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All right, back with Eddie and Rocky and rock the As the information on the Ryaner murder case comes out and drips and drabs, it's pretty obvious. It's not pretty obvious. It's obvious what happened.

Yeah, and it's pretty grossly from what we've been confirmed today. He slipped their throats while they were in bed, you know. And and just I mean, here's a troubled kid. Say kid, he's thirty two years old. He's not a kid, but you know he's lived there at the house, you know, on and off drugs, mostly on drugs. His whole life just you know, led a terrible existence here, and now two people are dead.

Let's talk to our legal authority.

Here.

Our go to guy Jeremy Rosenthal. He's been a prosecutor, he's been a defense attorney. He knows all, sees all. Jeremy as always a pleasure to have you. So, Jeremy, Rocky and I were talking about this. Why was this guy walking free? It's whatever happened to institutional licensing? Somebody? Can you do that? I don't know how that works.

Well, it's interesting that you say that the mental health system for America has a name, and that name is jail.

Yep.

And there's just not a lot of ways to look.

The writers were obviously suffering from what I think a lot of American families suffer from, and that is having a loved one.

That is that's.

An addict, and not just an addict, but a very very severe one. We're talking heroin, We're talking met them, fetamine. We're talking over fifteen stints if I'm understanding it, rehab we're talking about we're talking about homelessness. There's a lot of families that have a loved one that kind of fit into this category. And I'll tell you this degree

But to the point on the mental hospital. There used to be a mental hospital here locally called Longview State Mental Hospital. And you know, and and a lot of folks would say, yeah, if you walked around inside of it, it was not a you know, it was kind of a scary place. But the point was, you know, it was a place where people that were dealing with either you know, they had a wing that was dedicated. If

Yeah.

I saw the movie about that place, the one in Cincinnati and the guy kidnapped one of the people to see Fernando Valenzuela pitch in Los Angeles, remember rain Man.

That was not a documentary, Jeremy.

That was.

The answer to your question in all seriousness is money.

It's funding. That's the difference.

Is that it is really hard to These types of places are not very popular and and if you can fund them, you're getting you know, look, you in most instances when you're talking about rehabilitative places and just and to kind of even back up on that for a second too. So, so let's talking about rehab places, the vast majority of which are going to be private, which means that it's sort of in many ways pay to play, right, uh, And and you know, and and so a lot of those places are unattainable.

For for most folks.

Insurance is not going to necessarily cover those things.

But the other part is that they're voluntary, right.

You have to have a legal reason to put somebody into a facility, and and the the the measure for just straight mental issues. We you know, we have a constitution, you have due process. Doesn't matter how how many you know, how problems you are, it is really really hard to have somebody committed.

The most common And that's why I say jail is.

The most common, uh one, because jail's the one that kind of cuts through all the due process. It's the one that's sort of is obvious, and it's the one that tends to draw the authorities.

And it's that's when we can force people.

To do things that that they don't necessarily want to do, even if they need it.

So it's it's it's.

Very hard on the due process liberty front. It's very hard, and it's very hard to fund these things too.

But what about I understand everything you said, but what about the constitutional due process of society, A society that doesn't want to go downtown and have people using drugs right on the streets. You look at some of these major cities there. They live on the streets because they want to live on the streets, not because they're forced to. They want to live that lifestyle and do their drugs openly right on the street and and just kind of

Well that that's exactly the point, and that's exactly the crux of this entire problem is. You know that the Constitution applies to individuals, it's in individual's.

Rights, you know.

But in the government, it's the government that's on the other side of the constitution. And it's the government's job to, you know, look to not take away people's rights. But it's the government's job to make sure that your streets are clean.

That's what your tax.

Dollars are for, to make sure that there's no potholes, that the that the you know, that that that everything's working and and things like that and that, and that you're you're not in danger when you go downtown. So it's that it's that constant struggle between the individual's rights and those extremes.

But it's just really really hard.

It's hard to put people in a cage and unless.

You're you know, whether they're whether.

They have it coming or whether they don't have it coming.

And and look, I mean, if it was as easy.

Like you know, just to kind of use a Dallas example, you know, j R. Ewing, that guy would have his loved ones thrown.

In the in the in the in the whatever place.

You know, he would have you signed some fake documents and the next thing you know, you were committed and he's there stealing your oil.

It's not that simple.

It's just not that easy to have somebody put away.

And this, you know what I'm reading about.

All this, you know with Rob Reiner, that was a very very complicated relationship with that with his son. And I'll tell you this much too, of all the families that are out there that are struggling with.

This kind of addiction, a lot of times.

Money like the Riders had, is a curse and not a blessing. And that is because you can constantly rescue the attic who doesn't need it, who needs to hit bottom?

Right?

Who needs to I'm not saying anybody needs to be homeless, but sometimes I can't tell you how many parents I've dealt with that say, thank God, my son, my daughter is in jail at.

Least I know so safe.

And so that is that's why I and you hear a lot about enabling. And I don't know that that's what was going on here. But he was living in the back house. They had a fight apparently at Conan O'Brien's house the night before. I mean, who hasn't had that happen, right, I mean, I know you guys were more than the thing.

Well, I had left. It's funny because I had left Conan's right before the fight started.

Uh right, So.

But I did hear about it. But but but but let me ask you, Jeremy. They so there's nothing you could do as a parent, because apparently these poor people were living in fear the last days of their life. They knew that this kid was all kinds of whacked you. So there's really nothing you can do about except try to wait for him to do something seriously wrong.

Yeah, it's very very reactive. There's nothing right. It seems like, you know, our whole society thing is very reactive instead of being proactive about things. And in a lot of different instances, but to Eddie's point in this case, yeah, can we do something before the tragedy happens? Instead of looking back, you say, no, we should we should have done this.

Well, this is this is look, this is the classic debate. And I guarantee you there's people listening to this that have that.

Have fought this fight before.

There are a lot of parents out there that will cut their cut the kid.

Off, you know.

And And when I was a very junior lawyer and I was accepting court appointed cases, one of the very first types of cases that you get are low level drug offenses.

And I learned very very quickly that these types of addicts, that these types.

Of offenders, they build all these houses of cards and Okay, pick up the phone, I call Uncle Jimmy, Omaha, and Uncle Jimmy and Omaha says that guy's dead to me, never call me again. And that's because the offender has burned through everybody in their family. Uh, their resources, lying, stealing, credit card abuse, anything in everything that you can think of. And and and a lot of parents will cut that child off in fact that that you know, and it's

A perpetual state of trying to fix his son.

And and when and it bit him.

All right with the with that, Jeremy, we will let you go. And also, uh, what's what an M trying to steal our quarterback?

Just curious are they trying to take him? You know what?

You know what, go ahead take him, you know, enjoy your third place finish and be in the you know, enjoy your your your cheese at bowl whatever.

Okay, So there The point is, you guys could get a pretty good quarterback, right what the folks are saying that you see quarterbacks? Sowersby's pretty good. And I know A and M has a lot of money.

Yeah, he came he came to Loveock a few years ago.

Yeah, because I'm a Red Raider.

He came to Loveck a few years ago and threw it around the yard kind of pretty pretty decently. But you know, look, I'll tell you what we're gonna deal with a and m here in a few.

Weeks if they make it, because because.

Red Raider is going to bring this home for the Big twelve. Just just saying, don't you're not worried, don't worry, don't worry about this, and we're gonna and we're gonna take it to Ohio State. I know that what's your temperature on those guys?

Is that?

Is that? Friend?

Foe?

I mean, how what's the feeling there?

What Ohio State?

Yeah, I mean there's there's like i'd say, a core of about fifteen thousand rabid Ohio State fans.

Yeah, further north, you get, I mean in Cleveland, they're almost as popular as the Browns here.

Uh, this is this is the Reds and Bengals country time.

Not so much Buck guys, not so much Buck guys.

Okay, now, fair enough, Like I said, yeah, you know, if that guy wants to leave for a and M let him and you know what, good good good luck, good luck, and we'll we'll well, it's exciting to never read about you again.

All right, Jeremy, thanks so much, buddy, all right, bye bye.

Thanks.

That's right, he's a tech guy. I keep thinking he's an m Yeah.

Well Texas, Texas. Who we're talking about. Oh, but I thought I thought he was guy. He's a Red Raider, I know, but I thought he was sores. He's looking at tech.

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Your Christmas outfit. I'm sure Christmas queen. Yes, the missus clause could try to say, if you will, let's.

So so disappoint you guys, today. It's unbelievable. I'm not dressed in Christmas stuff?

What when you were talking to the You're talking to the governor today.

So I didn't think Christmas plaid was appropriate, you know what I'm saying.

So, yeah, I went up to Columbus interview comes still driving back from Columbus, got to get back and tend to do the news right, And yeah, so I'm not in Christmas pod today.

I was yesterday and I would.

Have been today, but I'm not well.

And Eddie said, You're still dressed in your finest Christmas outfit. But nevertheless, Tanya, what were you doing in Columbus? Where is you were talking to the governor about what?

Oh?

Well, we talked about any number of things. We talked about what was going on Springfield, Ohio. We talked about what was going on in the state of Ohio. We talked about, you know, everything. Like you know, he does this every at the end of every year, he sort of offers up himself to I don't know, maybe select reporters, I'm not sure like to come and do like an year end or sort of interview with him. So we

And his response was I'll be endorsing a Republican.

So there you go.

Of course.

So we'll tell you about Let's let's talk about what's uh your Christmas planning situation here? What goes on in uh in a Rourke world? From now? What are we ten days out from less than ten days out from Christmas?

Now?

Sundays?

Right, So well, a lot has already been going on, guys. It has been like a Santa's workshop at my house. It's been insane.

Last Saturday was Pretzel Day, in my house, which is this is not a big secret.

I make pretzels every year. I've told you guys about In fact, are you both working next week? I'm off work and I can bring some into you.

No, Friday, we're gone. We're going out Friday for Friday, so bring them in Friday.

Well okay, oh you are working Friday?

Yeah, all right?

Can I pop up and bring you some?

Wonderful they're literally pretzel covered with caramel and chocolate.

I know Dev has had them before.

I've made them for I don't know thirty years, and it is just an absolute process. We make hundreds of these things, my sister and I and all of our kids and all that stuff, and it is a zoo.

So that that is completed, check mark done. I've got to have you guys. Look, I'm gonna ask the question. I know the answer. Have you even done any shopping yet?

How many more days until Christmas?

Know's we got nine days?

Is it?

Nine?

Okay?

Yeah?

Yeah, I don't really.

Well. I told Rocky look, and I tried to buy deb something and then I just got a notification yesterday that it wasn't going to happen. So now I'm back to square one.

You know why because you waited till yesterday, like it's not going to happen because it couldn't get here in time.

Correct.

No, I will tell you what it was. I mean, she grew up in Pittsburgh and she was a giant Lynn Swan fan when she was a kid.

And I saw a thoughtful gift.

Lynn Swan was on cameo. You know, if you don't know what cameo, wish you can order these from celebrities and they will have your birthday or Merry Christmas or whatever. And it was a couple of hundred bucks, but Lyn Swan would send a message to deb whatever. I asked him to say no within parameters, and so I tried to do that for our birthday and it didn't work.

Well.

I saw he was offered again, so I tried to get it for it for Christmas and found out yesterday he's not doing them anymore. Well, they had already they had offered it, and then they told me they're not. He can't do it.

Right.

Someone who knows Lyntzwan call him up, make it happen.

Come on, I sure say, I don't know if he's doing that, great, we're fifty bucks. That's good money.

Yeah, yeah, just to say very Christmas, how are you thanks for being a fan all those years? End of story?

Five bucks?

You want me to call her up?

Yeah?

I already offered that, Toddy. Yes, I'd do it for ten.

For two undred and fifty bucks, I could get everybody in Cincinnati media to do it and still save myself one hundred and fifty.

Uh do it without anybody.

But but hey, look it'll this is gonna every year. It takes care of itself. I'm just gonna I just go to the mall. I spend an hour and a half, two hours there. Boom boom, boom boom. Easy peasy.

Yet for see so she can.

See get back.

That sound much confidence she has in your gift bind ability?

Yet, hey, staying with you, buddy, staying with you. You need to like that woman is raising all those kids for you, those boys.

You better do something.

Nah, I have I've got her. I've I actually was did much better than I did last year. I've got her a few things. And uh yeah, so I think she's gonna be very very happy and very surprised. Tony.

Okay, So one time, my now ex brother in law got my sister a vacuum for Christmas.

Have you have you ever done something that dumb?

Well, when you were like that, what if it's a really nice fact you like on the top the line ones, you know she'd appreciate that, apciate if I.

Said to my husband like, hey, I am dying for this vacuum. Guys, it is it's I don't want to spend the money on it, but I really would love it. I would love a room, but no one's ever gonna get me a roomba. I've asked for a roomba a lot. No one's ever gonna get me one because they're like, we're not getting you that. Well, but I really want that, So I kind of understand if you really want it. But if it's just a huh, I'm trying to be.

Thoughtful, what could my wife use and get a vacuum?

So you're also saying these like these pots and pans I bought her are not good either, like.

This broom, don't buy a scale scale even I.

Wouldn't be that dumb.

That's that's what now, see you Ruin my second gift, I was going to give deb a vacuum a maid's out for it from Frederick to Hollywood in some new scales on Everybody Wins Winter Winter.

No, not everybody was in that day. And I'm you might find yourself a loser.

I just think, you know.

So, I've got a ton going on home, guys, I've got cooking going on. I've got present making. I make a lot of my presents. My niece has asked for a present that I make her, so I am going to be spending my weekend doing that.

I I'm kind of a nut. I think you know this by now. Like I I make a lot of stuff that I just don't need to do.

And I don't know why I feel the absolute need to like make it from scratch, make it myself.

But you know that's my toxic trade.

I guess.

I don't know.

But it's gonna be a it's gonna be a push down to the wire. We're gonna get it all done, all right.

Well, Tanya, good luck with getting everything done, and don't worry about Rock and I will, uh you know, next time we chat. Nobody after the first of the year, no doubt. I'll probably talk to you during the holiday bring press. Oh that's right, we'll talk to you then uh but uh, yeah, well, we will give you a post Christmas report card on both of our wives in their thoughts.

Yeah wait, I actually need to text them and ask them.

That's probably a good idea.

But you're my my you with you and my wife are friends, so fucking I can just see you going, okay, spill it well, Tanya. We will see you on Friday and look forward to these uh these legendary pretzels. You bet you bye, see you bye. There's a Tanyo Roark somewhere between here and Columbus finding out that Hell is real. That's right. She drives down the interstate.

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So I think last wee or a couple of weeks ago, I told the story of Chase the Gecko. We've got Chase. I don't know, I'm saying the late summer. Maybe my middle of son Bronson, really wanted a gecko, and through my mother in law, found somebody had one. Geckos are not cheap, by the way, And this thing was actually pretty cool, like you know, it was a big about you know, like a little less than the size of your you know, cell phone, kind of of a pen basically,

On with him.

And of course my wife ends up being the one that actually, you know, feeds him and takes care of him and spray bottles is aquarium and stuff. Well, about two weeks ago ed we also had another addition to the boyment household. We're like like, like you know, funny farm, all right, we have a we have a new cat, now named Coco. Her name is now been changed to Miss Kitty. It's so miss kitty.

Change.

That's just that's what we call her. That's actually what I call her. I call her Miss Kitty, and so everyone calls her miss Kitty now. So anyway, So woke up in the morning about ten eleven days ago, and I looked down at the aquarium in the door of the gecko aquarium is open, and I look inside the aquarium and there's no gecko. And I immediately look at Miss Kitty. I'm like, what have you done? What have you done to that poor What have you done to Chase?

Miss?

Miss kitty had her belly full.

I thought that that is what I would have bet all money on. So, you know, we're looking around. Okay, maybe she chased him around. So we're when we're undoing all the cushions, looking in it, in the you know, the crevices of the chairs and all kinds of stuff. Can't find Chase. Day after day after day, about ten eleven days goes by. I come home last night and my wife says, you're not going to believe it, and she shows me a picture and it was Chase on

So you had no idea where he went, no.

Idea, And we didn't feed him. It's not he left the little bowl of crickets out for him or a bowl of water. So he was just I don't know, maybe finding random little spiders or something and the dog's water dish, or maybe he was getting some dog food. I don't know, but we did not see this thing. He's alive. Chase the gecko lives and how long he was going for?

How long?

Ten eleven days? Damn, I know, I would have bet. I thought even if she didn't, even if Miss Kitty didn't eat Chase, I thought, Okay, maybe she just mortally wounded him, mortally wounded him and he went off somewhere, and you know, his legs all gnawed off or something, and he just died in a corner somewhere, And we'll find him one day when we're moving some table or something like a little get go. Body's gonna stink a

No, he's very much alive. Chase live, Chase lives. Miss Kitty is exonerated.

That's right. Miss Kitty has gotten a lot of favor though, in spite of possibly we thought killing Chase. She's a fan favorite in the Bloyment House.

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All right back with Eddian, Rocky and Ron. Maybe you've heard it's the Christmas season.

Yes, which is supposed to be the most wonderfull time of the year, but a lot of times it's the exact opposite. And I think from what we're hearing, social media can exacerbate your unhappiness.

And here to discuss. We have talked to this gentleman a long time ago, and it's great to have him back. Doctor Dean becklith Becloth. He is a licensed professional counselor doc, welcome back to the program.

Hey, it good to be back.

Thank you, so doctor you heard us talking there. And you know, the holidays for people who and maybe on their own or have always been difficult, no doubt about it. But it would seem to be like Rogie said, that social media is just exacerbating that. I mean, and it's pretty obvious why I explain, Well, you.

Know, and I hate it that social media seems to be the thing that we kick around for a lot of the problems, but it does it exacerbates it. However, you know, when you think about social media, there's some positive things about it too. I was thinking about the fact that, you know, I get to keep up with friends that I haven't seen, maybe even in years, but I kind of get a little sense of what's going on with them. But you know, Christmas time, people are

A part of that too.

We are not immune. We tend to think of it as a problem that teenagers have and young teens, and of course they do. When they see pictures of their of their friends posting pictures of parties that they didn't get invited to, that's not going to feel too good to them. But we are people too, we are even as adults, we can feel it as well.

Now, doctors there a certain age group of this effects disproportioning more than others. Is it the thirty to forty crowd or is this more the you know, the older crowd. Where are we at?

You know?

I think it's a it's everybody, I do.

Now.

The research is showing that people forty five and older are the ones who are maybe getting hit a little bit harder with it, but they're also struggling with some various things like they're getting older and health problems and all those kinds of things. And so then they look at these wonderful pictures that are staged now. But believe me, staging is important. One time I posted a picture of our tree, and it looked like it was growing out of my head. And I got a lot of feedback

Yeah, or Doctor Dean beslaf Deckloth as our guest, and so, Doc, it just would behoove you not to sit around and do it. But I think it's kind of a self fulfilling prophecy, isn't it. It's you sit around, you don't have anything to do, You kind you're on your own, so you just sit there and you're you're scrolling through Facebook or TikTok or whatever the case might be, and what you're seeing here and you're just doing it to yourself.

Yeah, oh yeah, And I hate to say that social media can't feed it. It just will by its nature. So you've hit on such an important point, but part of it is turn it off, take a break, get away from it. Really focus on yourself, your family, your traditions. They don't have to be instagram worthy to be meaningful. Have your own traditions. Keep the Christmas time. I know it's hard and you guys are dealing with it too, but as simple as possible, I said recently, they make

Mean obviously, the better things is to do is to to find like real people to hang out with. Instead of looking at other people's lives, go enjoy your own life and find real, meaningful relationships and experience that correct.

Yeah, absolutely, which is one of the things.

You know.

We work in our counseling office with teens and adults and everybody in between. But we're working to get those teens to be with real people, not playing the video game with them online. But let's find some ways to get with people, and I think you just hit something absolutely important and beautiful.

Got to be with real people, Doctor Dean Becklof as our guest and doc, speaking of that type of thing, just reading, I constantly read these articles about younger people who are taking classes on how to do make a phone call in a business situation, and that has to be a result of video games and social media.

Correct.

Oh yeah, absolutely. But you know what, I hate to say it, but if the only thing we can do these days is actually teach those skills, we need to be doing it and empowering these young people to be able to do the things that we just sort of picked up naturally on our own because all we had was for me, it was a phone on the wall, and you actually did this thing called dialing it. You know, it had to start call and you put your finger in it.

Yeah, and then you had your dad say get off the phone after you want it for three minutes talking to one of your buddies or your quote unquote girlfriend.

There you go.

With that, doctor Dean. I think it's worth recommending though, that if you do know some but especially an older person and at this time of year, reach out to him anytime you can and give him a little love of some nature, even if it's just a phone call or stop and buy for a cup of coffee or something.

Huh you bet. Oh that's such a great idea. And isn't that part of what we would consider to be the holiday? The Christmas spirit is inviting other people.

In all right? With that, doctor Dean, people want to find out more about what you do.

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Thank you so much, sir. All right, y'all take care and merry Christmas. Reaching out to him so but yeah, I mean it's just I that was talking to an older, uh neighbor of ours and it's pretty bad when you're older me. But and she lost there has been many years back and so it's like, you know, reach out to people like that. It does a little bit goes a long way.

Yeah.

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All right back with Eddie and Rocky Rock. A little while ago we were talking about the mysterious voyage of Chase the Get Go.

That's right, I can't believe he's alive.

And here with a similar situation. Hey, Ellie, is it el or Ellie.

Ellie elle n whichever you would like?

All right, well, hi Ellen and Madero, what do you have?

I have two great stories.

They're both about cats, and they're both about different cats, and they're in different houses in which I lived.

The first one was years ago.

I couldn't find the cat, couldn't find the cat. All of a sudden, I'm hearing this meow meow downstairs, but I couldn't find where the.

Sound was from.

Long story short, the cat had climbed on my then husband's workbench and then up into the ceiling and had gotten stuck behind a basement wall. So we had called fired the deeply department, and they had to come out, put a huge hole in the wall and reached in. And when that guy touched the cat, he like screamed and like flew back, and the cat came running out.

But but, but the absolute best one was the condo I'm in now.

I had a cat, was an indoor outdoor cat. For three weeks, I could not find this cat. I was beside myself.

I was like, where is this cat?

Where's this cat? And my son had put in my face or my lower level a like a top bottom one piece washirt and dryer set, and he put the vent out to the front of the house, but he hadn't put something in front of the hole yet. And okay, so three weeks and I knew that a cat could could climb all around. So I'm walking all over the house kittie.

Freshes.

That was the stupid name.

I didn't name them, but the find us frishes like frishes vegetable soup. So so for three weeks I'm walked.

Around fresh airs, fresh and fresh.

Is nothing, nothing, nothing, And then so I just gave up. On a random Sunday morning. We're talking three weeks later, guys, twenty one days, I'm downstairs and all of a sudden, I hear this little meal and I jumped and I called my daughter like screaming, fresh.

Air of the line behind the wall somewhere.

I don't know where.

So yeah, so out came three fire trucks, two police cars. I'm like, guys, I just need somebody to figure out where the cat is and you know, find them.

So I read fire trucks on my street.

Anyway, they had to take an entire w wall out of the basement, and when that cat found his spot to get out, he ran out like a bat out of hell, and it.

And that wall like it all the.

Insulation and stuff smelled like a zoo because he don't know how he made it. Twenty one day. Wow, behind the wall, behind the wall, he lost three pounds, was extremely The high rated butt ended up being fine. Isn't that crazy?

That's crazy? Now that is a true miracle. Three weeks.

Yeah, that's that's great.

You gotta figure out you got like a mystery walls near how the cat keeps getting behind the wall. I was gonna figure out the reason for that.

He's gonna talk to one ell there about we might want to review or housing situation here. If your cat can you know, constantly being pipe somewhere like inside of walls like shawshank or something.

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Just need to make a little detour and stop for gas real quick.

I know what she plays down the road.

Uh, and it is just incredibly awful and sad and just yeah, you know, just terrible.

I haven't read it, but I can imagine. Yeah, uh what what a waste man?

Just drugs man. It's it's they're never a good idea, never never ends up, never ends up. Well, so.

I don't. We were talking earlier rock about here your found the gecko. Yeah, and then we talked to our friend Eli there about her cats who kept.

Like two cats have found bound to get behind the wall the house somehow got trapped inside the walls of her house a couple of times.

Well, I was talking about it. I've found this story. This dog, who disappeared from its home in California in twenty twenty one was miraculously found tied to a fence at a animal shelter in Michigan. Wow, just a couple of weeks ago. This lady's wire haired dosund named Chaco, vanished from their Sacramento home in twenty twenty one. Since then, she and her husband had two kids, but she said

Yeah, anyway out there, if you've had ever had a pet go missing that you found like many many weeks months later, Yeah, call the show five one three, seven, for nine and seven thousand. I told you about the our dog, which one was it? Chief? And he same with two disappeared like for two weeks like he was he was old, Like okay, he must have wandered off and died. And somebody in Lawrenceburg calls us and says, hey, we think you of your dog. Right, where are you at?

It's wild?

Well, we're getting some calls now five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, eight hundred, the big one. Let's get to Mike and Hamilton right quick, Hey Mike, what do.

You got hey guys?

Yeah, So, going back about ninety four, I had this cat. His name was Honda, named the matter my motorcycle. But uh, anyway, he came up missing one day and uh, myself and all my neighbors at the apartment complex I lived that, we're all out side looking for him. And uh anyway, long story short. I borrowed this couch from my mom. You know, a single bachelor, didn't have any money, so I was taking any furniture I could get I'd taken

Animals are resilience, man. That's you know, whether it's you know, there's that or chase the gecko again? Like how the heck at lived at our house for ten plus days, no food, no water, no nothing.

Let's talk to Joel and Bethel. Hey, Joel, what do you have?

Yeah, real quick. When my daughter was born, my in laws came down to visit. There was about two hours away, and their parents have an old farm and there's all these old farm cats that are all orange and they looked sort of sickly, and they came down and when they were leaving I noticed this kind of sickly looking orange cat that I'd never seen before, and I'm like, I think that's one of those cats from your guys's farm.

Oh my god.

Wow.

And I know real quick about about cats. I had two mice growing up, and one day there's a bad storm, so we let the outdoor cat come in the house and the power went out.

Well, that cat went.

Right to my room, knocked the mouse's cage over at one of my pet mice.

Well that didn't take long. Uh, thanks, thanks Joel. How about Kyle? Right quick? Hey Kyle, what's going on in cold rain?

Tom?

Oh Tom?

I'm a cole Rain is the Tom?

Yeah?

Go ahead, go ahead, Kyle.

Yeah.

I've been a letter carrier for about thirty years and this lady came out one time I was on my route and she says, time, I'm missing my dog. So I said, okay, am I finding you. I'll get it back to you and I'll carry my route. And I found her dog put in my mail truck and I said it in her backyard. Well, day or two went by, and I forget the lady's man said, hey, missus so and so, and how's your dog?

And she said, oh, A dog's fine, but it's not my dog's dog. And I knew every dog in the nameighborhood and it looked just like her dog. But yeah, that's a true story.

And I'm a I don't really do many good details for that one.

That's funny.

Man.

He went home thinking, No, I just say the day lady thinks I'm the greatest thing in the world. Thanks, that's not my dog. Yeah, well, hey, try to do a good deed. What happens your dog?

Now?

Yeah?

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Lost animals and whatnot. Let's get to Mark in Kentucky. Hey, Mark, Wow, we lost Mark?

Well here real quick. As I told the story of Chase, the gecko was found in our house, Scott on X writes, Rocky, if you're hearing the full story about Chase, my guess is he was under the fridge. My buddy had a snake. Whenever it escaped, it went for the warm coils under the fridge. Just an idea of where to look the next time, which will probably happen, especially if this kid deal was the door to the quarium.

Again, well, that's it would make sense because if it was hiding, But would a hide from you like that? What it would hide under? I mean, it wouldn't stay warm, obviously, but would have come out at night and hunt bugs?

And I bet I bet it would. I bet it would. It had to. That's the only And then, you know, as much as it was friendly, it's still very very tiny, and we're like, you know, there's two dogs, a cat, and five humans walking around the house. It's probably a little bit scared. So yeah, let's get to Amanda and Amelia right quick. Hey, Amanda, what's going on?

Yeah, the guy that called earlier about the cat in the engine compartment.

Yeah, yeah, I had the same thing happen when I was a kid.

We were going on vacation down the Alabama to my aunts, and we made it about two hours down into Kentucky and we stopped at a rest area and we looked over and there are two cats, or there's two cats there that looks like our two cats. And sure enough they had rode all the way down there in our car, got out at the restaurant.

Wow.

See, I've heard of cat's corona in compartment like in the winter. Yeah, and you start the car, but I've never heard about him like chilling in there and going along for the ride. That's wild.

Yeah.

We had to wait for my grandparents to drive all the way down there to pick them up so that we could continue on with our trip.

Wow.

Yeah, Well, good on Grandma Graham. Yeah, thanks, Amanda, Grandma and grandpa. I got some good news and bad news. Good news you're gonna see us. Got news. You had to drive about eighteen hours to get this cat. You got it?

Well?

I remember, shoot whenever the three four years ago when the raccoon got trapped in our garage. Yeah, and got up inside both of our engine blocks and eight all the white. Yeah, it was insane. I pulled up. Well, Deb's car was completely dead and and we never did see the damn thing. So apparently when we opened the you know, you walk out, you open garage door and walk to your car, you must have just started out of there, darted out of there, right when we uh

Damn raccoon. It took out two vehicles, two vehicles.

Big time a war.

We should like deploy those things to go getting all the jeeps and the tanks and the planes and.

Stuff and just do what you do, grimmlin ass things.

Right.

So coming up, we're gonna be talking about Christmas gifts.

Oh Christmas. Yeah, and then we'll go with your memorable gifts you got for sweather for a good reason or a bad reason, like a good gift or maybe a bad gift, or maybe that gift that you always wanted that you never got as.

A kid, or that you didn't get when that you really wanted when you were but didn't get. Yeah, so I said, yeah, oh I'm selling. Yeah, But uh, I never did. I never I never went. I never wanted for anything.

No, you just wanted your parents love.

And that's all right, that's all the loof over your head, and yeah, that's all you a piece of bread and a glass of milk. I was good to go.

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Talking about Christmas? Gifts? Good, bad, ugly? What'd you get you like? What'd you get you hated.

I remember as a kid, I wont there was. It was like a hot toy and I was probably seven years old. It was like it was a hovercraft, a remote control hovercraft, and you hit a button and I get it's a ballooner and it was.

Oh yeah, just like hovered across the floor. Yeah, for sure, I was getting it.

Get it. I remember haunted this day.

It was probably something in the back of a comic book that had advertised it was a hovercraft that you could actually ride in, and it was one of those things. I used to want to get that stuff all the time. My mom's like, you're not getting a hovercraft from the They had like submarines and a real submarine right for like twelve dollars or something.

Cut off the UPC symbol of ten comics.

Uh, your your story is five three, seven, four nine, seven thousand and eight hundred, the big one talking about Christmas gifts. Here and Jim, you're first up there in Amelia.

What do you have?

Hey?

Thanks guys.

This is in the Sabini's the course and me and my two brothers were a year apart, sort of like Rocky's family, and we all wanted that Evil can eevil stunt set and my dad said, well, all you guys can get one and then you're gonna share it. And we did get it for a couple of hours and it was my turn. We put it down the driveway and it was my turn to catch it down the driveways and one of my brothers wound it up and Evil Cane went down the driveway, went between my legs and got run over by a pickup.

That was that was it.

My dad goes, well, there you go, there's the Evil Caniel, Thanks guys and.

That and that was that, right, dude.

That was well, din't go go.

Smash five three the big one. There was one one. I think that was one of those where unintended consequences that I don't think my parents really realized what they this thing was going to be used for, because I didn't figure it out until I got it.

But it was.

It was a gun that just that shot air. That was it pillow that out of it or anything not until I got my hands on it. Yeah, of course docked it out.

It was kind of it. It was about I don't know, ten inches in diameters say, and then it came to a had a funnel point on it, so and it had like a diaphragm in it right like a bellows, like a bellows, and it would pull back real big and they're like boom. So you just shoot a puff of air out of it. Well, with the help of my bigger my older brother, we used to have a dartboard in our bedroom. So I was like, how cool would this be to shoot darts out of this? And we did.

Wow, that's bold for not very long because as soon as my mom saw that the guns going at the tra here two kids with combined two eyes, Yeah, I had the dort stick it out of the other one's head. So your your gifts?

What do we have?

Let's get to Matt. What's going on there? What's going on over sales man?

Well, I've been waiting for this call for a while, been dealing with this.

Uh, this kept hanging over. It's been a long time story for the last twenty years of Christmas. But when the George Forman grills first came out, they had the indoor outdoor and kind of shopping out with my mom and helping pick things up and sitting there at Sears and sawid nice little grill and you know, it'd be great for my patio outside of my apartment.

I like the grill out.

You don't have a lot of people open, don't have a lot of people over. And so come Christmas Eve, sitting in my mom's house, nice big box, open it up, it's a turkey frar. No, she says, hey, you could use that turkey fry and we have people over. I said, yeah, mom, I said to George, forman grill, and I don't have.

A lot of people over.

I took the cook outside.

That was great.

So yeah, I'll see what I can do with this.

So now every year Christmas there's a box.

Open it up.

Somebody says, I wonder if it's a turkey friar. Yeah, so great class. So so now now now I have a turkey friar.

It's great.

But yeah, it's just one of those things you're you're hoping for one thing and you open it up. It's you don't want to be mean, you don't want to be mad. You know, it's kind of grateful you got something, but it's like, Okay, all.

The best intentions were there, but just was not the right thing.

Yeah, well you just want to that's turkey fry is not all that great for entertaining just a couple of people, you know, George Browman grill you can toss a couple of burgers or something on there, Turkey Friari.

Those came out like kind of like right, I feel like right as I was going to college, you know, or they released hot then and oh yeah, those are the I mean, I bet you're one out of every two people had one of those. Three people oh for sure, I mean one families had one of those. Everybody had those.

It was the most pop thing in the world. Let's let's talk to Bob in North Carolina, right quick. Hey Bob, what do you have?

Hi?

Eddie a rocking nice to talk to you.

Originally from Cincinnati, just moved down to North Carolina three years ago.

But those things were called the Whamo Blasters.

Yes, thank you, Bob.

Yes it was because yeah nineteen sixty four, buddy, I had one and if you go on eBay, now, oh my goodness, I bet they're oh hecke three hundred bucks apiece now wow.

Yeah, we paid what I don't know, nine ninety.

Remember remember I got it for Christmas? So yeah, that was probably about the size of it. Probably about ten bucks.

Yes, sir, but I just wanted to let you guys know, and always a privileged to talk to Cincinnati, Ohio.

And thanks for take my call.

Well, thanks for checking in, Bob. Appreciate that.

Here's a nineteen seventy Wammo air blaster box target with pump turned thirty bucks.

Damn.

Yeah.

I mean there's a few different versions of this, but I bet the old school one like you had was.

Yeah, I was.

I wasn't very old. I was probably I could have been older in nine or ten tops, so it'd been mid sixties. Let's talk to Greg, Greg and Crittendon. What's going on, Buddy, hay youn fels.

Yeah, good, trying to make this quick.

I was the youngest of nine, had an older brother that was four years older than me.

I was six, he was ten.

I had two other.

Twin brothers that were fourteen, and my mom always left us presence unwrapped under the tree to keep us occupied. So they got up, so we always had one present unwrapped and we are all, you know, pretty much always knew whose was what. Well, we come running down the steps and I don't know if you remember these or not. Eddie but I think they were called Tommy machine guns.

They were little machine.

Guns that sit on a tripod and they rattled off in the noise, and.

They ruled they had a red light on the end of them. Well, the twin brothers thought that those were those. Of course we all wanted them, and they wouldn't let us touch them.

They they kept on.

Them till Mom and Dad got out of bed and and uh my mom comes down the steps.

And she looks at me and sees on the what David and Dennis doing playing.

With ur and Darryl's.

Rifles the machine guns. And we just looked at each other and said, okay, guys, see yeah, yeah, they were pretty adamant about letting us try them out.

Yeah, thanks buddy. That's I had something I remember. I don't think. I don't remember it was that or not, but I had them some kind of machine gun thing.

I mean, it's it just like a like a toy gun.

Yeah, it's a toy gun.

Oh, I saw I had when I was a kid. It was a toy guns, but it shot plastic bullets, you know, But it was a machine gun. Angle so that I know because my oldest son has one. I mean, they have the ones they have now it's they shoot

Let's talk to uh Dave. Dave, what's going on, buddy?

What do you have?

Well that what you were just talking about was called FORBIS. Yes, he was talking about adding water to and all that.

But what I was talking of, what my thing was. Do you remember the little.

Were notifications in the back of magazines for like X ray glasses, hand buzzers, stink bomb was all that kind of stuff. I was so disappointed when my X ray glasses.

It wasn't what they lived up to be.

So you did get some of those, Dave, because I'm.

Yeah, I mean those in the back of I think like boy Scout magazines or something like that, and there was always what you dreamed about order and if the square always in the back of a magazine, kind of last couple of pages, and it was like all kinds of different stuff like yeah, yeah, I didn't.

Live up to the hype.

Huh I got well they gas Yeah, well, Dave, and Dave knows what I'm talking because I used to always see mine in the back of comic books, because that was a big comic book.

Comic books.

I just remember being in the back on the lat.

But if you remember Dave those ads and you'd see this guy wearing the X ray glasses and there'd be some girl walking down the street like covering herself with you know, she had her clothes on, but she'd be like and the guy's like, oh God.

Then sulfur bombs were fun too. You could really clear out a dance club real quick with one of those.

Yeah, and thanks Dave. And also sea monkeys. Don't forget sea monkeys.

I remember those right.

Yeah, basically it was I think I read that they were like dehydrated shrimp or something and you got them in water and they came back to life. I don't know what that works.

Really.

Yeah, let's talk to David or it's Larry and Milford. My bad Larry, what's going on?

By good afternoon, man.

I got a little different approach for you.

Okay.

The first Christmas I spent my wife and I spent together in our house. The very first Christmas when we were living together, I bought a Lady Bug bracelet that I was one thousand percent sure she was gonna love.

And I held it back, so I waited for everything to be.

Done, and I was like, well, we got one more.

Uh, And I gave it to her, and I'm just sitting there waiting for the gatorade path And.

When I had just got.

She opens it up, looks at me and says, oh my.

Gosh, honey, and this is nice. If I was seven, yeah, last time I saw a jewelry and my friends, that was it.

That was it.

That's great, that's well. And that reminds me the story I've told her before we were somewhere we weren't even married yet, me and me and my now wife and uh, Eddie's like adult onesies and my wife was like, oh man, those are cool or something, and then some I'm like, you know, mental note. So for Christmas, yeah, I got

I liked it as that.

I thought it was funny.

Let's talk to Gary, Gary and Columbus, Indiana. What's up Gary?

Hey, Hey Eddie Rocky uh ed me and you are. We're about the same age and I'm a retired FedEx courier. And when you do that kind of work, Christmas kind of takes on a different meaning. I mean, it's hard not to be a screwge, you know. Every year, like you come in after a really long day.

The girls in the front office they would ask me us, well, what do you get in your wife, you know, for Christmas?

And every year I'd add a couple of strange things.

I'd usually say, well, I'm getting us some Channel five perfume, a cell phone holder, a Lily Nelson chia pet, and a clapper.

Clap off the clapper, I think they believed me.

Oh my god, oh man, that's great dry thanks buddy.

The chia pet that was like that was a huge thingia.

Oh man.

I think I wanted one of those one as a kid, but for some reason I didn't get one. Or I might have gotten one and killed it or something.

I forget.

I never got one, but I remember this commercial was being like, yeah, man, that's pretty sweet.

Let's talk to Chris and Finneytown right quick. Hey Chris, what's going on?

Hey?

Yeah, I was a devious little kid back around Christmas when I guess was back in the sixties when I was pretty little, and one Christmas, I really wanted slot cars. Remember those ones that are about the size of your hand, the real big ones. They the brushes on the bottom you could skid him around the turns and stuff with the big black track. Well, I told my parents, said I want slot car for Christmas, and I to try

To my mom.

I was like, you know, mom, I really really love slock cars. I don't like trains, I really love slock cars. And she returned the present before Christmas and I ended up getting slock cars. But yeah, I used to wait till my mom would fall asleep on the couch and I'd sneak in her person very carefully pull the keys out without jingling the keys, and then go out and open the trunk and see all the presents because she knew that I'd find them in the house, and so she kept them locked.

In the car trunk.

Oh well, that's uh. I remember that that trick quite well, Chris. And as a matter of fact, my parents had a Plymouth satellite as well. Very cool funny. I thought I ended up driving when was by. It was one of my I think I might have my first car in high school or something.

Now what do those look like? I can't picture that. Just a big boat of a big boat of a car.

Yeah, I think it was a sixty six, something like that, sixty seven, But I we my old man Widges he was like he was one of those guys. He was old school. He got a new car. He got a new car every three years, whether he needed it or not.

I remember that was your dad's thing. I'm never used not driving someone else's miles. Yeah, I'm gonna sit there and argue with this guy for two three days. With that, we check with traffic and weather, what's going on from the.

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Enjoyed all right back with Eddie and Rocky just a little while longer. I got Hot Stove coming up tonight rock when we're out of right, yes, uh, but right now checking our crime blodder. Gavin Weisenberg of Allen, Texas and Tanner Tanner Tanner Thomas of Texas were indicted on a couple of weeks ago in US Districtcord for a bizarre plot to carry out a coup on Ganavi Island near Haiti. These guys weren't gonna you know, they're not doing ding dong ditch. They're gonna do a stage of coup.

Uh.

The It's been reported that the man hatched their plan in twenty twenty four. Both were learning Haitian creole and Weisenberg joined the North Texas Fire Academy to learn command and control protocols. However, he did flunk out. In February of this year. He Thomas, the other guy, joined the US Air Force was station in Maryland. Both men planned to recruit homeless people from Washington from DC to assist in their coup.

I mean this is pretty well thought out to some degree. I mean you're going to join the fire department to learn all the all the procedures and.

Stuff after sailing to Well, their plan was after sailing to and getting control of the island. Weisenberg and Thomas planned to kill all the men and make the women and children sex slaves.

Okay, okay, all right, So.

How do you how these people were caught? I have no idea, but uh, they could face up to life in federal prison for their for their nefarious plot. But I want to know how you come up? Where do you what goes on in your little pea brain that you come up with a plot like that.

I want to know.

It has to be drugs, right, I mean that.

Thing is somewhere that's a part of the situation, I would say.

I mean it has to be. You have to be pretty damn high to think I have an idea.

Take over a hole.

We're going to take and kill everybody. Yeah, well except for the women and children. Yeah, well, all we got to do is kill all the men. So we have a we got to start.

But there's a lot of rough ombres in Haiti and organized and.

Yeah, you're going to end up, right, That's what I'm saying. Rock and other eminal activity police in Auckland, New Zealand, were holding where they were because this happened a couple of weeks ago. I think it has to have taken care of itself. By now, we're holding a man accustomedly, presumably waiting for.

Him to.

Give back the nineteen thousand dollars fabroge egg pendit that he had swallowed. Wow, the I don't know, I got nothing. So of course they did an X ray on him, and there's the egg shape pendit in his belly. So they have and they do, as as always with these things, have a how would you be? You have to be pretty far down the cop totem pole. It was like, guess what.

The toilet?

Anytime that guy goes to the bathroom, you're with him. Like I said, this happened a couple of weeks ago, So I have to uh think that it's taking care of its help by now said. At that stage, the pendant had not been recovered. The aegis set with white diamonds and blue sapphires and has an eighteen carrot gold miniature octopus inside.

Wow, I know those things are very ornate and intricate, you know, and small and very detailed. What was the whole genesis of those things? I got eggs, Yeah, a lot of royalty and gotta hurt. Got that's yeah, it's gotta hurt. In other news said, how about this uh headline? Former SEC star quarterback TJ. Finley looking for his seventh school in seven years.

Now.

I actually covered this kid. He was a quarterback from Georgia State. Last year he was at his then sixth school in six years. So former LSU, former Auburn, Then he was where was he at? He was at Texas State, and then he was at he was at Western Kentucky somewhere in there. He was at Tulane for a minute. That's six So yeah, he's looking for a seven school. What I mean?

Yeah.

Finley played two seasons at Auburn, making six starts before entering yet again entering the Portal. This is after one year at LSU. This time he went up at Texas State, won the starting job, won eight and five, had a career, was going pretty good, but then prior to the twenty twenty four season, transferred to Western Kentucky, played in just three games, entered the Portal again, went to Tulane, but then left Tulane before the start of the season because of allegations of stealing a vehicle.

Not good.

Wound up at Georgia State or last year he threw for twelve hundred yards, six touchdowns, seven interceptions, and seven appearances went one and six. Again. I covered him Georgia State versus Vandy, and I remember talking about it like here we go again. Well now Finley is appealing to the NCAA for a seventh season and is back in the portal. Quote, the last two years have been the

I mean, is that I guess that's his ultimate goal, right, Well, that or been around but crap, like you said, if it ain't happening to anything happening.

Well that's the goal. But also it's you know, now that players are getting paid, he's you know, maybe he's making even though he's not great, he's making one hundred grand or something. So if you can keep doing that for a sixth, the seventh, and eighth year, that's a way of making money even if you don't make it to the NFL. But I just feel like, and that's the case, he's going to make the NC double A,

Well also they and that gives him a legal option as well, right I mean, if it's remember what I've lack of a better term, restraint of trade, right, if you're stopping them from making money.

No, that's exactly what I'm saying that that's exactly exactly what happens. But I hope hopefully stronger heads prevail and coaches get together and say, you know what we're gonna We're gonna stop this right now.

We can't.

I mean, seventh year, that's that's getting a little ridiculous.

Well, it's it's stupid, and it really is as far as I'm concerned, and I think you feel the same way. It's really affecting the game, and I think in my perception of the game for sure.

Yeah, well, I mean you're denying opportunities for people that are, you know, in college. You can't be in college your whole life, and I know people try to that aren't athletes. Just just live the college. And it's great. If I could write a check and go back to a weekend of college, what is the number i'd pay it? But at some point you got to be an adult. You gotta grow up, you gotta get a real job. And I just feel like it's it's it's just making a mockery of a system that is well intentioned.

Agreed, Yeah, uh, you're just you're playing the system and that's that's a shame. But it's like you said, it's well intentioned, but who didn't see this coming?

Really?

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