Speaker 1: You want to be an American idiots.
Speaker 2: The weekend is here.
Speaker 3: It is a massive sports weekend in Cincinnati. He doesn't
Speaker 3: get any bigger than this. You have, of course, well,
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow play or not play that debate. On Sunday
Speaker 3: you have UC BYU feeling like for all the marbles
Speaker 3: with the national Fox broadcast in town at Nippert Stadium.
Speaker 1: We're gonna look good there.
Speaker 3: We've got UC and Inner Miami in the next round
Speaker 3: of the MLS playoffs at TQL Stadium, winner take all,
Speaker 3: and tonight you've got Elder Saint X. And it was
Speaker 3: interesting as a Bengal fan watching and watching this develop
Speaker 3: going well, they want to move it to pay cour,
Speaker 3: which made a lot of sense, you know, as a Mason,
Speaker 3: I to look at that.
Speaker 1: Go okay, it's a few thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Hopefully the Ohio State High School Athletic Association gives them,
Speaker 3: gives them a little bit of money back for their investment.
Speaker 3: But yeah, seven thousand tickets. The demand is high. I
Speaker 3: don't know how many they've sold at this point. I
Speaker 3: forgot to check, but certainly more than seven thousand. And
Speaker 3: they're gonna this pay Court tonight Okay, great, awesome. I
Speaker 3: was surprised how quickly this came together. But it brings
Speaker 3: up a bigger question, and that is didn't we, the
Speaker 3: taxpayers of Hamilton County pay for the stage? So why
Speaker 3: can't we use that more often?
Speaker 2: On?
Speaker 3: That is a representative state Rep. Adam Matthews, who is
Speaker 3: in control and rules with an iron fist from Lebanon
Speaker 3: to South Lebanon to Mason.
Speaker 1: Adam Matthews, welcome back. How are you brother?
Speaker 2: Always a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for having me on.
Speaker 3: Thanks again. So let's jump into this. This is interesting
Speaker 3: what this happened. You probably heard about it, and do
Speaker 3: you have any affiliation with Saint X or Elder You
Speaker 3: got skin in the game there.
Speaker 2: I did. Actually, one of my core memories I was
Speaker 2: winning against Cole Rain in the playoffs just like this
Speaker 2: in two thousand and five. We went to overtime and
Speaker 2: beat Coleraine twelve to nine in Paul and then Paul
Speaker 2: Brown Stadium, and it was incredible. Yeah, that was on
Speaker 2: the way to a state championship.
Speaker 3: Let's face it, many of these young men and some
Speaker 3: may go to play collegiately. For sure, NFL is a
Speaker 3: pipe dream. But then from most of the athletes out there,
Speaker 3: this will be a high point of their athletic career.
Speaker 3: But imagine, I mean, how awesome is that. Getting to
Speaker 3: play on an actual NFL turf has got to be
Speaker 3: and just you know, the locker rooms and everything, the
Speaker 3: whole experience is is going to be something to remember
Speaker 3: the rest of their lives.
Speaker 2: It's incredible and I'm so excited for these young gentlemen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, then you got involved legislatively the Bengals, and you know,
Speaker 3: it's always in vogue to poke fun at the Bengals
Speaker 3: and question their motives and operations and maybe spendthrift ways
Speaker 3: in some cases. But you gotta also give congratulations too.
Speaker 3: And it certainly isn't how quickly the franchise leaned into
Speaker 3: hosting this game, and typically the Bengals don't do anything quickly.
Speaker 3: They did this in like less than twenty four hours,
Speaker 3: and also with the county, and so credit certainly is
Speaker 3: due there. But what do you want to do legislatively?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will act that. Thank you so much to
Speaker 2: the Bengals from the team. Thank you that those in
Speaker 2: the local county commission that they this happened as well.
Speaker 2: And this should be a model of what goes forward
Speaker 2: if we're going to have tax payer step off and
Speaker 2: fund these very large investments you have up at the Browns,
Speaker 2: they had asked for one hundreds of millions of dollars.
Speaker 2: And even here in Mason we've seen something similar of
Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Open had just been used for one week.
Speaker 2: It became a two week tournament and has been doing
Speaker 2: really well. But it's now also back in October host
Speaker 2: of the girl State Finals, and it's now open for
Speaker 2: more tournaments. It's going to be open to the community
Speaker 2: for a pro shop, for the court, for things like that.
Speaker 2: And if we're going to have these huge professional sports venues,
Speaker 2: there should be a way for that to come at
Speaker 2: functional costs to the community for these types of venues.
Speaker 2: Are looking at legislation on making sure that that can
Speaker 2: happen and be fair to the owners. You don't want
Speaker 2: to say it's a football situation, and you know, wild
Speaker 2: card weekend lines up obviously, if the Dingles are hosting,
Speaker 2: you can't have a high school game the night before.
Speaker 2: But if it works out that it's Friday night, things
Speaker 2: are fine. You can have a game on Sunday. Wonderful
Speaker 2: let's let's have that happen, and we're going to work
Speaker 2: with the USSAA, work with the professional organizations and see
Speaker 2: what we can do.
Speaker 3: But you also have the contracts that are would this
Speaker 3: I don't know a contract law, I'm not an attorney.
Speaker 1: How would that work?
Speaker 3: If you have a contract that says, hey, you can
Speaker 3: only have so many dates, whatever it might be, how
Speaker 3: does this override that?
Speaker 2: So we are looking at making legislation that anything going forward.
Speaker 2: Anytime that they come with a handout asking for hey,
Speaker 2: we need taxpayer subsidies to build a new stadium or
Speaker 2: renovate a new stadium. If you're not using it for
Speaker 2: your professional purpose, there's other types of reasonable uses out
Speaker 2: to the community should be part of that conversation, and it.
Speaker 3: Would be at market rate obviously, or whatever that looks like.
Speaker 3: Obviously the Bengals aren't charging market rate for the stand
Speaker 3: because it's too high school enterprises.
Speaker 1: They could never afford that.
Speaker 3: So how do these how do you do you scale
Speaker 3: that legislatively?
Speaker 2: Then? Right, so we would look and see if there's
Speaker 2: a way to smooth it out over because I'm grateful
Speaker 2: to the Bengals. I think the tickets are fifteen dollars
Speaker 2: for tonight and to cover you know, there's still people
Speaker 2: working the gate, there's still people working concessions. It's more
Speaker 2: than just turning the locks off for the day and
Speaker 2: letting people come in. And so we need to make
Speaker 2: sure that things are balanced. And what we're going to
Speaker 2: start as a negotiation place is, uh, they get not
Speaker 2: market rates for the use of the venue, but what
Speaker 2: it would have been had it been at Mason High School.
Speaker 2: And see can it be within twenty percent of what
Speaker 2: it would have than at Mason High School? And see
Speaker 2: if either the state subsidizes on the front end or
Speaker 2: if that's part of the consideration when we are deciding
Speaker 2: whether or not protect their dollars to go into the
Speaker 2: renovation or the expansion.
Speaker 1: Okay, got it.
Speaker 3: So this is just a professional stadiums, not not amateur
Speaker 3: stadium paid public amateur stadiums like the Cleveland Brown Stadium.
Speaker 2: Correct, exactly, like the Cleveland Brown Stadium.
Speaker 3: Big oh, yeah, you don't want to fund the amateur
Speaker 3: teams up in Cleveland. So it's a different thing. And
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think there's there's a lot of stadium
Speaker 3: you think. Okay, well, Cincinnati, Columbus Cleveland, but you know Dayton, Toledo,
Speaker 3: Youngstown they have I don't know how much public money
Speaker 3: are those facilities, but that's a lot, right.
Speaker 2: There's there's conversations all over there I know of. I
Speaker 2: think right across the border in Butler County they're looking
Speaker 2: at a semi professional or amage or minor league hockey facility.
Speaker 2: That would be great for the community as well. So
Speaker 2: anything that we can do to build those types of
Speaker 2: Friday night lights or those types of touch points for
Speaker 2: the community to come rather than just the using taxpayer
Speaker 2: dollars for stadiums where the cheap seats are over one
Speaker 2: hundred and.
Speaker 3: Some dollars, seems like, you know, it'd have to be
Speaker 3: a big rivalry game, but getting with all the leagues
Speaker 3: in Cincinnati, you sell everything else. Is to line up
Speaker 3: a marquee game every Friday where the Bengals aren't playing,
Speaker 3: and do that and do it on the regular I
Speaker 3: think that'd be amazing.
Speaker 2: It would be really neat. And you see both the
Speaker 2: teams playing tonight and you so this the ticket sold
Speaker 2: out in forty two minutes while the kids were still
Speaker 2: in class. And there are two all boys schools and
Speaker 2: each Friday they sell out their ten thousand stadiums. You
Speaker 2: knew that there was going to be something big.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know the social opportunity you could get
Speaker 3: a Friday night passed me on, be a season ticket
Speaker 3: holder if you want to and see all the high
Speaker 3: school games.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that would appeal to some folks. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The side of this thing is the money factor, because
Speaker 3: money's always a concern. Representative Adam Matthews. You know some
Speaker 3: of these you may not get twenty thousand there like
Speaker 3: we're going to get tonight. But if you got ten
Speaker 3: thous is that enough to offset the costs of keeping
Speaker 3: the lights on and keeping the stadium open?
Speaker 1: And if not, isn't that back on the taxpayers? Does
Speaker 1: that make sense? Right?
Speaker 2: So you'd have to look at that balance to make
Speaker 2: sure that the money makes sense because not just the
Speaker 2: lights on, make sure that the harm of the field,
Speaker 2: make sure that the workers are there, and it will
Speaker 2: have to make some tod of balance, which is why
Speaker 2: we're work on this legislation with say, with the pro
Speaker 2: stadiums and with the professional owners.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's got to be a balance.
Speaker 3: Theres like you know, a couple of Division three schools
Speaker 3: or schools where you're not going to get that much attendance.
Speaker 3: You know, it doesn't make sense to have it at
Speaker 3: paycre or something like that just to give kids the experiencing,
Speaker 3: and that's a substantial cost to the already burden taxpayers
Speaker 3: of Hamilton County. We don't want to go down that road.
Speaker 3: Correct tonight should pay for it. I would think it
Speaker 3: should be at ten dollars parking. I don't know what
Speaker 3: tickets are, but ticket sales are awesome despite the weather
Speaker 3: that's going to be extremely bad. But I don't think
Speaker 3: kids care. But I think you know, if you're getting
Speaker 3: to play at pay Corps and your kids out there
Speaker 3: or you know, relatives saying I just a fan of
Speaker 3: the school. I know a lot of elder and sex
Speaker 3: grads are going to go tonight just because it's pay Corps,
Speaker 3: Brian Combs being one of them. So that'd be kind
Speaker 3: of fun. What's the timeline for getting this done.
Speaker 2: We just went through a marathon session to finish out
Speaker 2: the House voting for twenty twenty five, so we will
Speaker 2: be back with legislation in January February to get this
Speaker 2: really working.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, taking some time off after I don't know what
Speaker 3: just the what the hell just happened with the CBD thing.
Speaker 3: I mean I followed closely, more closer than anyone, and
Speaker 3: I still don't understand all the imaginations and levers and
Speaker 3: trip wires and everything else that was set up, and
Speaker 3: why how this thing got so sideways in such a
Speaker 3: short period of time when it's coming to when it
Speaker 3: comes to CBD, sash THHC and fuse beverages, it seems
Speaker 3: to me like I don't there's not much difference beween
Speaker 3: THHC and alcohol because you're drinking it for an effect.
Speaker 3: I don't know why we have to get rid of one,
Speaker 3: especially as populaters. Is that seems to be really anti business,
Speaker 3: anti small business to me, and also anti choice.
Speaker 2: And part of this the confusion, mean you said you're
Speaker 2: afraid that the going sideways all at once was we
Speaker 2: had had through the house something that would allow your
Speaker 2: five milligrams ten milligram drinks, whether it's at Ryan Geist
Speaker 2: or fifty West or elsewhere, to be bought on site
Speaker 2: and taken home. And while it goes through the house,
Speaker 2: conversations over to the Senate, and the Senate conversations. The
Speaker 2: federal government made some changes that made a phase out
Speaker 2: over the next year to get rid of these, and
Speaker 2: so what we had to do in the Ohio state
Speaker 2: houses we can't go much further than the feds two
Speaker 2: and so that is what the final product is is
Speaker 2: matching what the federal government.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the Fed. The Fed forcing your hands on
Speaker 3: that because federal law. But at the same time, I
Speaker 3: just there was no impetus for this, and you know,
Speaker 3: the idea of you know, you're I know, you're around them,
Speaker 3: but like Nancy Pelosi and you know, well, we got
Speaker 3: to pass the bill to see what's in it.
Speaker 1: It's it's more the same.
Speaker 3: As much as we talk as conservatives talk about changing
Speaker 3: the government, that seems to be the same thing that hey,
Speaker 3: we snuck this in here at the last minute. Trump
Speaker 3: signed it in the law, and wait, what do we do.
Speaker 3: We just eliminated it in industry. That's literally saving the
Speaker 3: craft beer people in Ohio because fewer people are drinking
Speaker 3: craft beer, more are drinking the THC beverage. It's clear
Speaker 3: there's consumer demand for it. I don't think the public
Speaker 3: risk is any greater than alcohol, and clearly many Ohioans,
Speaker 3: Kentucky Indians want the THC and fused beverages the way
Speaker 3: they are. Do you think there's hope in the next
Speaker 3: year that maybe we come up with a better a
Speaker 3: better way to do this from the federal level.
Speaker 2: I think that there needs to be some transparency. I
Speaker 2: know that you, as you mentioned, this was part of
Speaker 2: a long late night negotiation on the federal government to
Speaker 2: get it back open after the Democrats were not coming
Speaker 2: to the table in the Senate and the government the
Speaker 2: government needed to turn back on. So yeah, thick in
Speaker 2: at the last minute. And uh, but as things continue,
Speaker 2: and as you hear from the constituents like you or
Speaker 2: like others, I do think that the federal government is
Speaker 2: probably going to revisit this.
Speaker 1: I would hope.
Speaker 3: So they're going to have to final point something else
Speaker 3: you just got through and I wanted to circle back around.
Speaker 3: And I don't know much about. It's called the Patient
Speaker 3: Protection Act, and this is your legislation. It targets high
Speaker 3: risk medications, and that is drugs defined with at least
Speaker 3: a five percent chance of severe at verse side effects
Speaker 3: that could lead to death or infection or And this
Speaker 3: has to do with mail order drugs.
Speaker 1: Well, why this what's this?
Speaker 3: Is this legislation about abortion pills basically or no, this medication.
Speaker 2: Is about any type of medication where like you said
Speaker 2: five percent, and we saw the terrible story out of
Speaker 2: Washington State where a college student was getting antidepressive medications telehealth,
Speaker 2: no no doctor oversight other than their telehealth, so they
Speaker 2: never got checked on. When he complained to the organization
Speaker 2: that was prescribing these drugs, they're like, well, we'll just
Speaker 2: up your dosage. And eventually he died by suicide. And
Speaker 2: now there's a wrongful death claim in all of this.
Speaker 2: And we have seen similar things. We just start We're
Speaker 2: not even through picking up the pieces from the opiate epidemic,
Speaker 2: which was similar. We've had other medications, and some opponents
Speaker 2: are are focused thing on abortion pills, and there are
Speaker 2: some studies along this, but any type of medication, we
Speaker 2: want to have a stated of care that if you're
Speaker 2: playing a board game and you roll the dice, and
Speaker 2: if if you're rolling the dice and you roll a three,
Speaker 2: and that means you're going to have organ failure, septist
Speaker 2: or sent to the hospital with tim or Jane or infections,
Speaker 2: that's pretty high odds. And this isn't banning any medication.
Speaker 2: It just says before you get something that is one
Speaker 2: out of twenty sending you to the hospital, you just
Speaker 2: need to see a doctor before and then have a
Speaker 2: doctor check on you afterwards.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, I see what you're saying there. But you know,
Speaker 3: the claim though, is a what a five percent mortality rate?
Speaker 3: That there aren't any drugs that have a five percent
Speaker 3: mortality rate that would that would never forget through through trials.
Speaker 2: Uh, there there have been, and sometimes we are we
Speaker 2: see this afterwards where uh would you have an FDA trial?
Speaker 2: It is where you have people taking the medication clinically
Speaker 2: according to every single rule versus how people actually are
Speaker 2: using it right, and then that that difference can get
Speaker 2: to have this type of danger.
Speaker 3: Well you can, I mean, you know, op, it's a
Speaker 3: great example of that. You can become addicted, and we've
Speaker 3: cracked on that and obviously, but I mean the thing
Speaker 3: if you're talking about this is somehow a product liability thing.
Speaker 3: Oh hi, we already have malpractice laws and state boards
Speaker 3: and FDA oversight and all that stuff, and of course
Speaker 3: litigation as well. Doesn't that balance things out?
Speaker 2: So you have both on the front and the backside.
Speaker 2: Just in medication, you do things that are that help
Speaker 2: you and then stick some problem afterwards. This is a
Speaker 2: standard of care to make sure that you're getting good
Speaker 2: care on the front end. Malpractice is only after things
Speaker 2: have already gone bad. Okay, So we are making sure
Speaker 2: that both you have a good dinner. This care. We
Speaker 2: are bolstering the relationships between the patient and the doctor. Hey.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, as you mentioned, malpractice if things go wrong,
Speaker 2: but we're trying to avoid those things so wrong because
Speaker 2: sometimes that money will not six oregan failure or death.
Speaker 1: Gotcha? Okay.
Speaker 3: The big question, of course, Rocky boyman texting me wants
Speaker 3: to know if he can still get his ed medicine
Speaker 3: uh in a in a brown bag.
Speaker 1: Delivered to his house. So that is that in jeopardy. Okay.
Speaker 3: H Adam Matthews a state representative. Always loved the town,
Speaker 3: always love us spending time chatting. Thanks again, and good
Speaker 3: luck with the UH. We'll call it the Elder Saint
Speaker 3: X Legislation. UH to allow more young people to play
Speaker 3: in stadiums like pay Corps and maybe Heritage Bank Center,
Speaker 3: maybe t Q well, places like that would be awesome
Speaker 3: and great American Ballpark of course, all the best. Thanks again,
Speaker 3: have a great holiday, you take care.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: That's Adam Matthews on the show. Scott Sloan here on
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