Sterling 3/27/26

Sterling questions when it became ok to have violent events like what happened on the Banks on Opening Day. How do you relax after a stressful day? Sterling suggests scream therapy. And Sterling checks out what's new in movie theaters when he's joined by "Fat Guy at the Movies" Kevin Carr.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A community a world where people refuse to take responsibility.
You know, we are an instant gratification society. We want
what we want, when we want it, we often are
able to get it. And on Opening Day, a holiday
in the Tri State, a holiday in Cincinnati, what we've

(00:23):
seen is that it's not just young kids who you know,
are enjoying time off for school or whatever else and
getting into the excitement of going downtown and the friendly
Market parade and Red's Opening Day and hanging around the
banks and everything else. But even even adults get out
of hand. Even adults get out of control. And uh,

(00:45):
you know, if kids are out running around unattended, that's
a parent problem, that's a youth problem that needs to
be addressed. If it's adults acting like idiots and morons,
then they got to handle their business and act responsible.
And as I look at this, and I had a
conversation last night about this, I've been listening obviously to
the Big One. And here I am on a Friday, Sterling,

(01:06):
glad you're here too, with your chance to get interactive.
Five one three seven, four ninety seven, eight hundred. The
Big One. I want to know we have we have
had a weird, strange, jump the shark off the rails
kind of moment that it hit me like a bolt
of lightning last night, and it has resonated throughout the

(01:29):
day today, listening to show after show, conversation after conversation,
text after text, and on it goes and even evesdropping
on others conversations, which is sometimes what listening to the
Big One is like. But I'd like to hear from
you out and about a lot of traffic, people enjoying
the weekend, long weekend, instill some vacation for a lot

(01:52):
of people yesterday, a lot of kids on spring break,
you know, out and about and wreaking havoc in and
around the banks and everywhere else. And what I gleaned
earlier that was like a punch to the nose was
that so many people, for so long have been pointing

(02:17):
the finger of blame to someone else for their shortcomings,
for their bad behavior, for their inadequate activities, for them
acting anything less than good citizens in our community or
across this nation, arguably globally. It's apparently happened so long,
and people have been so conditioned that what I've immediately

(02:39):
heard time and time and time again to the point
of making me want to vomit is that people were
blaming the police. People have blamed the mayor, people have
blamed political parties for the behavior of individuals. The police

(03:01):
seem to react in a timely fashion to put a
clamp down on what was absolutely abhorrent, inexcusable behavior by
way too many individuals. And it is astounding to me.
And I got to say thank you to the police

(03:21):
for doing their due. That's what it's supposed to be like,
and they should be given the resources they need. And
whether it's the mayor or counsel or otherwise, I'm just
curious the assessment of the way law enforcement has handled it,
the assessment of the lawmakers and council members. I'd love
to hear, but how is it before everyone knows everything?

(03:45):
The first thing I hear, and as friends and family
of mine, people that I've talked to on the radio
station here at seven hundred WLW calling others, and I
want to hear from you. And you know, you got
a family who's trying to figure out exactly how to
deal with and navigate the beatdown that their thirteen year
old took as her stuff was heisted and taken by

(04:07):
another group of young girls. So running around wilding downtown
for one of a better way to describe it. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
eight hundred The Big One talk back the iHeartRadio app.
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More often than not, it is bizarre to me. People go,

(04:30):
well the mayor, well, Democrats, Well, uh, how is it
a party's fault that idiots, morons, single digited people who
apparently can't handle their drink and their behavior is a
political party affiliation issue. I don't recall seeing any mayor

(04:52):
on the streets of this city, Cincinnati or Montgomery, or
Covington or Newport, you know, with riot gear on criminal behavior.
That's police's responsibility. And I'm not here to somehow apologize
for this administration in the city of Cincinnati or Hamilton
County or anything else. But what I'm wanting to know,

(05:15):
because I'm just bewildered by it. I know enough as
a kid that if I showed my ass and acted
like anything but a gentleman and someone that you know,
could be looked at with pride by their parents. In
my case, my single parent mother. I never wanted to
disappoint her. I wasn't worried about causing problems in stirring

(05:40):
stuff up and causing trouble downtown, or waiting for the
bus after school or the going the library downtown or otherwise.
But the weird pivot that I noticed in this last
twenty four hours or so is that so many people
have refused to say mom and dad and the individuals

(06:02):
responsible for the behavior should be held accountable, But people
want to blame others who are in the business of
policing or somehow handling overall planning for the city. How
could this have somehow been handled better by this city,
I'd like to know. And if you're you know, operating
a business in and around the banks, or looking at

(06:23):
what looks to be a long season of you know,
eighty and one games in and around downtown Cincinnati, and
the celebration in the northern Kentucky and people coming from
all over the place, points near and far, whether they're
visiting from Boston and New England to see their Red
Sox because it's easier to get a ticket here in
Cincinnati than at Fenway Park. And you look at this

(06:43):
and you go, the hell is going on in Cincinnati?
You tell me, because it is crazy to me that
somehow the idea that you theres so much blame has
been put on anyone but the individuals responsible. Seventeen people
are und disorderly conduct, violent behavior, and so on, and

(07:05):
the oldest offender is the charge I think at fifty
years old is what it's been reported. I think CPO
had that Channel nine. I'm just I want to know
what you think and what is it that could be done?
You know, I hear those Oh we needed programs for
after school. This was school break and these were grown
ups in many cases. I can't blame the police. I can't,

(07:27):
and I really as much as maybe i'd want to
blame like a figurehead or something along those lines, who
might be in government. How do you blame the mayor
or anyone for counsel for idiots and morons who, whether
they were in from the city or from suburbia or
whatever else, coming down here and showing their backside. I
would love to know. I want to talk to Nancy first,

(07:49):
Raphael Jeff and others. Your chance to speak your mind.
It's a Friday sterling with updates on hoops action going
on right now, in only about thirty two seconds left
Duke and Saint John's. It's swung the other way. Duke
is up by three now seventy seven, seventy four over
Saint John's. Nancy, thank you for holding her with Sterling
on the big one. When did we become a nation

(08:09):
of people who are now so accustomed to failing to
take responsibility that we even now point the finger at
someone other than the offender of criminal behavior.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
I don't know, Sterling, You know what, It's not just here,
it's other cities as well, Chicago, look what happened in Minneapolis.
I mean, I just think, here's my two cents. You
always ask, you know, opinions, and then I'm all about solutions,
which I think you are as well.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
So here's my thoughts.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
I was down there yesterday with your seven hundred folks
at Holy Grail, having a good time, enjoying it. You know,
everyone was in such a good mood if there's such
a hard winter, you know. But we had a perfect storm.
I call it as listening to the station today and
other things going on, the perfect storm was first of

(08:56):
all metro offers. Three rides did anyone sit back, like
the Chamber of Commerce or the banks people or whether whoever,
and say, wait a minute, Metro, maybe that's not such
a good idea to offer free rides to kids that
are out on spring break, because, let's face it, spring
break the cars at miss schools around the same time,

(09:18):
give or take a week or so, right, I think,
so that's number Yeah, that's number one. I think we
should have looked at that from more of a city,
you know, and everyone knows that it is a major
holiday in the Tri City and we had a horrible winner,
and people were going to be out and they're going
to be partying, But that does not excuse behavior that

(09:39):
is not legal or that is fighting. And like you said,
I mean when I got home and I heard they,
I mean, did you hear sterling? They had they had
the state police over blocking so it didn't go to Kentucky,
and if it did go to Kentucky, they were turning
them away.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, they saw some pictures on the Robling Bridge and
you know, some stuff like that trying to stop people.
I don't know how legitimate it was, the idea that
there were going to be groups of people crossing, you know,
the river by Bridge on foot or otherwise. But I mean, yeah,
you want to put the clamp down any way you can.
I'm just bewildered by an answer. I appreciate the call,
is always as good to talk to. You appreciate you

(10:17):
guys hanging out at the Holy Grail with a big
one too. It's it's just amazing the twist that we've
and you know what it is. I think we are
conditioned now. No one wants to take responsibility so much
so we're conditioned that now we don't even point the
finger at the ones who do the dumb ass stuff

(10:38):
that we want to blame somebody else for, not somehow
anticipating in full how bad they're going to be. And
these were mostly adults, not just kids. But the kids
were up to no good too, And and you hear
about their thirteen year old daughter down here. It's just
terrible bad to bond Hill, Rafael. Then Jeff was sterling
before you're nine thirty report. Then we got Kevin Carr
talking movies later on a Friday, Sterling, Rafael, how are you?

Speaker 4 (11:00):
I'm pretty pretty good, Sterling, but I am a little heated.
I'm not a guy that gets heated.

Speaker 5 (11:06):
You know.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
But I am after you know, last night, and that
reprehensible of horned, absurd.

Speaker 5 (11:16):
Behavior by.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
To me just young thuggish fools, you know, Sterling, just
just take a moment and think about this. Of all
the opening days that I've witnessed in Cincinnati and those
opening days in other Major League Baseball cities, this is
the first I've never and I defy anybody you know

(11:42):
to call into your show had they ever seen anything
like this on a Major League Baseball opening day in
Cincinnati or elsewhere. This is the first, brother, And let
me just say this.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Go ahead, no, no, no, you're you're ahead.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Okay, But and let me say this, See, Sterling, when
we talk about blame, Yeah, the individuals involved, okay, uh,
they should be uh uh a prosecuted, prosecuted for the
full sustent of the law. I get it now. Then,
see I hear you. So when you hear people talking about,

(12:21):
you know, some of the blame with city officials, the
city of Cincinnatis elected officials and some of the judges
that occupy some of the courtrooms, these young thugs they
know that city elected officials down the city hall and

(12:42):
certain judges are going to throw them a pacifier. They
are going to go easy on them because you don't
want to upset the community. And what community are we
talking about? Your callers might not say it, but I'll
say it. For years, in the city of Cincinnati, Sterling,

(13:04):
we have had a cultural collapse of the black community.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Not all.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
I'm just talking about the ones that are engaged in
the criminal activity and school absenteeism and drop out raids.
And I'm talking about that group of Black Cincinnatians. Okay,
And for far too long they have these individuals who

(13:35):
happen to share the same colored skin as eye, but
I don't share their ideology. But for far too long,
they have drifted from when I was a kid and
what was instilled in me by my parents. They have
drifted into a culture that embraces violence and depravity, and

(14:03):
embracing the notion that education is not to be prioritized.
The basic core values Sterling, that all humans, no matter
what their racial or religious background is ethnicity, but all
humans being having instilled in them at the earliest ages

(14:25):
of being kind, being good hearted, having high character and
esteem and respect for others. But in the Black community,
what I'm talking about, I'm talking about those hoods, okay,

(14:46):
And all you got to do is ask Cincinnati police
officers where the majority of their calls where they're going
into these these these areas, and from those areas came
these crowds of young, thuggish fo us that congregated in
over the run, the banks and Fountain Square and other areas.

(15:07):
So I know some of your callers they might not
want to point to it, but there is a percentage
of black Cincinnatians that have been on a cultural decline
for the past twenty five thirty years, maybe a little longer,
maybe forty years.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
I don't think it's just African American or black folks
in Cincinnati. I think I think it's across the board,
regardless of one skin. You got about thirty seconds against you, Yeah, okay.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
So I would like for you and your and your
callers that when we have incidents like this or the
two thousand and one riots or carjackings and white Cincinnatians
being beat up on beat down on Found Square or
through the banks or in parking garages. So if any
of those perpetrators are are you know, white Cincinnatians or

(16:03):
German descent or Amish descent or from or from uh or.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
The Amish when they get that one year that they
get off before they figure out they're going back.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
If they're from Indian Hill, you know, I don't know
about I've never heard you know.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Or the bottom line is Deale or west Es. Let
me sew it up this way because I'm gonna get
yelled at here because you can't miss commerce, Raphael. The
bottom line is this when some when you're giving a
description for the perpetrator of a crime, if it's a
two hundred and fifty pounds, you know, three foot tall
white lady, then call it what it is. That's I mean,
you know, I know you are. I'm just saying in general,

(16:43):
people need to not be afraid of that repel. Thank
you for the call. Always saw provoking, Chris Jeff Others,
Kevin Carr the other side, movie stuff Lodge to do
Friday Sterling news straight away seven hundred w WELW hanging
out the weekend is here. No riotous behavior, just craziness
at the theater. Kevin Carr Silver get go on the

(17:04):
sub stack back with me on the big one. Kevin,
how are you? I'm just curious. I was so excited.
We've talked about these horror movies the last couple of weeks,
and it's been week after week after week of just
great Blood Splatters, Scream Queens and everything and and everything
I watched. I mean, the the algorithm knows. Apparently my
taste has been a bunch of these promos for they

(17:26):
will Kill You, and that's your a pick of the
week to that you got to watch and take the
hit for us, or at least tell us that it's
worth our time. And I'm like, man, I want to
get a trailer. I want to play some of this
because I can't do the visual because it's a it's
a radio show and you know, and then later a podcast.
But I could play it and all the ones I
could find or Phil Flamm and foul words aside from

(17:46):
the Blood Splatters fine on the radio, but you can't
say Phil Flam and foul words. I'm very upset.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, you know, it's not the first time that we've
been betrayed by standards and practices to show the real
art that's out there, very very true.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
How good is this movie? Is it scary or is
it just fun? Because I tell you, for as much
blood and gore in the trailers with you know, machete
wielding hot freak Mamas. I don't know if I'm scared,
but I kind of like it a lot.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
I think there has yet to be a movie made
called machete wielding hot freakd Mamas. And we should jump
on that.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
It's true, it's true. We could at least pitch it.
That's the element. That's the pitch. That's it. Now, someone
buy it? Please, yes, there you go.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, no, See, here's the thing. There are some movies
that come out that appeal to everybody, and some of
that appeal to limited audiences. And there's some that, you know,
you might be like, well, this also does two things.
This really is just it does one thing, and it
does it very well. And that's the big splatter, you know,
throw down. And it's a story about Zazi. Beats plays

(18:55):
this woman who had escaped human trafficking and then she's
trying to go save her sisters from this same another
fate and she goes in to infiltrate this satanic cult
of immortals and it's just a bunch of violence ensues.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
You know.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
That's but if you like that sort of thing, it
really works, you know, it's sort of like I would.
One that I think is that a lot of people
can can relate to is something like from Dust Till Dawn.
If you remember that movie that roder Rod Rodiguez did
back in the nineties, that's the same kind of movie

(19:39):
where I know in that script they just wrote all
health breaks loose, and that's just what the next twenty
five pages, you know, So that's kind of what you
got here. And then she got macheties and shotguns and
a whole bunch of different things fighting each other. And
there's a lot of blood splatter, and there's a lot
of violence and a lot of bad language. So yeah,

(20:01):
maybe don't take your your your sweet old grandmother who
likes to watch, you know, the Hallmark channel. But you know,
if you like some if you know somebody who likes
this kind of thing, you get exactly what you came
for with this. You know, nothing heavily contemplating, but a
lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Do you know if they already planned a sequel, because
there was a sequel last week to another one, and
I'm not saying they're interchangeable, but I had somebody message
me and go, what is the difference between last week's
and this week's screen queen that you're excited about, And well, yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Think that if there's any problem in these movies, it's
that releasing Ready or Not Here I Come last week
and then they will kill you this week. You may
have wanted to pad out the release dates a little bit.
They're too totally different studios, but they they very much
feel like the same kind of thing. And I've not

(21:00):
seen Ready or Not Here I Come, but I've seen
the first one and that's a lot of fun. I'm
a big Samara Weaving fan. I think she's sort of
earned her NEPO baby status because she's Higgo Weavings daughter,
you know, the guy from The Matrix. And uh, these
movies aren't like you said. They're a lot of fun.
And they've had these movies come out all the time.

(21:23):
They never make hundreds of millions of dollars. But if
you keep them, if you do them on the cheap,
you can have a lot of fun like this when
like you got Patricia Arquette is one of the bad
people in there. You've got Heather Graham also in here
as somebody, and Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy Way

(21:43):
back in the old Harry Potter movie. He's in this.
So yeah, you've got an interesting cast. But yeah, not
for the weakest stomach.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
And Sazy Beats is just kicking ass. It's just going.
It's great, man, It's just pretty awesome and amazing. In
short order, we can break it down. It is a
fake apartment building or something. It's possessed or built to kill.
It's a hotel, okay.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah, all right, I guess sort of like a conservatory.
I don't know whatever it is. But this it's it's
this bastion of Satanic worship in in uh in Manhattan.
That's not really a spoiler, you know when you see,
like when she comes up to the building, there's an
effigy of Satan carved into the and you're like, okay,

(22:29):
I know what's going on.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, we've covered the bases there. Yeah, I think I
pretty much. Lets you know where you're standing.

Speaker 5 (22:34):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Do you think the psychology of it? How much of it?
Because I don't know. I remember as a kid there
were some very scary movies that there was nervous laughter
and uncomfortable laughter. That is a kid sort of navigating
and emotionally dealing with the joy of being safe in
a theater or safe at home and watching something that

(22:57):
scares you. But this takes it to another level the
way some other movies have also, where there is deliberate
humor put into the chaos and the violence. That's a
tight rope to watch to actually make all work and
come together, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
Well.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
I mean sometimes I think it's the harder in some movies.
This one is just more it's it's fun, as in
the over the topness of it, because this is a
three stooges thing. I mean, people, no one would be
able to survive five minutes doing what's happening in this film.
It's that whole thing where they'd like shake it off

(23:32):
and you're like, well that would have shattered like all
the bones in your hand. But this isn't meant it's
not really It's hard to call it a horror movie
because it's not really scary. It's just insane and over
the top. I mean, you watch this much stuff happening,
It just you see things that you don't expect and

(23:53):
you kind of get surprised, and it is kind of
just fun to watch the action happen and that's kind
of where the humor comes in. It's it's uh, it's
it's less it's less nervous laughter. But although you can
definitely have that in a horror movie, but this is
just more it's it's funny you watch it and if

(24:15):
you kind of get giddy at watching how how crazy
these things are and when what actually happens to some
of the people in.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
This Talking to Kevin Carra silver Gecko on Substack, he'll
show up in your mailbox virtually. It would be weird
if you just like popped out when you open your door.
But you know, you can maybe work that out if
you need.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
Yeah, you have to send me the money. I'll do.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
It might be an only friends thing or something. I mean,
I don't a Patreon. I don't know how that works
for you. Sure, sure you.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Say only fans. I'm not gonna do that, you mail box?

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, I think they're looking for somebody to buy that
thing anyway. So that's what else is coming? I mean,
is it there are more of these scary films in
a row? Is there anything else coming? I mean, last
week we go to effectively, you know, you see, uh,
the effort to save the world for one of a
wait or describe it with the Trip to Mars or
whatever it is Kyle Setdy.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
But yeah, yeah, Project Hill Mary. Last week that was
the big ten poll. We got another huge one coming
up next week, which is the Super Mario Galaxy movie,
a sequel to the Super mamar Brothers movie that came
out two years ago. And that one was a huge surprise.
I don't think anyone expected that one to do as
well as it did because traditionally video games turned into

(25:26):
movies don't do well. But they managed to make it work.
So you've got the sequel coming out next week. And
now we're sort of in that spring mode where everyone's
getting ready for the for the summer movies, which kicks
off the Devilwaar's Product two is coming out. In me first,
I think, which I'm like, I don't know, I don't

(25:49):
I have nothing against the people in this movie, and
I have nothing against the people who made it, but
I don't understand who was asking for this movie.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Now, well not you, not me, but there's maybe an
audience are you Are you saying that you expect it
not to do well or that you just can't identify
and tap into and be one with that same psychology.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
It's just I mean, was there stuff left over from
the first I mean, that's the whole point is that
the first movie had a sard and I believe the
book had a sequel, so that happens. I just I
just am like, was there more in this relationship between
the publisher and the and the movie that that we
that we missed. I don't know. To me, that just
sometimes these reboots, you're like, like the fact that they're

(26:33):
going to bring back another Mummy movie with Brendan Fraser
and Rachel Weiss, I'm like, Okay, I can see where
people there's big Mummy fans out there that kind of
want to go back to that action. But I mean,
I know, I know there's people like the Devil, the
Devil Worst Product. But it's like, you know, if they
said We're going to make a sequel to My Dinner
with Andre and I'm like, okay, do we need another

(26:56):
dinner with them? I mean, it's like it happened.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
I don't know, it happened. It's over. It's what you know,
it was a moment in time. But you know, they
can reinvent, you can re you know, reintroduce and reboot.
I mean that's sort of what that is, kind of right,
they'll they'll make it with another generation. And because both
of those are long enough ago, that's exactly what it is.
It's it's gonna be moms with their daughters, right, I.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
Guess, so yeah, sure. Well last week, well, last week's
project Hail Mary did very well. It's kind of overperformed.
And now they're like, they're talking about doing a sequel,
and I'm like, you don't do too, you don't do
too hail Mary passes. That's not how a hail there
pass works. You don't do it.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
They'll find a way. They can do anything. It's make believe.
It's a move though, I understand. And Kevin Carr makes
stuff up. He puts it in print virtually or otherwise,
and pop it into your mailbox. He's crazy that way.
So ver Gecko on substack and I guess it's time
to go see. They will kill you if you don't
mind a little splattered, a little bit of violence on
a weekend of a lot of splatter, a lot of

(28:00):
and the hot women you know, carrying machetes doing crazy
violent stuff. I dig it. I'm a fan, all right, kid,
Anything else. I think I think we've covered more than
enough ground now.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
I think that's good. I think the preps up for
the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
There you go. Good to talk to you, man. Take
care of yourself. We'll see a shoot all right, man,
coming up, there's a news and then there's more. Thanks
for you. On a weekend sterling on the home of
the Red seven hundred WLW Cincinnati on the weekend in
full effect, seven hundred WLW later scream therapy a lot
of things and the news making people want to scream.

(28:33):
Really the horrible Another downtown Cincinnati beat down caught on video,
this time of a young girl like the thirteen years
older family of course, wanting retribution and culpability and those
responsible for that and heisting stuff from their their thirteen
year old little girl and dealing with that situation which
is just bewildering and hard to process. A whole bunch

(28:55):
of other girls, so going in just a wreaking havoc
on her and treating her bad. This opening day yesterday,
reds take a loss. That should have been the news
of the day, but oh no, not the case. And
what I'm kind of curious about because here's the other thing.
We talked about this a little bit earlier, and I
heard this, Well, the free rides on the metro. People

(29:19):
should have thought I had. You know, the metro bus
only cost a couple of bucks. It only costs two dollars,
twenty cents for local routes, express routes three dollars. Right,
and I think they still give transfers if I'm not mistaken.

(29:39):
I used to take the bus downtown as a kid.
Transfer go to the library, Transfer, go to the doctor's office.
I was a latchkey kid. I was not in trouble.
Closest I came was a you know, some guy on
a piece of modern art on the square that was
on display, told me give me twenty bucks if I
climbed it. I climbed it. He left. I fell on
my head, which probably explains a lot aside from the

(30:00):
dent on the back of my skull. But I held
up reasonably well. But what I'm curious about is this
not all children? By the way, it wasn't all just
kids all for spring break that were wreaking havoc and
points in and around downtown, including up around the banks
and everything. That's gotten so much attention where they shut
down bridges Gold Crossed to Northern Kentucky and everything else.

(30:22):
Russ Jackson also working a Great American ballpark, telling me
as he was heading home last night he got to
see some of that shut down too, and trying to
figure out how to get where he had to go,
navigating stuff. It's a big day, Opening Day in Cincinnati.
It's a big day across the country for Major League Baseball,
but it's a holiday in Cincinnati. I mean, I grew
up in Dayton and it was exciting, and I mean

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it was everything. He had school teachers when I was
a kid that would bring in a TV so we
could watch Opening Day or listen to the Big One
and hear the Opening Day in Dayton as a kid
growing up and going to E. J. Brown element Thy
School or Jefferson Primary or elementary. I remember, and then
others my uncle be like, we're gonna get out of

(31:06):
school today. I'm like what It's like, Yay, I'm gonna
get you out of school. We're going to Opening Day.
I can vividly remember the first one coming downtown and
hanging around and just the joy, the good time, the
party that it was. It was tremendous. And then you know,
as a kid growing older, making my way down and
working and living in Cincinnati, leaving coming back to the
tri State in the Miami Valley and seeing this, this

(31:29):
type of stuff did not happen. If it did, the
news did not get as passed around as instantaneously as now,
as of course the social media allowing a lot of
these young people to be able to, you know, share information. Hey,
you know, meet us over here, a Washington part mediaus
over here, meet us over there. Here's where it's going on,
or whatever else that goes along with it. But I mean,

(31:52):
I find it difficult to believe because I mean I
was a kid who now. Maybe it's because I mowed lawns.
Maybe it's because I pushed snow out of the way
and shoveled walks for money as a kid. Maybe it's
because I delivered the paper back when kids delivered the
paper in the afternoon or what have you, in Sunday mornings.
Maybe it's because I had some money. Maybe because when

(32:13):
I was fifteen, you know, I got myself like a
regular job so I could have money in my own
I find it difficult to believe because I had money
in my pocket at ten eleven, twelve, thirteen years old,
before I had a regular job, to hop on a
bus if I needed to to get downtown if I
had to. Now, I was doing it to meet my mother,

(32:35):
maybe for lunch when she was working at the furniture
store downtown, or you know, maybe to do those things
I've already mentioned. But I'm just kind of curious, could
your kid was really the impetus of all of this?
Was everything would have been calm and peaceful downtown if
there were no free metro buses instead of kids coughing
up two dollars and twenty cents. I find that hard

(32:57):
to believe. It may have contributed. It may have, you know,
for the very poor and destitute out there, you know,
who had nothing to do and no parents to watch
them and not concerned or keeping track of them. They
had an opportunity to go downtown and celebrate Red's opening
day with everybody else, and they lost their mind and
got caught stupid and just a dumb ass things, and

(33:20):
as did adults. I'm just curious what the solution is
because this has been multiple generations that people not taking responsibility.
This has been multiple generations that people not expecting more
from their kids but less. This has been more than
one generation of people saying it's not my fault, it's
not my kid's fault, my kid didn't do anything, it's

(33:43):
the teacher's fault. Too many things are being expected of
the kids. They can't handle themselves. They're babies. Mommy and daddy,
helicopter parents, all up in their business and can't let
them live. It's better living through lowered expectations of my
good friends who I don't see enough as I should,
who does a lot of the sizzle that you hear

(34:05):
between the conversation here on the Big One and elsewhere.
Scott Stanley and I talked about this and he sort
of laid it out there.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
Better.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Living through lowered expectations is where we are and have
been as a nation for quite some time. If you
expect less, you get less. When I was a kid
growing up, and my mother shall hate to say this,
because she raised me to be as I should be,
not as she was. It was doe as I say,

(34:32):
not necessarily do as I do right. And she always
told me that early was on time, On time was late,
and late was unacceptable. And that has been lost by
a lot of people, and the same way of taking
responsibility in ownership for one's actions and so on. I
ask you, what exactly is it that can be done

(34:57):
to stop idiots from doing idiotic things all around school
that everybody whined and cried about that was floated as
an idea. In fact, there were some kids who were
in all year school when I was a kid growing up.
I think they went for like two or three weeks,
and then it'd be off for a couple of days
or a week, or they be on, you know, a
month or two, then they get off for a week

(35:18):
or something along those lines. Then when they got older,
like in the high school, they had co op jobs
and those type of things to sort of work, you know,
in that way. So you go to school, then you'd
also have work, and it taught you how to have
responsibility because you did have to show up and be someplace,
because you had to handle your business. That's for apparently
a great portion of the population that's been lost. I

(35:40):
don't know where it went. I don't know where how
you know it somehow got to a place where this
all of this has come to be. But all we
hear is people pointing the finger of blame all the time,
from all kinds of places, levels of responsibility, People who
you know should be responsible for much more. It's always

(36:02):
somebody else's fault and taking the blame. It's sad and
it's unfortunate, and the only thing I can tell you
is something that has been there when it comes to
a minor child, and they perpetrate crimes that are property
damage or harm to another at some point, the same
way if you manufacture a car or a truck, or

(36:23):
a widget or something else, at some point, if it
is an effective product and that product is wreaking havoc
and causing harm, liability goes to the manufacture. And that's
mom and dad pushing out babies that aren't handling themselves responsibly,
and that means parents also handling themselves as responsible individuals.

(36:46):
And that's as basic as basic can be. And I'm
speaking as reasonable as I possibly can, because I don't
know any other thing about it. It's not even funny.
It's just sad and ridiculous. And the police should have
done more. A message from Mark in Hyde Park, Well, Mark,

(37:06):
what more should police have done? I mean, it seems
to me and I wasn't downtown. But if you were downtown,
if you were dealing with it, if you're working downtown
and you got business downtown, you live downtown. More people
now live downtown Cincinnati than have lived in many generations.

(37:27):
And this is you know, this is their backyard, their
front yard, this is where they live, they work, they play,
People come from all over Cincinnati, USA. And I hate
to say these things happened, but I mean that this
should not be the black eye that everybody remembers. That
is somehow a part of what makes this community so great.
But pointing the finger of blame is astounding to me.

(37:50):
And we apparently have become so conditioned and set in
the idea that nobody can take responsibility that even immediately
with something like this happens, people want to go ahead
and blame somebody else. Other than that, there's a whole
lot of things systemically, moms and dads and homes together.
You could argue religion. You can you know, argue some
type of thing about self respect and respect for others,

(38:13):
you know, in just the bottom line, about the not
disappointing family and acting somehow right and treating people that
you'd like to be treated or like you hope to
be treated, or that you would hope somebody would treat you,
or your family, your mother, your daughter, whoever you care about.
Most people are good. Most people downtown were having a
good time and did good things yesterday. And all the

(38:35):
noise and all the hubbub of this, and I hope
I've not contributed to it, but I just it's astounding.
And here's somebody else. Yeah, the free buses are the problem.
I don't necessarily buy that. That's Kyle and a handful
of numbers on X two dollars and twenty cents isn't
a lot. I always had money as a kid that

(38:58):
I you know, I get chained here or there and
so forth. I saved it. These kids had money that
you know, is saving them two dollars so they could
spend it somewhere else, you know, I don't. I don't.
You can't blame free buses for the dumb asses doing
dumbass necks. You can't anymore than you can blame the
police for dumb asses doing dumbass necks. The police are
there to hopefully be a visible deterrent and then after

(39:19):
or you know, and if they can't deter it, then
they put the you know, the hammer down and stop it.
And then you hope that the courts is it's adjudicated
and you get people responsible for their actions to be
prosecuted and handled appropriately so that you know, they learn
that there's a penalty for bad behavior. Maybe we have
the perpetrators of crime such as this have to go

(39:43):
out and clean trash and where you know, the old jailbird,
you know, outfit of black and white stripes, or the
you know, the orange jumpsuit on the side of the
road picking up trash along seven it's spring in the
tri State. Effectively, you tell me, driving up and down
round seventy five and in and around overpasses, you don't
see a lot of debridy and garbage. Get these young

(40:05):
offenders out there and even the grown ups out there
picking up trash and making an improvement in the community
so they can see exactly, you know, the mess that's made,
and people can also maybe shame them a little bit
for being idiots and morons. I mean, that's that's a
very low level way to start. And then from there

(40:25):
beyond five point three, seven four nine, seven, eight hundred,
the big one, your chance to get an interactive Friday
Sterling quick break, come back, more to do, Travis Lair
also with your ten thirty report coming up in about
eight minutes right here on seven hundred w WELW after
the game and Evanks really, I mean there was some chaos,
but it was all beautiful down there for the most
part of reports. I've heard you tell me what you saw.

(40:48):
Five point three seven four nine, seven eight hundred the
Big One Friday Sterling into the weekend. Russ Jackson says,
maybe people came down just think it's too big. You
can't have too many nice things, got to ruin it
for everybody. Maybe they ruin it because too many people
having a good time. I don't you know, Maybe it's possible.
I just don't know if that many people have that
much going on in their head to think in advance.

(41:08):
I think they're just idiots doing idiotic things. But maybe so.
They're probably some looking to stir it up to Florence.
And Tommy was sterling on the Big One. How y'all doing, Tommy.

Speaker 6 (41:18):
Say, good Sterling, thanks for taking my call. I don't
know why that's so confusing to you. And just let's
just take a look at this for a quick second,
here what you said at the bunch of a bunch
of you going out, you know cause trouble. Well, that's

(41:41):
not correct because people like myself, uh this could be
we don't come down to the banks anymore. So we
don't come down to the banks anymore because people get
shot down there. We don't go over the Rye anymore
because people get shot there. You know where we go.
We stay over in Kentucky because the folks at Kentucky

(42:03):
I'm talking to law enforcement and the prosecutors do not
put up with this craft for one second. They put
these thugs in jail and they.

Speaker 4 (42:15):
Keep them there.

Speaker 6 (42:16):
And that's why those drugs that are in Cincinnati, which
is run by a bunch of liberal I'm sorry soft
on crime judges, City council because you can't discipline these
precious little angels because they're just misunderstood you, which is
a bunch of crafts and we all know it, and

(42:37):
we're pushing footing around it, trying to say the right
politically correct thing instead of calling a space of space
and doing things now they do it in Kentucky. You know,
arrest them, you put them in jail, and you keep
them there.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Well, I think that's about all well, and I think
what you just said and how you deal with it
is echoing effectively what I've alluded to them. Sadly because
this type of conversation has happened to in and again,
just not to this extent and not on opening day. Tommy,
I appreciate the call me and thank you. Appreciate you
listening and bringing it to the show as well. Hope
you'll do it again, your chance to get interactive. On
the other side, I mean, you know we've heard this

(43:12):
from Cincinnati police as well. You know, you arrest them
and maybe they get charged, maybe they turn them right
back out, they give them bond immediately, sometimes cash lists.
That's the argument a lot of people have had time
and time again. You know, I don't know all the
histories of all these individuals, but yeah, I mean, people
need to be punished for doing bad, criminal things and
then they should pay a price. I'd like to nobody

(43:34):
is being an apologist for the kids, least of all me.
What I'm trying to say is that there needs to
be more culpability top to bottom, and that's you know,
sometimes a slight physical correction is necessary. The news straightaway
more sterling Friday night with your chance to be heard
here seven hundred WLW. Have you ever gotten behind the
wheel of a car after having a glass or to

(43:57):
a wine, couple of pops, you know what I mean,
adult beverages here there, and you're like, I don't have
to go far. Or maybe you've consumed some of the
legal weeds, or maybe you've had some that's medicinal, because
you know, you got pain and some other type of suffering,
and you got yourself a prescription and from the the
go to the weed store, from the weed doctor and

(44:17):
you get yourself fixed up or whatever else. It's a
Friday sterling seven hundred w l W. Now, I don't
know anything about whatever may have caused Tiger Woods to
have that horrible rollover accident. Thankfully no one injured today,
as it's been reported, but charged with the dui. He
took the they took the blow test, you know where
you go. He had a blow into that and he

(44:40):
blew a triple zeros as they say. He refused the
urine test and is now dealing with the ramifications of that.
But I mean, at this point, you just glad that
he didn't hurt himself. He had an accident a few
years ago. Obviously that could have damn well been you know, fatal,
and certainly he's come back through a hell of a
lot and navigating that. Mike question to you about this

(45:03):
in general. First of all, in the accident that you
had before, I think I'd be pretty damn careful is
to not putting myself in a situation and we don't
know what it. Maybe had a physical problem, a health problem,
something else. You know, I'm not alluding to or inferring
that there was anything illicit in a system or otherwise.

(45:23):
I mean, I've had attorneys on the show, attorneys here
at the Big One and others will tell you, you know,
you don't take the test, that you don't have to
take a test, you'll lose your license. But the only
thing it'll do is give you, apparently, you know, information
that works against you rather than for you. And then
you get yourself a lawyer and handle your business. It's
a tough position to be in. I'm wondering if you've
ever been in that situation and how you've navigated that.

(45:46):
Because you see a lot of it's Friday night, you
see a lot of people here or there on the
side of the road, whether it's a Montgomery road in
and around town, out on the interstate someplace, or what
have you, and you see those flashing lights. I saw
it at a gas station just a couple of weeks ago,
leaving here on a Sunday afternoon, and I was low

(46:07):
on fuel and I had to pick up milk and
whatever else. So I pull off the seventy five and
I'm up in the Moreau area and I got to
run in there and gas up to the vehicle. And
I get in there and there's a woman who's there,
and I'm trying to park and get around after and
I see that they're giving her a bit of a

(46:28):
sobriety test and they're getting in the car. That's like
a big thing. And there's a couple of vehicles there,
whatever else, and I'm like, her day is not a
good day. And you could tell, you know, it sounded
like maybe, I mean, the conversation was on. I wasn't
trying to dip into the conversation or trying to hear
what I didn't need to be hearing. But you could
not avoid it as I was going in and out
of the place. So it happens to people, and I'm

(46:53):
just wondering how you decide, when do you decide? How
do you decide a lot of times and I'll flash
back to to days of old when McConnell was doing
mid Days and uh. And it's his fault even that
I'm behind this microphone. I've told this story before. I'll
tell it and brief and get onto the meat and
potatoes of the conversation. Uh at hand. But he had

(47:14):
seen me and I was doing music stuff on one
oh seven to one before it was Kiss and Channels,
and he was like, you should fill in for me
sometime and he was having a butt outside of the
parking garage uh and in the uh the elevator area
and uh. And I was like, I'd love to, but
I never thought to ask her that I would be
able to pull that off. And he was like, oh, yeah,
you'd be great at that. And then eventually, you know,

(47:35):
I started doing it. But he was doing a drunk
driving show, so it was me he invited me along.
It was fingers Ed of course you hear ed and
Rock in the afternoon, so it was McConnell and Ed
and me and I want to say were there were
a few other people coming by, and uh, I totally
stole this idea when I went to Columbus. I did

(47:55):
the same thing in Columbus is he did here. Uh,
And they had a bartender and served us drinks, and
we pounded drinks. I mean pounded drinks like even when
I liked to drink before, like out doing bar gigs
and hanging out as a younger man. When I when
I drank a little bit, you know, I did not
pound them the way they made us pound them. And

(48:16):
I here's the thing. McConnell was leaving. Ed had already
he was doing the dawn patrol at the time on EBN,
so he had just gotten off the air. Who knows,
he may have been drinking, you know already. But we're drinking,
and then they're testing us and they're giving us field
sobriety test and all the other deal and so on.
So those guys go to leave, and then I've got
to go do the rest of my thing off the

(48:38):
air and then go do my afternoon show. Completely tanked.
The good news is I had somebody who was giving
me a ride from the station back home, and she
took care of me after that. But a lot of
people don't have that. So I'm just wondering if you've
had those lights flash up behind you, stone cold, sober otherwise,

(48:59):
or maybe you've just had a drink, tell me what
goes through your head and tell me how that stop happened.
I'm kind of curious of the step by step of it,
and I have a lot of friends in law enforcement
first responders. I've done, you know, ride alongs. I have
seen the horrible outcomes of people who are altered behind
the wheel, who make bad decisions and to have bad

(49:22):
response times and bad outcomes. So I'm not making light
of it. I'm not trying to get around it. I mean, there's,
you know, no excuse. Now, there's so many ride shares
in all kinds of other ways, but people make bad
judgment calls at times. So I'm just curious what that's
like to be in a situation where you may have

(49:42):
had a drink or two, you feel like you're okay,
but then maybe you're not, And then for a cop
to be in that situation to say, okay, your eyes
look a little funny. Let's see if we can follow
that pin. Do your eyes bounce on either side as
you're checking your peripheral vision and moving and following that
pin and you don't really see him bounce. And now
law enforcements navigating the other with the legal weeds issue

(50:05):
that goes along with that, with the cannabis consumption too
five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred, the
big one. I'm just kind of curious. So Tiger Woods
did what I've had lawyers instruct on the air, either
calling or otherwise. And if you're a lawyer and you
deal with this U, I mean time after time I've
had you know, that's the thing. You do what they say.

(50:26):
They're gonna take you to jail, they're gonna charge you
whatever else. They're gonna book you, test you down there,
but you don't want to do anything that's gonna put
yourself in harm's way and give them information that the
otherwise wouldn't. Is basically how it's sort of been explained
to me. But that's a tough spot. I just you've
got Tiger Wood's money. If you're Tiger Woods and you're
feeling sick to your stomach even and I hope he's okay,

(50:50):
just in general apparently he was not injured. H but really,
why take any chance you can you can clearly he
could afford to get somebody to you know, to come
get him in a rickshaw let alone, some other type
of vehicle or somebody else to drive or whatever. And
you just hope that, you know, it's not some other
type of hell shoe health issue that sort of goes
along with that, but that that is a difficult situation

(51:13):
and a lot of people, you know, you see out
in about after you know, I get off the air
here on a Friday night and and so on, or
a weekend night. But at any time, even during the day.
I remember, you know, uh, being in a situation when
I worked at the mini golf and there was, you know,
a guy who drove in and like slams into two
or three cars in the middle of an afternoon in

(51:35):
the sun, you know, sunny like summertime and just hammered
and decided he was going to go play video games.
And you're like, I don't know if he had been
to the bar, had been at the house having drinks,
but he decided and then that turned into a nightmare
for that guy, thankfully not causing any harm. It's a
it's a tough spot, and uh, you know, anybody who's
been on the road. Even if you're just not wanting

(51:57):
to get a ticket for speeding. You get that state
trooper behind you, you get that sheriff behind you, or
you get a city hop behind you rolling up on
those lights flashing and it's they're speeding up and you're like,
I'm like five over the limit?

Speaker 3 (52:09):
Is it me?

Speaker 1 (52:10):
And then you see him zip around you to go
somewhere else after somebody else. You take a deep breath
and go, good for me, I'm doing all right. Everything's fine,
no sweat, no worries, no problem, everything is a okay.
Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, eight hundred to
the big one.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
The picture of Tiger looks pretty rough, but he'd also
been through a crash. It's the Martin County Sheriff's office
that he's navigating in Jupiter Island, Florida, this afternoon where
this took place about two o'clock in South Beach Road
there driving a land rover that was not upright anymore

(52:48):
in the pictures that I saw, and not a good situation.
So it's a lot of stress, and you got to
think your whole life goes and flashes in front of you.
But you also got to figure with the rollover scenario
that you know, all the nightmare that he navigated before
dealing with that, and the health issues had to just

(53:10):
jump right back at him because apparently that was like
debilitating injury and everything else that just sort of go
along with that what he had to navigate. Is held
in a jail in Florida for minimum of eight hours,
which is required by law in Florida. It should have
been released by now probably, if not already. President Trump
reacted to this news as he calls it a close

(53:33):
friend of Tiger Woods. He says, he feels so badly
got himself into some difficulty, and it says he is
an Accident's all he knows. And he's a close friend
of mine. Amazing person, amazing man. But some difficulty. Yeah,
it does appear that there was some difficulty going along
with that. It was four years five years ago give
or take, when he was driving another vehicle and apparently

(53:57):
had gone away from the center tovie of a vehicle
in another area high a bunch of accidents also that
were in an issue there, and they said there was
no impairment issue. Dealing with another thing. At seventeen, he
was arrested for suspicion of driving into the influence in Jupiter,
Florida also, and the incident report at that time had

(54:18):
said that he was asleep and he had to be
woken up dealing with that particular issue. So you just
don't know. You hope he's all right, and you know,
in anybody else, you don't want anything bad to happen
to anybody else. I mean, that's the bottom line, health
wise or you know, substance or other. You know, it's
hard to say if you're following the hoops and the

(54:38):
dancing and the madness of March that is underway right now.
Just a couple of seconds left in the first half
at Yukon thirty five, Michigan State twenty seven in the
East Regional semi final, and it's the Valls in Iowa State,
Tennessee and Iowa State not at a ten with about
to just shy of thirteen minutes left in the first half.

(55:02):
There already tonight Saint John's falls to Duke eighty seventy five.
That's also the East Regional in the sweet sixteen, and
Michigan got by Alabama. Alabama not rolling on Michigan is
ninety seventy seven in the Midwest Regional, Tennessee in Iowa

(55:22):
doing their thing right now as a Michigan Yukon Tomorrow
it's Iowa and Illinois, the Illiini in the South Regional
and the Elite eight Purdue in Arizona. We'll find out
who Michigan plays later on as well as Duke after
these games wrap up, and then of course next week
you got other stuff going on to the CBC, these
other tournaments. I mean, unless you have a team minute

(55:43):
that you know, that you care about or whatever, I
guess you just they're just sort of playing sort of
how that goes. But i there're still tournaments. I mean,
UC played and there was it that Crown Tournament or
whatever it was that they called that a couple of
years ago, so I mean, you know, and then there's
the nit which Ayton was in for a little bit
until they got kicked to the curb on that. So
it's just the nature of the way things go. It's

(56:05):
a good time of year right now. You got the
NCAA hoops, you got baseball just underway. Reds back at
a game two of this weekend series to start the
twenty twenty six campaign. Great American Ballpark tomorrow afternoon here
on the Big One, the home of the Reds. More
Sterling coming back post haste here seven hundred wulw. Anyone
who's navigated those waters as a parent, I'm guessing as

(56:27):
well as as a kid. And what I mean by
that is you got two political parties nitpicking each other
while they are expected to go to work and not
get paid, keeping people safe to go here, there and
everywhere else flying out a CBG or across the country
or for that matter, around the world. President Trump assigned
in order to pay them after Congress failed to get
that done again after this, I mean, this has been

(56:49):
back and forth and back and forth and back and forth.
It's ridiculous. And meanwhile, these people are expected to try
to figure out how to put gas in their car,
which is nearly doubled in price, and all kinds of
other things with no undy coming in, which is just bewildering.
So hopefully they're saying that maybe some would be paid
by the first of the week. So let's hope that's
the case for them and they can figure out how

(57:09):
to handle good people. All the people in DC are
supposed to do is work for us. You and me,
and that seems to have been lost someplace, and hopefully
they'll get their heads out of their backside without a
physical need, surgical removal or something. We'll see eleven o'clock
reports straight ahead, a guy who knows what's up, Travis Lair,
will to disseminate mass quantities of information. Later, Kevin Carr

(57:30):
talking movies, and they will kill us. It's a movie title.
He's not going to get violent. And we'll also talk
stream therapy and a whole lot more, including some bad
news about injuries to in another missile attack on US
troops overseas. Straight away home of the Red seven hundred
WLW Cincinnati tax season could stress you out. I'm not

(57:52):
here to stretch out. I'm here to provide some calm.
And apparently research has shown in some fashion that some
new type of therapy that not really all that new,
but getting more and more attention just might be the
thing to fix you up, or at least destress you
a bit. It won't fix everything. It's not going to
lower prices. It's not going to keep kids from doing
dumb ass things downtown when their parents aren't paying attention

(58:15):
to them the way they should be uh, et cetera,
et cetera. It's a Friday sterling hanging out, Russ Jackson
keeping me online and on time, and Travis laired with
news again in about twenty two minutes five one three seven,
four ninety seven, eight hundred The Big One. I want
to know what do you do to get rid of
like stress and anxiety? How do you decompress? How do

(58:36):
you unplugged and unwind this hectic, mind numbingly disturbing world
in which we're living in on a regular basis, where
you try not to pay attention to your four to
one k necessarily depending on how the world is going
this time. It changes by the minute, it seems, and
everything else that's going on, what is becoming more and

(58:59):
more regularly occurring, and more and more people are joining clubs,
sometimes with therapeutic assistance, with licensed professionals, sometimes just with
themselves hanging out doing stuff that I think a lot
of us would Maybe. Some people do it with drink,
some people do it with drugs. Some people do it

(59:19):
with sports and exercise. I know friends who run, I
know friends who lift weights. I know others and you
know they may walk or ride their bike. Some people box.
There's all kinds of different things that people do to
decompress and to unplug in. One of those is spine tangling, screaming,

(59:42):
just like maybe watching a horror movie, which the conversation
with Kevin Carr about that new movie They Will Kill
You coming up after your eleven thirty report. But one
of the things that's gotten just real ink here in
the last couple of days. More so are scream clubs
and people that will go out in the wilderness. They
will go into a park, they'll go new near a

(01:00:03):
lake or a pond, and some people will do yoga.
Some people will just drink tea and meditate and get
a hold of themselves. Others will do like the old
movie classic called Network, is that they will scream, maybe
out their window, maybe just with loud music while driving
around in the car. Right now on seventy one or

(01:00:23):
seventy five. It could be you and you're just look
at it. You're just gonna whale. I'm not gonna scream
through your speakers or your earbudget right now. That would
be inappropriate and wrong. I'm just wondering how you decompress.
Do you go scream? Have you done scream therapy. It's
a growing trend in places like Austin, Texas, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.

(01:00:45):
That's how you say it's not Knoxville. I used to
live outside in Knoxville in a place called a Merville
in Alcoa area. It's a Knoxville in that area where
the walls by the way right now, twenty six, twenty
two over Iowa State, first half, hanging out Midwest Regional,
about four and a half minutes left or so in
the first half. Just keeping you on top of stuff

(01:01:07):
here in Cincinnati, Atlanta, Detroit, other places. More and more
people getting in social groups off of social media, maybe
even at the house. But I suppose it's something else.
What is it you do when you just are mad
as hell and he can't take it anymore. I'm just
kind of curious. Some people might go to, you know,
like a target shoot or something along those lines. You know,

(01:01:31):
probably not a good idea when you're mad as hell
and he can't take it any more, to grab a
firearm in general and use that as a way to
put an end to a problem. That's not the way
we're talking about here. But what do you do? I
have a buddy of mine. He used to go out
into his backyard. I don't know if he's doing that
as much now, seems to be more relaxed and well
put together. But what he would do when he would
be aggravated, frustrated, pissed off to the point of not

(01:01:55):
being able to handle it, rather than drinking drugs so
much as he'd go out in the backyard and you
take a hockey stick and just break stuff. Which if
you've got stuff of your own to break and it's
not somebody else's that that's not necessarily a bad idea.
Have you tried scream therapy? Some people just go to

(01:02:16):
the drink, Some people go to the bud. Some people
may go to the doctor and then to the pharmacy.
Others maybe you know, it's it's all kinds of decompressions.
Sometimes it's just healthy to maybe some loving and stuff.
Maybe maybe that could be it too. Five one, three, seven,
four nine The big one. How do you decompress and
get rid of your anxiety and your anger in your life?

(01:02:38):
Hopefully not running the streets, you know, wilding and attacking
innocent people like that thirteen year old who took a
beating yesterday and or family trying to figure out exactly
why perse snatched other stuff stolen uh into all kinds
of other chaos downtown. Maybe if these people screamed, maybe
if those individuals wreaking havoc just got a hold of
themselves and could find another outlet, they wouldn't cause problems

(01:03:00):
to Northern Kentucky And Mike with Sterling on the big one,
how do you deal with stress? Do you do stream therapy?

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
What do you do?

Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
No, I don't do that.

Speaker 7 (01:03:08):
When I actually do I I just get in my brain,
remember there. You know, I appreciate some things, so like
I could be super mad. I get home and my
dogs they're like just wiggling and jumping and they're just
so happy and that's something they you just appreciate and
that that's like almost an instant moot breaker.

Speaker 5 (01:03:28):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:03:28):
That's just one example. Could be just remember different things
that you appreciate and you'll see it and it's it's
kind of like a moot breaker.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
I think you're absolutely right, and you're right about your pets,
your dog, your cats, whatever it is. I mean, you know,
they're just pure emotion, joy and happiness, and when they're happy,
to see it does sort of like make everything better.
Same thing with just walking and running with the dog too,
I noticed, So yeah, right, yeah, there you go, Mike.
I appreciate the comments. Thank you for listening to being
a part of the show. Take care of yourself. To
Jim and Dayton with Sterling on the Big One. How

(01:03:57):
do you decompress? What do you do when you're angry
as hell and you can't take it anymore?

Speaker 5 (01:04:03):
Well, I've find a lot of things in my life
until I found out what really works, and that is
give your life to Jesus and cast your.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
Care on him.

Speaker 5 (01:04:14):
Let him be in charge, and you will begin to
calm down.

Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
I think faith for a lot of people is that
that outlet as well. I think you're absolutely right, and
that's a good thing. How long did it take you
or was there some type of moment, Was there, you know,
a pivotal point where that actually changed for you or
was that something you grew up with or what?

Speaker 5 (01:04:37):
Well? I did go out with it, but it didn't
become real to me until I was twenty two years old,
and I tried a lot of things and just went working.
You know, the more I sought, the worse thought I
got until I learned about this that you can actually
give your life to God and to Jesus and he

(01:04:58):
can direct your life, he can carry it through the
hard times and really really works. At that time, my
mother had been that fast for nine years. That was
a real burden for our family. And I began praying
for my mother and she got healed. Wow, and the
family situation really turned around. And so it's just gets

(01:05:21):
better every day.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
That's tremendous. And that positive outlook and seeing something like that,
that faith and that energy and turned into a positive thing.
I think it's obviously affected you and just hearing it.
And I've had other people explain similar types of things
to me as well.

Speaker 5 (01:05:37):
And one thing that really helped me a lot was
someone told me that the Holy Spirit always builds up
a situation, always builds up people. Anything that's negative that
brings things down, that's not of God. God is always uplifting.

Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
I can't disagree with you. I appreciate the call me
and thank you and the perspective. And I think nature
is a part of that too. I mean when you
talk about you know, going out and walking like Mike mentioned,
you know, and being outside or with your pets or
whatever else that is. Sometimes it's with family, it's with friends,
sometimes it's just a moment, you know, to heal yourself.
There was a Los Angeles psychoanalyst by the name of

(01:06:19):
Arthur Janov in the sixties and he came up with
this idea of primal scream therapy, and these scream clubs
really have sort of all started as a result of that.
And what Jennoff talked about and wrote about was childhood
trauma and creating problems and neuroses for us as we age,

(01:06:41):
as we grow up, and how we deal with that,
and whether it's as a kid or as a grown up.
The idea of tapping into that emotion, that pain, and
then somehow was screaming sometimes even that emotion and stirring
it up and letting it out to crying can somehow,
they say, with a therapist supervision. Of course, they want
to get paid. I understand that that they say, that

(01:07:02):
could probably be a good idea too. I mean, if
you just started screaming around your house and by yourself
and in the backyard, pacing or up and down in
front of your house or in the neighborhood outwardly, that
might raise some alarm bells for people. They're like, Oh,
it's that guy again, just screaming incessantly walking around. I
mean that is unnerving. That could cause some problems. I

(01:07:26):
don't think you want to do that when you're in
the parking lot, coming in or out of the grocery store.
You got to pick your spots and places where you
engage in this. But apparently the stress relief of one
type or another works faith can be it whether it's
Jesus or Allah or Buddha or whatever, maybe a teapot,
depending a higher power of some sort. For other people,

(01:07:47):
it may just be the screaming. It could be just
the physical activity. But they have gone through it in
all kinds of ways. They say that by screaming, it
somehow activates the circuits in the body dealing with the
amaldala and hippocampus, which they say is the oldest part
of our brain. That's where we all started up there,

(01:08:08):
and they say that is what is responsible for processing
stress and emotion, and that is the way to work
through that. So maybe that's it. I will not scream
here and now with you. Maybe maybe when I turned
the microphone off, I will I may make Russ scream.
I may make Travis Laird in the newsroom scream by
being late.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:26):
I think over all these years, I may own Matt
Reese somewhere in the neighborhood of about an hour of
time collectively. But it's going back to the nineties, so
I mean that's not really all that bad generally, but
it is one of those things. Maybe driving I've seen
that a lot of people. It's funny driving in and
I'm always start of like observing looking around me. You know,

(01:08:48):
somebody weaving into my lane. I got a bob and
weave to avoid the you know, the ever so friendly
potholes that you know, the slalom that we have in
the tri State in this part of the world, just
in general with a winter into spring and all the
temperature change. I don't need to break down how potholes happen.
We'll leave that to Kathleen Fuller at O DOT and
those dealing with that tie up of stuff for the city.

(01:09:10):
But the bottom line is driving around, seeing you know,
people navigating everyday life. I have seen people screaming in
their cars and it's not because I like cut them
off or something. And also singing very loudly. And I've
been told this too. Yelling at the radio, maybe listening
to me, or listening to Willie or Eddie and Rocky
at times laughing hysterically, maniacally. That's the beauty of that, right,

(01:09:34):
Eddie and Rocky in the afternoon, maybe making you laugh
and relax and kick back after a day of all
that stress. Maybe you scream when you're leaving on the
way home, and then by the end of it you're
laughing and feeling good and into the weekend. Now with
Sterling on the Big One five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
eight hundred, the Big One, I'm kind of curious, you know,
would you try scream therapy? Some of us have navigated

(01:09:57):
these things before, you know. You get the idea in Alex,
who messages regularly hang on my screen just went dark.
At a tap back in on ex Alex says, my
wife regularly screams at me. She seems to find her
happy place. Okay, so that helps her. I don't know
about you, Alex, but it's good that she can yell.

(01:10:17):
And I don't know is she yelling? See, I don't know.
This is a one sided thing, and I'm communicating with
a direct message. Is she yelling at you and screaming
at you, or about you, or just in general, and
you get to soak it up in that type of situation,
it makes it difficult and a problematic. I say, for
some oh this is nice too. Kelly messages that she

(01:10:39):
says the build from the therapist after the scream therapy
might make you want to scream. Possibly. I don't see
anything in any of these stories. And I'm pulling stuff
up her messages here about what a co payment would
be or the cost of the scream therapy. But I mean,
you know, if it helps you feel better, it might
be something. You know, and they do say our audible sounds,

(01:11:02):
And they've studied this, you know, when the Western and
Southern Open Cincinnati opened and the tennis center happens, and
all those tennis players with ah A and you hear
them on their serves in the volleys back and forth,
in the screaming. They've studied that that will give more strength,

(01:11:24):
It will, you know, give more energy. Somebody is utilizing that.
So verbalization of one type or another will affect energy,
will affect emotion, and maybe even decompressing a little bit
with some of that scream stuff. You just I think
if I'm going through Sharon Woods, or I'm hanging around
around Eton Park near where I used to live and
ride my bike through that area, there might mirror Lake

(01:11:45):
and all that where they used to do the cruising
back when that was a big thing, right, which I
never understood. I remember, like buddies of mine going to
small towns. I was talking to Russ Jackson off the
air about this earlier. We were talking about the craziness
yesterday downtown after opening day and all the fools acting
foolish and getting police involved in making bad, ugly news
for downtown in the city nationally, which is ridiculous. But

(01:12:10):
in the midst of all of that, just talking in general,
my friends would be like, Yeah, we're gonna go check
out the cruise into some small town someplace. And I'm like,
what is the point of that. We're just driving slow
through you Like, oh yeah, people do that. Never understood it.
But for some people that's like everything. What was frustrating
and aggravating. What's say, trying to get through Eden Park
when they would do the cruising there, so you just

(01:12:32):
have to go all the way back around or ride
your bike or walk that would be frustrating and maybe
some screaming in that type of circumstance too. Don't know,
but it's possible. All right. Your eleven thirty report is
coming up. We'll hear from Travis Lair the latest on
what's going on in the Middle East and injured a
military personnel on the US side of things with some

(01:12:54):
missile attacks. Dealing with that, more on in the latest
on the arrest some seventeen people, some teens, but grown
adult people acting like idiots and morons too. So a
lot of stuff to deal with the news in that
And if you hadn't heard before, Kevin Carr and we
talk about weekend movie stuff and of course they will
kill you is on his list this weekend. The NASA

(01:13:16):
astronaut who caused the early evacuation from the International Space Station.
They found out he couldn't talk, and they couldn't figure
out why for no apparent reason. He just lost his
ability to speak, which is unnerving and somewhat troubling. Mike Finkey,
he is a four time space flyer. He is a

(01:13:38):
retired Air Force pilot as well a colonel. Fifty nine
years old. He had twenty minutes that he couldn't speak
at one point in another a little bit longer. Apparently
he felt fined after but they were trying to figure
out why. They don't know if it's space from stre
the space stay, or something along those lines. So now

(01:13:59):
we have a little bit more information about why those
astronauts came home early because they were trying to figure
out what could be causing him to lose his ability
to speak. And that was after some five hundred and
forty nine days of weitnessless in space. That's five and
a half months. In that latest day when he was
up there the nos straight away Kevin Carr talking movies

(01:14:21):
on a Friday weekend, Sterling where the Reds play tomorrow afternoon?
Back at it on seven hundred WLW. I just behavior,
just craziness at the theater, Kevin Carr, Silver Get go
on the sub stack back with me on the big one, Kevin,
how are you? I'm just curious. I was so excited.
We've talked about these horror movies the last couple of weeks,
and it's been week after week after week of just

(01:14:43):
great blood splatter, scream queens and everything and everything I watched.
I mean, the the algorithm knows. Apparently my taste has
been a bunch of these promos for they Will Kill
You and that's your pick of the week that you
got to watch. Take the hit for us, or at
least tell us that it's worth our time. And I'm like, man,

(01:15:03):
I want to get a trailer. I want to play
some of this because I can't do the visual because
it's a radio show and you know, and then later
a podcast. But I could play it and all the
ones I could find or Phil Flamm and foul words
aside from the blood Splatter's fine on the radio, but
you can't say Phil flamin foul words. I'm very upset.

Speaker 3 (01:15:22):
Yeah, you know, it's not the first time that we've
been betrayed by standards in practices to show the real
art that's out there.

Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
Huh, that's very very true. How good is this movie?
Is it scary or is it just fun? Because I
tell you, for as much blood and gore in the
trailers with you know, machete wielding hot freak mamas. I
don't know if I'm scared, but I kind of like
it a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
I think there has yet to be a movie made
called machete wielding hot freakd mamas, and we should jump
on that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
It's true. It's true. We could at least pitch it.
That's that's the element. That's the pitch. That's it. Now
someone buy it? Please, yes, there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:16:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:16:02):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
See, here's the thing. There are some movies that come
out that appeal to everybody, and some of that appeal
to limited audiences. And there's some that, you know, you
might be like, well, this also does two things. This
really is just it does one thing and it does
very well. And that's the big splatter, you know, throw down.
And it's a story about Zazie beats Place, this woman

(01:16:25):
who had escaped human trafficking, and then she's trying to
go save her sisters from this same another fate and
she goes in to infiltrate this satanic cult of immortals
and it's just a bunch of violence ensues.

Speaker 5 (01:16:47):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:16:48):
That's but if you like that sort of thing, it
really works. You know, it's sort of like I would.
One that I think is that a lot of people
can can relate to is something like from Dust Till Dawn.
If you remember that movie that roder Rod Rodiguez did
back in the nineties. That's the same kind of movie

(01:17:08):
where I know in that script they just wrote all
help breaks loose, and that's just what the next twenty
five pages, you know, So that's kind of what you
got here. And macheties and shotguns and a whole bunch
of different things fighting each other, and there's a lot
of blood splatter, and there's a lot of violence and
a lot of bad language. So yeah, maybe don't take

(01:17:32):
your your sweet old grandmother who likes to watch, you know,
the Hallmark channel. But you know, if you like some
if you know somebody who likes this kind of thing,
you get exactly what you came for with this. You know,
nothing heavily contemplating, but but yeah, it's a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
Do you know if they already planned a sequel, because
there was a sequel last week to another one. And
I'm not saying they're interchangeable. Guy, If somebody message me
and go, what is the difference between last week's and
this week screen queen that you're excited about?

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
And well, yeah, I think that if there's any problem
in these movies, it's that releasing ready or not. Here
I come last week and then they will kill you.

Speaker 5 (01:18:17):
This week.

Speaker 3 (01:18:18):
You may have wanted to pad out the release dates
a little bit. They're too totally different studios, but they
they very much feel like the same kind of thing.
And I've not seen ready or not here I come,
but I've seen the first one and that's a lot
of fun. I'm a big Samara Weaving fan. I think
she's sort of earned her NEPO baby status because she's

(01:18:40):
Giggo Weavings daughter, you know, the guy from the Matrix.
And these movies aren't like you said, they're a lot
of fun. And they've had these movies come out all
the time. They never make hundreds of millions of dollars,
but if you keep them, if you do on the cheap,
you can have a lot of fun like this when
like you've got Patricia Arquette is one of the bad

(01:19:02):
people in there. You've got Heather Graham also in here
as somebody. And Tom Felton who played Draco Malfoy way
back in the old Harry Potter movie. Yes he's in this. So, yeah,
you've got an interesting cast. But yeah, not for the
weakest stomach.

Speaker 1 (01:19:19):
And Sazy Beats is just kicking ass. It's just going.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
It's great.

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
It's just pretty awesome and amazing. In short order, we
can break it down. It is a fake apartment building
or something it's possessed or don't to kill. It's a hotel, okay, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:19:36):
All right, I guess, or like a conservatory. I don't
know whatever it is. But this it's it's this bastion
of Satanic worship in in uh in Manhattan. That's not
really a spoiler, you know when you see, like when
she comes up to the building, there's an effigy of
Satan carved into the and you're like, okay, I know

(01:19:58):
what's going on.

Speaker 1 (01:19:59):
Yeah, we've covered the bases there. Yeah, that pretty much
lets you know where you're standing.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
Do you think the psychology of it? How much of it?
Because I don't know. I remember as a kid there
were some very scary movies that there was nervous laughter
and uncomfortable laughter. That is a kid sort of navigating
and emotionally dealing with the joy of being safe in
a theater or safe at home and watching something that

(01:20:26):
scares you. But this takes it to another level the
way some other movies have also, where there is deliberate
humor put into the chaos and the violence. That's a
tight rope to watch to actually make all work and
come together, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (01:20:40):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
I mean sometimes I think it's the harder in some movies.
This one is just more it's fun, as in the
over the topness of it, because this is a three
stooges thing. I mean, people, no one would be able
to survive five minutes doing what's happening in this film,
that whole thing where they'd like shake it off and

(01:21:01):
you're like, well that would have shattered like all the
bones in your hand, you know. But this isn't meant
it's not really it's it's hard to call it a
horror movie because it's not really scary. It's just insane
and over the top. I mean, you watch this much
stuff happening, it just do you see things that you
don't expect and you kind of get surprised and it

(01:21:24):
is kind of just fun to watch the action happen.
And that's kind of where the humor comes in. It's
it's uh, it's it's less it's less nervous laughter. But
although you can definitely have that in a horror movie,
but this is just more it's it's fun. You watch

(01:21:44):
it and if you kind of get giddy at watching
how how crazy these things aren't when what actually happens
to some of the people in.

Speaker 1 (01:21:51):
This Talking to Kevin Carra Silver Gecko on Substack, you'll
show up in your mailbox virtually. It would be weird
if you just like pop out when you open your door.
But you know, you maybe work that out.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
If you, yeah, you have to send me the money,
I'll do.

Speaker 1 (01:22:03):
It might be an only friends thing or something. I mean,
I don't have a Patreon. I don't know how that
works for you. Sure, sure you say only fans, I'm
not gonna do that box Yeah, And I think they're
looking for somebody to buy that thing anyway.

Speaker 5 (01:22:16):
So that's.

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
What else is coming? I mean, is it there are
more of these scary films in a row? Is there
anything else coming? I mean, last week we go to
effectively you know, you see, uh, the effort to save
the world for one of a better way to describe
it with the you know, the trip to Mars or
whatever it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:31):
Is, Kyle Sendy but yeah, yeah, Project hill Mary. Last
week that was the big ten poll. We got another
huge one coming up next week, which is the Super
Mario Galaxy movie, a sequel to the Super Mamar Brothers
movie that came out two years ago, and that one
was a huge surprise. I don't think anyone expected that
one to do as well as it did because traditionally

(01:22:54):
video games turned into movies don't do well. But they
managed to make it work. So you've got the sequel
coming out next week, and now we're sort of in
that spring mode where everyone's getting ready for the for
the summer movies, which kicks off the Devilwaar's product too
is coming out. In me first, I think good, which

(01:23:15):
I'm like, I don't know, I don't I have nothing
against the people in this movie, and I have nothing
against the people who made it, but I don't understand
who was asking for this movie.

Speaker 1 (01:23:26):
Now, well not you, not me, but there's maybe an
audience are you. Are you saying that you expect it
not to do well or that you just can't identify
and tap into and be one with that same psychology.

Speaker 3 (01:23:39):
It's just I mean, was there self left over from
the first I mean, that's the whole point is that
the first movie had a sart and I believe the
book had a sequel, So that happens. I just I
just am like, was there more in this relationship between
the publisher and the and the movie that that we
that we missed. I don't know. To me that sometimes

(01:23:59):
these reboots, you're like, like the fact that they're going
to bring back another Mummy movie with Brendan Fraser and
Rachel Weiss, I'm like, Okay, I can see where people
there's big Mummy fans out there that kind of want
to go back to that action. But I mean, I know,
I know there's people like the The Devil Worst Product.

(01:24:19):
But it's like, you know, if they said we're gonna
make a sequel to My Dinner with Andre and I'm like, okay,
do we need another dinner with them? I mean, it's
like it happened.

Speaker 1 (01:24:27):
I don't know, it happened. It's over. It's what you know,
it was a moment in time. But you know they
can reinvent, you can you know, reintroduce and reboot. I
mean that's sort of what that is kind of right,
They'll they'll make it with another generation and because both
of those are long enough ago, that's exactly what it is.
It's it's gonna be moms with their daughters, right, I
guess so.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
Yeah, sure. Well like last week, well, last week's project
Hail Mary did very well. It's kind of overperformed. And
now they're like, they're talking about doing a sequel, and
I'm like, you don't do you don't do too Hilary passes.
That's not how a hill there pass works. You do it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:06):
They'll find a way. They can do anything. It's make believe.
It's a move, I understand. And Kevin Carr makes stuff up.
He puts it in print to virtually or otherwise and
pop it into your mailbox. He's crazy that way. So
ver Gecko on substack and I guess it's time to go.
See they will kill you if you don't mind a
little splatter and a little bit of violence on a weekend,

(01:25:26):
A lot of splatter, a lot of violence and the
hot women you know, carrying machetes doing crazy violent stuff.
I dig it. I'm a fan, all right, kid, anything else,
I think I think we've covered more than enough ground now.

Speaker 4 (01:25:39):
I think that's good.

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
I think the preps up for the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
There you go. Good to talk to you, man, take
care of yourself. We'll see you all right. Man, coming up,
there's a news, and then there's more thanks for you.
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