Speaker 1: Back on the Big One seven hundred WLW twelve O. Wait,
Speaker 1: Dan Carroll in for Bill Cunningham. And you know, some
Speaker 1: days you never know how things are going to unfold.
Speaker 1: I'm preparing for the show today and I saw the
Speaker 1: news headline shortly before I headed into the station and Dave,
Speaker 1: my reaction was this hit it It's unbelievable. You know,
Speaker 1: we knew there was something going on because they summoned
Speaker 1: all the reporters to the Big Mac Bridge today and
Speaker 1: the headline is this four seventy one southbound. All the
Speaker 1: lanes of the Big Mac Bridge are going to reopen
Speaker 1: on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday Sunday. Like Cash d Amberg he
Speaker 1: used to say at the bargain Barn, come on up Sunday.
Speaker 1: We've got a great deal for you. The main man,
Speaker 1: you know, the guy Chuck Ingram. Have you been catching
Speaker 1: all kinds of hell on this absolutely because of seventy one?
Speaker 2: Was it was my fault?
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, look, I mean how many years he
Speaker 1: been doing traffic in this town? This is I'm over
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I've got about ten or eleven years on
Speaker 1: my double door. So you know we're talking about thirty
Speaker 1: plus years of traffic reporting between the two of us, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have. I have never seen a story like this. Look,
Speaker 1: there's times when traffic stories get a lot of attention,
Speaker 1: get a lot of press, but this one on four
Speaker 1: seventy one because it affects so many people. I mean
Speaker 1: when you talk about they did stories about when the
Speaker 1: steel beams were being manufactured, when they were getting shipped,
Speaker 1: when they were being put in place, schedules for the
Speaker 1: concrete purse, this, that and the other thing. I've never
Speaker 1: seen this kind of coverage on a traffic story ever.
Speaker 2: No, I would agree with you.
Speaker 1: Even so, just going back the four to five years whatever,
Speaker 1: it's over four years now with the fire on the
Speaker 1: Branch Spence, with the truck fire on the Brand Spence,
Speaker 1: the most recent disaster we had have happened traffic wise,
Speaker 1: you didn't have this kind of coverage and different things
Speaker 1: to play. Almost the play by play, although it seemed
Speaker 1: to take an offul long time to start to get
Speaker 1: some help for those folks that had to go across
Speaker 1: the bridge. Once the play the different things started happening,
Speaker 1: It's like unfolded pretty quickly. Yeah, what so, tell me
Speaker 1: what kind of what kind of reaction you've been getting
Speaker 1: for these last several months while this thing has been closed,
Speaker 1: because it has been an absolute nightmare, not so much
Speaker 1: in the morning, but especially in the afternoon. No, afternoon
Speaker 1: has really been taking a hit. And that was the
Speaker 1: That's the thing I would get all the time with
Speaker 1: the texts and people I didn't even know had my
Speaker 1: phone number.
Speaker 2: When is this going to open? Its three o'clock in
Speaker 2: the morning. Who else calling me? Yeah? Exactly this.
Speaker 3: Even even though texts, you know, you don't have an
Speaker 3: emotion to it, I could read right through the words.
Speaker 3: It's like, just say, oh my god, when is this?
Speaker 3: When is this? I said, yeah, you know, I kept
Speaker 3: playing along. I said, well, I kind almost guaranteed before
Speaker 3: opening day that this is going to you know, this
Speaker 3: is kind of because the originally said mid March, but
Speaker 3: to have this almost the full mont.
Speaker 1: You gotta think opening day was was a day they
Speaker 1: had circled on the calendar that they had to get
Speaker 1: it done.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah before that.
Speaker 1: So we we knew today and because there were obviously
Speaker 1: you know, with the way we do news here at
Speaker 1: seven hundred wlw uh, we knew there was going to
Speaker 1: be some sort of announcement some sort of update got
Speaker 1: reporters coming out to the bridge today. So we knew
Speaker 1: there was going to be something happening. We didn't know
Speaker 1: it was going to be this. No, no, Ill, What
Speaker 1: was your reaction when you saw when you saw this
Speaker 1: piece of news.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: They were going to O dot was going to send
Speaker 1: out a Valentine state card and say the highways are
Speaker 1: for driving, go ahead and do it, you know kind
Speaker 1: of thing by next weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't think it would happen this weekend at all.
Speaker 2: And that's just wonderful.
Speaker 1: It's going to be open before before Valentine's that's right,
Speaker 1: So what you amazing? You can take your love over
Speaker 1: to Newport and all the restaurants that have been suffering
Speaker 1: in things because of this bridge being closed and celebrate there.
Speaker 1: You'll be able to celebrate Valentine's there. You know, you
Speaker 1: still live in Mount Washington in Anderson Township. Okay, I
Speaker 1: live in well then we both live in Anderson Township.
Speaker 1: But I mean that's the thing, this thing with this
Speaker 1: bridge being closed. There's been a couple of times and
Speaker 1: thankfully I've I've met I've managed to avoid it. But
Speaker 1: that the three or four times they got I got
Speaker 1: caught up in that afternoon traffic trying to get back
Speaker 1: to Anderson Township. I mean, I've never seen a situation
Speaker 1: because because there's so many people who go to the
Speaker 1: east side on four seventy one, I've never seen a
Speaker 1: situation that reaches so far. And I'm talking about all
Speaker 1: the way into Anderson Township, all the way up Beachmunt Avenue,
Speaker 1: all the way out Route thirty two, and it just
Speaker 1: it screws up everything. I've never seen anything like it. No,
Speaker 1: it really, it really truly did, taking away that one
Speaker 1: element out of everything. It's just like when you got
Speaker 1: to make the adjustments to your travel and it was
Speaker 1: just like, well, wait a minute, can't handle another twenty
Speaker 1: thousand some point or whatever the number exactly was daily. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, to have to make a difference like that,
Speaker 1: It's like everything was jammed at that point. What did
Speaker 1: we do before the big mac Bridge open? Wasn't that amazing?
Speaker 1: I can't remember. I can't remember either. I'm just goin
Speaker 1: to I don't know. I forget when it opened, but
Speaker 1: I think I was driving by then. But yeah, because
Speaker 1: I remember it taking forth. I mean Columbia Parkway. But
Speaker 1: it could because I grew up on the east side
Speaker 1: and whenever we went downtown, it was always Columbia Parkway.
Speaker 1: That was really the only the best way to go
Speaker 1: was the way to go right. Yeah, and then when
Speaker 1: four seventy one open, it was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: we can get downtown in eleven minutes. Right, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: You cut your traff and h trip in half. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: and then coming back the other way. But I mean,
Speaker 1: but this is this is and that's why I played
Speaker 1: the Hallelujah chorus because it's good. How rare is it though,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to construction projects, because you know,
Speaker 1: we see it on seventy five and it's not like,
Speaker 1: you know, seventy five, okay, you're down a lane or
Speaker 1: they're going to reconfigure. There's something's going to happen. But
Speaker 1: usually there's there's at least some trickle of traffic that
Speaker 1: can get through there. But when you've got you know,
Speaker 1: access and crossing a river, that it's a whole different
Speaker 1: ball game. And it's basically other than the one near
Speaker 1: keell Ogun and on the east side, that's the that's
Speaker 1: the biggie for seventy one was the biggie of coming
Speaker 1: into town, so you didn't have to get into more
Speaker 1: northern Kentucky traffic for seventy five. Yeah, in southbound as well,
Speaker 1: so it's like, no, take it away, and now we
Speaker 1: know what it feels like. All right, So if only
Speaker 1: you would have known this at you know, six o'clock
Speaker 1: this morning.
Speaker 2: At five o'clock this morning, Oh, wouldn't that have been?
Speaker 4: Na?
Speaker 2: I know you would have I would have looked like
Speaker 2: a yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: But then the I running part is is that they
Speaker 1: literally they are on the bridge and they're having this
Speaker 1: press conference and releasing the information. The other to talk
Speaker 1: about it opening up on Sunday actually came out a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier this morning. And then we have police
Speaker 1: activity on seventy five, which is going on right now
Speaker 1: at Dixie. That's slowing five Dixie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's in northern Kentucky and it's backing traffic into
Speaker 3: downtown and the northbound lanes are slow from Erlanger.
Speaker 1: You've got that going on. And then on seventy one
Speaker 1: a little bit further near Glencoe after the split, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a truck fire that shut shuts that down. That's
Speaker 1: going on right now southbound lane too. Yeah, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: So it's like all the traffic guds go, oh, you've
Speaker 3: got this nice thing going on for four seventy one
Speaker 3: and good news there, hold my beer.
Speaker 1: It has a way of balance and itself out, doesn't it. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is absolutely amazing. All right, Well, Chuck, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what, man. I appreciate you coming in and spend
Speaker 1: a little time today, and uh, it's always great to
Speaker 1: see you, my friend.
Speaker 2: It's good to see you too.
Speaker 1: It's nice to be able to talk about something positive
Speaker 1: for a change.
Speaker 3: That is the best news we've heard all day, you know,
Speaker 3: sec say it with ease, four.
Speaker 1: Seventy one And now I'm just gonna kind of keep track.
Speaker 1: I don't know the next time i'll be driving over
Speaker 1: four to seventy one that way, but hopefully it'll be
Speaker 1: before too long. There you go, All right, Chuck, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. You'll be able to do it come Sunday. Yeah, Dave,
Speaker 1: can we hear that? Can we hear the music one
Speaker 1: more time? And you know, we we opened the segment
Speaker 1: with little Hollelujah, and I think it's as only fitting
Speaker 1: that we close the segment as well. And Matt Reese
Speaker 1: went out there today and maybe we'll talk with him
Speaker 1: a little bit later on. But uh, I think I
Speaker 1: think the music is fitting as we close out this segment.
Speaker 1: Chuck Ingram, thank you very much thinking in and enjoy
Speaker 1: your drive and annoy the Kentucky over the Big Man
Speaker 1: the way it was meant to be opening early. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's government man. That never happens with government. Miracles do happen.
Speaker 1: Trump is in office and four to seventy one is open. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the reason it's opening early.
Speaker 2: Of course. I'm seven HUNDREDW.
Speaker 1: I back on the Big One, seven hundred WLW twelve
Speaker 1: twenty two, Dan Carol for Bill Cunningham, and the news
Speaker 1: is huge today that the Big Mac Bridge will be
Speaker 1: opened by Sunday, Sunday evening, according to Mike Shell at
Speaker 1: Fox nineteen so reporters were some of there today. Matt Reeves.
Speaker 1: I just talked to Matt Reeves. He is still taking
Speaker 1: the tour of the bridge. He's got some photos. I
Speaker 1: think those have been posted on the social media of
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW, so you can see that. Might talk
Speaker 1: to about Matt Rees and his experience a little bit
Speaker 1: later on, but that's the thing. You know, you get
Speaker 1: called out to an event like this, and every once
Speaker 1: in a while it happens because you pretty much as
Speaker 1: a reporter, you pretty much have an idea of what
Speaker 1: the news is going to be before you get there.
Speaker 2: Not this time.
Speaker 1: This day got there and the news came out that
Speaker 1: they are ready to rock and roll on Sunday on
Speaker 1: the Big Mac Bridge. And that is absolutely huge. So
Speaker 1: this is the final weekday that we will have evening
Speaker 1: traffic backups because of four to seventy one southbound being
Speaker 1: shut down. So that is a reason to celebrate, and
Speaker 1: that news is going to be percolating all day long
Speaker 1: elsewhere today. And I reached out to Richard Jones, who
Speaker 1: I was trying to get him to join me here
Speaker 1: on seven hundred WLW today. I saw this story posted
Speaker 1: on WCPO a little early this morning, and this is
Speaker 1: a story about a sign out front of the Butler
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's office. And there is a sign that reads
Speaker 1: this illegal aliens here, and it's got an arrow pointing
Speaker 1: towards the Sheriff's office, which is, to my way of thinking,
Speaker 1: a public service. If you're an illegal alien and you
Speaker 1: are ready to call it quits or you're ready to
Speaker 1: come clean. Then there's a sign right there with an
Speaker 1: arrow on it, and it tells you where to go
Speaker 1: if you're in Butler County. But that's not good enough
Speaker 1: for some people in Butler County because there is a
Speaker 1: petition out there. Surprisingly, I might add, signed by sixteen
Speaker 1: hundred people. How do you find sixteen hundred people in
Speaker 1: Butler County who are opposed to a sign that reads
Speaker 1: illegal aliens here out front of the Butler County Sheriff's
Speaker 1: office and they don't like it a bit. Apparently this
Speaker 1: sign went up in two thousand and four and now
Speaker 1: they wanted they want to take him down. Let's see
Speaker 1: what I do with that. Here's here's the petition, and
Speaker 1: this is on change dot org. So if you want
Speaker 1: to sign a petition by all means, go ahead. Actually
Speaker 1: they're up to eighteen thousand signatures. Now eighteen thousand people,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, not eighteen thousand, eighteen hundred, eighteen hundred signing
Speaker 1: this petition in Butler County. And here's what they write.
Speaker 1: They write, this is what the issue is. Our community
Speaker 1: is one built on love, understanding, and respect for the
Speaker 1: dignity of all persons. We take pride in the inclusive
Speaker 1: nature of our community, one that does not discriminate, but
Speaker 1: embraces all its citizens. However, a symbol of discord, division,
Speaker 1: and prejudice persists in our community. The despair uraging illegal
Speaker 1: aliens here sign displayed at the Butler County Jail. How
Speaker 1: is that sign disparaging? How is it prejudice? How is
Speaker 1: it showing a symbol of discord? If you're in this
Speaker 1: country illegally and you are from not from the United States,
Speaker 1: you're an alien. You're in the country illegally, you're here,
Speaker 1: you're an illegal alien. And that term was good enough
Speaker 1: for Bill Clinton, It was good enough for Barack Hussein Obama,
Speaker 1: it was good enough for George W.
Speaker 2: Bush.
Speaker 1: But somehow, you know, people that write petitions like this,
Speaker 1: have decided that the term illegal alien is no longer
Speaker 1: you know, no longer acceptable, they write. In the United States,
Speaker 1: immigrants make up thirteen point seven percent of our population,
Speaker 1: according to Peer research from twenty nineteen. These are our neighbors,
Speaker 1: our friends, our co workers, and indeed our family members.
Speaker 2: They enrich our community with.
Speaker 1: Cultural diversity, adding to the fabric of our society. Yet
Speaker 1: signs like these say have to only dehumanize alienates and
Speaker 1: belittle their contributions. Well, no, it doesn't, because you want
Speaker 1: to confuse the terms. You want to confuse the term
Speaker 1: illegal alien illegal with immigration legal immigration. The immigrants who
Speaker 1: come to this country are worthy of our respect because
Speaker 1: they are the ones who do it legally, who do
Speaker 1: it the right way. They are the ones who enrich
Speaker 1: our community. They are the ones who add to the
Speaker 1: fabric of our society. They are the ones who make
Speaker 1: America better, who pay taxes, who work hard, who raise families,
Speaker 1: who start businesses. And I am friends with many of
Speaker 1: these people. But if you're here illegally, you don't contribute
Speaker 1: to any of that. Chances are and you can do.
Speaker 1: You know, you've got the research on what immigrants do,
Speaker 1: but what about illegals? What do you illegals do? The
Speaker 1: research shows that the majority of those who are here
Speaker 1: illegally are living in big cities and sucking up government resources.
Speaker 1: They're on welfare, they're on food stamps, they're getting free
Speaker 1: medical care. They're supposedly living in the shadows, but yet
Speaker 1: they're not in the shadows so much that the federal
Speaker 1: government hasn't been able to find them and ladel all
Speaker 1: kinds of government largess on them. Those days are coming
Speaker 1: to an end. Read the stories about what's happening at
Speaker 1: the border.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 1: The border has uventually I've been shut down. There are
Speaker 1: Mexican troops ten thousand Mexican troops deployed to the border
Speaker 1: right now. Pete Hegseth was down there the other day
Speaker 1: talking to members of the National Guard who are standing
Speaker 1: side by side by customs and Border Patrol, who are
Speaker 1: standing side by side with Texas Texas Resources, and they
Speaker 1: are shutting the border down. So I don't think Richard
Speaker 1: Jones is going to be one that's going to cave
Speaker 1: to a petition signed by eighteen hundred people, no matter
Speaker 1: how many people sign it. It's going to take down
Speaker 1: a sign that reads illegal aliens here. It is twelve
Speaker 1: twenty nine. News is about thirty seconds away. We will
Speaker 1: do that. On the other side of that, I'm going
Speaker 1: to talk to my friend Cheryl Chumley of the Washington Times,
Speaker 1: and we'll get her take on everything that is happening
Speaker 1: in Trump Land, because that news is coming so fast
Speaker 1: and furious. Here on the home of the Reds, seven
Speaker 1: hundred wa I'm back on the Big One, seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 1: It's Stan Carroll in for Bill Cunningham today, and it
Speaker 1: has been absolutely amazing. Ever since January twenty if the
Speaker 1: news out of Washington as it as it surrounds Donald
Speaker 1: Trump has been coming out so fast and furious, it's
Speaker 1: almost hard to keep up with it all. But here too,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we'll talk about all actually it's
Speaker 1: impossible to talk about all of it, but we'll talk
Speaker 1: about as much of it as we can with Cheryl Chumley,
Speaker 1: who is the online opinion editor at the Washington Times.
Speaker 1: And Cheryl Chumley, it is great to have you back
Speaker 1: on the show. How are you today?
Speaker 5: I'm doing great, and it's so great to be with you.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: I'm almost hoping that that things slow down a little
Speaker 1: bit today, just to kind of catch up and digest
Speaker 1: everything that's been coming out as far as Trump is concerned.
Speaker 1: But I dial up the Washington Times today and I
Speaker 1: see Trump calls for a balanced budget proposed as a
Speaker 1: tax cut that's going to cost at least five trillion dollars.
Speaker 1: It was I guess this happened earlier today? Is that
Speaker 1: is that right, is is this the latest thing to
Speaker 1: come out of the mind of Donald Trump?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I saw the same headlines, reading the
Speaker 4: same stories as you, and I agree completely. It is
Speaker 4: a fast and furious, you know, frenzy of motion that
Speaker 4: has come forth from this White House and just a
Speaker 4: blink of an eye, right, And this is the latest
Speaker 4: And I think part of it is driven by the
Speaker 4: savings that we're seeing Elon Musk discover in.
Speaker 5: Many of his investigations. Right, will it goes hand in hand.
Speaker 4: If Elon Musk can save us money and he finds
Speaker 4: all this corruption and waste, then Donald Trump steps in
Speaker 4: and turns around and says, well, why can't we pass
Speaker 4: those savings along to the American citizen?
Speaker 1: Absolutely? Amazing?
Speaker 2: Is there?
Speaker 1: Can you think of anything that more encapsule, encapsulates and
Speaker 1: is emblematic of what the swamp is than us?
Speaker 2: Aid? Is?
Speaker 1: Absolutely? I mean you talk about peeling back the onion.
Speaker 1: Every time every layer of this gets that gets peeled
Speaker 1: back is worse than the one before. And I don't
Speaker 1: think we're done with it yet.
Speaker 5: No, I think we're just hitting the surface.
Speaker 4: And you know, to answer your question, is there anything
Speaker 4: that is more emblematic of the corruption that goes forth
Speaker 4: in the political world than US aid. Honestly, we don't
Speaker 4: know yet, right because Elon Musk is just getting started.
Speaker 4: Let's wait till he starts looking into some of the
Speaker 4: other agencies. You know, we have a whole batch of
Speaker 4: un funding that goes forth. I know Donald Trump has
Speaker 4: pulled US out of some of those organizations, but there
Speaker 4: is still a lot of funding taxpayer dollars that go
Speaker 4: into the United Nations and disappear into all parts unknown.
Speaker 4: So let's just give a couple more weeks and see
Speaker 4: what's revealed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you see Democrats and you see leftists reacting
Speaker 1: the way they are to what is going on with
Speaker 1: DOJE and what's going on with Elon Musk and those
Speaker 1: that are working for him, I think it really it's
Speaker 1: an indicator of how close to the target we're really
Speaker 1: getting here and how close I think we are to
Speaker 1: exposing a lot of things that these people do not
Speaker 1: want exposed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there really is no same reason or rationale that
Speaker 4: the Democrats can provide for their utter freak out about
Speaker 4: you know, what, honestly should be nonpartisan investigations to root
Speaker 4: out waste and corruption This should unite America if nothing else.
Speaker 4: And really, I do agree with many of these social
Speaker 4: posts that you've seen saying that all those who are
Speaker 4: protesting and opposing the investigations to government corruption and waste
Speaker 4: tax dollars are going to be out of themselves as
Speaker 4: part of the problem, guilty of wasting tax dollars. I
Speaker 4: do think that there's some sense in that the ones
Speaker 4: who are protesting and opposing chances are they're involved somehow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, because it turns out that they that they've
Speaker 1: been part of the gravy train. And I saw I
Speaker 1: saw a headline today and then and here's the bad
Speaker 1: thing about this is that there's so many headlines out there,
Speaker 1: and it turns out that the things that are true
Speaker 1: are absolutely shocking. And then I saw a headline today
Speaker 1: that said Nancy Pelosi got over one hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: from the USA. I d I have no idea if
Speaker 1: that's true. I didn't have time to research it before
Speaker 1: I came in. But this is this is how fast
Speaker 1: and furious this is coming out of here, and then
Speaker 1: they're really there hasn't been anything to counter this, to
Speaker 1: say that this is false, to say that it's phony
Speaker 1: to say that it's made up. All they can do
Speaker 1: is complain about the messenger. Listen to what this is
Speaker 1: what they were talking about on CNN about and how
Speaker 1: they were attacking those who were over at Doaje Dave.
Speaker 2: Let's hear cut number two.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So this is a nineteen year old high school
Speaker 7: graduate who has used the unfortunate nickname big Balls online,
Speaker 7: so that would be one way that we could refer
Speaker 7: to him. He is now working at Musk's behest inside
Speaker 7: Doge and we looked into his background and so we found,
Speaker 7: you know, several notable things erin, one of which is
Speaker 7: that this individual has founded multiple companies, including one with
Speaker 7: another unfortunate name, Tesla dot SEXYLLC, which he established in
Speaker 7: twenty twenty one, he would have been around sixteen years old.
Speaker 7: Now this LLC controls dozens of web domain.
Speaker 1: So here we have Elon Musk who has gone out
Speaker 1: and found some young killers, people who are absolutely just
Speaker 1: unstoppable when it comes to working the working computers, working
Speaker 1: the internet, dig into things, finding things out. Instead of
Speaker 1: celebrating these young people, now we're somehow we're supposed to
Speaker 1: be opposed to young people having these kind of opportunities
Speaker 1: to do a lot of good for the American people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the left can't refute the numbers, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: it's pretty clear cut.
Speaker 5: If you see.
Speaker 4: A financial sheet that shows how much money taxpayers give
Speaker 4: and then where that money is spent, it's pretty clear cut.
Speaker 5: So what they have to do is they have to
Speaker 5: go after the messengers.
Speaker 4: They have to attack Elon Musk, right, and now they
Speaker 4: have to attack all Elon Musk's assistance with these investigations.
Speaker 5: So that's just the playbook. Expect it.
Speaker 4: But honestly, if you look at the polls and surveys
Speaker 4: and the response to the American people, the Americans buy
Speaker 4: and large in the majority are behind Elon Musk and
Speaker 4: Donald Trump's attempt to root out tax dollar waste.
Speaker 5: So I don't think the Democrats on the winning side here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then last night we had Jake Tapper. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you had a chance to see the UH,
Speaker 1: the the raw video that CBS finally released with the
Speaker 1: UH with the interview of Kamala Harris, and it it
Speaker 1: exposed the the the hard the hardcore editing that they did,
Speaker 1: the attempts they did to make Kamala Harris UH not
Speaker 1: sound like such an idiot. And then you've got Jake
Speaker 1: Tapper on there talking about how dangerous it is that
Speaker 1: that this sort of transparency is allowed. And I guess
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper is now on the side of advocating that
Speaker 1: the media be able to manipulate and conceal things from
Speaker 1: the those uh, you know, those consumers of their products.
Speaker 4: Well, we've known for a long time now, particularly since
Speaker 4: COVID right, how the media has regarded itself as sort
Speaker 4: of the gate guards of what is acceptable speech in
Speaker 4: this country and what is not.
Speaker 5: And that wall is crumbling. It's crumbling.
Speaker 4: It's been crumb crumbling for a few years, but it
Speaker 4: is really ratcheting it up under this administration. And you know,
Speaker 4: Donald Trump still has that loss going against CBS. I
Speaker 4: think it was like ten billion dollars for this very interview,
Speaker 4: and yeah, let it go.
Speaker 5: Let it go forth.
Speaker 4: It was a it was a really biased action CBS
Speaker 4: took to cite to censor her word salad at a
Speaker 4: time when she was being criticized for word salad, and
Speaker 4: the questions were could she speak, could she communicate well
Speaker 4: enough to be commander in chief, to be the White
Speaker 4: House President?
Speaker 1: And I mean, it's not it's not a heavy lift
Speaker 1: to connect those dots to show how this was an
Speaker 1: attempt at election interference. When you have a presidential candidate
Speaker 1: that is so unable and so ill equipped to hold
Speaker 1: her own in a as friendly an interview as you
Speaker 1: could imagine it, really it shows the deficiency. But yet
Speaker 1: CBS News and the people who put that interview together
Speaker 1: were hell bent on concealing that fact from the American people.
Speaker 4: Well, they said it was editing for time, right right, yeah, right, which, yeah,
Speaker 4: And what's even more eye opening is that when they
Speaker 4: were confronted with the truth of their video, they still
Speaker 4: dig down, dig deep, and refuse to apologize, refuse anything.
Speaker 5: They say it was just simply done out of time.
Speaker 4: Well, it's just curious that all the edits they made
Speaker 4: supposedly for time just covered up the fact that Kamala
Speaker 4: Harris was could not form a sentence without you know,
Speaker 4: mumbo jembo word salad. That left all the listeners puzzled
Speaker 4: as to her message.
Speaker 1: Right, and she's and she's out looking at some of
Speaker 1: the fire damage in California right now, and she and
Speaker 1: she did it again.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to be playing that cut.
Speaker 5: A little the gift that keeps giving.
Speaker 1: I mean, Cheryl Chumley, we dodged, we dodged an unbelievable
Speaker 1: bullet by not having her in the White House, did
Speaker 1: we not?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: We did, Because you know it's not just her inability
Speaker 4: to communicate properly, it's all the policies and agendas that
Speaker 4: she would just you know, shoved down Americans throats, beginning
Speaker 4: with open borders.
Speaker 5: We'd be overrun right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if she, if she had been in office today,
Speaker 1: you and I would not be talking about us A
Speaker 1: A I D. We wouldn't be talking about any of
Speaker 1: that wasteful spending, the billions and billions of dollars that
Speaker 1: have gone down the drain. We'd be getting steeped in
Speaker 1: more of this DEI and uh, this extreme leftist ideology
Speaker 1: as far as the eye can see. Let me ask
Speaker 1: you about a couple of other issues I know you
Speaker 1: care a lot about. And one was at the National
Speaker 1: Prayer break Hey, what what kind of hooks?
Speaker 2: But does it take too?
Speaker 1: And I saw two or three different members of Congress
Speaker 1: out there denouncing Donald Trump for daring to show up
Speaker 1: at the National Prayer Breakfast because there's supposed to be
Speaker 1: a wall between church and state, and do these people.
Speaker 1: I can't think of a single president in my lifetime
Speaker 1: that has not attended the National Prayer Breakfast. So he
Speaker 1: goes out there and he calls for a task force
Speaker 1: to eradicate anti Christian bias. And of course this is
Speaker 1: a story that's going to get zero coverage at all,
Speaker 1: because as far as the left and the media is concerned,
Speaker 1: anti Christian bias is perfectly acceptable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is a little bit breathtaking the level of
Speaker 4: ignorance to make the statement that you're shocked shocked that
Speaker 4: the president would speak of the National Prayer Breakfast, because
Speaker 4: this goes on its wroughte all administrations. And I was
Speaker 4: very optimistic by the words that Donald Trum spoke at
Speaker 4: the National Prayer Breakfast. He was basically talking about that
Speaker 4: American exceptionalism is rooted in the idea of individual rights
Speaker 4: coming from God right, and that's exactly what founders put
Speaker 4: forth the Draation of Independence. So we're not talking about
Speaker 4: some radical ideas here. We're talking about going back in
Speaker 4: time to the sounding of our nation and the fact
Speaker 4: that we have seated, tax paid politicians supposedly representing the
Speaker 4: will of the American people who don't understand that and
Speaker 4: don't know that from their own history.
Speaker 5: It's astonishing the level of ignorance.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, when you talk about the aocs of the
Speaker 1: world and so many others, they will be more than
Speaker 1: happy to tell you that rights come from the legislative
Speaker 1: branch of the government. This whole notion that the rights
Speaker 1: come from our creator and that each individual is endowed
Speaker 1: with these rights. That these days, that is what, according
Speaker 1: to them, is considered a radical idea, and that's the
Speaker 1: kind of thinging that need to be done away.
Speaker 4: With, which makes it all the more shocking to me.
Speaker 4: And this is in the first time I've found this slot.
Speaker 4: I've been thinking it for years and years since Bernie
Speaker 4: Sanders was an open socialist in Congress. But it makes
Speaker 4: it all the more shocking to me that these people
Speaker 4: can actually raise their hands and take the oath of
Speaker 4: office to uphold the Constitution, because what they stand for
Speaker 4: is directly in conflict with the Constitution. So it's a
Speaker 4: deception from day one when they're sworn into office that
Speaker 4: they're actually going to represent the American people the Constitution
Speaker 4: and do their elected duty for America.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the other thing I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: you about was that the military has broken a fifteen
Speaker 1: year recruitment records and it's amazing. A few days after
Speaker 1: Trump gets sworn into office, we have record numbers of
Speaker 1: young Americans heading to the recruitment office looking to sign
Speaker 1: up to join the United States military. And it's amazing
Speaker 1: because I mean, that's been a major problem for the military.
Speaker 1: Is the is the them falling short of their recruiting
Speaker 1: goals year after year after year, and to the point
Speaker 1: to where they actually change their recruiting goals. And now
Speaker 1: you've got what, You've got so many people signing up,
Speaker 1: the they're probably going to have to wind up turning
Speaker 1: some of those people away.
Speaker 5: Well, they can raise their standards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, raise the standard absolutely be selected.
Speaker 4: And look, this is partly because Donald Trump right away
Speaker 4: dig right by those who were booted from the military
Speaker 4: for their refusal to take an experimental shot called COVID
Speaker 4: vaccines and give them back their opportunity to do to
Speaker 4: rejoin the military.
Speaker 5: With their rank and back pay.
Speaker 4: And it also speaks strongly to the idea that this
Speaker 4: is a commander in chief who is not going to
Speaker 4: sell our military down. The river and force them to
Speaker 4: instead of defend the nation, which is what they sign
Speaker 4: up to do, take social justice in DEI training and
Speaker 4: learn to become a good lgbt Q warrior.
Speaker 1: Uh So, Cheryl Chumley, if I say the name to
Speaker 1: you of Lori poe Hutsky, Lori poe Hutsky, does that
Speaker 1: name mean anything to you?
Speaker 2: Have you? Have you heard that name?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, it's not a trick question. Lori po Hutsky is
Speaker 1: a Michigan state representative and she recently announced her decision
Speaker 1: that she would voluntarily undergo sterilization and blaming that on
Speaker 1: President Donald Trump. She she she wants to ensure that
Speaker 1: she would never have to navigate a pregnancy in Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's America because, according to her, uh and I think
Speaker 1: and she's from Michigan. She's from Michigan. According to her,
Speaker 1: she wouldn't have the ability to abort her baby should
Speaker 1: she become pregnant. And I think she's also a lesbian
Speaker 1: on top of that. I mean, this is this is
Speaker 1: you know, when you talk about the left in this
Speaker 1: country and you look at stuff like this, you know
Speaker 1: they're not unhinged at all. I mean they are they
Speaker 1: are totally totally rational when it comes to to thinking
Speaker 1: and the things that they want to do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt a great protege of Governor Whittmer.
Speaker 5: Right, but Gretchen Whittmer.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Didn't recognize the name. But as soon as you.
Speaker 4: Started telling me the story, I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 4: know who she is and I saw her picture. My
Speaker 4: response to this is, let the left, let them sterilize themselves, right,
Speaker 4: that's good, that's good. We we just we we wean ourselves,
Speaker 4: you know, through the generation of the lunatic fringe that
Speaker 4: has dominated under the Democrat Party for so long.
Speaker 5: So have at it.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, go go for the sterilization treatments if
Speaker 4: you're a leftist and and don't like Donald Trunk, because
Speaker 4: that's only good for our nation in the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you are. You are free to do as you please.
Speaker 1: And then we haven't even talked about immigration or the
Speaker 1: border yet. And it is absolutely amazing. I've been reading
Speaker 1: several stories recently about how essentially all the flood of
Speaker 1: illegals that we have seen into this country over the
Speaker 1: last four years that has really essentially come to a stop.
Speaker 1: And I mean, for all these things to happen this quickly.
Speaker 1: I think we had an idea that Trump wanted to
Speaker 1: act quickly and get things done. But I mean, even
Speaker 1: you know, people like you and I who spend a
Speaker 1: lot of our time looking at things like this, I
Speaker 1: think a lot of us and the people you know
Speaker 1: in the business have all been surprised how quickly all
Speaker 1: this is happening.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's not just Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: I credit Tom Holman and some of the people that
Speaker 4: Trump has surrounded himself with, people with will to combat
Speaker 4: the narrative from the media and the protests industry that
Speaker 4: are largely staged by the Democrat Party. Right, And it
Speaker 4: didn't just start with Donald Trump's inauguration and actually started
Speaker 4: before it actually started. Ye, once it was clear that
Speaker 4: Donald Trump had won the election, people started self deporting,
Speaker 4: people started turning back from the southern border and going
Speaker 4: back to their own countries. And now we're just seeing
Speaker 4: it sped up. The criminal element alone that the fact
Speaker 4: that Tom Holman is going out with those known thuggish
Speaker 4: gang members trendy are I don't trend I think you
Speaker 4: call it, Yes, the ones that took over the communities
Speaker 4: out there in the West, and they're rooting them out.
Speaker 5: That has to be a big relief to those people
Speaker 5: who live out that way.
Speaker 1: All right, well, Cheryl Tumley, we got to go. We
Speaker 1: haven't even talked about Pete heg Seth or Marco Rubio
Speaker 1: or Pam Bondi yet. I mean, we could spend a
Speaker 1: whole couple more hours on that. But Cheryl Tumley, always
Speaker 1: great to have you on. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: the time, and I'll be calling you on you again
Speaker 1: before too long.
Speaker 5: Sounds great, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go, the one and only Sheryl Chumley.
Speaker 1: It's twelve fifty five Dan Carroll for Bill Cunningham, seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW seven hundred WLW Dan Carroll and for Bill Cunningham.
Speaker 1: Beautiful Friday afternoon and breaking news last night. When the
Speaker 1: NCAA comes out on the heels of Donald Trump signing
Speaker 1: an executive order that prohibits natural men, natural born men
Speaker 1: from competing against women in women's sports, it seems like
Speaker 1: a common sense idea. But then on the heels of that,
Speaker 1: and unbelievably quick, the NCAA comes out and says, you
Speaker 1: know what, We're going to change our policy, and our
Speaker 1: policy is going to go along with this. I don't
Speaker 1: think I have spoken with anyone more on this particular
Speaker 1: subject than seven hundred WW legal analyst James Bogan, and
Speaker 1: James Bogan joins us this afternoon, and James, it is amazing.
Speaker 1: You know when you think about how big of an
Speaker 1: organization the NCAA is, how quickly they moved. I mean
Speaker 1: we're talking about twenty four hours after Trump signs this
Speaker 1: executive order, the NCAAA comes out and says, you know what,
Speaker 1: we're going to go along with it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely amazing. Well, when you're.
Speaker 6: Facing the possibility of legal repercussions from the federal government
Speaker 6: that can light a fire under your rear end.
Speaker 1: Of it, that tends to move to make things move sometimes,
Speaker 1: that's amazing.
Speaker 6: And the thing is they know when President Trump wants
Speaker 6: to do something, he's going to follow through. If he
Speaker 6: says there's going to be consequences, He's not going to
Speaker 6: flinch in following up and making sure there are consequences
Speaker 6: when necessary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, back when this whole thing started, and
Speaker 1: really it was a couple of years ago when this
Speaker 1: whole Lea. Thomas thing really started coming to a head.
Speaker 1: Because this is the time of year when swimming, when
Speaker 1: the swimmings, swimmers in the NCAA start having their conference championships.
Speaker 1: The NCAA Championships happened in March, and so you know, James,
Speaker 1: I was looking at this and I was talking about
Speaker 1: this at the time, and of course, you know, this
Speaker 1: is IVY League, and so the IVY League Championships were
Speaker 1: right around the corner, and I was thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: the IVY League needs to step up and show some
Speaker 1: leadership here. If they allow this to get to a
Speaker 1: championship meet, then this thing is really going to spiral
Speaker 1: out of control. And there was such a lack of
Speaker 1: leadership from the University of Pennsylvania from the IVY League.
Speaker 1: Leah Thomas gets into the conference championships there And for
Speaker 1: people who don't know and you were a swimmer in
Speaker 1: the NCAA, the IVY League, outside of the Power five conferences,
Speaker 1: is one of the best conferences when it comes to
Speaker 1: swimming in the United States. I mean, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of really top notch swimmers who swim for IVY League
Speaker 1: schools and they can compete with all the big schools
Speaker 1: on almost a one for one basis. So it's the
Speaker 1: you know, it's no small thing that this was the
Speaker 1: IVY League that allowed this to happen. And then it
Speaker 1: followed through and Leah Thomas was allowed to swim in
Speaker 1: the NCAA Championships and win the five hundred yard freestyle
Speaker 1: and so and so that you know, now we got
Speaker 1: to the point to where we had to have an
Speaker 1: executive action by the President of the United States to
Speaker 1: stop this nonsense from running any farther off than it
Speaker 1: already has.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and the thing with Leah Thomas. When Leah Thomas
Speaker 6: was Will Thomas, he was good enough to swim for
Speaker 6: the Pennsylvania men's team and was All conference for the
Speaker 6: men's team. It's that's a like you said, that's a
Speaker 6: pretty fast conference and making top eight in any events
Speaker 6: at that conference meet is no small accomplishment. So when
Speaker 6: you take a guy who's been able to do that stuff,
Speaker 6: who has been on female hormones and maybe blockers for
Speaker 6: a year, as you recall, when Will Thomas became Leah Thomas,
Speaker 6: her times did not change nearly by the proportional amount.
Speaker 6: That's the difference between men and women.
Speaker 2: Men and women.
Speaker 6: As we've talked about the difference in performances about ten
Speaker 6: to twelve percent, and Leah Thomas's time only regressed by
Speaker 6: two point sixty six percent. In the two hundred yard freestyle,
Speaker 6: for example, went from a one p thirty nine as
Speaker 6: a guy, which is a pretty fast time for a guy,
Speaker 6: to a one point forty one as a woman, went
Speaker 6: from being number four hundred and sixty two among college
Speaker 6: men to being number one among college women as a
Speaker 6: biological male. And there's absolutely no scientific evidence to back
Speaker 6: up the NCAA's now former standard that, oh, you just
Speaker 6: have to have a year of hormones or blockers and
Speaker 6: and your testosterone level has to be at a certain
Speaker 6: level where they're completely ignoring all the permanent advantages that
Speaker 6: someone gains by going through puberty as a male.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the so the n c A takes this step,
Speaker 1: and uh, what what do you think, I mean, do
Speaker 1: you think, uh the will there be lawsuits on the
Speaker 1: other side of this, Uh for those who who want
Speaker 1: to uh have this notion that biological males should be
Speaker 1: able to compete against because I like what they did here.
Speaker 1: I like what they did they said, they said, uh
Speaker 1: there when it comes to events, like like individual events,
Speaker 1: when you when you like swimming, like track and field
Speaker 1: other other events where where it's a it's one on
Speaker 1: one competition that if you're transgender and you want to
Speaker 1: participate in sports, well, the men's division is now an
Speaker 1: open division and men. But if you're a biological woman
Speaker 1: and they and they've got this language in there that
Speaker 1: talks about sex assigned at birth, to my way of thinking,
Speaker 1: they could have done away with that, but it is
Speaker 1: what it is. But you know, I'm thinking that if they,
Speaker 1: I think they did a smart thing here by making
Speaker 1: the men's division an open division. So if you're a
Speaker 1: transgender you really don't have room. I don't think to
Speaker 1: complain that you were barred from participating or competing in sports.
Speaker 6: Well, because any physical disadvantages they might have against men
Speaker 6: who don't get the hormone treatments are by their own
Speaker 6: choices if they choose to take female hormones or blockers.
Speaker 6: And just to show how this transje allowing transgender athletes
Speaker 6: was only adverse to women, you don't see biological women
Speaker 6: taking male hormones and becoming as good as men and
Speaker 6: taking over men's sports. For example, there was a swimmer
Speaker 6: named Isaac Hennig who was one of the top female
Speaker 6: swimmers in the country at NCAA's when she competed for Yale,
Speaker 6: she was top eight in two or three events competed.
Speaker 6: Does start taking hormones right after twenty twenty two? NCAAs
Speaker 6: compete as a mail the following year for Yale and
Speaker 6: wasn't even competitive.
Speaker 2: Well, that's how I mean, that's how it works.
Speaker 1: That's why we don't see a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: men who are I said, say, women who are transitioning.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm confused when I talk about all this stuff,
Speaker 1: women who are transitioning, the men wanting to compete against
Speaker 1: the men because it it usually it does not work
Speaker 1: out very well for them. But let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: since so this was an executive order that was signed
Speaker 1: by Trump, and I guess the leverage that he has
Speaker 1: here is that any school that defies this executive order
Speaker 1: is not going to get federal money. So when you
Speaker 1: talk about federal money not flowing to these schools, that
Speaker 1: tends to wake up the leadership at those schools and
Speaker 1: the people who have to deal with those sorts of things.
Speaker 1: So obviously, and he wants he wants Congress to move
Speaker 1: on this and enact some legislation that'll codify this executive order.
Speaker 1: But if that doesn't happen, then the next president could
Speaker 1: come in, maybe not be of the same mind as Trump,
Speaker 1: issue an executive order that overrides this one or cancels
Speaker 1: this one, and then we could possibly see the NCAAA
Speaker 1: going back and changing their policy yet again. So they
Speaker 1: opened up a whole can of worms the first time
Speaker 1: they let this go as far as it did. Do
Speaker 1: you see a possibility that they could come back if
Speaker 1: these eventualities happened and change that policy again.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's completely It could be without a final decision
Speaker 6: by the Supreme Court and or legislation by Congress signed
Speaker 6: by the President. Of course, this is going to be
Speaker 6: a recurring issue, I think. And you have Riley gained
Speaker 6: his lawsuit going right now through the courts, but you
Speaker 6: also have this new lawsuit by that was filed by
Speaker 6: three former Penn swimmers again their school, you know, Penn, Harvard,
Speaker 6: the NCAA, and the Ivy League, basically alleging harassment, abuse
Speaker 6: and violating federal laws, namely Title nine. Because for the
Speaker 6: reasons we just talked about with the differences between men
Speaker 6: and women with performance, this stuff violates allowing biological men
Speaker 6: to compete against women takes opportunities away from women, scholarships,
Speaker 6: spot on the team, spot on the travel team, because
Speaker 6: as you know, with swimming, there's a cap of eighteen
Speaker 6: on the travel squad to conference qualifying for NCAAs they
Speaker 6: take the top twenty four. How do you like to
Speaker 6: be number twenty five because of someone like Leah Thomas
Speaker 6: or like your son's teammate it Virginia Tech. How do
Speaker 6: you like to be the one who just misses out
Speaker 6: on making the consolation final top sixteen because of Lea Thomas?
Speaker 6: Or how you would you like to be the person
Speaker 6: who plays ninth instead of making the champion ship heat
Speaker 6: by placing top eight because of Leah Thomas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean that's the part of the equation
Speaker 1: that never really gets talked about, are the ones who
Speaker 1: get who gets screwed. And you know, I think it
Speaker 1: was it was important that Trump had at the White
Speaker 1: House the people that he had there, because he turned
Speaker 1: around and there was a female volleyball player there who
Speaker 1: suffered partial paralysis because she was hit in the face
Speaker 1: by a volleyball that was spiked by some dude that
Speaker 1: she was playing against it, and then of course, yeah.
Speaker 6: She has permanent injuries, partial paralysis on one side of
Speaker 6: her body and still has a whole bunch of problems,
Speaker 6: all because some beer crafts wanted to pap themselves on
Speaker 6: the back for being quote inclusive.
Speaker 1: And then here's the other thing. Uh, you know the NCAA,
Speaker 1: it always talks about, you know, wanting to be progressive,
Speaker 1: wanting to be you know, I mean, they're all about
Speaker 1: the DEI and you know, the wokeness and everything else.
Speaker 1: But when this was going on, when this Leah Thomas
Speaker 1: thing was going on, I was still in contact with
Speaker 1: a lot of different people who were in who were
Speaker 1: involved in college swimming, who were involved in club swimming,
Speaker 1: who were college athletes at that time, because you know
Speaker 1: the contacts that we have, I still had a lot
Speaker 1: of people there. I had people who were on deck
Speaker 1: that I knew that were on the deck at that
Speaker 1: NCAA meet, and they were telling me that the NCAA
Speaker 1: was really running roughshot over into the coaches, athletes, anyone
Speaker 1: connected with these programs, that they dare not speak out
Speaker 1: or say anything about this policy, and the NCAA threatened
Speaker 1: them with their jobs, threatened them with their livelihoods, threatened
Speaker 1: athletes with loss of the scholarship or any other benefits
Speaker 1: they might have for being a student athlete. I mean
Speaker 1: they really, they really were just be having in the
Speaker 1: most nasty and harsh ways imaginable when this whole thing
Speaker 1: was happening.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and for example on the pen team too. Just
Speaker 6: at the school level, it was a culture of intimidation.
Speaker 6: The school administrators were basically intimidated them in the silence,
Speaker 6: and they were gaslighting the swimmers by saying, oh, if
Speaker 6: you disagree with this, you have psychological problems and you
Speaker 6: need to see a counselor Yeah.
Speaker 1: And we saw the same thing gaslighting. And we saw
Speaker 1: the same thing at San Diego State University when with
Speaker 1: this this dude that was playing volleyball this you know this, yeah,
Speaker 1: San Jose State And the one coach who dared to
Speaker 1: speak out about it, she got fired. And as soon
Speaker 1: as the other girls of the season was over, the
Speaker 1: other girls on the team they hit the transfer portal,
Speaker 1: they got out of there. They spoke on some of
Speaker 1: them did on anonymity, saying that you know, we did
Speaker 1: not like this being in this situation at all, and
Speaker 1: how terrible it was for them to be caught up
Speaker 1: in this mess.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, we talked about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we talked about that, and you know, we talked
Speaker 6: about how the physical differences show with volleyball, with one
Speaker 6: of the players visually estimated this trans player's spikes to
Speaker 6: be over eighty miles an hour, while your top woman
Speaker 6: in the world has been clocked at just over seventy
Speaker 6: one miles an hour, and your average college player their
Speaker 6: spikes are typically around low forties to low fifties. So
Speaker 6: basically being hit by a spike ball by that trans
Speaker 6: player would be like a guy punching a girl.
Speaker 2: In the face.
Speaker 6: And we talked about this how the girls at practice
Speaker 6: when that player would spike at them, instead of defending,
Speaker 6: they would tower because they were worried about their safety.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was not a good situation. But
Speaker 1: you know, I think this gives give you know, girls
Speaker 1: that look the girls that participate in sports and to
Speaker 1: get to the level where you were an NCAA Division
Speaker 1: one or Division two athlete, or really any college athlete
Speaker 1: at all. I mean you really, it's amazing the amount
Speaker 1: of work and sacrifice and an effort that you have
Speaker 1: to put in to getting to that level, and it
Speaker 1: was being trampled all over before. But now I think
Speaker 1: it's a new day for young girls that aspire to
Speaker 1: get to that level because, as Trump said, now you
Speaker 1: can go out and you can win those championships. Do
Speaker 1: you think there's any chance that now that the NCAA
Speaker 1: has this policy, that they go back and they strip
Speaker 1: Leah Thomas of those championships and those records that Lea.
Speaker 8: Thomas should they should, And that lawsuit by the former
Speaker 8: Penn swimmers is actually one of the things they're asking
Speaker 8: for is for the Ivy League to vacate the records. Now,
Speaker 8: I don't see any mention in the articles I've read
Speaker 8: since the article just came out about at the NCAA
Speaker 8: to do that, But.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's I think they should. But given the NCAAA,
Speaker 6: I think they'd find every way they can to weeze
Speaker 6: a lot of having to do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so hopefully they've cleaned up this mess, but
Speaker 1: I think they've got another mess on their hands.
Speaker 2: When you look at.
Speaker 1: Anil, I mean I was looking at I came across
Speaker 1: an article this morning talking about jer Jeremiah Smith, who's
Speaker 1: a freshman at Ohio State, had an unbelievable freshman year,
Speaker 1: seventy six passes, thirteen hundred yards, five touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: college playoffs. I mean, the guy was unbelievable. They wanted
Speaker 1: someone wants to pay him five million dollars just to
Speaker 1: get in the transfer portal. Five million dollars just for that.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you talk about that kind of money
Speaker 1: that's flying around for these college kids, and and Wes
Speaker 1: Miller talked about it on his show last night that
Speaker 1: this whole deal with that nil is completely out of control.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I mean one of the things I'm concerned
Speaker 6: about is you see a lot of pro athletes who
Speaker 6: have trouble managing their money, imagine younger college students. And
Speaker 6: that's one of the concerns I have. I mean, if
Speaker 6: you're gonna if you're getting that kind of money, you
Speaker 6: got to surround yourself with the right advisors. But you
Speaker 6: also have you know, the schools basically poaching other schools
Speaker 6: players with those offers like the one you just mentioned.
Speaker 6: And I think you're gonna need this. You're gonna have
Speaker 6: the folks who pay those nil that nil money try
Speaker 6: to make the contracts so that to try to prevent
Speaker 6: them structure them in such a way. But you know
Speaker 6: that's uh like that that's basically become a whole can
Speaker 6: of worms. And right now it's the wild West with
Speaker 6: that stuff.
Speaker 1: It really is. So we'll we'll see what happens. But
Speaker 1: James Bogan, always great talking to you, my friend. I
Speaker 1: appreciate the uh the insight on this and the the
Speaker 1: n c A A.
Speaker 2: It's a. It's a.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. You know, when the when the fire gets lit,
Speaker 1: that's when the movement happens. And it's amazing that this
Speaker 1: happened as fast as it did.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because I mean the NCAA I mean, can be
Speaker 6: very blunt or useless as far as I can see.
Speaker 1: All Right with that, James, we will let you go.
Speaker 1: Appreciate the time as always, brother, and we'll talk to
Speaker 1: you again before too long.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, always a privileged Dan.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go, James Bogan. Dan Carroll in
Speaker 1: for Bill Cunningham on seven hundred w l.
Speaker 9: About how are you going to pay for it? And
Speaker 9: I mean I truly do mean. I you know, your
Speaker 9: your plans are logical, make logical sense. The way Washington
Speaker 9: works is not logical. So how are you going to
Speaker 9: convince a divided Congress that what you say your plans
Speaker 9: are something that they should all agree to and and
Speaker 9: provide to the American people when they've shown no inclination
Speaker 9: to do that up to this point.
Speaker 5: Is that what you needed? Yes, sir, this man, uh
Speaker 5: thirty seconds of sounds.
Speaker 2: Fits all right, how will you?
Speaker 10: It's gonna be taxes, it's gonna be literally if the economists,
Speaker 10: I mean they're from.
Speaker 5: Each but I heard you're saying about the economist.
Speaker 1: This is true.
Speaker 5: But Congress is not the economist I know.
Speaker 11: But oh oh hello, hello, buyet and I'm I'm broadcasting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, damn, Jake Tapper, he quit No, he doesn't quit it.
Speaker 2: But Jake Tapper says, Jim Luto Acosta, he's out.
Speaker 1: Isn't he a soccer player?
Speaker 2: He's a clown, not a soccer player.
Speaker 1: But we got we got a different Acosta.
Speaker 2: Hear the play soccer. I think he's going to play
Speaker 2: for some team in Argentina.
Speaker 1: But Jake Tapper says that it's dangerous that sixty minutes
Speaker 1: had to release that audio, or that that video of
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris answering some questions and what was a friendly
Speaker 1: interview and that we see how much of an idiot
Speaker 1: she actually is. Jake Tapper says that's dangerous and that
Speaker 1: the media ought to be able to edit and conceal
Speaker 1: what these people are really like from the American people
Speaker 1: in order in order for the leader of the nation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in order for people like him to decide what the
Speaker 1: American people ought to be able to see here and read.
Speaker 2: Well. I saw some video this morning of her, her
Speaker 2: and the former first man at the I guess they
Speaker 2: attended the Lakers game last night, and she was like
Speaker 2: wavned everybody and all this stuff, and he was waving
Speaker 2: nobody nobody even.
Speaker 1: No one knows that nobody even moved.
Speaker 2: But she's out.
Speaker 1: She's back out in California and they're talking about her
Speaker 1: possibly running for governor out there. Could you imagine voting
Speaker 1: for Kamala Harris and here she is all on well
Speaker 1: before you before you start that, yeah, Dave, let's hear
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris out in Los Angeles a little bit. I
Speaker 1: guess this was yesterday. Cut number one.
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Speaker 10: but they are increasingly less rare.
Speaker 1: These extreme weather occurrences are extreme. Seg that's the person
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Speaker 2: What'd you get ham Sandwich? Nice? Bengals update NFL honors
Speaker 2: last night. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow Comeback Player of the
Speaker 2: Year Josh Allen MVP, edging out Baltimore's Lamar Jackson wound
Speaker 2: up fourth the MVP voting.
Speaker 1: What kind of award did Bill Belichick win?
Speaker 2: Philadelphia Saquon Barkley the NFL Offensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 2: He had a great year. But our triple crown man
Speaker 2: number one, Jamar Chase, no first place votes and wound
Speaker 2: up third.
Speaker 1: Patrick and Patrick talking about for the Offensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year yep.
Speaker 2: And Denver corner Patrick Surtain the second defensive player of
Speaker 2: the year. Now, he gave up only two touchdowns and
Speaker 2: three hundred and six yards and receiving yards against him.
Speaker 2: But our man Trey Hendrickson the sack leader, seventeen and
Speaker 2: a half second in the voting.
Speaker 1: So you can you can go in the NFL, you
Speaker 1: can go out, you can leave all these statistical categories.
Speaker 1: But yet other people win the awards. Let's see what
Speaker 1: did Bill Belichick win? Because I google the n FELL
Speaker 1: on out and all I see is pictures of Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1: Well with this with this young woman, yeah, girlfriend gantiy
Speaker 1: klad on his arm YEP, Bill Belichick. He's rocking like
Speaker 1: eight different Super Bowl rings. She's got one that's about
Speaker 1: the size of her hand on one of her fingers.
Speaker 1: And Bill Belichick has got has got swag like no
Speaker 1: one else.
Speaker 2: You're not kidding. Willie Anderson doesn't make the Pro Pro
Speaker 2: Football Hall of Fame class. Neither is Luke Keigley. For
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be talking to Meryl Hodge about the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl coming up tonight.
Speaker 2: In college basketball VCU and Dayton d Arena. Also tomorrow
Speaker 2: BYU and the Bearcats at five point thirty on seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW. Robert Morrison NKU on Fox Sports thirteen to
Speaker 2: sixty South Carolina, number fourteen Kentucky. The Cats have dropped
Speaker 2: two in a row and BBN is not happy. Good
Speaker 2: boy Noon Eastern on ESPN fifteen thirty, Troy takes on
Speaker 2: the Miami RedHawks Xaviers on the road Sunday, Big East
Speaker 2: battle against Villanova. What time is that game? I think
Speaker 2: at noon because they're not playing nothing plays against the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, I know? Will that be here on seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW correct all right. MLS preseason action today at
Speaker 2: five FC Cincinnati and the Philadelphia Union in Florida, Cyclones
Speaker 2: will wrap up their eight game homestand tonight hosting Kansas
Speaker 2: City and Red's pitchers and catchers Dan Carroll report the
Speaker 2: spring training camp Monday. First workout for them is next Wednesday, Monday. Monday,
Speaker 2: Monday is the truck there has the truck arrived. I
Speaker 2: think it has all.
Speaker 1: The bad and the balls and everything else that you
Speaker 1: need to play a baseball game.
Speaker 2: The stoves, Mark and Rick, mort j D. Chris, all
Speaker 2: the rest of the boys are out there putting all
Speaker 2: their stuff in there and ready to go. What about you.
Speaker 2: He didn't leave for until like the twentieth, the twentieth. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know he's got to We don't want to work
Speaker 2: on his tan too long, you know, too early.
Speaker 1: You know, got to do that. And you know, I
Speaker 1: can't wait for the Dave Armbrewster spring training reports. It's
Speaker 1: a highlight, guys, fantastic. See what happens. That's about it.
Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg said he could remember back when the back
Speaker 1: in the NFL, back when the Cowboys were good and
Speaker 1: the Chiefs were bad, and that was all before Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick's girlfriend was born.
Speaker 2: He has some good lines. Last night. What how about
Speaker 2: that suit that the Snoop Dog had on last night.
Speaker 2: How about that nice rocking the shield? Very nice little
Speaker 2: little gold lamb may. I don't know what do you
Speaker 2: what do you call that expensive? That's what you call
Speaker 2: that expensive.
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's girlfriend was born in the year two thousands. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just a little bit of age difference there. He's like
Speaker 1: he's seventy two.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think he went to her parents' house and said, hey,
Speaker 2: how you doing? And that provescent personality of his. Maybe
Speaker 2: maybe he's not. You're her dad. What do you do?
Speaker 1: Hate coach?
Speaker 2: What's up? Yeah? You know what's going on doing? What
Speaker 2: are you doing here to take out your daughter? Oh? Okay,
Speaker 2: what are you doing here? Don't ask me? I don't know. Hey,
Speaker 2: you do what you can do. You do what you
Speaker 2: do these days? What the hell? Nobody does anything? True love?
Speaker 2: It can't be helped. Like Kanye West and his wife
Speaker 2: out there at the Grammy's Look what she had on
Speaker 2: and another guy had a house on his head. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Will Smith's son, he doesn't, he doesn't have any issues.
Speaker 1: Doesn't get one of those You gonna walk around with
Speaker 1: the giant house on your head?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 1: I think so, what do you where do you get
Speaker 1: one that.
Speaker 2: It was either house or they're Carly got a castle
Speaker 2: on his head. I don't know what difference does it.
Speaker 2: I don't know where you get.
Speaker 1: Him because it was a box. It looked like it
Speaker 1: was a box and was drawn on with, you know,
Speaker 1: with with a sharp.
Speaker 2: And his sister was half had hardly anything on either.
Speaker 1: Well, that's why I saw this picture of Belichick and
Speaker 1: his girlfriend. And she must have thought she was going
Speaker 1: to the Grammys last night the way she was.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know. Or she came out of the
Speaker 2: Genie bottle.
Speaker 1: She didn't have a hose. She didn't have a whole
Speaker 1: lot on either, that's for sure. That's for sure. For
Speaker 1: that that that that ring, that giant ring was covering
Speaker 1: up more than anything.
Speaker 2: Else she had on.
Speaker 1: Oh well, that's the coat, that's what That's what the
Speaker 1: NFL is all about.
Speaker 2: These days, I guess.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, what what about these what about these fools
Speaker 1: and these clowns who steal stuff from Joe Burrow and
Speaker 1: then they go out. Have you seen some of the
Speaker 1: pictures of these idiots?
Speaker 2: I guess they don't think that nobody sees this stuff,
Speaker 2: but you know, zillions of people do. And it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, you got the stuff on, you got the
Speaker 2: necklaces and the you know, the JB nine with the
Speaker 2: swoosh and you know, hats and everything else. And you
Speaker 2: know what they tell the the Ohio State Patrol officer.
Speaker 2: They said, we're headed to Orlando. They're going They're going north.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I was, I was getting ready for the
Speaker 1: show today.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe they maybe they skipped a geography class or
Speaker 2: something that day. He's We're going to Orlando. That's that way.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Orlando going to get a baseball team.
Speaker 2: Barry Larkin's going to get behind it apparently, and I'm
Speaker 2: sure Junior might too. Junior he lives down there.
Speaker 1: So does that mean if Barry Larkin does that? And
Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean, may have him. I'm in
Speaker 1: a couple of days for Cunningham next week, I have
Speaker 1: Barry Larkin on the show.
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay, I mean Tampa Bay is going to be
Speaker 2: playing in the Al Lopez Field in the spring training
Speaker 2: facility in the Yankees this year because.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, well the hurricane moving to Orlando, are they
Speaker 1: Are they building a whole new place or just putting.
Speaker 2: A new room. I don't know, I guess a whole
Speaker 2: new roof.
Speaker 1: But is that if Orlando gets a baseball team, who
Speaker 1: else is getting a.
Speaker 2: Baseball I don't know. I mean, you gotta have you
Speaker 2: gotta have teams. Oaklands, Oakland's moving to Sacramento till they
Speaker 2: get to Vegas. Tampa Bay is playing at the Yankees
Speaker 2: spring training site. Uh so Nashville. I guess the next one.
Speaker 2: But I mean, you know, put a stadium in on
Speaker 2: I four in between Tampa Ban Orlando.
Speaker 1: Well, if Larkin is going to get behind this team
Speaker 1: in Orlando, what about his deal with the Reds?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Is he going to be at the red spring training
Speaker 1: this year?
Speaker 2: That I don't know?
Speaker 1: Is he going to be calling Reds baseball on TV?
Speaker 2: Don't know? Are you gonna get it on? You know
Speaker 2: we worry about the radio. Well, we got enough problems.
Speaker 2: We have enough problems on the radio.
Speaker 1: We know it's going to be on the radio, right
Speaker 1: with so I don't know, I mean Tommy Thralling, the
Speaker 1: Cowboy and others and others, well pretty much the rest
Speaker 1: of them, and well, I don't know, Jim Dane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, once in a while, Cowboy takes a day off.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, it's it'll be interesting to
Speaker 2: see how all this comes out. You know, put a
Speaker 2: team right there, Orlando or something, that'll.
Speaker 1: Be a lot of baseball teams in Florida. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: hot down there. Are they gonna have an indoor stadium?
Speaker 2: I guess long way off there, Dan.
Speaker 1: All right, but I want to see. I want Barry
Speaker 1: Larkin to stay with.
Speaker 2: The Reds, though I like Verry Larkin. See what happens.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, say go ahead and get us out
Speaker 1: of the stooge report.
Speaker 2: Then Dan, Carol and honor of a nice day here
Speaker 2: in the Tri State, and Red's baseball right around the corner,
Speaker 2: three weeks from tomorrow, the first Cactus League game to
Speaker 2: the Guardians. Right there you go, we leave you with
Speaker 2: the immortal words of the Stood Report. I thought, that's
Speaker 2: a new intro music for Trump. You have all the Prescott.
Speaker 1: I think so I heard I heard another song.
Speaker 6: Of course.
Speaker 2: I think if you say, if you if you like
Speaker 2: the chiefs in this town, you're gonna get rid song
Speaker 2: to say anything but the Chiefs. That's for Sriff, I hope.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 5: My home.
Speaker 2: Kelsey Kelley went to UC and then Katay, we won't
Speaker 2: be able to take it. Yeah, and will this America
Speaker 2: will not be able to tolerate that.
Speaker 1: You gotta go seg Fly Eagles Fly on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 1: Back on the Big One, seven hundred WLW. It is
Speaker 1: two o nine. I'm Dan Carroll here till three this
Speaker 1: afternoon in for the Great American Bill Cunningham. And it
Speaker 1: is the Friday before Super Bowl Sunday. And I thought
Speaker 1: to myself, you know, you can't do a show on
Speaker 1: the Friday before the super Bowl without talking about the
Speaker 1: super Bowl a little bit. And I haven't really talked
Speaker 1: that much about sports lately, it's been a while. So
Speaker 1: I needed some help on this, and I turned my
Speaker 1: buddy Meryl Hodge, who is always good enough to give
Speaker 1: us some time. And Meryl Hodge, it is great to
Speaker 1: have you back on seven hundred W l W. And
Speaker 1: Meryl Hodge, how's life treating you?
Speaker 12: Absolutely no complaints and just let me hopefully I can
Speaker 12: help you on this on this Friday.
Speaker 1: Presuret a lot of pressure being here on seven hundred
Speaker 1: W l W. But uh, I'm looking at your website
Speaker 1: Meryll Hodge dot com, and uh, find a way those
Speaker 1: are the three words that inspired you to uh to
Speaker 1: live your dream and fight to live and uh and
Speaker 1: I guess you're doing a lot of motivational speaking now
Speaker 1: and and talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 2: I know you.
Speaker 1: I've had John before and we talked about your book
Speaker 1: and and the and those words find a Way, and
Speaker 1: I mean and really it's it's amazing how that one
Speaker 1: phrase uh not only changed your life, but is now
Speaker 1: in fact impacting a lot of lives across this country.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 12: You know, like here's what I've uh, you know, I've
Speaker 12: done a reboot, rebuild kind of what my message to
Speaker 12: find a Way message. And what I mean I rebuild
Speaker 12: like sometimes when you start speech and you start whittling
Speaker 12: away and you put things away and then you forget
Speaker 12: about them, and then when you go back and you
Speaker 12: bring it all back together, you're like, boys, I let
Speaker 12: that have some really important parts. Because find a Way really,
Speaker 12: I mean everybody actually is doing that. You're doing it
Speaker 12: in your life, you're doing it in your careers. I mean,
Speaker 12: everybody is on a journey. And what find a Way
Speaker 12: is really about. What the message is about is about
Speaker 12: what's possible for people if they recognize and take ownership
Speaker 12: of their journey and use the beautiful tools that they
Speaker 12: have as a human being. Starting with and everything starts
Speaker 12: and ends with what I'm going to say next, and
Speaker 12: that is your mind. You control your mind? Does your
Speaker 12: mind control you? And that ultimately where we all want,
Speaker 12: you know, balance ourselves on a daily basis. You know,
Speaker 12: have to feed yourself all the things you talk about,
Speaker 12: things that you visual lives, things that you the words
Speaker 12: that you use, what you choose to do every morning
Speaker 12: when you're two feet hit the ground, how you decide
Speaker 12: to deploy the day and what kind of weapons do
Speaker 12: you take that are your part of your arsenal and
Speaker 12: how do you develop them? And everybody has the greatest
Speaker 12: tool of noble man kindness and that is our mind.
Speaker 12: And it's about learning how to train that and program
Speaker 12: it to help you in your journey. And when you
Speaker 12: do that, you know, you you really become what I
Speaker 12: have discovered.
Speaker 2: And it's probably what I like.
Speaker 12: I love this probably as much as anything I've ever
Speaker 12: done in my life, is that when you see it
Speaker 12: resonate with people. And I tell people all the time,
Speaker 12: how do you know if you did a good job?
Speaker 12: I go, Here's how I know if I did a
Speaker 12: good job, they're talking about me, I did a bad job.
Speaker 2: But if they're thinking about.
Speaker 12: Themselves and how they can do about their life's work,
Speaker 12: I'm like, d I did a good job, and we
Speaker 12: hear how people just took ownership of their journey or
Speaker 12: it was like one thing that I apply I was
Speaker 12: looking and for that, you know, like, I think I
Speaker 12: got so many people on product of I've heard things.
Speaker 12: Walter Payton's inspired me, Aristotle's inspired when Chucknles inspired me.
Speaker 2: I mean, I have a lot of people.
Speaker 12: Without people and different experiences, I wouldn't be who I am.
Speaker 2: So you just try to share those.
Speaker 12: And you know, I hadn't actually the San Diego to
Speaker 12: talk to the BMW, to the group there on the
Speaker 12: West coast, and then I go from there to call
Speaker 12: with the city bank. I just was with a bank
Speaker 12: in Harrisburg. And it doesn't matter what company you're in,
Speaker 12: I don't matter where you're doing in life. Everybody is
Speaker 12: really searching and striving for the same thing. So to
Speaker 12: be able to share that and help people to just
Speaker 12: take ownership of their journey is really something I never
Speaker 12: saw in my life.
Speaker 2: Dan, I never saw it.
Speaker 12: I got challenged to do this sitting in a chemote
Speaker 12: therapy chair, and all I wanted to do is live
Speaker 12: and survive. And once I did that, my buddy challenged
Speaker 12: me again. He goes, remember your promise, goes your shit,
Speaker 12: that message and so and that's it, and that's what
Speaker 12: you're doing. And I'll tell you what. That's why.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons I love having you on is
Speaker 1: because your story is inspiring, it's uplifting, and you always
Speaker 1: have a great message. And I wanted to get that
Speaker 1: on before we talk about the super Bowl. And then
Speaker 1: again before we talk about the super Bowl. I turn
Speaker 1: on I'm going to get directed to YouTube and I
Speaker 1: see a video you on there on a on a
Speaker 1: morning television show talking about how to throw the perfect
Speaker 1: super Bowl party. I mean, a gig is a gig, man,
Speaker 1: Are you looking pretty good? There is you know, selling
Speaker 1: some form rich products and all the rest of it.
Speaker 2: It's fantastic. Yeah yeah, lgt DS. I mean we have cricket,
Speaker 2: we have I mean have a whole all last year.
Speaker 12: You have painter that helps you, you know, do make
Speaker 12: your own beer or your own signer.
Speaker 2: It was like I'd like to listen. Most people who
Speaker 2: want are going to watch the Super Bowl? Are not
Speaker 2: going to the game.
Speaker 12: That's in fact one one percent maybe, So you know,
Speaker 12: why not make whatever wherever you are the best super
Speaker 12: Bowl at in the atmosphere you can.
Speaker 2: And it was.
Speaker 12: It was actually a lot of fun when asked me
Speaker 12: to do it, and I started to look at all
Speaker 12: these things, like you know what actually he had, Like
Speaker 12: the shirt that I was wearing was made from the.
Speaker 13: Machine called a cricket and I was like, holy cow,
Speaker 13: this made that. And it did and it's like it
Speaker 13: looks so it's a very a computer like a laptop.
Speaker 2: I was like, wow, this is incredible. So it was,
Speaker 2: it was fun. There was actually a lot of.
Speaker 1: Fa that's I don't know where you got that shirt,
Speaker 1: but it's looking pretty good on your brother. So and
Speaker 1: again before we get to the super Bowl. I'm doing
Speaker 1: a little research today and I'm looking at stuff and
Speaker 1: I you know, because I honestly I haven't talked to
Speaker 1: sports that much very much lately, and I'm looking at
Speaker 1: stuff and I'm seeing I see so much reporting about
Speaker 1: different players, about different teams, different sports situations, and is
Speaker 1: it just me? Have I missed the boat on this?
Speaker 1: It seems like there's so much blatantly false reporting going
Speaker 1: on out there as it relates to players and their
Speaker 1: personal lives and things that may or may not have happened.
Speaker 1: Is it just me because I haven't looked at this
Speaker 1: in a while, or is that something that's really happening
Speaker 1: now that there's just so much fake and false and
Speaker 1: phony reporting out there that you really got to wade
Speaker 1: through it to figure out what's true and what's not true.
Speaker 12: Well, I can tell you from a personal experience from
Speaker 12: a player in the arena and then being in from
Speaker 12: immediate perspective for over twenty five years.
Speaker 2: It's been going on forever. I mean, I've had articles
Speaker 2: written and we're like, we're lik in the.
Speaker 12: Locker room, going what I do? Didn't even come in here?
Speaker 12: How can you write what he wrote without even coming
Speaker 12: in the locker room? He had like he came in
Speaker 12: the locker room and he discovered and this is actually
Speaker 12: after a win too, by the way, the game plan
Speaker 12: that we had without asking any questions or verifying any material.
Speaker 12: And you see, and it's just eroded in every aspect
Speaker 12: of a journalists. That's that in meetings and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 12: actually I really was like, Okay, here's the problem. It's
Speaker 12: not really the people are on TV. It's the people
Speaker 12: that are allowing the people to be on TV that
Speaker 12: have no accountability and let the garbage go on.
Speaker 2: It's those people.
Speaker 12: And I would argue there's a lot of time that
Speaker 12: they are not even qualified on the subject that they're
Speaker 12: sitting in on a football meeting. I'm like, Okay, the
Speaker 12: guy doing the meeting, there's nothing about football, and there's
Speaker 12: something about television, but that's about it. And I'm so
Speaker 12: everything that's being thrown around here is nothing but guesswork
Speaker 12: and highlight reels. And it's actually even you can't there's
Speaker 12: no validation of what they're talking about. It's only guess work.
Speaker 12: It's made up, it's not even true. So it's all
Speaker 12: gotten worse. It's unfortunate.
Speaker 2: That's why try to counsel you people with the media
Speaker 2: and social media that.
Speaker 12: Do not rely on it, don't depend on it. If
Speaker 12: you do, then that is your prisoner. And I will
Speaker 12: never be a prisoner of the media or social media
Speaker 12: because ninety nine point nine percent have absolutely no idea
Speaker 12: what they're doing anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now as soon as you see something you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: my gosh, we'll go where'd they get it? Well, that's
Speaker 2: just it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I start seeing all these sensational headlines and
Speaker 1: I'm like, this can't be true. And of course if
Speaker 1: you research it a little bit, you find out that
Speaker 1: it's not true. But anyone that has access to a
Speaker 1: computer and has any you know, any ability at all
Speaker 1: to use a computer, they can put stuff out there
Speaker 1: that looks legit, and it's uh. I mean, I go
Speaker 1: through it when you know, when I'm talking about pole
Speaker 1: politics and regular news and things like that. But I
Speaker 1: had no idea that there was so much of it
Speaker 1: going on in the sports world today. And I'm just
Speaker 1: glad I don't have to get caught up and all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. So let's talk about the NFL
Speaker 1: honors last night. Josh Allen got the league's MVP. Did
Speaker 1: they get that one right?
Speaker 12: Well, if I thought actually stake one, Markley, yeah, I
Speaker 12: might have won it. But yeah, listen, I don't think
Speaker 12: you could argue here, Josh Allen lamar steak on any
Speaker 12: one of those guys or to win it. What's unfortunately
Speaker 12: has become so quarterback driven that there, you know, they
Speaker 12: just had to alienate all of the other real pivotal
Speaker 12: players and key components. Because before we get into it,
Speaker 12: this is just a fact, and it's always lost everybody talks.
Speaker 12: I hear people go by defense win championship. Absolutely one
Speaker 12: hundred That has never happened in the history of football.
Speaker 12: No defense has played the entire game. Quarterbacks win championships.
Speaker 12: Another lie. No quarterback has ever played the entire game
Speaker 12: by himself. Teams win championships. There's three thirds to a team.
Speaker 12: There's an offense, there's a defense, and they're special teams
Speaker 12: and all thirds contribute in some fashion. Is there a
Speaker 12: strength of a team share?
Speaker 2: Not gonna argue? Is a quarterback?
Speaker 12: And absolutely? Are those guys? Are these one things going
Speaker 12: to win games for you?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 12: You know, Patrick Mahomes I would argue, I've always I
Speaker 12: did argue it that. You know, his two MVPs against
Speaker 12: the San Francisco forty nine ers belong to Chris Jones.
Speaker 12: Every play before Patrick mcmade a play that was significant
Speaker 12: in the game was started by Chris Jones.
Speaker 2: You know, he forced the one fumble.
Speaker 12: In the first Super Bowl, or the interception he created
Speaker 12: the stop in the other one.
Speaker 2: I could go on along with all these plays that he.
Speaker 12: He made far more great plays in the game to
Speaker 12: be significant in helping the team win the championship than
Speaker 12: Patrick Mahomes. But that's not who got it, And that's
Speaker 12: just you know, that's what's a I think what's more
Speaker 12: unfortunate for it that you know you That's why t
Speaker 12: I say, TV lies and highlights lie all the time.
Speaker 12: That's why players watch tape to get ready for an opponent.
Speaker 12: If it was if it was as easy to watch
Speaker 12: TV in a highlight reel, that's what people players are doing.
Speaker 12: On the Cincinnati Bengals. What do you do to get
Speaker 12: ready for your opponent? What do you watch?
Speaker 2: Everyone? I'm gonna go, well, what's tape? What do you mean?
Speaker 12: I mean, just like duh, Well, well that's no, no, kid.
Speaker 12: So that's why I go back to being an analyst. You
Speaker 12: know you do when you do analysts work. But you're
Speaker 12: going to tell me that you're going to be a
Speaker 12: really you're gonna be a legitimate analyst, but you're only
Speaker 12: going to watch TV in a highlight reel.
Speaker 2: Well, no, you're not.
Speaker 12: You're you're you don't even know ninety percent of what
Speaker 12: really is going on on any even play. You are
Speaker 12: guessing at the very best, you know, and and I
Speaker 12: think that's deplorable and horriful because I can give it well.
Speaker 12: As players, you're like going back to that those articles
Speaker 12: that we would talk about when this happened in the
Speaker 12: lockerroom're like, man, just just how classless and disrespectful it
Speaker 12: is to all both professions.
Speaker 2: Your your your writing profession.
Speaker 12: As a journalist, you have that responsibility to go in
Speaker 12: and ask questions. I mean, if you're gonna make if
Speaker 12: you're going to write stuff about somebody versus making it
Speaker 12: up or act like you went in there and then
Speaker 12: you made it up, is disturbing.
Speaker 2: Well, then really, you know, you're no different.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you chose to do it the easy way, you know,
Speaker 12: because because that's why people don't do it, because it's.
Speaker 2: Hard and it takes time, you know, Meryl.
Speaker 1: It seems to me that this year, more than any other,
Speaker 1: I've heard so much talk during the regular season and
Speaker 1: especially during the playoffs that the officials have been favoring
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, the Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: that they always get the benefit of the calls. That
Speaker 1: it seems like, you know, the preponderance of the calls
Speaker 1: go their ways. It is there any validity to that
Speaker 1: argument whatsoever?
Speaker 2: I've seen them? I mean unless I watched the entire league.
Speaker 12: And what's interesting, everybody, actually you know that the Chiefs
Speaker 12: are winning all these close games. All games were close.
Speaker 12: Take the Cincinnatibody. How many games did they lose that
Speaker 12: were close? How many games did they win that were close?
Speaker 12: By the mass majority? And I just can't remember all
Speaker 12: of the games. So like, you know, they lost two
Speaker 12: heartbreakers to the Ravens twice. You know, I'm trying to
Speaker 12: think of there's a couple other games. There's like, all
Speaker 12: these games are close. There's very few blowouts? Is there
Speaker 12: some offside of victors?
Speaker 2: As? Sure's very few? Very few?
Speaker 12: Like everybody's winning close games? Okay, Philadelphia? You know, I
Speaker 12: just now do they just now? You know when Patrick
Speaker 12: Mahomes starts play and to the rules, you know, which
Speaker 12: I think will change this year. If not, it'll be unfortunate,
Speaker 12: but it needs to change. And that's how I actually
Speaker 12: was a part of the first group that helped create
Speaker 12: the new standards and rules.
Speaker 2: For the NFL set on that panel. Now what the
Speaker 2: whole what my thought was or what.
Speaker 12: I established that we should do to protect the quarterback
Speaker 12: and give the defender you know rules, I go just
Speaker 12: all you got to do is deploy the art of
Speaker 12: a tackle, the proper way to tackle, and then create
Speaker 12: the right target zone where you're trying to tackle. So
Speaker 12: that's why leading and launching is dead obvious. Leading with
Speaker 12: the crown of the helmet. They then they added some
Speaker 12: some lower you know, below the knee thing later on
Speaker 12: that wasn't really part of it initially, but that is
Speaker 12: not hard to look. And they still though, you know,
Speaker 12: when you think of you know, human eyes seeing it,
Speaker 12: you know, you and I can see it.
Speaker 2: All happens so fast.
Speaker 12: But so my point was in the pocket, I give
Speaker 12: him some liberty that mistakes would be made because it
Speaker 12: does happen fast, and they are trying to air on
Speaker 12: the side of protecting the quarterback to give for let
Speaker 12: him listen. This is the why. This is the one
Speaker 12: police position that just can't protect itself. And you've got
Speaker 12: guys with three hundred pounds two hundred.
Speaker 2: And sixte hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 12: So I just I don't I don't have a problem
Speaker 12: when there's a mistake made in huddle where I have
Speaker 12: the problem when they get outside of the pocket, and
Speaker 12: we gave them a way to protect themselves, and now
Speaker 12: they've abused that. They take the defender to the very
Speaker 12: last second and then they slide and then they get
Speaker 12: up like what the heck?
Speaker 2: Okay? And I even said it down and go.
Speaker 12: We should penalize the quarterback if he doesn't surrender in
Speaker 12: proper time, and they're like a proper time, I'm well,
Speaker 12: listen in an off bar and it's five five yards,
Speaker 12: you know, give the defender five especially if it's full
Speaker 12: speed of coming out.
Speaker 2: How are you get to stop at full speed? Right?
Speaker 2: You've got to surrender. And so I really do believe
Speaker 2: that they.
Speaker 12: Should penalize a quarterback that doesn't at the very last
Speaker 12: second slides down and now as long as it's spending
Speaker 12: up on the elbow and lead with the crown helmet,
Speaker 12: but he doesn't surrender in time and he puts that
Speaker 12: defender in a bad spot. I think the cut of
Speaker 12: the quarterback should be penalized for it. And that would
Speaker 12: force that quarterback to surrender much quicker.
Speaker 2: That's why he gave him the rule. That's why we
Speaker 2: want you to do that. Protect yourself.
Speaker 12: But they've taken it to the limit now and they've
Speaker 12: they've put it in actually and then in a position
Speaker 12: that's not fair and it's not professional and it needs
Speaker 12: to be corrected.
Speaker 1: All right, Meryl, we got about thirty seconds here. You've
Speaker 1: got the Chiefs, you got the Eagles. Who's got the
Speaker 1: edge headed into this game?
Speaker 2: And who do you like? This is historically true? Okay?
Speaker 2: There's two things that help you in games consistently.
Speaker 12: I'll give you a couple of games just so once
Speaker 12: I tell you, then you can reflect on him. Giants
Speaker 12: beat the Bills Tampa. Okay, Bill's how are they? How
Speaker 12: are they going to out the Bills aerial offense? The
Speaker 12: Giants end up beat them. Patriots come in, they got
Speaker 12: an undefeated season. The Giants beat them. Yep, here's how
Speaker 12: they beat them. And it's the most It's the thing
Speaker 12: that you have to do if you want to win
Speaker 12: consistently in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Number One, you have to control the temple of the game.
Speaker 2: One of the best ways to do that is.
Speaker 12: If your offensive defensive line played really well and you
Speaker 12: have a good running game. But that's the ultimately one
Speaker 12: of the easiest ways to control the temple because then
Speaker 12: you dictate the defenses. You keep the other offense off
Speaker 12: the field, say three times more than they would normally
Speaker 12: get on there. It's a huge advantage for both these teams.
Speaker 12: Whoever does that, and then you just can't turn the
Speaker 12: ball over. And if you look at the last matchup,
Speaker 12: the one difference in that first matchup two years ago,
Speaker 12: Philly fumbled the ball.
Speaker 2: They made one turnover difference to the game.
Speaker 12: Change the games, never saying if they do not do that,
Speaker 12: they have the better team in the trenches. They got
Speaker 12: the better runner, they got the better skill, the better
Speaker 12: team to do what I just mentioned if they don't
Speaker 12: turn over, and if they do that, then I I'm
Speaker 12: pay with the Eagles.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Meryl Hodge. We got a run.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the time today man, and continued success.
Speaker 1: Thanks great having on and we'll do it again before
Speaker 1: too long. Meryl Hodge, the one and only, thank you
Speaker 1: so much, and the website is Meryl Hodge dot com.
Speaker 1: Way late for a break here, Dan Carroll for billl
Speaker 1: coming in seven hundred WLW All right, Brandon, I.
Speaker 14: Want you to guess here in their last eleven games
Speaker 14: in the playoffs, how many times did the Chiefs have
Speaker 14: more penalties than their opponents too, zero zero times the
Speaker 14: Chiefs had more penalties than their opponents. The total penalties
Speaker 14: across those games, it is thirty six for the Chiefs
Speaker 14: compared to their opponents sixty.
Speaker 2: Six double, almost double.
Speaker 12: And you know those games are in arrows two of
Speaker 12: them that are not in arrowhead right, and it's yeah.
Speaker 14: So let's look at some specific penalties. Right, how many
Speaker 14: total roughing the passers were called on the Chiefs in
Speaker 14: eleven games four?
Speaker 2: One? Oh my god?
Speaker 14: One roughing the passer penalty in eleven games called against
Speaker 14: the Chiefs compared to their opponents seven. Now, that was
Speaker 14: a little bit less than I thought, but a seven
Speaker 14: to one ratio is pretty crazy. Let's look at another one.
Speaker 14: How many total defensive pass interference or holding group together
Speaker 14: were called on the Chiefs in those eleven games six three,
Speaker 14: oh my god, compared to the opponents eleven eleven?
Speaker 2: What are we doing here?
Speaker 13: There's data on this, just allowed I don't understand.
Speaker 14: Broken down by EPA, the Chiefs have eighteen point eighty
Speaker 14: four expected points added as a result of these penalties.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, now, how many.
Speaker 14: Eight of those eleven games were decided by one score
Speaker 14: or less, So you do the math on that. This
Speaker 14: is my one question that I have out of this.
Speaker 14: Is there a safe and secure exit for officials at
Speaker 14: Arrowhead Stadium or is it a is this a tunnel
Speaker 14: thing where there's no safe way for them to go
Speaker 14: out without going by fans as Arrowhead man.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 11: Fuiet, I'm broadcast.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: Merrill Hodge says that this stuff about the referees favoring
Speaker 1: Kansas City is a bunch of nonsense, But the NFL
Speaker 1: shows I think the broadcast sheriff may have a different
Speaker 1: opinion on it.
Speaker 2: He got stats, so who knows stats are stats? We'll
Speaker 2: find out on We'll find out in a couple of
Speaker 2: days if there's action.
Speaker 1: To those numbers are pretty staggering the ones we just
Speaker 1: heard there, that's for sure. It sounds like, I don't
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Speaker 2: against the Mimvy Red Hawks Sunday, Xaviers at Villanova in
Speaker 2: a Big East battle. Miami's having a good season or
Speaker 2: they are very good. You'll run the show there second
Speaker 2: in the second into Maca.
Speaker 1: I think did I hear that Miami's going to get
Speaker 1: rid of Millet Hall. They're going to have a new arena. Yes,
Speaker 1: up there, They're going to build it on campus around theres.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: How about that?
Speaker 2: It's about time? Well it did.
Speaker 1: Mallett Hall has been around for a long time.
Speaker 2: Red's Update. Reds pitchers and catchers report the spring training
Speaker 2: camp on Monday. Let's go. They go through physicals. Their
Speaker 2: first work out there for pictures and catchers will be
Speaker 2: next Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Are there some guys already there?
Speaker 2: I haven't heard, tell you truth, I haven't heard anything.
Speaker 2: You haven't seen anything. So I'm sure this weekend they'll
Speaker 2: probably get a few of them, will get got to
Speaker 2: get some guys there. EHL Hockey tonight, are beloved Cyclones
Speaker 2: wrap up an eight game homestand against the Mavericks of
Speaker 2: Kansas City. An MLS preseason coming up today at five
Speaker 2: in Florida FC Cincinnati against Philadelphia Union.
Speaker 1: How many people go to MLS preseason games?
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't. I don't think they're open to
Speaker 2: fans real down there, no, I don't think so. No.
Speaker 1: So you're play in an empty stadium pretty much. So
Speaker 1: that the Trump the Trumpster is on TV again, you're surprised.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, he's on the Prime Minister in the House.
Speaker 1: Shagerro isbi or Isiba so Shagiro Ishiba, the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: of Japan.
Speaker 2: This marks what two weeks in a row, every day's
Speaker 2: on TV.
Speaker 1: So Trump, they walked up to the podium. Trump gave
Speaker 1: him a photo of the of those two together, and
Speaker 1: then he gave him a Trump's book that documents his
Speaker 1: his first term in the White House. So this dude
Speaker 1: from Japan is holding up this book with a giant
Speaker 1: picture of Trump with a fist in the air. There
Speaker 1: you go, smiling like a like, like like it's the
Speaker 1: greatest thing ever. There you go, You're gonna bring some
Speaker 1: Japanese steel to America.
Speaker 2: We'll see.
Speaker 1: But seg the Democrats are having a conniption in Washington today. Yes,
Speaker 1: they couldn't get into the Department of Energy. Uh, they're
Speaker 1: apparently I'm sorry, the e p A building. So apparently
Speaker 1: Elon Musk and as people there are looking at some
Speaker 1: of the records find out where all the money is going.
Speaker 1: And then they're at the Department of Education too. Oh oh,
Speaker 1: and you got security contractors out front, and the Maxine.
Speaker 2: Waters is there. Yea, I saw her yelling at people.
Speaker 2: It was like yeah. The guy says like, ignore are
Speaker 2: what is she like? What she says? Open the door?
Speaker 2: It's his job not to let people in. Correct.
Speaker 1: Here's what that sounded like, Dave. Let's hear cut number three?
Speaker 15: Hit it?
Speaker 2: Come on, oh you.
Speaker 5: Look at them?
Speaker 2: Let them city, Well, this is.
Speaker 5: Him, look at it.
Speaker 1: What's your name name?
Speaker 2: Give me that idea again?
Speaker 15: So what I showed you the idea?
Speaker 1: You do what I showed you the don't you let.
Speaker 2: Me see the ID again?
Speaker 10: Will someone else ask him for the ID?
Speaker 1: Who you ask him for?
Speaker 2: He won't let me see it again?
Speaker 1: You Maxine Waters is having a meltdown. Let me see that.
Speaker 1: I d go home, Let me see your papers.
Speaker 2: Go home.
Speaker 1: This guy's just standing there, not even looking at her.
Speaker 1: He's like, you know, you're not getting in, and it's
Speaker 1: it's hurting a bunch of other Democrats out there.
Speaker 2: They went in, they're gonna they're.
Speaker 1: Gonna have a little insurrection and stop and they want
Speaker 1: to stop the doge.
Speaker 2: I don't know it's Washington.
Speaker 1: Are things things are being exposed seg and they don't
Speaker 1: like those things being exposed, that's for sure. They don't
Speaker 1: like it hitting a little too close to home.
Speaker 2: And the pocketbook and if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So you gotta got a monitor of the doge's website
Speaker 1: a little bit later today and see what they're going
Speaker 1: to uncover. I don't unbelievable. And then what did I
Speaker 1: heard McConnell talking this morning about Eddie Fingers? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I and he's on he's on a cruise right now
Speaker 1: with somewhere in the world. I mean Dev's with him
Speaker 1: right yep. And they're on a cruise right now. And
Speaker 1: and apparently everyone on the cruise ship is sick?
Speaker 2: Nice? Nice?
Speaker 1: Did I hear McConnell saying that that's correct?
Speaker 2: So what the and that? And you can't go anywhere
Speaker 2: cru you can't. I mean I've never been on one,
Speaker 2: but when everybody's sick, that can't be too much fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you do.
Speaker 2: That? I don't know. I mean, you've never been on
Speaker 2: It's not like you can get a week.
Speaker 1: You know, you got two hundred and three hundred people
Speaker 1: sick on a cruise ship because you can get away
Speaker 1: from him.
Speaker 2: Hey, can I get Can I get off this thing?
Speaker 2: Aren't they? Aren't they an Antarctica. I don't know where
Speaker 2: they're at. I have no idea where he went. I
Speaker 2: don't know. He didn't announce it. He's going to parts unknown.
Speaker 2: I heard maybe around the Galapagos Islands. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: he wanted to see some rare animals that live down there.
Speaker 2: I think that's where he went, the Galapagos Islands.
Speaker 1: So he's not He's not scheduled to be on the
Speaker 1: show today, is he. No, So Rocky would be Rocky
Speaker 1: and Jason coming up at three o'clock, the Pride of
Speaker 1: Marshall and Eddie Fingers down there cruising around.
Speaker 2: Sipping. Yeah, probably looking a little about as green as
Speaker 2: your shirt. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize I was wearing eagle colors.
Speaker 2: Say, there you go.
Speaker 1: It was just you got green on too. Yep, So
Speaker 1: fly eagles fly.
Speaker 2: Amen to that man.
Speaker 1: Merril Odge says, if the Eagles don't turn the ball over,
Speaker 1: then they will win the game.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Will you be making a sports leager?
Speaker 1: No this weekend?
Speaker 2: Now, just watch it and see what happens.
Speaker 1: And what do you think about the four seventy one,
Speaker 1: the big mac Bridge.
Speaker 2: Bagel for business. I mean, I mean, you know, kudos
Speaker 2: kudos to O Dot. Kudos to the men and women
Speaker 2: that work down there so diligently over the past what
Speaker 2: a few weeks to get that thing open and and
Speaker 2: girders up and everything else. I mean, O Dot knows
Speaker 2: workers did a fabulous job. They ought to be Uh,
Speaker 2: they got to be commended for their for the for
Speaker 2: the job that they did. Every one of them.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, they ought to get a very nice bonus,
Speaker 1: I would say, so on top of on top of
Speaker 1: what they did already.
Speaker 2: And uh and uh and the and the motorists when
Speaker 2: it started. When it opens on Sunday, they're gonna buy you.
Speaker 2: You know, hopefully the workers are standing right alongside the
Speaker 2: road and they can uh you know, honk their horn
Speaker 2: or something at him or whatever, because that's I mean,
Speaker 2: it's unbelievable work that they did after that devastating fire
Speaker 2: that messed up I mean melted the girders. I mean
Speaker 2: that's hot.
Speaker 1: But I had I had Chuck Ingram and he and
Speaker 1: we were talking about it. I have never seen more
Speaker 1: in depth coverage of a road project than this had
Speaker 1: right because we knew when the girders were being fabricated correct.
Speaker 1: We knew when they were being loaded on the trucks.
Speaker 1: We knew when they arrived in town. We knew when
Speaker 1: the cranes were there to put them in place. We
Speaker 1: knew when they were being welded. We knew when the
Speaker 1: when the concrete was being poured, and then they had
Speaker 1: to put the They had to put the enclosure around
Speaker 1: the concrete and blow heat on it to keep it
Speaker 1: warm so it could cure when it was about about
Speaker 1: ten degrees outside.
Speaker 2: The unbelievable. There'll be thousands of motorists very happy from
Speaker 2: Sunday on.
Speaker 1: And then Matt Reese goes down there today and they say,
Speaker 1: guess what it's open on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Matt Reese I think has lived down there for the
Speaker 2: past two weeks. I don't think. I don't think he's left.
Speaker 1: He's done a bunch of stories down He was talking
Speaker 1: to the people that have businesses down there.
Speaker 2: I mean, and businesses right across the right, across the
Speaker 2: river there and everything else. I mean it's got to
Speaker 2: be I mean that in the traffic jam that's ensued
Speaker 2: over the past what month or so, it must be
Speaker 2: horrific downtown.
Speaker 1: Well, I live in Anderson Township and that traffic reaches
Speaker 1: all the way into Anderson Township five six o'clock at night.
Speaker 1: All you know, all the people who are trying to
Speaker 1: come home down Columbia Parkway or find or find another
Speaker 1: way to get home. It's it's terrible.
Speaker 2: So now, uh you know, now it's going to be
Speaker 2: open Sunday, and everybody's going to be happy. Sunday. It's
Speaker 2: gonna Chuck Ingram is gonna be happy too.
Speaker 1: We're all gonna be watching the Super Bowl and the
Speaker 1: and the four seventy one will open quietly.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 1: And then come Monday. Everyday afternoon, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go out there. I'm gonna drive one hundred miles an
Speaker 1: hour across that bridge.
Speaker 2: So yeah, got fabulous work by the by the construction
Speaker 2: workers down there, the men and women, and they ought
Speaker 2: to be commended for their for their diligence, hard work
Speaker 2: and effort to put that back together again.
Speaker 1: But I mean initially they were talking what April or May? Yeah,
Speaker 1: at least and this is smart. Another month, another month
Speaker 1: of that Yeah, Wow, this hard fabulous job. This is
Speaker 1: hardly this, hardly ever happens.
Speaker 2: Well they you know they uh brand Spence got messed
Speaker 2: up what a couple of years ago, and they did
Speaker 2: that in forty five days, right, that was.
Speaker 1: So so segue. You know, we live in interesting times,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. The meltdown, the meltdown of the Democrats
Speaker 1: and the and the Trump haters and the Libs continues
Speaker 1: the best. I mean, it's it's one of I said,
Speaker 1: I said before the the inauguration that Doge is going
Speaker 1: to it's going to be one of the great things
Speaker 1: for people like me to have to do talk shows
Speaker 1: because they are going to be just putting out so
Speaker 1: much stuff, right, and we're going to have so much
Speaker 1: great stuff to talk about during the talk shows.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. Oh, he's going to be busy. He's going
Speaker 2: to go the Super Bowl here on Sunday, and then
Speaker 2: in two weeks he's mister the President's going to attend
Speaker 2: the Daytona five hundred. How about that in the place
Speaker 2: of go berserk. The Dome, the World Center of Racing
Speaker 2: will go crazy when he shows up.
Speaker 1: Well, he's will blow the roof off the Dome down
Speaker 1: there in Louisiana, and then we'll go to the race and.
Speaker 2: Tear that place apart. Doesn't get any better than that.
Speaker 1: It'll be unbelievable. Andy mac seg, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: Same to you there, Dan, have you have you made
Speaker 1: your super Bowl prediction yet? Eagles always fly? Eagles fly,
Speaker 1: Amen and get us out of the stooge or the
Speaker 1: final Stooge report before the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Dan, Carol, and honor of the Super Bowl Sunday and
Speaker 2: the Eagles and Chiefs. We leave you with the immortal
Speaker 2: words of the Stude Report.
Speaker 16: Next week's highway patrol story is a very unusual one.
Speaker 16: I hope you'll be with us until then. Remember it
Speaker 16: isn't the car that kills, it's the driver. This is
Speaker 16: Roderck Crawford saying see you next week, So.
Speaker 1: Be careful driving across the four seventy one bridge.
Speaker 2: It isn't the car that kills, it's the driver.
Speaker 1: Here we go, we go again one more time. Bank
Speaker 1: did that There weren't how to spell Eagles yet.
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 15: I think don E G E L E say, have
Speaker 15: a
Speaker 1: Great week seven hundred W L W two Bay