3-25-26 Scott Sloan Show

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It's got a Solon show on seven hundred WOLW twenty four hours before the Grand Show with the Holy grail Banks Opening Day twenty twenty six on the Home of the Red seven hundred WW.

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Gonna cost you a little bit more to get downtown for the Fidling Market opening Day parade or the game itself, as gas today costs more than it has in nearly four years. Lowis Price for you is about three twenty six in Hamilton according to gas Buddy, but the average is now very close to four dollars a gallon, which is on par with the national average. So we have a Ran shutting down the Straight of hor Moves. That's

He's actually Landman. Landman is on the show Dan Good morning.

How are you good.

Good morning, Good morning.

I'm doing well.

By the way, I'm sure presumably you've seen the show uh Landman, which is one of the best TV shows Tyler Sheridan. You just could continue to hit it in the park. But how accurate is a lot of stuff that happens in there.

I think it's I mean drama dramatized, but I mean I would say it's accurate, but it's more like, you know, there's weeks and weeks of normalcy and then an episode not back to.

Right.

Yeah, because I mean, I mean, if your life was actually like Tommy, your head would explode. I mean, there's no human It's just you can't have that much coming at you when one day it's impossible.

Oh yeah, yeah, no, it's it's you know, look, the oil business is a business like any other, but just it it gets chaotic at time. This is this is one of them.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's a great it's a great watch.

Yeah.

And and of course you know then there's the ex wife reality too, but that's that's probably true in life as well. So Dan, you know, I know that you've been doing this for a long time and been covering energy markets for decades. So put it on a scale of one to ten, How serious is this hor Mooz crisis compared to others disruptions you've seen in your career?

Oh, I mean this is probably a twelve. I mean this is I think this is a bigger deal. You know, I've been kind of going back to these seventy foil shocks, and for the world, I think it's a bigger deal. For the US, I think it's not as big of a deal because of cracking and we are more self sufficient than we were. But look, the news stories are mostly about the straight of hor Moods, which is extremely important. But something that I feel like at least slightly being

Years to rebuild, which means four dollars gallon gasoline is here to stay.

Is that you're saying, No, I think in the open for Moods, I think we'll see guys lean praise is fall a gallon again in the US within two weeks. But I think for Europe this is this is a bigger problem for European but it's a pretty big prompt the entire.

If we actually de escalate, Dan, you're breaking up a lot right now. Let me I'll reset for a second here. Maybe you can get the higher ground, get a better sell. We saw Brent crude hit one hundred dollars a barrel early this month of the first time in four years.

Uh one, twenty six is peak.

The closure has been called the largest energy supplied to our disruptions, you said since the nineteen seventies. I don't think that's overhyped at all. But if we get to one fifty a barrel, we're talking five dollars gasoline. What's the reality this summer here in Cincinnati, in the tri State for that to happen.

No, I think I think we're you know, four dollars a gallon. I think we hit a demand destruction at five dollars a gallon. I think we're looking at people trying to, you know, use eight to ten percent less gasoline, which is a lot of trips not happening.

Yeah, I think the CEO of United said that. You CEO of United just said that our gas prices are probably going to go up twenty percent. Your ticket costs go up twenty percent basically, and they're going to spend eleven billion dollars on fuel this year. So if you have a trip plan, you better book it right now because you're if you wait till the last minute, the cost is going to go through the roof.

Yeah. No, I think that we're going to be seeing that all all over the economy. And like I said, you know, every everything is the fact that you know, the price of rubber, the price of your Amazon delivery, the price of your over, the price of your plane ticket. Oil factors into everything. So it's something we should all watch out for. And I think it if this doesn't end soon, we're going to see consumers tighten their belt a little.

Yeah.

Dan, you mentioned that, you know, the hormones closure doesn't really affect the US as much because we produce so much of our own oil, but experts kind of push back on that and saying that it's because it's it's a global oil market. Everything goes into the same kettle, so to speak. No matter where it comes from from the Earth, it all goes in the same supply. So if something goes wrong anywhere prices go up everywhere, and you mentioned also fracking and of course alternate fuel sources

Well, I you know, I do venezuela thing will help us in the long term. I don't think it's a fix for this because they need infrastructure to it. Yeah, that takes time and money, but I do think Look, you know, I pushed back a little bit on what you just said, because there's two prices for world oil is thought of in WTI and bread, right, there are two different prices, and the US market is mostly self contained. We import about eight percent of our oil, A lot

Yeah, yeah, I mean I guess if we're self contained, so it would be worse. It hits us less, but that that gives our economy a distinctive advantage then too, if we have a reliable supply of oil, and granted our prices will go up just just because it's going to but maybe not as the rest of the world. That gives us a pretty strategic advantage.

Then, oh no, I think this is relative to Europe. This is good for us. And then one of the one of the things not being covered is the oil price really affects the price of fertilizer, which is actually a very big deal in the African economy, and they're going to be hit very negatively by by all of this.

He's Dan Eberhart, oil gas industry insider on the show this morning. And the reality of five dollars a gallon gasoline, we could see it the summer is what a lot of experts are saying right now.

And who knows.

I mean, again, our supply is much better than the rest of the world ward and again we love drill Baby drill because of that too. Is they keep cutting the straight of her moose off every few years, and this is what winds up happening. And it's not just a physical ball play, but I think it's interesting too. The inside baseball thing here is insurance withdraw You know, there are risk premiums have gone up four or five times, meaning the outcome for cargo flow is largely the same

Sure, typically the insurance is is maybe three or four percent of a shipment, and these oil tinkers very uh you know, I'll to one hundred million, one hundred and fifty million barrels of oil. So these are these are giant investments for people that are very expensive to ensure. That insurance through the straight and pour moves is now on my understanding, costing fifteen to sixteen percent of cargo

Yeah, obviously the risk goes up, the cost of insurance is going to go up as well. And that's just one of those unseen add fees that that that we all pay for when we go to the pump.

Yeah.

No, look this this it reverb rates to the cost of everything and it's driving everything out. Another point I'll make is, you know, in the US, we spend three or four percent of our consumer spending is on energy, and a lot of third world country it's something like nine to eleven percent. So though you'll see for those folks, it's gonna it's gonna hit even even worse.

Yeah, uh, Dan, I do a lot of my good thinking, if you can call it that, on the toilet. I know about you, but I had a kind of a said, you know, we have the Panama Canal and I'm looking in my head in my mind, and I'm picturing the strain of horor Moves, which is like a peninsula just kind of juts out there, and the problem is there's a choke point and Iran can easily shut it down by attacking any ships that go through there. So it's very pretty narrow through about thirty miles wide. If we're

I mean, in the long term, you could have a pipeline, but the problem is that you know, pipeline is going to take within years to build. Yeah, it's not something that can be done in ninety days at all.

Right, Well, that would be far more for future proofing. Right at some point the Gulf States, who are pretty much united against Iran right now, is the rest of the Middle East. It seems that that'd be a good thing. That was like, hey, listen, if we just start doing pipelines now and it's going to take thirty years to build, sure, but who knows what that nation's going to look like in thirty years. It could be worse than we have right now. It seems like that'd be a good hedge against the bet.

Yeah, that's the scary thought that it could be worse. I think it would be a good head But I think if somebody's got to be thinking five to ten years in the future, not about the next ninety days for that to happen, and it has happened.

I forgot.

We're living in the in the day and age of investing groups of course, and sharks and everything else, and yeah, we don't even think about the next quarter. We're thinking about the next day right now, let alone thirty years from now. There's no long term planning in any business. I forgot, I forgot what year I live in here for a second, there, Dan, So the it's about twenty million dollars, twenty million barrels a day, I believe is

In the long term, US producers can produce more, in Saudi Arabia can produce more, but again that's something that takes time. The way that I look at the problem is it's like a twenty percent of supply problem, and the buttons of the US government has are like one percent button. So I mean, we can do, you know, release the strategic particularly and reserve it coutentially the thing that I've been advocating for to spend the national gas

Yeah, Dan, I know you're you're a pro Trump guy, yourself a Republican, And I read something or you said, you warned that steel chairs make the industry less competitive against opek.

How does steel relate to what we're talking about.

Here, Well, you know, he goes he goes into the drilling process, the wellheads that we sell, cantry and the drilling you know, drilling rigs and all this stuff are all you know, you have metal components, so to because the battle goes up and makes the.

Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, okay, I get I get the connection there. Yeah, because you've got to pay if you're you're you know, it's not like the uh, the equipment you use to drill and add infrastructure is going to last forever. You've got to replace it. And so steel goes in. Once the pipe's in the ground, it stays there. It's not like you pull it back out like a drill.

Bit.

I get that fifteen million barrels a day though, or twenty million, it's not easy to offset everywhere. That's pretty much the total production of the United States, and we're the biggest producer in the world. That that's the squeeze right there. We're cranking out right now as much as we can. You run an oil field services company, land Man, when you hear there's no easy fix, is that this is that practical. There's got to be there's got to be something we can I mean, we.

Can us production kIPS potentially go up, you know, five million barrels today, but again that would take a higher cost than you're seeing now in time. There's no easy There's there's no fix other than opening the straight There's no fix. And I think what we're going to find out is a lot of the infrastructure and the lease has been damaged and will take a while to come back online.

Trump is going to release or talking about releasing, or has released I guess one hundred and seventy two million barrels from the strategic polt patron, you know, Biden at every president, I think feels like is they've done that, and it doesn't move the needle at all, because it's it's literally a spit in the ocean. I was told I was reading something from a gas buddy before you came on this morning, and there an analyst said, there's a warning a double headwind.

I believe it is what they call it.

You've got the supply shock with a RAN and the I mentioned the open normal seasonal transition to the more expensive summer blend glass line required by the clean air RAG. So what does that mean in real dollars for people listening this morning?

And I think there's a lot of upward pressure on the gas price. And I was back to then into your summer plans and your family.

Yeah, there's no claw in that money back. And you know we're twenty percent from the CEO of United Airlines, So book now, I guess the is the mantra here. Goldman says that the eight stays closed for more than two months, oil could stay above one hundred and ten bucks a barrel through the end of twenty twenty seven. And they've already pushed their uh first Federick cut call back to September because the oil are we is this gonna af factor in the stagflation in your opinion?

I think I think potentially. So look look here here's the thing. If they if they say in an hour they're going to open the straight offour moves, I think to get I think it will take six months to get the closed back to.

The law six months.

The market, yes, the market. The market spoof the owners of the vessels are spoofed. The people on the vessels are spoofed. I mean, look, if they said they were opening it and now which you wanted to, would you win on the first ship going through this?

Yeah, because somebody doesn't get the memo.

Right, Yeah. So I mean if it's if it's your life and these things move incredibly slowly, and what they're doing to be so fast boats like the cigarette boats and basically comic cosy drones to plow into the side of these things. So really the cosi figurette.

Yeah, and you know you can have the United States Navy the best fighting force in the world. Those small craft are gonna be very difficult to stop no matter how many drones or anything else you have activated. You know, could be subs, could be anything. They're gonna be really really hard to get because of the size and just how slow these targets move. He again on the show this morning is Dan Everhart. He's an oil gas industry insider,

Thanks thanks uh thanks for thanks for having me.

I appreciate you, buddy. Thanks again. I know you're a busy man. Not the news you wanted to hear, but that's the reality. So planning, planning, planning, Do not wait till the last minute to book your travel for the summer. The gas prices are gonna go up before they go down. Scott's Loan show with News on the way in just

Here we go again, but on Netflix.

That's another thing too, is how many different platforms do I need to watch my teams? That is going to be the I think the question for us consumers, and we're fans, but we're also consumers that we're going to have to face right now if you want to see a show or football, is that way too?

Okay?

We have games on CBS, we have you know, we have games on Fox, all right, but then some games are on Paramount, other games are Netflix. Then you got something that are I don't know, food TV. The thing was streaming is great because we have so many different channels.

And all this.

There's stuff on there that you probably haven't seen for years. Amazon Prime is unbelievable. You go to the Amazon Prime shows in little they're like you could watch. You can watch old episodes of Cheers or all these old shows. Great if you were like vintage TV or off brand movies or movies that have been out longer than ten fifteen years. They're on the streaming platform. So you can see anything all the time. There's always something to watch

I don't know what's going.

All I do is want to watch baseball because that means summers here speaking of technology, with Netflix and all this, did you know this nearly every router, and the router is the device that goes from your signal. Let's say you get spectrum or I don't know, you have fi optics, and that comes to your house and then the signal is put into the router and the router goes to your WiFi and that's like yourself or you just go

Router.

There's like that's like I figure the percentage doing only a huge set of share of the market. But the concern is that they are putting software in there, malware actually embedded into the chips to be able to see what it is you're doing. And we think it is a huge, huge defense issue, not just for the Pentagon, but for me and you as well. Were very vulnerable ast thing, and so the FCC crackdown and said, well, you know what the ones, the shells ones, you have

Look, I've got ideas, I'm good. You mailed to my house. You know where I live.

You've got my taxi, You've got all these records. You could cross jack. You're verifying my signature. Okay, you're verifying my social Security and all these things. You know who I am and who I'm saying. We know that people who are voting by mail are not committing fraud. Yet now we've got to add a photo copy of your license. Well, you can't see me.

On us.

I don't know, like when you said it to they do you have to like FaceTime them to say, yeah, I just mailed this and it's me.

It's just it's stupid.

But it's just more politics getting the way of us enjoying our lives. It's easier than ever before to vote. I've said this many Democrats. I just had Greg Lansman on the other day. The idea every time that someone proposes something it's voter disenfranchisement. It's you're not disenfranchising anyone. You should have some form of identification on you if you're an American, Okay, you should have a government issued ID, a driver's license. It's really not that much to ask.

It just makes it.

You know, we're creating a problem that really isn't there because our you know, you talk to someone like Frank Larrose, who's caught in the middle of our Secretary of State, you'll tell you know, Ohio elections are extremely secure.

We just don't have fraud.

And yet he's got to top the company line about there being enough fraud to introduce new legislation.

So it goes. But the idea that you know, well they're making.

Now, no, all these people, hundreds of millions of there's ten hundred, two hundred thousand people are not gonna be able to vote.

Now stop.

Look, you know at some point you do have to be responsible and engaged in to a participate in the process, to particip be in life. If you're so clueless is the not know un ID or government ID and you really really want to vote, then get off your asking get an ID. I don't know how hard that is quite honestly. Now tomorrow they may come up with something else, and you know the whole I've got to include a photocopy of my driver's license.

How many people don't have printers.

It's just it's kind of silly, but the very basic essence, how do you live your life these days without having a formal ID presenting who you are if you need And I'm not saying suggesting the police and government agents stop and check your ID, check your papers, We're not talking about that. I'm talking about you want to participate in stuff. You need to show who you want to travel, you want to do all these things. You want to

CBG is doing well.

And I think it's also misrepresented a lot of cases, probably, And I don't watch a lot of you know, the media's Republicans like the shout out of like most people look at their phones and get information. I'm not watching, you know, sitting down and watching the nightly news. I don't even know who does the nightly news anymore. It's old school. But in that regard, yeah, it's you know, you're gonna show long lines at airports because you know

We're good. Of course, you got a wedding or something like that, different story.

But yeah, the thing is, I don't know, I wonder how busy their offices are, or even their local office and general they're not staffed, but you know, they have offices in their district that are just storefronts basically, and there might be somebody there, but you know, starting leaning on other people, starting inconvenience in them for crying out loud.

I mean Delta. I think they I think they got it right here. Quite honestly.

They can't go unscathe Allen and Springfield on the Scott's Loan show, Good Marrow, what's up?

I just listening to you. I couldn't agree with you more, and I think, uh, you know, the government just needs to hear more and more from upstanding leaders in our community and from common Joe's like you and me, that they suck. They're terrible, you know, forcing people to work, and I know it's you know, people can call off the forcing people to work without pay. We tried back in this country years ago. That doesn't work. That's just

Are.

They busy in Washington, Yeah, they're busy at name calling. You know, uh, it doesn't matter the president Democrat, Republican. They put posers in place to do well.

Here's the thing is, we elect these people, right, and I'm so tired of the same rhetoric, the same nonsense. As you know, you're voting for freedom and you're voting you're not. You just going to do the same thing the guy you're replacing does. So I don't feel like, you know, we tried this seismic change with Trump. I mean, legitimately the first term is like, Okay, here's a guy who has no experience in governance whatsoever, the successful business person.

And now this many years later, he's part of the dumper as well. I mean, he is horrible. I can't believe how many people call into this radio and say they love him. I don't love nobody could love Joe Biden in this past four years and the way he performed. And I got to tell you people got smoke mirrors on.

I mean, I trust me.

I like what he did with the southern border. That was just upholding law. The Democrats start around and Republicans they try to tell people who can't be and who can't be patriot a patriot. I just don't understand foolish talk.

Well what happened is it became it all became the free to the patriots, and it became a brand, is what it is.

You know.

Yeah, I love what he did with with oh you know dig Yeah, absolutely, we need to be energy independent. Example here is this, but you mentioned border security. I was not not a fan of on the first term of the border wall. That was a bad idea because they don't work. And now it's like, hey, we did it with policy, we did with enforcement. Yeah, that's exactly how you do it. And then you squeeze Mexico. But then you shoots himself on the foot on other things.

Since THENI I want to.

Be an American, No God willing.

I'll have a coul drink in my hand at the Holy Grail Banks for Opening Day twenty twenty six. And it begins anew The hope and prospects of a new season emerge tomorrow morning at nine am when we kick off the broadcast live. We're down there all day. We'll first pitch at four to ten with the Boston Red Sox in town. And so it begins, and it begins

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, those measures don't hold the March game. What are they 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 untill later in the day, and so I think that there was just something to it that can 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 to face that one problem. It did not rip on

Yeah, and so he misses a little time. Who steps in Louder?

Burns Williamson, 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 Red Louder in the final game on Sunday.

Yeah, 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 Nicolodella 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

He's Jeff Carr so the Car Show Baby and locked on reds is the podcast. So one 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 opening day? Is he ready to go? Does he have any blisters, any headache? Is he like cramping? What's is he?

Okay?

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 on It's ago. We know you mentioned Brady singer Dodge day 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 reservortation mate thirty two starts last year, first streads starting to make thirty two starts since the red said guy's name, Louis Castillo and Tyler Malley shown up for him every fifth day, So it's been a litle little bit there, and I continue to expect him to do that again,

Group, gotcha. Caleb Ferguson is going to start on the al. He's got a MRI coming up this week, I think Wednesday. Back here in Cincinnati. Bullpen is supposed to be a big strength after the rebuild this offseason. How much losing him does that hurt the 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 the 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 Berth, and they kept sam Mall,

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 stat that I never really came up with a good name for a relief pitcher that came in, didn't allow base or under and got at least one strikeout. And Sam Mall led the 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, that's what we need. We need, we need another statistic in baseball. We need a new every year.

I looked at the long list and I'm like Plony, there's there's not enough.

There's not enough data. More I demand, I demand more data. He is Jeff Carr with lockdown rights, all right. So that's a pitching situation which has been pretty frightening here in the last couple of weeks, with the injuries, the blisters, of course, losing your opening day Ace Caleb bar 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 position player.

So let's talk lineup.

Matt McClain has had one of the best of spriensive offensive springs in all of baseball, I mean all the major leagues.

Is it real this time?

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.

The rest Okay, good, Yeah, and he's it sucked incredible so far as it has for Ellie. He just continues to do elle like things.

He's healthy, he looks good.

I mean, we saw a couple of different situations in the spring where he either walks or it's 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 this spring, then we are going to see the superstar that we know that he can be.

Gotcha, Noelvie Marti had had some shaky moments in right field defensively on Tito said he made the club for sure. So what's your honest assessment. Who's watched a lot of spring training? Honest asseeven of Noelvie Marti.

You know, like the old cartoons or something where somebody's like trying to figure something out and so they hold up a big spyglass to something. I'm still holding up a big spy glass to Noelvie Marte when he's fielding right now. I got to figure out what that looks like.

Okay.

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

You know, Nick Krawl 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

To be a weapon that the Reds can use in multiple spots.

Okay, good, should be interesting. Ready to play some ball Sunday. We got a little taste of what summer 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.

Go yep, you got it. Thanks again, Jeff Carr.

And we are at the Holy Grailed Banks Live tomorrow stunning at nine am. Me Moeger, Tom Brenneman's gonna pop in. We've got players coming in and so much more so. Hope you can join us out there ahead or during, or before or after the parade or even after the game for that matter. And tomorrow, by the way, is opening day and read I don't have to have great the holidays here in Cincinnati. If you've never been a

Giving you a vocational leg up on everyone else. Here's our career. Julie Balch.

Yeah, every Wednesday, Julie jumps into discuss here on seven hundred WA. Tav no exception in the big story. Hamlin County jury handed down a twenty two and a half million dollar verdict yesterday in the wrongful death lawsuit against TQL Totally Quality Logistics, and the lawsuit said that TQL dinighted a pregnant employe's request to work from home, leading

Julie, welcome. How are you? What I said, Julie, Julie welcome? How are you sorry?

Next week?

Do you did you swap your here? You got your new batteries and the hearing it today? Or do you recharge them?

Okay, yeah, I'm fine, thank.

You god it okay, all right, all right, all right, before we begin, though, you spent years and years as the hr lady, the lady that would crack down on wayward employees. You'd fired people, you threw the book at him, you punished, you penalized that you went on with glee, right, glee just sitting behind the desk. She struck fear in the hearts of workers at a large and small and medium sized companies city wide.

So let me ask you a big question. You're ready, I'm ready.

What is the best lie you can use to get out of working tomorrow for row to get out opening day so you can go to opening day.

What's a good one?

What works? What doesn't.

You know?

That's tough because you your photo can show up anywhere, Remember the Cincinnatians can viral sen say in line to buy dealer swift merch with a sheet over her head with eyeholes cut out.

Yeah, that can be you couple. I forget that.

Yeah yeah, yeah, so's.

But that's not a fun topic. Tell me, tell me a good lie?

What?

What?

What?

What's a lie that HR people would believe?

It's not the HR people. You got to deal with the person you're reporting to. It's not up to HR. It's up to the person you're reporting to.

Yeah, but you probably know some pretty good scams.

You could get caught. Well, I think take one of your PTO days and one of your vacations. It is that important to have one.

There was a danger in that. That's stupid, honest. Yeah, you should.

All the pain and suffering you've caused in your career, is HR lady, you should do?

You owe it to us. You all this to us.

I would think, like, are you excited for opening day?

I am?

Is it going to be good weather?

I think I have irritable bowel? Sinder? Should I come to work?

That's okay?

Okay?

Well yeah, because they.

Have they have bodies at work.

Yeah, but I man, I'm okay, that's fine, But you know what I just ruined a new couch, my new uh, my new sofa is completely ruined. If you want me to come to work, I'll come to work. You know what you should do here, I got it. So you do that because no one likes it. You go like, I'm coming in, I'm sick, I'm finding and then you bring some of that fart spray with you. Oh yeah, okay, that would definitely get away.

You're giving away your whole plan.

They send you home, I do They just send you home and go yeah, you need to go home. This is not okay, good, I'll go home and then you go right opening to how about that?

All right? Do that the farts? That's fine?

Yeah, well, you know what, they've got lots of bathrooms at JBP. Let's talk about a much more serious case, and this involves the verdict against TQL yesterday. And you know, I think it's fair just to pick TQL up because it's probably happening all over the place. But take it through the story of what happened to a twenty two and a half million dollar verdict for this woman the estate of Magnolia. Walsh was the infant daughter of an employee by the name of Chelsea Walsh.

Yeah, so the mistake TQL made, at least according to.

What we're reading. There's always more than what you're reading.

She had a high.

Risk pregnancy and her doctor suggested or ordered, or whatever authority a doctor has to say, you need to be working from home. It's too stressful to go in the office on your pregnancy. TQL refused, according to the story, and then she lost the baby, and so she sued. She and her family sued, and one the jury agreed that her request was reasonable. And I know we all have a different interpretation of what's reasonable, and I don't.

Know what her job was.

I think the lesson here is we are we are so far away from the old work force makeup it's men and then the women are at home giving birth and raising the children, that employers have to be hyper aware and err on the side of caution when it comes.

To what they require from people.

Who aren't just pregnant, but also who have other disabilities, who have issues they have to take care of. There needs to be a reasonable policy.

And the jury found that saying.

No to her request to work from home based on doctor's orders was unreasonable. And I think you've got a jury of people who've had kids, who have grandkids, who put themselves in her shoes and say, yeah, that was big bad company here they kicking on this young pregnanty. Yeah, no it doesn't. And so as we say about everything, think about think about the always think about what precedent have you already set?

You want to be consistent, but you want to make sure you don't want your name in the headlines.

Is having to pay out twenty two million dollars? Yeah, And now you look at this and you say okay.

So then one of the things that I wanted to bring up to with this is when.

You look at the stats at the workplace stacks moving forward, in terms of just pure men and women, women are graduating from college at a higher pace they are. Their labor force participation rate is fifty eight percent and growing, while for men it's sixty eight percent, which is a significant decline over the past decades. And the proportion of women in the workforce with at least a college degree is seventy percent. And so when you look at what is it that what is it that we have to do.

To make sure that we are making.

It possible for women to start families have children come back and still have their job, which FEMLA requires. The Family Medical Leave Act requires that, but the requirement is SEMLA is also unpaid leave, and many many people cannot afford that, and that may have been her situation, but she couldn't afford.

To take on paid leave.

I don't know, that's a great question, because that to me was I don't know if I missed it or not, but it was like, so she requested work from home for the doctor's orders. Tikebel denied it, but they placed her on leave against her wishes, and I thought, okay, well, if it's unpaid leave, I guess and that caused enough stress to because maybe the way to look at it

I guess she shows up at the office. So that's a huge problem.

Yeah, and I think she was.

She lost the baby at twenty weeks, I believe, and so she would have had to have several months or you know, a handful of months anyway of unpaid leave.

And who can afford that, very very few people. And so when when these cases.

Are looked at, I mean, no attorney, but reasonable, what's reasonable?

What's a reasonable accommodation? And it's just for a few.

Months period, And what can you do as an employer with many resources at your disposal to make this make this work for everyone involved? Presumably she was a valued employee, So what can you do to make this work versus having to train somebody else if you force her out?

So it's not just.

Pregnancy, it's to take care of an elderly parent, deal with your own personal situation when you adopt a child. And there's a lot of requirements around this. But it's unpaid and that's yeah, got it.

A lot of.

Companies will have short term disability. So maybe you get paid some percent of your salary.

But what can you do to be reasonable because.

Your workforce is going to be if it's not already predominantly women.

Depending on the industry you're.

In, you will have more women in the workforce who will be of child bearing age, and so what can you do to get ahead of these things before you're a headline?

How cow many think this mistake is. I mean, it's just tique you on the headlines. But I'm sure this happens a lot in trying to navigate pregnant work or fairness.

Yeah, yeah, I'm sure it does too.

And when you look at there are certain there are for companies with under fifty employees.

I think the number fifty.

You're not required to provide any unpaid time, because the thought there is that that you have a small workforce that that can have an undue impact or a signific an outsized impact.

When you have you know, one or two people out And.

So it's it's I think it's when you look at what's the makeup of our workforce, what is required of us?

And then what do we want to do?

And part of this, when you look at it all, it goes back to what kind of message are you sending. So I'm a young woman looking at TQL as a potential employer, going yeah, maybe not because I want to.

Have babies someday and maybe, and so it becomes again.

A retention, a recruiting issue, a hiring issue, a retention and engagement issue.

And this is the kind of press you don't want.

So yeah, there could be a ton of these happening, but they get settled before they get to a big.

Outcome like this, a big splashy upcome like this. And yeah, I think there's a.

Lot of lack of awareness not only on the side of employers, but but also in the employees themselves, and so they may really not even know what benefits they have available.

So I think both sides need to avail themselves and get super.

Familiar with with you know, with what with what is available and plan accordingly.

Well as a career counselor yourself as a coach. And that's a key, right, I mean, employees need to know. Here's an example, what do you need to know about documenting accommodation request or protect yourself Because you've got to build a case. You always got to think, Okay, I'm doing this, are my t's crossed, my eyes dotted?

What do you need?

Yeah?

Yeah, And that's and and and that's where the doctor in this case it was actually it wasn't just I don't feel.

Good, I want to work from home.

Know, it was the doctor who presumably knows more about this situation than anyone from a medical perspective and a risk perspective.

When you bring in those.

Authorities who are saying, yes, again, this is you continuing to go into the office.

Is against my is against my best judgment. And she continued to go in.

From what I understand, But when you look at the fact, like you said, I'm not getting paid and so I'm going to drag myself through this and hope for the best.

And so what is the employer's role? And I think that's that's a question.

There's what's legal, and then there's what how what kind of workplace do you want to build as as an employer, because she's not gonna be up forever.

It's just a few months. Certainly you can cover that. If there was an auto accident, you'd have to cover that.

So what do you want to do to err on the side of building the type of environment where people want to come and stay.

Which they probably do.

But you know, in this case, you look at it go wow, you knew the Sometimes you get so focused on the details that you lose sight of the big picture, and that is if this goes before a jury, we're going to lose because no one is going to work against a young woman who just lost her child. And you know, I guess the story said they had a chance to settle for far far less was the quote.

I don't know.

I'm not a lawyer, but I look at it go damn, yeah, you're going a hard time getting a jury to consider that and go, oh, I'm on the company side here, it's not gonna happen.

Yeah.

I have seen those types of cases to the situations of employment law where the ego of the employer is I'd rather take this to court. And I'm not saying that's what happened here, but I'd rather take this to court and settle for millions and millions.

Than to than to settle this for five hundred thousand and admit we were wrong. And I've seen Yeah.

It's okay, but you're taking a pretty big chance here. And I mean I've had those conversations when I was in HR and had those conversations with leaders with people making those decisions, and it just it just made no sense.

But you could tell it was just ego and I'm going to win.

And yeah, so you win, quote unquote because you take it to the jury.

But now you're the big loser.

So gets to culture, gets to leadership, gets to employee relations, policies and strategies. And you know, again, we only know it's been reported.

Yeah, and I think that's fair, you know, because yeah, from those I know work at it's a great company. And but you know, you hear that and go, well, they could have settled earlier and save a whole bun of money. Maybe they don't want to lose, and maybe it's a culture there, but it could also be the fact that there are some elements of the story that we're not hearing. Of course, this is a clean, sanitized news version, and maybe they had reason for not allowing

Yeah, but like you said, once you get twelve or whatever, never is in a jury box of average citizens looking at a mother who lost your child.

You're just going to in a court of public opinion. You've lost.

And there is a cost to that as well.

And if you decide you're willing to.

Bear that and have you that headline be out there, you know, is certainly your choice is an organization.

Yeah, Pregnant Workers Fairness active twenty twenty three went to effect back then three years ago, and so that's something if you're an employer, you've got to familiarize yourself because you learn lost things from things like this. Julie Bouki our cruise shipa every Wednesday morning, the Balkigroup dot COM's website.

Appreciate it and we'll talk to you next week.

Yes, we will, and.

Of course this will be after the Reds open the season tomorrow. We're a live with the Holy gral Bank starting at nine o'clock here on the Home of the Red seven hundred WWT, Cincinnati.

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It's Scott's Long Show on seven hundred WLW Ohio.

Drivers. You may not know it, but right now the law has a bit of a gap. And so let's say there's a drive somebody's driving all crazy. They're not drunk, just reckless, just negligent, and they hit someone in a crosswalk. That may not be a crime under current law, believe it or not. And as the summer season begins, as we have literally tens of thousands of people downtown Cincinnati tomorrow for opening Day twenty twenty six, this leaves one asking is why is the law drunk in this regard?

Hey, Scott, I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on. I really appreciate it. Yeah, it's a bipartisanville. And yeah you're timing with opening day right around the corner, I mean tomorrow and other times when you know, the streets get busy with traffic and also pedestrian traffic. You're absolutely right.

Cincinnati's weird though, because obviously it's a major metro, large metro area, but the bulk of population, of course is a donut.

It lives around.

So if you live in the suburbs and the communities around Cincinnati, and also I would say Butler, Warren, Claremont Counties. I throw Kentucky in there as well. You're like, well, you know, I'm not downtown. I have to worry about that stuff as much.

How much?

Also is that a factor because typically you talk about pedestrian cor accents, you think of the big cities, But it happens all over. It happens in Green Township, doesn't it.

Yes, it happens in Green Township. I think I just asked people to picture Glenway Avenue. You can picture Corane Avenue. Those are just two that pop in the in my head. Sure, and having since that's uh, you know in my district or right next to my district, I mean, and I travel there all the time. I mean, it's I think people that do that understand it. It also affects the suburbs.

Yeah, it's it's pretty much everywhere. If you cross a road that that's you. Was there a moment or an incident that made you say, hey, we need.

To fix this, Well, it was. It was multifaceted. There are moments on the streets of downtown and elsewhere where. I'm both a pedestrian and I'm both a driver, so I you know, in pushing this legislation, I'm just reminding folks that we were both and so this applies to

I believe that is a legal term.

Yeah, which I'm not going to read right now. That was taken out. And now the basic premise is that the driver of a vehicle shall stop and yield the right of way. Before it said shall yield the right of way slowing down or stopping.

If need be.

Uh to so yield, or if required by section four five one blah blah blah, and then and and again it says the pedestrian crossing lawfully within the crosswalk. What we took out was upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling, or when the pedestrians approaching so closely from the office, you get the idea. So we took those things out, and now it's just reads that the driver shall stop and yield the right of way, uh to the pedestrian crossing lawfully within the crosswalk.

Got to be in the crosswalk and in the line cross speakers. We're getting because because their current.

Law, Mike, if you're if you're a sober, distracted driver or just driver, you hit a pedest in a crosswalk and you cause serious injury, what level of crime.

Is it is it a crime in Ohio?

It's not a crime. That's crazy and so, uh, this isn't as it relates to negligence. So you're talking about the negligence. Yeah, yeah, there you can. If you negligently kill someone in a crosswalk, that is a crime. But if you negligently seriously injure, and that's the key here, is seriously injured, this bill would create a second degree and then a first degree.

It is even hard to believe. I mean, you know, we often talk on my end of the business here, Mike. You got you're a lawmaker about duplicitous laws. Right, we just keep making more law, law, law, law on top of law, on top of law. We have a law that like, when it comes to second Amendment of guns, we need more gun laws.

Well, we've got plenty of gun laws and force the gun laws.

We've got people running around our streets who cut off ankle monitors for crying out loud, and we don't pick them up until after they've killed someone. But yeah, in this case, it's hard to believe that this day and age, like, isn't the whole point of a crosswalk, meaning that's an area that's protected for a pedestrian versus a car. And you're telling me like, if it's you're not paying attention, you're not drunk or under the influence, like you're fine,

Well, you know, I agree one hundred percent, and that's why we're feeling it. But you know, being up here for just my my first year after teaching at Saying That High School for thirty years, I am also a lawyer, it takes you a lot of effort and time to get a law passed. Yeah, and maybe someone thought of this in the past and then something intervened with a maybe a you know, a drunk driving law or something like that that's intervened. I don't know why this happened.

You as a driver should.

Stop and yield. And that's a nice bright line. So again with negligent, you know, causing physical injury to a pedestrian a crosswalk. And as to clarifying that these pedestrian rules as it relates to drivers, you know, there are already other rules that are there that apply to the pedestrians.

There is a.

Duty of care. I believe it comes from common law that pedestrian, even entering a crosswalk, has to yield to a driver who's completing there if they're legally in the crosswalk. So there are checks there. And again behind all of this, there's common law that both drivers and pedestrians we have to always exercise that duty of care, which is being reasonable. So again we'll be listening to proponent and opponent testimony.

And Mike Cody also in the summer, we see a lot of car pedestrian acts, especially in Cincinnati. I mean, people drive crazy downtown, but they drive crazy all over the place. I just wonder, Okay, we'll pass this law. It could be an M two two, an M one first degree misdemeanor's pretty serious. It's the level just below a fellamy. And and how many people just disregard that

For sure.

If you just look at crime in and around the city, it is a problem, not just in the city but everywhere because you're in your little bubble in your car, and I think people just don't simply they just they don't care if you're a crosswalk or not. They think it's their street. I mean we see people, Hell, we've got Bengals players speeding up and down crashing their car all over the place or crying out loud its And

What about those folks?

Yeah, that's the enhancement. So and the in my part of the bill about uh, you know, pedestrians, pedestrians crossing and the situations that have arrived there, Uh, prior offenses enhances the misdemeanor, and so that's that's carried there. And the same with the legion causing serious harm provision. Again, a prior offense increases the penalty and the level of the crime. So that's covered there.

Good. Good, I guess you said.

There's going to be some opposition here to speaking as always opposition everything, of course, and critics may come out during testimony and say this criminalized accidents. How would you respond to that.

Well, criminalizes Well, if there are other accidents that are criminalized, you know, right, you know, driving recklessly, causing an accident, you know, you have vehicular homicide, you have other you know, levels of crime that involve your car, and so that that would be one way that I would respond. But you know, if if you kill somebody driving negligently in a crosswalk, and that's a crime, uh you know, uh, and they're killed, that's a crime. Now we're just saying

Yes, no, kid, no.

That you know. That's that's also a key part of this and all of our crime enforcement. It's very key and essential that we vote for law and order judges. So that's something that I just would wanted to add briefly.

I agree with you the reformists have taken over, and that the outcome is not pretty, you know, and that and after reaction of course of years ago, when we had a lot of pro ordered, pro law judges that would throw the book it, you know, minor offenses in some cases. And then then that way you have the extreme, which is, hey, let them all go. And look how that's working for us. It's terrible. Hopefully we can find some middle ground here. Yeah, I mentioned that critics will criminalize,

Right, that's correct. I totally agree with you, one hundred percent.

Yeah, we just don't pay it sometimes, and you know I've been guilty of it. Maybe you have too, Mike, I'll admit it. Where I'm driving, I'm like, oh, hey, there's a crosswalk there. Because you're distracted by everything around you, there's signs all over, you don't really see it. And then you come up to it, you're like, slow down and there's somebody waiting to cross, and you know, for me, I'm like oh, I'm my bad. I I you know, I didn't see you wanting to cross there because there's

Though, right well, this is I find it's hilarious in my personal life after drafting and putting, introducing this bill, and having sponsored testimony yesterday, I am the best driver right now anywhere near pedestrians. I am, you know, but it's a good thing, you know. I agree there have been times I've made mistakes as a driver and as a pedestrian. But again, maybe maybe the key to all this is tight and awareness of just you know, chill out when you come up to pedestrian crossways. You know,

Got it.

That's one of the main reasons we're doing this.

All right, So what's the timeline for this, Well, we'll.

See what happens. We're gonna go on spring break. I think we had a good response from the committee yesterday. I would hope that we would pursue, you know, having a proponent and opponents test money and you know, the rest of May in June and then see what happens.

Okay, Yeah, so I'll circle back with it. And how's that sound.

That's my pleasure. That's great.

I appreciate it.

Hi, thanks for coming on the show this Mark. It's great to catch up and talk to brother. Thanks man all the best. That is some good law right there. How about that in this day and age. Mike Odiosa represented from Green Township that you can hit someone on a crosswalk as a driver and they're in the middle of the crosswalk legally and there's no penalty for that.

That's that seems to be insane to me.

That's taking a twenty twenty six for this to occur, especially with all the foot traffic we're going to have downtown tomorrow for opening day. Hopefully knock Wood, there's no serious accidents. That everyone is cool, calm and collected as the Findlay Market opening today for kicks off, and then of course we're live the Holy Grail Banks at nine o'clock as the campaign begins a new here on the home of the Red seven hundred w l w.

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She Hello, it's the store, reports Sarah Alicia from the Kid Christio one on two seventy BN. She jumps into laugh through her nose sometimes and also talk sports and social media.

Good morning, how are you.

I'm feeling giggly and giddy.

Good I love that the opening take. Oh my god, so exciting.

I'm so excited. We're not good weather for tomorrow.

You're walking out in the red carpet. Who are you wearing?

Yes, I'm ducked out on some snotty roads today.

Baby.

Wait, do you want the good news first? That's trending on social or the bad.

No, we start with the bed. I always lead with thats well, our.

Guy Dolo is dead. What he's not?

Remember how excited, Remember how excited we were about this rotation. We're talking about Hunter Green and Nick Lidolo and Brady Singer.

Pictures. We may start, we may start six guys. We got to look at like all these guys that are.

Ready to forget it.

Nicolodolo starting on the il alongside Hunter Green. We got elbows, we've got blisters, we got all sorts of problems.

Nickolodolo said, yeah, this sucks, but it's going to work out in the long run. So I don't know, I don't know.

The last time that he went down with this blister thing, he was out for twenty three days.

Good lord.

Brady Singer, on the other hand, he had a blister and he was and he was back after a couple of days. He didn't miss a start in spring ball. So probably to start here, I would imagine, so, yes, because the other day he threw about fifteen to twenty ball and he goes that that's it. That's enough. You don't want that thing to open up any further and make it well who else?

All right?

So this is going to be our rotation now.

So obviously Andrew Rabbit on opening Day very.

Excited for that.

There we go then, and Rabbitt told media, I know it's going to be exciting. He's like, Cincinnati does so well with the parade and all of the fans support and the turnout. So good to see our all star getting some recognition for this one tomorrow and then after Brady or after and Robbert. We're gonna see Brady Singer on Saturday, Rhett Louder on Sunday, and then when the Pirates come to town, it's going to be Chase Burns then Brendan Williamson.

OK.

Not the rotation that we were expecting, but this is what we've gotten now. The second game, Singer is going to be ready. He pitched the other day with the with the blister thing. He goes, look, I get paid to pitch, so I'm going to go out there and get a done.

It seem like a little bit of a shots.

What are you doing?

He's like, they'd pay me to do it. But here's the thing.

If that blister opens up and more, he could be out for a lot longer of a period of time and everybody heals different, So I don't know the difference between singers blister and Lodolo's blister.

But it's we got problems.

Are the only teams problems? Yes, it seems that way I got blisters. We can't have nice things.

It seems like pictures should be allowed to like could you put some super glue on that or speak right?

You can't, And you can't put a bandage over it. You can't do anything. You just have to let it heal on its own. And I don't know if Dolo's skin just sucks.

But can I can I introduce a new product here?

Please?

Do?

Like a gorilla?

Is no no no for all the Major League baseballs. The pitching glove. Okay, you got batting gloves, What about a pitching glove?

I don't know.

That could affect everything. Yeah, but if you can't have any sort of glove on the hair, I know.

This, but you've got to change the rules. If this is a huge problem, should should there back?

Is this a huge problem? Like across the whole UK, just for Cincinnati?

I mean, look at this way quarterbacks in the NFL they hurt their hands wear glove. Look at Ben Roethlisberger's whole career war gloves.

I get it, but that's different versus baseball.

I know they're different sports. Thanks for explaining different balls. It's a whole different game. They're the same game. No, they're not, so you can do that. Why why can't you wear what Major leage Baseball should lok at this and go maybe with lawa glove that.

I'm not a professional pitcher, but I just feel like that's really gonna mess things up.

Slowly leave it alone. We don't need to add gloves.

I want a professional pitcher to call me. One of the Reds called me right now. Let me know if that's doable.

I want to make the hunter Green can't call you because he's got a messed up elbow. Andre Rabbit is getting ready to day and the other guys are too young to listen to these airwaves.

Pitching gloves and somebody like you you can dazzle it.

No, I'm anti pitcher glove. This is done.

Well.

Ellie's got his own thing going on. You can't mess with that.

He's got the chains, he's got like the cool sliding glove.

What else does he wear?

He's got the protectors.

Yeah, I've admit the Govment thing.

It's it looks like it looks like I'm always.

Hit the ball. That's all I'm asking.

Let the ball stay healthy, get the elbows back in order, and the blisters out of the way.

Like, let's just get it out of the way.

Here looks like an ice agent.

We gotta move on, because with bad news comes good news. We have clock outside of Great American Ballpark. I went this morning to visit this new gift from our guy.

Wait, I stopped by.

I was there at Local twelve this morning, five am.

The stair at Jo's clock.

I wanted to see the auto clock. I was like, Okay, this thing is huge. It's sixteen feet eight inches in.

Height, massive clock.

Four thirty six inch dials. Of course, right there at the entrance of GABP. You can't miss it. It sticks out like a sore blisslock. No, but this is really cool, and this was something very unexpected. It's been in the works now for two years. But I guess Joey Vodo teamed up with that family owned business and it's Vernon, Yeah, who operates here in Cincinnati.

It's really cool.

They're headquartered here and they've been in business since eighteen forty two, so they've got their roots here. And now Joey Vado does.

Forever clocks are world round.

Oh yeah, oh yeah. If you see a cool clock, it's likely going back to Verdin.

I think this is super cool thing it is.

But this is like, it's random.

This is so on script for so on Brandford, Joey vital.

It is it really, it's like an odd thing, like this is what he wanted to do. You're like, you gave a clock. Okay, it's cool. I mean I'm not knocking it. I think it's awesome, but it's so joy vital, like it's just a weird thing, right, Like, well, he just.

Doesn't want us to forget him. It's like the perfect gift that you give to an ex.

It's like, you'll never forget me every time you come to this ballpark.

It's just a gentle reminder that I am here.

Joey comes to town an opening day and just whips out his giant clock. It's right there for everyone to see. How big is it?

It is sixteen feet in height and eight inches. I stood next to it this morning. I've got my video up on my social media of a clock. I need to buy time alone at the clock.

Here's the thing.

I did not want to wait until opening day to see this clock, because there's gonna be forty five thousand people surrounding this.

Clock taking their picture.

And I'm like, I need my alone time with a Yeah, the selfies and the family photos and all the people coming in from out of town looking at this clock.

And it's also really cool too.

It's got speakers in a place, take me out to the ball game, It's got chimes, and yeah, it's pretty special.

So yeah, there's gonna be a line to get your picture taken.

There's too many people around. Gone, there's gonna be.

Too many people around.

And again it's kind of smack dab in the middle of you know, when you're walking into the front entrance and it's just you know, you can't again, you can't miss it.

We're at the other night, we're having dinner, a birthday dinner for a friend and a nice restaurant. We're sitting there and watching in front of it, and these these people are out there taking their selves having pictures taken, like with the phone. For at least I'm not exaggerating here. A good twenty five to thirty minutes. I'm not kidding.

At that point, it's like, this is not the photographer's fault. This is just on show.

You're taking a picture of the camera and it's like how many shots do you need to the entrance of the steakhouse? And not only that, it's like the only thing that's going to make it look better for you. And I'm not you know, believe me, I'm not the best looking personal world is to take the picture when the sun's now You're awful.

Yeah, it's twenty five minutes for a photo.

Maybe it's not the like, maybe.

You shouldn't be taking them.

Oh no, all right anyway.

So this is a thank you to the fans of the Reds in the city of Cincinnati from Joey Vado for his twenty two years with the organization and on Instagram and again this is trending all over social media. Joey said, being the oldest professional team, I wanted this clock to add the charm and mistique of the Cincinnati Ruds experience. So just all around classy move from our guide Joeyvato. And just when I stopped missing him, I'm like, all of a sudden, I missed this guy.

All over again.

Just it's a great thing for him.

It is a great thing, and hopefully we'll see a lot of him in the broadcast some sort of way with the Cincinnati Rids, you know what I mean.

We know he's getting back into the key B side of things, my little broadcast a red game.

I cannot wait to watch him. Yeah, it's gonna be great.

And he also introduced us to his new dog, Morgan. She's very very cool.

Girl. I'm a penis.

You're so messed up.

Speaking of things happening outside of the ballpark. I know you're excited about this. The Marty statue is back right.

Let me tell you something, young man. That young man who ripped that down is a cloud.

Absolutely was an eleven year old that ripped off the mic. Kids are dumb ash So Marty and his mic and the banana, the whole thing is back in front of the ballpark. I saw this morning and they did promise it would be ready in time for opening days.

Clock or Marty's microphone, definitely the clock.

But you got Pete Rose sliding, you got Marty sitting there with his mic, you got the clock. There's a lot going on outside the ballpark.

Are we going to have a whole new rooting cutting ceremony for the newly the Marty two point zero so people can come and I would.

Imagine time around something like that will be taking short.

A celebration of Marty second time.

And you know what, I did not get to see this thing when they first set it up, but I think they did kind of lower it too, because I did hear that it was like too high.

It seems pretty low to me, like Marty level, you know.

I think, yeah, they need to get it down because I mean, it's kind of dumb that Marty can't even see his own standard.

The other thing is way too high.

Speaking of Marty Brennan, our friends at Holy Grail announced this morning that a part of the opening day broadcast, Marty will be joining you guys, along with Bronson Arroyo and of course Jeff Brandt. Marty's coming down, He'll be there him.

They did not.

Specify that, They did not specify the times, but we know that our friend Marty likes to ride in the opening day parade. Take that, and of course Jeff Branley and Bronson are both going to be in the parade too. So I would imagine that this would be kind of like later into the broadcast, around at one o'clock hour when we're rolling in from.

The bill and Seg will probably be out there. Okay, we'll handle that business.

So I'm sure Seg is very excited. Pronounce he checked totally. Grelly goes, Hey, make sure you got me on that list. I will be there for the broadcast.

You'll be all right.

So, and then shout out to our friends Pella. They are the official ride for the Findly Market Opening Day parade tomorrow, taking care of our whole iHeart crew. And I think they're bringing out like thirty to forty employees taking care of all of their people.

Yeah, and we're to the kids. We're going to be thrown out. Free windows.

Yeah, everyone gets a window. You did not hear that here though, there's a casement window here and it's from Reds.

I mean, I know it's opening day eve, but just real quick, our guy Joe Flacco is all that and in town this morning the sin Stetti Bengals had a press conference with him at nine a m. And they said, Flacco is Bacco. We got him for one year, six million.

Should we be happy about that.

I'm excited about it. It's way better than Jake Browning.

Hold on, you're excited about it, which means if Joe Flacco plays, it means Joe Burrow I mean, is you don't see that as huld Some mean he's really shouldn't sell her. Hey, we got the great quarterback up quarterback because we know our guy's going to go down again this year.

Well, and I was a little nervous watching him play flag football with Tom Brady over the weekend.

I'm like, maybe you shouldn't do that.

Yeah and so, and he's rolling around, they're taking his pants down, and he's just like, come on, it's enough. I don't need to see my quarterback out there rolling around for flag football.

It's stupid. Don't do it again.

You think Burrow will put a clock out in seventeen years in front of peg car No, I.

Think he's gonna leave this place in the dustin go to LA because that's the only place he's been hanging.

Out the for the franchise. A countdown clocks the other.

Yeah, Joe's got his own clock down, his own clock down, countdown.

Clock clocks like New Year's.

Until the twenty twenty nine season is over.

When the ball drops, that's it.

That's it. That's it right there, O, Happy opening Day?

Happy? What are you doing?

Ebm?

We are you going to be?

Yeah, I'll be in the parade with a pella.

Then I'm going to come see you guys at the broadcast at rail Okay, great, Yeah, I'm gonna go see John John at Mora Line. He's doing a broadcast there for Kissing No. Seven dj in he's DJing, and then hit up the street party a little bit, see my friends at the banks, then head on over to the ballpark and cover the pregame ceremonies.

Gotcha for the game, ball delivery, the.

Whole that stuff she's got, and she'll be on our social feed. She'll be a busy, busy woman.

And my makeup artist is coming here to iHeart tomorrow at four thirty am. So shout out to Rain Studio for taking care of me. What it's true?

You love this.

We gotta be ready. Yes, this is a whole day to celebrate.

Seven hours.

I get myself a spray tan last night, like look called dark. I feel like I'm preparing for a wedding. My nails have baseballs on them. We are ready to go.

Sloani, your spray tand is so dark it looks like you'd be even a press conference at the White House right now, missus President. It's insane. I mean make up seven hours a mega. The best part is she spends all this time and then like she goes over all this makeup, just washing. We're going to be thirty seconds.

Why do you do that?

Because you got to put in one hundred percent.

Effort, all right.

The insanity that is Sarah Lease every Wednesday morning, that especially, you know, once a week, not every day, because you guys, Opening Day.

I will see you at the girls tomorrow.

We start at nine a m.

Me and Mogger with me as always tomorrow home in the Red seven hundred w W since then,