WEBVTT - 12-15-25 Scott Sloan Show 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.160 Do you want to be an American Scouts Long back 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:07.200 at at seven hundred ww on the coldest winter morning, 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:09.600 we had a long time six inches of snow over 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:10.520 the weekend Saturday. 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:13.440 It was beautiful if you watch it yesterday a little chili, 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:15.680 especially ahead of the Bengals game. We had warnings danger 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.000 with the cold tempts which means hypothermi and frostbite. Let 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:20.800 me lay it out for you. The coldest day ever 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:25.200 at pay Course Stadium yesterday, and you ask fans to 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:27.600 get up early to clear the ice and snow from 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.000 your driveways, Clear the ice and snow off your cars, 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:33.680 buy extra clothes, probably drive on icy roads, pay to park, 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.599 pay for seats, and the county taxi as well. They 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:38.560 just shelled out over two hundred million dollars to upgrade. 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.000 You get to the stadium for the Bengals Ravens tilt 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:45.440 and then you have to clean your seats off yourself 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.840 and sit with your feet and butts on more snow 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:49.760 and ice to watch them lay a twenty four to 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:54.600 nothing lopsided egg against Baltimore to be officially eliminated from 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:58.080 playoff contention. Now for the third year in a row, 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.120 what am i missing here. I don't think I'm missing anything. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.360 It is seatgate on this Monday morning on seven hundred WLW, 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.680 we have Alisha Reese here and clean your own seat 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:09.240 day at pay Course Stadium. 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:10.360 Yesterday Alicia, welcome. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.720 We just paid two hundred and twelve million dollars, gave 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:18.240 the Bengals counting money, taxpayer money to redo pay Corps 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.240 and here we go again. You got to clean your 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.039 own seats off. Now what are we doing here? 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.240 Oh my gosh. Well, first of all, Sloan, I would 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:32.000 hope that the media this is frustrates me when they 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:37.000 report this. In terms of the Bengals Least deal, it 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:41.399 was not unanimous. I've voted against it. I did not 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:48.200 support the two hundred and eleven million dollars last Tuesday, 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.040 which has seemed really rushed. I said, now, what are 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:55.000 we rushing to pay this two hundred and eleven million 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:59.640 plus dollars to the Bengals when the least is eleven years? 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.200 And we passed that. 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.680 I did not support it. I didn't vote yet as 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:10.840 that was passed before. We have passed the balanced budget 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.720 that we have to do. We have the budget, the 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.800 People's budget, which is due this week. We have to 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.760 pass that by by Thursday. But it seemed to be 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.520 a rush before this game to hurry up. We had 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:29.359 to sell notes, check out more debt which comes with interest, 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.760 and it was a rush. And we normally vote on Thursdays, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.639 but they were rushing. We got a pay, we got 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:40.000 to upgrade the stadium for the future, and I kept saying, well, we. 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:41.320 Do this before. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:46.200 Right now we got a budget where Prosecutor office may 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.400 be laying off people. We haven't balanced it yet. We 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.840 have a budget right now because of this lease that 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:58.040 I voted against. The property text for homeowners is going 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.160 to go up next year in a month, a couple 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.000 of weeks, they're going to get their bills, and you 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:05.240 didn't want to give the homeowners a break. But there 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.280 seems to have been this rush or to vote on 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:12.400 a Tuesday, I believe, or Thursday. They were saying, talk 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:14.560 about it on Tuesday. But the rush a week before 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.360 the budget is due to be passed to give the 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:21.760 Bengals over two hundred million dollars. And then we we 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:26.840 have Sunday with this situation where the seats aren't you know, 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:31.000 the seats aren't aren't cleaned. Everyone else was making sure 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.079 the city and everyone else was trying to make sure 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.920 that the streets and all those things were clean. Because 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.880 this wasn't like a surprise snow right. 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.920 We saw this, We saw this coming. We saw this coming. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.520 He was coming to clean our driveways, our cars. But 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.560 the good news here is that according to the team, 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.520 in the NFL rule book, by the way, says that 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.920 you're required to remove snow from the entire seating bowl 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.800 before games. The NFL said, well, the Bengals did the 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.080 bare minimum to meet that requirement. But it is not 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:02.760 the first time this has happened. Happened a year I 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.440 think two years ago where the seats weren't cleaned off. 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.240 That is a fan safety issue during severe weather. And 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.960 so what what enforcement mechanisms does a county have. Do 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.880 you have any any saying their their ability to keep 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:15.720 fans safe. 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.680 Well, keywords you said was bare minimum, and that's what 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.400 we've seen. There's been a bare minimum, and then it's 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.800 on the backs of the taxpayers. One of the things 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.080 I want to make sure, because you always got to 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.680 read the fine print. When I get down to back 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.800 down to the office, I want to ask the administrator. 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.640 I want to make sure there's no small print or 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:42.280 any written clause that turns it back on the taxpayers 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.600 of Hamilton County because a lot of things that in 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:49.000 the in these leases, they've been very uh, you know, 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.799 being an ownership has been very good at flipping things back. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.080 You know, that has any cost association, it gets slipped 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.560 back to the county. So, you know, one of the 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.440 reasons I've been one of waits to hear from our 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.479 administrator because I don't want to have something that he said, 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.359 oh well, you know in this over here it was 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.159 a little line and we agreed to pay for it, 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.640 because there's a lot of things in that lease that 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:21.120 in other other owners other markets, they you know, the 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:25.000 team pays forward the ownership, and in our market there 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.240 seems to be a lot of things that fall on 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.520 the tax payers. And so I want to make sure 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:36.880 before speaking definitively that that hadn't slipped in somewhere and 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.480 all of a sudden it becomes you know. 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.359 Mission counties. Well, the good news, isy a. 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.479 I have a copy of the master agreement here and 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.640 it is on page nine thirty seven, paragraph twenty eight, 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:52.240 sub section eleven, double E. It says that any finds 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.560 levied by the National Football League relative to snow removal 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.200 shall be under the sole province and paid exclusively by 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.040 Commissioner Alsia Reese Hamlin County. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:02.599 What do you make it? 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:06.320 I know they love to hear that. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:07.520 That's why I said no. 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.120 To this least, No to the least the. 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:11.640 Least put it on. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:20.160 It's always and also don't want they say, well, now, 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.599 you know, because we got these new changes and we'll 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.800 slip it in and and that's what I hear. A 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.320 lot of it always flips back to the to the taxpayers. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.479 And so that's where I have some concern and making sure, 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.000 yes we do have facilities people, Yes we do have 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.599 those things, but we should not be paying for all 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:44.800 of the extras. And that's what usually happens to to uh, 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.840 to us. What I've seen in my years of you know, 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.640 my few years of being down there, it has been 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.640 shocking to me. But but no, it was a flap 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.440 of the face to to the to the fans. And 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:02.719 we knew. Everyone knew that this weather was coming. They 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:06.080 knew when the snow was falling. They even reported when 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.719 it was going to stop falling. They knew that the 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.680 the that it was going to get colder and all 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:13.640 those kind of things. And at this at the end 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.960 of the day, you have the word bear minimum. And 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:18.880 that's what's been going. 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.640 That's the subject on my show today. We'll get after 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:22.840 you go. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.760 I'm going to talk more about the bare minimums, because 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.280 that really is what what the driver here is, uh, 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.120 what the legendary cost cutting measures of teams have during 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.360 the negotiations during contract Have you ever raised concerns with 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.760 team ownership about a pattern of prioritizing profit and expenses 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.080 over fan experience that coming. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:41.680 Well, we started with that. 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:45.120 I said, well, wait a minute, because remember I was 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.520 on your show and there were some concerns about the 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:52.080 seats that are not in the club level where they 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.560 can make more money. Remember I said, what about the 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.360 seats up at the top when they were redoing seats 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:04.200 brought broken the broken escalator. We were talking about that. 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.520 So I have constantly been on fan experience when they 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.400 come down there, whether they're coming down for a game 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:15.880 or another event, but fan experience. And then remember they 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.000 we got these reports about we we you know, the 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.880 stadium didn't get good uh didn't get good grades nationally 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:24.679 at the top. They even went into the food. 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.360 Remember they talked. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:30.400 About the food for the for the team players families 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:34.040 and uh, they also talked about help we got food. 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:39.280 Remember for disability, a gentleman couldn't get to the restroom 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:43.160 because it's not just it's not accessible throughout the whole stadium. 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.760 I even talked about going into the stadium. They would 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.920 have people. Uh they would say, well, no, you got 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:50.480 to go all the way to the other side of 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.600 a person walking with a walker trying to get to 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:58.000 the sensibilities area. And I said, listen to all areas 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.400 this twenty twenty, you know five all areas should be 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:05.000 accessible in this day and climate. And so those were 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.440 some of the things that we keep hearing that we 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:13.000 are always doing the bare minimum with the top dollar 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.560 on the taxpayers. Even in this deal, they come in 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.840 and say, well, we're gonna do the bare minimum for 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.199 the homeowners. Even though the homeowners were promised thirty percent 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.760 were gonna do the bare minimum, and they went to 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.760 four percent. So it seems to be a pattern of 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.400 the bare minimum. I said, hey, we want to have 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:34.440 more events there. Remember we wanted to have the WWE. 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:38.160 I believe it was the smack down Summer summer swam right, 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.079 they went to Cleveland. We at that time we hadn't 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.920 even applied. So I came on your show you mentioned it. 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.960 I said we should apply once again. We do the 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.200 bare minim. Well, we can't have one event a year, 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.559 and you know that's good enough. So it has been 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:56.439 the bare minimum, bare minimum on their end, but the 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.120 top dollar on the tax payer end. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.240 There's no Commissioner Lisha resh on this year, we're talking 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:06.280 about shovelgate at pay Corpse Stadium and acting like this 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.920 is hey, this is a rare weather circumstance. I mean, 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.160 we've known about this for days in advance, and then 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.320 we're gonna get bitterly cold temperatures on Sunday. 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:14.880 That forecast was accurate. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.000 You planned for that kind of stuff, and we act 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.360 as if or the response has been, well, it's like 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:21.880 a while, it's a big deal. You got to stay 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.280 in ice and snow. It's not like we don't get 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.439 ice and snow in Cincinnati. And there are the cold 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.920 weather stadiums, and I consider it's a cold weather stadium 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.439 this time of year that they you don't see that happening. 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:34.640 You know, now, if you get an event where it's 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.560 snowing an inch an hour, it's going to be awfully 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.720 tough to clear. We understand that we've seen that before, 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:43.439 but the storm had ended, plenty of places were cleared off. 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:45.520 It wouldn't be that much to ask if they were 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.160 clearing it as the snow fell before it turned to ice. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:50.680 How do you make sure that doesn't happen again? And 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.280 I say that because I think it was the last 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.240 time the Bengals were in the playoffs three years ago. 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.360 I recall or maybe the year before, where the same 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.559 thing happened. The snow fell and there was no adequate 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.480 planning place to remove the snow and they said, I 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.800 we'll do better next time. Your contemporary there on the commission, 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.280 Stephanie Summer Dumas, said that we need to do a 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.320 better job for next time. Well, this is the next 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.560 time after three years ago. It doesn't seem like they 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.920 care or the messages have been received. Do you have 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.560 any influence in your position to make that happen? 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:24.360 Well, I believe that the influence that the county commissioners 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:29.040 had is when we went into the negotiation, and that's 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.600 why everything in negotiation needed to really be on the 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:38.360 table with you know, some type of penalty because you know, 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.680 if someone goes in there and say they fail, you know, 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.720 then there's a liability that could you know, fall on 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.600 the county as well, the county taxpayers. When they filed 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:53.320 that lawsuit about the restroom, they didn't just put the Bengals, 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:57.040 they put they put Hamilton County. And then the Bengals 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:01.760 ownership wanted to remove themselves from the lawsuit and leave 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:06.959 it to the taxpayers. And so really these type of things, 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.200 that's why I went to know on the on the deal, 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.800 you've got to really and then be enforceable. It can't 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.640 be Well, they made a call to the administrator and 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.040 now he comes and we don't get to talk to 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.240 each other. Three of us are on the county commission 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.120 of to talk. That would be a majority, so there's 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.240 only one person who can talk to all three of us, 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.600 and so we end up saying one thing, and then 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:30.599 he has a meeting and then they come out and 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.440 then the next thing, I know, well, we're okay with it. 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.520 We should have you know, we've got it again. If 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.960 we hadn't rushed last week to do the two one 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.720 hundred and eleven million dollars we'd had some leverage, but 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.360 it's hard to have leverage. If you've given them the 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.359 checkbook and you've written a blank. 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:49.800 Check, that's over. 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:50.000 You know. 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.680 I tried to have some Yeah, you talked about seat gate, 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.760 has been homeowner gate. I mean, there's been a lot 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:57.760 of gates down there. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.360 I mean it's a lot of things going on, but 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:01.520 you got to take care of it. 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:05.520 Oh my god, you're negotiating the check book. That's where 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:06.280 you have the power. 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:07.360 I don't know how you hold it. 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.520 Most I would say almost every other NFL team save 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.480 maybe one except I don't know if there's an exception 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.200 or not to that would look at in the public 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.960 outcry going. Man, you know what, it's the fan experience. 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:20.319 It's a bad look for the team. It's a bad 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.680 look for the city and the franchise because things like 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:28.880 this happen, not not frequently, but enough to establish a 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:30.760 pattern if you go back in time, that they simply 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.000 will do the bare minimum and don't care what the 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.400 fans or the media or anyone else thinks for that matter. 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.920 They only care about what their opinions are inside pay 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.560 corps in the front office, and typically other teams would 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.720 look at this and go, yeah, this, this gives our 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:45.720 franchise a bad look. We better clean this up and 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.360 fix it for next time. I think almost every other 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.760 NFL team thinks that way, except the Bengals. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.440 Yeah. I can't tell you how they think. I just 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:58.080 know that when I look at the actual deal. And 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.440 when you have a chance, Remember we had to have 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:04.200 a free watch party, Sloan, you and I. They said 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.400 let's do what. It came from a It came from 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:10.480 a fan that said let's do it. They were once 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.080 said we can't do it, and then the next thing 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.599 I know, they came back with it. We found a 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.320 way to do it. Now we want to do it 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.920 for ninety nine dollars. We wanted to have some free 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.040 to get back to the fans every time we want 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:23.760 to do. We wanted to have something to get back 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:24.880 to the homeowners. 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:26.480 And they said, now we want. 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.800 All the money, and now we only can do four. 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.200 You know what I'm saying. So anything that doesn't. 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:38.440 Make money, from what I've seen, it's always we'll put 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.440 it on the If it costs money, the taxpayers, we 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.920 want you to pay. If it makes money, then again 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.320 then it's okay for them. And again there was so 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:52.800 much pressure to pass this two hundred eleven million dollars 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.280 right before. I don't know if they knew that the 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.880 season was going to end or something, but it was, 0:14:58.600 --> 0:14:58.880 you know. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:00.800 The administration said, we got it. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.480 We gotta go, said, this is an eleven year deal. 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.240 Why we gotta do it so quick? We gotta do it, 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:06.880 even before we balance the budget. 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:07.800 We gotta do it. 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.600 And now they've done it, and uh, it's two hundred 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.680 eleven million dollars out a three hundred and fifty million 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.440 we don't put. That's a pretty big front load. And 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:21.320 now here we are, not even a week later, and 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.160 now we're talking about, well, wait a minute, the seats. 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:28.400 What wasn't now you know, well it removed from seat. 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.040 You feed enough pigeons, you get fat, happy pigeons. That's 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:31.440 what you get. 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.680 Commissioner Lisha Reese on seatgate this morning on seven hundred 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.280 W there's nothing you can do. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.800 It's over. But uh, it helps I think collectively to complain. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.360 No, I think it's you know, we got to bring 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.600 these things up and and I'm gonna ask the administrator 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.440 to see what really can be done, and it should 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.520 be done. But I want to make sure Swan thank 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.360 you for having me on. But I hope these media 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.920 when they write that he said, commissioners passed two hundred 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.280 and eleven million dollars. I didn't vote yes. Please it 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:01.840 was two to one. 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.600 We know, we know you made your case. 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:05.840 We got it. 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:09.240 I told you so. I told you so the I 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:13.920 told you so. Alisha. I always appreciate you coming out. 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:14.640 I have a great day. 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:18.640 I don't know if you know this, but Alisha Reese 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:23.280 did not vote for them. She always brings the heat, 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.600 and God knows we need some heat this morning, especially 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:29.080 if you suffered through yesterday's If you suffered through yesterday's game, 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.280 uh and happened to go there, I'll bump you to 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.560 the top of the call list here because we're going 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:40.320 to examine from top to bottom the central idea of 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.280 the segment of the show this morning, from Alicia to 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.960 your calls coming up next after news, and that is 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.120 the bare minimum, Bengals, the bare minimum. And if you 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.720 just do the bare minimum, do you ever expect to 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:55.400 win a championship in your lifetime? We'll get to that 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.240 next on the show right after this on seven D 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.320 all right, slowly rolling with you on this cold Monday 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.720 morning on seven hundred ww that's a beauty of Cincinnati. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:09.479 Though it'll get better. It always gets better, and and 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.840 rather quickly. How crazy is this Rob Reiner thing that 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.719 his wife, Michelle Singer he murdered yesterday, found dead near 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.280 Los Angeles home outside of Brentwood. I believe prime suspect 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.879 as their son. Holy smokes. And what's really weird was 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.680 I got Saturday? I was flipping through some stuff and 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.320 Spinal Tap two was on. Rob Ryan of course start 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.280 directed that one and makes me want to go away. 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.240 I watch the one, I guess, okay, but man at 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:36.720 first one. 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:37.320 Is just classic. 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.680 It's classic thought and I was thinking the time, going god, 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.160 Rob Briner, man talk about a guy just owns it, 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.240 and now on a day later he's murdered. 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:47.120 Crazy. 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:49.800 I mean, think of the movies he produced, Princess Bride, 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.719 Harry met Sally, stand by Me, a few good men. 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:58.200 I mentioned Spinal Tap, Misery with Kathy Bates and Stephen 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:02.960 King Men, goest to Mississippi. Tons of great movies he 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.199 made his director and of course you know, if you're 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:08.400 old enough, remember him as Meathead. It all started with Meathead. 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.280 Meathead is dead long lived meathead. There's a crazy story 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:16.320 continue unfold. We'll follow that for you too. Rough day 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:21.160 in the National Football yesterday, Micah Parsons and Pat Mahomes 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.000 both going down with knee injuries, season ending knee injuries. 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.520 DeVante Adams thought a hamstring. It was rough. 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.240 Uh, so, you know, things could be worse, but how 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.919 much worse could they possibly be? For us here in Cincinnati, 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:35.440 we saw about six inches of snowfall on Saturday night. 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:37.879 I like snow. I thought it was a beautiful snowfall. 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.879 The better cold yesterday, no one likes. And ahead of 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.440 the Bengals game, we had ample warning that there would 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.760 be snowfall. We knew what was coming. Despite us often 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:51.640 pointing fun and making fun of and rightly so, climbate terrorists. 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:54.760 Now they got it right. And it was well, we're 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.680 gonna get maybe four to five inch, okay, now, okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, 0:18:57.680 --> 0:18:59.640 We're going to go four to eight and yeah, most 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.560 of the avery six inches And of course he dangerously 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.480 cold temperatures following that, so that means hype with thermi 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.080 it means frostbrights. It was the coldest day ever at 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:10.840 pay Court Stadium. You ask fans to get up early. 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.480 You ask fans to clear ice off their driveway, snow 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:17.400 off their driveways, off their cars, buy extra clothes, probably 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:20.880 drive on icy roads, pay to park, pay for seats 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.680 at the stadium, which, by the way, just last week, 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:27.120 just last week, as Alisha Rees pointed out, we spent 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:29.640 two hundred and eleven, two hundred and twelve million dollars 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:33.439 to upgrade. And you show up after doing all that 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:38.520 for a team that is just about da and you 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.159 have to clear the seats off using your credit cards 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.720 and your gloves, and you put all that snow where 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:47.160 at your feet to stand on more snow and morice 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:50.000 to watch them lose twenty for nothing and simply not 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.000 show up and be eliminated from the playoffs for the 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.440 third year in a row. As a Bengal fan, how 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.400 does that make you feel? As a taxpayer, how does 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.399 that make you feel? The scary part about this is 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:06.400 the Bengals, and Alicia touched on it slightly, and that's 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.119 the problem with this whole thing is it's the bare 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.840 minimum Bengals. The Bengals have been a bare minimum team 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:18.040 during their existence. That and I'm convinced that the Bengals 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.159 will never win a Super Bowl in my lifetime, and 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:21.600 I know how close we are. I'll get to that 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:23.200 in a second. But we hear about all the seismic 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.119 changes that have occurred since Burrow's arrival, you know, the 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:28.000