Speaker 1: Do you want to be an American?
Speaker 2: Friday Morning, Scott Flung show roll them on seven hundred
Speaker 2: WW have football this weekend football, the Lore Army Navy
Speaker 2: game this weekend bold match as are all set up
Speaker 2: and the college playoffs exciting, and we have the Bengals
Speaker 2: in action at four to nine against them Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 2: at six and seven. Since then, I of course whooped
Speaker 2: them up good on Thursday. Are Thanksgiving nine on Thursday
Speaker 2: and Baltimore coming off a loss to Pittsburgh, and certainly
Speaker 2: Baltimore has a little bit more to play for the
Speaker 2: Bengals this weekend. But nonetheless it is the freezer Ble
Speaker 2: Part two. Dan Horde is here ready to go. He's
Speaker 2: got his thermal underwear, his battery powered coat. I think
Speaker 2: a couple space heaters in the booth next to Dave
Speaker 2: lap them. Hopefully Lap generates some heat and all will
Speaker 2: be well. On Sunday afternoon, Daniel, good morning.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Sonny. I need to go get some of
Speaker 3: those hand warming things that you like. You you know,
Speaker 3: crack the bag open and it gits there in your
Speaker 3: pocket or and your gloves. I need to get some
Speaker 3: of those. By saying I had some else did you described,
Speaker 3: But I knew some of those, all.
Speaker 2: Right, I got some extras. But it's weird because they
Speaker 2: don't really warm as well as you. I mean, it's okay,
Speaker 2: but just that little rectangles alid heats, it really doesn't transfer.
Speaker 2: You got to have those thermal gloves, the battery operated coach,
Speaker 2: Those are nice. I do have one of those. Those
Speaker 2: are those are pretty good?
Speaker 3: All right? Good?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Prepared?
Speaker 2: Hit the team shop there on the way into the game, Dan,
Speaker 2: and load up for crying out loud. Bengals lost in
Speaker 2: snowy Buffalo, speaking of cold weather. That was a tough one.
Speaker 2: Before we move on to Baltimore. You know, we'll get
Speaker 2: to the Joe Burrows stuff here. You know, the first
Speaker 2: peck certainly was all a great play by forty seven,
Speaker 2: but first pick was all him. Second one was just
Speaker 2: the right place, right time. Not all Joe on this one,
Speaker 2: and the Bengals not enough stops on third and fourth
Speaker 2: down inability to stop tight ends. Josh Allen ran away
Speaker 2: and twenty one points in the fourth quarter. Was just
Speaker 2: a heartbreaker for this team.
Speaker 3: Twenty one points in three minutes. It's crazy. Yeah, what
Speaker 3: a game. I mean, that was game. It was super
Speaker 3: fun to call. The end result was bitterly disappointing as
Speaker 3: a Bengals person, but the game was commend and yeah,
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow was close to perfect, but not quite and
Speaker 3: unfortunately he needed to be because of the way the
Speaker 3: Bolls were playing as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just a fun atmosphere. I was at
Speaker 2: the game and it was just a fun atmosphere all around.
Speaker 2: Bengals fans were cool. We had a good time. But
Speaker 2: now we just had his press conference Joe Burrow and
Speaker 2: your take on what he said. I think it's just,
Speaker 2: you know, again we're looking for the hot take here.
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow said, you know, if I want to keep
Speaker 2: doing this, I have to fun doing it. I've been
Speaker 2: through a lot and if it's not fun, then what
Speaker 2: am I doing it for. So that's the mindset I'm
Speaker 2: trying to bring to the table on his birthday. I
Speaker 2: think way too much is you know, I get it.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: It's about the busitiness and headlines and clicks and all
Speaker 2: that as well. Yeah, I mean he just over the
Speaker 2: last year. I mean he made sure deals got done
Speaker 2: for his two receivers as well as Trey Hendrickson and
Speaker 2: they did, So where's he going to go? And why?
Speaker 2: It just it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, I'm glad that you have a reasonable
Speaker 3: look at this. I felt the same way when I
Speaker 3: started watching ESPN yesterday. I was like, did I just
Speaker 3: sit in the same room and then witnessed this news
Speaker 3: conference completely differently from the rest of the world. I
Speaker 3: mean to say that, well, clearly he wants out. Is
Speaker 3: the most irresponsible, fake psychologist degree analysis of some of
Speaker 3: these news conference I've ever seen. Yeah, he hasn't been
Speaker 3: happy the last through three or four years, would you be.
Speaker 3: He's been hurt, he's been in constant rehab, and the
Speaker 3: team hasn't been winning. So I don't blame him for
Speaker 3: not being happy. I don't think anybody in the building
Speaker 3: has been particularly happy. It's been rough. The key is
Speaker 3: to turn it around as quickly as possible, and nobody
Speaker 3: is more determined to do that than Joe Burrows. So
Speaker 3: I do think that the one thing we know for
Speaker 3: sure was that it was his birthday. Not only that,
Speaker 3: but it was his twenty ninth birthday. And I think
Speaker 3: a lot of people have a reaction to that particular number,
Speaker 3: or a lot of birthdays that end with nine, because
Speaker 3: it does represent the end of something, and I think
Speaker 3: in Joe Burrow's case, he probably looked at twenty nine
Speaker 3: I thought, you know what, I'm not going to be
Speaker 3: able to do this forever, and I sure hope as
Speaker 3: a team we can get this turned around as quickly
Speaker 3: as possible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a really yea. I mean it's a good
Speaker 2: point right at the end of a decade here of life.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna be thirty next time we do this,
Speaker 2: and that's a milestone. Uh. Some people have harder. You
Speaker 2: have a hard time with birthdays, Dan.
Speaker 3: I don't never have, you know, partly because I'm as
Speaker 3: immature at my current age as i was when I
Speaker 3: was eighteen. So I feel like I haven't changed at all,
Speaker 3: despite the physical decline that has rapidly occurred over the years.
Speaker 3: But mentally, I'm just saying stupid more on that I
Speaker 3: always was.
Speaker 2: Right right, You're just an older, dumber version of those. Sorry,
Speaker 2: I get it there, one hundred percent. All right, Well,
Speaker 2: segue to this injuries real quick here. Trey Hendrickson done
Speaker 2: for the season and probably saw his last game as
Speaker 2: a Bengal.
Speaker 3: I would agree with that I would be surprised if
Speaker 3: he came back. They could franchise tag him, but I
Speaker 3: don't expect there to be, you know, a contract extension.
Speaker 3: Certainly they've been a hard time getting those done over
Speaker 3: the last couple of years. I don't know why I
Speaker 3: would be easy now. So yeah, I would assume that
Speaker 3: this is it for Tray and let's hope the Bengals
Speaker 3: take that thirty million that he's getting and put it
Speaker 3: toward somebody else that can really help that defense, or
Speaker 3: a couple of guys that can help that defense.
Speaker 2: Right the other side of the ball for the Yeah,
Speaker 2: for the Bengals, here is t Man. You know, we
Speaker 2: saw him go down and even Bill fans are like
Speaker 2: it was kind of quiet because he saw him like
Speaker 2: sit up and it's on the big board. And it
Speaker 2: happened a couple of times where his head made contact effort.
Speaker 2: You know, he made some incredible catches where I touchdown.
Speaker 2: It was unbelievable. One hand should have been a flag
Speaker 2: too on top of that. But nonetheless, great great TV.
Speaker 2: But Struck has had a couple of times he's limited.
Speaker 2: He was limited this week. But where do things stand
Speaker 2: with him? I'm worried about him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's a couple of well, one confirmed
Speaker 3: concussion and then this week in concussion protocol. I don't
Speaker 3: know specifically if he was diagnosed with another concussion, but
Speaker 3: he had symptoms, so he got to go through the protocol.
Speaker 3: And when it's the second time in three weeks, you
Speaker 3: take it super carefully. So the turf is going to
Speaker 3: be really hard on Sunday because of a single degree temperatures.
Speaker 3: I would guess that the contrussion protocol people, the independent
Speaker 3: neurologists will probably err on the cautious side and leave
Speaker 3: him out. But I don't know that for a fact.
Speaker 2: I would take if he played, he'd be wearing the
Speaker 2: you know, the helmet bubble at least, right, that's.
Speaker 3: A good idea. I hadn't thought of that, but yeah,
Speaker 3: that's something else he could do if he chooses to.
Speaker 3: You know, the thing is, I have not talked to
Speaker 3: Tea since the game on Sunday. I've seen in the
Speaker 3: building a couple of times. He looks fine. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, again, he's been limited in practice, so I
Speaker 3: think he's probably doing okay, But just because of the
Speaker 3: twice in three weeks factor, they might make sure that
Speaker 3: he stays out for another game that you know, you
Speaker 3: got to take this very seriously for that particular injury.
Speaker 2: I was actually surprised with the conditions. And you know
Speaker 2: in Buffalo as calls it was with a with a
Speaker 2: hard turf as you mentioned Dan, because that's artificial, that
Speaker 2: he wasn't wearing it. Then that that kind of surprised me.
Speaker 2: Other side of the ball thought, pretty good if this
Speaker 2: doesn't happen. But Mark Andrews, it's not the same guy
Speaker 2: he was. But Bengals have a tough problem with tight ends.
Speaker 2: As we mentioned with the Bills loss, Mark Andrews was
Speaker 2: limited and the Rashod Bateman limited as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're a problem with tight end is crazy. You know,
Speaker 3: they've given up roughly three hundred more yards to tight
Speaker 3: end than any other team in the NFL. I think
Speaker 3: it's at least five more touchdowns to tight ends than
Speaker 3: any other team in the in the NFL. So it's
Speaker 3: just been a recurring nightmare. And in that first Baltimore game,
Speaker 3: it was Isaiah Likely that had a really good game
Speaker 3: except for fumbling when he was going in for a
Speaker 3: forty four yard touchdown. When you know Jordan Battle hustled
Speaker 3: and managed to rip the ball away just as the
Speaker 3: ball was about to cross the goal line, or those
Speaker 3: numbers would be even better. So yeah, that's the key.
Speaker 3: Not having Mark Andrews helped Cincinnati, although I say likely
Speaker 3: is really good too.
Speaker 2: What do you attribute that to the problem that the
Speaker 2: Bengals had all season? And you can go back to
Speaker 2: last year a little bit too as well, with tight ends.
Speaker 3: I think it's two things. I think the rookie linebackers
Speaker 3: from a position group standpoint of the biggest problem. I
Speaker 3: don't think that they've handled that part of the job
Speaker 3: very well at all. And then secondly, I do think
Speaker 3: it's kind of a matter of you know, what you
Speaker 3: prioritize as a defense. So if your number one priority
Speaker 3: is to make sure that the ball doesn't get thrown
Speaker 3: over your head, you're not going to give up any
Speaker 3: sixty or seventy yard touchdown passes. Then it just stands
Speaker 3: to reason that the middle part of the field is
Speaker 3: probably going to be at least a little more open,
Speaker 3: But that doesn't account for how open it's been. You know,
Speaker 3: it's okay to make that your priority. The Bengals certainly
Speaker 3: aren't the only defense in the NFL. That does, but
Speaker 3: you still ought to be able to do a better
Speaker 3: job at handling the intermediate part of the field.
Speaker 2: They have, Yeah, And I mean what Zay Flowers had
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty four I think against Pittsburgh only
Speaker 2: two catches against the Bengals of Thanksgiving, So you can
Speaker 2: corral him isaa likely? You mentioned him. I think had
Speaker 2: almost one hundred yards last week as well too. So
Speaker 2: there's got to be a shift involved here with the Bengals,
Speaker 2: and that's something they got to focus on the off
Speaker 2: season for sure.
Speaker 3: You know one thing that they've done in recent years
Speaker 3: that they haven't done as much this year is have
Speaker 3: kind of a tight end stopper on the team. When
Speaker 3: they went to the Super Bowl, they had a guy
Speaker 3: named Trey Flowers that that was his specific role and
Speaker 3: he was really good at it. And I think looking
Speaker 3: at the current roster, I kind of thought that they
Speaker 3: could use Djivy in that role. He's near the bottom
Speaker 3: of the totem pole for defensive backs on the team,
Speaker 3: but he's a tall guy with long arms. He's kind
Speaker 3: of looks like somebody who would be ideally suited to
Speaker 3: cover a tight end in certain situations. I'm a little
Speaker 3: bit surprised they haven't gone to that more often than
Speaker 3: they have now.
Speaker 2: Dan Horde on the matchup Sunday, it's going to be
Speaker 2: cold as the Bengals and the Ravens go at it
Speaker 2: at pay Court Stadium, Dan and lamp with the call
Speaker 2: of course here on Home of the Best. Bengals covered
Speaker 2: seven hundred WLW last time they met, Bengals Hadmar Jackson
Speaker 2: who I think fifty three percent completion and what they
Speaker 2: had five turnovers and that it was insane. He has
Speaker 2: thrown I believe, correct me if I'm wrong one touchdown
Speaker 2: in four interceptions over the last handful of games. Not
Speaker 2: the same Lamar Jackson that we're used to seeing at
Speaker 2: the time of the year, any year for that matter. Well,
Speaker 2: I know he's had some injuries with a hamstring right,
Speaker 2: and missing practices too. I think he had the maybe
Speaker 2: a tow as well. How do you explain what has
Speaker 2: happened to Lamar Jackson this season?
Speaker 3: I think you just did. I think he's hurt. I
Speaker 3: think when you watch him play, I mean, I give
Speaker 3: him credit, he's out there trying to get his team
Speaker 3: to the playoffs, but he's hesitant to take off and run.
Speaker 3: You can see it. There are multiple situations in every
Speaker 3: game where normally he's off to the races and it's
Speaker 3: going to be at least a ten yard run because
Speaker 3: that's you know, Lamar, and nobody's done that better in
Speaker 3: his career than him. Now he's really reluctant to do it.
Speaker 3: When he does take off and run, he'll get a
Speaker 3: few yards, but he'll head to the sideline. He'll not
Speaker 3: Serpentine is way up the field for huge games. So
Speaker 3: I just think in watching his play, you can clearly
Speaker 3: tell that his legs are not one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: I saw some highlights last week's Steeler game goes you know,
Speaker 2: we're on the road of Buffalo last week, and it
Speaker 2: even is like his throwing doesn't look quite right. And obviously,
Speaker 2: you know, if you're injured, especially if it's a hamsterring
Speaker 2: or something, it's going to affect how you throw the
Speaker 2: football as well.
Speaker 3: So it's a double edged sword. I think that's what
Speaker 3: it is too. I think if your legs are not
Speaker 3: one hundred percent as a quarterback, it affects everything. You know,
Speaker 3: the good thing about Joe Burrow's toe injury this year
Speaker 3: is that it's the left big toe, which in terms
Speaker 3: of throwing is probably like one of the least significant
Speaker 3: body parts. You're landing on it, So in that sense
Speaker 3: it can be painful, but it doesn't involve the plant
Speaker 3: to push off the things that generate power for a quarterback.
Speaker 3: But if you've got hamstring growing issues, the type of
Speaker 3: things that I think Lamar's been dealing with this year,
Speaker 3: that affects your throwing. Not to the same extent as
Speaker 3: you're running, but it certainly affects all of it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a whole mechanism as well too, And Joe's
Speaker 2: got that plate in there. Hopefully that that answers that question.
Speaker 2: Back to week thirteen, they shut down the Bengals. Did
Speaker 2: Derrick Henry pretty damn well had one twenty eight yard run.
Speaker 2: Other than that, it was just like three and a
Speaker 2: half yards per carry. And I'll now look at you know,
Speaker 2: Buffalo different kind of a little bit different there because
Speaker 2: Josh Allen was a little more ambulatory than Lamar Jackson was.
Speaker 2: But the run game was fairly successful, I guess against
Speaker 2: the Bengals. The Bills did with James Cook, how do
Speaker 2: you stop him again? This week? And on Sunday Derek Henry,
Speaker 2: and I would also factor in Keaton Mitchell into the
Speaker 2: mix as well. Who Keaton Mitchell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Keithon Mitchell's really fat, great contract with Derrick Henry. Well,
Speaker 3: the way you stop it is prioritizing stopping it and
Speaker 3: hope that you don't get killed by Lamar's arm, hope
Speaker 3: that he's still not one hundred percent doesn't throw well
Speaker 3: as he normally would. It's interesting because I've talked to
Speaker 3: a couple of Baltimore reporters this week for various shows
Speaker 3: that I do, and both of them have hit on
Speaker 3: the same theme. Baltimore is not giving it to Derrick
Speaker 3: Henry enough or like he's only I think he's had
Speaker 3: one game this year with more than twenty five carries,
Speaker 3: maybe something like that. And both of these people were like,
Speaker 3: I can't believe they're just not feeding to them, feeding
Speaker 3: it to them play after play after play. So I
Speaker 3: said to these guys, I hope the offensive coordinator is
Speaker 3: not listening to this show because as a Bengals fan
Speaker 3: flash broadcaster, I don't want to see Dereck Henry get
Speaker 3: it a million times if we have single digit temperatures
Speaker 3: and snowy surface on Sunday, Derrick Henry might get it
Speaker 3: thirty times, so we'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean you go back to Thanksgiving nights.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati dominated the time of possession as well, and it
Speaker 2: was like seventeen minutes more than Baltimore ad and just
Speaker 2: control the clock, control the clock. I feel like that
Speaker 2: should be especial with the weather. The way is, that's
Speaker 2: what we're looking at. Can they replicate what they did
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving to Sunday, Dan.
Speaker 3: Hort, They can't replicate getting five takeaways. No, that was
Speaker 3: the biggest reason why there was such a disparity in
Speaker 3: the time of possession. That's not going to happen again.
Speaker 3: But can they win the turnover ratio battle? Can it
Speaker 3: be plus two? If it's something like that, they have
Speaker 3: got a very good chance of winning.
Speaker 2: Well, we just mentioned Lamar has been you know, turnover
Speaker 2: prone the last handful of games. I would imagine that
Speaker 2: continues on Sunday because especially because of the conditions.
Speaker 3: Well I hope. So, you know, Lamar in his career,
Speaker 3: he hasn't thrown a ton of interceptions. He's always been
Speaker 3: good in that category. He has fumbled a decent amount
Speaker 3: of times. He doesn't protect the ball as well when
Speaker 3: he moves around as Joe does. When you watch Joe,
Speaker 3: he's always got two hands on the ball. It's one
Speaker 3: of the great things from a fundamental standpoint that Joe
Speaker 3: Burrow does as well as anybody. But Lamar he'll hold
Speaker 3: that thing out there a little bit and you get
Speaker 3: the opportunity to punch it away. It's one of the
Speaker 3: reasons why Lamar does not have a great playoff record.
Speaker 3: He's bumbled in the playoffs a lot. So he coughed
Speaker 3: it up a couple of times in that Thanksgiving night game,
Speaker 3: and that'd be nice to see again, would be.
Speaker 2: Of course, you're doing the game on Sunday at one
Speaker 2: o'clock with Dave Lapham at pay Corp in a very
Speaker 2: very cold game at that coldest game you've ever broadcast
Speaker 2: KC maybe last year.
Speaker 3: It was at New England Christmas Eve twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: That was cold. That was brutally cold. The Bengals team
Speaker 3: plane had to make an emergency landing on the flight
Speaker 3: home on Christmas Eve, I think somewhere in the New
Speaker 3: York City area, if I recall, because one of the
Speaker 3: engines was out. That was an eventful Christmas Eve, but
Speaker 3: the Bengals won the game thanks to Von Bell stripping
Speaker 3: Ramandre Stevenson inside the ten in the final minute to
Speaker 3: preserve the victory. And the great thing I always remember
Speaker 3: about that game, Sonya, it was brutally cold, I mean
Speaker 3: crazy cold. That Joe Burrow completed forty passes. That's his
Speaker 3: career high, the most passes he's ever completed in a
Speaker 3: game came in the coldest game that he's ever played in.
Speaker 3: So when the Bengals have these bad weather games and
Speaker 3: people wonder, well, Gia, they're going to be able to
Speaker 3: pass the ball if it's not really windy, The answer
Speaker 3: is yes, because for Joe Burrow it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't right arm, strike, deliver it right on
Speaker 2: the target like he always does. It was like in
Speaker 2: aberration last week that the pick six that he had.
Speaker 2: You don't see that from Joe. Other quarterbacks you do,
Speaker 2: You don't see that from Joe Burrow. You also got basketball, Dan,
Speaker 2: are you excited about you? I mean your court side.
Speaker 2: You have a climate controlled situation there. You gotta love that.
Speaker 3: They're not opening the roof in Atlanta tomorrow. I don't
Speaker 3: know what.
Speaker 2: That's what you gonna look like hockey where they play outside.
Speaker 3: That's what you need in February. Be a neat twist. Yes,
Speaker 3: the Bearcats are headed to Atlanta for a supposedly neutral
Speaker 3: site game against the University of Georgia, but obviously much
Speaker 3: closer to Athens, Georgia than Cincinnati. It's a big game.
Speaker 3: Georgia's eight and one Bearcats have been disappointing to this point,
Speaker 3: at least in their last few games, so this would
Speaker 3: go a long way toward flipping the script back toward
Speaker 3: the positive. They if they could find a way to
Speaker 3: win this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, give you some amentum going to the conference.
Speaker 2: Play Dan Horde again at one o'clock on Sunday with
Speaker 2: the call, but I always appreciate it. Stay warm, I'll try.
Speaker 3: Thanks, Tony, are your best. See you.
Speaker 2: We'll talk next week and we'll get a news update
Speaker 2: in now on this cold Friday morning, not as cold
Speaker 2: is gonna be Sunday, for sure, Dodd's a bullet with
Speaker 2: the snow. The only problem with that is Round two
Speaker 2: is coming, and so far, unless the forecast models change
Speaker 2: as we get closer to tomorrow, we're going to get
Speaker 2: that two to five inches for sure, and then the
Speaker 2: bitterly cold temperatures after that. Here we go full details
Speaker 2: and weather unless I just I just gave away the
Speaker 2: lead there. But traffic impacted by this as well too.
Speaker 2: On this Friday morning, Scott's flown after news back then
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Speaker 2: wtwy head on the weekend, all usual suspects are here.
Speaker 2: Of course, get to Austin Elmore a little bit like
Speaker 2: at ten thirty five, a little more sports this weekend.
Speaker 2: Good luck if you're going to the Bengals game, and
Speaker 2: don't freeze to death, please and thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: Although I wonder if you're a Bengal fan. I just
Speaker 2: wonder if you're going to the game, it's going to
Speaker 2: be unbelievably cold out a ten degrees. It's going to
Speaker 2: feel like well below zero. Seave your Ravens fan'll have
Speaker 2: a chance there. You know, you're kind of in the hunt,
Speaker 2: but the Bengals, for all tons and purposes out of it.
Speaker 2: Wait to look at that and go, I don't know,
Speaker 2: I might be It's yeah, it's not like the Freezer Bowl,
Speaker 2: or if you're playing as Dan Hortes said, or you're
Speaker 2: playing it, you know New England. There's playoff implications on
Speaker 2: my playoff game. It's a different story. You want to
Speaker 2: be there, but this is like what what's the point?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I saw this on the ashon
Speaker 2: as I flipping around in the news last night and
Speaker 2: saw the every year that you have to do this.
Speaker 2: It's the tree safety thing where they show a Christmas
Speaker 2: tree in a living room, which is not a real
Speaker 2: living room obviously, it's a training thing the fire department uses.
Speaker 2: You see this huge blaze, just the trees on fire,
Speaker 2: and it takes no time at all to consume the
Speaker 2: entire room because be careful with your Christmas lights in
Speaker 2: the tree. Is that the new version of razor blades
Speaker 2: and needles and Halloween candy? You know, for years we've
Speaker 2: talked about the myth about razor blades, poison and things
Speaker 2: in Halloween candy. I'm usually one to happens it's like
Speaker 2: a factory or something, a piece of metal and something.
Speaker 2: But you know, there aren't people out there checking your
Speaker 2: kids Halloween candy. No one's poisoning kids with Halloween candy.
Speaker 2: It's a live sale. Used to be not long ago,
Speaker 2: all right, it was long ago actually where they you know,
Speaker 2: you can bring your kids candy to a hospital X
Speaker 2: ray it for you. It's like, why did you ever
Speaker 2: find No, we never did, but there's stories about there
Speaker 2: the kids getting the razor blade in candy. No, it's
Speaker 2: it's pretty much based on a falsehood. Now, there have
Speaker 2: been cases, individual cases where someone has tainted stuff, but
Speaker 2: it's been completely obvious, like why are you, well, who
Speaker 2: would do that? You'd put it and you'd know who
Speaker 2: was handing out that candy. So if you want to
Speaker 2: get caught, that's that's pretty much it. But I wonder
Speaker 2: if the Christmas tree thing now is you know, back
Speaker 2: in the day, if the history of the Christmas tree.
Speaker 2: Of course you go back one hundred plus years ago,
Speaker 2: people would light their Christmas tree and they put it
Speaker 2: up on Christmas Eve. Actually I don't know how long
Speaker 2: they keep it up, but it wouldn't be a lot long.
Speaker 2: Christmas Eve they would put the Christmas tree up and
Speaker 2: decorate it with tinsel and all that other stuff. But
Speaker 2: they would have maybe put a candle or two on
Speaker 2: the tree as a way to light the tree. And
Speaker 2: then someone learned, well that's not a good idea. Hot
Speaker 2: wax and a tree, and that's probably why they put
Speaker 2: it up on Christmas Eve and it wasn't all dried out.
Speaker 2: They didn't leave it there for the better part of
Speaker 2: a month or two like most of us too. Right,
Speaker 2: if you get a real tree too, it's expensive af
Speaker 2: so you want to put that thing and probably taking
Speaker 2: it down by June. At this point, I want to
Speaker 2: try and get my money's worth out of the sucker.
Speaker 2: It goes up around Halloween and I won't bring that
Speaker 2: down until Martin Luther King Day. But on that I
Speaker 2: just wonder how many people are you know here the
Speaker 2: stats on Christmas tree, this Christmas tree, for I just wonder,
Speaker 2: is it really the Christmas tree that's causing that? I mean,
Speaker 2: there's people with negligence and everything else. It's not like
Speaker 2: we have candles on anymore. And even the old school
Speaker 2: lights like you once had, and there's probably some hangers on,
Speaker 2: but on the lights now are led like. It's very
Speaker 2: very low voltage and it produces very little. Everything produces heat,
Speaker 2: but pretty much no heat. And so what what actually
Speaker 2: is going to catch on fire? How is a tree
Speaker 2: going to catch on fire unless you're using you know,
Speaker 2: a string of lights that's been handed down for three generations,
Speaker 2: probably not gonna happen, and just you know, nothing wrong
Speaker 2: to be in safety. But maybe this is a big
Speaker 2: deal of Christmas tree fires gone, all these Christmas tree fires.
Speaker 2: I'm just curious. Maybe you're I don't know, a firefighter
Speaker 2: on the job or something like that had a fire.
Speaker 2: But yeah, these days it seem and now all that
Speaker 2: I didn't even mention the proliferation of fake trees, which
Speaker 2: are much less likely to catch on fire because of
Speaker 2: ondo ridal laboratories and the restrictions they have. So if
Speaker 2: mark people have artificial trees and have real trees and
Speaker 2: they're lit by LEDs, I don't see what the problem is.
Speaker 2: I don't see what the problem is. By the way
Speaker 2: you're getting where you're going today, it's fairly easy that
Speaker 2: the roads are just wet right now at this point.
Speaker 2: When I rolled in earlier this morning, much early this morning,
Speaker 2: it was pretty much driving at regular speeds. It was
Speaker 2: just wet, no ice whatsoever. There's some spots out there.
Speaker 2: Obviously the forecast that was a little bit off. And
Speaker 2: I won't blame the climate terrorists because yesterday or even
Speaker 2: last night, They're like, yeah, the models aren't looking like
Speaker 2: we're gonna get all the snow we once thought. Okay,
Speaker 2: you revised that stuff. I get it for tomorrow. We're
Speaker 2: still looking at three to five in some areas. Now,
Speaker 2: could that change in the next few hours. Sure, we'll
Speaker 2: find out if it does. But I can almost guarantee
Speaker 2: is the reason why we don't have the snow we
Speaker 2: were expecting. You can thank me. You can thank me.
Speaker 2: Years ago I found a Toro snow thrower, like a
Speaker 2: little it's a little tiny, you know, twenty one inch
Speaker 2: gas pard one and I've had that thing for forever
Speaker 2: and it has not worked properly in the last two years.
Speaker 2: So I went, I bought A couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: I buy a carburetor. I boy, all this sudden, like
Speaker 2: I think it needs a new carburetor. I'm not a
Speaker 2: small engine or engine guy, more of a wood guy,
Speaker 2: but know enough about it to be dangerous. So yesterday
Speaker 2: I said, okay, well, I'm gonna get the snowblower out
Speaker 2: of the out of storage, pull that thing out of
Speaker 2: my workshop and actually work on it. And there's like,
Speaker 2: you know, there's mouse poop in it. Some I found
Speaker 2: some shelves of acorns in there. I guess a mouse
Speaker 2: was having a good old time living in the carburetor
Speaker 2: or the air thing where the air cleaner. There's no
Speaker 2: air cleaner in it. Airfill turned out. I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: well I probably did. Took the whole thing apart, put
Speaker 2: the new carburetor in, did everything I was supposed to do.
Speaker 2: Two poles fired right up. Man, spend a good three
Speaker 2: hours working on a thing, just make checking, making sure
Speaker 2: everything worked the way it should be is with my
Speaker 2: limited scope and knowologe on small engines, so I was
Speaker 2: able to pull that out, like okay. I spent a
Speaker 2: little quality time in the garage by myself. You know,
Speaker 2: my wife's not coming out there because it's cold. I'm
Speaker 2: spending me time, just me and my thoughts. Enjoyed my
Speaker 2: enjoyed my work. Pulling tools off the truck and rebuild
Speaker 2: my snowblower. Got it all cleaned out, got the gum gun,
Speaker 2: carbon cleaner, all that stuff. Good three hours doing this stuff,
Speaker 2: put it all back together. Every screw and washer was
Speaker 2: accounted for. Nothing was like, where the hell did this
Speaker 2: come from? It all worked, had one broken bolt for
Speaker 2: the cover, but that was about it. I can live
Speaker 2: without that. Got it going, got into two poles. That
Speaker 2: baby fired up and smooth as linoleum friends smooth. And
Speaker 2: once I got that going, I said, you watch, will
Speaker 2: not get enough snow to fire this thing up. And
Speaker 2: guess what happened. Not enough snow to fire that thing
Speaker 2: got the got an decade and a half old snowblower,
Speaker 2: probably destroying the atmosphere by itself, but running smooth as
Speaker 2: the top and no snow to applow. So I've done
Speaker 2: it for the year. It's almost guaranteed tomorrow we will
Speaker 2: not get any snow or for the rest of the
Speaker 2: season because I put the effort in and I did
Speaker 2: that not only for me, but for ut You can
Speaker 2: thank me. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas. It's a Scott Sloan
Speaker 2: show on seven hundred WW News and just about eight
Speaker 2: minutes also going on today, we have Red's tickets going
Speaker 2: on sale at noon. By the way, if they signed
Speaker 2: College Schwarber, if they would have signed him, you think
Speaker 2: they would have made up that five million dollar gap
Speaker 2: just on Jersey and ticket sales alone probably come pretty
Speaker 2: close to it. One could imagine. I'll talk to Austin
Speaker 2: Elmore about that coming up. We have another city in
Speaker 2: America that is banning e cigarettes. So the reason why is,
Speaker 2: and there's a correlation here with the THC and CBD
Speaker 2: ban in Ohio. More on that in just a second,
Speaker 2: is that they don't want young people vaping. This is
Speaker 2: all about protecting the children. However, since twenty nineteen, overall
Speaker 2: rates of nicotine vaping have declined among teenagers. Those that
Speaker 2: continue to use it, though, seem like that they are
Speaker 2: getting more and more addicted, as you would guess because
Speaker 2: it is nicotine. But the study that was part funded
Speaker 2: by the National Institute of Health found the majority of
Speaker 2: young people who try to stop vaping couldn't mainly because
Speaker 2: they tried to quit on their own, and there's vehicles
Speaker 2: to quit from vaping. And I know people, it's like, man,
Speaker 2: you know, you can just breathe air without it smelling
Speaker 2: like something. It's like water. You get your glass of water,
Speaker 2: doesn't have to taste like something all the time. Same
Speaker 2: with air. They make air now you just breathe in
Speaker 2: and does not have to be vapor you're bringing. But
Speaker 2: that's the dream, right, Not everyone does that has the
Speaker 2: time to do that. But yet we have another city
Speaker 2: that's banning vaping in public is to protect the children,
Speaker 2: which one may go, all right, well, it's kind of silly.
Speaker 2: I mean, I get smoking in the dangers of secondhand smoke,
Speaker 2: but also the fact that you know, if you're in
Speaker 2: a I don't know, a public place and someone fires
Speaker 2: up a cigarette, you know, if you can guarantee that
Speaker 2: that cigarette is only inhaled and the second hand smoke
Speaker 2: is inhaled by the person smoking, but also the people
Speaker 2: immediately around you who also would enjoy that, that's fine.
Speaker 2: The problem is everyone else has to bear that as well.
Speaker 2: And that's the problem when you know, you talk about
Speaker 2: do whatever you want as an adult. If you hurt yourself,
Speaker 2: you're fine. You hurt other people and there's a harm there,
Speaker 2: then that's where the lines crossed. Sure, absolutely, Like that's
Speaker 2: why I never got why we don't have smoking areas
Speaker 2: inside anymore. My God, If not people smoke, maybe set
Speaker 2: a separate area our way instead of having to stand
Speaker 2: out there, you know, thirty yards away from any entrants
Speaker 2: because someone may catch a whiff of tobacco. For God's sake,
Speaker 2: it's gone too far, or should allow people who are
Speaker 2: like minded to be able to operate establishments like that.
Speaker 2: For example, maybe you limit them to some degree as
Speaker 2: to not encourage more people smoking. But you know, again
Speaker 2: that's common sense involved. But the jihad against smoking and
Speaker 2: now vaping is increased now because you could make the
Speaker 2: case before about smoking because I cand smoke. Second hand
Speaker 2: vape isn't do anything. It's steam. The chemicals go directly nearby.
Speaker 2: The nicotine is going directly in your body. What you see,
Speaker 2: it's just kind of like when you go out the
Speaker 2: day like today, you can see your breath. It's the
Speaker 2: same thing, just some steam. There's no second hand vape
Speaker 2: smoke that's going to hurt you. So you should be
Speaker 2: able to do it quite ho should be able to
Speaker 2: do that at work if you want, not bothering anybody,
Speaker 2: but you now, if you're an employer, you want to
Speaker 2: ban that, that's entirely a new But banning it outside
Speaker 2: in cities, it's just that's mind boggling nanny state to me,
Speaker 2: And why I would go And I bring this up
Speaker 2: too because I just got worded not long ago. Well,
Speaker 2: sure we'll trickle back on this and later in the
Speaker 2: week for sure. But the new bill for marijuana and hemp.
Speaker 2: They have pushed this I guess bill signing next Friday morning,
Speaker 2: by the way, a week from today. So this is
Speaker 2: the one that would allow for THG beverages in the
Speaker 2: line you know, CBD beverages, and that the governor's going
Speaker 2: to sign this thing but has not discussed yet line
Speaker 2: out in vetos. So what's frightening about that is you know,
Speaker 2: as you know, if you want to bury something in
Speaker 2: the news cycle, you released that on a Friday and
Speaker 2: by Monday we're onto something else. There is inside word
Speaker 2: here that no word on the street is the THC
Speaker 2: beverages we enjoy might be the thing that gets slashed
Speaker 2: by the governor on the line out of vita. We'll see,
Speaker 2: we'll find out anyway'll follow that for you. We'll get
Speaker 2: a time out in so I said, news happens in format.
Speaker 2: It's full forecast just to head two on seven hundred
Speaker 2: WW Do.
Speaker 1: You want to be an American.
Speaker 5: Friday morning?
Speaker 2: Slowly here seven hundred WLW. Well, we have the latest
Speaker 2: person of the hen bill in Ohio that has some
Speaker 2: really I think good, you know, saving the THC beverages,
Speaker 2: but also there's some stuff in there like I've got
Speaker 2: to lock my weed up in the trunk. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't have to do with a gun. I gotta
Speaker 2: do the weed. Certainly, a lot of contradiction, a lot
Speaker 2: of problems with this, a lot of moving parts, and
Speaker 2: I know this is just one thing, but it's emblematic
Speaker 2: of a much bigger problem with government. The problem is
Speaker 2: it's a slow to move government right that drives the
Speaker 2: black market. The reason why he had to do that
Speaker 2: ban was because the legislator's been dragging their feet for
Speaker 2: a long time. They had a carve out for hemp,
Speaker 2: and then then somebody figured out a way to go, hey,
Speaker 2: we could take some of the low level TCH and
Speaker 2: hemp and process it. And as long as we drive
Speaker 2: the THHD, which is the psychoactive ingredient and weed the
Speaker 2: stuff that gets you high, we can make these products.
Speaker 2: And then you know, for example, fifty wester rolls out
Speaker 2: of beverage. Many companies are doing it. That's CBD infused,
Speaker 2: cannabis infused, and you get a decent buzz, kind of
Speaker 2: like alcohol without the alcohol side effects. Money people like it. Well,
Speaker 2: kids are getting a hold of this in the smokeable
Speaker 2: and edible form. In some Roague carryout stores and around
Speaker 2: the state, which of course happens when you have a
Speaker 2: black market that's created by government overregulation and a government
Speaker 2: slow to move, and the end result is now adults
Speaker 2: can't have nice things either. No one wants kids getting
Speaker 2: high at the same time as an adult. I've kind
Speaker 2: of earned that right. So this fits into something else
Speaker 2: that's going under the Trump FDA. They're fast tracking reviews
Speaker 2: of tobacco. Companies are in the nicotine pouch game now
Speaker 2: because we here people are smoking tobacco, as you know,
Speaker 2: so they're going to go, hey, we got to make
Speaker 2: our money. We'll do nicoteene pouches, things like zen and
Speaker 2: other stuff like that. That's all well and good, but
Speaker 2: the problem is it's much like Ohio is doing with
Speaker 2: the CBD stuff. Is that the slow moving government, the
Speaker 2: plot and government the legislature simply can't get out on
Speaker 2: the way and create rules that make access available to
Speaker 2: other companies, and then the end result is you have
Speaker 2: some black market folks getting their products into well convenience stores,
Speaker 2: for example, just like we do in Ohio when it
Speaker 2: comes to CBD. We all agree kids should not be
Speaker 2: getting hold of this stuff, and yet because of the
Speaker 2: black market. It does. Now we've remeded that as of
Speaker 2: just a couple of days ago. The government's gonna sign
Speaker 2: this thing. We'll see kind of a long setup there.
Speaker 2: I apologize. She's Sophia Hamilton. She writes in Reason magazine
Speaker 2: about this. Also she's a fellow with Young Voices. Good morning,
Speaker 2: how are you.
Speaker 6: I'm doing great, Thank you so much for having me
Speaker 6: this morning. But I'm excited to chat a little bit
Speaker 6: about this scary market changes that we're seeing with not
Speaker 6: only nicotine pouches, but like as you were saying, with
Speaker 6: cannabis as.
Speaker 2: Well, it's two sides of the same coin, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: that was the world's longest setup. I apologize, But it
Speaker 2: all comes together because it's the problem is the slow moving,
Speaker 2: plotting government. And we live in an on demand society.
Speaker 2: People sample something and they see something, they read something,
Speaker 2: they eat, they drink, go wow, I like this a lot.
Speaker 2: Where can I get it? Well, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: you have an exploding consumer market for that, and we
Speaker 2: get it. Whether it's a CBD infused to THC CBD
Speaker 2: infews drink, or whether it's a nicotine pouch. Somebody's gonna
Speaker 2: rush in legal early illegal to fill that void. What's
Speaker 2: happening relative to nicotine. We know it's going on with
Speaker 2: the THC here in Ohio, but what about the nicotine
Speaker 2: patch game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so nicotine policy is changing all across the country.
Speaker 6: We have some states that are incredibly strict and how
Speaker 6: to have a lot of bands where they limit ages
Speaker 6: percentages of nicotine slavers. And then you have a different
Speaker 6: regulatory regen.
Speaker 7: At the federal level.
Speaker 6: Where they are very slow to approve quality products that
Speaker 6: have been on the international market for decades and that
Speaker 6: we know are safe. And so consumers are trying new
Speaker 6: products like nicotine pouches. They've been on the US market
Speaker 6: for at least a decade, but they haven't had full
Speaker 6: SDA approoval and that's a whole it's a whole process
Speaker 6: to get the official stamp of approval from the SBA.
Speaker 6: So American consumers have been able to try these products
Speaker 6: and realize, oh yeah, I really like the nicotine pouches.
Speaker 6: There are a lot smoother than base, there's less downside,
Speaker 6: all of these, all of these great things. The FDA
Speaker 6: hasn't moved as fast as consumers have. They they've moved
Speaker 6: out of snail's pace, and so consumers have drive this product,
Speaker 6: decided that they liked it, and it's hard to get
Speaker 6: what they want because of all of the state restriction
Speaker 6: on flavors. So who's kind of infilled that demand where
Speaker 6: the state's state block access the illicit market? And so
Speaker 6: we're seeing a bunch of counterfeits explode onto the scene
Speaker 6: where they look exactly like the old products that people know,
Speaker 6: but there's new flavors and that's exactly what consumers want,
Speaker 6: but they don't know that they're getting a sketchy product.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: The government in action and the rules that they slap
Speaker 2: together have pasually create the black markets. Whether it's alcohol,
Speaker 2: whether it's drugs, whether it's nicotine, they'll ban this stuff,
Speaker 2: which means you can't do research. And then the other
Speaker 2: side of the mouth, they go, well you can't use
Speaker 2: this stuff, Well, well there's no research been done exactly.
Speaker 6: Well, I think most consumers go into a store and
Speaker 6: they see something on the shelf and they go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 6: this is this.
Speaker 7: Is perfectly safe that they're getting.
Speaker 6: It's getting told to me, and there's there's there's there
Speaker 6: might be some risks, like they know when they buy cigarettes,
Speaker 6: or when they buy a vase, when they buy any
Speaker 6: sort of product that there's a downside, but they aren't
Speaker 6: going in there thinking that it could be a counterfeit.
Speaker 6: And I think that's where it's really scary and dangerous,
Speaker 6: is that they think that they're buying a real product,
Speaker 6: and within nicopeine pouches, they it's.
Speaker 7: A harm reduction tool.
Speaker 6: They think that they're buying something that's safer for them,
Speaker 6: and really it's it's a counterfeit and and it's it's
Speaker 6: not meeting the needs. And the reason the reason why
Speaker 6: we have all of these restrictions on the nicotine pouches
Speaker 6: is what they always say is for the safety of children.
Speaker 6: The children aren't getting these products. But we've all been teenagers.
Speaker 6: We know how, we know how teams are. They're going
Speaker 6: to get their hands on what they want to And
Speaker 6: now the market is even more dangerous because the market
Speaker 6: is full of counterfeits because we restricted it for the
Speaker 6: safety of these teams.
Speaker 7: But now the teams are getting what they're getting, the
Speaker 7: counterfeit product.
Speaker 2: Right right, So what would happen basically politically speaking, is
Speaker 2: a lot of progressives, for example, and some conservatives. What
Speaker 2: we'll talk about well, this is why we need a
Speaker 2: strong FDA, and this is you know, you're you're just
Speaker 2: going to fast track all this stuff and put all
Speaker 2: these more poisons on the market, and they're getting on
Speaker 2: the market anyway to ignore the what the black market
Speaker 2: is created. Whether it's THC drinks or edibles or in
Speaker 2: this case nicketeen pouches and pretty much everything else. They've
Speaker 2: they've got to meet consumer demand head on, and you
Speaker 2: don't do that by okay, in five years, we're gonna
Speaker 2: have research and we'll find out whether or not we're
Speaker 2: all out of this stuff, and that's going to get
Speaker 2: polluted down by lobby groups and everything else, or just
Speaker 2: simply you know, if you're anti edible or vape or nicotine,
Speaker 2: you're going to shoot this thing down. Whatever the corporate
Speaker 2: policy is, so to speak, the party policy. So this
Speaker 2: stuff have to be faster. We had to do a
Speaker 2: better job of saying, okay, well it's not the best
Speaker 2: thing you can put in your body, but at least
Speaker 2: there's not mercury or serious harmful chemicals in it. We
Speaker 2: need to test this stuff and screen it much much faster.
Speaker 2: That's the reality here.
Speaker 3: Can we actually change that though, we definitely can.
Speaker 7: These products have been available in the Europe market for Juckie.
Speaker 6: We know that they're steep. We don't need to going
Speaker 6: through a whole new approval process. We can look at
Speaker 6: these markets that we know and trust and say, Okay,
Speaker 6: here's the research that they've produced. It's good to be
Speaker 6: on the US market. Let's fast track it and approve it. Instead,
Speaker 6: they're doing the same thing where they did with spaces,
Speaker 6: where they blocked good things from getting on the market
Speaker 6: that we knew we're safe and that we knew consumers wanted,
Speaker 6: and instead of approving things, they went and attacked the counterfeits.
Speaker 7: Which needs to happen.
Speaker 6: You need to get the counterfeits off the market, but
Speaker 6: they're ignoring why those counterfeits are on the market, and
Speaker 6: that's to fill the desires of the consumers. And so
Speaker 6: we're seeing the same issue with nicotine couches where they're
Speaker 6: attacking the counterfeits, but they're not addressing why the counterfeits
Speaker 6: popped up first. And so they really do need to
Speaker 6: address the approval process to get good quality products on
Speaker 6: the market that.
Speaker 7: Adult consumers want, and that includes.
Speaker 6: Flavors, that includes choice in nicotine percentages.
Speaker 7: And you can't just put this desire to have prohibition,
Speaker 7: especially among teenagers, to harming adult consumers because everyone will
Speaker 7: be where saft if you take away that child.
Speaker 2: Well, that was Governor Mike Dewines cry. Here is this
Speaker 2: is about the children. The child. We got to save
Speaker 2: the children because children, I get. You know, if I'm
Speaker 2: a retail what's the retailer's perspective on this. There's some
Speaker 2: I don't care what's in it, even if it's poison.
Speaker 2: I'll sell it to them because I need to make
Speaker 2: money at my carry out. It's certainly not all retailers.
Speaker 2: I don't see the big box stores or you know,
Speaker 2: the Krogers of the world, for example, shelving this stuff.
Speaker 2: But you know, at the same time, the little guy
Speaker 2: at the corner, what's the process for them? They're trying
Speaker 2: to keep their head above water to I get it,
Speaker 2: but I don't think i'd want to make my money,
Speaker 2: you know, selling the kids. Some people are gonna do that.
Speaker 2: It seems like it's it's an enforcement issue.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there are enforcement issues, but they're smart. They're going
Speaker 6: to find someone who's above the legal age to buy
Speaker 6: the product for them or.
Speaker 7: Have a fake idea.
Speaker 6: There's definitely ways. It's really not that complicated for them
Speaker 6: to find ways to get these products in a reliable manner.
Speaker 6: And I think it's fairs not want teenagers to be
Speaker 6: these products, especially if they've never used other nicotine products.
Speaker 6: You don't want to get them addicted. But they're going
Speaker 6: to do what they want to do. At the end
Speaker 6: of the day, They're going to drinks, even though the
Speaker 6: drinking ages at twenty one. The aids to consume nicotine
Speaker 6: and tobacco is also at twenty one, and we were
Speaker 6: all in college at one point.
Speaker 7: But I just this this desire to go through tuisition.
Speaker 6: Policies and we've seen them fail time and time again
Speaker 6: with so many different substances is the silliest thing in
Speaker 6: my mind. We've seen it fail. Why are we trying
Speaker 6: to do it again? Because it's hurting retailers, like you said,
Speaker 6: it's hurting consumers, it's hurting the companies, and it's hurting
Speaker 6: the local economies because you get so much money from
Speaker 6: taxes on these products, and so you're trying to prohibit
Speaker 6: it and you're putting it into the black market where
Speaker 6: you're the state is no longer able to get the
Speaker 6: excise taxes from. So it's really just the loose situation all.
Speaker 2: Around, no question. And you know the fact of the
Speaker 2: matter is the government can never keep up with demand.
Speaker 2: They need to move a lot faster, be a lot leaner.
Speaker 2: That makes capitalism work better. Certainly, we don't want poisons
Speaker 2: going to convenience stores or our bodies. We assume that
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff is tested. But the way the
Speaker 2: models set up, the big tobacco companies that have all
Speaker 2: sorts of research and development and backing and money coming
Speaker 2: or talking billions, and publicly traded companies, they can afford
Speaker 2: to play the regulation game, like Zen for example, simply
Speaker 2: because they have the What about the mom and pop
Speaker 2: the entrepreneurs. And the same is true when it comes
Speaker 2: to THHD infused drinks, you know, I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: Anheuser Busch may be able to put a product out
Speaker 2: that rivals at but something like fifty West here in Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: when they roll a THC infuse product, they don't have
Speaker 2: the backing, the wherewith all the R and D to
Speaker 2: be able to afford all the regulatory red tape to
Speaker 2: get the government seal of approval. That just stemy small
Speaker 2: all in mid sized businesses, doesn't it exactly?
Speaker 7: Going through the approval process takes good years and countless
Speaker 7: countless dollars. Then just became the first company to be
Speaker 7: approved to market to adulop consumers in the US their
Speaker 7: nicotine pouches in January of this year, the first company.
Speaker 7: They're a giant company international, and that took in years.
Speaker 6: And years to get that first stamp of approval. That's
Speaker 6: not even the end process. Most companies cannot wait that long,
Speaker 6: and so it's an incredibly difficult process to go through.
Speaker 6: It's also very very confusing and long, and the sea
Speaker 6: has a huge backlog or records long backlog and most
Speaker 6: companies just cannot survive that weight to get the approval.
Speaker 6: And that's where you're seeing good competition get for Shu
Speaker 6: out of the way, while we have the door wide
Speaker 6: open for counterfeits where we don't know what's what's even
Speaker 6: in them because there's no there's no approval process, there's
Speaker 6: no regulation there.
Speaker 2: I know what no one's saying, nicotine is you certainly
Speaker 2: you can get sick, you can overdose on nicotine for
Speaker 2: that matter too, But you know, it seems to me
Speaker 2: a better alternative than traditional tobacco would be vap products,
Speaker 2: but especially nicotine pouches that you put between your lip
Speaker 2: and gum. It's not a can, it's not a carcinogen
Speaker 2: in the way that the traditional snuffs and dip and
Speaker 2: smoking is. And so you know, if you're worried about
Speaker 2: the future generations and lung cancer and cancer as well,
Speaker 2: this seems like to be a good alternative. It's not perfect.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it doesn't have harmful effects, but it's
Speaker 2: certainly a lot less than what the alternative is or
Speaker 2: the traditional methods are.
Speaker 6: Exactly. It's it's a harm reduction tool because it is
Speaker 6: more safe than the other products that are out there.
Speaker 6: So if you're going to be consuming nicotine, this is
Speaker 6: the safest way that you can do it. And there's
Speaker 6: there's still downsides. You can have some irritation, stomach upside,
Speaker 6: but you know, I'm sitting here drinking of coffee and
Speaker 6: there there's similar downside to coffee as well with the magatinine.
Speaker 6: So this is really the safest way that you can
Speaker 6: consume the product. And it's it's funny to see all
Speaker 6: of the restrictions when you can easily go and buy
Speaker 6: a pack of cigarettes still, and so all of these
Speaker 6: all of these barriers that we're putting up to a
Speaker 6: less harmful product and placing.
Speaker 7: More taxes on it. It's it just does not make
Speaker 7: sense if the end goal is to have people consuming
Speaker 7: in a safer way. It really does seem like the
Speaker 7: end goal is prohibition and abstinence from any subject.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the other leg of the stool here
Speaker 2: between you know, companies and the government, of the fact
Speaker 2: of the the big business that is the health prevention
Speaker 2: people or the health the health people. Right, the long association,
Speaker 2: hard association where association it might be, is when the
Speaker 2: vaping trend started to take years and years ago. What
Speaker 2: surprised me is some of the same people that said,
Speaker 2: oh my god, we've got to sue tobacco companies out
Speaker 2: of existence, and they're they're killing people, they are vaping
Speaker 2: seemed a good way to wean yourself off of traditional tobacco.
Speaker 2: And yet they fought just as hard as they did
Speaker 2: against traditional tobacco, is it against vape And some of
Speaker 2: them are fighting against nicotine pouches And I'm like, that's
Speaker 2: a much safer alternative to what you get. So if
Speaker 2: you you know if you stamp out the problem, not
Speaker 2: that you know we I don't know what the smoking levels,
Speaker 2: but they're nowhere near where they used to be. Now
Speaker 2: your organization cease too. Is this so we have to
Speaker 2: find the next boogeyman in order to.
Speaker 8: Keep our funding exactly exactly And what they will never
Speaker 8: say is that they'll never point to the tobacco studies
Speaker 8: that are done at the national level that show our
Speaker 8: youth in adult smoking rates are at a historic leve.
Speaker 7: They will never point that out. And why is that?
Speaker 6: Because of new products like nicotine pouches, And they just
Speaker 6: want to demonize this because they think it's from the
Speaker 6: same old big tobacco of decades before. And know these
Speaker 6: are these are companies that want to have safer alternatives.
Speaker 7: For for their for their client base because they know
Speaker 7: what their consumers want.
Speaker 6: And I'll also when I testify on these issues to
Speaker 6: state legislators, the people that are arguing against against access
Speaker 6: to these good products are not based in reality. They
Speaker 6: really are I think, just trying to keep their jobs,
Speaker 6: arguing against big tobacco.
Speaker 3: And their nds right.
Speaker 7: And they will argue that nicotine is as harmful and
Speaker 7: as because as substances like heroin, and I hear that
Speaker 7: line so many times and it's the funniest thing to me.
Speaker 7: But it's sad because they think it's rooted in reality
Speaker 7: any bit.
Speaker 2: What we got to do is to save the children,
Speaker 2: because children to be corrupted in their bank and to agree,
Speaker 2: you know, children should not be buying intoxicating hemp products
Speaker 2: your carry out. But that is not a reason to
Speaker 2: shut the entire industry down because somebody adults enjoy it,
Speaker 2: you know, whether it's THG drinks or nicotine pouches or vaping.
Speaker 2: It's the same predictable argument from the pearl clutters about,
Speaker 2: you know, protecting the show. We've got to shut that
Speaker 2: on protected children, damn it, what the adult market wants.
Speaker 2: We've got to do this to save the children, which
Speaker 2: they're doing at the behest of well, the big health
Speaker 2: organizations as we mentioned, as well as the big tobacco
Speaker 2: companies that are getting decreasing revenue from tobacco here in
Speaker 2: the States, and so they supplant that income and keep
Speaker 2: their shareholders happy with something else.
Speaker 3: With us.
Speaker 2: Nicotine pouches are vape that shouldn't price out the little
Speaker 2: guy though, and that's what's happening here, whether it's fifty
Speaker 2: West or you know somebody's who's selling vape juice to
Speaker 2: a local supplier. Anyway, Sophia Hamilton writing about this in
Speaker 2: Reason She's with a young Voices and thanks again, Sophie,
Speaker 2: appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much for having me on, Scott. I
Speaker 7: appreciate you're.
Speaker 2: Ready for some football this weekend. Bengals playing in the
Speaker 2: freezing cold. It'll be freezer Ble part two on Sunday
Speaker 2: as they entertain the Baltimore Ravens. We also have controversy
Speaker 2: in Michigan, and I'm sure if you're a Buckeye fan
Speaker 2: like Austin Elmore, you're loving this. Hulsher on more Thing.
Speaker 2: We'll get into that in much morehead Old Sports Weekend
Speaker 2: Sports Talk with Austin Next on the show seven hundred
Speaker 2: double Weld Friday morning, slowly with your seven hundred double
Speaker 2: well w ease and end of the weekends and in
Speaker 2: snow tomorrow, very cold on Sunday. I think you're out
Speaker 2: of your mind if you're going to the Bengals. I
Speaker 2: don't know what are you playing for? What are you
Speaker 2: showing up? Probably maybe you got free tickets.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I won't judge. I won't judge. I like the snow,
Speaker 2: the cold, different story. We got lots of action going
Speaker 2: on in sports. Austin Elmore here from ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 2: They'll be on at noon today over there with Tony Pike.
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding.
Speaker 9: Like four minutes ago, I was thinking maybe I could
Speaker 9: go to the game on Sunday.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about it.
Speaker 4: Can I can?
Speaker 2: I ask a question, is good seeds still available? Any
Speaker 2: of good seats will available? What isn't it for you?
Speaker 2: I like going to Bengals games if they're playing for
Speaker 2: something they are what are they playing for? Well, technically
Speaker 2: they're still alive. And also I like it when they
Speaker 2: play the Baltimore Ravens. Usually a good game, Usually a
Speaker 2: good game. Sure yeah, sure.
Speaker 9: Lamar Jackson has not been himself, but he's still one
Speaker 9: of the best players ever, MVP quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner.
Speaker 2: So you're seeing somebody that's passed their prime in which
Speaker 2: you're going for. That's what I said about having a
Speaker 2: bad season, a terrible season. Joe Burrow's a Heisman Trophy
Speaker 2: winner too good. He's a beast all right. Jamar Chase
Speaker 2: is the best receiver in franchise history.
Speaker 9: So you got to go to the game. I'm thinking
Speaker 9: about it, all right. I'm also you gotta understand I'm
Speaker 9: also a polar bear.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I love the cold, Yeah, I love it. It's funny
Speaker 2: the older I get, and that's true, the the more
Speaker 2: out of touch other because I'd wear shorts your round
Speaker 2: pretty much back in the day, but not anymore. I'm cold, yeah,
Speaker 2: I I but that temperature, that's even that that's cold cold?
Speaker 2: What is it different? Like single digits? That's fine, all
Speaker 2: right with it?
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 9: I don't think cold happens until you get below twenty
Speaker 9: degrees then it gets cold. That that's cold.
Speaker 2: My threshold has always been like right around ten fifteen
Speaker 2: right there. But now it's like, that's just thirties cold.
Speaker 2: I've been to colder games than that.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the wind is the issue. If there's no win,
Speaker 2: you get the wind. That's a problem. So let's talk
Speaker 2: about that match up here real quick.
Speaker 4: Audio.
Speaker 2: Let's get this out of the way here. They beat
Speaker 2: him on Thanksgiving night, pretty good. Baltimore just lost to Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: and you mentioned Lamar Jackson's I brought up with Dan Horde,
Speaker 2: and I think we just came to the conclusion that
Speaker 2: it's it's the injuries, and the injuries you don't hear about.
Speaker 2: It's affecting not only his ability to run, but also
Speaker 2: his abible to throw. Now that's a concern if you're Baltimore,
Speaker 2: not so much if you're Cincinnati.
Speaker 9: That helps, Yeah, without a doubt, And it's it's affected
Speaker 9: them in a lot of different ways. He hasn't been
Speaker 9: practicing more than like two days a week, and offensively,
Speaker 9: they still don't have the weapons that they really need
Speaker 9: on the outside. I feel like that to surround Lamar
Speaker 9: Jackson with and Derrick Henry has just been okay, Like
Speaker 9: their offensive line has been injured. Their offensive line has
Speaker 9: not been great. They're missing a starting lineman this week
Speaker 9: due to a suspension, So they've just been out of
Speaker 9: sync all season long, has Baltimore. That being said, on
Speaker 9: the injury report this week, Lamar Jackson didn't have a
Speaker 9: listed injury. He's been dealing with a hamstring, has been
Speaker 9: dealing with a kne he's been dealing with an ankle.
Speaker 9: All those are apparently gone. It was non injury related
Speaker 9: rest days for Lamar Jackson. So that's part of just
Speaker 9: managing a player who is getting older. So if he's
Speaker 9: back to one hundred percent, that's a viable threat anytime.
Speaker 9: But all the advanced metrics about his speed, about his scrambling,
Speaker 9: all those numbers are way down on the margin. Interesting
Speaker 9: this time next year to see where he's at at
Speaker 9: this point. I'm still braw to the young man anyway.
Speaker 9: And if John Harball is the head coach of Baltimore,
Speaker 9: still I think there's there's a lot. I think there's
Speaker 9: a potential for a lot of change in the AFC North,
Speaker 9: all right. I don't think it's crazy to think that
Speaker 9: all four coaches are fired in the office.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if John Harbaugh is fired, does he go
Speaker 2: back to Michigan to take over for Sharon Moore and
Speaker 2: Jim Harby.
Speaker 9: I don't know that Michigan wants anything to do with
Speaker 9: the Harball name, because clearly he established a culture there
Speaker 9: that has led to embarrassment over and over again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 9: Jim Harball had eleven assistants in his time at Michigan
Speaker 9: that have now either been arrested, are in jail, or
Speaker 9: have been permanently banned by the NC DOUAA. That's a
Speaker 9: Michigan man if I've ever seen one. Jim Harball is
Speaker 9: a fraud.
Speaker 2: What about Sharon Moore? Also a fraud? I feel bad
Speaker 2: for him though it's a story.
Speaker 9: I really wanted to like get on the air one
Speaker 9: on and make fun of the whole situation.
Speaker 2: And then it turned dark really quick, really dark, like
Speaker 2: like you're holding people because you've got I mean, granted
Speaker 2: what six MILLI year in his white calls. I've heard
Speaker 2: some of the calls this morning like he's desponding, suicidal.
Speaker 2: He didn't see this coming.
Speaker 9: And apparently there's been multiple investigations into the way that
Speaker 9: he's treated women. There's been multiple people that have talked
Speaker 9: to him about mental health issues that he's been dealing with.
Speaker 9: Apparently this has been kind of bubbling under the surface
Speaker 9: for quite some time, and clearly it's it's gotten to
Speaker 9: the top.
Speaker 2: And really and this thing it came out of nowhere too,
Speaker 2: Like the firing really doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 9: But the reason why, well, that's what I'm saying. Apparently
Speaker 9: this is the third investigation into him for and that's
Speaker 9: not even recruiting thing, correct, And so yeah, it sounds
Speaker 9: like from some of the people I've talked to that
Speaker 9: it was like the worst kept secret in ann Arbor,
Speaker 9: that that dude had issues off the field, but they
Speaker 9: were able to you know, I guess go nine and three.
Speaker 2: So that coffs it all up, you know how it is.
Speaker 2: You know, it college interesting that this came out. We
Speaker 2: finished our big investigation.
Speaker 9: Right, how many college football coaches get busted for cheating. Yeah,
Speaker 9: you can either be a good football coach or you
Speaker 9: can cheat on your wife. But you can't do both.
Speaker 9: You can't do both the same time.
Speaker 2: No, there's cameras everywhere and will and it's kept that
Speaker 2: secret along is amazing. All right, that's the Michigan thing.
Speaker 2: But speaking of the Harballs, we've got the We've got
Speaker 2: Horrball and company coming to town this weekend, Bengals on Sunday,
Speaker 2: bitterly cool temperatures. We talked about Lamar Jackson, what ails
Speaker 2: him Joe Burrow and you know, I went to the
Speaker 2: Bills game and it was it was one of the
Speaker 2: best games I've been to in person. Just the whole
Speaker 2: vibe was so cool. They said it felt like a
Speaker 2: playoff game. It had a playoff atmosphere. It really did,
Speaker 2: and a lot of respect Bills fans, the Bengals fans,
Speaker 2: Bengals fans had a good time. But I thought, you know,
Speaker 2: you watched that last five minutes of the fourth quarter
Speaker 2: and what that is just that's Bengals football right there.
Speaker 2: It's like, how do you find a different way to lose?
Speaker 2: And I think it's unfair people just throwing out it's
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow's fault. That first one that was on him.
Speaker 2: Second one was, yeah, you know, tip the ball to Lucky, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the fumble at the goal line on the conversion. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, James Cook, the Bills running back, he fumbled
Speaker 2: as well as one of those days. But I don't
Speaker 2: get this is Joe Burrow. I saw a team that
Speaker 2: could not stop tight ends. I saw a team that
Speaker 2: could not stop the Bills on third down and fourth down.
Speaker 2: I saw a team that could not stop and many
Speaker 2: have Josh Allen from running for forty and seventeen yards consecutively.
Speaker 2: That's not on Joe Burrow.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: My whole thing afterwards is, yeah, Burrow in that moment,
Speaker 9: he did all the right things, but the execution was poor.
Speaker 9: The ball didn't come out of his hand very well.
Speaker 9: He kind of pushed it and Benford made a good play.
Speaker 9: So is it ultimately his fault?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 9: Is it because he made the wrong decision. No, it's
Speaker 9: because the execution wasn't there and the ball was slippery
Speaker 9: or whatever. It might have been right, So is it
Speaker 9: his fault, Yes, But I think it's there's nuance there.
Speaker 9: The other thing is the same story about the Bengals
Speaker 9: is they can't get that one big moment, that one
Speaker 9: big stop, that one big turnover. They dropped two interceptions.
Speaker 9: Josh Allen hit Jordan Battle and DJ Turner in the
Speaker 9: chest and they drop both those passes, and you just
Speaker 9: can't do that. Third and sixteen. He's not going to
Speaker 9: throw the ball deep down the field. They don't have
Speaker 9: a spy ye Like you mentioned it, Josh's is not
Speaker 9: run for over forty nine yards on a team at
Speaker 9: any point this year.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 9: And he ran for eighty against the Bengals. Did like
Speaker 9: the rules of engagement and he was under forty yard.
Speaker 9: He was down the field a good twenty yards twenty
Speaker 9: five yards before anyone went oh, Josh is running the
Speaker 9: ball like the rules of engagement for a quarterback like
Speaker 9: him are not that different. From what you get with
Speaker 9: Lamar Jackson, and they're not hard to find. And yet
Speaker 9: the Bengals didn't do the basics. Don't blitz him, don't
Speaker 9: play man coverage, put a spy on him, and stay
Speaker 9: you know, in your rush lanes, don't get too far upfield.
Speaker 9: They didn't do any of those things, and it bit
Speaker 9: them in the butt. And you know, if we don't
Speaker 9: talk about firing coaches, I don't know how you can
Speaker 9: really run it back with Al Golden next year. Where
Speaker 9: have you seen development on the defense? Have they called
Speaker 9: slightly better?
Speaker 4: Yes, in the.
Speaker 2: Beginning they've gotten better, but again that's Bengal better. Slightly
Speaker 2: better tackling is the only thing you can point to.
Speaker 9: What about Zach? That and DJ Turner is having a
Speaker 9: good year, And I think that the conversation with Zach
Speaker 9: is fair as well. He's the guy who hired Al Golden,
Speaker 9: He's the guy who decided to fire Louisa Rumo. Yep,
Speaker 9: he's the guy who's involved in these draft picks as well.
Speaker 9: Are you going to allow him to fire another coordinator?
Speaker 9: And it's not on him, it's usually the first time
Speaker 9: as the coordinator, second time it's head coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, I don't. I don't expect either one
Speaker 2: of them to get either because they went to the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl the century, so he's good until he's my age.
Speaker 9: Well, Mike Brown fired Sam Weiss three years after they
Speaker 9: went to the Super Bowl, and he was still a
Speaker 9: good head coach.
Speaker 2: Say, I just I don't see it coming. I really
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't either. I don't expect any things
Speaker 2: to blame it. So, well, Joe Burrow got hurt, Well,
Speaker 2: well we got to Yeah, and Joe Burrow is not
Speaker 2: the problem. Obviously, you don't stand a good chance of
Speaker 2: winning when uh he's out. But again he comes back
Speaker 2: and they still lose. So what's that tell you? Exactly?
Speaker 2: Are they going to change how they recruit? Are they
Speaker 2: can change how they scout? And they're going to change
Speaker 2: how they know.
Speaker 9: They've added people to that department, they've added resources, and
Speaker 9: on paper, their plan made a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: They just haven't executed it.
Speaker 9: So it's up to them, you know, as business owners,
Speaker 9: as operators of a football team, to look around and say, Okay,
Speaker 9: how can we fix this and our evaluation and our
Speaker 9: process and our business model to be more successful?
Speaker 2: This also breaking Joe Burrow is not retiring or going anywhere.
Speaker 2: He's not retired. Story, that's just dumb. I have news though.
Speaker 2: In an hour and six minutes, single single game Reds
Speaker 2: tickets go on sale for what for those season coming up?
Speaker 2: She excited? No, would you be excited if the Reds
Speaker 2: had shigned Carl Schwarber and with the amount of interest
Speaker 2: in him coming here would sist with those tickets out?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: That tickets announced me to be grander today, knowing he'd
Speaker 2: be in a regular.
Speaker 9: The Reds have practically been begging me for the last
Speaker 9: month and a half to re up my Tuesday Pass,
Speaker 9: which is every Tuesday home game for like fifty bucks.
Speaker 9: I'm not doing it. I'm not interested in reinvesting in
Speaker 9: a team that doesn't invest in me, and I think
Speaker 9: a lot of Reds fans feel that way. That's a
Speaker 9: great promotion. I had a great time doing it last year.
Speaker 9: I'm not here to tell you how to spend your money.
Speaker 9: Do whatever you want. For me, personally, I don't really
Speaker 9: feel like the return on investment was there for me,
Speaker 9: because while this team did win more games and go
Speaker 9: to the playoffs, there isn't an aggressive pursuit of a
Speaker 9: championship in that organization. The kylesh warbur News is a
Speaker 9: part of that, a reflection of that, and what they're
Speaker 9: gonna do is try to run it back with basically
Speaker 9: the same team and expect the same results.
Speaker 2: We've seen that before with the football team we just
Speaker 2: talked about. He'll be talking about that and more today
Speaker 2: at noon with Tony Pike on fifteen thirty ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 2: Ought to have a great weekend, stay war Thank you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. I don't know if I'm going to go.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I got the guts. You say
Speaker 2: that to the guests that are coming in studio next
Speaker 2: here Joe Burrow's mom and dad in studio next. I
Speaker 2: got some questions for jim questions. Yeah, Carl, I'll talk
Speaker 2: to Jimmy right, I'll just move over. That's Marty Grot
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. I'm the King of Marty Grontre involved
Speaker 2: with the with the charity. Oh yeah, Jimmie and Robbin
Speaker 2: coming up next on Sloony seven hundred WW Cincinnati Dont
Speaker 2: want to be an American Floony back on seven hundred W. Well,
Speaker 2: W've got Marty got coming up? I get to be
Speaker 2: king again for the three thousands a year. I believe
Speaker 2: it's a thirty fifth year. I think I've been doing
Speaker 2: this for at least ten or fifteen. And that happens
Speaker 2: on Fat Tuesday, February seventeenth, Northern Kentucky Convention Center. And
Speaker 2: this year, in addition to raising money for Brighton Center
Speaker 2: and Bethany House and Homeward Bomb getting meals and food
Speaker 2: for homeless kids in Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati, we have
Speaker 2: a new title sponsor. And in studio this morning is
Speaker 2: Robin and Jimmy Burrow and our buddy Gordy Snyder Burrows.
Speaker 2: First of all, I've talked to Gordy for many years.
Speaker 2: I don't care about him as much as you guys.
Speaker 2: How are you. We're doing well, awesome, good to see you.
Speaker 2: Thanks for popping in today, Gordo, how are you.
Speaker 4: I'm good, Scott, good to see you.
Speaker 2: Good to see of course, of course, there's no other
Speaker 2: place I'd rather be. It wouldn't be the same with
Speaker 2: the Kingdom. To get bread thrown at me. It's a
Speaker 2: whole thing. It's a whole. It's a whole. There's a
Speaker 2: traditional oh there is. Robin just hit me in the on.
Speaker 2: It's got a pretty good arm. I wonder our son, guy,
Speaker 2: I wonder joe got it from That's pretty good, coach, Coach,
Speaker 2: could you break down the throw the mechanism there, break
Speaker 2: down the.
Speaker 1: Not a little more accurate.
Speaker 2: You didn't get Yeah, Robin, Joey has nothing to worry about. Okay,
Speaker 2: I got it all right. So you got his fashion
Speaker 2: sense from mob the sports from from Dad Possible as well. So, uh,
Speaker 2: this year, thirty fifth annual, this is a big milestone
Speaker 2: right here. How much money have we raised to day, Cordy,
Speaker 2: We've raised about.
Speaker 11: Two point nine million date to feed homeless children and
Speaker 11: different agencies as you mentioned. This year we hope to
Speaker 11: go over to the three million dollar mark and it's
Speaker 11: going to be an exciting party, as you know, and
Speaker 11: with a purpose and to feed these homeless homeless children
Speaker 11: throughout the greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky area.
Speaker 4: So you know, it's one of those things.
Speaker 2: I actually got a crumb in my Robin that was
Speaker 2: a better throw than That's fine. I got a yeast
Speaker 2: infection out my eyeball, so it's I don't know what's
Speaker 2: going Yeah, sorry.
Speaker 11: No, that's what it was. Just so you know it's
Speaker 11: it's going to be a great event. We have as
Speaker 11: you know, live entertainment there with DV eight. We have
Speaker 11: the Fort Mitchell High School band leading the parade which
Speaker 11: you are riding in and get roles thrown at you.
Speaker 2: I yes, you get assaulted with bread yep.
Speaker 11: And we also have the uh the uh you know,
Speaker 11: live and Silent auction, which are great events and people
Speaker 11: can begin to bid on those about you know, the
Speaker 11: beginning of February.
Speaker 4: Gotcha, Well how it comes out there for people step bidding.
Speaker 2: On nice nice, that's always good. Let's talk about the
Speaker 2: Joe Burve Foundation and how you guys decided to get
Speaker 2: involved here.
Speaker 12: Well we uh uh the Joe Burrow Foundation and has
Speaker 12: been going out about three years. It all started, uh
Speaker 12: once upon a time when Joe uh and his heistman
Speaker 12: Speed addressed food insecurity in Southeast Ohio and then drafted
Speaker 12: by the Bengals. He wanted to start a foundation and
Speaker 12: uh give back to Athens, Southeast Ohio, Baton Rouge and
Speaker 12: of course Cincinnati. So it's it's been great. We're really
Speaker 12: glad to partner with this Marty Marty Gral thing to
Speaker 12: help the homeless children feed them. Anything to do with
Speaker 12: Marty Gral and Louisiana, We're we're always in but kind
Speaker 12: of our motto is to help the underprivileged and the
Speaker 12: underserved in in terms of food insecurity and children's mental
Speaker 12: health and children's homelessness can definitely be all intertwined into
Speaker 12: those three things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, over the years, I've watched this the organization and
Speaker 2: what they've done firsthand, and it's nothing short of incredible.
Speaker 2: This one night raises so much money. I mean, you
Speaker 2: think you're putting we take it for granted, you know,
Speaker 2: the food, but there's kids who are in food insecurities
Speaker 2: and the like, and it really helps make their lives whold.
Speaker 2: At LEAYST try to do that as well. And I
Speaker 2: think it's really interesting, Robin is that you know, Joe
Speaker 2: goes to LSU, he wants to get involved with food
Speaker 2: insecurity and this, like this charity with the event we
Speaker 2: do is like perfect for you guys because it's only
Speaker 2: Marty Gratt raises money to feed kids. It's incredible.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it definitely seems like it was meant a partnership,
Speaker 10: meant to be. We're very excited to be the presenting
Speaker 10: sponsor and help with the food and security piece and
Speaker 10: help children be able to know where their next meal
Speaker 10: is coming from so they have one less thing to
Speaker 10: worry about if they are challenged with homelessness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Gordy, let's talk about that and how many meals
Speaker 2: are provided and where it all goes, because people go
Speaker 2: and you kind of feel you think about it like, wow,
Speaker 2: I'm having a good time because you get a ticket
Speaker 2: and it's all you can eat, all you can drink.
Speaker 2: And we've got every restaurant in northern Kentucky and Ohio
Speaker 2: that seems that they there. We have probably got to
Speaker 2: turn some away. It's way more food and drink than
Speaker 2: one should have on a Tuesday night. However, I will
Speaker 2: say that when you're doing it, you think, wow, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm having a good time, but this is I'm doing
Speaker 2: it for a good cause.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's for a great cause. We serve over one
Speaker 11: hundred and fifty thousand meals for Brighton Center, Bethany House,
Speaker 11: and Welcome House. And you know, the nice thing about
Speaker 11: this is that all the money is ear marked for
Speaker 11: food and it's a restaurant, restaurant's way of giving back
Speaker 11: to the community. All the purveyors at over fifty restaurants
Speaker 11: and perveyers there that night right and everything under the sun.
Speaker 11: As you know, because you've walked around and seen all
Speaker 11: the different.
Speaker 2: Risks they need all you'd be in trouble if you
Speaker 2: did that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, And you know, like you said, if you get
Speaker 11: there early, because you can buy a VIP ticket or
Speaker 11: sponsorship and then you get the big piece.
Speaker 4: Of the chicken.
Speaker 2: You get the big piece of chicken. That's the key.
Speaker 2: You get the VIP ticket which is how.
Speaker 11: Much VIP is one hundred and twenty five dollars. And
Speaker 11: we have sponsorship levels from fifteen hundred all the way
Speaker 11: up to ten thousand. So if a corporation or a
Speaker 11: community or association wants to get sponsorship, get a table.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is amazing. I'd imagine the auction with
Speaker 2: you know, with the Burrows here along with Gordy Snyder,
Speaker 2: that the auction items are probably going to get increase significant.
Speaker 2: That'd be some good stuff. We might have something there
Speaker 2: from Joe Burrows. You might have a couple of things.
Speaker 2: Does he ever get tired of you guys asking us
Speaker 2: I gotta sign?
Speaker 10: Yeah, Actually he does get a little tired of that,
Speaker 10: but it's always for a good cause, and he's happy
Speaker 10: to support other organizations and this is certainly a good cause.
Speaker 1: We pick our spots. This week is not a good week.
Speaker 2: No, this is not a good week at all. That
Speaker 2: the big game coming up here for the Bengals, and
Speaker 2: I know it's been a it's got to be hard
Speaker 2: for you, guys. I can imagine what it's like to
Speaker 2: watch a football game with you too.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we we once upon a time, after all my
Speaker 12: years of playing and coaching, Yeah, we thought maybe it
Speaker 12: would get easier and we wouldn't be as nervous. But
Speaker 12: I've found We've found that we get more nervous now
Speaker 12: because we know how important it is to Joe and
Speaker 12: the team and and the city and fans and everybody.
Speaker 12: So yeah, we're we're uncomfortable until the game starts and.
Speaker 2: Then we'll be Yeah, I bet and that happens, right,
Speaker 2: And that's a whole different thing. And especially with the
Speaker 2: injuries too, And let's face it, that's that's a huge
Speaker 2: concern every time he gets hit.
Speaker 1: It's part of it.
Speaker 12: I think that the mom uh here does gets a
Speaker 12: little more uh nervous about about the injuries. But it's
Speaker 12: it's as I said, part of the game. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 12: it's risk reward. It's high risk and high reward the play.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't need Robin. I think you agree we
Speaker 2: don't need It's all well and good, but we don't
Speaker 2: need a third comeback Player of the Year. We need
Speaker 2: a super Bowl, right, That.
Speaker 10: Is exactly right. That is definitely on the list of
Speaker 10: things to take care of.
Speaker 2: Yeh, check that box off too. So and I know
Speaker 2: it's not the season you wanted, but hope springs etournal
Speaker 2: here in Cincinnati, Ohio for sure.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's uh, that's one of the reasons Joe works
Speaker 12: so hard to get back because of the fans and
Speaker 12: and his and his teammates, and that's that's what he
Speaker 12: plays forward to bring everybody, including himself in US a
Speaker 12: super Bowl and we still think it's going to happen.
Speaker 2: Were you surprised how quickly he came back this season
Speaker 2: after that injury. That was amazing to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean he's been know much how.
Speaker 12: How hard he works at stuff too, but he's been
Speaker 12: a fast heeler and the surgeons that have done the
Speaker 12: surgery have been fantastic over the years. The Bengal trainer
Speaker 12: Matt Summers, Nate and therapist Nick Cosgray. They're awesome and
Speaker 12: he buys in what they want him to do, and
Speaker 12: he trusts them and it works out. He works really
Speaker 12: hard because he knows how important it is. Well, of
Speaker 12: course he does his his career, his whole life. He's
Speaker 12: played football his whole life, and so you know that's
Speaker 12: the last thing those guys are gonna do is not play.
Speaker 12: I totally unders which is why you know he wanted
Speaker 12: to start. When most people say, yah, you should probably
Speaker 12: shut it down. You're not going to tell him no.
Speaker 12: And if he can go, he can go. That's what
Speaker 12: they pay him to do.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, when you see him hit like
Speaker 2: that and it's like, man, we saw early in the
Speaker 2: season all the pressure he's should eventually you know in
Speaker 2: that game he goes down with the foot Robin, do
Speaker 2: you want to go out and like, do you have
Speaker 2: to be pulled away going to us? I'm gonna call
Speaker 2: those linemen up and I'm gonna start. I'm gonna give it. Listen,
Speaker 2: this is Joe's mom. You got to protect them better. Well,
Speaker 2: there are times that I would like to do that.
Speaker 10: Yes, However, Joe would definitely not enjoy if I if
Speaker 10: I voice my opinion on that. So I just, you know,
Speaker 10: provide all the support I can for him, and I
Speaker 10: hope that things will go well.
Speaker 2: I know that those.
Speaker 10: Guys all work really hard and are certainly trying to
Speaker 10: do their very best, and some things don't go the
Speaker 10: way that we want them to. Yeah, yeah, I gotta
Speaker 10: trust in them.
Speaker 2: Do you said my kids about the same age, you
Speaker 2: still get the occasional mama.
Speaker 10: Mama definitely a little last the last couple of years,
Speaker 10: I think, But I think that is always joy to
Speaker 10: my ears when I get it.
Speaker 2: I still don't want mom so embarrassing. She called. God,
Speaker 2: h it's Jimmy and Robin Burrow and study this morning
Speaker 2: with a Gordy Snyder. I'm King of Marty Gray again
Speaker 2: this year and Northern Kentucky Convention Center on Tuesday, February seventeenth.
Speaker 2: All of it benefits homeless children in Cincinnati. It's our
Speaker 2: Bethy House, It's Brighton Center, It's Welcome House, and all
Speaker 2: the proceeds, one hundred percent of it go to feed
Speaker 2: homeless kids for an entire year here in the Tristate
Speaker 2: area in Northern Kentucky as well. We've got all these
Speaker 2: fifty restaurants mentioned the restaurants Gordy. But the other element
Speaker 2: of this, because it's Marty Gras and Bourbon Street is Bourbon.
Speaker 11: There's plenty of livations there as you know Bourbon, and
Speaker 11: of course there's craft beers and wine and all kinds
Speaker 11: of other beverages as well.
Speaker 2: You know, you can and that's why I have in
Speaker 2: northern Kentucky because Ohio just ban it so we can't.
Speaker 4: We can't go home hungry.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and we recommend uber for everybody else.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you got hotels right across the street.
Speaker 4: Hotels across the street.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what makes one hell of a Valentine's
Speaker 2: Day gift?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it does. And Christmas, we've got Christmas coming up.
Speaker 11: They can jump on right now on our website at
Speaker 11: Marti Gras Nky dot org. Or they could go to
Speaker 11: Marti gra twenty twenty six dot org. Either one of those.
Speaker 11: They'll get them to the place where they could do
Speaker 11: a sponsorship or buy tickets. We'd love to have everybody, uh,
Speaker 11: you know, at the event and help support homeless children
Speaker 11: throughout our Greater Cincinnati community.
Speaker 2: And it's such a it's such a special night. We
Speaker 2: always have a blast, not only m seeing it raising
Speaker 2: the money, but just such a great vibe. And it's
Speaker 2: you know, it's not a uh you're there for like
Speaker 2: three or four hours and it's it's a perfect middle
Speaker 2: winter kind of thing to do.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 11: They got to stick around until the live auction is
Speaker 11: done and then the silent auction ends around nine o'clock.
Speaker 11: So if they got bids in on the silent auction,
Speaker 11: that'd be a.
Speaker 2: Great if you liked. If you liked the bid on.
Speaker 2: My wife is a degenerate bidder of things. There's no
Speaker 2: shortage of things to bid on.
Speaker 4: Lush puppy machine.
Speaker 2: Should I tell the story? Go ahead, it's a great story.
Speaker 2: One year I was years ago, they got slush puppy machines,
Speaker 2: you know, you like the They make them here in Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: which I didn't know untill I hosted the event, and
Speaker 2: so they auction them off like you have your own
Speaker 2: slush puppet machine, and uh, there's it looked like the
Speaker 2: floor of the Stock Exchange. People are screaming each other
Speaker 2: other thing and I'm like, what is going on out there?
Speaker 2: And it's like I'd know these two people in a
Speaker 2: bidding war of a slushing machine. It's up to like
Speaker 2: five six thousand dollars or something like that, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I wonder what, Oh my god, it's my wife.
Speaker 9: So I.
Speaker 2: Run over and say, okay, I know it's for charity.
Speaker 2: You're all caught up in the morning. Do you really
Speaker 2: want to spend that kind of Money's like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so let it go. And next sure she got one
Speaker 2: of the more reasonable but still, I mean it goes
Speaker 2: to a charity. It's like she loses her mind with
Speaker 2: stuff like that. It's a degenerate when it comes to chairity.
Speaker 2: Why is that You just gave him a look? Yes
Speaker 2: you can come on over, Come on over, Robin. You're
Speaker 2: giving Jimmy a look like one of you two is
Speaker 2: guilty of the same thing.
Speaker 10: Right, Well, we definitely have enjoyed some margarita's and slushies
Speaker 10: in Baton Rouge at Tailgates, so we understand what you're
Speaker 10: talking about.
Speaker 2: That's a great idea for Tailgate. I I may have to, yeah,
Speaker 2: get a converter for that, need a generator for that.
Speaker 12: That thing sucks a lot of juice.
Speaker 2: I couldn't give away a margarite on Sunday.
Speaker 4: Now I don't have to worry about frozen and.
Speaker 2: Oh no, you know you come back to this frozen
Speaker 2: like it's a popsicle at this point too. Soeah, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a little cold. It's a little chili out
Speaker 2: there for the game. Now you're in town. You're going
Speaker 2: you're gonna be the in the suite though, right, not gonna.
Speaker 1: Brave it outside.
Speaker 2: Oh you're gonna tell get outside.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 12: We have a good contingent every every Sunday and this
Speaker 12: this week, like you said, it's gonna be cold, but
Speaker 12: it's cold. Uh, we'll be there.
Speaker 2: I was just in Buffalo last weekend for that game,
Speaker 2: and yeah, you're there, and that's that's real Western I
Speaker 2: grew up there, so it's all real Western New York
Speaker 2: snow up there. And it was and what the wind is?
Speaker 2: Fortunately there's no wind and I hoping on Sunday there's
Speaker 2: no wind. Yeah that's what that's what does you're a
Speaker 2: quarterback and throwing the football. It's not so much the
Speaker 2: cold and even the snow, it's it's when the wind's swirling.
Speaker 2: So I'm always checking the weather. But it looks like
Speaker 2: maybe that part of it will be okay, Yeah, in
Speaker 2: those days it's hard to throw is you know, you
Speaker 2: gotta rely more on the running. Obviously we don't want
Speaker 2: to get into x's and those here, but uh yeah,
Speaker 2: looking forward to game on on Sunday, for sure, and
Speaker 2: hopefully Bengals can go on a little run and get
Speaker 2: things right for the for the rest of the season
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: It is Marty gra for homeless Kids. Uh and it's
Speaker 2: being presented by a friend of the Joe Burrow Foundation
Speaker 2: for the first time Joe Burrow Foundations involved into perfect
Speaker 2: Fit because it's Marty Gras. That'd be the LSU connection.
Speaker 2: And it's feeding homeless kids, which the Borough Foundation it
Speaker 2: is designed to do because of food insecurity, not just
Speaker 2: here but Louisiana and also in in Athens. How much
Speaker 2: time you guys spend up in Cincinnati now often quite
Speaker 2: a bit.
Speaker 1: We uh you know, we're in We're in Athens.
Speaker 12: We're in Cincinnati, uh As I said, there's a lot
Speaker 12: of different events going on. We like to come hang
Speaker 12: out with Joe every so often, and uh we we
Speaker 12: still try to get down the baton.
Speaker 1: Rouge nice the Joe Burrow Foundation.
Speaker 12: We have a separate board in Louisiana and uh then
Speaker 12: then Ohio, but we still do the same things. You
Speaker 12: can go to Joe Burrow and just learned the things
Speaker 12: that we're doing with children's mental health, food and security
Speaker 12: and the Marty Grawl and so we're honored to be
Speaker 12: a part of that.
Speaker 1: Joe's honored to be a part.
Speaker 12: Of this and uh, hopefully we can raise a lot
Speaker 12: of money and and help feed homeless children.
Speaker 2: Jimmy got a new head coach down there at LSU.
Speaker 2: We well that's who they wanted.
Speaker 12: So I've known the Kiffin family for a long time.
Speaker 1: Lane's dead.
Speaker 12: Monti Kiffin was my defensive coordinator at Nebraska when I played.
Speaker 12: H kind of my mentor through the years, uh uh coaching.
Speaker 12: He recently passed away, unfortunately. But h LSU fans are
Speaker 12: fired up. Doesn't take a lot to get them fired up.
Speaker 12: They'll they'll go have a drink, no matter a lot,
Speaker 12: Marty Gral Bourbon Street LSU Tiger football games and so
Speaker 12: they're excited.
Speaker 2: That's a whole different vibe down there in Baton Rouge.
Speaker 12: We we learned basically how to tillgate at the proper
Speaker 12: shoe and we've passed that along to the Bengals game.
Speaker 2: Wow, what's the what's the LSU tradition? Tullgey? What's big
Speaker 2: there besides margarita fish?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: The crossish. Okay, so they actually do the ros but if.
Speaker 1: You claim Florida then they'll they'll roast roast gear.
Speaker 2: About you already noticed his beads here is you got
Speaker 2: a little crawfish.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have anybody doing.
Speaker 2: We've seen crawfish there. But what about the gator bytes Courty, Well,
Speaker 2: we can probably work work that out for Marti Groan.
Speaker 2: I've got the seventeenth of February. I got some time
Speaker 2: to deal with session. Probably could find a gator.
Speaker 10: Right, yeah, get a big gumbo pot.
Speaker 2: Somebody's got to have a gumbo pot. You got to
Speaker 2: throw it in the newspaper, right, Just how you lay
Speaker 2: the newspaper on the table.
Speaker 10: Yeah, well yeah, on a table, yes, And then they
Speaker 10: have big holes that you put the tails and whatever
Speaker 10: it is that you don't eat from a crawfish. I
Speaker 10: don't know.
Speaker 2: But are the heads? I think the heads? I tell
Speaker 2: you to know you suck the head, right, I don't
Speaker 2: know that. You're just there for the shrimp and the end, Dewey. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: got it.
Speaker 12: It's a it's the crawfish is more a social thing
Speaker 12: than yes, but people love them down there and that's
Speaker 12: that's a big.
Speaker 2: That's part of it here too. So yeah again, great,
Speaker 2: have you guys in the studio this morning. Very nice
Speaker 2: to meet you both. And Steak stay warm on Sunday
Speaker 2: for the game. Having me really look forward to, are
Speaker 2: you guys. Yeah, hopefully see in February too. That's gonna
Speaker 2: be awesome. So I'll be the guy on the big
Speaker 2: thing with the hat and the cape on and then
Speaker 2: people throw bread at me. I'm going to be that guy.
Speaker 2: I'm that Oh my gosh, I'm going to be comeback
Speaker 2: talk show host of the Year and next after I
Speaker 2: get her this assault with bread here for our friends
Speaker 2: from Closterman. By the way, thanks.
Speaker 11: Someone I should mention too throwing bread at me.
Speaker 2: Now you just got pelted again by Robin just two for.
Speaker 4: Two Mercedespens a Fort Mitchell.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and the Why We're Family Foundation are back for
Speaker 11: the thirteen year to be our events sponsors.
Speaker 4: So oh good.
Speaker 11: Yeah, So we're exciting excited to have Joe Burrow Foundation
Speaker 11: as our tent sponsor, and then Mercedes Spends and those
Speaker 11: folks are back as our event sponsors this year and
Speaker 11: they provide the free parking right across the street in.
Speaker 2: The oh cool in the Kenton County Don Pepperella's team.
Speaker 2: Great guys over there's right, Mercedi Spends.
Speaker 4: We're excited to have them back to awesome.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I look forward to seeing everybody on
Speaker 2: the seventeenth Core to yourself included. We have all sorts
Speaker 2: of festivities with now and then we've got football on Sunday,
Speaker 2: and the weekend is just about here. Scott's loan. Thanks
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Speaker 5: The weekend's coming up and you need to make the
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Speaker 2: Well, some of us made it in today to do
Speaker 2: our jobs. Allie Martin did not. She's gonna sit on
Speaker 2: her throne talk to me on the phone from from
Speaker 2: her home because who had a half inch of snow?
Speaker 7: Good job, you know, and this is this is the
Speaker 7: winter to come in because I actually have four.
Speaker 3: Wheel drive now no motor I have zero.
Speaker 2: Ex rolling on the motorcycle anymore. It's like it's that
Speaker 2: cycle season. And I know you're flying out today where
Speaker 2: some are warm. So it's all good, Aley Martin Local
Speaker 2: Loop this morning on seven hundred ww whatever we do
Speaker 2: it sure is how better be inside this weekend?
Speaker 7: He amanda that And I feel like you're just trying
Speaker 7: to pick a fight with me right now? Why And
Speaker 7: I'm not mad about it because Phone, I have this
Speaker 7: weird desire and this is not this isn't a good
Speaker 7: thing to say out loud, but I've always wanted to
Speaker 7: get into a bar fight. And now have you heard
Speaker 7: about this? The fight Club, which we talked about probably
Speaker 7: about a year and a half ago when they talked
Speaker 7: about this open is officially open. And this is that
Speaker 7: dark bar that like Victorian back bare ground charm meets
Speaker 7: traditional pub warm, but it's all focus on darks and
Speaker 7: it finally opened in the old Saxfifth Avenue building and
Speaker 7: today is the grand opening. All right, fight, I'm ready
Speaker 7: to start a fight.
Speaker 2: It's flight Club flight Club or fight club.
Speaker 7: Fight Club should be flight Club.
Speaker 2: It should be flight Club, but they call it Fight Club.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, I saw a little background around this that
Speaker 7: actually started in London in twenty fifteen. There's only ten
Speaker 7: locations here in North America, so it's cool that, you know,
Speaker 7: they wanted to target Cincinnati. I take the style and
Speaker 7: the vibe, what fifth it has. As I said, it's
Speaker 7: like Victorian but London's Irish English pub feel almost kind
Speaker 7: of circus esque, and they have multiple different playing stations
Speaker 7: where you can rent out and play darts. It's a
Speaker 7: pretty big space. It can accommodate up to two hundred
Speaker 7: and seventy people. And the dark technology behind it. It's
Speaker 7: a Pride Harry, so they own it. It's a little
Speaker 7: bit of different angles behind that.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 7: So if you're someone who likes the traditional keep score
Speaker 7: on your own, it might be a little too high
Speaker 7: tacked for you. But I will say it's a it's
Speaker 7: a vibe, it's a good time. They have a great
Speaker 7: craft cocktail list. They have a full menu list, and
Speaker 7: what's appreciated is a lot of these items on the
Speaker 7: food menu. It's all it's a lot of shareable stuff,
Speaker 7: a lot of sliders and packos and wings and flatbreads
Speaker 7: and and they I also appreciate a pre constructed platter
Speaker 7: where it's just a range of a whole lot of
Speaker 7: different things. So it's it's an awesome space that it
Speaker 7: opens today today, it's the grand opening. So I'm ready
Speaker 7: to fight somebody.
Speaker 2: If it's kind of like a top gulf of darts.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no, truthfully, it is that it is the top.
Speaker 7: It's the top gulf of darts, but it's inside and
Speaker 7: I'm here to support that. And I saw.
Speaker 2: Some pictures and the aesthetic is really cool. You mentioned
Speaker 2: that Victorian kind of a lot of paneling. It's kind
Speaker 2: of dark in there.
Speaker 3: I mean, perfect for the winner, Perfect for the winner.
Speaker 7: And that's the other thing. It's like, you don't have
Speaker 7: to go and play darks. You could just go and
Speaker 7: hang out at the bar because of the ambiance and
Speaker 7: the light. So I feel like this we've been talking
Speaker 7: about going and needing to get a happy hour. I
Speaker 7: think this is the spot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be a good spot, right. I like
Speaker 2: the I like the technology that keeps score for you.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
Speaker 7: Yeah, after a couple of drinks. I am not doing
Speaker 7: anything that is going to claim that I'm with cheaters.
Speaker 2: It was the greatest win. And I remember when bowling
Speaker 2: changed over from the you know, the auto scoring and
Speaker 2: the compute. It's like, oh my guy, I don't have
Speaker 2: to have that overhead projector anymore. I don't have to
Speaker 2: do math. This is great, all right? So fight Club
Speaker 2: that is Where's it again?
Speaker 7: So in the old Sacks Fifth Avenue building. I mean
Speaker 7: it's the primetime location that we've been talking about, right
Speaker 7: next to Thoualdar. So that whole area is really coming
Speaker 7: alive again. And I think this is going to be
Speaker 7: a great addition, all right.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: So tomorrow is bank robbery Day.
Speaker 7: In Cincinnati aka Santa Colin.
Speaker 2: Forget what movie that was, and it was Bill Murray.
Speaker 2: You know, a bunch of a bunch of Santa Claus
Speaker 2: is runner. I maybe he's a clown in that one,
Speaker 2: I forget, But there's a lot of running arounds, like
Speaker 2: you want to have a bank Today's today? It was
Speaker 2: a guy in the red suit with a beard officer.
Speaker 7: Same thing with Tim Allen in the Santa Claus. We're
Speaker 7: looking for a guy.
Speaker 2: I know, red suit, perfect, perfect, perfect.
Speaker 7: So yeah, if you want to rob a bank tomorrow,
Speaker 7: do it. Don't tell us, don't tell him that we
Speaker 7: sent you right, But yeah, this is if you're downtown
Speaker 7: or if you're in Mount Adams, northern Kentucky and you
Speaker 7: just see seas of red, it is because of this. Also,
Speaker 7: if you haven't participated, it is a lot of fun.
Speaker 7: There's an early registration of ten dollars, so that closes
Speaker 7: today at midnight. You still have a chance to do that.
Speaker 7: And this includes a donation to be the pediator of
Speaker 7: cancer research, which is always good to get back a
Speaker 7: little bit. And day of registration is fifteen dollars. One
Speaker 7: thing that they are doing differently this year, which I
Speaker 7: am a fan of coos and cons is they have
Speaker 7: multiple risk band pick up locations. It used to just
Speaker 7: be at the casino, so now they have it at Moreline, Rosedale,
Speaker 7: the Pitch, may Malone's d Line, which is the one
Speaker 7: on Newport on the Levy, and Flora and Flair Up
Speaker 7: in Adams. There are over fifty bars in restaurants that
Speaker 7: are participating. So really it's just dress up and if
Speaker 7: then go out and drink and it's a debauchery and
Speaker 7: it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: And is the is the predicted snowfall tomorrow going to
Speaker 2: kill Santa Con. Santa should show up regardless how much
Speaker 2: snow there is.
Speaker 7: Technically I host the numbers picked up because of it.
Speaker 7: This is if you're going to participate in Sanacon, this
Speaker 7: is the year to do it. Yeah, no matter what,
Speaker 7: make sure you're ubering. But what is more magical the
Speaker 7: fact that we had snow before. It's fustiness. This is
Speaker 7: great embraces.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder if you get that many Santa Claus
Speaker 2: Santa Clai downtown, are you going to have enough ubers
Speaker 2: to support Santa should?
Speaker 7: Should they just have their own slaves.
Speaker 2: At the point right, at some point you just let
Speaker 2: the reindeer do it for you.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: So it's always cool to see that too, and just
Speaker 2: sand people standing up and you know, drunk Santa is
Speaker 2: very fun.
Speaker 7: Have you done Santacon?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: No, I have not been. I've not dressed up, but
Speaker 2: I've been around when Santa's out there. It's a lot
Speaker 2: of fun.
Speaker 7: I feel like you would enjoy it. If you ever
Speaker 7: get the chair, you really want to go all the
Speaker 7: way to the top, do the New York then there's
Speaker 7: nothing better.
Speaker 2: Really, thousands of Santa Claus thousands.
Speaker 7: Nothing like getting off the subway, and I mean it
Speaker 7: is the Sti's is cool, but again it's New York.
Speaker 7: There's nothing like it.
Speaker 2: How do you find that? So you typically would go Santa,
Speaker 2: but you go with a group of people who are
Speaker 2: not dressed as Sanda or maybe other sandas. How do
Speaker 2: you find one another?
Speaker 7: That is a oh you know? How you do it?
Speaker 7: You share locations for twenty four hours?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's not that accurate. You still have to
Speaker 2: you would have to literally stand next to each other
Speaker 2: the whole time. Otherwise forget it.
Speaker 7: Truly, Well, if you are you could do Sometimes they
Speaker 7: have different colored sand a hat. I mean obviously red
Speaker 7: is some traditionals, so you could go green and stand
Speaker 7: out a little bit more. But yeah, I would just recommend.
Speaker 7: That's the other tip, use share my location for twenty
Speaker 7: four hours if you can't find your fellow.
Speaker 2: How do bartenders manage that? If you have a tab?
Speaker 7: Oh that's a good push? Yeah, what do you put
Speaker 7: it on your claws? Well?
Speaker 2: No, it's like okay, uh wait, wait do you wait?
Speaker 2: Who's tad? Okay? I ordered three? No, I had three
Speaker 2: mick cultures and what do you It's like, I don't
Speaker 2: know whose tab that would go on, but uh, that's that.
Speaker 2: These are the dumb things I think of. Anyway, what
Speaker 2: else we got going on this weekend? Am?
Speaker 7: Oh man, We're going to completely switch it up, and
Speaker 7: I mean, I guess it's Polly and it's jolly, but people,
Speaker 7: if you like, what is it the nightmare before Christmas?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, even could say.
Speaker 7: It's a Christmas sumber.
Speaker 3: I don't really know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm kind of mad at myself. I mean, miss
Speaker 7: talking about this last week because they're only doing it
Speaker 7: too nights. And when I say they, I mean dead
Speaker 7: Schoolhouse is doing a Christmas Nightmare and it was December sixth,
Speaker 7: and then this Saturday is the only other Saturday coming
Speaker 7: up on December thirteenth that they're doing it. And they're
Speaker 7: meshing the two holidays of Christmas and Halloween because people
Speaker 7: know that Schoolhouse is being the haunted attraction during Halloween
Speaker 7: season and it's transforming into a haunted winter wonderland and
Speaker 7: it features characters like Crampis and Missus Clause Claws, Evil Elm.
Speaker 7: So they really just completely transform it into the world
Speaker 7: the Horror Seam, which is really fun.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So generalmissions thirty five bucks. You can do a fast
Speaker 7: past for fifty five and then the front of the
Speaker 7: line for seventy five. Again, it's only two nights. Last weekend,
Speaker 7: it's gone and you got this weekend, and it's just
Speaker 7: a really unique Yeah, it's a unique mash up. It's
Speaker 7: something a little different if you're someone who really really
Speaker 7: loves Halloween. And I feel like the people who love Halloween,
Speaker 7: they love Halloween and this to be the way that
Speaker 7: they could get into the holiday spirit.
Speaker 2: Gotcha, seventy five bucks for the front of the line.
Speaker 2: Now that is better take your time going through.
Speaker 7: Man, it takes your time going through. There's no waiting
Speaker 7: at all. But as someone who's the older, I gets like,
Speaker 7: if I'm going to King's Island, I am that person
Speaker 7: who's like, do I just buy a fast pass?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: I probably do the fast pass because it's like, you
Speaker 2: look at, okay, thirty five bucks general admission, fifty five
Speaker 2: bucks for the fast pass. Is it worth twenty bucks
Speaker 2: not to stand?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 7: Yeah? What is the so I guess, Yeah, there's two
Speaker 7: different lines. You have general.
Speaker 2: Emission line, fast pass and then front of the line.
Speaker 7: In the front line, is you just walk right.
Speaker 2: Go right from your car, you walk right to the
Speaker 2: front of the line. All right, So that's where.
Speaker 7: Is waiting in the cold?
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably, Yeah, I'm going to wait a little bit
Speaker 2: of cold anyway. All right. So that's a den schoolhouse
Speaker 2: and the last night is tomorrow. So we got that
Speaker 2: going on. Other holroided stuff. What else you got on
Speaker 2: a last year? All right?
Speaker 7: We actually we really had a touched on it. I
Speaker 7: know it's the classics, but the Holiday Junction, this is
Speaker 7: one of those things that just don't forget about it.
Speaker 7: This is the one that's every year happening over at
Speaker 7: Duke Energy Center, and it started November fourteenth and it
Speaker 7: does run until January fifth. But you know, as the
Speaker 7: kids are getting out on holiday break and you're thinking
Speaker 7: about things to do with them, this is such a
Speaker 7: stainful attraction where there's over three hundred railcars and a
Speaker 7: five hundred locomotives on display. It's super engaging. They have
Speaker 7: a lot of different experiences throughout the Holiday Junction, like
Speaker 7: they have this Northern Lights display, they do an interactive
Speaker 7: story books, they'll have different holidays, scavenger hunts. They implemented
Speaker 7: a new lego brick display, which is cool. So it
Speaker 7: was very hands on for kids. Sana we'll pop in
Speaker 7: here and there has already made a couple appearances at
Speaker 7: the Holiday Junction this year in November. So it's just
Speaker 7: one of those things that it's nice to shout out
Speaker 7: and call out because it really is. It's a staple.
Speaker 7: And there's just so much to do at the Sistani
Speaker 7: Museum Center, which I probably should have noted at the top.
Speaker 2: Well you got that right, You've got the Omni Max,
Speaker 2: You've got the Children's museum. There's just so much going on,
Speaker 2: and of course the train displaying all that too. The
Speaker 2: Christmas Is Player is fantastic. It's just a it's a
Speaker 2: great cool It's just a tradition right when you're a
Speaker 2: little kid. If you grew up here, you went. I
Speaker 2: took my kids there. I like going back from time
Speaker 2: to time. It's really cool because you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: the holidays, it's tradition. A lot of that stuff. They've
Speaker 2: had a lot of new stuff, but it's still the
Speaker 2: you know, the same train set, the same dioramics. It's
Speaker 2: it's expansive, it's awesome. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: It's just I've been getting that age now. Old men
Speaker 2: and young boys love.
Speaker 7: Trains, trains, model cars, airplanes. You love to talk about
Speaker 7: World War two.
Speaker 2: All that stuff, all that stuff.
Speaker 7: This is this, This is for you, but I really care, Like,
Speaker 7: forget about the kids. We love the kids of courses.
Speaker 7: It's great for the kids. But like as an adult,
Speaker 7: if you don't frequent this every year every once in
Speaker 7: a while, it's easy for us. It's easy for us
Speaker 7: number one to think about some of these things that
Speaker 7: happen every single year. But it's a great date night spot.
Speaker 7: And who doesn't like to say? Who doesn't like to
Speaker 7: go look at three hundred different trains rolling around? And
Speaker 7: usually the folks that are working there. I remember telling
Speaker 7: this story years ago when I was at Channel nine.
Speaker 7: There's a guy in particular that's been working there for
Speaker 7: probably three decades at this point, and he could probably
Speaker 7: tell you every thing that you need to know about
Speaker 7: every single locomotive car on those train, cars on those tracks.
Speaker 7: So they're knowledgeable and you can talk with them for
Speaker 7: hours and yeah, I'm good, have a good time. This
Speaker 7: is right up your alley. What are you doing?
Speaker 2: No, I don't need to know the history of this train.
Speaker 2: It's like just I just want to watch the train.
Speaker 2: I don't need to know. I don't need it now.
Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm good at that.
Speaker 4: I'm good.
Speaker 7: I bet you you think if somebody had a like
Speaker 7: live TikTok running, do you think they could make I
Speaker 7: bet they could make some extra cash. This is any
Speaker 7: museum setter. If they just kept it going live on
Speaker 7: teaktok yeah and YouTube, why not, people will be throwing
Speaker 7: them money. I would watch that.
Speaker 2: It's good. It's I mean then in the splay, it's beautiful.
Speaker 2: The work they put in putting that thing out there
Speaker 2: is absolutely incredible. It really isn't so impressive every year,
Speaker 2: you know, I I've thought of that. I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's on a list or not. But this morning
Speaker 2: driving I heard Steve Hawkins in for our Tom Brennman
Speaker 2: this morning talking to the organizers of the Mount Adams
Speaker 2: rain Dog Parade.
Speaker 7: Yes, let's go. This is the thirty six annual. I
Speaker 7: can't believe this is been going on for thirty six years.
Speaker 7: Dog Parade and costume contact. Have you ever been this?
Speaker 3: I have?
Speaker 2: It's awesome.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, nice. This is one of those This is
Speaker 7: an event that I was asked to years ago, and
Speaker 7: one of those I don't know. I guess I was
Speaker 7: busy or I was able.
Speaker 3: To do it.
Speaker 7: And I'm kind of sad and I wish I would
Speaker 7: have judged it, because it's just it's so fun. Dogs
Speaker 7: in their owners, dressed in festive holiday costumes. It's a
Speaker 7: parade throughout historic Mount Adams. It's led by the Grand Marshals.
Speaker 7: Uh and who doesn't like to see just a bunch
Speaker 7: of dogs wattling around the little Santas Right, I'm here
Speaker 7: for this. There's raffles, there's different prizes you could potentially
Speaker 7: win Bengals tickets, gift cards for Thunderdome, and a wide
Speaker 7: range of different bars and restaurants around town. And it's
Speaker 7: just a really, really great time and you can participate
Speaker 7: in the parade, and then of course up on the
Speaker 7: hill there's Crowley's and a whole bunch of different places
Speaker 7: that you can go to afterwards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's they have judges and you bring your
Speaker 2: dog out. You have a good time because dogs and
Speaker 2: Christmas go together, especially if it's the You think they
Speaker 2: have this in over the Rain as opposed to Mount
Speaker 2: Adams for the Rain, dog prey, but then you'd have
Speaker 2: to call it the Rhine dog paraded, and it doesn't.
Speaker 2: They're not riind deer, they're reindeer.
Speaker 7: And then it's getting way too confusing.
Speaker 2: You're not even drunk.
Speaker 7: One of those things. You don't need to change it.
Speaker 7: If it isn't broke, don't fix it.
Speaker 2: You just wonder if the people in over the Rhine
Speaker 2: are like, man, we really we should have done that,
Speaker 2: damn it.
Speaker 7: And here's the other thing too, because it's supposed to snow.
Speaker 7: Do you think that if you don't have four wheel
Speaker 7: drive and you're trying to get us about Adams, good luck,
Speaker 7: like your dog better be.
Speaker 3: Poor, right right?
Speaker 2: Or if it's Sarah's dog where the belly and the
Speaker 2: nipples scrape on the ground, I guess maybe they could
Speaker 2: be like like a dog plow for the other ones.
Speaker 2: She's uh, she's Alli Martin, Yeah, yeah uh. There are
Speaker 2: some salt to put them on, little salt things on
Speaker 2: our back and to go anyway. So we got that
Speaker 2: going on this weekend, and it's gonna be bitterly cold.
Speaker 2: On Sunday, we have football at pay Corps. You got
Speaker 2: to be crazy to be going to that, especially since
Speaker 2: the Bengals are really not playing for anything. Ravens fan
Speaker 2: maybe a different story, but we shall see. Alli have
Speaker 2: a great weekend. Appreciated She's at Allie Martin eight and
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Speaker 2: that when you can appreciate it. We'll talk next week.
Speaker 3: Stay warm, appreciate you. I will be fine and I
Speaker 3: know you will.
Speaker 2: I hate her, I hate her, I hate her.
Speaker 4: Love you tole me too.
Speaker 2: Be safe. Travel well there you go, bring us some sunshine.
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