Speaker 1: It's going to be an American idiot.
Speaker 2: All right, one more time, one more time, Dan Horde
Speaker 2: on the show on seven hundred ww's the Bengals go
Speaker 2: to Miami. You go from the coldest game of the
Speaker 2: year to one of the warmest games of the year.
Speaker 2: Trying to navigate that one in your mind. Bengals trying
Speaker 2: to win out in their final three games here and
Speaker 2: also find out who is going to be on this
Speaker 2: team in the fall of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: On There is the.
Speaker 2: Voice of the Bearcats and of course our Bengals on
Speaker 2: Sunday in Miami is Dan Horde. Welcome Dan. How are you,
Speaker 2: buddy Clony.
Speaker 3: I'm great.
Speaker 4: How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. I'm doing well here.
Speaker 2: There's so much to unpack because, let's face it, they're
Speaker 2: going to try and win out doesn't really mean anything.
Speaker 2: It's more about pride and also figuring out who is
Speaker 2: going to be on the team, especially on the defensive
Speaker 2: side this time next year, or at least for the
Speaker 2: fall of twenty twenty six. But I'll begin with this
Speaker 2: because there's been so much noise off the field. One
Speaker 2: of the questions that I don't know you've an answer
Speaker 2: for but I'll ask you, is Zach Taylor was asked
Speaker 2: about his contract, whether it extended or not, and the
Speaker 2: Bengals aren't talking the front offices and talking, Zach Taylor
Speaker 2: isn't talking, And you know, as a fan, I go,
Speaker 2: why is that such a secret, because it feels like
Speaker 2: he works at the Pentagon and not at pay Corps.
Speaker 2: Is it that is that big a deal that you
Speaker 2: can tell him at Yeah, they extended me, so well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think it is a secret at this point.
Speaker 3: He certainly didn't deny the reports that his contract runs
Speaker 3: for two more years, so I think we can assume
Speaker 3: that that is the case. I do think that it
Speaker 3: is maybe a premature conclusion to think that that guarantees
Speaker 3: that he will be back. Now, I'm not trying to
Speaker 3: suggest he won't be. My suspicion that he will be.
Speaker 5: But.
Speaker 3: You know, the amount of money that we're talking about
Speaker 3: in the fl is not the amount of money that
Speaker 3: a franchise couldn't eat. So I do think the last
Speaker 3: three games matter. I think Mike Brown and his family
Speaker 3: want to see how this thing finishes out and then
Speaker 3: they'll make whatever decisions they want to make going forward.
Speaker 3: But again, I would expect that Zach will be back.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: The other element then is Duke Tobin, and it seems
Speaker 2: like from a fan perspective, there's more pressure on Duke Tobin,
Speaker 2: or at least adding to the staff in the front
Speaker 2: office than there would be on Zach Taylor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they did add scouts. They added two scouts and
Speaker 3: an analytical guys past year. Maybe they will continue to
Speaker 3: expand that part of the organization this coming off season.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's ever going to be the largest
Speaker 3: scouting staff in the NFL, but they did move toward
Speaker 3: making it a little bit bigger this last year, and
Speaker 3: then we'll see if that continues. I do think that
Speaker 3: the front office this offseason that is the part of
Speaker 3: the organization that needs to get this right. They were
Speaker 3: on a heater for a while there and getting the
Speaker 3: team to the Super Bowl in twenty one and back
Speaker 3: to the EFC Championship Game in twenty two. I do
Speaker 3: think that if Joe Burrow didn't hurt his risk with
Speaker 3: seven games to go in twenty three, they were going
Speaker 3: back to the playoffs. We tend to look at this
Speaker 3: three year stretches three years of disaster. When I do
Speaker 3: think in twenty three they were still really good. Man
Speaker 3: had a chance to maybe, you know, go back to
Speaker 3: the championship game of the Super Bowl if he didn't
Speaker 3: set for that injury. But in any case, he did
Speaker 3: and they didn't. So this is the off season where
Speaker 3: after locking up your offense last year, you got to
Speaker 3: fix the defense. You have to. That's it takes, the defense,
Speaker 3: do whatever it takes. There's seventh or eighth in salary caps. Face,
Speaker 3: They've got some room to spend. They haven't treaded away
Speaker 3: any high draft picks, so use whatever capital you have
Speaker 3: to fix that defense once and for all.
Speaker 2: Who would you build around on d I mean obviously
Speaker 2: DJ Turner, J Hill, I think Miles Murphy's come on,
Speaker 2: Shimar Stewart's too grain and too injured to get a
Speaker 2: good sample of. At this point, you're not going to
Speaker 2: give up on a guy in his rookie season, of
Speaker 2: course too.
Speaker 1: But outside of those four, we else.
Speaker 3: You see, I don't know, I don't necessarily look at
Speaker 3: it that way. Sloane's I mean, certainly DJ Turner is
Speaker 3: a building block. He's got a real chance of going
Speaker 3: to the Pro Bowl this year. But I look at
Speaker 3: it in terms of all, right, what reinforcements do you need?
Speaker 3: You need a starter on the defensive line. I think
Speaker 3: you need a starter at linebacker, and I think you
Speaker 3: need a start at safety. So those guys don't have
Speaker 3: to be superstars, but they need to be proven, veteran
Speaker 3: guys that you can rely on. So for me, at least,
Speaker 3: I want to go out and get a starter, a
Speaker 3: proven capable starter at every level of the defense and
Speaker 3: go from there.
Speaker 1: Can you do that in one off season?
Speaker 3: Sure? And I think the key is, you know, Trey
Speaker 3: Anddrickson is the greatest free agenc signing in franchise history,
Speaker 3: and the likelihood of getting a guy like that is
Speaker 3: not high because if you do that, then you're only
Speaker 3: going to get, you know, one big prize in free
Speaker 3: agency or close to one, as opposed to adding multiple
Speaker 3: guys like I'm talking about. To me, the key is
Speaker 3: the Mike Hilton's should obey a Woogs, Larry Ogan, Jobi's,
Speaker 3: the guys who came in here for three and four
Speaker 3: years are on offense, Ted Carriss, the guys who have
Speaker 3: come in on the middle of the road type salaries
Speaker 3: but were proven starters elsewhere. That give you those solid,
Speaker 3: dependable vets that are great in the locker room, that
Speaker 3: are good players on the field. To me, that's what
Speaker 3: this team needs. And with a salary salary cap space
Speaker 3: that they have that is very realistic to do.
Speaker 2: Is that what you think he means when Joe Burrow says, hey,
Speaker 2: we've got to get creative with changes here. When he
Speaker 2: says creative, what do you think that entails.
Speaker 3: My best guess on that is maybe in some of
Speaker 3: the ways that they've negotiated with players and done lined
Speaker 3: up their contracts. I think Joe Burrow is saying, we
Speaker 3: have to reconsider how we've done all of that. It's
Speaker 3: the next in our evolution. You know, anytime things go
Speaker 3: poorly for the Bengals, it's like our mindset goes back
Speaker 3: twenty years. They've made a lot of changes in the.
Speaker 5: Joe Burrow era.
Speaker 3: We've talked about changes they've made in the staff. They've
Speaker 3: built the practice bubble. They've given these huge contracts to
Speaker 3: Burrow and Chase and Higgins. They're not the same old Bengals,
Speaker 3: but that doesn't mean they don't have to continue to grow.
Speaker 3: And I think that's what Joe Burro is trying to say,
Speaker 3: let's look at every aspect of the way we've done
Speaker 3: business during this three year stretch that we haven't made
Speaker 3: the playoffs and figure out, all right, what are other
Speaker 3: teams doing, What are other successful teams doing that we
Speaker 3: have not been doing, and let's do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think there is a you know, they
Speaker 1: certainly may changes.
Speaker 2: A lot of that has to do with public pressure,
Speaker 2: media everything out of the practice bubble you mentioned. Snowgate,
Speaker 2: of course is the latest thing from last weekend. There's
Speaker 2: enough people around the league to talk poorly about the Bengals,
Speaker 2: and you know, every time we have a miss, but
Speaker 2: the team has a misstep, I think it's magnified more
Speaker 2: because of the past history. Whether that's fair or unfair,
Speaker 2: you have to be determined.
Speaker 3: Well, I agree with that, and you know, let's just
Speaker 3: take a look at Joe Burrow's comments over the last
Speaker 3: couple of weeks. So any time that he expresses any
Speaker 3: sort of frustration on happiness, which is unnatural considering how
Speaker 3: this year has gone for him and for the team,
Speaker 3: people don't know him very well just immediately say, as
Speaker 3: if it's fact, and these people have big platforms that
Speaker 3: he hates it. Here they said it before he was drafted.
Speaker 3: Joe's not going to go to Cincinnati, you know, And
Speaker 3: none of that's ever been true. By and large, all
Speaker 3: he's ever said is great things about playing here. It
Speaker 3: talks about, you know, appreciation and respect for the coaches
Speaker 3: and the staff. So rather than listening to people that
Speaker 3: don't know Joe, let's send to the people that do,
Speaker 3: including himself. I don't blame him for wanting to win.
Speaker 3: Mike Brown wants to win. Duke Tobin wants to win.
Speaker 3: You want to win. I want to win. We all
Speaker 3: want to win. They haven't won this year, So fix it.
Speaker 3: That's it. Fix it, yeah, and everybody will be happy,
Speaker 3: and at least in the short term, people that like
Speaker 3: to bash the Bengals nationally will stop doing so, at
Speaker 3: least for a little while.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the thing with Burrow too is, you know, we're
Speaker 2: way too much into reading the tea leaves here and
Speaker 2: what's what is his future here? What messages he sending
Speaker 2: and the experts are saying, oh, clearly, you know he's
Speaker 2: going to give him one more season than he's the
Speaker 2: hell out of here, and you know he's going to
Speaker 2: go Andrew Luck like, yeah, yeah, I think he answer
Speaker 2: the question Privent, It's like, yeah, I'm a benk next season.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. People get traded all the time.
Speaker 2: It could happen. I have no idea what's going to
Speaker 2: happen two, three, five years from now.
Speaker 1: It's a stupid question, right, I thought.
Speaker 3: Albert Breer, who it's about the NFL for Sports Illustrated,
Speaker 3: he did a video about Burrow yesterday or maybe it
Speaker 3: was the day before, and he's the one national reporter
Speaker 3: that actually seems to talk to Joe and know how
Speaker 3: he feels about these things. And he more or less said,
Speaker 3: from all the conversations that he's had with Joe over
Speaker 3: the years, Joe wants to be a change agent in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: He wants to be the guy that turns this franchise
Speaker 3: into one that people respect nationwide as opposed to one
Speaker 3: that they often mock. But he said, if you go
Speaker 3: for a long time and things aren't happening the way
Speaker 3: that they need to, then maybe you go from being
Speaker 3: Joe Montana to Matthew Stafford in Detroit, where you just say,
Speaker 3: you know what, we had a good run, we didn't
Speaker 3: get where we wanted to go. Maybe it's time to
Speaker 3: go somewhere else. We're a long way from that. Joe
Speaker 3: Burrow signed through twenty twenty nine. The Bengals have options
Speaker 3: after that. Jamar and t are signed for at least
Speaker 3: four more years, So this group's going to be together
Speaker 3: for a while. Let's fix the defense so they can
Speaker 3: get back into Super Bowl contention.
Speaker 2: Same time, though, how much weight does he carry with
Speaker 2: people who last him as Brown and Blackburn?
Speaker 3: I think a lot, But I don't look at that
Speaker 3: as a negative thing. It's portrayed, like, you know, the
Speaker 3: Bengals front office and ownership is in hand the whims
Speaker 3: of Joe Burrow. It's not that. It's that they understand
Speaker 3: that they have this rare and awesome resource and it's
Speaker 3: worth talking to him and finding out his opinion on things.
Speaker 3: That doesn't mean they always do exactly what he wants.
Speaker 3: In the case of extending T Higgins, you know, maybe
Speaker 3: that's the closest thing I was proposed to to doing
Speaker 3: what you know, Joe wanted them to do. But that
Speaker 3: doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't something that they weren't seriously
Speaker 3: already considering on their own. I think they looked at
Speaker 3: the team and said, you know what, Let's reward our
Speaker 3: best players. Let's keep our best guys. It would be
Speaker 3: nice if they were all in positions so the stars everywhere.
Speaker 3: The way the roster looks right now, that's not the case.
Speaker 3: So let's at least keep the best guys we have
Speaker 3: and go from there. All right.
Speaker 2: So Dan Horbe got Miami this weekend a much better
Speaker 2: atmosphere I think, to broadcast football in and certainly play
Speaker 2: in for a number of players, and that would be
Speaker 2: the warmth of Miami in the eighties, where it was
Speaker 2: in the sub zeros last week in Cincinnati. That's a
Speaker 2: hell of a turn, right there. Definitely a windows open
Speaker 2: day for you down at Miami. Let's hug injuries real quick.
Speaker 3: Here, Can I jump in for a sec? Yes? So
Speaker 3: hard Rock Stadium, where the game will be played, is
Speaker 3: one of the few boots in the NFL where you
Speaker 3: can't open the windows, which drives me crazy. I want
Speaker 3: them open, whether it's hot, whether it's frigid. I want
Speaker 3: to feel like I'm at the game. They are permanently
Speaker 3: inclosed in Miami. It's in a rough spot in terms
Speaker 3: of the stadium. It's kind of hard to see the
Speaker 3: majority of the field. It's really narrow, so laugh and
Speaker 3: I will be shoulder to shoulder. I don't like to
Speaker 3: complain about the broadcasting conditions because I understand my audience
Speaker 3: doesn't want to hear it. I got a great game,
Speaker 3: don't complain, right, But this is a tough one. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've heard from many people, yourself included that hard rock
Speaker 2: is added near the bottom of an NFL stadium, So
Speaker 2: which kind of surprises me, knowing you know how things
Speaker 2: run down in Miami. Let's get injuries.
Speaker 3: It's the fans, but it is tough for visiting radio
Speaker 3: I tell you that, gotcha.
Speaker 2: And then visiting teams as well too, because man, you
Speaker 2: know that that dehydration is real when you're used to
Speaker 2: temperatures like we've had here. That's that's I think that's
Speaker 2: a big component of this game. On Sunday, bj Hill, Jenkins, Jones, Asi,
Speaker 2: all of them oddly out with the ankle injuries, not practicing.
Speaker 2: I think the biggest question though, is the state of
Speaker 2: T Higgins and the concussion that he suffered. And of
Speaker 2: course came back and read it in Buffalo this last week,
Speaker 2: going to be back. You know, the one thing I
Speaker 2: brought is like what I understand is especially that Buffalo game,
Speaker 2: come to the concussion, why he was not wearing the
Speaker 2: helmet bubble, and as I recall, I don't know if
Speaker 2: I've seen a since he player this season that's had
Speaker 2: that protective extra padding on their helmet.
Speaker 3: Saw me, how many of you seen in the NFL.
Speaker 3: I mean it's.
Speaker 1: Less yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: They required training camp. It's definitely reduced concussions in training camp,
Speaker 3: and it would probably help some guys, but they don't
Speaker 3: like the look. I think it's a cosmetic thing. Maybe
Speaker 3: it impedes their vision a little bit. I'm not sure,
Speaker 3: but I can, off the top of my head maybe
Speaker 3: named three or four guys league wide that I recall
Speaker 3: seeing wearing that guardian cap during regular season games.
Speaker 2: I guess if I'm ts like, hey, I want to play,
Speaker 2: but I could, you know, go back the other way
Speaker 2: and regret, especially with the frozen turf that we saw
Speaker 2: as well, And that's certainly it's kind of like guys
Speaker 2: that have the have the mouthpiece on their helmet that
Speaker 2: they don't put the mouthpiece in their mouth.
Speaker 3: Same thing, yeah, except that the mouthpiece doesn't look weird
Speaker 3: and the helmet bubble or guardian cap as it's called does.
Speaker 3: And you know, young man that don't don't like to
Speaker 3: look weird. Maybe they should be a little bit more
Speaker 3: willing to correct because that thing probably would help. But again,
Speaker 3: I can't think of there's a wide receiver in Green
Speaker 3: Bay wears it. Yes, maybe a couple of defensive backs
Speaker 3: that wear it. That's about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dan the Dolphins bench to a six season, leads
Speaker 2: the NFL in I iNTS. He's guaranteed I think, like
Speaker 2: fifty four million next season. Why is it that working
Speaker 2: for him? Down in Miami?
Speaker 3: They lost Kyrie kill in Week three or four, his
Speaker 3: best weapon in one of the NFL's best weapons, maybe
Speaker 3: the best weapon in the league. So that's a factor.
Speaker 3: I don't think their offensive line is great. That's a factor.
Speaker 3: And you know, I think Tua is a kind of
Speaker 3: a product of the system type quarterback. I do think
Speaker 3: the Dolphins have had a very creative offense in recent years.
Speaker 3: He did lead the league passing yards one year, but
Speaker 3: when you watch him, it feels to me, seems to
Speaker 3: me that like if the first option isn't there, they're
Speaker 3: not getting much out of the play. So I think
Speaker 3: they've schemed up some good stuff. They usually have a
Speaker 3: really good running game. They've got a lot of speed.
Speaker 3: Even without Tyreek Hill, they're one of the faster teams
Speaker 3: in the league. So I think there have been a
Speaker 3: lot of instances where one of those quick first read
Speaker 3: passes from Tua gets into some speedy guy's hands and
Speaker 3: the next thing you know, you've got a big play
Speaker 3: that makes him look great. I just think he's kind
Speaker 3: of a middle of the pack, maybe slightly below the
Speaker 3: middle of the pack type quarterback. And it was probably
Speaker 3: a very questionable investment when they gave him a four
Speaker 3: year deal for fifty three MILLI year, because they've got
Speaker 3: three years left on that deal and stuff. Wh can
Speaker 3: put a guy on the bench? Yep? And now you
Speaker 3: have to think about, all right, we're going to eat
Speaker 3: you know, ninety nine million dollars of salary cap next year.
Speaker 3: If we cut him, that's a that'd be a challenging
Speaker 3: thing for them to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Quinn Yours out of Texas is the starting quarterback
Speaker 2: this week from Miami saw a little bit of action
Speaker 2: I think early of the season not not much. So
Speaker 2: how hard is that for the Bengals coming and scout a
Speaker 2: guy like that who you've never seen before.
Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting. The offense doesn't change that much.
Speaker 3: So that's the number one thing that you're scouting. But
Speaker 3: you never know how a guy's going to perform. I'm
Speaker 3: sure they've watched his preseason games.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: The one game he played in that you mentioned was
Speaker 3: a blowout lost to Cleveland, of all teams, he threw
Speaker 3: eight passes in that game. So he's a little bit,
Speaker 3: you know, a question mark, a mystery factor in this game.
Speaker 3: To me, the bigger thing is the bond a Chan.
Speaker 3: He's got more than a thousand rushing yards. You know,
Speaker 3: one of the fastest running backs in the NFL. Jalen Wright,
Speaker 3: who backs up him, had one hundred yards two leaks
Speaker 3: ago against the Jets. He's one of, you know, like
Speaker 3: the second fastest running back in the NFL. So for
Speaker 3: a Bengals defense that was bad against the run last
Speaker 3: week and by and largest struggled against it this season,
Speaker 3: I'm a lot more worried about though, those guys than
Speaker 3: I am about Quinn yours. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would look at a Chan and go, okay,
Speaker 2: let's focus send him because he is, like, I think
Speaker 2: third in the NFL in yards. They've got Jayleen Waddle,
Speaker 2: They've got Darren Waller, who I think is almost your age. No,
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill, focus on stopping the run. I think Goods
Speaker 2: had and it certainly it's it's one of those games
Speaker 2: the defense can get right.
Speaker 3: I think on Sunday, you're just gonna drop in almost
Speaker 3: your age and just keep going as if you know,
Speaker 3: you're just hoping that the sting lingers and I don't
Speaker 3: get a chance to Retord he's as old as you too, buddy.
Speaker 1: I still see many touchdowns.
Speaker 3: He did have two touchdown catches on Monday night against
Speaker 3: so you're right right. No, he is thirty seasonally thirty three.
Speaker 3: He seems to still be bawling.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: He retired. He came back and looked pretty good on
Speaker 3: Monday night. The team sucked, but he had a good
Speaker 3: game against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, fair enough, fair enough.
Speaker 2: Well, we have forty four year old grandfather's throwing touchdown passes,
Speaker 2: so anything in today's league is possible. Dan Horde, Voice
Speaker 2: of the Bengals, It's been a pleasure speaking to you
Speaker 2: every Friday morning on the show, and hopefully we can
Speaker 2: continue next year and into the playoffs. Presumably in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six, twenty seven. What do you say.
Speaker 3: I think that sounds great. The Super Bowl is back
Speaker 3: in so far next year, so let's run it back.
Speaker 3: Let's go back to La finish the job this time around,
Speaker 3: and you know, again, if they can fix the defense,
Speaker 3: I think that that is very realistic. This franchise has
Speaker 3: been to the Super Bowl three times Blony. In eighty
Speaker 3: one they won six games the year before. In eighty eight,
Speaker 3: they won four games the year before. In twenty one,
Speaker 3: they won four games the year before. This is how
Speaker 3: it goes. You know, have the building blocks with a
Speaker 3: great quarterback and fix the defense and you can get
Speaker 3: right back into contention. And that's that's my hope. And
Speaker 3: I don't think it's so far.
Speaker 2: All right, Hopefully this is the Christmas present you get
Speaker 2: Dan Horde all the best, buddy, have a great game
Speaker 2: Sunday and we'll talk again soon.
Speaker 4: Be well.
Speaker 3: Sounds good, Solny.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me on, sir.
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Speaker 6: ABC Will again from New York.
Speaker 1: Will, Good morning, How are you.
Speaker 6: I am doing very well in this countdown to Christmas,
Speaker 6: the final countdown.
Speaker 7: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm fine.
Speaker 2: I still haven't realized it's Christmas yet. Are you of
Speaker 2: the mind, Like, are you surprised Christmas is next week already?
Speaker 2: Because it feels like it should be about two or
Speaker 2: three weeks out to me and it's not. It's triving
Speaker 2: me crazy as to.
Speaker 6: Why no I decorate. I put stuff up like November first.
Speaker 6: I'm one of those awful people that's like fully in
Speaker 6: the Christmas spirit before Thanksgiving even happened, So it feels
Speaker 6: right to me we put.
Speaker 2: Our stuff up earlier before, and still it feels like
Speaker 2: Christmas should not be next week. I don't know what
Speaker 2: it is that's the Christmas spirit somehow's missing. And from
Speaker 2: though the very small sample size of those around me
Speaker 2: who tolerate me, they will have a conversation with me.
Speaker 3: Will.
Speaker 2: It seems like most people do the same mindset. You're
Speaker 2: the guy it's in the Christmas spirit though, you're the
Speaker 2: alph of the conversation.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, I'm I've got my inner Clark Griswold is
Speaker 6: always you know, just jonesing for a light display or
Speaker 6: whatever it might be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's me.
Speaker 2: The biggest entertainment story of the week obviously is the
Speaker 2: shocking murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, and of
Speaker 2: course we're still feeling the effects of that. I think
Speaker 2: CBS is putting a special together his life as well,
Speaker 2: but it just, uh, it was just so surreal when
Speaker 2: that news broke.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and when you look back at like his legacy,
Speaker 6: the crazy thing to me is like, you know, a
Speaker 6: lot of great directors will have a lane, right, Like
Speaker 6: they will pick a genre and that will be you know,
Speaker 6: every time there's a Scorsese drama, you know it's going
Speaker 6: to be, you know, top notch. But with Rob Reiner,
Speaker 6: it was like every you know, whether it was a
Speaker 6: like a kid's movie or a coming of age story,
Speaker 6: or a romance or a fantasy adventure, like he did
Speaker 6: all of it so so well. Rom com like he
Speaker 6: was just yeah, like, you know, every single genre, he
Speaker 6: was at the top of his game. So yeah, that
Speaker 6: that is of course a devastating loss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had an incredible run too as a director,
Speaker 2: I mean actor as well. He's in so many really
Speaker 2: good movies and playing a lot of cameos in recent years,
Speaker 2: most recently as a matter of fact, Saturday night, I
Speaker 2: was flipping around and I watched Spinal Tap too. It
Speaker 2: is never going to be as good as the original,
Speaker 2: but there's some good lines in good comedy and a
Speaker 2: lot of callbacks.
Speaker 1: But he was in that.
Speaker 2: I'm like, Rob Briner was wearing the same hat and
Speaker 2: jacket he did in the in Spinal Tap in eighty four,
Speaker 2: and he still looks pretty good.
Speaker 1: And then the next day we learned he was murdered.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and like you know, even like television appearances too,
Speaker 6: he played Zoe Ditionnel's dad and New Girl, which you know,
Speaker 6: I think is how a lot of probably millennial television
Speaker 6: fans might you know, recognize him. So yeah, you're right,
Speaker 6: like he you know, whether it was directing or acting,
Speaker 6: he always you know, was just such a force.
Speaker 1: Didn't I just see him in The Bear last season
Speaker 1: as well?
Speaker 3: Oh man?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah it was because I have been reckonmember
Speaker 2: the first mine, like, I think that's Rob Reiner, and
Speaker 2: sure enough that was, And yeah, he's playing like a
Speaker 2: I know, a consultant or something like that, and that
Speaker 2: show should be interesting to see how they treat that
Speaker 2: next next season of The Bear. Unfortunately, they had just
Speaker 2: had his hand on a lot of different projects.
Speaker 6: Right right, Yeah, And you know, which is a sign
Speaker 6: that a lot of different people wanted to work with him,
Speaker 6: you know, because there's plenty of people, you know, like
Speaker 6: James Cameron's of the world who you know, have a
Speaker 6: lot of prestige, but I you know, I think have
Speaker 6: a different type of reputation, whereas you know, with Rob Reiner,
Speaker 6: everybody was always wanting to work with him and stuff.
Speaker 3: So it is such a tragedy.
Speaker 1: Horrible, absolutely horrible.
Speaker 2: Moving on Golden Globe, Frontrunner Run Battle after Another is
Speaker 2: already on HBO Max two weeks ago, is in theaters,
Speaker 2: and now it's on streaming, you know, and I think
Speaker 2: that's awesome because I wanted to see it, and now
Speaker 2: it's already gonna be on HBO Max, which I subscribe to.
Speaker 1: But boy, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: You look at it and go, it really feels like
Speaker 2: it's it's it's a turning point. It's almost and we
Speaker 2: say over fulfilled theaters. But we just had this conversation
Speaker 2: last week, there's another example of it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean with this one in particular, coming to
Speaker 6: streaming today for free. Part of me thinks that they
Speaker 6: are this is a move to get as many eyeballs
Speaker 6: on it as possible headed into award season voting. So
Speaker 6: I think, if you know it is the most nominated
Speaker 6: at the Golden Globes, if it can walk away from
Speaker 6: the ceremony as the most awarded, that will bode well
Speaker 6: for Oscars contention. So part of me thinks that it
Speaker 6: is like with this movie in particular. Of course, there
Speaker 6: is a larger conversation to be had about how quickly
Speaker 6: things are coming to streaming, But this to me feels like,
Speaker 6: you know, the producers are like, all right, let's let's
Speaker 6: have as many people watch it as possible, so that
Speaker 6: way it cleans up the Golden Globes. But it works
Speaker 6: out in our favor at least, you know, for this week.
Speaker 6: If you are looking for something to see, you know,
Speaker 6: watch it home. During this holiday week. One Battle after
Speaker 6: another is nominated in the comedy categories at the Golden Globes,
Speaker 6: so it is like a dark comedy. Leyodocaprio is part
Speaker 6: of like the resistance of you know, a ragtag group
Speaker 6: of like vigilante thro or fighting back against a little
Speaker 6: bit of a corrupt government. And Sean Penn is part
Speaker 6: of that that government, and he is like the bad guy,
Speaker 6: and he is incredible as a bad guy in this movie.
Speaker 6: But the action sequences are incredible right off the jumps.
Speaker 3: They're blowing stuff up, they're.
Speaker 6: Escaping in cars and robbing banks and all this kinds
Speaker 6: of stuff, and it is so fun to watch. There's
Speaker 6: a love story. There is a story of a father
Speaker 6: and a daughter that Leodocaprio does very well. And so
Speaker 6: this movie I think, you know, there's a lot to
Speaker 6: like there.
Speaker 3: I would not watch it with kids, but it is.
Speaker 6: It is a ton of fun for anyone looking for
Speaker 6: sort of an action comedy political thriller.
Speaker 5: Over the Over the Break.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny because there was such a polarizing move
Speaker 2: when he came out. You didn't know what to make
Speaker 2: of it, if it's an indictment of the current administration
Speaker 2: or not. And you know, but but you know, Hollywood's
Speaker 2: always kind of done that to get up interest and
Speaker 2: to their it worked exactly exactly.
Speaker 6: I loved watching this movie and it surprised me how
Speaker 6: funny it was too.
Speaker 1: Really good. I've heard a lot about it.
Speaker 2: I didn't hear it was a comedy though, and yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it definitely makes me want to watch it
Speaker 2: more now, so good, I'll have something to do this weekend,
Speaker 2: you know, real quick.
Speaker 1: Not to be labeled.
Speaker 2: The point on this willgans but bringing it back to
Speaker 2: the Oscars, because you know, Golden Globes and Awards. ABC
Speaker 2: just announced they're going to move it to YouTube in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty nine. Do those award shows care the same
Speaker 2: way because all this is set up right now. One thing, Now,
Speaker 2: we're going to put that on streaming, so it's going
Speaker 2: to get more maybe Golden Globes, and it'll push into
Speaker 2: more OSCAR consideration. But if we're moving it to streaming,
Speaker 2: is that just the fact that the demographs of the
Speaker 2: eyeballs have changed from broadcast TV to the screen in
Speaker 2: your hand. Does that diminish in any way, shape or
Speaker 2: form the validity the Oscars and what that means to
Speaker 2: a filmmaker or a studio as far as revenue goes.
Speaker 3: It's a good question. I don't think so.
Speaker 6: I think that this is just the state of broadcast television, So,
Speaker 6: you know, I I think a network like ABC is
Speaker 6: probably like, all right, where do we want to be
Speaker 6: spending our you know, half a billion dollar you know
Speaker 6: whatever contract. So I think it has less to do
Speaker 6: with you know, I don't think the impact is going
Speaker 6: to be that the the prestige of the Oscar dips
Speaker 6: it all. I think it still matters, but I think
Speaker 6: that it moving to YouTube is really just a sign
Speaker 6: of like where people are watching their TV, as opposed
Speaker 6: to like, how much do we still care about the Oscars?
Speaker 6: I think Hollywood still desperately cares about the Oscar.
Speaker 2: Let's pivot to more small screen stuff here Stranger things
Speaker 2: is what is that?
Speaker 1: Does that drop?
Speaker 7: New Year?
Speaker 1: When does that drop?
Speaker 5: Boats?
Speaker 6: So Christmas Day is part two and then the final
Speaker 6: final episode is New Year's Eve. And so when part
Speaker 6: one of this season dropped on Thanksgiving, it broke the
Speaker 6: record as Netflix's most watched English language TV debut of
Speaker 6: all time, and it ended with a you know, a
Speaker 6: really awesome sort of cliffhanger, and we picked back up
Speaker 6: on Christmas Day right in the moments after that that cliffhanger.
Speaker 6: So I think a lot of eyes will be on
Speaker 6: it as we sort of bid farewell to this record
Speaker 6: breaking show that you know, we've been with for a
Speaker 6: decade and watching these kids grow up and all that stuff.
Speaker 6: So Christmas Day at eight pm is when part two
Speaker 6: of the final season will drop.
Speaker 1: Gotcha, all right, got time for one more thing? Well,
Speaker 1: what are you got?
Speaker 6: Emily in Paris season five, So this is on the
Speaker 6: other end of the spectrum from the first two.
Speaker 3: This is sugary sweet.
Speaker 6: It's like, you know, eating a box of chocolate. It's like,
Speaker 6: is it going to fill you and sustain you? Probably not,
Speaker 6: but it's a ton of fun while it's happening. And
Speaker 6: this is Lily Collins, who's Phil Collins' daughter, plays the lead.
Speaker 6: That the guy who created the show is the same
Speaker 6: guy who did Sex and the City, So it's that
Speaker 6: kind of vibe. Fun. Performance, is incredible costuming, beautiful scenery
Speaker 6: and stuff. They're in Rome this season, so a lot
Speaker 6: of fun, not a lot of brain power required to
Speaker 6: enjoy this.
Speaker 5: This Emily in Paris season.
Speaker 2: Five, Well, so I'm out because it's Emily in Paris.
Speaker 2: But that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, you gotta pulled in the hoos were
Speaker 6: so wind up next season she could becoming a Cincy.
Speaker 1: I don't know Emily and Cincy.
Speaker 2: That'll be good anyway. Well, Gans appreciate you, buddy. We'll
Speaker 2: talk again in the new year. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.
Speaker 2: We'll see any other side.
Speaker 3: Happy holidays.
Speaker 1: Hello, best to you, buddy. Thanks again.
Speaker 2: It's a Scott's Loan Show and we've got news on
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Speaker 1: Quick time out. More to follow, seven hundred.
Speaker 2: If you went to the Bengals Freezer Bowl Part two
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Speaker 2: you may just shrivel up and die. I don't know
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Speaker 2: He's on the way in just about four minutes here
Speaker 2: on seven hundred w W Scott's Loan Show. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what you know. Obviously, we live in very arising
Speaker 2: political times, but I gotta give you, gotta give you credit.
Speaker 2: Whoever is writing for the White House I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's people from the Onion, the Babylon Bee folks.
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know the old Weekly World News back
Speaker 2: when grocery store tabloids were a thing. But whoever's writing
Speaker 2: for the White it's so good because just this week
Speaker 2: we're talking about all right, President comes out and makes
Speaker 2: the Rob Reiner assassinate well Rob Brander murder should say
Speaker 2: sassam Rob right and murder about him, like, I don't
Speaker 2: know how you do that, but did it. And I'm
Speaker 2: saying it's like, I don't know how you continue to
Speaker 2: top yourself in an age where it's awfully difficult to
Speaker 2: do that because you just can't. You just can't keep
Speaker 2: doing stuff and go Wow, that that's gonna get headlines
Speaker 2: or that's gonna upset people. And I think he's deliberately
Speaker 2: twisted the knife and a lot of this stuff for sure,
Speaker 2: especially this one. The news today about Trump is going
Speaker 2: to rename the Kennedy Center the Trump Kennedy Center, not
Speaker 2: the Kennedy Trump Center, the Trump Kennedy Center.
Speaker 1: And he said it's a big show. The game is
Speaker 1: a big surprise to me.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, you clean the board out and you
Speaker 2: put all your handpicked people on there. How big a
Speaker 2: surprise can it be? You know, it's like when you
Speaker 2: know some of these teapot nations where they have an
Speaker 2: election one hundred percent of the people voted for the
Speaker 2: guy who's been in power for the last thirty years.
Speaker 2: Same same kind of thing. I know, there are a
Speaker 2: lot of people that are upset by this and they're
Speaker 2: gnashing their teeth and I mean, it's the Kennedy Center.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's the Trump Kennedy Center. Now.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like, you know, the Gulf of America
Speaker 2: and how many people that have set it's just trolla now.
Speaker 1: It's and that to me, that's funny.
Speaker 2: Every day every day there's something that comes out and
Speaker 2: you go, wow, you continue to top yourself. I don't
Speaker 2: think that's possible. What is tomorrow going to bring? And
Speaker 2: maybe that's what it feels like because of all this
Speaker 2: polarization and anks that you know, it feels like the
Speaker 2: last year has been about four years, like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: we got a presidential election next year. No, we're just
Speaker 2: one year in. Like you continue to sp yourself every day.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely it's an incredible thing to watch. I don't
Speaker 2: think you're ever going to see this again in your lifetime,
Speaker 2: love it or hate it.
Speaker 1: I think that's a fact.
Speaker 2: Anyway, real quick here on the news of the Brown
Speaker 2: US for a shooter, I think, quite honestly, it is
Speaker 2: and we know this.
Speaker 1: I think in the future.
Speaker 2: It's going to be damn near impossible to get away
Speaker 2: with crime. I'm not saying crime is going away and
Speaker 2: that you know people aren't going to get away with stuff.
Speaker 2: It's gonna but man, it's it's like, for example, how
Speaker 2: they caught the Brown University shooter. This Valente guy forty
Speaker 2: eight years old. They found him dead from a self
Speaker 2: inflicted gunshot wound and a storage facility storage locker, New Hampshire.
Speaker 2: This is the guy who killed MIT professor and MIT
Speaker 2: professor and looked like you got away because the only
Speaker 2: images we saw were from that static telephone pole camera
Speaker 2: and you really couldn't make out who it was. There's
Speaker 2: a little bit of a face there, but you know,
Speaker 2: they're trying to analyze the gait and things like that,
Speaker 2: and so people are not putting stones in their shoes
Speaker 2: to throw the him off, throw us goods because they
Speaker 2: actually you know it's AI. It'll tell you pick up
Speaker 2: your gate pattern and then go through other videos to
Speaker 2: try and find someone who's walk matches at So he
Speaker 2: was caught. This is fascinating. He gets away, he takes
Speaker 2: a car. Investigtors identified the vehicle that he had rented
Speaker 2: and drove from Boston to Brown University then back to Boston,
Speaker 2: and the person who really broke this up when was
Speaker 2: posting on Reddit about the suspect's car. He told the
Speaker 2: investigators he first encountered in the bathroom in the school
Speaker 2: building about two hours for his shot, and he told
Speaker 2: investigators he recalled that the clothing was well very inadequate
Speaker 2: for the winter weather in Boston, and so then followed
Speaker 2: the suspect to a gray Nissan Center with Florida tags
Speaker 2: and that the suspect us a key fob to unlock it,
Speaker 2: then walked away and then took a left down the street.
Speaker 2: So he ran after the suspect and caught up to
Speaker 2: them and asked them, your car is back there, why
Speaker 2: are you circling back? And the guy said, I don't
Speaker 2: know you from nobody, why are you rang me? And
Speaker 2: then he ran away and they put this up on
Speaker 2: Reddit and then found the guy that's incredible. Like the
Speaker 2: other thing is too. If you saw someone who was
Speaker 2: underdressed with the weather in a bathroom, why would you
Speaker 2: follow them? I think there's got to be more to
Speaker 2: that story, like why would you go and trade track
Speaker 2: this person unless you just had that really weird sixth
Speaker 2: sense that you thought he was up to no good.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's a crazy story for sure, but at least there's
Speaker 2: some closure there, certainly for the Family Scott Flung show.
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Speaker 2: Winding it down for twenty twenty five here on this
Speaker 2: Friday morning. I'm back for a couple days next week
Speaker 2: in maybe y' or not so enjoy if maybe this
Speaker 2: was the last time you get to listen to the
Speaker 2: show for the week, couple of weeks. Anyway, it's that
Speaker 2: time of the year. It's that time of the year.
Speaker 2: There's something that I've been involved with now for a
Speaker 2: few weeks. I think it's I love tech, I love
Speaker 2: fascinating things. I love things that change people's lives for
Speaker 2: the better, because God knows we need more of those
Speaker 2: stories and not fewer. And I love to highlight those
Speaker 2: kinds of things. And so you may hear may have
Speaker 2: heard me talking about the tech r n D one
Speaker 2: for those who have a mobility disability. So if you're
Speaker 2: in a wheelchair, maybe you have trouble standing or walking.
Speaker 2: You know, typically one is you look at it and go,
Speaker 2: my god, the rest of my life I'm being a
Speaker 2: wheelchair or I need a wheelchair to get around or
Speaker 2: move from point A to point B. For a lot
Speaker 2: of people, the older we are, the longer we live.
Speaker 2: That's true, but it's also true for people who suffer
Speaker 2: spinal injuries and the like. Veterans come to mind. And
Speaker 2: for a long time it's been you know, you get
Speaker 2: in a chair. You see people parking at grocery store
Speaker 2: and wherever in a handicapped spot and they have the
Speaker 2: van or a vehicle and they've got to get the
Speaker 2: cart off the back and get in it, and everything
Speaker 2: of course is you know, not at eye level, and
Speaker 2: you go to a grocery store in one of those
Speaker 2: scooters and it's tough to get stuff off the top shelf.
Speaker 2: This thing is going to change so many lives, and
Speaker 2: that's why I'm so happy to speak for my buddy
Speaker 2: Dave Bachrath for a rebound mobility dot Com. Dave, welcome
Speaker 2: and study this morning.
Speaker 4: How are you hey, Thanks Scott, and Merry Christmas to ya.
Speaker 4: I app sure you have me.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 2: I wanted to because I wanted to highlight this a
Speaker 2: little more simply because it's such a game changer. This
Speaker 2: is such an incredible development. I think for people with disabilities,
Speaker 2: our veterans come to mind, but anyone for that man,
Speaker 2: as you get older, you know, it's tough for my
Speaker 2: My father in law has difficulty getting up and getting down,
Speaker 2: and this could absolutely change so many lives.
Speaker 1: Uh describe describe how it works with the device?
Speaker 6: Is?
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. It's just so I've been in medical devices
Speaker 4: mobility devices for thirty years and this is the most revolutionary,
Speaker 4: game changing and rewarding product that I've ever represented because
Speaker 4: it literally changes people's lives. And I see it firsthand
Speaker 4: in their in their eyes and their family members tears
Speaker 4: when they're able to stand up the way it works.
Speaker 4: And and and also no nobody knows about this device.
Speaker 4: It really was launched in effect this year. It's been
Speaker 4: on the market before that, but very very quietly. So
Speaker 4: it is a is not a power chair. It actually
Speaker 4: so it's a robotic mobility device that you do not
Speaker 4: need your legs strength at all, any muscles or even
Speaker 4: legs at all. I have a w MPT and a
Speaker 4: single empte getting one, and I list them up to
Speaker 4: eye level like you see them up. You sit in
Speaker 4: a in the seat which is like a sling and
Speaker 4: it's almost like a window washers rig. It's a it's
Speaker 4: a well strong, padded very uh yative right swing and
Speaker 4: it has a very powerful hydraulic lift. So this seat,
Speaker 4: these two pins drop in it and then you're able
Speaker 4: to lift yourself up in be and be supportive uh
Speaker 4: in the seat itself. And then you get all the
Speaker 4: way up to eye level or whatever level you're comfortable at.
Speaker 4: And if you want to bear weight, you can bear
Speaker 4: weight to help with your bone density, and you're able
Speaker 4: to be at eye level again. And I've seen people
Speaker 4: stand for the first time in decades, and and it's amazing.
Speaker 4: There's there's a lot of misnomers about it that people
Speaker 4: just think, like, well, but but I have I have
Speaker 4: fall of risk issues. You can't fall in this. You're
Speaker 4: you're up two and fifty pounds. It's solid you. I've
Speaker 4: tried to tip it over myself and you can't. So
Speaker 4: people that that's one thing that people don't know about.
Speaker 4: They also don't know that it can be covered by insurance.
Speaker 4: It's on contract with Blue Cross, Blue Shield and we
Speaker 4: can get it covered with most providers. And it's kind
Speaker 4: of a critical time this year because we have eleven
Speaker 4: days left if deductibles are met for the price for
Speaker 4: the private insurances. But but it's an amazing device that
Speaker 4: lets you move about your home, reach work around in
Speaker 4: your kitchen. And the physiological benefits are you know, truly
Speaker 4: the reason if people are sitting, you know that you're
Speaker 4: going to have your circuit regulated, improve bowel and blacker
Speaker 4: fraction and all those benefits. But the biggest one is
Speaker 4: the mental health. Is the psychological part of being able
Speaker 4: to be upright again and look and have people eye
Speaker 4: to eye conversations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the thing.
Speaker 2: It's because so this pad slips under you and it's
Speaker 2: really easy to get in a k nod of so
Speaker 2: you're sitting, Let's say you're in a chair. You can't move,
Speaker 2: you know, we use your legs, So the pad you'd
Speaker 2: slide it under your butt sort of and the s
Speaker 2: and it's soft, and then you press a button and
Speaker 2: it actually picks you up from your bottom and stands
Speaker 2: you up, and then the front of your shins would
Speaker 2: stand against these pads on the device, So it looks
Speaker 2: like a smaller, a narrower version of one of the
Speaker 2: carts you'd get a grocery store, bad rapid card, a
Speaker 2: ego car to whatever those are. Only this thing lifts
Speaker 2: you up and stands and then if you need to
Speaker 2: sit back down, you press a button and it sits
Speaker 2: you down. You take the pad off, and which means
Speaker 2: you can, you know, because it's narrow, and that's a problem.
Speaker 2: Some of the wider chairs are difficult to get in
Speaker 2: a NOD. But you can actually use the bathroom yourself
Speaker 2: if you're in a chair or you know, I said
Speaker 2: mentioned go to the grocery store and actually stand up
Speaker 2: at eye level and pick things off the shelf yourself.
Speaker 1: Like it's so incredible.
Speaker 4: The independence for bathroom functions to me is just it's
Speaker 4: huge because it's the narrowest profile you can get, like
Speaker 4: nineteen inches wide, and you're it spins around sixty So
Speaker 4: even in a small bathroom. You're able to manage and
Speaker 4: drop yourself down and then move that seat and then
Speaker 4: get yourself back up independently versus having a caregiver family
Speaker 4: member help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because in the past, you know, you'd have to
Speaker 2: the restrooms and narrow doors, right, and an eighty compliance
Speaker 2: is thirty six inches. Well, you know there's thirty inch
Speaker 2: doors out there. This thing fits very easily. You can
Speaker 2: get in a stall and take care of yourself, right.
Speaker 2: It gives you a good and that's the mental health advantage.
Speaker 2: You don't need to depend on someone else, especially for
Speaker 2: veterans that are used to, you know, doing things themselves
Speaker 2: and being on their own and being independent.
Speaker 4: Right, It's yeah, you can be and you can do
Speaker 4: that independently, and it is covered by the VA, and
Speaker 4: the veterans won't know don't know that, the veteran providers
Speaker 4: don't know that. So it's incumbent upon the person finding
Speaker 4: this out. And that's where you know, I walk them
Speaker 4: through all the processes. And that's the biggest thing is like,
Speaker 4: don't try to figure it out yourself. You've got to
Speaker 4: use me to get you through the proper processes, whether
Speaker 4: it's through the VA, G O d it's covered you know,
Speaker 4: trike care, trike Care for life, and and also just
Speaker 4: individuals with their own insurance and and even seniors. I've
Speaker 4: had an eighty two year old veteran and he he
Speaker 4: got in it and learned it no problem, was driving
Speaker 4: around in it. And he's like, I want this because
Speaker 4: I can't take outside walks with my family and I
Speaker 4: want to keep you know, I have to stay back,
Speaker 4: and so I want to be able to go on
Speaker 4: a bike path or walking and walking.
Speaker 1: How does that work with taking that outside?
Speaker 2: Because Mark Musselo's chairs, you know, you look at it, go, well,
Speaker 2: that's for pavement only.
Speaker 1: You can't go into grass or I mean a beach
Speaker 1: or something like.
Speaker 4: That, right, And that's that's where the outdoor kit comes in.
Speaker 4: So we have an outdoor kit which is like big
Speaker 4: knobby tires, and it switches out from the indoor kit
Speaker 4: fairly easily. You can do it. Even the person in
Speaker 4: the chair can do it within five minutes.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: And you have these extra large tires and an extra
Speaker 4: large tail that you just just with a drop pin
Speaker 4: you take that in and out and boom you can
Speaker 4: go on you know, gravel, your grass, a beach you know,
Speaker 4: get to a like a you know cs a Key
Speaker 4: where it's hard packed beach and you can get to
Speaker 4: that and be able to and you can travel with
Speaker 4: this because it's it's a dry cell battery, so it
Speaker 4: goes on planes just like your regular mobility equipment. No
Speaker 4: extra charge for luggage or anything. They just the carget
Speaker 4: stores in the cargo hold and you can take it
Speaker 4: down to cis Key and and wheel around on the
Speaker 4: beach with your family with it.
Speaker 1: That's wild, That's it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I imagine that in the first time in years,
Speaker 2: people are in a wheelchair and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: like I you know, I'm a beach person, I'm a
Speaker 2: surf and you can actually go and dip your your
Speaker 2: your hands, your legs into the water. It's that's incredible.
Speaker 2: You couldn't do that before. Dave Mancreth is here. It's
Speaker 2: Rebound Mobility dot com. I've been talking about this one
Speaker 2: of our partners here on the Scott Sloan Show about
Speaker 2: how and I often do this because I think there
Speaker 2: is such a special innovative thing.
Speaker 1: It's going to change so many lives. I think it's
Speaker 1: going to be one of those.
Speaker 2: You have a sense and not just because you're in
Speaker 2: a day that it's it's gonna be one of those
Speaker 2: things that in years people go wow. You know remember
Speaker 2: wheelchairs and the way you kind of like iron lungs
Speaker 2: back in the day with poli. You know, we don't
Speaker 2: have those machines anymore. Now you have these devices where
Speaker 2: you can stand literally stand up and be mobile like
Speaker 2: you did when your your legs your appendages worked.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I see where we're going to be. You could
Speaker 4: be seeing these around quite often right now, you know,
Speaker 4: you don't see them out ry new. It's brand new,
Speaker 4: and again nobody knows about it. We do have a
Speaker 4: veterans site for our veterans dot org for a veterans
Speaker 4: dot org if the veterans, but they can also use
Speaker 4: the Rebound Mobility site and that that allows you to
Speaker 4: see information and then and my contact information is on
Speaker 4: there nine three seven seven seven six seventy eight oh
Speaker 4: will seventy eight oh one for a direct contact and
Speaker 4: that's you know, twenty four to seven. You can text
Speaker 4: or call that number for more information.
Speaker 8: And how long does it take to get one of
Speaker 8: these units if you ordered one, it takes if if
Speaker 8: you're ordering and going through the insurance process and even
Speaker 8: all the veterans processes can take thirty to sixty days.
Speaker 4: But some people who can do a self pay and
Speaker 4: can they can pay for it and then work through
Speaker 4: their insurance and get that money back to their insurance
Speaker 4: so they don't have to wait, so they can have
Speaker 4: it within two weeks if they're going to just they
Speaker 4: want to put it on AMEX, get their points for
Speaker 4: whatever right, and then then they can have the receipt
Speaker 4: and then they work through and help us. So we
Speaker 4: have an insurance team they will help us battle to
Speaker 4: get that insures coverage, which most of the time they do.
Speaker 4: It's a pretty high rate of success, especially when the
Speaker 4: patient gets involved and so they get that check remburse
Speaker 4: and then and a lot of people do that, they
Speaker 4: put it on a credit card. The company Matiam Mobility
Speaker 4: also has a couple of financing options.
Speaker 2: Is there are they made where they made where manufacturing
Speaker 2: Salt Lake City?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, they made the US. They're made in the US,
Speaker 1: so you can get him here in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they they're they're all in they're customized, so we
Speaker 4: you are not. They're they're custom built for that person's size.
Speaker 4: So there's measurements that I take or make sure they're
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Speaker 4: part of your body anywhere, right, anywhere from a four
Speaker 4: foot seven person. I have eleven year old muscular disc
Speaker 4: free kid getting his delivering it to him on Christmas.
Speaker 4: So it's going to be a Christmas present. Yeah, eleven
Speaker 4: year old mustard disc fee. He can't wait and he
Speaker 4: tools around on it like like he's had it forever.
Speaker 2: When I did, Oh, I demoed one, and it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, within a couple of minutes, you kind of
Speaker 2: get used to the controls.
Speaker 1: It's it's really cool. And it was like the battery
Speaker 1: in this thing last how long.
Speaker 4: A full day? Nine miles that's a lot. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: you can go you can go cruise around on a
Speaker 4: full charge, you know, on a bike path or outside
Speaker 4: or on a beach for quite a while. So the
Speaker 4: charge and it only takes about two three hours to
Speaker 4: get up to a full charge. Yeah, it's it is
Speaker 4: again just so rewarding to to see I haven't I
Speaker 4: haven't actually done an in person demo with someone who
Speaker 4: didn't get the unit or didn't start to process to
Speaker 4: get the unit, and so that's something and I offer
Speaker 4: too because you're looking if it's something you could just
Speaker 4: buy online, we'd put on Amazon, and or.
Speaker 2: Because it has to be custom and custal insurance and
Speaker 2: everything else too. But yeah, I mean if you know
Speaker 2: someone a neighbor, friend, family, me or co or whoever,
Speaker 2: it is a good benefit from this that so I
Speaker 2: wanted to have you on and get the word out
Speaker 2: because I really think this is this is one of
Speaker 2: those devices. Once in a while, something comes along that
Speaker 2: absolutely changes people's lives for the better. And in the
Speaker 2: age we're living longer, maybe not better, but longer, it's
Speaker 2: incumbent to get the word out I think for stuff
Speaker 2: like this, going hey, this is going to improve your
Speaker 2: mental health, which is a huge component. But physically you
Speaker 2: mentioned bone density, bowels, all that stuff. I mean, imagine
Speaker 2: you know, you have your house. Let's say you're in
Speaker 2: a chair and everything's built for people who stand up,
Speaker 2: you know, cupboards, cabinets, refrigerators, and you with so much
Speaker 2: in life because you're seated, and now you don't have
Speaker 2: to change all that. You can actually stand up in
Speaker 2: your house and get things off the top shelf like
Speaker 2: you used to, and the machine does it all and
Speaker 2: you're able to navigate your hallways and stay in your
Speaker 2: own house. I mean the past people to have to
Speaker 2: move to assisted living or something like that. This keeps
Speaker 2: people in our houses longer, whether it's veterans or people
Speaker 2: with disabilities, but also seniors too. I think you're going
Speaker 2: to see more people who their legs work. But you know,
Speaker 2: I mean the older we get, the longer we live,
Speaker 2: it's going to be harder to get around.
Speaker 1: This is for them.
Speaker 4: Right in the and the seniors now are just more
Speaker 4: active seniors, you know, wanting to be outside, wanting to
Speaker 4: be independent, and and this you know, will allow them
Speaker 4: to you know, stay that way and you know, take
Speaker 4: the outside, get to the fresh air, take a walk.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: I you can avoid the home rebuilds on that. But
Speaker 4: I even have someone getting one that had the home
Speaker 4: rebuild done, but he's getting it for the outdoors part
Speaker 4: of it the package. So he saw that there's enough
Speaker 4: benefit in that. So it's going to be you know,
Speaker 4: there's gonna be something for everybody that maybe if they're
Speaker 4: they've lost mobility, maybe they can walk a little bit,
Speaker 4: but they just can't go very far. It's going to
Speaker 4: help them with that. And we're also partnered with uh
Speaker 4: Tie Bradshaw with the knuxs All Foundation, where we're doing
Speaker 4: for people who here and refer uh a patient. It
Speaker 4: doesn't have to be for yourself, but a referral a
Speaker 4: two thousand dollars donation to the knuxts All Foundation because
Speaker 4: they're dealing with disabilities, and they're trying to build that
Speaker 4: indoor center, right so.
Speaker 1: Oh good love to sell the community with that. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, portion proceeds go there as well.
Speaker 2: And I know that, you know, we've we hit the
Speaker 2: veterans thing too, and I want to say that, you know,
Speaker 2: as we get the word out about this, this game changer.
Speaker 2: Steve Bolso is my buddy. He comes in once a
Speaker 2: month from Claremont County for our veterans services. And I
Speaker 2: was talking to him. I'm like, hey, I showed, I
Speaker 2: showed him a video and you know, showed and he
Speaker 2: was he was over the top excited to spread the
Speaker 2: word to veterans because I know a handful of people
Speaker 2: already that would jump at the chance for something like this.
Speaker 2: So you know, you get the word out there, especially
Speaker 2: to our veterans in the VA and you know the
Speaker 2: v AL take careful pay for it. That that's gonna
Speaker 2: be great for veterans and and anyone else listening for
Speaker 2: that matter. So again, the website is Rebound will Ability
Speaker 2: dot com, Rebound Mobility dot com. Dave Bachrath and Matt
Speaker 2: McCool is a Cincinnati represents. Due to this morning, uh
Speaker 2: doesn't speak at all. He's uh, which is really unusual
Speaker 2: for somebody in sales, but nonetheless he uh. It really
Speaker 2: is called I'm so happy to be working with your
Speaker 2: partner with just to spread the word about this and
Speaker 2: it really is going to change somebody live share in
Speaker 2: the Tri State and the rest of the country. And
Speaker 2: this can be one of those products that are featured
Speaker 2: in the future. Is a turning point when it comes
Speaker 2: to helping people with disabilities navigate life.
Speaker 1: They appreciate it. Thanks again for coming in, Thanks for
Speaker 1: having me all right.
Speaker 2: All of those against Rebound Mobility dot Com is the
Speaker 2: website if you want to check that out. And maybe
Speaker 2: not someone in your family, but we all know someone
Speaker 2: who may have a friend of family member, neighbor, the
Speaker 2: son of a coworker, the daughter of a someone he
Speaker 2: went to school with, and go, man, I wonder if
Speaker 2: they know about this and maybe share that link with
Speaker 2: them at rebound mobility dot com. Anyway, I got to
Speaker 2: get a time out in News on the way. In
Speaker 2: just minutes, Austin jumps in. We talk about the Bengals
Speaker 2: in Miami, A fruitless effort. What the hell are they
Speaker 2: playing for? Well, it's sunny weather, so at least you
Speaker 2: get to go and then enjoy that as well. Who
Speaker 2: should have remain on the Bengals for twenty twenty six
Speaker 2: is the question? Maybe they'll be somewhat answered in Sunday's game.
Speaker 2: Talk to Austin about that and more coming up next
Speaker 2: on seven hundred WW. Here we go, It's Friday morning,
Speaker 2: Scott Sloan. Last segment with this guy for the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five campaign for sure, Who knows, maybe the last
Speaker 2: segment forever. We just we don't know. It's week to week.
Speaker 2: Much like a NFL player at this time of year,
Speaker 2: it's week to week. Austin Elmosey, our buddy from ESPN
Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. He and Tony Pike at noon today on
Speaker 2: said station, shoppable sports head of the weekend here too,
Speaker 2: and we begin with what what.
Speaker 1: Do we should what should we begin with?
Speaker 10: I don't know, how about the last ten days fourteen
Speaker 10: days have felt like three months, really, yeah, especially when
Speaker 10: you look at it through the eyes and lens of
Speaker 10: the Bengals.
Speaker 2: Well we begin there, of course, two Bengals at Miami
Speaker 2: this weekend, going from subzero temperatures to mid eighties. There's
Speaker 2: that shock as well. And I guess one may ask, Okay,
Speaker 2: three games left, we want to run the table, we
Speaker 2: want an grede. It's just auditioning guys for next year, right,
Speaker 2: I asked, This is a Dan horde. I'll ask it
Speaker 2: of you outside of a handful of players, now, I'll
Speaker 2: be generous Here, DJ Turner obviously, Here i'd say bj Hill,
Speaker 2: Miles Murphy turned a corner. It looks seems like anyway,
Speaker 2: Jamar Stewart's a rookie, banged up rookie at that missed
Speaker 2: a bunch of games. Small sample size there. But outside
Speaker 2: of those guys, or maybe you disagree with any of
Speaker 2: those who comes back next year, who do you build around?
Speaker 1: It's a great question.
Speaker 10: I don't know that there are you know, I feel
Speaker 10: like there's been minimal improvement from Demetrius Knight Junior over
Speaker 10: the course of the last six or seven weeks. Barrett
Speaker 10: Carter hasn't been as atrocious as he was at the beginning,
Speaker 10: but that's still a really very low bar. I think
Speaker 10: they're going to have to revisit the linebacker position, both
Speaker 10: in free agency and in the draft. Jordan Battle I like,
Speaker 10: and I think there's a role for Jordan Battle, but
Speaker 10: I don't that there's a role for Jordan Battle when
Speaker 10: he's playing next to the worst safety in the NFL
Speaker 10: and with other guys on the team that on the
Speaker 10: defense that that aren't as good. I think you can
Speaker 10: live with Jordan when there are better players around him,
Speaker 10: not when he's being forced to do as much. So
Speaker 10: I think there are a couple of guys, but I
Speaker 10: think there's one or two shoe ins, and that would
Speaker 10: be DJ Turner and obviously Shamar Stewart, just because he's
Speaker 10: played so little. It's it's way too early, and I
Speaker 10: think Miles Murphy has done enough to justify being something now.
Speaker 10: The other one you could take a look at is
Speaker 10: Joseph Osai, who for two years in a row has
Speaker 10: kind of been up into the right and he's probably
Speaker 10: going to be looking at a fifteen to sixteen million
Speaker 10: dollars deal on the open market. Is that something you'd
Speaker 10: be willing to invest in, assuming you're not going to
Speaker 10: be bringing Trey Hendrickson back, And that's ultimately is I
Speaker 10: don't know if.
Speaker 1: It is a four conclusion.
Speaker 10: I think that's going to be another conversation that crops
Speaker 10: up in again in the stream. It's possible, Yeah, it's possible.
Speaker 10: I don't know right now. I don't like posible right now.
Speaker 10: I don't think it's it's likely, but I do think
Speaker 10: it's possible. Okay, And if they were to do something
Speaker 10: like that, would that would be the first indicator that
Speaker 10: they have no idea what they're doing this offseason.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll just run it back, which they're good at doing.
Speaker 2: And you mentioned, okay, we're gonna get some guys in
Speaker 2: the draft that's not gone well for them defensively.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, the plan on paper has been we
Speaker 10: are going to spend our top one hundred draft picks
Speaker 10: on young defenders and develop them. Well, it just now
Speaker 10: has started to click for Miles Murphy. It hasn't really
Speaker 10: clicked for anyone else other than DJ Turner, and you
Speaker 10: cannot wait that long for it to click for these guys.
Speaker 10: It's not clicking for Carter, it's not clicking for Night,
Speaker 10: it's not clicking for for Dax Hill. He's been okay,
Speaker 10: but still not entirely clicking for him, and he's coming
Speaker 10: off knee injury.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 10: So they're gonna have to supplement that defense with guys
Speaker 10: in free agency, veteran presence, guys that it might be
Speaker 10: looking for a mid level second contract much it's like
Speaker 10: they got Trey Hendrickson on in that twenty twenty one offseason.
Speaker 10: I think that's the type of player they're gonna have
Speaker 10: to be looking for again this year to help those
Speaker 10: young players develop as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Austin, I look at that. Go okay, well, we'll
Speaker 1: fix the defense.
Speaker 2: Offense obviously set for the for the short to medium
Speaker 2: term here with the arguably the best receiver quarterback combination
Speaker 2: of the National Football League, and it's a crime that
Speaker 2: you can't go to the playoffs and win with with
Speaker 2: with that, do you think this is like a turning
Speaker 2: point now for the franchise when it seems like we've
Speaker 2: had a lot of turning points and sense that Okay,
Speaker 2: you've got Joe Burrow his prime right now, you're not
Speaker 2: gonna make the playoffs for the third straight year. At
Speaker 2: this point, you're going to I don't know, at this
Speaker 2: point a lot of teams would have moved on from
Speaker 2: Zach Taytlor and maybe Duke Tobin and that's still a possibility.
Speaker 2: And you know, Bengals are not going to pay a
Speaker 2: guy not to participate. We know the history of that.
Speaker 2: That to me seems like that's not really fan friendly.
Speaker 2: The seatgate plays into that a little bit, but there
Speaker 2: seems to be in here in Cincinnati. Every time you
Speaker 2: have a micro tran aggression like that were then cleaning
Speaker 2: the seats off. It's amplified tenfold because of the stereotype
Speaker 2: that the team is cheap, and you can make a
Speaker 2: case that they are. That's not a good look for
Speaker 2: them if they don't hit it out of the park
Speaker 2: they do you think they realized just what's at stake
Speaker 2: here for there.
Speaker 10: The way I described it yesterday on the show is
Speaker 10: that they are at a crossroads. But they've been at
Speaker 10: this intersection before many times, and the best way to
Speaker 10: describe it, and most I think only once really is
Speaker 10: the season following Burrow's rookie year, so they had just
Speaker 10: gotten out of COVID. Burrow had a season ending injury.
Speaker 10: They won four games. Now they won two of those
Speaker 10: last three games. They didn't really matter, but we always
Speaker 10: point towards that Steelers game that season as a turning
Speaker 10: point for a culture building win. And that off season
Speaker 10: they had about sixty million dollars to spend. They signed
Speaker 10: Cheeahay Woozier, Trey Hendrickson, Mike Hilton, Larry Ogunjobi Riley, reef
Speaker 10: Eli Apple, They traded for bj Hill, they extended Sam Hubbard.
Speaker 10: They made all the right moves that offseason and built
Speaker 10: that into a team in twenty twenty one that went to.
Speaker 1: The Super Bowl.
Speaker 10: This year, they have sixty million dollars in cap space.
Speaker 10: Actually a little bit more, especially if you do some
Speaker 10: veteran cuts, you could be looking at eighty million. That's
Speaker 10: more than enough to go after and aggressively pursue a
Speaker 10: draft class or a free agent class that can fill
Speaker 10: a lot of the same needs that you had just
Speaker 10: a few years ago in twenty twenty one. Now, I'm
Speaker 10: not saying they're gonna go back to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Last time he did. But the point was the last
Speaker 2: time he did it, he would have the Super Bowl. Yeah,
Speaker 2: why is it?
Speaker 10: The point is, like, you know you can do that,
Speaker 10: and so you sign those guys for three or four
Speaker 10: year deals and then the plan is get young players
Speaker 10: in there and surround them so that you can kind
Speaker 10: of keep repeating it. The draft has failed them. So
Speaker 10: if your draft strategy hasn't changed, and if it should,
Speaker 10: but you now have. And I know we all want
Speaker 10: to talk crap about the way the Bengals do contracts,
Speaker 10: but they have set themselves up very nicely to where
Speaker 10: they have very little dead cap and they have a
Speaker 10: ton of cap space even though they've signed Joe Burrow
Speaker 10: and Jamar Chase and t Higgins the long term extensions.
Speaker 10: One of the biggest narratives out there that is complete
Speaker 10: one hundred percent BS is that the Bengals don't have
Speaker 10: money to spend because they sign those players to deals.
Speaker 1: That's not true. They have plenty of money.
Speaker 10: And if Joe Burrow restructures this deal like most quarterbacks do,
Speaker 10: that can jump even further right away. Okay, so they've
Speaker 10: done it before. The plan is right there in front
Speaker 10: of them. I don't expect them to hit on every
Speaker 10: single free agent that they signed. No team does, and
Speaker 10: the Bengals have had their share of misses over the
Speaker 10: last couple of years, guys like Sheldon Rankins for example,
Speaker 10: last year. But the culture was certainly affected by those
Speaker 10: wins at the end of twenty twenty going into twenty
Speaker 10: twenty one. But it was really curated in free agency
Speaker 10: that offseason. They can do this. They've done it before,
Speaker 10: They're going to have to do it again. I have
Speaker 10: no choice.
Speaker 2: And if they can't pull this off and we sit
Speaker 2: there a year from now Austin have the same conversation,
Speaker 2: what then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a good question.
Speaker 10: I think you would probably see the end of Zach Taylor,
Speaker 10: and I think it would be a very very loud.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if Joe Burrow said it would
Speaker 2: be a very loud outcry from the locker room and
Speaker 2: specifically Joe. I don't think that Joe right now is
Speaker 2: in danger of leaving. I don't think anything he said
Speaker 2: over the last couple of weeks is I don't like Zach,
Speaker 2: I don't like Mike Brown, I don't like being here.
Speaker 2: I think it is frustration with the fact that there
Speaker 2: hasn't been enough growth over the last couple of years,
Speaker 2: and he hasn't felt like he has any control over
Speaker 2: it because of the injury that he had this year, right, right,
Speaker 2: And that's the other key is keeping him healthy and
Speaker 2: is the big question for next season. We can't do
Speaker 2: this every year where he's down for a number of games.
Speaker 2: And you know, we've had that track record where yeah.
Speaker 10: Again, if you go back, like the twenty one and
Speaker 10: twenty two seasons were really really good, and the twenty
Speaker 10: two team was really good. But you go to twenty
Speaker 10: three and I think Zach and it mostly got a
Speaker 10: pass because Burrow had that freak injury. They were pretty
Speaker 10: good at the time, but he had that freak injury. Okay,
Speaker 10: you missed the playoffs, but they were still right there
Speaker 10: and it was close. Twenty twenty four, there's no excuse.
Speaker 10: I mean, the best season ever by a Bengals quarterbacks
Speaker 10: and the defense just leitm And this offseason the Bengals said, oh,
Speaker 10: we just got unlucky.
Speaker 1: We'll get better this year.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 10: The other thing too, is they said that it's Louis
Speaker 10: at Rumo's fault and we're gonna develop these young players. Okay,
Speaker 10: so Sam Hubbard's not taking snaps anymore, Von Bell's not
Speaker 10: taking snaps. Jermaine Pratt's not taking snaps. Logan Wilson's not
Speaker 10: taking snaps. They got rid of all those veteran guys
Speaker 10: to bring in the young dudes, and it got worse.
Speaker 10: And so clearly you can't go blame the defensive coordinator. Again,
Speaker 10: you can't blame the head coach, especially if you're gonna
Speaker 10: sign him to an extension and he staw has two
Speaker 10: years left on his deal. It's not Joe Burrow's fault.
Speaker 10: The injuries was kind of a freak thing. It falls
Speaker 10: on the organization to say, Okay, we can't just rely
Speaker 10: on the draft anymore. We've got to go spend some
Speaker 10: money and fix this right. And you wonder if they
Speaker 10: hear that, If that's heard or not, we'll find out here.
Speaker 10: And sure, of course, also going after free agent, to
Speaker 10: which they've been reluctant to do that. One time they
Speaker 10: did it is they got success. I don't know why
Speaker 10: you wouldn't do more of that.
Speaker 4: Well, they've they've spent money.
Speaker 10: They've spent a lot of money in free agency over
Speaker 10: the last couple of years, they haven't hit on them
Speaker 10: as much, but they haven't been as aggressive because they
Speaker 10: have been counting on those young players. Right, And now
Speaker 10: that you are able to call a space a spade
Speaker 10: on a lot of those guys you just mentioned it
Speaker 10: to me, clarifies what the plan should be moving forward.
Speaker 10: And you know the other thing that's interesting about that
Speaker 10: twenty twenty Following the twenty twenty season, going into twenty one,
Speaker 10: they had sixty million dollars to spend. They ended up
Speaker 10: spending fifty six and a half of it, so they
Speaker 10: had like three point eight million dollars in cap space.
Speaker 10: That was like an aggressive spend by the Bengals. They
Speaker 10: can do that again. I hope they do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we'll find out again Sunday. It's in Miami.
Speaker 2: No Tua, by the way, he has been benched in favor.
Speaker 1: Unfortunate. Unfortunate for the Bengals. You know, I look at it.
Speaker 2: I was asking Dan about this too, and said, I know,
Speaker 2: I'd rather have two in there one more game, because
Speaker 2: you know what you're getting with him.
Speaker 1: You know, now you got a rookie with something to prove.
Speaker 1: A seventh I.
Speaker 10: Mean, they both probably stink, but at least you know
Speaker 10: what to it is. I mean, they don't call it
Speaker 10: to it turned the ball over for no reason?
Speaker 1: Fifteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's terrible. It's awful. Talk about a guy went
Speaker 2: off the rails there. They also cut Matthew Judon. They're
Speaker 2: an evaluation man. Yeah, all the Bengals are too. Two
Speaker 2: teams looking to evaluate.
Speaker 10: But do you where do you stand on tank for
Speaker 10: a draft pick and try to win football games? I
Speaker 10: don't think you do it. I just I don't think
Speaker 10: you do either. I don't think unless you're tanking for
Speaker 10: a quarterback, it doesn't matter. Yeah, I mean if it
Speaker 10: comes down the last game, all right. And I have
Speaker 10: not like, like dove into all the draft picks yet,
Speaker 10: but I don't think there's a huge difference in the
Speaker 10: type of player you get between pick number eight and
Speaker 10: pick number sixteen this year.
Speaker 2: If you tried to get Joe Burrow back in the
Speaker 2: lineup for a season, that's a wash. Yeah, why would
Speaker 2: you do that if you also want to? We also
Speaker 2: know that the final three games matter, you know if
Speaker 2: Paul Danner Junior wrote about that this week. With the
Speaker 2: extension at Zach Taylor, and there's a history of the
Speaker 2: final games of the season matter for this organization. So
Speaker 2: as far as I'm concerned, if you want to say
Speaker 2: that you have a standard and you want to uphold
Speaker 2: that standard, winning matters, and winning and culture building wins
Speaker 2: even against teams that may not be as competitive, matter,
Speaker 2: and I think it matters to people like Joe Burrow,
Speaker 2: and I think it matters to Zach Taylor.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a different field this year for sure. I mean,
Speaker 2: last week watched Pat Mahomes go down with a season
Speaker 2: ending injury. Man maybe back when the start of next season,
Speaker 2: depending on the saverat of it. And now there's rumors
Speaker 2: again as there as everyone with Travis Kelsey maybe retiring.
Speaker 2: It feels like it's over for Casey. Yeah, it does.
Speaker 2: I mean I don't.
Speaker 10: And they go into the next offseason I think forty
Speaker 10: four million dollars over the cap, so they're gonna have
Speaker 10: to make some tough decisions. They're gonna probably cut Jawan Taylor,
Speaker 10: Mahomes will probably restructure his deal, but there's gonna be
Speaker 10: some guys that are walking away from that football team,
Speaker 10: and they're gonna have to rebuild through the draft, and
Speaker 10: they're gonna have to get creative and free in the
Speaker 10: CAP's gonna go up. They'll get some relief and that's
Speaker 10: gonna help happen for the Bengals as well. So yeah,
Speaker 10: I mean it's a transitional time. I'm for a lot
Speaker 10: of teams in the AFC. I think Houston's going to
Speaker 10: take another step forward next year. I think Jacksonville's going
Speaker 10: to take another step forward next year. Browns Houston might
Speaker 10: take a step back. Who knows what the Browns. But
Speaker 10: like Buffalo, I mean, you guys have been talking about this.
Speaker 10: This is like there's a lot of pressure on Buffalo
Speaker 10: right now because of the way the AFC is lined up,
Speaker 10: and it's difficult to keep getting back there every year
Speaker 10: it is, and so this is a this is a
Speaker 10: critical star.
Speaker 2: It feels like is well, I don't know who's in
Speaker 2: worse shape. I mean case he wasn't in it, but
Speaker 2: the injury at Green Bay with Michael Parsons, I think
Speaker 2: it is bigger than losing Pat Mahomes. I agree in
Speaker 2: that regard. Hey, real quick, we did not get College Schwarber,
Speaker 2: but the next best thing we got a left handed
Speaker 2: reliever in Caleb Fergus.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and thank god he's from Ohio. That was the
Speaker 10: funniest thing I've ever seen their home homegrownd guy. Yeah,
Speaker 10: it's like, hey, we not signing anybody, but we got
Speaker 10: this cat from Columbus.
Speaker 1: Most Reds thing ever. Hell yeah, that's fifteen more tickets game.
Speaker 2: You did need some somebody in that position for sure,
Speaker 2: but no fix like the middle of your lineup.
Speaker 10: You know what's crazy about about the relief market, even
Speaker 10: going back to the trade deadline last year, is relievers
Speaker 10: are getting ridiculous contracts, ridiculous money. Relievers are the most
Speaker 10: important part of any team. The Reds really didn't have
Speaker 10: a matchup lefty. They didn't really have that last year.
Speaker 10: Taylor Rodgers didn't work out. Brent Souter was more of
Speaker 10: a long guy, and so they needed a lefty. So
Speaker 10: they're gonna bring back Sam Mall, which they got him
Speaker 10: for the cheap and hopefully he has a bounce back season.
Speaker 10: Wasn't fully healthy last year. And then you've got a
Speaker 10: guy like Caleb Ferguson, who pitched pretty well last year
Speaker 10: as one of those specific matchup lefties that you bring
Speaker 10: in for certain hitters to face guys like Kyle Schwarburn.
Speaker 10: The Reds needed it, they got it. I think they
Speaker 10: paid a little bit more than anybody expected them for it,
Speaker 10: and I don't know that they have much money in
Speaker 10: their eyes to spend, even though that's a bunch of hogwash,
Speaker 10: but that's where they stand it.
Speaker 1: And my thing, and you know this, we've talked.
Speaker 10: This team is going to try to run it back
Speaker 10: with the same group they did last year and say, well,
Speaker 10: Matt McLean will be better and so and so it'll
Speaker 10: be better. It's all nonsense and it's no way to
Speaker 10: run a business and try to win baseball games.
Speaker 1: But that's what they're gonna do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I again, when you've just signed resigned Meili Pagan
Speaker 2: for two yours, so well, yeah, that's a year deal,
Speaker 2: but probably a little that's awesome, you got.
Speaker 1: I think they got about ten million left to play
Speaker 1: with them.
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 10: They going into signing Caleb Ferguson it was five to
Speaker 10: ten million and they just signed him for five done,
Speaker 10: So I don't expect much unless they're gonna trade Brady
Speaker 10: Singer or Gavin Lux or somebody like that to try
Speaker 10: to free up ten or fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 4: I don't see it.
Speaker 6: Happened.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Finally, why is it that college football coaches apparently can't
Speaker 2: keep it in their pants?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: The Sharon marthing and now Brian Smith at Ohio Tom
Speaker 2: Brunneman School, not the Ohio State University, but the Ohio University.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh, I mean, what are you thinking? You know, I
Speaker 1: just I don't.
Speaker 10: I have a lot of thoughts on this, but as
Speaker 10: much of it I can't say on the radio undergraduates.
Speaker 10: So it's you know, there's there's an old saying out
Speaker 10: there that that certain things are undefeated.
Speaker 1: That's true, certain things are undefeated.
Speaker 10: I just I feel Actually, our guy Moegar brought up
Speaker 10: a good point on his Twitter page last night. You know,
Speaker 10: college football coaches often are not afraid to tell you
Speaker 10: how hard they work and how they sleep in their
Speaker 10: office right, how they never see their families. Well, it
Speaker 10: seems like these guys are finding time to do other things.
Speaker 1: I'm recruiting. Yeah, I'm just recruiting. I thought that was it.
Speaker 1: I will leave it. I'll take it ball, Go FUS Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: I thought that was a good perspective. Go FUS Cincinnati
Speaker 2: Audio and leave it on this note. In the words
Speaker 2: of Cincinnati favorite Charlie Sheen, Okay, why do you why
Speaker 2: do you pay prostitutes. I don't pay prostitutes to have
Speaker 2: sex with I pay them to go away. And the
Speaker 2: immortal horns at Charlie Sheen, no true. Where do you
Speaker 2: think about that? Go huh and the immortal words of
Speaker 2: Sharon I pay them to go away. Austin Almore New
Speaker 2: Today with Tony Pike Tapike talking all football and stuff.
Speaker 1: Thanks again by Friday Football Frenzy.
Speaker 3: Baby.
Speaker 2: Been a fun year man. Thanks for contributing. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: We'll talk again in the first year. Sloony seven hundred
Speaker 2: WW Cincinnati American. It's Scott a Funk show on seven
Speaker 2: hundred W LW. It is Ohio Senate built two ninety three,
Speaker 2: and that's going to set new restrictions for absentee balloting
Speaker 2: voting in Ohio. Number of things, a climate, improves efficiency,
Speaker 2: voter confidence, and it would basically what happens in Ohio
Speaker 2: four days after election day to have your vote counted.
Speaker 1: This would change that.
Speaker 2: I think thirty seven other states I believe have that
Speaker 2: right now, where if the ballot is not received at
Speaker 2: the Board of Elections by election day itself, it's it's
Speaker 2: invalid and that is part of set up built two
Speaker 2: ninety three.
Speaker 1: Sit on the government's test right now.
Speaker 2: Ken Kuchinelli's a former Trump's staffer and former Attorney General
Speaker 2: of Virginia and he's with the Election Transparency Initiative. Joins
Speaker 2: the show this morning. Ken, how are you.
Speaker 5: I'm doing well. I'll be even better if the governor signed.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I kind of glazed over it there. But what else
Speaker 2: would this include?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: I guess let's start with this. What is the what's
Speaker 2: the reason why we need this?
Speaker 5: Well, for one, particularly as the postal service, it's worse
Speaker 5: and worse instead of better and better. The logic of
Speaker 5: ending elections on election day becomes clearer and clearer. You know,
Speaker 5: you can go back twenty years to Jimmy Carter and
Speaker 5: James Baker. They had a bipartisan commission that they found
Speaker 5: that the most the form of voting, most subject of
Speaker 5: fraud and problems was mail in voting. And if you
Speaker 5: cut it off on election day, not only do you
Speaker 5: find out who won your elections on election day instead
Speaker 5: of the having the four day waiting period in which
Speaker 5: so much conspiracy theories take place from both sides. By
Speaker 5: the way, that you also have voters whose ballots are
Speaker 5: showing up earlier who if they make mistakes, can actually
Speaker 5: cure them. You can't cure a mistake after election day.
Speaker 5: You can only cure it before election day. So this
Speaker 5: would also lead to fixing more mistakenly cast ballots, something
Speaker 5: that doesn't get talked about very much. And as you noted,
Speaker 5: it's thirty four other states that really end elections on
Speaker 5: election day and at Election Transparency Initiative, as our name implies,
Speaker 5: we believe transparency is critical to the confidence in elections.
Speaker 5: And when you drag elections out past election day when
Speaker 5: you don't need to, that confidence begins to drop pretty precipitously,
Speaker 5: and that has real effects on whether people show up
Speaker 5: in the first place and turnout. And so we think
Speaker 5: Center Built two ninety three would be a tremendous improvement.
Speaker 5: And also, by the way, establishes cleaning up of the
Speaker 5: voter rolls every month. And as I mentioned, you can
Speaker 5: fix you can fix mistaken ballots before the election that
Speaker 5: you can't fix after the election.
Speaker 2: Legal isn't that the burden though on the voter? In
Speaker 2: consequences how many people are actually going back and realizing
Speaker 2: they made a mistake.
Speaker 1: What are the numbers on that?
Speaker 5: So it isn't that the people realized they made a mistake.
Speaker 5: That the clerks get to process the ballots before election
Speaker 5: day and they find that voters made a mistake and
Speaker 5: they can contact the voter and if they can come
Speaker 5: in and fix the mistake. For example, they didn't fulfill
Speaker 5: the requirements of the envelope the ballot has to come in,
Speaker 5: they can fix those things. And obviously all of us
Speaker 5: who want it to be easy to vote and hard
Speaker 5: to cheat want people to be able to fix those mistakes.
Speaker 5: Senate Bill two ninety three would make sure that more
Speaker 5: people get the opportunity to fix those mistakes. So I
Speaker 5: don't know the exact numbers in Ohio, you know that
Speaker 5: curing is allowed and that your clerks do what they
Speaker 5: can to make sure the people who've made those sorts
Speaker 5: of errors get the chance to fix them. So they
Speaker 5: can't do it on or after election day. On election day,
Speaker 5: they just don't have the manpower after election.
Speaker 3: Day, gotcha, it's too late.
Speaker 2: Keny also said that you know this is about the
Speaker 2: mail slower and sover mail service, but just still punishes
Speaker 2: people though because if mail service is slow beyond their control,
Speaker 2: and they still don't get in by election day. That's
Speaker 2: even worse. Instead of that four day grace period that
Speaker 2: they would give you. And consequently, it doesn't that disproportionately
Speaker 2: impact rural voters with slower mail service, or the disabled,
Speaker 2: or elderly voters, working class vote or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: at the same time, there's an exemption here that allows
Speaker 2: that four days to stand for soldiers who are serving overseas.
Speaker 1: Why just exempt them?
Speaker 5: Well, because for several reasons, One, they have no choice
Speaker 5: but vote by mail, whereas for most people who use
Speaker 5: voting by mail in Ohio they do have the choice
Speaker 5: one and two they're coming longer distances because they're overseas
Speaker 5: and deployed, so that there's some rationale to it.
Speaker 3: I would tell you.
Speaker 1: What if you're working, what if you work overseas?
Speaker 5: Well, those folks are left in the same posture before
Speaker 5: and after Centate build two ninety three, that four day
Speaker 5: stays for both military and and resident overseas voters.
Speaker 2: Gotcha, Okay, so it applies to them, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Then you find out who who wins on election night.
Speaker 3: That's a big deal.
Speaker 5: I mean, think about look I'll point to Florida. Florida
Speaker 5: is the third largest state, and people on both sides
Speaker 5: of the aisle continue to be amazed that an hour
Speaker 5: after the polls closed in Florida they throw sick million
Speaker 5: votes up on the board. How do they do that?
Speaker 5: They do that because votes have come in before election
Speaker 5: day that they've processed, right, and so they can have
Speaker 5: them counted during election day and be ready to put
Speaker 5: that up. And both sides appreciate that that takes an
Speaker 5: awful lot of the guests words, no doubt, suspicion out
Speaker 5: of the process of ballot processing, a lot of it.
Speaker 5: And I would also note in Virginia, you know my
Speaker 5: most Democrat, so I'm a Republican, so people might think, well,
Speaker 5: some must be some Republican. Well, the director of Elections
Speaker 5: and the most Democrat voting district in Virginia, Petersburg, Virginia,
Speaker 5: has for years been recommending to people in her city
Speaker 5: that they not ever mail about it ever, that they
Speaker 5: do anything they can to bring it in person or
Speaker 5: voting person because of how many every single election, no
Speaker 5: matter how early they mail them, just never show up.
Speaker 5: And that's been that's been years in the making so look.
Speaker 2: This, but this is not about that. This is about
Speaker 2: I don't really care about those states. I care about
Speaker 2: where I live, Ohio and work, but the postals.
Speaker 5: But but the reasons for it are universal. The reasons
Speaker 5: for it are universal. And I use Florida as an
Speaker 5: example because it's such an enormous state and yet they
Speaker 5: managed to process all those ballots by an hour after
Speaker 5: the post close. And and look you've got You've got
Speaker 5: tens hundreds of thousands of people voting by mail. And
Speaker 5: if they they're not stupid, I don't assume they're stupid.
Speaker 5: I know Mike Dwaine, we served as Attorney's General together.
Speaker 5: I know he doesn't think people in Ohio stupid. And
Speaker 5: they're going to shift forward. They're voting, if they're male voters,
Speaker 5: to make the deadline. They're not dumb, they're smart. And
Speaker 5: they're also going to by doing that, get the opportunity
Speaker 5: in the in the event they make mistakes on their
Speaker 5: ballot to be able to correct those. So this is
Speaker 5: going to get more votes in the ballot block, some
Speaker 5: of which the estimate I understand that of Ohio's around
Speaker 5: the thousand that would otherwise be uncounted because of the
Speaker 5: mistakes and how they're they're filed, will have the opportunity
Speaker 5: to get cured. And you know that's that's not a
Speaker 5: big number, but we've had races to seven by a
Speaker 5: thousand in Virginia and where you know we're.
Speaker 1: We've had close ones here in Ohio. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Ken Kuchinelli's here on the show on seven hundred WOLW.
Speaker 2: We're talking about voter vote integrity, and one of the
Speaker 2: big things with the Senate bill that's sitting on de
Speaker 2: Wine's desk right now would be to eliminate the four
Speaker 2: day gray spiard after elections. To have your ball at coount,
Speaker 2: it have to be in and counted prior to election
Speaker 2: polls closing for that to occur, and it's kind of
Speaker 2: a that's kind of a minor point. But I guess
Speaker 2: the other thing too, would be, well, if the election
Speaker 2: were that close, and we've had, as you said, close elections,
Speaker 2: and the way as divide as we are in this country,
Speaker 2: will have even more close elections, I guess in the
Speaker 2: near future. But if that's the case, wouldn't that just
Speaker 2: automatically trigger a recount, So it puts everything on hold.
Speaker 3: Anyway, when you have.
Speaker 5: Elections that are within the margin of the recount. Of
Speaker 5: course that happens, but that doesn't even determined until you've
Speaker 5: got your ballots in and their counting. And you can
Speaker 5: know that election night if you have all your ballots
Speaker 5: in and I say all your ballots in. Of course
Speaker 5: we've already talked about military and overseas voters still get
Speaker 5: the four days, but the proportion of the balloting that
Speaker 5: comes from those folks is extremely small, extremely small. And
Speaker 5: let's say that the majority, the vast majority of those
Speaker 5: votes are already in by election day. So with the
Speaker 5: other votes not lingering after election dates, tune of tens
Speaker 5: or hundreds of thousands of votes, you know immediately if
Speaker 5: you're heading into a recount situation. And I would say, look,
Speaker 5: we've seen the hyperbole that flies around after elections from
Speaker 5: both sides. You can look at Stacy Abrams and Georgia
Speaker 5: in twenty eighteen. You can look at how people felt
Speaker 5: about the twenty twenty outcome, and this trace is back
Speaker 5: all the way really to bushby Gore in two thousand, right.
Speaker 3: In.
Speaker 5: Some aspects of those complaints are often legitimate and some aren't.
Speaker 5: And you mentioned this bill does a couple of small things.
Speaker 5: Elections are made up of hundreds of small things, and
Speaker 5: this bill would help clean up and clean up Ohio elections,
Speaker 5: firm them up, and make them more transparent on election
Speaker 5: day when people expect, whether you and I think it's
Speaker 5: reasonable or not, when people expect to know the outcome,
Speaker 5: and you know, matching the process to citizens expectations is
Speaker 5: a way to build confidence in the outcome of the election,
Speaker 5: no matter who wins. And that's that's a major goal
Speaker 5: for the election transparency initiatives.
Speaker 2: But that's also ken that's also kind of undermined when
Speaker 2: you have people that are talking about how, you know,
Speaker 2: if you lose the election. Let's talk about what Trump
Speaker 2: did last time, right he lost the election, I was
Speaker 2: you know, was stolen basically, and we still have the
Speaker 2: Mipellow guy out there that's pretty much lost everything and
Speaker 2: he's still banging the drum for this stuff. It's never
Speaker 2: been proven. I think that underminds it more than things
Speaker 2: like this, don't you.
Speaker 5: This is what legislators and governors can do to build
Speaker 5: the confidence up they and they have to work with
Speaker 5: how their process really works. They don't get to just
Speaker 5: say whatever they want and you can use the twenty
Speaker 5: twenty example. I started with Stacy Abrams. We can go
Speaker 5: back all the way to two thousand and the bushby Gore,
Speaker 5: and this has been both sides of the aisle at
Speaker 5: various points in time. Hillary Clinton didn't concede she lost.
Speaker 5: Terry mccaulloff didn't conceive that Hillary Clinton lost, you know,
Speaker 5: for years and years, and suddenly that was treason when
Speaker 5: Donald Trump wouldn't took the same approach. So you know,
Speaker 5: this bill treats everybody the same. It changes the rules
Speaker 5: before the election in a way that voters can understand. Again,
Speaker 5: we respect the intelligence of voters and we expect them
Speaker 5: to respond to the changes in the process, and they
Speaker 5: have shown an ability to do that. I mean, this
Speaker 5: isn't this wouldn't be some outlier. This would make Ohio
Speaker 5: the thirty fifth state to count ballots this way, and
Speaker 5: the more states that start doing this when it is
Speaker 5: presidential elections at state the only elections that cross state lines,
Speaker 5: then we'll know the answers to the answer to who
Speaker 5: the next president is more quickly and we'll all eiminate
Speaker 5: the paranoia period between election day and when ballots are
Speaker 5: finally counted?
Speaker 2: Is that I mean, is there census might be moot
Speaker 2: in the sense because I know that the Circuit Court,
Speaker 2: I think Fifth Circuit ruled Mississippi's grace period violated federal
Speaker 2: law right because election includes receipt of ballots that only
Speaker 2: applies in three states. The Supreme Court yet to rule
Speaker 2: on this. So is this here in Ohio can preemptively
Speaker 2: elinating voter access based on speculation about what Scotus might do?
Speaker 2: And if Supreme Court rules the other way, then do
Speaker 2: we need to we have to under the law. Should
Speaker 2: we wait till till still go to rules?
Speaker 5: First of all, this bill doesn't eliminate voter access. It
Speaker 5: improves voter access. You seem to assume that no one
Speaker 5: will adjust.
Speaker 2: Well, you could just it's easy to fix this and
Speaker 2: just go, hey, you know what, here's kind of like
Speaker 2: Christmas shopping. Here's when you're shipping gifts. You're like Amazon says, okay,
Speaker 2: here's the drop to if you want your package you
Speaker 2: arrived before Christmas. Uh, it's well average. We could do
Speaker 2: the same thing and not need a bill, isn't it.
Speaker 2: I mean, you just tell people to vote.
Speaker 5: Earlier, you know, well, to do what you propose would
Speaker 5: still require a bill, but for your listeners benefit, you're correct.
Speaker 5: The Fifth Federal Circuit, which is Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana,
Speaker 5: ruled recently that in federal elections, so even year elections
Speaker 5: happening in November, because they can only rule on federal
Speaker 5: law and federal elections, that the election must end on
Speaker 5: election day, meaning all ballots must be received by election day.
Speaker 5: That's the Fifth Circuits interpretation of federal law that has
Speaker 5: been appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has
Speaker 5: taken the case. We don't know how that case will
Speaker 5: come out, but you are correct for federal elections that
Speaker 5: if the Supreme Court upholds the Fifth Circuit, then all
Speaker 5: even year elections are going to end on election day,
Speaker 5: and what you and I are talking about is going
Speaker 5: to become the law. Well, it will have been acknowledged
Speaker 5: as having been the law, but not enforced across the country.
Speaker 5: So it doesn't mean it applies to all your state
Speaker 5: elections or any that you may have in the spring
Speaker 5: at local and so forth, those kinds of things, but
Speaker 5: it would apply to federal elections, which will be the
Speaker 5: even year November elections.
Speaker 2: Gotcha, and what do you think the governor does at
Speaker 2: this point? Does he sign? Is he gonna sign us?
Speaker 5: You know, this seems like a toss up to me.
Speaker 5: I hope people that would like to see their elections
Speaker 5: cleaned up and firmed up will call the governor's office
Speaker 5: ask him to sign Senate Built two ninety three. He
Speaker 5: has today and tomorrow if I've done my count correctly
Speaker 5: yet to decide. If he does nothing, it becomes law
Speaker 5: without his signature, which is entirely plausible that he could
Speaker 5: do that. But he's going to be deciding today and tomorrow,
Speaker 5: so he does the right thing and signed Centate Built
Speaker 5: two ninety three.
Speaker 1: We'll find out.
Speaker 2: Ken Kuchinelli at the Election Transparency Initial appreciate you answer
Speaker 2: my questions.
Speaker 3: Interesting, Sure, glad to do it all the best.
Speaker 2: I'd be well, have a great Christmas in the holiday,
Speaker 2: thanks so much. It's a Scottsland show on seven hundred
Speaker 2: W do now I hear these go Hey, we got
Speaker 2: to clean up election. You know, election integrity. It's not
Speaker 2: a problem in Ohio. I think it's a problem in
Speaker 2: Kentucky and Indiana. By the way, they have that role
Speaker 2: too in Kentucky and Indiana. I think the ballots got
Speaker 2: to be in by election day, which hey, it makes sense.
Speaker 2: I just wonder I don't. I think it's just the
Speaker 2: same thing either way, because just tell people, hey, you
Speaker 2: don't vote earlier and get them in by election day.
Speaker 2: It kind of solves the problem as well, you know,
Speaker 2: the four day grace spirit. I mean, how often has
Speaker 2: that triggered, you know, the worries about, you know, if
Speaker 2: the election integrity because not all the ballots have been
Speaker 2: cone well they count them, you know, if it doesn't
Speaker 2: matter what the ballots are coming after, they'll call the
Speaker 2: election and you know, you send it in light it's
Speaker 2: on you. Yeah, I just I don't think it's good
Speaker 2: or bad. I just think it really doesn't mean a lot,
Speaker 2: especially if the Supreme Court may strike this down. Anyway,
Speaker 2: got to get a news update in and it's Scott
Speaker 2: Sloan after News here seven hundred W.
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Speaker 1: Yes Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes.
Speaker 2: Friday means Allie time. As we close out the show
Speaker 2: this morning on seven hundred WWR, last one of the year,
Speaker 2: my friend, how are you?
Speaker 9: I'm great.
Speaker 11: I have absolutely no idea what day is as we
Speaker 11: come to the end of obviously it's Friday, but as
Speaker 11: we come to the end of the year and January
Speaker 11: and the holidays, is it Tuesday? Is it Thursday? Is
Speaker 11: it Friday?
Speaker 9: I treat every day like it's Friday.
Speaker 2: No idea, it's are you in the camp of going?
Speaker 2: I can't believe a week from yesterday's Christmas.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that. I get no idea.
Speaker 9: You know what.
Speaker 11: Also, where my head is at is number one, just like,
Speaker 11: where did this year go? Because as I'm scrolling through
Speaker 11: some of the stuff that I've prepped for today, top
Speaker 11: things that we've done, eaten all that jazz, I'm like,
Speaker 11: holy crap, looking through my phoe is the best way
Speaker 11: on my Apple photos and I'm thinking that was a.
Speaker 9: Year ago, right, I built my desk a year ago.
Speaker 9: It feels like it was yesterday.
Speaker 2: I just yeah, it's fun because Michelle's talking to neighbor
Speaker 2: and this week and goes, h yeah, I got to
Speaker 2: get eventually, go get some Christmas stuff or whatever.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 2: He's like, it only got like a week. She goes,
Speaker 2: no Christmas like three weeks. And I goes, it's December seventeenth. Okay,
Speaker 2: she knows what it's next week. Yeah, it's next week.
Speaker 9: Where is the deadline? I don't know, because here's this
Speaker 9: if I don't get.
Speaker 11: I think part of the reason why it's so weird
Speaker 11: is because everybody's you know, putting out holiday stuff before Halloween.
Speaker 11: So there's this weird juxtaposition where I feel like we're
Speaker 11: burnt out before Halloween even happens. And so Thanksgiving rolls
Speaker 11: around and I time fries and if I don't have
Speaker 11: my Christmas tree up right around Thanksgiving time, I'm done.
Speaker 11: I've done that before in the past, where then I
Speaker 11: never even get my tree non holiday.
Speaker 2: But we put ours up early than ever before, and
Speaker 2: it's still like, I can't believe it's next week. Maybe, man,
Speaker 2: what's some time off to you get?
Speaker 11: The other notion of holiday mode is eggnog. Once they
Speaker 11: put out the eggnog in the stores.
Speaker 2: They're putting it out like around Halloween. Now I've noticed
Speaker 2: for guys, it's gonna be year round.
Speaker 9: Why isn't eggnog a year round here?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You know what, It's kind of like the McRib
Speaker 2: and only just come out on's.
Speaker 9: Here or they're lucky, it's like every five years.
Speaker 2: And then make rib and I think eggnog are the
Speaker 2: same level of health benefit for you. I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: a eating a McRib and washed it down with an eggnog.
Speaker 9: No one ever asks for it. Here's the other thing
Speaker 9: I was thinking about this the other day. I'm like,
Speaker 9: why for Santa, right, you leave out cookies and milk?
Speaker 9: Why are we leaving eggnog and cookies? Shouldn't that be?
Speaker 1: That's true?
Speaker 2: That's a good well because eggnog tic typically is as
Speaker 2: alcohol in it. And the guy he'd never make it
Speaker 2: out of Arkansas.
Speaker 9: Maybe that's what you think he's really he's on autopilot. Now,
Speaker 9: like Tesla, do.
Speaker 1: You really want Santa puken down your chimney?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 9: But not all eggnog has What do we get.
Speaker 11: For Chris ew Why is Santa black down?
Speaker 9: Why is he face down next to the tree.
Speaker 1: Naked next to the toilet.
Speaker 9: It's gonna be like the raccoon.
Speaker 2: Santa. No, so you don't want to feed Santa egg.
Speaker 2: Now that's a bad idea. Where are you on egg nog?
Speaker 9: I want to love it. I'd love it spiked.
Speaker 11: It is a I will get one carton, like a
Speaker 11: small one, every single year, and it's the around right
Speaker 11: around now where it's a Saturday Sunday morning. Maybe I'll
Speaker 11: pour myself a small glass, a real small glass. But
Speaker 11: it is not something that I wake up thinking I
Speaker 11: need me some eg.
Speaker 1: I like the flavor of it.
Speaker 2: It's good, right, it's we actually buy like we'll get
Speaker 2: like the half gall of Kroger. And then Michelle likes
Speaker 2: to put it in her coffee.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that makes sense, like a little bit of like creamer,
Speaker 9: because it's a CINEREMONI. It's come out with different flavors. Now,
Speaker 9: so I'm not mad. I'm sure my.
Speaker 11: Sister in law makes it from scratch and she makes
Speaker 11: it boozy.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's when you.
Speaker 9: Make homemade eggnog.
Speaker 1: It's a whole nother different level boozy.
Speaker 9: Though again, give it, Santa gives it. Maybe you'll fall
Speaker 9: off the roof.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can never say. Of what do bars do it?
Speaker 2: Can you get an eggnog and a bar Ooh?
Speaker 9: Actually, well, so like a martini. I know which is
Speaker 9: on my list.
Speaker 11: Faulton the Yards is one of my favorite coffee shops
Speaker 11: these days, and they have a full holiday cocktail spread
Speaker 11: and they're doing like an eggnog martini, so it's a
Speaker 11: thicker cocktail. If you were to do so, you'll see
Speaker 11: that a lot of these holiday bars will lean into it.
Speaker 9: But it's that happy to me.
Speaker 1: That eggnog is a whole different thing.
Speaker 9: I said, santsy be falling off the roof, which actually
Speaker 9: makes me laugh. Have you seen the movie the Santa
Speaker 9: Claus who hasn't with? Do you know? In the initial script?
Speaker 9: I learned this this year.
Speaker 11: Tim Allen said that the script was written to shoot Santa,
Speaker 11: so you know how when he hears Santa and how
Speaker 11: really and he ends up falling off the roof because
Speaker 11: he runs out. He's like, hey, who's up there? And
Speaker 11: then Sand's like ooh and then falls off. In the script,
Speaker 11: initially it has Tim Allen killing Santa really, yes, and
Speaker 11: then Disney read it over. He apparently Tim loved the idea.
Speaker 11: Disney read it over like, we can't shoot Santa, so
Speaker 11: it changed the entire can kill satam you can't kill.
Speaker 9: So that's my weird fun fact.
Speaker 2: Let's get into I know you wanted to review twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five.
Speaker 11: Yeah, So where my head is at with this is
Speaker 11: the new spots that have opened, you know, what are
Speaker 11: the big highlight spots, as well as going micro down
Speaker 11: to some of the favorite dishes that we've had this year.
Speaker 11: Now some of my top favorite overall picks in regards
Speaker 11: to establishments, and we went into a battle of how
Speaker 11: to pronounce this wayfair wayfair where farah way Farrah The
Speaker 11: pizza joint over in Dayton, Kentucky. They're the ones that
Speaker 11: have the pickled pizza. Keep in mind they've been around.
Speaker 11: They were around last year but they were more pop ups.
Speaker 11: But this year they have their establishment and I think
Speaker 11: that's the top spot to check out. Really great cocktails.
Speaker 11: They have a full menu, but they're really known for
Speaker 11: their different pizzas.
Speaker 9: Okay, a, as you know, that's a E t X
Speaker 9: E E t X.
Speaker 11: It's a basque steakhouse which they are actually going now
Speaker 11: four days a week because I don't know if you
Speaker 11: heard the news, but the Aperture, which is the space
Speaker 11: that they're doing their culinary residency in Jordan had Chef Jordan.
Speaker 9: He's revamping. He's closing down.
Speaker 11: For a little bit, but the goal is to reopen,
Speaker 11: so they're going to take over the space a little
Speaker 11: bit longer. So at a the Bass Steakhouse, Tapa's really good.
Speaker 11: Uh pork Pluma, which is one of.
Speaker 9: My TOPI steakhouse different. Yeah, I don't even know if
Speaker 9: that exists. There was a.
Speaker 1: Downtown yeah, now there's one, and I think.
Speaker 9: That sounds about Yes.
Speaker 11: I deserve to get fired from this gig because all
Speaker 11: last week I literally thought flight club.
Speaker 9: Okay, I've been calling.
Speaker 1: It fight club, I know, and I can't ask you.
Speaker 9: You asked me about it.
Speaker 2: I feel it's weird. It should be flight club, not
Speaker 2: fight club. Ye, and it's actually called what.
Speaker 9: Flight club club? Because I can't read.
Speaker 11: I have been all over this and I have in
Speaker 11: my head straight to dyslexia and have been calling it
Speaker 11: fight club because maybe because I want to get into
Speaker 11: a fight at a war.
Speaker 9: So I'm going to take full responsibility and I'm so
Speaker 9: sorry it makes hello flight club because it's darts flying darts.
Speaker 2: I feel so much better going Why that's a bad
Speaker 2: name for it? Why wouldn't you just call it flight
Speaker 2: club because then it's a play on words.
Speaker 1: You know, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: It's fight club, but they have darts, so it should
Speaker 2: be flight club. No, it's fight club.
Speaker 9: I wanted to get into a fight.
Speaker 11: And I should have known, because sometimes when you ask
Speaker 11: a follow a question, I know what you do, and
Speaker 11: you're like, are you sure?
Speaker 1: You're sure?
Speaker 9: Are you sure?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take your word for it, but I'm a question.
Speaker 9: You really should have leaned into that question a little
Speaker 9: bit hard, like.
Speaker 1: I would love to be in that branding meeting. What
Speaker 1: do we call it?
Speaker 2: How about flight club? Now just call it fight club?
Speaker 2: Are you throwing darts? Flight flight could?
Speaker 9: If you lose, maybe you.
Speaker 11: I take a responsibility for that one. But it's really
Speaker 11: great that that.
Speaker 9: Opened this year.
Speaker 11: Whatever it's called, whatever it's called, and whatever you do there,
Speaker 11: and it's the dark the Dark spot down.
Speaker 2: That's just something about the warm wood in English this
Speaker 2: time of year. Seems like you should be able to
Speaker 2: get an egg nod there.
Speaker 9: That is as that doesn't good call back on that one.
Speaker 11: I am also going to throw out Salsar, note Che
Speaker 11: and prim As other big staple spots that have opened
Speaker 11: this year that are worth noting. Spots that I have
Speaker 11: tried this shore, I'm like, where have I been live?
Speaker 9: I've been under a rock.
Speaker 11: I can't believe I'm saying this because I'm not a
Speaker 11: sandwich person, but I still dream about it and it's
Speaker 11: kind of far up there for me.
Speaker 9: And it's the new England Grinders. I am still on it.
Speaker 1: I haven't been there in years, but every time I go,
Speaker 1: it's solid sandwich.
Speaker 9: I think about it, solid lot.
Speaker 1: There's just one location.
Speaker 2: It's not a chain, no, And it's tough because there's
Speaker 2: a lot of good sandwich places in Cincinnati, thank you.
Speaker 11: And the reason why I also love it it's like
Speaker 11: six bucks. It's not that it's not that expensive, huh.
Speaker 11: Like you can get to different sizes off of Princeton
Speaker 11: Glendale Road, and the Fat Bastard is my favorite. It's
Speaker 11: the pistrami and they have euromeat and then the spicy
Speaker 11: Italian sausage, banana, Pepper's mayo. It's not dressing anything from
Speaker 11: Buffalo chicken sandwiches to club grinders, but the bread is so.
Speaker 9: Good and I think about.
Speaker 2: It good sandwich more than I probably should. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: sounds like a good pick today. Good big grinder, and
Speaker 2: you live close to there, well sort of. You know,
Speaker 2: it's funny about it. My brother, My brother actually used
Speaker 2: to live like almost across the street. We go there, like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, not a lot, but frequently. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: haven't met vaccines, but man, that's that's a good sandwich.
Speaker 6: Check.
Speaker 9: Can you do that and take a photo for me?
Speaker 9: Through you?
Speaker 1: Which the big one?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 1: The fat bastard?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 9: The fat bastard is?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Really the menu is montraous and they do salads and
Speaker 11: other stuff. But I'm I'm there and I'm not a
Speaker 11: sandwich person.
Speaker 1: A good sandwich, it's really it.
Speaker 9: I think about it a lot.
Speaker 2: I like a good club sandwich. Every once in a
Speaker 2: while it hits or I mean I just went to
Speaker 2: Blue Ash Chili this week and got a double decker.
Speaker 9: Wait, so I went into a big I had a
Speaker 9: big kerfluffle of a conversation the other day with someone
Speaker 9: was like, what's the one thing if you would eat
Speaker 9: your entire life, like if you one meal?
Speaker 11: And this person said, a turkey sandwich. Really, I'm like,
Speaker 11: that's a club I'm like, you've got to be kidding.
Speaker 1: A turkey sandwich.
Speaker 9: That's a no for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, A good double decker those amazing you and tiffpo
Speaker 2: tell you blue as chili double decker.
Speaker 9: Is blue ash chili. That's a good nugget.
Speaker 1: Awesome double decker.
Speaker 4: It's massive.
Speaker 9: Good to know.
Speaker 1: I'm both shirt is a good one.
Speaker 9: Too, and they are opening up on pund Square.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 11: Some other really good single item stables worth checking out.
Speaker 11: I mentioned the pluma, which is a pork shoulder at
Speaker 11: h a wild weed they had, Yes, they've made had
Speaker 11: nds of being one of the top restaurants in twenty
Speaker 11: twenty five, with the chef being a James Beard finalist,
Speaker 11: But there were a couple of menu items. They have
Speaker 11: this heirloom melon salad, which you would think it would
Speaker 11: be a sweeter salad. It had this flavor profile of
Speaker 11: different like salsas and hot oils, and then it had
Speaker 11: like a goat feta cheese with it, and it was
Speaker 11: so what I saw on the plate versus what it
Speaker 11: tasted like was one of the most exquisite experiences that
Speaker 11: I've had food wise this year. It really was memorable.
Speaker 11: They've had all of their noodle dishes are really good,
Speaker 11: which then leads me to another noodle dish that sticks
Speaker 11: out in my mind from Bessie's homemade or home style noodles.
Speaker 11: And this was during Octoberfest, because you know, during Octoberfest,
Speaker 11: it's like get your classic. You got your pretzels and
Speaker 11: your brots and everything, and like, okay, a lot of
Speaker 11: them taste the same. And every year I'm thinking, what
Speaker 11: I still have not found that one dish that blows
Speaker 11: my mind and I'm excited about and I have passed
Speaker 11: up this specific spot every single year, and then of
Speaker 11: course I'm with all my chef friends and they're like,
Speaker 11: you gotta go here, gotta go all right, and it
Speaker 11: still sticks with me and you can buy it online.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 11: It's based out of Fairborne, Ohio. Shout out to Bessie's
Speaker 11: Home Style noodles. Really good, So putting that one up.
Speaker 1: There is a.
Speaker 9: Memorable dish, all right, of fried deviled eggs from Bees
Speaker 9: Barbecue in OTR. I just thought that was really different.
Speaker 11: And cocktails, because we're gonna talk cocktails, bars restaurants. The
Speaker 11: pistachio Martini still takes takes the w for for knowledge bar.
Speaker 11: I usually don't like super super sweet cocktails.
Speaker 9: You just do it right.
Speaker 2: I always hated Martini's and then as I got older,
Speaker 2: I think your palette develops. I'm like, oh, I like
Speaker 2: the blue cheese dirty Martina. That's pretty good one. Once
Speaker 2: in a while an occasional Michelle actually made her own
Speaker 2: espresso vodka things. She says, she it's a pretty good
Speaker 2: espresso martini cocktails. I don't mind those, but I'm an
Speaker 2: I'm absolutely a nut for pistachio, so oh, that is
Speaker 2: one I would try.
Speaker 9: Oh and it's a little it's like creamy or two
Speaker 9: were deserved. It is better than eggnog.
Speaker 11: So I would throw a little bit of a throw
Speaker 11: all that together, and then some other things that stick
Speaker 11: out for this year because I'm a big coffee coffee
Speaker 11: shop dweller now that I'm doing my own thing. Favorite
Speaker 11: coffee shop this year that I've come across that I've
Speaker 11: really enjoyed is Fulton Yards. Mentioned that at the top
Speaker 11: they do this indoor outdoor vibe and they have their
Speaker 11: lattes are incredible. They do a good macha, but they
Speaker 11: also switch over to cocktails in the evening. But they
Speaker 11: really actually care about their cocktails and they do full
Speaker 11: menus every single month and every season. As I mentioned holidays,
Speaker 11: they do right now they're doing a vanilla winter fig
Speaker 11: they have an amaretto eggnog spritz. They're doing like a
Speaker 11: gingerbread gin flip, North Pole peppermint martini, and a whole
Speaker 11: bunch more. But they also do live music and trivia
Speaker 11: on Tuesdays, different things to kind of keep it lively. Gotcha,
Speaker 11: But the vibes are good and you can also watch
Speaker 11: the games there.
Speaker 9: So it's a Fulton Yards and then the standard for brunch.
Speaker 2: I will throw in and off my list. Let's go
Speaker 2: one on one Craft Kitchen in Deerfield, Mason. It's phenomenal.
Speaker 2: One okay, so one one craft. It is a I
Speaker 2: went to bar. It's kind of rusticky on the inside,
Speaker 2: but cocktails are really strong. The food is absolutely incredible.
Speaker 9: Was that just what that we went to that one
Speaker 9: time a long time?
Speaker 7: All?
Speaker 1: Or no? No, they just opened not long ago.
Speaker 2: It's there, fifty West is right there, so it's in
Speaker 2: that whole new development that door thing.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: But everything on the menu is phenomenal, great, great burgers
Speaker 2: and sandwiches, even like I had of the summer. I
Speaker 2: had a salad and it was phenomenal, the best sell
Speaker 2: I ever had. So everything is good.
Speaker 11: Well being over there, the Dorothy Lane. That's probably the
Speaker 11: grave about it.
Speaker 2: It was pretty good. You spend a lot of money.
Speaker 2: But I gotta be honest with you. I'm a convert.
Speaker 2: I love me some Dorothy Lane.
Speaker 9: So what is My mom talks about this all the time.
Speaker 9: She loves Dorothy Lane. What is it?
Speaker 1: Quality of the food? I think it's just you're you're
Speaker 1: paying more.
Speaker 2: But it's like the service, like even a checkout for example,
Speaker 2: Like the quality of all the food is amazing. They
Speaker 2: make it right in front of you can get whatever,
Speaker 2: and it's things you can't find everywhere else if you're
Speaker 2: a foodie. But I think it's also just like you
Speaker 2: feel like it's not the big box thing because even
Speaker 2: when you go to check out, you don't touch your
Speaker 2: own cart. You give it to the bagger, the guy
Speaker 2: checking you out, and they do it. It's not on
Speaker 2: your you know, the carts usual on your side, and
Speaker 2: you take it out, they take it all.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's a different anyway. Dorothy Lay Market is solid, solid.
Speaker 9: All in line of Publics.
Speaker 11: You know, apparently Publics has killer Sandwich's, the Public's in Florida.
Speaker 2: But it's again, it's more I think it's just more
Speaker 2: of a boutique type of grocery store. I feel a
Speaker 2: little smaller, but the selection and neat seafood and the
Speaker 2: cooked food, everything is the best produce probably outside of
Speaker 2: maybe a farmer's market. Line up with your jungles is big.
Speaker 2: It's it's like that on steroids. It's bigger. It's just
Speaker 2: you can't compare that took anyway, Ali Martin here, it's
Speaker 2: been a great year.
Speaker 1: Thanks again, appreciate it, he me again.
Speaker 2: Great Christmas, Happy New Year, all that stuff, and we'll
Speaker 2: talk again next year's fight club. Let's go to club.
Speaker 2: Let's let's go to fight club. I want to get
Speaker 2: a fight, ending it with a correction and a retraction.
Speaker 1: I love it. There you go slowly seven hundred w
Speaker 1: And since that