Good morning. There is nothing that is wrong. I wanted you to stay here with me. I know you've got somewhere to go. Want you to make yourself at home and stay with me. And don't you never leave down Salem and the steering Now, don't you think you my son lord to talk to down Salem? You need to leave so soon. I didn't try it all night long just to talk to you, Sonny. Nearly on the rise, we still got the moon and starts above ununderneath the velvetskys of his solid
manners. Won't you stay with me? Happy birthday, Eric Clapton. Do you think you want? Someone told you the so called guitar god and he is seventy eight On this Saturday, March thirtieth, twenty twenty four. The debate continues Who's the greatest of all time? And Eric Clapton always winds up in that discussion in any kind of order you want to come up with of
just great guitarist? And it is birthday today. Before we look at it, look back at significant events and people tied to this particular day, including but not limited to these. Florida became a United States It's territory on this State in eighteen twenty two. Twenty years later, a doctor Long of Jefferson,
Georgia, first used ether as an anesthetic. Eighteen sixty seven, US Secretary of State William Seward reached the agreement with Russia to purchase the territory of Alaska for seven point two million dollars, a deal ridiculed as Seward's folly, the unbelievable, the unbelievable real estate deal. United States got in a true
bargain. This was big lots on a big scale. The Fifteenth Amendment the US Constitution, which prohibited denying citizens the right to vote and hold office on the basis of race, declared an effect eighteen seventy all of these things. Who you can't vote because you're of your race? Not since eighteen seventy in this country, okay. The first passenger ship to circle the globe, the
Cunard liner RMS Laconia, made that voyage and stopped in New York. In nineteen twenty three, During World War II, the Soviet Union invaded Austria with the goal of taking Vienna. It did that two weeks later, and in a narrowly divided US Supreme Court nineteen fifty nine. The ruling was a conviction in state court following an acquittal in federal court for the same crime, did not constitute double jeopardy. The Vietnam War neared its end, Communist forces occupied
the city of Danang. The year was nineteen seventy five. On this date in nineteen eighty one. It certainly was something that the country wasn't ready for. Certainly Ronald Reagan wasn't ready for Ronald Reagan President. Ronald Reagan shot and seriously injured outside of Washington, d C. Hotel by John Hinckley Junior, who was trying to impress Jody Foster or something. Also wounded were three White House Press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy mccarthury, and a DC
Police officer, Thomas Dellahunty. It was this day in nineteen eighty one, now forty three years ago today, and other folks on the birthday list for this March thirtieth include game show host Peter Marshall. Remember Peter Marshall. I know Liam doesn't, but actor John Aston, who was Gomez Adams on The
Adams Family, is ninety three today. Warren Batty's birthday justin Diz, Paul Riser mc hammer is sixty one, Tracy Chapman's birthday, Piers Morgan, Castillo, Donald de Erico, Celine Dion, the Double Nichols Today, Richard Rawlings, Mark Consuelos, uh Singer, Nora Jones Man She's cut just an unbelievably heavenly voice, the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Katie Mixon, Jason Doring, Justin Moore, Thomas Rhett and Rapper NF. I'm sure Liam is going to be digging up some MF for us. It's NF, not MF. Liam,
Don't don't be confused. That could get that could get us all into trouble. It's five point forty one, and Sports and Weather just had As we begin the Saturday morning edition on seven hundred W l W this morning at nine, Mike Allen takes us stand and then eventually a seat once his legs get tired. On seven hundred W LW's for some future showers early this morning, otherwise partly cloudy, a high of seventy two. This afternoon, overnight
spotty showers and storms. As we roll into Easter morning, a low forty nine, and there was a chance of rain throughout the day Tomorrow, scattered storms into the late afternoon in the evening, and even a marginal risk for some severe weather with classing air masses sixty eight for the high on Easter Sunday. It is fifty now and here is Liam Tomlinson, seven hundred WLW Sport talking about hoops. Baby. It's a lead eight weekend. You had a
sweet sixteen wrapped up last night. Eleven seed Marquette was upset by eleven two seed Markette was upset by eleven seed NC State sixty seven to fifty eight last night. Who's that big old boy that plays for NC State? DJ Burns Junior. He's a large individual. He can move the rock too. You ever watch Escalate highlights from the and one tour? No, I can't say. I have to show you those. I was a big man that could handle the rock too. Purdue handled busy against Gonzaga, pulling out an eighty
to sixty eight win. Duke beat a Jamal shed Liss Houston Cougar is fifty four to fifty one, and Tennessee has their second Elite eight of all time with the eighty two to seventy five win over Creighton. Go balls. Elite eight matchups are set for this weekend, two games tonight and two more tomorrow. Tonight, the Big East champion Connecticut faces the Big Ten champion Illinois. At six point nine Yukon's margin of victory over the last like nine games when
they won the tournament last year and this year is over twenty points. In the tournament, they have been an amazing juggernaut so far. Bobby Hurley said they couldn't win close games. They just blow the teams out. Not a bad strategy. Six seed Clemson faces all faces the golf against four seed Alabama in the nightcap tonight and tomorrow. Purdue and Tennessee faceoff Sunday afternoon. Tennessee looks to reach their first Final four of all time and Purdue looks to reach
their third all time. And the night cap for tomorrow, the final Lead eight matchup is a rivalry game between Duke and NC State. The Wolfpack look to reach their first Final four since the Jimmy vi era. You're talking about the NC State kid moving the rock. Zach Edie moves the rock pretty well hisself. Did you watch any of that game a little bit? People are upset with Zach Edie call. And there's some calls that are Gregoris or the
bad horse egregiouss No, it's not a gregorous it's egregious. Yeah, I do. Yeah, And I don't know. It's tough to play, but I mean, that's why you need a good big man. I'm a I'm a believer in the big man, especially in college basketball. Oh man, sc Cincinnati is in the Queen City tonight. Yes, Charlotte they're facing Wait a minute, there are two queen cities. You didn't know. Charlotte's the queen city, but Cincinnati is the queen city. There's probably a third queen
city. You can say whatever you want. Owensboro, Kentucky says they're the best barbecue in the world. Do you think that's true. I think Columbus is the trans city. But anyway, least going preak in covers against the seven. Kick off the set for seven thirty and you can listen to that game on ESPN fifteen thirty. And it is kids opening day to day.
Yeah. Red Legs testivities begin at one. First pitches at four. Hunter Green looks to start the season hot for the Reds, following Frankie Montas amazing six innings last week or last Thursday. Patrick Corban is on the mound for the Nationals. Listen to the game right here on the Home of the Reds, seven hundred WLW. Thank you, Liam, you are locked on to
news Radio seven hundred WLW. Now the time to buy your new vehicle at Kerry Automotive dot com, whether you're in the market for a Toyota, for Buick GMC and on a Saturday morning, just getting it started for you, Garry. Jeff Walker here on the Big One, seven hundred WLW. Another one of those news stories that you probably won't hear at the top of the
hour in our newscast. This is from the Epoch Times, which is a valid news source for certain and it is certainly not the mainstream alphabet news that you get spoon fed on a daily basis. But this report out and estimated two hundred and thirty six billion dollars in improper or correct payments was made under the Biden administration last year, with Medicare and Medicaid accounting for one hundred billion
of that. According to the GAO, the US Government Accountability Office, which is a non partisan office, for fiscal year twenty twenty three, fourteen agencies reported a total estimated two hundred and thirty six billion in improper payments across seventy one programs. Now, this is more than what Washington spends on NASA, the Department of Education, and Homeland Security combined. Money that is just frivolously, frivolously thrown out the door. Your money, my money, American taxpayer
dollars. They don't have a giant money producing machine in Washington. We are the money producing machine. You and I and one hundred billion dollars in basic waste in Medicare and Medicaid, one hundred billion in one year. The GAO believes the two hundred and thirty six billion estimated potentially does not represent the full
extent of improper payments. There is so much waste and yet all day and they, being the Washington elite, the Washington establishment, do is ask for more money, because I mean, if you're wasting two hundred and thirty six billion dollars a year with a dat of over thirty almost thirty five trillion dollars as a country, that's the answer is more money. The group points out that the improper payments suggest a material deficiency or weakness in internal controls at the
age no kidding, bloated bureaucra sees are weak or deficient. The federal government is unable to determine the full extent of its proper improper payments and to reasonably assure that appropriate actions are taken to reduce them. Medicare and Medicaid. Again the the big sore thumbs sticking out when it comes to our money being wasted. Oh well, our time will not be wasted this morning, because Dick
is hanging and we'll ring him up next. Spring is in the air, but so are airborne allergens like tree pollen, grass, mulled angst of your Saturday tempters, though, do hit the load to mid seventies tonight you drop down to the mid forties. More rain and potential storm chances for your Easter Sunday permac of your weather station. I'm nine first wary meteorologist Cameron Harden on news Radio seven hundred w welw ah. Good day starts with a good morning.
Here's Alice and here's Rory too, newly weds who spent the night doing what newly weds do. The flurry eyed couple need to get ready for work, so it's plenty of coffee and plenty of Mike McConnell. Mike wakes them up with the latest news, weather, traffic, sports, and plenty of that Mike mcconnaald charm. Look, they're wide awake and heading back to the
bedroom. Now, that's McConnell magic. Mike McConnell. Monday morning at five on seven HUNDREDLWS joined us for our twenty twenty four iHeartRadio Music Awards Live from the Jolde Theater in Hollywood, Monday, April first Watch on Fox starting at eight pm. Hedy, the Beaver Creek Strummers, the Dulcimer Group, and any other band of musicians that'll let him play with him. The One and Only Dick from Dayton. Good morning, Dick, Good morning Girt. Jeff,
How are you buddy doing fantastic? How'd you like that opening day on Thursday? Huh? That was pretty good? That was good? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. I talk to our friend Dave Yes and I still haven't gotten one hundred dollars. Yeah, he was. He told me I told him about my birthday coming up, and he said he could arrange something on that. Yeah, we're trying to work that out. So he can come to huddles on April thirteenth, the day before your birthday. What birthday will
this be, Dick? Uh, I'll be seventy six. Seventy six. Yeah, and you seem a lot sharper than the current president, who was only just a few years older than you. Yeah, yeah, isn't that's the truth? Oh jeez, are you shaking hands with any invisible people these days? You know? People? Music? A few, a few musical people. Good. Okay, So what's the news, Dick? Real quick? What's going on here? I just wanted to tell you that, Yeah, we had a I didn't go last week because my friend I had a
birthday. But the band Joe Group was pretty good. I'm gonna go. But we got a couple of concerts coming in the Star City, Dulshworths coming up. But everything good. Real quick. I wanted to give you my address. My birthday's coming up two five seven nine Wolford Drive, Dayton, forty, Ohio four five four four oh two five seven nine Walford Drive, Dayton, Ohio four five four four oh. If you want to get in touch with Dick Brooksy, if you're out there, and to you too,
I'm Gary Jeff Walker. It's about seven minutes after the hour on this Saturday morning, Easter weekend, and oddly enough, the Easter Bunny is on the line. Good morning, Easter Bunny, Good morning, sir. How are you doing today? There are questions I've wanted to ask you for a long time, at least a year since we talked last, and I want to ask those before we get started, if that's okay with you. Easter Bunny, Oh, certainly, Easter Bunny. Do you believe in Santa Claus?
I do? Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy? I do? Do you believe in Day from Harrison? I do? Wow, That's that's a great leap of like childhood faith that you would or child like faith that you would believe in Dave from Harrison, because I've always thought it was just kind of like a storybook guy that your parents told you about but they could never prove actually existed. And I still I'm having my doubts about Day from Harrison being real, Well, what should I do? You've seen me before,
haven't you or seen the Easter Bunny? Yeah? But I and you've seen Day from Harrison before, Harry, somebody who called themselves Dave from Harrison. I'm not sure it might have been a stunt double. I'm not sure that was really Day from Harrison because he place at the same time, he tends to be somewhat of a chameleon. He changes his skin color and everything else, like, I mean, you're you're fluffy white. Dave from Harrison was kind of pasty, or at least the person who purported to be Dave from
Harrison. See, I think there are spurious day from Harrisons that are everywhere, kind of like mall Santa Clauses. I think they're probably I think they're probably Dave from Harrison's all over the all over the world, so that little children can be propped up with this fantasy person that doesn't really exist. What do you think about that? I'm too tired to take anything, Jeff,
You're too tired to think anything. Yeah, this is the busiest time of the year for well yeah, well you you hop around the world in one night, right, yes? How many Easter eggs can you fit in an empty basket? Easter Bunny? Only one? After that, it's not empty anymore. What do you call an unconventional Easter egg? Easter bunny, eg centric, eccentric. What do you call a rabbit with fleas bugs bunny? What do you call a rabbit in an operating room? What do you call
a rabbit in an operating room? The ether bunny? The ether bunny. You know that ties in a day in history because in eighteen forty two, for the first time ever, a doctor in Georgia used ether as an anesthetic to operate on his patients who had a neck tumor. So your historical and your humorous tie ins are synonymous. What else there you go? Of course, a rabbit it tells jokes would be a I don't know bunny bunny? H and uh you know why I don't Why I get upset? What just
really gets under my goat? What gets under your coat? I don't even want to know what gets under your goat? Dude, that just sounds sick. When I'm having a bad hair days easter bunny, Yes, so long, when I listen to Willie, I feel better about things. Remember, my friend Willy is here for you. Everyone says how smart dolphins are, but Bill Cunningham is way smarter. Let me help ease your concerns, keep you informed. Has a dolphin ever won a Marconi Award. No, but
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You're forecasts for today. A few regular contributor to the Saturday morning edition. Hearkening back to his days when he was a would be hair band glam Rocket, playing bass and scouting for groupies and pool hauls all over Middle America. We turn up the radio, were old radio Rick this morning? Can I get your autograph? Please? I love this? Let this bring there you go turn it down. I spared no expense writing lyrics for this song we weay. Oh ever a minute you need a minute to play? Many things
go better with rock. Good morning. At six sixteen, Harry Jump was having a ball. They're paying me anyway, old radio wreck, Good morning, Good morning Gary, Jeff. You know, I never was asked for my autograph, but the sax player in the band was asked one time, and he said sure, it'd be glad to and he takes the piece of
paper and heard the words you've been served. Oh geez nice. So I mean you were kind of as you listen to that intro music, you were kind of reliving or this is spinal tab days, weren't you this Our drummer would have exploded totally. So how are you receiving us this morning? What? What lovely device are you? Are you listening to us on if any And how's it going? It is a the strongest five by five that there
is. It is loud, it is clear, it is the paint off the walls, yes proverbially, not literally, but it almost could do it. I think this is a nineteen thirty eight RCA Model h F six. It is an AM and shortwave radio with six shortwave bands. An arched glass dial that goes up the front and then up arches over to the top because there's a lot of bands, so there's a lot of space needed there. Fourteen. So the dial is on the face of the radio as you're facing
it, and into the top of the radio. Yeah, so the top of the radio actually arcs. It's a gradual curve from the front to the top, and the dial follows that curve. So you can see the higher bands from the top and you can see the lower bands from the front. So how many tubes do you? Say? Fourteen and they are all doing stuff. Well, a twelven speaker and it's motorized tuning, and being an
RCA, it has a rather loud motor. So you push the button for w l W and the radio goes R and eventually almost lands on the station. You sounded, You sounded just like the garbage disposal in Bob and Tom's Mister Obvious bit. That was actually a great skit. There's a there's a beaver under my sick, there's a badger under my sick. So the r C A motor, the r c A motor, sorry, the RCA motorized
tuner kind of sounds like that when when you're dialing in. Okay, trust me, mister Robbius couldn't afford this one, and of course has the magic I tube. If you got fourteen, dudes, you gotta have a magic eye on there. And one of the other interesting features that this radio came with was not a price tag, but an application for a second mortgage. Jeez, it was. It was one of our This actually wasn't the highest RC model for the year. There was one more that had sixteen tubes,
but that's just crazy. So you know, so what did what did what did this nineteen give me? The model again? Nineteen thirty eight? R what's the model h HF six as in high frequency? I assume HF six. So and what did that run for in nineteen thirty eight? How much could you get? Literally, I actually literally cannot find any price information or catalog entries for it. If you if you've got it, if you've got it, if you've got to ask you can afford it, yes, all
right, but here's your application. Yeah, credit if it's anything like the competitors of the day, with the similar designs and so forth, and equally ornate cabinets and features and YadA, YadA, YadA. The Crosley one I think sold for the list price was just under a thousand, so it's like twenty it's like a car today. Yeah, we're talking about twenty grand for a radio. Yes, it's it's okay, Well, finance it, yeah, hold on a minute. I bet there were about five of those sold
during the Great Depression. Well I suppose that there were. Well, since there were like four or five different similar models that were equally impressive, I agree with you that there probably weren't many made, but I think a surprising number were made and sold with people showing off because these were definitely status symbols.
Oh no, taller, bigger, deeper, louder. Well, it's like the it's kind of like the eighty five inch HK screens of you know today, the huge you know, surround sound ledtvs of today that fill up two rooms at once. Yeah, so it's kind of like along those lines. So the one thing I will say though, is that at least with
the radio, you can enjoy it regardless of your domicile. With an eighty five inch television, you have to build a room big enough to where you can sit far enough back to where you don't necessarily appreciate the fact that it's eighty five inches anymore, but you can see the entire picture this close to it. You're in the same you're in the same zip code, and your mother says, scoot back, you're gonna ruin your eyes. Ricky, Ricky, have a great weekend. Thank you so much. Happy Easter. Old
Radio Rick at gmail dot com. If you'd like to get in touch with mister Washburn. They've been beaten, and they've been with in some extreme cases, they've been boiled. They are routinely taken from their friends and family, never to be found Easter eggs. Every year at this time, millions suffer in silence. How long can you stand by in nothing? A public awareness announcement from seven hundred W LW. You do everything tonight. You drop down
to the mid forties. More rain and potential storm chances for your Easter Sunday FORMAC of your weather station. I'm nine first one e Meteorologist Cameron Harden on news radio seven hundred WLW seven hundred w LW Sport Liam a second opening day for the Cincinnati Reds today. Yeah, kids, opening day to day. The festivities begin at one. First pitches at four, Hunter Green, let's start the season hot for the Reds. Patrick Corbin is on the mound for
the Nationals. Listen to the game right here on the home of the Reds seven hundred WLW FC Cincinnati and the Queens. Staty, what wor's first pitch? What times? First pitch? You said festivities beginning one, But that's the first pitch of four, Thank you very much. Go ahead, I think I said it. We'll have to watch the replay. Listen. FC Cincinnati is in the real Queen City tonight against Charlotte FC. Pregame coverage begins at seven. Kickoff is set for seven thirty. Listen to that game on
ESPN fifteen thirty. And we got a round of Elite eight games in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Yes, Big East champion Yukon faces Big Ten champion champion Illinois. Sixth seed Clemson faces four seed Alabama in the nightcap. Those two games are today and then tomorrow purdueing Tennessee face off in the first game, and Duke in NC State is the final Elite eight matchup. And my lovely Caitlin Clark and her Iowa Hawkeyes played today at three o'clock. I guess
this is Katino Mobile. This is what's trending From Iheartsports Network presented by Mercedes Benz. The wolf Back continue their center Rella story is they managed to pull up another upset in the tournament, beating the second seed in Marquette Golden Eagles. Berdue remains alive as they continue to ride the back of one of the nation stop players in Zach Edy as he powers the Boilermakers. Paskin Zaga and the Bengals announced their official offseason schedule, with the first days of their team
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Easter Sunday. From Severe Weather Station, I'm nine first one e Meteorologist Cameron Harden on news radio seven hundred WLW Calm and dry. Right now forty three degrees here in Cincinnati. Next update at seven o'clock, I'm Sandy Collins on news radio seven hundred WLW News twenty four hours a day, News Radio seven
hundred WLW. I'm toasting you. Sit on. We may be through, dude, You'll never hear me. Compare listing nothing like a little dark Brooks for my cat dog Brooksy and the gang at Brookies in Ripley, Ohio. They're on Main Street this morning, bright and early. The gang has gathered. Good morning gang. Oh what's going on in? Somebody fall asleep? What's happening there? No, Darren almost stole my money here, you darn. Darren owns a bar. He's in the business of stealing your Money's almost
good at it. Well, I know once they get good at of it. They once they get good at it, they usually sell the bar. So what's going on there in the lovely little hamlet, the lovely village of Ripley, Ohio at six point thirty on a Saturday morning. What's happening, guys? Not much? I love honesty. The handle was in I mean the rest of the day is yeah, all up hill, sure, yeah,
all right. But tonight local band playing local music Shuffle be in the house at nine pm to kick off season their season and Queen of Hearts on Wednesday will probably well over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars at seven thirty Wednesday. You got a shot, so that means you or I didn't win again, right And if I put you in again, yeah, well you can. You can put me in again. That's fine. Just you just keep
a tab on. You know what, when I owe you one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for non winning and you're putting me in, let me know, okay, Yeah, give me a sherry, Give me a report on that beaver. Oh well, he's got his Easter ears on, Beaver Bunny. The rockets dry this morning, although it's gonna get sprinkly, I think like you're on and maybe rain a little bit. But yeah, I loved your Easter jokes this morning. They were wonderful. I don't have any yokes
for you this morning. Sorry, don't have any yokes for me, okay. And with a comment like that, I'm glad and I gonna hang up yet. No I'm not gonna hang up on you. I'm gonna I'm gonna wait too politely in the conversation with a proper goodbye, So goodbye. There they go. Steve from Etna, Ohio is back with us this morning for the first time in several weeks. And I have detailed as much as I felt allowed to what Steve has been going through. And thank you for the
many prayers of support and prayers for healing. And they are still, I'm sure, very well. But we will talk to Steve from Edna with a pithy Easter weekend phone call and much more as we continue on this Saturday morning edition on seven hundred WLW at six thirty nine, seven hundred WLW Cincinnati, available everywhere with the iHeartRadio app now number one for podcasting seven hundred WLW and iHeartRadio Station. Treacher family, friends and employees to fresh, delicious, creative
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it's forty nine, now seven hundred WLW Sport Liam Tomlinson. Another busy weekend in sports, Tell me about it. Yeah, a lot of sports yesterday. March Madness has been going on. Sweet sixteen ended last night. You stay up to watch all the games? I did not, because I'm not twenty three years old and can stay up all night and get up early in the morning. But I did see some of the Purdue takedown of Gonzaga. What else happened? Yeah, Purdue beat Gonzaga pretty handily eighty to sixty eight.
Eleven seed NC State upset two seed Marquette Ye sixty seven to fifty eight. Duke beat at Jamal Sheidless Houston Cougar's fifty four to fifty one, and Tennessee went over Creton eighty two to seventy five. We have two games today in the Elite eight. Big East champion Yukon faces Big Ten champion Illinois at six h nine six seed Clemson faces four seed Alabama in that nightcap, and tomorrow burdueing Tennessee face off Sunday afternoon, where Tennessee looks to reach their first
final forever. Oh right See has never reached the final four. I get that, and uh didn't there one more game tomorrow? Yeah, final lead eight matchup as a rivalry between don NC State and the wolf Pack. And that's gonna be hot. Yeah, it's gonna be hot right there today, Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes in there. This is a Sweet sixteen matchup in the women's correct. Yes, and Colorado against against Colorado and they're in
the same bracket with LSU. LSU faces UCLA the game before. A lot of good basketball on today, and those games are early in the afternoon, so you can watch those before the Reds game or listen listen to them on the radio. All right, and Red's Kids Opening Day today. Festivities begin at one o'clock at Great American Ballpark for the young'uns, and at four o'clock we're talking about first pitch time thereabouts here on the home of the Red seven
hundred w LW. It's spring time to gather your friends and family and fire up the grill with some kings for our friend. Steve is back this morning. I haven't foting me out that down, Just have up me. Hello friend, Hello old friend. Great to have you back. On this Saturday morning at six forty five, my friend, Hello, it's wonderful to hear from you. Well, God bless you Gary, Jeff, And I'm looking at a card I just got from Steven Robin Shulty. God bless you guys.
They're offering prayers through the seminarians at the caption friars at Saint Lawrence Seminary. You know, i'd like to I'd like to have played Chicago getting better every day. Uh it's I just got laid low for the entire month of March by a piece of cancer. Damn it. It was no bigger than my fingernail, but it put me back three surgeries, and I just wanted everybody to know. I don't know. I know, I don't sound too well, but I just get better every dog one day, and it's a
fight and I'm winning it with your prayers. God bless y'all. Let's get serious for a second. Get off the beaten track there with regard to health issues. I don't want to talk about that too much. I haven't lost my sense of humor. I'll tell you that I was watching the bridge collapse in Baltimore and I thought to myself, you know, This is a god send for Boeing aircraft, you know, with the doors flying off planes and you know wheels flying off planes. It takes kind of the pressure off them,
doesn't it. And then I got to thinking, there's a hell of a strong connection between Dayton, Ohio, which is the birthplace of aviation, don't you ever forget it, and owing aircraft in Seattle. And that's what we're going to talk about. It centers in my case, around my aunt, Helen Shunk Anderson. She was born March fifth, eighteen ninety four, in Salina, Ohio, one of four daughters born to Margaret Parker and Andrew
Shunk. She was a valedictorian of her parochial high school class in nineteen ten, five female graduates in her class, no males. She started out as a legal secretary to a couple of attorneys in Mercer County, and she was, to say the least, she caught the flight bug, and she was an extremely intelligent person, and she was a go getter from the word go. She went down the Dayton around Well, first of all, I'm getting ahead of myself. There was something called the Beam Bam School of Aviation in
Solana, also known as the Salana School of Aviation. This is one of the many, many, many aviation schools that were sprouting around the country as the result of the work of the Wright brothers, and this one was extraordinary. They advertised in national magazines for instructors and for students, and they got them from all around the world. One of my favorites as a young man from Portland, Oregon, a Chinese American who graduated around the nineteen eighteen.
He went back to Portland manufactured airplanes there and then I realized, excuse me, that the Japanese we're trying to overrun China. And he went to China and eventually became a general in the Chinese Air Force. The guy who ran the school, b Ward Beam, closed the school in the early twenties, went to Toledo and is credited with beginning the first auto thrill shows and used that for the rest of his life as a promoter and eventually wound up living
a long life. Died in the nineteen seventies in New York State. Matti Ralf was one of the instructors. He was born in Britain. He went to a flight school in Montana, came to Salina, he was an instructor. He participated World War One, went down to Georgia after that and teamed up with the man who is considered the father of aviation in Georgia. Eventually, Monty wound up in Havana and died in a plane crash there. One
of my favorites is Billy Brock. Billy was an instructor at Salina. Billy is one of the few great early aviators who did not die in a plane crash. He died of cancer in nineteen thirty two, which is really sad because he had a great thing going. He was an air racer, you know, a lot, a lot of races from like New York to La New York to Chicago, et cetera, et cetera in the twenties and thirties. His sponsor was a guy I think Gary Jeff you know this name Powell
Crosley. Yeah. Well listen. Getting back to Helen. Helen's timing was unbelievable. She winds up down in Dayton, and everybody around the world was going to Dayton, Ohio, as you can imagine. And after World War One it got even more impressive because all of the aviators from Germany the losers in the war were gravitating also to Dayton, Ohio, and one of them was Tony Falker. Now Tony Falker gave his name to those famous planes that
the Germans flew. And guess what, Hellen winds up private secretary to Tony Falker. Anyway, Tony leaves Dayton and he goes to New York. And let's summarize that whole thing by just simply saying he wanted to be the guy who made the plane that would wind up being, you know, the plane that was flown by help me out here, the solo flight from New York to Para, Charles Lindberg. Lindberg, Charlie Lindberg. Unfortunately he did not win that race. Anyway, getting back to Helen, she I'm flipping pages
here. She wound up as a result of her experiences in nineteen twenty seven writing an article on the Saturday Eating Post November the fifth, nineteen twenty seven. The post had a circulation of two point five million world wide, and the article was how to get into aviation. I have about thirty letters that she got from around the world from people saying I read the article, helped me out what should I do now Australia, all across North America, et
cetera, et cetera. Well, she knew people, didn't she, and she wrote about it. And I think my favorite is a nineteen thirty one article where she actually quoted an argument rather vehement between Admiral Richard Byrd, the famous Arctic explorer, and Tony Falker. I mean this gal really really really got around and the thing that getting back to Boeing, which is really our subject. Here I have in front of me a letter November the eighteenth,
nineteen twenty seven. The guy who wrote this letter is Gardner Dick Carr. He became a chief executive at Boeing and he writes back to Helen about all the people from Dayton, Ohio who had gone to Seattle to work for Boeing.
And it's amazing, Claire that Phil Johnson, Mantymonte Edgar got They all started at McCook Air Force Airfield in Dayton, which of course became right Patterson Air Force BA. So you know, it's a great tribute to the kind of people that we produce, you know, in western Ohio, and it's a great tribute to Dayton. And I think sometimes we forget we you know, we all know about right patten, you know, all that kind of
thing in the museum there. It's just a great place to visit, but we forget sometimes that it was the hub, the international hub of aviation, and everybody in the world who wanted to be you know, a flyer went to Dayton, Ohio, and a hell of a lot of them wound up taking the second trip to Boeing in Seattle. There you go, anyway, quite quite interesting, Gary Jeff. And in my little hiatus here, I had time to go through these fifty five pages of research that I did on
the flight school in Solina and McCook field right path and Boeing Aircraft. And thank you very much for giving me the time. And I just want once want one more time to thank just all those people who have been praying. And by the way, got one last message for you right back at you.
I'm praying for you too. God bless you, Gary Jeff, Thanks Steve, Happy Easter, Marty Brennaman Here for try Satan Men's Health, the leader in men's sexual health, for treating erect Here's the latest weather forecast from news Radio seven hundred W Well who don't tempters right around that fifty degree mark this morning. Rain chances will linger off and on throughout most of your Saturday, but you do warm to the low seventies for your Easter Sunday. Once
again, chances for showers, even if few storms. Tempaters close to seventy for rest of your weather station. I'm nine First Warning Meteorologist Cameron Harden on news Radio seven hundred WLW Sloty right now in Cincinnati, although there is rain throughout the entire Try State. Right now fifty degrees at seven oh five. I'm Sandy Collins. Next update at seven thirty on news Radio seven hundred WLW
News twenty four hours a day. News Radio seven hundred WLW. Jeff Weilerhonda dot Com into another hour of the Saturday morning edition for Saturday, March thirtieth, twenty twenty four. On seven hundred WLW. I'm Gary Jeff Walker and Matt Jones wishes just wishes he was anything close to Gary Jeff Walker or Bill Cunningham or anybody else for that matter. Who the hell is Matt Jones? Good question time now for our retired environmental engineer Steve Shulty to join us.
I see Tree seven, Green, Redross too. I've seen them Blue five and I think too. What a run of six minutes past the hour And Steve Shulty, good morning and a happy Easter weekend. He has risen. You got it, you got it, great weekend, and may you and yours and in fact everyone out there make it a great and blessed Easter season,
no doubt. So we're talking about Climate the Movie. I had a chance to speak to our mutual well someone we both respect and know very well, doctor Gregory Wrightstone about the new movie by the Co two Coalition which is streaming right now, called Climate the Movie. It's about an eighty minute documentary with all kinds of experts and scientists with the truth about our climate, climate
change, and man's contribution or lack thereof to that right. And the concern is, you know what the says of shit out there by the woke people whatnot. So I plan on watching it this week. So watch it's that climate themovie dot net, Climate themovie dot net And like you said, eighty minutes. So I'm looking forward to seeing it this week before it's hopefully hopefully not but could be yanked off for the internet. Well, yeah, I
mean, that's that's what they do. When their information is being put out that doesn't fit the the narrative, they try to eliminate the message instead of actually debunking it. But anyway, Uh, weather extremes are little changed. As we do. Do we keep on We keep on hearing. Yeah, we keep on hearing hurricanes and tornadoes and everything. They're on the rise because of man made cause global warmington and it's simply not true. Yep. Climate
Change Weekly number five hundred and one from Heartland dot org. Just from yesterday. New research and report published by the Global Arming Policy Foundation, written by a physicist and PhD doctor Ralph Alexander, present long term observational data and he actually goes back to historical newspaper accounts. So just you know, these are
nothing here. You and I have not heard heat waves of the last few decades in comparison, don't compare anything from the nineteen thirties, the period that is downplayed by the drive by media and environmental armists and we call it the dust bowl. But interesting, Gary, Jeff, not only did we have it throughout North America, countries like France, India and Australia also experienced the same thing in the nineteen thirties. Major floods again no more common than deadly
or disruptive than the thousands in the past thousands of years. And if you recall back in nineteen twenty two, Europe had a pretty good drought that everybody, the drive by media and the arm has said, oh, you know, you know, it hasn't happened. Well, in fact, he found that not only it's happened in numerous times, it actually happened within the last century. So and this is interesting. This is why I like the article.
He was asked why he did this research, wrote the report, this is a quote, but I think it's really neat that so many people are unaware of past extreme shows. The collective memories of extreme weather are short lived.
The perception that extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity is primarily a consequence of new information technology, the Internet and smartphones, which have revolutionized communication and made us more aware of such disasters as tall corners of the world that we had in fifty or one hundred years ago, and I would say
even twenty or thirty years ago. So I did a little research. The first weather satellite launched April one, nineteen sixty is Tyros number one seventy eight days. But it proved that we can do weather in space. The first live transatlantic satellite broadcast for television July twenty third, nineteen sixty two, via Telstar one and Gary Jeppiuz you know there's a song about Telstar one instrumental YEP.
And the first live multi satellite international TV broadcast receiving from fourteen countries and broadcasting to twenty four countries via the BBC was June twenty fifth, nineteen sixty seven, and it's estimated it took ten thousand technicians and producers to make that happen. That was where the Beatles famously saying all you need is love live from Australia. Yes, ten thousand. Look what the technology we have now, Like you say, smartphones, you know, will you watch any news
network? I mean we have smartphones of it's just amazing what we see. And you know what happened thirty minutes ago or fifteen minutes ago, is there's more, Steve, Steve. The point is, the point is is that we have all this technology so now we can see that a lot of these made up predictions are just that because We have satellite data and we can tell
that the Earth is greening. We can tell that the weather patterns are not more severe than they have been because of increased CO two or warm temperatures. There's also a crude oil production is breaking records right now, if only we weren't selling it to third world countries and using it ourselves. Listen, I'm sorry we're out of time, but I just want to say Jesus Christ defeated death for all of us two thousand years ago. He rose from the grave.
He defeated death, and we all can do the same thing. Happy Easter to you, my friend, you too, all right, thanks, It's seven twelve at seven hundred WLW. We're playing ball alright right field. Good bye, your big bad red legs. Take on the Washington National Way back and way gone. Good Rigs are looking for a hot start to this season. Come around you. They nailed down the Nats. Get the actually live from GABPH today three ten on seven hundred wl W and seven hundred wl
w's live stream of the iHeartRadio Thinking about a new roof? Is your chimney in need of repair? The experts at VANDAHAR are ready to help damaged droop for Chim Cowie. Let's talk to the the dawn of the first Family of Fitness in the try stage as a member of the family. Capiche Rocco Costellano, Good morning, Walker, Yes, how you doing. I'm fine, I'm fine, Paizon, what's going on? Well? I wanted to talk to you about, uh, something that most people hear about, but they
don't really understand it in a way that they should. And it's it's about a mercury getting into uh the fish supply, into the water supply actually, and and I want more people to think about getting tested for a mercury and also like the heavy metals, and most people they just don't think about getting tested, but then they have, you know, like they have a fatigue. They have like they have a fatigue, and then they go about,
uh, not understanding why why they're so fatigued. And so I wanted just to let the people know that mercury actually comes from like the cold plants, from from incineration plants and just factories in general. And when when it does get into the air, the rain and the snow gets it gets it into our water supply. Sure, and so so when you drink a tap water or you drink, you drink, or you swim in a lake, or you eat the fish that are from those lakes, like you know, like
the trout. And and that's why tuna, you know, like the larger fish are I usually have the most mercury, like shock tuna albacore. Okay, hold on a second, And you're talking about fish and seafood, and I understand that. And there's very little way for you to to not ingest mercury if you're eating those things. But you talked about tapwater. Aren't there filters that filter out to mercury? No way, no way. It's too heavy. It's such a it's such a heavy. Uh. So you're talking
about the Britta water filters, None of those filter out mercury. How are we supposed to drink water? Then, well, we're supposed, we're supposed. It's not it's not filtered in a way, just like flora is not filtered. Uh you know, like people think that it is, but it takes it takes a lot to filter out all that. So that's the reason why the e p A has has an acceptable amount of a mercury that you can consume. And and the reality is that there is no acceptable amount of
mercury that you can consume because you're telling Rocca. What you're telling me is we're all doomed. Well, we all well, so we don't watch, you know, like the government's the government doesn't really care about what you consume. That's why there's there's acceptable limits of like rat hair and like rat specs and different things in the food supply. I'm sorry, we're running a long and that's probably my fault, but I need I need to I need to
go eat something. You've made me hungry now knowing that there's an acceptable amount of rat feces in our food. Thank you, sir. Train with Rocco dot Com. By the way, my friend Brad Moffatt with the Ohio Corn and Wheat Growers has a bone to pick with you, Rocco about last week's segment on dwarf wheat. Lynette, good morning, you're lady. We're what's it? What's that? Big? I said, it's been rof getting the phone to work. It hadn't worked for two hours. Well, I'm glad
you called. I'm using Nurse Aymi's phones. You don't call back hunting me because shangle answer. Okay, So last week got the phone wouldn't work. That phone hadn't worked for six or eight weeks. I've been using my phone, so last Wednesday, mind dies they are me new one. I didn't get it yet. It's been ten days. I'm still waiting. I'll have a new phone number. So when I call you do not hang up,
and then you have to give my number to my friends and fans. Okay, I'm just saying in the upper room, well, sweet sweet sweetie, it is Easter, and I love to have you on here, but but Liam wants to do sports. If you sing in the upper room, he can't do sports. What should we do? Uh Liam? Liam? Liam
says, it's Easter weekend. Let Lynette sing, So go ahead, baby in the upper with ge you no me the other with my God and your you know him who when your box ge Easter, you're not in the my God Holliday on in the oroom to your geez Hallelujah in the room and you you know sweetie, we gotta go. Okay in the upper room. On the radio, it's seven three listening to a woman shop in the produce section, isn't funny? Yeah? A sail on cucumbers. Listening to a woman
poot next to the Granny Smiths is funny. Eddie and Rocky are also funny. So when you think of an apple fartierops, think of Eddie and Rocky. Eddie and Rocky. Monday afternoon at three on seven hundred WLW, here is the latest weather forecast from news Radio seven hundred wl Tempters right around that fifty degree mark this morning. Rain chances will linger off and on throughout most of your Saturday, but you do warm to the low seventies for your Easter
Sunday. Once again, chances for showers, even a few storms. Tempters close to seventy for rec of your weather station. I'm nine First Warning Meteorologist Cameron Harden on news Radio seven hundred WLW. Light rain to the east and north of Cincinnati. Right now, Northern Kentucky pretty much dry and right now fifty degrees on a sandy Collins. Next update at eight thirty on news Radio
seven hundred WLWN News twenty four hours a day. News Radio seven hundred WLW into another official hour of the Saturday Morning Edition, Saturday, March thirtieth, twenty twenty four. I'm Gary Jeff Walker. You are you, and that's
perfectly fine with me. It's good to have you along for the usual ride of Radio Mayberry on a Saturday morning, stopping up the street at Science Mic Shop for a science minute this morning the next door after Floyd the Barber, I think yes, but as a nightly scientist, you've been surprising his bell, blinding me with good morning, Michael. This will sound like a Floyd
conversation that time. Well, you know, there's a comedian I forget who it was who always said that talking about Andy Griffith, that Floyd the Barber must have been the first character on television on acid because Floyd would be describing so oh, you know, you know Andy the sound of the cup clip clip club. I just love that. Anyway, we're going to talk about cold colon. Oh great, all right, go ahead. Can I be personal question with you? Have you ever had a colon? Uh? Yeah,
I think yeah. What's the worst part of it? Drinking that stuff and well and they're drinking and stuff and not not being able to eat for what a day before. No, it's awful, it's just it's terrible. It is so they when they tell you to drink the what they call it a purgative liquid, the black hole. Yeah, yeah, whatever it is. I don't want to talk about this. You you go ahead and talk
about it and leave me out of it anyway. And then they and then they tell you to only have a clear liquid diet for the for the whole day before. Right, They're not only that and you're starving. Right. So this study is from a guest enterologist foul of clumb University, and it's been done for ten years now and the studies, all these studies are are proven that you don't need to go on a clear a clear liquid diet for for a whole day before to have a have a h a clean colonoscopy fuels.
Okay, So the the idea was the things that you can eat and this is this is proven that the doctor said the funding line, he said, I've never seen a chicken down there before, but anyhow, so you're
allowed to eat. He recommends that these doctors they changed their method because it's keeping people from the whole point of this conversation is keeping people from doing the study because colon rectal cancer is on a rise and it's the only way really to give it early to section is to do is to do this colonosky. But anyhow, things that you can eat are cheese, eggs, milk, white bread, beef, chicken, rice, vanilla ice cream, yogurt.
But you know, obviously I say away from the nuts to siege popcorn and all the leafy vest balls and dried fruits and things like that. And and his point is that he thinks that these all these doctors that they're sending out this information, they don't want to change because it's too hard to tell the patient. It's much easier to tell patient, don't don't eat anything but just drink water, right right. They don't want to take a chance of these
patients screw it up there the procedure. But you know, give us some benefit of doubt. Tell me what I can't eat now, I'll probably stick to it. Don't don't don't start me for the day before, right exactly. It's it's relatable, but funny, funny personal anecdote story was, you know, we talked about drinking that liquid, right, so I had to. I just recently had it done. It's like and my wife, God lover, she she mixed up the concoction for me. So my second go
around was I had to drink at at two am. I'm miserable, right, I'm miserable, right, And she walks into the room with with the liquids. You she looked at me, she says, thirsty. Oh man, you got a keeper. You got a keeper there. We don't need that. We don't need to go through that whole procedure. Is that a polyp? No, it's a whole chicken. I just stated, uh, Michael, thank you very much. Happy Easter to you. Geez ten, I gotta get better help. Ten minutes past the hour seven hundred WL.
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risk of storms as the front's kind of collide the air masses collide. Tomorrow's high sixty eight, it is fifty two at seven hundred WLW. Do everything you can for your family a nice home, good food, family, fun, and the right medical You plan ahead for your kid's future and their education, place to live. When we put aside our differences and work together, there is no challenge too great to overcome. This message is brought to you
by the US Air Force. Around two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ died on a cross, put to death for the sins of the entire world, including you and me, and then he rose from the dead. I'm going let it shine, light of mine. I'm going let it shine miss light of mine. I'm let it shine it shine. That is shine shine ye. Brother Rick Green from Spirit Works Cincinnati is here real quickly, uh, Rick, Good morning, Happy Easter weekend. Brother, Good morning, happyster
weekend. I walk up praying for you and your listener. Thank you so much. What's our verse today, Rick, Today? We come in from Romans chapter sixth verse five. It says for if we have been united with him in a deathlike kid, we certainly will also be united with him in a resurrection like kids. Amen. Amen, praise Jesus. Rick. I tell you what. By the way, you can look for Rick's podcast. You go to Rick Green with an E on the end of Green on YouTube
to find that. And Brother, we're gonna cut this short because I have a special Easter weekend song that I like to play. It is the in musical form, the story of Simon Peter and as He as they see their Messiah crucified, and then Simon Peter is stunned to see Jesus alive after he rose for the dead. This is Dolly Parton doing the Don Francisco classic He's Alive on Easter weekend at seven hundred WLW. Let's listen to the whole thing.
The gates and doors bard and all the windows fastened down. I spent the night in sleeplessness and rose at every sound, half in hopeless sorrow and half in fear of the day we'ld find the soldiers recking through to drink a song. And just before the sunrise, as I heard something at the wall, the gate began to reader, and the voice began to call, and I heard it to the window, look down into the streets, expecting swords and torches and the sound of soldiers' feet. But there was no one there
but Mary, so I went down to let her end. John stood there beside me as she told me if she'd been She said, they moved him in the night, and none of us knows where the stone's better rolled away. There is boddy Is and the sorry bos around the nort Then John ran all we found the stone at empty tomb, just the way that Mary said, but the winean she there after bere was destined for his show. How well it take him was more than I could tell. Oh, something strange
had happened there, just what I did not know. John believed a miracle, but I just turned to go. Circumstance and speculation couldn't lift me very high because I'd seen them crucify him. Then I saw him die back inside the house again, the guilt and english came everything I had promised him, just any to my shame. When it last, it came the choices I didn't know and knew his name, and even if he was alive, it wouldn't be the same. But suddenly the air was filled with a strange and
sweep of fume life that came from everywhere. Your shadows from the room empties are stood before me with his art wild, and I fell down on my knees and I just clung to him and cry. Then he raised me to my feet, and as I looked into his eyes, the love was shining out from him like some light from the skies. Guilt in my confusion disappeared in the sweets, and every fear I'd ever had just melting in Your Saturday tempas though, do hit the load to mid seventies. Tonight you drop down
to the mid forties. More rain and potential storm chances for your Easter Sunday from you SI, your weather station. I'm nine first one E Meteorologist Cameron Harden on news Radio seven hundred WLW, I'm seven dred w W Sport William Tomlinson, make it count. Brother Sweet sixteen wrapped up yesterday, so the Elite eight begins today. There are two games. First game, Big East champion Yukon faces Big Ten champion Illinois. That game is at six oh nine.
Six seed Clemson faces four seed Alabama in the nightcap today and tomorrow, purduing Tennessee face off in the first Sunday after noon game. And the final Elite eate matchup is between in state rivals Duke and NC State and my Iowa Hawkeyes and Caitlin Clark go at it against Colorado today at three o'clock. Is that correct? Yes, all day basketball, but you should be tuning in to the Reds. It is opening day today for the kids. For the
kids, the festivities begin at one with first pitch at four o'clock. Hunter Green is on the mound for the Reds today, making his first start of the year. Patrick Corbin is on the mound for the Nationals and you can listen to that game right here on the Home of the Red seven hundred WLW FC Cincinnati yep FC Cincinnati is in the Queen City for a tilt against Charlotte FC tonight. The pregame coverage begins at seven. Kickoff is set for seven
thirty. Listen to the game on ESPN fifteen thirty. And a quick Cyclones update. Yeah, Cyclones are at home tonight against the Wheeling Nailors. At the moment, the Cyclones are tenth in the Western Conference. Not good. They've got no goalie. And by the way, there are two Queen Cities. There's Cincinnati and then there's Charlotte. I bet you there's a third somewhere, probably maybe four. Maybe our time's up, you think possibly? Is
it? Eight twenty six. Here's what's trending from the Iheartsports Network presented by Draft Kings Fantasy Sports. Following Gazaga's elimination, that drought for a West Coast champion continues in the NCAA men's tournament, the last being the Arizona Wildcats. In nineteen ninety seven, the Big twelve's best team sees their season come to a close after Houston got eliminated by Duke, and after a day off on Friday, the Reds returned to the diamond. Today it'll be right hand or
one hundred green on the mound against the Washington Nationals. I'm JD. Hafran. Poor cat temptres brought around that fifty degree mark this morning. Rain chances will linger off and on throughout most of your Saturday, but you do warm to the low seventies for your Easter Sunday. Once again, chances for showers, even a few storms. Temperas close to seventy for reach of your weather station. I'm nine First Warning Meteorologist Cameron Harden on news radio seven hundred wl.
Lots of rain, but it's also the north end, the east of Cincinnati right now. The heaviest rain is just south of Richmond, from Connorsville to Eton. That's about it. Right now in Cincinnati, we are dry and fifty degrees at eight thirty five. I'm Sandy Collins next update at nine
on news radio seven hundred WLW News twenty four hours a day. He was a Radio seven hundred WLW Good Morning Kids, Time for gives from Wally a round or two on the Cheap. Guy receives a promotional brochure in the mail for a golf resort, brand new golf resort where everything for this special weekend cost one dollar. He jumps on that offer, heads for a weekend of fun in the sun. He rhymes and plays a round of golf. It cost him a buck. He goes out for dinner that night at the resort,
it cost him another dollar. His room was only a buck a day. The day before, he's getting ready to check out, he hads to play a last round of golf, stops by the pro shop and charges a sleeve of three balls to his room. He's checking out the next morning, he looks at his bill and sees golf one dollar, dinner, one dollar room, one dollar sleeve of golf balls. Three thousand dollars. He's furious.
He has the manager, what is this all about. Everything's supposed to cost a dollar and you charge me three thousand dollars for three golf balls. I'm sorry, sir, but you didn't read the fine print in the promotional brochure. That's what our golf balls cost. He said, what I could have gone to the luxury resort across the street for that kind of money, paid him one thousand dollars a night. At least I would have known what I was paying for upfront. And she says, that's correct, sir.
Over there they get you by the room. Over here, we get you buy the balls. Seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati, available everywhere with the iHeartRadio app number one for podcasting seven hundred WLW and iHeartRadio station. You were a planner, always have willam? Who are you? We are the knights who say no, not the knights who say me the same? Who we are? The keepers of the sacred words ping and me one those who hear them, seldom lifted to the tail. The knights who say them on a sacrifice,
Knights of me. We are but simple travelers who seek the enchanted who lives beyond these woods. Oh my god, Well, the incredible Monty Python from the Holy Grail. As we bring in our friend to talk about sports this morning, Hey, mow, you know what's going on? Do you remember the knights who say me? The best thing? The best thing about that movie has to be The Black Knight who has set at arms and legs, Yeah, and saying come back and fight chicken. It's only a flesh
wound. It's only a flesh food. Oh, so what the only Broadway play I have ever seen? I was in New York for the Big East Tournament and I saw Spam a lot, which was It's obviously the money pipe out of the Holy Grail Broadway production. It's outstanding. Yeah, no doubt, no doubt, an outstanding Talk about an outstanding production. Red's Opening Day. Man, can we bask in the glow of that one more time before
they get up and play again today? For kids Opening Day? My buddy Dave beck With, who who has been in contact with myself and Dick from Dayton for a long time. He was there. He said, he says, I Buckworth, I'm sorry, uh, and I always screw up his last name. And anyway, he said, I caught the first of two of Nick nick Martini's bombs sitting in the right field moon deck and he's here holding the ball, he said, first ball I've ever caught. Now,
that's a superhiwer. That's a souvenir from this Reds Opening day. Yeah, you know, twenty five years from Now, if anyone says Nick Martini, we're gonna remind remember Opening Day twenty twenty four. It's kind of like Joe Rander, right, Joe Randon played for the Reds for four months, but we'll always remember his walk off against the Mets in two thousand and five for
Derek Patrick's homer in twenty nineteen. A guy who was read for one year, but you know that moment on Opening Day is going to stand the test time. Heck, Jason Bossler last year who hit a home run and Opening Dan and was cut maybe three weeks later. So I don't know what's gonna happen with Nick Martini. Maybe he's a red off season long, Maybe he contributes a lot to this team, and maybe Thursday proves to be the high point of his brief time as a Cincinnati Read. But that's the cool thing
about baseball. It's the cool thing about Opening Day. You get likely heroes, you get unlikely heroes, and Mick Martini would certainly qualify as the ladder. Let's switch gears for the Elite eight weekend and two teams that have made it through one expected, one maybe not so much expected. The one expected was the number one seed per Due. They have made it back to the round of eight with their big man, Zach Edy, and they are much more than Zach Edy, I'll give you that, but that's a big reason
that they are there in the position they are in. And then NC State with they're huge, their mamma's big man. I can't remember his name, but DJ DJ Burns is that it? Yeah? Yeah. Now, both these big guys, especially Zach Eaty. When you think of big guys and you think about kind of slow foot speed to a certain extent, you think about lack of mobility. But Zach Eaty has pretty darn good mobility for a
man that size. And I flashed back to my freshman basketball years. We had a guy on our team who was foot six in ninth grade as Ralph Mainland Ralph Mainland proverbial, couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time. But he was tall, and he was kind of a reluctant basketball player. And that flash ahead to me watching Vanderbilt basketball and begin a big fan of them in the eighties and nineties will Purdue kind of when he came in, same kind of thing. This guy, I mean, he's tall, but
that's all he is. But players like Zach Edie are so rare because they have so many skills. You know that you don't equate usually with big guys, and they're big that you can't teach tall. Yeah, I think you know as you you project what he's going to be like as a pro. You know, modern big men are better shooters from outside than they were,
you know, even twenty years ago. You have to be able to step out and pull your defender away from the basket and make you know, not necessarily three point shots, but you've got to be able to step out and stretch defenses and knockdown, you know, perimeter jump shots. I don't know that Zach Edy is going to be able to do that at the next level. Big men are also so much better at passing the ball. I think that's where Zach Edy can can really make an impact. But it's interesting.
I hear people say, well, there's no room in the NBA for Zach Edy, and I go, well, is he going to be a star at the next level. Probably not. There's no room for a guy who's close to seven feet eight inches tall, who has a pretty good set of skills, who defends without fouling, who could offer rim protection, who's a
very good rebounder. And you know, look, he was the National Player of the Year last season, and he came back to college and he's a better player this year, a more well rounded player this year than he was a year ago, which tells you his skill set is still evolving, and so it can't continue to evolve. He's got what you can't coach or teach, which is the size, but the skill set has improved. And if I'm an NBA general manager, I'm interested in whether or not that skill set
can continue to improve at our level, and I think it can. He also strikes me as a really easy guy to root for. I watched an interview he did. I think it was on Selection Sunday maybe, but it was. You know, look, day lost as a one seed to was sixteen last year, and that's sort of you know, loomed over their entire season, and loomed over at least their first couple of NSCAA tournament games. And I thought his answers were awesome and mature. And he's also a guy
that kind of came to basketball late. He's a Canadian, so he played hockey, he played base. Imagine that guy he was a pitcher, Imagine that guy standing on the mound, you know, and came to basketball late. So I think he's really interesting and I'm intrigued as to what they're not. You know, he's he's he's gonna he's gonna be a good pro. But but I I find it interesting that there are a lot of people who
are dismissive about his ability to be a good pro. I found it interesting and I've found it almost uh. I mean I understand the strategy watching West Virginia play Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes, but it reminded me the way they were beating them up physically to try and take the Caitlin Clark factor out of that game. Uh. It reminded me of the Jordan rules and the Detroit Pistons when they just they would just bludget Michael Jordan every time he went
into the lane. They did that to Caitlin Clark. Is that the Is that the path to beat Iowa mo in the women's Yeah, it feels feels like it, right. I mean it's uh, if if we if we foul on every play, we know they can't call a foul on every play, right, It's it's sort of like and they lost last night and Jamal shed got injured. It's kind of like the Houston Cougars. They foul on every play knowing they're not going to call a fowl every time on the floor.
And I think was Virginia employed a similar tactic. And my guess is whoever they run into moving forward is going to do something similar. But I also thought, and just watching that game, as terrific as Kaitlyn Clark is, her teammates stepped up. You know, for all the run that I would get and all the run that Kaylyn Clark gets. They're a one seed for a reason, and Caitlin Clark is the main reason why, but not the only reason. And I think you saw that was Virginia game that that's
the case. Oh and when they were beating her up and you know she was missing some shots in the second half, she still wants That's the thing. She liked Jordan in that respect. She can have a game where yeah she's there, but you don't even notice that she scored thirty two points. Yeah quiet right, yeah, quiet thirty two. I just what are your thoughts as we move forward in the Red season where game number two today kids
Opening Day. I mean, Frankie Montaze was absolutely spectacular in his first start as a Red. You know, six innings. He gave him the solid six that they needed and they're gonna need on a regular basis because of their bullpen Hunter Green. It's it's put up or shut up time for Hunter I think, and hopefully he stays healthy and he's good and healthy. But just the overall vibe of Thursday was just so electric. I mean, it reminded me of last year. Yeah, you know it was that we talked about
it yesterday. If you're to draw the script for what opening Day is supposed to be like, it was Thursday. You know, great weather and excitement for the day, but excitement for the team. You know, we're always fired up for opening day. Opening Day is always a party. But you know, it's one thing when you're just excited that opening day in the baseball season or here. It's something else when you feel like the team has a chance to be pretty good. And some of that was undercut by the injury
that we've talked about. You know, they're not going to have Matt McLay maybe for the entire season, they're not going to have Noel de Marte, which that's not an injury for eighty games. TJ. Friedel's out for a while. Those are really really hard players to replace. But you can mitigate all that by getting really good starting pitching. And the thing that was most encouraging to me, Look, the Reds led the planet last year and walks
given up three Reds pitchers zero walks. So obviously you're keeping guys off base. But if you're not walking batters, that tells me you're being pitched efficient. And it was such an issue with this team last year that they couldn't get through the fifth inning. They couldn't get through sometimes the fourth inning. They rarely could get past the sixth inning because they were walking guys. You
know, Hunter Green's a primary example. If you go back to his opening day start last year, in the third inning he thro it was thirty four pitches. They end up pulling him in the fifth inning. Now, David Bell's got to get, you know, twelve or more outs from his bullpen, and the more outs you have to ask those guys again, I think the more perilous you know you're, the more imperil your team is I think that's the key this year. It's quality, but it's also quantity on an
average basis. If David Bell can go to his bullpen for the last nine out instead of the last twelve or fifteen, I think suddenly this bullpen turns into a weapon, turns into a genuine asset. We saw that on opening Day. We've got to start seeing it with Hunter Green. He's got to be more consistent. He has starts that are at times panalizingly good. I go back to a game he pitched last September last year, He's struck out fourteen Minnesota Twins, a good offensive team, and toyed with them, and
you're thinking, God, this is a cy young candidate. And then you watch some of his starts or it just feels like he's throwing batting practice. With Hunter, what I'm interested in is last spring you heard a lot about how well he's working on a change up. Great, but then the season started, he didn't throw it. He's working on other pitches during spring training this year. Split finger fastball, that's great. Does he trust that pitch
enough to throw it, especially in big situations. If the answer is no, well you know I'm a little bit worried about the results. If the answer is yes, and you add to it what he could already do with a fastball, then boy, the disguised the limit. But you're right, it very much feels like put up or shut up for him. And but nobody denies the talent. And if this starting pitching staff can approach its potential,
this team has a chance to go very very far. Two things, two little things that I saw on Thursday, mos I'm I'm bartending and watching the game. Jake Frayley beating out, beating out the throat of first and that's that's kind of what reminded me of last year. And and the positive thing for me was watching Ellie de la Cruz at the plate actually work a walk. Yeah, yeah, that's what you need to do, Ellie, you know, yeah, you know he did strike out twice, but you're
right, he was. He was a lot more patient. And that's that's the thing with him, right swinging at everything now when he makes contact, when that ball could go a long way, but he just needs to be And this has been the thing that scouts have said about him since, you know, really three years ago in the organization that nobody denies the raw talent, but he's got to develop approach and approach at the plate that's a little bit more patient, and so him working that walk was a big deal.
We kind of got the full Ellie experience on Thursday. Right, he steals a base, he's on base a couple of times, he strikes out twice, he commits a throwing error. I'm still I'm still not convinced that he's going to be a permanent shortstop. I'm still convinced that at some point someone's going to say, let's try him in center field. But they haven't done it yet. He is the starting shortstop. We'll see if he improves defensively. He obviously has a rocket arm. But you're right, that was such
an encouraging sign. If we see more of that and he's more patient and now pictures can't waste pitches and against him, why, it's just going to make him so much more dangerous. Happy Eastern, Thank you so much, Mike Allen. Saturday midday, coming right up, counselor what's going on? I'll tell you what Gary, Jeff. You know, when I listen to you, I learned something. And what I learned just that I'm an idiot. No that you can't teach Tall. I'll tell you what, brother,
that is profound and I've never heard it before. My wife Chris to two point zero text me as I was saying, you can't teach Tall. Damn, I'm going to be five four for the rest of my life. Yeah, honey, that was good. That was good. Now we're going to talk about the debacle at NBC, the hiring and firing of one Ronald McDaniel. What a bunch of cowards afraid to get an opposing view. It is
also a tala two. President's Thursday in New York City, Donald J. Trump at the funeral services for off Sir Jonathan Dillar, as he should be met with the family. H just did what was right. Joe Biden, on the other hand, he's with Obama and Clinton raising twenty five million bucks at the Radio City Music Hall. I mean, what a contrast, you know, No, I mean it just shows you how self serving the Democrats are. Exactly the exactly I'm going to talk to Janis Heisel from the Epoch
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