Speaker 1: Don't want to be an American.
Speaker 2: Friday, Martin was slowly here seven hundred w all other
Speaker 2: than a lot of the usual suspects, and no one
Speaker 2: more suspect than my next guest here with the Bengals
Speaker 2: off in the bye ready for Pittsburgh Sunday, and you
Speaker 2: see at home tomorrow, we got lots going on.
Speaker 3: That would be my guy, Dan Horde, a voice of
Speaker 3: said teams.
Speaker 4: Daniel, Hi, slowany good to hear your voice.
Speaker 3: How are you as well? Hopefully had an okay, biolthough
Speaker 3: you worked a little bit. Calling U see's big bragging
Speaker 3: rights win over Dayton. I don't think I can recall
Speaker 3: a time, and I'm not the biggest college basketball guy,
Speaker 3: but a team going two for twenty six from three
Speaker 3: point land that is, that's like King's Island bed.
Speaker 4: And thankfully that team was Dayton, not you see, I said, Daniel, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that helped you see overcome committing twenty four turnovers and
Speaker 4: winning by twelve points. I've never seen that one before. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but that grizzly three point shooting helped.
Speaker 3: As the Lutians are losing any of that off and
Speaker 3: you know it's early, it's still early. We're still trying
Speaker 3: to figure things. The other Bearcats to keep in mind
Speaker 3: would be the football team. You know youyeh the second
Speaker 3: bye week and AP coaches Paul hung in at twenty second.
Speaker 3: The hope is you win and win out for that matter,
Speaker 3: the remaining three and two of those are at home,
Speaker 3: and you can get to the Big twelve championship, So
Speaker 3: there's a path there BYU is looming. That game's already
Speaker 3: sold out at Nippord. But first you have to get
Speaker 3: past the Wildcats, and they're six and three. They gave
Speaker 3: Brigham Young all they can handle, a team that the Bearcats,
Speaker 3: I believe have never played. How does that all factor?
Speaker 4: You're right about all of those, noug it's good research
Speaker 4: Flany big game Arizona is good. Cincinnati is one game ahead,
Speaker 4: and the standings the Bearcats are seven and two, the
Speaker 4: Wildcats are six and three. They've got an excellent third
Speaker 4: year starting quarterback and Noah Fafida, who's tied the school
Speaker 4: record for touchdown passes. The defense is one of the
Speaker 4: best in the conference, third and points allowed, fourth and
Speaker 4: yards allowed. So it's a tough cast for Cincinnati. But
Speaker 4: the Bearcats are knippert They haven't lost at home this year.
Speaker 4: They're favored by about six points I think tomorrow, So
Speaker 4: I think if the Bearcats don't turn it over and
Speaker 4: play solidly, I think they'll win. We'll see, But if
Speaker 4: they do, it really sets up a huge game against
Speaker 4: YU next Saturday at Nippert.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's been a big one, and I don't think
Speaker 3: anyone's looking past that. But you know, you have the
Speaker 3: sense that, hey, it's they're six and three. You can't
Speaker 3: give up. What's the status. By the way of Evan Pryor.
Speaker 4: I don't think he's going to play. That could be
Speaker 4: a game time decision. You know. Sometimes they watch how
Speaker 4: guys do in the warm ups and then decide. If
Speaker 4: I had to guess, I don't think he'll play. But
Speaker 4: they're pretty deep at the running back position. If you
Speaker 4: had to pick a position on the team where you
Speaker 4: lost one of your better guys, that might be the
Speaker 4: one where you feel most comfortable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like it's on the D two is
Speaker 3: you've got to contain a quarterback because he's pretty mobile.
Speaker 4: Well, he's he's an interesting guy because he's kind of fluty,
Speaker 4: like small. He's five to ten, but he's shifty and
Speaker 4: he's got a great arm, and he's an accurate thrower,
Speaker 4: and he's he's got a proven track record. He started
Speaker 4: more than thirty games. So yes, Noah, Fafet is really good.
Speaker 4: We'll be a test.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's segue to the Bengals here, resting up, had
Speaker 3: the bye week, they go to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh on their heels,
Speaker 3: which I mean, this is just it's such a weird
Speaker 3: year in the AFC North for sure, beat the Steelers
Speaker 3: on Thursday Night Football. Four weeks ago, They're at Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: Steelers have dropped three of the last four and now
Speaker 3: a one game lead of the Ravens for the AFC
Speaker 3: North Crown. I heard tea and players say this, and
Speaker 3: I always love asking you this, Dand because I always
Speaker 3: know you, it makes the hair in the back your
Speaker 3: next stand up. But they're saying it's a must win,
Speaker 3: and I think about it, if you do your game out,
Speaker 3: if you lose your fall three back, it feels it
Speaker 3: certainly feels that way. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I usually don't use those words, but in terms of
Speaker 4: winning the AFC North, I think you can use them
Speaker 4: this week. That's the path to the playoffs. They're not
Speaker 4: going to win the wild card this year with a
Speaker 4: three and six record, but the key in the AFC
Speaker 4: North have floundered to such a degree that, yes, if
Speaker 4: the Bengals win on Sunday, they're still alive. Nobody would
Speaker 4: be above five hundred in the division if Cincinnati wins.
Speaker 4: So yeah, in terms of winning the AFC North, I
Speaker 4: think this week you could use the expression must win.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: So back in late October, they beat the Steelers. That
Speaker 3: was a great game. Didn't sack Rogers that night, and
Speaker 3: I think there are just two hits on the quarterback,
Speaker 3: and neither of them was by our defensive ends. But
Speaker 3: Trey Hendrickson and Jamar Stewart look like they're both out
Speaker 3: this week.
Speaker 4: Yes, I don't think either we'll play. They didn't sack
Speaker 4: Rogers in that game, but they did intercept him twice,
Speaker 4: and that was one of the biggest reasons why the
Speaker 4: Bengals won. They had interceptions on back to back possessions
Speaker 4: in the second quarter, allowing them to come from behind
Speaker 4: and win that game. So I don't know if they're
Speaker 4: going to sack or hit Rogers, but it would certainly
Speaker 4: help to have an interception or two.
Speaker 3: Again. Yeah, No, question, Dan Horde, voice of the Bearcats,
Speaker 3: woics of the Bengals Sunday at one here on seven
Speaker 3: hundred WW home and the best Bengals coverage. So the
Speaker 3: injury thing, I'll Slacko's shoulder. That extra week certainly had
Speaker 3: to help.
Speaker 4: He threw it practice yesterday. I don't know if he'll
Speaker 4: do it again today. In that Chicago game two weeks ago,
Speaker 4: and he threw for four hundred and seventy yards. Thursday
Speaker 4: was the only day they had him throw because he's
Speaker 4: got that sprain a seed joint. So I wouldn't be
Speaker 4: surprised if it's the same scenario this week. Didn't throw Wednesday,
Speaker 4: did throw Thursday, might not throw today. Certainly didn't hurt
Speaker 4: him last time, throwing for four to seventy, a career
Speaker 4: high and roughly one hundred yards more than he had
Speaker 4: ever thrown in a previous NFL game.
Speaker 3: Dan, let's add your speculation to the mix here about
Speaker 3: Burrow watch twenty twenty five here and what has to
Speaker 3: happen for him to return or let's just say they
Speaker 3: lose that till he returns, so they do you start
Speaker 3: Joe Burr At this point me, I think it's like,
Speaker 3: let's just see how this game against the Steerers goes first,
Speaker 3: and then make a decision when he feels up to it.
Speaker 4: It's going to be interesting to see what happens, because
Speaker 4: Joe wants to play, regardless of their record. If they
Speaker 4: lose three more in a row in this twenty one
Speaker 4: day window before he can be well, they have twenty
Speaker 4: one days to determine whether to activate him or shut
Speaker 4: him down for the rest of the year. Even if
Speaker 4: they were to lose all of the games they played
Speaker 4: during that window. He wants to come back and play
Speaker 4: this year. This is what he does. He loves to play,
Speaker 4: he wants to continue to improve. He thinks he can
Speaker 4: get better even playing a few games at the end
Speaker 4: of this year at this stage of his career. So
Speaker 4: I know it's been portrayed in some places as it's
Speaker 4: going to be a power struggle between you know, the
Speaker 4: front office deciding whether he should play if they're out
Speaker 4: of it, or whether he wants to play and should
Speaker 4: be allowed to play. This is what he does. I
Speaker 4: think that if medically everything is fine, he feels good
Speaker 4: and he looks good, I think he's going to play
Speaker 4: at some point before this year.
Speaker 3: Is over. Yeah, and you know, we'll see when we'll
Speaker 3: cross efforguent we come to it. I guess it's kind
Speaker 3: of silly to talk about what might happen. And again,
Speaker 3: you've got the Steelers week. You got to focus on that.
Speaker 3: If you can win, it makes sense. But at some point,
Speaker 3: if they don't and the trend continues, and it's just
Speaker 3: completely soid I don't get the advantage of bringing him back,
Speaker 3: and if he wants to, somebody's got to tell him no,
Speaker 3: because I mean, look at Washington. Do you want to
Speaker 3: set him Something could happen and unfortunately the luck we've had,
Speaker 3: bad things do happen. Let's talk about this game coming
Speaker 3: up Sunday, Dan Sister Steelers. Rogers does not look good.
Speaker 3: He looks like every part of the forty one year
Speaker 3: old he is. The offensive line is breaking. But is
Speaker 3: that all on him and the age thing. We made
Speaker 3: a big deal out declining numbers, But is that the
Speaker 3: offensive line breaking down as receiver's not getting separation. There's
Speaker 3: something else going on here.
Speaker 4: Oh, I think there's a little bit of all of
Speaker 4: that involved in Rogers will be forty two in about
Speaker 4: two weeks, so he's coming up on mad Birthday as well.
Speaker 4: I think the Steelers offensive line has been pretty bad
Speaker 4: in recent years, but he is getting better. They were
Speaker 4: missing one of their starters last Sunday night in their loss.
Speaker 4: He'll be back this week, so that helps them. They
Speaker 4: really only have one good wide receiver in DK Metcalf.
Speaker 4: The other guys are just dudes. Jalen Warren is a
Speaker 4: good running back. He had a great first game against Cincinnati,
Speaker 4: so that's going to be a key to the game.
Speaker 4: But if you watch the Steelers this year, what they're
Speaker 4: doing as much as any team in the NFL is
Speaker 4: bringing in a six offensive lineman Spencer Anderson, multiple tight ends,
Speaker 4: including one that's three hundred pounds Darnell Washington, and they're
Speaker 4: just going bullyball. That's what they've kind of evolved into
Speaker 4: this year. They don't necessarily get a ton of yards
Speaker 4: doing it, but they try to impose their will and
Speaker 4: take some time off the clock.
Speaker 3: If they can.
Speaker 4: I work pretty well against the Bengals in Game one,
Speaker 4: They're going to have to be ready to stop it
Speaker 4: in Game two.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They're averaging less of what two hundred and eighty yards
Speaker 3: I think per game, which is pretty damn low by
Speaker 3: their standards in two hundred and forty seven of the
Speaker 3: three games against Cincinnati and going back to Week seven
Speaker 3: where the Bengals beat him thirty three to ten on
Speaker 3: Thursday Night Football. Are they going to come out with
Speaker 3: the same plan. I mean, Steelers going to adjust, Bengals adjust,
Speaker 3: but and of other teams replicated with the Bengals have
Speaker 3: done since that went on Thursday Night.
Speaker 4: I think they're going to come out with the same plan.
Speaker 4: But in that first meeting against the Bengals, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 4: threw four touchdown passes. So they're also going to try
Speaker 4: to take advantage of the Bengals weaknesses. And as we
Speaker 4: all know, the defense right now has a bunch of weaknesses.
Speaker 4: They've scored eighty points in their last two games and
Speaker 4: haven't won either game. So I'm sure the Steelers are
Speaker 4: thinking this is a get right type game for their
Speaker 4: offense and the Bengals are going to have to try
Speaker 4: to prove them wrong.
Speaker 3: So is the Jalen Warren had like over one hundred
Speaker 3: yards rushing against the Bengals in that game, but since
Speaker 3: I mean, he hasn't done really anything. I only had
Speaker 3: one game with more than seventy yards in the last
Speaker 3: three weeks.
Speaker 4: But in that Bengals game, he not only ran for
Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty seven, he had thirty one receiving,
Speaker 4: so one hundred and fifty eight total yards for him
Speaker 4: in that game, plus four touchdown passes for Rogers. So
Speaker 4: both of those guys, I'm sure are anticipating. All right,
Speaker 4: this is a team that we didn't have a lot
Speaker 4: of trouble against defensively in Game one, and a chance
Speaker 4: to put up some numbers again in game two.
Speaker 3: Danny, you mentioned d dk Metcalf started hot this year
Speaker 3: and just just kind of faded. Now different, you know what,
Speaker 3: three catches I think fifty yards against DJ Turner shut
Speaker 3: him down. But and Turner had a hell of a game,
Speaker 3: and you love, you know, as much as we've knocked
Speaker 3: the defense, he has been a stud all season long.
Speaker 3: How do you translate to what happened four weeks ago
Speaker 3: to Sunday.
Speaker 4: I think Turner is going to follow dk Metcalf like
Speaker 4: he did in that game, So it won't be a
Speaker 4: situation where you have one cornerback on one side and the
Speaker 4: other on the other. It's going to be Okay, Turner
Speaker 4: followed DK Metcalf wherever he goes, and as you mentioned,
Speaker 4: Turner's played great so far this year. That's the biggest positive.
Speaker 4: On defense. He leaves the NFL and passes defense. He's
Speaker 4: got a couple of interceptions. One came when he ripped
Speaker 4: the ball away from DK Metcalf in that first Pittsburgh game.
Speaker 4: So DJ Turner covers DK Metcalf, and you look at
Speaker 4: the rest of those receivers, Roman Wilson, Calvin Austin, Ben Scronic.
Speaker 4: It's not exactly a who's who. It's very different from
Speaker 4: the Bengals situation, where if a team manages to limit
Speaker 4: Jamar Chase to you know, reasonable numbers instead of his
Speaker 4: usual great numbers, You've got t you've got Josie Bosch,
Speaker 4: et cetera.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. You can't put up better numbers.
Speaker 3: What's one hundred and sixty one and sixteen catches?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: I think he comes again the better certainly the better receiver.
Speaker 3: But with that chip on his shoulder, I think he's
Speaker 3: just going to roll again on Sunday.
Speaker 4: I don't think they'll throw it to him twenty three times.
Speaker 4: Probably not in the first game.
Speaker 3: Probably not.
Speaker 4: But yes, nobody shuts down Jamar Chase. Some teams do
Speaker 4: better than others, but Pittsburgh historically has not done very well.
Speaker 4: Jamar is threatening to set the NFL record for catches
Speaker 4: in a single season. He's on a pace for one
Speaker 4: forty three. I think the record is one forty nine
Speaker 4: by Michael Thomas. He used to play for the Saints,
Speaker 4: so you know he had the triple crown last year
Speaker 4: and maybe this year he sets the record for most
Speaker 4: catches in any year.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I look at that turnover differential, Dan Pittsburgh has
Speaker 3: jumped out at the pregame notes here. Pittsburgh's plus six
Speaker 3: on the season, but just had one in the last
Speaker 3: month and no turnovers forced and three of the last four,
Speaker 3: including against the Bengals. Is that better ball protection? Is
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh doing something less aggressive in that area?
Speaker 4: No, I do think they faced better competition. That's one
Speaker 4: of the reasons why they've lost three out of their
Speaker 4: last four. But if you look at the Steelers defense,
Speaker 4: it's kind of a boom or bust proposition. So they're
Speaker 4: second in the league in sacks, they're up there in takeaways.
Speaker 4: That's the good news. The bad news is they're giving
Speaker 4: up a ton of passing yards. They're dead last in
Speaker 4: the NFL at defending the pass, at least in terms
Speaker 4: of yards allowed per game. They give up the most
Speaker 4: yards to opposing wide receivers of any team in the NFL.
Speaker 4: It's almost two hundred yards the game to the other
Speaker 4: team's wide receivers. So I'm subtracting running backs and tight ends.
Speaker 4: So their passing defense has been bad. If they don't
Speaker 4: get to the quarterback, if they don't get a takeaway,
Speaker 4: they're not getting stops. So that's the key to the game.
Speaker 4: Can you give Joe Flaco time? Can you prevent him
Speaker 4: from getting sacked? Can you prevent strip sacks from people
Speaker 4: like with TJ. Watton, Alex high Smith. If you can
Speaker 4: do that, you can move the ball, particularly through the
Speaker 4: air against this Pittsburgh defense.
Speaker 3: You know what's striking about that? That is definitely not
Speaker 3: and it doesn't fit the reputation of a Mike Tomlin defense,
Speaker 3: does it.
Speaker 4: What happened? Their secondary is bad. You know they tried
Speaker 4: to boost it this year by signing Darius Tolay and
Speaker 4: trading for Jalen Ramsey slays out he's going to miss
Speaker 4: the game of the concussion Ramsey's been moved to safety.
Speaker 4: Joey Porter is a good player, but he's as penalty
Speaker 4: prone as any cornerback in the league. Had six penalties
Speaker 4: in one game against the Bengals last year, which was incredible.
Speaker 4: So that's the problem. They're still great upfront, they're not
Speaker 4: great in the secondary. If you can protect your quarterback,
Speaker 4: guys are going to be open.
Speaker 3: Hate the Steelers, but respect to Hallada Tomlin and the
Speaker 3: fact that he's had a run of what eighteen seasons
Speaker 3: without a losing record, it's certainly in jeopardy the way
Speaker 3: they're trending.
Speaker 4: To five and four after a four and one start,
Speaker 4: So yes, it is in jeopardy. He has had three
Speaker 4: five hundred seasons back when there was a sixteen game schedule.
Speaker 4: There were three times that the Steelers went eight and
Speaker 4: eight during his tenure. So I'm just waiting for the
Speaker 4: year now that there are seventeen games.
Speaker 3: Did he goes eight eight.
Speaker 4: And one, So maybe that'll happen this year to continuous
Speaker 4: streak of no losing seasons. But throw another five hundred
Speaker 4: in there this year with an eight eight and one,
Speaker 4: maybe this will be the tie on Sunday. Yeah, if
Speaker 4: it happens. It would be the greatest prediction of all time.
Speaker 3: To show you just how the worm turns so quickly
Speaker 3: in the NFL with a parody. And they're more parody
Speaker 3: in the NFL than I think any other sports league
Speaker 3: in the world. The NFL is just so tight. This
Speaker 3: wasn't that long ago. We're talking about how AFC is
Speaker 3: one of the AFC North, one of the toughest divisions
Speaker 3: in football, and now it's like, no, no one wants.
Speaker 3: Someone wants to take the division. Crown Steelers, Baltimore Bengals. Well,
Speaker 3: and of course you know Cleveland's out of it, but uh,
Speaker 3: it's just like it's up for Grizella for grabs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's what Joe Burrow said in his news
Speaker 4: conference on Monday after his first practice. He's like, you know,
Speaker 4: normally we wouldn't be in this position, we'd be dead,
Speaker 4: but because of the division this year, we're not. And
Speaker 4: he's right. Pittsburgh five and four, Baltimore's four and five.
Speaker 4: Now the Ravens are coming on. They won three in
Speaker 4: a row, arsa Chlthy, so you expect them to be
Speaker 4: good the rest of the way. But who knows. Stuff
Speaker 4: can happen. I mean he missed a few games of
Speaker 4: the hamstring injury. He could tweak it again and they
Speaker 4: could go right back down the tube. So it's a
Speaker 4: very unusual year in the AFC North, where all of
Speaker 4: us expected going into the year that Baltimore is going
Speaker 4: to be great, Cincinnati was going to be really good,
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh is probably going to be good. In Cleveland would
Speaker 4: be bad. Well, the last part's true, but the other
Speaker 4: stuff isn't. And as a result, the Bengals still have
Speaker 4: a pulse despite the three and six records.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll be listening for sure, Dan and Lamp with
Speaker 3: the call on Sunday one o'clock in Pittsburgh. Of course
Speaker 3: tomorrow Bearcats at home. I believe that's a noon start against.
Speaker 4: Ten o'clock on the Arizona body clock. So hopefully that
Speaker 4: helps Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this West Coast stuff here, and you tell you're back.
Speaker 3: I feel you, Danny, all the best, buddy, have a
Speaker 3: great game and we'll chat next Friday morning. Be well,
Speaker 3: sounds good? Thanks, take care of my man. With that.
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Speaker 5: Now, a man who has entertainment reporting of course through
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Speaker 3: Will again from New York, wanting to figure.
Speaker 6: Out outside of sports, which you might be doing when
Speaker 6: it comes to watching stuff, whether it's in the big screen,
Speaker 6: the one at home, the one in your hand.
Speaker 3: I know what's up to you. Well, we'll just throw
Speaker 3: it out there and you do with the information what
Speaker 3: you want to do with the information. William, good morning,
Speaker 3: Good morning. You have had when's the last time someone
Speaker 3: to call you William?
Speaker 5: Probably fifth grade when I was in trouble for I
Speaker 5: don't know, eating too many cookies out of the cookie jar.
Speaker 5: It's a very parental thing. Okay, it can be a
Speaker 5: little bit of PTSD to hear William, go.
Speaker 3: And go with dad mode here, will all right, So
Speaker 3: we'll pick up or Kyrie left off. I know that
Speaker 3: Frankenstein is out on Netflix. Why would they wait till
Speaker 3: after thanks after thanks you? Why were they Thanksgiving? And
Speaker 3: after Halloween to do that.
Speaker 5: You know, it was in theaters for a little bit,
Speaker 5: so I don't know if maybe they thought that Halloween
Speaker 5: would have people sort of heading to theaters to see
Speaker 5: some spookier, moodier type of films and so they were
Speaker 5: hoping to make as much money with that model before
Speaker 5: they put it on. But yeah, that's where we're at.
Speaker 5: So it just arrives to Netflix this week, and after
Speaker 5: being in theaters for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: Prior, how does it stand up to I guess all
Speaker 3: the other ten twenty thousand Frankensteins have been done before,
Speaker 3: so this is you.
Speaker 5: Know, Giermo del Toro is the director here, and he
Speaker 5: has said for decades that telling the story, that making
Speaker 5: his version of Frankenstein would be his dream project. And
Speaker 5: you can definitely feel that as you're watching it. I
Speaker 5: mean sort of like Frankenstein's Monster itself, Like the film
Speaker 5: does lumber in some places. It's a little slow moving
Speaker 5: in some places, but that said.
Speaker 3: It is like visually epic.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 5: You know, there are some really cool nods to the
Speaker 5: nineteen thirties original Frankenstein movies. You know, it is absolutely
Speaker 5: rooted in Mary Shelley's novel, and then Giermo del Toro
Speaker 5: does sort of add a couple of twists and.
Speaker 3: Plot changes of his own. Jacob E.
Speaker 5: Lordi plays the monster of Isaac plays the scientist, and it's,
Speaker 5: you know, it's really well acted. I think for people
Speaker 5: who like the story, it's definitely worth watching. It does
Speaker 5: have a two hour twenty something minute run time, so
Speaker 5: it's long. But if you're, you know, looking for something
Speaker 5: you know to watch this weekend, it's it's certainly worth
Speaker 5: to watch. It's it's a great, great telling of the story.
Speaker 3: All right. Frankenstein ed is on on Netflix. On Netflix,
Speaker 3: it keeps raising their rates for some reason. It's giving
Speaker 3: you the notices about the rates going up again. I
Speaker 3: gotta I gotta do a deep dive where the holidays
Speaker 3: will figure out what the hell I'm spend all my
Speaker 3: money on too many services? It's too much.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, that's a good that's a good sort of
Speaker 5: refresh for the new year. Yeah, remind yourself, Yeah where
Speaker 5: all this money?
Speaker 3: Year's resolution is figure out why am I paying more?
Speaker 3: And still have a lie? Just I don't understand. Then,
Speaker 3: still flip around from platform to platform. There's nothing on
Speaker 3: there's nothing. There's nothing here. There's nothing here. I know,
Speaker 3: if you're into this, Jonas Brothers have a new holiday
Speaker 3: movie out.
Speaker 4: Right, that's exactly right.
Speaker 5: So somehow this year America is celebrating twenty years of
Speaker 5: the Jonas Brothers, which is crazy because I feel like
Speaker 5: that's impossible time wise, but here we are. The guys
Speaker 5: are on tour this year, and they've also somehow figured
Speaker 5: out time.
Speaker 3: To shoot this movie.
Speaker 5: That hit Disney Plus today. It's called a Very Jonas
Speaker 5: Christmas Movie. And I went in with the lowest of
Speaker 5: expectations and was very, very pleasantly surprised. It starts off
Speaker 5: a Will Ferrell is playing this like Jonas Brothers super
Speaker 5: fan who is hyped to see them in concert. And
Speaker 5: then from there, you know they are on tour in
Speaker 5: Europe and there's a big storm and they need to
Speaker 5: make it home for the holidays.
Speaker 4: So it's very.
Speaker 5: Familiar plot wise in that way. But I thought the
Speaker 5: movie was very fun, and my favorite thing about it
Speaker 5: was there's a lot of new music in it, and
Speaker 5: I thought the music was great. Kenny g shows up
Speaker 5: playing the saxophone, so yeah, yeah, it has all the
Speaker 5: familiar makings of a Christmas movie, But I thought it
Speaker 5: was a lot of fun to watch, and it that
Speaker 5: hits Disney Plus today for anyone looking to maybe jump
Speaker 5: start the holiday season with the Joe brose.
Speaker 3: They've been around what twenty years?
Speaker 5: I think, yes exactly, which I think I know, which
Speaker 5: I'm like, how is.
Speaker 3: This even possible? Because aren't they.
Speaker 4: Twenty two years old? But I guess they're not here?
Speaker 3: Who is it?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 3: Who is your core Jonahs brother fan? You know, that's
Speaker 3: a great question.
Speaker 5: It's got to be the millennials that grew up with them,
Speaker 5: so I would see that it's probably thirty year old women.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, mom band, Okay, so Jonah. The thing
Speaker 6: is like, oh yeah Jonahs brother. Well, yeah, they've been
Speaker 6: around for a couple of decades for sure. So a
Speaker 6: very Jonah Christmas.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I'm kind of divided right now. Is
Speaker 3: it the very Jonah Christmas?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 3: This is me by the way, talking here William?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 3: Or do I go with the A Bill's Love Story
Speaker 3: on Hallmark? Because there's a Bills fan and grow up.
Speaker 3: There's a Hallmark movie on apparently called A Bill's Love Story,
Speaker 3: which is becoming meme of an of itself. I don't
Speaker 3: think I can remember the last time I watch anything
Speaker 3: on Hallmark, and I'm not sure I'm gonna watch this.
Speaker 5: Well, listen, you know there are when it comes to
Speaker 5: holiday movies, and in particular Hallmark Holiday movies, there are
Speaker 5: absolutely no rules. So sometimes I think that they just
Speaker 5: ask a second grade class to write the script for
Speaker 5: these things, and.
Speaker 3: Somehow they get made.
Speaker 4: And so you know, if.
Speaker 5: You're willing to forgive all of that, then a Bill's
Speaker 5: love story could be just with the doctor ordered this weekend.
Speaker 3: I know, yeah, I don't know what it drops. If
Speaker 3: it drops, I'm not quite sure. I know some of
Speaker 3: the guys from the Sopranos, like Steve Shirrip is in it.
Speaker 3: I don't have no idea what to make it, this
Speaker 3: whole thing, but hey, what, there's plenty of stuff to
Speaker 3: watch on the small score. Let's talk about the big
Speaker 3: screen real quick. Here, what is out in theater so
Speaker 3: we should be interested in?
Speaker 5: Okay, So there's one sort of off the beaten path
Speaker 5: that I wanted to recommend to everybody, and it's called
Speaker 5: sentimental value.
Speaker 4: And DELLN.
Speaker 5: Scars Guard is like a a famous director. He's lost
Speaker 5: touch with his two daughters, and he comes to one
Speaker 5: of his daughters, who's an actress, and says, I've written
Speaker 5: this script and I want you to be in this movie.
Speaker 3: And she's like, you.
Speaker 5: Know, get lost.
Speaker 3: I haven't heard from you in years.
Speaker 5: And that's basically what the movie's about.
Speaker 3: But it's so well told.
Speaker 5: The challenge here for people wanting to feed is that
Speaker 5: it's limited relief. So it's not going to be in
Speaker 5: every theater or the closest theater maybe to you, but
Speaker 5: if you can find a theater that's playing it.
Speaker 3: I thought last weekend and it's just.
Speaker 5: It's really stuck with me, and I think, you know,
Speaker 5: it's really emotional and really well acted, and the script
Speaker 5: is fabulous. So I think when Oscar nominations come out
Speaker 5: in January, we'll probably be talking about this movie. Sentimental value.
Speaker 3: Sentimental value, okay, good? And so the place you can
Speaker 3: see that the theaters very Jonah Christmas and Frankenstein on Netflix.
Speaker 3: The Jonah Brothers Jonah's brothers once on Disney you said
Speaker 3: Disney Plus, that's correct, Yep, got it. See I remember,
Speaker 3: I listened, see I listen, will I listen? I got
Speaker 3: this all right? And the bill's love stories that Hallmark.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we have friends of no matter, Bill says, are like,
Speaker 6: I'm like, dude, I just because it's on there doesn't
Speaker 6: mean it's gonna be like why am I watching? I
Speaker 6: wouldn't watch this in any other way. I don't know
Speaker 6: what as I would be looking for. Like, I don't
Speaker 6: know there's gonna be a cameo by Josh Allen or something.
Speaker 6: I probably not. I look at this good. Yeah I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, good luck with that. Well, we will
Speaker 3: review that. Get back to me next week. See if
Speaker 3: that's where we do something for me for a change.
Speaker 5: I will okay this holiday gift here, all right.
Speaker 3: I want a full review and breakdown of the Bill's
Speaker 3: love story and Hallmark appreciate it, buddy, Thanks again, all right,
Speaker 3: have a great weekend. You to take care. Will dance
Speaker 3: in New York at Will Dance with two S's and
Speaker 3: we'll get a time out in and more to follow
Speaker 3: on this Friday morning. A lot of bad TV shows,
Speaker 3: I just a lot of thing is these days we
Speaker 3: have so many platforms, and if you have all these platforms,
Speaker 3: you need content, which is why you can go to
Speaker 3: you know, you do a deep day, you want to
Speaker 3: go to a rabbit hole if you have Amazon Prime,
Speaker 3: and I think there's other platforms that have this too,
Speaker 3: but Amazon Prime, you go in, they have just TV shows,
Speaker 3: and if there's a TV show that was ever made
Speaker 3: in the last thirty years and maybe even longer, you
Speaker 3: probably can find it on the live TV option of
Speaker 3: Amazon Prime.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: I did just get recently an l I think it's
Speaker 3: an LGTV, and they have their own platform with a
Speaker 3: lot of the same shows on it. So like shows
Speaker 3: you haven't seen or thought, oh my god, like who's
Speaker 3: going Wow, I need a what was that show in
Speaker 3: the eighties? Wings? I need a murder? She wrote Channel
Speaker 3: it's there like YouTube TV. For some reason, I can't
Speaker 3: get ABC and Monday Night Football and Channel nine, but
Speaker 3: I can get the Portlandia channel where it just runs
Speaker 3: NonStop episodes of Portlandia. I don't know why they have
Speaker 3: their own channel or platform. I didn't know there was
Speaker 3: that kind of demand for that show, but it's there.
Speaker 3: So again, you have so many ways to get a
Speaker 3: product or and you don't have enough product out there,
Speaker 3: You're gonna get a lot of reruns, So I'd probably
Speaker 3: wait for a channel where it's just TV shows that
Speaker 3: lasted one season or less. Would that be fascinating? Maybe
Speaker 3: the worst channel of all time if you think, I
Speaker 3: don't know, like for example, home shopping on Christmas Day,
Speaker 3: they just run that static shot of a burning log
Speaker 3: the TV fireplace. It may be worse than that. The
Speaker 3: one one and done, the one and Done channel. It's
Speaker 3: called one and done, and there are tons of TV
Speaker 3: shows past present and definitely in the future where it's
Speaker 3: going to be one. It seems like a really good
Speaker 3: idea and they just they run the entire season. That
Speaker 3: would be something I like to see. You know, you
Speaker 3: you're scraping the bottom of the barrel and say, okay,
Speaker 3: we are out of stuff. We're not wearing shows that
Speaker 3: I can't weren't good enough to make it a season
Speaker 3: on network TV Done Fixed It waiting on that one
Speaker 3: quick time out, more ahead, Slowey Friday Morning, seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about this game on some day? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Me too. I don't know the make of this. Okay, Chicago,
Speaker 3: that was just what an embarrassing cut punch that was
Speaker 3: in a game you had won. This is a little
Speaker 3: bit different. Chicago's a better football team. Steelers. Typically the
Speaker 3: Steelers just rolling the division Steelers and Ravens and Bengals
Speaker 3: in Cleveland is still Cleveland. But man, and talking to
Speaker 3: Dan Horde at nine o'clock, we'll have more with Austin
Speaker 3: ten to thirty five on this. You just don't know
Speaker 3: what to make of the fcn Worth. Even with the
Speaker 3: Bengals below water record, it still feels like it's doable, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, the Steelers scored what ten points against the
Speaker 3: Chargers Aaron Rodgers two interceptions and a touchdown. He looked
Speaker 3: every bit of his almost forty two years of age
Speaker 3: at this point. And the efficiency is getting worse and
Speaker 3: worse and worse as the week's go round. Their offense
Speaker 3: is pretty much near the bottom of the NFL when
Speaker 3: it comes to yards per game? Can they get better?
Speaker 3: While they put yards up against the Bengals they did
Speaker 3: on Thursday and football they'll do it again, sure, but
Speaker 3: you know it's that war of attrition. I know who
Speaker 3: wants it less. I guess we'll find out Sunday. I
Speaker 3: guess we'll find out on Sunday. I plan on and
Speaker 3: listening to the game. We're watching the game for sure, just
Speaker 3: to see who shows up. But what happens, you know,
Speaker 3: typically it's you know, Steelers were the Mike Tomlin Lakes
Speaker 3: Steelers of years past. It wouldn't be a contest, but
Speaker 3: it certainly feels like the Bengals could sweep the season
Speaker 3: series for sure. We'll find out one o'clock on Sunday
Speaker 3: from Pittsburgh here on the Home the Best Bengals coverage
Speaker 3: seven hundred w WELW typical and usual suspects on the
Speaker 3: show this morning, something a little bit new. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you caught this, and I think it's an
Speaker 3: interesting story myself is this just broke overnight. So the
Speaker 3: chatbot Claude dot aih the Chinese used and this is
Speaker 3: the first time we have documented AI being used to hack,
Speaker 3: and they actually used a and I use this chatbot too, Claude.
Speaker 3: They actually use it to hack companies. And there's a
Speaker 3: new cyber thread out there that involves AI. We're all
Speaker 3: on AI now and even if you don't think you're
Speaker 3: on AR, you're on AI. And a lot of the
Speaker 3: stuff is encrypted. So if you're doing you know, if
Speaker 3: you work for a company that's well p ANDNG at
Speaker 3: the example, law, politics, maybe journalism, I don't know, and
Speaker 3: you're dealing with sensitive subject matter. There's a way they're
Speaker 3: now cracking encrypted conversations, and that the point of encrypting
Speaker 3: stuff is so so you don't have someone acking you,
Speaker 3: and yet apparently it's going on. We'll get to this
Speaker 3: with Chris and iis. He's the CEO of Cincinnati based
Speaker 3: Vigilant Cybersecurity. Coming up right after a news update here
Speaker 3: on seven hundred WLW. As the government opens back up,
Speaker 3: will you notice things? I will notice that maybe you're
Speaker 3: in the the next couple of weeks, maybe the airports
Speaker 3: won't be as bad, but we're headed towards the holiday
Speaker 3: travel season. I don't know. Sure will notice that's certainly
Speaker 3: it's good having all the FA employees back and you know,
Speaker 3: hopefully working at full capacity during the busy time of season.
Speaker 3: But you know, sadly, we're probably going to just repeat
Speaker 3: this exercise I think in six weeks, in just about
Speaker 3: six weeks, so January will do this all over again.
Speaker 3: And you wonder, as bad as this was, as long
Speaker 3: as this whole thing was, that maybe politicians said, hey,
Speaker 3: you know what, maybe it's not a good idea to
Speaker 3: shut it down. Maybe I don't know if we do
Speaker 3: this again in six weeks, you would hope that there
Speaker 3: will be some sort of rebellion by us, the people
Speaker 3: going enough of this nonsense. Do your jobs. And I
Speaker 3: know that the right will blame the left, left will
Speaker 3: blame the right. And you know, you shut the government
Speaker 3: down because you're holding out the healthcare. You left with nothing,
Speaker 3: and now Charles Fritz Schumer's job is in question, as
Speaker 3: leadership role as a question. And that's all politics. That's good,
Speaker 3: but again, it's about the American people. It's about me
Speaker 3: and you and you know coming to it, hopefully a
Speaker 3: solution before they have to shut the government down again.
Speaker 3: I don't hold out hope that's going to happen, because
Speaker 3: I just have a sneaking sense that you know, no
Speaker 3: one is holding them accountable, at least those of us here,
Speaker 3: the eighty percent of us who are tired of this nonsense.
Speaker 3: It's just simply are not vocal enough about it. I
Speaker 3: don't know if that'll change. Really, we'll do a news
Speaker 3: update and we'll get into that AI stuff just ahead
Speaker 3: here on the Scott Plone Show on seven hundred WW Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Don't want to Friday Morning with Scott's loan here on
Speaker 3: seven hundred WLW, also on the iHeartRadio app take us
Speaker 3: wherever you go. We portable like that. So not to
Speaker 3: freak you out a little bit, but this is important
Speaker 3: if you are doing work on AI. A lot of
Speaker 3: us are using AI for our jobs these days, and
Speaker 3: especially if you're in a sentenceitive field. It could be medicine,
Speaker 3: could be law, could be politics, who knows, P and G.
Speaker 3: Of course, highly sensitive information, corporate information. Use AI as
Speaker 3: part of your job. There's a new cyber threat called
Speaker 3: the Whisper Leak, and we actually had an AI. Will
Speaker 3: get in a second, but we actually had an AI
Speaker 3: being used by the Chinese. And this story broke overnight
Speaker 3: involving one AI chatbot that they're using AI now to
Speaker 3: hack servers and databases. Joining the show, he is the
Speaker 3: CEO of vigil and Cybersecurity based out of here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Chris and I Heist. Welcome. How are you.
Speaker 7: I'm doing pretty good on this rainy Cincinnati morning.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yes, ready to go. So let's let's
Speaker 3: get into what just happened overnight with the Chinese and
Speaker 3: using AI. What happened and what was the platform? What
Speaker 3: I compromised. Right.
Speaker 7: So Anthropic a company they're out in San Francisco. They
Speaker 7: have a technology called Claude and it's a pretty amazing tech.
Speaker 7: It's very similar to chat GPT, but yeah, a lot
Speaker 7: more effective in like writing code things like that. Basically,
Speaker 7: what happened is these technologies are meant and built to
Speaker 7: be ethical. They're not meant to do things legal, but
Speaker 7: you can you can convince them to do different things.
Speaker 3: You know, different people have.
Speaker 7: Used it to hack and and and you know, different aspects.
Speaker 7: But in this case, what Chinese hackers did was they
Speaker 7: got into Claude and Claud's got tons of processing power,
Speaker 7: and they convinced Claude that it was a security researcher
Speaker 7: for a security organization here in the United States and
Speaker 7: that they were doing research on some customers of THEIRS
Speaker 7: and they needed to write a bunch of code and
Speaker 7: execute that. What they did basically was they created an
Speaker 7: attack against the you know, a bunch of different organizations. Uh,
Speaker 7: and we're able to carry that attack out using Claud's
Speaker 7: processing power and AI technology.
Speaker 3: That's kind of that, that's kind of nefarious but brilliant
Speaker 3: in a way. And now using AI because your fingerprints
Speaker 3: all are over it, right, Oh, it's all over it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And what's really well, what's interesting too is you know
Speaker 7: it was coming from Claude's servers, so you know, organizations
Speaker 7: are allowing that, right, so it doesn't look like it's
Speaker 7: directly come.
Speaker 3: From from the Chinese.
Speaker 7: And even with Claude, you know, Anthropic, they had to
Speaker 7: look back through logs recon you know, reattached and there
Speaker 7: they're almost certain is what they're saying, that that there's
Speaker 7: evidence that it was coming originating from China. But even then,
Speaker 7: you know, you and I have talked about it. It's
Speaker 7: very easy to make yourself look like somebody else, you know,
Speaker 7: and that's how it happens.
Speaker 3: Well, and that's amazing too, because it's Chinese or Russian
Speaker 3: or you know, other actors out there. But every time
Speaker 3: we have all this information against them, they just deny
Speaker 3: it and nothing ever comes of it. It's not like
Speaker 3: you need some way to you know, it's not like
Speaker 3: we have a court you could go to and say, well,
Speaker 3: we're final lawsuit. They just go, yeah, it wasn't us,
Speaker 3: and then you never hear it again, right right, hey,
Speaker 3: you never hear of it again.
Speaker 7: It just goes, it goes away, and you know, a
Speaker 7: lot of it has to do with geopolitical interactions. You know,
Speaker 7: these are things that you know, again, you know, we're
Speaker 7: we're we're a nation state to them, right, and so
Speaker 7: they're having the same conversation as probably other radio stations
Speaker 7: as well. But you know, because we we do things
Speaker 7: vice versa. It's it's a war. You know, it's a
Speaker 7: cyber war. And you know we've talked before it's it's
Speaker 7: all about positioning. But in this case, you know, we're
Speaker 7: in the United States, we have to really look at
Speaker 7: things and protect ourselves in these ways. And what's crazy
Speaker 7: about it is we're creating all this technology that then
Speaker 7: gets turned right back around and used against us.
Speaker 3: All right, so let's pivot to this. Chris speaking of
Speaker 3: a I new cyber threats called Whisper Lake, and it's
Speaker 3: AI involved here too. We just we're just talking about
Speaker 3: here and so now they don't have to get and
Speaker 3: they're just looking at what your pattern of traffic is,
Speaker 3: in the timing of your traffic, and then they guess
Speaker 3: what it is. You're it's like clip.
Speaker 7: Reading, right, it is, it's like flip flip reading, and
Speaker 7: you know, what whisper leak happened. What these researchers did,
Speaker 7: and this has been out for about eight months now,
Speaker 7: it's just starting to hit the news. That's that's pretty
Speaker 7: much a trend. If you hear about things generally now
Speaker 7: here on this show, you hear things a lot earlier
Speaker 7: than you would in in other media outlets, just because
Speaker 7: you know, you tend to be really focused on and
Speaker 7: I think it's awesome. But this is something that's been
Speaker 7: out for a while and it's just starting to get
Speaker 7: some traction. But what these researchers did was they looked
Speaker 7: at patterns. And the thing we have to realize about
Speaker 7: AI is AI is not like most AI that we
Speaker 7: interact with, is not like a thinking brain.
Speaker 3: It's really just a pattern matcher.
Speaker 7: And so if you interact with it, or I interact
Speaker 7: with it now I ask it the same questions, or
Speaker 7: we asked it the same question of the same topic,
Speaker 7: it's going to actually have the same pattern in the
Speaker 7: way it responds.
Speaker 3: So what these researchers did was they.
Speaker 7: Went out and just asked twenty eight different AI platforms,
Speaker 7: large language models, and they said, hey, tell me about money,
Speaker 7: laundry and tell me about financial tell me about the
Speaker 7: space industry, these types of things, and they then documented
Speaker 7: the way in which it responded. Now anybody can do this,
Speaker 7: and in fact, they actually released the code, so anybody
Speaker 7: can go out and do this. They can create these
Speaker 7: patterns and then what they do then is they just
Speaker 7: sit on a network at a Starbucks or they set
Speaker 7: it at a corporate network or wherever. As long as
Speaker 7: you can capture or see someone's traffic that they're going
Speaker 7: to the Internet with, you can actually match that traffic.
Speaker 3: So quick.
Speaker 7: Analogy if for everybody to understand this is it's I
Speaker 7: take a letter, handwriting, hand written letter, and I hand
Speaker 7: it to you.
Speaker 3: It's not encrypted.
Speaker 7: Anyone that intercepts the letter can read it everything I
Speaker 7: have in it. In this case, it's encrypted my transaction
Speaker 7: between me and you. So if I wrote that letter,
Speaker 7: put in an envelope and handed it to you, the
Speaker 7: postman's not going to read it. You know, no one's
Speaker 7: going to read it until you open that up. But
Speaker 7: what they can see is how big is the envelope?
Speaker 7: You know, what is it wigh different things about the
Speaker 7: characteristics of that and so you know, if I'm sending
Speaker 7: you something and someone knows what's in it originally, or
Speaker 7: they test that they can they can create a pattern
Speaker 7: of weight, size, things like that that they can then
Speaker 7: infer what I'm talking about. And so the big problem
Speaker 7: here is people can can now look at the package
Speaker 7: of your communication and see what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Wow, it's it's yes, like looking through the envelope basically
Speaker 3: at this point that that's pretty scary. But the good
Speaker 3: news is this was this whole thing was run by Microsoft.
Speaker 3: So this wasn't a hack. It wasn't.
Speaker 7: But this is and this is the issue right with disclosure,
Speaker 7: is it was run by Microsoft security researchers did it.
Speaker 7: They released it nine months ago, They released all their code,
Speaker 7: all their findings. Anybody can go grab that code and
Speaker 7: can redo it. So guaranteed that one someone's grabbed that code.
Speaker 7: But also guaranteed is that even before Microsoft reached it
Speaker 7: did it, someone else researched this and figured it out.
Speaker 7: So you know, it's yeah, it's a it's a pretty
Speaker 7: big it's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 3: Chris and I Heiss is here. He's CEO of vigil
Speaker 3: and Cybersecurity based out of Cincinnati. Now we have some
Speaker 3: worry about AI in a different way, and that is
Speaker 3: the Chinese just use this overnight on claud dot ai.
Speaker 3: That's there. I use that platform to it us. Wonderful
Speaker 3: they were able to use code, have AI write code
Speaker 3: to create a hack with The other thing too is
Speaker 3: whisper leak what we're talking about now. And you know,
Speaker 3: if you are in a sensitive business where you use
Speaker 3: AI in the course of your job and you have
Speaker 3: sensitive information putting that out there, you think it's encoded,
Speaker 3: there's a way for bad actors to see through that,
Speaker 3: not break the code necessarily, but rather be able to
Speaker 3: figure out based on what time, what the content is
Speaker 3: and to like to figure out what it is you're doing.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that gives you explicit details about tappening,
Speaker 3: but they said it happens with something like ninety eight
Speaker 3: percent accuracy. They're able to guess what's going on here.
Speaker 3: So and the other thing that we know about digital
Speaker 3: fingerprints online, but I think it probably surprised a lot
Speaker 3: of people that it's encrypted, that we're leaving a digital
Speaker 3: fingerprint with AI. Right.
Speaker 7: Well, it's the thing here is is that you know,
Speaker 7: normal communication doesn't have patterns, it's all jumbled up. It's
Speaker 7: encrypted a certain way. The problem with working with AI
Speaker 7: because you know, like you and I are talking in
Speaker 7: our conversation has no real pattern to it. You know,
Speaker 7: it's where going different directions. But when you're talking to AI,
Speaker 7: it's a pattern matching technology. So it's really just taking
Speaker 7: a question that anyone asks, it goes out to what
Speaker 7: it's learned, and it responds in almost the exact same
Speaker 7: way every time, so you can infer what it's talking about.
Speaker 7: And you know you mentioned security researchers. You know, Apple
Speaker 7: when they built their new facility, they built the Starbucks
Speaker 7: inside their their facility out in California because if you sit,
Speaker 7: if you know, their team members were going out working
Speaker 7: at coffee shops in the area, and they actually forbid
Speaker 7: them from doing it. Because if you can capture someone's
Speaker 7: traffic with things like AI, you can see that pattern.
Speaker 7: So you know, if you're a security researcher or you know,
Speaker 7: someone could know what your role is, uh say, for instance,
Speaker 7: practor and gamble right. If at PG or ge right,
Speaker 7: someone was a aerospace engineer and they went and said,
Speaker 7: at a coffee shop here in Cincinnati, and there was
Speaker 7: a Chinese espionage spy sitting in there, which happens, by
Speaker 7: the way, same reason Apple forbid everybody from going to
Speaker 7: there because they know this happens, and they're sitting on
Speaker 7: the network and they and they can capture that traffic,
Speaker 7: right which is not extremely difficult to do. They could
Speaker 7: then see what gees researching in aerospace, you know, if
Speaker 7: that person's using AI based on topics, and from that
Speaker 7: they can then create, you know, additional attacks against us
Speaker 7: for that, or if you're a lawyer and you're researching
Speaker 7: a certain type of of of a case, or if
Speaker 7: you're a criminal and you're searching researching money laundry. In fact,
Speaker 7: money laundering across every AM model was able to be
Speaker 7: found out with precision one of the time in their
Speaker 7: in their research. Yeh, search money laundering.
Speaker 3: I'd have tested. Just see, I got nothing going this weekend.
Speaker 3: I'm up for some fun, Chris. A lot of big companies,
Speaker 3: I am not even huge companies, but but big especially
Speaker 3: public trade. You mentioned GEPG, except that they have their own
Speaker 3: AI internal AI platforms. Does it make a difference.
Speaker 7: Uh, well it does if they're using those platforms internally.
Speaker 7: You know, you you would have to capture the traffic
Speaker 7: on the inside of the network. So now I'll say
Speaker 7: this is something a lot of people don't think about,
Speaker 7: but I mean you and I talked about this recently.
Speaker 7: The North Koreans were having people get hired into companies
Speaker 7: here in the United States and working for them. So
Speaker 7: you got to be really careful and even inside your
Speaker 7: organization now to make sure you don't have people that
Speaker 7: are there committing espionage also, but it is a lot
Speaker 7: safer if people have a language model internally. Uh, you know,
Speaker 7: we do it vigilant. You know, we've taken these these
Speaker 7: models builtam in. Our team interacts with that for sensitive things.
Speaker 7: You know, if you don't have that, that opportunity a
Speaker 7: way you can protect yourself is and you should do
Speaker 7: this anyway, but if you're ever interact with AI, uh,
Speaker 7: you know, even if you know, if you're in a
Speaker 7: public space or you're in a network that you don't control,
Speaker 7: always connect to v you know, proton VPN.
Speaker 3: There's a bunch of different vpms out there that you
Speaker 3: can use.
Speaker 7: That are very inexpensive and and it'll mask that traffic.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: You know, the thing that we just have to realize
Speaker 7: is the moment our traffic leaves our network or our computer.
Speaker 7: Even if you're in incognito mode in your browser or
Speaker 7: a safe mode, everywhere you're going can still be tied
Speaker 7: back to you and the exact location you're at, right,
Speaker 7: I mean, Microsoft is releasing to teams this week actually
Speaker 7: to where in Microsoft Teams it'll show the IP location
Speaker 7: of where you're sitting at, even if you're on a
Speaker 7: VPN too, so because it's looking at your local Wi Fi.
Speaker 7: Those are things in information that Microsoft's had for years.
Speaker 7: It's just now they're making it available to companies to
Speaker 7: be able to see. Right, So anytime traffic leaves your network,
Speaker 7: if you're going whatever website, you're going to the incognito
Speaker 7: mode and things like that only mask what's happening, like
Speaker 7: tracking it on your system in terms of logs. It
Speaker 7: doesn't stop you know, an Internet provider or someone else
Speaker 7: from knowing where you went, what you did, gotcha.
Speaker 3: So that's important people. I'm incognito mode, but that really
Speaker 3: doesn't do is what you think it's doing. It does.
Speaker 3: It doesn't do what you think it is doing.
Speaker 7: All it's doing is if someone comes to your laptop
Speaker 7: later and they look at your browser history, Uh, you
Speaker 7: know it's not going to be there. It's also gonna
Speaker 7: uh stop cookies from tracking you on the internet, but
Speaker 7: it's not stopping.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 7: You know, if you go to a website, they're still
Speaker 7: going to know where you're coming from because you're connecting
Speaker 7: to them. They're going to know your originating IP.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's going to be in their logs, you know, on
Speaker 3: the other site.
Speaker 7: Uh, you know and uh and so that's why you know,
Speaker 7: if you nick the VPNs, then your origination point changes,
Speaker 7: you know, yes, you know, yeah, yeah, you know, it's different.
Speaker 3: Which is why when you log in somewhere and it
Speaker 3: says you know, you're they think you're in Alaska or
Speaker 3: Russia or something. You're like, well, I'm not a I know.
Speaker 3: That's just like bouncing it around the world, is what's
Speaker 3: going on. So they can find you right exactly now.
Speaker 7: And if I'm in a Starbucks and I connect to
Speaker 7: Wi Fi, or if I'm in a hotel and I
Speaker 7: connect to Wii or to Wi Fi, it's if someone's
Speaker 7: on that network, uh, and they've done certain things. They
Speaker 7: can see my traffic even if it's encrypted. They can
Speaker 7: know where I'm going, what I'm doing, who I work for.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 7: If I get on a VPN, then it shrouds that
Speaker 7: traffic all the way to the VPN provider and no
Speaker 7: one locally is going to know what.
Speaker 3: I'm doing and and so yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so I mean in this case with AI, you know,
Speaker 7: the AI providers are starting to see how they can
Speaker 7: more randomize the way in which the communication looks different.
Speaker 7: You know, in our case with the envelope, maybe they
Speaker 7: send a Manila envelope tomorrow, and they send a white
Speaker 7: envelope tomorrow in the next day, they add some coins
Speaker 7: into it to make it heavier or whatever.
Speaker 3: That's what they're doing with the traffic.
Speaker 7: It's just trying to do that, right yea junk out,
Speaker 7: Oh that that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, But your protections
Speaker 7: on your own, like you have to protect yourself, you
Speaker 7: have to get on VPN, you have to do those
Speaker 7: things because these these issues are always going to exist, all right.
Speaker 3: So you're in business and you're you know, you're using
Speaker 3: AI with important data, right, proprietary information as we're called,
Speaker 3: and you're you're out there and a wife, I do this.
Speaker 3: Be careful with AI because you've been warned at this point.
Speaker 3: Now they're able to get this information. Believe Chris said,
Speaker 3: and I heeis over at Vigilant Cybersecurity here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Always appreciate the insight and time. Thanks again, brother, have
Speaker 3: a great weekend, Uh my pleasure. Thank you. Take care. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're got to get news update and of course we'll
Speaker 3: find out what's going on there. The weather's looking okay.
Speaker 3: It's okay for football tonight for sure in Bearcat Game
Speaker 3: Day Bengals in Pittsburgh this weekend. If you're headed out there,
Speaker 3: whether it looks okay as well. Full update with that
Speaker 3: traffic and winn a turn of the show. Speaking of
Speaker 3: the Bengals, Austin Elmore is here from ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about the Bearcats to some degree, some interesting
Speaker 3: MLS news. The schedule and MLS will be changing in
Speaker 3: the next two years, I said, change the time of
Speaker 3: year they play soccer at TQL Stadium, and we'll get
Speaker 3: into that Bengals Steelers matchup as well, and what to
Speaker 3: anticipate in this game and one another one of those
Speaker 3: games you scratch you and now I have no idea
Speaker 3: which teams are going to show up for this one.
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh has not been playing well for a while now,
Speaker 3: and right about the time the Bengals started getting after him.
Speaker 3: The rest of the league is caught up a very
Speaker 3: Untomland like Mike Tomlin like squad. At the same time,
Speaker 3: the Bengals have their own difficulties with injuries any wonder
Speaker 3: at the end position. Trey Hendrickson is out, but so
Speaker 3: is Shamar Stewart. We'll see what shakes out this weekend anyway, Austin.
Speaker 3: The latest on this coming up in just a few
Speaker 3: minutes here on seven hundred w WELW Friday mornings at
Speaker 3: tend to lighten it up a little bit or a lot,
Speaker 3: as the case may be, and just talk about fun things,
Speaker 3: whether it's sports or what's happening in the Fountain district.
Speaker 3: I know we're worried about crime and Fountain Square and
Speaker 3: around the city for that matter. It's a concern, but
Speaker 3: does that prevent you to dissuade you from going town
Speaker 3: and enjoying what the city has to offer. Me personally,
Speaker 3: not so much certain times a day, certain areas maybe,
Speaker 3: but not too concerned about it. I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 3: and I tend to be a little situationally aware. Know
Speaker 3: what's going on, that's ed. I know that We're going
Speaker 3: to see a whole different look at Fountain Square in
Speaker 3: the Fountain District as we call it when it comes
Speaker 3: to the holidays. Christie Simood from three c dc'll be
Speaker 3: on the show at eleven oh seven explain the big
Speaker 3: changes in store for the how they look downtown, at
Speaker 3: Fountain Square and elsewhere. She's coming up in a few
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Speaker 3: Home of the Best Bengals coverage seven hundred WWD. Since then,
Speaker 3: Scott's Loan Show seven hundred WLW, Austin Elmore from ESPN
Speaker 3: fifteen thirty pops in on Friday mornings talk about I
Speaker 3: think sports related and today would be no exception. How
Speaker 3: are you, bigg and you're good clearing, My throats are
Speaker 3: clear and the cough button there. I'm good. How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm doing fine, jumping right into it tomorrow. You've got
Speaker 3: Tony Pikes. You see Bearcats at home against the Wildcats
Speaker 3: of Arizona. Everyone is looking at the BYU game. It's
Speaker 3: sold out already. No one's paying attention to this. Does
Speaker 3: that make you nervous?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Tony and I were just having a conversation before
Speaker 6: the show earlier and he's like.
Speaker 3: I got I don't know about this game.
Speaker 6: Everyone's kind of looking towards by right, Arizona maybe better
Speaker 6: than we thought. An experienced quarterback who's seen a lot
Speaker 6: of things. Not that different of a team than you see,
Speaker 6: to be honest, because Mobile, you know, shifty. It's not
Speaker 6: like it's going to be unbearably cold on Saturday at
Speaker 6: Nippert Stadium. I think the high is going to be
Speaker 6: sixty six, So it's not like Arizona will be thrown
Speaker 6: off by the frigid temperatures of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I.
Speaker 6: Think you know, after a performance the way that they
Speaker 6: had against Utah after a bye week, you just hope
Speaker 6: that the Bearcats don't come out sleepy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and thinking about that BYU game and if hey,
Speaker 3: we run the table, don't worry about Arizona. We got
Speaker 3: two more games. We should be able to be And
Speaker 3: let's keep in mind that this is a team. It's
Speaker 3: last week. Gave b Yu all they can handle, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean Arizona and that whole conference. I don't know
Speaker 3: that there's outside of Texas Tech who's very, very good
Speaker 3: and I think one of the best teams in the country,
Speaker 3: that next group of guys, that next group of players
Speaker 3: or teams is I think they're all just varying degrees
Speaker 3: of separation, very similar teams. So I think the big
Speaker 3: thing is how does Brendan Soresby respond from a bad
Speaker 3: performance against Utah? I mean, he was a big reason
Speaker 3: why they lost that game and turning the ball over,
Speaker 3: and last year when he would turn the ball over
Speaker 3: had a bad performance, it kind of snowballed. Does he
Speaker 3: have the next step this year where he leaves that
Speaker 3: in Utah off of a bye week and can get
Speaker 3: back to playing the football that we saw him play
Speaker 3: for the majority of this season before he gets the Bengals,
Speaker 3: I wanted to I'm gonna mix it up a little
Speaker 3: bit here. I'm gonna go with Kyle Schwarber. Now, is
Speaker 3: going to be a Cincinnati Red?
Speaker 4: Really? Yeah?
Speaker 3: According I mean Mike Dwines, the governor. Dewinesah, yeah, good
Speaker 3: as glad. As long as he said something.
Speaker 6: I know he's laying on everyone saying, yeah, it's probably
Speaker 6: pretty a bunch of dune deal. Is he going to
Speaker 6: create some room in the budget? Is he like going
Speaker 6: to give a a loan?
Speaker 3: Would yeah?
Speaker 6: Schwarber would get like, I think, like two thirds of
Speaker 6: their current payroll. Yeah, the Reds have roughly twenty to
Speaker 6: twenty five million dollars in space Kyles Werber won't get
Speaker 6: anything less.
Speaker 3: Than thirty million per year. Incredible.
Speaker 6: So if he can play like six positions, that'd be great.
Speaker 6: If he and pitch a little bit, that'd be ideal.
Speaker 6: I mean, I I listen seriously, I would love nothing
Speaker 6: more than I mean. And people I've talked to you
Speaker 6: that know him a little bit say, first team, all
Speaker 6: good guy, incredible locker room dude, great teammate, brings all
Speaker 6: the good vibes.
Speaker 3: Everywhere he's ever went, they've won.
Speaker 6: I think back to twenty sixteen with the Chicago Cubs,
Speaker 6: his time in Philadelphia. He was good with Washington. So
Speaker 6: it makes a lot of sense. I just financially it doesn't. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I wish that it did?
Speaker 3: You wish it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You want to and say, wow, I think out a
Speaker 3: sign Okay, great where they're gonna get the money.
Speaker 6: I also want to say this, the Reds could sign
Speaker 6: him if they wanted to. They choose not to spend
Speaker 6: that type of money. That's a lot of money, and
Speaker 6: they want you to feel like they don't have any
Speaker 6: and this is the only way they can compete. It's
Speaker 6: not true. This is how they decide to try to
Speaker 6: build a team. The wine's looking to see if there's
Speaker 6: any of that gambling revenue left from Seriously, let's get
Speaker 6: some of that, or yeah, just to get player. See
Speaker 6: if you can get some money from Luis Ortiz and
Speaker 6: Emmanuel Cosse kind of COVID money.
Speaker 3: About that COVID money left about that? There's something there
Speaker 3: I don't know. Can't get him.
Speaker 6: Maybe his brother. I heard Carl Schwarber is available. I
Speaker 6: bet Carl would not cost you thirty million dollars only working.
Speaker 6: I think he's working at Gason Go in Middletown.
Speaker 9: So they.
Speaker 6: Say Carl Carl Schwarber is going to be starting today.
Speaker 6: Gason Go is gonna be the name of the bullpen
Speaker 6: this year. The other thing too, before we get the football,
Speaker 6: that would be soccer. This is causing way to stir
Speaker 6: in MLS circles. Of course, you know, since the week off.
Speaker 6: Next week they go in to play Lonel Messi and
Speaker 6: Miami and the PLAYFF nextro on the playoffs. Fantastic game
Speaker 6: on Saturday, that was awesome to watch them beat uh Columbus.
Speaker 6: By the way, Columbus's coach said that they the mL
Speaker 6: says it run, they should go to aggregate scoring. To
Speaker 6: hear this, Gosh, I did hear this? Yeah, Dave, you
Speaker 6: got that. I'd play that audio real quick.
Speaker 10: We're done, Cincinatti, no point with that, But issue do
Speaker 10: a bit of mathematics. How many go to that Wesco.
Speaker 3: Cincinnati?
Speaker 10: Yeah, on the three games, how many goes five courts
Speaker 10: and how many go to the disco? Okay, so we won't.
Speaker 10: We won't. So we won't five three and we're out?
Speaker 3: Is that of the Fred Jackson or the factors from Columbus.
Speaker 3: He's doing Buckeye math. When they lose to the we
Speaker 3: those that miss again, it's like, well.
Speaker 6: You know, yeah, Wilfried Nancy, the gaffer for the Columbus crew. Now,
Speaker 6: aggregate scoring is used in some tournaments across the world,
Speaker 6: in some leagues and in their postseason, and I get it.
Speaker 6: It's not something abnormal to soccer. But it's not like
Speaker 6: they told Wilfrid Nancy after the three games. Hey, by
Speaker 6: the way, aggregate scoring is not counted here. She knew
Speaker 6: going into it that you have to win two out
Speaker 6: of three games. They lost two out of three games.
Speaker 6: I was listening actually to Columbus Sports radio this morning,
Speaker 6: and even those guys were making fun of him, like Stair, listen.
Speaker 3: Come on, man, you lost, Come on, just you lost.
Speaker 3: They keep the score on dog, Yeah, what's up? They
Speaker 3: do that with baseballs. Yeah, that works. It's just stupid.
Speaker 3: By the way, they're gonna change these schedules, I guess
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty seven. It's good. They're gonna align with
Speaker 3: Premier League basically is what they're doing. It makes sense
Speaker 3: because the transfer windows. I mean, how many guys you
Speaker 3: lose to international all that stuff. We'll cut down on that, right,
Speaker 3: yeah a little bit.
Speaker 6: I mean how many times have you and I sat
Speaker 6: in here and talked about how the schedule is discombobulated
Speaker 6: or different tournaments or showcases or whatever that are happening
Speaker 6: and it kind of interferes with the MLS schedule. Well,
Speaker 6: this is meant to get everyone a little bit more aligned,
Speaker 6: especially when it comes to players coming and going from
Speaker 6: the European leagues. Kind of keeps everybody a lining. So
Speaker 6: the season will start in July, it will go through May.
Speaker 6: There will be a two month break in January and February,
Speaker 6: and then you know the season will continue basically, so
Speaker 6: basically aligns with the European thing. But a lot of
Speaker 6: people are freaking out. Laurel Faylor reported earlier today that
Speaker 6: FC Cincinnati was in favor of this change, which I
Speaker 6: think is noteworthy. And the other thing is ninety one
Speaker 6: percent of the games remain unchanged. Yeah, so you're changing
Speaker 6: basically nine percent of the schedule. I don't know that
Speaker 6: it's going to be as big of a deal as
Speaker 6: some of the people that are disagreeing with this might think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I don't It makes sense to me, man, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you guys in the lineup. That's what people want to see,
Speaker 3: you guys as the lineup.
Speaker 6: And especially with f C Cincinnati, they love to dip
Speaker 6: into the European playerpool and bring those guys over. This
Speaker 6: gives them an advantage in doing so. All right, would
Speaker 6: you rather talk about the Jonahs Brothers movie or Cincinnati Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: I was at the gym this morning.
Speaker 6: I look up and I see the Jonas Brothers serenading
Speaker 6: me with Christmas carols, and I thought, dear God, what
Speaker 6: year is it. I was in the seventh grade when
Speaker 6: the Jonas Brothers exploded onto the scene. I'm thirty years old. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 6: they obviously took a hiatus and came back. Right, do
Speaker 6: we need a Jonas Brothers chriss.
Speaker 3: Women of your like? Who is the core constituency for
Speaker 3: the Jonas Brothers? It is young women. I guess we
Speaker 3: all will talk about the who wants it less? I
Speaker 3: guess is the question here because it used to be
Speaker 3: a man. The Bengals are terrible, right, and the defense
Speaker 3: is awful, offense is good. Pittsburgh is just not a
Speaker 3: good football team. Not a good football team. Shirt it
Speaker 3: don't look like it. And just start with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3: I mean, his skills are declining as the season goes on.
Speaker 3: Is that more of age or other factors?
Speaker 6: That's a good question. I don't think he has full
Speaker 6: trust in the offense. I don't think he has full
Speaker 6: trust in his offensive line. And outside of DK Metcalf,
Speaker 6: they don't have a lot of receiving threats. And because
Speaker 6: of the offensive line shortcomings, they haven't been as effective
Speaker 6: running the ball, and so it's a very discombobulated herky
Speaker 6: jerky offense. I mean Rodgers has only thrown for over
Speaker 6: two hundred and fifty yards in a game once this year,
Speaker 6: and it was against the Bengals in Week seven in
Speaker 6: that Thursday night game. And if you remember, a good
Speaker 6: chunk of those came on one play to Pat Fryermoth. Yeah,
Speaker 6: he doesn't move quite as well as he used to.
Speaker 6: He can still be an effective passer, a good passer.
Speaker 6: But the offense as a whole is discombobulated. They maybe
Speaker 6: aren't getting the same amount of production that you would
Speaker 6: typically see out of TJ.
Speaker 3: Watt.
Speaker 6: Their defensive secondary has been a train wreck and they're
Speaker 6: just moving guys all over the place trying to figure
Speaker 6: it out.
Speaker 3: So as a whole, it's.
Speaker 6: Just been this up and down, clunky season for Pittsburgh.
Speaker 6: And they had a couple of chances to, you know,
Speaker 6: take advantage and maybe keep the distance between them and Baltimore,
Speaker 6: and now it's down to one game.
Speaker 3: Well even metcalf and say he's only had ten catches
Speaker 3: for less than one hundred years and the last three games. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean that's what I'm saying. Like their offense is
Speaker 3: just run game. Running game is not good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, if you watch them Sunday night, against
Speaker 6: the Chargers. You think that's not a playoff team, and
Speaker 6: it's it's just inconsistencies at multiple positions and not enough depth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Rogers a TD two picks in that game and
Speaker 3: just score ten points again against the Chargers. I mean,
Speaker 3: Churn's pretty good team. But man, you know you're talking
Speaker 3: about trying to win the AFC North. That's not going
Speaker 3: to get it done. But on the other side of
Speaker 3: the ball, I look at this going, Okay, well, the
Speaker 3: Bengals come in and now, last time they played the
Speaker 3: Steelers four weeks ago, they got a couple of pressures
Speaker 3: on him, they didn't sacks, And now you don't have
Speaker 3: hendrickson it. It looks like they're not gonna have Shamar Stewart. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think the name that you're gonna hear a lot
Speaker 6: from this week as a potential game changer, and that
Speaker 6: might be a little too heavy. But a guy that
Speaker 6: could actually maybe get some pressures is Cedric Johnson. Now,
Speaker 6: he played in his first game against the Bears after
Speaker 6: being hurt in training camp. He was a late round
Speaker 6: pick of the Bengals a year ago, really finished the
Speaker 6: season strong in being able to pressure the quarterback. Last
Speaker 6: year the Bengals are high on him. He had a
Speaker 6: great offseason. He obviously got hurt prior to the season,
Speaker 6: and so he's gonna have an opportunity to be a
Speaker 6: part of that rotation with Miles Murphy and Joseph Osai
Speaker 6: and see if he can get after just be more
Speaker 6: productive than those other guys have. Now it's you have
Speaker 6: no faith in the other guys. They've done nothing. Miles
Speaker 6: Murphy has done nothing, nothing, Joseph Osai this year has
Speaker 6: done nothing, and they didn't do anything the last time.
Speaker 6: So I don't know exactly if I expect anything to change.
Speaker 6: But Cedric Johnson, you would think is going to be
Speaker 6: a part of the solution.
Speaker 3: I would hope. Well, I don't know. Can you also
Speaker 3: depend on your defense to get the takeaways they had
Speaker 3: and that last time they matched up? I am I
Speaker 3: don't see a trend there. Let's put that way. Yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I think that's fair.
Speaker 6: I mean, when the Bengals take the ball away on defense,
Speaker 6: they tend to win, and they just haven't done that
Speaker 6: enough team. Now, the one ball that Rogers threw in
Speaker 6: that first game was just a terrible throw, and the
Speaker 6: Bengals did and then there was one really great play
Speaker 6: by DJ Turner on the sideline. They're gonna need DJ
Speaker 6: Turner to step up big. Why, Well, we talked about it.
Speaker 6: There's not really other options outside of DK Metcalf for
Speaker 6: their offense, and so shut him down. DJ Turner is
Speaker 6: going to be the guy assigned with DK Metcalf. Can
Speaker 6: he get some of those takeaways or shut him down.
Speaker 6: The other thing is Pittsburgh's offense has shifted a little
Speaker 6: bit to using three tight ends, I think at the
Speaker 6: second highest rate in the NFL, behind the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 6: They're also going to try to get those tight ends
Speaker 6: involved in the offense. Pat Freyermouth had a big touchdown
Speaker 6: last time. Darnell Washington, who is just a mammoth human being.
Speaker 6: He's been involved in the past game a little bit
Speaker 6: more so I would expect Pittsburgh to try to use
Speaker 6: those guys.
Speaker 3: Now came a fading. You know, it makes sense. Three wideouts.
Speaker 3: We're going to try to create the space, make them
Speaker 3: a receiver, basically see that all the time in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Other side of the game itself, I think Jamar Chase
Speaker 3: is I don't see him putting up the numbers he
Speaker 3: put up last time. That was just all world. But
Speaker 3: I think he's a bigger fact for the Bengals and
Speaker 3: metcalf is for the Steelers without a doubt.
Speaker 6: I mean, he's the entire offense twenty three targets the
Speaker 6: last time these two teams met. Over the last five
Speaker 6: games against Pittsburgh, Jamar has really torched them. Now, the
Speaker 6: Bengals have won two straight games against Pittsburgh and Jamar
Speaker 6: has been a big part of that. I don't know
Speaker 6: that that's going to change. What's interesting about it is
Speaker 6: how does Pittsburgh decide to defend him? Last time, they
Speaker 6: basically stuck to their guns and went man to man
Speaker 6: against Jamar, Chase and t Higgins. How'd that work out
Speaker 6: for you? Yeah, Jamar had sixteen catches, his own franchise
Speaker 6: broke his own franchise record. Te also had nine catches
Speaker 6: in that game for a big, big play. So well,
Speaker 6: I'm curious to see are they, based off the struggles
Speaker 6: that they've had and the injuries that they've had in
Speaker 6: the secondary, are they going to commit to playing a
Speaker 6: man to man against those guys again? Or are they
Speaker 6: going to sit back and zone and make Joe Flacco
Speaker 6: beat them death? By a thousand cuts that I'm most
Speaker 6: interested to see. I can't imagine after they got torched
Speaker 6: the way they did last time, that they're going to
Speaker 6: go man to man with that type of frequency. Now
Speaker 6: that's who they are, though they're one of the highest
Speaker 6: Manda man teams in the NFL. Is Pittsburgh, but second
Speaker 6: time around against an opponent, maybe they'll change. What about
Speaker 6: Bengals run game has to be better than it was
Speaker 6: against Chicago the last time they played Pittsburgh, though that
Speaker 6: was the emergence of the run game. Chase Brown finally
Speaker 6: started to look like himself with those pass rushers on
Speaker 6: the outside, with Watt, with high Smith, with her big
Speaker 6: with the propensity to blitz in that man coverags the
Speaker 6: Pittsburgh does. That creates opportunities in the run game for
Speaker 6: you to get Chase Brown involved. The Bengals have to
Speaker 6: do it consistently to get Pittsburgh into those situations where
Speaker 6: they crowd the box and then all of a sudden
Speaker 6: still have and jamar on.
Speaker 3: The opposse on real quick? One did Pittsburgh defenses have to do?
Speaker 3: What looks are they going to give the Bengals We
Speaker 3: didn't see four weeks ago.
Speaker 6: I think there'll be a more zone, a lot more
Speaker 6: zone coverage than what we saw last time, and try
Speaker 6: to force Flacco to hold the ball a little bit
Speaker 6: and get that pass rush there, because if you remember,
Speaker 6: I think they only got to him twice maybe in
Speaker 6: that game the first time around, and Flacco likes to
Speaker 6: get the ball out quick. So it was interesting. Flacco
Speaker 6: said this week that he's seen some coverages in recent
Speaker 6: weeks that he hasn't seen in eighteen years in the
Speaker 6: NFL because of the way teams are doubling t Higgins
Speaker 6: and Jamar Chase at the same time. So if Pittsburgh
Speaker 6: decides to do that, you need a third player on
Speaker 6: the field that can win. It's been no a little bit.
Speaker 6: No fan has won some of these last time. Andre
Speaker 6: Yoshavas not as consistent as we'd like. Does Chase Brown
Speaker 6: get motioned out or split out in that and get
Speaker 6: matched up with a linebacker And if so, I'll take.
Speaker 3: That match up all right. Austin Elmore, ESPN fifteen thirty
Speaker 3: at noon today with Tony Pike what he got.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're only going till two thirty today. Everything's moved
Speaker 6: up on fifteen thirty this afternoon, but we'll talk to
Speaker 6: Charlie Goldsmith. He just got back from Las Vegas for
Speaker 6: the MLBGM meetings. We'll see what he's hearing about the
Speaker 6: Reds and they're playing for the off season. Also talk
Speaker 6: a lot about this Bengals Steelers matchup, and a whole
Speaker 6: lot we make our Friday picks as well, which is important.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure Charlie have more on the Red signing.
Speaker 3: Carl Schwarz Earl Schwarber. Carl Schwarber signed in the Middletown, Indiana. Uh,
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Austin, thanks again, Thank you, home of
Speaker 3: the best Bengals coverage. Seven hundred w OLW.
Speaker 1: Do you want to be an American?
Speaker 3: He's got sloan on this Friday morning on seven hundred
Speaker 3: w old W. It is this season. I'm about ready.
Speaker 3: I just want to put you And maybe it's just
Speaker 3: all the angst and drahmena adgive in life. Love the
Speaker 3: holidays because you can just unplug. So if part of
Speaker 3: the celebration for you is planning on going downtown for
Speaker 3: the holidays, be it the tree lighting or to see
Speaker 3: the elves, or maybe to skate. There's been a lot
Speaker 3: of movement, a lot of additions and big changes for
Speaker 3: the holidays, especially in the Fountain District this year. On
Speaker 3: that from three CDC is Christy Samad Christy, good morning.
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 8: Good morning? How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm great, fine, I'm fine. I'm ready for some holiday action.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Generally, when I see the ads for
Speaker 3: Christmas right around the fourth of July, I'm like, it's
Speaker 3: a little early, but this year, bring it on. I'm ready.
Speaker 3: I'm here for it.
Speaker 8: I totally agree. And I feel like with the snow
Speaker 8: flurry on Monday just got me even more right.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm ready. I'm in the spirit. So the thing
Speaker 3: is that typically people go downtown and you have your habits.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe you go see the trains at the
Speaker 3: Museum Center, go see the Shillott elves, whatever it is.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of moving parts right now. So if
Speaker 3: you show up and go, hey, what happened to fill
Speaker 3: in the blank, it may not be where you thought
Speaker 3: it was. The beginning is first of all, before we
Speaker 3: get into the changes, and these are some big ones here,
Speaker 3: what was the decision to kind of reimagine this whole thing?
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, so the ice rink has have been awesome
Speaker 8: at Fountain Square for you know, the last twenty years
Speaker 8: or so, but we kept you know, building onto it
Speaker 8: and trying to make the patron experience better. But we
Speaker 8: ran out of room. We were kind of landlocked at
Speaker 8: Mountain Square. And so in the renovation of the Convention
Speaker 8: Center came on and we were looking at Elm Street
Speaker 8: Plaza right outside. It only made sense to make that area,
Speaker 8: you know, bring in the ice drink. And so we
Speaker 8: were able to from scratch kind of imagine where the
Speaker 8: ice drink would go, what is the patron experience, and
Speaker 8: we were able to expand and so as we're really
Speaker 8: in the Fountain district and how we you know, expand
Speaker 8: the winter festivities in downtown within this district, it just
Speaker 8: made sense where we can do something new on Fountain Square.
Speaker 8: We could put the a new, brand new ice drink
Speaker 8: at Elm Street Plaza and really think of it in
Speaker 8: that way.
Speaker 3: So will the rink be bigger or is it the
Speaker 3: same rink?
Speaker 8: It is bigger, it's a brand new ice drink. It's
Speaker 8: about a thousand square feed bigger.
Speaker 3: Nice and I like I used, I mean, it's it's
Speaker 3: not that far. It's just like a couple of blocks,
Speaker 3: so it spreads people out too that you can go
Speaker 3: to different and see different things along the way, like
Speaker 3: and that's good for business too.
Speaker 8: It's awesome. So it's a it's only a block and
Speaker 8: a half, so you you're more than welcome to still
Speaker 8: park at Sountain Square. Come up and we're debuting the
Speaker 8: Winter House this Saturday, which is a sixty five by
Speaker 8: sixty five tent with a bar. It's got normal operating
Speaker 8: hours Monday through Sunday, eleven to eight, and we'll have
Speaker 8: programming just like we do during the summer. And the
Speaker 8: thought that's behind that was, you know, if you're not
Speaker 8: a skater and it's cold, you're probably not finding yourself
Speaker 8: Atountain Square in the winter months. And so we wanted
Speaker 8: to kind of think of something where during the summer
Speaker 8: everyone uses it for lunch breaks, for meetings, you know,
Speaker 8: to see programming. And so really we were thinking how
Speaker 8: to carry that on during the winter. And so this
Speaker 8: is that it's a large warming tent where you can
Speaker 8: still enjoy programming, congregate with friends, you know, take meetings
Speaker 8: in there, eat your lunch, et cetera. And so that
Speaker 8: being on Sountain Square and new this year. Back prior
Speaker 8: to the renovation, like in the eighties and earlier than that,
Speaker 8: the city used to put lights on the fountain, so
Speaker 8: when they turn the water off, they would replace it
Speaker 8: with lights to you know, make it look like the
Speaker 8: fountain was still flowing with water. And in the past
Speaker 8: years that went away and so we're bringing it back
Speaker 8: this year with animated lights. So it'll be beautiful something
Speaker 8: to compliment. While you're in the tent just enjoying a cocktail,
Speaker 8: you can watch the fountain glow. And so that will
Speaker 8: be a fountain square.
Speaker 3: Big how big of how big it? Let's let's do
Speaker 3: the winterhouse town. How big a ten is it?
Speaker 8: It's a sixty five by sixty five so it'll fit
Speaker 8: about two hundred three hundred people.
Speaker 3: And that sounds cool because you can sit in there
Speaker 3: and be warm and have a cocktail and you know,
Speaker 3: look at to watch the tree, watch people go by exactly.
Speaker 8: I feel like, for yeah, you know, if you weren't
Speaker 8: ice eating, you weren't on the funtain fountain squared in
Speaker 8: the winter and so this hopefully will curve that. But
Speaker 8: then to your point, so the blocks and a half
Speaker 8: to Elm Street Plaza, while you're walking on sixth. The
Speaker 8: Chiloto Elves are going in some storefronts at the Crew Tower,
Speaker 8: and so those are the beloved Elves that every one
Speaker 8: you know Svin spliced apart over the years, i think,
Speaker 8: since they're originally at Chilto. But we've got a few
Speaker 8: scenes that you can check out on Fifth and then
Speaker 8: to your point, not to mention all of the new businesses,
Speaker 8: the businesses that have been opened, but there's a lot
Speaker 8: of new businesses opening on Fifth Street, and so Prim
Speaker 8: is a new bar that just opens in the Foundry.
Speaker 8: We've got Salazar that used to be an OTR relocated
Speaker 8: down to the old Sax building and that's opening next week.
Speaker 8: There's another entertainment concept called Flight Club that is going
Speaker 8: right next door, and it's a dart bar, and that
Speaker 8: will be on the other edge of the street. And
Speaker 8: then at that point you'll be right at Elm Street Plasm.
Speaker 8: But between we still have Jeff Ruby's Davidson, We've got
Speaker 8: Vintage on a race, meet Marigold. It's just gonna be
Speaker 8: this amazing district.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna guess Christy that moving the shallow Elves to
Speaker 3: to in Main Street there at Kurru Tower. That that
Speaker 3: to me, that that's a that's a winner.
Speaker 8: It is it is well talk about the history and
Speaker 8: the old memories. I mean, we're bringing them back closer
Speaker 8: to where they were, you know. And so it's and
Speaker 8: it's just sitting all of these festivities in one space
Speaker 8: and so in one spot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the little kids like it to you're older,
Speaker 3: you see way go see Shiloh hols. But those things
Speaker 3: are lame. They saw that's not Ai, that's that's not
Speaker 3: And then when when you get to be a parent,
Speaker 3: you bring your kids here because you have fond memories
Speaker 3: of of the thing. Yeah, that's the way it ors.
Speaker 3: It's awesome.
Speaker 8: This is what we used to do. This is what
Speaker 8: things used to look like. You know, I'm a little
Speaker 8: I can they're a little creepy. They're great to see.
Speaker 8: I love them.
Speaker 6: I go every year, but they are a little well
Speaker 6: but if you look at that stuff from I don't know,
Speaker 6: a couple of generations ago, like Halloween masks and Santa
Speaker 6: clauses are super creepy. Back then, if you look at
Speaker 6: some of those black and whites from like the thirties
Speaker 6: or forties.
Speaker 4: Like that's scary af you're right, You're right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's more like Crampis than it is. Santa Claus
Speaker 3: Christy Samad, she is the EVP of Civic and Commercial
Speaker 3: Space Activation for three Seed and totally have blown up
Speaker 3: how the holidays are gonna look downtown this year, starting
Speaker 3: in the in the Fountain district. So if you're looking
Speaker 3: for the rank, it has moved. That is gonna be
Speaker 3: to Elm Street, so right adjacent to the Duke Energy
Speaker 3: Convention Center, and the ranks bigger and better. Specifically, when
Speaker 3: you when you look at the new rank, you said,
Speaker 3: it's a new new surface. What upgrades will you notice?
Speaker 8: So it's a larger and we will have iggloos, We'll
Speaker 8: have pergolas that have fire pits that you can rent
Speaker 8: individually so you can have you know, if your family's
Speaker 8: coming down, you can secure a private area to hang
Speaker 8: out and have all of your stuff. There's a pavilion
Speaker 8: that's actually going to be there year round, but it
Speaker 8: will be open with concessions, you know, have chocolate, na
Speaker 8: drink and so I think that downtown is needed, I
Speaker 8: mean Elm Street Plaza in general. Right, it's this new
Speaker 8: two and a half acre civic space we're putting two
Speaker 8: hundred and son odd trees in this space, so it's
Speaker 8: kind of breaking in this concrete jungle and giving it
Speaker 8: new life. And so the ice drink being right in
Speaker 8: the middle debuting the space is it's awesome because it's
Speaker 8: going to bring a ton of people to come down
Speaker 8: to see the newly renovated convention center that will be
Speaker 8: you know, that's opening the first events January sixteenth for Redstack.
Speaker 8: The mural that they did for Blink, the Trists and
Speaker 8: Eaton mural on the side building of eighty four to
Speaker 8: fifty one is the backdrop of the ice rink and
Speaker 8: it just really you know, it showcases everything that Cincinnati has.
Speaker 8: It's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is cool. When does the rink open?
Speaker 8: November twenty So next Friday, we're doing the ribbon cutting
Speaker 8: of the Elm Street plaza. We're having the first and
Speaker 8: now mural skates on the rink and then it'll be
Speaker 8: free ice skating all day long.
Speaker 3: All right, who's going to be first you do the
Speaker 3: ribbon cutting, who's going to do the ceremony falling on
Speaker 3: their ass?
Speaker 8: So all We've got some really great construction guys that
Speaker 8: have been on the project. All the past eighteen months
Speaker 8: and they're gonna they're gonna debut ice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wear your bucket, boys, it'll be all right, all right.
Speaker 3: So the new center piece of Found Square though, is
Speaker 3: the the Winterhouse. We talked about that there's daily programming there.
Speaker 3: Are you gonna have music in it too or around there,
Speaker 3: so when the when the rinks go on, you put
Speaker 3: the tent there instead.
Speaker 8: I'm guessing right, yeah, exactly. And there's a stage within
Speaker 8: the tent, and so we will have programming basically seven
Speaker 8: nights a week. You can find we're doing a collaboration
Speaker 8: with CCM to have some buzz performers. We're gonna we
Speaker 8: debuted at Washington Park this past summer at Uker Night
Speaker 8: where you can just come bring partners or just meet partners.
Speaker 8: We're gonna have ukre nights there. We're gonna have drag bingo,
Speaker 8: We'll have piano nights on Fridays, so it will have
Speaker 8: Vinyl nights on Thursdays where you can come and fish records.
Speaker 8: We've got a lot going on.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. And the idea then also during the day though,
Speaker 3: is to get a lot of the workers downtown to
Speaker 3: come and maybe have lunch there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's really you know at that point, that third
Speaker 8: space so you can come and just pull up your
Speaker 8: laptop and gets more then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that and you know you engage more people.
Speaker 3: That's that's awesome and we need that downtown for sure.
Speaker 3: Uh And even with the rink moving that, the fountain
Speaker 3: square is the fix you know this, let's face that,
Speaker 3: we're gonna put the Christmas tree there too and have
Speaker 3: the tree lighting and sandals zip lying down so the
Speaker 3: tree stays. Talk about the fountain lights.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so thanks to the TVG came in big time
Speaker 8: and they came to support putting the lights on the fountain.
Speaker 8: Like I mentioned, there's going to be a five minute
Speaker 8: animated show of these lights every fifteen minutes, and so
Speaker 8: it'll look like, you know, when you're just walking by
Speaker 8: there's nothing, it'll look like just a nice, pretty white
Speaker 8: and then every fifteen minutes it'll pop with different designs
Speaker 8: of players and just really add to the middle of
Speaker 8: the square.
Speaker 3: Almost it was like blank right, yeah exactly.
Speaker 8: I have a two and a four year old. We
Speaker 8: were down, you know, getting everything ready last night and
Speaker 8: they were just entranced by this fountain. They were steering
Speaker 8: at it like, what's going on?
Speaker 3: It was, Yeah, that is really cool. I understand. Also,
Speaker 3: you're going to have there's gonna be more light in
Speaker 3: along fIF Street.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so again just to deck the hall. We are
Speaker 8: making sure again and as a clear plaque. If you're
Speaker 8: not incredibly familiar with downtown and you're like, you forget that,
Speaker 8: it's the Elmstreet prop plaza. You park a fountain square,
Speaker 8: you're going to come up, You're going to see all
Speaker 8: these festivities and then you'll see like a lit plot
Speaker 8: path that will take it, you know, the block and
Speaker 8: a half the Elm Street Plaza. I love with the
Speaker 8: tree lights and just the more holidays play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so cool because it like lights the path
Speaker 3: three to go though, which is you don't you don't
Speaker 3: love the festive It's like at the zoo with the
Speaker 3: big tunnel of lights.
Speaker 8: You walk through exactly well and not the thing. We
Speaker 8: wanted to make sure that. Yes, as the rink is
Speaker 8: physically moving, but we're really just expanding the experience. So
Speaker 8: rather than it just being in one spot, you just
Speaker 8: have to just like the zoo, you walk a little
Speaker 8: farther to the next experience.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I picture in my head and like,
Speaker 3: just like Clark Griswold, it's gorgeous, it's beautiful. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: it makes sense too, because we try to cram everything
Speaker 3: at Fountain Square. You get the tree, you get the lighting,
Speaker 3: you got stages in concerts, you get the ice rink.
Speaker 3: There's no more room to go, So expanding it and
Speaker 3: moving at a block and a half is I think
Speaker 3: it's brilliant.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And then but that's a good point.
Speaker 8: A lot of people are asking the do Holliday Tree
Speaker 8: will stay on Fountain Square and so that's still on
Speaker 8: the corner of sixth to nine, and so when we
Speaker 8: do to flight up the square, we will still have
Speaker 8: that celebration on Fountain Square, but obviously a lot of
Speaker 8: festivities at the rink. And again we're just it's just
Speaker 8: how you make your way through either space. If you
Speaker 8: want to see the tree lighting physically onto Fountain Square,
Speaker 8: you can do that. But we also have an LED
Speaker 8: board at Elmstree Plaza and we'll be simulcasting it. So
Speaker 8: we're going to use the led boards at Fountain Square
Speaker 8: and Elmstreet Pop Plaza as a little bit of a portal.
Speaker 8: So you know, if you're ice skating and there's something
Speaker 8: happening at the square, we'll pop in to show you
Speaker 8: what's happening. So you can be at two places at once.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's pretty cool about the holiday market or Chris Kendlemark.
Speaker 8: So that there is going to be Chris Kindle Market
Speaker 8: down at the Banks. It's more line h Lawn, but
Speaker 8: on light of the Square. We will have vendors that
Speaker 8: are on Elm Street Plaza and just again part of
Speaker 8: that experience. But the cool thing about Winter House, we
Speaker 8: wanted to make sure that there is another element when
Speaker 8: you need to get a gift quickly. We have kind
Speaker 8: of like an iHeart Cincinnati store in in Netwin the House,
Speaker 8: and so you can come pick the guests that are
Speaker 8: central or they're around Cincinnati, but it'll be a great
Speaker 8: place for one stop shop guests.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very very cool. Finally, Christy Samad, the concern for
Speaker 3: a lot of people listening you're gonna go downtown is
Speaker 3: wait a minute, now, We've had a rash of shootings
Speaker 3: all summer long. We've had more violence. It's a problem
Speaker 3: for sure. Is it meaning that Cincinnati is a no
Speaker 3: go I don't think so. I have no problem going
Speaker 3: down on a an evening and with my family even
Speaker 3: a little for that matter, and go and enjoy the
Speaker 3: holidays and the Funtain district and the skating ring. But
Speaker 3: there are people are here listening going. Ain't no way
Speaker 3: you can't guarantee someone's safety. But how does that fit
Speaker 3: into this what we're talking about here? Because you know,
Speaker 3: we just open a brand new convention center. Of the
Speaker 3: hotels going in, we want people downtown, and yet there's
Speaker 3: this fear of random violence.
Speaker 8: You know, I think in all downtowns, you know, across America, right,
Speaker 8: I mean there's always it's an urban area. I don't
Speaker 8: think I've lived down here. I have a two and
Speaker 8: four year old. I bring them downtown all the time.
Speaker 8: We live right by Sriendly Market, and I think that,
Speaker 8: you know, the presence of more people, the more activity,
Speaker 8: only helps that of the feeling of safety. I think
Speaker 8: that there's always going to be unfortunate incidences, but you know,
Speaker 8: I don't think that downtown feels unsafe by any means.
Speaker 8: And adding all of this activity again as the vibrant,
Speaker 8: the astholite as and excitement, and so I think, you know,
Speaker 8: that's what we need to lean into, is the more
Speaker 8: people that the downtown the safer it is.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it was a concern for you guys too,
Speaker 3: and what did the city has wage those fears to
Speaker 3: some degree? Have we added more security for this.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, we are working closely with the police
Speaker 8: and the city and there will be more visibility for sure.
Speaker 8: But again I think that we're thinking because there's more activity,
Speaker 8: there will be more police presence everywhere. But we want
Speaker 8: to you know, compliment that with all the different activities
Speaker 8: that we're putting on.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, as a family, you feel safe down there,
Speaker 3: and that's that. That's cratical. I mean I wouldn't. It
Speaker 3: wouldn't prevent me from going down there, for sure. I
Speaker 3: mean it sadly, it happens, and it needs to be addressed,
Speaker 3: but to me, it's not a deal breaker. I want
Speaker 3: to see the school stuff. I want to see the
Speaker 3: elves and the new Rank and all that stuff as well,
Speaker 3: and the Christmas tree because I love the holidays and
Speaker 3: a lot of people do. So get on and down
Speaker 3: and it kicks out. Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Sorry.
Speaker 8: One other thing, we also have, you know, downtown operations teams,
Speaker 8: the ambassadors. We have increased those as well, so you know,
Speaker 8: it's clean and safe for the city. But also they
Speaker 8: are wealth of knowledge, so if you're downtown and you
Speaker 8: don't exactly know exactly where you're going, you can always
Speaker 8: stop them. And so again it's just that more presence
Speaker 8: on the sidewalk, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Christy, what starts tomorrow. What goes on on.
Speaker 8: Tomorrow is the grand opening of Winterhouse and the do
Speaker 8: holiday tree comes early in the morning on Fountain Square,
Speaker 8: so you can come see that sucker, come in off
Speaker 8: the highway and start getting installed. I like to say
Speaker 8: that this is a process. This isn't immediately. The tree
Speaker 8: does not immediately look pretty right after it, so it
Speaker 8: may have times where it looks a little sparse, guys,
Speaker 8: but it will.
Speaker 3: Look beautiful, that's all right.
Speaker 8: So the that's coming to this square early in the morning.
Speaker 8: We've got a tree trimming party that coincides with that,
Speaker 8: so you can go into the Winterhouse have some holiday fun.
Speaker 8: We'll have some entertainment in there, and then from six
Speaker 8: to ten we've got the Visitansu's grand opening of the
Speaker 8: Winter House.
Speaker 3: All right, and it goes through the holidays as well.
Speaker 3: So Christy Samad with a three c DC, I love
Speaker 3: the idea I think it's a great reimagination, reimagining of
Speaker 3: this this thing because it needed it. It was been
Speaker 3: the rinkless, small as little tired, A little compact. Spreading
Speaker 3: it out I think is brilliant. Hopefully folks will get
Speaker 3: downtown and enjoy this as part of the holiday festilies.
Speaker 3: Christy all the best, Thanks again, Thank you, Take care, Christy.
Speaker 3: Samad three c DC on the Scott Sloan Show. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm sure that people go, I ain't no way I'm
Speaker 3: going to. I don't know. It doesn't really bother me,
Speaker 3: especially that area. You know, random violence happens on the roadway,
Speaker 3: so I'm that's second to hopefully not scare too many
Speaker 3: people away. Anyway, from trying to keep downtime going, we'll
Speaker 3: get a time out of news. How the way slowly
Speaker 3: seven hundred W. The weekends coming up and you need
Speaker 3: to make the most advent where to go and what
Speaker 3: to do. She has the tips and inside to help
Speaker 3: you make it a super weekend. So listen up. This
Speaker 3: is the Local Loop with Ali Martin on seven hundred
Speaker 3: W l W. Yeah, Friday, Ali, how are you?
Speaker 1: I am great? I honestly had no idea what they.
Speaker 9: You were out last week doing DC for early Thanksgiving
Speaker 9: on the Sam Jam and luckily, like the traveling overall
Speaker 9: was pretty solid.
Speaker 1: There's only a little bit of hold up going out there.
Speaker 9: And then was just this week two days ago and
Speaker 9: yesterday in Atlanta for a barrel pick.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and I'm like, what day?
Speaker 3: Wow, this is all over? What's that like? You know,
Speaker 3: you're yeah, working like corporate world here and like a
Speaker 3: barrel picks eat.
Speaker 9: That's what's honestly, you know, it's it's hard because it's
Speaker 9: all self disciplined. Right, when you work for yourself, you
Speaker 9: not every day can be a weekend, but sometimes you.
Speaker 1: Move your weeks around.
Speaker 9: And right we drove, drove to Atlanta, drove back and
Speaker 9: had the chance to experience BUCkies the first time.
Speaker 3: Whoa, whoa, it's that's America af right there.
Speaker 1: I said, you can't get more America than this.
Speaker 9: My god, I'm not, I said out loud, like I
Speaker 9: wish I was in that meeting where they're like, all right,
Speaker 9: picture this.
Speaker 3: Three hundred gas pumps, three.
Speaker 1: Thousand gas pumps.
Speaker 9: They will never be full at the same time, but
Speaker 9: we're gonna have so many gas pumps that that alone
Speaker 9: is worth taking a photo and then it's gonna be
Speaker 9: Walmart meets Kroger meets Smart meets your local deli.
Speaker 1: And they also don't hold gatorade.
Speaker 3: They don't. There's no gatorade.
Speaker 9: They don't have gator at least the one in Richmond.
Speaker 9: They you, they did not have gatorade. I'm like, what
Speaker 9: gas station doesn't know? It did not happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I looked at every single fridge.
Speaker 3: Hey, those guys have gatorad like it's pretty. It's like water. Basically,
Speaker 3: it's like we got water.
Speaker 1: Unreal. But then they they're they're the meat. They've got
Speaker 1: a fudge station.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pulled pork sandwiches. So good, so good. A little
Speaker 1: the sauce was really meaning. The sauce was a little sweet.
Speaker 3: But also why people rave about BUCkies?
Speaker 1: Man, it's worth the roast all here for it? Do
Speaker 1: I go home with Bucky slippers?
Speaker 3: You see the people that are just absolutely rocking out
Speaker 3: the BUCkies gear. It's so good.
Speaker 1: It's it's everywhere.
Speaker 3: I need to go back and argue with it. We
Speaker 3: got when they're coming, and they're common. We'll get one
Speaker 3: to Hubert Heights pretty soon. Here it's really sticking in
Speaker 3: really common now, So all right, Ali's here at Allie
Speaker 3: martin Ate. We talk about what to do with the eat,
Speaker 3: with the sea, with the drink, all that stuff, whether
Speaker 3: you're on the road or locally here, let's start with
Speaker 3: let's go back to local here local.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is the hot spot. Have you heard about this?
Speaker 9: The fact that the sister bar of ghost Baby called
Speaker 9: prim Some people are calling it Prime prim uh, And
Speaker 9: it is the new swankiest cocktail bar right downtown. As
Speaker 9: I mentioned before, it's the same owners of ghost Baby,
Speaker 9: and holy crap, this concept is luxurious.
Speaker 1: It's high end.
Speaker 9: It has a little bit more of a feminine energy,
Speaker 9: a lot of pink, a lot of like round arches,
Speaker 9: and it's really just leaning into the concepts of gem gemstones.
Speaker 9: And it's also very retro and hot top top shelf cocktails.
Speaker 9: What's also interesting that I noticed they don't have an Instagram,
Speaker 9: So when you go to their website, dare they? But
Speaker 9: you know, in moments like this, you're like, Okay, well,
Speaker 9: I'm looking for a place to go check out. I
Speaker 9: want to see what it's all about and to kind
Speaker 9: of get a little bit of insight, And there is
Speaker 9: no Instagram, so you're just gonna have to go figure
Speaker 9: it out and check it out on your own. And
Speaker 9: it's totally good, good for honestly good for them. As
Speaker 9: I said, the interior, it's very like velvet textures, very dim,
Speaker 9: very like a retro modern, kind.
Speaker 1: Of retro modern, but very date night.
Speaker 9: And all of their cocktails are gemstone themed cocktails. So
Speaker 9: they have like the sapphire and the rooty oh, I
Speaker 9: got the emeralds. Okay, they're doing small plates with like
Speaker 9: fights that will come from the good theme.
Speaker 1: It really is.
Speaker 9: They're gonna have DJs and local arcs and it's really
Speaker 9: just that great spot for a night cap or if
Speaker 9: you're going down to dinner, whether maybe it's it's in
Speaker 9: a Ruby's marigolds around Fountain Square, because Mountain Square just
Speaker 9: the holiday time.
Speaker 3: Christie Simoda from three CDC earlier and she was talking
Speaker 3: about right where you got here, and how about how
Speaker 3: they're doing the new Fountain Square. It's like, yeah, so
Speaker 3: they're getting the So the ice rink is going to
Speaker 3: move to in front of the Duke Energy Convention Center
Speaker 3: and then on Fifth Street there it's gonna basically be
Speaker 3: a tunnel of lights to get you there, So it's
Speaker 3: like a block and a half path. They're moving the
Speaker 3: sholto elves to the Kreu Tower windows, so it's all
Speaker 3: like centrally located. They're gonna have also, uh a fountain
Speaker 3: square ins of the rink. They're going to put up
Speaker 3: a huge sixty five by sixty five tent with bar
Speaker 3: and stage it and it's heated, and they want people
Speaker 3: to calm during the day, like you know, workers downtown come,
Speaker 3: you can come and have lunch and sit in the tent. Well,
Speaker 3: they do watch like little pop up boost for Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're gonna pop up hot pop up Mark and Chris
Speaker 3: Kindlemark all that stuff. So yeah, they just they're spreading
Speaker 3: and it makes sense because they try to cramp everything
Speaker 3: at the square and it's like, hey, we've got the
Speaker 3: convention center, let's put there and it's a bigger rink
Speaker 3: with like they're gonna have fire pits and uh pergolas
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. There.
Speaker 9: I love it, you know, you know, as you're saying
Speaker 9: this and visualizing it, it's really that sounds really nice
Speaker 9: because it starts to connect the downtown area a little
Speaker 9: bit too.
Speaker 6: Over there that would be like a blink light type
Speaker 6: of display there too, and Holliway lights, so it's.
Speaker 9: Good me then into the next little segment here of
Speaker 9: talking about what the holiday bars are if you want
Speaker 9: to check them out, because every year now all of
Speaker 9: like these bars really try to lean into into the
Speaker 9: holidays and it's like tinsel and Christmas throws up all
Speaker 9: over the bar and you're the miracle at the Overlook Lodge.
Speaker 9: That's still the OGS.
Speaker 3: Off though, because every year I say, oh yeah, I
Speaker 3: got to put in my calendar in.
Speaker 5: This is it now?
Speaker 9: Right, this is why we're talking about it now. And
Speaker 9: I'm sure we'll lose my soul, but it's going to
Speaker 9: be sold. However, this is your time if you are
Speaker 9: genuinely interested. This is the OG holiday experience where they
Speaker 9: have a you have a curated time. It's all throughout
Speaker 9: the weekend, so Tuesday all the way into Saturday and
Speaker 9: Sunday and you're slotted for about like an hour and
Speaker 9: a half two hours, and you get a range of cocktails.
Speaker 1: But every year.
Speaker 9: What's great about this is every year the cocktails are different.
Speaker 9: So when they bring in these small different elements and
Speaker 9: they do decorate it a little different every year, as well,
Speaker 9: So check it out. Miracle at the Overlook Lodge. If
Speaker 9: you have been talking about this, this is the tenth
Speaker 9: year they've been doing it. Look at it today right now.
Speaker 9: Stop doing what you're doing because tickets are required for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like seventy minutes, right, yes, pretty cool. So
Speaker 3: you got they turned the tables.
Speaker 1: But it's but you, but it's fun.
Speaker 9: They have Christmas music playing, they have Christmas movies happening
Speaker 9: on the background, and it's just it's.
Speaker 3: Like what I think you describing in previous years. It's
Speaker 3: like you're actually in a snow globe.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, they not to kill the excitement and the surprise,
Speaker 9: but yeah, to make it snow.
Speaker 1: They make it snow in the bar. Cover your drink
Speaker 1: right right from the end.
Speaker 3: It's like Christmas concentrated. All just it's like you seven,
Speaker 3: You're probably overwhelmed at the end of seventy minutes, like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I can't handle them right now.
Speaker 8: You can't.
Speaker 1: You're drunk on eggnog.
Speaker 3: I don't know s I got the rock cats, there's fireworks,
Speaker 3: you're fat, and everything's going. Tan is showing up.
Speaker 1: Just be happy that you don't have to clean up
Speaker 1: the snow after right shout out.
Speaker 3: So that's the miracle in overall, Claude the.
Speaker 9: Miracle, and then the second are in pleasant Ridge and
Speaker 9: then the second bar that really started to make some
Speaker 9: headway over the last couple of years. Mimicking is Cobblestone
Speaker 9: and o tr so talking about being downtown really close
Speaker 9: to Washington Park. So maybe this is one of those
Speaker 9: things where it's a fun day night where you're walking
Speaker 9: through the park and then you end at Cobblestone. You
Speaker 9: don't need a reservation for this, which is great, so
Speaker 9: you you get Christmas thrown in your face without having
Speaker 9: to overly plan an overly book. But it is fully decorated.
Speaker 9: The pitch they're calling it Pitchmuths so right by TQL.
Speaker 9: Normally it's a soccer soccer themed and they play a
Speaker 9: lot of I mean the cards yeah so up on
Speaker 9: the screen. So this could be your perfect combination of
Speaker 9: Christmas meets sports experience. They also have Christmas throwing off
Speaker 9: at their part. It's a full takeover your classic branded
Speaker 9: Christmas theme cocktails and they have two floors. But this
Speaker 9: could also be a really good space to maybe think
Speaker 9: about booking a holiday party because they have a entire
Speaker 9: second private floor upstairs. So if you're in that mindset
Speaker 9: right now of like, hey, I'm in charge of creating
Speaker 9: my office's holiday party.
Speaker 1: If you haven't done that yet, this could be a
Speaker 1: good option.
Speaker 3: You may want to I've got time.
Speaker 9: You may want to the office exactly exactly. So there
Speaker 9: are a couple of different options. And I believe there
Speaker 9: are still some down of the banks that are leaning
Speaker 9: into the holiday themed very good.
Speaker 3: Well Thanksgiving is coming up now, just a number of
Speaker 3: days here. Now, what if you don't have plans?
Speaker 9: Oh you know, I actually am not sure what I'm doing.
Speaker 9: So we fall into this bucket. So let's have this
Speaker 9: conversation together. I'm not I'm actually not sure what I'm
Speaker 9: doing because I just had the early thank shaving.
Speaker 1: So if you would like to host me, I will
Speaker 1: be more than yeah, I got a play for you.
Speaker 1: I would love that.
Speaker 9: But if and if you're like, hey, I don't want
Speaker 9: to cook, because normally right every Christmas I do or
Speaker 9: Thanksgiving I do it with Tiff and.
Speaker 1: We try to Vietnam or she left me, bhyey, she's
Speaker 1: in Vietnam.
Speaker 9: So Sobido has always been the og spot, the last
Speaker 9: couple of years that I would recommend, which is with
Speaker 9: the Little Hotel. However, I need to do a little
Speaker 9: bit more creeping in an actual phone call because when
Speaker 9: I'm looking on their website and I'm looking everywhere, I
Speaker 9: don't see that they are promoting a Thanksgiving meal this year.
Speaker 1: So if you're listening to this and you have.
Speaker 9: A tie to Soubido and the light'le reach out to
Speaker 9: me and let me know, because I need to know
Speaker 9: if you're doing that or not, because that truthfully, it's
Speaker 9: an incredible buffet every single year leans a little bit
Speaker 9: more into the Italian side, but places that are definitely
Speaker 9: locked in and you can go check out Coffins So
Speaker 9: Hotel Covington and they're going to be doing a dinner lunch.
Speaker 1: From noon to six.
Speaker 9: It's seventy five bucks a person, fifty five bucks if
Speaker 9: you're sixty five years or older, and then if you
Speaker 9: have kids five to twelve, it's nineteen dollars and kids
Speaker 9: eat under kids who are under four eat for free. Yeah,
Speaker 9: so that's that's not a bad cheese and it's an
Speaker 9: absolute the Thanksgiving buffet. So they have a cold station
Speaker 9: with the shrimp cocktail and fresh fruit, seasonal salads, and
Speaker 9: then your hot station.
Speaker 1: I love a good carving station. There's got to be
Speaker 1: a carving station at a Thanksgiving buffet. I'm sorry, you roasted.
Speaker 9: Turkey, you have ham, and you get the green bean
Speaker 9: cass roll. People can crap on the green bean casse role,
Speaker 9: but I'm here for it. Mac and cheese, mashed potatoes.
Speaker 9: They do all of the coffins.
Speaker 1: Is doing the authentic Thanksgiving meal?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was at a last time and it was
Speaker 3: a long time ago. It was at a where they're
Speaker 3: doing the you know, steamship around beef and they're cutting
Speaker 3: it and there's a long line. I'm like, yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't know whether they it must have been like a
Speaker 3: fill in person because they're trying to cut the roast
Speaker 3: beef with the grain so the long way. Oh no,
Speaker 3: and it's falling apart and they can't get through. It's like,
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on here.
Speaker 6: And people are just there's like five six people deep,
Speaker 6: and I look, I'm like, let me hold on, turn
Speaker 6: it the other way.
Speaker 1: What you pull out your tip jar?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's turn it the other way. Like iMOS gotta
Speaker 3: like all right, give me put some whites on and
Speaker 3: glove up.
Speaker 4: Here we go.
Speaker 1: So how did that conversation?
Speaker 3: Is like you actually should maybe want to think about
Speaker 3: that time I had to do your job. You turn
Speaker 3: it the other way and slice it this way and
Speaker 3: then oh, oh my gosh, people are looking at me
Speaker 3: going thank you.
Speaker 6: When everyone's afraid to say something like that, like I
Speaker 6: don't want to be the guy from the progressive heads,
Speaker 6: but I also don't want pulled roast.
Speaker 3: Beef and to look like Bucky Sandwich. Like it doesn't
Speaker 3: really work that way. You got to got to go
Speaker 3: the other way, like.
Speaker 9: If you think about it, just my guess is staff
Speaker 9: like that is not cutting Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 3: They don't have enough people. You know, that's not their
Speaker 3: So you probably had a dishwasher going a dishy comes
Speaker 3: in and does it like I don't know to there's
Speaker 3: somebody off from the janitorial steps, like guess what you're
Speaker 3: working the line.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, here we go.
Speaker 3: Story, It's fine, we got through it.
Speaker 4: We got through it.
Speaker 3: I got extra meat.
Speaker 9: Because so anyone a hotel coming to and coffins, if
Speaker 9: you're listening to this carbon station.
Speaker 3: Turn the beef the correct way.
Speaker 9: Prep your staff accordingly, and maybe you're like, I'm so
Speaker 9: sick of the turkey, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 9: You could check out Gano's they're doing a family style concept,
Speaker 9: or you can also do carry out. Yes, they are
Speaker 9: going to have the roasted turkey and the gravy and
Speaker 9: and a lot of those classic options. But they still
Speaker 9: will do the spaghetti and meatballs, or the four cheese
Speaker 9: rally ravioli and a lot of those staples that they're
Speaker 9: known for. And I have to admit, Machianos, I feel.
Speaker 3: Like you're pretty good. Actually, it is good.
Speaker 9: That's why I put it on the list, because don't
Speaker 9: sleep on Magiano sometimes you do just really want a
Speaker 9: good Italian travel Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if they still do that they
Speaker 1: used to do it, could.
Speaker 3: Buy one's, Yeah, I don't think that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I should, I should probably know.
Speaker 3: You do some research there.
Speaker 1: We need to do a little research launch to Yeah.
Speaker 9: And then also season's fifty two, so the way that
Speaker 9: they're approaching this Thanksgiving, which is a little different, they
Speaker 9: want to lean into more of like a lighter option
Speaker 9: without the compromise, so they have it fully planned out.
Speaker 9: Your your three course Thanksgiving meal includes your starter is
Speaker 9: a butternut squash or some sort of a green salad,
Speaker 9: and then they are doing turkey and housemaid which is
Speaker 9: big housemaid stuffing. They've got the mashed potatoes, your classic
Speaker 9: green beans again, all of that. But I will say,
Speaker 9: and this is where I love what Season fifty two
Speaker 9: does with their desserts. Pe of Chinese used to do
Speaker 9: this years ago. I know because I worked there, the
Speaker 9: little mini shot classes.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you have the desserts inside.
Speaker 9: It's like it's perfect, it's just enough, and they're all
Speaker 9: going to be Thanksgiving pumpkin pie pecan pie themed.
Speaker 1: I'm here to lean into.
Speaker 10: That, not me.
Speaker 3: You made the whole pie, pecana probably a slice of both.
Speaker 1: Oh here's another good local tip.
Speaker 9: If you're like, I don't want to make the pies
Speaker 9: and I need to go out and grab a pie
Speaker 9: really quickly, well number one Costco pies or massive really
Speaker 9: good and Army Greaters pumpkin, but their pecan pie.
Speaker 3: Is on pecan pie.
Speaker 9: It's all about the ratio. Yeah, you gotta have enough,
Speaker 9: but sometimes you can't overload it with.
Speaker 3: And the and the filling is key. It's like the pecans. Okay,
Speaker 3: pecan's roasted. It's fine with sugar, but man, you gotta
Speaker 3: get that. You gotta get that just right in the middle.
Speaker 3: Gotta have it just right, that filling right there. What
Speaker 3: I like to do. You get a slice of pumpkin,
Speaker 3: then you get a slice of pecan. Then what you
Speaker 3: do You put the turkey, the stuffing, the cranberry, and
Speaker 3: the gravy on that, and you make a pie sandwich.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Happy Thanksgiving? All right? Ali Martin Local Loop
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