Speaker 1: Do you want to be an American?
Speaker 2: Good morning, Gary, Jeff been for Sloani on his Friday
Speaker 2: about nine minutes after the hour. I want to open
Speaker 2: up this morning with just some thoughts. Yesterday I went
Speaker 2: to a visitation for a great lady who passed just
Speaker 2: about a week ago. I guess today. Her name was
Speaker 2: Armina Lee. You may just know her as Mina as
Speaker 2: most of the denizens of Mama Street knew her. That's
Speaker 2: how I referred to her. That's how I knew Mina.
Speaker 2: She was the grand Dame, the matriarch of nightlife in Newport.
Speaker 2: Owned two of the last adult clubs there. You may
Speaker 2: have heard of them, The Brass Mule or the brass
Speaker 2: Ass in the Brass Bowl. Also, her family owns the
Speaker 2: bar where I've worked for the last fifteen plus years, Huddles.
Speaker 2: They're on Mama Street, and the first things that come
Speaker 2: to mind when I think of the legacy of Mina
Speaker 2: Lee on this earth, and I know she's in glory
Speaker 2: with her Savior, Jesus Christ. She was very open about
Speaker 2: her faith and her belief that she was a save
Speaker 2: center like the rest of us who believe such. The
Speaker 2: one thing I can say about Mina in this life
Speaker 2: is she was a tour de force. She was a
Speaker 2: survival artist on the highest order. How many people through
Speaker 2: the years, through the decades tried unsuccessfully to close Mina down,
Speaker 2: and she withstood at all. She was a great family lady.
Speaker 2: She had this incredible will, this incredible life force, and
Speaker 2: she had incredible amounts of love especially for her husband,
Speaker 2: her children, her grandchildren, her great grandchildren, and as a
Speaker 2: friend to me. I can be honest with I probably
Speaker 2: only spoke to minal Lee maybe seven times total in
Speaker 2: the entire fifteen years I worked there. Well, that doesn't
Speaker 2: mean she was hands off. If she needed you to
Speaker 2: do something or not do something, you would know. But
Speaker 2: I owe her a great deal just from my livelihood
Speaker 2: providing me an opportunity the way she provided countless others
Speaker 2: men and women through the years an opportunity to make
Speaker 2: a living through her businesses. So I just wanted to
Speaker 2: open up this morning condolences obviously to the family. I
Speaker 2: got to see almost everybody for the brief few minutes
Speaker 2: at Christen two point zero and I were there, And
Speaker 2: to the memory of Minor Lee gone to glory. Now
Speaker 2: I can't say enough about not only her persistence, her
Speaker 2: ability to survive, but also the great love that she
Speaker 2: showed not just to her family, but to everyone who
Speaker 2: came into contact with her. And the thing is, when
Speaker 2: you share love like that, I believe it's not just
Speaker 2: to that person, it is to every person they wind
Speaker 2: up meeting after you have shared that love and that
Speaker 2: loving spirit with them. So there are a lot of
Speaker 2: people that Mina Lee touched that brought her sense of
Speaker 2: love and compassion all around the world after meeting her.
Speaker 2: A great lady will definitely be missed on Mama Street
Speaker 2: and so many other places around the country and around
Speaker 2: the world. Rest in peace, Mina nine nineteen. Garret Jevn
Speaker 2: for Scott Sloan on seven und WLW five one three
Speaker 2: seven four nine seven one eight hundred D big one
Speaker 2: to get in touch, and I would really appreciate your
Speaker 2: help because I'm having a hard time understanding things and
Speaker 2: it starts with evs and more specifically Tesla's because they've
Speaker 2: been in the news because of all the vandalism and
Speaker 2: all the violence perpetrated against dealerships and now owners and
Speaker 2: there's supposed to be some big push a week from
Speaker 2: to tomorrow on March twenty ninth, the Jasmine Crockett of
Speaker 2: all people is encouraging people to to I don't know
Speaker 2: what she's encouraging people to do. Assassinate Tesla owners follow
Speaker 2: him home right in their driveway. I never was a fan.
Speaker 2: I've never been interested in owning an electric vehicle. And
Speaker 2: if you've listened to me for any amount of time,
Speaker 2: and you'll hear me with doctor Redstone after the news
Speaker 2: at nine point thirty from the CO two coalition. It's
Speaker 2: not because I have anything against them necessarily, but I
Speaker 2: don't want to be told that's what I have to buy,
Speaker 2: that's what I have to drive to save the planet,
Speaker 2: because that's horse hockey at the very least.
Speaker 3: Maybe some other animals scat too.
Speaker 2: But that being said, not being a big fan or
Speaker 2: a big proponent of something like tax subsidies. If you
Speaker 2: buy an electric car to save the planet and cut
Speaker 2: down on your fossil fuel carbon footprint, it I mean,
Speaker 2: that's all well and good if that's what you choose
Speaker 2: to do, but having get imposed like the Biden administration
Speaker 2: and the green new scam artists tell you have to
Speaker 2: by a certain date or the sea level is going
Speaker 2: to rise and We're going to all be covered up,
Speaker 2: and the planet is destined, doomed for extinction no more.
Speaker 3: CO two means the planet's never been greener.
Speaker 2: But what I want you to explain is why it's
Speaker 2: a good tactic to throw molotov cocktails and set teslas
Speaker 2: on fire, to set the charging stations on fire, to
Speaker 2: fire weapons into them. This just smacks of all the
Speaker 2: Antifa and b L garbage that America pretty much put
Speaker 2: up with in twenty twenty. We all remember that, don't
Speaker 2: we Apparently some people are forgotten, But this I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't get. What's your point? Can anybody defend torching
Speaker 2: tesla's now the phones are empty?
Speaker 3: Of course not.
Speaker 4: You can't.
Speaker 3: You can't.
Speaker 2: This is so nonsensical and it is so rife with
Speaker 2: domestic terrorism. It's exactly what it is now the definition
Speaker 2: of terrorism, And I think terrorism is often overused, but
Speaker 2: the definition of terrorism is to terrorize, or to intimidate,
Speaker 2: or to commit acts of violence in furtherance of a
Speaker 2: political goal. What is the goal when you're torching a tesla?
Speaker 2: To intimidate anyone who would drive one? How dare you
Speaker 2: drive a car made by Elon Musk? Are you Are
Speaker 2: you a Nazi too? And that's something you can't I
Speaker 2: can't get anybody to explain how Donald Trump or Elon
Speaker 2: Musk or Nazis when the people who were opposing them
Speaker 2: are acting like totalitarian Nazis on a regular basis. It's
Speaker 2: all the pot kittle black stuff of the finger pointing,
Speaker 2: in the nonsense, the hypocrisy. I just wish somebody could
Speaker 2: explain it to me because I think it's another sign
Speaker 2: of mental illness. We talk about gender dysphoria all the time,
Speaker 2: which is a mental defect. It's a mental disease. Gender dysphoria.
Speaker 2: The Trump arrangement syndrome, and now the Musk derangement syndrome
Speaker 2: that we are seeing in the country is nothing more
Speaker 2: than another mental illness, and you should really see a
Speaker 2: professional if you're suffering from it to the extent that
Speaker 2: you're going to throw Molotov cocktails and fire guns into
Speaker 2: automobiles because they're made by a man you don't like.
Speaker 2: Alan in Springfield, Hello, welcome to the show. Your thoughts?
Speaker 2: Can you straighten me out on this is going on
Speaker 2: right now? Why this nonsense keeps happening in this country?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: I can, but first I want to say I loved
Speaker 5: your opening dialogue. I don't know the lady that you
Speaker 5: were referring to, but I love hearing about people around
Speaker 5: Cincinnati and Kentucky that are good. People like it, So
Speaker 5: thank you for talking at the very beginning about the
Speaker 5: lady you've worked for.
Speaker 6: And I like that.
Speaker 5: Second of all, in regards to I'm not going to
Speaker 5: say you straight because people are just nuts. It all
Speaker 5: goes back to it all goes back to the same wine.
Speaker 5: We hear from everybody.
Speaker 4: My side, my side, my side, and.
Speaker 5: I don't like Joe Biden and I don't like Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: That's fine, though, I want to see that everybody succeed
Speaker 5: and try to do something good for everyone.
Speaker 7: But this is stupid.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't like how you know Elon Musks.
Speaker 5: You know they a couple of times they showed him
Speaker 5: with that chainsaw on the news.
Speaker 6: They try to make him look bad.
Speaker 4: I don't care about.
Speaker 5: That, but people Democrats are stupid on the fact that
Speaker 5: they prop up that guy's business and when he doesn't
Speaker 5: agree with what they were attenda, they're trying to tear
Speaker 5: him down like vicious animals. And I've seen Republicans do
Speaker 5: it too on certain stuff.
Speaker 2: And it's just like, give me this, Ellen, Just give
Speaker 2: me an example of Republicans committing acts of violence for
Speaker 2: someone that they disagree with politically. I mean, and don't
Speaker 2: don't cite January sixth. I'm talking about an everyday life.
Speaker 2: Cite something that Republicans do that are like what Democrats
Speaker 2: and Democrats supporters are doing to tesler dealerships or to
Speaker 2: burning down federal buildings during twenty twenty during the George
Speaker 2: Fly Floyd wrightes.
Speaker 4: But tell me, tell me, tell me what I can't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it doesn't usually happen.
Speaker 4: It happens.
Speaker 3: It happens on the left all the time.
Speaker 7: It does.
Speaker 5: It does, and they should be called out more on it.
Speaker 5: But the only place is gonna call it out or
Speaker 5: places like yours say, you're not gonna hear it on
Speaker 5: the on the evening news.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's you know, that's just all crap.
Speaker 5: But but my point is it still goes back to people.
Speaker 7: People are just drawing.
Speaker 5: They drew their lines in the sand fifteen years ago,
Speaker 5: and nobody works with anym and no one tries.
Speaker 1: To do I do.
Speaker 5: There are things that Donald Trump's trying to do that
Speaker 5: I agree with, and there'd be people be like, you're
Speaker 5: nuts that I run with, But then there's other people
Speaker 5: that it's like, wait.
Speaker 4: A minute, take a good look.
Speaker 5: At where we are as the country. We need to
Speaker 5: work together, and people are going to fight him at
Speaker 5: everything he does.
Speaker 4: And I will say this, I wish.
Speaker 5: Donald Trump could work on delivering messages better than he does.
Speaker 7: I really do.
Speaker 5: I don't like the way he delivers stuff.
Speaker 7: I think he would have.
Speaker 5: Been more successful in his first term had he delivered stuff.
Speaker 4: Better than the way he doesn't.
Speaker 5: But then again, you're constantly being fought by the Democrats
Speaker 5: always say we're for peace, love and everyone get along.
Speaker 5: They are the most vicious.
Speaker 7: People going after their opponents. I agree with you on
Speaker 7: all that, Gary.
Speaker 6: Jeff, for sure.
Speaker 5: So I appreciate you on the radio, and I think
Speaker 5: you're a breath of fresh air sometimes and I don't
Speaker 5: always agree with you, and that is fine, but I
Speaker 5: like listening to you, Gary Jeff.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Matt allen Is I like to say, I am I
Speaker 2: and you are you, and that's perfectly fine with me.
Speaker 2: All right, buddy, thanks thanks for the call. I mean
Speaker 2: it made some good points, but again, he could not
Speaker 2: cite one example of the right or people who call
Speaker 2: themselves Conservatives or Republicans torching someone's business or trying to
Speaker 2: take someone down because they disagreed with them politically. And
Speaker 2: as he as, it's obvious when Elon Musk was voting
Speaker 2: Democrat before he was supporting Donald Trump, the Democrats and
Speaker 2: the left loved him. What a genius sending rockets into space, starlink, neuralink,
Speaker 2: this incredible vehicle that is going to be the car
Speaker 2: of the future. And now the same people are torching
Speaker 2: them in parking lots, in dealerships, and dosing people who
Speaker 2: are Tesla owners so they can be targeted on the streets,
Speaker 2: all because of their insanity. The Trump derangement syndrome, the
Speaker 2: Elon Musk derangement syndrome, is nothing but a meta It's
Speaker 2: a mental illness period over. As I mentioned, we have
Speaker 2: doctor Gregory Stenstrom. Note that's next week, Gregory writes Stone.
Speaker 2: I got my Greg's confused. Doctor Gregory Writestone, executive director
Speaker 2: of the CO two Coalition and author of a very
Speaker 2: convenient warming, which he says we're experiencing right now on
Speaker 2: EVS on all the rest, plus Grant Barry who's a
Speaker 2: minister and an author to join us and tell us
Speaker 2: how we can actually unite together as peoples in this
Speaker 2: country and how we better do it, and much more.
Speaker 2: Austin Elmore on bracketbusting and the like. As turn time
Speaker 2: is here, March madness, it's nine thirty, let's go seven
Speaker 2: out or WLW. What is the truth and what are
Speaker 2: the lies about climate change? We certainly heard a lot
Speaker 2: about it over the last particularly twenty five years, and
Speaker 2: certainly there were a lot of people who believe the
Speaker 2: quote unquote settled science until they maybe took a look
Speaker 2: around and discovered that there was information that was being
Speaker 2: withheld from them. There were data models, and there were
Speaker 2: so called facts that weren't actually so factual. And one
Speaker 2: of the people helping to let all of us understand
Speaker 2: what the real story is with the climate, with CO two,
Speaker 2: with the Green New scam some people call it Green
Speaker 2: New Deal legislation and mandates to help us understand this
Speaker 2: is a guy who's been at the forefront, the executive
Speaker 2: director of the CO two Coalition, a geologist and the
Speaker 2: best selling author of Inconvenient Facts, The Science that Al
Speaker 2: Gore does not want you to know, and very Convenient Warming,
Speaker 2: his newest book, along with all the research materials and
Speaker 2: educational materials that his group, the CO two Coalition, does
Speaker 2: on a daily basis. Let's talk to Gregory wright Stone
Speaker 2: for that. Doctor wright Stone, how are you today?
Speaker 4: Oh? Really good?
Speaker 7: Lots of things happening in our If you're a climate
Speaker 7: skeptic like i am, or you might call me a
Speaker 7: climate realist, boy, it's felt the last decade or decade
Speaker 7: and a half, it's felt like we've had a strong
Speaker 7: head when we were fighting. Now the wind is at
Speaker 7: our back with the new Trump administration, with lee Z
Speaker 7: elden in and this administrator of.
Speaker 8: The e p A. Chris Wright at Department of.
Speaker 7: Energy, Bergham at Interior. Well I'm not as hot on him,
Speaker 7: but boy, there's a lot going on, and so we've
Speaker 7: been busy, busy, busy. But you're you're right in your
Speaker 7: intro here. Your listeners are being lied to on a
Speaker 7: daily basis about what's actually happening with climate change, and
Speaker 7: you're right. My first book, Inconvenient Facts, I pretty clearly
Speaker 7: documented that there is no climate crisis. And we've moved
Speaker 7: a little bit further, no, a lot further from that
Speaker 7: there is no climate crisis. That's easily proved, but we've
Speaker 7: gone beyond that to say that not only is there
Speaker 7: not a climate crisis, but the modest warming, combined with
Speaker 7: more CO two are benefiting Earth's ecosystems by almost every
Speaker 7: metric we look at, from the near polar regions to
Speaker 7: the equator, and in turn, that's benefiting humanity and improving
Speaker 7: the human condition. So things aren't spiraling into a death
Speaker 7: spiral for man made catastrophic warming, but rather life is
Speaker 7: good and getting better, and we should.
Speaker 4: Celebrate that the planet.
Speaker 7: We should celebrate the huge benefits.
Speaker 2: The planet is greening, actually, and it's detectable via satellite,
Speaker 2: is it not, Doctor Redskin?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 7: And what's really interesting too, we've increased atmosphereic CO two
Speaker 7: by about fifty percent since industrial revolution. We were I'm
Speaker 7: not going to give you too many numbers here, but
Speaker 7: we were at about two hundred and eighty parts per million
Speaker 7: two hundred years ago, one hundred and fifty years ago.
Speaker 7: We're at four to twenty ppm today. That's a fifty
Speaker 7: percent increase, and it's it's increased because of our use
Speaker 7: of fossil fuels. As you burn fossil fuels, coal oil,
Speaker 7: natural gas one of the main components. When you burn it,
Speaker 7: you produce water, vapor, and carbon dioxide. And so that's
Speaker 7: that's that's the reason we're increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,
Speaker 7: our use of fossil fuels. But again we should treasure that.
Speaker 7: And what's interesting too, we know pretty pretty detailed how much,
Speaker 7: how many, how much human emissions of CO two we're doing,
Speaker 7: and how what nature is and only fifty percent of
Speaker 7: what we're emitting shows up in the atmosphere, So we're
Speaker 7: emitting twice as much CO two is what shows up
Speaker 7: in the atmosphere, And you might say, well, what's going
Speaker 7: on there? Two things, the biome of the earth, vegetation
Speaker 7: for the most part, are using that. It's greening the earth,
Speaker 7: and that's taking half of our emissions out of the atmosphere.
Speaker 7: The ocean is are also what we call a sink,
Speaker 7: and that sink of carbon dox I increased carbon dox
Speaker 7: But it's mainly plant growth, and it's just spectacular what
Speaker 7: we see the increase of.
Speaker 4: Vegetation.
Speaker 7: The main benefit we see is in increasing crop productivity.
Speaker 7: We're seeing almost every metric you look at and all
Speaker 7: the crops I look in my new book as the
Speaker 7: top eight crops in the world, and each one of
Speaker 7: them you should see the last fifty years just increasing
Speaker 7: production year after year after year. And that's because of
Speaker 7: warming and more two. Warming means we have longer grow
Speaker 7: in the seasons, killing frosts, and earlier in the spring
Speaker 7: and arrived later in the fall. And I know around
Speaker 7: in southern Ohio with some fruit orchards there, what's a
Speaker 7: fruit or if you own a fruit orchard, what do
Speaker 7: you fear the most? It's a late spring killing frost,
Speaker 7: isn't it? That will ruin your entire year. But now
Speaker 7: because the growing season has length and since nineteen hundred,
Speaker 7: I get this more than two weeks, and so that's
Speaker 7: hugely beneficial. You don't get those late spring killing frosts.
Speaker 7: And we're also getting more plantings with a longer growing season,
Speaker 7: and that's turbocharged then by what's called the CO two
Speaker 7: fertilization effect. More CO two means greater, greater and faster
Speaker 7: crop growth and plant growth.
Speaker 8: One of the.
Speaker 7: Things everything anything that's bad, they relate to climate changed
Speaker 7: out that there was one, but some of it is
Speaker 7: actually true. The the one that's that I laugh at
Speaker 7: is there was a study out that man's emissions at
Speaker 7: CO two and global warming was going to cause poison
Speaker 7: ivy to increase. And you know what, they're right because
Speaker 7: CO two fertilization is an equal opportunity plant food, So
Speaker 7: you know, would would would poison ivy grow faster with
Speaker 7: higher CO two?
Speaker 3: Yep, everything, every everything.
Speaker 9: We're talking to Gregory Wrightstone, executive director of the Climate
Speaker 9: or the CO two Coalition in Arlington, Virginia, we're talking
Speaker 9: about these this this lashback h on Elon Musk and
Speaker 9: the tesla's being set on fire.
Speaker 2: And you know, these groups, whether they're registered Democrats or
Speaker 2: they just vote Democrat, or they're a tool of Democrat uh,
Speaker 2: extremists on on the far left. These are the same
Speaker 2: people that told us that we have to convert to
Speaker 2: e vs to electric vehicles to save the planet. Apparently
Speaker 2: now they don't care about it, which shows you, I think,
Speaker 2: and other people have mentioned it, it shows you that
Speaker 2: they weren't serious about all the climate not so garbage
Speaker 2: in the first place. If they can change on a dime,
Speaker 2: simply because of the guy that is the head of
Speaker 2: the company that makes the cars they don't like politically,
Speaker 2: you know, whatever whatever fits at the moment. Are you
Speaker 2: seeing that as well, doctor Wrightsdale, Oh, oh.
Speaker 7: It's the hypocrisy is unbelievable. Not only are they burning
Speaker 7: these evs and they're the tests or the teslas, but
Speaker 7: when you do that, you're emitting really bad stuff into
Speaker 7: the atmosphere, especially lifting am eye on battery fires to
Speaker 7: create terribly toxic smoke and fumes. But not only that,
Speaker 7: you're really you're leasing all this the demon molecule carbon dioxide.
Speaker 7: And it's just it's rank hypocrisy from these people. Uh,
Speaker 7: they're it's going to be interested in see who's who's funding.
Speaker 7: With the funding sources, it'll probably lead back to George
Speaker 7: Soros or all of these environmental groups with billions of
Speaker 7: dollars to throw at it. And some of these people.
Speaker 7: We look at Stacy Abrams, she was one of eight
Speaker 7: or nine of these green groups that got twenty billion dollars.
Speaker 7: I believe she got.
Speaker 4: Two billions two billion dollars.
Speaker 7: For nonprofit she that was just formed last year and
Speaker 7: in twenty twenty three it only received one hundred dollars.
Speaker 7: Now she get it. They dumped two billion into her
Speaker 7: there's a radical judge. Lee's ell at EPA is trying
Speaker 7: to shut that money down, twenty billion dollars, and a
Speaker 7: judge I believe in California has said, no, no, no,
Speaker 7: you know they're you need to give that money to
Speaker 7: those green groups. And it'll be interesting to see what
Speaker 7: shakes out.
Speaker 2: Oh, it was a fire sale of cash out the
Speaker 2: end of the Biden administration, isn't it. Frankly, I don't
Speaker 2: think that Jill had anything to do with it or
Speaker 2: knew about it, but but all of his underlings and
Speaker 2: minions said, we got to get We got to get
Speaker 2: rid of this money now because our NGOs and our
Speaker 2: pet projects and the people that we've promised to are
Speaker 2: not going to get this from Donald Trump, so we
Speaker 2: have to do this. It was shameful the way they
Speaker 2: wield open the vault and wield the money out of
Speaker 2: our money, your money, my money, anybody who pays taxes money.
Speaker 2: People think that the government just has money on their
Speaker 2: on their own. No, the government's money comes from all
Speaker 2: of us. And I don't think I checked off on
Speaker 2: giving two billion dollars to Stacy Abrams of my money,
Speaker 2: did you not?
Speaker 1: At all?
Speaker 4: And it was really clear.
Speaker 7: At EPA and then the buy the administration, they said
Speaker 7: what they're.
Speaker 8: Doing, they called it.
Speaker 6: It was in the.
Speaker 7: Waning days of buy deministration they proudly proclaimed, we're throwing
Speaker 7: gold bars off the Titanic. In other words, they're just
Speaker 7: throwing money our mind, as you say, they're just taking
Speaker 7: a torch to it and burning it with no good
Speaker 7: and it's just crazy and the waste and fraud and abused.
Speaker 7: It's been found by Doge and Elon Musk and his
Speaker 7: team is incredible, and a lot of it went to
Speaker 7: cure climate climate crisis. They're throwing money to solve a
Speaker 7: non existent crisis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in your book, A very convenient warming, the latest one,
Speaker 2: how modest warming and more CO two are benefiting humanity?
Speaker 2: What are things like CO two pipelines doing to the climent?
Speaker 2: See that This is what I don't get. We're supposed
Speaker 2: to be saving the planet, saving the climate with our actions,
Speaker 2: when our actions really have very negligible negative effects. But
Speaker 2: they do have positive effects in just being part of
Speaker 2: the biome that you mentioned before and being what they're
Speaker 2: a positive part of the biome because CO two is necessary.
Speaker 2: You know, we're also probably big polluters, each one of
Speaker 2: us every time we breathe out, aren't we?
Speaker 7: Yeah, And that's part of what's called the Endangerment Finding
Speaker 7: that leez Elden just last week announced in a wonderful
Speaker 7: I'm believeing now it's thirty two regulations, So they were
Speaker 7: going to be rolling back in. The Endangerment Finding was
Speaker 7: one of them, and that was in two thousand and nine,
Speaker 7: the Obama EPA determined the carbon dioxides and pollutant that
Speaker 7: can be regulated, and boy they did, and they've used
Speaker 7: that determination of CO two as a pollutant to really
Speaker 7: underlie everything else else they've done to restrict the freedoms
Speaker 7: of your listeners. And you and I are both pro
Speaker 7: choice in that we want to give our ear listeners
Speaker 7: the choice of what kind of car to drive, the
Speaker 7: choice of their washing machine of choice, to buy their dryer,
Speaker 7: dishwasher of and we could go on and on, ceiling fans.
Speaker 7: They're trying to strip away your listeners freedom systematically. And
Speaker 7: what Lee's Elden and the Trump administration now we're doing
Speaker 7: or are saying, no, no, no, your listeners should have
Speaker 7: even to buy a dishwasher that can be completed in
Speaker 7: forty five minutes instead of three hours, or that they
Speaker 7: can buy a shower head that allows the water to
Speaker 7: flow freely instead of being restricted at the government regulate
Speaker 7: and flow rate. All these things just it's supercharged in
Speaker 7: anti state and government overreach and thankfully hopefully it's ending.
Speaker 2: How important was it for us to be immediately out
Speaker 2: of the Paris Climate Accords, Well, that was that was
Speaker 2: a board that freedom.
Speaker 7: We knew. Yeah, that was a big step, but we
Speaker 7: hadn't really in Paris Climate Cords. There were certain goals
Speaker 7: that were in place. Since we had never really signed
Speaker 7: on to them, we weren't bound. But they were determined
Speaker 7: to give money to this climate slush fund. They called
Speaker 7: it climate reparations with people like these islands in the
Speaker 7: Indian Ocean and the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean that
Speaker 7: we're going to be underwater. And there's the leaders of
Speaker 7: those islands are standing there with they're with their hands
Speaker 7: out raised, you know, waiting to for us to like
Speaker 7: billions of dollars into their laps to be wasted. And
Speaker 7: I'm not sure if we've talked about it before, but
Speaker 7: in the UNS determined that the mound dives in the
Speaker 7: Indian Ocean are the most at risk island chain. The
Speaker 7: Mouldives are just above water. But the fact that and
Speaker 7: they're supposed to be underwater by twenty fifty. The fact
Speaker 7: that it is the Mount Beeves fifteen thousand years ago,
Speaker 7: we're just above water, and in last fifteen thousand years
Speaker 7: sea level has risen four hundred feet. Why are the
Speaker 7: Mount Beeves not under four hundred feet of water? You
Speaker 7: might ask? And it's because of a geologic process known
Speaker 7: as accretion.
Speaker 4: And you could just.
Speaker 7: Go go google it search for island accretion. You can
Speaker 7: learn about it. And so these are mostly coral. Coral
Speaker 7: grows really quickly, you can keep up with sea level rise.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: But on top of that is this type of accretion
Speaker 7: allows the coral, corals and sands to be washed up
Speaker 7: onto the shore and then distributed across the island. So
Speaker 7: it's just crazy.
Speaker 2: Are you saying, Greg, Are you saying that the earth
Speaker 2: takes care of itself?
Speaker 3: Kind of?
Speaker 4: I mean a sort of Basically, that's what it is.
Speaker 7: There's a fouls of violins have seen four hundred feet
Speaker 7: of sea level rise. And actually if you look at
Speaker 7: the in the Pacific, it's called the Great coral triangle.
Speaker 7: The majority of the islands or have had either stable
Speaker 7: in terms of size or either stable or growing, and
Speaker 7: they're not going underwater at all.
Speaker 8: And it's fun.
Speaker 7: It gets through the corals. There's this thing called the
Speaker 7: parrot fish. You've probably get this big beak.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Actually they actually eat the coral, right, and it goes
Speaker 7: in one end and out the other. So the sands
Speaker 7: are predominantly eighty percent of the sands that you see
Speaker 7: there is parrotfish poop.
Speaker 8: And it's what it is.
Speaker 7: It's just you know, coming in one end.
Speaker 2: You know, I have to I have to end the
Speaker 2: conversation there, and I am so glad we got to
Speaker 2: hear parrotfish poop before we were done on a discussion
Speaker 2: on climate from the CO two coalition.
Speaker 3: Gregory Wrightstone, thank you so much, what sir.
Speaker 4: As always, thank you?
Speaker 2: All right, good stuff, break and then Grant Barry will
Speaker 2: join us afternoons.
Speaker 1: Do you want to be an americanity?
Speaker 2: Hey ho, let's go into another hour, Gary Jeff Walker
Speaker 2: on the Scott Sloan Show. Sloaney obviously out if you
Speaker 2: hadn't noticed by now, it's great to be with you.
Speaker 2: I will start at the top of this hour by
Speaker 2: saying I'm not Jewish, but I am a Zionist. Zionism
Speaker 2: Zionism the definition is it's a nationalist movement with the
Speaker 2: goal of creation and support of a Jewish national state
Speaker 2: in the place that we call Israel. And it basically
Speaker 2: means that a Zionist believes that the land of Israel
Speaker 2: is for Jews, that God gave them, this is promising
Speaker 2: and their ancient homeland where they've been living for thousands
Speaker 2: of years. And yet other people are trying to stake
Speaker 2: ownership in some of this land. They call them Palestinians
Speaker 2: or whatever. But in this country, the anti Semitism that
Speaker 2: we have seen rise up, specifically since that October day
Speaker 2: when Hamas representing those people that call themselves Palestinians, and
Speaker 2: the murder and the rape and the torture that went
Speaker 2: on and the incursion into Israel horrific, the worst since
Speaker 2: the Holocaust, sparked all these protests in our country on
Speaker 2: college campuses, and it's happened again, and we see this
Speaker 2: violence directed towards Jewish people after these great atrocities have
Speaker 2: been committed against Jewish peapleeople, all in the name of
Speaker 2: pro Palestinian causes, i e. Hamas has Bellah, these terror
Speaker 2: groups that are sadly misguiding a bunch of Arabs down
Speaker 2: a very very dark path. But we're divided in this
Speaker 2: country too, and there has been a rise of anti
Speaker 2: Semitism in America. Somebody who has been trying to remedy
Speaker 2: that and trying to unite Jews and Christian believers is
Speaker 2: our next guest. He's a minister and author, and he
Speaker 2: is also the head of the Romans nine to eleven Project,
Speaker 2: which is an initiative that calls the church to recognize
Speaker 2: and embrace its Jewish roots. Jesus was a Jew. Before
Speaker 2: there was Christianity, there was Judaism. Now a new covenant
Speaker 2: with God. Grant Berry, Welcome to the Scott Sloan Show.
Speaker 2: I'm Gary Jeff, and it's great to have you on.
Speaker 2: How are today?
Speaker 10: I'm doing really good.
Speaker 2: It's great to be with you, fantastic. I'm glad you
Speaker 2: could join us. So my definition of Zionism is pretty
Speaker 2: on cue. I've looked at all the you know, the
Speaker 2: definitions that are available Britannic and Miriam Webster and the like,
Speaker 2: and Zionism just is a belief that Israel is for
Speaker 2: the Jews. This was the promised land that God gave
Speaker 2: the Jewish people. And then of course then came a
Speaker 2: new covenant, Jesus Christ, who lived and taught and then
Speaker 2: died for our sins and was resurrected.
Speaker 3: And you say that it's.
Speaker 2: It's actually God's call that the Jewish and the Christian
Speaker 2: believers would become one, and you're working towards that unity.
Speaker 3: Tell me how it's going.
Speaker 10: Well, I think it's the aw before the wedding, and
Speaker 10: most of us those parents the things that can happen
Speaker 10: right before a wedding. Yet when the bride walks down
Speaker 10: the aisle, she is in all her glory. But first
Speaker 10: there is a mess I think you should prayed it
Speaker 10: correctly for a complete unity, for his body to be
Speaker 10: restored to that the world would know. And so here
Speaker 10: we are moving into God's end time plans. And yet
Speaker 10: the Church is still greatly divided. So really a rebuild
Speaker 10: is needed first to restore other unity, first in the
Speaker 10: body of Christ, in the body of Messiah, that we
Speaker 10: can fulfill.
Speaker 7: God's call to be a light to the world.
Speaker 10: And so especially nour as Israel awakens the Lord looks
Speaker 10: to restore this love and unity foundationally between Jewish and
Speaker 10: gentile believers, as well as with all races and many
Speaker 10: of our theological divides, to bring the remnant of God
Speaker 10: those that call on his name, that those.
Speaker 7: Yeshua referred to as his sheep.
Speaker 10: That know his voice, that we would come together in
Speaker 10: a love and unity and demonstraight the love of Yashua
Speaker 10: to a lost world that can draw them to jealousy
Speaker 10: and once again cause the Kingdom of God to arise.
Speaker 2: So we're not we're not We're not there yet. Though
Speaker 2: we're not there yet, Grant. And you see that every
Speaker 2: day in these protests at Columbia and the Trump Tower
Speaker 2: takeover that we saw in New York City, all just
Speaker 2: in the name of basically a terror group named him
Speaker 2: as representing. And there are many people who call themselves
Speaker 2: Christians who have been expressing this anti Semitism. How do
Speaker 2: you get the message to those people that you know
Speaker 2: and I know people who still want to blame the Jews.
Speaker 8: And to.
Speaker 2: You know, as a Christian, like I said, as a Christian,
Speaker 2: I know that the Jewish people are part of their
Speaker 2: God's people and they're part of the plan. But I mean,
Speaker 2: how do you break through to these misguided in some
Speaker 2: cases and in many cases just people who want to divide.
Speaker 2: Uniters have a tough time when the the market of
Speaker 2: division is so freely exchanged right now, especially in this country.
Speaker 10: Well, okay, Gary, I think let's understand first that complete
Speaker 10: unity will not come until until Jesus comes and establishes
Speaker 10: this kingdom on the earth. But first his body needs
Speaker 10: to reconcile. You know, when you look at John seventeen
Speaker 10: and the emphasis that Jesus prays on for the glory
Speaker 10: of God, it's connected to the unity in his family,
Speaker 10: and the enemy has divided us. Judgment begins first in
Speaker 10: the house, and there are negative influences of generational antisemitism
Speaker 10: for thousands of years that have passed down the bloodline
Speaker 10: that we need to face in the church. The Father
Speaker 10: wants to in a sense, releases mercy to us, wash
Speaker 10: us clean and get us ready. And so first the
Speaker 10: body needs to get cleaned up to properly represent your
Speaker 10: sure that the world would once again be jealous for
Speaker 10: what we have. I mean, when we read the Book
Speaker 10: of Acts, when the Church first began, the power, the
Speaker 10: glory of God was all over it and so we
Speaker 10: need to deal with those things first.
Speaker 8: In the body.
Speaker 10: And we have a teaching called the Romans nine on
Speaker 10: one project that exposes the way that the enemy has
Speaker 10: wrought all of these divisions, and we give opportunity for
Speaker 10: the body to get cleaned up.
Speaker 4: We're never going.
Speaker 10: To fully win over those that are against the Gospel.
Speaker 10: I mean, we're dealing with light and darkness.
Speaker 7: Here and uh.
Speaker 10: And we know ultimately the light winds, but there will
Speaker 10: be many caught under the darkness and unfortunately will perish.
Speaker 10: But God wants none of us to perish. And so
Speaker 10: we need to in a sense allow the Father to
Speaker 10: rebuild us that we can bring many more with us.
Speaker 10: And of course we're dealing here very much with light
Speaker 10: and darkness and spiritual forces that are under current to
Speaker 10: lots of these Uh. This swirl of anti Semitism, if
Speaker 10: you like, and I think I think it's not going
Speaker 10: to diminish, if anything, it's going to increase.
Speaker 2: So you expect you expect more of these headlines, more
Speaker 2: of these stories of protests of people not only blocking
Speaker 2: say Jewish students from classes, but committing acts of violence.
Speaker 2: It's going to get worse before it ever gets better
Speaker 2: as I guess what you're saying.
Speaker 10: Well, let's look just how the media has spun this,
Speaker 10: this hamas representative in Columbia last year, trying to make
Speaker 10: out that you know that this is a freedom of
Speaker 10: speech issue, when when clearly.
Speaker 2: Well listen, when the other people's involved rights are being violated,
Speaker 2: you don't have a freedom.
Speaker 3: That's not freedom of speech.
Speaker 2: That's intimidation, that's coercion, that is violence and vandalism are
Speaker 2: not symbols of freedom of speech. And you know, we've
Speaker 2: seen these two with the torching of the Tesla dealerships,
Speaker 2: we saw it in the riots in twenty twenty and
Speaker 2: all the things that have happened that are anti Semitic
Speaker 2: in nature. For our conversation, it just it does seem
Speaker 2: to be getting ramped up, and the media is portraying
Speaker 2: it as these people are are oppressed.
Speaker 10: And even with the even with the counter attacks from
Speaker 10: Israel this week, everything was blamed on Israel. Meanwhile, it
Speaker 10: was a muster that broke the Sea spires, right, So
Speaker 10: you know, everything is spun by the liberal media that
Speaker 10: comes against Israel, and there's and we're only going to
Speaker 10: see this increase so more. The need for the Church
Speaker 10: to get fully right in its connection with Israel. And
Speaker 10: let me also say this, Jesus is coming back to
Speaker 10: establish his kingdom from Jerusalem from Israel, and those of
Speaker 10: his followers are called to be his priests and representative
Speaker 10: of that monarch. So there's a cultorate reconnection here that
Speaker 10: is also needed for the Church to come back towards
Speaker 10: Israel to properly represent it.
Speaker 2: All right, listen, it's it's the Romans nine one one project.
Speaker 2: Grant Barry is our guest, and I thank you so
Speaker 2: much for being with us, Pastor, how how can people
Speaker 2: find out if they want to know more about the
Speaker 2: Romans nine one one project?
Speaker 8: Thanks so much, Arry.
Speaker 10: We have a great teaching project called the Romans nine
Speaker 10: one one project dot org Romans nine one one project
Speaker 10: dot org and it's completely free and it's it's transformational
Speaker 10: video teaching series to help us get on track with
Speaker 10: the his rail piece.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you so much, and God bless you
Speaker 2: appreciate your time.
Speaker 8: Bless you too.
Speaker 2: All right, Grant Barry, there a break and back with
Speaker 2: more of the Slowly Show on a Friday on seven
Speaker 2: under WLW.
Speaker 3: Tournament time is here.
Speaker 2: The Madness of March has begun and one set of
Speaker 2: games in the books. Yesterday, I wasn't particularly surprised about much,
Speaker 2: but the Drake victory over Missouri was kind of in press.
Speaker 2: And what's really cool as we set up for the
Speaker 2: weekend in the second round of games, is that two
Speaker 2: former coaches of the Kentucky Wildcats, two former national championship coaches,
Speaker 2: will match up when Arkansas plays Saint John's tomorrow. That
Speaker 2: I mean to see John Calipari. And you know, the
Speaker 2: rap against Cali Perry was he could recruit, He can
Speaker 2: get the players, but when it comes to the x's
Speaker 2: and o's and executing, maybe not so much. With the
Speaker 2: talent he has, he did wonders with Arkansas, especially last
Speaker 2: night when it got tight, and it got tight against Kansas.
Speaker 2: In that game, you had John Kella Perry, John Perry
Speaker 2: out coaching Bill self. It was interesting to watch and
Speaker 2: Rick Patino just keeps on rolling along with Saint John's
Speaker 2: at a slow start last night and then you know
Speaker 2: they woke up and go, we're Saint John's. We're not losing.
Speaker 2: In this first round game to Omaha. They wound up
Speaker 2: being a thirty point blowout. So to talk about that
Speaker 2: and so much more, and there's still, you know, a
Speaker 2: full slate of games. Xavier will play Illinois tonight. That
Speaker 2: could set up a matchup with Kentucky. My buddy neighbor Gary,
Speaker 2: who walks Sweetpee up and down the sidewalk in front
Speaker 2: of our house there in Southgate, always wears his ex jacket,
Speaker 2: especially when it's getting chillier like it has been this week.
Speaker 2: And I saw him before the Xavier play in game
Speaker 2: on Wednesday, and he told me, Yeah, Xavier's gonna be
Speaker 2: whoever they played wins Texas. You're gonna beat Texas, then
Speaker 2: they're gonna beat Illinois, then they're gonna beat Kentucky, and
Speaker 2: then they'll lose. So he's predicting Xavier to get like
Speaker 2: as far as the Sweet sixteen, we shall see, not
Speaker 2: too far ahead of ourselves, Musketeers fans. But anyway, Austin Elmore,
Speaker 2: who was en route to a live broadcast for the
Speaker 2: tourney today we'll be checking in with us, just passed
Speaker 2: the news at ten thirty with a breakdown on brackets bust.
Speaker 2: Another thing about Austin is he has headed up I
Speaker 2: don't know for how many years now the bracket the
Speaker 2: NCAA tournament bracket here at iHeartMedia, I don't participate because
Speaker 2: I know I absolutely suck at picking those games. After
Speaker 2: years and years of following hoops and you know, watching
Speaker 2: everything I possibly could, gathering as much information as I
Speaker 2: could about all of the teams and all of the
Speaker 2: games and all of the players, I really don't do
Speaker 2: well when it comes to bracket time, and most people
Speaker 2: don't either. We'll see where Austin is after night number one,
Speaker 2: and what's ahead on the slate today, and talk a
Speaker 2: little Hoops, maybe talk a little Reds, and if possible,
Speaker 2: because the NFL season never ends, talk about some mingles stuff.
Speaker 2: In just a few minutes, Gary Jeff on The Sloaning
Speaker 2: Show in for Scott Sloan today and much morehead including
Speaker 2: Joe Evermore just after eleven o'clock Who is He find out?
Speaker 2: Really cool dad with some really cool kids. Plus former
Speaker 2: showrunner and writer for the hit TV series Blue Bloods
Speaker 2: right up until its finality, Kevin Wade will join us
Speaker 2: just after eleven thirty This Morning News.
Speaker 11: Now and Now a guy who gives us a three
Speaker 11: sixty degree view on sports every day on our sisters station,
Speaker 11: ESPN fifteen thirty and quite often appears here, as in
Speaker 11: right now on the Scott Sloan Show, The One and
Speaker 11: Only Austin Elmore, Where are you if anywhere?
Speaker 3: Give me a full report, Austin.
Speaker 4: Gary, Jeff. I am at home right now.
Speaker 6: I am C Brushley, preparing yes for the Sincy three
Speaker 6: sixty Live show at Oakley Greens this afternoon from twelve
Speaker 6: to three.
Speaker 3: Oh that's right now.
Speaker 2: Do they feed you at these events?
Speaker 4: I believe so, yes, most of them?
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 3: I saw Mike Mills. You know that.
Speaker 2: You know Mikey, the producer extraordinaire, it guy engineer he is.
Speaker 2: He is planning on being there, I think, And he said,
Speaker 2: you know the great thing about it isn't all the
Speaker 2: work and all the lugging of all the equipment and
Speaker 2: perhaps babysitting animals like you. It's it's the free food.
Speaker 2: So he's looking forward to free food as well. You
Speaker 2: don't know what's on the menu, do you.
Speaker 6: Well they have all sorts of stuff. They've got pizzas
Speaker 6: and flatbreads, and I had some burger sliders the last
Speaker 6: time I was there.
Speaker 3: Very nice.
Speaker 6: It's an extensive menu.
Speaker 8: All right.
Speaker 2: Well, now we've gotten past the menu. What about what's
Speaker 2: on the menu while you were there? Obviously it's the
Speaker 2: NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, the championship. We're into the second
Speaker 2: half of the sixty four team field. Last night a
Speaker 2: bunch of games. What has surprised you about last night?
Speaker 2: If anything? I mean, there were a couple of quote
Speaker 2: unquote upsets, but there's always a twelve versus five or
Speaker 2: an eleven versus six that wins out, you know, and
Speaker 2: it's not chalk. That's why the brackets get busted. And
Speaker 2: usually oft times, by the time Friday has done, everybody's
Speaker 2: basket is brackets could put except for maybe one or
Speaker 2: two teams. So what surprised you last night and Thursday's games?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know that there was a ton of surprises.
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously McNee State taking down Clemsons, who had
Speaker 6: a pretty solid season. I think one of the bigger
Speaker 6: stories of the tournament so far is that the ACC
Speaker 6: has not performed very well. The Big Ten has the
Speaker 6: Big Ten is four to oh and they still have
Speaker 6: Michigan State to go tonight. But maybe the most notable
Speaker 6: was Arkansas beating Kansas. Kansas hasn't lost in the Red
Speaker 6: to sixty four in a long long time, and Coach
Speaker 6: Call and Arkansas were able to beat him last night,
Speaker 6: now setting up a round of thirty two matchup between
Speaker 6: Coach Cow and Rick Patino at Saint John's. So that's
Speaker 6: that's spicy. I didn't pick Arkansas in any of my brackets,
Speaker 6: just because I'm so used to picking Kansas in March.
Speaker 6: But Coach Cow and that group did a great job
Speaker 6: last night, and they're into the round of thirty two
Speaker 6: to take on Patino. That's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: Correction, the SEC did lose a game. They Missouri lost
Speaker 2: to Drake last night. Isn't Missouri the Big ten? The
Speaker 2: Big Ten's four to Oh okay, I thought you said
Speaker 2: the SEC. Now, the SEC had more teams, a record
Speaker 2: amount of teams in the tournament, and they did pretty
Speaker 2: well last night, outside of Missouri's loss to Drake, which
Speaker 2: may or may not have been a surprise.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But still my Vanderbilt Commodores have to play today and
Speaker 2: there's a chance they could move on. Were you surprised
Speaker 2: or shocked that the SEC got fourteen out of sixteen
Speaker 2: teams into the tournament?
Speaker 6: I would say I was surprised. I don't know that.
Speaker 6: I would say I was shocked. It's been a good conference,
Speaker 6: and it's kind of interesting in the NIL and the
Speaker 6: transfer portal era. We've kind of seen this on the
Speaker 6: football side, and now we're seeing it on the base
Speaker 6: basketball side, which is these teams are a lot more
Speaker 6: even there's a lot of the same team in the
Speaker 6: SEC because those you know, those players that might not
Speaker 6: play at one school might be able to easily transfer
Speaker 6: within the conference to another school. And I think the
Speaker 6: talent has kind of balanced out in that conference. You
Speaker 6: saw it in football, you saw it all throughout the
Speaker 6: basketball season this year, and that was a big reason
Speaker 6: why they got so many teams in the tournament. So
Speaker 6: I wouldn't say it was shocked, just mildly surprised.
Speaker 2: Is it a detriment when you have so much parody
Speaker 2: and there are so many dog fights night tonight week
Speaker 2: to week in a conference that you get decimated by
Speaker 2: the time you reach March Madness and the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 2: I mean that is that always a factor that can
Speaker 2: factor in at the end of a season.
Speaker 6: I think I would say it's the opposite. I think
Speaker 6: it better prepares you for the NCAA tournament for the
Speaker 6: different styles of teams that you're going to play. Being
Speaker 6: able to adapt to anything and having seen so much
Speaker 6: throughout conference play, I think it can help you. I
Speaker 6: think the Big Yeast is kind of going through that
Speaker 6: a little bit as well. There's a lot of really
Speaker 6: good teams in the Big YaST that play different styles
Speaker 6: of ball, and when you go throughout that the entire season,
Speaker 6: you're kind of prepared for anything once you get to
Speaker 6: the tournament.
Speaker 2: Well, the other thing I was going to mention is,
Speaker 2: and I think we briefly touched on this, you've headed
Speaker 2: up the bracket challenge for here at iHeartMedia for how
Speaker 2: many years now, Austin?
Speaker 4: I think this is my third year, right?
Speaker 3: And have you won both previous times?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 3: I thought you won. I thought you won.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're in charge of it, if you're
Speaker 2: in charge of it and you can, you know, it's
Speaker 2: not who votes, it's who counts the vote.
Speaker 3: Austin. I just wonder for you.
Speaker 6: I could pocket the cash anyway.
Speaker 2: For you to fudge on the tournament. I mean, the
Speaker 2: results are the results. How are you doing so far
Speaker 2: on your bracket after after last night's games?
Speaker 6: You know, if it's any indication Gary Jeff, of the
Speaker 6: way yesterday went. I have not even checked my bracket
Speaker 6: this morning. I'm afraid to look at it.
Speaker 2: I know you didn't pick you didn't pick Arkansas. You
Speaker 2: didn't pick Arkansas and Arkansas one.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, I didn't pick Drake and Drake one.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's too.
Speaker 6: There's there's a there's a lot of that. I tried
Speaker 6: to kind of go off the wall this year too.
Speaker 6: I tried to pick a few us upsets. I tried
Speaker 6: to go the way I wouldn't normally do, and it's
Speaker 6: it's hurting me.
Speaker 2: Are you normally a chalk picker? Then you say you
Speaker 2: tried to go with a few ups Oh you are?
Speaker 2: You are the chalk guy. You're like the rockhawk, jayhawk,
Speaker 2: no matter whether it's Jayhawks, whoever, the higher seed is,
Speaker 2: whoever you've seen in your eyes, and you forget that
Speaker 2: it's a one and done tournament. You just say no
Speaker 2: that that number one is gonna beat that number eight.
Speaker 3: I just know it just by most of.
Speaker 6: The time I am. My final four is two two's
Speaker 6: and one to one seed, or two to one seeds
Speaker 6: and two two seeds. I'm sorry, I have a bit
Speaker 6: of an echo in my ear, so hearing myself over.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I have two two's and two ones, two.
Speaker 2: Twos, and who are those two twos and two ones?
Speaker 2: Can you tell me?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 6: Oh? You know, that's a great question. I think I
Speaker 6: have Michigan State.
Speaker 2: Okay, not a bad pick and not the only tom
Speaker 2: tom Izzo was there every year and it doesn't matter
Speaker 2: what players he has. Isn't that wild that tom Izzo
Speaker 2: is always a factor when it comes down to the
Speaker 2: NCAA tournament always.
Speaker 6: Yeah, always has his teams ready to go. I have
Speaker 6: him in Michigan's State playing Houston in the National Championship.
Speaker 6: I believe, and I take Houston to win.
Speaker 3: Houston.
Speaker 2: A lot of people has said, have said Duke or Auburn.
Speaker 2: Which do you have Duke or Auburn in your final four?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 6: I don't believe I do all right.
Speaker 2: Well, Auburn, I mean they don't need even the ghost
Speaker 2: of Charles Barkley. That is as complete a team as
Speaker 2: I think there is that I've seen this year. And
Speaker 2: what makes you think that Auburn's going to get knocked out?
Speaker 6: I have no real reason to believe that they are
Speaker 6: going to get knocked out. It was just one of
Speaker 6: those moments where I was trying to pick some other teams.
Speaker 4: Everybody I knew would be picking Auburn to win.
Speaker 6: So I was like, all right, well I'm going to
Speaker 6: go with some other teams here to come out of
Speaker 6: that region. So they're really good. They struggled a little
Speaker 6: bit towards the end of the season, and you know,
Speaker 6: it's a grind and anything can happen. I don't really
Speaker 6: have a good reason not for picking them.
Speaker 8: All right.
Speaker 2: And the other thing is what is the average in
Speaker 2: what you've seen as the bracketologist here on staff Austin Elmore,
Speaker 2: what is the average winning percentage of the person who
Speaker 2: wins in picking the tournament? I mean, because a lot
Speaker 2: of times by the first weekend, everybody's out. I've heard
Speaker 2: that time a year after year after you said, well
Speaker 2: my bracket's completely done. I got no shot. And I
Speaker 2: mean there's somebody out there who may pick a perfect bracket,
Speaker 2: but it never happens. Nobody is ever perfect. What's a
Speaker 2: good what's a good winning percentage for somebody?
Speaker 4: I think it's probably right around eighty percent. Really, I
Speaker 4: guess that good.
Speaker 3: That's hard to believe.
Speaker 6: I mean, your backet's never really busted until your national
Speaker 6: championship pick is eliminated. And most people still have the
Speaker 6: top teams getting to the elite eight in the file four.
Speaker 6: So that's how you get the points for those teams
Speaker 6: playing and winning in those later rounds. So I would
Speaker 6: guess eighty percent is I have no data to back
Speaker 6: that up.
Speaker 2: That's just a guess, all right, of all the other
Speaker 2: news that happened this past week, you know, tournament aside,
Speaker 2: let's do let's do your thoughts, because I've talked to
Speaker 2: several people and it's been a few days on the
Speaker 2: signings of both t Higgins and Jamar Chase. Something you
Speaker 2: always expected or was it something that you thought might
Speaker 2: not happen.
Speaker 6: Definitely not something I would say I expected, and I
Speaker 6: certainly didn't expect it to get done before opening day.
Speaker 6: I thought this would drag out into the summer. I
Speaker 6: thought Jamar would maybe drag out into training camp, just
Speaker 6: because we've seen the Bengals do that before, and there
Speaker 6: were reports out there that they were far apart. But
Speaker 6: they made a lot of progress during the NFL scouting combine.
Speaker 6: When you look at the Bengals roster there's not a
Speaker 6: lot of guys moving forward that you're going to be
Speaker 6: paying a lot of money to.
Speaker 4: But you do.
Speaker 6: You know Burrow, Chase Higgins, that's the foundation, and those
Speaker 6: guys have proven commodities, so you feel comfortable paying them
Speaker 6: now and then figuring out the rest of the roster later.
Speaker 6: We'll see what happens with Trey Henderson. I guess it's
Speaker 6: trending in the direction that they'll come up with an
Speaker 6: extension for him as well. That's a pretty good start.
Speaker 6: But the problem is looking at this team on paper,
Speaker 6: they're mostly the same team from a year ago. They're
Speaker 6: slightly better against the run defense against the run on defense,
Speaker 6: but they need help on the offensive line. And I
Speaker 6: think the point could be made, does it matter if
Speaker 6: you have Higgins and Chase and Burrow if you don't
Speaker 6: have people to protect Joe Burrow.
Speaker 4: That's the issue.
Speaker 2: Sure, but I think we all should. I think you
Speaker 2: owen Mike Brown and the Bengals organization a great to
Speaker 2: thank you, and you're sorry that you beat them up.
Speaker 6: Right, Listen, there is nobody in media in this town
Speaker 6: that has defended Mike Brown in the Bengals more than me.
Speaker 3: Oh there, you go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so you know, maybe they could be sending me
Speaker 6: a thank you. I don't know, but either way, everybody
Speaker 6: should be happy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: There have been other voices that have been and you know,
Speaker 2: they're mostly the shrill voices of fans who will complain
Speaker 2: about anything they do at any given time because they
Speaker 2: think it's their birthright for the Bengals to win a
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. They think it's their birthright to expect somebody
Speaker 2: else to pony up their cash because they have a
Speaker 2: right to a winner here in Cincinnati. Do you feel
Speaker 2: like you've got that always kills me. Whether it's an
Speaker 2: Ohio State football fan, whether it's a UK basketball fan,
Speaker 2: whether that's that shrill voice I was talking about, that's
Speaker 2: a Cincy Bengals, a long suffering Bengals fan that just
Speaker 2: demands that they spend this much money and they get
Speaker 2: this player, they get that player, or they ought to
Speaker 2: be run out of town on a rail. But you
Speaker 2: know the mentality I'm talking.
Speaker 6: About, Yeah, I think that's the mentality every fan should
Speaker 6: have in every sport. Your team should be aggressively pursuing
Speaker 6: a championship and exhausting all options to do so. These
Speaker 6: guys make a lot of money, and fans spend a
Speaker 6: lot of money and travel and hotels and tickets and merchandise,
Speaker 6: and it's been a long passed down family tradition for
Speaker 6: a lot of people, and fans shouldn't settle for anything less.
Speaker 6: So an aggressive pursuit of a championship and demanding that
Speaker 6: aggression is something every fan should do. I think it's
Speaker 6: a fans job to hold organizations accountable and hold their
Speaker 6: feet to the fire when they are underperforming, and that's
Speaker 6: part of it. You want to win a championship, That's
Speaker 6: what it's all about. It's like think of Philadelphia sports fans.
Speaker 6: I mean, they are some of the most ruthless and
Speaker 6: impatient people, but they accept roothing less than as as
Speaker 6: good as you can possibly give them. And they've gotten
Speaker 6: a couple of Super Bowls over the last couple of years.
Speaker 6: The Phillies have been to the World Series recently, So
Speaker 6: that sort of mentality from a fan base I agree with.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're you're on the crazy side of this train,
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 6: You know one thing, it's I think it's the bare minimum.
Speaker 2: Well, it depends on the level of important sports plays
Speaker 2: in one's life. You can call yourself a fan and
Speaker 2: not be just crazy I believe.
Speaker 6: Okay, yes, but you can want your team to.
Speaker 2: Do well well, you always want, but if they don't,
Speaker 2: it's not going to be the end of the world
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 8: That's what I don't think.
Speaker 6: That's what people are saying.
Speaker 3: Oh, I see, I see it all different things.
Speaker 2: Okay, perhaps one thing I didn't catch your attention on
Speaker 2: with the tournament before we go, uh, Xavier and the
Speaker 2: win against Texas, the fact that Zach Fremantle finally gets
Speaker 2: to play in an NCAA tournament game and we'll get
Speaker 2: another one under his belt.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think I think the chances that they beat Illinois
Speaker 2: tonight are pretty good.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that I picked to win that game in
Speaker 6: the first foward. I picked them to win the game
Speaker 6: against Illinois. I think they're that good. They've got the experience.
Speaker 6: Sean Miller is as good of a coach as there
Speaker 6: is as there is in the country in my opinion.
Speaker 6: And you know the way that they were able to
Speaker 6: overcome foul trouble and a really good Texas defensively that
Speaker 6: was making shots early in that game. Xavi didn't panic,
Speaker 6: they were patient, They stayed true to themselves. They picked
Speaker 6: up the pace a little bit, they cleaned up their defense,
Speaker 6: and next thing you know, they erase a thirteen point
Speaker 6: deficit and win the game. That sort of game early
Speaker 6: in the tournament can be something that really inspires you
Speaker 6: to go the rest of the way. And I think
Speaker 6: Xavier has a chance to win, not just against Illinois,
Speaker 6: but moving forward.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my neighbor who's a Xavier fan, he said, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're gonna beat Texas, then they're gonna beat Illinois, then they're.
Speaker 3: Gonna beat Kentucky.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens against the Wildcats on Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 2: if Xavier can get by Illinois tonight. As the tournament continues,
Speaker 2: Austin Elmore, thank you for taking time out at home
Speaker 2: as you get ready to go meet your thousands of fans.
Speaker 2: And where are you going to be if anywhere again, we.
Speaker 6: Are going to be at Oakley Greens in Oakley, watching
Speaker 6: the tournament and doing a live broadcast on ESPN fifteen
Speaker 6: thirty myself and Tony Pike. I invite everyone to come
Speaker 6: out all.
Speaker 2: Right and enjoy the enjoy the free food if they
Speaker 2: give you free food. Austin Thank you, Gary, Joe, You're
Speaker 2: very welcome. How high can you climb? How high have
Speaker 2: you gone? Joe Evermore has been to some pretty impressive peaks,
Speaker 2: and so have his kids. We'll talk to him right
Speaker 2: after the news at eleven on seven under WLW.
Speaker 1: Do You Want to Be an American?
Speaker 3: Into another hour of the Scott Sloan Show.
Speaker 2: Gary Jeff Walker in for Sloani on his Friday NCAA
Speaker 2: tournament in high gear. We kind of covered that base.
Speaker 2: All kinds of things happening in Washington, d C, both
Speaker 2: both good and perplexing, And there are other things going
Speaker 2: on in other people's lives all the time. And I
Speaker 2: always tell people, I said, you know, I'm generally not
Speaker 2: a political person until I'm forced into it, because I
Speaker 2: got other things that I want to do, other things
Speaker 2: I care about, other things that are way more important
Speaker 2: than politics. And an example of somebody who's got a
Speaker 2: lot of other things to do besides focus or worry
Speaker 2: about what goes on in Washington, DC or maybe even
Speaker 2: in their home state in the capitol. Because he's got
Speaker 2: a family, and because he has a passion for climbing
Speaker 2: mountains that he has passed on to his boys who
Speaker 2: are now setting records. We talk to him about I
Speaker 2: guess a month and a half, two months ago, but
Speaker 2: I thought it was I enjoyed the conversation. I thought
Speaker 2: it was a good time to check in with Joe
Speaker 2: Evermore again. And here we are, Joe Evermore, Welcome back
Speaker 2: to the show. It's good to talk to you again.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you recall our conversation, but you've
Speaker 2: probably been thousands of feet into the air since then.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, a couple of times.
Speaker 2: Tell me about these wonderful, wonderful children. No, there are
Speaker 2: families that have legacies, I mean generational legacies. There are
Speaker 2: families of police, for example, there are families of sometimes doctors.
Speaker 2: There are families of military people who you know, continually,
Speaker 2: just generation after generation after generation, they serve the country.
Speaker 2: And that is the family's legacy. Your family's legacy is
Speaker 2: adventure and climbing mountains.
Speaker 3: How did this begin?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so animize on love. We were already rock climbing
Speaker 4: all the time, and so as soon as our kids came,
Speaker 4: we brought them along.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. Now you speak of your wife Anna, is
Speaker 3: it Anne or Anna? I'm sorry, it's just Anne. Ann Okay.
Speaker 2: On one of your climbs, Anne was what four or
Speaker 2: five months pregnant, and she went along with you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is last summer on our we tip took
Speaker 4: a trip to the cirk of the Towers and when
Speaker 4: our when our boys turned five and take them up
Speaker 4: the mountain called Pingora.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 4: And so she was on that trip with Joey, who
Speaker 4: was our five year olds.
Speaker 2: So you've got pardon me, you've got how many sons?
Speaker 2: You've got three sons right now?
Speaker 8: Or four?
Speaker 4: Four boys?
Speaker 3: Four boys? All right? I came from a family of
Speaker 3: four boys.
Speaker 2: By the way, it was a little bit late when
Speaker 2: you discovered that that was too many.
Speaker 4: But yeah, house is pretty rowdy. It's hard to get
Speaker 4: much done lately with four boys, all right.
Speaker 3: So the oldest is ten. Sam is that correct?
Speaker 8: Yep?
Speaker 4: Sam, Sam Adventure, Sam Adventure.
Speaker 3: I love the middle names for these kids too. So
Speaker 3: Sylvan is the eight year old.
Speaker 4: Yep, He's he's up and coming.
Speaker 2: Sylvan is what's what's his middle name? So Sylvan light Year,
Speaker 2: Sylvan light Year, give me the names of the other
Speaker 2: two kids, okay.
Speaker 4: Sam Adventure, Sylvan Lightyear, Joey Danger, and then Blaze Wilder.
Speaker 3: And Blaze Wilder is the infant. How old is Blaze now?
Speaker 4: He's branded he's zero, he's three.
Speaker 6: Months all right?
Speaker 2: So when when would when will it be okay in
Speaker 2: your mind as a dad to bring Blaze Wilder and
Speaker 2: and pack him along on a climb? What's the first
Speaker 2: I mean, what's the earliest that you've introduced your kids
Speaker 2: to the mountains and climbing?
Speaker 4: They just need to be able to walk, okay. As
Speaker 4: soon as they can walk, they can join in the sun.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: And now Sam and Sylvan are attempting to set another record.
Speaker 2: Sam's already set records for somebody his age, right when
Speaker 2: it comes to mountain climbing.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, both of these boys are set records.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So tell me about their records and how far
Speaker 2: up they climbed these mountains. And you've got the Matter Horn,
Speaker 2: which you were just what a thousand feet from reaching
Speaker 2: the summit of the Matter Horn? But El Capitan in
Speaker 2: Yosemite and then the towers. So what are the records
Speaker 2: for Sam as far as his age and how high
Speaker 2: he climbed?
Speaker 3: Tell me about this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So some of the things Sam has done. He
Speaker 4: was the youngest to climb El Capitan when he did it,
Speaker 4: and that was when he was eight, and then at
Speaker 4: nine he became the youngest person who climb was called
Speaker 4: the Danglar in the Gunks, and he also climbed the
Speaker 4: exam Ridge on the Grand that's that's in the Teetons.
Speaker 4: And now Sylvan's following in that same regard, and he's
Speaker 4: got the youngest ofcent on Mount Moran in the Tetons
Speaker 4: and also he's like the youngest person to climb Wolf's
Speaker 4: Head in the Circuit of the Towers.
Speaker 2: No, Sam and Sylvan are supposed to climb two thousand
Speaker 2: feet together.
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 3: Is that still to happen or has that occurred already?
Speaker 4: Yeah? That's this week. We're climbing Moonlight Buttress in Ision
Speaker 4: National Park and it's going to be a riot. It's
Speaker 4: going to be a big adventure. And what's unique about
Speaker 4: this distrip is that Sam is now on the rigging crew,
Speaker 4: So Sam will be setting some of the lines for Sylvan,
Speaker 4: which is truly kind of like a next level accomplishment
Speaker 4: for Sam.
Speaker 2: All Right, well, what's the difficulty in setting riggings as
Speaker 2: opposed to climbing. So I've never done this, so I
Speaker 2: have no answers at all.
Speaker 4: Joe, it means that he has to lead some of
Speaker 4: the pitches. Yeah, and in leading the pitches, he has
Speaker 4: to face the risk of taking a fall, not not
Speaker 4: like a huge fall, but enough to really scare you.
Speaker 2: What do you say do you get you get blowback
Speaker 2: from people who think that you're you're being too aggressive
Speaker 2: with your children. I mean, I understand that there are
Speaker 2: a lot of people who overreach and from the government
Speaker 2: to agencies on down, who try and tell you how
Speaker 2: to raise your kids properly. I think that's wrong. I
Speaker 2: think that's one of the reasons that I'm excited about
Speaker 2: the dismantling of the federal Department of Education and letting
Speaker 2: those decisions be made locally. But like the state of
Speaker 2: Illinois right now is in their legislature, they're trying to
Speaker 2: determine how parents can homeschool their kids, and you know,
Speaker 2: maybe maybe take the accreditation or their kids away from
Speaker 2: them if they're not upholding to the standards that the
Speaker 2: officials the powers that be think they should be teaching.
Speaker 2: They're your kids and they're your responsibility. But do you
Speaker 2: get any blowback from people about letting kids that young
Speaker 2: climb these heights.
Speaker 4: I'd say, we attract it like a lightning rod.
Speaker 3: What do you do?
Speaker 4: How do you how do you.
Speaker 3: How do you offend that off? What do you tell them?
Speaker 4: Well, they're looking at the risks, they're not looking at
Speaker 4: the rewards. They don't really see the well the people
Speaker 4: these kids are becoming, Like Sam has tremendous inner confidence
Speaker 4: that he's really developing like self mastery now. And to
Speaker 4: find the a ten year old that that is like that,
Speaker 4: find the a ten year old with the kind of
Speaker 4: courage and self is your self confidence that these boys have.
Speaker 4: I mean, like Sylvan his young age is already fully
Speaker 4: self regulating, meaning that he's gaining control of his emotions,
Speaker 4: which is something you have to do on a wall.
Speaker 4: And it's the benefits far awaigh the small risk.
Speaker 2: So what's what's the highest that Sam or Sylvan have
Speaker 2: been to this point feet wise?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I mean hanging off bel Capitaina's like
Speaker 4: hanging your body of fraternity. It's as call as you get.
Speaker 4: It takes five or six days wow of climbing.
Speaker 3: That's that's amazing.
Speaker 2: So I mean that means you have to pack a
Speaker 2: bunch of gear besides just your you're climbing boots and
Speaker 2: you're you're rigging and everything. If you're going to do
Speaker 2: a five or six day climb, you have to have
Speaker 2: food and water, right, do you carry it?
Speaker 4: It's hundreds of pounds. It's about three hundred pounds of
Speaker 4: just water.
Speaker 3: That you're carrying while you're climbing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have to pull it up. So we have
Speaker 4: haulbags that are in these like big like tubes that
Speaker 4: like we haul up the wall with each pitch. Well, wow,
Speaker 4: it's pretty hardcore.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Do you do?
Speaker 2: You do other things that some people would call daredevil's stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm just curious that do you have any other any
Speaker 2: other adventure kind of things that you do or is
Speaker 2: climbing enough for you?
Speaker 4: Before we got married, we did a lot of skydiving,
Speaker 4: and so my kids aren't old enough to do that.
Speaker 3: Yet you're still interested in skydiving?
Speaker 4: You know, I would.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind doing it once and I don't have
Speaker 3: to do it.
Speaker 4: Do you think so it's so rare? I mean, think
Speaker 4: about all the thousands of years of human history and
Speaker 4: now you can fly out of a plane and you
Speaker 4: wouldn't take that opportunity.
Speaker 3: It's as good as it gets well, I mean I
Speaker 3: could fly in a plane.
Speaker 4: It's better to fly out of the plane. It feels great.
Speaker 3: On is there is there flight service with you? When
Speaker 3: your parachute opens up? Can you still get a cocktail?
Speaker 4: Definitely?
Speaker 8: Not.
Speaker 4: You're on your own when that opens up.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, have you ever been in a situation
Speaker 2: skydiving where the main shoot did not open?
Speaker 3: Joe?
Speaker 4: Well, I got I got one where it was tangled,
Speaker 4: not good and it was very traumatic.
Speaker 3: Let's just say, but you made it.
Speaker 2: Obviously you're sitting talking to me today. So, uh, what
Speaker 2: what would you what would you tell parents, other prospective
Speaker 2: parents when it comes to to raising kids, because not
Speaker 2: everybody's a mountain climber, not everybody. Uh, but you mentioned
Speaker 2: that the the stamina and the self actualization and uh,
Speaker 2: the self regulation and the discipline that has come from
Speaker 2: bringing your kids to these peaks and letting them experience
Speaker 2: what you love. But what would you tell parents now
Speaker 2: that you've had a chance to practice? Because I know
Speaker 2: that everybody you said four was too many, but everybody
Speaker 2: seemingly when they become a parent, there's no manual. There
Speaker 2: there's no way to instruct people how to be good parents.
Speaker 2: But what have you learned with four boys? I know
Speaker 2: you've got a very special kind of of advocation or vocation,
Speaker 2: but what would you tell parents just in general when
Speaker 2: it comes to raising kids.
Speaker 4: Yes, raised boys. So when it comes to raising boys,
Speaker 4: I think they need a passway to manhood developed by
Speaker 4: their dad. Okay, and so I think there's nothing that
Speaker 4: places the role of a father in a boy's life
Speaker 4: where you can, but you know, someone to take them
Speaker 4: camping and hiking and exploring. Someone who takes them to
Speaker 4: do something that feels dangerous is actually essential in the
Speaker 4: skill and journey go's. We need these dads. We need
Speaker 4: dads to get off a couch and get out and
Speaker 4: go mountain exploring with their kids, or do anything outside
Speaker 4: with your kids.
Speaker 2: Do you think our development has listen, do you think
Speaker 2: our development as a society, Joe evermore, has been retarded
Speaker 2: by people trying to take masculinity or emasculating America's men.
Speaker 2: Do you think that we've really been hurt as a
Speaker 2: society the last few years with this claim of toxic
Speaker 2: masculinity whatever that is and what you just mentioned.
Speaker 4: I mean, there was a time not that long ago
Speaker 4: when men needed to go out and kill a saber
Speaker 4: tooth tagger or else they die. Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 4: if at any time on that journey they get wounded,
Speaker 4: they probably die and the family dies. And so we
Speaker 4: have a very harsh world back in the day. Now
Speaker 4: we have a very soft world. And because of that
Speaker 4: soft world, we need these wronger kids because it's even harder.
Speaker 4: I mean, these kids, you know, have a have a
Speaker 4: girlfriend that breaks up with them, and then they can
Speaker 4: hit suicide because they don't have that deep dinner strength.
Speaker 4: They weren't developed, they weren't told that they're men.
Speaker 2: Well people, people claim that it's bullying, that's the real culprit.
Speaker 2: But the real culprit, as you're mentioning there, starts at home.
Speaker 2: So they've got a strong enough constitution that they can
Speaker 2: they can handle that bullying. They can take the harshness
Speaker 2: that is the world. What, however harsh it is compared to,
Speaker 2: you know, having to slay a saber toothed tiger to survive.
Speaker 2: I understand we're not there, But at the same time,
Speaker 2: it really really matters, doesn't it. It all matters.
Speaker 4: Well, Well, we need we need real men, We need
Speaker 4: a we need a generation of men and somehow our
Speaker 4: men have backed off of the role. You know, they're
Speaker 4: I guess they're busy watching football or something. But at
Speaker 4: the same time, I am seeing some men do the
Speaker 4: great job with their kids. But it's I had something
Speaker 4: to encourage people with, is Hey, your kids need your dad.
Speaker 4: You know, they need dad in their lives. They need
Speaker 4: dad guiding them, helping them, talking to them, teaching them
Speaker 4: the basic things in the world.
Speaker 2: All right, So the next, uh, the next thing this
Speaker 2: week is what peak are Sam and Silvyn climbing together
Speaker 2: with Sam doing the rigging?
Speaker 4: Yes, if you google this you'll think I'm mentally ill,
Speaker 4: but it's called It's called Moonlight Buttress in Zion National
Speaker 4: Park and we're going to take our eight year old
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 3: And how high is that? That's two thousand feet.
Speaker 4: It's about two thousand feet from the water.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, cool.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: I I just love your story. I love your family's story.
Speaker 2: I love your kids' middle names. I bet that I
Speaker 2: bet that gets some looks at the hospital when you're
Speaker 2: signing the birth certificate.
Speaker 4: We had interesting thing to happen. That's the share, no
Speaker 4: doubt about it.
Speaker 8: Joe.
Speaker 2: Evermore, thank you for your time today, I appreciate it
Speaker 2: and keep climbing to higher heights.
Speaker 3: All right, you later, all right man.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite television shows is Blue Bloods. If
Speaker 2: I'm home on a Wednesday afternoon, chances are good that
Speaker 2: I am mainlining Blue Bloods reruns.
Speaker 3: They show him on I on TV now.
Speaker 2: But the classic cop series with Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg.
Speaker 6: You know it.
Speaker 3: You probably love it too.
Speaker 2: One of the guys who was a executive producer, a
Speaker 2: show runner and a writer for Blue Bloods is our guest.
Speaker 4: Next.
Speaker 2: I replayed an interview I did with him on the
Speaker 2: Nightcap just a few nights ago, but I wanted to
Speaker 2: get an update on him and his book, Johnny Careless.
Speaker 2: So if you're a fan of Blue Bloods, maybe you
Speaker 2: have a question you'd like to ask guy that you'll
Speaker 2: see his name on the screen if you watch the
Speaker 2: show blue Bloods. Kevin Wade will be joining us in
Speaker 2: just a few minutes afternoons here on the Scott Sloan Show,
Speaker 2: Gary Jeffen for Sloan at Break and then back on
Speaker 2: seven hundred wlw.
Speaker 3: Our next gest.
Speaker 2: Came to my attention because he was selling a book.
Speaker 2: His first novel and when I discovered what his credits
Speaker 2: were before this book, which is a great book by
Speaker 2: the way, I have a copy of read It's it's cool.
Speaker 2: It's a fast paced kind of crime novel, stuff that
Speaker 2: I like to read, a good page turner called Johnny Careless.
Speaker 2: But when I found out what this guy actually was
Speaker 2: most famous for up to that point, I lost my mind.
Speaker 3: I completely lost.
Speaker 2: In the first first time we did the interview, I
Speaker 2: had such fanboy written all over me and I still
Speaker 2: have it. I'm fearing because this guy was a showrunner,
Speaker 2: a writer, and listed as a producer of episodes of
Speaker 2: the television series blue Bloods, my favorite, probably my favorite
Speaker 2: serial television program of all time, especially of that genre.
Speaker 2: And his name is Kevin Wade, and he's joining us
Speaker 2: for a few more minutes. We got to talk, I
Speaker 2: guess a month or so ago, Kevin, and I knew
Speaker 2: I had to have you back because there were Blue
Speaker 2: Bloods questions that I hadn't got a chance to ask
Speaker 2: you yet.
Speaker 3: My fault.
Speaker 4: So I well, Gary, Jeff, I'm going to give you.
Speaker 8: I'm going to give you a tip before we start.
Speaker 8: If you miss Blue Bloods and you've seen them all,
Speaker 8: go back and find a show from the sixties and
Speaker 8: seventies called Bonanza. Yeah, it was Lorne Green, I forget
Speaker 8: the rest of the cats, Michael Landon, but Dan Blocker,
Speaker 8: that's right, Dan Blocker and the dark haired Italian looking son.
Speaker 8: And when I first started writing Blue Bloods, it occurred
Speaker 8: to me that I've seen this show before. And I
Speaker 8: used to love Bonanza on Sunday nights, I believe, on
Speaker 8: NBC and it was about a widowed father and his
Speaker 8: three sons keeping the peace in the territory where they live.
Speaker 8: So I was driving to work one day and called
Speaker 8: the assistant and said, find the Bible, find the the
Speaker 8: synopsies of all the episodes of Bonanza, because that's a
Speaker 8: gold mine for us.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, other than the concept, how did you
Speaker 2: use those synopsis in and update them for Blue Bloods?
Speaker 2: I mean, I understand that you're not just feeling from them,
Speaker 2: You're you're you're you're looking at the concept and going,
Speaker 2: this reminds me of this. Let's use Bonanza as kind
Speaker 2: of like a blueprint for blue blood.
Speaker 8: Well, it was an interesting guide from you know, almost
Speaker 8: everything's been done before. Frankly, if you write TV and movies,
Speaker 8: and plays that they've all been done for for Bonanza,
Speaker 8: I did notice that the plot of the week would
Speaker 8: generally wrap up with one or two or more of
Speaker 8: the Cartwright family making the peace with each other, which
Speaker 8: is how most of Blue Blood's went. That the jeopardy
Speaker 8: of the week was not would the bad guy get away?
Speaker 8: Or would a Reagan get shot? It was did two
Speaker 8: or more Reagans say something that they can't walk back?
Speaker 6: And how will they get out of that?
Speaker 2: Some of my favorite lines from the show are Tom
Speaker 2: Selleck as us Frank Reagan, the police commissioner, telling someone,
Speaker 2: don't quote me to me.
Speaker 3: I love that. Who came up with that line? I
Speaker 3: gotta know.
Speaker 4: It sounds like me, but I'm not going to take credit.
Speaker 3: For it on your area, Okay, don't quote me to me?
Speaker 3: And the other thing.
Speaker 2: In the famous dinner table Conversations the Sunday the famous
Speaker 2: Reagan Sunday dinner, how often do you think past the
Speaker 2: potatoes was used as a bridge to either get away
Speaker 2: from a touchy subject with the characters and just as
Speaker 2: a matter of course, you guys passed the potatoes a lot.
Speaker 8: A lot of passing the potatoes used way more often
Speaker 8: than common sense or good taste would dictate, but sometimes
Speaker 8: it was the bump that got us onto the next thing.
Speaker 2: I got to tell you one of my favorite characters,
Speaker 2: and we didn't really get into this the last time
Speaker 2: we spoke is Steve Sippa as Anthony Avana Marco, Aaron's assistant,
Speaker 2: her detective, her investigator. How phenomenal is it to work
Speaker 2: with an actor that has I mean, he just screams
Speaker 2: good Fellows when you see him, and then you got
Speaker 2: the commercials out now for the for the Fresh Pet
Speaker 2: Pet food where they're doing like a good Fellows. It's
Speaker 2: a great scene with the trunk door closing. It's telling
Speaker 2: the dog tell tell him we went to Grandma's. So
Speaker 2: tell me about working with Steve Siripa and what his
Speaker 2: his strongest He just has such a force, such a
Speaker 2: presence on screen.
Speaker 8: He sure does. He is a very interesting background. I mean,
Speaker 8: before he was a back, before he was an actor,
Speaker 8: he was the talent booker for a couple of Las
Speaker 8: Vegas casinos. So when you're hanging around with them in
Speaker 8: video Village, he's telling old Don Rickles stories. You know,
Speaker 8: it's fantastic. But he took all of that kind of
Speaker 8: cool common guy on the street corner and made it
Speaker 8: into a whole bag of tricks that he employs wonderfully.
Speaker 8: And Bridget had come to us and said, the next
Speaker 8: time you cast my investigator, could we not lean into
Speaker 8: is it going to be a potential boyfriend? Just find
Speaker 8: me the best actor, And we ended up with Steve
Speaker 8: and they created something in their corner of the show
Speaker 8: that was fantastic.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, that whole dynamic is great. And that addition of
Speaker 2: Robert Cloes from being you know, just a sergeant at
Speaker 2: a desk to being the eyes and ears for Tom
Speaker 2: Selleck of the Department's thirty five thousand men, the Sid
Speaker 2: Gormley character, it was a great addition, but it was
Speaker 2: it was a while coming, and it came after the
Speaker 2: the Ouster of the uh, the Dino Arbigas character, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, that was a great way to get
Speaker 2: rid of a character, have him caught up in a
Speaker 2: prostitution sting. Yeah, so tell me about said to me.
Speaker 8: I don't think John the actor was that incredibly happy
Speaker 8: with the way we showed him the door, but yeah,
Speaker 8: it was. It ended up opening the door for Bob
Speaker 8: Kahsi to come in and carve out a great character
Speaker 8: in the midst of all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he just seems that that's the thing. And
Speaker 2: I've complimented you before on this as one of the
Speaker 2: writers for the show. The ability to craft a script
Speaker 2: and language and tailored to each individual character, it makes
Speaker 2: it so much more believer believable as a viewer watching this,
Speaker 2: because you really believe Frank Reagan would say that, you
Speaker 2: really believe that, Danny Reagan would say that, you really
Speaker 2: believe that Bridget or Aaron Reagan would say the words
Speaker 2: that are coming out of their mouth. And it's almost
Speaker 2: once you get defined characters. I don't want to give
Speaker 2: you too much credit, but it's almost easier to write
Speaker 2: to those characters, isn't it after you know who the
Speaker 2: characters are.
Speaker 8: That's exactly right. And by the way, the job of
Speaker 8: writing for actors, which is what screenwriters do and certainly
Speaker 8: what television writers do, you have to give them something
Speaker 8: to play. You can't just give them here's a bunch
Speaker 8: of exposition to move the plot forward. So then once
Speaker 8: you embrace that, you pay attention to the plot. But
Speaker 8: you have to make beams. So you take a guy
Speaker 8: like Robert Klhasti, who's a terrific actor, and you'd give
Speaker 8: him stuff that he could do that he could walk
Speaker 8: them out to the edge of who his character is
Speaker 8: and it kind of lit up the screen. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Bridget Moni hand always Oh was bashing Anthony for using
Speaker 2: the double negatives. He said, yeah, I don't do nothing.
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, correct.
Speaker 2: The character of Joe, who was Joe Hill? What was
Speaker 2: the idea behind that to bring that character in the
Speaker 2: dead son, Joe's unbeknownst son to the rest of the family.
Speaker 2: Where'd that genesis idea come from?
Speaker 8: Kevin Well? We had a colleague on the show who
Speaker 8: had done what is it twenty three and meters Yeah,
Speaker 8: and found out that the man he grew up with
Speaker 8: as his father was not in fact his father, and
Speaker 8: it knocked him sideways and he shared it with all
Speaker 8: of us, and Chavon bern O'Connor, who was, in my estimation,
Speaker 8: the best writer on the show and had been there
Speaker 8: since day one, came to me and said, what if
Speaker 8: young Sean Reagan does a twenty three and meters and
Speaker 8: finds out they have he has a cousin And we
Speaker 8: had a way to introduce the show the origin story
Speaker 8: of the show had started with the oldest son had
Speaker 8: been killed in the line of tighty and then by
Speaker 8: season nine or whatever, we were able to bring back
Speaker 8: his part of the family. So it's Shabon's idea and
Speaker 8: it was absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 3: And I ask you about this too.
Speaker 2: But the thing that a lot of people do not
Speaker 2: realize we're not in the theater scene or whatever, is
Speaker 2: how much of a talent Lenn carry you is on
Speaker 2: the stage. And you said that even at his age
Speaker 2: the last time we spoke, even at his age, he
Speaker 2: was still doing like one man shows off Broadway while
Speaker 2: while you're filming the and it's a pretty exactly right.
Speaker 8: He had a night job doing a wonderful adaptation of
Speaker 8: Tuesdays with Maury, which was a best selling novel by
Speaker 8: Mitch Albom one other fellow whose name is Escaping Me
Speaker 8: and Len did an incredible job. And for an actor
Speaker 8: half his age doing seven or eight shows the week
Speaker 8: of that alone would have been plenty. And he was
Speaker 8: doing both.
Speaker 3: What is the schedule?
Speaker 2: We just America just found out that van O White
Speaker 2: works thirty four days a year, but tapes like six
Speaker 2: different Wheel of Fortunes in one day. What is the
Speaker 2: shooting schedule for a network show like Blue Bloods. It's
Speaker 2: pretty when you guys are on set in filming, it's
Speaker 2: pretty intensive, isn't it.
Speaker 8: It's a long day the longer you do it. I mean,
Speaker 8: in the case of Blue Bloods, that crew was together
Speaker 8: for fourteen years more or less, so you become what
Speaker 8: they say is a well oiled machine. But it's still
Speaker 8: it's an eight o'clock call. Maybe you shoot till late
Speaker 8: that night. If you're lucky, you get out around six,
Speaker 8: and that's Monday through Friday, and we shoot, would shoot
Speaker 8: eight days per episode.
Speaker 2: I have heard, and I don't know this is true,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if you can tell me, but
Speaker 2: I have heard that Tom Selleck was none too pleased
Speaker 2: when he found out the show was coming to an end.
Speaker 3: Is that correct?
Speaker 8: That's correct. He was very vocal about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So why was the decision made?
Speaker 3: Kevin?
Speaker 8: I believe it was made for financial reasons, That's what
Speaker 8: CBS said. CBS in the ensuing period of time seems
Speaker 8: to be canceling stuff left and right. Certainly the shows
Speaker 8: that I've dropped in on look like they're being done
Speaker 8: for a way lower budget. The CBS News division's famously
Speaker 8: getting cut and slashed all over the place. So I'm
Speaker 8: going to take their reason at face value. Sure they
Speaker 8: thought it was too expensive.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, anytime you're on one of those ensemble
Speaker 2: shows that are very successful, very popular, ratings wise and commercially,
Speaker 2: the actors are getting paid a pretty healthy sum for
Speaker 2: their regular recurring roles.
Speaker 3: Are they not.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's absolutely that's a big budget that you
Speaker 2: got an account that's a.
Speaker 8: Big budget, and the crew which numbers, you know, two
Speaker 8: hundred and twenty people, most of them are on union
Speaker 8: contracts that take a three percent rays every year. Any chance,
Speaker 8: after thirteen years, you've got a lot more money going
Speaker 8: out the door.
Speaker 2: Any chance that there are any spinoffs in the work.
Speaker 8: There is a spinoffs, I wouldn't say it's a spinoff.
Speaker 8: Donnie Wahlberg, i've read, is repeating.
Speaker 4: His role or renewing his role.
Speaker 8: As Danny Reagan in a show called It's called Boston
Speaker 8: Blue or Blue Boston I forget which.
Speaker 2: I wonder if he'll have Marissa Ramirez and tag with him,
Speaker 2: because it looked like in that last episode there was
Speaker 2: love in the air.
Speaker 8: Well, we thought we were sending them off into the sunset.
Speaker 8: So I don't know if they'll if they'll pick that
Speaker 8: up again on lou Boston or whatever.
Speaker 2: What do you miss most about not doing the show, Kevin?
Speaker 2: Besides the paycheck, the people?
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, it's it after fourteen years. I did
Speaker 8: the math once driving to work. We spent the same
Speaker 8: amount of time together as if we started in pre
Speaker 8: k and we're together for high school graduation.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's an amazing run. Amazing run.
Speaker 8: Do you well?
Speaker 4: Listen.
Speaker 2: I hope the book's doing well. Like I said, I've
Speaker 2: dipped into it and it's it's pretty good, you know,
Speaker 2: and your first novel. The lead character, I don't want
Speaker 2: to I don't want to spoil anything, but enjoy the
Speaker 2: lead character. He's not around law.
Speaker 3: And then uh and then and then it's all.
Speaker 2: About finding out who who done him in Johnny Careless, who.
Speaker 8: Bumped him off? Johnny Carroless available from McMillan on all
Speaker 8: the platforms. And thank you, Gary, Jeff appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Kevin Wade, thank you for fulfilling a fanboy's request. And uh,
Speaker 2: get a little bit more blue Bloods in as I
Speaker 2: like to say, Uh, if I'm ever off on a Wednesday,
Speaker 2: I just kind of mainline reruns and go, oh this one, well,
Speaker 2: oh this is the one where you know, I feel
Speaker 2: like just seeing them all and and I don't mind
Speaker 2: seeing them again. That's the thing, because every it's with
Speaker 2: a good book, with a great movie, even with a
Speaker 2: good song that you love. Same thing with a great
Speaker 2: TV show, even if you've seen it before, you always
Speaker 2: find something new when it's a really really good show.
Speaker 2: And it was a really really good show. And thank
Speaker 2: you for all of your contributions to it.
Speaker 8: Thanks man, I appreciate it. You got to be with
Speaker 8: you great.
Speaker 2: We got Reds Baseball this afternoon, and that's just about
Speaker 2: it for me, Gary, jeffn for Sloane until the next time,
Speaker 2: which will be Saturday Morning, God willing at five point
Speaker 2: thirty into our twenty eighth year on the Saturday morning edition.
Speaker 2: I'll see you on the radio then here on seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW.