Speaker 1: Do you want to be an American?
Speaker 2: Flow me back on seven hundred. Well, I've got Marty
Speaker 2: got coming up. I get to be king again for
Speaker 2: the three thousands a year. I believe it's a thirty
Speaker 2: fifth year. I think I've been doing this for at
Speaker 2: least ten or fifteen. And that happens on Fat Tuesday,
Speaker 2: February seventeenth, Northern Kentucky Convention Center. And this year, in
Speaker 2: addition to raising money for Brighton Center and Bethany House
Speaker 2: and Homeward Bound getting meals and food for homeless kids
Speaker 2: in Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati, we have a new title sponsor.
Speaker 2: And in studio this morning is Robin and Jimmy Burrow
Speaker 2: and our buddy Gordy Snyder Burrows. First of all, I've
Speaker 2: talked to Gordy for many years. I don't care about
Speaker 2: him as much as you guys. How are you. We're
Speaker 2: doing well, awesome, Good to see you. Thanks for popping
Speaker 2: in today. Gordo, how are you.
Speaker 3: I'm good, Scott, good to see you.
Speaker 2: Good to see friend. Of course, of course there's no
Speaker 2: other place I'd rather be. It wouldn't be the same
Speaker 2: with the Kingdom to get bread thrown at me. It's
Speaker 2: a whole thing. It's a whole. It's a whole. There's
Speaker 2: a traditional Oh there it is. Robin just hit me
Speaker 2: in the eye. It's got a pretty good arm. I
Speaker 2: wonder our son, guy, I wonder to joe got it
Speaker 2: and that's pretty good, coach, Coach, could you break down
Speaker 2: the throw? The mechanism there, break down the not a
Speaker 2: little more accurate.
Speaker 4: You didn't get.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Robin, Joey has nothing to worry about. Okay, I
Speaker 2: got it all right. So you got fashion sense from mom,
Speaker 2: the sports from from dad possibly as well. So, uh,
Speaker 2: this year thirty fifth an, you know, this is a
Speaker 2: big milestone right here. How much money have we raised
Speaker 2: to day, Cordy, We've raised about two.
Speaker 3: Point nine million date to feed homeless children and different
Speaker 3: agencies as you mentioned. This year we hope to go
Speaker 3: over to the three million dollar mark. And uh, it's
Speaker 3: going to be an exciting party, as you know, and
Speaker 3: with a purpose and to feed these homeless homeless children
Speaker 3: throughout the Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky area. So you know,
Speaker 3: it's one of those things.
Speaker 2: I actually got a crumb in my Robin that was
Speaker 2: a better throw than That's fine. I got a yeast
Speaker 2: infection out my eyeball. So it's I don't know what's
Speaker 2: going yeah, sorry, no, that's what it was. Distracted, So
Speaker 2: you know it's it's going to be a great event.
Speaker 2: We have as you know, live entertainment there with DV eight.
Speaker 2: We have the Fort Mitchell High School band leading the
Speaker 2: parade which you are riding in and get roles thrown
Speaker 2: at you. Yes, you get assaulted with bread yep.
Speaker 3: And we also have the uh the uh you know,
Speaker 3: Alive and Silent Auction, which are great events and people
Speaker 3: can begin to bid on those about you know, the
Speaker 3: beginning of February got well how it comes out there
Speaker 3: for people step bidding.
Speaker 2: On nice nice, that's always good. Let's talk about the
Speaker 2: Joe Burr Foundation and how you guys decided to get
Speaker 2: involved here.
Speaker 5: Well we uh uh the Joe Burrow Foundation has been
Speaker 5: going out about three years. It all started, uh once
Speaker 5: upon a time when Joe and his heistman Speed addressed
Speaker 5: food insecurity in Southeast Ohio and then drafted by the Bengals.
Speaker 5: He wanted to start a foundation and uh give back
Speaker 5: to Athens, Southeast Ohio, Baton Rouge and of course Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: So uh Uh, it's it's been great.
Speaker 5: We're really glad to partner with this Marty Marty Gral
Speaker 5: thing to help the homeless children feed them. Anything to
Speaker 5: do with Marty Gral and Louisiana, we're we're always in
Speaker 5: but kind of our motto is to help the underprivileged
Speaker 5: and the underserved in in terms of food insecurity and
Speaker 5: children's mental health, and children's homelessness can definitely be all
Speaker 5: intertwined into those three things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, over the years, I've watched this the organization and
Speaker 2: what they've done firsthand, and it's nothing short of incredible.
Speaker 2: This one night raises so much money. I mean, you
Speaker 2: think you're putting we take it for granted, you know,
Speaker 2: the food, but there's kids who are in food insecurities
Speaker 2: and the like, and it really helps make their lives
Speaker 2: whold at least try to do that as well. And
Speaker 2: I think it's really interesting Robin is that you know,
Speaker 2: Joe goes to LSU, he wants to get involved with
Speaker 2: food insecurity and this like this charity with the event
Speaker 2: we do is like perfect for you guys because it's
Speaker 2: only Marty Gratt raises to feed kids. It's incredible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it definitely seems like it was meant a partnership,
Speaker 4: meant to be. We're very excited to be the presenting
Speaker 4: sponsor and help with the food and security piece and
Speaker 4: help children be able to know where their next meal
Speaker 4: is coming from so they have one less thing to
Speaker 4: worry about if they are a challenged with homelessness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Gordy, let's talk about that and how many meals
Speaker 2: are provided and where it all goes, because people go
Speaker 2: and you kind of feel you think about it like wow,
Speaker 2: I'm having a good time because you get a ticket
Speaker 2: and it's all you can eat, all you can drink.
Speaker 2: And we've got every restaurant in northern Kentucky and Ohio
Speaker 2: that seems they there. We have probably got to turn
Speaker 2: some away. It's way more food and drink than one
Speaker 2: should have on a Tuesday night. However, I will say
Speaker 2: that when you're doing it, you think, wow, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm having a good time, but this is I'm doing
Speaker 2: it for a good cost.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's for a great cost. And every year we
Speaker 3: serve over one hundred and fifty thousand meals for Brighton Center,
Speaker 3: Bethany House and Welcome House. And you know the nice
Speaker 3: thing about this is that all the money is ear
Speaker 3: marked for food and it's a restaurant, restaurant's way of
Speaker 3: giving back to the community. All the purveyors at over
Speaker 3: fifty restaurants and purveyors there that night right and everything
Speaker 3: under the sun. As you know, because you've walked around
Speaker 3: and seen all the different risks you need all you'd
Speaker 3: be in trouble if you did that. Yeah, And you know,
Speaker 3: like you said, if you get there early, because you
Speaker 3: can buy a VIP ticket or sponsorship and then you
Speaker 3: get the big piece of the chicken.
Speaker 2: You get the big piece of chicken. That's the key.
Speaker 2: You get the VIP ticket, which is how.
Speaker 3: Much VIP is one hundred and twenty five dollars. And
Speaker 3: we have sponsorship levels from fifteen hundred all the way
Speaker 3: up to ten thousand. So if a corporation or a
Speaker 3: community or association wants to get sponsorship, get a table.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it really is amazing. I'd imagine the auction
Speaker 2: with you know, with the Burrows here along with Gordy Snyder,
Speaker 2: that the auction items are probably going to get increase
Speaker 2: significant that it'd be some good stuff.
Speaker 3: We might have something there from Joe Burwens.
Speaker 2: You might have a couple of things there. Does he
Speaker 2: ever get tired of you guys asking I got to sign?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Actually he does get a little higher that, but it's
Speaker 4: always for a good cause, and he's happy to support
Speaker 4: other organizations and this is certainly a good cause.
Speaker 1: We pick our spots.
Speaker 2: This week is not a good week. No, this is
Speaker 2: not a good week at all. That the big game
Speaker 2: coming up here for the Bengals, and I know it's
Speaker 2: been a it's got to be hard for you guys.
Speaker 2: I can imagine what it's like to watch a football
Speaker 2: game with you too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: We we once upon a time, after all my years
Speaker 5: of playing and coaching, Yeah, we thought that maybe it
Speaker 5: would get easier and we wouldn't be as nervous. But
Speaker 5: I've found we've found that we get more nervous now
Speaker 5: because we know how important it is to Joe and
Speaker 5: the team and and the city and fans and everybody.
Speaker 5: So yeah, we're we're uncomfortable until the game starts and
Speaker 5: then we bet.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I bet and it happens right, And that's
Speaker 2: a whole different thing. And especially with the injuries too,
Speaker 2: Let's face it, that's that's a huge concern every time
Speaker 2: he gets hit.
Speaker 3: It's part of it.
Speaker 5: I think that the mom uh here does gets a
Speaker 5: little more uh nervous about about the injuries. But it's it's,
Speaker 5: as I said, part of the game. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: it's risk reward. It's high risk and high reward for
Speaker 5: these plays.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't need Robin. I think you agree we
Speaker 2: don't need It's all well and good, but we don't
Speaker 2: need a third comeback player of the year. We need
Speaker 2: a super Bowl, right, That.
Speaker 4: Is exactly right. That is definitely on the list of
Speaker 4: things to take care of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, check that box off too. So and I know
Speaker 2: it's not the season you wanted, but hope springs eternal
Speaker 2: here in Cincinnati, Ohio for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's uh, that's one of the reasons Joe works
Speaker 5: so hard to get back because of the fans and
Speaker 5: and his and his teammates, and that's that's what he
Speaker 5: plays for, to bring everybody, including himself and us a
Speaker 5: super Bowl.
Speaker 1: And we still think it's going to happen.
Speaker 2: Were you surprised how quickly he came back this season
Speaker 2: after that injury. That was amazing to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's been know much how.
Speaker 2: How hard he works at stuff too, But he's been a.
Speaker 5: Fast heeler and the surgeons that have done the surgery
Speaker 5: have been fantastic over the years. The Bengal trainer Matt Summers,
Speaker 5: Nate and therapist Nick Cosgray, they're awesome, and he buys
Speaker 5: into what they want him to do, and he trusts
Speaker 5: them and it works out. He works really hard because
Speaker 5: he knows how important it is.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: Of course, he does his his career, his whole life.
Speaker 2: He's played football his whole life, and so you know
Speaker 2: that's the last thing those guys are gonna do is
Speaker 2: not play. I totally understand, which is why you know
Speaker 2: he wanted to start. When most people say, oh, you
Speaker 2: should probably shut it down, you're not gonna tell him no.
Speaker 2: And if he can go, he can go. That's what
Speaker 2: they pay him to do. On the other hand, when
Speaker 2: you see him hit like that and it's like, man,
Speaker 2: we saw early the season all the pressure he's Eventually,
Speaker 2: you know, in that game he goes down with the foot, Robin,
Speaker 2: do you want to go out? And like, do you
Speaker 2: have to be pulled away? Going to listen, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: call those linemen up and I'm gonna start. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: give it. Listen, this is Joe's mom. You got to
Speaker 2: protect him better.
Speaker 1: Well, there are.
Speaker 2: Times that I would like to do that.
Speaker 4: Yes, However, Joe would definitely not enjoy if I if
Speaker 4: I voice my opinion on that. So I just, you know,
Speaker 4: provide all the support I can for him, and I
Speaker 4: hope that things will go well.
Speaker 2: I know that those guys.
Speaker 4: All work really hard and are certainly trying to do
Speaker 4: their very best, and some things don't go the way
Speaker 4: that we want them to.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to trust in them. Do you said?
Speaker 2: My kids about the same age. She still get the
Speaker 2: occasional mama.
Speaker 4: Mama, definitely a little last the last couple of years,
Speaker 4: I think, But I think that is always joy to
Speaker 4: my ears when I get it.
Speaker 2: I still don't want mom so embarrassing. She called God,
Speaker 2: it's Jimmy and Robin Burrow and study this morning with
Speaker 2: a Gordy Snyder. I'm King of Marty Gray again this
Speaker 2: year and North Kentucky Convention Center Tuesday, February seventeenth. All
Speaker 2: of it benefits homeless children in Cincinnati. It's Bethany House,
Speaker 2: It's Brighton Center, It's Welcome House, and all the proceeds
Speaker 2: one hundred percent of it go to feed homeless kids
Speaker 2: for an entire year here in the Tristate area in
Speaker 2: northern Kentucky as well. We've got all these fifty restaurants
Speaker 2: mentioned the restaurants Gordy. But the other element of this,
Speaker 2: because it's Marty Gras and Bourbon Street is Bourbon.
Speaker 3: There's plenty of livations there as you know Bourbon, and
Speaker 3: of course there's craft beers and wine and all kinds
Speaker 3: of other beverages as well.
Speaker 2: You know, you can and that's why I have in
Speaker 2: Northern Kentucky because Ohio just ban it so we can't.
Speaker 3: You can't go home hungry. Yeah, and we recommend uber
Speaker 3: for everybody else.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we got hotels across the street.
Speaker 3: Hotels across the street.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what makes one hell of a Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3: Gift, Yeah, it does. And Christmas, we've got Christmas coming up.
Speaker 3: They can jump on right now on our website at
Speaker 3: Marti Gras Nky dot org. Or they could go to
Speaker 3: Marti gra twenty twenty six dot org. Either one of those.
Speaker 3: They'll get them to the place where they could do
Speaker 3: a sponsorship or buy tickets. We'd love to have everybody
Speaker 3: you know at the event and help support homeless children
Speaker 3: throughout our greater sense.
Speaker 2: Of And it's such a it's such a special night.
Speaker 2: We always have a blast, not only m seeing it
Speaker 2: raising the money, but just such a great vibe. And
Speaker 2: it's you know, it's not a you're there for like
Speaker 2: three or four hours, and it's it's a perfect middle
Speaker 2: winter kind of thing to do.
Speaker 3: Well. They got to stick around until the live auction
Speaker 3: is done, and then the silent auction ends around nine o'clock.
Speaker 3: So if they got bids in on the silent auction,
Speaker 3: that'd be a great.
Speaker 2: If you liked if you liked to bid on stuff.
Speaker 2: My wife is a degenerate bidder of things. There's no
Speaker 2: shortage of things to bid on.
Speaker 3: Lush puppy machine.
Speaker 2: Should I tell the story? Go ahead, it's a great story.
Speaker 2: One year I was years ago, they got slush puppy machines,
Speaker 2: you know, you like they make them here in Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: which I didn't know untill I hosted the event, And
Speaker 2: so they auction them off like you have your own
Speaker 2: slush puppet machine, and uh, there's it looked like the
Speaker 2: floor of the Stock Exchange. People are screaming each other
Speaker 2: other thing, and I'm like, what is going on out there?
Speaker 2: And it's like, I don't know. These two people are
Speaker 2: a bidding more of a slushing machine. It's up to
Speaker 2: like five six thousand dollars or something like that, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, I wonder what, Oh my god, it's my wife.
Speaker 4: So I.
Speaker 2: Run over and say, okay, I know it's for charity.
Speaker 2: You're all caught up in the morning. Do you really
Speaker 2: want to spend that kind of money. Yeah, okay, so
Speaker 2: let it go. And next sure she got one of
Speaker 2: the more reasonable but still, I mean it goes to
Speaker 2: a charity. It's like she loses her mind with stuff
Speaker 2: like that. It's a degenerate when it comes to chairity.
Speaker 2: Why is that You just gave him a look. Yes
Speaker 2: you can come on over, Come on over, Robbie. You're
Speaker 2: giving Jimmy a look like one of you two is
Speaker 2: guilty of the same thing.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, we definitely have enjoyed some margarita's and slushi's
Speaker 4: in Baton Rouge at Tailgates, so we understand what you're
Speaker 4: talking about.
Speaker 2: That's a great idea for Tailgate. I I may have to, yeah,
Speaker 2: get a converter for that need. A generator for that
Speaker 2: that thinks sucks a lot of juice. I couldn't give
Speaker 2: away a margarita on Sunday. No, I don't have to
Speaker 2: worry about frozen. Oh no, you know you come back
Speaker 2: to this frozen like it's a popsicle at this point too. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a little cold. It's a little chili
Speaker 2: out there for the game. Now you're in town. You're
Speaker 2: going You're gonna be the in the suite though, right,
Speaker 2: not gonna brave it outside. Oh you're gonna tell get outside.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 5: We have a good contingent every every Sunday and this
Speaker 5: this week, Like you said, it's gonna be cold, but
Speaker 5: it's cold.
Speaker 1: Uh, we'll be there.
Speaker 2: I was just in Buffalo last weekend for that game,
Speaker 2: and yeah, you're there, And that's that's real Western I
Speaker 2: grew up there, so it's all real Western New York
Speaker 2: snow up there, and it was and what the wind
Speaker 2: is with Fortunately there's no wind and I'm hoping on
Speaker 2: Sunday there's no wind.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what that's what does. We're a quarterback and
Speaker 5: throwing the football. It's not so much the cold and
Speaker 5: even the snow it's it's when the wind's swirling, so
Speaker 5: I'm always checking the weather.
Speaker 1: But it looks like maybe that part of it will
Speaker 1: be okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in those days it's hard to throw is you know,
Speaker 2: you gotta rely more on the running game. Obviously we
Speaker 2: don't want to get into x's and those here. But yeah,
Speaker 2: looking forward to game on on Sunday for sure, and
Speaker 2: hopefully Bengals can run and get things right for the
Speaker 2: for the rest of the season for sure.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: It is Marti gra for Homeless Kids.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: And it's being presented by a friend of the Joe
Speaker 2: Burrow Foundation for the first time Joe Burrow Foundations involved
Speaker 2: into perfect fit because it's Marty Gras. That'd be the
Speaker 2: LSU connection. And it's feeding homeless kids, which the Borough
Speaker 2: Foundation is designed to do because of food insecurity, not
Speaker 2: just here but Louisiana and also in in Athens. How
Speaker 2: much time you guys spend up in Cincinnati now often
Speaker 2: quite a bit.
Speaker 1: We Uh you know, we're in We're in Athens.
Speaker 5: We're in uh Cincinnati, uh, As I said, there's a
Speaker 5: lot of different events going on. We like to come
Speaker 5: hang out with Joe every so often, and uh we
Speaker 5: we still try to get down the Baton rouge nice
Speaker 5: the Joe Burrow Foundation, we have a separate board in
Speaker 5: Louisiana and uh then then Ohio, but we still do
Speaker 5: the same things. You can go to Joe Burrow dot
Speaker 5: org and just learn the things that we're doing with
Speaker 5: children's mental health, food insecurity, and the Marty Grawl and
Speaker 5: so we're we're honored to be a part of that.
Speaker 5: Joe's honored to be a part of this and uh
Speaker 5: hopefully we can raise a lot of money and and
Speaker 5: help feed homeless children.
Speaker 2: Jimmy got a new head coach down there at LSU.
Speaker 2: You haint, well.
Speaker 1: That's who they wanted.
Speaker 5: So I've known the Kiffin family for a long time.
Speaker 5: Lane's dead Monti Kiffin was my defensive coordinator at Nebraska
Speaker 5: when I played, kind of my mentor through the years,
Speaker 5: uh uh coaching. He recently passed away, unfortunately. But h
Speaker 5: l s U fans are fired up. Doesn't take a
Speaker 5: lot to get them fired up.
Speaker 3: They'll they'll go.
Speaker 1: Have a drink no matter a what Marty gral Bourbon.
Speaker 5: Street LSU Tiger football games, and so they're excited.
Speaker 2: That's a whole different vibe down there. In Baton Rouge.
Speaker 5: We we learned basically how to tillgate at the promis
Speaker 5: you and we've passed that along to the Bengals game.
Speaker 2: Wow, what's the what's the l s U tradition? Tell
Speaker 2: you what's big there? Besides margarite fish?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: The crossish? Okay, so they actually do the wrong.
Speaker 1: But if you claim Florida, then they'll they'll.
Speaker 2: Roast roast gear.
Speaker 3: About already noticed his beads here is you got a
Speaker 3: little crawfish?
Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah, we have anybody doing We seen
Speaker 2: crawfish there. But what about the gator bytes courty, Well,
Speaker 2: we can probably work work that out from Martin Groan.
Speaker 2: I've got the seventeenth of February. I got some time
Speaker 2: to deal with session. Probably could find a gator, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: get a big gumbo pot. Somebody's got to have a
Speaker 2: gumbo pot. You got to throw it in the newspaper, right,
Speaker 2: Just how you lay the newspaper on the table.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well yeah on a table?
Speaker 4: Yes, and then they have big holes that you put
Speaker 4: the tails.
Speaker 2: And whatever it is that you don't eat from a crawfish.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but are the heads? I think the heads?
Speaker 2: I tell you no, you suck the head right, I
Speaker 2: don't know that.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: You're just there for the shrimp at the end, do
Speaker 2: we Yeah, Okay, got it.
Speaker 5: It's a it's the crawfish is more a social thing
Speaker 5: than yes, but people love them down there and that's
Speaker 5: that's a big that's.
Speaker 2: Part of it here too. So yeah again, great, have
Speaker 2: you guys in the studio this morning. Very nice to
Speaker 2: meet you both, and Steak stay warm on Sunday for
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having us really.
Speaker 2: Look forward to are you guys. Yeah, hopefully see in
Speaker 2: February two. That's gonna be awesome. So I'll be the
Speaker 2: guy on the big thing with the hat and the
Speaker 2: cape on and then people throw bread at me. I'm
Speaker 2: going to be that guy.
Speaker 6: I'm that Oh my gosh, I'm going to be comeback
Speaker 6: talk show host of the year and next I get
Speaker 6: her this assault with bread here for our friends from Closterman.
Speaker 2: By the way, thanks.
Speaker 3: Someone I should mention too throwing bread at me.
Speaker 2: Now you just got pelted again by Robin just two
Speaker 2: for two.
Speaker 3: Mercedespens a Fort Mitchell. Yeah, and the Why We're Family
Speaker 3: Foundation are back for the thirteenth year to be our
Speaker 3: events sponsors. So oh good. Yeah, so we're exciting, excited
Speaker 3: to have Joe Burrow Foundation as our spon sponsor and
Speaker 3: then Mercedes Spends and those folks are back as our
Speaker 3: events sponsors this year and they provide the free parking
Speaker 3: right across the street in the uh.
Speaker 2: Oh cool in the Kent County. Uh don Pepperella's team.
Speaker 2: Great guys over there's right, Mercedes spend for exiture to
Speaker 2: have them back to awesome. All right, Well, I look
Speaker 2: forward to seeing everybody on the seventeenth, Gordy, yourself included.
Speaker 2: We have all sorts of festivities with now and then
Speaker 2: we've got football on Sunday and the weekend is just
Speaker 2: about here. Scott's loan, thanks for coming in, y'all. Good
Speaker 2: to meet you. Thanks, thanks seven hundred ww