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Tell me back on seven hundred W LWB two and three. Bengals are at the Packers Sunday four twenty five. You'll here to hear Home of the Best Bengals coverage seven hundred WW with a new Joe and a new toe with the helm Joe Flacco debuting with four or five days of prep. Bengals lose three in a row. Can they snap the streak and give the ball to a

Danny, welcome, How are.

You, Sonny? I'm great.

How are you doing well? I'm doing well. So he got Joe with a good toe. And when you heard the news, because we all heard the news as the voice of the Bengals, when you heard either the unconfirmed rumor or the announcement that Joe Flacco was signed He's coming to Cincinnati.

That was your immediate gut reaction immediately when you heard that.

I was stunned.

I was stunned by the person, not the fact that they made a trade, because we have heard those rumors for a couple of weeks, and the names that had been bandied about most frequently were Russell Wilson and Jamis Winston.

Neither one of those guys got me too excited.

I was a little bit interested when I heard Andy Dalton might be a possibility that one obviously could have made some sense. But I did not expect Joe plackom. But they felt they had to do something, and I'm excited to see how it looks.

Yeah, we shall see on Sunday.

Now, he's only had what four or five days of work put in, but you know, he's experienced quarterback. He's done this before, so you know, veteran quarterback coming in that doesn't concern me all that much. And maybe a basic game plan for him because he can't go a full playbook with Joe, Maybe that's maybe less is more here, huh.

I think the fact that he's faced the Packers and faced them recently.

Is really helpful. He knows what to expect from the Green Bay defense. That takes some of.

That off the plate in terms of trying to get up to speed quickly, so he can really concentrate on the play calls.

And that kind of stuff with the Bengals.

And yeah, I think you're right, they've got to cut down in the playbook a little bit. But the dude's been playing for eighteen years. He's stepped in under similar circumstances before. A couple of years ago with Cleveland, he did have more practices, but he had not been with the team in that year. He hadn't even been playing.

All right.

So the concern then, of course the most obviously, And to me, there's a lot of nuances with the game, and I'm curious to hear your take on all that. To me, does this begin an end to a large degree with what happens with the offensive line? I mean, Bengals whole lot of what seventy five pressures, eleven sacks and five games. Their highest graded pass blocker, Dylan Fairchild, will be out. And we're not really good at at scheming for the run either, as they are on pass protection.

There was some.

It was just Browning couldn't find anyone open. It was it was like a skulled dog or something.

I don't know what.

And Zach Taylor, I think admitted as such as like, it's more mental. He's just out of sorts. We've got to get somebody else in here. If they can do an adequate job in blocking, give it Joe Flacco time he can get the ball down field. And you've got Jamar and you've got t in maybe different game. Does it all come down to that?

Well, offensive line is a major factor regardless of who's back there.

And I do think the stacks.

While we tend to assign them to the offensive line, it's a quarterback stat as well. Tom Brady was less mobile than Joe Flacco is and he didn't sacked very often because he got rid of the ball. Joe Flacco is going to get rid of the ball. So a few weeks ago when Cleveland faced Green Bay, the Browns have had major issues on their offensive line as well this year, he only got sacked twice. Why because he got rid of the ball. So that's getting it out quickly,

At the same time, he was benched because of a lack of mobility behind a poor offensive line arguably.

Really yeah, not true.

No, he was benched because the Cleveland Browns are rebuilding and they drafted two quarterbacks this year and they wanted to start playing one of the rookies. So I'm not saying that Joe is playing all that effectively. They had a great record in Cleveland. He probably would have had a few more starts, but it wasn't because of his mobility. It's because the Cleveland Browns are in total rebuild mode and they've got Dylan Gabriel and they want to see what they've got.

And you think it's Flacco would still be the quarterback if the Bengals hadn't come calling. I mean, he got the reason they put Dylan Gabriel edge. Yeah, I'm saying is they put Dylan. They put Dylan Gabriel in for real because it was it Dylan Gabriel's time, or just Flacco is inefficient.

Well, a little bit of both.

But you began slowly by saying he was benched because of his mobility.

That's not the case.

It was a combination of he wasn't playing very well and they wanted to go with their rookie.

So it wasn't mobility.

Okay, it was fair fact that they're turning to their rookie, Dylan Gabriel.

Flacco's all right, So we talked about the line issues with them, The concern obviously is going to be Micah Parsons and Rashan Gary. That is arguably that one of the toughest to pass rushers, if not the best in the NFL. They're going to come fast, They're going to come fears. I'm sure they're champion at the bit to come up the Bengals. How do you scheme against those two?

Well, you know you're going to have to give extra protection on Micah Parsons side, which is why Gary was the happiest person in the world when Cleveland swung that trade. You know, teams used to devote extra attention to blocking him. Now it has to be devoted toward, you know, protecting a quarterback against Michael Parsons. That allows for Sean Gary to eat. So it's a major challenge. The Bengals faced Michael Parsons last year when he was with Dallas, didn't

Defense, of course, has struggled in a few areas. In number of areas up against the Packers. How does that match up play out your mind?

I think they've got to stop the run first and foremost. You know, the Packers traded last year for Josh Jacobs and he had an awesome first year in a Green Bay uniform. That's where their offense begins. Jordan loves a really good quarterback as well, but to me, it begins with Jacobs. He's a beast, two hundred and twenty three pound guy, doesn't go down easily. The Bengals run defense was pretty good last week, you know, considering how good

Well, yeah, we always talk about it. It's the balance. It's complimentary football. You can only overcome so much with a good offense and a defense, and we saw that narrow. Let's face it, Joe Burrow covered up a lot of mistakes with this team. And there's a hell of a gap between Joe Burrow and Browning and Flacco for that matter, at least this version the forty year old Joe Flacco at this point too. You keep him upright and allow them to operate and give them time. I like our

I think that's true, and I think I'm also looking at the next four weeks. So if Flacco looks decent this week, and even if the Bengals lose to Green Bay, which is obviously a strong possibility a two touchdown underdog. After that, you've got three straight home games Pittsburgh on a Thursday night. Dealers have looked good so far, but Thursday night home games are a big advantage. Then you've got the Jets. Only when this team left, then you've

So if you lose this week.

And managed to win three straight home games against the teams I just mentioned five and four, you've got Flaco. You're feeling better about your offense. You know, you're right back in the thick of things in an AFC in general and an AFC North in particular. That team's really unsettled right now. So I'm kind of looking at this as a four week deal and see if Flacco can stabilize things during this stretch.

Yeah, nine wins feels like that right around that number, doesn't it like you could you.

Could be Yeah, I at this point, I'm really thinking I'd be surprised if anybody in the division wins. Can now, maybe the Steelers are going to prove us wrong. They are three and one. Uh, they've got Aaron Rodgers. Maybe the going to turn out to be better than we all thought. I don't know, but I'm not sold yet. And obviously Baltimore at one in four with a ton of injuries including Lamar, who knows how many games they're ultimately going to win. I don't think anybody is too

Now, Who's who the hell saw the Ravens collapse happen, even outside of the injury to QB one. I mean, that wasn't like they're playing great all that great football. That's That's probably the biggest surprise in the AFC is just how bad Baltimore went.

Baltimore this year is Cincinnati early last year. I think they've given up thirty eight or more points in every game but one. So, you know, the Lamar injuries last week was obviously a huge factor, but their defense has just been atrocious and nobody saw that coming.

Extent.

Now the whole league seems up for grabs with the Eagles getting beat by the Giants. I mean, the Giants look like a freaking deep playoff team today. You know, now tomorrow, next week maybe a different story. But the entire league, that's the greatness of it though, as you know, this is a parody, right is You know, one team is ranked number one one week and then they're down to five.

After a close loss. But that's how close is in the NFL.

You've really got a chance here and you can't write the Bengals off yet. We'll see what Joe Flacco can do, and if you can get to nine wins, you're right there, I think. And I don't think he's signed Joe Flacco unless you think that Joe Burrow is going to come back this season. I think, do you think that's It's like, well, we hope to get him back. It feels like when they made the move, like, yeah, we got a strong indication he'll be back in December.

I don't know about that, but I do know that Joe Burrow is determined to be back. I don't think there's any real medical determination yet, but you're hopeful that he'll be back, and he's determined to be back. Joe Burrow is held on coming back and playing in December if it matters. So I do agree that the front office is trying to do everything they can to keep this team in contention in case he can come back, with the hope that he can can come back, knowing

You know I'm not.

I mean kudos too, and you know Danny Dimes for what they've done so far, But I still don't really think of Indianapolis as a Super Bowl contender. So the AFC is wide open. If he can just get into the playoffs, right and Burrow does come back, you got a shot.

Here's the thing.

Keep forty year old Joe Flacco all live for six weeks, roughly six weeks.

That's that's the key.

And he has to play well.

Of course, protecting him is going to be a key to him playing well and hopefully getting a little bit out of the running game as well. But if he plays well like he did two years ago with Cleveland when he came you know, off the couch and one comeback Player of the Year award for a five week stretch, he threw for three hundred or more yards and four straight games, the only quarterback in Cleveland Browns he history to ever do that after not being with the team

Anything remotely close to that, the Bengals have a shot.

Yeah.

And I say that because you know, the the aforementioned leaders CFC North, the Pittsburgh Steelers that looked like the darling of the division right now, that could change tomorrow. You also have a fourty year old quarterback there too, and we know that it's awfully tough playing this man's game as a young man. As an old man entirely different story, and certainly his career has been plagued by injuries. As you get older, that does happen. You hope for

Yeah, it's pretty amusing that with forty year old Joe Flacco, the Bengals don't have the oldest quarterback.

In the Aaron Rodgers.

Rodgers is actually older than he is.

How about this, It's like Joe comes back, something happens to Aaron Rodgers and Joe Flacco in December goes to the Steelers, and now he's played for every team of the division.

Well, yeah, what's happening.

But nobody saw the possibility, at least of Joe Flacco beating Green Bay twice in a three week span with two different teams. That's never happened in NFL history. Apparently Jack Kemp back in the day beat the same team starting for two different teams during the course of the season. But it didn't happen in such a short span.

That's incredible.

It would be incredible if Placo and the Bengals pull it off.

Well, it's going to give us a reason to listen, that's for sure. Before right, Darren Wright, I'm actually excited. I was like, God, what am I going to do on Sunday, and I was like, I got to get the popcorn and watch this game to see what happens with Joe Flacco. Real quick here, Dan, before you go before the Bengals game. Of course tomorrow, you're gonna call, hopefully the fifth straight win for the uc Bearcat's got UCF and town End talk about quarterback controversies.

Yeah, not for controversy reasons, but for injury reasons. Yes, they've had three starting quarterbacks this year that have been injured at various points. The guy that started last week had his arm in as sling in the second half they list and is questionable. I would be surprised if he plays. The person that finished the game for UCF last week started their season opener, hurts back in that game on a targeting penalty, but he did come back

I have no idea what they would do if you get hurt.

It was so fun watching last week's game, and you is there anything cooler than the student section rushing the field after win. There's nothing cooler.

In college sports.

I'm a big fan of the field storming.

You know, it causes your school to be fined, typically because leagues try to prevent that from happening for safety reasons, but schools typically happily pay that fine, thinking, you know, that means really good things for our team if our fans want to do that, So we'll cough up the dough and hope we have to do it again.

Now, Like Iowa State didn't fight in this one because for a minute was like, man, they're gonna blow these guys out, and they came back in thirty to thirty. The final you see rises number twenty six in the country. Should they been higher?

You know, honestly, I don't really care.

I think if they win this week, they'll pop into the top twenty five. If they win their next two, they would definitely pop into the top twenty five. And next week's game is a road game against Oklahoma State, a team that's already fired its coach, so you know, there's a really good opportunity to win two more in a row with tomorrow's game being at home, and if that happens, they would definitely be a top twenty five team.

Now, they are fun to watch. They're absolutely fun to watch. And you know, you talk about Brendan Sooresby and how fun that is, but I mean, let's face that defense is getting after what back their quarterback. I think what three or four sacks in that game last Saturday, and Soresby's jersey's completely clean, and you give them time, give that. It really is an exciting product. And I'm glad people are shown up at Nipper to watch the Bearcats.

Me too.

And I'm glad you mentioned the offensive line because we have been very critical of the Bengals offensive line in recent years, and deservedly though they have not performed as well as they've needed to perform. But you see, on the other hand, their offensive line has been amazing. They've given up one sack, tied for first in the country, and one of the teams that they're tied with his Navy,

Issue a lot of arrows directed rightly so at Sadderfield and that looks he's got them playing at a top level right now, and it's fun to watch Dan Hord with a call tomorrow from Nippert Stadium and the Bearcats. And then Sunday it's at Green Bay. Gets on the plane, goes to Green Bay, one of the coolest places to watch a football game in the country, and we'll have the call for a four to twenty five with he and a lap here on the home of the best

I appreciate it, my pleasure, Jelani, thanks for having me on.

Take care, sir.

Let's get a news update in and one return on the show on seven hundred WLW. We got some movies and streaming to catch up on. We'll do that just ahead, including a John Candy bio pick or maybe it's a series.

I'm not sure.

Anyway, if you're a fan of the late comedian John Candy news, you need just Ahead seven hundred. Why Mike god Morner, how are you, buddy?

Doing well?

Good?

How right?

I'm doing fine? Mike?

Is Mike Debuski from ABC News in New York breaking down movies this week. John Candy as a documentary. I saw the tease for it on Amazon Prime, but I was really short. I don't know what to make of this whole thing.

Yeah, So this is a new documentary looking back on the life of the late comedian John Candy, a guy we probably all have some sort of relationship with, whether you know, I'm from Home Alone at the very end of that movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Stripes Slash.

He was in a ton of movies.

Stretching from the nineteen seventies all the way up to the nineteen nineties. He unfortunately passed away from a heart attack in nineteen ninety four. This new documentary all started because of Ryan Reynolds, if you can believe it, a fellow Canadian comedian who a few years ago put together sort of a highlight reel of John Candy's career, looking back on his life, and he posted that.

Video online and it went super viral.

People really responded to it, seeming to indicate that there was an appetite for this type of thing. Ryan Reynolds approached Colin Hanks, the son of Tom Hanks, who directed this documentary, and the family of John Candy, including his two children and his late wife, all of whom participated in this documentary looking back through their old old home movies, looking back through interviews with John Candy that kind of pieced together this story of a guy who really did

He seemed like a really, really good guy, both on screen and off.

Yeah, generosity is a word that keeps coming up in interviews in this documentary. You hear from a lot of big time comedians. First and foremost, hear from Bill Murray, mel Brooks, Katherine O'Hara, Conan O'Brien, Martin short like, there's a ton of people that they got together for this documentary, and they all said that John Candy was such a great scene partner because he was always giving you something to work with as an actor, as a performer, he

I'm gonna go top three, I'm gonna go Uncle Buck Stripes, and then kind of like Back of the Room Canadian Bacon, which is a movie about with John Candy, I think played the mayor and it's about the president of the United States needs a controversies who gin's up basically a war against Canada.

And the Canadian part of this runs through this so big way.

I have to say, Yeah.

I gotta say I think we should shout out playing strains and Automobiles. Oh yeah, you know, Baseballs is another great one and something that people forget that John Candy was in was one of Steven Spielberg's first movies nineteen forty one at War drama of all things. But yeah, he really did have a pretty varied career. I also just love him in Home Alone. I think the last game in the last speak was freely with him in the Catherine O'Hara in Home Alone, and he's.

The polka singer, like.

Classic John Dannity stuff where it's really funny but it's also really heart selt and warm.

Yeah, he never comes over and like steals the whole movie. Kind of guy.

But at the same time, like if if he like I think the best camey of sort of cam something would be Vacation with Chevy Chase. I mean he came in as a security guard and.

Just owned it.

Yeah, And and that was actually the documentary gets into this. They were kind of just looking for a guy and John Candy with a round it's even so it's sort of happenstance that he fell into that role. But yeah, the end of Vacation is a great example of that, playing that like you know, a character that he says was inspired by one of the characters he played on SCTV.

Uh, you know, in this in this new role.

That was kind of update guy, but like that forced to deal with the you know, obviously the craziness of Chevy Chase.

So it's it's good. He used to love.

STV because where I grew up in Western New York, and so you know, you get the Canadian stations and that was like before us and l there was that that was on STV is like on Friday nights, I think or something like that, and so you'd watch that and the Mackenzie Brothers and but but so many people came out of Second City, Chicago and then to Toronto.

Mike?

No, it's a one and done.

It's okay, about a two hours, so maybe like an hour forty five documentary on Amazon Prime Video.

Yeah, I'd watch that all.

Right, theaters, Let's pivot from the small screen to the big The new Tron movie is out right now, and I know that Nine Inch Nails. I'm not a huge Nine Inch Nails fan, but I do like some of their songs, so that kind of intrigued me.

And I saw that Jeff Bridges back, right, Jeff Bridges is back.

This is the third Tron movie and Jeff Bridges is in all of them. So this is a classic sort of sci fi franchise. All got started about forty three years ago in the early nineteen eighties with this story of Jeff Bridges with a computer programmer who got sucked into a computer game, and that computer game with brawn of course, with big neon lights and at this point now pretty data visuals, but even still it was a really you know, impactful movie in the history of sci

This down track.

I remember seeing parts of Tron because back then was when we first got a pay cable like HBO, and there were four movies and they'd run them all like all the time. You'd seen the same four movies over and over. One of them would be Tron, and I remember, even as a kid watching it, going it's pretty cheesy.

Yeah, even in period.

I remember I had a Tron video game back in the day, and that's how I learned about Tron. I was like everybody was saying, it's like, oh, Tron Legacy's coming up. They made a movie based on video game.

No, no, no other way around, So it is it any good?

I mean, what's the reviews? Like?

Not not super positive? It seems like but I think said that's always been the case with Tron movie. You know a little bit of style over substance, but that's.

Not always a bad thing.

It's a weird neat right because it's it's not it's sci fi, but it's kind of like not good. It's not like Star Trek Star Wars where there's a huge passion like Core Tron, people aren't that big, and it's just it just kind of like falls between the cracks.

I think the best way to describe.

The franchise definitely, Yeah, it's got it's fans, but it's a passionate, small fan base. I would say it's definitely not a Star Wars or a Star Trek in that regard. But again, I mean, if you're a fan of big sci fi spectacle, this definitely does seem like it will do the trick instead of people being sucked into computers. This is computer programs that have become self aware, spilling out into our real world and wreaking.

All sorts of paboc.

It seems like the classic Tron light cycles as well, which I'm a fan of the motorcycles that put up the giant digital m They make a reappearance here.

So that is kind of an exciting all right. One of our not to the old John films, one of.

Our entertainment Greuz Mike Tbiski from New York on the show on seven hundred w welw and years ago when the Borat movie first came out and a huge fan of Sasha Baron Cone stuff that kind of stuff, and I went to the theater to watch it, and I was pleasantly amused because there are people showing up, older people who elderly people show up to watch it think it was actually a documentary about a country that doesn't exist.

Oh no, not ryologue, stretch somenings. Go Wait a minute, I thought there was a Spider Woman. What the hell? Yeah, not a reference to Spider Man. No can Spider Woman.

It is a musical starring Jennifer Lopez and is based on a book which was then turned into a musical in the nineteen eighties, both a stage and a film musical. Now they're remaking it with Jennifer Lopez sort of in the starring role. She plays three different characters in this movie, but it's really set in the early nineteen eighties in Argentina and sort of the waning days of an authoritarian

If you're into musicals, if you like j.

Love, maybe even if you like Cassie and or from Star Wars, maybe check this one.

Out, all right.

Yeah, and Kayelowe is gonna crush it no matter what she does. If she's singing on a microphone, you're good. Even without a microphone, she's pretty good. So this is like the little hall a lull And in a few weeks we'll probably fire up the holiday season and get ready for that. So Mike Debiskie in New York at ABC at the Michael Lebuski as his handle, Thanks again, buddy, appreciate you checking on this Friday morning.

Have a great one, have a good take care all right.

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We'll check out on the show. What the hell is he doing.

I'm gonna ask him if he's willing to as a member of Congress and Congress's not doing anything with the shutdown, you should go around at least I don't know. It's two early shovel driveways. How about go cut some lawns. First ten callers at five point three seven, give us your addressing, Greg Landsman, you're representative, roll up of sleeves, you know'll cut your grass?

God damn it? Doing something.

Actually, I believe he's given his money back, so he's not taking a paycheck.

But I said, you went in.

The shutdown is take away their healthcare benefits and their paycheck, and I would think you'd probably not have a shutdown. But that's what we'll be talking about. To some degree. Of course, what's happening in Gaza right now? How close are we to peace? A lot of people say, very very close. Looks like it's a done deal. Maybe the president heads there this weekend off to Egypt and cut her and they're involved and signing this this deal. The

It's the one that most people respond to.

And of course, with the subsidies expiring or is set to expire here, now, hey, it's one of the few things that we're beating Trump on, which would be healthcare. So let's take that issue that people trust us on and use that to maybe build some momentum here.

Now.

I don't know what kind of momentum it is right now, because they don't have one as far as a party goes and where it's headed and what's happening. If you think there are things are a little screwed up with the Republicans, they're a lot more screwed up with the Democrats. And the end result is government is shut down because of that. But I think you also have to look at it and go, how did this whole thing happen

Got flowing?

Friday morning, seven hundred WLW. We're nearing the end of our second full week of shutdown theater. Republicans are screaming at Democrats that they're forcing a shut down to score political points. Democrats are screaming at Republicans saying they just don't want to sit down and negotiate, and of course, a shutdown because Republicans Democrats can't agree to pass a funding bill. Republicans still need them to support any resolution to spend and they're holding them hostage result, and we

Exactly Landsman? Right now, you're not doing anything.

What I mean, I'm trying. I'm negotia. We're trying to negotiate with the folks. Uh, you know, I'm in the problem for elvers cackus. So there's a bunch of Democrats who Republicans are working through. At the sticking point is this healthcare question and and and these affordable care access These are set to expire at the end of the

Yeah.

And I think for well a lot of us anyway who are not political kool aid drinkers and look at and just throw our hands up and go, I just you know one point that we're pointing. It's I almost stupid. You're both wearing the same T shirt and that's essentially what this is.

And we know how we are.

Okay, So Democrats, you guys, you forced a government shutdown because it's the only way to bring about the negotiations because you don't hold any juice, you don't have the power. So you know, I look at that and go, can't we extend it? Well, I mean, it's going to cost us like a trillion and a half dollars over the next seven weeks to just simply kick the can down the wrong and go, okay, we'll pass another continuing resolution. And that's the frustrating part all of this, at least theatrics.

Greg.

It's just it's continuing to add to our thirty seven trillion dollar national debt, and neither side's talking about that.

I mean, I think that's that's that's right, And the deficit is a huge part of this too, right, So I do take exception with the sort of you know, the forcing of the shutdown. I mean, the challenge wise, you know, Republicans knew they needed Democratic votes to pass a budget, and they were told by Trump not to negotiate. Now, in previous years, there has been by Parson negotiation. Since

No one really cares.

You do not have to get in a room and sort it out and in this case, reopened the government while also protecting healthcare. Just because this is relevant to my job as a member I represent, you know, eight hundred thousand constituents in our districts in southwest Ohio. Thirty two thousand people are going to see their healthcare beremiums skyrocket if we don't do something now, and fourteen thousand folks here will lose their healthcare all together. I can't I can't just punt on that.

You know what I mean.

I've got to get that result.

I got to get and I get the short term necessity for this, Greg Lansman.

So the fact that so the substantes expire and.

The premiums for those in the Affordable Care Act, the marketplace right would more than double on app goes up for like I think I saw eight hundred and almost nine hundred dollars to nineteen hundred dollars a year for individuals. It's like one hundred plus percent increase A math forgive me, but that's a hell of a lot of money, right So, and that's going to hit tens of thousands of people in the district. And I look at that, go, Okay, that's real money. It's gonna affect real people, and that

Because it's hard, right, and politicians don't usually like to do the hard work. That's the stuff I love the most. I actually think that the health care complexity is what you know. I mean, that's one of the reasons why I joined the Energy and Commerce because that's where we take on the healthcare fight. And ultimately this gets back to who's paying for health care? And so for a long time, you know, employers did, and most employers would

You work two or three jobs and it's part time. And you know, the again, the engine that drives American economy. Of course, small business and those who went with the vast majoriy of businesses employ less than two hundred people and fewer and fear of those businesses are offering healthcare mefods simply because it costs much.

Yeah, and so then there are two places that A lot of folks go. I mean, you know, there's obviously Medicare, there's Medicaid. If you're you're working and you're not making enough money to buy health insurance in the private marketplace, and your employer does not give you health care, which is the case for these lower wage jobs. And then and then you have a lot of middle class folks who are working really hard. They cover they can pay maybe you know, five six hundred dollars a week, but

The thousand dollars are being asked.

To pay, so the subsidy helps to cover that and keep people ensured. That helps small businesses because you know, somebody helping, so they're stick around and they're they're not losing, right.

I understand that point.

My point is, Greg, it doesn't Okay, you were just taking more tax pair money and subsidizing it. And I know we're in a nation of substies, but the point is it's so expensive because of the system that's in place right now. You said this is a hard problem. I don't think it's that hard To'll be honest with you. Hear me out for a second. Okay, so you've got these enhanced subsidies that were started in twenty twenty one from COVID nineteen and we got in through twenty twenty five,

What we wind up getting.

And this is why the government shut down because Congress is kind of effectful. So I look at the failures in healthcare in the market and go, you know, I buy life insurance. You have a hear Well life insurance policy. I got car insurance. I buy that on the market. I have homeowners or I have renters insurance. We buy stuff on the open market all the time. Healthcare doesn't work like that. And I think if you just simply it really is it for Congress?

Doho goes. Listen.

If you're an employer, you can't offer health care benefits anymore. We're going to open it up to insurance companies from around the country. They're going to bid on it. It's innovative, the lowest cost wins. And then all the money that we spend on bureaucracy and compliance and share all that stuff, all that money can go and help people who fall between the cracks, who really need it. And look at

Why aren't we doing that.

It's the easiest thing in the world for you guys to go. No, you're a business. You can't offer health insurance. You're not giving me car insurance. You're not taking care of my homeowners insurance. You're not by my pet insurance or my reunter's insurance. Why are we doing little of health care?

Are you as sure as I'm sorry? Are you making an argument for a single pair?

I'm out?

Yeah, here's the thing, right, so here's the thing, and it's based on and there's still going to be subsidy of course, because there's people that again you said, you know, if you make the standard what eight hundred, I forget what the percentage is, but a percentage your income goes to healthcare costs, just like it does for everything else.

That's good for Republicans and Democrats.

Isn't it.

I mean, I do believe that the current passion does not work and and sort of taking away from that is just going to create this crisis, right, so that I agree with, which is you know, I believe there should be a single payer, or at least a public option where people can buy into Medicaid, which is an incredibly efficient uh uh you know healthcare uh systems, and

Well, you're in the wrong country then buddy.

But yes and no, like there are certain places where we don't say okay, like I, we we say, look, we want the profits or any additional resources here to go into people's care, Like people should not be making you know, billions and billions of dollars, you know, running these healthcare companies or pharmaceutical companies when in fact you have all of these people who are struggling to pay for their health care. So I don't think that the current system works. But we're not going to be We're

Dollar subsidy for Argentina.

Now that went under the radar screen, you know, radar for most people. But like, why are we sending twenty billion dollars to Argentina?

I mean seriously, yeah.

When it could easily solve this problem and reopen the government. You know, I just don't get it, Like I I agree that, like, you can't subsidize everything, but so far this administration has picked a few things until you know, maybe some additional companies as like this TikTok deal and some other things. We're not entirely sure and Argentina, but you can't help people pay their health care. That doesn't make any sense.

To me zero. Right.

He's Greg Landsman, a representative here this morning was only on seven hundred WLW. How long do you perceive this, guy? I mean, you know you're kind of on the inside. You're hearing stuff too. Is how long does this drag on? At What point is enough enough? When is the point made?

When?

I mean, like, at least for me, like I've got to I've got to keep fighting for the healthcare piece, just because I've got so many constituents who are gonna weep for healthcare if we don't get this done. I suspect that one of two things will happen. Either Trump finally gets involved. I've never seen this happen where the presidents are sort of unplugged, like you do need the president to step in and say, okay, we're going to get a deal done, right, and he has not done

Well, well here's what and and and I think, okay, it may force And then in seven weeks do we do this all over again?

No, I wouldn't. Like I'm I'm a big fan of saying like we're not doing this for like, we're not going to do this every couple of weeks. So if we pass a continuing resolution that also includes these healthcare provisions that should beat for the year. And if we can get a budget done, an actual budget, great, then put that on the floor and that can.

Be incredibly I got an actual budget done at this point, He's Representative Greg Lansm.

Greg.

Before I let you go real quick, I want to pivot to another issue here, and that would be the peace in Israel. Hamasa President may fly this weekend to the Middle East of Egypt as a hammer.

It looks like we've got a deal.

How optimistic are you that this is going to be a lasting piece based on what you've seen.

In her I'm cautiously optimistic.

I mean, you know, I know the reason why I know these players. Well, I've been there, you know, like con in.

The last thirty months, yere, you know, two years, three years, and work there for years. This is something I've cared about for decades, right and working on like I desperately want there to be a lasting piece. It does sound like there's a deal to get the hostages home and to end the war, which I have been a big proponent of. What happens next is it is still a

Know that one of the stool, so to speak. There's gonna be a lot of people.

Then I think you have to have a big coalition, particularly of Arab countries, which is how they got this deal done, right, They got to steal done because they pulled this group together, which is what I spent with cock this you know, not to shoot my own horn, but this is this was the plan I sent to with Cough months ago, which is like the path to this is through these airs, through the air of nations. Once they declared they were done with Hamas, the door

Yeah.

My fear is, as long as you have a ran around, you're going to have some It may not be Hamas and maybe a hoss light or a different group in Tyree, but you're going to that's the problem.

Right.

So anyway, he is a representative, Greg Lance. Can you go cuff? Can some constituents lawns? I feel like, you know we're doing you're doing something for the people, Greg, because the sitting around is not a good look for you're an.

Active guy coming.

I am still yeah, but like I have really uh and like desperately trying to you know, get get something resolved here. I also suspended my pay.

Yeah, and and and and I go back to DC next week, no matter whether, no matter if the speaker calls us back, I'm going back to just keep plugging along to try to get.

This see what you can do?

I means, yeah, all right, Well, hey man, I appreciate it. Friend, thanks again for checking in. He is our represent Greg Landsman on The Scotsland Show on seven.

Have a great weekend.

Okay, be well youbady appreciate it as always, although we disagreed somewhat there, but that's that's actually how it should be, right without screaming at each other. Yeah, I just uh, well, there's a lot of problems with this. I'm running late, and we could kick as the why and how we got here, and a lot of this has to do with executive orders because Biden did it and then Trump said, hold my, hold my diet coke. This is how you do executive orders, and this is how we now govern.

Weekend is here.

That means lots of sports. Austin Elmore has a well deserved day off. Actually had the Green Bay.

He's in there. He's in the Midland in Wisconsin, he is.

And I'll tell you what, I'm glad he took today off, quite honestly, because you need a full three days to experience Green Bay if you've never been and have an opportunity, I highly encourage that.

Yeah, he was. He was indulging himself in some cheese curds and some pints yesterday. I saw, right, media, So that's Uh, he's doing it right. They have cheese curds here.

I'm just saying they're entirely different in Wisconsin because they're like straight from the cow.

There's still it's they're phenomenal, like absolutely.

Worth it, just like a cow in the back and they just cranking them out like a cow strabbled across this big, deep frior and just like someone milking in the it just.

Goes straight in. So there's that.

There's the Hall of Fame, the Packers facility is it's it's really cool. It's really really cool. I don't know how to describe it other than really cool. Like the village around there and it's basically Packer Lands, like a yeah, it's a Wrigley Veal feel to it, you know kind of thing, and it's real questioned and just the hall of Fame inside there's amazing. And then of course walking in the Lambeau a spectacular. So it's just if you have a chance to go, soak it all in, soak

Josh Allen's playing like he doesn't.

Thirty four to seventeen, Philly gets whooped, puts their legacy in question. And last night, the most improbable thing of all happened in that Dodgers game. Dodgers put it away, it's one to one, the head of the eleventh inning,

Yeah, you ever play billiards and you didn't chalk the que up enough, That's what it looked like. It looked like that little skip right off the bat and it hits him in the shoe and it rolls away and it man, it was just he just panicked because if he just turn first off, he tries to throw home with his catcher pointing to Ward's first base, He's like, throw the ball there, We're fine, and Steady loves it way wide. What what have been? And yeah, just ballgame over.

It was Jesse.

It's one of those moments, that one of those situations that you dream about, but you never know how you're going to react in that situation, and it was just sheer panic and chaos and not the way you want your season to end. But still I will argue, by the way, I will happily be a Philadelphia sports fan this morning if I could be considering, Yeah, the Eagles loss last night, there's still the defending Super Bowl champion.

I'll take that hangover place. Philly does have a world championship.

In life, my cognitive lifetime. Yes, last time the reds one, I was two.

I get it. I get it.

I'm so just saying if Philly today is and can you imagine being Kirkering and going back to Philly, Like I just go, hey, you know what, I'm just gonna stay here.

That man got shoved in a locker last night that I could just see Kylee Schwarber chasing him around with the Batsay Good in.

The plane back like TSA is waiting for him. It's like, I'm not I'm leaving. No, we're gonna go through your stuff. Yeah, we're going through your stuff. Let's start with this. Uh, we have the Bengals and we have the Packers. Sunday four twenty five, Dan and Lamp with the call at Dan on the first hour of the show, Joe Flacco comes into town, four year old quarterback Like when this broke you're reading I asked this to everyone. What was your first reaction was like your gut reaction?

Thank god? Was that really honestly in all sincerity because they had to do something, Scott, Yeah, they had to do something. It could have been anybody. It could have been Sam Howell, it could have been any other quarterback out there. Because I'm watching this game. I was there at pay Horse Stadium on Sunday and I am watching Jake Browning play the worst game of football I've ever seen a quarterback play in my life. He is misreading, he is misthrowing, he is panicking, he is playing with

My initial reaction was like, oh God, Joe Flacco can't move. He's forty years old, and like he's been benched for a reason. And I understand that, And Okay, I know you got to ge Dylan Gabriel and maybe Shooter Sanders, and you know, quarterbacks die in Cleveland.

I understand that.

And then it struck me as like, you know what, but I'm gonna watch. I'm gonna listen to this game.

And I went.

Then it worked because this weekend I was planning on, like, you know, I can't do much with my foot, but like it wasn't gonna be spending a beautiful Sunday afternoon because the weather's amazing sitting inside watching the Bengals screw things up. Yeah, now I'm gonna watch. So it worked you can either be bad or interesting.

I would rather you be interesting, right, Joe Flacco is is now interesting and you know you can as and trust me, we we have a lot of practices with this. As Bengals fans, you kind of talk yourself into being cautiously optimistic about this. Joe Flacco for his entire career right now arguably has the best weapons that he has

By the way, that I'm checkdowns, So it says a lot about the cubit.

Yeah, you're you're just making terrible decisions. Some of his interceptions were absolutely awful. Didn't know who he was throwing to. Somehow didn't see linebackers in the middle of the field. It wasn't until the fourth quarter on Sunday when you know he didn't matter, it didn't count. Pressure was off that he started making plays and he played a little

Which I think if you bring it back to last night's Dodgers Phillies game, I mean a lot of Reds fans slash Bengals can empathize with the kickering because he looked like Jake Browning out there, and that last play of the game in the eleventh. Then he was like, that's what our quarterback's been, Yes, largely for the last few games. Like he just seems scared in his own head.

Well it's twenty five, ninety eight.

So I'm in the Joe Flacco thing, which I'll be honestly, I think like the rest of the NFL is watching this going kind of rooting for the Bengals and this going, Hey, here's old man Flacco, you know, twenty ninth quarterback that

So you're justicably, I mean it all depends on whether the Steelers can hang on because Baltimore is in a world to hurt right now. They're one and four. Lamar Jackson is not going to play again this week, and I is Baltimore playing Detroit this week? I think I can't remember who they who they play, but yeah, they're there. I know they're playing a good team this weekend. So they're staring at one and five with their quarterback situation

They Baltimore, Baltimore and Baltimore in the Rams this weekend. Yeah, I I I look at that and go, well, it tells me that they think Burrow is going to come back. You want to be optimistic, right in, Joe Burg's gonna fight like hell to come back this season. If the season's out of reach, you know, there's no reason to bring him back, right. So if you want to think that all those things come together and Joe Flacco can we get six games or I about six games out of Joe Flacco, right.

And that's the starting three st huge because it gave him a cushion. Unfortunately it's gone now with these last these last three games. I would still be stunned if they win this weekend. But I don't think the game against Pittsburgh is at home Thursday Night football. Joe Burrow obviously, or just Joe Burrow, Joe Flacco obviously knows the Pittsburgh Steelers very well. Bad jeriatric Joe and Tojo those are the two that we got. But you know, Joe Flacco

Right?

And then you're still right there. You're four and five. You're right in the thick of it, and hopefully you can stay competitive and be within striking distance. Because I'll tell you this much. You know, Joe Burrow is doing everything he can do to come back and listening to Joe Danaman Fox nineteen talked to Austin Ellmore this week on Sincy three sixty. Joe Burrow is already walking around in the clubhouse. Granted he's got a walking boot on

He was walking around you dare compare me to Joe Burrow. I'm tougher than Joe Burrow. You both got boots, are a severed tendon in my foot, and I'm walking around doing stuff. This guy gets a toe injury and he's down for three months, and he's got thirty years on me.

Come on the fact that he's already walking around in the clubhouse boot or not. That's that's encouraging to me. I'm not a medical professional, but that's encouraging to me. That seems the head of schedule. I'm not sure, but I have some optimism there. Yeah, you just hope and with a striking distance or there's no point. But I know Joe is trying to get back, so the team has to try to keep it, keep it alive for him.

Okay, and we're gonna watch this weekend simply because it's like kind of want to root for this underdog. We're Joe Flacco coming in Storry and the Bengals are still they're close and they've got the pieces there. But the thing that scares me most I point out the day and Horde. It seems like this whole game, no, there's always nuances, you know, the three phases of the game.

Okay, But if it's a regular thing, and.

The Bengals offensive line has made some improvements, I think they'll gaming Detroit. They weren't as bad as they've been in the past, but it's not gonna take much to knock Joe Flacco down and throw them off his kid. Can they prolong the agony and we'll get to why there's gonna be agony this weekend long enough for this guy to make a pass downfield to Tea or Jamar and keep the game close, if not competitive.

Yeah.

So, I don't know. I I might be in the minority here because I'm watching these last few games and I'm going I don't think the defense and the offensive line performed as badly as what everybody's gonna make it out to be, because I do believe the play of Jake Brown and got the team down, brought the team down that badly. He had time to throw, He absolutely had time to throw. He did and some times he

They can be pretty mid's.

But that's coming into this season, that's what everybody said will carry you. Unfortunately, that doesn't work without Joe.

The line to be better, and that's of course killing the run game too, because yes, that's.

That's the biggest thing for me still, because I think Joe Flacco is going to be able to make quick decisions and get the ball out, if nothing more in the fact that he's forty years old, he doesn't want to get hit anymore, so he's going to throw the ball away. He's gonna make the quick decisions he's going to get I don't expect him to come out here,

But he has much better weapons now he did. But again, there's back to that line in the run game. If you don't have the run game that throws, there's got to be a threat with run and it hasn't been.

They got to get that figured out. And yeah, I mean they had they had some space last week, they just didn't run it that much. They threw it. They ran it eleven times, I believe last week they ended up, but they.

Were down by like four scores. It's been amped up because you're in Green Bay. But you've also got Rashan Gary and Micah Parsons.

Yeah, that's a problem. That's a huge problem. That's that's a problem. That's a big, big.

And one of the biggest worries for me this season is watching the decline over Orlando Brown junior. He has been a turnstile at left tackle and he's got to get something figured out there. But yeah, there's still concerns for Sunday, Don't get me. There's a lot of concerns if they win or get closest, like how do they pull that one off?

Coach of the Year.

But I will sleep so much better Saturday night heading into Sunday knowing that Joe Flacco is the quarterback than Jake Browning is, and I think that says more about Jake Browning than Joel.

Listen, we got to go, but I don't. I want to also tip the cap two to u Se because they've been playing in credible. Has been amazing. We get that offensive line, Yeah, he's been clean. I think what for the five had had had a second four or five game incredible.

I mean the offensive line is why that that offense is clicking as much and just run blocking and pass blocking. They've been so great. Brandon stories, we've been hitting his targets. They've got better receivers now, Uh running backs are You're hitting wide open holes. I'm looking forward to this game. It's trap game potentially, but we'll see right now, twenty six in the nation.

Let you see here we go in u CFS quarterback problems. There are a lot of injuries. So anyway, that's tomorrow Sunday Football for twenty five, Home of the Best Bengals coverage seven hundred WW Sincentican scott'shone back on seven hundred W l w H. I know if you caught this or not, it's really interesting. Remember Jim Acosta believe he's a former anchor at CNN. He did an interview with the victim of a murder, a shooting victim who passed away,

Eric. Welcome, how are you hey?

It's great to be here, and yes, this is an insane change in not only technology, but how we are using technology and how it's changing up it is.

I saw that and I thought, wow, this is you know, for example, when when we will all went online, you got the information super highway quickly, thieves and conspirators found ways to get our information and steal from us. And so you know, a lot of us subscribe to service. Maybe LifeLock would be a name of one of those things where if your identity is stolen, they can try and get that information back for you and try to

What Well's got In a way, so what's happening is cyber criminals are using deception, which is an old playbook by spies. In fact, the top cyber crime syndicates launching attacks from the dark web have even hired intelligence operatives from Russia and China and other countries that want to do you bad to the United States to help them learn how to perfect these attacks. And of course these

That's it.

It's almost like, Eric, you need to assume that every picture, every image of you out there could be used by a criminal. So and I would say, you know, normally we told kids, hey, don't send nudes and don't send pictures of yourself in compromising situations because it could be used against you. But you don't even need that anymore, right, I mean, you could deep thank someoney naked. There's there's a there's a app out there that does that.

Now.

Yeah, well, I write I write a weekly newsletter and one of my recent newsletters I looked at these new toify apps is they're still allowed. And in fact, these applications what they called neudified apps, and what they do is they take an image of someone. Normally it's boys who are taking images of girls in swimsuits, and it quickly turns them naked, right using an immense amount of learning that the AI has been trained on female models.

Wow, and imagine the humiliation. That's not me, that's not me. We don't believe you.

And we know what young peopeople, especially young women, think of themselves, and that is just catastrophic.

It's going to be it's going to hurt.

Their development and not only their mental health, but also puts them at a risk for god knows what else.

It's it's absolutely horrible.

Eric O'Neil is here, he cybersecurity expert, and we're talking about the advance of AI. Maybe say it maybe didn't and that would be a former CNN acre Jim Acosta's interview with a now deceased while long deceased shooting victim from the Parkland massacre and did an interview with that AI generated image. It's absolutely haunting because you look at it, look that it looks real, and day by day, hour

Right, that's absolutely true. But let's talk a little bit about what Jim Acosta did, Scott, because I'm not particularly sanguine about what he did. It's very much a gimmick and it is causing problems. So you know, I wrote a piece called Digital Souls that that looks at the new innovations in AI in order to talk to people who are deceased. And I actually wrote this piece with a psychologist who is an expert in Greek counseling, and she was very opposed to it because the problem here

Well, there's a new there's a new trend where people are having conversations and relationships essentially with AI and just talking to them like framing. There's commercials about this now and people are having conversations and relationships with AI and just talking about life like you talked to your best

Well, some of this gets even more creepy because the AI is somewhat unpredictable and it also depends on the guardrails that the companies put up. So there was there are two major lawsuits against two of the companies that provide these AI companion chat bots. Right, Uh, these are teenagers using them. One of the AI told the teenager to hurt themselves, right, and the other AI told the teenager you should kill your parents, and the context was uh.

That's a problem. That's a huge problem.

That's a big problem. The kids need to be with other kids need to have social interactions, not interactions with AI. But they do it because the AI is always supportive, always there for them, always friendly, always has their back. Yeah, And you know, when you're when you're a teenager in developing, that's that's.

What you want. It's never going to tell you no.

Right, and it's never going to tell you you're wrong, and it's never going to tell you, Holy God that that there's something wrong with you. And you don't go through those things. You go with friends where you know, you have a fight and you make up, and that's there's something wonderful and growth potential about that, right.

It's interesting what you just described there, because some may say there are many parents that do that to their kids, never tell them no, and want to be their friend, and that's a problem. But now if if it's a scent of body like like AI, it's it's an extreme example of that. Eric o'neils on the show, by the way, former FBI operative cybersecurity extort his book called Spies, Lies

This is going to make it even worse, isn't it.

That's absolutely true. AAI is not a replacement for human interaction. It's not a replacement for socialization. It's a tool. It's a tool to help you do things better. And the way that it's being used in order to try to stop gap that need for relationships that we all have as humans, it is going to be harmful. But you know, look, there are other things that we need to worry about, because we started talking about criminals, and criminals are exploiting

That is the cruelest I mean, penniless and heartbroken, and it's not vengeance. It's a complete stranger in just moving on to the next I guess.

Markets they're working three four ten people at the same time.

That is that's that's disgusting. Although you know the other side of this thing. You mentioned relationships, and it may not be the current generation Baby Boomers, but maybe Gen xers, my generation, and certainly millennials. I wonder if you're in a long term relationship with someone and let's say they pass, and this is step back to the Jim Acosta thing, is that I wonder if there's going to be an opportunity.

What about that, Well, there are companies that are doing that already.

Uh.

You know, there are examples where the grandparents pass and the avatar is left behind. There are even companies that are allowing a person to create this likeness of themselves before they go. But once again, you know, I talked to a grief counselor about this. This interrupts the very necessinary, uh you know, trajectory of dealing with grief and that you are locked in one phase and you never are

Uh, sort of think them like digital digital historical repositories, right yea like this is your grandfather and and you know little clips of things that he he did, you know, along his life that you know, future.

Generations can can watch and experience and learn. Okay, this is this is where I come from. These are the people that that made me. That could be very useful, so you know AI, you know, creating digital avatars, right is sort of the positive side. He fakes are the negative side there. With all technology, there's always a positive and a negative.

With this is the age of face ID to unlock your phone or devices over now is that would because.

You know the way face i D works, it's actually using the depth of your face and a lot more than just an image.

Uh.

So that's still good. You're still better off using biometrics to unlock your phone and get into your accounts then then a password alone, because passwords now can be cracked by AI very easily. But there were deficts that were used in China by a cybercrant cyber crime group who were using AI generated images of people's faces to get into social security accounts and they completely breached the government Security administration there. Yeah, and that was quickly, that was

Yeah, you don't need to be a coder to be able to do this.

It does it.

It does it automatically, and it automatically the different courses you divulged that you disclosed that, so did Jim Acosta during his interview. But if somebody's going to use that for nefarious purposes, and they're probably doing it as we have this conversation. Eric O'Neil, cybersecurity expert, former FBI operative of the book is Spies, Lies and Cybercrime Eric, thanks for the insight, great stuff.

Appreciate it.

Hey, thanks for having me on. And anytime you need someone to talk about cybercrime or spies or all of it, I'm your pre I love it.

You're you're the greatest. Sorry, we'll definitely do that, we'll circle back. Appreciate you.

Thank you.

Yeah, it's one thing to see fake stuff when you're consuming TikTok or content, but bad actors using a different stories invariably, that's what's going to happen. Look, got to get a news update on this Friday morning when I return. Allie Martin is in a local loop. What to do, what to see, what to eat, what to drink. She'll lay it off for it. She's got a plan for your weekend. If you don't seven hundred, the weekend's coming up and you need to make the most of it. Where to go and what to do?

She has to tips insight to help you make it a super weekend.

So listen up.

This is the local Loop with Ali mart on seven hundred wlw.

Okay, Friday morning, and God knows we need a Friday morning right now.

You know, I didn't know it was morning when I woke up because we're losing lights.

We really are.

It seems like two weeks ago the sun was up to like at nine o'clock. Watch the sunset, and now it's seven thirty and that thing gone. I was like, no, I know it doesn't do it. I know it doesn't work that way, you know, with the calendar. But it feels like it was like a week ago when the sun was up at nine.

Right, and I was like, I can accomplish everybody. I feel grateful. We're shutting down. It's like I'm hibernating now.

Apparently Congress is in charge of the sun shutting that down to.

Here's the thing.

Not like you could see it in this in this little studio anyway, So.

Does it really matter in our dark little hole here?

I feel like you're you're a fall guy.

I love fall, love football, the hockey, starting of apples and cider.

And I'm rooting for your bills.

Now, well we kind of need it.

I'm a little nervous about Monday night, but nonetheless I'm more nervous about Sunday with the Packers, Joe Flacco and the Bengals offensive line.

What is happening every other every other.

I made a move it's you know what, you got to lean into the fact they did something.

Yes, I totally support in that endeavor. And I'm I am a little bummed because I liked when Jake Browning filled in for Joe a couple of years ago.

And then it's just not it's just not.

Working out exactly well the age like milk.

It's the problem is like the two year ago Jake Browning is not the not that Jake Browning we have right now.

No, And it's like, you know when you just don't have that experience, enough experience on the.

Field, and God forbid.

Here's the problem is if if Joe Flacco goes down with a turf toe, which you packed, did Jake Frowning put.

Me in coach? But no, you can. Why don't you go in there? You'll line up right in there?

All right?

Well, speaking of old people, we've got the river. Old people love steamboats. I will say that Matt Reee, I own Matt Reece, who is the octacary of seven hundred w W newsroom.

He is like he's taking vacation days to.

Go watch the streaming down there.

Loving it. That's his people, right, Like the Calliope music, the whole thing.

Are you going down?

No, look at me, I've got one good leg. I'm on a roller.

That's you did come in here?

No, I came in hot knowing where the where the landing is for the riverboats. Like, I'm not quite sure. I know how I'm a little nervous. Wouldn't be nervous about navigating that person. They may have an accommodation there, but I'm not sure.

Is this a handicapped friendly?

I know not.

Is that going to be a complaint.

I mean, it's not like they had the eighty a back when steamboats were coming up and down the river.

I thought, weld iteriad here.

Yeah, I will say the videos, Yeah, I've called you out to talk to people.

Yeah, God forbid, I.

Will say the videos and the photos I've seen of all the days lined up. That is a really cool visual and especially with.

The weather we're having too, it just really makes it pop, so you won't get seasick. I know some people going down to check it out, though, Yeah, I think especially little kids go.

Little kids love big boats like that.

That's awesome, especially during the day.

And if you do get your chance, like if you've never been out on the River and on a boat on the river down down there. It's it's really really fun and it's cool experience. And I think the name River Roots have thrown people off a little bit because it's tall stacks two point zero rights as we were saying. And there's just a slew of you know, sixty plus

Okay, so the Ovation.

Side, they have their whole Bourbon lineup going on. So the B line different you know, distilleries, and.

Different cruises based on it too, right.

Different cruises based on different themes. So they have kid friendly themes like Disney princess themes. They have a new Riff cruise, they have a greater cruise, American Legacy Tours, which you know, I'm a big fan of. They're doing some history related cruises and just some basic lunch and dinner cruises for the opportunity to listen to the music and and take a nice little boat ride.

So it's just something fun to do.

Like you said, the weather's nice, and the tickets are relatively you know reasonable, They're priced around you know, thirty bucks for.

One of the cruises, so nothing crazy.

And it's your chance to walk around downtown and walk around down by the river and take some nice photos. Turn this into your Christmas card opportunity.

How about that?

Yeah?

Right, the river, this could this could be started yesterday and it runs till the end of the weekend the twelveth.

See how it goes?

Yeah, all right, let's we always forget to talk about food, do we show?

Well?

It always is like an after the restaurant ada. Yeah, yeah, why do we bump something off to the top? And I know you're excited to talk about.

I am so excited to talk about So first of all, if you're like, how.

Do you spell it, it's e t X E E T Basque so.

The yes so and people are like what what is back.

The ex silent and eja means home in Basque, and it's the region between France and Spain, in this small little region and allegedly they are known to have some of the most Michelin star restaurants.

Yes, that's very true.

You know about the Basque of because because when I think about the culinary history of France, and then you have Spanish food, which is amazing.

You put those two things together.

And then you incorporate the wine on top of it. Oh my goodness. So the really big hitter of etch A is the executive chef of Boca David, chef Maturn. He left along with his partner Heather together and they both come from Boca and they're starting their own thing. And that's what is and while they build and find their forever home. Really smart concept for anyone who's in the hospitality and restaurant business. They're doing a culinary residency.

So it's in East Walnut Walnut Hills area.

So the Aperture is already an established restaurant and Jordan, who is the executive chef of Aperture, he's won James Beard Awards all the things. So they are operating in the Aperture space on Sundays and Mondays and launching their whole concept, their own menus. So this is a really fun experience not only to kind of get a new culinary experience, but taste what their menus all about while they search and build out there.

So they're waiting to build. But this is just like temporary.

This is like this is temporary.

Nice, We'll add that to the marketing lineup.

I'm just saying, all right, So it's like a pop up thing for a little while today.

Yeah, a culinary residency to make it feel a little bit more sophisticated than of being a pop up.

And imagine with the food he scene here, it's probably sold.

Out to the Yeah, so this is this is the cool part is it's till the end of the year there. October is already booked up, November it's about eighty to ninety percent booked up, and December starting to book up as well. This could be a really great opportunity if you're looking for something just something different to try. Also, the holidays are around the corner. But when I tell you, the food is incredible because the executive chef of bog yeah well yea for the last decade he was over there,

Day it's got to be pretty good.

Oh my god, Okay.

So they have a pork shoulder dish and it's seasoned with like a little bit of salt on top. It is one of the best dishes I have ever found it.

And they cook the park shoulders because now here it would be like, wow, just throw it on the smoker for a few hours.

Are good?

Yeah, So they the beauty behind the kitchen is so well thought out. And that's a big reason why they wanted to have their space at the aperture is they have a like a wood fired grill basically in the kitchen, and then you could see them cooking because there's a window that opens up so you could talk to David and you could talk to the staff and he brings out these huge slabs of meat to the table where you then get to pick portion of the meat you have.

Really cool.

They also have this gin cart, so Heather will roll out the gin cart and and so Molly Wellmans pick your gin, pick your sides in it. She'll make it for you on the fly. They also will have this bone marrow where they do a sherry luge. So you're drinking the sherry and they'll pour the sherry down the bone marrow and then you're it's it's actually, but they do that in the best region. So they took that and they're bringing these small flares and then their bass.

Cheesecake is so sounds amazing good. It's so fun.

And they have one of the best cocktails I've ever had. It's real Mundos, they real, they they know it's Mundos something like that. It's this bourbon cocktail with sherry in it and it has this wine floater on top, a little bit of a lemon. It is so refreshing, beautiful, very instagram.

All right, so we'll see when goes in. This is just so it.

Started October fifth, Yeah, October fifth till the end of the year. Sundays and Mondays. Go to et JA Cincinnati dot com to book your reservation. Book it because they're.

It's it's at X by the way, tell you spell it.

All right, let's talk drinks. Let's talks.

Yeah. So do you remember the drinkery next to Japs.

Yeah, so they have done a completely new concept. It's now called Nice Life. So those who are familiar with the drinkery it was next as I said, it was next to Japs. And there's always this like little duo and October third of four EG. They ended up starting this new concept. It's very disco and thought it inspired cocktail bar and dance hall.

Yeah.

So it's a lot of retro yah disco balls.

Of open shirts with chest hair. He's kind of thing.

I think.

I don't know what the men do, but the women are open.

The chest chair.

Yeah, I gotcha. You never know this necklace, I got you.

But I'm just shopping up some coke in the bathroom and they're doing it all they go and fall in on.

This or what you know.

I didn't really get a good look at the bathrooms, but I'll check. And their cocktails are all based on it. So they have this Rosemary Rhap City Saturday Night Cedar and it's a rotating menu. But they're bringing in acoustic acts and they're gonna have party cover bands, karaoke nights, local and national DJs they're bringing in and it's just a it's it needed a revamp.

Yeah, because it's been a couple one. It goes back to like at least fifteen fifteen. It feels like, yeah, I mean I was in college, I was going there.

Oh wow, okay, yeah.

So you know the way you said that just made me feel old.

I think how I felt fifteen years ago. You were in college. Fifteen years ago I was here.

I have to admit this is why I can't really go I don't go out out really late as much anymore, because you old.

I went to bed at nine last night. What are you talking about? I was looking forward to it. Yeah, like I'm gonna get on my get on my bipad out, read a book.

What time do you go to b Uh?

Here's about ten thirty eleven.

But I was really like a sleep by ten ten thirty.

By eleven, Usually I fall. It takes me a while to land the plane. Michelle, She's like, I'm not really that. Like, I don't know how the hell she does it? Like me, I got, you know, awful thoughts going and everything else, and I take a melotone in and then eventually.

Well then how do you do you take a melotone in?

Yeah?

I take like I take a half away. I take a whole melotone and it does not work. Well, I'm just about five forty five.

I am so groggy when I take a military wouldn't.

Be you're taking too much?

Well, you're taking I learned you're taking too much, so I split the pill down like too even, maybe like a third of a five MILLIGRAMDMU or three milligram.

I don't watch, don't do it.

Sometimes they have those.

Like sleepy less try less, you know. But I do get my best creative thoughts as I'm falling asleep. Sometimes well sometimes I'll write them down and I'll wake up in the morning, and morning it'll be like, what right was I saying?

Anyway?

Anyway, So if you want to check out a new bar and be out till two o'clock in the morning, check out Nice Life. Their branding is really cool. I'm a fan, and it's all disco themed.

Okay, cool, bring that back you got any I feel like we should talk Halloween stendny Halloween stuff, prettymature Halloween next couple of weeks.

Yeah, Halloween's coming up.

I'm you know, the family friendly vibe the zoo is always a yeah.

They do this jack o' lantern glow.

A crush of pumpkin, Oh my god, to eat the watermelon pumpkin hole.

I'm gonna crush crush and pumpkins.

You think most like if there's.

Like they throw those in the girla you know, the frozen pumpkins or whatever.

The girls go nuts.

With them, the watermelon and the pumpkin. I feel like that's the same, the same family food group.

Yeah, and you know what, Simeons absolutely love pumpkin spice too, not just a human Yeah yeah yeah.

Really leaning into those solace.

This year absolutely solid.

Uh So.

Yeah.

The Zoo has the jack O Lantern Glow and that's fun because very similar to all of their events that they do, they they go above and beyond worth with their decor, so great time to bring the little kiddos.

And then they also have the hull zooeene. Yeah, you can dress up the little kiddos.

I love this time of earth, is it because like the Halloween spice and then once you start.

The lights, that's awesome.

Yes, I know, especially if.

You get a little snow on the ground for some reason, the snow and the lights together it's pretty.

Hold on, you're really jumping ahead snow and Halloween.

No no, no, I said, Christmas the holliy life.

Yeah, we're there.

I know, We're not like this.

I am I'm in it. You ready, I'm ready. I'm going to put on my Christmas tree in October you.

Know what I saw last night and I heard one on the radio, But then I saw a commercial home depot holiday Christmas commercial home yesterday, yesterday.

That night, on the ninth of October.

But that makes sense.

Over the last couple of years again, Black Friday could be tomorrow and all of these holiday sales are going to be happening on Amazon. You go into Michael's, every Christmas tree possible is up, and the Halloween stuff is already for sale.

The more depressing, like life events in the world and everything gets, the earlier we move Christmas up. You know, it's not because I need to find join our Yeah, but here's the thing. If you really hate Christmas, doesn't that depressing more? Because there's people that hate the holidays, not every.

Rel I know.

I know, all right, av Mart Local loop Boy depression right up at the end there that that's good.

That's really good. It's really good.

So are a little family friendly Halliday.

Go there, go check out Nice Life.

You can get in Nice Life, Nice Life Extra Japs.

Yep job, some family friendly Halloween fun at the Zoo, And of course there's always Kings Island Halloween Haunt, which I'm actually going this year.

Yeah, so hyped.

I'm ready to be scared, right, I need to feel something.

All I drive by it and there's like the fog is still hanging in the hair Arab They their fog budget's pretty big there, just so you don't huge how much do you spend on FuG It rolls out to the parking its almost goes to seventy one way. Are driving past Kings driving the fog was blown across the road like it's like a nautical mile away from where the action is. Maybe that's gone uh probably about five years ago.

Are you a roller coaster guy?

I like roller coasters.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see this is but this is why I like the Halloween hantics at King's Island, because you can go yes for the spooky theme and have people.

Jump out at you.

What I can jump on a ride, but I'm also there for the right dry your tears. I'm the Sun of Beast. Anyway, there's Alie Martin at at Ellie Martin eight uh and of course the Local Loop is where she hangs out on YouTube as well. Yeah all right, good seeing him, have a great week. We'll chat again next Rooters. See you gotta I gotta roll seven hundred, Nobody love them.