We don't fight. We ground, you know, ever, occasionally we do
that, but we don't bite. We never bite. It's the average American
in for the great American on this day after Christmas. I hope whatever you
did yesterday you had a great time. I hope you were around people that
you love. I hope I hope you didn't wake up today one of those
banging headaches, you know what I'm talking about. Didn't need to do that.
You got a fresh chance to do that next week, didn't need to
do that last night. Whatever state of mind you're in, welcome, Glad
to have you with us. We're going to talk a lot today about you,
about your life, about how things are going for you, and why
it's maybe more complicated than it needs to be, because the last thing anybody
needs in their lives anymore is complications. They're all over the place complications.
Worries about your children, worries about their education and their safety, worries about
your money being able to cover your expenses, worries about your safety, worries
about why things cost more for you than they should. And it's not inflation,
it really isn't. A lot of it has to do with crime,
crime, pilfering stealing, believe it or not, the number is when they
come out and they will be out here shortly, they will show that there
has been an inordinate amount of pilfering from stores and from online shopping in this
holiday season. I know it's crazy. You want to play by the rules.
I want to play by the rules. But that doesn't mean that everybody
plays in the same playbook or in the same sandbox. It just means it's
going on. And I found this disturbing about a particular generation. Look,
everybody thinks the generation that comes after them and maybe the generation that comes after
them, that they don't know what they're doing, that they're just incompetent or
incoherent, or they don't play by the rules or whatever. But statistics in
some cases do not lie. They just do not lie. There is a
I always thought of it as kind of a you go on here, you
go onto lending tree, and you go on a lending tree and you shop
for mortgages, see what interest rates are. But apparently it also it also
does its own research on other things. And according to lending Tree, thirty
one percent of gen Z consumers thirty one percent, that's almost a third of
gen zers have stolen items from self checkout kiosks, compared to fifteen percent of
consumers of any age thirty one percent. And it goes on. Forty four
percent of gen zers plan to continue stealing from self checkout kiosks. Thirty seven
said they do it to save money on groceries health goods, according to this
survey. And then there's this first party delivery fraud. That would be things
that you order from Amazon or maybe it's being delivered by FedEx or ups it
gets deliver to your door. But one third of Americans commit the crime of
first party delivery fraud and that in and of itself is driving inflation up.
And guess what age group leads the way, gen zers not making it up.
There is another research group called so Cure so Cure gen Zers. They're
consumers gen Zers just like you, and may are most likely to commit first
party delivery fraud fifty two percent. I'm saying they'd commit the crime if there
would be no negative consequences. That would be what claiming you didn't receive a
package when you did it now costs the US merchants and financial institutions over one
hundred billion with a b dollars a year, one hundred billion dollars a year.
Again not putting a finger at one particular generation, but apparently it's not
quite as black and white for this group as it was maybe for you,
for me, and maybe millennials and anyone else. What's going on here?
And have we failed this generation that now seems to be failing us? Standing
by the way, and as a good guest of this program, I've had
doctor Alex del Carmen on many many times. He's a criminologist. He heads
up the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at turl And State University, and
I like him because he speaks the truth. He speaks the truth. I
think he speaks the truth. I'll let you be the judge as to whether
or not I'm right. And doctor del carbon, how are you on this
day after Christmas? I'm doing well. Thanks for having me again. I'm
glad you're here. So this is disturbing on a number of levels. It
almost seems like it's just a cavalier attitude that this certain generation gen Z has.
And the more I hear about gen Z, the more I'm less inclined
to like gen Z. I hate to be so over our with that opinion.
But this is just another example of I think some disturbing trends with this
generation. What about you, Well, you know, what I see here
is that the younger generation, considering the fact that they are more used to
technology that they are generation is they're using it to their advantage and in some
cases, sadly, they're using it to criminalize, you know, their daily
activities, right as we see in this case. And so I'm not at
all convinced that it's a generational issue as much as it is just a youth
problem that I think it will continue to go on for years to come,
even in future generation. Thirty one percent though, of this survey done by
lending Tree, thirty one percent of gen Z I mean, that's almost a
third have stolen idle items from self kios self checkout kiosks. The rest of
the generations are down around fifteen percent. Now, you know, I think
there could be cases made for I need this, I have to have it,
I can't afford it. It might be a pharmaceutical, it might be
a loaf of bread or whatnot. But you know, again, gen Z
is not that far away from Mom and dad. I'm just you know that.
That's why I'm a little concerned about it. Yeah, I think you're
right. And I think the other part of this too as well, is
that, you know, this is the generation that has immediate gratification, right,
and so oftentimes what they want is they want it now. There is
no patience behind it, there is no discipline to earn it, and so
you know, what better way to them to go to the store and then
simply when no one's looking, you know, try to get a product in
your bag without paying for it. So that's what we're seeing across the nation,
and I think that, sadly, those cribs are going to continue to
climb. You know, many industries, as you know, they've gone that
route in order to in many ways save dollars for having to pay a human
being from checking out the customer. But the reality is, in the end
of the day, they're finding out that it's going to be more costly to
them by having a machine with with with a you know, a group of
people that are going to come in and steal from them on a daily basis.
Yeah, the people that wind up paying for it, invariably are you
and me and everybody else that does it the right way because most of these
most of these stores, the bigger grocery store cr change like Kroger or Target
or a big box store, you pick it. They're not going to let
anything affect their bottom line. They in some cases have to answer to shareholders
as well. They've got to show a p and L statement that says,
hey, we made a profit. So, you know, the longer this
goes on, the more people that just play it the right way are going
to have to pay for it, There's no question. And then on top
of that, you've got to remember that the insurance rates are going to go
up for many of these stores, which translates to you and I paying a
higher you know, dollar figure for whatever it is that we're buying from them.
So ultimately, the good guys get to pay the price for the bad
guys. And sadly, as technology improves, that technology gets better and many
of these companies are going to start using it to safe cost is going to
be, you know, enduring in the end that the rest of us are
going to have to pay for the difference. Well, I'm looking at this,
you know, pretending to scan an item, weighing items with the wrong
code, in other words, maybe it's more expensive to buy, you know,
three oranges than it is to buy three bananas, so i'll take the
I'll take the banana price there instead of paying for the oranges. You know,
a lot of this seems to have a little bit of thought that goes
into it. That's the other thing that's frightening. It's not just random.
Yeah. And then if what you're scanning and the price that you're scanning is
actually in a sticker that is removable, all they have to do is remove
that sticker, put it in the other product that it's going to be more
expensive, and then simply scan it and pay for you know, lesser price.
So, in other words, it's not an outright stapt as you and
I would conceive it to be. But they're simply changing numbers and making their
items be a lot less expensive, which is another type of step. Right.
So it's really you know, it's really interesting as to how this is
becoming a trend now. But that part is is that I guarantee you that
this is already on social media. People are learning how to do it all
across the United States, and they're getting better at it. Oh, it's
it's all over so media, all you have to do is look at some
of the video of these gangs that go into these stores, and for example,
in the case of California, you steal less than nine hundred and fifty
dollars worth of merchandise, you're not going to get arrested, which means you're
not going to get prosecuted, which means you're not going to have to pay
anything for it. And I think that's what's going on here. I think
in a lot of these big box stores, this kind of hocus pocus that
goes on with with five finger discounting and all that. They know that the
police aren't going to prosecute, aren't going to arrest them, which means the
prosecutors aren't going to prosecute, which means the judges aren't going to judge.
And it's just it's a self fulfilling prophecy after a while, is it not?
Yeah? Absolutely, And then what's going to happen is so imagine being,
you know, sixteen seventeen years of age and being told by the way
you can go through this crime. The technology is there, you almost can
do it anonymously. And on top of that, if they do catch you.
They're not going to do anything to you. They're going to be able
to walk away and go about your day the way you were before. So,
in other words, is a free enterprise for them they have nothing to
move. Yeah, I'm just thinking. You know somebody that goes into law
enforcement that really wants to do it, or maybe it's a family thing.
Dad was a police officer, he or she wants to be a police officer.
You get into it for all the right reasons, and then you see
all this occurring and like, well, wait a minute, I can't enforce
this. I mean, it's so difficult being a cop in this day and
age. Everybody is looking at you to do the wrong thing, first of
all, so they can catch you, and second of all, when someone
else does the wrong thing in this case, certainly you can't enforce the law.
It's just to me, it's I don't know what. I don't know
what it would do for me to go into law enforcement. I can't imagine
anyone wanting to go in under those circumstances, can you. No. And
not only that, we're seeing this across the nation right now, that so
many individuals that want to pursue the law enforcement career are doing so at the
federal level versus the local level for the very reason that you just mentioned,
which is they know that they're going to go out there and resk their lives,
and not only will they be subject to losing it all in case of
a lawsuit or somebody firing them, but then on top of that, they
may actually lose their lives for what For a prosecutor that's going to simply look
the other way and say, you know what, I'm not going to prosecute
this crimes because I'm waiting for the big ones to show up. Yeah,
well, hey, look what's going on in New York City right now.
I mean, they've made themselves a sanctuary city and they have to pay for
all of the illegal immigrants that have been bussed or sent to their city.
And what are they cutting back on? First thing they're cutting back on as
police. Well, if you talk about self fulfilling prophecies, you've got a
crime problem in that city and you're cutting back on cops. What do you
think is going to happen? Crime is going to say, well, wait
a minute, you don't have enough cops. We're not going to commit any
crime anymore of course not. It's just going to fester even more. That's
exactly right. And you know, I think is a perfect storm over there,
and I'm afraid to see what's going to happen in New York in three
to four years from now. It's bad right now, but it's going to
get a in the future. And I think other cities sadly are going to
follow suit and do the exact same thing because they're not thinking. And it's
not going to happen until people start, you know, basically demanding from their
local politicians to go out there and send troops down the way in order to
be able to you know, to rescue many people and to be able to
protect them. And that's going to be a little too late at the time
that the rest of the country is going to pay for it. You're absolutely
right, and to pull it back from where it's going is going to be
difficult. I'll tell you what will change it. New York is a tourist
destination. San Francisco, for example, is a tourist destination. Maybe to
a lesser extent, Chicago, and all of these cities have problems with crime
and homelessness, and so when people start going to stop going to New York,
Chicago or San Francisco from places like Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Dallas, Oklahoma
City. Pick a town that's not one of those towns, and those dollar
figures start to get down lower, lower and lower, and people start moving
away from those cities more more and more, and the tax space starts rooting
more and more and more. Maybe at that point then it will be addressed.
But I think it's all about dollars, doctor, is it not.
Every solution is rooted in dollars. How much is it going to cost me?
It's going to cost me a hell of a lot of money if they
don't stop it now, that's right, And it's going to actually cost not
only a lot of money right now, but it's going to cost a lot
more in the future as well, because this is going the problem is only
going to continue to get worse and worse. And you know, most people
are just looking the other way and they're not doing a themn thing about it.
So, you know, I'm concerned for our country. I'm concerned for
the future, and I'm concerned for the fact that so many people are going
to suffer as a result of the irresponsible people out there. You know.
That's why I raised the issue about gen Z. Isn't it something about that
that demographic? But honestly, I mean, at all points, you know,
do we have a morality problem in this country? And I think more
and more if you look at what's going on and how cavalier people are with
the law, I'm not sure they don't. As a general rule, I'm
not sure we don't have a deteriorating morality problem in this country. What about
you? Well, the same And I think that every day we kind of
put it further and further and people become, you know, further away from
what the norm should be and what the right thing to do should be.
You know. They talk about character being a definition of doing the right thing
when no one's looking, you know, And I think that that definition now
is fading away very easily. Everything is relative, everything is well, it
depends on everything has a caveat. There's no longer a right or wrong.
There's no longer a middle, you know, middle of the way of doing
things. And so now everyone seems to have their own opinion, and their
own opinion is the fact that their fact is their ideology, and their ideology
is their way of life, so you know, doing the right thing now
becomes sort of a an antiquated, you know, suggestive remark as opposed to
be in a real one. So it's very concerning. I think the world
is. That's why I think the world is in many ways, it's just
contradictory. And we're having the wars that we're seeing across the globe, and
not only in terms of physical wars, but we're seeing some of it online
and then people getting angry and more and more violent surging. So we criminologists
clearly are not going to be unemployed anytime soon. No, you will not,
and you're welcome on my show anytime you'd like to show up. Doctor
Alex Dell Carmen, you are a voice that needs to be heard. Don't
ever lose it, and thank you for your time. We appreciate it.
Thanks for having me. No, you bet, you bet. And you
know it's not just the pilfering, right, I mean, it's not just
walking out with something that you didn't pay for. I mean that's bad in
and of itself, but I mean claiming you didn't get some I mean you're
you're stealing on one hand, and then you're lying on the other. Now,
I never got that. No, send me another one. I never
got it. A third of gen z or steal from self checkout aisles.
One third of Americans commit the crime of first party delivery fraud. I never
got it, Send me another one. And they wonder why, they wonder
why. It's twelve twenty four. The average American in for the Great American
Glad you're with us. Hope you had a safe, sound, and happy
holiday weekend as you and I together plow into the new year, which is
now within it's in reaching distance rate, reach out the window. Oh don't
do that. Seven hundred w WELW on the show. Americans are living paycheck
to paycheck. We know that. Why is it that way? And if
indeed the recession that everybody was predicting is not going to happen, and again,
the market last check was up today. We'll find out here in a
couple of minutes with our twelve thirty newscast. But if the recession is not
going to happen, then why did so many people in the United States feel
bad about the way the economy is going. All you have to do is
look at any polling from any polling company, whether it be conservative or liberal.
Everybody is down on the economy. Well, why what's going on here?
Could be an answer coming up at one o six and then at two
o six. Is it a good idea to break up with your significant others,
spouse or otherwise at this time of the year, or should you write
it out through the holidays. We're gonna play coopid Cupid're gonna play coopid.
We're gonna play Cupid and see what's on the mind of those who are young
in love and maybe thinking about tossing it all away. Right now, we're
going to embrace the news on news radio seven hundred WYLW sort of a stop
and listening to this song. It sounds like Eminence put but it's not.
That's a ripoff of Evermin the Great No, No, the Great Hue,
the song by the Who. Yeah. I mean it sounded good, but
I think they were trying to make something happen there that doesn't happen in there.
Welcome back, great to have you with us. Uh, why do
we all feel like we're living in a recession? If we're not, We'll
get to that before we're done today. Also, is this it's the worst
time to break up with somebody in a personal relationship. All of that straight
ahead here on seven hundred w welw and we will get into that and more.
I watched a lot of football, maybe you did, over the course
of the last weekend. A couple of thoughts from that. First of all,
the Steelers have the Bengals number. It's a bad matchup. But there
was no way on God's Green Earth, even without Joe Burrow, that they
should have gone into Pittsburgh and lost to a team with that kind of hobbled
defense. They had a cornerback playing safety, they had they had a safety
that was suspended, and they couldn't use the guy. Their best safety was
out. They were down to like a fourth string safety on the other side.
He can't. You can't lose to teams like that, You really can't.
And you know, of course, Browning had a horrible game, There's
no question about it. He's better than what he played there. Is he
as good as what we saw in a couple of games preceding that. No,
was he as bad as what we saw last last Saturday. No,
he's somewhere in the middle. He's a backup quarterback. This is the land
of the backup quarterbacks in the land of the backup quarterbacks. He's probably even
with what happened Saturday, the best that it should not have happened. Should
not have happened. And I thought there were some telling things that were said
in the locker room after the game on Saturday. This was kind of a
scrum. Scrum is like a media term where you got a bunch of cameras
and microphones and everybody's sticking a microphone in, and the guys with the from
print media there, they've got little recorders and they're writing down on their pads
what players are saying. But anyway, this was after the game, and
Lapham's in the locker room after the game and he comes upon Sam Hubbard,
and Hubbard said this, and I said, WHOA, wow, this is
pretty interesting. Just listen to what Hubbard said about the fact that his team
hasn't won a game all year inside the AFC North, and of all the
teams that are still trying to get to the playoffs, the Bengals have the
worst record of every team inside the American Football Conference. And so it got
into a conversation about physicality, which is a made up football term for playing
physical football, not trying to finesse the other team, not trying to out
with the other team, but just getting in there and beating the other guy
with better physical strength. Here's what Hubbard said, this was I thought this
was enlightening. The audio. I don't know how close Slapy was with the
microphone. It's a little low, but I think you'll be able to hear
it when the turnover margin number one, it can stop the run, run
the and how physical the other team. And you know, obviously we should
have gotten more takeaways on defense today and we weren't able to do that.
And you know it's hard to overcome that. You know, you're not going
to compare years over years, but you know, do you feel like you
guys were able to be more physical in the division the last couple of years
compared to this year where it's been the way it's been all the time.
Yeah, I mean you don't win those games, you don't lose those games
if you weren't more physical. So obviously there's something needs to be corrected.
But uh, you know, being the winner for the last two years,
obviously we had a target on the back, like I said, and we
got a regroup and come back even harder to regain that top spot. Now
the target on our back, regroup at the top. I mean that was
all just kind of like a wrap up to what the meat was there,
and that was Yeah. I mean the last couple of years they kind of
dominated. Now they didn't this year. Why same players? Yeah, I
mean, by and large they had this not at safety, not the same
players at safety. Along the front line, you know, they had the
front the same players linebacker, they had the same players. So but that
was a pretty telling comment. If you play in the AFC North and you
know what you're going to face in Baltimore, in Pittsburgh and Cleveland, you
can't be with two games ago in the season saying yeah, we weren't quite
as physical as we needed to be. I thought that was a very telling
comment, and there was a theme that developed. I think that I'm not
sure who the question came from in the middle of that, but it was
a good question and it was a very telling answer. So here we are
with two games to go, right, I'm watching Buffalo. Buffalo had to
scramble, but at won Buffalo's going to get in. They're nine and six.
New England doesn't look like the pushover it did. A couple of weeks
ago. They played pretty stoutly in Denver, hung out and won that game.
That's who Buffalo gets next in Upstate New York. And then they finished
the year at Miami. Miami looked pretty damn good. Didn't Miami look good?
It look pretty damn good the other night. So Buffalo is going to
get at least one win, and I think the worst Buffalo finishes is ten
and seven, maybe eleven and six, but we'll see. With Miami.
Cleveland's going to get in Cleveland will get in Cleveland right now is ten and
five. There's seven and three inside the conference, six and three inside seven
and three inside the conference. They're at Houston. They wanted Houston. They
got the Jets in Cleveland on a short week Thursday night. Jets overachieved this
weekend, played well, but it was obvious that things started to fall well
for them going to Cleveland playing against that defense. I think I think Cleveland
wins that game. Cleveland will get to eleven wins this week. Then,
of course the Browns are down here to finish out the season. A week
from this coming Sunday, Indy is eight and seven. Did not think Atlanta
was going to beat them, but they did. Now they get Vegas on
New Year's Eve this Sunday. Vegas looked pretty darn good at Kansas City,
pretty darn good Kansas City. They played poorly again and Vegas won that game.
So now they're at Indy New Year's Eve, and then they finish up
the season with a home game against Houston. I think Indy's got a pretty
good pathway here to get the ten wins. Houston, on the other hand,
they're at eight and seven and they lost obviously, Cleveland beat them in
Houston last weekend, Tennessee this weekend on New Year's Eve, and then they
finish up with that showdown at Indianapolis. I think that that final wildcard because
Denver looked horrible. Denver is just terrible. Denver's not going anywhere. Pittsburgh
has been living on a prayer. They're four and one inside their division.
They look pretty darned good against the Bengals, six and five in the conference.
They got to go to Seattle, that's not easy, and then finish
up at Baltimore when there could be could be a chance for a number one
overall seed on the line unless Baltimore wraps it up. But I don't think
Pittsburgh's going anywhere. So if you're a Bengals fan, you know you're zero
and five in the division, you're three and seven in the conference. You
ain't winning any tie breakers unless you get into some head to head matchup with
Indianapolis for that last playoff spot. I don't think Buffalo will have to worry
about a head to head with the Bengals. I think Buffalo is going to
I think Buffalo gets to ten and maybe eleven with Miami because I think Cleveland's
in and I think Buffalo is in. And now you're down to Indianapolis,
Houston and the Bengals, and you don't want to be on a head to
head with Houston because you lose the head to head, right because Houston beat
them in the regular season. The permutations for all of this obviously are fluid
because who knows exactly how you you know who's going to be in a position.
But there's a there is no question about it that this is going right
the way the NFL wants. I mean, man, this thing is you
couldn't script any better if you were Roger Goodell, the new York Times for
what it's worth, says the Bengals playoff chances are at eighteen percent right now,
eighteen percent. They have the Browns at ninety nine percent, They have
the Bills at eighty nine percent, and in the AFC South they have the
Colts in fifty five percent and the Texans at thirty three. After that,
the next best team would be or best chances according to the whatever the New
York Times is using whatever computer they're doing to predict things, the next best
chance in the AFC would be the Bengals at eighteen percent. So that's where
it is. As I said, the Chiefs look horrible yesterday. And now
there are some Kansas City fans or beginning to call Taylor Swift Yoko Swift.
Oh kids, let me explain Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift right there an item
You are probably if you are under the age of if you're under the age
of sixty, for sure, you probably aren't familiar with Yoko Ono. You
maybe might have heard it from mom and dad. But Yoko Ono is widely
regarded as the person who broke up the Beatles when she became involved with John
Lennon, and so after the Chiefs lost to the Raiders twenty to fourteen on
Christmas Day, a loss that guarantees Kansas City will not get the number one
seed in the AFC playoff race. By the way, the reality of all
of that began to sync in with Kansas City Chiefs fans. Sadness could be
seen in that suite as Travis Kelcey's new girlfriend was comforting a visibly distressed Brittany
Mahomes. Chiefs are now three and five since Kelsey and Swift began their relationship.
Kelsey in that time has called only one touchdown pass and so yesterday on
Twitter, a lot of Chiefs fans were comparing Taylor Swift the Yoko owner.
Oh no, like Taylor Swift made break it Up, Kansas City's version of
the Beatles. We'll see. I think the Bengals are what an eight point
underdog out there this week? You know you've got to see some pictures.
You all listen. It just won't be It may be a regional broadcast,
but she'll be there. And the quickest way to put an end at all
that, I guess is for Travis Kelcey. He catch about three or four
touchdown passes which of course, we will do everything right in our power to
prevent Yoko's swift though twelve to fifty News Radio seven hundred w WELW. The
throw to Kelsey's being taken out of every play. You can see it.
And he doesn't have the wide receivers that can get open like he has in
the years pass I mean, Tony is he's a lost ball. He really
is. And something else. And nobody's talking about with Kansas City. I
haven't heard anybody talk about this. They changed offensive coordinators after last year.
Eric b Enemy, who was not allowed to call plays in Kansas City,
went to Washington, where he is allowed to call place. Of course,
Washington is not doing anything this year either. They have bad personnel. But
the Enemy on that Kansas City staff, the players liked him, they understood
him, he understood the the you know, the limitations of what Kansas City
could do. He's not there. Nobody's not a lot of people talking about
that, about how b Enemy left and all of a sudden that offense got
really really average in a hurry. But they still have Mahomes. They still
have Patrick Mahomes, whom we will see this week. Are you going to
buy an electric vehicle. I found this interesting. Apparently, these evs,
these electric vehicles, are not quite what the American public wants. Now.
I know that may sound strange, because US sales of these cars, they're
up up dramatically from twenty twenty two to fifty percent. In fact, according
to the Washington Post story I'm reading, there were eight hundred and six six
nine thousand fully electric vehicles sold in the United States in the first ten months
of this year. That's a fifty six percent increase over the same period in
twenty twenty two, eight hundred and sixty nine thousand of these things were sold.
But place that up against the rest of the market, the rest of
the automotive market, and it ain't as good as it looks. There's a
couple of reasons why. First of all, people are scared to death about
charging these things. I can tell you that it's not anecdotal. You can
read anywhere charging stations. Then allegedly they're going to be built to a more
greater extent than what they are right now. If more greater is not piling
on verbally, but they're going to be built in greater number than what they
are now. Okay, but not now they're not anyway. Company GM in
October said that they were scrapping plans to build four hundred thousand evs by the
middle of next year and delay the start of EV truck production. Again,
it's charging that's the problem now. The average US price paid for a new
electronic vehicle in November, just last month, was fifty two three hundred and
forty five dollars, eight and a half percent higher than the average price for
the total market. So you have cars that cost more, charging stations that
aren't fully available, and you have certain states like California where they have energy
issues anyway. I mean, you know the guy that's in charge of that
state out there with the slick back hair, you know he wants he wants
it to go totally green. Well, sure, fine, you're the guy
that presides over a state that can't get houses air conditioned in the summertime and
ain't get the lights on in July and August. Sure, let's plug in
a lot of elect electric vehicles out there. That'd be a great idea.
Okay, but let's assume for the moment that all of this will be rectified,
that California and other states with grid issues will get all of that fixed.
Let's assume for the moment they're going to build all these charging stations,
dealers don't want to sell them. It wasn't that long ago. In fact,
it was three weeks ago. A coalition of more than three thousand auto
dealers all around the country, representing all fifty states, sign an open letter
to President Biden telling him, tap the brakes on this stuff. Tap the
brakes, and they're aiming at Biden's tailpipe emissions. You keep the jokes to
yourself about that. They're talking about the Biden administration's tailpipe emissions and the standards
that were released earlier this year, which are the most aggressive federal regulations ever
of its kind. And Biden, of course wants everything to be green here
within the next fifteen years, and he wants all cars that are produced between
now, I said between now in the middle of next year, he wants
a certain percentage of the market to be zero mission vehicles. He wants half
of all new vehicle sales by twenty thirty to be zero emission vehicles, so
the American publics taste for it. While up from year to year, it's
still nowhere near what people want from standard autos that use gasoline, which,
by the way, if you notice, gasoline is coming down. And they're
also skittish about the fact that, Okay, I'm going to buy this thing,
where am I going to charge it? I have a very good friend
you may know people too, that he bought one of Elon Musk teslas and
he went up to Indianapolis to see a concert this summer and he had the
damn thing charge when he left Cincinnati, gets up, goes to the concerts,
coming back and he's like somewhere outside of Batesville and he's got to get
a charge, and he pulls over wherever this charging station was, because they
tell you where the charging stations are on the display. He had to sit
there in the dark in this I guess it was like either a shopping mall
or someplace there was nothing else around, and he's got his car plugged in
and charging him. I mean, anybody could have come up and clubbed him,
but there's no appetite for them. People are skittish about the batteries and
the ability to charge him. Biden wants everything green by twenty thirty five,
and he wants, as I just mentioned, these zero mission vehicles to be
a large chart truck in the market by the middle of next year, and
it's not gonna happen. Cardialers don't want to sell him and right now,
even though it's a pretty impressive number eighty six eight hundred sixty nine thousand electric
vehicles sold in the last year, it's not it's not a fraction of the
market. It's one o'clock. It's time for the news. News Radio seven
hundred WLW. Heay News Radio seven hundred WLW. The average American in for
the Great American on this day after Christmas. Wherever you are, however,
you may be listening either through the great medium of terrestrial radio or on the
iHeartRadio app. We welcome you on in. I hope you had a great
time yesterday, because it's all fun and games until the bills come in.
And even though credit card debt tops one trillion for all of us, even
though the average credit card debt in America is closed to eight thousand dollars,
we have been spending, spending at Christmas, and when the numbers come out
as to how much we spent, it will be undoubtedly up from where it
was last year. But now there's this Lending Club. It's one of those
companies that does surveys about the economy. Lending Club says sixty two percent of
adults in the United States are living paycheck to paycheck. It wasn't so long
ago that number was somewhere around fifty two to fifty four percent. Now it's
at sixty two percent, and one would think only going on. So we're
spending, we're not worried about how much it's costing us to spend, and
yet we're living paycheck to paycheck. So what's going on here? Standing by
the way in is a certified public accountant, but more important, he is
a financial strategist, and most important, he's a good guest of this show
from Raymond James dot Com. Here he is Bill Dendy. Bill, how
are you on this glorious day? Hey, Ken, It's great to be
with you. And I think that that's kind of the imbalance a lot of
economists are wrestling with, because last year we had over half the economist predicting
a recession, a recession that did not happen as a FED raised interest rates
to slow down inflation. Yet I think part of the reason is that the
consumer just kept on consuming, and the consumer consumed in spite of things cost
you more money, and the consumer consumed in spite of the cost of debt
cost you more money. And that's caused a lot of these folks who have
been great consumers. It's good for the market, but it's caused put themselves
in a precarious situation where they kept on spending even when they didn't have it
to spend. And that may be the reason we see credit card debt at
the astronomically high levels it is today. Right, so we're spending. The
economy is I supposed to be doing well because of that. Retailers, online
shopping, whatever it may be, is doing well. But what we're really
doing is kicking debt down the road, and bills always come due, and
it's kind of like the bubble. They can get a little bigger. Oh
my gosh, it's gotten even bigger. Hasn't popped. But the challenge is
with this, many of our listeners out there who are they were already maybe
having a hard time getting by, but with it costs them more to get
by, and with the cost of debt for their variable interest rate credit cards
or variable mortgage interest rate mortgages. They've turned to their last resources to maintain
their last lifestyle, which is to start borrowing. And when the lifestyle continues
to have demands upon them, are they're going to run out of the ability
to borrow, or we're going to have that inevitable oops, we're going to
have a something that go wrong. And it may not be globally and maybe
just in our own little lives, but the big ones are when the whole
economy decides to slow down at the same time and we're faced with job loss
because most of us, you miss one paycheck and we start missing making payments
on bills. So we have to then decide who gets paid per second and
third, and how do we get by until we can get the next job,
because there isn't a whole lot and there's a whole lot of debt outstanding,
and they're in lies the rubs. Sixty two percent of Americans are living
paycheck to paycheck and bill. You go to any poll, it doesn't matter
whether it's a conservative poll a liberal poll. Everybody thinks the economy is bad
and they're worse off than what they were three or four years ago. So
I suppose it's not so much what reality is, it's what perception of reality
is. We can leave reality to the bills that are coming due. We
can leave reality to sixty two percent living paycheck to paycheck. The overall feeling
is is that this doesn't feel right and it's not working, and that's a
problem, isn't it. That's right. But in spite of it not feeling
right, the average person feels comfortable enough about their own situation. They feel
comfortable enough that they're going to be able to maintain their jobs that they continue
to borrow. And that's kind of I guess a positive negative a sentiment is
positive that their own ability is going to be they to pay bills next month.
Yet overall they think that we're in for a catastrophe. And I think
that the challenge here, or I guess the warning sign is economic cycles are
going to run cycles. They call them cycles for a reason. We go
boom bust. That happens. Some parts of the world are more used to
that than others. But I know that the automobile industry used to boom bust.
I know that out in Midland, Texas, oil and gas boom busts,
and people have gotten used to that. But overall we have this expansion
contraction. That's a normal breathing pattern of economy, and it's just good common
sense for an individual get themselves in a position to be ready for a contraction
should one happen. And if we continue on with the happy times and the
economy keeps doing well and we keep seeing our four one ks increasing value,
that's wonderful. But we should make ourselves in a position to where if we
do have this contraction, that we're not suddenly now based and some very hard
questions on who doesn't get paid, how do we have, what can we
not, what can we default on? How do we make ends meet when
there just isn't any money coming in and nothing in the bank. It makes
sense to double check our own exposure to our risks of job but also risk
to the marketplace. Check our portfolios and make sure that we're going haven't gotten
to your work over the past few weeks of the market going up, and
now we're fully exposed at a time we might need to be pulling money from
the market. Yeah, you know, unemployment is down, it's at a
workable number, but the underbelly is the job market is tightening up. There
was a time and not so long ago, when there were an excess of
ten million jobs that were unfilled. Well, a lot of companies have figured
out I don't really need to fill that job. I can figure out a
way around it, and maybe I don't have to not necessarily downsize, but
keep size. Lot of companies are tightening up, which means that employees may
not have the flexibility to try and change jobs, and as we just talked
about, because of this bubble, their jobs may be in question down the
road. And my fear is is that a lot of people just keep spending
feeling I can pay my bills, but they're paying, for example, on
credit cards, they're paying the minimum, they're paying two hundred and twenty five
dollars a month when they're running up in excess of ten thousand dollars on that
credit card. So, first of all, never to get too cocky when
it comes to money. And second of all, you got to know what
your limitations are. You get too far over your skis, you're going to
get engulfed by a wave. And I fear that's what's happening here because I
know these numbers bill are going to come out and they're going to come out
soon. And I've got to say, look at how much money consumers spent
during the holiday season, and well, you and I both know you spend
too much now a month, two months, three months down the road,
even if you are employed, you could be on the ropes right absolutely,
And I know a lot of people have gotten used to that behavior that kind
of like maybe our waistlines. I eat too much over the holidays. I
know I'll put on the extra pounds, but I know by spring break time,
I'll be back to bathing suit rate. I'll take it off later,
I'll fast and then exercise. But I think for a lot of us,
we need to maybe double check and make sure that we're doing the basics.
And it's probably as exciting as exercising and dieting correctly, but the basics are
doing some planning and doing budgeting and make sure that we know how much we're
spending, what does it really cost to get by and are you getting maximum
enjoyment out of every dollar you spending. Are you maybe wasting money just because
we've gotten lazy because we've had abundance, And maybe it's time to really examine
what where can we save some money and are we getting our dollars worth of
every dollar we spend inflation? And I know you know this, but it's
not something that happened in a vacuum. It's compounded. So when the government
will say, well, inflation was only up three percent, well that's three
percent compounded as to where it was a year ago and where it was two
years ago. Everything costs more, so it's not really three percent. It's
probably more like nineteen twenty percent. And I think they're in is the disconnect
with a lot of people. They say, well, it's only up three
percent, but then they go to the grocery store and they see that,
you know, the basics costs more, chicken, eggs, milk, bread.
They see that what they buy looks smaller. I said this last week.
I'll say, I love M and ms. You buy a pack of
M and ms, Now the M and ms are smaller than what they were
a year ago. I mean, it's just there's shrinkflation, there's inflation,
and there's what we're being told on the other hand about inflation short maybe slowing,
but what's left in its wake? You know, you've got a little
scorched earth behind you with where inflation has led us to right to this point
today. Right absolutely. And when people say inflation is under control, it
doesn't mean it's gone. It means that it's not. As it's not the
double digits we saw a couple of years ago, it's not as scary,
but we're still seeing things increase year every year. Yet there are some economists
who are talking about something just as scary called deflation, may be hitting us
next year if all this suddenly happens at one time that people wake up and
they realize they need to quit consuming, and with the lack of consumption comes
loss of jobs. With loss of jobs comes some defaults on credit cards or
mortgages or student loan debt, and then we start having that domino impact of
one thing falls after another and it creates a full fledged procession. And so
there is that risk that we may face some come up, and we may
face that pull back. And inflation is causing us to spend twenty to thirty
percent more for things were buying daily than we did three years ago. And
that's just that compounded effects you're talking about. And it's not gone, it's
just slowed down for a lot of things. But if we suddenly hit the
brakes real hard. We might go to the other direction, which is just
as bad, and it scares the economists just as much, and that's deflation.
Bill Dendy's our guest. He is a financial strategist. He's with Raymond
James dot com. Okay, so go back a year ago. Everybody,
with the exception of The New York Times Paul Krugman, we're predicting this recession
that was going to hit. It hasn't obviously hit yet. But who's the
guy that held off the barbarians at the gate? Was it Jerome Pale or
was it other circumstances that led us to where we are now? Where the
spending is still going on the market seems to be robust, and despite the
fact that a lot of people are living paycheck to paycheck and are seeing or
we'll see giant bills down the road. So how do we get here?
Were these economists wrong a year ago or is it just a vision delayed?
In your opinion, the reality will probably hit in for a lot of individuals
that they cannot continue the consumption that they've been able to maintain them the past
couple of years indefinitely. And I believe we will see a slowdown and we'll
see that recession. I think that economics were totally wrong in the timing of
it. They underestimated the optimism of the American worker and the consumer, and
they felt that people would quickly make adjustments when they saw that they could not
pay for the lifestyle that they've enjoyed. But instead we just borrowed money.
So that borrowing the money is going to create maybe a worse problem when he
finally wake up to it. But for the bed, he said, Gid
droan Pyle credit. He couldn't have asked for a better result. I mean,
it looks like that soft landing that people said would be impot possible.
It looks like that landing on the Hudson that people talk about that just how
do you do that turn and land on the river? Oh my gosh.
The inflation seems to be gone. We raised interest rates a ton over two
years. We've now stopped raising interest rates and the markets responding very well,
the consumers still consuming. Unemployment is still real low. Beautifully well done.
But does this mean that we've just pushed the problem and actually made it worse
later? We don't know. And that's what the communists are grappling with and
a lot of them are saying that they just gave the American consumer too much
credit for waking up to the circumstances and adjusting their expenses when instead they didn't
because money was still easy to borrow, and so they went out and borrowed
it, which may create a bigger problem down the road. You know,
Bill, as you and I were talking. Just as we were talking during
this interview, ABC News has just come out with I suppose I just want
to make sure I give credit here. MasterCard did their own survey holiday growth
upper market markedly from one year to the next last year. This year was
up over three percent, restaurants seven point percent increase year to year. Retail
was up big as well. Retail sales grew at a breakneck pace online six
percent more than last year, and so the majority approachases took place in person,
resulting in a three point one overall overhaul overall upsurge from one year to
the next. It's up, up, up, during the holiday season.
So that's just out here in the last few minutes. So it's it's it's
not the breaks aren't being applied right now. I suppose the news is going
to be good and the market's going to love it. And what that means
is that consumers did consume and that is so positive for businesses, employment staying
at good levels. It's so positive. Except one day we're going to have
that come up. And so when we realize that we can't continue to borrow,
we can't go to came to say it, two trillion dollars well of
court card gout. Yeah, Well, you know what, it's like anything
else, Bill, It's like anything else. That's a reflection of where we
are right now. We'll continue to buy bye bye as long until those bills
come in and then all of a sudden, whoop, what did I do?
You know? Can't do that anymore? We'll see, I hope not.
This is good news economically, I think on the retail front, and
that is good. But if you're living paycheck to paycheck, you don't need
Bill Dandy or me to tell you how difficult it is out there. Bill,
great talking with you. Happy new year. I know you and I'll
talk into twenty twenty four very very shortly. But between now and then,
stay well and we'll tap back into your expertise here real soon. Thank you.
God bless, you can always pleasure Bill dandy Man knows of what he
speaks, knows of what he speaks. But the numbers released on retail sales
online sales, consumers spent a record. It's almost ten billion nine nine point
eight billion online on Black Friday alone, seven and a half percent increase over
last year. So if you got it, flaun it right. If you
don't and you flaun it now, there's there will be a day one twenty
four News Radio seven hundred WTLW way of life. Wow, any of the
corporate suits listening Une News Radio seven hundred w wel W, you know one
more thing about the you know, a credit card and all that, and
he's tended's right. It looks good, you know the and and when it
looks good, the market feels better. When the market does better, Your
four oh one K does better. When the market does better, the company
that employs you, even if you don't have a four oh one K,
does better, so they would be less likely to get rid of you.
I mean, it all looks it all looks good, But there's a there
is a day reckoning that's coming personally and globally. It just isn't it just
isn't here now. And all of these economists were wrong when they said a
recession was coming in twenty twenty four. I don't think what they banked on
was the American consumer spending despite not having, spending despite not having And isn't
that the essence of the credit card industry. Well break for the news News
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Bony got so every time you go it show time? Got it right?
Ken Brew? What's going on? You are the show? I don't know
about that. Say did you have a good Christmas? It looks like you
had a good prison Everything was good, ken Brew? How about yourself and
the Brew experience? The Brew crew? We had a good time. I
you know, I made dinner. I made dinner segment. How about that?
I make I make this. It's now my seemingly mythical lasagnia. I
make this. Yeah, I make I go. It's an old family recipe
that I did. And then and then and then I baked dessert. I
had a get this and scratch. I made a chocolate devil's food case cake
with a white butter cream icing. Holy moly, and man I had I
had so much think. There was like more things flying around that kitchen.
I looked like Emerald Lagasi on steroids, spam kicking it up a notch can
brew. That's what I like to see. And then I did. But
one dessert isn't good enough. So then I made my now again seemingly mythical
chocolate chip bourbon pie. Oh mercy, taste tastes like it's a pie that
tastes like a chocolate chip cookie. But I put it calls for two teaspoons
of bourbon. I put about a quarter cup of bourbon in it. And
then I make this whipped cream. It's just a straight whooped cream topping,
and that calls for two teaspoons of bourbon, and I put about a cup
of bourbon in that that. I'll tell you what, people, Wally Cow,
I'm coming to your house next year. Well they didn't. They they
didn't want to leave because they fell asleep. They're still there. There's still
well actually two of them are. Yeah, there you go. She hit
the hell out. I'm trying to stoop the floor up. Yeah, I
mean, I gotta do the do you want to do the dishes with me?
Exactly. I said, did you get that shirt for Christmas? I
did? Kenberg? It looks great. Thank you gave you that. Thank
you the lovely Denise, she gave you that shirt. Yep about you?
What what what? What's the what do you? What do you get for
the guy has everything? Like Willie? Well, you know that's that's a
that's a problem. You know what. I'll tell you what. You know
what I got it? I got my kids got together and they bought me
a smoker. How about that? Because I like to cook. You know
it's well, Doug, I like to cook, and so I got I
got this electric smoker, and I got an goes on and like all of
you, pencils and a cookbook and a cover and all that. How about
that? If you didn't know this about maybe four now, baby, I'm
smoking? How about that, ken Brew, I did not know that you
were a You might you know what? You might get the Bruce uh Bruce
views on the Food Network unbelievable. You might. You might kick Bobby flay
Off and the rest of them. I'm gonna be the ultimate smoke show in
twenty twenty four. Look at you? How about that? Something? See
it would have never known that. I know that. So I mean I
got that, you know, and I got some other some other nice gifts
that are really really nice, you know, some part very nice ins hats
and you. Yeah. Absolutely nobody need me a tie because I don't wear
ties anymore. Nobody gave me sex. I was very happy. That's good.
That's good. Well again, brew the stood reporters of proud service of
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Thank you, Thank you. Roxy was sleeping downstairs too. There you
go, she's in the basement. Well, there you go. What did
you have to eat yesterday? Say? Did you have a good meal?
We had ham and uh and turkey, oh lima beans and corn you like
lia bean? Oh love him love love them love line. And we had
a couple of We had some rolls and dessert here and everything else. It
was nice little gathering. That's good man, that great. It was good.
It came over. Everybody's fine. Everything, everybody's doing all right.
Thank you, missus seg whatever happened to Sega Claus. Uh. He made
his appearance about four or five times this month, he did. Yes,
he was not at Redsfest, though, was he him? The Reds have
not asked me to do that for a few years, ken Brew. I
don't know why. I must have been a bad Santa and that, you
know, like that guy in that movie. Could I could I get involved
in this and make sure you're there next year? No, I mean I'd
love to do it. I did it for years of Reds Fest, and
uh then maybe maybe, uh you know, maybe maybe my appearance fee got
too much. Well they said, where else you're gonna go? And then
you have places to go? Yeah, that's true, you're right. So
I don't know. But it was fun. It was fun to dress that
up. And I did it at I did it at the last Bengals tailgate,
yep, the last, the second last, the home game just before
Christmas, and people were taking pictures like crazy and everything else, and everybody
was having a good time. Good That's what it's all about. That's what
life is all about. Said, you know, when this is not a
dress rehearsal, you only get one shot at this, amen. I have
fun, that's for sure, ken Brew. Absolutely, Bengal players have the
day off today. They'll get back to practice tomorrow getting ready for that road
contest Sunday at Kansas City. The day off last I think they yeah,
I think they've been off since Friday of last last week. Seven point Dogs
right now and more on Bengals line tonight, Lance and Lap six oh five
right here on seven hundred WLW. I watched you watch that game, right,
Yes? I did, ken Brew. Let me ask you this.
They play, they play a team that they their starting safeties were out.
They had to move a cornerback to a safety to just to get through the
game. They had like a fourth string safety on the other side. Yep,
they got they got. They got nothing past Cameron Hayward and TJ.
Watt. They got nothing. And they come out there and lay like that.
How does this happen? And the teams and the overall the teams in
turmoil with Pickens and the rest of them, you know, mouthing off against
each other, and they want to run Mike Tomlin out of town. They
already ran a couple of coaches out of there now, So I mean,
you know it was it was Pittsburgh turmoil. And uh, they just came
out and I had a feeling, ken Brew, it wasn't going to be
a good day. When that second play of the game went for ninety two
yards and mister Pickens was running toward the end zone. The guy that was
in the doghouse catches that the second play of the game. Yeah, didn't
you figure that? Have they not figured Mike Tomlin out by now? That
what Tomlin does, even if he's got a problem player is motivate the problem
player. Could they not figure out that at some point early in that game
they were going to throw the ball to Pickens to get the crowd off his
rear end and get the media shut up. Could they not figure that out?
Going? I get obviously they didn't. I'm watching this. I had
adjustment at halftime there. Maybe I'm sitting on my couch right right. There's
not a lot of people that are sitting around me, but I think a
lot of people have heard me when I said they're going to throw to Pickens.
They're going to throw to Pickens. What happens they throw to Pickens?
Yep? Drives me crazy. They're eight and seven now, ken Brew,
and on the outside looking in, and that New York Times Sports Machine says
they got a ninety two percent chance of making it if they win the last
two games. Of course, they have to have what sixty seven thousand other
things happen right with other teams to get in. They have to have one.
No, it's not that season. Go right ahead, let's see.
Uh, Baltimore smokes of the Niners. Last night, the Eagles hold off
the Giants. They were getting a little nervous there and then and then I
don't think this helped the Raiders upset the Chiefs. You got, you got,
you got Mahomes doing a tantrum on the sideline, missus Taylor Swift is
doing through his helmet and he went crazy. And then, uh, you
know in that game, the Raiders did not complete a pass after the first
quarter. Did you hear about this? Said that after that game that there
were Chiefs fans online on Twitter out of them, Yeah, referring to Taylor
Swift as Yoko's swift. Ough Yok broke the Bengals football saying that Taylor Swift
is going up the Kansas City Chiefs. Here we go, Yoko's swift.
Though, I think that I think maybe do any of the Bengals have the
Wherewithal ken Brew to maybe wear a T shirt that says that walking into their
locker room Sunday. No, you know what you know, back in the
good old days, you know what would have happened is they would have is
Palmer would have thrown a touchdown past the Ocho Cinco and Ocho Sinko would have
gone to the sidelines and put on or grow a hat and the cane like
Taylor Swift, pat and do a dance. You know you yes, for
sure Senko would have come up with something. Yeah, there would have been
something on the sidelines in a gym bag or something something Yoko Swift though I
did not know that, ken Brew. That's pretty good all over Twitter.
Yeah, well, hopefully the Bengals can keep can keep the mess going in
the Chiefs, hopefully with a win on Sunday. Well, we like chaos,
sig we like that better than that, that's for sure. Perdue remains
number one in the nation, ken Brew in the latest AP College basketball poll.
H let's see Kentucky's up to eighth. And how about this? You
hear about that the Dodgers new seven hundred million dollar man your guy showy Otani,
I like him saying thanks over the weekend to teammate Joe Kelly for saying
allowing him to uh Otani to take number seventeen. Otani gives Kelly's wife a
new Porsche. I'm serious. It's on social media. It's got to be
right. Well, no, of course there's like a new Porsche like sitting
on their street and they said, hey, you know, come out here
and look at this. So what is this is? This is yours?
What if the Great American returned from wherever he is right now, you know,
is he's down there on the beach doing fire dances in Florida, whatever's
going on down there at sunset? What if he comes What if he comes
back and he is number one? You know that at the Big One right
right right? I mean the one in the Big One is the Great American?
What if he comes back and bequeaths that number one status? What if
he sits down in that cheer you're sitting in again, by the way,
Jem, he sits down and he just says, I'm bequeathing my number one
status. We better go, We better go put up a fun go fundme
page. Now do you think he if he bequeathed that to Mike McConnell,
that he would then buy missus McConnell a brand new Porsche. I don't think
so. No, No, I don't think something I could see it.
Yeah, No, what am I talking about? No, it wouldn't be
a new Porsche, would be a new Joseph Chevrolet. Can prove that's what
it would be. That he'd hand the payment book to McConnell. Correct,
Now you mentioned basketball sake, you heard of this guy, bracketology guy.
Oh yeah, yes, I'm walking at Joe Lenardi's latest sixty eighteen bracket,
and you know who I don't see Xavior, Xavier or Cincinnati. He's got
Cincinnati as one of the I guess one of the last eight teams out.
Okay, they're not a first four out there a next four out. Okay,
Xavier's nowhere. No, they're not even in that playing thing they have
up in Dayton. Wow, he hasn't. Either of these teams are going
to make it to the to the field of sixty four, which is not
good news considering they both begin well, Xavier continues, but you see begins
conference play here very soon. That's correct. It could be an interesting year,
ken Brew, You I don't know, it's you know what, you
know what Xavier's hanging around five hundred? U sees what ten and two?
Yeah, but uh, you know big twelve is coming, but the Big
twelve is coming. And then n k U is kind of within the five
hundred mark and the Wildcats are eighth in the nation now and uh, Kentuck
loisill stinks fourth seed play in Indiana and he's got Ohio State is a seventh
seed play in Mississippi State. You know. So that's Remember remember when every
team around here made it like for years, for years, I mean literally
every every team from eight to A to X and Illustrated had that that article.
I think it was in nineteen ninety five or ninety six, and it
was the picture of the Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana and it said a river
runs through it. Yep. It was all about the basketball that was being
played at at one time in this town. Those were the days said go
into that, ken Brew, Now what do we have? Who knows?
Maybe in the sixty four team field, maybe maybe Xavier will turn things around.
Maybe you've been I don't know, like you said, they haven't they
haven't hit the old uh you know, Big twelve yet. So look what
happened in football. It's early, everything's early, So that's for sure early.
What else is going on here? That's all I got. It's it,
that's it, well, you know, all I got. All I
know is this, there are two games left, and they got to win
both and they still might not get in. That's correct because I think I
said this earlier. I think Buffalo's in. Yeah, they played New England
this week, that'll get them to ten wins. Yeah, I think they
beat New England in Buffalo. New England, you know, smacked around Denver
pretty good, but then had to hang on. Then they got to go
to Miami and play, and Miami may be playing for a number one seat
depending on what Baltimore does. That's true. I think Buffalo's in. I
think Cleveland's in. Cleveland's got ten already to make Houston Thursday night don't win
that game, particularly if Stroud doesn't play. I don't you know what the
Jets. They played the Jets in Cleveland and then they wind up here and
then they wind up here. So I think Cleveland's in. I don't know,
it's Pittsburgh's got what two road games, right, Yeah, I think
Pitts. I think Pittsburgh's done. I think Denver's done. It's going to
come down to the Bengals, Indianapolis or Houston for that final playoff spot.
But that's only if, it's only if Cincinnati win, correct, and they
ain't going to Kansas I don't care anything about Yoko Swift though, No way
in hell. They're going to Kansas City this week and beat the Chiefs if
they play like they did in Pittsburgh exactly right, And then and then you
know, the Chiefs are gonna want to wrap up the division and you know,
and probably cool off one one, you know, the last game of
the year. Ye right, So I don't know, and then you know,
you got you got the Chiefs right now, right, they're nine and
six, right, probably they're gonna win. I mean, the next closest
competitor is Las Vegas. They're gonna have to have a complete breakdown for correct
for that. So they're gonna win that division, yep. But now they
can't. They can't get the number one seed. That's out. And you
got Baltimore playing Miami. You've got Baltimore against Miami for the number one seed.
It's it's coming down on the last weekend, Amen, last weekend.
It's gonna be interesting, ken Brew. Everything in life is sick. Everything
is interesting in life is interesting. That's for sure. I got nothing else
for you. You got anything else? I got nothing? All right,
we should probably you'll be back at two thirty because they have more questions,
we got more answers. Well, let's hold all right, ken Brew.
In honor of a kind of a gloomy day after Christmas, hope you got
it. Hope you got everything you wanted from Santa. If not, go
to a store and now you probably get it for half price today. Absolutely,
and say it's going to look like this every day from now until like
April twelfth. That's true. This is this is what we got. We
leave you with the immortal words of the Stood Report. Life's never easy in
the National Football League. This is It's just amazing, isn't it. Thank
you Lap when we got that right. How about how about Sam Hubbard saying
they need to be more physical? Huh what you said that? In the
locker room? Laps in there, he's doing the you know, locker room
scrum in there with them, all the other writers and reporters. That's you're
supposed to do that every week, right, and and they and Lapp said,
well, you won the last two weeks, the last two years,
you win. Oops. It might have been another reporter and lap was just
there. I don't know. I'm listening to this audio and Hubbard says,
yeah, we we gotta be more we gotta be more physical. I'm like,
okay, this this should not be an issue with two games to go
in the season. It's gonna say two to go in your playoff, in
your playoff hopes are almost diminished. Yeah, you should be a We should
be more physical. That's what we need to be doing. They haven't won
a game in their division. That's unbelievable. When it might have, When
might it daught on you that maybe you got to rough up the other guy?
Bingo, I don't know, say the whole world's out of whack.
I can't make sure, especially in the National Football League. I gotta go
downstairs at what are we done here? Three? Yes? All right,
so I'll get home at three thirty. I gotta go downstairs when I get
home and throw those people out. Okay, it's been here so it's like
noon yesterday. Tell Yoko Swift though we said hello, oh well on seven
hundred w welw at the door they have found. Then believe this little level.
You can tell that win that I was bad of the bowl, bad
of the bowl? The bowl? All right, two o seven. It's
the average American and put the great American on this glorious day after Christmas.
Glad you here with us. Don't know who you spent the holidays with Saturday,
Sunday yesterday. Don't know who you're spending the holidays with this coming weekend?
Chances are, chances are you may be spending them with someone you're not
really fired up about spending a holiday with. Because, believe it or not,
this is a time of the year when a lot of people do assessments
of what kind of relationship they're in, whether or not it's working for them,
and that you or they or someone may be in for one of those
dreaded come to Heesu's discussions about why this may not be working. But do
people really want to go through Christmas, New Year's this time of the year
alone if they've been alone for so many years and they've found someone who just
might not be mister right or mis right? And should you just stay together
during the holiday season simply because of that loneliness or fear of it? In
other words, if it's time to go your separate ways, does it really
matter what the calendar says? Standing by? Who's is someone who's an expert
on this? As a matter of fact, Tony Berquist is a professional matchmaker
and dating expert. She's got a company called The Agency, and the Agency
is a highly personalized, invitation only firm. I feel feel honored that she's
invited us into her world right now, Tony, how are you on this
glorious day? I'm great? How are you? I? I'm somewhat less
than that, but I've got several hours I can get there before midnight.
Yeah. But so, this is really a time of the year where I
think a lot of people are not a lot, but a certain significant number
of people are deciding whether or not they want to stay in the environment of
which they've chosen or made, whether or not they want the person that they're
with right now to remain a part of their lives. What is it about
holidays and seminal moments like this? I'm not sure that I would think if
you're like thinking about breaking up with somebody, you would think about it prior
to the holidays, or maybe after the holidays. I would suggest unless there's
like an intense betrayal at this time. If you've all you're going to stick
it through the holidays, then you've made that decision. I'm really not one
to advocate for people staying together just so they're not alone, because I think
that there's a level of feeling more lonely when you're with somebody who's not your
person. Yeah, it just to me. You get to these moments during
a calendar year, obviously this time of the year, maybe Valentine's Day,
maybe the end of a semester at college, wherever it may be, And
if you're really being honest with yourself, I think you have to look inside
and say is this working. Chances are, if you're thinking about it,
there have been warning signs along the way that might have led you to the
position of your thinking about it and maybe maybe having the discussion. There'll have
to be warning signs, right, Yes, And in all my years of
you know, talking to singles or couples, I've never really encountered somebody that's
broken up during the holidays, if they've had the if they had the feeling
that that that's not their person. They tend to do it either before.
And if they really don't want to be with that person, it's probably best
whether it's the holidays or not. Well, I mean, if you aren't
supposed to be with that person, you shouldn't one year. It's not like
it just comes upon you all of a sudden it's Christmas and you realize,
oh, I don't want to be with you anymore. It's Christmas Day.
If that feeling comes up, yeah, I think it's probably better to wait,
unless there's, like I said, an intense betrayal or something that occurs
that you just can't bounce back from. Yeah. And you know, and
again, it's kind of like any other relationship, marriage or otherwise, if
you're just staying together because of some outside force, I don't want to be
alone during the holiday season. Not good enough, you know. I mean,
it just just doesn't work that way, does it. No, And
I think that I do not think people should settle for love. I think
that you can. I think it tends to be lonelier to be with somebody
that you're not truly meant to be with. And if you do that,
you're you're basically, you know, giving yourself very little chance to find the
right person for you. Like I said, I don't really think that it's
an opportune to to break up. I think if if you have that feeling,
you know beforehand, Yeah, yeah, well certainly not today. I
mean, you already if it's Christmas, you already gave her or him a
gift. I mean, so give it more today, right, right?
Yeah, But you know, just because it's a holiday, it doesn't mean
that life isn't, you know, going on and happening. Yeah, you
know. I think if it does happen at this time of the year,
you know, some would say, okay, there's still I don't know how
fastive you'd want to be, but there are still events that occur at this
time of the year would allow you at least the opportunity to get out and
circulate again, or get back into reconnecting with old friends or something like that.
So it's not like it's the middle of the winter and nobody wants to
go out. It's not all that bad, I suppose, if indeed it
does happen, right, I mean, I have a friend who left her
fiance on New Or's Eve. You know, it was just that they were
they were just done, you know, and she signed. And I have
seen people break up, you know, during on birthdays or different holidays,
and they're fine, you know, obviously for a couple of years after you
kind of you kind of think, oh, this time last year we broke
up or you know, you know, but that fades every time. But
you know, it is not a one size fits all answer for everybody because
everybody's situation is different. So advice advice is that, oh, should you
break up during the holidays is really hard because it depends on the person's situation
and how they're feeling. I think an emotionally intelligent couple, if they're not
doing well prior to the holidays, should probably end it. If you're doing
it for family or for other purposes, and you're going to put on a
happy face and you make that decision and then break up after. But that
requires emotional intelligence. I would guess it's a it's not an easy thing for
singles to connect. I mean for singles to connect, and that's where the
agency comes in. And my guess, and again this is a guess and
correct me if I'm wrong here is that one of the things that you do
is to try and pair people so they don't get to a point where it's
that way. I mean, there's there's finality to everything right in life.
It doesn't matter whether it's love or life itself. But I would what you
try to do. Well, Yeah, I'm a matchmaker, so I absolutely
I have matches and marriages and my sole purpose at being a matchmaker is to
help people find the love of their life and hopefully get them married. I
just found out two days ago one of my matches got married, so that's
just that's the dream for me, is always connecting people to get married.
Also, most people don't really want to be on the apps, at least
the people that come to me, So I give them a way to meet
and a time when it's very difficult to meet organically. Right right, when
you when you when you uh, you talk to people and maybe they come
back to you. When a relationship is starting to get on the skids,
do you encourage the talk to sit down and just be open and honest about
it, or or or if you're going to break it, get out of
get out of town. As soon as you can. How do you what
do you do? I had this happen recently where I had a client he
you know, they were younger at early thirties, and he wanted to propose.
They did have a couple issues that were very difficult, and I refer
them to a counselor. I gave them the best coaching that I could,
and I refer them to a counselor because I knew that they loved each other.
I mean, he was going to propose to her, So I definitely
say, try to work it out if if you really love each other.
Absolutely, a lot of people, you know, don't know how to be
in a relationship because their environment has been their teacher. So it depends on
what your you know, what your parents are like, or what what the
people around you, what their relationships are like, and the level of your
you know, emotional capability of being in a relationship and and everything that we've
learned through society that's just not normal. And there's a lot of that.
A lot of the problems come from they've normalized the abnormal and relationships. It's
kind of like where they say it's okay to be like the worst version of
yourself the person you love the most because they love you and they should accept
you. That's kind of baffling to me, Like, why would you be
the worst version of your off the person you love the most, or to
anyone, I mean really well to anybody, obviously to anybody. But but
just that in itself has been very normalized. A lot of things that that
I don't think are normal have been normalized, and we kind of need to
go back to just the fundamentals of not being selfish in relationships and having the
emotional intelligence and if you don't know how, finding experts that and there are
a couple really good experts that can teach you very simply, and then it's
just applying, you know, applying the knowledge in the relationship. How do
you fight fairly? That's a great one, you know, if you're in
a fight, how do you fight fairly without you know, just hurting each
other and not letting it get to a point to where it is. But
I mean, by the way, we're chatting with Tony Burkwist Matchmader dating experts.
He's at our exclusive agency dot com. But I guess I guess,
like anything else though about breaking up at this time of the year. The
holidays in and of themselves are stressful, So why would it not stand a
reason that that would exacerbate a problem if the problem's already there, right,
Yeah, especially if families involved, and you know, if your family is
compassionate or not, so, you know, I would suggest that if obviously
we're you know, we're already nearing New Year's Eve. But I would suggest
if you are in a relationship that's not working, that you would have tried
to figure it out prior to the holidays. And some people just don't want
to be alone, and they'll just say, Okay, well I'm just going
to be with them through the holidays and then we'll break up, which I
don't think is a really smart thing to do, because I do think it's
a lot you get as lonelier to be with somebody who don't want to be
with. Sure. Sure, in any relationship, right, Tony, it
doesn't matter whether you're it's romance or otherwise. I've got a theory, and
it's not my theory, it was It's a theory that's widely widely known out
there. It's who do you let in your room? Right? And there
should be a finite people that you let in your quote unquote life. But
it's your room, and if it's somebody that makes your life less enjoyable than
what it should be, don't let them in. It's it's not rocket science,
is it. Those are just simple boundaries. But you know, sometimes
people have to just learn. I mean, the best way to navigate life
is through life experience, and when the lessons happen that you've learned those lessons
and you don't let them happen again. It's kind of like when a woman
dates the same guy over and over and over again. He just looks different,
but the same experience keeps happening and it doesn't work. It's like the
universe is funny like that, they'll keep sending you that guy until you realize,
okay, this is not for me. Or the same thing with the
guy with a woman who and you know, women don't really understand that men
are very sensitive and that they want love is just as much that they as
they do. So it is interesting to be in this world and to hear
so many people's thoughts and belief because I always try to give people hope.
At the end of the day, I want to give people hope that if
you want to be in love, you will. You will eventually find love.
It might not be in the day and time exactly when you want it,
but you can't let that deter you, because maybe there are things that
you need to learn while you're alone. But for the I've been an attaker
for twelve years, and I worked with singles for three years prior, and
I will say that I have constantly, over and over and over and over
again, seen people, even the most hopeless, fall in love. And
you have to be ready for it when had comes. You can't just say,
oops, well I wasn't ready for that, because you might be waiting
a little bit while longer for it to tap me on the shoulder again.
You got to be right or it just surprises you. One of my favorite
matches in my life was he It was his seventh match and he did it.
He was really falling apart. He was having a very difficult time and
she had had a hard time too with her past. But I had I
just knew that they were going to be for each other. And it took
me four and a half weeks to get him to meet her. It was
me literally like three times a week calling him and just saying you have to
meet her, until I finally was like, I'm not even choking here.
This is like I know for a fact that this is your girl. And
they fell in love and they got married six months later. They've been together
over five years and they are completely different people, so happy because I don't
think they had ever had love in the way that they have with each other,
and so through that they healed each other. So, like I said,
it's hard to it's hard to categorize and put everything in a in a
one size to sell a box when it comes to advice or experience because it's
different for everybody. That should that story alone, Tony should give a lot
of people to encourage me. Well. I have so many hopeful stories,
so many hopeful and I'm a very boutique matchmaker. I do work by invitation
only because I want to make matches and I'm not a salesperson. But even
the people that I've worked with them were not my matches. I have seen
them go through the whole experience with me and then they've fallen in love after.
And I mean almost ninety percent of the people I've worked with over the
years, they've all found their person. And I work with a lot younger
clientele. You know, a lot of my clients are late twenties to mid
thirties, right, I mean, people working very difficult to meet each other.
They have their problems. The apps, the dating apps are the big,
big, big problem. And then you bring into the last several years
of the polarization between politics and people's beliefs on what's going on in the world
and not just amplifize how difficult it is to me. But I don't ever
want people to not have hope because, like I said, I have seen
the love story over and over and over no matter what is going on in
the world. Our exclusive agency dot com, Our exclusive agency dot com.
But that's way to find me is on LinkedIn. I'm connecting with me on
LinkedIn. Yeah, okay, good, Yeah, Well listen, keep hope
alive, keep love alive. Sounds like that's what you're all about. Appreciate
your time and h thank you, well you gave some hope to some people
here our exclusive agency dot com. Or get a hold of Tony on on
LinkedIn. Thank you, Tony, thank you. There she is Tony burkewis
b rgq ist. If you think about breaking up during the holidays. Don't
stay together just because you want to be lonely. That's why God invented cable
television. Work on it what somebody else knew? As I said, it's
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and when you punch us back, we're gonna smile at you. And when
you knock us down, we're gonna get up. And on the way up,
we're gonna buy a kneecap off, all right, and we're gonna stand
up, and then it's gonna take two more shots to knock us down,
all right. And on the way up, we're gonna take your other kneecap
and we're gonna get up, and then it's gonna take three shots to get
us down. And when we do, we're gonna take another hank out of
you before before long where they're gonna be the last one standing. All right.
That's gonna be the mentality. Hello, quiet, and I'm scos,
I'm broadcasting. What was that? That's not like? Sound like? Is
a w WE in town tonight? Downtown? I mean that's just oh Dan
Campbell with the Lions. Oh yeah, that was you know, you win
it you when you win, you win a division for the first time in
thirty years, and look what happens now you're now you're some b a.
I you know what, I I liked him when they were losing all those
games. I mean he was like crying up there on the p Yeah.
Yeah. Now now it's like, yeah, but that's just stupid act like
you've been there before. Yeah, it's kind of what I think. That
what I think? You know what that was ken Brew? I think that
was his introductory news conference. Well they lost like fifteen to sixteen games.
Yeah, I think anybody's cat now yeah they yeah, except their own.
But I liked that team. I do. Yeah, amen, But I
liked him when he was up there at the podium crying. It shows his
vulnerability. You know who they got on a team. David Montgomery local product
here but number five. He said, he's running like crazy in Detroit.
No, no, doing a good job. You know, they've had it.
They've had a very good year. Sick. Yes, they have had
a very good year. You know. And what can they do? They
can run the football. Well that's true, and you know what, Motown's
going crazy? What Canda Bengals not do? Run the ball? Football?
Can Brew? The stood reporters of proud service. Every local Tame Star heating
and air conditioning dealers Tame Star quality. You could feel in Cincinnati Coach Sheldon
Braun at Braun Heating at Braun Heating at five one, three, three eighty
five seventy seven sixty five spots. Thank you, Roger. Do you think
anybody calls him Shelley? Probably, well, his close friends probably, do
you know, probably around the office, you know, doing golf course.
Yep. Bengals and Bengals have another day off, can brew? I know
they've been off since Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The guy had
back to action, back to practice tomorrow getting ready for that road contest.
And Yoko Swift o Kansas City. Let's see more tonight on Bengals line starting
at six oh five right here on seven hundred WLW. I'm expecting somebody on
Twitter at some point to tweet we need all you Swifties to mount all of
your power and course and directed at Travis Kelsey's so we can beat the Bengals.
That's right, drive him crazy. Cleveland Browns have a few injury concerns
now Ken Brew Dustin Hopkins sitting out, so they have let's see it in
Rookie quarterback Dorian Thompson. Robinson has been placed on season ending injury reserve with
a hip injury, so they're going to bring in. With Hopkins out for
at least a week with a hamstring, Riley Patterson is going to come up
with the practice squad and p J. Walker, quarterback is going to come
back off the practice squad to the active roster. He started some games from
this year. I don't know, no, he started some games. Red's
have a new player, oh alfielder Connor Cappell sister, a brother of Marcia
who works here a minor league contract with an invite to spring training. Are
you serious, mister capell like previously played with the Cardinals and a's are you
serious about Marcia captain? Now I just throw that in. I've known Marsha
for like forty years. Yeah, well maybe it's a maybe. I think
it's her second cousin. Free Tickets played well, Yeah, played forty five
games with Oakland over the last two years. Left handed batter mostly played centerfield
and the minors, so they had a little depth I guess to the outfield.
Ken Brew, well, good for them. Also tonight in the NBA.
We don't talk about them enough Tonight. Tonight's NBA action headlined by the
Detroit Pistons speaking of the of Motown. Looking to avoid some dubious history,
the Pistons will be out to snap that twenty six game losing streak when they
host the Brooklyn Nets. A twenty seven straight loss would break the NBA record
for the longest single season losing streak. They have tied the record of the
twenty ten eleven Cleveland Cavaliers and the twenty thirteen fourteen seventy six Ers. Seg
if they were playing that game in my backyard, you know what I would
do. You'd be in little Miami Brewing. I would close the drapes.
Also, Luca Donzig remember him, what ye triple double the other night against
the Spurs? Well, he played Santa Claus the other day. Yeah,
each player, coach, support staff member got an electric bike from Donzig,
worth over thirty four hundred dollars. Really, how about that? What electric
bike? Just because it's Christmas? He did that? Correct? Well,
Yeah, that's that's very John. And your good friend Pat mcpatrick Mahomes gave
his offensive lineman what golf carts? I saw that. Yeah, that's great,
so they could get the hell out of the stadium after the game.
They should have wheeled the golf carts out there to plot for that. I
don't hear. I never heard what the Bengals players that gave each other.
I didn't nearby. That must be a secret. I don't. I don't
know who gave to who to what. Well, I know is everybody got
something. Yeah, they certainly did. Sega. I know exactly where you
were. I know exactly where you were forty five years ago. Actually,
yeah, forty five years ago tonight. Okay, you were sitting at your
home, Yeah, and you were dialed into the Cincinnati Stingers at the Birmingham
Bulls. Was that the famous that wasn't That wasn't the No, that wasn't
the massac. That wasn't the massacre. Well, I don't think that was
it. I think that was Thanksgiving Night, won't or something against the Birmingham
Bulls. Yeah that might have been. Was that the one they won six
to five in overtime? Yeah, but then they had that big brawl or
something that Thanksgiving Day night massacre Sasco Yeah yeah, well but this was okay,
forty five years ago. Tonight they were at Birmingham and they lost port
Its. They were in the middle of the streak where they had won but
one game at eleven tries. And then came back two nights later and played
the Bulls at us Bank Arena and lost six to five, which I'm sure
you were there, yes, but I didn't miss too many games back then,
ken Brew, that was the last year for this thing, either that
or listening or listening listening on the radio to end them Mac Well, he
wasn't doing the games in seventy eight to seventy nine. Was he moved on
to the NHL? Well, that's true, Yeah, you're right. I
think he went to the Blackhawks then. Yeah, they had a big you
know what probably listening to Well, well, I don't know, was that
John Robin or what's a guy's name that's now in Chicago. Oh, the
guy that used to be the PA announcer. Yeah, I don't know,
or no, John Walton's with the capitals. He used to be the PA
man for the Reds only Yeah, and then I can't remember the guy that's
uh the voice of the Blackhawks. I think he did the I think he
was the Cyclones man, I'm not sure who did the I don't know.
Back then, they come and they go. You know, yeah, that's
true, guys, they're just coming, they go, that's for sure.
They played Czechoslovakia that year too, Like right after the New Year, they
played check and they lost that game. What about Terry Fickearelli the Fictionary?
Remember him? I remember. I don't know if he's working in hockey.
Very good, the Fictionary. The syc Clones made the playoffs that year.
Say they played the Whalers and they lost the best of three in three games?
Was that you think that was with Pie mackenzie and Gordie how and his
son. You know they were in Houston. I don't know where they were
because in that league they were moving all over the pus. You got that
right? Well? I know is they played a team called the Birmingham Bulls
a lot that year. Yeah, that's true. You know it was their
first p announcer and US Bank Arena or was that right? Yeah? River
French Collie and no Kidd and I and I would get the game notes and
I would say, here come the stairs when they came on the ice.
Well, the first opening night, first game ever at the US Bank or
what the hell it was called back there, Friend Coliseum, Heritage Front or
whatever it was called. First game, they gave me a list of fifty
groups to welcome, and they told me you cannot begin welcoming these groups until
the teams hit the ice. So the teams hit the ice. I think
they were playing Indianapolis or Edmond, tim I forget who they were playing.
But they take the ice and I okay, now I got to read these
names. And when they take the ice, it's like within two minutes,
they want to have the national anthem, and I'm reading these names of it.
We want to welcome the you know, the little squirts from Dell High,
and we want to welcome you know, the skating side clothes. Go
to all these names, fifty names, and I get about halfway through it,
and the referee for the first night was a guy named Bill Friday.
I'll never forget Yes Bill, yesday, and then yes Hey. He comes
over to me to where the where I'm doing the PA my first night on
the gain my seat and he sticks his mouth right up to that opening where
they can talk through the past. Yeah, he looks, he looks at
me. He says Hey, slick, this ain't Toledo, Ohio. Shut
up, we gotta go. Yeah, and now our national anthem, Yes,
how about that, ken bro And and then I forget who the pr
guy is. He's called down yelling at me because I didn't finish the names
I said. Think the referee just said I had to shut up and start
the game. You could down here and talk to this guy. What a
league, ken Brew. One of the many stories I have from my very
very brief time as the Cincinnatists. And while you get yelled at by Bill
Friday, that was like getting thrown out by uh, let's see what probably
a famous umpire or something. Well, it was like it wasn't like wow,
six years five years before then, as I was yelling stuff at Friday
for the stay that's right, that's right, that's true. You're right,
he was, he was. I think he's in the Hockey Hall of Fame,
isn't he I should be? I think yeah, But I think he's.
I think he is. I think he's an All of Fame. That's
when they had coach named Terry Slater number Terry oh yeah yeah, but he
gets out on the some call goes awry and he decides he's going to go
after the official after the game, and he winds up pushing this guy I
don't know who it was, and became a big stink and kind of like
Matt Miyoska of the FC Cincinnati right exactly kind of. And and so Terry
Slater you always find him in the Stingers locker room after the game drinking a
can of beer. And the beer was Schlitz. That's what he wanted to
drink, was Slitz. So I was I was Aterfic also radio report at
the time. So I went in and I'm interviewing Slater and I said,
Terry, can tell me what happened. And he looks at me and he
takes a swig of beer. He goes, I tripped on a beer can
on the ice, and I happen to run into the official and I and
then he takes another drink, and I'm bringing the microphone back, and I
says, well, it was it a can of Schlitz, and I put
it in front of his face and he looked at me. I swore to
god, I've got a summer. I think he burked nice. How about
look at you? Ken Brew? All these stories, oh, absolutely,
how about that? Yeah, Hey slick, Hey slick, Hey slick,
let's go it. Hey slick, this ain't Toledo ile. Shut up,
ladies and gentlemen, our national anthem, go right ahead, Thank you,
everybody, please stand, please stand and hold your hand over your heart.
Right all this stuff down. I mean, that's hilarious. You get older
and you start for getting slick, this isn't Toledo a ile. Nice you
get you know what? You know what ken Brew, at least you got
yelled at by the best of them. Well he was. He was one
of the He was one of the best referees that probably they the w A
J had. It wasn't it won't be the last time. And it wasn't
the last time. That the best than anything yelled at. I've been yelled
at a lot. I've learned to take this stuff. Anyway. Did anybody
say, hey, slick, this isn't Toledo pile. Let's go No.
Well, I told you the turkey story, that turkey story. I told
you that people were yelling at me. When you know, they let these
turkeys loose on the ice, and there these turkeys are crapping all over the
place on the ice. The game's over. There was their turkey giveaway.
Everybody got a most people got a frozen turkey. But twelve people will get
down on the ice with a sack and could bag a live turkey. And
then I don't I take it somewhere to have it. I mean it totally.
I mean Peter would have had their veins would have exploded in their head.
I based all this, and they lose. They let there's these ten
turkeys on the ice in the corner of the ice and they're huddling on they're
crapping, and I'm like, this can't this can't be possible. This isn't
happening here. But I mean that, I give them credit. They tried
everything everything to make Cocky go in this town. That's for sure. They
certainly did anything else. Say it comes and it goes. Amen to that,
ken Brew, Amen to that anyway, seg I'm done. What do
we got here? We want to extrapolate about anything else? I don't think
we got anything else. Can Brew, all right, we'll get us get
us out of the Stewge report, if you will. Ken Brew and Hounter
of the Bengals getting ready to face those chiefs and Yoko swift Oh. On
Sunday, we leave you with the immortal words of the stood before first and
ten Bengals from their own twenty their first play at the third quarter offensively to
the T Higgins spreading to the fifty's forty. He's running away for the past.
He's gonna take at the distance on eighty yard touchdown for T Higgins,
who finger rolls it over the crossbar after taking it to the house for an
eighty r TD. Tell he's something Dan Hoyden's best, played by play announcer
Amen to that he is the best. Yes, but you know what say,
I think T Higgins is out of here after this year. Now they
needed more, They needed a few more of T Higgins On Saturday, Ken
Brew to do anything. But we'll see what happens, that's the fact,
Jack. But I think I think he's out of here after this year.
Man, We'll see what happened. Yeah, well, I mean, Jamar,
you got you gotta paid you borrow. They gotta pay a lot of
guys. Not to pay a lot a lot of guys. It could be
no doubt about that. Windows closed and the cast of characters will be vastly
different, Yes, sir, all right, seg I gotta go, all
right, ken bro who's in next? By the way, do you know?
I think it's Dan Carroll and the illustrious One, the Pride of Marshall
University, the one and only Jason Williams. He was in their marching band.
Did you know that? I know? I know? How about that?
Have you seen his tuba? I had the big plue. I know
blu Is on the tuba played played second tuba in the Marshall Marshall and nobody
knows that. I know now they do. Do you know the Marshall flight
song? No, It begins with the words please don't schedule, Ohio you
I'll see you say yeah. So coming up on two fifty two, that
is true. Jason Williams and Dan Carroll are next, and that will get
more into what they're talking about. Hopefully we can figure that out. Hopefully
they can figure it out before three o'clock seven hundred w welw or he just
keeps doing it to himself. I'm not sure which is true. Remember Musk
back in April he wanted to come up with He came up with this idea
of putting a computer chip aided weight loss thing of a jig inside your body.
In other words, you get this chip, you put it inside your
body's going to help you lose weight because, let's face it, obesie is
a major problem in this country. So must thought this would be a good
idea. And in fact, it has helped people with paralysis regain partial control
of their limbs, could even translate neural impulses. But it requires brain surgery.
They literally draw a hole in a patient's skull and plant the device.
And so a lot of people didn't think that was a good idea. Besides,
since the federal government by and large is in the tank for big farm,
it was a drug that was approved rather than Elon's idea. Eli Lilly's
drug, zep Bound was approved last month for weight loss. But you know,
and then you looked at that and you said, well, is Elon
musk on to something or is he on something? And then they had to
recall the Tesla cars. Remember that they had a recall of Tesla, Well,
it was over the air. Network television made a big deal about it.
Teslas aren't safe, they could be driving into each other. And then
Obama made the movie where Tesla's are driving into each other. It seemed to
me that they were out to get Elon Musk right, and they may still
be. But now there's this. A Tesla engineer was attacked by a robot
during a bloody malfunction. It says here at the company's Giga Texas factory.
It's a factory near Austin. Two witnesses, they say, watched in horror
as their fellow employee was attacked by the machine designed to grab and move freshly
cast aluminum car parts. The robot had pinned the man. The worker is
then programming at that point software for two disabled Tesla robots nearby. Perhaps the
robots struck back before this robot that was working sunk its metal claws into his
back, leaving a quote unquote trail of blood along the factory's surface. So
apparently a lot of people are getting attacked by Elon Musk gizmo's. And maybe
it's not a good idea to drill in a hole in somebody's head and put
a chip in there. But maybe you just take the drug Maybe that's the
key to success in the KEDA life anywhere, right, just take the drugs.
Back in tomorrow at noon, for Willie have a great rest of today,
and you will if you keep it tuned right here on seven hundred WLW