Sterling in for Bill Cunningham -- 11/27/25

Oh where is our Willie? He's absorbing much turkey and tripp to fans and start being in star SHOs like everybody else. Absolutely Stirling and Donnade hanging out beautiful Thanksgiving just after noon, eight after for Bill Conningham. How are you.

I'm good, I'm happy. Thanksgiving.

You do have like a like a big glow of celebration and normally you're a little more mellow. You come in, You're like, I.

Excited to see.

Well.

You know, I love being on air on holidays.

I really do.

When you said you were on from twelve to four, I said, I can't do the full shift, but I will come on from twelve to two today because I always loved growing up the voices of the holiday season. Thanksgiving was a big one. Watch the Macy's Day Parade. Had it on this morning. Watch the Macy's Day Parade. So you get your favorite warning show hosts and radio personalities and everybody that like, it's just a special thing for me.

So yeah, I'm happy to be here. I'm pretty geeked up too, glad to see you. Saw did Jack Crumley's here? Saw Dave Keaton? I think Liam's producing next, So yeah, I mean, we got a lot going on. Ricky Chino was then tagged out. Some people have shorter shows and others course Bengals on the road taking on the Ravens and charm City with Joe Burrow back under center. I'm thankful for the Bengals. Yes, I'm thankful for what was

Look on social media on holidays like this, especially Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter is another heart you know, pull yeah heart strings and everybody is so like lovely and kind and nice for the most part. It's wonderful it is.

And you travel a lot, and this is something We've talked about off the air a good bit and I'm sort of torn on it. When I was flying more and even now when it's just on occasion, it's usually get out of town and have a good time, maybe sometimes to see family and friends elsewhere. I inevitably find myself seating next to someone who is either it hasn't bathed. I don't know. Maybe they're nervous and it just oozes

Yes, I understand, and I do listen. I think I know what you're referring to, because we talked about it a second right before we got on air. US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says, basically.

Americans should do better.

They should dress better, because we're seeing a lot of videos of people fighting on planes, fighting this and that and everything else.

But he has a point.

I actually agree with him, because when you dress better, you look better, you feel better, you act better.

That's just the bottom line. It's true.

I mean, if you remember back in the days where traveling was like.

It was like a reward. It was like, you know, it was like.

Everyone would wear dresses and suits and get it was an occasion to get on a plane and go. And yeah, I think seeing people in their pajamas and slippers is a little it's a little bit of a bummer because yeah, I mean, do better is what he's saying.

And and I think we all.

Can now, but see the required the thing is, though you got to then take off your shoes, You've got to take off your belt. Not everybody has that quick pre check scenario. Then it becomes even slower, it becomes a hassle. And who who was the I don't care if you have it.

Does how convenient does your life have to be?

Sterling?

I mean, we we get door dat, we get food delivery, we get I mean, we don't have to go to the movies to see the biggest hits anymore.

I mean, you know, we get.

Everything at our fingertips. Let's do a little bit better on the dress.

Cod So you're saying that I am not dressed well enough to fly with Donna Dye? Is that what you're saying? I think you look appropriately.

Stand up. Let me see. I did see you.

I wear that I dressed for work. This is a workout, this is a work well looking at my butt, Yeah, it looks good. Done it. I'm just kidding. It's a turkey. But you look perfectly fine. But not to fly the way you're describing it. No Fedora which would protect my ball?

Do if you had a nice blazer on with that and some fun sneaks. What sneakers do you have on, eddiebo Okay? Yeah, if you put some fool cooler sneakers, those are good enough. Those look like hiking shoes, Sterling, They look like hiking shoes. Put some Adidas on with some stripes, and then put a cool jacket on, and you're good.

You're good.

You normally have a pretty good style. But you pick it up a little bit, that's all.

Listen. I mean, I'm already spending money to fly. I'm already gonna have to wait through you know, maybe a layover, a delayed flight. The stinky guy next to me, And now you're telling me, even here, I'm not dressed appropriately.

I was so there.

No, I mean, so I got to wear a blazer, and I understand, but it's it's.

Just cool to look a little bit more proper and then you can set the tone.

It's amazing.

They did a scientific experiment of some they actually it's been done so many times. This woman was dropping boxes all over and she was in this baggy sweatshirt and jacket.

She almost looked like a homeless person.

This really pretty young woman, right, and then nobody helped her. But then she had a dress on and heels and she was dropping these boxes and then everybody came over to help her. There's there's a certain level of respect that you have for yourself that people notice when you. You know, when you get it's not like you have to.

Wear a suit, but you just so. What you're saying is, though, if you dress better, someone's more willing to help you because you figure, oh, you look homeless, like the guy who always sits next to me, I may have like a friend. On one side, I'm always unless I'm up front, which is occasional, rare, uh, And that I'm stuck with a stinky person. They if you dress better, you look better.

Good way, sterling because like if if you if you have somebody that walks in that looks like they've taken care of themselves, that looks like they've dressed well, they took you know, an hour to get ready.

And you know what, yeah, not a pile of laundry.

I mean you uge, like pull My clothes are not wrinkled other than the blazer, though I would be. I would fit into protocol to fly. And you think be respectable enough to not be a part.

Of your cross Sneakers are fine there, you don't have slippers. I'm just saying you can hip it up a little right, right.

All right, So here's the thing. Let's open the phones. It's Thanksgiving. We're thankful you're with us. Wherever you're going, mom's, dad's, grandma's grandpause. Maybe you're on the job like us, whether you're working first responders. I saw some stage troopers on the side of seventy five on the way down. They were working some people might have been in a hurry to go someplace, so they're just trying to slow people down.

Thank you, thank you. Hey.

I'd like to expand this a little bit more too. I'm a I'm a retired registered nurse. And visitors in the hospital. I guess they think the hospital room now is like your hotel room. You know you you you rented the room, I guess. And it was nice during COVID because you know, they really restricted visitation and made life easy for all of us that were working the floor.

But it was a pandemic a different times.

Did they bring their bathrobes and put their sleep.

They bring in picnic lunches. I'll tell you a story. I worked a night shift once and the lady was in there with her daughter and her stepson, and I guess that they had there's no visitors hours anymore. I guess you rent the hotel that you rent the room if you can stay, so you know they were staying in the room all night with the with the mom, I guess. And then I go in here at three o'clock in the morning and I go, where's your daughter and your step son? And she goes, oh, they're in

So a relationship. I don't know what hospital you're talking of. There's some crazies. I've never been in a hospital situation like that. That's crazy. So that's a common place activity or your I mean, is that the irregular or very common.

I don't know.

They I guess they figured it's you just can't greg.

I appreciate the bod. Yeah, he basically was not paying directly. Yeah, so why would they care? Yeah, so what do you do?

I mean, he's right, he's taking it further. I do think that you don't need to be so comfortable. I went to a movie and saw the worst movie I told you, Long Legs with Nick Cage.

Oh it was terrible, but that was a paycheck movie. Oh my gosh.

These people down the aisle from me had pajamas, blankets, and I was like what in the world.

People like to be comfort and I think a lot of people feel like they're just in a bubble and they're kind of like, this is me in my life, in my world. But that's no different than people walking, whether they're on their device or otherwise. People seem to often be in a mode of oblivion when it comes to other people around them.

Oblivious to be comfortable, But get out of your comfort zone when you're out and about and you're mingling with others.

Some ties to fly. I mean showering in a the hospital room. It's not your own. It's just Yeah, that's just opportunistic, is what that is. Some weirdness. They had a weird fetish is what that was going on. And what we did at the hospital was like, no, I don't want to know what you did at the hospital. Did you get healthy? That's what you want to Owensville

Well, I'll leave the hospital out. But when I was a young fellow, when you flew and I'm in my mid sixties, you potentially could die. I mean, you know, so you you wanted to look good.

I mean the queen underwear Mom always told me about exactly.

Yeah, you know, back in the days of prop planes and stuff like that. Good Lord man, you want to look good if you're potentially going to meet the Lord.

You know, if nothing else, it's a good excuse to do a little, a little bit better exactly what we're talking.

Reason, damn it. And people ought to people ought to take more advantage of looking good. I'm the one last thing. The stewardess back when you called them that, I looked at her and I looked at the overhead and I said, is that where you keep the parachutes? And she said, yes, honey, that's where they are, just in case.

Well, I mean they got to get out quick. I mean the rest of us behind. I don't know how often that happens. Rich appreciate the comment. Are you having a good Thanksgiving? You're on the road, what are you doing?

Well?

Actually I just committed the guest of honor to the oven. Ah, so uh you know, we'll be in good shape here.

Very good. Richard appreciate that. Thank you. He might have been basting as we speak. That's multitasking.

Yes, oh, thank.

You've never heard that way of putting it. The guest of honor goes in the oven.

We didn't, and I failed there because I know if it was a turkey bird, if it was a dog.

Well, it is called Turkey Day, so I'm guessing. I'm assuming, but it's turkey today. But you don't eat any turkey.

Yes I do. I eat the faux turkey.

But I mean we have tons of stuff, like you know, mashed potatoes and gravy and stuffing. I made stuffing, and I made cornbread pudding which is gonna be amazing. And my sister makes the greatest sweet potatoes sou flet, and there's there's not a lack of.

Food that I can eat on Thanksgiving.

No guest of honor required, No, you are there will be at.

My nephew's house because half he's gonna he also works with me, and he said, I'm gonna have three vegans, two vegetarians, and a bunch of meat eaters, so it will be an eclectic group of people for Thanksgiving.

That's balance as it should be. Yes, exactly, people you care about five point three seven four nine eight hundred, the big One Sterling, Donna Dee along for your Thanksgiving Chack Crumbley with news. In about seven and a half minutes, we got Liam producing and room for you. Want to know what you're doing this Thanksgiving? Traveling wise, wh you flew home or whatever it is. However you're here, maybe you're working too, because I know it's not just us.

It was no problem, even though Triple A says eighty one point eight million Americans are projected to travel at least fifty miles. I'm going to be one of them because my name, my nephew lives in Springboro.

So you know, that's a little bit of a drive. Ye, a little bit of a drive, but I mean it's huge. That's a lot of people. That's like what fifteen twenty percent of the population A little bit more.

Seventy three million drive in by.

Car, and they said about a million two million maybe on train, but that doesn't affect most of us here.

I guess six million flying.

I mean, you know, it's the long holiday weekend and when you you know, this is a time where you do get to be with your family and friends a.

Little and hopefully you put the fun in the dysfunction in the family. After is any we'll talk on that, we'll talk on side items. Also, some issues with wagering in sports betting that the governor is wanting to adjust. I guess freedom is not always meaning that we're free. That's all I'm gonna say. It's Sterling Donna d Thanksgiving.

Yeah.

I mean, they're not the cutest of animals, but they do have They're very smart.

All birds are real real smart.

Is the rumor that in anybody who knows the turkey would maybe be able to under share this. I remember as a kid my uncle told me the turkeys were not the smartest bird for certain things. That if it's raining and they don't have shelter, they would just like drown by looking up, which I think is crap, because otherwise there'd be no wild turkeys because it rains occasionally in the world and eventually they would just drown. Right, So, I mean, you think they were just messing with me or.

Yeah, I would think that that was like a wives tale.

Oh there was slipe hunting or something.

By the way, a group of turkeys can be called several things, a rafter, a flock, a gaggle, or.

A posse aposse. Let's call them a posse as makes them sound.

Like there wasn't East St. Louis, but it was just Saint Louis.

It was not.

I guess it was a posse. I was just freaked out. Even now I can literally like it takes me right back there because I peripherally I saw him. What the hell's that? And they did not look like the white like bread to be food bird. They were just out there living their turkey lives, which was pretty wild and bread to be food well, because most of the lies that you see that are for production of food. I don't want to go to a scary, bad place, but for a lot of people, because people don't want to

And one of the reasons why I don't indulge.

Now stuffing or dressing, it's it's a different animals literally and figuratively. But if you're not dealing with the bird itself where it's stuffed in, then it's dressing. And you will have dressing at the house. Yeah, I call somefing, but you're right, I mean, you're right.

There is a big difference between it because I'm not, you know, putting it in the cavity of a bird. But I make it and it tastes just as.

You as every Yeah, favorite side item for Thanksgiving it's always going to be.

For me mashed potatoes, but it's and gravy. You gotta have gravy with mashed potatoes. But also, you know, my sister's sweet potato soufle is like nothing, like nothing else. It's so good.

I love it.

What about you?

I do? I mean, I like the meat products some people are for the ham. I like the turkey, but I mean I've I've had the toefurky in the past or something like it. It was okay, I didn't even realize what it was until I was told. Then I was freaked out, and then I was bothered that I was freaked out.

They make it much better now, it's evolved a little bit. The faam meats or whatever. Any unusual sides that you have, because I mean I don't I don't recall any kind of unusual side turnips.

Yeah, there's in any situation. I don't know about safe instance for things. I've never understood the rudebiger, Okay. I also don't understand rhubarb because it looks like celery, but it's sort of pinkish and red and people will make a pie out of it. Yet I don't know anyone who goes I would like a celery.

You got to put strawberries.

My mom used to make strawberry rhubarb pie and it was the best, was so good.

You go for like a pie? Wise, do you like a con pie? Like a pecan is all time favorite, really all time favorite. If you have to choose, you go pumpkin pie? Do you go sweet potato pie, pumpkin pumpkin given a choice, but of course the pecan pie precedes everything. Yeah, that's the number one.

That is Okay, who's cooking at your house?

Nobody tonight because I'm doing this. I'm gonna pick some stuff up. This is all right, I'll tell you. So here's the thing. I have one aunt who is gonna go to her husband's or late husband's side of the family. But there was a health issue, so they're not doing that. They're postponing it. So I'm going on the way home. She doesn't know yet. I'm gonna call and then like bring her some food, if her food, and then tomorrow.

You know?

Okay, yeah, I mean because otherwise what are you gonna do? It's just like the whole day sort of take yeah, yeah, and you know that's all right, and then it gives people other chances to like do their thing or whatever. But there'll be turkey. I think I'm doing turkey stuff. I don't think it'll be like it'll be like a turkey rest and a little bit of dressing, a little bit of mashed potato.

Yeah, of course, I mean the whole kittens.

That you do for Thanksgiving.

By the way, Willie enjoying a nice day off. Hopefully you are too, although there's a lot of people working as well. So that's why Stirling A Donna are here. I said that in third person, which is very weird. I didn't mean to do that. That's why Donna's here, That's why I'm here, That's why all of us are here doing what we do. Five point three seven four nine seven eight hundred. The big one your chance to get interact wondering about your favorite or least favorite side item.

Uh.

My family would try to sneak the giblets, the pieces and parts uh huh into like the gravy or the stuff. Yeah, I'm not a fan. No, if you're gonna do that, give someone a heads up.

It's pretty gross if you think about it.

I know a lot of people like it and they think it adds flavor.

But you can just put some salt in there and you'll be good.

I prefer that. Yeah, sure, I mean is hearts there's a gizzard. Then there's sometimes the kidneys and stuff, and then they'll be the neck and the next is really good if you cook up the next.

Stuff you My mom used to do something with the giblets too, and we would all protest, please please do noting.

It's not just me that makes me feel.

No, none of my family members ever liked it.

And she's French Canadians, so you know she was born she made beef Wellington and she would make all these. She was a great cook and an even better baker, and she would have just like the the little mini Cornish game hens for all of us. We'd all get our own on Thanksgiving. And that's like seven kids plus you know it's at birds. Those are pigmy birds. And I would be like, this is my own mind. I don't have to share it with anybody. It was so cool back then.

Let's talk to Hank real quick and then we'll circle back to the Cornish hen thing, because that nearly made me vegan some years ago. Hey, you're with Sterling and Donnade on seven hundred wlw inn for Willy on this Thanksgiving. Glad you're along. How are you.

Hanging there? I guess, but I hope you hear there, you hear there's a problem with.

The turkeys, right, what's the problem with the turkeys?

They got so much press meat they can't walk anymore. So these food engineers are studying videos of Baywatch and Dolly Parton, see what can be done about it.

Very nice, that's good. I get a few years out of it, and then and then you move on and then try to redeem it.

What what do you call a turkey after Thanksgiving?

Gone?

That meat?

Lucky lucky? Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's a that's a that's a good one, Hank. Thank you real quick. Here side item of choice? And are you a fan of the giblet?

Uh?

Not particularly?

No side item, No giblet. I wish you.

Wish you good Thanksgiving if possible.

Well, I appreciate that. It's better now that you're here. Good to talk to you. So happy Thanksgiving to you. I hope it's a good one.

Thanks.

I appreciate you being along. Hank. Just have that he had no sides, no.

Wanted to give his jokes, and he had two good ones and that was his total intention.

Got to pick your spots. I guess generally speaking, overall.

You know what's good at the every time listen people one of their biggest pastimes during the holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, going to see the movies. You know what's doing really well at the box office.

What's that Wicked too?

Oh?

Yeah, you were telling me off the air because I am. I didn't expect to be like thinking this was something I wanted to see. My mother told me really a whole bit. She was like, oh, you'd love it, you love it, you love it. And she went to see the stage production downtown some years ago, and she said that it was so overwhelming. She has like vertigo problem that she was in that first balcony. She said she felt like she was going to fall over the balcony.

Well.

I was surprised how much I liked the first one. I was on a plane, so I didn't I wasn't, you know, dying to go. I was all dressed up on the plane. I wasn't dying to go see Wicked, because you know, I didn't know that much about it. Man. That story is you know, you've heard the Wizard of Oz and all that stuff. But they put a spin on it where animals were professors at these universities and goats and they all spoke and everything, and so.

I did so that humans are going to the animal university, or is it the animal university?

It's humans were It was humans and animals mixed. It was like a whole other universe where animals were able to speak and educate, and you saw that the demise was coming. They were you know, they were saying, you're an animal, you're this and that, and and so it was the protection of those.

It was very, very good.

And I'm hearing nothing but good things on Wicked, too, So that's cool.

I hope it's good. I mean, if I'm going to go sit in a theater to watch something that's nearly three hours or whatever it is, it better be good or I'm going to sneak out and go across the hall. Have you ever done that?

Yes, of course, you hate a movie and you're like, no, this is not working.

Got to go to the next one. So that's the other. That's the big one that. I mean, people love the holiday movies, any I'm just trying to figure out of all the holiday films that are related to Thanksgiving, I don't know that how how many are really like plane trains and automobiles. I think that was a Thanksgiving Conyes, it was.

One of the biggest Thanksgiving movies ever.

Any other that are just Thanksgiving.

I mean they had that home for the holidays, and I think that was Thanksgiving. Robert Downey Junior was in it. But that was about dysfunctional family whose right and it was kind of a dark comedy. It wasn't like it wasn't given like all this fun family vibe, which everyone really wants. I mean, I think everybody really technically does want to get along with their family members. There's just sometimes it's not the easiest thing to do.

It can be a challenge. So how do you navigate that in this situation, because I mean, can you just set it aside a side from the individual things, because your family and very close friends know what buttons and how to push those buttons exactly. But when you're getting together to have food and some fellowship and togetherness, and to be thankful for all these people in this life that we have. I mean, you would hope that you're not wanting to stir it up in a negative way.

Of the year and put politics aside.

Right That would be my number one piece of advice if somebody. Because I was at this friends giving thing downtown on Tuesday, which was lovely, and somebody started bringing up politics and I'm like, we're having fun.

Why you have to go there?

Because some people will do it deliberately to cause a riff.

When I was younger, I would occasionally like to say something like a depth charge dropped off a navy vessel at sea, I say something, or right here, somebody else say something. Then I would sit.

Back and watch the KOs.

I kind of enjoyed that because you could say, oh, I know this is going to get that one. But I've grown now, I'm not really affect for.

You because they don't want to be that way. And there's almost now there's a point where you can't stop yourself from putting your your A judgments on other people and be your opinions all over people, and if they don't agree, then there's an there's an argument there.

That's what happens.

Yeah, unfortunately, that's not a good recipe for the Thanksgiving dinner table.

No.

You know the other thing that you know, you think about this is like a lot of people may have started a day with Thanksgiving Day race here in Cincinnati, which has gone on for what one hundred and eighteen years I think since nineteen oh seven ones. Yeah, that's my base.

I've done it twice.

You didn't do it today.

I did not know.

And it's brisk so you don't get overheated, which is kind of nice. It's kind of perfect in that type of situation. But then you build up a little hunger, then you go stuff yourself with all those starches I just talked about. I mean it's really a made for the day kind of scenario where there was that the trot for like what five K ten K. I have a car, so I tend to not do these things. I do the short ones. One day.

You walk your dog at least sometimes three five miles.

Easy a day. Yeah right, not bad for a little fifteen pound guy with four short legs. But you know, a good dog is a tired dog. That's what I can tell you, that is for sure. Later James were going to talk Bengals Ravens. They're playing tonight. If you hadn't heard, they're in Baltimore and they had speaking of travel, they were stuck and they had to switch planes. They were supposed to leave like five hours earlier than what they ended up leaving while they were in Wait, what

Yeah, they do. I mean they also have issues with delayed planes and things like that. So yeah, I mean, the only thing you can do is just try and be patient.

That's it.

That's it. And the good news is it's not an early game. It's a late game, prime time kind of scenario. So they can still sleep, get adjusted, and you know, however, they eat and then they come home maybe and have their family Thanksgiving tomorrow or over the weekend. Yeah, I not a bad scenario. So hopefully they're all Okay.

Lots of people work in, lots of sports people working today, lots of broadcasters today.

First responders, first responders. There's some restaurants that are open and doing some food for people picking it up or whatever. I know some people got some stuff from Bob Evans just across the street, so I mean that's kind of nice too, right. And there's other workers. There's hospit urgent cares. I don't know about those, but certainly emergency rooms. And speaking of first responders, I have a cousin up in the Columbus area who's working today, doing his thing. Hopefully

I'm good.

I'm happy to be on air with you today. I'm getting off it too, so forty.

Five minutes, Yeah, I appreciate you coming in for a little while. Then I rolled to All four and the Moe comes up after us Bengals on the roads after spending it in a really ridiculous amount of time for an aircraft to have to be switched out before they got to Baltimore. Got in late, but thankfully it's a primetime Thanksgiving game with Joe Burrow back behind time.

The Bengals played on Thanksgiving.

Dude, I have no one, it was a long I have to look that up. I mean that's a Lance thing like right now, it's just in his role of decks of knowledge right now. Yeah, you take a look at that and see it's been a minute Burrow hasn't.

Well, I mean I kind of agree, because that's why we you know, that's why drinking and driving, their laws against that and and that kind of stuff. Imagine if you know you, let's say you and I were married, Sterling, and we had two kids.

And you had a betting.

Problem, right, Yeah, a gambling issue, and yeah you were taking the money and from our family, and you weren't being one hundred percent honest about it. If there are laws of that type of nature, it's for the family.

So I kind of understand that.

But this is America, and it's unfortunate that this fake family that the two of us would have at this point, with little Sterling and don Ch in fact that somehow and I like how you it wasn't you who had the problem. It would be me and this spectitious make belief situation, and to protect you and the kids from me, the horrible bad choice addicted, I'm chasing that action that I would be the problem.

Uh you could see the writing on the walls. Yeah, it's true, honest about it, Jones. Sometimes you need that action sometimes. But who is the governor or the government to say as long? I mean, why can't I do what I want? Well, that may be up to you, the significant other in the family, who may suffer for the of this, you know, addiction or just a losing streak or whatever.

But I mean that's up to you. If I sat around and just bought video games or books out the wazoo, if you will, to the point of blowing all kinds of money.

Oh, there are shopaholics for sure. I mean, we just talked about Black Friday. There's gonna be a lot of people that drop a lot of coin on that and maybe not even tell the spouse and stuff like that, which is why you need to have your own banks, separate, separate bank accounts exactly for month for bills and stuff, so that you don't get yourself in that kind of situation.

And the government needs to do that. Why is the government in the place to tell us? I mean, it just seems we need people to step in it. It just seems like such an overreach. And I understand people are scared of it and it's a vice and it's an easy thing because there are people who you know, it doesn't go well. But that's again about freedom and choice and liberty and not about a nanny state trying to tell us how to live our lives.

Well, yes, I agree, but there's needs to be some some some laws that we have to abide by in this country. I mean, you know, if somebody keeps getting four or five duys and they haven't.

Learned right, But that's the general public because they're on the road taking a chance on I mean every day, just earlier in the news you hear about somebody else who crashed a car, escaped and ran away, and there's a lot of these runs over like, I mean that that is a serious ongoing for every day in the news, there's it has been yeah, of a pedestrian or a vehicle issue or something. I love the way they're written by the way vehicle, human strike or a person strike.

Because there's a ripple effect. Okay, you take our kids and.

Is out of control.

I'm the one boozing on the couch.

Try we're gonna go play the pony.

But there is exactly.

But I used to know with my uncle, it was a great time. Go to the window. I'd reach up my uncle want to put three on five?

Oh?

We used to go.

We used to go bet highlight in Florida, which was so super fun.

But you know, I would do it once a month or once every six month.

Me.

You know, it's the same thing when I go to Vegas, I'll bet so I luckily do not have a problem with that. But it is a ripple effect in society because guess what that person that's on crack or what you suggested, go and kill yourself in your own house if that's what you want to do.

The buy over indulgence, I don't just mean sounded so bad. By the way, call the hotline about.

That buy over indulgence.

Guess what, he's gonna need money somewhere, and he's gonna go down to the neighbors and the and the people. And it's a ripple effect when you're out of control somebody. If that means that the government can help in terms of like this check ins or you know with your kids, you do you do in home check ins and visits and things like that, there needs to be somebody that can help someone otherwise that person is just going to be wild in the streets.

So you should out. We will people to deal with that themselves, even if it's not somebody else. I understand. Five point three seven four nine, eight hundred The big one. Listen, I know it's Thanksgiving and you want to RELI.

And I are fighting like, no, we're really not.

But it is that we just need food now in the space and a couple of drinks and then we'd really get the way.

That's Thanksgiving absolutely.

Eight hundred The Big when you can talk back the iHeartRadio app. I got the exta feed running at Sterling Radio. You can catch us there Sterling dot donnad dot twenty twenty three on the Instagram, which I think had us with the Christmas tree photos and some other stuff.

Yeah, I did one today too.

Can I just quick tell you remember I googled the iChat ept'd and when the last time the Bengals played. Last time the Bengals played, and that was on the one Giving on Thanksgiving was November twenty fifth, twenty ten, and they played the Jets and lost twenty six to ten. But that was the only Thanksgiving Day they've ever played until today.

It's a monumental experience.

It's a big deal. And we got Joe burrowback, so.

Yeah, we'll see how it goes. He's geeked up to play. Hopefully that toad will do him right, that line will protect him and they'll go at it and a lot.

Of people betting on the games, yeah, will exactly.

So what about this? Should the government then say, you what, no parlays or any other particular method or manner in which to put money on the line in wager. Should it be up to the state. I thought we voted though, but you know what, they did the same thing with the legal weed there you like, you know what, Yes, we don't really think you the public are capable of making decisions for yourself. We're thankful that you're taking part in the process. Know better.

There today.

I just I that's that's the thing, you know. And I like to throw some money around here or there on occasion. I don't think I have a problem with it, uh, but I try to keep it in check. And if I were to get out of control and you know, give away all my money in that situation, then then

And so what do we do with someone like you? As in society? What do we do?

People have been trying to figure that out for years? What do they? Then I become a cautionarytail and a statistic and then you go, don't be like that guy.

But then you're gonna be on government services, and you're gonna not have a family, and you're gonna still be addicted to gambling, and you won't have a job because you won't.

Have America it's your choice. Then you get it together. You see, Tony, our.

Problem, that's what I'm saying. Eventually it will be all of our problem.

I see.

So.

Uh so government's going to be in it no matter what. Wow, that's what I what you're saying. You did go to that place, didn't you.

Let's get Mike and then ed was Sterling and Donnade on this Thanksgiving Glad you're listening to being a part of the show. We're grateful for you being here. Mike, what do you think is the government responsible for protecting us from ourselves with our wagers that they find to be maybe a little bit too much, or is done all right that somebody has to save us?

No, I don't think the government should any say so. It's micromanagement and that's uh, that's you know, they there's ridiculous, there's they don't they may step there and have recovery programs like it. You know, like you said, you know you care how many pizza's gut in the fridge?

You know.

Yeah, So so you're saying it's much you agree with Sterling.

That's I'm all the way, King Sterling.

There one of them.

There, there's gonna be there's gonna be a point where If that's the case, eventually someone will step in anyway, don't.

You agree, Well, you know then that's going to be the people that need to step That could be family, it could be somebody that he knows, some money import to him, somebody that you know, some type of intervention type thing. Not not the government saying that, you know, hey, what are you doing. You're spending your money the way We don't want you to spend your money like, you know what, just this is my money. I'm spending how I want to spend it.

Yeah, and keep the giblets out of the stuff. That's all I'm saying. You got you got a favorite side item mind, or maybe you're a fan of the giblet. I don't get the giblet.

You know, I'm kind of a fan of the pizza. There's a little one dollar thirty minute pizza.

Those are great, they are, they really are. I'm telling you, you just made me smile. I was so excited about that, Mike. I appreciate the call. Man. Thank you all. R Let's get to ed talking about freedom and liberty and a

I agree, the government needs to get out of the way. However, the wine was specifically talking about prop bets, right, and the two Guardian pitchers come to mind, because they were making money. Somebody was making money off them throwing bad pitches. But yeah, the government just needs to just check out. I get where the wine coming from.

But is that an overreachion?

I think it's too intrusive. I mean, I understand they may think the parlay doesn't do well for you, but if somebody want to bet, wants to bet on the most you know, weird things put together in a parlay scenario, it's not necessarily the smartest bed for them. But again it's choice.

I do agree with Ed because the prop bets are the ones where they're seeing the illegal weirdness. Yes, and and and and and get betting on you know, those types of things illegal betting and things like that.

So I get that as much.

So do you think there should be any limit on that? I mean, just you're okay with maybe them pulling out the parlay is an option or I just wonder where it stops. I mean, it's not like we're betting on like, you know, homeless people fighting like bum fights. That would be abusive of the homeless. It's not like we're you know, trying you throwing food out to the home the homeless and the hungary and seeing them battle for some stuffing in turkey legs. That that would be abusive and morally

Well, the thing is is, you know, with the MLB, it's it's you know, they've already proven to be losers. Go back to the black socks and be has already been busted before with the bad reps.

And what have you.

Guy you know saying I'm coming up lame. I got my ten points in or less, and somebody's gonna make money off me. But the NFL, I think, is a little different because those guys, they go out there to want to win the Super Bowl. They go out there put their bodies on the line every week to do what they love to do, and I just I think NFL is a little different.

It might be, you know, I think all those guys maybe want to win and appreciate to call me a happy Thanksgiving. But I mean, whether it's the app on my phone that's legal, or it's the guy in the neighborhood or somebody else that you have like an account with who may not be above board but will take that parlay bet, it's going to be happening anyway. It's just not as easy in quick turnaround as it is in your hand or on your wrist or in your

You don't make it so easy to bet on those bets. That's why you don't make it that. Don't make it a little bit harder.

I mean, you want to talk about gambling, gambling and there's all kinds of weird manipulation and everything that goes with that, and you start talking about bitcoin and the evaluations with that and currency just in general, it's just a different type of gambling. Yeah, hanging on, Josh, we'll get you in just a minute to come. We got time with it, four or five, No, we got we gotta stop, Yeah, we gotta stop. We gotta take care of some things. It's sterling a Donna d and for

Well, I wanted Jack to come on.

They've got like this really cool event they're doing Jacket, And.

Then what happens if he doesn't come? You want me to do it, I'm gonna do it. I could call and we could do it on the air. I don't know if he's listening and the other he's gathering news.

He is working just like we are today, just like many people are today, from flight attendance to airport people, a lot of transportation, bus.

Drivers, ubers and lifts and convenience stores, gas stations, first responders, a cousin who's doing that right now. Hopefully he's bored. That's the good thing. You don't want the first responders to be like so busy that they can't relax. You want him at the firehouse or wherever they are, getting fat and sassy with good food, and then when you need them, they'll be there, not hopped up on the or doped up on the trip to fan. That's the thing that people get with the turkey, is that they

Well?

First off, happy banksgiving guyssgiving nice dumb, fat and happy on turkeys.

And I don't know.

I don't think that the government should be in our business as far as who's gambling, who's doing what? But I see the issue as more of an accessibility issue because if you really think about it, back in the like I'm forty three, but back in the eight these, the nineties, even the two thousands, up until two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, if you really think

Go to these things.

But now with smartphones and technology, you can literally just gamble from your house and never have to leave and never.

Have to do anything.

So I think, yeah, I mean, it can be a miracle, but it's a double edged sword. I think of how many parents have gotten so angry at a kids or have lost so much money because they get on their phone and download a game and then start clicking and game buys that they have to take, and.

Then the mom's out six seven hundred dollars. So I mean, the system is set up, the algorithms are set up to maybe I want more, I want more, I want more.

Well, Josh, I agree with you, and I think that's where dwine is kind of trying to step in. You know that show six hundred My six hundred pound Life. Have you ever watched that?

Yeah?

Right, so, yes, the reason why they're getting bigger and bigger people like that are because they can get food delivery.

I mean if.

They had to get out and get in the car and shop or you.

Know that is that's a great analogy.

Yes, it was a great analogy you were saying.

If you think about it, like, it's the same thing. You're getting the food delivered, you're getting the gambling delivered through your phone.

It's an addicting behavior and people cannot stop themselves.

You can be addicted to a lot of things. Listen, if I'm hungry and they will deliver pizza, are you going to say that because I'm above X amount of weight that the delivery in the neighborhood shouldn't bring.

Me my poes?

Ridiculous?

You should cut off my phone or maybe my metabolism is slow. I mean, who are you to judge?

Judge?

Appreciate the coming, thank you? So I mean it's Josh right in that sense. I mean, I you're asked you, we're both agreeing. But again, listen, regulation is important survival of the fittest, okay, right, I mean to a certain extent. Isn't that what free markets are? Right? I mean, where are the limits on everything else that you shouldn't? We can only invest in certain things, so you have to have a balanced portfolio because things might go in the tank. No,

Right, you know?

Yeah, listen, I can't argue with that point because it's legal gambling. The sock market is for sure, a lot of people are very smart and know how to do it and take longer investments. I mean, you know, so it's not just so immediate in the you know, in the game of today and they all the twenty other parlay you know bets that you can do. Sure, So I mean you can bet on anything now and you can do it today, tomorrow, and sock markets most often longer term and investments hopefully.

But I have a number of friends that's that's what they I know, even when they're on their other job, they're they're making moves during the day. Donna and Sterling hanging out for our Willie this Thanksgiving. Appreciate you being along. Here's where listen. I don't want to sound cold, callous, indifferent or uncaring for those who have an addiction problem or have someone in their lives that have an addiction problem, whether it's gambling or alcohol or drugs or any other

Wow.

So he left his kids in the car parked on the just on the edge there to go wager while I went to grab something out and he was still there when I left pumping money in. One would assume I don't know if he you know, maybe he should have been buying milk or a babysitter for the kids he left outside. And I felt even just thinking about it. I remember it like it was yesterday, and I feel felt sick to my stomach. Then I feel sick to

He cannot feel good about himself about doing that. There is an overriding addiction that happens in a scenario like that, boiling hot, leaving your kids in the car to go make a bet on you know whatever, table, whatever, slot machine, whatever it is. So sometimes people need help, right, and they appreciate the help when somebody steps in, whether it's the government or a friend or a family member or things like that, because how bad must you be down to leave your kids in the car to go back?

Still, see, in as much as I am empathetic and sympathized with the situation and was heartbroken about those kids in the scenario that their dad or whoever was providing them care was in that circumstance, I will say the other side of that is it's an unfirst fortunate thing for them. But who am I or who is the governor or other lawmakers to step in to say that that guy who's had bad judgment. Now, maybe they get

I mean I just because it becomes a very slippery slope. No, I understand the argument I do. I mean, if listen, I don't. I mind my own business most often. But if I walk past someone who's beating an animal or a child, I'm gonna step in.

When you see something, say something, so you know, I feel.

Like it's it's somewhat of our societal obligation to help people that are that down.

Where do you draw the line is that then you go to the heavy The person who has a weight problem, could be glandular, could be depression, could be whatever else they need help clearly, right, so then the government should limit what food they buy or how often they get into the refrigerator to get that food.

I don't think having restrictions on, you know, what what people buy. If you're getting free food from the government, right, well, yeah, you got to have.

A certain amount of fruitilities they think that would.

Be a really good So if you're getting help in assistance from we the people, then there should be some limits obviously into what you can purchase or not purchase. In that situation, you get that, right, yeah, right, And then some people go, well, how are they going to learn to live if they're not getting, you know, the option to make those choices.

I hear what you're saying, but you can't buy alcohol and smokes and all that stuff. You have to buy food, and hopefully they'll make good choices for that and their family and stuff.

And there's nothing wrong.

I think it's important to, you know, help people when they need it. Yeah, but it's also good to give some tough love too and say hey, you shouldn't be you shouldn't be spending all this money. I mean, they flag, that's what's really good. We had the interview with the guy from sportsbook. I can't it was a while ago, but they flag when stuff goes over it, when stuff goes over the top. And I thought that was really really important thing to discuss.

Yeah, I mean, you want to keep a customer for a long time, right, I mean it's like a drug dealer in another way. And I'm not mixing metaphors, but I am in that situation. I've never understood why you would put a poison in a drug that you're trying to sell. You want to keep that customer for a long time, not kill the customer, right, You want that customer to keep coming back, putting money on the line. And that's they build those big casinos, those big facilities

That's right. Most people consider it that way. I do.

Yeah, I mean I'll take five hundred bucks and whatever I lose, it's gone.

I mean, if you're betting for your rent, if you're wagering for your the food or shoes or you know, in lieu of time.

For a job, and that's how you make your money, that's going to be very stressful.

Yeah. But I mean again, that was the dream when all that that hold them stuff was all over the TV some ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, when that first stuff started. I mean me and my friends, a whole lot of us started playing a whole lot of cards, and you started getting illusional, thinking, ah, this is my life. Yeah, I'm doing this.

Yeah.

And then then in my case, I went out there and I was like, I don't know enough.

I'm never gonna make a million dollars.

On this there might be easier just to hit pole.

Exactly what put a dollar in take your chances.

It's tough. Five one, three, seven, four nine, seven, eight hundred, the big one. Look, we're glad you're along. We're thankful that you're here, and we know there's it can be a whole lot of stress. So hopefully you're enjoying the meal, maybe some fellowship. If you're working, we appreciate you being out there doing it just like us. We're on the job. As much as this isn't work, really, I mean this is fun hanging out. No, and I think I'm how

Well I'll be.

Out because I got a head anyway, Yes, I'll come back then.

If we're doing it, well, do whatever you want to do. You're the boss, so we can hang out anyway. It was take a break, we'll come back more Sterling down a D seven hundred wl Oh. Yes here we are just after two two oh seven and fifty six seconds right now for our Willie Bill Cyningham enjoying a nice Thanksgiving day. To be grateful, to be thankful, as Sterling

Oh?

And to you also and all the listeners obviously, but I just thought she'd be amused. You know, there's a lot of knuckleheads out there. There is a holiday, and the dummies really come out in my neighbor who's.

Not born an American.

But I'll leave it at that.

You know, I saw earlier today he had his friar out there is turkey fryar and a nice fresh cocaine. Take problem was it was way back in his garage because you know, it's cold and Wendy, he doesn't want to pay outside.

Now.

See, I don't know what. I don't know about the issue of somebody being from another country, but certainly maybe having that where it's not ventilated. Well, or when I lived in Tennessee and take the back it was New Orleans. The first time I'd ever seen someone deep fry a turkey. I was amazed. However, in the news in New Orleans, where it may or may not have originated, I got to tell you, Rob, there was a guy that is you just described, but did it like in an enclosed

Only well, and this knucklehead, yeah, I don't really care where he's from. That's fine as long as he's paying his taxes. But anyway, yeah, I just Cashley mentioned to him. I said, you know, I do have a fire stinguisher and if you happen to want to sit that down near you, I said, but you've got two young boys, and you're probably gonna let them watch because that's so unique that dad's gonna deep fry of turkey for the first time. I said, Oh, by the way, is it

All frozen.

Oh no, no, no, that's all bad. Yeah, don't do that. You get those ice crystals and it hits that that hot grease, bad things happen. Yeah, that's a public service. You're helping people.

I'm trying to save his two little boys. I don't really care about him all that much.

Wow, this is a Thanksgiving holiday. You're supposed to care about everybody. You're like, I don't care about the guy, just the kids. It's always about the children. I understand. I get it.

Well, I'm just I'm just kind of a redneck, I guess. I Finally I called the local fire department and I said, you know, there's not a fire yet. However, could you have somebody come and struckt this neighbor of mine that he lives in a condominium. Now you're not allowed to have open fires on your deck. We don't recommend you cook inside your girls, and could you please consider doing something else, And he basically starts arguing with the fire chief.

Oh they came by. Oh okay, well that's nice that they swung by, because I don't want to come back later and have it be a cautionary tail in a headline. It's nice that they can.

Yeah, I thought we could kind of cut this one off at the beginning, you know, And he finally even fire the fire assistant chief. I don't think the fire chief's working today, hey, he said, Sir, he said, I'm gonna either need to have the police come by and write your citation or you're gonna get what I'm talking about. So finally, you know, now my better hat's all picked off with me because I've upset the neighbors.

You were trying to help. What I have found is that often my best intentions, every time I try to be nice, it usually turns around and I've screwed something up. So Rob, you're in good company at So there you go.

I mean, I'm an old guy that humanity is not getting any smarter by my observations.

I tell you sometimes you too, I appreciate it. Rob, thank you, And I'm sure your neighbor and time will think about that and go, hey, I appreciate it. And you got to learn. You got to have a plan and get it together. That's why it's good to visit other people's house and they can deal with it and you can leave before the problems start. To Georgetown, enjoy happy Thanksgiving. It's good to talk to you on seven hundred WLW as we sit in here for Willie.

It was us good to talk to you when you was talking about chickens and turkeys. I do not like anything that has feathers on it. I'm eighty seven years old and when I was three, I had a pet chicken and I would run around in the backyard and play with that chicken. And one Sunday afternoon we all I had an older brother and an older sister and we said it dinner table, and my sister said, oh, is that chicken? And my mother said, yes, she had killed my chicken.

Oh no, wanted me to have it for dinner.

Yeah.

That's a hard lesson, isn't it. That's child so ever, since then you're against the bird. You don't want to eat the bird. Because you fell in love and care and you have an understanding that it was eating. So you're a fan of the bird. Yes, so you never eat any chicken. No tenders, no nuggets, no breasts, no legs, no thighs, nothing, no.

Bird nothing, no birds.

Okay, so that's so. Do you have ham? Are you okay with the hog?

Oh?

Yes, we like ham. But we're having roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, nice noodles, coleslaw, punkin pie, and cherry cheesecake.

Man, it sounds like you're living right, Joy, I'm telling you that's pretty good.

See.

I was concerned that you had a phobia, which is or a phobia ornithhobophobia, I believe is how it's pronounced, is in fact a fear of birds, worrying about them attacking. My buddy Brad used to have that, but birds would seek him out. I understand it. You actually care and love the bird you were. You want the birds to live long and prosper.

Oh yes, yes, yes.

Well I appreciate that, and the birds love you too. Joy. We love you have yourself a great thanksgiving. I appreciate your reaching out and enjoy that roast beef.

You too, But don't you eat too much turkey now.

I'll try not to. I'll wait till I get home, otherwise I'll uh. I know the trip to fan will get you. So that's what you get. You get the sleepies, as some people say, sometimes it's just after you you know, you have a couple of cocktails. This is a big cocktail day. Last night, biggest night out, big bar night, big restroom night leading into Thanksgiving, and of course Black

Yeah?

I want to talk to you about the last call or wuldn't anything was said? Yes, I was four years old, grew up with a farm. I had two pet geese. Oh they were big ones, and one year Dad cut them up and served them up for dinner. And ever since then, I have not been able to eat dark meat, but I love anything with white meat on it. Turkey, breast, chicken, breast. I mean this, I just eat the crap hour. But so,

I totally understand it, right, I will I will tell you years ago, and this probably lets a little of the country out in me. Some of my family friend type then growing up, they had what they have, chickens they'd raise, and then they'd have what they called a chicken plucking party, and people would come over and it was a mass extinction situation for their birds. And I remember being a tiny sterling, and I was somewhat traumatized by it, but I had grown beyond the Cornish hen trauma,

So all my dad raised around two hundred chickens and every Sunday it was my job to go out and kill a couple yep. And it was just good eating it is it really is.

I love chicken, but uh, I'd never had a personal and even as I just told that story, I kind of went and I feel bad, like, I mean, it should never be a personal like thing, although it's quite personal for the bird obviously.

Quite possibly. Yeah, I would say, did you cut it snack off? Or did you ring it snack?

I think I started to try to cut it and cutn't And then they showed me what I needed to do to ring it, and yeah it's And I know there are kids maybe in the car now, and that I hope we haven't caused more trauma. I want to be a part of the solution, not the problem. I don't want to hurt our Willie and his ratings, and I don't want to hurt the people. I'm here to help, you know, Rocky, That's what I'm here to do.

Well. I remember when I would used to kill a chicken. I would just pick it up, blatten down on a stump, yep, and I cut its head off. And as soon as you cut their heads off, you get gone real quick, yep, because they start flopping and you'll get blood all over you.

And they do run, they do run. This has gotten too graphic. I'm sure I'm going to get a call. I'm going to get an email. I'll get a text that we don't want to This is supposed to be good times, wholesome times. We love the chickens, we love the birds alive and cook it up real nicely. Rocket. I appreciate the call me and I hope you have a good Thanksgiving. What's your favorite side item before we let you.

Bounce or sure gress?

Oh my grandma used to make oyster dressing. I love that scalloped oysters. Rocky, take care of yourself, man. Thank you for listening to me a part of.

The show, your program, And I hope I find somebody else out there that have some comments on chickens.

There you go, chickens good or a swine? This is great. Frank, you got about two and a half minutes. What do you have? Happy Thanksgiving?

It was.

Frank?

Thanks you, Hey, happy Thanksgiving. He might's gonna slide off to a little different farm an a little bit. Yeah, I've done everything on the chicken ring A neck, all that let it.

Run around the yard and all that chase him down. You gotta get them and you cook them up absolutely. Now the screen says, pig story, you have a swine story.

No, but we grew up a pig that was kicked out from a large letter of big sala.

We named it George.

Oh yeah.

Once he got up to three hundred and fifty pounds, it kept jumping on a car because it slept with the dogs.

Yep, and it thought it was a dog.

That they are amazing and smart. But that that is a big, big hog. And yeah, that's a whole nother thing. I gotta let you bounce on that. I'll just tell you this. My friends have a pig named Larry. He has a hog door. He comes in and out as he wants, I kid you not. And he has like a litter box, I guess a swine box. But he likes to go out and he goes out at will. But he likes he has a We had chops. They invited me over. I thought this was in poor taste.

Everything but the cranberries. I don't go out of my way for the cranberries. Cranberry and vodka. You could twist my arm. But yeah, I think anything pies anything starts in anything protein.

For Yeah, it's a good thing. I'm feeling quite bloated already. The preparation has already been tough. I've gone through two pies in the last two weeks, and mostly by myself. But I digress, and I know that's not why you're here, and I'll have more later. And do you use like the cool whip? Do you use the whipped cream on your pies? Are you a sweet potato or a pumpkin pie guy? Before we get to Bengals.

Talk, Oh pumpkin pie, come on, come.

On, all right. See I like both. They're they're both very good. But there is a distinct love hate thing. People are all one or the other. I'm like an anomaly, which is maybe not surprising.

I don't hate sweet potato pie, but if it's like a good version of this versus a good version of that pumpkin pie clears it for me. Maybe it's just me, you know, the underrated one.

No pecan pie. Pecan Yeah, now see, I don't see. I don't understand the there's the pecan pie, then there's the mince pan pie. Then there's a rhubarb pie, which I don't even it kind of looks like celery at least by shape, but it's not and I don't know what I don't know what that is. And as a kid, I was scared to mince meat because I I was like, there's already meat on the table, Why do I want more in a pie form?

Yeah, that's fair, I didn't say, I said. For college.

I like your response, You're like, that's fair. You're like, I don't even know what to say to that. You've not grown out of a problem.

Well, I'm not eating it. Put it that way, I don't. I don't think. I don't foresee that being something that I'm going to consume today.

No, here's the question. Here are the Bengals swollen bloated? Do they eat a feast before or eat after? How does that work? When they I mean, is a kid growing up, it was always the Lions. It seemed like the Cowboys, the Packers were always playing these Thanksgiving Day games. Bengals getting some love and Joe Burrow back, that's the biggest gift to be thankful for of all. Of course, if they win, yeah, huge.

Huge, huge addition, getting Joe Burrow back, and it's going to matter for sure. To your point, I definitely think it's a a Friday thing and you celebrate with your family if you're really sore from your football game on Thursday night and so Friday afternoon, I think that's when the Bengals will celebrate their Thanksgiving. Look, I uh, it doesn't get much bigger than bringing Joe Burrow back. And we talked about this exact scenario a few days ago and Boil BOYD and I think this is what they

Football, except maybe not just him playing, but connecting with his number one Jamar Chase, who's also back. And so how is that vibe? Has much been said about all of that. I know there was an apology which came after the whole like a blow up for the week. Right, Yeah, I.

Think this is my opinion. No one's told me this, but I think the Bengals are like, yeah, this this situation, we know who Jamar Chase is and Jalen Ramsey is the world's best agitator and well past his prime. And so we're not gonna let well we're not gonna let one action dictate how we feel about Jamar Chase. And by the way, I don't think the Bengals should and I don't think he should either, And so what tonight is, honestly, it is a chance for Jamar to remind everyone who

Talking to. James Rapine, the book entered the Jungle. It's still available, Yeah, I mean, Black Friday's around the corner. You can feel it, right, I mean, are you printing those in the basement? How does that work?

Oh?

Yeah, they're ready to go at Cincinnati Bengals book dot Com. The three also Joe Burrow is back and the book is still here.

Baby, It's a beautiful thing. James Keene with Sterling seven hundred WLW also Cincinnati Bengals talk Lockdown Bengals. He's everywhere Sports Illustrated. So on t Higgins and Trey Henderson, both of those guys not playing, did they make Are they making the trip or is that one of those stay home kind of scenarios on different physical issues for both.

Yeah, I think for Tea, I would be sort of surprised if he made the trip. Maybe he did, I don't know for sure. And part of it is just because it's a concussion, it's a short week and staying back rehabbing it would make sense. And the same thing goes for Trey Hendrickson's Look, they need those guys if they win Thursday there you know, are tonight excuse me, there'll be I'm so used to Thursday versus Sunday. I said Sunday all week.

Well, it's been a weird week, the whole week and then the short one just a couple of days. Then you got to go from one to Joe to another. There's a lot of stuff to keep track of. James I'm not going to hate on you for that.

Yeah, there is. And well, the thing is is last week I was like, well, Joe play Sunday or Thursday, and so I've just kind of categorized him, and now's Thursday, which is tonight. Anyways, I think that it's the stuff. It is. It is Trey Hendrickson. You need it. Like if they handle business tonight, there are going to be people that say, all right, well there's five games left.

Field, no question. Sterling talking to James Ravine Bengals Ravens tonight Thanksgiving, big Turkey legs and a lot of our heads or maybe the oversize the flapper wings. I don't know either, way, a lot of people are going to be paying attention. Kickoff a little bit later six and five. Ravens leading the way in the AFC North, Bengals trying to get a little bit closer somehow to five hundred

They are.

And the guy that really hasn't been himself in recent weeks, and I hesitate to mention him because he always crushes the Bengals is Lamar Jackson. You know, he's been listed with a knee, a toe, an ankle, just different injuries, and the national media has certainly mentioned the fact that he just hasn't been the same guy recently, which naturally sterling you look at it and you're like, well, let

It's a long weekend. James Rapeene enter the Jungle of the book, Cincinnati Bengals talk, YouTube, everywhere else locked on Bengals, Sterling, Big One, Bengals, Ravens, Tonight, injuries. I mean, everybody's dinged up at this point, aside from the ones we've already talked about. With this battle, what do you see? I mean, if they can have a good showing tonight, if Burrow

Got to win six straight, and so if you do that, I think they're going to be in pretty good position where you know, if you look at some of these playoff trackers, if you go six and now, you probably three fourths of the time seventy five percent of the time you get into the playoffs. And so considering they're three and eight, you take those chances all day long. And I will point out that they control some of their own destiny from a they can beat up on

Listen, I have lived better through lowered expectations for most of my career as a human, James Rapine. So you know, when I'm looking at as a Bengals fan, it just fits in tuck as being a born and bred Bengals fan. So I just try to look through it. I'm always hopeful it's a nicety idea of maybe ruining a raven season, maybe a surprise the world, maybe strength and wins along.

Well, I think the last thing is is the one reason why this Bengals offense has been so good over the past six games, five and a half games, but close to six games. When they've been good, they've been able to run the ball. Yeah, and Chase Brown has had one hundred plus yards from scrimmage in five straight games. And so him doing that again, him being involved off taking pressure off of Joe Burrow and running. He averaged five point six yards of carry last week. Doing that

Yeah.

I mean it's been nice to sort of have him shut people up a little bit about his productivity and not being there. We've seen him grow a good bit over the last two seasons. It's been pretty fun. So hopefully they can gel and get it going tonight. Thank you for making time. I am thankful and grateful to know you to loosely use the term friend, and you certainly are a friend of the show as well, So thank you for making time. And hopefully Bengals win tonight. We'll see how it goes later on.

Likewise, Sterling, Happy Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanks, Yeah you too, man, just stay away from the canned cranberries, you know what I mean, the ones that come out with it. It's true. It reminds me as a little kid and flop out onto the table that jiggle a little bit and not in a good way, and then you slice it off a little bit and you get a spoon. It's just I want it real cranberries, cook down and arguably a little booze in it, which I may or may not have already had.

There you go, I'm down for the booze. I'll get some after the game.

That'll be a clip. That's a cut for you. James Rapene is down with the booze. Cincinnati's Bengals talk certainly, Bengals Ravens tonight, James re Peen, Thank you more. Sterling, coming back here Home of the Hood, Day seven hundred WLW basted right, Brian deep Fried. Maybe put in the broiler. I'm not quite sure how you do it. Maybe you have a turkey roll, maybe you had the toe furky.

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It's not time to go to our live remote Man on the scene at the Pinedale Shopping Mall for the big WKRP Turkey giveaway. So take it away, less nest Man.

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You're mad on the scene here at the Pinedale Shopping Center where the excitement is mounting. We've here the witness the big w on ne or Rickey Thanksgiving giveaway.

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What you're blocking my store here?

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I'm less Nessman.

I won the Buckeye newsbuck Award last year.

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I'm sorry, Creek. So far, so good.

I'm here one hundreds of people who have gat it to witness what has been described as perhaps the greatest Turkey event in Thanksgiving data. All we know for sure that in a very few moments they're going to be a lot of happy people out here.

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The crowd is uh, curious, but well behaved. And I think I hear something now, Uh the crowd is moving out into the parking area and oh yes, I can see it now. It's a it's a helicopter and it's coming this way. It's flying something behind it. I can't quite make it out. It's a large banner and it.

Says, uh, heavy things.

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One water site.

A culter seems to be circling the parking area now, I guess it's looking for a place to land. No, something just came out of the mind of the helicopter. It's a dark object or him's a skydiver, humming tot to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. The second to the third no hairshutes yet, can't be skydivers.

I can't judge yet.

What they are.

But oh my god, they're talking. I'm going get this.

Oh they're punching for the earth running.

I just want you to win. Junial part are.

Turn's running around pushing each other.

Oh my jams.

Oh the humanity people are rumming of bombs of the turkeys are hitting the ground like sets of web samans site. I don't know how much longer the patron is running for their lives. I think I'm going to stem in side. I can't stand here and watch this any moments, you know, I can't go in there preaching for their mothers and they hasn't been anything like that.

Part a heart.

I can holdlin division here Johnny.

Last lastly, you're there lasses from there, Thanks for that on the spot.

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Just tuned in the Pinedale Shopping Mall has just been bombed with not Turkey tell Them at eleven.

W KRP in Cincinnati and the Great Turkey Drop. Yeah, we all learned something is a tiny sterling at the time watching that for the first time, I learned that the not all turkeys fly, or at least don't fly that well. And there's a difference between those wild turkeys. Besides the beverage, the consumer bird made to eat one of the best things ever. I find it hard to believe that it would be actually based on something real, but this is a weird real world and who knows.