“I have thought from the beginning that there was a pretty strong likelihood of him being convicted. I still feel that way after having heard the evidence. It isn’t just some subjective thing. When I look at some of the cases around the country that are most like this case … the (former Gov. Rod) Blagovich trial in Illinois and the (former Gov. Bob) McConnell trial of Virginia – both of which involved what we call these subtle quid pro quos – the jury found them both guilty. 
 
"Juries tend not to like this kind of behavior. There’s something about these fact patterns that to the average person really speak to everything they don’t like about politics. ... 

"I think there’s a strong likelihood he will be convicted on some of the charges, maybe not all. That’s a sad day for the city. That’s a sad day for him."

"It's a touchy subject now. As of recent, I really haven't said much because of just the way the world is now. It's really hard to have an opinion – if you don't have an opinion that's similar to other people. 

"It's sad in a way of (how) I grew up. Twenty years ago, it wasn't that way. With the news and social media giants, things are shoved down people's throats whether it's good or bad. It's tough. When I was outspoken and said certain things, a lot of people said things about me that weren't true whatsoever and that was really hard to deal with. They don't know me. People are just saying things to be hateful. That's why I don't really share pictures with my family, because I don't really know what people's intentions are.

"I haven't been as outspoken now because there's other things I care about. I'm sure there are fans in Cincinnati who are conservative or liberal or whatever. Whether they want to believe the stuff that I believe in or disagree with the things that I believe, (I hope) they'll see that I am a good, genuine person. It's OK to have people with different political views or religious views, but you can respect them as a person." 

"A lot of times family businesses, the founder has a hard time not micromanaging and controlling – and he's the opposite. He has enough confidence in my brothers and I and our executive leadership team. He knows that we're not going to get away from everything that we know and got us to where we are right now which is the Jeff Ruby experience and taking care of our guests and taking care of our employees. 

"He's not involved in the day-to-day. But I know how he would make decisions, and I operate the same way that he does. By all means, he was highly involved in (the decision to move to Fountain Square). He's super busy with what he does best – designing. We walked that site at The Foundry. He fell in love with it and he's like, 'We need to make this happen.' Our whole family, major business decisions, we work together on those."

"We should strive to do better. I think there's a movement (afoot) that we do that and start thinking that district is critical to Downtown. When visitors come into our community, we need to show better than we're showing right now. 

"We ought to start looking at the bright side of this, and that we now have a lot property under (public) control. Let's not do anything stupid here. Let's think about this and be bold but fiscally responsible. I think you can do both. Everybody is on the same page here. Our political leaders are actually trying to think about this in a comprehensive manner. They're excited about the potential. We ought to be excited about something instead of tinkling on each other."

• Jeff Ruby's impact on Deck's career  
• 4EG's role in the revitalization of Downtown and Over-the-Rhine
• The struggles of being a bar and restaurant owner during a pandemic
• Expansion, including opening the Ernest Hemingway-inspired bar, Pilar, soon at the Court Street Plaza 

• His late mother's legacy and the effort to honor through the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Endowment Fund 
• His coaching style today vs. his coaching style in 16 seasons at the University of Cincinnati from 1989 to 2005
• What his final days at UC were like before the school parted ways with him in summer 2005
• How he believes UC is much better positioned to join the Big 12 Conference now because of what Luke Fickell has done to elevate the Bearcats' football program 

This county does not need a new jail. We can fix the one we have. We just need to get in there and do it. There's hard things to do. We need to find alternatives in the way of community corrections for low-level offenders. We're working on things like improving the food. Just today we created an addition to the policy for prisoners who are in medical and mental health units that they get good linens. I mean sheets and a blanket that's very clean (and) in good shape. 

Those are small things. But those are things that improve people's lives, and when they walk out the door, they're a lot less likely to re-offend when we get them healthy and whole again. It's treating people with dignity so that when they walk out of there they feel confident enough to seek help.

I'm not pie-in-the-sky. I am very law and order. I'm very rooted in reality, I promise you that. The years in the jail, they make you know that reality is real. But I believe we can do so much better.

I would say to those people, "Please remember, those inmates are getting out of jail. At some point in time, they will walk back into your neighborhood. And would you rather have them be more enlightened; perhaps have a different frame of mind; perhaps feel enfranchised enough to join the community and say, 'Hey I want to do well?' " 

The way to do that is build them that way. Not create a situation where all you're doing is punishing them day to day to day. You just can't do that with people and build up self-esteem. That's part of reform. Let's change the mindset. 

I was a political science major. I always wanted to go work behind the scenes (in politics and government). I am a policy nerd. It's a way you can impact change in the community. I am more of a quiet, shy person, so being out in the spotlight is not always my strength. I'm going to have to learn that now being a politician. My dream was always to go out in the business world, get real-world experience and then later on move behind the scenes. 

I've been watching, and there really haven't been a lot of candidates who have inspired me and my values match theirs to want to go work for. In the past year, as things have changed and opportunities have come up, I've started to look at myself in a different light and think, 'You know, maybe I should try to be that person to go put myself out there and run for office and try to make a change.' 

Lets get back to the basics of what council is meant to do and serving the people. Stop getting distracted with all these silly fights, because it's not moving the needle on anything that actually has meaning to everybody else in the city. 

When I left for college, I had to promise my dad that I'd move back home. So I fulfilled that promise. That's a very Cincinnati thing. The moment I stepped outside that 275 loop, I was all Cincinnati, all the way.  Every person I ever met out in California knew that I was from Cincinnati and Cincinnati is the greatest city on earth. And still to this day, I have college teammates and friends, they don't call me Liz. They call me "Cincinnati."

Every morning, we'd sit there and read them and discuss. ... What was most important to him was the lead story and how that impacted the community and what was gong on in the minds of people around him. 

He always talked about how critical it was to have (journalists) follow politicians and have them follow the stories, especially the local news stories. What you guys do was so important to him. That really keeps a pulse on what's happening in the community.

It also holds the politicians and the leaders accountable. He always thought that was so important. 

Almost two years ago, my wife and I lost our daughter. She fought the battle of addiction and some mental health issues. It had been going on for quite a number of years, 10 to 12 years. Took her own life. At that point, my wife came out with a statement at the memorial service: "We are going to war against these two factions." As a family, we decided to set up something that would help. 

What I like to call a moment of clarity from my daughter was something that she said to us: "I just wish I had somewhere to hang out." There were times when she was ready to go forward, and she had nowhere to go. Quite frankly, she couldn't fall back to the people she had been with. She really couldn't find any new friends. There was a certain stigma associated with the problem she was having. And she was basically hanging out with my wife and I. That's no fun for a 24-year-old. 

Madi's House is really a recovery and mental health community center. There are some games, like video games. There's some art family. There's music. There's fitness. We also have AA and NA meetings. 

(Madi's House has been open) Friday, Saturday and Sunday since Thanksgiving. We feel very good about this going forward. We're hopefully going to be the model for other communities that can take this and move it into their city. We really are a place to create community, and that's what's not (been) happening. 

I'm not at liberty to say where we're going next, but I do believe shortly we're going to have an announcement to expand Madi's House in a really significant way. We'd like to make it more accessible for everybody. 

New this year. We're going to actually highlight the number of outstanding absentee ballots (with Election Night results on the Secretary of State's website). This office has always tracked that number. We're going to put it right at the top of the site, and here's why that matters: If your favorite candidate is ahead by a million votes and there's only 200,000 outstanding absentee ballots, then you can look at that and say this is conclusive. But likewise, if your favorite candidate is only ahead by 100,000 and there are yet 200,000 outstanding absentee ballots, then that contest is not over. It's important that we have transparency so people know on Election Night whether they're looking at a conclusive result or not.

It's up to the voters. If Ohio voters wait to send in their absentee ballots, then it will cause counting to take longer on Tuesday, Nov. 3. We know based on (this past Tuesday's numbers) there are still over 800,000 outstanding absentee ballots that are sitting on people's kitchen tables or the dashboard of their car.

If tens of thousands of people return their absentee ballots on Saturday or on Monday, what's going to result is a big avalanche of mail arriving on Tuesday that the Board of Elections is going to have to process. That's where it could take longer. But if that doesn't happen, we'll be one of the earlier states (to report results), I really believe. Ohio begins processing our absentee ballots as soon as they arrive. So on Election Night at 7:30, those ballots are ready to count and they count them right away. When you (see results) at 8 or 8:15, those are absentee votes. 

Contrast that to states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. In those states, they can't even slice open the envelopes until election day. Imagine a big place like Wayne County, Michigan, Detroit, they have a vault at their board of elections that has to have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of envelopes in it right now that they can't touch until election day. It could be Friday or Saturday before Michigan has results.

The thing I'm perhaps most concerned about at this point is false information and it comes a whole variety of different sources. It's just the old fashioned rumor mill, it's internet trolls, it's foreign adversaries. We're working hard to make sure that we're getting accurate information out there. We're debunking myths and rumors, shooting down the latest fantasies that people have invented about elections. 

Growing up in Glendale ... late grade school into high school. We had season tickets to the Reds and Bengals and at the time, we were also involved (as part-owners) in the Cincinnati Stingers, the hockey team. We went to every Stinger home game. I got to go to the two Bengals Super Bowls. I went to the ice bowl, you know that famous deep-chill freezer playoff game against the Chargers. A lot of going to games with dad, especially on the football front. We had a special connection through all of our sports teams.

Before I had a driver's license, I rode a moped from Glendale to Lockland to cut cabbage at our salad processing plant. And when I was old enough to drive, I would drive downtown to work on the docks of the produce company. At this time of year, I would be doing Christmas trees from October to December. All the way through college, I worked for the family businesses. 

Dad worked seven days a week, 12 hours a day. The only thing that you thought about if you were Bob Castellini's family is you were going to work as hard as he did. 

If you're raised in the executive office and you always live in the executive office and you never went down to the production floor, you have a hard time relating to that whole spectrum. That is the biggest benefit of working in and up through any company, whether it's a family company or not. That perspective is really important later in one's career if you continue to manage people and processes.

Dad sees an article in the paper that the final three bidders on the team, none of the groups are from Cincinnati. He's like, "Wait a second. We can't have somebody buy the Reds that's not from Cincinnati." If you remember back in '05, there's still talk of you can pick up a team and move them somewhere. That's certainly something we never wanted to see happen. He gets a hold of Tom and Joe Williams and says, "Hey guys, what do you think about putting in a bid for the team?" He saw Mr. (Carl) Lindner at a game that August and said, "What would you think if we threw our hat in the ring quickly?" He said, "That's great, but the final bids are due in the next two weeks and everybody else has been doing their homework since March." So we asked for a two-week extension, which was granted. We wound up doing all the research and getting a handshake to buy the team in 30 days. It was a pretty wild ride.

Sometimes by the third inning, you don't want to be anywhere near dad depending on how the game's going. Every pitch, every out, every at-bat, it is an emotional roller coaster. You could not have anybody more dialed in than he is. We keep trying to tell him, 'It's a long season, relax.' But that's just the way he is in life and business. That's his DNA. I don't think it's that great for his health, but that's the way the guy is wired. It's a great passion.

He's as good as anybody in the business, in my opinion. It was just an all around tragic situation. It's something that shouldn't be thought, much less said out loud. Thom knows that. We all know that. In today's day and age, there's a zero tolerance approach to that. That's just not something you have associated with your organization. He knew exactly what the organization had to do and why. We were at the end of a contract year. That's when he came to us and said, "I think I need to move on and repair my own damage done." He's done a ton of that and is making a lot of great relationships. He's certainly had an eye-opening, soul-searching experience of his own. You will see Thom back in a broadcast booth.

Likely not (with the Reds). I just mean as a broadcaster because the guy can do any sport. He's got that kind of talent. I think it'll do him well to have some time off. But yeah, I absolutely expect that we will all see Thom somewhere again as a broadcaster of live sports. 

The Brennamans have been such an amazing part of the Reds history. We'll be inducting his dad (Marty) into the Reds Hall of Fame next year. You'll definitely see Thom be a part of that ceremony.

This thing's going to go on well into '21. I think we all understand it's just a reality. We're going to re-submit (to the state) at maybe closer to 30 percent (stadium capacity), which would be about 13,000 or 14,000. What I would prefer is turn off the protocols. We the operators are going to have to show you a COVID-safe park. Even without the protocols, these buildings are going to empty themselves by fan interest. The average age of my fan is 56 years old. Even if I had no regulations, I'm going to have a change in my consumption just by the nature of people's comfort level of going out to large venues with a lot people. As a society, certainly from a business environment, we have to learn to live with COVID – not hide from it.

I don't have enough reasons to be optimistic about a 50% capacity by Opening Day. I think maybe by the All-Star break, it seems more reasonable.

Are you better off punting on an event and waiting to bring it back the way everybody's used to consuming it rather than bringing it back in this candy-coated, super-weird COVID way that it's just going to be kind of a letdown? I will tell you the answer to that question that we asked ourselves starting with RedsFest was, I'd rather wait and do it the way we know how to do it and the way the fans like to consume it than to have everybody walking around in bubble suits. I'm not sure where the Findlay Market folks will be feeling by then, but I think it's a huge wild card at this point.

I think we've come a long way, but we still have a long way to go. Even in the police department. When (former Chief Tom) Streicher was around, he ran that police department with a heavy hand. You'd hear that they'd discipline Black police officers more harshly than they would white police officers. You look at the gentrification that 3CDC is always accused of, but I think they're making progress. I like what they're doing down in Over-the-Rhine.

But people are still claiming that this is one of the most racist towns that they've been in. There's two Cincinnatis. The Urban League said one Black, one white. I kind of believe that. I've been in this broadcast business for 47 years. I'm not saying people should know me, but there's some white folks in this town, they never listen to Black radio. You might mention (101.5 FM) The Wiz to them, they don't know what you're talking about.  

They never venture into the world of the African American. But African Americans will venture into their world. People know Bill Cunningham. They know Jim Scott. The white community doesn't seem to embrace the Black community like the Black community embraces the white community. So Cincinnati has a long way to go.

• On retirement:  "I might hang around another few years. In 2023, it'll be 50 years for me. I might make 50 years and then pack it in."

• On hosting a call-in show: "Everybody wants to vent, and that's why people like my show a lot. I let them get it off their chest. They want their voices heard."  

• On standing up for Black leaders: "A lot of these companies and organizations, when they hire a Black person, it's normally from outside of Cincinnati. My theory on this is they bring people in from outside Cincinnati so when they get ready to fire them, they don't have a whole of friends to stand up for them. ... I hate to see that happen to Black leaders." 

"This whole Black Lives Matter thing has gotten in my craw real good. I appreciate the sentiment, but not the organization, which is a Marxist outfit hellbent on destroying our country as it stands right now. ...

"They're killing more black babies in abortions than white as a ratio. And I think those black lives matter just as much as the three little kids who were killed (by gun violence) in Chicago this weekend. And nobody's talking about that. ...  

"Black lives matter in the womb as well as in life outside the womb. I think it's a valid point and it ought to be discussed."

"Fortunately for our department, when you step back and try to be as objective as possible, we are doing an amazing job compared to where we were in 2001. And when I hear what other departments are doing, I think, wow, Cincinnati really has made tremendous strides, thanks to the Collaborative Agreement. Could more be done? Oh, absolutely. I think the chief is sincere and folks working in the department are sincere that they want to be the best department they can be. They're willing to listen; willing to work with the community."

"As soon as I heard the term 'defund' floated, you immediately think that's probably not the best choice of words to use. I believe people want reform. But to use the term 'defund,' that just shifts the conversation to ... are you going to get rid of the police department? I don't believe that is the overall goal. I do believe people want changes. And they want things very similar to what we've attempted to do here in Cincinnati."

• City Council's Gang of 5 text message scandal
• FC Cincinnati's new West End stadium 
• Gentrification of Over-the-Rhine 

This country will never be the same. The way we practice medicine. The way we educate people. The way we relate. The handshake is dead. Who’s hand are you going to shake and when? You going to shake somebody’s hand in June? You going to shake it in September when you’re still hearing about cases? And we’re going to wash our hands more. If they’re any silver lining, we’re going to see less cases of the regular flu this year. And we will have started a culture of people washing their hands more. This is going to be a good thing because it’s going to impact other diseases as well.

Oh, no, no, no. I’ve had my share of public office, and I’ll never do that again. I’m more of an independent Democrat. I have a friend who’s a very, very conservative Republican, a very successful businessman in Cincinnati. He guaranteed … he would minimally raise $1 million for my campaign. He’s said that for the last seven years. I said, ‘No.’ I had my run as the coroner. We did some great things, but I wear my heart on my sleeves. As a politician, people can say anything about you that they want whether it’s true or not. You get a lot of unjustified criticism. I’ve done that. I’ve accomplished that. I think I can be helpful doing other kinds of things.

I was that poor kid from the West End who was written off. I was the one who was told by the counselor I was too poor and too stupid to go to college. So for me, it’s always been this strong sense that I have to give back. But more importantly, I have to inspire. I have to go talk to the people who don’t have a voice and say, ‘Hey, I’m not asking you to go to Yale and Harvard like I did, but at least give me high school.’ I just feel strongly that we have to leave this earth better than what we have.

• The candidates to replace Republican Amy Murray on Cincinnati City Council 
• Who he thinks should be the front-runner for Murray's seat
• The lack of West Side representation at City Hall 
• John Cranley's run for governor in 2022

• His vision for the future of Cincinnati
• Definition of "progressive"
• Current state of City Hall
• Working with council's original "Gang of Five" in the 1980s

• Ruehlman said Bueke's life is example of the dangers of bullying. The case made Ruehlman impress upon his seven children to never bully. "Everybody made fun of him because he was kind of funny looking. He was kind of frail. They called him 'Pukey Beuke'. And then one day he just decided he was gonna start killing people. ... You feel sorry for him, but he has a brutal killer." 

• Ruehlman called the Lucasville prison several times on the day Beuke was executed by lethal injection. Ruehlman, who became a judge in the late 1980s, said he kept getting reports that Beuke was still talking even after receiving the injection. "I was kind of nervous because, believe it or not, just from a religious point of view, I'd never been in favor of the death penalty. But I believe in following the law as a judge. Killing somebody? Yeah. I was involved in his execution. It was that the first person that I was (involved with in a death penalty case). It was hard, although he deserved it.

Is 2022 it for Willie? 

'I was unnecessarily cruel'

• The Pops' recent Grammy nomination and his celebration on an airplane
• World renowned violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and smartphone usage at concerts
• The importance of including all people in the Pops
• The Pops' holiday traditions and concerts, including a special Christmas message from JMR at the end of the episode

• The importance of remembering that people are struggling with hunger year-round
• Tear-jerking stories about children in need -- and about children who are helping to address the issue of hunger

• The presidential field and why he's not endorsing anyone
• Why he's staying out of the race, despite people continuing to ask him to jump in
• His relationship with Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman
• Civility in politics
• And what job he'd be doing if he weren't in politics

• The future of The Banks Joint Steering Committee
• City-county relations
• His legislation to help prevent evictions
• And his assessment of Council nearly halfway into his first term

• New customer-friendly ideas to reduce the pain of waiting in long lines at the BMV
• Visiting the license plate factory inside the Lebanon Correctional Facility
• How the BMV handles requests for politically charged specialized plates

• The possibility of opening a restaurant in Las Vegas
• His take on The Banks riverfront development
• Working on a new book called "Art of the Meal"
• How his Downtown restaurant was originally envisioned as a New York-style deli
• And of course, Ruby always has to give his take on politics. What did he say about Donald Trump?

• His role in saving the streetcar in 2013 as Over-the-Rhine Community Council president
• Key issues facing Ohio's third-largest school system 
• Transforming an old Xavier University dorm into a home

• Braxton being the first local brewery to go all-in on the hard seltzer craze and the challenges of launching VIVE
• The difficult of naming beers
• Deciding on new styles and flavors
• Long-term sustainability in an over-saturated industry.

• The new 'Bad Boy' burger
• Where Frisch's is planning to expand 
• The brilliant decision to bring back Coca Cola
• And the restaurant's new deal with FC Cincinnati

• The Trump 'juggling act' in a blue-trending county
• Targeting suburban women voters in 2020 
• Joe Deters' $500,000 statement
• And will Steve Chabot have a primary opponent?

• His generation's contribution to the family business
• The "legacy of stubbornness"
• The company's surging growth the past three years
• What state might be the next to get a Graeter's scoop shop
• Grooming the next generation to take over 

• Whether the streetcar played a role in OTR development.
• What’s coming to the former Downtown Macy’s.
• The new hotel convention center.
• FC Cincinnati’s investment in the West End and why this city can be so negative.

• The county's seismic political shift
• Teaching democracy and parliamentary procedure in the Middle East
• Coming home from Africa to start a political consulting firm
• Talking politics in the Driehaus household 

Bunbury Music Festival Bill Donabedian joined That's So Cincinnati podcast this week to offer his insight on the proposed dueling music venues on both sides of the Ohio River. 

Donabedian, former Fountain Square events director 3CDC, sold a majority stake in Bunbury to Columbus-based PromoWest in 2014.

In conjuction with Los Angeles-based AEG, PromoWest announced last week that its building an indoor-outdoor music venue in Newport. PromoWest, regarded as a top concert promoter in the entertainment industry, originally wanted to build the venue at The Banks.

But Banks and Hamilton County leaders chose the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for The Banks project.

Did Donabedian play a role in PromoWest going to Newport? And will Bunbury move across the river in the coming years?

Find out on the latest That's So Cincinnati episode.

Plus, a new era in That's So Cincinnati begins as Enquirer City Hall reporter Sharon Coolidge joins political columnist Jason Williams as co-host of the region's best local news podcast.

Subscribe and listen to the free That's So Cincinnati podcast on Apple Podcasts and most other pod platforms.

He also offers insights on Trump's Ohio, the 2020 sheriff's primary and the long-vacant Ovations riverfront property in Newport.

As always, we have a little fun with our guest. So we asked Scott: What's up with naming his cat Sister Betty Lou? The answer is So Cincinnati.

In the opening segment, TSC hosts Jason Williams and Paul Dehner Jr. discuss Elizabeth Warren's scheduled visit to Bogarts on Saturday. 

Finally, we have bittersweet news -- and an exciting new announcement.

From Smale Riverfront Park during Flying Pig Marathon weekend, the TSC crew sets up in the middle of the Fifty West Mile run party and asks runners: 

What's the most Cincinnati thing they can imagine?

How about grandma's homemade goetta? 

Plus, Flying Pig course director John Cappella stops by to talk about race weekend's insane logistics and planning, course weddings, streakers and elementary school bonds.

This is our most Cincinnati edition yet. Don't miss it!

'80s teen sensation Tiffany invites TSC onto her tour bus for a candid behind-the-scenes chat before kicking off her 53-city Mixtape Tour with New Kids on the Block at U.S. Bank Arena on Thursday night.

Tiffany talks about her meteoric rise to pop megastar in 1987; trying to move on from still being seen as that 15-year-old mall girl; why she posed for Playboy in the early 2000s; bringing back her iconic red hair; and the latest remake of "I Think We're Alone Now."

Plus, Tiffany leaves That's So Cincinnati co-host and '80s music fanboy Jason Williams blushing when she let's him know she can still hit the high note in "Could've Been." 

Before heading down to U.S. Bank Arena to hop on the bus with Tiffany, Jason and guest host Sharon Coolidge discuss whether an overhaul of the arena is next on the list of major Downtown projects.

Don't miss our That's So Cincinnati Moment of the Week. 

And don't forget: We have a bonus episode coming this weekend as Jason and Paul Dehner Jr. take the podcast on the road to the Flying Pig Marathon. If you're at Smale Riverfront Park on Friday night for Marathon festivities, please stop by and see us!

Reece, a former Cincinnati vice mayor and state lawmaker, recalls the challenges of being on City Council in the wake of the 2001 civil unrest and the role she played in helping Cincinnati bounce back. 

The Roselawn resident also talks about working with former Gov. John Kasich; offers her take on the current City Council; and discusses what her next step in politics might be.

Will Reece run for mayor in 2021?

Also on this week's episode, TSC hosts Paul Dehner Jr. and Jason Williams discuss the trust issues with FC Cincinnati and the politicians who are committed to upholding the virtues of civility.

Finally, we pay tribute to the classroom-invading raccoon and, as always, have a That's So Cincinnati Moment of the Week.

Also, TSC cohosts Jason Williams and Paul Dehner Jr. discuss whether the new streetcar czar can save the project. 

Busken's creepy Easter bunny is the focal point of the That's So Cincinnati Moment of the Week. 

And TSC is going on the road for a live podcast during Flying Pig weekend.

Finney talks about the early days of COAST, the citizen-led anti-tax group he helped found 20 years ago. He answers questions about why he pursues open-government litigation against certain politicians while leaving others alone.

And believe it or not, Finney grew up in a liberal household in Kennedy Heights. He talks about breaking away from his parents' party to forge his own path as a Republican.

In the opening segment, hosts Paul Dehner Jr. and Jason Williams break down the contentious city-county relationship despite Democrats controlling the mayor's office and board of commissioners.

Finally, our That's So Cincinnati Moment of the Week is a tribute to Fire The Coach Guy.

They go behind the scenes of their exhaustive reporting process to tell real people's stories from Middletown to Cincinnati to Falmouth, Kentucky. 

Also this week, a local lawmaker gets arrested, the landslide solution and two very memorable That's So Cincinnati moments of the week.

Karen is a big reason why the Reds are so fan-friendly, and she talks about adopting customer-service best practices from Disney. She also discusses sharing the market with FC Cincinnati, and whether that presents any challenges for the Reds. 

The Cincinnati native gives us a preview of new promotions and ballpark features in 2019, including a unique idea for Yasiel Puig's bobblehead.

In the opening segment, hosts Paul Dehner Jr. and Jason Williams discuss Congressman Steve Chabot's new approach to town hall meetings and look ahead to the biggest local race in 2020.

And of course, we have the That's So Cincinnati Moment of the Week that you won't want to miss.

But the Cincinnati Republican is anything but boring.

Wenstrup joined That's So Cincinnati podcast to talk mostly about his life away from Capitol Hill. This episode offers a glimpse of the human side of the podiatrist-turned-politician. Wenstrup shares stories about:

-- How a dying AIDS patient in the mid-1980s helped shape his view on serving others

-- Adopting a little girl last year and being the father of two young children at age 60

-- As a combat medic, providing medical treatment to "the enemy" at Abu Ghraib prison

-- The adventures of driving back and forth from Cincinnati to Washington each week with his wife, 5-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter

Also in this episode, Enquirer transportation reporter Hannah Sparling joins TSC hosts Paul Dehner Jr. and Jason Williams to discuss the serious problem of landslides in Cincinnati.

And we have two That's So Cincinnati moments of the week that you won't want to miss.