0:00

Billy, glad you're here. Good here in West Miller, Dan and T

0:04

Now they're big twelve assault continued, lots going on later on Ode ODD.

0:13

Let me talk in English. O Dot, that's Ohio Department of Transportation.

0:16

I'm good with acronyms, don't you know. Stone's like, yeah, dude,

0:19

you're good at that. I know. It's all I have is acronyms.

0:23

We will talk to her about the growing pothole problem. See that's a

0:27

play on words. It's literal and figurative. I had to bob and weave

0:31

on the way in tonight. They seemingly after the last cold serious cold spell,

0:37

and then we had some snow, and then we had a whole bunch

0:39

of rain, and now it's almost shorts weather. I may be somewhat delusional

0:43

on that, but I'm eager to get back to the warm. But it's

0:46

near like fifty degrees nearly, so I mean it's almost, you know,

0:50

short weather, sort of kind of a little bit. But those potholes getting

0:53

bigger, and the one that I bobbed and we've just from seventy five to

0:58

two seventy five literally could have been about the size of my first apartment.

1:03

And the apartment was not huge, but for a pothole, speaking of pothole

1:07

terms huge. So we will talk to her about what they're doing about it,

1:12

and if you have pothole damage, what you can do about it with

1:18

the state's help to maybe make you hold again because it will certainly damage tires,

1:23

it will damage wheels, and if you get a real low ride vehicle

1:27

could cause other issues. So we'll figure all that up after your nine thirty

1:33

your port Matt Reese will have that. We'll also talk to a guy,

1:37

a former Marine who's a part of an organization called Tribe and Trust about issues

1:42

that the Navy is having. Military and generals had problems with recruiting off and

1:48

on forever, but right now the Navy is lowering standards. We've talked about

1:53

this before, but the standards are you don't have to have a high school

1:59

to ploma. Now, you don't have to have a ged of the You

2:02

only have to have a score of fifty out of ninety nine on basically the

2:07

Naval Entrance Exam to see exactly how functional you are and capable you are.

2:12

So we'll talk about the issue of readiness for our military branches of service in

2:15

the midst of what is a chaotic time to say the least, with issues

2:20

in the Red Sea and globally tenuous times to say the least, there's a

2:24

lot of good ground to cover. Also, a conversation I had with the

2:28

body of mind the other day over some beers that I think we can turn

2:31

into a topic and have a little fun with, which because we always talk

2:36

about invention, we always talk about, you know, bringing new things to

2:39

light between the tri State and the Miami Valley, the issues of flight being

2:45

born here, so many brilliant minds that have been here that have effectively changed

2:52

the world as we know it. But the question that we had, the

2:55

turned almost argumentatatory, was really which was of all the stuff that's been invented,

3:04

what do you wish had never been invented? So think about that a

3:07

little bit. We'll touch on that in a bit quick break a little bit

3:10

early right now, and then we'll come back with issues to discuss about.

3:15

The Navy trying to get more people to sign up to get a board ship

3:20

and to do airport to help support this great nation of ours. It's a

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Sterling seven hundred WLW in the midst of many spinning plates in multi level chess

4:16

going on internationally. Speaking with geopolitical issues and the thread of engagement militarily,

4:23

well, it's actually happening right now now that I think about it, with

4:26

naval vessels in the Red Sea and all over the place. Surprisingly or maybe

4:30

not so surprisingly enough, recruitment issues are a bit of a challenge in the

4:35

Navy leading the way now lowering standards for recruits including no GED, no high

4:42

school, and of course a problem that Americans have in general is that we

4:46

tend to be larger than we'd like to be, and that includes weight issues.

4:49

Kind enough to give us some time to see exactly what the Navy and

4:53

Marines, Air Force Army can do to help with recruitment and perspective from that

4:58

side of things is top voting. He is a guy who served as a

5:01

Marine and also is a part of an organization or his organization is Trite and

5:06

trust and host to Carry the Load podcast. Welcome to seven hundred WLW with

5:11

Sterling Todd. How are you, sir? Hey, I'm good Sterling,

5:15

Thanks so much for having me. I'm honored. Did I mention everything that

5:17

you're a part of and your organization correctly before we get going here. I

5:20

want to make sure yes, yes, you did. Thank you. Driving

5:24

Trust is really my baby. It's it's really speaking to the challenges that are

5:32

you know that the military has right now and trying to get organizations to understand

5:38

the importance of leadership at the junior levels and not, you know, basically

5:44

not. We cannot afford to sacrifice the qualities that we need. And that's

5:56

I know what you want to talk about, and that's exactly what my organization

6:00

tries to get other organizations to see it's important. And I have not served.

6:05

I have a friends and family who have for multiple generations. And I

6:13

think when we talk about readiness in the issue of standards, how big of

6:18

a problem is it. I mean, as a marine first in on the

6:23

beach, doing what's necessary to clear the way, I don't know if that's

6:26

the inaccurate way to sort of lay the ground is the Marines historically been talked

6:30

about in what they do in military engagements in theater, but the Navy's a

6:33

bit different, but just the same. If you're not physically capable, if

6:36

you're not at least to the level of a general education degree that is the

6:41

GED or high school, how vulnerable are these candidates in your opinion, to

6:46

be able to go do the job necessary, even though they will still have

6:49

to go through the training required to get through boot camp, to get through

6:54

everything to get a board ship. Well, I don't think you're actually you

7:00

know, sacrificing the individual, what you're sacrificing is the integrity of the organization.

7:06

Because when you set a standard, I mean, you know, let's

7:09

let's look at it kind of like this. You have peers in your industry,

7:14

whether than your in your organization directly or in your industry. You expect

7:19

to be around people of like mind, people of a certain caliber, and

7:27

when that bar is lowered, it devalues your value. And that's I think,

7:33

what's really happening right now. And because ultimately, what's I mean,

7:40

a diploma, just like a college degree, it's a piece of paper,

7:44

but what it really says is I made a commitment and I stuck the commitment

7:47

through. But the challenge that we're running into by dropping these standards is we're

7:56

lowering the value of the individuals or of the collective excuse me, that people

8:03

want to be a part of. And so one of the most important things

8:09

from a Marine Corps standpoint is when we sign up. And in fact,

8:13

you still see this on the website of the Marine Corps. It says nothing

8:18

about earning money for college, getting bonuses for signing up. It has everything

8:24

to do with a purpose, and that's surrounded by the idea of you want

8:30

to be a marine, will come earn it, and that attracts people.

8:35

And that's the problem I think that that the Navy is facing right now.

8:39

They're lowering, they're taking that completely out of the way. And the reality

8:43

is the Navy is is a great organization. There's so many positive things to

8:48

it, but right now they're more concerned with bodies and they're sacrificing the integrity

8:54

of the organization the whole. I believe talking to Hot Boating, a Marine

8:58

Corps veteran, also behind Tribe and Trust dot US organization basically helping with this

9:05

issue of standards and quality and the sacrifices that men and women in uniform are

9:09

putting out there all the time and the stuff that they deal with, and

9:13

that includes first responders, and that's something even fire departments and others have done

9:18

too at times, is lower standards to allow people to come in when they're

9:22

not hitting recruitment levels and so forth. I would hope to not have to

9:26

believe that the Navy or any of our branches of military service would lower the

9:31

standards to a point that would affect readiness or the safety and security of those

9:37

that are putting their lives on the line voluntarily around the world, let alone

9:43

jeopardize the goal of keeping our nation stateside as well as our interests globally and

9:50

our allies. When you talk about lowering the morale in the standard in which

9:56

people get a guess that minimum level as they come in and test to get

10:01

into the branches of service, how does that affect from your experience if this

10:07

has happened when you were a part of things before, todd Uh, that

10:11

attitude and that feeling of other newbies coming in that are putting that uniform on,

10:13

that are going to go out there and side by side fight to fight,

10:18

Well, what it does is again I'm going to use the word devalue

10:22

because let's let's let's take the one, uh, one of the organizations that

10:26

people know and love, and that's the Navy Seals. Okay, the Navy

10:30

Seals are fantastic group of individuals. Guess what, not everybody can do it.

10:35

If they lowered their standards so that just anybody can get in and just

10:39

anybody can do anything, they lose that reverence. Okay. The Marine Corps

10:45

is the same way on a broader scale. You know, when I when

10:48

I tell somebody I was in the Marine Corps, there is a there's a

10:52

respect there, and that respect is is because the standards were high. I

10:58

met the standards, I followed it through and people see that and they respect

11:03

it. If we continue to drop these standards just to get bodies in the

11:09

door, there's not going to be a desire for people to join. I

11:13

think it's actually counterproductive. And so now you're looking at an operational readiness issue.

11:20

And so if we really want to if we really want to make something

11:26

wanted, we make it somewhat exclusive and we make it difficult to achieve.

11:35

Now we've put ourselves in kind of a pickle because not as many people are

11:41

as interested in joining the military as we used to. And there's all kind

11:45

of that's another five or six segments of your show as to why that is.

11:52

But when you lower the standards, you lower the value. And when

11:56

you lower the value, people don't have an interest the way you want them

12:01

to have an interest. Problem we're facing Talking to Marine Corps veteran top voting,

12:07

he's a guy behind tried and trust to dot Us Sterling on the big

12:11

one about the not meeting recruitment levels, adding bonuses, lowering standards for grades

12:18

or at least graduation levels from high school even and testing just to get into

12:22

the Navy at this point, and they're having the biggest problem of all the

12:24

branches of service getting people to sign up and join. Todd, you mentioned

12:28

something that these problems have presented themselves before historically, when the economy is good,

12:33

job jor easy money's being made, that tends to affect willingness or are

12:39

so many people you know, willing or just without any real push signing up

12:43

for the service, regardless of branch generally, and I guess there may be

12:48

some favorites the others, depending on local family history and everything else that goes

12:52

with it. The bonuses play into it, education plays into it. You

12:56

say, the Marines don't tout that, at least initially on that splash page

12:58

on their website. In the midst of this, Historically, what else has

13:03

been done? I mean a lot of times it's about patriotism, it's about

13:07

need. I remember after nine to eleven there were a whole lot of people

13:11

in droves, even older people who would serve previously or didn't, won out

13:15

and ran to recruitment offices because they wanted to have their hand in this and

13:20

try to defend this nation when we were under assault. That's sort of where

13:22

we are now in a different way. What do you see that can help

13:26

get us over the hump? Tightening standards though, when you're already short.

13:31

I don't know if that's the right answer, and clearly those of the head

13:33

of the Navy don't either, or they wouldn't be doing what they're doing.

13:37

Do you agree. I'm gonna throw something out that's probably what some would consider

13:43

a hot sports opinion or a pretty igniting comment, and that is I don't

13:48

think anything turns it around until we find ourselves in a conflict with someone like

13:54

China, Russia, Iran. And that's because the American the fabric of American

14:01

culture is still very very patriotic, for sure, regardless of Republican, Democrat,

14:09

you know, Christian, Muslim, whatever you have, it is still

14:16

very patriotic. And we have a tendency to come together when the chips are

14:20

down. But right now, what's happened in the military, and I can

14:24

say this with a lot of knowledge and certainty, there's a lot more concern

14:31

over all the things that we shouldn't be concerned about such as there is there

14:37

is pronoun You know, people are concerned about pronouns. People are concerned about

14:41

a lot of social issues that have really no place today in the military.

14:48

The military's job is very simply this to defend America. And sometimes in defense

14:54

we have to attack. And if we're concerned about the wrong things and we're

14:58

concerned about people's fe unans, we put ourselves in a very vulnerable position.

15:03

My job was not to have those feelings when I was on active duty.

15:09

My job was to ensure that my men had what they needed to quite honestly

15:15

defend and or kill the enemy. Now, I mean, it's about what

15:18

breaking stuff and killing people effectively, correct, decommissioning and limiting the ability of

15:24

our enemies to cause harm to us or anyone else. Correct. Yes,

15:28

yes, I mean, and it's a nasty business and it's a nasty world.

15:35

But that's the reality of it. And you can't escape that much.

15:37

How much I hit them up and out, and we're short on time,

15:39

and I appreciate you making it. We're talking to tribe and trust dot us

15:43

is Todd Boding is a Marine Corps veteran, and about these issues at recruitment

15:46

levels not being met or goals, and lowering of standards by the Navy to

15:50

try to get their bigger bonuses education, et cetera. Only about one percent,

15:54

and I think it's a stretch to say two percent of those in the

15:58

US actually ever volunteer at this point without being in a situation for the draft

16:03

or whatever, which we don't now just th compulsory service. I'm in the

16:06

opinion the compulsory service would be go. That's probably another show too. But

16:10

you mentioned the pronoun issue and all that. How much of that is stuff

16:12

that talking heads mentioned, How much of that is actually going on in the

16:17

midst of training and every day doing the duty that our men and women in

16:21

uniform go about their business and doing. There's a lot of white noise,

16:26

and some of that is not as prevalent as is made known throughout the mainstream

16:33

media. However, there is a lot that goes unreported, a lot of

16:38

undercurrents along those lines that really create problems. I mean, one of the

16:42

big ones was the way the whole COVID, the way the whole COVID thing

16:48

was approached, and we get very concerned with the wrong things because it's gotten

16:55

very political. If you were to go look at ad of the number of

17:00

generals per soldier ratio I should say per service into ratio in World War Two

17:07

versus today, you would be astonished at how many more general officers there are

17:12

today. And it's not that we need them, it's that that's what that's

17:17

just what's happened. And when something like that happens, we become concerned.

17:22

The people at the top for security of all kind of job security, personal

17:27

security, whatever the case may be, have a tendency to focus on the

17:33

wrong things. We are war fighters, plain and simple. What have I

17:37

not asked? What we've lost? What have I not asked? In short

17:41

order before we let you go about your way talking about recruitment issues, readiness,

17:47

getting people willing to sign on the dotted line to go off and end

17:52

up, you know, on the other side of the globe, aboard a

17:55

ship someplace where they're going to be away from family and could be involved in

17:57

short order, as we already are more or less in proxy conflict with those

18:02

powers that you just mentioned China, Iran, Russia and their underlings are those

18:07

that you know are out there doing things like attacking those in the Red sea.

18:14

I think the question is what's the danger of continuing on the path that

18:21

we're on. And I'm not an alarmist who says, you know that we're

18:26

going up in flames and the country's going down. I mean we will,

18:30

just like you know, just like Rome did. But at what price?

18:37

I mean, we are sacrificing a whole lot of who we are. I

18:41

mean, everything we're talking about this is our identity. We're sacrificing our identity.

18:48

The cost of that is that we may not be able to get it

18:51

back to the way it was. For some people, that's probably okay.

18:55

For others of us, it's not okay. So I think it's very important

19:00

that people understand when you lose sight of your reason for existence, you lose

19:07

site of your identity. It leaves without you even realizing it. And that's

19:14

what I'm afraid is in the midst of happening. Well, I hope we

19:17

turn that corner. I hate to think that they're not at the level they

19:21

should be for recruitment to do the job that they're expected to do, and

19:25

that puts others in harm's way, not just us Stateside or our interests,

19:29

but those that are actually doing the do but I hope they get those levels

19:32

fixed sooner than later. I appreciate your time and your perspective. We'll have you back on again if you'd like to be. He's Todd boating. He

19:38

is from the Tribe and Trust dot Us website to carry the load podcast.

19:44

Also, what have I left out? What have I not asked? If anything? Before we let you go? No, I think we've hit it.

19:49

It's a deep top topic. All I want to do is see people

19:53

in the United States of America volunteer to their left and the right for the

19:56

neighbor. There. You go, do that and it fixes. It's about

20:00

being an American. It doesn't matter what political ideology you have or otherwise.

20:03

It's about doing something that's an honorable thing. It's a respectable thing, and

20:08

we appreciate those that put their lives on the line. It's a sacrifice that

20:11

most of us don't do. Todd boning, thanks very much their I appreciate

20:15

it. And again it's Tribe and Trust dot us. Take care of yourself.

20:18

More Sterling coming back seven hundred WLW News Traffic and Weapons. I'll be

20:26

back game tomorrow my normal thing and Sunday with Donna dye. It's fifty degrees

20:30

right now. I don't know how to deal with it. Don't say anything.

20:34

Red's hitting the desert, getting to work for the new season. Just

20:41

a couple of weeks out, and then the first game on the radio will

20:45

be I think the twenty fourth or twenty fifth of this month, and then

20:47

like opening day the end of March, which is just crazy. It's like eight weeks away, give or take. If you can score at home,

20:52

I know I am here with the window and do a hallway or at the

20:55

house of Sterling. You the way you look at it. There's lots going

20:57

on, and sooner than later, even though I've been bobbing and weaving and

21:00

playing like holy crap, can I avoid the potholes which seemed to be if

21:04

you listen closely, they're getting bigger as we speak. Barrel season is back

21:10

almost nearly, believe it or not. Kathleen Fuller from Odont Welcome back to

21:12

Cincinnati's a big one in seven hundred w welw Kathleen. How are you?

21:17

How's everything? I am fine. Thank you for inviting me to come back

21:22

on the show. Everything's great. So it's a chance to talk to you

21:26

tonight. Well, I appreciate you making time. You know, it's funny

21:30

because last we spoke, we had not really had serious winter weather, and

21:33

then it got evil, wicked, bitter cold, and then we got snow,

21:37

and then we got rain, and then it got warm, and then

21:41

the potholes started popping up, like I don't know, like mushrooms in the

21:45

woods in the spring when you're looking for like morels or whatever. I mean,

21:51

it's a hard thing to avoid when you're bobbing and weaving in the midst

21:56

of heavy traffic. Sometimes you just can't get away from it. So let's start with your plan for patching and repairs in and around the tri State if

22:02

we could. Okay, sure, yeah, we are aggressively working to get

22:07

the repairs made, not just in Hamilton County but across the state. We've

22:11

had a bit of a break this week, thank goodness, because you're right,

22:15

the winter weather that we've had in January is the recipe for popholes.

22:19

It's the perfect perfect storm for us because it gets incredibly cold and then we

22:26

get some nasty you know, we get the snow, the ice, the

22:29

rain, and then it warms up very quickly and this is what causes those

22:33

popfoles to form the way they do. And with bad weather we were having

22:37

last week and all the rain, it was really get it difficult. We

22:40

try to get out there and do some repairs as we could. But this

22:44

week, thank goodness, the weather it's been a little bit more cooperative.

22:47

So our crews are working very hard to get these popfoles filled because you know,

22:51

we do take them very seriously. We know we know how how hazardous

22:56

it can be. Promoters, like you said, kind of weaving in and out and trying to avoid them on Obviously it's hard to do when there's traffic

23:02

on the roadway. Yeah, and sometimes you don't even see them. The next thing you know, it's jarred of filling out of your head, which

23:07

is a different type of patch and filling that you have to get done aside

23:10

from the asphalt below. It's a tough thing. So I guess the question

23:14

is do you just run through and then try to do soft patches as traffic

23:18

allows or as people are notifying individuals because I mean literally it changes as people

23:25

drive over them. That just degrades over time. Sure, so this time

23:29

of year, because asphalt plants aren't open and because we're still in winter weather.

23:33

You know, it's warm today, but it does get cold at night.

23:36

I mean, the plants are open, so we can't do the permanent sticks that we would really like to do right now. This is the time

23:41

of year when we're doing it's called the quick fix. It's basically throwing down

23:47

a cold mix. It goes into the hills the hole, we fill it,

23:49

we tamp it down, and traffic can run over it immediately, so

23:52

we don't have to really restrict traffic to get it done. We can get

23:56

it done quickly. The problem is it doesn't really hold up that they can

24:00

last. I mean sometimes you can have a pothole that's filled in the winter

24:04

last from a couple of weeks to several months sometimes. But it's hard because

24:08

again, if we get more rain, you know that's going to cause those

24:11

things to pop out potentially, or the free saw all over again, where

24:15

it gets cold, it gets warm during the day and then like you said,

24:19

they just kind of pop out. So right now is the quick fix.

24:23

The more permanent fixes will come in the spring in the summer, when

24:26

the asphalt plants are open and the temperatures are warm. There you go in

24:32

relation to repairs and anything else. Because the weather is inconsistent at best this

24:36

time of year, fairly consistently, what else should we know about stuff?

24:40

Because we, aside from spreading ice, melt and push and snow and ice

24:44

out of the way as needed, which I hope we've seen the last of

24:47

it. I know it's just now February, and I don't want to sound

24:49

like I'm whining, but I am whining. I am ready for eighty degrees,

24:52

even though as we sit here right now, I'm looking at the thermometer,

24:56

I'm going it's fifty. I should be out of the studio and outside,

25:00

but that's just me. I think we have to wait until tomorrow when

25:03

the groundhog groundhog still gets out and see the shadow or doesn't see a shadow,

25:07

and he'll tell us how much more we can expect. Right, I

25:10

forgot about that damn roadent. That's right, we got buck eye chucked. Then there's the was the Pusa tawny phil which, by the way, they

25:15

just have more. These animals have been called the same thing for generations.

25:19

There's no originality, and I think they're good eating, right, So if

25:22

they give us a bad report, we should just put them on the grill

25:26

and the spict and get to eat and lunch. Kathleen, is that wrong?

25:30

I'm not sure. No, I don't. I don't want anyone to

25:33

send me hate mail tomorrow. But I my husband and I do have an

25:37

issue with groundhogs in our backyard. So I'm going to leave it at that,

25:40

and you can you can figure that I may be on your side.

25:44

I'm in your court on this one. Yeah, I don't really trust the

25:48

little groundhog when he's not He's not a weatherman, you know, the prognosticator

25:52

of prognostications is not a weatherman. He cannot predict the future for us with

25:56

the weather. We are going to hope that we're out of it because you

26:00

know, again we've got a lot of work to do, not just in

26:02

Hamilton the county, but across the state. And you know, we've got

26:04

a lot of work to do and the weather does not help us at all.

26:07

So and you know, we we do need to be talking about some

26:11

of the projects we have coming up because we've got some things going to happen

26:15

North. Yes, I do want to kind of mention that one tonight,

26:19

if you've got a minute, I'd like to tell people what's happening. So

26:25

we have a major rehabilitation project starting this spring. I think people are going

26:27

to be happy to, you know, see this happening, because we're going

26:30

to get the you know, the pavement's going to be repaired, the bridges

26:34

are going to be repaired, and we're going to be do some re surfacing.

26:37

But with that comes the inevitable traffic impacts. So starting in March,

26:42

we are going to be closing the Norwood latter in the eastbound direction, and

26:48

that's the full closure in the eastbound direction in mid March, because we have

26:52

some bridges that are going to get rehabbed and then we'll go in and that's

26:56

part of the reason why we have to close the lateral. We've got to.

27:00

We can't do the work we have to do with partwith construction in a

27:03

single lane. That's just physically structurally, it's not possible. So we do

27:07

have to do the closure, and we know that that's going to create a

27:11

burden for a lot of folks out there. Sure and going it makes sense,

27:14

but it's about eighty days each direction if I read correctly, and I

27:18

haven't forgotten because of ble head trauma, that I may have had right,

27:22

Yeah, no, right, it is eighty days in the eastbound direction.

27:25

We get that open, hopefully it's going to be open before Memorial Day. Then after Memorial Day, after the holiday, we'll come in and we'll flip

27:32

sides and do the westbound direction for eighty days. So and you know,

27:36

it does create a much safer work environment. That is kind of it's helpful

27:41

for our crews. It also exodies the project. So rather than having two

27:45

very long years of barrels on both sides of the lateral while they do the

27:48

bridges, get everything fixed, and then do the resurfacing, it will shorten

27:52

up the time. I'm not saying we still won't have barrels or some lane

27:56

restrictions after the eighty days in either direct, but it won't be quite as

28:02

significant for as long a period of time. Absolutely, And you mentioned the

28:06

workers, and I know that I do this off the year too. By

28:08

the way, Kathleen Fuller, by the way from O dot Cincinnati was sterling

28:12

on the Big one. And I've had friends who do the work, and

28:17

I have seen what happens when people don't pay attention and accidents happen just by

28:21

the nature of being human. I mean, I was a two percent pill baby, I know from accidents. And the fact that Mom told me is

28:26

also somewhat disturbing. But she's all, you're a blessing, You're a blessing,

28:30

but you weren't ups So I'm like, okay, so, but that

28:32

being said, the fact is people driving in excess of the speed that's posted

28:37

anyway in these work zones, let alone barriers that are not always the sturdiest,

28:42

and crazy men and women who are willing to put their lives on the

28:45

line to go out there and make our travel safer. That's a hazardous job.

28:49

So I mean it's important to pay attention to them because we want them

28:53

to be home and safe and secure and continue to do what they're doing right,

28:59

right, right exactly. And you know, I threw out in the in the press release sent out earlier today, I threw out a number.

29:03

I think it's something like more than seven hundred crashes have occurred on the Norwood

29:07

Ladder in the last for five years. I think seven hundred. I believe

29:14

that the stats from the Traffic Safety Office out of the Department of Public Safety.

29:18

If you go, I create put a think in the in the press

29:21

release we sent out tonight and it's in there, and you can look like seven hundred crashes in a five year period. Now if we have if we

29:27

were able to, and again that we wouldn't be able to. That just

29:30

got to put it out there. We have to close it to do the

29:33

work on these bridges because I'm going to there are barriers along there, and

29:37

when we take the barriers out out to replace, and it's the Ross Avenue

29:41

Tennessee Avenue, that structure right there, when we start taking the barriers out,

29:45

you're not going to have enough room to put traffic and the equipment out

29:48

there to do the work. So that's why we're closing it. But if

29:51

we were able to keep it open, imagine having a single lane restriction all

29:53

the way from Paddock out to US seventy one in eastbound direction, or when

29:57

we slipped and work on the westbound side, you've got, you know,

30:02

a tight construction zone. If we were to have a crash in that construction

30:04

zone, to think about the impacts that we'd have down the road on either

30:07

side, you would have traffic backups and delays. On seventy five seventy one,

30:14

you would have you know, people not being able to access the road from the on ramps, so there would be a fall out effect if there

30:19

were crashes within that work zone. Aside from just the fact we don't want

30:23

anybody to get hurt, you know, we want to keep everybody faith.

30:26

It's a little inconvenience now, but it's it's faster productivity. It's getting the

30:30

work done without that stress, without that hassle, and then sooner than later

30:34

it'll be open. Here's a question in mac just messaged me on Twitter at

30:37

Stirling Radio or X as they call it. Now, why not have people

30:41

go both directions on either side of the lateral because I have seen that in

30:45

some places when the work's being done. Oh okay, so doing yes,

30:49

I know you're talking about I don't. I'm not sure and it would take

30:55

me a little bit of time to look this one up, but I think it's because of how we would have you can't. I'm not sure how we

30:59

would get at the UH to do the crossovers because of all the bridge destruction

31:04

and how we would and that that would be something i'd have to have one

31:08

of the engineers take a look at. I would have to take a look

31:11

at the map to know, but it was probably to do those contraflow lanes,

31:15

the way you have to construct the crossover and the amount of space that

31:18

you need to actually put that in so that you can move the traffic over.

31:22

But I think that's what he's talking about doing cross uh right, Yeah,

31:26

And it sounds like what you're saying is logistically speaking, it's challenging because

31:29

you're doing the bridge work and everything else and in fast paced so in order

31:32

to get it done, it just has to be either way. I got you. Yeah, I think that makes me think. Yeah, our folks

31:37

are traffic management traffic manager or excuse me as a workstone manager, and the

31:45

designers for the project. Everybody took a look at this and I you know,

31:48

I know they sat down with the City of Norwood and they talked about this and what's going to be the best way to kind of get this project

31:52

done, get keep you know, keep people safe, keep obviously we're not

31:56

going to be having traffic moving in either direction cred but basically kind of keep

32:00

the project moving at a quicker and a better pace. So this was what

32:06

they came up with. And I think again, it's a it's a pain and it's a little bit of hurt that I think that in the end it'll

32:12

be better for everybody, and you know, it works better. So now

32:15

I know that's a huge project in itself, and that's why I guess it

32:19

was a good place to start with it. Talking to Kathleen Fuller from odat

32:22

Cincinnati Stirling on the big one, what of the projects do you have that

32:24

we should be expecting to get rolling since barrel season apparently starts in all of

32:29

about four to five weeks, which is bewildering to me. But I'm saying,

32:31

do it get it all going and get that warm weather. Yeah.

32:36

So of course we always have ongoing construction on seventy five, and I know nobody likes to hear about that, so I you know, I haven't even

32:43

taken a look hard to look at everything we're going to have going on in our area yet. I do have to get the construction guide put together and

32:50

I'm going to be working on that in the next couple of weeks. There will be some changes coming up with the Mill Creek work we're doing, you

32:57

know, seventy five to the new ramp to seventy four five south to seventy

33:00

four West. Now we're going to be making some changes here pretty soon,

33:04

I believe the end of February, so while of the pressure release going out

33:06

about that, and some traffic impacts there because we're going to be opening up

33:08

the ramp, the new ramp, and so that's going to you know,

33:15

being pretty significant for everybody, and you know, and I'm at a loss

33:20

for all the other projects we're going to be doing. That's all right,

33:22

but I know it'll be a lot. And of course, we do still have things going on. A big project out there at thirty two and the

33:30

East Skate area, the new Glennese Witansville Overpass of where we have closed the

33:35

intersection at thirty two right there near you know, all the shopping centers there

33:40

at East Gate. We've got that bridge under construction right now, so that

33:45

is a huge project that's still going on. A lot of work that's been

33:49

happening out there, but having that bridge under construction now is some major step

33:53

forward to getting everything completed out there. So that's good. I have two

33:57

questions, and one of those is it from Paula also on Twitter at Stirling

34:00

Radius where she reached out to me she and I echo this too. I

34:06

used to be scared of and bewildered by roundabouts. And when I left Cincinnati

34:09

moved to Columbus all these years ago, and I was there for about a

34:12

decade, then Vegas and back here again, I grew to embrace and love

34:16

the roundabouts. I know that there's some have been brought in and come to

34:21

fruition in this part of the state and here in the Tri State. Well,

34:23

there'll be more of those. Are those being accepted as time goes on,

34:28

people doing better with those from what you understand? Or is there still

34:30

fear, trepidation and hate. There's a little bit of both, you know.

34:35

I'm finding when I talk to people where we have built that we've got

34:37

out and we've built them, and then they do they get used to it

34:40

and they're like, well, I guess that wasn't so bad. That that

34:43

really is easier and it's better. But the fear of the unknown, and

34:47

we get that still a lot. We're going to see more of them because

34:52

they are a safe, effective way to move traffic in you know, busy

34:57

intersections, Disney locations where you know maybe a traffic signal isn't going to be

35:00

the best option, but you have maybe you know the four way stop or

35:05

the two way stuff. That isn't effective either, and you need to keep people moving and keep people safe. So roundabouts are very very good. I

35:12

like them a lot. I've always enjoyed them, and so you know,

35:17

I enjoy driving them. I enjoy riding in them. So and I know

35:21

that's not fully that I do. No, that's all right. You can just run around in circles and if you miss your turn, you just keep

35:25

on going. That's the thing. And when people are the things that was

35:29

when people are tentative, it's like when they get on the interstate in the first place. If you're not comfortable, if you're not confident, then stay

35:35

on a surface street and get out of the way because you're a hazard. And I know that sounds like I'm uncaring, but I'm telling you it's tough

35:40

love. I do care. I am your radio friend, Kathleen Fuller.

35:45

They they are so much easier and they are safer because you know, if

35:50

you aren't around about and have a crash, people are traveling a much slower speed, so the impact is going to be much much it's going to not

35:58

be quite as severe and quite as har as it's going to be it's going

36:00

to be less uh damaging, it's going to be less painful, I guess

36:05

you could say. And that sounds kind of silly maybe to put it that

36:07

way, but you know, I think get in the roundabout if you're not sure, you just keep staying in the circle until you find your access point

36:13

to get out of that. Get out of the circle, and while you're

36:15

driving through, you just you know, point up, look at the look up above and say, look, kids, Parliament big then and you just

36:21

keep going and keep going until you get out. But they are safer,

36:25

they really are, and I think people get you know, they do get

36:30

used to them a few times, and we have education that we can do with folks in communities where we're putting up around about where they don't have them

36:36

in their area. You know, I know some of the county engineers uh

36:40

building them out and they're you know, in the county roadway system, so

36:44

people are kind of getting used to them there. So when they see them pop up on the state highways while they're they're already accustomed to driving it.

36:49

But in our areas where we don't see a lot of roundabouts, we certainly

36:52

can offer education to folks and uh, you know, kind of put them

36:55

through a model of how a simulation of how to drive them one. And

36:59

they really are they really are safer, And I can't say enough good things

37:04

about them. I like roundabout. I enjoy them too, all right,

37:07

Kathleen Fuller, this is a common question. I know what's on the O

37:09

dot website. If in fact you've sustained damage from potholes to your wheels or

37:15

your rims, your tires, whatever, there is a way to perhaps find

37:19

your way to help get whole again or impart from state funds. If not,

37:22

you're insurer, can you give details on that before we let you bounce?

37:27

Sure? So, if you have damaged, it's going to go defiled

37:30

through the Ohio Court of claim Get information about that. Of course, you

37:34

can go straight to the Ohio Court of Claims website, but you can also

37:37

get to file your initial report get information about the process through our website,

37:44

which is Transportation dot Ohio dot gov Forward Slash Damage Report. So just remember

37:51

Transportation dot Ohio dot gov. And if you don't remember the forward slash Damage

37:55

Report after that, you can certainly just hit it in the search star Poptholds

38:00

or our website take you through the process to get you to the Ohio Court

38:06

of Planes. That'll help you too. Very good. All right, how is mom? Before we let you bounce. The last time we talked,

38:12

I know that she had a broken ankle. How is mom? Mom is

38:15

doing well. Her ankle seems to be healed. She is walking. We just purchased a new car since thegether one got totaled, and I guess I

38:22

should give a shout out to our dealer friends down in Cincinnati who took care

38:25

of us, and the young man Princeton, who was awesome. He helped

38:30

us out and put her in her new car. She's very happy. Unfortunately,

38:35

my sister was in a car accident. I'm not laughing. It was

38:39

just the circumstances of things. And now she's the one hobbling around in a

38:44

walking boot with a very sore ankle. Well, you can always recycle,

38:46

right, they're a universal from left foot to right foot, so Mom can

38:51

give it to her and then you maybe save some bucks. Well, you

38:53

know what, I'm not sure what I think. We're going to put them

38:57

in the back rates together because they're both so they're both they're recovering everybody seems

39:02

to be doing fine. But I'm happy my mom eighty four years strong and

39:07

young, and she is. She's able to get out and about again.

39:10

Thank you, happy to well. I'm glad to hear it. Tell her

39:13

I said hello. I wish her the best in your family. Kathleen Fuller from O dot thanks for the information on the lateral into the potholes and everything

39:20

else you're working on. We'll talk to you again sooner or later. Again. It's Transportation dot Ohio dot gov. I also have a link on the

39:25

website and on Twitter at Sterling Radio. Take care, Kathleen, have a

39:30

fantastic night. Thank you. You do the same. Appreciate the office to

39:34

appreciate the chance to come on the radio with you. Thanks so much.

39:36

Absolutely appreciate you more Sterling coming back after your ten o'clock report. Matt Reese

39:39

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Sunday with Donnade. If you're keeping score at home, that's fine. Stone

40:32

Shields taking care of business. On the other side, they're of a producing

40:37

I believe Matt Reese tags out ten thirty. I'm not sure who's in next.

40:39

We'll find out who's delivering the news in about twenty one minutes and ten

40:43

seconds. A lot of ground to cover. First off, that if you

40:47

hadn't heard this, this is a big news. Former Bengals head coach Marvin

40:52

Lewis it's been reported a number of sites out there, including those covering sports

40:58

in Vegas, he will come in and be announced as the assistant head coach

41:04

of those Las Vegas Raiders. Spent sixteen years with the Bengals and on thirty

41:09

one wins one hundred and twenty two losses, it's a winning record. Has

41:15

left here in twenty eighteen after that season, and of course we've seen the

41:20

Bengals go to another level since his departure. So best of luck to him

41:23

in the desert in Las Vegas and we'll see who knows. Bengals spend some

41:28

time I think playing the Raiders here in a couple of years, so we'll

41:30

get a chance to see him again one way or the other, I don't

41:35

know. The last couple of days, there's been a bunch of attention and

41:38

conversation on something that is really somewhat bewildering to me when it comes to well

41:45

downtown issues of violence and young kids teenagers for the most part, for whatever

41:52

reason, targeting people and beating them down on the streets and then for whatever

41:57

reason, instead of them being locked up in held until the adjudication is handled

42:01

because they're a danger, clearly It's not like they broke a window while playing

42:06

ball in the backyard and then like you know, somebody called the police.

42:09

It's where they beat individuals down right. Just about a week ago, you

42:15

had eight people that jumped this guy and attacked him, hit him up from

42:20

behind, and then carried on from there. And the list goes on, and there were some questions about apparently the way the judge handled that and so

42:27

forth. I don't know what is so hard about the idea that if you

42:30

Even when I was a kid watching reruns of a TV show called Bretta,

42:35

which ironically had the guy who starred as Bretta later on finding himself in issues

42:45

with well, crime and murder and everything else for that matter too, and

42:52

he grew up, of course, also being on a little Our Gang show

42:54

which just Robert Blake. But the line in the show was, you don't

42:58

do the crime if you can't do the time. Anyone, if you are

43:01

old enough to walk and realize that when you start punching someone and attacking someone

43:07

and kicking them and not just doing that in defense, but attacking them offensively

43:13

for no reason and in a group setting, and then run off, you

43:15

have to know the serious nature of what you're doing, that any of those

43:20

blows to back the back of someone's head or otherwise can cause traumatic brain injury,

43:24

could kill them. In fact, these things have happened on more than

43:29

one occasion, and apparently there is a cond I guess a common thought among

43:35

some people's minds that they can get away with doing anything, and if that

43:38

is the way a judge is going to be able to look at all,

43:42

well, you know, we need to look at this. And some of

43:45

the talk had been that they'll have a meeting and then they can talk about

43:49

the injury and what kind of damage that they have done, and maybe we

43:52

can, you know, don't have to lock them up and all this other stuff. If you don't learn from that type of behavior that there is a

44:00

pain and suffering and an endangerment issue that could get you locked up and could

44:05

kill someone that you're involved in that type of assault with, and you don't

44:07

get that in your head early. I don't believe that these young people are

44:10

going to ever get it, and they are going to end up becoming bigger

44:14

and badder thugs and troublemakers and problems on the streets of Cincinnati or wherever else

44:20

they go and I had this conversation with somebody in the neighborhood where I live

44:25

and walk the dog the other day about this, and it's just wild to

44:32

me. They're like, well, you know, they're young and they don't

44:35

know better, and this that that's exactly why they should be dealing with the

44:38

full brunt of the justice system and dealing with this and the sad story in

44:45

the news that just hit it tonight and Channel five had this on their website

44:50

headline. Video shows four year old wondering around wondering Westwood streets alone at night.

44:55

The mom was a four year old. They got video from a security

45:01

camera showing this little child on the sidewalk near a Budno and Queen City Avenue

45:09

after ten o'clock. She runs across Queen City Avenue that's a five lane street,

45:15

a road avenue, call it whatever you want. With the car coming

45:21

car ends up stopping and pulled into a gas station. The kid apparently gets

45:23

into the vehicle as it's been described in the story and then takes her off

45:28

to the police station where they can hopefully find like mom, in which they

45:30

did, and apparently the mom, twenty one years of age, ends up

45:36

going to court. She pleads not guilty to child in endangering, which you

45:39

know that's the court process. In the allegation is that she left the house

45:46

so she could go hang out with friend the kid, the four year old,

45:52

a quarter mile from where she lives. The defense council says they believe

45:58

the charges are aggurate, you know, exaggerated. It's a toddler effectively running

46:05

the streets to Cincinnati after dark alone, not in the backyard, not in

46:08

the front yard. I think most of us, as children, or any

46:12

of one who has kids, is well aware that kids will sometimes try to

46:16

escape. The story my mother brings up all too regularly when I was coming

46:22

up. You bring, you know, a girl home, and you're gonna go out to a dance or whatever. You introduce her to Mom, she's

46:25

want to take pictures. You know, you're putting pining flowers on the girl,

46:29

whatever else. It's always a big thing. Mom's go to story of,

46:32

aside from naked in the bathtub crap, is the story of when she

46:37

was asleep, I figured out how to get out of of the house and

46:40

the patio doors. I escaped. I ran through a big field and nearly

46:45

onto Dixie when I was a little sterling chasing little toads and stuff, and

46:50

it was all she could do to catch me because I thought it was a game apparently, and that happens a lot. But she didn't leave the house,

46:59

she didn't leave me alone, she didn't go to hang out with friends

47:01

and figure, Wow, the kid will be okay on his own. Parenting

47:07

like that leads to the kids on the street doing what was in the news

47:09

over the last week talking about this situation where they were attacking and beating people

47:15

down. That's not the baby's fault, that's mom's fault, that's dad's fault.

47:20

It's ridiculous, it's inconceivable. I can't even process it. And if

47:24

we don't punish people for this type of thing when they do it to somebody

47:31

on the street attacking them in a crowd, to go back to where I

47:35

started this, then when after they've gotten away with it with a slap on

47:39

the wrist or something else later and they're a bigger, badder problem where they

47:45

leave someone dead and victimize them. Help me understand how any of that makes

47:50

any sense. And then to tie this in to have some fun is when

47:52

did your kids escape? Did you escape to you hear those type of stories

47:57

because kids do that, but it's not the same as going out and victimizing

48:00

someone as a little one, right, and this is just ridiculous, And

48:07

they go, Okay, well it's bus passes. Oh, it's because the

48:09

kids, you know, they don't have an after school program. You know

48:13

what. I was a latchkey kid coming up. Mom worked, I was

48:16

home, I had to walk to school. I'd walk home off years.

48:21

I was bussed every other year. It's true. I took the bus.

48:23

I was downtown at the library, going to the doctor's office. I was

48:28

having adventures, but I wasn't doing criminal behavior. I wasn't targeting people and

48:31

attacking them. I wasn't hanging out with other kids in groups wreaking havoc and

48:37

being a threat and a danger and a predator on our society. If you

48:43

don't teach these kids early that this is not acceptable, that there is a

48:47

penalty to pay, a price to pay that is significant, and their parents

48:52

also, then they will never learn. And the headline and the cautionary tale

48:57

later is they had a chance to do something early, they didn't, and

49:00

now they're going to Lucasfiller somewhere else because they left somebody in a body bag,

49:05

and they could have very well done it if that guy hadn't had hit

49:08

his head in the wrong way or otherwise with some type of major brain injury.

49:12

Five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred the big one. You

49:15

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break will come back, give you a chance to sound off. There's lots of stuff to get to. I'm just it's hard to make sense of things

49:34

when people find a way to be apologetic and find excuses for a group of

49:40

kids going out and attacking individuals minding their own business. This wasn't an engagement

49:45

of bad people doing bad things and a fight that got out of control.

49:50

This is kids, young people targeted, targeting individuals on the streets of downtown

49:54

Cincinnati, and this is nothing new. They film it, they laugh about

50:00

it, they joke about it, they post it on social media. It

50:02

gets hits in views and attention and adulation, and they enjoy it. And

50:08

that is unacceptable and something seriously needs to be done. It's a Thursday night

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podcast. I saw the sun for the first time Stone Shields. I know

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it's shocking. I saw the sun for the first time in the tri state of the Miami Valley. I think it was today, it might have been

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yesterday. I don't know. I thought I might have had some type of

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hallucination or something. It was unbelievable. I know that it's January or February

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now, and you know this is the gray time. Unless you're flying out

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a CVG or Louisville or Dating or somewhere else above the clouds. It's always

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sunny unless it's after dark. But come on, it's unbelievable. Forty seven

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tomorrow, forty nine on Saturday, and Sunday will break fifty. They are

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expecting a high of fifty two with a whole lot of sunshine. That big

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ball of fire in the sky, it's a beautiful thing. And right now,

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let me refresh the temperature because I don't know how to deal with this.

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It's it's forty nine right now. You're severe Weather station seven hundred WLW.

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We're talking a little bit about the beating so to bad ones, groups

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of young kids terrorizing basically downtown Cincinnati. Be in a situation where you know,

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you grew up and attack somebody, come up from behind and jump them

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or whatever else. Somebody could end up dead. You know, here's the

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other thing. You get somebody who is concealed Carrie, or maybe somebody's just

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caring, not allowed to have concealed, and you jump the wrong person,

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You're liable to get a hole in your body that will leave you. And

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then they go, oh, well, they shouldn't have been out there with the gun. It's the guns. No, it's somebody defending themselves. I

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mean, that could go really ugly, really fast, worse than it already

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has. They're beefing up policing downtown Cincinnati. Let me just say this.

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If they don't nip this in the bud quick, it's gonna get out of

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control. FC Cincinnati gets back at it in just a couple weeks time.

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The TIQ. You well, the Reds back from the desert, which they'll

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be reporting to in a couple weeks. Some already there getting workouts. They'll

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be back for opening day the end of March. That's what's seven eight weeks out. And then you get warm weather and tons of outside shows at the

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Brady and everything else that's going on that's good and OTR and everything else in

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Cincinnati in general. You can't allow this to happen. And the parents need

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to be involved, police have to be involved, and these individuals need to take responsibility themselves for these actions. You can't just be apologetic for them all.

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They're victims. No, they know what hurts. If somebody smacked them

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in the back of their damn head kick them when they were down, you

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know that they understand the pain and the suffering. They just don't have any

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care, concern or just basically indifference to other life. And they got to

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figure a way to find a value for it sooner than later, and hopefully

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not the hard way. It's get to joby. In college Hill was sterling

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on the big one than Nick and Dick and others. Room for you on the big one. Hey, Joby, Hey Surnain't how you doing? I'm

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well, sir, what's up? Oh man? I love your topic,

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I really do, because I'm visually impaired. Fella and I used to work

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down at six third when they were downtown. This was like old year nineteen

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ninety nine, two thousand before we moved over to Madisonville, and you know,

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I had to try to catch the bus and everything down there, and

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you know, it was really just a question of being at the right place

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at the wrong time. So you have something happened to you as well.

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Well, yeah, one time there was a fellow I was trying to help

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out give some bus money too, and he decided to decide to take advantage

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of it. But it didn't go too far. See that's awful. You

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tried to do something nice, and that's the thing. And you want to be caring, you want to be considerate in a situation. If you're challenged

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with sightlessness or what have you, then I mean you're extremely vulnerable in that

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situation in a target that's an awkward, uncomfortable in a situation that you no

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one should have to deal with, let alone somebody who's that like you in

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a vulnerable scenario. Does that keep you from doing a lot of things now?

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Well, just to say the other thing is that then of course the

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tragedy actcess started happened a few years later and correct. So it just goes

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to show what kind of social situation can happen in a situation like that.

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Also, I'm up in College Hill and on Belmont about five years ago or

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so, there was a fella walking and he was attacked. Oh no,

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remember that story or not, but it goes back. But that is why,

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you know, generally try to walk real close to the house and everything.

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Now it makes sense. I mean you got to go where you're comfortable

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and then you feel safe and if you're vulnerable in that circumstance, that makes

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sense. It's sad that it has to be that way, but it does.

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Joby, I appreciate you listening and sharing your story. Is always men.

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Good to talk to you, Nick, short on time. It'll give you a chance to be heard. What's up you're sterling on the big one?

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Nick? Is it? Yeah? I'm sorry, that's all right. What's up, Sterling. I've been listening to a few for years. I'm

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the same age as you. You grew up in Hubert Heights and I grew

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up in Inglewood and went to North Mott. Well, actually I think you're

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thinking of Fingers who grew up in Hubert, But I went to Northmont for

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about eight minutes, one of my five high schools. But yeah, okay, okay, but still you're you're a date night pretty much, right,

55:42

I mean for a good part. Yeah, all right, Well, the

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point I wanted to make, and I know you do. You do everything

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you can to h you're the alternatives, all the politics all day long,

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which I still you know, I listened to all of it, but I

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don't think i've ever heard your voice pitch up like that and get that forceful

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about thing and it's not political, and I'm glad you're doing it. This

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is my point. The stuff that you're talking about is it's it's it's ridiculous,

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what's what's happening here lately? And it's ridiculous that that people are allowed

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to get away with this, and if it keeps on happening, then we

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don't have a city anymore, whether it's Dayton or Cincinnati or you know,

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God forbid any of those West coast cities. You know what's going on, you know, in the streets of Portland and San Francisco and stuff, and

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you're right to be indignant about it. You're correct to be indignant about it.

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And lots of people like us have been for the last few years,

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but nothing seems to be changing. And it's it's mainly because of the judges

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and the people that you just that you mentioned that are just letting me you

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know, processing them through and spitting them right back out. And if that

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continues, we don't have a country anymore. And I'm glad to hear you.

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I'm glad to hear you pitch your voice up and show some passion about

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it, because it's it's important. Well, it's quality alive, it's security.

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Nick. I appreciate the calling, the kind words, my man, thank you, But I mean, it's just basic stuff and all politics starts

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at home, and it's the bottom line. The only thing I stay away

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from is the ridiculousness and the misinformation and disinformation. And today, sadly,

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you can't have a reasonable rational conversation about a lot of things without people losing

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their mind. Maybe on the edge of that anyway, in my best of

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times, straight away, you're a ten thirty news more sterling coming back on

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the Nation station seven hundred ww Sorry, I just enjoyed this Alabama Shakes for

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a minute. It's good driving music, good crew, just trying to make

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sense that things on a Thursday night, dan erroll back up my normal time

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tomorrow Sunday afternoon with don Ade again following ken Brew And this is some news

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that's kind of shocking because you picture like Hoody and the Blowfishes front man Darius

57:55

Rutgers about as wholesome and innocent of a guy as you can. You're going

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to be on the road here with Hoody and others at Riverbend coming up this

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summer. But he found himself getting some news and attention here in and around

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Nashville. He was busted in Williamson County, which is outside of Nashville.

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Apparently the allegation is drug related offenses. From the Sheriff's office, they call

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it simple possession casual exchange whatever that means. I don't know if that means

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he was buying or selling or just sharing. I don't know what it was

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necessarily, but I'm not talking about it because it's just something and had a

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couple of people send it to me and violation of registration law. He was

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granted his release after he posted a ten thy five hundred dollars bond. They

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say he's actively collaborating with law enforcement and connection to a misdemeanor charges. That

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from his spokesperson. And still no talk about what drug that was, So

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who knows. I guess you could play what drug, but that's a whole

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other game show and we'll do it at some other point. It's not funny,

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but it's kind of funny, you know what I mean. It was like, guess what drugs so and so could be on or taken? But

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that's a whole other thing. And something else that's strange. And of all

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the weird stuff I've heard about planes falling out of skies, you've heard them

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landing. Just the other day, I think it was last week, one

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landed on an interstate someplace. It was a small single engine plane or whatever

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else. Pinellas County, Florida. This from a WFLA outside of Clearwater.

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There was a mobile home park earlier tonight that had an aircraft, a small

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plane that apparently had engine problems, couldn't find a safe place to land,

59:31

and it crashed into several mobile homes about seven o'clock tonight in Bayside Waters Mobile

59:38

Home Park and Clearwater. The area apparently was known as Japanese Gardens before.

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I just thought i'd mentioned that it was a beach craft b Nanza V thirty

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five. According to the FAA, I said engine failure before the crash and

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went down there four arms heavily involved. That's one of those things of all

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this stuff. I mean, I've had tree limbs at the house. I

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had a tornado that I had to deal with a number of years ago, which was awesome. I had a drunk guy drive into the front of the

1:00:04

house once my mom at her place years ago. There was an elderly man

1:00:07

who had a heart attack drove into the front of the house in the awning

1:00:12

and then he passed away subsequently. But a plane into the house never never

1:00:17

have dealt with. And my guess is, if you're like a container home

1:00:22

or a trailer mobile home scenario, even a small plane can do some hefty

1:00:27

damage to your residential situation. But no talk of loss of life or anything

1:00:31

else at this point just to injuries undisclosed, but mineor apparently relatively speaking,

1:00:37

secondary to the crash, like maybe trying to like get the hell out of

1:00:40

the house, or trying to figure out what's going on or something along those

1:00:44

lines. But that's one of, hey, you wouldn't believe what happened to me today kind of scenarios. I suppose five seven, four, nine,

1:00:52

eight hundred the Big One talk back. Click on that microphone on the iHeartRadio

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app. Maybe you're streaming there. Maybe if you're listening to the podcast,

1:00:59

you can still leave a message. But this has already happened if it's the podcast. But it's happening right now on this Thursday night. First to February,

1:01:06

where we're hovering around fifty degrees in the tri State, and I like

1:01:08

it. And I know that the real cold's not gone. I'm sure we'll

1:01:14

get some more frozen like weather and tundra type stuff sooner than later. But

1:01:19

I'm digging the warm while we have it. Generally speaking, now, I

1:01:22

think we can have fun with something when it comes to a topic and some

1:01:27

calls. Buddy of mine and I were talking over beers and I sort of

1:01:34

teased this earlier about all the amazing inventions that have come out of our area

1:01:40

and developments that have been improved upon here, or whether it's flight in aircraft,

1:01:45

engines, you know, to broadcasting and technology. I mean, you

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name it, this area, it is thick with it. And when I mentioned it earlier, I mean it was it Carrie or Kelly. I'm trying

1:01:58

to see here, Carrie or Kelly until I get back to it, I

1:02:00

know message and said, how come when you mentioned inventions you didn't mention the

1:02:04

cheese it. I apologize, Yes, apparently the chee It not the cheese

1:02:07

nip that was the knockoff store brand, but the cheese it was apparently invented

1:02:13

in Dayton. Just there you go, so, Kelly or whatever. I

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just thought i'd mentioned that. But of all the technology, of all the

1:02:22

wonderment of the world, whether it's light, whether it's radio, whether it's

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streaming, whatever it is, there are a lot of amazing things and science,

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technology, medicine, There is no question a lot of fantastic stuff has

1:02:37

taken place. What I want to know though, is this, and this

1:02:39

is a weird twist on this, what is the one thing that you wish

1:02:45

had never been invented, that maybe we would be better off. And on

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one hand, because there are certainly drawbacks to it, and it's gotten a

1:02:57

lot of attention lately and run of lawmakers, Zuckerberg and so many others in

1:03:04

the world of social media and technology stuff where they're being grilled and talking about

1:03:08

the vulnerability and their failure to police and allow children to be exposed to and

1:03:15

damaged by and taking advantage of and others in a lot of ways in social

1:03:20

media has gotten a lot of attention. So I'd say the one thing as

1:03:23

good as it's done in bringing people together and instantly being able to communicate and

1:03:30

a way to have a maybe free speech in some cases out there for good

1:03:35

and bad. But I think overall, in some fashion, I think social

1:03:39

media has been more of a detriment to us than anything else. I would

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my one thing, and it's a tough one, but that's the putt that

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I've decided to take, and you can disagree and come up with your own.

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I would say that social media is maybe one thing that we could have

1:03:59

gotten or had never been invented, that maybe we'd be okay or better off

1:04:03

without. When you hear about so many people talking about that, they get

1:04:08

addicted to it, they go down the rabbit hole, you know, that

1:04:11

fear of missing out to you know, thinking that they don't fit, that

1:04:15

there nobody, that they haven't achieved anything, blah blah blah, all this

1:04:19

stuff that sort of goes along with it. I think for a lot of

1:04:23

people if there had been no social media out there, invented or otherwise,

1:04:29

that just maybe we'd be better off if there was no social media. So

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what do you think is something that we would be better off or that you

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personally wish had been never invented? Five seven four nine, seven, eight

1:04:45

hundred the Big One. It's a number one, by the way, and

1:04:47

also talk back the iHeartRadio app. Click on that microphone. It's getting the

1:04:51

Franklin and Wayne with Sterling on the Big One. Wayne, I appreciate you

1:04:55

holding what's going on with you? Got uh something that it's a good thing

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and a chused worldwide. Charles Kettering invented the car starter from Kettering, Ohio.

1:05:08

Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff in our region just in general that

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we've certainly invented. But the you know, the antithesis of that because obviously

1:05:15

the car starter is good. There's no more cranking that's going on. It's not like we're running out there get it going started. I'm not doing it

1:05:21

like I'm pulling my lawnmower. And even those are key start now in a

1:05:24

lot of cases, or push start. What do you think would be a

1:05:28

good thing that to have never been invented? One thing that you wish had never been invented? Uh, Lawyers, lawyers. So of any group of

1:05:39

people I've ever encountered, some of them probably would agree with you on that

1:05:43

way. And I appreciate the call that. I'm glad he said that,

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not me. I don't need that heat, he says, lawyers. I say, social media. What is this something that you wish had never been

1:05:51

invented? There are a lot of great things from TV, moving pictures,

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audios, social media. You can disagree with me, that's all right.

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You name it five three, seven, four, nine, eight hundred,

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the big one. You can talk back the iHeartRadio app. Oh this is

1:06:08

nice. I don't know which elliot this is. I get a couple of

1:06:11

Elliotts who message me regularly at Stirling Radio on x uh and uh, this

1:06:18

is kind of weird, uh, he says, nuclear bombs. Okay,

1:06:27

Well, certainly there is the heavy weight of the nuclear weapon on our shoulders,

1:06:32

on our back. But and I understand it, and it is death

1:06:36

incarnate, and it is like nothing that we have seen when it comes to

1:06:42

the damage that it can be done. But when you look at the horrific

1:06:45

nature and the outcome subsequently in Hiroshima and Nagasaki where we used them basically to

1:06:50

end, you know, that part of the World War that we were a

1:06:55

party to. At that point, I would say in some ways, the

1:06:59

threat of nuclear armageddon, the global thermal nuclear war has probably maybe prevented more

1:07:08

carnage on a wider scale from occurring because of seeing what could be done with

1:07:13

the flip of a switch or a punch of a button when it comes to

1:07:16

just total annihilation of a population and a locale, and of course if it

1:07:20

gets to be us in them in a day, situation could be even way

1:07:25

beyond what we can possibly imagine. But I think we can have fun with

1:07:29

this. What do you wish had never been invented? When there's so many

1:07:31

things that have been invented five point three seven four nine, eight hundred,

1:07:35

The Big one your chance to get interactive. Let's get to Steve on seven

1:07:39

hundred WLW a sterling before the break. Steve, what do you have?

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What shouldn't have been invented? He I hear you find Steve, I did

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the damn cell phone? The cell phone? Now? What is it about

1:07:53

the cell phone? Do you think we would be better off without it?

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Why? Everything you can do, you're a cell phone. I can't believe

1:08:02

how many people stare into their cell phones, even across from their spouse at

1:08:10

a restaurant. That's true, but it's ridiculous, But so an individual's inability

1:08:16

to put the phone down. It is an addictive thing. I think to

1:08:19

a great extensive Yeah, give ball bell a dome or a nickel and go

1:08:25

through the phone booth. I like you do the old school bag. You

1:08:30

give these kids a chord on their phones and they'll stop running away. That

1:08:39

just might be the case. It's true when I was a kid and they

1:08:42

said go to your room, it was a punishment. Now it's better than

1:08:45

my first apartment in most kids' bedrooms at this point, there is no many

1:08:49

hours I spend on the phone in my little kitchen in my parents' house,

1:08:56

talk at the girls. Oh of course, yeah, and you'd wait for

1:08:59

that phone room, you know. And now, of course the whole world's in your pocket, and it's all you know. You're a becon call whenever

1:09:04

you want it. There's good and bad to that. I get you.

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I think that's pretty strong, Steve. I appreciate the call. Five one,

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three, seven four, nine, seven thousand, eight hundred, the

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Big One, talk Back, the iHeartRadio app. We know that this is

1:09:15

an invention heavy world changing part of the world, the tri State, the

1:09:20

Miami Valley, our area in general, has brought so much to light that

1:09:28

has helped develop and improve the quality of life, the safety, the security

1:09:31

from medicine and issues with polio. I mean, pick a thing, whether

1:09:36

it's the University of Cincinnati, Wright State, UD, you name it,

1:09:42

and in so many others before that. In flight, those guys from Dayton

1:09:45

right are in the bicycle store, the Wright Brothers. How they've changed the

1:09:47

world. But of all the advancements, all the inventions, what do you

1:09:54

think we would have been better off that you wish had never been invented?

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Eight hundred, The Big One, seven four, nine, seven thousand,

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It's a Thursday night, Sterling seven hundred ww. Meanwhile, in an enchanted

1:10:04

castle, a beautiful woman named Beauty is being kept by a beast. It's

1:10:10

not that bad. We have plenty of fun. You mean the singing candles

1:10:13

and teapots. Wake up, stupid, that's a cartoon. Oh, I'm

1:10:16

sorry. We listen to Eddie and Rocky. They're funny. You should see

1:10:21

the beast's nostrils flare when he laughs. But aren't you afraid? No?

1:10:26

I like it here. I've got Eddie and Rocky and this girl loves a

1:10:30

guy with a hairy chest. Eddy and Rocky. Give your day a fairy

1:10:34

tale ending Eddie and Rocky Tomorrow afternoon at three on seven hundred w ow Oney,

1:10:44

seven colors, kids, kas cut, curling, hanging out, seven

1:10:48

hundred WLW. Glad you're long. Oh, by the way, this is

1:10:51

Smith news. It's been reported. You've heard her talk about this the last

1:10:57

couple of days. I guess a day or two ago, there was an

1:11:00

attack at a gas station. I think it was in Queensgate where there was

1:11:03

a woman who was in her car and she apparently was stabbed. Apparently the

1:11:09

perpetrator like skipped over there. It was like skipped to skip to my lou

1:11:12

and there was like kick like shankaner or something like that, like some type

1:11:15

of weird prison assault or some dumb ass thing like that, which is just

1:11:18

insane. Apparently they have a suspect now that Cincinnati Police to have in custody.

1:11:25

There'll be details on that, of course when it comes to uh charges

1:11:28

and all the other stuff going into it. But apparently he was a guy

1:11:30

in his thirties and I don't know at what point. I mean, there's

1:11:34

something wrong with somebody's head in that. And here's the thing they're gonna go,

1:11:38

Oh, he's not right in his mind. He's mentally unstable, he's

1:11:42

unfit. Sure there should still be a punishment for that, not just hey,

1:11:45

let's get him some mental help. I mean seriously, because that's the

1:11:48

other thing, and I'm all about getting people. We have a mental health

1:11:51

crisis in this country, there is no question, and we have come a

1:11:55

long way with identifying it and getting care to people. And the new suicide

1:12:00

hotline number, which has been in the news as of late, has helped

1:12:03

tons and tons of people, millions who have been maybe on the cusp of

1:12:09

looking to hurt themselves or some other type of crisis that they've been dealing with,

1:12:13

and so much so that the people who work the suicide line are having

1:12:16

issues of their own, because that's a very taxing, emotionally overwhelming kind of

1:12:21

job. You need special training and you need time to decompress and to process,

1:12:26

and I can't imagine being in that circumstance quite frankly, And I want

1:12:31

people to get the help they should have. But there should not be some

1:12:34

type of thing of like, oh, this person's crazy. But there shouldn't

1:12:38

be any punishment if you're a danger. If you're a threat and you're stabbing

1:12:42

somebody just for the sake of stabbing them on the streets in their car,

1:12:45

I don't care where, at a gas station or otherwise. You need to

1:12:49

pay the price as well as gets some help. So I do not want

1:12:54

to hear that crap anymore. I am sick of it. It's not an

1:12:58

either or scenario punishment and care, right, what about caring for the people

1:13:02

that are victims? Seriously, it's a grown man doing that. Five one,

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three, seven four nine, seven thousand, eight hundred, the big

1:13:10

one. I'm sorry, I digress. I know we were having some fun

1:13:13

talking about inventions that we wish had never been done? You know, when

1:13:15

there's so many good ones, but some that are annoying, some that are

1:13:18

crazy and insane, or just overwhelming and annoying or whatever else. Uh,

1:13:24

wanting to know what you wish had never been invented? Five one, three,

1:13:27

seven, four, nine, seven thousand, eight hundred the Big One

1:13:30

to Sim's township, and Bill was Sterling on the big one. What's going on? We'll get Earl in before the news too. What's up? Bill?

1:13:35

Hey? How you doing? Sterling? Glad to talk to you?

1:13:38

Back at you. What I've what I've got is that I receive at least

1:13:44

five spam calls a day to your home phone or cell phone, to my

1:13:48

cell phone. Yeah. Yeah, that's a nightmare. Now did you are

1:13:51

you on the do not call list? And does it help? Because I

1:13:54

am, and it doesn't seem to make any difference at all. I'm on

1:13:58

the do not call list and it doesn't help. But what I did was

1:14:01

I dug out my military papers and I was discharged from the United States Air

1:14:06

Force as a sergeant. So when I get a spam call, I say,

1:14:11

hello, this is sergeant. How how may I help you? Ah?

1:14:14

What's their response, do they hang up or they go into their scale

1:14:17

or what it's an intint hang up. So that's a way to deal with

1:14:21

robo calls. So is like the auto caller or robocall scenario like political season.

1:14:26

It's a nightmare no matter what type of phone, and you can't stop

1:14:29

that do not call list is not affected by political calls, So that's effected.

1:14:33

That's certainly true. Do you often answer your phone? See my thing

1:14:38

is I just don't answer it and if they don't leave a message, it's

1:14:40

not important as far as I'm concerned. Well, yes, but it's still

1:14:45

the call still disturbs your process of what life is going on. That's true.

1:14:49

So you wish that the auto dialer or the robo call would have never

1:14:53

been invented. Yep, I wish that would have been never invented. Or

1:14:59

John mail, Yeah, that would be good with the Post office of be in bad shape. But there was no junk mail though, but it might

1:15:04

speed some mail up these days. People. I appreciate the call bill,

1:15:06

thank you, my man. Appreciate you listening earl. What's going on?

1:15:10

You were sterling on the big one, A sterling? Hey, you know

1:15:14

what all this stuff about Oh everything is mental mental mental health, you know

1:15:18

what bull these people. A lot of these people know the system's broken.

1:15:23

They can get away with it because they're going to be released. Take a

1:15:27

look on channel Channel nine a couple of days ago when these two incidents happened

1:15:31

with the beings downtown on these people. They didn't even name the judge.

1:15:35

They didn't even name the judge that released these people. That are the parents

1:15:40

to me, I'd like to know who the hell the judges are because when

1:15:43

they come up for reelection, I want to get rid of them. Yeah,

1:15:45

and I would say they're not go ahead, they're not fulfilling their legal

1:15:51

their legal duties, and the system is so broke. Everybody blames mental health.

1:15:58

Well you take a look at that guy that one of and stab that

1:16:00

woman. That's far beyond mental health. He looked like he was just unbelievable,

1:16:06

and I know they're gonna get away with it. Nothing's gonna happen to

1:16:09

him. Well, well they called him, so let's hope that the you

1:16:14

know, the process works, they lock him up and look, he should

1:16:17

be punished and go away for a long time. If that's not attempted murder.

1:16:19

I don't know what the hell is first and secondly, if he needs

1:16:24

help to get his mind right, great, get your mind right while you're

1:16:27

doing time. And you know the thing is in the system. There is

1:16:32

no mental health problems to help you. Now. The whole thing is a

1:16:36

joke. That is a problem to you. The system. There's a lot

1:16:40

of layers to it, and whether it starts at the juvenile level and onward,

1:16:44

you know, and before that home of it, it's got to be fixed. It does got to be fixed. It has to be fixed.

1:16:49

That should be top priority. I would have a good night you too,

1:16:54

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1:17:17

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the weekend on a Friday night, because it's what I do. And we're

1:17:30

not far off from Red's baseball. They're back in the desert sooner than later.

1:17:33

It's a matter of days. F c. Cincinnati is going to be

1:17:35

getting to it in just a couple of weeks time in downtown Cincinnati all kinds

1:17:41

of ugly news. The increased police presence is a good thing, and cracking

1:17:45

down on the lawlessness, the thuggery. The idea, I guess is in

1:17:53

hope is that it was only just a small group of idiot, moron trouble

1:17:58

making individuals attacking and beating down two high profile beatings that have made the news

1:18:02

in the last week or so. But just the same, there's a lot

1:18:08

of stuff going on, and once the warm weather gets here. When we

1:18:11

talk about the streetcar and how busy, it's been busier than ever, and

1:18:14

you know, people can argue about one way or the other, expanding the

1:18:17

free rides, you know, and putting more track down and getting the car

1:18:24

train cars going other places. Or whatever else with the street car, and

1:18:28

you know, tr is happening, and the banks is happening, and you

1:18:32

get Reds going back at it the end of March into April, and of

1:18:36

course all summer Reds baseball at the Great American Ballpark and on the Big One.

1:18:41

And we like our festivals. We like our events, and it is

1:18:47

no shortage of them as we get into Lenton season and we talk about fish

1:18:51

fries and we talk about all the other stuff in the warm weather months in

1:18:55

Cincinnati all over town. Uh. The idea that there would be thugs running

1:19:00

around wreaking havoc and putting people's lives at risk like the assaults that have made

1:19:05

headlines the last couple of days and even national news in some cases, is

1:19:11

not something that we are looking for. No city is looking for. In

1:19:15

the names of the communities in the conversation that we've already had tonight on this

1:19:19

and on the radio over the last several days that come up regularly, Oh,

1:19:25

they mentioned San Francisco, they mentioned Portland, they mentioned parts of Los

1:19:28

Angeles and so forth, or even New York City, which, by the

1:19:31

way, and maybe I'm just stupid, I have never felt unsafe or uncomfortable

1:19:38

in New York. Ever, and then the next time I go, I'll

1:19:41

end up getting my head kicked in or something like that. Now that I've

1:19:43

said it, not wood that's not the case, but I haven't and I

1:19:46

know a lot of people right now. You see the headlines and stuff,

1:19:49

and people get the headlines and that type of stuff here in the tri State

1:19:53

and they think, well, I don't want to go back downtown. That is kind of iffy. Downtown Cincinnati's great. I mean, I remember what

1:19:59

it was like in the you know, the early in the mid nineties,

1:20:01

as it was just starting to be developed in ideas, we're coming to try

1:20:05

to make things better, you know, in those party in the parks that

1:20:09

I used to host with Channel Z and then Kiss you know years ago,

1:20:13

Yateman's Cove and all the other stuff down there along the Serpentine Wall course,

1:20:16

the Western Southern Wubn fireworks where you got a half million people plus along the

1:20:20

river. I mean, there's a lot happening. And there is no question

1:20:25

about the fact that when you have news like this, it makes stuff challenging.

1:20:30

So increased police presence is a good thing, and hopefully you can nip

1:20:34

it in the bud, and hopefully some parents are paying attention to what their

1:20:38

kids are doing so they don't end up, you know, wreaking havoc and

1:20:42

making headlines of a type that we don't like. If you miss this.

1:20:45

By the way, Bengals former head coach Marvin Lewis is expected to be it's

1:20:49

been reported in a bunch of spots as the assistant head coach for those Las

1:20:54

Vegas Raiders. So that's good for him. We spent a lot of time

1:20:58

in Cincinnati, had helped take the Bengals to another level, and just a

1:21:02

great guy in the community and doing a lot of good things. So I

1:21:05

think those in south eastern Nevada or southwestern Nevada are going to be very happy

1:21:11

that he's a part of things there too, So good for him and good

1:21:14

for them. I want to there's a few things I want to get to

1:21:17

here, and I'd like to have some fun. But you can sound off

1:21:19

on whatever you want that we've talked about so far Tonight five point three,

1:21:24

seven four nine, eight hundred the Big One and talk back on the iHeartRadio

1:21:28

app. This is pretty wild. Now. I have told the story before

1:21:32

and it was even on the Chubby and Stick podcast that I do with Kevin

1:21:35

Carr from Fat Guys at the Movies. I have some friends who have a

1:21:40

pot belly pig that is it's actually quite large, bigger than I realized that

1:21:45

they had gotten, and it has his own like a doggy door, but

1:21:47

it's it's a it's a it's a pig door, probably a dog door,

1:21:53

but the pig uses it and he comes and goes as he wants. He

1:21:57

uses like a litter box, which I am bewildered by. And one of

1:22:00

the most traumatizing experience of my career is a human is being over at their

1:22:03

house a couple of years ago and having some dinner and they're cooking out and

1:22:09

ironically, and I'm not joking, they served up pork chops. So we're

1:22:15

having some drinks and we're eating some like a good food off the grill and

1:22:18

some chops, and they've got Larry. They caught. Larry is their pig's

1:22:25

name, and Larry is a small Harry. I don't know what he is

1:22:30

or how much he weighs. You can hear the click of a clack of his feet on their hardwood floors, which is awesome. He's very loving,

1:22:35

he's carrying, he's clean, which I never expected pigs to be clean.

1:22:39

He's a clean animal. He's a friendly animal, he comes when you call.

1:22:43

And the chops were fantastic. But the weird thing is he acted like

1:22:45

he wanted to eat the chops while I was having the chops, and even

1:22:49

now me saying uttering those words publicly on the Nation station seven hundred WLW,

1:22:56

I'm a little uncomfortable at the idea that he was willing in wanting to me

1:23:02

to throw him like a bit of the chop that came from his cousin or

1:23:06

his relative friends of a different variety. I understand. Last time I mentioned

1:23:12

this, some peak pig people came out of the woodwork, and we're telling

1:23:15

me that the pop belly pig that my friends have is not the same pig

1:23:19

that I might have with my apple wood smoke bacon, or that it might

1:23:23

be like that nice loin roast, or maybe those chops that I like so

1:23:26

much. Fair enough, and I like the swine fine, and I like

1:23:30

Larry the pig. I'm also torn about the fact that I like to eat

1:23:35

the swine as well, but not torn enough to not eat them. I'm

1:23:40

just not gonna eat Larry. And if maybe my friends hit hard times,

1:23:43

they might look at that pig a different way. But they look at that animal the way I look at my crazy dog, and I'd never go,

1:23:48

well, it's me or you, son. I think I'd eat berries and

1:23:51

leaves or something else before I'd try to eat my dog. But in different

1:23:56

parts of the world, different people, different taste and so on, which

1:23:59

leads me to Japan. They have what they call their pig cafe, and

1:24:04

there are people coming to eat. It doesn't say whether and I don't think

1:24:10

they serve hog or pig products at the pig cafe. I could be wrong,

1:24:16

but what the people will do is uh, they will come. Some

1:24:19

people are flying from all over the world to Japan for this. They'll get

1:24:23

a meal, and they have time to spend their ten different what they call

1:24:27

me pig or my pig cafes, and they're more opening up later this year,

1:24:33

and you get to spend time while having a meal with little teeny baby

1:24:38

pit smaller than my friend's pig, Larry. These are like tiny swine,

1:24:43

about the size of a Corgi, they say, And the pictures in the story which I saw. I think it was USA today initially, or are

1:24:49

amazing. They are, They are lovable, they are cuddly. But people

1:24:55

are spending money to snuggle with the tiny swine. They've done it in the

1:25:00

past, which I was unaware of. It costs like fifteen bucks, what

1:25:04

they say is twenty two hundred yen to spend some time with what they are

1:25:09

described as micro pigs, and you can cuddle with them, you can pet

1:25:15

them, and they stay about that same size, which might be nice to

1:25:18

have at the house. But I don't know if I would have paid to

1:25:21

have a meal to go hug a pig, but maybe that's the case.

1:25:26

In the past, they've done it with cats, which you know a lot

1:25:29

of people in small housing like in Japan in different places in cities like Tokyo,

1:25:33

they may not have room to have their own pet, so they could

1:25:36

come have a meal and spend some time with a cat or in this case

1:25:40

a tiny swine which I like saying better than me pig a cafe. And

1:25:45

they've also done it with otters. I don't know how you spend time cuddling

1:25:48

and hanging out with otter. That might be worth a trip to Japan.

1:25:53

On its own. They also have had bunny cafes, and I know here

1:25:56

in the States there are places in this happen. And with COVID the first

1:26:01

I remember seeing it, they had places where people could go to like a

1:26:06

farm and spend time lounging with a cattle with bovine, which is difficult because

1:26:16

once you realize I think that a cow is a majestic creature that looks like

1:26:21

Elsie with the big curly eyelashes, I think a lot of people might be

1:26:26

less likely to order up that RIBI medium with a big baked potato and some

1:26:30

broccoli. Now I love a cow. I've never loved a cow, if

1:26:34

you know what I'm saying. And driving along where Miami Valley Gaming is there

1:26:39

where the Women's prison is some years ago I saw and at the time they

1:26:43

were raising cattle. I saw two cattle getting it on. It was a

1:26:47

bull obviously in a cow. They were having they were making love. But

1:26:50

I about drove off the road. I'd never seen anything like it other than

1:26:54

like on YouTube. It was tremendous, But I don't know that I would

1:26:58

spend time to go cuddle with a caw. Would you coddle with any of

1:27:00

these animals, or is this over the top and too much? Whether it

1:27:03

be the tiny swine, whether it's the otter, the cat, the bunny,

1:27:09

or the bow vine. Five three, seven, four nine, eight

1:27:12

hundred the Big One. Your chance to get interactive. Also, you could

1:27:15

talk back the iHeartRadio app. Click on that microphone, give you a chance

1:27:18

to sound off. We got Mark and Bill and others getting lined up.

1:27:23

We'll take a break, take care of commerce, and uh then we'll get

1:27:26

going. Well, let's just let's there some calls here. Now. I

1:27:28

can do that. I can call an audible right Stone, I can do that. He's like, yeah, you can do what you want to share

1:27:31

show. Thanks man, I appreciate it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, market share turn mumper heights. What do you have with Sterling

1:27:36

on the Big One? Thanks Startling. You know, my daughter lived in

1:27:42

Chicago for five years when she graduated from Miami Boxford. She always wanted to

1:27:48

move Chicago and lived in River North, nice area. But you know,

1:27:55

I mean people were being pummeled in broad daylight, and uh you know,

1:28:00

I mean they there was no concern about being caught, you know, people

1:28:06

stealing purses or beating somebody down and well, now we have it here.

1:28:13

And but what I noticed about what my daughter told me there where she has

1:28:18

moved from since, is that people standing around watching it don't do anything.

1:28:25

They don't get involved. And I noticed that in the videos that I saw

1:28:29

downtown Cincinnati except for one woman, and she looked to be a black woman.

1:28:33

And where she What does that matter? By the way, I'm just

1:28:38

curious what since you mentioned her skin color? Well, because the kids that

1:28:43

were doing it were black, and I think she felt comfortable stepping up,

1:28:49

right, that's my reason for it. Nothing nothing, nothing racial. But

1:28:56

I think she looked to be an older woman and you grab somebody by the

1:29:00

coat and you know what, and they didn't go back, and I think

1:29:03

they respected her. Yeah, And I just don't know why people don't get

1:29:09

involved. Well, you know, and that's a weird thing. Well,

1:29:11

a lot of times you see people pick up their camera in their phone and

1:29:15

video it and then they post it or talk about it, and that's helped catch people. But yeah, I mean, I would hope that I would

1:29:19

try to do the right thing. But then here's the other side is that

1:29:24

I understand, depending on how it is, people don't want to end up

1:29:27

being a part of the of the beatdown. In other words, they don't

1:29:29

want to have that brunt of that ugliness turned on them as a result of

1:29:34

it. But I think that I tend to have a big mouth, oddly

1:29:38

enough, and occasionally, you know, try to insert myself in situations trying

1:29:43

to help, which sometimes has gone sideways. But I agree with you.

1:29:46

I think more people need to be involved. And this is the thing.

1:29:49

It is a community in which we live. This is a society, and

1:29:54

if we all don't get involved and all don't do the right thing, then

1:29:58

it becomes a downward spiral in my opinion, respectfully, and unfortunately more people

1:30:03

don't take that chance. But who wants to take that beating themselves either,

1:30:06

I mean nobody does right well well, I mean there are powers and numbers,

1:30:10

as these thugs know absolutely, But if enough people would just respond and

1:30:15

say, maybe not get physical, but confront the area, go to the

1:30:19

area, absolutely, and maybe that would stop it. Because the young man

1:30:23

down on sixth Street or sixth Street or a government square, I mean he

1:30:27

was unconscious. Yeah, they could have killed him, there's no question.

1:30:30

I mean, it doesn't take much for somebody to hit their head on the concrete in the wrong way, let alone being punched in the back of the

1:30:35

head and kicked about their body to where they can end up with the serious,

1:30:40

if not the life they'reatening injuries of death. It's a horrible scenario.

1:30:45

I hope that that your girl doesn't end up with anything like that while she's

1:30:48

in Chicago, and no one should have to deal with it anywhere. The

1:30:51

increased police pressures should help go ahead. I'm sorry, no, And unfortunately

1:30:57

she moved to Washington, DC. Well, I have friends there and they

1:31:01

love it. And certainly there are parts of down you know, of Cincinnati,

1:31:05

there are parts of just about every city that you got to go,

1:31:09

you know what. You might want to pay attention to where you are,

1:31:12

but it doesn't matter where you are. Bad actors do bad things, criminals

1:31:15

do criminal things, and people need to do their part to be a part

1:31:18

of the good rather than the bad. I think overall, Mark, I

1:31:21

appreciate the call. Taylor's first, Steven, Taylor, what do you have?

1:31:25

We'll get you to here before the break. Taylor, what you got? Hey? I was just calling about the pigs. I think if there

1:31:30

was one in you know, Cincinnati or even Ohio or somewhere close. I

1:31:34

would. I would definitely go Vito something like that with my nephew or niece

1:31:38

and they're a friend, you know, it would be a cool dining experience.

1:31:42

I mean, it's it's in what Asia now, So that's a little

1:31:45

far to go for that, Yeah, it is. It is definitely far.

1:31:48

You go to my friend's house and maybe have like they're gonna be like,

1:31:50

dud, don't be inviting everybody over. But it freaked me out.

1:31:55

I was trying. I was like, what do we have in and like

1:31:57

we're having chops and I'm looking at Larry and I'm like, you have a

1:32:00

pet pig and you're having a pig to eat. I felt really even now

1:32:06

talking about it, I feel a little freaked out by that. It's yeah,

1:32:10

it's strange and like, I mean, I feel like, I don't

1:32:14

know why this get into my mind. But the first thing that came to my mind was like I was thinking there was this baby pig, So I

1:32:19

was like, when they grow up, what do they do with them? But I guess they're they're teacup pigs that they're already small their whole life.

1:32:25

That works. I get they say they never get bigger than the size of

1:32:29

a Corgie many many a pig or a tiny swine. I prefer tiny swine.

1:32:32

I think it just rolls off the tongels here. I don't know what

1:32:35

you do with them. I mean when they get older, I guess you'd

1:32:38

have them at the house or something. What do you do with the whole

1:32:41

herd of them or whatever? I don't we produce a lot of hogs here.

1:32:45

I have had the pork Producers of Ohio on the show. I've been

1:32:48

with them at the Ohio State Fair in years past. They're good people,

1:32:51

they work hard, they have a great product. I would think that they

1:32:55

could probably do something that way too, Taylor, I don't know, but

1:32:58

yeah, absolutely good and watched out at pigs. I mean, you could

1:33:01

have monkeys in your restaurant or whatever. I know, monkeys get weird though,

1:33:04

That's why I like to know monkeys will be food and all that.

1:33:09

Yeah, some of them. I mean. I love going to the zoo

1:33:11

in the summer and from a distance eating my Dippin' dots are having a cold

1:33:14

one and watch people who don't know when they're flinging their stuff at people and

1:33:17

They're like, what is that? And I'm thinking, you're getting flung with

1:33:19

crap, buddy. It's one of the best experiences in my life. Taylor,

1:33:24

I appreciate the call man, Thank you for listening. Uh. I

1:33:27

would imagine they could do that here. I mean, I don't know if

1:33:30

we have a tiny swine, but you could do it with larger hawks. But they get big. I mean they get massive when they're made for meat

1:33:36

in a consumption because the more on the hoof is the more you can sell,

1:33:40

which is the more you can eat, which is the more money you can make. And yeah, I know, I'm master of the obvious.

1:33:45

It's sterling seven hundred WLW. Let's talk about Scott's loan. When do you

1:33:49

listen? I like to listen while I'm walking the dog. That sounds like

1:33:53

fun. I like to listen to his show while I'm in the steam room.

1:33:55

Oh, I might dry that one. I like to listen to a show while I'm at work because it drowns out the sound of my idies.

1:34:00

Boss, not a bad idea. I listened to his podcast when my husband

1:34:02

is watching one of those stupid Star Wars movies. I guess anytime is the

1:34:06

right time for Sloaney. You got that right, Scott Sloan tomorrow morning at

1:34:11

nine on seven hundred WLW and check out his podcast on the free iHeartRadio app.

1:34:16

When employers like I heard and Kroger choose Delta Dental of Ohio employees access

1:34:20

the nation's largest video. I saw he's on a Channel five's website of the

1:34:27

four year old running across the road or whatever else unattended, like after dark,

1:34:32

late at night. They got picked up by somebody who was thankfully driving

1:34:36

and paying attention in that gas station area there, I think it was Queen's

1:34:39

Gate area, and then ended up taking the baby, the four year old

1:34:43

to like a police station there, and then you know, they got mom,

1:34:46

and mom's in trouble now and rightfully show. But I just start thinking

1:34:48

about like when I was little and I escaped, and Mom's always got this

1:34:51

story. She always every time I bring a woman home, since I was

1:34:55

in high school, she she always wants to break down all the embarrassing,

1:34:59

tiny, stir little stirling stories. And one of those is when I escaped

1:35:01

the patio doors at this place who we were living at the time, through

1:35:06

the big field of toads that apparently I kept wanting to try to eat.

1:35:11

I would grab them and eat, and I was like toddler size with a

1:35:14

diaper. I don't know if it was a loaded diaper or not. And a mom's chasing me, trying to get me back in the house. So

1:35:18

I didn't cross Dixie, which would have been a bad scene. She's hollering

1:35:23

at me, and she said, I just turned around and laughed hysterically and

1:35:25

was grabbing toads and running. So everybody's got a kid runaway story, just

1:35:30

usually not late at night, running the streets after dark, across multiple lanes

1:35:34

of traffic. Thank god, the kids survived without any injury and it wasn't

1:35:38

some villain who just snatched the kid and drove off, which it could have

1:35:41

very well been a good show night thanks to Kathleen Fuller from ODOT Cincinnati says

1:35:45

that workers by the way are on seventy five handling business tonight because the weather

1:35:49

is good, so just be careful and allow them space to do what they're

1:35:53

doing right now. Also, of course, a good conversation and perspective from

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