WEBVTT - Steve Hawkins in for Thom Brennaman 12/5/2025 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:05.120 Your arms and shout happen. Yeah, it's money time. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:10.200 This is the Bloomberg Money Minutes on seven hundred WLW. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.040 I already eight oh nine and Monica Rix with us 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:17.599 from the Bloomberg newsroom. Monica, it looks like Netflix just 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:20.240 landed a historic deal in Hollywood. 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:20.920 Tell me about it. 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.120 Yeah, this is our breaking big story of the day. 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.240 Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Brothers Discovery Now in 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.760 a seventy two billion dollar cash in stock deal, joining 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.680 the world's biggest streaming service with one of Hollywood's oldest 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:35.560 and most revered studios. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:35.960 Now. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:37.920 Prior to the closing of this sale, which could happen 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:40.360 over the next twelve to eighteen months, Warner Brothers will 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.800 complete the planned spinoff of its cable channels that includes. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:45.320 CNN, TBS, TNT. 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:49.680 But Netflix would own HBO and Warner Brothers studio assets, 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.160 which includes its massive film and TV archives. So we're 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.200 talking everything from Friends to Harry Potter. 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.520 Oh my, seventy two billion is what you said. Yep, 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:03.160 that's the TI equity value. It's a huge deal. Yeah, Netflix, 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:04.600 they have every dollar ever invented. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:09.119 It seems AI may be making travel agents better. 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:10.759 Did I read that right. Yeah. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.160 A recent report from Adobe for Business shows it a 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.279 two thousand percent growth in AI driven traffic to travel 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.800 websites like Expedia, Google, Kayak. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:20.600 That's just this year alone. 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.559 Expedia even found that travelers are using AI to book 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.840 and plan their trips so big. With chat GBT, you 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.319 could say, hey, plan my trip to Mexico City. It'll 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.920 give you price packages, restaurant and activity suggestions. A lot 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.280 of travel agencies are apparently taking advantage of it. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.440 Alrighty, what do you see there in the markets? 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.399 Well, market futures are pushing towards a higher open today, 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.880 Dow futures up forty three points and NEZEC futures up 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.360 eighty four. SMP futures are also up thirteen points. Right 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.240 now from Bloomberg, I'm Monica Rix on news radio seven 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:52.520 hundred WLW. 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:54.320 Thank you so much, Monica. 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:58.800 It's about eight eleven on Friday on seven hundred WLW. 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:02.520 Steve Hawkins in four, Tom Brennaman, this is the time 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.680 we get to talk TV with our good friend Matt Raush. 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.520 Good morning, Matt. How you doing there? 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:09.240 I'm okay, and. 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.720 You're kind of reeling as everyone else is. From the 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.040 idea that Netflix is now such a powerful presence in 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:16.679 the entertainment. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:18.400 World that it is now swallowing one. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:23.040 Of the great studios of in history with So Netflix 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:26.040 will now basically be Netflix Warner Brothers, which is just crazy. 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.040 I never quite got my head around the fact that 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:32.200 Discovery was part of Warner Brothers, but now. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.000 That's going to be separated from it. 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.920 So those cable channels, the one the one channel that 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.240 is on in all of this. Nobody's mentioned yet that 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.440 its like had better stay like what it is now, 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.640 and no matter who's controlling, it's got to stay the 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.680 same as Turner Classic Movies, and that might be split 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.320 off in its own as well. But like that that 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.000 little channel, when I stopped writing about actual television, that's 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:53.680 where I'm going to live most of my life. I 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.640 think I love Turner Classic movies. They do such great stuff. 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:58.600 And it also you know, but that's part of the 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:02.520 library as well. Yeah, that the Netflix is such a 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.760 as such a force that they have now they're now 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.480 you know, true Hollywood, and it's a bit crazy. I 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.440 don't think anybody ever saw that coming when they began. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.080 But when you think about the amount of product that 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:18.440 Netflix itself produces it kind of dwarfs what even HBO does. 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.840 But at the same time they're the two major players. 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.519 Like when the Emmys come around, most of the shows 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.919 that get nominated are from HBO and and sometimes Netflix, 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.560 So now they're part of the same company. 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.280 That's just kind of that's wild. 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.200 Yeah, and they got a big one tonight in Netflix. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.120 It's actually your lead story before we even knew what 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:40.360 was going to happen. George Clooney's j Kelly movie. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:44.160 Yeah, and it's been limited run in theaters. And the 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.280 thing also that's interesting about Netflix is that the movie 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:52.000 industry looks askance at Netflix because they only release their 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.400 movies very very limited in in in theaters, but that 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.520 some of these movies they see they have, you know, 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:01.520 Oscar Oscar, I guess ambitions, and this would be one 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.520 of them. So as of today, you can see George Clooney, 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.920 who I know is a local favorite, playing Jay Kelly, 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:10.720 which is the name of a movie star. So George 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.880 Clooney is playing a very handsome movie star, which is 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:13.880 a real stretch for him. 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.039 But in this movie from Noah. 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.479 Bomback, it is sort of a reflective movie where he's 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.680 getting a career tribute in Italy, and he thinks this 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.120 is the chance to get his family together because he 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.600 has sort of put everything else aside to chase stardom 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.800 for most of his life, and so as he's looking 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.040 back on his life through this movie, there's a bit 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.560 of a melancholy, bittersweet nature to all of this. Adam 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.400 Sandler is also getting Oscar Buzz who plays his manager 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.640 who has been so loyal to him over the years, 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.960 but then other things happen, and I thought I was 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.680 also really impressed by Stacy Keach who plays his dad, 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.600 his very boysterous dad who comes along for the ride. 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.160 For a bit. It's a really nice movie. 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.400 But boy, George Clooney is good in this and his 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.280 sort of catchphrase here is can I have another one? 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:57.760 Like to can I have another take? 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.000 And his why idea here is, boy, if I could 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.000 my wife over like I can do takes over in 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.200 the movies, that would be really great, but of course 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.080 you can't. So it is a great role for George Clooney. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.120 So if you're a fan of his, that's on Netflix 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:09.839 as of now. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.479 And it's called Ja Kelly. Another must see on Here 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.960 We Go. It must be Netflix Friday. Here The New 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:17.240 Yorker at one hundred. 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.279 Tell me about this, well, if you are all aware 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.800 of The New Yorker, what an influential magazine that has 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.159 been over the years, whether you love the cartoons or 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.640 the fiction, but of course their long term stories that 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.000 you think, oh, I'll never read this whole thing, but 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.200 sometimes they become major books. It sort of charged the 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.119 whole history of this magazine. Even as you go behind 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.039 the scenes of the magazine as they're preparing their one 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.040 hundredth anniversary issue, which was out earlier this year, but 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:46.279 you think about they did such bold things as the 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.120 book that became Hiroshima that was first published in The 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.560 New Yorker, Silent Spring from Nrachel Carson that was first 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.040 published in the New Yorker. Even in Cold Blood from 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.480 Truman Capoti was first published in The New Yorker, which 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:02.600 sort of fused fictional story telling with actual factual material. 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:04.680 But then again, a lot of people get it, and 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:06.120 the first thing they do is they turn to those 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.560 cartoons which have become so iconic. And so David Remnick, 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.599 the new editor, the current editor of The New Yorker, 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.560 walks us through things like the fact checkers, and how 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.119 they pick the covers, how they pick the cartoons, and 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.440 as they're preparing for this historic publication. And there really 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.279 is no magazine quite like it. So if you're a 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.320 journalism fan, this is a really great documentary. And again, 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.800 like you said, yeah, this is one day in the 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.480 life of Netflix. They have a George Clooney movie, they 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:34.200 have a major documentary, and next Thursday and Friday there's 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.680 gonna be a whole nother wave of shows. They are 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.640 They're in the volume business and that is how Netflix works. 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:42.960 All right, this was back from the dead. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.320 I'm not sure the Spartacus saying I don't remember this one. 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.640 Tell us about this it's coming back? 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:50.080 Well it is. 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:52.719 You know, Spartacus hasn't been on the air for about 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:54.960 ten years. This is a big hit show for spar 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:59.200 for Stars where it was a. 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.719 Very, very bloody, very a lot of very graphics. 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.200 Actually, I mean this show is really not for the squeamish, 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.520 this thing. But it's said in the world of Gladiators 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:09.960 in Ancient Rome, but they killed off Spartacus throughout the thing, 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.040 be cause if you know the story, Spartacus does die. 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:16.520 He leads a slave rebellion, but he ultimately is crucified 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.480 and killed. But one of the other characters who died 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.480 along the way was a person called Asher, and Asher 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:26.440 was a slave turned gladiator turned trader. He turned against 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.440 his fellow slaves and so he's kind of a bad 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.320 guy here and he was killed quite memorably in one 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.640 of the spinoffs called Spartacus Vengeance. But now they decided 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:37.520 to bring him back from the dead, and now this 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.320 new show called Spartacus House of Asher brings Spartacus franchise 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.480 back to life. There is no Spartacus, it's in the 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.320 world of Spartacus, but it's about how Asher now takes 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.680 over the gladiator school and he brings a female gladiator 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.920 to sort of like shake everything up, which has never 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.360 happened before in the world of this show. So it's 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.720 kind of like the way that Showtime brought Dexter back 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.320 from the dead, and Dexter was actually the most recent 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.920 series was called Dexter Resurrection. Well, now they've resurrected Asher 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:04.920 over on Stars and if you're a fan of Spartacus, 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.640 I've seen a few episodes. Yeah, it's just as bloody 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.280 as ever. So if you want to see Spartacus again. 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:14.200 That again, two episodes premiere tonight. And you like with 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.960 any of these franchisor with an now caol intellectual property, 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:18.800 You're not dead until the next spinoff. 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:23.160 Wow, Matt Rouse talking TV on Friday Mornings with Us Matt, 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:24.000 how do we connect with you? 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:24.880 Uh? 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.720 TV Guide Magazine and TV Insider dot com. 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.360 All right, thanks so much, have a great week. We'll 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:30.760 talk to you next f pleasure. 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:31.080 Thanks. 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.360 All right. It's about eight seventeen on seven hundred WLW. 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.640 Another look at traffic this morning. Eddie's been in for Chuck. 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You need to hear this. 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.439 A seismic shift is coming. It's time to Wall Street heavyweight. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:25.520 This is the Bloomberg moneymnute on seven hundred WLW. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.680 Netflix is set to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery in a 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.719 historic deal that would combine the streaming giant with one 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.800 of the most storied and most valuable studios in Hollywood. 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.959 Warner Brothers shareholders would get twenty seven dollars and seventy 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.079 five cents a share in cash and stock in Netflix. 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.800 That puts the equity value of the deal at seventy 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.920 two billion dollars. Warner Brothers still plans to split the 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.360 company next summer and spin off a lot of its 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:53.600 cable channels, but Netflix would own HBO and Warner's huge 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:58.200 film and TV archive. Amazon stocks down slightly this morning 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.520 following a Washington Post report. It says that Amazon's thinking 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.280 about expanding its nationwide delivery network and ending its long 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:09.320 standing partnership with the US Postal Service and cloud Flair 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.560 says it's fixed the problem that led to the websites 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.040 for several banks, Shopify, Zoom, and LinkedIn to go down 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.120 this morning. A major outage at cloud Flair last month 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:23.400 disrupted social media sites and chat GPT for hours. From Bloomberg, 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:27.640 I'm Monica Rix on News Radio seven hundred WLW. 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:34.040 Seven hundred WLWN, Cincinnati. Steve Hawkins in for Tom Burnhaman. 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.040 I thought we'd talked to the maestro this morning. 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:37.240 Hey, how you doing. 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.560 It's John Morris Russell with us, or as your friends 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.040 like me call you, Jmr. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.560 Hey, Mary, Christmas Happy Alda. 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:48.280 Absolutely, Hey, I wanted to talk to you because tonight 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.080 and this weekend, I think you've got like six concerts 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:53.280 that are going to take place. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:59.640 Yes, indeed, and it's a Holiday Pumps at the Music Hall. 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.680 It's of Cincinnati's great Christmas traditions. 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:09.040 And you've got I think a Grammy nodded nominated singer songwriter. 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.000 Is it Cody Frye that will be joining you this weekend? 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.320 Oh? Yeah, you know, and this is hot off this 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.960 his new album, Cody fry Christmas, which is a huge 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:23.600 sensation and he's joining us along with our Holiday Pops 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:29.720 Corral made up of kids talented high school kids from Sycamore, SCPA, 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.680 Wentton Woods and the May Festival, Youth Chorus, our studio 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:38.600 for dance dancers, and of course the brilliantly talented Cincinnati 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:39.400 Pops Orchestra. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:43.160 Absolutely, I played snare drum in grade school, so just 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:48.040 call me if you ever need a snare drum. You 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:54.040 need audiences too, absolutely, Now you say that, but I 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.280 was leading me into my next question. If you can't 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.040 make it to music Hall, which we want you to, 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:01.400 you're hosting a free digital live stream. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:02.680 Now tell me about that. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:06.760 It's Sunday two o'clock digital live stream on the YouTube channel. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.640 That's incredible if you if you for some reason can't 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:10.600 make it to music Hall. 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.720 Oh my goodness. Yes, and for years we've we've been 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.200 doing these things for one night. And I tell you 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:21.720 we've got we've got listeners from all over the world 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:28.480 who tune in and check out our Cincinnati Pops Holiday Pops. 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:29.320 It's fantastic. 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.400 And different groups before performing ahead of each concert, like 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:38.640 Mayfest Fits, Sin Say Boy Choir, Viva Anderson Alliance, those things. 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.600 Oh, oh my goodness, it is. It is such a party. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.200 Of course, you know, music Hall is just beautifully festooned 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.200 and with all the garland and the twinkle lights, it 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:51.040 is a total experience. You come in there, there's alters 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:56.240 of pre concert activities and it's so festive. Everyone gets 0:13:56.240 --> 0:14:00.640 stressed up and of course a brilliant concert and it 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:02.400 really gets you in the spirits. 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.360 Yeah, and pictures, it was saying in missus Claus and 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.920 the elves, I think for the kids and stuff this week. 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:13.520 Yeah, of course you know, and it is. It's just 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:18.840 such a beautiful tradition that everyone in town comes it. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.040 And I tell you what, it is selling like hotcakes, 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.640 and make sure to get your tickets. There still a 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:30.080 few very very good seats available on Sunday evening. But 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:34.320 this is a Friday at eleven, Friday night at seven thirty, 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:40.160 Saturday at two for the family, Saturday seven thirty, Sunday 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:45.040 at two, and of course Sunday at seven o'clock six concerts. Wow, 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:45.880 coming up. 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.200 That's great weekend. By Monday you need a nap. That's 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:48.840 what happens. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:54.040 We're talking to the Maestro John Morris Russell this morning. 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.000 I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you about New 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:57.640 Year's Eve Cabaret cafe. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:58.600 Can we still go to that? 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:00.440 Goodness? 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:08.200 Yes, this is a sophisticated and really kind of a 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:14.920 wonderful way to celebrate New Year's Eve. Totally classy. It's 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:19.720 about the music of the cabaret. It's like Berlin from 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:24.520 between the Wars, Paris, Buenos Aires and tango and like 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.880 Harlem a jazz and so it's all of these different 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.000 types of musical South. We have a couple of fantastic 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:36.240 singers and of course the swinging sounds of the Cincinnati Pops. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:36.800 This one. 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.760 You know, folks always get dressed up and celebrate their 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.520 at music Hall. It's it's a wonderful way to ring in. 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:43.960 The new year. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.040 Absolutely, and we get tickets at the Pops website. I'm 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:48.640 looking at it right now. It says New Year's Eve 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.400 Cabaret by tickets. So hey, maestro, thank you for another 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.120 incredible year, and I look forward to talking to you 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:56.680 again in twenty twenty six. 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:58.840 All the best, happy all of it. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:15:59.800 All right to maestro. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.440 John Morris Russell with us, you can go since at 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.760 Pop's get some tickets. Brian Combs with us this morning. 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:08.440 You've got some stuff going on this week, and tell 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:08.880 me about that. 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:12.480 Cincinnati Metropolitan Orchestra asked me to host their show Sunday 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:16.120 afternoon at three they've been around for like thirty years 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.000 and always have a huge Christmas show. This one is 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:23.480 really cool, especially being from WLW, because it's incorporating a 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.960 bunch of the old tunes from Ruth Lions. Really so 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.760 celebrating history of the Ruth Lions Show on the radio here, 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.480 which went back to what nineteen forty nine. A number 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.640 of her songs will be performed by Nancy James, who 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.680 was one of the performers on the Bob Bron Show, 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.960 okay back in the seventies. She's the CCM grad who 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:49.760 was incredibly talented, and we'll be performing songs like let's 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:51.280 like the Christmas Tree. I mean, if you grew up 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.480 in the Tri State, like I did you know your 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.240 mom watched Bob Ron or Ruth Lions. 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:56.840 I mean you. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:01.280 Had the album that she put out for songs, and 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.560 Let's light the Christmas Tree was like one of those 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.040 traditions in Cincinnati that. 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:08.040 You just don't forget. 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.359 And she had some other fun songs like having Marry 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.160 Merry Christmas and. 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:12.960 Hey Nannie Nanny. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.159 But yeah, so Nancy James is gonna be performing some 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.760 of those songs after the show Sunday afternoon three o'clock. 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.280 Cincinnati Metropolitan Orchestra has a website where you can find 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:22.880 the tickets. 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:24.400 Where is it again? 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.119 It's going to be in then Seaton High School's auditorium. 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.920 Got it in West Price Hill holds a couple thousand 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.600 people probably, so I know they have a big crowd, 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.840 but there are some tickets available. I put the link 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.520 on the WLW Facebook page and a little more about 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:42.399 the whole Ruth Line's history and that Christmas one that 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:46.120 she started as part of that show has raised almost 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.840 twenty three million dollars over the years for CINCINNTI Children's 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.600 Hospital to make sure kids get presents and have parties 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:53.280 and things like that. 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.520 Thanks for doing it all right, It's Brian comes in 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.800 this morning eight forty seven traffic. 0:17:57.840 --> 0:17:59.960 Now Eddie's in for Chuck. What does it look like 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:00.560 out there? 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.760 Starting to see things improve a little bit, but still 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:08.280 quite a few problems from the UC Health Traffic Center. 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.720 U SEE Health's Weight Loss Center offer surgical and medical 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:15.080 obesity care and expertise. Call five P one three nine 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.600 three nine two two sixty three. That's nine three nine 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:18.800 two two sixty three. 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:19.440 Left. 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.159 Two lanes are blocked off from an accident on westbound 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.960 two seventy five that's before coal rain northbound seventy one 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:29.200 seventy five at Buttermilk Pike. A disabled vehicle that's off 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.640 on the right shoulder southbound seventy one seventy five at 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.320 US forty two in Florence. Also a disabled vehicle onto 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.720 the right shoulder and looking at a minute or two 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.240 worth of delays southbound on seventy five between Galbreath and 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:47.280 Paddock Roads. I'm at Eazeleek on news radio seven hundred WLW, the. 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.639 Nine first one A weather forecast Center. Jennifer say, is 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:53.399 gonna be cold today getting to thirty uh. It's going 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.320 to be seven thirty tonight at the Centa Center. Mostly 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.520 cloudy twenty eight degrees for the Crosstown shootout, overnight low 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.760 twenty four or a dreary day tomorrow on thirty seven, 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:06.199 and then wintery mix Sunday, high thirty four. It's been 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.280 twenty three for most of the morning. It still is 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:12.480 at your severe weather station, news Radio seven hundred WLW. 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:14.640 Bear Dave joins me next. 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:17.879 Willy gives me hope, and these days we can all 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:18.600 use some hope. 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:20.359 Willy is here for you. 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:22.679 No matter how lousy my day is, I know I 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:24.919 can count on Willy to turn things around here to 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:26.040 soothe your fears. 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:27.840 I wish I could find a man just like Willie. 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:29.680 What's the great American that I am? 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.119 He uses lots of big words. I use lots of 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.199 big words too. It's almost like we're twins. All you 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:36.520