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Well, the loss is a loss, but close close, but no Cigar defense played better.

I got better stands. That was very impressive.

Say, they had the had the goal line stand with eight minutes to go in the third quarter. Patriots were up seventeen thirteen. They held him on fourth down. That was great. And there was six minutes ago in the fourth quarter held on a goal line stand that forced the Patriots to kick a field goal. So so that was good. I mean, Barrett Carter, who's much maligned this year as a linebacker, had sixteen tackles, so good for

That was hopefully the worst that it will ever hit.

But look, it's you know, that's just kind of the what's been going on to this team. It's just, you know, both sides of the ball have never played great, right.

I'm the same day, yeah, in the same day, exactly.

Yeah. So and in this case, you know, Joe Flacco I think finally looked older and a little beat up. I mean, I mean, God, love the guy. You know, he's got a hurt shoulder. You know, I'm sure they're shooting him up with all kinds of stuff. Then he had the finger, he had the looked like he had to pop back and soccer and you know, went out there and.

Then throws a strike yeah to Tinsley.

Yeah, yeah, so but it's hard to win when you don't have Burrow, Chase Hendrickson and t Higgins, your four highest paid guys. They're not on the field. It's it's very, very tough. And it was still a twenty six to twenty game.

So let me let me ask you this New England. Are they for real? Because I'll tell you what, man, I was impressed, especially by Drake May. I didn't see anything. Well, he was bad early, big time, but then second half. Yeah, because going into that game double I was sitting there watching and I said, no, I tell you they could ask for a better day to play football.

Yeah, in the middle of November, right, yeah, it's perfect, no wind. Yeah, it was great. But I think I think they're good. You know, I'm sure they're riding some momentum and stuff, but I mean, I got the best record in the first team to the ten wins. It's crazy, but you have some of.

Those passes that may sailed.

I was like, what the hell, man, Yeah, a lot of hype this kidnight, but he was he was good when he had to be. Later in the game, found Hunter Henry for like this twelve thousandth time complete a big pass. So well, that's it.

The chat today, of course, is is a Burro going to play on Thursday night?

It would seem to be that's the case. That's what everything I read and I hear that. Yeah, and you know last week him not playing or yesterday not playing. All along, I never thought it made sense to have him come back for his first game and then on a short week go to Baltimore and play. So probably good to get a little extra time here and get that one out of the way. I mean, the problem is is they're not mathematically eliminated, but it's pretty much it's.

Going to have to collapse right in the division. The division. Luckily for them, the division is not good. We've talked about that before.

I know it makes it all the more painful if they just won those games, two games, you know, like that that Chicago game. You know you've winn that one. All of a sudden you're You're actually right there. It's it's very very unfortunate. It's just one thing to have a good team in a year that the rest of the division is just killing it, but on a year where it's a down year and you just you know, happen to have a year where it doesn't work out either as bad.

So we were talking about Burrow, but let's talk about Flacco for a second. Jason Williams were in a nice column today talking about, you know, Joe Flacco appreciation a true pros pro man, that guy. You went like you were saying, I pop my finger back in a place I'm I'm gonna go out there and throw a touchdown bad.

Yeah. But by the way, I think if if, if Jamar Chase plays, I think they win that game because I mean, you know, one thing Joe Flacco did was very smartly get the ball to number one where's he at? And I think that affected him a little bit.

I mean, it would have been.

More consequential to have Chase play than Burrow in that game. I think I think they could win. That could have won that game if Chase is out there. But you know, and then t Higgins goes down.

I mean you're did you see him?

Oh?

Man, didn't that did not as soon as he that he's gonna cast hit hard.

So hope hopefully he's okay and don't keep him out a while. Well, we'll talk to lap later and we'll get an injury report or something.

So but then, way you were talking about Flago looking looking at his age, now, I'll tell you that pick six that he threw, I was as soon you could see it happening. Yeah, just the angle they had on the camera, you could saw you saw what was going to happen, and I thought, oh there was I think this can't be that obvious to everybody. There has to be a penalty someplays.

Nope, Nope, no, not at all. I mean you could tell he just went through his progression. And you know a lot of times the quarterback just you know, more or less assumes the checkdown is going to be wide open. Right, it's okay, that's not there, Okay, we'll check it down. Oops. That guy just happened. He made a great play, and and that's the way it goes. I mean, Flack, we even said after the games, I just I didn't see him not one bit. He was trying to find Higgins,

So well man. And also we were getting back to Burrow for a second. Don't you think that when he comes back he wants to make a dramatic entrance, Hence coming back on Thanksgiving Night. I think he's really set his sights on that on Nash Television Thanksgiving Night, It's going to be a giant audience. Blah blah blah.

That could be. I think even even if there was a possibility he was going to play on Sunday, I think the fact that he said, wait a minute, my guy Chase isn't gonna be out there. Let's let's make it next week. You know. Yeah, I don't know either. I have to believe that was a factor, either Burrow saying that or the organization and Zach Taylor saying, Okay, we're gonna really bring our guy back, ever being off for two months and him not have his his best

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You assed away. Freddy Murcer, I remember that was eleven. I remember this being a pretty big deal.

The song or Freddie Murger of course, the song, but Frey Murcery dared.

Then death came just one day after he announced his diagnosis of age to the press. Co founded Queen of Course in nineteen seventy, as well as the front man and uh pretty damn good singer.

Yeah for my money, one of them from the best.

I think he's got to be in the top five rock lead for sure vocalists of all time.

But I will tell and I think you you listened to it one time George Michael when I was the salute to Freddie Mercury. They did a big show for him and they had different people come and sing songs, and George Michael did Somebody to Love by Queen and Neil. He sounded exactly like him. Really, yeah, it's damn good. Yeah.

Well, and did you see the the document or not a documentary, but the movie.

Yeah?

Yeah, was that good? Really? You never liked those things? Yeah, you watch them all, but you know you usually are not moved.

Yeah, well, I told you the the Dylan one, I started watching that this isn't good.

Uh.

The same with the Queen thing. I thought was all right, but you know you read how much how good the guy was in it and stuff. He was good, I guess, But you know it's it's so hyped and everything's so warped. They combine events and all this crap, you know what I'm saying.

Yeah, and that is what happens, is the embellishing of certain things, and then the right and they don't talk about this, and then it's mad about that, and it was hard to do it in a two hour movie. I guess I understand, but yeah.

It's dude. Next year now I'll be seeing these movies. They're doing four movies about the Beatles. They're doing John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Each of them get in their own movie really about them. Yeah that's cool. Yeah, it will be cool.

I don't hate it, but you hate you ass terrible. They forgot this this one time. George was at this pub and he wrote dead lines of this song. They didn't even talk about it exactly.

That didn't happen there. But yeah, that would be pretty cool. So Rock I saw this story of the Weekend and I told my wife. I says to my wife, I was like, if I find out, if I found out this was you, uh, you would be subjected to us a slow, painful death.

Okay.

She's like, what, Yes, please tell me. I need to know. A guy in Michigan, a thirty three year old guy who was to remain anonymous, just won a million dollars top prize in the Blazing Suits scratch off lottery up there.

Wow, million bucks and a scratch off in a scratch off? Wow?

How did he want it, you say, well, let's talk to the winner. There was a blazing suit's ticket set aside on the counter that someone else had decided not to purchase, so I bought it. I scratched the ticket off and couldn't believe it when I saw it was worth a million dollars.

Wow, So where was it at on the counter?

Like I guess maybe the person inline before him had said, yeah, give me one of those whatever it's called blazing suits things, and then I don't know, maybe it didn't have enough money, and like, unscrew it. Just take the lottery ticket back the next person line. So that guy comes up and like, what's the lountery ticket doing? Sit in there? It was like that lady said she doesn't wonder whatever. Oh my god, he said, hell, I'll take it.

See And you know that person knows who they are, because like, okay, it was it was at the whatever convenient mark. I was there about that time. Oh my god, yeah, how would how would you feel? I thought?

That's why I told her. I was like, if you read this story and go, you know what, I think that was me?

Yeah, you know I was in that same store that day, huh.

And I was going to buy a lottery ticket, but I said, ah, no, we don't need I'm good.

He it'd be hard when I lived down big time, Like here's your just absolute just sent from the heavens. Here's your undeserved prize or maybe deserved prize.

And well that's one of those where you start thinking of that the rest of your life. You'd be like, what if in yourself, Oh yeah, that would have happened.

Oh man, every time you face a little bit of money challenge, he's like, god, we just yeah, had you know, Linda just bought the damn cricket When we sit.

Here, yep, yeah, the guy uh opted for the one time payment, which would be six hundred ninety three thousand dollars, and I allowed bad little payday. Waiting is a great feeling, he said, But it's also a lot of pressure because your your mind starts thinking of all the different things you can do with this amount of money. Now, see, now,

I mean have we've talked about this at length, but you have to you have to make one like smart, like okay, here, here's a bill or a car or some sort of thing that we have, like, okay, let's use that to take care of that. Wipe off a car payment or two car payments, or a house payment or something like.

A quarter million whatever a certain percentage to put it in investments.

Exactly if you should take a quarter to a third and put it in some r you know, ira sort of thing, and then just not think about it until you are getting ready to retire.

But like you said, pay off your house, pay off this one down the line by yourself, a nice car, but don't be going out and getting a two hundred thousand dollars whatever. You know, there would.

Disappeared out of the sky.

Except for that person who laid that ticket back.

Wow, so painful.

Coming up speaking of money being on the table, Yeah, happening in Ohio.

Now, Yeah, this is pretty interesting. So the OHSAA member schools, they passed the nil referendum proposal, and we are going to have Tim Streed, who is the director of media relations for the OHSA. It kind of lay this out, like what all does this mean? Can we just start willing nearly paying guys? Is it true? Nil? Where is there a gray areas to it? Because I mean this has the potential to really change the landscaping big time when it comes to high school sports in Ohio.

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Can make you know in a small town, a student athlete receiving one hundred dollars to endorse the local pizza shop to what we've all seen with you know, and in fact, actually the student athlete that signed the first NIL deal last month that was one hundred and fifty thousand.

Dollars, and that student athlete was jamieor Brown, a junior wide receiver at Lane High School in the Dayton area who was already committed to Ohio State. His lawsuit led to a Franklin County judge granted a temporary injunction recently blocking the association's ban on NIL and ultimately forced the

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And I didn't realize that Ohio.

Is so far behind the crew on not anymore getting it done out of furry, getting it done in a hurry. So yeah, news came down today. Member schools of the Ohio High School Athletic Association have voted in favor of an emergency bylaw referendum on name, image and likeness, making Ohio the forty fifth state to allow nil at the high school level. And join us right now. A great guy I always enjoyed talking with him is the director of media relations for the OHSAA, Tim Street. Tim, how are you?

I'm great guys, great to be with you again, and yeah, we're behind a little bit, but what a historic day in Ohio.

It really is.

Tim If you could just just take the listeners through just kind of the reader's digest version of how we got here and just what, you know, just how we got to this point right now.

With us ruling sure.

Well, you know, it really all began back when the NCAA lost their battle against NIL, and once that happened, states started falling kind of like Domino's with allowing NIL in their state. I think California was the first. You know, we put up a referendum to our schools back in twenty twenty two that they voted down. But back then NIL was still a little young. It was kind of in its infancy at the high school level. But since then, uh,

Yeah, Jim on, that's what that was a question. I was going to ask you how long this process has been going on, and you said since twenty two. Huh, that's crazy.

Yeah, you know, we you know, in twenty twenty two we had an idea to try to get out in front of it and put our plan in place, which has guardrails, which has precautions and a system for how NIL deals would take place. But our first proposal, I'm not surprised it did not pass. It was a little complicated. It put a lot of work on the schools. We've learned a lot since then. We've seen is what works well,

And the final results, Tim, were four hundred and forty seven schools voted to be in favor of the referendum to be in favor of NIL, one hundred and twenty one schools voted against. Two hundred and forty seven schools abstained at all from voting. Tim, I'm just curious if you've talked to any schools or coaches out there. I would like to hear what the general argument for schools

Sure, well, you know, a school that voted yes on this referendum proposal may not necessarily love nil. That's a part of this whole story is you know, our by law that our schools just voted yes on has guardrails. It has a process for how this would happen if our schools did not vote yes on this proposal. What that means is the court would decide our by law on this. And we saw how that worked out at the NC double A level.

Not good.

And you know, basically, now that we have this bylaw in place, we are anticipating that the lawsuit will be dismissed. A version of nil is permitted, and so a yes vote means our schools wanted this language for NIL rather than risk letting the court decide what that would look like.

Okay, So this is a way for the Ohio schools to get out in front of it rather than you know, the NC double A come in and say boom, this is how it's going to be. The schools I've voted for it felt like this was a way they could have control it to some degree. Is that is that a good summary?

That's a good summary. Yeah, that's absolutely right. And you know, our schools looked at this as a way for them to control the bylaw and to control what the regulations would be around NIL. Because guys, if our schools voted this down, it goes back to court here in Franklin County. The lawsuit continues, and as you can imagine, the OHSAA would not win that court battle. We would lose in

Be a good idea. Tim Street of the OHSAA join us right now, and Tim, what can you tell us about the details of how this NIL is going to manifest itself? How is it? You know, how are payments made. How do these kids make money? What restrictions are on the whole smash?

Sure? Well, the really short answer on what a student athlete can do is he or she could endorse a product, could get paid to do a commercial, could get paid to have their image on a poster advertising a company, advertising a restaurant, a car, whatever, similar to what you see at the college level. But really the bigger focus on this is what a student athlete cannot do, and what he or she cannot do is they could not endorse products or do anielectivities in their school uniform on

Right, And that was kind of what I was gonna get at is. Look, I don't think tim anybody out there in Ohio has a problem with a local pizza joint paying a high school athlete twenty five hundred bucks to be in an advertisement form. I think everybody's fine with that. Folks are concerned of it is do do companies get together or certain people get together? And now all of a sudden, this payment isn't so much about an advertisement for their business. It's more of a hey,

We're gonna try. And you know this language which we included the full text of the bio law in our press release which is on the front of our site right now. People can look at.

That and read it and make your.

Own opinion about it. It was the best attempt we could do to have some controls. And you know, like all of our by laws that we have at the OHSAA, it depends on our schools taking ownership and helping us enforce those. That's a big difference between OHSA and nc Doubla. NCUBA has hundreds of enforcement staff that sometimes camp out at universities and colleges and do their work.

We don't have that.

We have twenty four employees here and we have eight hundred and fifteen schools, so we need our school administrators and our coaches to know the bylaws help enforce them. Our membership has now voted this into our constitution and bylaws, so we're going to need help enforcing it, certainly, but it is going to be more work for the OHSA to track these and help fororce are transfer and recruiting by laws.

So tim one exactly is this going to go into effect? Because so from from what we're hearing it sounds almost immediate.

It is immediate, yep, it is effective right now. In fact, here's kind of the interesting thing, guys. The lawsuit was filed back on what October twenty fourth or twenty fifth, that lawsuit when the judge issued the tro against the OHSAA. That is actually when NIL first began because the judge's decisions that we cannot enforce our by law on this topic. So actually NIL began in late October. Here's the funny thing though, from late October when that tro is issued.

Yeah, I get I'm trying to think through all the nightmare scenarios, and I guess I just wanted to say, you have a school that's in a school district that's kind of a wealthier community, more businesses, and you know, they start doling out payments to kids that to transfer from other schools that maybe don't have those kind of businesses that can offer him money, right, and they don't even look at it as like a this is going

Well, I'll tell you. Our transfer by law is still in effect. And if a student transfers from school A to school B, especially after they have established their eligibility at school A, there is a lengthy process that they go through and that will.

Catch most of those.

Now, the most common transfer, Let's say a student is enrolled at Turpin where my wife went, and that student and their family moved to Toledo. Well, that's a pretty easy acceptance on the transfer. If there is a student that goes from school A to school B and they're only five miles apart, that's a red flag. And that is when our office does its due diligence to find out why is this transfer happening? And that honestly catches most of them.

What are the things that the OHSA needs to see for there to be a valid transfer. Let's say it's something the word isn't from one corner of the state to the other. Let's say it's just a kind of a more of a local thing. What are some of the parameters that the OSHA SAA says, Okay, if this, this, and this, you're saying this is what's the reason for the transfer, it's okay versus different reasons.

How much time do you have?

Very good?

Now, we we we have several people here in our eligibility department that transfer that piece of paperwork. It's a paper that it's an application that the families and the receiving school fills out that has a lot of questions on it. It asks a lot of information about why

Awesome, well with him, listen, we really appreciate you come on and talking about this. I'm sure there'll be many more questions that come up as as this starts to become clear of how this is gonna go, But we appreciate your time. I'm sure we'll talk again soon. Thank you, Tim.

Sounds good, My pleasure guys anytime.

Yep, take care, Thanks Tim. I'm with you, man, I just what I can at worms really.

It is because you see, even at the college level, it's like, yeah, we're gonna allow these athletes to make money off their name, image and likeness. But it's not how it's worked out, and there's different there's so many subjective, gray area things you can do. Again, no one has a problem with the local hardware store paying a kid a few bucks to use their name, image and likeness to help advertising. No one has a problem with that.

Yep.

I don't see how you stop that because it's a little wink, it's a little nod, but it's you know, technically it all falls under the right things.

Okay, well you said it. We're seeing what's happening in college man college game right now?

Is way?

It's it's about the same game.

Yeah, and then I mean, where's it end? Middle school in Iol? Youth football in Iol. I'll tell you what I coach youth football if if I get parents starting demanding payments from me. I'm going to buy the condo next to you, and I'm quitting. That's it.

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It's never too what the discarded lottery ticket one a million dollars, Yeah, just happened to a guy in France earlier in the month. The town council there's decided that this fella can keep the eight hundred thousand dollars worth of gold bars and coins he found in his backyard while he was digging for a swimming pool.

Say, I wonder if that happens, Like, do people just they can't resist and they have to tell the authorities or something. Oh, yeah, that happened to me. The only way you would know it is you'd show up for work and I wouldn't be.

There triving to solid gold. The gold was stashed in plastic bags. He found it back in May, and that finally made the decision on it. Let said they were unable to determine that the gold had been stolen or what, and the home's previous owner had died, so air go, it's his.

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Eight grand?

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Bad?

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Early holiday gift for a couple of President Trump's adversaries. But legal trouble may not be over. This is the four o'clock report. I'm Matt Reeves breaking now. It was unlawful a federal judge tossing the indictments of the former FBI director and the current Attorney General of the State of New York. James Comy and Letitia James, respectively, are considered by President Trump as enemies, and his payback for

Federal Judge Cameron Curry based rulings on the law, which is when a top federal prosecutor's role in a judicial district is left vacant for more than one hundred and twenty days, only the district court can fill it. As a result, Curry has dismissed the indictments Lindsay Halligan brought against Letitia James and James Comy. The former FBI director responded online.

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Joe Burrow star Thursday night for the Bengals at Baltimore. Head coach Zach Taylor.

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He'd be ready to go.

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The osepic is changing a lot of things.

A lot of things. It is certainly the hottest thing out there when it comes to weight loss and all that sort of thing. And this is a new one o Zembic menus with I guess smaller meals are appearing on restaurants menus.

That's pretty amazing and here to discuss whether it is Our restaurant experts always love having them on. Nick nia A Nakas, he heads up the Franchise Consulting Company and the Great American Franchise Expo, author of the Franchise NBA. Nick, Welcome back, buddy, Thanks, it's great to be here.

So Nick, this.

That seems to be a trend and these I mean these things that I'm reading here. It's essentially like say they were talking about this one restaurant where you go in instead of you got a the Ocmpic burger, it comes with a burger the size of a slider, with a shot glass with a few French fries in it and a tiny dab of ketchup, and it comes with your choice of a tiny beer, a tiny martini or a tiny wine.

It's like the scene and Zoolander when they're finding the smaller and smaller phones, right, and it's like.

The size of a thumbnail.

Eventually, Yeah, you know, it's.

Like, first we all got fat, we all wanted more food, all you can eat buffets, all this kind of stuff. Then we all got skinny. Everybody's on a zepic and now everyone's feeling bad because they can't finish their other meal, and restaurants are going to capitalize on it. I mean, they've had a pretty tough go of it the last couple of years. So being able to sell you smaller portions, keep your food costs down, and still charge you a fair amount, I think it's probably not a terrible thing.

Capitalize on it. And I don't fault them because I would do the same thing to your point, where the restaurants have gone through hell in the last five years. But yeah, I feel like this is more of a ploy, not so much to cater to these zembic people. More we can we can keep our food costs down, still charge of percentage a little bit, you know, higher amount, and make a few bucks.

Right, That's it.

You know, anything that they can do to keep the clients coming in is a wise move. And you're seeing a whole bunch of change rolling out test markets in this. You know, Olive Garden is doing a lighter portions entry entree, PF Chang's is offering a menu with two different sizes, So I think you're going to seeing this become more and more pervasive. But then the question is if you eat it and you're still hungry, then what.

Do you do?

Right to me, that's kind of a problem there, right, give.

Me another mini burger, I'm still hungry. By the time you leave, it's three times what you would have paid for the regular burger, right, yeah, I.

Mean I'd go in there and have to buy three burgers and he's forty seven dollars, get a.

Bag of flyers. They like gas, so they'll treat you right, at least for about an hour.

And what one thing Nick, I've always wondered is why don't they let people order off the kids menu? You know, I mean a meal is a meal, right, You're selling food as people. It tends to be older people I think, who don't obviously don't eat as much as they used to. Is there a reason for that? Because I don't think that'd be an easy fix right there.

Well, you know, it's interesting because it brings up a lot of questions about.

You know, what can you and can't you do?

Right?

If you're selling something, you should allow anybody to use it. It's kind of like the airlines when they said, you know, if I'm gonna fly for from you know, Miami to Cincinnati, but I can get a cheaper flight going from Miami Cincinnati to Detroit and then I get off in Cincinnati, why should I be penalized for that? So I don't think there's any really good reason for that. It's like, you know, if I order something and then I don't eat all of it, can you charge me more for

Yeah, that's the thing where yeah, a lot of folks maybe they don't eat everything there, but take a little bit to go home. I guess yeh. I mean, so you're saying in the industry that this is like a big thing that every restaurant has meetings about and trying to figure out how we can kind of catch onto this ozempic crise.

You know, I think they're meetings that are going on right now, but they're really around how can we entice people to come in more often? And if this is the you know, flavored DuJour, then let's see if that sticks.

Right?

Is that the price elasticity of the meal. Is that going to bring somebody in? We're charging forty percent less because you know, are you getting forty percent less food or you getting seventy percent less food? That's the part that you know, I haven't quite figured out yet because it's it's such a new trend that you guys picked up on that you know, the data just isn't out there yet. But it would be very interesting to go and way the regular burger versus the minio zempic burger

Correct, Well, that's exactly what's gonna happen too. Yeah, you think, uh, Nick, Nick and Neonagas is our guest, and Nick, any other trends that we should be keeping an eye out for the restaurant business these days, because, like Rocky pointed out, they have been going through hell in the last five six years they have.

You know, I was with a bunch of restaurant executives a couple of days ago. They were talking about how they could decrease their costs, and they were talking about a topic you guys brought up in a previous show, waste, the cost of waste of trash. And this company, Subcontained Subcontained dot com is their website, is doing amazing things in commercial trash colledge with their vertical in ground dumpsters,

What what what in your opinion, what are the major hurdles for a restaurant. Obviously, the cost of the food, the cost of the protein in particular, is the highest cost. But what, what, in your opinion and experience, has the biggest potential to be I guess curtailed, you know right.

Now, it's labor, you know, I mean food is a big, big problem.

Labor.

I mean, you know, these these kids, they don't want to work for minimum wage, had long hours like we used to back in the day, walking uphill, you know, both ways to school. Yes, but you know, finding people to work in restaurants has been really tough, and so robotics has been a huge trend over the last couple of years. Whether it's in the ordering, you know, you go up to the drive or you might not be talking to the person at the cash register, you might

And I'm wondering to us, can you get a finger on why exactly? It seems like and it is younger people that generally wait the tables and whatnot, that just the attitude has really gotten bad in a lot of cases. I don't ever remember going to a restaurant and having someone just absolutely not disdain me, but kind of like not really give two damns about what I want or what I'm doing.

There.

We're putting fingers on the ed Finger show on the there you go, you know. You know, I think it's pervasive, it's everywhere. It's like, all of a sudden, everybody just kind of doesn't care, you know. And I think you can point back to the pandemic. I think we're still, you know, dealing with that hangover. But in general, you know, I used to have this metric. I called it the burger metric, okay, And it would be when I'd go into a fast food place, how was the burger built?

Of the back.

Yeah, that's where it's covered to. So I think it's I think it's the pandemic. I think it's just a general lack of care. I think the labor market's tight, so managers aren't saying, you know, look, if you're not doing a good job, we're going to fire you, and people buying large. You know, employees are kind of taking that to heart and saying, well, there's not a whole lot of ramifications here. I'll go get another job if I get fired.

It's not good for the country, agreed.

Where's the restaurant business?

You know?

With that nick, we will let you go. People want to find out more about it is that you do. Where can they go?

Well, I'd love to give all of your listeners a free copy of the franchise MBA for being loyal ed and rocky listeners. If they text the word franchised to two six seven eighty six, that's franchised to six seven eight six, we will reach out and we will send them a copy of the franchise NBA sixteen ninety five value free of charge on us for listening to your awesome show.

Nick.

We appreciate it. Man, thanks so much.

Thanks guys, have a happy Thanksgiving everybody.

You do this.

Thanks Nick, good friend. Nick.

I feel like this is similar to shrink flation, right where all of a sudden, instead of a two liter of pop, it's a one point eight liter. But it never goes back right like this, you just started getting the smaller menu items at the restaurant. When this trend switches, which it obviously always does, it goes back and forth. Wan more wan the last went more and want less. You're never going to get that you know, huge burger

And see that's the thing we're going to We're going to age out and go away. And so yeah, they're they're for you know, it's the long play for those guys obviously, right, So, hey, your twenty year old, that's the burger they've always had.

That's a great point, yeah, because you know, maybe the older generation does remember the good old days when you got a massive ton of food in the buffets and in all that, the younger folks are like, oh, this kind of it's always been. How'll they get you?

Uh?

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Eddy and Rocky and Rocky it is Monday and love this week though Thanksgiving week's always you know, gam packed best holiday right Yeah, for my money, I was nice and relaxing. Just make yourself a boat ton of food and uh and you've see. Okay, let's just talk about it briefly. Rocky started his fasting diet that we talked about last yek.

It is so.

We talked with PJ last week on Thursday and I and I told you for a while I wanted to just I you want to try? You know you hear a lot about those fasts that people do, twenty four hour fast and PJ actually up the challenge. He said, do it like a week long thing, like eat a day off day, eat a day off a day. So to day is my first day with no food. I'n't been too cranky, have I?

No?

I'll say that for Kelly. Want to get homp. Sure, but then I'll eat tomorrow, which is Tuesday, eat not eat Wednesday, eat Thursday. I was smart enough to make sure I didn't. I didn't have my non eating day on Thanksgiving. That would be brutal. And then Noah four go Friday, eat Saturday, nothing Sunday, and then Monday, I'll pick back up and I'm going to report back to see whatever it did, it helped me, It helped my brain, did it ruin my marriage? Did it whatever?

You know.

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That means we're we be talking to our good buddy Dave Lapham lap at the ta after the five plots.

Yes, but first aid, how about a few stories about found treasure.

Yeah, we've had a couple of those, we we have, So.

This one here is pretty interesting. So this is back in seventeen eight, So this is right around the time Willie was playing for Thomas Funerhome. Right, there was a Spanish galleon called the San Jose. Okay, it sank after being attacked by an English fleet, all right, and it had always been rumored. Okay, what I think they got a bunch of you know, treasure and gold and stuff on this sort of thing. Uh So they finally finally located this thing back in twenty fifteen. Okay, right where

Remember we had those guys on a while back that were from the area that did treasure hunting.

Yeah, we did.

Yeah.

I don't know if it was this particular one.

I know, yeah, it'd be. I just wanted to. I just think it's interesting, you know. Oh yeah, I mean if it would seem to be really hard, but if you'd found something obviously very lucrative.

Well they think that it could be worth twenty billion dollars only if recovered. Yes, so much. Treasures on board that wreck has become known as the Holy Grail of shipwrecks. The ship was on Suey to Spain.

Uh.

There was going to be the uh, you know, the the capture of King Philip the fifth when it sank along with six hundred sailors. And this is a pre wild store. Only seven of the or shooting. Only eleven seamen on that on that boat actually actually survived. This is in uh and it's in the Caribbean Sea, so that Columbia has found it, which is a pretty upstanding country,

Uh huh that happens to have twenty billion dollars of gold on it. That that just that's a little side bonus.

So I guess the first thing they brought up was a cannon, and I you know, I didn't print them out, but I saw pictures of it. Were like, it's pretty It's a cannon, right, Like it's pretty neat. So anyway, crusted it over with the you know the stuff that, yeah, stuff from arnacles or whatever.

I don't know.

The wreckage is six.

Hundred meters deep, and I think while we're seeing all this, it didn't specify on this particular one. But you know, they got this new it's called radars called LDAR right where it kind of you know, admits like a they're finding all this stuff like in the Amazon rainforest because it can kind of shoot down below the surface of things and foliage and water and kind of see what's going.

On down on like the imaging kind of things.

Yeah, I got three D imaging kind of kind of situation where you can find out where this this ship went down Spain six centimeters is two thousand feet deep. That's why they haven't found the thing in three hundred years.

Whatever happened, weren't they supposed to have found Amelia Earhart's playing a while back. Yes, I never did hear anything more about that.

I've seen a few things. I don't know if anything definitive has come out, but that would be cool.

Oh, I just saw a story about it. Her last Did you see this last week? It was her last radio transmission. No, they found a record of it and see I thought it was going to be helper going down and it goes, you know, go dead. No, it was like her coordinates where the last direction she was heading.

But that was it that was disappeared. Here want to hear again? You love this line? Colombia is an arbitration litigation with the U S search of Mata, a group of US investors for the economic rights of the San Jose. So this group of you know, venture capitalists basically for America, said hey, we found that. That's ours to me saying no, uh huh, even though it's about the research. Ed, still it's still like, as a consolation, more than twenty billion dollars.

Nah baby nah, yes, oh hey, good luck to everybody concerned.

And another one ed, how about this? See this painting here? What does that look like? Yeah, Virgin Mary and a baby. Right, well, that's what it looks like. So this is a Renaissance pain was found in a dusty garage not long ago.

Of course.

The work which depicts the madonna and child is believed to be by fifteenth century painter Pietro Vanucci. It was just sold to a private buyer for what's seven hundred thousand pounds like a million bucks? Yeah, something like that, maybe a little at one point two something like that. Yeah, sold after a fifteen minute online bidding war. The auction

And there you go in a crazy haul. Those great folks kind of hung out together or they somehow knew each other, and they were all really good at what they did. Lanslow and yeah, the same with the you know, the old composers, those guys. Yeah, I mean, I don't know, Beethoven, Mozart around the same time. But that's what I'm wondering, you know, I get it all, remember, or maybe we

But but this brings up to my point the other day. But there's no least modern art pieces paintings that I see that to me look like true talent in this. I mean, look at that like that. This is a great radio by the way, but you know, the.

Sure absolutely that is like like a classic paint.

You to look at that and say, God, that is it. That takes true talent. They get the image of the face and the baby and the lighting and the modern art stuff is like like splotches of paint thrown on a thing and.

A banana taped to a wall with a frame.

Right, what was the one too? About the It was like a painting of so there was like a blank frame. We just empty frame, man, And it went like a couple hundred grand I forget, but it was very expensive, good money if you can look if somebody's dumb enough to pay me for that. Oh you want another one? I have nothing painting too. Yeah, it's better than the first. Just to go over double what that one went for. That's bigger.

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To go back.

That just that's what it sounds like. We ees, they guy's got a rap sheet. Why would you go out and just you know, get naked on the side of the road. And think nothing was going to happen to you. That's just the screams that he wants to go back to jail.

Yeah, well it's in the shawsh a redemption, right. They couldn't function outside the four walls.

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Yeah, so good?

Good idea or no.

I've been saying this all along, and I'm consistent with it. If he is one hundred percent healthy, right, if he is, and also that and that means no restrictions. I don't think there should be a well, you know, we can't you know, roll him out to the right because that's going to put unneeded stre No. I don't want any of that. It's like, if you're going, then you're going. If it's like, well, we probably shouldn't allow him to do this, this and this, then I don't think he

He's he's chomping at the bid, for sure, There's no question about that.

Yeah, and look you like that, of course. But it's also I will say, because a lot of people have said, well, it's just not a good look in the locker room. What are the other players going to think if they just hold Joe Burrow out even though he probably can't play, It's like, well, you ain't Joe Burrow. There's you know,

Well, And I also want to pat my partner on the back here for saying early because I heard just talking about this with Willie. In regard to Hendrickson, you said before the season, yeah, this is where an injury happens every single time. And look at what's happening now.

Yeah, no training camp, no, no this and that and all. He's a workout warrior, won't matter.

No.

Well, I'm not sure that that's not all of it. I have to believe it's it's some of it. But the fact is he's just thirty one years old, and he's you know, bod he's not able to do it anymore. That was I mean, what an awful way for that thing to go. I really like him, a great player, and I'm sad to see he's kind of falling apart right now. But but I also don't love the fact that you know he's a team captain and you know he's not not traveling to the What was that the game last week the week before?

Now is he is he not allowed to travel with the team or he just chooses he chose not to.

They probably give an OPTIONY, do you want to stay back and do rehab or doing all? No, I think you're a captain. I think you should get on that plane and be there on the sideline. That's what I think.

We'll talk to Lap about it coming up, so Rock. In other news, David, are you afraid of sharks? You've been swimming in the ocean line starkings. Yeah, we went we went to Belize last year and we swam with sharks. Now there was absolutely no danger of anything like any of them biting us. It was like a little nurse sharks and stuff.

Yeah. But I mean, just in general, Ed, I I am. I'm pretty good on land, right. I can still run a little bit, it can move around pretty good. I am a dead duck in the water, literally sink like a stone. So I get a little a little weary about being being in the water because I just know I ain't No, damn.

Well, here's a woman in Oregon, Colleen Dunns her name. She was walking her dogs on the beach in Manzanita, Oregon. It was early one evening a couple of weeks ago. She came upon a beached shark. Okay, all right, I know this is going so rather than steering clear or calling somebody, she said, I made the quick decision to get him back in the water in the ocean myself, grab him by the tail. A veteran, it says, a

Why because he's a shark. He's not gonna be There's no moral compass about these things.

Cheerus, tip of the hat, and off he swims.

I think if the shark was small enough where I could like pick it up in the tail and kind of like you know, do like a shot put kind of spin and toss it out there, I would do it.

Other than that, Sorry, Bud, right, I'll pour some of my water on you. And that's when I told you. When I took the I got called over to my elderly neighbor's house back when I lived in Oakley, and there was a rat in her toilet in the basement. So I managed. So I went in there with my I think I told you about this. I went in there with my tongs from my grill, those big long guys, and uh. So I came in there, and sure enough there's the rat just kind of peeking out over the

Wait, sir, you're you're telling me you used centripetal force to get that that rat out of there.

No, I was to confuse him and to keep him in the bucket because I didn't want him to jump up out of it.

Did the bucket have a lid on it? No, That's what I'm saying. So you kind of kept swinging around. I didn't do that. I was like, it was, you know, like, okay, all right, yeah, I'm still very smart of you or very stupid one of the others. I choose.

That's what my wife said. That was pretty stupid. What you like, What did you think I was gonna do?

Way?

I didn't know what else to do, But you.

Got it out.

I got him out for you.

Hey, he rode the day.

Now, where where was this at?

Again?

Remmy it was.

At my my neighbor's house when I lived in Oaklean. Okay, it was before or we're married.

She better have been impressed and you put the full display on. Of course.

That's right. That's my man, her man, the rat tamer. I've been call wars with that. We chick it with the news news Radio seven hundred WLW.

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This report is sponsored by One Hour Heating and Airykenditioning. As TEMs begin to drop, it's here. It is Monday, around about this time. We always like to talk to this villa right here. Our good friend Dave Lapham, Lap, How are we doing today?

Boys?

How you doing?

What's the good word today?

We're good?

Lap?

I thought the defense was better, not great, but better. What did you see calling that game?

Yeah? I thought the defense was was better as well. I mean you you know you'd say, oh, jeez, well, twenty six points by the Patriots. Now defense is only responsible for nineteen of them. You know they had a special team score there. So I think I think the defense is getting better. I think it's improving. I do think they've got miles to rest before Miles will work it before they rest, though. They get a lot of

I think, in particular, bark Carter played probably his best game. He had sixteen tackles, and he's been kind of under the gun a little bit the last few weeks for not playing very well, and he's certainly had his best game.

I agree with you, Rock, I mean, he's sixteen tackles is a that's a huge number. I mean, particularly in the National Football League. Man, that's you know, that's a that's a tackling machine type number. You know. I think he is feeling a lot more comfortable. I think he's he's uh, he's playing a lot freer. It seems like, you know, he's got he's got physical talents. Man, the kid's got significant abilities. There's no question about it. He played you know, at Clemson, he played a level of

Well, anybody else stand out for yesterday lap Like we were saying, the defense definitely stepping up. Anybody jump out at you and uh, because it just seemed like they were really hustling yesterday. I don't know that I've tackled tackling better, playing through and stuff like that. Is that what you were saying?

Yeah, I do.

And you know, I think I think the effort, uh, you know, was was significant excuse me, significantly improved. I thought I thought they they did. I thought they get after it and and that that side of things, you know, DJ Turner, I thought, you know, played played a really good football game. I mean, the kid, he's a good tackler. He might be the best tackler that they've got on the football field. I mean when he when he gets uh his head in front of people and wraps his

Uh, Lap.

It looked like during the game, you know, Joe Flaka, I guess his finger popped out of a socket and popped out a joint. Had to go back. And now I have to imagine all your years playing offensive line lab that has to have happened to you. Can you take us through a story when you had a finger come out of a joint and they had a gum pop that thing back in.

Yeah, I think I probably had. I know I had four, maybe five, so the probably almost half the fingers, you know, one thumb dislocation too. That one hurt me and that one was not. It was not a pleasant, pleasant dynamic. And yeah, I remember, I guess. I guess the story that would be interesting was against the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Steel Curtain defense. I just located finger in the low red zone against Joe green Man and just kind of

He finished it.

A little problem here, a lot of my fingers pointing that way that way.

Yeah, it was pointing north east and west instead of north and south, you know. And uh and he taped that bad boy up and he got me through the rest of the game.

So it was it was crazy God love and one of the best people in the world, Anthony Munios. But if you've ever seen him and seen him tall, he's got that one finger lapped that buddy that don't look good. Have you guys ever talked about that.

He does. Man, it's like, you know, it's like, I'm like, you know, maybe you need to get a little searchery of that. Yeah, because people are thinking exactly that's what he said. He goes, yeah. The doctor said, you know, boy, that'd be a significant, significant situation there, and and uh, I said, man, he goes, yeah, I use it.

You know.

During my speeches during talks like if and I'll say, yeah, it's a dangerous game, and I'll hold my hand up in there. Everybody's oh, all the women, all the women are getting the sick going to the bathroom.

You know, gee, that's funny. Well, speaking of uh, I guess well, moving on from Joe Flacco and look, I did a fantastic job under just unbelievably tough circumstances. But it looks like lap of the word is Joe Burrow is going to start this Thursday night against the Ravens. What are you hearing and what's uh?

What?

What do you think the decision comes down to?

Yeah, I'm hearing the same thing. Rock. I think I think, uh, Joe Burrow will get the start, you know, against the against the Ravens in Baltimore. And I think it's going to come down to how does Joe Burrow feel about it. I think Joe's going to make the final call, the final decision. I think that I don't think the coaches will overrule if he says, look, I had a good week of practice, moving around and everything. I'm a hundred percent you know, I feel as good as I'm going

So speaking to both of you guys, here talking about tea and the and the concussion. How long is that? Is that just day by day you just take it as it comes or is there a rule of thumb with these things?

Yeah, I mean it is day by day. Like you say, they're all different. You know, I had had more than one of those as well during the course of the playing playing cread I know you must have rocked the way you were hitting people and coming downhill as a linebacker. I mean, it's part of the game, I guess. And you know, the Players Association is the Unions tried to help, you know, guys, that's one thing that some guys are

So it's no joke.

It's it's part of the game. But it's a tough part of the game.

And the Ravens lap kind of an interesting team. They start off with one in five, right, and then they rattled off. They've won the last five, albeit against some you know, kind of some bad teams. The Bears win was pretty good within the Dolphins, Vikings, Browns, and Jets, and they kind of had a really kicking into gear to beat the Jets on yesterday. So what's your thoughts? Is this a is this a good good Ravens team? Average, supreme? What do you think?

Yeah? I think it's probably fairly average as far as you know Ravens are concerned. Uh, they're six and five, you know, they're they're hanging in there there the division. Nobody is running away with the AFC North, that's the thing. But in that five game winning streak, their offense has woken up. I mean their offense is scoring. Man scored thirty against Chicago, twenty eight against the Dolphins, twenty seven against Minnesota, twenty three against Cleveland, twenty three against the Jets.

So Lap, before we let you go, we might have seen the last of Joe Flacco this year. And Brock and I were talking about it earlier. Jason Williams in The Inquire Today wrote a nice article in praise of Joe Flacco, and honestly, Buddy could you ask for more from this guy what he's done here, No, I don't.

Think so any I mean the guy, the guy came in and he, you know, saved the ship, you know. I mean, he's he's played a lot of football, eighteen years in the National Football League, forty years old, and he takes care of himself. You know, he's still in real good physical shape, and he's still got his arm strength, and even with that shoulder issue that he had, he's

All right, Lap, what do you got coming up on the show tonight?

Yeah, we got a bunch of a bunch of uh sound from from the locker room different players. And also we got you know, the two pressures that were covered pretty well, we got all kinds of sound from that as well. And you know that was Joe Flacco and uh and and uh of course head coach Zach Taylor. So yeah, we got plenty of plenty for people to

All right, Lap, have yourself a great Thanksgiving buddy, You.

Do the same, guys. Happy Thanksgiving. Uh you guys will best appreciate you to visit. I'll be the best buddy.

Thanks.

All right.

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Guys, you've heard it all right back with Eddie and Rocky just a little while longer in rock I hadn't heard a whole lot about this story. Maybe I saw it in passing or something, but this is crazy.

Yeah, this was crazy, which is why I wanted to get an update on this. A pretty pretty harrowing situation. Eighteen year old who died on a cruise and here with us from ABC. Sasha peznik adjoins us. Sasha, what is the latest?

Hey?

Yeah, that's exactly right. What started out is what you would imagine is a dream vacation for a tight knit, flendid family, soon thrust them into complete shock and anguish when one of their own, this beloved teenage girl, was discovered dead on their carnival cruise ship earlier this month, and even more baffling than that the person who her family has come to find out from authorities is suspected

So, given the fact this was a step brother situation, is there any concerns this was there was something else going on in this relationship between them.

So that that's an open question, and it's something that authorities are going to be pouring over. They want to talk to everyone, They want to pour over all of these security cameras from the ship understand the whole scope of what might have been going on with the family at this point, though, you know, what the family has heard is that there was no sign of sexual assault or drugs or alcohol. So at this point all we know is that it looks like a homicide and that

That they.

Heard from authorities that there were indeed bruises on her neck, so no sign of sexual assault. That we don't know much more than that at this point. We're just going to have to wait to find out as authorities quen.

More crazy stuff. Sasha pass and we appreciate it.

You Butt, thank you Christ, thank you.

Rock and other news. Crime of a less serious manner. This happened in Missouri. This was a shoot just the other day. As a matter of fact, the guys was arrested in being charged Cold Birtles is the fellaw's name. Thirty three was arrested for breaking into a Circle K store at two fifteen in the morning and stealing a bag of beef jerky.

Now, in their defense, beef jerky is good but very expensive.

Well, I don't know if I kicked the door in, but he had a good reason Okay, right, okay, besides why kinds of wanting it? A little munchie? Uh this Birdles fella, it's in Saint Charles, Missouri. He kicked in the front glass door of the convenience store, then climbed into the locked business and proceeded to eat a bag of beef jerky and a sweet tea and drink a sweet tea with it. When cops arrived at Circle K,

Oh?

Okay, yeah, he told police, I know you're going to think I'm crazy, but there's an AI intelligence speaker in my neck. Really, goo goo got got this, fellow, Birtles, check this out. Birtles, whose residence is about forty miles from this store in Missouri, added that he had walked to the Circle K from Illinois.

He walked forty miles to the Circle K to get some.

You walk forty miles, you're gonna be hungry, hass.

Yeah, you're not walking out of there with nothing.

So yeah, he's been. He was locked up in lieu of twenty five hundred dollars bond. He has also been ordered to have no contact with Circle K and submit to a mental health examination if he does indeed bond out of custody.

The voices in his head huh yip, your head, voices in your head? Uh sure, a bad trip or anything. Back in the seventies, now.

Nah, No, there was. There was one time, perhaps I had imbibed substance and I visit my old girlfriend's apartment and I we're listening to music and she's doing some stuff and I'm just laying there, like reading a magazine or something. And it started to get the the bat of me, shall we say, And so I just put the covers over my head and I just lay it on her bed and listened to music. And she asked me if I was okay, and I said, I'm fine. I'm just laying here under the covers.

Yeah. Yeah, she said, okay, carry on, do.

What you gotta do.

I was there for an hour or two.

Pop that.

Yeah, once you get once you get a grip, you know what I'm saying, That's that's all you need. Now, this is this sounds like something I might have thought about in that instance. There's an underwater cave on the border between Greece and Albania. Scientist said discovered a spider web there that covers one thousand and seventy six square feet along a wall. Wow, a spider web. The web is home to an estimated one hundred and ten thousand

Go not the place you want to go. See. I am not afraid of spiders, are you? Nah? My wife is.

I'm not.

Doesn't bother me at all, forget it.

Yeah, the spiders creep me out on a bit, But you know, I there were the only the only thing about spiders is the surprise angle of a of a spider, you know what I'm saying. There was one. It was in my old house and we had a sliding glass door in our basement and we never used it. I don't even know why I had to put in, but anyway, so I was going to kind of clean to the windows and stuff and moving some debris around down there. And since we hadn't opened that door in a while,

Oh man, Yeah, but I'm sure you've been going through the woods or something, and just for sure, certain times a year, like if you're on a quad going through the woods, your face is just getting I mean I literally rigged up like a I got a stick that looked like a giant crucifix to be able to knock down the spider webs in front of you, because that's that's no fun when you get them over your face.

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