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Alan Bernstein: And we are back. Good morning from our little hiatus. Yeah, 

Terri Bernstein: Ben 

Alan Bernstein: on the, he went to two members and Bermuda members of this of this podcast, who just would never get back to anybody, didn't ever want to do a pod. No one ever talked to me. So well, you're one of the people I'm including. Oh, okay.

Welcome everybody. Welcome back to the Ramblin' on the River podcast. We did have a Two week hiatus. I did go to Was not so sunny Bermuda. [00:02:00] Oh Look, my sister old Terri's here. Terri's pulling an owl every episode Every episode my father adjusts his microphone and pulls the whole thing out 

Alan Bernstein 2: Now Terri now 

Terri Bernstein: Terri has to be his microphone 

Alan Bernstein: It's got it probably 

Terri Bernstein: Look ben it's broken like Yeah, 

Alan Bernstein: it's fine.

It's it's fine, but your microphone works fine. You sound 

Alan Bernstein 2: great Ben however You have not fixed the intro And my name is last again 

Alan Bernstein: should be the first name again. I have Continually told you if you want it changed have somebody produce You A different intro. Okay.

Welcome back to the Ramblin' on the River podcast. We're very happy that you. Are listening we are sorry for the couple week delay, but we are Finally are back and for the first time we are actually recording on the day that it's going to be [00:03:00] released This is our well, and we have two we will get to them in just a second.

Isn't the day 

Terri Bernstein: it releases tomorrow? 

Alan Bernstein: Well midnight, I guess so if you're up late, it comes out at midnight if you're listening to the election You can hear the podcast. So before we get started we would love for you to go and give us a like, and subscribe on any one of your favorite podcast platforms, love for you to connect with us on Facebook and Instagram.

You could go to our website at ramblinontheriver. com. And as many of you Are doing feel free to email us if you'd like to connect with us directly Yeah, I have some email buddies already at bbriverboats. com As my father said we do have two very special Guests they are in studio today Which is election day 

Terri Bernstein: So I voted 

Alan Bernstein: have you guys voted?

I voted I voted I voted oh in [00:04:00] two more years Emma's got two more years. Anyways, without further ado, I guess I should say, the fourth generation of the Bernstein family 16 year old Emma Stewart and 12 year old. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Everybody that's out there driving around. Get off 

Emma Stewart: the road driver. I promise. 

Alan Bernstein: So you see that there's a little logo on the microphone.

Make sure you go right into the logo. Yeah. 

Emma Stewart: Yeah. 

Terri Bernstein: Keeps messing up. So it was always Ben's fault too. 

Alan Bernstein: It was Elim. You want to say hello? Hello. Hello. You want to say hi, everybody. My name is Elim Bernstein. Thanks for listening to it. I'm in the sixth grade 

Alan Bernstein 2: at Beechwood elementary. Nope. Yeah. I guess middle school, 

Emma Stewart: I guess.

I don't know. It's just beach. There is no middle school. It's just elementary and high school. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Okay. So it's, I'm in the seventh grade. He's in high school. It's 

Alan Bernstein: really just freaking Elim. [00:05:00] Yeah, 

Elim Bernstein: that's right. 

Alan Bernstein: So as we said, Emma in this past October turned 16 years old. She studied very, very, very hard.

I will say that your Uncle Ben got a 100 percent on the test. 

Terri Bernstein: Oh, a lot of my friends did. Emma's friend just got 100. Emma, what did you get? Okay.

Emma Stewart: I missed over seven, but under nine. 

Alan Bernstein: And how many did you need to pass? 

Emma Stewart: Exactly.

Alan Bernstein: So any reason to get off the road, if anybody sees a black Subaru. Running around Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. Hopefully number one. There's an adult in the car 

Ben Bernstein 2: At 

Alan Bernstein: least for the next six months, 

Alan Bernstein 2: yes, 

Alan Bernstein: but watch out She 

Alan Bernstein 2: grandpa is gonna take her driving and parking and that is what we're [00:06:00] most worried about. Well, no, no 

Terri Bernstein: She needs serious help parking.

Alan Bernstein 2: Yes, 

Emma Stewart: so do you. I'm a good driver, it's just parking that I'm kind of 

Alan Bernstein: bad at. Your mom needs the same amount of help. Oh, she's much better because I taught her how to park. Her 

Terri Bernstein: turning radius is not great. Yeah. Her depth perception. Yeah. Uncle Ben, I almost did hit your car coming in. You definitely would not have been able to get into the car if she would have parked.

I still think I could. No, no, no. Emma could have. Ben. 

Alan Bernstein: You think I could have? 

Terri Bernstein: I mean, I was right at your door. There was no way I could get out, let alone you get into your car. 

Alan Bernstein: Emma does not suffer from the same sizing issues as the rest of us. No. 

Alan Bernstein 2: But. I will say, by the time Grandpa is done with her in the next six months, she's gonna be a great parker and a great driver.

I hope. 

Alan Bernstein: Well, she better, because that's the only car Grandpa [00:07:00] got you a car. Grandma. 

Terri Bernstein: Grandma. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah. No. Got you a car. It's the only one you're gonna get. That's it. You better be able to take care of it. You really missed out because clearly I guess Elim's getting a Lexus since that's the next car. Well, and Emma 

Terri Bernstein: kind of, Emma kind of got, Emma kind of got screwed because my grandpa promised me a little red Porsche when I turned 16.

You would have 

Alan Bernstein: literally been dead. 

Terri Bernstein: Huh? You 

Alan Bernstein: would have literally died. I would 

Terri Bernstein: have been dead before I turned 17. I love it. It's the perfect size. 

Alan Bernstein: It is a great car. It's a safe car. Elim is getting a Caprice Classic. 

Alan Bernstein 2: No. 

Alan Bernstein: He's getting an old police car. He's getting a 

Alan Bernstein 2: The old Cadillac tanks that were That you couldn't, no, you couldn't destroy these seats all the way across.

It's 

Terri Bernstein: not Impala. Is it an Impala? The big one. We'll paint a P already. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Yeah, the Imp Chevrolet Impala's. A Chevrolet. 

Terri Bernstein: Yeah, but it's that big car's a full medal. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah. Yeah. It'll be a pimp mobile. 

Emma Stewart: Oh. When Elm starts driving, I'll be in college, so I'm good. 

Alan Bernstein: [00:08:00] you. You will. He'll probably still be teaching you how to drive.

Alan Bernstein 2: But, tell him you're going to a college in Australia because you wanted to be far away from Elim. 

Alan Bernstein: Elim, what kind of car was it that you told me you wanted the other day? 

Elim Bernstein: A Lamborghini. 

Alan Bernstein: You need to talk into the microphone. 

Terri Bernstein: A Lamborghini. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah. There you go. Every 

Terri Bernstein: little boy's muscle car dream. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah. And guess what's never going to happen?

Alan Bernstein 2: A Lamborghini, 

Terri Bernstein: we would have to sell the entire business to buy the Lamborghini, 

Alan Bernstein: he asked a good question. Do you think, are there Lamborghini dealerships or you think it's like a private, a private, 

Alan Bernstein 2: I think you have to dial in. I think you have to call, you call the order 

Alan Bernstein: and they come and they, I don't know, I bring 

Alan Bernstein 2: you to maybe one of our listeners will know and they can email us.

I mean, there is 

Alan Bernstein: a Lamborghini, 

Alan Bernstein 2: I may be in big cities. There are. 

Alan Bernstein: I, but you would think there would be too many passerbys people who just would want to come and stare at the cars who have no intention of buying. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Well, they might [00:09:00] vet you when you walk in the door. You, what's your bank account number or all that?

That's all IMing. There 

Terri Bernstein: is a Lamborghini, Ohio in Dublin, Ohio. Oh, there you go. 

Alan Bernstein 2: There it is. That's just north of Columbus. Yeah. Is that the only Ohio dealership? 

Terri Bernstein: There, I saw one in Atlanta. 

Alan Bernstein 2: I'm sure New York, LA 

Terri Bernstein: there's a Maserati of Cincinnati. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah. I would need a 50 gallon drum of Vaseline to be able to slide to be able to get in.

Oh, I don't, and you would need a crane to get out. You just roll out of it. Well, that's, 

Alan Bernstein 2: Bill 

Terri Bernstein: and I at one point had talked about getting one of the new Corvettes because they were really cool and they're, you know, a good price for and he said we would pull up at valet and we would both have to roll out of the car Yeah, and then you have to hold on to the side of the car to climb up How cool do you look when you can't get out of your own car?

Alan Bernstein: Yeah, you kind of have to qualify 

Terri Bernstein: would 

Alan Bernstein 2: look pretty Pretty fit and trim. Oh, I know. Oh my 

Alan Bernstein: god. Could you imagine? Could you imagine that terror on the road? [00:10:00] Holy moly. Elim's only experience with driving is golf carts and grand theft auto. So that's probably not, that's probably not a good he's got a lot of learning to do too.

So M volleyball season just ended. 

Emma Stewart: Yeah. 

Alan Bernstein: How did we do? 

Emma Stewart: So, for JV, we went 16 4. We lost to Ryle and Highlands. 

Ben Bernstein 2: Oh. 

Emma Stewart: And Notre Dame. And Notre Dame and St. Henry. And then, Varsity, Varsity did really good. We lost to Only the top ten teams. Yeah. In the state. In the state, yeah. But we took a set from St.

Henry, which we haven't done in 10 years, which was pretty cool. 

Ben Bernstein 2: Mm hmm. 

Emma Stewart: And you beat Ryle. And we beat Ryle. Yeah. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah. 

Emma Stewart: So 

Alan Bernstein: it's over. Notre Dame was never close, was it? 

Terri Bernstein: We were, we were close. We were actually up in two of the three sets. We [00:11:00] just never, we couldn't finish it off. 

Emma Stewart: Yeah, we just never finished. We were neck and neck, it's just.

Terri Bernstein: I think next year we'll do some damage. Next year's gonna be a big year. We don't lose a single person. There were no seniors on the team, so. Are 

Alan Bernstein: you on the team? No. What are you? What are you? The libero? 

Terri Bernstein: No, I'm the, this 

Alan Bernstein: was, I mean, we're talking to a player here. You're not even a coach. 

Terri Bernstein: I'm going to sit here and be quiet.

Alan Bernstein 2: And E you're into sports. What kind of sports are you? We just, we just 

Alan Bernstein: finished a pretty, a pretty good season. Tell us how it went. What do you do? 

Alan Bernstein 2: What do you play? Do you play baseball? 

Elim Bernstein: Yeah, baseball, football, and basketball. 

Alan Bernstein 2: And basketball! What did 

Elim Bernstein: you just finish up? Football championship, or football season.

Well, give 

Alan Bernstein 2: us a little synopsis of the season. Did you tie? Did you win? Did you lose? 

Elim Bernstein: So our last regular season game, we lost to [00:12:00] Highlands. 

Alan Bernstein: Okay. The dreaded Highlands. Yeah. And 

Elim Bernstein: then we played them again, and then we beat them. In 

Alan Bernstein: the first round of the playoffs. 

Elim Bernstein: And then we won the championship. That was a heck of a game.

That was six. Twenty eight to 

Alan Bernstein: Go ahead. 

Elim Bernstein: I forget the final score of the championship. I 

Alan Bernstein: think you won 27 to 12 or 27, 13, something like that. Who, who was the championship against 

Elim Bernstein: twin waffle 

Alan Bernstein: twin waffle, who was the other? Oh, okay. So in seventh grade football, which he's actually a sixth grade, right?

Seventh grade football, they break them up between big schools and little school. Okay. So only the top two teams of the big school from the big schools, make the playoffs and the top two teams from the little schools. They were the top seed of the little schools and twin Hawthorne was the top seed of the big school.

Oh, so you beat the big school. They'd be twin Hawthorne, but they beat them first game of the year and they beat them in the in the championship. Very good. Are you on the team? Of course. Oh my goodness, I was just 

Emma Stewart: about to ask [00:13:00] that. 

Alan Bernstein: I'm trying to help him along. Well, he's not doing very well. Hey, he's 12 years old.

He's never, he's only seen microphones and internet videos. He's never. Look at the glare. Oh man. Look at that. 

Terri Bernstein: The side eye. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah. How embarrassed do you feel right now? Your face is pretty red. All right, well, what's, what's going on now? What's coming up? 

Terri Bernstein: Basketball. 

Alan Bernstein 2: What position do you play in basketball? 

Terri Bernstein: Power forward. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Power 

Terri Bernstein: forward. 

Alan Bernstein 2: That's a good position for you. Yeah. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah. 

Terri Bernstein: Where, where is that on the court? Number four. 

Alan Bernstein: Well, 

Alan Bernstein 2: well, it could be anywhere. What does the 

Terri Bernstein: power forward do?

Alan Bernstein 2: He powers his way under the net. Oh, the rebound. 

Alan Bernstein: He's a front court player. So since I'm on the team, I'll explain. No, 

Alan Bernstein 2: I think, yeah, I think he ought to explain everything that you're explaining. That's what [00:14:00] you come in for. 

Terri Bernstein: Oh 

Alan Bernstein 2: my gosh. 

Terri Bernstein: Alright, Em, what are you getting into now? Tennis. Oh, you're playing tennis.

Yeah. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Well, she's pretty good at that. I, I went to one of her matches. I know. I was very 

Terri Bernstein: impressed. She plays doubles. Yeah. With Kate. 

Alan Bernstein: It is fun to watch that . I, Kate, is Kate gonna listen? She is. She had Are you gonna tell Kate to listen? Do you listen 

Terri Bernstein: to our podcast, Emma? No, of course I do. , she's never heard one of them.

Emma Stewart: No, I haven't Actually I did once when you were talking about how I was talking to a boy. Her love life. Yeah. Should 

Alan Bernstein: we talk about that right now? 

Emma Stewart: No. Yeah. How is 

Alan Bernstein: the love life doing? 

Emma Stewart: No. 

Terri Bernstein: Let's 

Alan Bernstein: stay away 

Emma Stewart: from the love 

Terri Bernstein: life. It's going 

Emma Stewart: great, grandpa. 

Alan Bernstein: Oh, good. Are you just playing the field or is there you have a first string and a second string?

Terri Bernstein: No. Yes. 

Alan Bernstein: Tied 

Terri Bernstein: up. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Should I ask my [00:15:00] question on the show here? 

Terri Bernstein: No, no, no. For 

Alan Bernstein: you. 

Terri Bernstein: Let's not 

Alan Bernstein: this is probably not gonna be something that you ask a granddaughter. Oh, no, you don't 

Emma Stewart: Oh, is it 

Alan Bernstein: you want me to ask that question? 

Emma Stewart: No, you can hold it off 

Alan Bernstein: Emma you had a very prestigious distinction Blessed upon you a week ago.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, haven't you talked about that? What are oh, oh, just oh, that's not Sorry, I guess it's not very big deal. And the boys this 

Alan Bernstein 2: goes way down. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah. 

Emma Stewart: I got inducted to National Honor Society. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Very good. Yeah Excellent. 

Terri Bernstein: Yeah, I didn't get it for me. 

Alan Bernstein: No, definitely 

Terri Bernstein: not. 

Alan Bernstein: No, that is uncle Ben's influence.

Alan Bernstein 2: I think it's grandpa all the way. 

Terri Bernstein: I got my, I, I got it from you. So 

Alan Bernstein: he only got straight A's too. 

Ben Bernstein 2: Are 

Alan Bernstein: [00:16:00] you straight? I didn't think you were, but do you? He likes to 

Emma Stewart: sit back and listen. He's very smiley. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah, he is very smiley. He's embarrassed. That 

Alan Bernstein 2: new mop head.

Oh, it, it, it is a good mop. I turned you upside down. We can mop all these floors.

Alan Bernstein: With 

Emma Stewart: my head, you could probably soak up all the water. 

Alan Bernstein: Oh, between the two of you, you guys have some volume for sure. There's no doubt 

Alan Bernstein 2: about it. Yeah. He make proud of what you got because in a few years it ain't going to be 

Alan Bernstein: there anymore. I don't know his mom's father has a nice full head of hair.

Huh? Well, maybe. That's where 

Terri Bernstein: you get it, I think, is your mom's dad's side. Yeah, 

Alan Bernstein: Mom's 

Terri Bernstein: Dad had hair and you don't. Yeah, 

Alan Bernstein: I don't have any hair, so. Is there anything that you guys would like to talk about? No? You want to ask Grandpa any silly questions? I 

Terri Bernstein: don't 

Alan Bernstein 2: I mean, we're gonna go on with the show if there's not gonna be any more.

They both are like, please. Yeah, please make this stop All right, [00:17:00] even though you're gonna say are you are you gonna stick around? Are you? Yeah, they're 

Terri Bernstein: staying here 

Alan Bernstein 2: They're gonna they can 

Terri Bernstein: chime in. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Okay All right. So, 

Alan Bernstein: well, I guess we're to the point. Yeah 

Alan Bernstein 2: Time

Alan Bernstein: You sound like such a clown it's the best recording 

Terri Bernstein: and I can't even hear 

Alan Bernstein: it as she's eating her eggs anyway, this episode, our third installment 

Alan Bernstein 2: of our little and we're going to go away from these episodes To do some other episodes and then we're going to come back we are.

Yeah. 

Terri Bernstein: Yeah. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Oh What when did the executive producer make that decision? 

Terri Bernstein: We had a podcast meeting 

Alan Bernstein 2: We did and you weren't here. You were in vacation. You were on sunny bermuda It was not very, 

Alan Bernstein: it was not very hot either. [00:18:00] Erica was a little disappointed in the sunshine and 

it was perfect weather for me. Perfect beach weather for me. But there was not a lot of time out by the pool. Yeah. Or the beach. Yeah. 

Terri Bernstein: I saw the pictures of the lifeguards and they were in, like, 

Alan Bernstein: they were wetsuits and coats, . They were in hoodies, suits, 

Terri Bernstein: hoodies. And 

Alan Bernstein: yeah, there was not many. I mean, I think I saw five people in the pool.

Yeah. 

Terri Bernstein: Do they heat the pool? Yeah. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah. I'm sure there was an indoor pool too. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Well, no, wait a minute. It's salt water. Is it a salt water pool? You could still heat water. What does that matter? Well, what does it matter if it's salt water or fresh water? Be be because they would have to heat that water very quickly.

They, the fresh water they can heat before they give it to the pool. What, what? 

Alan Bernstein: I am I, you want me to repeat that? Yeah. I want you to repeat that because I wanna make sure the, the, all of the listeners out there understand what you're trying [00:19:00] to say here. 

Alan Bernstein 2: What I'm trying to say is they have water for the pool.

Yes. All right. They have water. And they can heat that water. If they suck it out of the ocean, and it goes into the pool, it's not heated water. But they don't need to heat. But they have pool heaters. Well, they do. The water goes 

Terri Bernstein: into the pool and then they heat 

Alan Bernstein 2: But the water is warm to begin with. I mean, it's not cold water.

Terri Bernstein: Right, 

Alan Bernstein 2: right. Am I right 

Alan Bernstein: the ocean? Yeah. I mean, depending on where that water's filled, the groundwater may be warm too. I mean, I don't, you're not making a you if you suck it outta the ocean. Yeah. This time of the year, the, the ocean's in the seventies, 

Alan Bernstein 2: which is my point that you have to heat the 70 degree water.

Where you can already heat the water that's waiting to go into the 

Alan Bernstein: pool. This is podcast hall [00:20:00] of fame material. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Okay. There you go. 

Alan Bernstein: Has to be right there. And 

Alan Bernstein 2: Emma's the one feeding me all this information. You look at her. So confused. What? Huh? . 

Emma Stewart: I was scrolling on Instagram. What happened?

Terri Bernstein: Now you see where I get it from? Yeah. Normally I'm the one not paying attention. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Right. All right, so a few weeks ago we started with, with El Greco. El Greco. And we went down to the mic. Think we moved to the mic and now we're going to go in this Rockets in the river cafe. That's correct. 

Alan Bernstein: Which was.

Originally 740 marina captains Anchorage and 740 marina and that operated here for a long time. And that's actually, if you come to BB Riverboats today, that was the site of what we're talking about. 

Alan Bernstein 2: That is where we are today at BB Riverboats. But that's the river site. But it was a very popular restaurant.

And it, it [00:21:00] was more of a bar the Marine, it was more of a Marina kind of 

Alan Bernstein: up and you'd yeah. Yeah. I 

Alan Bernstein 2: mean, you can get a hamburger and but, and they, their food wasn't bad. So 

Alan Bernstein: when it was in our family, that's what we're most worried about is food. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Yeah. 

Alan Bernstein: There's no doubt about 

Alan Bernstein 2: it. So 

Terri Bernstein: Emma's kicking off her shoes, mom's laying on the couch.

Alan Bernstein 2: Anyway it was 740 Marina where the three cylinders welded together that made the radio station. WNOP. WNOP. That's correct. And they were welded and then they cut hatches or doorways in and it had two floors. It was the, the bottom floor was a studio, the radio station. Stuff and the top floor with the offices and the executive people.

So it was two things really well, actually three things. It was a restaurant, a radio station, and a Marina. So they built the, [00:22:00] the raid, like, yeah, it was a built radio 

Alan Bernstein: said 

Alan Bernstein 2: Tucker Marine. 

Alan Bernstein: And that was all done right there. I mean, and that was brought straight there and it was towed down 

Alan Bernstein 2: the river. The cylinders came down the river.

It was a very interesting design. I wonder what the idea 

Alan Bernstein: behind that was. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Well, it's just that it was a floating radio station. And they could, you know, they 

Alan Bernstein: were unique. Well, I know, but I wonder who was sitting there one day and said, you know what we should, we could do it.

Well, I don't know. That's 

Alan Bernstein 2: a pretty interesting question. And the, probably the world famous part of Crockett's was their gas stock. 

Alan Bernstein: Why was that famous? 

Alan Bernstein 2: Well, because we had in the summertime, we had college girls do the gas 

Terri Bernstein: nails. Emma's 

Alan Bernstein 2: attention was raised. I was sort of like, Emma would be just a tad young, but next year she'd be right in there pumping gas.

I mean, they would, as Emma puts her head down, well, I don't know, you put, [00:23:00] I'm sorry. I am sorry. I'm sorry. I understand that. I, you are the loudest person with stuff in your hand. He clunks 

Terri Bernstein: his coffee cup too. Yeah. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah. You hear this in the background, that's just Al with the show notes.

I object to that 

Alan Bernstein 2: comment. I object. , 

Terri Bernstein: a few of the episodes we had to take the paper away. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Yeah. So we had the gas stock, very popular gas stock and the Marina. We had about 25 to 35 

Alan Bernstein: sizeable. It was a pretty good transit. It wasn't, did we have any transit 

Alan Bernstein 2: part was for the restaurant outside, but we had about 25 full time voters.

Yeah. Yeah. You're going to slurp that coffee, right? 

Alan Bernstein: And that microphone. 

Ben Bernstein 2: No. 

Alan Bernstein: Oh, 

Terri Bernstein: good. Which those are all stories on their own [00:24:00] with all those voters. Oh yeah. 

Alan Bernstein: They got it. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Absolutely. The 

Terri Bernstein: Love Shack. Oh yeah. 

Alan Bernstein 2: There was all kinds. We went from the Love Tug to the Love Shack. The Love Shack. Well, it was the Love Shack before the Love Tug.

Oh, that's true. Oh no. No. No. It was the Love Tug. Yep. And then the Love Shack. Yep. 

Alan Bernstein: Absolutely.

Alan Bernstein 2: Anyway we had a nice outdoor patio there and it was really nice. So people just sit there and. . Nice. 

Alan Bernstein: Him to slam the door. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Yeah. 

Terri Bernstein 2: He is anpr but Crock, 

Alan Bernstein 2: Crocketts was a very popular place.

We bought it in the mid eighties, but it was 

Alan Bernstein: there for a while. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Captains Anchorage. Right. And the marina and all that was there. We, we purchased Was it there for a while or, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Helen's Newport Yacht Club was just above us. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah. 

Alan Bernstein 2: In, in, in the old barley corn spot.

Alan Bernstein: Okay, 

Alan Bernstein 2: okay 

Alan Bernstein: USS nightmare is right 

Alan Bernstein 2: where the USS nightmare is now is where Helen's Newport Yacht Club was and [00:25:00] So the 740 marina and Newport Yacht Club were sort of friendly competitors okay, and When we bought it, the first thing we did was shut it down and remodel and you don't remember this but The Dukes of Warsaw We're started on the Crockett's project.

Alan Bernstein: Who the hell's the 

Alan Bernstein 2: Dukes of Warsaw? Well, I'm glad you asked that question. It 

Ben Bernstein 2: was 

Alan Bernstein 2: Bobby was the task master and he hired three farmers from Carrollton, Kentucky. They were tobacco farmers. And of course, tobacco seasons in the fall. And so you said, of course, like everybody knows that I had no idea.

You had no idea. Well, I, there's not a whole lot of tobacco running around these days. Nope. I 

Terri Bernstein: went to school at Western Kentucky. There was a lot of backer there. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Yeah. . So they started building [00:26:00] crockets and they put a brand new canopy on with your interior. The interior part of the restaurant to downstairs into a very modern tie white tile with black accent.

It was really a nice, very nice restaurant and on top of the restaurant was the covered patio because the patio outside by the marina was uncovered. So yeah. It was uncovered. But the upstairs was air conditioned as well. It had air conditioning in it. But remember the garage doors all open, the garage were always open and they were always open during the summer.

So it had garage door walls on the outside Yes. That you would 

Alan Bernstein: open 

Alan Bernstein 2: up and it opened all the way around. So you three quarters of the, there used to be garage doors on the front too. Not on the front. That's on the sidewalk. No, it just said all the way around. Well, I, I meant. The three quarters, three quarters of the barge had garage doors, that the [00:27:00] part that faced the land was, was a wall, right?

It was a wall. And it became very popular. Now we hired a chef. His name was Harold Hayes. I'll never forget Mr. Harold Hayes. I don't know where Harold is today. He might be in Cincinnati. He might not. Hopefully he's well, hopefully he's very well. Yes. And Tom Wanky, who I heard, did someone see Tom Wanky?

Not long ago. I think 

Terri Bernstein: he's my Facebook friend. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Tom was very young at that time. It was learning. And Harold was a very good 

Terri Bernstein: teacher. 

Alan Bernstein 2: So But what we bought at the restaurant was not up to our standards. No. And we made it a white tablecloth downstairs, a picnic tablecloth.

Grove upstairs and out in the, the patio was just an open air uncovered live music, live music and drinks and easy, easy access for the boaters [00:28:00] to come on and get some, and they could come in their bathing suits and all that never come near the restaurant. So that's what it was all made out of in the theme outside was crocodile Dundee.

You remember the popularity of the movie. 

Ben Bernstein 2: Yeah. 

Alan Bernstein 2: And so Good day 

Alan Bernstein: mate. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Good day, mate. Yeah, , it was pretty interesting and I think my brother got a leather vest like Crocodile Dundee hand. Yeah. With the little, the, the little string feathers and. All that stuff. He loved those silly, stupid comedies.

Oh, yeah. And, it was very popular. It really was. 

Ben Bernstein 2: Sure. 

Terri Bernstein: How about on the outside, the waitresses? They resembled a lot like the dock workers 

Alan Bernstein 2: Outside. Yes. Yeah, they were in bathing suits or could be in bathing suits Yeah, I 

Terri Bernstein: mean they spent more time hiring the staff for the outside.

Yes on the inside. 

Alan Bernstein 2: [00:29:00] Yeah Yeah, and I I was usually the final okay on all that. 

Terri Bernstein: No, I think that was your brother. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Oh, that was my brother. Okay But let's see jim rosetti, I believe was the first Manager Jim was a good guy. I don't know if he's still around either. I I've sort of lost track of Jim.

And Ms. Terri B worked the summers when she was at Western Kentucky. 

Terri Bernstein: No, no. Well, 

Alan Bernstein 2: Now you were 

Terri Bernstein: I came when it was sloppies, but I worked with grandma. And we, that's where I learned how to make her Ecuadorian 

Ben Bernstein 2: ceviche. Cause 

Terri Bernstein: we did that upstairs on the, we had like a little cold bar upstairs. That's 

Alan Bernstein 2: right.

Terri Bernstein: That's where I learned how to host this. I was really good. I learned how to be really good at just creating nothing out of nothing. 

Alan Bernstein 2: The apple Has fallen all the way from the 

Terri Bernstein: tree. [00:30:00] This one doesn't want to work. 

Alan Bernstein 2: No, this one is a princess. She's busy. 

Alan Bernstein: Well, she's way busier than you ever were. You didn't do shit.

Who I had an activity every. Who are you talking to? What activities did you do here? I rode 

Terri Bernstein 2: horses. 

Alan Bernstein: Oh my. The piano played soccer, piano, black piano, piano. Took all my time. 

Emma Stewart: One. You played the piano. 

Alan Bernstein: Oh, she, 

Emma Stewart: I'm great. I was great Emma. She was 

Alan Bernstein: on book one for nine and a half years and a half years. . She never got past book one.

I 

Terri Bernstein: did not. That is that is really wanted her 

Alan Bernstein: to play the piano so bad and she just well, my mother was a very good piano I've already 

Terri Bernstein: talked 

Alan Bernstein: about 

Terri Bernstein: this in an episode 

Alan Bernstein: before some people might be new listeners. Maybe this is the first episode They're listening. I have no one 

Alan Bernstein 2: knew that Elim and 

Alan Bernstein: emma. I have no 

Terri Bernstein: musical talent I would love to play an instrument and I would love to be able to sing me too.

I can't do either 

Alan Bernstein: Okay, I can't even strum a guitar like I can't even make a Sound other than the standard sound if you just I don't even know how they [00:31:00] make different sounds. I have zero musical talent 

Alan Bernstein 2: Yeah, I I don't I and i'm surprised because my mother was an accomplished 

Terri Bernstein: emma played the recorder Oh my goodness hot cross buns 

Alan Bernstein: I played the recorder too.

Yeah, we all did that was a struggle I didn't like that 

Emma Stewart: How did you sit through that? The little like concert thing Oh, it's bad. 

Alan Bernstein: Recital. Wait. Just wait. 

Terri Bernstein: Have you, has Elim had the recorder yet? 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah, but they didn't have a recital. Oh, we had our, 

Terri Bernstein: Emma had a recital. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Oh my God. My dad and I went to yours, Terri.

Terri Bernstein: Yeah. 

Alan Bernstein 2: My father. 

Terri Bernstein: My dance recital. Oh, I, I, I danced. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Oh, yeah. Yeah. 

Terri Bernstein: I had something like every day of the week then. 

Alan Bernstein 2: It, my dad and I would go and sit down and we'd fall asleep instantly. And we said to grandma and Mary, wake us up when Terri's, . So we had, you [00:32:00] would get booed and frowned upon.

We had a major 

Terri Bernstein: snoring really loud. We had a major sleep 

Alan Bernstein: any other way. 

Alan Bernstein 2: We had a major incident at. crockets that made us probably more famous than any river restaurant could have had at the time. Our marina business was growing quickly and at a pretty good pace. And so we had to keep expanding our A little marina store, you know, a beer and snacks and pop and water.

We sold retail like like package wise. Yeah, it was a marina operation. So when you got gas, you could go in and get a bag of snack. Where is that at? It was adjacent to is on a floating barge, a little floating barge. I don't remember that. One morning you might not remember Mike Crizzi, but I remember Mike.

Okay. 

Alan Bernstein: He was a lounge [00:33:00] loser like the rest. Yes, he was. That was the softball team that never won a game. 

Terri Bernstein: Not lounge losers. The lounge lizards. 

Alan Bernstein: No, but they were so bad. We, we were not lounge losers. Yes, they were there. Their uniform said lounge lizards, but we all know what the real name was.

Alan Bernstein 2: One morning Mike Crizzi got there. And the barge that had all of the store on it was not, was half sunk. It wasn't fully sunk. So we worked and worked and worked and finally we couldn't keep up with the water and the water overtook us and down went the retail operation. We had just ordered a hundred and ninety cases of beer And there were cans of beer floating on the Ohio River for a week Free beer if we had more [00:34:00] pleasure boat People come down trying to pick beers up out of the out of the Ohio river.

They, we, I think one made it to the Lawrenceburg bridge. Oh, the one of the cans made it 20 miles. Yeah. That's 20 miles down the river. And it was free beer for about a week. Our sales were not very good that way. I would say that. Yeah. Our sales, let alone repair bills. Well, yeah. But it was funny, everybody on the river was talking about how Crockett's beer shack went under and there was beer literally everywhere on the river.

It almost looked like driftwood. It, it was that thick. So that was one. We had a couple of divers on the second deck when he opened up The garage doors, there was a ledge, a pretty good sized ledge, maybe five, four or five feet. Right. People used to jump up there and dive into [00:35:00] the Ohio river because it, the Marina blocked all the waves.

So there was a little. It was a swimming pool, basically. 

Alan Bernstein: On the inside. Oh, I see. But it 

Alan Bernstein 2: was the river. It wasn't a swimming 

Alan Bernstein: pool. People are listening to that right now, thinking, Why in the hell would you jump in that river? Well Actually, back then, it was way worse. Oh, much worse. Much worse. 

Terri Bernstein: My dad threw me in the river every day.

Alan Bernstein 2: No, not every day. No, That was for a life jacket demonstration. Yeah, 

Alan Bernstein: I know. What was that for, for the Coast Guard to get them to change their? 

Alan Bernstein 2: The Coast Guard decided to change the rule on size of the adult jacket and child jacket. And they were testing. It was the weight limit.

It was a weight limit. And it says on an adult jacket for an adult over 90 pounds. And then. If you are under 90 pounds, you were considered a child [00:36:00] and you needed a child life jacket. And I argued, well, PVA argued the passenger vessel association. I'm sorry. The Pat, yes, argued that dad in today's world, kids were bigger and they could wear adult jackets and not come out of them.

The idea of the life jacket, when you tie the neck, is that that prevents the jacket from going up over your head and over your head and it turns, turns you over and it turn, because we did a lot of the turning. You understand when you jump in, your jacket goes up? Yes. Okay. That's just a flotation. Right?

And then when you're floating in the river, the child's jacket and an adult jacket, if you are unconscious and you are face down, the jacket will turn you over. Automatically so that you can breathe. 

Ben Bernstein 2: Yeah. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Those are requirements. A type one, a type one jacket. Most pleasure [00:37:00] boats have type threes, which do not do that.

What's your ski vests? And those are, yeah. And those things just keep you up out of the water. There's something to float on. That's right. They just, and if you're 90 pounds, you need an adult jacket. If you're under 90 pounds, you need a child jacket. And that's just simply flotation. But a passenger. life jacket is the one that turns you over the one that makes sure that you don't lose it.

Not a passenger life jacket, a type one life jacket. A type one, well. For a passenger boat. For, if you're in the passenger boat business, you have type ones. I know you do. It's a requirement to, well, if you don't, well, if you don't, dad 

Terri Bernstein: was trying to prove that under 90 pounds, I think I was like 

Alan Bernstein 2: 60 some pounds 

Terri Bernstein: and 

Alan Bernstein 2: well, it might've been, but anyway, the cutoff was 90 pushed you in 

Terri Bernstein: off the dock.

He just kept throwing me in the [00:38:00] river. I remember 

Alan Bernstein 2: we videotaped the whole thing. I remember. so I argued that an adult jacket today would be sufficient for a 60 or 70, whatever weight she was. And we took it to Washington, the video to Washington, and they then agreed to have who's the big testing lab?

Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. National. Anyway, they took on the price testing lamb. Yeah. It has to be, oh, Alan Bernstein approved by an, an approved tester test. Stone state. No, it, I'll come, it'll come to me. Anyway. So they took the project on National Safety Board? 

Ben Bernstein 2: No, 

Alan Bernstein 2: no. It'll come to me. And what they did is they made a person and they did different weights had to jump off of a side of the, of the pool [00:39:00] into the water.

And all of those things had to be measured. If it rose up, if it didn't turn them over, if it did turn them over, all those things were tested. And it lowered the child jacket to 50 pounds 

I 

Alan Bernstein: don't know, whatever it was, whatever the amount of, 

Alan Bernstein 2: and so captain Alan Bernstein was correct in saying and arguing that an adult jacket was rated. Hi, and the child's jacket was rated low. So we finally now, I think, have I don't think, I know we have a universal jacket so that they have been able to design.

A jacket that fits all other than babies an infant life jacket is, is different. But so what was your argument for to get 

Alan Bernstein: rid of having, to get rid of having to [00:40:00] have the two different kinds? 

Alan Bernstein 2: Well, and you had to have 10 percent child's jackets so that you had to buy more child's jackets And it wasn't effective, but kids could be fine in an adult, in a, well, it takes a lot of 

Terri Bernstein: space to, and it took a lot of space, put all those life jackets on the beds.

Alan Bernstein 2: And they wanted a lot more kids covered. So, more than 10%. Yeah, more than 10%. 

Terri Bernstein: All right, back to Crockett's. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Okay. I'm sorry. What was the how did we how did we get off at Crockett 

Terri Bernstein: people were jumping in the river off the 

Alan Bernstein 2: It was one of the first open kitchens because you when you walked in to Crockett's main entrance you could watch the whole line Yeah, producing.

I 

Terri Bernstein: know 

Alan Bernstein 2: producing the food

Alan Bernstein: there were some great dishes, though. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Oh, there were. Voodoo chicken. The voodoo chicken was outstanding. [00:41:00] 

Alan Bernstein: Blackened scallops, the gumbo there was 

Alan Bernstein 2: Yeah that was the Mike Fink had brought a Cajun to Cincinnati as their chef at the beginning of the game.

And he taught Harold and the others how to make a really good gumbo. But you're right. The voodoo chicken was outstanding and the black and scallops were 

Terri Bernstein: no, the black and the black and scallop salad with the, 

Alan Bernstein 2: yeah, 

Terri Bernstein: it had the hot bacon dress over the spinach. 

Alan Bernstein 2: I can have a ton of that right now.

So yeah, and the, the Bernsteins were sort of invading the river at that point. We had Mike Fink. We then took over Crockett's. We've already had BB Riverboats was down below the Mike Fink. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah. 

Alan Bernstein 2: And Crockett's was sort of, and in the meantime, if you remember in Cincinnati, the Schillings got on the river.

With 

Terri Bernstein: the islands. The, 

Alan Bernstein 2: the the 

Terri Bernstein: ruby ruby got on the river, 

Alan Bernstein 2: Yeah, [00:42:00] that was, so it was an explosion really of the river and to tell you the truth, your grandfather made it known that the river was going to be the place to be in the future because at that time, Ben, the river was very polluted.

You had to really receive shots. 

Terri Bernstein: After we talk about him throwing me into the river ever and ever. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Do you have any ailments? Then 

Terri Bernstein: I don't. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Okay. 

Terri Bernstein: I don't. 

Alan Bernstein 2: So you survived. She has a permanently 

Alan Bernstein: swollen foot. That's a different, okay. Hey, could have been, could have been a bug that got into her. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Not a chance in China.

Terri Bernstein: It's all your fault. Oh, 

Alan Bernstein: no, no, no. Be sure to slam that mug down. All right. Well, Emma Rose, can you help me? She's barely listening. She's got the minimum amount of 

Alan Bernstein 2: of attention, just the minimum. So that's really Crockett story. I don't know. it was a [00:43:00] great restaurant operation.

We, we ran a marina there for quite a while. 19. We 

Terri Bernstein: had 

Alan Bernstein 2: some good bands 

Terri Bernstein: outside. 

Alan Bernstein 2: The banking industry went down in the early nineties and a lot of boats got off the river in the. The marina, we, let's see, we sold I don't, I don't know. I can't remember. 

Terri Bernstein: He's trying to make stuff up.

Alan Bernstein 2: Well, I'm just trying to remember when we left Crockett's and turned it into sloppies and then how the moon was there. , that was very popular. How, how the moon was on the top deck. 

Terri Bernstein: Hal the Moon came when the riots happened in downtown. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Oh, that's right. You, you are correct. It was on 

Terri Bernstein: Main, it moved to Main Street from Covington Landing.

Alan Bernstein 2: Yep. 

Terri Bernstein: And then when the riots happened That's right, 

Alan Bernstein 2: it moved down to Crockett, it 

Terri Bernstein: moved to Crock to the second level. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Yep. 

Terri Bernstein: Yeah. Crocketts. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Yep. That that is correct. And that's [00:44:00] the story of Crocketts. I.

Terri Bernstein: I think we ought to move on to 

Alan Bernstein: No. It's the word of the day, isn't it? Yeah, that's what it would be. 

Moderator: Now it is time for Ramblin' on the Rivers.

Word of the day.

Alan Bernstein: This is a word that you have used very affectionately because Well, I, I, I don't, I, I can't explain it.

I can't explain it without without just, well, let's just blare it out there. Today's word of the day is soup coolers. 

Terri Bernstein: Do you know what soup coolers are? No. 

Alan Bernstein: What's your guess? What do you think a soup cooler would be? 

Elim Bernstein: A 

Terri Bernstein: cooler with soup. 

Alan Bernstein: That's a good guess. Well, what temperature is soup? Like if you eat soup, is it generally?

What what normally hot yeah, [00:45:00] so if you want to cool soup down, what would you do that's it But affectionately did you hear 

Terri Bernstein: that look at grandpa like if grandpa did that 

Alan Bernstein: yeah look at grandpa What do you notice? 

Terri Bernstein: He has big soup coolers, big 

Alan Bernstein: soup coolers. . Big lips. Yeah, big grandpa's got, there's other, there are other advantages of soup coolers.

A guy will walk by. Grandpa will lean over and say, that guy had some big sip coolers. . 

Emma Stewart: I don't like that.

Alan Bernstein: Are we embarrassing you yet? 

Emma Stewart: No, that was just. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Dumb? 

Emma Stewart: Yeah. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Dumb? What kind of words do you use in the the young girl circuit? 

Terri Bernstein: What are the words that I never understand? 

Alan Bernstein 2: Yeah. Oh, the 

Alan Bernstein: kid words? Yeah. 

Emma Stewart: Yeah. 

Terri Bernstein: I 

Alan Bernstein: can't understand. 

Emma Stewart: I, like. Skibbity toilet? Okay, no, no, no, no, [00:46:00] no. That's. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah, I mean, it's. 

Emma Stewart: I would, mom would make something and I'm like, mom, this is so gas.

Okay. Gas? 

Alan Bernstein 2: Gas. 

Emma Stewart: Yeah, and I'm like, is that good or bad? 

Alan Bernstein 2: It, gas, because gas, well gas would, 

Emma Stewart: gas is good, like gas is really good. 

Alan Bernstein: Oh, 

Alan Bernstein 2: it's really good. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah. Like you give it gas, don't 

Alan Bernstein 2: pump the brakes. Give it gas. Oh, okay. Or like fire. So now, what if it's really bad? If it, you know, if it's gas, if gas is good, what is bad?

Emma Stewart: I'm just gonna say this is bad, like, I don't think there's any word for that. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Oh. Toilet. Garbage. 

Emma Stewart: Garbage. Garbage, yeah, but garbage shit 

Alan Bernstein 2: I don't know. I didn't know I was allowed to cuss. You don't like super coolers. We're not on the radio 

Terri Bernstein: We're on a podcast. You can say whatever you want. Well, I don't think super coolers 

Emma Stewart: is 

Terri Bernstein: like 

Emma Stewart: I just think it's weird 

Alan Bernstein: Do you think it's inappropriate?

Emma Stewart: No, the way Uncle Ben put it, like, a guy talking about my grandpa's lips. No, [00:47:00] your 

Terri Bernstein 2: grandpa talking about another guy's lips. 

Emma Stewart: Even worse. Even worse. It's 

Alan Bernstein 2: funny. It's It could be misunderstood. Most 

Alan Bernstein: people like nice boobs. It could be. It could be. You know what, though, Em? The next time Grandpa orders soup from a from a restaurant, you're going to look over and you're going to say, look at them soup coolers.

Terri Bernstein: I bet he's going to cool that soup really quick. Way quicker than your little 

Alan Bernstein: lips. Or maybe the next time you order soup, Grandpa will cool your soup. Get them soup coolers out. 

Ben Bernstein 2: Nah. No? 

Alan Bernstein: That's a good one. 

Terri Bernstein: Okay. On to current events. 

Alan Bernstein: The last thing. 

Moderator: Welcome to as the paddle wheel turns our look at pertinent current events happening right now in the world.

Alan Bernstein: Well, [00:48:00] today is election day. Election day. Well, actually it's not boo. It's actually 

Terri Bernstein 2: good. I can't wait for it to be over. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah, we are certainly not going to. Discussing. No. No, no, no, no, no, but he did it will be fascinating television. It is my Favorite and I don't watch I really I don't watch the news. It is the greatest decision I've ever made in my life 

Terri Bernstein: Is getting rid of yeah, I don't either 

Alan Bernstein: stop stopping watching all the daily news it makes you so much happier 

Terri Bernstein 2: as a 

Alan Bernstein: person.

Yeah, but I think mom would 

Terri Bernstein 2: be happier if she stopped I think she yeah, she gets so 

Alan Bernstein: Wrapped 

Terri Bernstein 2: up 

Alan Bernstein 2: and add those two Dad does not dad is dad. You are right there Dad watches all of these stations because I want all of the views 

Emma Stewart: in his office and his underwear 

Alan Bernstein 2: Yes. I, I'm usually Oh, in his house? Yeah. Yeah. 

Alan Bernstein: I told you not, [00:49:00] he's not his under the river, but he's not in his underwear.

No, no, no. At least we're not sure, 

Terri Bernstein 2: but we're not positive. I 

Alan Bernstein 2: went out onto the he does lock 

Terri Bernstein 2: his dorm at 

Alan Bernstein 2: the, at the Bengals game when they were in town. Was it last Sunday? It was past Sunday, yeah. And, and there was a ruckus outside. I was in my door. I walked out onto the balcony and mom goes.

Get in the house. You're in your underwear. I said, nobody's watching until they are. And 

Alan Bernstein: so you're a viral video and your knee sees you on TikTok. Well, I'd be famous, you know, come on. You wouldn't, no, whoever posted it would be famous. You wouldn't be famous. 

Terri Bernstein: Yeah, well, they'd want to know 

Alan Bernstein 2: who the guy in the underwear was.

That's Bernstein up 

Alan Bernstein: there. Yeah, oh, it wouldn't take them long to figure out 

Alan Bernstein 2: who it was. 

Alan Bernstein: They would see my soup coolers and then they knew. But it really is a fascinating day of television. Yes it is. At least, it is. Evening. [00:50:00] Yeah. Of television, everything today. Yeah. I don't 

Alan Bernstein 2: know. Today they're at all the different polling places, which that I could, 

Alan Bernstein: You know.

Alan Bernstein 2: Who'd you the, the union went? 

Alan Bernstein: God, yeah. I, I can't wait for it to all be over with. Yep. At least move on. And, and maybe four years. I 

Terri Bernstein: hate the, the issues that you have to vote for. Why do they have to make those so confusing? Well they do that on purpose. I know, but why? I don't know. That should be against the law.

Yeah, you're right. It should be very clear and concise. It should be a 

Alan Bernstein 2: yes and no if you agree or disagree. 

Terri Bernstein: That's what it is. 

Alan Bernstein 2: I know, but they make it the opposite sometimes. They do. So that when you do no, you're really voting yes. Right. Well, that's confusing. I don't 

Terri Bernstein: understand the, the one issue I knew going in that was for the out of moving the school vouchers, but the other one I didn't read ahead of time and I guess I should have, because.

Alan Bernstein: Well, there wasn't any marketing dollars put into the first one. 

Terri Bernstein: No, there was [00:51:00] not. 

Alan Bernstein: The first one was Amendment 1 was To make it illegal. To jerry rig. 

Terri Bernstein: No, no, for illegals to vote. Anybody can vote. 

Alan Bernstein: All 

Terri Bernstein: you have to do is then bring in a bunch of 

Alan Bernstein: But the way the issue was worded was, Are you in favor of making it illegal for right for non citizens to have a vote or so?

Whatever was that I could be botching that too, but 

Terri Bernstein 2: That's exactly what I thought but 

Alan Bernstein: but no They really do make it Difficult sometimes to to understand what 

Terri Bernstein: not sometimes every time they make But it's like 

Alan Bernstein: it's like legalese like it's but it isn't legalese 

Terri Bernstein: it's like the opposite It's I'm saying it's 

Alan Bernstein: it's the same principle as legally Right, that's true is how they write it and how it has to be you 

Terri Bernstein: need somebody intelligent to decipher it for you 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah, I guess you don't meet the standard for that 

Terri Bernstein: I I [00:52:00] did okay on my voting.

Thank you. 

Alan Bernstein: Are you sure? Yeah, sounds like you were confused. No, I'm kidding 

Terri Bernstein: I I sat there and read it very clear like You know very intense so that I would get the right answer 

Alan Bernstein: Well, the ballot wasn't long at least in fort mitchell the ballot. No, it's not very long 

Terri Bernstein: And most people weren't even not when I got 

Alan Bernstein: there.

I'm like when they you know, some people were taking like five minutes Well, if you're reading that amendment those amendments it takes a while That's what it was because it was a they wanted to make sure they were yeah, that's exactly right. 

Terri Bernstein: Yeah, some are like our Council or whatever, there was not even people running.

Did you have to, what was your 

Alan Bernstein 2: ballot with? 

Alan Bernstein: Council and We had council, but there wasn't anybody running. It was all, you know, pick seven and there were seven people. 

Terri Bernstein: The school board, there was four and you had to pick two. 

Alan Bernstein: That was really, but other than that, there was the two issues. The president and that, but every 

Terri Bernstein: little city is different.

[00:53:00] Even Congressman Mancey wasn't even like there was nobody even running against him. That's 

Alan Bernstein 2: right. He was on a, right. 

Terri Bernstein: Right. He was on a post or whatever it is. I mean, most people, other than the president and there wasn't a lot to 

Alan Bernstein: well. No, but I look very much forward to going home and 

Terri Bernstein: Four years ago, I went to bed and different people were winning.

And then when I woke up in the morning, the other It was all different. It was all different. Which I thought was I will say, 

Alan Bernstein: without saying any sort of affiliation with a side, Eight years ago was the most fascinating television I've ever watched in my life. If you watched and you watched the chain, you know, everybody thought Hillary Clinton was going to win.

And when you started seeing the cracks in the foundation and people realizing it was just, it was fascinating to watch. And it took till three or four in the morning for them. I think it even so. Yeah. Yeah. But it was people who are professionals who. Who are on tv every [00:54:00] day just completely dumb i've never seen yeah, they were anything like it.

It was That's true. They had no idea what to do. It was It was the most interesting. I mean, I, 

Alan Bernstein 2: I agree. I stayed up the whole time and I had an early morning meeting 

Alan Bernstein: and I, 

Alan Bernstein 2: I don't 

Alan Bernstein: think I got 

Alan Bernstein 2: two hours 

Alan Bernstein: of sleep. I don't, I mean, I I'm usually asleep by 11 at the latest. A lot of times you're going to drink his coffee.

Oh no. I'm putting it down for boom. Oh, 

Terri Bernstein: because you did so great with that cup. 

Alan Bernstein: Oh yeah. 

Emma Stewart: Grandpa's 

Terri Bernstein: was louder. 

Alan Bernstein 2: grandpa's echoes. That's just by the way this reminded me, Elim was over at my house one night you were, I think you were walking and he saw that I was drinking out of a Stanley and he laughed harder than I've ever seen him laugh and he goes, grandpa, you can't drink out of a Stanley.

And I'm like, what are you talking about? That's girls. It's [00:55:00] all girls. That's a 50 cup dad. How much that's a 50. Yeah. 

Emma Stewart: Oh, you should see our house We have one in every single color 

Alan Bernstein 2: That's 

Alan Bernstein: a Stanley. Yeah, 

Emma Stewart: that's someone's obsession. Yeah, not mine 

Alan Bernstein: But wasn't there a big thing with Stanley like the the paint that is a lie But like there was like lead lead.

I think that was 

Terri Bernstein: everybody 

Alan Bernstein: No, I think it was Stanley. 

Terri Bernstein: Well, they fixed it and came back popular than ever. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Well, I don't know, but he just couldn't get over I was drinking out of a Stanley. Oh, Stanley. Anyway. 

Alan Bernstein: Okay. So now we're, we're diverting off of Carnival. No. We're diverting off of the restaurant.

Okay bit. Yeah, and you said We're gonna start a different little series. Oh, yeah, you know, we haven't completed this series. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Well Actually, it was recommended. It was recommended by who? by some family members that we start including some of the [00:56:00] Far reaching family so that we can introduce our Our Family that's gonna that's gonna take 

Alan Bernstein: decades or episodes 

Alan Bernstein 2: well that's right that's kind of the point there's about 

Alan Bernstein: 75 of them just on the whole 

Alan Bernstein 2: house side is is that's 

Terri Bernstein: our immediate family well 

Alan Bernstein 2: but wait a minute that's there's other there's other immediate families Do I have siblings that I don't know about?

Alan Bernstein: Do I have a long lost 

Terri Bernstein: brother? I've always wanted a brother. I really wanted a sister. 

Alan Bernstein 2: So what Well, I was at a dinner with the family Over the weekend. 

Alan Bernstein: Yeah, 

Alan Bernstein 2: and mom's family with mom's family. They get together once a month or so and Seven of the nine one is passed away Seven of the nine were there.

Yeah, and [00:57:00] they were all talking about how proud they were That they had been mentioned on the podcast and the others were Left out. Yeah. Left out. And they think that they should get. 

Alan Bernstein: We're creating episodes now for inclusion. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Well, oh boy. I don't know. This is why Ben should not be the first. Maybe we should have 

Terri Bernstein: family member of the day instead of word of the day.

Oh, now 

Alan Bernstein 2: that's a great idea. 

Alan Bernstein: No, we could have both. We will, I'll, we will run out of episodes before we get through the family member.

Alan Bernstein 2: No, I, I, that, I think you, that, that's a great idea. Or 

Terri Bernstein: maybe person of the day. Maybe we talk about a different person. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Well, your family person or person? 

Terri Bernstein: I don't know, but now we're having a podcast meeting on the podcast. 

Alan Bernstein 2: Yeah, we are. So stay tuned. Who knows what we're going to do. Keep them guessing.

That's what they say. Keep [00:58:00] them guessing. 

Alan Bernstein: We'll leave you on a cliffhanger on that note. Yep. Who knows what the next episode is going to be. Hopefully we get it 

Terri Bernstein: done next week. 

Alan Bernstein: Maybe we'll just keep doing restaurants and see if anybody notices. Okay. Well, we'll see. Anyways thank you for listening.

We we'll see you again next time.

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