3-15-26 Sunday Afternoon Sterling

Sterling talks with Dr. Mark Ensalaco about the US/Israel/Iran war and Kevin Carr about the Oscars. Plus, he talks about the movies he's seen that change his life and takes your calls.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, well, here we are, beautiful Sunday afternoon in the
tri State. So pain, the loss, the sadness of the fallen,
serving this nation, our interest, our safety, our security from
Ohio and the Kentucky and Indiana and ground planet Earth

(00:25):
war in Iran, fear of more terrorism domestically from outside
sympathizers lone wolves or other wackos for that matter. A
guy who knows from all of this seven hundred WLW
terror expert from the University of Dayton is Mark and Sulaco.
Welcome back to seven hundred WLW with Sterling. How are
you there.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm fine, how are you? Thank you for having me on.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Absolutely I'm kind of curious where we sit right here,
right now in the midst of this ongoing engagement. Let's
call it a war. It's been called a war. Some
say it's not. If somebody's reigning down hell fire on
you and threatening you and causing great damage and loss
of life, I think that's clearly a war. People can

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call it whatever they want. Domestically, though, already for some
period of time, whether it's at a mosque or a church,
or a temple, a shoal, a synagogue, the need for
security heightened sense of awareness and concern. In the best
of times has been an issue domestically, and now we

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are at the next level with a heightened sense of
awareness and danger from outside and inside. How bad is
that threat domestically compared to a month ago, now three
weeks or so into this war in Iran, Well.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I mean it's heightened. Obviously, there's been a lot of
domestic violent extremism for years, back back to October seventh
when Hamas laid wadge at Chenna sattle attack in Israel
and anti Semitic tensions flared. And now there's this, And
we've already seen three attacks, lone wolf attacks. One former

(02:12):
National guardsmen with military experience who had been in jail,
who went to carry another fort Hood type attack. And
then there's this incredible incident where someone drives into the
synagogue in Michigan and tries to kill young children. So
these are lone wolf attacks, which is a very serious concern.
The other concern would be sleeper cells that are somehow

(02:35):
organized and commanded by the Islamic Revolutionary core Guard Revolutionary
Guard course. Sorry, and I'm not seeing that yet, but
that's very much a possibility. I'll just make this point. Remember,
in nineteen eighty six, quite a long time ago, President
Reagan ordered the bombing of Libya from Markatathi because this

(02:58):
has contacts involvement in terrorism. Years later, in nineteen eighty nine,
they blew up on Pentomonal three, so we all remember that.
So there's always this threat of terrorism because of lone
wolf fanatics or more organized operations conducted by security agencies.

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And we're in a war and it's gonna it's gonna
incite all this.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
As we sit here now, Mark Insilaco, a seven hundred
WLW terrorism expert, was seven hundred WLW from a University
of Dayton. As we look at this in the ongoing
engagement over there, better to fight them there, but the
idea of sympathizers and the need to I guess in
some ways we're better prepared now than we were just

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after nine to eleven, but I think some things seemingly
have been lost. The difference is, of course, the better
part of the last twenty five years, kids have been
in school having drills like instead of what I came
up with, which was tornado and fire drills, they have
active shooter drills in fortifying their facilities, churches have classes
and ongoing security at other places of worship. Big businesses

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also have that kind of concern too. This is just
sort of modern day living. And for what period of
time do you think this is ongoing? Considering that even
if we finish this fairly quickly in Iran and elsewhere,
people here likely to carry this out in some fashion,
you think.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yes, impossible to give a definite answer to that, but
probabilities high. Something I'm concerned about. Another case, I'd imagine
back in nineteen sixty eight, Sir Hanna assassinated Bobby Kennedy
because Kennedy a year before sixty seven had supported Israel
in the Sixth Day were So it takes a long time.

(04:47):
It's just said many years ago when I first interviewed terrorism.
The terrorists have long memory but a short fused. I mean,
who knows what they'll do. But let me say this
for some reluctance. What frightens me most is the incompetence
of the national security establishment to the president.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Aparts from the war.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
We can talk about the war, the meaning war, the use,
the fullness of the war, but I'm really concerned about
the domestic national intelligence firm Tulsi Garbert, the Director of
National Intendency. Where is he The last time we saw her,
she was in Georgia turning a warrant on ballots from
the pass election. Cash Pateel, the FBI director. He's spending

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money getting security contingent for his girlfriend. We've lost Christine
nom thank god, director of Homeland Security after he spent
a quarter of a million dollars at Mount Rushmore and
Pete Hegsat. I mean, well, so where you're pointing, there's

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real threats of domestic violence, extremism, and possibly more organized
foreign directed attacks. But I don't have any confidence, nor
should you have any confidence of the national security team
that's commander in chief is appointed.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
As we sit here now. Markan Silaca. By the way,
seven hundred WLW terrorism expert from University of Dayton was
sterling on the big ones. So I've heard this before
from experts. So the idea that we have as a
nation in this administration have gutted some of the very
concerns about watching domestic terrorism threats and experts who have

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done that for the better part of twenty five years
or more in some cases, Where did those people go?
Are they in the private sector or elsewhere. Can they
be pulled back in I mean idle hands and abilities
with people with great experience, and this seems like they
might be able to help us be safer. Or did
they make the right call in getting rid of these people.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
No, they made it wrong, terrible decision trying to eliminate
these people for whatever reason, whether it's coach and you know,
cutting the bureaucracy, what have you. These are people who
you know a lot of people in the FBI have
been sort of purged or punished because they had contributed
to the investigation of January sixth. And I understand, I

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understand why the president wants, you know, a team he
has conference in, but he's exactly right.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
A lot of.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Very talented people, a lot of expertise, well, a lot
of brain drain from where we need them.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
And that is really frightening.

Speaker 5 (07:33):
Now.

Speaker 6 (07:33):
You know, you.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Mentioned what we learned as a nation and a society
after nine to eleven was, yeah, heightened security d and
I was created than the restructuring of the National security establishment.
But what we learned as a population is still solid
see something, say something, right, So when you recognize sort

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of and radicalism and a member of your family. Report
that if there's some suspicious activity, report that this isn't
like spying on our neighbors, but it's vigilant knowing that now,
as before, our foreign involvement in this case of war

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is going to prompt others to try to strike out.
So we learned a great deal of society. We need
to just apply those lessons. See something, say.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Something University of Dayton terror expert for seven hundred WLW
mark and Sulaco was stirling on the big one. So
it is we sit here now and we look forward.
I was paying two to eleven for gas before this started.
In just a couple of days after it was up
to three forty nine. I think this morning where the

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same place. And they've opened up reserves that they didn't
fill after Biden had emptied some of those to help
with cost in insecurity with oil and gas and the
petroleum reserves before he left office. They have hit the
spickett if you will, to international trade with oil in Iran,

(09:10):
which seemed like a smart move to sort of limit
their options. But what they've done also is allowed Russia
now to sell their oil, which will help fatten their
coffers in their engagement in some fashion, not just domestically,
but going after Ukraine in the midst of all of
these very related but distant circumstances. As we move ahead,

(09:34):
what does that mean for Europe and NATO and our
concerns there, not just with the Middle East long term,
because short terms one thing, even though we were never
told that this was a concern or an idea, and
it's just an excursion respectfully.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Well, yeah, so you're absolutely correct. There are a lot
of moving parts to this crisis. There is the direct
military action we're we're coordinating with Israel and we're pounding. Now,
you get the oil crisis, You've got straits of hormus,
you have we talked about recently previously possibility of terrorism

(10:13):
as a response to that. And then you think of
the sort of the the broader geopolitical issues, and I
think of Russia and I think Ukraine. I mean, suddenly,
every every dollar it's being sent on the Middle East
is joyous to Putin because Putin knows that's money, and

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they won't go to Ukraine and be happy for them
a g and China must be thinking about opportunities to
take Taiwan. And so I mean and then there's this
warrant of itself. There's gonna be a long term issue
of domestic, well just repression. We may neuter this country's

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military capabilities. It's nuclear capabilities, it's ballistic missile forces which
are very dangerous, very subscated. Their drones, we can, we
can punt it. We're sinking their navy, we can punish,
we can, we can destroy the military capabilities of Iraq's
talk now about regime change, something that was abhorren to

(11:19):
Maga and the president, and now we're involved in that.
But if we back off and we leave that regime
in place, the bloodshed will be incredible. In January and
December and January, more than four hundred thousand people were
slaughtered by security forces by JI four hundred thousand army.

(11:42):
The number your inheriting is about thirty thousand Tasmanians themselves
states two thousand. It's caused by Zionists and CIA or something.
But you know, the idea of we may weaken this
country militarily, which will be welcome them in this Arabia
was a very sunnyway, very behind this military action. Because

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if Iran proceeds towards a nuclear weapon, sundy way, but
we'll have to too. So they're sort of happy with this,
But what will leave behind a regime that is that
is murderous and I don't know how we deal with that,
and I don't know if we've thought that through.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Now there's something else related to this, and we're short
on time. Only a couple more minutes with Mark and
Stilaco's a seven hundred w WELW terrorism expert with Sterling
on the big one. He's from University of Dayton. And
you talk about the people on the ground in Iran
who we've said, you know, this is your opportunity to
take your country back effectively? How many of those people
can we kill in this engagement where there is not

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then a turn of resentment, bitterness and anger and a
want for retaliation because they think that we are as
bad as perhaps the regime that they have been oppressed by,
and they'd like to get rid of too. They don't
have weapons effectively like we have access to in an
opportunity to go out for them, we would have to
arm them, or others would have to arm them to

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give them even an opportunity with what is considered to
be a fairly well trained large military force domestically.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yes, yes, exactly right. Now, one might hope that the
elements of the army, not the Republican Revolutionary Guard Corps
because they're for the fanatics.

Speaker 7 (13:19):
There're s s.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
There are many elements in the police, metlements in the army,
minorities that that could envision the civil war. You could
vision units in the military turning on the regime.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
But that would be bloody.

Speaker 7 (13:35):
That'll be terry bloody.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Now you said something very very important I agree with entirely.
You know, back in two thousand and three, we were
told that we would be treated, we would be welcomed
as liberators in Iraq ye Sadam, we Traine class and
we just got that all wrong. But you raised it,

(13:57):
you phrase it exactly right. There are a lot of
people who opposed the regime. Their Iranians want a democratic regime.
But at the same time they're seeing a lot of
Iranians being killed by US and not just the United
States Israel. So it's really hard to predict how people
will react to it. I imagine there are many many people.

(14:20):
I'll say, what a a student whose family is from Iraq,
and she wrote an essay the other day and pointed
out what she was a minority that had been oppressed.
Their family had been killed when the revolution came in
nineteen seventy nine. There's a lot of revolution. As you
talked about, her family just wept with joy when they
learned that Cominie was killed by Israel and that bombing rate.

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So there are a lot of people who just would
rejoice with this regime coming down. But the real nuts
and bolts, the mechanics of that, the dynamics of that
are hard to predict. And if I may say again,
I trust Marco Rubio quite a bit, but I'm not
sure we've given this long thought. We've thought about what
happens next, what will be straight military You know, we're
going to win this war in the sense of to

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militarizing good portion of the military of Iran, but what
happens next is entirely unclear.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Now finally thought, go ahead, I'm sorry, yeah, I'm just
going to ask this. But with the idea of regular
misinformation to the media and to the public, to the world,
not just to the United States, in the midst of war,
keeping that fog that confusion, and what our goals are
and what the plan is isn't necessarily bad? Correct, You
don't want to telegraph everything publicly to the people of

(15:38):
the United States while the rest of the world, including
our enemies here where we're going and what we're doing next?

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Would you agree, yes, I mean, we don't want to
be giving up to the military secrets to movements plans
with plantation activities. But it would be good to have
a clear strategic sense coming from the President of the
United States. Commander and achieved what are armed forces are
being asked to do? You began this segment brilliantly by

(16:03):
talking about the sacrifice of those who have fallen, who
killed in the plane crash, which was unrelated to hustle
military option. But nonetheless we lost these soldiers in this
operation and others killed by terrorism. So American people really
have a clear understanding of the strategic goals of the
President of the United States. But you're right, you're not
going to not going to we're actually show our hands.

(16:26):
We're in military operations right now. So and remember and
then you said an important thing, this isn't a military
special military campaign al of putin.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
This is a war. Yeah, it's a WARLD will when
but it's a war. That'll take some time. I hope
to have you back again sooner than later, and hopefully
with some more positive news with an outcome. But I
think this is going to go on for a while,
not just a couple of weeks. Mark Ensilaco, thank you,
seven hundred WLW Terrorist University of University of Dayton. My apologies.
Home with the flyers of course, and rmo Egger All right,

(16:56):
take care of yourself, enjoy the rest of your weekend, Sterling.
Coming back at your twelve thirty report straight ahead, your
chance to get interact with a lot to do, including Oscar,
talking movies, Cavin Carr, Mark Sheldon, MLB Sterling seven hundred
WLW out on the road this afternoon, big sunshine, warm
temperatures in the Tri State before winter comes back to

(17:17):
smack us down again because it's just March, even though
it's gonna be blazing hot in the desert this coming week.
Red's in action later on this afternoon. Talk to Mark
Sheldon to MLB dot com a bit later. Get you
ready for it. I'm Sterling hanging out, Alex he can
keep me online and in time. And Sandy Collins with
news coming up too. The big wind is part of

(17:37):
the issue. If you're on the road, high profile vehicles,
so tractor trailers, whatever else, you're on the road road,
a lot of people having to do the you know,
the whole I guess you call it pothole slalom. And
they patched a lot of these in the last couple
of days. I've seen it, and around seventy one, seventy five,
two seventy five. But between that and it's just more

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of its tearing up the road, so you're bobbing and
weaving with that. Then you've got the big win. It's
a lot of stress. It's a lot of ten and
two on the steering wheel, paying attention to the big
one and trying to you know, get where you're going,
hopefully safely. Later on Kevin Carr by the way, going
to talk Oscars new movie stuff about two thirty five
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that need to play ketchup. At Stirling Radio. A couple
things I want to know first, if you went to
church today or temple, should synagogue, the mosque yesterday? Whatever else?

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Kids in school the last week, have you noticed an
increase insecurity with the increase in terrorist acts. Whether it's
like Old Dominion University where those ROTC students did away
with that guy who came in and caused harm and
shot up some people. Thankfully they were there to be

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able to take care of him. The issue just in general.
I've mentioned this before and a friend of mine said
he wasn't sure about it than he talked to his
kids their entire career in the high school. Now they
have had active shooter drills and training as to what
happens when it comes to an attack, an assault from

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inside the school or out from another student or a
terrorist or something else. In some ways is disturbing as
it is to think that a kid rather than just
worrying about like when I came up, it was a
tornado drills and fire drills, and we did have a
couple of exercises I think where he went to the
basement in case of like nuclear war. They show these

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old movies. I was coming up in the eighties, so
I mean that's kind of an odd thing, but it's
what we saw. And the idea was you go to
the basement and you duck and cover, like under your
desk in case like nuclear war happened, which I remember
getting in trouble because I said, what difference is it
really going to make here where we are with right
patterns and air force base and all the other strategic

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uh you know, industry and things in and around the
tri state and so on. And they were like, just
don't just don't say, don't talk about that, don't say
that kind of stuff. To shut up basically is what
they told me. Uh, but you got to be prepared.
Five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred. The
big one. I'm wondering, have you noticed higher security or
were you less likely? Did you see more or less

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people showing up to events in the last couple of
days week? Are you more aware in paying attention to
what's going on around you? And uh, whether you know
when I was a kid. Here's the other thing. And really,
for as long as there's been time, people would go

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and seek refuge in places of worship, People would go
oftentimes even to schools for places of security, when in fact,
something was going on and now and for some time,
there's been a need to lock those doors, to have
those cameras, to have security personnel. You know, it used

(21:13):
to be that you could be a tourist and say, hey,
I'd like to check out services this Sunday or this Saturday,
and you could show up and they would invite you
in with open arms. Now you kind of feel like
you want want a background check, you want to frisk
people coming in. You may even have at this point
metal detectors are something else, depending on where you are.

(21:33):
Is definitely a different times in a different world. And
you know, somebody who is fifteen, twenty twenty five years old,
that's all they've known, which is maybe a benefit to
them now is things have taken another turn in you know,
these are times making history for one of a better
way to look at it, but it is disturbing, I think,

(21:57):
in a whole lot of ways. But hopefully you keep
most of it over there rather than here. You know,
the argument that I had with my body is he
was saying that he felt like his kids had lost
out on some of their childhood, and I'd say, well, unfortunately,
as I think that's kind of just life as we
know it. People coming up during World War Two, those

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you know kids, they dealt with that. Those who came
up during the Great Depression, you know, like my grandmother,
you know, she had a different view and understanding of
things and being thrifty and in the concern of people
lost in you know, dangers and other places as well.
But you know, these are the times in which we live.

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And now also the other thing, And I was mentioning
this to Alex Egan off the ear, and I hesitate
sometimes because you know, we joke around and my friends, oh,
you're the profit of doom. But I have to say
that being on the radio an adult at least in

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some fashion after nine to eleven, and during that window
of time, and looking at all the vulnerabilities in places
to where our freedoms make us in some ways, in
a place where there is more danger upon us, we
are not in many ways that much more safe and secure.

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And if you look at ways to reacavic and turmoil
and chaos and terror in a population, it doesn't take much,
you know, just in the last couple of days in
a miraculous like a repair job, at least temporarily speaking
with four seventy one across the bridge in the Kentucky

(23:43):
side in the issue there with that tanker in the
fire it had in a couple of years ago, which
also was a lightning bolt to me, and looking about
the vulnerability is what happened when those homeless people set
a blaze that I guess it was some type of
like slide playground equipment or whatever else. That thing caught

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fire and caused a problem and shut down part of
a bridge. Then, so think of all the different places
and all the little things. You know, if you are
of a certain age, and you can remember when there
was a scare about tainted medicine over the counter, it
was tailan Al, and I see the medicine is a

(24:28):
great product. Tilan Al is a great brand, a great
product as well. I want to make sure that's clear.
But there was history of tampering on shelves of stores
going back to I think it was the late seventies
early eighties. I was a little sterling. I was talking
to Sandy Collins, she was a little Sandy Collins at
the time, and there was a lot of concern and
things changed because someone tainted with medicine put it back

(24:50):
on the shelf and people died. So now there are
protections on the pills in what we consume. There are
now boxes that are flued shut rather than just folded closed.
There are also seals on those bottles, and that's just
one thing that has changed. But the terror, in the fear,

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in the attention and the concern of people in the
worry is something that right now is we move through
with this, how prepared are you and how concerned are you?
And what do you tell your kids about the dangers here?
Or do you go? You know what, it's all right,
it's pretty safe because statistically it is. But it doesn't
take a lot. And we've seen a little of that

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in the news five point three, seven four nine, seven,
eight hundred, the big one. It's a problem, it's a concern,
but we're in it now, so we just have to
navigate it. And my heart sinks for those men and
women in uniform in harm's way involved in this engagement
in one fashion or another. And the talk of course

(25:58):
in the news, unfortunately of some very close to the
tri State and up in the Columbus area calling it
home with six different airmen, three members of the Ohio
National Guard, and that crash over Iraq, which they say
was not friendly fire, it was not the enemy as well.
They are investigating that. That puts things in real big perspective.

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It's one thing to watch it on TV. It's one
thing to hear a news report. It's one thing to
think about, you know, the amazing technology and the power
of the complex associated with our going to war, in
the destruction and the health fire in which we bring
when we call upon it for one reason or another,

(26:44):
for our safety, for our security, for our interest. But
there's a difference between that and you start thinking about
the human toll that goes into it. It's not just
a video game, it's just not a news thing. So
my heart goes out to them. And I can tell you,
and it's been about two thousand and three or four,

(27:06):
I guess two thousand and three, maybe I was I'd
luck to here. I was working in Columbus and I
was doing a TV editorial thing on one of the
news channels, and I would record that and they would
run it during their news a couple of times a
couple of days a week, and then I would, you know,
go do my radio show. And this was a time

(27:29):
where the hypocrisy about supporting troops and patriotism comes in,
and I have gotten hate for mentioning vulnerabilities. I've gotten
hate for questioning this administration, past administrations or whatever else.
And in the case that I mentioned when I was
doing the editorials in the midst of the engagement and

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we had gone to war in Rock Afghanistan, in that
point it was Memorial Day, which isn't too far off
in the future. And Nightline, which started during the Iran
hostage crisis when I was a little kid, and I
would come home from me J. Brown Elementary School and
I would watch the evening news. I would listen to
the Big One, and I would then watch Nightline later

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at night when I was supposed to be asleep or
going to bed, and they counted down day by day
and gave a description of what was happening with the
Iran hostage crisis and so forth. And as we were there,
you see the seriousness and the loss of life and
what that means. And if you've had friends or family,
or you yourself have served, you know exactly what that

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loss is like and what that danger is like. Memorial
Day is about that on Nightline, just a handful of
years ago, twenty years ago, now, I give your take.
Nightline was going to carry a memorial tribute and show
the faces, names, and information about these soldiers who had
been lost, these people who put their lives on the

(28:56):
line for you and me. The station that I was
doing the editorials for on television decided that they felt
that they took exception to the idea and found it
unpatriotic for Nightline to be showing respect and honor a
memorial day to those falling in uniform for US. So

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I got wind of that, and I'm used to working
here where if management does something stupid, you can call
them out for doing something stupid, and they kind of like, okay,
that's fair. All is fair. It's a show. Don't lose ratings,
don't lose revenue. So I hammered the TV station for

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editor you know, cutting the Nightline because they felt that
somehow paying respect and homage for the fallen military personnel
of these United States was somehow an American. So I'll
tell you now, questioning this administration, questioning methods and the
way they go about things, and you know, paying respect

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and showing admiration and a tip of the hat and
love for these men and women in uniform who put
their lives on the line. Sometimes they don't come back whole.
Sometimes they don't come back ever again, except to be
laid to rest. If we're at a point where we
can't show them respect, if we're at a point we're

(30:27):
showing them respect, and talking about them is somehow anti
American or considered to be against the message of an
administration or fighting a war and engagement as it was
talked about then. And they edited me in that segment.
They called me and said, hey, they don't like the

(30:49):
fact that you're talking about us canceling Nightline tonight. I said, well, tough,
don't air the segment. They edited the segment and then
ran it. So then I spent my time on the
ear hating on them for it, and I basically walked
away from that gig. Wasn't really paid gig of consequence anyway,

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But it was a moral thing to me. It was
a hypocrisy thing to me, in my opinion, it was
an anti American thing for me. So somehow, on one
side of a mouth, you say, we support America, we
support our interest, we support the administration, we support our
men and women in uniform. You don't, on the other side,

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condemn them, marginalize them, question them, or fail to show
them love, respect for giving everything for us. And at
that point I decided that I would never just take
everything for granted, and I will never stop questioning motivations

(31:57):
and the way that the engagement has handled our otherwise
and regardless because people just follow orders, young people. My
uncle went to war in World War Two. He was
like fifteen, sixteen years old, and he signed up and
they took him, and he came home and had been

(32:18):
injured and lost part of his stomach. I mean, he
went through hell. And I had other relatives and friends
who have served, some haven't come home over the the years,
and of talking about them and honoring them at any point,
let alone a memorial day, let alone in the midst
of an active engagement globally as we were then and

(32:38):
as we are now. If we come to a place
where you can't show them love, honor, respect, then we've
got a problem. And as I sit here now and
we think about where we are going and what's going on,
just keep that in mind. And I will never be

(32:59):
in a place where I don't think about that, and what
really matters, which is you and your family and those
who put themselves on the line for us. I don't
care who's president. I don't care who's running the company.
I don't care any about all of that. I'm talking
about just everyday people and being an American and being

(33:20):
a human being. Straight Away, you've got your one o'clock report,
Sandy Collins has news. There's a lot of other stuff
to get to. Let's have a little fun, shall We
will do that. On the other side, I think we
can do it. We'll talk on some issues that I
have encountered recently out and about in the world, not
just you know, consuming mass quantities of information. We'll talk

(33:41):
Reds baseball with Mark Sheldon a little bit later. Red's
getting it on in the desert. The heat is on
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the Reds. On a Sunday afternoon, Sterling News Radio seven
hundred WLW, Cincinnati has the tipping thing gone like completely overboard.

(34:03):
Do you tip at the drive through? Do you cough
up some extra cash when you have it to go
order and you go in to pick it up at
the counter because you call it ahead or used an
app and it's waiting for you. You may have even
already paid for it. I did that with pizza last
night and a bunch of sides and everything else that

(34:23):
went with it, and I picked it up and it
already paid, and there's a tip jar, and I kind
of felt for some reason like I had to cough
up a couple of bucks, so I threw in a
couple of dollars just to say thanks. I know they
don't get tipped much, but I didn't sit down and eat,
They didn't do anything that it just packaged up. The
food buddy of mine got hacked off. And we've had

(34:43):
these conversations before. I'm just kind of curious, if you're
in the service industry, how how have people acted in
the last couple of weeks, couple of months, whatever it's been.
Just is there been a change in the attitude in
relation to the idea of tipping. A friend of mine
was I rate when I mentioned, just in passing conversation

(35:08):
about the idea of seeing tip jarge everywhere else too.
There's nothing that's drastically different about this, but all of
a sudden, no tax on tips and everything else associated
with it. It seems to me that it's a pressure point,
it's a frustration, it's an aggravation. And I know these
people don't make a lot of money. I have had
friends who work in food surface I still do, whether
it's operating restaurants or working on you know, as a

(35:31):
frontline kind of chef person or whatever else, and even serving.
So I grasp all of that, but I really kind
of it's a nickel and diming to death in this situation.
So I ask you, where do you tip? Where do
you not tip? Where is the line? My buddy's wife
tells me that she tips when she goes to pick

(35:52):
stuff up at the dry cleaners. Which when did that start?
And then immediately I start, I don't do a lot
of dry cleaning stuff, you know. I'm not like Alex
Egan during the week wearing lots of suits and ties
and you know, and being super presentable. It's the beauty
of being behind a microphone or working from home a lot.
I don't got to worry about that. But she was saying, oh, yeah,

(36:15):
you tip at the dry cleaners. When why I've never
done that? Five one, three, seven, four nine, seven, eight
hundred the big one in the last week. I know
a lot of social media arguments about that very issue.
I think it was JJ Watt got a lot of
attention about it too, sort of opposing questions and so forth.
I mean, it's challenging. And I just talked to a

(36:41):
friend of mine who had kids that a few months
ago when we got dumped on with snow, maybe even
just a few weeks actually, more like maybe a month
at most, And he says, they came by and helped
dig them out when he was in the midst of
doing all that, and they did a really good job,
and they wanted, you know, they wanted like forty bucks
or whatever. He gave him, like an extra twenty so
he gave him, you know, extra and so forth. And

(37:02):
I said, that's cool. I always thought that was interesting
too in that situation. But that's an individual who what
came by, saw that there was a need knocked on
the door, gave him a holler and said, hey, we
can help you out here real fast. And they made
a deal. But so you tip the postman, you tip
the trash people from rumkey, you know, at Christmas time.
I guess I suppose I just want to know where

(37:23):
it stops. No one's tipping me here. You go to
a club or a restaurant, they may have somebody playing music.
They'll have a tip jar the piano. Depending on where
you are, people like to do that. Oh you played
the birthday song. That's great. A lot of times restaurants
still come in and do the clap clap clap for
your birthday. Maybe throw them an extra ten or twenty.

(37:43):
Friends of mine did that to me. They gave him money.
It wasn't even my birthday. They just wanted to mess
with me a little bit. And they're like, well, they
gave us twenty bucks. Whatever. Enjoy your chocolate cake, son.
I'm like, okay, fine, I get it. That's okay. I
don't mind the embarrassment chocolate cake. It's fine. They enjoyed that.
But where is the line? And how much you know
at the coffee at the drive through? Why tip at

(38:04):
the drive through? That's the job. You've taken the job,
That's what the job is. Am I crazy? Is it
gone too far? I mean? Maybe you know, you start
getting more tips, you don't have to get taxed on that.
I suppose, depending maybe that that's a way around some
of it. And I don't know if that's increased because
of it or not. Five one, three, seven, eight hundred

(38:25):
the big one to Dell High with John on seven
hundred wl W John, How are you.

Speaker 8 (38:28):
Man, Hey Sterling?

Speaker 6 (38:31):
How's it going this Sunday?

Speaker 1 (38:32):
It's beautiful outside. Other than some big wind, life is
good here.

Speaker 9 (38:36):
I know, right, listen, I got something to tell you.

Speaker 6 (38:40):
I did this.

Speaker 9 (38:40):
Today, went by setting the girl scouts out there felling cookies.
Bought three bucks, six bucks apiece. Oh they've gone up
without a twenty and get and tell them. I said,
just kate the tube buck.

Speaker 6 (38:54):
That wrong?

Speaker 1 (38:55):
No, I see, I do that too. To see I'm okay.
I think it's because they're girl scouts. I'm like, yeah,
I give them an extra five spot. Who cares? That's well,
you got to keep the language clean. I mean to
sort of go along with that. I appreciate the call,
but I mean, you get you gotta people get very
relaxed and very passionate.

Speaker 6 (39:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
I understand the frustration. The question of like where it's
appropriate or when it's not appropriate to tip. I don't
know what what the advocate is anymore. And it's an
odd deal. I mean, if it's You know one thing,
if somebody's handling your car, you're you know they're gonna
park it for you and do something like that. Great
if they're serving me. I certainly like to do that,

(39:33):
especially at the bar restaurant. You know, you get a
couple of drinks earlier and show them some love. They're
gonna pay attention and show you some attention to.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
But it gets over the top if you go to
a car wash and they actually do the full on
inside detail wipe it down, you want to throw them
a little extra there. Okay, I get that. I mean
I just want to know where the jobs are with
the tipping and where they're not because it is not
what it was years ago. I remember people would tip
me when I delivered the paper when I was a kid.

(40:03):
Now grown ups deliver the paper. If you're actually getting
a paper copy rather than just the digital edition uh
that you can get on a device and carry in hand.
I still like paper newspapers sometimes being able to you know,
to handle it or whatever else that sort of goes
with that. If I went three, seven, four, nine, eight
hundred the Big One to dine now in Finnytown with

(40:24):
Stirling on seven hundred w l W. Where's the line
on tipping? Who should be tipped, who should not be tipped?

Speaker 10 (40:32):
Hey, hey, hey, what's going on sterling?

Speaker 1 (40:34):
Man?

Speaker 10 (40:34):
Man I meant to I'm at the Buffalo Wings or rings. Man,
I come up in here. Ten fifty bucks up in here,
you know, for for my for for you know, thirty
for for for.

Speaker 8 (40:46):
My for my food.

Speaker 6 (40:47):
Sure.

Speaker 10 (40:48):
Yeah, I mean it's two people figure thirty wings and
some and something like some some some fries.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
I know many.

Speaker 10 (40:58):
I love coming here, man, what is good? But what
I'm saying is like, and I come here often. Man,
I live around the corner from here. But there's a
there's a little there's a little a little little path
there that says, you know, I want to give you
a receipt, you know, for for tipping.

Speaker 6 (41:16):
Man.

Speaker 10 (41:16):
You know, man, I worked in food service. I'm working
healthcare now, but I worked in food service.

Speaker 7 (41:21):
Man.

Speaker 10 (41:21):
And I know what it, you know, the grind and
the what it takes to get paid, you know, and
they deserve everything. But when you just come up, man,
I didn't pre order it. I just came up. I
or it and and then there's this there, you know, Okay,
there's a tipping thing but but I'm spending a half
a hundred for for my food man ship, I don't know,

(41:43):
so putting some money?

Speaker 1 (41:44):
Well yeah, I mean so so you're to go where
you're gonna sit down and eat?

Speaker 8 (41:48):
Yeah, to go?

Speaker 1 (41:49):
Oh, I just bought pizza and stuff the other night.
I didn't spend as much as you, and I gave
them both and I felt like a sucker. I'm like,
I'm walking out with my boxes. I'm like, I didn't
even go to the drive through. I went in and
grabbed it and still coughed up extra cash. And I'm like, well,
I know what it's like to be there. I know
they're hating life and they're inundated. So did you walk

(42:10):
out without giving money? Am I a sucker? Is what
I want to know. Don y'elle.

Speaker 10 (42:14):
I don't think so, brother. I mean, it's not the
second part, man, And but I agree with that that part.

Speaker 7 (42:20):
Man.

Speaker 10 (42:20):
You know, there is a salary for what they're doing.
But if you're if they're performing a service that you know,
I mean, if I called it in and they put
it together, man, and I'm trying to get in and
get out. Man, Bless them, man, bless them, Bless them
in anyway you can and bless them anyway, man, And
I think it's a good thing that you threw it
in there. But man, food is expensive today.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
You know it's not going to get any cheaper either.
It's a tough spot. So do you now food service
is different. I'll ask you this before I let you bounce.
I got a bunch of others I want to get
to as well done you. So here's my question. So
if you've got a drain problem and the plumber shows
up and they snake that drain, get you fixed up
in a timely.

Speaker 10 (42:57):
Fashion, Yeah, man, he'll come up.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
He Yeah, you tip them more. Also, so who doesn't
get tipped? What about the dentist, the hygiena. She flaws, this.

Speaker 10 (43:06):
Folishes as a matter of fact. That's that was my thought.

Speaker 9 (43:11):
Man.

Speaker 10 (43:11):
It's you know, it's leaving it to the consumer. Man,
you appreciate your service, you feeling in your.

Speaker 6 (43:16):
Heart bless them?

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Okay them all right.

Speaker 10 (43:18):
But anytime, anytime they're putting in, anytime they're putting in
the extra service, they're putting it in that that you know,
smile or you know they deserve it.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
There there you go, Daniel, I appreciate the call me in,
thank you, Let's get a couple more. So, okay, if
you just feel the love and they're doing your right.
So the dentist, how about when you get the oil
changed for your car, you get the regular service. Maybe
you got like two three years of maintenance, depending on
what you got right, and you pull back up to
the dealership and they show you love and you're checking
out the new rides. You're like, maybe I'll just trade

(43:46):
this thing in and then the you know, you're ready
to go, ma'am, you're ready to go, sir, And they're like,
you know, that's a part of your regular service. And
you're like, well, here's a ten spot, here's a twenty.
Do you give the porters some cash for pulling your
car out of the oil change? In that situation, where's
the line? I'd like to know? To Forest Park and
Kathleen and Brian and Dan and Jim in room for
you on a Sunday sterling at five, one, three, seven, four, nine,

(44:09):
eight hundred, the big one. Kathleen, what do you think, Hey,
you know these tradesmen they want to charge you like
ninety five bucks to come out and measure and look
at the job and.

Speaker 11 (44:20):
Tell you how much it would cost, but they don't
take it off of your final bill.

Speaker 12 (44:25):
Then you've got If I have to pay taxes on
my Social.

Speaker 13 (44:28):
Security, everybody needs to be paying taxes on their income
as well.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
That's what I got, all right, fair enough, I got
you on that. Kathleen. Thanks, she's not happy. But I
don't think. I think if you don't have earnings above
a certain amount, your Social Security isn't taxed. It's the
the other monies. I think that's how that played up.
But I'm not in that age group as of yet,
so I don't want to speak out of turn tomorrow.
And Dan was sterling on the big one. So where's

(44:55):
the line on tipping? We hear trades people. I mean,
do you give it to people who sho up at
the house, the roofer who comes in and gives you
a look and fixes up stuff around the chimney. You're like,
here's an extra fifty thanks brother? What Dan?

Speaker 6 (45:10):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (45:10):
Hey sling? Yeah, I don't think you do. On a
full service uh trade job, they come in, like the
previous lady said, they're charging you multiple dollars just to
come out to make it drive time?

Speaker 7 (45:23):
What have you?

Speaker 12 (45:24):
I think the whole tipping situation stemmed out of COVID.
Everybody was trying to make sure everybody was being well
taken care of, especially in the restaurant industry. So just
the toughness that you're going through. I own a restaurant
and it was a tough period of time because you
didn't know what the heck was going on. How is

(45:46):
it that stem from that?

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Yeah, I get that.

Speaker 12 (45:49):
Noticeably noticeably different are though, when you're dealing with a
full service restaurant. I do believe tipping, even on a
carry out it's appropriate. It doesn't have to be kind
of the standard eighteen to twenty percent where it's kind
of at right now. Just a couple bucks, a little something.
A couple bucks is always nice in my situation. My

(46:11):
bartenders help manage all of that at the same time
taking care of regular customers getting you know, hey, I
need an exercise at tartar sauce, can you go grab
that for me? They have to manage all of that,
so there's a lot of things to go on, way
less than before. But I think some of it at
the drive through at Starbucks nowadays, when they if someone's

(46:36):
being paid at tipped minimum, then tip them. But most
of those places are getting a full hourly wage at
least at a minimum most of them. I don't pay
my hostesses minimum wage. They are making well over minimum
wage just and they're sixteen years old. Yeah no, I

(46:57):
mean pay more than probably the producers your show, you know. Anyhow,
So that's where it's kind of stemmed from really coming
out of COVID is where you started seeing it started
started being beleeding and everybody felt compassionate, and it was
it was the tough. It was time you didn't know
if you could work.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
So Dan, the final question here before I bounce and
move on, so are people more tight fisted now? Is
things that are arguably getting tougher and more expensive with fuel.
I know it's just been about a week two weeks
since we've started to see gas prices go up, but
that's going to affect deliveries for your food supply and
every other input that you have, as well as everybody
else coming to get food. I mean, we're all going

(47:38):
to start feeling even more of this here just in
the election. Even if this war ends tomorrow, it's going
to be months before you know, we start feeling everything
moved through the system.

Speaker 12 (47:49):
Well, I think for the most part of at least
where I'm at, we're a little bit shielded. I raised
my prices just recently based on all of those things.
I think people honestly get it. They're like, they go
to the grocery store, they see the prices more. I
come to Dan's place, and he he's charging a little

(48:10):
bit more because the deliveries and the gas and everything.
I think the gas thing is a little overrated because
we we survived four years ago on higher prices. I
don't don't see that being too much of a qualm
unless it gets really crazy. I mean, I don't know
where the war is going either, but right now three
forty three fifty, you know, we had it down as

(48:32):
low as two nine.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Well, I mean, at this point beat up to three fifty.
People spend three or four bucks for a bottle of
water at a convenience store, so I mean, you know,
and that doesn't get you anywhere. May hydrate you, but
it didn't get you home.

Speaker 12 (48:43):
Just donet get your home. I mean seven dollars for
a craft beer is you.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Know, but you'll feel good after I'm telling you, you get
a good ipa with some good ape. Yeah, alcohol by
I'm like drinking your good stuff.

Speaker 6 (48:56):
Dan.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
I appreciate the call man, Thank you. I hate to
be brief, but let's I got to get through a
couple more here before the break to Fairfield and Brian,
then Kathleen and Jim and others with Sterling on seven
hundred w l W. Who do you tip? Where do
you draw the line? Ran?

Speaker 6 (49:11):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (49:11):
Yeah, sorry sir me, Hey, thanks taking my call man.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
Appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (49:15):
Here, mow the lawnst my mowers.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
I can already, it's already started. I need to I
need I still have leaves in the back. I have
to mulch. Don't go ahead. I'm sorry, you just made me.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
This is this is twice? Is either two to three
and is cut or a three to five. I'm choosing
the two to three when I can. Yeah, pleasure with
the weather.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
I always like to let it go to seed first,
but I realized this is not grass talk anyway, go ahead,
so anyway, yes, sir.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
My question is I go to a local steakhouse. Why
is my my bill? My tip is based upon how
much I spend for the bill. Question is the waitress
or waiter or whatever he's gonna bring. Let's say, bring
a Cowboy RIBI set it on my table versus a salad.
You know, I can go from a hundred dollars and

(50:02):
the difference of service is the same. They're gonna come
by and make sure my drinks are full, make sure
my food is good, all this stuff. They do the
same routine. But I bought a forty dollars steak versus
the fifteen dollars salad. You know, but I you're okay,
I got this steak. But okay, all of a sudden,
that kit just wow accelerated so.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
High, you know. I I don't know the rationalize. I
don't know how you come up with the separation on that.
I hadn't really thought of it that way. I just
look at the bill and go, here's about twenty percent.
And I've had more than one woman in my life
tell me you tip too much or you're flirting when
you tip. I'm like, I know what it's like. So
it's a it's a tough spot, Brian. That's I don't
have an answer to that. I appreciate the call, Kathleen, quickly, here,

(50:42):
get you on here. I wait, let's get back to
your phone sounds like you're in a wind tunnel. I
don't even know, like that place off seventy five where
people do the fake jumping. That's what it sounded like. Jim, Quickly,
what do you have on tipping?

Speaker 14 (50:56):
Well to anybody like a Palmer Electric Fish, anybody like
that comes out of your house and it's making twenty
five dollars an hour, plus you're paying one hundred and
eighty nine dollars for a service call, plus fifty dollars
for the trip coming out, and then on top of
that you got to pay for the hourly all that
stuff for.

Speaker 15 (51:15):
I don't tip those guys at all. As far as restaurants,
and that goes. I go anybody that's making four or five,
six seven dollars an hour, I start out at twenty percent,
and if the service is good, I bump them maybe
twenty two, twenty five percent if it's if it's starting.

Speaker 4 (51:35):
To turn bad.

Speaker 15 (51:36):
In that I started deducting percentages as the evening goes on.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
That makes sense. I like it when you say that,
if it's starting to turn bad, Jim, I appreciate the call.
So it's a sliding scale, and then you see what
you get. And what do they say tips are? What
to ensure prompt service or whatever. I just remember going
to the UK first time overseas years ago now, and
everyone told me who I knew before I went, and
I got to stop here. You won third reports coming up.

(52:02):
We got James and Kathleen and others. More to do
on this and other stuff to get to as well,
talking movie stuff and MLB's Mark Sheldon hugging Reds a
little bit later. But I remember they were like, don't tip,
and I went there and I couldn't help myself that
it gave me, poured me a nice pint. I'm sitting there,
I'm feeling good, got some bangers and mash coming and
I like put up like a five pound piece or
whatever it was. I don't know, some of their funny money.

(52:24):
And the guy looked at me and says, we don't
tip here, sir, or.

Speaker 7 (52:26):
What I mean?

Speaker 1 (52:27):
And I shrank. I felt horrible like he had been insulted.
And here it's a whole nother world straight away. A
lot more to do, your chance to be heard, Sunday
Sterling News coming up. Your one thirdy reports seven hundred
WLW glad here a long beautiful Sunday afternoon in the
Try State. And as nice as it is here, the
weather will change and it will feel more like March.

(52:49):
And what is it in like a lion, out like
a lamb, In like a lamb, out like a lion.
I think it was with my grandmother that used to
tell me when I was a young sterling seven hundred
WLW what you're listening to? Reds Mariners getting on out
in the desert. Much hotter there and going to be
real smoking hot, like triple digit hot into this coming week.
So if you're heading out there for spring break, spend

(53:10):
a little time hang out, checking out some Reds baseball,
bring the shorts into the sunscreen, hydrate and mays some
good sunglasses, whether here in the Tri State, now that
I think about it, for that matter, too, if I
have won three seven, four, nine, eight hundred, the big
we're talking about tipping issues a little bit earlier, we
can certainly wrap that up. Give you a chance to
sound off. I'm kind of curious an unusual situation and

(53:32):
the job that you've done. And here's another wrinkle to this,
where someone's offered to tip you when you weren't expecting
to get a tip and a gig or a circumstance
you wouldn't normally be tipped, and how did you react
to it? And I will share an awkward, uncomfortable circumstance
that came up to me years ago. I was working

(53:53):
at a car store, in fact, selling some cars, and
I was also doing this. This is out in Nevada
in the desert, and I sold some people a couple
of cars. They came in, they told me what they needed,
what they wanted, traded in some stuff, basic things, you know,
that's part of the job. And I helped them find
what they wanted and what they needed, and I made

(54:14):
it a fast and easy and smooth and on the
road and ready to go. And they tried to they well,
here's what happens. So they tell me thank you, and
it was you know, they say, oh, it is the
easiest experience we've ever had. Blah blah blah. It's fantastic,
thank you, thank you, thank you. And you know, I'm
getting the Blue Tooth hooked up and everything, making sure
they're happy and satisfied. And a guy comes up to

(54:36):
me and he goes, I just want to say thank you,
and he shakes my hand and he palms me like
a hundred dollars bill and I'm like, what's this. He is, well,
you know, good service, you deserve it. I said, well,
I was paid for selling you the vehicles. I'm good.
He goes, no, man, don't turn down a tip. This
is Las Vegas. We live on those And I'm like okay,
and I had to grab something else for them, and

(54:58):
I go in there. My boss like, what's going on.
You look trouble and I said, he gave me money,
and he goes, take that money. Take it. Every single
time somebody officers some cash. He goes, we made money.
He's happy. You're happy you made even more money. Shut
up and tell him thank you and see him again
when they're ready for an oil change. I was like what,
he goes, yeah, take that money every time, and I

(55:20):
was taken back. I hadn't really had anyone offer me
a tip or anything like that since I was working
at hair arena as an usher as a teenager. That
was a minute ago. So I'm just curious if somebody's
also offered you a tip or someone an unusual situation
where you were like, this isn't normal, this is not
normally a tipping circumstance. But it was exceptional and we

(55:43):
were happy. And I didn't mention this because like I
was exceptional or anything else. It was because it took
me back and I was like, this is very weird.
I felt dirty and uncomfortable, and they were like, nah,
get over that fast and put that money in your pocket.
Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand and eight
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by the way, if you're streaming on the iHeart Radio app,

(56:05):
even if it's on like a Wednesday and you're streaming, uh,
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me on a Wednesday while I'm on the job. Well, yeah,
we can do that. That's the technology of the iHeart
Radio app. In the Big One to Madisonville with James
on seven hundred w l W. James, what's going on?
Appreciate you holding Oh, thank you, thank you, mister Furly.

Speaker 16 (56:24):
Oh man, I'm a first time caller, a long time listener.
Are always listen to you all the time, and it's
a good this is a good topic. I got about
to tell you. Me and my wife, well excuse my
fiance at the time we went to Las Vegas and
that's the first time she ever.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Been to Vegas.

Speaker 16 (56:44):
I always go to Vegas all the time. And uh,
well you every time you go to Vegas, like, uh anything,
if you like pull up in a cab at at
the hotel, some mighty there to open the door for you,
you had to tip them there.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
They got an open hand with that door, yes, sir.

Speaker 15 (57:00):
Yeah, yeah, I got it.

Speaker 16 (57:02):
Got his hand holding out like I didn't even you know,
I don't know what to do, like you know how
much you supposed to give them?

Speaker 5 (57:08):
Like how much?

Speaker 8 (57:08):
This just open our door?

Speaker 10 (57:10):
And then then the bell hot guy.

Speaker 15 (57:12):
Get your luggage ta get up to your room.

Speaker 16 (57:14):
He's holding his hand out like you know, how much
are I supposed to give this guy? Like dad, like
I already wants to give a guy open the.

Speaker 5 (57:21):
Door for me.

Speaker 10 (57:22):
Then the bell house guy he opened he's holding his
hand out.

Speaker 16 (57:25):
And then and then uh, me and my fiance she's
my wife now, but my fiance we went out to
the club. So we we stand at the door geared
go out to the club and the bell hot guy,
you know, the guy standing at the door, he called
he flagged a cab down, which for the cab. So

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when he opened the door, he got his hand out again.

Speaker 10 (57:48):
Dog like, I gotta tick this guy. Just open my door.

Speaker 8 (57:51):
I can't open my old door.

Speaker 15 (57:52):
What the heck's going out?

Speaker 1 (57:55):
He got the sideway and hail a cab. Yeah, different scenario.

Speaker 8 (58:00):
I didn't come you know, I didn't come to Vegas.

Speaker 10 (58:02):
I didn't come to Vegas for this man.

Speaker 6 (58:04):
I came to Vegas.

Speaker 10 (58:04):
They have a good time, not to.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
Be you wanna lose your wages a different way, not
that way, right exactly. That's it's a different world, especially now.
I mean, you got that leads me to something else, James,
what about this? So in a situation where now there's
all the autonomous taxis and you can take that, you know,
the Tesla thing or whatever they got there, you can't.
You're not gonna tip anybody there that'll drive me to

(58:27):
the autonomous thing. It's like, I don't need to tip everybody.

Speaker 10 (58:30):
Yeah, yeah, it's crazy, it's crazy.

Speaker 16 (58:33):
And then when we founding me my fiance finally got
to the to the club, we get out the cab.

Speaker 10 (58:39):
The cab driver, bro, he wanted a tip to wait. Wait,
you are you freaking kidding me? I said, I'm paying
the fair. I'm paying the cab fair.

Speaker 16 (58:45):
That's all hand holding out, Like everybody in Vegas want
a tip.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
That's right, here's a good tip? Is like just to
keep them my hand closed. I guess I don't even know, James.
I appreciate the call. It it's tough. I appreciate you listening,
and I'm glad that we could be here first and
hopefully you'll call back and contribute to it again. Has
anybody offered you a tip when you were taken back? Like,
that's not I don't work for tips, And how did
you navigate that? I mean, it's it's a different world.

(59:13):
It's a different circumstance. I suppose to Columbus and Mike
than Jeff in room for you five one, three, seven, four,
nine hundred, the big one on Sunday, Sterling, what's going on?

Speaker 7 (59:22):
Mike, Hey, Sterling, how's it going?

Speaker 1 (59:25):
It's good? Appreciate you being here. What's going on with you?

Speaker 6 (59:28):
Good?

Speaker 7 (59:29):
Be a little bit of everything. But I had two
situations real quick. One when I was working in Vegas.
Also I was doing some mom part time security work
and full time medic When I was working at the Startus.
We used to get some high rollers that came in
and I got to know a couple of them. There

(59:51):
was one weekend where one of them was in town
and asked me to check on his room every couple
of you know, about every couple hours or so long.

Speaker 6 (01:00:01):
Man, after that.

Speaker 7 (01:00:03):
Weekend was over, he looked for me and handed me
five hundred dollars tipped, you know, expecting it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
Yeah, see and that, but you went over and above
for him. That that's that's pretty awesome.

Speaker 7 (01:00:15):
Right right exactly about every hour to two hours, I
was checking on his room and and you know, because
he had some valuables he brought in and and you know,
didn't want him stolen.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
Now, was that the first time someone had like come
in and thrown that kind of money at you? And
I mean coming from an industry or a place where
you're not used to having someone tip you, it takes
you back a little bit. But I'm guessing at that
point you were like, yeah, that's why I'm here. Keep
him happy, and if he wants to give you five hundo,
then say thanks.

Speaker 7 (01:00:43):
Right exactly exactly, because I remember what my dad used
to tell me, Never refuse anything someone's giving you something, right,
you know, so you know, the other situation was here,
I'm still a medic, but I do some part time
drivers d And there had been a few instances where

(01:01:04):
parents gave me, you know, or one hundred bucks, you know,
as a tip for really taking care of their kids.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
You know, they're, oh, that's cool.

Speaker 7 (01:01:14):
Yeah, yeah, I'm going. You know, I don't expect that.
You know, I'm doing what I'm doing my thing. You
know I'm doing I'm doing. But yeah, and and one
one one parent was really upset that I started refusing
and I said, all right, we'll take it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
Yeah. So that but it's a very awkward spot. You
know what's amazing is when I delivered the paper as
a kid, you'd have to chase people down just to
pay their bill. I wasn't even a tip. Was like inconceivable.
Now people want to throw money at everybody all the time.
I'm like, wait a minute, that's ridiculous. I was getting
up at five am to deliver papers on a Sunday. Mike,
I appreciate the call. And you're listening to Middletown and

(01:01:50):
Jeff was sterling on seven hundred WLW, what about this tipping?
If people try to throw some money your way to
say thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:01:57):
Hey, sterling the first time, long time. I've always wanted
to call in you. You've got to remember, I think
you're from like up north the Shucking Shack, Oyster Bar.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
Oh absolutely yeah yeah, used to be North Main Street
and Dayton down the street from Harrow Arena.

Speaker 6 (01:02:14):
Yeah absolutely, yeah yeah, and then you had the Barnsider.
Yeah yeah. So uh the way back when my mom
was a waitress at the Stockyards End on Springfield Street,
she was making two sixteen an hour. Wow, well waitresses,
well yeah, waiters and waitresses you know they always gave

(01:02:37):
him get a little bit of money, so you know,
tips were that was great for those for those people.
And then when I was at the Shucking Shack, I
made four dollars less an hour than the cooks the
coast did. Right, So when when it comes to waitering,

(01:02:57):
I think you should give a tip. But for a
company it comes out here, a big company, it comes
out and does a job for you. If the guys
just an awesome job and go over and above, I
could see doing a tip. But other than that, no,
because you're spending you're just you're giving them a ton

(01:03:20):
of money already they're already making good money. It's yeah,
but yeah, I always wanted to call it and see
if you remember the old Chuck and Shack oyster Ball.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
Absolutely, I was a kid, but I certainly remember that place. Yeah,
I think we had a Christmas dinner there at one
point for one of the jobs I had as a kid,
so that it was a long time ago. But yeah,
for sure, Jeff, I appreciate you listening being a part
of the show Man. Thank you. Uh. It is an
odd thing when it comes to the tipping deal. I
want to switch gears just a little bit and ask something.
Somebody sent me a story, uh, and so asked if

(01:03:56):
I was concerned about this, so I will pose it
to you. It puts someone in a weird spot and
it ties in which what I talked about earlier, which
is when I was doing the TV editorial stuff and
I walked away from that gig because they edited me,
and they had edited Nightline on Memorial Day some years
ago because they were going to show memorial salutes and

(01:04:18):
tributes to fallen soldiers or heroes. And right now they're
in action in six just announced it, you know, identified
and affected an area of Ohio and Kentucky and Indiana
in our region, but across the country others in harm's way,
and they yanked that off the air, and then I

(01:04:39):
hated on it, and then they wanted to edit me
and not wanted to because, as they said, it was
unpatriotic to show apparently homageor respect or somehow it was
against the war effort or the administration or unpatriotic. So
and it ties into to hear what Mark sent me,
and it's a story about property rights and the idea
of coverage critical of the Iran war. So I'm going

(01:05:04):
to ask this, and this is awkward and uncomfortable, and
it is a bit of a shift, but I Mark,
that's a solid question. And it puts me in a
weird spot because we're licensed as a radio station the
same way TV stations are in the same way the
TV networks are different than say streaming on the internet
and podcast elsewhere and so on. So and he ties

(01:05:29):
with this, do you think you're in trouble for being
critical of this administration or others? And should people be
in danger of this? Well, Mark, I think my job
to serve the community, and to serve my job first
is ratings and revenue, and that is to keep the
largest audience possible between commercial breaks with sticky content that's compelling,

(01:05:53):
hopefully entertaining, could be informative serving the community. At the
same time, brings audience, serves customers, clients, advertisers which employ
people locally, entrepreneurs everyday people on the job like you
right now doing what you're doing in the community, keeping
money move around. In the same respect, I'm not a
shill for the government. I'm not a shill for any administration,

(01:06:17):
whether it's one in the past, the current one, or
the one that's gotten next whoever that is so am
I concerned about it. No one said anything to me
about any of my content, and I think our president
certainly covers most news cycles fairly effectively, even when we
are at peace, and we are not at peace anymore.

(01:06:39):
But questioning the motives, questioning anything in relation to our
government is the American way. And the idea that somehow
that my responsibility or someone holding a license to serve
the public should somehow just suck up and tut whatever

(01:07:03):
misinformation or disinformation or just tout the party line or
what any administration is saying, I think is a disservice
to the government of the people, by the people, for
the people, you and me. So no, I'm not concerned.
I don't think I should be concerned. And anybody who

(01:07:24):
think it's appropriate thinks it's appropriate to not ask critical
questions now when we were going to be asking critical
questions and regularly talked about Biden and is his aged
self and not necessarily having his faculties arguably and not
handling stuff, you know, the right way, the same way
you go after that guy, the same way you go
after this guy, and whoever go has next, and how

(01:07:47):
they're you know, moving ahead with the war. I think
that's what we're supposed to do, depending on what we're
talking about, right, So you tell me is it inappropriate?
Is it somehow wrong to be critical of this administration
or any other administration? That's what freedom of speech is about,

(01:08:09):
does it not? If I went through A seven four
ninety seven thousand, eight hundred, the big one, I want
to hear what you have to say about this, and
I want to be clear here because this is something
that has come up in engagements in the past. They say, well,
if you say something that is derogatory or against what

(01:08:32):
is happening by any administration, then you're somehow against the troops. Hell, no,
I can support these men and women that put their
lives on the line and question motivation, strategy or otherwise
because I care about them, because I care about them
being in harm's way and losing their life for no reason,

(01:08:54):
and it's not for no reason, and it shouldn't be
for no reason, and they need to be respected and honored.
And if that means calling out this administration or questioning
them in decision making or whatever else, that's not anti American.
That is as American as you can get, unless I've
had one too many blunt head traumas, unless somehow I've

(01:09:16):
missed something. But that's what it's all about. Our president
got there because he whined and cried and bitched and
moaned and called out other administrations and issues about government
and the way things were being handled. That's why he
was elected. So doing the same thing because he's not infallible,

(01:09:40):
and no government is infallible because it's of the people,
by the people, for the people, seems to me that's
exactly what we should be doing, is questioning everything and
supporting these troops. Five win, three seven four nine seven
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(01:10:00):
the Home of the Red seven hundred w WELW, Cincinnati.
Glad you're a long, beautiful Sunday afternoon in the dry,
stay warm, feeling like baseball Reds are in action in
the desert. Later on, conversation with Mark Sheldon at MLB
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(01:10:21):
camp on the road. They'll be home in about two weeks.
Time did for take Kevin Carr is gonna join me
about two thirty five talk oscars and whatever else movie stuff,
And speaking of which, last night I was on with Donnade.
She was doing her Saturday night show, my co host
a lot of the time, and we were talking a
little bit. She had me on and asking about movies

(01:10:42):
that changed my life or your life, our lives overall,
and I was thinking about it when we had some
fun last night, so I figured, why not ask you
the same thing Oscars, whether you're into award shows or not,
and all the stuff that goes with that. Most of
us spent a lot of time streaming going to the movies,
maybe actually in theater. I love that experience generally, and

(01:11:05):
movies are amazing, and they show us things, take us places,
the windows into other people's worlds. It's an opportunity to
escape and to give us better understanding sometimes and other
times it's just fun, crazy stuff. And I started thinking
about movies that affected me, movies that changed my life
or view of things, or a look at different stuff.

(01:11:27):
And we'll give you a chance to sort of sound
off on that too. Is I rattle off mine five
point three seven four ninety seven eight hundred, the big one.
You can pick up the phone, give it the finger,
like my good buddy mister K used to say. You
can also talk back on the iHeartRadio app and leave
a message. You can record it there by clicking on
the microphone and on x at Stirling Radio. So as
I start thinking about like the films of my youth

(01:11:49):
and coming up that I saw that changed me, that
had an effect on me, I think the first that
really jumps out is probably, and I've mentioned this I
think once or twice before, where I saw The Exorcist
way earlier in my life than I should have. I
don't know about its awards category success or otherwise. I
know it was a big movie. They've made multiple sort

(01:12:10):
of sequel type of scenarios that sort of go with
that or what have you. But I can tell you
I should not have seen it, even on TV in
a rerun form or whatever else, probably edited somewhat just
this was after obviously it had been in theaters and everything.
I was just a kid. It scared me to no

(01:12:32):
end because you had God and the devil in possession.
I mean, there was a lot of layers of things
that were disturbing and intimidating, and it shook me. Even
just thinking about it right now, I can vividly go back.
I mean, like just being trying to go to sleep

(01:12:52):
after was tough. Another one, The Godfather, for a whole
bunch of reasons. One incredible film to a look into
a different world, however dramatized. It might have been of
what they so called organized crime or mafia or whatever,
but it was about family and about not going against
the family, depending on how you looked at it. In

(01:13:13):
that for a lot of people, and this was again
I was a kid. Never saw it in a theater.
I think once they brought it back in a theater
setting some years ago someplace where I wasn't I got
a chance to see it that way, but that was later,
like on video and anytime it's on streaming someplace. I
even owned copies of like all of them, even three,

(01:13:33):
because it was part of the box. I've grown to
appreciate that movie a little bit more, but still, you know,
and it was about Fredo going against the family, you know,
and about always being with the family, and so many
other layers to that. There's another one that I saw
as a young man, and this is a weird one,
I know. I mentioned it last night and Donna sort

(01:13:56):
of laughed, but she said she kind of got it.
And it's called The Last America Virgin. And that also
was in rerun form when I was a kid late
at night. I might have been on like HBO or
something at the time. And it's a story about bad
choices and about you know, a girl that you are
fixed on in uh, you know, pining over, and she's

(01:14:18):
not that interested in you. She's interested in somebody else.
And then you know she comes to you later on
when she needs something. And there's just about choices and
things going wrong. So those are three that are really
profound movies I think that I have seen. I remember
like Old Yeller and Bambie I cried, and you know
those Disney movies, and you know a lot of layers
to that too. So I'm wondering to know what movies

(01:14:40):
you have seen that have affected you, that changed you,
that gave you a different understanding of something for good
or bad, and maybe for your kids as well. Five one, three, seven, four,
ninety seven thousand, eight hundred, the Big One. And here's
another one. And I saw this years later. Mira Sorvino,
big star, her father Paul Sorvino, was in Goodfellas, great movie,

(01:15:03):
also tremendous. I don't know if it changed me, but
it's an unbelievable film. But he along with LeVar Burton,
who you might know from reading Rainbow Growing Up, or
was in Roots of Course, Next Generation one of the
Star Trek series or whatever else. He with LeVar Burton
and Paul Sorvino were in this movie called Dummy, which

(01:15:26):
was about a deaf guy who looked to be in
a criminal situation charged with a horrible crime and he
was arguably getting railroaded because he couldn't hear, or he
could hear, but he couldn't speak, so people just railroaded him.
So he finds they find him an attorney, being Paul Servina,
who also ironically had a hearing thing, which is probably

(01:15:48):
why he just chose to do the movie to show
that side of things, and he worked and it's based
on a true story to try to make sure this
guy had a legitimate defense. And then you find out
in the end that regardless of disability and so on,
that we're all just people, good, bad or otherwise, and
just because you are different or they are different, doesn't

(01:16:09):
mean that they're innocent or more likely to cause harm
or something else, which is a lesson for all of us.
But as a little kid seeing that it was a
great window into a different world in a circumstance of it,
and then shocking at the end coming up. So what
movies shook you quickly at Sterling Radio on x Max,
and Oakley says, the Blair Witch Project. Okay, I like

(01:16:33):
the movie. It was hard to watch on the big
screen and the movement of it and so on, but
it certainly changed the way with the found footage kind
of scenario, the way they promoted it. I could see
where that sort of hits you. To Ross now in
Portsmouth and room for you five one, three, seven, four nine,
the big one. What movies have have you seen that
changed you? That affected you somehow?

Speaker 6 (01:16:55):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (01:16:56):
I was calling in about the question about criticizing administrations.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
Okay, well you can do that too.

Speaker 17 (01:17:03):
Okay, Well, I think we ought to be we should,
we should be able to criticize the administrations. That's part
of our freedom of a veteran. And be quite honest
with you, I wasn't happy with the previous administration none whatsoever.
The president administration. I liked some of the things they

(01:17:24):
wanted to do, like shutting down the borders, and I'd
done and everything, but I don't agree with everything this
administration does. And I'll tell people that that know how
I feel about how I voted. And I catch a
lot of flak on how I voted from a lot

(01:17:46):
of the other party. Sure, sure, but I tell them,
they'll say, what do you think now? And I said,
I'm not real happy with some of the things that's
going on. I said, well, I wasn't happy with none
of the things that was going on with the previous administration.

Speaker 1 (01:18:03):
You know, I'm not sure how old you are, but
I can tell you this growing up and paying attention
over time. I don't know that there's been any single
person in office in any administration, one term or two
term presidents that I've been, you know, towing the line
and for everything. They're going to make bad, bad, bonehead
decisions from time to time, and others are going to
make good ones, and sometimes they're unintended consequences. But I

(01:18:26):
agree with you, and I respect you as a member
you know who has served this nation in the uniform,
and I appreciate your perspective on it. I appreciate you
calling too.

Speaker 8 (01:18:35):
I'm seventy five years old.

Speaker 15 (01:18:39):
And I'm not happy with a war.

Speaker 17 (01:18:44):
I understand reasoning behind what is going on right now,
but I'm not happy about how we came about with
the initiation of it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:56):
Yeah, I got cha. I hear that a lot.

Speaker 17 (01:18:59):
I've always felt we had to be attacked to retaliate.
And I know they want to go back to say
this started way back when. Well, you know, if it
started way back when, we should have done something about
it then. But our politicians on both sides kicked the
can down the road because.

Speaker 8 (01:19:18):
None of the backbones to address issues.

Speaker 17 (01:19:21):
Anymore, because all they're worried about is losing boats or
gaining boats.

Speaker 1 (01:19:26):
Well, on the other side of it, two is that
straight to horror moves, and there's a lot of dominoes
in that area that makes things very challenging as far
as the oil supply for the world, and now Russia's
getting rich on it again too because they're they're pumping
more oil and selling it rossa. I really appreciate the
call and the perspective. I appreciate you listening to and
I hope we can do it again soon to Jim
and Dayton, Brett roy John, others on movies or in

(01:19:49):
fact about the feeling comfortable enough to criticize the administration too.
We can certainly keep that going if you'd like, well,
we'll marry multiple topics. We can do it. We can.
Jim at your turn will started on seven hundred WLW.
What do you think what about the movie thing or whatever?

Speaker 18 (01:20:05):
Yes, sir, and yes, I would say by far the
movie that had had has had the most influence on
me is that the Ten Commandments. Great they talked about
age ten or eleven then just greatly encouraged I feel
like I was walking ten feet off the ground when
I walked out of the theater, and it just was

(01:20:28):
with me for two or three weeks afterwards.

Speaker 8 (01:20:31):
So, in my opinion, is the greatest movie ever made.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
You know what that's That's probably a lot better a
way to be effected than seeing The Exorcists as a
kid and being like traumatized. Even now, I take back,
I should have been paying attention to that instead. Jim
good call, I appreciate it. Yeah, I agree, uh to
Harper's point. And Brett was Sterling on the Big One,
Roy John and others coming up Room for you five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
eight hundred, The Big One movies that have changed your

(01:20:54):
life and changed your view of things somehow affecting you.
What do you have, Brett Hey Sterling?

Speaker 4 (01:21:01):
Uh, I go.

Speaker 11 (01:21:02):
I'm a Chicago kind of guy. Family grew up there.
I was about ten years old. I'm fifty eight now.

Speaker 2 (01:21:09):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (01:21:09):
And the movie was Brian's song.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
Oh yeah, great movie about Gail Sayers. Yep.

Speaker 11 (01:21:16):
And I was taught a lot of things about teamwork,
friendship and how to be emotional.

Speaker 1 (01:21:26):
And how were you Did you see it as a
kid or did you see it when you were you ten,
ten years old, okay, Ben, So that and that affects
you even now, probably as you approach life in some fashion.
I mean, because they were really good about hitting that
emotion and that nerve that people have in a real
world setting.

Speaker 11 (01:21:43):
Absolutely well, great movie, great touching.

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
Very good, Brett. I appreciate the call man. Thank you
to Troy. Home of Detroitjans, Roy, what's going on? You
were sterling on the big with Troy and Roy.

Speaker 3 (01:21:55):
Yes, sir, I grew up in the seventies, and I
think one of the movies that changed the whole nation
was Jaws.

Speaker 1 (01:22:04):
Oh tremendous.

Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
Yeah, nobody even wanted to go. Nobody wanted to go
and do a swimming pool at one point.

Speaker 1 (01:22:12):
It's true. I was one of those kids, absolutely. I
mean how many movies can you think of that it
changed your willingness to either go in the water or
go different places, right, I mean the Blair Witch. I
remember my pseudo niece and nephew. They were freaked out
about going into the woods as kids because they saw

(01:22:33):
that movie probably before they should have. So I understand that, right.

Speaker 3 (01:22:38):
And the other one. I think back then I was
a little bit Younger was an easy rider.

Speaker 1 (01:22:44):
Oh, tremendous movie.

Speaker 3 (01:22:46):
Everybody wanted to go out on the road and just
travel and do what you want.

Speaker 7 (01:22:52):
And yeah, I you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
Know, besides some kind of summer vacation type of movie.
I think I think that's the one that you represented.
Are you know generation.

Speaker 1 (01:23:03):
Yeah, I've heard that from a few people, and is
a little bit older. It's hard to sort of see it,
but you know, in some ways, a lot of stuff
has come back around it to be even as relevant
as it was at the time, even though I mean,
you know, I don't want to say revolution comes back around,
but the whole culture thing is very similar.

Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
If you can imagine Dennis Hopper and Peter Funn are being.

Speaker 1 (01:23:26):
Young, they've been old my whole life are dead. So yeah,
I mean it's it's a different time. But absolutely, thank you, Roy.
I appreciate to call me and thank your phone's getting
a little weird. I'm not sure what you said at
the end there, but I appreciate you contributing. That's cool.
It's nice. Aaron in Oakley again reaching out another Oakley person,

(01:23:48):
Uh says Love Jones changed her view of the world,
and that's all. She says. So I don't know. I'm
assuming Aaron's a Girl may not be great movie. Going
back to the Late Night These close to two thousand,
if I'm not mistaken, you got Nea Long Who's unbelievable
Lawrence Tate, and it's about love and the relationships and

(01:24:08):
people of a certain age and the great city of Chicago.
Uh yeah, I like that movie and an incredible soundtrack
as well. To Mason and John was sterling on the
Big One. Hey man, what do you know movies that
have changed your life?

Speaker 8 (01:24:21):
So dumb scenario. I was live in North Carolina and
my roommate at the time loved The Virgin Suicides. Oh
but the Kirtain. I could never say your name right.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
Kirsten Kirstinn, Kristen Kirsten something like that.

Speaker 8 (01:24:42):
Yeah, I know, I could never hear your name right.

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
It's a great movie. Now, what was it about that
movie that resonated with you? I mean it was hard
to watch.

Speaker 8 (01:24:51):
I mean it was a weird movie, but it was
just the fact that like, all these guys wanted to
love on all these girls and then like they all
just chilled themselves. So it's just the weirdest thing in
the world.

Speaker 1 (01:25:05):
Yeah, very heartbreaking. No, it's different and a lot of
people deal with you know, those type of things on
a regular basis, unfortunately. And Sophia Coppola and I appreciate
the call, John, thank you. She she directed that, and
she also she was in Godfather Part three, Well Daddy
and all. But she also has directed some incredible movies too,

(01:25:29):
one of which was lost in translation, which is a
Bill Murray and uh, what's a Johansson girl or forget
her Johansson. I can't think of the first name, but
just unbelievable, and what a weird ride in Japan hanging
out just seemed like it was how Bill Murray might
really be in life. However, legit in the isolation that
goes with it. Uh in another country, Uh, not knowing

(01:25:51):
the language so well, and so forth, let's quickly we
get these last two on Marlboro Bill and then Dave,
and then we'll bounce to news. So it was the
late from Sandy Collins. I believe straight away. What's up, Bill?
What do you have?

Speaker 6 (01:26:04):
Hey?

Speaker 19 (01:26:04):
Thank you for taking my call. I'm a history person
and I tell you.

Speaker 13 (01:26:10):
If this is the most beautiful thing, it's manifest destiny.
It was meant for this to happen to freedom of
human being. And I tell you the most best movie.

Speaker 12 (01:26:26):
I think now get to me.

Speaker 19 (01:26:29):
It was Braveheart.

Speaker 4 (01:26:32):
Close please, sir, I'm sorry it put us so close.

Speaker 19 (01:26:38):
And I study history every day, seven days a week.
I'm retired on my history buff And at that time
they were so much British India. Everybody was at each
other's throat, the French everybody was at each other throat
and they don't know who they were choken. But the
thing is, it's manifest destiny, brother, that we come to

(01:27:00):
the top. And I say that all through this, I
had to say mel Gifts in the closest.

Speaker 4 (01:27:07):
Movie that what can you believe if it was us
going through this?

Speaker 6 (01:27:12):
That grive Court movie.

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
I mean, my god, different times, but I mean, here's
the thing, though, hand to hand combat and the you know,
elements of the world brutal and the fighting for your
freedom and uh liberty. Yeah, that's how this country was built,
and that's how people all over the world have even
had to fight and even to come here for a
new opportunity. If you can do it in less than

(01:27:35):
a minute, Davi at your turn was Stirling on the
Big one. What do you have movie to change your life?

Speaker 6 (01:27:38):
Hey, uh, just stayed for me.

Speaker 8 (01:27:40):
It was a Shawshank Redemption.

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
Great movie and made in Ohio at least in part.

Speaker 8 (01:27:44):
Right, Yeah, that was a great movie.

Speaker 7 (01:27:47):
Just so as you said, good overcomes evil and yeah,
I just thought it was great movies.

Speaker 1 (01:27:51):
Well in so many layers. I mean, being institutionalized, locked
up for so long you can't live on the outside.
I mean there's so much too that great call. And
speaking of which, Kevin Carr was actually in that movie
Shawshank Redemption, and we'll talk to him. He's Silver Gecko
on the Substack and my partner in the old Chubby
and Step podcast. Kevin Carr talking Oscars after the News
more Sterling Coming Back Nation Station seven hundred WLW, Sunday Afternoon,

(01:28:17):
Sterling seven hundred WLW, Beautiful Day, Kevin Carr, Silver Gecko
on the Substack. This is like your Super Bowl Sunday
effectively as a movie guy, right with the Oscars going
on in Los Angeles tonight.

Speaker 6 (01:28:32):
Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (01:28:32):
Mean it's a big deal. You know, it's the end
of a wards season. I think word season intends to
stretch out a little bit too long now because every
time you turn around there's a headline of them winning
Producers Guild or Writers Guild or something, and you're like,
when are they have any oscars? Oh, they're not having
it until almost Easter, so it seems to stretch a while.

(01:28:53):
But yeah, I know it's a big deal in the
movie world.

Speaker 1 (01:28:55):
Yeah, it's huge. Is it bigger now than it used
to be? Because I mean everything is sort of in
this weird point of flux, and I know, societal differences.
It's always been a thing going back to even when
like Marlon Brando didn't show up and sent somebody in
his place to pick up an award that he ended
up winning or something along those lines. So I mean
sometimes there's societal stuff that plays into what movies bring,

(01:29:18):
you know, life to us, all from different viewpoints.

Speaker 5 (01:29:21):
Sure, I mean it has I wouldn't say popularity has waned,
it's just other options of stuff to watch has waned.
I mean, I remember back when I was a kid,
if you didn't have cable, even if you did have cable,
you did not have five hundred stations. You know, you
had like ABCNBCCBSPBS, maybe a couple independents, And if you

(01:29:44):
had cable, you maybe had ten other options. Nowadays, there's
so many other things in competition for your eyeballs that
it's hard to televise a three and a half hour
award show and retain all the viewership on it. Because
like when I was a kid, it was that or
a rerun of The Waltons or something like, you know,

(01:30:06):
there was there.

Speaker 1 (01:30:07):
Was a lot, a lot of composition. Yeah, nothing wrong
with the Waltons. Man, they were on the mountain. The
family stayed together through thick and thin. I mean, we
could use a little of that right now.

Speaker 5 (01:30:18):
I was told once as a kid that I looked
like John Boy and I really didn't watch the Waltons,
and later on I looked and I'm like, was that
a compliment?

Speaker 1 (01:30:26):
Well, I mean, you know, I can't say he did
have that thing on his face, but I mean, yeah, yeah,
I mean, you know, I don't know, it's kind of
a weird place. I'm not going to judge. It's just
one of those things. I don't think you look anything
like the guy, to be honest. So I mean, I
don't know. When I was a kid, I heard Ralph
Maccio and uh, what's what's the guy? Ferris Bueller Uh,

(01:30:48):
Matthew Broderick, I heard that a lot. Yeah, and then
I got older and uh, you know, my my hair
is gone and I am not that guy.

Speaker 5 (01:30:57):
They look like you look like who's the guy? The
little the little? Uh it was made out of electricity?

Speaker 1 (01:31:06):
More like mister clean without the big bill. Yeah, that'd
be good. That'd be good right now, it'd be huge.
I can make a lot of dough, is mister killwater,
that's for sure?

Speaker 6 (01:31:14):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:31:14):
So, uh, there are a ton of awards that are
gonna giving away. They do some off the air, some
on and so forth, like the notables, the big ones.
Let's let's let's take a look at like what you
think is important in what matters? I mean, there are
some I guess that are the best picture, actor, actors,
whatever else, right those things? Uh yeah, well let's start.

Speaker 5 (01:31:34):
Let's start with best Picture. I mean, if you would
have asked me this like three months ago, I would
have said it was a shoe in for one battle
after another, because that one seemed to have the most
momentum that came out later in the year. Usually it's
hard for a movie to keep momentum if it comes
out before September. Uh, and and so one battle after
the after another, it's it's revered by critics and it's

(01:31:56):
it's it's a pretty good movie to see. I mean,
that wasn't my favorite, but pt Anderson has been buying
for an oscar for a while for I don't think
he won. I don't know if he won one for
best Pitch, I can't remember, but you know, it seems
to be his year. But recently, if you look at
some of the wins that we've had, and even when

(01:32:18):
the nominations came out, Sinners is really got a chance.
And it has the most nominations ever, like like sixteen Wow,
and it's been picking up either news or wins here
and there for these these other ones. And sometimes you
do see that shift and momentum and how that is so.

(01:32:42):
I mean, like I said, I would say one battle
activity another is a safe one. But I would not
be surprised if Sinners picks it up.

Speaker 1 (01:32:50):
Well in one bat Another great movie. And it's gotten
some hate, I guess for like portrayals of people, but
it is an entertainment medium for that matter. But people
seem to all ten times forget that it's show business.
It's a show, but I mean even that got what
thirteen nominations. From what I see in Sinners though, is strong.
How unusual would it be for a movie like Sinners

(01:33:12):
to actually get Best Picture.

Speaker 5 (01:33:15):
Well, there's a lot of weird things about Sinners that
would make it notable. One of the things is it
came out a lot earlier in the year, as I mentioned,
And we've had those happen, but usually you know, like
when Titanic won, it came out in December and it
was still in theaters, you know, while while it won
the Oscar but that's a big deal. It's it's notable

(01:33:35):
for racial things because you know, if Ryan Coogler wins
Best Director, you know, that's historic. But it's also got
the They have a new category of casting, so it
could win the casting. It's also odd in the sense
that horror movies and and although it's a drama, it's
about vampires and there's a lot of vampire blood in here.

(01:33:56):
You don't get horror movies winning Best Pick sure all
that often, like maybe Silence of the Lambs you could
consider a horror movie, you know, maybe The Shape of
Water you consider horror adjacent, but you normally don't get
that so that those are a bunch of sort of
groundbreaking things that would happen if it were to win.

Speaker 1 (01:34:16):
Now, and Frankenstein's one of those Best Picture nominations too,
but nobody's really talking about that that much in that way.

Speaker 5 (01:34:23):
Yeah, it doesn't have the momentum. Yeah, it's like centers And.

Speaker 1 (01:34:26):
How political is you know what I mean? Like because
it's so subjective. We've talked about this. What what Ward shows,
especially the Academy A Wars does for me, and the
same thing even for like the Grammys or whatever for
music stuff is it allows me to see stuff I
may have missed that it fell through the cracks. That
is somehow something special. But otherwise it's very difficult to

(01:34:50):
just say this one's better than that one because they're
so diverse.

Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
Well yeah, and I mean this is this is the
Academy picking the nominees and they're the ones voting on it.
You like you, I don't have to say in this.
But now when you say political, are you talking about
like no, no, no, national politics are like within the
you know, inside baseball, pos.

Speaker 1 (01:35:09):
Well, I was thinking inside baseball, but you know, there
probably is a little bit of the world of politics
as well. That may sometimes go into stuff as well.

Speaker 5 (01:35:18):
Yeah, well there is, but you know there always has been.
I mean, and you you get people complaining every year
that these are not the highest grossing movies, that these
are you know now now and are woke movies. And
then okay, this was going on ever since I had
had was paying attention to oscars. There were always issue

(01:35:41):
driven movies and stuff that had politics, you know, in
terms of national politics around it. So I mean, that's nothing,
that's nothing new, but I think there's more insider there's
you do get inside politics, but it's kind of hard
to track that because well, I'll give you a great example,
you know, like again, going into this three weeks ago,

(01:36:02):
I would have said, Timothy Schallamey is a shoeing for
Best Actor for Marty Supreme for the movie Yeah, for
which a lot of people that there's there's a lot
of love for that movie. Then he had to go
say something stupid about ballet and opera and there's this
huge back for it. And I think there was this
pent up backlash because he was sort of the golden boy,

(01:36:24):
and then the haters have their opportunity to come out.
But I don't know how much that's gonna impact because
that story didn't really go viral until about March fifth,
which is when voting closed. If he had said something
stupid a week before that and it had legs like
it did now, I think it would have tanked his chances.

Speaker 1 (01:36:45):
Yeah, I mean, it's very weird to me because it
should be about the work and not about anything else.
Because when I look at the movie, I'm going to
watch the movie and what's going on, not all the
other ancillary stuff. But nothing's in a vacuum, is what
it really boils down to.

Speaker 5 (01:36:59):
Well, yeah, I mean if you look at what happened
with Will Smith, he went up and punched somebody on
the stage and then won Best Actor. So it's an
awkward position already. I mean, uh, you know. And then
then Timothy Shallomy just sort of was an idiot and
said that nobody cared about ballet and opera, and then
he found out how much people do.

Speaker 1 (01:37:16):
Yeah, the hard way, that's for sure. So what about
So the best actor you've got Chalame. You just mentioned
DiCaprio for one battle after another, Ethan Hawk, who does
a great bit of work in Blue mill Stream Sinners.
What you've talked about is really a tremendous movie. And
The Secret Agent I completely missed. I have any idea
what the y that's about.

Speaker 5 (01:37:34):
Well, that's that's a that's a foreign film, so it's
in a different language.

Speaker 1 (01:37:37):
And it might be what I barely know. Don't make
fun of me. Don't make fun of me because of
my lack of understanding of English, let alone another it's
hard to watch. I got to slow it down. You
got to keep rewinding and read and look at the pictures.
It's a lot for me to deal with.

Speaker 5 (01:37:54):
Well, yeah, I mean, I know there's a lot of
people who kind of get snobby about that about oh
you can't read, well, you can read some titles. Why
what it's like, Well, it does take a certain amount
of effort, and I understand that.

Speaker 1 (01:38:06):
I mean, obviously I'm just the laziness thing.

Speaker 5 (01:38:11):
It's like, if you want to see the action on
the screen, you want to see the acting, but then
you got to keep looking down at the subtitles. So,
I mean, I understand that complaint, and that just makes
it less marketable. It's very rare that we get a
movie that's that's almost fully subtitled or or majority subtitle
that clicks with American audiences is a wide one. You know,

(01:38:33):
stuff like Hit, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Those were anomalies
and that's just because and there's nothing wrong with that.
I mean, if if you don't want to have to
focus on two different things, that's fine. And then wait
till it comes to streaming where you can rewind and
pause and check and to do stuff again.

Speaker 1 (01:38:51):
Yeah, all right, So talking to Kevic Hard by the way,
Silber Gecko and Substag. You can read him, you can
see his comics, what will show up in your mailbox,
and a whole lot of other stuff. Well, talking to
Sterling on seven hundred wl W, all right, so do
you wanna do you have a pick? Do you wanna
how do you want to do this? Do you want
to have like your favorites where the smart money is aside?
Like you may have a favorite, but like you you

(01:39:12):
really if you were gonna wager in the prediction markets,
you'd say, maybe you want to bet on something else.
Whatever you want to do, let's do this.

Speaker 5 (01:39:19):
Well, I would say I would say the odds favorite
is probably the Timothy shallow May, mainly because it was
too early to cast. They closed for that to cause
a problem for But I'd love to see Michael B.
Jordan get it because I think either is a great
nuanced performance of two different characters in the centers.

Speaker 1 (01:39:37):
Pretty wild playing twins, Yeah, that's for sure. And you
got actress and Hamnet Jesse Buckley, I know.

Speaker 6 (01:39:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:39:42):
And by the way, uh, it's pretty wild. Jack Crumley
here came in. He saw if I had legs, i'd
kick you forever ago and he's like, Rose Bern you
gotta watch it. She's it's tremendous. I finally got a
chance to watch it. She's I love her and everything,
and I would have I would have her children actually
if she'd let Uh. But what a great movie.

Speaker 5 (01:40:02):
There's a lot to unpack with that statement.

Speaker 1 (01:40:04):
It's totally true, totally true.

Speaker 9 (01:40:08):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:40:08):
I think if there's any odds on favorite showing for anything,
it would be Jesse Barkley for Hampdon. She just some
The momentum is just there. Every year, there's always that
one category that, no matter what happens anywhere else in
the wards are like, yeah, that person's winning and and
and she's the one I think is gonna win this.

Speaker 1 (01:40:25):
Gotcha and a supporting actor which I'm always confused because
actress is female. But I have friends who are in
that business and they're actors and there they call themselves actors,
but they're female. So I don't know. I just try
not to offend, you know me. Yeah, so as we
look at the actress scenario, uh, you're laughing Kate Hudson

(01:40:47):
in that song song Blue and Emma Stone. Emma Stone
has made some great movies begone, very weird movies and
great work I love.

Speaker 5 (01:40:57):
But by the way, I do love Bogonias. Yes, that's crazy,
a fantastic movie. But if you want to talk to
the supporting roles, like the supporting actress, honestly, I think
it's it's it's up in the air beyond between Tiana
Taylor and Amy Maddigan. I'd love Amy Madigan to win,
just because I thought Weapons was such a fantastic movie
and her performance was chilling, to say the least. But

(01:41:21):
I think again, the momentum is on Tianna Taylor for
one battle after another. Hers was such a big performance.
Well so was Amy Madigan and then and everyone else
as well. But but yeah, that's where I think that
win's blowing.

Speaker 1 (01:41:34):
Talking to Kevin Carr, Silver Gecko on the Substack and
to Oscars tonight. If you're into it, love movies. I
don't know. The award shows can be long, but sometimes
it's fun. The Golden Globes are fun because everybody gets
like tanked and says stupid stuff and to lick it up.
I enjoy it because it's that kind of fun part.
This may be different. Sean Penn Best Supporting Actor Tremendous
is sick, weird character in one battle after another. And

(01:41:56):
then you got to what Frankenstein was. Aah, that's pretty
good and del Toro is incredible in one battle after another.
How is that fair? Two guys in the same movie
for Best Supporting Actor fighting it out.

Speaker 5 (01:42:09):
I know that's what that happens sometimes, and that's a
dangerous splitting a vote. If you're a fan of the movie.
That's that's the one thing that's going against Sean Penn.
I think again. Momentums on Sean Penn's side. Now he's
won a couple Oscars in his past, but then people
forget about him and then he comes out and does
a great performance and they're like, oh yeah, this guy
can act instead of just being obnoxious I'd love to

(01:42:31):
see Delroy Lindo win though, I mean he is. He
has been such a strong actor for years with very
little recognition, and I think it's great that he's that
he's getting some spotlight here. But I think there is
a chance of splitting the vote between del Toro and Pen.
But I really think Sean Penn's probably gonna eke that

(01:42:51):
one out.

Speaker 1 (01:42:52):
What a great story for Delroy Lindo too. I mean,
like you said, my entire life, I've watched him work,
so he's worked regularly. But to be able to find
only get a role where he gets some attention aside
from just paid and continuing to you know, work and
make a living is a pretty awesome thing for him.
He's like what seventy five eighty years old or something.

Speaker 5 (01:43:10):
He's up there. Yeah, I don't know his exact date,
but yeah, he's up there, and he still looks good.
You know, he holds it together better than you and
I look.

Speaker 1 (01:43:19):
Sometimes I'm all about self deprecation, but you immediately kicked
me in the junk two at that point. That's very hurtful.

Speaker 5 (01:43:24):
But you're right, Well, you know, I'm being inclusive.

Speaker 8 (01:43:27):
That's all that is.

Speaker 1 (01:43:28):
Oh, we are all about being inclusive, so you can
hate on me too. Sure, I'm fine. Let's we're all
about together. We're all snowflakes, don't you know in the end,
we're all individuals. Yeah, it's Sterling talking to Kevin Carr
Silver Gecko on the sub stack. What have we left out?
We talked supporting actors, supporting actor, an actor, and best Actor,

(01:43:48):
best actress. What else is there?

Speaker 5 (01:43:51):
The one thing I do think it's kind of interesting
this year is the animated feature and that that oftentimes
gets kind of fell by the wayside, and it used
to be picked are and dream Works just ruled that category. Uh,
and and you're you're you're not going to have a
I don't think you're going to have some There's it's

(01:44:12):
not much too for it to be a surprise. But
I do think that k Pop Demon Hunters is going
to win that one, which is going to be a
win for Netflix, and which Netflix has been trying to
win a major OSCAR for a while, and this this,
this is one way, uh that that comes a little closer.
But I do think that k Pop Demon hunter is

(01:44:32):
gonna win over something like l e O, which wasn't
the most beloved and well known film in the Pixar lexico.

Speaker 1 (01:44:40):
H Yeah, I have a weird question for you because
you mentioned the fact that this would be the first
sort of thing for an animated feature to get that
kind of love or whatever for like the thing for
a streaming service or whatever. What I'm what I'm curious
about is are we going to see with so much
content and stuff being created that is exclusively for streaming

(01:45:01):
or nearly exclusively. Well, well, it probably starts seeing more
and more of that stuff coming from that world rather
than in theater stuff. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:45:09):
Well, yeah, we're already starting to see stuff like that.
I mean, you got Frankenstein nominated, and this isn't the
first time Netflix has had a predominantly streaming film nominated
for Best Picture, and you might start seeing more of that. Especially.
You have no idea how these major mergers between Paramount

(01:45:31):
and sky Dance and now Paramount and Warner Brothers, and
we've been dealing with Fox and Disney for so long
that may change. As a marketplace. I think we're still
gonna have the theatrical release. You're gonna have the big movies.
I mean, you're gonna put this, you know, Avatar ands
Utopia too, which have been making hundreds and hundreds of
millions of dollars. Those are gonna be in the theaters.
But I think we already have some really great content

(01:45:53):
being generated for streaming. It's just the rules that you
got to get it into the theaters and the reason
I mean cap pup Team bean Hunters had had a
qualifying run as of Frankenstein and anything else, but the
most aggressive company is Netflix for that.

Speaker 1 (01:46:10):
There you go. Well, thanks for bringing your perspective, you're
insight and a little bit of you know, inside baseball
to the world of the Oscars tonight with Conan O'Brien
hosting a silver geck on substack where you can find
out more and he'll show up in your mailbox however
pretty he is. It's Kevin Carr. Thank you for making
time and enjoy your oscar night. All right, you have
a good weekend you too. We'll catch up again soon.

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