Eddie & Rocky -- 11/14/25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well twelve, He's got so many irons in the fire
and any want to cover him. But that's where you
can find him most often. Let's talk some basketball coaching.
Let's we're going to break that down a little bit.
I want to know what his style is more and uh,
were you? Uh?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
How?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
What is your style coaching high school ball, skinny? Are
you more of? Uh? What do you like a metal
lark lemon kind of teaching those guys that way?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Or what's your I'm a I'm a full court pressure guy,
mixing in his own pressure and some man pressure very
much in a dribble drive offense guy and and a
five out open post offense guy. I got a couple
of specialty sets. I got a couple that that are
quick hitters that I like, some flair sets I try

(00:50):
to I'm more conceptual. So I'm the JV head coach
at Beechwood. The varsity head coach is really good guy
named ross Hart. I want to give a shout at
him because he was a really good coach and a
guy I used to coach for before that era gets there.
Just basketball savants when it comes to half court offensive stuff,
and they they are very set heavy I'm just not
set heavy, and usually at my level, kids are not
quite there yet. From remembory saying don't want to I

(01:13):
just wanted to let him go play. So I'm a
big concept guy. I've I've town Jason some of the
stuff I run, I under these out of bounds plays
that that I run, I used them.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
I think you had to success with it.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, last year in sixth grade league. Oh, you guys
are Oh. I always going to ask skin if you
now I didn't know you coached youth basketball as well, Jason.
I can already tell by this conversation, I'm only thirty
seconds deep in it, and you guys are the guys
at full court press when you're up by thirty with
two minutes left.

Speaker 5 (01:43):
No listen.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
I'm I coached an AA national championship team. And there
were times in tournaments early on before you I got
the you know, metal rounds where you play from pool
play and I get up pretty big, pretty quick, and
you just got to call off the dogs. You look
down there, You're like, man, they're overmatched. You can't keep

(02:04):
overmatching this. I will say, early, early, early in my battle.
So in high school, I wanted to be a basketball coach,
and I ended up going into journalism and whatever instead,
And I coached my sister's church league basketball team at
Lakeside Presbytery in rint annoying tick when I was seventeen
years old, and so I'm i I was a I'm
going to go with a diamond press or a two

(02:26):
to two to one John Wooden press. And the first
game I ever coached, we beat a team seventy two
to nothing, and they made a rule you couldn't press.
After that, I'm like, wait a minute, man, If the
worst part was i'd a team, the worst part was
I bed.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
A team seventy two to nothing.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Look at You're like, gosh, man, what a jerk?

Speaker 4 (02:43):
What what are you thinking?

Speaker 6 (02:44):
Man?

Speaker 3 (02:44):
No, I'm seventeen year old. I'm going to show you
on the next John Wooden.

Speaker 6 (02:51):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah that the sixteen year old girl you had at
center who talked like this, Oh didn't have anything to
do with it.

Speaker 7 (02:58):
Uh but nope.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
But anyways, let's talk about that game on Sunday Steelers
or yeah, Steelers hosting the Bengals. But the Steelers is
going to be out for revenge. But what good is
that doing? Because of their defense kind of it's not
as bad as you know, you know who, But damn
that's not a very good defense. And Blacko could shred

(03:21):
them again.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
I mean they're thirty second in the league and there's
only thirty two teams in pass defense the Steelers are now,
they still have that great front. I mean you still
have TJ. Watt, Sure, Cam Hayward, Lonzo Heitsmith. I mean
they can still get after you. They didn't get after
him in Cincinnati all that much. I mean Blackham got
it out quick. He was very decisive, he was very accurate.
That said, you're on the road, and just before we
came on, I heard the Pittsburgh weather forecasters.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
I've already looked up.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
But to give you guys a plug, you guys your
station game, your weatherfork kiss forty seven degrees in windy.
Is that going to help the passing game? You know,
other times when you're going into the win, you better
run the football effectively. Are times when you're wins behind
you you have to go make hay with that stuff.
So you know, it's it's a weird dynamic because Pittsburgh,
when it doesn't turn you over, doesn't get a lot

(04:07):
of stops. Now they've I think four of their five
wins have come when they won the turnover margin. They
beat Indy, and Indy's really good, but they turned Indy
over six times. They had six takeaways in that game,
I believe, the first game of the year against the Jets.
They won that by two points, thirty four to thirty two,
and they turned the Jets over five times. A couple
other games that they've had plus turnover margins they won.
But when they don't turn you over, they don't really

(04:27):
stop you much. And that's you know, the Bengals can
cannot turn it over. I do think they have a
legitimate chance. The problem is can the other side of
the football stop Pittsburgh because they haven't stopped the soul
of late.

Speaker 8 (04:39):
Right, Skinny, This this Steelers team is, they're they're a
weird team. They're up and down, up and down. And
you know, they beat the Patriots earlier this year, Yep, yep,
you know, they beat the Colts. I mean, so they've
beaten you know, two of the best but the two
best teams right record wise in the in the AFC.
And yet you know they go and lay a big

(05:02):
egg at the Chargers last week. You know, they lose
the home the Packers, they give up a ton of points. Ultimately,
do you see this as a similar game to what
we saw when they were in Cincinnati here on that
Thursday night where the Bengals beat him thirty three thirty one.
You know with that what that late late touchdown, you

(05:24):
see a similar, similar score, similar type of game.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
There's no reason not to think yeah, right, Because again,
while Pittsburgh's offense is scuffling a little bit, and they've
scuffled all year. I mean, the their highest yard output
was against the Bengals three hundred ninety six yards. I
think since in the last three games they've not gotten
over over three hundred yards of total offense, in a
couple of cases in the low two hundreds. So they
scuffled our offense a lot. But this is also a

(05:48):
Bengals defense, which I just mentioned. They gave it the
most yards this season that Pittsburgh's had, three ninety six.
They gave up five hundred and eighty something to Chicago.
The game before that against the Jets, they give up.

Speaker 9 (05:58):
Five hundred and two the Jets.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Going into Left night in New England when they lost
twenty seven to fourteen and had a great first drive.
Good for them, But in the two games prior to
playing the Bengals and the one game after the Bengals,
the Jets had four hundred and seventy yards combined total
offensive yards. They had five or two against the Bengals alone.
That just continues to tell you this is an ethically
bad defense.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, not good. Well, let me ask both of you guys,
Aaron Rodgers, is he a done deal? But this is
all the rigamarole that was made for him in the
off season. So far, I ain't seeing it. I'm more
impleasant impressed by Flacco than.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
I am in Yeah, that's a fair point. I did
talk to somebody today who said that they believe Rogers
still has it. There's evidence suggests otherwise. He looked really
uninterested against the Chargers. Plumbs he took that, he took
that awful safety in the end zone where it looked
like he just wasn't completely aware of what was going
on around him, which that's not him. He still spins it.

(06:57):
I mean, you know, even against the Bengals, while he
feel a lot of short passes that that there's a
lot of yard after catch, he dropped one in the bucket,
the DK Metcalf early in the game, and then he
threw at hail Mary which was just ridiculous, seventy yards
in the air. He whistled that one down the team
to Pat fryar moose that gave the Steelers the lead
that forced the Bengals to go win the game. So,
you know, just three games ago, he still had the

(07:18):
arm talent, but it just looked he looked so disinterested
this past week. It's hard to explain.

Speaker 8 (07:22):
I'll tell you what, if I'm the Steeler at Flacco,
I don't think he's going to sustain what he's been
doing at this high level. But I think he's he
continues to be, you know, level off and be the
solid Joe Flacco that I think we know he is.
I'm telling you I'm the Steelers, I'm going after him potentially.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
I don't think that's the wrong thing to say, because
you know, they're they're they're gonna be in the market
at all like it for a quarterback unless Aaron Rodgers
just lights the world on fire and they feel like
they can resign him at a decent price and he
and if he still wants to play, But if not.
You're probably gonna be in the market to draft one.
There's probably not a free agent out there that you
think is gonna be a ton better And what a

(08:01):
great bridge quarterback or even a guy that you just
plug in there from day one, and in Joe Flackle
he would be It would be so weird. He would
then literally have played for every team in the AFC,
nort That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
That is crazy. Yeah, And what better guy to teach
a young quarterback. I mean this guy wall You know,
this goes back to far Evan Rodgers, you know that
whole thing. Even though Rogers resented it, it was good
for him to learn under a guy like that. Sure,
but you bring in Flacco, who seems to be a
straight up guy and all. He he just is a

(08:33):
football guy. You want some you want your kid to
learn under that guy.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
I'm not a big press conference fan. I mean I
think some sometimes you know they're they're we're all sharing
the same quotes, we're all sharing the same things, and
a lot of times there's a lot of cliche talk.
Joe Flacco is so interesting in those to me. I mean,
he's air with those and those are and that's not
knock against Joe Burrow because I think Joe can be
really interesting at times. There's a lot of times Joe's disinterested.

(09:01):
That's fine, he doesn't have to be interested for us,
but there's times he is. But Joe Flacco's just it's
really like insightful, thoughtful. It just gives gives really good answers.
I've just been I've been way more from the outside
looking in. When they made this trade, I just went, Okay, great,
he's sure he can take a snap so of football,
knows how to play the game, all well and good.

(09:22):
I I can't tell you how much I think everybody
that's covered him in this month's run that he's been
on is impressed with almost everything he's done. He's been
He's been an outstanding in every way.

Speaker 8 (09:33):
Speaking of Flacco along those lines, you know Burrow comes
back you practice this week. I don't know, Skin, You
and I were both there obviously the press conference on
Monday when Burrow, you know, stepped to the podium for
the first time a couple of months. Did you do
you since that, like, like I don't. I didn't since
that Burrows all that, you know, I just thought he

(09:55):
would give like a big like huge compliment. He'd be
rare very compliment, uh meanting of Joe Flacco. And I
didn't see this big glowing review of Joe Flacco, did
you since that? It's like Burrow's like, no, this is
my team, and you know that's great. Joe Flacco has
been here. Like but I mean again, I'm paraphrasing. That
was kind of the vibes that are kind of the

(10:17):
what I took away from what Burrow said.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
That's actually I didn't take that away. I tell you're
wrong for that takeaway. I just didn't take that away.
I do think for a guy like Joe Burrow, it's
so tunnel vision of I want to play. I'm focused
on my process. I'm focused on getting me back and
oh yeah, Joe FLACKO there, he did say. I think
at one point though, you know, it's been great to
have him in the room.

Speaker 9 (10:39):
Oh he didn't know d like me.

Speaker 6 (10:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
No, he's kind of quiet like me, and at times
he can say some things that are funny to make
me laugh. And I thought that was that was pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
But I do think for a guy like that, it
is I'm focused.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
On getting me back, and when I'm back, Who's ever
in my way. Man, you're out, I'm in, and I'm
okay with that part of it. I just think that
the first three part for guys like Joe Burrow when
they're hurt is the only need to control is your rehab.
You can't control the timeline completely. You can try to
push it up at the tunnel vision of I gotta play.
And that's where I've had people to say, what if

(11:11):
they're three and eight when he comes out, why play?
A he wants to play? And yeah, I know he
doesn't make decisions right or he maybe he does, you
know he but he wants to play and he's competitive.
And guess what, he's being paid to play. I'm not
paying Joe Burrow not to play. And I realize fans
and go, yeah, but what if he gets hurt again.
You can't live in the universe of what if he
gets hurt again?

Speaker 2 (11:31):
You just can't.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
You have to live in the universe of and it's
like you, guess there is the white people.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
I'll just tank.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Well, you can do some things to tank, but you're
not like laying down and go okay, first and ten
from the thirty go run out of your touchdown.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
You're not banking right.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
You may not play all your guys, especially if they're
eighty percent or ninety percent. I think for a guy
like that, it's I want to go play. I want
to go want to know this week and whatever happens happens.
If we go seven and ten because our defense still
stinks and I've played well, what's rolling the next year
Because'm playing well? I just think that's the mentality. I
understand the fans mentality of just get the best traffick
to let him get hurt. Okay, I get you, but

(12:07):
that's just not how these guys operate in the space,
especially when you're paying them a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
See, you don't have it's kind of convenient you don't
have to just outright tank because you know you have
this defense.

Speaker 10 (12:20):
With the guys.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
We'll roll you guys back out, Yeah, we'll roll you
guys back.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Go ahead. We're looking at don't even worry about it.
Right now, we're sitting at a number two pick all
good guys. Uh, don't worry about it. If we give
up fifty uh so, uh, skinny, we will talk to
you next week, buddy, thanks so much. All right, with that,
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Speaker 1 (13:58):
It THENO is what he's doing tonight? Hecky yeah yeah
yeah yeah. What do we think I'm talking about my wife?
I mean, I don't even talk about her, like I
thought you were calling my radio wife. Uh he He's
doing the Kentucky game tomorrow, right, okay, yeah, which I

(14:19):
can see Lexington from here.

Speaker 13 (14:21):
Right.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
It takes even from where he lives, which is Illinois.
Apparently it takes you about an hour and a half
to drive you to Lexton straight up, right, No problem,
that's easy, easy hour and a half. The way I drive,
it's about an hour and five. But I digress. Yeah,
you've got that down pad on your annual trip to Keenland.

(14:43):
Hell yeah I do.

Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Well, what I love about that trip is going down
seventy five. I'm going eighty five and every literally everybody
else is going ninety if. Well, that's where I can
drive in the middle lane and I know that people
are going to be passing me on both sides, and
I'm going eighty three miles an hour. That's if you

(15:05):
drash straights. I know you like to stop at the
arc and counter take that in. Well, you know what
last when we went there a couple of weeks ago,
I said, we need to go to the Ark Encounter sometime.
Really yeah, I if there was a BUCkies it would
take me about four days to get from here to Lexington.
But any but anyways, I digress. He is doing the

(15:28):
Kentucky the UK football game tomorrow, but he's going down early.
He could have been here today. I'm telling you this
right now. I hope he's listening as he's driving down Lexington,
and I hope he calls in because I'll be glad
to put him on the air and barbecue him. But
he uh, He's like, oh, yeah, you know, I'm going

(15:49):
to the UK. I'm going to the basketball game tomorrow night.
And they're whining and dining me. He's got to He's
been invited to a private box. He's going to be
down there eating rimped cocktail and drinking champagne.

Speaker 7 (16:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
He tells these guys, Oh, I need to go down
there and do my show prep for the football game tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
His show prep is going to be sitting there eating
you know, Like I said, Rupp arena in a private
box eating shrimp cocktail and little Minie philet mignon. So
if if you're feeling sorry for Rock and you're wondering
if I can just see him, then later on he'll
be down at the Hyatt bar doing shots and backslapping

(16:33):
and carrying on doing shots of fine Kentucky bourbon. An't
knowunse Kentucky had a football team. Oh yea, I'm there. Well, yeah,
I know, I know. But anyways, Jason, let's talk about
a football team right here in town. You're talking about
today and your take, and I thought this was a good,
interesting take talking about uh, the Bengals management throwing Zach

(16:58):
Taylor under the buzzle, like, go, we don't talk, Zach talks. Well,
it's a team policy and he's and to your point though,
he's handling it.

Speaker 8 (17:08):
Well, very very well. And uh, you know, that's a
guy who he doesn't bristle. You know, if you know,
longtime fans will remember this. This policy really fully kicked
in with Marvin Lewis and they really shifted. They had
always you know, and a lot of times your you know,
your coach obviously talks more to the media than anyone

(17:29):
else but they really shifted into our coach is going
to be our spokesperson mode when they hired Marvin, and
he just wasn't good at it. He was condescending and short,
and even when things were good, he'd be condescending. I mean,
he remember some of his you know, his Morning you
know clips with Mike McConnell, and it was just like,
what's the point here?

Speaker 14 (17:46):
You know?

Speaker 8 (17:46):
I mean, I understand the point, but you know what
I mean, just the way he would answer it is
what I'm talking about. But but but Zach, you know,
I went in the locker room on Monday, and I'm
just like it was upbeat, and you just could tell
right there, like okay, like just by observing and alone,
You're like, all right, this is uh, this doesn't seem

(18:07):
like a lock and I know they're coming off the bibe.
It doesn't seem like a locker room that's really down
the dumb. So I started asking some guys, hey, what
you know, and then they told me and Orlando Brown
Junior was great and basically gave Zach a huge kudos
for how he handles everything, and same guy, whether they're
winning or losing. He doesn't bristle with the reporters. There's

(18:29):
been some tough questions obviously lately. He doesn't though when
he went under the bus, I thought he handled it
very well with Chase Brown. I mean, that's not their style.
And Chase Brown was upset after the last game, and
you know it took flights at the defense. Yeah, and
you know, I mean I asked Chase Brown for the store.
I didn't use any quotes from him, you know, I
asked him and he's like, yeah, well, just we talked
to him, was good and got a lot of respect

(18:51):
for Zach And yeah, I just I feel like it's
I just I thought it needed to be written because
act takes so much heat and he gets that. As
the head coach of a team right now, certainly that's struggling.
But I thought how he's handling everything just was extra impressive. Yeah,

(19:11):
I liked your take.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (19:13):
With that.

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Speaker 1 (20:41):
Oh oh, my back with the Eddie and Jason Jason
in for Rocky Today, and we laugh because we know
we have because the show's going to be uplifted right now.
And that always puts me in a good mood when
I know we have our friend this time. Every Friday,

(21:03):
John matteris WCPO nine News. Now, John, how about when
can I count on getting my two thousand dollars tariff
rebate check? Because I know it should be uplifting. I'd
run to my mailbox every day waiting for that sucker
to come jumping out of there at me.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
Oh, you might be waiting a while. You might be
you know, you might not want to plan your holiday
shopping round it just yet. You know, everybody's buzzing about this.
President Trump announced about a week ago, every adult in
the US except the way he said it was, quote
except high income people, I believe should be getting a

(21:40):
two thousand dollars tariff rebate check. Because he's trying to
help the economy. He knows that affordability is a major
issue now, and that's the that's the buzzword this fall, affordability.
And you know he's trying to, you know, get people
feeling good about the economy again, because you know, the
latest polls show people aren't. So he's supposed to a
two thousand dollars tariff rebate check. Hey, don't call it

(22:03):
a stimmy check. It's not a Biden stimulus. It is
a pair of rebate check. So he wants these to
go out. And the question is two things. One can
he send these out? And two who would qualify? Well,
Congress as the purse strings and the Biden stimulus checks

(22:24):
had to be approved by Congress. And if Congress has
to approve these, and might not happen, or at least
it might not happen in a two thousand dollars form.
There is a Senator Josh Hawley, who proposed a six
hundred dollars rebate check. I'll take six hundred, you know,
I'm not fussy. Two thousand would be nice, But so
a lot of people say it's gonna cost us three
hundred billion dollars wiping out all the savings that we

(22:47):
made from tariffs and all these cuts. So I don't
know if it's gonna be two thousand dollars. Maybe it'll
be six hundred. But Congress is the one that has
to approve of it. So we'll see. Now here's here,
here's one thing in its favor. And I'll tell you this.
You ever notice that when President Trump wants something, he
tends to get it. Well, let's say ballroom, ballroom. Okay, yeah,

(23:12):
it's like other presidents would have taken what about five
years to get approval for the ballroom. You know, Trump
is like, hey, I want a ballroom. Let's get going.
So we'll see. It might happen. There's a lot of
naysayers out there. It might happen, but again, I wouldn't
start shopping and doing your Black Friday shopping based on it.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Let me tell you this. I will bet my two
thousand dollars tariff check that there ain't going to be
a two thousand dollars tariff check. Yeah, fair enough.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
We'll see. We'll see. It is a lot of money,
you know they're talking about it's going to cost us billions.
And the other thing is the last time we handed
out this amount of money, it really ignited inflation. I
mean a lot of the inflation from four years ago
was blamed on the Biden stimulus check because everybody got
a sugar rush and say, hey, let's go out and

(24:06):
buy a hot tub and a couple of seventy five
inch TVs, and you know what happened next? The shells
were cleared out, prices went up. You couldn't find a
car for sale on dealer lots. So I don't know,
I just don't know.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Is the idea on this like that? It's two thousand
per household or.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
Two thousand per per adult in a household. That's what appears.
So yeah, see we don't have particulars yet.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Now we see that seems a little pie in the sky.
I getting four thousand alone in my household. Well, John,
you were I don't know.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
You just we'll see. We'll just have to see what happens.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
You just brought up those imaginary seventy five inch TVs.
But now I'm seeing the hottest thing on for Black
Friday is one hundred inches. Come on, think up a
hell do you have?

Speaker 4 (25:00):
Bro?

Speaker 1 (25:00):
If you have a one hundred inch TV?

Speaker 4 (25:02):
Come on now, well, you know, to you, size has
always been an important thing your whole life.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
So really, I've convinced a lot of women that it's
not that big a deal.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
So maybe maybe you need a ninety eight or one
hundred inch TV. A Walmart has one right now this weekend,
as part of their first round of Black Friday sales,
a ninety eight inch TCLTV. We saw it their wallmark
the other day. Unbelievable and this thing will take up
your whole living room wall. Ninety eight inches diagonal. You know,

(25:33):
until now a big TV was considered eighty five that
was huge. Yeah, I still have a sixty five you
know that goes over the fireplace.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Dude, And I remember, I remember if you had a
forty inch TV, that was giant.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
Yeah. Well the old tube TV, yes, sure, that that's
console that mom and dad used to have. But you know,
in recent years it's been a seventy five inch. Then
they pushed eighty five. Now Home Depot has this ninety
eight inch TV. Walmart, actually, Walmart has this ninety eight
inch TV nine hundred and ninety eight dollars half price.

(26:09):
I mean, it's unbelievable. Best Buy has a couple of
one hundred inch TVs around one thousand dollars, So it's unbelievable.
The size of these new tvs' you can't drive them home.
I mean, even if you have like a short bed
pickup truck, it won't rite, No, kid, you gotta get
delivery on them. It's amazing.

Speaker 16 (26:30):
It's real.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
It's a real TV. It's not a projection TV. We
have a projection TVs. You go down to somebody's basement
and they'd have a projector, you know, like hanging from
the ceiling, and you know the picture is so washed out,
and it's like this is awful. Just give me a
regular TV, you know. So that's what we have here
at one hundred inch regular TV. The hottest thing that

(26:52):
Eddie you could get for dev this holiday season. You'd
be like, she doesn't want that jewelry. She doesn't want that.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
She'll try to wear it on her finger.

Speaker 8 (27:02):
John, I seem to tend to be here every every
Fall Friday and we talk, we talk Black Friday deals
and it's usually TV and I always this is one
of my favorite segments with you because, like you said,
these things, I mean, what are we gonna talk about
Next Year's gona be one hundred and twenty five next year?
I mean, it literally feels like every year you're doing
a report on uh, like you just said, last year

(27:24):
it was seventy.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
Five very eighty five inches. Oh my goodness, we're now
it's ninety eight and one hundred inches on these TVs,
you know, And it's unbelievable because these are real four
K TVs. They're not again some crappy projections. I mean,
these are big screen TVs. It's just unreal. So, you know, Eddie,
you could it's like you're in a It's like you're

(27:46):
in a movie theater watching those snuff films used to
go to.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, well, so I went to Amsterdam one time, say
I need where the where's the snuff movie theater at?

Speaker 4 (28:07):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Lord h with that John, we will let you go
like contemplate where you got this intel on me?

Speaker 4 (28:15):
But yeah, I'm thinking about you and pee wee you
and pee wee Herman in the movie theater.

Speaker 14 (28:19):
You know.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, I think I think he was in a different
theater than I was.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
Uh get that, get that new ninety eight inch TV,
and uh we'll set yourself off and uh it's gonna
be a great Black Friday. They guys, have a great
weekend and don't waste your money.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Thanks Sean. Snuff films. That one us for a loose.
I'm gonna laugh about that one for a little bit.

Speaker 8 (28:52):
Uh.

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(35:30):
started called Jason Hoppin you had him yesterday from the
Inquirer Cincinnati dot com. But right now we're talking to
this fellow, right, y'all always like talking to our tech guy,
the man who we all and Dave, I can't tell
you enough, and I always we used to give you
a bunch of crap saying, oh, yeah, it's such a
stranger things guy is here and Nope, it's all true.

(35:55):
Now Dave, our good friend Dave had so So Dave,
let's let's jump right into it. But the whole because
we really lean into the AI thing. And it's because
simply because I think AI, if you're not watching, to
scare the hell out of you. And it's like one
of these things that one of these articles you sent

(36:15):
Dave really caught my eye talking about how office business
owners and runners are maintaining AI even though this if
they're multitasked, they get it wrong about sixty five seventy
percent of the time. Is that figure wrong.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Yeah, I think this is an interesting story. It's from
the Register, and this is not the only reporting on this.
I mean, obviously this stuff says, and I don't want
to be clear guys, there's plenty of ways you can
use it and get some major productivity peaks. But you've
got Jared and AI, the chat GPTs in the world,
the stuff that's really been in the news a lot,
and then the latest thing that's gotten a lot of
press is agentic AI or AI agents. You can argue

(37:00):
there's a small point of distinction between the two, but
the average person that's the same thing, and it's the
idea that you're going to use some sort of AI
based agent that can act in the real world like,
for example, hey, whatever, don't book me a trip to
Disney World. And there's so many problems with this, not
the least of which that you just pointed out at

(37:20):
either in this article. They did a bunch of testing
and they found that even with some of the leading
edge models out there, they're not very accurate. But I
thought the more interesting thing about all of this is
they don't really get into the privacy and security aspects
of this. Now, they do say that you know, they
built some real world tests to test these things, because
there's you know, all this is new and there's not

(37:40):
a lot of agreement around. Okay, you say it can
do act this, other person says it can do Why
what's it really doing? They built these real world tests.
I think this is really interesting, And I'm also not
saying that these things won't get better the same when
you look at the testing, yes, they're not very accurate.
But for me, the real concern is that people are
going to try and turn these things on and they're

(38:00):
not really going to understand that if it makes a mistake,
you know, could it be a catastrophic mistake for you
or your business. And as for these things, to take
act them as you, it's going to have to have
credentials to use your name and passwords, right, it's going
to have to act as somebody. You'd have to give
it a credit card or a bank account. And I
got to tell you, guys, there is absolutely no chance

(38:21):
I would allow some AI agent to go on and
act on behalf of me in the real world and
do anything of any consequence. It's just too risky.

Speaker 8 (38:29):
Well, yeah, and certainly have any kind of access to
any of your credit card or bank accounts. You know,
I saw in the story Dave that you know, well,
it's some of this stuff is basic. Like one was
at asked AI, find all the emails I've received that
make exaggerated claims about AI and see whether the senders
have ties to cryptocurrency firms. Now, I know I could

(38:52):
see where like if you know, I mean, like, you know,
my job in the Inquirer, I get tons of reader emails,
and then on top of that, I get tons of
press releases, and then on top of that, because my
email is out on the website, I get tons of
junk mail.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
I'm sure.

Speaker 8 (39:08):
So if I'm trying to find something in my email,
I don't know about something from someone that I got
three weeks ago, find this email about uh, you know,
this history of Greg Cook from the Bengals or something.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (39:24):
It feels like it would be be useful for that,
but it sounds to me like it's not even it's
not even that accurate.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
So Jason, here's the thing. It can be really useful
for something like that. I mean, again, we use this
stuff an interest, and when you understand what it can
it can't do and you understand the risks both of
it hallucinating, you know, making stuff up, making mistakes. You
understand the privacy and security risks of allowing something to
act on your behalf. Because again chats GPT. You know

(39:53):
you're a prompt and it gives you something, you know,
an image back or whatever. Right, these are things that
could go do something like again, book which rip or whatever.
There's definite value if you understand how to work within
the guardrails. Like to your point, Hey, go in and
find me all the emails I received on this topic.
Will lick at everyone, Maybe not, will lick at most

(40:14):
of them. Probably he summarize these emails and show me
the recurring theme. It is good at those sort of things.
There should always be and this is becoming a termament industry.
Human in the loop, the idea that if you just
blindly assume what you're getting is one hundred percent actual,
you were setting yourself up for a disaster. Yeah, if
someone has some basic comprehension of what it's trying to do,

(40:39):
what you're trying to tease out or whatever, Jason, it
can be very good at that sort of thing. But
if you just blindly assume it can do what they're
selling you, because I think part of the problem here, guys,
is you've got people trying to sell their stuff, right,
so of course they're hyping it up to the nth degree.
And when you look at this study again from Carnegie
o and University, they set up this agent company, they

(41:01):
had to perform these tasks. And this is not the
only situation like this. You know, it's not that competent.
It's just allowing it going off and doing things on
a turn. At this point, again, I'm not saying it
won't get better. I'm just saying right now, I encourage
people to check this stuff out, try it for yourself,
see what works, learn about what you should and should

(41:22):
not do. But don't just blindly assume that it's going
to do what you want or that you can trust
the output. And again, there is no chance, guys, no
chance I would give any of these tools like to
use an an a taskwords that belongs to me, access
to my bank account or any kind of financial accounts,
or anything that could act on my behalf in a
way that would be financial or somehow come back and

(41:43):
dow up on me. I just don't trust it.

Speaker 10 (41:44):
Well enough.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
At this point, we're talking to our tech expert here,
Dave Hatter, and Dave, you brought up the term hallucinations
from AI. Now, we talked about it before, and I
know you've explained it, but I've read several articles talking
about AI hallucinations in business, people in their personal life,
and AI encouraging people to kill themselves or kill their boss,

(42:10):
you know, in test models, and I guess in some
cases AI encouraging young people to kill themselves. Now, when
we talk about hallucinations, explain to us again what exactly
that means. Because when I think of hallucinations, I think
of a person being crazy or high or something. What

(42:31):
happens to these machines that cause them to quote unquote illucinate.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
So when you're working with these large language based generative
AI tools Jack B. T. Crock, Gemini, Copilot, et cetera. Right,
they're trained on enormous amounts of material and at the
end of the day, they're really probabilistic prediction tools. They
make predictions about things. This word is based on gigantic

(42:57):
sets of data, huge corpuses of knowledge. This word is
most likely to come next to that work. Right, it's
a probabilistic slash predictive engine, and it predicts what should
come next. Well, let's be realistic, guy. When you get
into probability, right, unless you can predict with one hundred
percent accuracy, you're going to get some things wrong. And

(43:19):
that's one of the problems with these large language models,
and it's one of the reasons why there are many people.
I don't know if you guys got another article I
sent you to kind of ties into this why we're
unlikely to get the general artificial intelligence anytime soon, and
I'll come back to answer your questions specifically that they
say in here. In a recent survey of the Association
of the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, what are your own

(43:40):
academic society, more than three quarters of the respondent said
the method is to build today's technology are unlikely to
lead to AGI. And the reason I'm bringing this up
now is because we've got these large language models. That's
the primary driver of what most people experience. There is
other stuff out there, and there are people working on
other things, but the idea of artificial general intelligence is
you will live intually get to a point where the

(44:03):
artificial intelligence is as capable as a human being at
any task. No might pick any task. It can do
it just as good and perhaps better than a human being,
and at some point you'll potentially get the super intelligence,
the idea that you know, it's better than all human
beings at all tasks.

Speaker 6 (44:18):
Right.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Again, all kinds of speculation on this, but there are
many people who are saying now as the there's a
lot of these problems in one particular one being this
hallucination idea that because it's predicting things, that will just
make things up. And in many cases it will not
not just make something up if you question it, it
will then try to argue with you and tell you
that it's right. Yeah, some speculate, Eddie, but that that's

(44:44):
because of course they want to keep you on there,
they want to please you, they want to keep you
coming back. Some argue that's just the nature of the
way that does the probabilistic modeling to come up with
these answers. But you know, can you you can have
even a ten percent rate of hallucination in a product

(45:05):
if it's doing any kind of critical tasks, can you
trust that without a human in the loop, that should
double second, and that's that's one of the pie pieces
of advice I'm always giving to people I don't know
if I send you this articles. A recent article pointing
out that people use tools like chat GPT to plan
a vacation and it literally builds an itinery places that
don't exist. Do you're out on vacation, you show up

(45:25):
somewhere and it's like, oh, yeah, this thing it told
you about, Yeah, that's not real. It was a hallucination.
So unless you know, at least unless you're just truly
in research mode, if you don't know anything about a topic,
my advice to you would be not to use these
tools to go to research it a traditional way, you know,
stick to things you know something about. So you have

(45:47):
some idea of is this giving me good advice or
is this just making something up? Because you know, there's
been plenty of people in court attorneys show up, they
cited cases in a brief or something, but don't. So, yeah, guys,
I don't. I'm not trying to say there's not value
in it's because there is. But if you don't really
understand how it works, and if you don't really understand

(46:09):
these pitfalls, you were setting yourself up for potential major
problems where do you I know.

Speaker 8 (46:16):
You talk a lot about this on the Eddie and
Rocky Show, and you study it like crazy and read
all these articles. And let's say, I don't know, five
years down the road, ten years down the road, you know,
where are we when all the hype and hooplaw of
AI has settled down? Where are we going to be

(46:38):
with this is? This is a lot of this stuff
just it's here today, gone tomorrow, and it's just talking
about you know, this is futuristic y stuff or is
this really going to change the world that we know?

Speaker 4 (46:53):
I think I don't really know.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
And I'm not sure there's anyone that can predict that
with any real accuracy. And the reason I say that
is you've got people Jason on both sides of this saying, Okay,
this large language model CHAT ept generative AI way of
doing things has already started to peak, and it's probably
not going to continue to get better at the pace
that it has. And these are people like me, I mean,

(47:18):
some of the smartest people that have worked in this
field forever are saying things like that, Now, you know,
you can't seem to solve the hallucination problem. And when
I say solid and get it to the point where
it just doesn't happen, or it's such a low percentage
that you.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Don't have to worry about it.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
Really.

Speaker 6 (47:35):
You know, will these things get better?

Speaker 2 (47:37):
I think they will, Well, they continue to get better
at the exponential rate that they are. Again, a lot
of people are starting to question that. Now, you guys
may have seen, you know, a lot of talk about
AI bubble and so forth, because it costs an enormous
amount of money to develop this stuff. It costs the
enormous amount of money and takes a lot of electricity
around this stuff. And you know, you got a lot

(47:57):
of people selling it to you, making all these hyperbolic
predictions and counting these incredible virtues. And yet when you
see people like Cardigamil and it really start to test
these things, you're not really seeing the return on investment
they're predicting. I'm not going to tell I can't say
with any certainty we're not going to get there. And
there are other people doing other types of research that

(48:18):
they're not based on that all aud two that may
pan out. You know, when we get to the point
where robots are walking around and they look like human
beings and they can talk to you. It's just like
another human being. I don't think that's out of the
walm of possibility. You know, it's that going to happen
in the next five to ten years. I am increasingly

(48:38):
thinking that is less likely to happen in the next
five to ten years, just kind of based on where
things are going. But also, guys, I don't know what's
happened in some land somewhere. And you've got all these
people like you know, Pallenteer and Anderill working on all
kinds of advanced AI based thrones and so forth. So
you know, I only know what I read about and
what I've experienced myself.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
That's the reason we read and we ask about it. Dave,
get out there and get your start. Don't use AI.
I want you to get your nose and up to
the computer screen. Actually read a book. For God's sakes,
What are those Dave Hatter? We really appreciate it as always, buddy,
Thanks so.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
Much, always my pleasure.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
You guys have a good one, see you man. Uh yeah,
well it's coming, They're coming, the robot overlords. Buddy. We're
going to be talking to the Pittsburgh Steelers beat writer
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All right back with Eddie and Jason in for Rocky Today,
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(51:36):
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Speaker 22 (51:50):
Hey, what's up guys, Thanks for having me, Brian.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
Brian, you tell us give us the temperature of what's
going on with the Steelers these days, man, because they
seem to be a little all over the board right now.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
Yeah, it's funny.

Speaker 21 (52:02):
I mean, I think fans are certainly down on them
a little bit at the moment. Just a horrific performance
Sunday night in LA against the Chargers. They got physically manhandled,
but also the Chargers were faster than them, they played
better on special teams. I mean, everything pretty much went wrong.
It wasn't even as close as twenty five to ten

(52:22):
would indicate. So with that in mind, like talking to TJ.
Watt today after practice and I said, you know, how
do you feel about the way you're playing right now?
And he's like, well, everybody has to play better, we
know that. And I'm like, how do you square that with?
You are five and four, you're winning the AFC Nord, right,
but does it not feel like that because you've lost
three of four? And he basically said, yeah, they need
to be better. You know, they basically need to put

(52:46):
a better product out there, and they got to try
to do that starting Sunday in their first rematch of
the season.

Speaker 22 (52:52):
And yeah, I heard you coming back.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
You're right. It sounds it seems like it wasn't that
long ago. They haven't even faced the Ravens once.

Speaker 21 (52:57):
Yet, and now they're going to get the Bengals for
a second time.

Speaker 8 (53:00):
That's the same way of the Bengals. The Bengals haven't
played the Ravens either, Brian, Is this are they kind
of I hate that has such a cliche as a
newspaper guy myself at the Inquirer here in town, but.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
Like they are who they are kind of thing?

Speaker 9 (53:15):
Or do you see this?

Speaker 8 (53:16):
Do you see this as that they can it's just
a it's a tweak here and there and off they go.
Or is this are the problems deeper for the Steelers
that are going to require offseason adjustments.

Speaker 4 (53:29):
It's possible that they are who they are.

Speaker 21 (53:31):
I don't know that there's a tweak to be had,
but I think if you're a Steelers fan that wants
to be optimistic and see a little pie in the sky,
I mean, you do still have Aaron Rodgers as your quarterback.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Now that can go one of two ways.

Speaker 4 (53:42):
You can think that.

Speaker 21 (53:44):
Chargers game is an indication that the bottom's about to
fall out for him, and you know he's about to
turn forty two, and he's about to start playing like
he's forty two with regularity, or on the flip side,
you could say he's going to be in the Hall
of Fame. He's four time MVP. As long as you
have that guy, there's always a chance that he'll find
the groove and he'll start slinging it again and he

(54:06):
raises that ceiling for your team, and he's got.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
Some you know, artillery to do that.

Speaker 21 (54:11):
DK Metcalf Pat Friar Youth always torches the Bengals, which
is crazy.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
We know what I learned.

Speaker 21 (54:18):
I was talking to him today. His dad was born
in Cincinnati.

Speaker 4 (54:20):
He only lived there for like.

Speaker 21 (54:21):
Two years, but they planted something in the ground, I
guess the Friar Muth family. So now every time that
Pat plays them, either in since he or here, he excels.
But yeah, I mean that that offense needs to get
going after the way it's been playing for the larger
part of the season, but certainly last time out. So
I'm not overly I'm not feeling overly positive about them,

(54:46):
especially with the Ravens picking up steam, but I think
they they've got a better chance of getting on track
than they did win the bottom fell out last year
with Russell Wilson.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Brian Badcoe from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette is with us,
and Brian, that's what I was going to ask you.
Do you get the impression maybe this team, because let's
face it, the Ravens are ravening right now. They're on
a real role and it looks like it's going to continue.
Are these guys maybe looking over their shoulder a little bit?

Speaker 21 (55:17):
I mean, I think they have to be, but only
in the sense that you know, they're not playing well again,
like they can't afford to really.

Speaker 4 (55:27):
Look over their shoulder or look.

Speaker 21 (55:28):
Ahead to the Ravens because this schedule is ramping up.
And it seems weird to say because the Bengals beat
them last time and the Steelers couldn't get a stop
at all, especially at the end when they needed it.
And yet this is the softest landing spot that they
have for a while, because then they have to go
to Chicago, who's playing well. Then they do finally get

(55:50):
or excuse me, then they have to face the build
in Pittsburgh. But yeah, yeah, Bill's Ravens.

Speaker 4 (55:55):
I don't know what's up with.

Speaker 21 (55:56):
The Dolphins, but yeah, then the Lion in Detroit, which
my even be tougher than either of those Ravens games.
So there's people around town fellows calling this a must
win for the Steelers, and I almost tend to agree
because it's it's sort of difficult to find, you know,
more wins on this schedule.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
Well that's h and I would tell you, Brian, that
was a direct quote as well from Jamar Chase here
in town. This is kind of a must win for
the Bengals. So these guys better. It sounds like everybody's
going to go balls to the wall.

Speaker 21 (56:26):
We'll see, yeah, I mean Bengals really have their backs
to the wall just in the standings. The Steelers, I
think it's just going to feel more of.

Speaker 4 (56:35):
You know, collapse ish.

Speaker 21 (56:37):
If they lose this game, they'll still be five hundred,
but you know how it is in Pittsburgh, you don't
finish under five hundred, So, you know, losing this game,
people would start to seriously question is this the year
that they finally end that streak? And it always gets
associated with Mike Tomlin because he's been here so long,
but it actually predates him. It goes back to Ben

(56:58):
Roethlisberger's first season that they've been five hundred or better.
So I'll believe it when I see it that the
Steelers have that kind of season. But again, if they
lose this one, it's it's going to be on officially
on shaky ground.

Speaker 8 (57:12):
Brian, Do you see this as a similar game to
what we saw here whatever three or four games ago?
Four games ago, you know that it was a shootout
thirty three, thirty one and whoever whoever gets the ball
last kind of thing, because both these defenses are one
one's really really bad, the one here in this time,

(57:34):
the one up there's not good. Uh do do you
see do you see a similar type of game?

Speaker 4 (57:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (57:42):
Yeah, I think it'll be high scoring. The only way
that maybe it wouldn't be is it's the historically bad
Bengals defense that you know, tweaked or figured out anything
in their bye week. That's the only thing that makes
me think, all right, maybe they can rebound to some extent,
but it's still the same guys that they're rolling out there.
They don't have Trey Henrick I was gonna say, and
it's still no Trey Hendrickson, So I don't know how

(58:03):
much improvement they can actually even make the Steelers are
actually look quite a bit different in the secondary than
they did in that first game. Jalen Ramsey's moved from
corner to safety, Darius Slay's out with the concussion. That
might not even be a bad thing necessarily for the defense.
You know, one Thornhill was playing safety. He's cut, so

(58:25):
there's a lot of moving parts. In Kyle Duggart, they
traded about a week before the deadline, brought him over
from New England where he wasn't playing, and all he's
done is played basically every snap as their strong safety
since then in the last two games. So they're trying
to figure out answers on the back end. Would not
shock me if Joe Flacco dices them up again. But
maybe they'll get a little bit more pressure from Cam Hayward.

(58:47):
Keanu Benton's playing better their third year nose tackle, so
maybe he'll wreak some havoc on the interior. And then
the last thing, guys that I'll tell you about why
the defenses might have a little bit better day iss
to be very windy here up to thirty. Yeah, so
maybe it won't be just put the ball in the
air and in Jamar Chase or DK Metcap comes down

(59:09):
with it, maybe some of those old unk passes will
be flying and sailing out of bounds on them.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
When we're talking to Brian Bedco Metco and Brian, let
me ask you. You're there day in and day out
watching practice. Is is Aaron Rodgers still his his head
still in it? Is he just kind of do you
get the impression he is focused and wants to win
this thing? Or just like, hey, I'm an old quarterback

(59:36):
and damn it, because that's kind of what Flacco's not
that way. Flacco's just he's here apparently, you know he
played for he was playing for the Browns.

Speaker 9 (59:45):
He's hot.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
He's trying just as hard here as he did for
the Browns and did for the Ravens and did for
whoever the hell else he used to play for Jets.
For the Jets there for a little bit. Is Aaron
Rodgers does he still have a gas in the take?
I guess is what I'm asking you.

Speaker 21 (01:00:02):
You know, it was a future performance on Sunday, and
I think that's.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
What we were That's because some some of some of
us were talking is it and he just, like you
wanted to beat.

Speaker 21 (01:00:14):
There some national pundits bringing that up this week as
well in the wake of that game, the bad body language,
the frustration. But I think he's been like that for
a while. You know, he's always been emotive, I guess
on the field, if that's the right way to put it.
But because this was a storyline coming out of that,

(01:00:34):
I talked to a couple of players about it this
week and Brodert Jones.

Speaker 4 (01:00:38):
Their left tackle.

Speaker 21 (01:00:39):
I was like, hey, when you guys, when you take
a sack, is he good.

Speaker 9 (01:00:43):
Cop on you?

Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
Or is he chewing you out? Bad cop?

Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
Like?

Speaker 4 (01:00:46):
What's the rapport like?

Speaker 21 (01:00:47):
And he's like, no, No, Aaron's got a great relationship
with us. He you know, of course, we we want
to make sure that he's not mad at us, but
we're more mad at ourselves. And it's it's been good.
And then I was talking to john wh Smith. They're
veteran tight end, and I said, it's like Aaron's in
the Truman Show. If you've ever seen that movie, every
reaction he makes is zuomed in and memed.

Speaker 6 (01:01:07):
Out of this world.

Speaker 21 (01:01:08):
So and Johnny Smith said, no, he's just a competitor
and he just really wants to win, like he's not
checked out. He is frustrated because he can play better
than this, and he gets ticked off when we're losing him.
We're not moving the ball. So he basically said, don't
get it twisted and think this guy's apathetic. No, he's
actually very engaged, very locked in, and that's why he's

(01:01:29):
holding everybody, including himself, to a high standard.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
All right with em, Brian, we will let you go, man,
great stuff. Brian Badco from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Supposing
we're going to see you here in town on Sunday.
All right, I'm sorry, we were already We're gonna we
will see you in town on Sunday.

Speaker 21 (01:01:45):
Absolutely, Thanks guys, appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
Thanks buddy. Thanks Ran. Yeah, and well, maybe it's time
for Aaron to go back to the sweat Lodge and
spend it a couple of days dark talking to imaginary
Aaron or whatever the hell it as you do in
those things, they eat some mushrooms or something you got
they need some shrooms and go in there and you know,
and baby Aaron appears before you and you talk to him.

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Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
Yet?

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
Did you see that he did not see that he
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Have you ever had drury duty? Because I have not,
I should say that. I want to hear it and
look me up.

Speaker 8 (01:05:09):
I got I got called in too, and then got
weeded weeded out by Judge Gizz At the time, I
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(01:05:29):
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and I didn't. I just said, hey, this is like
they asked. The attorneys locked in on me, and like
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(01:06:13):
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Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
Yeah, deb got called one time, and she was one
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Speaker 8 (01:07:11):
Jury duty was, and then I think they send you
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Speaker 14 (01:07:20):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
Yeah, with that coming up last week, I was asking
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restaurant recommendations because I want to I want to take
the wife out for a nice a night. It doesn't
not nothing, it doesn't have to be fan. I just

(01:07:40):
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don't know about. I would love to try it out.
I love this is always I'm always looking for places

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Being a post today the President referring to what he
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Speaker 8 (01:14:23):
Dining out, Yeah, but a lot of that too, is
like pick up for us and the kids, like on
the weekend, they're still practic place and yeah, but I
love I love going out to eat. I guess just
one of my favorite things. Like yeah, and I realized
now it's expensive, and I don't spend a lot of

(01:14:44):
money on really any a lot of anything else. I
mean in terms of like just you know, you're spending money,
but that's what I like to spending spending money on.

Speaker 1 (01:14:53):
I'm going to be taking the wife out to eat
this weekend. We're we got a real busy weekend and
she's been real busy with her work stuff. So I thought, Okay,
I want to take her someplace. But I'm going to
take her someplace cool because we go to like the
same If you're like me, well see again, it's just
the two of us. You have the kids. Yes, so
we go. We tend to go to like the same

(01:15:13):
six eighth places all the time. I've got a place
for you. Well that's what that's what we're here for.
Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, eight hundred, the
big one. Looking for you know, mom and pop, family
owned restaurants, that type of stuff kind of not it
doesn't have to be fine dining, but someplace where you
can go and get a beer, a glass of wine

(01:15:35):
and a decent plate Aposta or something like that and
have at it absolutely well, like, uh see, maybe someone
will recommend where I'm going to recommend to you. So
all right, well we'll get to it. But right now,
we we got I already got an email from I
believe that. Yeah, it's Henry the Market Street, Grill and Harrison.

(01:15:57):
That's the kind of place I'm talking about. Never to that. Yeah, well,
let's get to other recommendations. How about Joe and Loveland.
Hey Joe, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (01:16:06):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
Yeah, her, you guys going good? Joe, what's up? Some
good places out where you're at? Joe? Yeah, I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (01:16:16):
Would you say, I'll.

Speaker 8 (01:16:17):
Say you're in Loveland or some good places out there?
I mean I'm cutting you off.

Speaker 9 (01:16:20):
There you go, Yeah, there, there, there are, there are.

Speaker 13 (01:16:25):
But you know, I'm sure Eddie's tired of those places.

Speaker 4 (01:16:28):
You know, Kirby's, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
I've been there a million times. You lived right down
the streets, right right.

Speaker 13 (01:16:34):
Well, I go down to my buddy's boat as four
seasons every Thursday. And with it being this late, stuff's
closed on the river. You know, they took out Hooters.
So we get back anywhere. Right, So we went to
Precinct last week and you know, just we always just
eat at the bar, but just really not you know,
into an eighty nine dollars stake.

Speaker 4 (01:16:55):
Right.

Speaker 13 (01:16:55):
So we were driving on Eastern Avenue and you probably
know where this is at the uh the old Lunabella Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 6 (01:17:05):
By the surf and turf.

Speaker 13 (01:17:07):
While Luna Bella is not there anymore. It's now called
Brew River. Yeah, and it's a creole place. I guess
you could say. I mean, you can get jumbalaya, you
can get muscles, you can get you know, joysters. I
actually actually had the fish and chips and it was fantastic.

Speaker 9 (01:17:27):
And the fries.

Speaker 13 (01:17:28):
It's fish and chips, but it's fries, you know, it's
not the English style chips.

Speaker 1 (01:17:33):
That's what they do this stuff. That's yeah. No, let
me ask you. I've been eyeballing that forever and I've
been wanting to go there, so all I need is
that kind of recommendation that it is as good as
i've heard, and uh, and I'm there, man.

Speaker 13 (01:17:50):
Yeah, I mean, you know, it was twenty two bucks
for fish and chips, you know, not not not extremely expensive,
you know, but yeah, you're gonna have twenty seven bucks
with a tip. But you know, I mean it was
great food, and you know, we all had different stuff
and uh, you know, my cousins they always their brothers,
they always share with each other. So yeah, it's just

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you know, very very very you know, low key atmospheres.
There was a guy doing the piano. Evidently it's a
little busier on the weekends, you know, and they recommend reservations.

Speaker 4 (01:18:25):
But your name's operator.

Speaker 1 (01:18:27):
You can get into Oh hell yeah, I'll use I'll
use Rocky's name. Get me. Uh No, I've always heard
that was that was good. I was there a long
time ago when it was bell Alona. Hey, Mark, what's
going on?

Speaker 6 (01:18:39):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:18:40):
Thanks for holding? What do you have recommendations for restaurants
that we might not know about?

Speaker 6 (01:18:45):
All right? You got me?

Speaker 10 (01:18:46):
This is uh Mark and uh Giovanni's. You've never been
to Giovannis? You need to try it?

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
Yeah, I Mark, your breaking up on us, But I
did catch I did catch Giovanni's there, and I matter
of fact, that's what kind of got me on this topic,
is that I saw somebody post something on Facebook not
too long ago, and I even said to uh, to
my wife, I was like, I never even heard of
that place, and everybody's raving about it because I'm I'm

(01:19:19):
one of those guys that I'm want where I got.
I got on one of those Facebook things where I
don't even know why I'm on it, but it's like
Chowles Cincinnati, Chowhound Cincinnati or something like that. Have you
seen that? And people are always talking about local restaurants
and Giovanni's was one of them they were talking about. Yeah,
let's see pizza place just an Italian place okay, where

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I grew up back in southeast Ohio. But it was
kind of a local e like a pizza joint regional chain.
Let's talk to John and Fort Mitchell. Hey, John, what
do you got Where should we go?

Speaker 6 (01:19:52):
Hey, guys, I got a good spot for fresh homemade
pasta and pizzas so Campa Rosa on Dixie Highway and
Fort Mitchell family owned been open for a handful of years.
All the pastas make from scratch, wood fired pizza, and
if thick crust, then crust. It's a It's a really

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good spot, fairly affordable, but they do get busy. So
the bar is first come, first surf. If you go,
If my wife are actually and I are actually headed
there right now, and we do expect to wait for
a table unless we can get in at the bar.

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
Well, I tell you, man, that's another one of those
places that I've seen people rave about on Facebook as well.

Speaker 6 (01:20:30):
No, lie, yeah, you got across the river now, but
it's it's gonna be worth the tramp.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
I tell you I can see the other side of
the river from my house. Now, John, that's not a
deal breaker for means, yeah, good stuff. Let's talk to
Ed in northern Kentucky. Hey, Ed, what do you got.

Speaker 9 (01:20:49):
Court Street kitchen?

Speaker 1 (01:20:51):
Court?

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
Yeah, don't go anywhere else. Take her there.

Speaker 16 (01:20:53):
You'll love it.

Speaker 4 (01:20:54):
It's great.

Speaker 9 (01:20:55):
It's at the corner of Court and Vine.

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
You know what street kitchen? Yeah, another place, said, I
gotta be honest with you. I've read a lot about it.
Never been there, but that's definitely.

Speaker 6 (01:21:08):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
What okay? What's good? Everything?

Speaker 4 (01:21:11):
Everything, everything on it very good?

Speaker 1 (01:21:14):
Is that a newer Is that a newer place?

Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
I built the place about two years ago, so yeah,
about two years ago. You know I did to finish
out for it.

Speaker 6 (01:21:23):
Is that there?

Speaker 8 (01:21:25):
Is that the same place where there used to be
a seafood like the lobster lobster place? Not near there though, right,
I'm trying to picture where it's a Court and Vine. Okay, Yeah,
all right, thanks Ed. No, that's okay. Then I'm writing
that one down. Write this one down. Can I give
you this one?

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
Yeah, Tila, Wyoming, I've heard of it. My friends live
out there now. I'm not sure if they've ever been there.

Speaker 8 (01:21:50):
But they stopped by my house and have have a
have a drink out of my garage, my garage fridge.

Speaker 1 (01:21:57):
I don't have wine. I know you like wine, but
I don't drink wine. But Tila, man, they I ain't
gonna turn down a beer in my buddy's garage. You
like a good rubin, I know you do it. Tea's
got Tila's got one, great drinks, good food. Let's talk
to Chuck. Hey, Chuck, what do you got recommendations for
bars and restaurants that we may not have heard of?

Speaker 16 (01:22:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (01:22:21):
You got it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:21):
Man.

Speaker 16 (01:22:21):
This is actually the second best thing that's happened to
me today because I got to shake Sheriff Jones hand today,
which was pretty awesome. He was actually he was actually
returning a pie plate to the bar and grill that
I was at because it's recently been his birthday. So

(01:22:44):
they do really good food. It's called the grand Stand
Bar and Grill.

Speaker 1 (01:22:50):
Okay, where exactly is that, Chuck?

Speaker 16 (01:22:53):
You know, it's right beside the Elks on Route four,
and I mean it's owned by some Italians. They make
some great food. But that's really not the restaurant that
I was calling to suggest. The one that I was
called suggests is Cozy's Restaurants, an old farmhouse on Cincinnati

(01:23:16):
Dayton Road.

Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
Is that in Westchester?

Speaker 16 (01:23:21):
Uh huh old farmhouse they cook cast iron skillet mills.

Speaker 9 (01:23:26):
The hombiance is unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:23:32):
Breakfast places like that.

Speaker 16 (01:23:35):
No, they do brunches, dinners. They got an elaborate outdoor area.
It's yeah, it's uh, it's really cool. I Eddie, I
talked to you at ninety six Rock when you were
working with Marty Bender and you put us all, You

(01:23:57):
put us all on the radio and the wood shop
guy uh partis at school and we all got Saturday sessions.

Speaker 9 (01:24:05):
So we ended up being the original breakfast club.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
Sorry about that, Chuck All. That's great man, A long
time I thought no worries. Thanks man. I really that's
that's funny because we used to do well. Accidents happen,
we're gonna do. But that Cozy's place sounds like something
that sounds cool. That's exactly what the kind of thing

(01:24:33):
I'm looking for. Have you ever been to the schoolhouse
in Camp d Camp Dennison That it's it's literally an
old schoolhouse. Camp Dennison's Most places like just tucked down
in their hiding, isn't it ye old Civil War? I
think it was, don't know where the wild Man lives. No,
he doesn't know. That's that's the bat Cave. I think, Hey,

(01:24:56):
let's h let's get Jennifer involved. Hey, Jennifer, what's going
on there? And Hamilton?

Speaker 14 (01:25:01):
Hi there, I've got a ton of places to share
with you. First of all, so Billy Yanks and Hamilton
is great. They have burgers and a variety of different
things on their menu. They do as seasonal or a
monthly change, just depending on what's going on, Like they'll specialize,

(01:25:23):
like do specialty things like for Octoberfest and different things
like that. But they also have a bourbon bar that's
really good and you can go in there and eat
food in that spot too. The other place is Cruso's
and that's in Fairfield. That's Italian restaurant and it is
a family owned business and they have delicious homemade pasta.

(01:25:44):
Everything is so fresh and delicious.

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
I really like Lasanya.

Speaker 3 (01:25:49):
We go there quite a bit.

Speaker 14 (01:25:51):
And the other place is like a hidden gym. It's
up in Oxford and it's Steinkeller and they have the
best brunch you will ever eat. Nobody thinks about brunch
and if you go there, you want to ask for
Gina the waitress because she's awesome and makes it a
lot of fun. And they have a really good bloody
merry variety on the brunch and mimosas too.

Speaker 1 (01:26:13):
No, you're no, thanks, thanks Jenner. And I was going
to say, now you're talking to daddy's language here. Let's
get Greg gone right quick. Hey Greg, thanks for holding buddy.
What do you have?

Speaker 9 (01:26:25):
Have you ever heard of the Naughty Pie?

Speaker 6 (01:26:27):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
Absolutely, yeah, that's great place, real cozy, naughty Pine.

Speaker 24 (01:26:33):
They used they used to be in a building where
the floor was on level. Yeah, and you feel like
he was drunk when you walked in. But they moved
up the road a little bit. But uh, Mary cozy, uh,
the best how of it I've ever had?

Speaker 13 (01:26:48):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:26:48):
And great great.

Speaker 24 (01:26:49):
Steaks, just great food all around. And they do kind
of a creo uh thing and they got really good
red beans and rice.

Speaker 1 (01:26:58):
Just a great place. Where's that locate?

Speaker 24 (01:27:01):
It's try off the Double A Highway over as you're
going up the Double A Highway toward Alexandria. Okay, yeah,
it's probably about twenty or thirty minutes.

Speaker 6 (01:27:11):
From where you live.

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
It's not for you know, I know, I know exactly
right off the double edge yeah, Greg, thanks buddy. Yeah,
I was in the old building he was talking about
with the uneven floor that I'm notty Pine on the Bayou.
Look it up and it is it near the river?

Speaker 6 (01:27:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:27:26):
Oh okay, and uh it's not the Ohio River. I
guess that'd be licking there. Okay, Okay, but I mean
real cool, real old school. All right, you will like
it Pine. All right, Well I'm gonna I'm really honest
to God. You were sitting there watching me write these down.
I can voucher that I got a I got a
lot of good leads. But right now we check in

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with traffic and weather. What is going on.

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at Forest Avenue. Seeing some slow traffic northbound on seventy
five between Sharon Road and Union Center Boulevard. About a
three minute delay in southbound two seventy five. That's down
the one lane for repairs on the Carrol Cropper Bridge.
Looking at about a two to three minute delay from
US fifty in Lawrenceburg. I'm at Ezellek on news radio

(01:28:36):
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