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A little wired, but I'm raided rock man. Uh missed you. By the way. Everybody like I'd say, about one third of my plane coming from Atlanta back to Cincinnati, A lanted about one one third of the plane is like, are you gonna make it for the show. I'm like, yeah, man, I'm like, Eddie misses me. I'm definitely gonna be there.

So that's right. I can't carry on another day without your son.

Yeah.

Right, But you were in you were in uh well well down outside Austin.

Yeah. I was in San Marcos, Texas for the big JMU at Texas State game last night on ESPN two. It was a good game for half and then it wasn't. JAMU is really good. I think they could make the college football Playoff, for what that's worth. But nevertheless, while I was gone, Ed, I saw this news and and and obviously you did two. Amazon is laying off thirty thousand people, okay. And these are largely like, you know, like corporate kind of desk jobs, and it's all because

Well, that's the thing is that everybody's been saying AI is going to replace jobs, this and that and the other, and the people were saying, oh no, they're going to be you can, you'll get another job. Well, these people aren't getting new jobs.

Dude, No, I feel like and we'll talk to our guests about it. I mean, I think, at least for the time being, more more blue collar jobs like construction things like that will open up. But you know, there's a lot of people sitting in a in a college and a freshman you know, computer class right now. That's saying, look, I don't necessarily want to frame houses, so you know, you know, but do you have an option at this point?

Well, and that's we've had guests on about that too. Rock is that more and more young people have switched to more of a blue collar type of approach to it. And hey, the world needs plumbers and welders and builders, Hamstring. I mean more than you need another computer programmer. Obviously you do.

But I feel like it's happened so fast that you know, how much how long is that correction going to take where a young person that's in high school getting ready to go to college, are they going to be able to wrap their mind around that change fast enough to be able to go into a field where they can have a job and you know, and make make money and support a family and all that sort of thing.

Well?

I will tell you that my youngest son, Luke has.

Yeah, he did.

He did the usual kid stuff and worked serve. You know, he worked at the fast food joint, and he did this and that and the other, and uh, he got a job working in a small factory metal metal fabrication and theres nothing about it.

But you know what he did.

He went in and put his nose to the grindstone and just started watching what those guys do. And now he is. He's not a foreman. He's only been he's been there less than a year. He's not a foreman. But he is moving. He's rapidly moving up the chain right home. I'm like, dude, you keep this up, You're going to own this place in like two years.

Yeah. Yeah, But but that's that's the mentality it's going to take. Is is making a kind of a quick correction turn and into what you want to do, and and and figuring that out and and you know, and being able to go with the flow. And I think if you're I hate to say it, but if you're at a point where you're very resistant to all of these new things that AI brings along and and the replacement of jobs, that you're going to be kind of s o l here moving forward.

See.

Well, I've always said that if I couldn't have done this, I don't know what the hell I had ended up doing. I'm not lyning to yet, I'd be a bark.

You see you strap it on a tool belt and with your pipe is you know, pipes and your wrenches and stuff.

You haven't seen me try to build something, dude.

Uh, that's a great mental image, by the way, right, No, your cigarette growed up in your in your your shirt there.

Actually, when I was a younger, I it was one of those things where whilst I put my nose to it, I my first house I bought, I did do some work in that house and hunk some I hunk some drywall and and finish hunk and finished drywall. I did that for a little bit in high school and just stuff like that. But basic plumbing and electric especially, man, I don't know if you can deal with electricity knock yourself out because I did not want to touch that stuff.

I feel like you do have to again and find a way where you got to make a figure out a way to make the machines and technology work for you. You can't work for it, if that makes sense, you know, And some of these a lot of these you know, computer jobs, even corporate jobs that you know have to do with filing and you know, and and all that sort of thing that those are going to be gone. But if you can figure out a way to make the technology work for you, that's I think that's the

Based on what we were just going to be talking about. Pretty soon we're going to be working for technology, you know what I mean.

That's the thing. Is there a future? Yeah, well that's the thing. I think that and I'm just you know, I'm just thinking out loud. But you know, if you're working for that stuff, I don't know what the future is. But if you can figure out a way to make the technology work for you, then you may have a have a future and you can you know, go and make a bunch of money and go about that way.

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Halloween activity going to a college campus of the soume.

Maybe there were.

Maybe so a few Halloween costumes along the way or some say.

Yeah, my wife usually frowns upon me attending like uh sorority parties and things like that while I'm on the road. But but at the game, I yeah, there was. There's some folks decked out at Texas State and some some costumes. So it's cool is that time of year. Yeah, that's what. I don't know why she always does that. By the way, you know, there's just some you know, young women that you know, they maybe need a little guidance and maybe some things I can impart some wisdom I can impart

I don't see that that. That's sad to.

Me, surprising, right, it's kind of selfish.

Yeah, it really is selfish that you wouldn't let you minister to these young ladies and share the here.

Just here to help, ad, I'm just here to help, right.

I went to college, Yeah right, yeah, and I'll go along with you. And I'm like and see, I'm way older than him, so you don't even know. U double creeped.

Out on this.

Think of the wisdom you. I could impart on a sorority.

Boy, we sure could, I'm telling you.

Rock.

In other news, speaking of such activity only in Amsterdam, this happened at the UH, you know, at the reichs Museum there, which is the fancy place you know, that's where they have all the ven goes, the rembrands and whatnot. Of course, they had an exhibition called safe Sex. As part of the the display, they had a condom from eighteen thirty that's enhanced with an erotic art. The the condom, the prophylactic is made from a sheep's appendix sorry to

Is it on display or is it up for auction?

It was on display. I don't know what kind of draw that is, but yeah, that's uh. Let's put it this way. Would you make that a point of stoppage on your trip to uh Amsterdam? You'd have to go to the Reichs Museum because it is cool.

I guess if I was in the Reis Museum already, I would I would wander over to the west wing and just check that out for odd curate curiosity. But I don't know if it would get me to actually take a trip to the museum.

In other news, moving across the pond over our way to you know, Florida. Police in Florida are looking for a suspect who quote unquote fondled a six hundred and fifty dollars ferret for some time at a pet Land store and then shoved the animal down his pants and walked out.

Wait first, that is the most shocking part of this that costs six hundred dollars. Well, that that caught me. I got a lie. That might be the most shocking thing about that hole in that area, that a ferret costs six fifty Who knew?

Greasy little rat looking whatever? But anyways, it was reported that the band brows the ferret.

Here's why it gets me too.

At Petland, the man browsed the ferret section of the store, So they've got a whole section dedicated to ferrets.

I've never seen anything like that here in Cincinnati, but in Florida, anything goes.

He browsed the section for quite some time before he left, holding quote the crowcherry of his pants to support the ferret. A Petland manager tried to chase him, but couldn't get the license plate number of the van he was driving now.

So he made away with it. Wow, yeah, Well, how do you six hummerd bucks man? You gotta do what you gotta do sometimes, how do you?

I got a couple of questions, how do you run with a fair in your pants? And once I thought about it. I'm thinking I'd run pretty fast if I had a ferret in my pants.

I think I would run pretty fast. Weren't you worry about it? Kind of nibbling around a little bit?

Ed?

Well, Hey, look, you're in it for the long haul, buddy. You just gotta do what you gotta do. You gotta take your lumps man.

Yeah, how worth it is it for you to have that ferret at your house?

Ask the question the six hundred and fifty buck ferret? Now? I want to talk to some ferret owners here in the very inner future. And see, I see, I thought therese were something that you had. It kind of adopted. You felt sorry for him. I didn't know they caused that much money.

I had no idea. Yeah, I mean, what do you do with them? Is it kind of like a like a like a cat. Yeah, it just kind of runs around and it didn't do any tricks or anything. I don't know.

Maybe teach it how to do tricks, you know what I mean?

Wow?

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For strings and the dude in the back smoking, the smoking the reefer and wearing sunglasses.

But John H. Wilson man, he was, he was, he was the dude man.

Oh, no question about it.

Oh God, guys, have a great day. Man.

Thanks DoD that's good stuff. Yeah, that's another.

Reason I wanted to become the bass player, because I was I was going to be the guy in the back smoking weed and like, okay, call me when you need me.

It's one of those things because like on the surface, you say, okay, you know the bass player, you can't really hear it, but you can, but you can really hear it when it's not there, right, If that makes sense, you know, you instantly go like, you know, like a normal song, if you know, if you ask people like what was that bassline? Like there, like I don't know, just kind of part of the song. But if all of a sudden there isn't any bass, you immediately go, what the hell's wrong with this band?

Like that?

It doesn't sound right? Some a big hole. There's a big hole in this song. It's missing right.

Well, that's what I read a thing not too long ago. Somebody said, yeah, listen to McCartney's bass line in something you know, there's some thing the George song, and listen to Paul's bassline, and that I was like that, that's a bass I never heard a song a million times. I've never even thought about it. Have a bass at it.

I mean, you can go online and go on YouTube, I think, and and uh, you know they'll have songs that well, they'll take instruments out. You can say like whatever such and such song without minus the bass, and it's like, god, it's really really crazy. Now. The Doors, of course, the best band of all time, famously did not have a bass player. Well really until their last

See that's a that's another thing. I'm not nearing ambidextrious enough to ever try to do something like that. I can completely can't do crap with my left hand. You know what I'm saying, Well, what happens if you break your right hand head? I mean, well, I'm gonna have to learn something at the at the ripe old age.

Of sixty eight.

To well, I think maybe if I was younger and I'd have tried more back then, but you know, you just kind of if you haven't used your your left hand in uh, you know, fifty years, then it just uh it says, well, I'll let the right hand do everything.

There you go, that's uh in another news that this is an article that this is like right eye of a sci fi movie. Okay, this is in Mississippi, so close to Florida. So there's these they had these primates, right, monkeys that were used in scientific research okay at Tulane. Okay,

Kid, Well, those poor monkeys, what are they just shoot them up with anything they can think of.

I reckon, I don't know.

I guess and test them, but it really is, dude, right out of a out of a fricking movie.

Huh. If you've seen the movie Army of the Dead, it's one of those new I was, said the director. He's kind of like with those new hot directors. And a Batista's in and it zombie the one that said breakout in Las Vegas and Vegas. Yeah, yep, I saw that. And that's how this movie starts, right, they're transporting this one like zombie thing and there's a wreck on the highway and he escapes and then kind of founds this whole zombie colony in Vegas. It's actually a pretty good movie.

Well, let's get back to the rock for just a second. Rocky and talked to Russ and Marrimont. Hey Russ, what do you got buddy?

Hi guys too for you Phil Lesh from the Dead he played a thump and six string bass, and then of course Jack Bruce from Cream.

Thanks guys, see you buddy, Yeah, I was I've always been a Jack Bruce guy too.

He was with Cream.

I don't know him, Okay, Yeah, listen, listened to like Sunshine of Your Love or something like that. And obviously the guitars pretty damn fine. But well, every one of those guys. You and I've talked about Ginger Baker before the drummer he was nuttier of Fruitcake. But damn he was good.

He was good. Well, of course, we have maybe one of the most famous bass players of all time, Bootsy Collins, right here in the Natty right.

Right, and certainly I think in Rolling Stone he was certainly top ten, if not top five, of all time. That's pretty impressive, buddy.

That's correct. Yeah.

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Me talking to our old friend Miranda McGhee. She's one of the guys for Mega American Legacy Tours here in town, doing the ghost walk tours and such.

She has seen a lot find that the haunted places all throughout the tri State. She's going to tell us all about the things she has seen. I love it, love it and g a cool gig.

It is apparently because my my son knows her quite well, and they were talking and he said, that sounds like something you know I might like to do sometime is take the It would be a tour guide if you guys are looking for him. I love that stuff. She goes, well, uh, it's fun.

He goes.

She goes, we ushould take a tour, and he goes, oh, okay, that's cool. Me and my girlfriend go with you or something, and she goes, no, you don't want to go with me.

I'm too fraid. I'm too afraid. Yeah, she's told us that before. She's you know, the Ghose tours, and I get freaked out suposed to like just eas sleep and breathe this stuff because you know, but it makes it all the better that she's, uh it wants to be, knows how scared.

It wants to be on the the beer cellar beat right right?

In another news that what's one thing that I absolutely love? World records? Yes, and here we are. It's that time of year. It's fall, Halloween around the corner, and two brothers have just set a Guinness World Record for the heaviest pumpkin. Okay, and these folks are in where they at, They're in England somewhere, and the the pumpkin that they have grown, they set the world record two nineteen pounds.

Damn.

Crazy big right now. And of course went down a rabbit hole with this. And there's like a belief in the the pumpkin growing community. If there's no limits on how big a pumpkin can grow. It's not like, you know, like a sunflower, for instance, it's only going to get so big, right, But a pumpkin, you know, they can

No, I was going to say, I don't know how you'd tend to something like that, but go ahead, we'll talk about it.

Well, I will tell you because again I went down the rabbit hole. And obviously it's it's like anything, it starts with the seed, and you can't just go get a normal pumpkin seed and expect to grow a pumpkin that's you know, hundreds and hundreds of pounds, if not thousands of pounds. But outside of that, it is after you get the right seed that's been you know, it's been modified to grow big, and it's actually like a

Yeah, when we go and get into how do you transport the damn thing? You got to get a rigular.

And well you can see this picture I have here, I mean, this is all it's. Yeah, see it's on a It takes a forklift. It's a palette and a forklift to wheel this thing around. But I mean that'll be wild. I mean, here a couple of years that we'll be talking about a three thousand pound pumpkin. And I feel like we've we've talked about this before, and I feel like we had a caller call in and talk with that that did this or kind of knows

These.

By the way, these same guys also set the record for the biggest circumference of a of a pumpkin, So there you go.

Yeah, I remember when when you first brought that up, I was thinking we did talk to somebody from around here describing how you do that stuff, and it is pretty involved. I mean, it's like shading it sometime from the hot sun and just keep them maintaining the.

Other thing you gotta do and you gotta I think this is with all pumpkins, so I'm not mistaken. You farmers out there would would be able to correct me. But I think you gotta, like, you gotta rotate them around because if they just lay on in the same spot, they get really flat. So you gotta kind of roll them,

Oh, I've seen those guys, yeah, you know on TV.

And it's like a like a like a block, you know, or like a square kind of thing.

Yeah, they but yeah, I guess you would put in a mold or something. But but those people who carve pumpkins and you see them on TV and it looks exactly like they can make it look like you or me or you know, whoever the hell they can trump or something like that or whatever you wanted to take.

Yeah, trump pumpkin. But I don't know how you learn.

How to do that. Man, that's I have to say. That's a great talent. But I wouldn't begin to know how to do that.

Yeah, it's just it's just, you know, it's just cool. It's just to see the things people are into. And again, these guys have been doing this for decades and decades. They're two brothers and they you know, they know how to do it. And I'm not sure what kind of didn't say what kind of prize money is in this thing? Like, I mean, you're talking like a lot of time and resources and dedication. It should at least be a fifty thousand other or something. Shouldn there.

Well, you get a hell of a lot of punk and pie if nothing else, Buddy.

Yes, Yes, Pop and Buza feed the whole village with that.

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Man's a Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Paul on the news about interest rates in support.

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Yes, Rocket is Halloween week?

What are you going out here this year?

Ed?

You're going with the slutty bartender outfit again. I'm going to go slutty nurse this year and that works out for me. Switch you know?

Yeah?

Man? Why not? You know it's worth in the past. How about you? Slutty Fireman? Slutty Fireman isn't one this year? I get well, Bo would go out by himself. He's old enough to go by himself. But do you take the little guys out someplace? Yeah, we'll find somewhere Iron go. Do you go with them? Or does uh? Does Kelly go with I feel like I thought last year I was out of town. I had a game or something, and so I can't. Hey, whatever, we'll figure it out.

You know what you need to do is take them on a ghost tour, and I have just there you go, and I have just the person for you, all right. It is our guest from American Legacy Tours. And of course we're talking about the ghost tours they have going on right now and the stuff she is seeing along the way on said ghost tours. She is our good friend, Miranda Magee. Miranda, always our pleasure.

I'm so glad you called. I was working on my slutty kangaroo costume. Sorry, this is great timing, guys, So maybe we should all meet up together.

Slutty floody.

Sludykinger. It's got a really good big pouch.

I'll tell you that that sounds like the beginning of a really good job.

I've gone too far. I've gone too far, guys.

Oh, you're on the Eddie and Rocky Show. You've not gone too far.

So Miranda, I'm looking at your guys's schedule here, and it looks as though you have just a couple of tours for like for Tomorrow night and on Holloween night, just a couple, yeah.

And and on Saturday as well, November first. But they are selling out like crazy. So if you want to get in now is the time, which is great for us because everybody the spirits have been incredibly active this season. I'm so glad you texted me last night, Eddie, to be like, hey, do you want to talk about it? Because my husband won't listen to my ghost stories anymore. He's like, oh my gosh, just November come already. And I'm like, but wait, this happens. He's a huge skeptic,

Yeah, it's like good.

He's like, oh, it's just kind of freaky, and he were getting increasingly freaked out while I'm trying to work out way to hide this string. And finally he just yelled out, just yelled to the tunnels. He said, well, y'all can't hurt me because because Jesus, he just yelled out, Jesus solid arguments.

As I went down, does Jesus.

Jesus got back?

He got me?

I thought it anyway, So that's how I was glad. He's like, I'm glad you talking to Edie and Rocky, so I don't have to listen to it anymore.

Okay, So well let's we We talked to you over the last couple of years, and every year you've got stories.

What are some of the latest?

So I don't know if I ever talked to you guys, because I just saw this the other day at the Campbell County Courthouse. Have you guys ever been there? I mean, Rocky, you must have been there a few times, right the courthouse.

I haven't been in trouble with the laws. That's it's the last time you went on a slutty fire about out there. Yeah, it was a big hit in the case, That's.

What I thought.

So the Campbell County Courthouse, which by the way, was built between eighteen eighty three and eighteen eighty four for a whopping one thousand dollars. Wow, I know inflation right. By the way, you guys, my friends hate that I have this job. We're like walking down the street and I'm like, you know in eighteen fifty They're like, oh my gosh, stop it. Anyway, So the courthouse, that was the last execution that was done there was for the

No?

I don't think so.

Okay, it may start sounding familiar. It made pretty massive news around here in the eighteen hundreds, but it's still talked about today. She was a young lady in the late eighteen hundreds eighteen ninety six. She was twenty two years old from Indiana, and a guy from Cincinnati, Scott Jackson, decapitated her because she got pregnant out of wedlock and he didn't want to have to deal with the baby,

Yes, Now, what do you when you see something like that? Are you just seeing a shadowy figure or is there a face attached to it?

Or what it was?

When I saw him, we were there sort of late at night training on a tour and I looked up and I just saw like it looked like there was a man in the bell tower. And I looked up and I turned to my fellow guy, Laura. I was like, hey, there's a guy up there. And then we looked back and he wasn't there, and She's like, no one's ever in the Bell Tower. You must have seen the ghosts of Scott Jackson. Wow.

Now wow.

So and this is like, I mean, is this a pretty well known one or is this a little bit more obscure? I guess.

Pearl Brian made like nationwide news in the eighteen hundreds, and people just know because Bobby Mackie's used to like really sort of cash in and on that story because they never did find her head, and there was rumors that there was a satanic cult in the basement of Bobby Mackie's and so, and they apparently brought the head there as an offering to their dark lord. I know, anyway, Bobby Mackie's isn't there anymore.

But let me ask you that because that's a we'd years ago on the Boarding show. We spent the well, we had our producers spend the night in there, and uh it just so happens that a couple of day other guys from the show stayed there and hid in the uh in the attic or something, and they were they were putting, they were making noise and banging on pipes and stuff, and that poor guy had wet himself so hard by the time we got there in the morning he could barely talk.

But I'm not kidding you.

Yeah, and uh well and well you well, you know this story Marianda, that wasn't there always like a rose scented perfume or something connected with her appearance or I forget what it was. But they they sprayed like you know, some of the like room deodorizer stuff with the floral scent to it. And He's like, I smelled the flowers. I smelled the flowers.

I heard the noise.

Uh.

Well, you know that was a funny.

That you started to say we spent the night there. Then you're like, no, after we didn't.

Go we just so.

So now you've talked before about having actual physical contacts with these things.

Has anything like that happened here lately?

Yeah?

So on our Ultimate Queen City Haunted Tour, which is really cool, we go through, like you know, you hear the dark history of Washington Park, which you gentlemen know about that it used to be three separate cemeteries and half the park has never been dug up. So there's still heaps of bodies in Washington Park, which is exactly why the dog park is paved over because they don't want the little puppas digging around like coming up with a femur.

Wow, I didn't notice.

That.

Yeah, the children's playground as all. There's heaps of bodies under the children's playground as well. So the record was destroyed through the fires we've had at City Hall and the courthouse, So nobody knew about the bodies until twenty eleven when they did the forty eight million dollar renovation and dug out the underground parking garage. Then they found all the bodies.

Now, how many how many do you think or how many do they say that there are down there? Would they guess?

So?

Down the north end the part they dug out for the underground parking garage, they found seventy three graves because at the time, in eighteen sixty, they used to be three separate cemeteries. This is hilarious, you guys. In the eighteen sixties they decided they wanted to do something nice over the rhine because it was three separate cemeteries. They're like, you know what, let's change this into a park. So they put out a citywide announcement saying, Hey, if you

I know, right.

I was like, are a major inconvenience here?

Yeah?

What a nuisance?

You know.

I was really upset when the metro went up by like ten percent. I was like, two dollars twenty to ride the metro. Now, I imagine going to be asked to pick up like your relatives is probably a bigger ask. So I had to say about that perspective. I was like, Okay, I can get twenty cents. I don't have to go dig up great great uncle George. So they put out a city wine announcement saying, yeah, can you come get your relative. A few people did, but a lot of

It a day.

Because it was eighteen sixty, They're like, who's gonna know?

Wow, And this is that.

You don't know until you know. Look. And then twenty eleven is when we found that out that all those buddies there. So we found seventy three graves in the north end. The South end which hasn't been dug up. We've used ground penetrating radar. There are so many bodies from the South end. So you know those beautiful lawns. Somebody on my tour the other day we walked into Washington Park. She said, Oh my gosh, I got married right on these lawnes and I had to do it.

So that's it's so funny, by the way, Yeah, go ahead.

I'm sorry, No, what's funny by the way.

Sorry, yeah, no, I.

Was just saying like we think that, like, oh, and you know, back in the day things were, you know, a little more pure and refined. No, just just put more dirt over these bodies here. No one cares, you know, or dig them up, whatever doesn't matter.

It was the worst back then, and the medical colleges at the times eighteen hundred, the only bodies they could get to practice on the medical students were from executed prisoners. It was taboo to donate your body to science, and so Ohio Medical College did an unprecedented thing. They were located on Vine Street. They started saying, hey, if you give us a body, because obviously they were desperate for bodies.

So go back caps.

Well, well, if you know this story, I mean tied to that though, is you know Bill Cunningham, right of course, uh noon to three. One of his ancestors, Old Cunney, was a grave robber in Cincinnati. This is true, honest to god facts. Ask him about it and he'll tell you. We'll probably have to we're going to talk to him at five o'clock then we have to ask him to go through all this. But yeah, he was. He was a grave robber for that very reason. It was profitable, so.

He was a very rich man. I can't we were making a dollar twenty five a day and one hundred and twenty five dollars to a body.

I was going to say, one hundred and twenty five dollars a body that went a long way back then, man, huge, Yeah he did.

It's about I think it's about fifty seen hundred dollars today, but to go way back. Sorry, you guys asked me if i'd had the experiences recently on that tour Queen City Haunted. Not only do we go through Washing Park, but we go into the Symphony Hotel. Have you guys been to the Symphony Hotel right by Music Hall.

I've seen it, but I have never been.

I have not. That's because you guys probably give it a wide berth. You're like, oh, it feels creepy. You should send your producers in there. Yeah the night, Yeah, tell him to spend the night in the Mozart room. So the Symphony Hotel back in the nineteen forties was called the Clyde Hotel, which you could rent a room for just a couple of hours. And there was a lady of the night. We'll call her Monica. Her name is actually Monica, but we'll call her a lady of

Wow, that sounds like my single days. The With that, Miranda, we will, we will let you go. People want to find out more about these ghost tours, where can they go?

Just to American Legacy tours dot com. I would encourage them to book soon because we are filling up to this last weekend appointed season. And Eddie, Now, I'm just thinking about your single days and your feet being tickled, so I guess you guys can talk.

Could have been a ghost scudos. I don't know what was going on. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. I'm Maranda. Thanks so much, all right, I can't wait.

To see you guys in floody costumes out together.

It'd be great.

Get your get your kangaroo together and kangaroo and ready off we go.

I love it all right?

Yeah?

Thanks?

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Talk to him about it, said Grave Grave Robin Grandpa.

Yeah.

We just had Randon McGee on with American Legacy Tours and she was talking about all the well the bodies that are still buried underneath Washington Park and that kind of led to the grave robbering topic, and we're like, well, we know a family member of maybe one of the most infamous grave robbers in Cincinnati history, William Cunningham aka whole Cuney. Okay, so we're gonna have to we have to have Willie refresh us on his uh his tech glacious history. Yeah, and other news that here. Did you

Yeah, I'm surprised that down in the Gatlinburg area down in the Smokies that you don't hear more about bear attacks because people are so freaking stupid, you know, they.

Right, Yeah, I'm just selfie by the bear.

And yeah, and guess what I don't like the goons that go to Yellowstone and think they can walk up and pet a bison. Guess what the are wild animals?

You idiot? Yeah, you idiot, colossal idiot. But yeah, you know it's it's that time of year, hibernation is coming around. I guess they get a little little cranky around there and a little more active. So yeah, bringing the army guns, the whole deal, get rid of them.

See, it is that time of year when you start thinking. When I lived in the old place, we had those woods in our backyard. When you have woods all around your house, to see how active the squirrels get. Man,

Yeah. No, at my house, man, Like, if you go down my driveway, it's like, I mean, and this is you know, before you get to the moat and the dragon and all that, but if you get after you get past that, it's like the squirrels play Russian roulette. Like they dart across the driveway. I mean like four and five of them, I mean from the beginning to the end, and it's you know, sometimes you know, you hit one, it's the worst thing ever. But yeah, those

I was going to say, it is amazing how many times you're driving along and a squirrel darts out in front of you and you could swear there is absolutely no way in hell you miss that thing, no way, right, And sure then you look into your rear view he's gone.

Yeah boom, he's gone yeah. Yeah. I don't know how they do it, but it's like, yeah, they run toward the car, but then somehow, Yeah, they're just super nimble obviously and figure out a way to get out of it. But a bear not as much. Have you hit a bear with your car, it's going to do a little damage.

Well, we had a story yesterday where the this was the Zimbabwe Jason and I were talking about it and some people driving down the highway you know, you're in Africa. Guess what they ran into an elephant. They hits this elephant in the butt. And you know, a car hits an elephant. All it did was pissed the elephant off, and the elephant turns around and attacks the car and killed a guy.

Wow. Now, if you have you seen a bear like in the wild, I have not. I have not, you know, and I got you know, I'm an outdoorsy guy who you know, gone on backpacking trips, the whole deal. I've never seen a bear not at the zoo, and I've seen them.

I saw a couple of them done in Tennessee, and I saw a couple in California. As a matter of fact, we were hiking up there in the mountains around Tahoe and.

We were on a trail.

But I heard, I could hear something behind us, and it's just me in deb and and I kind of look back, and I don't know if I don't think, I don't know he was stalking us or not. But this bear was kind of keeping his distance, but he was walking. He was pacing us, but he was about yeah, twenty five thirty thirty yards off to one side and about that far behind us. But I could see him through the trees and he was walking at our pace. And I'm like, we should probably pick up our pace.

He just keep moving. Yeah, I don't want to get get him panicked, you know, just keep going.

Hopefully some mountain bike guys are going to come along so he has something else to follow.

Yeah. I've told the story of form and listen to podcasts, and I guess one like just a huge outdoor guy always said if you see a brown bear and it's yards from you and it's running at you. You're dead, it's over. You know, that's just how fast those things. I saw a video the other day of a bear like climbing up like a mountain, the things like, you know, this thing's you know, five hundred plus pounds just shooting up this thing like a like a gazelle.

Well that's the thing though, we as humans, basically our own people always say play dead. That kind of is your only option. You can't fight the thing, and if you do try to climb a tree right quick, they can climb it three times faster than you can.

Yeah. I just don't know if in that moment I could play dead. It's how you're giving up. But you know it's likely the best scenario, but I don't know. Well, hopefully I'll never have some worry about that.

I'd rather try to play dead than to keep try to run away from it even though I know I can't, and just and just make it mad.

Yeah, it's like stay there. I mean, somebody bats your a little bit and I'll leave. But you're pissing me off.

Now, See that's the you've never seen blazing saddles. But that's one of the best lines in there. The Mango guy. He's the big beast guy that comes into town to get the sheriff, and the sheriff's talking to his buddy, the gunfighter, and he goes, well, I guess I just shoot him, and then the other guy goes, we don't want to shoot him, you just make him mad. In other news Rock, this happened in Tejas. These cops were out on a mounted patrol, just kind of doing their

The race was on.

They didn't take it, didn't take long to catch him, and blah blah blah, they charged him.

And his button.

The other cops said, chasing bad guys is part of the fun in it for us. So when you get to chase down a bad guy and a horse and not even get tired, it's a good day. So that would be fun if you you know, well, don't they let him last on them? You know, like in the rodeo or something. You know what I'm saying, lasso a bear the horse.

Oh no, a criminal?

Oh okay, yeah, just like in the movies. You know, you're running behind them and get them by the by the feet, string them up.

Everybody's like dreamed of being able to do that. I've never tried it, but would like to throw the old lass around some something. I try to Kelly, I just.

Get over here, you know. That's that's what you do. That's see, that's what they like. That's he That's about what we'd use our powers for. If we could do a lot of things, we'd always use it on our wives.

That's right. You have all the limitless possibilities. We know we're gonna use our lass set through on our wives and piss them off. A s great plan.

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We're gonna be talking to Willy for Wednesdays with Willie talking about is a great great Grandpa Oldcunny the grave Robber.

The grave robber, one of the most notorious villains in Cincinnati history.

But that's after the news right now, though, Let's get to the phone and talk to Dirk and Morrow. Dirk quick, we're just talking about bears and whether or not you can fight a bear. Sir, you have actually wrestled a bear? Is that correct?

Ellas I was a naive I than twenty five year old. It had been you know, forty years ago up in Indianapolis as the Boat and Travel show, and you probably can't even do it nowadays. And you kind of stirred a repressed memory on me because I tried to forget about how this bear had its way with me.

But you know, there's a group of us up there.

Running the boost for the show and you're up here for ten days, and a couple of them said, well, you know, who would wrestle that bear? And this big old qulkin bear, he's got his muzzle on, so I guess he doesn't bite you. I don't remember what they did about the claws, but I.

Said, well, I had a beer too.

I said, I'll wrestle that bear and probably cost me five bucks to boot. But I get out there and the guy's like, okay, you're ready to go. And I'm six foot, you know, two hundred pounds played football, and I think, I, you know, I'm going to hold my own against this beer.

I got to show him.

That bear came up, but it shook paus on my shoulders and just like it flicked me onto the ground, rolled me over, got on my back. You've heard of a bear hug before. Well he mounted me, and so now I'm not I'm not only I'm on the ground with this bear with a muzzle right up against my face, with drool rolling down onto me, the smell of a bear that probably hasn't showered in a lifetime, and I'm thinking I got to get out of this situation. Well, he pretty quickly got me down, flipped over, and and

That's a bold move, because I mean it's an animal. You don't know what that thing's gonna do or how strong it is.

And you just sing, you know, whatever the ring was all about, I don't know, just to keep you from immediately running away. I got a couple of beers out of it afterwards, and I took a good shower.

I think the bear did too, thankfully. Well, you've done something I've I've not done. That's quite an experience. I commend you. Thanks, buddy.

You probably can't do it nowadays that Peter would stop being a hard peat probably, thanks buddy.

And yeah, I remember going, you know, at the carnivals and stuff like that. They had bear bear wrestling and they had like the bear really they had bare knuckle fights. Stricker's Grove they used to have all bare knuckle fights and.

They were sugar I've been to Sugars Grove a hundred times. I don't know they had bear wrestling bear fights.

I don't know if they had bear wrestling. Maybe it was part of that. But yeah, for years they used to have you know, uh, tough man competitions. So maybe there might have been a bear brundle long just to see how tough you are. He has a tough guy. You can fight Leonard right there, or you can fight uh Smoky the bear. Oh boy, Bobo over there. He's hungry. Yes, we're gonna be talking to Willie after the news. But that is coming up seven hundred w l W News.

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Wrestle of bear with I bet you this guy as a wrestled a bear or two in his life. Let's if he hasn't, he will tell us he has. He is our good friend, Willie Cunningham. It is Wednesdays with Willy being brought to you by the fine folks at Joseph Automotive. Willie, before we get to the top of get hand, have you ever wrestled an animal of any nature?

It was nineteen eighty six. There was a ring put together at then known as Latonia Racecourse and the bear was named Victor the Wrestling Bear. Andy Furman was the pr director. He wanted to get some radio personalities and those in TV had more sense, but Victor. A ring was set up at the racecourse and now it's a gamely casino, I believe, and turf way. It was known as Latonia and I was recruited by Latonia and Mike Pattaglia to wrestle Victor. And there were two personalities involved.

And I'm talking to Gary.

I said, look, let's flip a coin to see who goes first. At that point, I was quite a droit at flipping a coin in such a way that I knew which way it was going to turn out. So I suggested that Gary, why didn't you call heads or tails? And when he set heads, I'd flipped the coin in a certain way and flipped it sly of hand that it was tails. I mean, Gary, you're going first. So

Now that's quite a story. And nice story. And here I am thinking he didn't have a story for this. Of course he's got a story for Corse.

He does.

Of course he does, correct, But don't do a Victor in the eighties, seventies and eighties he was a legendary bear Victor. But don't let him lick you.

And it's a bear. He don't stand a chance bear. That's the easiest hundred bucks you could ever accumulate.

Well, yeah, there were two guys that wrestled Victor and he tended two guys. These guys weighed two hundred and fifty pounds each and they thought they were going to handle Victor. Each got on a leg or an arm. He treated them like rag dolls. He threw them off and got on top of them, and at one point he lifted a leg and.

Piss on one of the guys.

That was part of the act too. I figured the Victor had to relieve himself.

All right, Well, there was something else we wanted to talk about.

Willie Wow.

Yeah, so the materfl of bear is what I'm saying. Don't wrestle a bear another thing you shouldn't do. So we had Miranda McGee on earlier. She is head of American Legacy Tours. They do the ghost tours here in town. And she got a talking about Washington Square and then you know there's you know, they about fifty years ago they found out there was a dug up a bunch of bodies while they were renovating the park, and there's

Well, I went to Wikipedia and I haven't potted up now. It's called William Cunningham eighteen o seven to eighteen seventy one was a well noted body snatcher who lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a professional resurrectionist. Ningham provided corpses to area physicians and medical colleges from eighteen fifty five to eighteen seventy one at the Washington Park and the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio.

At the time it wasn't the suburbs.

At the time it was, but not now because on to say, popularly known as Old Cunny. The other names attributed to Willie Cunningham was Old Man Dead and the Ghoul, the ghouls, thels got it long. He was born in Ireland in eighteen oh seven, a corner estimated by the time of his death he had re inturned well over several hundred bodies in Washington Park. He possibly lived in the state of Virginia before he moved to Cincinnati, where

Now, did he survive all of this? I mean without going to say, without going in the jail or being hung or whatever.

Bill Cunningham. Bill Cunningham was considered the most infamous bodies natural Ohio and he finally died in eighteen seventy one of alcohol abuse. He was a drunkard. He had a buggy. At night he would roll around between the river between the flats and up to Washington Park with a dead body next to him, and he had a sense of humor. He'd hit the dead body and say he says something smart,

So the.

Case and so the police. At some point he said, we got to arrest this guy. So they arrested him, convicted him, but then he broke out of the Hamley County jail and went to Northern Kentucky, where he applied his trade in Latonia and Ellesmere for years and lived on Shaw Street, and my mother, when I was a kid, would take me along the route of William Cunningham built again from Washington Park over to northern Kentucky. He finally died, and then his wife and his children continued the business.

I didn't have the magic touch that Old Cunny had. Your ancestor your great great great grandfather.

Yes, it was a look at Wikipedia page, looking up William Cunningham. He left the legacy of body snatching, which is unmatched in Cincinnati's history.

I don't know what wow.

And that's And by the way, after the nineteen eighteen nineteen nineteen flu outbreak which killed thousands, they shut down Washington Park and that's where Spring Grove Cemetery was created. So then one way into the country to Spring Grove, because Washington Park had too they were buying bodies on bearing on top of bodies like act like boloney, and so they wanted to do their best to get all the bodies out. But my ancestors did their best too.

Well you know William talking to Miranda, she was talking. And that's something that Rocky and I I had no idea about this, is that there's still tons of bodies buried there in Washington.

Hundreds of that it was the place to bury individuals. And the Civil War was another terrible event in which numerous Union soldiers had nowhere to bury them, and many times they put them in the river to float down to Louisville have to fish eat them. But if you had some money, you could hire a mortician to bury bury your love one at Washington Park. And they started stacking them on top of each other because there's less

To put more dead people face.

I'm sure that was kind of the Yeah, I'm sure that was kind of their pitch. Right, Look, you think I'm doing a ghastly deed. I'm actually doing everybody a favor here, of course to my my wealth and benefit. But nevertheless, right.

The Cunningham wealth is built on the dead bodies of Washington Park, That's all.

I can tell you.

And we moved in our Latre and Ellesmere to get out of town. People got angry if they saw their grandma coming down on a buggy losing an arm next to my great great granddad William cunt old honey, and so he was chased out of town by a mob, according to the inquiry, chased out of town by a mob. Just look it up Wikipedia, William Cunningham body snatcher.

It's all right there, we will I'm we're going to be checking into that. Do you have any do you have any plans for Halloween? You're going to try to have a seance and revisit the I the ghost of Cunny will visit you.

He donated his body to the Medical College of Ohio, which is now you see medical School. It was there for decades nothing but bones. And I've won, I've asked, I've asked John Barrett, you know William, his brother runs you see Medical.

I like to get my bodies.

I like to get the bones back, but they can't locate my great great granddad's bones. He donated his own body to science. He was a humanitarian. So somewhere my great great bones are somewhere, And if I get him, I'm going to go to Washington Park late at night and bury him there. That's where he belongs.

One of the pioneers that before you get like one hundred and twenty five bucks.

For it, right, I mean bodies. He was entrepreneurial. He also went rifle through the pockets and steal the money people left behind, wristwatches.

And coins and old teeth.

Yeah, welly uh yeah, thanks so much for sharing your family memories in your bear wrestling episode.

Yeah, it's kind of victor of the wrestling bear. Gary survived that I wasn't going to wrestle some friggin bear lick my face into Oh Garry looked on it's not coming out of his nose.

We get okay, thanks buddy, we'll see you later.

Thanks. Really well, we got a two for two stories for the price of what Well. That was well worth the time. Right there.

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Back with Eddie and Rocky and just a little while longer. But before we get out of here, we always like to talk to our friends at ABC, especially this fellow, right, Yeah, our good friend Alex Stone. Now Alex Well, rock you were flying just this morning. Did you run in any trouble as for is getting in and out of places?

No?

None, at all you know, TSA was the line was moving. So I haven't felt anything over the last couple of weeks with the shutdown with air traffick controllers, but it doesn't mean it's not happening.

Yeah, let's talk to Alex Stone about it. Alex, what are we seeing?

Yeah, So the big issue here being the Favor workers. Even though they quote unquote haven't been getting paid now for a number of weeks, this is now the first week that they have actually gone with a zero dollar paycheck. That yesterday was they were going to get paid their previous pay period of two weeks ago. They got a little bit in that paycheck from before the shutdown, but now they're fully in it. So they got no money on Tuesday when typically they would have had a paycheck.

Each and every day. We're proud bunch, we're a professional bunch, and we're all showing up to work every day for no pay, skiing the public support to help us end the shott And he says.

Yeah, controllers are now getting second jobs or driving for Uber in door dash and instacart to make ends meet, to make some money. But that adds a new layer of distraction, and they're not sleeping during that time. They work these long hours anyway, and then now they get off and they're either handing out pamphlets or they're driving for Uber, and then they go in and they control that flight that you're on. That that it adds in

A distraction into an air traffic controller, and they're plugging in and looking at the runways and in the back of their head that has I just ran out of money. I had zero dollars in my bank account. How am I going to refill my vehicle so they can come back tomorrow to not get paid? How am I going to How am I gonna put food on table? How am I going to pay the rest and guys.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is saying forty four percent of delays on Sunday, and they had quite a few of them were because of staffing. As people are saying more and more, I can't come in, even though they're to come in. I can't come in because of any number of things childcare, food, gasoline. But that's why towers and air traffic control centers are being heavily impacted and shut down for a period of time every day and all

Don't think you're going to see the president and negotiate here because he has nothing to give up.

So the controllers are saying, yeah, okay, but they need to get a paycheck. PSA officers the same thing where they get paid a lot less average around twenty four dollars an hour, where they're they're hurting and going to food banks too. So it's it's a tough spot for them to be in. But the air traffic controllers, they are now out at airports asking you to take the pamphlet telling you to call your congress person and email them to make the point that they want this thing to be over.

You would you would think there'd be some kind of emergency funding available for this, wouldn't you, guys?

I mean, I don't know where that would come from, but.

Remembers of Congress. Yeah, Congress is getting paid. The FBI agents are getting paid, but air traffic controllers and TSA officers they are not all right with that.

Alex, I'm sorry right now. I was just gonna say, until you know, something gets passed, which will never happen, that you know, if a government shut down happens, then folks in Congress don't get paid. I mean, that'll expedite process until that happens, and it ain't ever gonna be solved out thing.

Yeah, I mean, they're getting a paycheck. And then that's kind of where the air traffic controllers come down, where they say that the people who can make the difference, they don't feel like they're really feeling it right now compared the working man and woman who is showing up every day. And in the case of the TSA, they got to be in uniform and look presentable and all of that. And the air traffic controllers are highly trained and they went to the academy. There's an air traffic

All right with that, Alex, we will let you go, buddy, Thanks so much. You got a paces our good friend Alex Stone from ABC Rock in other news, and that's cool that you've been traveling. Have would run into that type of thing. But we'll see how it all develops.

In other news.

This is kind of like a nightmare. With all the stuff that goes on with social media these days, you can get caught up in something like this. Megan Davis is a college student down in Texas, doesn't say what town.

Oh yeah, boom, and everybody has their opinion. They see a video there's no context, and they're ripping you to shreds, and you're like, it's not even me, not even one that did it right, And that's that's a cruel place. That's the Uh, that's the thing.

You can't.

You can't defend yourself in the open form like that, right, No, because.

There's I mean, you know, thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people that can jump onto this thing. And I guess over time you can it sorts itself out. But that's the thing about the Internet. It's it's what's the the saying with it. It's not it is important anymore to be accurate. It's important to be first. So if you can be the one to you know, break some story about some horrible lady that's not even her, and everyone jumps on it. That's that's what matters.

In other news, you gotta watch what your kids do. Your kids shove I'm sure not the older ones anymore. But does the little guy shove anything in his mouth and swallow it?

No?

Yeah, we're past that. He's five, So we're past the shoving weird things in your nose, your mouth, your ears faced.

Thankfully, this happened with a thirteen year old in New Zealand recently swallowed nearly two hundred high powered magnets.

What uh he thought?

I don't know again talking about stuff you pick up online. Apparently he had seen somewhere online that if you ate a magnet, it would help you. So if you eat one magnet, why not eat two hundred.

If one is good, two hundred must be better. We live by that philosophy at.

So you'll be freaking superman. Surprisingly, he didn't get the health supplement that he was looking for. He needed some of his bowels extracted.

Oh man, yeah, you're that's gonna take a little surgery.

The doctors at the local hospital there had to go on a scavenger hunt and the kid's belly, discovering four separate linear chains of metal objects once inside. Uh these magnets, which are I guess marketed is I guess like you may string them together or something, and it says they're marketed as toys. They obviously would attach to each other. They U da da da da Dad. They clogged up

Oh yeah, you know, this stuff can only be police so so well, so the kid goes on and cool, I want to get some of these little magnets to play with. Mom, okay, cool whatever, Yeah, cool, pluck yourself out. Yeah right, and then he eats them. We probably saw some video and then that had another video that's saying it was good for you or it did something cool, and yeah, it's just these kids are just surrounded by this stuff at a lot of so much information and a lot of it that's frankly not true.

Uh So let me ask you, because Jason Knight and the Vega before we get out of here. We've only got a little bit of time.

What uh.

We are your kids in Halloween? Because where you live, you don't you won't get any trigger treats. No, no, okay, So when your kids go out, I would assume you're going to take them to a neighborhood or something. We used to do that sometime with our kids because of what the house was. There was there was like a house next to us in a house at the end of our driveway, and then there was a neighborhood across the road, so we had to take them around to

Yeah, a bunch of different things. I remember we'd go to my grandma's she lived over on Deal Road, which is off the North Bend, and there was a lot of houses. I mean, that's what you're looking for, a lot of houses in a small space, right that where you can just really increase your your your profits there. So yeah, we did that. I've all every house I've ever lived in, I mean growing up and of course

Yeah, Well, keeping my go buy extra a candy this year, just like Tanya Rourke was talking yesterday, she's buying like two hundred dollars worth of candy. Apparently with that, we check in with traffic and weather, what is going on