3-23-26 Scott Sloan Show

I don't want to be an American.

All right, here we go Monday morning. The fun is behind you now, the outdoor fun is behind you, the brief dabbling of summer. And it felt like Florida yesterday here in Cincinnati, record high princh temperatures. And then you head out this morning and back to wearing a jack. That's how we roll in the Queen City. Baby Scott's loan back with you on seven hundred WLW, jumping right

I'm home. I'm home. I'm home. No, it's bad.

They you know, they need to pay TSA immediately.

I mean, there's the votes are there for it.

It's lunny like sometimes the solution is so simple. And the majority leader Senator Soon republic and when said Trump yesterday and just said, look, we can pass a funding build of fund TSA, and Trump said no, yeah, well.

Last go around a well last go around it was okay, so voters playing Republicans for the shutdown TSA and okay, well get back to the most six months ago. And now it's the other way. The Democrats are like, well, they're the ones that are because they want uh they you know, they want these these other things in there with the the voting at the Save USA Act. And I think there's most people looking at like, okay, it's we We keep hearing this movie over and over. Democrats

I mean, it's a it's a leadership piece or issue. Right, So the majority of us in Congress, on both sides, we would pass a funding bill right now that would fund TSA, FEMA, you know, Secret Service, Coast Guard, everything but Ice. As the Ice negotiations continue and it gets stopped at the top, it gets stopped with the Speaker and Fune and fun Tribe yesterday to just go to Trump and say, look, we have the votes to fund TSA and and and you know, let's just go ahead

Okay, but it's sticky, it is. You know, we've got all sorts of problems in this country. And you see these long lines now Brandon and not everywhere. But at the same time, you know, two hour await just to get into the terminal in New Orleans is absolute sandy, especially this time of the year, and it's only going to get worse. I get the same America Act. I

Bad but Sonny I called Halton County just to see, like, how many you know, non.

Citizens you know noted? They said zero.

Yeah, so we don't have said what they're going to do. They're going to prevent you know, tens of millions of Americans from voting because you'd have to go in. Now, if this law were to pass, it's really just to save Trump, you know, Bill, it doesn't It actually would probably be the biggest blowdour democracy of voting rights.

You know, in my lifetime.

But it would it would require you to go in with a bunch of paperwork to prove your citizen to register to vote, as opposed to just having you know, the Rose could right now just check every registrant against you know, the BMV data, right and if there was an issue, he could then send it to that person and say, hey, you're not in the BMV. You know,

I mean, everyone would have to go get new IDs. It's absurd.

Oh I did that with a with a real idea act. I mean, you know. The other cry is as much Republicans talk about these illegals voting, which isn't happening by any measurable maybe a handful in the last twenty years. The other side is Democrats love talking about voter suppression, and yeah, we live in an age man where it's

Well, because you you probably weren't one of the hundreds.

Of thousands of people who were purged.

You know, and and have because I'm alive, not dead. That's why the dead.

People I've met so many of these people who have been they've been voting their entire lives.

Uh.

And the the the voter piece, the I D piece is fine. Like I grew up, I had to show identification was that big of a deal. Now now it's a Now it's an ID, and and and and it's fine, but there are a lot of folks who don't have the ID.

They got to go get. They got to go get. They don't drive, they got to go. You got to go get.

Then you know, a state I D and this would federalize elections and our IDs wouldn't work. So it's it's a disaster either way that he shouldn't be holding uh funding for.

T s A.

I hate the whole well, I mean there's there's also the other, the other political side of the alb but I I just hate the people that you expect these folks to be on the front lines. We're not paying them. It's a second why would anyone want to be a TSA agent now because there's a good chance every six months you're not going to get paid. Representative Greg Landsman on the show this morning, I will set that one aside.

Well, I mean the Krandain chief president is going to have to you know, navigate his way out of this.

And I wish I.

Could, you know, help with the allies, but it does require the commander in chief to pull together a coalition to get the sort of reviews piece resolved the operation itself. Had he just been clear from the beginning and and and said to the American people what was true, and that is, Look, the regime was building back up its missile shield around its enrichment facilities. They're going to try to enrich They're going to try to take the enriched uranium they have I get it to weapons grade. That

This is going to be done. On the next day, I'm going to start blowing stuff up. He needs to be done. That will make a huge difference in resolve of resolving this.

It's exhausting. I mean, one day it's like, hey, we're gonna pull up. Now it's like no, Now we're going to double down, and hey, what would be great if our allies would come help us here? Not well, screw you guys. We're going to go twice as it's like every day is it feels like a year with what's going on right now, I'm not helping himself. But at the same time, you know, as someone who grew up during and remembers the Iranian hostage crisis, screw those guys.

Now, no troops, no troops, no, you know, extended variation of this operation. The operation was destroy the missile shield, get rid of the launchers, the rockets, the missiles.

And the navy.

That will, you know, make it much easier for us to deal with the remaining and rest geranium, which we'll deal with later.

But no ground troops, do not Mission treap here.

Be done, and being done will resolve a bunch of these other issues, including.

The straight of her views.

All right, I want to win the limited time we have left, Greg Landsman, I wanted to get into this, which is something a little more controllable. We had at least a dozen dozens of people at UC on Saturday for a citizen forum on data center proposals spreading, and that would be in Hamilton and Wilmington and Trent in Maysville and maybe I'm Mount oreb and Kentucky and Indiana. They're all over the place, and in Adams County for that matter. And the key concern is energy costs are

I mean, you know, people are frustrated.

They want the data centers that they're going to come in to pay for everything that they use.

It's you know, if they should.

Pay for all the water, although less just the all their remediation, and and and and enough.

With these nbas. I mean, the Ohio is a state.

You know, we're very proud about our open meetings laws and in the sunshine laws.

Uh.

And here you have these big tech companies coming in and signing m d as with elected officials in these towns and nobody knows what's going on.

It's incredibly shady.

And and then you know, electricity bills go up in addition to noise and all other all and a bunch of other issues. So you know, we have a bill, I mean, we're leading the charge on this.

We have a bill called the.

Do No Damage Data Centers which would require number. Trump said, he I I talked to all these big tech companies. They're gonna they're gonna go ahead and pay their their their their own way. But I did it with the handshake.

Ours would be the bill that would codify it.

It would say, look, they have to pay for everything when they come in and go to data. They got to pay for all their water, they got to pay for all their electricity, and no one's rates can go up. And if they don't do that, there will be severe penalties. There are severe penalties in the still and no more nbas.

Yeah, because that is the issue in Adam's gown. I've been following that one out there. That's a good outlier because they're kind of like tip of the spear and they're putting a more toime as Cincinnati did. And I think that was smart on Cincinnati's part, not that I don't know if we're going to get a big data center here in Cincinnati, but kind of pump the brakes

No.

I mean, look, it's coming and we all use it. People think a lot of it is driven by AI, big chunk of it is. But to your point, twenty one devices are plugged in. I mean you're talking about your iPhone and your computer and all those other you get a.

Smart toaster or whatever. It is exactly right. So people are using people are using it.

I mean the question to me is twofold one is who pays and who benefits? And you know big Tech and you know they got billions of dollars. There's some of the richest people in the world. They are the richest people in the world. They should pay. I don't

Up learning how to use this and they are the.

Ones who are going to benefit just as much as anyone else. Otherwise it's going to create, if you know, more unevenness in our economy if we don't, if we don't resolve this, you know, digital divide issue immediately. But the most version thing is who pays for these data centers and our break Let's be very clear, let's protect our.

Towns and our ratepayers. Big tech to pay.

Okay, And it's it's a catch twenty two because we demand this stuff and yet we don't really want the big power suckers that are the data centers out there. It's just a man. I don't mind the state leaning into it saying, hey, we want to attract all of this stuff because it's good for the future, for the foreseeable future, but certainly the environmental, the water, and the

I don't think easing up on the right And I don't know if you said this, but you know we don't want to ease up on the oversight. But yeah, we got a fast track. We got to move these things forward. I think it is It is a It is a good source of energy, but we also need permitting reform. I mean, this country is going to consume an enormous amount of energy and electricity. We've been here before.

You know, somebody was mentioning.

When the air conditioner was invented all of a sudden, you know that we were dealing with something similar.

So you know, we we we can't we can handle.

This, but it does require us to produce more energy, and I want it to be clean and that's a you know, that's a clean source of uh of energy so long as it's safe. And you know that doesn't mean that we have to be you have to have some oversight.

But yeah, I don't. I don't know.

Why we're not continuing to build out these uh these facilities. I mean, it's it's it's been, you know, one of the most reliable sources of clean energy we've ever had.

Yeah, and I think back of the day, when are the protests against it? That was a mistake, you know, people living in the moment. But yeah, I agree. I'm not saying that we should just go, hey, build a nuclear actor. What could go wrong? There's got to be over sight, but I think the regulatory Look, it shouldn't take thirty years to get one online.

No no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, don't have that. I mean we don't, but also I shouldn't. It doesn't take that much time anymore. But you know, we know how to do this, So you know, they're coming up.

With these smaller uh you know.

Plants and these modulars to whatever they're called, and and I think there's real benefit to those, but that still takes a while. So you know, the point is, you know, you either have a moratorm on going back to the data center. You either have a moratorium and say, well, you know, we're not going to build them here, even though you have to build them here because they're they're going to be connected to the grid, or you say we're building them here, but here are the rules, and

Yeah, and I'll make their money back for sure. I wonder you know. I also the one to the point where we make it so onerous that they don't do business in Ohio. So we got to, you know, and you want to bring these companies in. We need them, but we certainly have to set up some rules just to make sure that their abuse is the water. One I think is going to be interesting. That's gonna be interesting fight. We'll save that for later. A out of time. He is Congress and Greg Land's been jumping on the

That is what it is.

That's what government does. We'll get a news updated and uh, maybe some reaction to this. But also remember when the Vice mayor Jan michelleman Kearney wanted to pay criminals not to criminal. I want to pay you not your criminal. We're going to pay you not to criminal. Does it work. Well, We've got some interesting news out of Chicago today. We'll share it with you next Scott's Loan Monday morning. Welcome to at seven hundred WLW Clody here, seven hundred WLW

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We have our own history of community police tension and downtown safety concerns, and we know all about that Riverfront live shooting. It's just that the problem I think that doesn't pass the sniff tests as a pragmatist is the unaccountable cash payments to high risk individuals. And to me, it feels just like a political gesture. Well, the idea is, well, we have to do something. We've tried everything. We need tougher gun laws, Okay, we've had tougher gun laws for years.

Carry, how are you doing great?

And appreciate you helping to get the word out on this. It is a multi billion dollar scam that they soak us for five fifty dollars at a time. You don't even realize that you're being taken.

Many of the signs throughout the country, signs that say scan here to pay aren't legal. They aren't legal. They can't be writing tickets based on these signs. Signs in America, street signs are strictly governed by the NUTCD, the law that you have been living by your whole life. You never even heard about it.

It's the manual on uniform and emphasize uniform traffic control devices. Just substitute signs for traffic control devices. A sign is a traffic control device if and only if it conforms to federal standards. Every state has adopted this law and they can't write a ticket, yet they do every single day of the week if the sign doesn't conform.

And you will all know the signs you.

Just assume because they're the QR codes on them. Now, so carry out its first. As far as Cincinnati goes, we know cities across the country they've they've kind of privatized parking enforcement to tech companies basically, and you mentioned the signage, clear signage, lawful notice. There's app based contracts, there's but they also harvest your data. There's the penalty. Systems will confuse rather than form. So it's kind of

It's getting there. When a city adopts an app, they find that their revenues from parking, both fees and violations go up forty to one hundred and sixty percent just from the apps. And one other thing about the app. You know, and I know there are millions of miners driving the nation's highways. They get their licenses, some as early as fifteen. I think in a least of fourteen and up to seventeen.

You're a minor. You can't enter into contracts. That's why a.

Bank will not loan a child money. And the when you actually download the app and click I accept, you are saying.

I wave my right to trial by jury, I wave my right.

To enter into a class action. I consent to have my data shared with God knows how many different partners that these apps are. I mean it's a question of who don't they share your data with park Mobile, you can sent to have your data stored in foreign countries. And for miners, they're getting the geolocation, the exact location of a minor when they pay for the parking.

And this is just unconscionable. It's unacceptable.

They endanger miners potentially, but they shouldn't be entering into contract and many states now are passing laws requiring parental consent before the minor is allowed to even utilize an app or a game on the platform. I've written takedown notices to Google App Store and Apple App Store saying this thing is rated for four years and up, which means anybody can use it, and yet you're allowing miners to consent to sharing data.

It's illegal, out and out.

I've also sent complaints to the FTC, the Florida Attorney General, the Texas Attorney General, a number of others, the SEC because they're issuing bonds backed by parking.

Revenues that are illegally illegal revenue streets.

So when you said the signs themselves are are legal, like the QR code on the signs, first of all, are those ones that are on public streets? What about parking lots or city owned parking lots, and you mentioned they can't write a citation for that.

Why isn't okay?

So when you have a city owned lot or a private parking facility, different rules apply. But even the city owned lot really needs to comply to some extent with the federal guidelines. So but on street parking, that's what we're talking about here. But if a parking lot connects to a street and part of it is a ivate road, effectively, then the standards apply. The point is they should be using those standards for any government owned parking facilities.

Anywhere.

I mean, for instance, the sign is supposed to be seven feet high. I wish I had a dollar for every sign that was six and a half or five feet high. It's supposed to face oncoming traffic. How many signs have you seen that are mounted parallel to the street. Unacceptable because the whole point of it is uniformity, so that if you're in Alaska or you're in Key West, you can get on the highway, you can see a sign. You don't have to think about it, you know exactly

Does that technicalivy negate? The law?

The enforcement law, absolutely, because if the sign's defective, that is your due process, your notice of the law.

You can't be expected to know a law if.

You haven't gotten notice to obeyl a law, and so anything that comes from that. If the sign is illegal, the tickets they're legal, all right.

Cincinnati uses we have the Cincinnati Easy Park app. But also there's pay by phone which is a third party app and it's in well over a thousand cities. Well, who owns the data collected When a Cincinnati driver or a suburban driver, out of time driver goes in parks in Cincinnati use that app, what can they do with it?

That's a great question.

Now, really effectively, this is a big tech solution for a simple problem. So pretty much the app owns the data. This city might be able to obtain the data or certain portions of it, but the app owns the data.

They own your data.

And look in the remember Ababacare, they said, if you don't get health insurance.

Then we're going to find you.

And the Supreme Court said that's okay, because you do have a choice. But for instance, in the town upon Beach, the President's home away from DC, the winter White House in that town, they have done away with all other forms of payment.

So, in other words, if.

You want to park in Palm Beach, you have to use the app, and that therefore they're forcing you into a private contract.

And that's what all of them are doing.

They all want you to use the app because they don't want to collect meters, they don't want pay stations, they want you to use the app, and they force you into a private contract that's called coerced contracting compulsory contracting, and then it's with a third party, so you have to pay to pay to park sure because they charge you a convenience fee. I don't know who it's convenient for, whether it's.

For them or for you.

But look, it's all on life site, parkscam dot com. The book is there, and I think that you know, it's been allowed to fester for too long. Originally parking leaders served a valid purpose, and that was they didn't want people parking in front of merchants all that long.

Yeah, they went to squat and there basically treated like a parking lot because they want to They want to turn traffic over so people can spend money. Start Sure, and it's now it's turning to well, I think I think Chicago is a great example. They've been knew this for a long long time and that's considered by many people the disaster. But uh, that is like how it gets sold to councils. And you know, we're always looking for money right the city since naw, we need money.

I'm hoping it will be.

I've sued the six municipalities. I have sued three parking apps in the US District Court in in South Florida, and they're going.

To have to account for it.

I've also put in some complaints to the Florida Department of Transportation. They've been very upset about street art that it's not a traffic control device, it's illegal, and it's an opinion said all illegal traffic control devices need to be immediately removed because they're a danger to the road. And yet these parking signs are abundant and the towns, the cities view them as free money, but in the end they.

Really injure merchants.

Downtowns were ruined by parking, and that's why people started going to malls. And the more they this is just an extractive system. They provide you no value, all right, no value whatsoever for parking. We own the curves, right, the public owns the streets, so they're charging you.

You know, I get the.

Fact you need turnover. You don't want somebody hogging all the all the retail, right, yeah, yeah, exactly. And private parking that's a private matter between you and.

The owner of the garage.

But when they use an app, and you can't even park in the facility unless you use the app, all right, so you have a choice. So I won't park there. But for children getting their data shared and basically the app is a data harvesting tool. Would you believe that the app actually creates or has the ability to create a behavioral profile of the user. They know when you go to work, they know whenever you park, and then that picks up patterns and then they market to you

Can you know?

It does the thing that every app should do, which is, if you're running late, you should have the ability to automatically extend time.

So their private club app does that.

They don't charge convenience fees, but they're regular app that the general public downloads doesn't automatically spend time. So if they could do it for the people paying, why can't they do it for the people who are who are just casually.

Carry lots at parkscam dot com and not bad yet Here in Cincinnati, we're talking about the pay by phone app since the easy park is meter payment here in the city has that and everything's enforced by the Parking Division, but the pay by phone app is being used in some lots in other areas, and it's kind of like

Well, you think the sign says that, and a lot of tickets are are actually thrown out when people take time, when you take the time to actually challenge them, and the parking enforcement officer what we used to affectionately called meter maids.

They don't know the law generally any.

Better than you do. All they do is scan your plate. The thing says violation, create ticket, and that's what they do. It's more and more an automated process. They even have cameras that clock you when you come in and then clock you when you leave, and if you stay two minutes over you get a violation. So all of it is just it's just gotten to the point where it's just totally extracted. It just provides no value and it needs to stop.

You mentioned that there's like a constancial gray zone that no regular or wants to claim jurisdiction at the federal state are here in cincinn at the local level. So how does that? What's the gray zone? And who should be mine in the store? Why aren't they?

Well, it's every so the NUTCD that's the bible of the road. It's twelve hundred thick pages of every sign, speed limits, of traffic lights. You name it, markings on curbs, et cetera. And in it every state has had to adopt it. They passed laws generally, and so basically in Florida, the Florida Department of Transportation is responsible to see that this thing is carried out. And they have the ability as well as the FEDS to say, you're not complying

Yeah, but they're making money off it. That's the whole driver this thing, which asked the begs of question. More and more cities each day must be privatizing the parking apps and things like that because they're making money.

Right.

Oh, of course, there was an area in a city here called Riviera Beach, Singer Island, very plush, and they implemented a parking system in a lot that forever had been free and the prices are outrageous. This is what started me off on the whole thing. And they figured they could bring in a couple million dollars a year. Well, except they privatized the entire system where city employees don't

It sounds like it sounds almost exactly like the speed camera thing we had here. It's a profit center. It's not about public right away and enforcement. He's carry lots for more on this. It's parkscam dot com, America's great parking scam. Parkscam dot com carry lots. Thanks for the time, appreciate it, Hey anytime.

Thank you for having me on.

Yeah, the interesting part, but again, you know sinc. Now, we're not yet fully outsourcing this. We do have the since the easy park app, which I think as far as I can tell some about the city, But they do push the pay by phone app, which is a private third party platform like he's talking about here. So it's a mission creep for Warners Forum especially. I mean, you're going to a Reds game in Pittsburgh or Chicago or other cities, they have this there. So just FYI

Good morning, good morning, how are you.

I'm fine. These are horrible stories to read about when you have young people who are dying. I mean kids who are dying are autistic and they wander off and go off the reservation. I think they call it eloping. Is the a formal term when they do that.

Yeah?

Yeah, it is horrifying.

It truly is.

And there is a higher prevalence of it in the autistic child community than in the non autistic child community. All children are attracted to water, but autistic children tend to drown more frequently than non autistic children do. It is called a open yeah, and they run away, they leave, They wander off for various reasons. And one of the things that's important if you're a caregiver of someone who's autistic to understand is what they may be trying to

To meet or want.

They're trying to fill, something they're trying to escape from, So understanding the why can be really important. But yeah, that was a terrible case.

Yeah, the girl, she was nine years older, name was Jenny dimm in Florence, and this happened just last week. And he had about three thousand people looking for at any one time when she lost and then they found her in a pond. And man, we've got ponds all over so we've got, you know, the ninth one passing away this time last year at eight dead, six from drowning. It's just something about that attracts them to the water. The child, the four year old in Deerfield Township. He

I think you could say it's getting worse. And I think there's some disagreement in the autistic community about whether it's getting worse or whether the diagnosis is becoming much more specific. So, you know, things that we used to not understand as being part of the autistic spectrum maybe

And that's usually the case. It gets more granular and therefore identifying it more. And so what you though, they're here from people who are older. Usually that not always, but usually older folks are like, well, back in my day, we never had this. It's all made up because your kid is acting the full and now we claim it's a it's a disease and disorder and not an issue of punishment and accountability, which could be further from the truth. But that I think that still exists.

Well, yeah, it is definitely a neurodivergence. Is it is a brain difference, which is what neurodivergence means, like ADHD is, like dyslexia is like this calculia is I call dyslexia for numbers and that's.

What I have.

I had this calculia. But it's these differences in the way our brains work, and the more sophisticated or diagnostic systems have become functional in oriyes, for example, the more we're able to see the way people's brains operate differently under different circumstances, and so we're finding more understanding and more nuanced understanding of what we used to just think of as the kids in the slow class, for example, or the kids who weren't school appropriate so they were

At least, we just got the hell bait of us. Back then, they hitch a harder right to smack.

That it is.

Yeah, yeah, that's the way it was.

Yeah yeah.

Children with ADHD misunderstood, punished, called lazy, called stupid. Now we understand their brains operate differently, and we need to approach them differently. Autism is similar. Children with autism where the weird kid, the quirky kid, the kid who went to the special school. Now often we understand more about it, and we can help them learn in the way that best suits them and help them maximize their potential, whatever that might be, whether that's really high or somewhat lower

I still do have the numbers dyslexia, for example.

And yeah, just calculia that I got the hell be it.

Out of me for years. I'm really good at reading and but my verbal all those sins are off the charts. And then the math was just terrible and I couldn't do it. So I did not know that it was a bonafide condition until today. Am I Todd the money compensation a better parking spot? Can I get something for this disability?

You're you're entitled to And I'm sorry from every math teacher.

You ever had, Yeah, yeah, used to shame you.

I think if that was true, because I got.

Yeah, I did the math teaching I had.

For being like you, really bright in some areas and could not do my multiplication people when everybody else should.

Rattle them to have a beer multiplication and I could not memorize any of it.

I could not do them, could not do them.

My aunt bought me this, this device. It was like a big I don't know, slider board, you know, and it's like kind of like the flash cards, and it was a hard and you sit and do it by yourself and go, okay, eight times eight. For some reason this day like numbers like eight times six, nine times six. I still have to count of my fingers.

Yeah, I can't remember exactly.

I have workarounds too. And you remember in math class when they said you have to know this. You have to know this because you're never going to walk around with a calculator in your pocket. And now don't we just walk around with calculators in our pockets.

I always believe in technology. I said to listen, you know what, if enough of us, if none of us get fat enough, they'll come up with a pill which just takes the weight off and look where we are, Look where we are, look where we are.

Right.

So, but back to autism, Julie, that's the thing is we have this. You know, the spectrums really wide. We're not quite true like my son experienced young ADHD and all that, and you kind of grow out of it. I mean, but you know, if you're you can do that. But later in life our horses severe.

Yeah, well, not necessarily. As you grow. Oftentimes if you're if you're pretty well functioning, you can develop workarounds. Yes, So for example, you and I didn't outgrow are just calculia. We just developed workarounds, including but not limited to a calculator. But I can do math in my head pretty well because I've worked out a system that makes sense for me, which is not the way I was taught. People who

Okay, we're talking about autism with Julie Harrisher this morning. It's mental health money in the Scots Launch show. Tragically, a nine year old girl died just last week. Another autistic kid finding water and water is that it's a calling for them and a lot of us still don't understand what autism means. I think the most common example is you're at the store, I don't know, you're at your target and child screaming and have an absolute meltdown

Like that, well, I think the first thing not to do is shame the parents or the caregivers or look askance at the child, because clearly the child is overwhelmed. Whenever any child has a meltdown, whether they're autistic or not, their environment has outstripped their coping skills. That's what that means is they are sensorially overloaded in their environment and what it's asking of them has outstripped their coping skills. Autistic children, that happens more frequently and more easily than

Gotcha, Yeah, And it seems to me like the way it's described, and I get it is you know someone with ADHD, for example, and we all to some degree suffer. But if you're sitting in roomy avig like I do, it's like I'm talking to you, but I can hear somebody out in the hallway. I just walk. Somebody watch past I've got I'm watching. I've got Fox News here, They're CNN over there, I've got Sports Center over here.

And also if you're more on the spectrum, the more sensitive you are to that. Often people with autism are often more highly sensitive to sound and temperature and light and plantation touch than those who are not on the spectrum. So take a normal environment that might overstimulate a normal neurotypical person someone with autism who is highly sensitive to

Is familiar to them.

I'm going to leave here and I'm going to go someplace that is familiar to me. But they're not always necessarily aware where that is. Water is a calming, soothing presence. It's also pretty. I mean, sun light on water is one of the prettiest yeah nights out there, so that can be a draw. So it really is about overwhelmed coping mechanisms.

Yeah, because it's part of our DNA. It's part mean. Water is calming, it's relaxing. You take a bath, you know, generally kids like to swim, and that explains maybe explains why we have had nine deaths, including one last week. Talking to Julie Hatter Share our license mouth health expert about autism and and that and that tragedy kids are

Well, if you're the caregiver, I'm sure you have your own skills and coping mechanisms for your own child or the child you're taking care of. So I would hesitate to prescribe anything for someone who's taking care of a child with autism, because they probably know what to do. But for those of us who are the bystanders. The thing to do is just give them some peace, walk on by, let the caregiver take care of it, don't intervene.

Yeah, imagine the caregiver having to do that on a daily basis, right, It's like, yeah, I get it, and you know, he's the lot they're being allowed. It's it's not about your needs right now. And it's unfortunate because I mean, if you're waiting to get on a plane, let's say, and waiting in a twenty hour line of TSA, that's where the child's gonna have a meltdown. And so you know, we kind of all got to do it.

That's that's where a competent adult is going to have a meltdown.

Yeah, I might have a melt out right right right exactly. She is at Hey, Julie at bconnected dot Care Practice out of Clifton. If you any questions, concerns, or if you have an idea for a future segment, let us know. Julie, we'll talk next Monday. Have a great one. Thanks you too, appreciate it. We'll do news on the way in just minutes here and if you're using a public parking app you could be getting ripped off. It's not quite here in Cincinnati, but it's coming just ahead. Seven hundred WW.

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This is seven hundred WLW, So rewinding a little bit, we'll play it back. The last week Supreme Court of Ohio did not act a judging Franklin Connie denied a temporary restraining order and it all died on the vine. And by the start of March Madness officially the start of all the tournaments. THT beverages are banned in Ohio bars and breweries, and Cincinnati's Fifty West and many other businesses were left kind of holding the bag on it.

Thanks for having me on.

I appreciate it.

Yeah, so the Supreme Court didn't act and the tro was denied and the band is effect. How many people showed up and maybe not aware of this and come to fifty West in one of your locations and said, hey, yeah, I want one of those THHG and fused beverages. Were people kind of caught off guard by this?

Well, I don't even know if we want to talk about people that showed up unexpected, I think more we can speak to the people that showed up the last day it was available, Okay, I mean, Sonny, there was we had.

We had people coming in and out of the place NonStop.

We obviously had the customers reach out the day after and go, oh shoot, I missed I missed the boat. Now I can't buy this stuff in Ohio? What am I supposed to do? But the support for these products have been it's been overwhelming. I mean, I never it's honestly been kind of fun to just fun to watch it from as an outsider. Right, it feels like a real movement happening in the state.

Yeah, and that's sad that we just killed us on the whim of the governor. I will point out You had a great post on social said, yeah, we we were taking four semi our tractor tows, four semi loads of the product of the thh and fused drinks and we're taking them down to Kentucky where it's perfectly legal. What kind of messages that's a not but that you're doing, but by the state of Ohio. And let me particular, Governor de Wine.

Yeah, I mean from us, let's talk about like, why does this matter to me? And why do I care so much? It's about jobs at my at my company. It's about people that work for us and not you know, we ship that stuff into Kentucky. That's great, that was stuff we made, but we're not allowed to make it anymore. And we got people that work in our business, great people that have done great work to create something that

I mean?

And so that's that's what stinks. It's you know, what, you want me to pick my pickup or manufacturing and move into Kentucky. It's it's right like that's that's where it gets a little bit difficult. So we're working through that right now. I would say this fight's not over. I think it's gonna get really interesting here in the next week. If this was a football game here, you know, we're we're under two minutes.

I do see a way to score.

You see a path I want to get in that just a second. But I got the opinion of Scottie Hunter was on a couple of times with me from our urban artifact. You guys are enjoined in the suit with two other manufacturers and it didn't go anywhere. Have you ever gotten to your satisfaction as someone who brings money into the state of Ohio, you know, you generate a lot of tax revenue for the state and the

Well, let's go a.

Little bit back on that. I mean, fifty six was not good when it started, and we still it wasn't and we worked to get it there. And kudos to our General Assembly. They did a great job right in that bill. I mean we were asking to go probably seventy miles an hour, and they told us we could

Right, And that's the frustrating. Give me a reason why, and you're thinking and and it tends me because I know Mike do Wan. I have talked to him many times and seems like a you know, a guy who's a little bit more moderate, willing to listen, but in this case, his mind and his mind's been made it for years. I remember when hell I was on at night, I'd have him on as Attorney General when he was Attorney general, and he's just got this thing about marijuana.

Oh I mean we were our production. I've been put into perspective. You know, we would have manufactured more THHC beverages this year than we would craft beer. And we're the probably between the third and fifth largest brewer in Cincinnati. I mean that it's a major, major driver. And the other breweries throughout the state or feeling the same thing.

There is a path here, Okay, there is There is.

The ability to overturn this, all right, So let's get into that. I just had Friday, and I've had them many times. Of course. The author of fifty six Senate Bill fifty six Steve Huffman from Tip City, and he was a little bit more optimistic as well, from a legislative standpoint, but from a business owner who's really, you know, face it right now, having to get rid of all this product you can't manufacture at more in the state of Ohio. Where do you see the optimism here? Give

There are the votes in the House right now to overturn this, it has to be brought by the Speaker, Matt Huffman. Matt doesn't have the opportunity to bring it until the Senate votes on it. And it's pretty apparent that there's also the votes in the Senate. We've talked to Steve several times. His initial concern was there weren't the votes in the House. Then the vote in the House showed up. Now we said, Steve, the votes in the House are there, bring this up to the Senate.

I don't know if we can get this through.

So what we got to figure out is how do we put the pressure on our Senate president and our Speaker of the House to bring this to vote.

Because if they bring it to.

Vote, the votes exist within the people that we elected overturn this. And I've heard that directly from them. We are we know it's there. So our question right now is, hey, let's bring.

It to a vote.

I mean, if you bring it to vote and they vote it down. Great, But why are we not bringing this to vote is the real question right now. And Steve has a lot of power because he wrote the bill. We're a little confused why he keeps flopping on you know the reason we're not bringing it to vote?

Yeah, and I know the Attorney General is involve The AG's office was involved in this as well, and trying to get a file a response I think to the Supreme Court case as well. I think the concern is from maybe not Steve, and I don't want to put words in his mouth, but the concern was that, Okay, the governor's override didn't take back for ninety days, so

Well, but you're having the same fight federally, and we anticipate that that's going to get extended. If you look at the bill that they wrote, they clearly documented in that bill guidelines for for when it reopens. So in the in the meantime, why are you shutting out all the businesses in Ohio and giving us an opportunity? Right, you're just behind well, I mean you shut our manufacturing down. Why did you shut our manufacturing down? If that's the case,

Well, that would make sense, Bobby, that's the problem. That's the same that you and me and someone listening go, well, that's a sensible thing. Let's just wait to see what the Feds do. And you know, is is ten months really going to be that big a deal? Probably not. But Bobby's ladders here. He's the founder of fifty West Brewing, you know, talking about the fallout from the THC Beverage band which he had. Of course, all these business is

I mean it's federally legal. So there's a few that don't. California doesn't. A lot of times in the states that that don't allow. It has to do with marijuana's blocking on gotcha. So but you know, I would say it's it's probably it's great. It's greater than half the states in the United States.

We don't want any parties we want we're Ohio and we want no part of it.

Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, everybody bordering us.

Right, you're good, you can over there.

So if you live in Cincinnati, if you live in Toledo, you go ahead, drive over the border, have some drink. You can drink and drive more. Presumably that's not a problem with the THC beverage. That that's a problem right there. All right, So the fast track here then is what so give me, give me like the sunshine. This goes on and eventually the federal government comes to their senses. I don't know how much sense they have with the

I mean, I'm I'm not an odds maker. What I can tell you is there is there is a real will amongst the people that have There's a lot of people out there that stop drinking alcohol, that turn to these as sort of an alternative, kind of a step between an na beverage and drinking alcohol.

Yeah, so they really care.

There's a lot of people that care about the fundamentals of how me to override you have that. And I would tell you there's a lot of businesses out there that the worst thing and I'm going to steal some words out of out of the you know, the founder of Jackie O's art O Strike, he said this, you know the other day, but the worst thing you have to do as a business owner is light people off.

It's it's literally horrible.

You don't want to have to do that, right, So all of us are now faced with that, we're being faced with that.

And when you face people with that, they're gonna fight.

We're not.

This is this is, this is not you know, they got us, they got us pinned up against the wall. They you know, they got our hands against our throat. We're going to fight back. And so I think you're gonna see that from all these businesses coming up, and you're gonna see the people that are disappointed with their drinks.

Well, you also have eight months to convince the federal representatives, Senate and the members of the House that this is a good thing people wanted, they consume it, and and you've got time to fight that. I think the problem with you guys was you had this petition drive, but you didn't have that long to get the necessary signatures

Well, you know, that's also the referendums was a little bit of a different you know. That was that was suggesting the market completely open. Back in the time, you know, no age gating.

No, they were saying, hey, throw Central fifty six out.

I think we liked Centel fifty six here in Ohio, and we're in favor of it, you know, the beverage manufacturers are. And so that's why the referendum was a little tricky. That was another piece to it. That that that hurt with getting signatures was just that, you know, it was It wasn't all orenough scenario. What we're saying is, let's stick with the rules and regulations that are you know, we want to regulated market.

He wrote a regulated market. Let's let's abide by it.

But let's abide by the one that was sent to the governor, not the one that he's made the decision on.

The in eight months, so let me ask you, we're almost out of time here, Bobby. In eight months, though, can you flip a switch and start if the Feds are legalized you or say it's okay, can you just flip a switch and start production. Ramp that up, and in the next eight months roughly what happens are those jobs.

No, if the Fed, you know, change the thing November. It's illegal in Ohio.

It's this is legal federally.

Right now, isn't. And that's the FED to say, put their foot there.

Governor Dwan has decided to make it illegal in Ohio. So and if and you know, we're working on the federal front right now. I'm not coming from a lot of different states to change that. And so that's going to get changed. But Ohio is going to be good because our governor, you know, changed it. So that's that's where we're staying.

Yeah, so you got to lean on him more. I get the nuance there. I just wonder how many jobs are going to be lost because you can't keep people on who aren't producing what they were hired doing for long.

Yeah, you can't sit around for eight months. So I think that that that's that's why we're asking. We're looking at you. I gotcha the Speaker of the House and the Senate President to say, hey, guys, you know, let's let's let's put the bill for it that you guys voting on and sent it.

I can't say I like THC, but not in the liquid form. It's fine. It's okay. I'd rather have a beer or a bourbon. That's my thing. But you know what I hate when government oversteps and tells otherwise hardworking, god fearing, tax paying good citizens what they can and can't drink or put in their body. It's not up to you, it's up to me. Provided there's testing, provided there's health department oversight, and those other things that need

How we doing, Sony? The Reds always test their depths. It doesn't matter how much they've got of it, they use it all baby.

Yeah, before the season even starts. So Nick Lidolo is pitching, everything's going good, and then all of a sudden, it's not. Now We've got a second pitcher down with a blister. And it's nothing new. He's battlest his entire career. He said this spring he was taking some preventative measures. But you know, if those measures don't hold the March game, what are the realistic options for the Reds to manage this through one hundred and sixty two games.

Well, and I think that there is a special circumstance with this because Arizona was something close to Mercury as far as the temperature goes. This past week, they were moving games around, pushing huntil later in the day, and so I think that there was just something to it that pushing too hard, too fast, or something like that. But still, you're right, we're talking about a guy that there's been one problem in his career and he continues

Yeah, but we know this is a pattern for him. And the question now is just a skip a star situation? What are we talking an idea?

I think that ultimately they probably will simply because there's not one more tune up that they can play with, and maybe they give him an extra bullpen session or something like that on the side here to make sure that everything holds up in normal weather for this time of year, for the place that he is used to being at, rather than you know, arid, dry condition. So I think that ultimately they probably will skip that first start against Boston and then we'll see him when the Red's hit the road.

Okay, good, that makes sense. So he misses a little time. Who steps in Louder Burns, Williamson, what are we looking at?

I think it probably just kind of crunch this rotation up. I think that you would be fine to move Brady Singer into the second game of the Boston Red Sox series, and then you would see redt Louder in the final game on Sunday and then on Pittsburgh. I wonder a little bit because they'll add that bullpen spot or well, they won't put him on the IL, I don't think, because he'd only miss one start, but well, you know, so they would play around with the roster a little bit.

Yea, and Tito said already that we'd be revisiting that situation within a couple of weeks, you know, and so trying to figure out who emerges as a clear number four. Was that made any more evident in this last week full week of play in Goodyear.

I think that Brandon Williamson is really separating himself. He has had a nice spring, and while I've tried to take it with a grain of salt, it just seems like every time he goes out there he has a good outing, and his most recent outing he pitched five plus innings, So it kind of looks like he is ready to go and be relied on. And if you are going to see Nickelodella miss more than one start, I think you can work Chase Burns up in that first start, maybe even the second start. He goes five

Yeah, He's Jeff Carr. So the Car Show, Baby and Lockdown Reds is the podcast last weekend of full play. I think they break we break camp tomorrow and then head back for Thursday. Opening day will be live at Holy Girl Banks is always starting at nine o'clock, Me, Moegger and everybody, everybody, everybody up until game time. So hundred Green is out to at least July. Pretty huge hole there, obviously, with your ace going down and trying to hold it together. Andrew Abbott's getting the started an

All reports indicated he is ready to go, and his most recent start, he got his pitch count up really nicely. And I know that a lot of folks continue to belabor the statistics and I don't think they will have too many worries after his opening day start.

Okay, good, that's fingers crossed hopefully to go. We know you mentioned Brady Singer dodge a blister scare of his own. How important is it for him to stay healthy this year?

He is the rock in the middle of the reservation mate thirty two starts last year, first treads start to make thirty two starts since the Red Side guy's name, Louis Castillo and Tyler Malley shown up for him every fifth day, so it's been a little bit there and I continue to expect him to do that again, and it sort of earmarked the top four. And as much as we are seeing you know, Hunter Green missing half the season or more and Nicolodolo is already dealing with

Gotcha, Cayleen Ferguson is going to start on the el all. He's got a MRI coming up this week, I think Wednesday. Back here in Cincinnati, bullpen supposed to be a big strength after the rebuild this offseason. How much losing him does that hurt? To calculus here?

It's not as bad as you would think in years past, because the year the Reds saw their biggest weakness in the bullpen being their lefties, and when you know, last year, for the much of the year, it was just Brent Suitor and he wasn't really even a lefty specialist. He was more of a long relief specialist. The Reds needed to upgrade that and so that's why they signed him. They traded for brock birth and they kept Sam maul

Okay, Sam mall also made the team, and Tito talked about his stuff looking a lot better late in camp. Is he a legitimate back end weapon or is he is he a roster filler? While Ferguson recovers.

Honestly, if he could pitch like he pitched in twenty twenty four. He could be a legitimate weapon. He was a guy that was super good at limiting opponents whenever he came in. I kind of had this stet that I never really came up with a good name for a very relief pitcher that came in, didn't allow base rounder and got at least one strikeout and Sam Mall led. That was second in the team to Alexis Diaz that year. But I mean, I think a lot of people would have been surprised by that.

Yeah, And that's what we need. We need We need another statistic in baseball. We need a new plan every year.

I looked at the long list and I'm like, flony, there's there's.

Not enoay, there's not enough data. More I demand, I demand more data. He is Jeff Carr with lockdown, right, all right. So that's the pitching situation which has been pretty frightening here in the last couple of weeks, with the injuries, the blisters, of course, losing your your opening day ace, Caleb bur Ferguson on the bullpen. What can make up for that and cover a lot of problems there? If indeed we have problems would be, of course, the

I think that there are elements to it that are real. I'm not going to expect him to hit over three hundred for the season, but there's a very key thing that he has done this spring that he just hasn't done so far in his two year career, and that is he has cut his chase rate almost I mean almost by ten percent. His career chase rate is at twenty seven percent and this year, or sorry, twenty five percent. And this spring he only swung it pitches outside the

Okay, good, Yeah, and he's it looked incredible so far as it has for Ellie. He just continues to do Ellie like things. He's healthy, he looks good.

I mean, we saw a couple of different situations in the spring where he either walks where he gets a single and then you blink and he's on third. And that's exactly what we need from him in games where he might not have his best stuff with the bat, as long as his legs can carry him forward. He's a five tool guy. Yeah, you know, if all five of those tools are working like we've seen the spring, then we are going to see the superstar that we know that he can be.

Gotcha Noelvie Marti had some some shaky moments in right field defensively, Tito said he made the club for sure. So what's your honest assessment. Who's watched a lot of spring training honest as seven of Noelvie Marti as an everyday player for the season starting Thursday.

You know, like the old cartoons or something where somebody he's like trying to figure something out and so they hold up a big spyglass to something. I'm still holding up a big spyglass to Noelvi Marte when he's fielding right now. I got to figure out what that looks like. Because obviously he had the best play of the year

And then also the bench too, love the fact that they resigned to a Vigno Platinum glove catcher send Multilegit. That's awesome, Will Benson. Obviously, Nathaniel Low who made the club despite a lot of personal trauma during spring training, but he still showed up.

You know, Nick Kral must be living right because for NATHANIELO to be available for nothing, and that's what the Reds got him for was nothing, and he's going to be a key part of this team for this year because I think that he's going to bounce back in a big way. He's a guy that his career has been good. Last year was not, and so if he can just get back to what the back of his baseball card says, then he is going to be an

Okay, good should be interesting. Ready to play some ball. Sunday, we got a little taste of what summer's like for like twenty I felt like you're in Florida for twenty four hours and then back to reality. But the forecast looks good so far. To get this one in and he is Jeff Carr with Lockdown Reds this Morning on seven hundred WLW all the best, buddy, Thanks for coming in this morning, and I'm ready for some baseball, for sure.

It's funny. Same here, man. I can't wait. Just a few days left. The games will count, It'll be fine. Can't wait. Go back all right.

We got pictures going down. We got warm weather for twenty four hours, now back to what feels like the deep freeze. We've got a crisis, Iran. We're pulling out. No, no, we're doubling down. And we've got the DHS funding stop and the partial government shutdown, meaning there's long lines and a lot of airports in the country right now. We got Chuck Norris died on Friday for crying out loud. We got a lot of stress. I'm speaking of stress.