Speaker 1: Seven hundred WLW twelve oh nine. When you hear that music,
Speaker 1: you know it's time for Bill Cunningham. Bill Cunningham has
Speaker 1: a day off, so it's me Dan Carroll sitting in
Speaker 1: for the Great American Bill Cunningham till three o'clock this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Glad to be here, Glad you are here as well.
Speaker 1: We start off this show with the head of the FOP,
Speaker 1: Ken Kober, and a story that broke a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago about something called the Alternative Response Program. And
Speaker 1: this is something that goes on in the City of
Speaker 1: Cincinnati certain nonviolent calls. You have mental health professionals respond
Speaker 1: to these calls that are non violent. But now I
Speaker 1: guess there is at least it's city Hall, at least
Speaker 1: someone is talking about expanding this program to have these
Speaker 1: individuals respond to other calls that could involve car accidents,
Speaker 1: that couldn't involve noise runs, things like that, certain hazards.
Speaker 1: And ken Kober was in the news this week putting
Speaker 1: up some objections to that, and the fire Union was
Speaker 1: doing that as well. So let's talk to ken Kober
Speaker 1: and get some more information on this. But ken Kober,
Speaker 1: once again, great to have you on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 1: How's it going good?
Speaker 2: Dan?
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Hey man, Before we get into
Speaker 1: the nuts and bolts of this, let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: It's been a couple of years. I went back and
Speaker 1: looked and it was actually in December of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three that you started this job, so a little over
Speaker 1: a year you've been the head of the FOP now,
Speaker 1: and I guess when you came into this. You were
Speaker 1: already involved with the FOP before you came into this,
Speaker 1: but being the head of it, being the president is
Speaker 1: a little bit of a different animal. I would imagine.
Speaker 1: How has it been perception versus the reality of how
Speaker 1: things have gone for you during your time as the
Speaker 1: president of the FOP.
Speaker 2: It's been an interesting ride, to say the least, to
Speaker 2: see the inner workings.
Speaker 1: Of the day to day business of the FOP and then.
Speaker 2: Also you know, the the political side, you know, dealing
Speaker 2: with the city politicians and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But it's been it's been a fun ride so far. Yeah,
Speaker 1: has has it been the perception versus the reality? Has
Speaker 1: there been much of a much of a difference there?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 2: I kind of had an idea, like I said, I've
Speaker 2: been you know, heavily involved in the FFP for a
Speaker 2: long time, but there were some things that were a
Speaker 2: bit of a shock. But like I said, by and large,
Speaker 2: I kind of had a pretty good idea what I
Speaker 2: was getting into.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, media wise, you get pretty good
Speaker 1: treatment here on the big one on seven hundred. Wow,
Speaker 1: what about the rest of the media so far, It's
Speaker 1: it's been pretty pretty good.
Speaker 2: That was kind of the It was a little bit surprised,
Speaker 2: But yet everybody's treated me pretty well, which was which
Speaker 2: was certainly a pleasant surprise.
Speaker 1: Okay, talk about this program where they want to have
Speaker 1: mental health professionals and I guess non police people respond
Speaker 1: to certain calls the Alternative Response program. According to what
Speaker 1: I've been reading, it's been I guess it's been in
Speaker 1: place since twenty twenty two. So how is the Alternative
Speaker 1: Response program working on a day to day basis out
Speaker 1: on the streets.
Speaker 2: So when they started this in twenty twenty two, and
Speaker 2: we actually negotiated for them to be able to do,
Speaker 2: it's called alternative Response to crisis.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: There are mental health professionals that would go around with
Speaker 2: a firefighter and they would primarily deal with non violent people.
Speaker 2: That are having some kind of mental crisis, you know
Speaker 2: where it's listen, I just I need housing, I need
Speaker 2: some of these things that were they really weren't even
Speaker 2: though they were traditionally police matters. It was just something
Speaker 2: that they're like, listen, we can provide them better mental
Speaker 2: health services by having a mental health professional.
Speaker 1: It made sense.
Speaker 2: That's why when we negotiated our contract last year, we
Speaker 2: added that into our contract and said, look, you guys
Speaker 2: can do this, have it.
Speaker 1: That's fine.
Speaker 2: But then what's happened since is they've decided, well, we're
Speaker 2: going to expand this. We now want these other group
Speaker 2: of people who are going to respond to auto accidents,
Speaker 2: to hazards, to crashes. And I told them in August
Speaker 2: last August in a cease and desist order and said, listen.
Speaker 1: You can't do this without negotiating with us.
Speaker 2: And they ran right through that warning and decided they're
Speaker 2: going to do it anyway. So we filed an unfair
Speaker 2: labor practice and I can tell you so far it's
Speaker 2: been an absolute disaster with having these folks running around
Speaker 2: doing these things.
Speaker 1: So, I mean they've already started doing these things. They
Speaker 1: didn't consult with you ahead of time.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: In fact, like I said, we warned them that if
Speaker 2: you do this, we will file an unfair labor practice
Speaker 2: And of course the fire department's done and they've been
Speaker 2: out for about six weeks now, and so far I've
Speaker 2: heard complaints of you know, them showing up at auto accidents,
Speaker 2: letting people that are visibly drunk drive away.
Speaker 1: They've had a woman who.
Speaker 2: Was like eight months pregnant was injured in an auto accident.
Speaker 2: They told her just go to the police district. They
Speaker 2: didn't call for the fire department, which is something we
Speaker 2: absolutely would do as police officers. Just go to the
Speaker 2: police department and and get a report. And it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's doing a disservice to the citizens of you know,
Speaker 2: having these people respond to these things.
Speaker 1: So was this something that was a directive of the
Speaker 1: city Manager's office. I don't remember this issue coming up
Speaker 1: before full council. Now, this was.
Speaker 2: Something that the uh the director of Communications, Bill Vedra,
Speaker 2: this was his project. He wanted to implement this and
Speaker 2: that's the problem that it has been. And I've got
Speaker 2: now daily since this has been in the news, I've
Speaker 2: got citizens from Cincinnati that are calling the FOP hall,
Speaker 2: going what can we do to get rid of this?
Speaker 2: This is an absolutely disaster, But they're not giving them
Speaker 2: the option. So if you call nine to one one
Speaker 2: and they go, hey, I'm in an auto accident, they go, okay,
Speaker 2: well we're going to send somebody from three to one one,
Speaker 2: and now I'd rather I want a police officer to
Speaker 2: show up. Well, communications is the one that decides that.
Speaker 2: So I guess now they're decide, well, we don't we
Speaker 2: don't care if this is what the citizen wants, We're
Speaker 2: just going to send somebody from three to one one.
Speaker 1: That's that is certainly a bit of contention with the citizens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me let me read to you from the from
Speaker 1: the city's website. And because I was research, I didn't
Speaker 1: know much about this response business, the or they call
Speaker 1: it the ARC, and uh, let me read to you
Speaker 1: from the city's website, and they write this that the
Speaker 1: team responds to low risk calls where individuals are not
Speaker 1: imminent risk. The team deals with low level behavioral health
Speaker 1: crisis and issues that arise from public health needs and poverty.
Speaker 1: Some examples are trespassed calls, welfare checks, intoxicated parties, and
Speaker 1: mental health crisis. So ken Cober, My question to you is,
Speaker 1: when you hear calls for a trespass for a welfare chech,
Speaker 1: intoxicated parties, mental health, when you hear a call a
Speaker 1: dispatch for those are you able to discern initially, just
Speaker 1: based on the calls for those types of services, which
Speaker 1: ones are violent and which ones are non violent, and
Speaker 1: which ones do not have the potential to escalate to
Speaker 1: a violent situation.
Speaker 2: That's what's laughable about this. They say, all this is
Speaker 2: a low level, low risk. Any time you encounter somebody
Speaker 2: that's intoxicated, you know they're not in a normal mental
Speaker 2: state or a irrational mental state. Those things go from zero.
Speaker 1: To one hundred and no time flat, and it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely undermines how dangerous these things really are. Police officers
Speaker 2: will go to a trust passing run. We just had
Speaker 2: one at the beginning of January, a trust passing run
Speaker 2: right across from District one. Is a guy a garage
Speaker 2: sleeping at night that turned into a knockdown, drag out
Speaker 2: fight where a policeman gets.
Speaker 1: Punched in the face.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're going to have a civilian that has
Speaker 2: no training or little training, and absolutely no way to
Speaker 2: defend themselves. We're going to send them on that run.
Speaker 2: The city is just waiting there. They're asking for this
Speaker 2: to be a problem. It's going to get one of
Speaker 2: these folks hurt, if not killed, and the city is
Speaker 2: going to have some liability that they probably don't want.
Speaker 1: This is just insane that they're even doing this. I
Speaker 1: was under the impression, having spoken to you on several occasions,
Speaker 1: that the relationship between the Cincinnati Police Department, the rank
Speaker 1: and file, and the relationship between the you know, those individuals,
Speaker 1: and the relationship between city Hall was I'm not going
Speaker 1: to say it was one hundred percent great, but I
Speaker 1: was going to say it was at least workable, that
Speaker 1: that you had a pretty good working relationship, and this,
Speaker 1: to me seems to put that relationship in jeopardy or
Speaker 1: at least put some stress on that relationship. Am I
Speaker 1: am I off base on that.
Speaker 2: No, No, you're absolutely correct, you know, and we have
Speaker 2: enjoyed you for the most part, you know, a workable
Speaker 2: relationship with city leadership. And that's why I sent out
Speaker 2: a letter before they even started hiring for this, because
Speaker 2: I'm like, I wasn't trying to blindside them, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden just go file and on our labor practice.
Speaker 1: I warned them that we were going to do this
Speaker 1: if they.
Speaker 2: Didn't negotiate with us, and they just decided, well, we're
Speaker 2: going to do it anyway.
Speaker 1: So here we are.
Speaker 2: We'll end up in Columbus next month in front of
Speaker 2: the State Employment Relations Board and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Have you tried to talk to the city manager about.
Speaker 2: This, well, I mean we talked to him in August
Speaker 2: and said, look, if you if you're going to do this,
Speaker 2: you have to negotiate with us.
Speaker 1: And their response was mum's the word. They didn't have
Speaker 1: a response, no response, No response from the city manager
Speaker 1: at all, no nothing at all, nothing to say, you
Speaker 1: know what, we can work with you on this. Let's
Speaker 1: you know, let's let's sit down, let's have a meeting,
Speaker 1: let's you know, find out where you're at. You know,
Speaker 1: bring the chief in, you know, bring bring in the
Speaker 1: safety director. I guess I don't know if the safety
Speaker 1: director is under the city manager or that's a separate
Speaker 1: you know. I think they dissolved that several years ago.
Speaker 1: But nothing from the city manager at all in this. Now.
Speaker 2: I had a meeting with hr and Bill Vedra who
Speaker 2: is the director of communications, and he goes, this is
Speaker 2: what we're laying out and this is how we're doing it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't and that was it. Hey, it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Hey, let's work together, let's try to figure this out
Speaker 2: and say this is what our plan is.
Speaker 1: And I left the meeting with okay.
Speaker 2: And then, like I said, once they started hiring people,
Speaker 2: that's when we fouled an unfair labor practice and said, look,
Speaker 2: this is what we're doing. And they continued to hire
Speaker 2: him anyway, they continued to train them anyway.
Speaker 1: And now they're on the street. And the other part
Speaker 1: that I read about this this critical this response team
Speaker 1: is that it's not a twenty four to seven operation.
Speaker 1: It's essentially, you know, eight to five, nine to five,
Speaker 1: And so I guess during those hours they don't require
Speaker 1: the service as the Cincinnati Police. But yet when you know,
Speaker 1: most most of these things happen, it winds up becoming
Speaker 1: a police matter. And that's it's all fine and dandy
Speaker 1: with them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's certainly there is a there is
Speaker 2: certainly a difference in what kind of service you're going
Speaker 2: to get depending on what time of day it is.
Speaker 2: So if it's after you know, five, six, seven o'clock PM.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have a police officer that's gonna show up
Speaker 2: to the auto accident. They're going to investigate it, and
Speaker 2: you know, the outcome will be what it is. If
Speaker 2: they need to take enforcement action, they need to make
Speaker 2: an arrest, citation, whatever, they're going to do that. But
Speaker 2: I guess during these hours, it's not that important for
Speaker 2: the police to show up. We're going to have a
Speaker 2: civilian show up and just tell you to go to
Speaker 2: a district and that that creates problems in itself. You
Speaker 2: have two you have two people to show you know,
Speaker 2: they show up and say, hey, you two guys are
Speaker 2: you'll go to the district, get a police report done? Well,
Speaker 2: what if one goes to District three the other one
Speaker 2: goes the District four. Now you have potentially two different
Speaker 2: police reports. That's say, two different things. And all it
Speaker 2: takes is your one person going let's say the person
Speaker 2: hit me, and then the other person goes, no, that
Speaker 2: person hit me.
Speaker 1: There's nobody there to investigate it. What the people that
Speaker 1: respond to these non violent situations, what sort of level
Speaker 1: of training do they have other than whatever professional training
Speaker 1: or training that they have going into these are these
Speaker 1: volunteer I guess these are non paid positions? Is that right? No,
Speaker 1: they're paid paid positions. And what level of training do
Speaker 1: they have? I believe they.
Speaker 2: Got about six weeks of total training, you know, which
Speaker 2: is about a fifth of what a Cincinnati police officer gets.
Speaker 1: And mind you, they have no no way.
Speaker 2: They don't have police powers, they don't have the ability
Speaker 2: to cite anybody. They don't have the ability to even
Speaker 2: defend themselves. And that's that's the scary part. I'm like,
Speaker 2: who would want to do this job and be put
Speaker 2: in a situation we have cops all over the country
Speaker 2: every year show up to a minor auto accident.
Speaker 1: And get ambushed. Yeah, that's I mean, it's this is
Speaker 1: a disaster waiting to happen, all right. So you go
Speaker 1: to Columbus and who do you address this within Columbus?
Speaker 1: The State Employment Relations Board state and and what sort
Speaker 1: of authority do they have to to stop this or
Speaker 1: or you know, give you the relief that you seek
Speaker 1: on this. Uh So they are.
Speaker 2: The ones that govern collective bargaining agreements in Ohio. So
Speaker 2: we'll go up there for mediation and see if we
Speaker 2: can come to some kind of resolution, and depending on
Speaker 2: how that works out, we might come to a resolution
Speaker 2: everything agree with. But if we don't, then it will
Speaker 2: go back in front of their board to determine what
Speaker 2: the next steps are going to be. But ultimately, whatever
Speaker 2: decision the State Employment Relations Board makes, that's.
Speaker 1: That's a binding agreement.
Speaker 2: That is, yeah, yeah, the FOP the city would have
Speaker 2: to abide by whatever their final decision is.
Speaker 1: So the city will be represented at this meeting as well.
Speaker 1: Is that correct, Yes, that's correct, okay, And and so
Speaker 1: then and so that they are bound to abide by
Speaker 1: what will a decision happened that day or is this
Speaker 1: something that happens down the road. Well, this would just
Speaker 1: be the mediation portion.
Speaker 2: So if we don't come to a resolution, then it
Speaker 2: would go back in front of the State Employment Relations
Speaker 2: Board and then they would decide ultimately, you know, well,
Speaker 2: you know they might they could come back and say, uh, city,
Speaker 2: you can't do this. You have to negotiate with the FOP,
Speaker 2: and they could ultimately tell them they have to stop
Speaker 2: this program or they have to stop portions of it.
Speaker 2: And that's that's ultimately. Because they do other things other
Speaker 2: than just police things. But you know, my point in
Speaker 2: as well as the fire department who's filing an unfair
Speaker 2: labor practice as well.
Speaker 1: Is you don't do these police things.
Speaker 2: If they want to go and they want to check
Speaker 2: on potholes and they want to check on whether or
Speaker 2: not a stop sign got knocked down, have at it.
Speaker 1: That's not police responsibility. Go for it.
Speaker 2: But these runs that they're having them show up on
Speaker 2: that the police officer should be showing up on is
Speaker 2: the exception that I take to this.
Speaker 1: Wow, Uh, it seems like a very short sighted way
Speaker 1: to deal with things and not and not bringing you
Speaker 1: in or not bringing I don't know was the chief
Speaker 1: involved in this at all and in the in the
Speaker 1: in the expansion of these duties. Was there was there
Speaker 1: any consultation with Cincinnati Police at all before the trigger
Speaker 1: was pulled on this. If there was, I was certainly
Speaker 1: not included in any of those conversations. It seems to
Speaker 1: me that would be one of the first one phone
Speaker 1: calls I make if if I wanted to do something
Speaker 1: like this. I don't Maybe that's just maybe that's just
Speaker 1: the way I think about things and process things. But
Speaker 1: you would have thought, yeah, how come this is the
Speaker 1: story isn't getting more coverage in the news. When I
Speaker 1: was researching this, I could find very little published about this. Well.
Speaker 2: The interesting part is they never even even when they
Speaker 2: started this program, the city didn't really roll anything out.
Speaker 2: They didn't tell the community and go to the media
Speaker 2: and say, hey, we're going to do this, this is our.
Speaker 1: New way of doing things. I don't know why they
Speaker 1: did it, why they didn't do that, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's beyond me, but.
Speaker 2: It's it's becoming increasingly shocking to the citizens that are
Speaker 2: that are dealing with these things. And that's why you know,
Speaker 2: the voicemail down here at the FOP Hall has been
Speaker 2: getting blown up with citizens saying that I'm not for this,
Speaker 2: this is not a good idea. I want to sense
Speaker 2: a police officer to show up because I know things
Speaker 2: will be handled correctly, it'll be done safely, and if
Speaker 2: enforcement action needs to be taken, it'll be done.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Because when I looked at this, I couldn't find
Speaker 1: out if this was an idea of a member of council,
Speaker 1: the city manager or whoever. But I mean that that's
Speaker 1: where things stand right now. But Ken Cober, as always,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on giving me an update on
Speaker 1: where things stand, and I guess you know, give me
Speaker 1: a shoot me a message when you get done with
Speaker 1: that meeting in Columbus and let me know how things go,
Speaker 1: and then we'll have you on for update. All right, sure,
Speaker 1: certainly happy to all right. Ken Cober the main man
Speaker 1: at the Cincinnati FOP, and we appreciate his time as always.
Speaker 1: Twelve twenty six Dan Carroll for Bill Cunningham, seven hundred
Speaker 1: WLW A right back on the Big one, seven hundred
Speaker 1: WLW Dan Carroll then for Bill Cunningham, I want to
Speaker 1: thank Ken Kober for being here the last segment. If
Speaker 1: you listen to that, I had no idea that this
Speaker 1: whole thing went down the way it did. And when
Speaker 1: you talk about these non police individuals for the what's
Speaker 1: called the ARC and this is the Alternative Response Program.
Speaker 1: When you talk about these individuals who are essentially citizens
Speaker 1: who are responding to these what are determined to be
Speaker 1: low level, low potential for violence calls, these calls for service,
Speaker 1: and they to expand this program, to expand the type
Speaker 1: of calls that they're going to respond to. We need
Speaker 1: talk about auto accidents. You talk about you know someone
Speaker 1: being drunk in public. We need to talk about some
Speaker 1: of the things that that they're going to respond to.
Speaker 1: Ken Kober saying, you know, these are these are things
Speaker 1: that your your average civilian is not equipped to deal with.
Speaker 1: And ken Cober said, it is a disaster waiting to happen.
Speaker 1: And and if you're at city Hall and you decide
Speaker 1: unilaterally to expand this program and you don't get input
Speaker 1: from the police department, you don't get input from the chief,
Speaker 1: you don't have the courtesy to discuss this with FOP
Speaker 1: leadership because they it is probably going to be found
Speaker 1: to be a violation of the contract that you have
Speaker 1: with the city. What the hell is going on at
Speaker 1: city Hall? And that? And I had so many questions
Speaker 1: for ken Cober because as I was normally in the way,
Speaker 1: and look, I don't have to tell you this. You
Speaker 1: can find information on just about anything you want, but
Speaker 1: I could find so little information on the way this
Speaker 1: decision came about. And ken Cober uh laid it out
Speaker 1: and and and if you could have seen my face
Speaker 1: during that interview, I mean you talk about jaw dropping.
Speaker 1: It really was so Uh. I don't know why the
Speaker 1: people at city Hall make these decisions the way they do.
Speaker 1: But you can only hope that the Labor Relations Board
Speaker 1: decides to shut this down or you know, finds it
Speaker 1: in violation of the contract and tells the city they
Speaker 1: can't do that. And he says it's going to be binding.
Speaker 1: So so we will see, uh what else is going on? Uh?
Speaker 1: Trump Land continues to continues to steamroll, uh through d
Speaker 1: C and through the nation. Saw this was posted early
Speaker 1: this morning, and I don't know that's been talked about
Speaker 1: a lot, but a federal judge in Washington has allowed
Speaker 1: President Donald Trump mass firings of federal workers to move forward.
Speaker 1: So let the firings continue. The federal judge. Lindsey Whitehurst
Speaker 1: from the Associated Press reports that the federal judge this
Speaker 1: and Lindsay Whitehurst is a writer on this, but the
Speaker 1: federal judge in Washington is going to allow the mass
Speaker 1: firings to move forward. District Judge Christopher Cooper decided Thursday
Speaker 1: that he could not grant a motion from unions representing
Speaker 1: the workers to temporarily block the layoffs. He found their
Speaker 1: complaint amounted to an employment dispute and must follow a process,
Speaker 1: a different process that's outlined in federal employment law. Cooper
Speaker 1: acknowledges that the Republican president's second term has been defined
Speaker 1: by an onslaught of executive actions that have caused by
Speaker 1: some stay by design, disruption, and even chaos in widespread
Speaker 1: quarters of American society. Cooper, who was appointed by Barack Obama, wrote,
Speaker 1: the judges and it says here in the story that
Speaker 1: Barack Obama was They remind us Obama was a Democrat.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that. We might have forgotten. Do we
Speaker 1: still have in memory that Obama was a democrat? Essentially,
Speaker 1: you know, the the collective memory of the American people.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad they put that in the story anyway. Cooper,
Speaker 1: who was appointed by Obama, wrote that judges are duty
Speaker 1: bound to decide legal issues based on even handed application
Speaker 1: of law and precedent, no matter the identity of the
Speaker 1: litigants or regrettably at times, the consequences of their rulings
Speaker 1: for average people. So it sounds like the judge I
Speaker 1: had to follow the law, but is expressing some reservation
Speaker 1: here that people will be adversely affected by the firings,
Speaker 1: as most people are. But you know, look if you
Speaker 1: if you have a federal job and you knew Trump
Speaker 1: was coming in the office. Should have taken steps? Should
Speaker 1: have you thought about that? You know? And I heard
Speaker 1: Kevin Gordon was on you know, I do my nighttime
Speaker 1: shows here called the Midweek Crisis, and I'm on nine
Speaker 1: to midnight. I was driving home after my Wednesday night
Speaker 1: show and was listening to Kevin Gordon and he and
Speaker 1: he brought up the whole notion of remember when the
Speaker 1: wuhan was going on and people were not showing up
Speaker 1: to work, or when it snows in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: What do they do? What do they what do they
Speaker 1: tell the people who worked for the government non essential
Speaker 1: employees stay home? Right when the wuhan was going on.
Speaker 1: If you're a non essential employee, you need not show
Speaker 1: up for work. And so if you were an employee
Speaker 1: of the federal government and you fell into that category
Speaker 1: of non essential at some point, wouldn't I tell you
Speaker 1: something that maybe you know, when it comes time for
Speaker 1: layoffs to happen, you know, you got a lot more
Speaker 1: people there than you need. You know. There was a
Speaker 1: gal that posted on X the other day and I
Speaker 1: was talking to a former federal employee about this, and
Speaker 1: she was talking about the eighty twenty rule that eighty
Speaker 1: percent of the work that gets done in the federal
Speaker 1: government is done by about twenty percent of the employees.
Speaker 1: So if you are considered non essential, maybe that should
Speaker 1: have opened your eyes somewhere along the lines and maybe
Speaker 1: you need to take steps to make yourself essential instead
Speaker 1: of non essential. And he compared that to Kevin Gordon
Speaker 1: did I'm giving him the credit on this because I'm
Speaker 1: almost stealing word for word what he said on his
Speaker 1: show on the ATN Show the other night, and he
Speaker 1: said that, you know, the private sector doesn't have these
Speaker 1: non essential employees. I look around, iHeart you know, iHeartRadio
Speaker 1: up here in Kenwood, and you just you just look
Speaker 1: and see what the realities of life in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five is there. And you know, there used to be
Speaker 1: a whole heck of a lot more people working around here.
Speaker 1: But as things progress, they find out they can get
Speaker 1: more done with less. And now it's coming to the
Speaker 1: federal government and a lot of people are complaining about it.
Speaker 1: But you know, you've had all the I think I
Speaker 1: saw yesterday. There have been seventy four, seventy four suits
Speaker 1: filed or you know, actions taken against Trump with federal
Speaker 1: judges trying to shut down the executive orders that he's
Speaker 1: put out so far, and as far as this one goes,
Speaker 1: these unions that went to a judge, and they probably
Speaker 1: thought they were going to a friendly judge in Washington
Speaker 1: State appointed by Barack Obama. But the judge says, no, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's already a law on this. You need to follow
Speaker 1: the process, and coming to me ain't the process. So
Speaker 1: let the firings continue. Let's see. But apparently Alvin Bragg
Speaker 1: in New York City has not got the message to
Speaker 1: suspected trend de Arguac gang members arrested on fel any
Speaker 1: drug and gun charges in New York City have reportedly
Speaker 1: been freed without bail. The arrest came during a drug
Speaker 1: raid on Friday, February fish and this was after Trump
Speaker 1: was in office. I don't know that he had I
Speaker 1: know what. Trump has declared these these gangs to be terrorists,
Speaker 1: so I think this was before that happened. But in
Speaker 1: any case, you know, we've trend to Argua has reached
Speaker 1: a certain level of notoriety and infamy here in the
Speaker 1: United States. So you had two of these suspected gang
Speaker 1: members on drug charges arrested in New York and they've
Speaker 1: been freed without bail. The twenty seven and thirty three
Speaker 1: year olds whose name I cannot pronounce, released without bail.
Speaker 1: Let's see at least one of them across the border
Speaker 1: illegally in twenty twenty three. They were released into the
Speaker 1: country under Joe Biden's border policies. Federal immigration sources said.
Speaker 1: Police forces told The Post the two suspects were living
Speaker 1: out of migrant shelter in the city. After the raid,
Speaker 1: the suspects were charged with gun and drug possessions and
Speaker 1: they had a glockhand gun. They found cocaine three thousand
Speaker 1: in cash, So that stuff continues to happen in New
Speaker 1: York City even though the mayor, Eric Adams is cooperating
Speaker 1: with the it's cooperating with the Trump administration now. And
Speaker 1: I saw a whole bunch of Democrats on TV complaining
Speaker 1: about that. They are not happy with Eric Adams cooperating
Speaker 1: with the Trump administration. They just cannot abide that. But
Speaker 1: I guess for now, at least the governor is going
Speaker 1: to leave me alone. So good luck to you to
Speaker 1: Eric Adams. What else do we have? I find this
Speaker 1: credit card one interesting that DOAJE dug up all these
Speaker 1: these credit cards, and on credit cards, we spent nearly
Speaker 1: forty billion dollars. When I say we, I mean the
Speaker 1: the US government. The government currently has about four point
Speaker 1: six million active credit card accounts, which spent thirty nine
Speaker 1: point seven billion in more than ninety million tracks and
Speaker 1: transactions in the last fiscal year. And DOGE put out
Speaker 1: again the Department of Government Efficiency. You can follow them
Speaker 1: on actual They've got their own website, doge dot gov,
Speaker 1: and you can see all this stuff that they that
Speaker 1: they put out there. And they go through this list
Speaker 1: that shows all the different departments. You've got Department of Defense,
Speaker 1: Department of Commerce, Department of Agriculture, Department of Health and
Speaker 1: Human Services, Labor Law, State Transportation, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, all
Speaker 1: these different departments. And they talk about how many accounts
Speaker 1: they have. For instance, in the let's see, oh, here's
Speaker 1: a US AID, a agency for international development. They've only
Speaker 1: got nine thousand, six hundred What is that number, nine thousand,
Speaker 1: six hundred and twenty four. The writing on this is
Speaker 1: very small, nine six hundred twenty four accounts open, and
Speaker 1: that accounted for two hundred ten thousand transactions, while the
Speaker 1: Department of Agriculture, though they have one hundred twenty five thousand,
Speaker 1: five hundred and seventy five accounts and made more than
Speaker 1: three million transactions. Department of Defense has more than two
Speaker 1: million accounts on credit cards, open two million, four hundred
Speaker 1: thousand and did twenty seven thousand, I'm sorry, twenty seven million,
Speaker 1: two hundred forty two thousand transactions on those credit cards.
Speaker 1: So somewhere some I meet, you know, I mean, these
Speaker 1: credit cards are just working overtime, and I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how good of a deal. It doesn't say anything in
Speaker 1: here about the interest rate that we're paying on those
Speaker 1: credit cards. I would hope that the United States government
Speaker 1: gets a very good interest rate on those credit cards,
Speaker 1: because someone is using the heck out of those But
Speaker 1: I look at I look at a lot of these
Speaker 1: stories that are coming out over the last thirty days,
Speaker 1: and you look at the headlines, and I say to myself,
Speaker 1: aren't these objectively good things? By and large? Not every
Speaker 1: single one's If you've listened to me since the Trump inauguration,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's been a handful of things that I've
Speaker 1: I've had some differences with, but by and large, Aren't
Speaker 1: these objectively good if you look at just the headlines
Speaker 1: and you take out who the president is or what
Speaker 1: the administration is, aren't these essentially good things? Every once
Speaker 1: in a while, the Biden administration would sort into something
Speaker 1: that was good for America. And when that happened, I said, so,
Speaker 1: But why is it that, you know, our friends on
Speaker 1: the left, many of those in the Democrat Party are
Speaker 1: unable to see them as such. Let's see, here's a
Speaker 1: good headline writer. Record number of Americans think the country
Speaker 1: is now on the right track for the first time ever.
Speaker 1: Rass Mussen Reports released polling data that reveals a positive
Speaker 1: increase in Americans who believe the country is on the
Speaker 1: right track right. This is a poll we hear about
Speaker 1: all the time. Right track, wrong track. Forty seven percent
Speaker 1: feel this way, the highest it's been in about two decades,
Speaker 1: leaving researchers that are lost for words. The question was
Speaker 1: this there is is this Washington watch and this is
Speaker 1: weird the way this is written. But it was some
Speaker 1: hosts who posed a question. In September of twenty four,
Speaker 1: only twenty eight percent of the survey Americans felt the
Speaker 1: country was on the right track. Last year was also
Speaker 1: the first time since twenty twenty two the number of
Speaker 1: pessimistic Americans fell below seventy percent. Even then, a solid
Speaker 1: sixty five percent still believe America was on the wrong track.
Speaker 1: So to have this number, I mean, that's a good headline,
Speaker 1: right there, isn't it? How about this one? The head
Speaker 1: of the Small Business Administration just worn in I believe
Speaker 1: yesterday the day before, Kelly Lawler. They are now embarking
Speaker 1: on a program to what they use this term clawback,
Speaker 1: which has been popping up in the news a lot lately.
Speaker 1: So the idea that this money has already gone about,
Speaker 1: now they have to claw it back. They're going to
Speaker 1: claw back as much or attempt to clawback as much
Speaker 1: as two hundred billion, two hundred billion in coronavirus what
Speaker 1: I call the WUHAN, the Wuhan fraud, So two hundred
Speaker 1: billion dollars went out in aid that may have been fraudulent.
Speaker 1: They're going to try and get it back. Isn't that
Speaker 1: a good thing? Can't we as Americans celebrate that? I
Speaker 1: would like to think. I would like to think so.
Speaker 1: Tulca Gabbert is talking about saving twenty million a year
Speaker 1: right as a head of DNI, Director of National Intelligence.
Speaker 1: By killing DEI initiatives, saving twenty million a year. That
Speaker 1: sounds like a good thing, no matter who was president.
Speaker 1: Let's see Steven Miller, who has been in the media
Speaker 1: a lot lately as the deputy White House Chief of Staff,
Speaker 1: says there is a ninety five percent drop in illegal immigration.
Speaker 1: Ninety five percent drop. That's a good thing, no matter
Speaker 1: who the president is. Christino Department of Homeland Security, here's
Speaker 1: the headline for her deportation saving lives every day. Who
Speaker 1: could be against that? Who could find fault with that
Speaker 1: sort of a I think that's a great thing, no
Speaker 1: matter who the president is. Let's see here. Here's how
Speaker 1: about the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, who now
Speaker 1: needs to investigate why no one told her not to
Speaker 1: leave the country. She had that interview the other day,
Speaker 1: absolutely hilarious. She told the interview that, yes, we need
Speaker 1: to find out why I wasn't told not to leave
Speaker 1: the country. She is saying that they are way ahead
Speaker 1: there in Los Angeles when it comes to removing toxic
Speaker 1: waste the fires. Karen Bass praised the Trump administration in
Speaker 1: the fire recovery efforts. In particular, the quickness with which
Speaker 1: the federal government has helped remove hazardous waste. Isn't that
Speaker 1: a good thing? She's saying, this was supposed to take
Speaker 1: months and it's happening in weeks. That's a good and
Speaker 1: we should all be able to get behind that. Go
Speaker 1: in there, get it done, help get these people back
Speaker 1: up on their feet. That's fantastic. So with the things
Speaker 1: we can all celebrate together. Coming up after the news
Speaker 1: Top of the Hour, another great guest, Elena Barbera, also
Speaker 1: known as the What's called the bas Mother. Elena Barbera,
Speaker 1: has a documentary out called American Groomer. And I think
Speaker 1: you're going to be shocked. I know I was a
Speaker 1: little bit shocked. And this is something I talk about
Speaker 1: all the time about groomers in the classroom, pornography in
Speaker 1: the classroom, all that sort of thing. It is going
Speaker 1: on at a rate far more than I would have
Speaker 1: ever expected. So we'll do that after the news. Top
Speaker 1: of the Hour, Dan Carroll for Bill Cunningham, seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 1: HI back on the Big one, seven hundred WLW. It's
Speaker 1: one O nine. I'm Dan Carroll and for the great
Speaker 1: American Bill Cunningham, and you know, one of the things
Speaker 1: I talk a lot about behind this microphone is what's
Speaker 1: going on with kids as it relates to all this
Speaker 1: transgender nuttiness, how it affects kids in school, the sexualization
Speaker 1: of kids, groomers, and all the rest of it. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, we live in an era now where Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is the new sheriff in town. And so it's
Speaker 1: easy to say and easy to look at and come
Speaker 1: to the conclusion that the era of DEI diversity, equity
Speaker 1: and inclusion and all this nonsense that goes on at
Speaker 1: schools is going to come to an end. But is
Speaker 1: it really here to talk about? That is my next guest.
Speaker 1: Elena Barbera, who was also known as Based Mother, is
Speaker 1: a leading advocate for parental rights anti grooming. She is
Speaker 1: a Christian mom, an author, and a documentary filmmaker. And
Speaker 1: it is my pleasure to welcome in Elena Barbara to
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW and Elena Barbara, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: How are you today? Good?
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me, dam.
Speaker 1: It's great to have you on. How big of an
Speaker 1: issue is this? I was stunned to look at the
Speaker 1: advanced press stuff I got on you and you talk
Speaker 1: about how the nation still doesn't know that there is
Speaker 1: triple X porn in schools in all fifty states. Break
Speaker 1: that down for me a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really hard for people to just swallow the truth,
Speaker 4: which is why I made my documentary. So in school
Speaker 4: districts across the country, and I'm talking about the majority
Speaker 4: and in all fifty states, there's a push to to
Speaker 4: put the has been for years pornography in the schools.
Speaker 4: And when I say pornography, I literally mean masturbation instructions,
Speaker 4: erotica s and m scenarios, talking to kids about different
Speaker 4: types of relationships, orgies, threesomes, you know, being polyamorous, and
Speaker 4: really anything. And I could get much more graphic with
Speaker 4: the things I read in children's books, but I.
Speaker 1: Want Well, Nighttime Show, we'll get a little more graphic.
Speaker 1: But keep it right.
Speaker 4: I get everything I just said was as clean as
Speaker 4: it gets. Right, That's how bad. That's how bad this
Speaker 4: stuff is. So what people don't realize is that the
Speaker 4: American Library Association, the Teachers' Unions, Planned Parenthood, the Human
Speaker 4: Rights Campaign, all of these organizations have contracts with our schools,
Speaker 4: and they are all putting this stuff into the libraries
Speaker 4: and the classroom libraries, and they're sneaking their way into
Speaker 4: the curriculum. I saw, you know, some of them. You'll
Speaker 4: see them on summer reading lists. And now they're starting,
Speaker 4: some of them are starting to make it into mandatory
Speaker 4: literature reading.
Speaker 5: And it's getting more and more.
Speaker 4: Formalized, and people don't want to believe it, but they'll say, well, well,
Speaker 4: how is this even legal? And in the majority of
Speaker 4: states it's actually legal to show pornography to children in
Speaker 4: schools and libraries. You could get arrested for showing something
Speaker 4: to a kid, you know, at the mall or a
Speaker 4: coffee shop, but if you cross the threshold into a school,
Speaker 4: you are exempted from criminal prosecution because, no matter how
Speaker 4: vulg or it is, you could say it was educational.
Speaker 1: Are you one of these parents that got onto this
Speaker 1: during the Wuhan when the kids were home from school
Speaker 1: and they were doing their work on the computers and
Speaker 1: the parents were looking over the shoulders, and really, I
Speaker 1: think for a lot of parents it was it was
Speaker 1: an awakening to look at the computer and see what
Speaker 1: the kid was learning, and they said, hey, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: this is what you're learning in school. And that started
Speaker 1: I think really an entire movement of parents who took
Speaker 1: a little bit of a deeper dive into what their
Speaker 1: kids were being shown at school and what their kids
Speaker 1: were being forced to learn in many cases, are you
Speaker 1: is that how you got onto this?
Speaker 4: You are right that that's how some parents got onto it,
Speaker 4: but that's actually not how I got onto Okay. So
Speaker 4: during that time, you know, I was working in life entertainment,
Speaker 4: so I was one of the first people to lose
Speaker 4: their jobs during you know, the Wuhan scam. And so
Speaker 4: now I started paying attention. I had some free time,
Speaker 4: and I started seeing the news and I'm seeing what
Speaker 4: I'm seeing with my own eyes, and I'm seeing what
Speaker 4: the news is reporting. And that's when I woke up
Speaker 4: as an American and said, I don't trust you know.
Speaker 4: It was during those years, and it started in twenty
Speaker 4: fifteen when Trump brand for president. That where my mistrust
Speaker 4: of the media started to sink in, you know, and
Speaker 4: I was like, Wow, they're not telling the whole story.
Speaker 4: And then I saw a couple of years ago, I
Speaker 4: saw the media talking a lot about people crazy parents,
Speaker 4: the ones you're talking about band who are banning books,
Speaker 4: and I'm thinking, no, no, I love the content institution.
Speaker 4: There's no way I couldn't get behind anything that's the
Speaker 4: First Amendment violation. But I also don't trust these people,
Speaker 4: these the media people.
Speaker 6: So let me.
Speaker 4: Let me buy the books and decide for myself. I
Speaker 4: went the extra step, and what I learned when I
Speaker 4: read these books was absolutely atrocious. I mean I saw
Speaker 4: I read some of the most vulgar things and misleading things.
Speaker 4: I mean, they're teaching kids that one of these books
Speaker 4: I read that says that herpes catch in general herpes
Speaker 4: is no biggie. No biggie is the actual phrase they use.
Speaker 4: And so I'm seeing. Oh, I was shocked. I started
Speaker 4: talking to people and people are denying it or saying, oh,
Speaker 4: maybe that happens in some blue city somewhere, but it's
Speaker 4: not happening here.
Speaker 1: And it is.
Speaker 4: It's in all fifty states, the reddest counties in America
Speaker 4: had these books on their shelves. And I had to
Speaker 4: do something. So I made I made the film, and
Speaker 4: it's led me, you know, to a life where this
Speaker 4: is where really what I'm doing, And I'm working with
Speaker 4: other organizations like I work with collaborate a lot with
Speaker 4: an organization called take back the classroom, and they are
Speaker 4: amazing at routing these books out, exposing them district by
Speaker 4: districts around the country, and then they're teaching parents how
Speaker 4: to have them removed, you know, in the most streamlined
Speaker 4: legal way so that they can actually get it done.
Speaker 4: And it's it's turned into a whole thing, and we're
Speaker 4: waking people.
Speaker 1: Up one at a time. Yeah, and I know the
Speaker 1: books you're talking about because I looked at a lot
Speaker 1: of these books, and I looked at you, And for me,
Speaker 1: it started when I started seeing these videos of parents
Speaker 1: who would go to school board meetings and then open
Speaker 1: these books and books that came right off the library shelf,
Speaker 1: and they're saying, this book is available to my second grader,
Speaker 1: or my third grader or my fourth grader, and they
Speaker 1: would read these books in the open board meet And
Speaker 1: if I repeated some of the language in those books
Speaker 1: on this air, then our license would be in jeopardy
Speaker 1: because there's things in those books you can't say. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's how graphic some of this stuff is. So you know,
Speaker 1: I've known about this for a long time, and I've
Speaker 1: known about the American Library Association. I know about the
Speaker 1: Teachers' Union. But as I was looking at your website,
Speaker 1: there was another group in here s I e c us.
Speaker 1: I guess it's pronounced psychis. And this is in a
Speaker 1: group that and I'll read from their website envisions of
Speaker 1: future where comprehensive sex education is the foundation for health, pleasure,
Speaker 1: and wholeness. A nation where every individual's identity is affirmed.
Speaker 1: Communities are safe and supported, are supportive. We advocate for
Speaker 1: transformative public policies, build robust cross movements, and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So when you get into this kind of language, this
Speaker 1: is the kind of language that these people use to
Speaker 1: worm their way into the system, you know, and they
Speaker 1: cover up and perfume, you know, I mean, really what
Speaker 1: they're all about with this flowery sort of language. And
Speaker 1: I think it's easy that a lot of people get to,
Speaker 1: you know, get confused by this that you know, these organizations,
Speaker 1: these organizations are fairly benign, but when it comes to
Speaker 1: the sexualization of your kids, they they really they'll stop
Speaker 1: at nothing, that's absolutely right.
Speaker 4: They will stop at nothing, and they do seem benign,
Speaker 4: and they use tricksy language and they you know, they're
Speaker 4: in with all the liberal Congress congressmen and women who
Speaker 4: want to push this forward. So Corey Booker, Corey Bush,
Speaker 4: Who's actually has been you know, sent home from Congress.
Speaker 4: You know, they they had a bill floating around that
Speaker 4: was they were trying to push sex ed, a federal
Speaker 4: mandated sex ed in schools starting in kindergarten. Now, you know,
Speaker 4: I stumble over my words when I after I say that,
Speaker 4: because it just makes my brain short circuits to think
Speaker 4: that people are actually trying to teach sex setting kindergarten.
Speaker 4: But but they're doing it in a in an underhanded
Speaker 4: way by teaching the gender identity in kindergarten. They're talking
Speaker 4: to children about their genitals and how they feel about
Speaker 4: their genitals, and you think he got the right ones.
Speaker 4: I mean, now, I'm I'm old, right, So I'm from
Speaker 4: a time and a place where if somebody did that,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm going to be frank here. If somebody,
Speaker 4: if a teacher came up and talked to a kindergarten
Speaker 4: about their genitals or their sex sexual attraction, that teacher
Speaker 4: would never be heard from again, so that they would
Speaker 4: have just magically disappeared.
Speaker 5: Oh, mister AppleTree moved away In the end of it
Speaker 5: all right, But well, you know, and I don't advocate
Speaker 5: for us to do that these days.
Speaker 4: But since we can't do that, we have to fight,
Speaker 4: you know, we have to fight at the grassroots level,
Speaker 4: because it's also not something that the president can just
Speaker 4: you know, come in and write an executive order about
Speaker 4: and fix. And parents have to go to the school
Speaker 4: boards and properly challenge these things and put their feet
Speaker 4: to the fire and let them explain why you think
Speaker 4: this is appropriate for our child. Anybody that that says
Speaker 4: that is a nut job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mom. For Liberty is another group that is on
Speaker 1: a very similar mission as you are, and and they
Speaker 1: and they were labeled a hate group by the Southern
Speaker 1: Poverty Law Center. Have you received similar treatment from the Southern.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: And I'm very disappointed that I haven't. And I'm working
Speaker 4: very hard every day.
Speaker 1: Yes, I keep doing So you keep doing shows like this,
Speaker 1: we'll they'll find out who you are and then and
Speaker 1: they'll they'll put you up there on that pedestal.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm throwing a party the day the Southern Poverty
Speaker 4: Law Center labeled me a hate group.
Speaker 1: It's coming. That is fantastic, you know, it's uh. I
Speaker 1: And when I talked to and I saw in your
Speaker 1: trailer that you've got Jamie Michelle in there from Gays
Speaker 1: against groomers, and God bless them. I mean, the work
Speaker 1: they have done has been has been fantastic. But you know,
Speaker 1: when I when I talk to Moms for Liberty, when
Speaker 1: I talked to Jamie Michelle, when I talked to these
Speaker 1: you know, Billboard Chris, I don't know if you're familiar
Speaker 1: with him or not. Yeah, Chris Elston is fantastic, you know,
Speaker 1: the entire time. And you have to have been up
Speaker 1: against the Leviathon of the federal government that supported these
Speaker 1: kind of notions, that supported these kind of books in
Speaker 1: school that turned into a political issue, the fact that
Speaker 1: you don't want this kind of stuff to be put
Speaker 1: in front of kindergarteners or second or third graders, and
Speaker 1: so they and they go around talking about how you know,
Speaker 1: you want to you know, they use right wingers want
Speaker 1: to ban books from school and this, and they don't
Speaker 1: bother getting into the details of what exactly they're talking about.
Speaker 1: But you've been faced against a federal government that supported
Speaker 1: these kind of positions. But now you have a federal
Speaker 1: government that sees things the way you do. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at a headline right here that just came out this morning.
Speaker 1: The Education Department is removing two thousand, three hundred plus
Speaker 1: web pages that push woke propaganda from the Biden administration.
Speaker 1: So one of the things that Trump wants to do
Speaker 1: is get rid of the Education Department. And the Education
Speaker 1: Department has been supporting this kind of garbage the entire time.
Speaker 1: And so now that you have a government that is
Speaker 1: on your side, doesn't mean the job is done, but
Speaker 1: that has to be a tremendous burden off your shoulders
Speaker 1: when you pursue this kind of agenda.
Speaker 4: Yead, do you know that old Irish prayer with the line,
Speaker 4: may the wind always be at your back.
Speaker 1: Yes, it feels like the wind. May the sun shine
Speaker 1: warm upon your face.
Speaker 4: Yes, it feels like the sun is shining warm upon us,
Speaker 4: and the wind is at our back. Now to have
Speaker 4: the federal the power of the presidency protecting children, and
Speaker 4: you know, so he's doing so much with the DEI
Speaker 4: and the cr the critical race theory and the and
Speaker 4: the gender identity. Now to the next thing that you know,
Speaker 4: we're here, you know, I'm actually at Seapack right now
Speaker 4: talking to people all day and night trying to get
Speaker 4: the word to the President about how vulgar these books
Speaker 4: are because he doesn't he doesn't know, because I know
Speaker 4: for a fact that it's if he knew, he would
Speaker 4: he would help us get the word out about this
Speaker 4: and in a huge way. But it feels I feel
Speaker 4: so encouraged, because, yeah, to say that we've been having
Speaker 4: an up uphill climb with the Biden administration as an understatement,
Speaker 4: it was it was terrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I you know, and and and there's another reason
Speaker 1: I'm familiar with this, not just because I talk about
Speaker 1: it on my show, but in the school district that
Speaker 1: I live in, a board member recently got elected to
Speaker 1: the school board and this guy has come in and
Speaker 1: I listened to a school board meeting from last summer
Speaker 1: where this individual was talking about and the way he
Speaker 1: addressed this was talking about, you know, kids have cell
Speaker 1: phones in schools and they're sitting around and they're looking
Speaker 1: at god knows what, when we know they're looking at pornography,
Speaker 1: and so you know, we as adults need to join
Speaker 1: with them and and and view the pornography with them
Speaker 1: and explain to them, you know, what's healthy, what's not
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah and all this stuff. And
Speaker 1: so this guy wanted wants to And it has been
Speaker 1: brought to my attention that in subsequent meetings after the
Speaker 1: thank God, the majority of the members shut him down
Speaker 1: midstroke and said, you know, we are we're not going
Speaker 1: down that road. But apparently this guy brings it up
Speaker 1: at every every time this guy speaks, he brings it
Speaker 1: up at every single meeting and and will not stop.
Speaker 1: And the board and the other board members, to their credit,
Speaker 1: have said, you know, we're we're not going to indulge
Speaker 1: in this sort of stuff, but this guy continues to
Speaker 1: bring it up. So you know, when you say what
Speaker 1: you and I sit here and talk about how these
Speaker 1: people will not stop. They they don't stop, and it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. So this fight needs to go on. It
Speaker 1: absolutely does.
Speaker 4: And to that man, God help him if he give them,
Speaker 4: gets in a room with me, because I can debate
Speaker 4: him till the day is long. You know, there's so
Speaker 4: we have decades of research to talk about the damage
Speaker 4: that happened to human beings when they're sexually abused as children,
Speaker 4: and talking with kids about pornography and having these conversations
Speaker 4: is sexual grooming, and it is child it is sexual abuse.
Speaker 4: It's just what they call non contact sexual abuse. And
Speaker 4: it prepares kids for contact sexual abuse and for sexually
Speaker 4: to be sex trafficked. So it's like you're warm, It's
Speaker 4: like they're they're like pedophiles. They're they're warming them up
Speaker 4: for the predators. All the legwork is done, and they're
Speaker 4: ready to be delivered into into even worse physical sexual abuse.
Speaker 4: And I and they're, like, I said, decades of research
Speaker 4: that I could share with this man and destroy him
Speaker 4: in a debate, and anybody in this in this fight
Speaker 4: could do that. And it's very frustrating when I hear
Speaker 4: somebody out there, you know, not being ostracized for saying
Speaker 4: something like that.
Speaker 1: But Atlanta, Barbara, why is it too much to ask
Speaker 1: that these people just leave the kids alone? You know?
Speaker 1: I mean, if if they want to as adults, engage
Speaker 1: in this sort of activity, if this how they want
Speaker 1: to live their life by all means. You know, you
Speaker 1: believe in freedom. I believe in freedom. Live your life
Speaker 1: the way you want, do whatever you want. But for
Speaker 1: the love of God, just leave the kids alone. Why
Speaker 1: is that so much to ask?
Speaker 4: Well, It was hard pill for me to follow when
Speaker 4: I realized, with all the forces working on children, that
Speaker 4: there's an effort to normalize pedophilia. You know, it's too
Speaker 4: much to ask for them because they want what they
Speaker 4: want and they will stop at nothing. So when you
Speaker 4: talk to again, three four year olds in pre k
Speaker 4: about sexual attraction and about their genitals and all that, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, and you hide behind the words inclusion and diversity,
Speaker 4: which it's none of it makes any sense. But that's
Speaker 4: really what we're up against. We're up against a straight
Speaker 4: up evil and evil effort. So we can't understand it.
Speaker 6: There's no answer I could.
Speaker 1: Give you that you would say, oh, at least that
Speaker 1: makes sense. Yeah, all right, we were short on time.
Speaker 1: Your documentary is American Groomer. The kids are not all right?
Speaker 1: If people want to find that, I'm going to make
Speaker 1: a point to look at it this weekend. But American Groomer,
Speaker 1: where can people find that? If they want to look at.
Speaker 4: It, sure they can watch it for free. It's at
Speaker 4: American Groomerfilm dot com.
Speaker 1: American groomerfilm dot com. And uh, with that, Elena Barbara,
Speaker 1: we've got to run. Congratulations on all success. Tell everyone
Speaker 1: at Seapac. I said hello, and uh, what with your permission,
Speaker 1: we'll have you on to talk about this again. I
Speaker 1: really appreciate the time today.
Speaker 4: I would love to thanks thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Elena Barbera. The documentary is
Speaker 1: called American Groomer. Just google it and you will find it.
Speaker 1: One twenty six Dan Carroll for Bill Cunningham seven hundred
Speaker 1: Wlwan the Puppy Still those eleven pippies?
Speaker 3: You got pay Peppins going on right now? Borrow all.
Speaker 4: Hell? Hello, quiet, and I'm I'm broadcasting.
Speaker 1: SAG. I have no doubt you remember where you were
Speaker 1: when al Michaels uttered those immortal words.
Speaker 7: That's true. And then uh but last night, no miracle
Speaker 7: on ice too.
Speaker 1: Not last night.
Speaker 7: Conor McDavid, what the hell happened? He had been to
Speaker 7: an oiler star for Canada.
Speaker 1: I was. I was doing my show last night. I
Speaker 1: had it on that very monitor right behind you.
Speaker 7: And lefting wide open, wide open, into slot. Nobody around
Speaker 7: him past came through right there.
Speaker 1: See. You wouldn't want to be you, you know. I
Speaker 1: I Uh, here we go. You represent yourself and your
Speaker 1: teammates and a.
Speaker 7: Name on the front is a hell of a lot
Speaker 7: more important than the one in the back.
Speaker 1: Get that throw your head. So I guess Trump spoke
Speaker 1: to the team last night, That's what I heard. Tried
Speaker 1: to get him fired up. I think they were fired up.
Speaker 7: I think they were. The Boston was rocking last night.
Speaker 7: But uh, you.
Speaker 1: Know, maybe Willy, maybe Willy should have spoke to him
Speaker 1: last year. Don't know anything about that hockey stuff.
Speaker 7: So the Four Nations Cup goes to Canada, and you
Speaker 7: know what, we'll see it. We'll see him in the
Speaker 7: Olympics in Italy.
Speaker 1: You know. They they got to the overtime, and and
Speaker 1: and well, the Americans went up at two to one
Speaker 1: at one point, right and then it was what it
Speaker 1: was like thirty seconds later, Canada got another gold and
Speaker 1: tied it up two to two. Yeah, that happens a
Speaker 1: lot in hockey, doesn't it. Yes, you score that goal
Speaker 1: and then there's a little bit of a letdown and
Speaker 1: the other team comes right back and puts one in
Speaker 1: the net.
Speaker 7: There was quite quite quite an atmosphere, quite a game
Speaker 7: last night. As I guess what, sports and politics kind
Speaker 7: of came together all in one again, and that you know,
Speaker 7: the the American fans showed a great restraint and not booing,
Speaker 7: no booing like like the like they did in Montreal.
Speaker 1: So uh.
Speaker 7: And then some guy I guess there was a near
Speaker 7: fight in the stands or probably a few. Some guy says,
Speaker 7: you want the United States to become the eleventh province.
Speaker 7: I don't think that guy looked like a guy looked
Speaker 7: like Joe Biden. And sitting next to him was Kamala Harris.
Speaker 7: I did see were at the game.
Speaker 1: I did see a map that that where the United
Speaker 1: States would become Southern Canada and the Golf of America
Speaker 1: would be changed to the Gulf of Canada. I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: get us into the Stooge Report, Dan Carroll, the Stooge
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Speaker 7: so they save about ten million on the cap.
Speaker 1: I wonder what that where That money's gonna go ten million.
Speaker 1: They don't. They don't need to sign anybody big, do they.
Speaker 1: That'll ten million. That'll cover a couple of games.
Speaker 7: Red's update, Hunter Green starts tomorrow for the Reds. They
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Speaker 1: Better bundle up. It's gonna be what's the temperature going
Speaker 1: to be that game? I think freezing? They played in
Speaker 1: what uh?
Speaker 7: Below MESSI played in below zero weather the other night
Speaker 7: in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: You should have saw that.
Speaker 7: My god, that guy looked like he was going to
Speaker 7: be a hospital.
Speaker 1: What happens? What happens when the ball turns into a
Speaker 1: block of ice? What happens? Then? That's the way it is.
Speaker 1: You got it. They got they got heaters on the
Speaker 1: side there. They don't know, you've got to get the
Speaker 1: ice off of them. I don't know.
Speaker 7: FC Cincinnati and the new York Red Bulls seven o'clock
Speaker 7: on Fox Sports thirteen sixty.
Speaker 1: EHL Hockey tonight.
Speaker 7: Our beloved Cyclones are downtown along the less flooded river.
Speaker 1: Now against the river, I Walklanders. The river goes up,
Speaker 1: the river goes down, Yes, it does. The Red Bulls
Speaker 1: the ones that knocked the FC in Cincinnati out of
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year. You know what I got? I
Speaker 1: have to look that up. I think they did.
Speaker 7: High school basketball tomorrow. Good luck Indiana girls semi state
Speaker 7: action twenty five and oh, Greensburg, Greensburg against Evansville Central
Speaker 7: and South Dakatur.
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Speaker 7: And how about the Major League Baseball in ESPN agreeing
Speaker 7: to end that National TV contract after this season?
Speaker 1: Didn't Joe Morgan?
Speaker 7: You should do baseball with the Yeah with on ESPN
Speaker 7: with John Miller.
Speaker 1: It was great. Joe Morgan was Fantasy on Sunday nights.
Speaker 1: It was great. Joe Morgan was the best. Yeah and
Speaker 1: ever since he left ESPN. No, so I don't know.
Speaker 7: I guess Baseball said that they were disappointed in the
Speaker 7: amount of coverage that ESPN gave the Grand Old Game.
Speaker 1: Well, at least you can see it. What are they
Speaker 1: gonna do. They're gonna go to Amazon. Now they're gonna
Speaker 1: go to I don't know.
Speaker 7: Well, they said they may leave the door open for
Speaker 7: another get another deal, which means a lot more money
Speaker 7: from ESPN. Still the doors that kind of open. But
Speaker 7: they're gonna go elsewhere and we'll see that Sunday Night package.
Speaker 1: What's the ESPN saying. I don't know, See, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to be probably, Well are they going to put
Speaker 1: on a Sunday Night I don't know. Corn Hole? I
Speaker 1: don't know they do. They do have corn hole on
Speaker 1: I know. I see it all the time in the
Speaker 1: summer today. Throw that hat and they throw the hatchets too,
Speaker 1: don't they they that I've seen the hatchets off there.
Speaker 1: You know what I say? Foling foling year round on ESPN. Foling, fowling.
Speaker 1: The hell's a folling?
Speaker 7: You throw a football into bowling pins? You don't know
Speaker 7: about that? What's about it with you? They got a
Speaker 7: big place and uh, right down the right down the
Speaker 7: road here, and who is that Norwood? Right outside of Norwood?
Speaker 1: You throw a football into bowling pins? Yeah, how about
Speaker 1: our buddy Rufus three High know we mentioned that the
Speaker 1: other day. What was the venue? I don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't know what house it was, not sure, but
Speaker 7: it was.
Speaker 1: I don't know. No, that's gone, yeah, gone, bye bye.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I'm not sure how what house? Now?
Speaker 7: If it was a Western Bowl, that's big because that's
Speaker 7: the mecca of bowling in the Tri State.
Speaker 1: I used to be in the league there.
Speaker 7: I used to bowl at Hyde's Lanes right there on
Speaker 7: right there in beautiful White Oak.
Speaker 1: What a house.
Speaker 7: But I don't know. It was a senior league. I
Speaker 7: think Rufus is in that league, and lonesome George Vogels
Speaker 7: in it. A bunch of old, bunch of old guys
Speaker 7: that used to be in the media taking in there.
Speaker 7: Janson's in there, and John Pottage. I think so, yeah,
Speaker 7: George Vogels in that league. I don't know if he's
Speaker 7: in the league.
Speaker 1: But he told he I was talking to him about
Speaker 1: Rufus and he said that in that league, there's uh,
Speaker 1: you put some money in and there's a jackpot. If
Speaker 1: you roll the highest game, then you get whatever that
Speaker 1: jackpot money is. His game was a three hundred. That game,
Speaker 1: that game that Rufus rolled a three, there was another
Speaker 1: guy in the league that rolled a two eighty nine.
Speaker 1: So the guy had a two eighty nine probably thought
Speaker 1: he was gonna win that money. Correct and as sorry,
Speaker 1: we've got a three hundred.
Speaker 7: And Rufus had an eight hundred series he was rolling.
Speaker 7: I think guy was on here to join the PBA tour.
Speaker 7: On Fox, I went bowling with Rufus one night. It's
Speaker 7: a Madison Bowl, does a good job. We went there,
Speaker 7: went there after the news one night on Fox nineteen
Speaker 7: and he's a television superstar extory there.
Speaker 1: In my mind, I'm surprised he's not in Goodyear, Arizona.
Speaker 1: Maybe he is. I don't know.
Speaker 7: Well, no, he couldn't be because he did the bowling thing.
Speaker 7: But he'll be around a baseball park. Don't worry, he's
Speaker 7: always there. The Reds out of honor him for a
Speaker 7: three hundred game.
Speaker 1: Why not, Kim Hey, the Cyclone? I want Rufus Bobble had.
Speaker 1: The Cyclones are giving away pickleball paddles tonight the Cyclones
Speaker 1: are giving away pickleball paddles. Hint hint, reds hint hint.
Speaker 1: I'll get mine from Sarah. Sarah Lise'll have some. I'll
Speaker 1: just get mine from her, sill comment, and she'll be there.
Speaker 1: I played the fifth what. I don't know what to
Speaker 1: tell you? When? When are we going to see? What
Speaker 1: the what the ratings were for the hockey game last night?
Speaker 1: I know I haven't seen anything yet. What did they
Speaker 1: call that? The four nation face off for four nations? Yes,
Speaker 1: four nations tournament? Yes, four nations? So that was they
Speaker 1: did that in lieu of the All Star Game? Is
Speaker 1: that right? Yeah? So it was? Was this the first
Speaker 1: year for that, believe?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: It was Canada, United States, Sweden and Finland.
Speaker 1: So this is gonna you think this will become an
Speaker 1: annual thing. I don't know.
Speaker 7: We'll see and then, uh what I mean the numbers
Speaker 7: were pretty good? And what pretty soon? The uh the
Speaker 7: out the Stadium series, the Outdoor Game is going to
Speaker 7: be at Ohio Stadium, Jackets and Red Wings about another week.
Speaker 1: I just got a text from Sarah Elise. Do you
Speaker 1: want to know what? She said? I have no idea,
Speaker 1: she said, she's laughing. She said, l O L. Seg
Speaker 1: is always so mad.
Speaker 7: Haven't had at anybody. He got a light enough thing.
Speaker 7: I haven't had at anybody.
Speaker 1: So how many people think? How many people you think
Speaker 1: watch that hockey? When are we going to get the
Speaker 1: numbers on? I don't know. Well, go back and check
Speaker 1: it out. You've got a computer there in front of you. Well,
Speaker 1: I've got I've got other things to do. It's uh, well,
Speaker 1: look it up. I'm going to talk to Dean Riguez
Speaker 1: here after the news top of the hour. Oh and
Speaker 1: you've heard about the asteroid that's out there. I know
Speaker 1: where's it going to hits. It's targeted for Earth apparently,
Speaker 1: and it might be here in five or six years. Oh.
Speaker 1: I thought it was like, yeah, like two or three
Speaker 1: days or something. If it was two or three days,
Speaker 1: it would already be too late. He'd already have to
Speaker 1: bend over and kiss your rear and goodbye. Okay, we
Speaker 1: got action in Louisville, baby, Uh oh boy. See Fox News.
Speaker 1: Three dead at a shooting at a driver's license office
Speaker 1: in the city of Louisville. Oh boy, So I guess
Speaker 1: somehow that's going to be Trump's fault. Too.
Speaker 7: Trump's fault at the United States loss last night, is it?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Probably will everything else is. I haven't
Speaker 1: heard audio of his pregame speech. I have not heard
Speaker 1: it either, so maybe maybe maybe he got Cunningham to
Speaker 1: do a speech for him. I don't know. We'll see
Speaker 1: you see Tiger Woods at the White House yesterday. Didn't
Speaker 1: say too much? Day? What? What is? Why? Why didn't
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods? Why doesn't Tiger Woods want to say anything?
Speaker 1: Don't ask me. People want to hear his work. Here's
Speaker 1: one of the greatest golfers of all Cunningham thinks that
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer of all time. I'm
Speaker 1: still going with Jack Nicholas Fingo. I think so too.
Speaker 1: Five point two million viewers that I thought I thought
Speaker 1: the number would be higher than Wasn't there ten million
Speaker 1: to watch the game when.
Speaker 7: They fought Yeah, I think the first matchup the other
Speaker 7: what was it a week ago or something that they
Speaker 7: want the USA one three to one.
Speaker 1: That was action packed.
Speaker 7: So anytime those two teams get together doesn't make any
Speaker 7: difference if it's if it's a hockey, baseball, basketball, anything.
Speaker 7: USA and Canada are going to go at it could
Speaker 7: be curling anything.
Speaker 1: I love curl I love to watch curling in the Olympics.
Speaker 1: I don't know the other I don't like to watch
Speaker 1: it the other time. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 1: but I love Olympic curling. Seg. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: get us out of the Stews report, and Sarah OLiS says,
Speaker 1: he really does love me talking about you.
Speaker 7: Dan Carroll in honor of a beautiful day here at
Speaker 7: a tri State and Red's Baseball one day away back
Speaker 7: on seven hundred WLW now the Cowboy. From now until October,
Speaker 7: Red's Baseball. We leave you with the immortal words of
Speaker 7: the studd.
Speaker 1: We will bring championship baseball to Cincinnati. Didn't say when, correct,
Speaker 1: the championship baseball. You know, maybe other teams that are
Speaker 1: playing Championship baseball will come to Cincinnati. Maybe that's what
Speaker 1: he meant. Oh, hell could happen this year though, I
Speaker 1: hope so it would be nice. Is Tito Tito Francona
Speaker 1: leading away with Ted McKay When all right? Yeah, when
Speaker 1: does heid go to Arizona? I think he's already out there,
Speaker 1: He's already there. Sounds good, Seg. We'll see it about
Speaker 1: two thirty, Yes, sir on seven hundred WLW back on
Speaker 1: the Big One, seven hundred WLW two eight, Dan Carroll
Speaker 1: for the great American Bill Cunningham. And one of the
Speaker 1: great guests who's been on this radio station, been on
Speaker 1: with me and Cunningham and just about everyone else on
Speaker 1: this station is our buddy Dean Regus from Astrodean dot
Speaker 1: com and Dean Regus, it is great to have you.
Speaker 1: I think this is the first time I've talked to
Speaker 1: you in twenty twenty five, so I'll say happy New
Speaker 1: Year to you, sir. And where do we find you today,
Speaker 1: if anywhere.
Speaker 6: Well, happy to be talked with you too. I'm out
Speaker 6: in the field.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: Cincinnati's my home base for astronomy, but I'm out in
Speaker 6: Arizona for the week doing some stuff for the Low
Speaker 6: Observatory and kit Peak Observatory. So taking my astronomy show
Speaker 6: on the road and in beautiful sunny, seventy degree weather
Speaker 6: here in Tucson.
Speaker 1: That is fantastic.
Speaker 6: Cincinnati, Well, you're out there with the red so I
Speaker 6: was great talking to you. Dan.
Speaker 1: We're envious of you being out there in the warm weather.
Speaker 1: And how have the sky's been at night, they've been
Speaker 1: nice and clear for you. You're seeing everything you want to see.
Speaker 6: Oh my goodness, it's so Yeah, we've had let's see,
Speaker 6: six clear nights in a row, seven clear nights ron
Speaker 6: or something like that. And yeah, I've diden't seeing the
Speaker 6: Milky Way going over the overhead the planet Parade up
Speaker 6: there and using some big telescopes at the public too.
Speaker 6: So it's they do a lot of this great outreach
Speaker 6: with these observatories and yeah, just amazing being out here
Speaker 6: with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, before I get I get to this asteroid that
Speaker 1: we've been looking at for the last that's been reported on,
Speaker 1: I guess the last couple of weeks. Now. You mentioned
Speaker 1: the Milky Way, And I was looking at an article
Speaker 1: the other day and it was talking you know, and
Speaker 1: of course everything moves. The Earth rotates around the Sun,
Speaker 1: the Moon rotates around the Earth, the Solar system rotates
Speaker 1: around the middle of the galaxy. And I I was
Speaker 1: reading an article the other day talking about how long
Speaker 1: it takes for the our solar system and our part
Speaker 1: of the galaxy to do one full rotation around the
Speaker 1: massive black hole that's in the middle of our galaxy.
Speaker 1: And I think the number was around two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty eight million years. So the last time Dean Reguez,
Speaker 1: the Earth was in this position relative to where it
Speaker 1: is in the galaxy, dinosaurs were roaming the Earth. How
Speaker 1: about that? The last time we were this part of
Speaker 1: the galaxy. How about that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's incredible the amount of time it takes to
Speaker 6: do anything in space. I mean, we're traveling so fast
Speaker 6: around the Sun, we're traveling so fast around the galaxy.
Speaker 6: But our galaxy is so incredibly large. I mean we're
Speaker 6: talking this conglomeration of three hundred billion stars and to
Speaker 6: make one circuit of it, you're right, Yeah, two hundred
Speaker 6: and thirty forty million miles I'm sorry, two hundred forty
Speaker 6: million years to go around one time. And yeah, I
Speaker 6: mean the vastness of space, it is all inspiring. It
Speaker 6: gets me every time it is.
Speaker 1: And so there's been a lot made of this asteroid
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four y R four. First of all, do
Speaker 1: you know how they come up with a designation like
Speaker 1: that for an asteroid?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's all about the order of when you find it.
Speaker 6: So it is discovered last year, twenty twenty four, and
Speaker 6: then they have this whole numbering and naming system that
Speaker 6: goes with that. But yeah, I'm glad we're diving right
Speaker 6: into this because who I was a little worried, but
Speaker 6: I got good news everybody. The astronomers just this morning
Speaker 6: downgraded it. So if you've been following the story, this
Speaker 6: is something that the astronomers are watching. This asteroids, you know,
Speaker 6: about one hundred and eighty feet across, decent sized one,
Speaker 6: that's for sure. And the odds of it hitting the
Speaker 6: Earth kept going up the more they looked at it.
Speaker 6: And it's really hard to tell exactly where an asteroid's
Speaker 6: going to go because of just three body problems. There's
Speaker 6: so many other things out there that can affect this
Speaker 6: little tiny thing. So it was, you know, one percent
Speaker 6: chance of hitting thereth then two percent chances of the Earth,
Speaker 6: and then peaked at a little over three percent chances
Speaker 6: hitting the Earth. And I don't like that odds at all.
Speaker 6: That's not good. I don't want to hear that, and
Speaker 6: I don't hear it going up. But this is one
Speaker 6: of those things where like the more observations, the more
Speaker 6: we can narrow this down. The problem with that was
Speaker 6: it's heading away from us. So the astronomers are racing
Speaker 6: to get as many data for which they could to
Speaker 6: try to nail down what this orbit will be like.
Speaker 6: And so the latest one puts it now at one
Speaker 6: in three hundred and sixty chance of hitting the Earth.
Speaker 6: So it's getting better, but we're not still zero. So
Speaker 6: I'm waiting for the zero thing to come in.
Speaker 1: Well, I think that's when a lot of people started panicking,
Speaker 1: is when that number went up to three percent and
Speaker 1: the headlines were all the odds of this asteroid hitting
Speaker 1: the Earth have just doubled, and it makes it sound
Speaker 1: like it's almost a sure thing. But when you say
Speaker 1: an object in space, no matter what that object in
Speaker 1: space is, has a three percent chance of hitting us,
Speaker 1: is that a big number when you talking about in
Speaker 1: terms of space, time and space and all that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that is huge, I mean, and it really goes
Speaker 6: to show you that these things, it's pretty incredible. Number one,
Speaker 6: that we're picking these out, that's the number one thing.
Speaker 6: This has been an effort, a worldwide effort to look
Speaker 6: for incoming asteroids because we don't want to go the
Speaker 6: way of the dinosaurs, that's for sure. And so just
Speaker 6: the idea that they've been finding these has been remarkable
Speaker 6: because these things are so small and so faint, but
Speaker 6: still very important to be finding. And so when you
Speaker 6: take some measurements, you try to figure out where this
Speaker 6: thing is going to go, but in some ways you're
Speaker 6: not even sure. Astronomers aren't even sure exactly how big
Speaker 6: it is because this is so small in the scheme
Speaker 6: of things. But that's why this work is so important,
Speaker 6: finding these teeny tiny things moving very fast. And that
Speaker 6: was the It was kind of interesting because up here
Speaker 6: in Arizona they had some kind of input on this
Speaker 6: at the Lull Observatory. They were helping to track this asteroid,
Speaker 6: and I was talking to some of the astronomers there
Speaker 6: and they were worried. I'll be honest with you. A
Speaker 6: couple of days ago, they were just thinking, you know,
Speaker 6: all right, we gotta look at this thing now, and
Speaker 6: if we don't get better data, maybe we need to
Speaker 6: start preparing and to deflect it. Because that's the thing is,
Speaker 6: sure we can see it, but what are we going
Speaker 6: to do about it? And that's the thing is, we
Speaker 6: don't really have a response yet that's ready to go
Speaker 6: up and launch and divert an asteroid that could be
Speaker 6: coming at us. So I was like, yeah, why do
Speaker 6: we build one, and they said, yeah, let's build it.
Speaker 6: I mean, there's use two astronomers talking, but can't build
Speaker 6: a spacecraft with us too. But that's one of the
Speaker 6: things you got to really start thinking about.
Speaker 1: Well, that was one of the things I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you, because I know we have the technology to
Speaker 1: be able to go out and hit an asteroid. We've
Speaker 1: crashed spacecraft into asteroids before, and I think we crashed
Speaker 1: one into a comet not that long ago, so we
Speaker 1: know how to intercept them. But to get something up
Speaker 1: there that has enough horsepower to change the orbit of
Speaker 1: a body like that, especially if there's one large enough
Speaker 1: to be you know, create an extinction event here on
Speaker 1: the planet Earth. To me, that seems like a whole
Speaker 1: nother ballgame.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Absolutely, And and uh, you know, Dan, you're on
Speaker 6: this like this is a this is some uh you know,
Speaker 6: we've redirected an asteroid with this mission that was like
Speaker 6: purposely to run into this thing, and it worked brilliantly.
Speaker 6: I mean, you're you're flying the spacecraft at this asteroid,
Speaker 6: you're all traveling different trajectories and to hit to hit
Speaker 6: something that small and have the exact effect that was
Speaker 6: predicted was really cool. But the big thing that we
Speaker 6: need for this is time. The earlier you can do
Speaker 6: the deflection, the less deflection you need. So that was
Speaker 6: the big trouble with this asteroid is it it comes
Speaker 6: around every four years or so and it's already heading out,
Speaker 6: So we didn't know if we're going to get any
Speaker 6: real reliable data until four years from now, and then
Speaker 6: that makes our you know, warning system four years down
Speaker 6: the road. So nobody liked that idea that so I
Speaker 6: think that's why everybody was scrambling to uh to get
Speaker 6: as many measurements as accurately possible now and not have
Speaker 6: to wait four more years.
Speaker 1: So the last several days, as I've got on my
Speaker 1: computer to get ready for my shows here at WLW,
Speaker 1: I turn my computer on and I see all over
Speaker 1: the place pictures people are sending in pictures of Saturn,
Speaker 1: and people are taking pictures with their iPhones, are taking
Speaker 1: pictures with their telescopes, all this other stuff going on.
Speaker 1: I guess Saturn has been pretty easily visible in the
Speaker 1: evening sky over the last several days, is that right?
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, we've got this thing that's been kind of
Speaker 6: dubbed the planet parade with all the planet the planet line. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so we've got Saturn, we've got Venus, we've got Jupiter,
Speaker 6: we've got Mars, we got those the four big ones
Speaker 6: to find up that you can see with the naked eye.
Speaker 6: Saturn's been fading into the sunset, so it's kind of
Speaker 6: going out for the season, but people have been getting
Speaker 6: some pictures of it before it's too late. And also
Speaker 6: Saturn's doing this thing where it's rings are tilting down
Speaker 6: towards or tilting even at us. So the rings are
Speaker 6: almost invisible in a telescope right now. So some of
Speaker 6: these pictures that were getting back, or this ball with
Speaker 6: a stick through it, that's how skinny the rings are.
Speaker 6: And then they'll open up again next fall. And it
Speaker 6: is kind of one of those things that you know
Speaker 6: back this happens about every fifteen years where the rings
Speaker 6: become almost invisible, and which is a challenge when you're
Speaker 6: trying to show this to the public and say, hey,
Speaker 6: look there's Saturn. They can't see the rings. They think
Speaker 6: you're like pulling something over on you. And so this
Speaker 6: is one of the things that's going to close down
Speaker 6: a little bit more. But then next fall start to
Speaker 6: open back up again. But that's been really good. But
Speaker 6: I think Venus is the one that people are really
Speaker 6: noticing in their drive home from work. It's so bright,
Speaker 6: so high up in the sky, looks like a plane
Speaker 6: or UFO up there. So, yeah, Venus has just reached
Speaker 6: maximum brightness this week, and yeah, you'll notice it if
Speaker 6: you get a clear night. You can't miss it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with all the advances that have happened recently when
Speaker 1: it comes to telescopes, you know, with the Hubble telescope,
Speaker 1: in the Web telescope, and even the different arrays that
Speaker 1: we have here on planet Earth, and all the things
Speaker 1: that we're able to see now that we weren't able
Speaker 1: to see even a year or two years ago. Is it?
Speaker 1: Are people getting bored looking at our own planets because
Speaker 1: now we can you know, we can see into other galaxies,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess We've got photographs of black holes
Speaker 1: and other galaxies. We've identified the individual stars and other galaxies.
Speaker 1: We've seen planets around other stars and other galaxies. Are
Speaker 1: are people getting bored with just looking at the planets
Speaker 1: we have here in our own little solar system? Or
Speaker 1: does everyone want to see what lies beyond.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's funny how as Ron we kind of goes
Speaker 6: in cycles. We go from exploring the Solar System to
Speaker 6: farther out, and then new technology allows us to do that.
Speaker 6: And yeah, i'd say right now the hottest field is
Speaker 6: exo planet research that's finding planets on other stars. These
Speaker 6: stars are trillions of miles away, so distant that you
Speaker 6: can barely them. Uh, but yeah, there's still tons of
Speaker 6: planetary work going on too, and it's it's kind of like, uh,
Speaker 6: they kind of get off the radar because they've been
Speaker 6: around so long. So we still have those two rovers
Speaker 6: on Mars that are bringing back data and orbiters around Mars,
Speaker 6: and we have an orbiter around Jupiter that's still working
Speaker 6: and then another one on en route to Jupiter. So
Speaker 6: the planets are still being explored with greater detail than ever.
Speaker 6: And yeah, we're just still waiting to get back those
Speaker 6: words from the rovers that they find something unbearably cool
Speaker 6: on Mars. Like I'm still waiting that maybe they'll turn
Speaker 6: over a rock and they'll be a nice fossil right there,
Speaker 6: but nothing yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, something that'll say made in China. That'll be fantastic.
Speaker 1: You'll find something.
Speaker 6: Like that anything anything that's you know, of course, hopefully
Speaker 6: they don't run over their old old debris and that
Speaker 6: they left from the heat shields and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 6: Hey what's this? Oh right, that's our stuff.
Speaker 1: Right, So let me ask you this. The other thing
Speaker 1: that we talk a lot about on this radio station
Speaker 1: is artificial intelligence AI, and and this stuff is growing
Speaker 1: by leaps and bounds. How is AI going to affect
Speaker 1: what Dean Rigas does on a regular basis or or
Speaker 1: has it already come into your workplace? And are you
Speaker 1: using AI in any sort of way right now?
Speaker 6: Oh? Man, I would think I would hope to assume
Speaker 6: that I'm irreplaceable, But you know, I guess, I guess
Speaker 6: there could be there could be a new AI version
Speaker 6: of Dean Rigas that comes along at some point. But yeah,
Speaker 6: I think what what it is being used for the
Speaker 6: most is you know, going through the just vast volume
Speaker 6: of data that comes in from the telescope. So they
Speaker 6: can help kind of go through a lot of that
Speaker 6: stuff and and some of the new technology on the telescopes,
Speaker 6: the hardware that goes on I think is probably even
Speaker 6: more impressive that they can they can figure out how
Speaker 6: to get rid of the turbulence of the atmosphere. So
Speaker 6: that's the biggest thing is you're looking through air, and
Speaker 6: that air will make your image of stars and things
Speaker 6: dance and do all sorts of stuff. They have ways
Speaker 6: to counteract that, to actually move the telescopes and the
Speaker 6: mirrors to to wipe that out, and so ground based
Speaker 6: telescopes are are really catching up to the space ones.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I think AI is going to be a
Speaker 6: tool mostly for all this data. I think that's the
Speaker 6: way I see it. But yeah, I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 6: I could farm AI to talk to Willie next time,
Speaker 6: you know, for me, But otherwise I.
Speaker 1: Get a I d now Ai, Dan, that would be
Speaker 1: great and say it doesn't sound like you, Dean, what
Speaker 1: is going on?
Speaker 6: Well, I'd reserve that only for Willy, you know, Alien.
Speaker 6: I'll just turn on my AI machine and that he'll answer,
Speaker 6: like we.
Speaker 1: Will Artificial intelligence ever be able to look at the
Speaker 1: data and tell us whether or not Einstein was right?
Speaker 6: Oh, well, that's an interesting thought that it would be.
Speaker 6: H Would they be able to help.
Speaker 1: With that MAT's wits with Einstein? Einstein? How about that?
Speaker 6: Yeah? That hm, boy, that's a tough ye. I would
Speaker 6: say that, Well, that's the thing, so you plug in
Speaker 6: all the data you've got. Hopefully the AI would come
Speaker 6: up with the same conclusion because but there there's some
Speaker 6: other things that I'd be interested to see, like what
Speaker 6: it's you know, maybe we could use it for dark matter,
Speaker 6: dark energy, the stuff that we can't actually physically see
Speaker 6: but we think is there. But yeah, that so far,
Speaker 6: I think Einstein's still winning. And that would be the
Speaker 6: thing is if AI would say something different, well we'll
Speaker 6: have to investigate that too and see what he says.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Dean Reguez, you're the best. You've got
Speaker 1: an event coming up in March. Tell me about that.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I'm be back at since here shortly and
Speaker 6: then doing a lot of events around town. So I'm
Speaker 6: doing some programs at the Cincinnati libraries coming up next
Speaker 6: week to check out those as free and open the public,
Speaker 6: and then a big public event at alt Park. I'm
Speaker 6: partnering with the Alt Park Advisory Council and doing our
Speaker 6: second annual Telescope Fest. So we'll have some telescope set
Speaker 6: up all around the grounds of Alt Park, free open
Speaker 6: the public for everybody come check out the telescopes because
Speaker 6: we got some really cool events coming up too. We
Speaker 6: got a lunar eclipse coming up in March as well,
Speaker 6: so Telescope Fest will get you all for that already
Speaker 6: for that, that's March eighth, five to eight pm at
Speaker 6: alt Park. No reservations, come on over. Should be a
Speaker 6: lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a good thing you're not doing it now
Speaker 1: because the weather is terrible here. But I'm glad you're
Speaker 1: having great weather in Arizona and Dean Reguez, you are
Speaker 1: the absolute best. Thank you so much for the time,
Speaker 1: as always, and I'll definitely look forward to the next
Speaker 1: chance we get a chance to do it again.
Speaker 6: Always glad talking with an informed space cadet like yourself, Dan,
Speaker 6: this has always been good. And yeah, hopefully we will
Speaker 6: have better weather in March than we've had in February,
Speaker 6: that's for sure. And oh yeah, and if folks have
Speaker 6: trouble finding where all these are, they can go to
Speaker 6: my website Astrodean dot com and lots of other things
Speaker 6: on there.
Speaker 1: Too, Astrodean dot com. Astro Dean, Thank you, buddy. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to you again soon.
Speaker 6: Hey, my pleasure. Keep looking up, everybody.
Speaker 1: Keep looking up. Deanriguez, you are the absolute best. Dan
Speaker 1: Carroll for Bill Cunningham on seven hundred WLW. Great moments.
Speaker 5: Are born from great opportunity, and that's what you have
Speaker 5: here tonight.
Speaker 1: Boy, that's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If
Speaker 1: we played them ten times, they might win nine, but
Speaker 1: not the skame, not tonight. Tonight. We skate with him.
Speaker 4: Tonight, we stay with them, and we shut them down
Speaker 4: because we can.
Speaker 2: Tonight we are the greatest hockey team in the world.
Speaker 1: Oh hello, hello, quiet, and I'm skos, I'm broadcasting. God
Speaker 1: well seg that speech might have worked for the miracle
Speaker 1: on ice, but it didn't get it done last night.
Speaker 1: You can't leave Connor McDavid wide open in the slot.
Speaker 1: I guess that guy's pretty good. He's excellent. Is that
Speaker 1: what they did? He was he was opening the.
Speaker 7: Slot wide open, that's called the slots, exactly right in
Speaker 7: front of the goaltender, and he just snapped one off,
Speaker 7: went up in between his arm and his leg.
Speaker 1: Three to two win over Canada.
Speaker 7: Now the NHL can get back to normal and the
Speaker 7: Blue Jackets can start playing again, and we'll see the
Speaker 7: Canadian boys. I guess probably in the Olympics. You know,
Speaker 7: Italy in a few years.
Speaker 1: A lot of times it looks like that puck is
Speaker 1: coming in at about one hundred and twenty miles an hour.
Speaker 1: But that shot last night looked like it was going
Speaker 1: maybe maybe ten miles in that It was like a
Speaker 1: slow motion shot. Yep, just went right by the goalie
Speaker 1: man and wide open, and you don't miss, not like that.
Speaker 1: Conor McDavid does not miss. Could you have made that shot? No?
Speaker 1: Not like him, No, nobody's like him. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm watching this last night. I got it on I'm
Speaker 1: doing my show, and I got it on the big
Speaker 1: TV over there, right, And I knew they had gone
Speaker 1: to the extra period, but I didn't know it was
Speaker 1: sudden death. Oh yeah. And so when they scored that goal,
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, you know there's still you know, at
Speaker 1: eight or nine minutes left whatever it was over. And
Speaker 1: then the next thing I know, they're all jumping around
Speaker 1: like that's correct. They just won the World Series or something.
Speaker 1: Put one in it's overtime. Yeah, I didn't know. I
Speaker 1: didn't win, and I don't know that much about hockey,
Speaker 1: win or go home. So if let let's say they
Speaker 1: would have tied in that overtime period. Then do they
Speaker 1: go to a shootout? Is that how that works? No?
Speaker 7: No, no, it's it's it's sudden death and overtime. I
Speaker 7: never was for us first, that's it. So don't get
Speaker 7: another chance.
Speaker 1: Even the clock ran out.
Speaker 7: Games over, Well, you made a game over overtime if
Speaker 7: they would not have if? No, if it's an international game,
Speaker 7: so they may go like the Olympics again, and another over.
Speaker 1: To overtime period. Yeah, not a shootout. I guess.
Speaker 7: I don't know. I mean, I've never had. This is
Speaker 7: first time this, this turn, this little tournament has taken place.
Speaker 7: So that's how the NBA ought to do that play
Speaker 7: And then now that instead of that mess they played
Speaker 7: the other night forty one to twenty five, you know,
Speaker 7: with all those millionaires on.
Speaker 1: The court and whatever it was. Watch I don't watch
Speaker 1: that joke, but say, you don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: the uh, you know, the the uh. The hockey didn't
Speaker 1: work out for us, but you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about the asteroid. Now, thank you. Dean Reguez told us
Speaker 1: we're okay. Thank you Dean. There you go.
Speaker 7: I trust him, the king of astronomy.
Speaker 1: Keep looking up, Dan, Carroll.
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Speaker 7: Hunter Green goes tomorrow for the Red Legs up against
Speaker 7: in the Cactus League opener against those Guardians. Coverage begins
Speaker 7: at two thirty five tomorrow with the RNL carriers inside
Speaker 7: pitch right here on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 1: The split squad game, and Terry Francona is going to
Speaker 1: the away game.
Speaker 7: He's going to be at the Reds and the Brewers
Speaker 7: with Graham Ashcraft starting that game.
Speaker 1: I can, I can.
Speaker 7: I can't remember the last time the Reds played a
Speaker 7: split squad game and there and the Cactus and any
Speaker 7: opener in the spring, can't.
Speaker 1: I can't remember.
Speaker 7: Adam Ias made nine and eighty five thousand dollars, according
Speaker 7: to Bengals financial coordinator. Soccer MLS opener tomorrow night dress
Speaker 7: Warmly FC Cincinnati and the New York Red Bulls TQL
Speaker 7: Stadium the site, seven o'clock on Fox Sports thirteen sixty.
Speaker 1: Uh, let's see what they still wear? Shorts? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we'll see. I don't know, it's pretty EHL.
Speaker 7: Hockey Night, Our beloved Cyclones are down along the big
Speaker 7: river that just flooded, but now it's under flood stage
Speaker 7: and the Cyclones will play host of the Iowa Heartlanders
Speaker 7: as they are giving away pickleball paddles.
Speaker 1: Pickleball paddles. You're gonna get some. You're you're a good
Speaker 1: pickleball player right here. I'm gonna go down there tonight
Speaker 1: and get one. You took down. You took down Rocky
Speaker 1: and uh and Cunningham.
Speaker 7: That's correct, and a massive in a massive match years ago.
Speaker 1: And it come out and I hear they're they're afraid
Speaker 1: to face you again.
Speaker 7: That Well, you ever see Willy have a rematch with
Speaker 7: somebody with Ned they made maybe at the Friendly Confines.
Speaker 1: But that's about it.
Speaker 7: That's yeah, well that that'll happen once in a lifetime
Speaker 7: if that.
Speaker 1: That's about it. So where is Rocky today? He was
Speaker 1: he was hanging out. He was hanging out with all
Speaker 1: the big shots last night. Oh, he was out with Hugs,
Speaker 1: out with Hugs over there at Harrison High School. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I saw Melvin Levitt was there, DJ was there,
Speaker 1: Rocky was there. All kinds of people were there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I was always hoping he would come in
Speaker 1: and tell us about I don't know a bit event
Speaker 1: being the big event at Harrison with Hugs last night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Him and DJ up on the stage
Speaker 1: telling some stories. I'm sure they were good ones, pretty
Speaker 1: good night, clean, well to that. I've seen Huggs at
Speaker 1: those events before. That was that was back in the day.
Speaker 1: But no, Hugs looks good. So he's talking about how
Speaker 1: he might be interested in coaching again.
Speaker 7: See what happens to me if somebody will may give
Speaker 7: him another chance here?
Speaker 1: Who knows any any openings around here coming up? I
Speaker 1: don't think so.
Speaker 7: No, you don't think so. I don't think so. Buyouts
Speaker 7: are too much.
Speaker 1: How many how many years have our team's gone without
Speaker 1: making the NCAA tournament? Well a few of them, some
Speaker 1: of them, but I don't know. We'll see. Tell me
Speaker 1: about tell me about these robotic umpires. That's going to
Speaker 1: be very interesting. What are they going to use that
Speaker 1: in the regular season this year?
Speaker 7: I think they're going to test it out in the spring.
Speaker 7: And I saw it the other day where there was
Speaker 7: a pitch inside right on the inside corner, and somebody
Speaker 7: yelled challenge. The umpire puts his hand up on top
Speaker 7: of his head. They hold the game up, they comes
Speaker 7: up on the big screen. They challenge it as a
Speaker 7: striker ball, continue the game.
Speaker 1: How umpires are still there? How long does it take
Speaker 1: to that? Probably?
Speaker 7: Well, I mean they're they're hurrying up other challenges on
Speaker 7: the field, you know, like you know, the steal a
Speaker 7: base and they think he's out and you know that
Speaker 7: type of thing.
Speaker 1: It's getting faster.
Speaker 7: Well, no, it's it's like a it's like an animation
Speaker 7: of like you know where the where the box is
Speaker 7: over the plate and in the ball is like right
Speaker 7: there and it's like it either in the box or
Speaker 7: out of the box and it's a ball or strike.
Speaker 1: Continue on. So that's it. Whatever whatever the computer says,
Speaker 1: that's it. That's it. No argue.
Speaker 7: You can't Why you can't argue U challenges or nothing.
Speaker 7: If you challenge something, you can't go out there you
Speaker 7: get thrown out?
Speaker 1: Well can you can? You? Can you challenge every pitch
Speaker 1: that I don't challenge? Is it just the pitcher that's
Speaker 1: the Can the batter challenge it too?
Speaker 6: That?
Speaker 1: I don't know? The manager? Can the manager challenge here?
Speaker 7: The manager has something to do with it, So I
Speaker 7: don't know, maybe they got to maybe they got to
Speaker 7: pitch challenger coach. I don't know. Maybe somebody's sitting. Maybe
Speaker 7: it's the same replay. Guy who knows. I don't know.
Speaker 1: What if you got a guy at the plate, it's
Speaker 1: all new, Dan, I don't have no idea. What if
Speaker 1: you've got a guy at the plate and ball four comes,
Speaker 1: the umpire calls ball four. Yeah, but the theater only
Speaker 1: have so many of these. You can't challenge like every pitch.
Speaker 1: But the battery doesn't doesn't want to walk and he says, no,
Speaker 1: that was a strike. Can he challenge that? Say, Carl,
Speaker 1: I want you to call a strike? Come he So
Speaker 1: I get to see another pitch that I don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't think. So says, sit down, you clown, or
Speaker 7: get out of here.
Speaker 1: I mean, how far can this thing go? I don't know.
Speaker 1: We'll see. I don't know.
Speaker 7: It's it's it's all new. They tried it out in
Speaker 7: the miners. They're gonna do it. They're gonna do it
Speaker 7: in spring. See what happens.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a whole new ballgame now, boy.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know the the video replay was that
Speaker 1: that that that's far enough. I mean, you can't see
Speaker 1: what happens. It's called baseball. What would the old left
Speaker 1: hander be saying right now, going crazy? I me going
Speaker 1: he's probably rolling over in his grave. Yep. So I mean,
Speaker 1: when is enough enough? And then you gotta get it right? Well,
Speaker 1: you gotta get it right. So I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know how many pitches you have in a game.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, haven't looked at many of the rules.
Speaker 1: But this is all new. If the umpire thing's all new,
Speaker 1: Dan get that bad to where they can't call a
Speaker 1: respectable game of balls and strikes, then do like Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and say there's the door. You're fired. Maybe they're
Speaker 1: gonna blame him for everything.
Speaker 7: He gets to blame for the balls or strikes too,
Speaker 7: he's getting to blame for everything else.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I guess, okay, well he'll be blamed for
Speaker 1: this this system too. Probably. You know, he wants to
Speaker 1: Trump only he only wants to have peace in the
Speaker 1: Middle East. He only wants to have peace in Ukraine.
Speaker 7: And one PG and one pro golf tour.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so he's gonna so he's gonna make a
Speaker 1: deal between you live and the PG.
Speaker 7: Then he then he's gonna then he's gonna go balls
Speaker 7: and strikes and in the in baseball, can he can
Speaker 7: he solve all the problems of the n B A
Speaker 7: first out, No, how many problems does the NBA have
Speaker 7: right now?
Speaker 1: Many? So he's maybe maybe he have a meeting with James.
Speaker 7: Best thing the NBA has is Ernie Johnson, Kenny the Jet,
Speaker 7: Charles Barkley and the Shack on their pregame show in
Speaker 7: postgame and that's it. The rest the NBA. I don't
Speaker 7: watch a lot of plus the NBA. I mean, everything's
Speaker 7: been overshadowed all week by hockey talk. That's all it is.
Speaker 7: With you know, USA playing Canada? What twice in a
Speaker 7: week or over a week's time. I mean, everybody's been
Speaker 7: talking about that tournament in us A v. Canada for
Speaker 7: what couple at least a week and a half.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe maybe the NFL out to talk to to
Speaker 1: the NHL.
Speaker 7: The NFL is going to use electronics stuff for the
Speaker 7: first down.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see. I don't want to see
Speaker 1: any more flag football. You mean the Pro Bowl games?
Speaker 1: I don't want to see that. I don't want to
Speaker 1: Don't get me started on that. The skills challenge is okay,
Speaker 1: but the flag football, I mean, come on, I don't
Speaker 1: don't want to see that.
Speaker 7: One thing is no Bengal got hurt. That's the major
Speaker 7: headline in the Pro Bowl games because usually they used
Speaker 7: to get hurt. So Burrow is okay, Hendrickson's okay, and
Speaker 7: Jamar Chase is okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't let them get hurt. So what what does
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow have in common with Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman.
Speaker 1: The house got broken into, so you know about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought they arrested those guys.
Speaker 7: Well, there's probably another group that got Nicole Kidman and
Speaker 7: mister Urban.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe the same maybe the same guys
Speaker 1: they escaped. Maybe maybe Alvin Bragg let him go. I
Speaker 1: don't know, or were they were They in New York City,
Speaker 1: have no idea. If they were in New York City,
Speaker 1: they might have got out there. Keith Urban went live
Speaker 1: in Nashville. That says they're Los Angeles home. Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: los Angeles home a celebrity couple. Nicole Keith Urban, Oh
Speaker 1: their LA home. I'm sandalizing ransacked on Valentine's Day.
Speaker 7: I should have known that they got nineteen homes around
Speaker 7: America in the world.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Good luck to them. So, I mean
Speaker 1: these clowns were stealing Joe Burrow stuff and then putting
Speaker 1: their pictures out on the internet. But real brainy accident. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what you want. You won't see Rocky
Speaker 1: Boyman hanging out with them.
Speaker 7: Rocky's got a heck of a chain though it's got
Speaker 7: RB on there and all in diamonds.
Speaker 1: Man looks nice. Well now, now if his home gets wrong,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be because of you. He can't be putting
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. No, he doesn't have anything. He's
Speaker 1: not that gaudy. All right, sek you got any big
Speaker 1: plans for this weekend?
Speaker 7: Is sitting here watching TV, Dan Carroll, watching those.
Speaker 1: Reds, watching those Are they gonna be.
Speaker 7: Gonna be listening to the Reds? And uh it's gonna
Speaker 7: be Action City.
Speaker 1: All right, sig, have a great weekend. And uh, before
Speaker 1: you have a great weekend, make sure you get us
Speaker 1: out of the stooge report.
Speaker 7: Dan, in honor of the Red Legs, starting tomorrow right
Speaker 7: here on seven hundred w BLW through October, the Home
Speaker 7: of the Red We leave you.
Speaker 1: With the immortal words of the stew Report. See the
Speaker 1: Highway Patrol election again next week. Until then, remember leave
Speaker 1: your blood at the Red Cross, not on the highway.
Speaker 1: This is Rodrick Croffin saying see you next week and
Speaker 1: the asteroid is not coming, thank goodness, only one percent.
Speaker 1: Now you can sleep easy tonight, okay on seven hundred
Speaker 1: WLW