4-17-26 Scott Sloan Show

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3:06and she's ready to drive up with a two-by-four and wear some people out up there and grab a saw how Eve little feisty on this Friday, little salty. I love it. I'm telling you, it's everything that I was able to do even yesterday to just stay in my own driveway and let the superintendent take care of things as well as she did. But, you know, my folks are on my mom's side are really from Preble County, and I'm just shocked that anybody up there would have the time or the interest coming down here and treading on our jurisdiction. All right, you're not going to go up there and start taking on the, you know, you don't want to go to gratis because you, that bad thing said, I advise you not to, as much as I'd love to hear that Eve Bolton went up and beat somebody up, that'd be fantastic. Because school board member, it's the crap out of people, but we'll just sleep in dogs, right? That's exactly right. I made it through the first 24 hours. I'm probably going to be okay now. Why did you take this so personally? Why are we so angry?

4:07Well, first of all, our number one obligation is to protect our kids, our children, our teenagers. I believe in the sanctity of a school building. It's not an id-covered wall or anything like the colleges pretend to be. But, you know, when, when those kids walk through our doors, their parents are counting on us to protect them. And I don't care what language you speak, they're our kids. And this was offensive. This woman and this other guy came in full uniform within a police car and pretended to be somebody that they weren't because now we've even been told by at least an ice statement that they were not the sanction to do this. So this is a very offensive thing. And it's another kind of undercover way to get around rules and regulations. I understand the crux of the law. And that is the wellness check on unaccompanied minors. So this is a Biden era policy that basically said, look, if we got a company, unaccompanied children with

5:09sponsors in the United States, we need to go check up on them. And under the agreement's local law enforcement confirm addresses and school enrollment, and they pass it on to our land security, you know, officers are given a list of cases. I guess they came up with some names of potential targets, or at least they want to make sure the kids are okay, because we've had legitimate stories of kids being abused, sex traffic, and things like that. And so we started the program to make sure that these unaccompanied minors are safe. Where did we go off the rails with us, though? Well, because this person was not sanctioned by ice to do it. First of all, she did not have the legal documents that the law requires. She had no jurisdiction outside of her town to come into our town claiming this. And very frankly, it's all very suspect when indeed somebody is, how shall I say it, overstepping their bounds? And apparently she was even for ice. Okay, so ice is now telling you that this person doesn't work for us, or they weren't authorized to

6:12go out of their jurisdiction. She is a partner at Gratis. It's one of the law enforcement groups that's a partner with ice, but on this particular issue, the last thing we've gotten from ice is that this was not sanctioned. They do not target schools, and this was done without their knowledge. And ice confirmed the visit, and it's part of something called a 287G partnership, and basically they pay the officer's benefits and quarterly performance bonuses. But it's pretty explicit that it limits them to their own jurisdiction. And Gratis is like 50 miles away. It's up in Preble Counties, you said. Here's the other part about this, is I know for a fact that CPD from Chief Hany on down, not happy about this, because one of the items, an unwritten rule, but if you're in law enforcement and you go into someone else's town, if you go to a different jurisdiction, you give them notice and say, hey, we're coming in because you think about all the time, federal agencies and other agencies are involved in raids and things serving warrants and things like that. And like, hey, let's so you guys know, we're going to be here today. Okay, great,

7:13awesome. And there's a number of reasons why one is it's a professional courtesy. Number two is a fact, well, if something goes south, you need to know that what's happening at a house where agents outside of jurisdiction are, if something happens, you know, shots fired, for example, like that, you need to know what's going on in your own neighborhood. They didn't do any of that stuff. And even since a police department are washing their hands of this thing, I think that speaks volumes. I'm so thrilled because the police department, the mayor, the county sheriff, all of those folks stood with us with our protection of our kids. And you're right, it's a jurisdictional issue. And this woman obviously has some issues because I know she had previously worked with Dayton. And what have you, she's a police chief in, in Greta. And to kind of transcend any number of jurisdictional boundaries on her way to Cincinnati, let alone come into the school district. Well, let's more than overstepping. I think

8:16Cecil Thomas is even called for an investigation at the state. Is there an indication that this was actually a welfare check, not an enforcement action? No, not to my knowledge. And I understand not necessarily to the superintendent's knowledge yet. And you're right about wellness checks, wellness checks are very serious business. And that's a kind of a way to get into a school. But again, even with that, you must have a proper court documentation. And she did not have that. She had a list of names. Unfortunately, our front line of protection at like any school be it's suburban rural or urban. That's that front line secretary and that front line of security officer. All of our folks perform very well because the safety of our children, regardless of what language they speak, that's our number one job is protecting. When they came in the school, you mentioned a

9:16secretary receptionist is the one and it's it's interesting that they would know the rules to that detail. What you can do, what you need to bring in, it sounds like that they've been maybe trained or coached up somebody on that on that role. Very much so we've had especially dealing with the ICE and especially dealing it, you know, recently with the federal government. The board has been very strong and more importantly, the superintendent has been extremely strong about making sure that this strong policy has maintained our general counsel has recently redone training. As a matter of fact, just a couple of weeks ago, I know it was reinterrated. I'm not sure why, but I think that was great. But yes, those folks at the building, they called general counsel. They called the district office and they made sure that those folks didn't get inside to visit with our children. Was the school resource officer involved in that would be a Cincinnati police officer? Were they involved in the interaction? And at least one of the schools and I think both two of the three for sure almost immediately. And in speaking to them, the chief and the officer

10:23from Gratis ever offered an explanation as to why and what the reasons were. Was it just a welfare check and where did they come up with these list of names and why did they drive all the way down from Gratis when there's, you know, I know Sheriff Richard Jones works with ICE. It'd be a lot easier for Butler County. Sheriff's to come in to do something, right? Sure. No, they did not explain. They just said they were working on behalf of ICE and it was a well-matched check, which is perfectly okay if you have jurisdiction. But these people did not have jurisdiction and they did not explain themselves. And, you know, we took video, as I understand it, a couple of the schools just verify that these people were doing that. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mentioned Butler County, but they would, you know, they could come in, but they would like Hamilton, they'd let Sheriff McGuffee know who also was blindsided by this and chief Hennie, interim chief Hennie and blindsided by this whole thing. And I guess the thing, you know, I kind of think the tipping point is this because, you know, we want to make sure that the kids who are there who are undocumented are safe and a wellness check is a good thing. I think the problem is when you show

11:27up as an armed uniform law enforcement agent, an officer in this case in a chief that that is that's a distinction. I mean, why not send someone in plain clothes or a social worker, somebody who is in the social welfare business to check these things out? I guess would be my question. Why send a uniform cop? Well, I think it's to intimidate. I really do. I mean, there's a police car there. There's two officers. One claims to be and there's a chief. I just think it's a way of bullying one way into, especially if you don't have the proper legal documentation, which apparently she did not. Yeah, it is about the documentation. You have to have, you know, a warrant or something. They find by the law. There's parts of this law that would necessitate what we need to do regarding our kids, not only protecting them, but also living by the law. But this was outside the reign of of the law because she didn't have the documentation and she didn't

12:29have jurisdiction. And that would be the question is what the hell were you thinking? But I mean, I get the crux. I'll push back a little bit at that. You've not with this particular case, but you know, the argument from DHS is, you know, again, this is bidenariate policies. Like, look, we've got, I think they said last year they've, or maybe it wasn't last year, but something like 6,000 on company immigrant children, they've got to check on their welfare to make sure they're with, you know, the guardian is doing what they say because we've had stories of abuse and rape in the case of a minor sexual abuse, human trafficking, attempted murder, things like that. And I want to make sure the kids are safe and in good hands. And part of that is, and I guess, maybe this is why a uniform officer would show up because if it's ice and you send a social worker, you know, generally, maybe someone may not want to open the door for someone if they don't know who they are. And maybe it makes it easier in this regard. I don't know. I'm kind of spitballing here, but in the context of this, it's, you know, you've got to show the receipts if you're going to do something like this, especially walking into a school. And, you know, I think you did the right thing by going, look, you know, come back when you've got the right paperwork and when you have

13:31jurisdiction because you don't have that here. And why she chose Cincinnati, I guess these are all the questions that the police chief needs to answer from gratis as opposed to us. Yeah, and I think she's going to be forced to answer a lot of questions. And I think that would be beneficial for everybody. And, you know, we've helped people on wellness check. We care deeply about that. We may even be people that report some of those issues to the folks that might be like the social workers or what have you. So that's that's part of it. But this, this isn't obvious. How shall I say it? An obvious way to get entrants and yet not have the right documentation? How many students run that list, you know? I believe that there were perhaps as many as 30. And we have no idea how they and other than the fact that this was a DHS list and why and how

14:31she got the list, I guess would be the question of ice is saying, hey, listen, we have no idea we didn't authorize this and she shouldn't be doing this. And the question be how she got a list of these names, he bolden. Right. She obviously is a partner with ice has some kind of access to something in order to get paid by ice and to get the benefits of being a partner with ice. And perhaps in tribal county, they don't have any reasons to do certain things. And so they leave the jurisdiction in order to prove that they're doing something. Yeah. To earn those because they get paid extra money. They get some sort of benefits for being a part of this. So I don't know. I need to stay in gradis and stay in tribal county. Yeah. Maybe E. Bolton school board member with this ice controversy. And you had a police chief from a little village outside a date and called gradis and a PO show up to Cincinnati Public Schools. Three of them as a matter of fact, Western Hills University Academy, Price Academy and Roberts Academy to do quote unquote wellness

15:31checks on students on behalf of ice. But no warrants, no paperwork, no specific students. The officers out there jurisdiction, they didn't let Cincinnati or Hamlin County sheriffs know that they were there. And that defend that that's pretty offensive. If you're law enforcement, not to let someone know that you're in their jurisdiction. And so they were turned away. And rightly so by a school resource officer, another uniform police officer and staff at those three particular CPS schools. And I guess the other question here, Eve is our other schools. Is there some sort of caution or nervous that they're going to show up and maybe go to other schools at this point? No, I'm not nervous this week and keep this as we as you all have been able to cover it as seeing an outrage. I know too that we have heightened efforts as always. And this will attract more attention and keep everybody much more vigilant. So I'm less worried right now than we were a couple of weeks ago when people were doing some retraining and what have you which served everyone very well. And I think the district administration did well to do

16:35that retraining and re-asserting that policy and the procedures. I do worry that our families will feel threatened. And then when they feel threatened, then they might not send their children to school. And that's the real damage here is the family's worrying about coming to school, but your child will be safe at school. Well, you know, again, this is a welfare check to make sure that the kids were okay and fine and not being abused at traffic. And that's paramount. And you at school would see that firsthand. And generally, you guys have a duty, of course, to report that. If you saw something, I don't have a problem with ice going in and checking. It's the nature in which this whole thing happened because it violated a whole bunch of rules and protocols. And you can't have that. And it's also it's just not a good look for anyone here. What happens in the next board meeting relative to this? I'm sure seven elected officials, all each of us have something to say about this. And I would

17:35imagine for the most part, the board will applaud the superintendent general counsel staff and thank the city and the county for standing with our kids. Eve Bolton, we'll find out. And I know you guys are going to press for more answers here. I certainly would like to hear it. I'm sure people listen to me and go, why are we doing this? And how did this go down? And what was that you think? The only thing I can think of and this is me hypothesizing here is that, you know, you mentioned that they get quarterly bonuses and they're paid by ice for successful immigrant location. And so maybe, you know, there's not enough bodies in Madison and Preble County to go, hey, we're we're all the quote unquote illegals. Let's go to Cincinnati and get paid. So if it's there's a financial incentive here, it certainly looks that way until proven otherwise. I'm going with that theory. How about you? Bingo. Bingo. Bingo. You got it. And that's why I think it's very appropriate that there be a state investigation of this effort by this woman and her a fellow officer from

18:35Greta. Yeah. And I would imagine this will not be the last week here about this. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's the same thing with like civil asset forfeiture. You know, when they go, hey, we're going to see like what they're doing Louisville with street racers and people who are doing street takeovers. And you certainly don't want that because it's unsafe and there should be. But, you know, when you have incentive now to take someone's vehicle and crush it much like this, like, okay, now let's all right. Let's, well, maybe we'll seize the property and sell it and auction it off. Now we incentive to take your stuff. It's it's cut from the same cloth here. There's incentive to maybe push the boundaries somewhat if you need the money. She's Eve Bolton since today, public school board members. Thanks for chopping on the show this morning. You have a great weekend. Thanks God. That was great weekend. Take care. Yeah. I kind of expect a little bit a little bit of, you know, that that Eve is, you know, we shouldn't be doing this at all. But, you know, in retrospect, you listen to her and go, yeah, that makes sense. Like, okay, ice can definitely go in schools and make sure kids are okay. But this crossed so many lines and just the way it was handled and is the mode of money. If you're incentivizing officers now going, hi, I need some cash. I'm going to swing down a

19:35Cincinnati with this list and makes them over time. That's a huge problem for me and you because we're paying for this. We're paying for this. And to show you how bizarre case this is, AFTAD Pureval wasted no time and popping off against that. It's amazing. You know, you could have people shot and gun down and run over the city of Cincinnati and attacked and beaten. You can't find a guy with literally a search warrant or a quote. He's just simply going to divorce himself from reality. As I bury my head and not make a statement about anything when people are getting shot and assaulted. And yet this happens. And he's right in front of the cameras and microphones instantly. The AI mayor guaranteed not human AFTAD Pureval Scott Sloan show 700 WLW. Here's ABC. He's Wilkins from New York. Good morning, my life's telling everything's good

20:36in the big city. I heard you're expecting 17 feet of snow this week in New York. Honestly, at this point, I wouldn't be surprised. I saw that smile. I think there's no blizzard. Maybe blizzard, but severe storm warnings up for the Northeast. That's crazy. Yeah, and temperatures like plummeting come in and everything. Yeah, it's, it's we can't catch a break around here. I 85 and sunny here in Cincinnati. Well, let me look up flight. I'm making that up. It's going to rain and they get cold. We suck too. Yeah, this isn't this is an Arizona. This is Cincinnati. It's just the kind of weather we get. Will Gants is in New York. He's our ABC entertainment guy. And if you know, we go through sports this weekend, maybe watch some reds baseball, kind of a little NHL playoffs throughout this weekend. So I'm down with that. But he is here to cover other things on streaming. And namely, and half the way who's had a year. Of course, you know, the double worth product too. And we got in half the way she's doing a something new called Mother Mary. And it drops a week onto the big screen. What is that about? Yeah. So this I am coming to everyone with a disclaimer. So if

21:41you've seen the trailers for this, it she's like a pop star and she's performing on stage. And it says music, you know, made by Charlie XC X and Jack Hansenoff and FKA twigs and all these people. And so like I went into this expecting like a version of the eras tour pretty much, you know, even the director has said that, you know, they they went and saw Taylor Swift in concert to help inspire, you know, the vibe of this movie or whatever. But that is not at all what the movie is. So it is an R rated dark, dark movie where, you know, most of the action takes place in a house where she's speaking with her original costume designer from from the early part of her career. And they are, you know, you know, that something has happened between the two of them, but you don't totally know what. And then the movie starts to get like creepy and there's blood and and almost virgins on paranormal and things like that. So anyway, if you're going expecting the

22:41eras tour, it isn't that. So that is what I want to tell people who are going to go to the big screen and see Mother Mary this weekend. I will say, of course, that Anne Hathaway is amazing in it. And if I was guessing, I would think that maybe she took this part because she has the devil wear spotter right after this in a couple of weeks. And you know, that is, you know, the exact opposite opposite of what you're getting with this movie Mother Mary. Yeah, it sounds like it because devil, you know, every guy has one of their secret, you know, chick flicks that you're like, I like that movie. I like doubles or it's proud. It's a good movie. Stands up. Well, the thing, it really does in the thing that people forget is that Merrill Street was nominated for an Oscar for that movie. So like, yes, it's a chick flick, but also it's amazing, you know, I mean, the cast has got her, you got Anne, you got the Stanley Tucci's in this. It's really blunt. Yeah. Yeah. And it's the cast is solid too. And all right. So that may be worth checking out. Also, so let's do, let's do streaming at home.

23:43Margot has money problems. Apple TV. This has gotten a cold Kidman in it and Nick Offerman. Who else? And Michelle Piper plays the mother. So the cast is stacked here. And this I think is Apple's answer to shrinking, having wrapped up last week. So shrinking, of course, is there, you know, probably biggest comedy drama type series. And now they've got this in that slot. So the first three episodes came out on Wednesday. And it is L-Fanning. And she plays a college student who has an affair with a professor, ends up getting pregnant. And decides that she is going to do everything she can to give this baby the best life possible. So she takes on a series of crazy jobs. And all the while, you know, her mother is Michelle Piper, who is also a single mom, and is amazing in this thing too. So it's funny. It's part of it are, you know, very touching. And that's the porting cast that you mentioned, Nicole Kidman, Nick Offerman, all these people

24:45pop up in different episodes. So I really, really have been enjoying this. I will say, though, this will not be one to watch with the kids parts of it are pretty adult. Even better. There you go. Even, even better. So did the shrinkage, is that series completely done now? Is it, is it rap? Or is it just the season? It's not the series just this season. Yeah. So I think I think they're definitely going to come back for season four. I don't know about beyond that. Maybe it'll depend on how they do at the Emmys this year. Yeah. I got you. All right. No, that makes sense. Yeah. Because I know hacks we talked about last week. That's, that series is done after five years. So I, and people keep talking about drinking with the Harrison Ford. I like, you got to watch it. It's really, really good. I haven't gotten into it yet. Give it a, give it a chance that, you know, it, maybe, maybe the first three episodes, like, you know, it always takes shows a little bit of time. Drinking with one that I came into a little bit later in the game. And I'm so glad I did. It's one of my favorites. All right. Will Gans Netflix has something new out. What is it?

25:46Okay. So this is called Trust Me, the False Prophet. This is for anyone who's in the true crime, who's into documentaries. It's four-part documentary series. It's about a woman who grew up as a Mormon and then goes to college and studies cults. And she returns to her roots and starts filming the sect of Mormonism where she's living now. And what she discovers is freaky. And, you know, she, she has to be very brave in the face of what she's seeing. And of course, the women that she's speaking with. So it's, you know, you're watching in real time. These people describing what life is like where they're living. And, and this guy who calls himself a prophet. And they pretty much what they discover. They realize they need to take this guy down. But that's what this documentary series is about. And yeah, for anyone who's into true crime and stuff like that, all four episodes are streaming now. It's called Trust Me, the False Prophet on Netflix. So this isn't real like Mormon. This is a Mormon sect. Yeah. Yeah. Gotcha.

26:46Yeah. This guy pretty much becomes gone to, to the people that he's living with and around. And, yeah. Not good. I'll tell you what, the Mormons are getting a hell beat out of them on these days. I'll be honest with you. It's really that safer fans here. And you got that. You got the, you know, the HBO show about the sister wives and all that stuff. So yeah, I don't know, man. It's rough in a Mormon these days. You know, they need to get some serious PR work going. They need to hire some better PR. Maybe Chris Jenner is available. I don't know if she's one to fake on the path, but she can fit PR better than any. Right. Right. You need a good PR man here. So that's fine. Yeah. That show under the banner of heaven was a limited series with Andrew Garfield also about Mormonism. And that was definitely didn't paint out the church in a very good light there either. So you're right. We've got a real situation on our. Got a real Mormon problem going on. Next thing you know, like this weekend, Trump's going to drop a picture of him healing one of the osmonds. I don't, I don't have no idea. Oh, yeah, you're right. You're right. No idea. I don't

27:51know. They're famous famous Mormons besides the awesome. That's it. Yeah. All right. We'll dance. Add Will Gans with two S's our boy in New York City. All right. I'll say we'll send you some salt and some shovels. Good luck this weekend. Thank you. I appreciate it. All the best, buddy. Take care. It's a Scott Sloan show. Quick news break, speaking of entertainment stuff. Kind of kept it short with Will. It's a really cool story. Got a West Side guy, an elder guy, who is now 65 years old and he's been in California and LA and Hollywood trying to make it big. And finally, at this stage of the game at that age, he is finally on the big stage and he's coming home to Cincinnati, the Air and Off Center. It's really a cool story and a friend of our buddy Brian Colmes here at the big one too, who ran with him back in the day. We'll check in with him next on 700 W. W. Support for the show comes from public, the investing platform for those who take it seriously. On public, you can build a multi-asset portfolio of stock, bonds, options, crypto, and now generated assets, which allow you to turn any idea into an investable index with AI. It all starts with your prompt from renewable energy companies with high

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32:03and churning and churning. He kept doing it and doing it. And finally, now he is going to be at the Aaronop Center and it's called Water for Elephants and he's going to be on the big stage. And it's going to run through May 3rd at Aaronop Center. And Bob Tulley is his name. Bob is now 65 years old. And now for the first time is on the big stage and not quite, brother. We have the Broadway people hired him to do this and do the national tour. It's a really cool story. Bob, welcome. How are you? Hey, thanks. Great. Doing well that we're in beautiful Buffalo, New York this week and then heading into Cincinnati on Monday. My two favorite cities. I was born and raised there. So, you know, go sabers and the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 14 years. Bills. I got the reds. We got the Bengals life is good right now. So there, I'll tell you all the spots you can go and run the streets, Bob and get a good meal and a lot of good drinks. So Water for Elephants, it's interesting because you have been doing this. You left Cincinnati when you're 27 moved to California. You go to LA, you're getting work as an

33:04actor and a singer. And then all of a sudden at this stage of your life, you get the role of a lifetime. How that happened? Completely and utterly by accident. I moved back to Cincinnati after about 35 years in LA and was doing local theater. Just for fun, I kind of semi-retired and came back home and thought, well, I'll do some of the local theater because I did all of the like local community theaters and showbook majestic back in the day. Yeah, but I'll do that and just kind of enjoy my time and kind of rediscover Cincinnati and found out that there's a lot of live theater on the East Coast and just started doing that. I was actually working in Springboro at La Comedia doing a production of the woods. When this came up and I submitted for it and they asked me to prepare some stuff and I did and then they said, please come to New York. And I said, no, thank you. Because I was getting work here in New York being the round trip ticket, no tell, no all that stuff. And so I turned them down twice. And then the third time they asked

34:06me that the producers would like to see you. They found it a little different than please come and sing for us. And I thought, I'd finish into the woods and I thought, okay, I'll take a little little vacation in New York. I'll go see Central Park and do all that stuff and go sing for these people and read for these people. It'll be a nice experience. I'd never auditioned in New York before. I thought, this is going to scare the heck out of me. Why not do it? So did it and then they came back and made the offer and the travel still exciting to me because I've done a lot of it in my life. So I'm kind of used to it. And the show is incredible. The people I get to work with are amazing. And what is that like? So you're going to walk on the stage at Aernoff Center in front of a full house through May 3rd and Water for Elephants. That has got to be like a pinch me moment from a guy from Price Hill, an elder guy grew up here, moved to LA. You come back home. It's 65. You get the role of a lifetime, as I said. And now you're going to be at Aernoff. That's got to be

35:06cool walking on that stage. It's amazing. I got a taste of it back in 1998 when I was the ring master for Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey. And we played down that. What have they called whether the hockey team plays? What's that called now? We're here at Heritage Bank Center in Cincinnati. There we go. Yeah. So yeah, I played that then in 98. And that was amazing. And this is another case of that where my family gets to see me and a lot of friends from performing arts around here and just friends who I grew up with because I'm a West citer. We always stick together. We're together forever. So a lot of those people. Yeah, you're part of the you're part of the fraternity. You're born there. You are a West side for life, Bob Tully. So you're a ring master from Barnum and Bailey. You never have to like you ever get attacked by a tiger. What is it? Is a yak lady really cool? How's that work? I let's see. I almost got run over by a hip

36:08of tournaments one. Sure. And the circus. This is the third time I've run away with the circus. Okay. Wow. When I was a I was a broke actor in LA in 1993 when Norwegian Cruise Lines asked me to bring out a new ship because they were doing a circus theme show. And asked me to be the ring master for that. And I did four years of that and then Ringling Brothers in 1998. And now this circus theme show. So to me, this is just cyclical. It seems. Yeah. What's life like on that circus train? Good time. Are they they're story? Give me a story. Give me something. Oh, from from Ringling. Yeah. It was amazing. It was the largest. It was the largest privately owned train in the world. I was it was New Year's Eve. And we're down in Florida. And you're an explain yard sitting around a fire with this Russian Russian hand balancing group. They give me a picture book of St. Petersburg where they're from, which I still have. It's still in my apartment

37:11in in Mount Adams. And they're trying to explain to me in broken English all of these pictures of their hometown while we're sitting there drinking vodka. It sounds cliche, but it's absolutely true. And just sitting there all night with them New Year's Eve 1998. Drinking vodka and listening to stories in broken English about St. Petersburg and Russia. Well, hanging out with the Russians. What's wrong with that? All right. It's water for elephants, which is a circus based circus based production. Mm-hmm. Okay. And you play a palm tree. Do you play a cow? What do you when you play in this? I am basically the storyteller, Mr. Jim Kowski. The story of water for elephants is his story of his time with a circus in Depression era, US. And you've got me, then you've got the young version of me, a gentleman named Jack Keller, an incredibly talented man. And it's his story of joining of inadvertently joining the circus, falling in love,

38:13interacting with all these different people from all these different backgrounds, which is the taste of the circus itself, because that was the best part of it when I actually did it. Mm-hmm. So that's, and I'm there throughout. Like I said, I'm basically, I basically steer the story. It's basically my story. So it goes back in and out between back in the day and the current day. Okay, cool. Well, congratulations on a life well-lived, but also the tenacity to keep after it after all those years. You know, we hear the stories. People go to Hollywood, they don't make it. You persevered and ultimately you won. Congratulations, Bob Tully. I'm just a stubborn website guy, that's all right. Well, yeah, you'll pinch yourself. A little bit of heat rose to make it. Yeah, right. Exactly. You open up at it, at Aaronoff Center, that's pretty cool. So Bob, it's water for elephants, opening at Aaronoff, it's open now and runs through May, I'm sorry. It opens to 21st, so Bob will be the narrator. And that's a great story. Congratulations, Bob. Thanks for checking in this morning. I appreciate it. Hey, thanks, Goddard. I appreciate it. I'll see you in Cincinnati.

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42:27Officers are subject to change and certain restrictions may apply. Cincinnati. Do you want to be an American idiot? All right, here we go. Slowly back out 700 WLW. We have a record high credit card debt. The average household in Ohio can touch the Indiana. We carry about $6,300 per household on average. So the president is proposing a 10% interest rate cap. Now that sounds like a good, populist, middle finger, FU to banks. So now that's been proposed and introduced in possible legislation, now comes the analyst. So they crunched the numbers and found out that a 10% credit card interest rate cap would actually shrink access to credit. That had effect over 100 million American card holders in the process and squeezing a lot of people out. Kara Sheffold is here. She used to be with a political in the hill. She's now the senior policy analyst at the independent women's forum. Carrie, welcome, are you? Yeah, I'm great. Thanks for having me. Yeah, it's kind of funny. I mean, the right

43:28that I'll worked up about Mamdani in New York City with rent price control. That scheme in New York, which has been tried and broken because, well, now you just have empty buildings and we saw what happened in the 70s in New York City. If you recall that or our student of history of that, you see what happens when you try our government tries to artificial control prices. And I think conservatives are right to look at that and go, well, that's a bad and horrible idea. Is it hypocritical not to call out the same here because price controls are price controls? Isn't this a price control? You're right. It is a price control. It's constraining the market forces and the market signals because that's what a credit card interest rate is really a signal to the borrower, to signal, also to the lender about the credit worthiness or the credit history and all of the components in coming up with a credit rate and a credit offer. And you're basically distorting that by putting this interest rate up and look, like you said, this is a, I think

44:32it has good intentions. I think the desire to help people who are struggling financially the good desire, the profit, there's going to be a lot of unintended consequences if this happens federally because we've already seen this at the state level because some states have already tried this. Yeah, it's nothing new. I would think the biggest one would probably be a credit desert occurring, right? So if you're low to middle income in your first time borrower, you could wind up losing your credit line entirely, right? Because they don't want to take that risk because they're not going to get their money back because they can't charge an IRA PR. You're exactly right. And we found this, for example, in Illinois where they did put an interest rate cap. And what ended up happening is that fewer people were able to get access to loans and more people were shifted into the dangerous black market. And so if the intention is to protect people, it has the unintended consequence of actually putting people into more harmful types of lending products. So the, and the thing is, this isn't just for the poorest families.

45:39And I say that to someone who was when I was a child, we were homeless. My brother was born in a tent. My dad used to have to go to pawn shops in order to get loans. He had to pawn his watch or his ring just to feed us. This isn't a great situation for poor people, but for anyone who's listening, this is also for people who have great credit scores and strong finances. Because if there's a study at Ferro Hio, for example, super prime card holders, those are people with credit scores above 780. They are also going to experience negative consequences. It means higher fees, reduced rewards, better credit standards, lower credit limits, fewer bonus points when you're talking about miles and things like that. So this affects people across the income spectrum. Yeah, if I get Jennifer Garner smiling at me one more time about what's in my wallet and getting these great rewards. And I'm traveling and beautiful people are around me in this lounge,

46:40where I'm getting steak and lobster and I'm flying these exotic locations. And all I have to do is spend more on this card and I'll get those points that that's going to largely dry up, isn't it? Exactly. And just in general, the ability to open a credit card in Ohio alone, there's been an estimate based on a study that between 73 and 85% of people in Ohio are going to see their credit lines reduced. And this is again, this happened already in Illinois and there was a study comparing Illinois to Missouri, which did not have a rate cap. And it was the perfect natural experiment because they're neighbors. And I lived in Missouri. My family lives in Missouri now. So Missouri versus Illinois, what happens in this natural experiment with the rate cap in Illinois? Well, it turns out that many people said that they're financial well-being declined after this.

47:41And 709, and this is according to a study from the Federal Reserve. So this is a government, federal government study. And 79% of people in this study said that they wanted the option to return to their previous lender after this rate cap happened in this state of Illinois. Kerry Sheffield from the Hill, writing about the proposed credit card interest rate cap, Trump wants. We have research now that finds that 10% credit card cap would actually shrink access to credit and affect well over 100 million American cardholders in the process, people who need the borrow the money. And then if that goes away, where do you go to get your cash? You go back to the street and there's dangers there. And of course, too, if you have no problem managing the credit and pay it off, we're talking about a cap on your perks. Sky miles, for example, and all those things that Jennifer Garner tries to sell you on, you know, that cool bougie stuff. So that probably would go away as well. And not that I care about hurting the banks, but how going to the way they make their money if this happens? And not that I'm worried about the bank's

48:44not making money, they'll find a way to make money, Kerry, for sure, but it squeezes both in. So who is who would their core target consumer be? Well, they're going to increase their fees. And even a lot of people with super prime, high credit scores, a lot of credit cards, they pay annual they charge in your fees. For example, you're going to see those fees go up. You're going to see the points drop. The cost goes somewhere. And it's usually a combination of consumers and companies paying higher prices as a result of price constraints. So that's really what's going to happen. And when we're talking about inflation, this is one way to make everything more expensive, rather than here's the thing, when you have competition, you can naturally lower whatever it is, including an interest rate through more competition. But this is going to have less competition in the end because there'll be fewer lenders who will be able to enter these markets.

49:49And here's the other interesting part about it. When people mention a credit card interest rate and it sounds astronomically high, most people, like you mentioned, a lot of people don't carry balances from months to months. And for those who do, a lot of people, it's only for a short period. And when you're talking about such a high interest rate, quite often it's actually for a fairly small amount. And so there's a thought experiment that the economist Thomas Sol did. He gave the example of a hotel room. If you go to a hotel and it charges you 100 or 200, 300 bucks a night, you annualize that. That's an insane amount. So let's say 200 bucks times 365 days. That's just, it sounds like you're totally gouging someone, right? But this doesn't make sense because you're only using it for a few nights, maybe. So annualize that's $73,000

50:53just for using a room. And so if you're going to let your hair on fire because someone's charging me a $73,000 annualized house price, it's insane. And so most people's credit cards and same thing with what they call quote unquote payday lending. Most of this is short-term lending. And so it sounds so much worse than it actually is when you actually look at how people use credit. And so again, study after study shows that when you construct a credit market, people's financial wellbeing goes down. Their choices go down. And there's a lot of hyperbole that's not based in fact. Well, Kerry, if this goes through and they went at capping APRs at 10%, you know, you mentioned payday lenders. I'm glad you did. I wanted to bring that up because back in the day, payday lenders here in Ohio, anyway, we're getting cracked down. It's like, oh, my God, these are confiscatory. And you can't do this to the working man, the working man, the whole thing. And then I tried to clean things up. But by and large, people who are on the lower end of the economic scale, right? Lower middle, even, you know, middle income people, for example, hey, you know what? I'm living paycheck. Most

51:57Americans live paycheck. Well, I'm not most, but a lot of Americans live in paycheck to paycheck, especially the younger you are. And so the problem is this is like, all right, well, I got to get to work. The transmission goes on to my truck. I don't have several thousand dollars laying around. I got to go to the payday lender. I can't use a credit card. Maybe they're maxed out or maybe the credit card option isn't there. I can't go to a bank and on the collateral. I don't have a choice here to go to a payday lender. So we're back in that game again. And if we've cracked down on payday lending, does that mean the rise of loan shark? So maybe my job someday is like, I look at this and go, you know what? I just going to go into loan shark business. I'm going to put some money out in the street, get a couple headcrackers out there. And you don't pay. I break your legs. Is it going to be that way again? Again, that's that's what we see people doing when payday lending. It's more formal. More name is called installment lending when you go after installment lending. When you go after credit card interest rates through ratecaps. Yes. More people are forced out into

53:00the so-called black market into scenarios that are far more exploitative and dangerous. First is having them in a financial system that is regulated, that is designed to protect the consumer. We've seen this happen. And this has an analogy. When you look at, you know, for my church, I traveled to Peru. There is like an insane amount of transactions that happen outside the financial system that is reported to the government. And it's because, well, there's a lot of corruption there. But here's the thing. We're going to see an increase in that here in the US. If the federal government follows some of these states and in strict credit lending, there's going to be even more shifting into the black market, which means less tax revenue, because if these are transactions, they're going to be happening in the shadows. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Exactly. You're going to create a bigger, so anytime you prohibit or artificially

54:01doctor something, in this case, it's ratecaps, you're going to create a black market for it, which undermines everything, because there's no transparency and it's not secure. It's also extremely dangerous as well. So this is the Trump proposal to cap interest rates on credit cards at 10% of annual fee, 10%. That's the worst case scenario. The best case is, oh man, people are going to be able to afford to live again. It doesn't address the core issue when that is affordability for sure. This kind of plays into it, but it treats the user in the diagnosis and not really the cause and the symptoms of this whole thing. How many politicians? Where's Congress on this whole thing? Is there bipartisan support for it? Or is it pretty much, because it seems like he was working with Elizabeth Warren, I think, Watson wanted to push this. Gavin Newson wanted to push things like this as well too, and they were criticized during the election, and now we're talking about proposing it. So who's forward in Washington? There are definitely Democrats who are supporting this, including Bernie Sanders in the Senate,

55:03and there are some Senate Republicans who are starting to go for this. And I think, again, we, it's good to acknowledge the intention, but good intentions do not equal good outcomes, and we're not over and over. The whole socialist experiment is good intentions that have disastrous outcomes. So we really need to look at this from, you know, what are the better angels of our nature to solve the affordability problem for families? And the term administration is doing amazing things for that end. And that's those are the things that we need to see more in our economy, for example, in B-regulation. Last year, President Trump putting an executive order that if any agency wanted to create one regulation, they had to remove 10 regulations before they could do that. And it's phenomenal because it unleashes competition and unleashes innovation. And, you know, what's really interesting is that in the United States, for example,

56:08we have such a more dynamic system economically compared to the rest of the world. We hit a stock market high last week of 50,000. Of course. And the US market capitalization for our companies here in the US, for our publicly traded companies, it's worth more than $70 trillion. We put that in perspective. The European Union is only 15.7 trillion. For the entire European Union, China is only 11 trillion, Japan less than 7 trillion. So we are orders of magnitude above any other country in the world when it comes to our economy and our innovation. And a big part of that is through what they call animal spirits in economics, which means competition, driving down prices, and credit card rate cap to the opposite of that. So I think it's important, again, not to show anybody for good intention, but to just really

57:12focus on what is working and let's do more of that. Well, yeah, you know, get granted. The idea that the two sides are Trump is the greatest thing ever. He makes no mistakes. And if it is, it's somebody else's fault. And the other side is he's evil. He's a manipulative genius. At the same time, the dumbest man ever to hold the presidency. I don't know how he could be a genius and dumb at the same time. But those are the tired narratives that they far right and far left. The real reality is is I look at this policy and you're right. There are policies that he's enacted and more for that matter that are putting us on the right track. It's not catching up when you do the other tariff thing. For example, that's a long slow burn. I don't know if we've got the patience for it. I don't know quite honestly at this point. How much more we should pursue it because it's driving costs up as well. Among other factors, Wall Street and Main Street, as you know, are two different things entirely. But I'm looking at some of these policies. This one just doesn't make any sense to me. It seems counter to it. I've been shooting yourself in the foot. It sounds good. But once you scratch the surface, it's terrible. Yeah. And there are so many other ways. One thing that we are working on at independent women's place is we are in the process of putting together

58:17a common drive to support the Trump department of labor because last year, President Trump issued an executive order to allow 401k to invest in private equity, which means private real estate deals, startup deals that are private deals that are outside the publicly traded stock market to allow 401k, which means private sector workers to be able to access these deals. And we think it's great because it will, as you, to your point, tear down that wall between Wall Street and Main Street and have more ownership by people in the private sector because currently these private equity deals, they are accessible to public sector pensions, which means well-connected government workers already have access to these deals. And as well as accredited investors, which are high net worth individuals, making above a certain threshold, Trump wants to bring that wall down between Wall Street and Main Street when it comes to private equity. And

59:19private equity has a long track record of a higher return. And when you bring in a different asset class into your 401k, that also improves the safety of it because you have more diversification. And that's one of the first rules of investing is diversify. Yeah. I mean, there's higher risk, but also, I mean, it's higher reward, but also higher risk along that too when you're dealing with private equity. So, but the buyer has to be where it's, it's my money, and I choose to invest it, no matter how conservative or risk of, first I am, there's always an alternative to that as well. That's how it works. Again, she is Kerry Sheffield over at Independent Women's Forum with this. Thanks again, Kerry. Appreciate it. Thanks for having me, God bless. Yeah, this is proposed a couple months ago. And the analysis now, independent analysis, about 10%, the 10%, credit card, interest rate cap that the president proposing would cut credit to about a hundred million American card holders. Maybe you, that is not good. That is not good. We'll get a time out in news on the way this Friday morning continues. Scott Sloan show 700 W.

1:00:21That music means it's almost the week and also means Austin Elmore is here from ESPN 1530s doing a show today at noon. Sports wise, I can think of we've got baseball, got NFL draft coming up. We got NBA playoffs. We got NHL playoffs starting. I know you are big. You are sick for the puck as well, Austin. You are sick for the puck. The Stanley Cup playoffs are always highly entertaining. It really is good. And I was hoping that the Blue Jackets would sneak in with Rick bonus, but they really fell apart. Did you see what bones going off on the team? I did. Yeah. And then he said he's going to change the culture if he comes back if he comes back. And if they have them back. Yesterday they announced he's coming back at least for a year, but that was cool to see. Bones really good. But he was just ripping. It was press conference. I wish an NFL coach you'd do that once a while. Yeah. It sounded like what it sounds like in the, in the room, the way he was calling up guys for accountability, not wanting to show up and play. I mean, it's true for any sport. Yeah. And him doing it at a press conference was like, holy crap.

1:01:23And apparently some of the players took exception to it. It's like, okay, well, you're part of the culture. It's going to get changed, big boy. Yeah, not good. I was kind of hoping they'd make it, but six straight years of missing the playoffs for the Blue Jackets. That's rough. And half the league in the NHL makes the playoffs. It's insane. You know about this is Buffalo Sabers fan who, you know, they finally are in. Finally, after 14 years, Columbus deserves better. I think so. All right. So let's begin Red's Giants. And Red's win the series two one. They just miss out on the sweep. Red's lose it three nothing yesterday held to a one hit and a shut out over the final 14ings that game chase burns look pretty good there. Tell me about the fights. That was awesome. Like I love that early. See that. That's that's, especially against the Giants of all teams. Like got people with giants. Yeah. So Wednesday night, JT Brew Baker is on the mound. Yes. And he's waiting to pitch and Spencer steer calls time and he calls it late, right? As Brew Baker is about to throw the pitch and the umpire grants the time. Yep.

1:02:24And Brew Baker loses his marbles, right? He's hot. He's running hot. He's mad. I can't you got blah, blah, blah. That's Bush league and blah, blah, blah, basically both at the ump and at Spencer steer. Right. And so then the next pitch comes and Brew Baker remains set all the way until one second on the pitch clock, just obnoxiously long. And there's a camera that catches Spencer steer, who's standing there in his stance, say, bleep you, throw the bleeping ball as he's doing this. And so he does and Spencer laces a single to less yield, right? Yep. He stares down Brew Baker. Brew Baker stares down him. That's they don't like each other. Here we go. Next day, first at bat one on one out, Spencer steer comes up. He gets beamed in the rib cage by the Giants pitcher, which okay. All right. Whatever. I did it. The finale is like. First of all, if you're mad because your boy said he threw a couple of F bombs at you that you're going to be in somebody, that's really stupid, right? Whatever. So fast forward to the ninth inning.

1:03:27Reds are non competitive. Connor Phillips is in the game. And Willie Adamus, who's their catcher, comes up and he gets plunked right in the leg by 98 Montaure fastball by Connor Phillips. Eighth inning to Connor Phillips is immediately ejected. We're done here. Bob, Bob, because I think the umpiss you to warning to both teams after steer got hit. So then you go to the ninth inning and South Stewart strikes out to end the game. And as that's happening, the pitcher for the Giants is really fired up. He just got to save. And he says, sit the bleep down in the direction of South Stewart. And so South Stewart says, watch your bleeping mouth. And the next thing, you know, everybody get everybody starts hugging each other and then they go their separate ways. I do not love sales. I love it. I love it. You know, the baseball fights are most of the time really stupid, but they are entertained. But and that's something that that's very hockey. It's gone over the course of a couple of games now. So it builds. And next time they play each other, you're going to have more bad blood. And that's the way it is. It'll be August when they see each other again in San Francisco. But like, hey, I like the attitude that

1:04:32I'll be carrying over there will be, you know what? I like the attitude that Spencer steer brings. The receipts will come out in August. Yeah, I can't wait. Absolutely. I love that. Would love for those to be meaningful games, but they probably won't be because the Giants stick. Yeah. Um, so the bench clearing problem itself is the red stick that going into Minnesota. Um, you know, I heard somebody talking about that. Like I don't know if that translates as like it's not a division rival or something like. No, I don't think so. And you know how it is in baseball momentum is the next day's starting picture, right? Only as good as the next day's starting picture. Well, the reds have historically played pretty good in that ballpark target field up there in Minneapolis. However, it's going to be like 28 degrees there tonight. And the reds don't normally do very well in the cold. It's very cold up in Minnesota by baseball standards. So I hope that that doesn't cool off the reds because, well, I mean, you couldn't get colder and they were offensively yesterday with just one hit. But hopefully that, uh, that doesn't impact them too much and they're able to swing the bats. Well, we think so anyway, too. And that also,

1:05:33hopefully I get Nandole, a Lodolo in there tonight because yeah, right. Yeah. That'd be a great time for him to pitch. Uh, Nick, are you good to go? He's our cold weather. Yeah. He was supposed to face hitters. Maybe yesterday or maybe it's happening today. I don't know, but we'll see. I think he's close. Also, I hope they can, by the way, Hunter Green yesterday started throwing for the first time since his surgery. He posted that on his Instagram 37 days post surgery. Damn. He began throwing for the first time. I think we'll find out more about Hunter's timeline in May. The game on Wednesday, sales steward with two Oppos three round home runs and absolutely crushed them. Nick, of course, he can't score anything yesterday. Go figure. He is hitting like a the rookie of the year. He is hitting like a franchise cornerstone. He's 22 years old. Is it too early to call him the best position player we've had since Vado? Probably too early to do that. I think Ellie, David Cruz is having a really good season. He hasn't been perfect the last couple of days since Vado. I mean, yeah, probably. It's between Ellie

1:06:37and South Stewart right now, but I do think it's a little too early probably. Yeah. This many games he's the most advanced hitter since Vado by far. I mean, his ability to understand how pictures are attacking him, what he can do with certain pitches when he should pull the ball, when he should go the other way. I mean, he's got six opposite field home runs already this season. There wasn't a single red last year all season who had six opposite field home runs and he's done that through the first 17 or 18 games. So his advanced nature as a hitter is the best we've seen since Vado by far. The problem is there's a handful of guys or less that are doing that right now. Everyone else, not so much offense, raking third in major third-first runs in Major League Baseball. You can't continue to lie in the pitching that much. It's no possible. It's not going to happen. You can't. They put a lot of eggs in the basket of pitching in defense and there are going to be times when the pitching you don't have it. Yeah. And the defense maybe makes a mistake and tear free and cone of reference this the other night after the game when they won it eight to three. He's like, it's nice to have a bit of a cushion so that if a guy makes a mistake,

1:07:41it doesn't cost us the game. And that's what so many of the red games have been over the last couple of years is one mistake can cost them a game, could cost them a series, could cost them a playoff spot. And so offensively, if they're able to gel in any way and give themselves a little bit of breathing room, it can really change the trajectory of this season. Oh, the other thing too is the impact is on pitch. I mean, Chase Burns pitches a gem. Yeah. And what's he rewarded with? And L in, you know, talking about a young guy in the influence there, I got a problem with that because, you know, at the very least, you got to support him with some runs here. Get blanked at home. It's no good. Very similar to the first couple of starts at Chase Burns this year to what we saw for a lot of Paul skiing early on in his career where the pirates just couldn't score runs. And they've obviously turned that around in the Pirates or good team this year, especially with their pitching and with their offense. But yeah, I mean, it's it's the same situation. But I think in a way, it can be a good thing that those pitchers know, hey, I got to stay focused. I got to stay locked in. I can't slip up or else it could cost us the game. There's

1:08:42pressure that comes with that. There's stress that comes with that. But also, I think that can also bring the best out of those guys. And I think what's good is a guy like Ret Louder for example, the other night, Reds get that cushion. And he changes his approach a little bit more over the plate, less trying to strike guys out, let your defense play behind you. He was really efficient and went deep into that game. That can help your pitching in a big way. Yeah. Speaking of pitching real quick, Emilio Pagan, what's the steps with the hamstring? Because I saw I was watching the game that night on and you saw wins coming off the model. Like, oh, that's not going right in the clubhouse immediately. Turns out it's a hamstring. What's the standard? Yeah, he said he felt it grab didn't say it felt it like pool and said he didn't have pain and he's thrown since then. So I think they dodged the bullet. I think he just kind of felt it on that pitch. But it wasn't something with a bunch of pain. He didn't pitch the other day. I would assume he'll be good to go this way. Okay. Yes. Yeah. You don't want to the reds haven't said anything. So I don't think we'll see him to 20 degrees. Yeah. I'm gonna say tonight. I don't know if we'll see him tonight. And also Brady Singer took a ball off the foot. Right. X-rays came back negative. So he should be

1:09:43that was scary. Yeah. I mean, if that were up a little higher smoke. Do you imagine ankle or something like that? Yeah. Rough. Absolutely. Rough. All right. So we're talking about their lack of production. Ellie did the cruise has been pretty decent in the field so far. Pretty big air the other night. Yeah. You know, he looked to me the last couple of days like a guy who needs a day off. Yeah. And that was one of the things that was one of the storylines going into this season. Ellie played all 162 and there were times down the stretch last year where he was unhealthy and where he just wasn't good enough. And part of it looked to be fatigue and part of it looked to be injury. And Frank Kona has talked about there are going to be days where Ellie's going to get a day off. He's played in I think the fourth most consecutive games by a red since 1960 something. It's like Pete Rose Iron Rose and Barry Larkin and then Ellie De La Cruz. And I appreciate that from Ellie. But also if you're starting to have a mistake in the field, if you're looking at pitches down the middle, Ellie offensively has been pretty good. Damn good. I just wonder if okay, now would be a good time. You don't have an off day for a

1:10:47little while. Maybe give Ellie a break, especially if it's cold outside. It doesn't play well in the cold. Maybe now's the time to give Ellie a bit of a day off. Yeah. That's what I thought it was going to happen on this home stand. I really did. Now on the road, maybe maybe on the road. Yeah. Tonight it's Williamson Goen. He has been the weakest link. I think in the chain, I regret it. You know, you've got two year guys out at this point. His ERA is just over five. Muses Becky's going to turn it around sometime and you hope this would be it. I thought the reds were going to come into Minnesota and really just kind of blow the brakes off these dudes. Just because Minnesota, I mean, they shetted all their payroll. They fired their manager like they've actively not trying to win. And offensively, they've been really good so far this season. And they're tied for first place in the A.L. Central. They're playing really good right now. Brandon Williams and the thing with him is throwing the ball over the plate and being more pitch efficient. Too many times nibbling around the edge, not being able to locate that fastball, and then you can't locate the fastball. You can't use the pitches off of it. Yeah. It's got to start early by locating that fastball and preventing running that pitch count up

1:11:50and walking dudes. That's been the biggest issue. If he does that, I like their chances. He tried to say, yeah, he said their chances. I like their chances. Bradley goes tomorrow night for them. And he's good at pictures you're going to face this year. Yeah. I mean, let me tell you the biggest thing that is annoying me about baseball right now already through the first 20 games. Oh, they've played some good pitchers. It's the major freaking leagues. Those dudes get paid to like you should we just quit on the season because when you get to the playoffs, you know what, you're going to face Shohei Otani. You're going to face the best pitchers in baseball. You're going to you might face Paul schemes and the playoffs. You're going to have to find a way to score runs against good pitchers. So I I'm so sick of that already. Oh, they face Garrett crochet on opening day tough assignment. Well, yeah, it is. Yeah. But can you can you draw a walk? Can you get a blunt hit? Can you sacrifice fly? Can you steal a base? Like there are ways to score runs. Here's the test though. Do the other team say, well, we were facing Ladola. We're facing

1:12:51burns. We're facing hunter green. I mean, do they say the same thing? Because it's like that's baseball. Yeah, they should. I mean, like I get it. Like you're not going to be good every single night. Every time you face Paul schemes, every time you face Bradley, every time you face these guys, you're not going to go up for six, seven runs. And some nights they're going to have bad nights. Yeah, exactly. That's the game. Yeah, that's part of it. But like you can't just say, oh, it's it's those guys are good. Tough luck. Well, they throw an underhanded. Why do we even play the games then this level? Alright, let's win the NL Central, but we're not going to play in the postseason because they have good pitching. They pull Reese Hines in to kind of shake things up. Yeah. I like the aggressiveness of it. But you know, if you think you're going to go from Triple A Louisville to the big club and just take where you left off that rarely happens. You've unlocked pet peeve number two people around baseball will note they will tell you there has never been a bigger discrepancy between Triple A and the major leagues. And everybody wants to cite what Reese Hines has done at Triple A over and over and over again. And that's cool and good for him. And I think there are things there that you can really look towards being a

1:13:52improvement for Reese Hines. But I do not give a you know what about what a player does at the minor league level. I care about what they do at the big league level. Reese Hines has not seen many fastballs because he hasn't proven that he can hit off speed pitching at the big league level. felt like he was pressing a little bit through the first three games. This is a dude that has played has what like maybe 115 played appearances in his big league career. It's way too early to give up on him. And the red should give him some runway. But so far it looks like the same Reese Hines who struggling with those off-speed pitches. And it's a lot different at the triple. Yeah. Moose live. That's real quick. We and we got time for next week. But the NFL draft coming up top 30 visits coming into town. You got one guy who's an episode. The other guy was this is a great story. He had to take a Uber from the sense of how about that's great. So you got to get these visits done by a certain time. And so the Bengals were like, well, your flight guy canceled. We're just going to send you an Uber. And it probably cost them a lot more than a flight would

1:14:57have costs. And I imagine they had the tip. And I would love to get in contact with the super driver and find out about that experience. But what's interesting about it is it's a guy by the name of Kaelin Black, who is a second string backup running back for the Indiana Hoosiers. It's not like you're doing that for Jeremiah Love or Carnell Tater. David Bailey or R. Vell Reese. You're you're doing that for a backup running back from Indiana. So the Bengals are clearly interested in this guy. And we're able to get that done. But yeah, a little bit out of character for the Bengals real quick. The big wet dream right now is Dexter Lawrence. What did you say? Wet dream. Wet dream. A Dexter Lawrence coming. Orlando, Bronjooner. We got to get Dexter Lawrence. We're going to get Dexter. They should. They should trade with Dexter Lawrence. Well, there go. He's asking prices too much. Well, that's the thing. He wants a $30 million per year deal. He's only 28 years old. He's an all pro. He would fix your defensive line immediately. I think he's worth giving up the 10th pick for honestly. I think he's worth giving up the second pick. The 40% overall. He rather than the way the Bengals draft. And that very well. Correct. I think they should do it. But I don't think they will.

1:16:01Today on ESPN 50. I might even say if the Bengals traded for Dexter Lawrence, they're going to win the Super Bowl. I might even go as that far a little much. Well, I might some. Let me think about it. This is why he does three hours of talk because it's about. It's the hook sexy. Dexie. Yes. It's the hook that brings you back. Yeah. I'm going to show what? It's also no more Tony. Tony Pikes since he 360 today. No, Tony. Charlie Goldsmith at one o'clock. He'll give us the latest on the reds and whatever that was that happened with the Giants yesterday. Tommy G on FC Cincinnati. We'll stop by. We'll talk extensively about the draft and so much more. And Scott. Yeah. This coming Thursday at Dickman's. I will be a part of the NFL drafts. That's spectacular. It'll be Lance and Rocky. It'll be Tony and Moe. It'll be me and the Chester. The best from 10 to midnight at Dickman's. I hope everyone will come out on the night of the draft. I sure hope so. Yeah. There's nothing more citing. And one more thing since I won't talk to you again until Friday. Yeah. Maybe I might have you in Thursday Thursday in studio. Yeah.

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1:20:06head to downtown this weekend, a little heads up. Ice 75 Southbound is shutting down again, starting tonight this time. We actually have someone with answers. ODOT's Kathleen Fuller joining the show this morning at 700WOW. And what's what to expect, how long it goes on. And what the Brentspence bridge project quarter, what the whole thing means at this point, because now we're just getting into it here. Kathleen, welcome. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? I'm doing fine. We have long and long and long for a long time here. We have bitched about the Brentspence bridge for years. As long as I've been here, which is a long, long time, the Brentspence bridge has always been tired and broken. And now we're fixing the whole corridor. And this is what it looks like. So the Lynn Street Bridge part, it was torn down last week and you're closing things down. I think at 11 o'clock tonight through 5 a.m. on Monday, in order to complete that project. And that's about around three miles. I think Lynn Street, the western hillside. So if you drive to 85, you see half that thing being torn down right now. And it looks kind of cool, actually. Like we're not going to step down. We're making progress. Or maybe it's a some sort of weird dystopian future.

1:21:07I'm not quite sure. So what is it other than doing that, redoing that? What does that mean? The overpasses are being done. And what are you doing? Actually, what's it going to look like when it's finished? Okay. So it is kind of hard to describe in a way, just without visuals. But this is going to really change kind of that face. It's one of the first things we're doing to kind of change that face and change that corridor in downtown Cincinnati and all along I-75. So with the replacement project, what we're doing on Lynn Street is a total reconstruction. We are replacing the existing structure. Obviously, it's half of it's gone. And what we're going to do is put in a two-lane bridge. It's going to have two 10-foot driving lanes with buck lanes and sidewalks on each side. And there's going to be some reconfiguring with West Corg and with Mitchell Avenue and also on the other side over the Guest Street side. We are also replacing the pedestrian bridge over Mitchell Avenue. So all of these things that we're doing is going to be a part of the Greater Plan. I believe it's the City of Cincinnati State

1:22:09to Central Street Project, which I really can't speak about that because again, that's the City of Cincinnati Project. But it's a part of the Greater Plan. Not just with that project, but also with all of the improvements that we're doing from the, basically, the Western Hills Viaduct all the way south. And we get to the companion bridge and crossing over into Kentucky with the new companion bridge to complement the Brent Spence bridge. Gotcha. How long is it going to take to do the Lynn Street reconstruction? So the total project schedule calls, it'll be basically about three and a half, well, no three years. I believe it total completion is May of 29. But the Lynn Street bridge itself should be completed, that component should be completed by the end of 27. So like a year and a half, it's a 570 day closure for Lynn Street. There will be a lot of other work that's going to be taking place on each side of Lynn Street once we get the bridge completed. But the rest of the reconstruction project itself is about a year and a half. Okay, so you're talking about shutting down

1:23:11a portion of the arguably, maybe the second outside of the East Coast, the second biggest north-south freeway in the United States for a weekend here. So if you've got to go that way, now that's northbound, it should not be affected other than maybe a gapers delay or thing slow down, but on the way down from Cincinnati. So if you're going southbound, where are you rerouting traffic for that? So all the through traffic, the heavy truck traffic really should take the Norwood lateral to I-71 south. But we are keeping all the access points open with the exception of two entrance ramps. So if you are between the Norwood lateral, say if you're coming in from Mitchell, I-74 heading east, a pop-all street, you still have access along I-75. The hard closure will be at Freeman Avenue, exit 1F, and that exit will remain open. So if you have not departed the interstate by then, you will have to get off at Freeman Avenue. But again, we're trying to encourage all the heavy truck traffic and the through traffic motorists to just basically take the detour and go around because we're going to be putting a lot of people,

1:24:12a lot of motorists out on local streets, and that's going to back up traffic there and slow things down before the people that want to travel safe to the museum center or any place in downtown or in Queen's Gate, wherever you might be going, price hill, wherever you might choose on either side of the interstate. So again, that we do have a find through traffic route, but we do keep keeping everything open and maintaining as much access and all those access points that we can. Okay, she is Kathleen Fuller with ODOT shutting down 75 this weekend. I said, shutting Southbound 75 down this weekend going, what, the second weekend or last weekend, weren't pretty smooth though, didn't it? It went really well. Now, weather was really a good friend for us. It worked very well because the contractors did reopen Northbound 75. Based on about 24 hours early, a full day earlier than what was planned. Now this weekend, I'm going to give everybody the caveat. Don't expect that to happen because we're looking at some bad weather. They are going to go forward. They're going to keep working. But they may have to pull the crews off the work depending upon the weather and how bad it gets.

1:25:14If there's lightning, if there's heavy winds, high winds, they won't be able to do any work. So it will slow things down potentially, but they will get out there tonight at 11 o'clock, get things started as far as shutting down the interstate. And they're going to work as much as they can when the weather permits. And then it is scheduled to be reopened by 5 a.m. Monday. All right, so the long street is done. But of course, this is part of the whole quarter project for the Brent Spence Bridge. It's just one piece of it here. Because the next one, I'll let you lay it out too, because I know the Western Hills Viaduct Interchange, that's getting done as your Charles and a bunch of others as well. So what's the timeline and what are we talking about here? So when we talk about the entire corridor, we have to kind of remind everybody that we have three, I call them segments. Three segments. We have the main companion bridge, which is when we talk about the Brent Spence Bridge, we talk about the new companion bridge. And some improvements up to Lin Street in Ohio. And then of course, there are multitude of improvements that will be taking place in Kentucky

1:26:15down toward Dixie Highway. In Ohio, though, beyond Lin Street, we have four separate projects that are part of the entire corridor. And again, these are separate from the Brent Spence Bridge companion project. So Lin Street is just the first of four projects. We also have the Western Hills Viaduct. That'll be on the north end of everything. Where we're going to reconstruct that interchange and tie into the city's project for the Viaduct. Then we also will be doing as are Charles reconstruction. That'll come a little bit later. That's probably not going to start for several years. I mean, we're looking at possibly 2030 before that starts. The Viaduct, we're looking about 2030 before that starts. And then in the end, we will do the final reconstruction of I-75 to basically widen it out. Tie in all of the work that's taking place to the south and kind of bring it all into, right, they basically bring it to the final completion. And again, that's not going to happen for several years, but when we get to do this final improvements on I-75.

1:27:18The whole 75 project is expected. What was it, 2035, I believe, right around there or later? Yeah, 2033 to 2035 is a pretty good ballpark for completion. I would prefer to say like a lot of this total corridor, everything which would include, as are Charles, which includes the widening of I-75. It includes all of the work. We're looking at probably another nine years before everything is done. Wow. Another nine, before it's done and drivable again. And it's weird because you drive 75. Now you go Brent spends bridge and a long word haul. It's like, whoa, yeah, they blew that up. Well, half of it anyway. I'm getting ready for this whole project. And so, yeah, things are getting done finally. And that's the big picture thing. The other element of this, too, is the project description. 11 acres, I believe, is what it is. It's going to be freed up for development. Is that the city of Cincinnati or the county? Who controls it? How much hand do you have in that? Are you just so, here's the keys to the land. Do what you wish. I believe that's going to be the city of Cincinnati. I would have to defer to Matt and some of the others.

1:28:18But I'm pretty sure that's going to be that's a developer land will be turned over to the city. Now, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's over to the city. I know my good friends on the west side are loving this. This is the fact that the western hills viaduct interchange is going to get done. That's not starting until I think 2030. But it, and it's about time because I think the west side gets ignored, maybe not by ODOT. But it just adds that sense and a feeling. And once this is all done, a new viaduct is in. I think it's going to be really interesting. Can you, what that means for the people in the west end over the Rhine, that whole area as well? But, but, you know, we're really, you know, a part of this project of all of these projects is really about reconnecting those communities, reconnecting downtown to the west side, reconnecting, you know, whether it is the west end, Queen's Gate, you know, which, and then all of these projects tying them together because we're making pedestrian improvements, we're making bicycle improvements, we're making a lot of other improvements. I mean, as a Charles, as a Charles reconstruction, that's what a great example about kind of improving those connections

1:29:20between the west end and the Cincinnati Museum Center, we're going to be making improvements to some of the local streets, you know, like on western Avenue, Guest Street, Wenshaw Avenue, and really enhance the collector distributed system that we're talking about because, you know, when we build the new companion bridge, we're taking that interstate traffic and putting it over to the new bridge, and then we'll have the existing Brent Spence will be a part of the collector distributor system. So, people will be able to make those choices if you want to stay in the downtown areas of, you know, Cincinnati, Coveington, and you want to be, you know, have those connections that you can make more easily. Or, if you're not, if you're traveling through, if you're coming from, you know, Michigan and you're traveling south, you know, you'll be able to do that very easily and more efficiently over the interstate system and the new bridge. And so, there's a lot that's going to take place and a lot that's going to happen. If it's going to be a long ride, I don't want to say a long road ahead of us, but a long ride, but it's going to be a good one. And it is going to make things, you know, not only is it going to make things better for motorists,

1:30:22but it's really going to enhance the heart of the city, the heart of, you know, our connections to, across the Ohio River, to our friends in Kentucky. And it's, you know, we're really making the, trying to do what we can to make those improvements and reconnect the communities where those connections have been lost for so long. Kathleen Fuller with ODOT in the Scottslunch of 700 W-W-W-75, at Lens Street, that Southbound 75 shutdown, starting at 11 o'clock tonight to the weekend, back online at the latest, 5 a.m. Monday, and it might be shorter than that. It was last week and second. Out of two weekends are doing the Lens Street overpass, and then all these other pieces of the puzzle lead up to the Brent Spence Bridge. It's all part of the corridor project. It's like, I can't really mention Ezra Charles' drive, and that one jumps off the page because of the price tag. It's like $441 million. That's the biggest single piece there. What makes that that stretch so expensive? Well, I'm going to have to look a little bit more into that, to look at the funding and look at those numbers. But a lot of it is we are going to be capping the highway over I-75.

1:31:23We're going to be reconstructing Ezra Charles' drive. Over I-75, we're going to be widening it and capping it. Again, that's going to blend. That's going to add to that price tag. When we get down, these are just estimates that we have out there right now. As we move forward and these projects get further designed, when we're talking about the I-75 reconstruction on all of the work that we're going to be doing on the main line, when we talk about Ezra Charles as well, as the western hills, so I ducked interchange. Those price tags are going to get refined. And we're going to be able to clearly define what that means in terms of the dollars and cents as we go forward. So we've got a good bit of work to do. And a good kind of a long, again, I hate to use that phrase a long road ahead of us, but we will talk more about those numbers as we move forward. Well, for some of you not want to use that word, you sure use that word to help a lot, Kathleen Longworth. No, I can't, you know what? Because it works, you just say it's right. But I work for ODOT, you know what can I say? I mean, you know, and I, you know, I'll say, you know,

1:32:24when we get down, we get, you know, when all of this is said and done, when everything is looking good and we're wrapping things up, I'll just say, we'll see all that construction, it's all water under the bridge. Oh my God. I'll use another one for you. You got the mom jokes all ready to go here. Yeah, well, you know, I can't use dad jokes. Anyway, if you want to remind everybody that with tonight's closure, you know, the section that's closed, it's between Freeman Avenue and people can re-enter at the ninth street, eighth street, by a duct, you will be able to re-enter 75 South. So depending on where you are, and obviously if you're coming off of, if you're on the Freeman Avenue and you're over on that Queensgate side, you can re-enter off of sixth street or 50 River Road at whatever name you call it, you can re-enter there. So there are re-entry points. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, and I think maybe it's so expensive as a Charles thing is because, yeah, you're capping that, which, you know, if you look at Fort Washington, it's designed for that. We haven't done that yet. And at some point that probably is going to happen. But I would think same for a cross as are Charles because you know, you can drive as are Charles

1:33:24and get to museum center. But that whole area is largely unused. That's going to reclaim some land there because in, you know, back in the 60 or 50s, I guess I should say, when Eisenhower is putting the interstate highway system in, that went right through the middle of an area, predominantly black area too. And it ripped that community apart, literally divided in half. He couldn't access one side to the other anymore. And, you know, to your point on the West End, that's the problem. The West Side is the same thing with the Western Hills Viaduct. It's a choke point. And so this is going to open everything up and make those communities more accessible and a little, a little, and connected for that matter too. And reclaim some space. As I'm guessing back in the day, we didn't have that technology when the interstate highway system went to do what we're doing now. Right. There was a different mentality about constructing interstates and people weren't thinking, they weren't going to be forward thinking. There was just the way it was and it's not an excuse. It's just the explanation. And, you know, what we're doing with this project, you know, this isn't just about building a new bridge. I mean, obviously that's the thrust of everything. And we've been talking about I-75 widening.

1:34:25And we talk about the congestion. And all of those needs for the transportation system is a whole, but we are also putting in the aesthetics. We're looking at the city centers. We're looking at those downtown cores and trying to make sure that we keep all of that in mind in the design of all of this. So, and we're creating some good, walkable, and if you're using a bicycle, a rideable, you know, pathways for people. We are making those connections happen so that you don't just have to be in a car. You can, you know, you've got walkable space. And again, it's really going to, again, there's going to be a lot of aesthetic treatment that is done to the work that we're doing. And, you know, it'll make things not just, again, not just about moving vehicles, not just about moving cars and trucks, but it's also about connecting for all people in, you know, in downtown Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky. How difficult is it to coordinate all of this construction timelines? So, like, for example, the Western Hills Viaduct, that's a separate city project, but it's concurrent with yours.

1:35:27And how do you do that? So, one project doesn't lap over a block another. Well, it's a lot of communication. A lot of internal communications, you know, we are working with the city with the folks at the DOT. It's been great to work with them. And, you know, just like with what we're doing with this project, we've got two states working on a single project. We are all working together. And there's a lot of communication. And that's what it talks, what you have to do is just really open up that conversation with everyone. And can make those, take those things into consideration, you know, about not just the project itself, the design of the project, but also the funding and how these things can work together. And, you know, we are this Linth Street project, again, it is separate from the Brent Spence Bridge project. It is separate from the Companion Bridge. So, the contractors for this project are communicating with the contractors for Brent Spence. Those things are going to work together. One of the reasons we're starting the Linth Street project, and it's been pulled out separately and started early, is because there's a median peer that has to be relocated

1:36:27to coordinate the meant, made the traffic plan for the Companion Bridge. So, those things are at play all the time. So, it's a lot of just a lot of communications, just a lot of, you know, coordination with the, whether it's with our contractors or with the city, with the county, it's with everyone. It's just communication. That's what comes down. We like to over-communicate what we're doing. We are officially inside the decade of disruption and destruction that's going to lead to the rebuilding the Brent Spence Bridge corridor. And hopefully, we're all around for that. We don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, but another roughly 10 years or so, we'll have a nice, shiny, new corridor. And it's about time, because people are tired of the traffic on the Spence. Right, we're hearing from a lot of folks that they want to see us just build it. And I think that they're going to be very happy. We're getting work started. And again, Lin Street is just the first of many projects, but again, it's a, and, you know, yes, there are closures. There are impacts to the communities right now. You know, we've done, Winchall, excuse me, are Ezra Charles,

1:37:27depending on the sign says Ezra Charles on that ramp that goes off the 75 on the east side. And of course, we have guest street on the west side. Those closures are in place. They're going to be in place for a good while. And there are impacts to the local communities. And we know that it's, it is challenging, but we are going to do our best to try and mitigate those and communicate them with everybody. So they know what's happening. And before it happens, and, you know, and just be very honest and direct about, direct about that approach to things. So we appreciate everybody's patience, but this has been a long time coming. And I think people are going, you know, the excitement is there. And we're excited about it. All right, she is the queen of the shovel and the orange cone. That's Kathleen Fuller holding it down at Oda district, the queen of district. Thanks again for coming on the show. You have a great weekend. Thank you, you too. All right, appreciate it. Again, 75th outbound Lins Street will be close starting 11 p.m. night through my early Monday morning, just FYI. This is what progress looks like. Friends, this is what we wanted. Careful, what you wish for. You might just get it. 700 WL. But weekends coming up and you need to make the most of it.

1:38:31Where to go and what to do. She has the tips and insight to help you make it a super weekend. So listen up. This is the local loop with Ali Mark on 700 WLW. Good morning, Alison. How's life? How's everything? Life is great. I took over off this morning. Why? Even started working at the mall. Do you go mall? I am yourself. You know, I do love a good thing. I know you do. Summer shining. I am a self-proclaimed barista. So I made a latte this morning. So I've jacked up on caffeine. Ready to go. Life is good. Let's go. Let's go. We're talking off air before. Is your issues with peanut butter? Okay. Can we, we need to talk about this? Because you got your head stuck in the jar again. That's it. My, my hand, my head, everything, my, my life is always stuck in a peanut butter jar. Because I could eat one thing for the rest of my life. It is peanut butter. And I'm very sure it has to be natural. And can only have peanuts. And it can only have salt. But I've got beef right now. We love crogric because it's in our backyard. But they, they made some changes.

1:39:33Whatever crogric did to their natural peanut butter, it's not the same. It's almost sound. It almost tastes like they added more salt. And I can tell. Wow. And I'm not. You're angry. Happy. Are you shopping for a new brand? So I do love Costco natural peanut butter. But it's more of a hike. And it's also a 55 gallon drum. Oh, well, that's not an issue. Oh, no. You go through that kind of thing. Do you want to know how I calculated how many servings of peanut butter I had my freshman year of college? I can't believe I'm saying this. You do what? I calculated because I, I kept all of my, who's so stupid. I knew how many jars of peanut butter I bought on average. I was eating nine servings of peanut butter a day, a day. Wow. Thank goodness. I'm tall. Holy cow. That's a lot of calories. You know, we really cut back nine jars. No, nine servings. That's a lot nine servings. That's not including diving into all of them. I don't know, but some of them. Servings aren't real either. It's like, okay, you open a bag of chips. It's like 13 servings. That's a weird number. First of all, and like it's two servings. You also open a bag of chips and it's mostly air.

1:40:35So well, I mean, that's, but there's a, that's a whole other thing. Yes, certainly. I'll defend it. You'll defend it. Yeah, it has to do with product freshness and also making sure your cryptic chips don't get broken. If you don't want broken chips, get cringles. Do you remember when sun chips had the really crinkly bag? They tested it. It's a sun chip guy. Neither of mine, but it was, I don't know. It's probably about like eight or 10. It's maybe a decade at this point, but they tried to do the friendly sustainability and the bags were so loud and so crinkly. I don't know why it's so sick. I don't know, anyway, anyway, all right. Well, there you go. Well, here's another food item that has, that isn't pissing me off this week. That really has brought me a tremendous amount of joy, which I feel like you're going to oh my god. You you sent me a picture. Oh, doesn't oh my god. Here we go. Listen to this. Italian beef. So there's a new joy. Chicago beef, right? Chicago beef. Chicago's out like the bear, right? Like the bear. Like the bear.

1:41:35But it's a new deli off of Riverside Drive. Yeah. And it used to be in that old spot called Emma, which was a you serve yourself wine bar. But now it's called knuckles deli. And it's a Chicago style deli right here in Cincinnati. It's three owners, uh, two guys who are from Chicago, but you know, funny enough they went to Xavier. Let's go. All right. And then another guy David who has always been in the hospitality restaurant bar world. And they've come together to create this joint and the food, the Italian beef. It is so good, so authentic. Uh, you can get it in hot or mild, right? So it's either dry, wet or dipped. I started. I like to control my sandwich. So I went with dry like to the dip it yourself. Okay. I like to dunk it in there. I don't want the whole thing drenched because I'm weird about you get to the end of it. It gets soggy. I get it. I'm weird about that. Okay. And, um, yeah, obviously you can order in all different ways. And they have other sandwiches like the turkey club and a pesto

1:42:38and a prosciutto. I'm worth the dela. And they're really excited. It hasn't launched yet, but they're doing a vodka meatball parm. That's what they think is going to come in as like the second rather than a regular marinara. And I'm jazz. I'm there for that. Whenever I order pasta, like, vodka sauce. Yeah. And it was. It was a hot thing for a while back in the hots, I think. And then it kind of cooled off. And now, yeah, I know. Good vodka sauce is nice. Good. And it's all authentic. The Jarnair to add a little bit of, you know, heat to it. That's the key right there. I could eat that stuff by the bucket load. So do you prefer them putting it on your Italian beer? Yeah, I have no problem with that. No, put it on, that's fine. And I have to go spicy. I have control issues. Yeah, okay. Well, yeah, obviously. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, I need to control the spice. I need to control the heat in the room. And the most admirable of all your character flaws is one of my say, hey, I can admit it. Oh, my list is probably three times as big as yours.

1:43:38Nonetheless, oh, Italian beef hits. So when it's good, it's awesome. And it was hot. I mean, it was hot. The dip was hot. So I'm going to put together. I don't know why. I'm on the sandwich hunt. I'm usually kind of anti sandwich. Really? No, no, no. I'm turning into a... These are the glory days of Sam. I mean, there's so many sandwich places in the world because it's cheaper and it fills you up. That's why. There's money issues. Maybe that's why. I'm turning, I don't know why. I'm leaning into... I know that my mouth is dripping like a dog right now. Sorry, I didn't bring you up. Oh my god, that looks amazing. I got her down there getting in. That's where, where is this again? So it's off of Riverside. Their hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and they do have two TVs which are going to be running for games and stuff. They're supposed to be getting their liquor license today. Talked about partnering up with Middle West for wheat whiskeys. They're a big J-mo guy. So Jameson's going to be there. They'll have a full tap. All that jazz. And then there's like soups and salads and pasta salads and whatnot. Columbia, Tuscalo. Yeah, close to Columbia, Tuscalo. Okay, cool. Awesome. Yeah, drowsed.

1:44:38Love it. I think it's supposed to rain. I go back and mess with that meatball parm because that's a tough one to do. If you can pull off a meatball parm. The meatball parm, yeah. So they're not serving it yet because some of the electricals still get wired up. But once that's all fired up in the equipment. Let's go. Okay. I'm down. They're rocking. They're so knuckles. Knuckles. I love the name. Delhi. Yeah. From the studs up. Okay. Another big announcement this week. King's Island's opening. Good to know. I like. I have a pass. Are you ready to go? You got the alphabet. How many times you're going to go to King's Island? We're okay. So boy from Brandon, and I were talking about going. If it doesn't rain. Tomorrow. Wow. Okay. We used to be a weatherman. So yeah. What he doesn't know. The forecast anymore. That's all I can do. Can you look into that? Because I'm hyped. Yeah. King's Island's opening. They're bringing back the phantom theater. So is it used to be the phantom theater is what I remember as a kid. It was from 92 to 2002.

1:45:40And then I think it became the boobusters or the ghost thing. So they're bringing back that whole story line. A lot of those returning characters. So if you remember it back in the day, just revamped. And then I guess the beast got some retracking done. Sure. So some riders might feel the difference there. You could still get your passes. I'm just hyped. You're ready to go. I am. I haven't had a chance to ride Orion yet. I'm a roller coaster junkie. At least I was. But I'm 33 now. Will you do the water park? Yeah. I will. I do say yes now. But I feel like now that I'm in my 30s that could maybe change. All right. All right. But I'm still excited. And also how my body reacts to roller coasters now might change. It's going to. I think I was in. Do you think I'm in a need a chiropractor? I think no, no. So here would happen. I noticed. I think I want to say it was after like 40 I think is one. Because I love the same thing. And I took my when my daughter was still in school.

1:46:42You know, we'd go every year. We'd just take the day off and go. And we did the coasters. And I remember getting the octopus that spins around. Oh my god. I hate that. Right. So I get I'm like, I love those things. I get on it. And we're the first ones in line. And so we get on and they, you know, they spin you before they load everybody else. Yeah. Right. I'm like, oh, I was doing the figure skating thing where you do fixed point and then spin around and fix. And I was getting nauseous AF. And the ride haven't started yet. I'm like, oh my god. Okay. First and foremost, that ride is so particular. Could you ride that prior? Yeah. No problem. Okay. And then something and then every ride, even the roller coaster goes like, oh my god. I was awful. So spinny rides. That's a no. That's a no even. Since I don't know. Total whirling stuff. Those are fun. No, there's something about. I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is to do it anymore. I may maybe should try to get. Maybe it's an interviewer thing at the time. You just say when. You know, I got to go. There's probably going to bring a friend free day. You know, be my friend. Oh, yeah. I'll be your friend. Come on. It's great. You know, it's got his mask. You don't need family affair. Come on. All right. Let's do it.

1:47:42Let's get drunk and get on the spinny ride. What could go wrong? And I'm going to eat, you know, we'll go first. We'll go get like, we'll eat two Italian beefs. Then we'll get drunk and at the park. And then we'll get on the spinny ride. I am so sorry for anyone who is behind me. It's not going to be followed. I don't understand how people can drink. Yeah, I don't know. No, I am so it's also there's a point where you're walking on it. So damn hot. I just want water. Water and ice cream. There's something that I can't do. It cold beer tastes great, but there's something about when you're at a amusement park. Like I just by the time you take two or three steps, it's a worm. It's a headache for me. So I'll bring the IV program. I got you. So we'll be numb. All right. And you can be my friend. What could go wrong? We'll be friends at a friend friend friend friend. I'm down. I'll be at an awesome day. That would be awesome. All right. Yes, I'm so excited. I'm going to look it up and I'll let you know. All right, let me know. Yeah. Stop. Let me know. All right. She's at Allie Martin eight. And of course, a good drama with Allie Martin on YouTube and everywhere. Entertainment Assault.

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