip companies that do
you know, a Grippo's obviously up in date, and there's
like Mike Sell's, and I mean they're both strong and
do what they do. I just who does not. I

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almost think that this is like made up somebody. People
didn't realize that there were like potato, they were potato chips.
That that's where they come from, is the potato. I mean,
what do you think fries come from? If you get fries,
they come from potatoes, French fried potatoes. It's in the name.
Maybe there are some things that we didn't realize with

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what they were. I mean, like a slushy generally comes
from iced like sugar water or something like that. It's
a beverage of that type. Chips tend to come from potatoes,
if not corn. If it's a corn chip, hence corn chip,
potato chip. And a guy who knows from chips, but
more from news, I would imagine is of course, our
award winning news director Jack Krumley. He's got your nine

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thirty report. Thank you are welcome. I mean you'd have
plaques on the wall. You knew that potato chips or
chips were from potato. I mean unless otherwise indicated. Yeah, yeah,
apparently that we are in the minority. I did not realize.
I know, I did read the Little Old Bus, but
that's five high schools. That happens. Jack has news. I'll
come back. We'll talk to Moager. He knows chips come

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from potatoes, unless otherwise notified, I would think, I don't know.
I have so many questions. It's a Friday sterling seven hundred.
Ww Hey, how you doing nice? Friday night? The Trinday
big win last night down by the river, Moegar I
heard him and Lance and Rocky getting everybody ready for

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Thursday Night Football, and we went from Joe's toe to
Joe Flacco a couple of weeks in between of wow,
we can't believe how that worked out, and then all
of a sudden, we thought of Bengals team that was
down and out seems right back in at Moe. How
are you thank you for making time? I know you're
a busy dude. And how great was last night?

Speaker 2 (18:00):
It was?

Speaker 3 (18:01):
It was awesome? That is That is one of the
best football games I've ever been to, one of the
best sporting events I've ever been to. You know, it's
always great when the Bengals beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, but
when the Bengals can beat the Pittsburgh Steelers and sort
of reignite their season at least we hope they do it,
it makes it doubly special. That was a great win

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for the Bengals last night and a lot of fun
for those of us who who root for him.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
It's been a and I think I went out and
tweeted and then or on X whatever you want to
call it, and people complain to me because I think I
said it was eight or nine days in between with
Flaco from a loss to a one and one record
with a win in a turnaround. I don't know how
many days it actually was, but it seemed like literally
a blink of an eye in just amazing for him
to come in and seems so calm, cool, collective and

(18:50):
effective working with a corps of offensive weapons that is,
I mean hard to argue if there's anything better out
there in the NFL. I mean, how amazing was it there?
Didn't even look plunky last night at all, really, even
where there might have been a couple of crossups.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, I think he showed you why they prioritized him right,
because you were looking for with somebody who could get
up to Steve quickly. You know, they to me, the
idea that you were going to acquire a quarterback after
Jake Browning was so bad in those three starts that
you were going to acquire a quarterback and have him
sit for a week or two and continue with Jake
Browning made no sense. You needed to make a change instantly,

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and in order to do that, you needed somebody who
you knew was going to be a quick study, who
you knew was going to be able to make the
offense function almost instantly. And you know, I thought they
won the game last night in part on Sunday, because
I thought that game against the Packers, to me, I
viewed that as a preseason game. Okay, they're fourteen and
a half point dogs on the road playing arrested team.

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They're probably not going to go there and win with
a quarterback who just got in tout on Tuesday night.
But if they could use that game to get him
some reps, to get him some game reps with the
guys he's going to be throwing to, to help him
get some in game experience with that offense, then you
could hopefully apply that to the game against Pittsburgh. And

(20:13):
I thought that's exactly what happened. You saw a QB
against Green Bay who did pick up the offense quickly
and who I think understood the assignment, which was, I've
got Jamar Chase and T Higgins to throw to. Those
dudes are going to be open, I'm gonna throw them
the ball. Jake Browning couldn't do that. That's why they
went and got Joe Flaco. He did that in that

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second half against Green Bay, and so to me, what
they did last night against Pittsburgh was just an extension
of that. Now, It helped that they ran the ball effectively.
Chase Brown average d nearly ten yards to carry. It
helped that the pass protection was pretty decent all things considered.
There were some things that happened around Joe Flacco that
certainly helped. But at the end of the day, if
you have a quarterback who knows the offense and has

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guys like Jamar and t to throw to have a
decent chance of success. And I think the fun part
now is with you know, a chance not playing this weekend,
a chance for everybody to kind of catch their breath.
It's it's fun to think about what this offense can
do over the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, I'd say so. Talking to Moegger ESPN fifteen thirty
here seven hundred WLW on a Friday, Stirling, how bizarre
of a trade was that? AFC North Up seventy one Cleveland.
Mike Tomlin talked about it. I mean, he knows what
Flacco can do. I mean, who doesn't in I mean

(21:37):
how bewildering. I mean you're in and around pay corps.
You talk to this stuff every day. I mean I do,
but not publicly. And I mean it is mostly the
voices in my head and my neighbors. But I mean,
just an unbelievable move by the Bengals to do that,
completely out of character and like you said, completely shook
the building back into a place of competitive Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
I mean you had to get the Cleveland Browns to
agree to help you, which, I'll be honest with you,
was surprising to me, and I think it was surprising
to Mike Tomlin. And look, Mike Tomlin had some things
to say about the Browns trading a quarterback of the
Cincinnati Bengals, and I understand that.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Like if you for anybody.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
Who watched Hard Knocks last year, which you know, they
they were embedded with all four AFC North teams for
the final whatever it was, six to seven games of
the season, I think what you saw is Mike Tomlin
leans into these AFC North rivalries. And I could understand
from that perspective. Forget him not wanting to play against

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Joe Flacco. I could understand him looking at the going
wait a minute, you're helping out your rival. You're giving
your rival a lifeline, You're giving your rival a bailout.
If I was a Brown fan, right, and I go, Okay,
Mike team's not very good, but at least the Bengals
aren't very good either. I'd be going, wait a minute,
we're helping out the Cincinnati Bengals. This isn't like helping

(23:03):
out I don't know, the Dallas Cowboys and the New
York Giants or the Green Bay Packers. This is helping
out a blood rival. And so yeah, I think from
that perspective, there's a reason why you don't see that
many trades in the NFL occur between teams in the
same division because they don't want to help out their
intra division rival. They don't want to play against guys

(23:24):
that they may trade to another team. And so yeah,
my first take when I saw last Tuesday was holy crap.
The Bengals and Browns made a trade with each other,
and the Bengals, who are desperate, were just handed a
lifeline by a traditional rival. That's not the sort of
thing that happens all the time.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
No, it's extremely irregular. And next up, of course, they
get a little extra time off after a very short
week and a quick turnaround with a new Joe Flacco
in the building, and obviously we see that he's calm, cool,
collective and ready to work. And these guys seem to
gel that they've got some time actually to practice together
and take a break and maybe get a little healthier,
lick their owns a little bit, just because it is

(24:01):
not an easy game. The Jets come in a week
from Sunday, and they're over the season at this point,
which the Jets fans urge. I mean, Man boomeris eisen
and all those people up there have got to be
out of their mind. I've got friends that were Jets
fans and as much as the Bengals fan and are
better living through lowered expectations for so long, though, Jets

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fans are in a whole nother world of pain.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yeah right now. The longest non playoffs non playoffs rout
in the NFL belongs to the New York Jets. They
haven't made the postseason since twenty ten. They've cycled through coaches,
they've cycled through quarterbacks, They've had Aaron Rodgers. For one
reason or another, nothing has worked. Aaron Glenn is their
head coach. And you know, he was with the Detroit
Lions as their defensive coordinator last season for the last

(24:49):
couple of years, and he is inherited I think a
talented team in many respects that their best players haven't
played very well. Justin Fields has been given a third
op opportunity to prove he could be a starting quarterback
in this league and hasn't taken the most advantage of it.
I think when the schedule came out, this is one
of those games you looked at and said, this is

(25:09):
one where the Bengals should win. Now, with the way
the season is unfolded to this point, you absolutely must
win this game. You have to beat bad opponents in
your own building, especially when you have a little bit
of a rest advantage. And the Bengals are going to
have that next Sunday.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
That's wild. I mean, they get the Bears after that,
a bye week, then they get the Steelers again within
a month, turnaround at their place in the Burg, which
is always interesting. Talking to Moegor ESPN fifteen thirty here,
seven hundred WLW. You hear him all the time everywhere.
Can we shift gears? Is there anything else Bengals related?
I mean, I could talk about this all night, but

(25:43):
you have things to do, Other people have stuff to do.
And there's a huge Bear cast game tomorrow too, which
I know you're aware of.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
I am. I'm actually in Oklahoma City as we speak,
sitting next to the Great Tony Pike, and we are
getting set for you see, in Oklahoma State tomorrow. This
is a game the Bearcats absolutely should win. And if
you don't believe me, look at the point spread. Cincinnati
is on the road as a more than three touchdown favorite.

(26:11):
Oklahoma State has already fired as head coach. They've lost
a game this season by sixty six points. They've lost
their three Big twelve games by an average of more
than twenty two points. The Bearcats should win this game.
I think the last time they played Okay State was
here two years ago in Stillwater, and that, to me
was the first time that I thought, you know what,

(26:33):
the Bearcats aren't quite ready for the physicality and the
speed of the Big twelve. I think if you go
back to then and compare it to now, I think
this year's UC team has big twelve guys. And maybe
they don't quite have as many as Texas dech Maybe
they don't have enough to compete for a league championship,
but they have enough to have authored the five to

(26:55):
one record they've put together so far. And I think
They have enough to win a row game at Oklahoma
State tomorrow, and if they do, they will have achieved
all eligibility and from that point the season is gonna
get a little bit tougher. They play Baylor next week
at home, which is not going to be an easy game.
They go to Utah in two weeks. The Uths have
been nationally ranked this season, but Scott Sadderfield and his

(27:16):
staff have done a really good job. I think over
the last two years of it's been a slow build,
but they've put together a team filled with guys who
can match the speed and physicality of the Big twelve.
They've ironed out some issues they had on special teams
last season. They have more guys to throw two on
the outside. They've got a front six on defense that

(27:37):
I think is terrific. I am bullish on the direction
of this football program. And they should win tomorrow night,
and if not, everything I just said is going to
go out the window.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, talking about he is Oklahoma for Bearcats,
Oklahoma State. You mentioned Saderfield and a turnaround that seems
monumentally fast. This whole business, and it is that now
of going out recruiting guys handling the business of that,

(28:06):
which is payment of them, in wooing them, and all
the stuff that is effectively running it like a professional organization.
To some extent, the landscape has changed. I'm blown away
at how fast they've actually been able to build what
they've built at the University of Cincinnati. Am exaggerating then
or no, not entirely.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
You know, I think it's never been more difficult to
be a first year head coach in any program because
now all the players can leave, and so, as is
often the case, you know, a coach takes over and
the cupboard is there, and so you've got to work
really hard just to cobble together a roster and recruit
the players who have been a part of the program

(28:48):
and get them to want to stay. And so I
think that was a part of the dynamic in Scott's
first year in twenty twenty three, even a lot of
people didn't necessarily want to admit. Now I'll say that
I don't think it's ever been easier to get it
turned around in years two and three because of the
freedom of movement that players have because you can pay them.
But every program in the country with the coaching changes

(29:12):
dealing with that with Cincinnati, you add to it moving
up a level of competition, and look the Bearkats in
twenty twenty, nineteen, twenty twenty. In twenty twenty one ran
rough shot over the American Athletic Conference, played in the
championship game three straight years, had an undefeated season in
twenty twenty, had an undefeated season in twenty twenty one.

(29:33):
Put a lot of guys in the NFL, but top
to bottom, the rosters in the Big twelve are better
than the rosters in the American Athletic Conference. The players
in the Big twelve are bigger, they're stronger, and they're faster,
and so you take a coaching change and you add
to it stepping up a level of competition. I think
some growing pains were inevitable, and I think the second

(29:54):
part of that is something that a lot of people
didn't want to admit. You know that it was going
to take some time then to get some Big twelve dudes.
They've had more last year, but not nearly enough. They
could use more this season. I'm not here to tell
you this team is perfect. Tony and I were just
talking about some of the long offensive walls they have,
but at least they put a team on the field

(30:15):
this season that when you watch them, they're not going
to get overmatched by other big twelve teams. They're not
going to get pushed around, and they have guys who
can run with big twelve speed athletes, and so I
still think they have some work to do. At the
end of the day. We all remember they were five
and two last year and lost their last five games,
and so we're kind of at a similar juncture to

(30:36):
where they were last season. But I think just from
a roster perspective and a talent perspective, this team is
better equipped to get to the second half of the
season than it was last year.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Well, stated Moweger. Of course, the ESPN fifteen thirty here
also seven hundred WLW was sterling. You mentioned Tony Pike
obviously mentioned the business of college football. This is a
business in which we are involved too. This is an
odd conversation and circumstance to a point you've been in
the midst of living it to intimately in some fashion

(31:07):
hearing Tony with Dan, I mean he has stepped into
that role. Of course, with Jim Kelly's stepping away and
then passing who we missed such a great human being
in general, aside from what he brought to the program.
Into the air here, Tony Pike sounds fantastic in that role.
With Dan, you sound great doing what you're doing, and

(31:27):
Dan Hord is just simply Dan Horde. How fun is
it doing what you're doing in the midst of all
of that, because I mean, it's fun listening to you.
I gotta tell you, well, thanks.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
My role in the broadcast is minor compared to Dan
and Tony. You know, Tony is obviously somebody I've watched
him grow as an on air talent, and I say
this he's sitting literally four feet away from me. We
all hate the fact that Jim had to step aside.
We were crushed late on Sunday night when we found

(32:01):
out that he had passed. We lost an absolutely great guy,
you know, somebody just completely synonymous with UC football, quintessential
family man, just a rock solid dude, the first team
all good guy. But when Jim stepped aside, what we

(32:22):
all knew was we're not going to skip a feat
in the analysts share because you know, Tony has been
around this board for such a long time, care so
much about the program. He has stepped in seamlessly. You know,
obviously he's been on the sideline doing color analysts analysis
on the sideline for a while, and so nobody was
surprised that he stepped in and made a very smooth transition.

(32:45):
He would be the first to tell you that number one,
he had very big shoes to fill. Number two, that
these were not the most ideal set of circumstances. We
would all kill to have Jim with us tonight here
in Oklahoma City. But nobody who has known Tony, nobody
was listened to Tony, would be surprised to hear him
sound as good as he has sounded. And my only

(33:06):
hope is he has heard me say all this and
now buys me a beer for my kind words.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
He better anyway, tell him hello, and I wish him
the best, and I look forward to hearing you guys tomorrow.
Thank you for making time anything else before I let
you bounce. We've talked Bengals, We've talked bear cats, we
talked to late great Jim Cally. I wanted to give
some props and loved Tony as well, because he does.
He just sounds fantastic, and I've heard him grow too,

(33:32):
but not in close quarter working with him as you
have anything else Where's Donna. I don't know who knows.
She's not here with me now, so I'm all by myself. Okay.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
That I hear the reason I said yes to this show.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, I hear that a lot too, which kind of hurts.
I mean, I've known you a minute, but that's fine.
I mean, you know and you have known me a minute.
If I could get away from myself, sometimes I would,
but it's impossible.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
There's only there's there's only one person in our entire
building who has run the board for you, and you're
talking to him. So just keep that in March.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
That's true. And I had no idea what I was
doing that day either that it was a real disease. Yeah,
and here we are still doing it somehow. He's Mowagger
hanging out in Oklahoma because you gotta be someplace in
the world. He Tony Pike Dan Horde full on coverage
Cincinnati football bear Cats getting at it tomorrow after or
tomorrow evening and looking to make a dent at Oklahoma

(34:29):
State in prime time. Thanks for giving us your insights,
your perspective and doing what you.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Do brother anything for you.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Thanks man, you're a good man. He's mowagger Stirling coming
back seven hundred WLW. Now it's time to be scared frightened.
And I don't just mean like you know, the news
of the world. I mean another world's not on fire.
Everything's fine. Look out my backyard. It thinks fantastic. Kevin
Carr knows everything's pretty okay too. In his world. It
was a guy behind the fat guys in the movie.

(34:56):
So the main dude. We did the Chubby and Stick
podcast for a time. Now over Gecko on the substacks
where you can find him. Kevin, how are you? How
is everything this find Friday night?

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Oh, everything's going pretty good, you know, trying to trying
to settle into the weekend and enjoy myself. How about you?

Speaker 1 (35:13):
About the same? About the same. I'm always interested when
it comes to sequels, about the questions left unanswered, about
the things that needed to be like solved. I mean,
if there is a purpose other than just cashing in
on the glory of what was hopefully a successful run
at something like say Black Phone and now Black Phone two.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah, yeah, well yeah, because it's a big sequel to
a horror movie Black Phone, and now you've got the
Black I think the first one was the Black Phone.
This is Black Phone two. They dropped the the the
out of it. Yeah, but the horror movies can be
tricky and when they do sequels, because sometimes you have

(35:56):
an ongoing thing that could work, like slasher movies. You know,
Friday the thirteenth, Halloween. You well, let's not use Halloween
as the sequel as a standard for sequels, but like
the Friday the thirteenth movie, you can just kind of
redo the movie and make minor changes throughout, and you're
gonna have eight or ten of those things. The same

(36:16):
thing with Saw. Well, yeah, because Saw did it, but
then they just added so much, so many twists that
just became undis confusing and didn't make a whole lot
of sense. This is just the second movie of the
Black Phone. If you've not seen the first one. It's
actually a really quite good movie. If you've got peacock.
I believe it's available on peacock right now. It's the original.

(36:38):
In the first movie, a kid is kidnapped by the
serial killer called the Grabber, and he keeps them in
his basement and his sister has this sort of this
psychic ability, and they're able to sort of connect up
and they have to overrun him. And so they're back
in this movie for the sequel, and the ghost of

(36:58):
the serial killer is still haunting their dreams, and so
they have to kind of figure out a way to
put him away for good. And what's what's interesting about
it is because even though I kind of had that
psychic element in the first movie, it was still a
little more grounded as just a basic serial killer story.
This one plays a little more into the fantasy.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
You know.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
It's sort of like you can tell that that that
there is some inspiration from Nightmare on Elm Street because
things are happening in their dreams and they're communicating with
this evil person in their dreams. So they take some
swings and they work in this one. It doesn't always
happen in our sequels. But I was actually kind of

(37:39):
impressed that this movie had me. It kept my attention
through the relatively long running time. It was almost two
hours for a horror movie, which is that's that's unusual
for horror movie. Most of those are like ninety minutes.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
When you're done talking to Kevin Carsilver, Gecko on the
sub stack, the tropes, the work in horror film over
the years. I mean, and you talked about like some
of the major sequels of Friday the Thirteenth, you know,
the Halloweens, those type of things. There are some specific
anxieties and concerns even it, which is another thing rolling

(38:14):
out soon if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
The prequel. Yeah, they welcome to Darry.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
I mean they're you know, the kids being taken, people
being taken, the you know, the evil that won't die,
you know, people running upstairs. What do you think are
like the attraction and some of the stuff just never
gets old. It's a human condition circumstance, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Well, a lot of it is. It's easy to sit
there and watch a movie and be like, well, that's stupid.
Why they do that? You know, put yourself in this
position where somebody with a machete is chasing you, and
you you may not make the wisest choices when you
do things. Uh Like, Like people complain about the movie Prometheus,
which was an alien prequel where they're they're running away

(38:55):
from a giant spaceship falling on them, and they're like,
why are they running in a straight line? It's like,
because a giant spaceship is falling on them and they're panicking,
that's why they do not have the ability to look
at it from one hundred yards away. And and I
think part of it is there's a fine line between
people making goofs and foolish choices in horror movies and

(39:19):
people just being downright stupid, And even some horror movies
lean into like there's a line in Friday the Thirteenth,
part eight Jason takes Manhattan where one of the guys says,
you know, maybe the best thing for us to do
is to split up. And it was such a corny
line at the time, but they knew full well that

(39:41):
they were kind of goofing on its own on the
on those tropes because it works that way. And in
real life you do stupid things as well, and we
do stupid things without people chasing us all the time.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
I do, yeah, all the time. And I mean if
you look around the news, I mean we're constantly hearing
these stories of the same type of thing and reac
that you're like, how and why is that possible. It's
just very interesting that to touch on these anxieties and
so forth, and they continue to still work. How much
of it do you think when we see these because
they've reinvented and redone some of these over and over

(40:15):
and even mocked them that still had some of the fun,
like scary movies, which they've done over and over too.
It's a just interesting time.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Scream was originally just a goof it was and in
universe goofing on slasher films in itself.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
Yeah, exactly, which is just an amazing thing when you
think about that, And then that's come back again and
again too, which is pretty amazing. What does anything now
work with you? I mean, because you've spent so much
of your life seeing all these films for work stuff.
Most of us just watch them for the sake of
it and entertainment. Does anything at this point when you

(40:52):
watch it grab you and actually shake you a little
bit and get under your skin or is it just
all whatever? Now?

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Well?

Speaker 2 (40:59):
No, I mean, I think if you do an effectively
well done horror movie in any decade, it's good. But
you know, sometimes some things don't click from a cultural level,
like you know, like they've done things where they've shown
kids in high school the original Halloween and they're like
that's not scary. I'm like, dude, it was scary in
the seventies, you know. It's that kind of thing. Or

(41:21):
even like the Exorcist. One of the things that the
Exorcists that made it so unnerving for people wasn't even
the exorcism part. It was all the medical tests that
were doing on Reagan through the whole first part of
the film and sort of how medicine is our own
torture device. I mean, so it had these these themes
of that, but if it's effectively done. I remember it

(41:42):
was about a dozen years ago, a little bit more
ten fifteen years ago that James Wan started really leaning
into his horror roots, where he did the Insidious movies
and he did the Conjuring movies, and those were I mean, yeah,
the are ten fifteen years old, but those are still
newer movies compared to the stuff from the seventies and eighties.

(42:03):
But he just did them effectively, and I thought that
they worked out really really well.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
And the Conjuring thing, I mean, what is it the
fourth one or fifth one that just came out.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Here recently, right, I think it's the fourth one, yeah, which, yeah,
but it was the biggest one of the series. It
made more money. It's made more money than any of
the other Conjuring movies, not adjusted port pilation of course.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Well, and that rarely happens, right, I mean, they're usually
is diminishing returns until they reboot them at some point. Right,
you start seeing the trend in the other direction. What
do you think about it that and why that seems
to be something that is held on and grown.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Well, I think, first of all, the Conjuring movies are
for the most part, effectively well done movies. They're not
the bottom of the barrel so in their quality work.
And you've got good people behind it. You've got Via
Fermiga and Patrick Wilson as the stars of it. And
you've got James want either producing or directing or both.
And so there are people who know what they're doing

(42:57):
and people who know the hard genre. Because I've seen
movies people and they maybe don't know the horror genre.
But James Wan he knows, he knows horr and he's
done He's done movies that are flops, Like did you
ever see the movie Malignant that came out. It was
a one that came out during the pandemic, but it
just flopped, but it's a fantastic horror movie.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
Now.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
I mean, you know, my mom's not gonna like it,
but she's not the target market for.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
It, right right, and my best by the way to mom,
car We.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Love Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Yeah, I'm curious. Is there anything else horror genre wise?

Speaker 3 (43:29):
Guys?

Speaker 1 (43:30):
I want to skip to something else because you've got
this collection of the Blockhead stuff that's coming out, and
I know you've asked about that, and I'm pretty geeked
up about it too, because I kind of like what
you do. And that's how you show up the Silver
Gecko on the sub stack with a bunch of stuff
in people's mailbox.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Yeah, partly through last year, my son and I. His
name is the name's Ben Carr, you know, because he's
got the same last name, but he goes by Benjamin
Gaza and he is a he's a visual artist, and
so we created a comic strip and we put him
on the internet. You can go to Silver Gecko dot
substack dot com sign up for it to get sent
to your mailbox. It comes up with some of my

(44:05):
writing stuff on my movie reviews as well. But you
can get the Blockheads comic strip and we just started
it and kind of took off on its own, and
we're having a lot of fun doing it. It's kind
of evolved into these characters that we think are very
funny but also a little bit edgy. So we put
together a compilation book for this year to cover sort

(44:25):
of that first year of it, and we have added
some you know, background information where we got our ideas,
you know, how this process works, how we work with
each other. We added a whole bunch of new illustrations
and doodles, some of them very benign, some of them
a little bit yeah, a little bit crazy. But we
just published the book on Amazon this week, so you

(44:47):
can get it in Kindle and if you actually have
a Kindle unlimited account, you can just open it up
and download it for that and you just read it.
You don't have to buy it. You can just use
it on your subscription. It's like three bucks to just
buy a Kindle version yourself. You can get it for
eight bucks as a as a paperback, and we did
it as a mass market sized paperback. You don't hope

(45:08):
paperbacks have gotten bigger now. You don't have the pocketbooks anymore,
the kind of things like you know, like that's the
thing that could fit in the back pocket of your jeans,
like literally the size of a big phone.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Now, well, it's because everybody has technology. And it's right,
there's a swipe, right, I mean, do people actually get
much of the books of the seafield? And although I'll
go to half Price Books which is just around the
corner here occasionally and grab.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Stuff, there's there's something there is something charming about having having,
you know, something tactile in your hand. But but we
put it together this way because I remember back in
the day when I was a kid, you'd get like
you know, Peanuts or or or Dennis the Menace or
Heathcliff or any of these cartoons. And yeah, yeah, the
Garfield books which were long, but you had to just

(45:51):
the pocketbook size collection of of of cartoons. And I
thought that that sort of just evoked that retro So yeah,
those are available. It's really cool. It's we did a
nice little mock up cover. You to go to my
Twitter at Kevin Carr, which Sterling has you probably linked

(46:12):
out to it. Yeah, one of the top two tweets
is us we got a picture of the book and
there's a link there where you can pick it up.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Yeah, it's kind of cool. And what's wild for me
is because we've been doing these hits on the radio
and then we did the Chubby and Sticking Out. We've
known each other a long time and I've been around
your family a couple of times here or there, and
it's wild to see the kids grow up. And then
what's it like to have that relationship in that creativity
working with your boy, Because that's got to be an

(46:37):
amazing thing. I mean, you know, it's wild and the
outside looking in.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
At that, Yeah, it's fun. I mean it's you always
gotta be careful when you when you go to a
project with somebody from your family, because on one hand,
it's good because you know they got they're going to
see you Thanksgiving, so you can always catch up with them,
they can't ghost you. But on the other hand, you
don't want to become contentious like a working relationship how
that can be sometimes. So what I you know, we

(47:04):
we we we found each other's we've we've found kind
of how we work well together. And it's been a
lot of work recently as far as getting the book
put together, but it's also been a very rewarding experience
because it gives me a chance to see him, gives
me a chance to spend time with him when we
come up with these these some of these insane goofy
I mean, some of the cartoons they have very typical,

(47:25):
good old fashioned jokes that you've seen types of those before.
But we also have stuff that's really kind of out
of the box and strange, and that's the kind of
stuff I love putting together. And we we we just
we have a run of comics that are gonna be
on the substack for Christmas that I think we are
taking it to the next level in terms of you know,

(47:46):
out of the box nests. But it's it's it's a
lot of fun. It's great. And he was so giddy
when I had a copy of the book that I
could show to him, and he was very excited.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Yeah, and that's the thing to see you feel and
touch something too, as much as so much as digital
now in electric anically delivered. To have that that tactile
thing and to see it's something that you've made has
got to be an amazing thing. So I'm thrilled for you.
Hopefully people like it too. Black Phone twos we're checking
out Blockheads is there at the Silver get Goo dot
substack dot com. Kevin Carr, thank you for you know,

(48:16):
gracing us with your insights, your perspective and on occasionally
you take the hit for us for movies that sucks
so we don't have to, which is greatly appreciated because
there's only so much time.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Yeah, there are some that there'll be another one coming
up soon, I'm sure for sure.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
All Right, man, if yourself a great weekend. We'll catch
up against soon. All right, we see you later. He's
Kevin Carr. More Sterling coming back, seven hundred WLW. Glad
you're long Friday night, Sterling hanging out seven hundred WLW
coming up to your ten third of your report up
in what's going on all over the place, including updates
on one of the most lioness liars and politics if

(48:53):
you paid attention to it. News of a commuted sentence
by President Trump for George Santos, who was convicted and
sentenced to like eighty seven months in prison in a
two years of supervised release after being convicted of identity
aggravated identity theft. I want to make sure I clarify

(49:16):
that wire fraud and just lie after lie after lie
and ripping people off and everything else, and now he
doesn't have to pay anybody back. It's all been wiped
away effectively, any idea of restricution, probation, supervised release, or
whatever else. He's just free to go, which I mean,
that's a great situation for him, and he was if

(49:37):
nothing else I mean other than like ripping people off
and stuff right, and maybe lying and being a part
of like the you know, the system of which laws
are made and the government works, which maybe he fits
right in with all of them in the muck. If
you will, entertaining I mean just entertaining, because the level
of the consistency and the ridiculous, just brazen lie after

(50:01):
lie after lie entertaining as all hell. It'd be nice
if we could all in the world move around in
a perfect world, to be great. And as people said
things when they were full of bs and talk some trash,
that there was just a bubble like in a message
on your phone. It would just pop up and go
bs like a BS meter, and you could see it

(50:24):
and you could, you know, witness it, whether it's on
video or if you were talking to them or watching
them speak publicly or whatever. Else. I think it would
be fantastic. And think of the drinking games that could
be involved with lie or not a lie, bs or
not bs take a drink. It would be it would
be tremendous. We'll just have to wait and see. I mean,

(50:44):
who knows, he might be able to get right back
into politics again, and that would be probably fantastic for
the country. I mean, really, at this point, the President
said he felt that he had been mistreated and no
matter what, through everything, basically voted Republican up and down
the line. And that's really what he did that President

(51:07):
Trump appreciated above all. So you know, there's that. So
welcome to America. Anyone can get away with just about anything, deepending.
I suppose I would like a commutation. I would like
some type of get out of jail free pass kind
of scenario if I ever get in trouble. We'll talk
on getting into trouble. Stuff that scares us in a

(51:28):
whole lot more after the news Friday night, Sterling ten
third or report now where the hooday handled business last
night on a Thursday night with Flacco under center, And
tomorrow night prime time, it'll be a Cincinnati football Bearcats
in Oklahoma State Big twelve action here on seven hundred WLW.
Glad you're long beautiful Friday Night. Triceay Sterling hanging out.

(51:53):
Joe Wadell keeping me in line, producing another update. TrEPS
Layer coming up about what twenty two minutes give her
ten right now. Dodgers up for nothing, leading the Division
Series in the National League, three games to none out
of Chavez Ravine and Dodger Stadium, looking to get their
way to the World Series. It's a three to two

(52:13):
now a game situation for the Seattle Mariners. Ajuhanio A
Suarez got a Grand Slam earlier former red help put
them over the top. They lead three games to two,
their game away from getting to the World Series. Which
is a little kid playing in the backyard with a ball,
you know, out in the park, not whole little league,
high school, college, whatever it is. It's what kids dream

(52:36):
of and their game out from that. And really at
this point, one, two, three, six, six outs away, it
looks like I think for the Dodgers, they just got
to get six more outs of the Brewers and then
they'll be playing in the World Series again too. Looking
to do it back to back anyway. Glad you're along
five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred, the

(52:58):
big one. You can get interactive on x It's Twitter,
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A click on the microphone easier for me to say. Now,
I don't care political leanings or otherwise doesn't matter to me.
I think this whole commutation of his sentence, the thing
in George Santos going away used to be obviously a

(53:20):
representative in d C for the state of New York.
He went away, was supposed to go for a good
number of years. He was out in less than like
six months I think or something. It wasn't gone very long.
And the president is set him free and wished him
to have a great life. Well, I mean and obvious,
and he been online in his prison journal or whatever

(53:42):
else complaining about polyester close and all the indignities of
being locked up and then a psychological torture and so forth.
It goes along with that. I guess he had been
in some isolation situation as well. And I mean prison
is not supposed to be comfortable. I mean clearly here
talking about crime in Cincinnati and all stuff happening downtown
and bubbling up of more problems, and you know, police

(54:04):
need to do more, The justice system in general needs
to do more. Parents need to do more, all that
kind of stuff. You know, there's stuff always happening out
here in prisons not supposed to be comfortable or good.
If you want to talk to serious nature of it,
that's fine. But what got me thinking is I'm looking
at the long list of lies or mistruths or misstatements

(54:28):
premeditated accidentally, I mean, compulsive liar. This guy. It's amazing,
and I'll go through the list of it. But while
I do that, what I'm curious about is this because
a lot of us lie to keep people's feelings from
being hurt.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
Right.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
I can remember my late grandmother when I was little,
cooking like pancakes and stuff and got them a little
browner than like I would normally have, which was fine.
It was Grandma. I just added more syrup and butter.
I was in good condition. I was fine with it
and told her thank you because it was Grandma and
my mom picking me up that day. I will never
forget sees that. And here here's me say that she goes,

(55:05):
you would have told me they were overcooked and that
you wanted different pancakes or something, And he goes, what's
the deal with that, because it's his grandma. Of course, now,
I mean mom burnt mind. I'd be happy with whatever
she made too. Just a difference in years and time.
But you know, it's a little live you know, they
were fine. They were fine pancakes. I look back fondly
on eating my grandmother's pancakes A lot of times. You'll do,
you know, your girlfriend or wife, these pants make my

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ass look big, and you may go, no, it looks great.
Maybe you like big butts and you're like, hell, yeah,
give me some of that, you know, just like Scarface said,
you know, the poum hand, just like shackhands. If you know,
you know, I guess if really what the boils down to.
But I'm wondering, easy, lie, hard lie, biggest lie you've told,

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biggest lie you've been told. U we can maybe have
a little fun with this. Santos, who's just been put out,
her in the process of being let out, lied about
where he went to school. He said that he admitted
that he did not attend the universities he had previously
claimed on his resume, and he had been told that
he had gone a number of places that he did not.

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He lied about where he worked. He lied about owning
a number of different rental properties that apparently he did not.
He lied about being robbed of his rent money. He
said that he was once mugged while he was going
to pay his rent in Queens, New York, and apparently
he never reported it. He just happened to be talking
about crime and saying how he was victimized. Now maybe

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he didn't report it whatever, but I mean a longlist
of lives. He said he was Jewish, not Jewish. During
his campaign he said he was a proud American jew,
but later backtrack called himself Jewish as in like kind
of jewey Jews, not Jewish as in jew and then
a hyphen and then ish because he actually about ethnicity,

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he's actually Catholic. He lied about criminal status in Brazil.
He said he denied committing crimes in Brazil or anywhere else,
but prosecutors in Brazil looked to reopen years old fraud
cases against him. He fraudulently, apparently allegations of fraud in Brazil,
not just here in the States, which got him locked

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up for a little while here. He apparently lied. It's
been reported all over the place that he had lied
to his own staff. He also had lied to others
about you know, his donors, about raising money to get
more money as well, which is pretty wild. He also said, apparently,

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I mean athletic accomplishments, which I think is amazing. Said
he was a star volleyball player Borough College. And this
goes back to some radio show that he was doing
and talked about that, and that he had had both
these replaced as a result of his athletic career. Apparently
never happened, never had his knee replaced, never went to
Brooke College. It's just just pathological. It's amazing. He lied

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about his mother's death. Apparently he had said that after
nine to eleven, two thousand and one, somehow the attacks
there had claimed life, that she died in twenty sixteen,
so there's like fifteen years window. There no evidence of
any connection by the way, to any disease or injuries
or anything else with what happened nine to eleven to
his mom's passing. He said that she was actually at

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her office inside the World Trade Center during the attacks,
and that's from NBC News. He lied about campaign finances
and fundraising there reported by News four in New York
about improper donations a half million dollar loan personal funds
also a part of that too, just on it. He

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lied to investors, he lied about his name. He lied
about raising money for the homeless Homeless Veterans Dog to
the tune of three grand apparently. And also he had
lied at another time about being mugged in Manhattan and
said that he was a target of assassination or at

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least an attempted assassination, and that he was mugged on
Fifth Avenue in the middle of the day. No one
knows if it really happened or not, but apparently he
never really reported it, so which I guess that Schmosh
guy or whatever the actor who lied about like what
happened to him and said it was racial that got
him some serious prison time for a while too, but

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different scenario. I guess false report that goes with it.
I'm wondering what you've lied about. I mean, a lot
of us people will have little white lives, and you
hear this now a lot with people on their resumes,
and people are okay with it. And I don't necessarily
mean the people who were looking at the resume and
you know, trying to hire somebody and go, yeah, I
kind of okay with the like prospective employee lying to me.

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But people fudge stuff on their resumes all the time, adjurate,
if not completely embellish skill sets or experience Showhey of
Tani by the way, just pitching tonight and then also
just went deep. It's now five nothing Dodgers in the
bottom of the seventh. It's unbelievable. He is not from
this world. I mean, some type of alien. I was

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talking to Lance about that earlier, talked about it all season,
doing all kinds of stuff, had problems with the arm
after the surgery, finally got back up to doing that
and was hitting all year. Uh, just a monster. And
what happened to the Brewers, by the way, they were
the best record in baseball and uh, just unreal. And

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then seemingly the wheels have come off getting caught in
the buzz saw that is the Dodgers. Unless something happens drastically,
they need to score at least six and keep the
Dodgers from scoring again. Oh Tani. Wow, just looking at
this replay it just it is absolutely bewildering five three
seven the big One at Sterling Radio on or Twitter,

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call it what you want, what's the biggest life someone's
told you directly or otherwise. I mean, people, when it
comes to the job stuff will do it on resumes,
people will lie and cheat when it comes in AI
and technology has certainly seemingly made it a lot easier
impossible when it comes to writing or other stuff. An

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academic world of putting stuff together at high school, middle school,
I guess even certainly the university level when it comes
to putting stuff out, there a lot of plagiarism or
manipulation of stuff that you could argue was plagiarized. And
I have friends that have kids that are in school
and they're constantly battling that now with the technology and
trying to let them know that that's not appropriate, that's

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not really doing the work, which is pretty amazing. And
then on the other side of it, I have some
people that I know that are teaching, you know, high
schoolers and younger kids as well as some at the
university level too, and are telling me that it's a
constant battle then going through and trying to weed through
all of that. So people seemingly are okay with whatever

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the slippery slope is of telling the truth or passing
stuff off is their work or other body and other
person's work as their own, which is just just amazing.
I mean, I don't know when it became okay, I
don't think it's okay, but apparently for a whole lot
of people it is. I mean, people lying to avoid

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hurt feelings in certain situations, lying to shield people from
information that might hurt them. Okay, I kind of grasp
that waiting, you know, to not necessarily tell kids every
bit of information, you know, not fully disclosing some stuff.
It's a different thing altogether. But the lies are just amazing.
The list, And I didn't, by the way, going through

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that Santo's list. Someone Alex, one of the Alexes who
messaged me regularly, says that you cannot have had that
list as all legit lies from Santos. Yeah. I didn't
even go through the whole list. That was just some
of the lies. So yeah, it's out there. Five point
three seven four nine, seven eight hundred, the big one

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lies you've been told, the ones that hurt, the ones
that don't matter. Is it okay. When is it okay
to lie where you're okay with it? And maybe being
lied to as well. Relationship stuff, Oh I wasn't. I
wasn't with her, I wasn't with him, I wasn't not
with the boys, whatever it was. Financial stuff's always difficult.

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Oh yeah, I got lots of money, don't have any money.
I mean, that's why people do backgrounds, that checks and
all kinds of other stuff out there, because the danger
is everywhere. It's it's okay, and I guess for some
there are no rules anymore. It's wild. Friday Night, Sterling
seven hundred WLW glad here a long a couple of
minutes away from here. Eleven o'clock report Travis Laird with

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an uphing on what's going on around planet Earth that
matters to us right here in the Tri State. So
the Brewers got a couple guys on and they're threatening,
So they're still battling. They haven't given up. But we'll
see exactly how that goes and give you an update
on that. We're talking about lies because you told and
everything else. I'll get to something else that somebody messaged

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me one with a difference between he's a commutation, clemency
and some other stuff. So I'll see if I can
break it down. I'm not an attorney, I don't want
to play one on the radio, but I can get
the information and share it tomorrow. By the way, I
will follow Xavier Musketeer basketball, I know. I mean there's
still baseball on. It's it's you can feel the excitement,
even though it's not our Reds. And then you got

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obviously NFL football Bengals, big Thursday night win last night
with the Steelers in town, big white out, handling business
which is huge and good and that's nice. And then
of course you got your football Bearcats on the road
to Oklahoma State looking to handle business tomorrow and to
keep their winning ways alive. So that should be good. Here.

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That's Primetime tomorrow night with an eight o'clock kickoff, two
o'clock tip tomorrow Musketeers hosting Murray State. Richard Patino given
a first look at his Musketeers for this new young
season that isn't quite here yet, but it's almost here.
You can feel it. I mean, they're hockey soon dependent
and then you get a little basketball, and then you

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get some football, and then you get little some October
baseball life is pretty good. So Musketeers tomorrow in Murray
State here and then I will get you through before Chick.
I'm like the creamy center of an Oreo cookie in
between Chick Ludwig and some Xavier basketball tomorrow, which is good.
Now explaining what this commutation is compared to clemency and

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how that breaks up. So clemency is a general term
they say that goes for leniency or mercy and allowing
a commutation or reprieve or a pardon, pardon's act of forgiveness,
absolution for a crime committed, or something a lot those lines.
Apparently it doesn't take away the record. The record still

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will be there for Santos and apparently the rights that
have been taken away. I don't know that means he
can't vote still exactly or how that plays out, but
he'll be free to walk among us. I'm sure he'll
find himself a job making some serious money, and they
can start adding to the list of lies as well,
which is tremendous. I don't care where you fall in
the political spectrum. One of the most lioness liars ever documented,

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and it got him in all kinds of trouble, including
heisting people's money and donations for his campaigns, which now
he does not have to pay back either, So all
the penalties associated with that wiped away. So, you know,
a couple months locked up, you can get you know,
six seven, eight hundred thousand dollars worth of money from
other people. Apparently if you know the right people and
you vote Republican, which is what President Trump said that

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Santos did the entire way doing it. That can set
you free. So if you're looking to do bad things,
you know how to maybe get out. An o'clock report
straight away. Travis Laird has news. We'll come back an
hour to go. On a Friday night, Sterling Bengals win
last night, Bearcats looked for a win tomorrow night, and
the Musketeers look to get it. They're winning ways going

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again in exhibition basketball. Here on seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati.
Final hour together this fine Friday night. Glad you're here
at Sterling seven hundred wlule back again tomorrow afternoon after
some Xavier Musketeer basketball. It is that time, Murray State
the matchup with the Musketeers. A little exhibition basketball gets real.

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In a couple of weeks. It's fast approaching. They're playing
baseball in Los Angeles Division Series or Championship Series, I
should say, in the National League. Dodgers leading five to one.
I mentioned at base runners on the Brewers trying to
salvage at least some face and maybe another game out
of this. But they scored just one Dodgers back at

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bat five to one, bottom of the eighth, So they're
three outs away basically from heading off the World Series.
And then the Mariners a Heney a Suarez of course,
in they're they're a game away. Three two is the
where they're a series at this point too, So we'll
see how it goes, and then they'll have some time
off possibly uh five hundred, the big one, the number

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as up motivated to get interactive. I want your take.
Also you can talk back by clicking on the microphone
and the iHeartRadio app. So there was the carve out
by way of deliberate intent or accident loophole, call it
what you want with the farm bill and the issue
of intoxicating hemp as they call it, which is sort
of the history of a sister of YESU marijuana, if

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you will, which voters in Ohio said, hey, we want
the League of Weed, and it's now available. After all
the process that went through at the dispensaries all over
the place, they swipe your driver's license depending on where
you are, so they know what you're buying, how much
that you're taking with you, and so on, which had
some people feeling little little bit to too much big

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brother eyeballing you depending for some people or what have you.
Governor Dwine put the kaibash on temporarily before a judge
blocked his ban on the sale of THHC drinks, hemp
products as well as like gummies and those type of
things at places that weren't dispensaries, which in fact included

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at one point restaurants, but that has been put on
hold now lawmakers in Columbus are wanting you still to
be able to get the THHC drinks where you get alcohol, bars, restaurants.
I suppose liquor store type of scenario right, not necessarily
that carryout, although you would think in that case, if

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they got a liquor license, that they should just handle
it as they would liquor when it comes to who
you you know, sell it to, which is really what
they should have been doing all along with the hemp
products that didn't somehow fall into what was controllable at
the disp and so forth, and a lot of people
making a whole lot of money, and a whole lot

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of businesses with a whole lot of employees are now
trying to figure out what they're going to do. Is
stuff moves through the first of the week in Columbus,
we'll see how fast the rules of government work. They'll
probably move faster on that in handling like drawing new
voter districts and so forth. When it comes to the
whole jerrymandering thing too, I would imagine as time goes on,

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what I want to know is this, whether you're for
the weed or not, whether you and bibe or not,
you like to smoke out, eat a gummy, have a
THC drink of some type, or otherwise, as long as
people handled it appropriately and responsibly. And what I mean
by that is if you're running a smoke shop, and
I know some people who had do and they carded people,

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they didn't let kids in there, They did not put
anything that was out easily grabbed for kids or anything
else underage that had interest in trying to alter themselves
in the last week, anecdotal stories or otherwise. It's made
the news with some high school kids, I think, and
even some middle school kids that were given gummies that
they thought were just candy and they were a weed

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laced which took them on a ride they weren't expecting,
and you got them, you know, some medical help in
school as they started realizing they weren't acting normally, and
then trying to figure out exactly how that goes. If
it is handled and controlled at a bar, at a restaurant,
at a store that sells alcohol, the same way that

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it would be with alcohol or someone selling cigarettes, what
is the difference to you? I'm just curious because I
mean lawmakers trying to protect children, is they should? I mean,
everything's always about the children, right the next generation, and
making sure that they're safe and secure as best as possible.
That being said, upstanding responsible retailers would be doing the

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same thing, no different than when I was underage trying
to find someone at one point in time before we
found a store called the Stumps that doesn't exist anymore.
I think it's now a charter school. In that building,
you would know where to go to find someone who
would ring you up for getting beer when I was

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underage or you knew someone who might go get it
for you. Doesn't mean they should have, but it was
one of those things. My guess is, kids are no
different now than they were in the eighties and nineties
when I was coming up, trying to get their hands
on adult beverages weed most likely not any different. So
someone who has a liquor license, which is a huge

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opportunity to make huge money depending or at least a living,
and probably employ some people that you're paying so that
they can make a living, one would figure that the
thought of a loss of license and culpability, say, for instance,
for allowing somebody who's not legally supposed to be getting
their hands on those adult beverages, whether they're THHC laced

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or just alcohol, would be no different than somebody selling
intoxicating hemp. And that's how it should be handled. And
I think the lawmakers were maybe a little late in
the game in the way that it was being drawn up,
in the way it played out. They also tried very
hard to try to limit, you know, the moneies. So

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you know, here's the thing. A lot of municipalities have
made the choice not to allow dispensaries legal dispensaries in
their neighborhoods, right their cities, their townships, et cetera. Makes sense.
Maybe you don't want it there. You know, you might
have a moratorium on alcohol being sold in some places too.
They didn't want the weed. They didn't want the alcohol,

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but a lot of it is with the weed. So
if you're in that situation, there's a whole lot of
tax money that has been taken out of all this
dispensary cash. This people have been spending boatloads of money,
whether it's for medicinal marijuana or whether it's recreational marijuana products,
those taxes, I'm not sure exactly where they've been going,

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but you know, whether it's Cincinnati or whether it's Dayton,
or whether it's someplace in between that allows the sale
of it or has a dispensary, those places where the
dispensaries are should be getting those tax dollars in the
benefit for allowing the commerce to take place in their municipality.
And then they can handle that to fix roads and

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to handle it, maybe to pay more police or whatever
else it is. That sort of goes along with what
is required in whatever city or township or whatever else
it is. It seems very basic. It's common sense in
that regard. You know, why should a community that doesn't
have a dispensary benefit from the taxes that are taken
out for the places that actually do that business. They shouldn't.

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There's no you know, if you want the tax money,
then you've got to be on the hook for the
other end of it. So that makes sense in what
they're going to do in Columbus. And anybody who is
a bad actor selling this stuff to minor children, though
there's no legal problem with it at this point, should
have a penalty for it. But a lot of these businesses,
whether they sold tobacco, products of other kinds or what

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have you, selling the intoxicating himp have found a way
to supplement their income and make you know, I've talked
to a few people, and I've heard them here on
other shows in news stories. They're making one hundred thousand
dollars or more profit quarterly selling this stuff. That is
a major hit. Even if that was just an annual

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hit in a loss of one hundred a year, that's substantial.
Even if it was just for six months, that's two
hunt though add to that maybe something more in some
cases four hundred thousand dollars a year. That's huge profit
and a huge at tax and a lot of people
probably going to lose their jobs as a part of this.
But you got to handle stuff responsibly. And somebody somewhere

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along the way didn't understand what the farm Bill had
in it and what it meant. And I still am
of the opinion of a libertarian mindset that individuals should
be free to basically do whatever it is that they
want to do in their life until they start victimizing
or being a problem or causing harm to other people.

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I mean, and it's that simple. You should be able
to smoke, get high, drink, whatever it is that you're doing,
as long as you're not getting behind the wheel, wreaking
havoc on the community and becoming a problem and a
predator in some type of nuisance or otherwise. Just in
the last couple of days, I've had no less than
five conversations with people in the midst of the talk
about the Cincinnati police chief and maybe she'll be kicked

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to the curb, and now you know, all the business
of negotiating how that exit might happen if in fact
that's where they are and people saying, you know, they're
complaining about downtown and the vibrancy and all the weed smoke, Well,
if that's being done in public in areas where you're
not supposed to be doing it, which you're not, then
that's a policing issue. Should have been something that the
police were on top of anyway, and then you leave

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that to the prosecutor to then prosecute those offenses, even
if it's just a cheap ticket otherwise, and if they're underage,
they shouldn't have it anyhow. It's the little stuff that
builds into something bigger with kids loitering and everything else
that goes along with that. And if you start acting
like you're the problem, then you'll be treated like the problem.

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And that's just the way it was in my house.
That's the way it should be in the neighborhood. That's
the way it should be in the community. Unless I'm crazy.
What do you think? Five three, seven, four, nine, seven,
eight hundred The Big One Talk Back the iHeartRadio app.
Do you have a problem with these Delta eight products
and hemp derivative products that are still intoxicating being sold

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in convenience stores or gas stations the same way alcohol
is and to be controlled in that fashion compared to
another dispensary the same way. They want these drinks to
be old or you know sold that are you know,
in infused with the THHC product, which are people you
know navigating and a lot of beer sales and a
lot of other spirits have been taking it in the

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shorts when it comes to you know, selling their products.
It's sort of a slowdown, but people are embracing and
the growth has been monumental with people trying to get
their hands on these beverages, these edibles and the smokeable products,
whether it's at the real dispensary, government controlled, or at
that one in the strip shopping center that you hope

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has been doing their business the right way, and if
they're not in habit then there should be a penalty.
It's your chance to be heard on the other side.
Quick break, come back, glad you're along. It's a Friday
night Sterling seven hundred WLW the ninth first morning forecasts
on the Big One down to fifty five tonight eighties
for your Saturday late rating. Bearcats on the Road. Oklahoma

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State is where they'll be playing tomorrow night, primetime eight
o'clock kickoff. They don't have to worry about. And Musketeers
course playing sentas Murray State the exhibition game tomorrow afternoon,
two o'clock tip off. That'll be inside. No worries are
rain there either, sixties on Sunday, sixties on Monday, more seasonable.
It's still sixty one right now. Let me refresh that.
That's hard for me. Yeah, sixty at your severe weather

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station seven hundred WLW, a couple minutes away from your
eleven thirty report. Conversation I had with Moaggart talking Bengals
as well as Bearcats. Coming up after the news, Travis
Laird with the latest There, big news out Los Angeles.
Way landed the in and out burger Shohei Otani, who
basically did it all on his own, but he had
help too. He drove in three runs, walked, and I

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mean just unbelievable. He pitches, he dhs, he does everything.
The Alien and those Dodgers will face off against it
now as a result of their win in sweeping the Brewers,
who would have saw that company coming. The Brewers plan
the way they did all season, ran out of gas
or just got caught in the chipper as the Dodgers

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just bowled them over. Dodgers win at Dodgers Stadium, bring
home that National League championship. They'll face off against the Mariners,
who were a game away, or the Blue Jays Sunday night.
It could be a Seattle or Toronto trying to hang
tough and not up the series. But right now it's
a three to two lead for Seattle, and Hanio A

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Suarez and company handled business. Gino was spectacular earlier, got
himself a Grand Slam and handled business a little bit earlier.
Is that they beat Toronto and they'll get back to
the other coast and see if they can bring home
an American League championship. And then Suarez and of course

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former red along with him getting a chance to u
Luis Castillo to get a little bit of what World
Series action, which is what we hope is closer than
not for our Reds. But it is the winter time
ahead and hot stove League, so we'll see if they
can find a bad and do their business. Something else
I want to mention too, because in the last couple

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of days there's been news of a state trooper who
was pulled over looking to help a trucker who had
a problem and then he got he was killed, hit
by I think it was a dump truck or something
that went off the road or hit his cruiser, whatever
it was, and then he lost his life. So his
family and everyone should be mourning him. On the road
doing what they do on a daily and nightly basis,

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and dangerous situations with people driving at high speed not
paying attention. There was someone locally here, I think it
was an ODET worker or just recently as a problem
with that, and police on a regular basis having to
navigate dangerous stuff. And today is what they call National
move Over Day in Ohio also where ODD as well
as the Ohio State Patrol working together to basically let

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people know when you see flashing lights of the obvious
thing is to get out of the way, to move
over so they have room to work or deal with
whatever it is that they're dealing with slowing down, which
is some basic stuff. And I mean, it's just the
way it is. If you have been like me, you've
had friends or family who've been out there doing the job,
either in uniform as police or doing the job for

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O DOT or other types of repairs, and you know,
literally sometimes inches or a foot away from people just
blowing by speeding in general, let alone what construction speed is.
It's unnerving. And you heard Matt Bruining, buddy of mine
I used to work with, who's now a spokesperson for
O Dot, talk about that in the news earlier, the

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fact they've lost I think over one hundred and forty
people ode out workers over the years, just that, not
including law enforcement in those situations. And these are generally
preferable to accidents happen, But I mean people driving too
fast and not getting over and being distracted. That's a
negligence issue. That's a whole nother story. So just be

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safe out there if you're doing the work, and if
you're on the road in general, keep an eye out.
It's real simple. Straight away, you're eleven thirty report Travis
Laird has an idea what's going on. He'll share that
with us and then we'll talk some football with Mawegger
from ESPN fifteen thirty coming up as well. Dodgers go
into the World Series. And I mentioned this, my neighbor

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got really aggravated to me. I said, looking at this,
I said, I would prefer the Dodgers, who beat the
Reds in two in LA in that wildcard series that
had a lot of people shocked that the Reds even
got there, and it would have been nice if they
could have won a game or maybe one. But I'd
rather lose to a team that goes all the way
than lose to a team who then loses in the

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next round. I don't know what kind of pretzel logic
that is, but that's the way my sterling brain works.
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