Speaker 1: Warm sunny day, poor air quality for sensitive groups. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, sensitive groups, just stay inside. Then we'll
Speaker 1: go in and suck in all that at sunshine ourselves.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be hot today, high and ninety two with
Speaker 1: that air quality alert in effect. Tomorrow hot hum a
Speaker 1: a few storms possible late in the day on Sunday
Speaker 1: with a high again in the lower nineties. It's sixty
Speaker 1: eight now seven hundred wl W. Sport Sean McMahon is
Speaker 1: in this morning, producing and handling the sports desk, and
Speaker 1: I know you're not feeling the best, Sean, but you
Speaker 1: know what, we will make the most out of it.
Speaker 1: We got a Reds victory the first game of the
Speaker 1: set in Philadelphia yesterday they beat Phil's ninety six and
Speaker 1: more today.
Speaker 2: Right correct, Yeah, So it's a four oh five first pitch,
Speaker 2: So our coverage will begin at three oh five here
Speaker 2: on the big one. Yesterday's win, Andrew Rabbit win, three
Speaker 2: point one innings, pitch, nine hits, allout, four runs, two
Speaker 2: of those runs coming off the bat of former Red
Speaker 2: Nick Costianos, and also yesterday Gary Jeff July fourth, so
Speaker 2: tradition in the United States is the Nathan's Hot Dog
Speaker 2: Eating Contest Joey Chestnut nabbed his seventeenth title. If you
Speaker 2: can believe that, you know how many hot dogs he
Speaker 2: ate in twenty appearances, He's eaten twelve hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: four and a half.
Speaker 1: You're talking about the total time he's done the competition.
Speaker 2: In twenty appearances. Yeah, he's done. He's eaten two hundred
Speaker 2: eighty four and a half hot dogs in this how
Speaker 2: many way? How many did he have yesterday? He had
Speaker 2: seventy and a half. This year he has cleared the
Speaker 2: seventy mark seven times.
Speaker 1: That's truly amazing, and I'm glad I'm not him. I agree,
Speaker 1: I agree with you there.
Speaker 2: I don't know how the human body handles that, but
Speaker 2: it's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 1: Anything else going on in sports of note right now.
Speaker 2: Not much happening. We're kind of in that dead period
Speaker 2: of sports. It's really just reds going on right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, we got, as I mentioned kind of during the
Speaker 1: history segment, Wimbledon does continue. Oh yes, wimbled at the
Speaker 1: All Tennis Club England, and we'll maybe take a check
Speaker 1: on that a little bit later on this morning. The
Speaker 1: John Deer Classic continues in the PGA tournament this weekend.
Speaker 1: But again, it's not a big sports weekend, it's a
Speaker 1: big America weekend, and we're all over it. Lady Lynette
Speaker 1: and Dick both on the line. Everything is perfect, Everything
Speaker 1: is as it should be on a Saturday morning, and
Speaker 1: we'll get to it in just a moment. We are
Speaker 1: News Radio seven hundred WLW. Hey with warmer weather here.
Speaker 1: We all know our energy bills are going to be
Speaker 1: spiking right along with the temperatures, and your money's going
Speaker 1: to be flying out of your home faster than it
Speaker 1: north of July weekend, July fifth, I'll have a fifth myself.
Speaker 1: Gjdubs Back in the Saturday morning chair Man. There is
Speaker 1: so much going on there, so much I guess I
Speaker 1: want to get out and talk about. First and foremost,
Speaker 1: got to say hello to the gang at the river
Speaker 1: Camp in Patriot, Indiana. Is there a better place that's
Speaker 1: been fourth of July than Patriot, Indiana? Come on, and
Speaker 1: my friends brothers, the Pisquallys and all of their can
Speaker 1: gathered there at the river Camp yesterday afternoon. Just a
Speaker 1: very casual, very very fun gathering. We're just sitting around talking,
Speaker 1: telling stories. Some we made up, some were real and
Speaker 1: enjoying the beautiful weather and just it is amazing. No
Speaker 1: words can describe it. You have to actually be at
Speaker 1: a place like that with the scenic Ohio River as
Speaker 1: your backdrop and a bunch of friendly folks gathering to
Speaker 1: celebrate the freedoms that we have in this country and
Speaker 1: enjoy each other's company. And it was remarkable. So Rick, Ron, Laurie,
Speaker 1: Uncle Bill, Kim, Matt, Andy, Laura, whoever else? The triplets?
Speaker 1: So Rick and Ron are identical twin brothers, and they've
Speaker 1: got a son who has produced, yes triplets. These girls
Speaker 1: are all just adorable. They're like twelve years old and
Speaker 1: they're riding the golf carts and it was just a
Speaker 1: wonderful afternoon. I hope you had as good a time
Speaker 1: and we're able to enjoy the fourth like Christ two
Speaker 1: point zero and I did yesterday. Good morning, Mame Tree,
Speaker 1: Lady Lynnette.
Speaker 3: Ah Somerica.
Speaker 4: Sad beside, I'm to the farm, to the Surcicina, Bob
Speaker 4: from the mountain, to suprity, to the otion. Why football maycall?
Speaker 5: But oh.
Speaker 6: Sweet oh, I didn't know if you were going to
Speaker 6: go for that last note. You decided against it.
Speaker 3: Huh, that's right.
Speaker 1: Why you're reading that was beautiful?
Speaker 7: I got the.
Speaker 3: Bone down the allergy that is bad. I'm foming at
Speaker 3: the mouth of night.
Speaker 1: You're folding at the mouth.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got it bad.
Speaker 1: You've got rabies. What do you mean you're foming.
Speaker 3: At the mouth aology? They're kicking me, baby.
Speaker 1: You sounded great. I thought you were going to hit
Speaker 1: that last one. You were going to go up and rude?
Speaker 8: What I did it all morning and when I drank
Speaker 8: that Boone County water, I don't have the same boys,
Speaker 8: I'm bombing.
Speaker 3: Really, I'm bowman.
Speaker 7: At the mouth.
Speaker 1: Do I thought it sounded great, Lena, it really did.
Speaker 3: I tried lower that dry.
Speaker 1: So did you guys have any kind of celebration there
Speaker 1: at Florence Park Care yesterday?
Speaker 3: Dave McCoy and his wife and he sang it or
Speaker 3: cheated one. I'm singing anyway. It such a good time.
Speaker 3: I was just flowing with the flow.
Speaker 1: Did you have any food?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: It was a two thirty concert. We lunched at twelve.
Speaker 1: Thirty, Okay. I didn't know if they had special Fourth
Speaker 1: of July food, like you had hot dogs or anything
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 3: Oh, we're gonna have a Sunday one day. Oh, well,
Speaker 3: have ice cream Sunday.
Speaker 1: That sounds wonderful, very tasty.
Speaker 3: Albus will be here to eighteen Marsha. I wan't see
Speaker 3: your face in the place. Hey, Pat Columbus, Hey Christine,
Speaker 3: My Lexa went out because they guy new computer system
Speaker 3: and I can't find my phone. Help me, Mama, help me?
Speaker 3: And Doorstein over there. I love you too, baby.
Speaker 1: All right, my girls, do we get all the shout
Speaker 1: outside of the way?
Speaker 7: Baby?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Love, okay, we love you. Happy fourth of July, Happy
Speaker 1: fifth of July.
Speaker 3: Yeah, give me some blite Jack and some Johnny Red
Speaker 3: and we'll make it.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 1: I love all right, bye bye, some Jack Black and
Speaker 1: some Johnny Red for Lynette. Five point fifty five at
Speaker 1: seven hundred w OLU run a business and to rise
Speaker 1: and shine. And our buddy Dick the Dixter is back.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Dick.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Gett Jeff.
Speaker 10: How are you great?
Speaker 1: How do you love your new phone?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 9: The phone is fantastic. It's really nice, really nice.
Speaker 1: Well, you sound clear as a bell. I love that.
Speaker 1: What's been going on with you?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 9: They've been having uh each morning we have morning exercises
Speaker 9: and then Trey goes over. We do a little trivia
Speaker 9: and then we U. Then we uh, let's see it.
Speaker 9: Two o'clock. We go out and sit on the porch
Speaker 9: and we listened to iHeartRadio. They had the oldies on there,
Speaker 9: and we just go through it. They just go through it.
Speaker 9: They had Chuck Berry, Martha and the Vandellas, Sam Cooke.
Speaker 7: It was good, nice, It was really nice.
Speaker 1: So you start your day with a little exercise, little calisthenics,
Speaker 1: get the bar. Do you get the blood flowing?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: And and then trivia you get your mind working. They're
Speaker 1: trying to keep you young, dick.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's for sure. That's for sure.
Speaker 1: Have you met any new new friends?
Speaker 7: Yes, a lot of.
Speaker 9: New friends there at really night at the Good Place.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I am so glad to enjoy it. My friends Eddie
Speaker 9: and Mary come by on Saturday. I usually go to
Speaker 9: my friend. She came over in the uh Transport band
Speaker 9: and uh she had a good time. We were we
Speaker 9: were just rocking and trains pretty good. And I told
Speaker 9: him and I want to Uh. I called day from Dayton. Yeah,
Speaker 9: wish him happy, uh aport. He's got a phone for
Speaker 9: me and I'm waiting for that phone.
Speaker 7: You know the cell phone.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, yeah, well, I mean it's it's nice
Speaker 1: that you have a phone through the into the first
Speaker 1: official hour of the Saturday Morning edition for this Saturday,
Speaker 1: July fifth, twenty twenty five, not only Huey Lewis's birthday,
Speaker 1: but Spam's birthday to Amazon's birthday too. How about that,
Speaker 1: as we still celebrate America's birthday some two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty nine plus years ago into our two hundred and
Speaker 1: fiftieth year and still going strong through it all, think
Speaker 1: about it first, having to win independence from Great Britain
Speaker 1: in a bloody battle that no one in the world
Speaker 1: thought we as Americans, as colonial Americans, could win. I mean,
Speaker 1: you talk about staggering odds. They're the greatest power in
Speaker 1: the world at the time. Great Britain, the Monarchy of
Speaker 1: Land is the most impressive, well armed, well trained troops
Speaker 1: in the world. And it took a while and took
Speaker 1: a lot of blood, blood sweat and tears, as they say,
Speaker 1: not the band, the actual blood, sweat and tears to
Speaker 1: defeat the British. The way you've got to fight them
Speaker 1: again a few years later over More territory. There's a
Speaker 1: Louisiana purchase. There is the scourge of slavery and the
Speaker 1: fact that we wrestled as a nation in a four year,
Speaker 1: bloody battle that saw more than a million or nearly
Speaker 1: a million Americans die to reunify as a country. There's
Speaker 1: depressions and panics and everything that we've gone through and
Speaker 1: we're still here after some two hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 1: It is an amazing story. It's a story that is
Speaker 1: not replicated anywhere else on the planet in a history
Speaker 1: of humankind. Do you realize how special this is what
Speaker 1: we shared together? Pretty amazing? How with that, let's talk
Speaker 1: to Dave.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Dave, Good morning, Good Jeff. How we're doing
Speaker 7: there on this wonderful I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know that we could be doing any better. Brother,
Speaker 1: As I was just mentoring, mentioning in my long winded
Speaker 1: preamble there before I finally got you on the phone,
Speaker 1: and sanity has resumed, or lack thereof, I don't know.
Speaker 1: How could we be any more blessed by God than
Speaker 1: to be born here in this country, to be to
Speaker 1: be gifted with this opportunity that is unparalleled. That's why
Speaker 1: everybody wants to come here. We got it good and
Speaker 1: we should appreciate it. But there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: in this country who sadly do not and do not
Speaker 1: understand the sacrifice, do not understand the special, special blessing
Speaker 1: of God that is the United States of America. They
Speaker 1: would rather reign on our parade. And I say, well,
Speaker 1: I can't say what I say. I just have to
Speaker 1: think it. And you know what I'm thinking, don't you.
Speaker 7: I think I think I know what you're thinking.
Speaker 1: Well, would you tell me because I have no idea? Well,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Oh wait, wait wait page one thirty.
Speaker 7: Two, Page one thirty two. Well, page one thirty two
Speaker 7: is kind of Saturn. Yeah, I think you.
Speaker 1: Heard that the guy who invented the heat index passed away,
Speaker 1: didn't you.
Speaker 7: No, really, yeah, apparently he was eighty eight, but he
Speaker 7: felt like one hundred and four.
Speaker 1: It's my joke, I know, I know.
Speaker 7: Happy Birthday spam. Hey, what kind of dance does America
Speaker 7: do on the fourth?
Speaker 1: What kind of dance does America do on the fourth?
Speaker 8: Dave?
Speaker 7: The Independent dance, of course. Yeah, there's a good question
Speaker 7: for you.
Speaker 1: Hey, Dave, Dave, Dave, Yeah, Dave, you think I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna let that go. It's independence, not dance.
Speaker 12: Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 11: Five twenty one, five twenty one, Where was the declaration
Speaker 11: of independance?
Speaker 10: Side? Where at the bottom?
Speaker 13: Jokes told by day from Harrison are not necessarily considered
Speaker 13: funny by the staff, management, or advertisers of seven hundred
Speaker 13: WLW or his parent company, iHeartMedia. If these attempts at
Speaker 13: humor have caused you to roll your eyes, made your
Speaker 13: stomach churn, or you have considered the entire exercise to
Speaker 13: be a colossal waste of time, we deeply apologize. Now
Speaker 13: back to our irregular programming.
Speaker 1: Stall in the studio kind of creepy. I think dolls
Speaker 1: in general kind of creepy. But the Ventriloq was stall
Speaker 1: because maybe I watched too many really bad horror films
Speaker 1: back in the eighties and nineties. I always think that
Speaker 1: they're gonna start talking by themselves. The dummy is gonna
Speaker 1: start talking to me, which would be kind of redundant.
Speaker 1: Have a dummy talking to me? Are you talking to me?
Speaker 1: Let's talk to already a rick and get a reception
Speaker 1: report before I get any deeper into this hole that
Speaker 1: I'm in.
Speaker 12: Uh oh, no, I'm Gonna dig You Deeper. And one
Speaker 12: of the one of the versions of Amazon Women on
Speaker 12: the Moon, a American vanuloquist and a French raniloquist gets
Speaker 12: their dummies mixed up in luggage and the dummies speak
Speaker 12: the other language while they're on the stage. It's a
Speaker 12: funny concept, but they just didn't stop the joke. It
Speaker 12: went on way too long.
Speaker 1: So so the French dummy is speaking in English.
Speaker 12: Yes, and making fun of it because nobody understands what
Speaker 12: he's saying, including the ventuloquist.
Speaker 1: Oh that's great.
Speaker 12: Wackiness ensues.
Speaker 1: But I I mean, I just find that ventriloquis dummies
Speaker 1: in particular are just very very I don't know, there's
Speaker 1: something about them that give me the he be gbis.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 12: Yes, that and a lot of clowns, especially clown dolls.
Speaker 12: I mean, my wife and daughter warned me if we're
Speaker 12: in an antique ball, which is like clown alert, don't
Speaker 12: look left.
Speaker 1: Even a Jeff Dunham show. I mean, I can respect
Speaker 1: the man's talent, he's very funny, but I don't want
Speaker 1: to be alone with one of his dolls.
Speaker 12: Now that's kind of takes on two different things.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe not.
Speaker 12: Back to our irregular programming.
Speaker 1: So how are you receiving?
Speaker 14: Is?
Speaker 1: What are you using to receive this fine broadcast platform
Speaker 1: of iHeartMedia. How are you listening to the show?
Speaker 12: You are coming in five by five? And let me
Speaker 12: say you better be on a nineteen thirty eight Silico
Speaker 12: Com Model thirty six one sixteen XX known as the
Speaker 12: one sixteen double X. This radio, if this radio is
Speaker 12: a lady she'd been.
Speaker 15: Eleven, let me tell you, oh yeah, fifteen.
Speaker 12: Tubes yeah on RF and two IF reception amplifification stages
Speaker 12: AM and four short wave bands with great coverage and
Speaker 12: band spread. This thing is one heck of a DXer.
Speaker 12: And it also not only has a giant loudspeaker I
Speaker 12: think it's sixteen inches, but it also has three acoustic clarifiers,
Speaker 12: which are these passive radiators that look like speakers but
Speaker 12: have no wires that prevent any cabinet resonance so that
Speaker 12: the cabinet doesn't resonate and make weird sounds. Then it
Speaker 12: improves the fidelity greatly. The thing sounds as good as
Speaker 12: it receives. And yeah, it's a paint peeler.
Speaker 1: So I thought that in many cases you wanted some
Speaker 1: resonance from the cabinet, But you're saying without the resonance,
Speaker 1: the sound is even pure.
Speaker 12: You want a consistent resonance, and there are resonant frequencies
Speaker 12: of basically any objects. So the cabinet is going to
Speaker 12: vibrate horrifically at certain frequencies, and that's what this prevents.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, here's something I've always wanted to know. You say,
Speaker 1: it better be coming in five y five. It's a
Speaker 1: fifteen tuber. Why do more tubes improve the sound? Many times?
Speaker 12: And well, you know, it's a good question, and the
Speaker 12: reason is usually kind of a rule of thumb not
Speaker 12: etched in stone. Each tube represents a different stage of
Speaker 12: the radio. So a standard five to twoe radio doesn't
Speaker 12: have an RF amplifier to increase the antenna signal, and
Speaker 12: it only has I stage, which is the only amplification
Speaker 12: the signal ever gets. If it's a seven tube radio,
Speaker 12: that might mean it has an RF and a second
Speaker 12: I stage, so it's taking that signal off the antenna
Speaker 12: and boosting it and then boosting it again. The other
Speaker 12: side of it is that on the audio side, you
Speaker 12: may have one tube that's driving the speaker or in
Speaker 12: this case you have four tubes, a pre amp and
Speaker 12: then a duel what they call a push pull. Most
Speaker 12: radios actually get rid of exactly half of the audio,
Speaker 12: and this actually makes sure all of it goes through.
Speaker 12: And then there's a converter tube to flip the sign
Speaker 12: wave upside down. And yeah, it would take a radio
Speaker 12: guy to explain it.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Well what no hold on, that's why you're here.
Speaker 1: You're the radio guy to explain it. Your name is
Speaker 1: Old Radio Rick.
Speaker 12: For God's sake, for those of you MST three k fans,
Speaker 12: that was a doctor Forrester throwback of where well you see,
Speaker 12: well it would take a scientist to explain.
Speaker 7: Oh even talk to aren't you?
Speaker 1: That's great? Any other things to say about this fine
Speaker 1: specimen that you are listening on?
Speaker 12: Okay, so with all those wonderful details, do you think
Speaker 12: that's what Philco would focus on in the catalog?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 12: Of course not so. I go to a Saturday Evening
Speaker 12: Post ad a full page where it says the incline
Speaker 12: control panel FILCO is the only type of radio featuring
Speaker 12: the no squat, no stoop, no squint tuning process. It
Speaker 12: shows a cartoon of a man in a tucks and
Speaker 12: tails and us presumably his wife in an evening gown,
Speaker 12: and he says, honey, remember how I looked tuning the
Speaker 12: old radio, And she says, thanks to Philco, I'm beginning
Speaker 12: to forget.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 12: It takes the third paragraph to get to the fact that, oh, yeah,
Speaker 12: by the way, it's got the Just as the one
Speaker 12: sixteen double X sets new standards and convenience, it establishes
Speaker 12: new heights and fidelity for the reproduction of voices musical instruments,
Speaker 12: either singly or combined in great orchestra. A complete mastery
Speaker 12: of the short wave channels is yours too, with the
Speaker 12: Filko won sixteen double X, and no mention of the
Speaker 12: extra amplifiers or the really cool built in antenna or nothing.
Speaker 12: But then they get the payment plan. Yeah, this two
Speaker 12: hundred dollars radio in nineteen thirty eight. It is forty
Speaker 12: five hundred dollars today, and back then it would be
Speaker 12: a mere payment of one dollar or about twenty three
Speaker 12: bucks today a week for apparently four years.
Speaker 1: Jeez, going to put a radio on layaway.
Speaker 12: Yeah, by the time you get out the worst art whoops, Yeah.
Speaker 1: No doubt, no doubt. So the nineteen thirty eight double lexer.
Speaker 7: Is that right?
Speaker 12: Yes, yes, good things. Not a triplex because that would
Speaker 12: open up all other can of worms.
Speaker 1: Speaking of cans of worms, it's Spam's birthday today.
Speaker 12: Spat Spam Sunstones.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, Monty Python fan Old Old Radio
Speaker 1: Rick at gmail dot com. If you'd like to find
Speaker 1: out more.
Speaker 16: At six twenty two, seven hundred WLW Sports, Sean McMann
Speaker 16: in this morning, tell me the tale of what's going
Speaker 16: on this weekend.
Speaker 1: Say particularly the Reds, Yes, Sir Gary Jeff Well.
Speaker 2: The Reds one yesterday nine to six in Philadelphia to
Speaker 2: start the weekend. Game two of the three game series
Speaker 2: continues today four or five. First pitch coverage begins at
Speaker 2: three oh five here on the Big One. Nicolodolo to
Speaker 2: the mound for the Red Legs. All right, Yesterday, July fourth,
Speaker 2: and as always a big day at sports across the
Speaker 2: United States. It's particularly because of the Nathan's Hot Dog
Speaker 2: eating contest. No surprise to anybody. Joey Chestnut naps another title,
Speaker 2: making it his seventeenth.
Speaker 1: Now here's the question, is this really a sporting event?
Speaker 1: Is this an exhibition? I consider it more. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it takes some skill, yes, obviously. You know, it's funny
Speaker 1: because it's kind of on that gray line. It's like,
Speaker 1: could it be considered a sport? Could it not be?
Speaker 2: You know, I considered a sport just for fun, you know,
Speaker 2: eat your heart out, Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. Seventeen titles pretty tough to beat.
Speaker 1: Well, I think bowling's of sports. So I guess we'll
Speaker 1: let the hunting. That's fair, you know on that too,
Speaker 1: And I don't know, really, not a hole lot else
Speaker 1: going on. Of course, Wimbledon continues this weekend part of
Speaker 1: the Fortnite Day six of Wimbledon today. Tournament goes until
Speaker 1: next Sunday, the thirteenth. All right, any winners or losers
Speaker 1: of note, not that I've seen. Next time around, Okay,
Speaker 1: six twenty six the gang from Ripley, and there is
Speaker 1: big news in Ripley. If you've been paying attention to
Speaker 1: the rest of the local media. The rest of the
Speaker 1: local media finally got in on what I've been talking
Speaker 1: about for the last seven years. And we'll discuss further
Speaker 1: in a moment afternoons.
Speaker 17: I'm toasted, you sid honey. We may meet through dude,
Speaker 17: would you never care me compare Whiskey down planted there.
Speaker 1: And east down Highway fifty two right there along the river,
Speaker 1: gorgeous summer day and yeah, how now Brown County, which
Speaker 1: has become the center of the media universe in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: over the last week or so, It's held a deep,
Speaker 1: abiding place in my heart for years. When I first
Speaker 1: met Doug and then Angie Bohnson and met the rest
Speaker 1: of the wonderful mosaic of human characters in Ripley, Ohio,
Speaker 1: first at Snappers Saloon and then at Brookies on Main Street,
Speaker 1: my life completely changed. And I've been talking to them
Speaker 1: on the radio on this show for good seven years
Speaker 1: now every Saturday morning. But all of a sudden, because
Speaker 1: of the notoriety I helped bring to this little hamlet
Speaker 1: on the Ohio River in Brown County, now Buddy wants
Speaker 1: a piece of the action. Channel five, Channel twelve, probably
Speaker 1: nineteen too, not who knows.
Speaker 18: Nine.
Speaker 1: They're all talking about Brookies and the Queen of Hearts.
Speaker 15: Good morning, gang, Good morning from a gang of one.
Speaker 1: Oh no kidding, Well, Darren needs arrest Darren needs arrests.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And there she's on an unexcused
Speaker 15: absence here this morning.
Speaker 1: Well, make sure that she knows that there will be
Speaker 1: consequences for her for her truancy.
Speaker 15: You had quite the build up for everything here and
Speaker 15: then you know, you just get one person.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well you're you're where it all started. You're
Speaker 1: where it all started.
Speaker 10: This is perfect, Doug, We're back yeah with hey.
Speaker 15: Yeah, that pot this week is probably for the Queen
Speaker 15: of Hearts is probably going to be well over one
Speaker 15: point five million now just now.
Speaker 1: When it was whatever, a couple hundred thousand dollars, we
Speaker 1: were still talking about it. When it was five hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, we were here touting it and helped build
Speaker 1: it up, and all of a sudden it got over
Speaker 1: a million, and the TV stations took notice. You know
Speaker 1: what you want to talk about? Our about a bunch
Speaker 1: of Johnny cum Lately's. I've known about Ripley and Brookies
Speaker 1: and all of the wonderful things that happened there for years.
Speaker 19: Have I not?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 18: Have been?
Speaker 7: Have I been?
Speaker 1: Have I been your number one cheerleader all this time?
Speaker 7: And all of that?
Speaker 15: You know our listeners, yeah, and our listeners out there
Speaker 15: that you know do all their interviews on the TV.
Speaker 15: They need to tell those TV channels.
Speaker 12: That they heard it here first.
Speaker 1: Jerry Jeff Walker w well W Saturday Mornings. That's where
Speaker 1: I found out about it. So yeah, the drawing this
Speaker 1: Wednesday night at seven thirty will be in excess. We're
Speaker 1: guessing of one point five million dollars, right.
Speaker 15: And Cherry even has a Shrey even has should have
Speaker 15: had a good report. But Wednesday's looking really good and
Speaker 15: according to the weather too.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that would be good.
Speaker 15: And tell us tell us all about tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow will be the last farewell tour performance of me, Gary,
Speaker 1: Jeff Walker and Chris going's until probably the fall. At
Speaker 1: least two to four in the afternoon. We'll be there
Speaker 1: playing some music while people are buying their tickets for
Speaker 1: the Queen of Hearts at Brookies on Main Street and Ripley.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows where it is now, so there's no excuse
Speaker 1: but looking forward to Yeah, what else does yep?
Speaker 15: But if you sneak down buy your tickets today, I
Speaker 15: think my pool be open. There'll be some chicken wings
Speaker 15: on a girl ooh nice.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, Douglas, you hold down the fort
Speaker 1: there since you're the only one this morning. But tell everybody.
Speaker 1: I said, ha, And Dan Carroll said. Dan Carroll said,
Speaker 1: with somebody possibly winning a million dollars in the Queen
Speaker 1: of Hearts, Someone's about to become a millionaire thanks to Brookies.
Speaker 1: Does that really qualify as friends in low places? And
Speaker 1: I say yeah, because the green hornet if she want
Speaker 1: ain't changing, Doug ain't changing. None of those people at
Speaker 1: Brookies are changing a thing. And you might actually be
Speaker 1: able to get a chicken wing or two off of them. Sure,
Speaker 1: all right, man, have a great weekend, bro you two
Speaker 1: all right, Steve from Etna waiting in the wings, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk to him in just a few tendon s
Speaker 1: Day weekend, celebrating and enjoying some time with you again
Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning. And always enjoy this fella. A
Speaker 1: mix of history and current events and incredible insightful commentary
Speaker 1: every single time from our friend Steve from Edna with
Speaker 1: news of the week in a pithyphone call. Good morning, my.
Speaker 20: Friend, Good morning Gary. Jeff June was a Civics lesson
Speaker 20: for all of us. Most of the attention has been
Speaker 20: on the so called big Beautiful Bill, But I really
Speaker 20: wonder if almost all the controversy ignores the national debt,
Speaker 20: which is probably thirty seven trillion. Yes, there is a
Speaker 20: debate over how much it will grow. What would the
Speaker 20: attempt to entitle illegals on the one hand, how the
Speaker 20: effective tax cuts on the other. When Ronald Reagan and
Speaker 20: Democrat Arthur Lapper, the USC economist, postulated that reducing tax
Speaker 20: rates actually increases tax revenues, there was some validity to
Speaker 20: that argument, because there is an incentive for folks to
Speaker 20: make more money. But the debt kept rising. I suspect
Speaker 20: the dirty little secret was that the Gipper had to
Speaker 20: win over some Democrats and did so by throwing some
Speaker 20: port their way, and we increased the defense budget dramatically
Speaker 20: in the eighties.
Speaker 7: This is why the estimate of the increase in.
Speaker 20: Our present national debt is on the back burner except
Speaker 20: in the minds of folks like Rand Pahl, and the
Speaker 20: circus continues. Democrat House Leader Hakim Jeffreys found a marvelous
Speaker 20: way to waste time and therefore money.
Speaker 7: He and fellow big.
Speaker 20: Apple politician Chuck Schumer had Senate clerks read about nine
Speaker 20: hundred and forty pages of the Big Beautiful Bill. It
Speaker 20: took sixteen hours last weekend but who really wants to
Speaker 20: get down and dirty on the weekend before the Fourth
Speaker 20: of July holiday. The amazing aspect of this is that
Speaker 20: some lawmakers might have actually been listening, and short of
Speaker 20: reading the damn bill themselves, learned what was actually in it.
Speaker 20: Maybe they can't read. Earlier in June, former New York
Speaker 20: Congressman Jamal Bowman, trying to light a fire under his
Speaker 20: waning political career, took to the far less stage and
Speaker 20: likened our tax on Iran's nuclear facilities to the atomic
Speaker 20: bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended I stress
Speaker 20: ended World War Two. The irony of that comparison escape Bowman,
Speaker 20: since the intent presently was to destroy Iron's ability to
Speaker 20: end the world better. Yet, Bowman, the firebug who pulled
Speaker 20: that alarm at the Capitol to fort an upcoming vote,
Speaker 20: said two hundred and fifty million Japanese died in the
Speaker 20: two blasts. As Bob Bucker would say, just a little outside,
Speaker 20: it was about two hundred thousand, and since the imperialist
Speaker 20: said they would fight till the last Japanese citizen dropped dead,
Speaker 20: we probably did them a hell of a favor. Those
Speaker 20: two Japanese cities are doing just fine. News photos are
Speaker 20: a lot more impressive than what we see presently in
Speaker 20: say O, Chicago and Detroit.
Speaker 7: By the way, I'm got not suggesting anything.
Speaker 21: And then.
Speaker 20: There's the New York City mayor's race featuring independent Eric
Speaker 20: Adams who's trying to keep the lid on crime and
Speaker 20: thirty three year old radical Muslim Zoram Mamdani, who thinks
Speaker 20: quote billionaires should not exist. Well, hell, the Democrat Party
Speaker 20: wouldn't exist. Once again, irony rears its ugly head. He
Speaker 20: wants to raise property taxes on folks end quote the
Speaker 20: outer boroughs, as though New York has just one inner borough, Manhattan.
Speaker 20: But wait a minute, that's the home of Wall Street
Speaker 20: and fancy digs on the East Side and the West Side.
Speaker 20: Why spare them? Zorum AOC loves them, but her congressional district,
Speaker 20: excuse me, partially in Queens. That's an outer borrow. And
Speaker 20: Chuck Schumer lives in Brooklyn, doesn't he? Yeah, you might
Speaker 20: not have thought that one through. To paraphrase Douglas MacArthur
Speaker 20: from last week's show, socialism never dies, It just begins
Speaker 20: to smell really bad. Occasionally, a Supreme Court justice hits
Speaker 20: the nail on the head. This time, the head was
Speaker 20: that of Katanji Brown Jackson, who, along with Sonya Sotomayor,
Speaker 20: made a fool of herself in the birthright citizenship case.
Speaker 20: Dissenting opinion writing for the majority, Amy Coney Barrett said,
Speaker 20: and this is a quote. We will not dwell on
Speaker 20: Justice Jackson's argument, which is at odds with more than
Speaker 20: two centuries worth of precedents, not to mention the United
Speaker 20: States Constitution itself, we observe only this Justice Jackson to
Speaker 20: cries an imperial executive while embracing an imperial judiciary. That
Speaker 20: was a stinging reference to activist district court judges who
Speaker 20: think that their opinions should apply to.
Speaker 7: The whole nation.
Speaker 20: Maybe Justice Jackson can get some of Chuck Schumer's set
Speaker 20: of clerks to read her the Constitution this weekend while
Speaker 20: she's picnicking.
Speaker 7: Who fought?
Speaker 20: Who in the hell thought it was a good idea
Speaker 20: to trot out former disgraced Ohio Attorney General Mark Dan
Speaker 20: to argue that using the unclaimed funds and Columbus to
Speaker 20: fund stadium projects is, his words, unconstitutional. Dan was so
Speaker 20: corrupt that fellow Democrats in twenty oh eight took the
Speaker 20: lead in booting him out of office. When Mark Dan left,
Speaker 20: three agencies, one of them federal, were still investigating he
Speaker 20: and his staff. He had managed to install his mistress
Speaker 20: as his scheduling supervisor, which resulted in a divorce. Who
Speaker 20: Knew a Top eight was charged with sexual harassment, and
Speaker 20: the AG's office became a dumping ground for youngstown crooks.
Speaker 20: It's called vetting. Try it next time, Columbus.
Speaker 7: What's next?
Speaker 20: Joe Biden lectures us on mental health in the workplace.
Speaker 20: Glory be to God. Oh my goodness, caearage. I hope
Speaker 20: we can save ourselves. Bye bye bye bye.
Speaker 1: Oh. Not as optimistic as he sometimes is, but realistic,
Speaker 1: you bet you six fifty three seven underd WLW. It's
Speaker 1: holiday weekend, so they're going to let me work for
Speaker 1: Imagine that, Gary, Jeff double Dippin'. Not only this morning
Speaker 1: until nine o'clock, but tonight from nine pm to midnight.
Speaker 1: I'll be here with a special holiday weekend night cap.
Speaker 1: And it is very special, not just because I put
Speaker 1: it together for you, but the people on it are
Speaker 1: very special. Included in tonight's guest list a guy named
Speaker 1: Jerry Dale. If you're not familiar with the name. He
Speaker 1: was a very, very big in the music business in
Speaker 1: the nineteen nineties, especially working with artists like Will Smith
Speaker 1: and Snoop Dogg. Was, you know, full on into the
Speaker 1: fame and fortune of being in the music industry. Then
Speaker 1: got into porn and now has discovered Jesus Christ and
Speaker 1: he has a book out called Music, Porn and Jesus.
Speaker 1: We will talk about that during the show tonight. Also
Speaker 1: the gang from VCAST. What is VCAST Veteran Companion Animal Services.
Speaker 1: They are based originally in Columbus, but they just announced
Speaker 1: the opening of a Cincinnati chapter and they match up
Speaker 1: veterans with companion animals from shelters and it is just
Speaker 1: a wonderful symbiotic kind of thing where the veterans are
Speaker 1: being helped by these animals and the animals are being
Speaker 1: helped by the veterans, and they're providing all kinds of services.
Speaker 1: Find out about that. John Lott, my favorite Second Amendment
Speaker 1: guy from the Crime Research Prevention could use some of
Speaker 1: that in Cincinnati from what I understand. John Gordon on
Speaker 1: patriotism and people's pride in America and how with some
Speaker 1: it has waned and why and Mighty John Marshall from
Speaker 1: moneymusic dot Com will wrap things up there on July
Speaker 1: Top ten list of valuable Vinyl, informative and fun. Tonight
Speaker 1: Steve Shilte right around the corner this morning on seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW in to another hour of this Saturday Morning
Speaker 1: edition for Saturday, July fifth, twenty twenty five. Gara, Jeff
Speaker 1: and you together again the way God intended it to
Speaker 1: be on a Saturday morning. Then President Trump get any
Speaker 1: credit at all for the lower gas prices, he will hear,
Speaker 1: maybe not other places in the media, but he will hear,
Speaker 1: Thank you, President Trump. Drill baby, drill. And while we're
Speaker 1: at let's talk a little more eco stuff with our
Speaker 1: retired environmental engineer himself, the one, the only, Steve Schulty,
Speaker 1: my friend. How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 7: Gary, Jeff?
Speaker 10: That is always better than I deserve on this great post.
Speaker 10: What's the July day?
Speaker 7: You know what?
Speaker 1: People should celebrate American Independence every day, don't you think?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Yeah, So this morning I got the a couple things.
Speaker 11: H One, this is from my newsletter I Get Access
Speaker 11: to Energy, although it's from the March twenty five edition.
Speaker 11: So if you want to look up access to energy
Speaker 11: accessedenergy dot com on the Internet.
Speaker 1: So this is this is well, let me say this,
Speaker 1: say March twenty twenty five, so this is essentially old news,
Speaker 1: but it's news that no one else has covered to
Speaker 1: this point. So it's news, right.
Speaker 15: Yeah, out, but plus you know they're a little bit behind.
Speaker 10: I just got it this past week.
Speaker 1: No, no, I understand. But what I'm saying is nobody
Speaker 1: else will do Nobody else is really talking about this, right, But.
Speaker 10: We have the article.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so the article and you and I talked about,
Speaker 11: we talked about have talks about the benefits of CO
Speaker 11: two that provides for the increased growth of plants. Yeah,
Speaker 11: and without CO two in the atmosphere, plants.
Speaker 10: Will die and life as we know it will end?
Speaker 12: Is you and I will die?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 5: And as well?
Speaker 10: Was there ever a problem with tree shortage? And the
Speaker 10: answer they say is no.
Speaker 11: In fact, in the US, total timber standing increases by
Speaker 11: about six hundred pounds per US citizen per year, And
Speaker 11: they show a grat from the US four Service that.
Speaker 15: In terms of billions of cubic feet.
Speaker 11: Of hardwoods and soft woods between nineteen fifty and the
Speaker 11: year two thousand the US forest increased by forty percent,
Speaker 11: not four percent, forty percent. So I thought, well, what
Speaker 11: else is out there? So I've got on the internet
Speaker 11: looked the US Forest Service. I found some kind of interesting.
Speaker 11: He says, since the year nineteen hundred, forest area in
Speaker 11: the US has remained statistically within seven hundred and forty
Speaker 11: five million acres plus or minus five percent, with the
Speaker 11: lowest point in nineteen twenty with about seven hundred.
Speaker 10: And thirty five million acres.
Speaker 11: Then in nineteen and year two thousand they estimate was
Speaker 11: up again to seven hundred and forty nine million acres
Speaker 11: plus or minus five percent.
Speaker 1: So we're not losing our forest.
Speaker 10: We're not losing We're not not losing on our forest.
Speaker 10: They're growing.
Speaker 11: And so even I even stole something from the good
Speaker 11: old UN okay, which you'll usually give us bad news
Speaker 11: about the Earth, but the UN Food and the Culture
Speaker 11: Organization estimates our US force are growing at a rate
Speaker 11: of zero point zero three percent each year.
Speaker 10: Not great grid, but it is positive growth.
Speaker 11: So my my take from all this and what else
Speaker 11: I read is if we want a greener US and
Speaker 11: a greener Earth, thank carbon dioxide CO two.
Speaker 1: The miracle molecule baby. And also you were you were
Speaker 1: mentioning or you had mentioned that that data centers and
Speaker 1: with AI, there are more and more of these data
Speaker 1: centers and they are they are choosing gas power plants
Speaker 1: more often because they're most efficient and provide the energy
Speaker 1: that they need that is sustainable. There's that word again,
Speaker 1: so data centers. And again here on the advent of AI,
Speaker 1: there's going to be so much energy required to power
Speaker 1: these places, but they all go ahead.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 11: This comes from building design and construction of June twenty
Speaker 11: third headline guests. Power plants are being built exclusively for
Speaker 11: data centers. This basically is about Texas, Texas and data
Speaker 11: center in Texas building its own power plant.
Speaker 15: It's big enough the power a major city at one thousand, two.
Speaker 11: Hundred megawatts, fueled by West Texas shale oil oil. Uh
Speaker 11: so if you supply itself as possibly some other data centers.
Speaker 10: And what the thing is, what's driving the.
Speaker 11: Environmental wactos on the climate alarmist nuts is that the
Speaker 11: widespread assumption was this power generation for new data centers
Speaker 11: would be facilitied by so called renewable energy wind, solar,
Speaker 11: and power. But if my edition to that is the
Speaker 11: reason data centers are not looking at wind solar or
Speaker 11: battery power is that it's number one costly and number
Speaker 11: two and most importantly the unreliability of wind solar and
Speaker 11: battery power that still needs to have backup power to
Speaker 11: have the reliability.
Speaker 10: And one thing these data centers use needs very much,
Speaker 10: Gary Jeff is number one reliability.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. And that's the thing you can't afford, and
Speaker 1: they cannot afford to have a power outage. And and
Speaker 1: gas power plants are are more reliable and ready to
Speaker 1: answer the call than any other form of energy that
Speaker 1: we have right now. Steve SCHULTI thank you as always,
Speaker 1: my friend, have a wonderful rest of your Independence Day weekend.
Speaker 1: Here he is seven hundred w l W in seventy
Speaker 1: I used to do killer Casey casem Gary Jeff Caseam
Speaker 1: back in the day. Anyway, Yeah, I put that away
Speaker 1: in a well. You know, here's the thing. When he died,
Speaker 1: it just wasn't as much fun anymore. I tell you,
Speaker 1: what's always fun for me is to talk to this
Speaker 1: guy because he knows about things I have absolutely zero
Speaker 1: knowledge of, completely, especially when it comes to the latest
Speaker 1: tech news and things to watch out for our it
Speaker 1: guy Doomsday. Dave Hatter with the aluminum foil hat on
Speaker 1: his head and Tech Talk on a Saturday morning. Good morning,
Speaker 1: mister Hatter, how are we?
Speaker 5: I'm good, Gary, Jeff, how are you good?
Speaker 1: Enjoying the holiday weekend, sir?
Speaker 5: I am, but I was enjoying your led Zeppelin bump there.
Speaker 5: All of My Love is a classic album, is a masterpiece,
Speaker 5: I agree, underrated by people.
Speaker 12: I love it.
Speaker 7: It's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: Well, fantastic. I'm glad that you enjoyed the bumper music.
Speaker 1: For some people, it's just like I don't know, sitting
Speaker 1: in a dentist office or in an elevators somewhere. But
Speaker 1: so what are we? What are we focusing on this
Speaker 1: morning in the cyber world and in the world that
Speaker 1: you dwell in as as a as a code writer
Speaker 1: and as a computer expert at Intrust Media. What's going on?
Speaker 5: Well, one thing I would tell people if you use
Speaker 5: Google Chrome, which I would recommend that you stop and
Speaker 5: get a privacy.
Speaker 7: Friendly browser like Brave or Safari or something.
Speaker 5: But if you use Chrome, there's some recent updates for
Speaker 5: some critical updates, so you should update Chrome a lot
Speaker 5: of people will ask me, well, how do I do that?
Speaker 5: You know, if you open your browser in the upper
Speaker 5: right hand corner, there's a little three dot menu there.
Speaker 5: If you go to help or if you pull that
Speaker 5: down and you go to like about Chrome.
Speaker 10: From there, you'll have.
Speaker 5: An option to update it. It should automatically update at
Speaker 5: some point, but it's a pretty serious bug, so you
Speaker 5: should update Chrome. So that would be one thing. But again,
Speaker 5: Gary Jeff, I would tell you that you better off
Speaker 5: if you don't use things from our friends to Google
Speaker 5: and you focus on privacy friendly solutions like again Brave
Speaker 5: or Tour or Firefox or Safari or something like that.
Speaker 5: So update, update your browser. That's always a good thing
Speaker 5: to do. And you know, keeping yourself or updated is
Speaker 5: pretty critical. And then you know, the AI topic continues
Speaker 5: to sort of dominate. Everywhere you look. People are talking
Speaker 5: about AI. And it's really interesting to me, Gary Jeff,
Speaker 5: because you've got such a wide range of opinions on this.
Speaker 5: You know, there's all this talk about how it's going
Speaker 5: to take all these jobs and so forth, and I'm
Speaker 5: not saying to you that will never happen, But what
Speaker 5: I am saying is having you know, used it very
Speaker 5: extensively myself, and it has its place. There's a lot
Speaker 5: of practical applications and things like rock or chat GPT,
Speaker 5: and then you've got this whole field of augentic AI,
Speaker 5: which is the idea that rather than you having to
Speaker 5: sit down and directly interact with it to get it
Speaker 5: to do anything, you can just sort of ask it
Speaker 5: to do something and it will just do it in
Speaker 5: the background on its own, you know. But then there's
Speaker 5: there's all kinds of people on the other side of
Speaker 5: this pointing out that these things have all kinds of problems.
Speaker 5: For example, there was a recent study done by Anthropic.
Speaker 5: They're one of the big big players in the game.
Speaker 5: They make Claude and it's it's really interesting when you
Speaker 5: read this headline which says that their AI will basically lie,
Speaker 5: cheat and steal to reach certain goals. And apparently during
Speaker 5: part of this testing, it tried to blackmail one of
Speaker 5: the engineers because it added access to their information and
Speaker 5: discover that apparently he was having an affair.
Speaker 7: So it's you know, when you have this whole situation
Speaker 7: of hallucination.
Speaker 5: Right, that's one of the big problems with AI in general.
Speaker 5: It just makes stuff up, and now you find that
Speaker 5: it will make stuff up because it doesn't want you
Speaker 5: to do something or whatever. It will sort of confidently
Speaker 5: tell you that's something is false. You know, How can
Speaker 5: you trust your business to that?
Speaker 7: And that's one of the things.
Speaker 5: Again, there's so much hype about how this is going
Speaker 5: to revolutionize everything and everyone's going to lose their job.
Speaker 5: And my opinion increasingly is yes, that may happen at
Speaker 5: some future point, but this stuff, there's a lot of hype,
Speaker 5: and there's still an enormous amount of problems with us,
Speaker 5: and I don't think we're all going to lose our
Speaker 5: jobs or be wiped out anytime.
Speaker 7: See.
Speaker 1: Well, that is reassuring.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 1: Usually I come away from these conversations and I'm just
Speaker 1: frightened as hell, And this morning I'm slightly encouraged.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Dave, always my pleasure here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, take care, Dave Hatter with us this morning,
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW. Time for the Tom Davis Diaries. I
Speaker 1: like to refer to these as the you know, the drill, wild, wacky,
Speaker 1: weird stories from around the country and around the world
Speaker 1: with our correspondent Tom Davis.
Speaker 22: Good morning, Gary, Jay, It's good to be back. This week,
Speaker 22: we're all just one big foot away from true love.
Speaker 22: But first, a New York family is in the legal
Speaker 22: battle of their lives, trying to hang on to their
Speaker 22: emotional support. Pig Lucy is fifteen years old and may
Speaker 22: be taken away under a law in the Empire State
Speaker 22: banning pet pigs. Over eleven thousand people assigned a petition
Speaker 22: saying that Lucy the pig should stay with the family.
Speaker 22: A new drink at Buffalo Wild Wings is trending. The
Speaker 22: Mountain Dew Riddler is half mountain dew and half beer.
Speaker 22: It's similar to a Bavarian brew that mixes beer and lemonade.
Speaker 22: It all sounds disgusting, but at four bucks, it's worth
Speaker 22: a shot. Get it shot, Yeah, drinks, got it bar beer. Meanwhile,
Speaker 22: Michael O'Neill just pleaded not guilty to a charge of
Speaker 22: possession in a Florida court. This after a nurse pulled
Speaker 22: out drug paraphernalia from between his butt cheeks. Michael says
Speaker 22: he's an innocent man, but this is not the first
Speaker 22: time he's been cut with a full storage compartment. And finally,
Speaker 22: when you look back on your wedding day, do you
Speaker 22: see giant footprints. Christy Chafin and Ron Hughes recently tied
Speaker 22: the knot at the twenty twenty five West Virginia Bigfoot Festival.
Speaker 1: They actually met at a prior Bigfoot get together and.
Speaker 22: Got engaged while celebrating everyone's favorite elusive Harry Beast. At
Speaker 22: another occasion, the man who married them was dressed as
Speaker 22: a sasquatch, with the added bonus of wearing a Hawaiian shirt.
Speaker 22: Very touching. We wish them the best in life, love
Speaker 22: and hunting giant woodland beasts. Next week, New York City
Speaker 22: woman making a good living taking tourists on rat tours
Speaker 22: have a great Fourth of July.
Speaker 1: It's called the Giants. Clam Boy, you just went into
Speaker 1: another hour of the Saturday morning edition for this Saturday,
Speaker 1: July the fifth, twenty twenty five. Happy Birthday, America, And
Speaker 1: if it's your birthday, well, happy birthday you. Isn't that
Speaker 1: cool to be born on the fifth of July? A
Speaker 1: Yankee doodle almost dandy, as we like to say. It's
Speaker 1: a time at eight o seven for a science minute
Speaker 1: and science Mike. Who's a dandy anytime of the year. Yes,
Speaker 1: as a night of scientist get surprising all blinding me
Speaker 1: with Hello, Dandy, Mike, Gary Jeffer, you got double duty today? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta gotta show tonight from nine to midnight.
Speaker 19: Let's talk about Uh, let's talk about Brookies, okay, and
Speaker 19: are you getting a ticket?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I'm gonna be down there tomorrow, uh playing
Speaker 1: music with Chris Gohens from two to four in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: and I will purchase my ticket. Then, Uh, you can
Speaker 1: buy a ticket anytime leading up to it, as long
Speaker 1: as they're selling tickets and that I understand that they
Speaker 1: are again today and they will be tomorrow and right
Speaker 1: up until the drawing on Wednesday night. Well, I think
Speaker 1: it's the cutoff is like ten after seven on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: They're drawing about seven thirty.
Speaker 19: So they let's talk about the probability of how this
Speaker 19: whole thing evolved, right, so that it was a fifty
Speaker 19: four card deck, right, So yeah, yep, So let's.
Speaker 7: Just talk off the very beginning.
Speaker 19: I assume they you can tell me, actually give me
Speaker 19: the better guess of numbers the ticket sales, but when
Speaker 19: it first started.
Speaker 15: So I assume they sold let's say they sold five.
Speaker 19: Hundred tickets, Okay, And so you look at the probability
Speaker 19: of first, first you have to get your ticket drawn picked,
Speaker 19: and then you have to go ahead and pick the
Speaker 19: Queen of Hearts out of the fifty four decks. So
Speaker 19: that's one out of five hundred times one out of
Speaker 19: fifty four. And they're mutually what they call mutually exclusive events.
Speaker 19: So having those two multiplied together, they're starting.
Speaker 7: Off the.
Speaker 21: Chance.
Speaker 19: It's three point seven times ten to the minus fifth.
Speaker 19: That's the probability of picking out the Queen of Herts
Speaker 19: when the game first started, which is really amazingly low.
Speaker 19: So now, how many tickets do you think they have
Speaker 19: they'll sell for the Wednesday?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, no idea mine.
Speaker 19: It's just yeah, So I just ran two numbers, so
Speaker 19: you say they sell ten thousand tickets, and now you're
Speaker 19: only picking one out of four cards, right, so there's
Speaker 19: only four cards left, So that's two times ten to
Speaker 19: the minus fifth. That's the chance of the probability of
Speaker 19: you getting the getting up to the being able to
Speaker 19: be allowed to pick the right card. And then if
Speaker 19: they sold five hundred thousand tickets, which I don't know
Speaker 19: how they would do that, but it'd be five times
Speaker 19: ten to the minus seventh.
Speaker 7: So this whole thing when it starts.
Speaker 19: I mean, you ever realize how low the probability is
Speaker 19: of even just winning it right off? I mean, it's
Speaker 19: just it's just amazing. There are more things that that
Speaker 19: draw out to get this this hijackpot. And I heard
Speaker 19: you the beginning of talking about all the shows, the
Speaker 19: TV shows and everything like that and that that are
Speaker 19: now Brookies and is like their number one draw for ratings.
Speaker 7: Yea, even even even the station we're talking on.
Speaker 19: It's like the doesn't they don't mention anything about how
Speaker 19: you were, like you know, always in their no you.
Speaker 1: Know, look, luck of the draw. This place has kind
Speaker 1: of fell into my lap thanks to Doug Bnson and
Speaker 1: then the people that I met out there, and from
Speaker 1: Lisa to Jerry Jones to the Green Hornet, to Darren
Speaker 1: brook Bank, the owner of Brookies Buzz and all these people,
Speaker 1: these characters that appear on the radio in my little
Speaker 1: radio Mayberry World here of Saturday morning and then you know,
Speaker 1: the Queen of Hearts started and we went through one
Speaker 1: drawing with them, you know, and they'd promote it when
Speaker 1: they were on on Saturday morning and they'd got to
Speaker 1: about two hundred and fifty thousand before it got hit,
Speaker 1: and then this one started. And it's been almost a
Speaker 1: year that I've been talking with them about the Queen
Speaker 1: of Hearts, and now all of a sudden, the media
Speaker 1: focus of Cincinnati is on Ripley, Ohio and Brookies and
Speaker 1: the Queen of Hearts. And what an amazing thing that's
Speaker 1: turned into. Well, I know where it started. I know
Speaker 1: what originally drove those people there, and a big part
Speaker 1: of it was them being on the radio with me
Speaker 1: every Saturday morning. So I'm gonna take a little bit
Speaker 1: of cred, you know what I mean?
Speaker 7: Absolutely, yes, sir, I would too.
Speaker 1: Uh So anyway, uh but anyway, it's it's gonna be
Speaker 1: it's gonna be huge, and they're gonna draw till they
Speaker 1: get a winter. On Wednesday, they're.
Speaker 19: Done, right, I imagine Thursday, there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 19: of people staying and sleeping late.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't, I would imagine. So, And if you're not
Speaker 1: there and you've got a ticket in it's your name
Speaker 1: and you have the Queen of Hearts, it's half so
Speaker 1: I mean half of one point one point five million
Speaker 1: after taxes ain't too shabby either.
Speaker 7: Good luck A Jeff, you too.
Speaker 1: See you science Mike on a Saturday morning, thirteen minutes
Speaker 1: after the out time, and let's go to Brother Rick
Speaker 1: Green for the word of God on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: Brother Rick, good morning, God bless you, and I hope
Speaker 1: you're enjoying that you join the holiday weekend.
Speaker 16: Brother.
Speaker 21: Most definitely.
Speaker 1: I'm out back.
Speaker 21: I'm planning some flowers in the backyard, and I woke
Speaker 21: up praying for you and your listeners.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 7: And today we have.
Speaker 21: Psalms thirty for one verse eight it says, taste to
Speaker 21: see the Lord is good blester, the one who takes
Speaker 21: rescue in him. Amen.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 21: I love that, Harry, because I don't know where else
Speaker 21: I would go if it wasn't for God.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 1: Psalms is so beautiful too, the whole book is beautiful.
Speaker 21: I truly have no other answer. I'm just thankful for
Speaker 21: His great and mercy and allowing us to seek him.
Speaker 1: Amen. That's right. It is a privilege to be able
Speaker 1: to to be able to seek God out and to
Speaker 1: enjoy his grace and his mercy and all of the.
Speaker 21: World which we would all take advantage of.
Speaker 7: That Gary, I truly do.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's real easy to do. It really is.
Speaker 1: We make we make it harder than it should be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because we put we put all kinds of things in
Speaker 1: front of God. When when when nothing, nothing happens without Him?
Speaker 1: And so why would would we give him the glory
Speaker 1: for everything in our lives to begin with? Because that's
Speaker 1: the only reason that we have anything good?
Speaker 21: You know there is any All these shiny distractions twenty
Speaker 21: four to seven all around us, and they catch our attention. Yeah,
Speaker 21: all these shine and that's what they are, their distraction.
Speaker 1: We're like toddlers.
Speaker 21: Yeah, they de gd to keep you from the truth.
Speaker 21: I hope you will wake up. We'll truck Stefan over there.
Speaker 7: It took me a while. It wasn't overnight.
Speaker 1: No, it's an ongoing process, believe me. Brother, Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for being a part of this show and
Speaker 1: being a part of my life. And thank you for
Speaker 1: spreading the word of God with us on Saturday morning
Speaker 1: on these fifty thousand watts. Brother God, bless you well, welcome.
Speaker 1: I have a blessed per all right, take care that
Speaker 1: Teresa is on the line, that Teresa, how are you doing,
Speaker 1: my dear.
Speaker 14: I am finer than two thousand, great ultra fine stand
Speaker 14: paper today, My good man, how the heck are you?
Speaker 7: Gary Jeff?
Speaker 1: It sounds almost painful. What's going on?
Speaker 7: No, it's fine stand paper, honey, as low as you any.
Speaker 7: But he doesn't matter.
Speaker 14: Hello Chris, the two point of Hello, Frankie the fabulous Feline.
Speaker 7: I said it right this week. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 14: You know in South Carolina. I'm going to steal a
Speaker 14: line from How to Marry a Millionaire in nineteen.
Speaker 7: Fifty three with Lauren Bacall shots.
Speaker 14: He said, here's how care they don't She's gonna marry
Speaker 14: a millionaire? She says about William Powell, the man that
Speaker 14: she's after.
Speaker 3: He's so rich.
Speaker 14: He refers to his money. Here in South Carolina, we're
Speaker 14: so hot. We refer to the weather. We don't talk
Speaker 14: about the weather. We refer to the weather. Sir, I digress.
Speaker 14: Did you know that your shoe is the spiritual island
Speaker 14: of misspit Toys. You are the lion with the wings
Speaker 14: in the crown, and Miss Lynette is the doll, Mo
Speaker 14: is the train with the square wheels. Jim Let Barbara
Speaker 14: is the Charlie in a box Science, Mike's the airplane,
Speaker 14: and Dick from Dayton is the elephant and the rest
Speaker 14: are upper grabs.
Speaker 7: I need a cigarette after last week's show, How about you?
Speaker 14: And I haven't smoked since February twenty eight. Today's word
Speaker 14: is pandemonium.
Speaker 7: What am I creating?
Speaker 4: Pandemonium?
Speaker 14: It's a state of uproar wild up or chao for confusion,
Speaker 14: loud noises.
Speaker 1: That's me, God, bless you, I love you, I love you.
Speaker 1: I wonder which misfit toy she is or did she
Speaker 1: tell me it's so hard to follow? Uh, We'll take
Speaker 1: a break and come right back.
Speaker 23: Is another hot one across the Tri State as that
Speaker 23: he continues to build in the low nineties today, but
Speaker 23: it feels like temperatsu are close to one hundred. Mostly
Speaker 23: hot and dry, however, will have isolated storm chances late
Speaker 23: in the day on Sunday. From your Severe Weather station.
Speaker 23: I'm nine first one of meteorologists KJJ listening to radio
Speaker 23: seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 1: Seven hundred WLW Sport. Sean McMahon is in today. Well
Speaker 1: we got shohnny Hi.
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well we Red's won yesterday nine to six in their
Speaker 2: first game against the Phillies on Independence Day, marking their
Speaker 2: fourth straight win on that American Holiday, Andrew Rabbid three
Speaker 2: point one innings, pitch, nine hits, four runs allowed to
Speaker 2: off the bat of former Red Nick Costianos. Today four
Speaker 2: oh five, first pitch three oh five begins our coverage
Speaker 2: here on the Big One seven hundred WLW, Nick Lodolo
Speaker 2: on the Mount, and Joey Chestnut nabbing his seventeenth title
Speaker 2: at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest.
Speaker 1: He ate seventy point five yesterday. It's a lot of dogs,
Speaker 1: a lot that's a.
Speaker 10: Lot of dolls.
Speaker 1: Huey Lewis's birthday today. You may have heard on Rock
Speaker 1: and Roll Archaeology that earlier with Jim's from but he's
Speaker 1: one of my faves. It's someding dessl by working with him.
Speaker 10: A damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to get who is next week? No, damn well,
Speaker 1: i won't wl W world's lowest wages. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: bore my wife because she's heard the story numerous times
Speaker 1: and you may have heard me tell it before. But
Speaker 1: one of the reasons Huey Lewis and then is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite artists is because he's such a down
Speaker 1: to Earth Guy, and it's sad that, as Jim was
Speaker 1: mentioning earlier this morning, hearing problems, an inner ear problem
Speaker 1: has rendered him basically moote mute, rather mute voiceless. The
Speaker 1: last couple of years, he can't sing, and that's a
Speaker 1: shame because he had such great, great voice, great rock
Speaker 1: and roll voice. But back in the day when they
Speaker 1: were at the height of their popularity, almost forty years ago.
Speaker 1: I'm flashing back to nineteen eighty six when i was
Speaker 1: working in Nashville, Tennessee, and I'm doing afternoons, and I'm
Speaker 1: backstage at the Huey Lewis and the News before the
Speaker 1: Huey Lewis in the News concert, and I was going
Speaker 1: to meet I'm doing my show a remote from backstage,
Speaker 1: doing afternoons. It's about four thirty in the afternoon, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to meet winners that had won backstage passes
Speaker 1: for meet and greet with the band and tickets to
Speaker 1: the show that night. But I'm doing my show from backstage,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, it's about four point thirty
Speaker 1: in the afternoon. Out from behind the stage walks this
Speaker 1: sky can't tell it because the son is like silhouetting him.
Speaker 1: I can't see the face, and I'm thinking, oh, this
Speaker 1: is a security guard or a stage manager telling me
Speaker 1: I got to move because I noticed they were setting
Speaker 1: up a table in back of me while I'm doing
Speaker 1: my show and I'm up next to the gate. It's
Speaker 1: Huey Lewis. I'm like stunned. I didn't expect this, and
Speaker 1: he said, I said, you're from the radio station. He
Speaker 1: said yeah. I said, yeah, do you need me to move?
Speaker 1: I noticed you guys are doing it. No, no, we're
Speaker 1: getting ready to have our pre concert meal. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to know if you'd want to join us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that'd be great. Thanks. So I'm doing my show eating
Speaker 1: with Huey Lewis and the News and the Tower of
Speaker 1: Power horns, and years later I would see him. But
Speaker 1: when the bloom was kind of like off, the Huey
Speaker 1: Lewis and the News rose and they weren't as at
Speaker 1: the top of their game, and he still remembered my
Speaker 1: name and was just one of the most gracious guys
Speaker 1: in the world. So happy birthday again to Hughey's I
Speaker 1: he was Clegg, Hugh Clegg Junior. This is really anyway,
Speaker 1: He's seventy five today, and I hope he's enjoying it
Speaker 1: wherever he is and whatever he's doing. Good morning, kids
Speaker 1: time Boll gives from Waldy modern medicine miracles. The old
Speaker 1: man in his mid eighties struggles to get up from
Speaker 1: his couch and starts to put on his coat. His
Speaker 1: wife watching this, asks well, where are you going? He said,
Speaker 1: I'm going to the doctor. She said, I didn't know
Speaker 1: you're feeling bad? Are you sick? He said, nope, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get me some of that Viagara's stuff. Immediately she
Speaker 1: starts rustling and working and try to get out of
Speaker 1: her rocking chair and starts to put on her and
Speaker 1: the old man says, well, where are you going? Said one?
Speaker 1: Going to the doctor too? Said well, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: She said, If you're going to start using that rusty
Speaker 1: old thing, I'm getting a tetanus shot. Oh just bugging
Speaker 1: in down the road on a Saturday morning. Here on
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW Gary, you have Saturday Morning edition. I'm
Speaker 1: the reason the Queen of Hearts is that damn big
Speaker 1: in Ripley, not Channel five, not Channel twelve. All this
Speaker 1: other media hogging my spotlight, taking my people away from me.
Speaker 1: That have been a part of my life and this
Speaker 1: show for the last seven years, and we still love
Speaker 1: them and we'll be out there tomorrow. Right now, we're
Speaker 1: turning our attention to the wide world of what in
Speaker 1: the wide world of sports is going on here anyway?
Speaker 7: Hey mo, how are we doing?
Speaker 1: Doing fine? I gotta ask you that kind of had
Speaker 1: a quasi debate earlier with Sean McMahon, who decided to
Speaker 1: include the Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest and Joey Chestnuts
Speaker 1: continued dominance of that. Like like Ken Jennings in a
Speaker 1: Jeopardy hot tub, he continues to bubble on but whether
Speaker 1: whether that in fact, whether competitive eating is in fact
Speaker 1: a sport or not. And I'd like your thoughts on this.
Speaker 7: Well, if it is a sport, it's not one that
Speaker 7: I want to watch.
Speaker 18: No.
Speaker 7: No, that makes me sick to my stomach watching people
Speaker 7: eat that way. Uh, So I'll say no, okay to me.
Speaker 7: To me, a sport is something that you have done
Speaker 7: in Jim class. Uh And where I grew up, we
Speaker 7: didn't have competitive eating and Jim class. So I'm gonna
Speaker 7: say no. Now, does it require some degree of physical acumen?
Speaker 7: I suppose it's just not something I want to watch.
Speaker 7: I I the idea of watching someone eat a million
Speaker 7: hot dogs and a finite amount of time is vomited inducing.
Speaker 1: What if they're what if they're eating, they're not eating?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 1: Just watching people eat in general is not probably one
Speaker 1: of my preferred pastimes. I would say, but there are
Speaker 1: people who do it eloquently, I think, and and they're
Speaker 1: there or elegantly would be the more proper word. And
Speaker 1: and there are people with good table manners that I
Speaker 1: could watch eat. But you're right that form of eating
Speaker 1: is not exactly conducive to keeping what's in your stomach
Speaker 1: in there. I would concur with you absolutely.
Speaker 7: If I've got if I'm going to play the food
Speaker 7: in front of me, I have no problem sitting across
Speaker 7: from someone watching them beat. But has a general rule
Speaker 7: watching someone eat hard paths. But I there was a
Speaker 7: U and Joey Chestnut was there. There was a hot
Speaker 7: dog eating contest at October Vesincinnati one year, Yeah, and
Speaker 7: I went to it. I didn't participate in it, but
Speaker 7: I went to it. And after about three minutes of
Speaker 7: watching people do that, I literally got sick to my
Speaker 7: stomach and just said like this is this is disgusting.
Speaker 1: So and yet it's a big deal, and yet they
Speaker 1: put it on television.
Speaker 7: And I'm sure it does quite well.
Speaker 19: Uh.
Speaker 7: I mean, you can you could bet on it.
Speaker 10: You could go to a sports.
Speaker 7: Book, an online sports book and bet on bet on
Speaker 7: not only the result, but whether or not Joey Chestnut
Speaker 7: was going to break the record, the over under, how
Speaker 7: many hot dogs he was going to eat, the over
Speaker 7: under for hot dogs and the other competitors.
Speaker 1: Do you think there's a bet? Do you think there's
Speaker 1: a wager on whether somebody actually hurls in the middle
Speaker 1: of it?
Speaker 7: Probably? Yeah, had I watched it, I would have led
Speaker 7: in the middle of it.
Speaker 1: Okay, very very nice. We're also at that time of
Speaker 1: the year where, I mean, there is plenty going on.
Speaker 1: We're in the heart of summer, We're just before the
Speaker 1: All Star break in Major League Baseball, and training camps
Speaker 1: will be starting soon. And but one of those events
Speaker 1: that people don't really a lot of people don't pay
Speaker 1: attention to unless they're Dave Keaton any other time of
Speaker 1: the year, Wimbledon is going on right now, and it's
Speaker 1: probably kind of would would you equate tennis kind of
Speaker 1: like with horse racing. For you, is it one of
Speaker 1: those sports that you may pay more attention to during
Speaker 1: an event like Wimbledon, Like we've talked before about the
Speaker 1: Triple Crown and the Kentucky Derby and stuff. Yeah, for
Speaker 1: that weekend you're kind of into it? Or are you
Speaker 1: more into tennis all the time?
Speaker 7: I want to be into tennis all the time. There's
Speaker 7: just not enough room on the plate for all the
Speaker 7: sports I really like. Because I really like the sport,
Speaker 7: I don't follow it as closely as I did when
Speaker 7: I was a kid, But you know, to me, number one,
Speaker 7: there's something really cool about breakfast and Wimbledon. I always
Speaker 7: like it when you get out of bed and there's
Speaker 7: live sports on, So you get that. Number two, Our
Speaker 7: tournament to Cincinnati Open is coming up here a few
Speaker 7: weeks is awesome and bigger and better, and it's going
Speaker 7: to be over two weeks, and so I kind of
Speaker 7: get into it then. And the neck, you know, just
Speaker 7: bleeds right into the US Open, which is just an
Speaker 7: awesome event, one that I've been lucky enough to attend.
Speaker 7: But you know, the week in and week out of
Speaker 7: the ATP or WTA Tour, I don't follow the way
Speaker 7: I used to, and part of that is, at least
Speaker 7: to a degree, on the men's side, kind of a
Speaker 7: dearth of American, you know, great American men's tennis players.
Speaker 7: I'm hoping that Ben Shelton, who's the guy we've had
Speaker 7: on our show, could could maybe change that a little bit.
Speaker 7: But it's a sport that I love in a like
Speaker 7: a great high stakes tennis match that can at times
Speaker 7: last four or five hours, like the front ch Open
Speaker 7: final is really hard to beat. I just don't follow
Speaker 7: the sport to the degree that I did when I
Speaker 7: was younger, but I still really like it.
Speaker 1: I love watching Djokovic just because he is so He's
Speaker 1: just so animated, and he's just like all there, all
Speaker 1: out there, right in your face with everything, and he's
Speaker 1: been very successful to ted. But you know, I harken back,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna sound like the old man that I've
Speaker 1: become now. I harken back, like to the nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: six US Open and Jimmy Connor's final hurrah heroically going
Speaker 1: up against McEnroe. It's all about the names in tennis,
Speaker 1: and you're right, there, aren't There is a dearth of
Speaker 1: great American tennis players for us to follow in this country.
Speaker 1: Plenty of players, but still dominant players that everybody can
Speaker 1: kind of relate to. And it's it's kind of like
Speaker 1: it's kind of like golf was after Tiger and now
Speaker 1: they've been some some names to kind of replace Tiger
Speaker 1: in professional golf. Would you agree, no question?
Speaker 7: And I think what Tiger Woods did is he made
Speaker 7: people interested in golf watching it, but I think he
Speaker 7: made people interested in playing it. And so I think
Speaker 7: you now have you know a couple of generations of
Speaker 7: people who are into golf and watching them because they
Speaker 7: play it. I know, you know, obviously a lot of
Speaker 7: people who play I don't know that many people who
Speaker 7: play tennis. I know a lot of people who play
Speaker 7: pick a ball, but I don't know that many people
Speaker 7: who who play tennis. But yeah, you're right. I mean
Speaker 7: when I grew up, you know, I grew up watching
Speaker 7: the tail end of John McEnroe's career. I remember Jimmy
Speaker 7: Connor's last US Open when he beat Aaron Krickstein, I
Speaker 7: think in the quarterfinals to take at the age of
Speaker 7: thirty nine, advanced to advanced to the semi finals. Maybe
Speaker 7: wasn't that old? But yeah, there aren't those dominant names
Speaker 7: that just sort of transcend that everybody is familiar with.
Speaker 7: And I think that that obviously is something the sport
Speaker 7: on both the men's and women's side could badly use.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's kind of like another sport that's like
Speaker 1: that is professional boxing, which has now been surpassed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, surpassed by m m A and UFC as
Speaker 1: far as people watching pugilistic efforts, you know, and people
Speaker 1: being just pummeled inside a ring or inside a octagon
Speaker 1: as the case may be. But you know that when
Speaker 1: we had the big names like Muhammad Ali and George
Speaker 1: Foreman and you know this and Joe Frasier in all
Speaker 1: of those great names, then there was a natural national
Speaker 1: interest in professional boxing, and it's just not there anymore
Speaker 1: because there's nobody knows anybody.
Speaker 7: Well, think about it. The biggest boxing match in this country,
Speaker 7: and I'll I guess the world over the last year
Speaker 7: involved a retired fighter and a YouTube guy. Yep, right,
Speaker 7: the Mike Tyson fight on Netflix back in November. Now,
Speaker 7: that was a spectacle and I'm not going to pretend
Speaker 7: that I didn't watch it, but to me, it's a
Speaker 7: pretty damning Indeamond against her sport when the biggest event,
Speaker 7: the one that drew the most people and brought the
Speaker 7: most people to the party, is one that involves a
Speaker 7: guy who's not a sanctioned fighter, although I guess he
Speaker 7: is now and one who you know was Gonna Tada
Speaker 7: thirty years ago, you know. So that's but you know,
Speaker 7: for for much of the twentieth century, whoever the world
Speaker 7: heavyweight champion was at the time was like the most
Speaker 7: famous person on the world in the world, right, like
Speaker 7: everybody knew who that was. That hasn't been the case
Speaker 7: for a long long time.
Speaker 1: The reds on the Road in philadelp and this club
Speaker 1: continues to you know, we talk about this almost on
Speaker 1: a weekly basis, of the bounce back and forth between
Speaker 1: five hundred just a few games over just a few
Speaker 1: games under uh that there still seems to be a
Speaker 1: seed change that has happened in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: And I think we discussed this the last time we
Speaker 1: talked about it, MO. But Eli de la Cruz continues
Speaker 1: to deliver in points where he would be striking out
Speaker 1: at crucial times, and he still does that. But is
Speaker 1: there has there been any more talk because I keep
Speaker 1: on hearing my friend Greg, who just harps on this
Speaker 1: all the time. He realizes that Elie de la Cruz
Speaker 1: is a star and will be of an even bigger
Speaker 1: star if he continues to progress, but he wants to
Speaker 1: move to the outfield. And I can't say that that
Speaker 1: I disagree with that. I the more I see from
Speaker 1: Ellie de la Cruz, with the arm he's got and
Speaker 1: the speed he's got, now we've got I mean TJ.
Speaker 1: Friedel is great. Will Benson plays pretty good right field
Speaker 1: when he's in the game, But I mean, is it
Speaker 1: time to finally move him out of the infield.
Speaker 7: It's a great question, and it's one that I will
Speaker 7: admit that I don't go back and forth on, but
Speaker 7: that I see both sides of. And so to me,
Speaker 7: there's two answers to it. Number One, the answer right
Speaker 7: now is no, you're not going to put him in
Speaker 7: center field today because he's literally never played the position
Speaker 7: at the professional level, and so if the idea is
Speaker 7: throw him out there in center field, well that's going
Speaker 7: to be a disaster. You have to give you have
Speaker 7: to give athletes, You have to give players a chance
Speaker 7: to learn a position. Ellie's not played center field, so
Speaker 7: if it's throw him out there and just see how
Speaker 7: he does. No, not with the team in the middle
Speaker 7: of a playoff. Fine, Now if you decided for a
Speaker 7: variety of factors, one being we have another shortstop who
Speaker 7: could play the position better, the other being Elliott shortstop
Speaker 7: still makes too many errors, and the other being his considerable,
Speaker 7: considerable athletic trades would really play well out in the outfield.
Speaker 7: And you decided we're going to start spring training by
Speaker 7: teaching him how to play the position, then I think
Speaker 7: that idea obviously has a lot of merit because I
Speaker 7: think you and I have talked about this. You see
Speaker 7: the amount of ground he covers at shortstop, and it's breasttaking,
Speaker 7: and you cannot imagine, you know what, you start to
Speaker 7: imagine what that would look like with him going, you know,
Speaker 7: from centerfield to less center field, from centerfield to right
Speaker 7: center field, that sort of thing. I know there are
Speaker 7: a lot of people who feel like, ultimately he's better
Speaker 7: suited to play out in the outfield one day, but
Speaker 7: they've also invested a lot in him in playing shortstop,
Speaker 7: and he can do some things to shortstop that absolutely dazzle,
Speaker 7: and that's considered the sport's most important position. I think
Speaker 7: it'll be interesting as his career unfolds. You know, Number one,
Speaker 7: he has never stated a desire to play center field.
Speaker 7: So you know for people who are like, well, look,
Speaker 7: they have to do everything they can to keep Ellie
Speaker 7: Dela Cruz, well, then what you don't do is put
Speaker 7: him in a position that he doesn't want to play.
Speaker 7: So I think it's a fair question, and I think
Speaker 7: it'll be interesting as his career unfolds to see if
Speaker 7: any real serious thought is given to that. Now they
Speaker 7: need somebody else to play shortstop. They have some prospects
Speaker 7: in their system they're very high on, and so you
Speaker 7: know that might force their issue, or maybe Ellie decides
Speaker 7: I want to try it, and so we'll put him
Speaker 7: out there in center field. But I certainly believe it's
Speaker 7: an idea that has merit. I hear from people every
Speaker 7: time he makes an error it short and sometimes him
Speaker 7: throwing can be an adventure that go, you know, we'll
Speaker 7: throw him out there in the outfield. You don't do that.
Speaker 7: You don't do that blindly. You do that with some training,
Speaker 7: And that obviously would have to happen in goodyear.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for fulfilling that much space with
Speaker 1: that answer.
Speaker 5: Mo.
Speaker 1: So the short answer would be this year, no, next
Speaker 1: year maybe, right, Yeah, but the Reds aren't just aren't
Speaker 1: just tread and water. It seems like, you know, they're
Speaker 1: the only team in the Major League that hasn't been
Speaker 1: swept in a series this year still, and they won
Speaker 1: the first game in Philly, So we'll see what they
Speaker 1: do this afternoon. Are you optimistic?
Speaker 7: Very optimistic, because you know, there are a lot of
Speaker 7: comparisons between this year's team and the team two years ago.
Speaker 7: And the team two years ago was a lot of fun,
Speaker 7: but the team two years ago had this huge crater
Speaker 7: in the middle of it was the starting pitching. If
Speaker 7: you knew at some point it was going to catch
Speaker 7: up to him. That's not the case this year. And
Speaker 7: not that they don't have whole to fill, but they
Speaker 7: don't have this overwhelming weakness. I think you can maybe
Speaker 7: argue offensively against left handed pitching that's maybe going to
Speaker 7: catch up to them. But I am optimistic. Their better
Speaker 7: players are starting to perform like they're better players. Andrew
Speaker 7: Abbotts start yesterday. Aside starting pitching, is a bit terrific.
Speaker 7: Hunter Green is trending toward coming back here right after
Speaker 7: the All Star break. The schedule is about to get
Speaker 7: a little favorable, even though the Miami Marlins have played
Speaker 7: well recently here before the All Star break, and they've
Speaker 7: got some prospect capital they can use to make trades
Speaker 7: to get better. I am optimistic. I think this team
Speaker 7: is good enough to at least hang in the race
Speaker 7: for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and if you eat
Speaker 1: a hot dog, take your time, I will, thanks, counselor
Speaker 1: what's going on?
Speaker 7: Brother?
Speaker 1: I just think that was really good advice. You just
Speaker 1: gave him. Take your time, you know, just the usual
Speaker 1: stuff with me. Had a good July holiday. What about
Speaker 1: you went out to the river camp and Patriot of
Speaker 1: the Pasqually clan, the brothers Pisqually invited us out and
Speaker 1: we spent the afternoon out there. It was very relaxing.
Speaker 1: Chris the two point oh and I and all the
Speaker 1: family out there and beautiful scenic yeah, Ohio river Oh yeah, great,
Speaker 1: great set underneath a big shade tree around the big table,
Speaker 1: and just had fun.
Speaker 18: You can't beat that. No, what's on the show min Well,
Speaker 18: here's what I got, good news. I just I can't
Speaker 18: get enough of this.
Speaker 7: I love it.
Speaker 1: Donald J.
Speaker 18: Trump tagging CBS to the tune of sixteen million dollars.
Speaker 18: I sued them for them doctoring Kamala's interview for sixty minutes.
Speaker 18: Very good, sixteen million plus. The TV news ratings are
Speaker 18: out this week and it is a bloodbath for the
Speaker 18: legacy media. You gotta love that. Gonna talk to Linda Matthews.
Speaker 18: She is a Republican running for city council, the only one.
Speaker 18: And then now we're going to talk to Greg Stanley
Speaker 18: of Komy and Shepherd about what's going on in the
Speaker 18: local real estate mark.
Speaker 1: After the show, show at Huddles Cafe. You're out on
Speaker 1: the holiday weekend. This is a brand new thing for me.
Speaker 1: This is my first time at Huddles on a Saturday.
Speaker 1: This month, five thousand dollars.
Speaker 7: That's the average amount of money people in the US
Speaker 7: are now spending on gas.