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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Should you be allowed to contribute to the defense of
an accused violent offender. Crowdfunding people raise money in all
sorts of ways for all sorts of things globally at
this point and at his home here in Cincinnati in

(00:20):
a way that turns my stomach quite frankly. But I'm
not sure that a new law is going to work.
What am I talking about? It's a Friday sterling seven
hundred WLW your chance to get interactive. Now there's a
new bill that's making its way through the Ohio House
in Columbus which would outlaw crowdfunding for acts of violence

(00:42):
and so forth. Now that doesn't mean like, hey, we're
raising money and then we're going to pay someone. I
mean we as in anyone the public, not me personally
and maybe not you, but anyone to be able to
contribute to a defense of someone else, not to the
raising money to then motivate someone to do some type

(01:03):
of despicable criminal, violent act. Why it's in the news
now and getting even more attention than before, which has
then caused quite a conversation with some friends over the
last couple of days. Of myself is, of course, the
Hamilton County sheriff's deputy Larry Henderson, who was run down
by the father of a man whose son was involved

(01:25):
in allegedly i'll say, a he of a vehicle that
was stolen and took place on a chase that ended
with those fleeing the vehicle with weapon in hand, and
then a shooting occurred, and that man's son lost his
life because he did a dumb ass thing and ended
in a situation where a law enforcement officer had to

(01:46):
defend himself and those around him. And it's an unfortunate,
heartbreaking thing, bad decision made by that young man and
those in that vehicle, one of which I think is
in trouble again. It made headlines in the last couple
of days, and of course his father then as it
played out and he saw his son's body, I can't

(02:06):
imagine the nightmare that is and trying to make sense
of that situation and what went down. Then he left
and then sometime later around you see graduation time last year.
It's almost been a year ago now actually, and with
clear deliberate intent it would appear, and they're waiting on
it to play out in the courts. I don't want

(02:27):
to get in trouble. He's still the accused, but seem
pretty clearly the one responsible obviously for getting in that
vehicle and deliberately driving into and killing Larry Henderson's deputy
sheriff Hambleton County. His widow is in support of an
idea that would extend or expand the Son of Sam law.
The Son of Sam Law goes back to the time

(02:49):
of the Son of Sam killer and the idea that
a criminal should not profit from their crimes public city,
movie deals, book deals, etc. Instead, it should be used
to protect victims, not those who perpetrate crimes. My question
to you is this, though, because it gets murky those waters.

(03:10):
Whether it's me or Russ Jackson or our Bill Cunningham
or Ed Fingers or Lance McAllister, pick a person God
forbid in a situation where they are accused. They're in
a court situation and they are being tried for a
violent crime, and it's not cheap to get quality defense counsel.
It's expensive, a lot of billable hours, and you go, well,

(03:33):
you know the court will give you an attorney, but
do you really want an attorney who's overworked is gonna
get five hundred dollars for your case in total, and
they're handling another fifty cases. Besides that, I don't know.
You might want to be able to defend yourself to
the best of your ability, and that does not come cheap.
And if people could raise funds for a good defense,

(03:54):
then what is wrong with that?

Speaker 2 (03:55):
I ask you?

Speaker 1 (03:56):
And the reason I say it turns my stomach is
because whether it's the man who's accused of killing that
deputy sheriff, which we all saw in a fairly clear
detailed information associated with it, in how that thing is
played out, it's disturbing and uncomfortable. But I have to

(04:17):
say that it makes sense to me that anyone who
is accused, anyone who's set to go to trial, should
be able to raise funds in just about any way
they can to be able to defend themselves to the
best of their ability with legal counsel, whether it's you
donating funds or somebody else donating funds. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,

(04:42):
eight hundred The big one. You can talk back the
iHeartRadio at pick up the phone, give it the finger.
It's a it's a very challenging, ugly bit of thought
that goes into this because it was a very ugly, miserable,
just despicable circumstance that presented itself, and bad decisions made

(05:03):
by the father of that young man who lost his
life by doing bad things, stealing a car, allegedly running
around with other hoodlums with a weapon in his hand
and trying to escape police and not listening to their
directives and then making them feel they were in fear
of their lives. That situation, though compared to others, is challenging.

(05:26):
So I ask you, should you be able to raise
money to defend yourself with crowdfunding if you're accused of
a violent act to get yourself a defense, not profit
from it. I'm not talking about raise money for your
retirement or for you know, a house or a car
or anything else, but for a defense or is that

(05:46):
across the line of what's inappropriate and wrong? And it's
it's difficult, it's a tough putt in trying to make
sense of this, in my opinion. Five point three seven
four nine seven eight hundred. The Big One talk back,
the iHeartRadio app. I'm on x at Sterling Radio. That's
what Twitter is now. If you didn't already know, you
know in our court system. It helps to have money

(06:12):
if you're looking to defend yourself, if you're looking to
make sure that you're not going to get railroaded, that
you're going to get the best defense that you can get.
And anyone who has ever been in trouble, I would imagine,
probably knows the fact that you want somebody who knows
what they're doing to be able to defend you. And
if guilty is sin and obviously so, then at least
they make sure the process and the procedures are handled appropriately,

(06:35):
and everyone in this nation is effectively entitled to that.
The question is if it's the poor or someone else,
does that allow them to be able to go to
crowdfunding or others. It's clearly a line that shouldn't be
crossed if it presents itself in a circumstance where someone
is raising funds to motivate someone, but after the fact

(07:00):
and someone is facing criminal proceedings. It seems to me
that unfortunately, there are going to be some ugly cases
that come up in this type of circumstance like this,
with Deputy Henderson and his family having to live through that,
and I certainly hope that they don't take me is

(07:21):
somehow not being there for him, because he was there
for us in Hamilton County doing his job making sure
people get around and doing the good work of the community.
And it shouldn't have happened to him. But the person
responsible deserves a defense. So I ask you, and it

(07:42):
is murky water. And what I mean by that is
because you kind of go, okay, how does this play
out in a non defense or say a non violent
crime defense situation. People can raise all kinds of money
all the time. I know people who have given money,
whether it was a campaign or whether it was for
funds in some type or another. For President Trump when

(08:03):
he was facing criminal proceedings before he was re elected,
and they kicked those cases to the curb. Not violent crime,
but still criminal proceedings, and people were coughing up serious
cash to defend him. That irritated a lot of people.
Some people thought that was over the top and too much,

(08:24):
But across the board, we're all entitled to the defense. Again,
after the fact, is one thing. Not putting it there
as a reward, not putting it there as a motivation,
not putting it there for a criminal to profit, but
to be able to have a defense let's get Jim

(08:44):
and Emilia first, your chance to get interactive to on
a Friday Sterling seven four nine seven eight hundred, the
Big One talked back the iHeartRadio app. Click on the microphone,
leave a message, Jim, how are you? It's good at
the while? What's going on?

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Jim?

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Are you there is this man? You?

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (09:01):
Oh my god? Thanks Terling.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
So like somebody ponies up some cash for somebody's defense,
shouldn't be shouldn't it be of common knowledge or access
to where who gave this money to this person?

Speaker 3 (09:19):
So you know what?

Speaker 5 (09:19):
I'm sorrying?

Speaker 1 (09:20):
No, In other words, that you whether regardless of the
the method of crowdfunding, you're saying of paper trail to
say that Jim contributed or I contributed, or Russ contributed
or whatever.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Correct, yes, sir?

Speaker 4 (09:33):
Right?

Speaker 5 (09:34):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 3 (09:35):
No?

Speaker 2 (09:36):
I understand.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
I would imagine there is a paper trail or a
digital one that leaves cookie prints of some sort that
could be found. And I know that you are able
to put anonymous in some crowdfunding when I've given nothing
like this.

Speaker 6 (09:48):
Okay, Well that's not that's not right.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
The anonymous thing is not right when I'm getting at right.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
So you shouldn't be able to donate to someone's defense anonymously.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
No, you got to put it online. You got to
know my name is Bob, and I gave it. I
gave money to his be that rent over a cup.
So what.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
Else is right?

Speaker 7 (10:12):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Well, I don't necessarily have a problem with putting your
name in that situation. But does that mean for every
violent crime or just one where it involves law enforcement
and something is as egregious as that or other violent.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
Crime, all defensive funds that are donated should be not anonymous.
That should be out of the open for everybody to see.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Fair enough.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
So in that regard, you're okay with people crowdfunding. You
just want people to be able to be seen as contributing.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, that it's not secret, gotcha.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Okay, So you're okay with raising money to defend a
violent criminal. You just want to make sure that if
you give or I give, that there is some type
of acknowledgment and be able to say who coughed up
some cash?

Speaker 2 (10:56):
I got you?

Speaker 5 (10:56):
That's perfect, Thanks Girling, Thank.

Speaker 7 (10:58):
You, Jim.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Is that makes sense that it makes sense that you
should be able to donate to someone's criminal defense. But
it has to be a public situation where people know
with the receipt effectively that this person coughed up money,
and that person coughed up money, or this organization coughed
up money or somebody else. Maybe that might be something

(11:23):
that may or may not slow contributions. I just think
we get into a really weird area. And I want
to be clear about this because the conversation I had
off there earlier, it was difficult to have a civil
conversation about it because it kept going back to the
idea as it being a reward for bad violent behavior,

(11:45):
and nobody wants that. But if in trouble, if accused,
if in the process of prosecution, whether it's for anything,
I mean, where do you draw the line or where
you can contribute? I think you have to allow the contract.
The question, of course, is you know public or not.
I don't think I necessarily think it necessarily has to

(12:06):
be public, But I think Jim might be, you know,
onto something in that type of circumstance.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
And it's a it's a really weird thing.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
But people donate all the time to all types of things,
even political campaigns where moneys have been appropriated that maybe
shouldn't have involving in defense of some sort for all
kinds of different type of lawmakers. So I mean, and
there's no question that a lot of them are dirty
or least shady in some type of fashion to independence

(12:34):
with Mike and Sterling here on seven hundred WLW on
your Friday night, should anybody be able to give to
a violent you know, a defendant in a crowdfunding situation
to help provide them some type of criminal defense or.

Speaker 6 (12:46):
No, So Sterling, I don't think that you can you
can pick on who can get defense. I think it
should be this blanket if somebody defense, there's no you know,
law against it. I don't see how you can pick
and choose who who's guilty who's not before a trial
happens for a legal defense. But I do think that
maybe you could, you know, prohibit the current sharing sites

(13:10):
out there and do like maybe one it's just it's
for legal defense. You can put in some more you know,
specifications or regulations and that donation through a separate entity. Besides,
you know that the standard crowd sourcing places.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Now, yeah, I think that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
I mean, in my buddy of mine, you got real
bent out of shape about it, and I totally understand it.
He couldn't get beyond the fact that he thought it
was rewarding, you know, bad behavior. I was like, just so,
because someone is accused doesn't mean they're guilty. They're innocent
and still proven guilty. We all have that right in
this nation, even if in fact we see it on video.
It's the way that the process.

Speaker 6 (13:47):
Works, right, Mike, Right, Yeah, I just think it's it's
against the constitution. I mean, it's against the rights of
everybody to get you know, innoc until proven guilty. So
let's keep it that way and little offenceship the same thing.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, I absolutely agree, and Mike, I appreciate it. Call
me in thank you.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
It's it's challenging because you know, here's a case where
it seems like there's no questions that it's just a process,
and you know, they were going through the whole thing
with you know, the father of the guy who was
involved in the shooting with pleas who ran over the
sheriff deputy allegedly. I got to say that, but it's
still a process that has to play on, as disgusting

(14:26):
and revolting as it may be, and they were still
trying to figure out whether he was mentally competent to
stand trial, but clearly seemed like some premeditation to me.
But I'm no lawyer, and I do not want to
play one on the radio. We have other guys here
who are lawyers who can do that. If I went three, seven, four, nine, seven,
eight hundred, the big One. Later on, Kevin Carr by
the way, going to join me, we'll talk movies. I
believe his one pick for the week that he got

(14:47):
to see is he has to pick one movie is
Scream seven, which I know Russ Jackson was eagerly awaiting
to follow up to Scream six because there were so
many unanswered questions left it to be answered. We'll find
out exactly I'm still trying to figure out seven of
those movies already, and they started in the mid nineties,
so they've and they brought back a whole bunch of

(15:08):
some of the original cast in different forms too, which
is pretty interesting. And over time that there'll be geriatrix
like in Walkers and hove around scooter type situations trying
to get away from scary stuff happening. But we'll see
exactly what that brings that's coming up after your nine
point thirty report. Also, Gordon Wittmeier Cincinnati dot Com talked
to him earlier about the Reds. He's out in the desert,

(15:29):
so we'll get into his head see exactly how they're
looking and how Suarez is and he's brought those good
vibes and everything else to sort of go along with that.
If you had not already heard, Miami RedHawks got it
done last minute. The win's a win, no matter how
you look at it. Twenty one in the country, sixty
nine sixty seven over Western Michigan. So they went again

(15:50):
and continue to sort of add to that momentum and
some love for the Mac and I goes up in
Oxford too, and then of course, you know, getting a
lot more attention and getting people geeked up and excited
maybe about getting rid of Malet and putting something else
up that will be bigger and more modern that could
help with a lot of other events and those type

(16:10):
of things coming up to that part of the world
as well. You see basketball beer Cats hosting Oklahoma State
Big Twelve matchup tomorrow fifth third here on the Big One,
and Xavier's the x Men. They got Georgetown on a
Big East matchup at Sentas that's also tomorrow, and I
believe that's on fifty five KRC if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
So yeah, there you go. Russ just confirmed that that's it.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
So a lot of stuff going on and a lot
of people getting involved too. I'm on ex at Sterling
Radio or Twitter as I like it is. I still
want to call it that. It's just one of those
things that you have to do. A lot of other
stuff going on. It's been in the news as well.
I have friends who were planning to go. I've been
to Cosmount to go scuba diving a couple times, and

(16:52):
that's the Mexico. It's sort of like a small island.
You could drive around it. It's a beautiful place, incredible
people and credible food, and the coral reef there is
just unbeatable unless you go to like Australia or someplace
like that. They say it's top five, top ten easily,
and friends of mine's supposed to be going, and then

(17:13):
they tell me that they were concerned. Of course, after
the issue with well you got the drug lord kind
of cartel leader killed, violence and Americans concerned and trapped
and everything else. Trying to figure out exactly if they're
going to go or not. And they did something that
I did not do. What I've never done. Also, I

(17:35):
should say, is the travel insurance. I don't think I
bought that but once on any trip I have ever taken.
But it would appear that maybe just possibly buying travel
insurance if you're going to head to like an area
that's a little shady, might be a good idea for
Mexico this time of year. The most dangerous thing I
had to deal with, and it was shocking getting off

(17:56):
the airplane the first time I got to Cosammel Is.
You get off the plane, you walk into their little
airport and there were a military with machine guns and
so forth. And the first time I had been there,
I'd not really seen that except here after nine to eleven.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
But they weren't pointing them at me. I felt pretty comfortable.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
It was a little disconcerting to think that it was
necessary in this little island there, Paradise, but it's one
of those things that comes up from time to time.
So I mean, as long as they're doing their job,
I'd be okay with going to eat some great food
and hang out and do some diving. But we'll get
into that a little bit later too, because I know
other friends who have kids that were supposed to be
going to kan Kun, which is a huge spring break destination,

(18:40):
whole lot of schools the next couple of weeks. Looking
to get out of town and go someplace. Mexico may
or may not be your place of choice. No straight
away your nine point thirty report. Kevin Carr joins me.
We'll talk new movies and later. Gordon Wittmeyer from Cincinnati
dot Com talking Reds Baseball with me Sterling on a
Friday night seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Well on the sub Stack says all hell, no scream?
Seven's here? Who knew? There were six others and.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Many questions left out answered and the killing continues. Welcome
back to seven hundred WLW. He's subber get going the substack.
Of course affect guys the movies too, Kevin Carr, how
are you man?

Speaker 4 (19:17):
I always love getting introduced as the killing continues. That's
always good intro. That's like my WWE intro with some
crazy rock music or something.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
I would absolutely love to be a writer for those guys,
I really would. That would be huge. I can create
some storylines, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
Uh are there storylines that were remaining the I mean,
does this Scream seven make you want to scream out
of misery or what I mean?

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Because you picked this of all the other stuff your
one pick this week.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
Why yeah, well it's gonna be the big movie of
the weekend. I mean the last two movies that they did,
which they rebooted and then so they had Scream which
was called just Scream. That was Scream five, and then
they had Scream six, and then they took a hiatus
because they can Melissa baratah as A as the actress,
and they went back to nev Campbell and they got

(20:11):
her in this one now and she's trying to save
her daughter. So I think you have to look at
this in context as a slasher franchise, the seventh installment
in a plant strasher slasher franchise, it's a mixed bag usually,
So this one is it's coherent and palatable for a

(20:34):
seventh movie in a long, thirty year old series. And
in that sense, it's it's worth. It's it's okay. It's
not as good as it's not the best scream movie
by a mile, you know, like you know, the first
one was really good when they tried to When they
did Scream four, that was good. The reboot with Radio
Silence a couple of years ago was good. This one's

(20:55):
a little closer in quality to Scream three if you're
familiar with the franchise, because one of the things that's
neat about the screen movies is they always have different
people as ghost Space. It's not like Halloween, it's always
it's Michael Myers, and then with a couple of rare exceptions,
the Jason movies in Front of the Thirteenth, it's always Jason.

(21:18):
But this one is it's always new killers in the
ghost face costumes. So there's a constant flow of people
coming in and out of the franchise and it's getting
a little strained now, but it still works for what
it is.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
So it's fun.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
I mean, like, if you're a kid coming up and
this is your introduction to it, which I don't know,
maybe you'd go see the seventh one before the others
or not. I mean, is this the one you'd be like, oh, yeah,
I'm into it now, or is it one of those.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
Like why Well. The way these kind of slasher films
work is you don't need to know everything. I mean,
it's not Warren piece. You know, we're not trying to
keep all these different real characters and subtexts going on.
But you need to know who the people are. I mean,
if you haven't seen any screen movies, this probably isn't

(22:10):
the best one to start with. But if you've seen
all of them or most of them, yeah, you can
figure it out. It's the writing's not as strong because
at a certain point, you know, the first film was
meant to deconstruct slasher movies by made by Wes Craven,
who helped create the genre in the eighties. He really did,

(22:31):
but still it deconstructed them, and so it keeps turning
in on itself. And by the time they did the reboot,
they're saying what makes a good reboot, and so they're
very self referential, and they because there's always different killers,
they're going to different you know, dipping the pool again.
Uh So it does kind of it's its own worst

(22:53):
enemy in that it's trying to keep that alive. But
you can only twist that around so many times over
seven films, and so.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
The silver guck on substecs where you can find Kevin Carr.
He will appear in your EWN mailbox electronically, not like physically,
although that would be interesting for sure. Uh yeah, comics
and a lot of other stuff too for that matter.
So we know about Scream seven. So if you're into it, great,
If not, then it'll be streaming probably sooner than later
compared to other of all the long And we've talked

(23:22):
about this just recently around Halloween, you know, you already
mentioned in fact, you know, the Friday the thirteenth and
the Halloweens. There are a number of others that have
had multiple genre like crossing, I guess sequel scenarios. Of
all of these that have had like five or more,
three or more, I don't even know how many there
are of these. Which ones do you think are the

(23:42):
top tier and which ones are like? Why do they
keep their how do they keep making them?

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Well, here's the thing. Just as just as movies go,
I like the Halloween movies best, Yeah, but I don't
like all of them. It's because some of them are
absolutely terrible. Particular of the rob zombies you do not like. Yeah,
but even like Halloween six, and once you got past four,

(24:08):
Halloween starts to fall apart until they rebooted it. You know,
they rebooted it at twenty and they rebooted it at forty.
And I mean Jamie Lee Curtis, I don't know if
she's gonna be around for the sixty year reboots. He
was in a wheelchair.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
If the money check clears, then I'd roll in there.
If I was her, sure, why not.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
But I think those quality wise, those are the better movies,
not all of them, but some. And Friday the Thirteenth
is the most consistent. And there are some that are
better than others, of course, but they're not the best
made movies. But they were just kind of a cash
cow for at the time. I think it was Paramount

(24:49):
that released him. But those are the most consistent. You
don't have as much wide quality. I always liked The
Nightmare on elm Street Movies because it had that sort
of supernatural element to it, and the dreams I thought
was kind of cool. But those go downhill fast, especially
when you got the remake involved. Yeah, but uh, Texas

(25:13):
Chainsaw also has people always forget that when you talk
about slasher movies Texas Chainsaw. There's been a bunch of movies.
I think gotta be up to like eight or nine
by this point, because they did Want on Netflix a
couple of years ago. And you know, I mean the
in the fourth one, uh, the one with the Renee
Zellwegger and Matthew McConaughey before Ed became famous. And well,

(25:34):
what's funny about that one is they the movie They
are way better than the movie that they're in, right,
But they were both unknowns at the time, And so
that's why that one, like like the first Texas Chainsaw,
is unnerving on so many.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Levels, absolutely is, and mostly based on true stories, right.

Speaker 8 (25:59):
Game.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Yeah, it was loosely based on Angien because he would
he had a flesh mask and stuff like that, But
so was Silence of the Lamb.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
I like, how you just you just ran right, he
had a flesh mask, you know, and then on to
the next that's a really really disturbing you know what
I mean. It's not like Matt Reeze or Russ Jackson
are like, oh yeah, he has a flesh face he
wears around Halloween, but.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
He's Scoot Dupes, He's good people. I mean, there's nothing
about that.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
We all try to mullet at some point in our lives.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Let's just go passing us up front party in the back.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
I was just talking to Russ Jackson off the air
about how to put a show together.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
That's how I look at it. Yeah, it's the same.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Aside from the slasher movies, and we've gone into the
other area of you know, sequels. And we talked about
The Godfather, maybe to the point of annoyance to some people,
But I mean is that maybe the Star Wars like
the best sequel type movies, not just in general.

Speaker 4 (26:51):
Well you know what I mean. You got to give
props to Aliens. That was a really really good sequel, huge,
and you got to give props to the James Bond
movie because of arguably this sequels. Well, I loved From
Russia with Love and that was better than Doctor No.
And that was the first movie. And then even then
you had like the one two punch of Goldfinger and Thunderball,

(27:11):
which are the some of the highest grossing films of
all time when adjusted for inflation. So yeah, and you know,
like a lot of people, you know, go after remakes
and stuff, but you know, remakes can be good. People
forget that. The Charleston Heston version of Ben hur was
a remake. Oh, you know, and they forget that the
thing was a remake. And you know, so there's some

(27:33):
good remakes out there too.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Now, Lenny and Anderson just message at Stirling Radio on
Twitter says, what about the Candy Man movies.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
They have made a few of those and they did
reboot that too, right.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
They did they And I thought the reboot was really
good because it did they did kind of make it
its own. But the Candy Man movies, the first one's
really good and unnerving, you know, from what like nineteen
ninety two, I think what it was. Then the second
one is not so good. In the third one it's bad.
But then they did reboot it, or the Saw movies,

(28:07):
and they keep rebooting that. They did, they did all
the Saw movies and they fell into the toilet and
then they brought it back and they did like Jigsaw,
and they did Spiral with Chris Rock, and uh, I
thought that was I mean, it wasn't a great movie,
but I thought the movie with Chris Rock was pretty good.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
That wasn't too bad, I mean, and out of the genre,
of course, then you get like all the Marvel like
the Spider Man movies or Spider Man not Spider Man.
That they could do with Spider Man. They could just
have a whole slow at Spider Dudes. They did that,
That's what he did.

Speaker 4 (28:37):
They did that in u in in uh into the
Spider Verse where he goes to all the different delusions,
and they're making they're making Nicholas Cage as Spider Noir.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
I saw that trailer the other day. I was gonna
mention that and ask you about that.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
How I love so much of what he's done, but
some of it, you can tell, even the goofy stuff
where he must have just needed money for more dinosaur
bones or something.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
I don't know what.

Speaker 4 (28:58):
His had divorce lawyer, and that's that's why he needed money.
That's why they'd sell his copy of Superman or Action
Comics number one or something like that.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Oh that's yeah, that's like a kick to the junk.
Nobody likes that. That's that's still a painful bad Now
you've went to a really bad place.

Speaker 7 (29:12):
Man.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
I'm sorry. It's right, but no, Sony keeps trying to
make a Spider Man universe, and it's never gonna work.
People love Spider Man, that's true, and most Spider Man
movies on their own do well. No one wants to see,
as we have proved over the last couple of years,
nobody wants to see a morebeous movie. Nobody wants to
see a Madam Web movie. Nobody wants to see a

(29:35):
Sinister six movie. The Venom movies did okay, but they
I think that was it's because they started. They happened
to hit right at the right time.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
See I I couldn't sit through like the first one
of those for some reason. I don't know what it is.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
I was just like, they're not great movies.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
That could be the reason.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
I think I think people got they liked the humor
to it, because because the banter between Eddie and Venom,
you know, it's Tom Hardy doing kind of both parts.
And but yeah, no, they're not good movies.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
What a Terminator.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
They've done a bunch of those two and the first
one is tremendous with Linda Hamilton of course in Schwarzenegger
and uh and they've kept how many of those are there,
like four or five?

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Well, you know, yeah, they've done like six and then
they did a TV series, but they keep trying to
reboot that and that just never takes because.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
The series was with dogget Right from X Files, that
guy who's an Ohio guy.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (30:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah, oh you're right.
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
I have useless facts. My brain is filled with them.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
I'm sorry, and I just looked at you to either
validate them or tell me my memory is wrong, because
sometimes my memories are not real, which is very Distribkay.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
You know that's that's the Matrix and other series.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
That's true, right, and some of those are better than
others too, right.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Obvious, although I generally like that. Here's the thing with
the Matrix series. I know that there's things that people
got annoyed with it. I think those are really great,
heavy sci fi, even the second and third movie, even
the fourth movie, the one the reboot. I think that
got shafted in the theater. I thought the reboot was
really good.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Now Mark and Hyde Park just says, how can you
leave out Jurassic Parks And they're having a bunch of those.
I mean, now we're getting hate because we're not mentioning
every sequel ever made.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
But yeah, some of those. That's an Internet comment. I like,
you're invalidated. No, but Jurassic Park is a good series.
The thing with the Jurassic Park, though, is I don't
think the Jurassic World movies are nearly as good as
just the first Jurassic Park. I mean, Spielberg did so
well with that movie, and then when they converted it
to three D like twenty years ago, it looked, it

(31:41):
looked good and it had some great three D effects
and they did not shoot it for three D. That's
the kind of a dynamic director that Spielberg was. It is,
so the Jurassic World movies are fine, but they get
a little bit they're almost a little two on the
nose where they walk through the opening of the the
New Jurassic World and they're like, it's not enough to

(32:02):
see dinasurgery. You got to make them bigger and better.
And it's like, quit talking about your own movie that way.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Here's another twist.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
And I was just thinking this because the other night
I was flipping around one, you know, the streaming stuff
on the TV, and like how.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
You just sort of just the streaming stuff like it's
one place to go.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Well, because if you have a smart TV, which is
watching everything you do every like twelfth of a second anyway,
which I feel very unnerved by each TV, whether it's
Sam Sung or Sony pick one, they have their own
streaming thing. Then maybe you have a Roku or maybe
you have Spectrum whatever. Each of them has a variety
of streaming stuff. So I didn't mean necessarily an app.

(32:41):
But Blade was on and back to back to Blade Too. Now,
Blade Too was better than Bla, the first Blade movie
in my opinion, respectfully, how many of those movies where
the sequel has been better than the first, even though
you may disagree with my you know, pretzel logic with
the Blade.

Speaker 4 (32:57):
Well, I mean I didn't even go back and watch
because garabl del Toro directed that, and that was one
of his earliest American movies. He's great, and he was
coming out of doing some really cool stuff in Mexico too,
and he's gone on to win Oscars and stuff like
that now and he did Frankenstein this year. But I
don't know, I can't say that now looking at Blade Too,

(33:20):
I'd say it's better or worse because it's been so
long since I've seen it. I did like Blade, but
there are movies and it's always going to be an argument.
I mean, I would say that Aliens is a more
entertaining movie. Than Alien, But I don't know if i'd
say it's better because they're really kind of two separate
genre and one's an action movie, one's a horror film.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Well, the first one scared the hell of me out
of me as a child, and I was thinking about
I don't want any parasite in me, let alone space
parasitics issues, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
And he can look at Star Wars movies and say,
Empire Strikes Back is a far superior movie than Star Wars.
But Star Wars broke ground. And when I say it
broke ground, it blew the ground up. It didn't just
you know, put a shovel in there. It redefined an
entire industry. So that's the groundbreaking work. They're same thing

(34:12):
with The Terminator. I think The Terminator the first one
very good movie, well written, and it fits. Second Terminator
kind of gets a little ooey gooey with the time
travel stuff, but from a technical perspective, it's much better film.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah, like the Jaws.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
And then of course my favorite, and I still think
and maybe it's because it really resonated with me as
a child, and I saw it in a lot of
ways that it was just I look beyond its just
like Apes from Space or whatever history past future. But
I mean, how amazing of the Planet of the Apes.
And then they redid those two in some fashion.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
Yeah, well, because if you go the Rise of the
Planet of the Apes is very similar to and and
I think it's Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.
It's one of the sequels that that actually or or
Battle for I forget which one it is, but it
is kind of based on that movie in the original run.
But the Planet of the movies are good. But again,

(35:10):
you que it's very hard to compare one that was made,
the one with Charleston Heston back in nineteen sixty eight.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Any different time. Yeah, I mean yeah too.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
We were literally right, yeah, I mean did you see
in the theater originally? I mean you couldn't have, right,
I mean, we've saw it on TV as kids, because the.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
Only time I ever saw was on VHS. Yeah, and
on TV. And here's the thing, I hadn't seen it.
Person didn't rewind the video, so it we put it
in and played the ending, so.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Like, come on, so you start with the ending and
do that. A lot of people read books that way
on purpose, though they'll read the ending and then go
to the front of the book.

Speaker 7 (35:43):
Why do that?

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Well, I mean, if it's your personal truck. Look, I'm
not going to get in the way of it. If
if you want to do that, that's great, but don't
be a jerk and ruin and spoil it for other
And then I've had people spoil things and then they
go interually, you know, they've done studies that it doesn't
really really in the experience, they goes shut up. Spoiling
a movie is like Spartan in an elevator. You may

(36:06):
not mind, but everybody else.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Does, and they're stuck until they get to the twelfth floor,
no matter what anything else before we let you go.
I know, we've gone here, there, and everywhere else. On
a Friday night, you know, hanging out with Kevin Carr.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
No, I think partner an elevator is a good way.

Speaker 7 (36:22):
I think so too.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
And Kevin will show up in your mailbox flatulence or no,
the sober Geppo on the sub stack. You can find him,
and you can search maybe even and find a Chubby
and Stick podcast from the past, which is out there
someplace at some point, somehow. I don't know. All right, man,
I'll see you later, take care of yourself. That's Kevin
Carr coming up. But you got news straight away, and
we'll get into some other things as well.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
You know what we'll do.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
How about this Gordon went Meyer in the desert talking
Reds baseball. It's spring and they're getting at it, and
we'll be playing in literally a month from today, if
I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Isn't opening day a month from today?

Speaker 1 (37:00):
I think twenty seven twenty from yesterday, all right, so
my basic math as well, twenty six, so less than
a month. They'll be playing for real down by the
river at the Great American Ballpark. And here on the
Big One Gordon Witmeyer from Cincinnati dot Com covers them.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
He's a beat writer.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
We'll get into his head about how they're looking on
the other side of news right here on the home
of those Reds on a Friday, Sterling seven hundred WLW, Cincinnatich.
One's left behind by an escaping Kevin Carr on a
lift someplace. If you're talking like the bridge to how
you doing Sterling? Moment away from your ten o'clock report,
Brady has the news. Let you know what's going on
around planet Earth. It's happening with Iran who knows with

(37:36):
QBA two. Thanks for getting weird, and then we'll talk
Red Sweet Gordon Windmeyer, he's covering them out in the desert.
Red so win today. I thought they won today. Maybe
I don't know. This spring at lost. It doesn't even
matter though, right, I mean it's spring. You just want
them to be ready and not injured and winning when
it comes Opening Day and beyond when the Red Sox

(37:57):
come into Cincinnati to take on our Reds at the
Great Ama eric And ballparking right here on seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati.
Join that live Cord Wittenmeyer, Redsbetrider, Cincinnati dot Com, The
Inquire hanging out with Jason Williams from time to time too.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
I'm sure that's a good time. Gordon. How are you?
How's everything?

Speaker 4 (38:15):
I'm doing great?

Speaker 1 (38:16):
That wasn't a knock. I did not mean that to
sound the way it did. I really didn't. I see
these video you guys, and I'm jealous. You're hanging out
in the desert, You're watching Reds baseball. I mean you know,
I'm in a room with the one going to a hallway. Gordon,
who's living better?

Speaker 2 (38:29):
You guys?

Speaker 8 (38:30):
I just kicked his ass out of Arizona. He's on
a flight back home right now.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Good for him and good for you. I say, how
is the desert right now?

Speaker 1 (38:40):
I mean, we know it's hot, and the talk about
redgs is pretty hot, and you know, there's limited opportunity
for guys to make this team, unlike other years where
it seems like almost almost everything is sort of set.
Pitching really a glaring spot where there at least is
one hole in the starting rotation.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
And how is that coming?

Speaker 9 (39:00):
Yeah, and it's not really a hole so much as
it is just an uncertainty. That's the fifth spot, obviously
behind four veteran guys. And it's funny you should talk
about how hot it is getting down here in the desert.
Nothing more hot than that race right now. Chase Burns,
the flame thrower, ten strikeouts, a game guy from last

(39:20):
year as a rookie, pitched yesterday he struggled at times
with his command, and then today Rehtt Louder pitch.

Speaker 8 (39:26):
Those are the top two guys for that spot.

Speaker 9 (39:29):
And Louder people might remember when he broke in two
years ago at a one seventeen era and six starts.
That's the way he looked today. I know it's just
spring training. But the thing about the thing you watched
for with Louder is his command, his location, and it
was it was like those starts in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 8 (39:49):
He pitched three innings.

Speaker 9 (39:50):
He was so efficient he only threw thirty pitches that
he went back out to the bullpen to throw ten
more and the only bat that reached offing was, of
all things, a walk.

Speaker 8 (40:03):
So go figure, but he looks really good.

Speaker 9 (40:06):
There's a long way to go here, but right now,
giving good help with everybody, it'll be it'll be a.

Speaker 8 (40:16):
Good decision to have to make down the stretch for
these guys.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
The depth looks like I mean, it seems like every
year Gordon Wittmeyer, by the way, Cincinnati dot Com was
stirling on the being we'll talking about Reds Baseball. Every
year it's like we need more pitching, we need more pitching,
and you're like, well, how much could be enough? And
it seems like every year there's just not quite enough.
How is the depth of that rotation right now? And
what we look at down on the farm, because obviously

(40:40):
even in the bullpen, it looks like there's some solid arms.

Speaker 9 (40:44):
Look, I started covering this team in during the twenty
three season, and prior to that, I was in the
division for fifteen years, so I got a pretty good
post look at him, even coming in as a visiting writer.

Speaker 8 (40:58):
This feels it's certainly the most depth I've.

Speaker 9 (41:03):
Seen since I've been around this team, and talking to
Derek Johnson, the pitching coach, he says it's about as
good as he's seen since he's been around. And then
you know, you got to go back into the early
twenty tens probably to find something that feels this way
because they've got veteran depth in the bullpen too that

(41:27):
looks pretty good. There's going to be big league caliber
pitchers that don't make this pitching staff out of spring
training if everybody stays healthy.

Speaker 8 (41:38):
And again, that's a really good problem to have.

Speaker 9 (41:41):
You can never have enough pitching, right, That's one of
the oldest things in the game, And so they made
sure they kept enough of that even when they thought
their budget was tighter than it turned out to be.
And then they made sure that they added to the
depth in the bullpen, which was really important. And then
of course they got a little extra money from ownership
to get Gino Suarez, so they answered the biggest question

(42:05):
that the team had in terms of just being able
to compete, you know, getting that lineup in a place
where it might score another half run or more a game,
which was kind of the difference between maybe even being
a ninety win team last year. So so far in camp, uh, really,
the only disabling injury anything close to it, is with

(42:26):
a coach, Colin Cowgill, who is getting some knee surgery
that might or might not keep him out an opening day.
But it's one of the healthiest camps in the game
right now. You know, knock on whatever woods nearbody there.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
There's some I think it might be for Micah.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
I have no idea Sterling talking to Court Whitmeyer Cincinnati
dot Com talking about good health in this team and
bringing a Heno Suarez back into the fold, how much
difference is there energy wise in that locker room with
him back in there, because you know, I mean, you know,
the ongoing thing was about good vibes with Eugeno, but
there is a lot of truth to that, and it's

(43:01):
followed him everywhere he's gone, including coming back home to Cincinnati,
or at least we call it home.

Speaker 9 (43:06):
No, I agree, I agree with you and we saw
that day one when he walked in, everybody perked up,
a lot of hugs and a lot of laughter. And
he's kept it loose every day he's been there. But
you know that the thing is a lot of these
young guys that brought energy the last few years, but
not really that veteran presence.

Speaker 8 (43:24):
Where they were, you know, opening up in the clubhouse.

Speaker 9 (43:27):
There's there's a little more opening up in the clubhouse
from those guys, I mean and Welby Martez got a
really nice personality.

Speaker 8 (43:34):
Ellie da Cruz. You see him laughing and joking with
guys a lot.

Speaker 9 (43:40):
There's a there's a good vibes kind of feel to
this even even aside from him that maybe comes from
that playoff experience last year, maybe comes a little bit
from the new manager that start his second year with
the club. Whatever it is, it's it's it's a little
bit different than we saw the last couple of years

(44:01):
and now and now we'll see how it see how
the club, you know, how things play out is as
cuts maybe start coming in and probably it probably won't
be too.

Speaker 8 (44:12):
Soon because they've got WBC guys leaving, but maybe.

Speaker 9 (44:15):
Maybe in the next week or so, and then then
you see how that that opening a roster starts coming
into focus.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
How does the World Baseball Classic play into this, Gordon
when you look at these teams and you know the
fragility of health and longevity in the one hundred and
sixty two games and trying to get back to a
post heason situation, do they tell guys, no, we'd prefer
you not to go, or I mean, how does that
work when it comes into somebody wanting to go represent

(44:43):
on an international kind of tournament scenario as the Spring
cut carries.

Speaker 9 (44:46):
On well by rule, formally, the only say the team
has in it is with a player that has an
injury issue, and that did come into play a little
bit with la Dale and Cruz just about the time
they told us he was free and c from that
quad strain that he finished last year with.

Speaker 8 (45:02):
They also kind of talked about.

Speaker 9 (45:04):
Some rehab that he had done even in town instance, hey,
during the off season, So that did come in play
in the decision for him not to go to the WBC.
Other than that, there's a little bit of you know,
there's this conversation sometimes you know, maybe we for you
not to or we think it's better for your career,
and sometimes the agents get involved in that too. I

(45:25):
know Ellie's agents wondered if it was the best thing
for him when or earlier in the off season when
he expressed some interest in doing it. But when it
when all the dust settled on this, the Reds had
a lot of guys invited, including Hunter Green and Lodolo
and Pagon and I.

Speaker 8 (45:44):
Mean that's just off the pitching staff, and and so.

Speaker 9 (45:48):
Nobody wants their pitchers to go to this thing just
because of the risk by nature that that presents, and so.

Speaker 8 (45:56):
The fact that they all turned it down.

Speaker 9 (45:58):
The only guy that's going the WBC that's on the
projected opening twenty six man roster is Suarez, and he's
a veteran. You don't worry about him. The only other
guy on the forty man roster that's going is Edwin o'royle.
And that was a last minute invitation for Puerto Rico
because of all those guys that couldn't play because of
insurance issues and stuff, and they their roster, you know,

(46:21):
was completed. So for that's by the way, that's the
fewest guy, the fewest Big leaguers for any team in
baseball and so it could be an advantage as they
put this team together. I mean, by mid season, it's
all going to shake out. And assuming nobody has a
catastrophic injury like Edwin Diaz missed, you know, weird injury,

(46:45):
missed the whole season after the twenty three World Baseball
Classic something.

Speaker 8 (46:49):
There's nothing like that.

Speaker 9 (46:50):
You know, it probably won't make any difference by the
time you get a couple months into the season, coming
out of the gate, how you put your roster together,
it should be an advantage for the Reds.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Let's hope it is now. I have two things. One
I want to circle back if we can about cal Gill.
How does that work when it comes to a guy
who's injured in that situation, they grab like Kremchek or
somebody get in there and get him fixed up.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Is he having to pay to the Reds pay?

Speaker 1 (47:14):
I'm always curious for a guy who's I mean, he's
he's a part of the organization. I mean, I don't
think that's a normal workers comp Like when I got
attacked by a wall hanging at the station and it
sliced my palm.

Speaker 8 (47:25):
No, he was on the job when it happened. I
mean there's no issue there.

Speaker 10 (47:30):
He is.

Speaker 8 (47:30):
He did, he did fly out out of camp so
that he could go get the surgery.

Speaker 9 (47:35):
He's got a I guess he's got a fairly significant
meniscus tear. And I don't know if it's I don't
know if it's worse than that. You know, Frank Cone
is the one that relayed the information because he's.

Speaker 8 (47:46):
Not exactly a medical guy. Well, no, he doesn't in
the manager's office very well, so so who knows. I mean,
he might have a full blown a c L. I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Well, we hope we get him fixed up. I'm just
always curious about these odd nuts and bolts things. And
I had a couple of people.

Speaker 4 (48:04):
I'm kind of.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Yeah, yeah, I figured as much yet, but I had
to ask Gordon Whittmeyer, by the way, cover the reds
for Cincinnati dot Com. He's in the desert, was sterling
on the big one here in the small room looking
into a window into a hallway.

Speaker 10 (48:16):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
The other thing is, and I've got a few people asking,
and uh, ironically, all women in my life have asked
me if Ellie seems bigger, has he bulked up some
or are they just okay, good, good, because I'm getting
a little tired of hearing it. They're not even like
on TV or at the ballpark locally yet, and I've
had two one woman very close is Ellie Bigger.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
I'm like, that's a weird question to ask me.

Speaker 9 (48:40):
No, he is, now, I don't know how much bigger,
But I think a lot of it was the conditioning
program he.

Speaker 8 (48:47):
Got on.

Speaker 9 (48:49):
Because of the rehab from the quad. Sure, I asked
him about the work. It was it was more work
than usual and a lot of strengthening and conditioning. So
I'm sure that's what they're seeing when they look at him,
and yeah, he is. But it's good weight, it's good.
It's good bulk that he's put on.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Is that possible that'll keep him, maybe make him a
little bit more durable over time, because I mean, really,
he started out he was like eight years old or something.
He was a kid, just a couple of years ago. Now,
I mean, it's it's an amazing thing.

Speaker 8 (49:22):
Well you would think, I mean, that's anybody's guess. But
this guy runs a lot. He puts a demanding position
in the field.

Speaker 9 (49:27):
There's a lot of explosive moves and and and just
a lot of fatigue that sometimes comes with that over
the course of a long season.

Speaker 8 (49:33):
They're going to get him off his feet. That'll help.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
But you just never know.

Speaker 8 (49:36):
I mean in baseball it's it's funny.

Speaker 9 (49:38):
Other than pitching injuries, which sometimes feel a little more
predictable just because they're so common, a lot of the
other injuries in baseball just seemed like, how.

Speaker 8 (49:47):
Did that happen? It just so happens, so who knows.
But it can't hurt, right, No.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
I wouldn't think so.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
When women start asking me that about a guy on
the Reds and they look at me, I'm thinking about
maybe I need to bulk. But I mean, I'm not
looking to get injured that way. I don't have to
go through one hundred and sixteen. My grind is a
totally different thing. Gordon Woodmeyer, I hear you, man, sports riders,
we bulk up our own way.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Yeah, beers, is.

Speaker 7 (50:11):
That what that is?

Speaker 2 (50:12):
I don't know how that works, that peanuts snacks in
the press box. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
How uh as we look at this, what if I
not asked in relation to what's going on? I know,
you pulled over, you're traveling around in the desert. I
mean I don't know what you're looking to do right now.
Just hydrate, brother, I want you to be hydrated.

Speaker 8 (50:28):
The desert's dangerou Oh yeah, I've been doing that, been
doing that.

Speaker 9 (50:32):
Yeah, there's a place that somebody recommended. It's got the
coldest beer in the valley, and come down here. I'll
tell you, but I'm not going to tell you on
the air because.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
You don't want to ruin it. I understand that exactly.

Speaker 9 (50:45):
Yeah, but I think you've hit the high points on
what's going on. I mean, there's gonna be watch his
camp gets going, how they move people around. South Stewart
played some second base today, made an error along the way.
I mean, in an ideal world, he figures out first
pretty pretty proficiently.

Speaker 8 (51:02):
And that answers that question.

Speaker 9 (51:04):
And then you know, watch keep an eye on to
Brian Hayes, because the guy is a tremendous defensive third basement,
but he hasn't been the best hitter in recent years.
And if you know, if he goes the wrong direction
with his hitting, they're gonna have to probably look for
some rotational pieces to get in there and really start

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matching him up more.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (51:29):
But they but they've got options there, you know.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
So that's a geno thing, that's a South Stewart thing.
That's and how good is key Brian, Like you mentioned,
he's almost automatic with the glove.

Speaker 9 (51:41):
He is as good a defender at any single position
they have. And they have a gold Glove catcher in Travenia,
they have a go Glove finalist at first base.

Speaker 8 (51:49):
Yes, they've got a guy that's that.

Speaker 9 (51:51):
Probably plays gold Glove caliber defense at second base, and
they got a really nice center fielder. But to Brian
Hayes is easily the best defender they have at any
single position. So you'd like to have him in there
as often as possible.

Speaker 8 (52:08):
He's got to hit just enough.

Speaker 9 (52:10):
And the other thing is if the middle of the order,
I'll say one through five, if that performs like you
think it has a chance to with score is inserted
in there, and maybe South Stewart being able to provide
a little bit in the fly hole. If they're doing
enough to keep the lineup rolling, you can afford a
little less.

Speaker 8 (52:27):
At the bottom of the lineup. So that's another thing.

Speaker 9 (52:30):
It's just some of the moving pieces that were paying
attention to right now.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
It's always neat to see.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
It's sort of all come together, and right now it
seems like they've got a lot of pieces and parts
that they've been building together that looks like now might
be that time or that window is really coming together
and where last year was maybe a little early, this
might be that time.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
So let's hope it is.

Speaker 4 (52:50):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Well, I.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Really appreciate you making time doing what you do, hanging
out in the desert to covering those reds Cincinnati dot Com.
Red's a beat writer, Gordon Witten, Have yourself a good
rest of your weekend and hopefully we'll catch up against
so man.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Thank you, thanks anything, taking care of yourself.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Yes, sir more Sterling coming back seven hundred WLW sling
hanging out literally a minute away from your ten thirty report.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Latest.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Know what's going on around planet Earth and right here
in the tri State, and lot of being talked about
right now. A question about what's going to happen with Iran?
Will we strike Iran? What will ward look like with Iran?

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Hard to say.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
NASA's rolled back that Artemis to rocket. They put the
kaibash on that thing, lifting off. More problems with that.
So now that's going to be April maybe later that's
a bit of a bummer. And of course, also the
other thing that's going on right now is the Clintons
testified in that House Oversight Committee issue on the Epstein stuff.
And I've had a bunch of people reaching out to

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me saying, what about Trump. Don't you think he should
testify and to share what he knows publicly. We'll get
into that and a whole lot more following your ten
thirty report.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Lots to do.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Have a little fun as well here on the Nation
station home of those reds News Radio seven hundred WLW,
Brush Jackson here and people getting crazy what's going on
in the news and flirting with disaster? We could very
well be. It's hard to say. Are we on the
cusp of war with Iran? Do they already have a nuke?

(54:18):
I thought we destroyed their nukes already. It's hard to say.
And the President's like, nah, they need to negotiate, and
is not happy about how it's going. How you doing
five point three seven four nine, seven eight hundred, the
Big One? You can talk back the iHeartRadio app. Just
click on the microphone and if you're on a Twitter
or x call it whatever you want. Not the ninety strug.
If you're on that too, reach out, you just don't
touch me. People like to touch people when they're on

(54:40):
that stuff. And it's at Sterling Radio and get interactive
that way too. All right, So there are a few
things here, and I'm gonna lay a couple things out there.
The first issue right now is an interesting one in
that the Clinton's testified to Congress and the How Oversight

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and Government Reform Committee dealing with Epstein file stuff. And
of course Hillary Clinton said she didn't know the former
Secretary of State first lady as well for a time,
so she didn't know nothing about nothing. And to ask
her husband, he's testified, I don't know nothing. He should
ask Trump And a lot of people say why should he,

(55:23):
and he's but under oath, maybe there's a difference. So
first thing here is we ripped through a bunch of topics.
Give you a chance to sound off. You pick up
the phone, then give it the finger five one, three, seven, nine,
eight hundred.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
The big one.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
Should Trump testify under oath to the House Oversight Committee
on Government Reform and issues about the Epstein stuff or
is that unnecessary? I mean, if the Clintons did it,
former president, former first lady, former secretary of state. You
see all these other people in positions of power and
authority internationally, not so much stateside, but it's creeping that way,

(56:01):
getting some bad press, stepping down from positions and jobs.
And shouldn't everyone testify what they know to get some retribution,
some justice for these young girls or what were young
girls and women who were abused, raped, sex trafficked and otherwise.
I mean, it seems pretty basic. If you know something,

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you see something, we're partying to something or aware of it,
you should communicate and share that information. And a lot
of people have the opinion that President Trump should just
same way President Clinton, and you know the former secretary
of State, his wife Hillary Clinton as well did the same.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
I'm kind of curious where your head is on there.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
A lot of people say, well, you know, he's got
immunity anyway, so he's got nothing. You know that he
could be in trouble for a lot of stuff had
been redacted and he's got a very full plate, by
the way, and some people said he does not have
time to give any sit down and sharing if the

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way the Clintons do. I mean, they're effectively retired he's
the president of the United States. He's got a lot
of spinning plates in the air. I mean, you know,
there's issues when it comes to you know, the Anthropic
AI and questions about war in Pakistan and Afghanistan and
what the AI could bring an invasion of our privacy.
And you got to both heads of two very prominent companies,

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Anthropic and Open AI, saying no, they do not want
full unrestricted access to the artificial intelligence for our military,
and the concern for mass surveillance also a concern, and
to unfettered, you know, basically autonomous war situation with the
artificial intelligence. And I mean, this is moving so fast

(57:45):
with this stuff, it is unnerving and somewhat disturbing in
a whole lot of ways. So do you think that
the military should have access or the federal government should
have that type of access to what could be a
complete total invasion of our privacy domestically, not the same
as internationally and when at war. And then of course

(58:07):
the idea, you know, with what looks to be us
moving closer to war with Iran, whatever that looks like.
Obviously it doesn't appear to be a whole lot of
issue with ground troops, but certainly issues. You know, our
navy is built up quite large there Israel is there.
It could get deep and get deep very fast when

(58:30):
you have diplomats, their families and the government to telling
them that if they're unimportant meaning non essential employees or
family members, or those diplomats and those people who are
in those type of places, that they should get out
of there sooner than later. We're talking in Israel and
so forth, because there could be something going on it

(58:52):
could put them in harm's way, which means, at least
in preparation, that stuff could get pretty.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
Close pretty fast.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
I didn't bring up the whole Cuba thing in the
boat in the water, in them killing some people and
taking others captive. After that will touch on that and
a whole lot of other stuff as well. Five three,
seven four nine, seven thousand, eight hundred, the big one.
I want to know what you think your chance to
speak up now and the issue. See I don't know
enough about the AI to say what should be appropriate,

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but when the heads of these companies who know the
ins and outs of it, and we've already seen that
some of them are frankly afraid of what's coming, and
the power of the artificial intelligence when they head of
Anthropic and Open AI agree that they do not want
to have unfettered, uncontrolled AI in the hand of our
military because of our own privacy issues and used it

(59:45):
domestically in what could happen if war is just let
to go with the artificial intelligence. That makes me a
little uncomfortable. I want to know what you think, though,
because that matters more than anything. It's your chance to
be heard. Five one, three, seven four nine, seven thousand,
eight hundred The Big one West Union and Steve first,
Raphael always good to talk to him in bond Hill.
Coming up, Harry, and room for you as well on

(01:00:05):
a Friday, Sterling. Steve, thank you for calling into holding
it into what's on your mind?

Speaker 4 (01:00:10):
Brother?

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
I hear you find Steve?

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
Okay, we spoke, Oh, I I guess about a month ago,
and I wanted everybody to know about PSA and have
your PSA checked.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
Yes, And how are you doing, by the way, because
you were saying that obviously by the time you have symptoms,
it's bad.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
I've heard that before. Are you doing all right?

Speaker 4 (01:00:37):
I don't know yet.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
I had the exam, the biopsy and I got to
tell you it was brutal. I mean brutal.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
I can't imagine.

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
I mean three or four days. I had to pinch
myself to go to the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Anyway, that's not good.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Today is three weeks and I haven't got my results back.

Speaker 7 (01:01:05):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
And I've been talking to all of them, and they say,
for some reason, when you have a biopsy like that,
it takes them a long time because they've got to
figure out what that thing likes and what don't like
and whatever. So it's different with everybody right in.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
The good news that the science, by the way, from
what I understand, is now not only can they identify it,
and if it's something that they can do something about,
they're able to literally create an attack to go after
what's getting you, which is a lot better than five
years ago or even three years ago, which is hopefully
good news for you or anybody else here.

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
But you know, three weeks waiting for results.

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
What a nightmare.

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
It's got me anxiety. I got a lot of anxiety
over it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
I'm sure you do.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
I filled with trepidation just when we talked about it
a couple of weeks ago. So hopefully they give you
some news besides that.

Speaker 8 (01:02:01):
Uh, that's not why called.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
I called to just let you know about that and
to tell guys to get their PSA for guys, and
we appreciate that. But anyway, we were talking about Epstein
and all that other rotten oh I got. So my
opinion with all that is, I wish it would just

(01:02:27):
go away.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
Yeah, I'm sure a lot of the people are directly
involved would too. But those victims deserve some type of recompense,
don't they.

Speaker 3 (01:02:36):
No, nobody, and you know as well as I do.
Nobody is going to be purp walked to jail. Nobody,
And it's mean, it's futile, So I don't pay any
attention to it anymore. It's just I have never seen

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in government such a divide. Everything Democrat is against everything Republican.
And these people were sent there to get along and
find common ground, but they won't do it, and I
don't like it. It's not America. It's almost like they

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want to tear the country apart just so they can
have lenient laws and get away with corruption. Now, I
have a theory that says that these people want the
most ignorant, air headed individuals possible to run for presidents

(01:03:52):
and offices just so they can get away with just
like the Elain Omar up there. She was elected to office,
and what's the first thing going on?

Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
Corruption?

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
Well, I don't know that you can put that just
on her shoulders. And I know that the investigation not
at all. And going after the fraud up in Minneapolis.
I know they were going after them, I think in
twenty four into twenty five, and it's obviously now into
twenty six. So I mean I get what you're saying,
and I would hope that anybody go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
If you had a Gavin Newsom for a president and
he's an area, it would be autop in city for
the deep state.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
Well, I don't know about all that, Steven. I appreciate
the call, but I mean we're getting into the weeds.
And the question was about the issue of the Epstein
files and testimony and if the president should do it
the way the former president has testified, and plus of
course Iran and what could be next. Let's get Rafael,
then Harry and room for others. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
eight hundred, the big one on a Friday, Sterling Rafael,

(01:04:55):
what's going on?

Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
What's going on?

Speaker 7 (01:04:57):
Sterling, brother, let me let me put my little rainfalls
back in. After that call, I kind.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
Of, oh, well, he's kind of a lot of going
on and we're hoping that his self is straight and
they get back to him with some positive news, no.

Speaker 7 (01:05:11):
Doubt, No doubt, Sterling, because there's a lot, you know,
going on right now. I think as you you know,
describe it as some disturbing, you know, things going on.
So if I could, brother, could you please just ask
me questions on you know that you threw out so
I could just respond.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
All right, go ahead, all right, first, Iran, do you
what do you think is going to happen there? Do
you think that we'll come to a place where it
can be done peacefully or is you know, it seems
like we're pretty close to having some type of engagement. Again,
we've already smacked him down once, but apparently it wasn't
enough when it comes to their nuclear situation. And of course,
once somebody gets the weapon, then the negotiation situation is different.

Speaker 3 (01:05:55):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
We we that nuclear weapon is a huge bargaining chip.

Speaker 7 (01:06:01):
Yeah, and so on that topic, that obliteration around nuclear
program and everything that was just all a lie and
it was just a facade to begin with, to set
up this point. So sometimes with a liar, you know,
they tell so many lies and everything, and then when

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push comes to shove, they just say, like, I'm you know,
I'm just gonna send all the military out there off
the coast and everything, and we're just going to force them.

Speaker 4 (01:06:31):
Now.

Speaker 7 (01:06:32):
Mind you, this is coming from you know.

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
The president of peace.

Speaker 7 (01:06:36):
See, this is the guy that no more wars and
this and that and want peace. So you're not going
to go through the diplomatic you know process in the
channels because Iran, you know, oh, they're they're, they're they're close.
You know, they were just you know, two weeks away,
you know, a week away, a month away, a year away. Uh,
And now it's imminent. They're they're they're getting ready to

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make a nuclear bomb and it can hit the United States.
But I thought you blew up all their nuclear capabilities.

Speaker 4 (01:07:05):
So which is it?

Speaker 7 (01:07:06):
Well, what it is is just he's a pathological liar,
and what he wants to do is take over countries
as in nations, as dictators do with force and the
might of the military.

Speaker 4 (01:07:20):
That's all.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Next question on the other side of that Israel, though,
is obviously of some concern and worry about Iran, who
has certainly made no secrets how they've been worried about
that for a long long time. And a question, of course,
is the danger of the new time. I'm just saying
that there's a lot of geopolitical issues there and moving
parts that are concerned for the region regardless of whether

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or not they really shut down the nuclear threat. Clearly
it wasn't completely done because they've shared information subsequently.

Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
So I mean, I get what you're saying.

Speaker 4 (01:07:50):
Here be it, but let me just say real quick
on Israel.

Speaker 7 (01:07:53):
Okay, so you know, oh, we want Israel to be
blown out and no more Israel.

Speaker 8 (01:07:59):
This and that and everything.

Speaker 7 (01:08:00):
Okay, you guys, you know, you know, get your little
nuclear weapons going. And I think when Kerry Obama and
everybody went in there and they had it like we're
going to have the UN and International Inspectors coming in
and making sure they don't have the centerfuges and this
and that, you know, putting everything together. If Ran was
going along with that program, they were, Okay, I'm not

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talking about any rogue underground Iranians, right exactly. So Sirling,
you fire a nuke at Israel, and Israel is not
a large entity country.

Speaker 4 (01:08:33):
We know that, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:08:35):
But the thing is is that while your nuke is
in the air, it's it's going to be you know,
a dozen more coming back your way. So Uranian government,
do you want to be like poof as well? No,
you want Israel gone and you stayed.

Speaker 10 (01:08:51):
Alive and that won't happen.

Speaker 4 (01:08:53):
And that's really it's an empty threall well.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
And that's the worry though, because even now, I mean,
it's the mutually assured destry uction scenario that has kept
things in some semblance of balance now and nobody wants
another player with nukes who can certainly you know, flex
their muscle that way too. And it gets murky because
you can't. I mean, look going back to going into
you know, Iraq in all that circumstance you know, how
long ago now and all the fake bit of information

(01:09:18):
when it came to intelligence where here's the here's the
dangerous stuff, and you're like, oh really, and I got
suckered into it and I'm like, noah, baby, no more.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
I question everything.

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
The other question of yeah, another question if in fact
you know you had the The Clintons testify in the
last day or two. And the question now is why
shouldn't President Trump do the same thing If they were
willing to do it and wanted to do it publicly,
why shouldn't the president currently?

Speaker 7 (01:09:46):
Well, the thing is is that it's hard for me
to answer that rite off without me prefacing my answer
with liars don't want to go under oak, and he
doesn't want any parts of it because in my opinion
that that man Don John he what four thousand times

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in the DJ reports and this was before the DOJ
got you know, with blond Pam Blondie and all them.
But the thing is is that he's mentioned not only
throughout the reports but also by witnesses who testify, and
the FBI and DOJ later on they redacted blocked all

(01:10:36):
that off and guess what those files and all of
that evidence through testimony, it's gone. How could that possibly
be with this individual attached to that he doesn't want
to Oh, it's fine for Clinton, Bill and Hillary and
anybody else, Chelsea, anybody else to go under hope, but

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not this guy.

Speaker 4 (01:10:57):
So you think under oath.

Speaker 1 (01:10:58):
Makes a difference, though, I mean, what's the difference in
under oath and on camera in front of everybody saying whatever,
I mean, what he's not gonna?

Speaker 3 (01:11:05):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
What's gonna? He could he purge here.

Speaker 4 (01:11:07):
And some he still he could still lie.

Speaker 10 (01:11:09):
But what the thing is?

Speaker 7 (01:11:10):
And don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong. I'm
not accusing him of having sex with underage I'm not.
I'm just saying that there's a lot of smoke, brother,
and I believe that there's.

Speaker 4 (01:11:26):
Fire, and I think, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 (01:11:29):
No, I was just gonna say, you know, just looking
at his track record, sling grab him by the p
and and you just kiss him in the mount with
and in the I can't think of her name in
the yes, yes, in the dressing room and everything like that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
You know, we don't or not, and you know what,
those are all valid points though, to go in the
other direction, and that's why. And a lot of people
are of the opinion though that he already said all
he has to say. I don't it'll be interesting. But
I think if anybody wants that truth next question, I
don't have any more refel.

Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
I want to get to Harry real quick. I don't
even you.

Speaker 7 (01:12:11):
Got the greatest show all night. I love it, love it, brother,
love it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:14):
Thank you, Rafael. It's good to talk to you, man.
I appreciate it. And here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:12:17):
I don't have to agree with somebody to enjoy the
conversation because it makes my brain work. And I prefer
people who disagree, because if everybody's on saying the same crap, yeah,
you're right, you're right, it's boring as hell. I don't
need people to validate me. I want people to provoke
thought and engage me. To Mount Carmel and Harry was
sterling on the big one. What about those Epstein files?
And President Trump? Should he testify or tell him?

Speaker 8 (01:12:38):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:12:39):
Why he's already said he kicked him Mount of marlog
And your last caller was this totally brainwash man. He
has TDS real bad number one. Why he's throwing Mount
of marl Lo and called the police on him. So
what's going to testify? Bill Clinton? Bill Clinton is pour
around looking the war, you know, right in the world

(01:13:01):
with Jeffrey Epstein. This goes farther to the top than
what you would think. I think Epstein was bribing government officials.
He was flying Clinton to China and all these other places,
and you know, he visited the White House seventeen times.
But you know that means nothing. You know, Bill Clinton
is the one that lied about having sex with that

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intern in the Oval office and then denied it and
did not after he was caught, admitted the truth. So
he just came.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
Respectful, Harry. But he came out and testified today. So
you're saying, President, Harry, listen to me. I'm trying to
talk to you, and you want to keep interrupting, and
time is short. I'm trying to ask you questions that
are relevant to what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
So work with her.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
Go on, ran No, I want you to go back
to the Epstein thing here. So what you're saying is
because the the president has been redacted, bunches of times
and files have gone missing, why shouldn't he stand up
to the same scrutiny than anyone else?

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
Should?

Speaker 10 (01:14:02):
Well, the FBI has all the files.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
Just answer the question, why should he not stand up
to the same scrutiny as anyone else?

Speaker 4 (01:14:09):
Sure he can?

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
Sure, so, then he should, so then he should testify.

Speaker 4 (01:14:14):
Sure, I'm back there.

Speaker 10 (01:14:15):
You tell him the same thing. He just code the
whole world and out in public. I pry amount of.

Speaker 4 (01:14:21):
Marl Ago when I called the cops on him.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
Well, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
I think a lot of people, a lot of people
who support Trump are of the opinion, and I appreciate
the call, Harry that he should do the same thing,
that he's no better than anybody else. Even though the
files have been released, We'll get into this.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
There's more to do.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
I'm not done yet. There's a whole nother hour to
spend together on your Friday night. Straight away, you're eleven
o'clock report. Travis Laird has the latest on those winning
Miami RedHawks and everything going on with Iran and everything
else around planet Earth that matters to us here in
the Tri State on the home of those Reds in
action tomorrow right here seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati, So about

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twenty four minutes from now we'll talk stream seven.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
Whatever else is new with the movies, huh.

Speaker 1 (01:15:03):
And in the meantime, we're talking about a little bit
of the Epstein stuff and if Trump should testify the
way the Clintons did former President of Bill Clinton, his
first lady wife in a former secretary of state. Certainly
also Iran, maybe we're on the cusp of some type
of war with them. Obviously our navy might is in
force in the region, and they have told non essential

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type peoples either working in family members in Israel and
in the region in general, for the diplomatic corps and
so forth, and the embassies and so forth, to basically leave,
which tends to be something that precedes some type of
military action or unsafe circumstance, sort of like going to
Mexico on vacation, which I have friends looking to do

(01:15:46):
in the next couple of weeks for spring break, and
some scuba diving, which travel insurance might be a wise purchase.
Five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
The big one.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
Your chance to get interactive, your chance to sound off
the questions I just had. And then I want to
mention something else here before we get to Sarah has
been holding on since about July is seventy six. Shellby first,
and then room for you. Five point three seven four
nine seven thousand, eight hundred The big one. You pick
up the phone, give it the finger, like my good friend,
the late great mister k used to say, and you
can talk back on the iHeartRadio app by clicking on

(01:16:16):
the microphone. There all the talk about AI in data
centers in huge consumption of electricity in rising rates in
the midst of all of us having to cough up
more cash with more technology, it would hope that the
AI would help stuff be more efficient and less costly.
But something that came up in the talk in the
State of the Union was the idea that data centers

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could have their own power source, their own power plants,
which then makes you wonder, does that mean like what
I have heard a lot of experts in technology talking
about in the last couple of years, which is miniature
nuclear reactors. So does that mean that a data center
in Claremont County, or Preble County, or somewhere else Boone County, Kentucky,

(01:16:58):
you name it around the country. Uh, they would have
their own nuclear plant. Some of them already have solar
arrays on their roofs and adjoining properties, maybe some solar
which a lot of people have said that they think
solar is a joke. But it's odd that the people
making data centers have embraced that because I say, you know,
every option that we have to cold generate more electricity

(01:17:19):
and power to give us cheaper rates and more supply
is really what we want. And that would be the
same maybe when it comes to solar, maybe the nuclear
reactor or something. I would be interested to see the
technology and the experts and the talk of oversight. Whether
it's uh, I don't know what other power they would

(01:17:39):
be generating. If it's not going to be nuclear, if
it's not going to be solar, it's not going to
be win. Then that leaves natural gas, coals, foss or
full or fuel rate. Unless they're going to somehow build
a dam near the data centers and harness water for
some type of hydro power. What else is left I
don't know, So I mean, then you got to wonder,

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do you want a little baby nuclear reactor in your
neighborhood if you live out in the stick someplace, or
in an old building that they've converted, or maybe you know,
some type of facility larger.

Speaker 4 (01:18:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
It gets deep, it gets deep fast, and you can
almost hear our rates rising as we speak. But the
AI is helping us all except when it comes to
issues of war, which of course now has put on
the outside looking in companies like Open AI and Ananthropic
who have gotten headlines because they are not willing to
give away the farm. If you will for unrestricted, unfeathered

(01:18:33):
access to the artificial intelligence in a war setting to
let it effectively run war itself, which could be hot.

Speaker 2 (01:18:40):
Maybe the machines are coming like Terminator.

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
And then the other side, of course, is the stuff
from Anthropic and Open AI and others in the AI world,
some of which who are behind its creation, who have
exited in the last couple of months because they're scared
of what the future may bring. They're concerned about mass
surveillance of US city, which should worry you the way
it worries me, and and so many others. Five point

(01:19:04):
three seven, four nine, eight hundred The Big One your
chance to get interactive to Batavia and Sarah, thank you
for holding her with Sterling on the Big One.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
How are you, Sarah?

Speaker 7 (01:19:13):
I'm great?

Speaker 11 (01:19:14):
How are you?

Speaker 7 (01:19:15):
I have no.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
Complaints and I'm better that I'm talking to you now.
What's on your mind?

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
So?

Speaker 11 (01:19:20):
Uh, First off, I think that anybody that had that
there's information that dates that they were involved with that
Stein's Island or any type of sexual things should.

Speaker 10 (01:19:35):
Be made to testify.

Speaker 11 (01:19:40):
One some people that I think need to be made
to testify.

Speaker 4 (01:19:44):
Also are these.

Speaker 11 (01:19:45):
Underage children's parents who would let their underage children go
to some mail's island.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
I just don't get back. Yeah, I don't. I don't
understand that either.

Speaker 1 (01:19:58):
But you know, there are a lot of young young
people who end up leaving home for a number of reasons,
who get lost in sex traffic across the across the country,
often where you see more I think police involvement in Unfortunately,
not enough people who are predators out there being held accountable.
Do you think that Trump should testify the way the

(01:20:19):
Clintons did and others have, or at least been deposed,
which is sort of like testimony but a little bit different.

Speaker 7 (01:20:26):
I think so.

Speaker 11 (01:20:27):
If there's anything in them files that says that he
was involved with underage children, definitely, I don't care who
it is, especially them Hollywood celebrities, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:20:41):
Anything else on your mind? Before I let you go?
We talked about Iran. I think that's on the Iran Iran, Iran,
I don't know. I think they say Iran I ran away.

Speaker 11 (01:20:49):
I don't know anyway I caught Iran because that's all
they like to blow up and then run.

Speaker 6 (01:20:55):
They'd like to stick around in fight.

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
Who's that they.

Speaker 1 (01:20:59):
Can say that about all Iranians? I mean that's like
saying that all Americans are one way or another for
people who don't like us or unhappy with what our government,
our country, the bad ones.

Speaker 11 (01:21:10):
Talking about the bad ones, they're stotting bad in every
every country.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
Well every people period.

Speaker 4 (01:21:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:21:16):
Yeah, So what do you think is how do you
think that's going to play out as far as that goes.
I mean, our naval might is obviously in the region.
Do you expect this to be a full on thing
or do you think this will end up diplomatically settled.

Speaker 4 (01:21:29):
I think it'll be diplomatically settled.

Speaker 6 (01:21:31):
I don't think they I don't think they want what's
going to come to them if they.

Speaker 2 (01:21:36):
Yeah, I wouldn't.

Speaker 7 (01:21:38):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:21:39):
I don't think I would want the full might of
you know, the US Navy coming out on us either,
that's for sure. Anything, Yeah, there's a lot to look
forward to it, and certainly at this point we're not
amassing like ground troops in the regions, So I think
anything it's going to be obviously from you know, missiles
and everything else from a distance. So we'll see how
it goes exactly anything else before we let you bounce

(01:22:00):
way Sarah to the rest of your weekend hopefully, which
is a.

Speaker 10 (01:22:02):
Good one, alight.

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
No, you have a great weekend, you too.

Speaker 1 (01:22:06):
Take care of yourself. I appreciate it. Five point three
seven four nine, eight hundred. The big one, your chance
to get interactive for those who have a certain age
and maybe even not at this point, whether you're on
the iHeartRadio app or something else streaming of one type
or another. Eighty six year old Neil Sedaka, who is
like a huge man of making hits on a music

(01:22:28):
like a just ridiculous over the years, has passed away.
Breaking up is hard to do, bad blood level. Keep
us together, which was a captain to Neil, huge hit
going back to the seventies and in through the eighties,
been around a long time, multiple different incarnations effectively re
recording things and so forth, multiple generations.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
It's a hell of a run, I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:22:52):
And he's up there sort of with a Barry Manel
always talking to Russ Jackson off the air about this
Barry mannal is coming to town, going to be here
in August, and he's gotta be around eighty himself, if
not older.

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
I'm not sure I could have looked that up, that
would but I did not and I know he.

Speaker 1 (01:23:10):
I mean, he did a lot of ad work and
wrote like a commercial ads like the band Aid's song,
and a whole bunch of others, like a stuck on
band Aid band Aid stuck on Me, which was I
think had been around quite a while when I was
a tiny Stirling and they still used that jingle for
a long time, and he played with apparently it was
at Middler's band, and a bunch of other stuff too,
going back in the day eighty two years old for

(01:23:33):
Barry Manilow and still gonna be on the road. And
here's the thing that was bizarre, because I left here
and went to Vegas for about a cup of coffee
and then came back, and I have friends still there.
And then they sent me this note because he does
a residency, which they put on hold and postponed for
a little bit. He never smoked, apparently, but ended up
with some type of lug cancer situation, which it happens

(01:23:54):
unfortunately environmental reasons, you name it. Probably doing a lot
of club work didn't help either, surrounded by a lot
of pollutants in the air and so forth. But they
found lung cancer of some sort which was actionable and
apparently they were going to go in and get it,
and all they did was reschedule all these concert dates.

(01:24:14):
Think about it's just amazing to me to have a
diagnosis like that to a guy who's eighty years plus now,
and to they say, Okay, no, we're not going to
shut it down. We're not going to like call it quits.
We're going to get this long fixed up. They're gonna
hack out a chunk of it or treat it. And
however they're going to treat it. And then he's expected

(01:24:35):
to be healthy, able to sing and get out and
travel the country to one last time spread his music
and love and joy. If you're into his stuff as
he will. I think he's actually going to be The
Heritage Bank Center is what it is in August, which
is crazy. So anyway, a Nil Sadaka's gone long way
around to say goodbye to Nil Sadaka. But the same

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type of thing, even though a Barry Manili is still alive.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
I like that big mess. This is tremendous.

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
Eric and Mason goes, really, you're giving more time to
the bandid guy, the dead Neil Sadaka. Clearly somebody who
listens regularly. That's tremendous. Uh no, not more, but mentioning
both because they're sort of in the same window of age.
So I mean, you know, to be able to be
out there on the road and lucky enough to get to,
you know, something that was treatable and effectively curable with

(01:25:25):
lung cancer like Barry Manilow, and then still be able
to hit the road and fly into Cincinnati and around
the country to do with shows. Pretty amazing, and still
be able to say goodbye to the legendary Neil Sadaka
who is no.

Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
Longer with us.

Speaker 1 (01:25:38):
But what a great run eighty six years, man. I mean,
I don't know if I'll make eighty six, but that's
a hell of a run. Let's get to Larry was
Sterling on seven hundred WLW. Larry, thank you for holding
what's going on?

Speaker 4 (01:25:48):
Brother?

Speaker 12 (01:25:50):
Barry Manilo was diagnosed with an illness and I believe
he's in the hospital. Yeah right, and I think he'll
be coming here in August. I think he canceled a
lot of his tour dates. Obviously you didn't know that.
And also the stuck on Me band aid song that
was sung by Dick Van Dyke. So you're wrong again

(01:26:12):
about that well.

Speaker 1 (01:26:13):
Actually, Barry Manilow wrote the song, so I'm correct about
that and had sung it live.

Speaker 9 (01:26:19):
Larry.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
That's great he sung it, but I'm telling you who
wrote it and who's behind it. And actually, Barry Manilo
five days ago they did cancel some of the dates
continuing health problems, so you know, of the last thing,
you may be right about that, but at last I
saw the date here in August is still standing, so
hopefully he's helping.

Speaker 10 (01:26:40):
Either way, you were wrong about the band Aid song.

Speaker 1 (01:26:43):
So again, Larry, are you just defective like in your
head or too tired to grasp what I said? Barry
Manilow wrote that song period, and he's gone. He hung up, see,
And I just should not be about louing a conversation
or an argument. I don't know why there was an argument,

(01:27:04):
but Barry wrote that song along with Mandy, and look
like we made it.

Speaker 4 (01:27:08):
Could it be?

Speaker 1 (01:27:09):
I mean, more songs than most people can ever imagine.
And whoever initially sung the band Aid song in any ad,
I can't say. But I know that he wrote it
and I know that he sung it, and that's that.
So sorry, Larry, I'm not trying to hate on you.
But don't call up and try to hammer me and
you don't have your information correct, And I did maybe misspeak.
Apparently he has canceled some of these upcoming dates, but

(01:27:32):
I'm still seeing an active date here unless that's not
been refreshed on the site that I'm looking at, so
we'll have to check. Either way, we hope he's healthy
and gets back, and it's not me talking about him
ending up being no longer among the rest of us
walking on Terra Firma either way. So hopefully they've got
him fixed up what they were they say at this

(01:27:55):
point here his lungs are not quite ready for doing
a ninety minute show, and he's seventy nine years old,
and they say he's committed to the recovery, pushing himself
exercising so he can do longer sets, and is expected
to get back on the road. He's doing the treadmill
three times a day. Hell, I don't even do that.

(01:28:15):
And he says that he is hopeful that he'll be
there at some point sooner than later, So that's pretty amazing.
So yeah, as a result, he rescheduled shows from February
to March, and he's coming in August, so even that
I was right about Larry. You made me question I'm
never questioning myself again. I'm not quick break. And Dick

(01:28:37):
Van Dyke did not sing it either, So there you go.
Thank you Russ Jackson so once again. And it should
not have even been that way. He was so eager
to try to say that I was wrong about something.

Speaker 2 (01:28:46):
I'm wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:28:47):
I say a lot of things on a show on
a regular basis, and I can't be right all the time.
But about this stuff, I was sorry, Larry, get with it,
wake up, catch up, Sterling seven hundred ww let's see here?

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
Who else?

Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
There's My screen just went black? I hate it when
that happened. Shakira is fantastic from Colombia, right. He got
Jeff Buckley, who died way too early in a in
an odd like swimming situation, and outside of Memphis, gotta
love Shakira was unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
And I think she's on the road right now, still
doing some touring.

Speaker 10 (01:29:25):
Baby.

Speaker 1 (01:29:25):
When you talk Luther Vandros, Luther Vandross and not not
rock and roll but great music maker, I don't know
how you argue. I mean, it's tough, and it got
like Wu Tang Clan Black pros, Oasis, Joy, the Vision,
Billy Idol, of course, who was in Uh the man
he made it probably bigger than anything on his own,

(01:29:47):
but of course he you know, he'd been around and
done other stuff too prior to that.

Speaker 2 (01:29:53):
Baby when you talk, Sorry, I was just sucked.

Speaker 1 (01:29:56):
Into thinking about Shakira shaking it and I was a
little drawn in And Billy Idol, I saw him at
Harrah Arena and it was him.

Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
I believe Iggy Pop opened. I think it was that show,
and uh, I will never forget it.

Speaker 1 (01:30:14):
Iggy Pop climbing around doing iggy pop stuff. By the way,
you'll hear one of the best. Have you ever get
a chance to see the movie? Uh, it's in black
and white. It's called dead Man, and it has a
Johnny Depp in it, and uh, Iggy Pop and a

(01:30:34):
guy who was in Risen in Alien called Gary uh
Haarmer who's tremendous, and a bunch of others and uh,
all sort of interrelated when it when it comes to
this stuff. But Iggy Pop, I saw he had a
wired microphone, not wireless, and he was climbing and scaling
a wall of speakers and so forth.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
And he's just a mad Man.

Speaker 1 (01:30:57):
He's been doing it since his time with the Stooges
and everything else up into try and Uh. I was
a young kid at the time, and I was watching
and he about hung himself. He jumped off the stack
of the speakers and that mic cord got around his
neck and whipped his head back, and it was It
disturbed me to know it, and I was like, holy crap.

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
He just kept on going like it was nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:31:18):
He was just in it and.

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
In a twin can't beat that.

Speaker 1 (01:31:23):
Yeah, Luther Vandros would be great too, Yeah, uh and Uh,
I understand he's not rock. I mean, this is not
rock and roll, but it's hugely successful, multiple generations loving
some Luther Vandross. You know how many babies mate listening
to this? A lot of babies. Uh, maid probably listened
to some Luther Vandross. I'm just guessing. And that's fairly

(01:31:46):
rock and roll when you think about it, at least
for me anyways. All Right, so there's the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame. Man, I'm not going to bitch
and moan and whine and cry because it's not rock enough.

Speaker 2 (01:31:57):
You can vote.

Speaker 1 (01:31:57):
You go to Rockhall dot com and you can vote
for who you want to get into the rock Hall
of Fame. I mean, it's difficult because it's so oddly subjective.
Is to what is to my ear fantastic, to what
is Russ Jackson's or our Willie's ear or you know,
I mean anybody's for that matter, yours and what is not.
And then you get into the idea of what is

(01:32:19):
rock and roll and what is not and that's kind
of difficult too. But I think it all starts with
rock and roll and coming up. I mean, all this
music is just huge and you look at like the
White Stripes and all the other stuff. Jack White on
his own, you know, one of those things that always
argued that goes along with it. And the Black Crows
who are going to be here this summer at River
Bend two, which is so tremendous. They're still doing it,

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which is fantastic.

Speaker 4 (01:32:41):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:32:41):
Eleven third reports straightaway Travis Lair is like, dude, be
on time once, Okay, I'll be on time. He will
tell the news on time. And on the other side,
Kevin Carr talking movies on the Silver Substacks up Silver
Gecko Substack with Me Sterling on seven Hunt for WLW,
it was safe.

Speaker 2 (01:32:58):
To go back to the movies.

Speaker 1 (01:32:59):
Kevin car Sober Gecko on the Substack says, all, hell, no,
scring seven's here?

Speaker 2 (01:33:04):
Who knew?

Speaker 1 (01:33:04):
There were six others and many questions left out answered
and the killing continues. Welcome back to seven hundred WLW.
He's sober Gecko on the substack. Of course of Thatat guys,
the movies too, Kevin Carr, how are you man?

Speaker 4 (01:33:18):
I always love getting introduced as the killing continues. That's
always good intro. That's like my WWE intro with some
crazy rock music or something.

Speaker 1 (01:33:31):
I would absolutely love to be a writer for those guys,
I really would.

Speaker 2 (01:33:36):
That would be huge.

Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
I can create some storylines, that's for sure. Uh are
there storylines that were remaining that?

Speaker 10 (01:33:44):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
It does this Scream seven make you want to scream
out of misery?

Speaker 7 (01:33:48):
Or what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:33:49):
Because you pick this of all the other stuff, you're
one pick this week?

Speaker 7 (01:33:52):
Why?

Speaker 4 (01:33:52):
Yeah, well it's gonna be the big movie of the weekend.
I mean the last two movies that they did, which
they rebooted and then so they had Scream which was
called just Scream. That was Scream five, and then they
had Scream six. And then they took a hiatus because
they can Melissa Barata as a as the actress, and
they went back to Nev Campbell and they got her

(01:34:13):
in this one now and she's trying to save her daughter.
So I think you have to look at this in
context as a slasher franchise, the seventh installment in a
flash slasher franchise, it's a mixed bag usually, So this
one is it's coherent and palatable for a seventh movie

(01:34:37):
in a long, thirty year old series, and in that sense,
it's it's worth It's okay. It's not as good as
it's not the best Scream movie by a mile, you know,
Like you know, the first one was really good when
they tried to when they did Scream four, that was good.
The reboot with Radio Silence a couple of years ago
was good. This one's a little closer in quality the

(01:34:59):
Scream three if you're familiar with the franchise, because one
of the things that's neat about the screen movies is
they always have different people as ghost Space. It's not
like Halloween. It's always it's Michael Myers. And then with
a couple of rare exceptions, the Jason movies. In Front
of the Thirteenth, it's always Jason, but this one is

(01:35:22):
it's always new killers in the ghost face costumes. So
there's a constant flow of people coming in and out
of the franchise, and it's getting a little strange now,
but it still works for what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
So it's fun.

Speaker 1 (01:35:37):
I mean, like, if you're a kid coming up and
this is your introduction to it, which I don't know,
maybe you'd go see the seventh one before the others
or not. I mean, is this the one you'd be like, oh, yeah,
I'm into it now, or is it one of those
like why?

Speaker 4 (01:35:50):
Well, the way these these kind of slasher films work
is you don't need to know everything. I mean, it's
not Warren Piece. You know, we're not trying to keep
all these different characters and subtexts going.

Speaker 1 (01:36:03):
On, but.

Speaker 4 (01:36:06):
You need to know who the people are. I mean,
if you haven't seen any screen movies, this probably isn't
the best one to start with. But if you've seen
all of them or most of them, yeah, you can
figure it out. It's the writing's not as strong because
at a certain point, you know, the first film was
meant to deconstruct slasher movies by made by Wes Craven,

(01:36:28):
who helped create the genre in the eighties. It really did,
but still it deconstructed them, and so it keeps turning
in on itself. And by the time they did the reboot,
they're saying what makes a good reboot, and so they're
very self referential and they because there's always different killers,
they're going to different you know, dipping the pool again.

Speaker 7 (01:36:51):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:36:51):
So it does kind of it's its own worst enemy
in that it's trying to keep that alive. But you
can only twist that around so many time seven films.

Speaker 1 (01:37:01):
Yeah, that makes sense. The Silver Gut go on substects
where you can find Kevin Carr. He will appear in
your mailbox electronically, not like physically, although that would be
interesting for sure. Uh yeah, comics and a lot of
other stuff too for that matter. So we know about
Scream seven. So if you're into it, great, If not,
then it'll be streaming probably sooner than later, uh compared

(01:37:21):
to other of all the long and we've talked about
this just recently around Halloween. You know you already mentioned
in fact, you know, the Friday the thirteenths and the Halloweens.
There are a number of others that have had multiple
genre like crossing, I guess sequel scenarios. Of all of
these that have had like five or more, three or more,
I don't even know how many there are of these.

(01:37:43):
Which ones do you think are the top tier? And
which ones are?

Speaker 3 (01:37:45):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:37:45):
Why do they keep their how do they keep making them?

Speaker 4 (01:37:48):
Well, here's the thing, just as just as movies go,
I like the Halloween movies best, Yeah, but I don't
like all of them. It's because some of them are
absolutely terrible. In particular the rob zombies.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
You do not like them.

Speaker 4 (01:38:05):
Yeah, But even like Halloween six and once you got
past four, Halloween starts to fall apart until they rebooted it.
You know, they rebooted it at twenty and they rebooted
it at forty. And I mean Jamie Lee Curtis, I
don't know if she's gonna be around for the sixty
year reboots. He is in a wheelchair.

Speaker 1 (01:38:25):
If the money check clears, then I'd roll in there
if I was her, Sure why not?

Speaker 4 (01:38:30):
But I think those quality wise, those are the better movies,
but not all of them, but some. And Friday the
thirteenth is the most consistent, and there are some that
are better than others, of course, but they're not the
best made movies. But they were just kind of a
cash cow for at the time. I think it was

(01:38:51):
Paramount that released him. But those are the most consistent,
you don't have as much wide quality. I always like
the Martin elm Street movies because it had that sort
of supernatural element to it, and the dreams I thought
was kind of cool. But those go downhill fast, especially
when you got the remake involved. Yeah, but uh, Texas

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Chainsaw also has People always forget that when you talk
about slasher movies Texas Chainsaw, there's been a bunch of movies.
They gotta be up to like eight or nine by
this point, because they did want on Netflix a couple
of years ago. And you know, I mean the in
the fourth one, uh, the one with the Renee Zellwegger
and Matthew McConaughey before Ed became famous. And well, what's

(01:39:36):
funny about that one is they the movie They are
way better than the movie that they're in, but they
were both unknowns at the time, and so that's why
that one, like like h the first Texas Chainsaw is unnerving.
On so many levels.

Speaker 2 (01:39:55):
Absolutely is and mostly based on true stories, right.

Speaker 4 (01:40:01):
Yeah, it was loosely based on a gee because he
would he had a flesh mask and stuff like that.
But so was Silence of the Lamb.

Speaker 2 (01:40:07):
I like, how you just you just ran right, he
had a flesh mask, you know, and then on to
the next.

Speaker 1 (01:40:12):
That's a really really disturbing you know what I mean.
It's not like Matt Reeze or Rush Jackson.

Speaker 2 (01:40:18):
You're like, oh, yeah, he has a flesh face he
wears around Halloween, but he's cooked. Dudes, he's good people.
I mean, there's nothing about that.

Speaker 4 (01:40:26):
We all try to mullet at some point in our lives.
Let's just go.

Speaker 2 (01:40:29):
Passing us up front, party in the back.

Speaker 1 (01:40:31):
I was just talking to Russ Jackson off the air
about how to put a show together.

Speaker 2 (01:40:35):
That's how I look at it. Yeah, it's the same.

Speaker 1 (01:40:38):
Aside from the slasher movies, and we've gone into the
other area of you know, sequels, and we talked about
The Godfather, maybe to the point of annoyance to some people.
But I mean, is that maybe the Star Wars like
the best sequel type movies, not just in general.

Speaker 4 (01:40:53):
Well, you know what I mean, You got to give
props to Aliens. That was a really really good Sequel's huge,
And you got to give props to the James Bond
movies because arguably the sequels, well, I loved From Russia
with Love and that was better than Doctor No. And
that was the first movie. And then even then you
had like the one two punch of Goldfinger and Thunderball,

(01:41:13):
which are the some of the highest grossing films of
all time when adjusted for inflation. So yeah, and you know,
like a lot of people, you know, go after remakes
and stuff, but you know, remakes can be good. People
forget that the Charleston Heston version of Ben hur was
a remake, oh you know, and they forget that the
thing was a remake. And you know, so there's some

(01:41:35):
good remakes out there too.

Speaker 1 (01:41:37):
Now, Lenny and Anderson just message at Stirling Radio on Twitter, says,
what about the Candy Man movies.

Speaker 2 (01:41:43):
They have made a few of those, and they did
reboot that too, right.

Speaker 4 (01:41:47):
They did they And I thought the reboot was really
good because it did they did kind of make it
its own. But the Candy Man movies, the first one's
really good and unnerving, you know, from what like noineteen
ninety two. I think what it was. Then the second
one is not so good. In the throw one, it's bad.
But then they did reboot it or the Saw movies,

(01:42:09):
and they keep rebooting that. They did, they did all
the Saw movies and they fall into the toilet, and
then they brought it back and they did like Jigsaw,
and they did Spiral with Chris Rock, and I thought
that was I mean, it wasn't a great movie, but
I thought the movie with Chris Rock was pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
That wasn't too bad.

Speaker 1 (01:42:26):
I mean, and out of the genre. Of course, then
you get like all the marvel like the Spider Man
movies or Spider Man, not Spider Man, that they could
do with Spider Man.

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
They could just have a whole slow a spider dudes.
They did that.

Speaker 4 (01:42:38):
That's what he did. They did that in in in
into the Spider Verse where he goes to all the
different alersions and they're making they're making Nicholas Cage as
Spider Noir.

Speaker 2 (01:42:47):
I saw that trailer the other day. I was gonna
mention that and ask you about that.

Speaker 1 (01:42:50):
How I love so much of what he's done, but
some of it, you can tell, even the goofy stuff
where he must have just needed money for more dinosaur
bones or something.

Speaker 4 (01:43:00):
I don't know what his He had a bad divorce lawyer,
and that's that's why he needed money. That's why they
sell his copy of Superman or Action Comics Number one or.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
Something like that. Oh that's yeah, that's like a kick
to the junk. Nobody likes that. That's that's still a
painful bad Now you've went to a really bad place.

Speaker 3 (01:43:14):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:43:14):
I'm sorry, it's right, but no, Sony keeps trying to
make a Spider Man universe, and it's never gonna work.
People love Spider Man, that's true, and most Spider Man
movies on their own do well. No one wants to see.
As we have proved over the last couple of years,
Nobody wants to see a morebeous movie. Nobody wants to
see a Madam Web movie. Nobody wants to see a

(01:43:36):
sinister sixth movie. The Venom movies did okay, but they
I think that was it's because they started. They happened
to hit right at the right time.

Speaker 2 (01:43:47):
See I I couldn't sit through like the first one
of those for some reason. I don't know what it is.

Speaker 4 (01:43:52):
I was just like, they're not great movies.

Speaker 7 (01:43:54):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:43:54):
That could be the reason.

Speaker 4 (01:43:55):
I think I think people got they liked the humor
to it because because the bandster between Eddie and Venom,
you know, Tom Hardy doing kind of both parts. And
but yet, no, they're not good movies.

Speaker 2 (01:44:09):
A Terminator.

Speaker 1 (01:44:09):
They've done a bunch of those two and the first
one is tremendous with Linda Hamilton of course in Schwarzenegger,
and uh they've kept how many of those are there?

Speaker 2 (01:44:17):
Like four or five?

Speaker 4 (01:44:19):
Well, you know, yeah, they've done like six. And then
they did a TV series, but they keep trying to
reboot that and that just never takes because.

Speaker 1 (01:44:27):
The series was with dogget right for X Files, that
guy who's an Ohio guy.

Speaker 2 (01:44:31):
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (01:44:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, you're right,
yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:44:35):
I have useless facts. My brain is filled with them.

Speaker 1 (01:44:38):
I'm sorry, and I just looked at you to either
validate them or tell me my memory is wrong, because
sometimes my memories are not real, which is very diffrue.

Speaker 4 (01:44:44):
Okay, you know that's that's the Matrix and other series.

Speaker 2 (01:44:47):
That's true, right, and some of those are better than
others too, right, obvious.

Speaker 4 (01:44:51):
Although I generally like that. Here's the thing with the
Matrix series. I know that there's things that people got
annoyed with it. I think those are really great heavy
sci fi, even the second and third movie, even the
fourth movie, the one the reboot, I think that got
that got shafted in the theater. I thought the reboot
was really good.

Speaker 1 (01:45:08):
Now Mark and Hyde Park just says, how can you
leave out Jurassic Parks And they're having a bunch of thosets.
I mean, now we're getting hate because we're not mentioning
every sequel ever make.

Speaker 4 (01:45:17):
But yeah, that's some of those. That's an internet comment.
I like, you're invalidated. No, but Jurassic Park is a
good series. The thing with the Jurassic Park, though, is
I don't think the Jurassic World movies are nearly as
good as just the first Jurassic Park. Yeah. I mean,
Spielberg did so well with that movie, and then when
they converted it to three D like twenty years ago,

(01:45:41):
it looked, it looked good, and it had some great
three D effects and they did not shoot it for
three D. That's the kind of a dynamic director that
Spielberg was. It is so the Jurassic World movies are fine,
but they get a little bit they're almost a little
two on the nose where they walk through the the
opening of the new Jurassic World and they're like, it's

(01:46:04):
not enough to see dinosaurge you got to make them
bigger and better. And it's like, quit talking about your
own movie that way.

Speaker 2 (01:46:10):
Here's another twist.

Speaker 1 (01:46:11):
And I was just thinking of this because the other
night I was flipping around one you know, the streaming
stuff on the.

Speaker 4 (01:46:16):
TV, and like how you just sort of just the
streaming stuff, like it's one place to go.

Speaker 1 (01:46:22):
Well, because if you have a smart TV, which is
watching everything you do every like twelfth of a second anyway,
which I feel very unnerved by each TV, whether it's
Samsung or Sony pick one, they've have their own streaming thing.
Then maybe you have a Roku or maybe you have
Spectrum whatever, each of them has a variety of streaming stuff.
So I didn't mean necessarily an app. But Blade was

(01:46:44):
on and back to back to Blade two. Now Blade
too was better than the first Blade movie in my opinion, Respectfully,
how many of those movies where the sequel has been
better than the first, even though you may disagree with
my you know, Pretzel logic.

Speaker 2 (01:46:58):
With the Blade.

Speaker 4 (01:46:59):
Well, I'm I didn't need to go back and watch
Blade Too, because garabl del Toro directed that, and that
was one of his earliest American movies. He's great, and
he was coming out of doing some really cool stuff
in Mexico too, and he's gone on to win Oscars
and stuff like that now and he did Frankenstein this year.
But I don't know, I can't say that now looking

(01:47:21):
at Blade Too, i'd say it's better or worse because
it's been so long since I've seen it. I did
like Blade, but there are movies and it's always going
to be an argument. I mean, I would say that
Aliens is a more entertaining movie than Alien, but I
don't know if i'd say it's better because they're really
kind of two separate genre and one's an action movie,

(01:47:42):
one's a horror film.

Speaker 1 (01:47:43):
Well, the first one scared the hell of me out
of me as a child, and I was thinking about
I don't want any parasite in me, let alone space
parasitics issues, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:47:52):
He can look at Star Wars movies and say Empire
Strikes Back is a far superior movie than Star Wars.
But Star Wars broke ground. And when I say it
broke ground, it it blew the ground up. It didn't
just you know, put a shovel in there. It redefined
an entire industry. So that's the groundbreaking work there. Same

(01:48:14):
thing with The Terminator. I think The Terminator the first one,
very good movie, well written, and it fits. Second Terminator
kind of gets a little ooey gooey with the time
travel stuff, but from a technical perspective, it's much better film.

Speaker 2 (01:48:29):
Yeah, like The Jaws.

Speaker 1 (01:48:30):
And then of course my favorite, and I still think
and maybe it's because it really resonated with me as
a child, and I saw it in a lot of
ways that it was just I look beyond its just
like Apes from Space or whatever, history, past future. But
I mean, how amazing of the Planet of the Apes.
And then they redid those two in some fashion.

Speaker 4 (01:48:51):
Yeah. Well, and because if you go the Rise of
the Planet of the Apes is very similar to and
and I think it's Conquest of the Planet the Apes.
It's one of the sequels that it actually or or
Battle for I forget which one it is, but it
is kind of based on that movie. In the original run.
But the Planet of the Apes movies are good. But again,

(01:49:12):
you qu it's very hard to compare one that was made,
the one with Charleston Heston back in nineteen sixty eight.

Speaker 2 (01:49:18):
I want any different time. Yeah, I mean yeah too.

Speaker 1 (01:49:21):
We were literally right, yeah, I mean did you see
in the theater originally? I mean you couldn't have, right,
I mean we saw it on TV as kids, because the.

Speaker 4 (01:49:27):
Only time I ever saw was on VHS. Yeah, and
on TV and the and here's the thing, I hadn't
seen it. Person didn't rewind the video, so it we
put it in and played the ending, So like.

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
Come on, so you start with the ending and do that.

Speaker 1 (01:49:41):
A lot of people read books that way on purpose, though,
They'll read the ending and then go to the front
of the book.

Speaker 4 (01:49:45):
Why do that, Well, I mean, if it's your personal truck, look,
I'm not going to get in the way of it.
If if you want to do that, that's great, but
don't be a jerk and ruin and spoil it for
other And then I had people spoil things and then
they go aterally. You know, they've done studies that it
doesn't really ruin the experience. They will shut up. Spoiling
a movie is like fartan in an elevator. You may

(01:50:07):
not mind, but everybody else.

Speaker 2 (01:50:09):
Does, and they're stuck until they get to the twelfth floor.

Speaker 4 (01:50:12):
No matter what.

Speaker 2 (01:50:14):
Anything else before we let you go.

Speaker 1 (01:50:16):
I know we've gone here, there, and everywhere else on
a Friday night, you know, hanging out with Kevin Carr.

Speaker 4 (01:50:21):
No, I think partner an elevator is a good way,
and so too.

Speaker 1 (01:50:25):
And Kevin will show up in your mailbox flatulence or no,
the sober gecko on the substack.

Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
You could find him.

Speaker 1 (01:50:31):
And you can search maybe even and find a Chubby
and Stick podcast from the past, which is out there
someplace at some point, somehow.

Speaker 4 (01:50:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:50:38):
All right, man, I'll see you later. Take care of yourself.
That's Kevin Carr coming up. But you got news straight away,
and we'll get into some other things as well. And
he's Sterling seven hundred WLW Cincinnati bared hats news in
Red Eye Radio to follow.

Speaker 2 (01:50:54):
Been a good one tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:50:54):
I appreciate you being a long spent a little bit
of your Friday night into the weekend with the Nation
station Sterling hanging out, Rush Jackson keeping me on time
in line or in line on time, something like that conversation,
good one, Gordon Wittmeier about those reps in action in
the desert and those good vibes. Even though it was
a loss today, and you know, spring training, I mean,
the games don't count. You just want everybody to be

(01:51:15):
healthy and people to get to the skills they need
and to be ready to compete and hopefully get back
to some playoff action here at a great American Ballpark
center and later also Kevin Carr, fat guys at the movies,
Silver Get Go on Substack talking movies.

Speaker 2 (01:51:28):
Always good, great calls tonight as well.

Speaker 1 (01:51:30):
Miami RedHawks just keeping the winning ways going number twenty
one in the country. Can't hurt themselves with another win,
and they got one. It was close though, buzzer beater
he effectively with the shot at the end. There's sixty
nine sixty seven against Western Michigan. But a win for
the Red Hawks and a lot of love for them
and looking to build a new facility up there. It
helps when you're undefeated and you get all that kind

(01:51:52):
of attention, all that kind of love across the country
on the MAC and on the OU. You know their
competitors who they've been beating and everything else. You look
at it as it well, they need to get rid
of me. Let I like that place. I've seen a
bunch of shows and games there too, but they may
be building something newer there, sooner than later. Tomorrow Basketball
Bearcats hosting the Cowboys Oklahoma State Big Twelve matchup, Fifth

(01:52:13):
Third Arena, two pm tip off after ken Brew. There'll
be some UC basketball here on the Big One. A
little bit earlier than that. Fifty five KRC one thirty
tip with the hoy Is coming in Georgetown and the
x Men getting it on at Sentas in a Big
East showdown. And I'll be back on Sunday afternoon following
ken Brew. Take you right up to Red's Baseball as

(01:52:34):
they look to do it again. So have yourself a
good weekend. As nice as the weather was earlier today,
tomorrow a little bit nicer still, more sunshine, low sixties.
There's talk of I'm gonna say it's a four letter
word new, maybe even a little accumulation in time for
Sunday's show. We'll see how that is. I'm hoping not,
but it is just gonna be March first. What do

(01:52:56):
they say in like a lion out like a lamb.
I just ready for eighty degrees in baseball at the
Great American ballparking right here on the home of the Reds.
I'll talk to you Sunday at Sterling News Radio seven
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