Speaker 1: Do you want to be an American?
Speaker 2: Friday morning? It slowly here on seven hundred w WELW
Speaker 2: Joe Jamar t All in action for the first time,
Speaker 2: and it feels like forever of this Sunday at Buffalo
Speaker 2: and Orchard Park against the Bills, Ravens dominated the Bengals.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, the Bengals dominated the Ravens. I should say
Speaker 2: thirty two to fourteen Thanksgiving Night, which seems like a
Speaker 2: while ago. And then Pittsburgh crushed by the Bills twenty
Speaker 2: six to seven on Sunday, and the Bengals thrust it
Speaker 2: into the conversation of possibly winning the division. And I mean,
Speaker 2: the odds makers don't give it much of a shot,
Speaker 2: but man, it's not gonna take much. Dan Horne is here,
Speaker 2: of course, voice of the Bengals on seven hundred WLW Daniel,
Speaker 2: good morning. How are you bother?
Speaker 3: Sony? I'm good. It's not going to take much. That
Speaker 3: might be a slight No, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's the division.
Speaker 3: No one wants. Cleveland would love it, trust me.
Speaker 2: Well, Cleveland's mathematically eliminated from twenty twenty six postseason play.
Speaker 4: Dan.
Speaker 2: At this point, before we get to that, the shootouts
Speaker 2: tonight the last time you see one at Sinta Center.
Speaker 2: What were you doing?
Speaker 3: I was broadcasting the game. That was twenty four years ago.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I go back a long way.
Speaker 3: I know now that you mention it. That was early
Speaker 3: in my really early Bearcats ten year Yeah, that might
Speaker 3: have been second or third year, but in any case,
Speaker 3: remember it. Well, Steve Logan had twenty two points. David
Speaker 3: West got injured in that game. That obviously helped the Bearcats. Yep,
Speaker 3: Cincinnati won by twenty. It was the first time they
Speaker 3: ever played at the Sintas Center. They haven't won again since,
Speaker 3: so they're desperate to try to end that streak tonight.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 2: I think I had just started at the station when
Speaker 2: you know, learn about the crossown shoot all that stuff
Speaker 2: goes that far. That's a long long time not to
Speaker 2: win in one picture, good Billy, when you play every.
Speaker 5: Year, I had nafro back then, I had so much hair.
Speaker 5: It was a long long time ago, So.
Speaker 2: Long ago Dan had hair. Yeah, and that he hair
Speaker 2: left has been great at this point. So all right,
Speaker 2: Well what changes it hasn't since two thousand and one.
Speaker 3: Well, everything has changed. I mean it's amazing that we
Speaker 3: get to this incredible rivalry, the best intracity rivalry in
Speaker 3: college basketball, and there's one guy on both teams combined
Speaker 3: that's played in it before Dade Thomas. Yeah, he's the
Speaker 3: only Cincinnati player. Xavier doesn't have any.
Speaker 5: So that is one aspect of the current state of
Speaker 5: college athletics that sucks. You know, we used to love
Speaker 5: the fact that guys would play in this rivalry three times,
Speaker 5: four times, and you'd have those memories of how they
Speaker 5: did against UC or how they did against Xavier.
Speaker 3: Those days are pretty much gone. I mean, there will occasionally.
Speaker 5: Be a player probably that sticks with a team for
Speaker 5: three or four years, but it's.
Speaker 3: Going to be a rarity going forward.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I bring that up because, yeah, the players changed,
Speaker 2: the coaches have changed, all the thesiers yet and the
Speaker 2: one true thing is that you see cannot win at
Speaker 2: Cinta Center for four years. It's like, yeah, participants have changed,
Speaker 2: and yet it's still I don't know what it is,
Speaker 2: a curse, call it what it is, but is this
Speaker 2: the year that you see overcomes Dan.
Speaker 3: Two weeks ago, I would have said yes.
Speaker 5: Now, I let's say maybe Cincinnati looked like the much
Speaker 5: better team. In the first few weeks of the season,
Speaker 5: Xavier was kind of sputtering. The Bearcats are rolling now.
Speaker 5: Cincinnati has not played particularly well in it's last three
Speaker 5: or four games, and Xavier is coming on. Xavier's playing
Speaker 5: really well. They made a slight tweak in the lineup,
Speaker 5: and they've been really emphasizing their three point shooting from
Speaker 5: all five positions or at least four, depending on who's
Speaker 5: on the floor, and they are among the national leaders
Speaker 5: and three pointers made.
Speaker 3: I will say this about U. See when they've had
Speaker 3: Boba Miller available for all forty minutes of a game,
Speaker 3: they haven't lost. They lost to Louisville when he missed
Speaker 3: the last ten and a half minutes. Now, they were
Speaker 3: losing by five points at the time, so they might
Speaker 3: have lost that game anyway. And then they lost the
Speaker 3: Eastern Michigan when Baba did not play. He's their best player.
Speaker 3: He makes an unbelievable difference when he's on the floor.
Speaker 3: He's good to go tonight, So we'll see if that's
Speaker 3: going to be a big factor in a bear Cat win.
Speaker 2: All Right, it is a huge basketball game here in
Speaker 2: the city of Cincinnati, and it was certainly one of
Speaker 2: the most, if not unique in town matchups. It's been
Speaker 2: going for such a and it's always a pretty good game,
Speaker 2: almost always the crosstown shot out tonight. Anyway, let's seguay
Speaker 2: to Sunday in Orchard Park, Bills and Bengal's going to
Speaker 2: be able to snow thirty one degrees and some snow showers,
Speaker 2: just how we like it. Joe Burrow is outstanding in
Speaker 2: the cold weather, by the way, if you look at
Speaker 2: any past history. But we'll start with this. The Bills
Speaker 2: just ran for almost two hundred fifty yards against Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: most since twenty twenty three, the most there in Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: since nineteen seventy five. Bengals thirty first against the run.
Speaker 2: How do they slow James Cook in the rushing attack?
Speaker 2: And if they can, how big a key is that
Speaker 2: to victory?
Speaker 5: Number one key. That's the biggest key to the game.
Speaker 5: And the keyword in the sentence you just used, Sloany
Speaker 5: was slow, not stop. They're not going to suddenly hold
Speaker 5: Buffalo to forty eight rushing yards, but they can't give
Speaker 5: up one hundred and fifty plus. And that's what the
Speaker 5: Bills average, and that's what the Bengals defense average is allowing.
Speaker 5: I think Buffalo averages one hundred and fifty eight rushing
Speaker 5: yards a game, number one in the NFL, and the
Speaker 5: Bengals give up one fifty three, So that one fifty
Speaker 5: ish number isn't going to work for Cincinnati. If they
Speaker 5: allow that, I think the Bengals are dead. Even though
Speaker 5: they have Joe Burrow back. They can't allow Buffalo to
Speaker 5: control the clock, go up and down the field on
Speaker 5: the ground, make it easier for Josh Allen to throw
Speaker 5: when he decides to. I think that's the number one
Speaker 5: key to the game.
Speaker 3: And as for how the Bengals slow James Cooking that
Speaker 3: rushing attack, well, they've been doing it for the last
Speaker 3: few weeks. So the Bengals, as I.
Speaker 5: Said, they've given up one hundred and fifty three rushing
Speaker 5: yards a game, but that includes like two fifty against
Speaker 5: the Jets and two fifty against Chicago. Over the last
Speaker 5: three weeksnumbers come way down. So the Bengals defense is
Speaker 5: playing better and we'll see if they can make it
Speaker 5: four games in a row.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and of course the twist is not just James
Speaker 2: cook it's also well Josh Allen, you know, four hundred
Speaker 2: nine rushing yards seventy six for your rushing tds just
Speaker 2: broke Cam Newton's all time record the NFL. That is
Speaker 2: a twist the Bengals are not used to seeing.
Speaker 3: It's a twist that nobody's used to seeing, especially inside
Speaker 3: the ten. You know, the seventy six rushing touchdowns for
Speaker 3: Josh Allen, I don't know the number, but I'm guessing
Speaker 3: that at least sixty five of them have come inside
Speaker 3: the ten yard line. When they get close to the
Speaker 3: goal line, that's the great equalizer because normally, if a
Speaker 3: quarterback hands off to the running back inside the five,
Speaker 3: the quarterback is just standing there watching. So basically, you've
Speaker 3: got nine guys to block eleven. When Josh Allen keeps,
Speaker 3: the running back is now available to block, you've got
Speaker 3: an extra guy to block.
Speaker 5: Josh Allen is obviously a horse. It's really difficult to
Speaker 5: stop when you get close to the goal line. And
Speaker 5: the Bills also do a great job of you know,
Speaker 5: if Josh Allen is say two or three yards away
Speaker 5: and still on his feet, couple of those gigantic offensive
Speaker 5: linemen we'll move behind and start pushing, and then it's
Speaker 5: almost impossible to bring him down.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But the problem with Josh Allen and we'll get the interceptions,
Speaker 2: like his facts, he he just does not have the receivers.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have the tools out there to throw the ball.
Speaker 2: I think that's why you're seeing maybe the interception rate
Speaker 2: creep up and trying to do other things and forcing plays.
Speaker 2: Could be that could be good for the Bengal seconder.
Speaker 5: No doubt, he's got six interceptions in the last four games.
Speaker 5: He's got ten for the season. I believe he's tied
Speaker 5: for second in the NFL for most interceptions, maybe third.
Speaker 5: In any case, You're right, they don't have great where
Speaker 5: he's receiving weapons, and one of their best has been
Speaker 5: out Dalton and Kaid. He's missed the last three games.
Speaker 5: Former first gund Draft pick tight end. When he's been
Speaker 5: on the field this year, Alan hasn't thrown any interceptions.
Speaker 5: The passing game is much much better when he's on
Speaker 5: the field for Buffalo. He's been limited at practice this week.
Speaker 5: I don't know if he's expected to come back or not. Obviously,
Speaker 5: from the Bengals perspective, fingers crossed and he misses at
Speaker 5: least one more.
Speaker 2: Okay, good. And before we segue and flip the script
Speaker 2: to the other side of the ball, Trey hendrickson what
Speaker 2: is the story?
Speaker 3: He's hurts and other than that, I'm not sure. I
Speaker 3: haven't seen him or talked to him in the last
Speaker 3: few weeks. He's still rehabbing. It's not like he's left Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: But it just feels like Trey is going to wait
Speaker 3: until he's one hundred to come back. But again, I
Speaker 3: have not talked to him about that, or talked to
Speaker 3: him period for several weeks.
Speaker 2: You've heard the speculation. You know, he's just gonna say
Speaker 2: and he's done. And but I mean, you know, people
Speaker 2: make stuff up in the vacuum. When the story stamp
Speaker 2: coming off your quiet and doing your work and trying
Speaker 2: to rehab, the story takes on a life of its own.
Speaker 2: Of course, hopefully he's back sooner rather than later. But
Speaker 2: I would say, you know, there's some parallels been the
Speaker 2: Bills Bengals, and players and positions are missing. Bengals are
Speaker 2: without Trey Hendricks and the Bills are gonna look like
Speaker 2: they're gonna be without Joey Bosa.
Speaker 3: Yeah, big loss.
Speaker 5: He leads the Bills in sacks even though he plays
Speaker 5: a somewhat specialist role coming in to rush the quarterback.
Speaker 5: We know how great he is from his career, so
Speaker 5: that's a significant loss. At Oliver has been out basically,
Speaker 5: you know, almost all of the year for Buffalo, their
Speaker 5: best interior defensive linemen. So I don't think that's the
Speaker 5: strength for the Bills. They're giving up a bunch of
Speaker 5: rushing yards. We talked about how that they are running
Speaker 5: the ball, well, they're bad at stopping the run. They're
Speaker 5: next to last in the NFL in yards per carry allowed.
Speaker 5: So Chase Brown has been great for the last six games,
Speaker 5: and we'll see if the Bengals can have some balance
Speaker 5: and what's likely to be a really cold day in Buffalo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could just be a ball control game. Dan,
Speaker 2: We're we're rushing, We're seeing a thousand yards rushing. It's
Speaker 2: gonna do one of those days. Joe Burrow though, fire
Speaker 2: in the cold, and it feels like it's been the
Speaker 2: first time in forever since Burrow, Chase and Higgins have
Speaker 2: all been healthy and playing together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we too would have been the last time. And
Speaker 3: we're assuming that t is back. I think that will
Speaker 3: be the case. He's been trending. Yeah, he's been trending
Speaker 3: in the right direction. He comes back from the concussion
Speaker 3: he suffered two games ago. I think we'll get the
Speaker 3: official word on whether he's back or not today, and
Speaker 3: I do expect him to play. So yeah, it'd be
Speaker 3: great for the Bengals passing offense to be back at
Speaker 3: full strength. I'm finding some wood here to knock on.
Speaker 5: But with five games left in the season, the Bengals
Speaker 5: are in relatively good shape in terms of injuries. Trey
Speaker 5: would be the most notable guy that they don't have,
Speaker 5: but particularly in the offensive end, they're in really good shape.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and the Bills have been. Their defense has
Speaker 2: been pretty lead against the pass all season long, despite
Speaker 2: all the injuries of the defense they've had. But this
Speaker 2: is the arguably one of the best tests they're going
Speaker 2: to have the season with all three players presumably be
Speaker 2: back back on the field. In addition to the Bills
Speaker 2: claimed veteran cornerback Darius Slayan went saying, Bengals fans are
Speaker 2: going nuts because you remember him in what week seven?
Speaker 2: It's the Steelers that Jamar lit him and the defense.
Speaker 2: Steeler defense up for a career day for him. Sixteen touches,
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty one yards and a touchdown. But
Speaker 2: the Bills got screwed here because Darius Lay said, dah,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm not going to report. I'm thinking
Speaker 2: about maybe retiring and what I would do in the future.
Speaker 2: Bills released JaMarcus Ingram, who's been pretty strong for them
Speaker 2: off the practice squad this season. Houston picked him up.
Speaker 2: So not only out Darius Lay, you're out JaMarcus Ingram
Speaker 2: as well. Another opportunity for Joe Burrow in company.
Speaker 5: A little surprised that Buffalo would reach out and try
Speaker 5: to get Darius Slay. He hasn't been very good this year,
Speaker 5: he's old. It was kind of a questionable signing at
Speaker 5: the beginning of the year by Pittsburgh. The thought was
Speaker 5: they wanted to pick him up to kind of be
Speaker 5: a veteran mentor to Joey Porter, who's been penalty prone
Speaker 5: and you know, kind of prone to emotional loudbursts. When
Speaker 5: he avoids that kind of stuff. He's a really good
Speaker 5: player that didn't work out very well for Pittsburgh. So
Speaker 5: it does kind of speak to Buffalo's I don't know,
Speaker 5: maybe slight desperations to build up the depth at that position.
Speaker 5: Christian Benford's been awesome he had at corner. He'll be
Speaker 5: shadowing Jamar Chase.
Speaker 2: How's that match up gonna look?
Speaker 3: I'll say this, You know, beware any NFL team that
Speaker 3: thinks that they've got a cornerback that's good enough to
Speaker 3: handle Jamar Chase one on one is going to be
Speaker 3: proven wrong. Ye, nobody does that.
Speaker 5: Jamar is you know, he's not only the best wide
Speaker 5: receiver in the NFL right now, he's one of the
Speaker 5: best ever. I think it's safe to say that five
Speaker 5: years into his career. So Benford will follow Jamar Chase,
Speaker 5: but he'll still probably get help. Having said that, Jamar
Speaker 5: will put up numbers because he always does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jamar will do what he does right exactly. It'll
Speaker 2: be certainly a fascinating match with the other guy is
Speaker 2: Bill's rookie corner Maxwell Harriston. It's about six catches on
Speaker 2: thirteen targets since coming back there for injury in Week eight,
Speaker 2: and he's a holdout, and you think he is he
Speaker 2: the weak link there.
Speaker 3: He's a rookie, he's a little bit underside, He's got
Speaker 3: tremendous speed. He's a Kentucky guy he played at UK
Speaker 3: first round draft pick. I think he's going to be
Speaker 3: a good player, but I think is inexperience shows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, also Dan, I mean, we've got two teams
Speaker 2: literally fighting here, Buffalo eight and for fighting for a
Speaker 2: wild card. Doesn't look like they're going to win the
Speaker 2: division as have done the last five seasons the way
Speaker 2: that Drake May and New England's playing, And everyone hates
Speaker 2: to hear that because no one likes New England. Cincinnati
Speaker 2: fighting for its playoff life right now, and it's it's
Speaker 2: such a great story because the as we mentioned, the
Speaker 2: North is so up for grabs right now. Pittsburgh and
Speaker 2: the Ravens are flailing right now. The Bengals are getting
Speaker 2: one game, is certainly not a shriek, but certainly looking
Speaker 2: a lot better. And some experts are saying, you know what,
Speaker 2: I think they might run the table or close to
Speaker 2: it and wind up getting that playoff spot. We'll see,
Speaker 2: of course, and it starts on Sunday. But this matchup
Speaker 2: with two teams fighting for something is are the Bills
Speaker 2: experience and talent level when you when you combine it
Speaker 2: all together, overwhelming or what we I mean? I think
Speaker 2: the lines what like five five six, so five and
Speaker 2: a half. I mean, it's not as close as you
Speaker 2: would think it would be. But Matt, I just I'll
Speaker 2: be honest with Isabell's fan and Bengals fan, the Bengals
Speaker 2: feel like the better team right now.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not sure that I agree with that.
Speaker 5: You know, it's interesting with Buffalo, as you mentioned, they're
Speaker 5: eight and four, and that seems disappointing just because expectations
Speaker 5: were so high.
Speaker 3: They dominated their division. They started four and zero. It
Speaker 3: felt like they were the best team in the AFC
Speaker 3: certainly at that point and maybe in the NFL. And
Speaker 3: they've been a five hundred team since. And they've got
Speaker 3: kind of some head scratching losses. They lost to the Falcons,
Speaker 3: they lost to the Dolphins, they gave up eight facts
Speaker 3: two weeks ago against Houston. It's still a really good team.
Speaker 5: Josh Allen is obviously one of the best quarterbacks in
Speaker 5: the NFL. James Cook is second in the NFL and
Speaker 5: rushing and had seven one hundred yard games. And they're
Speaker 5: playing at home where they won sixteen out of their
Speaker 5: last seventeen. So I'm not willing to say that Cincinnati
Speaker 5: is the better team. But I will say this, this
Speaker 5: is what they do, right, I mean, they get to
Speaker 5: December and they go on a run. Dak Taylor has
Speaker 5: been criticized and fairly criticized for the team's slow starts.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure he's ever gotten the same amount of
Speaker 5: credit for their strong finishes. So let's go back to
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one, the Super Bowl year. They were a
Speaker 5: game over five hundred. They were seven and six, and
Speaker 5: then they won the next six games that they were
Speaker 5: trying to win. So I'm going to toss out the
Speaker 5: regular season finale when they rested their starters, but they
Speaker 5: finished the regular season winning their last three. Then they
Speaker 5: won three straight in the playoffs to get the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5: The next year they were four and four. They won
Speaker 5: ten in a row before they lost the AFC Championship
Speaker 5: game to Kansas City. Last year, of course, they won
Speaker 5: their last five to at least stay in the playoff
Speaker 5: hunt until the last day of the regular season. So
Speaker 5: that's three out of the last four years. Six game
Speaker 5: winning streak, ten game winning streak, five game winning streak.
Speaker 5: It's what they do, so I am not ruling out
Speaker 5: the possibility of winning five more in a row to
Speaker 5: stay in the hunt and then hope that Baltimore loses
Speaker 5: too and Pittsburgh loses too, and if that happens, they're in.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's simple math right well, and
Speaker 2: also the I mean, let's face it that Joe Burr
Speaker 2: the Beggels have had the Bill's number for a while.
Speaker 2: It's just one of those teams they can't get past.
Speaker 2: But we'll see what happens Sunday. And I think it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a great game either way. And Dan and
Speaker 2: Lapp will have a call from Snowy Orchard Park on Sunday.
Speaker 2: I'll see you there, buddy. Have a great game and
Speaker 2: safe travels. We'll talk again in about a week.
Speaker 3: Sounds good, Clony, have fun.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you you too, Thanks again, Voice of the Bengals
Speaker 2: and of course Bearcats. Tonight it is the Crosstown shootout.
Speaker 2: Dan Horde with the call courtside at Cinta Center. Can
Speaker 2: you see do something they haven't done since Dan had
Speaker 2: an afro, and that is win win at X. We'll
Speaker 2: find out tonight on the Home of the Cats. Seven
Speaker 2: hundred wwbman.
Speaker 3: Who has entertainment reporting, of course through his veins which
Speaker 3: makes him a medical.
Speaker 7: Offity is ABC, Will Gans from New York.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Will Dans. How are you, sir?
Speaker 7: I am good. Happy Friday, too.
Speaker 2: Happy Friday. Cannot wait for it, cannot wait for it.
Speaker 2: A bunch of stuff going on. Let's start in theaters
Speaker 2: where the New Knives Out movie is on a limited basis,
Speaker 2: though it's gonna be like a general release eventually with
Speaker 2: Daniel Craig and Glenn Close and company.
Speaker 7: That is exactly right. So what if I told you
Speaker 7: that you only have to wait one week for this
Speaker 7: thing to pop up on your Netflix?
Speaker 2: Because yeah, it kind of started getting into a little
Speaker 2: bit and then fall out, but I gotta get back in.
Speaker 2: It's a great show. And I'm wondering, well, okay, well
Speaker 2: why is this the theaters if it's gonna be on
Speaker 2: Netflix a week?
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 7: So, the big consideration for movies like this, particularly when
Speaker 7: you do have performances from Glenn Close that could be
Speaker 7: up for awards nominations, Daniel Craig writing, and stuff from
Speaker 7: Ryan Johnson is in order for something to be considered
Speaker 7: for oscars, they have to spend a minimum amount of
Speaker 7: time in a minimum amount of theaters. So I think
Speaker 7: you know, a lot of the studios will say, all right,
Speaker 7: we'll put this thing in five hundred theaters across the
Speaker 7: country and you know, leave it there for a couple
Speaker 7: of weeks, and then we'll bring it to the people
Speaker 7: on Netflix. So that's what's going on here. But I
Speaker 7: will say this movie Wake Up Dead Man is one
Speaker 7: of my favorite things I've seen this year. So if
Speaker 7: you're looking for a reason to go to the theaters
Speaker 7: this weekend, I can't recommend this enough, although I would
Speaker 7: understand if anyone wanted to wait to watch it. It'll
Speaker 7: be on Netflix next Friday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just sit in So they're doing is just
Speaker 2: to get an oscar. Now I'm as opposed to actually
Speaker 2: anyone going to the theater and seeing it. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: would say that that's that's correct. Yeah, because it's like, well,
Speaker 2: if you don't have net fight, don't get it all right,
Speaker 2: interesting times in which we we live, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the small screen here. Peacocky has something
Speaker 2: called all Your Fault just keeps showing up in my cue.
Speaker 2: Is it worth hitting play?
Speaker 7: I think yes. So Sarah Nook is the lead, and
Speaker 7: a lot of people might remember her from succession. She's
Speaker 7: the sister and Ship and Succession, and she of course
Speaker 7: won some Emmys for that. So she plays a mom
Speaker 7: who uh sets her son up for a playdate with
Speaker 7: another mom at the school and and her son, but
Speaker 7: when she goes to pick the kid up from the
Speaker 7: play date, uh, the address that she was given is
Speaker 7: wrong and the mom's phone number that she had is disconnected,
Speaker 7: and now her son is missing. So it's eight episodes
Speaker 7: and she is trying to figure out who took her
Speaker 7: son and why, and you know it's it's she's got
Speaker 7: a husband and he has some siblings, and it starts
Speaker 7: starts to feel that everyone close to her may not
Speaker 7: be as trustworthy as she thought. So it's a little soapy,
Speaker 7: it's a it's definitely dramatic, but you know, she's fantastic
Speaker 7: in it, and lots of twists and turns for anyone
Speaker 7: looking for a mystery like that. And all eight episodes
Speaker 7: are streaming on Peacock.
Speaker 2: Now wait, just drop your kid off at a neighbor's
Speaker 2: house and do any background check. What the hell's going
Speaker 2: on with this world?
Speaker 7: Hey, listen, it makes for an excellent TV show.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I like I'm saying, and then I know,
Speaker 2: Melissa McCarthy's back this weekend on SNL.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so on the other end of the spectrum if
Speaker 7: Missing Kids is a little too heavy for you right now,
Speaker 7: Melisa McCarthy will be hosting SNL for her sixth time.
Speaker 7: It's her first time back since twenty seventeen. And you know,
Speaker 7: she is just one of I think, at least in
Speaker 7: this current era, one of the best SNL hosts. Do
Speaker 7: you remember she played Sean Spicer for.
Speaker 2: A little while.
Speaker 7: That was hilarious. So we will have to see what
Speaker 7: she's up to this weekend. And and you know, typically
Speaker 7: when people have hosted five times or more, they come
Speaker 7: back with a little bit of a gang you know,
Speaker 7: like I So I wouldn't be surprised if maybe Tina
Speaker 7: fe and Amy Polar show up, or Steve Martin and
Speaker 7: Martin Short, they bring back a lot of those those
Speaker 7: longtime you know hosts and special guests and stuff. So
Speaker 7: that is, of course Saturday Night Melissa McCarthy hosting SNL.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's always been great on SNL. Of course, you know,
Speaker 2: Gangbusters came out, and Bridesmaids and and just was rolling
Speaker 2: for a long time. But what what's the deal with
Speaker 2: her career. I'm not saying your career is, you know,
Speaker 2: gone down the tubes or anything like that. But she
Speaker 2: doesn't have that pop she used to.
Speaker 7: Uh yeah, I mean she's I guess maybe been taking
Speaker 7: a little bit of a break. I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 7: if she's writing something. She's married to, uh Ben Falcone,
Speaker 7: who's also a writer and performer as well. So yeah,
Speaker 7: I don't you know, I don't think there's anything negative happening.
Speaker 7: I just think she probably you know, hasn't needed maybe
Speaker 7: to work as much as she as she was.
Speaker 2: No, maybe maybe it's just maybe something as simple as that.
Speaker 2: Well good for her because all of us want to
Speaker 2: work less. Correct Yes, yes, yes, yes, I know, I'll
Speaker 2: put you on the spot. Did you see J Kelly
Speaker 2: or No?
Speaker 7: I have not seen J Kelly yet, but yeah, we
Speaker 7: it's getting a lot of buzz.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: Golden Globe nominations will announced on Monday morning, and I
Speaker 7: would not be surprised if we hear J Kelly several
Speaker 7: times throughout the morning. I mean, Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood,
Speaker 7: and George Clooney is pretty much beloved by everybody. You know,
Speaker 7: people just say he's so disarming, and I think he's
Speaker 7: pretty much playing himself in this movie. You know, he's
Speaker 7: playing an aging Hollywood movie star. And yeah, so it
Speaker 7: has all the all the trappings of Oscar bait and
Speaker 7: Golden Globes bait written all over it.
Speaker 2: I think, well, as a Cincinnati guy and his dad
Speaker 2: was Cincinnati guy. You know, we all love George Clooney
Speaker 2: here in the Tri State and you know, see that
Speaker 2: movie come out. It was an aged movie star. But
Speaker 2: if you haven't seen him in the last number of years,
Speaker 2: the guy who is he's talking about pivoting Adam Sandler,
Speaker 2: and the last couple of dramatic roles he's played has
Speaker 2: been absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 7: He is incredible. I mean, yeah, you're exactly right, Like
Speaker 7: talk about a second act. You know, he switched from
Speaker 7: Billy Madison and water Boy to you know, Uncut Gems
Speaker 7: and all of these incredible films that you know, people
Speaker 7: are always where did this come from? But you're right,
Speaker 7: he's crushing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I enjoy the last number of movies he's
Speaker 2: been even really really strong. So look forward to seeing
Speaker 2: this anyway, he is a Will Gance in New York
Speaker 2: at Will Dance two s's so there you go, knives
Speaker 2: out in theaters. But wait a week it'll be on Netflix.
Speaker 2: And then Peacock as Sarah Snook Melissa McCarthy on SNL
Speaker 2: and Jay Kelly with George Clooney is on Netflix. I
Speaker 2: believe Netflix. Yes, all the best, Buddy will talk next week.
Speaker 7: Thanks again, all right, thanks again, have a great man.
Speaker 2: Right, I appreciate it. There you go if you're maybe
Speaker 2: I don't know between sports and now we've got the
Speaker 2: Crosstown shootout tonight at Sinta Center. Can the Bearcats do
Speaker 2: what they haven't done since two thousand and one? And
Speaker 2: that's actually when there we'll find out. We've got the
Speaker 2: Bengals on Sunday, Sunday Sunday. Still waiting to hear what.
Speaker 2: By the way, with speaking of U see bowl games,
Speaker 2: and I'm not sure where they're going, but we'll see
Speaker 2: what the speculation is. Not exactly you know, I fed
Speaker 2: in the cat the last number of games for Scott Centerfield,
Speaker 2: but nonetheless to go to a bowl maybe like the
Speaker 2: Motor City or something like that, could be the Mayo Bowl.
Speaker 2: That probably not the Pop Tart Bull that's almost too much,
Speaker 2: not quite sure, And I said Bengals on Sunday at
Speaker 2: Buffalo against the Bills. I think it's gonna be pretty
Speaker 2: good game. Actually, maybe just like two teams running. If
Speaker 2: you like the running game, that may be it. Right there.
Speaker 2: We'll find out together here All that and more this weekend.
Speaker 2: Scott Sloan Show continues in about four minutes on seven
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Speaker 2: Welcome to It's get to Austin about twelve thirty five
Speaker 2: today here on the show. Fuck a little bit more
Speaker 2: sports action. Uh do we have a deadbeat mayor? This
Speaker 2: is the damnedest story. Uh so, if you haven't heard yet,
Speaker 2: Mayor a f Taed pure Vall of Cincinnati had his
Speaker 2: car repossessed. It's making news. Wait a bit, you're the
Speaker 2: mayor and you're getting your car repode? How does that work?
Speaker 2: What are you doing? What are you thinking? Here's what
Speaker 2: I think and kind of knowing a this because you know, uh,
Speaker 2: renting properties and stuff like that. I've seen tenants before.
Speaker 2: Who I you know, when you have credit reports, poll
Speaker 2: to see if they're going to actually pay rent, you know,
Speaker 2: how well or not well they're doing. And it's funny
Speaker 2: because he seen that before, where you have someone who's
Speaker 2: making more than enough morning to afford the rental, and
Speaker 2: yet for some reason, every single month they pay late.
Speaker 2: They pay the thirty five dollars laid fee after grace
Speaker 2: period of ten days. They yeah, middle of the mouth,
Speaker 2: they gotta pay. Well, yeah, I could see you know,
Speaker 2: your living paycheck to paycheck, maybe not paid to the
Speaker 2: fifteenth or something along those lines. And some of those
Speaker 2: as well. And this one though, was like, were you
Speaker 2: pretty doing all right? You should have the money. There's
Speaker 2: some people that just literally give zero. You know what,
Speaker 2: I wonder if I have to have that guy. I
Speaker 2: don't know what that says about him as a politician
Speaker 2: or a mayor for that matter. And I'll let you
Speaker 2: decide what that mean. I don't know if it means anything,
Speaker 2: but I've seen that before, Like you got your car repossessed.
Speaker 2: You know there's auto pay, right, you're not super old,
Speaker 2: were you don't understand how that works? And you know
Speaker 2: you're still showing up and paying in cash or writing
Speaker 2: a check once a month or something like that. And
Speaker 2: you know, I have other other attendants who are older
Speaker 2: and they have a fear of anything, you know, but
Speaker 2: involving technologies, they're going to get a money order to
Speaker 2: write a check or something like that and whatever. There's
Speaker 2: a fee for that as well. It's like it's just
Speaker 2: easier to have it drawn out of you account once
Speaker 2: a month. You never to forget it. But yeah, the afterthing,
Speaker 2: it's really weird because you know, he said, well, you know,
Speaker 2: I just I didn't know that. I thought I had
Speaker 2: autopay on. It wasn't. Here's the thing, so, you know,
Speaker 2: we moved over the summer and I have it set
Speaker 2: up for our house from Duke, and honestly, seriously, just
Speaker 2: what two days ago I received notice from Duke that said, hey,
Speaker 2: the your tillers are going to get shut off in
Speaker 2: ten days if you don't pay just f way, and
Speaker 2: they texted me, I got an email, I got a
Speaker 2: phone call. And it's because I thought it was on
Speaker 2: at the payment wasn't. That's a legitimate mistake, like, oh,
Speaker 2: I thought I had that set up, got it set up,
Speaker 2: and okay, no problem whatever. So I don't know much
Speaker 2: about the repossession game, but know enough about the law
Speaker 2: to go I'm pretty sure they just don't show up
Speaker 2: after sixty days and take your rig. I've never been
Speaker 2: through that. Maybe you're in the I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: we had any REPO agents listening to the show tot
Speaker 2: truck drivers. I'm curious because it seems to me that
Speaker 2: you would have a couple notices initially that you're passed to.
Speaker 2: You know, I missed your payment, you missed one payment,
Speaker 2: two payment, whatever it might be. I don't know how
Speaker 2: many payments you missed before they take your stuff, But
Speaker 2: given to the first one, they give you enough notice.
Speaker 2: There's letters, there's calls, there's emails, Hey, payment's overdue, and
Speaker 2: then within thirty to sixty days, and that thirty sixty
Speaker 2: to win it. Then you get the default notice where hey,
Speaker 2: guess what you're in default and we may repossess your
Speaker 2: vehicle if you don't catch up. And then in some states,
Speaker 2: and I think, oh HOYAUA is one, it's called right
Speaker 2: to cure, and lenders have to send you a formal
Speaker 2: file notice, a final notice to bring the loan current
Speaker 2: before they can repossess. So it's not like it's, hey,
Speaker 2: I missed my bill. Oh I'm going to hit a
Speaker 2: late fee. It has to go on for literally a
Speaker 2: couple month, a few months of not paying your bill
Speaker 2: before before they repossess your car. So that then brings
Speaker 2: in the question of like, well, you know, I know
Speaker 2: his wife is a I believe she's in internest, she's
Speaker 2: a doctor. He makes you one hundred and what is it,
Speaker 2: fifty to sixty grand? Whatever it is is mayor so
Speaker 2: you know they're doing well. Now you don't know what
Speaker 2: they're how their day to days aren't what they spend
Speaker 2: their money on. There's a lot of people who make
Speaker 2: a lot more money than that and live paycheck to paycheck.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people who make a lot less
Speaker 2: than that and can save some money. Just depends how
Speaker 2: now you're wired. But I look at that and go yeah.
Speaker 2: Initially it's like, Okay, just thought he had autopy. He didn't.
Speaker 2: But how many notifications do you get from the lender
Speaker 2: before they repossess your vehicle. It has to be several
Speaker 2: and not just oh, we emailed you got the wrong
Speaker 2: email address. They've got you. You know, you took out a loan,
Speaker 2: They've got your phone number, they have your address, they've
Speaker 2: got your email, They've probably I think at some point
Speaker 2: probably sent you a registered letter or something like that.
Speaker 2: I just I don't understand why I'm getting the benefit
Speaker 2: of doubt here is why you would ignore that, unless,
Speaker 2: of course, maybe he did ignore it deliberately. I don't
Speaker 2: know if we'll ever know, but it certainly is an
Speaker 2: interesting damnedest thing, or if I mayor having his car
Speaker 2: repossessed interesting, very very interesting. I was asked, well, we'll
Speaker 2: get in this in just a little bit here too.
Speaker 2: By the way, we've been talking a lot about medical
Speaker 2: debt and the like, and Michelle grimmleb be here momentarily.
Speaker 2: There's a bill that's under consideration now in the state
Speaker 2: House that will involve that and getting people relief and
Speaker 2: actually buying these things so allow it's more subsidient. This
Speaker 2: is interesting taking the money and a buying debt for
Speaker 2: pennies on the dollar and paying people's and discharging people's
Speaker 2: medical debt in the state. And it's not just a
Speaker 2: Democrat type of thing. Republican. I believe Genie Schmidt is
Speaker 2: the one who is also sponsoring this. We'll talk to
Speaker 2: about we'll talk about that coming up next, I should say.
Speaker 2: Right after a quick news update on the Home of
Speaker 2: the Best Bengals coverage. This as seven hundred WW. Since
Speaker 2: don't want to Scott's long show back on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: Fun fat. Here's a fun fact to start your busy day.
Speaker 2: The amount of money that we spend in healthcare in
Speaker 2: the United States has tripled since two thousand, So in
Speaker 2: less than a quarter century, less than twenty five years,
Speaker 2: the amount of money we spend on healthcare has tripled.
Speaker 2: So one point four trillion to five trillion, pretty close
Speaker 2: to triple. Right in the fall, the city of Cincinnati
Speaker 2: gave money to wipe wipeout medical debt. Kind of a
Speaker 2: controversial story, but that was done just a few months
Speaker 2: ago as a matter of fact. So next up, though,
Speaker 2: state wide, is Ohio's Medical Debt Fairness Act. What is that? Well? Well,
Speaker 2: Ohio Representative Michelle Grim out of Toledo, out of the
Speaker 2: Glass Cities here, she is a sponsor of House Bill
Speaker 2: two fifty seven. Michelle, how are you?
Speaker 6: I'm great? How are you, Scott?
Speaker 2: I'm doing fine? All is well in the Glass City?
Speaker 6: I presume, yeah, all as well?
Speaker 2: All right? I had I think Gary Jeff Walker, one
Speaker 2: of our guys at work here, was driving through Toledo,
Speaker 2: was thinking to me, said I stopped and had a
Speaker 2: Pacos honky dog. And let me tell you something, if
Speaker 2: you're passing through child to stop at Tony Paco's and
Speaker 2: get some chili, get a honky dog. Much different than
Speaker 2: Cincinnati style, but pleasing none the loss. All right, So
Speaker 2: medical debt has I think it's the still the leading
Speaker 2: source and has been for a while leading source on
Speaker 2: paid bills and credit reports for a long time now.
Speaker 2: In medical debt's like sixty percent of consumer debt on
Speaker 2: credit reports, which is incredible. So that those that's the
Speaker 2: rail that we're facing here. So what does House Bill
Speaker 2: two fifty seven do? What's your proposal to do?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 4: So House still two fifty seven would do three key things.
Speaker 4: It would prohibit hospitals collectors from reporting on credit reports,
Speaker 4: it would band wage gurnishment, and it would cap interest
Speaker 4: of medical debt odes to three percent, because right now
Speaker 4: we have a statutory eight percent interest, so that would
Speaker 4: cap that at three percent.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's start with a three percent medical to
Speaker 2: the interest that you would pay right now on any
Speaker 2: medical bill is certainly higher than three percent, and that
Speaker 2: keeps up with inflation, presumably tied to maybe tied to
Speaker 2: inflation here. But typically how much of that debt are
Speaker 2: we talkingbou how much should people just pay an interest
Speaker 2: on medical debt?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 4: So I, you know, I think that's hard to gauge,
Speaker 4: but I would say that the average person has about
Speaker 4: the average person PAS medical debt has about twelve hundred dollars,
Speaker 4: and while we don't report under five hundred dollars and
Speaker 4: credit reports right now, that's taking away about the majority
Speaker 4: of people who have medical debts and not giving them
Speaker 4: a chance to repair their credit or purchase.
Speaker 6: A home or even get a job.
Speaker 4: Because credit reports are they can hinder people getting a job,
Speaker 4: or getting an apartment or getting a mortgage. So so
Speaker 4: that that leaves a lot of people out well.
Speaker 2: Getting getting insurance for that. But like car insurance for example,
Speaker 2: everybody pulls your credit.
Speaker 4: Report now, yeah, for sure, And so our bill would
Speaker 4: prohibit any type of credit reporting and medical debt.
Speaker 2: All right, So on that one of the one of
Speaker 2: the complaints you hear from the debt collection industry, which
Speaker 2: I can't imagine a lot of people siding with the
Speaker 2: debt collection industry, but it says, hey, listen, you're essentially
Speaker 2: encouraging people to be dead beats. Basically, what they're saying
Speaker 2: is that if you take the conscious consequence away from
Speaker 2: people for non payment, that's going to lead the higher
Speaker 2: healthcare costs for everyone because people look at it going, well,
Speaker 2: I don't have to pay it. The government's going too,
Speaker 2: and you know there's a moral hazard there obviously too.
Speaker 2: And that's that's the problem with universal healthcare is you know,
Speaker 2: well people just simply go to the emergency. If I
Speaker 2: don't have to pay for it, I'll overuse it. That's
Speaker 2: a theory.
Speaker 4: So you would still have to pay your bills, of course,
Speaker 4: because it would just not be on your credit report.
Speaker 4: But I would also argue that there's been studies that
Speaker 4: said medical debt is a poor indicator of paying other
Speaker 4: types of credit.
Speaker 8: So if you had credit.
Speaker 6: Cards, or paying your mortgage, or paying.
Speaker 4: Your light bill, your electric bill, but if you have
Speaker 4: medical debt, that's a poor indicator of whether you're going
Speaker 4: to pay other debts back. And people do you want
Speaker 4: to pay off their medical bills. Medical bills can be
Speaker 4: medical debt can be embarrassing, but it's not their fault.
Speaker 4: It's really a fault of a broken system. It's not
Speaker 4: a debt of luxury.
Speaker 8: It is a debt of necessity.
Speaker 4: So that's what I would argue back, is that people
Speaker 4: people do want to pay their bills back, and putting
Speaker 4: these predatory practices in place hinders a lot of people
Speaker 4: from doing that.
Speaker 2: In that regard, Michelle Grim, is there a means test
Speaker 2: or income requirement? I mean, you know, it sounds all
Speaker 2: well and good that people do want to pay their
Speaker 2: debts off generally speaking, But how do we separate people
Speaker 2: who generally can't afford to pay versus those who simply
Speaker 2: say I'm not going to pay or choose not to pay.
Speaker 4: So I think that there when you look at the studies,
Speaker 4: it's a lot of people who cannot afford to pay,
Speaker 4: a lot of people do want to pay their bills,
Speaker 4: but they simply can't afford it.
Speaker 6: They're they're choosing.
Speaker 4: Between putting food on the table, or paying their their
Speaker 4: electric bill, or paying their mortgage, or paying their.
Speaker 3: Medical debt off.
Speaker 4: So it's it is a lot of people who don't
Speaker 4: have any savings or anything like that. A lot of
Speaker 4: people don't have one thousand dollars for an emergency, and
Speaker 4: that's why we're putting people in a bind with medical debt.
Speaker 4: But we want to help people with.
Speaker 8: House book to fifty seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is Michelle Grimm. She's out of Toledo House
Speaker 2: Bill two fifty seven. She's go sponsoring this one to
Speaker 2: help people with medical debt because one in three Ohioans
Speaker 2: carry some sort of medical debts. A number one cause
Speaker 2: of bankrow, I think with the top two costs of
Speaker 2: bankruptcy in the United States, but one drives the other.
Speaker 2: Job lessness would be number one, and health insurance bankruptcy
Speaker 2: is another one, and I think those two go hand
Speaker 2: in hand because for a lot of people, their jobs
Speaker 2: and healthcare tied together, which is part of the problem.
Speaker 2: This would limit medical interest to what you say, three
Speaker 2: percent a year. You can't guarn someone's wages for medical
Speaker 2: debt collection, and hospitals and providers can't report medical debt
Speaker 2: to credit agencies right now. And I think in the
Speaker 2: last few years were reformed it to be. I believe Michelle,
Speaker 2: unpaid medical bills were kicked over to credit reporting agencies
Speaker 2: after like sixty or on hundred and twenty days and
Speaker 2: now it's a full year correct correct. Yeah, So, I
Speaker 2: mean even the credit industry has said, hey, you know,
Speaker 2: we've got to wet, we got to ease back a
Speaker 2: little bit here Maan after a full year. Now, does
Speaker 2: that mean that people aren't making any payments whatsoever? If
Speaker 2: you pay a little bit of money, does that keep
Speaker 2: you from being reported to credit agencies? How does that work?
Speaker 2: Or is that with this what two fifty seven seeks
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 8: So I think it depends.
Speaker 4: I think typically I think if you're making payments that
Speaker 4: it would not be reported. But I think in some
Speaker 4: instances you will see reports that like people are making
Speaker 4: payments or maybe they fell behind so and you know
Speaker 4: what I was talking about before, they maybe sell behind
Speaker 4: one or two months and then it gets reported on
Speaker 4: the credit report. So you know, the system isn't really
Speaker 4: fair for consumers, and we want to make it a
Speaker 4: little fair for people to get ahead, for people to
Speaker 4: have a fighting chance. So you know, I think that
Speaker 4: a lot of the arguments against this too is around
Speaker 4: wage garnishments. I do want your listeners to look up
Speaker 4: this article from Signal, Ohio about a rural hospital of
Speaker 4: Logan County who has who has sued twenty seven hundred
Speaker 4: patients in the last two years. Yeah, and a lot
Speaker 4: of their a lot of the judgments in court were
Speaker 4: wage garnishments. So people are paying up to twenty five
Speaker 4: percent of their they're getting up to twenty five percent
Speaker 4: of their checks garnished their payroll checks, plus they're paying
Speaker 4: that eight percent interest, So.
Speaker 2: That's that's pretty cool. I think most people listening, Oh wow, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure I want to stay can medical
Speaker 2: bills at the same time, like, how am I supposed
Speaker 2: to live if i'm that's almost like child support? Right
Speaker 2: in child support, you had a conscious shouldn't have a child,
Speaker 2: and you provide for your child. That's a different matter
Speaker 2: than Hey, I just got sick, and maybe I got
Speaker 2: sick because it's something at work or I fell or
Speaker 2: something along the way, and it happens all of us
Speaker 2: at some point or another. And now that we're taking
Speaker 2: a quarter of your wages, that seems confiscate. How can
Speaker 2: you live on the other seventy five percent?
Speaker 8: And can I go back to what you just said?
Speaker 4: So we're not again, we're not suggesting that the state
Speaker 4: is paying medical bills. We're just saying we're going to
Speaker 4: have these parameters of credit reports, wage garnership, and interest rates.
Speaker 8: So I just wanted to kind of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 2: I was referring more to what we did in Cincinnati
Speaker 2: not long ago when council approved a million and a
Speaker 2: half to a nonprofit that collected money and wiped out
Speaker 2: about two hundred twenty million debt for twelve thousand Cincinnatians
Speaker 2: and just buying the debt from the credit companies.
Speaker 4: So I asked, actually did that in Toledo about It'll
Speaker 4: be three years ago, So Toledo kind of led the
Speaker 4: way for cities. County was the first one, and so
Speaker 4: we actually eliminated debt for about one hundred and twelve
Speaker 4: thousand people around the region, including forty three thousand Lucas
Speaker 4: County residents. And that no profit is undo medical debt.
Speaker 4: They do great work, so and they negotiate directly with
Speaker 4: the hospitals.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I contemplate that one because this is outside
Speaker 2: of your scope as a state lawmaker, Michelle Grimm. But
Speaker 2: the beef I have, like, for example, the government shutdown
Speaker 2: over Obamacare and the ACA. You know we're fighting over
Speaker 2: subsidy is the problem. It's not not healthcare. We're so
Speaker 2: we're taking money from a group of taxpayers and transferring
Speaker 2: it to another money of ped taxpayers without addressing the
Speaker 2: problem in Congress for a long time, and we would
Speaker 2: need all this stuff if we would just reform healthcare
Speaker 2: properly instead of having Democrats and Republicans fight each other
Speaker 2: and and do this insane stuff. I mean, Obamacare, it
Speaker 2: makes it doesn't make it affordable. Uh, it's extremely expensive,
Speaker 2: is the problem. The Affordable Care Act is a misnomer.
Speaker 2: You're just here, You're subsidizing something that's extremely expended. Let's
Speaker 2: figure out why we're paying you know, three times more
Speaker 2: than most double what most countries are for less health
Speaker 2: care doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, I would absolutely agree with that, and
Speaker 4: I would I would say that a lot of people
Speaker 4: in the healthcare space, looking at the core problem, which
Speaker 4: is our work at healthcare system, it would absolutely agree
Speaker 4: with that. And so I know we're here not to
Speaker 4: talk about and do. But what what they're able to
Speaker 4: do is they're able to purchase that pennies on the
Speaker 4: dollar from hospital systems or second second, the secondary market.
Speaker 8: But you know, people do.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: People, you know I've gotten I've gotten a lot of
Speaker 4: emails and a lot of calls saying like I got
Speaker 4: a letter from New Medical Debt, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: It really did help a lot of people. But yes,
Speaker 4: you are correct, it does not solve the broken healthcare system, right,
Speaker 4: and you know that's what you know, that's what we
Speaker 4: need to keep working on. And so bills like House
Speaker 4: still to fifty seven they make the rules a little
Speaker 4: bit fairer.
Speaker 8: But we still have a lot of.
Speaker 3: Work to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you mentioned Logan County, Small and Logan Counties right
Speaker 2: in our listing areas in the I think around the
Speaker 2: where the Armstrong Space, you know, Wapa Canetta up that way. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: about an hour an hour and a half hour forty
Speaker 2: minutes from us here in Cincinnati, So Logan County pastor,
Speaker 2: and if you're going up north to Toledo, for example,
Speaker 2: so in that county you said that, you know, they're
Speaker 2: garnishing people's wages and like, and I kind of get
Speaker 2: that in a sense is I don't know if they're
Speaker 2: being confiscatory and it's you know, the evil capitalists world.
Speaker 2: This mustache in the corner lighting a cigar with one
Speaker 2: thousand dollars bills. But in some sense, hospitals, and especially
Speaker 2: rural hospitals are under struggles right now. We're having a
Speaker 2: number of them close as a result of the healthcare
Speaker 2: system which is not going to serve anyone in those areas.
Speaker 2: How do you ensure they still get fair payment while
Speaker 2: protecting the patients from excessive debt collection practices.
Speaker 4: So I think what's going to hurt our rural hospitals
Speaker 4: in the long run is the cuts to Medicaid and
Speaker 4: Medicare and also the increased costs because the ACA SUN subsidies.
Speaker 8: May go away.
Speaker 4: So that's going to be really where they're going to
Speaker 4: get hit the hardest. It's not gonna be because they
Speaker 4: can't put it on our report or they can't garnish wages.
Speaker 4: A lot of hospitals actually don't garnish wages or through
Speaker 4: their patients. This is actually a pretty aggressive practice with
Speaker 4: this one hospital because actually a lot of hospitals.
Speaker 8: Don't do that.
Speaker 4: They you know, tend to try to work with the
Speaker 4: patient or or they you send it to that collection, right,
Speaker 4: But not every but not every hospital does that. A
Speaker 4: couple of the hospitals in the area in the state
Speaker 4: have said that this doesn't this build has those two
Speaker 4: fifty seven doesn't really affect us. It doesn't affect our operations.
Speaker 8: So but so, yeah, that's what I would say is.
Speaker 2: That maybe it's just but maybe more like the rural
Speaker 2: I mean, because you look at rural areas that are
Speaker 2: losing population and they've got one hospital or clinic and
Speaker 2: now you've got fewer people in there. So I get
Speaker 2: the model. Whereas in Cincinnati and Dayton, Toledo, in bigger cities,
Speaker 2: you can absorb those costs, but better you have more
Speaker 2: people to draw.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but but again I think that what's coming down
Speaker 4: the pipeline here is our cuts to Medicaid and our
Speaker 4: cuts to Medicare and the AC subsidies going away. It's
Speaker 4: really going to hurt our rural hospital system. Not prohibiting
Speaker 4: putting medical debt or credible.
Speaker 2: It's a hospital two fifty seven, and medical debt is
Speaker 2: a crisis in America, has been for a long time.
Speaker 2: Makes up about sixty percent of our consumer debt. This
Speaker 2: would limit the interest on that to three percent a
Speaker 2: heared capit of three percent interest, ban wage garnishment for
Speaker 2: medical debt collections, and stop hospitals and providers and debt
Speaker 2: collectors from reporting that debt to credit agencies provided you're
Speaker 2: paying something. I mean, isn't it safe to say in
Speaker 2: the end most hospitals, gey, hey, listen, I owe all
Speaker 2: this money, and here's what I make. We've got to
Speaker 2: work on a payment plan, whether it's you know, twenty
Speaker 2: bucks a month or something like that, which you'll never
Speaker 2: touch it, but at least I'm giving you something. Does
Speaker 2: that satisfy most hospitals if put the effort in so,
Speaker 2: you know, I think I can't speak for the hospital systems,
Speaker 2: but certainly a lot of the hospital.
Speaker 4: Systems do work out payment plans. They also offer charity
Speaker 4: care options. People can ask for charity care options. Then
Speaker 4: I would really encourage uh folks to do that and
Speaker 4: just kind of look at all of your options. So
Speaker 4: if you if you do have medical debt or bills
Speaker 4: you can't pay, ask questions. So this is kind of
Speaker 4: my call to action for everybody. Ask questions. Ask you know, hey,
Speaker 4: why was I charged this? Or can I set up.
Speaker 8: A payment plan?
Speaker 4: Or hey, I can't afford this right now? So I
Speaker 4: would say keep you know, negotiate with the hospital or
Speaker 4: the debt collection agency, and just make sure that you're
Speaker 4: uh negotiating that way, because you you do have negotiating
Speaker 4: power and you can work on uh making sure.
Speaker 8: That you you do you do keep up with.
Speaker 4: Your bills and you don't fall behind, and it does
Speaker 4: go on your credit report until you know, until just
Speaker 4: stas so so so yeah, I would say, like, you know,
Speaker 4: just work, you know, talk, talk to the hospitals, look
Speaker 4: at your medical bills, ask questions, and you know the
Speaker 4: hospitals should be happy.
Speaker 3: To work with you.
Speaker 2: Right. Uh, Michelle, that you have biopartisan sport for those
Speaker 2: a bipartination.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, absolutely, it touches every So my my joint
Speaker 4: sponsor is Representative Jean Schmidt.
Speaker 8: So uh, you know, it.
Speaker 4: Touches everybody's district, everybody's district. Ye, so you know it's
Speaker 4: not just rural districts or urban districts or suburban district
Speaker 4: is everybody's district.
Speaker 6: And everybody everybody.
Speaker 4: Knows someone who has had medical debt or has medical
Speaker 4: debt currently. And you know, again, we want to make
Speaker 4: sure that the playing field is a little fair for people,
Speaker 4: and we want to make sure people get ahead and
Speaker 4: not keep them down. And I think the household two
Speaker 4: fifty seven, Uh, while it doesn't fix everything, it makes
Speaker 4: us a little bit closer to uh.
Speaker 8: A fare system.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes sense. Jeene Schmid in the sixty second district,
Speaker 2: so you know, fairly rural areas there too, Claremont County,
Speaker 2: so it has urban and rural support. And it's bipartisan,
Speaker 2: which I like a lot. And it also helps people
Speaker 2: and it doesn't seem to unfairly incentivize someone not to
Speaker 2: pay their bills, which which I like. She is Michelle Grimm,
Speaker 2: Democrat at Toledo Houspill fifty spence two fifty seven, along
Speaker 2: with Jeanie Schmidt here in Claremont County, and I wish
Speaker 2: all the best, thanks again for coming on the show.
Speaker 2: Thank you Scott so too long didn't read. We have
Speaker 2: a government buying back medical debt from pennies on the
Speaker 2: Dottarm to discharge that debt for Ohioans, while the other
Speaker 2: side of the government causes our healthcare insurance to be
Speaker 2: so cost prohibitive people go into debt for it. One hand,
Speaker 2: I don't know breaking the other so to speak. I
Speaker 2: don't know what to make of this. Just address the
Speaker 2: core issue about that, not at the state level, but
Speaker 2: at the federal level. We've got a news update. We'll
Speaker 2: switch it up. Bengals at Buffalo this week and Austin
Speaker 2: Elmore here from ESPN fifteen thirty. We'll talk about that
Speaker 2: and Kyle Schwarber watch as well on seven hundred W WELW.
Speaker 2: Here we go on this Friday morning, sports, sports and
Speaker 2: more sports At ten forty one. Austin Elmore from ESPN
Speaker 2: fifteen thirty is here. He's on at noon with Tony
Speaker 2: Pike and here to talk about everything sports, including the
Speaker 2: Crosstown shootout tonight. Dan Hord told me at nine oh
Speaker 2: six that he had an afro the last time that
Speaker 2: the UC Bearcats won at Sinta Center, which I fully
Speaker 2: believe two.
Speaker 9: Thousand and one. Yeah, I'm sure Dan had some last hair.
Speaker 9: I'm sure Dan had some lettuce up there. Sick chatty,
Speaker 9: we need to uncover some of those old Dan Ord photo.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I wonder like, did he ever go through a phase
Speaker 9: when he was in his late teens early twenties where
Speaker 9: you know, it grew out a little sit I added
Speaker 9: down by.
Speaker 2: The shoulders that looked like a dandelion. Yeah, I would
Speaker 2: like to see if I'm sure Dan's listening, Dan, feel
Speaker 2: free to send those photos along, they said, I naphro
Speaker 2: and yeah, two thousand and one, and where he has
Speaker 2: probably had like the acid washed denim jacket with the
Speaker 2: teal and the cranberry color. I could totally see in
Speaker 2: the nineties. Yeah, look about him. So all right, we
Speaker 2: got to shoot out tonight. Yeah, does you see get
Speaker 2: off the schneid? Probably not? No, No, you can't.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 9: I mean, why should I believe? It's been twenty four
Speaker 9: years since they've won there. I need to like actually
Speaker 9: see it to believe that they're going to do it.
Speaker 9: And I think both these teams are kind of going
Speaker 9: in the opposite direction. Like Xavier has a really bad
Speaker 9: start but has slowly, you know, increased and trended up
Speaker 9: since then, whereas Cincinnati they just really are kind of
Speaker 9: meddling below what anybody expected them to be, still struggling
Speaker 9: a little bit offensively, inconsistent shooters, They've had some injuries.
Speaker 9: They just never feel like they show up when they're
Speaker 9: supposed to show up. I think for the sake of
Speaker 9: the rivalry, it would be great rate if you see
Speaker 9: goes in there and wins. I do think though, it
Speaker 9: would be really funny if in two seasons, with two
Speaker 9: very different expectations on both sides, Xavier once again is
Speaker 9: the boogeyman to you see, And I would be curious
Speaker 9: to see what that would mean for Wes Miller.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know what that that is absolutely correct.
Speaker 9: I mean I truly don't have a dog in the fight,
Speaker 9: Like I have no allegiance to either one of them.
Speaker 9: But to me, the story is less about the game
Speaker 9: and more about what happens to Wes Miller if they
Speaker 9: lose it. That's that if the Bearcats lose it, So
Speaker 9: that to me is the story of the shootout.
Speaker 2: Radsury signed Emilio Pegan with a really good contract actually
Speaker 2: two years ten and he gets, you know, one year
Speaker 2: out for the club and all that, and some people
Speaker 2: are reading that as well, that's because they're getting everything
Speaker 2: together to sign Kyle Schwarber. How much are we buying
Speaker 2: that that that's gonna happen because there's a Yeah, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of smoke there. Yeah, but I just wonder
Speaker 2: if it's not off season. I think there's a lot
Speaker 2: more smoke than anybody anticipated. And when you look at
Speaker 2: legitimate Major League Baseball insiders, guys like Ken Rosenthal and
Speaker 2: Buster Only and Jeff Passen and John Hayman, when all
Speaker 2: those guys are saying something that tells me that there
Speaker 2: is serious interest by the Reds to try to pursue
Speaker 2: Kyle Schwarber. I also think there is interest from Kyle
Speaker 2: Schwarber to play in Cincinnati.
Speaker 9: Why wouldn't there be that? Being said, he's thirty two
Speaker 9: years old and this is his last chance to really
Speaker 9: cash in. So, if you're Schwarber, do you want to
Speaker 9: take a hometown discount? Because the Reds are not. Even
Speaker 9: if they make an exception to spend more money this
Speaker 9: offseason than what we have already been told they're going
Speaker 9: to spend, they're still not going to be able to
Speaker 9: compete with Philadelphia and New York and others.
Speaker 2: From a financial standpoint.
Speaker 9: Now, let's be clear, the Reds have more money and
Speaker 9: they can spend more money than they let on. They
Speaker 9: choose not to spend more more money. That is their choice.
Speaker 9: They run the business, that's their you know, their progative.
Speaker 9: They can do whatever they want with their money. However,
Speaker 9: it makes you wonder would they be willing to make
Speaker 9: an exception on their business plan and their model to
Speaker 9: go after Kyle Schwarber And what would that mean in return?
Speaker 9: More season tickets, more Jersey sales, more. I think these
Speaker 9: are the things they're trying to balance. I think they
Speaker 9: want Kyle Schwarber at their price, which might be it
Speaker 9: would require, truthfully, Bob Castellini, the and the Red's ownership
Speaker 9: group to make an exception for the way that they
Speaker 9: plan on building this team. I don't know if that's
Speaker 9: going to happen, but I do think it's a lot
Speaker 9: more realistic than anybody thought it would be going into
Speaker 9: this office.
Speaker 2: One of those were they're paying him ten years after
Speaker 2: he That's that's a great way point.
Speaker 9: And I've been trying to ask around it and kind
Speaker 9: of wonder what the Reds thoughts are on that, because
Speaker 9: they haven't done it a long time. Griffy just expired
Speaker 9: a couple of years ago. Bronson Arroyo was the last guy.
Speaker 9: I think that they did it with right and with
Speaker 9: a labor a workstopage almost certainly going to happen next summer.
Speaker 9: I wonder how much that would play into the role
Speaker 9: on both sides, Kyle Schwarber thinking about money down the
Speaker 9: road or the Red's thinking about money down the road. Yeah,
Speaker 9: all right, well we'll see how that plays out. There's
Speaker 9: plenty of time.
Speaker 2: In a lot of time, let's get to the game
Speaker 2: on Sunday the Bengals at the Bills Orchard Park and
Speaker 2: get a little bit of snow, nothing crazy thirty one
Speaker 2: degrees and some snow flurries. I will point something out
Speaker 2: because I know you love things like this. Austin Elmore
Speaker 2: that can only imagine what this is going to be.
Speaker 2: At high Mark Stadium, they have like the Bengals do here,
Speaker 2: they have something called the battle Boat and it's a
Speaker 2: I don't know where you get it, but it's a
Speaker 2: boat of waffle fries. Oh. On one half of this
Speaker 2: they introduced this last year and it's a big hit
Speaker 2: waffle fries. On one side is the Buffalo style ingredients,
Speaker 2: which would be shaved roast, beef, chatter, horse, Riddish pickle,
Speaker 2: caraway seeds. So it's a beef on weck sure, okay,
Speaker 2: as opposed to a chicken wing one. What do you
Speaker 2: think that since Natty Sis you said waffle fries, waffle
Speaker 2: fries and they do team ingredients there, so sure there
Speaker 2: would be some sort of chili like a chili cheese
Speaker 2: fry type of thing, kill bassa coleslaw, barbecue sauce, sweet pickles.
Speaker 2: So that's like, that's not us at all that's Cleveland. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's insulting. You mean, this is the straw. There you go,
Speaker 2: it's over there, you go. You guys have done It's
Speaker 2: it's too far. It's a bridge, a bridge. We've got
Speaker 2: to polish people all of the kind of operation or
Speaker 2: you guys run just I'm just putting it out.
Speaker 9: Everybody's focused on the new stadium. Nobody really thinking right,
Speaker 9: got to step up? Can you get so? It makes
Speaker 9: me wonder the last time the Bengals played there was
Speaker 9: in the playoffs. Did they serve that then?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 9: No, this is the second year they've done the bat
Speaker 9: Speaking of boats, I want to give a shout out
Speaker 9: really quickly to the Baltimore Ravens because on Thanksgiving night
Speaker 9: when the Bengals played there, they gave away to all
Speaker 9: their fans a Baltimore Ravens gravy boat. What an awesome
Speaker 9: giveaway for Thanksgiving. Yeah, that's a really good idea. A
Speaker 9: gravy boat. Yeah damn, that's a little of Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 9: and Sidney gravy boat.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, instead of like you know, a
Speaker 2: mug or something.
Speaker 9: When the last time the Bengals did a giveaway at
Speaker 9: a game other than like rally towels. I don't know
Speaker 9: that they ever had that. I can remember that they
Speaker 9: sent for now any of the Reds. Their whole identity
Speaker 9: is bobblehead.
Speaker 2: Bobblehood.
Speaker 9: I have a friend who went to the Bengals Giants
Speaker 9: game last year. They gave away a Tom Coughlin bobblehead.
Speaker 9: He brought it back for me. It was cool as hell.
Speaker 9: That's pretty cool. I don't think the Bengals do that. No,
Speaker 9: I wish they would. There, I've said it, all right,
Speaker 9: you guys spoke your peace. Let's talk about this game.
Speaker 9: I don't know what make of this game. I don't
Speaker 9: know which team show. I don't know which Bengals team
Speaker 9: shows up. I don't know which Bills team shows. Yeah,
Speaker 9: two very similar teams in the sense of like one
Speaker 9: minute they look like they're really good and the next
Speaker 9: minute they look like they could miss the playoffs. And
Speaker 9: it feels like from what I've been reading with Buffalo
Speaker 9: that they kind of feel like their back is up
Speaker 9: against the walls, especially offensively. Yeah, they ran the ball
Speaker 9: for two hundred and fifty yards last week against Pittsburgh,
Speaker 9: but the pass game still hasn't been great. Joe Brady's
Speaker 9: under a lot of pressure, and hell Sean McDermott said,
Speaker 9: we know our backs are against the wall because they're
Speaker 9: trying to make a run at winning the division and
Speaker 9: being able to host a playoff game, and the way
Speaker 9: New England's playing, I don't know that that's going to
Speaker 9: be possible. But the way that the Bills have played,
Speaker 9: it's been very inconsistent. And the Bengals offense, I think
Speaker 9: is right now trending in the right direction against Buffalo
Speaker 9: because Buffalo's defense is one of the worst in the
Speaker 9: NFL against the run. The Bengals offense running the football
Speaker 9: over the last month and a half has been the
Speaker 9: best in the National Football League. And here's a ridiculous
Speaker 9: stat that I bet you know as a Bills fan
Speaker 9: that a lot of people listening don't know. The Buffalo
Speaker 9: Bills have a higher missed tackle percentage than the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 2: Yes, I knew that. Is that not hard?
Speaker 9: If you've watched a Bengals game this year, you've seen
Speaker 9: the worst tackling team maybe in history, But the Bills
Speaker 9: are actually worse.
Speaker 2: I watch both teams every week and I'm not going
Speaker 2: to say this, the date is wrong, but I don't
Speaker 2: see it. I mean, maybe it's because the Bengals a
Speaker 2: lot with on bigger plays, maybe, but the inability to
Speaker 2: tackle solo just perplexes me to And then when you're
Speaker 2: looking for it, you see it more. You know, it's
Speaker 2: one of those.
Speaker 9: Now it's like fifteen percent for Buffalo, thirteen percent for
Speaker 9: the Bengals, so it's very close. But either way, I
Speaker 9: think you could look at this and say, maybe it's
Speaker 9: a track.
Speaker 2: But the thing that ails the Bills is and it
Speaker 2: sounds I'm not making excuses because there's a number of
Speaker 2: things outside of this that ail the Bills as well,
Speaker 2: is the number of injuries, and it's just it is
Speaker 2: not it's a non stop. It's not. I think there're
Speaker 2: two or three league now, you know, when your kicker
Speaker 2: doesn't kick for the entire season, it's gonna be one
Speaker 2: of those years. And even you know, this past week
Speaker 2: we're like, okay, well cornerbacks, we'll get into that. But
Speaker 2: you know when you sign a guy that says, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what I think about retiring, and then the
Speaker 2: guy in Jamarkus King of the cornerback did for Darius Slay.
Speaker 2: The guy that you release make room on the squad
Speaker 2: goes to get signed by Houston, and now not only
Speaker 2: you're down essentially two cornerbacks.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, By the way, T Higgins is coming back this week.
Speaker 2: At least it looks that now it's Slay now he
Speaker 2: you know, Chase lit him up when he was in
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh in Week seven, So it's not like, okay, it's
Speaker 2: a world stop.
Speaker 9: Yeah, there's a lot of layers to the Darius Slay thing.
Speaker 9: I think he wanted to be a Philadelphia Eagle, and
Speaker 9: Drew Rosenhaus, his agent, is obviously a very powerful agent,
Speaker 9: and I think maybe trying to strong arm the Bills
Speaker 9: or whatever, and the Bills should probably tell him to
Speaker 9: shove it. That's what I would do. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 9: you talk about that, you talk about aj Epanessa. You're
Speaker 9: a linebacker who went down with a foot injury and
Speaker 9: practice the other day. Joey Bosa doesn't look like he's
Speaker 9: going to be able to play this week. Great edge
Speaker 9: rusher that they signed. You were missing both your starting
Speaker 9: tackles last week. Now I think they're gonna be able
Speaker 9: to play this week. Deon Dawkins and Spencer Brown, but yeah,
Speaker 9: I know, Trey Hender, it's yeah, no tray for the Bengals.
Speaker 9: Maybe not this week, maybe not ever again, but yeah,
Speaker 9: it's it's two teams that are in a very similar
Speaker 9: spot with polar opposite records.
Speaker 2: It's fascinating, no question. Yeah, And that's why you can
Speaker 2: it's hard to like, I know, the Bills are favored
Speaker 2: by five five and a half at home, and a
Speaker 2: lot of that's probably home, but you have no idea
Speaker 2: which team shows up and what they The Bengals if
Speaker 2: they can even put a damper on James Cook. If
Speaker 2: they can't, it's over. I agree with that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, ultimately, it's gonna come down to the Bengals'
Speaker 9: ability to stop the run. And you worry about, well,
Speaker 9: if you're selling out to stop the run, and what
Speaker 9: are you going to allow Josh Allen to do on
Speaker 9: the backside. And that's what makes Buffalo such a dangerous
Speaker 9: team and difficult to defend. And I think, honestly, it's
Speaker 9: the same situation for the Bengals right now. As I mentioned,
Speaker 9: their run game is as good as any in the
Speaker 9: NFL right now. And oh, by the way, Joe Burrow
Speaker 9: is back, Jamar Chase is still here. T Higgins is
Speaker 9: likely to come off of They're all back and they're
Speaker 9: all gonna be good to go. So, you know, I
Speaker 9: think the other thing, too, is and Joseph Osai said
Speaker 9: this after the game, that you just feel it and
Speaker 9: you can see it, and there is a difference in
Speaker 9: the locker room and a belief in the Bengals locker
Speaker 9: room when Joe Burrow is on the field, and that's
Speaker 9: sort of intangible, and that sort of leadership is something
Speaker 9: that you just can't measure. And for the guys that
Speaker 9: were here in January of twenty three when the Bengals
Speaker 9: went up there as six point underdogs like they are
Speaker 9: right now and handed it to the Buffalo Bills, there's
Speaker 9: got to be a lot of confidence from that group
Speaker 9: of players going into Buffalo there. We know how to
Speaker 9: play in the same situation. This place doesn't scare up.
Speaker 9: They're beat up, and.
Speaker 2: You know, and this time I have any wide receivers
Speaker 2: to throw too, And that's also part of the problem,
Speaker 2: explains A. And I think the takeaway game is gonna
Speaker 2: be big if Josh Allen continues to try and find
Speaker 2: guys that aren't open or break off on the wrong
Speaker 2: route could be good for for the Bengals.
Speaker 9: Second, one of the sneaky you know, turning points for
Speaker 9: the Bengals defense over the last couple of weeks has
Speaker 9: been number one. DJ Turner's having a great season outside
Speaker 9: at corner, and when Cam Taylor Britt went down, the
Speaker 9: Bengals moved Dax Hill to the outside, brought up Jalen
Speaker 9: Davis from the practice squad to play at the slot,
Speaker 9: and that has worked out really well when it comes
Speaker 9: to defending teams in the past game. I think that's
Speaker 9: an interesting one to work and we talk about how
Speaker 9: the Buffalo Bills often it seems like they're always looking
Speaker 9: for a wide receiver. Since Stefan Diggs left, the Bengals
Speaker 9: I think have a slight advantage against that group as well.
Speaker 2: Okay, later today new in ESPN fifteen thirty, Tony Pike,
Speaker 2: Austin Helmer, what do you got.
Speaker 9: We'll talk to Charlie Goldsmith. He outlined the path what
Speaker 9: it would actually take for the Reds to get Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to him.
Speaker 9: We'll talk to Rick Brooring, who is the color commentator
Speaker 9: for NKU basketball but also Musketeer Report dot Com. We'll
Speaker 9: get the xavier side of things ahead of the Crossdown
Speaker 9: shootout tonight. We've also got Kyle Decker from the Red
Speaker 9: Brick Legacy looking ahead of the championship game with the
Speaker 9: Miami RedHawks. We'll do our picks and so much more.
Speaker 9: All Right, that's.
Speaker 2: Later today now on in THEESPN fifty. If I appreciate you,
Speaker 2: thank you, Sham. We'll get a news update in Scott's
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Speaker 2: You always love once a month or so catching up
Speaker 2: with our friends at the Claremont County Veteran Services Commission.
Speaker 2: Steve Belso is the executive director there, joining the show
Speaker 2: this morning. And now you guys have had quite a year.
Speaker 2: As we kind of wrap up the surer to believe
Speaker 2: the year's gone already.
Speaker 3: Man, it's got I'll tell you what. It goes so fast.
Speaker 3: But when you get lost and just helping people out time,
Speaker 3: just screening by. So it's it's been a fantastic year
Speaker 3: for helping Come County veterans.
Speaker 2: When you look at the numbers for the year. How
Speaker 2: many have you served?
Speaker 3: Approximately, that's a little bit over twenty five hundred, still
Speaker 3: getting exact, but that also is twenty five hundred veterans
Speaker 3: and finally claims for benefits or healthcare as well as
Speaker 3: like emergency financial assistance helping to shore up veterans lives.
Speaker 3: So we've had a really good year helping veterans of
Speaker 3: Cremonk County.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. That's that's quite a lot. Is it
Speaker 2: mainly the service, right? Is it mainly VA care or
Speaker 2: how would that break down?
Speaker 3: Say that again?
Speaker 2: I said, was it mainly v A care or how
Speaker 2: did that break how's the services you provide breakdown?
Speaker 3: Oh? Sure, So when you talk about the services of
Speaker 3: a county Veterans Service Office, it really like a three
Speaker 3: legged stool, and the three legs represent the filing to
Speaker 3: the VA for benefits and claims assistance, transportation to and
Speaker 3: from the VA for VA medical appointments, as well as
Speaker 3: emergency financial assistance. And those are the three core pillars
Speaker 3: of what we do in the Veteran Service Office.
Speaker 2: Gotcha? Gotcha? And I know you've added some help too
Speaker 2: as well. Well, that's good that you're growing so you
Speaker 2: can adjust your calendar and make more appointments and get
Speaker 2: more people service.
Speaker 3: Oh, it was absolutely needed. With usage of our transportation
Speaker 3: is we take vetterings from their home door to the
Speaker 3: VH front door and back home. And the increase in
Speaker 3: people desiring transportation through us has been exponential over the
Speaker 3: past year. So the fact that I've had to hire
Speaker 3: a number of new drivers as well as we purchased
Speaker 3: another vehicle just to help the fleet because we were
Speaker 3: doing a drop, run and grab someone else sort of
Speaker 3: the revolving door a van constantly moving. It's really been
Speaker 3: beneficial to add extra personnel to drive the hours the
Speaker 3: VA is setting appointments for but having another vehicle to
Speaker 3: assist in those appointments as well has been very beneficial. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love the fact, you know, you keep improving, you
Speaker 2: keep getting better, you add more services in the like
Speaker 2: we're talking off air about Mattia Mobility, the company I
Speaker 2: speak for Dave, my buddy Dave, where you know, it's
Speaker 2: a wheelchair that you stand up in. Basically it picks
Speaker 2: you up and lifts you up. You can and you guys,
Speaker 2: the VA was the first to lean into this technology
Speaker 2: saying yeah, we want our veterans to have this this
Speaker 2: capacity to actually stand up out of their chair, because yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of people here, well you get the bare bones,
Speaker 2: basically get you know, surplus materials, you know, wheelchairs left
Speaker 2: from the nineteen seventies. Instead, it's not true at all.
Speaker 2: I mean, when it comes to tip of the spear,
Speaker 2: you guys are you're right, the VA's right there, and
Speaker 2: then you are able to navigate that field and get
Speaker 2: these devices for veterans. What VET think is that's just
Speaker 2: a great example of your motto, what you stand for
Speaker 2: and what the mission is.
Speaker 3: Absolutely when you think of the for how many years
Speaker 3: that we thought of the exoskeleton and taking the warrior
Speaker 3: in the battle because the soldiers load that which he's
Speaker 3: carrying has become so heavy they can't drag every thing
Speaker 3: with them. But if we give them an exoskeleton that
Speaker 3: they mount to themselves, you can add extra weight to
Speaker 3: it because the better themselves in the wartime is not
Speaker 3: carrying that weight. And now we transfer that to a
Speaker 3: non ambulatory uh situation where a bur in his wheelchair
Speaker 3: bound and now this exoskeleton is picking the individual up
Speaker 3: out of their wheelchair and given mobility, I'm glad you
Speaker 3: introduced that to me this morning. What a great concept.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is something else, and you know I demoed it.
Speaker 2: It's just such a game changer. But again, not to
Speaker 2: you know, turn into the commercial or anything like that. The
Speaker 2: fact of the matter is you guys want this. You
Speaker 2: want the best care possible for our veterans. And I
Speaker 2: think we often and on my show especially, you know,
Speaker 2: we take a jaded look at government, the inefficiencies, the incompetence,
Speaker 2: the problems, the finger point and lack of solving problems.
Speaker 2: You guys turned that paradigm completely around, flipped on.
Speaker 3: Sad we have we have And I spent twenty nine
Speaker 3: years on active duty and this was my role as
Speaker 3: a senior Marine. Is just ensuring the troops are fed.
Speaker 3: They're bad, they're they're taking care of the medical appointments
Speaker 3: are happening. Is what is missing? And how do you
Speaker 3: take care of your men and women and your unit.
Speaker 3: And it's the same way for me now in Claremont County,
Speaker 3: twelve and a half thousand veterans in the county. I
Speaker 3: call them my troops. It's how am I taking care
Speaker 3: of them? Are they getting the services that they need
Speaker 3: and what is the time frame which we're able to
Speaker 3: help them do. That is all in the forefront of
Speaker 3: my mind.
Speaker 2: He is Steve Balso with Claremont County Veteran Service Organization
Speaker 2: the VSO, and just kind of kicking the tires around
Speaker 2: what went on this year. If you're a veteran and
Speaker 2: you live in Claremont County haven't reached out yet, and
Speaker 2: there's anything you need, and you may think it's minor
Speaker 2: or trivial, they probably can get an answer for you
Speaker 2: at the very least, or get you the help you
Speaker 2: need at the very bus and do it in such
Speaker 2: an time efficient manner. You don't have time to navigate
Speaker 2: all this stuff, whether it's you know, medical appointments to
Speaker 2: get from the VA for just to check up, or
Speaker 2: just simple procedures take you to another doctor that you've
Speaker 2: been referred to. They can do all this and so
Speaker 2: much more, and they're hiring more and more drivers to
Speaker 2: transport veterans from their home to via medical appointments. And
Speaker 2: how about you doing a month.
Speaker 3: Now right now? For the past four months, we've done
Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty plus veteran transportations and that was
Speaker 3: with four vehicles. Now we have the fifth one added,
Speaker 3: so you know, twenty percent improvement over vehicle overuse. And
Speaker 3: then obviously there's there's maintenance, so you have to take
Speaker 3: a vehicle down, and oil changes, high rotations, everything else
Speaker 3: that comes into play. So bringing in a staff of
Speaker 3: drivers plus and additional vehicle. I will tell you the
Speaker 3: five commissioners of the Veteran Service Office for Claremont County
Speaker 3: support me one hundred percent in moving this office forward
Speaker 3: to include so only adding another Veteran Service officer that
Speaker 3: we then can reduce the wait time to get in
Speaker 3: to see servious officer to apply for your benefits that
Speaker 3: still aren't realized from your service.
Speaker 2: When you and I think for those of us who
Speaker 2: you know, let's face it, our tax money goes to
Speaker 2: fundness and it's such a you know, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of things we complain about paying taxes for. This is
Speaker 2: one I lean into and go good, this, this is
Speaker 2: a good use of my tax money is to support
Speaker 2: the vsos and all eighty eight counties in Ohio and
Speaker 2: the counties where you live. And that is the mandate
Speaker 2: from the state of Ohio. That's how you are funded
Speaker 2: to get veterans help. They need because it's almost like
Speaker 2: having a tax attorney. I've said in the past it's like,
Speaker 2: if you have enough, you know, you need a tax
Speaker 2: attorney or someone to figure out what your tax bill
Speaker 2: is or what you're going to get this year because
Speaker 2: you have no idea how to navigate that. That is
Speaker 2: true with the VA because it's a labyrinth of as
Speaker 2: you can imagine, bureaucracy, and the average person is especially
Speaker 2: if you're sick, you're under stress. You don't have time
Speaker 2: or the energy of the knowledge to navigate that. You
Speaker 2: need a specialist like you and the others there to
Speaker 2: do this for you. That said, to give the lay person,
Speaker 2: average person or maybe in a veteran, how many hours
Speaker 2: would be spent behind the scenes just getting someone I
Speaker 2: don't know the healthcare or something, a specialist or something
Speaker 2: along those lines, and get into treatment they need. How
Speaker 2: many hours are devoted to just like one patient?
Speaker 3: Great question. That's that's something too, because people like fingerprints,
Speaker 3: everyone's different, and to build out what is the media
Speaker 3: in time it wouldn't reflect anybody, but yet it's everybody.
Speaker 3: We actually did an hour and a half for every
Speaker 3: veterans appointment when they come through the doors. But the
Speaker 3: veterans also told know what you want to file for,
Speaker 3: make sure we have your D two fourteen on file.
Speaker 3: If you we don't bring a company with you, as
Speaker 3: well as supporting documentation to help us file your claim
Speaker 3: for you, because if there is no supporting documentation, the
Speaker 3: VA is going to kick it back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you need all that stuff, and it just you
Speaker 2: spend hours and hours just down one case. This is
Speaker 2: why you need more people working at the VAS, to
Speaker 2: the Veteran Service Organization, I guess, in order to navigate that.
Speaker 2: So the time spent would be considerable just for one person,
Speaker 2: but that they're working for you. So if you need
Speaker 2: that kind of help assistance, and it's not just VA care,
Speaker 2: there's other things that you do, right that will help
Speaker 2: a veteran correct.
Speaker 3: Right, right, So besides just getting you enrolled in via
Speaker 3: healthcare and or secondary to that is getting you to
Speaker 3: and from your VA medical appointments. And there was a
Speaker 3: veteran sent up to Cleveland to the Cleveland clinic a
Speaker 3: couple of months ago. We drove the veteran to the
Speaker 3: Cleveland clinic and the Ohio Revice Code stipulates that we
Speaker 3: are to transport veterans within the geographic vicinity of our
Speaker 3: VA hospital. And so I called the VIA Hospital Cincinnati
Speaker 3: and I said, well, what is our geographic vicinity? They
Speaker 3: use something that's called vistant. I can't tell you what
Speaker 3: the acronym stands for, but basically.
Speaker 2: Any in the military that is.
Speaker 3: No, no, we need one more. That is Michigan, Indiana
Speaker 3: and Ohio. That's their area. Even though there's multiple hospitals
Speaker 3: by the VA throughout the area. So there potentially is
Speaker 3: a large task on moving veterans to and from their
Speaker 3: VA medical appointments. The only thing Clermont, as a VSL
Speaker 3: office cannot do is we don't have non ambulatory vans
Speaker 3: such that there's no hift on our vans. I cannot
Speaker 3: take somebody in a wheelchair. However, we have partnered with
Speaker 3: the Claremont County Senior Citizens who has those type of
Speaker 3: vehicles that will pick up somebody in the wheelchair and
Speaker 3: take them to their VA appointment. So we've got everything
Speaker 3: covered for getting veterans to and from their medical appointments.
Speaker 3: But then, in concert with what you were asking about, Sonya,
Speaker 3: what else is there? There's also emergency financial assistance. The
Speaker 3: Ohio Revised Code has established that we're to help veterans
Speaker 3: within them a certain span of financial I guess disability,
Speaker 3: to bring them up out of the hole. If it's
Speaker 3: not just a handout, it's not a dollar to Jimmy
Speaker 3: on the corner. It's literally picking a veteran up and
Speaker 3: getting them re established so they can continue on with life.
Speaker 3: For many myriad reasons, these veterans will fall down, and
Speaker 3: the most common is helped. That's what we think, right,
Speaker 3: but there are things coming back from being within the fence,
Speaker 3: being on a base and then leading that full support
Speaker 3: and it's how do I navigate lifelow? So some really
Speaker 3: some assistance and then getting them moving forward. So it's
Speaker 3: really a great program. That's an anomaly throughout the United
Speaker 3: States that we have eighty eight counties in Ohio supported
Speaker 3: by the Ohio Revice Code that we are funded by
Speaker 3: the county to then take care of the veterans within
Speaker 3: our county.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think it's it's such an amazing mission.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you're there, and I'm happy to remind folks
Speaker 2: about that, primarily veterans who are listening. And you know,
Speaker 2: maybe you're fine right now, but as you get up
Speaker 2: in years again, healthcare. You fought and served our country.
Speaker 2: You're entitled to that. Don't think you're not, and everything
Speaker 2: that goes along with that. We and we could do
Speaker 2: more of course, as always, he's steep Also at the
Speaker 2: Climont County vs a Veteran services organization. If you're not
Speaker 2: in Claremont County, there's one in Butler, there's Warren. If
Speaker 2: you're in a county in Ohio, there's a veteran service
Speaker 2: organization there to help you and your needs. But he's
Speaker 2: the best. He's out of Claremont County. Steve, Happy holidays, brother,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate you, and we'll talk again in the
Speaker 2: new year.
Speaker 3: Tony. I look forward to it.
Speaker 2: All rights you as well. You have Merry Christmas as well.
Speaker 2: Scott's loan show, Quick time out. We've got news on
Speaker 2: the way in just minutes. And I mentioned I brought
Speaker 2: that up of the Mattia mobility chairs. I had a
Speaker 2: friend of mine reach out the other day about that
Speaker 2: thing and said, do you think I can get that
Speaker 2: with my insurance? Mike, Well, you could, yeah, I think
Speaker 2: that's entirely possible. It's not just veterans, because he has
Speaker 2: a loved one that needs that kind of assistance there
Speaker 2: in a wheelchair. Been in a wheelchair for like eight
Speaker 2: years and this thing comes along and God bless American
Speaker 2: research and development. It Basically how it works is instead
Speaker 2: of just sitting in a wheelchair, it has a it
Speaker 2: looks like one of those scooters you'd get like at
Speaker 2: the grocery store, maybe a little bit smaller than that too.
Speaker 2: And what it does is it retracts. It allows you
Speaker 2: to take this almost like if you see a window washer.
Speaker 2: They sit kind of like on a window washing rig.
Speaker 2: They sit on this poem form board basically film board.
Speaker 2: It goes underneath you. You latch it on the to the
Speaker 2: to the Tiam mobility chair. You press a button and
Speaker 2: it scoops you up, BLUs you from your bottom, and
Speaker 2: puts you in a standing position. And so you're sitting
Speaker 2: on that but your the front of your legs, your
Speaker 2: shins are pressed up against patting and uh it takes
Speaker 2: about five second thry to lift you up out of
Speaker 2: that chair or the seated position, and then you just roll.
Speaker 2: It's it's almost like like one of those anticap scooters
Speaker 2: that you see at a grocery store, except you're standing
Speaker 2: upright and think about how much that changes. It's like
Speaker 2: you're used to doing things that is sitting down, so
Speaker 2: everything has to be you know, on a house or example,
Speaker 2: or doing a remodel, and it has to be for
Speaker 2: someone who's disabled. You can now go and do things
Speaker 2: at counter height. You know, the microwaves over the stove.
Speaker 2: You can get coke cook on a stove again. You know,
Speaker 2: if you like doing that kind of stuff, you can
Speaker 2: go work in your shop and your garage and your car,
Speaker 2: whatever it might be. You can do all these things now.
Speaker 2: When it's time to sit back down, you press a
Speaker 2: button and it lowers you back down. You can go
Speaker 2: to the bathroom or it's a lot easier, it's a
Speaker 2: lot safer, and you can even there's videos that guys
Speaker 2: rolling these on the beach. You put just different tires
Speaker 2: on takes just if it it really is. But that's
Speaker 2: the kind of stuff that the the vsos are leaning
Speaker 2: into because they want that best for their veterans. And
Speaker 2: we often hear about the inefficiencies and the problems bureaucracy
Speaker 2: a government that you have everything that's left over and
Speaker 2: ser plus and broken. That's not the case anymore, for sure.
Speaker 2: So by thanks again to Steve for what he does
Speaker 2: for our community. And we've got news on the way.
Speaker 2: It's a Scott's Long show. This is seven hundred.
Speaker 10: The weekends coming on and you need to make the
Speaker 10: most demand where to go and what to do. She
Speaker 10: has the tips and inside to help you make it
Speaker 10: a super weekend.
Speaker 2: So listen up.
Speaker 10: This is the Local Loop with Allie Martin on seven
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Speaker 2: Here already ready to go. Let's go, let's go. What's up? Well,
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Speaker 2: There we go, Here we go.
Speaker 1: We'll put that on your Spotify rap.
Speaker 2: Let's go, what's up?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 11: You know, just literally reviewing my twenty twenty five Spotify
Speaker 11: lists of what my top artists are.
Speaker 1: Listen to this, listen to this.
Speaker 11: This is a new feature that they put on the
Speaker 11: Spotify wrap So if you don't know what Spotify Wrapped is,
Speaker 11: you know, Spotify is the platform that you play music
Speaker 11: and podcasting all that, and at the end of the
Speaker 11: year they give you a recap of, you know, how
Speaker 11: many minutes you've listened and your top artists and your
Speaker 11: top songs. And I was looking through it. This morning,
Speaker 11: and I'm slightly offended or I don't know, but it
Speaker 11: now says here is your listening age, and it cheers
Speaker 11: me up. It says age is just a number. By
Speaker 11: the way, yeah, my listening age. Take a guess you're
Speaker 11: listening age. I don't know, like fifty eighty six, eighty six?
Speaker 2: What are you listening to?
Speaker 11: Real? So my top genre the orchestra.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 11: I don't know, smooth jazz, house, indie pop, low fi indie, soul. Okay,
Speaker 11: all right, all right, so smooth jazz. So it says
Speaker 11: that my listening age is eighty six. So when you
Speaker 11: call me a grandma, I guess it makes sense. There
Speaker 11: you go, because I listened to a lot of dinner jazz.
Speaker 11: It's a holiday season Christmas jazz.
Speaker 2: Here we are my top genres. Yes, smooth jazz, is it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Really?
Speaker 2: I don't like smooth jazz. I kind of I'm not
Speaker 2: like the smooth elevated music jazz.
Speaker 1: Would you like to play jazz playlist?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got some jazz in there. Album rock okay,
Speaker 2: hip hop okay, pop, yacht rock, yacht rock. Yeah. Age
Speaker 2: is just a number. Don't take it personally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what is yours?
Speaker 2: Say, it's calculating my gosh, I'm so excited four hundred
Speaker 2: and seven. Let me see, no kidding, it's working on
Speaker 2: it right now, it's thinking about it.
Speaker 3: God.
Speaker 2: If I'm younger than you.
Speaker 11: It's because then everyone's posting it on social media and
Speaker 11: they get the recaps and some people are like, yeah,
Speaker 11: I'm my listening age is like twenty five, and you
Speaker 11: know the said person is thirty five.
Speaker 1: What is fifty? It says you're I don't clearly listen
Speaker 1: to it. A lot of smooth jazz, Oh.
Speaker 2: My god, oh, oh my god, and everybody else is
Speaker 2: no one younger listens to jazz jazz, I don't.
Speaker 1: I talk about jazz all the time.
Speaker 11: And here's the thing. I will play it so much
Speaker 11: while I'm working, and so it's always it's the low fi.
Speaker 11: Low fi is on my top genres.
Speaker 2: I get it. I like the hip hop and rock
Speaker 2: is generally if I'm working out or something, need something, Yeah.
Speaker 11: But then I'm weird. I'm also a Pandora goal. People
Speaker 11: like does that still exist? Yes?
Speaker 10: It does?
Speaker 2: It does it?
Speaker 1: Sure does. I think they do.
Speaker 2: Better playlists depends what I'm in the mood for. If
Speaker 2: I'm like cooking or something, I'll throw Italian. I have
Speaker 2: thrown Sinatron like that.
Speaker 1: Top genre overlaps.
Speaker 2: Yes, jazz is uh yeah, I don't just something about it.
Speaker 2: I always like jazz.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Christmas.
Speaker 2: And the other one is blues too.
Speaker 1: A lot of blues wasn't on your genre.
Speaker 2: It wasn't didn't show up, didn't show surprise. I feel
Speaker 2: it's not a different platform.
Speaker 11: I think that's sometimes I feel like they'll sneak in
Speaker 11: some blues into some of those jazz playlists. But anyway,
Speaker 11: 'tis the Christmas jazz season, and there is so much happening. Yes,
Speaker 11: when it comes to Christmas, I'm honestly there's we can't
Speaker 11: name them all. Like you have King's Island Winterfest, you
Speaker 11: have p and z Vestival of Lights at the Zoo,
Speaker 11: you have the tillow Elves thing.
Speaker 2: We're up in Cincinnati toes. We also have Wild Fountain Square.
Speaker 2: Isn't that right? Ice rink?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 11: That the tree is lit, ready to happen. But you know,
Speaker 11: did you get your tree? Do you have a real
Speaker 11: tree or a fake tree?
Speaker 2: Fake tree? We were in the real tree business for
Speaker 2: a while and the kids turned into a holes when
Speaker 2: they're teenager, all right, screw you then, So did you
Speaker 2: were done with it?
Speaker 11: Did you do the whole cutting the tree down?
Speaker 1: When they were kids?
Speaker 2: We changed religit. We just got out of a good play. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we did the whole thing, and then they got to
Speaker 2: that age where there was just like they're fighting. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we just went, okay, that's it. We're getting our official tree.
Speaker 1: Honestly, is your spree lit?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, two pieces, I think two or three
Speaker 2: pieces put together.
Speaker 11: The only let me tell you, there's nothing worse than
Speaker 11: having a freak fake tree and the tree is not
Speaker 11: pre lit, because that's my case and I'm so tired
Speaker 11: of putting lights on.
Speaker 2: My tree now. Years and years ago, when we bought
Speaker 2: this thing and to spend at least ten years longer,
Speaker 2: we got one of one of those nice Balsam Hill
Speaker 2: ones and they are like affordable. Then we looked at
Speaker 2: getting one for you know, because we got downstairs and
Speaker 2: they're like two thousand dollars for artificial trail. Like I'm
Speaker 2: not paying that.
Speaker 1: They're so and even resale.
Speaker 11: Somebody I saw on Instagram the other day repost it
Speaker 11: at Goodwill, which is supposed to be secondhand a used
Speaker 11: tree for three hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you can go to Costco and you're just.
Speaker 2: Right right right? Yeah exactly. I don't know.
Speaker 11: So now it gets you back on the do I
Speaker 11: get a real tree train?
Speaker 1: I think there's something so much.
Speaker 2: A real tree going for now. Though they were they
Speaker 2: were like close to ten fifteen years ago when I
Speaker 2: last got really yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they've dropped in price a little bit.
Speaker 7: I know they have.
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go.
Speaker 11: Let me give you the lowdown, because I think cutting
Speaker 11: down a tree and making that a tradition could be
Speaker 11: the best holiday tradition. Now, Clark did this, I do.
Speaker 11: I do this every year with two of my best friends.
Speaker 11: I'm the third wheel all the time with the dogs.
Speaker 2: Professional.
Speaker 11: There are probably thirteen to fifteen different places around town
Speaker 11: that you can go and cut down a Christmas tree
Speaker 11: anywhere from Bartles Farm up in Hamilton, Ohio, to Big
Speaker 11: Tree Plantation Andmorrow, Yeah, Gubser Tree Farm and Alexandria. My
Speaker 11: personal favorite though, is Corsey Tree Farm in Hammersville, Ohio.
Speaker 11: You have over one hundred acres of trees every type
Speaker 11: of tree you could possibly think of, the Norway spruce,
Speaker 11: the Colorado blue spruce, your white tie. The list goes on,
Speaker 11: and there's something about I just love it. They give
Speaker 11: you the saw, and they give you the tarp, and
Speaker 11: you go and your roam and you cut down the
Speaker 11: tree itself. And anything up to ten feet is ninety dollars.
Speaker 11: Oh okay, yeah, so they'll do live music. You can
Speaker 11: get coco. There's ornaments there. It kind of turns into
Speaker 11: this big, family friendly type excursion. And I'm also myself
Speaker 11: and my friends we are on the hunt for somebody
Speaker 11: who chopped down our favorite tree this year. I think
Speaker 11: my friend is going through a little bit of a
Speaker 11: traumatic experience where we found the tree that he absolutely loved.
Speaker 1: We're like, let's think about it.
Speaker 11: Let's just let's just look look, gid you not sixty
Speaker 11: seconds later, a group of five or six people walk
Speaker 11: up looking at the same tree, and this tree gets
Speaker 11: chopped so fast, and my friend blesses, like you could
Speaker 11: just he's just standing there like it's like hearing somebody
Speaker 11: do the dirty in the next round, standing right here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm right here, you know.
Speaker 11: I thought he was and took it. So we crushed
Speaker 11: Christmas tree dreams. And now I'm on the all right,
Speaker 11: I did record them, so I think I'm gonna throw it.
Speaker 12: Up on you passed on it. It was a funny moment,
Speaker 12: like a dog. The tree was too big, too full,
Speaker 12: tree was way too big. That was at least fine.
Speaker 12: I was like going out and tin at the end
Speaker 12: of the whole thing. And I bring my own sow
Speaker 12: because I'm nerdy that way.
Speaker 11: That's the other thing. If it's busy, better hope. But
Speaker 11: then it's just like more likely.
Speaker 2: And then they got the shaker in the bundler because
Speaker 2: they shake off the dead leaves thing often they wrap
Speaker 2: it up with the Is that what they do your
Speaker 2: tree farms where we used to go in Lebanon and
Speaker 2: they're awesome, a great family. And now they put it
Speaker 2: like they put on a thing and shake it and
Speaker 2: get all the dead needles off.
Speaker 1: Is that the round?
Speaker 2: That's that's the wrapper. So before that they shake it
Speaker 2: and they put it in the wrapper and it binds,
Speaker 2: it gets close and they put it on your car.
Speaker 1: Oh see, now do they put it on your car?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think I did it.
Speaker 11: Here's another here's some pro tips. Let's start from the top.
Speaker 11: Number one, Bring an extra pair of shoes. Just speaking
Speaker 11: from experience, it could be a little money you want to.
Speaker 2: Swap ony, I just wear the boots to begin with.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 11: If you don't want to track the mud in the car,
Speaker 11: bring just bring an extra pair of shoes.
Speaker 1: Tickle, tickle, my fans come on.
Speaker 11: And then also bring extra bungee things ties as well
Speaker 11: as scissors, because like they'll give you the string, which
Speaker 11: is great, but sometimes you just need a little extra
Speaker 11: leverage if you have a car wrack, that's ideal. I'm
Speaker 11: saying this because because there have been a couple of
Speaker 11: times where we've had to hold down the tree because
Speaker 11: we did not do a good job of wringing it to.
Speaker 2: A professional tip. Okay, So they also sell a cargo
Speaker 2: net that you can put so it's bungee cord, but
Speaker 2: it's it's woven into a net and then it stretches
Speaker 2: across anything that you may carry using my truck or
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 1: You have to have a rack on it or can
Speaker 1: it also.
Speaker 2: I supposed to girl the windows down. You can do anything.
Speaker 11: But yeah, because that's what we did. We rolled them
Speaker 11: down and then hooked it.
Speaker 1: To or just get some hand which worked.
Speaker 11: This year. I'm just saying a little PTSD, very cold
Speaker 11: hands in yours.
Speaker 2: Now you're thinking, like me, time to switch religions here?
Speaker 2: Or how hard is that?
Speaker 1: I'm a Buddhist now I know'd.
Speaker 2: You having to go cut down a menora. It's just
Speaker 2: you get it out of a drawer and put the
Speaker 2: candles on.
Speaker 1: Let's go uncented as long as.
Speaker 2: You get a right stretch it out. Very at my
Speaker 2: age now going this is a lot less work.
Speaker 11: And then I'm more gravitating to Buddhism, where it's just
Speaker 11: quiet peace meditation.
Speaker 1: You light one candle and don't go.
Speaker 2: Druid because it's still about shrubs. Anyway, what else we
Speaker 2: gotta go out in the Cincinnati.
Speaker 11: While we're on these odd Christmas adventures, let's talk about
Speaker 11: the fact that Scuba Santa has made its.
Speaker 1: Way back to the aquarium. Oh my god, so scool.
Speaker 11: So Santa not only has its pilot's license, he also
Speaker 11: has a scuba license, of course, and he's back. And
Speaker 11: I don't think we've really ever talked about this. So
Speaker 11: it is time, because back at the aquarium over at
Speaker 11: Newport on the Levee, and this is your chance to
Speaker 11: tell Scuba Santa what you want for Christmas while he
Speaker 11: swims underwater in his Santa suit.
Speaker 2: I always love that Santa. So you know who needs
Speaker 2: to take that? You know, you know Scuba Steve needs
Speaker 2: to borrow second clauses because that thing needs some wash.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: Well he was wearing that yesterday and it was it
Speaker 2: honestly was it was. It smelled like Dan Ackroyd's Christmas.
Speaker 1: Because didn't you have your big holidaytion dig this week?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yesterday here and seg came out and now it's
Speaker 2: like he's been wearing that. I'd been washed, sin, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was rough.
Speaker 1: I saw some videos of him dancing on the.
Speaker 2: Just saying they're Sega Claus pulling the salmon out of
Speaker 2: his beard.
Speaker 1: Pull that get those Omega three?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 11: Yeah, so this is this is your chance to bring
Speaker 11: the kiddos. It is fun though, right like if you're
Speaker 11: looking for something to do that's not outside, because maybe
Speaker 11: you're like me and you don't want to be outside
Speaker 11: for every single winter Christmas activity. But this is your
Speaker 11: chance to still be festive because they make the aquarium
Speaker 11: festive and they have the Scuba Santa. They have different
Speaker 11: events that are coming up. So on December fourteenth, they're
Speaker 11: gonna do breakfast with Scuba Sana, So this is your
Speaker 11: chance to there's gonna be a breakfast buffet, there's gonna
Speaker 11: be playful elves. You can design your own Christmas ornament
Speaker 11: and if you're a member there you also get a discount.
Speaker 11: But this could be one of the first guests of
Speaker 11: the day to see Santa. So come on in if
Speaker 11: you want to do breakfast. They're als so doing other
Speaker 11: events that are similar that are in the evening and
Speaker 11: in the in in the morning, but one of them
Speaker 11: in particular that they're doing at twenty one and plus event,
Speaker 11: So it's a naughty or nice event happening the day
Speaker 11: after Christmas. It's going to be a silent disco. They're
Speaker 11: going to food and special seasonal drinks. You know, TACKI Christmas.
Speaker 1: You've ever seen.
Speaker 2: That, I've heard of it. I don't what does that mean?
Speaker 1: So it's special equipment.
Speaker 11: They'll bring in a DJ and everybody gets headphones and
Speaker 11: there's like three or four channels and the DJ is
Speaker 11: playing different yeah, and it's silent. The only music that
Speaker 11: you hear. So when you're from an if you're an
Speaker 11: outsider looking in. It's kind of bizarret because everybody's dancing
Speaker 11: in the room assas.
Speaker 2: There's no human interaction because everyone's listening their own thing.
Speaker 1: Yes and no.
Speaker 11: I think part of the fun is also figuring out
Speaker 11: who is listening to the same station that you're listening to,
Speaker 11: because there's only a few to listen to, and usually
Speaker 11: it's by genre.
Speaker 6: Mine.
Speaker 1: Clearly, you guys.
Speaker 2: Make this way too smooth jass.
Speaker 1: So we're in the corner with our cocktails.
Speaker 2: Just sitting there by ourselvesping teeth. Let's have a smooth.
Speaker 1: Jazz chair that's clearly going right, exactly.
Speaker 2: Right, waiting for the heroin to kick it anyway. Alie
Speaker 2: Martin the Local Loop, This Martging Scott flo Show seven
Speaker 2: hundred Wow, real quick, we've got got remember one that.
Speaker 2: Let's do one food thing.
Speaker 11: Oh, here we go the Flamingo Drive Bar and Lounge.
Speaker 11: If you are sick of the cold.
Speaker 2: The drive bar, you said, not that.
Speaker 1: Dive bar, drive It's called drive Bar and Lounge.
Speaker 11: Okay, Yeah, So it's Miami meets Milford. So this is
Speaker 11: the same owners the Baracco brothers as the governor.
Speaker 1: So you know Milford's main strip.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, so this is right next door to the governor,
Speaker 11: same owners, But truthfully, it is this interesting Miami Flamingo
Speaker 11: Pink vibe very much on the beach. They have They're
Speaker 11: heavy on their rum cocktails. They do this rizo Frido burger,
Speaker 11: which is absolutely killer. They have a fried jerk chicken,
Speaker 11: a Cuban sandwich. Is just something different. It's really bright,
Speaker 11: it's really vibrant. So if you're maybe not landing something
Speaker 11: so cozy, but something that brings you warmth and energy
Speaker 11: in light.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's really cool. The concert, you.
Speaker 11: Say that it was Miami meets Milford. Miami meets Milford,
Speaker 11: What does that mean? I mean how many spots like
Speaker 11: that around?
Speaker 2: I don't have a really, it's really not a tan.
Speaker 2: I just have untreated high blood Prussure's. That's what Miami
Speaker 2: meets mil for. She's Allie Martin Local Loop at Alie
Speaker 2: martin Ate Good Drama on YouTube. Of course there's her
Speaker 2: channel there and pops in every Friday morning it's what
Speaker 2: to do, Eat, drink in. In this case, ninety was
Speaker 2: Christmas Tree Talk, which is perfect. I love it. I'm
Speaker 2: here for it. I'm so here for it. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Alie Martin Scott'slan Show on the home
Speaker 2: of the best Bengals coverage you had Buffalo this weekend.
Speaker 2: I'll see you up there. Buy me a chicken wing
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