Speaker 1: Going on this weekend and we are here at the
Speaker 1: Market Bar. Correct, Suzanne, that's right.
Speaker 2: This is the market Bar, newly opened bar here at
Speaker 2: Ovation in Newport, right on the river.
Speaker 3: I mean really neat.
Speaker 1: I can't. It's awesome, guys. Obviously you haven't seen it yet,
Speaker 1: just opened, but this bar is beautiful. We're joined by
Speaker 1: Suzanne death Ridge and what Susanne? You you said you've
Speaker 1: been on your feet basically since about what five o'clock
Speaker 1: yesterday morning or something.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, it's all worth it. America's River Roots. It's
Speaker 2: just this incredible festival that's celebrating our rich river heritage,
Speaker 2: and Ovation being right on the river gets to be
Speaker 2: a part of it. Many people are right now on
Speaker 2: our boardwalk right over the river checking out the parade
Speaker 2: of boats that's taking place now.
Speaker 1: Explain Ovation for people who don't know well.
Speaker 2: Ovation has been a incredible vision from Bill Butler here
Speaker 2: in northern Kentucky. It's been a vowel over quite a
Speaker 2: few years, but it's a mixed use development where you
Speaker 2: can live, work, play and stay and we've got an
Speaker 2: office building. Saint Elizabeth's Physicians is based out of Megacore
Speaker 2: Pavilion where Tea Paine will be playing Saturday night this weekend.
Speaker 2: We're sitting in Market Bar. We've got a homewood suites
Speaker 2: here with high note rooftop bar, and then we've got
Speaker 2: the beautiful residential condominiums that overlook our wooden boardwalk right
Speaker 2: oh yeah, more on the way and the skyline is
Speaker 2: the backdrop for all of it. It's stunning, y'all.
Speaker 1: Talk about the boardwalk because Ashton, our waiter here, was
Speaker 1: telling me like, dude, you got to go on check
Speaker 1: that out.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Well, Ashton's the general manager here at Market Bar,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure he'll serve you a drink any minute
Speaker 2: of the day. We got the GM, we got the owners,
Speaker 2: we got the GM. But the boardwalk is stunning. It's
Speaker 2: really an ode to another time. It's a wooden boardwalk
Speaker 2: walk and you can peruse it. There's tables chairs right now.
Speaker 2: You can grab a bourbon, you can grab a Braxton beer.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: What the bourbon and candy tasting? Oh yeah, let me
Speaker 1: tell you that's God. That's got Eddie written all over it.
Speaker 2: Well perfect, it's all here for you. Well, Perfetti van
Speaker 2: Melt in just an hour or so, we'll have a
Speaker 2: large airhead's hot air balloon right over by the boardwalk
Speaker 2: and you can do some airhead sampling and other games
Speaker 2: and and things there with them. That's one of our
Speaker 2: big companies right here in northern Kentucky, part of our
Speaker 2: one in Ky Zone.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, you go ahead, Jason, if you're on the
Speaker 4: boardwalk air at Ovation, can you then go right down
Speaker 4: to the right from that down to the river onto
Speaker 4: the boats?
Speaker 2: Okay, well not onto the boat. So the boats are
Speaker 2: with nine river boats. You've got to moore of them
Speaker 2: over in Cincinnati, right there at Yateman's Cove and right
Speaker 2: down from the Heritage Bank Center. But you can take
Speaker 2: the riverfront Commons which is right in front of Ovation Walk,
Speaker 2: then over to the Taylor Southgate Bridge cool walk right
Speaker 2: across that beautiful river of ours, and you're right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you guys are what's going on here?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: Are there brunches and stuff going on? Get down here
Speaker 1: early to have.
Speaker 2: A little it all going on down I'm wondering. Well
Speaker 2: down on the boardwalk. We do have some rotating restaurants,
Speaker 2: a different appeal each day in terms of which restaurants
Speaker 2: serving uh. And then we do have a speakeasy bar?
Speaker 2: Does that appeal to you, Eddie?
Speaker 1: Do you have to knock and.
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: Okay, come on, I'd really encourage folks.
Speaker 4: This is this is my first time here, and it
Speaker 4: is nice writing for The Inquiry for so many years
Speaker 4: and covering business and hearing about Ovation and that project
Speaker 4: for so long, and they talked about FC Cincinnati Stadium
Speaker 4: maybe being here and all the different things.
Speaker 2: I remember those days.
Speaker 4: And it's now, it's now reality, and it's it's it's beautiful,
Speaker 4: it's awesome. It seems like there's something here really forever.
Speaker 4: I mean, they're really great, great spaces to hang out.
Speaker 2: Yep. We've got Ovation Plaza right out here that'll be
Speaker 2: activated with music all weekend. And the rooftop bar. I
Speaker 2: mean that's a cool feature.
Speaker 4: Cool thing too about the Market Bar where rat's very open.
Speaker 4: It faces that area and then you can also access
Speaker 4: the market bar if you're going.
Speaker 3: To or from a concert. Oh absolutely, there's a dog.
Speaker 4: I went out there and made sure, Oh you can
Speaker 4: come right out the door there, go in riding and
Speaker 4: be at the market bar.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: And I mean Megacre Pavilion and their concerts. They've got
Speaker 2: an indoor outdoor. I mean, if you all haven't taken
Speaker 2: in a concert there, you really need to have.
Speaker 1: I've always heard it's great.
Speaker 2: Well, Eddie, you've got to come back.
Speaker 1: I can see it from my house. Rock and roll,
Speaker 1: rock and roll DJ.
Speaker 3: It's got to get over there.
Speaker 2: So it took some candy sampling and suburban there.
Speaker 1: That's what you're saying, like hypnotized walking around. Let's go
Speaker 1: all the events going on here this weekend or there's
Speaker 1: special things going on I'm assuming on the boardwalk.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they're all over and we've got an Ovation
Speaker 2: on the River dot com. We've got the daily schedules
Speaker 2: because there are things happening throughout the development, both on
Speaker 2: the River and here on Ovation Plaza. So come check
Speaker 2: it out. I mean market bar. Look, they've got all
Speaker 2: the garage doors open. You can belly up to the
Speaker 2: bar from the outside, the inside, from the couch.
Speaker 1: Well, you guys got to love this. There's not a
Speaker 1: cloud this guy.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Mother Nature so early came down with us. Now,
Speaker 2: don't forget, it was raining during setup day on Tuesday,
Speaker 2: so we did, you know, pay a little then, but
Speaker 2: for the customer and for the community members coming to
Speaker 2: enjoy the festival. They've got the best weather we've ever had.
Speaker 4: I think as cool as ovation is even right now,
Speaker 4: there's even more coming along. There's another condo building going
Speaker 4: up now or getting ready to there is.
Speaker 2: So we had two condominium buildings, the Boardwalk Residences, that
Speaker 2: are complete and everybody's living in there, and then we
Speaker 2: have a third one that will be completed at the
Speaker 2: end of the quarter next year, so sometime March April
Speaker 2: ish people will be starting to hopefully move in there.
Speaker 2: That's forty percent sold, so there's still some to be had.
Speaker 2: But get on, come on down. We do have a
Speaker 2: model that we've got ready, so you can reach out
Speaker 2: to us and get an appointment scheduled to see that.
Speaker 2: It's just you have to come up here to see it.
Speaker 2: You know, this whole facility is built up on top
Speaker 2: of a two story garage. And why is that, Jason.
Speaker 3: Floodplain, you got it.
Speaker 1: We worked at the.
Speaker 2: Army Corps of Engineers to ensure it was up and
Speaker 2: so there's no obstructed views.
Speaker 3: That also, yeah, is right.
Speaker 4: That allows you to have the great view of the
Speaker 4: river and of downtown.
Speaker 1: You look over the Levee Valley, that is right.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful and we're in the midst of working with
Speaker 2: the City of Newport to redo that park, James Taylor
Speaker 2: Park right in front of Ovation. So it really is
Speaker 2: for every member of our community here at Avation.
Speaker 1: With that, Susanna, will you get back to you know,
Speaker 1: doing everything.
Speaker 3: I don't know about.
Speaker 8: That, but I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: It is a great festival and we have great partners
Speaker 2: in market bar with our one Ning Ky other partners.
Speaker 2: So and thanks to seven hundred for crossing the river
Speaker 2: to come on over and visit.
Speaker 1: Hey, look, like I said, I can see it from here.
Speaker 3: I can.
Speaker 1: I can walk to the nearest liquor store, Big Daddyes,
Speaker 1: right across the If.
Speaker 2: You can't recognize the changes here, I'll tell you where
Speaker 2: Big Daddy's is.
Speaker 1: Get you contact. Everybody from this area just goes, oh,
Speaker 1: it's right there.
Speaker 2: Hell, I don't know what's right right right on the river.
Speaker 1: Thanks, thanks so much. All right with that, we check
Speaker 1: in with traffic and weather. What is going on?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Back on the Eddy of Rocky Show rock out today.
Speaker 1: Jason Williams is it from the Inquirer Cincinnati dot Com.
Speaker 1: Great to be here, So Jays, look you fill in
Speaker 1: on a day when Rocky's out of town doing football
Speaker 1: and we're sitting in the beautiful bar on the river
Speaker 1: with the riverboat thing going on. Dude, life is not
Speaker 1: bad for you.
Speaker 3: No, it's not.
Speaker 1: You're not filling in on Christmas morning or something.
Speaker 4: Just had a delightful while I was in the Inquired
Speaker 4: newsroom for a while.
Speaker 3: Talking to some of my coworkers there. Then I just
Speaker 3: zipped right over here. It's it's been a great day.
Speaker 1: We're at the ovation on the river in the market bar,
Speaker 1: and these folks couldn't be better, and at this bar
Speaker 1: couldn't be nicer.
Speaker 3: This is literally you can walk come out here and
Speaker 3: check it out.
Speaker 1: It looks like about I don't know, fifty yards and
Speaker 1: you're looking straight at the river. Yep, So come on down.
Speaker 1: It's America's Roots Festival. That's the reason we're here, of course.
Speaker 1: I mean you'll see all these beautiful boats. But Jason,
Speaker 1: let me ask you, Yes, you cover the sports columnists
Speaker 1: for the Inquirer, and I have to say, hats off
Speaker 1: man to Jake Browning. Yesterday when people were questioning him
Speaker 1: about what was going on, he was like, it sucks.
Speaker 1: Now you got a handed to the guy.
Speaker 4: It's yeah, I agree, it's funny you say that. I
Speaker 4: was just drafting some stuff, uh for a column, and
Speaker 4: I pulled pulled some of his quotes on that and
Speaker 4: I watched some.
Speaker 3: Of the video of him in in the UH with
Speaker 3: interviews with the reporters.
Speaker 4: That's a guy who's not just He's certainly first and foremost,
Speaker 4: he's upset with himself.
Speaker 3: He's holding my self accountable.
Speaker 4: Well, he's not happy at others. He's not happy about
Speaker 4: this Flacco signing. I think he and this was his
Speaker 4: This was his quote, Eddie, if you if I could
Speaker 4: read this quote. The communication to me for some of
Speaker 4: the games was we need to do some more to
Speaker 4: help you out. And then I had a really bad
Speaker 4: two and a half quarters against the Lions and took
Speaker 4: some bad and we took some bad losses trying to
Speaker 4: provide a spark, and so we decided to go in.
Speaker 3: A different direction.
Speaker 4: That's a guy who uh, not just is not just
Speaker 4: mada himself first and foremost. But I think is like, oh,
Speaker 4: you threw me out there behind this offensive line, and
Speaker 4: this is what you expect. Now you're putting a statue
Speaker 4: back there now and now you're and again you're you're
Speaker 4: reading between the lines. So this is analysis on this.
Speaker 4: But right, you gotta think that Jake Browning's thinking you
Speaker 4: just brought a guy who can't scramble. I'm at least
Speaker 4: a guy who can scramb. Right, But yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 4: I mean, and here's the thing. Uh, they're rolling. They're
Speaker 4: rolling with Flacco. They brought Flacco here, so if Flacco
Speaker 4: produces the same results as Jake Browning, they're not going
Speaker 4: back to Jake Browning. Correct, Joe Flacco is the guy
Speaker 4: until the guy Joe comes back, whenever that is.
Speaker 1: And uh, I'm I'm kind of fed up with people
Speaker 1: who are saying, you know, now it looks like he
Speaker 1: might be back the first week of Deceummer. Do you
Speaker 1: really want him to come back if it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: if they're like four and eight, I mean, I only think,
Speaker 1: mist God, what's the point.
Speaker 4: I only think he's coming back if he's coming back
Speaker 4: at all this season, He's only going to come back
Speaker 4: if they're in the playoff hunt. Sure, I think I
Speaker 4: think if they're four and whatever, two and whatever, you don't, uh,
Speaker 4: and Joe's like, I'm good to go.
Speaker 3: I do not see I think I think they. I
Speaker 3: see them saying.
Speaker 4: That, Joe, let's just go ahead and get through this
Speaker 4: season and then we'll have you fully healthy going into
Speaker 4: the offseason stuff and training camp next year.
Speaker 1: Well, you got to see when Paris Fashion Week is
Speaker 1: so he can get back over there.
Speaker 3: Hit me with a curveball, walk.
Speaker 1: The catwalk there, and lot and uh and Perrie. But
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how Flacco does here because look
Speaker 1: at how when was that three years ago in Cleveland
Speaker 1: when he took them to the playoffs twenty three?
Speaker 3: Two years ago?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, two. So you know they're hoping for the
Speaker 1: same magic. Having watched him play a couple of games
Speaker 1: in Cleveland, I don't think he's still he doesn't have it,
Speaker 1: let's face it. I mean, he's a forty almost forty
Speaker 1: one year old guy. And I say forty one like
Speaker 1: it's old. But apparently in the NFL that is considered old.
Speaker 1: But you know, you can't move, you can't move. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was funny.
Speaker 3: I saw him.
Speaker 1: I was watching the Uh, I forget what game it
Speaker 1: was a couple of weeks ago who the Browns played,
Speaker 1: and he scrambled for something. Look, he ran like he
Speaker 1: looked like me running down the field. Dude, he was walking,
Speaker 1: he was running straight up and he's a big guy anyway,
Speaker 1: and it was like, oh man, you're getting You're gonna
Speaker 1: get slaughtered.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a guy who needs to be at this
Speaker 3: point in his career.
Speaker 4: You can still throw it, he can still chuck again,
Speaker 4: but he's got to be protected because he's not scrambling
Speaker 4: and moving around a lot. And he's really never been
Speaker 4: that guy who can move around. He can really not
Speaker 4: move around now versus when he was in Baltimore all
Speaker 4: those years.
Speaker 1: But the arm is still there.
Speaker 4: The arm is still there, and so I think the
Speaker 4: thought process there with them is that all right?
Speaker 3: So he's kind of a he's an.
Speaker 4: Older an older version of Joe Burrow in that saying
Speaker 4: now Joe can run.
Speaker 1: He's a really older version.
Speaker 3: But Joe is a pocket passer.
Speaker 4: Joe is a pass first, stagy and chuck the ball
Speaker 4: all over the place. So Joe Flacco is more in
Speaker 4: the mold of Joe Burrow than Jake Browning is.
Speaker 1: Well Jake Browning again, well, we're talking about those years
Speaker 1: ago when he held him in the playoff hunt. That
Speaker 1: was Super Bowl year and and now apparently he's lost
Speaker 1: his curve ball. I don't Maybe maybe he has, maybe
Speaker 1: he has it, but so far what he proved on
Speaker 1: the field was he didn't have it. But again, you
Speaker 1: don't have an offensive line, so who knows.
Speaker 4: Right well, I mean, both of these guys, Joe Burrow
Speaker 4: or sorry, Joe Flacco and Jake Browning both had really
Speaker 4: good twenty twenty three seasons. You're like, that's not that
Speaker 4: long ago, right, But the league is constantly evolving. They
Speaker 4: are constantly adjusting, and so what you did yesterday, even
Speaker 4: last Sunday, doesn't guarantee you're gonna keep going doing that
Speaker 4: this coming Sunday, let alone two years ago.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're here live at the market bar
Speaker 1: at Ovation on the river. You gotta come by see us.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be here until six. Beautiful place. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, you can walk right across this beautiful
Speaker 1: plaza they have here and look straight down on the
Speaker 1: river and see all the riverboats and whatnot and see
Speaker 1: all the stuff that's going on. And then you can
Speaker 1: walk down, just walk steps down and see all this
Speaker 1: stuff that's going on right along the river front. It
Speaker 1: is the Eddie and Rocky Show with Jason Williams. But
Speaker 1: now the news News Radio seven hundred w l W
Speaker 1: Choir Cincinnati dot Com with us. It is the Eddie
Speaker 1: and Rocky takeover. Here at the market Bar at Ovation
Speaker 1: on the river. Do stop buying, say hi, I mean
Speaker 1: it's beautiful man. A short walk I mean, and you're
Speaker 1: looking right down on the river where all the riverboats are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, come out to the market bar. It's in the
Speaker 4: homewoods uh home with sweets. You can just you can
Speaker 4: get it, get it, get a drink here and you
Speaker 4: walk right down the pedestrian area and right down to
Speaker 4: the river. There's a pedestrian walk right off of this.
Speaker 4: It'll take you right over to the to the river
Speaker 4: front and easy and there's all kinds of fun stuff
Speaker 4: going over there.
Speaker 1: Well, let's see if people can afford it. Uh And
Speaker 1: by that I mean it's it's very inexpensive. But are
Speaker 1: we going to have any money? Let's talk to our
Speaker 1: financial expert, Steve Cotton. We love talking to this fellow
Speaker 1: right now, President of Cottonwealth Management Associates. So, Steve, there's
Speaker 1: a lot going on. We have the shutdown going on,
Speaker 1: we have the tear I's going on. All the ins
Speaker 1: and outs that none of us understand are going on.
Speaker 1: How are we looking.
Speaker 6: Good afternoon, Eddie. How are all my friends in Cincinnati doing.
Speaker 1: We're doing great. You tell us how are we doing
Speaker 1: okay or not?
Speaker 6: Yes, We're going to be fine. I think the shutdown,
Speaker 6: you know, potentially effects about seven hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 6: government employees, and I'm more concerned in the short run
Speaker 6: about the impact on their families. And they're you know,
Speaker 6: those employees that are day to day, paycheck to paycheck workers.
Speaker 6: They're good people and they're being jacked around in this
Speaker 6: political process in Washington, and it's unfair and it's counterproductive.
Speaker 6: It doesn't help anybody. And I hope that that the
Speaker 6: Senate Republicans and Democrats can come to an agreement. But
Speaker 6: right now this is driven more by politics than anything else. Now,
Speaker 6: the good news is, I do think this will be
Speaker 6: a show lived shut down. It's we're in day nine.
Speaker 6: They're playing chicken. Chuck Schumer is very nervous about his
Speaker 6: New York primary and the potential challenge from his left flank,
Speaker 6: So that's why this is happening. But I think in
Speaker 6: the short run, we're not going to have a major
Speaker 6: economic problem from it. But if it goes on another
Speaker 6: two weeks, I think there will be a negative complications.
Speaker 4: Right well, Stee, what mentioning that, you know, you're seven
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty thousand government workers. It affects beyond that though,
Speaker 4: you know, how does that then impact that this does
Speaker 4: go on and on and becomes a negative that goes
Speaker 4: beyond just those employees. That affects everyday people, right, and.
Speaker 6: Oh, you're exactly you're exactly right. Let me give you
Speaker 6: an example. The Small Business Administration processes a small business
Speaker 6: loan own requests all the time, every day, and right
Speaker 6: now that process we have, we could see a two
Speaker 6: billion dollar a month negative impact of small business loans
Speaker 6: that are not being processed and approved. We can see
Speaker 6: an impact of warkcraft. Air traffic controllers are already you know,
Speaker 6: calling in sick now. They're they're an essential service and
Speaker 6: they have to work even if they don't get paid.
Speaker 6: Everybody that's not being paid right now will eventually get
Speaker 6: their paychecks made whole. But uh, it's disruptive at the
Speaker 6: very least, and it does have a ripple effect. People
Speaker 6: delay their their Christmas planning companies reduce the amount of
Speaker 6: inventory they're planning, Manufacturing orders starts to slow. There's all
Speaker 6: kinds of implications of this because you're disrupting people's and
Speaker 6: companies ability to plan, and that is usually as an
Speaker 6: negative impact.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Steve Cotton, or a financial expert, and
Speaker 1: as Steve, what about everybody? One of the things that
Speaker 1: in the financials that everybody's always talking about is the
Speaker 1: FED and rate cuts and all that stuff. How do
Speaker 1: you see this kind of playing out here? Is it
Speaker 1: going to put more pressure on them? Is going to
Speaker 1: cause them to just kind of kick back and go, Okay,
Speaker 1: We've got to wait and see what happens. What's going
Speaker 1: on there?
Speaker 6: Well, one of the things that impacts the FED immediately
Speaker 6: is that the statistical reporting that the FED relies on
Speaker 6: to make help make these decisions is not going to
Speaker 6: be there. And now I think the FED has plenty
Speaker 6: of evidence. Last month we had a thirty two thousand
Speaker 6: reduction in payroll when they were hoping for a forty
Speaker 6: five percent plus up. We're seeing some slowing in different industries.
Speaker 6: We've known the economy is slowing a little bit for
Speaker 6: some time. You know that's not going to be new
Speaker 6: information to the FED, and I think they still can
Speaker 6: make decisions, and I am still expecting a twenty five
Speaker 6: basis point cut that's like twenty five not quite one percent,
Speaker 6: but zero point twenty five percent of cut downward in
Speaker 6: the federal funds rate at their next meeting. They can
Speaker 6: do it without a large amount of new data, and
Speaker 6: I hope they will because interest rates have been way
Speaker 6: too high for way too long. It's not justified by
Speaker 6: where the economy is. Inflation is way down, and I
Speaker 6: hope that they will do that to the benefit of everybody,
Speaker 6: including service on the federal death.
Speaker 4: Well, Steve, you alluded to it there, right, could we
Speaker 4: typically get a job's report but the first Friday of
Speaker 4: the month, and we haven't gotten that job's report yet, right,
Speaker 4: so we are, well, that's right, kind of in the
Speaker 4: dark on what the impact on the economy right now.
Speaker 6: Well, I don't think it's wise to make, you know,
Speaker 6: major interest rate decisions on the basis of of you know,
Speaker 6: a thirty day sets of statistics, and there's always some
Speaker 6: question about the reporting of the statistics. Some of the
Speaker 6: reports are more reliable than others, and that needs to
Speaker 6: be looked at. But I think everybody knows that the
Speaker 6: economy is fundamentally still sound, still working. Well. There are
Speaker 6: soft spots here and there. The housing industry is not
Speaker 6: fully recovered from COVID yet. There are a lot of
Speaker 6: people out there, prospective buyers that are waiting for long
Speaker 6: term interest rates to come down some more. And the
Speaker 6: FED doesn't control that, but it does impact it. And
Speaker 6: so there's a lot of companies and a lot of
Speaker 6: buyers and home prospective homeowners that are that are kind
Speaker 6: of sitting on the sidelines now waiting to see what happens.
Speaker 6: The first thing that needs to happen is the Senate
Speaker 6: needs to resolve this and get the government working again
Speaker 6: because the public does not want to shut down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking to Steve Carton Cotton or financial guy,
Speaker 1: and Steve, another thing I saw I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: you about one last question here is you know, I'm
Speaker 1: I got four to one K and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: and obviously it's invested in the stock market and all
Speaker 1: that stuff, But what about the price of gold, I mean,
Speaker 1: precious metals, gold and silver are through the roof. Did
Speaker 1: I miss a boat on that? What's going on there?
Speaker 6: Well, typically you'll see spikes in the price of gold
Speaker 6: in times of international stress, military action, things like that,
Speaker 6: high inflation. Gold is a good heads for inflation. Right now,
Speaker 6: the gold is over thirty five dollars an ounce, and
Speaker 6: I think can still climb some more. If you don't
Speaker 6: have gold in your portfolio, you may have you know,
Speaker 6: an ETF gold or there are other all you can
Speaker 6: own gold mining company stocks, things like that. But gold
Speaker 6: is it should be a part of people's portfolio, but
Speaker 6: only in a relatively small proportion, because typically people want
Speaker 6: to buy gold when it's high, and they buy it
Speaker 6: and then the price falls because things get back to
Speaker 6: normal and they lose money. Gold has actually appreciated well
Speaker 6: over the last decade. I think there's still is some upside,
Speaker 6: but if you have a well diversified portfolio, as you
Speaker 6: should have, you're going to be fine regardless of this.
Speaker 6: The market's down significantly today. But today what's going on
Speaker 6: I think largely is profit taking. The markets have been up.
Speaker 6: People are taking their profits, they're selling, they're harvesting those gains,
Speaker 6: banking those gains. But the smart money is going to
Speaker 6: stay in this market because I think there's a lot
Speaker 6: more upside yet than downside.
Speaker 1: So in other words, what I was going to do
Speaker 1: is all this gold I harvested for my grandparents and
Speaker 1: my parents and their teeth, their necklaces and whatnot, I
Speaker 1: should sell.
Speaker 6: Now, No, thank God, hold on to it a while longer.
Speaker 1: All right, cool, Well, I'm just trying to but just
Speaker 1: trying to make an honest living here, Steve.
Speaker 6: You know, but invest in good company stocks and bonds,
Speaker 6: and be very diversified in both of those areas, and
Speaker 6: you'll do just fine. We'll. You know, a lot of
Speaker 6: the economic inision is that President Trump has put in place,
Speaker 6: the mega trade deals, the sinning of the government, the
Speaker 6: reauthorization of the twenty seventeen Trump tax cuts, all of
Speaker 6: that is absolutely huge, including an unprecedentedly high defense budget.
Speaker 6: All of those things are going to send ripples, positive
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Speaker 1: Thanks Steve, take care Steve Cotton And with that, we
Speaker 1: are live at Ovation on the River, me and Jason Williams.
Speaker 1: Those boats, I can hear him. Can you hear the horns?
Speaker 7: We do?
Speaker 1: I just heard it there a little bit or their horns.
Speaker 1: What do they call it? The smoke snaks?
Speaker 3: They wasn't with that.
Speaker 1: We check in with trafficking, weather, what's going on. We're
Speaker 1: in the studio set up in the Market Bar at
Speaker 1: Ovation on the River. I'm with Jason Williams for Wacky
Speaker 1: Today and Buddy, a great place here and I tell you,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine a better place to watch all the
Speaker 1: parkings easy, the walk is easy out to see where
Speaker 1: all the boats are and stuff. Boom.
Speaker 4: Love the team here at Market Bar. They're taking care
Speaker 4: of us. Well, take care of me anyway. I don't
Speaker 4: know about you.
Speaker 1: As soon as we said that, what can we get you?
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good with that.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I don't get that at home, you know.
Speaker 3: I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you don't get that right, walk in and
Speaker 1: I expect dev to go what kind of get you?
Speaker 1: You just get the hell out of here?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Like, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: But buddy, let's let's talk about because coming up are
Speaker 1: gotta the beat reporter for the Packers.
Speaker 3: From Milwaukee, General Sittel.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And and this guy's a you know, he's big
Speaker 1: on a long time. He's been covering the Packers from
Speaker 1: what like thirty years or something.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you knew him or not, but.
Speaker 3: I don't know him.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know the same same parent company, the
Speaker 4: inquirers of the Milwaukee paper as well.
Speaker 3: So yep.
Speaker 1: But you you wrote the other day in your column
Speaker 1: about the Bengals finally stepping up and doing something right
Speaker 1: more or less is what you said?
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I mean they get in black.
Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, could you have done something better? Obviously?
Speaker 1: But he's there and he beat the Packers like two
Speaker 1: or three weeks ago he did.
Speaker 3: I mean, technically it's on his record.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It was a thirteen to ten game. And we'll ask
Speaker 4: Tom about this. Yeah, Joe Flacca wasn't exactly Uh, he
Speaker 4: wasn't the start of the constant for four hundred yards
Speaker 4: in that game, and the Packers gave up ten They
Speaker 4: were up ten to nothing in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: So uh.
Speaker 4: But you know, nonetheless, here's the biggest thing, and I
Speaker 4: think you know this, maybe you could put this on
Speaker 4: the list of reasons why the Bengals made this move,
Speaker 4: is that you know, not only is Joe Flacco who
Speaker 4: Joe Flacco is, but the fact that he did beat
Speaker 4: the Green Bay and is this team desperately needs a
Speaker 4: win right now, right So the fact that he walks
Speaker 4: in with the advantage of already knowing the Packers personnel
Speaker 4: and having you know, game plan for those guys. I
Speaker 4: think that that that certainly is part of part of
Speaker 4: And again, is it was it top five on the
Speaker 4: list of why they brought Joe Flacco here? No, but
Speaker 4: it's somewhere on that list. And the fact that he's
Speaker 4: also played against Baltimore and the Bengals still have to
Speaker 4: play Baltimore twice, you know, this year. So well, I
Speaker 4: think I think there's some advantages potentially in that I
Speaker 4: don't want to overstate that, but the fact that he
Speaker 4: knows those two teams, he's game plan for him for
Speaker 4: a team right now that needs a win desperately, that
Speaker 4: I think that's a much bigger deal than maybe it
Speaker 4: otherwise would be.
Speaker 1: Well, what's funny is that they have ESPN on the
Speaker 1: multiple screens they have here at the market bar, and
Speaker 1: they I just saw they had a thing they were
Speaker 1: doing about the Packers and it was Packer, is this
Speaker 1: a must win game for the Packers? You know, so
Speaker 1: they're looking at this kind of the same kind of
Speaker 1: situation there.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, well I asked Tom about this, but he
Speaker 4: wrote a column yesterday in which basically, you're like, now,
Speaker 4: that's a champion this he's basically saying they're underachieving right
Speaker 4: now at two to one and one, they don't have
Speaker 4: an identity on the offense, and you have them tie
Speaker 4: it with Dallas. But the headline of his piece is
Speaker 4: this Green Bay Packer season is in need of some
Speaker 4: championship coaching, and it goes on to talk about you
Speaker 4: know how right now, they don't have an identity on offense.
Speaker 4: They have the talent on offense and on defense, they
Speaker 4: return most of their offensive guys. They obviously went out
Speaker 4: and got Micah Parsons in a trade, but they haven't
Speaker 4: put it all together yet, and so they're coming out
Speaker 4: of their bye week, and you know this piece by
Speaker 4: Tom is basically saying this is the week they really
Speaker 4: need to start showing putting it together. That's a high
Speaker 4: standard there, because that's I think we all here in Cincinnati,
Speaker 4: certainly are really outside the outside world of the NFL
Speaker 4: would look at them and say, that's a championship contender.
Speaker 1: Damn fine tea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I watched some of their game against Dallas and
Speaker 4: it's like, oh man, t tie, Like why wow?
Speaker 1: How well? We're gonna be talking to Tom Silverstein from
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Speaker 1: Right back on the Eddie and Rocky, where have the
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Speaker 3: Our is not here right? We need Rocky for the
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Speaker 1: Jason Williams is with me from the Inquire at Cincinnati
Speaker 1: dot com, and I'll tell you we're loving it here
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Speaker 1: Lots of cool stuff going on right on the River.
Speaker 1: But right now, Jason, let's talk Bengals football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, excited about it.
Speaker 1: In this case, Packers football.
Speaker 4: Yeah, excited about our Next guest he's with the Milwaukee
Speaker 4: Journal Sentinel. Been covering the Packers, the great historic Green
Speaker 4: Bay Packers for more than thirty years and knows that
Speaker 4: organization inside and out. Tom Silberstein from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Hey, Tom, Hey,
Speaker 4: how are you doing good?
Speaker 3: Glad you glad you joined us. I loved your piece
Speaker 3: your column yesterday.
Speaker 4: I get posted yesterday, you know about talking about the
Speaker 4: Packers season in need of some championship coaching, and you didn't.
Speaker 4: You didn't mince words there. This is a team that's
Speaker 4: two to one and one coming out of a bye.
Speaker 4: They've got the talent on offense, they've got the talent
Speaker 4: on defense, and even more talent now with Micah Parsons.
Speaker 4: But something, something's something's missing a little bit, right Tom,
Speaker 4: with that Packers.
Speaker 7: Team, Yeah, yeah, definitely. I mean, you know, they're putting
Speaker 7: up all the normal numbers they should be putting up
Speaker 7: offensively and defensively, but you know they are kind of
Speaker 7: a mess on special teams with two black kicks that
Speaker 7: really were the difference in them going winning against Cleveland
Speaker 7: and lose and time in Dallas. But then you know,
Speaker 7: then there's coaching decisions there. It's really a really bad
Speaker 7: coaching decision in Cleveland that you know, sort of led
Speaker 7: to Jordan Love throwing an interception when they could have
Speaker 7: just run the ball and then kicked the ball punted
Speaker 7: and then you know, not really have to worry about
Speaker 7: losing the Cleveland and in Dallas at the end of
Speaker 7: both halfs there was some terrible game management. So yeah,
Speaker 7: it's just you know, if you're gonna if you're gonna
Speaker 7: championship team, or you're going to add a piece that
Speaker 7: makes you a championship team, then you've got to play
Speaker 7: like it and coach like it, and it just hasn't
Speaker 7: been the way.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Tom Silverstein from the Milwaukee Journals a Sentinel,
Speaker 1: and Tom, you got to think, and I think that
Speaker 1: we all as football fans thought when Michael Parsons came
Speaker 1: to town for Green Bays, like, uh oh, these guys
Speaker 1: are going to be kind of unbeatable, and well, what's
Speaker 1: the reaction from the fan base so far?
Speaker 7: Well, they have been dominant defensively since he joined. It's
Speaker 7: been very hard for quarterbacks to succeed. And Joe Flackel
Speaker 7: will be able to attest to that because he's already
Speaker 7: faced it. But Dallas knew how to handle him like
Speaker 7: they They completely changed their game and they went to
Speaker 7: a lot of quick passing. They doubled him in every
Speaker 7: single way they could, and he still had like six
Speaker 7: pressures and a sack, but the rest of the defense
Speaker 7: just could not slow them down. They had a great
Speaker 7: game plan and Deck Prescott played really well. It was
Speaker 7: definitely that back. But it doesn't change that they have,
Speaker 7: you know, one of the best pass rushes in the
Speaker 7: league now with Parsons and Sean Gary and Gavante Wyatt
Speaker 7: when he's healthy.
Speaker 4: Tom, you mentioned, you know, Micah Parsons an impact he made.
Speaker 4: And you know, the Packers coming out of this bye week,
Speaker 4: you know, now they faced Joe Flacco again. Joe Flacco
Speaker 4: wasn't great in that game against Cleveland or the Packers
Speaker 4: Cleveland game a few weeks ago. Nonetheless, though you know
Speaker 4: the Browns, well, the Packers probably more really more so
Speaker 4: found a way to lose, and the Browns did to win.
Speaker 4: But what's what are your thoughts on them playing Joe
Speaker 4: Flacco again? And does that do you think that helps
Speaker 4: the Bengals at all? Or does it or even maybe
Speaker 4: on the other side, give the Packers a little little
Speaker 4: more advantage that they've already faced this guy.
Speaker 7: I don't I don't think it changes anything for Green Bay.
Speaker 7: I think it does for Cincinnati, and I think it
Speaker 7: you know, I think Flacco has a very good idea
Speaker 7: of how they'll pressure him. They're going to probably come
Speaker 7: up with some different pressures. You know, it's after the
Speaker 7: bye week. Most teams do come up with different things.
Speaker 7: But he's seen it all and so I don't think
Speaker 7: there's any any real issue with him, you know, from
Speaker 7: that regard, even even running a new offense, I think
Speaker 7: he'll be fine. He'll know where Parsons is at all times.
Speaker 7: He'll know what kind of stunts and blitzes and things.
Speaker 7: The question is really just going to be ken. The
Speaker 7: Bengals block for him, and you know, we know Flacco's
Speaker 7: got throws a great deep ball and I'm anticipating him
Speaker 7: chucking it up there to Jamar Chase and T Higgins
Speaker 7: as often as he can. It's just whether he can
Speaker 7: get it off well well.
Speaker 1: And Tom, we're talking to Tom Silverstein, Uh, the Packers
Speaker 1: beat reporter, And Tom, I was going to ask you
Speaker 1: about that about plead ignorance, talking about these receivers and
Speaker 1: we all know those guys and how good they are
Speaker 1: in black opening able to throw the deep ball. Talk
Speaker 1: about the Packer secondary a little bit.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so you know, they don't have a shutdown corner
Speaker 7: like they had Jay r Alexander and when he was healthy,
Speaker 7: he was a shutdown corner. Kishawn Nixon has kind of
Speaker 7: been their top corner. I mean that kind of he
Speaker 7: is their top corner and he's done. He's done a
Speaker 7: pretty solid job. He's grown every year. You know, he
Speaker 7: really just started as a special teams guy and a
Speaker 7: and a kick returning. He's an All Pro kick returner,
Speaker 7: and he's transitioned really well to an outside corner, and
Speaker 7: he's he's got the kind of speed that I mean,
Speaker 7: he's not as fast as Jamar Chase, but you know,
Speaker 7: if he playing ten yards out the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 7: he can be okay. But the other guys, you know,
Speaker 7: Nate Hobbs is a guy who plays physically. He wants
Speaker 7: to jam everybody at the line of scrimmage. He wants
Speaker 7: to He's going to try to strip the ball out
Speaker 7: if you if you catch it, he's going to be
Speaker 7: physical with you, but he.
Speaker 5: Can be run by.
Speaker 7: And their other corner, Carrington Valentine just did not play
Speaker 7: well against the Cowboys. George Pickens just kind of destroyed him.
Speaker 7: So there is real opportunity for the Bengals receivers. It
Speaker 7: all depends on, you know, if the Packers can get
Speaker 7: a four man rush, then they'll sit back, you know,
Speaker 7: in the zone, and you know, they'll just make it
Speaker 7: really hard to throw the ball to you.
Speaker 4: Tom and I would encourage our listeners to go listen
Speaker 4: or go read Tom's piece or and all this stuff
Speaker 4: on js online dot com. With the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Speaker 4: I'm in your piece that I was referencing earlier. You
Speaker 4: said now that the Packers you don't really have an
Speaker 4: offensive identity yet, and I think their identity going in
Speaker 4: was that they'd be a balanced team certainly, but that
Speaker 4: you know, they've got one of the elite running backs
Speaker 4: in the NFL and Josh Jacobs. Do you see this
Speaker 4: as a game where they're really going to try to
Speaker 4: get him going? You know, this is a Bengals team
Speaker 4: that has struggled against the run, you know, certainly in
Speaker 4: the preseason, and the jury's really still out on whether
Speaker 4: their defense can really stop anyone. Is the game plan
Speaker 4: for the Packers to get Josh Jacobs going first and foremost,
Speaker 4: and then if he can't go, you know, put in
Speaker 4: the air.
Speaker 6: That's a game plan every week.
Speaker 7: You know, everything they do sort of goes off of
Speaker 7: play actions. That's what they want to do. They want
Speaker 7: to establish the run, and then they want to be
Speaker 7: able to throw off that. Now teams have been loading
Speaker 7: the box against them, they'll bring bring safeties down, you
Speaker 7: know fifty maybe fifty percent of the time, forty percent
Speaker 7: of the time, and yeah, they'll sort of dare Jordan
Speaker 7: loved to beat them. But part of the issue has
Speaker 7: been that they've been without two of their starting offensive
Speaker 7: linemen and that's really affected them. And then their their
Speaker 7: third their second round pick this year, Anthony Belton, has
Speaker 7: also been injured, so they kind of had a makeshift
Speaker 7: line and that line is not as physical as the
Speaker 7: group when they have all their starters in and so
Speaker 7: they've had a hard time.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: They they think they should be able to run against,
Speaker 7: you know, a stack box, but they haven't been able
Speaker 7: to and Jacobs has just getting stopped at the line
Speaker 7: of scrimmage. They will they showed in the Dallas game
Speaker 7: that they're willing to try other ways to get him
Speaker 7: the ball, and so they started swinging the ball out
Speaker 7: to him in the flats, throwing some screens. But I
Speaker 7: would suspect they will try to run the ball, you know,
Speaker 7: first five times they touch touch the ball, I bet
Speaker 7: you trying to run it.
Speaker 4: This is my last question. I don't know the comment, Tom,
Speaker 4: is it? You know, kudos to you for being this
Speaker 4: in this business for so long. I've broke in the
Speaker 4: in the newspaper business. In the late nineties ninety eight,
Speaker 4: I remember you were covering the packers then obviously been
Speaker 4: doing it for thirty years. What what I wouldn't credit
Speaker 4: me doing this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's gonna say. I wouldn't credit me as much
Speaker 7: as question my my smility.
Speaker 6: That's because because I'm not sure why.
Speaker 1: Talking talking to somebody's about me who's been in the
Speaker 1: radio business for a long time. It's kind of questioning
Speaker 1: sanity at this stage of the game.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And it's funny because I was just thinking about it.
Speaker 7: I was thinking about all the driving I do. You know,
Speaker 7: I live in thee and I come up to Green Bay.
Speaker 7: It's almost a two hour drive. I don't do I
Speaker 7: don't do it daily but twice a week. And you know,
Speaker 7: I've been doing that for thirty seven years. And yeah,
Speaker 7: I was starting to to really put that in perspective
Speaker 7: today as I was driving in Man. So I'm sort
Speaker 7: of like, you know, I'll sort of be like Tom
Speaker 7: Brady at the end of every year, I'll just I'll
Speaker 7: sit down and think about whether I'm going to come
Speaker 7: back for another year. But you know, I still enjoy it.
Speaker 7: I really really like analyzing football. That's that's what keeps
Speaker 7: me going. And you know it's fun. Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 4: Well, and you guys do I mean, the Journal Sentinels
Speaker 4: coverage of the Packers is is second to none. And
Speaker 4: you guys have I know you you as we have
Speaker 4: at the Inquiry. You've been through tough times and you
Speaker 4: know you continue to grind away and do the do
Speaker 4: the work for your readers.
Speaker 3: And I got a lot of respect.
Speaker 6: For right exactly. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: All Right, with that, Tom, we will let you go, buddy,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much.
Speaker 6: All right, you guys take care.
Speaker 3: Thanks Tom, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Tom Silverstein from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, good guy. I mean,
Speaker 1: like you said, thirty seven years covering the football team.
Speaker 1: Good god.
Speaker 3: I remember.
Speaker 4: I remember hearing Tom Silvers because I you know, earlier
Speaker 4: in my career, you know, you're always looking around, like
Speaker 4: where can I work, and you're looking at all these
Speaker 4: different papers and the Packers coverage at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee,
Speaker 4: it was always one of those kind of right, you know,
Speaker 4: places that you know, they're just a highly respected newspaper
Speaker 4: and and a lot of it has to do with
Speaker 4: their Packers coverage.
Speaker 1: So see, I didn't know that Green Bay was that
Speaker 1: far from Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know why.
Speaker 1: In my brain I thought that Green Bay was like
Speaker 1: like a suburb, something like Middletown to Cincinnati or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not Dayton to Cincinnati or Middletown. I did
Speaker 4: not go a whole other place.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: With that, we check in with traffic and weather. What
Speaker 1: is going on? Roots Radio? Takeover? Man, we can't storming
Speaker 1: in here. Jason Williams is with me instead of Rocky today.
Speaker 1: He'll be back on Monday. Or actually he's back tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Rocks back tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you and I came in here to ovation
Speaker 1: on the river at the Market Bar. Very cool man,
Speaker 1: very cool.
Speaker 3: And and why are we here?
Speaker 4: Because we're here for the America's River Roots event, which
Speaker 4: has taking place just right down the street here, well,
Speaker 4: not even down the street, right down the pedestrian walkway
Speaker 4: on the Newport riverfront and on the Cincinnati Riverfront. This
Speaker 4: is a great place to be. I would say, pre
Speaker 4: game for it here, then walk down, Well.
Speaker 1: All game for it. You can walk out there, see
Speaker 1: it all. They have the boardwalk out there, a bunch
Speaker 1: of different bars and restaurants back here at the Market Bar.
Speaker 1: You can kind of hang out. Make this like your point,
Speaker 1: make your you know, meet point, But dude, this is fun.
Speaker 4: And speaking of river roots and what the heck is
Speaker 4: that and our history with the river, and we thought
Speaker 4: we got to get a guy who knows all about
Speaker 4: the history of the river and really the history of
Speaker 4: Cincinnati and all things Cincinnati. And that's my colleague at
Speaker 4: the Inquire Cincinnati dot com. He is the local history
Speaker 4: writer for The Inquire at sin Sea dot com. Jeff Cease, Jeffrey,
Speaker 4: how are you, oh, doing great?
Speaker 6: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for being here with us.
Speaker 1: So, Jeff, you know, break it down for us a
Speaker 1: little bit. When I first came to town, I was like,
Speaker 1: why are these people so enraptured about the whole river
Speaker 1: culture and stuff? But come to find out, as obviously
Speaker 1: living here for as long as I have, Cincinnati pretty
Speaker 1: much wouldn't be here if it weren't for all this
Speaker 1: stuff that developed around here.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, rivers are where you put where
Speaker 10: city is developed. And Cincinnati developed right right before steamboats
Speaker 10: came about. And steamboats were a game changer because before
Speaker 10: you had steamboats, you know, you had to take like
Speaker 10: flatboats and things, and you could take them down river,
Speaker 10: but you couldn't really go up river and steamboats had
Speaker 10: the ability to go up and down, which meant transportation
Speaker 10: and transporting goods and stuff. And Cincinnati was blowing up
Speaker 10: right at the right time and really took advantage of
Speaker 10: that development. And so we were right on the forefront
Speaker 10: of shipbuilding. We were right there transporting goods and things
Speaker 10: from you know, the Ohio rivers, the Mississippi to the
Speaker 10: Gulf of Mexico. It was just that we were the
Speaker 10: developing at the right time.
Speaker 4: And Jeff, you had a really nice piece laying all
Speaker 4: this stuff out in the history of our you know,
Speaker 4: the river and why we celebrate our river history as well,
Speaker 4: and in a piece and inquires and say dot com
Speaker 4: over the weekend America's America's river roots will transport Ohio
Speaker 4: River to riverboat glory days.
Speaker 3: And why it's symbolic.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: And in your piece you referenced, you know, we've we've
Speaker 4: often celebrated this history, right we You know you think
Speaker 4: about tall stacks. Now this isn't tall stacks. It's similar
Speaker 4: to that, as in we have all the the steamboats
Speaker 4: are here. But talk about the significance of us just
Speaker 4: even our history of celebrating our our river history.
Speaker 10: Well, yeah, We really did this back with the Bygentennial
Speaker 10: in nineteen eighty eight, and we're celebrating the river was
Speaker 10: really a part of what we celebrate about Cincinnati, and
Speaker 10: we've got a lot more activity on the river. You know,
Speaker 10: the banks has finally developed, and you know, we're actually
Speaker 10: going back down there. For a long long time, the
Speaker 10: river was just warehouses and stuff, and so that return
Speaker 10: to the river, but it's more of a celebration. We
Speaker 10: don't have to go down there to get on a riverboat,
Speaker 10: you know, to travel around and things like that, and
Speaker 10: so you know, it kind of harkens to Cincinnati's big
Speaker 10: heyday when it was the sixth largest city in the
Speaker 10: US and the eighteen fifties, sixties, and so, you know,
Speaker 10: the it's a reminder of you know, the the heyday
Speaker 10: of the Queen City, and you know, so they have nostalgia.
Speaker 10: You know, we also had some older folks remember the
Speaker 10: Island Queen and taking it to Coney Island, and you know,
Speaker 10: we've always had that kind of love affair with the
Speaker 10: river and the steamboats and this is a nice, you know,
Speaker 10: reminder and for younger people, you know, who don't experience
Speaker 10: that before, we can kind of introduced him and say,
Speaker 10: you know, this is how big of a deal the
Speaker 10: river really was the development of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: So, Jeff, what do you suppose that people really started
Speaker 1: to pay attention to Cincinnati. I mean, you know Mark
Speaker 1: Twain wrote about this town and stuff. Was there a
Speaker 1: time more or less when people are like, oh, there
Speaker 1: was a lot going on there. I mean I would
Speaker 1: think that the river being you know, feeding in here
Speaker 1: and all that stuff coming from Kentucky and on all
Speaker 1: that stuff.
Speaker 10: You tell me, yeah, really, Cincinnati was pretty a major
Speaker 10: deal right away because it was the first city really
Speaker 10: being established after the Revolution, and it was the first
Speaker 10: on the west. You know, we don't think of Cincinnati
Speaker 10: as the West anymore, but it was the early West
Speaker 10: that after the Revolutionary War, and there was more expansion,
Speaker 10: so it was fastly growing and within you know, every
Speaker 10: decade they were doubling population. And then you think about
Speaker 10: how much you know, companies like Procter and Gamble, how
Speaker 10: many presidents have comes from Cincinnati. You know, we were
Speaker 10: really moving a lot of culture, a lot of politics,
Speaker 10: a lot of business manufacturing and stuff coming in through.
Speaker 10: It's just over time, as the country expanded westwards, you
Speaker 10: in Chicago and stuff like that. They have grown up
Speaker 10: to be bigger than Cincinnati, but we were that big
Speaker 10: and important in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 4: You referenced the Island Island Queen, which was really a
Speaker 4: very popular steamboat. You know that people would take what
Speaker 4: back and forth across the river to Coney Island that
Speaker 4: was destroyed in a fire in what in what nineteen.
Speaker 3: Forty seven forty seven head? Yeah, made me think, are
Speaker 3: of all that?
Speaker 4: I believe there are nine steamboats that are here this weekend.
Speaker 4: Are any of them in particular more special to Cincinnati
Speaker 4: than another one?
Speaker 3: Or are they?
Speaker 4: Have they all been through here before or is this
Speaker 4: even a first visit for some of them?
Speaker 10: I think most of them have probably been here before.
Speaker 10: I haven't really delved that much into individual history, but
Speaker 10: the Belle of Louisville is historic. That's the one they
Speaker 10: would have the races, I think with the Delta Queen
Speaker 10: in the past, and there's only you know, we keep
Speaker 10: using the term riverboats and steamboats, and there's a difference.
Speaker 10: So the steamboats were actually powered by steam and by
Speaker 10: and large those are gone now. Riverboats that have propellers
Speaker 10: and rudders and the paddle wheels are for show and
Speaker 10: to kind of keep going back.
Speaker 4: Also referred to as stern wheelers, right like you I
Speaker 4: remember growing up, I develop lists on the Ohio River
Speaker 4: that we would call them stern wheelers.
Speaker 3: Is that? Is that the same same type of boat?
Speaker 5: Same that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, And the stern wheeler is being it where it's
Speaker 10: where the wheel is, whether it's a stern or it's
Speaker 10: a side side wheeler, and things like that. And but
Speaker 10: you know, there are only a I think there's five
Speaker 10: or six true steamboats left, and I know the Bell
Speaker 10: of Louisville and the Natchez I'm here this week are
Speaker 10: two actual steamboats. So not the other ones are you know,
Speaker 10: nothing to sneeze that they're great boats, but it's really
Speaker 10: kind of interesting to see. Yeah, And I was on
Speaker 10: the Natchez last night and it was just you know,
Speaker 10: watching the boilers and and moving the pistons and the
Speaker 10: shafts and whatever the proper terms for all those things
Speaker 10: are moving the paddle. It's a really neat experience. And
Speaker 10: to be on the river going past at night and
Speaker 10: you really kind of get a feel of, like you know,
Speaker 10: Mark Twain was writing about.
Speaker 1: Uh, Jeff spoken like a true history nerd to be
Speaker 1: on one of those river cruises, like I'm going to
Speaker 1: check out the engine room. But that's cool, man, because
Speaker 1: I've always wondered how these things are driven. As you said,
Speaker 1: you know, I've known that for a long time, that
Speaker 1: paddle wheel, and I think everybody knows that. Now that's
Speaker 1: just for show, but I think those things are fascinating
Speaker 1: that whole history, that time, that time in history, and
Speaker 1: it wasn't that long of a period of time, Jeff,
Speaker 1: Can you kind of time frame that for us?
Speaker 10: Yeah, Well, the first one it was in eighteen twelve
Speaker 10: when the first steamboat came from Pittsburgh, went past Cincinnati
Speaker 10: down to New Orleans, and you know, with the Cincinnatians
Speaker 10: were so surprised to see it come back up the river.
Speaker 10: It made a real big impact. And so by the
Speaker 10: thirties and forties, sloot of the steamboat industries building up,
Speaker 10: and in these eighteen seventies or so, we were, you know,
Speaker 10: kind of at the forefront of shipbuilding around here. So
Speaker 10: you think all through the Civil War era at the
Speaker 10: eighteen eighties or so, but trains are picking up and
Speaker 10: taking a lot more transportation of things. So that's really
Speaker 10: kind of what and then steamboats were, you know, the dangerous.
Speaker 10: That's the thing about the steam powered In the old days,
Speaker 10: when they didn't regulate stuff as much, they had volatile
Speaker 10: boilers who would explode.
Speaker 6: All these ships were.
Speaker 10: Wooden, so if anything happened to them, they would go up.
Speaker 10: So we mentioned the Island Queen. We had two different
Speaker 10: Island Queens in Cincinnati. Both of them burned up at
Speaker 10: different types. So you know, it's it's kind.
Speaker 6: Of a of the period.
Speaker 10: Maybe not the greatest, fastest transportation anymore, but still it's
Speaker 10: there's still a great romantic quality to them.
Speaker 4: Well, I was going to ask you that Jeff and
Speaker 4: Jeff ceased from the Inquirer sinsi dot com the history
Speaker 4: writer join us.
Speaker 3: I was telling Eddie yesterday.
Speaker 4: Having grown up in Gallipolis and then my grandparents lived
Speaker 4: in Middleport, when the Delta Queen would come through, the
Speaker 4: whole town would stop. Everybody would go out and look
Speaker 4: at it and just marvel at it. But as we're
Speaker 4: talking here, it made me think, like, so really in
Speaker 4: the early days of this, because right now you think
Speaker 4: of it, and certainly now you think I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 4: that's certainly a touristy thing and a luxury thing to do.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm gonna take you know, eight days and take
Speaker 4: a river cruise. But early on, as I understand, right,
Speaker 4: this was how like if you wanted to go to
Speaker 4: New Orleans, this might have been the quickest way to do.
Speaker 10: That you got there, Yeah, absolutely, because you know, the
Speaker 10: river transport is the way to go. You know, it's
Speaker 10: much faster than you know, especially before they had trains
Speaker 10: really not kind of developing into the eighteen fifties or so. So,
Speaker 10: and there's difference between transporting goods and transporting people. And
Speaker 10: I think people liked to being on the river. They
Speaker 10: could stop a little towns along the way, and you
Speaker 10: know that twelve day trip. I mean, you know, people
Speaker 10: at different times view transportation differently than we do. We
Speaker 10: fly across the world in a day. You know, you
Speaker 10: take months to go across the Atlantic Ocean and steamships,
Speaker 10: so you know, everything was slower. You know, if you
Speaker 10: wanted to take get to northern Ohio, you might tank
Speaker 10: the canal boat and it was being pulled by a
Speaker 10: mule going two miles an hour. I mean it takes
Speaker 10: a while. Well, so you know the fifteen mile an hour.
Speaker 5: Steamboats pretty fast.
Speaker 1: Jeff, Let me ask you about that. You were talking
Speaker 1: about going into different ports and stuff. Is it was
Speaker 1: it like a cruise ship where you you know, they
Speaker 1: just kept moving and you slept on it. Or would
Speaker 1: they pull into a little town along the way. I
Speaker 1: did you know how that worked? I never even thought
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 10: From my understanding, it varied. You know, there are some
Speaker 10: of them where just transports to a shorter jaunts. For instance,
Speaker 10: that's where Coney Island came from. You would have these
Speaker 10: steamboats that would pause at this apple orchard and have
Speaker 10: a picnic. Yeah, and you guys like, hey, let's put
Speaker 10: up ride, and that kind of started up Coney Island.
Speaker 10: But then you do have the ones that are going
Speaker 10: to go transporting, you know, especially all the way down
Speaker 10: the rivers and stuff. They would be sleeping on them.
Speaker 10: It would be like being on an overnight train trip.
Speaker 3: Oh gotcha?
Speaker 1: Wondering all right with that? Jeff, We will let you go.
Speaker 3: Good stuff.
Speaker 5: Jeff, Well, thanks thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Are you so you've been down here? Are you going
Speaker 1: to come? I would assume you're going to be down
Speaker 1: here all week and wondering about.
Speaker 10: As much as I can. I went by it this afternoon.
Speaker 10: I listened to some of the music and the food
Speaker 10: vendors and stuff, because last night it was mostly just
Speaker 10: the cruises. But it's it's a great view to see everything.
Speaker 10: And then you know, being out on the river. You know,
Speaker 10: we can do it all the time, but we kind
Speaker 10: of we take it for granted, you know, And this
Speaker 10: is a good reminder of you know, the the river
Speaker 10: and going back there.
Speaker 4: Well, Jeff, enjoy your enjoy your time at River Roots,
Speaker 4: as I know so many other people are going to
Speaker 4: and planning to go.
Speaker 3: If you're still.
Speaker 4: Wondering about River Roots and what this is, I would
Speaker 4: encourage you to go to the inquire Since dot Com
Speaker 4: read Jeff's historical pieces on this. It really gives you
Speaker 4: a broader, bigger perspective about why are we having this
Speaker 4: River Roots?
Speaker 3: What is that?
Speaker 4: Well, Jeff's got all the answers and his pieces on
Speaker 4: Cincinna dot com.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jeff, Thank all right, Thanks buddy, And with
Speaker 1: that we check in with traffic and weather. What is
Speaker 1: going on at the River Roots Radio takeover? Jase and
Speaker 1: Rock here at the market bar at ovation on the River,
Speaker 1: and guys, I can't tell you enough, how cool this
Speaker 1: place is.
Speaker 3: All you need is Rocky right, that had another r
Speaker 3: in there.
Speaker 1: We don't need rocket Man. Look, he didn't want to
Speaker 1: be here. I don't know why. No, he's in Georgia.
Speaker 1: He's in Georgia right now, the ESPN game today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm telling you this is cool. If everybody's going
Speaker 1: to come to this festival this weekend. And we're on
Speaker 1: obviously right here on the Kentucky side of the river.
Speaker 1: It's a oh no, fifty yard walk. You're right there
Speaker 1: looking down from the market Bar and see all this
Speaker 1: stuff looking right at at the landing right across the river.
Speaker 4: Well on the shout out to the market Bar team too.
Speaker 4: This is a great team. They're incredibly friendly and great
Speaker 4: service here. And you just had some of the food.
Speaker 4: I haven't had that, but I heard you over here
Speaker 4: bragging about it.
Speaker 3: I guess no, we do.
Speaker 1: My wife came here obviously and cobbed on everything. But
Speaker 1: I did taste her. I did taste her food, and
Speaker 1: she said, we're coming back.
Speaker 3: This is really good. I thought I heard say that. No,
Speaker 3: she told me we'll be back or something.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we're going to be talking about NFL football
Speaker 1: as we often do, but this time on Thursday, we
Speaker 1: always talked to you. Your compadre from the sports department
Speaker 1: at Cincinnati dot Com Jay Jayhoff, Jason Hoff Jhoff. Well, uh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do our picks and and I I.
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Speaker 4: You just put fifty dollars in to begin the year
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Speaker 4: picked picking pick seven games a week, and I'm not
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Speaker 1: One of my sons where he working like dad, there's
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Speaker 1: you're you're a real gambler. I play cards, man. But
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Speaker 4: More specifically in the Homewood Suites right right off of that.
Speaker 4: If you're looking to come here, just do the Homewood
Speaker 4: Suites address and that'll get.
Speaker 1: You right here and find the red chairs, lots of
Speaker 1: red chairs. That's not Rocky. Jason Williams is with me,
Speaker 1: but now we have another Jason, a guy you work with.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, then we lost that We do every Thursday
Speaker 1: round about this time.
Speaker 4: He helps me a lot on these I listened to
Speaker 4: this segment every week. Well are you betting?
Speaker 1: Are you betting? According to Hey, you know what Jason Hoppin,
Speaker 1: let's talk to you. How are we doing, buddy?
Speaker 5: So in the gambling world, we are up four and
Speaker 5: a half units this year so far, so we're winning
Speaker 5: not a lot, we're winning a little bit right now.
Speaker 1: So four and a half units. I've never heard it
Speaker 1: put that way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, means so instead of in the gambling world, it's
Speaker 5: not polite to say how much you bet on a game.
Speaker 5: It could be fifty, one hundred and ten, whatever, one thousand,
Speaker 5: ten thousand, that's just your unit. So that's what I
Speaker 5: bet per game, not specifying anything. But in the gambling world, yeah,
Speaker 5: you specify how many units you're up or down. So
Speaker 5: if it's ten, you're up forty five dollars right now.
Speaker 5: If it's one hundred year up four to fifty, I
Speaker 5: got it.
Speaker 3: So I'm I'm in.
Speaker 4: I'm in my Pickham pool every week, which is I
Speaker 4: just pay fifty dollars to get in it. I'm four Unfortunately,
Speaker 4: I'm four games under five hundred. Does that mean I'm
Speaker 4: down four units?
Speaker 3: There's that.
Speaker 5: I mean it would be betting if you were betting
Speaker 5: per game.
Speaker 3: Yes, I got you.
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's get right to the betting part of it.
Speaker 1: Jason to Hoffman our guests from the Inquirer Cincinnati dot com.
Speaker 1: Starting with the night, let's talk about the Eagles and Giants.
Speaker 1: Seeing the Eagles, well, uh, seven point favorites over the
Speaker 1: Giants in that over of forty and a half.
Speaker 5: I like the Eagles in the spot. Jackson Dark has
Speaker 5: been good, better than most thought, especially in that Brian
Speaker 5: Gables system. But the Eagles are so good at the
Speaker 5: at the point of attack and both the offensive and
Speaker 5: defensive line. I can't see the Giants keep it in
Speaker 5: this game closer than a touchdown. So I'm gonna go
Speaker 5: with the Eagles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hey, Eagles, especially Eagles coming off that lost to
Speaker 4: Denver at home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 4: Next game. We're just jumping down the line here. Well,
Speaker 4: let's let's go right to a Brown Steelers on Sunday.
Speaker 4: That's yeah, I'm saying, be a dogfight.
Speaker 1: Steelers six and a half. I think that's a that's
Speaker 1: a strong line, and the over thirty eight and a half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw no.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So last week I figured Dylan Gabriel going against Brian
Speaker 5: Flores would have a terrible game. He did enough to
Speaker 5: almost get the Browns over the finish line, yep. But
Speaker 5: the Vikings did pull it out at the end. They
Speaker 5: just didn't cover the spread, which means we lost. Besides that,
Speaker 5: you've now got a whole week of tape on what
Speaker 5: that offense looks like with him and Mike Tomlin's one
Speaker 5: of the best in the league at divising game plan
Speaker 5: against that. So as long as it stays under a touchdown,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with the Steelers. And I also liked
Speaker 5: the over in this game because I think Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 5: is going to have a decent day.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that Brown's defense but did not look
Speaker 1: like the Browns defense last week.
Speaker 5: Now, and that was against Carson Wentz too.
Speaker 3: Correct jumping down to we got Rams Ravens.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Ravens might be the best one to
Speaker 4: four team obviously, Lamar out right now.
Speaker 3: Rams on the road, favored by seven and a half.
Speaker 3: What do you got Jay?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So this is a So last week they lost at home,
Speaker 5: they got blown out by the Texans because Lamar wasn't there,
Speaker 5: and they had nine starters out of their twenty two
Speaker 5: starters not play. This week, it looks like there might
Speaker 5: be seven starters that don't play. As long as this
Speaker 5: game stays the line stays under double digits, I'm taking
Speaker 5: the Rams, even though I don't like it, just because
Speaker 5: when you when you're that banged up, the second second
Speaker 5: stringers are not that good in the NFL. Even though
Speaker 5: people think they are. So I'm gonna stay with the
Speaker 5: Rams even though they had that clunker on Thursday night
Speaker 5: last week.
Speaker 1: All right, moving along, how about the Seahawks at the
Speaker 1: surprising Jags.
Speaker 4: I mean four and one Jags, if that's it, if
Speaker 4: that's your best team in the AFC?
Speaker 1: Correct, Yeah, I'm saying forty six and a half on
Speaker 1: this one, Jason.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I got to go with the Seahawks here,
Speaker 5: even though they really they got they got Baker mayfielded
Speaker 5: last week. Baker Mayfield led an incredible fourth quarter and
Speaker 5: just did ridiculous things. The Jaguars only beat the Chiefs
Speaker 5: because and I quote, I was panicking, is what Trevor
Speaker 5: Lawrence said on that last play the game where he
Speaker 5: almost fell down. He was panicking. He admitted as much
Speaker 5: saw a wide saw a wide open gap and just
Speaker 5: ran through it and said screw it and actually scored
Speaker 5: a touchdown. But the Seahawks are The Jaguars have a
Speaker 5: really good roster. The Seahawks, in my opinion, are the
Speaker 5: way better team here. And even though it's a one
Speaker 5: o'clock start on the East Coast, which means it's ten
Speaker 5: am their time, I don't think that'll be a problem.
Speaker 5: I think the Seahawks roster and coaching prevails in this one.
Speaker 4: Next game is and this is one where, Man, this
Speaker 4: is a tough one to pick, I think because the
Speaker 4: forty nine ers at four and one, without rock Party,
Speaker 4: without a bunch of guys, just keep on.
Speaker 3: Winning and finding a way to win.
Speaker 4: They go across the country to Baker Mayfield and the
Speaker 4: Tampa Bay Bucks. Bucks right now favored at by three
Speaker 4: points over Unders at forty seven and a half, And.
Speaker 3: What do you make of that one?
Speaker 5: Jay, So this is one where I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 5: start riding Baker Mayfield from a betting perspective the rest
Speaker 5: of the year. Yeah, I love I love what Kyle
Speaker 5: Shanahan does in San Francisco. I'm not gonna lie his
Speaker 5: game planning and play calling Nason so that almost any
Speaker 5: quarterback who can walk can probably execute that offense. But
Speaker 5: the Bucks right now just have it going. It doesn't
Speaker 5: matter the situation, doesn't matter how much they're down in
Speaker 5: the second half, they're finding ways to win, and they're
Speaker 5: at home. I'm gonna I'm gonna ride the Bucks on
Speaker 5: this one minus the three and a half I'm also
Speaker 5: gonna I'm also gonna move the line to six and
Speaker 5: a half, thinking they win.
Speaker 3: By a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, all right, how about that that
Speaker 1: night game, big game and surprising here Lions at Chiefs,
Speaker 1: Chiefs by two and a half. Uh and the uh
Speaker 1: over fifty two and a half.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: That's the last line I saw on that, Jase. Maybe
Speaker 1: you can correct me on that.
Speaker 5: No, that's that's what it is. And it's weird that
Speaker 5: it's that high, which is why I'm gonna stay away
Speaker 5: from it. I have no idea why it's that high.
Speaker 5: I would, you know, gut into my head. I'd bet
Speaker 5: a under on that. But I'm going to actually take
Speaker 5: the Chiefs minus the points here. The Chiefs were beating
Speaker 5: the Jaguars by every measurable statistic last week until that
Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence scramble for a touchdown. I think the Chiefs
Speaker 5: have it together, Honestly, I think they figured it out
Speaker 5: and they're I think they're going to win this game
Speaker 5: by a touchdown, but I will gladly take two.
Speaker 3: And a half. I should say I'm one hundred percent
Speaker 3: with you on that.
Speaker 7: Jay.
Speaker 4: I think the Chiefs are due and they're due for
Speaker 4: a win. I think the line are due for kind
Speaker 4: of a dud.
Speaker 1: Yea, to be honest with you, has their new album out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Kelso go out there and Kelsey go out
Speaker 1: there and he'll catch like two hundred yards where their passes.
Speaker 1: It's kata.
Speaker 3: What do you do?
Speaker 4: Let's stump that. Monday Night games. The Bills coming off
Speaker 4: the loss at versus New England. Uh, they go down
Speaker 4: to Atlanta play the Falcons. The Falcons are just so
Speaker 4: so team at two and two, Buffalo favored by four
Speaker 4: and a half over under his forty nine and a
Speaker 4: half the Bills. Do they bounce back in this one
Speaker 4: or do they take it on the chin again?
Speaker 5: I think the Bills bounce back. They lost last week
Speaker 5: to a team that Mike Graybile has just playing out
Speaker 5: of their mind and playing extremely physical football. That's not
Speaker 5: what the Falcons are. I don't like four and a
Speaker 5: half in this spot. If I were going to take
Speaker 5: the spread, I would take the Atlanta plus four and
Speaker 5: a half because I think this is a field goal
Speaker 5: game either way. And I'm also going to go with
Speaker 5: the under. Yeah, because the Falcons have a great defense.
Speaker 5: The Bills have a good defense and the Bills are
Speaker 5: not great with weapons right now.
Speaker 1: And it is another night, another Monday night football double header,
Speaker 1: got Bears at Commanders, and I'm seeing Commanders by four
Speaker 1: and a half ever so so game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not that appealing, honestly, But what the Commanders
Speaker 5: did last week in Arizona, I think they're gonna I
Speaker 5: think they're gonna steamroll Chicago this week.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't think that Chicago's offense is going to have
Speaker 5: enough to do what the Commanders are doing on defense
Speaker 5: right now. Deal with what the Commanders are doing on
Speaker 5: defense right now. So I'm all over the Commanders in
Speaker 5: this one.
Speaker 4: And finally, drum roll please. Bengals at Packers Joe Flacco's debut,
Speaker 4: what not debut against the Packers. He's already played him
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 1: Fourteen points man fourteen.
Speaker 4: The ESPN bet has them at fourteen and a half.
Speaker 4: So fourteen fourteen and a half over under at forty
Speaker 4: four and a half two touchdowns, seems even though the
Speaker 4: Bengals have been struggling, and with Flacco now having beaten
Speaker 4: the Packers, I feel like fourteen's a lot of points
Speaker 4: really in general, on an NFL game, and I even
Speaker 4: think it is for this Bengals team.
Speaker 3: But what do you say, you're the.
Speaker 5: Expert, Jay, So yeah, the most interesting thing here the
Speaker 5: line opened up Sunday night at fourteen and a half
Speaker 5: at most books. When the Bengals picked up Flaco, it
Speaker 5: only went down to fourteen. So that tells you that
Speaker 5: the books, the books don't think that Flaco is that
Speaker 5: big of a difference. Normally a quarterback, like you know,
Speaker 5: the best quarterbacks in the NFL, Josh Allen for instance,
Speaker 5: if he's out, it's a six and a half point
Speaker 5: spread move immediately. Yeah, the most quarterbacks are right around
Speaker 5: a point and a half two points. And if Flacco
Speaker 5: is only a half point over Jake Browning to the
Speaker 5: books and again this is not x's and o's, this
Speaker 5: is just what the bookmakers do. That tells me that
Speaker 5: they don't have much confidence that the Bengals are going
Speaker 5: to change that much. However, fourteen points at a ton,
Speaker 5: especially in the NFL. Man, and I think the Bulls
Speaker 5: the Bengals play good enough to keep it within fourteen,
Speaker 5: so I would take that number. But my whole thing
Speaker 5: here is the over. I think the Packers coming off
Speaker 5: of buye are going to have an awesome offensive game
Speaker 5: plan against what the Bengals defense doesn't do well, which
Speaker 5: is unfortunately st up the run in the pass.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, let's be honest, we've we've all watched
Speaker 5: this team so far. They're they're mediocre on defense and
Speaker 5: the problem is they're not exceptional on offense right now.
Speaker 5: So but yeah, I like the fourteen number here for
Speaker 5: the Bengals to cover. I don't think they get it
Speaker 5: within a field goal though, so I wouldn't go that crazy,
Speaker 5: But yeah, I it's just when when I saw the
Speaker 5: books only move the line at a point, I was like, Uh,
Speaker 5: these guys know what they're doing and they don't think
Speaker 5: that that's much of a movement. So that's where I'm at.
Speaker 5: But I'm also going to take the over because I
Speaker 5: think there's a possibility of a shootout at them in
Speaker 5: here good at good good weather. Jamar and te like
Speaker 5: playing on that type of turf that Green Bay has,
Speaker 5: and Tea already or sorry Jamar today already said that
Speaker 5: Joe Flacco is getting play calls in fash than he's
Speaker 5: ever in the NFL, and he said it's not a
Speaker 5: big deal. It's just an adjustment to make. But he
Speaker 5: was saying that Flat is so quick to get the
Speaker 5: play calls in. I think we're looking at maybe a
Speaker 5: track meet here on Sunday.
Speaker 1: That'd be cool. All right, all for that, well we
Speaker 1: shall see so Jason Hoffman from The Inquirer pleasure as always, son,
Speaker 1: We will talk to you next week.
Speaker 5: Awesome, guys, thank you. Let's go make some money, all right,
Speaker 5: thank you?
Speaker 1: My friend lay them as they roll or something like that.
Speaker 1: See you don't, I'm not a better You don't go
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Speaker 1: smoke cigarettes and siguys and sit there and like, bring
Speaker 1: me another scotch.
Speaker 3: What's going on to that TETs game?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Me neither with that. We check in with trafficking weather,
Speaker 1: what is going on? Add dovasion on the river the Mark,
Speaker 1: Mark and Jason had to go.
Speaker 8: It's a good thing I was here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like we didn't talk about it. But anyways to
Speaker 1: talk about the rest of the weekend. Susanne death Ridge. Uh,
Speaker 1: and Suzanne, I don't ready, I don't know what your
Speaker 1: exact title is, but you seem to be in charge
Speaker 1: of literally everything. But I mean everything that's going on
Speaker 1: here at Ovation on the River.
Speaker 2: Well, I am here with corpor X and we are
Speaker 2: the master developer of Ovations, So yes, we'll explain for.
Speaker 1: People who don't know, explain what this all is because
Speaker 1: it's a complex.
Speaker 11: If they haven't seen it, it's impossible to figure out
Speaker 11: it's on this space.
Speaker 2: Now it is a lot. So it has been very
Speaker 2: transformational to this part of Newport, which is right at
Speaker 2: the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: So you know at once just empty land is now
Speaker 2: a full complex. It's a two story garage on both
Speaker 2: sides of Third Street, and you've got one section with
Speaker 2: an office building, Megacre, music and event venue, and then
Speaker 2: the home with suites market bar that we are sitting in.
Speaker 2: And then once you cross third Street you have these
Speaker 2: amazing residences, the Boardwalk residences, condominiums and a boardwalk right
Speaker 2: in the front that overlooks the Ohio and Licking rivers.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely stunning and today and throughout the weekend you'll
Speaker 2: see all the riverboats right from that boardwalk.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, we'll talk about the rest of
Speaker 1: this stuff, but being right behind the venue here for
Speaker 1: people who come to a concert here. I mean literally
Speaker 1: of steps away. You can come here, have some to
Speaker 1: eat and walk right over there, or walk here afterwards
Speaker 1: and have a cocktail before you.
Speaker 2: Will absolutely and I mean you've got the plaza right
Speaker 2: in front of us, Ofvation Plaza and that Megacre Pavilion.
Speaker 2: I mean incredible concerts, both outdoor and indoor. They have
Speaker 2: both the approaches and talk about access to river roots
Speaker 2: from here, so you can easily right through our development,
Speaker 2: walk over to the boardwalk and just the stunning views
Speaker 2: of the river boats. And there's bourbon tastings, Braxton beer,
Speaker 2: food and drink, live music both on Ovation Plaza and
Speaker 2: then the boardwalk. And quite frankly, if you've got a
Speaker 2: riverboat cruise park here at Ovation, take the Riverfront Commons
Speaker 2: walkway right across the tailor Southgate and you're right at
Speaker 2: the public landing where all the boats are more.
Speaker 11: What do you feel like when people walk in here?
Speaker 11: Because it was my first time walking up here today
Speaker 11: was amazing. You know, when people come in here and
Speaker 11: they haven't been around for a little bit. This kind
Speaker 11: of rose from ashes of it took so many years
Speaker 11: to make a what do people say to you?
Speaker 2: You know, they're always surprised. I always want to say,
Speaker 2: come up from Third Street. You've got to come up
Speaker 2: on top and really see it, because once you get
Speaker 2: up here, like your experience today, you're like, wow, this
Speaker 2: is incredible. It really is about accessibility, convenience, walk ability,
Speaker 2: having everything at your fingertips, and that's what it's about here.
Speaker 2: But you do have to go up. And the reason
Speaker 2: why we want you to go up is so that
Speaker 2: we are above that levee wall and you get those
Speaker 2: incredible views and you're in a safe environment too, since
Speaker 2: we're not going to have that water come up.
Speaker 11: But it is so convenient because I had not been here,
Speaker 11: but where I pulled in the garage, I saw where
Speaker 11: it's an elevator, and then it took me thirty seconds
Speaker 11: to Yeah, the elevator, you know stairwells.
Speaker 2: It's a simple pop up to the top on the
Speaker 2: plaza levels.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Here at the market bar. I mean, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the elevator banks and.
Speaker 2: Right now they get to that view of the Ohio
Speaker 2: River and the Cincinnati skyline.
Speaker 3: The river like you.
Speaker 1: But you guys also right down the street for people
Speaker 1: who don't know where you're where exactly Where're at Newport
Speaker 1: on the Levee. Absolutely, that's been there forever, literally right
Speaker 1: down the street, right down the river bank.
Speaker 2: It truly is. I mean that Riverfront Commons walkway goes
Speaker 2: right in front of Ovation, takes you down to the bridge.
Speaker 2: You're right over at Newport on the Levee. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's fantastic all of the offerings in this amazing river
Speaker 2: city here.
Speaker 1: So what's going on here at Ovation the rest of
Speaker 1: the weekend.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, there's going to be live. Well, we've
Speaker 2: got tea paint over at Megacore Pavilion on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Because nothing screams river roots like tea paint.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's all about music too, is one of their pillars, Eddie.
Speaker 2: Come on now, we've got eighties cover bands up at Haino,
Speaker 2: We've got DJs, we've got bourbon, and we have a
Speaker 2: life size happy Birthday cart that everybody should sign because
Speaker 2: it is the two hundred and fiftieth birthday to the country,
Speaker 2: a massive eight by eight and this is the.
Speaker 1: Kickoff, right, the official right, Absolutely, we are the kickoff
Speaker 1: to the two hundred and fifty Cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got a birthday cake out there, Eddie.
Speaker 8: So I'm taking selfie.
Speaker 2: Sorry it is Omni Channel rights rocky.
Speaker 1: But no, all week and long, there's going to be
Speaker 1: all the cruises that are going on. I mean, shoot,
Speaker 1: and those are all going to take off from the
Speaker 1: Ohio side though, right they do.
Speaker 2: All of those nine river boats from multiple cities are
Speaker 2: taking they're all moored on the Cincinnati side. So again
Speaker 2: from the Northingexa, you just walk across the tailor Southgate
Speaker 2: Bridge and you are right there. So the convenience is incredible, along.
Speaker 7: With the views.
Speaker 2: And again what says Kentucky bourbon, So we got plenty
Speaker 2: of bourbon and beer for everybody.
Speaker 1: Well, Suzanne, you and I were talking earlier about and
Speaker 1: I've talked to my lovely wife here. I said, oh,
Speaker 1: they have a bourbon and candy tasting. I think I'm
Speaker 1: going to go to that.
Speaker 8: That's right, And I.
Speaker 2: Brought you the Melody sticks and Betty van mel actually
Speaker 2: has you know a little candy that does the pipe
Speaker 2: and whatever that's called coming out of those boats.
Speaker 8: Calliope caliapees contributing tank.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you, but.
Speaker 1: Listen, it's going to be going on until one Sunday,
Speaker 1: more or less on sun I means all days.
Speaker 2: It's all day. It opens up every day at eleven Today,
Speaker 2: it goes until ten Friday, Saturday till eleven pm, and
Speaker 2: then Sunday it finishes at nine. And there are fireworks
Speaker 2: taking place over the Ohio River between eight thirty and nine.
Speaker 2: So stunning views again from here to be able to
Speaker 2: observe or participate whatever is up your boat.
Speaker 8: No better weather than this. Was amazing that this worked.
Speaker 2: Out, like oh fall has entered and it is fantastic.
Speaker 3: Wanted to be part of the park.
Speaker 1: You all could have asked for a better weather.
Speaker 3: Weekend.
Speaker 1: I mean, good Lord, that's right, I mean beautiful whatever
Speaker 1: last week ninety degrees, I mean today you can walk
Speaker 1: around in jeans, in a in a sweater and it's perfect.
Speaker 1: Not a cloud in the sky.
Speaker 2: It is beautiful. Absolutely, And that's Cincinnati Skyline with those
Speaker 2: boats in the backdrop. It's beautiful. But take a cruise.
Speaker 2: Are you going on a cruise?
Speaker 1: Nobody offered I should I should.
Speaker 2: Have got it by cruise tickets at America river Roots
Speaker 2: dot com.
Speaker 1: Well, I have to look that up. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to talk to the promotions department. It's seven
Speaker 1: hundred w l W and see what's going on with that?
Speaker 2: Oh, you gotta get on a cruise.
Speaker 7: We uh.
Speaker 1: We talked to a bunch of people who've been on
Speaker 1: the Actually we had friends on them today, a couple
Speaker 1: of who were doing we had two different two couples
Speaker 1: who were doing two cruises, and I was like, what
Speaker 1: do you think you're going to see different but if
Speaker 1: you're a different boat, correct.
Speaker 2: That's right, at different times of the day. They have
Speaker 2: them in the morning, they have them in the afternoon.
Speaker 2: They have meal cruises, they have sight seeing cruises, they
Speaker 2: have you know, happy hour cruises. There's all sorts of things.
Speaker 1: All right with that, we will let you go.
Speaker 2: Hey, well thanks for having me on. I'm proud to
Speaker 2: be a part of the one in k WY zone.
Speaker 8: Congratulations on all of you so much.
Speaker 4: Thanks so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we uh we gotta get down here.
Speaker 11: You know, Well, there's no reason you have to work tomorrow.
Speaker 11: I can I can skip out so I can go.
Speaker 1: Well, you're gonna sponge off our friends and talk try
Speaker 1: to talk to them and had not taken their wives.
Speaker 1: I heard that Lisa was sick.
Speaker 3: When I go, who can't make it? I can be
Speaker 3: a plus one.
Speaker 8: I'm excellent at that.
Speaker 1: So now you were doing TV reporting when tall stax
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's amazing to think about how long ago
Speaker 8: that was.
Speaker 11: But how the community rallied around that and just was
Speaker 11: all in and the number of people who were down
Speaker 11: by the river then and everything. It was wonderful and
Speaker 11: it was it was a great thing about everybody coming
Speaker 11: together and the history like we're seeing this week and
Speaker 11: this weekend. It's just when people start to really think
Speaker 11: about what the that river lifestyle and how that put
Speaker 11: Cincinnati on the map and all that happened here a
Speaker 11: long time ago.
Speaker 8: It's it is truly amazing.
Speaker 1: If you went to that all those years ago, you're
Speaker 1: gonna want to see this because we're looking. You know,
Speaker 1: we can walk right out there and see the landing
Speaker 1: where all the boats are parked and stuff, and well
Speaker 1: we can we can speak to it because we live
Speaker 1: on the river now, yeh, and saw a couple of
Speaker 1: these boats going up the river the other day and
Speaker 1: it is really cool.
Speaker 8: It's so impressive it is and it's just beautiful.
Speaker 11: I mean, the river life is amazing and to be
Speaker 11: on the river, you know, like Susanna was saying, a
Speaker 11: minute ago.
Speaker 7: Do that.
Speaker 11: It's a whole different perspective than watching it from the land.
Speaker 1: Well, we want to thank everybody here at the market
Speaker 1: Bar at Ovation on the River. Come down here, check
Speaker 1: it out. This place is very cool and it's developing
Speaker 1: and it has well I say developing, but it's beautiful,
Speaker 1: all kinds of cool stuff. There's a boardwalk right from
Speaker 1: I can see it from here. Then you can walk
Speaker 1: over it and walk right along the river, walk right
Speaker 1: down to where all the events are going on. Super cool.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't miss it. Thank you to everybody here at the
Speaker 1: Market Bar at Ovation on the River.
Speaker 3: You're great. Thank you.
Speaker 1: And now with that we check in with traffic and weather.
Speaker 1: What is going on.