That's your time here in Greater Cincinnati. The average American is in for the
great American and it's a glorious day in the tri State. Just completely different
from what it was yesterday. That's what I like about living here. I
mean, you don't like the weather, wait a few minutes, it'll change.
Yesterday was cold, it was dreary, it was raining, And today,
what do you know, it's still a little cold, but the sun
is out. We see the sun. Anytime you can see the sun where
we live, anytime at this time of the year is an absolute win.
And that's why I'm fired up today. Big show to get to today.
We got a lot to get too, short time to get there. I
want to start off first by talking about your crap. No, not the
stuff you got stored in the basement or everything around the house should accumulated.
I'm talking about your crap. Get this, because just when you thought you
and I and everyone else was over COVID, that COVID was in the distance,
but it was just morphing into some nuisance head cold that we would have
to deal with on a yearly basis. Get inoculated and everything it'd be fine.
Well, apparently we have been missileed again. Imagine that, because now
there is a belief that COVID has morphed from an airborne illness. It has
more from something that you can transmit by touching someone else or coughing on someone
else. Remember we were told, put a diaper on your face, everything
will be fine, Stay six feet away, everything will be fine. Get
this shot, everything will be fine. Well, apparently we didn't get the
full story. Imagine that because surging COVID cases in wastewater have led some scientists
to consider whether the virus is now targeting our gut. Virologists believe that COVID
buyers has altered its requirements for entering cells, meaning it can more easily infect
the gut, your stomach, what you process through your body, and that
is being transmitted into wastewater because you know, what goes down must be flushed
out, and so places that have high levels of COVID in their waste water
is now believed to be a precursor to a COVID outbreak in an area near
you. Yeah, it's your gi gut. Who would have thought that this
is exactly what has happened. It has moved from your respiratory system, your
lungs, your heart, places like that. Now it's down in your gut.
And this is what we're being told by the CDC, the Center for
Disease, Disease, whatever diseases you got, the place nobody seems to trust
anymore. Right up there with NIH we're being told that this is exactly what's
going on. And I wanted to get somebody on here to at least explain
it and maybe put a little bit of wrapping around it, such as that
would be so that we all don't go crazy about our crap standing by somebody
who is not full of that. In fact, I've had doctor Eric Naputti
on this show many times. He is a national thought leader in the field
of health and wellness. He is a healthy living expert and someone that has
been studying this with great plum and he's kind enough to carve out some time
for us today here on seven hundred W welw. So here we go again,
COVID, Doctor Nipoti, how are you on this glorious day. I'm
doing well, Ken, Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. This
is concerning wastewater. Wastewater. I guess COVID has been around wastewater ever since
we found out about COVID, but this is the first a lot of us
are hearing it, hearing about it. How does it get into wastewater,
you know, people where they flush their toilets and things like that. Well,
Kim, that's a great question, and you're totally right. We have
been able. We being the CDC, has been able to detect COVID nineteen
virus in the wastewater since the beginning of twenty twenty and they've been tracking it
and quite honestly, they've been saying that whenever you find an of a virus
in a certain area that they're typically saying that there's going to be an outbreak
within a five to ten day window. What's interesting to your point, how
does COVID get into our wastewater? Well, I mean our body expels toxins
through our breast, through our skin, and our sweat, through our urine,
and through our bowels. So it's been something that we have been detecting
in the public health space for quite a while, especially COVID nineteen. It's
just now finally getting some public notoriety, which is why it seems ken that
most people are a little bit concerned about this, even though we've seen much
more higher levels of COVID in the water supply, the wastewater supply all across
the country prior to twenty twenty three. Well, okay, twenty twenty March
twenty twenty, COVID comes into our lives, and you know, there were
masks, and there were social distancing, and they shut down the country,
and there was a scramble to develop vaccines, and then there was the Pfiser
vaccine, the Maderna vaccine, the Johnson Johnson vaccine. We're doing everything to
prevent it from being airborne. But at the CDC is known about this since
the start of COVID. Why was it there more attention paid to it,
at least at a widespread scale, Jim. That is another great question.
In fact, if you go back and look at the statistics from the CDC,
nausea and upset stomach were about fifteen to twenty percent of the symptoms that
people had with COVID nineteen originally, even though it was seen as a respiratory
virus, though the reality of it is is we also know because of some
of the great work done by doctor Hassin Sabine a gaser Entrology just out of
Malibu, California. She did a study of the fecal matter of people who
got really sick with COVID and ken. What they found was if you are
deficient in a probiotic primarily called Biffo bacteria, that you had a higher risk
of developing severe COVID and unfortunately succumbing to the disease, which which really what
that study really shined the light on the fact that there's a gastro intestinal problem
with this virus as well, which is why we have been encouraging our patients
since the beginning of COVID in twenty twenty to take a strong probiotic as well
as a preventative and a treatment for this gi component to what we're dealing with.
Okay, so take a strong probiotic. Yeah, okay. So,
I mean there's a million of those things that are out there. You can
get them over the counter at any grocery store or Walgreens or a CBS.
What needs to be in the probiotic because all of these things that you see,
they've got different components to them. What ingredient should be in the probiotic
if somebody wants to be proactive and make sure they don't get this particular kind
of covid. Well, that's a great that's a great question. And to
be honest with you, it needs to be a multi strand probiotic with at
least five different types of bacteria. So when you flip the bottle over and
look on the back, you'll see at least five or more different strands.
It must have Biffobacterium in it as well. That is the most important bacteria
for the immune system. And it needs to be a live form of the
bacteria, and that's the problem. Most probotics out there are still not active,
live probiotics. So make sure that when you get it, you do
some research on the name brand that it's an active probotic that can actually grow
healthy bacteria in the human GI track. Thisscile is that spelled v I s
U L said, bistle. That's what I'm looking for. Biffo, b
ifo, Biffo bacteria. This wole bacteria. Okay, why weren't you know?
Again? Most people are you know, they're maybe walking around and they
think they got a stomach flu or they ate a bad meal the night before
and when in reality it may not be that right, Well, of course,
and that's the thing, and it's not the easiest thing to do.
What we call a differential diagnosis between you know, an upset stomach flu that
people normally get and this new strand of COVID that is causing GI symptoms.
It's much like whenever, well remember whenever it can the flu went away and
nobody had the flu. It's a very similar situation. Now, if it's
food poisoning, it's gonna happen within a relatively short amount of time, usually
within about sixty minutes or less of eating food. You're going to have upset
stomach, where as this is a flow lingering PI discomfort that can last for
multiple days. With folks we're seeing a tremendous amount of it all occurding.
Wouldn't they be hip to this? Wouldn't they catch on to this quicker than
maybe what they have I would think they would, Well, Kim, you
know, boy, that's a loaded question, my friend, It's a great
question. But how come doctors at the beginning of COVID didn't catch on to
the fact that there are so many things that can be done as a preventative
and as a treatment to COVID nineteen and these are some of the excuse me,
the world's greatest doctors that are out there, and these GI doctors aren't
always focusing on good, healthy bacteria. You have to understand mainstream medical doctors
are typically taught to give certain drugs and do certain surgeries which are not deemed
to be beneficial for this random virus that's floating around. So look, get
yourself a good nutrition less to understand what's going on with your help. Eat
good, clean, healthy food, have some foods that are fermented, and
man, get yourself a good probod. Doctor Eric Naputti's whether he's a healthy
living expert. We're talking about COVID and how it now maybe has morphed into
a stomach issue as opposed to just a respiratory illness. You and I exchanged
text back and forth before the interview, and I want to go back to
something you said early on in this interview. It's where the CDC is finding
high levels of a COVID virus in the waste system in those places, there's
going to be an outbreak within five to ten days in that area. And
you say that makes absolutely no physiological sense. Why would it not make physiologically
sense. Well, think about this, Jen, If you have a high
viral load inside of your body and you are getting that viral load out,
you're expelling it through your weight, that means that your body's already dealt with
it, it's already processed it, it's already moved through the system. So
there should be an outbreak happening at that same time, not five to ten
days afterwards. It just doesn't make sense to a lot of scientists and doctors
that are out there all right. So it doesn't sound like we're done with
COVID yet from what you're talking about, it's just maybe doing a little side
turnaround all of these inoculations that people got and instead of effect our lungs and
that area of the body, that it's into the gut right now. So
what should people do? I mean, somebody listening to this right now and
I don't know if they've got a lingering stomach virus or maybe food poisoning and
they're you know, they don't understand that food poisoning kicks in within sixty minutes.
I mean, what do you do? Do you just proactively go to
a GI guy or your family practitioner, what should they do. Well,
that's a good question. I think really what peel should do is focus on
being healthy. I think we should focus on sleeping well, eating well,
moving well, hydrating well. If we don't feel healthy, especially with this
GI bug that's going around, something called activated char charcoal. Activated charcoal is
very good for GIF set stomach. Taking a probotic with Bifobacterium is very beneficial.
We know that vitamin D three ten thousand international units a day feed the
good bacteria in the body, and so does vitamin C three thousand milligrams a
day. That's a good protocol to be dealing with. And when you're make
sure you're staying hydrated. Can The problem that people have with these GI issues
is the dehydration that comes from the diarrhea and the upset stomach. So it's
just the basic fundamentals of being healthy, which is what we've been preaching since
the beginning of COVID in twenty twenty. In the first place. The same
things apply as they did then as they do now. It's just more of
a GI issue than it is a respiratory issue. You know. It's great
catching up with you doctor, Doctor Eric Naputi. You can find him at
Neputi ne epu te Newputi Wellness Center dot com. All one word you.
I don't have to tell you to stay well, but I hope you do
because we need to hear your voice, doc. So so please stay well
and let's do this again soon. Thank you. I will, Thanks,
Ken have a blessing. Well, yeah, I will. So anyways,
I guess you get that. I guess you get that probiotic and you got
to get that the ingredient he told you to get. But I mean,
it's just I mean, this is just it's it's just wild. Apparently it's
this new variant JM dot org. It has altered its requirements for entering cells,
possibly to get around vaccine immunity or previous infections. And who knew?
Right, who knew? You Just think you just think about that for a
little bit. Oh man, that'll put the happy in your happy New Year.
It's coming up on twelve twenty. It's the average American in for the
Great American. A lot to get to on this show today we're gonna talk
a little college football at the bottom of the hour at one o'clock. Sick
shaming, Why people are afraid to call in sick. I thought we were
by this already. I mean, you may work with some people they got
the sniffles, they got the cough, but you don't want to go around
them because the last thing you want to do is get sick. And you
know, the boss should be telling everybody, don't come in because you're gonna
get somebody else sick. But a lot of these companies they hold it against
you. They charge you a vacation dave if you're out sick. And so
anyway, how to get around it if you were somebody that either is sick
or is healthy or is running a company, because apparently flu seasons. It's
here, man, it's here. It's not going anywhere. And then I'm
looking out here right now at the Kenwood Town Center and it is jammed again.
Yesterday was a return day and day after Christmas sales, and apparently it's
still percolating right along because the largest parking lot in the Tri State remains the
Kenwood Town Center. So what is the etiquette about returning gifts? And if
you return a gift, should you be honest with the person that gave you
the gift? We're going to get into some manors and how to behave and
who doesn't want that in the new year, because it seems like these days
everything about that is out of control. The average American, though, tries
to keep it on a smooth, even keel, steady hand on the wheel
through the chopping waters of life. Twelve twenty two News Radio seven hundre for
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does at this time of the year. I have no idea he could be
making snow angels somewhere in West Virginia. I do not know he goes out
to Kansas, he can make some snow angels. I saw a video today
It is snowing to beat the band out there. As for us, it
is actually downright gorgeous for this time of the year. Partly cloudy and fifty
for the high today fifty at the end of December Tonight clear cold, thirty
five clouds move back into borrow forty two for the high, and then it
looks like forties for the rest of the week with clouds clearing up. Maybe
sometime next week maybe, but of the next seven days, tain't get no
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News Radio seven hundred WLW. So anyway, I'm watching who I was
watching Texas State and RECE yesterday. I don't ask me why, but I've
been looking at a lot of these bowl games and it's just it's just not
happening happening. Most of these college football bowl games that exist exists for one
reason, to give ESPN programming. That's why they were established. Half of
these bowl games wouldn't exist unless ESPN was footing the bill. Which raises an
interesting question because Disney, the company that owns ESPN, is always in financial
stress, and there's always rumors about Disney spinning ESPN off, and you have
to believe if they spent, spin it off would go to a company that
would not normally or not usually embrace lost leaders. You want to make money
with your company. But ESPN needs programming. They can't put those nonsensical hot
take programs on twenty four to seven. You know when people sit around,
five people sit around and they just spout stuff about a subject. Well,
I think this, I think that. You know, after about three minutes
of that, it gets old. There's one program worth watching on ESPN that
does that, and it's the original and that's pardon the interruption. The rest
of them are it's just it's it's it's just it's nothing. It's three people
arguing about a sports topic or five people giving their hot takes on something,
and it's like, it's like tofu. It's like, it's like pick any
kind of candy you like. In fifteen minutes, twenty minutes after you eat
it, you have no idea what you just ate, can't remember. So
ESPN creates all these Bowl games, and I'm sitting there watching this game yesterday
and I was saying to myself, does any of this make sense anymore?
Because a lot of the kids that play in these games, a lot of
the play at the end of a season. Now they can pick up and
go anywhere they want is called the transfer portal. So who are we really
rooting for with all of these these games right now? You're kind of like
the old Seinfeld joke. You're rooting for the uniforms even in the bigger games,
even games like that that Ohio State is going to play a lot of
the players that are going to play in that game, significant number will be
there saving themselves for the draft, or they're going to go somewhere and play
somewhere else. So anyway, Bill bendersportingnews dot Com is going to join me
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hundred WW Happy New Year. Well not quite yet. There's still time to
get your home insanely clean with this nine news Radio seven hundred WLW line Ken
Brew the average American inn for the Great American one o'clock. Why you should
not be shamed about calling in sick when you are sick. Look at it
this way. You call in sick, you can watch all these bowl games
that are out there. Maybe that's what our fearless leader is doing. Joe
Biden, he's going on vacation again. Guys, on vacation. You know,
we got we got Americans getting shot at and killed over there and from
Iran, and we got we got an invasion at the southern border. You
know, bid Noomics is a joke. Taiwan is going to be reunified with
mainland China. The China just announced that the other day. But he's going
to the Virgin Islands for a week, so okay. But if he does
go on vacation, maybe he could watch some of these bowl games. I
watched this game yesterday. Uh well, I know, the quick Lane Bowl,
quick Lane Bowl, and you got the Minnesota Golden Gophers playing the Bowling
Green Falcons. Now Minnesota was five and seven and they went to a bowl
game. They won this thing, thirty to twenty four of them said there
thinking, remember remember how you at least had to be six and six to
go to a bowl game. Well, you can't do that if you don't
have enough six and six teams, because the quick Lane Bowl has to be
serviced, has to be serviced, It has to have teams, teams have
to compete. They got to make ESPN happy. So we got a five
and seven team against a a six and six bowling Green Falcons team. And
I can't imagine anyone other than friends and loved ones of those two teams wanting
to watch something like that. We had a lot. I watched Northwest Northwestern.
I watched them in a bowl game earlier this year, and I'm thinking
to myself, Northwestern in a bowl game, and I mean it, and
it's it's not dy. You got Virginia Tech here at two o'clock they're playing
twul A in Virginia Tech is six and six. You got you got the
Texas A and M is seven and five. They're in a bowl game.
It's it's it's crazy. I wanted to get Bill Bender Sporting News on here
to talk about that, because he's the guy at Sporting News when it comes
to college football, and you know, we've had in this last week,
we've had you know, transfer portal and Nil is there again, and I'm
just I'm wondering about some of this stuff, particularly when it comes to football
around here. Anyway, he's he's going to carve out some time and join
us right now to talk about all these bowl games and teams that I'm wondering
about should they even be there? I mean, I mean Northwesternville. You
know, the value of these bull games has changed drastically, but I mean
for a team like Northwestern where they were at the beginning of the year.
You saw how excited they were to win that game. And Ben Bryan,
former Cincinnati quarterback, gotten it out scrambling for a first down, getting his
shoulder drilled. The players still care. It's the adult and more. Now
we go to twelve next year in the playoff, and that's good. I
think it's good for college football. But Chip Kelly came up with this,
I don't know, this pipe dream where perhaps there would be a super conference
that develops out of all of this. Look We've heard before that there would
be a finite number of teams, and maybe it's moving away from you know,
the Power five or now the Power four conferences and maybe moving towards maybe
a select thirty. Kelly thinks everybody should be an independent in football. There
should be one television contract and have one conference, a sixty four team conference.
Again, you mentioned the adults. Why do they keep messing with the
primal forces of nature here? I don't necessarily disagree with Chip Kelly's sentiments,
like if we put well the ACC, the Big Ten, and the SEC
under one umbrella, made it kind of like an NFL times two with sixty
fourish type schools, and that would include Cincinnati they're in right now. The
product would be amazing, the television numbers would be better, then the amount
of money they would make would be more. And I agree with what ch
Kelly said about LA and Arizona should still play in basketball though all those other
sports should be different. I really do. And then you can keep the
regional ties to it. And his plan was pretty smart, and Jim Harboll's
plans are pretty smart for this sport. So why aren't the college guys listening
to the guys that have been in the NFL know what they're talking about and
can see the future of this sport for a better product than it is right
now. That's my point. Well, it all comes down to money,
right it's whatever the networks will sponsor, and you dangle the right product in
front of a television network. And let's be honest and up front here,
a lot of these networks, when you extract ESPN from the equation, they're
not all that. They're not all that robust. Fox is a player.
ESPN has driven the boat here for a very long time, particularly since they're
owned by Disney, and who knows if they're going to be owned by Disney
for in the foreseeable future. The fact of the matter is this is all
driven by TV. You dropped the right thing in front of a TV executive
and he'll bite. Oh. Absolutely, And so we should probably talk about
Florida State a little bit. For Florida State in the ACC with the granted
rights to me, that was the first step in how they do it or
how it comes to be of Florida State leaving the ACC. And that's not
good for the conference because that's their best football brand independent of Clemson, Pitt
and those teams, and that to me is a baby step towards this super
league model. That could absolutely happen. And if I talked to a board
administrator about this, and he told me, if these conferences would just come
together and not be separate, have a college football commissioner and go to the
networks with the right Now that can the networks are leveraging the conferences. If
college football could turn that on a network and leverage them with their product,
then they'd be like, what would they be like the NFL? Well,
and you mentioned Florida State. I read somewhere where it was going to cost
upwards of six hundred million dollars to get out of the ACC because of grant
uh you know these grant of rights, uh, that they would be buying
out, but they're not shy about it. I don't know if they've got
some rich boosters down there or just fed up with the ACC and its inability
to get teams in the College Football Playoff not named Clemson. I don't know
if that's I don't know if that's the that's where the money is coming from.
Uh, but this is going to have to be sponsored from somewhere.
So if indeed this thing goes to courtA and it's upheld that that contract is
valid, where's that six six hundred million dollars coming from? Right? And
well, if Florida State somehow wins this, the other side of that is
what's going to stop North Carolina Virginia? And yeah, it's over exactly,
And so you think steps ahead on that. Let's say that happens. I'm
the Big Ten. I'm going straight after Florida State and Notre Dame like straight
after him. That's who I'm getting. And then I'm going to have two
ten team pods that I can have fun with, I can make I can
make four divisions, I can do whatever I want. And I have a
twenty team conference that has the two best chips outside of the SEC and Big
Ten are Notre Dame in Florida State. There's no question. Okay, So
what we're talking about here is not happening. Now, this is not the
church that happen to now on this Sunday. How far down the road would
you see that? And how much chance do you think it gets stymied by
the twelve team playoff next year? Or is that a separate discussion completely devoid
of any money considerations, because money is the end of all. I mean,
this is the answer to it right now. Money. Is this something
that you think that, at least for the moment, it might be stopped
because of the twelve team or do you think it plows right through regardless.
I think they work can in hand. I think the next two years of
the twelve team playoff, which in the college football Playoff contract runs out,
are a bit of an experiment. And if it continues to be dominated by
the SEC in Big Ten, which I'm pretty sure it will be, then
the dominoes they'll try to position themselves to be where they want to be in
twenty twenty seven, so I would say. And now, if this goes
to a legal battle, I'm not a lawyer, so I can't predict what
will happen Florida State and the ACC. But the ACC's swift response to me
suggests they are willing to fight this, and they are, and that is
part of the reason why they added cal SMU and Stanford. That was their
insurance. That was the realignment insurance, if such thing exists. This has
been a crazy week too, Bill, with college football. You have signing
day. You've got the portal. Last I checked, about fourteen one hundred,
fourteen hundred and fifty players were in the portal. The University of Cincinnati
was busy in the poor They were looking for a quarterback and they found Brendan
Soresby, Indiana's starting quarterback from last year. Indiana turns around and signs Ohio
University's starting quarterback. I think there's about twenty five u SE players that are
in the portal to get out of Clifton. And that's only that's only the
University of Cincinnati. You go to a place like Ohio State, and I
know you live close to Ohio State. People are pulling their hair out up
there about recruits de committing and players leaving the portal, and are they getting
the right kind of players back in the portal? This thing is is sheer
chaos anymore? And what does an effect? It affects what should be the
marquee time for the NCAA, which is their Bowls season. What are the
where are the breaks get applied to this? And is it so out of
control that the NCAA can't do anything about it without fear of lawsuit. Yeah,
it's clearly affecting the postseason products. I mean, there are guys like
me that are gonna sit and watch Northern Illinois and Arkansas State because we're just
committed to the infanity at this point, I suppose. But my buddies don't
watch those games. They're not gonna sit and watch that, especially that Ohio
University game. I saw Ohio University game. Well, that's the only one
that mattered, right, the Myrtle Beach Bowl that was good, but the
pooral I think before we get into what happens next with conferences and realignment and
all those things, the first thing these guys need to do is and these
guys, I mean the NCAA, the conference commissioners, et cetera. They
need to revise the calendar and they need to find a way to do it
to match up with the schools, because I think you need an early signing
day before the season starts. I think you need to find a way to
have this the original signing day move back to February, and then in the
in between. It's just so hard to match it up because you're doing this
with academic institutions that all have different academic calendars. I mean, when we
when I would tell you we had quarters, Yeah, me too, Yeah
yeah remember and then they changed that. So I don't know how you tell
power. You know, university, this is how you have to do that
academic calendar, because that's not going to happen. Uh. Yeah. When
I went to Ohio University, it was a one room schoolhouse. But that
was a long time ago. I mean, I look at it, you
know, I mentioned the I mentioned Ohio State University and all the comings and
goings up there, and they've they've done, They've done fairly well in terms
of impact players. It looks like with the portal, Jacory Brooks from Alabama,
I think he's up there now, Mario Williams from from Southern cal Uh.
But there are a lot of players out the door. Nobody knows what
Marvin Harrison Junior is doing. And like I mentioned down here at the University
of Cincinnati, uh, I know that it's impossible even for a man of
your means to keep up with every single college football team and who's coming and
going. Let's just deal with where you're close to Ohio State. Did Ohio
State get better through the portal or get weaker through the portal? But I
think it's more about which For them, it's the portal's less important. In
turn, they probably got a little worse through the portal, if we're being
honest. But it's about which one of these guys maybe stays another year.
I don't think Marvin Harrison will stay. I don't have anything to back that
up, but I wouldn't. I would go be a top three pick.
If they get at Mecheg Bouquet and a couple others backed, that would be
a win. And it sounds like what I think is going to happen is
they will add a portal QB, but it'll be the type of QB that
competes with Devin Brown and Lincoln Keen Holton Aaron Nolan for the starting job next
year. And that's fine. They had a really good recruiting class. I
don't think things are dire at Ohio State at all. But the only question
hanging over them is, you know what happens with Michigan next year. But
it can't just be that because they've got a longer schedule, right right,
exactly exactly. Brendan Soresby, I mean, the numbers on him, look
last year looked good. We know that quarterback was an issue for the Bearcats
this year. I'm just wondering how much of an upgrade do you think Brendan
Soorsby is for the University of Cincinnati. He'll do well, He'll battle in
there, and you know, you got to think when you're playing at Indiana,
you're out manned, when you're going up against Penn State and Michigan and
Ohio State what they got coming at you up front, especially, But thought
he improved as the season went on. Be a nice addition. And you
mentioned Curtis Rourke going to Indiana. I mean that is a giant upgrade in
some ways for Kurt Signetti and them because Rourke, when he's healthy, he's
a really dynamic playmaker and we'll get to see what he can do in the
Big ten. So I think both of those guys will have success in their
new homes. The running back position, with what Scott centerfield is so import
I mean, he he likes to run. He had a he had a
at least three running backs that he had this year that you looked at and
you say, okay, I mean every one of those guys has individual talents,
has individual ways to beat the other guy. He picked up Evan Pryor,
who was with Ohio State five eleven one eight, and I think it
looked like he might have gotten caught up in a numbers game there. I
mean, certainly they had some elite running backs on that roster. This year,
he's got three years left apparently of eligibility when he comes down to the
University of Cincinnati. Do you know anything about Evan Pryor. I do,
because the twenty twenty two spring game at Ohio State he really popped. I
know that's a long time ago, but he saw I think the rush for
sixty two yards in that game had a nice thy. He was going to
figure into the mix. Then he got hurt, and he did get lost
in a little bit in the shuffle with Treyvon and Chip Train him and some
others. But I think it's one of those situations where he's been in a
very talented running back room. He comes and since if he stays healthy,
which was the problem, he could absolutely shine for the bear Cat. So
I like that addition. You know, I like Chip Train him down at
Kentucky too. He'll fit into what Mark Stoops does and likes to do.
And I wouldn't be surprised that he has a big season for the Wildcats next
year. Wildcats in the Gator Bowl on Friday. Actually, that should be
a pretty good game. I'm sorry, the tax Layer Gator Bowl Friday,
Clemson in Kentucky. And then of course on you've got to Ohio State and
Missouri. They're in the Cotton Bowl. That's on Friday in Texas. That's
an eight o'clock game. And then the games that really matter, playoff games
are on January first. You got number three Texas, number two Washington in
the All State Sugar Bowl. And the game before that, one at five
o'clock on Monday, January first, is number four Alabama, number one Michigan.
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us on this Wednesday pull. Without you, I would merely be one man
sitting in a room babbling to himself. And why would I have to leave
home to do that? It just turned on the news that Tom Smothers died.
Tommy Smothers, their show, for all of you that are not old
enough to remember, was as cutting edge as anything in cutting edge as anything
in television. If I'm not mistaken. Steve Martin who went on to have
a great career. I'm sure you know who Steve Martin. He was one
of their writers. Super Dave Osborne was one of the characters on that show.
They were very much after the war in Vietnam just got completely out of
control. They were they were critics through comedy of the government at the time,
and it drove the federal government, in particular Lyndon Johnson crazy and after
him, Richard Nixon. I was interning at Channel nine. This has to
this is back in the seventies. I did an internship when I was at
Ohio University. I did an internship at Channel nine and I met the guy
who was the network censor for CBS and in essence pulled Tom and Dick's mothers
off the air. And I remember talking to him at the time. I
was just a kid. I was in college, and obviously I wasn't going
to press him on a lot of details. But I remember talking to him
at the time about the Smothers brothers and why there was that need to do
it, and he said, you know, he said, CBS is I'll
ever forget this conversation is you know, CBS was about as conservative a company
as there was out there. It doesn't matter what the product was, whether
it was you know, a major corporation like Procter and Gamble or you know,
to pick a company, CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System was as a
conservative a company as there was at that time, which is kind of funny
because one of the most liberal newscasters in the history of television was and is
until this day, remains Walter Cronkite. And I remember him telling me he
said, he said there were a couple of things. He said, the
company was so conservative it didn't want to infuriate Washington or the stockholders. Probably
the biggest reason why, or even bigger the board of directors. But he
said it was the most difficult thing he ever had to do. But he
in the end got the respect of both Tom and Dick's mothers and that they
actually had, if not a great relationship, they understood each other's position.
Tommy Smothers, I did not know he was ill, and I'm sorry to
hear of his passing. Those two guys together in their prime were absolutely hilarious,
just hilarious. Getting sick in this country is big business. It is.
I mean, they said Smothers died of cancer. Cancer is a huge
business. Pig farm makes out. You know, they make an infinite amount
of money on cancer treatments. Even something as pedestrian is. Treating a common
cold is a really big deal. Listen to this. In the United States,
sale of upper respiratory over the counter medication rose twenty three percent to eleven
point eight billion with a bee in the fifty two weeks through early December.
In the fifty two weeks of this year through early December, over the counter
drugs like zero tech, Benadrild, suit of FED account for almost forty percent
of the revenue. Why do why do we do that? Well, we
don't want to stay sick. It treats the symptoms. It does not necessarily
mean it treats the problem, but it treats the symptoms. And employees in
another survey say that they are afraid that if they stay out of work and
stay away from work because of being sick, that they will have that held
against them when they go back to work. And so one third in this
same survey, one third of the people surveyed out of twenty eight hundred said
that they always go to the office with cold or flu symptoms. Forty percent
of them said they went to work ill because they didn't want to use a
sick day. Nine to ten employees admit going to work sick on a consistent
basis. So we got a problem here, people are sick. We have
another problem here where we've apparently developed a culture inside a lot of businesses where
if you are sick, it's held against you, and that's the problem I
think for a lot of companies. Anyway, Darren Kidt is standing by to
join me. He's a business strategist, full time trainer, coach, speaker.
He has authored a book, I Will Until Unlock Your Limitless Power to
Succeed, And I wanted to talk to him about this because us Number one,
I think he's a sound business mind, and number two, maybe you
can shed a little light on why we are so danged afraid of going to
work and be not going to work, and then going to work, getting
with sickness and getting other people sick. So let's see what Darren, how
are you on this glorious day. I am doing awesome, Ken, thanks
for having me once again. I'm glad you're here. Look, there was
a time, and it wasn't all that long ago, where if you called
in sick, you were viewed with a jaundiced eye when you came back to
work. And so then it became almost like I've got to show up because
I'm hurting the company, and then the company might hold it against me.
I thought we had moved past this particular problem recently, but apparently sick shaming
is still a problem on the job. Why is that so? Well,
Yeah, and I know you saw the same article that I did where it
said non and ten workers that meant going to work sick, which is good,
you know, And there's several reasons you know for that. You know,
Sometimes they feel like they're you know, they're overwhelmed, and that they
take off they're going to have that much more to do when they get back.
Some of them they feel like they're going to be you know, shamed
by their team, so they're letting their team down. Some do not want
to take sick days, you know. So there's there's quite a few different
reasons that people, you know, choose to go into work sick when they
shouldn't. I'm looking at this, I've not heard of this company. Perhaps
you have account temps. Account Temps. They did an online survey twenty eight
hundred workers I guess nationwide, twenty eight different cities. One third of the
people that were surveyed say they always go to work with a cold or flu
or symptoms thereof, how effective could those employees be if they're going to work
and they're legitimately sick, I would think they couldn't be very productive. Well,
not only that, they get everybody else in the workplace, you know,
sick, and then they're not focused and they're not handling the situation.
A lot of times they self medicate, which is getting rid of the symptoms,
but it's not taking care of the problem, which can lead to them
being even sicker and having it take off even more time. So yeah,
it's a downward spiral when they go to work. There was another one that
said forty percent so they went to work ill because they didn't want to use
a sick day. You know. Some of them they want to you know,
get paid for the sick days, but they don't want to take the
sick days. So I think it's a combination of many different things. When
in reality, it's not good for them, it's not good for the people
in the office. It's not good for the company because they're not being as
productive, they're not staying as focused, you know, and then it just
compounds over period of time and they'd be much better off doing things to prevent
being sick, doing things to take care of the situation, not mastering the
situation. So yeah, there's a lot of things to consider when people go
to work and don't feel good. There was a time, and I don't
know what it changed or why it changed, but if you were an employee
of the company I worked for a number of different television stations around the country,
and you got sick days as well as vacation days, and that all
of that sort of morphed into this thing called PTO Personal time off, where
if you had a call in sick, you had to burn one of those
PTO days, which you might have want to have used for a vacation day.
When did all that go off the rails. I don't remember exactly when
that happened. Yeah, I don't remember when all that exactly happened either.
I just know that, you know, there was an article that I saw
a while back that said only twelve percent of employees leave a job because of
the money. You know, they're looking for the flexible, the flexibility to
have you remote or a hybrid work environment. They're looking for flexibility when it
comes to taking time off, and so you know, things are changing every
single day at a rapid pace when it comes to you know, benefits creating
the right culture in the workplace. And that's why I think it's very important
because your employees, if you're a business owner, you know, they're an
asset. And so if you can that only make health a priority in your
work, you know, do things to encourage the preventative you know, measures
they need to take, whether it's you know, physical activity, whether it's
you know, mental things to help their mental health. When you when you
focus on that, you know, and draw attention to it, not only
does it gist for the employees, but it's also good for the business owner.
Sure. Absolutely. I don't know if there might have been the same
survey, uh this account tempt I don't know, but it says the top
five reasons employees abstained from taking days off from work are followed pressure from management.
Okay, I mean I've worked for some draconian people. Maybe not draconian
companies, but draconian people where if you take a day off, even if
it's a legitimate day off, hey I'm taking a vacation day or I'm sick,
it was held against me. And you know, I didn't do anything
wrong. I just did what was coming to me. But when I came
back, there was this inorder amount of work that I had to do because
it just piled up in a day. I think managed. I think I
think in this day and age, Darin, and again you're plugged into this
more than I am. But I think in this day and age where where
people leave companies not because of money, but because of work environment, I
think you've got to start thinking about the culture that you're creating. If you've
got twenty three percent of people don't wanted to take the day off because they're
for fear of what a supervisor or a manager might say because of it,
to me, that's a that's a deeper problem than somebody with a cold and
a sniffle. Right. Yeah, Culture attracts what it is that repels what
it's not. So today it's not only is it hard to get a good
employee, it's hard to retain a good employee. So you have to be,
you know, flexible. You have to one, you know, make
sure that you're addressing the things like this, like, hey, look,
you gotta be a little flexible when it comes to if you're sick and you
don't feel good, you let us know we'll work with you, because sometimes
they do, they don't want to go to the manager but other times it's
the self guilt and it's the pressure they put on themselves. But man,
is this going to affect me if I'm going for a promotion, If the
leadership in the company is talking about hey, listen, we want your health
as a priority. You know, we care about you. We want to
do things to help you, not only prevent getting sick, but staying healthy.
But if you have those situations come up in life, you know where
your workplace, but we're also your family. And when they feel comfortable sharing
those types of things, you know, awareness leads to change. Then they
start to have a group of people that look, Okay, we're not just
a team, we're a family. They're looking out for me. I don't
have to feel guilty if I feel sick. I don't have to try to
take cold medicines and cover it up and come to work and make the situation
even worse, which makes me less productive, which is going to compound,
and then it's going to make it you know, longer recovery. I'm going
to get everybody else in the workplace sick. So again, that's a downward
spiral that's not good for anyone. So it's definitely important for the leadership and
the management to address it properly. Absolutely, I mean sure. I mean
in the bad old days, you literally had to produce an obituary from a
paper that said that there was a service for you and you were going to
be buried the next day before you could take it day off from a company.
But it all changed. I think that, And I think some older
workers, maybe some boomers that are still working, maybe some millennials that are
on the outer edge of the millennial ship, maybe they have trouble recognizing this.
But it's changing. I don't know if it was COVID, you would
know better than I. I don't know if it was COVID or what.
But I think there was a switch that was flipped here not so long ago,
where people want just a schedule that fits their lifestyle and not become someone
who is beholding to a company that might get them a cake on their final
day at the office thirty years later. All it's all different now, is
it not, Darren. Things are definitely changing, you know. They want
flexibility. Like you said, I think the days of you know a lot
of companies just having people come to the office. You know, if I
like that anymore? It's more of a hybrid model. The days of making
sure that you're clocking in at an exact time and clocking out at an exact
time, they want more of a a more flexibility. The companies that are
doing things to make sure that they're their employees are taking care of encouraging you
know, physical activity and encouraging a different work environment. I was just in
Salt Lake City with the guy that's you know, he's worth billions of dollars,
and when I went to their workplace, I'm like, man, this
is like Disney World for employees. I mean, they had a massive area
with it looked like a grocery store that was all free for the employees.
They had stand up desks, so they encourage movement throughout the day. You
know breaks, they encourage breaks throughout the day. They would do things to
celebrate employees, you know, reward what you want repeated and so that is
attractive. And guess what you got all these you know, like you said,
the younger generation that are in there, they're excited, they're motivated,
they're driven, they feel appreciated. So they're creating a culture that is attracting
a higher quality you know, employee and then they don't want to leave because
they love how they're they're part of that. Yeah. Yeah, I mean
I remember the first time I called in sick at a place I was working
at. It had to be by first. In fact, it was my
first job, and you know, it was an on camera job, so
I mean, you had to look halfway decent, and I just I was
just I was. I felt I was on death's doorstep and I called in
sick and okay, I won't be won't be in today, We'll get somebody
else. And I'm lying in bed there, and about two hours after calling
in sick, I'm starting to question myself. Am I really sick? Could
I have done that? Could I have gone in today? And all that?
And it's like I got to a point where you idiot, you're sick
if you're going to go and get somebody else sick. But I mean,
that's that's the mentality I think you got to have with all of this.
Look, Darren, you know this very well. I know it extremely well.
If you don't show up for work or if you quit, or if
you get fired or whatever, it is amazingly that company is still there the
next day. So yeah, You're important, but you may not be necessary
if you know what I mean well, And that's why I believe. And
you know, if you train the employees and one with if there are people
in here right now, that a listing that I know will be always set
the goal. I remember when I got laid off one time. Okay,
you know what, I never want that happen again, me getting laid off
and feeling like I'm helpless. Right, So I go, I'm going to
work so hard on me because we get paid based on the value that we
bring to the marketplace. And I started working so hard on my skills and
my education and going you know, above and beyond. I go, I'm
going to get to the point where anyone in the world will do anything you
want to work with me. And that's pretty much you know what happened.
Over a period of time. I got the reputation like, look, if
you want something done, you want to work with Darren. So with all
of you that are listening, yeah, if you do everything that you possibly
can. If you're sick, you take the days off, but also continue
to work on you, you know, get a little bit better every single
day, continue to grow, because that way no matter what happens, you've
got options when it comes to, you know, working in the marketplace.
Yeah, I will until dot com. I will until dot com is where
you can find Darren again. His book is I will until unlock your limitless
power to succeed. That's been out a while. You're due for another book,
Darren. Yes, we're we're in the process of working through that right
now. Good well, good. When that comes out, we'll do this
again, and we might not even wait for that. Stay well you especially
because we need to hear your voice. Thank you so much, you too,
Thank you always great getting that when again I have a least day?
You bet you two? Okay? Top five reasons sounded like Letterman, but
no, this is this is from that same survey that I was that I
was quoting. Top five reasons people call in sick pressure for management. Twenty
three percent of these eighteen hundred people said it was it was pressure from management.
I think it was twenty eight was it it was twenty eight hundred?
Yeah, okay, twenty three percent. Pressure from management. Twenty one percent
informing a supervisor about six sickness made them anxious and so they didn't do it.
Pressure from team members twenty one percent, fear that they may have already
taken two too many sick days twelve percent, and coming in at eleven percent,
the worry that calling out sick will negatively affect their chances for promotion.
Honestly, if you're if you've got that, if those are real issues and
they're not something that's psychosomatic or whatever, if those are real issues, you
need to go find another place to work, because that's not a company that
understands people get sick. What's worse you calling in sick a day or you
coming in sick and getting everybody else sick. They pretty simple stuff. That's
what we like to deal in. Here's Stop It one twenty six News Radio
seven hundred WLW and Progressive commercial. We know what Trucker's time is money and
you but I'm going to go to bed. Oh hello, Buiet and I'm
broadcasting. God, how do you know when that guy's await? I mean,
I'm just saying it looks like he's always on ambient. I don't know,
Ken bro. Now he's going on vacation. You know, we're getting
invaded at the southern border. So we got Taiwan and China rear in its
ugly head, got the Red Sea problems. We got yeah, we got
ships are going to have to go all the way around the all the way
around the Cape Horn of Africa. And how much is that going to cost?
Everybody? Now he's saying, I'm going to go to the Virgin Islands
for a week. Oh is that where he's going to the Virgin is down
for I'm going on vacation. Of course, he goes to Rehobic Beach in
Delaware every weekend, right, which leads you to believe that he really he's
not doing anything. Whatever happened to all the people in that probably leftovers from
the Obama administration that are running this country? What's what's whatever happened? Like
going to Camp David and like, I guess he didn't like that anymore?
Well, I mean he got a lot of waves, did they? Did
they sell that? The last thing he wanted? Some some guy like him
wandered away all that way? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna get
yeah, Yeah, that's true. Sleep walking walking around, Yeah, that's
true. You're right to, Yeah, go to the Virgin Islands. That's
good. I can only imagine, you know, the people that that are
around him on a daily basis. I mean, it's I got a feeling.
It's the line you hear a lot around there is that's just Joe being
Joe. Yeah. Imagine the books that are going to come out after he
when when he leaves office I was with him. Well no, I mean
the people around him writing a book about him. Yeah, I get.
I don't know, say they're going to write books about you. That's the
that's the scary part. That's true, ken Brew. What would be the
title of your biography if you could pick a title? Let me think about
that a minute. All right, Well think about that. Let me know
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fix your air conditioning, whatever you need. Yeah. The Bengals have
cleared a corner Cam Taylor Britt to practice. He'll return. He returns off
for injury reserve since December fourth with an ankle injury. Uh. The Las
Vegas Raiders are signing tight end Zach Gentry off the Bengals practice squad. That's
because Raiders rookie Michael Mayer is out out of cuvcath He's sidelined currently with a
toe injury. A toe injury. Toe injury is turf toe that it didn't
Uh, I had that once, It's not, it's not now, So
I don't know. Let's see. Xavier's Quincy Olivari is the uh. I've
been named to the Big East Conference on a roll for a third week in
a row, averaged twenty one points per game against Saint John's and Seaton hall
Red's Update Broadcasters edition of the Hot Stove League to close out twenty twenty three
Tonight six oh five here on seven hundred WLW to Tommy g or uh who
is it? Tommy T And Jimmy d we'll welcome in Barry Larkin, Jeff
Brantley, John Sadak and Chris Welsh. Well, that's an all star lineup.
Ro I'll tell you what now that you know what, that's a that's
a bit. That's a billion dollars worth of human beings in that room.
No is this is this going to be in one of our myriad of studios
here in Kenwood. I think one guy is going to sit in each studio.
It's because we don't have enough microphone because they don't like each other.
Well, but we don't have enough microphones. How can you get all those
microphones in one that's true, You're right, so it must have come in
coming in in shifts. Well, I think I think Chris Welsh will be
sitting where KRC is, and then Barry Larkin will be at fifteen thirty,
somebody will be over there. Somebody will be over there, and then the
cowboy will probably be sitting in here. I sense tension. I sense tension
from who I mean, you've got all these people group. I tell you
what, I don't think half them like each other. Well, Roses a
Holiday Hardwood Classic tomorrow at the Centa Center six games on the schedule. Starts
at eleven am with Girls Action, wes Claremont and Mount Healthy. Then it's
Seaton and Ursuline. They don't like each other in volleyball. What about basketball?
I don't know. People just got to get a long better. The
Boys Action starts at two thirty Elder and Anderson. I got to be followed
by Taft and Withrow, Milford and Sycamore than the nightcap Lakota West and Fairfield.
Are they on separate courts too? Like NASA particularly that is one game
after another. Tickets available online at Go Xavier dot com, slash Buy tickets,
Go Xavier dot com, and let's see also canbrew history made in the
wrong way. Last night, the NBA Detroit Piston set a new record,
their twenty seventh straight loss, falling to the Brooklyn Nets one eighteen to one
twelve. The Pistons go to two and twenty eight on the year. Detroit
has not won a game since they won their home opener October the twenty eighth
SEGA. This was in Brooklyn right now that I think it was in Detroit.
Oh, it was in Detroit. They think it was because they've been
lost now they're because they've been they were, They were yelling at the owner
to sell the team, and he's not going to do it. The owner
ought to suit up. I mean, if it's that bad, how about
what about that where's Isaiah? Where's Isaiah Thomas? And Bill Lambier and uh
and I bet you, I bet you Dennis Rodman could get a rebounder too.
They gotta go get some guys that play for the Fort Wayne Pistons before
they move to Detroit. You know, I often thought the teams are really
really bad, and they achieve a certain level of ignominity that the owner would
then be forced to suit up. Can you imagine if some of these NFL
owners with teams that stink would be forced to suit up and play a position
in a game Robert Kraft unbelievable and they got to go middle linebacker. You
either get a team that wins, or if your team reaches a certain level
of aneptness, the owner is forced to suit up and play middle linebacker.
Terry richards Jerry Richardson or who owns the Panthers. Richardson's gone as some guy
I don't know anyway, whoever, Yeah, whoever owns that team. He's
got to go out and play middle linebacker. That would be phenomenal. Arthur
what's his name, Arthur Blank in Atlanta? Yuh, Arthur Black. Well,
they're they're you know, they're they're showing a little life a lot.
That's true, you're right, yeah, I mean the guy in San Diego,
right, he should go out. They should make that spanos, put
him in uniform and he's got to play middle linebacker. Wait, do you
see how quickly teams get better? He could. It would even last to
play, that's for sure. That's what people don't listen to my ideas,
say, is there a reason why? I don't know, ken Brew,
I don't know why they don't listen. I've got great ideas, like my
idea to turn the Kentucky Speedway into a Formida one track. Nobody listened to
you and I had this discussion last summer. Nobody hear me. All it's
doing down there is growing weeds and getting rust. Why not turn that into
a Formula one track. You imagine that all this racers would do down there
if it was a Formula one race down this, it would like all you
gotta do, ken Brew, is get the f I a here, and
I don't think I think they got enough races now in in North America.
What do you need to one? They need the one here. And I'll
tell you something else too. You know that that little hotel that sits down
there, what is it a ramana that sits right there with the raceway.
Can you imagine the amount of money they could charge for a room on an
F one race day? They might. Well, you know then when when
F one was in Indianapolis, they didn't like certain members of the Formula one
crew and owners that not like the accommodations in Indianapolis good. So what they
did was they helicoptered from Chicago back and forth. Bring them here, bring
them right over here at Indianapolis. We will take their race. We'll be
happy to take the race. Well, we'll treat them well. But that
track down there, I don't know what it's doing down there, but there
has to be cracks in that on that trail. What are they They're not
doing anything with it down there. It's a giant landing. It's just sitting
there. Well, I think it's got the empty tractor trailers down there for
Amazon to my ideas, turn that into a four Miluta one track, get
a raise, and to any NFL owner or NBA, look at somebody just
gets something down there that goes fast. If you've got a baseball team that
stinks, okay, and let's say it's below a certain level, I don't
hope maybe you're winning. Winning percentage is like thirty eight percent. Okay,
when it reaches that level, the owner has got to go out and catch
for three innings we watch, How great? How much better those teams get
what you got. Your basketball team stinks right like Detroit. That owners should
go out there and he would have to play power forward. Absolutely, send
him out there, have to play power forward for a game. His team
wouldn't be two and whatever they are, make the owners play. It'd be
fantastic. That might be what you call a veritable crap shoot. That might
be the next thing in uh, you know, in in in sports.
It could be the owners league, the owner, which which owner gets,
which owner dies first? Jeez, you could go wow, wait a minute,
you could go on, you could you could probably get odds on that
somewhere. Anything these days anyway, can well, I mean the spot break
we're running an online betting firm or why don't we just why don't we just
get online gambling involved in this? And you you watched the tasty American public
would have for them, They'd be more interested in that than some of these
Bowl games. I'm watching Minnesota play yes or against Bowling Green. Who in
the hell would be interested in that game except people that either went to Minnesota
or Bowling Green or have friends or loved ones on the team Minnesota was was?
What were they five and seven going into play that game? The only
reason why they're playing that game, seg is because ESPN needs something to put
on the air, because they can't put on all of these hot take shows
that they have, you know, guys sitting around just giving hot takes and
things like that. They got to put something. It's all it is.
Yeah, So the one where they all around and like in television monitors and
I mean it's like thoughts that I don't know, I don't know, and
all they do is yellow. All they do is yell. It's exactly right.
It's great as opposed to you and me. We're coming up with palatable,
saleable ideas here. Yeah. Yeah. Also Ken Brew tonight, EHL
hockey, Yeah, I love it. Cyclones on the road against those Toledo
Walleye while the NHL Columbus Blue Jackets are at New Jersey and the Jackets action
at six thirty on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. Now you're about your boy,
Travis Kelcey, he got what I do well. He does this podcast with
his brother called Oh Yeah Heights. Yeah that's true. Yeah I've heard,
Yeah, I've heard. I've heard of that. But then now what he's
say Travis kelce when they introduced him like on TV, he never says he's
from the University of Cincinnati. He's always from Cleveland Heights, Right, Okay,
So they got this podcast called New Heights, so they get together.
I guess they released this podcast today and apparently Travis goes off on this expletive
ran about the team, and you want to hear the quote. I'll clean
it up, but do you want to hear the quote? All right ahead?
It's not just me playing like dog, It's not just us being able
to get the run game going. It's not just us being on the same
page passing wise. Everybody in this thing together, Everybody at some point isn't
being accountable. That's a problem with coaching. If players aren't being held accountable,
would you not agree? Correct? Okay, that's what your boy was
saying today, boy, and that's who they play this way. He asked
by Jason how the Chiefs could fix these problems. Travis said, quote,
everybody's just got to do their jobs, That's what he said. How'd you
like those sound effects? By the way, I like that, ken Brew.
You ought to be a professional horn when you know somebody says something for
somebody says a bad word, professional word, professional horn and not a horn,
a h O R and a horn. I could do the sound effects
on the Bengals fight song there you go, instead of having that. Now
that's Tom. Now that's Tom Dnkle doing the elephant thing? Is that what
it is? That's who it is. Don't tell anybody. I didn't know.
I thought it was an elephant passing gas when I heard it, But
might might have been that one that used to go to Opening Day all the
time down You never know, No seg is that it? I think that's
it, ken Brew. You're going to be back here in forty five minutes
to have more fun and for volity here and get more and more ideas.
That's all I'm all about ideas. I'm all about trying to make things better,
and I think this idea about owners having to suit up if their teams
stink would end all of this and every every nobody would lose games. At
that point you would see fistfights are up between owners while games are going on
because the owners wouldn't want to have to suit up the next game. It
would be fantastic. Wow. How about Jerry Jones v. Robert Kraft.
Now there you're talking, but Jones team's playing fine. Who's the lousiest team
in the NHL? Right now? Who's says? I mean, he's not
doing Hugh Jackets work for Well, the Blue Jackets aren't the greatest now all
right, all right, I don't know who the Blue Jackets owner is.
I'm sure he's a nice guy. I don't know, but let's just say
that they reach a certain level where they sting. For example, like the
Ottawa Senators, they're no good. Well, you know who runs who runs
the I don't think he owns a team, but who runs it? John
Davidson, the former Rangers goalie. Okay, it could go back. Here
we go. The worst team in the NHL right now? Are the San
Jose Sharks. They've only won nine games, right, nine games played,
thirty four they've only won nine. Let's say you get to a point where
you're winning percentage, it hits like twenty five, twenty eight percent, something
like that. That owner has got go out and ten goal the next game.
It would be fantastic. What do you see how much better these teams
get? That's for sure. I'm just such a one of those dudes I
got, you know, Sega, have a lot of time on my hands,
and I sit around, I think about things like that. I think.
I just that's where I get these ideas, where I think about that.
All right, all right, seg get us out of the Stewte Report
because it's time for another break ken brew. In honor of our ideas,
and who's going to pick him up than you, we leave you with the
immortal words of the Stewd Report. No, your role is shut your mouth.
Okay, that's Travis Kelcey. Travis Kelsey yelling at mayor Peer revolves when
he lit the Chiefs up last year. Yeah, Pureville's problem is he didn't
keep the duck. The duck would have talked him out. This duck would
have talked him out of that whole proclamation thing. All right, seg I'll
see in a bit, Yes, sir, that's it. No more,
can't take it. Gotta sell some stuff, all right? Coming up on
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Great to have you with us. AI is scaring a lot of people these
days, There's no question about it. AI is something that could be a
great thing, but in most cases it's not a great thing. But it
is great in this sense when it comes to detecting very ailments, in particular
cancer, AI is a wonderful tool. In fact, there have been many
stories here in the last few months that have brought to the forefront just how
AI is helping in research things like breast cancer. AI analysis flagged up to
thirteen percent more cases than doctors had identified, a significant chunk of the twenty
percent or more cancers that are estimated to be missed using non AI screening.
And then it can get into things like specific cancers because sometimes one cancer doesn't
look like another cancer. AI is wonderful. Sure, there are things to
be afraid of. Absolutely how it can generate a voice like your own to
trick people, and it can. That's a whole other topic about how voice
generation is being used to trick particularly older people into thinking there's some sort of
emergency with their family. But the fact of the matter is when it comes
to things like medicine, AI is cutting edge, and there's nobody that knows
more about that than my next guest. He is Mike and Newton, And
Mike and Newton is somebody who has been at the front of AI research for
many, many years and knows exactly where it can help. In fact,
his company. We'll talk more about that when we get in to this with
him. His company is at the forefront of this. So when you're a
doctor, if god forbid, you're diagnosed with something heart disease or cancer,
whatnot, if your doctor is an up to date on how AI can help,
then you probably need to go find a new doctor. Anyway, let's
bring in mikeah Newton for more. Michael, how are you on this glorious
day? Jen? I am doing absolutely fantastic, delighted to be here.
I'm glad you are here because this sounds not only exciting, it sounds breakthrough
and breathtaking. Look, the worst thing you can tell a patient, I
think if you're a doctor, is you have cancer, particularly if that cancer
is one of the more aggressive forms of cancer. Nobody wants to hear that.
What they want to hear is I'm healthy. Well you're not. Then
they want to hear, well, how can I be treated? And it
seems to me that there are a lot of cancers that are just their origins
aren't detectable. I know personally from family experience that something that looked like stomach
cancer was breast cancer that metastasized, and so the treatments changed when that was
discovered. This then it would seem like would be able to bypass that at
least in some cases and identify exactly the origin of that cancer. Am I
right here, absolutely? And so what this study did, and this I
find, just to your point incredibly impassful, is look at patients where they
came in and were diagnosed with cancer, which is really bad news. But
the cancer was basically all over their body and the doctors couldn't tell from looking
at them where it started. And the reason why where it started is so
important is over the past ten fifteen years or so, we have developed a
lot of new drugs that are specifically targeted to the genetic mutation, so the
errors that took place in the gene expression for these patients, but they're based
on where the cancer started from. So these particular mutations, you're done.
So the doctors don't know which of these highly targeted therapies to use because they
don't know where the cancer started, and so these patients are just not eligible,
like they don't know where to start. So being able to identify that,
you could pick the right drugs, and that could mean the difference between
living longer, much less side effects, maybe even surviving your diagnosis. So
how did AI come into all of this? Was this impossible before AI?
And if it was, what did AI change? So one of the AI
changed our ability to do this because AI can look at enormous amounts of data
and essentially pull out signals that regular statistics and human approaches wouldn't normally you know,
find. So in this case, the researchers took samples of the genetic
variation, so the changes in the genes of a whole bunch of patients right
that had these undifferentiated cancers, as well as the ones where they knew where
the origins came from, and they used the AI. They basically showed the
data to DAI and said, AI tell us which which organ these cancers actually
originated in. And then when they went back and looked at the real data
and now in retrospect, they were able to show that the AI is actually
really good at pin putting the origin of the cancer itself. So, okay,
let's let's take a hypothetical situation. Somebody has we'll say, lung cancer
and uh, and it metastasizes, and it goes through the lymph nose and
out to the blood and into the body, and it winds up on you
know, all the liver, or maybe it winds up on the bone or
whatnot, and oh my gosh, they go. The patient gets diagnosed,
you know, you've got cancer. I'm not a smoker, never smoked in
my life. Well, we'll figure it out. And it sounds like what
happens then, is it's just a rush of treatment that just might you know,
help the bone, help the liver, maybe the lung. When it
might have started in the liver went to the lung, went to the bone.
So what we're saying here again, if I'm listening correctly, what this
is saying is that initial treatment then would be for where it started in this
case, in my hypothetical situation, the lung. Would that also then take
care of where it metastasized, where it would have gone elsewhere, or would
that be a completely different thing you would have to treat so potentially, yes,
let me let's take a kind of step back. So the traditional way
to treat cancer, right is to cut it out and to do surgery.
And these folks who are coming in have cancer all over the body, so
you know, you might do some surgery, but you can't get all of
it out. The second thing that you do is, you know, side
a toxic or systemic chemotherapy, right, and we've all heard the horror stories
of chemotherapy, super sick, use your hair, it's terrible. Right.
You're basically trying to kill the cancer with poisons faster than you kill the person.
And that's how it works. And that's kind of the standard approach if
you don't know anything more, right, which is this very aggressive toxic chemotherapy,
it's very difficult. There are two types of therapy that have been developed
after that that I get really excited about, and the one that's really important
here is targeted therapy. So these are targeted therapies. Think about like a
circuit break or box on the side of your house, and you know the
life god in your house. You go down there and try and figure out
which switch was turned off or turned on the wrong way. That's kind of
what the targeted therapies are doing. They're finding and targeting that specific gene.
Those switches change depending often on where the cancer starts in your body before it
and it's testicized. So lung cancers have a certain set of switches, Liver
cancers have a different set of switches and brain cancers. Some of them overlapped,
but generally that's the piece that's missing if you don't know where it started.
Those types of drugs are much safer, they make you much less thick.
They're often oral, so instead of having to go get an infusion,
you can take them, you know, as a pill, and so patients
are much it's just a much better quality of life having that type of therapy
overall. But the doctors don't know which of those to choose if they don't
know where it started. Now, the good news is when the cancer metastasized,
it's actually that same cancer from wherever it started. It's moving around your
body now it's mutates and changes too. But if you know where it started,
there's a good chance that that targeted therapy is going to work for the
cancer all over, and then it can be supplemented with the last type of
therapy, which are immuno therapy. So these are our drugs that help your
body's own immune system attack the cancer. So the true if you don't know
where it started, you have like one set of or a small set of
the tools you can use. But if you knew where it started, you
can use all the tools, and that's just way more exciting. Yeah,
in essence, cut it off with the head and then and then and then
you can worry about where it's gone and treated that way. I read somewhere
make it where, Uh that AI has been used to fight lung cancer in
the sense that it could detect it years in advance. Explain that because that
would almost be preventative as opposed to treatment. How how would that work?
Yeah, So AI is being and I think this is something that's going to
be available for many of us much sooner than than lots of AI applications.
Is actually looking at imaging data. So lung cancer is one area. The
rest cancer is another area. You know, standard mirmography. Women going and
have mimography all the time, and those images, whether they come from an
extray or ultrasound, they're traditionally read by human beings who are really good at
and they're looking for little clusters or lumps in the picture that say, ah,
this might be the start of a cancer. This might be cancerous.
Let's go and do additional testing on it. The AI, it turns out,
is really good at pattern recognition and it doesn't get tired, and it
can look at thousands and millions of images, right, and it's an augment
to the people. You still need a human being just to be really clear
to go and look at it. But the AI can pick out from thousands,
thousands of pictures and say, hey, I see something on this Mr
MRI or X ray image that looks concerning to me. I think a doctor
should pay more attention here, and that allows us to get in early.
And we all know early detection, you know, if you look at by
the way cancer survivorship is increasing. I was just on a show talking about
this earlier. Most women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer can now expect to
surviox that's a big, big change in the way we've been treating cancer.
But it's because of early detection. It's not the late station. You want
to catch it early. It's still not good news, but then you can
do surgery and all these drugs have a really good chance of working. Whereas
when you catch it very late, which is where we started the conversation,
it's just much more difficult. Mika Newton's our guest. He's the CEO of
Execures. It's a health technology company. It has created an AI enabled precision
on Collogy platform. I don't want to get too deep in the woods as
to how AI works here, but somebody at some point, or some bodies
at some point had to be putting information into these various AI tools that are
out there, whether it's chat, GPT or whatever it may be. When
did all of that start and how did it come out to a point where
you are right now using it to help fight these cancers. Where did all
this information come from? Who? Who's who dropped it into these like chet
GPT for example. So chet GBT was trained on basically everything on the internet,
right if you think about it that way, actually not everything, but
a lot of it. But you're touching on one of the most important points
about AI. AI is only as good as the training and validation data,
and those are two very important pieces. You have to take some form of
data and you have to teach the AI. It's intelligence, right, what
is it that it's going to do? And it needs a task. You
have to point it towards something, right, which is go and do these
things, Go and look for breast cancer in these images and help me find
it. Whatever that might be. Say's training data and the validation data is
really important because you basically want to test the a and make sure it's doing
what it's doing. So you want to show it's something that's never ever seen
before and see if it can reproduce the same result that it had before.
And that data is now number one. There's all of the scientific publication.
So I think if all of science that ever has been published and put into
a research paper have as like millions of articles. So that's one set of
knowledge. And then the other area that we've been working in as a company
is getting the actual data from real people. So one of the I think
most exciting opportunities for AI is to shorten the learning first. So instead of
finding them about you know, a new potential cure, let's say for cancer,
and it takes ten to fifteen years to get it, you know,
into a doctor's hands, I'd like to see a world and with that's one,
two, three, four years, And the only way to do that
is to shorten the cycle without giving up on safety. Right, and are
doing the right thing, And we sell this in COVID, Right, We
developed those COVID vestments very very quickly, right, and safety was what we
were all worried about, right, and we still hear that conversation. I'm
going so we have to be able to do both things, move quickly and
make sure we're doing the right thing and being safe. And you need data,
right and I think AI is the thing that's going to unlock the shortening,
but can't do it without the data. Someone listening today, god forbid,
if they're diagnosed tomorrow, next week, next month with cancer, some
kind of cancer and they have to go to see an on collegist here in
the greater Cincinnati area, is this information available to she or he? In
other words, when you go to see that on colleges, would they have
access to what you have? Should they call your company to make sure that
it's a tool that that doctor can use in the fight against cancer. So
the information is out there. I think the real issue is just how busy
we are. I'm gonna so number one, if you're diagnostic, goes to
your doctor, talk to your doctor and get second opinions. What I tell
everybody out there, make sure you talk to a few different folks and you
get there's no right answer in this space. Just to be really clear,
there's lots of information and everybody is different, So you've got to make the
best decision and really rely on the medical expertise of the physicians. There are
a lot of tools Expeers being one of them, that are out there to
help physicians. The real question is how do we give our doctors enough time
right in order to be able to use those tools, and how do we
make them easily available. So anybody who wanted to to come to our website
xechars dot com. It's free service for the patients the doctors that can go
and use that. There are others as well, But I would just encourage
people to be proactive in your character, you know, just ask the questions,
bring up the topic right. The information is there, but you have
to raise your hand and ask the questions and really highlight the issues right right
right, Your best advocate is going to be you. Absolutely, Mika Newton,
this is really fascinating stuff. Good luck with your work and hopefully it
is out to everybody because everybody should get the best possible treatment at the worst
possible time. Thank you so much for your time. We appreciate it.
Wonderful. Thank you have a great guest, you bet so again. His
company is x Cures Excures AI assisted cancer Treatment and Mika Newton, m I
K. Last name anywtn not the singer. Make sure you put AI if
you're going to do his search for him. But ex Cures is his company.
He is, he's been knee deep in the in the medicine field for
many, many years. And when I saw this and how exciting it was,
how to get him on the show. Hopefully a little information there for
you, and hopefully it's not something you or anyone you know has to deal
with. But you know, it's one of those j I cs. Just
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the fourth, and you called the toss of what happened there? Oh yeah?
I mean, you know it's only Supan. You know, I don't
think coach knew I was from Charlotte, you know, so so you just
did that on your own. I mean, I mean, you know,
I mean it was like a you know, the guy's backing me up,
you know, so they knew awesome here. Can you realize you almost made
a big mistake on a call though what I did? Or you said we
want to go on defense? Yeah, which, in theory could they could
have said, then you're electing to kick to kick off what you have lost
the opportunity then to receive in the second half. Yeah. No, I
told him that. I said, I want I want our defense beyond there,
and they all looked at him like I was crazy. I'm like,
I mean, it's pretty simple, but I said I want the defense guy.
They like, you mean defer? Like yeah, again, okay,
he should he say that? Mike was not. I I heard you,
Oh really not? He just like defer. I was like, yeah,
I'm like, well, eleven, it's pretty obvious. So did anyone say
anything to you when you got back to the sideline? What would they?
Hello? Quiet? And I'm broadcasting. We should probably displain that because it
was kind of like random, was it. Jair Alexander of the Green Bay
Packers ken brew is a season has taken another turn. Three days ago,
he anointed himself as one of the Packers captains. I just went out for
the coins. Yeah, he just ran out with the regular guys, and
that made Matt Lafleur called a big mistake by nearly botching the call after winning
the coin toss. He's been suspended for one game this Sunday by the team.
Yeah, he just ran out there, Yeah, on his own,
he was I think they were playing Carolina and he's a show. I guess
he's a Charlotte native. So he just ran out there apparently, and you
know, and well he's I don't know, I mean, it's just he's
a he's a he's a So they're playing Carolina, right right, and he's
from Charlotte. Yeah, and he goes out there. Yeah, not supposed
to be out there, correct, right? Am I right? That's correct?
Right? My right, my right? Yes, okay, so this
is this is uh this so this is going out for the kick, and
what do you want to do? Do you want to do you want to
keep it or do you want to call? And he says, we want
to be out there on defense? Yeah, he called tails. He won
the toss. He wanted the Packers on defense was not the same as choosing
to defer their choice to the second half. The referee could have taken his
call to mean they wanted to kick off. But uh, you know,
I don't know, well what the fact of the matter is. He shouldn't
have been out there, correct, So what does that tell you? Again,
It's what we talked about in the last half hour. That guy,
the coach there, doesn't have control of his team, right the Packers are
there? Yeah, so so he suspended him for this week's Wait, I'd
like to see if mister Alexander was playing for Vince Lombardi, he probably would
not be a Packer After about five minutes after the game. It wouldn't have
taken Vince Lombardi to know it would have been the team. It would have
bart starred, Paul Horning, Jimmy Taylor, Yeah, all of them at
Forrest Gray getting hold of him. Ray nich what I had him for lunch?
You know, I sat next to ray Nitchki once, Is that right?
I mean? I keep telling these stories, but the Mini mentioned her
name, they come to mind. So I'm sitting I'm in I'm in New
Jersey. It was like the Loewe's Hotel right by the right by the George
Washington Bridge. Gosh, this is going back at least forty years ago,
and I'm sitting there in restaurant. I don't know why I was staying at
that hotel. I must have been doing something in New York, covering something
for I was working in tamp at the time. And we sit down at
the table in this hotel restaurant and who sits down next to me but Ray
Nichek. And I'm not saying anything. I'm just sitting there. But I
know it's Rainisky. First of all, he doesn't have any front teeth.
He's just got these fangs where his black cusbands are. And he's sitting down
there and he orders this steak. It's the biggest piece of beat. It
was an entire cow. It had to be from Texas. Hey, Pow,
you're not from Toledo. Let's get with it. Is that what he
said? No, so we don't s eating that. And there's food flying
all over the place. I mean there's like salad and potatoes and steak,
and I'm like sitting there trying to keep from incoming. And at the end
of the meal, I'm still sitting there with I think it was with my
photographer from the station where I don't I don't know anyway, he devours this
meal inside of about a half an hour, stands up and I to him,
I said, mister Nisky, what was nice city. I didn't want
to bother you during dinner, I said, I just wanted to say it
was I've always enjoyed watching you play, you know, the normal stuff you
prattle on about. And he just looked at me and goes, hope you
enjoyed your steak. And this left, and it was like, oh my
gosh. I didn't know whether to like gather up some of the remains of
his meal and like sell him somewhere. Yeah, bray Nitschke attacking a steak
next to me is one of the indelible things in my mind. I know
that story really didn't go anywhere at the end, but I sat next to
this dude and watch him just devour an entire bovine. He didn't ask a
viewer from Toledo like the like the Hockey Rift. No, no, no,
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right, he just did a walk through. Maybe yeah, maybe yeah,
maybe, you never know. Nobody saw. J Morrison of the Pro Footballnetwork
dot Com. Trey Hendrickson was not out there. He apparently injured his hand
in last week's game of Pittsburg, so he was not there today. But
it's what what is today? Wednesday? Yes, they don't play a Sunday.
They're playing Sundays again, which is good sign. I don't like Saturday
games. The Las Vegas Raiders are signing have signed tight end as Zach Gentry
off the Bengals practice squad. That's because the Raiders rookie Michael Mayer out of
covcav sideline currently with a toe injury. Well, I'm sure that they're very
happy about that. I never heard of the guy they're signing, but you
know, good luck to him. Red's Update broadcasters edition of the Hot Stove
League tonight at six oh five. Here we got you got Tommy Thrall and
Jim Day and their guests are Barry Larkin, Jeff Brantley, John Sadak,
and Chris Welsh. Tommy thrall Cincinnati's most eligible bachelor. From what I understand,
I think he's got a girlfriend. Thought, now I heard it Red's
fest. Oh okay, Well, I'm just saying, unless it's recent,
Unless it's recent, I heard a lease, look out hockey, EHL hockey.
Tonight, the beloved Cyclones are on the road against the Toledo Walleye,
while in the NHL the Columbus Blue Jackets at New Jersey and the Jackets action
at six thirty on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. You ever seen a walleye a
real like a fish, a walleye? No, they are very big game
fish. Yeah. Yeah, people, there's a walleye rodeo somewhere. I'm
not sure where it is, but if somewhere in the United States there's a
walleye rodeo, everybody goes there and try to catch a bunch of walleye.
Yeah, just saying there's a lot of walleye out there. And then Ken
Brewley L. Rosa's Holiday Hardwood Classic takes place tomorrow, said toss Center.
Six games on the schedule. Give me the team. It begins at eleven
am with girls action with Wes, Claremont and Mount Healthy. That'll be followed
by Seaton up against Ursuline. The boys action starts at two point thirty Elder
and Anderson Elder, followed by Taft battling with Row, Milford and Sycamore,
and then a nightcap Lakota West against Fairfield. That's the marquee right there,
Lakota West and Fairfield. All you got to do is go to go to
go go xavier dot com, slash buy tickets and when you get it,
you bring a canned or dry good for donation for the Free Store Food Bank.
Well it sounds like a good deal, right, how about that?
So here's something you might I don't know if you've heard this or not.
This is out of Israel and it's not a war stare. Oh, I
thought I was going to say they're they're going at it with Hamas I go
on this website a lot. It's called study fines Study findes like f I
n DS dot org. Okay, And this is at a rohoveat Israel.
It says you're a woman, A woman's tears appear to carry a secret formula
for easing aggression in men. Researchers found that sniffing female tears produced a strange
effect among male participants in an experiment designed to anger them. They were trying
to anger men. Now, compared to smelling sailing solution, sniffing a woman's
tear significantly reduced brain activity linked to aggressive behavior in men. What the So,
all, what we got to do is, if you know, we
could probably solve a lot of the world's problems if we just sniffed a woman's
tear. But if we did that, then we have upset the woman,
and that would just lead to more problems. So I'm not sure what the
study means, but I find it fascinating. Have you ever sniffed Denise's tears?
No, Well, you might want to try. It might make you
less aggressive. Ever tried it, sniff one of Denise's tears? No,
I've never tried that, segurance. Okay, okay, but you're saying you
may want to try it the next time you feel aggressive. All right,
all right, that's what I'm saying. But I'm just saying too, that's
it. That's out of Israel, that's out of some place called Rohovot.
R e H O v O T. Israel is right. They got a
little bit more important stuff going on over there, and that well, I
guess maybe they're figuring out they sniff enough tears over there in that part of
the world, maybe everybody will just settle down a little. Well, you
know what, maybe that's maybe that's the key could be. I don't know.
Maybe somebody should pass that on to our fearless leader, Joe Biden.
When he's going to the Virgins. Yahoo, Yeah, yeah, let's go
to the Let's go the Virgin Islands. When's he when's he go there?
I don't know today, he doesn't know what it is, so he doesn't
know when he's going. The world's blowing up and he's going to the Virgin
Islands. Fair well, okay, then why not. I'm just saying I
have a lot of time to think about this seg Like we were talking about
last last time, you know about all this about having the owners dress up
and have to play if their teams stink. I think that's a great idea.
I really do. About turning the Kentucky Speedway, which is just rust
and weeds right now, turning that into a Formula one track. Have those
cars go around. It would boost it would boost business and racers it would
boost business. Like racers is there anymore? I see nastcar pulls out and
it killed that industry, right, Yeah, I don't think racers is there
anymore? I'm just not sure. But I'm and what happened to those poor
girls? Where did they go? I don't know. I don't know.
Somewhere, but I don't know. I don't know. Maybe there's some sort
of tour bus that got on the way. Maybe maybe maybe they maybe they
went to another club. But you see what I'm saying, all of these
things that I'm coming up with here. You know, you get one of
you got that statue called the Thinker at your house and you just sit in
front of it like and think. No. I sometimes I go out of
my front porch and sit there and like have a beer. But no,
I don't. I don't do that. No, And what what? What?
Which brandy a drink? Mine? Whatever? They're having to serve it
little Miami. Oh, okay, will you have your own beer? Don't
you? Several? Okay, So they've they've taken them off tap because right
now because they've sold out, they have they have to rebrew the beer or
whatever. Look at you, But I'm just saying I think about a lot
of things, and these are the ideas I come up with, and I
think, you know, they're pretty good ideas. Would you like to see
the owner of the Pistons have to go out and play one game, full
game, full game and power forward, yest, Yes, that would be
great. Wouldn't you love to see the owner of the Columbus Blue Jackets,
Well, the owner of the San Jose Sharks have to go in in ten
goal for one game, sixty minutes of NonStop hockey action and have the opposing
team take slap shots at them. I'd be one hundred to nothing. Well,
I'm just saying that would cure some of the problems with these teams that
can't seem to win. How about the guy that owns the Panthers, the
guy that owns the Carolina Panthers, how about having him go play he has
to play middle linebacker this week for his team. I think that would be
fantastic. People would line up, they come from miles around and see that.
Probably so that you're right, Well, that's probably the next thing on
the agenda is the owners League. Well, it could be well, he
said, you remember the Smothers brothers, right, Oh yeah, oh yeah.
I told this story about hour and a half ago. I interned at
Channel nine many many years ago when nine stood for news and al Shadowcotty was
there and on off. But I spent a summer there while I was matriculating
oh at Ohio University. And one of the people that I met that came
in from CBS I was the guy that was in charge of censorship at CBS,
and he's the guy that called Tommy and Dick's mothers off the air.
And we got to do a discussion about about censorship and what the Smothers brothers
did and how he handled it. And he told me fast, I haven't
been talked to tom or Dick's mothers about this, but he told me they
actually had a pretty good relationship after they were yanked off the air, that
they understood where it was coming from and that they might have been pushing it
a little too much. Was that before or after? Was that before all
in the family? That the same guy that was before all in the family.
Okay, that's what I had. All in the family. I think
was seventy or seventy one. Yeah, you're right. Mother's brothers. They
got yanked off the air I think in sixteen. Yeah, ok, yeah,
because they were they they they were pushing envelope and opening up. That's
true. You're right, it's it. And you know who one of the
writers was on that show was Steve Martin was one of the writers for that.
How about that? I mean they had a lot of writers. You
know it all, Camber, I don't know anything. I couldn't tell you
two things that are important in anyone's life. But you know that's why I
got I gotta have these discussions sake so I can remember things. It keeps
me from going crazy. Okay, all right, Well what I'm saying maybe
Willy ought to do that. I think he's beyond hope. What do we
By the way, where is he? Uh? He is that he's he's
he's just relaxing at home. He's relaxing at home. Yeah, how is
that different from what he's here? Well, I guess Penny told him he's
staying home this week. Okay, Well that's whatever the first lady says,
that's what he does aing go understand that, Well, seg I think we
probably need to end this, I'll be here tomorrow. You're gonna be here
tomorrow. But be here tomorrow, ken Brew, No problem? You work
in New Year's Day? Uh No, I'm gonna work New Year's Day.
Okay, Well maybe I'm going to cover for you. Maybe I'll call in.
Who's going to be here to cover for you? Uh? I don't
know yet? Okay, Well maybe i'll be here. Who knows? I
don't know. Nobody knows anything. No, that's true. Why don't you
get us out of the Stoog's reports? Say? Because I gotta I gotta
get there. You know, we're starting to get close to Dan Carroll and
Jason Williams, and you can't. You know, one of the things that
they don't like is to have their time. You know, that's correct,
you know what I'm saying. Yeah, so I'm dealing with a lot of
pressures here to say ken Brew and utter of Jair Alex what was he thinking?
We leave you with the immortal words of the Stewod report. Hey,
that's some hat. Did you get a freeball at soup with it? Looks
good though? Nah? There was a guy, well, there was a
guy. Amen. I got a book that my daughter gave me about five
years ago. It's the making of the movie Caddyshack. Oh boy. And
they said, the only person involved in that film in front of or behind
the camera, the only person that wasn't doing drugs or alcohol was Ted what's
his name? Ted? Oh yeah, Ted Knight, Yeah, the guy
that played the country club president or whatever. Everybody else this book, everybody
else was snorting, sipping or smoking, and they couldn't get anything done.
It was just like they were over budget. They had to fly Bill Murray
back and forth because he really didn't want to do the movie, and it
was like, it was amazing that thing ever got made. It's a classaking
of the movie Caddyscheck. It's great book. It's a classic seg I gotta
go yes, ur can brew see you tomorrow. I'm gonna go sniff some
women's tears right now. Okay, if I sniff anyone that I think you
should sniff, I'll let you know. Okay, there he is Peg Deadison,
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