Speaker 1: Welcome to the Nightcap a seven hundred WLW for this
Speaker 1: Tuesday night, October eighth, twenty twenty four. Gary Jeff, welcome
Speaker 1: by your side between now and midnight. And I think
Speaker 1: we've got a pretty fine show, and that starts always
Speaker 1: at the beginning. Apparently for some reason they won't let
Speaker 1: me start with the end of the show because that
Speaker 1: would be a much shorter show and much less work
Speaker 1: for me. But let's get started anyway. We have Hamilton
Speaker 1: County Chairman Judge Russell Mock on to talk for today
Speaker 1: the first day of voting in the state of Ohio,
Speaker 1: and so people are already casting their ballots. Let's talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about who Russell Mock, Judge Mock thinks
Speaker 1: you should be casting your ballot for and what issues
Speaker 1: you should really care about. And I think the first thing,
Speaker 1: good evening, Russells by the.
Speaker 2: Way, good evening, Gary Jeff, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: Sure And the first thing you would tell people is
Speaker 1: go all the way through the ballot, just don't check
Speaker 1: a box for the president and forget about the rest. Right.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's so important, especially for Republicans in Hambleton County,
Speaker 3: to devote all the way from the top of the
Speaker 3: ticket all the.
Speaker 4: Way down to the bottom of the ticket, since we.
Speaker 3: Have a lot of important local races that I want
Speaker 3: to talk about. But you know, today was the first
Speaker 3: day of early voting, October eighth, and I fulfilled my commitment.
Speaker 2: I went this morning and I voted. I got it
Speaker 2: out of the way, and.
Speaker 3: I voted all the way down the tickets, and I
Speaker 3: looked for a lot of success coming out of these
Speaker 3: local races, and certainly the state wise as well.
Speaker 1: I have heard that, especially now, the push for the
Speaker 1: first time took you guys a while to catch up.
Speaker 1: The Republicans are pushing for vote early if you can.
Speaker 1: And the reason for that is so the resources because
Speaker 1: apparently you guys know who has voted among registered voters
Speaker 1: and who hasn't. Is that correct?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, so we can check the voter rolls on a
Speaker 3: daily basis. We know that over seventy thousand ballots were
Speaker 3: mailed out today since today was the first, the first ballot,
Speaker 3: and actually there were more Republicans registered Republicans that requested
Speaker 3: mail in ballots this year and then previous and so
Speaker 3: in actually more than the Democrats, which I think is
Speaker 3: fantastic and so it's working. You know, it's okay to
Speaker 3: vote this way. President Trump thinks it's okay. We need
Speaker 3: the banker votes. Two things, One, you're right about the resources.
Speaker 3: We can allocate our resources to pushing out voters that
Speaker 3: don't usually go out to vote in these close election years.
Speaker 2: And we can.
Speaker 3: Also, you know, you never know what's going to happen
Speaker 3: on election days. You can get sick, something can happen,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe even a snowstorm November here in Ohio.
Speaker 3: But you want to get out and bank your vote early,
Speaker 3: and I did that this morning myself.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the important races for Hamilton County.
Speaker 1: I would say, outside of the issues, the number one
Speaker 1: place you're looking is the Hamilton County Prosecutor Melissa Powers.
Speaker 1: Judge Powers is running for that on the Republican side.
Speaker 1: Why Judge Melissa Powers over her opponent, Countie Pillage.
Speaker 3: Well, I have to say Connie Pillage is dangerously unqualified
Speaker 3: the whole disposition of proskan attorney.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you why. Number One, she's never.
Speaker 3: Prosecuted a single case.
Speaker 2: In her entire legal career.
Speaker 3: And more telling, she hasn't even been in a criminal
Speaker 3: court room in over twenty years. And probably the most
Speaker 3: shocking point is she actually had let her law license
Speaker 3: lapse and had to re up her law license just
Speaker 3: so she could actually run for this race. You know,
Speaker 3: I think that's dangerously unqualified. You know, I don't know you,
Speaker 3: Gary Jeff, but I certainly wouldn't take.
Speaker 2: Off in an airline in an airline.
Speaker 3: Plane with a pilot who's never landed a plane. And
Speaker 3: this is just way too important of a position to
Speaker 3: do that. When you look at the difference of the
Speaker 3: qualifications between Melissa Powers and Connie Pisher's, it's no contest.
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about Melissa powers qualifications real quick.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: I mean, Melissa Powers has been a judge on.
Speaker 4: Two courts, the municipal court as.
Speaker 3: Well as the juvenile Court. She was a tough prosecutor
Speaker 3: that worked her way through just about every division in
Speaker 3: the prosecutor's office. When she's here, and since she's been
Speaker 3: here now for the year and a half, she's done
Speaker 3: a fantastic job. She's heard thousands and thousands of these cases,
Speaker 3: you know, and she's doing this for the right reason.
Speaker 2: You know, Melissa.
Speaker 3: Powers, Judge Powers had put her time in She retired
Speaker 3: I think she had twenty six days of retirement before
Speaker 3: she you know, heard the calling to service again and
Speaker 3: came out to take this position. Because she's doing this
Speaker 3: for the right reason. She's doing this for public safety.
Speaker 3: She's doing this because she's born and raised.
Speaker 4: In Hamlet County.
Speaker 3: She's raised her family here, her grandchildren are here.
Speaker 4: And she wants this community to be safe.
Speaker 3: She's doing it for the not for the right reasons.
Speaker 3: She's not doing it just for another political.
Speaker 1: Plumb okay uh. And it's important you say to as
Speaker 1: you go down the ballot to vote for the rest
Speaker 1: of the judges that are running on the ticket. And
Speaker 1: it's so crucial. We've got judges who are totally incompetent
Speaker 1: sitting on benches or running right now. And for public
Speaker 1: safety and for justice, you got to look at the
Speaker 1: judges you're electing.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And you know, I encourage everyone to go to gop.
Speaker 2: Judges dot com.
Speaker 4: Gop judges dot com.
Speaker 3: We have a list of our seven very qualified local
Speaker 3: candidates as well as our three Supreme Court candidates.
Speaker 2: You know, the majority of the.
Speaker 3: Conservative Ohio Supreme Court is up is it again this year,
Speaker 3: and so we have to make sure that Obviously, Joe
Speaker 3: Dieters and Megan Shanahan are well known around here. But
Speaker 3: we also need to make sure that Judge Dan Hawkins
Speaker 3: from Columbus, that all three of those Supreme Court Republican
Speaker 3: justices are elected because we need to keep the conservative majority.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you things going on around locally. I know
Speaker 3: from the Proscuter's office they're having to appeal more and
Speaker 3: more cases to the High Supreme Court because of liberal
Speaker 3: and left leaning judges on the Court of Appeals and
Speaker 3: on the bench here, and so we need to make
Speaker 3: sure that we keep control of the Ohio Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: And District one race. Let's finish with the District one
Speaker 1: race for the House of Representatives. Tell me real quickly
Speaker 1: about your candidate, Russell.
Speaker 3: Well Orlando Sianza. Doesn't get much better than this. You know,
Speaker 3: West Point grad military officer CPA, you know, lawyer, assistant prosecutor.
Speaker 2: Now he runs the VA.
Speaker 3: You know, it's clearly more qualified to lead oh one
Speaker 3: in Washington. You know, his principles aligned with us. He
Speaker 3: has shown a vision for the future. And if anybody
Speaker 3: watched either of those two debates with Creig Landsman, I
Speaker 3: mean it was hands down victory for Orlando Sanza. So
Speaker 3: you know, I'm really excited about that race. You know,
Speaker 3: I think we can restore When Orlando Sanza wins District one,
Speaker 3: We're going to restore integrity back into that district.
Speaker 1: Judd Russell mock, Chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party.
Speaker 1: First day of Ohio voting under way tonight and the
Speaker 1: race is on thirty days. Buddy, have a great evening
Speaker 1: and good luck because I'm pulling. I'm pulling for the
Speaker 1: best for Hamilton County. Great.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jared Jeff I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: And make sure everybody goes out and vote and also
Speaker 3: vote no on Issue one.
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Speaker 1: Ah. That blue moon of Kentucky is shining in the Commonwealth,
Speaker 1: and there may be sunshine in North Carolina today tomorrow,
Speaker 1: or in Georgia or any of the other parts of
Speaker 1: Appalachia that were so hard hit by the remnants of
Speaker 1: Hurricane Helene. As another hurricane is barreling towards Florida right now,
Speaker 1: and the relief efforts have been really outstanding from the
Speaker 1: private sector and from groups like the American Red Cross
Speaker 1: and Samaritan's Purse Matthew twenty five ministries here locally in
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati area, and there are all kinds of angles
Speaker 1: to what people need who have lost everything. A man
Speaker 1: who has a keen interest and focus on musicians because
Speaker 1: he loves music so much and knows that so many
Speaker 1: of these musicians in Appalachia, along with their houses and
Speaker 1: everything else they own, they lost their instruments too. He
Speaker 1: is the host and founder of the Wood Songs old
Speaker 1: time radio show Radio Hour Rather that you will see
Speaker 1: on public television on stations including the KET Network in
Speaker 1: Kentucky and on the radio, Michael Jonathan joins us for
Speaker 1: a few minutes to talk about his particular focus of
Speaker 1: interest in providing relief to the musicians in North Caro
Speaker 1: Line in those places that have been so devastated. Michael,
Speaker 1: good afternoon, and good evening, and welcome to the Nightcap
Speaker 1: here on seven hundred WLW. How are you.
Speaker 7: I'm good, and thank you for having me. It's an
Speaker 7: honor to talk to you.
Speaker 8: And I know the station has a huge audience and
Speaker 8: you're a popular voice on that station, and I appreciate
Speaker 8: you giving a time for an effort like we're doing well.
Speaker 1: This instrument drive that you've launched for the victims of
Speaker 1: Hurricane Helene. Your goal is to collect at least one
Speaker 1: thousand musical instruments to donate to the musicians in hard,
Speaker 1: hard hit areas. And well, it's hard to think about
Speaker 1: the practicality of getting back to any semblance of normalcy
Speaker 1: right now. A lot of these musicians, I mean, they
Speaker 1: do this for a living. This is how they earn,
Speaker 1: you know, if they ever have a roof over their
Speaker 1: heads again. And God's help and with the help of
Speaker 1: all these other volunteers and donations will get them restored
Speaker 1: more quickly rather than slowly. And that's our prayer, Michael,
Speaker 1: So tell me why you decided to do this and
Speaker 1: how people can help. Sure.
Speaker 8: You know, when the tornadoes ravaged Tennessee and Indiana and
Speaker 8: Western Kentucky, I saw Governor Bursheer on television.
Speaker 7: And very emotional, and he said, you know that.
Speaker 8: The camera lens is not wide enough to take in
Speaker 8: this destruction.
Speaker 7: And I found I found that very moving.
Speaker 8: So we collected and delivered over a thousand instruments for
Speaker 8: the musicians of Western Kentucky and Tornado Alley and we
Speaker 8: delivered them all for free. And then when the flood
Speaker 8: ted Appalachia a year later.
Speaker 7: We did it again.
Speaker 8: Because the musicians of the mountains, you know that this
Speaker 8: is their this is their this is their.
Speaker 7: Heart and their spirit.
Speaker 8: You know, at first when a disaster hits, you know,
Speaker 8: they're worried about their car is gone, their home is demolished.
Speaker 7: They don't know where their family members are. They can't
Speaker 7: get online, there's no communication.
Speaker 8: There's no cell phones. The business that they used to
Speaker 8: work at is gone. They don't have a job anymore.
Speaker 7: Banjos and guitars are not a priority. But when it fall,
Speaker 7: when this subject falls below the fold, so to speak.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 8: Other things happen, and all of a sudden, Helene becomes
Speaker 8: a you know, Milton may be overtaking Helene here in
Speaker 8: a day or two. You know, there's there's an election
Speaker 8: coming up. They're going to be forgotten. And this is
Speaker 8: when wood Song is going to step in for the
Speaker 8: third time. We're gonna collect over a thousand instruments. We're
Speaker 8: going to give them to these musicians for free. Why
Speaker 8: Because Appalachia, to me, Gary Jeff is the It's it's
Speaker 8: the comfortable rocking chair on America's front porch. Oh, that's
Speaker 8: what the Apalachic That's what the Appalachian region is.
Speaker 7: And I believe in the spirit of the front porch.
Speaker 1: I believe what.
Speaker 8: You're doing right now with your voice on your show,
Speaker 8: getting the word out for things that can help. And
Speaker 8: so we appreciate you very much.
Speaker 1: Well, no, I appreciate what you're doing as well. Michael.
Speaker 1: How you came to be such a lover of folk
Speaker 1: and roots music and came to be so associated with
Speaker 1: Appalachia and Appalachian music is kind of a neat story
Speaker 1: in and of itself. You grew up in the Hudson
Speaker 1: River Valley in New York and you live next door
Speaker 1: to Pete Seeger, and you didn't know he was a
Speaker 1: famous folk singer? Is that right?
Speaker 7: I had no clue.
Speaker 8: He was just a very nice older guy claimed to
Speaker 8: be a musician. But he played the banjo, and to
Speaker 8: us rock and roll teenagers that unless you can plug
Speaker 8: it in, it's not a real instrument.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 1: So this one goes to eleven, Yeah, the old final tap. Right.
Speaker 8: So when I realized who he was, I said, Pete,
Speaker 8: I just found out you're Pete Seeger.
Speaker 1: You're this famous guy. I want to be a folks
Speaker 1: singer too.
Speaker 7: What do I do? And he he.
Speaker 8: Told me to move to the la I moved to Mousey, Kentucky,
Speaker 8: in Not County, Kentucky. I went up and down the
Speaker 8: hollers with my guitar and band for two and a
Speaker 8: half years, knocking on doors, had all these wonderful front
Speaker 8: porch hoot nannies. And that's what gave me appreciation for
Speaker 8: not just Appalachia, but this the root spirit of America's soundtrack,
Speaker 8: and that is the guitars and the banjos and the
Speaker 8: mandolins and the fiddles. And that's why I created the
Speaker 8: Wood Songs Broadcast. We celebrate, We celebrate the music of
Speaker 8: America's front porch on Wood Songs.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I know a lot of people, and I gosh,
Speaker 1: how many years has HA been going on, Michael, Because
Speaker 1: I would think I've been tuning in on and off
Speaker 1: to Wood Songs Old Time Radio Hour on TV. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll just be I'll be hitting a channel guy, and
Speaker 1: oh oh that's that's cool. Check that out for a bit.
Speaker 7: There it is again right.
Speaker 8: Last night, Gary Deiff, we taped, We taped show number
Speaker 8: one thousand and twenty six, Congratulations night.
Speaker 1: So it's been it's been around for.
Speaker 8: A while, and it airs in one hundred and seventy
Speaker 8: seven nations on terrestrial radio all across America, from from
Speaker 8: Australia to Ireland, American Forces Radio Network, Public Television, the
Speaker 8: RFD Television Network.
Speaker 7: And it's all built out of love. You know, love
Speaker 7: is the greatest transaction.
Speaker 1: Of the arts.
Speaker 8: It's not money, it's not corporate sponsorship, it's not record labels,
Speaker 8: it's love.
Speaker 7: Everything starts in the garden of love.
Speaker 8: With music and art and wood Songs was built that
Speaker 8: way because it's all volunteer run. Even the artists who
Speaker 8: come on the show, they're not paid a penny. They
Speaker 8: pay their own travel to get on the broadcast. And
Speaker 8: we're taking that thing that love built Wood Songs and
Speaker 8: we're using that platform to help these other musicians, in
Speaker 8: this case, the musicians of Helene.
Speaker 7: And look look at what happened.
Speaker 8: I mean, Interstate forty and Tennessee is destroyed.
Speaker 1: I can't use it.
Speaker 8: Interstate twenty six in North Carolina is broken in half.
Speaker 7: And when all of this is said and done, these.
Speaker 8: Artists are gonna want me to know that they were
Speaker 8: emotionally cared for.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what the music, that's what the music instruments.
Speaker 1: Are the most crucial part of all this is how
Speaker 1: do people help?
Speaker 8: If they'd like Michael woodsongs dot com, go to woodsongs
Speaker 8: dot com. If you have a playable, good condition instrument banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, keyboard, trumpet, horns, flutes, harmonicas,
Speaker 8: go to woodsongs dot com, click on the Helen artwork
Speaker 8: that's right there on.
Speaker 7: The whole page, and we'll tell you how to do.
Speaker 8: If you don't have an instrument and you feel like
Speaker 8: you can help us rent the box trucks and stuff
Speaker 8: we need to collect. These drop from the drop off
Speaker 8: centers from Beacon, New York, to Ronalginia.
Speaker 7: To Bristol, Tennessee.
Speaker 8: I mean, they're coming in everywhere, and we got to
Speaker 8: pick them up and put new strengths on them and
Speaker 8: polish them up and get them ready.
Speaker 1: You can make a donation if you want to do
Speaker 1: that as well, all right, Michael Jonathan, thank you for
Speaker 1: your time, and God bless you for your efforts, and
Speaker 1: thanks for letting the music continue to play even in
Speaker 1: the most dire of circumstances.
Speaker 7: You know, joy is a wonderful thing in a world
Speaker 7: that's not.
Speaker 1: Feel Yeah, boy, And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 8: I appreciate your your giving us attention absolutely.
Speaker 1: Michael Jonathan from wood Songs Old Time Radio hour Woodsongs
Speaker 1: dot Com to donate to the Hurricane Helene Musicians Fund,
Speaker 1: just another way to help people recover from something that
Speaker 1: nobody expected and very few have seen before. Michael, thank
Speaker 1: you again. Take care. It's the night camp and it
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Speaker 11: Getting out of Milton's way with the nine point thirty report.
Speaker 11: I'm Shaan Gallagher breaking now right now, millions under evacuation
Speaker 11: orders in Florida's Hurricane Milton brings the potential for a
Speaker 11: possible deadly record storm surge of fifteen feet.
Speaker 12: County is offering buses to help take people the shelters.
Speaker 12: We spoke to some families here who rode out the
Speaker 12: storm during Hurricane Helene, but this time they tell us
Speaker 12: they are evacuating, not taking any chances with the potential
Speaker 12: threat of a fifteen foot storm.
Speaker 11: Sirch ABC News is with Johnson and Tampa Bay. Hurricane
Speaker 11: Milton expected to be a category three when it makes
Speaker 11: landfall along Florida's Gulf coast either late Wednesday night or
Speaker 11: early Thursday morning. Late this afternoon, it did regain strength,
Speaker 11: becoming a Category five hurricane again in the warm waters
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Speaker 13: We'll see a seven am temp forty six, mostly sunny,
Speaker 13: a high as seventy four. At night it stays clear
Speaker 13: and a low of forty nine. From your Severe Weather station,
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Speaker 11: The National Transportation Safety Board giving an updates today after
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Speaker 11: killing all three crew members on board. Senior Air Safety
Speaker 11: Investigator Brian Rayner on what led up to the accident,
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Speaker 14: To describe it, he was doing an orbiting reconnaissance while
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Speaker 11: And it's believed the helicopter hit a guy wire that
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Speaker 1: As millions of people continue their attempt to recover from
Speaker 1: Mother Nature's raft in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and
Speaker 1: another major hurricane, maybe the most powerful one to hit
Speaker 1: the west coast of Florida in one hundred years, barrels
Speaker 1: down on Tampa and all sites past that, the whole coast.
Speaker 1: We're wondering about FEMA's response, and we don't have to
Speaker 1: wonder very long when you've got a FEMA that is
Speaker 1: so cramped and dictated by DEI, as we saw in
Speaker 1: that webinar video of a trainer telling them that the
Speaker 1: Lgbtqia community needs to be helped first in the time
Speaker 1: of a natural disaster because they've already suffered enough because
Speaker 1: of their sexual orientation. You know, if you're not gay,
Speaker 1: wait for the next teleicopter. I'm sorry, we have to
Speaker 1: pick up the lesbians first. It's just and me saying
Speaker 1: that is not homophobia or hatred, it's just reality. We're
Speaker 1: talking about individuals. Each human life is precious and should
Speaker 1: be tended for or tended to by the agency that
Speaker 1: is supposed to help out people in times of natural disasters,
Speaker 1: and that would be FEMA, and that's their only job.
Speaker 1: It's not to resettle migrants in New York City, or
Speaker 1: spend one point four billion dollars of original funding that
Speaker 1: was supposed to go to FEMA on that. It's not DEI,
Speaker 1: it's not anything but a relief agency. Michael Lets from
Speaker 1: invest USA joins us for just a few minutes to
Speaker 1: talk about FEMA's failures so far and under the current administration.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to get any better your thoughts, Michael.
Speaker 16: No, yeah, it's certainly not.
Speaker 2: I fact, we just.
Speaker 16: Got a briefing from my people that are actually all
Speaker 16: on the ground there. It is worse, much worse than
Speaker 16: we've done it. We've been there for some time. But
Speaker 16: here is the situation.
Speaker 2: Gary.
Speaker 16: You're talking about hundreds of miles of territory.
Speaker 17: You're talking about in.
Speaker 16: The mountains, so you have valleys where most of the
Speaker 16: settlements are at, but people are spread out all over
Speaker 16: and nobody's being able to get to them. I FEMA
Speaker 16: has tried, you know, they activated the eighty second Airborne
Speaker 16: eight days ago and stood them down. They actually sat
Speaker 16: at hotels for eight days. They just now have author
Speaker 16: as their release and now they're unsure as to what
Speaker 16: they were to do with them. Well, here's the problem.
Speaker 16: We have had State Guard units and National Guard units
Speaker 16: from South Carolina, Florida, Georgia and others that have come
Speaker 16: to an assist.
Speaker 4: But now you have a.
Speaker 16: Second hurricane making its way towards shore off Florida, so
Speaker 16: you have to recall those units to bring them back
Speaker 16: to the states that are fictioning to get hit again. So, FEMA,
Speaker 16: at anytime you should be female stepping up double instead
Speaker 16: of sitting back. It says if nobody has any common
Speaker 16: sense in this administration.
Speaker 1: Bengo, you don't know what to do, Bingo, I mean
Speaker 1: you're trained for see. This is this is again what
Speaker 1: I'm telling people about the election. Michael Lettz. If you
Speaker 1: fire the Biden regime, and that's Kamala Harris and Joe
Speaker 1: made it perfectly clear last week. She's been a part
Speaker 1: of everything they've done. I'm much to her chagrin, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: But if you fire them, you also fire may Orcus.
Speaker 1: You fire the head of FEMA, You fire the head
Speaker 1: of whoever is sitting in in secret services. You fire
Speaker 1: the Department of Energy, You fire which is unnecessary anyway.
Speaker 1: You fire Pete Buddhajeedge, who's been awful. You fire Gina Romundo,
Speaker 1: the Secretary of Commerce, who is clueless apparently from all
Speaker 1: the interviews I've seen with her. You fire all these
Speaker 1: incompetent people and you get some people who know what
Speaker 1: to do from the get I mean, yeah, there are
Speaker 1: things that happen in natural disasters that no one can predict.
Speaker 1: But you've got to be ready. And it's obvious that FEMA,
Speaker 1: because of their leadership and because of the people who
Speaker 1: are currently controlling FEMA from the White House and DHS,
Speaker 1: have no clue.
Speaker 16: Oh, you're right, they had actually include just like in fact,
Speaker 16: I thought it was shocking hear that. You know, all
Speaker 16: the money is of course, they argue, the White House
Speaker 16: has been arguing me, this is this is disinformation. They
Speaker 16: never spent a dime of money on illegals. It's a
Speaker 16: matter of semantics. It's this administration of this administration alone,
Speaker 16: who suddenly decided under FEMA that helping illegal immigrants was
Speaker 16: part of emergency management assistance, and so to cover their
Speaker 16: ass they decided to create a separate account, and they
Speaker 16: move it back and forth. So now they didn't take
Speaker 16: it out of the main account, they'd already moved it
Speaker 16: over to the other account. Billions of dollars for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 16: They said the first account didn't have enough. Now we
Speaker 16: just discovered this morning there seven billion dollars that they
Speaker 16: were holding back looking to handle for additional illegal immigration
Speaker 16: situations that they weren't accounting for. So how do you
Speaker 16: have anybody in control or in charge there, Well, they
Speaker 16: don't even know what their own resources are.
Speaker 1: Well, again, it's a matter of the whole ideology that's
Speaker 1: at the head of this snake, Michael. Just over the weekend,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is in North Carolina and she met those
Speaker 1: affected by Hurricane Helene and helped to assemble relief kits
Speaker 1: with volunteers for the photo op of course, But then
Speaker 1: she says in a post, I am concerned about the
Speaker 1: security and well being of civilians suffering in Lebanon and
Speaker 1: will continue helping to working to help meet the needs
Speaker 1: of all civilians there. While Americans, thousands of Americans, maybe millions,
Speaker 1: are wondering where their next clean drink of water is
Speaker 1: coming from. She's worried about the civilians in Lebanon. What
Speaker 1: happens to America first when people like this, incompetent, people
Speaker 1: like this are in charge. We're seeing it we're seeing it.
Speaker 1: We're seeing it in real time.
Speaker 4: Michael, you really, you really are.
Speaker 16: I think that is what has American people so outrage
Speaker 16: is that you would take billions of our assets. It's
Speaker 16: not theirs, it's our casting send it over to people
Speaker 16: who hate us.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean.
Speaker 18: I promise you there may be a few people that
Speaker 18: like it to leve it over. They're a vast majority.
Speaker 18: They love to see you, dagny. The same way with Ukraine.
Speaker 18: They appreciate your deeals, but they don't want you coming
Speaker 18: over there to live. They don't care for us.
Speaker 16: And yet then we have American citizens who have paid
Speaker 16: into the system and dire need of help.
Speaker 17: The reports I got back.
Speaker 16: A few minutes ago, we're talking about maybe six months
Speaker 16: before we can get these people in an electricity that's
Speaker 16: no water, that's no sanitation, that's nothing for these people
Speaker 16: until we can get power restored it maybe six months.
Speaker 4: We don't want to do anything.
Speaker 16: We want to say, we don't have enough money to
Speaker 16: help them, We don't want to send anybody. We want
Speaker 16: to stand down our troops just make sure now, just
Speaker 16: in case.
Speaker 4: We don't want them to get any more help than
Speaker 4: we think it absolutely necessary.
Speaker 16: I think part of it, Gary, is it happened to
Speaker 16: hit the area that is most predominantly Republican in the southeast,
Speaker 16: and they don't want to do a thing to make.
Speaker 4: Sure those people can get to the polls and go.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, unless you can convince them that your gay, lesbian,
Speaker 1: or trans and maybe FEMA will step up her tell
Speaker 1: me about invest the USA real quickly. As we close
Speaker 1: this out talking with Michael Letts, well.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 16: Gary. I will tell you this, we're having to sip
Speaker 16: up to the plate because here's what happens with the hurricane.
Speaker 16: Saltwater destroys concealable best all in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina,
Speaker 16: and you know, because heavily moisture like that. So we've
Speaker 16: got a ton of officers that are now without protection.
Speaker 16: Believe me, they're still doing their job. They don't care,
Speaker 16: they want to, they can't to say to these people.
Speaker 16: But as then coming on to us, I think the
Speaker 16: rest of the country to say, look, administration is scroogia
Speaker 16: that we have. We're still your brothers, we're still behind you,
Speaker 16: and we're going to get to this together. So anything
Speaker 16: they can do to help provide best for these officers
Speaker 16: for down the road is greatly appreciated. Go to our
Speaker 16: website ww dot I n the eest USA dot org
Speaker 16: show your support, show your support for those that are
Speaker 16: indeed right now. God bless you for what you're doing. Gary,
Speaker 16: God bless America together. This is going to be a
Speaker 16: better country because of people like you and Michael.
Speaker 1: You know that the help couldn't come any quicker because
Speaker 1: Hurricane Milton, as you know, is bearing down on the
Speaker 1: west coast of Florida right now, and we're exactly we're
Speaker 1: still left with this god awful mess in North Carolina,
Speaker 1: Georgia and other places. Michael Letts from invest USA on
Speaker 1: the Nightcap, we'll talk to somebody who's in the eye
Speaker 1: of the next storm. In just minutes.
Speaker 6: We'll hear the radio ads about the irs. They tell
Speaker 6: you to be afraid, to be scared, and they try
Speaker 6: to frighten you into calling I'm not here to do that.
Speaker 1: You know, it's always nice to have a correspondent on
Speaker 1: the scene when any big news story happens, and it's
Speaker 1: nice to have Lewis Kaplan too. The Nightcap and we
Speaker 1: continue as Milton bears down on the Gulf Coast of Florida,
Speaker 1: setting their sites on Tampa and then across the state
Speaker 1: at like one hundred and fifty miles an hour right now,
Speaker 1: still a couple hundred miles away, expecting landfall sometime tomorrow
Speaker 1: or tomorrow night. Meanwhile, people are evacuating large, huge evacuation
Speaker 1: zone on the Gulf Coast of Florida, where millions of
Speaker 1: people have been asked to leave their homes and their
Speaker 1: businesses and come back later to hopefully something that's left.
Speaker 1: The storm surge looks like it's going to be absolutely
Speaker 1: devastating to Tampa Bay in that area because it's so low,
Speaker 1: so close to sea level that you know, even a
Speaker 1: twelve to fifteen foots storm surge can be devastating. I
Speaker 1: have a friend of mine I've known for well longer
Speaker 1: than I care to tell you, who's on the phone,
Speaker 1: who lives in Fort Myers, Florida, not in the evacuation zone,
Speaker 1: but Lewis Kaplan. It's great to have you along for
Speaker 1: the ride for a few minutes tonight as Milton comes
Speaker 1: calling your way. You are, you're an old hand at
Speaker 1: at hurricane preparation and dealing with these kind of storms.
Speaker 1: You live in Florida, so that's what that's what you get.
Speaker 1: But you've been shuttering your house even though you're not
Speaker 1: in an evacuation stone. It doesn't mean that you're not
Speaker 1: going to get hit hard. You've done this so often
Speaker 1: that you're you're like Tim the toolman Taylor as you
Speaker 1: prepare your house, aren't you.
Speaker 4: I've definitely gotten my practice in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not.
Speaker 4: Our house is not in an evacuation zone. But uh,
Speaker 4: Zone A and Zone B in uh in Lee County
Speaker 4: here are evacuation zones. In fact, two days ago they
Speaker 4: told people in Fort Myers Beach get out where they
Speaker 4: would turn it off the water and they wanted they
Speaker 4: had a mandatory evacuation for everybody on the island. Uh,
Speaker 4: Santa Belle Island as well, really up and down all
Speaker 4: the barrier islands, up and down the coast. Are are
Speaker 4: expecting a lot of a lot of storm surge. And
Speaker 4: this is a monster storm. Uh, it's really it's really frightening.
Speaker 1: Yeah again, do you ever get used to this? And
Speaker 1: you've you've seen enough. When was the last time you
Speaker 1: guys had more of a direct hit where you are.
Speaker 4: Lewis Well IRMA was a was a direct hit and
Speaker 4: that was in was it five years ago? Six years ago?
Speaker 4: And uh and then Ian was not quite as a
Speaker 4: direct to hit, but it came with a ton of
Speaker 4: storm surge. And then the storm that just came through Helena.
Speaker 4: Even though it wasn't a direct hit here, there was
Speaker 4: a lot of storm search here as well. Some parts
Speaker 4: of our Barrier Islands got hit harder from that storm
Speaker 4: than it did from eon Ian, which was a lot
Speaker 4: more direct. So this has been a ton of flooding
Speaker 4: and the people on the beaches really they've really taken
Speaker 4: a beating the last few years.
Speaker 1: Well, they said, in a storm like this, the storm
Speaker 1: surge is actually the deadliest part of it, especially in
Speaker 1: a lower lying area, because there's just nowhere for the
Speaker 1: water to go. And you've already had an inundation of
Speaker 1: rain there with Helene, and with just the fact that
Speaker 1: you live in Florida, you've had a lot of rain.
Speaker 1: There was a mayor of some town I forget where
Speaker 1: it was said two days ago, get out or you
Speaker 1: will die. No equivocation on this at all. I mean
Speaker 1: you need to leave because of otherwise you're going to
Speaker 1: be dead. I don't think that's Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's necessarily hyperbolic either. They're they're trying to save people's lives.
Speaker 4: It's not it's it's it's not fluff.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: There's there's a saying here that's, you know, hide from
Speaker 4: the wind, run from the water. You know, most of
Speaker 4: the houses here are built to a stand quite a
Speaker 4: lot of wind. But there's nothing you can do with
Speaker 4: with you know, five ten foot of storm surge. It's
Speaker 4: just going to consume everything in its way, houses, people, whatever.
Speaker 4: And you know, I think I think right now they're
Speaker 4: looking at four to seven feet of storm surge here
Speaker 4: in Tampa Bay, they're looking at ten to fifteen feet.
Speaker 4: So this is this is I mean, this is going
Speaker 4: to be every every bit of what we saw a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago up to the up in the
Speaker 4: northern part of the state and then into North Carolina
Speaker 4: in Georgia.
Speaker 1: Well, and this is the biggest storm predicted to hit
Speaker 1: Tampa in one hundred years. So this is a hundred
Speaker 1: year storm. This doesn't occur every hurricane season in Tampa,
Speaker 1: that's for sure.
Speaker 4: No Tampa. Tampa's actually been you know, pretty lucky. And
Speaker 4: I think one hundred years is about right. It was
Speaker 4: in the nineteen twenties that that Tampa got hit with
Speaker 4: their the last big storm. But you know, people are
Speaker 4: taking it very seriously. You know, in the news here,
Speaker 4: you know they're talking about the storm, but they're also
Speaker 4: talking about the traffic of people just you know, running
Speaker 4: inland getting away from there from the beach homes. So
Speaker 4: the good news is people are taking it seriously because
Speaker 4: it's a serious storm. It's time.
Speaker 1: So in the aftermath of these storms and you have
Speaker 1: dealt with that, what is the first thing that people
Speaker 1: need when they come back? I mean, what's usually the
Speaker 1: scenario for Okay, okay, now, now after the storm, after
Speaker 1: everything's broken, what do I fin fix first? What? What
Speaker 1: is your first priority after the storm has passed, just
Speaker 1: just assessing the damage or what.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it all depends on where you are. It's you know,
Speaker 4: if you're on the beaches, you know, sometimes it's just
Speaker 4: you know, salvaging, you know, what you can of what's left. Uh,
Speaker 4: sometimes there's nothing left and and and sometimes it's just
Speaker 4: all a big wet a big wet pile of sludge.
Speaker 4: There's no telling that. You know, people are dealing with
Speaker 4: wind problems, they're there are roof problems. Uh, and then
Speaker 4: and just total total loss and devastation, which you know
Speaker 4: we've we've been seeing on the news for the last
Speaker 4: few weeks. It's it's been NonStop and and we're going
Speaker 4: to see it again. It's it's unfortunate, but this is
Speaker 4: this is an incredibly huge storm.
Speaker 1: But Florida is more prepared than a lot of other
Speaker 1: places because they're the most prone, they're closest to the
Speaker 1: storm and this is where it comes. So sure many
Speaker 1: times the people of Asheville, North Carolina, Chimney Rock, North Carolina,
Speaker 1: and these these mountainous Appalachian villages that were just in
Speaker 1: the valleys that were just ravaged by all this water.
Speaker 1: I can understand maybe not being prepared there, But you guys,
Speaker 1: I mean, the state of Florida does a pretty good
Speaker 1: job overall, don't they.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they do. And and also, you know,
Speaker 4: the topography in in Florida is more is more beneficial
Speaker 4: to us when there's a storm like this. You know
Speaker 4: in the in the Carolinas where you have all these mountains,
Speaker 4: you know, all that water starts running down and it
Speaker 4: finds its way to people. Uh, it gets a lot
Speaker 4: deeper when there's you know, when it all funnels into
Speaker 4: one place here, you know it's sandy, things drain fairly quickly.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 4: The trees are are are made to withstand a lot
Speaker 4: of wind. You know, a palm tree with stand you know,
Speaker 4: tons of wind, but an oak tree is gonna fall.
Speaker 4: So you know they're they in North Carolina, they were
Speaker 4: dealing with with things that they're not supposed to deal
Speaker 4: with exactly. So that was that that was just catastrophic.
Speaker 4: Well and this one, this one's supposed to just kind
Speaker 4: of rip right through the state and then head out
Speaker 4: into the ocean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not gonna it's not gonna hover overland a
Speaker 1: long time or anything else. Well, listen, are certainly our
Speaker 1: prayers are with you and everybody else down there in
Speaker 1: the eye of or in the path of Milton. And uh,
Speaker 1: I always thank you for being my voice on the
Speaker 1: Florida Gulf Coast because you know better than anybody what
Speaker 1: these storms can do, and you've lived through them, and
Speaker 1: I know you're going to live through this one. So
Speaker 1: God bless you and we'll talk to you soon. Lewis
Speaker 1: capl And in Fort Myers, Florida, as they prepare for
Speaker 1: Hurricane Milton. Good Old Milty, Not so much. The Nightcap continues, news,
Speaker 1: traffic and weather.
Speaker 10: News Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati.
Speaker 11: Preparing for what could be a once in a century storm.
Speaker 11: With the ten o'clock report, I'm Sean Gallagher breaking now
Speaker 11: as millions in Florida evacuate. Hurricane Milton forecasts to be
Speaker 11: a Category three storm and to mix landfall late Wednesday
Speaker 11: night or early Thursday morning near the Tampa Bay area
Speaker 11: regained strength and the Gulf of Mexico late this afternoon
Speaker 11: becoming a Category five hurricane once again, with wind speeds
Speaker 11: up to one hundred and sixty five miles per hour.
Speaker 11: Deadly storm surge of up to fifteen feet also anticipated.
Speaker 11: Governor Mike Dwine has deployed forty members of a construction
Speaker 11: and engineering unit out of the Ohio National Guard to
Speaker 11: Florida ahead of Milton. Ohio Task Force one now shifting
Speaker 11: its operations to Florida. This after the state's FEMA certified
Speaker 11: search and rescue crews completed their operations in North Carolina
Speaker 11: after Hurricane Helen came through, leaving devastating flooding. Hurricane Milton
Speaker 11: extend at the Hurricane Center extending storm Surgeon Hurricane warnings
Speaker 11: in Florida and Georgia to to Milton. Now the latest
Speaker 11: traffic and weather together and right now taking the look
Speaker 11: at the major interstates and highways.
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Speaker 13: As we head to our Wednesday morning, it stays clear, cool.
Speaker 13: We'll see a seven am temp forty six, mostly sonny.
Speaker 13: My high seventy four at night stays clear and low
Speaker 13: of forty nine from your severe weather station, I'm nine
Speaker 13: first Warning Chief Meteorologist Steve Rawley News Radio seven hundred
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Speaker 11: Clear and currently fifty three degrees. It's ena facing multiple
Speaker 11: charges after allegedly stealing a vehicle and getting into what
Speaker 11: became a fatal crash. Just after seven to thirty this morning,
Speaker 11: Green Talenti Police tried to pull over a vehicle report
Speaker 11: it's still one out of Cincinnati, when they said the
Speaker 11: driver later right fin as a fifteen year old mail
Speaker 11: intentionally swerved and hit one of their cruisers. This letter
Speaker 11: were brief pursued as they lost sight of the Honda CRV,
Speaker 11: but later found that the team struck two other vehicles
Speaker 11: in the twenty three hundred block of North Bend Road
Speaker 11: and then fled on foot. A twenty eight year old
Speaker 11: man and one of the vehicles died from serious injuries
Speaker 11: after being taken to UC Medical Center. A sixty nine
Speaker 11: year old woman in the second vehicle head injuries said
Speaker 11: of being on life threatening. The suspect will be found
Speaker 11: and arrested, initially charged with receiving stolen property forlonius, assault
Speaker 11: on a police officer, and failure to comply with the
Speaker 11: signal of a police officer. The Cincinnati Police Department's Traffic
Speaker 11: Unit is investigating the fatal crash and the subsequent charges
Speaker 11: stemming from it. Early in person voting started today in
Speaker 11: ohio A County election boards ahead of the November fifth election.
Speaker 11: This will continue in the week's leading up to election
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Speaker 11: Next week it will be Monday through Friday, with the
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Speaker 11: announcing that hitting coaches Joel McKeithen, Terry Bradd and Tilamont
Speaker 11: have been fired. Our next update is a ten thirty
Speaker 11: I'm Sean Gallagher, who's Radio seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 19: He are you tired of living with chronic pain, knee pain,
Speaker 19: joint pain. It's time to get the relief you deserve
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Speaker 1: Think it is another edition of American history on the
Speaker 1: radio on the Nightcap on seven hundred WLW, Gary Jeff Walker.
Speaker 1: You know, over the past months, even over the last
Speaker 1: year or so, I have been interviewing people in this
Speaker 1: profession who work in the business that I do because
Speaker 1: I respect them and their reputations in their careers speak
Speaker 1: for themselves. But tonight I am letting them speak for
Speaker 1: themselves once again. And our guest in the spotlight is
Speaker 1: the one, the only, Eddie Fingers, who was co afternoon
Speaker 1: host here on seven hundred WLW, but for years was
Speaker 1: the captain in chief of what was called the Dawn
Speaker 1: Patrol on Web and Eddie Fingers, welcome to the Nightcap.
Speaker 1: It's great to find. Like GJ it's great man. I
Speaker 1: wanted to add here for a long time I had
Speaker 1: your partner, Rocky Boyman on a while ago, because this is.
Speaker 19: A guy who's got oh jam Milk an hour out
Speaker 19: of that guy. He's been on radio for about ten minutes.
Speaker 1: But I combined that with his football career there and
Speaker 1: his current football you know, career and everything he does
Speaker 1: his political career. So there were a lot there was
Speaker 1: lots of material fodder there with Rocky, but with you,
Speaker 1: it's just enormous. We could sit down for probably two
Speaker 1: or three hours. You said, before we sat down for this,
Speaker 1: you were on the phone with one of your perpetrators
Speaker 1: at the down Patrol, Bob Barry, producer Bob.
Speaker 19: We all keep in touch. Yet I love that guy. Well, look,
Speaker 19: you know him as well as anyone you work with,
Speaker 19: the bushion and h he's a different cat. You know
Speaker 19: what could you say?
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of species he is, whether
Speaker 1: it's a cat or something else, but he's definitely different.
Speaker 1: And he was screwed up before he fell and hit
Speaker 1: his head roll hard at Symphony Home big time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I want to go back. I want to
Speaker 1: start with where it started for you.
Speaker 19: I will tell you, man, when I was a kid,
Speaker 19: I had I think I was in third fourth grade
Speaker 19: and it was my birthday and my Mom's like, what
Speaker 19: do you want? And I said, I like a tape recorder,
Speaker 19: and so I I just wanted to fidget with it,
Speaker 19: you know. And I never thought about getting into this
Speaker 19: as a as a career, but I played with and
Speaker 19: I've still gotta. I guarantee you, if I dug hard enough,
Speaker 19: I could come up with some of those tapes me
Speaker 19: interviewing my grandma.
Speaker 1: They were totally they were totally disintegrated.
Speaker 19: Yet I would guess they probably have but if I
Speaker 19: could find them right exactly, you interviewed your grandma When
Speaker 19: I was like eight, I recalled doing that and uh
Speaker 19: and it which is something and my brother, my brother
Speaker 19: and I would pretend we were just shockis and we
Speaker 19: would the DJ was on Wing Radio in Dayton, Top
Speaker 19: forty and uh so the DJ would be talking.
Speaker 1: Up you know. Do you remember who it was? Who
Speaker 1: the DJ was?
Speaker 19: The mojo man, Steve kirk oh Casey Petrowski.
Speaker 1: I worked with Kirky well, he was actually retired when
Speaker 1: I worked in Dayton for the ten months I did
Speaker 1: before I came here, and was one of the less
Speaker 1: dudes I ever met and one of the guys that
Speaker 1: was instrumental in bringing the Beatles to the area. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so but that was it, you know.
Speaker 19: And but we would we would let them talk over
Speaker 19: the beginning of the song. It'd be in the background,
Speaker 19: so we'd be talking up the record and then try
Speaker 19: to hit the post and hold the microphone up to
Speaker 19: the radio and play I want to hold your hand.
Speaker 1: Or whatever that one want. You know, what is synonymous
Speaker 1: in almost all of these interviews that I've done for
Speaker 1: this particular topic, Eddie, is that all of us either
Speaker 1: did that with tape recorders or built our own little
Speaker 1: radio stations that maybe went five hundred feet to whatever
Speaker 1: John records Land Decker's shotgun time. I did it when
Speaker 1: I was like twelve years old. I was in this
Speaker 1: special education class for good kids who'd gotten a's through
Speaker 1: the year in summer school, and one of the projects
Speaker 1: was building your own FM transmitter. Damn. But everybody that
Speaker 1: I've talked to who's a lifer in this business started
Speaker 1: out doing exactly what you just said. It's amazing, yeah.
Speaker 19: And it was just something that, like I said, me
Speaker 19: and my brother and I just thought it was fun
Speaker 19: and cool. Never in a million years thought I could
Speaker 19: do this. I mean, I grew up blue collar. I'm
Speaker 19: sure you did as well.
Speaker 1: Blue collar. Kamala Harris came from a middle class family.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 19: I think we were middle middle class. I mean, boom.
Speaker 19: You can't get more middle class, right, And you know
Speaker 19: my parents both worked for GM and Dayton, which was
Speaker 19: a giant gmtown back then.
Speaker 1: Yes it was.
Speaker 19: And if you could get a good GM job, man,
Speaker 19: you were set.
Speaker 1: You had the pension, get your.
Speaker 19: Thirty one out and retire at fifty five. And I
Speaker 19: had done well in school and stuff. So they wanted
Speaker 19: me to go to college. No idea what I wanted
Speaker 19: to do. And this is sad, I had to say. Man,
Speaker 19: but I I thought, I'm going to go to pre
Speaker 19: med at Ohio State and be a dentist because I thought,
Speaker 19: how hard can that be? You really, dude, I was
Speaker 19: seventeen years old. Was an easy path, I thought, seventeen
Speaker 19: by easy path to wealth? I'm like, hell, so what
Speaker 19: you look? People said, Okay, that needs filled, come over
Speaker 19: here and do that.
Speaker 1: Well, actually I need some work done. Can you help me?
Speaker 19: Fortunately I did. I didn't pursue that path. Yes, but
Speaker 19: I a girl. I went out with a high school
Speaker 19: her brother was friends with a guy from UD who
Speaker 19: they had a radio station back there in WVUD, which
Speaker 19: is where I ended up working. And I was like,
Speaker 19: you know what, guy who's on the radio.
Speaker 1: That's cool.
Speaker 19: And I go home and tell my mom and dad, Uh,
Speaker 19: remember the dentist thing, scotch ned, I want to be
Speaker 19: a disc jockey.
Speaker 1: How did they react? How did they react? How do
Speaker 1: you think?
Speaker 16: Well?
Speaker 19: They were well, my dad was like he looked at
Speaker 19: me like I've grown another head. It was like, you're
Speaker 19: going to do what now? And my mom was like,
Speaker 19: let him do whatever he thinks he can do. Blah
Speaker 19: blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So mom was on your side.
Speaker 19: Mom was on my side because what they both my
Speaker 19: parents they never finished high school. So the fact that
Speaker 19: I was going to go to college, they were like, well,
Speaker 19: he must know what he's what he's doing, because he's
Speaker 19: smart enough.
Speaker 1: To go to college. Yeah. Well, obviously as always want
Speaker 1: their kids to be better than they were and right,
Speaker 1: so sure.
Speaker 19: So then I because I thought, I don't know how
Speaker 19: you felt about it when you were a kid, but
Speaker 19: I thought radio announcers, TV stars, movie stars and stuff.
Speaker 19: I thought they came from a special. They grew on someplace. Oh,
Speaker 19: we're definitely special people. Ay, there's no.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 19: I was like, I'm not special. What the hell those
Speaker 19: guys are good? My god, there, I'm mutant.
Speaker 1: I've known you for thirty years.
Speaker 19: You're definitely special, special at I've heard that a lot
Speaker 19: any But anyways, so I go to school, the UD
Speaker 19: And here's how dumb I was. I didn't even know that.
Speaker 19: And I grew up in Dayton. I didn't know that
Speaker 19: the University of Dayton was a Catholic university.
Speaker 1: That meant nothing to me.
Speaker 19: The Jesuits must have loved you absolutely, And I go
Speaker 19: and so, you know, my first week of school, I
Speaker 19: was living at home and my mom's like, so, whoa.
Speaker 1: What's it like there?
Speaker 19: And I said, what was kind of cool because there's
Speaker 19: all these priests and nuns that are coming back and
Speaker 19: apparently advancing their education. And well, I was talking to
Speaker 19: one of the one of my friends at school and
Speaker 19: he goes, dude, you do know this is Catholic university
Speaker 19: And I said, I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 19: So you're on WVUD, Yeah they have. I was like,
Speaker 19: they have a radio station. That's all I care about. Well,
Speaker 19: I wasn't yet because I the first day I walked
Speaker 19: in there and it's like, you know, you got to
Speaker 19: work your way into it. Sure, I mean, it couldn't
Speaker 19: have been second day of school.
Speaker 1: And uh.
Speaker 19: And I walked into the office and like when do
Speaker 19: I start? I'm here, I'm here, the one you've been
Speaker 19: waiting for. I am now entertained me and they were like, okay, cool.
Speaker 19: And so I ended up working in a carrier current
Speaker 19: station w SB and for you know what I carry, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 19: you do. But for people who don't, it was just
Speaker 19: on the campus, right, you had to have your radio
Speaker 19: plugged in. It came through the outlet, your scrawl outlet exactly.
Speaker 19: And I was doing one to three in the morning
Speaker 19: one Sunday morning, and that's where it all started.
Speaker 1: They gave you the prime shift, right, I know.
Speaker 19: Right, that's how I'm going kicking ass man.
Speaker 1: So when did this evolve into an actual career? Then?
Speaker 1: How long were you there? And what was your first
Speaker 1: professional paid job.
Speaker 19: That would have I worked at VU after I got
Speaker 19: on VUD. Eventually I worked there for two years and
Speaker 19: then I got hired at SAIFM here in town, which
Speaker 19: is ninety four to one. I don't even know what
Speaker 19: that is.
Speaker 1: Was it an album rock station? At the time, it
Speaker 1: was Ebn's competitor. What year is this seventy nine? Nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy nine, the year I graduated high.
Speaker 19: School, and they I first came in just as part
Speaker 19: time filling. I was working at a record store to
Speaker 19: fill in the gap, living with my girlfriend, who, thank god,
Speaker 19: got a job as a dental hygienist.
Speaker 1: So I was like, you still had that dental connection.
Speaker 19: Absolutely, maybe it was what attracted me to it, and
Speaker 19: so I did that for a little bit. Then they
Speaker 19: fired the production director and said can you do production?
Speaker 1: And I was did you have any idea?
Speaker 16: No?
Speaker 1: What productions?
Speaker 19: I mean I had done stuff, you know, I cut
Speaker 19: tape and stuff in college.
Speaker 1: Yeah. This is another thing that people don't understand today,
Speaker 1: with all the technology we have at it is that
Speaker 1: back in the day when we started, there was a
Speaker 1: reel to reel machine. There was a splicing block, there
Speaker 1: was a grease pencil, and there was splicing tape. And
Speaker 1: that's how you did edits, and that's how you put
Speaker 1: commercials together.
Speaker 19: You got your razor blade. The way you went unless.
Speaker 1: You were good enough to be a one take jake
Speaker 1: all the time, or you weren't editing concert spots or
Speaker 1: record spot I remember a sixty second record spot. Used
Speaker 1: to take me an hour to do in the production room,
Speaker 1: now because I was slow. It's just it was a
Speaker 1: painstaking process. You didn't have the punch it in digital
Speaker 1: technology or computers.
Speaker 19: Then, well that's what kills me. There are kids these days,
Speaker 19: but it is digital editing. I don't know how to
Speaker 19: do it. I ain't gonna lie to you, but it's
Speaker 19: so much easier than what we used to do. I
Speaker 19: mean you could, I would, and you've done this. You
Speaker 19: would take a piece of tape and set it to
Speaker 19: the side, yes in case you needed it later, absolutely,
Speaker 19: and then.
Speaker 1: Put it where you needed it because you would find
Speaker 1: that you had made the edit at the wrong place correct,
Speaker 1: or you had omitted something that was essential to the
Speaker 1: piece of production you were working on. Yeah.
Speaker 19: Absolutely, So I started doing that and got fired after
Speaker 19: a year.
Speaker 1: You're not really a professional in this business until you've
Speaker 1: gotten fired. I believe that.
Speaker 19: And they said they were eliminating the position. I'm not
Speaker 19: sure about that long story. They were eliminating you, They
Speaker 19: were eliminating me. They said, we're just getting rid of
Speaker 19: that position. I was like, no, you're firing me. But
Speaker 19: luckily I got a job at a production agency. At
Speaker 19: agency not too long after that and worked there for
Speaker 19: a year. It went bankrupt, So you can see I
Speaker 19: was on a.
Speaker 1: Roll success everywhere he walks ladies and gentlemen. Now I've
Speaker 1: got to ask you, and I know most people believe,
Speaker 1: and it may be true, that your name is actually
Speaker 1: Eddie Fingers. Where did Eddie Fingers come from? Because I
Speaker 1: can tell you the Gary Jeff story if you want,
Speaker 1: if you oh, absolutely full honesty, but yeah, I was.
Speaker 19: I was in Cleveland and the guy was like, we
Speaker 19: don't really like your real name. It was like okay,
Speaker 19: he said you got a name and I said no.
Speaker 19: He goes, We're going to have a staff meeting next
Speaker 19: week and talk about it.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 19: So he caused me a couple of days later and said,
Speaker 19: all right, we got two names for you, Eddie Fingers
Speaker 19: or Woody Fingers. Yeah, that's that's what That's exactly my reaction.
Speaker 19: It's like, what are your fingers? I was like, man,
Speaker 19: that sounds like Pinocchio's brother or some such.
Speaker 1: So how long are you in Cleveland. Then is this
Speaker 1: before you went to Cincinnati.
Speaker 19: Before you came This was after the agency closed. I
Speaker 19: got hired in Louisville to work part time, and my
Speaker 19: old buddy Tom Owens you remember.
Speaker 1: I remember Tom, I was I was here when was.
Speaker 19: Yeah, And so I worked there for a few months
Speaker 19: and then I got a call from Cleveland or O.
Speaker 19: Buddy Allen Cells said hey, we're looking for a guy
Speaker 19: up here, and I'm thinking about quitting, so you see
Speaker 19: if you can get my my job. So I went
Speaker 19: to Cleveland and worked for about five or six months,
Speaker 19: and guy by the name of Mike McConnell that sounds familiar, Yeah,
Speaker 19: called Cells. And I answered the phone because I was
Speaker 19: living at his apartment. And uh, I'm like, hey, buddy,
Speaker 19: what's up. I'm just calling Cells. I need some I
Speaker 19: need a midday guy down here. And I hear he
Speaker 19: wants to leave Cleveland, and I said, well, you know,
Speaker 19: I'm available. Just basically said, had you known Mike prior
Speaker 19: to this point? Yeah, we went to college together at
Speaker 19: U D.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, and so you've heard that Christmas story too
Speaker 1: many damn times. Oh absolutely, anyway, go ahead, No, but
Speaker 1: that was it, and so move back down here. And
Speaker 1: he he said, what are you going to do about
Speaker 1: your name?
Speaker 19: Because I was only I was doing production and I
Speaker 19: was going to do a couple hours on the air
Speaker 19: to day, and I said, I think I'm going to
Speaker 19: go back to my real name. And he said, man,
Speaker 19: you know, keep the Eddie Fingers thing. Nobody else is
Speaker 19: doing that.
Speaker 1: And what's a cool air name? I love it? So
Speaker 1: where was this that you ninety six rock? At ninety
Speaker 1: six rock? And that sets up the radio wars of
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties. Perfect, and it's a perfect time for
Speaker 1: us to go ahead and take our first break. Excellent.
Speaker 1: We have another segment with Eddie Fingers and yes, that
Speaker 1: might be his No it's not. It's the nightcap American
Speaker 1: history on the radio. Eddie Fingers in the Spotlight tonight
Speaker 1: on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: Men over forty five.
Speaker 19: Do you have a frequent urgent need to urinate or
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Speaker 19: or BPH?
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Speaker 1: Eddie Fingers and the story of his radio life, we
Speaker 1: were at ninety six Rock. Eddie Fingers, Welcome back into
Speaker 1: American History on the radio in the nightcap, and so
Speaker 1: you're at ninety six Rock. What year is this?
Speaker 19: This is eighty one, eighty May of eighty two, eighty two, okay,
Speaker 19: and McConnell was running the place. Alsells came. McConnell's then wife,
Speaker 19: Mary Cuzon was doing mornings and she was pregnant and
Speaker 19: I was doing production and ninth I think noon to two.
Speaker 19: It's kind of like and so that happened. That lasted
Speaker 19: for about a month, and Mary, as I said, was
Speaker 19: pregnant and she was out walking her dog and another dog.
Speaker 19: A long story, but basically a dog tackled her and
Speaker 19: blew up her knee. Oh she's like five months pregnant, say,
Speaker 19: and just ran right through her leg, absolutely destroyed it.
Speaker 19: And so McConnell comes to me and he's like, man,
Speaker 19: I need you to cover the morning show. And that's
Speaker 19: when I was young and dumb, and I haven't learned
Speaker 19: much since. But he uh, he goes, just fill in
Speaker 19: for a couple of days for me. Man, I really
Speaker 19: need you. I'll cover your show in the afternoon. I
Speaker 19: was like, whatever, I'm going to bet about that time
Speaker 19: getting up at six, Come on, and uh, and I
Speaker 19: never left mornings.
Speaker 1: Huh. So you're doing mornings at ninety six Rock and
Speaker 1: then what happened to lure you to w EBN and
Speaker 1: the Don Patrol, Like I said, the radio wars of
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties in Cincinnati and well you guys, you guys,
Speaker 1: ninety six Rock and EBN are button heads.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 19: Well, I did the show by myself for two or
Speaker 19: three months, I think, and I went off of it,
Speaker 19: and McConnell by that time m one O five, where
Speaker 19: I'd worked in Cleveland, had disbanded and they went country
Speaker 19: or hell, I forget what they did. And so the
Speaker 19: morning guy there, a guy named Marty Sobele who became
Speaker 19: Marty Bender, was hired to do mornings, and mcconne was like,
Speaker 19: work with him for a little bit, you'd be his
Speaker 19: it was going there and be his partner for a
Speaker 19: little bit and then we'll go back to the way
Speaker 19: it was. And I said, fine, So Marty and I
Speaker 19: started working together and it jelled and a jail Yeah,
Speaker 19: well I've always said that Marty pretty much, I didn't
Speaker 19: know how to do mornings, and Marty pretty much I
Speaker 19: just learned from watching how to handle all of it.
Speaker 19: Then we were doing all these service elements with traffic
Speaker 19: and that type of thing, you know, helicopter traffic, which
Speaker 19: was cool. We had Mad Dog Mike and John Phillips
Speaker 19: and those guys. They became characters on the show. And
Speaker 19: Marty and I. He basicly he had a weird sensibility
Speaker 19: about him. So he was like, I got this idea,
Speaker 19: let's do this thing, and we're just gonna improv the
Speaker 19: whole thing. And I was like, okay, sounds fun and
Speaker 19: that's and that's what we did. And so that lasted
Speaker 19: for three years, and I foolishly wanted to get into programming.
Speaker 19: I wanted to be program director of the radios. Yeah,
Speaker 19: that's a bad move, big time, big time. And so
Speaker 19: the program director was fired and Marty was much more
Speaker 19: qualified to do it than me, and it pissed me
Speaker 19: off that they were going to give him the job
Speaker 19: over me. And it was about that time that I
Speaker 19: got a call from bow Wood to he tried to
Speaker 19: hire me to go to Louisville to do afternoon Drive
Speaker 19: and be music director, right, which I thought, okay, that's
Speaker 19: kind of management, and so I went down there. I
Speaker 19: took Mike mcconnall with me, and we drove around and
Speaker 19: listened to the radio station and he and I went
Speaker 19: out to lunch and I said, what do you think?
Speaker 19: Because I was ready to take the gig, and he said,
Speaker 19: do you really want to make a side move sideways?
Speaker 19: Move to Louisville? I mean, Cincinnati is a bigger market.
Speaker 19: You're kind of you know, you're right on You're knocking
Speaker 19: on the door, you know. Because he was already at
Speaker 19: l W by the and uh so I had to
Speaker 19: go back to Boatwood and say yeah, because he totally
Speaker 19: thought he had me. And I said, I, uh, I'm good,
Speaker 19: I don't I don't want the gig, and he's and
Speaker 19: he was pissed, and I said, uh, I said, hey,
Speaker 19: you ever want me to come over and work with
Speaker 19: your sister in the mornings, I'll be glad to do that.
Speaker 19: A couple of months later, boom, it happened.
Speaker 1: It happened. So regardless whether it was Louisville or Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: bow would wanted wanted you to work for him, and
Speaker 1: you eventually did.
Speaker 19: Yeah, he wanted one of us off of the competition
Speaker 19: because uh, bendro and fingers were starting to breathe down
Speaker 19: the don patrol sneck a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you come to work at w e v
Speaker 1: N in what year is this now? Eighty four eighty
Speaker 1: August of eighty five, and you already have a set
Speaker 1: kind of morning show there. Robin Wood is there, It's
Speaker 1: been there, Craig Copp was Bob Berry there yet.
Speaker 19: No all right, while man Walker was just starting to
Speaker 19: come into prominence, and they had Craig Copp at brick
Speaker 19: Bird doing doing the news, and yeah, it just kind
Speaker 19: of took off from there and then like joke, I
Speaker 19: can't even tell.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 19: Who who is the morning show in Louisville at QMF
Speaker 19: down there, Oh geez, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah,
Speaker 19: and I can't think of their names. Yeah, Terry, Terry Miners, yes,
Speaker 19: Terry Mine. I forget the other fellow's name. I think
Speaker 19: I unfortunately passed. But they did a joke of the
Speaker 19: day and that was both station down there, and he said,
Speaker 19: I want you guys start doing a joke of the day.
Speaker 19: So we started doing joke of the day. Well, he
Speaker 19: he said to one of the females who worked in
Speaker 19: the station who I happened to be involved with. Yes,
Speaker 19: we were out to lunch one day and she goes,
Speaker 19: you know, I was I was talking overheard bo saying
Speaker 19: that the joke of the day, isn't it cutting it?
Speaker 19: You guys got it's got to be picked up a
Speaker 19: little bit. Yeah, And I said, what do you mean minute?
Speaker 19: He said, I think I got the impression he wants dirtier.
Speaker 19: I said, okay, we can. I definitely got this. And
Speaker 19: uh so the next day I told you again, I
Speaker 19: wish I could even kind of tell you that right,
Speaker 19: talk around the edges of the joke, but I can,
Speaker 19: And but it was right there, tip to it over
Speaker 19: the line, It was probably over the line, but nonetheless,
Speaker 19: So the same lady a little a little later on
Speaker 19: sees me and again on lunch and is like, he's pissed.
Speaker 1: What right? Exactly? I just did what he asked you.
Speaker 19: I just I just did what he wanted.
Speaker 1: And but the thing was, he didn't tell you that directly.
Speaker 1: It was from a conduit, and it may or may
Speaker 1: not have been from bow Well.
Speaker 19: But the but the thing is that so became kind
Speaker 19: of a hallmark.
Speaker 1: And it was.
Speaker 19: I realized that from again my time of working with
Speaker 19: Marty and improving and all that stuff. Sure that the
Speaker 19: more and you know that, man, the more over top
Speaker 19: you are with some stuff like this, go for it.
Speaker 1: We know it. And it's a template for what I
Speaker 1: do every Saturday morning. One of the most popular segments
Speaker 1: on my show is the but I Call from Wally,
Speaker 1: which is basically a joke of the day and I
Speaker 1: eight thirty five. People are locked in. They know. And
Speaker 1: that's the thing. It's that time stamp. It's that benchmark
Speaker 1: that people get. Okay, I'm going to tune in for
Speaker 1: this and it really works. Appointment radio really works. Your
Speaker 1: first fireworks, your first TV in fireworks, Tell me about that.
Speaker 19: Well, the first the first time I announced it. Yes,
Speaker 19: the first couple of years, I mean I wasn't I
Speaker 19: wasn't allowed on the area yet. I was getting sued
Speaker 19: by Randy Michaels for breaking a contract at ninety six, okay,
Speaker 19: and he was just mucking He was just mucking up
Speaker 19: the works because he you know, he was he already
Speaker 19: knew that he and bo were teaming up. Sure, so
Speaker 19: he was just like, I was gonna screw it with Poe.
Speaker 19: So I couldn't talk on the air for the first
Speaker 19: month I was there, and the next year we had
Speaker 19: boomerissiasin I think, and the year after that it was
Speaker 19: Sam Kennison, Oh wow. And the year after that Tom
Speaker 19: was like, you're going to do the fireworks this year.
Speaker 19: And I got to be honest with you, man, I
Speaker 19: was scared to death. Scared to death still to this day, Eddie.
Speaker 19: There is something about being in that place, in that crowd,
Speaker 19: in that electricity, in that environment that would scare anybody
Speaker 19: to death. You're standing there with a half a million people,
Speaker 19: half on one side of you, half on the others.
Speaker 19: But the biggest event is the city has every year
Speaker 19: and you're in charge of getting it all started. That's
Speaker 19: that's remarkable. I mean you're looking at a kid who
Speaker 19: used to be scared less to go wep in front
Speaker 19: of a class and give an oral book report standing
Speaker 19: in front of a half a million people. Yeah, so over.
Speaker 19: It took me a couple of years, but then then
Speaker 19: I look forward to it. It was fun, sure, you know.
Speaker 19: Well the party the Barley Corns boat was the best.
Speaker 19: Oh you were there, yes, I was.
Speaker 1: I mean just the fact that people after two or
Speaker 1: three hours were still climbing the stairs to the next
Speaker 1: level and able to do it. Amazed me. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here. I've had enough free booze and food.
Speaker 1: I just want to see the fireworks and go home.
Speaker 1: There was when Kennison did it. I was in the
Speaker 1: men's room when he I walked in as he was
Speaker 1: standing in the middle of the men's room doing coke
Speaker 1: off of his thumbnail and and one of the owners
Speaker 1: of Barley Corns walks in and he's, look, you can't
Speaker 1: do that. You cannot do that. He's like, you already did.
Speaker 1: And later he was with his girlfriend at her twin
Speaker 1: sister who were porn stars. They had one of their
Speaker 1: Their little brother was with him, and he was about thirteen,
Speaker 1: and he's sitting there drinking like gin and tonics and stuff.
Speaker 19: It did not go well.
Speaker 1: It is it is the primary cocktail for most thirteen
Speaker 1: year old right, exactly, A respectable.
Speaker 19: I hope, what with a quality jin Let's let's do
Speaker 19: some just word association.
Speaker 1: Ye, first thing that comes to your mind. You don't
Speaker 1: have to elaborate. Robin Wood, lovely, Bob Berry, funny, wild Man.
Speaker 19: Nuts nuts.
Speaker 1: Okay, I still talk to wild Man, so yes, I
Speaker 1: would agree. I would concur Rick Bird.
Speaker 19: Great guy, just smart, smart, as a whip.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember drinking many a lunch with Rick Bird
Speaker 1: at Lungworst did the exact same thing. Uh, Mark Chase,
Speaker 1: what do you remember about friend of me? Friend of me?
Speaker 19: Yeah, I'll say that, okay, because the taste that I
Speaker 19: think had.
Speaker 1: I I put.
Speaker 19: I pushed back on it, probably harder than I should have,
Speaker 19: but I think we had a mutual respect for each other.
Speaker 1: How about that? Who is the most influential person in
Speaker 1: this business that has helped I don't know, shape the
Speaker 1: the eddie fingers we know today? Is there one particular
Speaker 1: guy that just stands out and go, you know what,
Speaker 1: if this guy hadn't come along at this point in
Speaker 1: my life, I probably would have not had the success
Speaker 1: that I've had.
Speaker 19: I will say three three guys. Yeah, the guy named
Speaker 19: Jeff Vargo, who was the program director at VUD in Dayton,
Speaker 19: all right, who pulled me aside the first uh after
Speaker 19: I'd started and was full of myself. I did full
Speaker 19: time and I should have had the full time gig
Speaker 19: and pulled me aside and said, I'm not going to
Speaker 19: fire you, but you suck.
Speaker 1: It's good to hear. It is good to hear because
Speaker 1: we all do when we first starts.
Speaker 19: Uh, Tom Owens who ran who hired me at s
Speaker 19: AI and then ended up hiring me in Louisville, and
Speaker 19: then hired me at heb In And I'm going to
Speaker 19: go for Bo Would of course, the owner of EBN
Speaker 19: back in the day. And Randy Michaels. Randy's on my
Speaker 19: list too, who he the benderin Fingers team thing. He
Speaker 19: really encouraged us to push it. I mean it's like
Speaker 19: I told you with Bo saying that he'd make the
Speaker 19: jokes dirtier. But then Randy would told Marty and I, look,
Speaker 19: do whatever the hell it is you guys wanted, and
Speaker 19: we did.
Speaker 1: It was cool, Yeah, instrumental in my career. We've got
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes left, Eddie. Let's flash forward to
Speaker 1: from eb N the end of the Dawn Patrol to
Speaker 1: w l W and you moving into talk. Yeah.
Speaker 19: Yeah, that was no probably late November of seven, okay,
Speaker 19: And and I'd been craving the gig here and Gary
Speaker 19: was leaving and I had filled in with the for
Speaker 19: him several times, and uh, they kind of told me
Speaker 19: I was their apparent. Gary told me he wanted me
Speaker 19: to take this show.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 19: And then Gary kept kept working, which is fine, I
Speaker 19: don't care. But I I was fifty playing Metallica records
Speaker 19: at eb N, and I was like, this is this
Speaker 19: is turning to get a lot.
Speaker 1: Last year I was at the Fox, I knew the
Speaker 1: station was going to be sold. I knew that I
Speaker 1: would have a couple of choices when it was in
Speaker 1: January of nine and I decided somewhere during that year
Speaker 1: that I was tired of babysitting music and I wanted
Speaker 1: to do talk. I'd wanted to do to talk ever
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty seven, the first time I heard Rush
Speaker 1: Limbaugh and I, you know, I finally got the chance
Speaker 1: in ninety seven and I said, you know what, I
Speaker 1: want to do that full time. And what about today?
Speaker 1: Are you content with where you're at? Are you happy?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 19: Yeah, big time. I mean I love working with rock.
Speaker 19: We have a good time. We've got a good rapport,
Speaker 19: I think. And you know, it took me a while
Speaker 19: to settle into doing this because, like I said, when
Speaker 19: I came in, I wanted to do a Burbank style show. Yeah,
Speaker 19: and I thought that's what they wanted. Well, they wanted
Speaker 19: to go a little more issue oriented, issue oriented foxy
Speaker 19: talkie thing. Yeah, And I even said to him, I'm like,
Speaker 19: I don't know if I could do. I'm not good
Speaker 19: at that, you know, Like I said, I idolized Burbank
Speaker 19: and I wanted to follow in his footsteps.
Speaker 1: Well, for me, when you're in music radio, you may
Speaker 1: talk for fifteen seconds or thirty seconds, you know, unless
Speaker 1: you're interviewing somebody occasionally. But the first time I was
Speaker 1: on WLW in nineteen ninety seven doing Saturday mornings, even
Speaker 1: I was like lost, I'm good because I'd never rambled
Speaker 1: for five minutes or six minutes at a time without breaking.
Speaker 1: You know what am I going to talk about?
Speaker 19: Yeah, that's one of the things that Tom Owen said
Speaker 19: to me years back. We're doing an air check session.
Speaker 19: If you don't know what I remember, so you remember
Speaker 19: those they take you in and play a tape and
Speaker 19: go that sucked, right, And he doesn't. He stopped the
Speaker 19: tape and he looks at me. He goes, buddy, let
Speaker 19: me taste something. Ah, anything you have to say is
Speaker 19: not more important than the best Beatles record. We'd play exactly,
Speaker 19: all right, fair enough.
Speaker 1: I work for those guys. I know, Eddie. It's been
Speaker 1: a Joy. That's a great man. We do this all
Speaker 1: out of time for this and of course here Eddie
Speaker 1: and Rocky every Monday through Friday three to six here
Speaker 1: on seven hundred WLW. This has been one of my favorites.
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Speaker 1: Into another hour of this Night tap on seven hundred
Speaker 1: w l W. Harry Depp and our guest in this
Speaker 1: half hour is from the Citizens Council for Health freedom
Speaker 1: of Twila Brade and I think we've talked before Twilight,
Speaker 1: although it's been a long long time, but there are
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Speaker 1: Citizens Council for Health Freedom. How did this begin and
Speaker 1: was this in a direct response to what was per
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Speaker 20: of things to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. Well, I mean here, whatever happened to
Speaker 1: Hippa and the hippo laws on individual privacy? In our
Speaker 1: in our health system.
Speaker 20: Yeah, so nobody quite understands the truth about it, but
Speaker 20: we have a big campaign to do that every April.
Speaker 20: Because hippop took away your privacy. Oh, it's actually considered
Speaker 20: a permissive data sharing rule. So there is a mob
Speaker 20: of people, and I do mean a mob two point
Speaker 20: two million entities according to the federal government, who can
Speaker 20: have access to your information without your consent if those
Speaker 20: who hold it choose to share. So it's really just
Speaker 20: been this major deception of the American people into thinking
Speaker 20: that hippoprotects privacy. We've got an entire campaign to get
Speaker 20: people to stop signing the hippoform or that line that
Speaker 20: says I have received the Notice of Privacy Practices, that
Speaker 20: sort of thing, because that's all part of the deception
Speaker 20: to make you think you have privacy when you have done.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's kind of like passing the Inflation Reduction Act,
Speaker 1: which actually increases inflation. At a lot of the federal
Speaker 1: government bureaucracies and systems are set up that way where
Speaker 1: that you said, look, we're doing this for you. Well,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, they're just taking away every last
Speaker 1: semblance of freedom you had. So also I want to
Speaker 1: speak for a moment about Medicare, because I understand there's
Speaker 1: a deadline. The open enrollment date starts a week from tonight,
Speaker 1: October fifteenth, And tell me about your Medicare guide that
Speaker 1: you guys are putting out.
Speaker 20: Yes, so it is basically ready to go, except we
Speaker 20: don't have the twenty twenty five prices yet, which we're
Speaker 20: waiting for. But it's going to be on a very
Speaker 20: unique guide, never anything quite like it. It will have
Speaker 20: ten Medicare traps in it. It will explain high deductible
Speaker 20: Medicare meticgap policies and the pros and cons of that,
Speaker 20: will have a checklist, we'll have questions to ask your
Speaker 20: insurance agents, and we'll have a whole lot of different
Speaker 20: things that a lot of guides that you might see
Speaker 20: do not have. And I will just say right now
Speaker 20: from the get go that it's really important to have
Speaker 20: an independent Medicare agent working for you, because then you
Speaker 20: will have the option to get original Medicare, and they
Speaker 20: might even tell you why that might be better for you,
Speaker 20: because you can go anywhere and see any doctor almost
Speaker 20: in the entire country, whereas Medicare advantage will limit you
Speaker 20: and require you to go through prior authorization. And so
Speaker 20: even though there are zero deductible right or zero premium
Speaker 20: Medicare advantage plans, that's because of federal government. The taxpayers
Speaker 20: are paying all that money to those plans, but they
Speaker 20: have the authority to deny you access to care if
Speaker 20: they think something is not medically necessary, even though you
Speaker 20: and the doctor might disagree.
Speaker 1: So healthcare rationing basically, yes, that's exactly correct.
Speaker 20: And there are actually three reports that say that Medicare
Speaker 20: advantage plans right out of HHS Office of Inspector General,
Speaker 20: three reports since twenty fifteen talking about the rationing of
Speaker 20: medically necessary care even Medicare approved care two seniors, and
Speaker 20: how seventy five percent of the time if the senior
Speaker 20: or their doctor appeal, then the health plan will reverse
Speaker 20: and give access to the care. But only one percent
Speaker 20: of those who are denied care ever appeal. And so
Speaker 20: it's a very lucritiuve strategy for those health plans.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's it's dangerous in the sense that
Speaker 1: this is exactly what people are experiencing in other countries
Speaker 1: that have the single payer healthcare system, the socialized medicine
Speaker 1: plans where you know, cancer patients, heart patients constantly are
Speaker 1: denied or told to wait in line when they need
Speaker 1: life saving procedures or they want to and the doctors
Speaker 1: have told them, you need to have this, Okay, how
Speaker 1: do I get it? As well? Wait six months and
Speaker 1: then we'll talk about it and you may be dead
Speaker 1: or four right, exactly.
Speaker 20: Yeah, Well, the history of it is a little interesting
Speaker 20: in that it was Ted Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy that
Speaker 20: came up with the HMO Act of nineteen seventy three
Speaker 20: which created the HMOs now called Health Plans, And he
Speaker 20: was a single peer advocate. And so we call the
Speaker 20: health plans the corporate version of socialized medicine. And I
Speaker 20: really believe that he thought if he merged the delivery
Speaker 20: and financing of care into one entity at the corporate level,
Speaker 20: eventually we would be so used to being told no,
Speaker 20: which real insurance companies don't tell you no. They never
Speaker 20: get in between you and your doctor. But once you
Speaker 20: got used to being told no, you'd be willing to
Speaker 20: go into the government version of single payer.
Speaker 1: Absolutely outrageous. So anyway, the Medicare Guide available, how do
Speaker 1: people get that your from your organization?
Speaker 20: Well, Once it's available, it will be on our website
Speaker 20: Cchfreedom dot org. Cchfreedom dot org and it will be
Speaker 20: there probably in about two weeks. As long as these
Speaker 20: crises come out, they're they're delayed. I'm not sure why,
Speaker 20: but that's what we're waiting for.
Speaker 1: So don't enroll in anything until you've read the Medicare guide.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's right, okay.
Speaker 1: Even though you can start enrolling next week, don't do
Speaker 1: anything until you get all the information you need. We're
Speaker 1: talking with Twila Brace from the Citizens Council for Health Freedom,
Speaker 1: and I'll be honest with you, Twilight, I haven't even
Speaker 1: thought about getting the real ID yet. In Kentucky where
Speaker 1: I live. The date is May of twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: but there is a period or that there's a ants
Speaker 1: for the public to speak out on how they feel
Speaker 1: about this really d thing and the comment the comment
Speaker 1: window is through next Tuesday as well. Right, that's correct,
Speaker 1: All right, So I've already responded to the survey, by
Speaker 1: the way, thank you very much. And in just a
Speaker 1: moment we will get into the nuts and bolts of
Speaker 1: real ID and what it really means for you and
Speaker 1: your privacy as an individual and the ability of the
Speaker 1: government to track. We're talking with Twilight Bras brays Am
Speaker 1: I saying brace right, Grace yep, brace okay from the
Speaker 1: Citizens Council for Health Freedom on the nightcap back in
Speaker 1: just a moment after a quick break here on seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW. The Kenton County Haunted Fairgrounds is right around
Speaker 1: the corner. Starting October eleventh and twelfth and rapping on
Speaker 1: the eighteenth and nineteenth. Again in this half hour on
Speaker 1: seven hunter WLW on the nightcap, Gary Jeff talking with
Speaker 1: Twilo Braids from the Citizens Council for Help Freedom and
Speaker 1: now we're talking about your freedom to move about as
Speaker 1: you see fit without being tracked. The real id conversation
Speaker 1: is what we're having, Twila. And we've been told now
Speaker 1: they delayed once, but this is not a law. States
Speaker 1: do not have to do this, Is that correct?
Speaker 20: Well, it's a little bit more complicated than that. In
Speaker 20: two thousand and five, In two thousand and five, the
Speaker 20: federal government, in the dark of the knight, or Congress
Speaker 20: in the darks of the knight, did this. They actually
Speaker 20: called it a national idea. On the floor of the Senate.
Speaker 20: That was Lamar Alexander then states then they put out
Speaker 20: a regulation in like two thousand and eight, and that's
Speaker 20: when states got alert to the fact that this was happening,
Speaker 20: and a lot of states wrote laws against it. So
Speaker 20: they said, we will not we will not comply with
Speaker 20: this law because a usurpation of states' rights. Federal government
Speaker 20: cannot take over the identification function, the driving functions, the
Speaker 20: authority over all of this that is within the state purview.
Speaker 20: But then in twenty sixteen, the Obama administration came out
Speaker 20: with a lie, the you can't fly lie, and that
Speaker 20: was meant to get everybody to get the real ID.
Speaker 20: But what I think your people need to understand is
Speaker 20: the real ide is not just a card. It's not
Speaker 20: just an ID card, it's not just a driver's license.
Speaker 20: It's a system. And according to the federal law, the
Speaker 20: Secretary of Homeland Security can decide what that card needs
Speaker 20: to be produced for. In other words, right now, the
Speaker 20: law says that the real idea is required for entrance
Speaker 20: into federal facilities, certain ones, nuclear facilities, and commercial airlines,
Speaker 20: and any other purposes as the Secretary shall deem to
Speaker 20: be necessary.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, stop right there just for a second. So
Speaker 1: do I really want Alejandro Majorcus or some successor of
Speaker 1: his deciding whether I can go somewhere based on the
Speaker 1: fact of whether I've got this is that's what you're
Speaker 1: telling me, that I'm relying on that guy, and it
Speaker 1: could be anybody, it doesn't matter, But I'm just thinking
Speaker 1: about the particular guy, particular instance of what we have
Speaker 1: right now in this country. The head of that organization
Speaker 1: is going to be in charge of deciding whether we
Speaker 1: can go anywhere, not just on an airplane, but in
Speaker 1: a nuclear base or in a federal building, but anything
Speaker 1: we want to do as individuals, he will have to
Speaker 1: say so. And we have to have this piece of
Speaker 1: identification that shows that we are in this system.
Speaker 20: One I'm elected bureaucrat who can later decide that that
Speaker 20: any other purposes could be things like by a gun,
Speaker 20: by ammunition, by a house, open a bank account, get
Speaker 20: access to medical care, register at a hotel, that this card,
Speaker 20: this federal National ID card, would have to be submitted
Speaker 20: in order to be able to do any of that.
Speaker 20: So this is a command and control card. And this
Speaker 20: rule that you just submitted to comment on this is
Speaker 20: a proposed rule. They only gave us thirty days and
Speaker 20: They did it during the height of the election season,
Speaker 20: and I think they didn't want people to see what
Speaker 20: they were doing anyway. So what this rule says is
Speaker 20: that for the next two years, starting in May, they
Speaker 20: will do progressive enforcement their words, and there will be
Speaker 20: progressive consequences. And they even advise doing three strikes, like
Speaker 20: letting you've come to the airport three times without one,
Speaker 20: but then on the fourth time that you come, despite
Speaker 20: having tickets and everything, they would say, sorry, go home.
Speaker 20: And so this is their plan. They want us to
Speaker 20: suffer until we will submit to something that is unconstitutional.
Speaker 20: It is totally unconstitutional. Actually, legislators in Pennsylvania and Missouri
Speaker 20: in twenty seventeen wrote letters to Trump and basically said
Speaker 20: stop it. This is a usurpation of states rights, and
Speaker 20: this is a violation of the Fourth Amendment to give
Speaker 20: the federal government this kind of power over everyone and
Speaker 20: every state. And so the really important thing for people
Speaker 20: to understand is there two things. One you can fly
Speaker 20: without it. TSA actually has about sixteen ID cards, including
Speaker 20: a passport. Everyone should have a passport. You never know
Speaker 20: when you just might want to leave quickly, and so,
Speaker 20: but the passport can't be used for everything that Mayorkis
Speaker 20: could use or you know do with this card, right,
Speaker 20: so you just have a passport to make sure you
Speaker 20: can fly. But at the end of the day, we
Speaker 20: hope to never let them get to that point. That's
Speaker 20: the whole purpose for everyone to comment and say this
Speaker 20: is unconstitutional, you cannot afford, you cannot enforce this, because
Speaker 20: eventually we hope that there will be an attorney if
Speaker 20: all of sales that takes us up and has all
Speaker 20: these people saying, yeah, we know this is unconstitutional, you
Speaker 20: can't actually do this, and you know, people should be
Speaker 20: absolutely in sensed offended actually that to get a real idea,
Speaker 20: you have to submit all your primary identification documents, your
Speaker 20: birth certificate, your Social Security number, your marriage certificate, your
Speaker 20: divorce decree, you know, all these things, and they're going
Speaker 20: to put them in their digital databases and have them
Speaker 20: in one place, and they don't have them like that
Speaker 20: today is do you really want the government to have
Speaker 20: that kind of control over all of your prime identity documents?
Speaker 20: And yet over at the southern border, come on in, Well.
Speaker 1: I was going to say you could just you just
Speaker 1: go to the airport and tell them you're an illegal immigrant,
Speaker 1: and you can fly anywhere for free right without an idea.
Speaker 1: That's the thing that is the thing that is most
Speaker 1: uh just so odorous about this toilet to me, is
Speaker 1: that we are flying and we already know that half
Speaker 1: a million people basically have been flown into our country
Speaker 1: with no idea at all, no one knows who they are.
Speaker 1: And yet we, as American citizens, are being subjected to
Speaker 1: this kind of personal tyranny by the federal go or
Speaker 1: they're attempting to do this. How do people let their
Speaker 1: voices be heard in the next week to say no,
Speaker 1: stop this, I disagree.
Speaker 20: Right, you have only a week say it's unconstitutional. Go
Speaker 20: to our website and there's a big black box that
Speaker 20: says click here, and so you can click there and
Speaker 20: then just click onto the link to comment, and so
Speaker 20: go to c c Hfreedom dot Org c c Hfreedom
Speaker 20: dot Org. You should, you know, you should just recognize
Speaker 20: that when you're having to do this, you are re
Speaker 20: certifying as an American citizen and they are basically claiming,
Speaker 20: unless you have this card, all the freedoms that you
Speaker 20: have today we could potentially take away from you. So
Speaker 20: it's really agreed to, it's not a card. It's a system,
Speaker 20: and it could become a social credit.
Speaker 1: System, just like communists China. Yep, yep, yeah, I was
Speaker 1: going to say, it sounds a whole lot like the
Speaker 1: CCP to me, right, what was the famous quote those
Speaker 1: who sacrifice security, Yes, sacrifice liberty for security will have neither.
Speaker 1: And yes, that's where we are headlong hurdling towards well
Speaker 1: twilight base. Is there anything else in our minute and
Speaker 1: a half or so or two minutes that you would
Speaker 1: like to people to know about the Council of the Citizens,
Speaker 1: Council for Health freedomcfreedom dot org or anything else that's
Speaker 1: on your radar.
Speaker 20: Well, I guess I will just say that we're a
Speaker 20: nonprofit organization, been around for about twenty seven years, and
Speaker 20: we have a online directory of cash based practices. They
Speaker 20: don't take any government, they don't take any insurance, and
Speaker 20: they work just for you. And you could find that
Speaker 20: at jointhwedge dot com. Find a doctor that works for you,
Speaker 20: Join the Wedge dot com and if you're worried about
Speaker 20: what's happening in the exam room and you want some protection,
Speaker 20: come to our website and go to the bottom to
Speaker 20: helpful handouts. And you will find the discharge instructions where
Speaker 20: we help you to protect yourself in the exam room,
Speaker 20: including what to do with all those pesky intrusive questionnaires
Speaker 20: in the exam room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, are you being abused at home?
Speaker 4: Can't help?
Speaker 20: Do you have guns?
Speaker 1: Do you have guns? Twila bras from the.
Speaker 20: What's your educational level? None of your business? Right, this
Speaker 20: is I don't think they know this, but as a
Speaker 20: matter of fact, the federal government is paying now to
Speaker 20: get your social determinants of health all the things about
Speaker 20: your life that could impact your health. It's really interessive,
Speaker 20: that's really awful. And HIPPA doesn't protect a word that
Speaker 20: you say or anything on that questionnaire, and all sorts
Speaker 20: of people can have access to it without your consent to.
Speaker 1: Find the real truth about real ID and so much more.
Speaker 1: Citizens Council for Health Freedom Ccchfreedom dot org, Twila brace,
Speaker 1: thank you again for your time tonight.
Speaker 20: Thank you so much. It was great.
Speaker 1: You got a news break. And then the Furball joins
Speaker 1: us sign the nightcap on seven hundred WLW News.
Speaker 10: Traffic and Weather News Radio seven hundred wl W Cincinnati.
Speaker 21: Tilton getting closer to landfall well the eleven thirty reports,
Speaker 21: i'm ley mallin breaking. Now Hurricane Milton restrengthening back into
Speaker 21: Category five territory. Gas Buddy reportings seventeen percent of Florida
Speaker 21: gas stations didn't have fuel. ABC's Victor Oquendo reporting on
Speaker 21: the Long Lines. More than thirteen hundred stations statewide running
Speaker 21: out of fuel.
Speaker 19: According to guess Buddy, State troopers now escorting tankers to
Speaker 19: resupply gas stations.
Speaker 21: Authorities in Florida filling Tropicana Field in Saint Petersburg, normally
Speaker 21: the home of the Tampa Bay Rays, with costs to
Speaker 21: provide a base camp for first responders. Some eight thousand
Speaker 21: National Guard troops mobilized the states, pracing for landfall from
Speaker 21: Hurricane Milton late Wednesday or early Thursday morning. Meantime, President
Speaker 21: Joe Biden canceling his trip to Angola and Germany and
Speaker 21: reported to have sent the FEMA director to handle Milton.
Speaker 22: I've sent FEMA Administrator Chris Well down to Florida yesterday
Speaker 22: to work intensively with the state and local partners. As
Speaker 22: you prepare to deploy more resources. You continue that work
Speaker 22: between Florida North Carolina the coming days.
Speaker 21: Many flights canceled and now Disney World announcing phase closures
Speaker 21: of the park starting tomorrow starting at one o'clock in
Speaker 21: the afternoon for Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom, and the
Speaker 21: rest of the park will follow. An alaur chunks Tampa
Speaker 21: Police Chief Lee burkh Hall telling ABC News, this is
Speaker 21: the storm of the century. Now the latest traffic and
Speaker 21: weather together. No accidents to report around the Queen City.
Speaker 21: You're looking good, Cincinnati.
Speaker 10: Now the ladies forecast from a train, heating and cooling
Speaker 10: weather center on news radio seven hundred WLW heading to.
Speaker 13: Our Wednesday morning, It's gonna stay clear, cool. We'll see
Speaker 13: a seven am temp forty six, mostly sunny, a high
Speaker 13: as seventy four at night it stays clear and a
Speaker 13: low of forty nine. From your severe weather station, I'm
Speaker 13: nine first warning, Chief Meteorologist Steve Rawley, News Radio seven
Speaker 13: hundred WLW.
Speaker 21: Fifty three degrees in Cincinnati, and the radar all clear.
Speaker 21: A team facing multiple charges after allegedly stealing a vehicle
Speaker 21: and getting into what became a fatal crash.
Speaker 11: It was just after seven thirty Tuesday morning when Green
Speaker 11: Talented police trying to pull over a vehicle reported stolen
Speaker 11: out of Cincinnati, when they say the driver, later identified
Speaker 11: as a fifteen year old male, intentionally swerved, hitting one
Speaker 11: of their cruisers. It's said to a brief pursuit as
Speaker 11: they lost sight of the Honda CRV, but would find
Speaker 11: that the team struck two other vehicles in the twenty
Speaker 11: three hundred block of North Bend Road and then fled
Speaker 11: on foot. A twenty eight year old man and one
Speaker 11: of the vehicles died from serious injuries after being taken
Speaker 11: to UC Medical Center, while a sixty nine year old
Speaker 11: woman in the second vehicle had injuries said to be
Speaker 11: nonlighte threatening. The suspect would be found and arrested, initially
Speaker 11: charged with receiving stolen property, Felonia's assault on a police officer,
Speaker 11: and failure to comply with the signal of a police officer.
Speaker 11: The Cincinnati Police Departments Traffic Unit investigating the fatal crash
Speaker 11: and the subsequent charges stemming from it. I'm Sean Gaalbager
Speaker 11: News Radio seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 21: An eighteen year old arrested for beating a seventy four
Speaker 21: year old family member in Erlanger this afternoon, happening around
Speaker 21: two o'clock in the one hundred block of Ridgewood Drive.
Speaker 21: Why had Testament accused of assaulting Sherry Oliver and causing
Speaker 21: serious injuries to her head. Oliver would later die from
Speaker 21: our injuries at UC Medical Center. Testament was taken into
Speaker 21: custody without further incident. He's held at the Kenton County
Speaker 21: Detention Center. Sources telling WLWT Oliver was Testaman's grandmother and
Speaker 21: the incident was a dispute between family members. As well
Speaker 21: as early voting in Ohio and Indiana kicking off today,
Speaker 21: it was also the start of Prime Days and plenty
Speaker 21: of our sales, ABC's Mike DuBowski.
Speaker 5: This is the second Amazon Prime Day of the year.
Speaker 5: The online retailer expanded their subscriber only sale to a
Speaker 5: bi annual event in twenty twenty two, but there are
Speaker 5: signs of oversaturation. In twenty twenty two, seventy eight percent
Speaker 5: of shoppers who participated in Prime Day were existing Prime subscribers.
Speaker 5: Only five percent signed up for Prime Day to take
Speaker 5: part in the sale, but it's still a money maker.
Speaker 5: Amazon says this past July marked the biggest Prime Day
Speaker 5: since the sales creation in twenty fifteen. Mike Debaski, ABC
Speaker 5: News Our next update is at midnight.
Speaker 21: I'm Ley Mawin News Radio seven hundred WA home owners.
Speaker 19: The FED has taken action lowering rates for the first
Speaker 19: time in years, and Loan Proto is also lowering mortgage
Speaker 19: rates big time. Eddie here, it's the business.
Speaker 1: As well. He put the wraps on his nightcap. I
Speaker 1: can always count on this guy for a different adventure
Speaker 1: because he likes to drive. He likes to cruise out
Speaker 1: of his car and stock late at night. I don't
Speaker 1: know where he is right now, but he is on
Speaker 1: the phone with us. I know that much. It is
Speaker 1: the ultimate sports voice of Cincinnati radio. Even to this day.
Speaker 1: You can hear him on Fox Sports thirteen sixty on
Speaker 1: Sunday mornings, and you can hear him here in the Nightcaps.
Speaker 1: Thank god he's around for me to beat up Andy Furman,
Speaker 1: the fur Ball. What are you doing out driving a
Speaker 1: car this late at night? Andy, Just go for a
Speaker 1: little spin.
Speaker 17: I like to see the move, I really do.
Speaker 23: The stars just beautiful, beautiful night.
Speaker 1: It is a refreshing to me.
Speaker 2: I cleanse my mind.
Speaker 23: I stopped thinking about what the Bangles have done, and
Speaker 23: you know what, I have some thoughts that enter my
Speaker 23: mind while I do this and I love to share
Speaker 23: it with you.
Speaker 2: But first of all, I.
Speaker 23: Want to say, Kalen de boor wealcome PITNSCC. Congratulations Gary Jeff,
Speaker 23: But you're Vanderbilt comfodoors Walk Theme PITSDC.
Speaker 17: All of a sudden, the seat that you sit.
Speaker 23: On is getting a little warmer, getting.
Speaker 17: A little warmer. At Alabama, you're learning how it feels.
Speaker 1: The only thing I can tell you about Vanderbilt football, Andy,
Speaker 1: is that Vanderbilt, of course, is the only private school
Speaker 1: in the Southeastern Conference. All the rest are state entities,
Speaker 1: and they have the same grade requirements of state colleges, which,
Speaker 1: in other words, if you can spell your name and
Speaker 1: you can play football, you can play at Alabama or
Speaker 1: Oklahoma or any of the rest of them. Not at Vanderbilt.
Speaker 1: You have to have, like I think, it's a three
Speaker 1: point six three point seven. No matter how good a
Speaker 1: football player you are, even with the transfer portal, even
Speaker 1: with the nil money, Vandy is always at a disadvantage.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that smart people can't play football, but
Speaker 1: when they're going against all these one eyed bohemoths, who
Speaker 1: are you know is majoring in criminal justice? You know,
Speaker 1: oftentimes a neuroscience Major is no match for them physically.
Speaker 1: But in this particular case, the doors showed Alabama the
Speaker 1: door out of Nashville with their first loss of the season.
Speaker 1: I couldn't have been happier on Saturday than when I
Speaker 1: saw that. I was rooting like I was back at
Speaker 1: Dudley Field in the nineteen eighties. I was so thrilled
Speaker 1: with Vanderbilts. And what about that quarterback Pabia? Huh what
Speaker 1: about that guy.
Speaker 17: Diego Diego Diego?
Speaker 23: I mean, I'd like to see his transcript though, So
Speaker 23: don't give me, don't give me a crying howel you know,
Speaker 23: with the transcripts and the great because he got in Okay,
Speaker 23: he's in Vanderbilt, and he couldn't have got it out
Speaker 23: of New Mexico.
Speaker 17: So let's just.
Speaker 1: Oh no no, no, no no no no no no no no.
Speaker 1: They don't they don't waive the requirements for anybody, even transfers. Andy.
Speaker 1: I bet he is a brilliant guy. I know he
Speaker 1: could run circles around both you and I. There's no
Speaker 1: question about that. He goes to Vanderbilt.
Speaker 17: That's all.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's all right, that's okay. We're you're gonna
Speaker 1: work for us someday. That's the cheer from the Vanderbilt
Speaker 1: student section because it's true. Because it's true.
Speaker 23: I bet okay, they got a fund to no gold
Speaker 23: Postman in that game.
Speaker 17: I could you believe it?
Speaker 23: This week, the coming to Lexington to play the Wildcats
Speaker 23: in Kentucky.
Speaker 17: Hey, that's the interesting.
Speaker 1: That's going to be a good game, you know, because
Speaker 1: because Stoops has a good program down, you've got a
Speaker 1: good team there. Uh And it is again a state's
Speaker 1: state school, so the requirements aren't the same academically as
Speaker 1: they are at Vanderbilt. But I mean, I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: the van any Commodorees can teach the Wildcats and thing
Speaker 1: or two at Commonwealth Stadium. In fact, I think they're
Speaker 1: they're bringing them in as tutors and opponents.
Speaker 23: Oh wow, right, okay, Now your second favorite team, the
Speaker 23: Kansas City Chiefs, remained undefeated in.
Speaker 17: The National three team three ten three, right right, all
Speaker 17: of a sudden, Now we're seeing at the week.
Speaker 23: Number five a little bit of separation in the National
Speaker 23: Football League, you know, the good against the Bear.
Speaker 17: We'll see what's happening right there.
Speaker 23: And I thought about this and said, I want to
Speaker 23: share it with you.
Speaker 17: Right, the Kansas City Chiefs. You know, they talk about teams.
Speaker 23: That are one dimensional, that could only groan, that could
Speaker 23: only pass. The Kansas City Chiefs are not a one
Speaker 23: dimensional team. They can beat you in more ways than one,
Speaker 23: and specifically on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 17: Why do I say that? Look at the stats.
Speaker 23: Joe Burrow flowed to five touchdowns on Sunday and they lose. Okay,
Speaker 23: Patrick Mahomes on the Sea have six touchdowns, have six picks,
Speaker 23: and that team is undefeated. Why they win on their defense?
Speaker 23: They could win them all ways than one. And the
Speaker 23: Bengals kids, that defense is atrocious period.
Speaker 17: Do you agree?
Speaker 1: Yes? I agree, their big defense is atrocious, And yes
Speaker 1: I agree Kansas City has learned how to play defense
Speaker 1: and makes them even more formidable with all of the
Speaker 1: offensive tools, primarily Patrick Mahomes at the helm of the offense.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this, it was great to see
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt back in a Chiefs uniform running roughshod and
Speaker 1: Jojo Smith Schuster and also Travis Kelcey finally had his
Speaker 1: breakout game, his first breakout game. So there are a
Speaker 1: lot of things in that victory last night over the
Speaker 1: Saints that you can highlight. But yes, defense is first
Speaker 1: and foremost, and Spagnola and Andy Reid have done a
Speaker 1: wonderful job in Kansas City. No question.
Speaker 23: You brought that up about Kareem Hunt for the guy
Speaker 23: that couldn't make the Cleveland Browns, but.
Speaker 17: He's playing for the Chiefs. Think about that. And therefore,
Speaker 17: I go back to the development of the Kansas City
Speaker 17: Chiefs that ninety.
Speaker 23: Nine percent of their players have been brought up through
Speaker 23: the draft.
Speaker 8: Ten of the.
Speaker 17: Eleven starters have been draftees. Okay, that's the.
Speaker 23: Keys, not free agency, it's development, and that's what they
Speaker 23: do great in Kansas City.
Speaker 17: Kareem Hunt can't make the Browns, but he's playing for
Speaker 17: the Chiefs. Think about that.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, no, that was that was a bonus
Speaker 1: for Kareem Hunt, because nobody wants to play for the Browns,
Speaker 1: even with the Bengals at one in four, Andy, the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns have to be the most moribund or snake
Speaker 1: bit or stupid franchises in the front office and they hit.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. They can change their general manager, they
Speaker 1: can change the coach, they can change the quarterback. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. The Browns always are pitiful and they're good
Speaker 1: seasons are the seasons they beat the Bengals and hover
Speaker 1: around five hundred. They're not gonna sniff five hundred this
Speaker 1: year because they're just the Browns. It's if it's brown,
Speaker 1: flush it down. And that's not just a catch phrase, Andy,
Speaker 1: it's the truth that Cleveland Browns maybe the worst run
Speaker 1: franchise in the entire NFL.
Speaker 23: Well, I don't know if they'renna work with it, pretty
Speaker 23: close to it, but I will pay this you use
Speaker 23: the term sniffing five hundred. I worry about that with
Speaker 23: the CINCTORONNI Bengals right now. Look, I got a lot
Speaker 23: of confidence in Joe Burrow and what this team needs
Speaker 23: to do. And I told this to my partner on
Speaker 23: Sundow Fox Sports Radio, Bucky Brooks. They're gonna win games
Speaker 23: like forty five, thirty eight, you know, thirty one, twenty seven.
Speaker 23: Joe Burrow on his arm is gonna put both points
Speaker 23: on that they're.
Speaker 17: Gonna give up and that's probably a lot of games
Speaker 17: on their last position.
Speaker 23: That's the only thing they're gonna wait to do that.
Speaker 23: That's the only way they can't win. Their defense is terrible,
Speaker 23: they can't stop the run.
Speaker 17: Thirty is the team defense that we speak right now,
Speaker 17: and it's about Joe Burrow.
Speaker 23: What Joe Burrow said, we need to play a perfect game.
Speaker 23: When he said that prior to the game on Sunday,
Speaker 23: Remember he said that earlier in the week last week,
Speaker 23: you know what he was doing. I mean, for those
Speaker 23: people who aren't that smart and smart as you and I.
Speaker 17: What he was saying.
Speaker 23: He's pointed to the defense, we gotta play a perfect game.
Speaker 17: He's not talking about the offense.
Speaker 23: They're playing great football, just going over thirty points a game.
Speaker 23: So when Joe Burrow said we gotta play a perfect game,
Speaker 23: that was directed specifically to the defensive team of the
Speaker 23: Si Suny Fangs.
Speaker 1: All right, Andy, I tell you what. You're driving around.
Speaker 1: It's late at night, you're looking at the moon on
Speaker 1: a beautiful clear night. I want you to during the
Speaker 1: commercial break, you see that girl in the corner. I
Speaker 1: want you to pick her up and see if she
Speaker 1: needs like a hot meal or something, and we'll be back. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you.
Speaker 20: Just hold on.
Speaker 17: Oh she said she needed one hundred dollars. I don't
Speaker 17: love picking her up.
Speaker 1: Well, give her friend fifty dollars. She came in second,
Speaker 1: hold on just a second more with the furball on
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