WEBVTT - Eddie & Jason Williams -- 11/21/25 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.920 From the Inquire Sincinnaty dot com is with me full 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:09.000 of positivity and cheer. Yeah, it's here on the Friday 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:13.360 before Thanksgiving, and it's kind of this is like Thanksgiving 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:18.640 gra really, you know, just kind of well holiday gra 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.599 has started the next five weeks. Good luck getting a 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:23.439 lot of crap done. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:27.760 Man's I've been running Errand's out there today and ka, Lee, 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.280 Yeah it's you might you might You thought it was 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.400 like Christmas Eve or something out there on the hall 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.160 on the roads anywhere I went today. 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:39.080 Gosh, I stopped into uh and we're joined by Richard 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:43.240 Skinner for Local twelve and Skinny right quick. I had 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.360 to make a quick Kroger run today to get us 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.360 something for lunch. I'm like, yeah, I'll handle it. Dead 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:50.519 was at work, I'm going to Kroger. 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:51.360 Man. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.040 It was like it was like I needed an escort. 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.200 People are hardcore Thanksgiving shopping right now, let's just put 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:00.720 it that way. 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:04.280 I mean, this is the time to do it though, right, 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:06.600 I mean, oh absolutely, I hope you'd have all your stuff, 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:08.000 but yeah, this is the this is the day to 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.000 do it. Kind of a dreary day out go get 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.440 your shop and done and get yourself set for Thanksgiving 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:15.240 for goodness sake, I'm I'm good with that. 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.280 Well, okay, let's talk about this weekend here in the 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:23.880 big town. And there was a lot to talk about. Literally, 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.840 something happened in every day guys, and a couple of 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.679 things every day. Right, So let's let's jump in first 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:34.680 off and confront the Burrow issue. Skinny, Yeah, I do 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.039 what are you hearing? Because from all accounts he was 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.440 going to play and now they're waffling on it. Your 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:43.520 thoughts on what are you hearing? 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:46.520 Yeah, I don't think, but I don't think you're wrong 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.360 what you're saying. But I don't think by all accounts 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.440 he was going to play. I mean, they always talked 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:52.480 in terms of let's see how these two weeks go. 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:56.040 That was a Monday ago, that would take you through 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.680 this week. I think a lot of people jumped to 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:00.920 the conclusion on Wednesday when he was a full participant 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.600 in practice, which sounded like it was always the plan, 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:04.840 like that was the day they're gonna put him in 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.440 eleven or eleven. Joe Flaka was gonna be limited because 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.800 that's his regimen right now because of his shoulder, So 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.520 why not get Joe all the snaps and make him 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:13.320 a full participant. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.400 I think a lot of people jump to the conclusion of, 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.600 AHw he's gonna play, and he still might. I mean, 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:18.600 I don't want to rule that out. 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:20.480 I don't want to poo poo that, but no. 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.160 Down there today talking to Zach Taylor, and I just 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.799 got the vibe that I don't think he's quite comfortable 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.440 in doing this right now making him active in the 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.760 starter in part because they play another game five days 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:33.720 from now on Thursday. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.200 That's a big ass to play. That's a big ass. 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.000 For anybody in this league to play a game on 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.680 Sunday and turn around and play on Thursday, let alone 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:42.880 a guy coming from a coming back from a serious 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.880 injury to do the same thing. 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.200 I think the safest thing to do would be get 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.880 into practice this week. He's gonna only have one practice 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.560 next week. That's just the way the week goes. It's 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.960 a walk through practice, so it's not even a strenuous practice. 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.240 So this was the week to see can we push this? 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.760 How does it feel when we push this? And then 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.720 this off until Thursday to let him play. Edie To 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.840 your point again, I'm not I'm not dissing you on this. 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.000 I think a lot of people took that narrative on window. 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:12.400 Oh yeah, that's what I'm saying, Yeah, what everybody has 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.399 been saying. And I'm just curious about him myself. There's 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:15.960 reason I'm asking, sure. 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:17.880 Yeah he's and he still might. I don't want to 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.400 rule that out because it's not like my place to 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.200 rule out, and they haven't ruled it out. I think 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:27.160 this if Burrow was going to definitively start and they 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.200 had made up their mind on this, I think exactly 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:33.040 what it told us today. I could be wrong tomorrow 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:34.960 because they have till four o'clock to make the decision 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.120 on whether to activate him off the I or not. 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.280 I just I just got the sense that that whole 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.520 Sunday to Thursday thing is a big deal when he's 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:42.400 weighing this decision. 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.920 Maybe this, maybe this is a dumb question at this point, Skinny, 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.960 given what you just said and what's unfolded this week. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.120 But okay, let's say he doesn't play Sunday, they lose again, 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.840 which they're going to, and then and then what I 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.560 mean is is he is it a foregone conclusion He's 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.800 coming back no matter what. 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.240 Not a foegone conclusion, but that was asked of Zach today. 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.800 You know what if you're you know, for the for 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.320 the all rights and purposes, all intensive purposes, you're out 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.960 of the playoff mix. You know when he returns, should 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.520 he return. And that's point was winning is important. And 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.479 I don't think he's just important as Zach Taylor for 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.279 his job. I think he means for any player, winning 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.159 is important. And he said, this guy's a football player. 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.520 It's what he does. He wants to play and he's 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.440 help you enough, he's gonna play. And I think that's 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.360 what we're out with that, and I get fans. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:32.880 Going, yeah, but what if he gets started again and it. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:33.600 Cost next year. 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.800 I remember Zach earlier this season saying, I can't think 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.680 that way. I can't think of a player, you know, 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.760 protecting a player from getting hurt. It's just part of 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.760 the league. If they do, they do, I get the whole. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.520 If you're out of it, what's the point, Well, it's 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.200 five or six games of reps. It's it's five or 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.040 six games of the career stats. When you start to 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.800 put stats together, nobody wants to hear that there's there's something. 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:56.440 To that as well. 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.839 And I do think for this highly competitive guy, playing 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:01.800 is important to him. 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:02.240 I mean, he. 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.000 Wouldn't have busted his butt to come back early. I 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.080 mean the original timeline for this was like mid. 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:11.520 December, right, I remember that, Yes, fourteenth, the Clippers game. 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:13.840 Here we are before Thanksgiving with the thought fight, Oh 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.719 like play this week and he might. So we're still 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.960 early on the timeline here. Because I think that's him, 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.520 it's important to him, and I don't I don't blame 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.200 him for that. I also understand fans of man just 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.040 put him in bubble wrapping. Let's go to next year 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.120 and be done with this. I fully get that. It's 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:30.400 just not the way these dudes operate. 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.279 And as Zach told our pal Tom Brenneman yesterday morning 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.640 about Joe Burrow, he's just wired different. 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.640 Yes, no, I'll be honest, head. I saw him in 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.640 the locker room Wednesday. I went to Joe Flacco's press 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:44.800 conference and I had to talk to a couple of 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:46.520 players in the locker room, and I was leaving earlier 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.000 than it was going to be closed, and I looked 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.480 by Burrow's locker and he's sitting in there. He looked 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:51.760 like he. 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.960 Had just he had just come from being zero blitz 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:56.640 sixty seven times, had to avoid it. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:57.719 He just looked a mess. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.920 And I'm like, oh my gosh, that looks awful, wow, 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:04.080 staring into space. But he also might have just been compartmentalizing. Okay, 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.480 I got back to a full practice. I'm exhausted, all right, 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.359 I can do it. Was It's just he's wired differently. 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:10.560 There is no doubt about that. 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.240 Yep. Well we're talking to Richard Skinner and Skinny let's 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.720 talk about the football game going on downtown tonight. Yeah, 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.320 a big deal. I mean, obviously this has been all 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:25.120 the chat, elder saying X and uh, I tell you 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.719 two people aren't happy about it, and that would be 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:32.279 uh Wes Miller and Pat Kelsey. Did you. I read 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.200 that story in the in the Inquiry yesterday and Pat 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:40.640 Kelsey's like, I'm an elder guy. Yes, this sucks. 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:41.200 Yeah. 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.159 That being said, I think also the ticket prices for 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:48.159 that event are just a margerie and I think that's 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.800 cost him. But also to your point, I mean, you're 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.000 gonna have twenty five thousand is at paid court tonight and. 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:55.560 Of those, what are those twenty five thousand? 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.920 Would have thought about going to U see a little 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.080 bit u of l probably not a decent. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:00.960 But a chunk of them. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:02.160 I do think it's cool. 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.320 A guy that Jason knows, and I owe you know 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:07.360 him too, Eddie. We're going to say, Tom Gamble, who's 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:08.240 run high school events? 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:08.840 Wherever? 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:09.240 You did? 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.280 This guyline Chilly Crosstown shootout at Nippert Stadium, and I 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.400 always thought that was really cool for the kids. I 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.880 remember the year they had the high school playoff doubleheader 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.960 at at paid Corp had like forty eight thousand. The 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.680 one year they had the Saint ex Cole Raine playoff 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.400 game there. I remember sitting in the stands there with 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.160 a with a guy who sells for iHeart and uh, 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:28.840 you know, it was just a great game and one 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.960 on an overtime. And I think, whenever you can get 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:33.720 kids to play in it, then you like this and 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.440 it makes and whenever it makes costs sense, and I 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.000 think it does in this case for sure, I'm all 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:40.320 for that. I think it's really cool. I mean, one 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:41.760 of my one of the coolest things I ever did. 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.520 I can still remember this day. And as a fifth 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.600 grader living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, my my fifth grade team 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.640 got to play in halftime of a game in the 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.200 Maybe Center on or Roberts' campus, and I remember my 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.600 name being announced over the speakers, thinking I was the 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.280 coolest thing on planet Earth. I mean, those those are 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:58.560 really cool events. 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.040 I'm glad you brought that up up and I hope, 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.240 hopefully this is the start of something. And you know, 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:08.600 I hopefully the Bengals and will be willing to you know, 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:13.000 be gracious with our stadium and let other team because 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.120 I you know, you talk about gambo and he no 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.840 one does it better. No one does high school showdowns 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:22.400 and throw downs and massive events the way he does, 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.920 and he's done such fantastic work on that and to 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.520 it'd be great to allow him to get in there 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:31.200 and start getting some some big high school events, showcase events, 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:33.720 you know. I know that's been part of the talk 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.360 this week as well. And yeah, I'm really I mean, 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.000 there's just so many Dagone storylines this week, and we 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.120 you know, it's funny, we're we're seventeen. What, well, we're 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.800 three seventeen. We've talked to you for what ten minutes now, skinny, 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.080 and we've gotten through Burrow and Elder. 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:54.160 Saint x On on a on a huge weekend. Let's 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:59.400 talk about talking about the Bearcats and Cardinals. This is 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.720 a big game, and again it's kind of fallen through 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.360 the cracks, and that's a shame it is. 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.200 I mean, I listen, it's a great test for you see, 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:08.400 and you're not going to get a lot of tests 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:10.560 in the non conference before they get into Big twelve 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.640 where they'll get a test on literally every night. So 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.920 this was a big deal. You get it in your 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.160 town on a neutral floor. I think that's also a 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.160 big deal. I really like to have this be a 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:20.840 home at home series. 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:21.440 I think it's. 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:24.360 Right. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.480 Yeah, we talked to him yesterday and he was not 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.320 happy about this occurrence. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:30.800 Yeah. 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.839 No, I think that it's as a Kentucky Granted, it's 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.199 it's paining me that they've not done Kentucky Indiana home 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.040 at home. They're doing it now, but it took a 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:42.720 while to get back to that. Just it's yeah, no. 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.080 I love for them all, but no, I think this 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:46.720 is a huge test for you See. I think this 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.800 is where you'll see what are they and what do 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.360 they need to fix or how good are they if 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.319 they beat U of Al. I think l is a 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:55.800 one of the ten teams you can put in the 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:57.600 pot and say that's a national championship contender. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.120 They're back. They're that good of a team. 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:00.280 So this would be a great yes. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:00.840 What you see? 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:05.560 All right? And also let's not forget on Sunday, well, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.440 of course in the Bengals Patriots, but at five o'clock 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:14.040 FC Cincinnati trying to advance and messy and messy. Oh 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.959 and by the way, a soccer player in the world, 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:24.320 anybody listened to Willie lately? Uh messy, messy, messy. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.040 And Saturday night you see host d Yu and a 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:25.920 big football. 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:32.400 Game, bigon big doon Saturday Fox. People are like, have you, 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.040 I say, do you recall in terms of just the 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.280 breadth of the depth and breadth of the of sports 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:43.880 on a weekend? And I know, probably in the grand 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.720 scheme most of these games outside of the f C 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:51.840 Cincinnati obviously, uh well and obviously Saint accent Elder of course. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.600 Uh you know that these aren't there's not a great 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.200 huge thing at stake and those other handful of games. 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:03.239 But do you remember a sporting weekend like this in Cincinnati? 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.720 Uh? What would will does anything come to mind? 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:05.920 No? 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:08.040 No, I mean. 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.600 You've got a high school football game in an NFL stadium. 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.960 You've got a big time Division one college basketball game 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.199 literally within walking distance of that major high school football game. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:19.840 That great walking distance. But you know, I'm saying you 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.520 can walk the boat. Oh and then by the way, Saturday, 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.319 you've got uh the uc B B why you game 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.240 at night? Nip at night is an awesome and it's 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.880 awesome anyway, it's an awesome environment. And then Sunday you 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:31.960 may have the return of Joe Burrow and and I 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:33.960 mean all of this in one week, and Messy and 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:34.960 and and the game. 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:38.000 With in Miami. I mean, that is insane for for 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:39.880 one city to have all that in the weekend. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.680 Pretty cool, all right, well we'll all enjoy it, and Skinny, 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.079 we will talk to you next week. Buddy, take care. 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:51.079 You got are our good friend Richard Skinner. So you 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.559 guys all go down there and suck up the lunch 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.120 buffet and stuff and all hobnob and all that's suff 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:58.679 down at the press box. 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.360 A pay question for Yeah, I still miss I still 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:05.880 miss calling it Paul Brown Stadium. Oh great, great Paul Brown, 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.719 the innovator, the pioneers. It was great to have is 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.960 and then I understand, like the selling name, he writes, 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:14.520 But yeah, it'll always be Paul Brown Stadium in my heart. 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.880 So in the lunch room there do they serve? Do 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.640 they serve beers? And now you know, because I think 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:24.040 they used to remember that was a big thing in baseball. 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.040 In baseball like that was always a big thing in 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:27.800 Saint Louis. Had a tap in the back of the 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.520 press box at old Busch Stadium. When I covered the 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.400 Twins in Minnesota in the Metronome, they always would bring 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:37.000 a massive tub. All the writers would be back upstairs 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:41.480 after doing the clubhouse interviews and the latest Lady Peg 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:46.160 she was the clubhouse or the press box attendant, you know, 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.520 she did all the concessions in the press box. She 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.720 would bring this big tub of like cann cans of 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.000 beer and set it in the back of the press box. 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:59.080 And those Saint Paul Pioneer press boys and Minneapolis Star 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:00.160 Tributne boys. 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:07.199 Enjoyed have a little SuDS and write your stories. Yeah, yes, 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.439 I remember, I remember the old stories that there being 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.440 taps in the locker room at the Riverfront Stadium and 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.480 those guys would after a game would sit there and 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.959 play cards. And sug down beers for a while. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.000 Well, I remember, like I remember in ninety eight, I 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:26.319 was an intern at the Cincinnati Post God Rest his soul, 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:32.040 and it was in the it was the McGuire Sosa 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.800 home run races at ninety eight. Yeah, and they, you know, 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.679 are the editor there, sent me down do sidebars on that, 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.000 and so I remember going into the clubhouse and Mark 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.880 Grace was drinking a beer in one hand and has 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:48.000 a cigarette and the other one, and it's like you're 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.600 talking about like, I mean an you wait, mane, this 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.680 is major league sports. And yeah, I mean, but that 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.880 was he wasn't the only one over you know, a 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.080 certain generation of player that did that. 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.240 With that, we had to traffic and weather. What's going on? 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.640 I'm not sure where Rock was off to this weekend. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:10.760 Maybe told man don't recall, but coming up jas today 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.800 we're going to be talking at four o'clock with Rosemary. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:20.080 Rosemary Mooring from the from River Bend and they're already 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.880 starting to a bunch of shows already booked for the summertime. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.520 That's amazing to me. It's not even Thanksgiving yet. 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.280 How is the We'll ask her, what's the wonder how 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:32.920 the project is coming along with. 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.320 That's what I'm going. I wondered about that overall, not overhaul, 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:40.280 but this expansion of right of whether they're building a 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.880 whole new facility, right the old building, the. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.240 Old Coney Island pool was right. It was a big 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:48.520 controversy at one point. 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:50.520 Yeah, that well, that kind of drifted. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.720 Was it really a controversy or was it just a 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:53.720 few small people? 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.280 Well, there was some some locals. There was a group 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.800 of locals. But hey, look I had many great memories 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.080 out there to cony. I was what was the pool 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:03.640 Sunlight pool? Yeah, Sunlight pool. 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:03.880 Yeah. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.840 I was only swimming there for a couple, you know 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.480 a few times, but just it was a it was 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:14.280 a beautiful lace. That's where deb and I had our 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:19.360 wedding reception there in gardens. I saw some concerts there 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.000 at Moonlight Gardens. It was cool. Did they preserve that? 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:30.080 I think that's all gone, but yeah, we had uh o, 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.240 our reception was there and it was it was quite 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:38.360 the jam and that well, it was one of those 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:41.160 things where her mom and dad were like, we're going 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:42.840 to pay for this. I was like, you're not paying 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:43.160 for this. 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.400 All the all the Cincinnati TV stars came out, TV 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.280 and radio. Sorry, we had those stars as well. 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:56.360 Dude. Oh wild Man was there. Wild Man DJ'd and 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.760 all the nine people were there, and they're one of 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:04.480 a couple of their cinematographers were shooting it there. They 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.440 were our wedding photographers. So they're going around shooting video 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.440 and you know, while they're drinking Gin and Tonics or whatever. 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.200 But it was it was quite a little Carol Williams 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:21.360 of course, Clyde Gray, Yeah, all all all the greats. 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:25.240 Any o, Yeah, I think Tanya was there, don't I 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.080 don't remember, but everybody that worked at nine that's when 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:32.920 it was ninety seven, so anybody in that era, yeah, 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:34.960 all of them. Man, I'd love to have just spend 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.400 a fly on the wall. That was. It was fun 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.920 and they they had a h there was a thing 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:46.400 where they had to close it at eleven o'clock that 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.240 was written into the contract. So well, with this crowd, 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.040 we're just getting started, say, don't you know this is 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:55.160 a bunch of media people. Yeah, I mean it started 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:59.080 like at six and it's eleven o'clock and young correct 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:03.200 and uh they okay, drink up last call and this 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:09.520 is like quarter eleven or whatever, and so what a 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:14.120 guy we used to well, God bless him. Randy Michaels 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.639 is still in town and was the boss of UH. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.600 He owned this station and EBN at the time created 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:23.800 a lot of a lot of radio things that people 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.800 here today. And he walked up to the bartenders and said, 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:28.760 I'll give you any amount of money you want to 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.560 keep this bar open until we say shut it down. 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.840 That sounds that sounds about like him. That's Randy. And 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:37.560 they were like, sir, we would love to take you 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:41.760 up on that, but no, we can't do that. So 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:47.200 so you all go to my house. It's a long story. 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:53.960 My neighbors, we've got time. We're all were well, and 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.800 my dear late mother was there and my sister, my aunt, 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.000 my aunts were there and all that stuff. And perhaps 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.800 see your buddy here had well, we had access to 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.119 the eb N used to have a limo, and we 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.120 had access to the limo that had taken us there. 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.560 And perhaps your buddy here had a couple of the cocktails. 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.480 And I get on the microphone. Okay, they're closing us down, 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.680 but everybody's invited to our house. And that's when we 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.360 had a pool and Uh, I said, come on back 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.360 to the house because we're all gonna go naked swimming 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:29.560 and the bar is open, and uh, everybody like yeah, 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.720 and off we went, and my mother didn't come. I 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.919 figure she probably veered off to Betty didn't make it. 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.880 I don't know what happened there. Uh coming and well 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:41.400 come on. 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.000 Now, I know you're gonna get mad at me for 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.560 going over time here real quick, but uh did that happen? 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:52.960 Uh? Or anyway, we got to get to were traffic, 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:57.000 traffic and weather Man we're I'll I'll tell you off there. 0:18:57.720 --> 0:18:58.360 What's going on? 0:18:58.440 --> 0:18:58.560 Right? 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.320 He says? It is for Friday round about this time. 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:07.000 We talked to this fellow, right, y'all our good friend 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:12.560 John made Reese w CPO nine News, and don't waste 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.240 your money, John, Johnny. How are we doing? 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:15.400