12-19-25 Scott Sloan Show

Scott previews this weekend's Bengals game with Dan Hoard and Austin Elmore. Also the latest in mobility technology with Dave Bockrath. Plus Allie Martin has some holiday outing suggestions.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's going to be an American idiot.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
All right, one more time, one more time, Dan Horde
on the show on seven hundred ww's the Bengals go
to Miami. You go from the coldest game of the
year to one of the warmest games of the year.
Trying to navigate that one in your mind. Bengals trying
to win out in their final three games here and
also find out who is going to be on this
team in the fall of twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
On There is the.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Voice of the Bearcats and of course our Bengals on
Sunday in Miami is Dan Horde. Welcome Dan. How are you,
buddy Clony.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm great.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
How are you.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
I'm doing well. I'm doing well here.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
There's so much to unpack because, let's face it, they're
going to try and win out doesn't really mean anything.
It's more about pride and also figuring out who is
going to be on the team, especially on the defensive
side this time next year, or at least for the
fall of twenty twenty six. But I'll begin with this
because there's been so much noise off the field. One
of the questions that I don't know you've an answer
for but I'll ask you, is Zach Taylor was asked

(00:58):
about his contract, whether it extended or not, and the
Bengals aren't talking the front offices and talking, Zach Taylor
isn't talking, And you know, as a fan, I go,
why is that such a secret, because it feels like
he works at the Pentagon and not at pay Corps.
Is it that is that big a deal that you
can tell him at Yeah, they extended me, so well.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, I don't think it is a secret at this point.
He certainly didn't deny the reports that his contract runs
for two more years, so I think we can assume
that that is the case. I do think that it
is maybe a premature conclusion to think that that guarantees
that he will be back. Now, I'm not trying to
suggest he won't be. My suspicion that he will be.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
But.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
You know, the amount of money that we're talking about
in the fl is not the amount of money that
a franchise couldn't eat. So I do think the last
three games matter. I think Mike Brown and his family
want to see how this thing finishes out and then
they'll make whatever decisions they want to make going forward.
But again, I would expect that Zach will be back.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
The other element then is Duke Tobin, and it seems
like from a fan perspective, there's more pressure on Duke Tobin,
or at least adding to the staff in the front
office than there would be on Zach Taylor.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, they did add scouts. They added two scouts and
an analytical guys past year. Maybe they will continue to
expand that part of the organization this coming off season.
I don't think it's ever going to be the largest
scouting staff in the NFL, but they did move toward
making it a little bit bigger this last year, and
then we'll see if that continues. I do think that
the front office this offseason that is the part of

(02:35):
the organization that needs to get this right. They were
on a heater for a while there and getting the
team to the Super Bowl in twenty one and back
to the EFC Championship Game in twenty two. I do
think that if Joe Burrow didn't hurt his risk with
seven games to go in twenty three, they were going
back to the playoffs. We tend to look at this
three year stretches three years of disaster. When I do
think in twenty three they were still really good. Man

(02:57):
had a chance to maybe, you know, go back to
the championship game of the Super Bowl if he didn't
set for that injury. But in any case, he did
and they didn't. So this is the off season where
after locking up your offense last year, you got to
fix the defense. You have to. That's it takes, the defense,
do whatever it takes. There's seventh or eighth in salary caps. Face,
They've got some room to spend. They haven't treaded away

(03:19):
any high draft picks, so use whatever capital you have
to fix that defense once and for all.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Who would you build around on d I mean obviously
DJ Turner, J Hill, I think Miles Murphy's come on,
Shimar Stewart's too grain and too injured to get a
good sample of. At this point, you're not going to
give up on a guy in his rookie season, of
course too.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
But outside of those four, we else.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
You see, I don't know, I don't necessarily look at
it that way. Sloane's I mean, certainly DJ Turner is
a building block. He's got a real chance of going
to the Pro Bowl this year. But I look at
it in terms of all, right, what reinforcements do you need?
You need a starter on the defensive line. I think
you need a starter at linebacker, and I think you
need a start at safety. So those guys don't have

(04:02):
to be superstars, but they need to be proven, veteran
guys that you can rely on. So for me, at least,
I want to go out and get a starter, a
proven capable starter at every level of the defense and
go from there.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Can you do that in one off season?

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Sure? And I think the key is, you know, Trey
Anddrickson is the greatest free agenc signing in franchise history,
and the likelihood of getting a guy like that is
not high because if you do that, then you're only
going to get, you know, one big prize in free
agency or close to one, as opposed to adding multiple
guys like I'm talking about. To me, the key is

(04:43):
the Mike Hilton's should obey a Woogs, Larry Ogan, Jobi's,
the guys who came in here for three and four
years are on offense, Ted Carriss, the guys who have
come in on the middle of the road type salaries
but were proven starters elsewhere. That give you those solid,
dependable vets that are great in the locker room, that
are good players on the field. To me, that's what

(05:06):
this team needs. And with a salary salary cap space
that they have that is very realistic to do.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Is that what you think he means when Joe Burrow says, hey,
we've got to get creative with changes here. When he
says creative, what do you think that entails.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
My best guess on that is maybe in some of
the ways that they've negotiated with players and done lined
up their contracts. I think Joe Burrow is saying, we
have to reconsider how we've done all of that. It's
the next in our evolution. You know, anytime things go
poorly for the Bengals, it's like our mindset goes back
twenty years. They've made a lot of changes in the.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
Joe Burrow era.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
We've talked about changes they've made in the staff. They've
built the practice bubble. They've given these huge contracts to
Burrow and Chase and Higgins. They're not the same old Bengals,
but that doesn't mean they don't have to continue to grow.
And I think that's what Joe Burro is trying to say,
let's look at every aspect of the way we've done
business during this three year stretch that we haven't made

(06:06):
the playoffs and figure out, all right, what are other
teams doing, What are other successful teams doing that we
have not been doing, and let's do that.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, and I think there is a you know, they
certainly may changes.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
A lot of that has to do with public pressure,
media everything out of the practice bubble you mentioned. Snowgate,
of course is the latest thing from last weekend. There's
enough people around the league to talk poorly about the Bengals,
and you know, every time we have a miss, but
the team has a misstep, I think it's magnified more
because of the past history. Whether that's fair or unfair,
you have to be determined.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Well, I agree with that, and you know, let's just
take a look at Joe Burrow's comments over the last
couple of weeks. So any time that he expresses any
sort of frustration on happiness, which is unnatural considering how
this year has gone for him and for the team,
people don't know him very well just immediately say, as
if it's fact, and these people have big platforms that

(07:00):
he hates it. Here they said it before he was drafted.
Joe's not going to go to Cincinnati, you know, And
none of that's ever been true. By and large, all
he's ever said is great things about playing here. It
talks about, you know, appreciation and respect for the coaches
and the staff. So rather than listening to people that
don't know Joe, let's send to the people that do,

(07:22):
including himself. I don't blame him for wanting to win.
Mike Brown wants to win. Duke Tobin wants to win.
You want to win. I want to win. We all
want to win. They haven't won this year, So fix it.
That's it. Fix it, yeah, and everybody will be happy,
and at least in the short term, people that like
to bash the Bengals nationally will stop doing so, at
least for a little while.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
And the thing with Burrow too is, you know, we're
way too much into reading the tea leaves here and
what's what is his future here? What messages he sending
and the experts are saying, oh, clearly, you know he's
going to give him one more season than he's the
hell out of here, and you know he's going to
go Andrew Luck like, yeah, yeah, I think he answer
the question Privent, It's like, yeah, I'm a benk next season.
But I don't know. People get traded all the time.
It could happen. I have no idea what's going to

(08:04):
happen two, three, five years from now.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
It's a stupid question, right, I thought.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Albert Breer, who it's about the NFL for Sports Illustrated,
he did a video about Burrow yesterday or maybe it
was the day before, and he's the one national reporter
that actually seems to talk to Joe and know how
he feels about these things. And he more or less said,
from all the conversations that he's had with Joe over
the years, Joe wants to be a change agent in Cincinnati.

(08:31):
He wants to be the guy that turns this franchise
into one that people respect nationwide as opposed to one
that they often mock. But he said, if you go
for a long time and things aren't happening the way
that they need to, then maybe you go from being
Joe Montana to Matthew Stafford in Detroit, where you just say,

(08:52):
you know what, we had a good run, we didn't
get where we wanted to go. Maybe it's time to
go somewhere else. We're a long way from that. Joe
Burrow signed through twenty twenty nine. The Bengals have options
after that. Jamar and t are signed for at least
four more years, So this group's going to be together
for a while. Let's fix the defense so they can
get back into Super Bowl contention.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Same time, though, how much weight does he carry with
people who last him as Brown and Blackburn?

Speaker 3 (09:19):
I think a lot, But I don't look at that
as a negative thing. It's portrayed, like, you know, the
Bengals front office and ownership is in hand the whims
of Joe Burrow. It's not that. It's that they understand
that they have this rare and awesome resource and it's
worth talking to him and finding out his opinion on things.

(09:39):
That doesn't mean they always do exactly what he wants.
In the case of extending T Higgins, you know, maybe
that's the closest thing I was proposed to to doing
what you know, Joe wanted them to do. But that
doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't something that they weren't seriously
already considering on their own. I think they looked at
the team and said, you know what, Let's reward our

(10:00):
best players. Let's keep our best guys. It would be
nice if they were all in positions so the stars everywhere.
The way the roster looks right now, that's not the case.
So let's at least keep the best guys we have
and go from there. All right.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
So Dan Horbe got Miami this weekend a much better
atmosphere I think, to broadcast football in and certainly play
in for a number of players, and that would be
the warmth of Miami in the eighties, where it was
in the sub zeros last week in Cincinnati. That's a
hell of a turn, right there. Definitely a windows open
day for you down at Miami. Let's hug injuries real quick.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Here, Can I jump in for a sec? Yes? So
hard Rock Stadium, where the game will be played, is
one of the few boots in the NFL where you
can't open the windows, which drives me crazy. I want
them open, whether it's hot, whether it's frigid. I want
to feel like I'm at the game. They are permanently
inclosed in Miami. It's in a rough spot in terms

(10:55):
of the stadium. It's kind of hard to see the
majority of the field. It's really narrow, so laugh and
I will be shoulder to shoulder. I don't like to
complain about the broadcasting conditions because I understand my audience
doesn't want to hear it. I got a great game,
don't complain, right, But this is a tough one. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
I've heard from many people, yourself included that hard rock
is added near the bottom of an NFL stadium, So
which kind of surprises me, knowing you know how things
run down in Miami. Let's get injuries.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
It's the fans, but it is tough for visiting radio
I tell you that, gotcha.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
And then visiting teams as well too, because man, you
know that that dehydration is real when you're used to
temperatures like we've had here. That's that's I think that's
a big component of this game. On Sunday, bj Hill, Jenkins, Jones, Asi,
all of them oddly out with the ankle injuries, not practicing.
I think the biggest question though, is the state of
T Higgins and the concussion that he suffered. And of

(11:47):
course came back and read it in Buffalo this last week,
going to be back. You know, the one thing I
brought is like what I understand is especially that Buffalo game,
come to the concussion, why he was not wearing the
helmet bubble, and as I recall, I don't know if
I've seen a since he player this season that's had
that protective extra padding on their helmet.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Saw me, how many of you seen in the NFL.
I mean it's.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Less yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
They required training camp. It's definitely reduced concussions in training camp,
and it would probably help some guys, but they don't
like the look. I think it's a cosmetic thing. Maybe
it impedes their vision a little bit. I'm not sure,
but I can, off the top of my head maybe
named three or four guys league wide that I recall

(12:31):
seeing wearing that guardian cap during regular season games.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I guess if I'm ts like, hey, I want to play,
but I could, you know, go back the other way
and regret, especially with the frozen turf that we saw
as well, And that's certainly it's kind of like guys
that have the have the mouthpiece on their helmet that
they don't put the mouthpiece in their mouth.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Same thing, yeah, except that the mouthpiece doesn't look weird
and the helmet bubble or guardian cap as it's called does.
And you know, young man that don't don't like to
look weird. Maybe they should be a little bit more
willing to correct because that thing probably would help. But again,

(13:09):
I can't think of there's a wide receiver in Green
Bay wears it. Yes, maybe a couple of defensive backs
that wear it. That's about it.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, Dan the Dolphins bench to a six season, leads
the NFL in I iNTS. He's guaranteed I think, like
fifty four million next season. Why is it that working
for him? Down in Miami?

Speaker 3 (13:30):
They lost Kyrie kill in Week three or four, his
best weapon in one of the NFL's best weapons, maybe
the best weapon in the league. So that's a factor.
I don't think their offensive line is great. That's a factor.
And you know, I think Tua is a kind of
a product of the system type quarterback. I do think
the Dolphins have had a very creative offense in recent years.

(13:53):
He did lead the league passing yards one year, but
when you watch him, it feels to me, seems to
me that like if the first option isn't there, they're
not getting much out of the play. So I think
they've schemed up some good stuff. They usually have a
really good running game. They've got a lot of speed.
Even without Tyreek Hill, they're one of the faster teams

(14:14):
in the league. So I think there have been a
lot of instances where one of those quick first read
passes from Tua gets into some speedy guy's hands and
the next thing you know, you've got a big play
that makes him look great. I just think he's kind
of a middle of the pack, maybe slightly below the
middle of the pack type quarterback. And it was probably
a very questionable investment when they gave him a four

(14:36):
year deal for fifty three MILLI year, because they've got
three years left on that deal and stuff. Wh can
put a guy on the bench? Yep? And now you
have to think about, all right, we're going to eat
you know, ninety nine million dollars of salary cap next year.
If we cut him, that's a that'd be a challenging
thing for them to do.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, Quinn Yours out of Texas is the starting quarterback
this week from Miami saw a little bit of action
I think early of the season not not much. So
how hard is that for the Bengals coming and scout a
guy like that who you've never seen before.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
You know, it's interesting. The offense doesn't change that much.
So that's the number one thing that you're scouting. But
you never know how a guy's going to perform. I'm
sure they've watched his preseason games.

Speaker 6 (15:18):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
The one game he played in that you mentioned was
a blowout lost to Cleveland, of all teams, he threw
eight passes in that game. So he's a little bit,
you know, a question mark, a mystery factor in this game.
To me, the bigger thing is the bond a Chan.
He's got more than a thousand rushing yards. You know,
one of the fastest running backs in the NFL. Jalen Wright,

(15:39):
who backs up him, had one hundred yards two leaks
ago against the Jets. He's one of, you know, like
the second fastest running back in the NFL. So for
a Bengals defense that was bad against the run last
week and by and largest struggled against it this season,
I'm a lot more worried about though, those guys than
I am about Quinn yours. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah, I would look at a Chan and go, okay,
let's focus send him because he is, like, I think
third in the NFL in yards. They've got Jayleen Waddle,
They've got Darren Waller, who I think is almost your age. No,
Tyreek Hill, focus on stopping the run. I think Goods
had and it certainly it's it's one of those games
the defense can get right.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
I think on Sunday, you're just gonna drop in almost
your age and just keep going as if you know,
you're just hoping that the sting lingers and I don't
get a chance to Retord he's as old as you too, buddy.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
I still see many touchdowns.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
He did have two touchdown catches on Monday night against
so you're right right. No, he is thirty seasonally thirty three.
He seems to still be bawling.

Speaker 5 (16:40):
You know.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
He retired. He came back and looked pretty good on
Monday night. The team sucked, but he had a good
game against Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Fair enough, fair enough, fair enough.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Well, we have forty four year old grandfather's throwing touchdown passes,
so anything in today's league is possible. Dan Horde, Voice
of the Bengals, It's been a pleasure speaking to you
every Friday morning on the show, and hopefully we can
continue next year and into the playoffs. Presumably in twenty
twenty six, twenty seven. What do you say.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
I think that sounds great. The Super Bowl is back
in so far next year, so let's run it back.
Let's go back to La finish the job this time around,
and you know, again, if they can fix the defense,
I think that that is very realistic. This franchise has
been to the Super Bowl three times Blony. In eighty
one they won six games the year before. In eighty eight,

(17:28):
they won four games the year before. In twenty one,
they won four games the year before. This is how
it goes. You know, have the building blocks with a
great quarterback and fix the defense and you can get
right back into contention. And that's that's my hope. And
I don't think it's so far.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
All right, Hopefully this is the Christmas present you get
Dan Horde all the best, buddy, have a great game
Sunday and we'll talk again soon.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
Be well.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Sounds good, Solny.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Thanks for having me on, sir.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Take care. It's a Scott's Loan show. It's the Home
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Speaker 6 (18:04):
Now a man who has entertainment reporting of coursing through
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ABC Will again from New York.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Will, Good morning, How are you.

Speaker 6 (18:17):
I am doing very well in this countdown to Christmas,
the final countdown.

Speaker 7 (18:21):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (18:22):
I'm fine.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
I still haven't realized it's Christmas yet. Are you of
the mind, Like, are you surprised Christmas is next week already?
Because it feels like it should be about two or
three weeks out to me and it's not. It's triving
me crazy as to.

Speaker 6 (18:33):
Why no I decorate. I put stuff up like November first.
I'm one of those awful people that's like fully in
the Christmas spirit before Thanksgiving even happened, So it feels
right to me we put.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Our stuff up earlier before, and still it feels like
Christmas should not be next week. I don't know what
it is that's the Christmas spirit somehow's missing. And from
though the very small sample size of those around me
who tolerate me, they will have a conversation with me.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Will.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
It seems like most people do the same mindset. You're
the guy it's in the Christmas spirit though, you're the
alph of the conversation.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 6 (19:04):
Yes, yes, I'm I've got my inner Clark Griswold is
always you know, just jonesing for a light display or
whatever it might be.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah, that's me.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
The biggest entertainment story of the week obviously is the
shocking murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, and of
course we're still feeling the effects of that. I think
CBS is putting a special together his life as well,
but it just, uh, it was just so surreal when
that news broke.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (19:29):
Yeah, and when you look back at like his legacy,
the crazy thing to me is like, you know, a
lot of great directors will have a lane, right, Like
they will pick a genre and that will be you know,
every time there's a Scorsese drama, you know it's going
to be, you know, top notch. But with Rob Reiner,
it was like every you know, whether it was a

(19:50):
like a kid's movie or a coming of age story,
or a romance or a fantasy adventure, like he did
all of it so so well. Rom com like he
was just yeah, like, you know, every single genre, he
was at the top of his game. So yeah, that
that is of course a devastating loss.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, I had an incredible run too as a director,
I mean actor as well. He's in so many really
good movies and playing a lot of cameos in recent years,
most recently as a matter of fact, Saturday night, I
was flipping around and I watched Spinal Tap too. It
is never going to be as good as the original,
but there's some good lines in good comedy and a
lot of callbacks.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
But he was in that.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
I'm like, Rob Briner was wearing the same hat and
jacket he did in the in Spinal Tap in eighty four,
and he still looks pretty good.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
And then the next day we learned he was murdered.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (20:35):
Yeah, and like you know, even like television appearances too,
he played Zoe Ditionnel's dad and New Girl, which you know,
I think is how a lot of probably millennial television
fans might you know, recognize him. So yeah, you're right,
like he you know, whether it was directing or acting,
he always you know, was just such a force.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Didn't I just see him in The Bear last season
as well?

Speaker 3 (20:59):
Oh man?

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah it was because I have been reckonmember
the first mine, like, I think that's Rob Reiner, and
sure enough that was, And yeah, he's playing like a
I know, a consultant or something like that, and that
show should be interesting to see how they treat that
next next season of The Bear. Unfortunately, they had just
had his hand on a lot of different projects.

Speaker 6 (21:15):
Right right, Yeah, And you know, which is a sign
that a lot of different people wanted to work with him,
you know, because there's plenty of people, you know, like
James Cameron's of the world who you know, have a
lot of prestige, but I you know, I think have
a different type of reputation, whereas you know, with Rob Reiner,
everybody was always wanting to work with him and stuff.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
So it is such a tragedy.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Horrible, absolutely horrible.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Moving on Golden Globe, Frontrunner Run Battle after Another is
already on HBO Max two weeks ago, is in theaters,
and now it's on streaming, you know, and I think
that's awesome because I wanted to see it, and now
it's already gonna be on HBO Max, which I subscribe to.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
But boy, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
You look at it and go, it really feels like
it's it's it's a turning point. It's almost and we
say over fulfilled theaters. But we just had this conversation
last week, there's another example of it.

Speaker 6 (22:05):
Yeah, I mean with this one in particular, coming to
streaming today for free. Part of me thinks that they
are this is a move to get as many eyeballs
on it as possible headed into award season voting. So
I think, if you know it is the most nominated
at the Golden Globes, if it can walk away from
the ceremony as the most awarded, that will bode well

(22:26):
for Oscars contention. So part of me thinks that it
is like with this movie in particular. Of course, there
is a larger conversation to be had about how quickly
things are coming to streaming, But this to me feels like,
you know, the producers are like, all right, let's let's
have as many people watch it as possible, so that
way it cleans up the Golden Globes. But it works
out in our favor at least, you know, for this week.

(22:46):
If you are looking for something to see, you know,
watch it home. During this holiday week. One Battle after
another is nominated in the comedy categories at the Golden Globes,
so it is like a dark comedy. Leyodocaprio is part
of like the resistance of you know, a ragtag group
of like vigilante thro or fighting back against a little

(23:07):
bit of a corrupt government. And Sean Penn is part
of that that government, and he is like the bad guy,
and he is incredible as a bad guy in this movie.
But the action sequences are incredible right off the jumps.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
They're blowing stuff up, they're.

Speaker 6 (23:21):
Escaping in cars and robbing banks and all this kinds
of stuff, and it is so fun to watch. There's
a love story. There is a story of a father
and a daughter that Leodocaprio does very well. And so
this movie I think, you know, there's a lot to
like there.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
I would not watch it with kids, but it is.

Speaker 6 (23:41):
It is a ton of fun for anyone looking for
sort of an action comedy political thriller.

Speaker 5 (23:48):
Over the Over the Break.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah, it's funny because there was such a polarizing move
when he came out. You didn't know what to make
of it, if it's an indictment of the current administration
or not. And you know, but but you know, Hollywood's
always kind of done that to get up interest and
to their it worked exactly exactly.

Speaker 6 (24:03):
I loved watching this movie and it surprised me how
funny it was too.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Really good. I've heard a lot about it.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
I didn't hear it was a comedy though, and yeah,
I mean it definitely makes me want to watch it
more now, so good, I'll have something to do this weekend,
you know, real quick.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Not to be labeled.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
The point on this willgans but bringing it back to
the Oscars, because you know, Golden Globes and Awards. ABC
just announced they're going to move it to YouTube in
twenty twenty nine. Do those award shows care the same
way because all this is set up right now. One thing, Now,
we're going to put that on streaming, so it's going
to get more maybe Golden Globes, and it'll push into
more OSCAR consideration. But if we're moving it to streaming,

(24:38):
is that just the fact that the demographs of the
eyeballs have changed from broadcast TV to the screen in
your hand. Does that diminish in any way, shape or
form the validity the Oscars and what that means to
a filmmaker or a studio as far as revenue goes.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
It's a good question. I don't think so.

Speaker 6 (24:55):
I think that this is just the state of broadcast television, So,
you know, I I think a network like ABC is
probably like, all right, where do we want to be
spending our you know, half a billion dollar you know
whatever contract. So I think it has less to do
with you know, I don't think the impact is going
to be that the the prestige of the Oscar dips

(25:15):
it all. I think it still matters, but I think
that it moving to YouTube is really just a sign
of like where people are watching their TV, as opposed
to like, how much do we still care about the Oscars?
I think Hollywood still desperately cares about the Oscar.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Let's pivot to more small screen stuff here Stranger things
is what is that?

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Does that drop?

Speaker 7 (25:37):
New Year?

Speaker 1 (25:37):
When does that drop?

Speaker 5 (25:39):
Boats?

Speaker 6 (25:39):
So Christmas Day is part two and then the final
final episode is New Year's Eve. And so when part
one of this season dropped on Thanksgiving, it broke the
record as Netflix's most watched English language TV debut of
all time, and it ended with a you know, a
really awesome sort of cliffhanger, and we picked back up

(26:00):
on Christmas Day right in the moments after that that cliffhanger.
So I think a lot of eyes will be on
it as we sort of bid farewell to this record
breaking show that you know, we've been with for a
decade and watching these kids grow up and all that stuff.
So Christmas Day at eight pm is when part two
of the final season will drop.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Gotcha, all right, got time for one more thing? Well,
what are you got?

Speaker 6 (26:23):
Emily in Paris season five, So this is on the
other end of the spectrum from the first two.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
This is sugary sweet.

Speaker 6 (26:29):
It's like, you know, eating a box of chocolate. It's like,
is it going to fill you and sustain you? Probably not,
but it's a ton of fun while it's happening. And
this is Lily Collins, who's Phil Collins' daughter, plays the lead.
That the guy who created the show is the same
guy who did Sex and the City, So it's that
kind of vibe. Fun. Performance, is incredible costuming, beautiful scenery

(26:49):
and stuff. They're in Rome this season, so a lot
of fun, not a lot of brain power required to
enjoy this.

Speaker 5 (26:56):
This Emily in Paris season.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Five, Well, so I'm out because it's Emily in Paris.
But that doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 6 (27:02):
Well, you know, you gotta pulled in the hoos were
so wind up next season she could becoming a Cincy.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
I don't know Emily and Cincy.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
That'll be good anyway. Well, Gans appreciate you, buddy. We'll
talk again in the new year. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.
We'll see any other side.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
Happy holidays.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Hello, best to you, buddy. Thanks again.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
It's a Scott's Loan Show and we've got news on
the way in just minutes.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Quick time out. More to follow, seven hundred.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
If you went to the Bengals Freezer Bowl Part two
last week and are going to the Miami game this week,
you may just shrivel up and die. I don't know
how your body goes from sub zero temperatures to mid
eighties in Miami, but good luck with that. Good luck,
and I guess maybe if you're planning that along, you
look forward to it going. I'm freezing right now, but
next week I'm gonna be warm af no doubt about it.

(27:51):
He's on the way in just about four minutes here
on seven hundred w W Scott's Loan Show. I'll tell
you what you know. Obviously, we live in very arising
political times, but I gotta give you, gotta give you credit.
Whoever is writing for the White House I don't know
if it's people from the Onion, the Babylon Bee folks.

(28:14):
Maybe I don't know the old Weekly World News back
when grocery store tabloids were a thing. But whoever's writing
for the White it's so good because just this week
we're talking about all right, President comes out and makes
the Rob Reiner assassinate well Rob Brander murder should say

(28:34):
sassam Rob right and murder about him, like, I don't
know how you do that, but did it. And I'm
saying it's like, I don't know how you continue to
top yourself in an age where it's awfully difficult to
do that because you just can't. You just can't keep
doing stuff and go Wow, that that's gonna get headlines
or that's gonna upset people. And I think he's deliberately
twisted the knife and a lot of this stuff for sure,
especially this one. The news today about Trump is going

(28:56):
to rename the Kennedy Center the Trump Kennedy Center, not
the Kennedy Trump Center, the Trump Kennedy Center.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
And he said it's a big show. The game is
a big surprise to me.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Well, you know, you clean the board out and you
put all your handpicked people on there. How big a
surprise can it be? You know, it's like when you
know some of these teapot nations where they have an
election one hundred percent of the people voted for the
guy who's been in power for the last thirty years.
Same same kind of thing. I know, there are a
lot of people that are upset by this and they're

(29:26):
gnashing their teeth and I mean, it's the Kennedy Center.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Okay, it's the Trump Kennedy Center. Now.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
It's kind of like, you know, the Gulf of America
and how many people that have set it's just trolla now.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
It's and that to me, that's funny.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Every day every day there's something that comes out and
you go, wow, you continue to top yourself. I don't
think that's possible. What is tomorrow going to bring? And
maybe that's what it feels like because of all this
polarization and anks that you know, it feels like the
last year has been about four years, like, oh, yeah,
we got a presidential election next year. No, we're just
one year in. Like you continue to sp yourself every day.

(30:00):
It's absolutely it's an incredible thing to watch. I don't
think you're ever going to see this again in your lifetime,
love it or hate it.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
I think that's a fact.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Anyway, real quick here on the news of the Brown
US for a shooter, I think, quite honestly, it is
and we know this.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
I think in the future.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
It's going to be damn near impossible to get away
with crime. I'm not saying crime is going away and
that you know people aren't going to get away with stuff.
It's gonna but man, it's it's like, for example, how
they caught the Brown University shooter. This Valente guy forty
eight years old. They found him dead from a self
inflicted gunshot wound and a storage facility storage locker, New Hampshire.

(30:41):
This is the guy who killed MIT professor and MIT
professor and looked like you got away because the only
images we saw were from that static telephone pole camera
and you really couldn't make out who it was. There's
a little bit of a face there, but you know,
they're trying to analyze the gait and things like that,
and so people are not putting stones in their shoes
to throw the him off, throw us goods because they
actually you know it's AI. It'll tell you pick up

(31:06):
your gate pattern and then go through other videos to
try and find someone who's walk matches at So he
was caught. This is fascinating. He gets away, he takes
a car. Investigtors identified the vehicle that he had rented
and drove from Boston to Brown University then back to Boston,
and the person who really broke this up when was

(31:26):
posting on Reddit about the suspect's car. He told the
investigators he first encountered in the bathroom in the school
building about two hours for his shot, and he told
investigators he recalled that the clothing was well very inadequate
for the winter weather in Boston, and so then followed
the suspect to a gray Nissan Center with Florida tags
and that the suspect us a key fob to unlock it,

(31:47):
then walked away and then took a left down the street.
So he ran after the suspect and caught up to
them and asked them, your car is back there, why
are you circling back? And the guy said, I don't
know you from nobody, why are you rang me? And
then he ran away and they put this up on
Reddit and then found the guy that's incredible. Like the
other thing is too. If you saw someone who was
underdressed with the weather in a bathroom, why would you

(32:09):
follow them? I think there's got to be more to
that story, like why would you go and trade track
this person unless you just had that really weird sixth
sense that you thought he was up to no good.

Speaker 8 (32:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
It's a crazy story for sure, but at least there's
some closure there, certainly for the Family Scott Flung show.
It's the Hall of the Best Bengals coverage seven hundred
wwe Cincnati don't.

Speaker 9 (32:28):
Want to be an American?

Speaker 3 (32:30):
All right?

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Winding it down for twenty twenty five here on this
Friday morning. I'm back for a couple days next week
in maybe y' or not so enjoy if maybe this
was the last time you get to listen to the
show for the week, couple of weeks. Anyway, it's that
time of the year. It's that time of the year.
There's something that I've been involved with now for a
few weeks. I think it's I love tech, I love
fascinating things. I love things that change people's lives for

(32:52):
the better, because God knows we need more of those
stories and not fewer. And I love to highlight those
kinds of things. And so you may hear may have
heard me talking about the tech r n D one
for those who have a mobility disability. So if you're
in a wheelchair, maybe you have trouble standing or walking.
You know, typically one is you look at it and go,
my god, the rest of my life I'm being a
wheelchair or I need a wheelchair to get around or

(33:13):
move from point A to point B. For a lot
of people, the older we are, the longer we live.
That's true, but it's also true for people who suffer
spinal injuries and the like. Veterans come to mind. And
for a long time it's been you know, you get
in a chair. You see people parking at grocery store
and wherever in a handicapped spot and they have the
van or a vehicle and they've got to get the

(33:34):
cart off the back and get in it, and everything
of course is you know, not at eye level, and
you go to a grocery store in one of those
scooters and it's tough to get stuff off the top shelf.
This thing is going to change so many lives, and
that's why I'm so happy to speak for my buddy
Dave Bachrath for a rebound mobility dot Com. Dave, welcome
and study this morning.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
How are you hey, Thanks Scott, and Merry Christmas to ya.
I app sure you have me.

Speaker 6 (33:54):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
I wanted to because I wanted to highlight this a
little more simply because it's such a game changer. This
is such an incredible development. I think for people with disabilities,
our veterans come to mind, but anyone for that man,
as you get older, you know, it's tough for my
My father in law has difficulty getting up and getting down,
and this could absolutely change so many lives.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Uh describe describe how it works with the device?

Speaker 6 (34:16):
Is?

Speaker 4 (34:16):
Yeah, exactly. It's just so I've been in medical devices
mobility devices for thirty years and this is the most revolutionary,
game changing and rewarding product that I've ever represented because
it literally changes people's lives. And I see it firsthand
in their in their eyes and their family members tears

(34:39):
when they're able to stand up the way it works.
And and and also no nobody knows about this device.
It really was launched in effect this year. It's been
on the market before that, but very very quietly. So
it is a is not a power chair. It actually

(35:02):
so it's a robotic mobility device that you do not
need your legs strength at all, any muscles or even
legs at all. I have a w MPT and a
single empte getting one, and I list them up to
eye level like you see them up. You sit in
a in the seat which is like a sling and

(35:24):
it's almost like a window washers rig. It's a it's
a well strong, padded very uh yative right swing and
it has a very powerful hydraulic lift. So this seat,
these two pins drop in it and then you're able
to lift yourself up in be and be supportive uh

(35:46):
in the seat itself. And then you get all the
way up to eye level or whatever level you're comfortable at.
And if you want to bear weight, you can bear
weight to help with your bone density, and you're able
to be at eye level again. And I've seen people
stand for the first time in decades, and and it's amazing.
There's there's a lot of misnomers about it that people

(36:07):
just think, like, well, but but I have I have
fall of risk issues. You can't fall in this. You're
you're up two and fifty pounds. It's solid you. I've
tried to tip it over myself and you can't. So
people that that's one thing that people don't know about.
They also don't know that it can be covered by insurance.
It's on contract with Blue Cross, Blue Shield and we

(36:30):
can get it covered with most providers. And it's kind
of a critical time this year because we have eleven
days left if deductibles are met for the price for
the private insurances. But but it's an amazing device that
lets you move about your home, reach work around in
your kitchen. And the physiological benefits are you know, truly

(36:54):
the reason if people are sitting, you know that you're
going to have your circuit regulated, improve bowel and blacker
fraction and all those benefits. But the biggest one is
the mental health. Is the psychological part of being able
to be upright again and look and have people eye
to eye conversations.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Yeah, it's the thing.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
It's because so this pad slips under you and it's
really easy to get in a k nod of so
you're sitting, Let's say you're in a chair. You can't move,
you know, we use your legs, So the pad you'd
slide it under your butt sort of and the s
and it's soft, and then you press a button and
it actually picks you up from your bottom and stands
you up, and then the front of your shins would
stand against these pads on the device, So it looks
like a smaller, a narrower version of one of the

(37:37):
carts you'd get a grocery store, bad rapid card, a
ego car to whatever those are. Only this thing lifts
you up and stands and then if you need to
sit back down, you press a button and it sits
you down. You take the pad off, and which means
you can, you know, because it's narrow, and that's a problem.
Some of the wider chairs are difficult to get in
a NOD. But you can actually use the bathroom yourself
if you're in a chair or you know, I said
mentioned go to the grocery store and actually stand up

(37:58):
at eye level and pick things off the shelf yourself.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Like it's so incredible.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
The independence for bathroom functions to me is just it's
huge because it's the narrowest profile you can get, like
nineteen inches wide, and you're it spins around sixty So
even in a small bathroom. You're able to manage and
drop yourself down and then move that seat and then

(38:25):
get yourself back up independently versus having a caregiver family
member help.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Yeah, because in the past, you know, you'd have to
the restrooms and narrow doors, right, and an eighty compliance
is thirty six inches. Well, you know there's thirty inch
doors out there. This thing fits very easily. You can
get in a stall and take care of yourself, right.
It gives you a good and that's the mental health advantage.
You don't need to depend on someone else, especially for
veterans that are used to, you know, doing things themselves
and being on their own and being independent.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
Right, It's yeah, you can be and you can do
that independently, and it is covered by the VA, and
the veterans won't know don't know that, the veteran providers
don't know that. So it's incumbent upon the person finding
this out. And that's where you know, I walk them
through all the processes. And that's the biggest thing is like,

(39:11):
don't try to figure it out yourself. You've got to
use me to get you through the proper processes, whether
it's through the VA, G O d it's covered you know,
trike care, trike Care for life, and and also just
individuals with their own insurance and and even seniors. I've

(39:32):
had an eighty two year old veteran and he he
got in it and learned it no problem, was driving
around in it. And he's like, I want this because
I can't take outside walks with my family and I
want to keep you know, I have to stay back,
and so I want to be able to go on
a bike path or walking and walking.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
How does that work with taking that outside?

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Because Mark Musselo's chairs, you know, you look at it, go, well,
that's for pavement only.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
You can't go into grass or I mean a beach
or something like.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
That, right, And that's that's where the outdoor kit comes in.
So we have an outdoor kit which is like big
knobby tires, and it switches out from the indoor kit
fairly easily. You can do it. Even the person in
the chair can do it within five minutes.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
And you have these extra large tires and an extra
large tail that you just just with a drop pin
you take that in and out and boom you can
go on you know, gravel, your grass, a beach you know,
get to a like a you know cs a Key
where it's hard packed beach and you can get to
that and be able to and you can travel with

(40:36):
this because it's it's a dry cell battery, so it
goes on planes just like your regular mobility equipment. No
extra charge for luggage or anything. They just the carget
stores in the cargo hold and you can take it
down to cis Key and and wheel around on the
beach with your family with it.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
That's wild, That's it.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
I mean, I imagine that in the first time in years,
people are in a wheelchair and all of a sudden,
like I you know, I'm a beach person, I'm a
surf and you can actually go and dip your your
your hands, your legs into the water. It's that's incredible.
You couldn't do that before. Dave Mancreth is here. It's
Rebound Mobility dot com. I've been talking about this one
of our partners here on the Scott Sloan Show about
how and I often do this because I think there

(41:15):
is such a special innovative thing.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
It's going to change so many lives. I think it's
going to be one of those.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
You have a sense and not just because you're in
a day that it's it's gonna be one of those
things that in years people go wow. You know remember
wheelchairs and the way you kind of like iron lungs
back in the day with poli. You know, we don't
have those machines anymore. Now you have these devices where
you can stand literally stand up and be mobile like
you did when your your legs your appendages worked.

Speaker 4 (41:39):
Yeah, I see where we're going to be. You could
be seeing these around quite often right now, you know,
you don't see them out ry new. It's brand new,
and again nobody knows about it. We do have a
veterans site for our veterans dot org for a veterans
dot org if the veterans, but they can also use
the Rebound Mobility site and that that allows you to

(42:03):
see information and then and my contact information is on
there nine three seven seven seven six seventy eight oh
will seventy eight oh one for a direct contact and
that's you know, twenty four to seven. You can text
or call that number for more information.

Speaker 8 (42:21):
And how long does it take to get one of
these units if you ordered one, it takes if if
you're ordering and going through the insurance process and even
all the veterans processes can take thirty to sixty days.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
But some people who can do a self pay and
can they can pay for it and then work through
their insurance and get that money back to their insurance
so they don't have to wait, so they can have
it within two weeks if they're going to just they
want to put it on AMEX, get their points for
whatever right, and then then they can have the receipt
and then they work through and help us. So we

(42:55):
have an insurance team they will help us battle to
get that insures coverage, which most of the time they do.
It's a pretty high rate of success, especially when the
patient gets involved and so they get that check remburse
and then and a lot of people do that, they
put it on a credit card. The company Matiam Mobility

(43:17):
also has a couple of financing options.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Is there are they made where they made where manufacturing
Salt Lake City?

Speaker 1 (43:23):
Oh wow, they made the US. They're made in the US,
so you can get him here in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (43:27):
Yeah, they they're they're all in they're customized, so we
you are not. They're they're custom built for that person's size.
So there's measurements that I take or make sure they're
taken by a provider like a pt O T and
so it fits and it hits you in the right

(43:47):
part of your body anywhere, right, anywhere from a four
foot seven person. I have eleven year old muscular disc
free kid getting his delivering it to him on Christmas.
So it's going to be a Christmas present. Yeah, eleven
year old mustard disc fee. He can't wait and he
tools around on it like like he's had it forever.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
When I did, Oh, I demoed one, and it's like,
you know, within a couple of minutes, you kind of
get used to the controls.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
It's it's really cool. And it was like the battery
in this thing last how long.

Speaker 4 (44:18):
A full day? Nine miles that's a lot. Yeah, so
you can go you can go cruise around on a
full charge, you know, on a bike path or outside
or on a beach for quite a while. So the
charge and it only takes about two three hours to
get up to a full charge. Yeah, it's it is

(44:44):
again just so rewarding to to see I haven't I
haven't actually done an in person demo with someone who
didn't get the unit or didn't start to process to
get the unit, and so that's something and I offer
too because you're looking if it's something you could just

(45:06):
buy online, we'd put on Amazon, and or.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Because it has to be custom and custal insurance and
everything else too. But yeah, I mean if you know
someone a neighbor, friend, family, me or co or whoever,
it is a good benefit from this that so I
wanted to have you on and get the word out
because I really think this is this is one of
those devices. Once in a while, something comes along that
absolutely changes people's lives for the better. And in the
age we're living longer, maybe not better, but longer, it's

(45:31):
incumbent to get the word out I think for stuff
like this, going hey, this is going to improve your
mental health, which is a huge component. But physically you
mentioned bone density, bowels, all that stuff. I mean, imagine
you know, you have your house. Let's say you're in
a chair and everything's built for people who stand up,
you know, cupboards, cabinets, refrigerators, and you with so much
in life because you're seated, and now you don't have
to change all that. You can actually stand up in

(45:53):
your house and get things off the top shelf like
you used to, and the machine does it all and
you're able to navigate your hallways and stay in your
own house. I mean the past people to have to
move to assisted living or something like that. This keeps
people in our houses longer, whether it's veterans or people
with disabilities, but also seniors too. I think you're going
to see more people who their legs work. But you know,
I mean the older we get, the longer we live,
it's going to be harder to get around.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
This is for them.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
Right in the and the seniors now are just more
active seniors, you know, wanting to be outside, wanting to
be independent, and and this you know, will allow them
to you know, stay that way and you know, take
the outside, get to the fresh air, take a walk.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
You know.

Speaker 4 (46:31):
I you can avoid the home rebuilds on that. But
I even have someone getting one that had the home
rebuild done, but he's getting it for the outdoors part
of it the package. So he saw that there's enough
benefit in that. So it's going to be you know,
there's gonna be something for everybody that maybe if they're

(46:52):
they've lost mobility, maybe they can walk a little bit,
but they just can't go very far. It's going to
help them with that. And we're also partnered with uh
Tie Bradshaw with the knuxs All Foundation, where we're doing
for people who here and refer uh a patient. It
doesn't have to be for yourself, but a referral a

(47:13):
two thousand dollars donation to the knuxts All Foundation because
they're dealing with disabilities, and they're trying to build that
indoor center, right so.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
Oh good love to sell the community with that. That's amazing.
So yeah, portion proceeds go there as well.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
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already that would jump at the chance for something like this.

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Speaker 1 (48:29):
They appreciate it. Thanks again for coming in, Thanks for
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Speaker 2 (48:32):
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just minutes, Austin jumps in. We talk about the Bengals

(48:54):
in Miami, A fruitless effort. What the hell are they
playing for? Well, it's sunny weather, so at least you
get to go and then enjoy that as well. Who
should have remain on the Bengals for twenty twenty six
is the question? Maybe they'll be somewhat answered in Sunday's game.
Talk to Austin about that and more coming up next
on seven hundred WW. Here we go, It's Friday morning,

(49:15):
Scott Sloan. Last segment with this guy for the twenty
twenty five campaign for sure, Who knows, maybe the last
segment forever. We just we don't know. It's week to week.
Much like a NFL player at this time of year,
it's week to week. Austin Elmosey, our buddy from ESPN
fifteen thirty. He and Tony Pike at noon today on
said station, shoppable sports head of the weekend here too,

(49:37):
and we begin with what what.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Do we should what should we begin with?

Speaker 10 (49:40):
I don't know, how about the last ten days fourteen
days have felt like three months, really, yeah, especially when
you look at it through the eyes and lens of
the Bengals.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
Well we begin there, of course, two Bengals at Miami
this weekend, going from subzero temperatures to mid eighties. There's
that shock as well. And I guess one may ask, Okay,
three games left, we want to run the table, we
want an grede. It's just auditioning guys for next year, right,
I asked, This is a Dan horde. I'll ask it
of you outside of a handful of players, now, I'll

(50:14):
be generous Here, DJ Turner obviously, Here i'd say bj Hill,
Miles Murphy turned a corner. It looks seems like anyway,
Jamar Stewart's a rookie, banged up rookie at that missed
a bunch of games. Small sample size there. But outside
of those guys, or maybe you disagree with any of
those who comes back next year, who do you build around?

Speaker 1 (50:31):
It's a great question.

Speaker 10 (50:32):
I don't know that there are you know, I feel
like there's been minimal improvement from Demetrius Knight Junior over
the course of the last six or seven weeks. Barrett
Carter hasn't been as atrocious as he was at the beginning,
but that's still a really very low bar. I think
they're going to have to revisit the linebacker position, both
in free agency and in the draft. Jordan Battle I like,

(50:57):
and I think there's a role for Jordan Battle, but
I don't that there's a role for Jordan Battle when
he's playing next to the worst safety in the NFL
and with other guys on the team that on the
defense that that aren't as good. I think you can
live with Jordan when there are better players around him,
not when he's being forced to do as much. So
I think there are a couple of guys, but I

(51:18):
think there's one or two shoe ins, and that would
be DJ Turner and obviously Shamar Stewart, just because he's
played so little. It's it's way too early, and I
think Miles Murphy has done enough to justify being something now.
The other one you could take a look at is
Joseph Osai, who for two years in a row has
kind of been up into the right and he's probably

(51:38):
going to be looking at a fifteen to sixteen million
dollars deal on the open market. Is that something you'd
be willing to invest in, assuming you're not going to
be bringing Trey Hendrickson back, And that's ultimately is I
don't know if.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
It is a four conclusion.

Speaker 10 (51:54):
I think that's going to be another conversation that crops
up in again in the stream. It's possible, Yeah, it's possible.
I don't know right now. I don't like posible right now.
I don't think it's it's likely, but I do think
it's possible. Okay, And if they were to do something
like that, would that would be the first indicator that
they have no idea what they're doing this offseason.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Well, we'll just run it back, which they're good at doing.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
And you mentioned, okay, we're gonna get some guys in
the draft that's not gone well for them defensively.

Speaker 10 (52:22):
Yeah, I mean, the plan on paper has been we
are going to spend our top one hundred draft picks
on young defenders and develop them. Well, it just now
has started to click for Miles Murphy. It hasn't really
clicked for anyone else other than DJ Turner, and you
cannot wait that long for it to click for these guys.
It's not clicking for Carter, it's not clicking for Night,

(52:44):
it's not clicking for for Dax Hill. He's been okay,
but still not entirely clicking for him, and he's coming
off knee injury.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
I get it.

Speaker 10 (52:50):
So they're gonna have to supplement that defense with guys
in free agency, veteran presence, guys that it might be
looking for a mid level second contract much it's like
they got Trey Hendrickson on in that twenty twenty one offseason.
I think that's the type of player they're gonna have
to be looking for again this year to help those
young players develop as well.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
Yeah, Austin, I look at that. Go okay, well, we'll
fix the defense.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Offense obviously set for the for the short to medium
term here with the arguably the best receiver quarterback combination
of the National Football League, and it's a crime that
you can't go to the playoffs and win with with
with that, do you think this is like a turning
point now for the franchise when it seems like we've
had a lot of turning points and sense that Okay,
you've got Joe Burrow his prime right now, you're not

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gonna make the playoffs for the third straight year. At
this point, you're going to I don't know, at this
point a lot of teams would have moved on from
Zach Taytlor and maybe Duke Tobin and that's still a possibility.
And you know, Bengals are not going to pay a
guy not to participate. We know the history of that.
That to me seems like that's not really fan friendly.
The seatgate plays into that a little bit, but there

(53:55):
seems to be in here in Cincinnati. Every time you
have a micro tran aggression like that were then cleaning
the seats off. It's amplified tenfold because of the stereotype
that the team is cheap, and you can make a
case that they are. That's not a good look for
them if they don't hit it out of the park
they do you think they realized just what's at stake
here for there.

Speaker 10 (54:15):
The way I described it yesterday on the show is
that they are at a crossroads. But they've been at
this intersection before many times, and the best way to
describe it, and most I think only once really is
the season following Burrow's rookie year, so they had just
gotten out of COVID. Burrow had a season ending injury.
They won four games. Now they won two of those

(54:37):
last three games. They didn't really matter, but we always
point towards that Steelers game that season as a turning
point for a culture building win. And that off season
they had about sixty million dollars to spend. They signed
Cheeahay Woozier, Trey Hendrickson, Mike Hilton, Larry Ogunjobi Riley, reef
Eli Apple, They traded for bj Hill, they extended Sam Hubbard.

(55:01):
They made all the right moves that offseason and built
that into a team in twenty twenty one that went to.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
The Super Bowl.

Speaker 10 (55:07):
This year, they have sixty million dollars in cap space.
Actually a little bit more, especially if you do some
veteran cuts, you could be looking at eighty million. That's
more than enough to go after and aggressively pursue a
draft class or a free agent class that can fill
a lot of the same needs that you had just
a few years ago in twenty twenty one. Now, I'm
not saying they're gonna go back to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
Last time he did. But the point was the last
time he did it, he would have the Super Bowl. Yeah,
why is it?

Speaker 10 (55:32):
The point is, like, you know you can do that,
and so you sign those guys for three or four
year deals and then the plan is get young players
in there and surround them so that you can kind
of keep repeating it. The draft has failed them. So
if your draft strategy hasn't changed, and if it should,
but you now have. And I know we all want
to talk crap about the way the Bengals do contracts,

(55:55):
but they have set themselves up very nicely to where
they have very little dead cap and they have a
ton of cap space even though they've signed Joe Burrow
and Jamar Chase and t Higgins the long term extensions.
One of the biggest narratives out there that is complete
one hundred percent BS is that the Bengals don't have
money to spend because they sign those players to deals.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
That's not true. They have plenty of money.

Speaker 10 (56:17):
And if Joe Burrow restructures this deal like most quarterbacks do,
that can jump even further right away. Okay, so they've
done it before. The plan is right there in front
of them. I don't expect them to hit on every
single free agent that they signed. No team does, and
the Bengals have had their share of misses over the
last couple of years, guys like Sheldon Rankins for example,
last year. But the culture was certainly affected by those

(56:42):
wins at the end of twenty twenty going into twenty
twenty one. But it was really curated in free agency
that offseason. They can do this. They've done it before,
They're going to have to do it again. I have
no choice.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
And if they can't pull this off and we sit
there a year from now Austin have the same conversation,
what then.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Yeah, it's it's a good question.

Speaker 10 (57:02):
I think you would probably see the end of Zach Taylor,
and I think it would be a very very loud.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
I wouldn't be surprised if Joe Burrow said it would
be a very loud outcry from the locker room and
specifically Joe. I don't think that Joe right now is
in danger of leaving. I don't think anything he said
over the last couple of weeks is I don't like Zach,
I don't like Mike Brown, I don't like being here.
I think it is frustration with the fact that there

(57:33):
hasn't been enough growth over the last couple of years,
and he hasn't felt like he has any control over
it because of the injury that he had this year, right, right,
And that's the other key is keeping him healthy and
is the big question for next season. We can't do
this every year where he's down for a number of games.
And you know, we've had that track record where yeah.

Speaker 10 (57:49):
Again, if you go back, like the twenty one and
twenty two seasons were really really good, and the twenty
two team was really good. But you go to twenty
three and I think Zach and it mostly got a
pass because Burrow had that freak injury. They were pretty
good at the time, but he had that freak injury. Okay,
you missed the playoffs, but they were still right there
and it was close. Twenty twenty four, there's no excuse.
I mean, the best season ever by a Bengals quarterbacks

(58:11):
and the defense just leitm And this offseason the Bengals said, oh,
we just got unlucky.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
We'll get better this year.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
Well.

Speaker 10 (58:18):
The other thing too, is they said that it's Louis
at Rumo's fault and we're gonna develop these young players. Okay,
so Sam Hubbard's not taking snaps anymore, Von Bell's not
taking snaps. Jermaine Pratt's not taking snaps. Logan Wilson's not
taking snaps. They got rid of all those veteran guys
to bring in the young dudes, and it got worse.
And so clearly you can't go blame the defensive coordinator. Again,

(58:38):
you can't blame the head coach, especially if you're gonna
sign him to an extension and he staw has two
years left on his deal. It's not Joe Burrow's fault.
The injuries was kind of a freak thing. It falls
on the organization to say, Okay, we can't just rely
on the draft anymore. We've got to go spend some
money and fix this right. And you wonder if they
hear that, If that's heard or not, we'll find out here.
And sure, of course, also going after free agent, to

(59:00):
which they've been reluctant to do that. One time they
did it is they got success. I don't know why
you wouldn't do more of that.

Speaker 4 (59:05):
Well, they've they've spent money.

Speaker 10 (59:07):
They've spent a lot of money in free agency over
the last couple of years, they haven't hit on them
as much, but they haven't been as aggressive because they
have been counting on those young players. Right, And now
that you are able to call a space a spade
on a lot of those guys you just mentioned it
to me, clarifies what the plan should be moving forward.
And you know the other thing that's interesting about that
twenty twenty Following the twenty twenty season, going into twenty one,

(59:30):
they had sixty million dollars to spend. They ended up
spending fifty six and a half of it, so they
had like three point eight million dollars in cap space.
That was like an aggressive spend by the Bengals. They
can do that again. I hope they do.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Yeah, all right, we'll find out again Sunday. It's in Miami.
No Tua, by the way, he has been benched in favor.

Speaker 1 (59:49):
Unfortunate. Unfortunate for the Bengals. You know, I look at it.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
I was asking Dan about this too, and said, I know,
I'd rather have two in there one more game, because
you know what you're getting with him.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
You know, now you got a rookie with something to prove.
A seventh I.

Speaker 10 (01:00:02):
Mean, they both probably stink, but at least you know
what to it is. I mean, they don't call it
to it turned the ball over for no reason?

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
Fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
Yeah, he's terrible. It's awful. Talk about a guy went
off the rails there. They also cut Matthew Judon. They're
an evaluation man. Yeah, all the Bengals are too. Two
teams looking to evaluate.

Speaker 10 (01:00:20):
But do you where do you stand on tank for
a draft pick and try to win football games? I
don't think you do it. I just I don't think
you do either. I don't think unless you're tanking for
a quarterback, it doesn't matter. Yeah, I mean if it
comes down the last game, all right. And I have
not like, like dove into all the draft picks yet,
but I don't think there's a huge difference in the
type of player you get between pick number eight and

(01:00:42):
pick number sixteen this year.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
If you tried to get Joe Burrow back in the
lineup for a season, that's a wash. Yeah, why would
you do that if you also want to? We also
know that the final three games matter, you know if
Paul Danner Junior wrote about that this week. With the
extension at Zach Taylor, and there's a history of the
final games of the season matter for this organization. So
as far as I'm concerned, if you want to say

(01:01:04):
that you have a standard and you want to uphold
that standard, winning matters, and winning and culture building wins
even against teams that may not be as competitive, matter,
and I think it matters to people like Joe Burrow,
and I think it matters to Zach Taylor.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
Yeah, it's a different field this year for sure. I mean,
last week watched Pat Mahomes go down with a season
ending injury. Man maybe back when the start of next season,
depending on the saverat of it. And now there's rumors
again as there as everyone with Travis Kelsey maybe retiring.
It feels like it's over for Casey. Yeah, it does.
I mean I don't.

Speaker 10 (01:01:35):
And they go into the next offseason I think forty
four million dollars over the cap, so they're gonna have
to make some tough decisions. They're gonna probably cut Jawan Taylor,
Mahomes will probably restructure his deal, but there's gonna be
some guys that are walking away from that football team,
and they're gonna have to rebuild through the draft, and
they're gonna have to get creative and free in the
CAP's gonna go up. They'll get some relief and that's
gonna help happen for the Bengals as well. So yeah,

(01:01:57):
I mean it's a transitional time. I'm for a lot
of teams in the AFC. I think Houston's going to
take another step forward next year. I think Jacksonville's going
to take another step forward next year. Browns Houston might
take a step back. Who knows what the Browns. But
like Buffalo, I mean, you guys have been talking about this.
This is like there's a lot of pressure on Buffalo
right now because of the way the AFC is lined up,

(01:02:19):
and it's difficult to keep getting back there every year
it is, and so this is a this is a
critical star.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
It feels like is well, I don't know who's in
worse shape. I mean case he wasn't in it, but
the injury at Green Bay with Michael Parsons, I think
it is bigger than losing Pat Mahomes. I agree in
that regard. Hey, real quick, we did not get College Schwarber,
but the next best thing we got a left handed
reliever in Caleb Fergus.

Speaker 10 (01:02:40):
Yeah, and thank god he's from Ohio. That was the
funniest thing I've ever seen their home homegrownd guy. Yeah,
it's like, hey, we not signing anybody, but we got
this cat from Columbus.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
Most Reds thing ever. Hell yeah, that's fifteen more tickets game.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
You did need some somebody in that position for sure,
but no fix like the middle of your lineup.

Speaker 10 (01:02:58):
You know what's crazy about about the relief market, even
going back to the trade deadline last year, is relievers
are getting ridiculous contracts, ridiculous money. Relievers are the most
important part of any team. The Reds really didn't have
a matchup lefty. They didn't really have that last year.
Taylor Rodgers didn't work out. Brent Souter was more of
a long guy, and so they needed a lefty. So

(01:03:18):
they're gonna bring back Sam Mall, which they got him
for the cheap and hopefully he has a bounce back season.
Wasn't fully healthy last year. And then you've got a
guy like Caleb Ferguson, who pitched pretty well last year
as one of those specific matchup lefties that you bring
in for certain hitters to face guys like Kyle Schwarburn.
The Reds needed it, they got it. I think they
paid a little bit more than anybody expected them for it,

(01:03:40):
and I don't know that they have much money in
their eyes to spend, even though that's a bunch of hogwash,
but that's where they stand it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
And my thing, and you know this, we've talked.

Speaker 10 (01:03:50):
This team is going to try to run it back
with the same group they did last year and say, well,
Matt McLean will be better and so and so it'll
be better. It's all nonsense and it's no way to
run a business and try to win baseball games.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
But that's what they're gonna do.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Yeah, I again, when you've just signed resigned Meili Pagan
for two yours, so well, yeah, that's a year deal,
but probably a little that's awesome, you got.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
I think they got about ten million left to play
with them.

Speaker 4 (01:04:10):
I don't think so.

Speaker 10 (01:04:11):
They going into signing Caleb Ferguson it was five to
ten million and they just signed him for five done,
So I don't expect much unless they're gonna trade Brady
Singer or Gavin Lux or somebody like that to try
to free up ten or fifteen million dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:04:24):
I don't see it.

Speaker 6 (01:04:24):
Happened.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Finally, why is it that college football coaches apparently can't
keep it in their pants?

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
The Sharon marthing and now Brian Smith at Ohio Tom
Brunneman School, not the Ohio State University, but the Ohio University.

Speaker 6 (01:04:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
Uh, I mean, what are you thinking? You know, I
just I don't.

Speaker 10 (01:04:44):
I have a lot of thoughts on this, but as
much of it I can't say on the radio undergraduates.
So it's you know, there's there's an old saying out
there that that certain things are undefeated.

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
That's true, certain things are undefeated.

Speaker 10 (01:04:55):
I just I feel Actually, our guy Moegar brought up
a good point on his Twitter page last night. You know,
college football coaches often are not afraid to tell you
how hard they work and how they sleep in their
office right, how they never see their families. Well, it
seems like these guys are finding time to do other things.

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
I'm recruiting. Yeah, I'm just recruiting. I thought that was it.
I will leave it. I'll take it ball, Go FUS Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
I thought that was a good perspective. Go FUS Cincinnati
Audio and leave it on this note. In the words
of Cincinnati favorite Charlie Sheen, Okay, why do you why
do you pay prostitutes. I don't pay prostitutes to have
sex with I pay them to go away. And the
immortal horns at Charlie Sheen, no true. Where do you
think about that? Go huh and the immortal words of
Sharon I pay them to go away. Austin Almore New

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Today with Tony Pike Tapike talking all football and stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
Thanks again by Friday Football Frenzy.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
Baby.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
Been a fun year man. Thanks for contributing. I appreciate you.
We'll talk again in the first year. Sloony seven hundred
WW Cincinnati American. It's Scott a Funk show on seven
hundred W LW. It is Ohio Senate built two ninety three,
and that's going to set new restrictions for absentee balloting
voting in Ohio. Number of things, a climate, improves efficiency,

(01:06:09):
voter confidence, and it would basically what happens in Ohio
four days after election day to have your vote counted.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
This would change that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
I think thirty seven other states I believe have that
right now, where if the ballot is not received at
the Board of Elections by election day itself, it's it's
invalid and that is part of set up built two
ninety three.

Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
Sit on the government's test right now.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Ken Kuchinelli's a former Trump's staffer and former Attorney General
of Virginia and he's with the Election Transparency Initiative. Joins
the show this morning. Ken, how are you.

Speaker 5 (01:06:40):
I'm doing well. I'll be even better if the governor signed.

Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
I kind of glazed over it there. But what else
would this include?

Speaker 6 (01:06:50):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
I guess let's start with this. What is the what's
the reason why we need this?

Speaker 5 (01:06:56):
Well, for one, particularly as the postal service, it's worse
and worse instead of better and better. The logic of
ending elections on election day becomes clearer and clearer. You know,
you can go back twenty years to Jimmy Carter and
James Baker. They had a bipartisan commission that they found

(01:07:18):
that the most the form of voting, most subject of
fraud and problems was mail in voting. And if you
cut it off on election day, not only do you
find out who won your elections on election day instead
of the having the four day waiting period in which

(01:07:38):
so much conspiracy theories take place from both sides. By
the way, that you also have voters whose ballots are
showing up earlier who if they make mistakes, can actually
cure them. You can't cure a mistake after election day.
You can only cure it before election day. So this
would also lead to fixing more mistakenly cast ballots, something

(01:08:04):
that doesn't get talked about very much. And as you noted,
it's thirty four other states that really end elections on
election day and at Election Transparency Initiative, as our name implies,
we believe transparency is critical to the confidence in elections.
And when you drag elections out past election day when

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you don't need to, that confidence begins to drop pretty precipitously,
and that has real effects on whether people show up
in the first place and turnout. And so we think
Center Built two ninety three would be a tremendous improvement.
And also, by the way, establishes cleaning up of the

(01:08:49):
voter rolls every month. And as I mentioned, you can
fix you can fix mistaken ballots before the election that
you can't fix after the election.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Legal isn't that the burden though on the voter? In
consequences how many people are actually going back and realizing
they made a mistake.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
What are the numbers on that?

Speaker 5 (01:09:11):
So it isn't that the people realized they made a mistake.
That the clerks get to process the ballots before election
day and they find that voters made a mistake and
they can contact the voter and if they can come
in and fix the mistake. For example, they didn't fulfill

(01:09:31):
the requirements of the envelope the ballot has to come in,
they can fix those things. And obviously all of us
who want it to be easy to vote and hard
to cheat want people to be able to fix those mistakes.
Senate Bill two ninety three would make sure that more

(01:09:52):
people get the opportunity to fix those mistakes. So I
don't know the exact numbers in Ohio, you know that
curing is allowed and that your clerks do what they
can to make sure the people who've made those sorts
of errors get the chance to fix them. So they
can't do it on or after election day. On election day,

(01:10:15):
they just don't have the manpower after election.

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
Day, gotcha, it's too late.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
Keny also said that you know this is about the
mail slower and sover mail service, but just still punishes
people though because if mail service is slow beyond their control,
and they still don't get in by election day. That's
even worse. Instead of that four day grace period that
they would give you. And consequently, it doesn't that disproportionately
impact rural voters with slower mail service, or the disabled,

(01:10:41):
or elderly voters, working class vote or something like that. Yeah,
at the same time, there's an exemption here that allows
that four days to stand for soldiers who are serving overseas.

Speaker 1 (01:10:49):
Why just exempt them?

Speaker 5 (01:10:53):
Well, because for several reasons, One, they have no choice
but vote by mail, whereas for most people who use
voting by mail in Ohio they do have the choice
one and two they're coming longer distances because they're overseas

(01:11:13):
and deployed, so that there's some rationale to it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:17):
I would tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
What if you're working, what if you work overseas?

Speaker 5 (01:11:24):
Well, those folks are left in the same posture before
and after Centate build two ninety three, that four day
stays for both military and and resident overseas voters.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
Gotcha, Okay, so it applies to them, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:11:44):
Then you find out who who wins on election night.

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
That's a big deal.

Speaker 5 (01:11:48):
I mean, think about look I'll point to Florida. Florida
is the third largest state, and people on both sides
of the aisle continue to be amazed that an hour
after the polls closed in Florida they throw sick million
votes up on the board. How do they do that?
They do that because votes have come in before election
day that they've processed, right, and so they can have

(01:12:09):
them counted during election day and be ready to put
that up. And both sides appreciate that that takes an
awful lot of the guests words, no doubt, suspicion out
of the process of ballot processing, a lot of it.
And I would also note in Virginia, you know my
most Democrat, so I'm a Republican, so people might think, well,

(01:12:32):
some must be some Republican. Well, the director of Elections
and the most Democrat voting district in Virginia, Petersburg, Virginia,
has for years been recommending to people in her city
that they not ever mail about it ever, that they

(01:12:54):
do anything they can to bring it in person or
voting person because of how many every single election, no
matter how early they mail them, just never show up.
And that's been that's been years in the making so look.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
This, but this is not about that. This is about
I don't really care about those states. I care about
where I live, Ohio and work, but the postals.

Speaker 5 (01:13:20):
But but the reasons for it are universal. The reasons
for it are universal. And I use Florida as an
example because it's such an enormous state and yet they
managed to process all those ballots by an hour after
the post close. And and look you've got You've got
tens hundreds of thousands of people voting by mail. And
if they they're not stupid, I don't assume they're stupid.

(01:13:44):
I know Mike Dwaine, we served as Attorney's General together.
I know he doesn't think people in Ohio stupid. And
they're going to shift forward. They're voting, if they're male voters,
to make the deadline. They're not dumb, they're smart. And
they're also going to by doing that, get the opportunity
in the in the event they make mistakes on their

(01:14:05):
ballot to be able to correct those. So this is
going to get more votes in the ballot block, some
of which the estimate I understand that of Ohio's around
the thousand that would otherwise be uncounted because of the
mistakes and how they're they're filed, will have the opportunity

(01:14:26):
to get cured. And you know that's that's not a
big number, but we've had races to seven by a
thousand in Virginia and where you know we're.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
We've had close ones here in Ohio. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
Ken Kuchinelli's here on the show on seven hundred WOLW.
We're talking about voter vote integrity, and one of the
big things with the Senate bill that's sitting on de
Wine's desk right now would be to eliminate the four
day gray spiard after elections. To have your ball at coount,
it have to be in and counted prior to election
polls closing for that to occur, and it's kind of
a that's kind of a minor point. But I guess

(01:14:59):
the other thing too, would be, well, if the election
were that close, and we've had, as you said, close elections,
and the way as divide as we are in this country,
will have even more close elections, I guess in the
near future. But if that's the case, wouldn't that just
automatically trigger a recount, So it puts everything on hold.

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
Anyway, when you have.

Speaker 5 (01:15:18):
Elections that are within the margin of the recount. Of
course that happens, but that doesn't even determined until you've
got your ballots in and their counting. And you can
know that election night if you have all your ballots
in and I say all your ballots in. Of course
we've already talked about military and overseas voters still get

(01:15:39):
the four days, but the proportion of the balloting that
comes from those folks is extremely small, extremely small. And
let's say that the majority, the vast majority of those
votes are already in by election day. So with the
other votes not lingering after election dates, tune of tens

(01:16:01):
or hundreds of thousands of votes, you know immediately if
you're heading into a recount situation. And I would say, look,
we've seen the hyperbole that flies around after elections from
both sides. You can look at Stacy Abrams and Georgia
in twenty eighteen. You can look at how people felt

(01:16:21):
about the twenty twenty outcome, and this trace is back
all the way really to bushby Gore in two thousand, right.

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
In.

Speaker 5 (01:16:33):
Some aspects of those complaints are often legitimate and some aren't.
And you mentioned this bill does a couple of small things.
Elections are made up of hundreds of small things, and
this bill would help clean up and clean up Ohio elections,
firm them up, and make them more transparent on election
day when people expect, whether you and I think it's

(01:16:56):
reasonable or not, when people expect to know the outcome,
and you know, matching the process to citizens expectations is
a way to build confidence in the outcome of the election,
no matter who wins. And that's that's a major goal
for the election transparency initiatives.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
But that's also ken that's also kind of undermined when
you have people that are talking about how, you know,
if you lose the election. Let's talk about what Trump
did last time, right he lost the election, I was
you know, was stolen basically, and we still have the
Mipellow guy out there that's pretty much lost everything and
he's still banging the drum for this stuff. It's never
been proven. I think that underminds it more than things
like this, don't you.

Speaker 5 (01:17:40):
This is what legislators and governors can do to build
the confidence up they and they have to work with
how their process really works. They don't get to just
say whatever they want and you can use the twenty
twenty example. I started with Stacy Abrams. We can go
back all the way to two thousand and the bushby Gore,

(01:18:02):
and this has been both sides of the aisle at
various points in time. Hillary Clinton didn't concede she lost.
Terry mccaulloff didn't conceive that Hillary Clinton lost, you know,
for years and years, and suddenly that was treason when
Donald Trump wouldn't took the same approach. So you know,
this bill treats everybody the same. It changes the rules

(01:18:25):
before the election in a way that voters can understand. Again,
we respect the intelligence of voters and we expect them
to respond to the changes in the process, and they
have shown an ability to do that. I mean, this
isn't this wouldn't be some outlier. This would make Ohio
the thirty fifth state to count ballots this way, and

(01:18:46):
the more states that start doing this when it is
presidential elections at state the only elections that cross state lines,
then we'll know the answers to the answer to who
the next president is more quickly and we'll all eiminate
the paranoia period between election day and when ballots are
finally counted?

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
Is that I mean, is there census might be moot
in the sense because I know that the Circuit Court,
I think Fifth Circuit ruled Mississippi's grace period violated federal
law right because election includes receipt of ballots that only
applies in three states. The Supreme Court yet to rule
on this. So is this here in Ohio can preemptively
elinating voter access based on speculation about what Scotus might do?

(01:19:26):
And if Supreme Court rules the other way, then do
we need to we have to under the law. Should
we wait till till still go to rules?

Speaker 5 (01:19:35):
First of all, this bill doesn't eliminate voter access. It
improves voter access. You seem to assume that no one
will adjust.

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
Well, you could just it's easy to fix this and
just go, hey, you know what, here's kind of like
Christmas shopping. Here's when you're shipping gifts. You're like Amazon says, okay,
here's the drop to if you want your package you
arrived before Christmas. Uh, it's well average. We could do
the same thing and not need a bill, isn't it.
I mean, you just tell people to vote.

Speaker 5 (01:19:58):
Earlier, you know, well, to do what you propose would
still require a bill, but for your listeners benefit, you're correct.
The Fifth Federal Circuit, which is Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana,
ruled recently that in federal elections, so even year elections
happening in November, because they can only rule on federal

(01:20:21):
law and federal elections, that the election must end on
election day, meaning all ballots must be received by election day.
That's the Fifth Circuits interpretation of federal law that has
been appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has
taken the case. We don't know how that case will
come out, but you are correct for federal elections that

(01:20:44):
if the Supreme Court upholds the Fifth Circuit, then all
even year elections are going to end on election day,
and what you and I are talking about is going
to become the law. Well, it will have been acknowledged
as having been the law, but not enforced across the country.

(01:21:05):
So it doesn't mean it applies to all your state
elections or any that you may have in the spring
at local and so forth, those kinds of things, but
it would apply to federal elections, which will be the
even year November elections.

Speaker 2 (01:21:19):
Gotcha, and what do you think the governor does at
this point? Does he sign? Is he gonna sign us?

Speaker 5 (01:21:25):
You know, this seems like a toss up to me.
I hope people that would like to see their elections
cleaned up and firmed up will call the governor's office
ask him to sign Senate Built two ninety three. He
has today and tomorrow if I've done my count correctly
yet to decide. If he does nothing, it becomes law
without his signature, which is entirely plausible that he could

(01:21:47):
do that. But he's going to be deciding today and tomorrow,
so he does the right thing and signed Centate Built
two ninety three.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
We'll find out.

Speaker 2 (01:21:55):
Ken Kuchinelli at the Election Transparency Initial appreciate you answer
my questions.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
Interesting, Sure, glad to do it all the best.

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
I'd be well, have a great Christmas in the holiday,
thanks so much. It's a Scottsland show on seven hundred
W do now I hear these go Hey, we got
to clean up election. You know, election integrity. It's not
a problem in Ohio. I think it's a problem in
Kentucky and Indiana. By the way, they have that role
too in Kentucky and Indiana. I think the ballots got
to be in by election day, which hey, it makes sense.
I just wonder I don't. I think it's just the
same thing either way, because just tell people, hey, you

(01:22:25):
don't vote earlier and get them in by election day.
It kind of solves the problem as well, you know,
the four day grace spirit. I mean, how often has
that triggered, you know, the worries about, you know, if
the election integrity because not all the ballots have been
cone well they count them, you know, if it doesn't
matter what the ballots are coming after, they'll call the
election and you know, you send it in light it's
on you. Yeah, I just I don't think it's good

(01:22:47):
or bad. I just think it really doesn't mean a lot,
especially if the Supreme Court may strike this down. Anyway,
got to get a news update in and it's Scott
Sloan after News here seven hundred W.

Speaker 7 (01:23:00):
Weekends coming up and you need to make the most
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with Ali Martin on seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 1 (01:23:15):
Yes Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:23:16):
Friday means Allie time. As we close out the show
this morning on seven hundred WWR, last one of the year,
my friend, how are you?

Speaker 9 (01:23:23):
I'm great.

Speaker 11 (01:23:23):
I have absolutely no idea what day is as we
come to the end of obviously it's Friday, but as
we come to the end of the year and January
and the holidays, is it Tuesday? Is it Thursday? Is
it Friday?

Speaker 9 (01:23:35):
I treat every day like it's Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
No idea, it's are you in the camp of going?
I can't believe a week from yesterday's Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:23:43):
I can't believe that. I get no idea.

Speaker 9 (01:23:45):
You know what.

Speaker 11 (01:23:46):
Also, where my head is at is number one, just like,
where did this year go? Because as I'm scrolling through
some of the stuff that I've prepped for today, top
things that we've done, eaten all that jazz, I'm like,
holy crap, looking through my phoe is the best way
on my Apple photos and I'm thinking that was a.

Speaker 9 (01:24:04):
Year ago, right, I built my desk a year ago.
It feels like it was yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
I just yeah, it's fun because Michelle's talking to neighbor
and this week and goes, h yeah, I got to
get eventually, go get some Christmas stuff or whatever.

Speaker 11 (01:24:19):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
He's like, it only got like a week. She goes,
no Christmas like three weeks. And I goes, it's December seventeenth. Okay,
she knows what it's next week. Yeah, it's next week.

Speaker 9 (01:24:28):
Where is the deadline? I don't know, because here's this
if I don't get.

Speaker 11 (01:24:32):
I think part of the reason why it's so weird
is because everybody's you know, putting out holiday stuff before Halloween.
So there's this weird juxtaposition where I feel like we're
burnt out before Halloween even happens. And so Thanksgiving rolls
around and I time fries and if I don't have
my Christmas tree up right around Thanksgiving time, I'm done.
I've done that before in the past, where then I

(01:24:53):
never even get my tree non holiday.

Speaker 2 (01:24:56):
But we put ours up early than ever before, and
it's still like, I can't believe it's next week. Maybe, man,
what's some time off to you get?

Speaker 11 (01:25:02):
The other notion of holiday mode is eggnog. Once they
put out the eggnog in the stores.

Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
They're putting it out like around Halloween. Now I've noticed
for guys, it's gonna be year round.

Speaker 9 (01:25:11):
Why isn't eggnog a year round here?

Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
Yeah? You know what, It's kind of like the McRib
and only just come out on's.

Speaker 9 (01:25:16):
Here or they're lucky, it's like every five years.

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
And then make rib and I think eggnog are the
same level of health benefit for you. I'm gonna have
a eating a McRib and washed it down with an eggnog.

Speaker 9 (01:25:28):
No one ever asks for it. Here's the other thing
I was thinking about this the other day. I'm like,
why for Santa, right, you leave out cookies and milk?
Why are we leaving eggnog and cookies? Shouldn't that be?

Speaker 1 (01:25:38):
That's true?

Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
That's a good well because eggnog tic typically is as
alcohol in it. And the guy he'd never make it
out of Arkansas.

Speaker 9 (01:25:47):
Maybe that's what you think he's really he's on autopilot. Now,
like Tesla, do.

Speaker 1 (01:25:53):
You really want Santa puken down your chimney?

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
No?

Speaker 9 (01:25:56):
But not all eggnog has What do we get.

Speaker 11 (01:25:59):
For Chris ew Why is Santa black down?

Speaker 9 (01:26:04):
Why is he face down next to the tree.

Speaker 1 (01:26:07):
Naked next to the toilet.

Speaker 9 (01:26:08):
It's gonna be like the raccoon.

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
Santa. No, so you don't want to feed Santa egg.
Now that's a bad idea. Where are you on egg nog?

Speaker 9 (01:26:15):
I want to love it. I'd love it spiked.

Speaker 11 (01:26:18):
It is a I will get one carton, like a
small one, every single year, and it's the around right
around now where it's a Saturday Sunday morning. Maybe I'll
pour myself a small glass, a real small glass. But
it is not something that I wake up thinking I
need me some eg.

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
I like the flavor of it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
It's good, right, it's we actually buy like we'll get
like the half gall of Kroger. And then Michelle likes
to put it in her coffee.

Speaker 9 (01:26:43):
Yeah, that makes sense, like a little bit of like creamer,
because it's a CINEREMONI. It's come out with different flavors. Now,
so I'm not mad. I'm sure my.

Speaker 11 (01:26:52):
Sister in law makes it from scratch and she makes
it boozy.

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
Wow, that's when you.

Speaker 9 (01:26:56):
Make homemade eggnog.

Speaker 1 (01:26:57):
It's a whole nother different level boozy.

Speaker 9 (01:27:00):
Though again, give it, Santa gives it. Maybe you'll fall
off the roof.

Speaker 2 (01:27:04):
Yeah, I can never say. Of what do bars do it?
Can you get an eggnog and a bar Ooh?

Speaker 9 (01:27:09):
Actually, well, so like a martini. I know which is
on my list.

Speaker 11 (01:27:15):
Faulton the Yards is one of my favorite coffee shops
these days, and they have a full holiday cocktail spread
and they're doing like an eggnog martini, so it's a
thicker cocktail. If you were to do so, you'll see
that a lot of these holiday bars will lean into it.

Speaker 9 (01:27:29):
But it's that happy to me.

Speaker 1 (01:27:30):
That eggnog is a whole different thing.

Speaker 9 (01:27:33):
I said, santsy be falling off the roof, which actually
makes me laugh. Have you seen the movie the Santa
Claus who hasn't with? Do you know? In the initial script?
I learned this this year.

Speaker 11 (01:27:45):
Tim Allen said that the script was written to shoot Santa,
so you know how when he hears Santa and how
really and he ends up falling off the roof because
he runs out. He's like, hey, who's up there? And
then Sand's like ooh and then falls off. In the script,
initially it has Tim Allen killing Santa really, yes, and

(01:28:06):
then Disney read it over. He apparently Tim loved the idea.
Disney read it over like, we can't shoot Santa, so
it changed the entire can kill satam you can't kill.

Speaker 9 (01:28:18):
So that's my weird fun fact.

Speaker 2 (01:28:20):
Let's get into I know you wanted to review twenty
twenty five.

Speaker 11 (01:28:24):
Yeah, So where my head is at with this is
the new spots that have opened, you know, what are
the big highlight spots, as well as going micro down
to some of the favorite dishes that we've had this year.
Now some of my top favorite overall picks in regards
to establishments, and we went into a battle of how
to pronounce this wayfair wayfair where farah way Farrah The

(01:28:48):
pizza joint over in Dayton, Kentucky. They're the ones that
have the pickled pizza. Keep in mind they've been around.
They were around last year but they were more pop ups.
But this year they have their establishment and I think
that's the top spot to check out. Really great cocktails.
They have a full menu, but they're really known for
their different pizzas.

Speaker 9 (01:29:07):
Okay, a, as you know, that's a E t X
E E t X.

Speaker 11 (01:29:12):
It's a basque steakhouse which they are actually going now
four days a week because I don't know if you
heard the news, but the Aperture, which is the space
that they're doing their culinary residency in Jordan had Chef Jordan.

Speaker 9 (01:29:24):
He's revamping. He's closing down.

Speaker 11 (01:29:26):
For a little bit, but the goal is to reopen,
so they're going to take over the space a little
bit longer. So at a the Bass Steakhouse, Tapa's really good.
Uh pork Pluma, which is one of.

Speaker 9 (01:29:37):
My TOPI steakhouse different. Yeah, I don't even know if
that exists. There was a.

Speaker 1 (01:29:44):
Downtown yeah, now there's one, and I think.

Speaker 9 (01:29:50):
That sounds about Yes.

Speaker 11 (01:29:54):
I deserve to get fired from this gig because all
last week I literally thought flight club.

Speaker 9 (01:30:00):
Okay, I've been calling.

Speaker 1 (01:30:01):
It fight club, I know, and I can't ask you.

Speaker 9 (01:30:03):
You asked me about it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:04):
I feel it's weird. It should be flight club, not
fight club. Ye, and it's actually called what.

Speaker 9 (01:30:09):
Flight club club? Because I can't read.

Speaker 11 (01:30:13):
I have been all over this and I have in
my head straight to dyslexia and have been calling it
fight club because maybe because I want to get into
a fight at a war.

Speaker 9 (01:30:23):
So I'm going to take full responsibility and I'm so
sorry it makes hello flight club because it's darts flying darts.

Speaker 2 (01:30:31):
I feel so much better going Why that's a bad
name for it? Why wouldn't you just call it flight
club because then it's a play on words.

Speaker 1 (01:30:37):
You know, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (01:30:38):
It's fight club, but they have darts, so it should
be flight club. No, it's fight club.

Speaker 9 (01:30:43):
I wanted to get into a fight.

Speaker 11 (01:30:44):
And I should have known, because sometimes when you ask
a follow a question, I know what you do, and
you're like, are you sure?

Speaker 1 (01:30:49):
You're sure?

Speaker 9 (01:30:50):
Are you sure?

Speaker 1 (01:30:50):
I'm gonna take your word for it, but I'm a question.

Speaker 9 (01:30:52):
You really should have leaned into that question a little
bit hard, like.

Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
I would love to be in that branding meeting. What
do we call it?

Speaker 2 (01:30:57):
How about flight club? Now just call it fight club?
Are you throwing darts? Flight flight could?

Speaker 9 (01:31:03):
If you lose, maybe you.

Speaker 11 (01:31:06):
I take a responsibility for that one. But it's really
great that that.

Speaker 9 (01:31:09):
Opened this year.

Speaker 11 (01:31:14):
Whatever it's called, whatever it's called, and whatever you do there,
and it's the dark the Dark spot down.

Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
That's just something about the warm wood in English this
time of year. Seems like you should be able to
get an egg nod there.

Speaker 9 (01:31:26):
That is as that doesn't good call back on that one.

Speaker 11 (01:31:30):
I am also going to throw out Salsar, note Che
and prim As other big staple spots that have opened
this year that are worth noting. Spots that I have
tried this shore, I'm like, where have I been live?

Speaker 9 (01:31:46):
I've been under a rock.

Speaker 11 (01:31:47):
I can't believe I'm saying this because I'm not a
sandwich person, but I still dream about it and it's
kind of far up there for me.

Speaker 9 (01:31:54):
And it's the new England Grinders. I am still on it.

Speaker 1 (01:31:58):
I haven't been there in years, but every time I go,
it's solid sandwich.

Speaker 9 (01:32:01):
I think about it, solid lot.

Speaker 1 (01:32:03):
There's just one location.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
It's not a chain, no, And it's tough because there's
a lot of good sandwich places in Cincinnati, thank you.

Speaker 11 (01:32:08):
And the reason why I also love it it's like
six bucks. It's not that it's not that expensive, huh.
Like you can get to different sizes off of Princeton
Glendale Road, and the Fat Bastard is my favorite. It's
the pistrami and they have euromeat and then the spicy
Italian sausage, banana, Pepper's mayo. It's not dressing anything from

(01:32:28):
Buffalo chicken sandwiches to club grinders, but the bread is so.

Speaker 9 (01:32:32):
Good and I think about.

Speaker 2 (01:32:33):
It good sandwich more than I probably should. Yeah, that
sounds like a good pick today. Good big grinder, and
you live close to there, well sort of. You know,
it's funny about it. My brother, My brother actually used
to live like almost across the street. We go there, like,
I don't know, not a lot, but frequently. Yeah, I
haven't met vaccines, but man, that's that's a good sandwich.

Speaker 6 (01:32:53):
Check.

Speaker 9 (01:32:53):
Can you do that and take a photo for me?
Through you?

Speaker 1 (01:32:56):
Which the big one?

Speaker 4 (01:32:57):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (01:32:57):
The fat bastard?

Speaker 3 (01:32:58):
Is that?

Speaker 9 (01:32:58):
The fat bastard is?

Speaker 4 (01:32:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:33:00):
Really the menu is montraous and they do salads and
other stuff. But I'm I'm there and I'm not a
sandwich person.

Speaker 1 (01:33:05):
A good sandwich, it's really it.

Speaker 9 (01:33:07):
I think about it a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
I like a good club sandwich. Every once in a
while it hits or I mean I just went to
Blue Ash Chili this week and got a double decker.

Speaker 9 (01:33:14):
Wait, so I went into a big I had a
big kerfluffle of a conversation the other day with someone
was like, what's the one thing if you would eat
your entire life, like if you one meal?

Speaker 11 (01:33:23):
And this person said, a turkey sandwich. Really, I'm like,
that's a club I'm like, you've got to be kidding.

Speaker 1 (01:33:29):
A turkey sandwich.

Speaker 9 (01:33:30):
That's a no for me.

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
Yeah, A good double decker those amazing you and tiffpo
tell you blue as chili double decker.

Speaker 9 (01:33:38):
Is blue ash chili. That's a good nugget.

Speaker 1 (01:33:40):
Awesome double decker.

Speaker 4 (01:33:42):
It's massive.

Speaker 9 (01:33:42):
Good to know.

Speaker 1 (01:33:43):
I'm both shirt is a good one.

Speaker 9 (01:33:45):
Too, and they are opening up on pund Square.

Speaker 4 (01:33:47):
There you go.

Speaker 11 (01:33:48):
Some other really good single item stables worth checking out.
I mentioned the pluma, which is a pork shoulder at
h a wild weed they had, Yes, they've made had
nds of being one of the top restaurants in twenty
twenty five, with the chef being a James Beard finalist,
But there were a couple of menu items. They have
this heirloom melon salad, which you would think it would

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be a sweeter salad. It had this flavor profile of
different like salsas and hot oils, and then it had
like a goat feta cheese with it, and it was
so what I saw on the plate versus what it
tasted like was one of the most exquisite experiences that
I've had food wise this year. It really was memorable.

(01:34:33):
They've had all of their noodle dishes are really good,
which then leads me to another noodle dish that sticks
out in my mind from Bessie's homemade or home style noodles.
And this was during Octoberfest, because you know, during Octoberfest,
it's like get your classic. You got your pretzels and
your brots and everything, and like, okay, a lot of

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them taste the same. And every year I'm thinking, what
I still have not found that one dish that blows
my mind and I'm excited about and I have passed
up this specific spot every single year, and then of
course I'm with all my chef friends and they're like,
you gotta go here, gotta go all right, and it
still sticks with me and you can buy it online.

Speaker 3 (01:35:12):
Okay.

Speaker 11 (01:35:13):
It's based out of Fairborne, Ohio. Shout out to Bessie's
Home Style noodles. Really good, So putting that one up.

Speaker 1 (01:35:20):
There is a.

Speaker 9 (01:35:20):
Memorable dish, all right, of fried deviled eggs from Bees
Barbecue in OTR. I just thought that was really different.

Speaker 11 (01:35:27):
And cocktails, because we're gonna talk cocktails, bars restaurants. The
pistachio Martini still takes takes the w for for knowledge bar.
I usually don't like super super sweet cocktails.

Speaker 9 (01:35:39):
You just do it right.

Speaker 2 (01:35:40):
I always hated Martini's and then as I got older,
I think your palette develops. I'm like, oh, I like
the blue cheese dirty Martina. That's pretty good one. Once
in a while an occasional Michelle actually made her own
espresso vodka things. She says, she it's a pretty good
espresso martini cocktails. I don't mind those, but I'm an
I'm absolutely a nut for pistachio, so oh, that is
one I would try.

Speaker 9 (01:36:01):
Oh and it's a little it's like creamy or two
were deserved. It is better than eggnog.

Speaker 11 (01:36:08):
So I would throw a little bit of a throw
all that together, and then some other things that stick
out for this year because I'm a big coffee coffee
shop dweller now that I'm doing my own thing. Favorite
coffee shop this year that I've come across that I've
really enjoyed is Fulton Yards. Mentioned that at the top
they do this indoor outdoor vibe and they have their

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lattes are incredible. They do a good macha, but they
also switch over to cocktails in the evening. But they
really actually care about their cocktails and they do full
menus every single month and every season. As I mentioned holidays,
they do right now they're doing a vanilla winter fig
they have an amaretto eggnog spritz. They're doing like a
gingerbread gin flip, North Pole peppermint martini, and a whole

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bunch more. But they also do live music and trivia
on Tuesdays, different things to kind of keep it lively. Gotcha,
But the vibes are good and you can also watch
the games there.

Speaker 9 (01:37:04):
So it's a Fulton Yards and then the standard for brunch.

Speaker 2 (01:37:07):
I will throw in and off my list. Let's go
one on one Craft Kitchen in Deerfield, Mason. It's phenomenal.
One okay, so one one craft. It is a I
went to bar. It's kind of rusticky on the inside,
but cocktails are really strong. The food is absolutely incredible.

Speaker 9 (01:37:23):
Was that just what that we went to that one
time a long time?

Speaker 7 (01:37:25):
All?

Speaker 1 (01:37:26):
Or no? No, they just opened not long ago.

Speaker 2 (01:37:29):
It's there, fifty West is right there, so it's in
that whole new development that door thing.

Speaker 3 (01:37:33):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
But everything on the menu is phenomenal, great, great burgers
and sandwiches, even like I had of the summer. I
had a salad and it was phenomenal, the best sell
I ever had. So everything is good.

Speaker 11 (01:37:42):
Well being over there, the Dorothy Lane. That's probably the
grave about it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:49):
It was pretty good. You spend a lot of money.
But I gotta be honest with you. I'm a convert.
I love me some Dorothy Lane.

Speaker 9 (01:37:53):
So what is My mom talks about this all the time.
She loves Dorothy Lane. What is it?

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
Quality of the food? I think it's just you're you're
paying more.

Speaker 2 (01:38:00):
But it's like the service, like even a checkout for example,
Like the quality of all the food is amazing. They
make it right in front of you can get whatever,
and it's things you can't find everywhere else if you're
a foodie. But I think it's also just like you
feel like it's not the big box thing because even
when you go to check out, you don't touch your
own cart. You give it to the bagger, the guy
checking you out, and they do it. It's not on

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your you know, the carts usual on your side, and
you take it out, they take it all.

Speaker 7 (01:38:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:38:26):
Yeah, So it's a different anyway. Dorothy Lay Market is solid, solid.

Speaker 9 (01:38:29):
All in line of Publics.

Speaker 11 (01:38:31):
You know, apparently Publics has killer Sandwich's, the Public's in Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
But it's again, it's more I think it's just more
of a boutique type of grocery store. I feel a
little smaller, but the selection and neat seafood and the
cooked food, everything is the best produce probably outside of
maybe a farmer's market. Line up with your jungles is big.
It's it's like that on steroids. It's bigger. It's just

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you can't compare that took anyway, Ali Martin here, it's
been a great year.

Speaker 1 (01:38:59):
Thanks again, appreciate it, he me again.

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
Great Christmas, Happy New Year, all that stuff, and we'll
talk again next year's fight club. Let's go to club.
Let's let's go to fight club. I want to get
a fight, ending it with a correction and a retraction.

Speaker 1 (01:39:13):
I love it. There you go slowly seven hundred w
And since that