1-6-24 Gary Jeff Walker Show

Are you tough enough? I would walk ten files on my ten sixties. Ain't not gotabile and they means you are these I wrestl wouldn't lie Amber fifty there, it's my my baby, bus. I don't bass that toughestuf that tough this time, that tough, that tough that time. Oh yes, baby, I wouldn't stiff to see nothing I took for you that you tough to me? Put out about a little with the shovels in their and not you worry about me leading? Is that turn me up? Ain't don't tell

me enough? Tell me enough? Is that turn me off? For twenty four hours, seven days a week, just sold a moment. He's your teeth. I'll love you in the morning, and I'm love you you at June. I'm love you ver. I can take you to the moon. Is that turn it up to us? Tough monny, that happen? If not even a word? I'm not to get a last day, bully, just to have your day to suit me, No question, He's still tough enough at the age of seventy three. Kim Wilson, Happy birthday, lead

man for the Fabulous Thunderbirds. There one of their two huge hits. Tough enough. As we open up on this Saturday morning, the first of the new year, Gary Jeff Walker, checking in, sitting down and getting ready to look ahead. Before we do, though, we'll look back at significant events and people tied to this particular data in history, including but not limited to these. Eighteen thirty eight, Samuel Morris and Alfred Vale gave the first

successful public demonstration of their telegraph in Morristown, New Jersey. Dot dot dash dash, and you know this state. In nineteen twelve, Mexico, New Mexico became the forty seventh state. It's possibly going to become the new state in Mexico. Maybe they'll just take it back the way things are going on our southern border. Who knows. Nineteen forty one FDR, in his State

of the Union address, outlined a goal of four freedoms. Freedom of speech and expression, the freedom of people to worship God in their own way, freedom for want, freedom from fear. At least two of those are good things for the government to keep an eye on year round. Daylight savings time began the United States on a trial basis in nineteen seventy four, part of a fuel saving measure and response to the Opecker's oil embargo. We need to

try that experiment again, just because it makes sense. On January sixth, nineteen eighty two, the truck driver William Boonen convicted in Los Angeles of ten of the freeway killer slains of young men and boys, later convicted of four other killings executed in nineteen ninety six. No longer breathing our air? This is the why me date. January sixth, nineteen ninety four, figure skater Nancy Kerrigan clubbed in the leg by an assailant at Detroit's Cobo Arena. It

wound up being the ex husband of Krigan's rival, Tanya Harding. They went to prison for their roles in the attack, and Harding pleaded guilty to conspiracy. Why me remember sitting watch watching her sitting there in the ice? All right? Two thousand and one, and a unique turn of events, Vice President Al Gore, presiding in his capacity as President of the Senate Congress, formerly certified his rival George W. Bush, the winner of the bitterly contested

and denied by Democrats two thousand presidential election. On January sixth, twenty twenty one. Three years ago, today, an unarmed Air Force veteran, a mother, Ashley Babbitt, murdered in cold blood by a Capitol police officer simply for being inside the Capitol at the so called insurrection. Folks celebrating birthdays today Joey Miskillin of Writers in the Sky, former FBI director Lewis free Jet, Williams, Rowan Atkinson, World Golf Hall of Famer, Nancy Lopez sixty seven

today, Scott Brice singer Kathy Sledge Nigella Lawson has a birthday today. Reed Drummond, you know, I'm happily married, but you know, if things were different and I could do something with her husband, I would marry Reed Drummond in a heartbeat, the food blogger, TV person and Julie Chen has a birthday to day. Danny Pintaro, who's the Boss Fame, former NBA star Gilbert Arenas is forty two, and Kate McKinnon has a birthday to day.

If it's your birthday, oh, it's the best birthday you could possibly imagine. And you get to spend it with the people you love, doing the things you love to do. That is truly my wish for you. It's five forty two Sports and weather coming up on seven hundred WLW. This morning at nine, Mike Allen bites the latest wave of ridiculousness with karate like discipline on seven hundred WLW. Are you a business owner, CEO or responsible for marketing? If you are, I heard media can help you reach your

goals and find new customers. We've own out there are no expected accumulations around the I mean they say as much as an inch and maybe in some extreme cases two inches, but nothing that should restrict your movement. Maybe just a nuisance, not a shoveler, just annoying for people who don't like snow. I personally welcome the first snow of the year with open arms as I sit

and look out the window at the snow globe outside. Five one, three, seven four nine, seven thousand and lovely lady Lynette is right on time baby. How you doing, Lynette? Good morning, darling? You sound well? Is everything good? Yeah? I got my phone working. I can hear this and you sound absolutely wonderful. Thanks to Nick. Like nurses, he got me going. Their phone wouldn't work, so we had to go back to mind. So what exactly what did Nick do? He down

my phone, I can't read to all. Yeah, well that's wonderful. That's absolutely the best news I've heard so far this morning. But we're only about twenty minutes into the show, so it could get better. I don't know. I want to sing a short verstap. I need just a little more Jesus. I need just a little more Jesus I need. I knew the more Jesus help me on my way. I need just a little more Jesus. I need just a little more Jesus. I need just a little

more Jesus help me. Well, we all need a little bit more Jesus. Absolutely, you know, Gary, Jeff, I just realized it's been twenty seven years since I first told you about the tomato and the corn shuck? Remember that first call. I don't know if it's been twenty seven I've only been doing this for about twenty seven years on this on this on this station at this time, so it's it's been a it's been a good twenty five twenty six years anyway, So what was what do you remember about that

conversation, Lynette? I asked, do you have could I grow tomatoes without soul? And you said no? And I said, yeah, and you know, I told you how I did it, and it grew a long, tild tomato and corn checks and water and green bean can. Good. So you grew tomatoes in a green bean can with corn shucks and water.

That's I think that's called I think that's called hydroponics. Well, anyway, I did that, and one day I was having a green day and a heart snap, I broke my tomato and hab it was so tall, like a corn chuck, I mean a stock of corns, and uh it smelled like corns the tomato. And I grabbed it and stuck it back in the ground and it kept growing. Did you ever get any Did you ever get any tomatoes off of it? Yeah? Little it was little cherry tomatoes. Yep, Tommy jes as we used to call him. Yeah, we used

to get them off the fence lines on Locus Street in Warsaw. But I just realized, I remember, I guess the old man when who was able to grow red and yellow cherry tomatoes. Yeah, on ground that grew to the fence line and every year they grew out. So it's kid's big God then eat hands. Yeah, it's like it's like candy off the vine. I love those. I love those. Listen, dear, I love you too. Well. We gotta we gotta run along, all right, go.

I love you. The lovely Lady Lynette Dick's hanging next our Saturday at snow for the morning and then a cloudy afternoon. We'll see a one to two inch snowfall, a high at thirty eight, and then at night partly cloudy, some light snow overnight, a low at thirty four, snow showers early Sunday, and a high at thirty nine. That's the forecast. I'm nine First Warning, Chief Meteorologist Steve Rawleig. A good day starts with a

good morning. Here's Peter. He's very particular in the morning. First coffee with exactly a teaspoon and a quarter of sugar. Then he makes pancakes because his dog Sparky likes that. Then it's Mike connall Tyland. Good morning. Peter counts on Mike for the latest news, weather, traffic, sports, investment, news, and Mike's n a bashed human. Even Sparky gives Mike

McConnell to pause. Up. Got a boy, Mike McConnell. Monday morning, I get five on seven hundred fly the lovely little hamlet of Dayton, Ohio to talk to our picker and grinner in charge in chief, Dick from Dayton. Good morning, Dick. How are you okay? How are you Jary? Jeff? I'm doing just fine. I gotta ask you, Dick, do you think do you think that with Cleveland playing second team players today or tomorrow in Cincinnati at pay Court Stadium, you think the Bengals can finally

beat the Browns? You know? I really I think I do, because you know, the Bengals have lost what three or four? I really think if if I gets a hot hand in the offense, yeah, I think they can play spoilers, but they're going to have the defense is going to have to stop. But see, Dick, there's no spoiling the brown season. They are locked in at the number five seed. They're the Bengals. Losing to the Bengals does not hurt the Cleveland Browns at all except maybe their

pride. Yeah, but I don't know. I started to take the Bengals by three, maybe twenty seven four. Do you know how many times, Dick, you have picked that score? I mean how many? Yeah? I? Oh, geez, too many to count. But I'd have to say, at least in the last three four years when you've been making your Bengals predictions, twenty seven to twenty four has come up a majority of the

time. Yes, so you really like that score. Yeah, but apparently and apparently you like the Bengals. What have you been doing all week? Man? Well, I went back to the Strummers. We had a nice little show that a lot we're missing people there all in Florida. But then I went to a Clifton last night. There was about twelve of us and playing and boy, this one ban Joe guy. He's from Kentucky. He was, Oh, man, there's nobody could play like him. I never

if I'm going to go fast. This guy went fast and we played Oh what was this? Oh he did Foggy Mountain breakdown. Oh geez, that's what we're playing right That's what we're playing right now, is Foggy Mountain Breakdown. That's your that's your theme music, Dick. Yeah. There was a guy and sadly he is going on to glory has passed named Taylor Farley. Taylor Farley was from this area from is actually from Newport area in Kentucky.

Incredible banjo player. I've never seen anybody like him, and I think his son, Taylor Farley Junior is still playing. So I know some pretty pretty good pickers, and you were included in that list because you Thank you. I seen you play mandolin in person. Yes, kid, Oh, I was just gonna say day from Day who came by about two week to tell when he said, we probably you know, for your for your birthday or we've got to get down there, so he said he he would, we

would calm so I I kind of look forward touly. Well, it's always a pleasure to see you whenever we can make that happen. Say good night, Dick, good night, Derek, Jeff all right, we will move on. I don't know who is in little Italy, but if he wants to hold on the line, we'll we'll check him out after the news. Seven w LW. Hey, it's Lance Bacallister to remind you time is running

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more at ultifiber dot com ulta Fiber Elevating Connection. Here is the latest weather forecast from news Radio seven hundred wl job to two inches of snows back to this morning, ending before noon. We'll see melting as the high hits thirty eight overnight mixed possible, low thirty three wintry, mixed possible for your Sunday morning, cloudy later with a high of thirty nine. From your severe weather station, I'm nine First Warning Meteorologist Raven Richard, news Radio seven hundred WLW.

Right now, it's thirty two degrees. Our next update is at six thirty. I'm Whitney Harris, News Radio seven hundred WLW News twenty four hours a day, News Radio seven hundred WLW and awfull. We go into the first official hour of the Saturday morning edition for Saturday, January sixth, twenty twenty four. Gary, Jeff, Welcome by your side. Ready to ride or something like that, seven minutes after the hour, six oh seven Eastern time, that is. And this is just uh, I don't know.

This kind of intrigues me. He's been waiting on the line ever since Dick and Lynette called in the last half hour. And I want to see what is this? Who is this? Hello? Who is that hello? Who is this? A soon of mister bon cameras? U s state. I'm an old time racist, and I understand about this is understand all the seven systems of a car. Brother. I was trained there about bone cameras. I've trained out there at to the most transfer out there in Sainville. And

you talk about some atri said one big itgy goes on out there. Nobody really knows about this guy. They mark well, Mark, Well, it's a fast guy in the damn country. He's uh, that's quite a mile about three twenty three, about three miles. How about that car down? You know what buying about is up in even betting with the biggest stories. He was swinny car up there by the chase and jumps out today about twenty miles hour. Well, listen, I I appreciate the up day, brother.

What in the heck was that I'm not I'm not quite sure, and I usually say what the heck was that? Ever? After this guy is on the air, Dave from Harrison, good morning, How are you, my friend? Good morning? While how are we doing? Happy New Year? Doing fine? What's going? Happy New Year to you? What's going on? You could just want to, you know, try to provide a little lame attempts of humor here if I could that their granddaughter picked out Oh

what are you getting material from your granddaughter? Now? Well in this instance, yeah, well that's I mean, it can't be any worse than the normal problem you you spread on a Saturday morning. So what did your granddaughter pick out for you? Well, Rocky Castelano like this one? But uh, in twenty twenty I didn't do a marathon. Yeah, and I didn't do one in twenty twenty one either, or twenty twenty two or twenty twenty three. So I guess you could say, you know, this is a

running tip that is hilarious. Your granddaughter has, you know, unlike you? All right, are you sure your granddaughter is not adopted? Is is your blood coursing through her veins or not? I mean, do you have any genetic ties to this granddaughter, Yes, all of them? Okay, all right, good so then I don't know one the grandpa he got it and you don't have it? What on? The grandson topped up in the lap there today and ask Pete par can you can you tell me what a

solar eclipse is? And I told her, I said, I told him, I said, no, Sign, that is hilarious. Your grandkids are really funny. You got anything else? Well? Yeah, what did the drummer name their twin daughters? What did the drummer name his twin daughters? Tell me? Oh, well and a one and a two. I love it. What do you what do you call somebody who knows all the words to old lang Sign a liar? Because nobody nobody knows the words stole lang Sign, said Guy Lombardo. Yep, are we are we done? Uh?

Chickens are doing? People are finished? Yeah? Uh? So next Saturday, make sure that you get your material from your grandchildren, because they are far funnier than you could ever imagine being. Thank you, Dave, goodbye Old Radio Rick on the way in just a few minutes at six eleven, And if you're tuning in for the first time and asking what is this show? It hasn't quite been defined yet, but we're coming up in our twenty seventh year, so it's about time we figure it out. Who's the

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could fall to ending on where you are in the tri State. South and

east of the city. Are looking like they're going to get more, at least that was the forecast for today, but that rain snow mix changes to all rain by this afternoon, a high of thirty eight and wash away whatever accumulation of snow you had overnight down to thirty two with another rain snow mix into Sunday morning, and then cloudy as we get into Sunday afternoon for the Bengals, Browns and whatever else you've got planned to hide once again in the

upper thirties Tomorrow and Monday Partley, cloudy and forty two. It is thirty three, seven hundred WLW. Hear that that's the South is radio Gaga. Actually got to enjoy some Gaga. I read once in a while now with

Tony Bennett. I thought she was fantasted. Seven hundred WLW Garry Jeff Walker on this Saturday morning edition coming up on six fourteen, and great to start the new year with an old friend, as an old radio Rick Washburn with a reception reporting here he is now Good morning radio, Rick, Good morning, reporting from what I'm sure is going to be the doghouse in the near future. But it was worth it. What happened? Oh, you played Kim Wilson and Jimmy Vaughan this morning as a lead in, and I had

to crank the radio because the radio is this most incredible thing. It's a nineteen thirty five Pilco two eighty X. It's a fifteen to tube console. Now what year four bands nineteen thirty five, nineteen thirty five And for those who think there's no such thing as a high fidelity radio. In nineteen thirty five, there's this one. Oh man, it's got a twelve inch speaker plus two uh not. I don't know what a cystal clarifier is. I wouldn't look it up. It's like, why are the two speakers with no

wires on them? What's going on? Well, this thing it on the bench. This was a long road because it's just a massive thing. And then all the parts are buried and it's like peeling layers off of pizza, pizza, and then putting them all back together again. But when done on the bench, it just sounded okay, and it's like yeah. But usually you put the speaker in the cabinet and then it, you know, sounds

better because the cabinet will resonate and give it some better tone. And no, it sounded not good, and I say, oh no, And then just happened to stumble upon something in the in the service Manuel, and then I put the little thin cardboard back on it, and this thing now sounds like a concert hall. It has to be because of those other speaker non speaker things. It all has to be sealed up, and it sounds freaking amazing. Does this radio belong to yours? It belonged to someone else and

you're repairing it. I've tried to steal it from this person, convinced him it was lost in a flood, but that didn't work. So then I have to give it back to Tibab and he he's already heard it play, so I've already waited. I'm really not that dishonest man. You have wedded the whistle man? Yeah, I mean, you know there's blood in the water now he's heard at work, And from the way I describing it, Rick, it just sounds an amazing, amazing little little box. I have

the I have the lesser version that doesn't have the acoustic clarifiers. I understand it will sound wonderful if I ever get to my own. But in nineteen thirty five it was two hundred and fifty dollars from your local Filco dealer, a mere fifty eight hundred dollars today, Oh my god, they did half financing. But is one of the funniest things about this radio is that instead of the controls being on the front, they're on the top, underneath a

lid. Okay, and very soon after the radio came out, they changed it and put them back on the front because if you're gonna pay fifty one hundred bucks for a radio, people better know it's a radio. What takes concluded? What what does it look like? I mean does it? Is it a cathedral? Is it a tombstone? What? What? What kind of red? It's a It's a big console that's got a large speaker grill in the center that's almost all the way from the floor to the top,

and then two little speaker grills on either side of it. And it's a very ornate veneer it looks like a world walnut and possibly a walnut veneer on the top. And then it's the center of the top about the middle third that raises up almost like a phonograph cover and locks into place so you can get to the see the dial and to the knobs and so forth. When the lids closed, it looks like a piece of furniture with some grilled cloth

in it. And I think that's why they changed the design, because the later version just looks like a console with the knob and dial on top and the speaker beneath it. Yeah, that sounds cool. You would you would send me a picture of that, wouldn't you of course I will, all right, thank you so much. Happy New Year. It's good to talk to you, hey, same Happy New Year to you. And we got an inch of snow. And there's the other beautiful sound was this morning walking

outside and is perfectly quiet and just hearing the snowflakes. Get Oh I love that. Oh yeah, man, that's that's the best. You know, once you've dealt with it for about a month or so and it's hard to drive and you've got a shovel, then it's a pain in that, you know what. But then that's that first little bit of snowfall, man, is just priceless. It's one of God's gifts. I'm on board right right Old Radio Rick at gmail dot com if you'd like to get in touch with

mister Washburn. He does a fantastic job with the radio. If he can ever find time to get to it. He's got a bench load in a basement full. We'll take a break and come back coming up on nineteen minutes after the hour. Listening to Scott Sloan has convinced me to use toilet paper. People have made some strange claims about the Scott Sloan Show. Listening to Scott Sloane makes me want to jump on a bus and eat beef jerky.

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at snow for the morning and then a cloudy afternoon. We'll see a one to two inch snowfall, a high at thirty eight, and then at night partly cloudy, some light snow overnight, a low of thirty four, snow showers early Sunday, and a high at thirty nine. That's the forecast. I'm nine First Warning Chief Meteorologist Steve Rawley, seven hundred WL Sport. But the last weekend of the NFL season. All kinds of playoff implications to explain

that we have an authority known as Liam Tomlinson. Yes, there's two seeds that are three seeds in the AFC. If the Steelers have what do we say, they have pancakes for the pregame meal and Jacksonville is swallowed by a tsunami and the Colts walk backwards like a duck, then who gets in? Well, that's only if it's less than forty five degrees in Houston. Okay, same till right, All right, Okay, So there's three seeds that are locked in the AFC at the moment, right, the Ravens have clinched

home field advantage in the number one seed. Yes, number two seed can be either be it's the winner of the AFC East, the winner of the Bills Dolphins get the number two seed. But if the Bills lose, there's a chance they don't even make the playoffs. That is wild. I heard

that yesterday and I'm going so the Bills. You know, they touted as a Super Bowl contender before the season and all during the seed and everybody's counting on Josh Allen to perform his magic in between turnovers, and now the Bills could totally miss the playoffs. Yeah. Since Week ten, Stefan Diggs has been like the Fantasy wide receiver fifty four and ever since then they've been on a winning streak. They've won their last four games. That's true, all

right. The number three seeds of Kansas City Chiefs the winners of the AFC West. The number four seed at the moment is the Jacksonville Jaguars. But if they lose, and the winner of the Colts and Texans game, whoever wins that and the Jaguars lose, is now the winner of the AFC South and would be the four seed. The five seeds the Cleveland Browns, and as of now, the six seeds the Buffalo Bills and the seven seeds of

Colts. But if the Steelers win, Buffalo loses, Steelers are in amazing, amazing with really not a solid starting quarterback going for any extended period of time. This year for Pittsburgh and Mike tollin defense wins championship. Absolutely, NFC. What do you got in the NFC? The NFC, I'm trying to figure out the math for the last thirty minutes in the AFC. To be honest, we came into the weekend I mentioned this earlier with still the

last week of the season. Still twenty teams possibly could make the playoffs, the Bengals not being one of them obviously, But the Bengals and Browns do play here and we will have covered starting at nine a m. And kickoff at one from pay Corpse Stadium in the home of the best. Bengals covered seven hundred w l W. This is Coatino Mobley. This is what's trending

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problem called one eight hundred gambler today. Visit guilty dot com to learn more. Which is love Bengals record brought to you a quart by on Core Technologies and your local Ford Dealers on seven hundred WLW, the home of the best Bengals coverage all Right, humanuses a spend with Bengals head coach Zach Taylor, and I would go back two years ago to the Super Bowl and the success that year probably had a lot to do with the team staying healthy throughout the

year and to a lesser degree last year. Would you chalk up injuries as kind of the key reason even beyond Burrow for the run this year, it's suver helpful, But I think this year around the league, there's been a lot of injuries, you know, So we can't sit here and complain about it. You just got to find ways to finish off games and get in the playoffs, and unfortunately this year we weren't able to do it. Burrow

being the obvious situation for the lack of productivity offensively. What about defense and giving up the big play stopping the run? Do you talk that up to injuries or that just wasn't part of the m of this team the last couple of years. Yeah, we just got to do a better job, you know, better job eliminate some of those explosive plays. And and I did think when win team's got in the red zone, our defense is a great

job creating turnovers and them in the field goals. And uh, but that's something you know, just overall as a team, we weren't good enough this year and we got to be much better going into this offseason. Next training camp has a lot to play for this Sunday with the Browns number one a winning season and number two getting a win in the division. And uh, you say, the the players are up for this. This is not a

phone it end game, No, not at all. You know, We've we've had a great day of practice so far, and it just feels better to win, you know, so you can win any reason you want. It's really, at the end of the day, it just feels a lot better to win than to lose. And we put in a lot of work over the last year, over the last six month, strain games started and ow it to the fans, o it to ourselves, you know, to to end the season on a good note. All right, So obviously the

season ends on Sunday. At what point do you get back to work looking at next year? Do you actually go back to work next week or do you give it a break for a week or two. Yeah, we give it a break for a week or two. You know, we've we've been going every day since July twenty fifth, and uh so it's it's it'd be time to spend some time with the family and refresh and then get back to

work on personnel stuff and start getting ready for the off season. So the Browns arresting a few players, as we know, where do you expect to find headaches coming your way from Cleveland? Well, it's unknown, you know who's gonna play or not. So you get to prepare for all the players and we'll go from there. But again, it's this requires our best effort. They've been a good team this year and find a way to win the game. And we have two Pro Bowl players, Hendrickson and Jamar have made

it question, do you watch the Pro Bowl? No? I don't even I know what the Pro Bowl is anymore. It's still meaningful to be selected, There's no question about that. I'm not sure where it actually takes place once they go there, but I know those guys are proud they earned it, and I'm really happy for them because they deserve that recognition. All right, Well, so the last one. Good touching base with you a week to week this year, and we'll do it again next season, thank you

very much. With a constantly changing landscape of technology, it's important to stay ahead of the game. Look for some precipitation today, rain and snow mixed in a possible inch or two of snow. This morning, I I have a thirty eight tonight low near thirty four, and then tomorrow chance of snow then rain for the Bengals game with a high of thirty eight degrees. Right now in Cincinnati, we have some precipitation across the tri State thirty three degrees.

Right now, I'm Sandy Collins. Next update at seven on news Radio seven hundred WI News twenty four hours a day, News Radio seven hundred WLW. I'm toasting you. Sit hon, we made me through. You never care me. Come bays. Gotta have some friends in low places on a

Saturday morning. Let's travel eastward my friends. Out of Cincinnati, out of Hamilton County, through Claremont County, right past Utopia into how now Brown County and the loveliest little village on the River Ripley, Ohio, a place called Brookie Saloon. Elam, I need your help. We're going to conference. He's in. I've got Darren on the line. Good morning, Brookie, how are you doing? Good morning morning, And and the Green Hornet and

Matt Miller. There is someone who is noticeably absent this morning, and we have him on the telephone line too, Doug Boonton, Hello, are you there? I'm here. Well, you sound perfectly You sound perfectly fine. How come you're not with the rest of your crew? Could it? Could it be? Could it be that you're still recovering from New Year's even the syndicate. It took you all week and you're still not right yet? Is that the Is that the reason. No, no, I got a little

old old man disease going on here for a little bit. But we're getting over it all right. Well, it's it's good to hear you up and listening to the radio. Anyway, Even if you're not participating in person, you're still here on the line. You're with us in spirit, and that's all that matters. Hornet. What's going on with the weather this morning? Oh, the weather. It's pretty wet out there. It's a miserable morning. And I guess we're going to get some snow maybe a little bit later.

I don't know. Beaver's got his hoodie on, soaring a hoodie, Brookie, You got anything, Brookie, you got anything cooking? For the first weekend of the new year there at Brookies in Ripley. We got to quite a heart's drawling and it's up to seventy five thousand dollars. Jump change jee, I'll take you tonight. A small small band out of Manchester. What really really good. What's the name of the band again? Honey, hush honey, hu Yeah, yeah, very very cool, very cool.

So anyway, and you'll have you'll have all you know, you got nice big TVs in that place, and you'll have all the playoff games on and everything else. So or the the last week of the NFL season Browns and Bengals tomorrow, I should get two fifty beer anymore? Well, how about that? I don't know if that's legal. I don't know if that's legal. No, you know what, we have two fifty domestics absolutely were the only It's it's always good to hear from you, folks. Is Matt Miller

already half in the bag? I mean it's a little late for him to start, because usually he begins drinking in about five or five thirty. How's he, Matt? How are you doing? I'm a half cup date a half cup da. Well, guys, enjoy the weekend, and Doug, please feel better. I'm trying all right. So it wasn't thank you guys. We'll talk to the guys at Brookies later next week, I guess.

And they're off and it's time to go away. Thank you. Six thirty eight at seven hundred WLW Steve from Eton, Ohio with a pissyphone call on the way in mere moments on this Saturday morning on seven hundred WLW seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati, available everywhere with the iHeartRadio app down number one for podcasting seven hundred WLW and iHeartRadio station. Are you a business owner, CEO or

responsible for marketing? If you are, I heard b geographically within the tri State, and my guess, and from what I've heard from the official forecasters, is if you were south and east of the city of Cincinnati, you get more. Maybe maybe not. What I saw yesterday was like a loop that ran from the west side all the way south into Kentucky and then up up the east side where the heaviest snow belts would be, but no major accumulations. And again that snow mix is going to turn to all rain here

later on this morning into this afternoon. A high of thirty eight degrees tomorrow after some rain snow mix in the morning, cloudy in the afternoon, and a high again in the upper thirties. It is thirty three at seven hundred WLW. Seven hundred WLW sports not only football, but lots of college hoops. It's the heart of the season and conference schedules are really cracking up now. Liam Tomlinson to tell you more. Yeah, thanks for the college basketball

love. Me and Austin Elmore were discussing, he said basketball season doesn't start toll after the Super Bowl, and I think that's outrageous. We're in the prime of it right now. Kentucky opens conference play on the road Verse ten and three, Florida. Lillam, Liam, Yeah, you can give the scores, but Austin's right, go ahead, what Kentucky opens conference play on the road Verse ten and three, Florida. This game can be heard on

ESPN fifteen to thirty. Pre game covered starts at twelve tip off except for twelve thirty. The eleven and two Cincinnati Bearcats are on the road in Provo, Utah to face its full ranked BYU Cougars. Today marks the first Big Twelve Conference game for the Bearcats. That's a late night game, ten pm tip off time, you know. And you mentioned eleven and two. Most of those eleven wins were against junior high teams. I mean it's hard to

win, man. You gotta win. That's all that matters. And it's going to and it's going to get it immeasurably tougher now that they're in the Big twelve Conference. We got all kinds of NFL football today. Yeah, two games today. First, Steelers in Baltimore to face the Ravens backups. But I mean Tyler Huntley has a lot of experience, so as underdogs, they still might be able to pull it out. That game is set for

four point thirty. The Ravens win then keep the Steelers out of the playoff picture, and there's a big time primetime NFL game tonight c J Stroud, first time he hasn't played in the one o'clock spot all year. They traveled Indianapolis to face division rival Colts. Both teams have a chance to win the AFC South with a win here in a Jaguars loss, and the winner of this game clinches a playoff berth and who was the quarterback for the Cleveland Browns

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or wherever you listen to podcasts. Six Liamo was telling me about his his other job serving and he has to tip out at the end of his shift to help the other people who help make the magic happen wherever he's working. He asked me if I ever have to tip out at huddles, and I said no, just just to my wife, who gets half right off the

top and then decides what she's going to let me keep. After that, six forty six, Little Inside Baseball on a Saturday morning on seven under WLW Gary Jeff with our friend Steve from Etna, Ohio and News of the week. Good morning, Gary Jeff, Hey, listen, Sorry, I called up right after the six o'clock news. I hadn't had my coffee yet. Okay, okay, that's for those of you who didn't join the show until too late socialist Democrats continue to be mystified this week by the definition of words.

On top of Supreme Court Justice Jackson not knowing what a woman is, we now have the newly ex president of Harvard not knowing the definition of plagiarism or more simply stealing. That's either ignorance of the fact that she has no scruples or both. But like the ex president of the University of Pennsylvania, she still has her Phony Bologni professorship, eight hundred and seventy nine thousand dollars a year, multimillion dollar pension, free healthcare for life, the obligatory parking

space, and the constitutionally sanctioned right to yell racism. If anyone thinks she'd cheated to get where she is today, boy, crime does pay. But Americans have decided we could live with this as long as we have sports. And there's also Jeopardy. Wow, what a franchise that is. Love to watch that. There's regular Jeopardy, there's College Jeopardy, Celebrity Jeopardy, and I'm betting soon there will be Jeopardy for jub Moakes. Here's how this will

go down. With the affable Ken Jennings as your host, and our first three players the aforementioned Claudine Gay of HARVD Corin John Pierre in Washington, DC, along with Congress AOC there being no definition of women in DC, it's Congress thing now. AOC this week dropped the word stochastic into a DIA tribe on something or other, and it was immediately picked up by an Internet supporter of that gay intern who got caught pounding the gabble on another day in the

Senate cloak room. Thank you, drum roll please, Here's the script for the first game of Jeopardy for jumb Oaks. Claudine, I'll take whose words anyway? Ken for nine hundred thousand Inflation has hit Jeopardy also Ken eighteen sixty three, four score and seven years ago. Claudine, what is me Ken? I'm sorry you misunderstood it wasn't I am not a crook? Nineteen seventy four Ken Kareein John Pierre opposites for five hundred thousand Ken? Ken your clue

pronoun? Corin? What is Adie Nown? Ken? Wrong? But you check three boxes so you get another turn? Carinn pronoun? How about amateur noun? Ken? Sorry? And man, you are dumb even for a White House Press secretary, but you could still be the president of Harvard. God can come on, AOC, Ken, I'll take synonyms for one hundred thousand Ken to conjecture or guess AOC, what is existential? Can know it's stochastic? AOC. I thought the category with sins guessing is not a sin.

Actually nothing is a sin in Washington, DC. If you're a Democrat, can no? I said synonyms? You existential idiot? What are you the next White House Press secretary? God can take a pill, AOC. You're just guessing. I'm an that's existential and you're a racist? Ken? No, the word is stochastic and it was no guess on my part. We'll be back with Final Jeopardy just as soon as I could dig up Alex Trebek, so I can blow this popsicle stand. Well, that was it.

Security stepped in and you know took over. Okay, big news out of Las Vegas, Nevada. Vegas Raider gets flagged for sacking judge Oh my god, thirty year old theobra Redden, a career criminal, illegally sacked Judge Judy. Somebody was bound to after she had the temerity to sentence the black defendant in a battery case. You'll recall that former Steelers coach Chuck Nole once

referred to the Raiders players as the criminal element. Some of those players were black, so that was racist, and Chuck is no longer the Steelers, although I don't know if that has anything to do with it. Naturally, as a penitent white person, I do support mister Redden. I assume that mister Redden, who is a really big guy, is a defensive end for the Raiders. I'd rate this sack. Did you see the picture of that leap, Oh my god, leaping head first over the bar, pummeling the

judge and several others as the best sack of the year. And we've got some pretty good defensive ends here are the Bengals excellent form. Although since he was technically in what we parents call time out, the play was over and I think that's roughing the passer after the whistle and he'll probably be held out of the Raiders Sunday game, but since they aren't going anywhere either, no big loss for Reddin. He has also missed a practice session in court later

this week. I can't believe you did show up. Redden, who played for Gaza Tech in the Middle East, could be charged, could be charged with insurrection, which is defined I do know the definition of words as violence against authority. That could get have kicked off the ballot for the Hall of Fame. This is of course outrageous since the vote would be taken away from we fans. We're going to appeal to the Supreme Court. Stay tuned.

Let's see what Boeger says about this on the eight o'clock Sports Report. This just in far less, please please decorum in court. Far left Nike officials have amazingly announced they are no longer donating money, stock, and shoes to Harvard University. It has nothing to do with the anti Jewish, anti Israel hatred encouraged by the Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts school touched it off was catching disgraced former president but still on the faculty. Con Woman Gay selling Nike knockoff

shoes on Harvard Square during her three hour lunch break. This is outrageous. Gary Jeff, I don't know what's happening to this dog dunk country back to you that that was as good as it gets. Steve fromtt In Ohio with a pithy a certainly pithier than pithy phone call of the week to take a break and come back. I'm sorry, Hello, Brooksy, They're finally awakened South Day six fifty five in the morning. Fine, gee, I wish I could sleep in, but then I wouldn't get a chance to be with

you here. I can't do my show from home like the big stars like Ken and Mike, McConnell and Willie. But that being said, Liam and I were having discussion early and Liam, if you got a moment to strap on the headphones. I wanted to continue this on air because I thought it was It was instructive for me, because I had no idea that when we

heard the International Star Registry commercial that you actually were into that. You know, where you pay to have a star named after someone and it's a big gift, and there's a presentation and they've got, you know, the declaration from I don't know, the Library of Congress or whatever, and a star is named after you. Do you have stars named after you? I'm invested in twenty six and about to be twenty seven stars at the moment. Well, how how in the world is at an investment. Well, I'm gonna

sell them off, I think in thirty years. I think it's better than gold to sell these stars. I think if I invest in these stars early, you know, buy loves, sell high, I think it's a great money making up to who is going to buy your stars from you? And for what reason would they purchase said stars? I mean stars a valuable asset. Who wouldn't want to own a star? Is the question I'm trying to think of. Head. You don't make money doing things people have already done,

you know, all right? Well, I mean I guess there's a possibility if there are you know, planets that support life around these stars, if these stars hold some kind of value other than just twinkling in the sky in the Milky Way or some other galaxy. I can understand how someone might think there is an intrinsic value to the stars, But I don't. I

don't think it's a wise investment on your part. If I buy enough stars, I might be able to sell those and then buy the Sun. And if I buy the Sun, I own our own solar system in a way. You know, it's chestnut checkers, Okay, on several levels, yes, it is well, that's wonderful, and I hope it all. I hope it pans out for you, I really do. I just didn't see any big future in buying stars from the International Star Registry. Now have you

named all twenty six stars? I go buy numbers at the moment until something really clicks in my head. Usually, since I invest off all my gambling winnings, I kind of stew it after those mascots. So you think it's a wiser bet to buy a star and name it than it is to pick a parlay this weekend in the NFL. Well, once I take Kentucky money line, then they win. The next tour will be the Wildcats of course.

Well you've explained it better than anybody ever has ever since the International Star Registry came out decades ago, and I've got to rethink some investment decisions. I appreciated news coming up in just a moment. So how are things family? Good? Yeah? Yeah, we're doing well. Hey we missed you at the game last week? Is everything all right? I am? I just haven't a film like me really, you know, I'm here for you, right and their support too. That's a cut. Beautiful fellas, beautiful

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I hope it's gonna be and I pray it's going to be a good year for all of us, you include, yes, even you, and we'll see it's it's a blank canvas right now. We know one thing. It is a wonderful word. Environmental engineer Steve Shulty. I see trees seven green red, I see it in blue following you, and I think to myself, what a wonder beautiful blue marble God has gifted us with. It's just

fine, thank you. Uh, let's get to Steve Shilty. And there's all kinds of hypocrisy in the green climate crisis crowd, and it's rearing its head once again in the form of one Taylor Swift to talk about that and more again. Mister Schulty, how are you, as always heard? Jeff? Great, Happy new year to you and yours. So what's going on? You got something something going on with that line? Man? Do you hear that that squeak in the background? Where are you? I'm in a

car. Ah Is that better? That's fine? So where are you traveling. If I can be nosey enough to ask, I'm in front of Saint Anne's Church and the beautiful prospect, ready for our Saturday morning for fellowship. So that's where I am. Oh fantastic. Okay, you were talking about Taylor Swift and the real twenty twenty three wildfires report. I didn't follow this story. I didn't follow this story at also refresh my memory. What did

Taylor Swift say? And well, it's not what she was. What Taylor Swift has said that she's very, very concerned about man made catastrophic climate change. Okay, However, you know she travels around in this jet. This jet emits more carbon for those who care, than your average American car does in the entire lifetime of the car owner. And last year she took more

than two hundred trips. So obviously, according to car to Taylor Swift, it is your car carry Jeff that's causing man made catastrophic climate change, not her jet. Okay, so that's where the hippocrisy goes. The other thing I got regarding wildfires, and again we're trying to advocate scientific education, not in doctrination. This comes again from the Heartlinstitute Climate Change Weekly number four ninety two, which was issued yes yesterday at heartland dot org headline wildfires well below

seasonal average. So this is from our own National Interagency Fire Center reports that the acreage lost the wildfires last year in twenty twenty three was less than forty percent of the average acres lost annually for the previous ten years. In fact, the amount lost in last year was the lowest of nineteen ninety eight twenty

five years of so called global warming. Ago of the sharp droft is contributed to well above average precip that's ring for those in vevas in California, Northwest Pacific, and the Mountain West, where the wildfire is typically uh prevalent. Another factor or suppressing the wildfires out in the West was cooler than average temperatures in the wildfire prone regions. Well, I mean, that's just that's the

thing. When there is a massive wildfire, the media jumps on it like it's the first time there's ever been a wildfire fire in these areas, which is not true at all. Number one and number two, Uh, they they conveniently leave out the facts of the average that that you're giving me. The averages over the years of wildfires. There can be a particularly hot season and more wildfires, and then there are less. And it has very little

to do with if any man made contribution to the atmosphere. In fact, as we've talked about many times before, because of the higher CO two and because of the slightly warm temperatures that we've experienced over the last and thirty years or so, whatever the cause, NASA satellites continue to show that the Earth is getting greener on net and more green. Earth is great for plants, is great for insects, it's great for animals, and it's great for humans.

Yes, but of course humans you meant all kinds of carbon dioxide when they breathe. We've got to get rid of the humans. I think that is their main push is to get rid of us, because, as we like to say, Steve Well, if humans of the problem, please you go first. Thank you. And Taylor Swift and her private jet John Kerry, see it doesn't apply to them because they have a high Your purpose, Taylor to make billions of dollars in John Kerry to to show the world is

lurch costume. It's the final game of the season. The eight and eighth. Bengals are look good to end their season with a winning record. Incredible Cats. To do it, they have to beat the playoff bound Brown the second effort get the Bango touchdown those sack Taylor's men pull off the interstate win's down. Get the goal Live from Dan Horde and De Lapa. Coverage begins tomorrow morning at nine on seven hundred WLW, the home of the best Bengos

coverage. The climate has definitely changed this morning, a rain snow mixed as much as two inches could accumulate before it's all done around noon or so here in the Cincinnati area. Then the rain comes in and washes whatever white stuff was on the ground away or high Today thirty eight overnight down to about freezing and Sunday will start with that rain snow mix agan and then mostly cloudy skies

on high once again in the upper thirties. In this week's Marketers Report, Chris Brand, Chief marketing Officer it Chapotlin Mexican Grill weighs in on the power of audio. A man who makes a living making people's bodies talk. Rocco Costelano on the line, Uh, you know, Rocco and I are going to be talking about extensively about flooride in our water supply on Tuesday's Nightcap. Just a preview, if you would, Rocco, of what we're going to

be covering. So, uh, just a really quick thing. There was a lawsuit by the floor eighte Action Network that was against the EPA, and we're going to talk about the uh the here a research paper that was being it was being uh, let's say, not told to the general public and all the bad things that fluoride actually does to the brain. Well it's it's supposed to make your teeth white and healthy. Yeah. Yeah, that's a

bunch of bs. So I never get into it Tuesday. I never knew there was a fluoride Action Network. Oh yeah, yeah, well there's a few. There's a few organizations for the past twenty years. Actually, we've been trying to get well and I'm part of that, you know, for twenty years. And what's really funny is that, you know, people discounted fluoride, discounted the bad things against florid because guys like Alex Jones was Togo.

We're talking about how bad floride was and by putting it in the water, how they were trying to uh, you know, to make us uh stupid stupid. Okay, well I'll look forward to that. Roco. Have a great weekend, brother, Yeah, thank you, all right. Rococostellano trained with Rocco dot Com. Time out for the Tom Davis diyries. I like to refer to these as a divy oh yeah, with wild and wacky stories from around the world and around the country. Here is the aforementioned Tom

Davis. Good morning, Gary, Jeff. This week a teacher breaking records without cracking open a book. But first you probably heard about the pig and the drive through and inan earlier this week that's near Springfield, workers and customers both were caught up in the chaos of a portly pig plowing his way through the drive through. He was eventually taken away by animal control before anybody got hurt. There's no word on what he ordered. There's nothing like the efficiency

of government workers. A letter that was originally sent back in nineteen forty three just arrived last week. Actually, though it was the crack staff at the Decalb, Illinois Post Office who were responsible for ultimately delivering the letter after it was found the people was addressed to actually died, but the postal worker there did some digging and hand delivered it to surviving family members. Nice, a teacher in South Carolina, is now in the Guinness Book of World Records for

creating the world's longest candy rapper chain. Elizabeth Allen has spent years tying together over ten thousand Starburst rappers, and now that she's a world record holder, her starburst chain raps proudly around her classroom. And finally, we usually like to highlight a dysfunctional couple or two, and this week is no different. A woman who wishes to remain an anonymus says that she was dumped via text

because of her so called odd cooking habits. You see, this lady likes to put corn and her spaghetti and she made this delightful dish for her new man without telling him, and he was so mad, so disgusted, he stopped out of her apartment, went home, and proceeded the dumper. But since she's posting the story online, a lot of people say they're willing to try the corn. Next week. Somebody made a seventeen hundred pounds chocolate moose and the shape of a cow have a great weekend. When do you like

to listen to Scott's Loan? I listened when I'm cooking cabbage. That's interesting. I listened to his podcast when my wife wants to make love. I bet she likes it. I listen when I'm supposed to be on a conference call. That'll show the boss. I like to listen to his show while I'm lanscaping. Do you really I listen while I perform colonoscopies. Dope. I guess anytime is the right time for Sloaney. That's what we've been saying.

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at thirty nine. That's the forecast. I'm nine First Warning Chief Meteorologist Steve Rawley, seven one hundred a WLW Sports the first weekend of the new year, and we're on the eve of the College Football National Championship Monday night. Michigan versus Washington, number one versus number two. Wy even had the college football playoffs, they Kulder just went straight to number one versu number two. You're BCS had it right. So what time's that kick? Is that like

eight twenty or nine o'clock seven thirty? That's an early one. I feel like usually they like making it late for the East Coasters. Believe we'll probably have that game on ESPN fifteen thirty. Is that correct? Yeah, we will have that game on ESPN fany tomorrow on seven hundred WLW, the home

of the best Bengals coverage. The Bengals final game of the season. Bengals close it out at home, looking to get their first division win of the twenty twenty three twenty twenty four season, hopefully to go out on a high note, finish the year with the winning season. Pregame coverage starts early at nine am kick off e sept for one and catch all the action right here on seven hundred WLW Home in the Best Bengals. That's the wrap of the

Bengals season. But today there is a double header in the NFL. Yeah, Steelers travel to Baltimore, win and win and hoping to get into the playoffs today. They've been fighting it all year with a three quarterback starting and they look to getting the play make some magic happen in the night game is what I'm excited for. CJ. Stroud's first primetime game. I know Ohio State fans are excited to watch him clinch a playoff spot with the win and

possibly win the AFC South with a win and a Jaguars loss. There against the Colts at eight o'clock UK and you see basketball both kicking off their conference schedules today and more on that as we continue. It's seven twenty two at seven hundred WLW Jeff Wilerhonda dot Com. As a mom, comforting my family is what I do best. Vix paper stick provides soothing no midigated ViXS papers. The Bengals Update brought to you in part by Rounse American Grilled on seven

hundred WLW, the home of the best Bengals coverage. Hi, Tony Pike. From your perspective of the biggest difference in this year the lack of success this year as compared to the last two burrow being the obvious. What comes after that, Well, the defense. You know, the defense this year has been so underwhelming. Their last in the NFL in big plays given up, So they give up chunk plays. They tried to rely on turnovers and for a while they got that, but you cannot have your backbone of your

defense be well, we're going to force turnovers in the red zone. So they had the bend, but don't break. They got gassed this year with those big plays. And then I look on the offensive side of the ball, this team is dead last in the NFL and rushing, I mean, I don't care who's back there a quarterback when you're not able to get any type of running game established, it makes it very hard to be a quarterback

at any level. So the defense have big plays given up, and the inability to run the ball on the offensive side of the ball have contributed a big ways. Was the inability to run more of the line or a combination of the line and the premiere back. It feels like they have backs in place, and it feels like at times that this offense is set up to be more of a run first team. The under center they saw some success with Jake Browning. I think it's all of the above. I think they

there's still a little boys away on the offensive line. I don't think they have the explosive threat as a running back one right now. I think Chase Brown can be that, but I don't think that's Joe Mixon at this point. So it is I think a lot of different things go into that. So as far as the lack of being competitive within the division, was that, do you think the Bengals were too complacent while others improved? I don't think so. I think that they truly did think that the roster was good

enough to go win a Super Bowl. And I think there's a lot of people that saw that, and the more the season played out, I don't think that was the case. You look at how other teams are built in the Baltimore Ravens and they are missing guys due to injury. Ak Dobbins, Mark Andrews, and right now Baltimore is the best team in the NFL.

Cleveland has been decimated by injuries and have found ways to get wins. The Pittsburgh Steelers Mike Tomlin seventeen straight years now without a losing season under Mike Tomlin. So a lot of different variables that play in but I do genuinely think that not just here in Cincinnati, on a national level, this roster was viewed as a Super Bowl roster, and when Joe Burrow went down, you could tell very quickly that it just wasn't the roster that many thought it was.

Yeah, all right, we got ron Tony Pike's been a real pleasure. I'm sure I'm more for you than for me. I will do it again next time time. Likely take it easy, yes, sir, andding Before noon, we'll see melting as the high hits thirty eight overnight mixed possible low thirty three wintrey mix possible for your Sunday morning, cloudy later with a high of thirty nine. From your severe weather station, I'm nine first Warning

Meteorologist Raven Richard, News Radio seven hundred WLW. It's a rainbow of colors on the radar right now in southeast Indiana and Ohio looks like mostly some light snow. And then when you get down into Cincinnati. In northern Kentucky, you've got some light rain, heavier rain down by Richmond and south of Frankfort. Right now thirty three degrees is Radio seven hundred WLW. Next update at eight, I'm Sandy Collins News Radio seven hundred WLW News twenty four hours a

day. He was a Radio seven hundred W l W. Birthday bits, big hits and some interesting twists and turns. This week on Rock and Roll Archaeology on seven hundred W l W one threw a party in the count in jail, the prison the land. Jan John began to swing Mashana has enough down damp beadsing that was fine in that room, never mine and almost help to tail out s fine amount of play and the saxophone, little Joey blowing

on the side. Trombone from a father of elinor with crash boom bank whole rather set you want the purple game that ro that was fly to that room. Everybody is normoseep the tail. Now I'm on the seventh at the mahumber three. You look you the jail bird I ever did see, shall be lighted with your pomp from me. Come on to do the jail line. Rival. It'll be that that fine man is no more then the jail house.

Whenever Elvis moved his hips. Baby, we're rocking this morning. Go back to the king side side was settling on the block and ston't we're over in the corner weeping and on the one said, anybody, don't you beat no squall, we can't find a pardon to use the wood and tell that roll have everybody, And on the sail that's to take around sid hender sat in the bogs for heaven's sake. The one's looking down and just to bake or break mother, turn to sit to downy sat next next I wanna stingle

around the water again, my kicken. Okay, so this Monday, coming Monday, we're celebrating Elvis's eighty ninth birthday. We have to celebrate because he's not around to do it. But Elvis Aaron Presley, had he gotten pasted all of the drugs and the weight problems and whatever it was that killed him, would have been eighty nine this coming Monday to talk about that and much more. The music professor Jim Lebarbara, that was my wife's favorite Elvis song.

That's why we played that particular one. Jim, what you got for us on on EP? Yeah, well can I say that now? That was a number one record for seven weeks Dalehouse Rock, one of my most identifiable songs. And just listen to the way you played that that first, that first intro six seconds. That that intro six seconds, and that six second pattern repeats itself throughout that song. DJ Fontana with the drumser and that that was a firm musical hook to remain the envy of songwriters all over the

world to this day. The son very interesting man. That was number one record, giant record for Elvis, and Lieber and Stolen wrote it. They locked the publisher at the publishing house, locked him in the room and said, you guys, because they were in New York for a whole week drinking and part so we need songs. So he walked in the room and took him five hours. That came out with four songs, and that was one

of them. Now, the movie, actually the title, the working title for the movie goes to the chance they got that song, and obviously that was the choice. Okay, bring a change. The change the movie titled jail House Rock. But I say, if you listen to the lyrics, it's unbelievable. Now we're going back to nineteen fifty seven. You're the you

know, uh, here's a game romance. I mean, when he's talking about the inmate number forty seven telling number three, you're the cutest gelboard I ever did see homophobic line in nineteen fifty seven, it's amazing there is yet that got past the centers. And then right after that he goes into Scotty Moore's explosive guitar solo. So it's just amazing. But that record, you know, to this day you hear it and it's you know, it's Elvis. It's Elvis. Incredible, no question. Up next to a number one

record from Paul and Hart, Yeah, number one this week. In nineteen sixty six, Paul Simon and Garfunkle came out of the album the first cut them an album. They did, that little folk album they did Wednesday Morning, three Am. It's Stiffed. It's sold about three thousand copies. And they broke up. They split, They went their separate ways. Paul went

to England and Karfunk went back to school. And a producer at Columbia Records, Tom Wilson, decides to add augment this with some musical instruments, and then the thing takes off and Idiot's number one and they're not together. They get back together quickly and it becomes this giant million sellar and the duo was born. And it's the simplicity if you listen to it, of the melody and the words useful. There was the problem, the communication problem, lack

of the communication one man with another man. And it resonated with millions of people, largely, I think because of the simple and singable melody. But the opening Gary Jeff, the opening line, Hello darkness, my old friend. Now, that came from Paul Simon's remembering as a boy when he would sing in the bathroom and he'd shut the lights off, sing in the bathroom, and he would enjoyed the acoustics from the tiles that provided this wonderful do

wop rebird sound, and that's how this thing all came about. He was twenty one years old when he wrote it. I never knew the significance of that opening line until you just told me. Proph. Let's listen to Simon and Garfunk. Hello darkness, myle friend. I've come to talk with you again because a vision softly creeping left his seas while I was sleeping, and the vision that was planted in my ring stealings, in the sound of silence and the restless tunes. I walked over thus streets of co song, buy

lot of Street. I turned my collar to the cold and dam when my eyes were spared by the flask shoving me online, stripping the cushions, sound son and number Babel song. Ten thousand people, maybe more people talking without sleeping, people hearing about name, people writing songs. Bad voice is never share, no wonder stud the sound silent, and said, I do not know silence. Side with Pencer Roll. Here my words that I might beat

you. Take my arms at how I beat you? Put my words like sided and of silence umber people about the bad doing, the young god they made. I'm a side by adding it's the morning him a word that it was more the sign said the words of the province on the subway. Wold oh Sien oh so so Classic seven forty three Rock and Roll Archaeology on a Saturday morning edition on seven hundred w l W with the music professor Jim Lebarbara.

I tell you what, prop Let me just play the start of this and we'll explain what this is. So Jim, tell me what this is. Is this a Chipmunks record that I never heard before? It is a joke. This is absolutely a joke that never should have been released. The four seasons that they go into the studio, they're gonna do a whole album consisting all of the Bob Dylan songs. Okay, now, this is the song not sing twice. It's all right that Peter Paula Mary had a hit

with two years earlier, and uh thanky thanky Valley can't can't. He's not satisfied in the song as he's singing it doesn't like it, so he decides it's a joke to break everybody up. But he sings this crazy, weird, false set of sound that you just heard, and that reduces attention in the studio, they're all laughing, I have a good time, and an executive of Phillips Records is passing by the studio. He hears it and says, I like that. I like that, So he releases it as a

single. And what they did was when it came out the radio stations. It came out late nineteen sixty five and then peaked in late late sixty five. In early sixty six, it was still on the charts, but they sold it. It came out with a connected Dots to Sleep, had a connect the Dots puzzle, and then it's a truncated name done thing twice and then on the label it said the wonder Who with a big question mark.

And so this thing takes off and becomes a hit. And at the same time, this song is on the charts in the upper half of the charts, Frankie Valley as a solo record, You're going to hurt yourself, and the Four Seasons record or come My Way Back to You. So here they have the Fourth Season have on the upper half of the charts three simultaneous hit records with the same group under different names. Uh, the joke became a

hit. Well, let's let's listen. Let's listen to Bob Dylan's original Just a piece of that Limb, If you would please marked you sitting Wanda? Why beib? I mean you don't know body now and I didn't know you sit in Wanda? Why be he don't have a do somehow? When you rooster crows at the break a don look at you and name I be gone. You're the reason I've been traveling. But don't sing christ all it's rock and roll archaeology. And we move along to a number another number one song

this week, Jim. Yeah, well it's just actually Chris Stine's birthday yesterday, it was, but it was at number one song. But yeah, Christine, number one record, number one record. In nineteen eighty, gigantic kid Chris Stein found this group Pick and put this group together, Angel and the Snake. They changed the name to Blondie, and then that came about because comments made by truck drivers who would cat call hey Blondie as his girlfriend,

Debbie Harry would be walking in the street. So they came up the name Blondie now Debbie Harry, and they were romantically involved, Debbie and Christine, and they were most of the Blondie songs, but not this one.

This is the song was a cover song originally recorded by a Jamaican vocal group called the Paragons in nineteen sixty seven, and they got ahold of the song and did their styles to what they wanted to actually want to get a group called the dis Group over in England the Specials that were into this music to be background singers, and they turned them down. Interesting thing that, so

this takes off completely different than what they were normally doing. John Lennon, Sean Lennon, John Lennon's son, told a great story about this His dad. I knew Dad had this old Willitser ten fifteen bubbler jukebox in the game room with their house in Long Island, and it was filled with forty five So Sean said it must be alos, he said an everly Brother songs.

But the one modern song that he remembers as a little kid listening to it was the Tide Is High by Blondie, out which John Lennon played constantly. Said, and when I hear that song, I see my dad unshaved and his hair pulled back into a ponytail, dancing to and throw in a worn out pair of the denim shortz and me at his feet, trying to my best to coordinate my tiny little limbs. So a great visual of John Leonard dancing to this song. Yeah, from John Lennon's Last Year on Earth nineteen

eighty Here's Blondie. Happy birthday, Chris Stein. This week seven l The tide is, I have an aumble. I'm gonna be not the ones, not the kind of like that. Oh no, it's not going to do that. Jees and boot my bed. Let it go the way to do the things you should do, truse me. I'm not the kind of like that. Oh no, the tide is, I have an amble. I'm gonna be no lef we go she oh man, but I'll wait the year. It is not the kind of girl is out. My dad is swinging

and swinging with Blondie on a Saturday morning. I'm seven hundred w l W went the music professor jim La Barbara. Uh. That was interesting story about John Lennon having this on his Wurlitzer jukebox and son Sean watching his dad jam out to this. That's that's a great story. So now we have the King of the soundtracks, in fact, there was a there was a time in the eighties where if there was a big movie coming out, this guy

was contracted to do the theme for the soundtrack. I mean it happened on more than a few occasions, but this was the first big launch for this guy as the king of the soundtracks. Talk about this last record, Jim you great. Kenny Loggins would celebrate a birthday. Kenny Loggins would celebrated birthday tomorrow, seventy six years old. He and I was talking. They said, well, how did you get into writing songs and play the guitar?

And he told me he went to Catholic school, Okay, and so by the time he was a junior in high school, he had very few girlfriends that even knew. He said, I didn't know how to talk to them. They seem like creatures foreign planet to me. So in a way to get to know them better, he started writing songs and singing. And he

said, if you play guitar, you get invited the parties. And then half he said, the problem is I'm at the party, I'm spending most of my time singing and playing that most you know, I didn't meet that many people anyway, So he becomes this singer songwriter, and then the songs get recorded by the Nittigodie Dirk Band in nineteen seventy and that really opens the

door for him. Then he does that stuff with Loggins in the scene that they cut like seven albums are terrific, and then he starts writing music for his soundtrack, says stars Born. You mentioned the footloose, of course, and this one, this one, this was the song that he wrote.

It was the theme for the movie Caddy Shack. And he plays this song at the beginning and the end of the film, and the song is associated with the golpher who is battling the over eager and slightly the range crazy groundskeeper Bill Murray, Bill Murray Yeah, and he blows up most of the golf course in an attempt to kill the creature gopher. And then after the blast, we see the gopher coming out, emerging, smiling, safe and found

and dancing to the song. And Kenny Logins wrote this song. Eddie Money was recording in the studio right next to his and he convinced him to sing a line in the song that's him in the background. Any Money, He's singing, you make me feel good? But he's not credited, and so every money was not really a big family in later years of Kenny Loggins, he was upset over to that. Now now when Loggins, if you listen

to it, launches back in the course. Part way through this song he studied, he stutters on the lyrics singing I'm all right, which was an accident. He actually misjudged the entrance to come back in in the arrangement he had. It was that he messed up. He delayed that entrance, and he forgot that when he was doing the lead vocal when they recorded it, and then he's a mistake. And then he remembered when the mamas and papas

did the same thing as similar club and I saw her again. He kept it in and it became this number one record in nineteen eighty from from Kennyheck Kenny Loggin. Happy birthday, Kenny Loggins seventy six tomorrow and thank you, professor, another great rock and roll archaeology this morning. Thank you. Uh oh, no bad? What about me? I ain't got to give me bye? You can't to just me me? I don't know better? What about me? You've got to give me bye? I don't want to just

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twenty four. I'm Gary, Jeff Walker, you or you and that is perfectly fine with me and my friends. I've been looking forward to this one just because I have some specifics to ask our next guest, science Mike, get right to it. A Science minute coming up. Yes, but as a nightly scientist who's been surprising, Itell blinded me with oh yes, for

the first time in decades. Uh, we have a NASSA spacecraft who flew past Io, which is one of the moons on Jupiter, known as the most volcanic body that we know of in our solar system, and maybe science Mike has information on that. But but did you see any of the new images, Mike. I saw the It flew like within like thirty or forty miles from the surface, and it was they could see the uh, just the the volcanic the plumes coming out and everything. Yeah, it's crazy.

Yeah, it's really really cool, really really cool. So anyway, what's on your plate this morning? So this is we're going to involve the I heard your discussion with Liam this morning on his star investment. Yes, the International Star Registry, he claims is an investment for the future. He is, he's already bought and named twenty six stars and he plans to sell later. Well, I think I have an investment opportunity. I'll get to that at the end here. But this is about star naming and the scene.

And when the Apollo missions UH were going on, they had their eternal, their guidance system, which was a gyroscope system, and occasionally when they were going on their mission that the gyroscope would drift a little bit, so they had thirty seven stars that they would actually they could they could lock onto to

re calibrate the guidance system. Okay, So when then Paula was going on getting ready to go on Apollo one the Griffith Observatory out in la they asked the Apollo one mission team, which was headed by Gus Grissom, and we all know what happened with the Pola one, but he asked him for the list of the thirty seven stars. So he said, share, I'll give

you a list. Well, he gave him the list, the names of the thirty seven stars, but he renamed three of them and just for fun, so he renamed them the Nazis, which is the second the word second backward, which is related to Ed White being second in command, and Navvy, which is Ivan which is Chris Gussums Gus Christms middle name. And the third one was Regor, which is Robert Roger Chaffie Roger backwards. So he

gave those three names to the to the correspondent with the griff observatory. And actually these three names they got onto this they're actually stars, the real stars. They but they got the names that they that Gus gave the list to. They were actually on star charts and in UH in the sixties and seventies, and he actually went up in the ninety three. So I'm still having

ninety three. So my point is to Liam, if you can find some of those star charts with those three names on it, you might you might have some investment opportunity, because what you currently got you got nothing. Give me the three names again. Give me the three names again, Mike, I give you the three names. It's the Nazis, d n Well second backwards, Ivan backwards, and Roger backwards. So that's easier to say it that way. I had no idea, so see, yeah, I didn't

either. I mean, I'm just going to go out the next clear night and just start naming things that I see. And I don't think there's no resale value an the stars, So I don't know where did you hear that, liamb there's no resale value in the selling of star names. I hope he's paying attention. Wake up? Not yet? All right, Happy New Year, Happy New Year to you, Michael, Thank you very much. I go look at some of those images of Io again. Seven hundred WLW.

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Light of Mine. I'm going to let it shine, mister, light of Mine. I'm gonna let it shine it, shine it shine shine. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Eight fifteen on a Saturday, and brother Rick Green, good morning, Good morning, Gary. I woke up praying for you and your listeners and oh my god, Giry, I got a good one today. Okay. We're from Romance, chapter twelve, verse two Romano and it said, do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to

test and approve God's good will is good, pleasing and perfect will. I love that, Gary. Well, it's a reminder to all of us who believe anyway that don't get caught up in what's the world and what the world does because it's it's not it's not as real as the Holy Spirit and uh and God himself. So you yeah, you're right. There's a lot of phony around and we get sucked in sometimes and it's easy, Gary, it's easy to get caught out. Yeah, and to thinking that this is it

the end all, be all, and God it ain't even close. Oh no, God is it me? And you know that, Gary, Yes, sir, yes, sir. Well, thank you so much, Brother Rick, Happy New Year and I hope it's a great new year for you and your family. Thank you and have a blessed day. How is the How is the little one fitting in? She's doing great? Gary. She reminded me what sixty years old fell like. Gary, I'm tired. I'm hired, lover. How old is Serenity? She's three, she'll be four

in April. Gosh, you guys took on a nice challenge with that one. And I'm praying for you. Oh go, I'm today, I mean tomorrow will be an awesome day. She's being dedicated to the Lord tomorrow at our church. Praise God. Thanks rendy dedication. You're welcome. All right, Rick Green with us from Spirit Works Cincinnati. Take a break and come back seven under WLW This morning at nine, Mike Allen goes full thor and

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hoops, A conference play getting underway for some local fabs. Yeah, the eleven and two Cincinnati Bearcats are on the road in Provo tonight ten pm tip right here on seven hundred WLW. They're facing the twelfth rank Cougar's in their first Big twelve conference basketball game. And did UK getting into conference play in the SEC. Yeah, Cats big opening game on the road in floor at Florida. That game can be heard on ESPN fifteen thirty and tip off is

set for twelve thirty. Pregame covered starts at twelve. College Football's finale on Monday night, Michigan Washington, number one, number two, just like we had all along. What's the point of the playoff? As I said earlier, BCS had it right. Kickoff is set for seven thirty. I don't know how really it's going to be at seven thirty, you know, with National championship games in Super Bowl, but that's the schedule time for the kick

it's in. The championship game is in Houston. I'm excited. It should be a great game. ESPN fifteen thirty will have the coverage on that. And we got double header NFL Action today, Huge games, huge two games with playoff implications. The Steelers face the Ravens in Baltimore today at four thirty.

Would you like to hear every scenario? I hear every single scenario possible how the Steelers can clinch a playoff birth Pittsburgh win plus Buffalo loss or Pittsburgh win plus Jacksonville loss or tie, or Pittsburgh win plus in Houston, Indianapolis tie or Pittsburgh tie plus Jacksonville loss plus Houston Indianapolis doesn't end in tie or Jacksonville loss plus Denver win plus Houston Indianapolis doesn't end in a tie. What so just win to start whiskey tango fox trat man. Okay, So the

NFC playoff scenarios, what happens there? San Francisco has clinched the number one seed and the number two seed. If Dallas wins, they are the number two seed. The Cowboys. They have the tiebreaker over the Eagles, so they have to win the three seeds. The Lions win, they have the has already secured at least a three seeds. The NFC North champions. But the NFC South is a battle. Tampa is the divisional leader right now, and the eight and eight. The Saints are at eight and eight and they're

outside looking in. But the Falcons are seven and nine, and they can clinch the NFC South title with a win plus a Tampa loss. Unbelievable. So they would clinch the NFC South with an eight and nine record, Yes, because the Saints would also be eight and nine and Tampa would be eight and nine. I got you all right, Well, thank you very much, it's clear as mud. Thanks for doing the research. Brother, I appreciate it. Well, we'll talk. We'll talk more about this, I'm

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Things yet to be answered concerning the teams that were heavily involved in twenty twenty three, specifically in the NFL. But the college basketball is starting conference play, and that includes, of course, the UC Bearcats on the road in Provo, Utah to play BYU, the twelfth ranked team in the country, their first of their Big Twelve conference schedule. Moe Egger is here, Hey, Mo, what's going on? Yes, you didn't make the trip to Provo? I did not? Well, I mean, what's the deal?

Only Dan Horde gets to go to exotic locales like that. You know, I've hit my quota of Utah churts this year. I went for the NIT and I went for the football game, and so I've I've hit my number. Didn't have to go. Oh okay, I didn't know it was your choice. I thought maybe they just they just ran out of travel budget money and said, no, Mo, you got this. We can't afford the plane tickets. Stay home. No comment. So, uh is the the seven foot are going to play? I know that he came to practice this

week after a long absence, been out since the Dayton game. I can't pronounce his name because I'm just not that good, you know what I'm talking about. I mean, it's these bandigo. It's okay, not all that difficult. Yes, you don't, I don't. You don't have the same struggles I do. Most so don't be judgmental anyway. Trust me, when when it comes time to the tennis tournament week, I I lose my mind

having to pronounce some of those names. Uh, he did practice. I think it's going to be, as we say, a game time decision. They could certainly use them, uh, But I think the bigger issue for the Bearcat signed against the Yu is running b YU shooters off the three point line. This is the best outside shooting team in the country. And you talked about them being ranked twelfth in the AP Top twenty five pole. They're actually number four in the NCAA NET rankings, number two and the ken Pom

rankings. They they could use as these bandego because they need rim protection, they need quality bigs. But I think this game is going to be decided by how the Bearcats stop or try to stop attempt to stop BYU's outside shooting. I heard Wes Miller in a press conference leading up to this game just

gushing about BYU shooting, and you know that's what he said. It's all about the three point shot with this team, and they are lights out when it comes to the unless you, like you said, run them off the line or or you know, have it even with a hand in their face. They're probably pretty dangerous. They are. And I think the scary thing is if you saw Cincinnati's last game against Evansville, there's sort of a poor man's version of BYU with the way they run their offense. And in the

first half of that game, Purple Lations did whatever they wanted offensively. Now the second half, the Becats defended much much better and superior athleticism took over. But you know, it's I've said this a few times this week. I think folks who maybe don't follow college basketball as a whole, you know, they they know UC's moved to the Big Twelve, and they know, okay, well, the Big Twelve has Kansas. Kansas is really good.

Well. BYU's outstanding, and if you look at Cincinnati's first six games in the Big Twelve, it's BYU, Texas, Baylor, Oklahoma, TCU, and then Kansas. Those six teams are ranked in the top forty of you know what the NCAA uses to help determine who makes the tournament in seeding the

net rankings. They're among the forty most efficient teams in college basketball. This is going to be just the first six games, an absolute gauntlet, and I think folks who pay attention tonight will find out how good this BYU team is. Bearcats are going to have to play their best game of the season by far to even have a chance to win. Meanwhile, mister Liam Tomlinson in my producer's seat here is just crowing about the UK Wildcats. They kick

off their conference play against Florida and UK. I mean, how good are they? How good can they be? They're good? You know I was talking me being a native of Kentucky, you know, with all my relatives who are UK fans, was having a conversation the other night and I said, I think the way the team has put together because of their guard play, it's their best chance they've had in years to make a good March run. I put them a rung below you know, Purdue and Arizona and Yukon.

They're not in matt Echelon. But you know, look, I think what Room's over Kentucky is the final fours route, right, haven't been one since twenty fifteen. And that's it's not the most fair way to judge a program, right, It just it isn't. But you know that's if you look at the standard. John Caliperry said his first five years, they go

to the NCAA Tournament. Every year. They go to the final four in twenty eleven, twenty twelve, twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, they nearly go on defeated in twenty fifteen, and since they lost in the final four to

Wisconsin almost nine years ago, they haven't been back. I don't know if this team is good enough to do that, but I think with the exception of the twenty twenty team they had, which obviously didn't get a chance to play in the NCAA Tournament, I think this team represents their best chance to make a good March run since maybe twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen. And I

know they may be elite in twenty nineteen and lost to Auburn. I think this team certainly in the backboard has a chance to be even better than that. Looking ahead to the rest of twenty twenty four and the Red season Pitchers and Catchers report February fifteenth, and goodyear, Arizona. This this latest signing the pitcher from the Yankees who's coming off a year which obviously didn't he didn't throw. He threw like three innings last season. How good is he and

does he markedly improve the Reds pitching staff. I struggle with this because I think, first of all, Frankie montass is his name. He gets a one year contract with an option for twenty twenty five for sixteen million dollars.

I think that is just reflective of how the pitching market has exploded. Right If Frankie Montas, who threw in one game at the end of the season last year, is going to get that kind of coin, then it just it makes you wonder what a guy like Blake Smell is going to get, who is yet unsigned, who's awesome, and who's terrific last year for the San Diego Padres. So I think the Reds just you look at it and go, oh god, you know what they paid that kind of money for

a guy who didn't barely pitch last year. That's just the reality of what it costs to try to get even vote remotely decent pitching. I put it this way, I think the Reds this offseason have raised their floor. I'm not sure how significantly they have raised their ceiling. And I think you're being fair if you go okay as a whole. There's a lot of really good

young talent. The organization is clearly moving in the right direction. But if the idea of this season is to get to the playoffs and win the World Series, can you rips gonna go out there and pitch six seven innings and we're going to win that night. Frankie Montas, it has a quality resume, but he's made thirty starts in the season once in his career. He's

pitched over one hundred and fifty innings once in his career. Now, if if by the end of the year you look at Frankie Montas and he's our fifth starter, boy, that means Hunter Green state healthy and was really good, and Graham Ashcraft stayed healthy and was really good, and Andrew Abbott took a major step forward, and Nick Lodolo stayed healthy and was really really good,

and each of those things can happen. I'm not sure the odds are in favor of all of those things happening, and so I'm a little I'm optimistic. I don't share the overwhelming optimistic that I think everybody else does, because I just I don't know that Frankie Montas makes a staff look. The injury history and inexperience on this starting staff outweighs what the starting staff collectively has accomplished, and until that equation reverses, I think there's always going to be

some very fair skepticism about their chances this year to do something special. Big games today and all this weekend in the NFL. And I don't remember last year the last week of the NFL season being so impactful on playoff positions and whether teams make playoffs or not. There's a lot up in the air this weekend. MO and I understand that if the Steelers have pancakes for a pregame meal and Jacksonville and Jacksonville is swallowed by a giant tsunami and the Colts can

avoid hookers, then somebody's in. I'm not sure. Yeah, I think that's the exact playoff formula. You nailed it. You know, it's funny. Obviously the Bengals aren't playing for anything as it relates to playoff positioning. But you know, at the end of the year it got to be so confusing, I think for some folks wondering who you root for, who you

root against. But it's remarkable the Steelers go into today with a chance to make a postseason I don't think anybody would have thought that three weeks ago, and yet Mason Rudolph has helped them get to a point where if they win, they could very well be playing next week. They're gonna be playing a Baltimore team that has no reason to play. It's players of consequence and so significant edge to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Jacksonville we'll see if they have Trevor Lawrence

in their game. You know, they say it's decision that could be made right up until just before kickoff. He's got a shoulder issues. So yeah. There are a lot of impactful games. I think the most interesting one though, is the last game of the weekend Miami and Buffalo for the AFC East title. Because the winner of that game is going to be the two seed. There is a chance that the Buffalo Bills might not even make the

postseason if they don't win the game. I think you can make a case that the Bills are the second most dangerous team in the AFC, and yet they might not even be in the postseason. If you look at Las Vegas odds to make the Super Bowl right now, Buffalo is They're behind Baltimore. Baltimore is the odds on favorite. Buffalo's odds are better than anybody else's and they haven't even yet clinched the postseason. Birth they're in Miami. They throttle

the Dolphins earlier this year. Miami has all sorts of injury issues. They were pummeled by the Ravens last week. So the season is going to end with the division championship game, and based on what else happened around the league, it could be a game that the Bills need to win just to make the postseason. Well, you mentioned the Baltimore Ravens, which again have nothing to play for at this point. They've clenched the home field advantage number one

seed in the AFC. I think, and I have said this now for about a month, even before the first game during the regular season, that I believe in my heart of hearts it's going to be the Baltimore Ravens versus the San Francisco forty nine Ers in Super Bowl fifty eight. And I think the Ravens are going to win. And I think furthermore that John Harbro's brother Jim is going to bring the national championship back to Michigan. Harbrough brothers will

share championship trophies at the end of all of this. What do you think of that prediction? Very plausible? You know, I think I think it's hard if you want to sift through all the NFL teams to allies and come up with the most likely Super Bowl combination. I don't know how you don't say Baltimore San Francisco. And it really does feel like the forty nine Ers

are just head and shoulders above and beyond everybody else in the NFC. You know, Philadelphia's defense has all sorts of issues, I mean correct, and you know, look, they still obviously have a chance to clinch the NFC East, but you know, when they played San Francisco in San Francisco, they got absolutely destroyed. So I think there's gonna be some skepticism about them and Baltimore. I mean, look what they've done the last couple of weeks.

They go to San Francisco and win decisively. They absolutely hammer Miami. They've done a great job of replacing and I think, in some respects upgrading the players from the players that they've lost. I don't know, if you're picking two teams to make the Super Bowl, the two most likely are San Francisco and Baltimore. And if you watch the two teams play head to head, Baltimore beat them and they were clearly superior. So yeah, I agree

with you there. I actually think Washington's going to win on Monday. I do yeah, because I think offensively, as good as Michigan is and running the football and as good as they were just being more physical against Alabama, Washington's got NFL dudes on the outside. They've got a better quarterback who can do more. I don't know that Michigan is equipped to win a really high

scoring game where they have to match the other team touchdown for touchdown. Now, I don't think it's going to be some insane shootout, but I think it's going to be more high scoring than people expect. And I think if that's the case, Washington has the better chance to win. But I do think there would be something neat and interesting and polarizing about the Harball brothers getting atop the perch of their respective sports. That would be interesting, no doubt.

Lastly, to rap, what are the Bengals playing for tomorrow? A winning season? Pride's the what's their purpose? We know Cleveland doesn't have anything to play for. They're locked into the fifth seed of the playoffs. They don't want to get anybody hurt going into the playoffs. They've got legitimate chances to win a playoff game or two. So what are the Bengals playing for tomorrow? Mo? I think more than anything, what tomorrow is about is

you know which players are playing their last game in Cincinnati uniforms? And do you want your last game in a Cincinnati uniform or do you want your teammates last game in a Cincinnati uniform to be remembered for being a fawn farewell or an extension of the very late season misery? You know? I mean this is I've talked about this a lot on my show this week. This is to a degree, the end of an era. And look, Joe Burrow is still going to be here and if he's healthy for seventeen games next year,

I'll take my chances with that. And I think the Bengals will be playing in the postseason next year. But T Higgins, Jonah Williams, maybe Joe Mixon, Choudobea Woozier. You know, you can go on down the list and there's a lot of guys who could be playing. Tyler Boyd, who's been here since twenty sixteen, Tyler Boyd caught passes from Jess Frisco in twenty sixteen, who's starting a quarterback for the Browns. Man, that's how long he's been here. It's a lot of guys like that who you know,

maybe they figure out a way to keep one of them. But there are a lot of guys who have been a part of, you know, a lot of winning over the last couple of years, that played in the Super Bowl that aren't going to be here next year for one reason or another. And I know folks sort of balk at, you know, at that suggestion that there's going to be so much turnover. But this is I think the cold reality is about to set in of what happens when you have a

quarterback who's making so much more money. He just the way age creeps up so quickly in this league, the realities of the salary cap. And I also think the unfortunate reality that the team is about to be broken apart a little bit without them having won the title. But I think there are a lot of guys who have been so central to this franchise is turnaround, it's rebranding, that are going to be playing in front of Bengals hands for the

last time tomorrow. I think if there's any motivation beyond just wanting to do your job, well, it's sending those players off as winners. Well, since they do have a history, maybe they can put Tyler Boyd in on defense since he's caught passes from Jeff Crisco before he could do it again. MO, have a fantastic weekend and happy New Year, my friend you too, man? Thank you all right? Mike Allen's counselor what's going on, Bud? How you doing man? How was your New year? It was

great? It kind of low key, didn't do much. How about you? Really? No, I was asleep before midnight. No human sacrifices like most years. No, you know, my old man had the right idea, He said, New Year's Eve amateur Hour. Well, yeah, it is my least favorite holiday that everybody celebrates by far. It used to be a big deal, but not anymore. It's just like, can all this stuff get over with? It's kind of like Vegas. Do it once, get it over exactly, and you can leave it for everybody else. So

what's on the show this morning. I'll tell you what. We are definitely going to be talking about President Unity's announcement kickoff speech yesterday. I'll tell you in a word, it was pathetic, the most negative, hateful, vilifying speech that I think I've heard from him. That's not a big surprise. Also, going to talk to a guy by the name of Ken Kober. You might not know the name, but he's the new president of the FOP,

succeeding Dan Hills. Okay, we're gonna talk to Steve Goodin about what happened yesterday with the efforts to kick Trump off the ballot and the United States Supreme Court saying they're going to hear the case. YEP, oral arguments will be heard February eighth in the Kyllero case before the Supreme Court, and if they rule nine zero as many legal scholars at predictla or eight to one.

It's an overwhelming rejection of what Colorado did unconstitutionally and what the Secretary of State of Maine did unilaterally kicking the president off the ballot for something that he hasn't been convicted of. Yeah, they initiate law fair stuff like that. But Donald Trump is the threat to democracy. Go figure hardly. Yeah, all right, go maga, Go have a fantastic weekend, have a great show. And after the show, show it huddles. If you want to come

on by and breathe the weather, we will be there. I wish I'd gotten treated for my rectile dysfunction sooner. Men. I hear this all the time from our patients