Speaker 1: All right, back on the Eddie and Rocky Show, Rock
Speaker 1: Out Today. Jason Williams from The Inquire at Cincinnati dot
Speaker 1: Com is with me here on a Friday, which makes
Speaker 1: this a Friday kind of extra special because coming off
Speaker 1: of a Bengals win that game last night, that was fun,
Speaker 1: that's all that. Oh yeah, that was just.
Speaker 2: A fun game to watch, and you know, really really
Speaker 2: happy for Bengals fans. You know, you saw that very
Speaker 2: game last year and you knew exactly how that game
Speaker 2: was going to go. And for it to go the
Speaker 2: other way finally this time, for them to win in
Speaker 2: an outscoring of you know, outscoring the other team finally,
Speaker 2: I think that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk to our usual Friday guest around about
Speaker 1: this time. It's our good friend Richard Skinner from Local
Speaker 1: twelve and Skinny Ears talking there. And that was we
Speaker 1: were talking to Jason Hoffman the other day and talking
Speaker 1: about how one would be fun to see an old
Speaker 1: fashioned shootout between these eighty plus years where the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: out in the field, and that's when it turned out
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 3: I mean, they combined for seven touchdown passes and two interceptions,
Speaker 3: both by Aaron Rodgers, but the seven touchdown passes for
Speaker 3: two four year old quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Is just insane to think about.
Speaker 3: It's one thing to think about when you think that
Speaker 3: Joe Flacco has only been here for nine days basically
Speaker 3: between the time he got traded in that game, and
Speaker 3: he's already played two games in the nine games span.
Speaker 3: I mean, two of the most interesting.
Speaker 4: Things last night, and I was down there for Zach
Speaker 4: killer press conference today, was Joe mentioned, actually Zach mentioned
Speaker 4: last night. Joe reiterated that there were times where Zach
Speaker 4: would call in a play and they're so long, the
Speaker 4: play calls are so long that Joe didn't completely understand it,
Speaker 4: and so there are times they lined up in correctly
Speaker 4: and I and Joe said, he goes. I was so
Speaker 4: grateful that Zach was patient and just let kind of
Speaker 4: the play go because I kind of.
Speaker 3: Knew the concept. I knew where, you know, we needed
Speaker 3: to go. I knew we didn't line up the way
Speaker 3: we're supposed to line up.
Speaker 4: I had that danswered, I mean, you only have three
Speaker 4: timeouts to burn, so you can't just keep going. You
Speaker 4: lined up long time out. You line up long time out.
Speaker 4: And he laughed, and he said, you know, It's great
Speaker 4: that Joe said he was patient or I was paid
Speaker 4: with him because he was patient with me. Because they
Speaker 4: said those play calls sometimes they just go so fast
Speaker 4: and you just don't hear them, and so you're dealing
Speaker 4: with that on top of all of that that, like,
Speaker 4: you know, the play calls one thing, and guys are
Speaker 4: going the wrong way, line up the wrong lene. You just go,
Speaker 4: let's go, let's play. And it was wild to watch
Speaker 4: how wide open Jamar Chase got on easy routes. It
Speaker 4: was listen, man, I'm I'm an old guy. Man, I've
Speaker 4: seen a lot of stuff in this league. Last night
Speaker 4: was in the top five of wild.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree, And it was funny along those lines.
Speaker 2: Zach joked last night said, you know that that Joe's
Speaker 2: you know, he has to he doesn't understand my my
Speaker 2: Oklahoma accent, or he's taking a look like whatever. Justice jokingly,
Speaker 2: of course, but yeah, you're right, Like now that you
Speaker 2: sit here the day after and the game gets over
Speaker 2: so late and you're trying to process it, and it's
Speaker 2: like holy cow. And then you're like the two old
Speaker 2: guys and Jamar Chase with the record sixteen catches and
Speaker 2: it's pretty incredible. I mean the fact that then and
Speaker 2: then the the Bengals, you know, go down there and
Speaker 2: the friar moveth has just got to haunt those guys,
Speaker 2: you know, and Aaron Rodgers does what Aaron Rodgers does
Speaker 2: at quintessential roll out, finds him down the field with
Speaker 2: what two thirty one somewhere around and there, and you're
Speaker 2: like yeah, and you're kind of like, here we go again. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was it. That was the game right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you were yeah, seconds away from a no, you
Speaker 3: were seconds or not sign. You are minutes away from
Speaker 3: a soul snatching, season ending loss, right because there's no
Speaker 3: way you rebound from that. You just don't. It's your
Speaker 3: fifth in a row. You did everything on offense you
Speaker 3: could literally possibly do. I mean, you got twenty three
Speaker 3: targets to Jamar Chase and he caught sixteen of them.
Speaker 3: I mean, you did everything in your power and you're
Speaker 3: minutes away from a soul snatching loss. And then two
Speaker 3: completions of Javar and then a complettion up the sideline
Speaker 3: with te Higgins who had the wherewithal And and knew it.
Speaker 3: They told him ahead of time to slide down so
Speaker 3: they could eat up some clock. And then I guarantee
Speaker 3: you everybody's holding their breath on the on the field goal.
Speaker 3: I mean, you got a you got an undrafted rookie
Speaker 3: long snapper, a second year punter who dropped the snap
Speaker 3: last year, and and you know, Evan nick Pherson.
Speaker 4: Hasn't made a clutch. This is no knock and you
Speaker 4: just hasn't made a clutch field goal in a while.
Speaker 4: He's made a lot of them, but he hasn't made
Speaker 4: one in a while. And so you're still even if
Speaker 4: it's a thirty six yard you're like, eh, what could
Speaker 4: possibly go in here? And when things are going haywire,
Speaker 4: you either lose it thirty one thirty because of the
Speaker 4: friar routh touschdown and don't get your range, or you
Speaker 4: lose it because there's something wacky on the field goal.
Speaker 3: And they won it.
Speaker 4: And man, I'm telling you, I was in the locker
Speaker 4: room today and usually the day after game, like Mondays
Speaker 4: are a ghost town.
Speaker 3: They come out of meetings and they snatch up their
Speaker 3: stuff and they're gone.
Speaker 4: And today, man, they're dancing in there crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I'll tell you, man, the way that game
Speaker 1: started also yeah, the Steelers passed. They were all over
Speaker 1: flat though. It was like this is gonna be brutal.
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, I mean, what happened? Guys?
Speaker 1: You tell me. Did the offensive line just stout up
Speaker 1: or did the Steelers back down on the rush? What
Speaker 1: happened there?
Speaker 4: I mean, I will say this, I think I don't
Speaker 4: have the exact number.
Speaker 3: It's either ninety eight or ninety nine. Let's just round
Speaker 3: it to one hundred. Jill Flacco's had one hundred drop
Speaker 3: backs from the last two games, and he's been sacked
Speaker 3: three times. And that's the guy who's supposed to be
Speaker 3: a statue, who is supposed.
Speaker 4: To not be able to move, and he doesn't move.
Speaker 3: I mean, made a nice run on the Reid option play,
Speaker 3: but he doesn't move, but he gets it out of
Speaker 3: his hands so quickly. And I do think I do
Speaker 3: think the offensive line's played good. Asked that today, I mean,
Speaker 3: if you found your two guards, and he was kind
Speaker 3: of wish you washing, because I don't think he wants
Speaker 3: to bury Dylan Fairchild, the rookie, and Lucas Patrick. But
Speaker 3: Dalton Reiser was awful at right guard and the two
Speaker 3: starts he made He's been great at left card the
Speaker 3: two starts he's made. Dylan Rivers gave up a sack
Speaker 3: last night, the rookie right guard, but for the most
Speaker 3: part he keeps the sending. Marius Men's last night was great.
Speaker 3: Orlando Brown Junior hasn't played well the last few games,
Speaker 3: and suddenly he played well last night. And you know again,
Speaker 3: some of it is Flackel gets it out of his
Speaker 3: hand fast. I think the game before the Packer game
Speaker 3: when he got out of his hands in two point
Speaker 3: five seconds or less, he was twenty one of twenty five.
Speaker 3: I don't have that metric from last night. I don't
Speaker 3: know what that is. But he got out of his
Speaker 3: hands so fast, like there was a touchdown to t Higgins,
Speaker 3: the one where te Carter out to twenty and then
Speaker 3: race the last twenty yards into the end zone. If
Speaker 3: you watch that play from behind, and I am bed
Speaker 3: tweets in my game stories, I'm doing it. I embedded
Speaker 3: a tweet of Joe the scene from behind the line
Speaker 3: of screamage, Like with Joe Flacco's looking at he's through
Speaker 3: that with such anticipation, like there's a defender, but he
Speaker 3: knows where he's gonna go and he's gonna go behind
Speaker 3: the defender in front of the other defender.
Speaker 4: And he puts in a perfect spot where he catches
Speaker 4: it goes up the field. I mean a lot of
Speaker 4: this is on Joe Flacco getting out of his hands quickly,
Speaker 4: So it's I don't even know what the sand that.
Speaker 4: It has been just.
Speaker 3: Remarkable to watch, especially the last six quarters of this offense, and.
Speaker 2: Even his unremarkable stuff was remarkable. I was trying to
Speaker 2: squeeze this in my columns and say dot com, and
Speaker 2: I couldn't figure out a way to get it in there.
Speaker 2: You know how that goes skinny when you're trying to
Speaker 2: write something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, read right. Well no, no, not the read option.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was in midway through the third quarter. They're down
Speaker 2: in the red zone there and he you know, Flacco's
Speaker 2: under pressure on second, second goal and he drops back
Speaker 2: under pressure.
Speaker 1: He just throws the ball out.
Speaker 5: Of the little way.
Speaker 2: Then on the next play, third and goal, he rolls
Speaker 2: out right. No one's open. He's basically throws the ball
Speaker 2: on the ground close enough to a receiver. They chip
Speaker 2: shot field goal. They go up twenty to ten. They
Speaker 2: don't waste that opportunity there to score and obviously in
Speaker 2: a close game, and that was in the middle of
Speaker 2: a where they had gone six straight drives where they
Speaker 2: scored either touchdown or field goal. And I thought again
Speaker 2: that that right there was part of why they brought
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco here because Jake Brown, god God love him,
Speaker 2: he would have tried to force something there. And we
Speaker 2: all know when he was forcing stuff, the bad stuff
Speaker 2: that was happening. But you know that doesn't jump out
Speaker 2: at you and we're not really breaking that down and
Speaker 2: you know, all over the place. But I thought those
Speaker 2: two consecutive incompletions were really critical.
Speaker 4: No, that's a great that's a great point.
Speaker 3: I didn't say it in either, but I remember the
Speaker 3: I remember the sequence like it was two minutes ago.
Speaker 3: And I think it's one of the reasons they don't
Speaker 3: go get a Russell Wilson other than you know, some
Speaker 3: of the locker room via stuff. But it's you know,
Speaker 3: Russell still thinks he can create with his feet and
Speaker 3: make plays and he just can't. At some point, you
Speaker 3: just can't. Joe never did. Joe fucker never did.
Speaker 4: He never had. It's not been his DNA. It's been
Speaker 4: fight for another down. Yep, and you know that the arms,
Speaker 4: the arm talent is still there, the anticipation is still there.
Speaker 4: You can tell, man.
Speaker 3: He he wants so badly to make this work. Like
Speaker 3: I can't remember the question last night Jason Prescower was
Speaker 3: a long line of did you ever think you, you know,
Speaker 3: two weeks ago, do you ever think you'd have a
Speaker 3: chance to feel this again and start again? And he
Speaker 3: kind of pauses, No, not really, And I think he's
Speaker 3: relishing the fact that he's getting this opportunity and it's
Speaker 3: it's just amazing. I said, that's somebody from the We
Speaker 3: were kind of in a circle, you know, waiting for
Speaker 3: some players in the locker room. I said, you know,
Speaker 3: if Joe Burrow comes back later this year, I mean
Speaker 3: you could maybe potentially have two or co comeback Players
Speaker 3: of the Year in the NFL this year. Joe Flaco
Speaker 3: for coming back from what he came back from and
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow for come back when he came back from
Speaker 3: It's insane.
Speaker 1: Wow, you know what that's uh, Well, for one thing,
Speaker 1: I also wanted to touch on what you guys think
Speaker 1: about and who doesn't love to see Mike Tomlin wine
Speaker 1: about Flaco coming from the Browns to the to the Bengals, like,
Speaker 1: why would you do that? They're stupid? But also, what
Speaker 1: happens at the end of the year. Let's say that Flaco,
Speaker 1: that's say they win, how whatever, It's going to be
Speaker 1: five games between now and when he potentially could come back,
Speaker 1: maybe six games something like that. Let's say he wins
Speaker 1: four out of those six games? Do you bring back Burrow?
Speaker 1: Kill Burrow's Joe Burrow? And if kill Burrow is one
Speaker 1: hundred percent, it's Jill Burrow times one thousand. I'll use
Speaker 1: an example. People in the audience will not know this, reffors.
Speaker 1: Some will, I'm so sorry I shouldn't say that way,
Speaker 1: but most people won't. The nineteen seventy two Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: the finish undefeated. Bob Greasey, their quarterback, their starting quarterback,
Speaker 1: broke his ankle in game.
Speaker 3: Four or five. I came rich and an old vet
Speaker 3: your name, Earl Morele, came in and Earl led him
Speaker 3: to it, led him all the way to an undefeated season.
Speaker 3: And then Earl starts the first playoff game and did okay,
Speaker 3: and they came back and won. Then in the second
Speaker 3: playoff game, they're in Pittsburgh and Earl isn't playing so good,
Speaker 3: and they turned back to Bob Greasy and then Bob
Speaker 3: Greasy at that point was healthy, led him to a win,
Speaker 3: and then they started Bob Greasy and the super Bowl
Speaker 3: and led him to win. Bob Greasy isn't even Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3: And Bob Greasey is a great player. I mean he
Speaker 3: was one of the great quarterbacks of his generation. Joe
Speaker 3: Burrow is too, and I think Joe Flacco understands that. Again,
Speaker 3: this is all things being equal with Joe Burrow coming
Speaker 3: back one hundred percent, I mean, when he's one hundred
Speaker 3: percent and you know he's one hundred percent, I mean,
Speaker 3: there's not even a debate.
Speaker 4: It's a good question, Eddy, because it was like should
Speaker 4: you write the hot hand?
Speaker 2: No, sorry, I'm right to Joe went back to that,
Speaker 2: uh the Tomlin and you know, I know it came
Speaker 2: off as whiny, and I know this isn't necessarily a
Speaker 2: local angle to this, but overall, when you look at
Speaker 2: the AFC North, I mean, he makes a good point
Speaker 2: and then you're kind of like, I mean, you, no,
Speaker 2: he's not wrong, and you know we were talking you
Speaker 2: skinny sits a couple of seats away from me in
Speaker 2: the press box. And you know, we were talking about
Speaker 2: this last night, about what the heck were the Cleveland
Speaker 2: Browns thinking about trading this guy? This guy is by
Speaker 2: far was a you know, at least you think like
Speaker 2: he's their best quarterback and uh, you know, I mean clearly,
Speaker 2: well right, I mean, and they they have the defense
Speaker 2: to keep him in and like, all right, if you'd
Speaker 2: have kept flaccoh and he could have done this now, Joe,
Speaker 2: and Cleveland doesn't.
Speaker 1: They don't have a Jamar or t which is a
Speaker 1: huge deal, but.
Speaker 4: Part of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, No, And to boath things real quick
Speaker 3: on Tomlin, I mean, he's not wrong, and I think
Speaker 3: he knew he was scared of Oh my gosh, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna say, Shoe Flako won a big game. I mean
Speaker 3: last night, made Mike Tomlin on the road in the
Speaker 3: AFC North on Thursday night games and win seven.
Speaker 4: You don't think he didn't know that in the back
Speaker 4: of his mind. I'm O and six. I gotta play
Speaker 4: this guy.
Speaker 3: And lastly, I mean to the Browns point, I think
Speaker 3: the Browns just simply did an old pro a solid
Speaker 3: and I.
Speaker 4: Know that's that's usually.
Speaker 1: I agree with that.
Speaker 3: Like, you know, you came and bail us out in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three and you got us to the playoffs.
Speaker 3: We're terrible, and we know we're terrible, and let's go
Speaker 3: with a youth movement. Let's let's let's see with the rookie.
Speaker 3: The two rookies have for us at quarterback, and they
Speaker 3: did the guy a solid and on every.
Speaker 1: Acame and cost Oh yeah, exactly with the with that's skinny,
Speaker 1: we will let you go, buddy, Thanks so much, have
Speaker 1: great week, go thanks our good friend to Richard Skinner.
Speaker 1: And with that we check in with traffic and weather.
Speaker 1: What is going on? Jayson Williams from The Inquirer since
Speaker 1: ninety dot com is with me, Jase, want to salute
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Speaker 1: It's Mike from Joe's Piece Area in Dayton, my old uh,
Speaker 1: my old hometown. Mike a big listener of the show,
Speaker 1: So salute to Mike. Is it Dayton style pizza?
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Speaker 1: Uh so you were there last night, yes, sir? What
Speaker 1: was the what was the vibe? It looked like I
Speaker 1: told my wife right when the game started, when the
Speaker 1: when the Steelers just drove, and the fact that Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers could stand back in the pocket and dance around
Speaker 1: for like, yeah, eight ten seconds. You ain't gonna win
Speaker 1: a lot of games. I can't if you're that's your defense.
Speaker 1: But they it's mal pulled it out place Place was
Speaker 1: really really subdued. I thought I thought it was going
Speaker 1: to be. I thought it would be quite subdued after that,
Speaker 1: and then it felt like it was that way really
Speaker 1: for the most part, all the way up until well,
Speaker 1: I mean until you know, Moneymack get the game winner there,
Speaker 1: and even then you're just kind of like still eleven
Speaker 1: second what it was it's eleven seconds? I think was
Speaker 1: let like, oh, Aaron Rodgers are gonna hit one of
Speaker 1: those hail aris. I legitimately think that that was probably
Speaker 1: in the back of a lot of Bengals fans minds,
Speaker 1: because this is exactly the game that has not gone
Speaker 1: their way the last few seas well last season. You know,
Speaker 1: that close game.
Speaker 2: That defense is not good and it's probably worse this
Speaker 2: year than it was last year. And I know it
Speaker 2: that's been a little overshadowed because of the quarterback stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and then.
Speaker 2: But it was just really magical there that And it's
Speaker 2: kind of an overused term, but for someone in there,
Speaker 2: I think it might have been Skinny in the press
Speaker 2: box said or PDJ may have said it like Steelers
Speaker 2: may have scored too fast there the way Flacco was going,
Speaker 2: and sure enough they did.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I thought, Yeah, like, maybe slow your
Speaker 1: role here these guys. Uh, Flacco has been all up
Speaker 1: your butt the whole game, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're gonna pull the trigger. My first reaction was, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's where the Steelers defense is going to show up,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna you kept waiting for that, right, So
Speaker 1: there's gonna be an influencer or they're gonna be in Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, something's gonna happen in the interception of some nature.
Speaker 1: And then uh, and then that happened. But watching Flacco
Speaker 1: run for whatever it was thirteen fourteen yards or whatever,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there thinking, dude, you look like me running.
Speaker 1: But hey, there wasn't anybody within ten yards of them.
Speaker 2: I mean that entire stadium him. We were all fooled.
Speaker 2: Any you just can't help but chuckle. And that was
Speaker 2: that was that was cool? What what?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: As as much as Zach Taylor takes a lot of
Speaker 2: heat for the play calls, there were a couple of
Speaker 2: moments last night, you were like number one, that was
Speaker 2: a good play call. Number two there was a call
Speaker 2: where I mean it was funny because he had challenged
Speaker 2: the spot and that was one of those spots where like,
Speaker 2: I mean they literally I think it was like four
Speaker 2: inches they needed to go. And you're like Zach is
Speaker 2: so many times it feels like in the last few
Speaker 2: years where it's like you try to get cute, you know,
Speaker 2: and like last night, by golly, it was you know,
Speaker 2: there's Joe Flacco just you know, snuck it right up
Speaker 2: the middle. I believe Chase came in almost like a
Speaker 2: kind of a mini tush push didn't really need to
Speaker 2: do it, but Chase Brown just kind of comes up,
Speaker 2: gives him the nudge, didn't need to and uh.
Speaker 1: First down. Hats off to Chase brow hell of a
Speaker 1: game last night. I mean, it's great to see because,
Speaker 1: like when you it's got to happen.
Speaker 2: The way they run the ball allows Flacco, it only
Speaker 2: helps them. And you know they didn't have that with
Speaker 2: Jake Browning and you know that, Yeah, I'm not you know,
Speaker 2: Jake Brownie had his issues, but there were some things
Speaker 2: there that you know, he could have gotten some.
Speaker 1: Help on with that. We check in with traffic and weather.
Speaker 1: We got John Mattaree's coming up. But that's one of
Speaker 1: the things I said to my wife last night, was like,
Speaker 1: it's not a good night to beat to beat. Jake
Speaker 1: Browning Show with Jason Williams from the Inquire Cincinnati dot
Speaker 1: Com is with me and as we do about this
Speaker 1: time every Friday, Jase, we talked to this fellow right here,
Speaker 1: John Mattei's Channel nine. Don't Waste your money and Johnny,
Speaker 1: we've been talking about the Bengals game. Obviously it's been
Speaker 1: big topic of discussion. So what has happened to Bengals
Speaker 1: ticket prices? As of I know about one o'clock this morning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, guys, good afternoon. It is amazing what's happened with
Speaker 4: Bengals ticket prices. You should have bottom oh about two
Speaker 4: and a half weeks ago and the Boys were in
Speaker 4: the middle of that four game Yid browning at the
Speaker 4: quarterback and people were saying, it's another lost season. It
Speaker 4: was looking like another Andy Dalton type of year. And
Speaker 4: the ticket prices were actually dropping to about fifty bucks
Speaker 4: just a week and a half ago. Two weeks ago,
Speaker 4: fifty bucks. You want to go into game fifty bucks
Speaker 4: because you know, it just wasn't much demand. And it
Speaker 4: is unbelievable what has happened since last night about eleven
Speaker 4: thirty pm. The prices are ticking up. And yeah, and
Speaker 4: the this is on Ticketmaster because Ticketmaster does the verified
Speaker 4: we sail very trustworthy. The cheapest game right now I'm
Speaker 4: finding is the upcoming one and a week and a
Speaker 4: half the Jets, because it's the Jets. What are they like,
Speaker 4: They're zh to twelve already, right, you know, you know
Speaker 4: it's a get and there, yeah and there. Now the
Speaker 4: ticket prices are starting at ninety dollars, that's the upper
Speaker 4: deck ninety You want a decent seat in the Bowl.
Speaker 4: We're talking about two hundred. It's the resale price right
Speaker 4: now for the jet and they're cheap compared to the
Speaker 4: next weekend when the Bears. The Bear's got to down.
Speaker 4: And when the Bears come, it's sort of like when
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh comes. They tend to bring their fans with them.
Speaker 4: We drive down and they're finding the starting tickets starting
Speaker 4: prices around one hundred and eighty dollars. That's upper deck
Speaker 4: one eighty, and then you're getting two fifty three hundred
Speaker 4: down in the Bowl. So it is unbelievable. Guys, what's
Speaker 4: happened in just a week and a half since Joey
Speaker 4: two point zero arrived. Because it's amazing. I mean they
Speaker 4: were giving tickets away for forty and fifty bucks two
Speaker 4: weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah. With the well, the Bears fans are going to
Speaker 1: be just like the Cubs fans. I mean, look at
Speaker 1: it when the Cubs play here in town. Jase, you
Speaker 1: can testify for this one. You're right. I was gonna say, yeah.
Speaker 4: You go to Great American and it's all through half right.
Speaker 1: It might be fifty to fifty easy. Yeah, So that's
Speaker 1: what we're going to see you here.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well yeah, John, I'm on stub Hub right now,
Speaker 2: and yeah, some of those things that you're just mentioning,
Speaker 2: it's the same old story over there on StubHub too.
Speaker 1: I mean there's there.
Speaker 2: There's one in the lower bowl at five forty five
Speaker 2: right now, there's one in the middle club level at
Speaker 2: seven thirteen.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, Yeah, that's the.
Speaker 4: Fancy, that's the padded the special path beats. You're covered
Speaker 4: from the rain in the snow.
Speaker 1: So the Bears.
Speaker 4: If you want one other chief game, we looked ahead.
Speaker 4: And if you want one other cheap game, it's the
Speaker 4: Arizona Cardinals in December, because Arizona doesn't bring the crowd
Speaker 4: and people are like Arizona, you know, they're not even
Speaker 4: in our division. So you will find cheap receipts for
Speaker 4: that game. But that's about it, the Jets or Arizona.
Speaker 4: Other than that, the prices are going up. As long
Speaker 4: as Flacco's throwing like he's through last night, those prices
Speaker 4: are gonna keep going on.
Speaker 1: Well you know guess where it's it's free. It's on
Speaker 1: my couch, but put it on the TV.
Speaker 4: Yep, sit there on the count. Grab that six pack.
Speaker 4: And Natty Light and you are good to go.
Speaker 1: And oh, we were just again talking about Chicago with
Speaker 1: the Did you guys hear about the Pope with somebody
Speaker 1: in the crowd when he was in the popemobile and
Speaker 1: somebody's like going go Cubs. Yeah, you know, he's a
Speaker 1: white Sox. He's a white Sox fan. And and the
Speaker 1: Pope heckles, reverse, heckles a guy and goes they lost.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it when the Pope's heckling people.
Speaker 1: I like, but you could wear that on your sleeve forever.
Speaker 1: The Pope gave me crap man boom.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So what else are we talking about here?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 1: What's this garage door scam we're talking about?
Speaker 5: Johnny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a real scam involving garage doors if you
Speaker 4: need a repair. And in fact, I just talked to
Speaker 4: this company, PDQ Garage Doors when I heard them heard
Speaker 4: their ads. They're out in Milford and they said, whoa,
Speaker 4: people are impersonating us. They're pretending to be us, Oh wow.
Speaker 4: And they're showing up at people's homes around especially Claremont County,
Speaker 4: but it could be anywhere else in the Tri State too,
Speaker 4: And they're you know, going up to the door. Guy
Speaker 4: pulls up in a white van and says, hey, I'm
Speaker 4: here with PDQ doors and I'm here for your annual
Speaker 4: checkup and adjustment. And it's like what it's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: ninety nine dollars we check and adjust your door.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: So the person's like, okay, PDQ have heard of them,
Speaker 4: or maybe you have they installed your door. And a
Speaker 4: guy gets out there kind of opens and shuts the door,
Speaker 4: and he goes, oh, you got a problem here. This
Speaker 4: cable is getting ready to snap. I need to fix
Speaker 4: this immediately. And next thing you know, you know, you're
Speaker 4: out six hundred bucks. I had a lady I interviewed.
Speaker 4: She's had a Bethel and this is amazing, and she says,
Speaker 4: guy comes out, he says, you need a spring four
Speaker 4: hundred dollars. She goes, okay, four hundred bucks. Whatever. You
Speaker 4: don't make the garage door work right. He starts taking
Speaker 4: the spring apart. Then he says, oh, wait a minute,
Speaker 4: you need a new table, and then you need the
Speaker 4: new little rollers on the cable. He wouldn't leave until
Speaker 4: she paid him twelve hundred dollers one thousand, two hundred
Speaker 4: dollars and she doesn't even know who he is. I mean,
Speaker 4: he's just Jimmy Bob and a you know, a rusty
Speaker 4: white van. So PDQ Door is just saying watch out,
Speaker 4: you know. And it may they may be in person
Speaker 4: in other local garage door companies too, But this is
Speaker 4: as I like to say, it's a scam because you
Speaker 4: get a skim because you got to watch out for this.
Speaker 4: You know, they'll show up and say, yeah, I'm here
Speaker 4: to adjust your door, and especially if I well, maybe
Speaker 4: my wife had had an appointment with them, or she's
Speaker 4: home and she goes, well, maybe my husband made an
Speaker 4: appointment with them. So watch out for these scammy garage
Speaker 4: door people. I've got the whole story on WCPO dot
Speaker 4: com and on my John Madley's Facebook page. And this
Speaker 4: woman I feel for She spent twelve hundred dollars, just
Speaker 4: wanted they got to leave. At that point she said
Speaker 4: he was creepy and she said, I just want him
Speaker 4: to leave. She to pay some twelve hundred dollars, give
Speaker 4: him a credit card. Yeah, and you can't dispute it
Speaker 4: because because he did the job. He actually did replace
Speaker 4: like everything in her house, you know.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, they actually actually actually he actually did the
Speaker 2: actual job.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he did the job. She probably didn't need any
Speaker 4: of that done. It probably just needed to be lubricated,
Speaker 4: so it wasn't so it wasn't noisy. But you know,
Speaker 4: he did twelve hundred dollars worth of work, and you
Speaker 4: dispute it to your credit card and they reach out
Speaker 4: to Jim Bob, and Jim Bob goes, oh, I did
Speaker 4: the drawba but on new cables, so real careful.
Speaker 1: It's like when they when you get your oil change
Speaker 1: and they're coming around with every filter you didn't even
Speaker 1: know was in the car, going oh, yeah.
Speaker 4: We have to change the passenger air cabin solder. That
Speaker 4: correct sixty dollars okay, And then you go home and
Speaker 4: you look at your handbook and you go, wait a minute,
Speaker 4: this car doesn't have a passenger cabin air filter. That's
Speaker 4: on those fancy Aldis and BMW's. I don't have that
Speaker 4: my Chevy. But yeah, the same sort of thing where
Speaker 4: they add stuff on and it's like, what the hell
Speaker 4: did I just get charged for?
Speaker 2: If Jim Bob is taking credit cards, this this isn't
Speaker 2: going to go real far for him, right, I mean
Speaker 2: you're there's there's some trick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And in fact PDQ Door says they're talking to
Speaker 4: the police about it because they're trying to get to
Speaker 4: the bottom of who is running around in these old
Speaker 4: rusty vans trying to fixture former employee.
Speaker 1: Employe he knows how to fix the garage door. Maybe
Speaker 1: he is, well, who knows.
Speaker 4: For these creepy people. I'm supposed to be the only
Speaker 4: creepy person out there.
Speaker 1: Looking around the sea for creepiness. You're the uh yeah,
Speaker 1: you're the guy and the fedora and the trench co walking.
Speaker 4: Around going in the sun glasses. John may.
Speaker 1: Hamburger lady.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm but I'm allowed to be creepy. So
Speaker 4: you know, watch your children and it's a living Take care, hey,
Speaker 4: got that, have a great weekend and don't waste your money.
Speaker 1: Thanks John, our good friend, John Matterys w c PO
Speaker 1: and nine News coming up next. Speaking of creepy, We've
Speaker 1: talked to this fellow a couple of years in a
Speaker 1: row around this time of year, and they have now
Speaker 1: been named I'm Scott the scariest.
Speaker 5: It's the the.
Speaker 1: Haunted houses are all around here, you know, end school,
Speaker 1: all that, all that stuff. This has been named the
Speaker 1: scariest haunted house in the world. Just that old slaughterhouse
Speaker 1: down the old slaughterhouse down in Texas. We got the
Speaker 1: guy who runs it coming up after our news right now,
Speaker 1: News Radio seven hundred w l W. All right, here
Speaker 1: it is after Friday, coming up on the Halloween season. Jason,
Speaker 1: know we are two weeks out. Why don't we do
Speaker 1: got your candy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, took out a second mortgage to get that candy
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: How about talked about yeah, how about how expensive that
Speaker 1: is now brutal? But uh, you know people are going
Speaker 1: out to the uh, to the haunted houses and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Did you ever do that when you were
Speaker 1: a kid. When you were you didn't go to the.
Speaker 2: I grew up on a farm mountain then, as you know, right,
Speaker 2: we didn't do trick or treating. We didn't we didn't
Speaker 2: do Halloween. The only thing Halloween we'd do is like
Speaker 2: at school, we'd dress up, right, you know that right
Speaker 2: around the school.
Speaker 1: No corn maize, nothing like that, none of that. None
Speaker 1: of it. Come on, man, none of its kind of
Speaker 1: childhood my own corner may we had a corn field. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I ever wanted to walk through the corn I'd go
Speaker 1: over or my grandpa's what we lived on his. I
Speaker 1: mean our house was built on his farm, so I
Speaker 1: can go over to his cornfield and walk around. You
Speaker 1: don't want to do that though, because there's these massive
Speaker 1: banana spiders that set up shop. Why white Grandpa had
Speaker 1: a tobacco flork. It was scary down in deep down
Speaker 1: in southeast Kentucky. Yeah, and uh you could run into
Speaker 1: all kinds of little critters and underneath those plands.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but these haunted houses and stuff, people pay
Speaker 1: good money. They you know, King's Islands making a fortune
Speaker 1: off of that stuff. Blah blah blah on the mall exactly.
Speaker 1: And there is one that has now been voted the
Speaker 1: scariest in the world.
Speaker 2: Play spots just be because you and I we've talked
Speaker 2: about this before.
Speaker 1: Yeah and uh it just.
Speaker 2: No thank you for me, But I'm excited for to
Speaker 2: hear from our guests about it.
Speaker 1: We have talked to our guests before. He owns the
Speaker 1: cutting Edge haunted house in Fort Worth. It is Todd,
Speaker 1: Ja James Todd, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 6: Oh thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: So Todd, I mean to be voted best best in
Speaker 1: the worst scariest in the world. Dude. That's big.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Man, I don't even know how that happens. Uh,
Speaker 6: but it's an honor for sure. But you know, we're just, yeah,
Speaker 6: we just love to scare people and we try real hard.
Speaker 1: So what are they what did they judge that on, Todd?
Speaker 1: I mean, how many people have heart attacks? And do
Speaker 1: you have how many ambulance calls you all have or what's.
Speaker 4: Oh I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's that big.
Speaker 6: But we definitely it's all about our actors and we do, uh,
Speaker 6: we do a Broadway style audition for our actors and
Speaker 6: actresses and you know, they get called back auditions and
Speaker 6: we get hundreds of people trying out, and you know,
Speaker 6: we picked the cream of the crowd, people that are fat,
Speaker 6: the big, or just scary looking, and you know, put
Speaker 6: them all together and they make a great team and
Speaker 6: then we have a bunch of fun.
Speaker 2: Todd, The Cutting Edge on an House alone scares me
Speaker 2: because you're in an old slaughter house, right, and so
Speaker 2: the name cutting Edge is that, right? And it kind
Speaker 2: of set the scene there in Fort Worth for why
Speaker 2: this place is so scary.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, it's in a one hundred and twelve year
Speaker 6: old meat packing plant that'd been abandoned for a long time.
Speaker 6: And it's in a part of Fort Worth, Texas historically
Speaker 6: known as Hell's Half Acres. So it's kind of got
Speaker 6: some good history to it. And you know, it goes
Speaker 6: that you go up and down, you know, several stories
Speaker 6: and then down into this bank basement and I mean
Speaker 6: the building alone is foreboding and awesome, but you know,
Speaker 6: then you add a bunch of great sets and darkness
Speaker 6: and fog and chainsaws and banana spiders, and you got something.
Speaker 1: So you're talking about auditioning all these people. We've talked
Speaker 1: about this before, but how many your cast is? How
Speaker 1: many people?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 6: We weren't about one hundred people cast, one hundred and
Speaker 6: fifty total, And uh yeah, it's it's a big production.
Speaker 6: It's it's it's not unlike a Broadway show that you
Speaker 6: would walk through, which would probably get really torn up.
Speaker 6: But uh, I mean, if you if you look at
Speaker 6: our sets and our music and our actors, and we
Speaker 6: have this amazing drum line, if you look up cutting
Speaker 6: edge of drum line, you can kind of see the
Speaker 6: quality of the drum line they're they're one of the
Speaker 6: best around and and you know we sort of mish
Speaker 6: mash all that together with amazing actors and and then
Speaker 6: you know, we.
Speaker 5: Come up with something that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: And yeah, people coming from all over right to come
Speaker 2: the cutting edge.
Speaker 5: They do.
Speaker 6: They like doubts what we're pret pretty nice place to visit.
Speaker 6: And Fort Worth has a lot going on and uh
Speaker 6: and uh you can you can fit the hanted house
Speaker 6: in there and it works out really well.
Speaker 1: Todd James is our guest and uh, Todd, how talk
Speaker 1: about how you guys came to uh to get this
Speaker 1: old beat packing place? I mean, just an old abandoned
Speaker 1: building and you was it known to be I not haunted,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean, just how did you come across it?
Speaker 1: I guess I'll just make those short question.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm from, Uh, I'm here locally. And
Speaker 6: so you drove past that place for years since you know,
Speaker 6: well when I was in college, and it sets on
Speaker 6: top of this hill sort of at the converge and
Speaker 6: so of several of our highways, and it would just
Speaker 6: set there empty.
Speaker 1: For years and years.
Speaker 6: And uh we were in another place, uh for for
Speaker 6: a bit, and I always thought, man, I'd sure like
Speaker 6: to get that place on top of that hill because
Speaker 6: it's super creepy. And finally, I just kind of met
Speaker 6: an old guy that owned it and talked to him
Speaker 6: for a long time, many years, and I guess I
Speaker 6: wore him down and he sold it and let us
Speaker 6: start scaring people in it because it did work out
Speaker 6: really well for us. It's in, it's in a perfect location,
Speaker 6: and it's on the top of a creepy hill. So
Speaker 6: uh yeah, yeah, just kind of eyebaulted for.
Speaker 5: A long time.
Speaker 1: And you've been doing this with thirty five years, is
Speaker 1: that right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Thirty five years to start thirty six season.
Speaker 5: That's that's right?
Speaker 1: And is it? Is it? Is it a new Is
Speaker 1: it a different experience every year? So certainly if you're
Speaker 1: a local and you you know, you've been coming every year,
Speaker 1: are you getting scared in a different way every year?
Speaker 6: Oh? Yeah, Yeah, we're always we're constantly changing and innovating,
Speaker 6: and that's kind of why we, you know, named ourselves
Speaker 6: years ago cutting ends. We decided we were going to
Speaker 6: be different than everybody else and do things differently. So
Speaker 6: you know, every year we're we're you know, we reinvent
Speaker 6: and innovate, and it's uh, I mean, it's not not
Speaker 6: just me and the builders and the special effects guys. Man,
Speaker 6: we take you know, all of our actors have great
Speaker 6: ideas and uh, you know, everybody and all the departments
Speaker 6: will come up and say, hey, you know you have
Speaker 6: thought about this, and we'll be like.
Speaker 1: Oh no, we haven't.
Speaker 4: Let's do that.
Speaker 6: So we got it. Yeah, So you know, we're not probable.
Speaker 5: Enough to think that we all make it.
Speaker 6: It takes it takes one hundred and it takes one
Speaker 6: hundred and fifty people and everybody's ideas.
Speaker 1: To turn this thing out. Sometimes, well it's like Santa's workshop.
Speaker 1: When do you you guys just on November first, are
Speaker 1: you already plotting next year or when you go about
Speaker 1: like starting to invent new scenarios and whatnot.
Speaker 6: Oh man, it's when we're walking around now at the show.
Speaker 1: People are just coming up going, you know, what we
Speaker 1: should do next year?
Speaker 6: And then all the ideas started, it aren't getting generated.
Speaker 6: But we take a little time down after November first,
Speaker 6: enjoy the holidays, and then you know, by January we're
Speaker 6: back at it. So back at it building and retooling,
Speaker 6: and we're open for a Valentine's Day show, which is
Speaker 6: pretty cool. We do all the Friday the thirteenth in there,
Speaker 6: which is nice, and then we do a summer a
Speaker 6: summer show, so we're always kind of popping this show
Speaker 6: out every couple of months.
Speaker 1: So that was what I was going to ask you.
Speaker 2: This is a this is a full time job, right,
Speaker 2: I mean you've made a time job out of a
Speaker 2: haunted house. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well talk about crazy nich Yeah right, well you
Speaker 1: can you can check it out and see what the
Speaker 1: cutting edge Haunted House is all about. Voted the scariest
Speaker 1: in the world, Todd James, thanks so much. You can
Speaker 1: check it out on YouTube, and man, I'm again, I'm
Speaker 1: sure once you get that kind of thing scariest in
Speaker 1: the world, like Jason said earlier, you have to have
Speaker 1: people coming from like Europe and stuff going like I
Speaker 1: got to see this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we get a lot of people that travel, and
Speaker 6: that's you know, that's we're just we're just really blessed
Speaker 6: and can't can't be thankful enough for for the great
Speaker 6: people that work with us.
Speaker 5: And we just we have an amazing team.
Speaker 1: So I mean that's at that force, all right, brother
Speaker 1: good stuff. Man's on all your success.
Speaker 6: Thanks so much, appreciate you Havevy Halloween. You folks have
Speaker 6: fine watch out for those treacherous.
Speaker 1: You never know, Boddy, keep out on the cordfield. You
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about the banana spiders. But see
Speaker 1: that's I haven't been one of those in a long time,
Speaker 1: and I think they've just because everything has gotten so much.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: I when I was like in high school and stuff,
Speaker 1: we went to a couple of those things. And back then,
Speaker 1: I mean, people could like grab you and stuff. And
Speaker 1: I think finally that well probably because somebody who would
Speaker 1: grab you would get their lights shut out on them
Speaker 1: with with a punch by a big guy. But there
Speaker 1: was a lawsuit or time. I'm sure there was a
Speaker 1: couple of lawsuits along the way. Now, no physical content
Speaker 1: of that type of thing, but back in the day.
Speaker 1: But I can't imagine how scary this must be. If
Speaker 1: it's voted the scariest in.
Speaker 2: The world, I'll take your word for it. If you're
Speaker 2: into that sort of thing, this sounds like something to
Speaker 2: travel for.
Speaker 1: Well, hey, look, I'm sure people there are people who
Speaker 1: do this kind of If there are people who travel
Speaker 1: all around and go to everything on what's the show Diners,
Speaker 1: Drivers and dives. They you know, retired people, couples will
Speaker 1: drive all over the country and visit every one of
Speaker 1: those little diners and you know mom and pop places.
Speaker 2: I'm just talking to someone the other day has been
Speaker 2: in within the last week about how they love Fort Worth.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I think I think that whole area is just one
Speaker 2: big concrete suburb, right, But like Fort Worth is unique.
Speaker 2: And then you got Dallas and that's a I've been
Speaker 2: through the airport. That's about the size of it. That's
Speaker 2: all I know about Dallas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's big. With that, we check in with traffic
Speaker 1: and weather. What is going on? Samstell shaking my head
Speaker 1: over the fact that you never had a Halloween experience
Speaker 1: when you were a kid. Nothing, those soaping windows.
Speaker 2: No, you know, it's like it's interesting. I I've come
Speaker 2: to enjoy it now. You know, live in Wyoming and
Speaker 2: we live in a you know, obviously a neighborhood where
Speaker 2: so many kids come through. And sure, I'm getting to
Speaker 2: the point now where I don't have to walk out
Speaker 2: with my kids because they're old enough. Like I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm excited about giving out cant like just
Speaker 2: giving out the candies, sitting there and handing it out
Speaker 2: and seeing all the kids that come up.
Speaker 1: And yeah, when I lived in Oakley, we it got
Speaker 1: to be because you know, obviously you've got to know
Speaker 1: everybody who lives around you and stuff. And everybody was
Speaker 1: was young younger, and by that, I mean they were
Speaker 1: just starting families and stuff. So they're coming around with
Speaker 1: their three four year olds and uh and stuff, and
Speaker 1: but they know you. And so the guys were like
Speaker 1: and dev and I'd be sitting there. I was made
Speaker 1: up a big pot of chili on Halloween and we
Speaker 1: would sit there on the front porch, eat chili and
Speaker 1: drink beers and whatnot. Well, then people started, the dads
Speaker 1: especially would stop by the house because they knew. They
Speaker 1: were like, hey, you go, they know I'd give them
Speaker 1: a beer in other words, a few road pops and uh,
Speaker 1: that's debuts. Did that was her duty. She took the
Speaker 1: kids out. Yeah, I think I did it one year
Speaker 1: when they were little. I walked around with her because
Speaker 1: that's when the kid and and anybody with kids know
Speaker 1: its that it doesn't know a three year old. It
Speaker 1: does them no good to get a giant bag of candy.
Speaker 1: So you take them out to like five or six
Speaker 1: houses and get them a couple of candy bars. They're
Speaker 1: gonna go yes, but it's when they get to be
Speaker 1: about ten eleven that they want to be out.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: If that thing starts at six o'clock and last until eight,
Speaker 1: they're out at five point fifty nine point five nine yes,
Speaker 1: and back at you know, seven fifty nine nine nine yes,
Speaker 1: and they've gotten everything they can. And I told that
Speaker 1: story before there a bunch of boys went out, they
Speaker 1: were probably about eleven twelve, and they took an exchange
Speaker 1: student from Italy out with them, and the kid had
Speaker 1: never experienced a trigger treat. So I'm kind of hanging
Speaker 1: back and watching what's going on. They're swapping cant you
Speaker 1: know how you do. I'll give you this recing cap
Speaker 1: for you're yeah, for your payday or whatever, and so
Speaker 1: this poor kid, I'm watching it and they're like going, hey,
Speaker 1: I think his name is Luca, Hey, Luca, I'll give
Speaker 1: you a I'll give you a what this piece of
Speaker 1: candy corn for your pack of recent your recent cup there,
Speaker 1: My kid's like okay. And that lasted for about three minutes.
Speaker 1: I finally walked over to go guys, he to.
Speaker 2: Have none of my wife correct the full sized Snickers bar.
Speaker 1: Coming up. We're gonna be talking to our good friend
Speaker 1: John Risby, the patent professor. This involves Ohio State and Michigan.
Speaker 1: This should be good after the news right now News
Speaker 1: Radio seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm here at Dancing the Robots with my good
Speaker 1: friend Jason Williams, who is in for Rocky today. Rock
Speaker 1: will be back on Monday. Rocket is a working game
Speaker 1: in James Madison tomorrow, James Madison old Dominion. I had
Speaker 1: to ask you to get more Virginia than that. Well,
Speaker 1: that's when I asked him. I was like, Buddy, I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you. I've always heard of James Madison, but
Speaker 1: I don't have any I had no idea where it's at,
Speaker 1: and he told me in the mountains of Virginia. So
Speaker 1: in uh, in other news, this was, uh, look love me,
Speaker 1: respect me. Some Ohio State Buckeyes. But the Ohio State
Speaker 1: needs to kind of slow the roll a little bit.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: They're a little tight assed, if you know what I
Speaker 1: mean they are? Did you, well, you saw this story
Speaker 1: that we're going to be talking about here, Ohio University
Speaker 1: is suing a local bar in ann Arbor because they
Speaker 1: have a beer out called buck Eye Tears. Now, why
Speaker 1: let's talk to our good friend John Risby, the patent
Speaker 1: professor about it. Now, John, are we over assessing the
Speaker 1: fact that maybe Ohio State needs to just slow their
Speaker 1: role and have a laugh about this? But man, these
Speaker 1: guys are really protective of that trademark.
Speaker 8: They are, right, Hey, John, Let's put you on hold
Speaker 8: for a second and see if we can get a
Speaker 8: better connection with you.
Speaker 1: And but yeah, these uh, this is a local bar
Speaker 1: in ann Arbor. They've been selling this beer for a
Speaker 1: couple of years and Ohio State has taking them to
Speaker 1: court over it. It's actually pretty good. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a pretty cool name and very very creative. I think
Speaker 1: to name a beer Buckeye Tears if you're an ann
Speaker 1: Arbor bar, sports bar, look at this is a storied rivalry.
Speaker 1: And let's get back to John. Hey, hey, John, So anyway,
Speaker 1: it's good to have you back now. But talk about
Speaker 1: how it seems petty to me.
Speaker 9: Well, they got media or try to get mark for
Speaker 9: the word. And I know you, uh Ohio and were accessful,
Speaker 9: so you know, okay for.
Speaker 5: Dollars.
Speaker 1: Let's uh hey, John, let's put you on hold again there,
Speaker 1: and uh see if we can't get that problem corrected.
Speaker 1: But haven't. Isn't All State kind of known for stuff
Speaker 1: like them? The whole the.
Speaker 2: Wan there something kind of nuts and you know colleges
Speaker 2: in general, especially big football schools, and you know, they're
Speaker 2: very very corporate about this stuff and very protective of
Speaker 2: their brand. Well even sold here locally, was it you see?
Speaker 1: Uh you know there was some high school or youths.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, maybe in middle school and Tennessee that was
Speaker 2: using like the seat Paul or a version of the
Speaker 2: sea Paul. But this has been within the last year
Speaker 2: year and a half I think. And they they went,
Speaker 2: they went hard, hard in the paint. See that's what
Speaker 2: the thing I was thinking about. I couldn't remember what
Speaker 2: it was, but it was a little school down in
Speaker 2: uh intention. They have every right too, I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: trademark and you got to protect the brand. And I'm
Speaker 2: sure the mentality is all right, you let that one
Speaker 2: slide and then the next thing, you know, you got
Speaker 2: twenty you got twenty different uh middle schools or high
Speaker 2: schools or youth sports programs wanting to use that sea
Speaker 2: poul and in the same thing. Yeah, this one to
Speaker 2: me is a little because it's a word, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like you have you have a trademark
Speaker 2: on the word buckeye. Well, the state of Ohio, whether
Speaker 2: you like Ohio state or not, is the Buckeye state.
Speaker 1: Like, well, that's that's kind of the point. It's like
Speaker 1: suing I don't know, suing the Commonwealth and Commonwealth Kentucky
Speaker 1: because they call themselves commonwealth and you know you're from
Speaker 1: like Ireland or something whatever the case might. Right, But
Speaker 1: let's get back to John Risby. Hey, John, I think
Speaker 1: we have you this time. Yes, hopefully that much better.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 1: So, So, John, is it way were we started to
Speaker 1: talk about? There is this petty or do you really
Speaker 1: have to kind of defend your brand? Uh, regardless of
Speaker 1: how petty it seems.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well you have to under trademark law because if
Speaker 9: you don't, the trademark could be seen as as abandoned
Speaker 9: and uhlat all kinds of.
Speaker 4: So we do have to.
Speaker 9: Uh So they have no choice, but they do have
Speaker 9: a choice on what they what they filed for trademarks on.
Speaker 9: They've received a lot of pushback on some of the
Speaker 9: trademarks they filed for, but in this case, that's not filing.
Speaker 9: They just believe that this mark is diluting their brain
Speaker 9: and perhaps, you know, because it's alcohol, they may not
Speaker 9: want an associate of Buckeye with alcohol, and it's like
Speaker 9: that's part of That's one of the arguments that they
Speaker 9: make is that it's because it's the university they do
Speaker 9: not want that association, So that could.
Speaker 5: Be part of it.
Speaker 9: But it's a pretty good defense I think that the
Speaker 9: bar has and that's parody. The ultimate test and trademark
Speaker 9: case is consumer confusion, and their argument is nobody would
Speaker 9: legitimately think that this university is going to be making
Speaker 9: fun of themselves by selling this.
Speaker 5: Beer, so they're not.
Speaker 9: People are going to see through this and see it
Speaker 9: as a play on words and as a joke, not
Speaker 9: take it as that series. That's their argument that they
Speaker 9: should be parody and parodies sends success and a lot
Speaker 9: of trademark cases in the past as a defense.
Speaker 1: Well, and we're talking to John Risby, the patent professor,
Speaker 1: and John one of the things that Jason and I
Speaker 1: were talking about earlier is, I mean the Ohio Ohio
Speaker 1: is the Buckeye State, so that's the that's the official
Speaker 1: kind of nickname of the state. Not necessarily they are
Speaker 1: the Ohio State buck Guys, of course, but Ohio. But
Speaker 1: Ohio is the Buckeye State, and that's the reason they
Speaker 1: are named the buck Guys, not the other way around.
Speaker 9: It is and the buck eye is and it's named
Speaker 9: after a tree. And there's thousands and thousands of businesses
Speaker 9: with buck Eye. But that's uh, that's uh defenses as well,
Speaker 9: which I think is a strong defense. But I think
Speaker 9: the strong that that consumers are not.
Speaker 5: And that it's a parody.
Speaker 9: A dog toy that sold it bad. And they were
Speaker 9: sued by Jack Dan.
Speaker 5: For the.
Speaker 9: Trademarket. The court held that in that case, the court
Speaker 9: held that the brain used consumers. But there's other cases
Speaker 9: where the court said that consumers are going to know
Speaker 9: that and are not going to take one product with another.
Speaker 9: Another case, the company or face the quoting line. There
Speaker 9: was a student that created a frank called South but
Speaker 9: and Uh there was sued for infringement. The court the
Speaker 9: Kicks actually settled, so we don't know how the court
Speaker 9: would have decided, but again, that would be a really
Speaker 9: strong argument. Nobody is going to the door fake has
Speaker 9: creaked separate qulothing line.
Speaker 5: Out five.
Speaker 9: So the case is that the another case for Charbucks
Speaker 9: coffee or upheld that uh of the coffee Uh Rose
Speaker 9: could there was a play on Starbucks dark ross that
Speaker 9: we want to burn. The court allowed the mark or
Speaker 9: sorry rejected. Starbucks is super claiming that consumers were not
Speaker 9: so uh, you know, we stand to see what ultimately
Speaker 9: happened here. But there's going to be settlement. Uh that's
Speaker 9: for US intellectual property attorney. Those are discouraging because now
Speaker 9: we don't know how courts are going to decide if
Speaker 9: it's settled. You really don't have present. But if it's
Speaker 9: a small local bar, it is known as brown Jug.
Speaker 9: Uh bow out, take and stop the buck up? Uh right,
Speaker 9: and then we'll court were.
Speaker 1: Well and and uh and thank you John. We're again
Speaker 1: having some technical difficulties here. We really appreciate it. As always,
Speaker 1: people want to find out or they can go to
Speaker 1: the patent professor dot com. And all as far as
Speaker 1: I'm concerned, all these folks have done is give this
Speaker 1: the little bar, the Brown Jug five billion dollars worth
Speaker 1: of free advertising. You know, I say cheers, the buck
Speaker 1: Eye Tears and the Brown jug I want to I'm gonna,
Speaker 1: I want to seek out a buck Eye Tears now,
Speaker 1: just to satisfy my own curiosity and your palette and
Speaker 1: my palette. With that, we check in with traffic and weather.
Speaker 1: What is going on? Back on the Eddie and Rocky Show,
Speaker 1: Rock out today, He'll be back on Monday. I'm working
Speaker 1: with the White good Friend Jason Williams from the Inquirer
Speaker 1: Cincinnati dot com. And you were there last night, Jace,
Speaker 1: did you experience the new Joe Flacco emo?
Speaker 4: Look the what.
Speaker 1: I saw it. I'm just I'm actually reading Cincinnati dot
Speaker 1: com right now. We're just scrolling through there, and I
Speaker 1: saw him last night, and I was like, what looks
Speaker 1: what looks there's sort a picture of it. What what
Speaker 1: looks different about He's just got his hairs all kind
Speaker 1: of he looks all Joe Joe Burrow, Joe Yeah, Joe Burrows,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. Yeah, Yeah, I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah I did.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, they were, Yeah, you can't see him
Speaker 2: too well from up the press box other than just
Speaker 2: you just see him down on the sideline. Yeah, But
Speaker 2: then the the photos and the video, You're like, and
Speaker 2: I know people on Twitter are like, he looks depressed
Speaker 2: and his hair was all disheveled, and.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I'm saying. If you have to look up,
Speaker 1: you can look up the pictures obviously, and uh, he
Speaker 1: just you know, it was always kind of styled and
Speaker 1: slicked back a little bit and stuff like that. Now
Speaker 1: he just kind of it's kind of wild. He looks
Speaker 1: like he's in uh you know, like I said, a
Speaker 1: boy band, right that, or he's.
Speaker 2: Just been playing video games in his basement for the
Speaker 2: last Yeah, it just looks like for the last three months.
Speaker 2: And has it come out to get a haircut or
Speaker 2: do anything?
Speaker 1: Now, let me ask you because we talked earlier with
Speaker 1: Richard Skinner and we're gonna be talking to Pat Running
Speaker 1: from the inquiry, Yeah, coming up. But when we were
Speaker 1: talking to Skinny earlier, we talked about the possibility of Okay,
Speaker 1: let's say Flacco goes on a real role here and uh,
Speaker 1: and these guys actually get back into contention by the
Speaker 1: middle of December. But it's if he do you bring
Speaker 1: back Burrow or do you let him Flacco goes stay
Speaker 1: on his role. But I think I know every they
Speaker 1: obviously answer is to bring back Burrow. But that was
Speaker 1: what Skinny said. Yeah, but you and I talked about
Speaker 1: the fact that hey, if it's if it's if he
Speaker 1: had asked, you know, and and he's and Flacco's doing
Speaker 1: well whatever, you know, he's two games over five hundred,
Speaker 1: whatever case might be coming up here. Do you just
Speaker 1: continue to play out the season with him or do
Speaker 1: you bring bro back? I, honestly, goodness don't know, because
Speaker 1: I I and here's my answer to this. This is
Speaker 1: a punt.
Speaker 2: This is a punt better than Ryan Ricco can punt.
Speaker 2: Let's maybe let's give a couple of games here, Let's
Speaker 2: let's let's see how it goes. You see if they
Speaker 2: can get the five hundred and then maybe get above
Speaker 2: five hundred.
Speaker 6: And then.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see all place from there. We've got
Speaker 1: a place from there. Well, we got the Jets suck.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 1: It seems to me the Bears have been playing pretty
Speaker 1: well lately. Yeah, four and two. Yeah, So then and
Speaker 1: then it's the bye week. But then you're coming back,
Speaker 1: you and it's Steelers Ravens blah blah blah, and uh
Speaker 1: and on down the road. So that's when the true
Speaker 1: test is going to come. Yes, you know you look
Speaker 1: at the schedule. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2: The Jets, all of the Jets, like they've had some
Speaker 2: really close games and you're kind of like the it's
Speaker 2: the NFL, and it's like it feels like that could
Speaker 2: be a little dangerous one.
Speaker 1: And you know, obviously whatever, the Jets have a game
Speaker 1: this Sunday.
Speaker 2: When when you're the Bengals, nothing's a gimmy with that
Speaker 2: defense obviously, and you know, whether it's the Jets, but
Speaker 2: to play they play the Panthers this weekend, who are better? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you want to sit here and say, oh they oh
Speaker 2: w and six Jets, like all right, okay, they're going
Speaker 2: to get to five.
Speaker 1: Formatic.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's the NFL and you're the Bengals with
Speaker 2: that defense, like I you know, you can never get
Speaker 2: over confident. Now if I don't know, Joe Burrow was
Speaker 2: here and this is a home game and they're kind
Speaker 2: of doing their usual kick things in the gear about
Speaker 2: this time, like all right, yeah, we marked that one
Speaker 2: down as a surefire win.
Speaker 1: Well, and we also talked earlier last night. The player
Speaker 1: who didn't have a good night was Jake Browning. Come
Speaker 1: out there and see what I mean, this forty year
Speaker 1: old guy with the quality of receivers that he has
Speaker 1: on the button all night long, he rows for over
Speaker 1: three forty that's a big night. I don't give a
Speaker 1: damn who you are at quarterback.
Speaker 2: It certainly, I mean, yeah, I mean, it's the game,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure Jake Browning understands that, but it probably
Speaker 2: has to make him feel like where does he go
Speaker 2: from here? You know, because two years ago he's thinking
Speaker 2: like maybe I could be a starting quarterback in this league.
Speaker 2: I mean, remember he really turned it up Therelyn Burrow
Speaker 2: got hurt in Baltimore. But now like he's probably gone
Speaker 2: from that to now thinking like, am I even going
Speaker 2: to be able to, you know, stick in this league
Speaker 2: as even a backup quarterback or maybe even a number
Speaker 2: three guy on a squad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, carrying the clipboard guy?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 1: With that, we check in with the News News Radio
Speaker 1: seven hundred w l W after the it's it's so
Speaker 1: it's so weird to come into work on a Friday
Speaker 1: after a Bengals game last night, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm pretty tired. I didn't get out of
Speaker 2: a didn't get home to about two thirty. Listen to
Speaker 2: Austin on the way home. I click it on. I'm like,
Speaker 2: there's Austin talking to Dick from Dayton. He was talking
Speaker 2: from Dayton, and I was like, man, like, write at
Speaker 2: like two ten to twelve.
Speaker 1: I like, what you want to be doing at two
Speaker 1: o'clock on a Friday morning. And I bet you this
Speaker 1: guy was probably spending some late hours too, Yes he was.
Speaker 1: He We all walked out of the stadium to get
Speaker 1: other bad Brennan from the Inquire Cincinnati dot Com. So, Pat,
Speaker 1: you know, we've been talking on and off obviously about
Speaker 1: the game today. Your thoughts on what you saw last night?
Speaker 1: This team looks to be re energized.
Speaker 5: I completely agree, and thanks for having me on first
Speaker 5: of all, but I saw what I saw last night
Speaker 5: was really.
Speaker 7: Obviously mostly on offense, was really a carryover from what
Speaker 7: we saw in the second half from the Bengals at
Speaker 7: lambeau Field earlier this week on Sunday, and I thought,
Speaker 7: the best case scenario, on a short week, forty year
Speaker 7: old Joe Flacco might be able to pick up where
Speaker 7: he left off on Sunday, which was still, you know,
Speaker 7: clearly not doing anything special but just being efficient and
Speaker 7: effective in the offense. Well, it looks like on top
Speaker 7: of taking care of his body, which is gonna be
Speaker 7: I would think the.
Speaker 5: Main concern for someone his age, he was able. It
Speaker 5: looked like they were able to, you know, take a.
Speaker 7: Few steps forward with the game planning and look, I
Speaker 7: mean I saw a stat last night that Joe Flacco
Speaker 7: through had a three touchdown game against the Steelers for
Speaker 7: the first time since twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 7: I mean that's reaching back into I mean, that's partly
Speaker 7: a commentary on how old this guy is and how
Speaker 7: long he's been around in the league, which is remarkable,
Speaker 7: But that's reaching back into vintage.
Speaker 5: Joe Flacco territory, you know.
Speaker 4: So it was a.
Speaker 5: Continuation of what we saw at Green Bay.
Speaker 7: That was not an anomaly, and that should be at
Speaker 7: the very least, that should be interesting and intriguing for
Speaker 7: this team going forward.
Speaker 2: Guys, Yeah, Pat, what do you make of the locker
Speaker 2: room and how the locker room has uh, you know,
Speaker 2: just sort of their viewpoint on on the move of
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco And I know what we saw on the
Speaker 2: field last night, but are you are you sensing that
Speaker 2: that locker room feels re energized and that you know, like, hey,
Speaker 2: the front office went out and did something they rarely
Speaker 2: do season trade. Are you are you sensing that you're
Speaker 2: picking that up? You're in that open locker room, you
Speaker 2: know during the week, you and Kelsey Conway from the
Speaker 2: so so, Yeah, what do you make of that?
Speaker 5: Well, you know a couple of things in Green Bay.
Speaker 7: Everyone said and did the right things in the locker
Speaker 7: room after a loss.
Speaker 5: You know, you cannot be jumping for joy about signs
Speaker 5: of promise in.
Speaker 10: So everyone everyone looked and you know, everyone looked like
Speaker 10: they were supposed to after a loss and said the
Speaker 10: things you say after a loss, you know, professional professional
Speaker 10: ball players doing their thing after defeat.
Speaker 7: But I noticed a quiet, subdued but a quiet confidence
Speaker 7: and kind of a knowledge that like, hey, what what
Speaker 7: Joe Flacco got going there late in the first half
Speaker 7: and throughout the second half.
Speaker 5: Was real, and we believe in it, and we're impressed
Speaker 5: by it, and we think this has staying power.
Speaker 7: That's what I got from the locker room at Lambeau.
Speaker 7: And actually, by the time we got in the locker
Speaker 7: room last night, I a little disappointed.
Speaker 5: A bunch of the guys that jetted off for the night.
Speaker 7: Obviously we spoke to the principles you Jamar Chases and
Speaker 7: Joe Flacco himself, but a lot of the other guys
Speaker 7: had taken off, but it was after midnight at that point.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think there Joe Flacco has probably walked
Speaker 5: in with a certain amount of respect being a former
Speaker 5: Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 7: But I think Flacco has really grabbed the attention of
Speaker 7: what is a comparatively young locker room, you know, compared
Speaker 7: to him.
Speaker 5: I think they believe in this guy. I think they
Speaker 5: believe in him a whole lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what I was going to ask you that, Pat,
Speaker 1: Do you get the impression the that the look the
Speaker 1: guy's career speaks for himself. He's a future Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: There's no question about that. I mean, is it a
Speaker 1: certain amount of I don't know, it's not awe Is
Speaker 1: that too strong of a word. I mean, are they
Speaker 1: just like, okay, cool, we and no disrespect to Jake Browning,
Speaker 1: but you got this guy coming in his career, as
Speaker 1: I said, speaks for himself. So you gotta go. Okay, look,
Speaker 1: now we're doing something. We're back on track to maybe
Speaker 1: turn this thing around you get that impression.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know. Actually, I don't think awe is too
Speaker 5: strong of a word.
Speaker 7: Jamar Chase used the word aw to describe his reaction
Speaker 7: to the Browns making the trade.
Speaker 5: Within the division.
Speaker 7: Now, obviously that's a little bit of a different subject
Speaker 7: because it's not talking about Flacco's performances themselves.
Speaker 5: But awe is a word that's in the conversation for sure, Eddie.
Speaker 7: And I think, I mean, I don't. Maybe these guys
Speaker 7: didn't know what to expect. Obviously there was a general
Speaker 7: awareness of the run he went on with Cleveland a
Speaker 7: couple of years ago, but can he really do it
Speaker 7: again at age forty. I think what has happened is
Speaker 7: everyone is looking at Joe Flacco, the way he takes
Speaker 7: care of his body, the way he handles his business,
Speaker 7: his appreciation for this moment in his career, and I
Speaker 7: think all these guys are realizing, Hey, this guy can
Speaker 7: still make me better.
Speaker 6: This guy.
Speaker 5: I can learn something from this guy.
Speaker 7: And frankly, I hope Joe Burrow is taking at least
Speaker 7: a few notes. No one's saying, you know, this guy's
Speaker 7: not going to supplant Joe Burrow long term and anything
Speaker 7: crazy like that. But there's a lot a lot of
Speaker 7: players in that locker room can glean from this guy.
Speaker 5: So I think they're impressed.
Speaker 7: I think they are comfortable and confident with Joe Flacco
Speaker 7: leading this team at the quarterback position. And I go
Speaker 7: back to a kind of a baseball thing at the
Speaker 7: trade deadline, when a GM makes a move or you know,
Speaker 7: baseball operations, people make a move for a team that
Speaker 7: can energize a locker room, or if you're selling it
Speaker 7: the trade deadline or you know, offloading.
Speaker 5: Guys, I can really bring a locker room down.
Speaker 7: I think just the act of making the trade for
Speaker 7: an experienced veteran quarterback by Duke Tobin and company, I
Speaker 7: think that may have had the same kind of effect.
Speaker 7: It was like saying, hey, we recognize this isn't going
Speaker 7: as well as we thought it would with Jake Browning,
Speaker 7: even though he had good history here. We're gonna make
Speaker 7: a change. This season is not a throwaway. And I
Speaker 7: think they pulled it off in time to where this
Speaker 7: season doesn't have.
Speaker 5: To be a throwaway. They're up against it.
Speaker 7: They're three and four long road back to really truly, truly,
Speaker 7: truly get in contention, but they're right there in the
Speaker 7: division as we sit today, As we sit here today, and.
Speaker 5: There's a lot to be there's a lot to be
Speaker 5: excited about here. I think I really do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the way the guys, the way I see this
Speaker 2: as like savor the moment, Like I mean, that was
Speaker 2: just an incredible game when you you think about that,
Speaker 2: that moment itself, the moment of Joe Flacco forty years
Speaker 2: old and the story of that, then the moment of
Speaker 2: the fact that the Bengals went out and traded for
Speaker 2: this guy.
Speaker 1: And I know we all that's what we do.
Speaker 2: We want to sit here and say, oh, can this
Speaker 2: guy get it? Can this guy get the Bengals to
Speaker 2: the playoffs?
Speaker 1: Can he? Can he win the next you know, three
Speaker 1: games in a row?
Speaker 4: Can he do? You know?
Speaker 2: Can can he bridge the gap to Joe Burrow and
Speaker 2: then they can go to the you know, maybe get
Speaker 2: on that Super Bowl run?
Speaker 1: Like yeah, yeah, yeah, right. And I know that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's fans, that that's media, that's what we all want
Speaker 1: to talk about. But I don't know, man, Like you
Speaker 1: sit here and you think about last night, like, let's
Speaker 1: just sort of savor this for the weekend, right and
Speaker 1: the fact that that was and even on the other
Speaker 1: side of the ball too, you know, Aaron Rodgers over
Speaker 1: forty years old, and that was just we don't we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't get to see that a lot.
Speaker 2: We don't get to see just I mean, I know,
Speaker 2: I know we did see some we saw some high
Speaker 2: scoring games here last year. But the fact that the
Speaker 2: Angles can walk out with the win and it allows
Speaker 2: Bengals fans and Zach Taylor said, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: we want guys, we want fans back in the stands.
Speaker 2: We want to give them hope. And I'm paraphrasing him,
Speaker 2: but just all that stuff just in the moment of
Speaker 2: right now, and you know, not getting too far ahead
Speaker 2: of looking at you know, can they can they beat
Speaker 2: Baltimore twice? Can they you know, go into Buffalo and win?
Speaker 2: And can Joe Flacco do that? And you know, you know,
Speaker 2: this is just fun right now in the moment.
Speaker 1: Sure, we're talking to Pat Brennan from The Inquirer Cincinnati
Speaker 1: dot com and Pat, let's put on your other hat
Speaker 1: FC tomorrow tomorrow night here in in town. How are
Speaker 1: we looking what's going on with the playoffs and stuff?
Speaker 7: Oh, uh, the well, FC Cincinnati. Look, they've had a
Speaker 7: about another really strong regular season. There playoff position is
Speaker 7: more or less set. They could end up finishing and
Speaker 7: I think second or third near the top of the
Speaker 7: Eastern Conference. They're a top contender in MLS and in
Speaker 7: the East. And tomorrow there now the playoff field is set,
Speaker 7: the final seedings are not.
Speaker 5: So all the games will go off.
Speaker 7: Tomorrow at the same time and we'll learn at about
Speaker 7: the same time, you know, about two hours after kickoff
Speaker 7: tomorrow when or who who I should say FC Cincinnati
Speaker 7: will face in the first round.
Speaker 5: And after they kind of crashed out of the playoffs.
Speaker 7: In the first round last year, this has showed me
Speaker 7: time for f C Cincinnati. You know, they went for
Speaker 7: the regular season championship again this year, had a good
Speaker 7: run at it fell short.
Speaker 5: You know, I think they've flushed that and now it's
Speaker 5: time to go on a run.
Speaker 7: This team spends a lot of money comparatively speaking in
Speaker 7: it's peer group. It's one of the most ambitious teams
Speaker 7: in an MLS and with that, with the investment that
Speaker 7: comes with that, you need performance in the playoffs, so
Speaker 7: they'll know what the what the road through the playoffs
Speaker 7: looks like by tomorrow night, and I'll.
Speaker 5: Be really interested to see, with everything they've.
Speaker 7: Done to make this team to try to achieve greatness
Speaker 7: with the personnel, if they can actually put it together,
Speaker 7: because I think there was some a lot of disappointment
Speaker 7: in the fan base last year with that early playoff exit.
Speaker 1: All right, with that, Pat Brennan, we will let you go, buddy,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much.
Speaker 5: Okay, thanks for having me, Guys.
Speaker 1: Brennan from the Inquirer Cincinnati dot com. And also the
Speaker 1: Cyclones kicking off the season tomorrow, facing off the season on.
Speaker 2: And I know they're a minor league team and like
Speaker 2: you know, you don't they don't get you know, regular
Speaker 2: media coverage or whatever. But if you ever get changed,
Speaker 2: like you looking for something to do on a Saturday night,
Speaker 2: absolutely go to Cyclic. My son and I went last week.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun. It's just so entertaining
Speaker 2: and it's it's fun and it's energetic.
Speaker 1: And it's well and it's you know, look, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna pretend I'm a giant hockey fan, even though I
Speaker 1: when I watch it, I enjoy it. Yeah, one of
Speaker 1: the I've been to two I think two NHL games,
Speaker 1: and that was two of the best times I've ever
Speaker 1: had going to a sporting event, just because the crowd
Speaker 1: is so into it and it's crazy and people just
Speaker 1: some guys are tearing their each other's heads off, and
Speaker 1: just the finesse watching them, you know, when when up,
Speaker 1: when they're setting up, you can see them setting up
Speaker 1: a play and when it works, it's like it's crazy
Speaker 1: good and it's obviously a unique, unique sport.
Speaker 2: And you know the fact that these guys can just
Speaker 2: skate so well alone is an incredible skill in itself.
Speaker 1: With that, let's check in with traffic and weather, what
Speaker 1: is going on.