0:00

Exit and stage left. Now I have a full control of this room with

0:05

the window into a hallway. And I always love his off the beaten pat

0:08

topics, and I I don't I want Don Draper's apartment in New York that

0:16

he had with his then wife Megan in the show, but it's a TV

0:19

show and he was talking about movie props. But I still would like that

0:21

apartment. And then he said the drink cart and I'm like, well,

0:25

yeah, that's from the office, and that's when they were boozing it up.

0:28

Always good to today? Was it today? I think is Groundhog Day?

0:31

And I still don't understand why. By the way, what an incredible

0:35

movie. Firstly, Secondly, why do we leave the I guess it was

0:40

an excuse for people to drink into party and they had to do something in

0:43

Puck Satawani, I guess I don't know how that works. They have Phil,

0:46

we have Chuck and Ohio Buckeye Chuck, and then there's I want somebody

0:51

sent me. I forget which museum. They have a hedgehog that you know

0:57

is supposed to be somehow able to determine and it's all make believe as far

1:00

as like how much winter we have left makes no sense, but very little

1:04

does. And that's all I do is try to make sense of things.

1:07

On this Friday night, Kevin Carr is going to join us. We will

1:11

talk on movie stuff. In about thirty minutes of following your next news,

1:14

Doctor Donna Schlake going to join us. Also former head of political science at

1:18

Right State, Professor Meridan Now. She's a Cincinnati kid. We will talk

1:21

on the retaliation the US has taken. Apparently there will be more in relation

1:26

to Middle Eastern stuff and the Hooties and the stuff in the Red Sea and

1:33

everything else, which I know is kind of heavy, and I want to start with something kind of fun, but I'm already now not sure if I've

1:38

called the right choice in the decision and play here to start the show,

1:44

because I asked Sean McMahon, mister McMahon, not the one in trouble,

1:48

but ours producing the show tonight, and he's like, yeah, don't, don't get get me involved in that, Like I won't. And I asked

1:53

him something strange because I talked to a buddy of mine earlier and he said

1:59

that he works someone was fired for being late to a meeting this morning.

2:05

As the door shut for their early meeting. Someone was trying to get in,

2:09

the door was locked, and they fired them on the spot for not

2:14

being in their seat and ready for the meeting, which on one hand,

2:17

I kind of go, I get it. I mean, you have a

2:20

meeting, it's set at a time, you show up, you handle your

2:22

business, and that's that and that's the job. And I was like,

2:25

well, that's kind of tough. And then I was thinking back because he

2:29

was like, man, I think that's ridiculous. And I was like, well, you were on time. He goes, yeah, exactly, And

2:34

if he had been fired, he really would have thought it was ridiculous.

2:37

But I was thinking back, and I worked at a car store a number

2:40

of years ago. I was doing radio and also working for a car place,

2:44

and they had a morning sales meeting. It was pretty standard, like

2:49

eight in the morning every day, and certainly on the weekend Saturdays. A

2:53

store was closed on Sunday. And there was a guy similarly to what my

2:57

buddy told me he was. I don't think he was two minutes late at

3:00

most, and somebody as the one boss, was getting ready to take over

3:04

the meeting, and the door swang shut and he was coming in to grab

3:09

it, and that was the end of it. If you weren't there and

3:13

he wasn't there, then he was out. And I remember sitting there myself

3:19

and going, man, that could have been me if I had stopped at

3:22

the donut store, or if there had been a problem on the freeway, because I wasn't that early, but I was early enough not to find my

3:28

way to the the unemployment line or whatever else that sort of goes with that.

3:31

But it got me thinking. I think there was probably a bit of

3:35

a topic here. So I'm wondering wherever you've worked, or maybe where you

3:40

currently work, and maybe you've decided that you had to let someone go.

3:45

You're a manager or an owner, and I don't necessarily want to say it's

3:49

a dumb reason to fire someone. It's good to be on time. My

3:51

mother raised me. Early is on time. On time is late, and

3:54

late as unacceptable, like as in, if you're late, just don't show

3:59

up. And that's sort of where i've you know, the sweet spot of

4:02

where I've lived my life to this point. So what I'm thinking is,

4:08

I want to know what's the most unusual or stupid reason, depending on how

4:13

you want to look at it. Someone has been let go, fired,

4:15

blown out, kicked to the curb, whatever else that you want to call

4:18

it, from their job in their employment situation five point three seven four nine

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Twitter, as I am at Stirling Radio, you can get interactive that way

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too. I think we can have a little fun with this as much as

4:34

you can. When it comes to talking about people who may have been fired

4:36

or let go or lost their job or whatever else, that sort of plays

4:40

into that. It's kind of an odd thing. I mean, being late

4:44

to a meeting in a short order. Meetings are important, especially if it's

4:47

something that deals with the business and sales and so forth. That sort of

4:53

goes along with that. I've been in places or in jobs where ID bewill

5:00

why some people have never been fired, and I think in some cases in

5:04

the two that are just gleaming examples of sort of unusual things where it was

5:10

either tardiness or whatever else where somebody ended up not keeping their job and they

5:15

were let go fired, whatever is that. Usually, if you are a

5:20

performer, if you are a success, if you are somebody who's getting it

5:26

done, and you have value to the company, your window into the range

5:31

of area that you can cover of doing dumb things or making mistakes or whatever

5:36

else. It's a lot of stuff can be overlooked if you're bringing in money

5:41

to the bottom line, you know what I'm saying. If you're a winner,

5:45

then you have a lot more leavewey and what it takes to find yourself

5:49

in a situation where they're going to decide to punt for one of a better

5:53

way to describe it. It's just one of those things. And I remember

5:59

in the story that I relayed from my time in the desert in Las Vegas

6:03

at the car place, is that after our meeting, the guy was like

6:08

waiting to go to work and they were like, why are you still here?

6:12

And he goes, what do you mean? He said, well, you were late, so you don't have a job. You don't need to

6:16

be here anymore. And I think he ended up going to like another place

6:19

and eventually came back. But they were fairly adamant about it. If it

6:24

would have been an a performer, if it would have been a superstar,

6:26

if it would have been a starter, if we were thinking professional sports,

6:29

then that person's probably not going to find their way to the unemployment line.

6:32

It's just sort of the way it goes. It's not all that surprising.

6:36

But there are places in situations. I've seen people who have been drunk on

6:41

the job. I've seen people that have done a lot of things. There

6:45

was a guy I worked with years ago that when I was the music director

6:50

or assistant program it doesn't matter. I was a middle management, which meant

6:54

very little in radio in that circumstance. So I was having to work extra

6:58

hours for not much more love. And I had to come in late at

7:01

night to prepare music so that the station wouldn't go off the ear or be

7:06

left of those who were DJs or whatever else to do their thing. And

7:10

I show up. I've told this story before that guy. I came in,

7:13

I didn't see him, and he was out of the room. And

7:16

then I came back in to drop off the music log, and the lights

7:20

are dark and everything else, and it's late night and it's a rock radio

7:23

station, so who the hell knows what might be going on right I'm thinking

7:26

maybe he's got his girlfriend in there or whatever. I don't really care.

7:29

I just want to get in and get out. My girl is in the other room, and I go in there and he's in his underwear with the

7:35

lights off and no shirt on and nothing, and he just plays it off

7:40

like I mean, it was one of the most unusual. It was like

7:42

a WKRP in Cincinnati moment, is what it kind of was. And I

7:46

kind of looked at him and I nod and I said, here's the music,

7:48

and he goes thanks, and I looked at him and I went back

7:51

into my office and I'm like, there's something weird going on. And I'm

7:55

like, well, I don't want to stay in work. And I know other places, in other situations that would have been an to get fired.

8:01

But it was dumb and it was ridiculous, and we never said anything else

8:03

about it again. It was just one of those things that we were aware

8:07

of. And I don't know if he was just comfortable and that was just

8:09

how he did his thing. It totally seems like something if they were in

8:13

a revamp, w Eripean Cincinnati would be in there. But that's the way

8:16

it is. Five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred the Big One.

8:20

You can talk back on the iHeartRadio app. I want to know the

8:22

dumbest reason, the strangest reason someone was let go or fired where you work

8:28

or where you've been the boss and forced into letting someone go, whether it's

8:33

being late or on the phone. That was the other thing I did have

8:37

that happen in a gig once in a meeting somebody. The manager was real

8:41

serious about phones off. Even school teachers at this point can't get kids to

8:46

give up their phones when they're in a classroom situation. I mean, you

8:48

can do it at a comedy show or a performance. They'll give it in

8:52

the little non you know the lock up bags. Well, you can put

8:54

your phone in in a little sleeve. It's like it looks like a potholder

8:58

or whatever else that my mom used when I was a kid. And you

9:01

can lock your phone in it, right, and then you can keep it,

9:05

But you can't use the phone to film what's going on. This manager

9:09

was very, very serious about phones being off for meetings. I don't know

9:13

if he was concerned about people recording it or just to the interruption. Someone's

9:16

phone rang and that was it. They were a casualty of the ringing phone

9:20

in a meeting to never be heard from again. And even now and I'll

9:24

run into people I used to work with there they think they talk about It's

9:28

like, wow, dumb was that? I'm like, well, I mean everybody knew, but it happens all the time. Strangest reason, dumbest reason,

9:35

someone's been blown out fired, Let go from their job where you've worked

9:39

that you know of. Maybe you saw it, you witnessed it could have

9:41

been you. Five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred The Big One

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10:46

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10:54

from a Friday. But whatever, fifty one and clear. There you go.

10:58

I spent more time complaining about it if I done it. But it

11:00

just still seems weird to me. It's thirty eight right now, your severe

11:03

weather station, seven hundred WLW talking about I guess weird ways or unfair ways

11:07

or just stupid ways, dumb reasons people have been fired from their job where

11:13

you've worked as a manager otherwise, or maybe have you been let go.

11:16

I talked about being late. Somebody wants with a phone that rang. Manager

11:20

was real serious, deadly serious about not having phone rings and meetings and a

11:24

phone rang, and that was it. That dude was out and not to

11:28

be heard from again, at least for a little while. To Mason,

11:31

and Jerry was sterling on the big one. What you got man? How

11:33

are you finny? Sterling? Hey A quar a few years ago as a

11:37

sales manager for a local communications company, and I had just taken the sales

11:43

manager role, and one of the first sales meetings i'd had a couple of

11:46

people that relate, and I told my said, guys, from now on,

11:52

if you're late to a sales meetings or at eight o'clock Monday morning,

11:56

and it doesn't mean eight oh one or eight oh two. At eight sharp,

12:00

the door closes, and if you're on the wrong side of the door,

12:03

you've got to come back at six o'clock for your own personal one on

12:09

one sales meeting. But before we start, we're gonna call my house.

12:13

My wife is gonna put my three year old and six year old on the

12:16

speaker phone, and you're gonna have to explain to them while daddy's why Daddy's

12:22

not gonna have dinner with them tonight and why he's not gonna be at baseball

12:26

practice. Wow. And the first week I had a guy I'm gonna say

12:33

his name is Bill. Okay, he was one of the top people in

12:37

the nation. He and his wife went on the cruise every year. Sure

12:43

enough, next week Bill shows up at ten minutes after and bore. Everybody

12:50

start looking around and looking at me and looking at Bill. And I said,

12:54

well, Bill, I guess I'll see you to night at six.

12:58

And he called me during the day he said, come on, coach.

13:03

He used to call me coach, coach. Come on, We're not gonna

13:05

I said, Bill, it might be in my at my place at six,

13:09

I'm not kidding. And uh. He called me back at five o'clock

13:18

and he said, what you're not serious about this? I said, Bill,

13:22

I've got a written warning. He's already been approved by human resources.

13:28

You're not going to play by different rules than everybody else. And sure enough

13:31

he came in at six. My wife put the kids on the phone.

13:35

He was embarrassed to death. Oh it's a horrible start to be in.

13:39

I mean it really is, because yeah, I mean, that's that puts

13:43

it all on him and he's got to explain it to your family, even

13:45

though they may have been cool with that, they have to act like they're not, oh man. And you know I found out from the rest of

13:52

the raps. By seven o'clock that night, every single one of a knew

13:58

one had happened. Yeah, that gets around, and it gets around fast.

14:01

And you know what the unusual thing about this is Jarry is he's like

14:05

a top performer for you in that situation. And they are usually the ones

14:07

who can get away with just about anything because they're getting it done. But

14:11

it's good. That what a great bit of I guess what do you want

14:16

to call it modeling, to show that if this person's not going to be

14:20

treated any special way than anyone along the line, no matter top or bottom,

14:24

is going to get the same type of responsibility and penalty, that's reasonable

14:28

reason. That's you're shockingly like a brilliant on that. I don't know about

14:33

that, but he kind of created. I think it was the Vinislmbardi school

14:37

of time. From then on, everybody was in that sales meeting at ten

14:43

to eight. That's it. You learn fast in that fashion. And all

14:46

I can always hear is just my mom early is on time. On time

14:50

is late, and late is unacceptable is she, by the way, ironically,

14:56

is often late all the time. But it's mom, so she makes

14:58

her own rules. Jared, I appreciate the call and to being a part

15:03

of the show. Thank you, man Hey, it's been my pleasure.

15:07

You have a blessed evening. You too, take care of yourself. That's

15:09

an odd thing. This. By the way, Missy at Sterling Radio messaged

15:13

me about the varmint thing, and she says, Boonshoff Museum is that the

15:18

date museum in natural history? I think this is what that is now.

15:22

They used to have an odd there that would swimming around and do laps,

15:24

and then they had a mummy. When I was a kid, I remember going on a field trip there. She says, that's the place I was

15:30

mentioning that it had been brought up about the hedgehog. I get. I

15:35

don't know if they have a display of hedgehogs or whatever else when I was

15:37

talking about sort of like an odd thing and about the groundhog Day scenario.

15:39

So thank you, Missy. I appreciate it. Seven hundred The Big One

15:43

Talk Back the iHeartRadio app. You can click on the mic wondering about unusual

15:46

ways or I guess stupid reasons. Depending see, nothing that we've talked about

15:52

though so far, has been necessarily a stupid reason why someone has been fired,

15:56

but certainly ones that are are pinpointed. Oftentimes they are not things that

16:00

would get people fired, but might get them in trouble and it turns out,

16:04

you know, obviously that could be a situation where it's a hard lesson

16:07

learned the phone call in the door shutting as somebody was trying to get in

16:11

there is one that sort of hits very close to home on well, coming

16:17

up after your nine thirty report, Kevin Carr conversation about well, obviously movies

16:21

because he's the fat Guy's the movies guy, and I got to get into

16:23

his head a little bit about Carl Weathers, who was Apollo Creed in the

16:27

Rocky movies, and he's done a bunch of other stuff, and relatively speaking,

16:33

is a guy who wasn't really all that old to be going. I

16:38

think it was like seventy six is what the reports have said on that.

16:41

So we'll talk about him and some other stuff a little bit later and have

16:45

some fun. Also, a doctor Donna Schlet going to give us some insight

16:48

and perspective on what is a tenuous time for us globally with all the spinning

16:53

plates. And I've talked about the multi layered chess kind of going on when

16:57

it comes to Middle East issues, a little domestic issues that the President's having

17:02

to deal with, and our men and women in uniform are looking to face

17:06

as we've retaliated that, as our military has upon the President's order, after

17:11

those three service personnel have been killed in that attack on military base the US

17:17

had in the Middle East, and a bunch of other people actually injured with

17:21

some serious brain injuries as well as a result of that, and that's coming

17:23

up. I think we got her at ten thirty, if I'm not mistaken,

17:26

So hang out for that. Also, I want to get to something

17:30

else. It's kind of weird and it's kind of fun. I don't want

17:32

to be too serious throughout the whole night here because it is Friday. But

17:37

I have had a litany of email doing a radio show. It's astounding,

17:41

not just from people who listen to the show who are wanting to contribute.

17:45

We have questions, which I appreciate, and that's fantastic. And you can

17:48

get me at Sterling at seven hundred WLW dot com or Sterling at Sterling Radio

17:52

dot com. But you also get a lot of this, I mean every

17:56

mailing list you can imagine from political stuff or whatever else. But in the

18:00

last week or so, I have been inundated, just hammered with all this

18:03

Taylor Swift stuff. And I don't mean like loving her or whatever, but

18:08

people hating on her and saying somehow she is a political plant or something and

18:15

that she is a problem or whatever else when it comes to presidential politics.

18:19

And I just can't understand why anybody is so preoccupied or fixated on her in

18:25

general. I know she's a big deal. There's not really anybody bigger in

18:29

pop music right about now than her, and certainly she's been all over the

18:33

place with Travis Kelcey being his better half arguably and showing up at those football

18:40

games and everything else. But how I mean, some of the ridiculous hate

18:45

and insanity in my inbox related to that is bewildering. So we may touch

18:48

on that later because I'm just trying to understand how that becomes something that people

18:52

are fixated on rather than actually issues that matter. When you're thinking about who

18:57

may have be the next president or turning as president on either side of the

19:02

political aisle. So there's lots more to do. Kevin Carr on the other

19:04

side, talking movies in the late Great Caral Weathers, and a whole bunch

19:07

more After your nine thirty report, Taron Johnson has that more sterling coming back

19:12

on the Nation Station. Glad you're along seven hundred WLW Nation Station. What

19:17

you're listening to? Seven hundred WULW Kevin Carr, fat guys at the movies,

19:22

Chubby and Stick podcast on the Hold on a Hiatus. Maybe it's dead.

19:26

I don't know, Kevin, How are you? What is going on?

19:30

Oh? Not much, just you know, trying to live my life

19:33

and not have too much interference. Do you deal with a lot of people

19:37

like a work in interference on your day to day operations? In the life

19:41

of Kevin Carr. There's an alarming number of interference and plays going on in

19:45

my life right now. There's sometimes sometimes I seriously just feel like I just

19:52

I just have to manage multiple lives at once, and I just have to

19:56

sort of sit there and approve things and be like, oh, you gotta

19:59

do this. I gotta do that. Oh crap, gotta do that now,

20:02

that's like that. There's something I was supposed to do today that I

20:06

totally forgot about because I'm an idiot. Well that's not my fault, and

20:08

I didn't call you an idiot. And just because you're living like the c

20:11

suite life of multiple things that you can delegate and the rest of us schleps

20:15

are just trying to get where we're going, doing what we're doing. Whatever

20:18

the hell that is, whatever it even means, I don't know, don't

20:22

I mean, you know, don't make me feel bad? No, no,

20:25

no, My goal is never to make you feel bad. My goal is to be uplifting and wonderful to everybody. Wow, that's just the people

20:30

that cut me off in the traffic. Yeah, yeah, that does happen.

20:36

You know you had to go there, didn't you. Can we start

20:38

with do you want to talk new movies or whatever else you have planned or

20:41

whatever else is in your wheelhouse? Or because I saw something earlier this afternoon

20:47

and Donna d text me, and I don't know, she always expects like

20:49

she always sends me a celebrity dead text. I don't know why. Randomly

20:53

it's just like, hey, I'm with you a Saturday or Sunday show,

20:56

right, I'm like yeah. Or it's hey, here's a dead guy,

21:00

here's a photo of a dead woman. And then I go one by one

21:03

they fall. Is it like like, wait, she like like something she

21:07

saw on TMZ, Or she's out there, you know, beating somebody down

21:11

and taking pictures of them in the gutter and been like, got another one

21:14

for you, Stirling. Well, I can neither confirm or deny how she

21:17

ended up back in Cincinnati. That that I don't know, but I think it may have been a TMZ text today which was about Carl Weathers, who

21:23

was Apollo Creed in at least one of the Rocky films, more than one

21:26

of the Rocky films, right, and before four of them, four of

21:30

them, and he did other stuff and Happy Gilmore. Well, I mean

21:33

he wasn't Happy Gilmore, but he was in halbig In other words, he's

21:37

been working, he's been out there. But the is that like the biggest

21:41

Thorian he was just very recently in The Mandalorian, which by the way,

21:45

I haven't finished. I'm not caught up yet, so don't ruin it.

21:48

It's not like some of those other movies that I'll spoil and you'll go,

21:51

I don't know if you should have said that, And then it's done and it's out there, don't tell you the Emperor comes back to life and then

21:56

learns the true meaning of Christmas? Really? Really, is that what you're

22:00

gonna do to some people? Right? Somebody driving on seventy four? Now,

22:03

blame Kevin Carr if you put those pieces together. The true meaning of

22:07

Christmas was spoiled for the Mandalorian. Yeah, Carl Weathers was a notable actor

22:14

and relatively young, which I would have thought a few years ago that he

22:18

was old, but seventy six doesn't seem that old to me now. And

22:21

apparently the release from his family said that he died peacefully in his sleep,

22:23

which I guess. There's only one other way I'd like to go. And

22:27

all I can say is it's a different type of release that the wife might

22:32

have put out. Then, Yeah, yes, the other way, like

22:37

go, is definitely a different type of relief. Yeah, leave it there.

22:41

So what else has he done? What do you want to say about

22:45

that? I mean, I'm not trying. I mean, he seemed to be a brilliant guy, I feel dirty now the way we've set this up,

22:48

and like it's not a good like a conversation or a homage about Caral

22:52

Weathers. But the thing was, first of it wasn't like he dropped off

23:00

the face of the earth the last couple of years, right. You know,

23:02

you get these celebrity deaths every now and then you'd be like, oh, I didn't know that person was still around because they stopped working and you

23:07

know, because they got older. But he was still in his seventy six

23:11

mid seventies. He was still doing work. Like I said, the most

23:15

recently, I know he was in The Mandalorian, but he's showed up in

23:18

a bunch of other things over the last couple of decades. His career did

23:22

not just end with the Rocky movies. So I think that's that's it's it's

23:29

sad and it's tragic, but you know, if you are going to go

23:32

peaceful in your sleep is sort of like the top tier of of how you

23:37

want that to happen, because you know, it's it's it's shocking and it's

23:41

sudden, but you know he likely didn't suffer, so you know, and

23:47

that's sad, but it's always a good time to go back and rewatch his

23:49

stuff. I remember him from Predator, the first Predator movie. He was

23:53

a casualty of the Predator. Correct. Yes, the Predator had his way

23:59

with him because he was like an old friend of Dutch, which was Schwarzenegger's

24:02

character, and they he's the one who brought him out to go to do

24:07

this mercenary mission. It's sad whenever it's somebody, especially somebody who's continuing to

24:12

work. They reminded me of when like David Bowie passed away. He had

24:18

just dropped an album. Yeah, he did, and how creepy was that

24:21

that? The thematic is it's a stream or whatever you want to call it

24:26

on that record was about basically that in those videos he was well aware as

24:30

to what was happening and putting it together, which made even that much more

24:33

effectively. Yeah, I think he was in his seventies at the time.

24:37

I mean, that's that's that's one of those you know, unfortunately there there

24:42

you get to a certain age and you see this. I know I'm getting

24:45

I'm getting morose here, but you know when when you graduate from high school

24:49

and you hear somebody passes away, that was in your class, there's that

24:52

shocking moment, and then you move into your forties and it's it's sad and

24:56

it's sudden, but it's not shocking. And then you get older and older

25:00

and older, and then eventually it's like, you know, this happens,

25:03

but uh, you know, you don't want it to happen to to to

25:07

people, but it does. That's just a way of life. And I

25:11

think he's sound like he had a fulfilled life, so you know that's it's

25:15

true, and we don't want it to happen. But if it didn't and

25:18

we all just stuck around, think of how bad traffic is now getting home

25:22

or getting where you got to go at any given time, if none of

25:25

us ever left, there would be I mean it would be it would be

25:29

packed. Yeah, no, no, no, it's it's a good thing

25:32

people. You know, there's a cycle to everything. I really Uh it's

25:37

hard to go from where we are now. Yeah we are. Let's let's

25:41

reset, shall we. Okay, So he's Kevin Carr, I'm Sterling Big

25:45

one seven hundred WLW what you're listening to? And we know about Caral weathers

25:49

Now. He's no longer wis with us a moment of silence. Okay,

25:55

what else is happening? Well, you know, in the movie theaters, because that's usually why I call is. There's one new movie in theaters.

26:03

It's called Argyle. Argyle. Yeah, when is that the one with the

26:06

cat in the like the little thing that I saw thrown out of like a

26:10

vehicle or a building or something. The cat's in a backpack. Yeah,

26:14

it thro. The story follows the main characters played by Bryce Dyleis Howard,

26:19

and she plays a novelist who writes these spy novels. But she's a real

26:23

homebody. She's a cat lady, lives alone, doesn't doesn't go out or

26:27

anything. And when she does one time take her cat to go visit her

26:32

mom, and she's on the train going there, a bunch of spies comeing

26:36

to attack her because apparently how she's been writing these novels is reflective of real

26:41

things going on, and they're they're trying to catch her and you know,

26:45

pick her brain literally and find out what she knows. And you know,

26:49

we've seen these sort of fish out of water type things. You know,

26:52

it's basically Romancing the Stone, only with spies instead of going down to Cartagenia.

26:59

But this this is a it's essentially a spy movie, a fish out

27:03

of water spy movie, and it's an absurdain premise that she's predicting things that

27:07

are going on. But then they have these twists throughout the plot. And

27:12

the problem is every time there's a twist, which are usually pretty telegraphed and

27:18

predictable twists, it just gets sillier and it goes a little bit more crazy,

27:25

and they eventually just they lose control of the movie by the time they

27:29

get to the last act. You know, it's it's pretty much like it's

27:32

all looney Tunes. It's it's it's hit ludicrous speed and gone plaid. I

27:37

mean, it's it's so ridiculous you think you're in an Austin Power spoof.

27:41

And I don't know if they meant to go that over the top. It

27:44

really just gets unhinged in the sense of its not holding together, not as

27:49

it's it's not wacky and zany, not unhinged in a good way. Plus

27:52

it's two hours and twenty minutes. That's a long movie, isn't it.

27:56

Are they making longer movies now more? Is it? Because there's so many

28:00

different places just to get stuff out there vehicles to share them or is it

28:06

just me? Because I'll go through my watch list and it's endless, and

28:10

then it'll be like two forty two thirty two ten, and I'm like,

28:12

nope, nope, nope, I need a movie that's short, gets it

28:17

done, and then I'm out and through. It's all like it's almost like the way they've sped up a Major League Baseball, the way FC Cincinnati and

28:23

MLS works. You got ninety minutes in a little like extra time, and

28:26

then you're done and you can get on with your life. Well, I

28:30

think part of it our viewing habits. Everyone's in competition for stuff, and

28:34

I think when you're pushing a movie into theaters, they tend to allow it

28:40

to go longer because they want to justify going out to the theater. But

28:44

sometimes they overdo it. And and we are curious individuals as Americans and human

28:52

beings, because we will complain about a movie being two hours and twenty minutes

28:55

long, but we'll binge watch fifty seven point five having a billion minutes of

29:00

suits. According to Neils, that's right. Somebody threw a statistic to me

29:07

that people I think it was just Americans. I don't know if it's the

29:11

world, but it was. But there were twenty one million years of content

29:18

was streamed last year. Twenty one million. That's that's a third of the

29:23

way to the when the dinosaurs died off. It wouldn't it be neat if

29:27

you could actually then crank it back and see him not stay because not all

29:30

of them are going to eat plants. No, no, no, no,

29:34

there's there's the Yeah, you don't want to stick around for the dinosaurs.

29:38

It's like, you don't want to you know, it's nice to go

29:41

to the zoo and see the lions until there's no bars or glass, right

29:45

and they can reach out and touch a friend. It's no longer when they

29:49

put the big poll on the glass, when you got the kid in the

29:52

stroller nearby, when all of a sudden they just snatched the baby or you

29:56

and and that's that. Yeah, you don't want that, you know.

29:59

It's like, uh, you know, and you don't want to go on

30:02

the hippo It contained it because they're the most you know, hippos cause more

30:06

deaths than lions. And Fiona and her friends can be as sweet and cuddly

30:11

and lovable at the Cincinnati Zoo, as they may in fact be. Yeah,

30:14

they are a top of the heap, right, I mean they're they're

30:17

like, it's not us on the top of the food chain. Technically they

30:21

can eat, they can bite through a water mountain. So yeah, so yeah, you don't want to Yeah, it's going back to the dinosaur thing.

30:26

You don't want to go back to the I mean it'd be it'd be

30:29

fascinating to see from a safe distance, but I guess the closer you get,

30:36

the more you're gonna see, and then you're gonna not see anything. There you go. If we covered everything, because it seems like a perfect

30:41

thing. We start with Caral Weathers, we we end with the bookmark on

30:45

the other side of that. I mean it seems appropriate. Is that about

30:48

right? We've done and we threw, we finished, and we accomplished eaten

30:52

by a dinosaur. All right, let's just leave it there. He's Kevin

30:55

Carr. I'm sterling Friday night. Thanks for making time, man, check them out fat guys at the movies dot com. Startlink coming back seven hundred

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from your ten o'clock report, and if you need to know now you do

31:11

selm Man produced singing. This has gotten a bunch of news on social media,

31:15

so I'll bring it to the air. I've had some people message me

31:18

on it saying, what about Cincinnati and Ahl team? What do you think?

31:21

What do you think? I mean, if you build it, they

31:23

will come right. It's what happened with FC Cincinnati. I left here at

31:30

Cincinnati in ninety nine and went to Columbus to work there. Because when you're

31:33

coming up behind a group of people that are all Hall of famers, sort

31:37

of like the idea of coming up as a first baseman in the Reds organization

31:41

while he was a part of the mix, You're not going to get a

31:44

gig as a first baseman. So I had an opportunity to go to Columbus,

31:48

and so I went and I spent a good bit of time there.

31:51

And in that window of time early on is when the NHL Columbus Blue Jackets

31:56

came to be, and a lot of people were like, well, I

31:59

don't know if it's going to be success. Is that going to work or not? They built nationwide arena, they built it. They came and they've

32:05

had some success. They haven't gotten to the promised land yet. They're talking

32:07

about the Stanley Cup stuff, which apparently has let in it. Ironically,

32:12

just don't drink out of it, but they do, you know, and

32:16

they may be surprise some people with the success they've had as far as drawing

32:22

people to the venue. And it's been now what twenty five years, give

32:27

or take. I guess is what it's been, which is astounding. So

32:30

I'm going to ask you that right now five point three seven eight hundred,

32:35

the Big One. We'll open up the phones and you can talk back on

32:37

the iHeartRadio app because the talk is and there's been some discussion for some period

32:42

of time about it. Does there need to be a new arena in town?

32:45

Is there support for a new arena? And we've gotten tons of new

32:49

concert and arts performing arts venues in and around the city of big and small,

32:55

and on both sides of the river for that matter. The herritage Banks

33:00

is here. Of course, we have the Cincinnati Cyclones and they draw very

33:05

well and it's an exciting brand of hockey. I have been and have not

33:08

been so far this season, but have been in past years looking forward to

33:12

getting back down at the checking amount, and you kind of wonder, like,

33:16

why is there no NBA team in Cincinnati. It's because there's the Cleveland

33:21

Cavaliers. And I was talking to Lance just before he left a bit ago,

33:24

and I'm sure he'll address this at the beginning of the week, and

33:27

what have you? Is it? I mean, you've got the Pacers.

33:30

You take seventy four to Indianapolis, You've got the Pacers there, you drive

33:34

up seventy one, you're in Cleveland. Those are two franchises that are pretty

33:37

close. You've got great college basketball in town. But would there be another

33:45

NHL team here? Could there be another NBA team here? Well, there's

33:49

no NBA team here and Columbus is closer certainly with the NHL and the Columbus

33:57

Blue Jackets. Is that something that could be so would that be something that

34:01

you would be into? And then what would happen with the Cyclones? Would

34:05

they go away? Would they stay? I mean, there are some cities

34:08

that have minor league hockey and top tier NHL hockey that's out there as well.

34:15

Is that something that could work? Is that something that would draw fans, get attention, support, corporate wise and all the other stuff that goes

34:22

with it, and there is no question that there have to be a new

34:25

venue and that maybe would be something that comes all the way around with that.

34:30

I mean, if you look at what's happened with the FC Cincinnati and

34:37

they've come to be. They started out they played at Nippert and then they

34:39

got their own place at TQL. They showed great success. And the way

34:44

they put that together, I mean it was just step by step. It

34:46

was like a how to manual put it together and make it work. And

34:51

winning is a part of that and it helps. And they found a way to do that too. And by the way, is there a shorter off

34:57

season in professional sport than m less? I mean, they're off for like

35:00

two weeks and then they're back at it. It is unbelievable. Of just

35:07

talking to Sean McMahon off the air about it is it's just bewildering how much

35:10

time they have off. NFL has a lot more time off. Major League

35:15

Baseball has a good bit of time off. Obviously, if there's an issue

35:19

when it comes to developmental league stuff and kids coming up and trying to get

35:23

it together to get a staying position at the top level or whatever, then

35:28

they're going to be working off season a little bit differently than an established Major

35:31

leaguer and so forth. So I guess that's the question right now. According

35:37

to the story that I'm trying to think of where it came from, that's

35:40

from the Inquirer, they say right now that the Cincinnati Cyclones draws basically six

35:50

more than six thousand a game, which is huge really. As I said,

35:53

they're a great draw, and that's pretty big. If there was another

35:59

arena, which there would have to be, would that because it'd have to

36:02

have all the you know, the corporate suites, all all the luxury stuff,

36:07

all those things. Heritage Bank Center's fine that it's been around a long time. A lot of money has been put into that building over the years,

36:13

multiple times actually, uh to get it as good as it is,

36:16

and it has a pretty strong history. So then you go, where does

36:21

the arena go? Is there support for another arena? How would that work?

36:23

Would the city build it? Where do those moneys come from? Do

36:27

you want to pay more the way taxpayers have coughed up dough for a stadium

36:32

where they, like, say the Bengals play, Would that be something people

36:35

would want to do for the NHL and in Cincinnati hockey, uh at the

36:39

top tier in that level five three, seven, four, nine, seven,

36:43

eight hundred, the big one. What I can tell you is this, I love cyclone hockey. If NHL hockey came to Cincinnati, I'm sure

36:52

that I would love that too. It helps if you're a winner. Winning fixes everything. Is there enough interest? I think there could be. I'm

37:02

not sure what the attendance level would have to be. I don't know all

37:07

the nuts and bolts of that. That's a lands thing and Monday you have to listen, and I'm sure he'll get into this as well as all the

37:10

other stuff he tends to. But if you're the Columbus Blue Jackets and they

37:17

have some say in what happens, considering they have a franchise, and the

37:22

idea in Columbus would be that they're drawing people from all over the place,

37:27

whether it's Cincinnati, from Dayton, Akron, Canton, maybe Cleveland. They

37:32

have a minor league hockey in all over the state. People make in the

37:37

drive. I don't know how many people go to Columbus for the Blue Jackets.

37:44

I mean I make a trip a couple of times a year. I have friends there still some family in the area. And if you've ever been

37:52

to NHL hockey, and as good as the Cyclones are and as fast paced

37:55

as that is, it is another level when and it's different than on television.

38:01

Mean, I'm just going to tell you, if you've not been to

38:04

an NHL game and you get a chance to go, it is so much

38:07

faster, so much. I mean, it is a different thing, and

38:09

it is incredible. I have no question that the product that people would be

38:15

paying to see would be top notch. And if you had the right ownership

38:20

group and in the mindset behind it, the way they've done with FC Cincinnati,

38:23

they put it together, my guess is, you know, the assumption

38:25

would be and there's no guarantees, that's why they play the games, but

38:30

the assumption would be that they would put a top caliber caliber team with talent

38:35

together to where they would be competitive. Then you could bring people, and

38:38

that would bring tourism and people downtown and all the other things. With the

38:42

light is shown on Cincinnati and the tri state, which is huge for tourism,

38:46

it's huge for business just in general and so forth. But if you're

38:50

the Blue Jackets. You don't want a team in Cincinnati. I mean,

38:53

you can talk about, hey, this is a great rivalry, but is

38:55

that how many I wonder do you make that trip to Columbus and how often?

39:00

Once a year, maybe twice a year. What is Then we'll talk

39:02

on that and a bunch of other stuff. We come back after your ten

39:05

o'clock report, after the ten thirty news. By the way, doctor Donnas

39:07

Schlack from Wright State is going to give us some perspective on the US retaliation

39:14

for those attacks on US military installation and personnel in the Middle East, those

39:17

hoodies and so on. The response has been underwigh a number of missile attacks,

39:23

their expectation as there will be more. I don't know. The telegraphing

39:28

of it saying we're going to do this allowed a lot of these people to

39:30

sort of escape that we were targeting, which I find to be interesting.

39:34

We'll talk to doctor Schlack about that too. Which if you're going to surprise

39:37

somebody, the idea would be surprised them and punish them right for what they

39:40

did. But we gave morning first, but maybe that's adding to the fear

39:45

and so forth. Then maybe given away some places where some of these people

39:47

go hard to say. Ten o'clock report now Taron Johnson has the news.

39:52

More Sterling coming back. Glad you're here on a Friday night, home of

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the Rads in the desert. Just a couple weeks away. Baseball back on

40:00

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40:02

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40:05

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40:09

We're not far off. Plus the best Bengals coverage, Basketball, Bearcats

40:13

and Musketeers in action this weekend. It's Sterling on seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati,

40:19

it's State up in Dayton, or she's a Cincinnati kid by the way,

40:22

going to give us some insight just about a half hour from now about

40:25

the US retaliation Syria and elsewhere dealing with the Hoodies and whoever else has attacked

40:32

US military personnel installations over the last couple of weeks or months for that matter,

40:37

in the SmackDown we've given back and what that may mean in trying to

40:42

keep it from turning into something much larger, which is sort of the fragility

40:45

of the whole thing and has been and continues to be in that part of

40:49

the world that's coming up about ten thirty five or so. Here on the

40:52

Big One, I want to ask something else here in relation to and I

40:58

don't know how this is political. I don't know why it's political. I

41:00

don't know why my email box has been filled with just ridiculous crap political stuff

41:06

dealing with Taylor Swift. People may or may not like the fact that she's

41:09

a fan of her boyfriend Travis Kelsey and is Kansas City Chiefs who were going

41:17

to the super Bowl, and all the other stuff, and how much attention

41:21

may have been drawn to her or maybe bringing more people to the party in

41:25

the NFL, not that necessarily it needed it. But here's my question.

41:30

The stuff that inundating my box and what other people have even done calling the

41:34

show in the past, is somehow saying that she that is Taylor Swift,

41:39

who you're hearing a little blad of right now on the Big One, is

41:43

a political animal and somehow, I don't know, the devil or something weird

41:49

like that. She's a huge pop star, she's an incredible business woman,

41:54

she looks to be a good time and fun to hang out with, and

41:59

she's living the life at this point and having great success, so good for

42:01

her, right, And a lot of people go, well, stay in

42:04

your link, don't talk politics. She doesn't need to talk politics. Everybody

42:07

wants to say that about some people, if it's artists or music makers,

42:13

movie stars, TV stars, whatever, entertainers, if it's them espousing of

42:17

you or support for someone that they may not like or support or believe in

42:22

themselves, which I guess makes sense to some extent. But the fact that

42:27

you have people who are actually running for office, or their underlings or those

42:31

helping to, you know, work with their campaigns, apparently very concerned,

42:36

very disturbed, or whatever else with the Taylor Swift because she could come out

42:42

and say, well, she wants to support Trump, or she may want

42:44

to support Biden or whomever it is, or nobody. And I guess,

42:47

you know, last time around she did come out and say that she was

42:51

supporting Biden. I couldn't really care one way or the other. She's not

42:53

influencing me or my vote, but she's definitely a massive influencer in one way

42:59

or another. So I want to know five one, three, eight, seven, four nine, seven eight hundred, the big one, and that

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43:27

there too. I just want to know whether she's at the top of the

43:31

list right now because of all the attention and just the ridiculous smattering of stuff

43:37

that has been presented to me, complaining and talking points because you know,

43:43

I guess they put it in the email box they figure we'll talk about it.

43:45

Well, I'm talking about it in a way they may not have anticipated, which is fine. I just I don't understand if you're a Taylor Swift

43:52

fan or anybody else's fan, how much does their word and their support for

43:58

a candid it matter to you, right? And if you're not a faner

44:02

otherwise, does that make a difference. One way or the other. And

44:07

do you really believe that she's a problem. I don't see how she's a

44:09

problem one way or the other. And if she's engaging people, and if

44:13

she's engaged at a time when you know, so many people are burnt out,

44:16

disgruntled, dissatisfied, disenchanted with our system and what's been going on,

44:22

regardless of the candidates, the two aged souls that are former president wanting to

44:27

be again the current one wanting another shot at it down the line, it's

44:30

kind of a weird scenario. I just I find it hard to get that

44:37

riled up about it, but I find it interesting and trying to make sense

44:40

of it. So hopefully it's not too heavy, but we can have a

44:44

little bit of fun with it. I just don't understand how is that plays

44:47

out, how much of a concern and a worry it may in fact be

44:52

in relation to it, and it's not any time like if somebody like a

44:55

Ted Nugent comes out and says something, people don't they're like, yeah,

45:00

go, you know, MotorCity mad Man. Whoo. And I'm sure there

45:02

are people who are not happy when he enters the realm of political speak and

45:07

he's made a big splash with that over the last several years as he's been

45:13

on tour doing his own podcast stuff or whatever else. But when it comes

45:16

to Taylor Swift, and there are certainly fans, and she's also had her

45:22

share of lunatics, one of which has made the news as of late.

45:27

But when you have such attention drawn to her and such hate thrown at her,

45:31

I think the concept overall of people not just throwing shade on her.

45:37

But there's enough of a I guess, a population of passionate souls. My

45:45

concern would be that somebody does something horrendous or looks to cause problems with I

45:49

mean, she needs bodyguards and everything now anyway. But there are a lot

45:52

of scary individuals or individuals that are willing to do scary things that are whipped

45:59

into a because they may get the same emails that I get, or they're

46:02

spending a lot of time on social media and going down the proverbial rabbit hole,

46:07

if you will, sucked into it and thinking that somehow this is a

46:13

fight they need to take to the you know, the public and do something

46:15

with which I think is troubling to say the least. I mean, the

46:21

more people that are involved, the more people that are engaged, the more

46:23

people that have a chance to vote, I say, the better. And

46:28

if your case isn't good enough to lay out there as a platform, and

46:31

I don't care whether you're trying to get a bridge built to occupy the office

46:36

of president, you want to be mayor, or you want to be I don't know, pick a job that's elected you want to be I don't know,

46:42

the trash, the king, or something along those lines. Then what

46:46

doesn't matter five point three seven four nine, seven, eight hundred to the

46:50

big one I mean, and I'll carry it a step further. When it

46:53

comes to the voting issue, I think it should be compulsory. I think

46:59

it should be required. And I have friends in some family that because of

47:04

their religious standing and their pursuits, that they engage in everything, but they

47:12

stay you know, it's a given to Caesar. What is Caesar? So

47:15

they pay their taxes, but they won't vote, they won't get involved in those type of things. But for the rest of us, if you can't

47:21

be a conscientious objector or separate from the process that way, then I think

47:27

just from birth, as an American, as an American citizen, you should

47:30

be required to take part in the voting process. It would help that you're

47:35

educated and aware. I don't want uneducated voters going in and just randomly like

47:40

you know, hitting buttons and picking or what have you. But I think

47:44

the more people that are engaged and involved to have skin in the game, we be in better place than what we are now. But in truth,

47:52

I think there's no question that the more disenfranchise, the more dissatisfied those that

47:57

are unplugged, allows for fewer people to make the decisions for the whole and

48:01

how we live our lives, how we are led by president, by governors,

48:07

by mayors in every level along the way. Fewer people making decisions I

48:13

think is bad. The more of us involved is good. And if Taylor

48:15

Swift brings more people to the party, no different than back in the late

48:19

eighties. I guess it was what it was early nineties with say MTV and

48:22

the Rock the Vote thing, where a lot of music makers across all political

48:28

spectrums were very much engaged and involved in trying to turn out the vote.

48:32

And right now in Kentucky, you know, the idea is that a college

48:37

id they don't want to know to any longer be something that's okay to allow

48:43

someone to be able to go vote. They want, like say a state ID, which okay, so fine, go get a state ID. Do

48:49

what you got to do to be heard, to get your voice a part

48:52

of it. But it should be easier, not harder. And I say,

48:54

if you're an American citizen, then you need to be able to vote.

48:58

You need to be required to vote. I have the opinion that there

49:00

should be compulsory service in military or in public service for two years for all

49:07

of us. And that means, whether it's military service or public service.

49:09

We need people to pick up trash. We need, you know, to

49:13

go into neighborhoods that are disenfranchised and trashed up, pick up that trash and

49:16

keep it clean. And we'd all be more invested, more involved, more

49:22

concerned because it would affect all of us, and you would see it at a different level. And that would include being more respectful and a higher esteem

49:30

for those men and women in uniform who put themselves on the line for us

49:35

every single day all around the world doing what they do in military service.

49:42

So I'm a fan of the idea two and two two years a community or

49:45

military service for two years of college or whatever else in exchange, and that

49:50

works for everybody. But I am bewildered about the passionate hate and frustration or

49:55

aggravation and all this ridiculous propaganda somehow acting like Taylor Swift is a puppet of

50:01

Satan or some other ridiculous thing because she may or may not, you know,

50:07

speak out about the the upcoming presidential election, I think is ridiculous in

50:10

my view. You may have a different one. Seven four nine, seven

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50:45

Doctor James Right of Right Dental Center, Cincinnati Andrey tomorrow fifty one,

50:50

and it says clear and there's a picture of the sun on the forecast.

50:53

But yeah, the sun. We saw the sun this week. Usually it's

50:58

well, it has been like great. I don't know, it seems like about a month since we had seen the sun. I know that's probably exaggerating,

51:04

just a minimally. I don't mean to exaggerate, but sir's health seems

51:07

like that's what it had been. Fifty seven on Sunday, partly sunny.

51:12

I'm changing the forecast. I'm not a meteorologist. It says partly cloudy,

51:15

which my guess is if it's partly cloudy, that means partly sonny. Right,

51:20

So I'm the optimist. I'm a half class, full kind of guy.

51:23

In the first of the week. Fifty one for Monday. It's right

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now thirty five your severe weather station seven hundred WLW. Glad you're alone,

51:31

you know. I'm just thinking about this Taylor Swift thing even more. I'm

51:35

just kind of curious, regardless of who it is, is there anyone in

51:42

the world of entertainment that you value when it comes to their recommendation or they're

51:50

sharing their view of politics where it's okay, my gut feeling for what it

51:55

may or may not be worth is that generally speaking, it's like a lot

52:00

of things. If the person is espousing of you that you agree with,

52:04

that you believe in, you're like, yeah, that's my guy, she's

52:07

the best two. Whatever it is, then people are cool with it if

52:09

it's if it's not something that you agree with. I don't think we're at

52:14

a point in time when most people are really wanting to hear anything than anything

52:22

they agree with. Right now, it's a weird echo chamber kind of place.

52:27

There was a time, I'm not sure how long ago it's been now

52:30

five ten years, give or take, where you could have a conversation,

52:35

you could agree to disagree, you could have different philosophies, but it wasn't

52:39

a hate all in or love all in kind of thing. This is my

52:44

candidate and only my you know, whatever else it is. And that's where

52:46

we are now. I don't think it's a healthy place. I really don't.

52:51

And right now the problem is is screwed up as we are, as we're having growing pains and are very relatively speaking young, experiment in this democratic

53:02

thing that we are, in our pursuit of happiness and so forth, it's

53:07

hard, I think for a lot of the world to look and hear us

53:12

in the US talk about democracy and hear us talk about how things ought to

53:16

be in US, wanting to put that light on things globally when they see

53:22

that we're having some issues here. But I think the issues are maybe a

53:25

part of what democracy is. If there were not you know, arguments,

53:30

if there were not disagreements, but you know, if it's pandemonium and fighting

53:36

in the streets and that type of thing, I think it gets it to another level. And this, by the way, I had some responses and

53:43

email in the conversation I had last night that was talking about the stuff on

53:50

the street with those groups of young people that attacked a couple of people over

53:53

the last week to ten days downtown and they busted a couple of them.

53:59

The question was how to they end up back on the street after they had

54:01

been in trouble before or whatever else. And the talk had been, well,

54:05

you know, as a judge, you decided it was a different way

54:07

of punishing or whatever else they didn't think it was they were a threat or

54:09

whatever ridiculousness that goes into that. And some of the responses that I had

54:15

I thought were interesting because people are like, yeah, yeah, you know,

54:20

lock them up, lock them up, and all this other stuff, and that's fine. But the other side and the response is that I got

54:28

we're talking about January sixth and how people were saying, well, they were

54:31

just on a tour of downtown Cincinnati, that's all they really were. Well,

54:36

tell that to the guy who got, you know, a bum rushed and a sucker punched and kicked and beaten down in the street from behind initially,

54:45

and make a joke about the fact that it was just a tour of

54:49

downtown Cincinnati. You could tell that to the cops and those who were injured

54:53

and those who weren't with us anymore, were working security and policing in DC

54:59

around the CA Appital on January sixth, And my guess is their families or

55:02

they subsequently aren't gonna go Yeah, that was a peaceful, calm, normal,

55:07

everyday tour scenario. So I mean, if it's good enough to talk

55:09

about these young people and them to be punished and punished harshly, I think

55:14

they should be for that behavior. Then you got to own up to the fact that, well apples to apples, oranges to oranges. Those people who

55:21

are involved with bad things January sixth, You know a number of years ago

55:24

now should be dealing with the same type of penalty, the same type of

55:30

basically paying the cost to be the boss if you will, or as Bretta

55:36

would. They say, there's an obscure reference. Mister McMahon probably doesn't remember

55:38

the show Barretta, but Robert Blake it was no longer with us anymore.

55:44

You can search that he had a pet bird. It was a great show as a kid growing up. Then he was it was a Father Murphy or

55:49

some other show. If I'm not mistaken anyway, But one of the things

55:52

is a part of the show was talking about don't do the crime if he

55:55

can't do the time. So I me know that's sort of the way that

56:00

goes. I really don't say, oh, well, you know, they're

56:04

just kids. Well you started kicking people and when they're down and hitting them

56:07

in the back of the head and putting them in harm's way in a situation

56:10

where they could fall, crack their skull open, or end up dead or

56:14

have traumatic brain injury. That's not goofy kids stuff. That's not you know,

56:21

breaking a neighbor's window playing baseball and one got away from you. And

56:24

you got to spend a couple of hundred bucks in restitution to get a new

56:27

window put in. No, that's a totally different thing. That's not like,

56:30

hey, it's no big deal. It's kids stuff. They don't need

56:35

to be locked up. If you're a danger to society, if you're a

56:37

threat, if you are out there wreaking havoc, causing harm in the midst

56:43

of you know, we're how many weeks away from FC Cincinnati getting back at

56:46

it. How many weeks away are we from Great American Ballpark being packed with

56:51

fans in a Reds team that we expect to be contenders this year, in

56:54

warm weather and festivals, in good times and all kinds of events downtown,

57:00

whether it's at the Brady or pick another venue, and people hanging out outside

57:04

and beer gardens and having a good time, eating good food with friends and

57:07

family and visitors touring the city, you know, and enjoying themselves here.

57:13

If they don't get this stuff fixed downtown, and they are already increasing the

57:16

police presence, and you already don't have the fear of God in retribution and

57:22

retaliation in response to bad behavior by bad actors downtown or anywhere, for that

57:28

matter, Then you're going to have a problem with people being comfortable coming to

57:31

the city to visit, to be a tourist, to go check out some

57:37

baseball, or check out some soccer, or grab some food and spend a

57:39

night in a hotel, do a mixture of all of that, maybe check

57:43

out Newport Aquarium or a show, you know, at the Air and Off

57:47

or whatever else. Then we're gonna see serious reverberations there and go, oh,

57:52

is this Portland, Oregon? Oh? Is this San Francisco or Oakland?

57:55

Is this downtown Los Angeles in the midst of a time when it is

58:00

a transitional period for city centers across the country, with so many offices being

58:07

underutilized and lease is not being renewed, and people who are in the business

58:12

of development trying to figure out exactly what they're going to do with these properties,

58:16

some of which is residential. If you've got to worry about that on

58:20

the streets, Downtown is no different than any other neighborhood around town. You're

58:24

going to have a hard time finding people to lease and buy townhouses and apartments

58:30

and everything else in or around downtown or within walking distance or a bike ride

58:35

or a street car ride or whatever else it is. And I know maybe

58:38

I'm the master of the obvious, but looking at email and hearing conversations,

58:44

I don't necessarily see that's the case. I'm just trying to be a reasonable

58:46

voice. That's all in unreasonable times. On a Friday night, Sterling,

58:52

coming back after your ten thirty report, doctor Donna Schleheck talking about US retaliation

58:57

in the Middle East and how dicey things could get maybe sooner than later.

59:00

Let's hope that they get the idea that you don't want to mess around with

59:06

US. News time right now on the home of those reds. Seven hundred

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WLW. Snarling back seven hundred WLW waiting for doctor Donna Schlehick. Haveing trouble

59:19

getting a holder of so we'll see. I'm going to make sure I gave

59:22

you the right number. One. I'm going to add one and see Shaun

59:30

McMahon's trying to get her there, and we'll see. Anyway, we'll get

59:34

her perspective. She used to be the head of political science at Right State.

59:36

She's a CINCINNATIKID now Professor Meredith, and she's well versed in all this

59:40

Middle Eastern stuff and obviously apparently Iran backed hoodies and all these other groups that

59:45

have been attacking US installations in a military personnel. Three US service people were

59:51

killed recently and a bunches of others injured in the midst of their attacks.

59:54

And at our choosing in our response, going at stuff when we want to

1:00:01

do it, as President Biden has said, is underway right now. And

1:00:05

here's doctor Schleck on the line now with Sterling on seven hundred WLW. How

1:00:07

are you tonight, doctor Hi Sterling. It's good to talk to you.

1:00:13

I watched the return of Remains this afternoon. It's a hard thing to do

1:00:16

coming into Delaware. Yes, very solemn, very sober, and you know,

1:00:22

thinking of all the families who have people on active duty abroad right now

1:00:27

and what's going on. And so I'm glad we're having this conversation. It's

1:00:32

a serious one and it's a challenging one. We've talked about this, you

1:00:37

know, the calculus of spinning plates and multi layered level chess and problems with

1:00:44

Gaza and Israel and everything else there the Red Sea and the attack on military

1:00:50

installations of the US and our personnel. Three lost lives. You just talked

1:00:52

about so many others that are injured with traumatic brain injuries and so on.

1:00:57

You cannot fail to respond. But how we respond is a big part of

1:01:02

that. Let me ask this because apparently we've hit some eighty five targets to

1:01:07

this point. It would missile attacks and so on, and more maybe to

1:01:10

come. But we also gave warning. What is the benefit to giving warning?

1:01:15

I guess it's civilians because they're near civilian people as well. Or is

1:01:22

that so we can follow those that are fleeing. That may be also a

1:01:25

part of who the individuals we should target, because it seems to me surprise

1:01:29

would be a benefit. Well. Right now, with what's going on in

1:01:34

Gaza Strip, the importance of avoiding any civilian of any civilian casualties I think

1:01:42

was really heightened. So that was clearly a priority at the at the Pentagon,

1:01:50

and you know we're negotiating, Go ahead and take it up. We're negotiating. We're trying to get a peace agreement right, a peace fire right

1:01:58

between us and the Palestine. So lots of layers and clearly a signal back

1:02:02

and forth with the Iranians we don't want to escalate it. No Iranian targets

1:02:07

have been hit as far as I can tell. So that's that's the most

1:02:13

important thing. Contain any escalation and demons straight the accuracy. You know.

1:02:20

With the Israelis, they're about to begin maybe their last big initiative on the

1:02:27

southern border with Egypt in Russia, and that's where all all of the civilians

1:02:30

have clustered in the south. So yeah, the time, the you know,

1:02:35

the civilian casualty question. But it does look from the outside like a

1:02:38

very strange waltz that we do, doesn't It's a dancing, you know,

1:02:44

your partner has to know which way you're going to move. Both sides have

1:02:47

signaled publicly. I guess I just say a couple other things. We don't

1:02:52

know what else has been happening. I would expect that there's going to be

1:02:57

a cyber component to this punish, probably much more focused inside Iran as well.

1:03:05

And of course these militia groups, they're all remnants remember ISIS way back

1:03:09

when after the war in Iraq, when we pulled troops out in twenty eleven.

1:03:15

By twenty fourteen, Isis had its little caliphate, you know, across

1:03:20

Syria and Iraq, and the remnants of course, have received a lot of

1:03:23

Iranian support, so you know, we're in four or five different dances at

1:03:30

the same time. A lot of eyes will be back on southern Gaza,

1:03:34

I'm sure as soon as this big offensive gets started. But the you know,

1:03:40

the remnants of that war in Iraq have come back over and over again,

1:03:45

you know, to pose these sorts of threats to the West. There

1:03:51

were also hooty attacks. I haven't heard of any strikes in Yemen so far,

1:03:55

but we don't know what. We don't know yet, and we don't

1:03:59

know how long this will go on. I would assume there will be some targeting of the Hoofs as well, with their continued strikes on international commerce.

1:04:06

Now, you can't allow that to continue. Hang on, let me just

1:04:09

reintroduce you and then we'll continue. She's doctor Donna Schlake, former head of

1:04:13

political science at Right State. Now Professor Meredith was sterling on the big one.

1:04:16

Let me ask this too, and then let you finish your thought and

1:04:18

carry on with this. We are more or less fighting Iran by proxy,

1:04:23

right We are fighting Russia and China effectively in some fashion by proxy. And

1:04:28

we talked about all the destabilization and our border issues, and so many of

1:04:31

these countries or these people have been fleeing and making their way north. It's

1:04:35

not just about the issue of drug cartels big part of it, though,

1:04:39

but all these other countries have had a hand in some of that destabilization and

1:04:43

these attacks in the Middle East and elsewhere. So we're fighting them, but

1:04:46

we're not fighting them. That is a weird game of whack a mole,

1:04:49

and it's really it's fake. It's like we're fighting you, but we're not.

1:04:54

I'm going to smack your cousin, I'm going to smack your wife,

1:04:57

but I'm not going to smack you openly in your own house. But I'm

1:04:59

still going to get you when you're at the mall or whatever. I mean, it's weird in semantics and it's I mean, it's just why isn't it

1:05:06

just out in the open and call it what it is? Or am I

1:05:09

missing this? Well? It seems a bit performative. I think that's the

1:05:14

word that we've been hearing a lot lately. You know, in politics and

1:05:17

in military strikes, public opinion really matters, and not just in democracies.

1:05:24

A country like Iran has a ton a long list of internal problems. So

1:05:30

right now, supporting these militias and you know, constantly challenging the West,

1:05:33

it helps unify people against the Great Satan. Remember that that praise from the

1:05:40

hostage situation way back under Jimmy Carter. So a lot of it's for public

1:05:45

consumption. But there is a power struggle. You know, the Iranians are

1:05:47

on one side. We're clearly on the other side with the Israelis in the

1:05:51

Saudis, and we're trying to build a piece between the Israelis and the Saudis.

1:05:57

And what they share more than anything else is they're just like of Iran.

1:06:00

So yeah, the regional politics are there, and yet that you know,

1:06:05

the prospect of something for the Palestinians, peace between Israel and the major

1:06:12

Arab neighbors, you know, to let them at least be operating at peace,

1:06:15

producing prosperity, building technology, not producing migrants and refugees, but creating

1:06:24

jobs. You know, that's the bigger picture. That's what the US and

1:06:28

our Western allies are trying to accomplish, and players like Russia and Iran want

1:06:34

exactly the opposite. They want chaos. They need to be able to unify

1:06:40

their domestic opinion against an outside thread. Putin has his problems right now as

1:06:45

well, with precisely this problem. The war in Ukraine just quite hasn't gone

1:06:50

by plan. But you're right, the risks are so high, massive economic

1:06:56

damage, nuclear weapons, etc. The risks are so high you have to

1:07:00

fight through proxies, and even then you have to be signaling publicly in multiple

1:07:06

venues that we're going to contain the strikes. It's so far been a demonstration

1:07:14

of exactly what was promised. I don't know if you caught the Secretary of

1:07:17

Defense's comments yesterday about this situation, but it was pretty plain that the response

1:07:25

was in the works. I understand, you know, they wanted to use

1:07:28

b ones and the weather was part of the problem. But you know,

1:07:31

the attacks happened on Sunday. That's when we lost people and the forty plus

1:07:35

injuries. It's Friday. Clearly we had to try to determine who was responsible.

1:07:42

How it happens, you know, bring the forces and send the signals.

1:07:45

The time that has elapsed to me doesn't seem excessive. It seems like

1:07:51

a great amount of precision was taken to try to contain this, because we'd

1:07:57

still really like to bring the Israelis in Saudis to an agreement end the war

1:08:01

in Gaza and try to find some path toward a more peaceful future. The

1:08:08

threat of Iran at this time, think about it, Sterling actually should prompt

1:08:13

both the Saudis and the Israelis to want to come together in ending the conflict

1:08:18

and trying to build something better. So it's I don't know if you want

1:08:24

to call it a mastermind, but it is an American foreign policy, a

1:08:28

broad security policy. We want to keep your energy prices low. We don't

1:08:32

want to be sending out of Americans into combat. And yes it's a forward

1:08:36

defense, it's far away from home, but there's a direct benefit back to

1:08:41

the American public as well. Who's the biggest threat in the biggest enemy that

1:08:45

we have in the Middle East? Is it Iran? Effectively, that's the

1:08:53

first time I've ever caused you to have that big of a SAI in all

1:08:56

the years that we've talked. I'm just saying, go ahead, a big

1:09:00

trying mentally to think of all the different terrorist groups that we have talked about

1:09:03

over the years, you know, and the impulse towards violence in that region,

1:09:09

you know, with so many resources and the histories of multiple great civilizations

1:09:13

that have made their contributions to the West. And yet it's something like the

1:09:17

Islamic State in Iraq and Syria or Kataib has Ballah, which has announced it's

1:09:24

going out of business. By the way, before the strikes actually began.

1:09:27

They're the ones who carried out the bombing in Iran right at a funeral you

1:09:32

may recall a few weeks ago. So it took a while and I'm not

1:09:38

sure I can give you one deep threat, but we have such interest there.

1:09:43

Yeah, that's the thread not being involved and not trying to be a

1:09:46

force for some good. Hence here we are using a lot of force and

1:09:51

yet trying to use it to minimize civilian casualties and still try to destroy the

1:09:57

infrastructure of some of these militia groups which will whack a mole like pop back

1:10:01

up. Absolutely again, that that is, that is that the presence of

1:10:06

Iran in the business, particularly of Iraq and Syria, with a mixture of

1:10:13

Shia and Sheite, Sunny and Chite religions playing on old, old old fues.

1:10:20

Yeah, since to never go away forever and always this stuff never goes

1:10:26

anywhere. I mean that's the underlying thing I guess from the beginning of time

1:10:30

as we know it. Effectively, she's doctor Donna schleg former head of political

1:10:32

science at right State, now professor Emerita, and she's here from Cincinnati with

1:10:36

Sterling on the big one. How much there's this is always a part of

1:10:42

it. But this is an election year, and it's a weird one,

1:10:45

and it's a tenuous time, and we're experiencing growing pains here Stateside, and

1:10:48

a lot of the world is watching it and saying, who are we to

1:10:50

say about democracy and how it should be done when we're all, you know,

1:10:54

look at us in the mess that we may be in at this point.

1:10:57

But I have to ask, because being an elect how much, and

1:11:01

it's always the case, I guess, the politics of it, how much

1:11:04

does an election year play into decisions being made? Because it is very fragile

1:11:11

now when it comes to all those parties that you've mentioned, all the different

1:11:15

militant groups, all the different religious factions, all the different countries that are

1:11:20

actually in the Middle East, then globally, those outside interests aside because so

1:11:25

much is dependent upon what's there and wanting us to look bad. But someone

1:11:29

who's in the office of the President and being presented with plans in retaliation.

1:11:34

And you know these things in one fashion or another. They're not just put

1:11:38

together last minute, though there may be some adjustments made. Correct. This

1:11:41

is stuff that is in a book that you've got a bunch of people with

1:11:45

big brains, with bunches of research, hopefully knowing what they're talking about,

1:11:48

put together in case this happens. In case this happens, and whoever's in

1:11:53

that office is a decision maker, has it presented by these experts, and

1:11:57

then they have the final choice. But election years are different, correct,

1:12:00

So is it possible that this year, compared to a year ago, compared

1:12:04

to two years ago or two years from now, whoever's got next to the

1:12:09

big White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, their decision making process and final choice of

1:12:15

retaliation could very well be different. Yes, absolutely. Timing, timing,

1:12:21

timing, as always, the election is months ten months away, and that's

1:12:30

the forever in politics. But should this erupt into a much broader war with

1:12:35

much larger American casualties than public opinion tends to change pretty dramatically. So yes,

1:12:45

the president is always mindful of public opinion. We have to wonder who

1:12:50

should lead at that point. Should it be public opinion, are they informed,

1:12:55

do they understand a lot of this information will be highly classified as as

1:12:59

we know, but or is this the time for leadership? And this happens

1:13:04

to be a time who with a president who has quite an interesting and broad

1:13:10

scaled plan for the region based on American leadership, that absolutely indispensable player that

1:13:17

the US has been in trying to make peace between Israel and a variety you

1:13:21

know, one by one, one by one builds some more peace in the

1:13:26

region. There's actually a bigger plan here, which President Biden I think makes

1:13:30

him want even more to be very if we can use the word surgical in

1:13:35

these strikes, but also in the context of the war in Gaza and all

1:13:40

of the civilian casualties, tens of thousands of civilian casualties. So in that

1:13:45

context, and that is a point about which American public opinion seems to have

1:13:49

become very sensitized. You've seen the polls, and you know the public wants

1:13:57

they want to know why and how. I guess yes. I'd conclude though

1:14:00

by saying, when the remains were returned today in that solemn very somber ceremony.

1:14:08

I think a lot of Americans who may just catch a clip of it

1:14:11

on the news, will realize we have skin in this game. You know,

1:14:15

Americans who volunteered to go have made that final sacrifice. I'm thinking about

1:14:23

their families now. I had a brother who was on active duty during the

1:14:27

Marine Corps Berets bombing in nineteen eighty three, so it's very intense. You

1:14:32

certainly want your military community to be behind it. And if we have to

1:14:36

build more understanding among the public about why we're doing and what we're doing,

1:14:41

if we're doing it carefully, trying to minimize civilian casualties, and certainly our

1:14:45

troops for it, who are involved in these strikes, then public opinion will

1:14:49

tend to support the president. We almost never see an election that's driven by

1:14:54

foreign policy, except for times like this. It's almost always the economy,

1:15:00

and of course in this election it'll be immigration. But if it's weeks and

1:15:04

with just weeks before the election, oh yes, it can make a huge,

1:15:08

a huge difference. I expect to hear the President speaking fairly soon,

1:15:13

perhaps over the week. Stay tuned, that makes sense. So anything that

1:15:16

I've not asked in relation to this, that's irrelevant because I don't have a

1:15:19

big enough brain, you know, I was. I think we were expecting

1:15:28

strikes, and I guess it's the backstory with the other major negotiations that we're

1:15:33

leading the hostages, a ceasefire and a bigger plan. And I think it's

1:15:40

demonstrated he's got Whiton, has a good team and they've got a big plan

1:15:45

at work. And this is a bit of a blip on that radar screen.

1:15:48

If they can keep it under control, there could be good news forthcoming

1:15:53

on the hostages and the ceasefire, and perhaps a bit more soon. But

1:15:58

you know, it's all driven by Paul. A lot of them in Israel

1:16:01

right now and what that government can agree to based upon a very divided public.

1:16:08

They've been attacked, but their public reaction to the action in among civilians

1:16:14

in Gaza has been very strong as well. It's hard, though, it's

1:16:17

hard public opinion, it is, It's very difficult. I always appreciate your

1:16:23

perspective and insight, well informed, always in the no former head of political

1:16:27

science at Wright State University up the road in Dayton. She's a Cincinnati kid

1:16:30

now professor amereda very generous with her time. We greatly appreciate it. She

1:16:35

is doctor Donna Shleg. Thank you so much. I hope you enjoy the

1:16:38

rest of your weekend. We'll catch up again. So good talking to you,

1:16:41

cannight. Take care of yourself, more sterling coming back seven hundred WLW.

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like to have fun. I mean, you know, blow off some steam.

1:17:23

Fee will stress and work hard. But serious stuff's going on. And

1:17:27

eighty five targets hit in the US military retaliation at B one bombers so from

1:17:31

the US making their way over Iraq in Syria, where Iranian forces in Iran

1:17:38

backed militants. It attacked US forces leaving three US soldiers dead about a week

1:17:43

ten days ago or take a little less than actually, and a bunch of

1:17:45

other of our personnel with some serious injuries. And this may be just the

1:17:50

beginning of us being involved, thanks to doctor Schleck for giving us some perspective

1:17:54

on it and some insights, you know, and you just don't want it

1:17:57

going to the next level in escalation because you only wonder a lot of these

1:18:00

groups and so forth. They're all like in the terrorist stuff. It's not

1:18:02

like, hey, you wear a uniform, you fly a flag or whatever.

1:18:06

They just do stuff innocuously and bad things and then you go, oh,

1:18:12

okay, so that's terrorism. So you hope that that doesn't take it

1:18:15

to, you know, continue to grow and do another level of something too making headlines. Well, I'm not trying to be the profit of doom or

1:18:19

anything. I'm just just saying, you know, I want to lighten it

1:18:23

up if I could. But it was good to get some information and it's

1:18:26

in the news and it's going on, so I figured it was reasonable to

1:18:29

bring doctor Slack on to talk about it. Appreciate you being here. On

1:18:31

a Friday night, we get some movie speaking a bit of a conversation with

1:18:35

Kevin Carr. Carl Weathers passed away. He was Apollo Creed and those rocky

1:18:41

movies. He was in Happy Gilmore. He's in The Mandalorian, which I

1:18:45

don't know how they're going to handle that, which is a certain I think

1:18:48

it's still in production. I don't think they finished The Mandalorian. I know

1:18:50

I have not watched the last cluster of episodes, so I don't know what's

1:18:55

going on with that. Maybe a bit of a bunch of stuff over the

1:18:59

year too, so we'll have to get into that as well, with him

1:19:02

in a bid in that conversation, and I just as I'm sitting here,

1:19:10

I'm trying to think in that realm of like good times and Friday and as

1:19:15

a kid, this is this is where I think we have a topic. Like when I was a little kid, a tiny sterling, there were a

1:19:21

couple things and I knew it was the weekend, and my mother would work

1:19:25

like six days a week, sometimes seven days a week at the furniture store

1:19:29

where she worked when I was coming up, and so Friday for me was

1:19:32

not Friday for her. Friday for me meant that I might go to work

1:19:35

with her for part of the day Saturday and or Sunday, depending or I

1:19:40

might go to my cousin's house or whatever. But Friday night when she got

1:19:44

home from work, what it meant was it was peteza night. What it

1:19:47

meant was it was popcorn night. What it might have been was like movie

1:19:49

night. What it was some type of fun and stuff like that. So

1:19:54

what I'm wondering is is a parent, perhaps or as you growing up as

1:19:58

a kid, what vicariously through my friends and families, little ones and some

1:20:02

of them have those same type of deals. The only thing is once when

1:20:05

I was tall enough to be able to reach the top of the stove safely

1:20:11

and there was a footstool, Mom was kind enough to let me use and

1:20:15

it was safer, I guess. With the Jiffy Pop not a paid endorsement

1:20:19

or commercial, by the way, but it's just one of those things I'll

1:20:21

share with you. I should get the Jiffy Pop thing, and I could,

1:20:26

you know, do that on the stove over the fire or whatever,

1:20:30

and let that thing swell up as the popcorn pop where it was just going

1:20:33

to like burst like it was some type of infected oil gland or something like

1:20:38

that. It needed to be lanced, pardon the punt, and then you

1:20:41

have all the good popcorn and then we go watch a movie, maybe like

1:20:44

a you know, a VHS tape or something along those lines. So when

1:20:47

we come back after the eleven o'clock report, I want to know when you

1:20:51

were a kid, or you with your children, or what have you,

1:20:55

or even now, what is it that makes the weekend to start? What

1:20:59

when you know it's Friday and we're looking forward to it. Is it pizza night? Is it movie night? Is a good time get out of the

1:21:04

house, go have a good time, have a couple of drinks night?

1:21:08

And your kids what are they looking at it as too? It was one

1:21:11

of those big deals. And I remember occasionally one of those deals where like

1:21:15

my mom and one of my aunts, we get together with my cousins and

1:21:18

we go out someplace, and it was like a big thing to get it,

1:21:20

like a pizza, and there'd be like the salad bar or whatever,

1:21:24

you'd have the buffet with all the different types of pizza. It was a

1:21:27

huge thing. And maybe I'd get like my allowance, or i'd make money

1:21:30

at the furniture store. They give me like two bucks, which was a

1:21:33

ripoff, by the way, I feel violated now that I think about it.

1:21:35

I dust all the furniture in the furniture store and then they give me

1:21:39

like two bucks. I complain, They're like, well, here's five. And then I could go down to the comic book store, ride my skateboard

1:21:45

over there or whatever. I go to the Lebanese restaurant, get some Lebanese food and hang out. That was the weekend to me. In Sterling's world.

1:21:51

What is the weekend for you or your kids? As you were coming

1:21:56

up or they are coming up right here after You're eleven o'clock report Dany Harris

1:22:00

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1:22:10

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1:22:13

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1:22:16

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1:22:23

Glad you're long updates on the US retaliation in the Middle East against Iran,

1:22:28

or at least their proxies. Stuff in Syria and her Rock eighty five

1:22:33

targets seven different installations or locations in the midst of that d one the bombers

1:22:41

from the US making their way over there to get it done. It's pretty

1:22:45

what thanks doctor schla Heck. You can check out the podcast by the way

1:22:49

after the show and you can give a listen. She's always a great bit

1:22:53

of information. What I'm wondering is this as a kid. Here's the other

1:22:56

thing, because when you're a child, you know mom and dad are working

1:23:01

or whatever, and you may be int a babysitter or like me, after

1:23:04

you got to be a certain age, you were a latchkey kid. Fridays

1:23:08

were everything right and the weekend and it was like a big deal. It

1:23:14

was like pizza night right, it was popcorn weekend time. It was maybe

1:23:17

I'd go to the furniture store, go to work with mom over the weekend,

1:23:19

which was pretty awesome. Which is just tremendous. And I'm starting to

1:23:26

think about it. I mean that that was a big deal. And I've

1:23:28

talked to other people about it off the year, some other friends and so forth. So I'm asking you whether it's you, whether it's your kids,

1:23:34

and how that's changed. The other thing was when I got a little bit

1:23:38

older, I was watching TV or whatever, and you'd have Shock Theater,

1:23:42

which was with Doctor Creep and Dayton and I know a lot of people here

1:23:45

in Cincinnati would watch him. And then it was Bob Shreeves, right, and he had that late night show which always seemed like a party, which

1:23:54

is what they intended. I don't know how much of it was legitimately a

1:23:57

party where they were having like little kings and kicking back, good food and

1:24:00

a lot of craziness going on. And then they'd show movies in the midst

1:24:03

of that. And as much as the movies were cool and in a draw

1:24:08

for what they were, it was a whole nother thing just watching whatever Doctor

1:24:13

Creep would do or you know, if you're I guess the cool Ghoul was

1:24:15

also one of those characters that was on TV. And now they've got some

1:24:19

other guy that does some stuff. I think it's on me TV or whatever

1:24:24

on the weekends. If you watch over the air stuff or whatever. Just

1:24:27

about every service you can watch that kind of thing. And I think kids

1:24:30

diday probably have the same deal. But it was all the you know,

1:24:33

the party and the good. It was like I was sneaking in and getting

1:24:36

a look at it. A different life in a different world. But that

1:24:40

was Friday to me. That was the weekend. And then like you know,

1:24:43

maybe we'd have like a brunch and I could watch like kung Fu reve

1:24:47

runs of Kung Fu in the afternoon in the midst of like you know stuff.

1:24:51

It was tremendous and I'm just wondering now, I'm guessing it has to

1:24:56

kind of store still be the same way for little kids, right coming up,

1:25:00

just different things, different activities and stuff that sort of go for that.

1:25:05

Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand,

1:25:08

eight hundred the big one. You can talk back on the iHeartRadio app like

1:25:11

it might be if you you know, you listen to Lance, You're like,

1:25:14

oh, well they opt to Beaten Path topic. That's a Friday thing, right. You know you may hear edon Rock doing their thing in the

1:25:19

afternoon in certain elements of that You're like, well, that's a Friday show

1:25:23

for them, right, one of those type of things. It's a benchmark,

1:25:26

it's what you look forward to. It's it and I totally pizza was

1:25:30

huge. You know, you get like the Hogy's pizza or in Columbus, I know friends that they're big they get ritolos, you know, or here

1:25:35

in town there's a plethora of a neighborhood pizza places that you look sort of

1:25:41

look forward to. That was like a big thing. And I remember like,

1:25:44

well, my aunt had bring a different pizza from a different place, and it was like like being a tourist, You're like, oh, I

1:25:49

didn't realize this existed. What was this that that was like a major deal

1:25:55

as a kid, it's you know where we are five three, seven,

1:25:59

four nine, seven thousand and eight, the big one Matt Sterling Radio on

1:26:02

x formerly known as Twitter, and that sort of like plays out into that.

1:26:08

Oh, by the way, was it kel? Kel and Alice messaged

1:26:14

me on Twitter and they were saying they could redo the Heritage Bank Center and

1:26:17

yeah, they'd go to NHL yesterday if it was here in Cincinnati. And

1:26:21

that goes to the question I posed earlier, because talk is now NHL big

1:26:28

wigs, we're talking about the idea of expansion cities and interest sown from around

1:26:31

the country. It was Omaha. I think a handful of other cities included

1:26:36

along with Cincinnati is a part of that I think they'll probably be support.

1:26:41

I just don't know if the Columbus Blue Jackets would be into it. So

1:26:44

Kel, thanks very much for the message and the contribution that sort of goes

1:26:47

along with it. Hold honestly, let me refresh this. Alex, who

1:26:53

always gets involved too, says that pizza is a big night, but in

1:26:56

our house now it's tacos. Friday is taco night compared to like Tuesday's taco

1:27:00

stuff for a lot of us. But I guess with the kids it's a

1:27:02

whole nother thing. So as you look at it and what your idea is

1:27:06

for the weekend and sort of how that plays out and so on, and

1:27:11

I guess the movie thing was big. I got to a point also as

1:27:15

I got a little bit older with my friends and we had autonomy, right

1:27:18

we could drive, so there'd be parties, but it was us going to

1:27:21

the movies on our own and being able to in between that and then eventually,

1:27:27

of course with you know, having jobs. So then I worked at

1:27:29

a place like I worked at put golf in Games and that was a like

1:27:34

they have an erlinger right now, used to be one on a beachmont.

1:27:38

They were all over the place had a national tournament at Beachmont just had the

1:27:42

nationals I think a Erlinger last summer or fall, if I'm not mistaken.

1:27:46

But I would work there after school and on weekends when I was old enough,

1:27:53

and I all of a sudden was on the other side of the counter

1:27:57

for something that was the weekend in a good time for me. I turned

1:28:00

it into sort of a business thing, and then I could play for free as well. They had video games and that type of deal as well.

1:28:06

So but that was the interesting thing because you'd see these people coming and like

1:28:10

all week they were geeked up and excited, and then I was the guy

1:28:14

on the other side of the counter giving the golf balls in the golf you know, the putters and surfing up slushies or whatever else to these kids who

1:28:20

came out with their families and that was their Friday or their weekend experience that

1:28:25

they had been looking forward to in the warm weather months anyway, all week

1:28:30

which I think it was a pretty awesome kind of scenario. It sort of

1:28:32

plays out into that that's kind of cool something else. I think we can

1:28:36

have a little bit of fun with here too, And I thank you alex

1:28:41

Is the one who sent me this, and he says, what about the

1:28:45

dog? You even't been talking about crazy lately? What is something that's special

1:28:50

that's I'm trying to get a sort of paraphrase here, what is crazy?

1:28:58

Refuse to give up? It's just crazy. And I don't know exactly what

1:29:01

that means with maybe a toy or whatever else. Yeah, he does not

1:29:04

like the kid he's getting next to. He has a blue dog that's a

1:29:08

stuff squeaker toy, and he is ripped off in part every appendage. It's

1:29:14

basically a head and a trunk of a blue dog. Now I've had to

1:29:17

perform surgery on the stuffed a dog squeak toy deal because he's ripped off the

1:29:25

tail in part, and I had to cut it off so that I had

1:29:27

to amputate it so he wouldn't choke the death on the tail. Then I

1:29:30

noticed that like one of the front legs was like hanging off and he was getting stuffing out because you know, it was relentless and trying to kill his

1:29:36

blue dog, which by the way, he loves and sleeps with most of

1:29:40

the time. So then I had to take off a leg so it had

1:29:42

three legs and then it landed up with two, and then it was down

1:29:45

to one, which was really imbalanced and look weird, and then it was

1:29:49

now it's just ahead and a trunk and a nub of a tail. And

1:29:54

my dog loves it the same and if he can't find it, he is

1:29:57

relentless in searching for it. Oh, Alex, I think that's what you

1:30:01

were looking at in an answer that sort of goes along with that. Then

1:30:04

maybe something other people have too. I think most dogs are like that,

1:30:08

though they have that one toy or that one thing. You know. He

1:30:12

has a cowbone. It's part of a like a I don't know if it's

1:30:15

a shin bone or it's a small hollow thing. The marrow is out of

1:30:17

it, and he has had it. I bet he's had it six years

1:30:23

and it's his go to a gnaw on scenario. And if the cat in

1:30:28

the house gets near it, he I don't think he'd kill the cat,

1:30:31

but he certainly is quick to stand up and take it from the cat and

1:30:35

let him know that he's the boss. Even if he doesn't want it.

1:30:39

He'll take it and then move it, put it back in his area,

1:30:42

and then he'll just sit there like, don't don't think about it, my

1:30:44

bone, my blue dog, I'm crazy, and that's that. It's a

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1:31:00

a kid, where you're like, it's the weekend. This is what I'm

1:31:03

looking forward to. It's a Friday sterling. It could be that in some

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1:31:40

Left out in the cold, warm to ridiculously cold and snow and ice and

1:31:45

then rain to warm. The next couple of days thirty tonight, nine first

1:31:48

morning forecast on the Big One, fifty one Tomorrow, fifty seven Sunday,

1:31:53

still staying in the fifties to start the week. On Monday, it's thirty

1:31:57

three right now, seven hundred WLW, your severe weather station. Glad you're

1:32:00

along. Yeah, I mean really, I'll take fifties all day. And

1:32:05

it's all it felt today. When I was walking the dog in the morning,

1:32:10

it really just had the vibe of, man, it's like early season

1:32:15

Reds baseball. It just felt that way. I could see the grass seemed

1:32:18

a little green. It doesn't, thankfully need to be cut at this point.

1:32:24

It's not so mushy and muddy as it was over the last couple of

1:32:26

days to a week. After all the rain and everything else in the snow

1:32:30

meltin crap like that, and the ridiculous cold that fro stuff up. It'd

1:32:33

be nice if it just stayed this way the rest of the way. I

1:32:36

don't know. I can't remember if it's al Nino or al Nina. I

1:32:41

don't care. I'm just ready for warm. And I know California and the

1:32:45

Pineapple Express. By the way, it does not weed stuff. It's about

1:32:49

weather and severe wet rain and everything else and how that presents an issue to

1:32:56

us in the next period of time. I'm not sure that's why we got

1:32:59

a nine for sporting weather on the Big One. They'll give us an idea

1:33:01

on that, but I mean, at least for the next week or so,

1:33:03

it's going to be nice, and the longer it stays not, eventually

1:33:08

we'll just get to the point where it's just going to be all warm again,

1:33:11

and that's what I'm hoping for. I realize that this is when it's

1:33:15

supposed to be cold. I realized that that's when it's supposed to I mean snowing. Now, then when other than Christmas to New Year's I don't really

1:33:21

care. And if you're into skiing and snowboarding, they can always make the

1:33:26

snow, which I think it's probably cold enough for the snow to be made.

1:33:30

I don't know how many people are out there doing it, but if you are, do it safely, have a good time, I say,

1:33:33

why not get into this? Where's this at here? Somebody asked me,

1:33:40

oh, what about the illegal immigrants and the attack on New York City police?

1:33:45

And what do you think about them being putting on a bus and sent

1:33:47

to California. I would think that they should have been held and dealt with

1:33:54

for assaulting a police officer the way they would anybody else. I mean,

1:33:59

giving them a ticket for a bus and sending them on their way seemingly ridiculous.

1:34:05

They've been in a migrant shelter, if I'm not mistaken, it was

1:34:08

in like Randall's Island and there was some issue there and just a melee.

1:34:14

There's a lot of problems. I mean, you know they need to fix that, that's for sure, But I mean it seems ridiculous to me that

1:34:20

you have an assault on law enforcement like that and then they actually end up

1:34:25

getting hands on them and they can't apparently do anything about it. I think,

1:34:29

if nothing else, you've lost your If you're gonna come here and do

1:34:32

something as heinous as that, then you should have. You're no longer I

1:34:38

don't think, in my opinion, worthy of being considered to be a US

1:34:43

citizen or whatever. As far as I'm concerned or even to apply. I

1:34:45

mean, if you can't come here and live right while you're waiting to find

1:34:49

out if you can get you know, your way here, especially supposedly if

1:34:53

you're fleeing catastrophic circumstances and you're in a situation where you're hoping to to,

1:35:00

you know, get some type of refuge from bad places and bad things going

1:35:04

on, it makes sense to me that you should act accordingly, respectful,

1:35:11

and grateful for the opportunity is a place to have shelter in safety, refuge

1:35:16

from the craft that you're dealing with, whether it's religious persecution or political stuff

1:35:20

or what have you. And I understand they've been through a lot, some

1:35:24

of these people, and they're not going to act right all the time.

1:35:27

And there's going to be language issues and cultural issues. And that's been the

1:35:30

case for as long as people have been coming here. Ask the Native American

1:35:32

Indian indigenous peoples, we were different those people who migrated from elsewhere coming here

1:35:40

even and all the history of it. But I mean, you know,

1:35:42

that is a part of it. But breaking the law, attacking people being

1:35:46

a problem and a predator in attacking police, that is not the path to

1:35:51

citizenship as far as I'm concerned. I hope that answers your question. This

1:35:55

sort of goes along with it. You can get interactive on ex at Sterling

1:35:58

Radio as used to be Twitter really five three, seven, four nine eight

1:36:01

hundred, the Big One and the talk back on the iHeartRadio app by clicking

1:36:05

on that microphone. And boy, all of a sudden, it's like social

1:36:10

media has taken off. I don't know if what the deal is. Uh,

1:36:13

let's see here. This is from Joyce, Joyce and John. I

1:36:17

don't know if they have a twin account or not, but it says from

1:36:19

both of them, so they too. It's pizza is a big they said,

1:36:24

because I was asking about getting into the weekend and looking forward to it

1:36:26

as a kid. Uh. They said, They've made Friday night pizza night

1:36:30

for their kids, and let's see, and it's a big night for them

1:36:32

too, and they watch movies and apparently they pay attention at least to social

1:36:36

media, if not listening to the Big One while we're doing this here now,

1:36:40

so thank you for contributing. You can get interactive that way too.

1:36:45

Here's a question that I'm curious about. We don't have a whole lot of time before you're eleven thirty to report. Then we'll hear a conversation with Kevin

1:36:50

Carr fat guys in the movies about what's there to watch this weekend. Last

1:36:55

weekend there were like no new movies other than streaming this way, and that's

1:36:58

not the case. And of course carral Weather's passed away. Guy who played

1:37:01

Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies. He was in the Mandalorian, Happy Gilmour,

1:37:04

a bunch of other stuff as well. He's passed away. So we'll

1:37:09

talk to Kevin about that after the news and which just about four and a

1:37:12

half minutes away, give or take. But they were asking, so when

1:37:15

are you going to retire and where would you like to go to relocate?

1:37:20

I don't know what does that mean? By the way, does that mean

1:37:23

that you're wanting me to leave that I must be relocated upon retirement. First

1:37:27

of all, I'm not trying to retire. I think I'll retire when I

1:37:29

die. Firstly, Secondly, what country would you? I don't know.

1:37:34

I've traveled a little bit. I've been fortunate enough to be able to do

1:37:36

that, but this is home, you know what I mean? I'd maybe

1:37:42

like to be able to be in a place where there's a beach or where

1:37:44

it's warm, which would mean probably further south or at least towards a coastal

1:37:47

area for the cold weather months. I would love to travel more. I'd

1:37:51

certainly probably have more time to be able to pull that off. But as

1:37:56

far as retiring to another country, yeah, I don't know. I mean,

1:38:00

I think this is still where I want to be for sure. I mean, it's it's home. I'm an American, this is the US,

1:38:04

and I have some people that I know that have gotten a place. They

1:38:10

talked about Costa Rica, and then there was some news that was kind of

1:38:13

weird out of there, and then they were like, oh, well, we don't know about it. And what they've done now is they're vacationing and

1:38:17

they're talking about getting a place somewhere in Mexico where they say a whole lot

1:38:20

of Americans are relocating. They're like, hey, it's way cheap, you

1:38:25

should come down, you can go fissing to hang out. Well, I'll

1:38:27

visit, but I'm not trying to leave, you know, And I don't

1:38:30

I'm not even sure how to take that question. I mean and doesn't say

1:38:33

I mean, is that what? Are you looking to retire and get out

1:38:36

of the country someplace else? I mean one of the places I've always joked

1:38:41

about is like Ecuador, but that's just because of the equator and the fact

1:38:45

that the weather is temperate. I don't know that I'd like to just be there maybe for a little while, like maybe my winter, and then come

1:38:51

back here. Otherwise, but this is home. I mean, what are

1:38:55

you going to do. I'm not trying to go anywhere. You're trying to go anywhere. If you could retire anywhere, would you I mean, in

1:39:00

general, would you leave the US and retire somewhere else or would you like

1:39:04

to stay here? I think most people might want to visit. I don't

1:39:09

know if a whole lot of people want to like get out and stay out.

1:39:13

I mean the US passport and citizenship I mean, clearly is we know

1:39:19

from the news at this point is something that people are willing to risk their

1:39:24

lives to obtain because the rest of the world, however, you know,

1:39:29

tenuous at times. Our world is here Stateside, and how weird it is

1:39:33

when it comes to the growing pains and political strife and our inability to communicate,

1:39:39

maybe in a way that's civil, and have conversations about where we want

1:39:45

to go next politically and collaborating and you know, in some type of thing

1:39:49

where there's compromise and trying to get ahead, even though there may be different

1:39:53

philosophies in the midst of a time when it seems like everybody wants an echo

1:39:57

chamber and everyone else in some people's eyes, the enemy, which I think

1:40:00

is sad and ridiculous. This is still home and I don't think i'd want

1:40:04

to be anywhere else, right And a lot of the world looks at us

1:40:08

now and kind of goes, Okay, Well, who are you to say, Well, we're still the United States, We're still the beacon on the

1:40:13

hill. And if you ask a lot of people elsewhere around this planet, they want to be here. So you know, it's home. We're lucky.

1:40:20

It's kind of like automatically winning the lotto. And depending on how you

1:40:25

look at it, to say that you have an opportunity to do just about

1:40:28

anything. I'm not saying it's a perfect place, because it's not. There

1:40:30

are challenges, and certainly a lot of those are right in our faces right

1:40:34

about now. Is all this stuff is going on. But you'd think that

1:40:40

we could get a little bit more intelligent and a little bit more together and

1:40:44

decent to each other. Is we look to continue to get ahead. But

1:40:48

right now, people seem to like the yelling, people seem to like the

1:40:54

bs that goes along with it, and so on. But in the meantime,

1:40:58

I look around, and I look at my neighborhood, I look at my friends. Most people are just that good people hanging out, just trying

1:41:03

to live their lives, take care of their children, and have hope and

1:41:05

an opportunity for the future so they can spend Friday nights eating pizza and listen

1:41:10

to the Big one eleven thirty report straight away. Conversation with Fat Guys at

1:41:13

the Movies Kevin Carr on the other side, Friday, Sterling, appreciate you

1:41:16

being here. Whitney Harris has news and that's what it's time for now.

1:41:19

It's seven hundred Friday night. It's officially the weekend, depending on how you

1:41:24

keep score at home. I'm not I'm just doing this Sterling hanging out Nation

1:41:28

Station. What you're listening to? Seven hundred WLW Kevin Carr, Fat Guys

1:41:32

at the Movies Chubby and Stick podcast on the Hold on a Hiatus. Maybe

1:41:36

it's dead. I don't know, Kevin, how are you? What is

1:41:40

going on? Oh? Not much, just you know, trying to live

1:41:44

my life and not have too much interference. Do you deal with a lot

1:41:47

of people like a work in interference on your day to day operations and the

1:41:51

life of Kevin Carr. There's an alarming number of interference and plays going on

1:41:58

in my life right now. Sometimes sometimes I seriously just feel like I just

1:42:02

I just have to manage multiple lives at once, and I just have to

1:42:08

sort of sit there and approve things and be like, oh, you gotta

1:42:10

do this, I got to do that. Oh crap, gotta do that

1:42:13

now. That's like that. Now there's something I was supposed to do today

1:42:16

that I totally forgot about because I'm an idiot. Well that's not my fault,

1:42:19

and I didn't call you an idiot. And just because you're living like

1:42:23

the c suite life of multiple things that you can delegate, and the rest

1:42:27

of us schleps are just trying to get what we're going doing, what we're

1:42:29

doing, whatever the hell that is, whatever it even means, I don't know, don't I mean, you know, don't make me feel bad.

1:42:35

No, no, no, My goal is never to make you feel bad.

1:42:39

My goal is to be uplifting and wonderful to everybody. Wow, that's

1:42:42

got the people that cut me off in the traffic. Yeah, yeah,

1:42:45

that that does happen. You know you had to go there, didn't you.

1:42:49

Can we start with do you want to talk new movies or whatever else

1:42:53

you have planned or whatever else is in your wheelhouse? Or because I I

1:42:57

saw something earlier this afternoon and Donna detexted me, and you know, I

1:43:00

don't know, she always expects like she always sends me a celebrity dead text.

1:43:03

I don't know why. Randomly it's just like, hey, I'm with

1:43:06

you a Saturday or Sunday show, right, I'm like yeah. Or it's

1:43:10

hey, here's a dead guy. Here's a photo of a dead woman.

1:43:13

And then I go one by one they fall. Is it like like,

1:43:16

wait, she like like something she saw on TMZ Or she's out there,

1:43:21

you know, beating somebody down and taking pictures of them in the gutter and

1:43:24

been like got another one for you, Stirling. Well, I can neither

1:43:27

confirm or deny how she ended up back in Cincinnati. That that I don't

1:43:30

know, but I think it may have been a TMZ text today, which

1:43:33

was about Carl Weathers, who was Apollo Creed in at least one of the

1:43:38

Rocky films, more than one of the Rocky films, right, and for

1:43:42

of them, for of them, and he did other stuff and Happy Gilmore,

1:43:45

well, I mean he wasn't happy Gilmore, but he was in Happy. In other words, he's been working, he's been out there. But

1:43:49

the is that, like the biggest thing Isorian. He was just very recently

1:43:54

in The Mandalorian, which, by the way, I haven't finished. I'm

1:43:58

not caught up yet, so don't It's not like some of those other movies

1:44:00

that I'll spoil and you'll go, I don't know if you should have said

1:44:03

that, and then it's done and it's out there. Don't tell you.

1:44:06

The Emperor comes back to life and then learns the true meaning of Christmas?

1:44:10

Really, really is that what you're gonna do to some people, right,

1:44:13

somebody driving on seventy four. Now, blame Kevin Carr. If you put

1:44:16

those pieces together. The true meaning of Christmas was spoiled for the Mandalorian.

1:44:20

Yeah, Carl Weathers was a notable actor and relatively young, which I would

1:44:28

have thought a few years ago that he was old, but seventy six doesn't

1:44:30

seem that old to me now. And apparently the release from his family said

1:44:34

that he died peacefully in his sleep, which I guess. There's only one

1:44:36

other way I'd like to go. And all I can say is it's a

1:44:42

different type of release that the wife might have put out. Then yeah,

1:44:47

yes, the other way, like go, is definitely a different type of

1:44:50

relief. Yeah, leave it there. So what else has he done?

1:44:55

What do you want to say about that? I mean, I'm not trying. I mean, he seemed to be a brilliant guy. I feel dirty

1:44:59

now the way we've set this up, and like it's not a good like a conversation or homage about weathers. The thing. The thing was, first

1:45:09

of all, it wasn't like he dropped off the face of the earth the

1:45:12

last couple of years, right right. You know, you get these celebrity

1:45:15

deaths every now and then you'd be like, oh, I didn't know that person was still around because they stopped working and you know, because they got

1:45:19

older. But he was still in his seventy six, mid seventies, he

1:45:24

get a job, and he was still doing work. Like I said,

1:45:27

the most recently, I know he was in The Mandalorian, but he's showed

1:45:30

up in a bunch of other things over the last couple of decades. His

1:45:32

career did not just end with the Rocky movies. So I think that's that's

1:45:40

it's it's sad and it's tragic, but you know, if you are going

1:45:43

to go peaceful in your sleep is sort of like the top tier of of

1:45:48

how you want that to happen, because you know it's it's it's shocking and

1:45:54

it's sudden, but you know he likely didn't suffer, so you know,

1:45:59

and that's sad, but it's always a good time to go back and rewatch

1:46:01

it. I remember him from Predator, the first Predator movie. He was

1:46:05

a casualty of the Predator. Correct. Yes, the Predator had his way

1:46:10

with him because he was like an old friend of Dutch, which was Schwarzenegger's

1:46:14

character, and they he's the one who brought him out to go to do

1:46:18

this mercenary mission. It's sad whenever it's somebody, especially somebody who's continuing to

1:46:25

work. They reminded me of when like David Bowie passed away. He had

1:46:29

just dropped an album, Yeah he did, And how creepy was that?

1:46:32

That? The thematic It's a stream or whatever you want to call it on

1:46:38

that record was about basically that in those videos he was well aware as to

1:46:43

what was happening and putting it together, which made that much more effect.

1:46:47

Yeah. I think he was in his seventies at the time. I mean,

1:46:49

that's that's that's one of those you know, unfortunately there there you get

1:46:55

to a certain age and you see this. I know I'm getting I'm getting

1:46:58

morose here, but you know when you when you graduate from high school and

1:47:00

you hear so many passes away that was in your class, there's that shocking

1:47:04

moment. And then you move into your forties and it's it's sad and it's

1:47:09

sudden, but it's not shocking. And then you get older and older and

1:47:12

older, and then eventually it's like, you know, this happens, but

1:47:16

you know you don't want it to happen to to to people, but it

1:47:19

does. That's just a way of life. And I think he's undling.

1:47:23

He had a fulfilled life, So you know that's you can for it's true

1:47:28

and we don't want it to happen. But if it didn't and we all

1:47:30

just stuck around, think of how bad traffic is now getting home or getting

1:47:33

where you got to go at any given time, if none of us ever

1:47:38

left, there would be I mean it would be it would be packed.

1:47:42

Yeah, no, no, no, it's it's a good thing people.

1:47:45

You know, there's a cycle to everything. I really, it's hard to

1:47:49

go from where we are now. Yeah we are, let's reset, shall

1:47:54

we? Okay, so he's Kevin Carr, I'm Sterling Big one seven hundred

1:47:57

WLW what you're listening to? And we know about coral weathers Now he's no

1:48:01

longer with us. A moment of silence. Okay, what else has happened?

1:48:08

Well, you know in the movie theaters, because that's usually why I

1:48:10

call is. There's one new movie in theaters. It's called Argyle Argyle,

1:48:15

Yeah, Wayne, is that the one with the cat in the like the

1:48:18

little thing that I saw thrown out of like a vehicle or a building or

1:48:23

something. The cat's in a backpack. Yeah it throughout it's The story follows

1:48:29

the main characters played by Brycetyleis Howard, and she plays a novelist who writes

1:48:33

these spy novels. But she's a real homebody. She's a cat lady,

1:48:36

lives alone, doesn't doesn't go out or anything. And when she does one

1:48:42

time take her cat to go visit her mom and she's on the train going

1:48:45

there, a bunch of spies comeing to attack her because apparently how she's been

1:48:50

writing these novels is reflective of real things going on, and they're they're trying

1:48:56

to catch her and you know, pick her brain literally in fire know what

1:49:00

she knows. And you know, we've seen these sort of fish out of

1:49:02

water type things. You know, it's basically Romancing the Stone, only with

1:49:06

spies instead of going down to Cartagenia. But this is a it's essentially a

1:49:14

spy movie, fish out of water spy movie, and it's an absurd premise

1:49:17

that she's predicting things that are going on. But then they have these twists

1:49:23

throughout the plot, and the problem is every time there's a twist, which

1:49:26

are usually pretty telegraphed and predictable twists, it just gets sillier and it goes

1:49:34

a little bit more crazy, and they eventually just they lose control of the

1:49:39

movie. By the time they get to the last act, you know,

1:49:43

it's it's pretty much like it's all looney Tunes. It's it's it's hit ludicrous

1:49:46

speed and gone plaid. I mean, it's it's so ridiculous you think you're

1:49:50

in an Austin Power spoof. And I don't know if they meant to go

1:49:55

that over the top. It really just gets unhinged in the sense of its

1:49:59

not holding together, not as it's it's not wacky and zany, not unhanged

1:50:03

in a good way. Plus it's two hours and twenty minutes. That's a

1:50:06

long movie, isn't it. Are they making longer movies now more? Is

1:50:12

it because there's so many different places to get stuff out there, vehicles to

1:50:15

share them, or is it just me because I'll go through my watch list

1:50:19

and it's endless and then it'll be like two forty two thirty two ten,

1:50:24

and I'm like, nope, nope, nope, I need a movie that's

1:50:27

short, gets it done, and then I'm out and through. It's all

1:50:30

like it's almost like the way they've sped up a Major League Baseball the way

1:50:33

FC Cincinnati and MLS works. You got ninety minutes in a little like extra

1:50:38

time and then you're done and you can get on with your life. Well,

1:50:42

I think part of it are viewing habits. You know, everyone's in

1:50:45

competition for stuff, and I think when you're pushing a movie into theaters,

1:50:49

they tend to allow it to go longer because they want to justify going out

1:50:55

to the theater. But sometimes they overdo it. And you know, we

1:51:00

are curious individuals as Americans and human beings, because we will complain about a

1:51:04

movie being two hours and twenty minutes long, but we'll binge watch fifty seven

1:51:11

point seven billion minutes of suits. According to Neilsuit, that's right. Somebody

1:51:17

threw a statistic to me that people. I think it was just Americans.

1:51:23

I don't know if it's the world, but it was. But there were

1:51:26

twenty one million years of content was streamed last year. Twenty one million.

1:51:32

That's that's a third of the way to the when the dinosaurs died off.

1:51:39

It wouldn't it be neat if you could actually then crank it back and see

1:51:41

him not stay because not all of them are going to eat plants. No,

1:51:45

no, no, no, there's there's the Yeah, you don't want

1:51:48

to stick around for the dinosaurs it's like, you don't want to. You

1:51:50

know, it's nice to go to the zoo and see the lions until there's

1:51:56

no bars or glass, right and they can reach out and touch friends.

1:52:00

It's no longer cute when they put the big poll on the glass when you

1:52:02

got the kid and the stroller nearby, when all of a sudden they just

1:52:05

snatch the baby or you and and that's that. Yeah, you don't want

1:52:10

that, you know. It's like, uh, you know, if you

1:52:13

don't want to go on the hippo, it contained it because they're the most

1:52:15

you know, hippos cause more deaths than lions. And Fiona and her friends

1:52:19

it can be as sweet and cuddly and lovable at the Cincinnati Zoo as they

1:52:24

may in fact be. Yeah, they are a top as a heap,

1:52:27

right, I mean they're they're like, it's not us on the top of

1:52:30

the food chain. Technically they can eat, they can bite through a water

1:52:33

mountain. So yeah, so yeah, you don't want to. Yeah, if it's going back to the dinosaur thing, you don't want to go back

1:52:38

to the div I mean it'd be it'd be fascinating to see from a safe

1:52:43

distance, but I guess the closer you get, the more you're gonna see,

1:52:48

and then you're gonna not see anything. There we go, if we

1:52:51

covered everything, because it seems like a perfect thing. We start with Caral

1:52:54

Weathers. We we end with the bookmark on the other side of that.

1:52:59

I mean it seems appropriate. Is that about right? What we done? We threw will we finished till we accomplished eating bardy darkness. All right,

1:53:04

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