Speaker 1: A calm freshing from La La Land haunts on.
Speaker 2: How are we looking?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: I'm a little you look a little you got a
Speaker 1: little haggard, look a little so you got a little
Speaker 1: son out there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, La, between bad baseball for the Reds and getting
Speaker 4: a little sun driving around little Beverly Hills.
Speaker 1: You were just telling me you were driving around Beverly Hills.
Speaker 4: Just that whole thing just fa like, I just and
Speaker 4: whatever before you know, you got all day to kill
Speaker 4: before one of those games, and I just took a
Speaker 4: drive out there and you know, just drove around Rodeo drive.
Speaker 2: That whole world just fascinate.
Speaker 1: I mean, so hey, Skinny, Uh, wouldn't it be nice
Speaker 1: to be able to tool around, you know, La and
Speaker 1: head out to Beverly Hills and Malibu and all that
Speaker 1: j Simpson's old estate, hang out at Oja Simpson's house.
Speaker 1: Oh cool, must be that guy.
Speaker 5: Then have yeah, they have it down and watching bad
Speaker 5: baseball after that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, now I assume it's again. You have been to
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. Yes, yes, see now obviously Jason was there.
Speaker 1: The best that is on my bucket list. That's a
Speaker 1: one ballpark I've always wanted to go to. You guys,
Speaker 1: tell me is it worth a trip?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean it's it's it's history. I mean, the one
Speaker 5: ballpark I haven't been to that I can't believe I
Speaker 5: have been to a Sunway Park. That's the one that
Speaker 5: I still have never gotten a chance to cover a
Speaker 5: game or go watch a game in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been there a couple of times. It's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's as cool as you think it might being.
Speaker 4: So I think I've been telling my son, my older
Speaker 4: son read this like, I was like, we're going to
Speaker 4: We've been doing these baseball stadium tours and Dodger Stadium
Speaker 4: is the number one, because, in my mind, Dodger Stadium
Speaker 4: is the absolute best ballpark in baseball to watch a game,
Speaker 4: the whole. It's just it's unique. It's unlike any place
Speaker 4: else in baseball. The landscaping, the lush landscaping, this place
Speaker 4: still looks like brand new when it opened in nineteen
Speaker 4: sixty two.
Speaker 2: And the way they keep that place ballpark.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's an old ballpark and you could eat.
Speaker 1: Off the floor, off the concourse floor, that's how clean.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you, isn't it kind of a pain?
Speaker 1: And they asked to get in an out there.
Speaker 5: It can be. I mean, if you're working, like Jason was,
Speaker 5: the parking is going to all be gone by the
Speaker 5: time you're done with your work. So as a fan, yes,
Speaker 5: but if you're working it not so much just because.
Speaker 3: You're done working. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So it was skinny. Let's talk about what happened out
Speaker 1: in La I heard Willie talking with Seg and Rocky
Speaker 1: and I talked about it later or yeah, yesterday, and
Speaker 1: Jason and I have talked about it. It's just what
Speaker 1: needs to happen. We a, you need some clutch hitting
Speaker 1: and things need the chess pieces need to be moved around.
Speaker 5: Yes, I wrote a red column today and it kind
Speaker 5: of mimiced I think Jason's column. I didn't mean it too,
Speaker 5: but it's it's pretty much the story of what you
Speaker 5: need to do in this off to you and that
Speaker 5: you got to hit a big bat in the middle
Speaker 5: of lineup. You know. Ellie de la Cruz led this
Speaker 5: team in home runs this year with twenty two. Only
Speaker 5: one other guy on the team hit more than sixteen
Speaker 5: home runs, that with Spencer Steeer. So you need a
Speaker 5: big bat in the lineup where you put that big back.
Speaker 5: I don't know, but you just need to go get one.
Speaker 5: And I think that will help Ellie. I think that
Speaker 5: will help add the Ellie's production. You just here's the
Speaker 5: thing you can't do. You just can't bring the band
Speaker 5: back and go these guys are going to be better
Speaker 5: just because if they are better, great, If Matt mcains
Speaker 5: is the Matt mclan's twenty twenty three, great, but I
Speaker 5: can't count on it. If Ellie La Cruz suddenly becomes
Speaker 5: the forty home run guy, I think we all projected great,
Speaker 5: but right now I can't count on it. If Noble
Speaker 5: Marte hits like you did in July and August, great,
Speaker 5: but I can't count on it. So I think the
Speaker 5: bottom liyes, go get a big bat.
Speaker 4: I totally agree with you. However, however way you do that.
Speaker 4: I mean you think back at the Reds and I
Speaker 4: you know you can't do the whole get the band
Speaker 4: back together. You can't look at this and say, oh,
Speaker 4: you know it's the first it's the first step. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know that this same core team will get there.
Speaker 4: That's pretty that's kind of a bank attitude, to be
Speaker 4: honest with you.
Speaker 2: To me, you're right.
Speaker 4: I think however, way they're going to do that, you know,
Speaker 4: whether that's to go out. You know, think about the
Speaker 4: Joey Vada They never spent the Joey Vado money. Really,
Speaker 4: I mean, the Joey Vado money got off the books.
Speaker 4: And you know, the only the only guy, the only
Speaker 4: guy who made it.
Speaker 2: Nick Martinez money. He's made out.
Speaker 4: He was the only guy who made what eight figures
Speaker 4: this year, I believe. And so even to like, if
Speaker 4: you trade Hunter Green, that frees up some money, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, and then do you get prospects for him
Speaker 4: and maybe a veteran you know, four or five pitcher
Speaker 4: and then use some of that money to go out
Speaker 4: and free agency. It is going to be hard and uh,
Speaker 4: you know, the front office is kind of and there's
Speaker 4: been discussions, you know, with reporters and stuff that it
Speaker 4: is going to be hard for them to go, oh,
Speaker 4: you know what, we'll trade Hunter Green for some big
Speaker 4: bat that that's going to be tough to do.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: But there's a lot there's a lot of things that
Speaker 4: need to be done here and you know, and Brandtley
Speaker 4: talked about out of how there's got to be some
Speaker 4: big changes and it's not just getting that bad, it's
Speaker 4: it's some of these other things that you got to
Speaker 4: kind of maneuver around. What are you gonna do with Ellie?
Speaker 4: And we could go on and on here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what are you gonna do with south Stewart?
Speaker 2: Where is he gonna play bingo?
Speaker 3: Exactly?
Speaker 5: Are you going to bring some competition in for for
Speaker 5: Matt McClain? Can you carry key Brian Hayes' back? You
Speaker 5: know every day one?
Speaker 7: Right there?
Speaker 2: I think no one's really talking about.
Speaker 4: But like you're like, okay, if you're trying to figure
Speaker 4: out if Spencer Steer, who's waterline gold glove at first base?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: You know, and you want to play South Stewart with
Speaker 4: his bat every every day? Like where does Keith Brian
Speaker 4: Hayes really fit in? They like him obviously fits that whole,
Speaker 4: you know, defense and pitching philosophy, but wolf on that
Speaker 4: on that bat, I was.
Speaker 1: Gonna say, what are you going to carry a huge
Speaker 1: twenty hitter? You know they got too many?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you only got a couple of them. Okay, you
Speaker 4: know he's didn't find it number nine.
Speaker 1: So Skinny, let's just switch gears here and talk about
Speaker 1: our Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday, the Lions coming to town.
Speaker 1: What kind of hope do is there for this game?
Speaker 1: What would you Let's face it, I don't think they're
Speaker 1: going to beat the Detroit Lions. I mean, I'll just
Speaker 1: let's come out and say it right there. What would
Speaker 1: you like to see happen though.
Speaker 5: The offense executed a higher level. I mean, listen, I
Speaker 5: know everybody's pointing the finger Jake Browning at the moment.
Speaker 3: That's fine.
Speaker 5: He hasn't played very well. Let's not forget Joe Burrow
Speaker 5: played the full game in the opener, and they had
Speaker 5: one hundred and forty one yards total offense with Joe Burrow.
Speaker 5: So this to me is an offense issue. This isn't
Speaker 5: just a Jake Browning issue. They don't block very well,
Speaker 5: they don't run very well. I don't think they've schemed
Speaker 5: Jake properly. I think they've been way too tentative with
Speaker 5: him and too cautious with him. So yeah, I'd like
Speaker 5: to see the offense execute better. I don't think the
Speaker 5: defense stops Detroit, so I to your point, I don't
Speaker 5: think they beat Detroit either, but I want to see
Speaker 5: the offense execute at a higher level.
Speaker 4: Is it a half point difference.
Speaker 2: With the Lions there, you.
Speaker 5: Know that's a big spread in the NFL. I mean,
Speaker 5: I would, I know everybody can just look at all
Speaker 5: this will be an easy Lions game. It's the NFL. Man.
Speaker 5: Last night, you know, the Lams were an eight and
Speaker 5: a half point favorite at home over a wounded San Francisco team,
Speaker 5: and San Francisco went in there and beat them. So
Speaker 5: strange things happen in this league sometimes. You know, the
Speaker 5: Minnesota game, you had three plays, three plays out of
Speaker 5: four were turnovers. Just sometimes things happen, especially on the
Speaker 5: road in the NFL. It's a great team. I think
Speaker 5: Detroyd's super. They got everything they got. They got great
Speaker 5: pass rush, they got great defense, they got getting stopped
Speaker 5: the run. They got a great running game, and they
Speaker 5: got great play action passing off the off the running game.
Speaker 5: They got deep threats everywhere, got great offensive line there.
Speaker 2: Coaching, coaching, yes.
Speaker 4: Skinny, when you going back to that offense, is it is.
Speaker 2: It a scheme thing? So coaching?
Speaker 4: Is it a execution thing from the players? Is it
Speaker 4: a talent lack of you know, all of the above.
Speaker 4: What do you kind of.
Speaker 5: I think it. Yeah, I think a little all the above.
Speaker 5: I mean, look, you signed Orlando Brown when he's a
Speaker 5: Pro Bowl caliber player. He's not that.
Speaker 7: Player any longer.
Speaker 5: I don't know that the injury from last year has
Speaker 5: taken that away from him. Ted Carris is a he's
Speaker 5: an okay center. I mean, he's never been anything great,
Speaker 5: but he's an okay and he looks like he's kind
Speaker 5: of aging before our eyes. And let's not forget you.
Speaker 3: Got two rookie guards.
Speaker 5: I'm starting two rookie guards, and your right tack ma
Speaker 5: Marius Mims is actually kind of regressed. Now. Could that
Speaker 5: be the new offensive line coach Scott Peters being a failure? Maybe?
Speaker 5: I certainly haven't seen progress from ma Marius Mims. I
Speaker 5: haven't seen this group get better. I've seen them regress.
Speaker 5: And again, is that guy's individually aging or in some
Speaker 5: cases being too young because they haven't seen enough in
Speaker 5: the face of the two rookie guards, or is it
Speaker 5: just straight out coaching. I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Richard Skinner Local twelve and guys, well
Speaker 1: both of you, and let's talk about the quarterback situation. Skeinny,
Speaker 1: you just said, you know, it's not Jake Browning's fault,
Speaker 1: and it's and it's well, obviously some of it is,
Speaker 1: but to a great guy is it is not? But
Speaker 1: let's talk about if he lays a giant egg this Sunday.
Speaker 1: Look at what happened in Cleveland. They're playing in London,
Speaker 1: starting a rookie quarterback over over Flacco. When is enoughing
Speaker 1: enough here in town? And who takes Jake Browning's place
Speaker 1: if it indeed does come to.
Speaker 5: That, I just don't think there is that guy. I know,
Speaker 5: Wilson Fine for Jameis Winston, it will be the backup
Speaker 5: Brett Rippon. Brett Rippon is a practice squad caliber quarterback,
Speaker 5: is a backup at the moment. By the fault, I
Speaker 5: don't think there is one.
Speaker 2: I just don't.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's you got to ride with Jake Browning.
Speaker 5: You know, I asked Jake Dodani's press conference, you know
Speaker 5: what's the difference between right now with the offense and
Speaker 5: when it was in twenty twenty three when he was
Speaker 5: playing really well in No. Seven starts? And he didn't
Speaker 5: give me a great answer. He said, well, the one
Speaker 5: game in the screen game and maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 5: They haven't run the ball, and I think Jake strengths
Speaker 5: are not staying in the shotgun like Joe Burrow in
Speaker 5: processing things. I think Jake strengths are getting under center
Speaker 5: play action bootlegs. Well, guess what doesn't work? Guess from
Speaker 5: play action and boot legs don't work. They don't work
Speaker 5: when you can't run the ball. So you're kicking that
Speaker 5: away from him. So I think, again, Jake does not
Speaker 5: play well. You know, he made a couple of bad
Speaker 5: deep throws Monday night that he should have connected on it,
Speaker 5: and he didn't. So again, I don't want to absolve
Speaker 5: him a blame, but listen, that's the whole operation at
Speaker 5: the moment, and I think it honestly starts with the
Speaker 5: run game.
Speaker 1: All right, with that skinny, we will let you go, buddy,
Speaker 1: what's going on this weekend as far as as high
Speaker 1: school football goes? Any good games?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: I got? Oh, yes, you had Moller Elder tonight at
Speaker 5: the pit. You got Cubcats Highlands tonight over in Northern Kentucky.
Speaker 5: You got Anderson Turpin, the neighborhood rivalry. Anderson's having a
Speaker 5: great season. Turpin's actually having a very nice season. Yeah,
Speaker 5: there's some good games all over town across the river
Speaker 5: in northern Kentucky too.
Speaker 1: Week seven, right, Week seven, All right, buddy, thanks so
Speaker 1: much our good friend Richard Skinner Local twelve. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what nobody, nobody's talking about. That's the elephant in
Speaker 1: the room there. As far as the Bengals quarterback issue goes,
Speaker 1: it's Browning or nothing pretty much, right.
Speaker 4: I've always thought that, and now I know fans are
Speaker 4: going to be fans, and but I mean, Russell Wilson,
Speaker 4: Jameis Winston, those guys aren't any better than Jake Browning.
Speaker 4: And then it's it's look, these problems are much much
Speaker 4: deeper than Jake Browning.
Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't matter who's standing.
Speaker 2: Behind that line. Bingo, right boom.
Speaker 1: With that, we check in with traffic and weather, what
Speaker 1: is going on? Back on the Eddie and Rocky Show,
Speaker 1: Eddie with Jason Williams from the inquir Cincinnati dot com.
Speaker 1: And you guys had three guys out there the Inquirre
Speaker 1: did huh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well we had five. We had two photographers as well,
Speaker 4: full team coverage.
Speaker 1: Wow, cause you know here the uh we're the home of.
Speaker 4: The Yeah, I mean wow, and the Cinsame Choir cover
Speaker 4: the Reds incredibly.
Speaker 1: Well you guys had five well okay, that evens out
Speaker 1: because you had five people there, we had none, So
Speaker 1: that's cool.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know we are the home of the Reds. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you had the broadcast crew there right.
Speaker 1: Well But anyways, so do tell about your traversing l
Speaker 1: A because I've only been there kind of like you.
Speaker 1: I was there on a radio thing one time, and
Speaker 1: the guy was with my old buddy Steve Cage. We
Speaker 1: did what you did and rented a car. We had
Speaker 1: an afternoon free. We rented a car and went out
Speaker 1: driving around. We drove out to Malibu. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we went down to Venice Beach and walked around and
Speaker 1: liked at all that goofiness. But yeah, that was about
Speaker 1: the site. It's just something to see, you know. It's weird,
Speaker 1: but it's yeah, it really is different.
Speaker 4: And where I was going, it's not that far from
Speaker 4: Dodger Stadium, although you know, with traffic it takes you
Speaker 4: a while to get there. But so so a couple
Speaker 4: of things. I am fast. I was just fascinated with
Speaker 4: the o json I for what And I know I'm
Speaker 4: not alone in that, but everything it's ever been done,
Speaker 4: documentary wise, shows, anything I've ever I watched. I've read
Speaker 4: books on it, and I'm not a tip I'm not
Speaker 4: I'm not a huge book reader, but I've read like
Speaker 4: Christopher Darden's book and yeah, it's like, uh and so
Speaker 4: I'm you know, I just whatever was at Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Maybe I was like, I'm gonna get out.
Speaker 4: I gotta get out, and just kind of you know,
Speaker 4: it's late night games. You're you're grinding through those late games,
Speaker 4: and so I'm like, you know, I gotta get out.
Speaker 2: I'll drive down there, just drive around.
Speaker 4: I was like, and I certainly this is It's unlike me.
Speaker 4: I'm not a gawker kind of person, but I like
Speaker 4: I went to the I went to the Bundy place
Speaker 4: and Rocking and then Rockingham and it just because I
Speaker 4: wanted to see, like are there people there that I know?
Speaker 4: And I'm like no, and it's just like I'm literally
Speaker 4: just driving through a neighborhood. The Bundy area wasn't it's
Speaker 4: not it's not what you would think. It's not super nice,
Speaker 4: it's not super terrible, but uh, certainly the Rockingham area
Speaker 4: and then that in that mansion, like the oj mansion
Speaker 4: was torn down, and so there's a new mansion there.
Speaker 4: Now you can't really say it's just a big wall.
Speaker 4: And and really that's what Beverly like, that whole area,
Speaker 4: the Beverly Hills, Hombly Hills bel air. You're like, Oh,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go see all the I'm gonna go see
Speaker 4: all the big houses. What you can't see them because
Speaker 4: they're all behind walls and the walls have ivy on
Speaker 4: them or some kind of lush, big massive like bushes.
Speaker 4: Like just the landscaping and the greenery alone is to
Speaker 4: see all that and Beverly Hills is like, it's really unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Gotta have a couple of bas With that, we check
Speaker 1: in with the news news radio seven hundred w l
Speaker 1: W from the Inquirer Cincinnati dot Com. Sitting in with
Speaker 1: me brought me back on Monday. He's off to Memphis
Speaker 1: this weekend.
Speaker 4: Memphis pretty good football team.
Speaker 1: Why he was Rock was not He was not excited
Speaker 1: about going to Memphis. He's been there before, and he said,
Speaker 1: because I've never been there and being the big.
Speaker 4: One there many many years ago, I covered college basketball
Speaker 4: in my career.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, being the big Elvis guy that I am.
Speaker 1: The fact that I'm to do Memphis. Yeah, but see,
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't know if I want
Speaker 1: to see Grace landard on him. Afraid I'm going to
Speaker 1: be bummed. I'll be disappointed. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: You know, just call Catherine Nero if you need to
Speaker 4: know anything about Grayce Sland. She could probably make it
Speaker 4: seem even better than if you actually visited. Do you
Speaker 4: know this, Like she's a she was a tour guide
Speaker 4: there growing up. I did not know great stories about it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know our podcast at this inquire a few
Speaker 4: years ago, several years ago now, but she told the
Speaker 4: whole story about working there growing up, and I felt
Speaker 4: like she did something like maybe she did a big
Speaker 4: story on it too or something along the line, and yeah,
Speaker 4: that's cool, Grace, she's a Graceland expert.
Speaker 1: Well, see, one of these days, I'm gonna make them pilgrimage.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be one of those guys that cry,
Speaker 1: you know if I get because don't don't they have
Speaker 1: it like a VIP tour You can pay extra and
Speaker 1: they take in and show you. You don't want to
Speaker 1: do that, you want to go into the where Delvi was,
Speaker 1: you know, fell off the toilet and whatnot and all that.
Speaker 4: I don't know, you know, you know, we were just
Speaker 4: talking about me driving around Beverly Hills and that whole area.
Speaker 2: You don't want to be.
Speaker 4: You don't want to be that person in that in
Speaker 4: that tour bus thing, because you see those driving by,
Speaker 4: and I'm just like, uh, I'm like, see them in
Speaker 4: my discreete little Hyundai Kona rental car. No one knows
Speaker 4: that I'm doing the same thing those people are doing.
Speaker 4: But I'm not, like, yeah, I'm not. I'm not looking
Speaker 4: like I'm not wearing a Hawaiian shirt and in an
Speaker 4: open air bus, looking like with my camera.
Speaker 1: So they still have those things. Yeah, where you stars homes?
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, that's exactly. I saw three or four of
Speaker 2: them driving around there.
Speaker 1: They still have those people on the where you can
Speaker 1: buy a map of you can do it on your own. Remember,
Speaker 1: I don't know, probably yeah, I remember seeing you know,
Speaker 1: I've seen it in the movie, So it must be true. Uh,
Speaker 1: where there would be like somebody with their little stand
Speaker 1: there and you buy a map of the stars Homes
Speaker 1: and drive around and look at the wall in front
Speaker 1: of the house where you know whatever, that's what you'll
Speaker 1: be looking at it and be looking at the wall, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's what would be. That's what I always wonder
Speaker 1: with these with the people who did that. Again, I
Speaker 1: never have been to LA. I was, what, when you're
Speaker 1: taking one of those tours, do you really think that whatever,
Speaker 1: like I said, Kevin Costner, is gonna be standing on
Speaker 1: those front port.
Speaker 2: Going, hey, what's on.
Speaker 1: Come out in high five years you're driving by?
Speaker 4: Or I'm more interested in not really where the start,
Speaker 4: but who lives in these other houses that aren't famous people,
Speaker 4: but you know, and they're they're TV executives and that network.
Speaker 4: You know, the folks that make the movies and behind
Speaker 4: the scenes for a lot. That's a lot of those
Speaker 4: folks that live there, or guys that whatever work for Apple.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure almost everybody in LA is probably in
Speaker 1: the business and some like you're saying producers.
Speaker 2: And the show business business.
Speaker 1: Yes, that whole end of it.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 1: But uh, I'll tell you, man, just what little experience
Speaker 1: I've had in being in LA. I guess that I'm
Speaker 1: just there on a radio thing. I was there for
Speaker 1: a weekend and just trying to get around La would
Speaker 1: drive me freaking insane.
Speaker 4: Yes, you have to have some patience, and it's you
Speaker 4: gotta be, you know, just the time of day two depends.
Speaker 4: I I I hit a little bit of a wall
Speaker 4: there driving back from Beverly Hills. I went just straight
Speaker 4: from that area down Santa Monica to the Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 4: and it got a little you know, because these were
Speaker 4: these were city streets, Sunset Boulevard, that whole area, trying
Speaker 4: to go and I ended up obviously on Sunset and
Speaker 4: the next thing I know, I'm up the hill in
Speaker 4: the shop, I'm in the in Shavez Revine. I'm like, well,
Speaker 4: I didn't realize it was I'm here. And when Pete,
Speaker 4: by the way, you know you hear the Chavez Ravine
Speaker 4: literally for anyone who you know has never been there
Speaker 4: or would love to go there. So I mean, the
Speaker 4: stadium is built in a Chavez Ravine is a canyon,
Speaker 4: and the stadium is built into the site of this canyon.
Speaker 4: And it's not a huge canyon, but it's certainly big
Speaker 4: enough to have a what a five deck stadium. I
Speaker 4: think it's five decks four Seeing like I told you
Speaker 4: there's that's that there's definitely. I never got to see
Speaker 4: the old Dodger or the old Yankee Stadium. I got
Speaker 4: to see that, yet I wanted to. I definitely Dodger
Speaker 4: Stadium much much better.
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 1: Yoh yeah, I always wanted to see the old Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 1: I want to see Dodgers Stadium. I got to go
Speaker 1: to Candlestick Park out in San frances I never got
Speaker 1: to go there, and the boy, that was a dump.
Speaker 1: And I got to go to the new San Francisco Stadium,
Speaker 1: the coolest ballpark I've ever been.
Speaker 2: In my life. I heard that one's awesome.
Speaker 1: And if you've never been to Fenway Park, Fenway Park
Speaker 1: is almost exactly like Wriggleyfield.
Speaker 4: Fenway is awesome. Never been to Wrigley, but I've been
Speaker 4: to Fenway. I've covered, I've worked at Fenway, and I've
Speaker 4: also gone as a fan. We just went as a
Speaker 4: fan this summer. I want to say this too. I
Speaker 4: feel like when it comes to Dodger Stadium, there is
Speaker 4: and I've heard seeing Diego is similar. But you think
Speaker 4: about energy, it's like NFL football caliber energy in that stadium.
Speaker 4: It's do you feel a constant buzz there that you
Speaker 4: don't typically feel, certainly here in Cincinnati. And I'm not
Speaker 4: criticizing Cincinnati. I know a lot of ballparks don't have that,
Speaker 4: but Dodger Stadium does. With that, we are going to
Speaker 4: be talking to John Matttery's coming up. But now we've
Speaker 4: got traffic and weather. What is going back with?
Speaker 1: Eddie and Jason Williams in for Rocky Today On a
Speaker 1: Friday around about this time, we always talked to this
Speaker 1: fella right here from w CBO nine News, our good
Speaker 1: friend John Matteris, don't waste your money, and Johnny, I
Speaker 1: was in the I was in the Kroger today, biging
Speaker 1: up a couple of items and.
Speaker 2: Here we are. What there.
Speaker 1: Still four weeks out from Halloween, and I walked by
Speaker 1: display for Thanksgiving cards.
Speaker 7: Wasn't Christmas trees? Wasn't Christmas tree?
Speaker 1: I'm surprised I didn't see it, but but anyways, so
Speaker 1: but anyway, speaking of Halloween, the candy this year, I
Speaker 1: also saw, you know, they obviously got racks of that
Speaker 1: stuff out, and man, I just you're gonna go Brooke
Speaker 1: feeding them kids?
Speaker 2: You are this year?
Speaker 7: Yeah, candy price is higher than ever for anything chocolatey,
Speaker 7: and you know, everybody wants those Reese's peanut butter cups.
Speaker 7: They're by far the most popular, you know. And then
Speaker 7: you have twigs and Hershey's bars and oh my goodness,
Speaker 7: we were we were in Kroger. Four ninety nine is
Speaker 7: the current price of a small snack bag. I mean
Speaker 7: a few years ago, those are like two seventy five.
Speaker 7: You know, yeah, there four nine five bucks went over
Speaker 7: to Walmart. There are also five bucks over at Walmart.
Speaker 7: And this is a small bag. I mean, if you're
Speaker 7: in a busy neighborhood that has a lot of kids,
Speaker 7: Oh that'll that little bag will last year about ten minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how many peas are in it? I'm just curious.
Speaker 7: Not too many. Like you get thirty pieces or something.
Speaker 7: Then you have the bigger bags and you're like, okay,
Speaker 7: well let's get some of the bigger bags. Well those
Speaker 7: are fifteen or twenty dollars for the bigger bag, and
Speaker 7: you get a lot more pieces. But before you know it,
Speaker 7: you've spent you sent over one hundred bucks for your candy.
Speaker 7: And you're hoping that's all you need. You're hoping it's
Speaker 7: not a beautiful night and you got to say, honey,
Speaker 7: run out to Walgreens cause we're running low and it's
Speaker 7: only six fifteen. Yeah, no, it's just crazy how expensive
Speaker 7: it's skiddy.
Speaker 4: I think John, last year we did the same segment
Speaker 4: and it had gone up on the previous year.
Speaker 2: Now it's going up again. And where does this stop at?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well it's a lot of factors. A lot of
Speaker 7: is the cocoa prices. You've been hearing that. We've been
Speaker 7: hearing that all year at the cocoa prices are up,
Speaker 7: just like coffee beans because I drink a lot of coffee,
Speaker 7: that's getting expensive. And the candy prices, the chocolate prices
Speaker 7: are up. So question is people are saying, like, well
Speaker 7: can I do about it? But one thing is be
Speaker 7: cheap like John Mattaison, and don't buy the chocolate. You know,
Speaker 7: give them the the nerds and give them the kiddle
Speaker 7: and that's exactly.
Speaker 1: Give them to Smartie, get one of those little just
Speaker 1: throw one smart Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, just just don't be like grandma and give them
Speaker 7: a penny.
Speaker 2: Here you go, here's an.
Speaker 1: Apple and a penny.
Speaker 7: Yeah, don't get I'm not even I'm not even that cheap.
Speaker 7: So you know, that you know, you could downgrade to
Speaker 7: some of the some of the other candies. Here's now
Speaker 7: something though, that I would say, I would say, don't
Speaker 7: buy your candy this weekend. Do not. You're gonna be tempted.
Speaker 7: I know you're gonna be out in Kroger Walmart this weekend.
Speaker 7: It's like, honey, we better start stocking up on this.
Speaker 7: I would not buy it this weekend. And here's why.
Speaker 7: Next week there are a bunch of big sales. There's
Speaker 7: a Walmarts deals going on. There's Amazon's October Prime Days
Speaker 7: going on. Target has a Circle week going on, So
Speaker 7: the big fall sales are actually happening. Next week, you're
Speaker 7: gonna find candy markdowns and a lot of people don't
Speaker 7: think of buying candy on Amazon. Check it out. You
Speaker 7: may find some really good deal. So that's going on
Speaker 7: next week. Here's the magic day. You got to wait
Speaker 7: a while for it. October fifteenth. Okay, we're talking almost
Speaker 7: almost two weeks, just under two weeks. October fifteenth, that's
Speaker 7: when Kroger holds its annual candy sale that goes on
Speaker 7: for four days. They do it every year, and they
Speaker 7: mark down candy about thirty to thirty five percent. It
Speaker 7: used to be fifty percent off. Now it's about thirty
Speaker 7: to thirty five percent off, but it's still a really
Speaker 7: good deal.
Speaker 2: So those four.
Speaker 7: Ninety nine bags, you know, those would be down to
Speaker 7: you know, three ninety nine or something. Basically, October fifteenth
Speaker 7: is the key date for Kroger, so you might want
Speaker 7: to hold off for that. You might want to check
Speaker 7: some stuff online. I have a whole story on my
Speaker 7: John Mattery's Facebook page in WCPO dot com listing a
Speaker 7: whole bunch of sales that.
Speaker 5: Are coming out.
Speaker 1: And then you got a you know, if you live
Speaker 1: in a neighborhood, you have to put out your fire
Speaker 1: pit and set up a bar for all the moms
Speaker 1: and dads.
Speaker 5: Yeah you got you gotta get beers.
Speaker 1: I've seen it.
Speaker 7: I've got to get those. Yeah, you gotta get high noons.
Speaker 7: You gotta get beers. You gotta get some some wood
Speaker 7: for the fire pit, set up a whole thing on
Speaker 7: your driveway. Yeah, so trick or treaty and costs me
Speaker 7: about two hundred bucks. You're right cool, And that's why
Speaker 7: I hand That's why I hand out one piece of
Speaker 7: pant of that what's that old yellow candy corn. Yeah,
Speaker 7: one piece of candy corn. Here you go Sunday, don't
Speaker 7: choke on it. Uh, Johnny, what else are we talking about?
Speaker 7: What's what the non refundable stuff going on these days?
Speaker 7: As far as I've done some travel lately, had a
Speaker 7: college reunion, went in to see mom, and I tell you,
Speaker 7: you go to buy an airfare now, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 7: you could spend four hundred dollars or you could spend
Speaker 7: three hundred dollars for the non refundable Basic economy. You
Speaker 7: guys flow basic economy.
Speaker 2: Oh I've done.
Speaker 7: Oh miserable. You know you're the last people to board.
Speaker 7: You don't get a seat, Like you go to the airport,
Speaker 7: you have no idea what your seat is. Then they're like, oh,
Speaker 7: you can't put your bag in the overhead bin, right,
Speaker 7: I mean, it's just awful and it's non refundable. Mean
Speaker 7: you can't change it. You got you got a seat
Speaker 7: on the flight. And if you want to change it now,
Speaker 7: baby nah, because you bought Basic economy. Hotels are doing
Speaker 7: the exact same thing now with prepay you can get
Speaker 7: that hotel room for one hundred and seventy five a
Speaker 7: night or one hundred and twenty five a night if
Speaker 7: you prepay no changes, And it's becoming a real dilemma
Speaker 7: because you're like, Okay, I think I'm going away this weekend.
Speaker 7: You know, I might want to go see, you know,
Speaker 7: a UC game out of town, or just visit family
Speaker 7: or something. But it's like, what if I need to
Speaker 7: change something?
Speaker 1: Life happens, you know, right, Yeah, that's that happened, big case.
Speaker 1: And we flew over to London with our sons and
Speaker 1: I had already I had pre paid for hotel rooms. Well,
Speaker 1: they canceled our flight, so we had to fly out
Speaker 1: all the next morning. Well that that night was dead.
Speaker 1: So I, you know, I call the people and try
Speaker 1: to convince them like a victim of circumstances. They're like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm a non refundable. There you go.
Speaker 7: Yeah, watch out, watch out for that non refundabal Yes,
Speaker 7: especially for a big vacation. If you're going to do it,
Speaker 7: the thing to do is pay for that. We'll extra
Speaker 7: for that. Travel insurance usually fly twenty five bucks. You
Speaker 7: can get that alliance travel insurance to a lot of
Speaker 7: airlines that'll cover if something happens. Otherwise you get stuck
Speaker 7: paying that hotel room, your flight's late, you still pay
Speaker 7: two hundred bucks for that hotel room. So it's one
Speaker 7: of those things where they're really pushing this non refundable
Speaker 7: travel anymore to save money because they love it. Airlines
Speaker 7: and hotels of it, because they're being paid in advance,
Speaker 7: and they know you can't change anything because they're getting
Speaker 7: pretty But I tell you, if you need to make
Speaker 7: any changes, it's.
Speaker 3: Just it's just horrible.
Speaker 2: And it's a debate.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm booking a flight. Do I spend another
Speaker 7: fifty bucks for a refundable changeable flight? I don't know,
Speaker 7: But you know, I don't know about you guys. I
Speaker 7: want a seat. I hate getting down to the gate
Speaker 7: and I don't have a seat yet. I don't know
Speaker 7: if I'm sitting. And then you end up, you know,
Speaker 7: the seat right at the bathroom door. That's the most
Speaker 7: pleasant flight you will ever have.
Speaker 1: Or between two big, giant fat people and both of
Speaker 1: them holding babies, crying babies.
Speaker 7: Yes, in the middle seat, yeah, in the middle seat,
Speaker 7: next to the crying baby and the giant guy who's
Speaker 7: like Norm from Cheers.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 7: And then you're back by the by the bathroom with
Speaker 7: that door flap and open his shut every two minutes.
Speaker 5: And now you just love that.
Speaker 1: Well, between all that, you know, if we didn't have
Speaker 1: stuff to complain about, John, you'd be out of work.
Speaker 7: You know what. That's the beauty, you know the fact
Speaker 7: that there's something to complain about and somebody getting steamed
Speaker 7: every page. I hate it, but you know it gives
Speaker 7: me things to talk about. So guys, have a great weekend.
Speaker 2: Don't waste your money, all right, thanks Sean.
Speaker 1: So coming up here next, we're going to be talking
Speaker 1: to the Lions beat reporter from the Detroit Free Press about, Uh,
Speaker 1: I've heard something about this team being pretty good the
Speaker 1: Detroit I watched them against Baltimore a few weeks ago, dismantled.
Speaker 1: I mean, just put it on that. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: and uh, I'm from and again Baltimore a pretty good team.
Speaker 1: They haven't put it all together yet, but you know that,
Speaker 1: and you know around about yeah, right, but we'll we'll
Speaker 1: talk about the Lions coming to town. But right now
Speaker 1: we've got the news news radio seven hundred w l
Speaker 1: W boys an orange.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think every Sunday from here on out it's
Speaker 2: going to be that. Certainly, this one.
Speaker 1: Is rage, you might be right here to discuss what's
Speaker 1: going on with the Lions, and if you know anything
Speaker 1: about the Lions, they're apparently pretty damn good. Let's talk
Speaker 1: to a guy who knows he's the longtime beat reporter
Speaker 1: from the Detroit pre Press covering the Lions. He is
Speaker 1: Dave Briquette. Dave, welcome to the program.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you guys having me.
Speaker 2: How are you, hey, Dave?
Speaker 1: We're doing great, so, Dave, things are looking pretty good
Speaker 1: in the Motor City these days. The Tigers advanced yesterday
Speaker 1: the Lions on a real role. That'd be good times
Speaker 1: to be a sports reporter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean Detroit sports is a little bit
Speaker 3: of a resurgence here. I guess right, Tigers, they look
Speaker 3: like they might blow it there for a minute, the
Speaker 3: way they finished the season, but I guess came back
Speaker 3: at the right time and not. The Lions are clearly,
Speaker 3: you know, one of the best teams in football, so
Speaker 3: you know they've been playing like it the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: Well, that's true. We were talking earlier, Jason and I
Speaker 1: were talking about watching them because obviously we know a
Speaker 1: lot about divisional rival here the Raven and watching what
Speaker 1: the Lions did to the Ravens was it last week
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, and they pretty much dismantled a very
Speaker 1: good football team. What all has because apparently everything is
Speaker 1: going right for this Lion's team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean, look, the reality is is they've
Speaker 3: been on the upticks since you know, Dan Campbell and
Speaker 3: Bradhlmes took over in twenty twenty one, and it took
Speaker 3: a while to get there. But the last couple of
Speaker 3: years they've had, you know, as good an offense as
Speaker 3: there's been in the league. And that's that's certainly the case.
Speaker 3: Still now they returned just about everyone. Jared Goff's playing
Speaker 3: great football. I mean, I think he's got career highs
Speaker 3: and completion percentage and you know, quarterback rating and some
Speaker 3: of those stats are just really really efficient. I'm and
Speaker 3: around Saint Brown is you know, coming off two straight
Speaker 3: all Pro seasons at receiver, they got a good running game,
Speaker 3: good offensive line, so the offense has really carried them.
Speaker 3: And then this year defensively, you know, they battled so
Speaker 3: many injuries on that side of the ball last year.
Speaker 3: They stayed healthy this year and it showed. I mean,
Speaker 3: they they lead the NFL and sack rate, and they've
Speaker 3: just played pretty good football. They started to get some
Speaker 3: some takeaways. So they're doing a lot of things well
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 4: Davey, you touched on it there with the hiring of
Speaker 4: Dan Campbell and back in twenty twenty one, that was
Speaker 4: one of the questions I wanted to ask you. Was
Speaker 4: you know, for years and years and years obviously the
Speaker 4: Lions were, you know, the butt of the butt of
Speaker 4: along with the Bengals, the butt of so many jokes
Speaker 4: in the NFL. And what I mean, even more on
Speaker 4: a detailed level, was it just the hiring of Dan
Speaker 4: Campbell or was it they just changed their way they
Speaker 4: drafted players, the way they evaluated players. What what was
Speaker 4: that kind of turning point to Now this team is?
Speaker 4: This team is tough, Like you just went through everything,
Speaker 4: I mean, there is strength across the board on this team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, they you know, Dan is a
Speaker 3: huge part of it, you know, just the you know,
Speaker 3: the leader that he is, right there's a lot of
Speaker 3: people that swear by him in the building and you
Speaker 3: know around the league frankly, and some are things that
Speaker 3: he's done, so he's he's done a great job. But
Speaker 3: you know, the reality is like they have one of
Speaker 3: the handful of best rosters in the NFL, and you
Speaker 3: know they've they've benefited from, you know, good fortune of
Speaker 3: players like you know, Panay Sewel in that twenty twenty
Speaker 3: one draft fall into them. He's probably the best right
Speaker 3: tackle on football right now. And Aiden Hushington with the
Speaker 3: number two pick of the twenty twenty two drafts, you know,
Speaker 3: a redraft. Both those guys are probably going number one
Speaker 3: in their drafts. And you know, the Lions weren't picking
Speaker 3: first and got them. And they've been able to not
Speaker 3: just those guys, they've been able to draft well in
Speaker 3: the middle rounds too. And you know, when you have
Speaker 3: the type of talent that they do and the ability
Speaker 3: to withstand injuries and then the culture on top of it,
Speaker 3: you know that it's sort of self explanatory way. You know,
Speaker 3: they've been able to put together a couple of straight
Speaker 3: double digit, you know, win seasons and are certainly trending
Speaker 3: towards another one.
Speaker 1: Dave Brikett from the Detroit Free Press is our guest
Speaker 1: as our guest, and Dave, how about Jared Golf. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's always been good, but man, he's and he's clicked
Speaker 1: up one or two levels since he came to Detroit.
Speaker 1: In your mind, is there a reason for that or
Speaker 1: just okay, it's his time.
Speaker 3: No, you know, I mean I think a lot of people,
Speaker 3: myself included probably Chuck. Someone's it up to you know,
Speaker 3: Ben Johnson and the offense that he was in and
Speaker 3: some of the things that he was doing the last
Speaker 3: couple of years. And it's really the same offense, new
Speaker 3: new play caller, new offensive coordinator. But I think it's
Speaker 3: you know, he's he's opened some people's eyes that it's
Speaker 3: not that it's not just the system, it's you know,
Speaker 3: he's the the way that he's playing football is sort
Speaker 3: of a you know, I mean not just sort of,
Speaker 3: it's it's a credit to him, and you know, he
Speaker 3: deserves a lot of a lot of credit for the
Speaker 3: improvements he's made in his game. You Know, Mark Brunell,
Speaker 3: the Lions quarterbacks coach, said something today. He said, you know,
Speaker 3: the three things we sort of asked you know, Jerry
Speaker 3: to do and really are are keys to leaning our
Speaker 3: you know, getting in the right play, not turning the
Speaker 3: ball over, in completing passes. And it sounds really simple,
Speaker 3: but that's what the Lions have done, and that's what
Speaker 3: Jared's done. They you know, they protected him really well.
Speaker 3: He doesn't turn the ball over. You know, he's got
Speaker 3: multiple dependable receivers, but specifically a guy like Saint Brown
Speaker 3: who catches everything thrown his way. And and then you
Speaker 3: know he's he's learned and he's talked about this that
Speaker 3: he doesn't always have to hit the big play. He
Speaker 3: can he can trust his skill guys to make something
Speaker 3: out of that checkdown when it's there. And so that's
Speaker 3: a big part of why the Lions, you know, seem
Speaker 3: to score all the just about every time they touched.
Speaker 4: Them all Davey, you hit on it there that they
Speaker 4: protect golf really well. And when I think the Lions,
Speaker 4: I just think that, you know, this is a this
Speaker 4: is a mean, tough team, and that they're good in
Speaker 4: the trenches. Obviously Aiden Hutchinson's good, but you know, they're
Speaker 4: good on the defensive line and they're good on the
Speaker 4: offensive line. You remember when that was was that part
Speaker 4: of Dan Campbell's really that all changed to. I know
Speaker 4: you talked about Pinney Sewel. The Bengals passed them by
Speaker 4: the way they did get Jamar Chase.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I was gonna say they got a guy
Speaker 1: called from Mark Chase. Yeah, not too shabby. But and
Speaker 1: you don't even know I'm sorry didn't rub, but Dave,
Speaker 1: you don't even know the rigamar role that went on
Speaker 1: here when they passed on Seoul and took Chase because
Speaker 1: people were just convinced it was going to be Seuel.
Speaker 4: But this is I mean, you're right, but this is
Speaker 4: the David's the tale of two teams here. I mean,
Speaker 4: this is you know, they've talked about it for years
Speaker 4: here and I'm the columnist for the since a Choir
Speaker 4: and the Trenches. Their offensive line is not good, their
Speaker 4: defensive line is weak. And you go over on the
Speaker 4: other side on Sunday here and that that's an example
Speaker 4: of you build, you build your team and you're winning
Speaker 4: team from the trenches out and the Lions, uh, you
Speaker 4: know certainly have that and can you can you talk
Speaker 4: about just how good they are up there?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And I mean so two things I talked to Panay
Speaker 3: about that this week, right, I mean we sort of
Speaker 3: know the storyline too, that a lot of people thought
Speaker 3: the Bengals would take Sewel and Sewell said he he
Speaker 3: was going to Cincinnati and draft day, and you know,
Speaker 3: there's no like animosity, but you know, he just said, hey,
Speaker 3: it didn't happen, and look how it works out right,
Speaker 3: I'm happy to be here. But the reality is is
Speaker 3: like that was the philosophy that you know, Brad Holmes
Speaker 3: and Dan Campbell, but Brad Holmes brought with him. I remember,
Speaker 3: you know, that was Brad's first draft of Lions GM. Right,
Speaker 3: it was twenty twenty one. He was still in a hotel,
Speaker 3: just you know, outside the facility, and I went that morning.
Speaker 3: I wanted to get in the draft room. They wouldn't
Speaker 3: let me in the draft room. But I was like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, big draft is something that I'll set the
Speaker 3: home for the franchise. And I went and sat down
Speaker 3: with them at this hotel that morning and we talked
Speaker 3: about this and he told me he didn't, you know,
Speaker 3: tell me who they wanted or what they did, but
Speaker 3: he said, look, we want to. He said, when I
Speaker 3: was with the Rams, we built this defensive line and
Speaker 3: we just stacked these players, right.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 3: It was Michael Brockers and Aaron Donald and Robert Quinn
Speaker 3: and they took him one after another and it didn't
Speaker 3: matter that they had multiple linement already. They just figured, like,
Speaker 3: we want to His words were, we want to build
Speaker 3: a monster, and he said that's what I want to
Speaker 3: do here in Detroit. I want to build a monster.
Speaker 3: And what he was talking about and we ended up
Speaker 3: talking that night after the draft was on the offensive line,
Speaker 3: because they had Frank Ragnow who was a pretty good center,
Speaker 3: and Taylor Decker, who was a pretty good left tackle.
Speaker 3: And when the Lions looked at that draft, they saw
Speaker 3: you two pretty good tackles, Rasam Slater being the other one,
Speaker 3: but they thought Pinasua was elite. And Hank Freley, the
Speaker 3: Lions offensive line coach, called Taylor Decker before the draft
Speaker 3: and told them, hey, if this guy's there, were taking them.
Speaker 3: We're not moving you know, you're not moving positions. But
Speaker 3: this is what we want to do. And it worked out,
Speaker 3: I mean, just philosophically what the Lions wanted to do
Speaker 3: with the right player and a little bit of good fortune,
Speaker 3: and that's exactly how they've built this roster.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: With that, Dave Brooke ed, we'll let you go. Welcome
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati on Sunday. I assume you're going to be
Speaker 1: down here covering the team.
Speaker 3: Yep, I'll see you guys out there.
Speaker 1: Come come down here and get yourself a real coney son.
Speaker 3: My thumb's got football Saturday. I'm not getting into late.
Speaker 3: I'm not getting into that, right buddy.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, man, all right, we'll see you guys.
Speaker 1: He is the Lions beat reporter for the Detroit Free
Speaker 1: Press Dave Brockett. He's an author, four time Michigan Sports
Speaker 1: Writer of the Year.
Speaker 2: How about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to beat writer all the big guys.
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, just like and you pointed it out,
Speaker 1: that hadn't even occurred to me, not all that long ago.
Speaker 1: The Lions were the joke of the league.
Speaker 4: Right and what was it not last seedon the season
Speaker 4: before they went to the NFC Championship game against the
Speaker 4: forty nine ers. Yeah, and I know, you know, people
Speaker 4: were like, whoa the Lions? And how was the big talk?
Speaker 4: They come from? Where they come from? And Dan Campbell's
Speaker 4: this cool, big, tough guy and fun and yet tough,
Speaker 4: and he has a great mix there and it's kind
Speaker 4: of animated on the sideline and you're like, and you
Speaker 4: want to run through a brick wall for that guy.
Speaker 4: And uh, I think that. You know, the fans there
Speaker 4: love them, and they love that team, and they run
Speaker 4: the ball and they rush the passer and what a concept.
Speaker 4: They got a great offensive line, a great defensive line
Speaker 4: figure and you go from there.
Speaker 1: It works when you do all the fundamental stuff. Good
Speaker 1: with that, we check in with traffic and weather. What
Speaker 1: is going on all right? Back on the Eddie and
Speaker 1: Rocky Show. Jason Williams from The Inquirer at Cincinnati dot
Speaker 1: com filling in rock will be back on Monday now. Jason,
Speaker 1: in your regular column job for the Inquiry, wrote something
Speaker 1: the other day talking about the Reds now and it's look,
Speaker 1: it's been talked about from for by everyone. What do
Speaker 1: the Reds need? And it's time to put up or
Speaker 1: shut up? As far as bringing the quote of the
Speaker 1: famous quote bringing championship baseball back to Cincinnati, and yeah, look,
Speaker 1: fortunately you're going to have to spend some money. And
Speaker 1: if that ain't happening, it ain't happening. That's exactly what
Speaker 1: I wrote.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's that they're at that moment now when
Speaker 4: you look at you know this is you know some
Speaker 4: of those a lot of those young players have come
Speaker 4: of age and what did enough And obviously the Mets
Speaker 4: and let's you know, you hate to dwell on the
Speaker 4: negative side of it, but certainly all part of the
Speaker 4: stories that the Mets collapsed and help them get in.
Speaker 4: But you take nothing away from the Reds. They those
Speaker 4: guys grinded it out. A lot of those young guys
Speaker 4: that hey, those are the future, the future that we've
Speaker 4: heard for decades and decades, or certainly with this group
Speaker 4: for years. Hey, these guys are the future. They're going
Speaker 4: to get us to the playoffs. Well, they the future's here,
Speaker 4: and you know, those guys came of age, many of them,
Speaker 4: Terry Francona coming here. The thing is is that this
Speaker 4: is this is what you're going to get from this
Speaker 4: velocity in this team. They remind me a lot I
Speaker 4: covered early in my career for the Saint Paul newspaper,
Speaker 4: The Twins was They're very much remind me of the Twins. Actually,
Speaker 4: the Twins were nicknamed and what five Uh they were
Speaker 4: nicknamed the Piranhas because they were scrappy and you asi
Speaker 4: ge and nicknamed them that. Uh, they called it little,
Speaker 4: those little Piranhas, and uh, you know, they made T
Speaker 4: shirts and them and then you know, I said, they're
Speaker 4: calling these guys the cockroaches. You know, you can't kill them,
Speaker 4: but this is who they are. Like, this team can
Speaker 4: probably ads. It is generally speaking, the core of this
Speaker 4: team can keep growing, and it's gonna grow, and then
Speaker 4: this is what you're gonna get though, you're gonna you know,
Speaker 4: you can probably consistently get a wild card or contend
Speaker 4: for the second or third wildcard spot, but you're not
Speaker 4: gonna make a deep run unless you go out and
Speaker 4: get that bat, unless you develop maybe somewhere along the
Speaker 4: line you were able to develop.
Speaker 1: That bat, you know, but that was the hope for
Speaker 1: Dayla Cruz.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and I know this isn't popular.
Speaker 4: I think the guys, I think the guys, you know what,
Speaker 4: credit to him for He's still young. He went through
Speaker 4: a lot this year personally, he battled through injuries this year.
Speaker 4: He played one sixty two. I think there is a
Speaker 4: sense of a little bit of overrated with him, certainly
Speaker 4: from a deficient just overall. The problem with in terms
Speaker 4: of how fans see him is that he had an
Speaker 4: incredible six week run when he first came up in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three, and he's not been able to live
Speaker 4: back up to that yet. And he's still only what
Speaker 4: twenty two years old, so there's still a long way
Speaker 4: to go. But I think you got to change his position,
Speaker 4: take some pressure off of him. I think that will
Speaker 4: help him at the plate. So there's a lot of
Speaker 4: things not just go out and get the bad. I
Speaker 4: know it's easier said than done. Oh you know what,
Speaker 4: You're gonna have to spend a lot of money to
Speaker 4: do that. You're gonna have to be creative. But there's
Speaker 4: other things that this club needs to do. And I
Speaker 4: think they got you know, obviously with Terry Francona, and
Speaker 4: Terry Francona didn't come out of retirement to go get
Speaker 4: swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers and they make the
Speaker 4: third wildcard. This was just step one for him. All right, Now,
Speaker 4: what are they gonna do?
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens between now and the end of March.
Speaker 1: Coming up, speaking of cockroaches, we're going to be talking
Speaker 1: about what's going on the latest with the Diddy Combs trial.
Speaker 1: It's all coming down to the uh to the sentencing.
Speaker 1: I reckon. We're going to be talking to Royal Oak
Speaker 1: from ABC about it. But that's after our news Right now,
Speaker 1: News Radio seven hundred w LWS and Williams from the
Speaker 1: Inquire Cincinnati dot Com is with us. But right now, Jace,
Speaker 1: we have from because everybody's hanging on the edge of
Speaker 1: their seat finding out what's going on with Diddy. We
Speaker 1: have Royal Oaks from the He's the illegal analyst from
Speaker 1: ABC Royal What is going on here?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 1: I've heard that the judge might be moving this postponing
Speaker 1: everything to Monday, or what are we doing? Well?
Speaker 10: The latest is that Shan Didy Cumbs is getting ready
Speaker 10: to testify himself in his own behalf of the sentence,
Speaker 10: and you'll he chose not to testify at trial and
Speaker 10: actually worked out pretty well for him. He was not
Speaker 10: guilty of recall, racketeering and sex trafficking, could have landed
Speaker 10: and imprisoned for life. Instead he got the two prostitution counts.
Speaker 10: But this comes after six of his kids tearfully testified,
Speaker 10: a couple of the victim's letters were read, an eleven
Speaker 10: minute video was produced by his team showing that he's
Speaker 10: a changed man. So the judge is mulling this over.
Speaker 10: But the judge so far hasn't seemed very sympathetic to
Speaker 10: call this position. Judge is saying, look, I think the
Speaker 10: five to seven year range is about right to start,
Speaker 10: but based on what I hear today, I could go.
Speaker 2: Up or it could go down.
Speaker 5: So you don't know how it's going to end.
Speaker 2: And he was.
Speaker 4: He was convicted in July of flying people around the
Speaker 4: country for sexual encounters and including what two former girlfriends.
Speaker 10: Right, exactly right from a girlfriends employees involved, and because
Speaker 10: he fit the the statute you can't have people cross
Speaker 10: state lines for purposes of prostitution, he was found guilty
Speaker 10: and could see up to twenty years. But based on
Speaker 10: the sentence and guidelines and everything, really we're looking at
Speaker 10: the range of five to seven as I say, or
Speaker 10: maybe a little above or below, depending on how the
Speaker 10: judge interprets all.
Speaker 2: This so royal.
Speaker 1: One of the things I read is that he has
Speaker 1: quote unquote thrown himself on the mercy of the court.
Speaker 1: Is that true, and if so, what exactly does that mean?
Speaker 1: Of course we've all heard that on movies and stuff.
Speaker 1: I'd have no idea what that means.
Speaker 10: What it means is that he's saying, you're right, I
Speaker 10: did some terrible things. I am really really sorry. I'm
Speaker 10: a changed man. I've been rehabilitated, I have genuine remorse.
Speaker 10: These are all things that could cut that sentence down
Speaker 10: if the judge believes it. Not a good sign though,
Speaker 10: because the judge indicated he's not really sure that did
Speaker 10: he is sincere. So it's not looking great.
Speaker 4: For And this is completely up up to the judge, right,
Speaker 4: the sentence thing. There's no jury now right that that
Speaker 4: decides this. This is strictly the judge that makes the call.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 10: The jury votes to convict, the judge sets the sentence.
Speaker 10: But the second circuit go to appeals in New York,
Speaker 10: they could overturn either the trial result or the sentencing
Speaker 10: result and not of course, we'll be attacked by Didy's lawyers.
Speaker 1: And you know what, Royal, let me ask you one
Speaker 1: final question. Is this appealable if you know any sentencing
Speaker 1: and whatnot, or is this a done deal it's just
Speaker 1: a matter of the sentencing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, everything is appealable. So what happens now is his
Speaker 10: lawyers will do the heavy lifting, coming up with briefs saying, hey,
Speaker 10: you know what, your honors on the appellate panel, this
Speaker 10: wasn't prostitution. This wasn't some sort of a brothel deal.
Speaker 10: This was a performance art, a private deal. It wasn't
Speaker 10: making money on it. So that's going to be his
Speaker 10: argument on appeal.
Speaker 1: All right, well, we'll be real curious to see how
Speaker 1: this shakes out, Manu Royal Oaks, Thanks so much your bet. Thanks. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, no matter how it chakes out, I don't
Speaker 1: want to be diddy right now.
Speaker 4: No, And from all the stuff that was going on
Speaker 4: earlier in this whole case, sounds like this thing was
Speaker 4: reduced down pretty significantly.
Speaker 1: So when you were covering, did you ever cover hard
Speaker 1: news or was it always sports?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: No, I always covered sports, covered business for a while,
Speaker 4: and then I covered politics for several years. I never
Speaker 4: covered hard I did a couple of news shifts here
Speaker 4: and there back early my days in the Inquiry, we
Speaker 4: had to do a weekend breaking news shift, you know,
Speaker 4: car crashes, crime, stuff like that, but uh, nothing like
Speaker 4: on a full time basis.
Speaker 1: Because when Debb was working a channel night she used
Speaker 1: to cover stuff like that all the time, and it
Speaker 1: was that's one of the reasons she gave what she
Speaker 1: was on, you know, doing on scene stuff and all
Speaker 1: that stuff and would come home and just tell me
Speaker 1: the stuff that she had seen or stuff she had
Speaker 1: heard in court. And yeah, it finally just wore down.
Speaker 1: I just I don't want to do this anymore. I
Speaker 1: was like, don't do it. You're driving you nuts.
Speaker 4: You know, I've told this story before and I've written
Speaker 4: about it, but the first time and the last time
Speaker 4: I ever covered a and it's certainly it's hard news,
Speaker 4: but separate from what we're talking about here. But I
Speaker 4: remember it was a Saturday night. I was on a
Speaker 4: news breaking news shift for The Inquirer and I it
Speaker 4: was out in Walnut Hills, I don't know, eleven o'clock
Speaker 4: or so. I went out there, saw the dead body
Speaker 4: on the ground and the police work in it. It
Speaker 4: was I mean, I cried on the way home. I
Speaker 4: like lost it because I was like, right, who, like
Speaker 4: who would do like? And you know, like you see
Speaker 4: it and obviously you read about it, you hear about
Speaker 4: on the radio, you read about it, but then to
Speaker 4: see it and it was like and it made me
Speaker 4: think too about cops. My brother is a cop in Columbus.
Speaker 4: Like hops and hard news reporters that are covering this
Speaker 4: stuff on a regular basis and they go out and
Speaker 4: you know, we've we've got a whole team of people
Speaker 4: at the inquiry that they go out and they cover
Speaker 4: stuff like this, and it's like, yeah, I know WLW
Speaker 4: has news reporters will go out and see you know,
Speaker 4: it's like that's a tough job.
Speaker 1: And speaking of news, I believe we have we have
Speaker 1: hold on And hey, Sean, could you turn on the
Speaker 1: microphone next to Jason are we there? Yeah, we got
Speaker 1: you now.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I thought you'd want to hear this. It just
Speaker 11: came down Sean Combs is going to spend four years in.
Speaker 1: Prison and we just got off with the ABC there
Speaker 1: and they had not known that yet.
Speaker 11: Yeah, they just decided. He said that the judge said
Speaker 11: that he needed to have a substantial sentence to deter
Speaker 11: other people and his you know, his home life was hard.
Speaker 11: You know, he did great works also as a as
Speaker 11: an artist, but this is serious stuff. And so he's
Speaker 11: gotten a little over four years in prison sentence and
Speaker 11: it's still happening right now. So I just wanted to
Speaker 11: break in. We'll have more coming up at five.
Speaker 1: All right, Sandy, thank you so much, and that it's
Speaker 1: it's funny that Royal was sitting right there when this
Speaker 1: was going down, yep, and it happened in that quick
Speaker 1: a time.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: But you know, don't you don't you think that kind
Speaker 1: of there has to be some kind of sentence he
Speaker 1: has to pay some kind of vice, man, because like
Speaker 1: you said, like you said, coming into what we're talking
Speaker 1: about right now, it was it was greatly reduced from
Speaker 1: what it very well could have been.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, well, roy and Royal talked about it too.
Speaker 4: All the all the original charges he could have ended
Speaker 4: up facing up to life in prison for right, and
Speaker 4: then it came down to what the two charges on.
Speaker 4: It's just it's just it's hard to comp like flying
Speaker 4: girlfriends around the country.
Speaker 1: Essentially, that's what he was doing.
Speaker 4: Awful And it also feels like you're only going to
Speaker 4: go to prison for four years for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, that's why. And that's what that's what gets me, man,
Speaker 1: is that look at what happened. And Rocky always laughs
Speaker 1: at me because I'm still pissed off about oj Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, look at what Ojson. Come on, now, if
Speaker 1: you think that OJ Simpson didn't decapitate those two people,
Speaker 1: you are dead wrong.
Speaker 2: I mean the evidence was overwhelming.
Speaker 1: It was over freaking whelming. He had blood basically in
Speaker 1: his hair. Come on now. Yeah, but you know, he
Speaker 1: went on to live a fine life for a long
Speaker 1: time after that, you know, very comfortable. Then he screwed
Speaker 1: up again and finally ended up doing some prison time,
Speaker 1: but not what he should have done. And now that's
Speaker 1: that's what's going to happen with this guy. Yeah, he'll
Speaker 1: do four years what good behavior, get out in three
Speaker 1: maybe something like that. Whatever, and uh, and the appeals
Speaker 1: process is going to go on for a little while,
Speaker 1: so who knows when it's going to he's going to
Speaker 1: have to serve this and when he gets out, you
Speaker 1: know good and well that he's going to write a book.
Speaker 1: He's going to do you know, there'll be some documentary,
Speaker 1: he'll do a comeback tour, YadA, YadA, YadA, He'll, you
Speaker 1: know what, four years out of his life compared to
Speaker 1: what some of the crap that he did to people,
Speaker 1: it's a small price to pay.
Speaker 4: Yes, And the only, the only, the only thing that
Speaker 4: you know, you can hope for is that. And I
Speaker 4: remember a pastor saying, I believe it was in the
Speaker 4: ESPN documentary on O. J.
Speaker 2: Simpson.
Speaker 4: That there was a pastor quoted in that as saying, like,
Speaker 4: you know, O. J. Simpson should have been an absolute
Speaker 4: model citizen, helping kids, doing all kinds of charity work.
Speaker 4: You know, he still had all this privilege, you know,
Speaker 4: so he had the resources to do all that. Instead
Speaker 4: that you know, he went and then committed that crime
Speaker 4: in Las Vegas, and didn't you know he had a
Speaker 4: second chance, so to speak, to go make something of
Speaker 4: his life, you know whatever that the court at the
Speaker 4: court made that decision, and you know we all know
Speaker 4: that wasn't the that wasn't the right decision was made.
Speaker 4: And so he you know, you can't be tried twice,
Speaker 4: so go go do something good with your life and
Speaker 4: help people. And that's all you I mean, you got
Speaker 4: to try to look at the positive. Well let's uh,
Speaker 4: let's see what happens. Well that's what that's what did
Speaker 4: he was trying to sell is right then he was like, well,
Speaker 4: what what Royal Oak was talking about a little while
Speaker 4: ago that he was in prison and he's given classes
Speaker 4: to inmates and teaching him how to be a businessman
Speaker 4: and all this crap whatever. Man Like I said, he
Speaker 4: did some very heinous stuff. Yes, and like I said,
Speaker 4: four years is a very small price to pay considering
Speaker 4: what he did to people and how he affected people's lives.
Speaker 4: But uh he did raise the stock of baby oil
Speaker 4: quite a bit there at a certain certain time baby
Speaker 4: oil and bulk.
Speaker 2: That's uh.
Speaker 1: I aspire to uh live that way with that. We
Speaker 1: check in with traffic and weather, what is going on.
Speaker 1: He's he's all over the face of the planet.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: And tell, old buddy of mine. When Michael floor Wax
Speaker 1: was a was a comic. He always on tour and
Speaker 1: that was one of his bits and he had to
Speaker 1: see floor Wax. But Wax would always like you, ma'am,
Speaker 1: you ever see those magazines and them back where that
Speaker 1: have the uh maps on them, that where everybody flies.
Speaker 1: And of course the person would be, oh yeah, he'd
Speaker 1: be like one.
Speaker 4: Of them, Michael floor Wax.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Wax was well. He was funny.
Speaker 1: But anyways, that's that's our Rocky. But here's a guy
Speaker 1: who has traveled but not all that far.
Speaker 2: Jez, he's back.
Speaker 1: He's like a just like a.
Speaker 6: Bad man, bad like well, I was like the Red
Speaker 6: until they got out of the playoffs there, you know,
Speaker 6: they're like cockroachers.
Speaker 3: Back to us the.
Speaker 2: Pride of Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
Speaker 1: There he is, I love.
Speaker 5: What do you bring that up?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's our good friend Frank Marzullo, now of w
Speaker 1: c P O nine News. Frankie, welcome back to the
Speaker 1: media world.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I have come.
Speaker 6: I was in like an isoberic It was an isobaric
Speaker 6: chamber for seven months, you know.
Speaker 3: Me and me and Walt Disney.
Speaker 6: We were in.
Speaker 2: Larry King one of those two. That's just Larry Kings
Speaker 2: in there. Yes, I was supposed to be a Parker.
Speaker 1: Well, Walt Disney's head. There's something minute, that's the rumor.
Speaker 5: Right. No, hey, good to talk to you guys. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm excited to be to be back.
Speaker 6: Have a you know, have a job, have a purpose.
Speaker 1: That's kind of cool when you have a job. But
Speaker 1: for people who don't know, you are now co hosting
Speaker 1: the Channel nine Morning show, Yes, the.
Speaker 6: Morning News the program. So for what eighteen years as
Speaker 6: a meteorologists, I guess I still am a meteorologist, right,
Speaker 6: but yeah, I've transitioned. You know. I think here here's
Speaker 6: the deep part, Eddie. I think you know, through life,
Speaker 6: when you get to a certain age, you go, Okay,
Speaker 6: are we going to continue on this path or should
Speaker 6: we take a little break, kind of regroup.
Speaker 3: A bit and see if there's a new path.
Speaker 6: And the folks of Channel nine were very generous, very
Speaker 6: kind to invite me to talk, have a conversation, and
Speaker 6: here we go, here we are. Yes, I'll be anchoring
Speaker 6: the news of kristin Savia every morning from four point
Speaker 6: thirty to seven, and you've got the Good Morning America
Speaker 6: cut ins and then you have the noon every other day.
Speaker 5: I'll be doing the noon.
Speaker 6: But yeah, telling tell them the story, just not telling weather.
Speaker 3: Stories as much?
Speaker 2: Right, right?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: So Sis, how much? How much?
Speaker 4: How much of a difference? I mean, you've always thought
Speaker 4: of you as a great storyteller. But how much of
Speaker 4: a difference is that going to be for you? Or
Speaker 4: is it going to be that big of adjustment at all?
Speaker 5: You know, I don't think it's good. It's not going
Speaker 5: to be.
Speaker 6: It's not as if you know, I only did weather
Speaker 6: all those years, right and I hosted the show there
Speaker 6: from nine to eleven, and I you know, it was
Speaker 6: always involved in community issues and you know very much
Speaker 6: so when it came to you know, pitching story ideas,
Speaker 6: and people came up to me and told me their
Speaker 6: stories all the time, uh, you know, or or gave
Speaker 6: me a suggestion, Hey, can you come check out this
Speaker 6: in my community? You know this is going on. And
Speaker 6: that time I'm like, well, I can tell you if
Speaker 6: it's going to rain. But I've always wanted to dive
Speaker 6: into that and I would take those stories and pass
Speaker 6: it on to other people. Well, now I don't have
Speaker 6: to pass them on to anybody. I can take them
Speaker 6: and run with them and help people find, you know, solutions.
Speaker 6: That's one of the nice things that they're that I
Speaker 6: really I've been rejuvenated guys a little bit here, right.
Speaker 6: You know, you do something for about eighteen years and
Speaker 6: you get kind of stuck in your rut and then
Speaker 6: you realize, heck, and there's a lot of really good
Speaker 6: storytelling going on.
Speaker 3: That's the thing too.
Speaker 6: There's you know, every everybody in town does great jobs.
Speaker 6: But I've seen over the last three four weeks.
Speaker 7: You know, behind the scenes and whatnot, these you know.
Speaker 3: Really young reporters.
Speaker 5: I'm not young, and you know, non experience, but just.
Speaker 6: You know, eager, ready to go, and they tell great
Speaker 6: stories and we're trying to find you know, real.
Speaker 7: Issues that you know, and the news isn't all bad.
Speaker 3: I'm sick and.
Speaker 6: Tired of everybody going, oh, the news was so bad. Yeah,
Speaker 6: there are some bad news, but there's also there's also
Speaker 6: some positive.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: But Frank, I told you. I was sitting there having
Speaker 1: lunch in my my humble abode. Yeah, underwear made my underwear,
Speaker 1: of course, and the smoking a cigarette, drinking a beer,
Speaker 1: having my turkey sand.
Speaker 6: And hittering a little online gambling.
Speaker 1: But of course, of course I was doing that. But
Speaker 1: I hear I had the TV on in the other room,
Speaker 1: and of course it was on the nine New News,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you come on and you
Speaker 1: and I have been friends for a long time. I
Speaker 1: didn't know you were doing that, And I'm sitting there going,
Speaker 1: maybe that sounds like Marsulo, it's Frank.
Speaker 6: I was like, I giving your lovely wife obviously was
Speaker 6: in the business many years. I would you know, give
Speaker 6: me some feedback, give me some feedback.
Speaker 1: Oh, no, we were watching you today.
Speaker 2: She was like.
Speaker 1: We were both like told you. We both commented like, dude,
Speaker 1: you've just settled right into it. It's kind of cool,
Speaker 1: considering this is not really what you ever did, especially
Speaker 1: on a regular basis. I mean obviously standing in front
Speaker 1: of the camera and doing the weather and stuff. This
Speaker 1: is a whole different.
Speaker 3: Thing, No, it is.
Speaker 5: It is a different thing.
Speaker 6: And you know, I went to journalism school obviously, right,
Speaker 6: And it's and I think too being in Cincinnati for
Speaker 6: as long as I have and and the opportunities I
Speaker 6: have been given and the people I've been interact with,
Speaker 6: you know, whether it's you know, folks like you had
Speaker 6: a Jason, I mean, or just you know, average show.
Speaker 6: We're all average shows, but just down down the street.
Speaker 6: It really it's I'm not saying it made it easier,
Speaker 6: but it's made it a kind of an easier transition
Speaker 6: that that I don't think I obviously need to prove
Speaker 6: myself in that aspect, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 6: like at the same token that people were going, oh
Speaker 6: wait a second, yeah, I get this.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, and uh and so here you are in
Speaker 1: the nine year room.
Speaker 6: And and that and see I'm a big you and
Speaker 6: I were big media geeks, you know, throughout life, and
Speaker 6: I was big like television geeks and like.
Speaker 5: To work for you.
Speaker 6: I mean, above my desk is a picture of l
Speaker 6: shadowcouty looking down on me.
Speaker 5: I think they purposely put me in that put me on.
Speaker 6: That desk because because like, well, hold on a second,
Speaker 6: because I mean that that's the that's the gold standard
Speaker 6: right there, from back.
Speaker 2: In the day.
Speaker 6: But no, it's great, Frank, and everybody's been very kind.
Speaker 6: And I'm not gonna I promise. I told Jennifer Catchmark,
Speaker 6: I said, I'm not going to say, you know, eighty
Speaker 6: four three.
Speaker 9: I think it should be eighty three.
Speaker 1: You know, I should just walk during up during the
Speaker 1: middle of her cast and go. I didn't see that
Speaker 1: at all. I was following this radar and that's completely.
Speaker 6: Right, you know, I think I think that front slowing
Speaker 6: up a little bit.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 6: I was completely joked. I've known Dread for a lot time,
Speaker 6: her after her son and my son were born.
Speaker 5: On the same day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm the same year.
Speaker 2: Did you, Frank?
Speaker 4: I knew you for in the interim there you went
Speaker 4: up and did some uh work for a station up
Speaker 4: in your hometown Cleveland area.
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Did you? Did? You? Was?
Speaker 4: Was it was the goal always to get back on
Speaker 4: the air in Cincinnati or were you willing to go anywhere?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 6: I mean I you never say never, right, I mean,
Speaker 6: if if.
Speaker 3: From al Broker called and said, hey, you want to
Speaker 3: come over, okay by talk to you next year. Kids.
Speaker 2: No, I'm kidding, I'm joking, but no. Yeah.
Speaker 6: The goal, the goal was always at the state to
Speaker 6: stay here number one. And in my interim, I really
Speaker 6: I wanted to follow the Eddie Fingers trail of you know,
Speaker 6: working Dayton a little bit, go to Cleveland. I know
Speaker 6: you're up there, Eddie and you know, come back. But yeah,
Speaker 6: but it was actually kind of cool because I got
Speaker 6: to work at the station I watched and which is
Speaker 6: also a script station up in Cleveland. Watching was a
Speaker 6: little kid, So that was fantastic. Then I I got
Speaker 6: to and that's the first station in Ohio. Then I
Speaker 6: got to work in Dayton, uh, you know, in the
Speaker 6: same room to fill down a huge at his show.
Speaker 6: Uh they're at channel two. So my wife jokes, he goes, well,
Speaker 6: when you're driving up to Cleveland for the why don't
Speaker 6: you just stop in a station of columbnucy they need
Speaker 6: you to like cu you.
Speaker 3: Need to.
Speaker 4: Either right or is that does Zacharn have its own
Speaker 4: stations or is it all No, not anymore.
Speaker 3: Not anymore Youngstown, which I've done Youngstown. I've worked in Youngstown.
Speaker 6: Right well yeah, Parker's burden, but no again and we joke.
Speaker 6: But thank you everybody for all your supports and well
Speaker 6: because you know you and I think I can say
Speaker 6: this Eddie, you know, not being too deep here, but
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 3: How right hell yeah, absolutely, well you're doing something.
Speaker 5: Then you're like, okay, now.
Speaker 10: What No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: Uh let me let me just warn you. Frank, you
Speaker 1: got to watch out for that tanyo roarck man.
Speaker 3: Oh, she's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Still side you, Yeah, she's fantastic. For for a minute
Speaker 1: long time.
Speaker 5: Everybody listening. Kanya's in that.
Speaker 3: She is working, man, she is a worker.
Speaker 1: She's in there working, drangle me while my wife watches
Speaker 1: and they and she will plod. Uh buddy, welcome back
Speaker 1: and everybody check out morning Monday morning. It's what time y'all?
Speaker 1: You you started a natural.
Speaker 6: Hour four in the morning till seven. And yeah, get
Speaker 6: ready if it's if I if I mispronounced the call
Speaker 6: letters out of habits hopefully not, you can you can
Speaker 6: take a shot there you go, guys, Well.
Speaker 1: Been there, done that son, All right with that, Frank Marzullo.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, buddy.
Speaker 5: Thanks guys, have a good one.
Speaker 6: If you ever need me for anything, give me a call.
Speaker 1: Uh So, Frank is back on on nine News on
Speaker 1: the Morning Show.
Speaker 2: Frank's a fun guy.
Speaker 1: I'd love to We've been friends for many years and
Speaker 1: we always have a blast. As you know, I love, love,
Speaker 1: love local media stories. So I and because I off
Speaker 1: the air, I'm always asking you, Hey, what's going on
Speaker 1: this way?
Speaker 2: Frank?
Speaker 4: Frank, Frank knows all that stuff too. Absolutely, Look you
Speaker 4: guys out for beer?
Speaker 1: Uh oh yeah, I get a come bide, will spill
Speaker 1: the beans. This history too of local media here, Oh
Speaker 1: that's great love it. Speaking of local media, she has
Speaker 1: been hardwired into the local media scene for many, many years.
Speaker 1: She happened to be lucky enough to be my wife.
Speaker 1: She is Deborah Haas. Deb are you there? Are you
Speaker 1: answering me?
Speaker 9: I am, I'm trying to keep my media story to myself.
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 4: She wanted you to keep going for accolades there then
Speaker 4: and now.
Speaker 1: Deb handles the pr for Big Brothers Big Sisters of
Speaker 1: Greater Cincinnati and and wanted to get you on right
Speaker 1: quick near you guys, have you have a great event
Speaker 1: going on tomorrow at the Findley Market.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well thanks a lot, because it's you know, thank
Speaker 9: you for introduce me with.
Speaker 5: Big Brothers, Big Sisters.
Speaker 9: I mean, I've been there eighteen years and we're super
Speaker 9: proud of the work we do. But we also know
Speaker 9: that there are a lot of organizations around town that
Speaker 9: are doing great work with youth mentoring and there's you know,
Speaker 9: there are a lot of things where you know, where
Speaker 9: we do. You know, we have people to do this
Speaker 9: several times a month. Some organizations you can do it
Speaker 9: once a month, or you can do it once a
Speaker 9: week and kind of thing. So it's called it's a
Speaker 9: collaborative called we Mentor SINCA, and it's a group of
Speaker 9: about thirty youth mentoring organizations right here in town. And
Speaker 9: tomorrow at Finley Market, we'll have a dozen or so of.
Speaker 3: Us down there representing our agency.
Speaker 2: So our hope is.
Speaker 9: That people will come down to Finley tomorrow between two
Speaker 9: thirty and five thirty just to learn about you know,
Speaker 9: what are these mentoring organizations and how does it impact
Speaker 9: kids and what can they do whether it's close to
Speaker 9: their neighborhood or it's downtown or you know whatever, whatever
Speaker 9: works in the people's schedule.
Speaker 5: That's what we're trying to do is share with them that.
Speaker 9: Mentoring, you know, is a great thing, and how does
Speaker 9: it fit into your life and what do you want
Speaker 9: to do in terms of time and days of the
Speaker 9: week where you want to be And so we have
Speaker 9: a lot of organizations all youth mentoring within the greater
Speaker 9: Cincinnati area, lots of options there. In addition to Big
Speaker 9: Brothers Sisters, there's Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, there is Adopt the Class,
Speaker 9: There's Supersedes and Level Up and Saturday Hoops. There's so
Speaker 9: many that I think people really don't think about how
Speaker 9: many options they might have to come out and mentor
Speaker 9: a kid. And I think we can all think about
Speaker 9: who helped you when you were growing up, Who was
Speaker 9: a person you could count on that wasn't your dad
Speaker 9: or your mom or somebody, And these kids need.
Speaker 5: Somebody like that.
Speaker 9: So kind of think about who made a difference in
Speaker 9: your life and come out and consider being that person
Speaker 9: for a young person in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: And again, the event is at Findlay Market, what.
Speaker 9: Times Simley Market tomorrow from two thirty to five thirty
Speaker 9: and God Love Frank Marzulu's channel nine. I'll be on
Speaker 9: there right and early tomorrow morning talking about it again.
Speaker 9: But yeah, we'll be there all day with The main
Speaker 9: event is two thirty to five thirty at Finley and
Speaker 9: again twelve fourteen agencies will be down there to talk
Speaker 9: about the way they're mentoring works and how you can
Speaker 9: find one that fits into your life. And again there
Speaker 9: are thousands of kids locally waiting to have somebody step
Speaker 9: up to them, and we hope a lot of people
Speaker 9: come down and you know, everybody become one of those people.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So with that, I will see you in a little while.
Speaker 3: That'd be great, I hope.
Speaker 2: So thanks.
Speaker 1: You never know, I go hook up with Marzolo and
Speaker 1: tell stories.
Speaker 2: I'm going to join that.
Speaker 5: I think I can track you.
Speaker 2: Get Jay out there with us too.
Speaker 9: I'll tell him he's right here.
Speaker 1: See you, buddy, my wife. With that, we check in
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