11-21-25 Scott Sloan Show

Scott previews the weekend in sports with Dan Hoard and Austin Elmore. Also Kathleen Petticord explains why more citizens are retiring abroad. Finally Rep Adam Matthews explains his legislation to play more high school games in pro stadiums.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you want to be an American idiots?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Got slow show seven hundred WLW. You always kick off
Friday morning with this little Bengal football talk three and
seven in Cincinnati and nine and two New England. Who
saw that coming at the beginning of the season. No
more Brady, No, we're Belichick. Now it's May and Rabel.
They're getting it done. Joining the show this morning as
always Fridays before game day is the living legend. That'd

(00:25):
be Dan Horde on the show. Dan Horde, you are
a living legend.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Good morning, sir, that's kind of you to say, Sloany,
I'm doing well.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Now you hear your voy.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Good good, good, good good. This is arguably one of
the biggest sports weekend in Cincinnati history. If you think
about it, maybe that's a little overblown. But you've got
this Bengals game. We'll get to that in a second.
Why that's so big tonight? You've got Saint X and
Elder at pay Course Stadium. You've got UC and Louisville,
you have FC Cincinnati and Inter Miami playing. You've got

(00:54):
BYU and UC and the Bengals on Sunday. What am
I missing?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
You are missing a UC versus nji T on Monday.
It continues right into Monday with the New Jersey Institute
of Technology rolling into town.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's good. What is their team? What's the mascot there?

Speaker 3 (01:14):
They are the Highlanders, the Highlanders based in Newark, New Jersey,
and it's a prestigious academic institution.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Hey, I'm sure it is. Okay, So the what do
you say? The minute many artichokes?

Speaker 5 (01:26):
What is it?

Speaker 6 (01:28):
Lander?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Highlanders? Highland? J I T Highlander? Let me write that
down here. Well, if we have time, we'll break that
matchup down. I don't know if we'll be able to
get We may have to hold you on for another
segment Dan to cover that, but I'm prepared. Let's let's
jump in with the news here. First, Burrow or no Burrow.
I don't know if you heard this morning and yesterday
we played it was that good. Tom Brenneman sat down
with coach Zach Taylor, and Zach in his two or

(01:52):
three minutes he was on. Tom pressed him like it
was sixty minutes for an answer on whether or not
the yeah, he went full say, Zach was sweating smoking cigarettes.
It was unbelievable. But as I've replayed it, I'm listening
to this and you know, coaching going to give it away. Normally,
if a players not playing and you kept pushing it,
they kind of like cut you off. You know, you've

(02:12):
been at many press conferences and probably have done that
many times yourself. I know what that's like. But yet
the coach was very very jovial about it, like in
a really really good mood. Despite what's going on with
the seam, no Jamar Chase, no Trey Hendrickson. You've got
New England coming to town. You know, let's face it,
hot seats are hab. He seemed awfully happy, and maybe
I'm reading too much into it, but it feels to

(02:33):
me like he's a go on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
I don't think we're there yet, but I think it's
the real possibility. Joe practice with the you know, eleven
on eleven drills on Wednesday, did it again yesterday, and
we'll do it again today. They practiced this morning. I
think after three days of practice, he'll be evaluated and
they will be closer to making a decision. There's also
a Joe Flacco factor here. Keep in mind, he heard

(02:59):
his show against the Jets. He's been practicing just once
a week, so there's a little bit of a combo
going on where the sub is now hurt and the
injured guy is now getting healthy. But I think it
is a real possibility that Brow returns this week, which
would be amazing, basically a month ahead of schedule.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
It's incredible. I mean, it's really really something to him
and the training staff, the medical staff and anyone else.
And you probably won't see him under center because you
know he's got a backpedal with that bad foot. You
don't want to do that.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
I don't know about that, to tell you the truth.
I mean, if Joe comes back, he's only coming back
if the foot specialist and the doctors say you're good
to go. Now. He will play with some sort of
protective you know, plate or something in his shoe to
give it a little bit of extra protection. But I
don't think they're going to let him come back if
he is significantly compromised. Now, Joe doesn't love being under

(03:54):
center anyway. He takes most of his snaps out of
the shotgun. So under healthy circumstances, a hundred percent healthy circumstances,
he's not under center a lot.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Anyway.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
But if he comes back, I think he's coming back
with a green light to do anything that they would
normally have him to do.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, and also to feed into that too. I mean
if this were his plant foot, different story, I think,
and hey, can you get away and not being one
hundred percent on that one, And that's something the medical
staff hasked away. I was talking to Tony Pike about
this yesterday. And you know, a player also has to
be honest about the pain level they're feeling, too, and
players want to play, and so again it's it may
be a perfect science still in perfect in that capacity

(04:31):
that someone wants to do something like that, I'll be good.
I'm okay, And athletes are famous for that. So and
in the fear obviously is risking the off season. So
we don't want to see that happen.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
No, we don't.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
And I'm sure they are counting on Joe to be
honest because he knows his value to the franchise. He's
the most important guy in the building. So if he's
feeling anything significant other than you know, the tiniest bit
of residual pain, he's got to tell the docs and
the foot specialists and protect himself.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
That is the most incredible story I think of the
season is that Joe Burrow went down with turftow and
he's back in record time.

Speaker 6 (05:08):
Now.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
The other thing, too, is you start looking. We've talked
about this, Dan threading the needle right there, three and
seven right now. You felt last week was a must
win game at Pittsburgh that didn't work out. Obviously, you
got nine to two New England coming in. No Trey Hendrickson,
no Jamar. There's a lot on the line in this
particular game, and there's not much will the room left
if you lose this one.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
You know, I'm not even thinking about that anymore, and
I don't think many people realistically are sure. If you
run the table, then that possibility comes back into play.
But we said last week's game was must win in
terms of still having chance and in a division they
didn't win. So now you look at different things to
try to accomplish over the final seven games of the season,

(05:51):
and number one on the list is trying to figure
out which guys on defense can be part of the
solution to a defense that has obviously really struggled for
the last couple of years with all these young guys
that they've drafted since twenty twenty two, Which guys do
you think have a chance to be part of a
competent defense, Which guys don't, because at the end of
this year, there are definitely going to be major changes

(06:11):
on that side of the ball.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, And I don't think it over shadow. I mean,
the two franchises right now this year are heading in
opposite directions. And I think the narrative for the AFC
Patriots nine and two with a twenty three year old
potential MVP quarterback and a top five defense, to me,
that's like the big story of the AFC. The Patriots
came out of maybe not out of nowhere, but I
don't think anyone saw this level of success.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
They won four games last year, and they won four
games the year before, so yeah, I think maybe people
expected a significant improvement, but nobody expected nine and two.
They have feasted on a pretty weak schedule to this
point and it's pretty weak going forward. So it's been
a good year in that respect for the Patriots. They're
having one of those years. The Bengals had this a
few years ago where it seems like whenever they play,

(06:58):
one of the other team's best guys is out and
it's happening again this week, Jamar Chase, no doubt so
the timing it just has been good. I do think, though,
there's something encouraging in the Patriots story, and that is
the fact that last year these two teams almost gave
up the same amount of points. The Bengals gave up
seventeen more in seventeen games than the Patriots did in

(07:21):
one year. The Patriots have fixed their defense. They're getting
up less than twenty points a game. They signed several
free agents that have helped them flip it. The Bengals
are going to have to use free agency in the
draft to try to flip it. But the Patriots have
proven this year it can be done.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, and I you know, we've seen this before too.
Sample size here with Drake may he has what twenty
eight hundred passing yards and I'm leaving the NFL twenty tds.
He's putting huge numbers up right now. He appears to
be the next franchise quarterback there New England. Are we
overreacting though in the short number of games they played.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
No, I think he is that guy for the Patriots.
You know, Joe Burrow took the Bengals to the Super
Bowl in his second year, and I think in many
instances with quarterbacks, if they have this type of year
in year two, you know pretty confidently that you've got
your guy. He was a third pick in the draft.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
For a reason.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
You know this is turning out to be last year's
draft pretty extraordinary for quarterbacks, with Jayden Daniels going to,
Drake May going three, and Caleb Williams going one. All
of those guys have had pretty impressive moments in their
first year and a half. The Patriots are nine and two,
the Bears are seven and three. Daniels took Washington to

(08:36):
the NFC Championship Game last year, so I'm not sure
which of the three is ultimately going to turn out
to be the best, but I think all three of
those teams feel pretty good about the guy they took.
And then throw bow knicks in there as well. Four
quarterbacks from last year's draft doing really well, incredible.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
They do have a lot of Drake May face a
lot of pressure though I think second most of the
NFL and sacks something along those lines.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
This week.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Can the Bengals generate pressure on May without him there?
And Shamar Stewart, while not that he was doing anything.
But those two are not going to play this weekend.
Can they get anything in the pass rush game going? Well,
they can't get as much as they would have if
they had Trey, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
We really haven't seen Chamar yet since Opening Day have
a big impact on a game. One of the reasons
why may a second in the NFL at being sacked
is that he will hold the ball, try to make
big plays. He uses his legs a lot, He's a
good runner, so I would anticipate the Bengals will probably
get to him a couple of times because of that.
But you know, can they harass him the way that

(09:37):
Houston harassed Josh Allen last night?

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (09:40):
And unfortunately probably not.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, that was a whole different set of circumstances there,
Dan Horde. As far as the Patriots defense goes, best
run defense in football, It's gonna be a tough day
for Chase Browning company right now, especially considering, you know,
Joe's gonna have one less tool. We talked about Jamar
Chase being out this week for spitting on Jalen Ramsey
in sunday thirty four to twelve loss. So Tea will

(10:04):
Tea obviously but Gasecki's back, though he returned to practice
miss last four games. I had that Peck injuries on
the IR so you got him. But who steps some
of that other wide receiver roles at Yoshi vas Tinsley?

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yes, and yes, I think those two guys will start.
Obviously Yosi Vash does anyway, So the guy that will
take the bulk of the snaps that are available because
Jamar will not play, will likely be Mitch Tinsley, maybe
Charlie Jones see some action. I do think that there's
a good chance that Kasseki will be activated, and I

(10:39):
think you're going to see a lot of Chase Brown.
Chase Brown has had one hundred or more combined rushing
and receiving yards now for four straight games. The early
season slump is over. He had ninety nine rushing yards
last week against the good run stopping Pittsburgh defense, and
the Patriots are excellent at that. But they lost their
best defensive lineman this past Weeklton Williams went on injured reserves,

(11:02):
so they're not going to have him, and the run
defense has shown maybe a little bit of leakage over
the past couple of weeks. Their last two opponents and
both average more than five yards of carry. So maybe
the Bengals can get something going on the ground this week.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
I hope so, because you think Joe's probably gonna have
to maybe hand the ball a little bit more, just
take the pressure off. You know what was interesting?

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Joe?

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Which Joe?

Speaker 7 (11:24):
Do you have to clarify our Joe?

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, that's true. We got so many Joe's. I'd imagine
Christian Gonzalez is going to line up across T Higgins
as the number one. That's going to be a real
good test for T Higgins. The Patriots haven't done that
this year. They did that last year. He's their best corner.
Last year they had him a shadow the other team's
best guy. They've mixed that up this year where sometimes

(11:47):
they have Gonzales defend the number two guy in order
to double team the number one guy, which some teams do.
So they'll probably mix it up this week because Jamar
is out, I suppose it becomes more likely Di Gonzales
will follow T Higgins around, but I wouldn't expect that to.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
Be the case in every snap.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, how do you explain the resurgence of Steph Diggs?

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Well, he was hurt last year. You know, he's when
he's played, he's always played well. He's been a pain
in the neck for some of his previous organizations. He obviously,
you know, wore out his welcome in Buffalo, but before
that happened, he was phenomenal. So he's healthy. He's back
from a torn acl I think that happened in week
four last year, so it was early enough for him

(12:32):
to rehab and to be ready for the start of
the season.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
So he's a great player.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
And you know when he's not grumpy because of the
amount of throws coming his way, he always performs.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Seems like he's moved past I mean, he's thirty one
at this point. He's not Walsh. But you know it
took him a long time to learn that lesson is
not to be that guy in the locker room. It
doesn't appears that all that way, and just happy with
what he's he gets in New England.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Well, he's been great so far. But I think that's
always been the case early wherever he's been. Maybe that
will continue to be the case long term in New England.
You know, last year is one year with Houston. Again,
it didn't last very long. He towards acl in October,
but he was named to captain. They said everything great
about him. So I do think that when he gets

(13:17):
a you know, a fresh start somewhere, there's always a
great honeymoon period and the Patriots are enjoying it right now.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
All right, Danny, give us a timeline here indicators that
Joe Burrow will or won't play, starting with today, because
what Today's the day you got to make some moves.
You've got to make an active house's work.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
So he'll practice today and they'll continue to evaluate how
his toe feels. They'll also be keeping an eye on
Flacco to see how his shoulder feels. If Joe Burrow
is going to play on Sunday, they would have to
activate him right now. He's still in the twenty one
day window where he can practice without counting against the
fifty three man roster, so that could be done as

(13:57):
late as tomorrow. They don't have to do it today,
So we probably won't know for sure today, but if
he practices and everything goes smoothly, it probably continues to
move in the direction at least of possible weturn to
the lineup this week, and that would require the Bengals
activating him sometime before the game on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
And then you'd have to also release him, So it
would it be Jake Brownie.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well, Sean Clifford is on the fifty three man roster
right now, So Sean Clifford, I would think, would be
removed from the fifty three man roster. The Bengals would
probably try to put him back on the practice squad
and that would open up a spot for Joe Gotcha.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Gotcha, because you know, obviously if Joe is ready to go,
and God forbid, something happens. Joe Flacco doesn't seem like
he's going to be able to throw the ball. You
need somebody who is well, has an arm. So that
kind of leads Jake Brownie, doesn't it.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Well, Joe Flacco hasn't missed any time because of his
shoulder injury, and it happened in the Jets game week.
I'm sure he probably took a shot to the shoulder
before the game. He went out and threw for four
hundred and seventy yards. Then he had a bye week,
then he played last week. Didn't play great against the Steelers.
I didn't think he threw.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
The ball as well.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
As he had. But you know, who knows if that's
the shoulder. If it was the windy conditions in Pittsburgh,
could have been a bad day. He says, he's feeling
a little bit better as the weeks go along. So
I think Joe's probably okay to play. I have not
watched him practice this week. You know, we only get
to see so much once the season begins, So I

(15:34):
would expect that if Burrow gets the green light and
comes back this week, the pecking order would be Joe B,
Joe F, and then Jake got it.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
So you see, basketball got louis number six, Louisville in town.
And of course the other game here is BYU. U
see under the lights at Nippert with the national TV
audience coming to town at noon on Fox, and of
course overshadowed by your broadcast you and Pike tomorrow at
at Nippert Stadium. I was just so unsure you were
too in Arizona. Was disappointed with that Arizona loss.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Man.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
You want to have that momentum going into BYU and
all of a sudden you're looking at possibles in three straight.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, very disappointed in that game because I think the
two teams are comparable, and when that's the case, you
got to win the home games, yep, against teams that
are about the same as you are. And then they
didn't get that done last week, and it is disappointing
because had they won that game, there would be a
ton at stake tomorrow night. The interest level would be
huge nationally because had Cincinnati won last week, and if

(16:36):
the Bearcats should win again tomorrow, they would have been
right in the hunt for playing in the Big twelve
championship game. They controlled their destiny as of last week.
Now they don't. They still got a shot to make
it if they win tomorrow, but they need other teams
to lose. You never like it when that's the case.
It's Senior Night tomorrow. It's a great senior class. And

(16:57):
last year they ended the season on a sour no
they were five and two and didn't win a game.
They lost the last five games. This year they were
seven and one. Now they've lost to in a row.
They're trying to avoid another similar late season slide. So
BYU is the favorite Tomorrow. BYU is excellent. They're number
eleven in the country. They've only lost once. It's a
really good team. But I think Cincinnati is a really

(17:19):
good team. The atmosphere is going to be great. Let's
see if the Bearcats can you deliver in one of
those memorable home wins over a you know, a highly
ranked team that we've seen in the past.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
All right, then you got Louisville. Good night, and then
quick turnaround of course the big game Monday against NTI,
JEN and NBC.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
What is it n j I T the New Jersey
Institute of Technology, the all the modern of original astronaut
Wally Sier.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
You're not big? How about that? All right? Thank New
Jersey Instance Technology? Or are the the Petri Dishes? What
what was again?

Speaker 4 (17:57):
Islanders?

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Islanders? Yeah, that's the Highlander Island. See, I got you
all right, I'm gonna write that down. Dan Hord, have
a great games all weekend long. He won't shut up
till Tuesday. Dan Horde, Voice of the Bengals. Sunday, we'll
find out out. Joey B or maybe Joey F. One
of the Joey's are going to be in there for sure.
All the best, brother, Thanks again for the time. I
appreciate you. You bet have a good game, and we've

(18:21):
got a news update happening right now as we slide
in the weekend here, it's a Scott Sloan show with
Will Gans from ABC. The new uh Wicked movie is
out right now. He's seen that? Is it worth it?
We'll get into that and some streaming stuff as well.
Seven hundred.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Now a man who has entertainment reporting of coursing through.

Speaker 6 (18:42):
His beans, which makes him a medical opaity.

Speaker 5 (18:47):
He is ABC Will Gans from New York.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Will Gans is here from ABC in New York. How
are you doing, brother?

Speaker 6 (18:54):
I'm doing all right? How are you?

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Everything is lovely ready for a big weekend here before
we get in to obviously the big news here and
that's a Wicked movie. A couple of things on streaming,
and it kind of throw a curveball at as I
usually do. We finally settled the YouTube TV carriage dispute
between Disney and ESPN, and it just seems like is
it me or are we just getting more of the

(19:16):
stuff with streaming. It's like it's happening all the time now.

Speaker 5 (19:20):
No, I don't think it's just you, you know, And
I think like, as these mergers continue to happen, we're
probably gearing up for even more confusing consolidations or disputes
or both. But yeah, no, it definitely does feel like
you know, in this brave new frontier of streaming that

(19:40):
like they haven't figured it out yet. And the next
thing coming up, by the way, like and this has
already happened everywhere except for the United States, is that
Hulu is essentially going away and it's just going to
be like a tab in your Disney Plus app as well.
So like you know, if you if you are used
to going to Hulu to watch any of your favorite stuff,

(20:01):
like pretty soon that's going to be a big shift
as well.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
So yeah, it is.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
It is not just you, it's it's it's definitely a
more and more frequent card.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
And it seems like more so with sports too, because
it just, you know, it gets it's it's difficult, it's
more expensive, and the everything's going up when it comes
to sports rights holders because there's so much money in
sports right now, and obviously there's going to be dispute
between in this case to carry YouTube TV which continues
to grow and in this case Disney slash ESPN.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
Exactly, And you know, sports really is like I think
I saw a headline fairly recently that like for Disney,
like half half of the like you know, creative budget
for for.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
You know, next year is it's like.

Speaker 5 (20:49):
Half sports, half scripted entertainment and stuff like that.

Speaker 6 (20:52):
So, you know, sports is really.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
One of the few.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
Instances where you have to be watching live to enjoy it,
where like everything else pretty much you know, you can stream,
you know, without having missed out on too much of anything.
You know.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Well, not to get too philosophical, but I think the
future it's gonna be AI. Right, it's gonna be AI characters,
AI voice, AI script writing. It's going to be top
to bottom AI, no mat much Hollywood fights it. That's
the way things are headed. It's going to be all
generated you know, talent so to speak, and people, actors,
et cetera. Uh, that leaves the only thing left is
going to be maybe reality TV, but certainly live sports.

Speaker 5 (21:32):
Yeah exactly, I mean, and obviously you know, personally, of course,
I hope you're wrong, and you know, I don't know, Yeah,
you know, because like, yeah, no.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
One's going to go on striketh. There's not going to
be people quitting shows. It's a it's like the Simpsons.

Speaker 5 (21:48):
You just get new people to draw it right right, Yeah,
I mean it does get very philosophical because it's like,
you know, then to what it's like, what is art?

Speaker 6 (21:58):
Really?

Speaker 5 (21:59):
It's like AI is writing the script for you know,
the movie, you know, the movie that is supposed to
move you. I don't know, I don't know, but yeah, sports,
I guess, you know.

Speaker 6 (22:08):
Maybe I'll pivot careers and see.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
You know how I how I fare as a running back?

Speaker 7 (22:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, yeah, well maybe I Don'll be virtual football teams.
I suppose I your team was a super Bowl every year.
Possibly this is not what you signed up for. Of
course we're talking about. Well, I love talking to you
because you know all this stuff. All right, So, a
little movie you may have heard of. It's called Wicked,
and I was impressed the other night. I didn't watch it,
but the original was only a year old. I was
on NBC already that usually, you know, again, talk about

(22:36):
how things are changing. Back in the day, it would
be years before a big movie like that would show,
would be a big event. And now it's like, hey,
a year later and okay, NBC broadcast you can show it.
Why is that happening?

Speaker 4 (22:47):
Well?

Speaker 5 (22:48):
I think you know, because you have the big you know,
media conglomerates.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
They know that if they show Wicked.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
Part one on NBC, it might remind everybody, oh yeah,
Wicked Part two is coming out. Let's go spend twenty
dollars a person. And so for them, it's like a giant.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Commercial, you know what I mean, Yeah, that's exactly.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
So you know, and and I think, you know, to.

Speaker 5 (23:08):
Some extent obviously paying off. I think Wicked Part two
would have done fine regardless, but now it's looking at
one hundred and fifty million dollars this weekend opening, which
would be the biggest you know, theatrical release of the year.
So you know, all their ideas.

Speaker 6 (23:22):
They also had like a live special where the cat
was singing, and.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
You know, of course they've been doing these massive premieres
in every major city you know, on the globe, so
you know, all of that press has has paid off.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
It seems like yeah, yeah, now, now the you know,
a year ago it came out, biggest, one of the
great movies, and now it's like, okay, we'll just show
it on broadcasts and after that, because you're right, it's
a it's a basically a lost leader. If you wanted
to see Wicked. You've seen it because it's available everywhere, streaming,
you know, whatever, whatever platform, it's just available to go.
So you know it's going to come to market faster,

(23:56):
I guess, come to broadcast faster. So let's pivot a
Wicked for Good in the theaters this weekend. What can
you expect?

Speaker 6 (24:03):
Yeah, so this is for.

Speaker 5 (24:04):
Anyone who's seen the musical. This is Act two of
the musical. It's a little bit darker and the music
is not as familiar. You know. Part one you get
to find gravity and popular and all of the biggest
songs from the from the musical.

Speaker 6 (24:17):
So part two, you know, you might not recognize as
much of the music.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
That's not to say it's not as good, it's just
less recognizable. And you know, so I will also say
that like the second act of the musical, just the
source material is not as it's not paced as well.
It's a little clunkier maybe, So you know, reviews are
sort of saying, you know, I don't think it's as
good as the first one. But that said, you know,

(24:44):
for fans of the first one, it's you know, you'll
you'll get all of the stuff you love. There's humor.
There's a lot of heart and to continue the Wizard
of Oz, you know, metaphor, there's a lot of brains
I guess as well here. So it's excellent. It's Ariana
Grande and Cynthia Rivo, you know, shining, you know, and
you get to see how this whole thing ends. So
you know, I think it's going to do huge numbers

(25:06):
this weekend, and with good reason.

Speaker 6 (25:08):
It's it's a great movie.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Okay, good, So it stands up. If you are a
fan of the genre, then you're gonna lie. It's it's
this is it right? There's no part three, it's one and.

Speaker 5 (25:16):
Two exactly, exactly, that's correct.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Okay, there's something out if you're not going to go
to the theaters this weekend. Streaming stuff. Claire Danes, you
may remember, who arguably talk about a niche for someone
like this. She plays the best crazy slash paranoid person
I think I've ever seen, you know what I mean,
And she played that character so well for years and

(25:41):
now she's got something new.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
So this is a psychological thriller. It's a limited series,
so eight episodes on Netflix. She plays an author who
lost her son a few years ago, and she sort
of hasn't been able to write, hasn't really been able
to leave her house too much, and she, you know,
she's an uninspired author. And then this guy moves in
down on the street. He's a millionaire whose ex wife
went missing.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
A few years ago.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
So she is sort of thinking, Okay, this could be
good material for my next book.

Speaker 6 (26:08):
But is he a murderer?

Speaker 5 (26:10):
She is? She losing her marbles a little bit, and
and you know, they start off a little content and
they sort of formed this weird, you know, friendship, and
right from the jump it's pretty gripping. So and like
you said, you know, she is such a force on screen, so.

Speaker 6 (26:24):
She's fabulous in it. The guy's played by Matthew Reeves.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
He's great too.

Speaker 5 (26:28):
So if you need like sort of a psychological thriller,
this is the Beast in Me on Netflix and all
the episodes are out.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
So she's unstable, like she wasn't Homeland all those years. Yes, awesome,
that's a great type cancel one. But because she's been
other things obviously, but man, you watch Homelands like she
was so good.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
In that exactly, and you know, it's not an easy
thing to.

Speaker 5 (26:49):
Play like an unreliable narrator type, so you know she
does it very well.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yeah, yeah, all right, the beast in me? What else
you got?

Speaker 5 (26:58):
Season two of Palm Royals on Apple TV. The first
few episodes are out now. So season one, this is
the one with Kristin Wig and Alison Janny and Laura
Dern And season one I was like a little bit.

Speaker 6 (27:09):
I just felt mid about yeah, exactly, it's all right.

Speaker 5 (27:13):
But season two, I think they really sort of figure
themselves out a little bit. You know, they give us
a lot more humor, which you want when Kristen Wigg
is the lead in your show, and you know, it's
a lot more like hijinks and hilarity and you know,
murder and things like that. So it moved along in
a much faster clip. And yeah, So if you were

(27:34):
sort of okay about the first season, which I was,
and I understand, I think it's worth giving season two
a try because so far it feels like it's correcting
the mistakes of the first season.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Yeah, and I love Kristin Wig, and it struck me
as I watched I think we watched maybe the first
and part of the second, I was like, okay, I'm
not feeling this time to move and that's sad because
it's everything now is like, okay, if you don't hook
me at the beginning, I'm out right, it's Kristin Wig.
You wanted Kristen Wigg to be Kristen Wigg and she wasn't.
And that sounds like maybe in the second season they're
starting to maybe play that a little bit better, which is,

(28:05):
you know why people show up, Let's.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
Face it, exactly exactly. And Carol Burnett still in it
in this season. She's talking.

Speaker 5 (28:11):
The first season she was pretty much in a coma
most of the time. So yeah, it's it's giving you,
it's given fans what they want, I think in season two.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
All right, fair enough, So you got the Beast to me,
You've got Pomeroy al back on on Apple TV, and
of course Wicked for Good is in theaters this weekend,
like I got enough to choose, shom It's a busy weekend.
Here Will all the Best again, Will Gance in New
York at Will Dance with two S's.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
Thanks, thank you a great weekend, you too, you as well.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
And I don't know if I'm gonna have a chance
to get out and go see Wicked Wicked two, because
there's just so much good sports on started tonight. You
got Alder sayin X in the Rain, you got you
see in Louisville playing, which it feels like it's an
afterthought now with all the stuff on the Thanksgiving pre
Thanksgiving sports SCHMRGA sport this weekend you see in BYU

(28:59):
Fox Big Noons town for that. We'll have the game
for you here on Saturday night. Could be a little
bit better. Maybe anticipating this had they not lost to
Arizona now two in a row and BYU is tough.
No one's really predicting you see to come out with
a win on that one, and you know you certainly
didn't see them losing out the season. That's a likelihood,
it's a possibility. Maybe they can pull off the miracle

(29:21):
tonight or tomorrow night. It'll be pretty good. You've got
f C inner Miami as well, that is Lionel Messi
in town and they take on FC at TQL Stadium.
Winner advances in the playoffs. Now we're down to the
just one win and out kind of scenario. If you lose,
you're out. If you win, you keep on going. And

(29:41):
then of course on Sunday, You've got Cincinnati and the
New England Patriots. Not Brady, you're Belichick anymore. It's May
and Vrabel and they're nine and two. The shocker, and
I think the surprise story of the AFC for sure,
the New England Patriots under Drake May getting it done.
And the big question for us in the biggest sports
store of the weekend, Joe Burrow will leap play or
won't he play? That is the question Dan Horde was

(30:03):
on earlier. He said, well, again, we're not going to
note probably tomorrow at this point, he's going to practice
practicing today, see how that goes, and then tomorrow will
be a decision. We shall find out together whether or
not Joey b is back, and that would be the
Christmas miracle right there, would it not? In the Home
of the best Bengals coverage seven hundred WW.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Do you want to be an American idiot?

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Friday Morning's down flown on seven hundred WLW. There are
some five and a half million Americans living abroad. One
in five would like to move there permanently retire there.
This is a disturbing stat. Forty percent of women ages
fifteen to forty four absolutely want out of the country.
We know we have a history here of people who

(30:43):
have moved out and retired to countries abroad. Portugal, I
think is still the number one, if I'm not mistaken,
but on all this and whether it's right for you,
because I know someone who through some you know, one
of those mutual connection kind of things, not personally. They
moved to Spain, I believe, and lasted two months before
they said no coming back to the United States.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
Not what I thought.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
It was not for everybody. The ins and out of
doing this I've had around in the past. A good
time to revisit this today would be Kathleen Petticorn. She's
an expert on living and retiring abroad. Specifically, Kathleen, welcome back.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
Are you hello?

Speaker 8 (31:15):
Good morning?

Speaker 3 (31:16):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (31:16):
I'm fine? So I think the first thing is is
the shock going Wait a minute, I can retire now,
but I'd have to live abroad. I think for most
people you have a disconnect there. Okay, that am I
going to see any Americans? What about my friends and family?
It's like going to the Witness Protection It's retire the
Witness Retirement.

Speaker 5 (31:33):
Program is what this is a good luck at it
that way.

Speaker 8 (31:36):
I guess it's a big idea, it's a huge lead
on the service. It can be intimidating, it can seem crazy,
and it's not for everyone, but for a lot of people,
literally millions of Americans have done this at this point,
and so for a lot of people it's the answer
to kind of turning retirement worries on their head, you know,

(31:57):
instead of being concerned that you don't have enough to
tyron and will your nest egg tear you through or
you're gonna end up working part time at wawmarts or
driving an uber or something. In retirement, there are lots
of places where you can go on a modest you know,
monthly nest egg, say fifteen hundred dollars a month in
retirement income or in some cases even less, you can
live not just a getting buy Okay, I'm meeting my

(32:20):
expensive kind of retirement, but a really interesting, fun, adventure
filled retirement.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
All right. So, I guess question number one is where
in the world where do I go? Generally? Is it
South America.

Speaker 8 (32:33):
Most For the most part, You're right, Americans focus on
Latin America, Central America, South America, the Caribbean because First,
it's nearby. It's unless you go way down south to
Argentina and or Uruguay for example. It's accessible, so you
can get back and forth, and you don't have to
be one hundred percent removed from your family and friends
back home. They can visit you, you can go back

(32:53):
home to visit them. Plus, this part of the world
has what most retirees are looking for, which is great.
There are lots of sunshine and a very low cost
of living, high low.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Cost of living. What's the attraction? What are we talking here?

Speaker 8 (33:06):
Well, well, let's say in Ecuador, for example, which is
a top choice from a lot of Americans have retired
to the city, the colonial city of Quanka, Ecuador in
the mountains, and this would be one of the most
affordable options right now. And you could live in Quanka, Ecuador.
I know American retireties doing it and really enjoying, loving

(33:26):
their lives on one thousand to twelve hundred dollars a month.
So that's a pretty modest budget. If you have more
than that, then your lifestyle can just expand from there,
you know, with more travel, more nights out, more dinners out,
that kind of thing. But to enjoy even a really
good life and a safe, comfortable life on as little
as one thousand dollars a month.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
That's incredible. So twelve thousand dollars a year, I could
live like a king down there.

Speaker 8 (33:50):
That's It's true. It sounds like marketing type, I know
when you just say it out like that, but I
know so many people doing it.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
All right, what about medical? What about that? You go, okay,
well that's great. Well, I'm gonna get old, I'm gonna
get sick. I need care.

Speaker 8 (34:03):
What happens then, and that's of course a big concern.
The first point to make is the United States. Healthcare
and health insurance is more expensive in the United States
than anywhere else in the world. So everywhere else you go,
it's going to be more affordable to seek the care
you need. Then your question is, okay, but what standard
of care? Well, the truth is the healthcare in many

(34:24):
other countries is better than in the United States, and
in most of the world it's as good.

Speaker 6 (34:29):
As it is in the United States.

Speaker 8 (34:30):
Certainly the places that we're talking about and suggesting so,
and certainly in a city, so in Quinca, Ecuador, here
in Panama City, Panama, where I'm based right now. In
let me see Medicie in Columbia, which is another really
interesting choice. And in the medician for example, has the
best from the best medical care in all of South America.

(34:51):
If you then look farther afield to Europe, well for sure,
the medical care as a rule is going to be
better than in the United States, and it's going to
be much more for And there is an opportunity. This
doesn't work for everyone, but there is an opportunity in
for example, Portugal, which is a great place to live,
a beautiful, interesting, historic country with a lot of foreign

(35:12):
residents and retirees, meaning a lot of English spoken, beautiful beaches, golf,
everything the retire he wants, including great weather, very low
cost of living, and if you establish residency there, which
is not hard to do, healthcare.

Speaker 6 (35:24):
Is free.

Speaker 8 (35:26):
Free, it's free.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Well, what kind of taxes am I paying on that?

Speaker 7 (35:31):
None?

Speaker 8 (35:32):
If most countries don't tax retirement income, you'll have the
same tax obligation in the United States that you would
if you were living in the United States. And American
has his US tax obligation. No matter where he goes
in the world or how long he stays outside the
United States, he never loses that, but you don't necessarily
acquire a second tax obligation in the new country where

(35:54):
you go. It's a country by country thing, but most
countries don't tax retireant income.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Kathleen again on this year, blowing my mind, Kathleen Petticoor,
how to retire overseas. Everything you need to know to
live well, So all right, let me let me get
this straight. The weather's a lot better. I can live
comfortable like a king. I can live like Bill Cunningham
for one thousand dollars a month. I could have servants.
I could have women naked women feeding me grapes. I
could have my own beef, cow milk. I could have

(36:21):
my own bar inside all that stuff. The safety thing,
well we'll get to that in a second. Maybe maybe
that's there. There's no taxes, the healthcare is better and cheaper.
What the hell am I doing in the United States?

Speaker 8 (36:34):
Well, when you look at it, that can be the
conclusion why not do this? The only real downside, and
it's a downside, is that you are leaving behind everything
you've known to this point in your life. And for
some people that's crazy, scary, and maybe paralyzing. So you're
leaving your family, your whole personal infrastructure of support, your
whole community, all your friends, all your connections. So that's

(36:57):
a big deal and you don't want to overlook that.
And then of course there's going to be culture shock
on the other end that you know, the life will
be different and always big and small. For some people's
that's exciting, that's an adventure. They think, oh wow, this
is going to be so much fun. I'm going to
learn how people live in the outdoor of Portugal. And
I spent a lot of time there. I can tell

(37:18):
you it's a really nice place to live. Other people think,
oh my gosh, they don't speak English. I won't know anyone.
Everything will be different. No, that's not for me, and
fair enough, you know it isn't for everyone.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Yeah, I don't know anybody I like hand my small
circle of friends. What about the language barrier, Kathleen.

Speaker 8 (37:34):
That's that is something you have to think about. And
if that really intimidates you, if you really think I'm
at this stage of life, I'm not learning any language, Well,
there are choices options where they speak English. Believes, for example,
is an English speaking country, and Believe is a great choice.
You know, it's it's Caribbean beaches. It's got a big
xpac community, and everybody speaks English, Belize, and it's got

(37:55):
the same advantages like all right, So the big question
is about safety.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
If I'm in American I can live in a thousand
dollars a month. I go there, I'm a target now right,
I'm going to get it kidnapped. I'm going to get
held in some sort of sell for billions of dollars.
I'm never going to see the light of day in
my family, and I'm going to die in some foreign
hell hole because Kathleen told me to go.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
Because I sent you there a card, is your fault send.

Speaker 8 (38:16):
Me the ransom note? But no, I know the safety
is an issue. I don't mean to make light of
it and be too cavalier. But what you just described
is not the reality in anywhere in the world right now,
except certain countries where war is there's active war and conflict,
and they're not on the list, of course. But in
all the places that we're talking about, you're not a target.

(38:40):
In Panama, for example, where I've lived for the past
ten years, Americans are such a welcome and so welcome
and part of the landscape because of the Panama Canal.
Here for the past hundred years, Americans have been so
much a part of this country. It's economy, it's culture.
There are so many Americans here and they have been
for generations. Were just part of the scene. Now Panama

(39:02):
is a is a unique situation because of this, you know,
century long connection due to the canal. But in many
countries as well, there are established expat communities and you're
not again, you're not a target. You're a lot of
it is on the extat, on the retiree. You have
to make an effort to make friends, just as you
would if you in retirement, moved from the Midwest to Florida,

(39:25):
say to a kind of traditional retirement location in the
United States, and you've never spent any time in Naples, Florida,
and there you decide, you decide to retire into Naples, Florida.
You don't know anyone.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Oh, if I got a hoard eleven Naples, I could
buy Belize good night exactly.

Speaker 8 (39:39):
But you know, but if you move to Naples, you're
going to have to make an effort to make new friends,
right or you're going to be lonely and sit in
your apartment all day. It will be the same in
another country. The only difference, and it's a big difference,
is the language. But it's depending how much that frightened
you to the place where there are already lots of
Americans living. And I could name six of these places,

(40:00):
you know, quickly one would be believed. One would be
Panama City, Medagine. Colombia has a lot of Americans right now.
Clank Ecuador. We talked about go to places in Mexico,
a heat for example, big American community there. Retirees then
you and they're so welcoming because you know, once you've
done something like this, you're so excited about it and

(40:20):
you realize this is so fun and you build confidence
and you want to share that with the next guy
in line.

Speaker 5 (40:25):
You have.

Speaker 8 (40:26):
The guy behind you in line coming along is.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Medi you said, Medizine. Colombia's Medizine, the same Medizine, Mediine.
We're talking Pablo Escobar.

Speaker 8 (40:34):
We are, that's the same place. And remember Pablo Escobar,
of course is dead more than twenty five years ago.
That the city has that history, but that is its history,
and the city today has reinvented itself. It's winning all
kinds of City Innovation Awards and one of the most
progressive and been really frankly pretty and pleasant and safe

(40:56):
cities in the world today, and it's winning lots of
awards for that because Energy in Columbia is one of
the world's greatest comeback stories of the past twenty years.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
I like the Pittsburgh of Colombia is well. Thanks for
tolerating me, Kathleen Petticord, and good luck with everything. Thanks
again for joining the show. As always, be well, Hi,
she gone. If you are older and you're like, I
got this pile of money, I don't know if I
can retire, Maybe I move abroad it and save some money.

Speaker 6 (41:27):
You can.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
I mean there's places, as she mentioned, you can live
very cheaply. I think that's different than certainly than young people,
especially young women four to ten women age fifteen to
forty four said they'd move abroad permanently if given the opportunity.
That's about four times higher than it was in twenty fourteen.
And the top of my head reasons why I think
number one would be a political dissatisfaction because most women

(41:51):
that age and that age group, they lean democratic, and
young men are less left leaning, and so with the
political climate we live in that makes it appealing, which
I think is also kind of short sighted. I mean,
it makes for since you're eighteen, because you tend to
make decisions quickly and rashly. But by the time in
your thirties or forties, you're a little bit more thoughtful

(42:13):
about things and just simply going I can't stand it
any more and be leaving. Well, it might change in
three years. You know, it could go back. Then what
do you move? Wind up moving back? It's gonna cost
you a lot of time and money.

Speaker 4 (42:23):
I think.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
I think there's a lack of confidence and institutions. Certainly
we've seen the erosion of that as well. Reproductive rights
are concerned for women, although I mean here in Ohio,
look at the battle we're having with that. Despite what
the voters wanted, seems like the legislator still wants to
do their own thing. And also, let's face it, women
And here's an interesting part about it, and this is
the rub two men and women, is that women are

(42:47):
so upwardly mobile. Now you can be put under your
money's portable, it's not tied to anything. You can work
abroad if you want to do your job from abroad,
and as women continue to have broken through the glass ceiling,
they continue to make more money than their predecessors, and

(43:08):
they can decide to do what they want with their
own money, and even being young and married, it doesn't Hey,
I don't think they see marriage as a burieder relocation.
Where this is we're going to do. And there's a
growing number of young men who are staying home, and
young men see more disaffected and probably less likely to
move away simply because they don't have the same opportunity
and means that women do. Believe it or not, when

(43:28):
you talk about college education, predominatly women now are going
to school. Young men are being left behind. And maybe
I don't know if that's the future of our country.
Probably not, but I think it's an interesting snapshot and
where we are today in America that so many young
women want out. But that will change in a few
years as well. It always does, it always does. Got

(43:49):
to get a news update in in a few minutes
here on seven hundred WLW Winter Return Austin. This year
we got what's the biggest sports news this week and
biggest sports story of the weekend. For a minute, I
thought it surely would be the sane ex elder game
at pay Court tonight with all this rain, Hopefully you
bring a I'd bring a garbage bag with me as
a poncho if I were you for going on this.

(44:13):
But now with the news it looks like Joe Burrow
may wind up playing and going on Sunday. That seems
has the vaulted to the top. I don't know to
expect this. I don't know if I expect to win
out of it. It's certainly interesting and also testament to
Joe Burrow's tenacity coming back from an injury like this.
You hope he doesn't get reinjured. With the way the

(44:35):
Bengals may protect him, but specifically the defense, it seems
like a feudal cause. But nonetheless we'll find out what happens.
Patriots coming to town on Sunday. You also have I
think this is a big one too, is at TQL Stadium.
You've got FC Cincinnati against Inter Miami and Legal MESSI
and UH winner takes all. It's a one game playoff
between those two clubs and the match at TQL Stadium.

(44:58):
It's going to be loud in Rock get a TQL
for sure, and they've kind of. I don't say had
their way with Messy because in the past, you know,
there's been issues with that team, and I just think,
you know, from those they talked to them, certainly a
growing soccer expert, but not even close. It just seems
like Cincinnati's deeper. But again, can they advance to the
next round of the playoffs? They got the Columbus monkey

(45:19):
off their back, so to speak. Can they beat Little
Messi's team and Inner Miami And there's a lot of
pressure on Inn Miami too. I don't know if that
helps them being on the road or not. But with
all the talent that they have, they can't seem to
win a championship. So we'll see if hopefully FC can
advance there. You've got what Fox pregame college football noon
tomorrow at Knippert Stadium in advance of UC BYU. Hopefully

(45:43):
UC can stop the bleeding and get a win. They
need to. They need to win out at this point
they got because at this way it's going to be
the I think it's gonna be Elbow Macaroni Bowl if
they lose out here. Not to disparage Elbow Macaroniy. Who
the hell isn't a fan. But you know what I'm saying,
we got that, we got the UC Louisville games overshadowed
with all this stuff too. Just bad timing on that one,

(46:04):
I think at the Heritage Bank Center. But plenty of tickets,
plenty of good seats still available, as they say, got
to get a news update in and more to follow
Scott's loan on the home of the best Bengals coverage
and the home of the Bearcats. Austin Elmer to talk
about all that and more right after news on seven
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(46:25):
That means Austin Elmore is here. From ESPN fifteen thirty.
My god, we've got a little Thanksgiving schmorgasbord of sports
to get through this morning. No small tastic through Audi.
Good morning, Good morning Flani, thanks for having me. Austin
Elmore of course, from ESPN fifteenth thirty embedded right now
in the bowels of pay Course Stadium, awaiting the word

(46:45):
to find out if it's white smoke Burrow plays, if
it's black smoke Flacco plays. We're waiting for that to
occur right now. Speaking of things that are Catholic Saint
X tonight and Elder at pay Court Stadium. Are you ready?
Are you excited? Are you fired up?

Speaker 4 (47:01):
I am fired up about it.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
You know, I've got family coming down from Sydney, Ohio
to watch this game tonight at paid Course Stadium, just
because they're so excited to check out some high level
high school football inside.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
An NFL stadium. What did I see?

Speaker 3 (47:16):
Almost eighteen thousand tickets now sold, and even with the
weather forecast being what it is, I think that says
a lot about what the high school football and those
two teams especially mean to this city.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
Now you're playing for Holy Marvels. Is such a great
rivalry to West side rivalry, and it's going to draw
a lot of eyeballs that aren't actually have any relationship
to the school whatsoever because it will be high quality football.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
Yeah, exactly, It's gonna be fun to watch. And obviously
how the weather affects you know that the game plans.
But the history between the two teams and the ability
to run the ball especially I think is going to
be an interesting part of the matchup tonight.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
I had a lotmaker on Adam Matthews eleven and that's
his district high representative, and he's trying to get legislation
through that would make it easier for publicly owned stadium
like paid Course Stadium, Great American Ballpark, TQ Man. Maybe
not TQL, but those two host high school events. Tennis
Center and Mason for example. You could see that. I mean,
if this does really well. It looks like it's going

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to do really well even with the weather tonight. Maybe
not every big rivalry, but that would be kind of cool.
Is like the Fridays that the Bengals aren't playing, You know,
you could have a high school football game there and
make it like a man I wouldn't be necessarily a
game of the week, or maybe you could. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
Yeah, I mean, I think there's also some sponsors that
would love to step up and be a part of that.
And obviously, as long as people are making money, it's
all mostly anybody cares about. But yeah, I mean, it's
a shame that we have to start putting legislation through
to make something like that happen. I think it's also
ridiculous that the NCAA has a rule that says the

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University of Cincinnati gets an unfair advantage by having that
game on their campus at Nippert Stadium, Like, I don't
understand that at all. I think Knippert would have been
the perfect venue a game like this. But you know,
either way, as long as you know some sort of
attention is being brought to this and we're able to
do something about it, I think it can only be
a good thing for the area, for high school spoots.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
All of it kind of hard though, I mean, Friday
night football high school. Then you've got of course, you
see BYU Fox mcnds Intown. It's a big thing. The
camp is going to be crowded down there, so I
guess that's probably the timing. This was bad, But there's
a UC team right there. I mean I talked Dan
about this earlier. I can't believe they lost Arizona and
now you come in limping, losing two and in real

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danger of making it three straight losses. Not the way
Scott Sarafield wants to wrap up the back half of
the season.

Speaker 4 (49:40):
No, not at all.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
It's been unfortunate, especially the way that Brendan Soresby has played.
It's kind of been two years in a row now
where he's kind of unraveled toward the end of the
season and not at all looked like the guy that
we saw in the early part of the season. Now,
part of that could be the competition that they're facing,
part of it could be is a little bit banged
up as the season goes along. Part of it could
be that Scott Saderfield and his offense aren't doing a

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good enough job adjusting to what some of those teams
are doing. But either way, it's a nasty concoction that
has led to failure for the Bearcats over the last
couple of weeks. And you know they're going to be
Bowl eligible, But I don't know that anybody in Clifton
would sit there and tell you that that's good enough,
especially considering the way that they started the season, with
the returning players that they have, the work they did
in the portal, and the fact that just a couple

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of weeks ago, a legitimate path to the Big Twelve
Championship was in sight and now it's not really within play.
I mean, it's possible, but it's unlikely, and I think
that should.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
Leave a bad taste in the mouth of a lot
of Bearcats fans.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Yeah, I think, I mean, at this rate, you know
you're hoping for a big twelve championship game and probably
you know, we lose the BYU. Who knows what happens
the last game this season. You're probably looking at the
don't know what, the cremet Elbow Macaroni Bowl or something
like that. Who the hell knows. You also have a
way I forgot to mention. The big game this weekend,
of course, is UCE in Louisville at Heritage Bank Center.

Speaker 4 (51:01):
Yeah, that's happening tonight as well.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
That pauses sound like one of the when the coaches
are going, yeah we do. It's gonna look like a
COVID game tonight, did it?

Speaker 3 (51:11):
I have no idea what to expect at that game tonight,
but uh yeah, I mean it is.

Speaker 4 (51:17):
It is cool.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
I mean I don't know that I don't know that
it's the best venue for that, and I know Wes
Miller has made his thoughts known about that. Yeah, but
Pat Kelsey feels the exact opposite because he was a
West Sider who grew up going to you know, back
then Riverfront Coliseum and that means a lot to him.
So it's, you know, another one of those weird things

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that happens in college basketball. And I think when they
when the Bearcats make the return trip to Louislle, they're
gonna be playing at Freedom Hall.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
Which is kind of their version. So okay, it's.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Whatever number six school in Townson. But again it just
adds to what is a huge sports weekend. You got
to speak on West Side alders Nex, you got this
and b YU and you see at Nippert's Cougars nine
to one, and it's a tall ass for UC. Let's
put it that way before we get to the main
event the entre, which is Bengals football. I will also

(52:08):
throw in there that this is a do or die
game for FC Cincinnati face a Lenal Messi Inner Miami
the NFL Playoffs, MLS Playoffs, I should say on Sunday
at five, you lose, you are out. At this point,
I kind of like that format.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Yeah, I mean in the first round when you go
best of three and then you get into the second
round and it really is for all the marbles. They
didn't get that extra week of rest with some of
the international stuff going on, But yeah, I mean f
C Cincinnati has had a lot of success against Leonel
Messi and against Enter Miami over the last couple of years,
and so I think you come into this match with

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a lot of confidence. Number One, you kind of got
the monkey off your back by beating Columbus and you
don't have to worry about that.

Speaker 7 (52:51):
And you go into a team that, yeah, they have
Messi and they.

Speaker 4 (52:54):
Have all these stars, and that's great. They're still a
really good team. But that's a team that.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
You've had success against, you feel confident against, and it's
not like you're facing some big, bad wolf again. So
I think, you know, Pat Noonan is one of the
best coaches in Major League Soccer, and the way that
he's able to adjust his team depending on who he
has available, who the opponent is the situation. I think
he has such a great feel for those matches and

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that's a huge reason why they've been so successful. And
I think, you know, when they play at home, they're
a tough team to beat. I hope that's the case
again on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Yeah, I think since he's a deeper team overall, younger team,
you know, Messi and some other guys that team are
a little but but then again, it's the pressure, right
there is the pressure in an expectation to beat them,
greater for Cincinnati than it is for Inner Miami, who
tends to make mistakes when they get bear back against
the wall. Who's who's the pressure on more them or us?

Speaker 4 (53:49):
I think it would be on them.

Speaker 7 (53:50):
I mean, they've spent hundreds and hundreds and hundreds.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
Of millions of dollars to get Messy and surrounding with
all these great players, and they've changed coaches and you know,
whether they're good or they are the face of Major
League Soccer, yes, And you know, Messi has accomplished basically
all there is to accomplish in the world of soccer.
But I think it would still behoove him, just for
his legacy and for all the hoop around his career.

(54:16):
If he were to come to Major League Soccer and
never be able to win an MLS Cup, that would
be something that would be a bit disappointing for him.
And and they're fans especially who follow him, so I'm
sure they feel some pressure.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
Again.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
I mean, they're not posting this game. They're going up
against the team that they haven't had success against very
much over the year, so I'm sure they feel a
little bit of pressure. It's like, gosh, we've got this
all star lineup of great players with the greatest player
who's ever played the game of soccer, and we can't
get to the MLS Eastern Conference Finals, we can't get
to MLS Cup. I think that's got to be in
the back of their mind as well.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Great way in Sunday, and of course before that will
be the big sports story this weekend, and that is
Joe Burrow. Will he play or not play? By the way,
I believe it's fan duel. The playf RUMs now have
betting odds up involving Joe Burrow in his passing, so
that they're already saying it sounds like that Vegas believes
that Joe Burrow is going to be a go on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
Yeah, it's been weird kind of seeing the way that
a lot of these national NFL insiders have talked about it,
the chipperness and the voice of Zach Taylor when he
was talking to Tom Brenhaman yesterday. I saw there's fantasy
projections that have come out for Joe Burrow. It just
all seems to point in the direction that he is
going to play on Sunday. I'm going to play Devil's

(55:33):
advocate for you. Here though, because they play in less
than a week again against the Baltimore Ravens. And in
those short weeks and that Thursday night, Thanksgiving Night game
in Baltimore, that practice week is really weird because you're
usually off on Monday, and then you got Tuesday, you're
traveling on Wednesday. You don't get a normal full week

(55:54):
of practice, right, And so the next step in Burrow's
progression was this week to do a lets on elevens
and see how he feels. This week could be being
used as a way to get him ready for that
Baltimore game, since he won't have a normal week of
practice against Baltimore. Now, the goal has always been Thanksgiving
or Thanksgiving Ish, and I'm not trying to pour cold

(56:16):
water on this. I want Burrow to play on Sunday,
and I hope he does, and I hope he plays well.
But it could also be a way of saying, all right, listen,
we've got a trunk created week. Next week, we won't
have a normal practice. Let's use this week to get
Joe all the way up to speed prior to that
Baltimore game. Now, if Flacco's shoulder is so banged up

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that he doesn't really feel like he can, you know,
operate the offense the way that they need him to.
And again, if you go back to that Pittsburgh game,
Joe Flacco hurt the Bengals. He did not play well,
was not accurate, and did not have confidence in that shoulder.
And so the answer could be is is Joe Burrow
at eighty five percent better than Joe Flacco at seventy
five percent?

Speaker 4 (56:55):
I think the answer to that is yes.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
And the other thing, you know, you talked about smoke
coming out of pay or stadium, black smoke or white smoke.
Thank god there's no orange smoke for Jake Browning because
it doesn't seem like that's an option, and that would
be a real.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Oh yeah, even like a seventy p fifty percent Joe
Burrow is still a better than one hundred percent Jake Browning.
And so you look at it going, well, we're kind
of options at this point. We've got to have somebody
that's gonna at least post a reasonable chance of winning.
But it feels like the season's over at the sport
is specially that lost last week against the Steelers, which
would like the other question is do you risk Joe
Burrow coming back at this point, do you say, I

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know we want to get reps and I understand that,
but my god, if something happens again just based on
how this team is played and stood in front of
him or lacked the rab at times, you're now risking
the entire offseason here when you and and you're let's
face it, you're going to have to start rebuilding and
get some parts back in here. Joe Burr is going
to be built big part of that. As always.

Speaker 3 (57:47):
If if there were three games left, I would agree
with that sentiment, but there's not. There's seven games left.
We're still in the month of November. The guys is
being paid fifty five million dollars. You can't live your
life and live your fo ball life out of fear.
And I know that there's a belief that he's injury prone,
and there's a long list of injuries that would suggest
that he is, But that doesn't mean that he just

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skips the last seven games of the season. If he's
medically cleared and he feels comfortable doing so. He's the
best player on the team, he's the face of the franchise.
Why wouldn't he play and technically they are still alive.
Even though they're their chance of making the playoffs is
is minuscule. And the other part of this too is
if he doesn't play, Let's say he doesn't play the
last seven games, then he goes from September, second week

(58:34):
of September all the way to July without playing football.
I feel like he needs the reps he needs to
be able to play. Joe has always talked about how
much he needs reps and how important that is to
him being a consistent football player, and so I do
think that's part of it as well, is you want
your best players to play football.

Speaker 5 (58:53):
Well.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
The other factor here too is, you know, maybe this
back to your your your salmon streaming up swim argument
that they shouldn't play Burrow this week and let him
have a full week practice before the Thanksgiving game at Baltimore,
is the fact that Jamar Chase will not be playing
in this game gives him a less option. I don't
feel that somehow andre Yoshavas is going to find the
ball right, So that gives it's going to take a

(59:16):
little more time for him to find someone open. It
exposes them a little bit more with that foot less
tools than the toolbox for Joe.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
Yeah, and that also could be part of the reason
why he is going to play against the New England
Patriots is because well, they don't have Jamar Chase. And
if you look at the last couple of weeks, I mean,
Joe Flacco has has not tried to hide the fact
that he is trying to throw the ball to Jamar Chase.
He's just been spamming it to number one over and
over and over again. And I wonder if there is
a concern about the idea that Flacco could operate the

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offense without Jamar Chase. We know that Joe Burrow can,
We've seen it, and it does give them a better
chance to win obviously if Joe is out there, and
especially if you know, without Jamar Chase, you like the
odds of bur being able to operate that offense in
the absence of Jamar Cha.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
Yeah, I mean, team is gonna see but you've got
you know, Gasecki's gonna maybe we do get Kaseki back
this week. That's big.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
Yeah, I think that's a big part of it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Mike Kasicki being in there and kind of being an
extension that wide receiver group We've seen some flashes from
Mitch Tinsley had the great touchdown in Week two and
was unbelievable in the preseason. He's going to get a chance.
Charlie Jones, I would like to see get a chance.
A fourth round pick from a couple of years ago,
had a really strong camp and just kind of gets
buried in the depth chart.

Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
But yeah, you're gonna get some opportunities for some guys.
And that's part of the season.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
As part of the story of the season is evaluating
what you have and these young players as you try
to figure out what your playing is going to be
moving forward, you want to see them be able to
play with Joe Burrow. So you know, Burrow has a
lot more reps logged with all those guys than Joe
Flacco does, and I think that's part of it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Yeah. Austin Olmo from ESPN fifteen thirty on the Scott
Sluncheons Springy every Friday morning, we talk sports. There is
a lot going on, including the Bengals of course, or
I don't know whether or not Joe Burrow is going
to play on Sunday. We'll find out sometime tomorrow. I
would suppose Will have an indication if that looks like
it's a go or not. You've got a red hot
Patriots team in there. No one really saw this coming
in the offseason, that they're going to be at nine

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to two. I mean, it's an unreal As well as
they're playing on offense, it's also fair to say their
defense is outstanding, best run defense in football. It's gonna
be a long day for Chase Brown.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
Yeah, And that I find interesting too, is like if
Burrow does play, you would assume the Bengals will want
to run the football and you not put too much
on his plate, not drop him back a lot. Well,
New England just completely takes away the run game. I mean,
one of the best. You've mentioned, the best run defense
in the National Football League, and they've got a good
team and they're especially stout upfront. They find ways to

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thwart that run game. So if the offense is going
to have to be quick, it's going to have to
be efficient, and especially if Burrow plays, you don't want
them holding onto the ball too long and just getting
a macclimated NFL football again. So yeah, it's the way
that they use extensions of the run game, whether that's
through RPOs or screen passes or swinging it outside.

Speaker 4 (01:02:12):
Or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
I think it's going to be important, and I would
love to see Chase Brown get a little bit more
involved in the past game. We saw some flashes of
that last week against the Steelers and he had some
big plays a big seventeen yard reception at one point.

Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
We know he can do that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
I would like to see more of Chase Brown in
the receiving game, especially, you know, if you're able to
motion him out against the linebacker. I'm taking Chase Brown
ninety five percent of the time, and I think that
can be a quick option to get the ball out,
whether it's Flacco.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
Or Burrow, Joe Burrow or not. I don't see how
they they're able to knock off the Patriots. I mean,
Patriots to do for a loss at nine to two,
but dang they then you got Christin Gonzalez to contend
with too on defense, So stop in the run and
stopping number one.

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
Yeah, I mean they're going to double team t Higgins
and force the Bengals to beat him with that collection
of characters that we just.

Speaker 4 (01:03:01):
Talked about a minute ago, and that's the right way
to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
I will say this though, over the course of their careers,
Zach Taylor, for whatever reason, has had the number of
Mike Rabel.

Speaker 4 (01:03:10):
You might remember when they.

Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
Were really bad in twenty twenty and Tennessee was really good.
They came into pay Course Stadium with a rookie Joe Burrow,
and the Bengals destroyed him and made easy work of them.
You also remember the twenty twenty one playoff season when
the Tennessee Titans were the number one seed and Mike
Rabel the head coach there then as well, and the
Bengals went in there to Tennessee and beat them. So

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there has been some history between Zach Taylor and Mike Rabel.
Hopefully that continues.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
On the side out Austin Elmore and Tony Pike. Today
at noon, it's a full slate of sports everything. I
would normally say, hey, what do you got, but you
got everything. It's literally everything today, high school football, soccer, basketball, football,
I think there's some lacrosse in there. You got everything
going on.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
Yeah, I'm off today, so I have no idea what
Tony's got coming up at noon, but I'm sure it
will be wonderful.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
Well, I just say there right now he is, by
the way, embedded in the at pay Course Stadium waiting
for the white or the black smoke to come up
related to Joe Burrow will find out. Austin will break
out when that breaks in here on the home of
the best Bengals coverage seven hundred WW Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
You want to be an American weekend is here.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
It is a massive sports weekend in Cincinnati. He doesn't
get any bigger than this. You have, of course, well,
Joe Burrow, play or not play that debate. On Sunday,
you have UC BYU feeling like for all the marbles
with the national Fox broadcast in town at Nippert Stadium.
We're gonna look good there. We've got UC and Inner
Miami in the next round of the MLS playoffs at

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TQL Stadium, winner take All and tonight's you've got Elder
Saint X. And it was interesting as a Bengal fan
watching and watching this develop going well, they want to
move it to pay Court, which made a lot of sense,
you know, as a mason, ight to look at that.
Go okay, it's a few thousand dollars hopefully. The Ohio
State High School Athletic Association gives them gets a little
bit of money back for their investment. But yeah, seven

(01:05:02):
thousand tickets. The demand is high. I don't know how
many they've sold at this point. I forgot to check,
but certainly more than seven thousand, and they're going to
pay court tonight. Okay, great, awesome. I was surprised how
quickly this came together. But it picks up a bigger question,
and that is didn't we, the taxpayers of Hamilton County
pay for the stage? So why can't we use that
more often?

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
On?

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
That is a representative state Rep. Adam Matthews who is
in control and rules with an iron fist from Lebanon
to South Lebanon to Mason. Adam Matthews, welcome back. How
are you, brother?

Speaker 6 (01:05:34):
Always a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much
for having me on.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
Thanks again. So let's jump into this. This is interesting
what this happened. You probably heard about it, and do
you have any affiliation with Sainte x or Elder You
got skin in the game there.

Speaker 6 (01:05:47):
I did. Actually one of my core memories I was
winning against Cole Raine in the playoffs just like this
in two thousand and five. We went to overtime and
Deep Coraine twelve to nine in Paul and then Paul
Brown Stadium, and it was incredible. Yeah, that was on
the way to a state championship.

Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
Let's face it, many of these young men, if some
may go to play collegiately, for sure, NFL is a
pipe dream. But then from most of the athletes out there,
this will be a high point of their athletic career.
But imagine, I mean, how awesome is that. Getting to
play on an actual NFL turf has got to be
and just you know, the locker rooms and everything, the
whole experience is is going to be something to remember

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the rest of their lives.

Speaker 7 (01:06:31):
It's incredible and I'm so excited for these young gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
Yeah, then you got involved legislatively the Bengals, and you
know it's always in vogue to poke fun at the
Bengals and question their motives and operations and maybe spendthrift
ways in some cases. But you gotta also give congratulations
to it. And it certainly isn't how quickly the franchise
leaned into hosting this game, and typically the Bengals don't

(01:06:56):
do anything quickly. They did this in like less than
twenty four hours. And also with the county, and so
credit certainly is due there, But what what do you
want to do legislatively?

Speaker 7 (01:07:07):
Yeah, I will echo that.

Speaker 6 (01:07:09):
Thank you so much to the Bengals and the team.
Thank you that those in the local county commission that
made this happen as well. And this should be a
model of what goes forward if we're going to have
test payer step off and fund these very large investments
you have up at the Browns, they had asked for

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one hundreds of millions of dollars, and even here in Mason,
we've seen something similar of the Cincinnati Open had just
been used for one week. It became a two week
tournament and has been doing really well. But it's now
also back in October host of the girl State Finals,

(01:07:53):
and it's now open for more tournaments. It's going to
be open to the community for a pro shop for
the court, for the like that, and if.

Speaker 7 (01:08:02):
We're going to have these huge professional courts of the news.

Speaker 6 (01:08:06):
There should be a way for that to come at
functional costs to the community for these types of venues.
And we're looking at legislation on making sure that that
can happen and be fair to the owners. You don't
want to say it's a football situation, and you know
wild card weekend lines up. Obviously, if somethingles are hosting,

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you can't have a high school game the night before.
But if it works out that it's.

Speaker 7 (01:08:31):
Friday night, things are fine.

Speaker 6 (01:08:32):
You can have a game on Sunday. Wonderful. Let's let's
have that happen. And we're going to work with the USSAA,
work with the professional organizations and see what we can do.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
But you also have the contracts that are would this
I don't know contract law. I'm not an attorney. How
would that work? If you have a contract that says, hey,
you can only have so many dates, whatever it might be,
how does this override that?

Speaker 6 (01:08:58):
So we are a little making legislation that anything going forward.
Anytime that they come with a handout asking for hey
we need taxpayer or subsodies to build a new stadium
or renovate a new stadium. If you're not using it
for your professional purpose, there's other types of reasonable uses
out to the community should be part of that conversation, and.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
It would be at market rate obviously, or whatever that
looks like. Obviously, the Bengals aren't charging market rate for
the standard because it's too high school enterprises. They could
never afford that. So how do these how do you
do you scale that legislatively?

Speaker 5 (01:09:33):
Then?

Speaker 6 (01:09:35):
Right, so we would look and see if there's a
way to smooth it out over because I'm grateful to
the Bengals. I think the tickets are fifteen dollars for
tonight and to cover you know, there's still people working
the gate, there's still people working confessions. It's more than
just turning the locks off for the day and letting
people come in. And so we need to make sure

(01:09:57):
that things are balanced. And what we're going to.

Speaker 7 (01:10:01):
Start as a negotiation place is.

Speaker 6 (01:10:05):
They get not market rates for the use of the venue,
but what it would have been had it been at
Mason High School. And see can it be within twenty
percent of what it would have been at Mason High School?
And see if either the state subsidizes on the front
end or if that's part of the consideration when we
are deciding whether or not protect their dollars to go

(01:10:26):
into the renovation or the expansion.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
Okay, got it. So this is just a professional stadiums,
not not amateur stadium paid public amateur stadiums like the
Cleveland Brown stadium.

Speaker 6 (01:10:38):
Correct, exactly like the Cleveland Brown Stadium.

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
Big oh yeah, you don't have to fund the amateur
teams up in Cleveland. So it's a different thing. And
I'm trying to think there's a lot of stadium you think, okay,
well Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, but you know Dayton, Toledo, Youngstown
they have. I don't know how much public money are
those facilities, but that's a lot, right.

Speaker 7 (01:11:00):
There's there's conversations all over there.

Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
I know of.

Speaker 6 (01:11:06):
I think right across the border in Butler County they're
looking at a semi professional or image or minor league
hockey facility.

Speaker 7 (01:11:15):
That would be great for the community as well.

Speaker 6 (01:11:17):
So anything that we can do to build those types
of Friday night lights or those types of touch points
for the community to come rather than just the using
tax pay dollars for stadiums where the cheap seats are
over one hundred some dollars, seems like, you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
Know, it'd have to be a big rivalry game. But
getting with all the leagues in Cincinnati, you sell everything
else is to line up a marquee game every Friday
where the Bengals aren't playing and do that, and do
it on the regular. I think that'd be amazing.

Speaker 6 (01:11:48):
It would be really neat. And you see both the
teams playing tonight, youse. The ticket sold out in forty
two minutes while the kids were still in class. And
there are two all boys school and each Friday they
sell out their ten thousand stadium. You knew that this
was gonna be something big.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
Yeah, and I you know, the social opportunity you could
get at a Friday night passed me. I'll be a
season ticket holder if you wanted to and see all
the high school games. I'm sure that would appeal to
some folks. Yeah, the side of this thing is the
money factor, because money's always a concerned representative. Adam Matthews.
You know some of these you may not get twenty
thousand there like we're going to get tonight. But if
you got ten thous is that enough to offset the

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costs of keeping the lights on and keeping the stadium open?
And if not, isn't that back on the taxpairs? Does
that make sense?

Speaker 5 (01:12:39):
Right?

Speaker 7 (01:12:39):
So you'd have to look at that balance to make
sure that the the money makes sense, because not just
the lights on, make.

Speaker 6 (01:12:46):
Sure that the harm of the field, make sure.

Speaker 7 (01:12:48):
That the workers are there, and it will have to
make some kind.

Speaker 6 (01:12:52):
Of balance, which is why we're work on this legislation
with like say say with the pro stadiums and with
the professional owners.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Yeah, there's got to be a balance. Theres like you know,
a couple of Division three schools or schools where you're
not going to get that much attendance. You know, it
doesn't make sense to have it at pay Corps or
something like that just to give kids the experiencing and
that's a substantial cost to the already overburdened taxpayers of
Hamilton County. We don't want to go down that road.
Correct Tonight should.

Speaker 4 (01:13:20):
Pay for it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
I would think it should be a ten dollars parking.
I don't know what tickets are, but ticket sales are
awesome despite the weather that's going to be extremely bad.
But I don't think kids care. But I think you know,
if you're getting to play at pay Corps and your
kids out there, or you know relative saying I mean
just a fan of the school. I know a lot
of elder and ste x grads are going to go
tonight just because it's pay Corps, Brian Colmbs being one

(01:13:41):
of them. So that'd be kind of fun. What's the
timeline for getting this done.

Speaker 6 (01:13:48):
We just went to a marathon session till you finish
out the House voting for twenty twenty five, so we
will be back with legislation in January February to get
this really working.

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
Okay, good, that's awesome. Yeah, taking some time off after
I don't know what just the what the hell just
happened with the CBD thing. I mean I followed closely,
more closer than anyone, and I still don't understand all
the imaginations and levers and trip wires and everything else
that was set up, and why how this thing got
so sideways in such a short period of time when
it's coming to when it comes to CBD, SASH, THHC

(01:14:23):
and fuse beverages, it seems to me, like I don't
there's not much differen between THHD and alcohol because you're
drinking it for an effect. I don't know why we
have to get rid of one, especially as populaters. Is
that seems to be really anti business, anti small business
to me, and also anti choice.

Speaker 6 (01:14:40):
And part of this the confusion, and you said you're
afraid that by going sideways all at once was we
had had through the House, something that would allow your
five milligrams to milligram drinks, whether it's at Ryan Geist
or fifty West or elsewhere, to be bought on side

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and take it home.

Speaker 7 (01:15:02):
And while it goes through the House conversations.

Speaker 6 (01:15:07):
Over to the Senate. The Senate conversations, the federal government
made some changes that made a thase out over the
next year to get rid of these and so what
we had to do in the Ohio state houses we
can't go much further than the FED two. And so
that is what the final product is is matching what

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the federal government.

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
Yeah, yeah, the FED, the FED forcing your hands on
that because federal law. But but at the same time,
I just the there was no impetus for this and
the you know, the idea of y you're I know,
you're around them, but like Nancy Pelosi and you know, well,
we got to pass the bill to see what's in it.
It's it's more the same. As much as we talk
as conservatives talk about changing the government, that seems to

(01:15:50):
be the same thing that hey, we snuck this in
here at the last minute. Trump signed it in the law,
and of wait, what do we do? We just eliminated
it hit industry. That's literally saving the craft beer people
in Ohio because fewer people drinking craft beer, more drinking
the THCH Beverage's clear there's consumer demand for it. I
don't think the public risk is any greater than alcohol,
and clearly many Ohioans, Kentucky Indianas want the THC and

(01:16:14):
fused beverages the way they are. Do you think there's
hope in the next year that maybe would come up
with a better a better way to do this from
the federal level.

Speaker 7 (01:16:24):
I think that there needs to be some transparency.

Speaker 6 (01:16:26):
I know that you as you mentioned, this was part
of a long late night negotiation on the federal government
to get it back open after the Democrats were not
coming to the table in the Senate and the government
the government needed to turn back on. So yeah, they
figured in at the last minute. And uh, but as

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things continue, and as you hear from the constituents.

Speaker 7 (01:16:51):
Like you or like others, I do.

Speaker 6 (01:16:54):
Think that the federal government is probably going to revisit this.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
I would hope. So they're going to have to final
point something else. You just got through and I wanted
to circle back around, and I don't know much about.
It's called the Patient Protection Act, and this is your legislation.
It targets high risk medications, and that is drugs defined
with at least a five percent chance of severe ad
verse side effects that could lead to death or infection
or and this has to do with mail order drugs. Well,
why this what's this? Is this legislation about abortion pills

(01:17:20):
basically or no, This medication.

Speaker 6 (01:17:23):
Is about any type of medication where like you said
five percent, and we saw the terrible story out of
Washington State where a college student was getting antidepressive medications telehealth, no,
no doctor oversight other than their telehealth, so they never

(01:17:44):
got checked on. When he complained to the organization that
was prescribing these drugs, they're like, well, we'll just up
your dosage. And eventually he died by suicide and now
there's a wrongful death claim. In all of this, we
have seen similar things. We just are we're not even

(01:18:04):
through picking up the pieces from the opiate epidemic, which
was similar. We've had other medications and some opponents are
focusing on abortion pills, and there are some studies along this,
but any type of medication, we want to have a
standard of care that if you're playing a board game.

Speaker 7 (01:18:24):
And you roll the dice, and if you're rolling the
dice and you roll.

Speaker 6 (01:18:29):
A three, and that means you're going to have organ failure,
sepsist or sent to the hospital with timoor jing or infections.
That's pretty high odds. And this isn't banning any medication.
It just says, before you get something that is one
out of twenty sending me to the hospital, you just
need to see a doctor before and then have a

(01:18:49):
doctor check.

Speaker 7 (01:18:50):
On you afterwards.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
Yeah, okay, I see what you're saying there. But you know,
the claim though, is what a five percent mortality rate?
That there aren't any drugs that have a five percent
mortality right that would that would never get through through trials.

Speaker 7 (01:19:06):
Uh, there there have been, and sometimes we are.

Speaker 6 (01:19:10):
We see this afterwards where uh, when you have an
FDA trial, it.

Speaker 7 (01:19:16):
Is where you have people taking the medication.

Speaker 6 (01:19:20):
Clinically according to every single rule versus how people actually
are using it, right, and then that that difference can
get to have this type of danger.

Speaker 2 (01:19:32):
Well you can, I mean, you know, ope, it's a
great example of that. You can become addicted and and
we've cracked on that and obviously, But I mean the
thing if you're talking about this is somehow a product
liability thing. Oh hi, we already have malpractice laws and
state boards and FDA oversight and all that stuff, and
of course litigation as well. Doesn't that balance things out?

Speaker 6 (01:19:52):
So medic so you have both on the front and
the backside. Just in medication, you do things that are
uh that help you and then stick some problem afterwards.
This is the standard of care to make sure that
you're getting good care on the front end. Malpractice is
only after things have already gone bad.

Speaker 7 (01:20:11):
Okay, So we are making sure that both you have
a good dinnertive care.

Speaker 6 (01:20:15):
We are both during the relationships between the patient and
the doctor. And then yeah, as you mentioned malpractice as
if things go wrong, but we're trying to avoid those
things so wrong because sometimes that money will not fix
Oregon failure or death.

Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
Gotcha?

Speaker 4 (01:20:32):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
A big question of course. Rocky boyman texting me wants
to know if we can still get his ed medicine
uh in a brown bag delivered to his house. So
is that in jeopardy? Okay? Adam Matthews State Representative, always
loved the town, always love us, spending time chatty, Thanks

(01:20:55):
again and good luck with the we'll call it the
Elder Saint x Ledge. To allow more young people to
play in stadiums like pay Corps and maybe Heritage Bank Center,
maybe TQL places like that would be awesome. And great
American Ballpark of course, all the best. Thanks again, have
a great holiday, Thank you, take care.

Speaker 6 (01:21:16):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
That's Adam Matthews on the show Scott Sloan here on
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Speaker 4 (01:21:44):
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Speaker 2 (01:22:01):
I'm cold then cold a week because it's just nasty bodies. Yeah,
we're not going to be sitting down at pay court
tonight with the kids. Are you hell the elder Saint
X game? That's all right, little damp a little moist tonight.

Speaker 9 (01:22:18):
This is my reasons why I don't have kids. I
just simply don't refuse to participate. I will not be
the soccer mom.

Speaker 4 (01:22:24):
Not the only reason I don't have kids.

Speaker 2 (01:22:26):
There's countless reasons.

Speaker 9 (01:22:29):
I'm gonna make myself feel better about the situation.

Speaker 2 (01:22:32):
All right, Alien or Dusty Ovaries are here this morning
on seven hundred W. Well w you're talking about what's
happening in and around Cincinnati's we get ready for the
greatest of all holidays, that would be Thanksgiving.

Speaker 9 (01:22:42):
You know, I'm a Christmas gal, but I'm here to
support you and your endeavor.

Speaker 2 (01:22:47):
It's just because it's all about food and football and family.
That's it. And not even in that order. It's probably
food and then football sometimes, but food football family, that's
the order.

Speaker 9 (01:22:56):
And are you doing most of the cookie?

Speaker 2 (01:22:57):
I am doing all the cookie? Well, now I shouldn't
say that. My nephew and his wife are coming over
and I charged them with dessert. My daughter and her
remitta coming over, and I charged her with a side,
and she picked mac and cheese. I said, okay, yes,
and then she tried to change it to mashed potatoes.
I'm like, I just bought a eighty pound bag of potatoes.
Now you can't change it.

Speaker 5 (01:23:15):
Yes.

Speaker 9 (01:23:15):
See, that's it's all about the delegation.

Speaker 10 (01:23:17):
I've had this conversation with a couple of ship something
where it's the best thing you could do is clean.

Speaker 9 (01:23:22):
While you cook. Yes, Oh, there's absolutely delegate right.

Speaker 2 (01:23:25):
It starts above that mes plaus is number one, Yes,
which means you like, you cut off, you prep all
your food, you clean it. You fee okay, I need
parsley chop, You chop a bunch of parsley dice onions.

Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
You do that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:35):
You get it all together, put a little ramic in
her bowl. You have it all laid out before you.
And then as you cook, you clean clean as you go.

Speaker 10 (01:23:43):
Oh and there's a step before even the first step
that you said, and that is go grocery shopping a
week before.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
Do not wait four hours between that. But yeah, you
got to get a little window there. You got a window.

Speaker 9 (01:23:56):
You got a window, and then know the ovens know
what you're working with.

Speaker 2 (01:23:59):
Yeah, yeah, I get your tools, get it right, make
sure your knights are sharp.

Speaker 9 (01:24:02):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (01:24:03):
So the fact that you are the one who's cooking
and you're saying that Thanksgiving is your favorite holiday, you're
allowed to say.

Speaker 9 (01:24:09):
You're allowed to say that, I love it.

Speaker 6 (01:24:11):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
And then Christmas is I love Christmas. I'm a big
Christmas guy. But I think that you don't have to
worry about gifts and all these pretexts. Right, it's just
like you show up, you eat, you pass out, you
watch football.

Speaker 10 (01:24:21):
That's awesome, okay, but I feel like you and your family,
you're at the age now are you still giving a
whole lot of gifts?

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
Not to every family is no, no, no, no, no,
no no. Because the kids get older. It's like, here's
a gift card, shut up.

Speaker 9 (01:24:32):
Yeah, And I love it.

Speaker 10 (01:24:33):
And I give my mom so much credit. Even for
my birthday. She's like, I want to physically send you something,
and I'm like, I love this. But at the same time,
I don't just send me the gift card. But she
doesn't want to send the gift card because she wants
something sentimental. But I understand, I understand.

Speaker 2 (01:24:47):
I guess I'm not a sentimental card anyway. You talking
about this because I know you're champion at the bit
to talk about our idea.

Speaker 9 (01:24:55):
This is we are taking credit for this. We are
one thousand percent.

Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
It just goes back probably three years we have.

Speaker 10 (01:25:02):
Been talking about First it started with ice cream and
guess what happened?

Speaker 9 (01:25:06):
And you know what we're talking about.

Speaker 10 (01:25:07):
We're talking about Skyline collaborating with Graters and then next thing,
you know what happens, The ice cream appears, and then
we continue to joke.

Speaker 9 (01:25:16):
How funny would it be, haha if there was a
beer and guess what's happening?

Speaker 10 (01:25:20):
Boom boom b Braxton Beer and Skyline are collaborating. Whether
this is true or not, this is a conspiracy theory,
I'm gonna say that. We're coming up with these ideas.
So now we got to come up with the next one.

Speaker 5 (01:25:32):
I don't know what it is.

Speaker 9 (01:25:33):
We'll figure it out.

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
Yet all works out. I mean you think about like, okay,
with a little chili, spice and cinnamon, It's like you
could totally do that in a beer. I think holiday
It's perfect for the holidays.

Speaker 10 (01:25:46):
And the best part is so Braxton every year. I
can't believe we're already approaching this season it's their Dark
Charge Day, so that weekend where they do the state
at the dinner Dark Charge, and these are.

Speaker 9 (01:25:58):
The beers that are the very dark, that are.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
Like it's like a bottle of ketchup. It's a small bottle.
That's a tiny bottle for no, you just need a little.

Speaker 9 (01:26:06):
Bit, a little bit. It's got the pretty wax feel, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
Crazy flavors and it's and they're really good dark churches.

Speaker 10 (01:26:13):
Now insert this collab Skyline Braxton Beer and just like
you said, it's a really dark beer that's infused with
that signature spice blend.

Speaker 9 (01:26:22):
So I'm sure it's going to be a little bit
of cinnamon.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
That's kind of like would work for Uh what what
kind of beer, isn't it though?

Speaker 5 (01:26:33):
What?

Speaker 10 (01:26:33):
What kind of So it's a stout they're usually stay. Yeah,
So it's Dark Charge, it's dark.

Speaker 9 (01:26:39):
My guess is the BV is going to be pretty
high on it.

Speaker 10 (01:26:42):
Cold Weather cold Weather, and they're going to be launching
it at their Dark Charge event Slash Weekend, which it's
happening December sixth, fifth, sixth weekend that weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:26:51):
I try that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
I think so too.

Speaker 10 (01:26:53):
Again, it's one of those where you could pick up
one two bottles, call it a day for Max and
you'll have it for a while. You can literally have
it for the entire season and we're going to take
cry for it. So you're you're welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
Yeah, so you got the different ones, right, there's the
regular skyt with beans.

Speaker 9 (01:27:12):
That you're talking about, the chili version it's got beans.

Speaker 2 (01:27:20):
Well, it's probably the black beans. I think you'll go
there too, unseasoned black If it's a lot going on
ones with onions and stuffing, you.

Speaker 9 (01:27:29):
Actually forget about syrup.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
You can just pour the beer on Dark charge. Is
it's a wax seal. This is cheese.

Speaker 9 (01:27:39):
Melted. It becomes a fun duke.

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
Correct. Yeah, you just rip it off with your teeth.
You eat the cat. That's the first beer you can
eat the cat and.

Speaker 9 (01:27:45):
It's paired with oyster crackers. Honestly, I'm here, you're there
for it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:49):
I am there for it all right? Where to available?

Speaker 10 (01:27:51):
Uh so?

Speaker 9 (01:27:52):
Yeah, so again it's starting.

Speaker 10 (01:27:54):
If you want to get your hands on it, follow
Braxton Beer because because this is their Dark Charge, it's
limited in regards to how further shipping it out. It's
usually a party source. But you're gonna want to most
likely just stop by Braxion and pick it up.

Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
I got a shout out, Bractice. I need a bottle
of that.

Speaker 10 (01:28:10):
Give it a try, I know, Skyline or Braxton. If
you're hearing, we'll come up with the next grade idea
and view it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
Yeah, a bottle each for that contribution.

Speaker 9 (01:28:19):
And I'm obsessed with the Greater's collap.

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
Ice crib is actually, I mean, you can't eat all
the time, but it's good.

Speaker 5 (01:28:24):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
I thought it was great it is. I was going
the next time I do it, I might try to
mess with like making a hot sauce kind of topping
infuse like sweet with the hot.

Speaker 9 (01:28:34):
With the like you're trying to do like a fudge them.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
Yeah, but I don't know the vinegar work with that.
That might cut through it. Though the vinegar is good
because it bounces off the swee. You can mess with that.

Speaker 9 (01:28:43):
The oyster crackers still, we're a little bit of funk
funk to me. I think the new riff.

Speaker 2 (01:28:47):
You know what you could do is you get crazy,
you get the oyster crackers, and then you could put
some butter in a pan and then like maybe I
don't know, brunch sugar.

Speaker 9 (01:28:56):
Oh, if you make a pie, could do that pie
pie that You're welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:29:05):
Okay, let's just wait to see. We're going to have
a test kitchen look at us and.

Speaker 10 (01:29:11):
Now we'll give it eight months and then that up,
I'll have an ice cream pie or ice cream skyline.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
We missed out on that. Another great idea.

Speaker 9 (01:29:21):
You're welcome, Cincinnati, You're moving on. Okay.

Speaker 10 (01:29:25):
So we did loosely start to talk about last week
what's happening down at Fountain Square, because I'm gonna be honest,
I really did not do my due diligence.

Speaker 9 (01:29:35):
I did not come up, come here prepared.

Speaker 10 (01:29:37):
And we are going to rehash this a little bit
more because of the fact that now the trees in
place and the grand opening of Winter House is happening.
So I had a chance to check out the Winter House,
which is on Fountin Square, and you were kind of
talking about it.

Speaker 9 (01:29:52):
A little bit last week.

Speaker 2 (01:29:53):
Yes, but boy, it is right. You didn't believe me.

Speaker 9 (01:29:56):
I honestly hear me, of course.

Speaker 2 (01:29:59):
And now it looks attack. The ice rink looks amazing.
It's much much bigger.

Speaker 9 (01:30:03):
Hold on, you're talking about something different.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
Well, it's a block and a half.

Speaker 9 (01:30:07):
Yeah, let's let's paint the picture.

Speaker 10 (01:30:08):
We're gonna start on Fountain Square because that's where the
ice rink used to be. And now they have this
whole massive tent. And in the tent it is loungey, loungey, loungey.
It's warm, it's so cute, it's amazing. They have these
sections with legitimate couches, comfy seating, they have a full
on bar, they've got the green wall, and they'll bring

(01:30:28):
in DJ so they have a setup for DJ and
music and.

Speaker 2 (01:30:31):
John John they'll be there to ruin Christmas with.

Speaker 10 (01:30:33):
His elf costume. He'll be climbing on top of the
tent pants.

Speaker 9 (01:30:37):
It's very too much time.

Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
Kids are down there. I don't know what we're doing.

Speaker 7 (01:30:42):
Good.

Speaker 9 (01:30:42):
I give him credit, Just don't hit them with the taxi.

Speaker 4 (01:30:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:30:47):
And then also they have these larger tables that you
can work at, so I'm like, okay, I'm about to
be working. Is that about to be my co working?

Speaker 2 (01:30:55):
That's great. I think it could pop coming down from
the you know, for long lunch or they Hey, I
take my lap top out there from fifth third.

Speaker 9 (01:31:01):
Take a meeting down there. Yeah, I'm here to see.

Speaker 10 (01:31:04):
And now because the trees down there, So they're going
to get some twinkle light action because when they drop
in the tree, it is the season right now. Yeah,
so I know Michelle Rourke is out there, My good
friend Michelle Rourke from Rourke Wrecking. She's got her helmet
on her orklove. She's actually she's the one dropping the
tree in the place. She's heavy equipment, Yes, heavy equipment.

Speaker 9 (01:31:22):
It's time. It's ready to rock and roll.

Speaker 10 (01:31:25):
But last weekend they did the whole shindig of they
did the family crafts and the ornaments and everything, and
they had live music and last Sundays when they really
leaned into it.

Speaker 9 (01:31:37):
So now is the time to.

Speaker 10 (01:31:39):
Go check it out, maybe do some work, watch the
Bengals games because they'll be having the Bengals games down there,
and just enjoy it.

Speaker 4 (01:31:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
That seems like it's just a good vibe to sit
there and there's like piano players down there. They just
have like different Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:31:52):
So Ben Levin he was, he's been. He's made quite
the name for himself. He was there last weekend and
then they also had the Wizard of Oz. They had
everything like themed last weekend. I know we're talking in
the past, but these are the types of things that
you can think and prepare for, just to keep an
eye out, especially on their social media channel.

Speaker 9 (01:32:10):
Yes, that they'll be doing this all season long. So
winter House.

Speaker 10 (01:32:13):
And like you said, now there's the new ice rink
whoop right down the street by the new convention centers.

Speaker 2 (01:32:18):
Look at really it.

Speaker 4 (01:32:19):
Really is good.

Speaker 2 (01:32:20):
Now the other thing they're doing too. I don't know
if you saw this or not, because I had three
CDC on Chrissie some mud last week. Yeah, and it's
on Fifth Street. It's a tunnel of lights. Basically you
walk down to the rink and it's kind of like
at the zoo, you know, but it's not a grander
scale because of the whole street. So it's just like
cute well light display. So as you walked the block
and a half to the convention center for the ice rink,

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it connects the.

Speaker 9 (01:32:42):
Two, right, I just keep it for blank cool, keep
it around.

Speaker 2 (01:32:45):
It's like some of these displaces like blank is.

Speaker 4 (01:32:47):
What it is.

Speaker 9 (01:32:48):
The setup.

Speaker 10 (01:32:48):
It's through a really smart setup because yeah, let me
know when you do, we'll bove around. Because there's another
thing I want to talk about here that's right near there.
But this new rink right they say it's a whole
new design. They have little trees in the middle, but
they also around the rink, they decided to input fire
pits and igloos and they have Perglas and they're also

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incorporating other vendors, which is really nice.

Speaker 9 (01:33:13):
So it just kind of rounds everything out. So check
that out.

Speaker 10 (01:33:17):
It's ready to rock, uh, starting today and right down
the street. Because if you're down there and you're wandering
another big new opening, tadah Is sALS Are two point zero.

Speaker 9 (01:33:30):
So have you heard about this?

Speaker 4 (01:33:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:33:32):
So Jose Salazar, he used to have his spot Salsar
in Otr and he just recently opened up inside of
the old Saxviith Avenue building.

Speaker 9 (01:33:42):
And the space is beautful, beautiful beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:33:49):
Are they doing anything else in there? Just a restaurant?

Speaker 10 (01:33:51):
Well find out, I mean the whole, I mean the
whole sax Fith Like that's I think still to discussion,
but I mean his space is pretty big and he's
won some national awards throughout his career. The menu, the
opening menu has been described as quote unquote playing it safe,
but at the end of the day, he's rolling out

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so many more standout dishes. The legendary oyster and kim
Chie Slider is back. People love that they have other
dishes like a blue crab pasta. They have a new
elevated chicken tender. And it really is just taking what
he was doing in OTR and quote traveled the world,
made more, made some money, collected some art, came back

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to shake things up, and it's really it's.

Speaker 2 (01:34:37):
A location right there too. So all right, so you
go skate found, go to sales are there, you got
Fountain Square, you got Chris Kindlemart.

Speaker 9 (01:34:44):
To Chris Kindlermart. And it's happening today. It starts.

Speaker 10 (01:34:47):
I'm hoping that it doesn't rain because my goal is
to get down there. I oay, if it rains, I'm
not going. I'll go another day. Well, they do have
the iglus, Yeah, so they there come every year. This
thing just gets bigger and bigger and bigger, and they'll
have the heated igglus. And what's great is you can

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rent that for ninety minutes. It is three hundred bucks
to rent. However, it fits fourteen people, so do the math.
That's about twenty one to twenty two bucks a person.
If you have fourteen people that can can go they're
always They're gonna constantly be having live music, and they
have this big led screen. They have the festive characters
who are coming. Santa's mailbox is gonna be there, so

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if you want to bring the kiddo's, if they want
to rail a letter, then they can throw it in
the mailbox and.

Speaker 9 (01:35:34):
Ship it off to the Stanta.

Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
I just be able to text them.

Speaker 1 (01:35:36):
Now.

Speaker 9 (01:35:37):
You really should was faxing every thing for Santa.

Speaker 2 (01:35:42):
Yeah, you could fact Santa.

Speaker 10 (01:35:43):
You could factor the fact that the IRS still requires
you to fax things blows my mind too.

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
It's all digital now, but yeah, it's still pack a
big roll. Awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:35:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:35:58):
So, and then they're gonna have a new interactive light display,
a new play area, Holiday Beer Extravaganza. You'll see things
actually boyfriend Brendan whiskey Weather. There's a good chance that
he'll also be doing things like whiskey tasting, bourbon tastings,
and whiskey ta So expect to see different types of
events come through throughout this whole experience, which starts today

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and then it runs all the way through December twenty eighth,
past Christmas.

Speaker 5 (01:36:24):
Which is awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
Okay, real quick, because we've only got like seconds here,
I know you wanted to touch on the top one
hundred restaurants in America, which since he has four of.

Speaker 10 (01:36:32):
Them, yes, what yes, Boca Soto, Jeff Ruby Steakhouse, and
the precincts, well those last two four to those last yeah, right,
And this is huge because we are the only Cincinnati
is the only Ohio city that made the top one
hundred restaurants.

Speaker 9 (01:36:48):
And this is through open Table, which in my mind.

Speaker 10 (01:36:51):
I'm like, that's a pretty that's quite incredible source because
I do all my reservation through open Table. That's where
people find a lot of restaurants. So the way it,
you know, you're taking twelve million different diner reviews and
you're determining them through food, quality, service, atmosphere, just overall experience.
And it's really great to see that we're kind of

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becoming Cincinnati has been. But there's just something about also
being back in the restaurant scene that you're really seeing
this fine dining scene flourish. At Jay also announced, which
we've talked about, they're extending into twenty twenty six. So
there's that Basque steakhouse and you're seeing these spots really flourish, shine.

Speaker 9 (01:37:30):
So we love that first.

Speaker 2 (01:37:31):
All Right, lots to do this weekend, Alie Martin the
local loops she pops in every Friday morning. We won't
see you next week because it's Thanksgiving, mind, so we
have a great holiday. Yeah, fat and stupid is my
goal too, So thank you so much. We'll catch up
in a two weeks from now here on the home
of the best Bengals coverage seven hundred w what ever
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