Speaker 1: Is in his heaven and everything is wonderful. Good morning, Linnette.
Speaker 2: Oh they tell.
Speaker 3: Me all the land paved in gold, where the mansions
Speaker 3: are not built by men, in the land just beyond
Speaker 3: the shore, all the land and the sweet bye and bye,
Speaker 3: in the sweet bye and bye. We shall meet on
Speaker 3: the big deeper shore in the sweet bye and bye.
Speaker 3: I we shall meet on that yes teeth or hire
Speaker 3: a man.
Speaker 4: I love my boys.
Speaker 1: Oh you're fine, amen. Indeed the street, by and by
Speaker 1: will the circle be unbroken? Bye and bye Lord, bye, bye,
Speaker 1: bye and bye.
Speaker 5: Well, we had a carnival game here yesterday. Carnival the
Speaker 5: world portrays me as blind?
Speaker 6: Have me?
Speaker 5: Jesus had me? I didn't get to go, and you know,
Speaker 5: like when they change their breath. The two strikes against said, oh,
Speaker 5: the curtain must be open. They said yeah.
Speaker 1: I said, well, if you're blind, how do you know
Speaker 1: that the curtains open? And how do you know that.
Speaker 5: They're That's what I said, help me, Jesus, I ain't blind.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to miss the circus, but somebody had
Speaker 5: the curtains that I was indisposed. I'm waiting to go.
Speaker 1: I just watched the More show, so you have to
Speaker 1: see a bunch of things that you really don't want
Speaker 1: to see because people think you are completely blind.
Speaker 5: Right, I catch the thieves. One lady broke my elvist
Speaker 5: fan out. He'sus forgiven for they know not what it is.
Speaker 5: It's all wasn't a Christian. It might have been something.
Speaker 7: Bad thing.
Speaker 1: Well, if you miss the carnival, don't don't feel that
Speaker 1: left out, because I don't know if you've ever met
Speaker 1: a carnie. The people people, the people that travel with carnivals,
Speaker 1: they're not actually the most savory sorts.
Speaker 5: I remember the little girl. This man ate the chickens
Speaker 5: head off, and I'm like, yep, oh, I think they
Speaker 5: caught it. The fair though not a carnival.
Speaker 1: Now, the carnival is where they have geeks that eat
Speaker 1: the heads off chickens.
Speaker 5: Yeah, carnival, the fair, I mean any warsaw.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well, there's nothing fair about biting the head
Speaker 1: off a live chicken.
Speaker 5: Then this colored manager, I saw the bear, and the
Speaker 5: bear had no tea, so the bear was coming in.
Speaker 5: I was a little kid. I remember those days. Now
Speaker 5: that's the subdid is called Fourth Street. All the mansions
Speaker 5: are back there in the swimming pool. Mister Tom Parker
Speaker 5: built that and Miss Samma Bee I was a little
Speaker 5: girl when they moved to town, and she played my
Speaker 5: wedding march for a second marriage, small world. Indeed, she
Speaker 5: played bear and she couldn't play it.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 5: I didn't Miss Amabe. I asked far and she played
Speaker 5: it for me.
Speaker 1: I wish we had more time. I got a roll though,
Speaker 1: because I won't get I won't get to talk to Dick,
Speaker 1: and he's he's got a new phone. He wants to
Speaker 1: show off.
Speaker 8: Okay, I love you.
Speaker 1: In fact, let's go ahead and talk to Good morning.
Speaker 7: Dick, Good morning Garrett, Jeff.
Speaker 1: This phone sounds fantastic. When did you get a phone?
Speaker 7: Well, Spectrum came on Tuesday this week and they came
Speaker 7: early and they changed the uh, they changed my channels.
Speaker 7: They came Tuesday, and it's it's been pretty nice. Buddy.
Speaker 1: Well, that's awesome. Are you digging your new place?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, Jerry, Jeff, I'm telling you. Every Friday they
Speaker 7: have what you call a happy hour. And I met
Speaker 7: a guy named Pants. He plays, uh, he plays lead guitar.
Speaker 7: But they've had some of these people bands like the
Speaker 7: old fifties, and then they had a tribute to the
Speaker 7: other day. It was pretty crowded. George Jones and Buck Owens.
Speaker 7: I've never heard anything like these guys came from. They
Speaker 7: were from Kentucky, Gary Jeff and they were doing like
Speaker 7: Kentucky Headhunters and Jerry Jeff. I'm telling you right now,
Speaker 7: the director down here is really nice. Your name is
Speaker 7: Heather and she was just up there dancing and sometimes
Speaker 7: they get up there and I got to get up
Speaker 7: there and we did the midnight special. How about that one?
Speaker 1: Oh that's fantastic. Listen. I want to visit with you more.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad you got a phone now.
Speaker 7: So and Dave called and he's coming over, God bless him.
Speaker 7: And I really enjoyed it. Jerry Jeff, it's fun.
Speaker 1: It was fun, all right, do me a favor. I
Speaker 1: don't want you to hang up. I wanted you to
Speaker 1: talk to Liam so I can get your phone number
Speaker 1: and say good night.
Speaker 2: Dick. Oh, okay, good night, Gary Jeff.
Speaker 1: Thank you, goodbye. All right. We'll we'll talk to Dick
Speaker 1: from Dayton sometime soon to find out how I can
Speaker 1: get in on the happy hour action at the Senior Home.
Speaker 1: Before we go any further, let's do it into the
Speaker 1: first official hour of the Saturday morning edition for this Saturday,
Speaker 1: June the twenty eighth, twenty twenty five, Gary Jeff Walker, Hey,
Speaker 1: your service.
Speaker 2: Boy.
Speaker 1: Look who it is? How odd that this guy would
Speaker 1: call at this particular time on a Saturday morning. It's
Speaker 1: a little bit out of the usual. But what do
Speaker 1: you should I answer it? Should I take the call?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Good morning, Dave.
Speaker 6: Hey Jeff, good morning. How we're doing? Happy down to you?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Happy?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 6: Don dawn?
Speaker 1: I have you seen the crack of dawn?
Speaker 6: It's happening we speak.
Speaker 1: Why are you looking?
Speaker 2: I like that? Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's also the Red's fiftieth celebration of the Big Red
Speaker 1: Machine this weekend. That's huge. Yes it is.
Speaker 6: Got my shirt on and everything.
Speaker 1: Fourth of July's coming up, Dave, Yeah, next, next Friday.
Speaker 1: What what did the Firecracker eat at the movies? Popcorn? Popcorn? Popcorn?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: What kind of beverage do you drink on July fourth?
Speaker 1: Liberta Libert, Limbert liber T. Dave from Dayton gave me
Speaker 1: these jokes, so there, I'm not really responsible for them.
Speaker 2: I see, I tell you what.
Speaker 1: Let's bring back the seven hundred and seventy seven jokes
Speaker 1: that are in the joke book that you keep there
Speaker 1: in the joke layer of your your office. You're one, uh,
Speaker 1: four thirty eight, four thirty eight, four thirty eight, turn
Speaker 1: to four thirty eight four four thirty Okay.
Speaker 2: All right, ready, yeah right.
Speaker 9: The patient says, doctor, I think I need glasses, and
Speaker 9: the teller says, you certainly do.
Speaker 2: This is a bank.
Speaker 1: Two seventy nine.
Speaker 6: Two seventy two seventy nine. A guy goes into a psychiatrist.
Speaker 6: He says, doctor, I.
Speaker 9: Keep having these alternately recurring dreams, first on a TP,
Speaker 9: then I'm a wigwam, then I'm a.
Speaker 6: TP, then I'm a wigwam. It's driven me crazy. What's
Speaker 6: what's the matter with me?
Speaker 2: Doc?
Speaker 6: And the doc says, well, it says, it's very simple.
Speaker 6: You're two ten, number six, number six. That's here, number six.
Speaker 9: When people ask me if I exercise, I tell them
Speaker 9: I do crunches every day. Captain kruns Sunaman doz cruns,
Speaker 9: nes Les cruns.
Speaker 10: Jokes told by day from Harrison are not necessarily considered
Speaker 10: funny by the staff, management, or advertisers of seven hundred
Speaker 10: WLW or his parent company, iHeartMedia. If these attempts at
Speaker 10: humor have caused you to roll your eyes, made your
Speaker 10: stomach churn, or you have considered the entire exercise to
Speaker 10: be a colossal waste of time, we deeply apologize. Now
Speaker 10: back to our irregular programming.
Speaker 1: Make a quick note for those of you who have
Speaker 1: been the past, come to visit me on Mama Street
Speaker 1: in Newport the after the show show at Huddles, and
Speaker 1: I with some interpretation, I will tell you that this
Speaker 1: is my last Saturday at Huddles this month. So if
Speaker 1: you if you feel like coming out, it'd be it'd
Speaker 1: be an opportune time. I'd be grateful to see you.
Speaker 1: But this is my last Saturday at Huddles this month.
Speaker 1: Old Radio Rick, Good.
Speaker 11: Morning, Good morning. That's on an extreme with the last
Speaker 11: Saturday of this month.
Speaker 1: It is it is my last Saturday at the bar
Speaker 1: this month, ever, this month, this month.
Speaker 11: Okay, then it's.
Speaker 1: Kind of like the Gowen's Walker Farewell tour that my
Speaker 1: friend Chris Gohens and I have been on for the
Speaker 1: last year or so. Every time we play. And by
Speaker 1: the way, thanks to everybody who came out to Brookies
Speaker 1: and Ripley last Sunday for our farewell Tour performance, our
Speaker 1: final farewell Tour appearance of the month of June. So
Speaker 1: how are you receiving us, sir, if at all this morning?
Speaker 11: Confusedly? Actually you're coming in four by three.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's not good.
Speaker 11: It's mostly the radio and partly the weather. But oh boy,
Speaker 11: this is a nineteen forty eight John Mech Industries of Plymouth, Indiana.
Speaker 1: Never heard of a John Never heard of a John
Speaker 1: Mac Industries? And what tone did you say?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 11: Well, and you're about to find out why you've never
Speaker 11: heard of them? A mirror Tone Model four C seven.
Speaker 1: Ok.
Speaker 11: This radio is boasting four tubes, a surprisingly small number
Speaker 11: of components, and it's a little thing using nineteen twenties
Speaker 11: radio technology, and it looks like a small radio. It
Speaker 11: not only has a volume control end power switch, but
Speaker 11: also a tuning knob and a tuning dial. One day,
Speaker 11: I'm trying here, I'm trying. This thing reminds me a
Speaker 11: lot of the Month's televisions, the products brought to market
Speaker 11: by Madman Months. But that's a topic for another show. No,
Speaker 11: I remember trap on that one.
Speaker 1: I remember Months televisions actually because I knew someone who
Speaker 1: had a Month's and don't. I don't think that any
Speaker 1: words could do justice how wonderful that television was.
Speaker 11: We have to do a nightcap on that, because there's
Speaker 11: a lot of backstory. Anyhow, well, I'm quite sure this
Speaker 11: model existed only because of the price, which was thirteen
Speaker 11: ninety five and nineteen forty eight, so about one hundred
Speaker 11: and sixty or one hundred and eighty six bucks today,
Speaker 11: which was a deal for radio. Actually, I think John
Speaker 11: mixed plan may have been to capitalize in the post
Speaker 11: war buying blitz, but discovered that it certainly was not
Speaker 11: a unique idea, and from what I can tell, nineteen
Speaker 11: fifty two was the last year they made any radio
Speaker 11: or television. But hey, another shout out to our buddy
Speaker 11: Ron for providing a bunch of radio advertisements and articles
Speaker 11: to me. And then that document dump. I found this
Speaker 11: mechad from Radio and Television Retailing magazine. Okay, it begins.
Speaker 11: If she likes it, you're all set.
Speaker 1: If she likes it. No wait, if she likes it,
Speaker 1: you're all set, all set for what.
Speaker 7: Is this?
Speaker 1: Is this radio possibly gonna get you lucky, make you
Speaker 1: lucky in low?
Speaker 11: Remember Remember this is radio and television retailing, so this
Speaker 11: is aimed at dealers, not the consumer.
Speaker 1: Well still, well if she still, if she likes it,
Speaker 1: you're all set. What if she doesn't like it? Do
Speaker 1: they even go into that territory?
Speaker 11: That made me think of response, But I don't think
Speaker 11: we can do that. After six o'clock, yees, dealers told
Speaker 11: us it is the woman that usually buys the second set,
Speaker 11: the extra radio for the bedroom or kitchen, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the guys are in charge of buying the
Speaker 1: primary set. Let the little lady pick out an extra one.
Speaker 11: It's like my it's like my wife, Maurice said, I'm
Speaker 11: just a woman. I don't even know how I got here.
Speaker 11: Dealers told us that I appeal is the great selling point,
Speaker 11: the one that closes these women buyers.
Speaker 1: Oh and what is the I appeal of this unit
Speaker 1: that you're describing, Rick.
Speaker 11: Not a damn thing that I could find the price tag.
Speaker 11: Perhaps radios introduced startling new cabibinets created by America's foremost designers. Yeah,
Speaker 11: that's a lie. Everyone will help you get a bigger
Speaker 11: share of this pent up market.
Speaker 2: Pent up.
Speaker 11: It's a lot of innuendo, an incredible amount.
Speaker 1: If she likes it, you're all set, especially if she's
Speaker 1: pent up.
Speaker 11: Yeah, the line that dealer is designed, I mean, like,
Speaker 11: hurry up and buy a make radio. We're about to
Speaker 11: go out of business.
Speaker 1: So how long did John Mex stay in business?
Speaker 11: As far as I can tell, he came out with
Speaker 11: the ideas, started marketing in forty four for the post
Speaker 11: war market, and he sold radios and televisions from forty
Speaker 11: six to fifty two. Okay, that's that's the most I
Speaker 11: can find on him. But I can't find any ride
Speaker 11: up or history or more specific location or anything about him.
Speaker 1: So okay, So where was he based?
Speaker 12: Then?
Speaker 1: You don't know Plymouth, Indiana, Plymouth Indiana. Does Plymouth Indiana
Speaker 1: even exist today? That'd be the question. And where is it?
Speaker 11: Depends on your definition? Yes, yes, it is still down.
Speaker 11: He didn't take the whole neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I want to know how far If
Speaker 1: it's like a day trip, maybe christ to two point
Speaker 1: oh and I can go to Plymouth, Indiana and uh
Speaker 1: and go through the John Mech Radio Museum or see
Speaker 1: the giant statue of John Meck that's erected in the
Speaker 1: town square. Perhaps, or.
Speaker 11: He's giving this radio a lot of credits.
Speaker 1: Well, apparently so were they.
Speaker 11: And it didn't work.
Speaker 1: If she likes it, you're all sad. How about hobbabbo.
Speaker 1: This radio is paving the way for you to have
Speaker 1: a little bit of h of good times with the lady.
Speaker 11: And it may even be able to pick up a
Speaker 11: station to provide some nice music in the background.
Speaker 2: Or it maybe not.
Speaker 1: Turn it on and turn her on, baby. All right.
Speaker 1: If you like to know more about this that we
Speaker 1: can't say on the air, Old Radio ricketgmail dot com,
Speaker 1: please feel free to get in touch with mister Washburn.
Speaker 1: It's six point twenty one at seven hundred WUK Saloon.
Speaker 1: How now, Brown County, and welcome to the gang who's
Speaker 1: hanging out at a bar where there is a Queen
Speaker 1: of Hearts drawing that could very well be worth over
Speaker 1: a million dollars next Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Good morning, gang, Good morning.
Speaker 1: So this this saga continues now there on Main Street
Speaker 1: in Ripley. We're knowing, are there what five cards left? Yep,
Speaker 1: that's right, five cards left.
Speaker 2: In a deck.
Speaker 1: The Queen of Hearts has not been turned over yet.
Speaker 1: It is among those five cards. If it's not among
Speaker 1: those five cards, there's gonna be big trouble for Darren
Speaker 1: and the people conducting the drawing. But it is among
Speaker 1: those cards and someone very soon is going to win.
Speaker 1: And I don't think this is conjecture at all. Well
Speaker 1: over a million dollars, am I right? On all counts here?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Yeah, nifteen thousand last week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, last week. They've had to in the last few
Speaker 1: weeks get a bigger and bigger tumbler to hold all
Speaker 1: of the tickets because so many are being sold. I mean,
Speaker 1: the thing is going to look like a centrifuge at
Speaker 1: a power plant by the time that they have a winner.
Speaker 11: It's amazing, the whole events here in town. It's just
Speaker 11: it's just been good for everybody.
Speaker 1: You got, Ripley, what's about eighteen hundred people living? Ripley, Doug?
Speaker 1: Is that a fair estimate?
Speaker 11: Sure on any given day, sure, all right, But.
Speaker 1: On Wednesday nights the last too much or so, that
Speaker 1: has grown to a throng of maybe twenty thousand or
Speaker 1: thirty thousand people. And I'm not I am not exaggerating.
Speaker 1: All of Main Street is shut down. The people are
Speaker 1: putting up ten by ten tenths. There are food trucks,
Speaker 1: there are live bands. There are loudspeakers out on the
Speaker 1: street where they're doing the drawing for the Queen of Hearts,
Speaker 1: and it is just something to behold. You know, we
Speaker 1: probably should stop talking about it so we've got a
Speaker 1: better chance to win.
Speaker 2: You're right, you're right there, but sure, you know, sure
Speaker 2: appreciate all the promotion that we're getting here on WLW.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean it just I mean we've been talking
Speaker 1: about Brookies and before that, Snappers and Ripley ever since
Speaker 1: my wife and I were invited out by you and
Speaker 1: Angie Dug and we came to fall in love with
Speaker 1: this little town on the banks of the Ohio River
Speaker 1: in Brown County, and uh, the Queen of Hearts was
Speaker 1: just kind of a byproduct of that because it started
Speaker 1: going and it started growing and growing and growing every week,
Speaker 1: and now it's this monster. What's the sharing green hornet?
Speaker 1: What does what does the beaver think?
Speaker 2: Well, the beaver is confused with all these people in town.
Speaker 6: They're parking everywhere.
Speaker 2: The whole town was like it's sold out, you.
Speaker 1: Know, Well, we'll and the.
Speaker 2: Weapon's supposed to be hopefully good this week, maybe not
Speaker 2: quite as hot, you know, but those pop up sours
Speaker 2: can happen anytime.
Speaker 1: So we'll see Oh yeah, oh yeah, well you can
Speaker 1: count on seeing me tomorrow my tickets.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, does.
Speaker 1: Do you have anything going on at the band tonight?
Speaker 2: Darren?
Speaker 6: No bands, No bands tonight?
Speaker 1: All right? And I tell you what, if there's not
Speaker 1: a winter next Wednesday, I'm gonna talk Going's into coercing
Speaker 1: you into having us out again as a farewell tour
Speaker 1: continues if there's no winner. If there's no winner in
Speaker 1: Ripley at Brookies this Wednesday night, count on the Going's
Speaker 1: Walker Farewell Tour to make its like fourth stop in
Speaker 1: two months next the following Sunday, on July the sixth, guys,
Speaker 1: have a great morning and try and keep things together.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Thanks, bye bye the gang in Ripley at Brookies where
Speaker 1: you have the zero nineteenth few clouds out there used
Speaker 1: Garry Jeff with you on seven hundred WLW on this
Speaker 1: last Saturday in June, and yes after the show show
Speaker 1: party is coming to an end after today. This is
Speaker 1: my last Saturday at Huddles in Newport this month. Here
Speaker 1: is Steve from Edna with his weekly visit. Steve, good morning,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 13: Good morning, Gary, Jeff, let me correct myself on last
Speaker 13: week's biography Commander Pete Booker, he did get the Pow
Speaker 13: Medal in nineteen eighty nine when it was presented by
Speaker 13: our government, twenty years late to Pete and his crew
Speaker 13: on the Pueblo. Pete died in twenty oh four. I
Speaker 13: want to take it back now to September second, nineteen
Speaker 13: forty five. Aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Douglas
Speaker 13: MacArthur represented the Allies at the Japanese surrender ceremonies. He
Speaker 13: brought six pens to the signing, three for the Allies,
Speaker 13: three for the Japanese. MacArthur got halfway through signing his
Speaker 13: name to the document when he stopped. He motioned another
Speaker 13: general forward and handed him the first pen. The man
Speaker 13: was Jonathan Wainwright, fourth, the highest ranking American prisoner of
Speaker 13: war in World War Two. In August, Wainwright had been
Speaker 13: liberated from a Japanese prison camp in Manchuria. It ended
Speaker 13: thirty eight months of confinement for the survivors of the
Speaker 13: Japanese takeover of the Philippine Islands, which had commenced on
Speaker 13: Pearl Harbor Day, when the Japanese also attacked clark Field
Speaker 13: in the Philippines. Five months after Pearl. President Roosevelt ordered
Speaker 13: MacArthur to leave Manila and escape to Australia. He did
Speaker 13: so reluctantly, leaving Wainwright in charge. The only thing that
Speaker 13: would have saved the Americans and the Filipinos was copious
Speaker 13: supplies of food and weapons. They got neither, but MacArthur
Speaker 13: forbid surrender until FDR opened the door to that possibility.
Speaker 13: The Japanese then corralled the eighty thousand Allies who were
Speaker 13: left on Baton and corrigador A hospital was bombed and
Speaker 13: Wainwright was hit with a shell that permanently injured his hearing.
Speaker 13: On May the seventh, nineteen forty two, Wainwright surrendered, and
Speaker 13: the Baton Death March of the survivors began. Sixty six
Speaker 13: days on foot. That meant the POWs would have to
Speaker 13: drink water out of ditches full of dead bodies just
Speaker 13: to avoid dehydration and their own deaths. The six foot
Speaker 13: two inch Wainwright was down to one hundred and thirty
Speaker 13: pounds when the march started. Wainwright reported in his diary
Speaker 13: that they would try to separate bugs from their rations
Speaker 13: when it ended they were seeking the bugs to enhance
Speaker 13: the few meals that they got.
Speaker 2: Before it was all over.
Speaker 13: In nineteen forty five, these men and women were transported
Speaker 13: to multiple Japanese fortresses in Taiwan, captured fifty years earlier
Speaker 13: from the japan excuse me from the Chinese and other outposts,
Speaker 13: starting in the heat and humidity of the Pacific and
Speaker 13: ending in minus forty five degree cold of Manchuria. On
Speaker 13: February the second, nineteen forty five, Wainwright glumly noted in
Speaker 13: his diary the groundhog saw his shadow six more weeks
Speaker 13: of winter. Wainwright always feared the surrender, vehemently opposed by MacArthur,
Speaker 13: would result in disciplinary action if he actually lived.
Speaker 2: Through the war.
Speaker 13: Cut off from communicating with anybody but his wife, whose
Speaker 13: letters to him never arrived thanks to his captors, he
Speaker 13: remained painfully ignorant, along with the other prisoners, of such
Speaker 13: events as the attempt to award him the Medal of
Speaker 13: Honor for holding out as long as he did. MacArthur
Speaker 13: stopped it. There was a May nineteen forty four Time
Speaker 13: magazine cover with his image behind barb wire. Time commented
Speaker 13: that the Japanese now held thirteen thousand POWs that included
Speaker 13: thirty five generals, headed by what Time called the man
Speaker 13: left behind to preside at his country's worst military fiasco.
Speaker 2: Awaiting death or liberation.
Speaker 13: The Japanese scotted at the Geneva Convention trying to force
Speaker 13: officers to work alongside on listed men, which is designed
Speaker 13: to thwart the chain of command.
Speaker 2: When the execution of his.
Speaker 13: Men was threatened, Wainwright sought a compromise. The officers would
Speaker 13: work small farms and gardens, which supplied food for everybody.
Speaker 13: In one notable episode, an aid commandeer a duck named Donald,
Speaker 13: of course, as a pet. The Japanese commandant awarded the
Speaker 13: officers with a banquet featuring a speech on the evils
Speaker 13: of the United States and also a delicious bird. It
Speaker 13: was Donald, the host made sure the prisoners knew that
Speaker 13: Japanese version of irony. When freed, Wainwright found out that
Speaker 13: his commander in chief, Franklin Roosevelt, was dead. He found
Speaker 13: out that we now had the atomic bomb, that we
Speaker 13: employed jetplanes, and that his beloved pow wife Adele, was
Speaker 13: hopelessly addicted to alcohol and sedatives.
Speaker 6: She wound up.
Speaker 13: At a facility in Colorado Springs. It would be separated
Speaker 13: for most of the final eight years of Wainwright's life.
Speaker 13: MacArthur got in command of the fourth Army in San Antonio.
Speaker 13: He got a fourth star, and he did get his
Speaker 13: Medal of Honor. He retired from the Army. He wrote
Speaker 13: a book, but Hollywood thought a movie about a surrender
Speaker 13: just wouldn't fly, so he supplemented his income with commercial endorsements.
Speaker 13: On the anniversary of the Japanese surrender ceremonies, Jonathan Wainwright
Speaker 13: died September the second, nineteen fifty three, with just his
Speaker 13: son by his side, at Brook Army Medical Center.
Speaker 6: In San Antonio.
Speaker 13: Adele remained in Colorado Springs. Doctor MacArthur probably said it
Speaker 13: best remember this on July the fourth. Old soldiers never died,
Speaker 13: They just fade away.
Speaker 1: Thanks Scary, Jeff, Thank you, Steve Ray and Lovelin. Good morning,
Speaker 1: my brother, How are you?
Speaker 2: Good morning Gary, Jeff Walker, Good morning, Sarry? Hey, how
Speaker 2: are we looking on time? Brother?
Speaker 1: I got maybe a couple of minutes. What's up? What's
Speaker 1: on your mind?
Speaker 2: The fantastic rest of the story again by Steve. Thank you,
Speaker 2: and I must relay the best I can. If we
Speaker 2: had the good fortune years ago we were down in
Speaker 2: Destined at the beach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the.
Speaker 2: Crazy, the crazy fools we were. We decided to drive
Speaker 2: the mobile Alabama to see the USS Alabama. Was my son,
Speaker 2: the Patriot, Jacob. This was in twenty fourteen, want to
Speaker 2: go there. It was a great thing to do. The
Speaker 2: little old man we know was pulled up out in
Speaker 2: the parking lot. We got there early and he got
Speaker 2: out a little two wheeler.
Speaker 6: And he came in to the.
Speaker 2: Souvenir there in the entrance actually to this museum, and
Speaker 2: there was people scurrying about, and this fellow sat up
Speaker 2: the table and he had books there, and I had
Speaker 2: him looked over there, and I walked over us talked
Speaker 2: to him. This man Colonel Glenn Frasier, a survivor of
Speaker 2: the the Time Death March. This man was amazing, was amazing,
Speaker 2: and no one's talking to him as I couldn't believe it,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure people did later. But we had the
Speaker 2: good fortune of having his company for a number of minutes,
Speaker 2: and he was very, very gracious in time, and he
Speaker 2: told us the story of calling home whenever he got
Speaker 2: to San Francisco. During the prisoner release, and he called
Speaker 2: home and his mother answered the phone and he said
Speaker 2: hello to her, and she passed out, hit the floor
Speaker 2: because they thought he was dead.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 2: His sister gets on the phone, same thing happens. His
Speaker 2: father comes in. He did not pass out, that they
Speaker 2: thought him to be dead. And I'll just say this
Speaker 2: that we purchased his book, and he was so gracious.
Speaker 2: He wrote this note in here, which I'm going to
Speaker 2: read if I may go ahead. It's short, he says
Speaker 2: to Jacob, this book will help you overcome any challenge.
Speaker 2: May God's blessings come to you and yours. Colonel Glenn
Speaker 2: Fraser retired February twenty fourteen. He has since passed. But
Speaker 2: we had the great fortune spending time with a true
Speaker 2: American hero.
Speaker 6: So God bless you, brother, God.
Speaker 1: Bless thank you, sir for sharing that with us. And
Speaker 1: that's why these stories of these past heroes need to
Speaker 1: be told over and over again, so that not only we,
Speaker 1: but also the next generations will understand what sacrifice really
Speaker 1: is and what perseverance is. Liam Producer Extraordinaire, says, every
Speaker 1: day I pray for adversity, Well, I pray you get
Speaker 1: what you're praying for. Liam six fifty seven, Newport, Kentucky.
Speaker 1: It'll be a blast bb riverwom the river is waiting.
Speaker 1: Oh I got WLW news twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 1: He was a radio seven hundred WLW into another hour
Speaker 1: of the Saturday morning edition for this Saturday, June twenty eight,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Big celebration this weekend for the Reds,
Speaker 1: the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Big Red Machine nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy five to twenty twenty Downe. That's a celebration I
Speaker 1: can get behind. By the way. Big ups to the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court yesterday for their ruling on parents being able
Speaker 1: to opt their children out of seeing smut that they
Speaker 1: disagree with in public schools. Big big decision and the
Speaker 1: right one.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: Steve Schulty, environmental engineer is here, and this morning, we're
Speaker 1: not going to talk about the the recuperation of the
Speaker 1: Arctic ice caps. We're not going to talk about the
Speaker 1: Great Barrier Reef. We're not going to talk about the
Speaker 1: evils of evs. We're going to talk about vacation with
Speaker 1: the family in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Good morning,
Speaker 1: mister Shulty. I am so jealous and I know that's wrong.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, Good morning Gary, Jeff. Yeah, we're having
Speaker 4: my wife's family vacation. We usually go to the beach,
Speaker 4: but this year we decided a little closer to home
Speaker 4: and we were now up as I say, we're up,
Speaker 4: and then there hills outside of Gatlinburg.
Speaker 1: You know that, John Denver, John Denver, and take me
Speaker 1: home Country Roads Road almost Heaven, West Virginia. I think
Speaker 1: when you're in the smoky Mountains of Tennessee, you're just
Speaker 1: a little bit even closer to paradise there, because it
Speaker 1: is absolutely stunningly beautiful, is it not?
Speaker 2: It is, And this is what I want to talk about.
Speaker 4: You know, the mountains of East Tennessee and western North
Speaker 4: Carolina are blanket by a smoky haze, which kind of
Speaker 4: gives the area of mystical and mysterious look. In fact,
Speaker 4: the Cherokee Indians considered there and the area a sacred place,
Speaker 4: and they made Shakunjia if I get that right, meaning
Speaker 4: land of blue smokes. So even before mankind got here,
Speaker 4: was already famous. And this famous so called fog is
Speaker 4: actually produced by native vegetation. We always we talked about
Speaker 4: many times plants, green plants take in carbon dioxide release oxygen,
Speaker 4: thank god. However, plants also emit other chemicals besides oxygen,
Speaker 4: and many of these are called volatile organic compounds v ocs,
Speaker 4: which man also releases in our cars, trucks, painting operations,
Speaker 4: so on and so forth. So actually, so what happens
Speaker 4: is when these chemicals, these VOCs, and the right environment
Speaker 4: with humidity and the sunlight and heat and whatnot, Well,
Speaker 4: the Financial Park Service like to call it fog. Well,
Speaker 4: really it's naturalmall.
Speaker 2: S m o G.
Speaker 4: So now obviously it's not in an area that's olstrations
Speaker 4: you know, that are dangerous for man or have any
Speaker 4: health effects. But that's in fact what it is. It's
Speaker 4: natural smog. And some will say, well it also has
Speaker 4: sometimes it has the blue color to it. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: what this is that the chemicals, the theoc's helped scatter
Speaker 4: blue light. So that's what kind of gives it. In fact,
Speaker 4: that's why the Cherokee is called the land of blue smoke.
Speaker 4: So next time you come into the Smoky mountains, you're
Speaker 4: you're breathing natural smog. And the research has been done
Speaker 4: and what I'm actually looking at it says that eighty
Speaker 4: percent of the smog or fog is the Park Service
Speaker 4: like to call it is from nature here in the
Speaker 4: park and in the area park twenty percent per man.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 4: But in areas like Cincinnati, believe it or not, it's
Speaker 4: the opposite. About twenty to thirty percent of the smog
Speaker 4: in Cincinnati is caused by vegetation, as the rest by man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 1: And there's an actual different smell when you're in the
Speaker 1: Smoky mountains. I mean, all your senses change with this environment,
Speaker 1: this natural environment. It is so beautiful. And I am
Speaker 1: so again envious of you. I know it's not right
Speaker 1: to covet what your neighbor has, but I can't help.
Speaker 1: But how long is the line for Hillbilly Golf?
Speaker 4: We were at Hillbilly Golf yesterday. We got we thought
Speaker 4: we'd get there early, at like ten o'clock.
Speaker 2: The line was so long, Oh my god.
Speaker 4: We did not get done until twelve thirty.
Speaker 2: Believe it or not.
Speaker 4: But at twelve thirty, well, there was hardly any line.
Speaker 2: Head down down here.
Speaker 4: Try try Hillbilly Golf in about twelve twelve noons on
Speaker 4: a hot day and you'll probably have no weight.
Speaker 1: That's that's fantastic. We'll enjoy the rest of your trip.
Speaker 1: Steve Shulty in Gatlinburg in the Great Smoking Mountain is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite family trips I took with my
Speaker 1: parents and my brothers. Occurred back in two thousand when
Speaker 1: we went to Gavinburg. We rented. The family rented a
Speaker 1: huge shellet at the top of Wiley Oakley Mountain Road,
Speaker 1: overlooking the Smoky Mountain National Forest, and it's burned in
Speaker 1: my memory and man Heaven on Earth seven thirteen says
Speaker 1: for your next Dave Hatter segment, I'm getting random personal
Speaker 1: texts like this, where are you? How have you been?
Speaker 1: Trying to get a hold of you. I've got other examples,
Speaker 1: but it's a new take on random text trying to
Speaker 1: get you to respond and say who is this? And
Speaker 1: guess it goes from there knowing they've got a real person.
Speaker 1: I said, you haven't answered them, right? He said no.
Speaker 1: I get three or four of these weird ones a day.
Speaker 1: I said, the best advice is to ignore them. That's
Speaker 1: what Dave would say, Am I right? Should you just
Speaker 1: ignore these texts?
Speaker 12: You know me?
Speaker 7: All? Two?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 2: Gary jeffs, Yeah, I get a bunch of oath myself,
Speaker 2: and yeah, the angle here is to just get you
Speaker 2: to respond to the day. I've got a live person.
Speaker 2: And folks have to realize most of this is coming
Speaker 2: from professional con artists. They're just using the Internet to
Speaker 2: get to you, and if you respond, then they'll try
Speaker 2: to strike up a conversation and then they'll go wherever
Speaker 2: they think they can go to get some to pull
Speaker 2: or a conversation and to get to your money somehow.
Speaker 2: It might be oh, hey, you know, I'm invested in
Speaker 2: crypto and it made a lot of money or whatever.
Speaker 2: I mean. Again, these folks are professional con artists, and
Speaker 2: I want to remind folks because I get where if
Speaker 2: you're not a technical person, you might go, well, how
Speaker 2: did they get my phone number? Understand that it's really
Speaker 2: easy to write a program that can generate every US
Speaker 2: phone number because they follow a known pattern. Right, So
Speaker 2: I can write a program that will just loop through
Speaker 2: three digits, three digits, four digits and send out texts
Speaker 2: and or Gary Jeff. As you know, because we talk
Speaker 2: about it all the time, there's these giant data leaks. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: all of our information is out there, so it's really
Speaker 2: easy for the bad guys and cost next to nothing
Speaker 2: to just send out texts and see what happens.
Speaker 6: And you're exactly right.
Speaker 2: You should ignore it. And I will tell you occasionally,
Speaker 2: if I'm feeling a little spicy, I'll respond with something like, well,
Speaker 2: I'm at the FBI Scam Center, can you send me
Speaker 2: your address or something like that. But I would advise
Speaker 2: most of the time I don't get any response. If
Speaker 2: I do that. Every once in a while they'll be
Speaker 2: feeling a little spicy and it will lead to some
Speaker 2: back and forth before I eventually just reported junk and
Speaker 2: block it. But my advice for most people is do
Speaker 2: not respond, because as soon as you do, you're just
Speaker 2: telling them that you're a live person and there's no
Speaker 2: telling what sort of scam they might try to foice them.
Speaker 2: So that is the right advice. Ignore it, just hit
Speaker 2: you know, report junk, block whatever it's called on your particular.
Speaker 1: Now, if you if you delete the message, do they
Speaker 1: know that you're a live person. Can they tell that
Speaker 1: you've deleted the message?
Speaker 2: They should not be able to tell from that, just yet,
Speaker 2: don't interact with it.
Speaker 11: Delete it, you know, I.
Speaker 2: Would suggest again, just port junk or block it or
Speaker 2: whatever it's called on your phone, so you don't get
Speaker 2: any more messages from that number, but understand, you're still
Speaker 2: going to get them from other numbers because the numbers
Speaker 2: they're calling are texting you from, are just spoof numbers, right,
Speaker 2: They're just making those up to in most cases. And
Speaker 2: that's one of the ways they cover their tracks and
Speaker 2: fool you is because you know, you might get a
Speaker 2: text that looks like it came from the five to
Speaker 2: one to three area code, even though they are somewhere else.
Speaker 1: All right, Dave Hatter, thank you so much as well
Speaker 1: for the good advice, and I was just reaffirming what
Speaker 1: I knew you would say because I know you so well.
Speaker 1: Time now for the Tom Davis Diaries, diary and from
Speaker 1: those diaries, not from Tom Davis, who is on vacation
Speaker 1: with his family. This week. We have a theme running
Speaker 1: here and I'll preface this with the headline why are
Speaker 1: people who are naked in public never the people you
Speaker 1: want to see naked in public? Dateline? Philadelphia. Amy Burnham
Speaker 1: thirty nine, Pendleton Square arrested in charge with motor vehicle
Speaker 1: theft after police reportedly found the woman in the seat
Speaker 1: of a stolen car naked in the driver's seat. Deputies
Speaker 1: patrolling the extreme southern portion of Nashoba County on Highway
Speaker 1: twenty one, where they made contact with the stolen suv,
Speaker 1: initiated a traffic stop. Officers dumbfounded when they approached the
Speaker 1: stolen vehicle to find the driver was completely naked, partially
Speaker 1: covered by a blanket. It goes on. A southern Iowa
Speaker 1: woman facing charges after authority say she took her clothes
Speaker 1: off stolen American flags and set them on fire this month.
Speaker 1: Of course she did. Brianna Laired, aged twenty one, facing
Speaker 1: charges after Coller said she burned stolen American flags. While
Speaker 1: burning them is fort under the First Amendment. Laird was
Speaker 1: charged with third degree arson, assault on an officer in
Speaker 1: decent exposure, interference with official acts, fifth degree criminal mischief
Speaker 1: and I'm just guessing she also had purple hair. Madisonville, Kentucky,
Speaker 1: the police department there say they arrested a man who
Speaker 1: assaulted an officer and tried to grab their gun and taser.
Speaker 1: Police officers dispatched in response to a possible domestic situation
Speaker 1: last Friday night. When they arrived, they found a naked man,
Speaker 1: Robert Grigsby shoving two other men to get past them
Speaker 1: into an apartment. And in North Texas, someone called the
Speaker 1: Dallas Regional Medical Center and Mesquite. Someone from the Dallas
Speaker 1: Regional Medical Center and Mesquite called police to report a
Speaker 1: stolen ambulance. The caller said that a man who'd been
Speaker 1: taken into the hospital got into one of the ambulances
Speaker 1: and drove away. He was not wearing any clothes, because
Speaker 1: I mean, number one, if you steal an ambulance, you're
Speaker 1: not exactly incognito anywhere you go. You might as well
Speaker 1: be naked too. Until you had another hour of this
Speaker 1: Saturday Morning edition for Saturday, June twenty eighth, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: I'm Gary Jeff Walker. Aren't you glad you're not? Eight
Speaker 1: minutes after the hour? By the way, programming note, just
Speaker 1: real quickly, for those of you who have over the
Speaker 1: years come to visit me at Huddles Cafe, I wanted
Speaker 1: to again mention that this is my last after the
Speaker 1: show show Saturday at Huddles as a bartender this month.
Speaker 1: Time now for a science minute and our buddy Science
Speaker 1: Mike standing by or for sitting by. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: it's a posture position.
Speaker 13: At this month as a nice scientist, surprising blinding.
Speaker 1: Me, Michael, are you standing by or sitting by right now?
Speaker 2: I'm in a sitting position.
Speaker 1: Gary, Jeff, Okay, but you're not. You're not You're not prone,
Speaker 1: You're not lying down, are you?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: But the topic is related to that.
Speaker 12: That's that's just that's curious.
Speaker 1: Let me let me uncanny.
Speaker 12: That's let me ask you. Are you next month? Are
Speaker 12: you're going to be working on Saturdays? Or this is
Speaker 12: just making a this this month You're no, I'm just I'm.
Speaker 1: Making the announcement that this is my last Saturday at
Speaker 1: Huddles for the after the show show after this show
Speaker 1: bartending this month, this month, this month, June.
Speaker 6: So we're going to take it back up in July
Speaker 6: on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean you never know, okay, Now, I mean
Speaker 1: do any of us really know what the future holds
Speaker 1: in store? Michael?
Speaker 6: They might know a time of this, I don't think
Speaker 6: so now we know exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, I might have every intention of being there
Speaker 1: next month, but you never know, the future is uncertain.
Speaker 6: I have homework for you this week.
Speaker 1: Okay, Jim Morrison, As you know, Jim Morrison famously wrote
Speaker 1: the future is uncertain and the end is always near.
Speaker 1: But anyway, go ahead, what's.
Speaker 12: There, Frankie, You and Tession.
Speaker 6: Frankie have homework.
Speaker 12: Okay, So this was probabished in the journal Current Biology.
Speaker 12: And as you and I some of the current facts
Speaker 12: we know about cats, they like to sleep a lot,
Speaker 12: like twelve to sixteen hours a day, right, yeah, I
Speaker 12: guess that's and they like to sleep in elevated locations
Speaker 12: high purchase for survival incetraints to the predator come up
Speaker 12: from underneath, they can see their field of vision catch
Speaker 12: them on.
Speaker 6: You know, don't want to be caught off guard any o.
Speaker 6: That this is your homework.
Speaker 12: You've got to observe frankness league to see if what
Speaker 12: side that he prefers to sleep on his left side
Speaker 12: or his right side. And the reason is because this
Speaker 12: study says that cats tend to sleep more on their
Speaker 12: left side because their left field of view when they
Speaker 12: wake up is goes into the right hemisphere of the
Speaker 12: brain and that's the side of the brain that has
Speaker 12: spatial awareness and make awareness of threats. So when they
Speaker 12: wake up, they can perceive a threat more quickly and
Speaker 12: react more quickly than if they slept on their right side.
Speaker 12: So you see what we got to do here, So
Speaker 12: you got to gotta get a notepad. Frankie sleeping on
Speaker 12: the left side you for extended period of time, not
Speaker 12: just you know, left side for a few seconds and
Speaker 12: get up on it, but just just.
Speaker 6: Still you know it.
Speaker 1: Christ the two point zero is just texting me and
Speaker 1: she says, at this moment it is his left side.
Speaker 1: So this is hot, this is playing to form. But
Speaker 1: I have seen him sleep on his right side before.
Speaker 12: Well I'm not saying they don't sleep on our eight
Speaker 12: sid I'm saying if they prefer to sleep on her
Speaker 12: left side for the most.
Speaker 1: Part, just you know, well, I'm just she's saying that
Speaker 1: it is his left side at this moment as we speak.
Speaker 1: So I so you want me to you want me
Speaker 1: to chart this like over time to see if we've
Speaker 1: got an average or if it's majority left or a
Speaker 1: majority right.
Speaker 12: Just majority, yeah, you know, just uh you know, like
Speaker 12: eight appearances of Frankie random today saw him sleep on
Speaker 12: his left side seven out of.
Speaker 1: Eight or whatever like that. I don't know, just you know,
Speaker 1: but just like that, just one note about Frankie. Yes,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if this is actually appropriate or not,
Speaker 1: but okay, this cat goes to the bathroom more than
Speaker 1: any cat I've ever had in my life. I may
Speaker 1: spend more money on on cat pellets for the box
Speaker 1: than I will on food. And he eats constantly because
Speaker 1: he's a he's a growing boy.
Speaker 2: Well you take care of him.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean usually a cat's litter box, you know,
Speaker 1: you want to clean it every day, but not like
Speaker 1: three times a day. It's it's getting nuts.
Speaker 12: I hope he's That's funny because you know when you
Speaker 12: get a new new member of the family, they they
Speaker 12: how they behaved differently from the old member might do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my new dog.
Speaker 12: Max, he would I went through fifteen remote controls and
Speaker 12: Amazon kept sending me a recurring notice by hey, do
Speaker 12: you want to buy another remote control?
Speaker 7: You do?
Speaker 2: If it was like constantly, all right.
Speaker 1: Well, Michael, have a good day, and I hope, uh,
Speaker 1: I hope you're okay. In your seated position, do you
Speaker 1: do you do you sit on the left side or
Speaker 1: on the right side.
Speaker 8: On the right side, actually my back at left. I've heard, Okay,
Speaker 8: you got it. Have a great weekend. Seven of good
Speaker 8: morning kids time for gives from Walie what's in a name?
Speaker 8: Woman goes to the Family Services office to file for
Speaker 8: child benefits. The social worker asks how many children? The
Speaker 8: woman replies, ten, said ten? What are their names? And
Speaker 8: she starts rattling them off. Well there's Wayne, Wayne, Wayne, Wayne, Wayne, Wayne, Wayne, Wayne,
Speaker 8: Wayne and Wayne. The social worker says, doesn't that get confusing?
Speaker 7: Not?
Speaker 1: It's great if they're all playing in the street. I
Speaker 1: just have to shout Wayne, your dinner's ready, or Wayne,
Speaker 1: go to bed now, and they all do it. What
Speaker 1: if you want to speak to one child individually, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's easy. I just used their last names. When you
Speaker 1: write each tweet and reade time, we get a little
Speaker 1: bit more in depth with our sports department, or, as
Speaker 1: Peter Bronson used to say about The Inquirer's sports, the
Speaker 1: toy department, where they play the games and they report
Speaker 1: on the people that play the games. And sometimes we
Speaker 1: talk about something that's entirely not sports related. Hey, Mowing,
Speaker 1: welcome back from vacation. How was it was it great?
Speaker 2: It was awesome? It was awesome. I'm sorry I missed
Speaker 2: you last Saturday.
Speaker 1: That's you know what. Austin Elmore filled in admirably. He
Speaker 1: stepped up like a champ. He just happened to be
Speaker 1: awake making his ice coffee, which I just can't understand
Speaker 1: it all.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's something that I cannot relate to.
Speaker 1: You know me either, And and he said that he
Speaker 1: had just finished his morning workout. So we we went
Speaker 1: through the tale of Austin's regimen. And I was surprised,
Speaker 1: just like I was surprised when I found out that
Speaker 1: David Keaton was an avid tennis player.
Speaker 2: You learned something new every day at our place, don't.
Speaker 1: You, Yes, you do. There's surprises, surprises around every corner.
Speaker 1: I want to start tonight and you and I talked
Speaker 1: about it when he passed. But tonight at Mount Saint Joe,
Speaker 1: they're having this special uh celebration of Jim Scott's life
Speaker 1: and it's a benefit for als, which of course took
Speaker 1: Jim's life, and just another chance to honor somebody who
Speaker 1: was the most amazing. And Donna was great in their
Speaker 1: interview with Scott Sloan yesterday. If you come, make sure
Speaker 1: you stand up and shake somebody's hand and says hello,
Speaker 1: I'm so and so what's your name?
Speaker 2: What do you do?
Speaker 1: Because That's exactly what Jim would do, and he did
Speaker 1: that for as long as I knew him, as long
Speaker 1: as he was in the public eye. Just any any
Speaker 1: last little flash remembrances of the late Jim Scott that
Speaker 1: you'd like to share, since today is the day that
Speaker 1: people will be gathering to do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, tonight's going to be fun, and I
Speaker 2: think that's key. You know, Donna from the get go
Speaker 2: has said she doesn't want you know what Jim passed.
Speaker 2: There was there was no funeral. You know, there was
Speaker 2: no you know, for for the public. There was no
Speaker 2: you know, sort of modeling. Hey, we're going to stand
Speaker 2: around and more Jim. Donna wanted something that was a celebration,
Speaker 2: a true celebration, because Jim was not a funeral type guy.
Speaker 2: So this is going to be the exact opposite of it.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a lot of fun. There's going
Speaker 2: to be great stories told, and we're going to celebrate
Speaker 2: somebody who meant a lot to the city and was
Speaker 2: more than just a great broadcaster. And we're going to
Speaker 2: raise a lot of money for UC's AOS Endowment, which
Speaker 2: is really really important. But you know, you talked about
Speaker 2: something my first, the first time I ever met Jim.
Speaker 2: You know, I was working at the radio station and
Speaker 2: it was part time, you know, working on the weekend,
Speaker 2: that sort of thing, and Jim had just come back
Speaker 2: after he had left for a while, and you know,
Speaker 2: he needed a producer. So they they, somebody in their
Speaker 2: infinite wisdom, decided, let's pair a guy who's been on
Speaker 2: the air for thirty years and is already a legend
Speaker 2: with a guy who has no experience. That makes a
Speaker 2: lot of sense. And so I go in to meet
Speaker 2: Jim for the first time, and I obviously knew who
Speaker 2: he was, but you know, it's like a game of
Speaker 2: twenty questions. What's your name, where are you from, what's
Speaker 2: your dad's name, where's he from, what does he do
Speaker 2: for a living, what's your mom's name, what's your mom's
Speaker 2: maiden name. And it hit me at that moment, and
Speaker 2: I was twenty years old at the time, that that's
Speaker 2: what made him so great. He could connect with anybody,
Speaker 2: he could relate to anybody, and he had a genuine
Speaker 2: curiosity about people. And so when you would go in
Speaker 2: public with Jim, whether it was a station event or
Speaker 2: you know, in recent years, he and I would go
Speaker 2: to a Reds game every year and we would hang out,
Speaker 2: and even though he wasn't on the air anymore, he
Speaker 2: would still walk around and ask people who they were,
Speaker 2: what their name was, where they were from. And it
Speaker 2: was always so cool because you know, back in the day,
Speaker 2: you know, he would ask people, Hey, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: on the air weekday mornings. I'm going on tomorrow morning
Speaker 2: on seven hundred WLW, do you mind giving me a listen?
Speaker 2: And then once he stopped being on the air and
Speaker 2: we would go, you know, do stuff, he would say, well,
Speaker 2: this is my friend Moegar ESPN fifteen thirty three to six,
Speaker 2: would you mind giving him a listen? That's just what
Speaker 2: he did. He was a great guy and awesome brought
Speaker 2: and I'm excited, uh to get a chance to talk
Speaker 2: about him tonight.
Speaker 1: And he had of this persona of being a very
Speaker 1: nice guy, which he was. And that is why my
Speaker 1: distinct memory of Jim is what I've shared with you before,
Speaker 1: but I'll share again for the purposes of this conversation,
Speaker 1: was when we moved into our new studios from Mount
Speaker 1: Adams to Kinwood, and they had built a performance studio
Speaker 1: with a big glass window in front where live bands
Speaker 1: would play on WEBN or whatever on the power Pig
Speaker 1: whatever it was called.
Speaker 2: And H.
Speaker 1: And Jim was Jim was looking in the window out
Speaker 1: in the hallway and I saddled up next to him
Speaker 1: as we're all seeing the new studios and looking in
Speaker 1: the big glass window of this performance studio where bands
Speaker 1: would play. And I said, Jim, just this reminding you
Speaker 1: of your early days in radio in the thirties when
Speaker 1: they had live orchestras. And he just he looked at
Speaker 1: me and he smiled and he said, blank you. Jim
Speaker 1: Scott said blank you to no one, but he said
Speaker 1: it to me all day and and he did it
Speaker 1: with a smile on his face. And I just walked away.
Speaker 1: I'm going, that's all I need, I mean, And that's
Speaker 1: that's the That's the image I'll always carry, is that
Speaker 1: Jim Scott said blank you to me. I must have
Speaker 1: done something special.
Speaker 2: Well, I can tell you that I made him say
Speaker 2: blank you to me a number of times, but it
Speaker 2: wasn't because I was joking with it because I screwed
Speaker 2: something up. But you know, Jim had an awesome sense
Speaker 2: of humor. Yes, right, uh. And And as kind of
Speaker 2: a quirky sense of humor, but had an awesome sense
Speaker 2: of humor. And you know, I was I think about
Speaker 2: this sometimes. Uh, you know, we have really fun jobs
Speaker 2: and we get a chance to do what we love.
Speaker 2: The great thing about Jim was man, nobody as as
Speaker 2: much as he loved being Jim Scott. Nobody enjoyed the
Speaker 2: the ins and outs of being on the radio. Nobody
Speaker 2: enjoyed doing their job more than Jim Scott. There are
Speaker 2: people in our business who enjoy being well known or
Speaker 2: being in the public, and Jim enjoyed that without question.
Speaker 2: But he enjoyed the mechanics of doing a daily radio
Speaker 2: show from five till nine, and that was infectious. And
Speaker 2: you know, to me as a young kid, it was like,
Speaker 2: holy craft, this guy's having a blast. This is fun.
Speaker 2: This is what I want to do. And so I
Speaker 2: think about that often because there are times where it's like,
Speaker 2: holy craft, this is a little bit of a grind.
Speaker 2: There's not a lot to talk about. I don't have
Speaker 2: my a game today, and it's like, all right, you know,
Speaker 2: pick it up here, you're not digging ditches. And Jim Man,
Speaker 2: it was contagious. You know, I'd come in in the morning,
Speaker 2: and you know me, man, I'm the world's biggest morning person,
Speaker 2: and I'd be dragging it before thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2: And by the time we went on the air, I
Speaker 2: had energy just because Jim. You couldn't help but grab
Speaker 2: some energy from Jim because he just he brought it
Speaker 2: every day. And it was as a as a guy
Speaker 2: who was, you know, really impressionable and wanted a career
Speaker 2: doing this. It had an everlasting impact on.
Speaker 1: Me very good. Well, you know, talk about enjoying what
Speaker 1: they're doing. Uh, this version of the Cincinnati red seems
Speaker 1: to be enjoying what they're doing, and last night was
Speaker 1: another great example of that. Lately, it's just it's it's
Speaker 1: almost like there's a different team on the field the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks or so.
Speaker 2: Mo Have you felt that too, Yeah, I think without
Speaker 2: question really since that that that UHA series against the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2: You know, the player's only meeting, and you hear about
Speaker 2: players only meetings all the time in all of sports,
Speaker 2: but I think this one is reflective of something the
Speaker 2: Reds made a concerted effort to do this offseason. And
Speaker 2: I think Nick Crawl, for all of the criticism he
Speaker 2: has taken and at times deserved for how he has
Speaker 2: gone about doing his job. You know, if you go
Speaker 2: back to what they did this offseason, they acquired Gavin
Speaker 2: Lux and Jose Trevino and Austin Hayes and Brady Singer
Speaker 2: and Tanner Rodgers and Taylor Rodgers, and those have all
Speaker 2: been good acquisitions. You know, Austin Hayes hasn't been healthy
Speaker 2: that much, but when he has been healthy, he's been
Speaker 2: very good. And each of those players statistically has contributed.
Speaker 2: But the thing to me that mattered as much as
Speaker 2: anything was all of those guys came from teams that won.
Speaker 2: Gavin Lux was on the World champion Dodgers last season,
Speaker 2: Jose Travigni was on the American League champion Yankees. Austin
Speaker 2: Hayes last year played for two playoff teams. Brady Singer
Speaker 2: played for a playoff team. And so when the player's
Speaker 2: only meeting was called, who called it? Davin Lux, Jose Travino,
Speaker 2: guys who had been there before. And I think often
Speaker 2: last season when the Reds were struggling, we wondered, you know,
Speaker 2: who's the leader? Who are the guys that are sort
Speaker 2: of rallying the troops, who are the guys setting an example.
Speaker 2: They don't have anybody who's won before. I think the
Speaker 2: fact that they prioritized getting players from teams. You know,
Speaker 2: first they had to fit positionally and you needed players
Speaker 2: who had a certain skill set. But getting players from
Speaker 2: teams that had had success, I think was a big deal.
Speaker 2: It was something they prioritized, and so when you heard
Speaker 2: about the team meeting, my first thought was, there's the
Speaker 2: payoff from getting players who had been in the postseason before.
Speaker 2: And I think if you've watched the team, John Sadak
Speaker 2: on TV mentioned this on that Saturday afternoon where they
Speaker 2: played the Diamondbacks, that you know, you looked in the
Speaker 2: dugout and you saw everybody was on the top step.
Speaker 2: You saw players after they would score a run and
Speaker 2: they would say something to the guy that was getting
Speaker 2: ready to hit, maybe telling him something that he had
Speaker 2: seen from the pitcher, that sort of thing. There has
Speaker 2: been an energy about this team that I don't really
Speaker 2: think was there over the first two months of the season.
Speaker 2: And if you add to it some of their assets.
Speaker 2: The starting pitching has been good all season long. Matt
Speaker 2: McClain has started to hit more, which he didn't hit
Speaker 2: it all in the first two months. Ellie de la
Speaker 2: Cruz is the most productive shortstop in baseball. It's still
Speaker 2: sometimes in adventure when he throws the ball to first base,
Speaker 2: but he is. Over the last month he has been awesome.
Speaker 2: They're a little bit healthier now, and I don't think
Speaker 2: it's that far fest to suggest that in two months
Speaker 2: and late August, we'll be talking about a team that
Speaker 2: has a chance to play in September. And if that's
Speaker 2: the case, I think that player's only meeting is going
Speaker 2: to be looked at as the turning point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just a little microcosm of that. Of course,
Speaker 1: last night it was a special night for Nick Martinez.
Speaker 1: You don't get within a you know, a couple of
Speaker 1: outs of a no hitter in the ninth inning when
Speaker 1: you were a starting pitcher anymore in the major leagues.
Speaker 1: And he got there and then literally hit the wall
Speaker 1: as the ball did, you know, And and they scored
Speaker 1: the one run and got the double at the end
Speaker 1: of the game, and Spencer Steer just had one of
Speaker 1: those magical nights that he he may not have again
Speaker 1: all season. But three home runs and three at bats,
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, geez.
Speaker 2: You know. I was at the game last night with
Speaker 2: my daughter and as the Reds came to play it
Speaker 2: in the bottom of the ninth inning, San Diego didn't
Speaker 2: have a hit. Spencer Steer had three homers and was
Speaker 2: coming to the plate for his fourth at that and
Speaker 2: that was probably maybe her fifteenth game she had been to.
Speaker 2: And I'm sitting there going, this kid has no idea
Speaker 2: the team might see a guy hit four home runs
Speaker 2: and his teammates throw a no hitter in the same game.
Speaker 2: The four homers thing is actually, I think a little
Speaker 2: bit more rare than the no hitter. Obviously neither happened,
Speaker 2: but it was fun to watch. Nick Martinez has been
Speaker 2: a really nice pickup, and you're happy for him. If
Speaker 2: you remember the game last week when the Reds played
Speaker 2: in Saint Louis and had to do a bullpen day
Speaker 2: and Nick Martinez tells Terry francona, look, I'm available if
Speaker 2: you need me. Team first guy, and it feels like
Speaker 2: they have a bunch of guys who are also team first.
Speaker 2: I have had a chance to spend a little time
Speaker 2: with Spencer's year. That's a good good dude was rooting
Speaker 2: like hell for him. He had his fourth home run
Speaker 2: last night, But a three homer night's not all that bad, not.
Speaker 1: Bad at all. Just like Austin Elmore stepped up and
Speaker 1: was ready on Saturday morning last week while you were
Speaker 1: enjoying your vacation, team guy, well that's what I thought.
Speaker 2: I was going to be wally pipped. You know, I
Speaker 2: didn't know.
Speaker 1: So no, we're keeping you around as long as you'll
Speaker 1: do it. Thanks. I appreciate it, all right, Counselor, Well,
Speaker 1: you got to hit the mic there, you I know,
Speaker 1: all right? You know what's up? What an incredible week
Speaker 1: for Donald Trump, What an incredible unbeliever.
Speaker 14: The country exactly, And it was topped off the crown
Speaker 14: was yesterday with the decisions plural from the United States
Speaker 14: Supreme Court. You know, they basically just did away with
Speaker 14: these mandates where a district court can bine the whole country.
Speaker 14: And there were some cat fights going on too, Katanji
Speaker 14: down Brown, Jackson, Uh, Amy Coney, Barrett.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Uh. It really was a big week so many ways
Speaker 14: around for Trump, and you know it's showing up in
Speaker 14: his approval pulse too.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then and then there's the just just the almost
Speaker 1: afterthought after a record day on Wall Street after the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court decisions that oh yeah, there's there's the end
Speaker 1: of a war that Trump to goiated between Rwanda and
Speaker 1: the Congo right, and that was like the third biggest
Speaker 1: news story of the day. These people have been going
Speaker 1: at it for decadeses with machetes killing each other, and
Speaker 1: Trump got him to stop.
Speaker 14: What about NATO, I mean he drugged those guys along.
Speaker 14: Everybody said, oh, he's not gonna be able to do it.
Speaker 14: I think the agreement was, if I'm not mistaken, they
Speaker 14: all agreed except for Spain to take five percent of
Speaker 14: their TDP and devoted towards defense. What's on Saturday midday, Well,
Speaker 14: I'll tell you what a lot going to talk about
Speaker 14: the New York mayors race. Big win for socialism, uh,
Speaker 14: big win for Trump. As we were just talking about
Speaker 14: this week, we're going to talk about that. The Biden
Speaker 14: competency or lack of competency hearings began on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 14: One person testified it was in private. The second person
Speaker 14: is ignoring the requests, so they're going to subpoena him.
Speaker 2: Going to do that.
Speaker 1: Steve Gooden is going to walk us through it's going
Speaker 1: to take a while.
Speaker 14: Everything that happened yesterday in the United States Supreme Court,
Speaker 14: so looking forward to.
Speaker 1: That parents have control of their children's education again. How
Speaker 1: about that? That was huge? Yeah? Huge. This is my
Speaker 1: last Saturday at Huddles the after the show show free beer. No,
Speaker 1: it's my last Saturday at Huddles for the month, just
Speaker 1: for the month. Where are you going with this? Have
Speaker 1: a great day, Mike galled. Saturday Midday's next. It's officially
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