Sterling 12/26/25

Sterling talks Bengals with Mike Petraglia. He talks post Christmas deals with Dev Shapiro of @GottaDeal. And what movie scared you so much you can't watch it again?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here, we've made it to the weekend and a week
that seemed like almost a weekend of its own. Hopefully
this is a good Christmas for.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
You and yours.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Stirling hanging out, Rush Jackson back producing, keeping us online
and on time. Hopefully you're in line and on time.
Something like that, Matt Reese would news a lot of
ground to cover tonight. Later we'll talk to tracks Mike
Petrolia about nine thirty five about the Bengals, the Cards,
and what this weekend and next mean for the Two
Day team as they wind down this season. What else

(00:30):
is going on? Well, Elwood Jones in the news, you
just heard guy who spent what a part of what
twenty seven years on death row had that case and
those charges recently cleared, and it's a controversial circumstance, and
then making the news in a way that a whole
lot of people this holiday season probably wish they hadn't also,
which is maybe invibing too much celebrating, which Elwood Jones

(00:54):
might have been, who knows. The allegation, of course, is
that he drove into a poll and in d and
we'll have to do acord on that. So that's a
sort of I guess a big news too, A lot
of ground to cover though, I want to have some
fun as well. We'll also have got a deals dev
Shapiro gonna join us after ten o'clock and talk on
returns and best deals after the holidays, and maybe some

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other stuff as well that he's got going on too,
So so hang out for that. I had an experience
and I don't know if you've dealt with this, And
we'll open up the phone see if we can have
a little fun here, because I mean, it's Friday night,
it's a Christmas holiday week, and just I mean, how
serious can we be unless there's like a major topic?
A all right, so five point three seven four nine seven,

(01:39):
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So the holidays with friends, with families, sometimes extended family,
and I spent some time with mom in the midst

(02:02):
of the holiday. She throws down beef roast. Then it's
gonna do some beef stew and so forth. And I
hadn't really thought much about this. I'm grown man now.
As a lot of us, you get out in life,
you live a little, you find somebody to spend your
life with, or maybe you're just rolling solo and you
go back home, or you're at someone else's house for

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that matter, doesn't even have to be mom or dad.
And you notice that certain things are done differently. I'll
give you an example, and then maybe you can share
yours as well. So I am getting ready to make
my plate, but I really was going to have a
bowl with the beef roast, potatoes, vegetables, the whole shmear

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and some people around. And Mom just sort of gave
me the side eye and goes, it goes on a plate.
And I didn't quite get it at first. It was
like a flashback and I was an eight year old
third grade sterling again. I'm like what, And I was like,
it works well in a bowl, it fits perfectly. You
got the gravy, the juices, big thing of dry bread

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or whatever else, maybe some cottage cheese. I'm living well.
She goes, I think it goes on a plate. She goes.
You can do whatever you want to do. And I
was like, what, this is some weird like ninja behavior
in my brain. You can do whatever you want, Mom says,
but she was totally judging me for somehow going off
of her like thought of what was appropriate and right,
which was a beef stew on a plate and not

(03:28):
a bowl. Well she got me thinking. And I talked
to a good number of people over the last day
or two about this, and they've had that experience with
their kids coming home. They've had similar experiences, maybe not
with the roast, maybe not with the plate to a bowl,
but similar types of its activities and things that they've
encountered at friends' houses, well maybe while traveling or otherwise.

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And you know when in Rome, as they say, I
went ahead with a bowl and I said, I'm going
to talk about this at work, and Mom says, of
course you will, and just sort of shook her head.
So what I'm wondering is do you do things differently?
Maybe you know, when you end up cohabitating, you know,
finding that person to spend your life with, you jump

(04:10):
the broom, you say, I do you stomp the glass
And for a lot of us guys, we are the
path of least resistance. If the significant other, the wife,
the girlfriend, whatever you got in your life, has another
way of doing it and they're happy about it, we
tend to adapt and overcome because if they are happy,
we are happy, even though we may have a different

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system or a different process in the way we navigate
whatever it is. So I'm just curious. Sometimes it's the
temperature and the thermostat. Sometimes it's do you close the
doors to the rooms that have no one in them
or the extra rooms? Whatever it is. It could be
just the manner in which you know what you put
in the dishwasher, how well you rinse you top drawer

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the stuff of the dishwasher compared to putting it in
the drainer or strainer, whatever you call it. That way.
I've experienced all this over the last forty eight hours,
give or take. That sort of a weird thing. So
I'm just wondering, what is it that you do, or
that your kids have done, or the habits that you
have changed and adapted. Sometimes it's just experience and we've

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learned that this works better. But I will tell you
up front and as candidly as possible. I'm lazy. So
if I can put it in a bowl, or put
it all on one plate or in one particular thing.
That means less dishes, less headache, less mess, less problem.
I'm not so necessarily worried about protocol and anything else

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unless I'm out someplace where I'm forced to live that life.
So I mean, that's sort of how that goes. And
earlier today, I'm curious about the plate and the bowl thing.
She goes, Well, if it's a soup or a stew,
you could probably put it in the bowl. It'd be fine.
But as a roast, it's definitely a plate thing. I said,
where did you get that rule? She goes, that's just

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the way it is. And I said, did your mom
do it that way? Where did you get at that?
Where she goes, it's just the way it is. I said,
I know you do it that way, but I found
that a bowl is good. And it wasn't like a
big argument, but I knew that she was judging me.
I knew when I got the side eye that it
was somehow that she was like, I raised you better

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in a lot of ways she has, but I had
learned a new way, a different way, and that is
often what our you know, the women in our lives
or the men in our lives, or our parents, or
you know, whatever else it is. And occasionally maybe and
I don't have little Sterling or Sterling ats, but occasionally
it is possible that, you know, maybe the kids pick

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up new ways of doing things. It's sort of like
the AI before, like without it being AI. Now I
could search for a better way. I don't know what
the artificial intelligence is going to tell me if I
do a search in a chat thing or otherwise, but
I think there's a lot of stuff probably out there
like this if I went three seven four nine, seven,
eight hundred the big one. Is there something like that

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that you've encountered over the holidays or just in general?
You know, it's one of those things Also that I've
talked to people who have been in the hospitality business,
friends that are in the restaurant business, and the way
they do things maybe differently than how they came up
at home in the kitchen, and they may introduce some
of that into their home after they're grown and on
their own, and then on it goes. And I think

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a lot of people have things like that that we
sort of navigate and try to make sense of It's
just a very weird thing. And I felt all of
a sudden like I was a little kid again in
that circumstance, and that I had somehow disappointed Mom, and
she could beat me. She could put me on restriction,
as she called it, or ground me. She could the

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corporal punishment I would be fine with when I was
a kid getting in trouble or whatever. In fact, I
would prefer that to what she would often do, because
she would tell me to think about the choices that
I've made in the mistake that I made, and why
I thought it was a good idea, Why did I
think that was a better way to go about things?
And then go get a switch. At the same time,

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I'm like, can we circumvent my explanation? Can we skip
that part? I don't need the lecture. I don't necessarily
and it was a learning thing. But as a kid,
I was just like, this is like a corporal punishment situation.
Then give me the switch, or give me the belt,
or give me whatever it is that I have to get.
I don't care about the other stuff. But really she

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was teaching me and giving me a life learn lesson.
But I do not know how the bowl to the
plate is a major thing. But she definitely looked like
somehow I had crossed the line to living a life
that was somehow not as she thought was the most
appropriate or otherwise. In addition to that, I'm kind of
curious because there are also other ways that we go

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about the gift giving and so forth, and to maybe
people right now, if you're not already headed home. Certainly
there was a decent bit of traffic out there, but
not like leading up to the front part of Christmas
and so on. But I think a lot of people
probably heading home this weekend, and if you're not already there,
that sort of goes along with it. And whether it's
opening the gifts on Christmas Eve or late at night

(09:09):
on Christmas Eve, whether you're going to midnight Mass or
that type of thing, or you get up early on
Christmas Day to do the gifts, what you may do
with your kids, or what you may do on your
own compared to mom and Dad's house, and those type
of things certainly gets weird too. A friend of mine
tells me it was the first time that his daughter
had brought home her boyfriend, who apparently have been cohabitating

(09:33):
or living in sin. But when they came into their house,
they didn't ask. They just went ahead on their own
that not my friends are the parents, but the younger
kids still adults though, And what they did, which I
thought was just tremendous, and they told me about it.
They went ahead and got separate rooms on their own.
My buddy goes. I wouldn't care. I know they're living together.

(09:54):
I'm fine with it either way. But it was tremendous.
I guess it was the amount of maybe it was
a respect, maybe it was fear and intimidation to not ask,
or something along those lines. I don't know how the
rest of the weekend is going to go. I think
they leave tomorrow or maybe Sunday. But I thought it
was just hilarious because they were just sort of like,
you'll love this, and I'm like yeah, And then they

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told me and I was like, I can remember that.
And it's a very awkward, sort of different thing. If
once you're out on your own, whether you're away at
college or whether just you know you've grown up and
you get your own place and you start having relationships
and life that you'll lead, and how it is different
once you go home. A lot of us still, no
matter what, flash back to be those same kids, those

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same adolescents, or we're in my head still that eighth
grade or a third grade, eight year old sterling sort
of navigating life as we know it. So what type
of experience this holiday is popped up in that way
for you and yours? Five point three seven, four ninety seven,
eight hundred, the big One, your chance to get INTERACTI
Mike the Tragg You're going to join me after your
nine thirty report. We'll talk to Trags about the Bengals

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and about the injury list. Osai I think is out
for this Sunday. What this card game means with Arizona
coming into a pay corps on Sunday and then the
final week to wrap it all up in what has
been a disappointing season. I think probably an understatement, but
obviously it looks like Joe Burrow is healthy and some
guys get a chance to show off and hopefully do

(11:21):
what they need to do to win their way out.
They got card Sunday Browns on Sunday or a week
from Sunday, and we'll see how it goes. If this
team can get a little closer to what the I
mean they looked like everything advertised and what we expected
the Bengals team to be the whole season when they
were in Miami taking on the Dolphins last week. That's

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all I can say about that quick break, come back,
good bit of ground to cover, and your chance to
speak your mind on a Friday, Sterling. I hope you
and yours are enjoying a long holiday weekend. Here seven
four nine, seven eight hundred the Big One, seven hundred
w LW nine. First morning forecast on the Big One,
fine Friday night down to forty five's or this evening
light rain tomorrow mid fifties close to seventy on Sunday,

(12:05):
which is ridiculous and I love it. With some scattered storms.
Should be interesting. We'll see how the afternoon goes. Bengals
and cards at the acres and to hear on the
Big One. And then Monday whiplash weather, reminding us that
it is the end of December and New Year's is
in front of us, goes from sixty seven Sunday to
thirty three on Monday. And yeah, my grandmother would say

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pneumonia weather or something along those lines. It is fifty
eight now, your severe weather station seven hundred WLW glad
you're alone. Of all the gift giving stuff. I'm just
wondering to keep it sort of in the light hearted
mode at this point in time. I'm just kind of
curious if you got something or gave something that went
over extremely well or perhaps not so well. That sort

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of goes into it, and maybe crap gifts, which may
be challenging, and I know a lot of people don't
want to talk about it if it's a bad gift scenario.
Some people are tone deaf when it comes to giving gifts.
It's certainly one of those things. If somebody is kind
enough to think of you and give you anything, for
the most part, you don't want to hate on them
too much for it. But sometimes you're just bewildered, or
at least I have been, and maybe what they think

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you it is that you would like or something along
those lines. That sort of goes along with it. And
I've talked about this before. I joked about her on
the show years ago, and then as a result of it,
and this is where it becomes a tricky is I
stopped getting it after I had accumulated a bunch and
I think part of it was because I talked about
it here. I don't know for sure, but my name

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is Sterling and my aunt Eileen would regularly holiday's birthday whatever,
she would give me a bottle of British Sterling Clone,
which you know, it's cool and everything, and as a
younger man, as a kid, I'd be like, oh, great,
another bottle of those. But it was still a nice thought,
and I talked about it here because I was like,

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I know what's coming. It's kind of funny, and it
goes along with it. But then she stopped giving it
and moved on to other stuff from maybe just a car,
partially because probably I'm grown. And then I was like, man,
I hope I didn't hurt her feelings. It was a
nice thought. It was just kind of funny because I
don't know a lot of other people, like if there
was like a you know, say Russ Jackson, If there
was a Russ Clone and he was getting Russ Clone

(14:15):
for Russ Jackson on a Christmas time or Hanka time,
whatever it is, a birthday time, he might go, oh,
I'm getting more rush stuff. Great. But on one hand
that you're like, that's nice. On the other hand, you're like, really,
go deep. I mean, maybe do better than that. I
don't know for sure, but the bottom line is if
they're thinking of you, I guess that's all that matters.
Have you given a gift that was a bad play,

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a bad choice that went over like a led Zeppelin
as they would say, And I don't mean the band,
I mean like how they got their name, talking about
how that would go over, which is how they thought
their band would go over. If I went three, seven, four, nine, seven,
eight hundred, the big one. I can remember third grade.
It's all fixated on third grade. This first half hours.
I was talking about stuff in that I had missus
Bell the Jefferson Primary, and I thought it would be great.

(15:02):
When I was I was like, I have to get
her something for Christmas time. And I can remember going
downtown and I guess it was like Lazarus maybe at
that point right, I don't think it had converted to
Macy's and they had a section with all kinds of
decorations and everything else. I don't know how much money
I had at eight years old. It was probably from
you know, picking up leaves or cleaning the house. Whatever

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I had had saved up or accumulated in some way,
and I got her a little brass bell and then
it was like engraved on it. And then I was
thinking about it later how she probably got lots of
bells from lots of other little kids in some fashion,
either as a decoration or just a bell in general.

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And on one hand, you think it's cute, but she
probably was like and I don't know for sure, she
acted very thankful on it, But then in hindsight, I
was like, I'm sure she was probably great and another
bell from the kid. It was very original, but mom
was like, well, that's very nice, prob like it, which was,
you know, wonderful. I haven't seen that woman in probably
since the third grade, actually, but I just wonder in

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that circumstance if that's the case. I have friends who
are educators, some who teach like little kids, some who
do parochial school stuff, a variety of ages older, some
teach college in high school. And I thinking about that
some of the stuff you know, you hear about, like
kids bringing apples or other gifts and odd things for
show and tell. I don't recall it ever coming up

(16:30):
of anything like this with you know, sort of gift
giving that was sort of odd or off the beaten
path in that regard, as Lenz would say, but it
is one of those things I think that happens. I
don't think I'm the only one. The other other bad
holiday gift kind of idea that I thought was nice
at the time, and I have learned, but I'm a
slow learner. Sometimes was using aluminum foil sort of as

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a hokey first gift and using foil as a rap
it's shiny, it's sparkly sort of and then you know,
I had something else like in that or whatever, and
then some other gifts. And I can tell you at
the time, the woman I was with, she did not
think that the aluminum foil was necessarily a good wrapping
paper choice, or as an idea of a fun sort

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of gag gift kind of scenario. And I've talked to
guys about this, and dudes have been like, yeah, I
totally get that, I've done something similar or I would
do that too. Only maybe one or two over the
years when I've mentioned that, have guys gone, I'll dude,
that was a bad idea or know what you were thinking.
But I mentioned it to women. And here is the
balance of where the line is of how we think

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or don't think generally, is that almost every woman that
I've ever mentioned it to, even though a couple were like, oh,
that's kind of cute. You had other stuff, though, which
was you better have come with something else to follow
that that wasn't low end or certainly the little bit
more decorated. Which is it about the stuff inside or
the sparkly wrapping paper outside? I guess is really the question.

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And it's definitely a guy thing at least to a point.
Or maybe it's just me being an idiot perhaps, but
it is sort of one of those things that sort
of lingers over time. And I still occasionally, you know,
when I mention it, or I start thinking about holiday
times and Christmas gifts and everything else, and that pops
into my head and I think about it for a minute,

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and I don't I don't know if it's just me
and not being able to let that go, but part
of me thinks, that is a fantastic bit of wrapping paper,
and I feel good about it, and I'd like to
pursue it again in some fashion, and then the other
part of me goes, sometimes you just have to give up,
You have to to move on and just leave it

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where it was, so we'll see how that plays out
in the years and whatever else to come, is it
plays out, Hopefully you're smarter than I have been when
it comes to the gift giving and trying to have
fun with it or otherwise, but we'll see how it goes.
Tracks will join me after your nine point thirty report.
Matt Reese has the latest on what's going on here
in the tri State and for that matter, around planet Earth.

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That what matters to us here, and then we'll give
you a chance to listen in on Mike Petragon and
me talking Bengals with the cards coming to town and
so forth. Later also Dev Shapiro from godadeal dot com
talking about returns. I know a lot of people looking
for good deals after the holiday. He has insight on that. Obviously,
we like the idea of buying local, keeping that money

(19:30):
moving around and supporting local businesses as well, but there's
an issue of returns, there's the issue of better deals
and a lot of other stuff to sort of have
some fun with as well. So hang out for that.
We will see exactly what comes of everything sort of
associated with holidays and all the fun. We're sort of

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in the midst of that and sort of a break
from all the serious enough, but we'll dig deeper and
have some other fun with stuff as well, and maybe
you can better your situation, rus and keeping me online
and in time straight away, Trags straight up before that,
Matt recent news, and I will actually be on time.
I think, if I'm not mistaken, we did calculate at
one point that I had owed him something in the

(20:12):
neighborhood of thirty or forty minutes, thirty or forty years.
I think what you're thinking this, It's been that much
as possible. But sometimes you have engaged me in the
conversation and contributed to the tardiness. I'll take some of
the blame. I appreciate you confirming that rather than denying it.
He's Matt Reese, he has plaques on the wall, he's
an award winning newsman, and he will disseminate mass quantities

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of information right here, right now, then Bengals talk with
Trags and Sterling here news Radio seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Right here we are.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
It's the weekend. Sterling seven hundred WLW back on the
big One. A guy I see in the halls, I
talk to in the Hallway. I hear him everywhere. I
see him everywhere, but the first time I think we've
actually been on a show together. Mike Petrallia. You call
him Trags. You can see him the Juggle Roar podcasts,
or hear him see Nla sincywithy dot com. How are you?

(21:02):
How's everything? How's the holiday season?

Speaker 4 (21:06):
Sterling?

Speaker 2 (21:06):
I am catching up, catching my breath, I should say,
after all the shopping, after all of the meeting greet,
after all of the eating, which has been fabulous. I
do love the holidays for all the food, I must say.
And I try to watch myself because I could eat
myself to oblivion. But I love the holidays for getting

(21:29):
together with friends and family and the food and oh,
by the way, working in a sporting event here and there.
I am getting ready for the Bengals and Cardinals on
Sunday afternoon at one o'clock at pay Corps.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
There you go. Yeah, friends and family, good food. It's
everything that you want this time of year. And if
not now to over indulge a little bit on the
good stuff, I don't know when. So it's okay, that
is a good point. Yeah, and now more than ever
around the Bengals Nation for one of the better way
to describe it. Friends of yours, someone I have not
actually crossed paths with, but others I know close recently

(22:05):
have had tragedy, unexpected stuff, So that the most important
thing really friends family now more than anything else. And
I don't want that to be.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Lost, no, no question about that, Sterling. And you know,
Jay Morrison has been through it very through a very
rough patch and a very rough road in the last
you know, two weeks, the last week and a half,
and all we can do is under our love and support,
and that's what everybody on the beat tries to do. Look,

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we're around each other on the Bengals beat so much
that it becomes familial. It does become a second family,
There's no question about that. And when someone is good
as good of a man as Jay Morrison is has
to suffer like that, it's just it's heart wrenching. But
that's why a guy like Zack Taylor, you know, at

(22:57):
the end of his press conference on Monday, wanted to
take time. I think for mind, everybody what we do
is important. Everybody loves sports, everybody is passionate about the
Bengals in this town, but kind of try and remember
there's a human element to all of this, not only
for players and coaches and staff, but also the media

(23:17):
covering the team as well.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
It was really a good.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Touch, it was. I thought it was a class move too.
And I don't know Jay. I know of him and
I enjoy taking in what he does, but it was
just heart wrenching to hear about it. And it's difficult
when it's effectively just a shock and surprise and unexpected,
which can be compounded and at the holidays for that
matter too. So I wanted to mention that as well,

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because I know you were close to him or are
close to team as well. So if we can shift
a little bit here and talk a little bit about Bengals,
which is sort of the point of the call, But
are the Bengals scared of the Cardinals at this point?
Let's just start there. I mean, it's a three and
twelve team and a Bengal five and ten team, but
the Bengals loaded offensively. The defense has been suspect at

(24:04):
best most of the year, but they seem to have
looked strong when it was important, and just last week,
of course, it was overwhelming and dominating for those on
the other side of the ball.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, I don't think the Bengals are scared of the
Cardinals at this point.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
I think the Bengals know.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
You could kind of see it last week that everybody
took a deep breath and just said, you know, let's
forget what's gone on in the first twelve games of
the season, fourteen games of the season. Let's just go
out and play loosey goosey. And you know when Joe
Burrow plays Lucy goosey and plays well, they're throwing it

(24:42):
all over the field. What impressed me last week was
how the Bengals ran the ball and how they forced turnovers.
I mean, Zach Taylor was prophetic when he was talking
to Addi Kinkinbwala at halftime on the CBS broadcast that
just give me one turnover, just give us one turnover
and it will change the game.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
And he was right.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
They got three to start that third quarter. And you know,
I think, you know, we talk a lot about the
offense playing Lucy goosey. I think the defense needs to
play lucy goosey. And what I mean by that is
play fast, fly to the football, get you know, not
just one helmet on the ball, but you know, two
or three defenders attacking whoever's got the ball for the

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other team and start putting pressure on that ball carrier
and forcing turnovers. And I think, you know, that's what
we saw last week, and I think the hope is
that the Bengals can do that over the final two
games at Paycorps. Give the fans a little bit of
an offensive show for the last two games and hope

(25:46):
that that carries off into the some momentum into the offseason.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Let's hope. So, Mike Petrelli who we're talking to trags
C on LS Media or CNLS since Hewthwy dot com
starling Bengals Cardinals Sunday one one o'clock. You mentioned the
running game. It was nice to see p Ryan and
obviously Chase doing it on the ground. Just astounding the
takeaways from the defense. I mean, we saw a lot

(26:11):
of that at this point, aside from injury issues, which
I know I think of say, I think I Read
is out for this Sunday. Yeah, anybody else out that
we should know of? And are they going to give
a chance maybe for some guys who would not normally
see play or are they going all out to show
the Cardinals that the Bengals are at home and ready

(26:34):
to pounce and go to work, because I mean there
are some guys who we maybe would not see normally
that could deserve, maybe in a benefit from a showcase.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Well, I think Sterling what you're going to see. Yes,
josepho Sia is out kick return specialists and fourth receiver
Charlie Jones is out. Both of them are going to
miss the game, their second straight game with an ankle injury.
Bengal will also be without Cam Grandy, one of their

(27:03):
tight ends, but other than that, they head into this
game in pretty good shape in terms of health. In
terms of players who are going to be under the spotlight,
who I think every Bengal fan should look at for
continued development.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
First of all is Miles Murphy.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Since so Ci, one of their defensive edges a pass rusher,
is not playing in this game. Miles Murphy has really
responded and developed in his last five weeks of action
for the Bengals, starting to approach the kind of potential
the Bengals saw from him when they made him a
first round pick at the end of the first round
in twenty twenty three. He's been one of the really

(27:44):
good storylines at the end of this season. Defensively, DJ Turner,
he is a Pro Bowl caliber player. He is a
third alternate for the Pro Bowl as voted the results
released by the NFL this week.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
He's the cornerback.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Opposite daxx Hill in their secondary has been very solid
this year for the Bengals.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
It really has been.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
But you'd like to see maybe DJ Turner get an
interception or two in the final two weeks. Maybe one
of them could be a pick six for turn it
for a touchdown. And the two rookie linebackers are starting
to play with some fluidity, consistency and again playing with
aggressiveness flying to the football, something they definitely were not

(28:31):
doing in the first twelve weeks of the season. And
that's a big reason the Bengals struggled on defense. When
your linebackers don't know where they should be, it's hard
getting everybody on the same page. So Barrett Carter and
Demetrius Knight Junior two guys to keep an eye out
on for the final two games of the year. Offensively,

(28:52):
Pro Bowler Jamar Chase, he told me on Friday in
the locker room The biggest thing he can accomplish the
final two weeks is getting off the schneid for touchdowns.
He has not scored a touchdown. It's hard to believe
since Week seven, October sixteenth, the Thursday night game against
the Pittsburgh Steelers. The game the Bengals won thirty three

(29:15):
thirty one. So that's something to look forward to as
well this weekend.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Talking to Mike Petralia track Sterling seven hundred WLW about
the Bengals and Cardinals Sunday one o'clock at pay Corps,
that doesn't seem even possible that it's been that long
since Chase has gone without a TV. Is that the
longest in his career except in the start.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yes, it definitely is, and I think it's by a
good three weeks wow or so.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
It's the longest drought of his career.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
But it's because every team has been throwing every kind
of coverage on him in the red zone inside the
twenty yard line. It's been really hard to feed Jamar
the ball for a touchdown. And in terms of all
of the explosive plays for touchdowns he has had in
in his career, sometimes you're seeing teams zone him with

(30:05):
two players and then another player downfield, so that makes
three players with eyes on Jamar Chase to make sure
he doesn't break off a sixty eight yard touchdown. Well,
you know, when he catches a ball four yards from
the line of scrimmage and then outraces people to an
open space on the field and.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
Scores a touchdown.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
He's done that in years pass, but it's a lot
harder for him to do that this year. But all
of that being said, he knows he's better than just
five touchdowns in a single season. This is a guy
that led the NFL last year with seventeen touchdowns. So
I'm sure Joe Burrow is going to do everything in
his power to feed him the ball in the last

(30:46):
two games track.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
You know what else is interesting to me in the
midst of that drought for him, as he's been covered
so much, is seeing more and more of the depth
on the offense and maybe you know so much so
oh it's the end of the season. You know, they
had a horrible in between with Joe's toe and everything
else that goes along with that, But the depth offensively
of the weaponry. As much as we've talked about Chase

(31:08):
and Higgins in the running game coming up. It is
nice to see some of those guys in the middle
and lower on the depth chart really get a chance
and they've shined. They really have performed.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
They have and I think Chandler Chandler, Chase Brown, the
running back, yes, somebody you touched on earlier, is somebody
who is in the midst of a true breakout season.
I think in seven of his last ten games he's
gone over one hundred yards in multi all purpose yardage

(31:41):
from the line of scrimmage. And that's a big way
to evaluate the effectiveness of a running back. Somebody who
can run the ball with authority, which he can between
the tackles, but also catch the ball on the sideline
and or in the flats as they say, and run
it in for a touchdown. Last week in Miami, he

(32:02):
became the first Bengal ever to score three touchdowns in
a single quarter play hard to believe.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Actually it is.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
And what was interesting about that is two of the
touchdowns were past receptions and the other one was a
run in for a touchdown. So Chase Brown has really
been a breakout star of the offense in the last
well five weeks. Even though they haven't been all wins.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Talking to Mike Batraalia Sterling shortly out of time, but
not quite there yet. What have I not asked about this?
Because I mean, you live this, you breathe this. You've
been covering NFL from Patriots to Bengals for a long
long time, and you see things that you know. Even
though I think I might know what's going on, you
see things deeper. So is you know, you hat two
games left, you got Cardinals this week, Brown's next, and

(32:49):
the Bengals trying to you know, to show some respectability
and keep some momentum into the offseason.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
I'm looking for playmakers on defense, you know what you have,
Like you just said, on offense going in the next year.
Your offensive line looks to be in pretty good shape.
They may want to add some depth at the tackle
positions going into the off season, but defensively, you've got
to know who are four or five players we can
build around when we rebuild the.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
Defense in the off season.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
To me, that's one of the big things to look
for in the final two weeks.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
And certainly if.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
They can do that and Joe Burrow looks happy and
healthy going into the off season and just writes off
this season as a loss, just like you would in business.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
The season really stunk.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
It was not what anybody wanted or hoped for. But
he also missed ten weeks of the season with toe surgery.
So can Joe Burrow find some happiness, some momentum going
into the offseason. Can the defense find maybe a linebacker
or two, or can Jordan Battle the safety develop? Can

(34:03):
you know, like I said earlier, can Miles Murphy step
forward and become a force as a first round pick?
And Chris Jenkins is injured for the year, he will
not be returning, But can some of their younger interior
offensive linemen shows some spark and show that maybe their
rotational pieces going into twenty twenty six. Those are some

(34:26):
of the things I definitely would be looking forward to
in these final two weeks.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
Then we'll see how they have to go shopping in
the off season to sort of fortify that in between
as well and that defense. If these are not going
to be the guys, I really appreciate you making time.
It is the first time we've actually talked on the
year other than a quick hello. I think Mike Petralia
trags cl NS sincywthy dot com. Thank you. I hope
we'll do this again, and otherwise I guess I'll just
see in the hallway.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
Yeah, well, let's not be strangers so much. Sterling.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
All right, absolutely, thank you for making time. I appreciate it. Man,
have a great new year. If I don't talk to
you between Mike, thank you, sir, it's tracks with Stirling
seven hundred WLW. Why he's in control of that. Matt
Reeve says your ten o'clock report about two minutes and
twenty seconds from now. And I rolled till midnight in
Red Eye Radio after that long holiday weekend, same next week.

(35:17):
The way of the new year, the Christmas has fallen, Quansa.
If you celebrate it, best to you and yours. When
I was a kid coming up, it was relatively new,
I guess, maybe a decade fifteen years into what was
the Quantus celebration. And I had four or five kids
that I went to school with. They and their families
celebrated it, and I remember hanging out with them and

(35:40):
learning to get a good bit about it. And now
I don't know how big it has become. If it's
a di dei thing that has somehow put the kaibash
on it or otherwise. But if you are into Quines,
I wish you and yours the best. Christmas just ended,
Hanka just ended. And then of course if you're a
brit Or, I think up in Canada too, they may
do Boxing Day, which is not about like fighting, it's

(36:03):
about like unboxing, the gifts and such. Right, so yeah,
there is that how you doing? It's also bowling season.
I mean aside from like going and bowling and knocking
pins down, I mean like a lot of college bowl games.
Right Christmas Eve was Hawaiian California in the Hawaii Bowl
Hawaii wan they were home? Why not? Earlier today it

(36:26):
was the game above Sports Bowl Northwestern over Central Michigan.
The Golden Gophers in Minnesota beating New Mexico in the
Rate Bowl underway right now the First Responder Bowl is
going on, and that at this point, if I'm not mistaken,
is hang on at the top of my sheet just
or page just went weird? Say Florida International is there

(36:53):
you go? Coming up on halftime? RUSS has got at
thirty one to fourteen UTSA. That's the University of Texas
San Antonio over Florida International. So there you go. That's
the first responderable. On the other side, I want to
get into something that I think whether you're like friends
of mine who flew through Chicago. What I mean is
they connected in Chicago to come to Cincinnati, so it
may have been a United flight. I don't know who

(37:14):
all flies through there everyone at Chicago, and they had
a horrible experience. And it related to what I would
normally identify with road trip mishaps. A lot of people
traveling long distances, family friends, get aways, vacations. This season
is upon us, even though it is unseasonably warm right
about now, not as a treacherous to say a week ago,

(37:36):
a week and a half of travel wise, we come back,
we'll talk on mishaps and really horror stories on the
road or maybe in the air, and a whole lot more,
plus a god of deals. Dev Shapiro going to join
me and we'll talk on returns and deals after the holiday,
and he'll have some travel stuff as well. So hang
out news time now where the Hood ape plays Sunday,

(37:59):
back at it against the Cardinals, because it's the best
Bengals coverage. Sterling News Radio seven HUNDREDUL Cincinnati, Glad you're
a long Friday night in the middle of a long
holiday week. Effectively appreciate you being here, sterling hanging out.
All right, So maybe you're on the road right now,
Maybe you're running around hanging out with friends, having a

(38:21):
good time, and maybe they came to visit you, you them.
Whatever else you traveled in the past, my guess you
will travel in the future. Most of us be at
a road trip or maybe by air even have had
some type of mishap, something has gone wrong occasionally. I
don't know. Maybe you call it so much as a
horror story, but sometimes they can be kind of horrific

(38:42):
in nature when things go sideways. Buddy of mine, coming
in through Chicago over the last couple of days, tells
me he was in a situation and this led to
a domino effective stories being told. The other night, he
tells me that apparently there was in the particular concourse
or whatever that he was in a problem with the
bathroom facilities that apparently caused a great stink in the

(39:06):
air and became challenging for people who needed to use
the facilities. Let's keep it clean while they were there
waiting for their connection or maybe just to get out
a town from a shytown, whatever, and it got me thinking.
In the midst of this conversation, it turned into a
litany of other people talking about things that had gone

(39:27):
on when they were either flying, driving. There was one
story about a cruise ship situation that is my worst nightmare,
which somebody mentioned something about it wasn't a technical technically
a rogue wave, but apparently it was a big wave,
choppy wave that I wouldn't expect a big ship like

(39:47):
that to be you having to navigate and have problems with.
But apparently that's what I get for thinking, And the
way it was described to me that it was a
sea of misery for a whole lot of people who
were unable to some how gather a sight of the
horizon to somehow eat a handful of dramamine or whatever
else might help them with motion sickness, which then of

(40:08):
course a lot of people, you know, sickness all over
the place. The bathroom problem, apparently at the airport was
just a plumbing problem, but it made it challenging and
sometimes when traveling you've got to go and it's an emergency,
and it left people in a weird spot and apparently
it was the guy's bathroom, not the women's facility. But

(40:30):
guys can't be piling into the women's facility, and you
may or may not have time to leave the concourse
in that situation to go where there's another bathroom available,
or maybe to the other end, and depending on when
your flight's coming. And the worst of that scenario is
then you're on the plane and you know it's a
metal tube with a couple hundred of your closest friends
or not, and you may be going three hundred, four hundred,

(40:51):
five hundred miles an hour, five miles up. But that
little bathroom can be a nightmare scenario of its own.
So I'm wondering what type of nightmare you've dealt with.
It does not all have to be bathroom or lated.

Speaker 5 (41:02):
You know.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
The last time I brought this up is somebody mentioned
that they had left a kid behind it like a
filling station, truck stop slash kind of everything, you know,
where trucks in regular everyday people could go too. And
they had a bunch of people. It was a summer trip,
not a winter Christmas holiday kind of thinging. And I
was told that they went to drive away and they

(41:25):
got up the road a little bit, and they apparently
did not do a very good head count, the duck
duck ghost count that most of us learned in kindergarten
or preschool or first grade. And then they had to
circle back for the kid who was waiting apparently near
the pumps, trying to figure out what happened, which could
be very dangerous for obvious reasons. And I've witnessed it

(41:47):
where kids look to be confused and lost, and you
try to get them inside, because it's a bad look
if you're just hanging around with kids otherwise five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
eight hundred, the big one, curious about your road trip
gone wrong or otherwise mishaps and so on. My mother
tells me, and it goes back because the family get together.
So this is one of the best things I've ever

(42:08):
heard her talk about, and it was tremendous. She and
one of her girlfriends were on a trip somewhere like
Cherokee Mountains or something like that. I don't know what
they were doing, but she tells me that they had
stopped to get like brunch because they had started at
like dawn or something on the road and they stop
and they go to a very popular chain type breakfast, brunch,

(42:30):
all day dinner kind of place, and apparently the facilities
were not working, which I guess may occasionally occur. I
don't know exactly how that plays out. And it was
horrendous and she had to go badly, and then apparently
everyone there was a lot of sickness involved with people

(42:50):
struggling through just the smell of was a sewage problem.
I don't know why they opened the restaurant if they
were having this type of problem, or why they did
not close it, because there's a lot that goes on
with cross contamination and so forth when you're preparing food.
And she then apparently went to another spot. They hopped
in the car, which you would do. You're not staying there,

(43:11):
you're on the road. So after they called the audible
and went nope, not here, not now, and there was
nowhere else to go, they got back on the interstate,
went a bit further and went somewhere else, and as
they were doing that, apparently there was still the overwhelming
sickness or revulsion of what they had experienced. And as
they're getting out, they said there was a state trooper.

(43:32):
They're sort of laughing is they were. I guess that
wasn't the only car that had gone from one spot
to another hoping for a place of relief and a
place to sit down and maybe have some good food
and stuff without any type of misery. And in the
midst of all that circumstance, she says, state troopers like,
you guys, all right, what's going on? And then they explained,

(43:53):
because they're apparently lingering, they can't get rid of the smell.
And they kind of laughed and said, yeah, we had
heard there was a call about there to whatever, hope
your trip gets better. And it was a lot of people.
So everyone that I was talking, most everyone I know
has an experience where it's played out in that kind
of way. I can't remember. I'm not gonna it was

(44:14):
not Riverbend, but it was an outdoor amphitheater type of
place years ago I went to traveled to see a band.
Might have been Indianapolis, could have been Columbus. I can't
remember exactly where it was. But there was an issue
apparently with the porta potties that they had in masks,
because it was like an outdoor all day festival thing,

(44:35):
not just a you know, a nighttime event. It was
all afternoon and into the evening with a bunch of
different bands and tons and tons of people, and you know,
the concourse and everything filled with activities and all the
fun stuff that goes on. And apparently there had been
a couple of the knocked over porta potties in the
midst of aggravation or frustration or just you know, people

(44:58):
playing jokes or pranks, which is not funny when the
blue juice from the porta potties starts to roll and
flow and elsewhere, and it becomes an ugly scenario. And
I will never forget seeing a lot of these hippie
chicks with their sandals and so forth, running around and somehow,
because it had been puddled and they were in it,

(45:19):
their feet had sort of been lightly dyed, I guess
is what it was. The bluish color almost like little
like smurf women feet running around all over. There may
have been dudes. For some reason, I was looking at
the hippie chicks more. I don't know why, but it
was just an odd scenario. And so in the midst
of the good smell, if there is such a thing

(45:41):
of the blue juice inside the porta potties. It was
all the other stuff that was a part of it too.
Not quite a road trip, but it was a road
trip to a show, so I will count that. I'm
just wondering what you've had happen. Road trip mishapper otherwise
five one, three, seven, four nine, seven, eight hundred, the
big one. You can talk back the iHeartRadio app get
in interactive that way as well. Doing whatever you're doing

(46:03):
and wherever you're headed. It is one of those situations
that prevents themselves. I have seen this, and this is
you know, law enforcement often takes a beating in the
media unfairly, and I sincerely mean that. And here's the
other side of it. And I see this fairly regularly.

(46:23):
Coming down seventy five and up and down seventy one
and wherever else, you will see law enforcement, state troopers
included occasionally, and I see it probably at least once
a quarter and I may be off on the time period,
but I mean it's not super frequent, but it's a
couple times a year. I will see someone in a
nice vehicle who's clearly had a problem with a tire

(46:46):
or whatever else. And it will be a dude and
maybe I'm sexist in this regard, but I'll see like
a guy in some nice clothes and there'll be a
state trooper or a law enforcement officer that is pulled
over near them or behind them, and they'll have the
lights on trying to give them a break and help
them out and not pull it over for a stop general,

(47:07):
you know, like it's something had gone wrong, for speeding
or whatever. And you'll see law enforcement helping to change
a tire or actually do the work helping out a dude.
And I'm just gonna say it for men, I think, honestly,
it's a bit embarrassing that and it is totally a

(47:30):
chauvinistic view of things, and I understand that, but I mean,
as a man, it would be somewhat emasculating to me
to think that I would be on the side of
the road and maybe I need help. I don't mind somebody,
you know, giving me some help as far as making
sure traffic sees me. So I'm not like a target
waiting to be clipped by somebody who's distracted or not
paying attention or otherwise on the road drifting or whatever

(47:53):
else towards that medium or you know, the emergency off
the road kind of vibe. Uh, But to be in
a situation where law enforcement in uniform on the job,
having to deal with everything else, ends up stopping in
either to speed things up because people don't know how
to change a tire and I don't mean women and again,
and I'd like to hear from women on this too.

(48:14):
I don't mean this to be sexist, but as a man,
I mean I would almost prefer to have Triple A
or somebody else come and help me navigate that if
I couldn't get the tire off, maybe you can't get
the lug nut loose or something. I don't know what
that is. Maybe that's the situation They're like, dude, can
you help me out?

Speaker 5 (48:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
I've been I've been kicking at this for a while
and I can't get it done. But it seems extremely
emasculating or maybe me judging in that type of situation
where I think less of the guy who gets help
from another guy at the side of the road. And
I don't mean because it's a tow truck or a
wrecker helping, but law enforcement. I mean they could be

(48:51):
doing one hundred other things helping one hundred different people
in a hundred different ways, whether it's somebody dealing with,
you know, a real t problem. But I'm not to
say that's stuck on the side of the road isn't
traumatic or a problem. But as a guy, if you
can't change a tire yourself, it's embarrassing. I feel bad

(49:12):
for you. I mean, I may aside from any type
of disabilities or other way, you know, physical ailments are
something along those lines, But I mean just because you're
in a suit and tie, or just because you're dressed
up or whatever, doesn't mean that you can't actually jack
up your car and change a tire. Why would the
law enforcement have to do that? And I would love
to stop at some point nask, but I'm not trying

(49:34):
to get involved. I've stopped to help people before, but
I figure if the cops are there, they've got it
under control. Five point three seven four nine seven eight
hundred the big one.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
If road trip problem mishap that you've had, perhaps you
can call me out and explain to me why it
is that law enforcement would need to help somebody change
a tire. I mean, that's just them going over and
above the call of duty as far as I'm concerned.
Often it's a thankless in the first place, and my
hat's off to them. But I'm telling you I have
seen it time and time again, and I think I

(50:08):
it would be difficult while almost rather in some fashion
walk some distance, not far. I mean if I needed
the help, I need the help, I guess, And you
know no harm in asking for help when you need it.
I mean that you got to be strong to do
that in some cases. But I mean if you can't
change your own tire, that that is tough. It really is.

(50:28):
I'm looking at celebration with Louisville earlier in a win
and they're eating beans. I think, is that is that
what I was looking at there in the highlights? I
think that might be. I'll have to figure out what
that is and share it with your post haste quick
break will come back. Five point three seven four nine
seven eight hundred The Big One road trip mishap, trauma,
things you've dealt with on the road or otherwise. It's
a Friday sterling on seven hundred WLW Saturday. It's nice

(50:52):
because it feels under this holiday seasons all weird with
what day is actually what it's a Friday if you
didn't know, near seventy Sunday, scattered storms, possible Bengals cards
at the pay Corpse Stadium downtown along the river and
here on seven hundred WLW in the first of the week, Monday,
back to work in school for some I guess yeah,
the thirty three on Monday, and the new year is

(51:14):
around the corner. It's a balm fifty five now just
off your weather station, seven hundred WLW. Got a deal
dot COM's Dev Shapiro going to join me after your
ten thirty report talking about the after holiday deals returns
and the game that goes along with getting your stuff
back as it belongs and what ah some travel stuff
since we already talked about that, and it was speaking

(51:34):
of that I got Indiana. David was sterling on the
big one. I was talking about people having road trip
mishaps and problems. And then my weird thing that I've noticed,
which is a lot of like dudes getting help from
law enforcement doing what appears to be just tire changes
along the interstate, which is really weird to meet David,
What do you know? How are you.

Speaker 4 (51:53):
Good?

Speaker 6 (51:54):
Thanks for having me, Yes, sir, I work downtown Cincinnati
shift Fork, and I can't agree with you more. About
three weeks ago, I was going to work one night
and there was a car on the side of the
road and I thought, well, you know, I'm I'm early tonight,
so I turned around and decided to help.

Speaker 4 (52:13):
I got out.

Speaker 6 (52:15):
They were trying to find locate the spare tire in
the trunk, and there were three guys in the in
the car, all about my age, and no one knew
how to change the spare tire. It's crazy. So I
agree with you, but I will tell you this, it's
a different world these days. When my daughter turned sixteen,
I made her change her first spare tire on her own.

(52:36):
I showed her how to do it the right way,
and once a week for about a month, I tell
her she had a spare tire. I let the air
out of her tire, and I let her change her tire.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
So you put her work her through it.

Speaker 5 (52:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (52:49):
Now she's twenty three and then she's got a spare
tire and she has to do it herself, and I'm
not available. She can she can get it done.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Doesn't have to rely on their man. Yeah, and that's
it's a good thing that she has those skills, you know,
she might want to stop and help somebody else. I mean,
since she has it, I just and I know that
Maybe I don't want to judge. I was raised not
to judge, but it just seems like such a basic
thing that. I mean, my first car was broken more
than it was and I learned how to fix everything

(53:19):
that way. And of course modern cars, those skills are
not exactly as you know, beneficial as they once were.
But changing a tire is still changing a tire. It's basic.
It's weird.

Speaker 6 (53:29):
Yeah, when I'm I'm forty eight. When I was younger,
we did everything.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
We were taught to do everything on our own.

Speaker 4 (53:35):
But like I said, it's.

Speaker 6 (53:36):
A different a different, different day and age out of here.
Now there's still a lot of good ones left, but
people don't get to train and they really should have had.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Yeah, you're you're right, David. I appreciate it to call
me and have a fantastic New Year. I appreciate you
listening to being a part of the show. And I
don't mean to judge someone and say that if you
don't have those skills. I'm just shocked that people don't
have them. I mean because we're as a kid coming up,
I was in such a hurry. I wanted to get
my license, wanted to save enough money to get my
first car. Of course, it was at pos because it

(54:04):
was a four hundred and fifty dollars car. It was
a seventy six cutlass that was broken more than not,
and I learned how to fix a bunch of stuff.
And the guy who I bought it from kept hounding
me wanted to buy the car back. So when I
was finished with it, I sold it back to him
for five hundred. It made fifty on it. I'd spent
a lot more on it than that, but it was

(54:26):
a good learning opportunity that sort of goes along with that.
But I just don't know. I figured it was a
basic thing that everyone learned. I mean, you know how
to jumpstart your car, how to change a tire, and
I can't recall I don't think necessarily with drivers ed
that that was one of the things that they taught us.
But we certainly did learn the rules of the road,

(54:48):
and we got to watch a lot of those like
Blood on the Highway videos, many of which were old.
I don't know if they've updated those or not. I
think the only way I get to do in those
classes is if something has gone so ways with me
at this point. But you know, you get older. I'm
of the opinion that people say seventy seventy five and
older should do the practical you know, behind the wheel

(55:08):
test regularly, at least every two years or something, because
as we get older, we start to lose our capabilities.
Five point three seven four nine, seven, eight hundred. The
big one, your chance to get interactive. I just and again,
and I've already had a couple of people paying and say,
you know, who am I to judge somebody else for
not having those skills? Well, only because I say they're basic.

(55:30):
I mean, you're you're driving, it would be good to
learn how to get that information. And worse comes the worst.
If you're at the side of the road and you're
not out in the sticks someplace where there is no
technology or access to the internet, you could certainly get
a video of how to you know, some type of
tutorial to be able to figure out how to get

(55:50):
your spare which, if you're driving the vehicle, maybe be
able to identify that beforehand. I just don't know the difference.
I mean you know, Seriah, And it's not an easy
thing necessarily to do at the side of the road
on the interstate, because I mean there's people driving fast
and furious on the on the way there to Nashville

(56:12):
and Rick with Sterling on the Big One. What's up, Rick?
I appreciate you holding. What's going on?

Speaker 7 (56:17):
Hey, Sterling? Yeah, I'm a truck driver and I've seen
so many cars that have been hit on the side
of the road because the driver is not paying attention.
Whenever I see a state trooper or a local cup
pulled over and helping them, I'm grateful because with their
lights on and everything, it makes it a little more safe.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Yeah, well, see the lights and stuff. I get that,
but I mean just I mean, I would you want
to get out of the car and help or do
you think I mean? To have the lights is a
great benefit if you don't already have those in your
car to be able to, you know, to let people know,
like you said, you know that to get over and
avoid them, but to have the need to have, as
a grown man, the law enforcement get out of their

(56:55):
vehicle and change my tire. For me, I'm a little
embarrassed if it were me that bad.

Speaker 7 (57:02):
I understand that truck driver used to be the knights
of the road, where they would get out and help
people all the time, but it's gotten so dangerous that
they bypass everybody right.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
Now, that's true.

Speaker 7 (57:12):
I've told my daughter if she ever breaks down, to
get out of the car and go off to the
side and.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Wait for help.

Speaker 7 (57:19):
But my daughter I also taught how to drive a
stick shift, and right now she's one of the few
people of all her friends that can drive a stick shift.
She can also change your oil and change her tire.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
That's awesome. She's ready to go, she is. That's a
tremendous thing.

Speaker 4 (57:35):
Rick.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
I appreciate you listening and being a part of the
show man. Thank you, and I hope you have a
great new.

Speaker 7 (57:39):
Year you too.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
Take care of yourself. Yes, Sir ten third reports straight
away the news. We'll come back. We'll talk to Dev
Shapiro gotardeal dot com about the return to travel tips
and maybe where the deals are after the holidays. Right now,
it's sterling seven hundred wlw so post Christmas tonka quons
is happening now boxing day to day, that's opening the

(58:04):
boxes of the gifts and stuff for a lot of
people like Canadians, the UK and so forth, Dev Shapiro,
gottadal dot com. But you mine. I have it on
the show off and on for years now, always have
them on talking about where the deals are and gottadal
dot com. It's a great collection of links and explanations
of all the stuff. How are you, Dev, how's everything?
I know you're in a big d not dating, but Dallas.

(58:25):
And it was like the eighties today, So it's full
on summertime where you are.

Speaker 8 (58:30):
Yeah, it's still seventy two here and we have the
winds out of the south a little. I've been in
shorts for the last three days.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
Nice. My neighbor's kids have been running around in shorts too.
It's been unusually warm here. It's been whiplash weather near
seventy and the next couple of days and definitely like
Sunday and Monday, so we'll see how it goes. It
gets cold again right now. After the holiday. We always
talk about the issue of discounts and returns and all

(58:58):
the other stuff of leading into this holiday. A little
bit different although the last couple of years with you
know the issue of logistics and supply chains and coming
out of COVID. You know, things seemed a little bit
closer to normal last year or two. This year was weird.
We had discussed this before. I had other friends in
different business too, dealing with merchandising, and they were telling

(59:19):
me that there was a lot of stocking up in
anticipation of tariffs to try to avoid that. How did
that play out into this Christmas season that looks to
have been a pretty healthy one for a lot of retailers.

Speaker 8 (59:31):
Yeah, very healthy. And you know I've heard numbers like
almost the trillion dollars of what was spent this year,
you know, for holiday gifts and stuff like that, food
and travel and stuff. So no, it was pretty it
was pretty good for the retailers. I think a lot
of retailers are going to be very happy as soon
as the numbers fall into place. Sometime in mid January

(59:52):
is when we'll know the exact numbers.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
As far as where the deals are now for extra
discounts and clearance. We always talk about, you know, buy local,
and we try to do that, but online there's a
lot of people, a lot of places, doing a lot
of deliveries from all over where. Does it look like
either what type of products or maybe which stores seemingly
are looking to discount the most.

Speaker 8 (01:00:16):
Right now, everyone is running sales. You know, we all
got gift cards or sometimes cold hard cash for our
holiday gifts, so everyone has their handouts, so you can
find deals everywhere. I tell a lot of people if
you're going to buy big ticket items, and I'm talking
about appliances or even vehicles, this is the time to
do it because we're at the end of the month

(01:00:38):
and at the end of the year. So if a
lot of companies they want to make their month, we
also to want to make their year. And in a
lot of places around the country, if they have inventory leftover,
they have to pay taxes on that in January and February.
So you know, if you're looking to buy a car,
if you're looking to buy a refrigerator, or you know,

(01:00:58):
a big appliance to television, and you know, find someplace
that you want to buy. If they're working on commission
and the salesperson's working on commission, they're going to wheel
and deal because they have to make their numbers not
only for the month, but for the year. Also to
think ahead. So for instance, if you're needing to upgrade
your air conditioner system. A lot of HVAC companies have

(01:01:19):
air conditioners that are sitting in their warehouses and they
want to sell them to you, but also to put
their technicians to work to install them. So think outside
the bucks. But there's deals everywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
Very good. Des Shapiro fromgoidardeal dot com was stirling on
the big one. The other thing is returns, and you know,
it's always been kind of weird. There's not as much
as the waiting online necessarily in bricks and mortar company
the kind of scenarios local, But then again, maybe that
is more of that than online. It's gone through a
weird cycle where I've had just happened in a number

(01:01:51):
of times, and I'm told this year and we'll see
what happens because I have some stuff I need to
check on that, depending if it was shipped from an
online retailer, even if it was local, sometimes depending on
the price point, they tell you to not even worry
about returning it. Has that shifted to a great extent
this season, because I've had a few people tell me
that it's gotten a lot tighter. They're less generous when
it comes to returns.

Speaker 8 (01:02:12):
Yeah, exactly, So over the last couple of years, we've
we as consumers have kind of been overbuying.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
We're like, well, you know, if.

Speaker 8 (01:02:21):
This blast doesn't fit, or these genes don't fit, or
if I don't like this you know base in my house,
I'll just return it. So a lot of retailers are
tightening up the return windows. A lot of retailers also, too,
are charging stocking fees now to return items. So just
be very buyer beware, so be very careful, always keep
your receipts, but don't be shocked when they want you

(01:02:43):
to actually return the item or they actually make you
pay a restocking fees. So what I would do is like,
if you're online and you bought something through Amazon or
another online retailer, do the chatbot thing, chat through customer
service to the website, tell them what your situation is,
and see if it's cheaper to return it into a
physical brick and ware store or to send it back.

(01:03:04):
But yeah, we since we've been over buying over the
last couple of years, and you know, it's an average
of thirty three dollars for retailer to pay for all
the returned items for not so they're really tightening up
their policies and the pocketbook as well.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
Yeah, I mean it sounds that's a pretty big hit
depending on the item and how you have to restock
and so forth. So I can understand trying to avoid
taking that punch to the gut or the least of
the bottom line Distrapiros from goodeal dot Com was sterling
on the big one. What about the issue of I've
seen this and somebody I think was Mallory for Mitchell,
if I'm not mistaken, message exchanges for gift cards and trading.

(01:03:42):
I've not really seen much of it online, but she
made it sound like there are places where you can
go and sort of wheel and deal with whatever you've accumulated.
Like you mentioned on the OUTSETV about gift cards and
so forth, how does that work? What do you know
about it? If anything?

Speaker 8 (01:03:55):
Yeah, it's fire beware. I mean there's groups on Facebook
that do it, and groups on nextdoor dot com and
other platforms like that. I would just say be aware,
you know, and if you know, always make sure you
basically know who you're dealing with. But also too, if
you do use that gift card, use it all up.
A lot of times we leave two or three dollars

(01:04:16):
on these gift cards because we're buying an item and
it's just two or three dollars, and we forget about
it that that money is automatically to the retailer, so
it's for us to use now.

Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
Years ago, there was a big stink about not having
a carryover for some of these cards. There would be
an arbitrary you know, expiration on leftover funds. You'd have
that drawer fool like you said, either unused or leftover
bits of money on card after card after card. I
know there was some litigation, so it seems like those
expiration dates don't exist anymore generally, but again it could

(01:04:51):
be lost with three dollars here, fifteen dollars there, and
twelve cents on some other card, right correct.

Speaker 8 (01:04:57):
You know, it's just you know when the way I
gift card works is that the person buying you the
gift card pays the retailer, like Amazon.

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
Fifty dollars.

Speaker 8 (01:05:05):
Amazon, you know, has a fifty dollars and it's for us.
They don't care if you don't use it or not,
because they have the money. Here's an interesting thing that
I will tell people all the time, and this is
absolutely true. The largest bank in the world is not
a bank, it's Starbucks because everyone preloads their their coffee
cards and stuff like that, and you're basically lending money

(01:05:28):
to Starbucks. So a lot of these big corporations, Amazon
and Starbucks, McDonald's and places like that, they're using these
gift cards as their mini banks. So people buy gift cards,
you give them money, and then they spend that money
to basically grow their capital, pay their employees, and you know,
build new stores. So it's an interesting thing about gift
cards and maybe sometimes you know, and I could get into

(01:05:51):
it on the air at a future date.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
Now, I know the accounting can be weird as far
as when the dollars are booked from one month to
another compared to when the redemption is and stuff like
that too. That's an accounting thing beyond my pay grade.
Dev Shapiro from guidadeal dot com was sterling on the
big one. So we've covered deals, we've covered some returns,
and dealing with gift cards the other thing. And I
had a friend of mine deal with travel in the

(01:06:14):
last week or so and encountered in a connection a
horrible nightmare scenario with a concourse with the bathroom facilities
that weren't working, which is not a good scenario. But
thinking about that just in general, that just happens in life,
whether you're taking a road trip or maybe flying or otherwise.
But you were talking about off the year in our

(01:06:34):
communicat eating back and forth about tips for twenty six
and maybe some change in how to basically travel better,
cheaper or otherwise just make life easier. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:06:44):
Correct, So right now, if you want to do a travel,
you know, group tour, whether it be in Europe or Asia, Israel,
the Middle East, if you want to do cruise, this
now it's the time to book because all these travel
companies and all these tour companies are looking to fill
up tours and their books for twenty twenty six. So
if you want to go international, would be for a

(01:07:05):
cruise or a you know, through a tour company, and
you want to tour parts of Asia, the Middle East, Europe, wherever,
this is the time to do it because all of
them are having great deals. I had a friend that
just booked a wonderful twenty day backpacking trip through Croatia
at seventy percent off. The other thing I want to
say is traveling domestically is going to be very tricky.

(01:07:28):
So if you your listeners are going to travel domestically,
it's going to be very tricky. And I would say
book now next year. Here in about a week, we
are now entering the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
our country and because of that, a lot of cities
and attractions are going to do special events. I'll give
you two examples right now. So July second, in Philadelphia,

(01:07:50):
Congress is going to convene the Special Session of Congress
to commemorate the Constitution and they're going to be signing
some documents there. So if you're going to be in
that philip area around July second, that's gonna be very expensive. Also, too,
is just announced by the Times Square Alliance in New
York City they are gonna be dropping the ball July third.

(01:08:11):
So we're not only dropping the ball here in the
week in Times Square for New Year's Eve, They're gonna
do another ball drop on July third to bring in
forth for July. So you know, hotel rates in New
York City around that July fourth holiday well normally not
as bad, but with the new Times Square ball drop
that we're gonna have those rates are going up and
I've been seeing that all day today. On top of that,

(01:08:33):
we have World Cup soccer that is here in Dallas
and other parts of the country. Yes, that are also
to going to affect hotel and airbnb as well.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
Nice, So that's cool. I didn't know about the extra
two hundred and fiftieth US Birthday ball drop kind of
scenario that'll be interesting. Is it only New York that's
embracing that, I mean, obviously or what I mean?

Speaker 8 (01:08:54):
Yeah, only New York is going to do the ball drop.
So the ball drop that's happening in a week for
New Year's Eve, the ball will be a special two
hundred and fiftieth American Anniversary ball, and then they're going
to do another ball July third, and then it's going
to drop at eleven fifty nine and the course bring
in July fourth. Also to speaking of the America's two
hundred and fiftieth birthday, if you want to buy an

(01:09:16):
American flag or fly one at home, I would buy
it now because as we get into the year and
more people are aware of this anniversary, a lot of
people will be buying American flags and I could see
those go up in price and be full retail as well.

Speaker 1 (01:09:31):
Wow, I hadn't really thought about that. I remember being
a little kid during the bi centennial and I remember
my grandmother taking me the train stop. I think they
called it the Freedom Train, which was a callback to
a different time also, but in that train, it was
an Amtrak train. They had the history of the country
and you got to go on the train and then
take a tour. It was like a rolling museum, which

(01:09:53):
was an amazing thing. And all around the country they
painted like fire hydrants, red, white, and blue and all
kinds of bi Centennial theme stuff. I guess a lot
of that is coming back now to fifty because I
was just a hatchling at that point.

Speaker 8 (01:10:06):
Yeah, and here's another exciting thing that you and your
listeners can look forward to. So Union Pacific Railroad actually
has some steam locomotives. The big one is called the
Big Boy, and because of logistical issues and you know
who owns the railroad tracks east of the Mississippi, the
Big Boy doesn't get to get you know, run through

(01:10:26):
you know, east of the Mississippi. But next year Union
Pacific Railroad is planning on running the steam locomotive from
basically coast to coast, so Union Pacific Railroads website will
have all that information. So there's just going to be
a lot of great stuff if you want to find
out what's near you. America two fifty dot org has
an events calendar. I've been looking at it. As you know,

(01:10:48):
I traveled to film festivals all over the country as
my normal job. And this is a lot of stuff
going on next year. But if you plan on, you know,
traveling domestic hotels, Airbnb's theme parks, I would book that
stuff now because there's more people are going to become
aware of these special events. The prices are going to
be up, and like I said, we have World Cup

(01:11:09):
and there's stuff going on in the country as well.

Speaker 1 (01:11:12):
Yeah, there's a lot happening. Talking to de Shapiro fromgotardeal
dot com, so in other words, my normal sort of
slacker wait until the last minute mentality I'm going to
get a last minute deal in a flight in a
hotel is probably not. This is not the year to
be doing that, I guess.

Speaker 8 (01:11:28):
No, no, not with a lot of stuff going on,
and you know, all these airlines and these hotel chains
and theme parks and attractions they're running deals right now.
I've been getting emails at gottadal dot com constantly to
last week and a lot of day today is you know, hey,
book your trip now. So there's a lot of good
deals to be had. You just got to look from
also to another good deal is a lot of these

(01:11:49):
grocery stores have bought a lot of food for the holidays,
so a lot of prime rib and turkeys and stuff
like that. I was at a local grocery store here
in Dallas Kroger, and basically they had frozen turkeys for
like twenty five cents a pounds. So if you have
a big freezer and you like turkey or primary but
whatnot or brisket, a lot of these stores are now

(01:12:10):
slashing prices on the normal holiday food that you can
stock up and have year round.

Speaker 1 (01:12:16):
You're making me hungry. I just think about that deep
fried turkey kind of scenario, which I think we've talked
about before. Dev Shapiro, it's always great to talk to you.
Thank you for bringing it. You always do. It's got
a deal dot com, great information and always we'll get
closer to America's two fifty, and we'll also talk about
some film fest stuff with you too. I look forward
to it. Thank you for making time. I hope you
have a great new year.

Speaker 8 (01:12:35):
Thank you, and I hope you and your listeners have
a blessed new year with great health and successes and happiness.
And thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
Take care of yourself. You're a good man. That's def
Shapiro from godadeal dot com. More Sterling coming back seven
hundred WLW what the second of January taking on a
Navy in the Midshipman four thirty in the afternoon on
the Big One. And right now it's thirty eight to
fourteen Texas San Antonio over Florida International in the third

(01:13:03):
quarter in the First Responders Bowl. So there is that
going on too, because I know people are I don't
know if it's a wagering thing or what, but I mean,
there are so many bulls, I thought, and at this point,
so many just care about that playoff there. But there's
other bowls going on. And we were earlier, Russ and
I talking off the year. I was disturbed peripherally. I
caught visualization of a shot from a Louisville's game earlier

(01:13:27):
that we would like the Bean Bowl or something like that.
I don't mean any disrespect. I like my share of
beans and so forth. And they were just like spooning
up the beans and eating that. And I was thinking
of all the bulls. There was a citrus bowl you get, oranges.
There's a mayo bowl you get. I don't know if
you'd be eating spoonfuls of mayonnaise, but I remember, you know,
seeing that and like a big vat of that. I

(01:13:47):
could see like jumping in if you want, and your
hair would be great, and your skin would be good,
because I guess mayo is good for that. Russ was
saying the beans could be a problem later, but I
mean it just it. Yeah, it'll make it too, but
it'll it's good for you. You need the fiber. So
I mean it's balance, which I'm trying to find in
my life just in general, one way or another. Speaking
of wish I had somebody send me this. An old

(01:14:08):
neighbor of mine. I used to live not too far
from Eden Park, and just about three blocks away. In
the last within the last month, at least maybe a
couple weeks even, there's about three blocks from where I
used to live an apartment building that apparently is a
seniors building. Now there have been three different people who

(01:14:31):
have been shot, which is crazy. I used to walk
all through that neighborhood. I would ride my bike all
up in there. It's very odd. This was on a
Park Avenue twenty six to ten Park Avenue, park Eden
building there. It was a woman. She apparently was shot dead.
This is Tuesday, and she was just thirty one years
old and just bewildering. So my neighbor's centers like, man,

(01:14:54):
be glad you're not living here anymore. All I know
is the property values where I lived like trippled since
I was there, So it would be nice if maybe
I had a piece of some of that action. The
shootings may maybe affect that negatively. But my heart goes
out to her family. I think she had some kids too.
Speaking of other weird stuff, you'll hear about this in
the news, this crazy shooting. The allegation is that a
guy was firing into a vehicle, which basically hit a

(01:15:19):
woman and her two daughters suffering gunshot wounds. He says
that they were firing from inside the car, which is
also bewildering. People are so quick to the gun. It's bewildering.
How many stories of people in and cars either firing
at each other or people shooting at cars. It's people
need to take a deep breath and just relax just

(01:15:41):
a little bit. The news straightaway Travis Laird has the
latest of what's going on around planet on Earth and
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coming back Nation Station, home of the best Bengals coverage
in action Sunday, one o'clock, just two more to go
in this campaign. The Cards in town Sunday. The offense
should go wild. The question will the defense hold back

(01:16:01):
that offense of the Cardinals? You know, I mean there
were only three in like thirteen or something like that.
Three and today, I mean the Bengals have a couple
more wins than them. They should dominate, should they not.
It's time for new seven hundred w WELW Cincinnati. You're
out today, final hour together this fine Friday night at Sterling,
hanging around Russ Jackson here producing online. Keep me in

(01:16:23):
line on time. I've not been able to say that
the whole night, which is why he's here. It's to
help me through this, try to make sense of stuff.
Travis Laird with News in about twenty two and a
half minutes later. Also conversation I had with Mike Petralia
tracks talking Bengals Cardinals Sunday here on the big one
one o'clock kickoff and right down by the river there
at Pey Corp. They'll be getting it on, looking to

(01:16:43):
do it up, and I got two more to go
before it's on to the next season, and thinking about
Red's opening day, a lot of disappointed people. Cyclones game
postponed tonight, not having heritage Bank of the Center, of course,
because they're strike hockey players in the ECHL, the East
Coast Hockey League, looking for better benefits, better situation overall,

(01:17:07):
more cash in the pocket. I suppose they draw very
well here in town and storied history as well, so
hopefully they get that deal all worked up. And I'm
always for people getting more money, and especially when it's
spending somebody else's to take care of them, so, you know,
the good for them, though, We'll see how it goes,
and hopefully that doesn't last all too very long, that's
for sure. It's always a great experience to go and

(01:17:27):
see him there, or maybe I know a lot of
people travel to see them elsewhere too, but certainly downtown
just the arena is just electric. It's nice. It really is.
If I went three seven, nine, eight hundred, the Big One,
your chance to get interacted. I often have Kevin Carr
on Friday Night talking movies and so forth, but holiday

(01:17:48):
season and so forth, he's going to take a break.
So while I'm here now, and I started thinking about
this as I was so over the last couple of
days with family and friends and looking at movies and
so forth, and a conversation we had which I think
can turn into something here as well. Is a film
that you have seen, either as a child or as

(01:18:09):
a grown up, that disturbed you so much, that messed
with your head to such an extent it shook you
emotionally that you were like, I can't ever see that
movie again. Do you have a film like that that
jumps out now? And it could be just simply the
fact that it was a movie that was so bad

(01:18:31):
that you were like, man, I'm never getting that time
in my life back. I'll never watch that again. But
I'm also thinking about the content of the film and
maybe the material that was so disturbing. Now I will
give an example of one that I have since rewatched,
but it took quite a while. I was allowed to
see it, probably sooner than I should have been allowed

(01:18:52):
to see it, which was The Exorcist as just a
little kid, because you have so many layers. There's possession
in the devil, Satan, Beelzebub, whatever you want to call it.
Then the you know, the whole thing of Linda Blair
and the vomiting of you know, I guess it was
p soup or something, and then her head spinning around

(01:19:12):
in the bed, lifting and so forth. I mean, were
all these odd, strange, uncomfortable things that were going on
in the film, and a lot of stuff I didn't understand.
I just knew that Satan was a part of it,
and I remember I was just freaked out. And I
did not see it in the theater. I'm not old
enough to have been able to have it done that

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first time around, but it was playing on TV at
some point somehow. I don't think it was a video.
Maybe it was, but I remember watching it and even
at the time, I'm like, I don't think I should
be seeing this, and it disturbed me. Now, aside from that,
there's another movie that I saw that goes back until

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probably the mid nineties, I guess and I suppose I
could look it up here and I couldn't. It couldn't
tell if it was really like a documentary of some
sort or if it was just a movie. But it
was disturbing, and it was an older movie at the time,

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but I had never seen it, and it was called
Henry Portrait of a serial Killer, and it seemed odd,
and apparently it is somewhat based however loosely, I do
not know on Henry Lee Lucas, who was apparently a
real life serial killer, and some of the stuff surrounding

(01:20:39):
the events that took place in this killing spree, I
guess is the best way to describe it. It was
just wrong and what they did and so forth. And
I have gone back once and rewatched, but it was troubling.
So I'm wondering if you've watched something that was either
so disturbing that you couldn't watch it it took you

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a while to go back to it, or maybe you
were surprised how much it affected you. One of the
others that was related to drugs and drug abuse and
stuff to go along with that is a project. I
think it was Jared Loletto, isn't it if I'm Not
Mistaken Requiem for a Dream, and it was about addiction

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and just the nightmare of all of that and really
how horrific these people's lives had been become in the
midst of chasing whatever it was that they were trying
to find that came with the use of the drugs,
at least initially, and that was what was really really
disturbing to me. Another one from the nineties that was

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a look at like sort of skater punk teenage life.
I don't know what you want to call it. It was
about ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven somewhere in there.
It was called Kids, and it's a tremendous movie, but
it's disturbing and a lot of the content of kids
who were just out and about running, you know, on

(01:22:11):
the streets and living their lives and what was happening.
And it hit because I think probably I knew some
people who were living a similar kind of life, and
there was a lot of really disturbing stuff that went
into it. And that one is one that is difficult
to find, but if you've seen it, you know what
I'm talking about. But it's one of those going back

(01:22:32):
to watch it again, I don't know if I could
pull that off. But that's called Kids, and the soundtrack,
by the way to it is incredible, great music, disturbing story,
and a lot of really young talent in it at
that point that have grown on to be some really
big heavy hitters when it comes to making movies and
so forth. Subsequently that that one's troubling, to say the least.

(01:22:53):
Five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred, the
Big One. What movie could you not watch again? It
was so disturbing in troubling. And here's one that Kevin
Carr and I have joked about time and time and
again ones it's called The Human Centipede. I'm not quite
sure how they found their way to getting money to
make the movie. Uh. It's a weird, sort of kooky

(01:23:17):
scientist kind of thing. And these tourists are kidnapped and uh,
and they're taken and they do things to them in
a really sick, perverse way, and I've been scarred for life.
I think I cannot would not watch that movie again,

(01:23:38):
Which may or may not be a glowing recommendation, you know,
for me mentioning it, but it is one of those
that I'm kind of like, Wow, I don't know how
they got that made or otherwise at Sterling Radio, on
Twitter or x call it whatever you want. You can
get interactive that way. Five point three seven four ninety
seven eight hundred. The big one. Wondering what movies you've

(01:23:59):
seen that has shook you or otherwise made you uncomfortable
that you were like, no, I can't, I can't see
that again. That that would that would be a bad
choice to go along with that. There was one that
had and I can't think of the guy's name. Now
I could be wrong. It might be the dude. I

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could be Jeff Bridges, and I think he played a
guy who was a dad and it turns out he
was sort of a serial killer. And and the one
of it might have been called The Vanishing, I think,
And that was really troubling in the midst of you know,
road trips and so forth, and and keeping track of
people around you.

Speaker 4 (01:24:38):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
That that's one that certainly will grab you and get
your attention to. And then that's a hard film to watch.
And I think I've watched that twice. The first time
it was you know, at a party. It was just
on and I'm like, what is this? And they were
trying to tell me. Then I went back to it
and I was like, oh, yeah, that it was just
the topic itself and about someone being taken and what

(01:25:00):
kind of happens in the nightmare that sort of goes
along with that, And that was seriously, seriously uh troubling
to say, to say the least. And Alice messages pretty
regularly says something called inside, which I don't know what
that is, just says something about a car crash, and
it was troubling. And then Alex mentions boxing Helena, which

(01:25:23):
the only thing I know about that is uh. And
it is disturbing and I have seen it maybe once twice.
There's a guy is so overly fixated on a girl
he effectively makes it so she can't get away from him,
and he cares so much, he thinks, but it's really
disturbing and it puts her in a box. That's the

(01:25:45):
only way I can describe it. And it is all
kinds of wrong. Five three, seven, four, nine, eight hundred
The Big One to Mount Washington, and Chris was sterling
on the Big One. Hey, Chris, how are you you
got a movie or a couple of movies maybe whatever
that shook you so much. You're like, I can't see
that again. That is just all kinds of wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
You know, while I was on hold, I thought about
a couple of more. I initially called up with Gummo.

Speaker 1 (01:26:10):
Gummo, Why do I have to look that up? I
know the name, but I don't remember the movie.

Speaker 3 (01:26:14):
Yeah, g u m m yes, And I think loosely
it might have been based in Ohio. I'm not one
hundred percent certain.

Speaker 4 (01:26:24):
I remember when I first moved to Ohio.

Speaker 3 (01:26:26):
Somebody told me that it was loosely based around.

Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
Maybe where the tornado happened, is what somebody message? Is
that possible? I think Ohio?

Speaker 3 (01:26:39):
Yeah, okay, yeah, but you know, not a whole lot.
You can get through on that. But the other one
is called teeth. Teeth like teeth like you know, chompers.
T Yeah, it's about the girl with.

Speaker 1 (01:27:01):
Uh yes, down in a sensitive area. Yes, okay, yeah,
we got to keep it clean. I totally get what
you're saying. I just took a quick look.

Speaker 4 (01:27:15):
I try to respect the right there.

Speaker 1 (01:27:18):
That's correct.

Speaker 4 (01:27:19):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:27:19):
My first job is to protect the license, then entertain
and generate ratings and revenue. So yeah, we're working on
a Chris, that's for sure. Yeah, I see they describe it. No,
I was just to say the synopsis to say Don
fights back and inadvertently bites off a male parts with
her parts. Uh, And it is a horror film, so yeah,

(01:27:42):
without saying anything more than that, that's.

Speaker 4 (01:27:44):
True as.

Speaker 8 (01:27:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:27:49):
Yeah, yeah, one would just have to watch.

Speaker 4 (01:27:52):
If one wants to look it up.

Speaker 1 (01:27:53):
It's not for the kids. It's not for the kids,
that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:27:56):
No, yeah, yeah, definitely, uh, not safe.

Speaker 1 (01:27:59):
For work there, Chris, I appreciate the call me and
thank you. Yeah, that's unsettling and unnerving to say the least.
That's pretty good. And Russ, that was tremendous. Like with
is he literally as he was mentioned in Gumbo? You
were like, yeah, it's Ohio, that's Ohio. I vaguely remember
that movie. And that's also a mid to late nineties
kind of thing. And it was after the Xenia tornado.
I guess, so, yeah, it was apparently it was shot

(01:28:21):
in Nashville rather than here, but it's about being up
in Xenia, which was devastated by a tornado in seventy four.
It was just just absolutely brutal, bad, ugly. These things
can be from time to time. Do you have a
movie that has so disturbed you that you can't watch
it again? Or you were disturbed and shocked that that
you know, might be something that eating they put the

(01:28:43):
film or you know, in some fashion or otherwise. I'd
love to hear it five point three seven four nine seven,
eight hundred the big one at Stirling Radio on Twitter
or ex call it what you want? Mark just a
message from Mason often does I don't know where Molly is.
It's Mark and Molly normal, but just Mark tonight, says
Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Because it was based on a real thing.

(01:29:05):
Was it really based on a real movie? I mean
a real life event. I mean that movie there. I
know they've redone a couple of those. I have to
look into that. And it was kind of bizarre, to
say the least. And I think it was sort of
like the Skins thing. But that's also you know, the
way the silence of the lambs was not really real,
but really unnerving. The idea that somebody would wear somebody

(01:29:25):
else's body of skin in some fashion or whatever. It's
it's pretty gruesome and uncomfortable. Great movie, though, I five
went three seven four nine eight hundred, The Big One,
your chance to get interactive. We'll get Gary on here
quickly before the rake and then the Trags joins me
talking Bengals after eleven thirty news, Gary or was sterling
on the Big One? How's life? How's Middletown? And what

(01:29:45):
has scared you so bad that you're not gonna watch
it ever again?

Speaker 4 (01:29:49):
Well?

Speaker 9 (01:29:49):
I know a little bit scared me, but left a
long memory with me. When I was a little boy
and my grandfather took me to see old the other.

Speaker 1 (01:29:56):
Oh yeah, busy, so fad.

Speaker 9 (01:30:00):
I mean, my grandfather cried and it had to be
back in the fifties. I'm seventy five years old now, so.

Speaker 1 (01:30:05):
It still lingers. It's tough, right, It was all about
that dog. It's rough.

Speaker 9 (01:30:09):
I'm not that dog, and I've got a great little
puppy now. And then I have a fear of that
that is going to die one of these days.

Speaker 1 (01:30:16):
I hope it doesn't, and it's one of those things
that it keeps you in between. But yeah, that shook
me too, I remember seeing that. Gary. Thank you, I
appreciate you listening to be a part of the show.
Anything else before I let you go yeah, man, that's good. Good,
that's all we need. Five point three seven four nine, seven,
eight hundred the Big One, your chance to get interactive
quick break, come back. You'll be first when we return.
I want to know what you've watched movie wise that

(01:30:36):
has shaken you, whether it's based on a true story
or whether it's just pure entertainment based. As much as
some of this, I don't know how sometimes inside someone's
mind to come up with some of the stuff that's
a part of it. And one of those that again
it is like nineteen ninety nine, maybe nineteen ninety five,
the movie seven, that's one of those that also I

(01:30:58):
know affected people in a lot of ways. And it
wasn't the Box. What'sn't the Box? And I got Brad Pitt,
you got Morgan Freeman and all of the Seven Deadly Sins,
which has a lot of as shaken anyway, depending on
how you were brought up to Bridgetown. Ray real quick
here before the break, seven hundred wlw Ray, what's up man?

Speaker 4 (01:31:17):
Hey? How you going by?

Speaker 5 (01:31:18):
Ye?

Speaker 1 (01:31:19):
I'm glad to hear you, good to be heard by you.
I need to talk to you too. What do you have?

Speaker 5 (01:31:25):
Silence of the Lambs, Texas, Chainsaw Massacre a few others
were all based on things that Ed Dean in Wisconsin
back in the fifties.

Speaker 1 (01:31:39):
And it's the stuff that's plausible that really messes with me.
I mean, like vampires. I'm not really all that concerned
about it. I mean, were wolves, Okay, fine, it's great,
it's fun. But the stuff where somebody is out there
just randomly picking people off or eating people or whatever else,
that stuff really hits me in my foundation.

Speaker 5 (01:32:01):
Yeah, the facing leather face. Ed Dean would cut the
women's face off and put them on his.

Speaker 1 (01:32:10):
You gotta figure, I mean, how disconnected and wrong do
you have to be up there in your head? So
at some point go, you know what, I think I'd
like to wear that face. I mean, there were those
people in the news and ray, I appreciate the call man,
thank you, just last week. They're worth a couple. It
was the guy who ran the Harvard Morgue and bodies
that were donated to science that he and his wife

(01:32:34):
she got like a year, he got like eight years.
What they were doing is selling pieces and parts of
donated bodies after they had done the research. I guess,
like faces and hands and other pieces and parts of
people that apparently there's a whole market for. I don't
know where you find them. I can't imagine if you're
looking for a hand or a face that you're gonna

(01:32:55):
call a random medical school and ask if they have
any leftover pieces and parts and could. But at some point,
somehow that's top of mind for people. I mean, I
don't know how much money they made on it, but
that stuff's out there. The dark web is real. There
is some dark, crazy, nasty stuff going on. Chad, you're
with Sterling on the Big One seven hundred WLW. How

(01:33:17):
are you, man?

Speaker 4 (01:33:19):
I'm good? How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:33:20):
I have no complaints. I just the face feeling into
the random boxing of people is it's it's a little unnerving,
that's all I know. I agree what shook you?

Speaker 4 (01:33:31):
Hey? I got I got a couple of movies for you.

Speaker 9 (01:33:33):
Yes, when I when I was a kid, the one
that got me was a movie called.

Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
Aldered States Altered ste I don't remember who was in it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:42):
I just remember the movie.

Speaker 1 (01:33:43):
Okay, Donald suddenly lust knows he's like he is the
memories like a steel trap. Uh huh, So he said, yeah,
that's it? So what else do you have aldered state?
And what else?

Speaker 4 (01:33:55):
I spent on your grave? We'll never watch that again.

Speaker 1 (01:33:59):
Oh yeah, that's that's the girl. I think she was violated, right,
and then she retaliated in a major way, correct.

Speaker 9 (01:34:05):
Yeah, in the worst ways possible.

Speaker 1 (01:34:07):
Yeah, well, I mean, you know, retribution is one of
those things you ought not do. Bad stuff. I guess right,
you pay the price.

Speaker 4 (01:34:13):
I totally agree. That was a disturbing movie.

Speaker 1 (01:34:16):
You have a good night, then you too, chat. I
appreciate you listening to being a part of the show.
Straight away, you got your eleven thirty report. Travis Laird
has it tracks. Mike Petravia joins us. We'll talk Bengals, cards,
football more Friday Night Sterling Nation Station seven hundred WULW.
Who in the Magic Bus? So imagine you're on the

(01:34:36):
bus and you're driving up through West Virginia and you
come up around a point pleasant in West Virginia and
you go, WHOA the Mothman and they have a festival.
You know, it was a horrible thing in the bridge
and the collapse and all the other stuff, and people
still believe, but they turned it into a revenue generating
spectacle of tourism as well the Mouthman Festival generally in

(01:34:57):
September time, and apparently Jaction to brus is the show
coming back and forth from Carolina to Hear at one
point or another. He's back now. It was telling me
off the air that his wife would get all like
tensed up and freaked out, which would then freak him out.
As they're coming back over that bridge and in this area.
Worried about a mothman, which you know, I mean, maybe

(01:35:18):
there's a moth man, maybe there's not a moth man.
If I can make some money on it, please bring
the mothman as long no one can get hurt. I mean,
I don't know. I don't want anybody to get hurt.
But big mothmen doing bad things.

Speaker 5 (01:35:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:35:29):
There's a lot of unknown. I just remember the dead
Leonard Nimoy And they've since brought back the show in
search of We're always in search of those things that
we didn't understand, that mayor may not be true, that
may or may not be dangerous. Who is not dangerous
but well informed? Travis Laird, he has news, then tracks
joins me talking hooday here on seven hundred WLW