Sterling Saturday -- 10/11/25

Sterling takes your calls and talks fasting, dumb things you've done for a significant other, Bengals with James Rapien and and discusses the peace deal happening in the Middle East

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, how you doing. Beautiful Saturday afternoon in the Tri
State Big Football bear Cats win Scott Sadersfield's guys rolling
to five in a row over a UCF football team.
Going back to Florida Losers twenty eleven over a bear Cats.
What a nice tribute, by the way, to Jim Kelly

(00:20):
on the big screen there at Nippert. If you didn't
get a chance to watch, I was listening and watching
at the same time, and it's popped up all over
X as well at Sterling Radios where I am. You
can get interactive. I'm Sterling shawm ac Man keep me
in line. A lot of ground to cover this afternoon.
You may have heard in the news closer to peace
and returning of hostages and those who did not survive

(00:43):
after the October seventh attack that left us some twelve
hundred dead, and this thing that has gone on in
Guysa for an extended period of time over this window.
President Trump making his way there will be speaking to
Knesset on I believe Monday, and then going to Egypt
to sort of hammer out final details or at least

(01:05):
the next step in it. It's a very fragile piece,
to say the least, but hopefully a little closer to
some normalcy, because it does look like a moonscape in
and around Gaza. Other stuff to get to James Rapine
locked on Bengals, Gonna have a conversation with him. I
already had it. Actually you'll hear it a little bit later,
talking Bengals Packers, Joe Flacco trading Joe's tow obviously, and

(01:29):
then you got a Flacco trade, which is a kind
of a weird scenario, talk about Joe Flacco being in
Bengals stripes, but he made the trip from Cleveland. He
beat the Packers a couple of weeks ago. That is
very rarefied air to have someone playing for different teams
beat the same team twice, same season, just a couple
of weeks apart. But that's the hope. With a late

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four to twenty five kickoff tomorrow in full all coverage
here on seven hundred double ULW a number of things
to you have to also, Diane Keaton passed away a
movie leg and we'll touch on that a little bit later.
From the sounds, you heard Matt Reese's news from the Godfather,
or at least Godfather Part two. I was hoping to
hear Pacino in part of that. So maybe we'll pull

(02:10):
that up too, because that whole scene there was bizarre
and troubling on a whole lot of levels. So best
of her family. She just is seventy nine years old, which,
on one hand, when you're younger, seems old. On the
other hand, as time ticks by you, that doesn't seem
that old. And I just saw her, I think, on
Graham Norton Show not long ago, sneaking kisses from a
whole lot of people, which was kind of wild. So

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and she did a bunch of Woody Allen movies as well.
All Right, I want to ask this is a very
strange question, and this is where I want to start,
because I'm feeling a little I've not eaten. And it's
not because I don't have access to food. It's not
because I've run out of food. It's not because I
don't have cash in my pocket. I can get some
food if I want to. But here's the question, what

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is the dumbest thing you have done for a woman
or a man in your life, a significant other under
there pressure? Normally my co host Donnade is here and
she's often talking about fasting and cleanses and all these
other healthy things. And I am a frequent flyer of
certain drive throughs. They know when I'm getting my three

(03:15):
way in my Greek salad and sometimes two or three
chili cheese with onions and mustard Coney's. They know me
when I'm getting the square burgers and I'm getting the
combo with the fries and the biggie sized iced tea.
So I'm in a weird place. Woman, I know a
friend of mine. Let's just say, she's like, you need

(03:37):
to fast and be good for you and get cleansed,
and we'll do this together. So I had pancakes last
night because I figured that was a good meal, a
good way to sort of get prepared for this. And
all I can tell you is before I got on
seventy five to come in here, I'm down wind from
a drive through that I am familiar with, and I

(03:58):
was getting wafts of air of good grubbing stuff. But
by held strong and then driving in, I'm starting to
I've gone through a time and a place where I've
I seem like I've been starving. I saw the dog
eat this morning, the turtle late I have not eaten
and now I'm in an odd place where I'm not

(04:20):
necessarily hungry, but I know that I need to be eating.
So we're gonna wait and see. She wants to wait
till tomorrow, but I'm thinking what I'm done out of here.
After six, I'll be hitting a drive through, and I'm
sure we'll see how that goes. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
eight hundred, the big one. Pick up the phone, give
it the finger, talk back iHeartRadio app you can click
on the microphone. I want to know how long you've

(04:41):
gone without eating, in addition to the dumbest thing you've
done for the person that you care about in your
life that supposedly cares for you as well. Telling me
the thing that I need to go without food seems insane.
Maybe for religious purposes high holy days and fasting from
sundown sun up, sun up to sun down, depending that
that's a fair common thing, but just randomly for this

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or even before the colonoscopy, the endoscopy deal where they
take the camera and take a look in your insights
from the rear end, which just saying that makes me
unnerved and uncomfortable, which I think annually is one of
those things if you get to be a certain age,
you know in your family history, they start wanting to
check that or at least a shmear of some of

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your other stuff in that way. So that's a different
thing for health purposes. And then you get stuff that
you consume that's supposed to help get stuff moving or
empty you out, which sorry I went there, I just
but that's what I feel like I should be preparing
for right now is I'm frankly starving. I have had coffee,
which is also dangerous, and I will shift to iced

(05:47):
ta post haste. But I want to know what is
the dumbest thing you've done for significant under in your life,
and also the longest you've gone without eating? Now, I
mean I randomly will see people as I get on
seventy one here Montgomery Road once in a while other
places around town. You'll be at a red light, an
on ramp or an off ramp of seventy one or
seventy five, and you'll see a sign I'm hungry, please

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help me. And I'm not making light of it. Food
insecurity is a serious issue, but not eating by choice
is kind of a strange thing. What is the longest
you've gone and that's a problem, I guess, And depending
on how you're living and how your life is going,
I f I've won three seven, four, nine, seven, eight hundred,

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the big one. Your chance to get interactive later. Also
some conversation about the Delta eight hemp sale moratorium. These
stores that have been selling it with that carve out
of the farm bill from a couple of years ago.
I think it was twenty eighteen, if I'm not mistaken.
Just going off the top of my head, limited a
space where it could be sold, and has been in

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many cases gas stations, the smoke shops, et cetera. I
know some people who are in that business. They tell
me they're going to lose a whole lot of money
not being able to sell these and these have been
good actors in that business. What I mean by that
is they don't sell the kids. They keep behind the
counter and not selling it with the look of candy

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or something else. But there's been a problem with people
not handling that correctly, and Governor de Wine has stepped
in with a moratorium on it. So by Tuesday they
got to get it off the shelf, whether by liquidation,
sale or otherwise, or face some stepp penalties which could
put them out of business depending or hurt their pocket
in a major way. So we'll touch on that as well.

(07:38):
Big win you see football bear Cats twenty eleven over
UCF Sadderfields, guys looking to find their way as they
roll to their fifth win in a row. Could very
well be if the things go right, one would think
in top twenty five rankings. We'll see how it goes.
Quick break, come back. James Rapeen later also joining me
conversation we had talking Bengals as they hit the road

(08:00):
to face off a Green Bay on Sunday afternoon. WHI
Joe Flacco under center, appreciate you being here. It's a
beautiful day in the Tri State. I'm stirling in this
a seven hundred double welw tikes seventies. Next couple of
days close to eighty actually Monday and Tuesday. I'm holding
onto the warrant, but I busted out the long pants again,
which I try to avoid unless it's like a meeting

(08:20):
where it's required for, you know, appropriate a tire, weddings
or funerals basically, but showing up here, I mean, who cares.
I'm on the radio and streaming on I heard an
app podcast not on TV because I got a face
for radio. It's a seventy two now your severe weather
station seven hundred WLW wanted to know one the most

(08:41):
unusual thing you've done or dumbest thing for the person
that you care about in your life. I'm fasting now.
I'm into my second day. I'm not hallucinating yet, but
I'm thinking I'm stupid for doing this. I don't know
what good comes from not eating for an extended period
of time. So no, how long you've gone without eating,
a fasting for whatever reason, and maybe the dumbest thing

(09:02):
you've done after you see football win twenty eleven or
UCF and Nancy actually on the way home from Nippert,
Now was Stirling on the Big One than Marty? In
room for you? Five three, seven, four, nine hundred the
big One? Nancy? How are you when you're well.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
We're celebrating the six win, which is terrific.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
You good time? What was it? What was the energy
really like? By the way at Knippert, I mean good feeling,
good vibes as they say, it was just like last week.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Last week the energy was just phenomenal. It was a
little bit more low.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Key today, but still a win. So you got to
like that a win to win, and.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
We can't wait to go ahead and get to a.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Bowl game this year, one game away from guaranteeing that.
Sean McMahon was concerned. He's like, I gotta get one more.
I'm like, they'd have to really like fail, like just
drop off the face of the earth, uh, to not
get their six win. I think they're in fine shape.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
What else do you have, Nancy to Well, I have
one of the dumbest things that ever did for my huts.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
And he's sitting right next to me were we were
on vacation and we were going to head to Puerto Rico.
He wanted to do a zipline tour and I said,
I'm gonna pray to hikes. I don't think I could
do it. He goes, look, this is a tree top
zip line, little kids, grandparents to do it. You can

(10:28):
do it too. And I said, fine, So we go
on the zipline tour. If they drive us to the
top of.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
A mountain and said, you will go off of this mountain,
you will go, well, stop across the this is and
ravine and across tree.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Tops and you'll finally get to the bottom. I said, please, please, please,
don't don't make me go. I'm on my knee, I'm crying,
I'm in tears, and they said, we're sorry. Once you're here,
can't tear around. They wouldn't let me go with my
husband no, so they made me go first and him

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follow well. Two and a half hours later.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
I finally make it down the hill.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
I'm on my knees, I'm kissing the ground, and I'm
begging him, please don't ever make me do this again
a third.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Now, is that something you look back on fondly? You
don't sound like that, like sometimes you do something you're
scared of and you go, You know, that was great,
it was invigorating. I'm so glad I did it. You
sound like you still have remorse.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
I still have remorse. I got back to the ship,
I laid down for an hour, took a nap, went
to dinner, and our server came out and said, hey,
I heard you was siplining today. I started crying again
and left. Oh yeah, will horrible, horrible.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
You're pretty strong and hopefully he had fun at least,
and I'm sure that in the future you got one
in your pocket. To play back and say I did
this for you, so now it's your turn, Nancy. I
appreciate you listening, being a part of the show. Up
you do it again sometime soon. Be safe getting home
quickly to Monroe. Then we got Marty and Mike. Marty,
what's up. What do you have the longest you've gone
without eating?

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Yeah, I've gone ten days a couple of times days. Yeah,
and I usually, you know, the first time I ever
did it, I think I went three days and just
using water. And then I read a book called The
Master Cleanser, and I found in the health food store

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and it had a recipe for making a drink and
I extrapolated it out to make a gallon. So it
came to like six lemons, medium sized lemons, eight ounces
of pure maple syrup, and a teaspoon of cayenne pepper

(12:59):
and mix that with in a gallon jug with purified water.
In fact, I'm doing another cleansing fast right now. But uh,
it cleans out and uh after after a while, after
a day or two, you're not hungry anymore because you're
drinking this stuff. The cayenne pepper is giving you energy.

(13:20):
The the maple syrup is burning slowly rather than like
sugar or honey would be burning faster. And uh it's
it cleans out and it gives you mental, physical, and
spiritual rejuvenation.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Well, I could use some rejuvenation, but I'm not feeling
very rejuvenated right now. It might be the Cayenn pepper, Marty.
I appreciate the call. Ten days seems monumental and extreme. Mike,
can you get this internet less than a minute? As
your turn was sterling on the big one?

Speaker 5 (13:50):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Can?

Speaker 6 (13:51):
What are you fast for?

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Starling? A woman?

Speaker 7 (13:54):
A woman tell you? Yeah, three days is probably the first. Well,
what you want to do? U after the first day
in the day in the day two, you're not hunger anymore.
Your body is eating the fat that you got your
stored U in your body there, I'll all probably a
little fatter than you are, so I can usually go
a little further without you know, too much going on.

(14:16):
I usually do seven days now, just a to you
don't you're not hunger anymore?

Speaker 6 (14:21):
Who knows?

Speaker 5 (14:21):
Do water?

Speaker 7 (14:22):
Coffee and tea?

Speaker 6 (14:23):
What?

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Why? Though? I mean, what does the motivation to do?

Speaker 7 (14:26):
Just to reset my reset my body? I go to
go out to using fat as a source of energy
as opposed to sugar. Okay, that's why I do it,
just kind of reset the body to use fat storage
is suppose of sugar for my energy. So I do
that probably once every two months. I'll do like a
seven day fast, just water, coffee and team Wow.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
All right, well maybe we're on the right path. I'm
not feeling it right now, but you guys seem very
confident you're still alive.

Speaker 7 (14:50):
And take the day three buddy, try to get to
day three.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
We'll see, we'll see. I don't know. Tomorrow, during that
Bengals game, I feel like I might be stuffing a
lot of food and beverages of one kind or another
in my But we'll see how it goes. Mike, have
a great afternoon, and I appreciate you listening. In a part
of the show four thirty fourth Straightaway, Matt Reeves has
the latest We'll come back, James Rapeaine, a conversation about
Bengals and packers, and a whole lot more to get to.
On a Saturday afternoon, a seven hundred WLW. It's the weekend,

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sterling back seven hundred w WELW on the road headed
to Green Bay, Lambeau Field along with the football Who
da Bengals? James Rapine locked on Bengals the Cincinnati Bengals
talk SI, He's everywhere, Thanks for making time. This is
a weird week, and it is always a challenging thing

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week after week in the NFL. But the Bengals did something.
They went from Joe in a toe issue to Jake
Browning to now a new Joe who's not all that
new really, former Raven. He's gotten around a little bit.
Was with the Browns for eight and a half minutes,
and he actually beat Green Bay a couple of weeks
ago in a shocker. Now he's trying to figure out
new play schemes and working with some elite receivers what

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he's not necessarily familiar with. How does this look on
the outside, just a couple of days away from a
kickoff in Lambeau.

Speaker 8 (16:10):
Extremely challenging, I'll be honest with you, like extremely challenging.
I think the Bengals they needed to make a change
and to do this to give themselves a chance. I
also think it's it's really hard to find the realistic
path to them winning a game against the Green Bay

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team that's thinking Super Bowl and I get it. The
Bengals are too, and that's their mindset. But it's just
a really tough spot to be in. Doesn't mean they
won't it surprise me, but having him come in here
basically get here Tuesday night and I've made that drive,
as you know, down seventy one plenty and while he

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wasn't while he wasn't driving, it's a that's a tough
ask to go from there to now. You're practicing and
with new players on Wednesday, and your meetings on Wednesday
and in Thursday, same thing. Friday, you meet with the
media the first for the first time. Today you're flying

(17:12):
to Green Bay, and you gotta deal with the packers
at Lambeau on Sunday. Like there's just there's a lot
to it. It's not impossible, but it's extremely challenging.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
And if he were to get that win with the Bengals,
which would be a nice turnaround after going two and
oh we complained about a slow start for weeks, would
we not have been happy to trade an oh for
three if we had kept Joe's toe healthy and Burrow
under center, Yeah, sure, sure, And then OH and three
for Jake Browning, who he's still the number two in
this situation, so his head has got to be in

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a weird place. I mean, he knows how he performed
or failed to perform in that circumstance, but he's got
to be ready to go if in fact something happens
to Flacco, no doubt.

Speaker 8 (17:52):
And that's that's what's tough, is this juggling act. I
will say this, I do respect that the Bengals went
right to Flacco right away. I do think that's the
right move because it's not like starting Jake would give
you a better chance against Green Bay, Like I wouldn't

(18:12):
feel any better about it. And if anything, the unknown
in that curve ball may make it a little tougher
on Green Bay. But you're right, like Jake has to
stay dialed in because he's one play away from playing,
and so it's it's tough. There's a lot of emotions
that go into it. At the same time, did it
feel like at any point over the past three weeks

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like this Bengals offense was close to figuring it out.
I'm not gonna let a yeah, even a few touchdowns
against the Lions in garbage time like that's I don't
know what that is.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
I don't.

Speaker 8 (18:46):
Maybe you can build off that, maybe you can't. And
what I will say is talking to the guys in
the lockeroom this week, they are buying into Joe Flacco.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Well they have to, don't they. I mean, he has
some strong pedigree, he's got the experience. They have seen
him competed against him, they know what that's like. So
for him to step in that's pretty large. He also
hasn't had some of the weaponry that he can work
with Chase, who's questionable. I guess in Higgins, how is
Chase and what what are I mean? It's hard for
somebody to step in like that. How do they keep

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him comfortable and capable with plays that fit into what
the Bengals are already comfortable and familiar with to be
able to go in there and be functional because there's
a lot to learn in just a short amount of time.

Speaker 8 (19:28):
Yeah, I think you go with the stuff that the
Joe is most comfortable with. And that's what Friday was
and that's what today is is figuring out.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
What what is he comfortable with?

Speaker 8 (19:42):
What is he like from a literally from a play
to play standpoint, and what is he kind of questioning now?
And that's that's one of the many things from a
rhythm standpoint that Joe Flaco and Zach Taylor they're going
to have to get down and the rest of the
coaching staff they're gonna have to continue to iron that out.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
Yeah, go with what you.

Speaker 8 (20:01):
Know and understand that your job is to get the
ball in the hands of your playmakers. This offense should
be good. And I know that people bring up the
offensive line and they're gonna talk about Micah Parsons and
you might ask me about that. I get it, but
I really don't care who the defense is. This offense
should still score, and it should score every week. And

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we shouldn't be talking about three points a halftime and
in the game over by the half. That should never
be the case when you have Joe Burrow or when
you have excuse Joe.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, how many times is that going to happen in
the booth? For those guys calling the game on TV too,
you know it's gonna happen.

Speaker 8 (20:38):
It should. It might be a lot, but there's a
reason they paid Jamar and they paid Tea, and they
kept Mike get SICKI and then they go get Noah
Fan and they were so optimistic about Chase Brown, like,
there's there's a lot of talent on this offense Sterling.
Oh yeah, and so can Joe Flatco do his best
Joe Burrow.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
There we go.

Speaker 8 (20:57):
I did it right, impression in maximize the weapons. The
Bengals are banking on that a better option than Jake.

Speaker 5 (21:04):
We will see.

Speaker 8 (21:05):
But that's the challenge, not just tomorrow, but moving forward
for this Bengals offense.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Good seeing him, good, talking to him, good reading him.
Blocked on Bengals Cincinnati Bengals Talk. James Rapine was Sterling
seven hundred WLW late kickoff for twenty five Sunday lambeau
Field in Green Bay. You got to go through Milwaukee
to get there, unless you're flying or having a bad flight,
which I've had in the past. I have to ask
James Rapine in the midst of this, aside from the weaponry,

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what do we know about Chase Is he able to
suit up, play and go? Because everything I've read, I
don't know if it's gamesmanship or if he's really not well.

Speaker 8 (21:39):
I would expect him to play good luck. I mean
it would have to be to me, it would have
to be one hell of an illness to sideline him.
But I don't know that that's just me looking at
who Jamar Chase is, knowing that he talked to us
on Thursday, and then yeah, Zach Taylor takes him out
of or not takes him out of practice, but doesn't

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have him practice on Friday. But you want him to
get rest and he's gonna have to rest up because
he needs about twelve catches tomorrow. So yeah, I would
expect him to play. Maybe it's gamesmanship, maybe he's really
really sick. I don't know, but I'm expecting to see
Jamar out.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
There as far as the running game and that in
between when they can't go with the deep ball, that
there's been an opportunity obviously, you know with Chase Brown
to sort of you know, drop off that pass, get
an extra five maybe ten snuck in there without going
far deep the south. How does he looking? What about
tandem with him? Tight end work?

Speaker 8 (22:34):
Yeah, I think it's it's it's a good it's a
good point to bring up because if you look at
what Joe Flacco did this year in Cleveland or his past,
the running back, he's going to throw to the running
back and Chase Brown. That's something He's worked on a
ton since he's gotten to the league, and I thought
he was gonna have a huge year and this year

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has just been weird for this offense. And so yeah,
he's got to be a factor for the team and
a playmaker, and so get him the ball in space
and maybe maybe that is the run game a little bit,
but if it's not, then maybe it's the checkdowns. But
he can certainly help you and these tight ends. I
really think Mike Kasiki compliment each other really well. And

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there are a bunch of guys that I think are
going to get a boost with Joe Flacco at quarterback.
But you look at Mike Kasiki and that might be
the number one guy. He had David and Joku and
Harold Fannin in Cleveland, and both guys were targeted plenty
from Joe Flacco.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
In Joku's case.

Speaker 8 (23:34):
A couple of years ago when they went to the
playoffs and Joku really took off because of his report
with Flacco. Don't be shocked at all if you see
more of Noah Fan and Mike Kasiki and them making
game changing plays, moving color.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Talking to James Rapine lockdown Bengals Cincinnati Bengals talk on
the Big One about Bengals in action Sunday taking on
the Packers in Green Bay at lambeau Field for twenty five,
Packers two to one and one Bengals two and three.
You know about the zero for three which a Browning
under center. Flacco now the man with tiger strikes from
one Joe to another. As far as this defense is concerned,

(24:08):
I mean, they've given up their share of points. I mean,
let's just call it what it is. I mean, they've
they've improved, but have they really How disturbing is it
going into Green Bay?

Speaker 8 (24:20):
Yeah, it's Uh, it's tough. I think I'm curious to
see this defense in a normal game when they aren't
down by you know, bazillion points and put into a
bunch of bad situations. And maybe that happens tomorrow at
Lamba or maybe not. Maybe they're putting a bunch of
bad situations again. But it's it's been tough to judge

(24:41):
them because I do think that they're they work hard.
I think for the most part they're on the same page,
which I couldn't say last year. And the pass rush
came alout a little bit last week, like there were
signs they didn't let that that Lion's rushing attack break
them like I think some thought it would, and then
it put them and gave them a chance to rush

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the passer and they got after Jared Goff a little dead,
so and they put it together. I wonder, and I
think it stinks Tamar Stewart isn't going to play for
another game, and he hasn't played since weeet two, And
it's just it's painful to not have Schamar because when
I look at this defense curling, obviously, Trey Hendrickson is

(25:22):
a game changer. I think Dax Hill is the second
best player on this defense right now, but it would
be really nice if Shamar Stewart would emerge as another
game changer. I just I'm not sure they have anyone
right now that isn't Trey Hendrickson that can affect the
game in the ways that maybe Chamar could if he
was getting experience and learning and playing, because I do

(25:44):
think he has a really high ceiling. So that's what
I wonder. Who else is going to step up not
named Trey Hendrickson.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Anything that we've not covered in this short amount of time.
Thank you for making it and letting us know where
your head is and what we should expect a Sunday
afternoon at Lambeau Cincinnati Bengals tok locked on Bengals James
for paying what else is there before we let you bounce?

Speaker 8 (26:04):
Over the next five days, Sterling, the Bengals are going
to play two games.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
That's right.

Speaker 8 (26:09):
Tomorrow is a very important game. But if they're competitive tomorrow,
and I told people this yesterday in the build, Yes,
if they're competitive tomorrow at Lambeau and Lewis and then
come home and deep Pittsburgh, regardless of what happens between
Cleveland and Pittsburgh this week, they're going to be right
back in. There'll be three and four, they'll have a
tiebreaker over the Steelers, and they'll be in second place

(26:31):
in the division. And so yeah, as important is tomorrow
is the next five days are really really important. And
finding a way to beat the Steelers on Thursday night
is going to beat big.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
So there we go.

Speaker 8 (26:41):
I didn't I didn't tease this game as as much
as I probably should have.

Speaker 5 (26:46):
It is a big game.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
They all are big games.

Speaker 8 (26:47):
But the next five days it's going to go a
long way in determining if Joe Flacko and the Bengals
are going to be able to rebound after this two
and three start.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Strange to the days in the whole tri State, up
to the Miami Valley and beyond wherever Bengals Nation is.
I mean, seriously, I mean people have seemed deflated, they've
seemed depressed. It's just a little hope as we start
feeling fall and leaves falling and start thinking more football
and cold weather ahead of us. Everybody just seems like

(27:15):
they're happier when the Bengals are winning. So we'll see
how it goes. Thanks for baking time. We'll look for it.
Five days, yeah, big five, and it all starts Sunday.
James Rapeen, Lockdown, Bengals, Cincinnati Bengals, talk SI and all
over the Bengalin Here on your weekend with Sterling on
seven hundred WLW. I thank you, James, take care of yourself.
Thanks Stan, appreciate you. Sterling back seven hundred WLW and

(27:41):
tonight marks the fiftieth anniversary of the debut is Saturday
Night Live on NBC October eleventh, nineteen seventy five. I
was a wee littlest teeny Sterling at the time. Think
of all the talent that's gone through there, John Belushi,
dan Ackroyd, Chevy chay Y, I mean man, chrispher Farley,

(28:04):
the list goes on and on and on. That's a
great run fifty years. I mean there what sixty minutes
is that they've been around that long, right, I mean
there's not a lot of other stuff faced the nation.
Maybe you know that type of thing. That's not a
lot else other than like just generally new shows at
that as symptoms are on a great run, but not
close to fifty years. But that's pretty amazing and doing

(28:25):
it live. And there was just that movie about how
it all sort of came together that came out a
year or two ago that I think is probably streaming
someplace now, but I could not say where at the
top of my head. Glad you're a long a couple
of minutes away from your five o'clock report, the latest
Mid East peace issues. President Trump at all making their
way to that part of the world to speak to
Kannessan in Israel and then also in Egypt to sort

(28:47):
of hammer out some more details of this a very
tenuous process is going to be a challenge. It's been
going on for quite a while after October seventh to
twenty three, with that incursion murder some twelve hundred and
the hostage is being taken. And then of course for
so long before that really issue of Palestinians needing a

(29:07):
place of their own Israel, the whole area has really
been volatile for most of our lives. So hopefully this
will get to a better place of some stability and
normalcy and people can maybe have a future for themselves
rather than in the midst of running for fear of
their lives and gaza and so forth. Meanwhile, state side,

(29:29):
of course, a government still shut down, questions about now
military is going to get paid, not get paid, ordering
people to go to work without getting paid, furloughing and
firing other people because they can, I guess at this
point we'll see how that plays out in the days
and weeks ahead. But a lot of people in precarious
positions here Stateside as well, and of course the terify

(29:50):
tax that we're all paying in one way or another,
whether it's small business, big business trying to eat as
much of it as they can, which is affecting obviously
profit margins, limiting their hiring ability, or even people purchasing
power for that matter, attacks on all of us. So
there's certainly a lot of work to be done stateside
by the powers that be as well. So coming up,

(30:12):
but we'll get into issues of parents and odd rules.
Also something very strange. I have a friend of mine's daughter, well,
I mean, I don't know that sounded weird. A friend
of mine's daughter. I know, there is a big debate
and she just went under the knife for some voluntary
surgery issue, which seems bewildering to me. And she's not

(30:33):
yet made twenty years old, just into college at this point,
and it seems rather extreme. But we'll touch on that
and a whole lot more. Final out together on a
winning day for those football Bearcats over UCF twenty to
eleven as they roll a five in a row Big
twelve matchup and maybe looking to get ranked. We'll see
how the rest of the weekend plays out for them.

(30:55):
Here Halma the hood Ay in action tomorrow. Best Bengals
coverage here in Lambeau taking on the Green Bay Packers
with Joe Flacco under center. Matt Reese has news now
more Sterling coming back here. News Radio seven hundred dou
W wellw Cincinnati buck Eys win over the align H
thirty four sixteen Mariners move ahead late last night in

(31:18):
extra innings without the ghost Man. Baseball rules different to
postseason than regular season, which I don't quite understand, but whatever.
Either way, a couple former Reds playing on a Henio
Suarez Lui Castile of course legends in their own right
as Reds playing with the Mariners and cal Raley in
company as they face off against the Blue Jays tomorrow

(31:38):
and later on tonight it's Cubs and Brewers and the
division series in the National League. See who's gonna face
off against the Dodgers to get to the World Series.
And that's a best of five, so someone it's a
winner go home situation. I don't really like the Cubs
or the Brewers, so I don't really, you know, I
kind of I only for what it's worth. I think
the Dodgers at least they beat the Reds, so it's

(32:01):
nice to think that the Reds at least got beat
by a team who gets to the World Series at
some consolation if any I don't know that that's rationalization
and trying to live better through lowered expectations. That's what
that is. That's how I was raised, and I guess
it's a way to get through I don't know if
that's one of the big lies as youth that we
are told is a way to navigate this life that

(32:22):
you know, you feel sort of cheated or hoodwinked. Coming up,
but we'll touch on that. How you doing at Sterling,
hanging out, mister McMahon, keeping me in line five thirty
report coming up with Matt Reese and a good bit
of ground to cover between then and now. So I
mentioned just before the news, So a friend of mine's daughter,
she's twenty in college now. I think she's a sophomore,

(32:44):
maybe a junior. I can't say for sure. She is
either just about to I think, either leading into this
weekend or starting this week and to go under the
knife for some elective surgery, some cosmetic surgery because she
feels that she apparently can't get a she good looking
kid and getting something. I don't know if it's her

(33:06):
nose or exactly what's getting reworked. My buddy's a little
hacked off about it, but it's her choice and is
sort of navigating that, and I'm just trying to figure
out at twenty years old. I mean, she doesn't look
like she got like beat with a stick, ugly stick
or otherwise and didn't heal quite right or anything else.

(33:27):
She's tractive girls, so I don't know, weird societally speaking,
if she's spending too much time on social media or
whatever it is. But I know I've had guessed on
that are cosmetic surgeons, psychologists, psychiatrist on a lot of
people feel they need to go under the knife alterations
to get themselves tuned up in some way, either to

(33:48):
get ahead or to feel like they are you know, somebody,
I guess, And I don't know if that's social media.
I don't know exactly what that is. More of a problem. Now,
great if you're in the business of cosmetic surgery and stuff,
because I mean that summer houses, vacation properties, probably in

(34:09):
a fat bank account, and so forth. But it's a
weird scenario. I can recall a girl that I went
out with the first part of college off and on
through college entirely, and she wanted to have reduction surgery
for chest, but it was primarily because she was concerned

(34:30):
about back issues long term or anything else, which I
didn't understand. Because I'm a dude. I'm like, I don't know,
everything's fine up there. I don't know what you're doing.
And I don't think she ever actually had that done.
But it's hard to say. We talk a little bit,
but not so much in these days because that was
a long time ago. So what I'm wondering is this,
what would you do? What have you done? I think

(34:51):
my father, such that he was biologically not engaged involved
otherwise really for that much, had something done to his
eyes when he was probably in his forties or so,
from what my mother tells me, like I don't know,
like the tops of his eyelids or something. I know
more and more guys do it. Usually during March Madness.
I had a friend of mine who went in. It

(35:13):
wasn't really cosmetic surgery necessarily, but elective surgery just the same.
After he had had two kids. He during March Madness,
took time off to work from home in one under
the ninth to get himself. It's hard for me to
even say that we're a vasectomy, very difficult, not aesthetic,
but didn't want to have any more little ones and

(35:35):
some oops or otherwise. So I mean, you know, in life,
you have to to make choices, I suppose, but I
don't know that that's always the need. I guess whatever
makes you feel good. But we're in a weird place
where more people and ever are taking pharmaceutical products to
navigate life as we know it. For depression, anxiety, you know,

(35:56):
a d D, pick at dysfunction, or a disorder. The
pharmacu utical industry has an answer for us. We also
apparently have instant gratification because we all have been raised
with the remote control in our hand, younger people with
the electronic devices in hand on risk or otherwise, where
anything that you want to know is in the pall

(36:17):
of your hand basically on demand. So we want what
we want when we want it. Now. I'm not just
like judging people for making a decision to improve their looks,
how they feel and so on. Esthetically, if they think
that that's what they need to do to get ahead,

(36:38):
and if somebody can make a living at it and
do good work and make sure that it's taken care of, hell,
I probably could use some help.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
You know.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
I've embraced the follicle challenge and shaved my head for
years now, but I can't imagine I know, a lot
of people will do stuff to fix their hairlines. A
lot of people will, you know, they do like caffine
plants and strange stuff like that. I'm not going to
say who here may or may not have done that,
but it happens. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,

(37:08):
eight hundred, the Big One. You can talk back on
the iHeartRadio app. I'm just curious how young is too young?
And somebody just messaged me here. This is Liz h
in Hyde Park. Liz says that, you know, it starts
early and makes allusion to the fact that her parents
got her ears pierced before she was Apparently it could

(37:31):
make a choice in the matter, but a lot of
people do that. I don't know if that's a cosmetic thing,
but apparently she feels like there's an issue with that.
She says she wishes that they hadn't had done it.
I don't know why did you know if she didn't
want to have the ears pierced or something, But that's
a parent's decision, I guess in that circumstance. Last night
on the show, I was talking a little bit about

(37:53):
dumb rules that parents had and communicat, and I had
this interaction with a friend of mine when I was
coming up in school. She wanted to get her haircut,
sort of like I guess a punk rock haircut for
one of a better way to describe it. Her parents
wouldn't let her get her hair cut on her own.
She went ahead and did it, like at the mall
or something, and then there was hell to pay for it.

(38:15):
So whether it's the haircut in that situation to make
her feel like she fit in that she was a
part of whatever was current at the time, talking about
in the eighties at that point, I mean, it caused
some strife at home, but I think she survived it.
They didn't put her out on the street. But there's
a far cry from a haircut in ears piercing, I think,

(38:35):
or a nose piercing or dyeing one's hair to going
under the knife or some type of decision that's going
to be a lifetime whether it's impresst enlargement, augmentation in
some way to reduce it, which you know, my ex
in her bag problems, I suppose that makes good sense.
I mean, nobody wants bad problems, but it's sort of

(38:56):
a weird scenario. So I want to know if you've
gone under the knife. What you've had done. Was it
worth it? Did it make a change, whether it was
a facelift, hair and plants, chin in plant whatever. I
worked with someone who felt they didn't have enough of
a chin, and they put in something in there. I
don't know what to effectively give them a chin, which

(39:18):
they said made a world of difference. We are a
society that's about aesthetics, right, I mean, pretty people tend
to do better in the world and have an easier
way than people who aren't so pretty. Maybe they don't
have to work as hard. And who doesn't want a
situation where maybe your kids have it easier than you did,
or I did, or what have you. That's a pretty

(39:38):
common thought to hopefully, you know, leave a footprint that
makes life a little less strenuous for who's coming up
behind us. Five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred,
the big one. And if you've done it, I'm wondering
the good or bad. Were you happy with what you
did or were you in a situation where you thought,
maybe I should not have done that? And obvious it's

(40:00):
one of those things where we're talking elective. This is
not like a cleft palate situation. This is not a
reconstruction after an accident or something along those lines. We're
talking about just for the sake of getting it done.
Somebody also messaged about getting a facelift at twenty eight
because they felt they weren't looking as they should aging
too fast. So I guess moisturizing is probably a good idea.

(40:22):
Staying out of the sun too much is probably a
good idea. Even though you want to check out those
riverboats along the Ohio this weekend with the Roots Festival
going on on the river, or maybe out there in
those monster gourds up in Hamilton with the super sized
pumpkins and so forth to go along with it, I
want to know what you think five one, three, seven,
four ninety seven thousand, eight hundred of the Big One,

(40:46):
And maybe that is a lie. Growing up, you know,
my mother told me that it was about your character,
it was not about how you looked. And then in
a perfect world, which it's not, that you would be
able to live your life, it'd being the best person
that you could be and that would be enough to
make your way through. But that may be one of
those things that you know the world tells us society

(41:06):
tells us, our parents tells us, our leaders tell us, uh,
you know, authority figures tell us that really has crap
coming up is youth that maybe that's all the matters.
So maybe the younger people, it's possible it could be,
as we start looking at arguments from all sides on this,
in all perspectives, that if, in fact you don't get
some of these things done, that it is going to

(41:28):
be harder for you, considering so many people live a
virtual life on social media or otherwise, whether it's for
their living or their self validation, Because if you're not
out there getting clicks and likes and views and everything else,
then you're nobody, which is a sad, sad state of affairs,
because when I step outside without a device in my hand,
I couldn't care less.

Speaker 5 (41:49):
I go.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
It's a beautiful day in the Tri State on a
Saturday afternoon, sterling your chance to get interactive on the
other side five one, three, seven, four nine, seven, eight hundred,
the big one seven HUNDREDULW You know, maybe start in Pittsburgh,
hang out there, get some scrapple, come down here, get
some get a couple of three ways, maybe chili cheese,
onions and mustard hop on that riverboat, play some cards,

(42:13):
make your way down Louisville, find your way somehow to
the Mississippi West Bank of the Mississippi there in the
arch in Saint Louis and then down to New Orleans.
It's like going back in time or something like that
beautiful day for it anyway, downtown Cincinnati, you get to
forty six of low to night nine, first winning forecast
on the Big one, middle seventies tomorrow, closer to middle
seventies to eighties to start the week, and very little

(42:35):
talk of rain. We could use more, but beautiful day
like that day soaked up a lot of people out there,
a lot of traffic, a lot of traffic issues too,
So just be careful. I know issues on seventy five North,
people coming over to seventy one about it, So just
down you allow yourself some extra time. People in a
hurry sometimes to go nowhere fast ends up becoming a headache,
in a hassle. It's seventy two right now, your severe
weather station seven hundred WLW. I want to mention this,

(42:59):
and maybe this is the other side of the news
we can get into this. I am somewhat sympathetic for
the gullible. I am somewhat sympathetic for the hoodwink, the
victims of our world who have been taken advantage of.
Sometimes for those people who are a little slow. I
rode a little yellow bus to school for a little while.
I don't mean that in disrespect. I mean I'm at

(43:20):
to five high schools. I was bound to take a
little bus at some time or another. But this headline
is bewildering. You may have heard Lebron James All Star,
former Cavalier, former heat of course, longtime Laker at this
point and not retiring anytime soon as far as we know,
even though he's like one hundred and twenty six and
NBA years. But there is a Laker span who's been

(43:44):
a fan their entire lives who's now suing Lebron James
because he had a promo, advertisement ad call it whatever
you want, for some whiskey that he's out there, and
this guy took it to be a telltale signs. It

(44:06):
sort of made allusion to him leaving Cleveland at one
point and heading south to the beach in Miami all
those years ago, and this guy became very concerned. This
guy became very unnerved and figured he needed to be
able to have a chance to see his favorite Lebron
in a Lakers uniform one last time. So what he

(44:27):
did is he coughed up some cash to the tune
of somewhere in the neighborhood of eight hundred and seventy
dollars nearly that anyway for a couple of tickets, which
seemed steep to me because you can watch it on TV.
It's better than being there in many cases, especially with
that kind of money, you can get yourself a whole
lot of TV. You could get a wall of TV's
depending not nice TVs, but for that kind of dome.

(44:48):
Makee me a little bit going to March of next
year when they take on the Calves. So this guy
now feels because he realized that he's not really retiring,
that that was not telegraphing his step away from the
game again or moving on, that he feels like he's
a victim.

Speaker 5 (45:06):
Right.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Nobody forced him to go buy these tickets, and now
he's looking to get some payback from Lebron himself. To
the two eight hundred and sixty five dollars in some
sixty six cents and he's suing NBA legend Lebron James
because he was dumb in my opinion, So I want

(45:28):
to ask you, one, is that a legit lawsuit? Sometimes
you just got to be smarter than that if you
are so passionate and you were so concerned and thinking
it might because you never know when the last time
is going to be anyway, So if you want to
be there, you want to be in person. You want
to soak up the moment in the crowd, watching the
team that you love, the players that you love, that
you admire. Then you spend the dough and you know what,

(45:51):
you take it like a champ because it could be
his last game. He could blow out a knee, he
could quit he I mean, who knows what at any
given point in time. But he feels that he's due
and wants money back on these tickets rather than trying
to resell them. I mean he got suckered, is what
it boils down to. I mean, you've got to be
smarter than your average box or rocks. And this guy,

(46:12):
in my opinion, was not five three, seven, four, nine, seven,
eight hundred the big one. And on the other side,
we will not give you a chance just to sound
off on that. I want to know how you've been
taking advantage of or ripped off or somehow hoodwinked in
some way. Let's call it a Saturday afternoon confessional after
your five thirty report. It's more sterling here on the
home of the winning football Bearcats and a Bengals team

(46:35):
with Joe Flacco under center Tomorrow afternoon at Lambeague taking
on those Green Bay Packers. Here on the home of
the best Bengals coverage, News Radio seven hundred WLW. They'll
talk about who day Flacco under center, Bengals on the road,
try to get back on the winning side of things,
and a guy who was a raven who got him
Super Bowl ring of course, and now we're in the

(46:56):
Bengals try stripes. And how much time has he had
actually to work with this team. I think it's been
like less than a week. It's insane when you think
about it, because Browning had, you know, halfway comeback in time.
That didn't matter. Last Sunday was miserable and then Flacco
got to be a part. I think it was what
Tuesday right, They made the drive down, if I'm not mistaken,

(47:17):
And now, of course, looking to try to get to
work against the Packers and the Bengals could be back
to even in five hundred. So there's a lot to
talk about with the WHO Day Today and podcast form
later on. You can hear the conversation I had with
James Rapine from Lockdown Bengals about that very issue. Good
bit of ground to cover in between, and was talking about,

(47:39):
I mean, there's no shortage of stuff, the confessional issue
of people and doing what they do. And I'm gonna
mention something else here about like societal like lies and
so forth going on in a minute, But let me
just mention I've had a number of people message me
and go sterling and not bots. But the bots do
their stuff on social media, a lot sort of stirring

(47:59):
stuf up, making you think things are happening and topical
that aren't. But I've had a number people and how
dare you sterling? One of these which reminds me of
Tracy Joes, how dare you sterling? Not mention the Nobel
Peace Prize that President Trump should get for bringing peace
to the Middle East, and that he didn't get it
just now when it was announced for someone else. Well,

(48:19):
first of all, I don't think he qualified because the
submissions for that were the beginning of the year and
that hadn't happened with bringing the peace, and it's a
tenuous piece at best at this point. With the deal
being finalized step by step, with President Trump going to
speed the Kanness the first of the week and then
also to Egypt to work stuff out for those with
Hamas and otherwise, it is monumental if they can get

(48:42):
a piece to hold. It hasn't for the last couple
of years, that's for sure, and the next year that
I think that would probably get him Nobel Peace Prize
qualification most definitely, and good for him if that's the case,
Good for the world if that's the case, and those
envoys making that deal happen, Jared Kushner and company doing
behind the scenes stuff and working with Cutter and everything else.

(49:05):
It was a very interesting way this sort of has
all come together. But in the midst of that celebrating,
I have to ask you this, and we'll open up
the phones five three, seven, four, ninety seven, eight hundred,
the big one. You can pick up the phone, give
it the finger, talk back the iHeartRadio app as well.
While that on the global scale is monumental, and the

(49:27):
humanity and the hope that is a humanitarian aid hopefully
pouring in to the Palestinian sooner than later in hostages
to be returned and their remains to be a return
to those who did not survive after what happened October seventh,
twenty twenty three, some two years and change now in
days passing is the fact that the government is shut

(49:48):
down and in the midst of people not getting paid
expected to show up to work to direct traffic in
our skies, and our military and their families and veterans
wondering if they're going to get the care that they
need and access to services that they have put their
lives on the line to earn that they deserve. Is
our thank you in the very minimum for them putting

(50:10):
on that uniform to save us, to defend us and
our interests globally, I think the attention needs to be
paid also attention here domestically. Rather, I don't care what
political aisle you fall into, left, right, center, whatever. I
just make sense generally speaking and try to anyway. In

(50:31):
the midst of all of this that's going on. The
celebration for Piece is fantastic. But when you talk about now,
what they're not saying just temporary furloughs for people or
not paying people, but they're talking about firing people and
so called politics of it, which is bewildering to me
because last I checked measles, mumps, COVID pick a disease,

(50:55):
flew anything else down the pike that we don't know
about has nothing to do with politics, has nothing to
know at all, what to do with whether you're liberal
or conservative or anything else in between. It has to
do with whether you're living, breathing human who may be vulnerable.
And firing people from the CDC under the guise of

(51:15):
politics and the idea of democrat interests. It's American interest,
it's global interest, and it's total bs. Simply stated, cutting
cost and waste makes great sense. But under the guise
of this shutdown and the talk of healthcare for people

(51:36):
who are in great need and children with snap in
wick and funding of that, and then saying we're going
to fire hundreds of people, if not thousands of people,
I think the report now they say, is an excess
of four thousands so far. Details well, I'm sure we'll
get sooner than later for things that matter. There's measles
outbreak right now. You ever have measles? Not good? You

(51:59):
don't want it. Given a choice, So I'll ask you this,
no about peace price. Sure, if the peace holds, by God,
give it to our president. He deserves it and everyone
else involved in bringing the peace. But handling the business
of we the people stateside that are not sure if
they're going to get paid, that are going to get fired,
if not already fired, or notice of their being fired

(52:22):
in the midst of all this and the politics of
it is total crap. At least that's my opinion. I
want to know what you think. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
eight hundred, the big one. You can talk back the
iHeartRadio app. I'm on ex Twitter, call it whatever you
want at Sterling Radio. I mean, it is astounding to

(52:43):
me when you think about what this country can do
and how strong we are, and the future as bright
as it is, and these are challenging times. I have
friends who have businesses that have been paying tariff taxes
and trying to avoid passing on as much as they
can and those added cost that they've been paying. But

(53:03):
if their customers and client base have had to pick
up some of it. They've also hired more people. In
some cases they have ended up in a situation where
they may be letting people go in some cases. And
our farmers right now are suffering. You know how many
soybeans acreage in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky that is on the

(53:24):
ground now in Silo waiting to be sold to the
Chinese who have bought none zero zip so far in
twenty twenty five billions and billions of dollars worth. And
now the talk is and a buddy of mine is excited.
He tells me, well, you know they're gonna bail him out.
They're going to bail them out with what tax dollars,
Your tax dollars, My tax dollars that some of these

(53:47):
farmers have had to pay for their implements, the machinery,
for the seed that they acquired, that they put in
the ground in the hope that they could sell it.
That they've spent not months, not years, decades building markets
internationally so that we have farmers here that can make
a living, that can help our economy and feed the world. Meanwhile,

(54:10):
China is shopped in Africa and elsewhere to get their
soybeans and other stuff because they're done with us. So
does attention need to be paid here and now? Are
we in better shape now or worse shape? Conservative? Liberal?

(54:30):
I don't care. I'm an American. You're American most likely too,
So you tell me what you think. Five three seven
four nine seven eight hundred. The big one firing people
during the shutdown in critical services if health and human
services and issues dealing with infectious disease aren't critical just
a few years ago, if you remember, whether you're for

(54:52):
the mask or against the mask and the shutdown or whatever.
I could not care less, but no one can deny
that lots and lots of people got irreparably harmed, sickond
and died because of COVID. Fire people and get rid
of them in the business of keeping us all healthier?
Are children safe? And tell me that is not some

(55:13):
backass word kind of way of trying to play politics
and vengeance in some type of fashion. Handle the people's business,
Get off your back end, get to DC and work
out a deal. Five went three seven four nine seven
eight hundred. The big one to Denise and Fairfield and

(55:34):
room for you on the Nation station. How are you?
What's going on? Denise? What do you think? Are you there? Denise? Hello,
I'll put you back on hold. I don't know what happened, Aaron.
It's your turn with Sterling on the big one. Am
I making sense? Or am I crazy?

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Now?

Speaker 5 (55:53):
You're making sense, Sterling, but you're forgetting a couple of
key things here. If we would have had a politician
or politician's local, state, federal, they would have had the
colony is to do what Trump and his administration are
doing now. If we would have had that thirty or
forty years ago, we wouldn't be in the shape we're
in right now. I'll tell you this. China can go
shop wherever they want, but they can't replace us as

(56:14):
their number one consumer. Okay, So China is going to
be hurting a lot more than we are from this.
All we are is addicted to our cheap Chinese crap
at Walmart. We'll get over that, okay. The government's shut
down is it's a necessary evil. Anybody that couldn't see
the writing on the wall that had a government position,
they have to understand. President Trump ran on this. He
talked about cutting the floated absolute waste that you and

(56:37):
I pay for in our tax dollars. Everything from you know,
monkey studies to you know French you know, just the
weirdest stuff. I mean, you can find this out there
of what is actually being spent by our tax dollars
out there. So I will just say that again, we
are much better off than what we were, and we're
going to be a lot better off in the next

(56:58):
year or two. But there will be some tame long
the way.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
I'll say this though. You know the idea of these
rare earth minerals that we're now wanting China to sell
to us, and we need them for our military. We
need them for our aircraft and ammunitions and a lot
of other stuff with our war machine.

Speaker 5 (57:14):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
And they are in fact probably at the top of
the list of what our warring will be going after,
probably in the next decade or so probably, So it's
kind of a weird scenario that they need us and
we need them, But you know, would we be selling
them stuff to help arm them to fight us later?

Speaker 5 (57:32):
Now? I get it, But died deeper on that. We've
got all the rare earth minerals we need right here
in this country. We've got too many liberal judges and
too many places that block us from actually pulling our
rare earth minerals out of the ground. So again Trumpet administration,
they're trying to clean that up. They're trying to get
these wackos out out of you know, their appointed judicial positions,
because again they'd rather save some salamander.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
Than change the law.

Speaker 5 (57:55):
You know.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
But do you see but you're I think you're exaggerating
to a point, and we are I think victims of
that exaggeration historically. And an Aaron, great call, by the way, man,
thank you. I hope you listen and continue and call
the show again. All right. We're in a situation, though,
where these judges aren't necessarily doing anything except interpreting the
law and ruling on it. Change the law. Then that's

(58:19):
what Congress does. The judiciary doesn't. In blaming the judge
for somehow their overview of an assessment of the law,
I think is weak in a stretch at best. Let's
quickly get to Wyoming and Logan was Stirling on seven
hundred WLW final thoughts you got a minute go.

Speaker 6 (58:39):
I think these people just want to cut their nose
offs despite their face, they just want to have you know,
these wins against the other party instead of focusing on
what matters, which is, you know, creating a better America.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
You got to work with both sides of the table.

Speaker 6 (58:55):
If you want this to work.

Speaker 5 (58:57):
I don't understand.

Speaker 6 (58:58):
Oh, we want to fire a liberal judge, but don't
fire a liberal doctor. Hey, let's let's start firing people
based off of Mary.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
Yeah. I think that's a great point and logan. I
appreciate the call.

Speaker 5 (59:08):
Man.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
I'm short on time, and I'm sorry I got a
little worked up there. I think it's because I haven't eaten,
because I got this woman in my life and she's like, oh,
we need to fast, we need to not eat for
a couple of days and cleanse yourself. Now, I'm just
angry and surly, and I got to take a deep
breath and get a hold of myself. Sel mc mahn,
thank you for keep me online and on time. Straightaway,
Matt Reese with your six o'clock report. Mike Allen Junior

(59:28):
coming up. Bengals on the road tomorrow, lambeau Field taking
on those Packers with Joe Flacco under center. Full on
coverage starts with Ken Brew early in the morning nine
am here on the Big One, and of course, the
football Bearcats with the win today, maybe finding themselves top
twenty five. We'll have to wait and see how that
plays out in the days ahead. Have yourself a good night,
and it's time for news after who Day today here

(59:51):
on the home of the best Bengals coverage, news Radio
seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati, Jeff Wellernissan dot com. We're definitely
going to be late to the I feel like we
should be there by now. I'm just taking a little detour.