0:00

Jeez for sounding sick or rough or horse. I was sickly last Friday,

0:05

still got the sickness, but medicaid. It's always nice. Wh they give

0:09

you medication. They say, do not operate heavy machinery, do not drive,

0:13

and then you go, well, this must be great, and I

0:16

don't know. It has a slowed down my coughing some in the misery that

0:20

goes along with it. And we'll get through the night and hopefully I won't

0:22

have to turn the mic off too much in the midst of that as we

0:25

try to get through it in some fashion or another. Appreciate you being here.

0:29

Stone Shields is producing. Great to see Lance McCallister and enjoyed that off

0:33

to beaten path, the brush with greatness and celebrity kind of thing. Always

0:37

good conversation, fun, great calls. Later on we will talk to Kevin

0:41

Carr, fat guys at the movies. There's a new Ghostbusters film and there's

0:45

some other stuff out there. We'll pick his brain on that. We also

0:49

have David bring the Pain purdon for ESPN Chalk. He is going to give

0:54

us some perspective in the business of sports betting, which is what is his

0:57

wheelhouse in the midst of this March madness scenario with NCAA tournament to the n

1:03

T which, of course basketball bear cats back at it tomorrow afternoon with another

1:07

round of that, plus all the women's action that has been huge, and

1:11

how that certainly has seemingly changed over really the last couple of years and so

1:18

forth, and just got confirmation. Doctor Dona Schlehek, a former head of

1:22

political science at Wright State University, will join us to give us some perspective

1:26

on the ISIS at tax they've taken credit for in Moscow, and how it's

1:34

amazing the enemies that ISIS has and how they choose and who they choose to

1:40

attack. And the United States had actually warned Russia their officials there that there

1:47

was a danger of domestic terrorism in Moscow, specifically from ISIS or other groups

1:53

and so forth, So we'll talk on that in the politics of it in

1:56

the midst of well, it's odd we still do business with Russia sort of

2:00

like China, bit different yet clearly not exactly getting along on every front,

2:06

yet trying to help in a level of cooperation dealing with the threat of terrorism.

2:10

Even with Ukraine and everything else that's been going on. Very interesting.

2:14

So doctor Schleyck, after eleven o'clock, cold bit of ground to cover, I want to start with something that's a little bit different. And I don't

2:20

know if you've noticed this or not. This is odd, but if you're

2:23

on the road, and chances are you are right now in the midst of

2:28

some rain here in the Tri State, if you look at the I'll say

2:32

mile markers for a reason. If you're on seventy one or seventy five wherever

2:37

you go, if there's a sign that says next exit two miles, three

2:39

miles, it's miles. You don't see a whole lot of kilometers. I

2:43

remember when I was a little kid and taking a drive, there was one

2:47

sign between Dayton and Cincinnati that I can recall, and there was a sign

2:52

between Dayton and Columbus because I remember, I was like, what's kilometers?

2:57

And I was just a little kid, and they were going through teaching metric

3:00

system stuff in school and to the empirical system. What we're using forever inches

3:06

and you know, weights and measures, gallons, acres compared to you know,

3:09

hec tears or whatever else that goes with it. So in the midst

3:14

of the sickness. I get to the I called the doctor's office. I

3:17

know this is convoluted, but work with me here. I called the doctor's

3:23

office. They go, hey, we don't want to see you. Got a respiratory sinus problem. I'm like, it's not COVID. I've taken two

3:28

home COVID tests. Now you've They're like, we don't care. We don't

3:30

want you here. Go see the urgent care or the er I'm like,

3:34

well, I'm not er worthy, don't want to get er worthy. That's

3:37

why I'm calling you. They're like, that's not our problem. And if I went to the urgent care. So I get to the urgent care and

3:44

they give me the medication, prescriptions and so forth, and I get it.

3:47

And it's the first time I've ever seen this happen, except when I

3:51

was in Mexico and got medication while I was there for like allergies or something,

3:54

and it was there was no hey, take a tea spoon or a

3:58

tablespoon of this, you know, every six hours as needed or whatever for

4:02

calling congestion and so forth. It was a five milli leaders, which is

4:06

by the way, if you don't already know. And maybe kids are ahead

4:10

of the game. Maybe I'm just an old guy now about this. But

4:15

I had the phone, I had the technology. I could do it without

4:18

looking at the spoons in the cupboard that apparently in the drawer already had a

4:23

comparison for teaspoon to milli leaders, tablespoon to milli leaders. Normally they don't

4:28

pay attention, right And I look at it and I see and it's okay.

4:31

So that's just a teaspoon. I don't know if you have problems with

4:33

this. Has this happened to you? Is there all of a sudden now

4:38

a cram down of the metric system that i'munaware of. Is they update signs

4:42

or something? Or is my pharmacy or the doctor who wrote this script clearly

4:46

just focused on metric system stuff. I was able to overcome it, and

4:51

I'm thinking about it, and I was feeling horrible. I'm way better now,

4:56

as crappy as I feel. But have you had to deal with the

4:59

metric system situation? Is that nothing? Am I just whining? Is that

5:02

what it is? Part of me goes you know, this isn't even anything.

5:05

But I talked to my one neighbor about it. Walking the dog,

5:09

which is how a lot of my conversations and queries go. If neighbors aren't

5:14

asking me, I'm asking them. And he goes, yeah, I've seen that, and he's, you know, going on saying it's a plot,

5:19

it's some type of conspiracy, which is what he says to me a lot

5:23

of the time. Guy lives a few doors down five one, three,

5:26

seven, four, nine, seven thousand, eight hundred, the big one.

5:28

You can talk back the iHeartRadio app. Just click on that microphone.

5:31

You can leave a message. I'm also on X that's Sterling at Sterling Radio.

5:36

You can find me there. I'm just wondering how often you've come across

5:40

this. I've seen it where both are listed, right, I mean,

5:43

that's pretty common. And if you get like a ready to assemble furniture,

5:46

if you may maybe visit just about any place with one of those flat packed

5:50

bits of furniture. Maybe you go the place where they have the sweetest meatballs

5:56

always available, and a lot of salmon and so forth, off of seventy

6:00

five with a big yellow like yellowish blue sign ike is what they're called.

6:03

And you might see a lot of metric system stuff there and a lot of

6:08

you know, here's a here's a you know, an L wrench. Good

6:11

luck, you'll solve your your solution with assembly with this scenario and a screwdriver.

6:15

Good luck. But I have in my memory I don't recall a time

6:20

where I have gotten something that is strictly exclusively by direction and design only metric

6:28

system stuff for America, for the United States, for US, here we

6:31

the people. So is this a regular occurrence? And I'm just now catching

6:36

up when I had COVID, which I think is the last time I actually

6:39

had prescription medicine. Both times, I don't recall receiving anything that told me

6:46

anything in metric stuff. But it was a hiccup for a moment, and

6:49

I'm thinking, is this a new thing or did I just happen to see

6:53

Maybe they did it just to see if I talk about it on the radio.

6:56

I don't know. Five point three seven four nine, eight hundred the

6:59

Big One. You got a talk pack on the iHeartRadio app. Will also

7:01

have updates on this horrible terrorist attack in Moscow and doctor Donnas Schlake going to

7:06

join us on that. David Bring the Pain Permanent for ESPN shalk talking Sports

7:11

Betting up at a nine thirty five or so and Kevin Carr fat guys at

7:15

the movies about the new Ghostbusters, and who knows what else. I appreciate

7:18

you being here. I'll limit my coughing to as little interruption as possible.

7:24

I am glad to be here, even though my headphones are seemingly only working

7:27

in one ear for some reason, unless my ear has stopped working, which

7:30

maybe I overdosed on the medicine not realizing it was millal leaders instead of tea

7:34

spoons. Don't know, quick break come back. Appreciate you being here.

7:39

It's a wet Friday night, trying to have a little fun here on the

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your severe weather station seven hundred WLW. Glad you're along. I was asking

8:28

about the metrics system. Later. By the way, A David to bring

8:31

the pain Pert. I'm going to join us. I think it's a nine thirty five after the news. We'll talk to him about sports betting and the

8:37

madness of March, tons of hoops action. You get the NCAA's the women

8:43

as well. You get the nit basketball beer cats playing on in that and

8:46

so much other stuff. We'll talk to him about always good cover stuff like

8:48

that for ESPN chalk and in the meantime, metric system issues. I just

8:52

I got prescriptions for the sickness I've had for the better part of the last

8:56

week, which has just been miserable, and it was on the verge of

9:00

not coming in tonight. I was like, well, if I don't show up, who and I mean, you know, I only work a couple

9:03

of days here, so if I can't show it for this I mean really,

9:07

so I've in here. I'm medicated. I will sanitize and martinize after

9:11

this. I'm not spreading the disease, if you will. But I am

9:13

down with a sickness all on the mend, just the same. And it

9:18

is sort of like dealing with this. I get these medicines from the pharmacy,

9:22

and it's all telling me in metrics, the metrics system of you know,

9:26

five milliliters however many times a day for this and so on. And

9:30

I've never had it where it was just only the metrics system. Now,

9:33

I'm a grown man. I was raised right. I have technology in the

9:35

palm of my hand. I can figure stuff out. But what about the agent? What about the elderly? And do we have a new date for

9:41

starting metrics system only action here in the tri State or the country, or

9:45

Ohio or somewhere that I missed the meeting. For God's sake, someone helped

9:48

me to west Chesterwood Mark Sterling on seven hundred WLW Mark. How are you,

9:56

hey? Mark? Hello? Hey man? What's up? Hey buddy?

10:01

Nice talking to you a long time listener. Thank you for taking a call. Yes, sir, what's up? As far as the measure system.

10:07

I have a few things about that. We should not be pushed to

10:13

use the metric system in my opinion. Okay, now, if if the

10:20

engineers who make, you know, the blueprints and all this kind of stuff

10:26

go okay, nine sixteen so or fifteen millimeter, or they go all right,

10:30

half inch or thirteen milimeter, that would be very helpful instead of us

10:35

reverse engineering everything. You know what I mean, And I think I do.

10:41

I think I do. And you know what's weird is apparently like the

10:43

rest of the world is on the metric system and we're the only people who

10:46

aren't anymore, which is weird. And I guess the transition gives me a

10:50

headache, especially if I'm trying to work on something I'm like using like a

10:54

ratchet, and I'm trying to figure out what I'm supposed to use, and

10:56

I'm like, that's not that's not it, you know, and back and forth you go. It's exactly because you know, if you get the wrong

11:05

socket or wrench on area slips off, your knuckles are bleeding. I mean,

11:11

I don't think we should have to adapt to that, is what I'm trying to say of the world. If the rest of the world wants to

11:16

adapt to that, so be it. I'm for that. I'm with you.

11:20

Maybe I overdosed on the drugs I don't even know. Maybe the costs

11:24

here if I've had too much, But I think I found my way.

11:26

Five MILLI leader is a teaspoon, so I think I'm in good shape.

11:28

Mark. I appreciate the call. I understand it. Maybe it's true they

11:31

should conform to us. We should just stick with what we're doing. But

11:35

no one asked me when I picked up my no one told me either. They were like, here, it's a teaspoon, it's a mill leader.

11:39

I guess they figured I was grown and should be able to figure it out,

11:43

which is maybe the case. Maybe it's just the aged who are whining

11:46

and crying, and I'm being part of the problem, even though I've was raised to be a part of the solution. To trend in Harvey was sterling

11:52

on the big on what about this metric system? Is it a plot or what? Well? First of all, first time a long time listener appreciate

12:01

it. I think the metric system has its goods and bads. It depends

12:05

on what you're doing with it. Like in the medicine, world. You

12:07

know, the first time I got a liquid medicine that was seven hundred and

12:11

fifteen mil liters, Like, what the heck is that? That's it?

12:16

You know how much is that? Now? I didn't know how much stake,

12:20

so you know through the Google and everything else, it's three quarters of

12:24

a table spoof. Yeah, well, why can't they just say three corners

12:28

of a table spoof. Maybe they've just decided it saves inc if they put

12:31

it out there for everybody the same way. But I would just wish I

12:33

would have gotten the memo. I mean, you know, I'm already half out of it because I'm sick, and then half out of it with the

12:39

medicine, and arguably I had a blunt head trauma Harvey. I'm not using

12:43

that as an excuse. I'm just saying it's some things are challenging for me

12:46

on a daily basis. They try to make sense of stuff. They should be making it easier, not harder. I agree. But also, you

12:54

know, I think that when they started this metric system, you know,

12:58

way back when they started it, I don't know, I think they were

13:03

getting a little too precise with what had to be done and nothing has to

13:09

be that precise unless you're maybe putting like, you know, wheels on aircraft

13:15

or well, you know, I've I've been a mechanic and I've install machinery

13:20

all my life, and they give us that stuff and it's like, you

13:24

know what, close enough forks and then after that the day, as long

13:30

as it's in with it within a sixteenth of an ant, you're okay.

13:33

Okay, So why even bother? Yeah, that's a solid question. I

13:37

don't know. It's all beyond my pay grade. I'm just looking for guidance,

13:39

Harvey. I appreciate it. I think you helped me, like like the maths the thing. You know, I don't think that I'll ever go

13:43

away, But to me, it's it's you know, you gotta you gotta

13:50

take it, so you got to figure it out. I just know that seven fifty is three quarters of a tablespoon, so minus two fifty of that

13:58

is half a tablespoon. Go. But I shouldn't have to break down the

14:03

math. I'm already having challenging issues coughing and everything else. All I'm saying

14:05

is I wrote the little y. All of us to school at least one

14:09

of my five high schools. Harvey make it easier, not harder. I

14:11

appreciate the call, that's all I'm saying. Make it easier, not harder.

14:16

But maybe it's just that we are arrogant in our American ideas, because

14:22

I kind of go, you know, why is that something we got to

14:24

deal with here? But and I totally I remember riding with my uncle Manny,

14:31

driving from Dayton to the Old Riverfront to see the Reds play as a

14:33

little kid. I mean I was probably kindergarten, first grade. You know,

14:37

we're gonna go hit some golf balls along the way and everything else.

14:39

And I remember there was a sign between Dayton and Cincinnati that mentioned how many

14:43

kilometers to I don't know if it was to downtown or exactly what it was,

14:46

and they broke down. You know, the actual variance. I guess

14:50

if you were going to get your slide rule out and figure out the difference mile to kilometer or the reverse, you could see it. And the same

14:56

thing on the way to Columbus. But you don't see those signs mass But

15:01

apparently if you want to go get some cough syrup, you got to figure

15:03

it out. Thankfully, Thankfully the technology is there because if I had to

15:07

do like the straight on figure it for memory and math when I was in

15:11

school. It is not happening straight away. You're nine thirty report Taron Johnson

15:16

has it. I heard him in earlier. Given tons of information that's useful for us in the tri State from a round planet Earth. The latest on

15:22

the ugly terrorist attack in Moscow that concert venue. We'll talk to David Bring

15:26

the pain Pernam on the other side of news about well gambling, sports betting,

15:33

the madness of March, Major League Baseball. See if I can't get

15:35

a little conversation about apparently it pays to have an interpreter to blame. If

15:41

Pete Rose could have had an interpreter to blame for the betting on baseball,

15:46

he'd be in the Hall of Fame. That's all I'm saying. It's sterling

15:50

seven hundred WLW. Here we are, it's the weekend, Friday night,

15:54

Sterling seven hundred wlw. The insanity is upon us since March. Guy who

15:58

knows from crazy when it comes to betting and wagering and the business of sports

16:03

betting for ESPN chalk as David Bring the Pain Purdam with Stirling on seven hundred

16:08

w WELLW appreciate you making time. David. How's everything? Man? Everything's

16:12

you an except for my bracket? It is destroyed. Is it a lot

16:17

of ugliness? I know a lot of people have said that they've had some bleeding. Yes, mine, it is definitely bleeding lots. I'm sorry to

16:23

hear that. You know now, but you are probably even though you've said

16:27

you cover sports betting, you are not a good better. How is that?

16:32

Where's the disconnect and how's that play for you? By the way, well, I certainly learned what the sophisticated professional betters have done. I've been

16:44

covering sports betting for over fifteen years now, yeah, yeah, and so

16:48

I've talked to them. I see you at how they work, and frankly,

16:52

I don't have the energy or the time or do you want to do

16:56

what it takes to be a professional better. So I'm going to be one

17:00

of those guys that does a little research. I do enjoy kind of looking

17:04

at things, looking at the points, spreads, looking at the two teams

17:07

and trying to figure out an angle. I'm going to bet it before the

17:12

game and I'm going to watch that, you know, watch it as the

17:15

game code plays out. Are you Are you doing much? Do you do

17:18

much during the game, because there's a lot of all these days too.

17:22

That was exactly what I was getting ready to say that, you know,

17:25

today's better A lot of their actions during the game, they're placing bets when

17:30

the odds go you know, favorable on one team, and then twenty minutes

17:36

later they may have another bet on the other team, just a different odds.

17:40

It's just a constant to me at the constant hassle. I can we

17:44

can't believe watching a game and doing all that. I would rather sit back

17:47

and root for my one bet that I've made during the pregame. It's an

17:51

amazing thing. And we've talked for a lot of years, talking to David Purdain from ESPN Chalk Sterling seven hundred WLW, A lot of years, a

17:59

number of different places I've worked in, always seemingly coming back here to my

18:03

home here at the Big One and in the Tri State, and you from

18:06

Atlanta to you know, I think you were the Atlanta our Journal Constitution. You've been you know here or there other you were in Slydell. I think

18:11

after I was in New Orleans, you were in slyel which is a stone's

18:14

throw from downtown New Orleans. So you've been doing this a long time,

18:18

and I don't know that I've asked you this since. But there has always

18:22

been a huge amount of money that's been thrown around and wagered. But now

18:27

it's a lot more noticeable. It's a lot more tracked down, I guess

18:32

reportable, because it's all above boarded the books and on the apps. Correct.

18:37

Yeah, we have a more visibility into the betting market than we ever

18:41

have in the US. You know, prior to legalization, which happened in

18:45

twenty eighteen, everything was kind of restricted to you either bet to Nevada or

18:51

you bet with an offshore bookmaker or your local bookmaker at the country club,

18:53

bowl alley, what have you. And you know, those guys aren't opening

18:57

up their books and saying this much was wager we won this much. Now

19:02

States we have thirty eight of them that have launched legal betting markets District of

19:07

Columbia as well, and they file monthly reports and you can see, Okay,

19:11

ten billion dollars or ten million dollars was bet on table tennis in Colorado

19:15

this month, or one hundred million was bet on the Super Bowl or whatever

19:19

it is. So we definitely have more visibility in the sports betting market than

19:23

we ever have now being the March Madness, there's a whole lot more action

19:29

to mess around with, right, I mean, there's so many and then you throw in the nit and even the women's tournament has gotten some action too.

19:34

How big are we talking when it comes to money being wagered over this

19:38

period of time. Yeah, millions of dollars will be wagered on March Badness.

19:44

And that's just at US sports books. The AGA's estimate was over two

19:48

billion bloody major US sports books on the NCAA turner of both men's and women's.

19:55

They estimate that's probably double what's majored on the Super Bowl. And that

19:59

doesn't even count called the bracket pools and all the office pools that are out

20:03

there. You know, ten dollars at your bracket and one hundred people get

20:06

in and wear or take all so forth. So tons of tons of money.

20:11

March Madness is considered the biggest betting of it in American sports, and

20:15

the handle that has wagered on at the amount that's wagered on it is believed

20:19

to be about double what's wagered on the Super Bowl. He's David Purdham from

20:22

ESPN Shock with Sterling on the big one of this tournament action that we're talking

20:27

about. Where is it too early to know? I mean, there is

20:30

some way to find out. I guess who's really getting the bulk of the

20:33

dollars put on the line for them at this point. Is it the big

20:37

names in the top tier sort of you know, favorites, or is it

20:40

a lot of these smaller schools that sort of fanged they were in there because

20:42

they won their conference championship, or you know, they got lucky and played

20:47

in well. Unfortunately for the betting public, Kentucky was the worst case scenario

20:52

for the sports books. The betting public had flocked to Kentucky and bet them

20:56

to win this tournament and Kentucky goes out yesterdays Oakland, So that was paid

21:00

for them. You know, there's still money on the top seeds Yukon being

21:06

the favorite. They are a very short favorite, and they've attracted plenty of

21:10

money. The other number one seeds Purdue North Carolina who I miss, and

21:15

the other number one Houston. They've all attracted their fresh air of money to

21:19

you. So while you'll get the a little bit of sprinkles on your big

21:25

underdogs. The cream of the crop really kind of rise to the top in

21:30

terms of the betting splits. As we look at this, like say Oakland,

21:33

who you know, surprised the world and got by what was a relatively

21:37

young Kentucky team and seemingly now with so much movement, it's like pro sports.

21:44

I mean, you see a lot of these older guys playing. I mean that could be a part of what you know, their situation played into.

21:48

But what I'm curious about here is here's a Horizon leg team. You

21:52

know, one team gets in. I don't know what miracle it would take

21:56

to get more than one team in. As Oakland plays on, they get

22:00

Milwaukee, I think, Or no, that, yeah, I think that.

22:03

Who do they have next? No? North Carolina State? I'm sorry,

22:06

so said. Do they start getting tons of money flooded their way because

22:10

they were such a surprise or is it just that was it? And then

22:14

you kind of figure they're not going to go much further. It depends.

22:18

Last year a good example of Saint Peter's if we remember, I believe they

22:21

went all the way to the Elite eight, and the betting public definitely kind

22:25

of laxed onto that bandwagon. They were considerably bet higher than them. When

22:30

they played North Carolina. There was a ton of money on Saint Peter's to

22:36

pull that upset last year. Books were really kind of worried about it.

22:38

They didn't North Carolina wanted Saint Peter's was ousted, So, I mean he

22:42

usually takes one or two big upset wins to kind of get everybody on that

22:48

bandwagon. So if Oakland were to win again tomorrow versus North Carolina State,

22:52

they'd certainly started attracking more and more attention for the betting public. There you

22:56

go. What am I not asked about specifically that this tournament and obviously the

23:00

women's How about this? What about the women's game? How big has the

23:03

women's basketball in general gotten? And obviously there's one marquee name a part of

23:08

that, but how much has that helped with the interest in the action when

23:12

it comes to the women? Yeah, great question. The women's game has

23:17

seen a massive, massive increase in betting interest. DraftKings told us that they

23:22

are overall mount bet on women's basketball. Year over year increase was fourteen times

23:26

what it was last year, and some of that they said, well,

23:30

you know, we put up a lot more games, and we put up

23:33

a lot more prop bets and things on women's basketball, so that that attributed

23:37

to it. But just the interest and you mentioned the marxtim named Caitlin Clark.

23:41

There are prop bets on her all over all kinds of different things her

23:45

over under on her points. Well, she scored more points in one game

23:48

than a team in the first round scores all together. There's all kinds of

23:52

things like that, And just the interest of IOWA has been off the charts.

23:57

I got anything else about who that you think is worthy of mentioning that

24:00

I haven't asked, because I mean, I'm not going to ask you to

24:03

say who's favorite here or there. I mean that that gets it into a

24:06

weird place. But anything else before I switch gears, because I have one

24:10

more thing to ask you out of the game of basketball. No, I

24:12

can't think of anything. What's the next question? All right? Explain for

24:15

those who don't understand, because Pete Rose, obviously you know we used to

24:19

play those games here on the Big One. Here's a guy who you know

24:22

he lied about the sports betting. He's not in the Hall of Fame as

24:26

a result of it. Here, now we have the biggest name in the game of show hey Otani, he's got an interpreter. We don't even know

24:30

all the ins and outs of the investigation, but that's a weird scenario,

24:34

and it was an illegal, non sanctioned betting scenario where there were millions and

24:41

millions of dollars involved. How big of an issue is this for baseball?

24:44

Let alone O Tanni specifically his interpreter, of course, is in a world

24:47

of hurts too. I would say it's the biggest sports betting story that we've

24:52

had, certainly since the twenty eighteen Supreme Court decision. I would say it

24:57

right was going back to the Tim Donahey referee NBA referee who bet on games

25:03

he officiated. Now, make it clear, we don't know and there's been

25:07

no allegations that there was any kind of fixing going on here. We don't

25:12

even know if Otani was doing the betting. As far as our understanding and

25:18

what people are saying, it was his interpreter that had ran up a pretty

25:22

big tab with like you mentioned, an illegal book maker, something that would

25:27

not have happened if he was betting at a regulated shop. You cannot get

25:32

into severe debt with a regulated sports book, so that wouldn't happened. And

25:36

now we're trying to figure out a lot of layers, and there's a lot of different layers, but I certainly believe this is the biggest story involving sports

25:45

betting easily in the last five to ten years. It's an odd thing,

25:48

and then you add in the Murphy water that it starts in, but then

25:52

you add an interpreter, So there's a lot of If he Roseen had an

25:56

interpreter to blame, my god, he'd be in the Hall of Fame.

26:00

He could be I don't know. I mean, there's a lot of layers

26:03

to that, but it's just bewildering anything else. Before we let you hop, I appreciate you being so free with your time in the Insight, but

26:07

I had to ask you about the baseball thing, because that's just wild.

26:11

Oh absolutely, it's a huge story. The only thing that would make sure

26:14

we distinguish between Pete Rose As far as we know right now, none of

26:18

the betting that took place involving Otani's interpreter was on baseball, right, And

26:23

that's what did d Pete Rose. He bet on baseball. I once you

26:26

bet on baseball, bet on games you're involved in, that's a cardinal senter

26:32

And is that pretty much the universal rule throughout sports now that you can bet

26:36

on other things, but they don't want you betting on anything associated with your

26:38

sports, certainly your team, your action where you're involved, because then it

26:41

starts getting into the shady business of how credible is the game itself. Yeah,

26:47

every major sports league has that rule. If you want to bet on

26:51

the NBA, if you play in the NFL, no big deal. He's a legal operator. You're allowed to do it. If you want to bet

26:56

on the NFL Draft, absolutely not face a suspension. So you can beat

27:02

just don't bet on the games and sports you're involved. There you go. Well, So hopefully it comes out clear that Otani's okay. The interpreter and

27:07

it's just a lot of murky water. It's always good to talk to you.

27:10

Thanks for sort of giving and giving some insight into all the action that's going on now in the midst of it. And it sounds like you're in

27:15

the car, so be safe, man, and I appreciate you always giving

27:17

us some time. You're a good man. You got to have a good weekend. Everybody, take care of yourself. He's David bring the pain perdum

27:22

for ESPN Shock Sterling back in a minute, your chance to get interactive.

27:26

Here's what I'm curious about. How much wagering and you're doing during this madness

27:30

of March. Are you into the pool in the office, are you hanging

27:33

out doing squares? And have you done all of that? Are you actually

27:36

on the apps? You know? Are you going to the sports book? How involved and engaged are you or are you disconnected? There's a whole lot

27:42

of people obviously, I mean, you're giving us time tonight. We appreciate

27:45

it. But there's a lot of people paying a lot of close attention to

27:48

that basketball, maybe more than before because there's dollars on the line, or

27:52

maybe more than dollars, like a lot of dollars. More Sterling coming back

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28:07

warned Russia that there was an impending attack coming to that part of the world

28:11

sooner than later turns out was right, how much they paid attention to the

28:15

US and the weird politics of all of that. Coming up. Also,

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we got Kevin Carr, fat guys in the movies talking about the new Ghosts

28:22

Ghostbusters movie, and much more. Sterling, slightly medicated, less congested on

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Chief Market Friday Night. Iron Mate. You know what's really hard for me

29:56

to process right about now is that forty two years ago today, the Number

30:00

of the Beast Iron Maiden album came out. And I can remember I had

30:07

a neighbor whose older brother was like huge into them, and it was always

30:11

playing like Sabbath and Maiden and all this other stuff. And I really at

30:15

that point hadn't really like, I didn't know what all was going on.

30:18

I hadn't gotten my toe touched into the water yet or whatever else. But

30:22

the Number of the Beast turned into it, and I mean, it's an

30:26

incredible album, and it sort of was my welcoming end to everything that has

30:29

been Iron made. And they're still out there doing it, which is just

30:32

an amazing thing. So yeah, forty two years ago today that number of

30:37

the Beast came out, which is just absolutely tremendous. Tonight you'll have a

30:41

chance if you're in it and trying to win it. Of course, a

30:44

nine hundred and seventy seven million dollar jackpot estimated cash out option four hundred and

30:51

sixty seven million dollars. You could buy a reissue copy or all of them

30:56

for probably for that matter, if you got your hand on that mega million's

31:00

jackpot. I'm not sure exactly even when it was won the last time nobody

31:06

got it last Tuesday, there were some match five winners around the country or

31:11

whatever else. This is one of those times where I'll get a text from

31:15

my mom says, you know, you could pick up some lottery tickets for

31:18

me. This is the time you should play, she'd say. And I'm

31:21

like, everybody else is playing to it, Joe, But it's a lot is that I'd have to share with more people, She goes, But still,

31:26

you have a bad attitude. You gotta think positive, you gotta think.

31:30

I was like, I don't think no matter how positively I think,

31:33

it's going to have an effect on the outcome of those numbers, just the

31:36

same five plus that what a megapply your number or whatever it's called tonight,

31:41

nine hundred and seventy seven million dollars. Yeah, I think I could get

31:45

all of those records on vinyl that I would want to try to build up

31:49

that I guess collection again or whatever else. And that is not enough for

31:53

you, and you think, well, maybe I'd like to get in on

31:56

some other action. Tomorrow night, just about twenty five hours, in about

32:00

thirty seconds from right now, seven hundred and fifty million dollar jackpot, that's

32:06

like three quarters of a billion dollars cash value, three hundred and sixty million,

32:09

eight hundred thousand dollars up for grabs. With the powerball, another five

32:15

ball drawing, you get their power plays what they call that one. I

32:17

think you got to pay extra for that one to get in the cash,

32:21

which is wild. So yeah, there's a lot of money to be won, and I would imagine there's a whole lot of people hitting some gas stations

32:28

and mini marts and wherever else you can get those tickets leading up to eleven

32:31

o'clock tonight for the drawing, and then again tomorrow mega millions in Powerball.

32:36

That's a lot of dough that'll handle like a sort of filling in the cost

32:40

of inflation may be down inflation, but it's not all the way down.

32:45

I would think I'd be a lot closer to getting healthy with an extra three

32:50

hundred and sixty million, eight hundred thousand dollars cash money in my pocket.

32:53

And then you get like taxes, right, so because it's an annuity.

32:57

Otherwise you know, what do you even if you give away more than half

33:00

on taxes on that? I'm guessing right, so maybe one hundred and fifty

33:05

hundred and sixty million. Man, it might be tough going on that one.

33:08

I don't know if I could handle it. I think I'd probably have

33:10

some cash money left over. I could probably work it out. I mean

33:15

I might. I might, you know, get a new roof, might

33:17

take a tree down here or there, might buy a new tricycle or something.

33:22

I don't know. You'd find some stuff to do. Stone shieldss like I could find something to do with a couple million dollars, Sterling, I'll

33:27

help you. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt about

33:29

it. Taron Johnson knows about that, and a whole lot of other stuff

33:32

going on. Ten o'clock reports straight away, next hour, Kevin Carr,

33:36

Fat Guys at the movies. Later, doctor Donna Slak from Wright State,

33:39

former head of political science now professor Emerida, going to talk about that Isis

33:44

attack in Moscow and how the US actually warned Russia that there was an impending

33:49

attack in their capital city and unfortunately turned out to be so Isis doesn't like

33:53

us, doesn't like them. Is just a pain in the ass, basically

33:58

news time, and I'm not making lie it. There's a lot of innocent people lost their lives trying to have a good night out, and that's pretty

34:04

much the circumstance around the world when it comes to issues of terrorism. News

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straight away, more sterling on a Friday night where the Reds play and those

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basketball Bearcats in the nit tomorrow afternoon, seven hundred WLW Cincinnati correctly informed them

34:19

and warned them that they had intelligence information about an impending attack and danger place

34:25

very similar to the circumstance that happened in that music venue, that artists venue

34:30

that happened in Moscow. Over the last several hours with I think the last

34:36

number I saw was upwards of sixty people dead, an uncold number of injured,

34:40

and just a horrible circumstance. Doctor Schlack, who knows, is an

34:45

expert on terrorism and so many other things. We'll talk to her about that.

34:47

Just about an hour's time or so to start. Now, though,

34:52

here's my question, should you be allowed? And I even weird wording this

35:00

question this way, but I'm going to ask it this way because historically in

35:06

the United States, it's been very easy to get married, right, maybe

35:10

not to find the person to marry, depending, but certainly easy to find

35:16

someone in to say I do forever and always stomp that glass, jump that

35:21

broom, whatever it is that you do, or go to the Justice of the peace and sign those documents and legally become partners forever and always till death

35:30

do you part or in at least until you're tired of them, or something

35:34

like that. It was very challenging to get divorced. Historically. You had

35:39

to have a proof of adultery. You had to prove that they left you.

35:45

In other words, they went out for smokes and never came back.

35:47

They were cruel, they'd beat you or abuseia in some type of way or

35:52

something along those lines states didn't want people getting divorced, and primarily it was

36:00

then who had the power when it comes to such things and would have to

36:04

get you know, it would be like who actually has a copy of the

36:06

marriage license? So whoever had the license had the power hand in the relationship

36:12

to say, no, you're not going anywhere, you're not getting anything for

36:15

me. You're either married to me or you're married to me away, but either way I got you. That's not the case anymore at this point.

36:22

California, if I'm not mistaken, was the first state then introduced and allowed

36:28

what they call no fault divorce, going back to the late sixties, nineteen

36:32

sixty nine, nineteen seventy, meaning that if it was a married couple,

36:37

you could get divorced just because you said you didn't want to be with them

36:40

anymore. You didn't have to prove that they had gone out on you,

36:44

that they had done something wrong to you, or that you had done something

36:47

wrong to them for them to be able to say, Okay, we're done.

36:52

And it's a weird place in which we're in now where the mindset it's

36:57

different. More than half of all marriages and in divorce you talk regularly about

37:01

not wanting the government in our lives. Right, In other words, that

37:06

you and I and anyone that we know, consenting adults should be able to

37:08

live their lives freely as long as they're not hurting someone else, right,

37:14

that they're a good citizen. You should be able to do whatever it is that you want, the privacy of your own home, live your life,

37:19

pursue that dream if you will, of happiness, and what have you.

37:23

So what I want to know is this, do you think that not being

37:30

in love is a legally valid reason for divorcing? Should you be allowed to

37:37

divorce? Not because they beat you, not because they cheated, not because

37:40

you got decided that you found love somewhere else that they weren't giving you the

37:45

love. There was not enough loving going on. If you know what I'm

37:47

saying to satisfy you, and you're like, you know what, I got

37:51

to go someplace else. I don't want to step out. I want to get out. Give me you know what's mine, or you keep what's yours,

37:57

and I'm done. Let's get a divorce. Let's get it done.

38:00

Not as easy as that usually five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred.

38:06

The Big one talk back the iHeartRadio app. What I want to know

38:08

is, should you be allowed? Is it appropriate in that type of circumstance

38:13

to say, you know what, don't love you? So I'm done with

38:16

you because I don't do. They ask if they I've not been married?

38:22

Chances are you have? You're if you're an adult, right, I would

38:24

hope. I don't think any kids are getting married. God forbid, that

38:28

is too early, right. I've not jumped the broom, I've not stomped

38:31

the glass. I've not said I do forever and always. I have cohabitated

38:36

or, as my mom would say jokingly with a wink and a smile,

38:38

by the way, lived in sin a couple of times with the various women,

38:43

and usually last between seven and ten years. And then it's, uh,

38:46

I'm tired of them, or they're tired of me, or what have

38:50

you, And then it's on to the next one. And I don't know

38:52

if that's a seven year itch thing or otherwise been close to say and I

38:55

do, but it hasn't worked out. And it's certainly more complicated when you

39:01

have a ring on the finger, when you have the government involved, you

39:05

know, you got to get lawyers involved, you have joint known community property

39:08

to concern yourself with, and you may have kids. Now you don't certainly

39:12

have to be married to have the children, but that is certainly part of

39:15

it when you think about a family unit and moms and dads and little kids

39:20

and so forth. But in the past, it was very challenging for someone

39:24

to get a divorce. The government didn't want people getting divorced. They thought

39:29

it was their responsibility to keep people together. My question is, even though

39:32

you may be against divorce, it may not be for you. Do you

39:36

think the government should tell people that, whether they love each other or not,

39:39

that they should be forced to stay together or work on staying together,

39:44

rather than just doing a disillusion or a cutoff and breaking away and divorcing at

39:51

will five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred the big one. And

39:53

I present it that way because I don't think the government has any business telling

39:57

anybody. I think the government should be in the business in that point.

40:00

If you know, outside looking in, and if you've been through it,

40:04

or if you're a divorce lawyer or a child of divorce or something along those

40:07

lines, your viewpoint may be different. I've had friends and family divorced.

40:14

I've gone out with women who have been divorced, but I still am of

40:19

the opinion that it shouldn't be the government's business other than administratively handle the legality,

40:22

so you can handle what's required for insurance and property ownership and all the

40:27

other stuff that is that when it comes to insurance and kids and care.

40:31

What do you think to Madisonville and Jason with Sterling, you can get interactive

40:36

to five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred the Big One. Jason,

40:39

I appreciate you holding if you're not in love anymore, should you be

40:43

able to get a divorce? H Well, Sterling, I love your show.

40:47

By the way, Thank you mante Es. You know, I was

40:50

going to kind of touch on, you know, how I grew up with

40:53

my parents. You know, my my parents kind of grew up in a

40:57

time where, you know, if you guys got into a disagreement, you

41:00

know, you you pretty much say, well, let's go to bed,

41:04

we'll try to again tomorrow. You know. Sure, my parents were together

41:07

for like thirty years, you know, and maybe it's just like a generally

41:14

generational shift, you know, because everything these days is all social media,

41:21

you know, like everybody's doing the speed dating. Now, you know,

41:24

it's kind of like you get sick of somebody and then you know, people

41:28

just easily move on. It's hard. I mean, it's it's an odd

41:35

thing. But you know, the idea that the government would limit it and

41:38

spread that the no fault divorces, I understand the Jason and looking I did

41:43

a little bit of research here, because you know, got to about forty

41:45

seven states at this point have permitted no fault divorce. Going into the mid

41:52

to late seventies, middle eighties, all fifty states in some fashion have allowed

41:55

it. But now apparently there's groups of so called conservatives that are saying that

42:02

they want to make it harder for people to get divorced because they think that

42:06

the sanctity of marriage has been I guess crapped on by people who don't take

42:12

it seriously. And I understand the idea of it, but isn't that more

42:16

about your personal choice or my personal choice, or our parents or whatever,

42:21

rather than the government getting involved in telling us to do anything. I'm bewildered

42:24

that a conservative would have the mindset that it's the government's business to tell us

42:29

that we have to stay together right, well, and I feel like,

42:32

you know, if it's not going to work out, I mean, you

42:36

know, different people have different situations going on. Sure, you know,

42:39

like people are you know, women are getting abused, men are getting abused,

42:44

you know. I mean, so I think that there's certain circumstances in

42:47

which, you know, you should have to write to say, well,

42:52

you know, this obviously isn't working out for my well being, right,

42:55

you know. And unfortunately it gets more complicated once you get children in involved,

43:00

and you know, because you know, basically your children a property of

43:06

the government too, you know, so that's a scary thought that to a

43:10

certain extent. Anyway, yeah, they kind of are. But at that

43:14

point that the shift of attention and care is for the kids. But you

43:16

know, there's that fine line, right, And I've had a few friends

43:19

like this, Jason. When I was growing up, everybody seemed to think

43:22

that their parents were you know, there was like the perfect family setting.

43:25

Then a couple of my friends got like out of school and the parents were

43:29

divorced, like in a blink of an eye, like they were waiting just to make sure, all right, the kids are out, We're done.

43:34

It's like, how long did you not like to like each other. You

43:37

faked it for how long? That's crazy? Right, Yeah, that's tough.

43:42

Well, you know, well, like I said, you know,

43:45

I think that there's personal circumstances. You know, I'm of the sound mind

43:50

that I don't believe that we should be letting government really interfere in anything.

43:53

Yeah, regarding our lives, because everything that they touch, you know,

43:58

let's be honest, it goes crap, so tends to that's true. I've been accused that's what happens when I touched stuff. But that's a whole other

44:02

problem. Jason Man, I appreciate the call and the kind words. I'm

44:07

glad you're listening to the show, and I appreciate you being a part of it. Well, take a break, we'll come back. So that's where

44:10

Jason stands in no fault. Divorces are fairly common, right, fairly prevalent,

44:16

even though they may get nasty when it comes to how much stuff somebody

44:19

wants to get or how much they want to give and what have you.

44:22

And then you get the kids that there are always an issue. But there

44:24

is a push now and it is oddly enough from so called conservative groups that

44:30

are of the opinion that they want to make it harder for people to get

44:32

a divorce. I just don't think it's any business of the government or your

44:37

neighbor or my neighbors to tell you, me, or anybody else how they

44:42

should live their marital life or divorce life for that matter. What do you

44:45

think? Eight hundred the Big One five point three seven four nine, seven

44:50

thousand. If you're on X at Sterling Radio that's used to be Twitter,

44:52

you can talk back on the iHeartRadio app by clicking on that microphone. Later,

44:57

Kevin Carr, Fat Guys at the movies, Doctor Donna Schlaken give us

45:00

insight on that terrorist attack and Russia and what that means for us is the

45:04

United States tried to give them some warning to let them know that there was

45:07

impending attack on their soil. Turned out, unfortunately, to be accurate.

45:13

Lots to do and your chance to be heard on the other side, quick break, come back on a Friday night seven hundred WLW. Listening to a

45:22

woman shop in the produce section isn't funny? Yeah, a sail on cucumbers

45:27

listening to a woman poot next to the Granny smiths ooops is funny. Eddie

45:32

and Rocky are also funny. So when you think of an apple fartier ooops,

45:37

think of Eddie and Rocky. Eddie and Rocky. Monday afternoon at three

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on seven hundred WLW, Spring is here. It's time Sterling hanging out.

45:49

Nine first winning forecast on the Big One on their Friday night some rain now

45:53

thirty four overnight, loan close to fifty for your Saturday, clear and clouds

45:59

back in the mix. Middle fifties Sunday, which is closer to normal to

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tri state, and then the first of the week close to seventy I think

46:06

sixty seven with rain expected. Right now, it's still a balmy forty five

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year severe weather Station seven hundred WLW basketball Bearcats in action tomorrow. They host

46:16

Bradley at the fifth third Arena in the NIT Tournament, and that's the second

46:22

round. They got by San Francisco seventy three seventy two, and there was

46:28

a lot of drama. Let's see other scores in the NCAA tournament and the

46:34

madness of March which we talked to David bring the Pain Purdam form ESPN.

46:37

We may hear a bit of that conversation again later talking about the business of

46:43

sports betting, which is massive, bigger now than maybe ever when it comes

46:46

to this because it's illegal. Frankly, that's what sort of how it goes.

46:51

But let me just quickly go through winners today. My bracket is slightly

46:53

bloodied. Maybe yours is too. Northwestern one Baylor got by Holgate. Marquette

47:00

got by Western Kentucky that by eighteen, not all that surprising. San Diego

47:07

State escaped Uab Clemson was all over New Mexico. That was in a six

47:13

and eleven. I had that one Yukon pounded Stetson. Yale upset Auburn seventy

47:20

eight, seventy six. That was a mess for a lot of people's bracket.

47:23

Colorado and Florida, Colorado one o two, the Gators one one hundred.

47:29

That in the South regional Duke got by Vermont sixty four to forty seven.

47:34

Texas A and m over Nebraska that mayor that was an eight nine.

47:37

So I mean, that's sort of an either or coin of scenario. I

47:39

suppose let's see what else we got. Perdue got by Grambling, who made

47:45

it through the first four in Dayton to get beat by the boiler Makers.

47:47

Seventy eight point fifty. Alabama got by Charleston one oh nine ninety six.

47:53

Let's see Wisconsin and James Madison right now twenty one James Madison leading wiscon since

48:00

Badger's they're twenty one sixteen. That's first round south of the regional with about

48:04

six minutes left and change Houston all over Longwood in the first half, still

48:08

sometime, a good bit of time left and they're nearly tripled them up twenty

48:12

three to nine right now. The Cougars they look to go deep into the

48:15

tournament later at Utah State and TCU Grand Canyon. That's my pick over Saint

48:20

Mary's. Not that you asked what my pick was. I just thought i'd

48:22

tell you quickly. Let's get Harrison Dave in before the news. We were

48:27

talking about marriage and government involvement and the idea of not being allowed to get

48:32

divorced for no cause, and the idea that a situation where if you're not

48:37

in love anymore, should you be allowed to get divorced, which seems to me it's nobody's business but your own. Dave, what do you think you're

48:42

with Sterling on the big one? Thank Sterling? How's it going. You

48:45

know, that's kind of a two way street with me, because you know,

48:49

to get married, you have to get involved with the government. You

48:52

have to get a license, you have to you know, register, I

48:57

mean, you don't have to do any of that. You don't have to

49:00

legally get married. So, you know, inevitably, if you ever think

49:05

that that's going to happen, with a flip of the coin of what marriage

49:07

is anymore fifty percent sales? Anyway, why go through all of the government

49:14

legality in the first place, that's a solid question. But then you've got

49:16

to get some other documents handled legally to make sure the issues with kids and

49:22

property and shared ownership and I mean all those other things that have to be

49:25

there in case so you're involved with the government anyway. Yeah, well,

49:29

there's no way around it, right, I mean, Rice, it is. But to say that you've got to take a test or you know,

49:35

in some fashion pass a test to be able to say we're done with each

49:37

other. It's ridiculous, isn't it. Well, I don't believe anybody should

49:42

get involved with anybody's lives. It is a personal thing. But you know,

49:45

you know, you cannot do it one way or the other. I

49:50

mean, I'm telling you you can't do that. It's one thing, but you still have to have them part of it, whether you like it or

49:55

not. That's true. Man, these there's no way around it. I

49:59

guess there were places. I guess of all of them, this is the best place to be, which is why we call it home, Dave.

50:04

I appreciate the calling the perspective man. Thank you for listening to be a

50:06

part of the show any time. Take care of yourself. I'm late for

50:08

news. I'm sorry. At ten o'clock, ten thirty report here Kevin Carr

50:13

on the other side. We'll talk movies because that's what he does on a

50:15

Friday night. Sterling Nation Station seven hundred WLW. Kevin Carr with me Fat

50:21

Guys at the Movies, Chubby and Stick podcast. And this isn't a monumental

50:25

weekend for me. Now. I don't know how big it is for you,

50:28

but I can remember being a young Sterling going and seeing Ghostbusters in the

50:31

theater as a little guy and going, how amazing is this where the ghost

50:37

are? Is this new one good? They're never going to live up to

50:40

this movie ever. That's never better Ghostbusters than this movie I'm watching right now

50:45

in nineteen eighty four. I mean, I thought it was fantastic, and

50:50

even now it sort of stands up in a funny, humorous way. But

50:52

they've got a new one. Now, this is this the first or the second where they brought all the most of the originals back, or all the

50:57

originals plus the new generation of They've had two new generations. I'm so confused.

51:02

Okay, just the rocky road of the Ghostbuster movies. Yeah, the

51:07

first one a really great film, aside from the little weird treaty behavior of

51:12

Bill Murray's character, and it still like solds up completely today. Then you

51:15

had five years later Ghostbusters too, which was the same cast. They brought

51:21

everybody back. It was fine, but it was not nearly as good as

51:24

the original. It was a clear sequel that it is a lark to watch

51:30

now, but it's never going to live down as a classic. Then in

51:32

twenty sixteen, after many many years, they did the Hey, let's do

51:37

it all females Ghostbusters and that thing was a disaster and nobody wants to talk

51:42

about that, and they just kind of buried it at the studios with good

51:46

reason. Then they had Ghostbusters After Life come out a couple of years ago,

51:51

back in twenty twenty one, and that was them rebooting the story again

51:55

but keeping it as part of the story from the original two films. So

52:02

in that one, it takes place in Oklahoma, and it's the family and

52:07

the descendants of Egon Spangler, who's played by Harold Ramis, who Harold Ramis

52:14

has passed away, and of course the character had they wrote that, and

52:19

so there was this paranormal event that was happening on Oklahoma. They all had

52:22

kind of kind of bring the Ghostbusters back in a very different environment, and

52:27

you had like Paul Rudd and these kids that the kids of somebody he was

52:32

ended up dating, played by Kerry Coon. And so that was the most

52:37

recent one, and this is a direct sequel to that one. So if you've not seen Ghostbusters Afterlife, the most recent one, it wouldn't hurt to

52:45

go check that to watch it before you check out the new movie, because

52:49

it's it continues their story. You can completely ignore the twenty sixteen version.

52:54

You can just pretend that that doesn't exist, like most people do. But

53:00

it wouldn't hurt to check out Ghostbusters After Life if you're gonna want to check

53:04

out this movie. Is this movie like, I mean, does it stand

53:07

up? Does it have some legs? Like if kids go see this now, will they have the same feeling that we did when we were kids seeing

53:13

the first Ghostbusters? Possibly? Or no, well it's not gonna be as

53:16

iconic, you know what I mean? There was something there really was lightning

53:20

in the bottle with the original Ghostbusters, and that's it's sort of like,

53:23

you know, they've done sequels and spin off TV shows to Psycho, but

53:28

you just never quite I mean, that's such a perfect movie. How do

53:30

you match that? You know, you're always going to be that's gonna be

53:36

the you know what, what's shadowing the shadow moving over you is that you're

53:39

a sequel to Psycho and this one it's the same thing. You're a sequel

53:45

to a really iconic, great movie of the eighties and in a way defined

53:52

part of the generation and part of the decade. So you kind of have

53:55

to You remember, there was that that Centerate Life sketch with John Lovett's and

54:01

he was doing like video dating and he's like, hey, girls, here's

54:06

what you do. Lower your standards. You don't need somebody who's good looking,

54:12

you just need me. I'm loyal. Lower your standards, And that's

54:15

kind of my suggestion for this in a lot of movies, lower your expectations.

54:21

Don't go in expecting, like you said, what it was like when

54:25

you know, we were like twelve years old seeing Ghostbusters in the theater.

54:30

It's not going to be that same thing. But with that said, it's

54:35

it's it's fun, it has action, it has comedy, it has big

54:39

spectacle. Ghosts do get busted throughout the movie. Help, but yeah,

54:46

it's it's not as original well you know, cause so the story is,

54:51

it's the after they move back from Oklahoma and they the new Ghostbusters are trying

54:55

to restart the business in Manhattan where they've got their at the firehouse and they

55:00

get the little Fay, you know, like a referrised ambulance, and they're

55:05

trying to bust ghosts in New York City and there's this entity that's trying to

55:10

break over from the other side and you know, take over the world,

55:14

and they got to stop that. So the movie has that in there,

55:19

but it does kind of it's at odds with itself because there's part of it

55:22

that wants to be the new people, you know, with the kids and

55:25

Paul Rudd, and they have things that have sort of changed the way sort

55:30

of the background of how ghosts work, you know, if you compare them

55:34

to what they did in the original. But then they have the the legacy

55:37

cash you got dan Ackroyd and Ernie Hudson have sizeable roles in there, and

55:42

he pots is in there, Bill Murray. They play it like it's a

55:45

big surprise he shows up, but we've seen him on every piece of advertising

55:50

and poster out there, so you know, Blue Murray's there too, And

55:52

the story seems at odds between those two generations, and you know it's not

55:58

perfect, but you know, you take your kids. I think the kids

56:00

will like it good good, And do they re cycle the Ray Parker Junior

56:07

who you're gonna call Ghostbusters song or no? You know, they don't really

56:10

play that a whole lot, and which I guess part of it is that's

56:15

that's I guess the part of the not the problem, but the hurdles it

56:20

has is how much of that nostalgia do you lean into and how much of

56:25

stuff is normal? Like, for example, there's a there's a character that

56:32

like ends up talking to a ghost and having conversations with the ghosts, and

56:37

I'm like, well, that's kind of not how ghosts worked In the first Ghostbusters. They were all kind of weird and monstrous and strange, you know,

56:44

they weren't just some teenager and so they changed that up. And that's

56:50

where it feels less like Ghostbusters and more like Ghostbusters too, where it was

56:54

trying to work almost a science behind the ghost of that. It just,

57:00

you know, because because because it's ghosts, you know, you're talking about

57:06

the science of capturing ghosts and stuff like that. Got to find the key

57:08

Master. I think in the end there's a callback to the first one master.

57:12

Yeah, yeah, the Gatekeeper. There you go. He's Kevin Carr.

57:15

I'm sterling hanging out at the Nation station seven hundred WLW talking to this

57:19

new Ghostbusters movie. And it's actually called what Frozen Empire? I guess Frozen

57:24

Empire? Right? Right? Is there anything else this weekend that's worth actually

57:29

seeing? And we know there's a ton of basketball that's happening, Uh so

57:31

there's you know, maybe a break from that, or I guess the antithesis,

57:36

the the anti programming to go against it. I guess if you're against

57:38

the basketball. I don't know. Yeah, well, counterprogramming works if you

57:45

don't want to if you don't want to go to the theater. Now, there's some other stuff I haven't seen at all, because we talked about as

57:52

off there. I haven't. I haven't said it on the I talked about it when I was on Eddie and Rocky earlier. I'm pulling back and uh

57:59

no longer hosting the Fat Guys of the Movies radio show and podcast. So

58:02

that's I'm still gonna be doing movie reviews and stuff, and the website's still

58:07

going to be there, but I'm not seeing as many movies right now.

58:09

I'm dialing that back. So there are stuff. There's stuff out there.

58:14

I just haven't seen it. Like that. There's that immaculate movie with Sydney

58:19

Sweeney, right, it's a horror film. I haven't seen. I do

58:22

want to see it, but you know, they're not screening anything now,

58:24

so you know what am I gonna do? And then there is the Roadhouse

58:30

remake is on Amazon Prime. Now. I have not pulled the you know,

58:36

pull the trigger and watch that one. I've heard mixings. I've heard some people say it's great. But then again, sometimes they get caught up

58:42

in the hype of there's like a behind the scenes fight going on with that.

58:46

But I was told by another host they challenged me to watch ten minutes

58:52

in one second of it and then if I could get past that, you

58:57

know, they said it's the worst opening they've ever seen of a movie.

58:59

So well, that's that's some big competition for the borest ten minutes in a

59:04

second of any movie comparison. But that's it. I've told it was good

59:07

by a couple of people, and I've been told that it's a waste of time by others. But that was also what a lot of people said about

59:13

the first movie, as I recall, Well, the thing is, I've

59:16

not watched the first movie in years. When I first when I watched the

59:22

first movie, it was not the iconic nature. It was just some crappy

59:25

Patrick Swayzey movie that went to cable right, and then over the years it

59:30

kind of became iconic, and I've never seen it since. And I got

59:34

admit, when I saw it the first time, I'm like, this is

59:36

a really stupid movie. Yeah, I kind of was too, and then I came back to it went wait, a minute. Did he bowl heart

59:40

out? Is that in his hand? How did he do that? What's

59:43

that about? And then the whole world was like, have you not seen

59:45

this? This is the best movie, And I'm like, I don't know if it really is. Yeah, you know, it's sort of like the

59:50

Goonies effect. I've said this, there's multiple Goonies effects, but one of

59:53

them is Gooties. Was this movie for nineteen eighty five? Lots of fun,

59:57

cute kids movie, absolutely, But but what it ended up happening is

1:00:01

it ended up getting played in a heavy rotation in the late eighties early nineties

1:00:07

on cable like HBO just played it all the time. And so all these

1:00:10

kids who are like a generation below me watched it when it was on cable

1:00:15

and they think it's the greatest movie ever. And I've watched The Goodies.

1:00:17

I'm like, it's fine, but it's not that great. You know,

1:00:22

we all have those movies. You know. I am one person to acknowledge

1:00:27

that Halloween three season of the which is probably not as good as I enjoy

1:00:30

it. And I did watch Leprechaun last weekend, as any good Irish boy

1:00:37

should, absolutely, you know, on Saint Patrick's day. I'll admit Leprechaun's

1:00:42

not a great movie, but it's so terrible it's it's great for what it

1:00:46

is, I think, and it's just what I love about Leprechaun is the

1:00:51

first, like five minutes, five ten minutes, that opening sequence where the

1:00:53

guy brings a Leprechaun over from Ireland and like Murders's wife, and that's like

1:01:00

a legitimately good opening. It's I mean, it's cheesy and it's corny and

1:01:06

it's low budget, but it's legitimately it works. And then Jennifer Anderson shows

1:01:09

up and it just all goes like the two absolute bonkers and Red's rare.

1:01:16

I think in life historically that when you say when Jennifer Aniston shows up,

1:01:20

it goes downhill, it's usually the other way for one reason or not.

1:01:22

Well, no, maybe a little bit. I mean, may be sure

1:01:28

if I were, like, you know, when when she was at the dinner Prime and I were sitting at home and she showed up naked, that

1:01:32

would probably be an upswing in my life. But if uh, you know,

1:01:40

if if you know, I'm pretty sure you know, if she showed

1:01:43

up in the in in what is it? Brad Ditt's House. He's gonna

1:01:49

be like Jesus lady again, you know so? I mean? And then

1:01:52

also in the movies that she did most a lot of the early movies she

1:01:55

did coming right out of Friends. Oh, there are a couple that were

1:01:59

good. Was in Office Space love that, but it wasn't her fault.

1:02:01

I mean Office Space was kind of good in spite of her and along King

1:02:06

Polly. But she did some real crap when she started doing movies. You

1:02:09

do what you gotta do. I guess is there anything else before you let

1:02:13

you go? Now? I'm all like like thinking, man, I need to spend some time watching some Jennifer Aniston. I don't know. This is

1:02:16

just where my head is, but could be the medication I am on Coft

1:02:20

zero. Well you know that's that's probably the best way to take Jennifer and

1:02:24

if you have to, But no, I think that that kind of covers

1:02:30

all right. So Ghostbusters not bad, especially if your kid why not?

1:02:34

And the others whatever, So all right, I don't know what to say.

1:02:37

Now, no longer the chubby and we don't do the chubbying stick.

1:02:39

We could revisit that the fat Guy's the movie Gone. You can't get rid

1:02:43

of me that easy. I'm like a cockroaching man. I know we've been talking off and on for a long, long long time. We were like

1:02:49

eight years old, I think when we started on the radio or something like

1:02:51

that. I don't know. Yeah, it's been a lot. Getting ready to watch the Ghostbusters stick It sounds about right. He's Kevin Carr. Thank

1:02:59

you for making time. Catch up again sooner and later. It's more sterling

1:03:01

coming back in between coughs and medication on a weekend here at the Nation station

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Well, are you forced to give a nosebleed mortgage? Talk to Whitney

1:05:09

Harris. She knows what's up, so she will disseminate mass quantities of information.

1:05:12

And she told me that she got to go to the Great American Ballpark

1:05:15

and sample all the new foods and the old foods. Well, I mean it's new food, newly prepared. I don't mean it's like old food that

1:05:19

was around since like the end of last season. But they got like menu

1:05:24

items and changes and so forth. And I used to be like on the

1:05:27

end and would be invited to these things. I don't know why I'm not

1:05:30

getting these invitations anymore, Like get like mo you get Land. You know,

1:05:34

maybe Eddie and Rocky, maybe Sloaney, I'm sure will, but no

1:05:39

love for Stirling. I'm not bitter. I'm not angry. I'm just saying.

1:05:42

But Whitney Harris was like the food was good. It was good.

1:05:44

She was like, it's bad food, but it's good food. I'm like exactly anyway, So she's about four minutes away. With your eleven o'clock report

1:05:51

coming up, we'll talk to doctor Dona Schleheck after the news. She is

1:05:56

the former head of political science at Wright State, now professor Emeridith. She's

1:06:00

an expert in in terrorism issues politics in general. We'll talk to her about

1:06:04

the issue in Russia Moscow and the attack by ISIS on that music and our

1:06:11

venue, leaving a whole lot of people dead and many more injured, a

1:06:15

horrible circumstance. ISIS has taken credit. The US actually warned Russia about the

1:06:20

impending danger of an imminent attack, which apparently, even though they are enemy

1:06:26

and we have problems, our government still gave him a nod and let them

1:06:30

know that this was something that they should expect. Unfortunately it came to fruition.

1:06:34

We'll talk to her about that. And big news domestically is that the

1:06:39

Senate has somehow found their way to not passing, but blocking and failing the

1:06:45

spending bill temporary or otherwise. So it is likely that we'll be looking at

1:06:49

another partial government shutdown in some fashion. So we'll figure out exactly what the

1:06:56

ins and outs of that are. The House figured it out, the Senate

1:07:00

apparently not. And razor thin margins for GOP types in the House now and

1:07:06

the Senate has its issues. You got to keep the government open. There's

1:07:11

too much at risk, and it costs the economy too much. It's bewildering

1:07:16

the circumstance we're in, and it's just like the same broken record over and

1:07:19

over and over again, last minute solutions, temporary fixes. What's what's the

1:07:25

term that when I was a kid, the kicking the can down the street,

1:07:28

I think is the term that is used. It's like, well, and now apparently they can't even do that. So we'll see exactly what that

1:07:34

means for the government to services, our military, the border and everything else,

1:07:41

which, of course, the border is a mess and has been.

1:07:43

And they had a solution that the Senate passed that the House wouldn't even look

1:07:46

at, that was agreed to, and it was everything that was wanted as

1:07:51

far as tougher things, the toughest immigration bill as I understand it, in

1:07:57

decades the majority of my life, would have been able to be implemented and

1:08:01

have already gotten funds for more security on the border to the south, in

1:08:06

a growing problem to the north. But apparently lawmakers can't get their heads out

1:08:14

of their ass and figure out how to do that. So I'll also talk to doctor Slack about that, because here, you know, it's such an

1:08:19

emergency. It's such a problem with tens of thousands weekly in excess of what

1:08:27

they say now eight to ten million new undocumented types coming across the border that

1:08:31

now have to be hopeful that they'll come back at a court appearance or maybe

1:08:35

they weaseled in without even having to go to court to make an appearance,

1:08:39

to do it the right way. So many of them apparently trying not to

1:08:43

do it the right way, and it's utter chaos. But lawmakers could have

1:08:47

done something. There was an agreed deal in the Senate and couldn't get done,

1:08:53

and a former president was like no, so they were like, okay,

1:08:57

we'll say no. Meanwhile, the talk is, well the borders a

1:09:00

disaster to the borders that well, no kidding, and there could have been

1:09:02

at least some effort in some benefit to getting a fix, but apparently it's

1:09:08

a it's a rectal problem and a heads right up the back end, which

1:09:12

is ridiculous and disturbing. And it's these people in DC not doing the country's

1:09:17

good, which is why they're supposed to be there. So we'll see news

1:09:24

time straight away. Am I bitter? Am I angry? Yeah, I'm

1:09:27

a little bit. We'll try to make sense of all of it, from

1:09:29

the attack in Russia to the issue of the partial government shut down that may

1:09:32

in fact be upon us and to so much more with Donna, Doctor Donna

1:09:36

Shleak. After the news Whitney Harris has it Reds in action tomorrow Cactus lead

1:09:42

stuff, and we are now what six days away technically from Red's opening Day,

1:09:45

and Sunday, if you didn't know, is officially Jim Scott Day in

1:09:50

Cincinnati, which is the way it should be. It's every day is Jim

1:09:54

Scott Day, the home of the Reds on a Friday, Sterling seven hundred

1:09:58

WLW, Cincinnati. Appreciate you being here trying to make sense of things.

1:10:01

Later conversation with David bring to paying Purdham talking about NCAA hopes and the madness

1:10:06

of March and legal sports spending and little show hay Avtani and that interpreter issue

1:10:11

and the investigation around Major League Baseball. Is it gets a well opening days

1:10:16

coming up to the twenty eighth, six days out next Thursday, right next

1:10:19

Wednesday, Thursday, something like that, and well, of course everything else

1:10:24

is happening between then and now you get the NCAA. Hoope's action will keep

1:10:28

you on top of the scores and stuff. Talk to him about wagering and

1:10:31

everything else. After the eleven thirty report right now on the line, Doctor

1:10:35

Donna Schleke. She's a Cincinnati kid, former head of political science at Wright

1:10:40

State University. Professor Amerita is the term she knows from terrorist issues and government

1:10:45

issues and political science and so much more. Thank you, doctor Schlehick for

1:10:49

giving us some time on a Friday night, Sterling, How are you?

1:10:53

I am well, It is good to talk to you. It's been quite

1:10:56

a newsday, hasn't it. It really may be a part and Princess Kate

1:11:00

and corresponds attacking again absolutely help break down here for those who because there's a

1:11:08

couple of layers here to this attack by ISIS, as they've taken credit for

1:11:12

this in Russia, let's start there is I understand it. Even with the

1:11:16

conflicts that the US government and the Russian government have with each other, I

1:11:23

guess Ukraine would be on the top of the list as I understand it.

1:11:26

Reports have said that the United States had actually warned Russia about impending danger of

1:11:30

terrorist attack in Moscow proper, if not elsewhere, and specifically with ISIS and

1:11:35

other terrorist groups. How much do we share in relation to that, considering

1:11:40

we're not exactly friends, No, no, we're not but there is what

1:11:45

they call it duty to share that information, a duty to warn, and

1:11:50

you know, specially directed warnings went out to Americans who were in Moscow at

1:11:56

the time to try to avoid venues like that. But as always you get

1:12:00

a warning like that, and how when where are the big questions? Makes

1:12:04

you think about nine to eleven. You know, we had warnings, we

1:12:09

knew use of aircraft, etc. So I think we had to fulfill that

1:12:14

duty to warn. It will be interesting to see how Putin responds to this,

1:12:20

I think initially, you know, opinion in Russia was, well,

1:12:24

it's obviously Ukraine because as you may know, there are million plus people without

1:12:28

electricity now in Ukraine because of the Russian attacks in the last twenty four to

1:12:32

thirty six hours. They're totally just connected, of course, so I think

1:12:38

all the more importantly, you know, to make sure that Korussan isis k

1:12:43

which is a specific group that got started in Pakistan and you know, hundreds

1:12:48

of thousands of Afghanians have been kicked out of Pakistan. They're active in both

1:12:54

Afghanistan and Pakistan. But apparently their motto says to strike heretics wherever they can,

1:13:01

and this this would be a rather media attention grabbing attack. I'm I'm

1:13:09

I'm interested to see how Putin, you know, just so massively re elected

1:13:13

with nearly what ninety percent of the popular vote arown. How will the ultimate

1:13:19

authoritarian explain how this massive attack has been allowed to happen when even the Americans

1:13:27

had warned them. It's it's not a good you know, it's not a

1:13:30

good situation for Putin right now because authoritarians are supposed to provide order, remind

1:13:36

me again, protect people. So it's it's going to be interesting to watch

1:13:43

how Putin replies to this, where how can you strike? Isis k?

1:13:47

I remind our listeners that this is the group that led the terrorist attack as

1:13:54

we were evacuating Cobble, killing the American servicements, and we'll be hundreds,

1:14:00

if not thousands of Afghanians who were desperately trying to get on one of those

1:14:04

evacuation aircraft. The group, that's the group that we're talking about. And

1:14:12

I'm glad I think it was absolutely appropriate that we warned the Russians, particularly

1:14:18

now, to disflect any attempt for them, you know, to blame the

1:14:20

Ukrainians for this. How much doctor schleheck. As we look at this and

1:14:26

we say, okay, well isis and they're against heretics everywhere, which I

1:14:30

mean, I'm sure they don't exactly like us clearly historically. But when you

1:14:33

look at this is how does the channel of communication open with the sharing of

1:14:39

information such as the fact of the intelligence saying that there's an impending terrorist attack

1:14:45

on foreign land, let alone one that is effectively our enemy, even though

1:14:48

we have business there and you can still travel there, even though they recommend

1:14:51

that we don't. Is this something that is not I mean, is that

1:14:55

a channel that is direct to Putin and his people? That's not something to

1:14:59

the the media. The media there is not like something that was shared. So the people may not even know that we tried to help unless they have

1:15:04

access to outside news. Yes, exactly exactly. They will only know that

1:15:11

off the internet through no state run enterprise. I would be shocked to hear

1:15:15

any Russian journalists saying in public that they had been warned by the United States.

1:15:20

We're not allowed, you know, mustn't, mustn't speak that way about

1:15:25

the great leader. But they will know. Russians get information from outside their

1:15:30

country. Even in the good old day of the printing press. The Russians

1:15:34

came up with something called Sammis duct, which means publishing it yourself, So

1:15:40

word will definitely get around. I don't know if you've seen any of the

1:15:44

of the coverage of what's happening in Moscow. It is it's a scene reminiscent

1:15:48

a bit of the shootings in Los Angeles. Just you know, so many

1:15:53

hundreds of people were hurt just trying to escape and the manhunt is going on.

1:15:59

But you know, isis K is a group very specific to the Talibah

1:16:03

in Afghanistan Pakistan area. So there are whole layers of this story that I'll

1:16:09

be interested as they begin to be revealed, and if the Russians capture any

1:16:14

of the operatives alive. Uh, Doctor Schleik. We've talked about communication in

1:16:18

the past and how much is shared, whether it's between the US and China,

1:16:23

the US and Russia when things aren't exactly the best. The talk of

1:16:26

previously was a Biden and like she hadn't talked in a period of time.

1:16:30

Do we know what the communication is like right now through that diplomatic core and

1:16:34

directly with say the White House when it comes to just regular information sharing and

1:16:41

communication and trying to I guess whatever. I don't know how governments normally talk

1:16:45

and communicate. Now, I don't think most people do let alone when it's

1:16:48

tenuous, as it is with the US and Russia. And this is an

1:16:51

attempt that we made our government to try to help them save their people and

1:16:56

keep some security. We would probably have used the direct intelligence community to intelligence

1:17:02

community, and of course that's directly connected to Putin as well. The Diplomatic

1:17:09

Corps was involved. You know, the warnings went out to all the foreign

1:17:12

nationals because it clearly wasn't going to appear in the local press. But it's

1:17:17

interesting, isn't It's sterling that when relations are really bad, that's when communication

1:17:23

becomes so important. The Chinese and the Russians really stuck it to the United

1:17:29

States today at the Security Council, the US finally puts forward a resolution calling

1:17:35

for the ceasefire, return of hostages, humanitarian aid, et cetera. And

1:17:42

it got a lot of positive votes. But the Chinese and the Russians beat

1:17:45

toted and they have authorities because they're part of that council the same way the

1:17:49

US is. Nothing can go through all the way. So it's symbolic,

1:17:54

But what does this do with the relationship with the US and Israel that you

1:17:58

know, you have these other players of avoiding some type of I guess what

1:18:02

nice document that says you should stop and we're calling for this because it doesn't

1:18:06

really make much difference for any of the players involved. The UN has no

1:18:10

real power or real authority, does it. Well, you're right, it's

1:18:14

mostly symbolic. You know, where is world opinion and for the United States

1:18:19

to put forward this resolution saying we need to cease fire now, you know,

1:18:25

return of hostages and protection that you know, trying to assuage the humanitarian

1:18:30

crisis, the pandemic, the famine that is about to hit millions of people

1:18:36

in the Gaza Strip. It was a signal. It was symbolic, but

1:18:42

it was also a signal to Israel about how much opinion has changed and sentiment

1:18:47

in the United States especially. Probably more important than that resolution, though,

1:18:53

was the speech that Senator Schumer gave that at the Senate about ten days ago,

1:18:59

calling for a change in leadership and an absolute, you know, absolute

1:19:03

rejection of the military operation in that southernmost city in Gaza Rapha, where so

1:19:10

many millions of refugees have gathered. It was it was a signal, it

1:19:14

was communication. And if your greatest, longest trend major funder, and the

1:19:20

one who has stood between you and all the bad times, is basically insisting

1:19:27

that you change your direction, you change the path of these operations. If

1:19:31

the United States is signaling that in the floor of the Senate and in the

1:19:35

Security Council at the United Nations, and of course public opinion in Israel is

1:19:42

following along extremely carefully, we are approaching these signals, approach a real crisis

1:19:48

in the US Israel relationship, one that they simply cannot afford sacrifice. We've

1:19:56

been their biggest supporter, right, I mean, there is no questioning that.

1:19:59

I mean, maybe missing disinformation to say otherwise, and I've had these

1:20:02

conversations with people, but I mean historically, going to the beginning of the

1:20:06

Israeli state as we know it today, in the circumstance with the you know,

1:20:11

the Gaza Strip and you know, the West Bank and everything in a

1:20:15

disaster, that the circumstances surrounding all of this, with the Palestinians and so

1:20:18

forth, there hasn't been no bigger support or financially, defensively, or any

1:20:24

other way to Israel than the United States, even though this Palestinian situation has

1:20:28

been a horrible nightmare even before this, in so many ways, we've been

1:20:34

their supporters in a lot of fashion too, even though we aren't getting a

1:20:39

lot of attention that way, Or am I misunderstanding and have a miss I

1:20:43

guess memory of history. I think you've characterized it very very fairly, very

1:20:48

accurately. What a horrible thorny dilemma these terrorist threats posed to governments, to

1:20:56

the authoritarian government in Moscow, to the democratic government you know, in the

1:21:00

connected of the Jewish people, of the Israeli people. What an incredibly thorny

1:21:06

problem. These small small groups can create so much chaos, so much havoc.

1:21:14

And in addition to the you know, the conflict, the larger conflict

1:21:17

between the Israelis and the Palestinian people. It's the problems never get less thorny,

1:21:24

do they an incredibly complicated it just but the signal, let your point

1:21:30

earlier about its communication, that's what we are signaling to Israel, is that

1:21:36

the United States is now in an absolutely impossible situation. If things don't change

1:21:43

in Israel. The next week or so, it's going to be very interesting.

1:21:47

As you know, the latest round of hostage negotiations are underway. How

1:21:53

ironic that that might break over the weekend, certainly hoping to have it done

1:21:59

here and then, you know, as soon as possible. One can only

1:22:03

imagine between the hostage families and the humanitarian circumstances of the civilian population in Gaza.

1:22:11

Uh hoping and praying for some break. But it is a communication signal

1:22:16

if you lose your last great friend, you know, does Israel really want

1:22:21

to go it alone? Can it go it alone? There is a there's

1:22:27

talk is part of the ceasefire, the humanitarian relief, the hostage negotiation.

1:22:31

Secretary Blincoln has a much bigger plan that he and the Crown Prince of Saudi

1:22:36

Arabia and others are working out about the post conflict situation. The signal to

1:22:43

Israel is get on board with this train. It wants to leave the station.

1:22:46

We want to build a different Middle East, one in which there would

1:22:51

be diplomatic relations, peace, security, progress, prosperity for all. If

1:23:00

we don't hear from the President in the next week or two about this,

1:23:03

I'll be very surprised. Now we're short on time and there's not enough going

1:23:08

on that we've already talked about. I have to ask this, and I

1:23:12

didn't mention it to you before, but you know what's up. And if

1:23:14

you don't have everything, just tell me to shut up. I hear that regularly in my personal life, So it's okay talking to a former professor had

1:23:23

a political science at right stay professor of Merida now doctor Donald Shleke, was

1:23:27

sterling on the big one. Now, the House, which has had their

1:23:30

problems with handling some things, had apparently agreed to and gotten together with a

1:23:36

package for the budget. Yet now the Senate has failed to pass it.

1:23:41

And now what we're looking at is another possible shut down, partially anyway of

1:23:45

the US government. What does this mean for us right here, right now,

1:23:48

as we sit here on a Friday night into a weekend at eleven twenty

1:23:53

one Eastern time. Probably not a great deal of anxiety should be caused by

1:24:02

this, that the Senate is going to run out of time to get their

1:24:06

amendments through and get this get us budget again. But it will probably be

1:24:13

less than a day or two of a shutdown. It's going to be probably

1:24:16

a paperwork nightmare for a lot of people, but for us here who might

1:24:21

be receiving Social Security checks or I mean, go down the list of programs

1:24:27

that people enjoy. Probably no major jolt this time. And you know,

1:24:33

and the House is gone. You know, they've passed it. It's gone.

1:24:36

They're not going to be there for another week and a half to you

1:24:40

know, look at some modified bill that the Senate would like to send.

1:24:42

The deadline is tonight, you're right, and the Senate insisted on the right

1:24:46

to offer up some amendments. You know how prickly that parliamentary procedure thing can

1:24:54

be. That's what's stopping it. They're going to take a few cosmetic changes

1:24:58

to it. And I think there's probably still a five percent chance before midnight

1:25:03

or do we have an hour an hour here? I got an aprite on

1:25:06

my phone, doctor Donna. I don't know if I want to take that

1:25:09

bet, but we'll see how it goes. Uh, And we don't have

1:25:13

time want to do this again. They're now looking to I think was that

1:25:15

Marjorie Taylor Green came out and now she's going after the speaker because he's you

1:25:19

know, been in the job six months or lesson and figure it's time for

1:25:23

him to go away now too because he hasn't done what they've wanted. So

1:25:26

boy, it's just like a soap opera. Uh, stay tuned for the

1:25:30

next Yes, for their next episode. There you go. Great information.

1:25:33

As always, I appreciate your perspective and being available in you know, strange

1:25:38

times in the midst of strange times in the world. Doctor Donnis Shlake Wright

1:25:42

State former head of Political Science, Professor Merita, Doctor Donishlake thank you,

1:25:46

take care of yourself. Good night, Sterling. Take care, Yes,

1:25:49

ma'am, we'll talk to you again soon. More Sterling coming back. David

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Purdham from ESPN chalk And to join us. We'll talk on the madness of

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sixty six. My mother absolutely hated it when I played this album as a

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young sterling in the house on my tenwood stereo that I bought at the super

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sale. Iron Maidens the Beast album, Believe it or not. This is

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hard for me to imagine because I didn't get it when it first came out.

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what are you playing? What is that? And I remember getting it,

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none too happy about that. I'm like, Mom, it's just rock and

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roll. You got to lighten up, lady and changed everything. So yeah,

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it's hard to believe. But nineteen eighty two that came out and they're

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still out there, gonna be doing some dates this summer too, if I'm

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not mistaken. I'm not sure if they're coming back to these states or not,

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but they'll be around here and there always incredible live the drawing happened,

1:29:03

I don't know if you're in it or not to win it, Stone Shields.

1:29:06

Maybe he must not have had the I don't know for sure. I'm

1:29:11

guessing that he and Whitney Harris neither one together or I don't know if they're

1:29:15

like a big group buy Nobody asked me, but the big Powerball drawing for

1:29:19

tomorrow, he's not on, he says, unfortunately, no. So he

1:29:21

has to be here no matter what, unless he goes a different direction.

1:29:25

The power Balls tomorrow seven hundred and fifty million dollar cash payout To estimate it

1:29:30

to this point as people keep buying more tickets, three hundred and sixty million,

1:29:32

eight hundred thousand dollars. The cash value of that and tonight was the

1:29:38

Mega Million's drawing, and there's no information as of yet what the drawing,

1:29:43

if there was a winner, or how many. It just says jack pot pending, so we'll find out. But it was a ridiculous sum of money

1:29:51

and those numbers, if you're keeping score at home, three eight, thirty

1:29:56

one, thirty five, forty four and then the mega plier, which is

1:30:01

they made up their own word. It's the number sixteen and that gets you,

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I guess three times to pay out. I don't know how that works.

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Is three times the pay out of the big jackpot. Maybe I should

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buy that. I don't know. I think I was in it, but

1:30:14

I know I did not win it, and if I did, I think i'd still be here Sunday working with Donna d So we'll see if she shows

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up. I would hope that she will, but we'll find out. It's

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been a while since we've been back together, but we will be straight away

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as Red Eye Radio the News with Whitney Harris and good luck with the Maybe

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you know, maybe I'm not one of those people's going to ask you for

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some cash, you know, But I mean you could do a lot if

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you got the powerball win or if you had the mega millions win and maybe

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one of those top of the list things is get you your inanymity, get

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your attorney, get somebody to be your face, to be your representative,

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or wear a mask. That's what I would do to show up to receive

1:30:51

the phony oversized check that no bank's really going to take, that shows the

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winner with it, and you just hope the guy that you don't be like

1:30:59

so many of those historically who win these monumental, life changing, multi generational

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changing bits of cash money and then they end up making a headline because they're

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broke or you know, their destitute and bankrupt in like three to five years

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because they don't know how to cope, or too many people coming out of

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the woodwork to play like leeches to get a piece of that action, and

1:31:23

maybe they don't know how to say no or something. Could I could go

1:31:27

hide, you would not find me, but I would still show up to

1:31:30

do this because no, I'm not sick in the head. Yes I have

1:31:32

had a blunt head trauma, but I mean, I mean, you know this is I've been doing this more in my life than I haven't. Whatever

1:31:39

it is, I have no idea Whitney Harris has news. She's coming up

1:31:42

the midnight report red Eye Radio to follow Stone Shields. Thank you. Great

1:31:45

conversations with doctor donishleg from Wright State on that horrible attack in Russia. Also

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we had Kevin Carr talking movies and David Bring the Pain Perdum talking the madness

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