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after eleven o'clock. We can fit you in. Of course. Also a good news for NKU fans. The Norse nearly doubled up. This is insane. I think it's the most they've ever scored in a game of hoops. One twenty six sixty nine winners over UC Claremont, and that was the truest arena. So the Cougars of Claremont U see going back there and not feeling good about their trip to Northern Kentucky. The marist Red Foxes were at Sintas taking on the Musketeers, Xavier handling them sixty six sixty

two at Sintas. That's a win for the Bearcats, a win for the Musketeers, a win for the Norse and the Dayton Flyers all over Canisius's Golden Griffins you deer in earlier eighty eight forty eight, So those are all good, and then of course yesterday there was the devastating, heartbreaking I'm trying not to be as emotionally engaged as it's just debilitating Otherwise, the Bengals with a tough loss, and a really tough loss for a lot of us who

grew up listening to seven hundred WLW who were Bengals fans. Bob Trumpy some would call him the godfather of sports talk radio. Announcement that he passed away over the weekend and apparently surrounded by family. We will talk to Lance McCallister just after ten o'clock about Bob, as well as George Vogel, former sports director at Channel five WLWT, going to join us about ten thirty five to talk about Bob Trumpy, huge shoes and voice behind the microphone, just

a good guy. I'll let these guys tell the story because they knew him, they worked around him, aside from me just growing up listening and then once I came into this building, or at least the building in Mount Adams when we were there years ago. He had already moved on to be doing NFL stuff full time on TV and radio, but occasionally would pop in the building.

And you know, it's one of these things that you grew up listening to this radio station, you end up working in the building or working on the air here at the Big One, and I was doing FM stuff. I'm not even sure. I had probably started to do some stuff here fill ins and otherwise on seven hundred WLW at that point, So Trumpy would be in the building on occasion, the way so many other people you see, like Johnny Bench, you know, you see anybody and everybody.

Pete Rose randomly, you know, James Brown randomly. It's just sort of a crazy thing, especially growing up as a fan. Right In a couple of handful of times that we actually conversed, he was always very polite. I don't think he really knew who I was, because I was literally like a fly on the wall and the long haired FM music guy from upstairs at the time who would sort of like be bouncing around the building and sort

of bumped into him and others. But he was always very polite, very friendly, and obviously fantastic to listen to. And I know Lance will have a lot to say about him, as will George Vogel. And my heart goes out to his Family's had just a brilliant life, a career and seemed to just be really everything you'd want to be as an individual and a family man and so forth. A little bit that I actually knew of him, So that'll be good coming up in just a little

bit tomorrow's election day. Also, if you hadn't heard, they're

expecting a whopping twenty five. In fact, maybe if they reached thirty percent of those eligible voters to actually go to the polling place is tomorrow, or to have already cast their ballot in early voting, if not mailing it in thirty percent would be like a massive turnout for this sort of in between election, even though it is for a lot of council seats in Cincinnati and a mayor's race as well, and a lot of stuff sort of on the ballot or randomly around the tri state,

around the country for that matter, too. So we will

talk on that just a little bit, you know. And I'm curious and I don't know, I'm just wondering because you talk to people and you listen to talk shows maybe, and you know on social media and so much is political, so much is all about it, all that, and you know how important the elections are, and you know the need for a better policing in Cincinnati, for instance, and what's gone on with the police chief and her on the sideline and then somebody else being brought you know, in,

or at least bumped up in the organization to sort of handle things while the so called independent investigation is taking place, and the question of policing and the judiciary and how judges are handling things in the plan as far as you know, being tougher on crime or otherwise. So all of this is sort of you know, bubbling up is a part of what one would think would be something fairly serious to get people out to vote.

We're can open up the phones, give you a chance to sound off five point three seven four nine, seven thousand, eight hundred, the big one, you can talk back the iHeartRadio app. I'm just curious because of how important it is and statistically and historically speaking along those lines, this

election one would think would be important. It is certainly talked about as important to you know, the talk of crime and businesses in downtown Cincinnati and across the region just in general, so many things of concern that maybe there would be more people coming out of the roadwork to have their voices heard. But it seems to me that twenty five percent is probably about what they're expect.

If they were to get an extra five percent to thirty percent of those that are eligible to vote to actually show up and let their voice be heard, it would be shocking to those who count the votes and those who study these things. I'm wondering, how engaged and

concerned are you. I mean, there are some things as far as renewals of taxes, there's you know, some judge ship situations that all these type of things are out there, and my guest, as much as there's been talk about it, it is still shocking and somewhat bewildering to me that so few people actually get out to vote and fairly important situation. So I'm just wondering, are you voting, Have you voted? How serious are you about it? How much

do you care? I think there are some disenfranchised I've talked to people of a variety of age groups in the last week or so in and about the tri State up in the Miami Valley as well, and I talk to people, and people seem to be very soured and irritated and aggravated and dissatisfied in general with both parties and a lot of the individuals that are out there looking to try to either get rehired or to find themselves into new positions apparently to represent we the people,

and to do the people's work, to make it safer, in a better environment for business, and all the other things that you would hope the government actually is going to be able to do or should be doing with your tax dollars and my tax dollars and Joe Waddell's tax dollars, who's producing, et cetera. To sort of go along with that, I mean, that's what one would think, But it does appear that perhaps as much people talk

about it, that not a lot of people are. I think there's a dissatisfaction, and I think a disgruntled nature of a lot of talk and a lot of not being done that goes along with it. So we'll see exactly how how far it goes and what happens if there's a change in Cincinnati, if there's a change elsewhere around. We know that there were new lines drawn. As far as some call it jerrymandering, some people just call it redistricting.

We know that it still does not fall in line with what the edict was from the Supreme Court, but apparently nobody pays attention to that. So going into twenty six, that's something that we will all have to live with and navigate one way or the other, whether it's fair representation or otherwise. We'll see exactly how it goes. This has been something that has been talked about for years

and they've never gone beyond that. So we'll see exactly I guess what growth what goes along with that overall. So before we take the first break, five one, three, seven, four, nine, eight hundred, the Big One, talk back the iHeartRadio app. I'm just wondering, are you going to vote? Have you voted? How concerned are you about it? One way or the other. Whether you're in Cincinnati or Dayton or Covington, Newport, doesn't matter, Hyde Park, you name it. It's an interesting thing where

there's so much attention and you read the headlines. I've heard more in some fashion about a mayor's race in New York than I have about the mayor's race in Cincinnati. And to be honest with you, what happens in Cincinnati I think is going to affect people in the Tri State more than what happens in New York. But that obviously is what is a sexy headline and all the stuff that goes along with it. So we'll see exactly how that plays out overall. I mean, it's a serious thing.

And for those who don't know, and this is a fairly common thing. And I had this conversation with a neighbor of mine. They were like, they weren't sure if they were going to be able to vote. They didn't know if they had what they needed because they were afraid of being tighter when it comes to getting a chance to show up at the polls and do it. You can use your driver's license, You can use the State of Ohio ID. You can use an inuum I D if you have an interum ID from the Bureau

of Motor Vehicles in Ohio. Anyway, if you have a passport, a passport of work, if you have a passport card or a US Military card, National Guard card for the for Ohio or a Veteran's Affairs ID card from the Department of Veteran Affairs. All photo IDs have to have an expiration date that is not expired. In other words, it has to be current. You have to have a photograph on that ID of the person doing the voting, so they know what you and not somebody else trying

to hoist your voice. And the voter's name has to be apparently close as it possibly can be too entirely accurate looking at the voter role compared to what is on your ID, in other words, what's in the voting book. And if you're like me, they look at my signature and goes, we don't even believe that you have hands. It's almost like just a thumb print basically, So that's

how they identify me generally speaking. So that's one of my neighbor was very concerned, like what about my cableville, I don't think you can use the cable bill and ongoing and the conversation and the argument that has been had over and over again is you know, oh, we need a better security around our polls and knowing that we know who's voting. Well, that's how that works, and I don't think it's too much to ask to have somebody have an ID with their picture on it or otherwise.

And hopefully there's been also a lot of talk, but I've really seen nothing more about it. I see all this stuff, this sort of pops into social media, pops in unsolicited to my email accounts, talking about be careful

with the polls and danger at the polls. I have never, not once ever, other than the people out in front that have their little placards that are trying to tell me to vote one way or another way, or for a candidate within the certain minimal amount of feet distance, they're supposed to release you so you can freely walk into that elementary school or wherever it is that you're going to vote without them being annoying and up on you.

I mean, I don't when I'm in Vegas, and I used to live there for a little while, and I wouldn't spend a whole lot of time on the strip, but you have friends visit, and you'd walk along the strip, and you have all those people out in front with their little hooker like or a companion. Let's just call it escort trading cards, you know, they've flip the card at you or whatever. I don't need that type of interaction when I'm trying to walk to go get a

drink or buy of food. I certainly don't need anybody up in my grill and in my face trying to intimidate or convince me that I need to vote one way or the other as I'm walking into a polling place. I've never understood that. But I do have one request beyond the ideas that you know, vote, let your voice be heard. However you're going to vote, you should do it. But I have an idea that's the thing. I mean, if you don't know what you're doing by the time

you get there, I think there's a problem. And whether you go to the Hamilton County Board of Elections website, or Montgomery County or Boone County, or you know, whatever it is, wherever you happen to be, you can usually get a sample ballot so you can see exactly what's on the ballots, so you know exactly what you're voting for. You could fill it out beforehand on paper in front of you so you can go in and make it

an EASYPAS process. And my guess is with twenty five to thirty percent maximum hitting the polls in total tomorrow, not voting tomorrow, but voting for the entire election. Probably not going to be a whole lot of big, serious problems with lines or anything else along that, So we'll see exactly how it plays out. Your chance to get interactive straight away. Lancedo mccalis are going to join us

after ten o'clock. We'll talk the legendary Bob Trumpy, who we lost over the weekend, plus George Vocal Vocal, a former a sports director Channel five WLWT, and my man Gary Jeff Walker wants to talk relationships, so we'll see what type of dysfunction he wants to share with all of us. Coming up, It's a Monday night, Sterling on

seven hundred WLW. What's going on, Sterling hanging out? A good night for basketball Bearcats as well as Musketeers and the Dayton Flyers and the Nkau norse A Bearcats ninety four sixty three of Western Carolina. The Catamounts going home after a bad night for them at fifth Third Arena. You heard Dan Hort Mowager with the call ninety four to sixty three bear Cats handled business West Miller's guys

look on to the next one. Maris red Fox's visited Centas Center the campus Xavier University Musketeers sixty six sixty two winners. There. You see, Claremont took a trip to Northern Kentucky Truist Arena and the NKA Norse schooled them. It was a whole new level of education for those Cougar So you see Claremont one six to sixty nine, the Norse all over them, and the Golden Griffins of Kenisias made a trip to downtown Dayton ud Arena and

the Flyers handled them easily eighty eight forty eight. So there's some scores in and around the region when it comes to some college hoops getting underway, and there'll be more of that obviously in the season ahead. So that's a pretty exciting tough one yesterday for the Bengals. I don't even know defense problems, I guess, I mean, I mean, I don't know how much more offense do you need?

But it was tough, that's all I know. Speaking of Bengals, we lost one of the original football Bengals and Bob Trumpy over the weekend, eighty years old we'll talk to Lance mccowister and George Vogel about Bob Trumpy, about those Bengals, about what he has meant to the tri State and sports talk across the country and certainly ended up calling a bunch of games in the NFL. He was like their a team for NBC when they were carrying AFC

games and so forth as well. So just a big loss, just a legend on this radio station, in history, just in general as a Bengal, pretty pretty spectacular. Maris not to be confused with those Maris players who leave Cincinnati after losing to Xavier. But Maris and Fairborne said, how dare I, especially the fact that she knows I went

to Wright State not mentioning the Raiders handling business. They beat Franklin Franklin eighty six thirty seven, the Right State Raiders at the Nutter Center eighty six thirty seven over Franklin's Grizzlies. So the Raiders with their first win under their belt for the twenty twenty five twenty sixth season as they and they'll spend a little time in northern Kentucky.

They'll face the Norse there, and of course up seventy one and seventy five in the Dayton area later on as they do their home and away thing for the Horizon League. So right State one, you see when Xavier wins, NKU wins, Dayton Flyers win, that's a whole lot of w's in the region. So there you go. There's that to look forward to as well. And Gary Jeff Walker's coming up a bit later. I had something happened to me on the way in here. I was running some

errands in two different occasions, not at a crosswalk. In the news as of the last week or so before the time change, and then after the time change, I've seen this, and the time change, of course, just happened, you hear. I don't know. I'm trying to think at least six different stories I've come across in the last week to ten days of people who have been hit by cars. The vast majority apparently have been in crosswalks,

some have not. And one of the things every year that you have to concern yourself with is it gets dark earlier. It's often dark in the morning, kids going too from school and so forth, and it's a real basic thing. When you're driving and you're behind the wheel, you keep an eye out for any danger, let alone pedestrian and certainly in a crosswalk. And we've seen a lot of these stories about hit and runs as well,

which is bewildering. You know, is there somebody's affected, been distracted or indifferent, I guess is what it boils down to.

But the other thing on the way in two different people in areas on the road where on Montgomery Road in an other spot it was in between lit roadway areas, so it was a little bit darker, and not in crosswalks where people in dark clothes were choosing to walk across four or five lanes of traffic technically with two and two and then a turn lane in the middle in front of moving vehicles, which is unsettling to the driver of a car unnerving is all hell and dangerous.

That's how you end up being a statistic or a news story. And if I've learned nothing else, it's better to talk and make fun of the news than it is to be the news. Go to a crosswalk and just pay attention to where you're going, you know, between distracted in drunken and just you know, affected drivers and then people not paying attention distracted while walking and not thinking about how vulnerable they are from the vehicles that are at least a ton to two tons sometimes more

moving at thirty forty fifty sixty miles an hour. You might go to a crosswalk, you might want to look both ways. I'm just saying it's ridiculous, and we're all in this together. So you don't want to hit anybody, I would hope, and you don't want to be hit.

Act accordingly your ten o'clock report straight away. More Sterling coming back, Gary Jeff Walker joins me after eleven, George Vogel at ten thirty five, and our man Lance McCallister, host of Sports Talk, talks about effectively the original, the godfather of sports talk and a former Bengal in his passing, Bob Trumpy coming up with Sterling seven hundred WLW Cincinnati. Hey, how you doing. It's a Monday night. Sterling A good

one in if you're of basketball. Bear Can Fan ninety eighty four sixty three over Western Carolina to start off at twenty twenty five, twenty six campaign bear Cats over to Canamounts, Xavier beat the Red Foxes of Maris at Sentas Nku Norse all over U C Claremont one twenty six sixty nine and Canisius as Golden Griffins went into ud Arena downtown Dayton and the flyer sent them home

not so happy. The Griffins lose eighty eight forty eight and to the right state Raiders handled business also at the Nutter Center took care of business over Franklin's Grizzlies eighty six thirty seven. A whole lot of winning. A guy who knows from winning, and our sports talk host here at seven hundred wl W, Lance McAllister, kind enough to give us some time. The man who led the way for Lance and to Andy Furman and Paul Doherty, I think was here for about eight and a half minutes.

There have been others who have done it, but Lance is the man right now, one of those on the mount Rushmore broadcasters, and we lost. I won't even use the term loosely say friend. In passing, I got to say hello and meet Bob Trumpy, but grew up listening to the guy and certainly the legend of him as

being an original Bengal. Lance McAllister, I appreciate you making time on a busy Monday at seven hundred WLW how are you and what was your relationship like with Bob Trumpy, because I'm sure that you have crossed paths over the years.

The Reds had traded for Buddy Bell and gave him the third base job over Wayne crane Chickey and Wayne Crenchickey was having a career year and Buddy Bell struggled in his first couple of months with the Reds. And I called Trumpy one night and I guess I'm probably thirteen fourteen years old at this time and going round and around and why are they playing Buddy Bell? It should be Wayne cren Hicky's job. He should have never

lost it. We went round and round and around and he eventually hung up on me.

You may not have played as a Bengal, you may not have gone on to do TV for NBC in the NFL, but you're also also doing sports talk. What is that like in your relationship with him and understanding where he was coming from and what he was doing to what you're doing.

he was the godfather of sports talk. He's the reason sports talk was created in this town. And I've never heard somebody I don't think I ever will who had such a commanding presence on the radio, the voice and just the gravitas of he just commanded you listen. When you tuned it in and you heard it, it was captivating, you wanted to keep listening, whether you agreed or disagreed.

the weekend, His career was amazing. I was too little and not even here when the Bengals started, and then you know, he spent a dec day as a Bengal and then he did sports talk and then he went on in the midst of all that ended up doing you know, football games for NBC called multiple Super Bowls, did Olympic games as well as golf like Ryder Cup stuff,

and you do have done a variety of things. But what an amazing story of him coming out of Utah as a ute to Cincinnati as a Bengal to walk through the halls of seven hundred WLW and then advance to that other level as well to do so many other things. That's a spectacular credit to him, his capabilities in the ability just to convey a story and paint a picture because he did it on radio and TV.

I was always amazed by the fact. And I'll have a little bit of this out of order or maybe out of place, but you know, he told me when he first he first heard Bill Russell doing sports talk radio out in San Francisco, the former Celtic legend was doing a sports talk radio show, and Trump he heard him and thought, well, I could do that. What if I did it here? And when he first presented it, it was rejected here like, now we're we're not going

to do a sports talk show every night. And Trump went out and then sold it and found people who would buy time on it. It initially started on what was w wcky, still w cky, and then on to seven hundred WLW. But it was he was like the pioneer from that standpoint. All Right, you don't think it could be done, I'll show you it can be done. And it's been done ever since.

just popping in and people would gravitate towards him. And I was always, I want to say intimidated, but probably a little intimidated, and I didn't want to be annoying, but interacting with him and socializing with him and becoming someone who's working directly with him. What was that like? You touched on it a little bit, but it's an amazing thing to see someone who's that comfortable, that confident, that sperience to sort of do it just so well.

they need to make a statement. And trump you with that big booming voice just laugh and say statements. You and your statements. You always want to make statements. And that just got him so worked up. But I love doing that. That's tremendous, it really is.

appreciate you, you being willing to do it. You didn't have to do it. Anything else that I have not asked that you think is relevant talking Bob Trumpy or even for instance, about these Bengals and what you think that conversation with him would be like with the Bengal today.

he offered me whatever we needed. He said, however, I can help and said if you need a bone marrow donor I want to be your guy, and I will. I I get chills when I tell that story every time because and eventually we had a donor through the

National Bone Marrow Donor Program. But for all of our battles and a relationship ship that went back to when I was, you know, twelve, thirteen fourteen, calling him to an adult and a father and somebody who done shows with him, that was that will always be Bob Trumpy to me. He's one of a kind because of what he did as a pioneer in the industry. But he's one of a kind to me because he was the first person that called us and was willing to offer all of that to help our family and help our son.

Hall of Fame member. I'm not in any hall of fames Vogel is McAllister will be, and Trumpy has been. I don't know where I'm gonna go.

I'd love to be on. So I don't know if he's having like I took the night off for remorse or what, but he wants to talk some relationship issues, he says, So that's coming up after eleven o'clock A good way to go between now and midnight when we start to rolling atn so hang out at Sterling on seven hundred WLW Glad you're a long fine Monday Night, seven hundred WLW Sterling hanging out nine first one forecast on the Big one thirty four tonight, middle sixties for

election day tomorrow. Go vote if you haven't already close to seventy on Wednesday, then sixty again on Thursday. It's a bomby forty seven. Now your severe weather station seven hundred WLW Gary. Jeff Walker is gonna join me. He's normally here now, but he's unavailable, but it says he's still awake in what's to talk relationships. I don't know if that's his relationship with me, if that means at home, I don't know. If he's very concerned about people so

well being. Apparently coming up after eleven o'clock, we'll get into his head about that. Monday night football going on right now, and it's the Cardinals twenty seven Cowboys ten in Arlington, not Dallas. They play in Arlington. Swayan Coff and what else. Oh, holy crap. You see Bearcats open up their twenty five twenty six season. You heard it here earlier, fifth third Arena, Mowagger Dan Horde with the call Bearcats ninety four Western Carolina's Canamount sixty three Xavier one.

They beat Maris sixty six sixty two with centas a blowout. The Norse easily handled U C. Claremont. They're cougar is the truest arena one twenty six sixty nine. That's massive. Eighty eight forty eight Dayton Flyers got by Canisius's Griffins at U D Arena and Wright State Raiders eighty six over Franklin's Grizzlies eighty six thirty six at the Nutter Center. That had to make a horrible drive home for Franklin's Grizzlies,

is my guess from Fairborn. All right. On the other side, we've already talked to Lance McAllister kind enough to give us some time after your ten thirty report. Lee Mawin has the news. We'll talk to George Vogel, former sports director WLWT Channel five. He's a greater Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Famer. You went in with the likes of Ken Brew and John Fay, Danny Jansen, Wayne Box, Miller, Popovich Popo. I like to call him aout John Popovic and who else,

Betsy Ross and some others. I think I let somebody out Kevin Barnett as well, old KRC executive sports producer. We'll talk to George Vogel about the late great Bob Trumpy, godfather of sports talk radio. Lance joined us earlier with his take he worked with him, he grew up listening

to him like I did. I still have said this before, and just you come into this building if you're somebody who is in and around the Tri State are now with the iHeartRadio app from basically anywhere, and you listen to so many people and you hear them, and you know you live with them everywhere you go there there

I am too, I guess now at this point. But and then you run into them as I did with Trumpy, as I have so many others, and just sort of in awe of and then knowing his history as an original Cincinnati football Bengal and going on to do what he did just a really genuinely decent human being too. Away from that, George Vogel's take on the loss of Bob Trumpy and his experience with him, and a whole lot more, including conversation with Gary Jeff but Walker as well.

After eleven o'clock So hang out news straight away more Sterling on a winning night for basically the Musketeers, the bear Cats, the Norse, the Flyers, the Raiders, and to others and right now Cardinals looking to add on taking on those Cowboys right about now on somebody night football time for New seven hundred wlw oh later on get your sleep, Get ready, get to voting Tomorrow Election Day, about twenty five percent of eligible voters expected to hit

the polls. If it hits thirty percent, the earth may shake, it could spin off its axis. Who knows what might happen for mayor and council in Cincinnati and elsewhere. But you know, if you want to be heard, you gotta vote. That's just how it goes, sort of like this. If I want to be heard, I have to turn the microphone off that you can't hear me off. Like that's sort of like this. If you don't you're not heard.

If you don't vote, it's how it goes. It's just like if it's hurt right in front of me like that, that's how that works. But I digress. Maybe you don't want to get in the sandbox and play, you know, it's up to you. Someone who knows about being in the big sandbox of life, someone who knows about bowling three hundred, someone who knows about the late great Bob Trumpy, the godfather of sports talking. For some reason, still takes my call on occasion. It's unbelievable. Former sports director WLWT

Channel five. He's a Greater Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame member, which is crazy because I know him and he takes my call. It's unbelievable. So does Cam Brew. He came in the same class. So did Wayne box Miller, John Popovich, and Denny Jansen as well. George Vogel, how are you on this fine Monday night?

Bob Trumpy at one time or another. We lost him over the weekend. My heart goes out to his family, But I thought i'd reach out to you to see what your take is on Bob Trumpy, his legacy, in what your relationship may have been like, if any.

guy and loved what he did. And he was one of the first people to call out the Bengals and say there was going to be big time problems when things switched hands down there with family members, and you know it, he was pretty much proven right on that. At the time, I thought, oh man, this guy's grumpy and has an axe to grind and and I'll be darned he called that shot.

doing TV and radio for them, and Olympics and Ryder Cup and NFL stuff and seemingly comfortable and did it well. How hard is it for someone to be able to do those different types of things and make it seem effortless, because it did seem like it just was who he was.

I just want to claric right. And it's a hard thing, and I don't know because I'm not experienced it. It has to be an odd thing for family members and very close friends. On one hand, hearing about the one that you love who's no longer with you, to be talked about so glowingly and lovingly by so many as a fan, as a co worker, as a friend. But on the other side, it's got to be odd to have that same level of sharing publicly, just something that for most of us is a very very private kind

of thing. As you tried it to go through this process of grieving and everything else. I don't know if there's much of a question there, but just think.

It's wild to see someone grow and develop. I mean, here's a guy that as a football player and is enough that most of us here you said, wow, you know, a decade as a Bengal forty six hundred yards I think, thirty five touchdowns receiving averaged over fourteen yards of reception, one of the biggest in the game when it comes to being a tight end. Going to the Pro Bowl a number of times, like four times, I think, is what I'm looking at here on this list all Pro

Team sixty nine as well. And then to make the transition, a lot of guys try to make the transition to broadcasting to media to TV. Now there's podcasting and everything else. And you've encountered a lot of these guys as they move through that. It's not an easy thing for someone

to be able to go through it. And you got to have people around you to sort of help you when you see someone who sort of comes from that background, who makes it through like that, To be opinionated, to have voice, to get what this is because it's not always I mean, this is a show. And to be able to understand as you just just you know, mentioned as he may shut you down and shut you up as he was trying to get his point across, because

it was entertainment. That's it. That's it, that's it. There's something very special about that entertainment element.

great Bob Trumpy. What have I not asked about Trumpy and the endeavors that we know of aside from him as a human being away from that which we've heard good things and about him in that regard, Because as much as I'd like to be able to say I knew, the guy was literally just a nod, a quick handshake and moving through as I was honestly a little bit in awe and slightly intimidated just because I had just come into the building. Was like, oh, and I didn't want to be in the way because I just didn't

want to, you know what I mean. I didn't want to be a problem, which is challenging for me on a good day.

Though you have lived these things, you've done these things, You've been these places also, and when you're in it, it is difficult to really appreciate it because you're working in your Yeah, you know exactly.

Earlier Musketeers handled Maris sixty six sixty two at Sentas Nku Norris at their place in Northern Kentucky Truist Arena one twenty six to sixty nine, they handled U. C. Claremont with ease, and Canisius's Golden Griffin leave you the arena sad as the Dane Flyers pound them eighty eight forty eight and the Wright State Raiders pounded Franklin's Grizzlies eighty six thirty six at the Nutter Center Quick Break

Comeback News. A little bit later, Gary Jeff Walker, Final Hour ahead on a Monday night, Sterling, where the Hoode play even though it was not a good outcome yesterday as while as the bearcatch the Musketeers, and sooner than later hod Stoveleague action here talking red seven hundredu WLW Cincinnati Election Day tomorrow, Go vote if you haven't already voted. He heard my recommendation. So I'm trying to say here to hew final Hour together Monday night, Gary Jeff Walker's

normally here at this time. Instead he took the night off. Yet he reached out to me earless, sause I really want to be on to talk about gen Z and their relationship problems. I'm like, what are you talking about, Gary Jeff Walker, how are you? What are you doing

with Sterling? Hanging out on a Monday night? Bearcats win, Musketeers win, Norse win, Dayton Flyers win, Right State Raiders win, and there's two losing teams playing Monday night football cards and Cowboys and now you on the line, Gary Jeff, You've made my night complete.

We were holding hands and there was some kissing, but yeah, nothing heavy.

get dressed out for the boys game, which immediately follows. Yes, well, after half an hour or an hour of holding hands with Laurel Barney in the stands before our game, I am first in the locker room to change out for the boys game. Well, I apparently, unbeknownst to me, I felt something funny, but it had been become physically aroused by my holding hands in the stands of Laurel Barney. And I'm the first one in the boys locker room. Well, a teammate of mine came in as I was getting dressed.

I was already stripped down to my underwear, and apparently it was obvious that I'd become physically aroused sitting in the stands holding hands and kissing with Laurel Varney before the game.

years old and known as sperm worm. Oh my, now, this is the nickname that I had to live through even the sophomore year of high school and went to another high school, and I had to be known pointed out. I cannot imagine if that had gone viral, if we had had cell phones, if this had been caught on a video. For some reason, no person would wanted to have recorded this, me being physically aroused as I was

putting on my uniform to go play basketball. It was bad enough with is the word of mouth it went viral in the way that it would go viral in the late nineteen seventies. Sure, the way it goes viral tonight now is all around the world.

never help them. But one probing further, what I'm saying further is that embarrassment in dating and coming of age is a right of passage, and that boys today, regardless of there are cameras and phones everywhere, don't be embarrassed to go through that and understand that everybody goes through that, and while you may be singled out, it's just a right of passage, and that we are so measured and we are so judged in an age of viral videos everywhere.

It's simply part of growing up and you just need to experience it. And I'm just telling you, well, I'm not proud that I was that physically excited. It was something that I couldn't help right.

to school or or whatever else that goes into it. Sure, but you know how you get kids beyond the idea of thinking that that screen is everything when what's in front of you and the communication that you have with other human beings face to face and everyday life is more important than something that you can turn off or restart and unplug or whatever else. I don't know how you get beyond that. I think that's the trick if

somebody is so fixated on it. And there are a whole lot of kids who are, there's a lot of adults who are.

About twenty five percent of people expected to actually hit the polls in total from early voting, mail in and tomorrow at the ballot box on election day Tuesday, November the fourth, and we'll see exactly how many people make a decision about the mayor or council and a host of other things that are on the ballot, depending on what districts you happen to reresiding him. It's a forty seven right now. Your severe weather station seven hundred WLW.

Next couple days warmer Wednesday, close to seventy sixty again Thursday, low sixty tomorrow. Go talking to Gary Jeff earlier. It will be back tomorrow night talking about his care and concern about relationship issues for the people. And that's great Lance McAllister earlier too. You can check out the podcast.

He and George Vogel both joined me separately. Of course, our sports talk host here in the evenings does a roundtable show at Rocky and everybody else and Lapham what he does on the Bengals Roundtable and everything else at Lance McCallister. George Vogel, former sports director at WLWT Channel five talking about Bob Trumpy, godfather of sports talk here seven hundred WLW, who passed away over the weekend at the age of eighty. Just fantastic stories and experience with him,

working with him, knowing him. Certainly the numbers stand for themselves. As a player ten years or so as a Cincinnati Bengal and original football Bengal coming out of Utah and going on to do what he did as a broadcaster covering NFL and the Olympics and Ryder Cup stuff, and just a story career in what everyone has talked about him is just being just a decent, wonderful human being. So it's quite a loss. I grew up listening to the guy, and it's had a lot of these lately, unfortunately,

but it is the way life works. So my heart goes out to his family. And we come back after your eleven third of report, we'll talk a little bit about I don't know if you can remember this either friends, maybe at a party, maybe when you were in college or whatever. It's been some weeks ago. Story was in the news. Now there's going to be a lawsuit. There were ten people that were on that balcony. The second

or third week in October that collapsed. A couple of them, at least one I think, had life life altering injuries that go along with that. With this balcony collapse, now there's some litigation associated with it. Generally, I think they're supposed to be set in, designed and structure supported for something in the neighborhood of about ten people on one of those balconies more than that, otherwise it becomes a danger.

I don't know how many parties over the years that when I was in school, either visiting friends at their apartments where there were parties, or elsewhere where there were some type of balcony on a higher level floor, second, third, fourth floor, whatever where. Regularly there would be so many people on those balconies that I just outside looking in walking into a building or a house like that, I'm like, that is not a good place to be, very unsettling.

So it's one of those things that it's sort of a person at the party needs to be aware, and obviously the struct structure needs to be built a design and made sure that it's inspected and as it should be. And this litigation is going to play out because it's just a horrible situation, but I mean countless times, countless parties where I would see tons and tons of people piled on balconies. They were not designed to have that many people on them. It is disturbing. Lee Mawin's got

your eleven thirty report. We'll talk on that and a whole lot more coming up here, all before the ATM starts. Ready to roll on seven hundred WLW. Hey, how you doing, Sterling? Just about done, not quite rolling till midnight. Then Kevin Gordon fits behind the wheel. Joe Waddell will get it started and warmed up in America's truck and network will

roll after the midnight report. Lee Mawin has news. He just stopped in to tell me, giving me more details about that litigation and the issue in that horrible situation going back a couple of weeks where those u STE students or are at a party or get together of

some sort out on the balcony. It's supposed to be able to hold ten people, and apparently that's how many actually were injured as a part of the collapsing of that balcony, which was on the I think the second floor or third technically above like garage area or parking area, which is a pretty unnerving scenario. And I can't tell you how many parties I've been to when I was a kid, as a student, subsequently even as a young adult, which I'm not a young one anymore, and are accused

of acting like a child more than once. But the just scene I remember walking into parties and having to get together. You grab one of those nice red cups and you hit the keg or whatever, cocktails or flowing, and people are out and about and then you see on the patio and it's like filled with tons of people, and I just I can tell you on more than one occasion, I was like, oh, hell no, I'm not getting out there to visit and see people on that

balcony because it's just the fear of them collapsing. And then your story like this too, and they have to go through the litigation process and everything as a part of it. But they are supposed to be able to hold up to ten people and be supported with that, and those structures are supposed to be inspected however so often, and you got to wonder, and these are things that'll come out and discovery and argument in this case is that you know when was it inspected or did they

have more than ten people on it? Was it already one of those things that they were made aware of that they should not over tax the balcony. Was that not something that had been discussed with the tenants or their guests, etc. And so forth. I mean, there's a lot to it, and we're talking about the severe trauma physically, emotionally and everything else. I'm not going to litigate it here. I'm not an attorney. I'm not going to try to play one on the radio, that's for sure. But just

an unnerving nightmare scenario. And a good friend of mine who was in a band called the Oxymorons when I was coming up, Ben Schulker was his name. He was on a balcony. It was not overcrowded, but as I understand, it was like leaning back up as a lot of people will do, put up your feet or whatever else, and apparently lost his this is years ago now, and then fell off of this balcony and lost his life.

And that still shakes me thinking about it. It was a buddy of mine, and it just resonates even more you see a story like this, or you know, even at that time, going around to parties, and I just sort of just like you, I don't need to be on that backhony. I just do not need to be on that patio or that type of situation. Five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred the big one,

Glad you're along. Earlier basketball bear Cats at home fifth third Arena kicked off the new season ninety four sixty three. They sent to Western Carolina's Catamounts back home losers. A big win for West Miller's bear Cats to start off the season. Musketeers at home at sentas sixty six sixty two,

they send U Marist Red Fox's home losers. You see, Claremont visited Northern Kentucky University's Norse at Truest Arena and got pounded and sent home back up seventy one, shaking their heads, probably wondering what happened to us, Not quite doubled up, but close one twenty six to sixty nine. And if I'm not mistaken, that is the most scoring that the Norse have ever done, one hundred and twenty

six to sixty nine. That's a big win there up at ud Arena Downtown Dayton, just off seventy five eighty eight forty eight. The Flyers handle Canisius's Golden Griffins so fairly easily. Right State Raiders at the Nutter Center just about fifteen minutes from there, and Fairborn off of six seventy five where I went to school at Right State as well as Lee Mallen and Santa Collins too. I think Wright State eighty six, Franklin's Grizzlies thirty six, So

a win for all those teams. You see Xavier Nku the Flyers at Dayton and Wright State all getting wus tonight. So there is that I'm curious, and I figure, why not ask this question here and driving around or whatever else? You know, we got a government shutdown that's happening. We got people with their snap benefits, food, a lot of seniors, some veterans, kids, their moms, single parents sometimes with a lot of working families that are food and secure, that

spend time working and trying to handle their business. This is It's been some years ago, and I regularly have on Kurt Riber from the Free Store Food Bank because I desperately believe in trying to help out our neighbors. And it's a very giving and loving community here in the tri State, and they do incredible work, like ninety three ninety four percent of all proceeds that are given to the Free Store Food Bank go right through them and go directly to the people with food in hand,

which is a pretty amazing thing. And they get a lot of corporate support as well. But the number of people that are dealing with food issues in this government shutdown, not including but the food bank's getting an uptick in military families as well because of their pay situation. Don't know about the air traffic controllers and what they're navigating literally and figuratively as they're supposed to be going back

to work on a regular basis without getting paid. But the statistics of those that are food insecure and regularly getting food aid in these United States is just about twelve percent of the US population, which is just absolutely amazing. Like forty one million Americans regularly not in extraordinary situations because of the shutdown, but regularly getting food assistance SNAP

or food card, food stamps, whatever. It is forty one million out of some three if in fact you believe the numbers of about three hundred and thirty million Americans, that puts US just about a twelve percent of Americans needing help to get food on their table regularly, to make sure their kids have a full belly so they can go to school ready to learn and not have to worry about if they're going to have lunch or

dinner or breakfast the next day or whatever else. That is just absolutely sad, miserable at a time, And I know this will piss a lot of people off, and

I frankly don't care. But at a time, so many people we talk about making America great again and the effort to make America healthy again, with people looking at buying into the healthcare exchanges, working people sometimes with two and three jobs, part time jobs, or low income jobs, whatever else, trying to take care of kids and everything else, and still buying through the exchange, getting some type of help with supplementing the actual cost a tax credit or

otherwise paid towards those insurance payments. Doesn't seem to me that there's a whole lot of healthy or great stuff going on with hungry and people that can't get insurance with the prices going up right now. Meanwhile, lawmakers are sitting on their ass doing much of what nothing, not wanting to vote on it or not really seriously debating it, and to talk about somebody not wanting to lose this debate or argument or whatever else. Their job in Washington

is one thing is working for we the people. And I'm all about lower taxes. I'm all about avoiding wasting expenses and government dollars and all the other stuff that goes with it. Forty one million Americans on a regular basis need help getting food, and it's getting shut down or at least in part while they figure out something for how long this government has been shut down. And the shutdown wouldn't even be shut down if it wasn't for the fact that they were already yanking away healthcare

and already yanking away money for medical care stuff. And here's the other thing that I find that it is absolutely amazing with all the talk about our cities and how unsafe they are and a mayor's race in Cincinnati where you got a question, is the police policy and the way they go about their business doing it the right way with the unfound across the street where there was a shooting this weekend, and that is it the police, is it the government and how the city is handling it,

whether it's the city manager or the mayor, and whatever policy is it, the judges, the judiciary, and how they penalize those handful of people that are regular repeat offenders out there on these streets, whether it's young kids, minor children with guns or grown adult people who should sure as hell know better to not be quick with the gun to decide to solve their problems, like it's somehow

the Old West or some other crap like that. In this situation, the federal government in city after city has polled federal dollars that were supposed to go to policing to help hire more cops, to help give them more tools to do the job, and the federal government talks about needing more police and bringing in National Guard or

whatever else. I'm just gonna say, when you're pulling money away from city and state governments that handles policing issues and monies that were given to them grants for you know, whether it's a supplies and more cruisers or more deputies or city police officers or whatever else, I think there's a lot of double talk and a lot of jive that's been going on in the midst of all the stuff that's happening, or maybe I'm wrong five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred, the big one. You

can talk back the iHeartRadio app. But it is bewildering. Forty one million Americans in the best of times needing help with food, with a government shutdown, and workers in the federal government who work hard for us. They're citizens, they're neighbors of ours, not getting paid in some cases, expected still to show up to work, and wondering if they're going to have the ability to put food on the table for their kids to go to school. And they're worried about winning or losing. Do the work in

DC and stop talking so much crap. It's it is amazing to me. And clearly stuff in downtown Cincinnati.

and then turning people back on the street. There's a lot of finger pointing, but the cops need to do their part, the courts and prosecutors need to do theirs, and parents need to do a better job making sure they don't make a default, a faulty piece of crap product that's not ready to go to school and learn and not out on the streets after hours somehow with firearms in their hand, thinking it's easier to boost cars, steal stuff, sell weed or whatever else that's at there?

Am I crazy? Let's get Will Will's first here before the break was Stirling on seven hundredule lw Will. What do you think?

But then what do they have to do go to the food I mean, that's that's that's or the church or something like that. I mean, that's a really brutal place to be right now. And the lawmakers have been ware doing what's awesome.

And over the weekend the Bengals scored what forty two and still wasn't good enough, and the week ago thirty eight not good enough. I'm not saying it's the defense's problem, but unbelievable. It's sterling just about done. Leading up to, of course, Kevin Gordon in America's Trucking Network rolling after midnight, Joe Waddell producing, He's telling me about his fantasy team and he got to win barely, and he's like the Bengals. They score all the points in the world, but the

defense giving it up like nobody's business too. I shouldn't lap, but it's sort of the way. It is a great conversation and great memory shared. I got to thank Lance McCallister, making time sports talk host here at the Big One, and George Vogel, former sports director WLWT Channel five Hall of Famer Greater Cincinnat a Hall of journalism, giving us some insights perspective in the late great Bob Trumpy, the godfather sports talk, eighty years old, passed away over the weekend

started all right here at seven hundred WLW. We lost him. It was just a really incredible talent on the field as an original football Bengal, as a broadcaster, and just very kind just in general. So I appreciate those guys making an opportunity to join us and share their perspective and some good words about Bob Trumpy. Hart goes out to his family. Thank you to Joe Waddell, Gary Jeff Walker also joined us. He'll be back again tomorrow night and I'll talk to you on Friday.

box tomorrow, which they won't. That's thirty They expect twenty five percent including early voting and mail in, so it should be easy to get in and get out to make your choices when it comes to the vote if you choose to to vote tomorrow Election Day, and will have full on results and information and news as always, right here, all day long and all night here on the home of the Reds, the Bengals, the Bearcats, the Musketeers, and the Hood. Day here seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati,