Quick Hits and Locks of the Night w/ Austin Elmore and Chad Brendel -- 7/5/24

Austin and Chad talk Reds, Bengals, UC, and more including LOTN, on ESPN 1530!

Episode Transcript

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It's joy since he three sixty continueson ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati's sports station.

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It's time for Sincy three sixty quickhits on ESPN fifteen thirty. Yes,
indeed it is Austin Ellmore back onsince E three sixty and pleasure to
be joined now by Chad Brindle,who is in for Moegger this afternoon.
Hi Chad, how are you?I'm delightful. Had a good fourth nice
shit you things kind of got screwedup, the weather kind of messes some
things up, but ultimately ended uphaving a fire at my house. A

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couple of friends over a couple ofcold beverages. Nice, nice, relaxing,
ended up being a great evening.What's your cold beverage of choice?
Since he light since her beer right, Bourbon just depends. It's either it's
either beer or bourbon, one ofthe two. You know. I've try
like hell to drink bourbon. Ijust can't. It's just it's a choie.

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It's awful to me. I tryso hard. You're you're one of
those like you make the face Yeah, yeah, I wish I couldn't,
you know, and then well,you know, try to you know,
look down on me as a manbecause I don't like bourbon. But we
body just doesn't handle it well.We gotta find you one that's really smooth.
Yeah, I'm willing to try that. But it's like golf, it's
an expensive hobby. It's a veryexpensive hobby. Like I make a mistake.

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I do not collect bourbon bottles,right, I drink bourbon. Like
right, I go buy and finda bottle, and I buy it and
I drink it. I don't haveforty unopened bottles of bourbon. I don't
get that. I know people thatdo. I know a lot of people
that do. I do too.Why not just drink the bourbon? Just
enjoy the bourbon? Right? Youbought the bourbon to drink. It's not
a showpiece. It is. Itis a beverage. Drink it and there's

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not you know, the typical persondoesn't have that many special occasions in life.
No, okay, maybe you saveone for you know, a special
day. But my uncle collects bourbon, and like every once in a while,
I'll have a big party and oneof his buddies will drink purposely one
of the expensive bottles just to sethim off and watch how angry. He

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gets that he has these expensive bottlesof bourbon that nobody's allowed to touch,
like you. If it's if it'son the bourbon rack and you're offering bourbon,
I'm free to whatever is there,right, Yes, I agree with
that. I get to produce yourshow today. You do. How excited
are you? I haven't done thatin a long time. Are you going

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to talk? Last time you didn'ttalk. I don't plan on talking a
lot, but I will be hereif you need me. Okay, don't
be afraid to come to me.I just don't want the listeners to get
tired of my voice. They've heardit for the last three hours. Nobody
could get tired of your voice.Many people do often frequently. We're going
to talk a lot of bearcats today, so that I did see that.
What is coming up on the show, Keithan Nickoson's going to join us.

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He heads off to have you seenthe projected high temperature in Las Vegas for
next week? I'm going to guessone hundred and fourteen degrees. It's no
oh hotter, hotter than that.Monday is supposed to be the hottest day
in the history of Las Vegas.Do you know how bleep and hot it
has to be to be the hottestday in the history of last set like
sneaking up on the one thirties oneeighteen one eighteen one eighteen is the projected

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temperatures. It's a dry heat.Keegan was like, that's that's dry.
It's I'm like, Okay, gostand on a sidewalk and don't move for
three minutes and tell me what happens. I will say I have been out
like in that type of heat before, in that area. It is a
different type of heat. It's hot, but it's still smoking. It's hot.
Yeah. Uh so he's gonna He'sheaded the big twelve media days on

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Mondays, so we can get alittle preview of that. Maybe Keegan can
bring me back like some raider gear. He could. That'd be cool,
he could. It's at Allegiance standard, That's what I'm saying. So stadium's
awesome. Yeah, so we'll talkto keys. Okay, Dan Horde Oh
is going to join us to talkabout a new podcast. Yes, I
saw this new UC podcast, whichyou know you got to give credit where

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credits due thanks to Xavier for inventingpodcasting. See if you're invented podcasting.
Well that's how when set that.You know, when Dan Horde's podcast was
announced, huh. Xavier fans Allcredited Sean Miller with Dan Horde getting a
podcast. You know, both podcastscan be good, yeah, and entertaining.
I did too, but it's toototally different podcasts. I love the

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pettiness of rivalry. And it's becauseI did see some of those comments too
when that was announcing. You know, okay, look what Xavier did.
Yeah, yeahay, okay, okay, it's just it's a never ending competition
to make it about me. Yeah, both absolutely, absolutely. Uh,
we're going to try to put theweek the It's not the weekend. Like
the dude, the The Yankees seriesdid not happen over a weekend. I'm

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so confused. I know I was. I was going through my brain like
I wanted to talk about the biggestyou know, what I thought was the
biggest moment in that series was Tuesday. Okay, when Alexis Dias comes in
in the ninth inning, has eightnine to one, and then Soto and

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and one run game. He mowsdown eight nine to one. They never
get to the plate through like eightnine pitches. Yeah, that is the
type of thing that this team hasfailed time and again, the stuff that
takes you from a one run lossto a one run win. And we
saw that some this weekend. Butyou do have to, I think,

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keep this in perspective, because,let's be honest, the Yankees are playing
like crap right now, and theReds took advantage. But that's not to
take anything away from the Reds,sure, but what's important is do they
use this as momentum? Do theyuse this as a launching point? Because
if they go six and three overthese final nine, they're five hundred into

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the All Star break, and Ithink our conversation about them is a lot
different if they're at five hundred atthe break. I agree, if they
struggle over these next nine games andthey don't take advantage and they go four
and five or something of that nature, and all of a sudden, now
you're four games under five hundred,you're considerably back in the division. You're

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not going to win the division atthis point, and the wild Card is
starting to slip away. So dothey Are they able to take this Yankee
series as a launching pad into finishingthis first half strong? I think that's
critical. I have a Bengals topic. You kind of hit on it.
My framing was a little bit different, but it ended up being similar.

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Most of the guys that we areseeing at the top of this Bengals roster
were either drafted Joe and Jamar inthat little window where they were drafting first
or fourth or whatever it was.It is time for the guys that have
been drafted since since they have beengood, where is the next wave?
Because we have not seen really thatI mean what Volcon Dax Hill didn't really

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work out Cam Taylor Britt has beendecent. I don't think he's been you
know, Pro Bowl level yet.It is time for that wave of guys
that have been at Yo Yoshi andand Brown and those guys on offense mems
Ersnet group, Jordan Battle. Ifthis team is going to have the success

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that they want to have, itis time for that next group to step
into the role of stars or buddingstars if you will, as opposed to
just being background dancers. Fantastic.You don't want to be Travis Kelcey on
stage with Taylor Swift. I wouldlove to be Travis Kelcey on stage with

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Taylor so that'd be kind of cool. That guy's living He's doing all right,
guy has living life. Let's getto the Locks on the Weekend.
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you some money. Travis Kelcey livingthe life, isn't he? Could you
imagine if I told you that liketen years ago, no, that he
was going to be like literally ontop of the world. The number one
podcaster in America. Yeah, thanksto Xavier, the number one boyfriend in
America. Yeah. And uh andnow, oh that's a good point.
Yeah, the New Heights was beforethe Shawn Miller podcast. Yeah, okay,

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so there you go. You seeyou see a podcasting Seawan Miller stole
the idea for your kelse brother.This is what I'm here shopping. Yes,
that's the word of stopping it.Take Do you have any locks of
the Weekend for go red Under.I've been going, I've been I've been
hot with it. I'm going toRed's Under. Uh. There are a
couple of home dogs in Major LeagueBaseball. And you know I've been following

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along to the home dog strategy allweek. Uh so I am sticking with
that. Oakland tonight, Colorado tonight, Washington tonight, the Nats, Rockies,
A's all home dogs. I'm rockingwith the and will be for the
rest of the weekend. Thank youto Chad Brindle, thank you to Tommy
G. Thank you to Charlie Gfor stopping by. Tony is back on

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Monday, Moe is back on Monday. I am back on Monday. I
think the next show we do willbe Monday. Today is actually Friday.
When you talk about Tony and Mobeing out, was that a shot at
me here the benches? It wasNo. I never never said that.
I never said that it is.However, it was more of a shot

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at them because they're never here.You know, they're they're the Nickson Zel's
and the TJ. Friedels and theNick Lodolo's. They can't get themselves healthy
enough to be in the office.Guys like you and I are the backbone.
Yeah, when tough times hit,correct, we get us through.
We're Ellie de la Cruz and SpencerSteer and Jamber Candelario, fighting like hell.
Chad, thank you. I'll talkto you in a couple of minutes.
OK, all right, there itis. I'd had turned my mic

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off and not yours. Chad Brindlecoming up next. What a week it's
been. We'll do it again onMonday. Right here on Cincy three to
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