Sterling Sunday Night 1/25/2026

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It seems like I was just here just a couple
hours ago, because I was Holy trap back together again.
Russ Jackson's chrapped out, Dan Carroll's checked out, Danny Leeson
is in producing. Sean Gallagher was in news. Not sure
when he tags out. My guess, if I had to,
like wager, would probably be after ten. We'll see who
checks in in as we continue to dig out of

(00:22):
Fern's Wrath, a wicked winter storm that they have upgraded
by the way the number of people apparently affected by
this ongoing event. Although most of the snow is in
and there's still wicked cold and serious wind issues from
time to time, they're now saying about two hundred and
forty million Americans have been affected by this storm as
it continues to move up to the northeast and so

(00:43):
on. On the line, once again checking in with I'm now
coined the term snow Queen. I don't know if it's
been service mark trademarked. I don't know if I'm allowed
to use it. I don't know if Kathleen's gonna appreciate it.
But O Dodd, Cincinnati's Wonder of Wonders. Kathleen Fuller is
with me back on seven hundred WLW starling. How are you,
Kathleen is? Can I can I call you snow queen?

(01:04):
I heard you start laughing. I'm like, I hope that's
not a bad thing.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
No, no, no, I feel like I should be singing.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Do you want to build a snow ma'am?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
You know, I feel like that.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Would be huge. That right, there's Instagram stuff. Absolutely, that'd
be hilarious. Do like a little doing snow angels and stuff. Oh,
it'd be great.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Oh yeah, so yeah, I've never been called that. I
have been called quite a few things, never snow queen,
and that's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I'm good with that one.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Well, that's excellent. You are ours, and you've been very kind.
I mean, I know what's your job at all, but
I mean you've been very good about allowing us into
your world and your time. How is O DOT doing?
It has been hours and hours and hours of literally,
you know, in excess of one hundred hundred and fifty
plus drivers and people loading these trucks, getting them filled,
pushing that snow out of the way, and continuing onward

(01:51):
and forward until everything is I guess scrape clean. Correct.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, I'm sure that the cruise are on right now.
You never been its tired, but they're to keep going.
You know, now that the snow has moved out, how
well maybe we can make a little bit of progress tonight.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I want to be very very cautious when I.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Talk about this, and you know, remind everybody we still
have a long way to go. But I know they're
making some good progress on the interstate. If you can
start to see some pavement, be mindful that it's going
to be slick pavement under there because they're blasting it
with you know, they're putting down that liquid calcium chloride're
blasting with the de icers, and they're putting some salt
down to try and get us some lanes opened up.

(02:28):
But you know we're going to see some slick pavement
and possibly some freezebacks. They'll be out all night trying
to watch monitor them flow. But be very careful if
you're out.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Talking to Kathleen Fuller from modat Stirling seven hundred WLW
so over the next couple of days, we know a
lot of kids going to be out of school tomorrow
possibly Tuesday. Wicked cold is coming. As you try to
get this snow off off the roadways and everything else
and people clear parking lots, et cetera, sidewalks, whatever. The
refreeze is a major issue, especially as cold as it's
going to get, even though it has been extremely cold

(02:59):
for quite a.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
While now, right so, you know, if they do get
the you know, anytime they can get some pavement showing
and we get a little bit of clearing going on,
and it's because they're using all these materials. You know,
we still have very very cold air temperatures, and you know,
we need it to be a little bit warmer for
those for the pavement to actually dry out and not
have the freeze backs and everything. So tonight it's going

(03:21):
to be dangerously cold, and that's something that the drivers
who are going to be working to continue plowing, they're
going to be mindful of that may will be careful
because they know that the lethal de icers and all
the salts won't really work to melt anything, so then
they just have to keep being They'll just be very
careful during the overnight to just keep plowing and hopefully
any areas that are clear, they'll be able to kind

(03:42):
of get those dried out soon, very soon. But there's
gonna be a lot of still snow covered roadways come
tomorrow morning too.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, I mean right now, I don't see look at
a high temperature tomorrow nineteen, low of five twenty four
on Tuesday, close to thirty on Wednesday, that'll almost feel
like shorts weather. I mean really, yeah, we'll be ready
for a beach vacation with that, won't we. Absolutely that
would be fantastic.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
But the yeah, there's serious serious issues tomorrow morning going
into this. You know, if you're driving on a road
that has snow and ice on it and it's compacted
to it, and you feel like that really rough surface
under you, you know that's that's might be frozen to
the pavement come tomorrow morning and could stay there for
a little while. It's harder to get that off, and
they'll they'll be working on it. But I guess be

(04:27):
some snow covered roads come tomorrow morning.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Absolutely, So do you have I'm just kind of curious
because I know we've talked numerous times and I'm easily confused.
So you have an excess of like one hundred and
fifty plus trucks out there, and are some of these
tag teams or are they just single individual drivers on
their own and they're you know, doing the work and
then taking those breaks occasionally in the midst of long
hours of this or sort of like a tag team

(04:51):
situation as a team or no.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
So we work on twelve hour shifts, and so every
county garage you know, is staffed separately and it has
a dedicated number of trucks and drivers to work so
that you know what group A will come in and
you know, like we had Group A coming in and
I say, A, I'm just using that generically, you know,
starting at noon on Saturday, working till midnight, and then
the second group of people come in. And we have

(05:14):
you know, in addition to our full time workforce, we
do have seasonals, and we also have auxiliary workers who
you know work at our district office perhaps, but they
also carry a CDL license and so they can kind
of backfill. So we try to keep every truck out
on the roadway. We did have some trucks go down today,
you know, they're back in the garage just being repaired.
So we may not have that, you know, one forty

(05:35):
three is our district number. We may not always have
one hundred and forty three out all the time, but
we try, and you know, they are working at wherever
they're their assigned route is. So each driver has an
assigned route, and when you see the you know, we've
talked a lot about the the tandem driving, you know,
and the tandem plowing that they do on the interstates.
You know, that's something that's just going to happen on
the interstates. You won't be seeing that on like through

(05:57):
two lane routes. But you know, like I said, we're
trying to hit every single route and leaving nothing untouched.
The only exception we have is State Route three fifty
at Fort Anchin and Warren County that is closed because
then that's the standard when we get into a massive situation,
a massive snowstorm like this or I because it is
difficult to navigate.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Even when you're in just a passenger.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Vehicle and good you know, good weather days, it's kind
of hard.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
To go over those curves and.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Those hills, so we don't take the cloud trucks up
and over those, but you know it's open on each end.
You just can't get through the fort ancient areas. So
you know, for the people that are out that way
and they're familiar with the road. I'm sure they're fully
aware that it's been closed since Gosh, it was closed
during the overnight hours last night.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
So sure.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Kathleen Fuller, by the way from Modut Cincinnati was sterling
on the Big One. So this is always the thing
that's sort of interesting to me. And I had somebody
message me earlier, how could there be that many lane miles? Well,
and it's in the name. When you say lane miles,
that means each lane is a part of that mileage
that you're accumulating that you have to clear. Correct.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, So you take a mile and you multiply it
by the number of lanes, so you know, if you
have a ten mile stretch on a two lane route,
that's twenty lane miles, gotcha. And so you do that
for the interstates and everything else. So that's how we
have about forty seven hundred of them in District.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Eight, gotcha. And that is a lot. Any idea of
how much of the ice melt product of whatever type
it is that you guys have gone through to this point,
that's always an astounding thing to me. Get these trucks
loaded up and they hit it hard, and I know
part of that helps them push the snow out of
the way, just by the nature of the weight of it,
even though it's a pretty heavy truck.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Otherwise, Yes, yeah, I don't have the numbers with me
right now. Probably have that sometime tomorrow, will be able
to well, when we get completely out of the storm
and we get completely out of clearing, then of course
we'll know the totals, should have a better idea tomorrow
of what we've done this weekend so far, because you know,
it's kind of you know, our computer system will catch
everything up. They'll be you know, when they load up,
they put those those numbers in the system, and then

(07:57):
they get back out on the road. So I don't know,
but I know we've used a lot. Of course, keep
in mind, you know, we weren't going to be using
a lot during when we were at the height of
the snow because that would have been just pointless and waste,
wasting materials. But now tonight, you know, they'll start using
those again, probably cut back a little bit when it
gets really really cold because the salt will be down.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
You know what's funny about that, It's fourteen cathlet you're
when it gets really really cold, So when I guess
the single digits are like enough, we can hold off
on the melt for a moment. Let's just push it
out of the way.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
I mean, the material the materials are working right now,
but you know when it gets below ten, they're not
going to work so that the materials will already be
down because that's what they're doing now, is they're pushing snow.
Like I said, I've seen some and this is something
else I want to tell everybody. You know, you're going
to see some areas. I'm looking on our cameras and
you know, I see it's of pavement showing through and
it's really nice. And I see pitting some seventy one
seventy five, and I was like, oh, there are some

(08:48):
areas where we've got a little bit of clear pavement.
But don't let that fool you, because you know, half
a mile away it might be a snow covered because
that just hasn't been able to come off.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
The roadway yet because it is frozen.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
So keep that in mind. Those conditions are going to change,
whether you're on the interstate or of you know, on
twenty two in you know, Warren in Clinton County, or
you're out you know, somewhere in Butner County. Those conditions
are going to change from mile to mile, minute to minute,
location location, you.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Know what's wild. Kathleen Fuller from Oda, Cincinnati was stirling
on the big one looking out our windows here and
you can sort of see you across Montgomery Road down
in up seventy one, a bit over towards Kenwood Town Center,
depending where you are in this big building. And I
was so excited earlier, like you just said, I was like, oh, look,
I can see seventy one, like actually see it in
between Carson. I was like that means maybe I can

(09:35):
go home. It was like, yeah, I don't know. We'll see.
I may have to be here tomorrow too, we'll find out.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's we're getting things to the point
where it's a little bit better, but it's still it's
not going to be clear, and I don't want to
need you know, we talk about managing expectations. I want
everyone to have the expectation you get up tomorrow morning
there's still gonna be a lot of snow on the roadways.
And that's just you know the matter of the storm
and the mother and nature, and that's we're gonna blame fern,

(10:01):
and we're gonna blame other nature.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
We're not gonna blame the snow queen for this.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
No, no, you did not do it, that is for sure.
I am still taken back at the idea, whether it
was the Weather Channel or whoever else. I was talking
to a catchmark earlier from Channel nine. She was saying
that she thought it was like the Weather Channel or
something that comes up with some of these names for
these storms and not them personally. Obviously, because I was, like,
I asked her immediately. I wasn't being mean. I was

(10:25):
just like, fern, really, ferns like a grandma named ferns,
like a plant, like we talked on earlier. I'm like,
how is this how you describe a brutal storm, you know,
affecting you know better part at more than half of
the population of the country, shutting it down, you know,
thousands of flights and people stranded and everything else. Fern
Fern doesn't sound like someone or something that would be
a probably, Oh look at that pretty plant. Fern's very nice.

(10:46):
She had us over, we had a cup of tea
and some crumpets or something. You know, I don't know,
I would, you.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Know, I would like that too, if I, you know,
had a you know, grandma named Fern and would vite
be over for that?

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Sounds pretty good.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
That's what I was thinking too. Yeah, exactly right, not
like causing a wreaking havoc and everything else on the
roadways and so on. But that's just the way it goes.
Just reminding people also, and this affects everyone. I mean,
if you're out there trying to shovel your walk with snowblower, otherwise,
pace yourself, try to be just be careful. I talked
to my mom earlier, at least paying text. I was

(11:18):
very concerned. She said she was out with the dog
or hers and took a fall in the backyard on
a pathway, and then she was like it's worse than
I thought it was. And I'm like, you had a fall,
don't glimp, you know, don't just blow by that. How
are you? And she's like, well, probably, okay, So I'm
like probably, it's not a good answer.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah, I know your limitations. I'm not happy with my
mother who went out and bought a shovel on Friday,
thinking that she's going to go out and shovel for driveway.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Now she's eighty six years old. She doesn't need to
be doing.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
That, That's what I'm saying. She just got healed up
with an ankle or a leg or a foot or something.
It was what last year that had problems.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Right, Yeah, so you know, no, no, you're don't.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Be you know, be smart.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's her calling too. I heard the phone drop out.
She's like, are you talking bad about me on the
big one again? So tell mom, I said hello, And
I hope she's okay, and not to show that.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Yeah, and she I'm sure she's listening tonight. She listens
to you all the time. And so there she heard.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
It from you too.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
Don't shovel.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
That's right, And I wish my mom would have listened.
So hopefully yours does all right? Anything else before we
let you bounce into the night, and of course you'll
be all over everything in the next couple of days,
probably as this continues to progress with getting closer to
whatever normal is here in the Tri State after a snowstorm,
I'm guessing, is that correct, right?

Speaker 3 (12:35):
So our crews are going to continue working. They're going
to do the best they can. Again, don't expect to
see clear black pavement come tomorrow morning, there's still going
to be snow on the ground, snow going to be
snow on the roads. But if you are out, please
be careful check you know, check our cameras at og
dot com. You can get some road conditions there, and
ye know, be mindful of you know that your crews

(12:57):
are going to still be out and we want everyone
to be safe to get to their destinations. But if
you don't have to go anywhere, try to avoid travel.
And as far as my mother and shoveling her driveway,
I'm not a bad daughter.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
I will my brother and I will.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Make sure that she's taking care of somebody in the
family will take care of her or will take some
kid to do it. We're not going to let her
do it.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
So yeah, I wasn't thinking that. I was not blaming
or attacking you. But it's good that you're doing what
you do. And that goes back to Lance, mycallister I
was talking to earlier because I've had a bunch of
people on today from people calling and then people that
we know, and he was saying that he's only had
in like twenty five twenty six years he and his
family lived where they are one kid has come to

(13:37):
look to shovel snow, and that was just a while
back when it was a little snow. And he told
the kid to come back any time when it was
and he'd be glad to have him do the working.
And he hasn't seen him. So that's what happened to
all the kids who do the snow removal from the
streets or the sycamores. I should say that's how I
make minds of money as a kid.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, but I don't want to leave the listeners thinking
I'm a bad daughter. No, my mother's kids will take
care of her, but we'll make sure she's in good shape.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
We're not gonna love her do.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Any that's correct. The snow Queen takes care of mom.
Kathleen Fuller from ODAD, Cincinnati. Thanks for doing what you
do in making time and best of mom in the family.
Fuller as well. Take care of yourself and we'll talk again,
so we'll see you later, right, have a great night
you too. It was nicer her to give us some
time again tonight. And I coined a new name, the
snow Queen. I don't know if that'll stick or not.
I don't know. I think that fits better than Fern

(14:26):
the storm. I mean, maybe it's just me. I don't know.
Five point three seven four nine eight hundred, the big one.
I wan't to know how you're doing if you're out
and about. I know a lot of people still looking
to I've seen a bunch of trucks pushing snow, pickups
or otherwise out of a lot of the businesses up
and down Montgomery Road, in and around here, clean parking
lots and strip shopping centers, obviously Kenwood Town Center. And

(14:47):
I got to say that is maybe the today was
the only time that I can recall, other than literally
like Christmas Day, that the I've seen Kenwood Town Center's
mall parking lot like empty, other than like trucks pushing
snow around. So we'll see what tomorrow brings with that.
But that's pretty wild, you know, one of the other

(15:08):
things that is always fun. And I tried this the
other night and it didn't work. I think I used
water that was too warm. And I've seen a bunch
of this stuff on social media and everything else. A
lot of people doing different things, you know, trying to,
I guess, experiment as safely as they can with the
wicked cold weather and so forth. The water you can
throw up and you can see it sort of vaporize

(15:28):
and freeze. I've done that in the past. I'll try
with cold water. Maybe tomorrow night might be better. And
there was a video that somebody had and it's a
great idea, and I thought about it. I still might
do it. We'll see. They boiled some noodles. I'm assuming
they let them cool down first, they took them outside.
They put them on a plate on the deck or
the patio or whatever it was, and then you see

(15:50):
them sort of lift up the noodles with a fork
and just held it there long enough in the wicked
cold to where they it froze literally in the like.
There was an invisible person holding the fork with the
pasta sort of up off the plate, which I thought,
for some reason, I just enjoyed that immensely. So anything
out doing in the snow or otherwise, of how you're doing,

(16:11):
if you're working, I know a lot of people out there,
you know, trying to find food or whatever. We heard Kroger.
Some of those, if not all of those, I think
in the tri State closing, I think probably doing some
restock and trying to get stuff in order and then
opening up again tomorrow. A lot of other people who
have been out there working gas stations, a lot of
first responders. Obviously, people are getting people, you know, sort

(16:31):
of towed up out of wreckers, out of either off
the side of the road or wherever they can't get
out of. So I mean, you know, we're all just
trying to get through this together. After nine o'clock conversation
out with Jay Ratliffe or aviation expert of the Big One,
we'll get a dirt on a travel in and out
of Cincinnati and how it looks around the country, and
just the nuts and bolts of how that whole I

(16:52):
guess process works effectively to keep it up and running
and get people going where they need to. And we'll
also talk to our way before Willy goes live across
the nation on your Sunday night, about nine thirty five,
we'll talk to Willy. He has come through. I don't
know if he's on his own or if he's got
like a whole team of people to bring him out.
Always very concerned, but we'll talk to our WILLI in

(17:14):
about an hour or so from now, and then on
the other side we'll open up phones and to give
you a chance to sound off, and a lot of
other ground to cover as well. On a Sunday night
Sterling double dip split shift, a lot of people are
stuck on the job or people couldn't either get out
of the work situation or get to work. So we're
doing this together. On the Nation station. You're a severe

(17:37):
weather station seven hundred WL nine first warning forecast on
the Big One. Most of snow's going away. I mean
no longer falling from the sky. It's not leaving the
ground anytime soon, unless you're pushing it out of the way,
blowing it out of the way, or I mean, I
don't know, you shut your eyes and you don't see
it anymore. How you doing its sterling hanging out Danny

(17:59):
Glees and keeping me up on time and in line
and coming up another update from Sean Gallagher and news
about twenty two minutes away. Our WILLI will join us
about nine thirty five. J Ratliffe talking aviation, travel and
so forth. He's a big ones aviation expert guru guy.
A conversation with him I had coming up after nine o'clock.
Let me just say a couple of things. There's a

(18:20):
bunch of schools closed and a lot of businesses closed
tomorrow seven hundred w wellw dot com. You can get
a bunch of information there about everything all the time
for that matter, even streaming shows or whatever else. Get
the iHeartRadio app and so on. This is pretty wild
in that there's now been an upgrade to what we're
looking at here. Oh, let me give you the with

(18:42):
so down to seven tonight. As I understand, tomorrow high
of all of nineteen degrees is going to be the
high twenty four Tuesday, twenty nine Wednesday, we may not
see above freezing until it's sort of like the end
of the week. So this is not going to melt
anytime soon. So just just be aware of that and
hopefully they'll get cleared up and plowed and everything in

(19:02):
a timely fashion. It's always tough in a city like
Cincinnati because of height, old neighborhood type streets and the
way the city has sort of been designed and come
together over generations and generations and cars on the street,
narrow streets, et cetera. I know they got a lot
of new equipment, they tried to make improvements during the
season on how it has come together. And the way

(19:24):
they've attacked the snow over this last couple of weeks
to month, whatever it's been since we got that big
pounding some time ago, but nothing like this. And people
message me from Dayton, They're like, hey, Dayton kid. I'm like, yes,
I was, And you know you were around for the
blizzard of seventy eight. Yes I was. There's more snow
and date now than there wasn't true as I understand it.

(19:46):
I think they had where's my notes, thirteen thirteen or
fourteen inches of snow, which is more than they got
during the blizzard in the one fall, but thankfully not
the wind and the brutal stuff that came along with that. Though.
Fourteen degrees now in the tri stage or sever your
weather station seven hundred w WELW fourteen's pretty cold. I

(20:09):
don't I'm not making light of it. I know that
if you're out there and a little bit, you can
kind of get acclimated to it and whatever else, especially
if you're a moving snow around or whatever trying to
get around out there. You're hot and sweaty, but then
gets you in all kinds of trouble, not really understanding
how you're doing or what have you. So anybody who's
thinking about getting out there early in the morning or

(20:31):
maybe at night, even trying to do any moving of snow,
well even if it's with a snow blower, just pay
attention to how you're feeling and what's going on, and
maybe hopefully a phone in your pocket and somebody who's
maybe hopefully paying attention to you. Just in case things
go sideways, they can be there for you to help out.
I mean, that's just sort of the hope a lot
of football. Earlier, Patriots beat the Broncos, which may not

(20:55):
have been a big surprise if their Nick's was sort
of taken out with that leg injury or foot injury
whatever it was, broke a week ago. Patriots now going
to their twelfth Super Bowl, which is just unbelievable. And
Rams have scored and comeback. Now they're trailing by Ford's
twenty four to twenty in Seattle, the Seahawks leading the Rams.

(21:19):
And I'm not just rooting for the Seahawks because Russ
Jackson is a Seahawks fan who was producing and here
earlier before Danny Chuck back in like I did due
doing the split. But for some reason, I don't know
what it is. It's just one of those things. I've
just always liked the Seahawks. I'm born and bred and
raised a Seahawks fan, but just I don't know if

(21:42):
maybe it's because they were horrible for a while and
I like that underdog thing. I don't know. It's the
same thing with Tampa Bay. They were horrible, seemingly for
my entire youth, and I was like, they're gonna be
good one day and I love those uniforms, and then
they got good for a while. So we'll see. Maybe
a Seahawks can keep gone and get to the Super
Bowl bound, which would make a whole lot of people

(22:03):
in the Northwest and a lot of other places quite happy.
But they're just over nine and a half minutes left
in the third quarter, so there's a lot of football
to be played, and we'll keep you on top of it.
So there is that that's gone on. Holy crap, I
got a long list of stuff I want to get to.
No trash pick up tomorrow from Rumki. There's a number
of reasons for that, obviously, sometimes people get really hacked

(22:24):
off about it. I had a conversation with my neighbor
a couple of weeks ago, and was mad because we
had all taken our cans, rolled them out to the
curb and you know, sort of threw the snow on
top of the snow whatever else, and how you handle
your cans for them to pick them up, And we
were joking. I said, they'll probably get them a day late,

(22:46):
but I'd rather have it out there than rather than
miss them, just in case. And he was just furious.
I can't believe. I don't like the trash can sit
out for an extended period of time. Looks like crap.
I'm like, dude, there's snow all over the place. What's
the big deal. He rolled his cans back in the
whole streets covered with you know, there's snow, and everybody
had put their cans out. He rolls them back in

(23:08):
back towards the garage, in the garage wherever he puts them,
and then rolled them back out the next morning, And
as I was leaving and they were moving through, he
barely got him out for them to get him a
day later. And that's all it is, So no roumky. Tomorrow,
they'll hit it a day late and get through it,
and hopefully those neighborhoods and the streets will get cleared
in the next couple of days and they'll just push
through it. Like the rest of It's just sort of

(23:29):
the way it goes. But it can be a frustrating
kind of circumstance. That is for sure, a whole lot
of people around the country stranded by weather, either off
of the highway, finding hotels or what have you, or
in many cases traveling by air which we'll talk to
Jay Ratliffe conversation with him about to all that, or
aviation expert coming up after nine and just navigating it.

(23:52):
Because if it's weather related, as I understand it, the
airline's not really required to give you anything because it's
an act of God. But if it's mechanical or something
along those lines that affect your flight getting from one
place to another, they haven't handled getting an aircraft or
pilot staffing where they need to be. Is this stuff
gets starting to move again, that's a different circumstance, and

(24:14):
Jai'll clear that up. And of course the aviation block
at seven hundred WLW was always available too, but it's
just one of those things you can't really control the
snow and know what I'm wondering, is this if you
were going to be stranded someplace and have to deal
with and navigate bad weather situation, being snowed in or otherwise,

(24:37):
in all things being equal, I'm not a big fan
of the cold in the snow, and I am an
Ohio kid, so I understand the reality of it. And
Danny Leason's the same way. It's like, I don't like it,
but this is home and I've lived in the desert
where it's warm. And they made fun of me, which
as I was complaining about the cold in Las Vegas
some years ago before I came back to Ohio. It's
been over ten years now, twelve or something like that,

(24:58):
and they joking, I'm from the cold in Ohio and
fly over country wherever that is, and they joked it
was like, Iowa, Ohio, wherever you're from. I'm like, yeah, yeah,
it's true. My blood thinned out pretty fast, but it's
just the way it goes. But if I was going
to be stranded someplace snow, this is not really the
worst place. I mean, being stranded at home is a
good idea if you're going to be stranded somewhere else

(25:20):
or stuck, you know, working is not necessarily a bad thing,
because at least you're making money if in fact you're
stuck someplace having you navigate this and then you just
hope that your co workers can get in to relieve
you at some point. But I've seen a few people
at front counters and checkouts, you know, in the front
desk or whatever else that have had the same look.

(25:41):
I've been here really a whole lot. I got a
lot of time here. Nobody's coming to relieve me. What
can I do to help you? And I'm like, I'm
really sorry. We're all living the stream too. It's fantastic,
best days of our lives. I suppose eight to twelve inches.
I guess it's snow in Boston, Albany's somewhere. Five to
eight inches, that's New York Portland Main twelve to eighteen inches.
That is huge. And flight cancelations from flight aware dot

(26:03):
com are unbelievable. Over nine hundred and Newark nine hundred
and sixty, New York, Charlotte over eleven hundred cancelations, Dallas
Fourth Worth delays close to five hundred, Chicago almost nine hundred.
And I do believe that's so hair I could be wrong.
Atlanta close to four hundred and sixty, and on it goes,
and Dallas has been dealt with two As far as

(26:24):
that goes, nearly five hundred delays, cancel flights somewhere close
to twelve hundred. And that's a lot of people either
not getting on planes trying to go where they want
to go or get home to where they need to
be and so forth. And a lot of those aircraft
then being positioned in places where they're out of harms
way so they can get this stuff working again too,

(26:45):
a lot of layers to it. This is where maybe
some artificial intelligence would work, where artificial intelligence could maybe
help us sort of navigate it. So I'd be interested
to see how that technology has been implemented by the airlines,
by the National Weather Service and all that. I mean,
all use some AI in some fashion, even if it's
just on your phone or your watch, whether you realize
it or not, that's the reality of the situation. But

(27:08):
it's it's just one of those things. You just hope
that they get it all worked out and we can
get where we have to go sooner than later. Some
people making a lot of dough right now, you know,
people pushing snow Yeah, they're doing it a lot of
overtime hours emergency rooms. My guess is there'll be some
orthopedic doctors, surgeons and so forth are going to be

(27:29):
very busy in the next couple of days to weeks.
As people get out there, they slip, they fall, they
over exert themselves trying to push snow out of the way,
and then the next thing you know, you know, they
get a wrist or an elbow, or a knee or
a hip problem, and then they're getting tuned up and
fixed up by some medical professional someplace. Who's going I
could buy a summer house now. So just be careful

(27:51):
if you're out there, even just not you know, in
the outside in the lot sort of walking around earlier
checking stuff out. I thought I had as I was
trudging through the snow missing, I couldn't quite figure out
where the curb was and caught half the curb and
then fell and a guy's clearing her the lot and
he's driving with his truck. It was the funniest thing
because I was laughing as I fell, and I'm getting

(28:11):
up and he's laughing as he's pushing the snow and
dropping the blade down. He kind of looked at me
and laughed. I nod him like, yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
I'm good.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
He goes, yeah, we all do it, and it's true,
you just do. And the older you get, the more
you feel those falls. It's a pretty serious thing. They've
downgraded for what it's worth, the snow emergencies at this point,
and I think this is last updated. That's the most
recent that I can see. So we've gone from like
level three, level three effective six tonight, Hamilton County level two. Also,

(28:46):
that's Butler County, Claremont County Level two, Level two for
Brown County they switched early this morning. Highland County also
at a level three. In Kentucky you got boone and
Canton at level two, and Campbell County and Grant level
two and three respectfully. In Indiana you got Deerborn County.

(29:09):
I got a red travel advisory I think is what
that is. That may be still in effect Union County,
Orange travel advisory, and Ohio County or red travel advisory too.
So we'll see how this all comes together here sooner
than later. And if you don't have to be out clearly,
don't go. I mean, it's just one of those simple things.
But when I was younger, it was like, can we

(29:30):
get to Taco Bell? Can we can we get out?
As a teenager, I mean, it was just we got
to break out of the house. That's enough with the family.
I got to get out, and you know, you get out,
and you'd hope that when you were a kid or
you know whatever, you'd be like, maybe we'll just go
to the movies, We'll go to the mall, anything, just
to get out and maybe do donnats in a parking
lot or something like that. And I had a text
here my buddy's back and forth. Today we're pinging back

(29:54):
and forth, joking around and making fun about what we
did when we were teenagers and one of my friends
jacked up the car. We were messing around in a
parking lot. I can't remember which mall it was, and
you know, just donuts, having a blast, and somebody distracted
the guy, the kid driving because we were kids at

(30:14):
the time, and like stepped on the gas is that
we spun around. We hit the curb and it jacked
up both sides or both wheels on. It was the
passenger side of the vehicle that hit that curb, and
my buddy's dad was none too satisfied with the excuse
or the explanation. And I can't remember what it costs,

(30:34):
but it was a It was not a cheap accident.
It was not and so you know, sometimes stupid will
cost you. But it was fun until that happened. And
I'm grown now and I still like, you know, going
into a parking lot as long as I can see
that there's no light poles, everything safe. I'm not trying
to spend money. I don't need to spend, but to go,

(30:54):
you know, have a little fun. Yeah, there's nothing wrong
with that. And a whole lot of sledding. Where is it.
I'm trying to think. When I was living in East
Walnut Hills it was And I even did this a
girlfriend at the time, and I went over Eaton Park
and down some of those slopes, those hills there. I mean,
it's a great place to sled There are a lot
of really fun incredible I mean, we got a lot
of hills in and around the Try State. There's a

(31:16):
lot of places to do a lot of sledding. So
my guess is the next couple of days there'll be
that too, So just avoid the trees and don't do
also what my buddies and I used to do as kids,
and you may and if you have kids, tell them
not to do this. And it was fun, but it
was clearly irresponsible and incredibly dangerous. And what we would do.

(31:39):
My cousins really started me on it. It would like
you grab a bumper, you pull a bumper and then
let somebody as you would sort of navigate the snow
and the ice with your your boots or whatever, fly
slide along with the vehicle and then let go of
that and then you could slide on your own. But
that's a good way to end up in the emergency
room or maybe in a bag, which nobody really wants.

(32:00):
So I hope I didn't give anybody the idea to
do that, But that is another one of those dumb
ass ideas that kids do and sometimes will have an
incredibly bad outcome. But thankfully for my friends, my cousins
and I, it was just good times. And then I
can remember I think I got I was grounded or
as my mom called it, restricted in that situation when

(32:23):
she found out what we were doing, and she was
she was like, you can't go back over though, those
kids are stupid and your cousins are bad influence, and
I was like, no, it was great times, mom, it
was great, and she wanted none of that at all whatsoever.
So either way, a lot of people maybe homeworking remotely kids.
You know. That's the other thing they have that as

(32:44):
a kid I did not have growing up, is the
remote learning possibility. So you only have so many real
legit snow days. But here's the other part of it.
If you're a I mean, you don't have a lot
of time to be a kid in life. It seems
like it takes forever when you're growing up, but you
realize in a blink of an eye you're thirty forty
year old person, and all that time when you were

(33:06):
a kid was really fast. So you know, you kind
of think about that in the amount of time and
it starts to sort of weigh on you. Is it
sort of spreads and you're kind of like, man, this
is a thing forever. You can't get out and so on.
But we'll see a couple of days off and how
that sort of plays out and how that comes together.
It'll be all right. But I mean, as a kid,

(33:29):
it just school day would be a time to play.
As a grown up. You know, you got remote work
and everything else. You would hope that a lot of
these kids have a chance tomorrow, maybe Tuesday, to go
goof off and not have to be you know, married
to and somehow in front of a computer screen. You know,
I mean, is that so wrong in that thought process?

(33:49):
I know everybody's kids need to learn the future's coming fast.
AI's coming to get us. They need to get on
the computer. They need to get it. Let them be
kids tomorrow. Let them be kids tomorrow and Tuesday. If
they've got Tuesday off. Hopefully they don't force them into
a situation where they're too I mean, just why not
have a little fun, enjoy a snow day. That's what

(34:09):
they're for. You know. Maybe it's just me five one, three, seven, four, nine,
eight hundred, the Big One talk Back, the iHeartRadio app
and also on X Twitter, whatever you want to call it.
It's been X for long enough, but people still call
it Twitter at Sterling Radio. You can find me there.
That's a pretty serious thing. Will take a break, we'll
come back. Sean Gallagher will have your nine o'clock reports

(34:32):
and update on all things related to this storm so
called Fern and the snow cleanup and the wicked cold
weather and all the closings and the hazards that are
out there. Sean Gallagher will inform you. And then on
the other side, conversation with Jay Ratliff, the seven hundred
WLW aviation expert, about getting around and out of town

(34:56):
and flying and the nuts and bolts and the logistics
of how they keep people moving in short order, whether
it's through CVG or elsewhere, because that there are a
lot of moving pieces that go into that. You know,
we think it's a lot with our family and our job,
and then the airport is you know, having to navigate
in and out of the airport, in and out and
off the tarmac and on the runways and everything else

(35:17):
that they get with it. There's a lot of people
doing a lot of work, often thankless, but we appreciate
all of you and first responders and people out there
doing And hopefully I can find some cinnamon donuts in
the morning. Somebody is gonna hopefully be making some donuts
for me tomorrow. It's all I'm saying. And Danny Gleeson too.
We can enjoy a donut and some coffee on an
early Monday morning. Maybe with Tom Brenneman. He'll get you

(35:40):
up your nine o'clock report straight away. We'll talk travel
with Jay Ratliffe. Willie joins me at nine thirty five
before your Sunday Night with Willie. It's sterling here on
the Nation Station, your severe weather station, home of the
Red seven hundred WLW Cincinnati. Jay Rat is a seven

(36:00):
hundred WLW aviation expert kind enough to give us some
time on this Sunday checking in again. This is a
monumental storm.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
Jay.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
We talked about all the aircraft and moving around the
country and trying to figure out how to move those
resources once this stuff gets cleaned up. How big of
a problem has this been for cancelations and moving aircraft around.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
It's been huge. Derling.

Speaker 5 (36:24):
In fact, when you were talking, I was thinking about
the Ferns. I thought, you know, wonder if these sports
teams have that named the Ferns. And I looked it
up that you got to go to New Zealand. There's
some women's sports teams that are called the Ferns. But
this has definitely got some teeth to it. We're seeing
it because when you look at just the top four
airlines today, as far as what's going on with them.

(36:45):
American Airlines has canceled forty seven percent of their flights,
thirteen percent more are delayed. Delta's canceled four percent of
their flights also with eleven percent delayed, Southwestern United thirty
three and thirty six percent canceled ten percent on each
that are delayed. Comes out to nearly seven thousand flights
that are impacted just from those four carriers. And if

(37:07):
you average one hundred and fifty people a flight, that's
more than a million passengers right there. So when you
have a million people that are impacted today just from
those four airlines and you have to try to get
those individuals to their destinations when you can, it's easy
to see that this is going to be something that's
going to.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
Be a multi day event.

Speaker 5 (37:28):
I've been asked several times about how long is it
going to take for us to get back as far
as normal, and I'm thinking Tuesday and Wednesday from a
flight operation, and probably at least that long to get some.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
Passengers to their destination.

Speaker 5 (37:41):
Because when you're talking about a lot of the airlines
that offer maybe three flights a day on a Monday, Wednesday,
Friday to a specific destination. What's going to take place is, well,
if the Monday flight's canceled, then it's going to be
on Wednesday and Friday that they can try to get
passengers to those impacted destinations.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
And it's just a mess.

Speaker 5 (38:00):
I mean, when we're looking at the airports, Atlanta's canceled
half of their flights today, Charlotte eighty three percent of
the flights into Charlotte's canceled, Dallas forty eight percent, Kennedy
nearly eighty percent. So you're talking about something that is
gripping the nation from in essence, Texas all the way
towards the Northeast when we're seeing some significant, significant delays

(38:23):
and cancelations by some of the biggest airlines. So obviously
that's creating all kinds of problems right now and passengers
that are trying to figure out, you know, the best
way to adapt when you're trying to get somewhere now.
One thing I tell people constantly when they're trying to travel.
Let's see from hereitting down to Florida and perhaps your
flight Orlando has been canceled. One thing that you can

(38:46):
do for the airline to try to help out the agent.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
Is to tell them, look, get us to Daytona.

Speaker 5 (38:51):
Beach, Tampa, Saint Pete, get us to a nearby airport,
and we will rent a car and drive at our
own expense to get us to our destination. Because when
you can give an agent four or five destinations, it's
going to work to your advantage. I remember Sarry and
I were coming back from Europe and we got to
Kennedy and we had nothing but weather, and I told
the American Airlines agent, get me to any airport in

(39:13):
the state of Ohio and we will drive home. And
they were able finally at midnight to get us the
last few seats getting into Columbus and we drove home
from there. So you know, these weather events, it can
be challenging and it's going to require a lot of
patience for everybody from the airlines to obviously the passengers
that are impacted.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Talking to seven hundred WLW aviation expert Jay Ratliffe on
a very snowy Sunday, so you know what happens to
these million people if they're not at home, then there
are and obviously a lot of hotel rooms that are
being booked, and there is a difference between and we've
talked about this time and time again Jay Weather. Compared
to mechanical issues or airline ups as far as moving

(39:53):
equipment when there's not a storm, there is a difference
in what they're required to and they're clearly probably unless
you've made friends with somebody gonna come off the cash
to get you a room or food if they don't
have to correct.

Speaker 5 (40:03):
Well, unless you're like one of their top top top
top top frequent flyers, which you know most of us
are not, that's exactly the case. What's going to happen is,
you know, if your flight at noon is canceled, they're
going to be saying, Okay, the next flight going to
that city is going to be at six o'clock tonight.
We think it's full. We can put you on the standby,
but there's forty four people already on it. So you're

(40:25):
talking about, okay, forty four people don't have to show
up before I'm going to get a chance to maybe
get on that flight. So you know, they might say,
we can't confirm you until Tuesday morning or tomorrow night,
and what do you do? You stick around the airport.
Some people are going to camp out for twenty four
hours at the airport that they're at until they can
get out, just just because perhaps the nearest hotel is

(40:47):
an hour and a half from the airport, and the
thought is, well, why spend three hours round trip in
bad weather trying to.

Speaker 4 (40:53):
Get to a hotel.

Speaker 5 (40:54):
We'll stay here so that if something does change at
the last minute, I'm at the airport and I can
step up and say here I am, take me and
off you go, type of thing, which is really the
best best thing to do. And it's it's a situation
right now where it's just it's really difficult for airline
agents and because what they're trying to do is to
get everybody out as much as they can. And look,

(41:16):
if you've got a flight that's departing and you've got
three empty seats, okay, you got you know, nine hundred
and eighty five people in the gate area, You've got
a specific, you know, approach that you have to try
to see about getting people on those planes. It just
takes a while to get everybody to where they.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
Need to be.

Speaker 5 (41:31):
Now, the good news is that this is January, which
is typically a lighter travel period, and that's going to
help out a little bit. Had this happened last month
at this time during the Christmas travel al. Good Lord,
it would be it would be just nuts. But this
is a little bit better because we're not dealing with
quite the volume of passengers, but that doesn't mean it's
not challenging both for passengers and for airlines. And as

(41:54):
quickly as the storm moves through, we'll see airlines in
Texas like Dallas and Houston snap back into pull operations.
We're going to see other smaller airports like Omaha and
Little Rock start their operations back because they're all but
closed down at this point in time.

Speaker 4 (42:09):
So as the.

Speaker 5 (42:09):
Storm moves through, the airlines will very quickly where zoom
operations as quickly as they can and then try to
find the crowd as much as they can to get
all the impacted passengers to what is ultimately going to be,
you know, their final destinations.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Jay Ratlis, the seven hundred WLW aviation expert with Sterling
seven hundred WLUB. We talked also about the it's sort
of its own little world at an airport and CVG
of course, big facility in what was a massive hub
at one point, at least compared to it's got a
lot of flights now. But the hub helped with the
way they built that out and the way it's operated

(42:44):
really helps in these type of situations more than a
lot of other places, doesn't.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
It Well, it does.

Speaker 5 (42:49):
But you know, now we've got more local traffic than
we've ever had before coming to CBG, And that's evidence
because the fact that we have so many low cost
carriers are going to so many different destinations.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
In addition to seeing.

Speaker 5 (43:00):
Airlines like American Delta United to increase their presence, you
have airlines like British Airways coming in giving us their
flights to Europe. You've got Air Canada coming in giving
us lights to the West Coast. So yeah, the airport
continues to grow, and it's kind of a model of
what other airlines airports would love to see from the
standpoint of emerging from a hub with prices that were

(43:20):
extremely high. Now all of a sudden, you've got a
bunch of low cost carriers that the community of supporting,
and you've got a lot of options in addition to
really low fares, which is the perfect combination.

Speaker 4 (43:31):
Now.

Speaker 5 (43:32):
The beauty of it is now is with all those
different destinations to all those various cities, if you're impacted.
It makes it easier to try to get you to
your destination. And that goes back to that previous point
of try to help the airline agent out as much
as you possibly can by telling them if there's another
airport that you might be able to get to. Now,
keep in mind, if they send you to a Daytona beach,

(43:52):
you're going to Orlando, you're on your own. You've got
to find a way to get yourself from that other
airport to where you're going. And the other thing you
got to be careful of is that let's say you're
in the middle of your itinerary and you say, look,
I'm just going to drive to my next city. I
won't take the flight. I'll just drive to Atlanta and
I'll catch the flight from there. The problem is if
you don't communicate that to the airline sternly, what happens

(44:15):
is they have used a no show for your Cincinnati
flight the connection right, they cancel everything after that. So
if that's the middle part of it, it's in other words,
if your return is still on there, it's gone. So
you have to make sure you communicate with the airline
to let them know what you're doing because look, if
you if you want to drive from one city to another, okay,

(44:36):
that's fine, you won't Probably you're not gonna be get
any sort of refund, just say I'm gonna pick up
the flight there. And during times of irregular operations, airlines
do a pretty good job of working with us. But
you've got to make sure you communicate what those changes
are going to be because if you don't, you could
really be a problem because now you've got all this
massive people that are trying to get where they're going.

(44:57):
You pop into the airport for your you know, planned
return trail that you've had book for a while for
them to say, I'm sorry that flight's been canceled, and
they're gonna say, well, who canceled it? Well you did
when you didn't show up for your Cincinnati flight. Well
that's when the problem is. And simply by just not
knowing what needs to happen is what takes place. And
I've also been asked a lot from a lot of people,

(45:17):
j if I'm at the airport and I don't have
an aircraft at my gate, is there any way to
track it coming in? Flight aware dot com is a
great site I use all the time as we do
at the airport, and you can put in your flight
number at flight aware dot com and it'll show you
the outbound departure, the time, all the stuff there. But
it also is a link in the corner that says
track inbound flight and you just click on it and

(45:39):
it'll show you where your airplane's at in relation to
where you're at, and you can actually track the inbound
aircraft that's going to make the outbound segment for what
you're going.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
To be traveling. I've seen gate agents using it.

Speaker 5 (45:49):
It's a free app, and it really kind of alleviates
the need of asking a lot of needless questions when
you can find out from yourself in real time where
your aircraft happens to be.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
I got to say, I don't know how much such
of a geek this makes me. And as a kid,
it was a teenager, it was fun. With my buddies.
We go to the airport sometimes and you could drive
pretty close up and you know, sort of see the
flights takeoff and land, which was, I don't know, awesome. Obviously,
security is a little different in getting close now. Weather
is a part of this.

Speaker 6 (46:15):
Two J.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
Ratless seven hundred WLW aviation expert was Stirling on the
big one. The other thing that was interesting, and we've
discussed this before too as much as I said, you know,
you drive up seventy one or seventy five or seventy four,
whatever it is with O Dott and you see the
gang plow and all those plows together going to work
at the airport CBG and around the country. It is
amazing to see the heavy equipment doing the work it does,

(46:39):
trying to move all that snow out of the way
to keep those flights moving. It is spectacular to watch.

Speaker 5 (46:44):
It would make a great real time TV show because
when you see all that goes on behind the scenes
to keep something as big as a runway clear, you
have you're constantly checking the breaking conditions to see, you know,
if everything is as it needs to be for the
crews coming in. That information is constantly communicated from pilots

(47:06):
to pilot. You have everything from the weather that's being monitored,
the ground equipment, all of it. I mean, it's a
city we've talked about and a lot of times we
just kind of take that for granted. You get to
an airport, it doesn't do it quite as well. As
CBG and then all of a sudden you're like, wait,
what's going on here? Because many times it's not a
matter of them just not having their act together, but

(47:27):
sometimes the communication breaks down and or the weather has
a sudden change, and then all of a sudden it
you know, we can't use that runway because the winds
have changed. Now we've got to use another one, but
it's not clear. We've got to have time to get
that runway clear, and it can create a backlog, which means, okay,
we've got a de ice an airplane.

Speaker 4 (47:45):
It's been holding too long.

Speaker 5 (47:46):
Now we need to go back and get another glyc
hall treatment because there's a hold over time. Once you're
everything's been done, you can only depart an x amount
of minutes, and if it exceeds that, you're right back
to getting de iced, which is us airing on the
side of caution. So you don't ever, ever ever want
to get upset because there's a de icing delay, because
that's a safety related issue, and if you have to

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be delayed because of that, then that's that's a good thing,
even though a lot of times people don't look at
it that way, because you know, keeping the contaminants off
the wing is what keeps the plane in the sky
of flying.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Jay, I don't want to come down the hard way.
Clean it, get it nice and fristine.

Speaker 5 (48:26):
You don't think you got it all, go back and
do it again. I don't care because I want to get.

Speaker 4 (48:30):
To my destination. It's okay.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Yeah, absolutely, Jay Ratless, aviation expert for the big one
with Sterling. You know, you would know this probably better
than anyone. I don't know how many miles you've accumulated
over the years. My guess is a ton. And you've
been to a whole lot of airports. I'm kind of
curious because I have been stuck coincidentally, seemingly repeatedly in Chicago,
which is probably pretty common for people, and from Midway

(48:55):
and also O'Hare. Midway was just a joke as far
as trying to when there was no room. Is there
like a top five airports you can think of if
you've got to sack out and you're stuck at the
airport where you're like, this is the place I'd like
to go if I'm going to be stuck at an
airport overnight.

Speaker 5 (49:12):
I like Cincinnati because the fact that it's it's got
the amenities that's there. But look, it's close to home
for us, so most of us are going to go home.
But you know, they ranked the top airports and they
put San Francisco at the top. Now I don't know
I would necessarily go that way. Now, there's been a
lot of airports that have been revised. They've had some

(49:32):
some renovations that have just been awesome. I've yet to
see some of those airports. But you know, the airport shares,
for the most part, they all have the armrests, which
prevents you from you know, taking three or four of
them and laying down across. And that's done on purpose, obviously,
which makes it really really difficult. So I mean I've
got my favorite. I mean, i'd like, you know, I

(49:53):
like the Greenville Airport down the Carolina's because the parking
lot looks like a you know, some sort of a.

Speaker 4 (49:59):
Golf country club. I mean, it's just beautiful outside.

Speaker 5 (50:02):
And you know those sites ye out Dallas, seventeen five
hundred acres.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
I mean, it just goes forever.

Speaker 5 (50:08):
And yes, Chicago sometimes is known as the place where
on time flights go to die, but it really depends
on the time of year because a lot of times
when people are flying, this is what they did back
in June and July.

Speaker 4 (50:20):
Hey, Jay, you're proud of me.

Speaker 5 (50:21):
I made my reservations for January, so I booked well
in advance. And the weather we know in February is horrible,
so I totally avoid in Chicago and I booked my
trip through Dallas. Well we get to January, what happens.
Dallas has got twenty hours of freezing rain.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
Chicago's okay.

Speaker 5 (50:36):
So you really just never know when it comes to
mother Nature where things are going to go. And I
tell you that this is a historic storm in a
lot of ways, and even though it's slowing air travel
down a lot, you just really pray for everybody that's
impacted because you know it's a dangerous situation where there
could be a loss of life. And that's the real concern.

(50:57):
I mean, not only people that are traveling, but people
we're out trying to keep the roads clear, the line
men and women that are out there keeping the power
on in really cold temperatures, and all the law enforcement work,
first responders. I mean, it's easy for us to forget
all the people that make things work that we take
for granted, until it doesn't work, and then it's like, hey,
what's the problem, what's going on? So obviously proper perspective,

(51:19):
at least for me, is what I've got to make
sure I remember, because it's it's easy to get carried
away with things that we shouldn't and when you get
this kind of a situation going on.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
Jay, this is funny. A guy named Rand, I'm assuming
it's a dude, says, what about SFO. You mentioned San Francisco.
That place has been under construction for my whole life,
and I've floated and out of there a few times.
It literally seemed like I kid you not, it was
like a stretch of like four or five trips over
ten year period. I think Rand's right. I don't know

(51:48):
about now. I haven't been in a while, but I
for a better part of a decade that place was
constantly under construction.

Speaker 5 (51:54):
Are you are you referenced? Are you saying it's like
seventy five? It's they always always has.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
Something going on?

Speaker 1 (51:59):
Yeah, Yeah, a lot of bitter, a lot.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
I've had to spend the night at the San Francisco Airport.
I came in one afternoon and didn't got until the
next morning, and yeah, it was fine. I mean, you know,
there wasn't anything that I was like, oh wow, I
need to come back and do this again sometime soon.
But you know, it wasn't bad. And you know, these days,
the airlines and airports have done a really good job
of trying to make the airport's very user friendly. Now again,

(52:24):
you've got to be very careful because sometimes they have
these these universal charging stations that are at airports that
everybody can plug in and use, and the Department of
Homeland Security and the FA or NTSA have been warning
travelers that some people are hacking into those ye, so
you need to make sure if you're charging your device
at the airport, use your.

Speaker 4 (52:43):
Own power device.

Speaker 5 (52:44):
Don't plug into those because sometimes it's granting access to
people to hack into your your device.

Speaker 4 (52:50):
So please, please, please.

Speaker 5 (52:52):
Make sure that if you're going to be spending a
lot of time at an airport, use your own charging device.
If not, go buy one. Do not use the ones
that are at the airport to pay the.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Over overcharge price. You know that you get at the
airport for when it makes sense.

Speaker 4 (53:04):
Good, zero question, my friends.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
It's what happens if you're stuck in the compound. You
got to pay compound prices. It's just the wind convenience.
Remember that's right. There's a Dave Hatter moment as far
as the security for your devices. So that was nice.
We've entered into that. Jay Ratliff, thank you for doing
what you do with making time. I appreciate. It's always
a pleasure to talk to you.

Speaker 4 (53:23):
The sorry p.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
There you go, Jay Ratliffe, giving us some insights coming
up your nine thirty report. Then our Willie's going to
join us before his Sunday night show talk about his
experience out and about and Fern's wrath in and around
the tri State getting in here to do his show.
And I want to mention this because one Bob we
Air from the Grateful Dead passed away. And over the

(53:46):
weekend the Eagles Don Henley at the Spear in Las Vegas,
that big bubble with the eye that looks all over
the valley there in southern Nevada Eagles doing a show,
or at least Don Henley on his own did out
on the road today, saw a deadheadsticker on a Cadillac
and basically dedicating that and talking about the passing of

(54:09):
Bob Weir who left too certain that is for sure,
So just wanted to mention that it's excuse to play
some Henley And obviously the song's been covered or whatever.
But since Henley did it, why not There you go?
All right, dew coming up news, lots more ground to cover.
It's uh, just cold. I mean, I don't know what

(54:29):
else to say about it. It's cold. It's miserable out
and unless you're making money pushing snow out of the way,
helping people in some other fashion, and maybe in dire
need of some takeout food from someplace, and I wish
you could tell me where I could find some food.
When I'm done on the air here, it's probably best
just to stay home. Listen to me sterling. Your Willie's
coming up after your nine to thirty report right here

(54:51):
on the Home of the Rets, speaking of boys this
summer and thinking of going to the desert for spring
training and then soon opening to a great American ballpark
right here, home of the Ret News Radio seven hundred
w l W, Cincinnati. Oh my, my, mid the snow

(55:15):
pretty much done, but it's not going anywhere anytime soon.
It is a brutal evil, I say, like satanistic, like
cold and the white deaths have been upon us. They
called it snowpocalypse. They called it to snow mcgeddon or
at least I have. Uh and the name, by the way, Fern.
I don't know who came up with this. If it
was a weather channel, someone someplace really needs medical intervention

(55:36):
or some type of professional help. It was the Weather Channel.
Dany Gleason says, our Willie has stepped in getting ready
for his big Sunday Night all Over Planet Earth show.

Speaker 6 (55:44):
Darling, how are you?

Speaker 1 (55:45):
I'm fine, I'm trying to navigate this.

Speaker 4 (55:49):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
We got the Seahawks and the rams on. I'm hoping
Seattle gets to the Super Bowl. We got it all covered.
We do. And uh, how was your weekend?

Speaker 3 (55:59):
Bent?

Speaker 1 (55:59):
How how have you navigated? Have you been held up
at the house at all? No, I've been out. A
friend of mine has a snowblower.

Speaker 7 (56:07):
He also has a tractor, and I spent my time
clearing other people's driveways and doing my best for the
American people.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
You really are the American, aren't.

Speaker 6 (56:16):
I'm the voice of the common man.

Speaker 7 (56:17):
And I was out there working and doing my duties
as God gave me the power and light to see
that duty.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
Well, I'm glad you do it because somebody has to.
Let's talk about issues, starlink. What issues would you like
to touch upon?

Speaker 6 (56:28):
Remember nineteen seventy seven.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
Yes, now you weren't born yet. A tiny line.

Speaker 7 (56:33):
I had just graduated from law school, had a little baby.
Friends of mine said, from the Xavier baseball team, let's
go down to the high river. Oh, it froze over,
it's froze over. Al shattle Cottie promised. That was I said,
let's go down. So we did go across. Not me, No,
I'm thought about my wife, my little baby, and I
had three or four of my friends that I only

(56:54):
walked across. Someone on the other side was in a
VW Beetle and drove across to a high river.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Not on a bridge. That's insane.

Speaker 6 (57:02):
No bridge.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
And they made it across.

Speaker 7 (57:04):
It got about halfway and they got stuck somehow on
what you know, the river. It wasn't exactly a sheet
of ice. No, there's pops and downs, yeah, yeah, And.

Speaker 6 (57:12):
They had to get out and a couple of guys
help moving around. He went back.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
There was a Volkswagen in the middle of the high
river coming across not on a bridge. Is twenty five
degrees below was the temp and the wind chill was
minus fifty. Well, why why did you even go out
in that? I wanted to live at Stirling.

Speaker 6 (57:30):
I wanted to live.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
You wanted to experience.

Speaker 7 (57:33):
I want to I want to go out and look
like in this kind of weather, I go behind my
house out in the creek which is frozen, and I
walk around hills and valleys.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
I climbed trees. I want to live my life.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Man, you are an American hero. You really are. I
gotta say there is no question about that. You're absolutely right.
So of all the snow and all the time that
you have been here. I remember our days in Mount Adams,
and I was living in East Walnut Hills at the time.
This is the late nineties. I was still on the
f M side. The most part, you and mar Chase
that invited me to come over to the Big One
because they said I talked too much for the music

(58:05):
which I hired you. I sired you, but I didn't
fire you. You did, and I thank you for not
firing me. I did not fire you. I don't recall
doing anything you should have. What did I do what
did I do that?

Speaker 7 (58:15):
Trying to hear at that point you were young and
you were dumb. I thought, this guy's got talent. Like Moeger,
I recognized it early. Another I recognized it earlier.

Speaker 6 (58:25):
Yes, it began.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
You are a finder of good talent, and I'm somehow
just sneaking around. Whoa, whoa? You're talking about them or me?
That kind of hurts, kind of hurts, you know, I
got I got a lot of self loathing, Willy. I
got a genetic guilt, and then I got learned guilt.
Half my family Jews, half not and they encreage in
both ways. Yeah, so I am constantly worried about everything

(58:47):
being my fault and not good. It is. Thank you
for contributing to that. What about Minneapolis, what can you
tell me? It's a fantastic city. The Trench cities are beautiful.
It is extremely cold. You think it's cold here? No, no, no,
this is short's weather for those people about four hundred
miles north. Yes, even with Montana, it is ridiculous. But

(59:07):
it is chaos right now, Willie. It is an ugly circumstance.
You two people lose the lives engaging with the Ice
into immigration as they're going about their business. Up there,
you've got state and local authorities that, it seemed to
be fighting with the federal How do you think that's
going to play out? Federal has overall authority, do they
not correct?

Speaker 7 (59:28):
It's called the supremacy clause. As you know, yes, when
it comes to enforcing federal law, the locals have little
or no power at all, and the Feds have complete
power when it comes to interpreting federal law. You might
recall in the fifties and sixties, there were Democrats all
over the South, yes, that did not want to have
federal law imposed upon their schools. They said, wait a minute,

(59:48):
these black folks can't get educated or were going to
keep them young and dumb. Let's not put them in school.
And the Republican Party said, Dwight Eisenhower, We're not going
to have that. Called in the soldiers the troops to
tell Democrats, federal law applies in Little Rock and Tuscaloosa,
it applies in Georgia. And the Democrats, after about fifteen
or twenty years, said, okay, jump ahead, if you can

(01:00:10):
jump back, let's go back the Confederacy. What political party
were the Confederates?

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
The Confederates at that point, I believe were I guess democrats.

Speaker 7 (01:00:19):
Now about Jefferson Davis, Ye, Robert E. Lee, all Democrats,
they said, guess what we have slavery. We're not going
to let it go. What we're going to do here,
We're going to keep the slaves. Federal law doesn't apply here.
Abe Lincoln said, oh yes it does, and your listen
is s grant. So once again the nation arose up
to Democrats, who sang, federal law jump ahead a little
bit longer. Nineteen sixty Civil Rights Act. Which political party

(01:00:41):
was filibustering civil rights for black folks?

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
That was the Republicans at the time.

Speaker 6 (01:00:45):
No, that's all for.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
Equality, Yeah, that was democrats. Democrats wanted equality.

Speaker 6 (01:00:50):
No, no, no, no, that's what I was saying.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
I meant the other way.

Speaker 6 (01:00:53):
No, no, no.

Speaker 7 (01:00:54):
The Democrats were filibustering to make sure that black folks
could not vote. The Republicans said, you know what, we're
going to overcome your veto and get it done. Now
here we are half a century later, once again Democrats
are saying, guess what, federal law doesn't apply here. We're
not going to cooperate. We're going to make it difficult.
We're going to organize groups of protests. We're going to annoy, impede, harass,

(01:01:16):
and stop the enforcement of federal law. Will be in
your face with our cell phones. We're going to have
barriers so that you can't arrest serious gang bangers from
other countries. In fact, the one they were looking at
yesterday morning is now walking the streets of Minneapolis because
Alex and others made it difficult for the ICE to act.
And so once again history is repeating itself. Democrats do

(01:01:40):
not want federal law to be imposed in areas they control.
Whether it was Jefferson Davis or whether it was the
Ku Klux Klan lynching black folks.

Speaker 6 (01:01:48):
Which party did that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
By the way, well it was Democrats. Of the Democrats
would have had a party. What I have a question
for you, Willie, Because some things have changed, some things
have not. And I think most people generally are good,
regardless of political part of your affiliation or whatever else
with that, But what I would like to understand and know,
and I've yet to find anyone who can give me
a Legiti, I'll give me an answer that's the right answer.

(01:02:09):
I'll give you a name I know that's right. Obama
apparently deported his administration millions.

Speaker 6 (01:02:18):
Five point three million without incident.

Speaker 1 (01:02:21):
That that's what I would like to know with How
do they go about the removal of that many people
without the conflict? Is it Democrats?

Speaker 6 (01:02:30):
So? Democrats? Democrats? Obama? How about Alien Gonzales nineteen ninety nine?

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
Remember that?

Speaker 7 (01:02:36):
Remember him with the ice agent and with the rifle
and the kid in the closet, or the riots and protests?

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
Harry Stone, Now what happened back to Cuba? Obama? Deporter
in chief? Wherever you came from? I have the cuts
I played Danny Boy.

Speaker 7 (01:02:50):
Danny Boy has them of Obama and the Clintons and
Joe Biden talking like Donald Trump, same stuff. Federal come
here legally, don't take American jobs, get in line, no
welfare benefits, et cetera. If you're illegal. Guess what Democrats
now saying federal law doesn't apply. We have to replace

(01:03:11):
a great replacement theory. We keep losing national elections. We've
got to replace the electorate with individuals on welfare from
from uh, Lithuania, from They can't vote.

Speaker 6 (01:03:22):
Oh yes they do.

Speaker 7 (01:03:23):
No, No, Let me give you an example how they vote. Minneapolis, Minnesota,
voter ID. Is that required in Minneapolis or Minnesota? I
don't know for you see, and that's a basic thing.
I don't think it's too much to ask to be
able to prove that you're Bill Cunningham or that I'm
sterling his dam. I show up as a breathing human being.
I sign an affidavity telling you what my name is.
I have no voter ID, no birth certificate, no passport,

(01:03:46):
no driver's licens, no state issue. I vote, plus I
can sponsor eight more. I vouch for these other eight
people who have no ID, who can't speak of the English,
I'm vouting for, vouching for them too.

Speaker 6 (01:03:58):
Is that fair, Sterling?

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
It does not say that's Minnesota.

Speaker 6 (01:04:01):
That's called what's happening.

Speaker 7 (01:04:03):
How about sending out one hundred and fifty thousand ballots
in Las Vegas Clark County that every registered voter in
Clark County without any idea required as far as who's voting.

Speaker 6 (01:04:12):
Is that fair?

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
Did that change the outcome of the election in Nevada?

Speaker 6 (01:04:16):
I don't know. I think it would.

Speaker 7 (01:04:17):
If I think Trump would have won, Trump would have
won Minnesota, Trump would have won many states, but he
didn't because there's No, we have such a sloppy voter
system in this country.

Speaker 6 (01:04:26):
That's the problem.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
Do you think that the way they're going about this
as far as the protest and well, the protesters, some
of them across the line clearly, like biting off a
agent's finger for example, that that was probably crossing the line.

Speaker 6 (01:04:39):
I was shooting at them?

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
Is shooting at them as bad about.

Speaker 7 (01:04:42):
Fighting with him and beating them, throwing frozen bottles at them.

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
But it shouldn't be illegal, and it is not illegal
to observe and to video and and.

Speaker 6 (01:04:51):
What about that?

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
What about Alex do you know? But he was a
legal gun carrier? Yes, well, I look to the Minnesota
law if you're interested, I'm the sy mask. An illegal
gun owner must do certain things. Number One, he must
have on his person the little driver's license type thing
that says I'm a legal gun owner, right, and Pretti
did not have that. Secondly, he must have a second

(01:05:15):
form of identification, a picture to prove who he is.

Speaker 6 (01:05:18):
Yes, he didn't have that.

Speaker 7 (01:05:19):
So at the moment he had the gun, the P
three twenty six hour, he was not a legal gun owner.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
He was a legal gun owner. He was illegally carrying
the gun. Did they to be devil's advocate? Did they
give him time to appropriately identify himself? I mean, in
that situation, could that have been abated and avoided the
conflict the way it went?

Speaker 7 (01:05:39):
In a sense, the gun ownership didn't matter, didn't make
a bit of difference whether he had a gun legally
or not. The cops would have done exactly the same thing.
When you hear a gun, gun, gun, guess what it's
on now.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
So if you're legally caring and with your idea and
all that other thing, I'm a fan of concealed carry.
I'm a fan frankly of open carry right, and I
like to go shooting, and I want to keep my
family safe and protect me or anybody around me as necessary.
I think a lot of people are concerned though that
in this situation there is no I don't want to

(01:06:09):
say common ground, but it's very challenging when you have
a policing event going on the way it is, and
people wanting to observe, even if they're not engaging to
a distance from a distances fine.

Speaker 6 (01:06:19):
Harassing and harassing.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
No no, no, no, no, no no no not way, no no, no,
you don't don't don't mistate me. I am not saying
yes you are, no, no.

Speaker 6 (01:06:27):
Yes you are? How yes you are?

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
I dare you? I am all about letting these people
go about their work.

Speaker 7 (01:06:34):
And if you don't annoy them, don't get in their face,
don't throw things at them.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
But they also should be able to handle someone yewling
at them. They shouldn't do.

Speaker 7 (01:06:41):
That all the time. This guy didn't do that. It
was in the middle of the street directing traffic.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
Ugly bad situation.

Speaker 7 (01:06:48):
Lastly, let's say you get it called nine to one
one robbery in progress.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
Yes, horrible, horrible situation.

Speaker 7 (01:06:54):
And the robbers are in the bank and the cops
are outside, right, and here comes fifty pro tester say, now,
wait a minute, you're not going to arrest those guys, right,
because the man has to pay for reparation.

Speaker 6 (01:07:06):
The man's got to pay.

Speaker 7 (01:07:07):
Would we even consider disrupting a police operation to arrest
a bank robber and say, okay, you got to be
careful with you gotta you have to understand they have
a point.

Speaker 6 (01:07:17):
Did you ever think like that?

Speaker 1 (01:07:18):
No, in that situation, same thing.

Speaker 7 (01:07:20):
Here, they were making an arrest and they were identifying
a person who was a gangbanger, and these large groups
of people, incentivized by the governor and the mayor suddenly
took upon themselves to stop a police operation.

Speaker 6 (01:07:32):
Does that make sense to you?

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
No, not as you frame that. No, I do not
like the way that sounds.

Speaker 6 (01:07:36):
All I got. You're pissing me off.

Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
I gotta go wait, wait, wait wait, I gotta get right.
I know you have to get ready. Do you think
that at this point, because it seems to be always
either Republican or Democrat kind of battling one another, that
we will get to a place, a more common ground
and getting along where things makes Why?

Speaker 4 (01:07:52):
Why?

Speaker 7 (01:07:52):
Because the media is incentivized to create havoc, to cause
more listenership and more viewership. The media is an adjunct
to the Democratic Party. When all these women were raped
and murdered by lego aliens, did the country stop for
any of these uh illegal aliens that raped and murdered
hundreds of women and say, now, wait a minute, this
is presidential policy causing the death of Americans.

Speaker 6 (01:08:12):
We got to stop this. Does CNN do any of that?

Speaker 1 (01:08:14):
I don't recall them doing it this.

Speaker 6 (01:08:16):
Of course not. It didn't fit their agenda.

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
But I think any reasonable rational human being regardless of
but you're not well. Thank you for that, And that
coming from you, I think is probably a complix. Yeah,
that's probably true. You're not right either, though, but I
love you. No, I am right, I'm correct, Yes, but
you are way wrong.

Speaker 6 (01:08:31):
I'm correct.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
In this situation. The way they've gone about this, you know,
the idea just of reasonable rational people getting along. No
one of a reasonable rational mind is going to say
that they want a criminal. I don't care whether you're
from Iran or Canada, or Mexico or Madeira for that matter.
If you're raping and pillaging and causing harm, we want
criminals locked up.

Speaker 7 (01:08:52):
That's what democrats saying until they're released off death row
with a no R bond like Elwood Jones.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
Is that what is that what you're saying. No, that's
not what I'm saying. No, No, miss screamed, you did? You
very good at that. I've miscrewed, misconstrued. You're just saying.
I understand by the way Settle is going to be
in the Super Bowl, isn't it about time they should
be there?

Speaker 4 (01:09:11):
No? I don't.

Speaker 6 (01:09:11):
I don't like seeing them liberal democrats. I gotta get
ready for that well you you should.

Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
I appreciate you stopping buy it was good to see
you take notes. What I would like to do is
have you explain at some point how you got out
of the house, out of the driveway and here the
power you have.

Speaker 6 (01:09:29):
Let me just say, the.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
Crown and the way that you carry, no names used.
Let me just say. He makes a phone call to
like authorities from the county and above, and they show
up with the team to clear the driveway, to clear
the road, to bring him here to the big one idea.
It is amazing. And if I call you know what
I get? I get nothing. I get no crickets that

(01:09:50):
I do. I get laugh at They're like, no, no, no,
good luck to you. Maybe you should stay home. It's
a level three is no emergency? Can you do the
show from the house? A sterling? And I go, I
don't know, I'll get there and here I am. Willie
is coming up. If you had not already figured that out,
he will try to make sense of everything that's going
on in the world and to try to do what
he does to the best of his abilities. It is

(01:10:13):
a challenging, conflicting time. And the thing is this, I
think most people on planet Earth are good and decent,
and I think most people Republican, Democrat or otherwise are
decent people who are just trying to get by, who
want to take care of their kids, to have food
on a table, for their clothes on them, and to
roof over their head, to be safe and secure. I

(01:10:34):
would like to think that at some point, I don't
know when this is ever going to happen, we'll get
to a place where no longer marginalizing, somehow dehumanizing, and
somehow making it seem as that either people from other
places in general who have been here not criminals, other
than being here rather than in the country of their

(01:10:55):
native land, that are here trying to make their way
in the world, who have been contributing and paying taxes
and doing what they do, would be able to maybe
reasonably and rationally have an opportunity to get to a
place of some type of well, you're here, and you've
been a good citizen or at least a good resident.
You here as a pathway to your citizenship. There are

(01:11:16):
children who have been in school, who have grown up here.
Is a very difficult thing to make you a situation
even worse where you have authorities going or threatening to
go into schools, to show up and to go into churches.
There was the big kerfuffle and all the talk about
the protesters, which was pretty ridiculous going into the church

(01:11:36):
in the Twin Cities a couple of days ago. But
the other side of it is and they say, oh,
it was traumatizing to the children, It was traumatizing to
the congregation. It was over the top. It was offensive,
it was inappropriate, It was wrong. It shouldn't have happened. Well,
what about the idea of a church, a place of worship,
a synagogue, a temple, a mosque, being a place where

(01:11:56):
someone has some ability to stay away from the trauma
that even authorities have made ice border patrol? What have
you going and doing their work? But why at a church?
Why at a school? Why in a hospital when a
child's getting critical care do they come in and snatch
their family out of there and leave them behind. I
would think as Americans, we could do it better. I

(01:12:16):
would hope and pray to God that we could do
it better and that we you know, it would be decent.
No one, not even Danny Gleeson, not even our Willy.
We agree about ninety percent of the stuff that we
talk about Willy and I. Though we do have a
lot of fun, the reality exists that I don't think
anyone wants criminals on our streets doing criminal things. I
don't care where they're from. We're just people. And as

(01:12:38):
I'm out here on Montgomery Road and I'm going to
go get some food, if I can find any place
at all, possibly please open what I get out of here.
As I listened to where a Willy coming up, I
would hope that if anybody does something wrong, regardless of
where they're from, law enforcement's going to do their job
and get them locked up and handle that process appropriately
so that we're all safer. And I would hope that
would be the same way it plays out fross this

(01:13:00):
country or for that matter, around the world, because we
want everyone to be safe and secure and have a
way to find, you know, tomorrow, and to have a
good day and a good life and to you know,
continue onward and forward. And that's what Willy's gonna do
when I leave here your ten o'clock reports straight away.
Thanks again to Willie for stopping by Jay Ratliffe for

(01:13:22):
doing what he does. Is our aviation expert here at
the Big One. Also Kathleen Fuller from O dot Cincinnati
updating us on everything that's going on as they try
to clear the interstate to highways and all those people
working very hard, first responders, emergency room, et cetera, gas
station people, you name it. People out there plowing snow
and parking lots, sidewalks and all over the city of

(01:13:42):
Cincinnati and the tri State in general, trying to hopefully
get us back to some semblance of normal. If not tomorrow,
maybe Tuesday, and a whole lot of people enjoying a
nice maybe day off from school and maybe two. With
the cold. We'll see, it's not going to go away
this snow. It's not gonna melt anytime soon. High temper
sure tomorrow, nineteen twenty four, on Tuesday, near thirty Wednesday,

(01:14:03):
if we're lucky, straight away your ten o'clock report, Shawn
Gallagher has it. Home of the Reds Sterling, Thank you again.
Danny Gleeson and Willie coming by. He's next here. Home
of the Reds. News Radio seven hundred wlw cinc Anata

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