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On 700, WOLW surviving the election day, although they're at a primary, and it turned out 20% Hamilton County. I saw 4% in other areas, so depending where you live. Trump went to Indiana last night looking for revenge, and he got it. Five Republican state senators who defied him on redistricting are out of a job this morning, beaten by Trump-back challengers, and maybe a foretelling what's to come. Of course, we've all seen the ads involving... Thomas Massie and then back with Ed Galrine and so on and so forth. That's on the 19th, I believe, in Kentucky. But Ohio, last night, Democrats putting up numbers. Mike concerns him Republicans heading into November. How so? Kevin Burton is here. He's just across the river in Covington, Crosstown Consulting. He's an analyst and pollster joining the show this morning. Kevin, how are you been? Pretty good, Scott. Thanks for having me. All right. So Indiana, Trump challengers, unseated five Republican incumbents there, state senators. All five were beaten pretty badly. The other two is like, I think, three votes in a toss-up. The other one, the other one won. Ohio, the November preview is starting to stage there. It's Vivek Ramaswamy. And Amy Acton will face off. That's really not a surprise that those two would advance to face off coming up in the gubernatorial race. But five or seven in Indiana, is that, you know, if you're a student in this stuff, you'd pay attention to it because we often hear about. Certainly how midterms are a referenda on the incumbent party, and it's never usually pretty good for them. In this case, with the polling in Donald Trump, it's dragging the ticket down. But again, the results are what they are. Five or seven, is that a clear Trump win? The fact that maybe one survived or two survived, depending on you look at it, does that give the resistance crowd anything to hang their hat on? Well, so this is kind of, we saw this in Texas a couple months ago, I guess it's now what Dan Crenshaw losing, you know, and Trump went after him. I mean, Trump's stronghold on the Republican Party is still. pretty much airtight. I mean, he's still at 80, 85% approval rating in the Republican Party. You know, now for midterms, he's bleeding independence voters. And as we've, you know, talked a lot of times, independents are who swing the election. But in a Republican primary, he is the kingmaker. And still is. And that's true with Democrats as well. He's strong Democrat like Trump is the Republican. You're going to have that. And so people are trying to read into this Kevin then. It's going, okay, well, this is a sign that Trump's going to, we're going to be fine in the midterms or it's, what's your takeaway? What should, if you're a casual political observer like me, what's the takeaway from this? It's just, I want to put too much stock and what's going to happen in the general, but it's just. You know, Trump is still the leader of the GOP without question is the biggest takeaway from last night. Well, but that's pretty typical, isn't it? That, you know, despite Kevin Warsh and all and the, you know, the issues that are a lot are self-inflicted, a lot aren't, that generally the standard bearer is still going to beat the drum and everyone's going to fall in line.

Yeah, I mean, Thomas Massie, that's May 19th. Does things last night in Indiana, do you look at that as a candidate, Kevin Burton, and go, we got to change the calculus here? Or do you just continue to run the campaign? I mean, realistically, if, you know, the president has probably already made who he's going to back, who he's going to do. So it's not going to change up too much because with two weeks left, you've already spent so much money on messaging. either mailers or TV, it's really hard to kind of try to pivot the last two weeks and have a whole different message. Yeah, the ads are exhausting at this point. This is just the primary. The Thomas Massie Galwright ads are, the bordering out insane at this point. I mean, the foxhole won with Trump and you just look at this and go, I want it to be over and we still have two weeks to go. This is just the primary. I can't imagine what the general is going on. Well, in Kentucky, you know, this is the general election. Whoever wins this will be the congressman for northern Kentucky. Yeah, I meant, you know, coming to general speaking in November. Kentucky, obviously, here is this is for all the marbles, I speak. But if you think these ads are bad just for Kentucky, we get closer to the general and we're swamped with national ads and everything else, it's going to be insane. It's a good time to be a political consultant. Is it? Is it for you? I bet it is. You're doing really well right now. Yeah, so if you're Thomas Massie, you're looking at May 19th, you go, should I be nervous? I'm looking over my shoulder. It's a tight race, for sure. It is. It is. You know, there's been rumors of a poll and that it's very, very close. I'm just going to be fascinated by that race because, you know, Kentucky has a history of doing things a little bit different. And if Thomas Matthew wins, is he the face of Kentucky Republicans? So, you know, it's just going to be fascinating because the Tea Party really kind of started with Rand Paul and Thomas Massie. So... will it will it die where it started yeah i think kentucky to me the commonwealth is fascinating and that reason is that you have guys like ron and Rand Paul and you've got Thomas Massie that are not of that mega a maga cloth um but you do have significant maga support at galran i mentioned friend of the show um that that that seems to be it's a very i think it's a much more interesting political state than ohio I would agree. Kevin Burton is here, a boy from Crosstown Consulting. He's analysts. He's pollsters. He's got his finger on the pulse with last night's primary election results. And certainly we've talked about the polling with Trump. The approval is sagging. Gas prices are up. The war in Iran is unpopular. It gets dragged out. And he still got this done. So a big picture is if you're a Democrat, you're going, oh, my God, this is going to be great. We're going to destroy him. What does that say about the durability of his base, even in the headwinds that he's facing? I mean, I think this is now 12 years ago where he famously said, I could kill someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single boat. He knew his base better than anyone could ever have predicted all those years ago. He knows what his base wants. He doesn't need polls. He knows exactly what they want. And it is a political mastermind, master class.

of controlling your base that he's been able to do for these 12 years. You know, if you're a Democrat, you know, you look maybe yesterday, there were some, you saw a lot of energy, especially in Hamilton County with the commissioner's race. So, you know, that's what you'd be hanging your hat on, that there seems to be energy in your base is given, or. excited. Yeah, yeah. And I know, you know, Sherrod Brown is back. How real is his shot at being John Houston and what's become a much more right-leaning, Republican-leading, MAG Ohio? Well, I mean, for... you know, the Democrats, they got exactly who they wanted. Because John Houston is a career politician just like Sherrod Brown. So all of those commercials, that's mute. It is going to be most likely by every poll we've seen is about Democrats up to six, which that's usually the numbers that they have to be at to translate to national wins. It's very, very plausible, but realistically, North Carolina and even Texas would come first in upsets over Ohio because Ohio has just gotten redder. It's a very fascinating state where the redder has gotten redder and the blue counties have gotten bluer. Which makes independence and those in the middle undecided voters the most important ones. They do. And, you know, we've talked about it. All the time. The independents are who decide these elections. Primaries are for, you know, your tribe, but the general is for everyone. Yeah. Vivek Ramaswamy and Amy Acton is going to be the gubernatorial faceoff here in Ohio. And how does that governor's race look from a polling standpoint? I just, I see Amy Acton. I saw Vivek Ramaswamy. He's, to me, much more polished. much more of a name. Amy Acton has a lot of baggage with her. I don't know. They keep talking about how close this is going to be. I don't see that happening. Once again, it's very, very early. But if gas stays at $5 a gallon, at the end of the day, that is going to be the number one issue. Affordability. It is still really too early. I wouldn't put too much stock in either of the campaigns. Here's the thing. When you ever see a poll from either side and it's their campaign poll, parentheses, quote, it's always going to be very favorable to them. You know, Ohio's only had, what is it, 32 of the last 36 years has been controlled by Republicans. So Amy's going up in an uphill battle, so it is still way too early to...

But I would say Vivek Ramaswamy is probably still the frontrunner. Yeah, yeah. He's Kevin Burt with Crosstown Consulting in Northern Kentucky's analyst pollster chopping up last night's primary election results and what it might mean for the future. And we're not there yet simply because we've got, well, Kentucky coming up on May 19th and a bunch of others as well. So the action is not over. We have two more weeks of the ads. By the way, you mentioned the career politician ads when it came to. Oh, I'm blanking on his name now. Sarah Brown. Thank you. God, I was going to say, Tom, not Thomas Massie. The ad, the ad, the one that was running, the AI ads now are absolutely ridiculous. Thomas Massie holding hands with members of the squad. And then you had Ed Galrine in a foxhole with Trump, and he's running away. And Trump is endorsing him. I'm like, well, wait a minute. Who does that appeal to, actually? What are the point of those ads? Because you look at it, go, wait a minute. If Trump is endorsing Ed. Alrine, why are they calling him a traitor and run away from Trump? And why would, does that make Trump then dumb? Because he's endorsing a guy who's running away from him? That doesn't make any sense. Maybe they're trying to get recapture the old Swiftboat ads. But, you know, the worst thing that you can do for an ad is not being memorable. It's memorable. At the end of the day. So if someone can remember your ad, you're doing it right. The crazier, usually the better, especially in today's society where that's kind of the trend to either go viral or to get clicks. If you do a simple, hello, my name is. Ed, I vote for me. No one's going to remember that. It's not the 1950s anymore. Yeah, yeah. You remember that simply because it's so absurd. You just, why you look at the screen and go, what the hell are they talking about? But you do remember the ad. I guess that ultimately is the goal. So, by the way, I wanted to bring this up, too, because, you know, in a lifelong ago, I lived in Toledo. And when I was there, heck, I was in my 20s, for God's sakes. And Marcy Capter was... was a politician there. Now she's the longest tenured female in Congress. And up there, they redistricts. And now it's kind of, I wouldn't say it's leaning GOP right now, but it's a little bit of a shot, legitimate shot that she is upset by a businessman named Derek Marin. You know, the redistricting certainly favors into this thing. We'll get into more of that a little bit later on. But the new map, how much, you know, could that apple cart be upset? And Toledo, by the way, extremely, you know, labor-friendly labor-oriented Democrats up there, big labor Democrats. And Marcy Kaptor has been queen of the helm now for decades. Um, as for the housing nationally, we're just going to have to wait and see. You know, we've made this joke before that, you know, billable hours are undefeated. And there's, there's lawsuits everywhere. Um, you know, we're not until it's over. I don't know if we're going to know what the maps are anywhere anymore. Um, you know, I think if you're a Democrat and you're within.

a plus five district, I think you feel pretty, you have a fighter's chance, especially in the midterms. General might be different, but, you know, for the midterms, I think if you're within plus five of a district, which that means they voted for Trump, you know, plus five in the last election, that you have a chance. Yeah, look at the thing. And you're right. I mean, it comes down to the economy, a bunch of other things. The war, the economy, there's all these outliers that, you know, it's still up in the air. So to call anything and say, well, there's a trend here, this all could change in a heartbeat. You know, if we wrap up the war, gas prices go down, economy keeps banging along. It's going to be a great day for the GOP in Ohio and across the country. But those are the things that right now, no one can see what's going to happen in the immediate in your term future. He's Kevin Burton at Crosstown Consulting, our analyst and pollster joining the show this morning. Always appreciate the time. I know you're busy this time of year, but always love you taking time out to join the show. Scott, thank you for having me. One quick thing, I just, the Stephanie Dumas, Mika Owen. Oh, yeah, I didn't even ask about that. Duh. Yeah. You know, props to Mika Owens and her campaign manager Bree Letts them. You know, they saw a huge upset last night in that race. So props to those people for winning their race. Was it really that big an upset, Kevin? I mean, Stephanie was, you know, an incumbent. But, you know, Steph, I think energy is always going to be the key factor anymore. Yeah. And who had the energy? Who had the young people knocking doors? I think that's the number one indicator that we need to start looking at in elections. Yeah, energy. And I think the giant flower helped because it shot water in Stephanie Dumas's eye. And she winds up winning last night. And she's going to go from council to the commissioner's office. So she's, yeah, I mean, Alicia Reese and Denise Dreehouse there put themselves out there. I don't really see that from Stephanie Summerudumas. And I think that cost her. But I don't have to roll. Kevin, thanks again, brother. Thank you for having me. Take care. We got a news update in and I'm running late here because I forgot to ask important questions because I'm dumb. Up next on the show, something that was a crime that happened in a school. Bringing a gun to a school is a crime. And I'm going to say this is not a crime when someone brought a, wait, what? Someone brought a gun to school and I'm defending the person who brought the gun to school. How's that going to work out? We'll find out next. 700 WOW.

Scott Sloan Show 700 WLW Reds limping literally and figuratively with Emilio Pagan getting carted off the field last night, blowing the game. Walk-off single for the Cubbies and the frustration continues. Days ago, the Reds were in first place by a full game. Now they're four back, but so goes the long season of baseball. And you think they'd get it back together. I'm pretty optimistic that they're going to be able to pull this off for sure. Why not? Why not? Why not? We've got a lot of baseball left, right? is what we always say in Cincinnati. Coming up, we've got on the show today. We're kind of talking a little bit about the election and the, you know, it is a, it's certainly not a, you know, big election for sure. You know, it's a primary, so take that with a grain of salt. I think it's going to be interesting to what happens in Kentucky coming up in a couple weeks for sure. We got that happening. And then there's this. Normally, you know, someone who is irresponsible with a gun, I say you throw the book at them. But then there are times where the law is a little bit of an ass and we're a little overreactive. And I think that's the case. So someone who is very pro second amendment. someone who has weapons, has guns, uses them, keeps them responsibly. I always try to, certainly. And, you know, we are humans. We do make error from time to time. And I think that has to also factor in the account, too, and what the intent is, right? So there's a story out of Franklin. A city school employee there in Franklin School by the name of Jessica Hodges was charged with a felony. She on Friday at Franklin at the school she's at. I think she's, I don't think she's a teacher. I think she just works. I'm not sure what her role is. But nonetheless, she went to school, as she did in the course of work, walks into the school and has on her purse and a weapon. And she goes, oh, crap, I brought a gun to the school. That's a huge no-no. Turns around, goes out to her vehicle and puts the stores the weapon and then comes back in. What is not detailed here, and maybe you know something about this that I didn't see, is how it was discovered she had a weapon on her. I don't know if she self-reported that. or someone saw her or maybe said something and somebody reported. I'm not sure exactly what it was like. I'm assuming it was a handgun because she went and returned it, had it briefly on school grounds. And she even said she even went in the school with it. She was on school grounds and then moved it to her personal vehicle. She was taken into custody by the school resource officer and she's now looking at a year in prison and $2,000 in fines. She'll be back in court sometime next week. The district reports that no students were involved. We don't know if she's, I'm assuming she's not working today. Not sure if she's been fired, terminated or suspended, remains on the job, we don't know. But of course, parents had a meeting and parents are concerned about this, saying that simply it's not forgivable that someone would do this and we have to have a zero tolerance to it. Yeah, look at these cases and go, okay, there are instances where you look at and go, okay, what was the intent here? For example, you may have seen this. that there are some suspects that attempted to enter the Oakley Cinemark Theater just a couple days ago armed with rifles. Now, we are an open carry state for sure, but, you know, when you see photos of suspects going into a theater with long guns, you know, I know what the law says, and I get that we are open carry, but I always thought that was stupid.

I don't know why you are, why you're bringing a long gun with you, even though you certainly have a right to do that. It just seems like what you're doing is you're causing more people to hate people with guns. And it's the exact opposite of what it is you're trying to prove. Yeah, you can do that. It's totally legal. I'm not denying that that is the case. However, it also scares the crap out of a lot of people. Why would you do that? Where is the case of Franklin? If she's carrying out a person concealed, I never understood that when it comes to law either. How is it that me carrying a concealed weapon is a threat to you? It's not. I mean, I'm the only one that knows it's omnid. It's a whole point of a carrying concealed because you don't know. It's a force multiplier. Open carries, okay, I see it. Let's go the Wild West. Okay, all the cowboys have guns. I get that. Whereas a kid still carry, it could be one every 20 people maybe has one, and we don't know who's going to be the person with it. So in the case of Ms. Hodges, she goes into the school. Oh, crap, I have my weapon on me. I better go store it in my car. And now she might be out of a job or might be in prison as a result. Now, the district's own statement said she briefly had a weapon with her on grounds before moving to her car. That's consistent behavior with someone who realized her mistake and self-corrected, not someone who went in with an intent to harm. There's no indication she branched or threatened or showed the weapon. No students were ever in danger. It's negligence, not malice. That's a different legal standard entirely. And I don't know what happened in Oakley, for example. I don't know if there was malice, malicious intent there or not. I don't know if it's somebody just trying to prove a point. Could be somebody trying to do, you know, doing it for clicks, you know. Put videos out there because you're trying to get a reaction for people. I don't know. The other element here is that, according to prosecutors, said she has no prior criminal history. This is a first time not a violent offender, no record. Again, I look at this. It's like someone who should get maybe diversion or retraining, not incarceration. And on top of that one year in prison for what else to make a carry mistake. That's a pretty severe consequence relative to the actual harm cause, which is zero. Where's the harm here? Maybe you freak parents out a little bit. Yeah, look at that and go, okay, should we be very, very tough on gun laws? Absolutely. And you can see in Hamilton County in Cincinnati proper how not tough they are on gun crimes. You know, you have people who are caught with guns who shouldn't have them, namely that they're under disability, meaning that they've had prior felony convictions, not allowed to even think about having a gun. And yet it happens all the time. And the judges go, so what? people cutting off ankle monitors with guns say, no, we don't care. That's entirely different than what happened at Franklin here. And, you know, the concern, and this is what doesn't make any sense, okay, she brought a gun on, she had a gun on her person and then realized her mistake and went to put it in her car. Now, I could point out that Sheriff, Sherman McGuffie's done this, what, at least I think twice, and left the gun on her car.

And, you know, you got to, especially if you're the chief law enforcement officer for the county, you've got to do better for sure. But I, you know, I don't call any repercussions for that. This is simply an instant thing. The question is, you know, why is she bringing a gun to school? Well, she shouldn't have a gun on her. Well, we don't know the stories to why. I mean, she might just be exercising her Second Amendment rights or maybe, maybe that she has a temporary protective order out on someone. You know, it could be someone stalking her. We don't know why, and everyone has different reasons as to why they would carry concealed, especially women. And maybe she has a legitimate fear for her own safety or personal protection. That's why the law exists in the first place. Now, you're not allowed to have it on school grounds. We have a law in Ohio that says teachers and others can be armed as long as they go through the training. And it doesn't look like, doesn't like Franklin is one of those schools. But, you know, if we go back in history here because the law has been in the books, what, maybe I want to say about 10 years or close to it? where in Ohio, if you're a school district and you go, hey, listen, we want, we want to be allowed to with a amount of training, and some may say it's a minimal amount of training, that you're allowed to carry in a classroom. And you have a very high standard there. And, of course, where it was all this is death and destruction and kids are going to find guns and they're going to shoot each other. And it's going to be blood mayhem and it's been a long time. And guess what? As predicted. You don't hear anything about that because it hasn't happened. The only time you hear about it is when something like this happens. You know, and I arrest my case there that, yeah, look at it this way. The idea that someone is going to bring a, in this case an educator or support staff member, custodial staff member, I don't know what her role is at Franklin Schools, but that somebody can bring a gun in and then go in a shooting spree is it's the dumbest logic ever. Okay, what is stopping someone from going in and committing those acts now? I mean, if you're a teacher, it defies logic to think that you work in a school and you're going to go and shoot the classroom up as opposed to some aggrieved teenager or another adult or something like that. I mean, teachers, if you're a teacher, you could walk in with a gun if you wanted to and shoot a whole bunch of people, right? I mean, what? Of anyone, you know how to work the system. Even if there's metal detectors, like you probably know a way to get around that. And it's not happening because teachers and support staff are there to protect the kids. We had this argument right after 9-11, and I may be vague on this, where they're talking about letting pilots carry weapons or have a weapon. And they're like, well, you can't do that. Why? Well, because you could kill everybody on the plane. Well, you're the pilot. You could kill everyone in the plane now by just crashing the airplane. We've seen this before. So, you know, the logic of, well, she could have gone in and shot someone. She could do that anyway. Right. It's the dumbest thing ever, this overreactive, well, we have to have zero tolerance. And it's not forgivable. It absolutely is forgivable. You know, if it happens again, then you have a serious lapse in judgment for sure. But no one's, you know, we live in a world where, you know, if you wanted to do those evil things.

Is anyone stopping? Well, you know, there's going to be somebody stopping you for sure, the SRO and others, but there's nothing preventing you. We allow our kids to go to places now. You don't know exactly if the people you trust them to watch them, supervise them, guide them, nurture them, teach them what their intents are. You know, it strikes me as it's entirely plausible. We may have had cases before. Maybe where a teacher or someone in school does that. But, you know, this law is not stopping them from doing that. The idea that we have to throw the book at someone who went, oh man, I'm carrying concealed and I forgot to put my gun away. All right, they went back in the car and put the gun away. Don't harm no foul. Believe it or not, there was a time in America where, hell, students during the fall would bring their hunting, leave their hunting rifles in their cars and their pickup drugs in the school parking lot and go hunting after school. It wasn't really that big a deal, but, you know, because of our hypervigilance, because society's changed and because we have commoditized mass shootings. And things like that, it's, you know, we had this fear that the weapon is the problem and it's not. It's the intent. Where's the malice with this person? And I think the law should be looking at that. And I think if you're a parent, quite honestly, should be looking that, going, all right, I don't really see it. Like, what was the intent of her doing this? It wasn't malicious. She wasn't caught bringing a gun to school going, oh, if only for those meddling police officers or kids or busybody teachers, I could have got away with something. She policed herself. I'm still curious as to how someone found this out. Maybe she mentioned it to the SRO and trying to be perfectly outblot. And I was like, listen, I had a gun. I had a gun. I could still carry and I forgot to put it. I walked on school grounds and didn't store it properly. They go, okay, well, you did the right thing. It seems like you want more of those people being responsible, realizing that, you know, I made a critical error in judgment. But no one was harmed. No one was threatened. The weapon wasn't brandished. I mean, how far do we go? and try to keep the kids safe. We certainly should be keeping kids safe, but there's a line of, where was the danger here? There wasn't one. So calm down. Just calm down. It's funny, you know, the areas where we take this stuff very, very seriously, we go overboard on that, and yet the areas we should take it more seriously, like Hamilton County, we don't. I don't know where the perfect world is somewhere between Cincinnati and Franklin County, or Franklin City Schools rather, Franklin County's Columbus, you know, Franklin City Schools and Cincinnati Public Schools. I think there's got to be like, the truth is somewhere between those two. You know what I'm saying? I know what I'm saying? I don't what I'm saying? It's 513, 7497,800, the big one, talk back. I hear radio after one fire off. Still ahead on the show. We'll get into the SAVAC stuff, which to me seems a no-brainer in that. You know, the idea of presenting an ID when you vote, as we just did yesterday or not that many people did, I think in some areas maybe two out every 10. But nonetheless, you know, showing an idea. I've got to show an idea all the time. I don't understand what the big deal is really. And why there's a fight over this? Hell, the majority of Americans agree with it. And that would be a number of Democrats as well. Like, I've got to prove how I am all the time these days. Hell, even my phone won't let me in unless I look at it. That's just my phone. You have a right to vote, but we also should. And I suppose the thing is, you know, back in the day, we didn't have to do this. Well, back in the day, IDs, I mean, I remember my dad's his drive, when I was a kid, look at his driver's license.

And it didn't even have a picture on it. It was just as, I didn't even have had an address, just that you can drive. And the U was spelled with a letter U. I was written in, I think it was written in ink, like handwritten fountain pen ink. It wasn't that big a deal. Uh, here's my license. Okay, great. Now we've got picture. We got a barcode on it. We've got holograms and everything else and magnetic strips and we're checking. It's a whole different thing. Um, and everyone has some form of identification, whatever that might be. It's, you know, you have an ID to drive an automobile. Think about what's in your wallet alone. I mean, I have credit cards that have my face on them, like Costco credit card. You got to see that, you know, that seems to be a good form of idea as well. So they know who you are. And I, you know, just top of your head, all of the passwords and things, we live in a secure society in that you need to identify yourself in order to get in. It's just the access nature of it if you want to live in a modern world. If you don't, that's fine. But there's going to be a penalty for that. Maybe you can't vote if you decide that not having a photo ID is more important, well, then by all means. And I am also tired to hear about the argument that somehow if you're poor, if you live in the city, don't have transportation. And then how do you live your life? I mean, you know, at some point you leave the House, you can't go get a government-issued ID? It seems to be a pretty basic thing. Now, I will push back on the Republicans somewhat on this, too, in that I think the whole thing is overblown, that, you know, the idea of people voting who shouldn't vote is literally a spit in the ocean. You know, you can go back to 2000. Well, I was only decided 2,000. I don't understand about a few votes. Yeah, that's true, but. That is also an extreme outlier here. In fact, the matter is that... literally you can count in your fingers and toes how many people are fraudulently voting or have and largely those the numbers that come back often aren't prosecuted simply because it's an error on the part of the poll worker that tells gives them the wrong information there's not this malice this malicious intent to go out there and just start voting to overturn our democracy it's just you know it's more fearism that's what's going on it's not happening but the same time it's like we can you know you can grab both sides and look at that and go yeah it's not really a threat but In this day and age, how hard is it actually to present a photo ID? Everyone should have one at this point for crying out loud. It's really not that, it's not that high a bar to cross-up. We'll get into that next with James Dixon. And he's on the show next. He's a political expert, I believe out of Michigan. And also is a, and I like this too. He thinks that, you know, the problem with the politics right now is that it's too national. It needs to be more localized because if you think about it, the local races that people don't pay attention to, have more an impact on your daily life than the federal elections. We'll get to that next afternoon on the home of those red 700. W.O.W. Cincinnati. It is Ryan Seacrest here. There was a recent social media trend which consisted of flying on a plane with no music, no movies, no entertainment. But a better trend would be going to chumba casino.com. It's like having a mini social casino in your pocket. Chumba Casino has over 100 online casino-style games.

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6% of Americans disapproved to Congress. They have, are you ready for this, a 10% approval rating? Find me someone who keeps their job if they're good at it, one on every 10 times. Oh, and what's going on now, too, we have this fight over the Save Act, which is showing a photo ID when you vote, which most of us agree, like, okay, I got to show an ID for everything else, big deal. Three out of four of us support that. So why is the SAVE Act stalled completely? These are, you know, it's low-hanging fruit. These are, there's a layup. These are easy points, if you remember, Congress. His name is James Dixon. He's a political strategist and founder of Make Politics Local Again, which I agree with. James Dixon, welcome to the show. How are you? Hey, good morning, sir. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, I want to find out with driving this whole thing. So citizen-only voting. It's like 70-30 here in Ohio. I know you're in Michigan, and it's 80-20 there. Across the country, 60% of more of Americans believe that absolutely should show an ID. Like I said, I've got to show an ID for everything else. Why not show an ID when I vote? Right, right. And we've actually had this happen in Michigan. And 24 in October right before the election, a man named Ho Ching Gao in Ann Arbor, University of Michigan student and a Chinese national voted and his vote counted. That triggered a review, found a partial review that found at least 15 more. So this is actually something that's happening in Michigan. And that's why people are fired up for it. Yeah, I think there it's a big deal. Here in Ohio, we tend to vote red. And for me, I was like, okay, I don't think it's a big deal, as I said. However, I think it's interesting what's driving it. If you look at generally, and I'm talking not just Michigan, Ohio, but all 50 states, nearly 6 million votes cast in Ohio in 2020. 27 were found to have been cast illegally. In most states, including Michigan, that's the issue. It's only a handful of people. Now, should they be voting? No, but it seems like not only we find them, but if the little impetus for protecting and saving the vote, just say, you know, you've got to show an ID. I don't have a problem why. I think both sides can kind of be a little bit deceiving when it comes to reasons why. Democrats don't want it because there's disenfranchisement there, but you're not disenfranchising people. So I think both sides can be wrong. I think both sides can be wrong, but I think this is such a universal issue because for every person like Ho Ching Gao who does vote and their vote counts, effectively this cancels out someone's legitimate vote. So people say, oh, it's only a handful. The number really should be zero. And what people find alarming in Michigan is that our Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, who by the way is running for governor right now, after discovering this illegal vote, never did anything to shut the door. So 10,000 other people could do the same thing. And if they don't turn themselves in, they'll probably never be caught.

Well, you know, should be. There should be zero. Yeah, there should be no murders. Democrats are good at pushing that, too. It's like, you know, no child. We're not going to, we're going to save every child, we've got to save all the children. What about the children? If one child, it's like you're going to have, statistically speaking, not to be cold, that that is going to happen. Can this entirely be prevented, though, by having someone show their ID? I contend if you really want to get around the system, you probably can, but it's not enough really to influence the vote. That's why the other piece of it is proof of citizenship to be able to register to vote. So this kid, Gao, I mean, he registered. So we have same day registration in Michigan. You register, you vote right away. And then if you do early voting as opposed to absentee, they just run your ballot right then and there. They don't wait until election day. And so, like, that's why this guy had to self-report the thing. Yeah. And so any system that requires people to, outside of a pickup basketball game at the Y, anything that calls on people to be honest and self-report thing, you're basically begging for trouble at this point. And to have that happen and not do any reform, it makes you wonder why that would be. Do we know why this guy voted? What his impetus was because, you know, often with conservatives, the argument is Democrats opposed to say back because it benefits non-citizen voting, which, you know, theoretically tend to go towards Democrats. It's a pretty serious charge. And there's certainly no act of collusion here. It's not like the Chinese government is behind this. It's more of an individual. A lot of the cases that we found turns out to be they've got bad information at the polling places as well. The whole same-day voting thing in Michigan is puzzling to me, but that's your state. That's how you run things. It's different in all 50 states. Yeah, so, you know, we got a lot of documents about this. And basically what he told investigators is he kind of viewed himself as a trans American at that moment. He said, hey, I have a green card, you know. My family and me have been here quite a while. We pay taxes, that kind of thing. So he chose to identify as an American in that moment. He was not one inch confused. And what I find concerning about this. and the way the story was reported. So this is the one we know about. Xi Jinping himself could send 100,000 more Ho Ching Gows to Michigan, and they could vote, and those votes would count. And just like in this case... They would only be caught if they were to self-report. So we don't have systems that prevent the fraud from ever happening. And no one has interest in development. James, that's a lot of work. You have 100,000 Chinese nationals to send on Michigan to vote. That's a lot of work for a little outcome. Oh, I think the outcome is well worth it. I mean, so we're a swing state and presidential race, as you all used to be. Now you're solidly red. Hopefully Michigan can get there.

And so if you can create this truck and discord in America, I think that would be a worthy goal for an adversary. And my question, it's not like if you did that. I'm saying is that people would, if you said 100,000, 10,000 for the matter, there would definitely be someone noticing that that conspiracy was happening. It's just so extremely difficult. And it's also visible, too. This is why it wouldn't work. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. I mean, we're also accepting of everything, right? And if you say you're an American, you're an American. And the problem is there is no standard of proof that would prevent 100,000 people from doing it. 10,000, or even one. There's no standard, and that's the problem. It's systematic, and it was made this way for a reason. and not no reason. Are Michigan is upset about this enough to maybe change Secretary of State or demand that things be tightened up in that state? Yeah, there's actually a constitutional ballot issue that they just turn in their signatures. They're looking to get those certified that would have voter ID. We have a voter ID amendment, but there's such a big loophole that you effectively don't need voter ID in Michigan. and citizens only voting. And so it would do both of those things. And so this would actually close the door on the Ho Ching Gow's of the world. Yes, it's 80-20 where you are 70-30 here in Ohio and Kentucky and Indiana as far as people agreeing that, yeah, you know, showing ID is not that big a deal. I just don't think the, you know, the reason why the remedy, of course, is because we could have 100,000 Chinese nationals fly to America, immigrate here and I'll live in Michigan and vote in Wayne County and throw the election, which seems kind of far-fetched anyway as far as a working plan, in my opinion. But, you know, having people present an ID is really not that big an ass. The Democrats ask them, and it's the worst thing ever because it's about... the old adage about voter suppression, which is a, it's a canard anyway. And at least here where I live, we have a 30-day window, James, to vote. It's easier than ever before a cast a vote. In 30 days, you can have the ballot mail to your house. If you care to engage, I think a lot of these folks want people showing up knocking on doors saying, hey, don't forget to. Here, here's the ballot. Bring it to you. I mean, you do have to engage in the system. That would include getting an ID and being aware it's actually election day and giving it damn enough, which you don't have to, by the way. Maybe just people just don't care. And maybe this is why reflected in the 10% approval rating for Congress. But I think a lot of these folks would want to show up to doors and knock and have them vote right there because they're demanding a vote as opposed to someone actually wanting the vote. It's an entirely different thing. I don't buy the disenfranchisement thing, though, especially with women. And that's the thing is somehow this affects women more than men. It's called, what was it called, pink slipping or something like that? Pinkwashing. Right. Nobody's being disenfranchised. And if anyone is being disenfranchised, If I say non-citizens should not vote and you say people are being disenfranchised, I can infer from that that the hope is for you that is that non-citizens would vote. And that's essentially what Jocelyn Benson is doing. And so what you look at, when you look at the form and function of how they talk about this, this is Democrats' final frontier.

And so the good thing for Republicans is that, yes, the party is less engaged. Yes, people tend to only vote every four years and not on May and August millages, but that also means they have so much upside. If you turn those normal disengaged people into regular voters, what would be the Democrats next move? James Dixon is a political strategist out of Michigan. He's the founder of Make Politics Local, again, author of Who's Afraid of Citizen Only Voting? And we're talking about the Save Act, which would require a photo ID. And Michigan is a bit of a problem because you have a number of people who were voting in the last election cycle that were non-residents. And Michigan's got to tighten their stuff up here in Ohio. It's a very, very small percentage. I think we investigated six, if I'm not mistaken. And there are 633 suspected voter cases? And prosecutors only took up 12 because there was nothing there for the 600 plus. Of those six cases resulted in indictments, one involving a person who already died. But it looked like that was more of a clerical error than anything. So Ohio, we run pretty good elections here, I think. We don't have to worry about it. But you in Michigan and maybe Florida and other states, there's problems. I mentioned the pink washing argument. And I saw this happen when, you know, family members get married. Women can't prove their citizenship after name change because, well, they keep their maiden name. They're married now and assume the other name, but they don't go through the... It's like getting the photo ID. You've got to get the paperwork done to make sure that your name is reflected on your documents. This isn't disenfranchisement. I'm sorry. This is just... People going, I guess I forgot. It's like renewing your driver's license. I forgot. And then you get stopped and you're like, hey, your license expired. Well, that's on you. It's not on a some sort of allegation about a crooked system bias against women. That's insane. I mean, hey, they are women. Hear them roar, right? I have no reason to doubt the abilities of women to figure it out and get it done if they value voting and using their voice as a citizen. Right. There's going to be, there needs to be offers of proof. I mean, you check into a hotel you need ID. I once tried to send a piece of mail at UPS. They wanted ID for that. I was paying, why do you need to know who I am, right? Yep. It's just how America works except for voting. That is the last thing. I would let be left to the voter. Can't have an honor system in dishonorable time. Well, in a week. You need an ID for every, you know, you get a phone, every transaction, you're traveling. It's like we're in a more mobile society. I mean, back in the day when we were largely agrarian and worked in rural, you didn't need to present who you are, but everyone's all over all the time. At some point, you need to show who you are, cashing a check or whatever it might be. I don't understand why, I guess I guess I understand, but if you choose not to engage or at least get a government issued ID, that's not some sort of bias or.

some sort of reason to prevent you from voting. It's like you just got to go get a photo ID. You got to do other stuff. If you register for, I don't know, government benefits, they need to know who you are. It's along the same lines. It's really not a high hurdle to jump in 2026. The other element of this is, you know, we have a very contentious midterm coming up. But I think, you know, obviously it drives the paranoia here as Republicans on the right want to prevent people who shouldn't vote from voting. And that is almost largely happening across America, maybe save Michigan, but that's a couple handful of cases. On the other side, it's Democrats screaming about disenfranchisement. We hear this every election cycle. What's new about this? I think what's new about it is that. You know, going into 24, right? Guy Benson, just a month before Ho Ching-Gao, she testified before Congress. She talked about non-citizen voting like it was the Loch Ness Monster, like it was a myth or a fable. And, you know, and for years she had cited this Brennan Center study that said, hey, we looked at the 2016 election and we only found, you know, 30 legal votes out of 24 million. Okay, and then you found more than half of that in a single cycle and a single state in 2024? The math ain't massing. This, and then only doing a partial review. after finding the legal vote tells me that Guy Benson does not want to know the scale of the problem. So when you look at the form and function of this, chief election officers should be first on the wall saying we need higher standards. No question. Instead they're fighting against them. Why would they do that? James, I look at this complex issue and go. And I know this is what you're about, make politics local. And this is a problem. We turned politics into a national sport, right? It's like people root for their red or blue teams like they do a football team. Like you're into, you know, like Tigers v. Reds, Bengals v. Lions, right? Michigan, Ohio State. Sure, absolutely. As opposed to. The thing that matters most is the local elections, it's actually way more than the national elections. And I'm talking not only local politicians who represent you, but also at the state level. and they control your money, they control your taxation and all these things. Not to mention the local levies and issues like that on the ballot. That's the important stuff. We focus on the national politics more than the local politics. I think that's kind of backwards. I think we've got to get back to making politics boring again is what we need to do. You know, we have it exactly backwards. The real problems and the real power are all found in state and local politics. As we see when you look at Washington, Washington and Congress, that's a bad TV show. But if you want to see actual politics where things can change, that's the state and local level. One thing I'm working on right now in Michigan is this idea of no, May, millage. And so basically, if you want to raise my property taxes, you need to ask me in November when most people who do vote vote.

If you ask me in May or August, I can infer that you're trying to be deceptive and hoping to catch me slipping and not voting. And so it's just a dishonest by routine. And so if we can just change the political calendar to where these big money decisions are made in November and we show up, we could have a different place where citizens leave, not politicians. Isn't this exactly the problem in Michigan that you're complaining, James, about election law in your state, in the great state of Michigan, and it's the secretary of state? and we're focused on the presidential and who's in the White House and Congress. Wait a minute. What about the say you put the secretary state in there. Is that what most Michiganers want? But the polls show that 80-20 say we want to save the Save Act to go in effect in Michigan. And yet the politicians do the exact opposite. And then you look and look at the voting and chances are that same second, the same, well, the same Democrats are going to get elected in Michigan, aren't that? You know, the Democrats have shown that they are completely disconnected from what people want. Think about the TV ad that probably sealed it for Trump in 24. Kamala Harris is for they, them, Trump is for you. The Democrats have made a cottage industry out of picking the 10 side on the 90-10 issues and then trying to ram things through no matter what the people want. We have to get back to the very basic idea of consent of the governed, which means the governed need to start stepping up and being involved, not just on election day, but also holding officials to account once they're placed in office. I'll say it's also because you're in a blue state. I'm in a red state. That here in Ohio, the same thing. You've said something that's very true before I let you go here, James, that they get in an office, they do what they want. We have that problem here in Ohio with the Republicans. And Governor Mike DeWine, who single-handedly is now going to sink a sports betting like Draft Kings and Bet Fred and Bet365 and all those platforms because he doesn't like it. Yeah, yeah. He's single, and the legislature is going to go along with it. We have a proposal that's going to literally ban, in effect, sports wagering in Ohio. Can't bet on college, no more parleyes, no more in game bets, none of that whatsoever. If you go to a casino, you can only bet $100 a hand and only eight times. So you're only allowed to lose or wager $800 in the casino. So it's the same thing happening here in conservative Ohio that's happening in Democrat-controlled Michigan. James Dixon, political strategist, founder of Make Politics Local Again, James Joy, the Convo. Thanks again. Thank you, sir. Really appreciate it. All the best. And, you know, back to maybe his eyes are open because he sounds like a pretty red-leaning guy. That the problem is the problem of the government that people were putting in power here. 10% approval rating of Congress right now. And you know what we're doing? We're watching on, listening all these ads, seeing all these ads for...

voting people in how they're going to make a change and we'll go and we'll put the same people back in office we did it in i mean look look what uh look what the democrats did in very very deep blue hamlin county crime is an issue potholes all these problems and yet they go oh yeah you know what we're just going to vote the same people back in we are blind when it comes to accountability for ourselves and uh well our party anyway because of party politics scott slone show with news and julie is here with a something by the way generally talks about career related stuff but um something very bad and very serious happened in her life and she wants to share that story next hang on slooney 700 w l w Helping you navigate the rocky path of fulfilling employment. Here's our career Sherpa, Julie Balki. Yeah, this segment with Julian, we've been doing this for years, is not that. It's something entirely different and somewhat, well, life-changing, I think, at least introspectively. So last, well, I was on vacation last week. But the week prior on Wednesday, I received a text from Julie. And that was, let me pull it up here. Yeah, it was like on a Tuesday night. And here's what the text said from my friend Julie Balky. It said, I think I had a stroke in ambulance on way to hospital and ambulance. And I went, oh, my God, because that is something that, you know, depending on the severity of what type, there's four different, I believe four different types of strokes. That is something you literally don't walk away from, depending on the severity of it. But here we are now two weeks removed from said text, and she is back on the show. Julie? I, you know, when I got that text, I'll be honest, I was shaken to the core because you are, you know, remarkably in good shape and healthy and all the things you're supposed to be. And when you get that word from a dear friend, it really changes your world. And I can't imagine what you're going through. So I'm glad we're having a conversation this morning. How are you? I'm better. I had what's called a hemorrhagic stroke, which I had a burst blood vessel in my brainstem. And I believe I do not have high blood pressure. So I believe it was from a coughing fit that I got into last that Tuesday. I coughed so hard that it applied pressure to that blood vessel, which might have been weakened. We still don't know. But it burst and I had a brain bleed. And what saved me, first of all, so many shoutouts, but having 911 called immediately was incredible because they said most people when they have that, They say, I'm going to take a couple Tylenol and lie down. And that is fatal or coma inducing. So I knew, because my left side felt weak, I knew that it wasn't just a headache that was going to pass. So, of course, the 911 got here immediately, got me to our very, very fine UC Neuro Institute where I was in neuro ICU. And then while they were trying to determine what happened.

and it was the best explanation we could come up with is that I literally burst a blood vessel because I was coughing so hard. And that's pretty rare, isn't it? And typically it's a, you know, unregulated high blood pressure, stress, things like that, lifestyle. You're none of that. It was, I was coughing so much. I burst a blood vessel. That's crazy. And then they were telling me, you know, when you have high blood pressure, there's all this advice on what to do and not do moving forward. Because I don't, they look at me like, we don't really quite know what to tell you to do or not do moving forward. Just make sure you're taking really good care of yourself. But so I was at UC from Tuesday to Friday. And then I was transferred to the tri-health rehab hospital in Norwood that was. The first time they say we went you to go to a rehab hospital, you start going, no, no, no. Of course me, I'm like, I'll be home tomorrow. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I was fine. I was to go to a rehab hospital. And they are, they are, that is an incredible facility in every way. Unless I was there from Friday to Thursday. So I came home last Thursday. And I shouldn't fully recover because I took action and because we have wonderful services in the town. And so I don't have speech issues. I don't have vision issues. I'm walking. I have a walker, but I'm walking, mostly without the walker and starting physical therapy. And you just sit there and you think, and I remember, you know what I remember I said, I was at UC. I don't know if I was in you. the neuro or the ICU or not and i said i remember i started crying yeah on the second or third day and i said i'm not ready to be this old and the nurse said the nurse said no one is yeah yeah the way and we joke about the age thing all the time but that's that you know the stroke is now strokes can happen at a much younger age to be sure but um This one was just so sudden. And I bring this up, Julie Balky, because oddly enough, May is stroke awareness month, of all things. And I'm so glad you felt open enough to come on the show this morning, not talk about career-related stuff. Because guess what? For someone who's career-earned as you are, this puts things in perspective, doesn't it? Well, you know, I think we all know theoretically about how our body ages and how things happen to people are age and younger. But this was my first time I'd ever been overnight in the hospital. So I've been extremely healthy. And that developed sort of a naive arrogance and that, that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to get old. Everybody else is going to get old. I'm not going to have a stroke. That's everybody else. And until you have one of those moments, and then you start to lay there and realize, you know, what have I, what is undone? Who have I not spoken to? Who, what do I want to do? What I have to get better from this? And because I still have some things I want to do. And everybody does. I think everybody does. Liz Bonas had things she wanted to do. Yes. And everybody goes through these moments differently. The good news is that.

I still, I mean, I still, I'm still connecting the dots still speaking. I'm still recovering, never as quickly as I want to because I'm ready to be ready tomorrow. But it's, you know, it's, I'm optimistic because I'm naturally an optimistic person. And so. I have great care, and I want to be back to do what I was doing until I decide. It's not time to do it anymore. That's my goal. So let's go back, Julie, by the way, Julie is our career of Sherpa on the show, except for today. Today, it's real Julie. And that two weeks ago today, well, yesterday, I believe, she was transported to UCMC. as she experienced a stroke. And someone who's very, very healthy and active and very much alive and very much, you know, no high blood pressure, no history, brought on by a coughing attack of all things, which is extremely rare, but it happened. And hemorrhetic stroke is the worst. There's the ischemic ones. And that's most of the strokes. It's a clot. This is hemorrhetic, which basically means a blood vessel ruptured and bleeds around the brain. And there's different types within there. There's the TIA, which is the mini stroke. which is a sign, hey, you better get some help because it comes and it goes. But a lot of people will have a full stroke within 90 days of an episode like that. And there's some others too as well. But this is the most serious of them all because generally you don't walk away from these. And she is. And she did. So take us for those listening going, oh, my God, is this going to happen to me? What does it look? What does that feel like? Can you take us through that moment? Because I think, you know, most people, especially men. would go, eh, you know what, I don't feel well, but I felt worse, I'll be fine. I just got a little headache and like, wow, I don't feel, you know, this is kind of weird, but maybe I'll lay down for a minute, which means if you lay down, Julie, you would not, we wouldn't be having this conversation, we'd be planning your funeral. Right. Take us back to that moment that had happened and the sign that went wrong and did you know immediately it was a stroke or did it feel like something else? So I had a really busy day Tuesday. I did a webinar in the morning. I was on someone's podcast in the afternoon, and I came home from that. And I was literally going to take, because I had been fighting bronchitis, which is what the core of the clock came from. But I was at the end, I thought, I thought, you know what, it's been a really busy day. I am literally going to take two Tylenol and lie down. I was literally going to do that. And then I got into this little coughing fit. And I was walking to get some Tylenol, and I realized couldn't really walk, right? And I couldn't even get to the Tylenol and then back to my bed to lie down. So I just sat on the floor and I thought, okay, this isn't good. And so I thought, okay, I can't really stand up. So this is more than just lying down is not going to fix this. Yeah. So I had our building manager call 911. And I'm not one. I mean, I think most of us are so like, this isn't serious. I'm fine. We talk ourselves into things. And so, so I had our, I said, this is not, I texted a couple friends first and said, I need some help. Something's wrong. And then my one friend said, she got our building manager to call 911. And of course, what's the first thing they say to me? I'm sitting, I'm literally sitting on the floor at that point because I can't stand up. Yeah. And it, but it wasn't like,

It wasn't horrible. Like, it wasn't like, it was a, you know, 10 out of 10 bad. It was like something's wrong on my left side. Right. And so I just sat on the floor until the ambulance got here. And first thing I said was, aren't you on the radio? Not tomorrow. I'm not. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, so it was a, I felt like when I was coughing, like it was, it was. set off something and that was that was the blood was it almost instant at that point where you felt like you know when you feel a muscle pull yeah yeah yeah like now this isn't this isn't just me recovering from bronchitis yeah there's a we all have a base line right for pain it normal And this is like, wow, this is such an outlier. And, you know, like, man, and they calm and the lights and the sirens. And there's, you know, for some people, it's a cost. And I don't want to, you know, I'll freak people out and I'll be okay. And, you know, you know, and there's no givebacks. There's no, my bad, because that would have been fatal. And, you know, the other thing you need to know about stroke is there's an acronym, a lot of acronyms, you know, but it's called fast. And that means face, arm's speech and time. And you're checking, you know, smile and you can check for droopiness, weakness on one side, slurred speech. If you had any of those markers, that is an indication you are having a stroke. And you have to get care immediately. That's nothing you can do. The longer you lay, the more tissue dies. And, you know, literally you called the squad was probably there in a matter of minutes. And you were at UC Neuro and how long, how long to take? To get there? Yeah. Or how long? Yeah, I mean, from that, from when you recognize the episode, when I called from 9-1-1 call roughly to you're treated. Yeah, probably 25 minutes. Yeah, because I live downtown, so I'm pretty close to you can see. Right. You're like, get to go over the, I'm being pulled out on a stretcher, but there comes that moment when you're like, no, this, I don't care. So probably 20 minutes, 20, 25 minutes. And we're so lucky the Gardner Neuroscience Institute at UC is one of the top in the country. And then the Tri-Health Rehab Hospital was, I can't say enough. Like, I hope I never see you people again, but I kind of want to do because you're so great. We're blessed with it here. We really are. We really are. We have fantastic facilities here. And so everything was just working for me that day. And so I look at it as, okay, so the biggest frustration for me is, like, I want everything to go back to normal immediately. And I could. The good news is I can get back there, but you can never get there as fast as you want to. And you're around people and you think, okay, I just need to grab onto feeling really grateful that all these things kind of lined up in place and I have a path to get back to where I was. But I will always feel more vulnerable than ever. What's it going to be? The next time I get a cough, is something going to happen? Sure, 100%. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So there's that, okay. You know, here's an analogy for you. And by the way, I would say, you know, you just mentioned from the time you called 911 until you arrived at the neuroscience center, it was about 20, 25 minutes. And now here are two weeks in, by the way, and you have to go to physical therapy because you still are, you have a little bit of disability on your left side. It's going to get better. It's going to heal. But, I mean, that's 20 minutes. Imagine what would happen had that been 30 an hour, two hours?

how quickly things deteriorate if you don't address it quickly. So the lesson here, please, I'm begging you if you're listening to this and going, yeah, okay, just if something isn't right, it's worth a call to 911 to reach out and say, you know, it's not a weakness. It's, this is your life. You only get one chance. You only get one bite of the apple. As far as recovery goes now, though, Julie, walk us through what that looks like the first few days physically and emotionally and mentally for you. What's that like? First of all, right now, two weeks later, if I was sitting across from you, you would, I would look entirely the same as I did before. So it's right now, it's a lot of rest. It's a lot of letting my brain heal. I've had a headache for two weeks. It's just started to go away. Physical therapy starts tonight. And it's just a lot of patience. It's just a lot of listening. And I have so many. appointments to manage and so I'm trying to kind of, you know, stay on top of there and trying to do everything they're telling me to do. Because, you know, if you've been around people who've had incidents happen to them and they don't, my mom, well, she had a stroke. This is she's gone now, but she had a stroke and she went, okay. And there was all these things she was supposed to do to recover and she just didn't. She sat on the couch for 20 years. And that was her choice. And so I look at that and I think. I get the temptation. Yeah. But I also look at it and say because I love what I do, I'm not done yet. I just wrote a book. It's, you know, in the process of being published. And I want to see that through. And so I have something to live for. And so it's phenomenal friends. I mean, you have to build your own village, especially at a certain age because every person I know in their 60s. It's like whack-a-mole. It's like you're dealing with multiple things at once. You don't know what's next. Is it going to be something that just inconveniences you or is it something that's going to kill you? And I'm telling you, I literally have had perfect health my whole life. So this is quite the wake-up call for me. And I know I'm very, but it's right now, it's for the first couple weeks for tremendous headaches and then body pains associated with it when I would. I just have body aches and pains. And then you're laying for two weeks, which isn't good for you. And so getting up and walking, but also being patient with yourself, taking every piece of advice. from the professionals that are offered and deciding, you know, I'm just not done. And I'm lucky because I have the ability to make that decision where if I had laid down with a couple of time and all for two hours, I probably wouldn't have. No, you definitely wouldn't have. I mean, again, the fact that it was 20 minutes from the onset of the episode until intervention was 20, 25 minutes and look at the state you're in right now. Yeah, you're talking to me if you wouldn't notice, but, you know, your left side is compromised. It's not going to be a long road back, but it's going to be a road back. And had that been another 30 minutes, 45 minutes, an hour, you can see how quickly things deteriorate. So, you know, the takeaway this morning is, first of all, to...

say how happy we all are that you're you're still here and you're going to be just fine but also to share the story because you know here it's awareness this awareness that you have experts on all the time but it's different when it hits home as it did with us here and you know lesson is here know what the signs are like and don't be afraid to call 911 especially if you're a dude because guys you know we're bad at that stuff it's like I'll tough it out you know hell I walked around all summer with a with a ruptured ankle tendon and I'm like oh no wonder my ankle hurt well I started thinking after you said that, I'm like, would I be smart enough to realize I'm having a stroke? It's one thing for me to tell you, like, oh, yeah, here's the symptoms, you know, be fast. Here's the markers. Do, do this. But when it's you, you go, I'll be fine. And that's not the case. So, you know, we're all mortal. That's the lesson here. Yeah. And I was. At the beginning, I'm like, of course, everybody I came in contact with, I was career coaching them. I could be like your job. I'd become an even driver. What do you like about it? What can't change if you could. So I did that. For everybody, whether they wanted it or not, I made them tell me their career story. Because I think it helped me keep my brain engaged, too. Because I didn't, you know, I didn't want to lose any gray matter. So, yes, I was still me, but I'm just a slower me right now. Okay. But you're going to be back to you, the... Going all the time, Julie, fairly soon and enjoy it all. Hey, listen, obviously it goes without saying how much I care for you, love you, and that everything's going to work out well when, and by all intents of purposes, probably shouldn't have. But, you know, the fact that you came on, what, two weeks later, the first thing we talked about was you being vulnerable and opening up is, it's an amazing story. And if someone hears this and can get something out of that, that's my hope, anyway. That's, you know, I always, when I started to feel better, it was like, how can I help other people with this? How can I? Yeah, you've been helping people. And part of that message, too is if you were in a miserable job or a job you hate, don't wait for it to change. You've got to fix it on your own because you, it's, you know, you. Yeah, yeah, don't. Life is too short to be miserable. That's general the lesson. I appreciate you. Heal up, okay? Get the work in. Thanks, Ben. All right. Take care. I love you to you. Say bye. Got to go. Julie Bauki on the Scotsone show every Wednesday morning. Slooney 700. Hey, this is Ryan Crest here, and I have discovered a fun to escape from the daily grind. Chumba Casino. Chumba Casino. It's all free to play anytime, anywhere, with daily bonuses. So get to Chumbacasino.com. No purchase necessary. VGW. Boy, we're prohibited by loss. See, terms and conditions, 21 plus. Trade screen time for race time at Virginia International Raceway. August 21st through 23rd, IMSA's Michelin GT Challenge brings some of the coolest cars to VIR for an unforgettable family weekend. Explore, meet drivers, see race cars up close, and experience the thrill of racing from every corner of the track. It's more than a race. It's a memory waiting to be made. Kids 12 and under get in free. Get your tickets at VIRFam.com. That's VIRFAM.com. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our war fighters, delivers mission-ready intelligence, advances life-saving healthcare, and defends the critical infrastructure that keeps our country moving. At GDIT, we power the systems that help America operate, connect, and stay secure. Every hour, every mission, every day. GDIT, behind America's invisible advantage.

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At this point, does Mike Pence just to simply go away? He endorsed one of the losers, got nothing for it. It's probably time for him to hang it up. Well, I think he's become irrelevant. And he was propped up to a large degree by the Democrats who were in opposition to Trump. And this often happens in politics here. You're being used and you tend to think that you have this broad-based support, which you don't. Now, he was a congressman and he was a governor before Trump tapped him to be vice president. But I don't think he has any broad-based support. And he's not a dynamic figure. So he can't do that. And he can't. He's not a perpetual fundraiser, which will not allow him to be somewhat independent. Here in Hamilton County in Cincinnati proper, very blue Hamilton County Democrats out early voted Republicans and they got Ohio across the state by 11 percent. Republicans didn't turn out as much as Democrats did in Hamilton County. What does that side? Is there an enthusiasm gap there at the primary stage? Is that translate into November? Do you see, is that generally a trend or can things change between now and then? Well, Scott, that's always difficult to predict, but the party in power tends to be less enthusiastic. The party out of power sees all the damages that they perceive that goes against their ideological will and their economic interest. So when you're in power, you tend to become fat and lazy. That's the general explanation of these things. And that's why historically, in midterm elections or off-year elections, the party out of power loses tremendously. It happened to Barack Obama. It happened to Bill Clinton. It happened to Donald Trump. And that's a always dangerous trend. People talk about the larger issue of American politics with the two-year term of the House of Representatives, in particular, where a president could get elected and even elected by a large amount and then have his agenda stalled in two years. Yeah, and it's kind of like the, I don't know, the ex-girlfriend slash ex-boyfriend analogy that you just get tired of their crap after a few years. Yeah, that's a good analogy. I may have to use that in the future. That's what it is. Like, I've seen this act. I want something, I need something different. Dr. Frank Sorrentino, let me pivot from what happened last night, and that's just a blip on the radar, obviously, because so much is in flux right. I mean, the economy is going to dictate what's going to happen here. Let's face it and made to some degree they've

or in Iran, if those wrap up, it's going to be great for, you know, we see gas prices go down, the economy homes along, things are going to be great for the GOP. It goes the other way, got problems. Let's talk about the... elephant in the room that's redistricting a lot of people hear about this for listeners who've never thought about this before uh you know the congressional district the lines are drawn and they're remapped because that's what uh it says in our kind of founding documents and it matters who draws the lines and how much the lines can change an election outcome and it's all about protecting the party in power and so people see that and i wonder how much now especially with the focus on redistricting across the country and here in Ohio and elsewhere, that that turns voters off because they look at it's like, well, it's fixed. The people in power are just going to draw the lines that way they want to keep their people in. You know, I think it turns most people off, to be honest with you. It's a longstanding practice. You know, we talk about Jerry in Massachusetts, you know, as a founding father. He developed a salamander. That's where Jerry Mandarin comes along. In the present day, we see New England doesn't even have one representative of the Republican Party. There has been gerrymandling going on for a long, long time. I think what's different now is that a state like California or Texas, Florida, you know, Virginia, let's use those as the bellwether, is that in some instances, there are state constitutional requirements. that say they either be nonpartisan or that they be judge-based or that there is a long time and intervening election, as in the case of Virginia, before you could approve these things. So we do have in the state of Texas a general significant population change, which could cause... an argument or lead to an argument in favor of it. But generally it is something that is distasteful in American politics. And I think most people realize that they become disenfranchised to some degree by being in the opposite party in a one party state or predominant one party state. Yeah, and the term goes back to the 1800s when they started doing this, so it's been a long time. As a presidential historian, Dr. Frank Sorrentino, put that hat on for a second. Historically speaking, and we hear about this now because we live in the present times, not in the past, and we don't know what's going to have in the future, but it's like, oh, the damn Republicans do this all the time. Democrats do the same thing.

Oh, without a doubt. I mean, I live in New York State. You need a microscope to find a Republican. I mean, in terms of there are Republicans, but they're not elected officials. And so the result is that, you know, you have in New York constantly the idea of moving it to even more Democratic state, California. is the same thing. And so what we're seeing here is the object that I know what's right and I know what's in my interest and I have the power to do it, so I'm going to do it. No, that makes sense because they want to protect their own. In Republicans use this, what was it, 2010 to lock up the house. I forget what they call the operation, but it worked really well and Democrats didn't seem coming, as I recall. Well, you know, it's different parties that have what we used to call the Zygos, where they have the impetus, the energy, and the talent to do it. You know, sometimes you could draw these districts and the opposite takes place. You know, you have incompetent or inarticulate or candidates who have a lot of skeletons in their closet that merge. So it depends a lot on the political leadership. And I don't mean necessarily moral leadership. I mean competent political leadership that you can recruit the right people and generate the right resources and do the districts in a way that you can't be too cute. I mean, if he tried to do 52.48. That's risky business, if I can borrow another expression. But if you do it, you know, 70, 30, you're going to win, but then you maldistribute your potential resources to win even more districts. So sometimes a political skill is a very, very scarce resource. Yeah, and even the Supreme Court back in 2019 ruled that the federal courts can't stop. partisan political gerrymandering. So that was a turning point, right? It just codified essentially said, no, this is perfectly legal. We're going to continue to do it. Well, the problem, Scott, is what are the alternatives? Right. And that's the real difficulty. You know, a McDonald's burger may not be great, but what's the alternative? Burger King? I mean, you have to make those choices. And I don't think if you have judges to do it, you have an unaccountability. If you have a state board, it could just be an intermediary for political power. when a state legislature and a governor redraw the line, they are then the visible hand that defined those districts, and they could have a backlash. I'm thinking of Abigail Spanberger in Virginia, who campaigned on not doing that, who then violated the Virginia Constitution. Now, it may be that time heals all wounds, and by the time...

the repercussions could come up. And of course, I believe Virginia is a one-term governor term that the Democrats do not pay a price for that. So the real problem is, is that it stinks, but what's the alternative? You're going to redraw the lines because it's representation, right? You can't just people go, I think a lot of people don't follow. Why don't you just like make a grid and then whatever grid you're in, then that's, you know, it's a box basically. It's a geographical box. You can't do that because of the way the laws read. That's right. And, you know, politics always raises its ugly head everywhere you go where people could see the advantage. They're going to take that advantage. I mean, there is large amounts of money that's involved in who wins and who loses in terms of contracts, in terms of jobs, in terms of policies that affect businesses. These are not things that are going to be given away because of... abstract principles, although we may both support those abstract principles. So what's going on in Florida? I mean, I kind of follow a little bit what's going on there. I don't really care all that much because they don't live in Florida. They have something called the Fair District's Amendment, and their own state constitution ban maps drawn to a favor of party to sign, the Santa signed one anyway. So, you know, how does that kind of conflict constitutionally typically get resolved? Well, the problem is clarity. What does that mean? And most people don't understand what it means. I frankly don't understand what it means. Okay, good. I thought I was like, well, I know I'm not that bright, but I'm like, what the hell's going on here? Well, the problem is that it leaves it up to judges to say, is it fair? And that's not really democratic politics, democratic with a small day. So what happens is these are bromides that sometimes help win small elections, try to put people on the side of morality and goodness. But in practice, I think they're meaningless. I think Virginia is a little different because in Virginia, not only did you have state boards that were doing the elections, but you also had... in this recent plebiscite, what we call a state constitutional amendment to change that, and they didn't have an intervening election. Now, that's pretty clear in terms of the violation of the Virginia Constitution. So I think it has a very high chance of being overturned. But you could never be totally confident.

In New York many years ago, the city charter had a two-term limit for mayor and other high-level officials. And they wrote a law and they found a judge who said, well, you can run for a third turn. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, exactly. And, you know, okay, so Florida is a. All right, is red. But California, Virginia, they're counter jerryman. If you want to call it, I think counter gerrymandering for Democrats. And this is now not a bug. It's a feature. This is a permanent feature of American politics. It's just perpetual redistricting arms race every time the Supreme Court shifts. Well, I think as the political winds shift and the population shifts, yeah. Listen, I think we all expect our politicians to behave as adults and self-interest outweighs that desire. And so this is, as they said, New England is maybe the most egregious example. You have all these states and not even one representative. And while New England is predominantly Democrat, that's who they choose, you still have about 40 to 43 percent Republican, and they have no representatives. So it's not a product of a political party. It's a product of politics and self-interest. All right. Final point. Are we headed towards a country where the House of Representatives is essentially... non-competitive, each party owns its territory regardless of national trends. And if that's true, what does that mean for democracy long term? Well, I think it's a very interesting question and serious question. What we saw in the recent Calais case in Louisiana, there are somewhere between 30 and 35 districts that were set up primarily. as minority majority. And it said it was mandated by the 1965 Voting Rights Act. And the Supreme Court just recently said that it wasn't. We also have a migration, a significant migration of people to from what we used to call, you know, blue states, red states where they're going into the Southern Belt. the lower tax regions, and those are going to make a significant change in 2030. But if this CalA decision is implemented and implemented in a competent way, as we discussed earlier, we can see a significant change in the historical trends for the House of Representatives, where usually the party in power. could lose 25 to 35 and sometimes higher in the off year elections, where if this turns around, we could see a net gain of anywhere from 15 to 25 Republican seats.

And with the redistricting, because most of the other states were already heavily gerrymandered, you know, as I say, I don't take any view that the Republicans are more moral than Democrats or vice versa. Right. But the trends are very significant. He's Dr. Frank Sorrentino, presidential historian, political scientist, and author of Presidential Power in the American Political System. Thanks for the time. Well, thank you. It's a pleasure to be with you. The Reds are limping and more ways than one. Details. Snort report. Sarah's next on the big one. From flying pigs to pepper pigs, Sarah Elise, the snore report here this morning. Good morning. Congrats again to all the flying piggies from over the weekend. It was a good weekend for it. The weather was amazing. That's why I signed up. It was a very last minute decision. I saw the forecast and like a true runner that I am. I'm like, I'm in. Did you run the fall? I did not do the full. Those days are over. Oh, yeah. My body said, please stop doing that. Once you hit the big 5-0, it's over. I get that. For you. For you. I'm sorry, Big 4-0. The big 4-0. Not yet. Did you get new glasses, by the way? I did. Look at you for noticing. I always notice things. It was one of those deals where I'm like. You're having a hard time seeing. I'm like, I think I'm like, when's the last time I got my glasses? Like, it's been a couple of years. I went on like, oh, yeah, I can. Now you can actually see. I can see before, but these are a little, because the other ones are all scratched up from, you know, abuse and things like that. So what do you think? Good frames. Did I pick well? Well, did you see that Seg is no longer in Reds gear? He switched up. I love the transition. How do my glasses look? So yeah, Seg anyway. You lose five in a row. And it's back in Bengals gear. That's when you know things are a little rocky in Reds country. You know what you were in the Reds hat today, though? Because my loyalty goes deep. Okay. You got to support these guys. It's been tough. Your loyalty goes deep, much like a hamstring pull. Just like our guy, Emilio Pagan, another rough night in Chicago. Three to two is the final. And, yeah, Emilio Pagan looks like he was shot last night on the mound. Went down real fast. Have you ever pulled a hammie? Not like that. Oh, I've pulled one, and it's bad. Actually, Reds at baseball heaven years ago. It was like running. I was like stretching out a single. And all of a sudden, like two-thirds of the way. there. I'm like, oh, I've got that grab. Not like he had, but it was still like, it was a rough week. Yeah, it did. It looked like he was shot, and that's definitely not what you want to see from our closer. And we know that Emilio Pagan has been dealing with this pain for quite some time. What was the first week of the season? Remember he winced? This was nothing new. He winced. He grabbed. He got a few wins, and now back on the aisle for our guy. That could be, and this could be a long one.

So he's going to be, yeah. You bring the card out. It's not good. When it's card time, you know it's going to be downtime. Okay, so Trevino said things are going to happen. Baseball is very unpredictable. Now it's up to our team to just keep playing. And that's really all you can do. Tito claims that everything was fine. He's like, I saw him. He hadn't felt anything. He was warming up just fine. He was like, I would never put him out there if something was going on. Right. Well, you could tell it was maybe lingering to because it's been a problem and it was pretty cold. It's Chicago. And that's part of the season. Our friend Charlie Goldsmith, he has all the details about that. But yeah, this is something that he has been dealing with for a bit. And it just popped off last night. He had had enough. I don't know. We'll just go from here. So maybe Graham Ashcraft will slide into that role more. We'll see more from him. Well, you go from being one game up in the lead in the NL Central. Now you're four back. Yeah. And I believe they're what in third place in the NL Central? Yes. Third. Yep. Right behind. And the Cardinals are on fire right now. Gain back a last place at this point. Close to the last place than first place, right? A lot is changed in a week. But yeah, that's why you play 162. Who knows what could happen over the next few weeks. But you've got to get back to winning. Well, look at Milwaukee. They're struggling. Yeah. The Pirates are doing their thing. The Cubs, they're hot right now. The NL Central is wild. Seven straight for the Cubs. Yeah, first Reds team to win 20 that quickly. They were setting these amazing stats, and now it's kind of just been a downhill slope and really hoping for a turnaround. So they're back in Chicago tonight. They've got Brady Singer on the mound, 740 first pitch for that one. And then they'll be back in Cincinnati for three against Houston this weekend. Speaking of injuries, Nick Ladolo is back from his blister-ish. He'll be pitching on Friday night. How about that Bengals? I know. So if you're like Seg and you're rocking your Bengals here today because rookie camp starts this weekend. And Joe Burrow has been trending more than anybody else right now on social media. He's putting up crazy stats in the offseason. Went three for three over the weekend. Started with the Kentucky Derby on Saturday night. Then went down to Miami for F1 and then finished it out in New York at the Met Gala. Good for him. No one is having more fun in the off season than Joe Barrow. I don't care. Throw touchdowns and stay healthy. I don't care. You can't throw a touchdown right now. It's May. I don't care.

That's why I love these dudes on social media. Like they're complaining about Joe Burrow out and about. And it's like, well, what do you want him to do right now? There are no games happening. We haven't even started in training camp. Let me tell you what. Of course, this guy is going to go out and live his life. You would do the same thing too if you had those opportunities. I will tell you how this city works. Okay. So here's the thing. Joe Burrow does all this stuff. He's like, okay, whatever. He comes up, I don't know, maybe injured, God forbid, or doesn't have the season we expect out of him. People will turn on him like that. Then it's going to come back to the Met Gallo. 100%. Because all the stuff is... So what's he supposed to do? Just stay in all day? No, no, no, I'm just saying. Live your life. I'm fine with that. I mean, it's not for me. What he's... You know, the F1 is cool, but I don't get dressed in like a Chinese waiter from the 1940s. I thought he looked good at the Met Gallag. Of course you did. He looked... Fantastic. There's no bigger ass kisser of Joe Burrow than Sarah Elise. And Seg. He was wearing the backless gown last time or whatever that was. Of course you did. That was two years ago in the Paris fashion show. Was Lamar Jackson, you'd be hating on him. Let's get it all straight. Well, of course I would be. Of course you would be. He's not Joe Burrow. He's not our quarterback. Bigger jock sniffer of Joe Burrow than Sarah Elise. I'm not going to lie. I love our quarterback. I pray that he stays healthy. I hope so too for his sake. I'm glad we have Joe Flacco as our backup, but I hope that we. don't have to use them. Who's excited about the backup? I am. I like Joe Flacco. What is wrong with you? Nobody's excited. It's like, okay. All right, fine. Bengals Nation is happy that we have Joe Flacco. It's better than Jake Browning. It is true. But then again, what was his record? Joe Flacco? Yeah. You know what? He had a little bit of a rough start. He had a little bit of a rough start. But hey, once he settled in with his wide receivers, everything was working out just fine, okay? All right, all right. Leave my guy Joe Flacco alone. Leave him out. You're like a female SEG. You are. I don't know how I feel about that. We're two very big homers, okay? You're like SEG with smaller boobs.

And he hates me. And he hates me. And he hates me. Thank you. You all are so bad around here. So Joe Burrow, before the Met Gala, because this is what's trending. He went with his friend Justin Jefferson and how they prepared for the Met Gala watching a little bit of sex in the city. I can't believe he just said that. What? You're sick. You're so sick. I did not miss you as a week. You miss me. You miss me. Anyways, Joe Burrow is a big sex in the city fan. I have a feeling that his girlfriend, Olivia Pontin, has something to do with this. As much as he doesn't want to admit that they are together, they're very much together. They were in Kentucky. They were in Miami and they were in New York City, all three events together, together, together. And a big part of that is their sponsor, raising canes. Both of them are sponsored by the, what? Chicken. What about chicken? It all gets back to chicken. It all comes back to chicken. It really does. Chicken is the backbone of this country, okay? I'm exhausted. Cains is good. Cains is delicious. Good. Gets. Give me a five piece with extra sauce and the extra garlic bread. I know what's in that. I don't want to know what's in that sauce, but it's good. Nope, don't tell me. I don't care. It's delicious. You know what? How underrated are crinkle fries? I love me some crinkle fries. I love everything about raising chains. Please sponsor our snort report. We love. Love you. Anyway, so Joe Burrow, though, moving on to football. So he had talked with Vanity Fair at the MetGala, and they asked him about the offseason and the moves that the Bengals were making. And he says, I'm really excited about the moves. And he goes, we need to get better. So it's exciting to see the initiative from everybody in the organization to realize we're in this exciting stage. Joe Burrow went on to say, we're in our primes of playing great football. So he's still thinking about football, even though he is at the Kentucky Derby and F1 and at the McGuella. He still got football as his number one priority. Okay, so everybody just chill out about Joe Burrough and his priorities and what he's doing in the off season. So with all the money he makes, it's refreshing to know this prior. Number one part is still football. He's still with the Cincinnati Bengals. I don't care if that's his jam. I'm fine. I don't care guys do stuff in the out. Of course you can do stuff in the out. You shouldn't like sit around and practice. Yeah, it's just like when we take vacations or have our weekends. Like we're not just sitting on a microphone all day. It's the Metcala thing. That kind of stuff. It's Cincinnati, right? Like if you were in L.A. or maybe Chicago, New York, okay. But.

I get it, but given a chance to go, you'd go. If this bus doesn't move forward the season deep into the playoffs, I'm telling you, there's a repercussions because we hold grudges. We totally do. We go, you know what? And I feel like every city sort of does. Yeah, I feel like every city sort of does do that. That's exactly right. With their team as well. I mean, you know, when guys are, you know, teams years ago, like the Vikings or the Dallas Cowboys bag, when they go, when everyone's getting, remember that streak where every team would. Everyone's getting arrested Pittsburgh. Cincinnati went through it. And a lot of guys here with Kansas City. Yeah, yeah, Kansas City. If you're playing well and winning, The fans are like, okay, hey, do whatever you. It's fine. It's our guys. But if you're losing, that's a different story entirely. Right, right. And they come back. I'm just saying the MetGala stuff's going to get old unless he wins some games. Well, we were talking about guys being active here in Cincinnati. Dalton Reisner and Ted Karas were a part of the flying pig on Saturday. I actually ran with Dalton Reisner and his wife Whitney for a little bit of that. Is you really? I did, yeah. I'm like, who is this ginormous 300-pound man in front of me. Did you sprint ahead going? I think there's a bengel I can. Okay. And you run up to? There's like the one win I did have in life. I can say that I beat Ted Keras and Dalton Reisner and the pig. Nice job. Anyways, congrats again to everybody. Did you run the 13? You run the, you run the full. I did the 5K and I did the flying fur on Saturday. Oh, okay. So the 5K. And then on Sunday I watched the full marathon because I always stay at home and watch it. And the winner by two and a half minutes set a new course record. Incredible flying. Kraft or something? Yeah, he did it in 17 minutes. He ran one minute miles. Yeah, no, it was amazing and Channel 5 crushes it with the coverage. Yeah, it was a great weekend all around. But anyway, we got rookie camp coming up this weekend. FC Cincinnati is on the road. The Kentucky barrels are on the road. We got Reds all weekend, and hopefully they can turn things around starting tonight with the Chicago Cubs. 740 can they do it slooney walk off single last night walk off single are we looking brutal and 10 after our guy Emilio Pagan shot in the hammy. And then Ellie, like, I don't know. I mean, it was tough ball. He made a tough play that one he made on his knees amazing. But then that one was like Ole. It was like, oh boy. I know. I know. And I actually didn't get to stay up. I had to watch all the highlights this morning. It's bad. Like these 740 starts are a little rough for me. It's Chicago. You've got me for four innings. She is Sarah Lisa on the Kid Chris Show mornings on 1027 EBN. She pops in Wednesdays with the Snort Report. And appreciate you. Thanks. And you leave Seg and his boobies alone. You're a little jelly. I can kill it. It's 700 w-O-Demone. It is Ryan Seacrest here. There was a recent social media trend which consisted of flying on a plane with no music, no movies, no entertainment. But a better trend would be going to chumba casino.com. It's like having a mini social casino in your pocket. Chumba Casino has over 100 online casino style games all absolutely free. It's the most fun you can have online and on a plane. So grab your free welcome bonus now at chumbacasino.com. Sponsored by Chumba Casino.

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