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Rock.

The beat goes on with our invasion of Venezuela. And we heard speaker with Johnson saying there's no boots on the ground there. YadA, YadA, YadA, this that and the other, and what it leaves Americans wondering what the possibilities are and uh and the pros and cons of all of it. That's that's happening. Yeah, lots of.

You know, lots of questions about you know, a lot of folks are saying we should do this, do that. Here, take it in. I got we're dealing with a faulty microphone here. All right, that's fine, go ahead, buddy. And well let's get our guest here. He is an expert in polysci. He is a polysi PhD for Yale. He teaches at Charlton State University in Texas. Doctor Bocabala, welcome back to the program.

Hey, good afternoon, great to be with you. Thanks for having me.

So what are we looking at here? Let's talk about the pros and the cons both way of this of this thing. As a police scientist, what do you see the possibilities of all this are? I mean, the good things to come out of it. And look, I was saying in the bad things, do we look bad in the world's lide, because a lot of people are saying that, let's put it. Let me just start with that.

Well, in terms of pros and cons, I agree with you. So on the pro side, spectacularly successful operation from a military standpoint, no American casualties.

Compare that with Panama.

In nineteen eighty nine, the US extras Noriega twenty four casualties, and so you know, two hundred million tons of coke going through Venezuela annually, So we put a dent in that. On the con side, you know, is there a risk of boots on the ground. I always want to guard against that. Is there the risk of negative perception? I mean, I think there are different rationales being floated around for what happened.

Some are better than others.

So certainly there's some real risks here as well.

So let me ask you this.

It seems to me, I mean, if I'm not mistaken, Venezuela even told Maduro that were there, they weren't going to offer him any protection, right, like you're kind of on your own here?

Is that correct?

Yes?

So there was an offer from President Trump the American government for you know, for him to leave peacefully, and apparently he wasn't too interested in that.

So we've seen events unfold. That's right.

So I mean, how I look at this, and obviously I could be wrong. I am certainly not for a nation building. I'm not for long drawn out excursions and require ground truths. But this, it's just certainly right now doesn't seem to be the case at all. We went in there and we're there for about a half hour, extracted this guy that everybody in Venezuela, and I mean meeting the citizens did not want board him out of there.

No casualties, no equipment left behind.

Boom boom ban, We're out and if everything holds there, this is a guy like a wonderful thing, not just for certainly the Venezuelan people, but also America.

Yes, well, you have celebrations in the streets in Caracas. To be clear, the Nobel Peace Prize winner in Venezuela, Maria Machudo, over the last few months saying these are hopeful developments. So I mean, let's be clear, Maduro stole the presidential election in twenty twenty four. Matchudo was exiled and unable to run. The candidate who did run in her place actually defeated Maduro, but the results were falsified.

So there's a lot of positive here if I'm seeing you.

And I think President Trump has been sensitive to the democracy building temptation and he ran against neocons who were into that, so I think he would be very against that kind of project.

So so let me ask you this, what what is Venezuela's relationship with China? Because to me that that's the only way I could see this escalating. What what is that relationship and what do you see that the chances there are.

Well, And I think it was a different kind of relationship, and really legal considerations aside, because you know, there's again different rationales floating around, but separate from all those, I think was the national security rationale here that applied differently from Colombia, from Mexico, where arguably you have more drugs

And I think this was almost the more important piece of what's happened.

Leave aside the different possible legal rationales. This was asserting American interests in the Western hemisphere. Consistent with realism philosophy of international relations. It says nations do also have to watch out for their interests.

Doctor Bocabala is our guest, and bo, what about some people are saying, Okay, does this open the door for China to go ahead and waltst into Taiwan? Is what is there anything to that? Well?

And and sure in terms of you know, risks and cons that we started talking about, I mean, I don't believe this is President Trump or his inner circle.

Are there some intellectuals.

On the right, and I disagree with them who would welcome any opening to real imperialism. They've they'd liked to see a military takeover of Greenland. Again, I don't believe that's President Trump or anybody in his circle. But we know there's some voices out there, and there's all kinds of voices on university campuses saying many different things. So my hope is that they don't get amplified. And you know, even Steve Sailor, a very conservative Trump supporter, said that's

Imperialist and will assert our.

New I think they'll go ahead and do that, So we have to be vigilant and sort of know exactly what we are and aren't willing to do.

So I think you're absolutely right. The caution is in order there.

Doctor Bocobol, as our guest. So doctor, let let's talk about oil here. And from what I have heard, Venezuela holds over three hundred billion barrels of oil. It's like seventeen percent of the globe. Will supply they're not doing anything with it, right, Can we get some of that and what's the what's the protocol there?

You think sure?

And it's a specific type of crude, so I think it would be very valuable in your right.

These are the largest reserves in the world.

Absolutely the case under Maduro, first of all, it wasn't really being extracted. Second of all, what was being extracted, you know, the proceeds, the benefits were not really going to the Venezuelan people. So it's a it's a yeah, it's a it's a conundrum in some ways, if American companies facilitate the extraction, what's in it for the Venezuelan you know, people who should come first? What's in it for American companies who are facilitating the extraction. That these

Could I not make the case that, look, Venezuelan people, we just disposed a ruthless dictator from you, and won't you, you know, repay us a little bit?

I think that seems fair.

I think the reciprocity you're mentioning absolutely, and look, it's not a quick pro quo, but it's recognizing there's something of reciprocity.

I mean, one thing, President Trump, I.

Think very insightfully would always say about the Neocon the misguided, in my opinion, Neo kan.

Interventions into the Middle East.

It doesn't seem like there was any resource benefit that accrued to the US from the reserves of oil that are there, So of course that's not the primary consideration. And you know, deposing a despot, you know, punching back against narco terrorism, those come first as strategic goals. But I do think his administration will want to handle this differently than what happened in.

Iraq, for sure, with a little more of the kind of reciprocity that you're talking about.

Long term, what do you see happening here.

Well, it's interesting to me to compare this case to Panama. You just go back to nineteen eighty nine, and of course the US extracts Manuel nor Diega similar situation legally, and so there wasn't a congressional declaration of war in either case. Today, Panama is an existing, functioning, constitutional democracy, so I think the outcome could be very positive. There's a transition which is always fraught with peril, and ensuring safety and security in the short term is a priority.

Could be a very positive outcome in my opinion.

Trick ball, let me say this and you tell me if you agree or disagree the stat that was it ninety percent of Democrats disagree with with us going in and having the operation of Venezuela. I would make the case that has nothing to do with the operation. It's the fact it was Trump. It has just just add in anything you wanted at Trump cures cancer. Ninety percent of Democrats would would disagree with that.

Correct, It has nothing to do with Venezuela and the operation.

It's just the fact that he did it, and they have TDS and they don't like it.

I think you're right, we're polarized. That's not just a ceiling.

There's ways to measure, you know, how far apart we are as citizens, and it's unfortunate that we are polarized. And so, you know, did Bill Clinton, you know, look out for you know, American interests around the world. All presidents on some level have to do this, and I think you are seeing some of that part is in alignment.

Hopefully I might be naive there, but that would be my hope.

All right, with that, doctor Kabbala, we will let you go. Thanks so much for talking to us.

Hey, wonderful to talk to you. Appreciate it.

Thank you, Doctor Bo Kabbala, Charles State University in Texas.

You know, he says no quid pro quo with okay, we get get maduro there, you give us some oil. But it's like, you know, like if you go and buy yourself something and come home with it, and you know, you use your pressure get something for your wife, there's no no expectation, no you know, quid pro quote.

But it's just probably the right thing to. Of course, what do you think you're a man. It's a husband. It's nice to that's why you do it. So I never never bought something nice for my wife without thinking, oh man, come eleven here come so exactly there you go. Just the right thing to do absolutely with that. We check in with traffic and weather, what's going.

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All right back with Eddian Rocky New Year, Same show, and that means coming up here after the three thirty news, we'll be talking to Tanya Award WCPO nine News.

So do you think she's like, yeah, gotten all her stuff together from Christmas and the New Year's and all that, or she's still a little frastled.

You know Tanya well enough to know there's a little fras, a little frast well, you know, the occasional frask. But she's we'll be talking about some of that stuff, but also she scored an exclusive interview that's kind of breaking news. We'll be talking to her about that. Yes, this is big and uh in other news rock I don't know if you saw this the story, it's kind of one of those greatest hits from last year. But I never

Oh wow, yeah, yeah, I mean there's there's certain levels of like, you know, heartache if you a man and you find out your girlfriend has done this, Yeah, cheated on you bad in the past.

Life we're worked in the sex industry, pretty bad, right, the child's and then yeah, then beast reality. Okay, that that's like kind of right there. We're like, dude, that's that's the.

Way, I mean, the bottom of the wrong.

I mean, I don't know, I don't know if I could recover from that.

Well, here's the thing. When she goes into the jailhouse, she brings into laptop and is going, hey, check this out for my boyfriend. I think he's you know, the child porn on there. They arrested her in the police station for public intoxication because she was very drunk, brought in the laptop with her on it and ask him to search it. It's like like like bringing the murder weapon into into the with your FINGERPRINTSS. You don't have

How do you go down that road though? How does it get to that point? I mean mental illness?

She obviously she said it, which is something that she just did when she was drunk and barely remembers.

It, like, oh, this is just a phase that ain't gonna help out, dude, not gonna help that's not gonna help.

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Right.

So I'm telling you real quick, So how many times have you screwed up writing twenty twenty five instead of twenty twenty six?

Yet I've had to think about it. I haven't had to write it because who writes checks anymore. I had to think about, like, is it twenty twenty five or is it twenty twenty. It's kind of sad to have to admit that, but true.

That's what Rocky and I were talking about yesterday. Since I don't write chexts anymore, it really does. I'm like, for like the last six months, I was like, is it Wait a minute, is it twenty twenty? It's the twenties.

I've looked at my phone a few times. It's just double chest and that's also embarrassing, but true.

So let's talk about a serious thing here right quick. You got a you got a kind of a breaking news story.

Well necessarily breaking, but I think a really high interest. I don't know, yeah, so like we could go today. The bodies of Monique and Spencer Tappy were found in their home in Columbus. Spencer grew up in Cincinnati, went to Mason High School, then went to Highest Day because I came a Jennis Mary the love with life. And they have two children, little kids, four and one, and looking like they certainly look like they are living the

So in terms of the reasons and suspects and all that. Where we at on them so right.

Now, I mean, Columbus police aren't saying much of anything. As I mentioned, they released a video of a guy walking kind of like looks like in an alleyway between the homes around the same time these people were murdered. But that's it. That's all we got. We you know, we see this person walking by, you can see it's

Were they robbed, because that's one thing I haven't read now, Were they robbed or anything? Of nothing?

Nothing seems to be missing. Weird, nothing seems to be missing. Have you seen pictures of this.

Couple I have, Like you said, just beautiful, look like great life, the whole deal.

Yeah, yeah, like you know, like I guess, Spencer Tie was involved with big brothers, big sisters, you know, donated a lot of their time. They were you know, they were they were those people, those people that you're happy to know. You're happy they're in your lives, you know, because they make your life better. And apparently his patients all loved him. She was a day at home mom, you know, taking care of the two kids. You know, you got a four year old and one year old

Even understand, right, Yeah, well.

They don't comprehend. They can't yet.

Well that's what it sounds awful to say, but I hope you get what I mean by this, that it's it's almost good that they're too young to understand exactly what just happened here, You know what I mean? Right, You know that's awful to say, but it's it's it's true.

Well, I personally agree with you, and as far as I can tell, I don't have one hundred percent clarity on this, But as far as I can tell, they also while they were in that home with their parents dead in their bedroom, I don't believe that they witnessed anything, right, which I and I don't. Again, I don't have that at one hundred percent clarity, but I don't. But that's the inclination I get is that that they, thank God, you know, won't have that memory. So who killed these people?

Who would do that?

I don't know? And so you know, but wait, you see this, it's really very it's very poignant what he says about these the fIF couple and these kids.

And how long ago? Where who? Which which which way? Was the guy that was living in Mason? Correct, that's where.

Center Spencer Keffy grew up in Mason. I think he graduated like two thousands, okay then or something like that, and then he went on to O higher state and then he stayed in Columbus's like so many people do, they stay where they go to college.

So he stayed in Columbus.

And they were living there in Columbus, living what seemed like an idyllic life.

I mean the fact that nothing was stolen. You know, then you you hate the things, but you know, was there some sort of you know, business dealing or something you know, I don't know, you know, it just doesn't make sense to just walking into a nice person's house and shoot him and leave without taking anything unless that person felt wronged at some point.

And how did you get into the house, like you know, or did you know how to get into the house. That's why to me, again, I'm making a supposition here, not anyone else. It just feels like this is personal. I think to them it feels like it's personal too, that they this is someone they know or someone who knew them in some capacity. Because there is no struggle. There's no lot that I'm aware of anyway, I don't know of any struggle. But there was no breaking and entering,

At their home.

It's just post COVID, so you know, they were try and keep it small. And that's the same place they were murdered in their home, and I just it's just so tragic to me, like, just what the heck happened here?

All right? What Tanya? When's this going to air tonight?

Well we have a little bit of five, but really the stories at six o'clock tonight.

Okay, great, well Tanya, thanks so much. But you've had a long day with this, I'm sure.

Yeah, well you know what it can always do ours. I'm having a perfectly great day. And that's my mantra for twenty twenty six. I am looking at the bright side. Great guys, Okay, there we go.

We'll see how you feel around about ground hauled day.

Yeah, yeah, you're right, all right, I'll.

See you, see you, buddy. Thank you. That's our good friend, Tanyo Rourke WCPO nine News. And I'll tell you that's uh, it was stuff like that. That's the reason my wife quit being a reporter. Really. Yeah. It just just couldn't take it anymore, just random well, especially after we had a killing, right our sons, and she would have to go investigate stuff like that. Oh yeah, and knock on the door. That's what you said. If I I could

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Heard this.

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Uh.

Nancy Kerriganes America's sweetheart.

And I hate that, you know, you make fun of someone who but there's something about her that, you know, it just seems acceptable. Right, He's kind of a princess. And of course you know she got her knee hit by Jeff turned to me, Jeff Galuli, right, was not the boyfriend's name.

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That what happened, right, It was just.

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Are you kidding? For weeks and all up until the Olympics. Well, think about the when they showed the I've known what it was that the Olympics though, when they had the big showdown or was that I forget where Tanya where Tanya and her laces broke and she's crying at the Olympics.

That was the comps, right yeah, and yeah then yeah, because this was the US qualifiers, right yeah, okay, so yeah, so then the Olympics come and okay, here it is Tanya harding the weight of this trial and all this stuff.

And yeah, she starts your deal and starts crying. You're like, oh my god, she's the weight of the whole thing. Is just broken her. No, her, she couldn't lace of her skates or something that your string broke. And then and Kargen wound up getting silver, and uh, you know, and these are the things I remember. I can't remember what I did yesterday, but I remember the woman who won it, Sanna Bayel did not use a computer for that.

I just know that seeing it as I mean, I remember that name, but I didn't. I couldn't have told you that was that year she won.

Oxana Bayo got first, Nancy Careen got second, and then she of course thought she got screwed. Of course it further led to her a disdain for her.

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It's one of those ones I should when it's got Margot Robbie, which kind of.

What I'm saying. It's Marcot Robbie. For God's sake, I know, she tany Hary. Don't look like they uggered down a little bit. Okay, you dirted her up a little bit, Yeah, a little. But everybody else in the movie is outstanding. It's and it's and it's kind of funny nice, but I mean every because everybody's made to look like a fool because they basically were. That's the reason they got so easily busted.

Yeah, but it was such a like Keystone Cop operation, right, you know.

And and yeah, Sean Eckert was the uh, the fat guy he did, I mean, and that guy in the movie. You have to see it. They make it, I mean, and apparently from everything I read about it, that guy kind of thought he was a mafioso slash you know. Yeah he created yeah, right, and uh he took we're in the trench coat and all that stuff and whack whack, and here here's more of the story.

On December twenty eighth of ninety three, Yeah, I guess the guy went to Massachusetts where Krigan was practicing. However, he couldn't carry out the attack, so he followed her Detroit where then it you know, probably got the courage to do it. So yeah, and then yeah, so yeah, Derek Smith was involved. He then confessed the FBI agent started da da da, and that's what broke the whole case open.

See now, and this was these people were reheard more practicing for the National Championships. Do you think that the security could be a little just a little tighter that some dude, some big fat guy and a trench coat can't wander around back there kind of looking suspicious.

Yeah, back in the catacombs of some old ice drink. Yeah, with a bunch of teenage girls and you know, yeah.

Tight tight stuff and dresses on. Yeah, you would think that there'd be somebody back there kind of policing the area. Nope, whack.

See a lot of times though, just you know, the most obvious things they just have never thought about, never and they catch you with your your trousers down.

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But one of the things that's coming out of it is, and it's true. Is it in the world Venezuela the biggest oil reserves. Is that not correct? It's like seventeen percent of the oil reserves. There is three hundred billion barrels. It's a lot of oil. Now it might look good over here in America. We will talk to an oil expert in that Ray Travigno, he runs Peiko's Country Energy. Our good friend RT welcome back to the program.

Oh well, thank you as for having me back on. Yes, I was just in a meeting about that exact thing, about the exact reserves that Venezuela has, and no one still knows the exact numbers, but it could be up to twenty five percent of the world's global supply could be in Venezuela alone.

Wow, So what would that do to the market that oil is sitting there? It's you know, I mean, I imagine US is going to get some of it or someone's going to what's that just going to do the oil market?

Well, from a good old fashioned economics one oh one supply and demand, it will obviously continue to flood the market. However, at this time, Venezuela's oil is not ready for prime time as like as they used to say for the nineteen seventy six Indy Night Live show. It's going to take somewhere between six to eighteen months to revamp the infrastructure that was horrifically destroyed by individuals that had no business producing.

Oil in Venezuela.

And that's going to be step number one.

So explain them more so, people extracted the oil, but they did it in a way or it's not pure.

Explain that more.

Yes, what we had was we had individuals that did not know oil and gas producing oil and gas out of Venezuela. They did not have the memes nor the no how And you look at what they did was they actually kicked out the experts like Exxon Mobile and almost forced a very little presence of Chevron over the last several years, and their infrastructure did nothing but deteriorate during that time in Venezuela since they did not have experts there maintaining their equipment.

So rte are we talking about the methodology they used, because I know we've talked to you about different how now oil You know, rigs don't go just straight down, they go down and off to the side and all that kind of stuff, And yeah, is that what we're talking about here or they just if that as well as the uh, the equipment they're using all just deteriorated. I mean, it sounds like it's just a mess down there. It is.

It is a mess down there. It is an estimated fifty minimum fifty billion dollars that's with a B billion dollars to fix the infrastructure. So good, that are different unless you've got a couple of family offices involved exxons of the world and the shutrounds of the world are the only ones that are going to be able to

So, but the oil they have in reserves, is it is it usable or is it junk?

No?

No, know, Absolutely those barrels of oil are usable, okay, and we will get them out. The question is how and when?

Okay? And what do you see? I guess if you can, what is your opinion on on.

The US you know, confiscating that oil for lack of a better term, or or or what do you what do you feel about that?

Well, technically I would have to say, I think if we look at the red tape, I don't believe the United States of America has confiscated the oil. I think what they're doing is they're selling back land assets and ownership of oil that used to be there's until the communism regimes of Venezuela kicked them out and took over the land in oil. However, that being said, we do we have confiscated several tankers from Venezuela, and the rumor is those are on the Texas border all right, on

Okay, but do you think that the net result of all this and okay, let's say our Maduro's out now, it's a more pure form of business and operations are happening exton. Some of these beer companies come in, clean that up. Will that be a net positive in terms of lower gas prices in America?

Because look, that's what most people care about, right.

Is this gonna net in the fact that our gas is gonna be lower here?

Yes, what's gonna happen is we will have more barrels of oil on record for the global supply. What I mean by that is the Maduro regime, along with Russia in China and some other bad actors, have been using a ghost fleet of oil tankers for several years now, moving millions of barrels of oil across the globe and that oil is not on our register. So that means once this oil gets to the global supply counts, we will see prices of oil continue to drop just by adding more supply to the actual numbers.

And what about you as an American oil guy, right, is it going to affect your business at all?

You know, we are proud to say that we will continue to produce American oil from American soil as long as we can. And in order for us to do that, we have to maintain low operational expenses, be able to negotiate and continue to negotiate good least terms with our mineral owners, and continue to produce oil and prove in the fields of production over the next eighteen to twenty

SARGI let me ask you this, So let's take the Venezuela equation out of this. What do you see within the next year here? And I know that one of Trump's signature things he implemented right out of the gate as president was let's remove a lot of the regulations on the fossil fuel industry. I imagine the those all don't go away overnight.

Are there more?

Did you see that becoming more favorable or more regulations are going to be released and be easier for folks like you? Harder are the same?

Yes, No, we're very excited. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act has removed a lot of regulations and web tape. One major one is that we have gone back to the government leasing out federal minerals at a twenty five percent rather than the Biden administration's twelve percent. And for owners like us, our excuse me vice versa excuse me change that around the Biden administration was doing twenty five percent.

All right with that RT It is always our pleasure, really man. People want to find out more about it, what it is you all do? Where can they go?

Yes? I always invite individuals to go to Picoscountry dot com or check out my sub stack at the Crude Truth dot.

Com Rachel Vinho Always a pleasure.

Thank you guys.

Thanks Ray uh and hey man, he's looking good. Well see what happens here? And that's that's just funny that that can that that infrastructure can deteriorate that quickly. Really, I mean.

Yeah, when you got a just a you know, a bad actor in charge of things who's built his life on corruption and crime, you can see how sideways.

And not truly understanding what's going on anyway, that stuff runs itself. Well, no it does, it doesn't.

Yeah, you need the experts in there to do it. Well, that's the thing is like, well, we don't want to pay excellent to come in here, because then we got to pay them. It's the old you know, you cut out all the other the hands that go into it and you get to keep more than profits. But it don't work that way. You don't just get it out of the ground and there's a process. So you look at some guy and go, you know how to do this? Doing you He's like, wow, sure, man, bro, you can

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From the Inquire Cincinnati dot com, he wrote a pretty scathing column about the Bengals postseason. While the Mike Brown statement, the Mike Brown We're just gonna run it back statement eighteen in there? Could you wide out the twenty twenty five and put twenty twenty six in there?

Perfect? So you're a you're not a fantasy football guy ever been? No, No, I'm been onable football, but never right fantasy.

Neither am I.

But I heard there's you know, within the league, as usually they make like whoever loses, they make him do something ridiculous.

It's kind of like that, you know what you do.

Yeah, So there's all these great fantasy football punishments that are coming out, and sometimes it's you know, you gotta wear a shirt. I remember when locally they made somebody eat like a bunch of skyline or something something I forget exact, but something like that.

But here's one. This is.

This guy name his name is Gabe, and he was the loser of the Fantasy Football League. So they are making in honor of Joey Chestnuts Fourth of July hot dog geating contests. They're making him eat seventy one hot dogs. Now, I don't have to do it all at one city or in ten minutes or anything, but yes, he must eat seventy one hot dogs to match the record. The clock starts once he eats his first hot dog and

So he's just gotta Now does he have to dunk him in the water? And I read that's right the bun thing.

I read that and didn't say specifically, but it said has to do it in the way that Joey Chestnuts. So that would mean breaking the two, taking two dogs, breaking them, eating them, dunking the bun and swallowing it.

That's kind of harsh, that's rough. Uh let's see.

Yeah, so I guess when you know he's like mapping it out, you know he's gonna eat like three hot dogs in the morning, three at lunch, for at dinner and do that for everybody can save days.

Yeah, exactly. So anyway, I just thought that was that was funny.

If anybody, uh has a fantasy football league and you make your biggest loser do something hilarious like that, call the show five one, three thousand.

Yeah. I even the guys who come in like third or fourth place in that hot dog gating contest only do like fifty Oh yeah, i'd say only. But yeah, you're making a civilian to eat seventy some hot dogs. That's tough, God tough man. Yeah, but I don't know how many hot dogs do you think you could eat?

Ones?

Like no time women just you just eat them in one sitting kind of thing.

Right.

Yeah, Now I know I can eat I mean I've done ten cheese.

Coming I thought, I thought, you remember you doing ten cheese, and I.

Bet I could do. I bet you could push twelve to fifteen. So that's fifteen. So that would mean now the coney dogs are a little bit smaller than actual hot dogs, So I could do I could do twelve hot dogs.

I bet that wouldn't be fun, it'd be disgusting, But I think I could do it. No, did you ever anybody you ever played with along the Way college or pros? Was there anybody who could eat monumental amounts of food that you would just look at me?

My, my, my buddy, My one of my best friends and roommate at Notre Dame, Tommy Lipinski. He was a fullback, and this dude could eat unbelievable portions of food.

And he was, you know, and he was a big dude.

He you know, loved lift and weight, so he's always you know, we were always you know, you gotta you know, force the food down to get big and stuff. But there was this what was it? There was this Italian place I'll never forget this that we would go to every once in a while here and there, and they had this saw a dish called like a like a sizzellini.

I mean, just incredible, incredible. I've seen guys like that. And you know, back in I remember there's a guy in college. I was thinking about him the other day. We'd go, you know, a few of us would go to lunch and then I always went to the subhouse there next to ud And you know, if I got a whole sub, I mean there's no wag an you had the whole giant sub. But sometimes I would think I was that hungry and I'd have a half a leftover, you know sub and these things are half of them

I can and I have multiple times eating an entire large traditional cross pizza from the Roses.

I can do that and easy. I used to be able to. I think I could now a whole one. Oh, a whole deal O large just for me. I can eat a half a one. But that's that was back in my weed smoking day. We go to the news news radio seven undred WLW.

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Oh, we're gonna be so late for the concert. All right, back with Eddie and Rocky and Rocky, we have to talk to our good buddy Jason Williams from the Inquirer Cincinnati dot Com and a bit. Let's kick off in new year right here, Happy new Year, buddy. What's up guys? Happy New Year.

Great to be with you.

So you're just off of IR. I guess you had a little bit of that crud that was going around.

Yeah, how some time the way up for a few days there, I missed, uh missed the game on Sunday and I just watched it from home, and uh there was something going around. My whole house got hit with something. So it's been uh it's been kind of a one by one everyone in my house. There was only one guy that hasn't gotten it yet, so uh we'll see, we'll see if it hits him.

That was our house about a month ago. Man, just boom that one.

Kids around, So Jake's a couple of a couple of things. We want to talk to you about your column the other day, but also the breaking news with Cam Taylor Britt What and the hell's going on with that guy?

To be honest with you, guys, like I was lay laying there last night, uh, still trying to go over whatever the crud here, and uh and I saw, you know, he popped up where he had done an interview and uh, I guess it was on Monday or something, and I was like, I've totally forgotten about. I'm like, oh, yeah, that guy. And then and then that the news today. What was it that he was driving without a license and uh that sentenced to five days in jail and

And street racing downtown downtown Rock.

I thinks, so yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I don't you know, I always try to look at these things as a that's an individual thing, and you know, it's certainly I will say that this is what came to mind.

Uh.

And it's a positive thing about the Bengals that it's it's few and far between now where you see Bengals players, uh getting you know, having run ins with the law. And that's a huge testament to Zach Taylor. And I know Zach Taylor is at the end of the day, it's about performance based business, about what happens on the field. And but but Zach Taylor deserves a lot of credit

The wall, Well, well, I mean, I mean, yeah, to your point, if this is if the worst thing that's going on is there's some street racing going on, in a suspended license. That that that that's that's a great thing to have. And moving on to your your column, jas Uh, you kind of laid out a five, like five moves that you would like to see the Bengals make this offseason.

I want to start with number one here.

Cincinnati Bengals owner Mike Brown needs answer questions asap. Explain why that's important, and then do you think that will ever happen.

It's important because they haven't made the playoffs in three years, and the defenses is what the defense is, and they've repeatedly failed at drafting and building a defense, developing a defense. And you know you fired your defensive coordinator after last season, so you made that move, and it's still the defense

Into any details.

And we turned that around and look at what happened on Friday or Saturday or Friday or Saturday. Was the Titans owner Amy Amy I'm drawing a blank on.

Amy Adams.

Trump came out with a pretty detailed letter to fans explaining why the general manager and the team president were remaining and explaining their roles, and it was pretty nuanced, But I think those are questions that fans have. Certainly apparently they had that of the Titans, and those are really similar questions that fans have here, like who's ultimately calling the shots and who can be held accountable here? And you know, so I felt like Mike Brown needed

A great we're talking to our good friend Jason Williams. And one of the other things you had in your five point column, Jace was and and this has been all over social media and it's still was kind of on fire there, a little bit fire Duke Tobin and people. People have been beating that drum for a couple of years now.

Though, Yeah, I feel like there's there's a responsibility journalistically in my role to like, you got to be really careful if you call for someone to be fired. And I understand we live in social media. Fans are going to say what fans are.

Going to say.

And yeah, I requested an interview, uh, a one on one interview with Duke Tobin back at the around the bye week and was told like, you know, hey, we'll get back with you, and you know, and they never got back with me. And I mean, these are all questions like I want to ask him about back then. Hopefully I was hoping for one on one. He doesn't doesn't typically talk during the season, and he is going to talk this Friday at one pm as a print

Yeah, absolutely, couldn't couldn't agree more on that. The issue, of course is the relationship of Mike Brown with Duke Tobin's dad, and it's ye know that that's the hard part. And in your column, Jason, I thought, you know, every one of your points were valid. I the one that I think I have the best chance of happening is your number five, Keep talking Joe Burrow and then and I think you're absolutely you nailed it. You know, Mike Brown doesn't listen to many people out there, He hasn't

Happening a big time. And I and I think that's that's certainly we've seen in the high profile things with you know, and he he you know, he pushed for Tea and Jamar to get their extensions and obviously that happened last off season. You know, he went went to bat for them to re sign Mike Geschi and that happened, and he went to bat for Trey Hender and May

And I respect that.

I mean, I don't know how you can't respect that. But he also knows that, uh, the role that he's played in this organization is probably the greater role than any player has ever played. And just the fact that you know, he was a national champion in college and he's an Ohio guy, and you throw all that stuff in there, like Heisman Trophy winner, and that there's a lot with him and what he's made. The impact that he's made on this franchise is unlike any other player

To be done.

This guy is a winner. This guy is a winner.

He deserves he.

Deserves the right players around him. Like he is here to win in a Super Bowl.

He's not yet.

Yes, he makes a lot of money, but this is a differently wired guy. This guy wants to win a super Bowl. This guy isn't about like falling into you know, the Bengal way or you know, oh, you know the Bengal malaise. Nope, He's here to win a super Bowl. He wants to do it here and so this is this is him using his voice to express getting to that goal and has nothing to do with his ego or you know, I don't like this guy or that guy. All it is is about the Lombardi Trophy period in the story.

Well said, all right with that, Jase, we will let you go, buddy, Thanks so much, Thank that. Happy New Year, our good friend Jason Williams from The Inquire since Dady dot Com. And yeah, when Joe Burrow talks, I think everybody an idea.

Yeah, and look, I mean his job is to is to play quarterback. That's you know. And I can understand the argument. Well, look, you play the ball, and but a quarterback's actually you are the head of the franchise. If you are the quarterback, you are the most important person in the building. How you play determines if everybody

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Why here we are, fresh end of the new year, about a weekend now, and are your resolutions taken hold? Because I tell we've talked about this before, and I'm sure we'll talk to PJ Street about it on Thursday. My wife goes to the gym every basically every morning and does a couple of three miles or whatever it is on the treadmill, and she was she came home, I think it was yesterday. I was like, well, the New Year's resolutioners are there?

Oh yeah, yeah, I've actually not been to a gym this get this new year. But I bet, well, I actually here, but yeah, but not around here out of town. I was, but yeah, I bet that the New year's folks are.

Outse well, that's what she said. It was amazing. She's standing there on the treadmill. From where where she's facing, she can see the desk and she goes literally the whole time she was there, and she usually there an hour and a half, two hours. There were people getting memberships. Wow, that's good. Yeah, it's a good thing. But do you still use that membership in you know, March. Well, I was gonna say, if you're still going at Easter, you're gonna still be going. Yeah, I keep going the rest

Yeah?

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Or what was one that you I don't know that you thought you could do but it turned out you just absolutely couldn't do it?

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Sinsonat impeached for a third time, Trump thinks it's possible. This is the five o'clock report. I'm Matt Reese breaking now. President Trump telling House Republicans at an annual retreat today that if they don't win the mid term election this year, he's facing impeachment. This is how he said it.

You got to win the midterms, because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be.

I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me.

And at the same time, Trump predicts Republicans will quote break records in the midterms at Republican retreat at the newly renamed Trump Kennedy Center in Washington. It was this day five years ago when Trump's supporters stormed the US Camp. Today, a couple of events were much different from each other.

Marking that occasion, House Democrats heard from former Capitol Police officer Winston P. John about the violence he suffered at the hands of the mob.

Punched in the face, pepper sprayed, and thought, I'm going to die here on the steps of the US Capitol.

On the National Mall, dozens of now pardoned ex defendants undertook another march toward the Capitol and what was called a remembrance for Ashley Babbitt. She was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer as she attempted to breach the House Speaker's lobby. Stephen Portnoy, ABC News Washington.

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Inauguration day for the Mayor of Cincinnati and City Council is swearing in at Music Hall this morning. Mayor Pureval telling the audience. In the next couple of months, an increase in the city's earnings tax will be proposed for public safety and poverty. New revenue will allow.

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Mayor Pureval mentioned the recent shooting death of an your Own girl in the West End. Today, a member of council talked about how the ball was dropped on placing cameras where the child was shot.

Cincinnati City Council Member Anna Alby says she's not going to duck or dodge responsibility. On The Sloan Show, she admitted she could have done more to make sure the administration in Cincinnati implemented safety enhancement's council approved last summer for the West End. Cameras and better lighting were supposed to be installed at Laurel Playground, but didn't happen. Now a second child's been shot and murdered there.

The first step here is to solve the problem. So how do we get those cameras up?

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Bond set at eleven grand. In today's court appearance for the twenty six year old man who allegedly used a hammer to vandalize Vice President Vance's home in East Walnut Hills, the attorney for William to four says his client was not motivated by politics, but because of mental health issues. Still scheduled to appear in federal court today. Five days in jail for Bengals cornerback Taylor Britt after he was convicted of reckless driving and street racing downtown. He is

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Oh there'll be it's Ai Eddie and Rocky by then. Will it happens right forward?

Good?

Yeah? They paid, by the way, I mean the versions of us. But we get the check between like eight hour shifts a day. Uh So what we're looking for is a New Year's resolutions, well current or past that either worked or didn't work for you five three, seven, four nine, seven thousand, eight hundred the big one. Now it wasn't a resolution of yours. But whatever what happened with your weird on off fasting diet you were doing?

By the way, do we even talk about that? I don't know if we don't a little bit. We haven't talked about annoy I did it. I did it for a week. So I did four days of not eating, and uh I never really noticed anything, you know, good or bad?

Really.

I mean I was hungry, but I mean I could you know, I wasn't dying or anything, right, but I didn't. I guess I was hoping to achieve some like clairvoyant level of you know, mental capacity or something.

It's just I felt normal. Well it always I always wanted to do stuff like that too, where like like you said, but people would be like, I'm when I'm meditated or I'm going to free my mind, I might not dwell on the small things and just be you know, more conscious about my mental well being. And then they're always like like, Okay, hey you there, Nirvana, Yeah, what's what's the deal. And I think people convince themselves that they're they're better, you know what I'm saying. I think

Which you know, look, if you're looking at it from a results driven standpoint, whatever gets you where you need to need to be.

Uh, your your thoughts and what have you done? What or what are you doing? I five went three, seven four nine, seven thousand, eight hundred, the big one. Let's talk to a Travis and Andrews saying, Hey, Travis, what's going on? Buddy?

Hey?

It is going good?

Happy New Year and everything to you guys.

Hey y'all doing that?

Catch just siding?

Hey, So no, I sat there two years ago.

I've kemp the same exact resolution and I've been sticking to it.

I started off.

At one hundred and ninety six pounds. My son challenged me, to do the half marathon Flying Pig Marathon, and I got down one hundred and sixty nine pounds. That was two years ago, and did the marathon half.

Marathon and it.

Since then, I'm the gym.

Consistently three days a week at least running.

Working out.

And now I'm up to one hundred and eight two pounds a month.

Good good man, yeah, good man, keep it up.

Now I'm running.

I'm running thirteen minute tomorrow.

Damn. That sounds really good.

I'm fifty seven years old.

I'm not no spring chicken, so I'll take you.

Say that's really good for fifty. So are you going to try to run?

Though?

I mean not. Hey, I'm not daring or anything, but you're going to try to run the whole marathon?

Trap, I've run a whole marathon before. I haven't done one of those.

In over fifteen years.

That's a lot of work, dude.

Trust me. And thanks. Trap.

Is he standing next to a wood path, I don't know, riveting something?

Woodbecker on his phone going, hey, hang up, now, let's talk to Hazel. Hazel in Indiana. What's going on?

Hey?

Actually, about ten years ago I started recycling plastic, like you know, the mountain spring water bottles and caps off the laundry detergents and all that. And I actually have kind of like very picky about I yelled my husband every time he throws a piece of plastics tup were lid away. But yeah, so I take all that and recycle it. But right now I'm working on trying to give up that damn McDonald's diet coke. It's like crack or something.

It gets you. There is something about the fountains. Yeah, I know, Donald.

I'm right now. I'm on basic. Right now, I'm doing really good. But I also wanted to give a shout out to Rocky sorry about yourself.

Oh thank you. I appreciate you saying that.

Good boy and very very loyal friend and it was his time and he's in a better place now, but thank you.

Yeah, I saw My dog is eighteen and she's he's kicking it. I mean, her tail wags, she eats and poops, but we got a carrier all the time, and she's leaps all the time, and she's down about forty pounds, but hey, her tail is still waged.

So that's where I was. That's where I was. My dog.

I had to do the same things and carry them out, you know, but what are you gonna do? You can't, yeah, give up on them. But hey, hey, real quick on the on the coke thing, is someone who gave up pop, like I don't know about two years ago. If you can get to like the like that first month without it, it gets easier.

You know what I mean?

It does.

Okay, I keep telling myself pop is poisoned, so I'm trying not to drink it. But man, when I passed those Golden Archists on the road, I'm like, oh, it's hard going one. There you go, Thanks for the tip, great.

One your Yeah, that's I always and it's and it's always been that way to Papa McDonald's. I mean going when I was a kid, I get the biggest coke they had. I mean I get a lot. When I was in high school or something. My lunch might be an order of a friese and the biggest coach they had. Oh yeah, yeah, that was enough. Just pile it on.

Well, according to Austin here, John harbo out as Ravens coach. Wow, uh three years left on his deal. Yeah, he was involved for eighteen seasons. It's according to schefter here and Austin, thank you for making me aware of that.

That's that's wild, that's big man. What why why would that be? I thought I'd seen that they had renewed his contractor someone apparently not.

Uh.

John Harbor is out as Ravens coach eighteen season one hundred and eighty and one thirteen record, thirteen and eleven postseason one Super Bowl championship.

Wow.

Second NFL second longer longest tenured coach, behind of course Mike Tomlin.

Wow. Well, how about Harbor of the Browns and Stefanski is Fansky two to the Ravens.

What's funny because the stefanski is is like the number, like the choice on like three. Yeah, I've seen that three the Falcons, the Giants and one other team.

I saw.

It was a bad firing, all big time. Well it was in the I saw a headline from the Cleveland paper the Brown's ownership has just made Stefanski the Baker Mayfield of coaches. Yeah, because you know, he got missed, he got mys treatd Well, he was not great in Cleveland, but he did kind of mistreated and they pulled the trigger on him too early. But yeah, and now he's a hero down south. That's what's gonna happen with the Stfanski.

Imagine if he went to New York with Jackson Dart and what's the running backs, Scataboo and the elite neighbors, right.

They that'd be a they got some weapons or some young weapons. That might be a good good spot for Well, that's wild, though, Harball, that they were they were this, they were a miss field going away from Missah.

Yeah, so you're telling me you would have would have fired him with if that field goal had been three feet to the left.

I don't know. That's that's always an interesting call.

But I you know, maybe eighteen seasons are like we just need some freshness in the building. But yeah, I again, anytime a coach is fired, my next question is, okay, fine, who you getting who's going to be the guy that you guarantee.

Is going to be better than the guy you had before.

And if it's not someone you could make an argument that you're guarantee can be better, I don't know if you should do it.

Well, that's what everybody around here always barking for Zach Taylor job, And I don't know, I don't think you've ever voiced your thoughts on him as a coach.

I I think I don't think Zach Taylor is the problem. I think there's a lot of good things he does. I just think it's it's more of a top down issue. I think if he were the same thing, if he had, you know, a front office that was a bunch of grinders and you know, we're very competent in what they did, I.

Think he would, you know, he could, he could be fantastic. But well, that's when we were talking to Jason Williams earlier. He was talking because we were talking about this thing with Cam Taylor. Bridd did did he did he? Or is he doing jail time? I never did get that part straight or just a suspended sentence. I don't know I was driving without a license in street racing or something like that. But to his point, that's that's about as bad as it gets with this team these days.

Yeah, yeah, So so that he's certainly clean up the culture. Now, just got to get some more wins. It's gotta you gotta have both. No one, No one wants to the good team with a bunch of law breakers on it, but also no one wants the team that with a bunch of guys with a heart of goal that don't win either, right, gotta get both.

So what it is? Let me ask you this too as a former player. Now, is this a relatively new term culture, the culture of the locker room? Or was there a different term for it back then, because it just seems like I've been here in that term in the last I don't know, five ten years. That's the big that's the big hot topic.

No, you No, it is certainly in the last five years, and maybe even a little bit longer than that. But that that is the buzzword. And I can't go into one coaches meeting, you know with you know, I did twenty one games, so that's forty two head coaches I talked to without every single one of them talking about culture and what their culture is and what we got to do our culture better and how our culture is better than this guys, and what I've hit culture culture, culture, calture.

Hey, guys, I too cannot believe that Stefanski got fired up in Cleveland. I mean, they go through quarterbacks like no organization I've ever seen. Whoever's pulling it. It seems to me like the general manager should have gotten fired. I thought Stefanski did a good job, and I'd love to I mean, I like what we've got in Cincinnati, but I'm just saying i'd take him as the head coach.

He was coaching that year twice in twenty twenty three.

What even like it was twenty years ago, it was recently, right, It's bad bad.

Do you guys know?

Is that the GM up there that keeps making these quarterback decisions like to go out and get Deshaun Watson.

It's the owner Haslam.

He's kind of like a Jerry Jones, right, he kind of says, Hey, I like that guy, let's get him.

Yeah, Jerry Jones want to be That's what happened with the and thanks Mike, That's what happened with that Deshaun Watson thing, because they kind of came out of the blue on that. If you remember, there were we're talking about two or three different teams that were all about the Watson deal. Then all of a sudden, Browns have Deshaun Watson. It was crazy.

Yeah, they gave him all kinds of guaranteed money and just screwed up player contracts for years.

Doesn't he give him like two hundred it was like two hundred and forty million dollars up.

Front something nuts like that. It was stupid, stupid for anybody, let alone the guy that you know turned out to be that.

Yes, all right, well my new year's resolution is to sign a new contract with the big one. I'll settle for two hundred million dollars and.

I will too, damn it. Together, we will. We will take the poultry some and stay united.

I think if we subtract about five or six zeros from that, we might be in business. They're exactly right, and we'll take that to We'll take whatever you're willing to give me. Uh where that we check in with traffic and weather, what is going on.

You know who's not a Kevin Stefanski fan would be that Rex Obryon on ESPN. As a matter of fact, he kind of had some, uh, had some rather pointed.

Feeling about history there.

Coach Coach of the Year. What does that mean? That's that's just one of those little things that that's kind of a meaningless thing. And I'm thinking, well, I suppose if you've done a good job, that would be a good thing to happen.

Your mom thinks it's cool. Yeah, he's doing great.

But yeah, but Rex kind of went off on Kevin Stefansk.

I was kind of like, wow.

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We got you covered all right, back with eddiean Rocky just a little while longer, rock But before we get out of here. We always loved talking to our buddy Alex Stone from ABC.

Now.

I don't know about you, guys, but I've been hearing about this type of thing for a long time, and I'm honest to god, couldn't tell you the last time I had a cup of coffee on an airplane.

See, I have, and I know it's dirty, but I just I can't say no. And apparently that's a bad idea because I guess the reports are that the water on these airplanes is all kinds of dirty.

And with more on that, our good friend Alex Stone, Alex, what is the latest?

Yeah, And I'm the same way. I'm like, I know that they tell you the water is really dirty, but I go, yeah, I'm a cup of coffee, please, and thinking that it's not coming out of that holding tank that we always hear about. And that's what this is all about that. You know, you get on, you order coffee, you order tea, you wash your hands in the boss, in the bathroom on board. But so there is this nonprofit that for years they have been doing studies on the water on board and they have a new airline

Can fill up in different locations. They can fill up and if they fill up in New York City, well, New York City's great water is great, whereas if they fill out in other locations, well they may not be so great. So there's that Then they go into two trucks, and those trucks that have contatinusts contabinists. So and then and then the airlines own possible water tanks could have contabinuts.

So he's with the Center for Food is Medicine, and he says there are airlines that do better than others when it comes to cleanliness of water on their planes. He says Delta has come a long way and their study that they've really come up that they're doing well based on where they used to be.

Let's say the.

Delta and Frontier are the best, and the bottom tier is American Airlines, and then Jet Blue is the second worst.

And then stir it to their spirit again it seems like they're always there. But he claims, and again non scientific the way that they did this, but based on his data that the water coming out of the holding tanks on planes for drinking or for the fauce in the bathroom, that it is really nasty, to the point where you don't even want to wash your hands in it, he is saying.

So he says, do not drink the coffee, do not drink the tea, get it right before you get on a flight. And most importantly, do not wash your hands at the lavatory because those the lavatories test worse than anything else. So don't wash your hand sanitizer with fifty percent out whole a little better.

But our medical teams are saying that goes against the advice that if you have water and you've got soap, to use that overhand sanitizer and only use hand sanitizer if you don't have any soap with water. But so each to their own. But he says thing twice before using any water on board planes. And he begged me today, he said, just please don't ask for coffee on board, because you know what's coming out of these tanks that that you don't know how clean they are on board

I think Big Coffee is behind this thing, Starbucks being they want me to spend six dollars on a coffee before I get on the plane instead of getting the free one on the plane. So they cook up this kakamami story about pathogens and all this stuff and they forced me to buy the coffee.

That's what I think is going on here.

Maybe maybe that's exactly what it is, you know, And then you think about, well, think of your coffee maker put it on like an industrial massive scale, and if it's not really getting cleaned, what it would look like

Well, that's the reason the old ed man here sticks to beer and wine.

Yeah, you know, it's coming out of the cannon bottle or.

A Coca cola, good old Coca cola first thing in the morning. Beats a cup of coffee every single especially if it doesn't have swimmys in it.

I gotta say, I I choose the ignorance is bliss methodology here. And in the same way I go into a restaurant and I know, damn well, if that steak fell on the ground for a few seconds. It's not going in the garbage. They're gonna brush it off and cook it and put it on my plate. I don't want to think about that, and I don't want to think about the coffee the water on the plane, so I'll just remain ignorant.

I guess I don't know if that's part of what your or this whatever survey shows. But what about the ice? That's a different source, is it?

It is?

There have been warnings about that as well in the past, not knowing where that that water comes from, and then what the hell sanitary where they're they're freezing and all that. But yeah, if you've seen them, it comes in big bags and you always hear them back there, you know, as they're breaking it up and getting it ready. But

All right, with that good advice, Alex, Thanks buddy.

You got it.

Thanks?

Yeah, Well, I dude, when they tell me you can't wash your hands, that's when I get a little squirrely with stuff. Yeah, but I don't trust. Yeah, I don't like going into airplane bathrooms anyway. It just it's something about it gives me the creeps.

Well for me, it's tremendously uncomfortable because you know, you know, it's usually you know, a kind of swan slant. Is I'm sitting there with like my head leaned all the way over on my left shoulder, you know, legs braised, trying not to peel over the mirror and everything.

God, that's like a balancing knack going on that thing. Well, see that. I actually have thought about you when I was in an airplane bathroom. Oh wow. I mean I'm a I'm a small man, and I'm standing there and I I'm kind of wenching in there. I'm thinking, how in the hell does Rocky do this? It's not fun? Not fun?

Uh.

But but to your point earlier about you know, you just get a coke. I bet you.

Most of the last few flights, and again we're talking. This is Cincinnati to Atlanta, like early in the morning, you know, Memphis to Atlanta. They've given nothing but water and coffee. You don't see much of the pop getting right, that being a choice anymore.

Well, it is exactly what we've we've both said we've seen it on any especially from like say here to Atlanta. It's always turbulent. So we can't serve beverages. A bull crap? Do you just to serve breakfast from here to Atlanta? They can't even give me a coke? Right, you can't give me a coke? Ye rock And another gross news nice this happened at a Royal Farms store in Pennsylvania. I guess Royal Farms is kind of like a I don't know, it's not like well, kind of like a

It made it sound like she was she took like the cases of beer and made like a makeshift toilet.

No, she just pooped on the show.

Okay, what there's gotta be consequences for that. You gotta you just can't. I don't want to live in a society.

Or right it goes on, this happened at five in the afternoon, and it says even though the beer cave has a clear glass of blah blah blah all the way around, no one in the store saw her at the time. And in addition to here's what I love. In addition to disorderly conduct, Giles was charged with open lewdness scattering rubbish. That's an official offense. Huh. Yeah, apparently in criminal mischief. Those three counts were withdrawn by prosecutors as part of a negotiated plead deal. Yeah, the court

I'd be like, dude, have all the illegal stuff going on, You're gonna ding me? Oh wow, I guess they got to enforce it to keep it when I'm down a little.

That's what I told my buddy, though. I was like, you guys had to just be so drunk or some of them were making such you know, being so obvious that they had no choice because well, we thought Arabian kind of stealthful apparently not obviously not their secret squirrel. Oh man. With that thought in mind, do we check in with traffic and weather? What is going on,