Speaker 1: Why it's seven hundred WLWNC average American and for the
Speaker 1: great American on this Thursday, and welcome on into you.
Speaker 1: The NCAA Tournament is officially begun and tip offs under way.
Speaker 1: Of course last night and Xavior with a big win
Speaker 1: over Texas in the playoff game, they're off to play
Speaker 1: Illinois and Milwaukee. That game is tomorrow night and right
Speaker 1: here on seven hundred a WLW and the games begin.
Speaker 1: We'll see brackets need to be in like in the
Speaker 1: next minute. First tip I think is at twelve fifteen today.
Speaker 1: Is that not right? That's right. Meanwhile in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: The legal merry go round goes on. We've got Trump,
Speaker 1: we've got tariffs, we've got rogue judges, and we've got
Speaker 1: people that seem to think that Elon Musk is so
Speaker 1: evil they want to burn down Tesla's country seems to
Speaker 1: be on fire once again. It always seems to happen,
Speaker 1: doesn't it when there's a Republican in the White House.
Speaker 1: Why is that? Why does it always seem that when
Speaker 1: there's a Republican in the world White House there is
Speaker 1: unrest in the streets. Never figured that one out. Nevertheless,
Speaker 1: that's what we have. The FED yesterday did not raise
Speaker 1: interest rates. They're leaving well enough as they see it alone.
Speaker 1: The FED chair Jerome Palace, says that tariffs will have
Speaker 1: an effectively short term on inflation, and not a good effect.
Speaker 1: But he doesn't seem to think long term it's going
Speaker 1: to matter all that much, will it? Who knows? That's
Speaker 1: why they meet every couple of months. Somebody keeping a
Speaker 1: key I on all of this is a fuller US
Speaker 1: Congressman from the great state of Ohio. Right here in Ohio.
Speaker 1: It was the sixteenth congressional district that Jim Bernacy represented
Speaker 1: for many terms, and right now he is doing good
Speaker 1: work outside of Washington, DC. He's back in Ohio and
Speaker 1: he's back here with us here on seven hundred WLW
Speaker 1: And Jimbernacy, how are you on this glorious Thursday.
Speaker 2: I'm great, Ken, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm even better now that you're on with me. I
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about tariffs, but I've got
Speaker 1: to hit you with a couple of things before that,
Speaker 1: which is in essence news of the day.
Speaker 3: You go.
Speaker 1: This judge in the DC Federal Court, James Brosberg, who
Speaker 1: decided he was going to interject himself into a federal deportation,
Speaker 1: in essence telling the Trump administration to turn the plane around.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows exactly in the wake of that, but it
Speaker 1: just kind of added on Jim to what I find
Speaker 1: a disturbing thing. Here, ninety percent of the challenges that
Speaker 1: have been brought against Trump, his policies, his executive orders,
Speaker 1: and whatnot, ninety percent have been brought to Democrat judges,
Speaker 1: judges that were placed on the federal court by either
Speaker 1: Barack Obama or Joe Biden or Bill Clinton ninety percent.
Speaker 1: And here you've got this guy Boseberg, who in essence
Speaker 1: decided he was going to get involved with public policy.
Speaker 1: And I raise this with you because this goes right
Speaker 1: back to I think a lot of what you were
Speaker 1: all about when you were in Congress. There are six
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five federal judges in this country. If
Speaker 1: each one of them wants to start injecting their opinion
Speaker 1: and whatnot into federal policy, this country would be paralyzed.
Speaker 1: I understand a lawsuit has to begin somewhere, but I
Speaker 1: don't think the idea of this country was ever, let's
Speaker 1: just litigate to the point of paralysis. But I could
Speaker 1: see a road right now that we're on that may
Speaker 1: lead to that. Can you see that?
Speaker 2: Well, curly, that's going to be what happens as President
Speaker 2: Trump continues to move forward at a pace that many
Speaker 2: Democrats aren't comfortable with. But I will tell you the
Speaker 2: one thing that there was a poll came out yesterday
Speaker 2: I thought was very interesting. Eighty four percent of Americans
Speaker 2: believe eighty four that's a pretty big number, believe that
Speaker 2: something has to abide by the judicial system. In other words,
Speaker 2: he cannot just run over it like he continues to
Speaker 2: say he's going to and not follow. So in eighty
Speaker 2: five or eighty four percent of Americans believe that judiciary
Speaker 2: at least has to be answered to. I think it
Speaker 2: becomes a political problem for President Trump, and he's going
Speaker 2: to have to take these pills all the way up
Speaker 2: to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I don't. If we get into that situation,
Speaker 1: then you have absolute chaos. And he you know, I
Speaker 1: think he's savvy enough about what goes down in court
Speaker 1: after the last couple of years to understand what the
Speaker 1: legal jeopardy of that is. But the issue really is,
Speaker 1: at what point do these federal judges need to quote
Speaker 1: unquote stay in their lane. And I you know, it
Speaker 1: seems to me somebody, I don't know whether it's in
Speaker 1: the Trump administration or outside it, somebody somewhere has to
Speaker 1: be aching to get the way this process works in
Speaker 1: front of the Supreme Court. So once and for all,
Speaker 1: we understand that you can't have six hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: five federal judges deciding we're just going to decide this
Speaker 1: and this and this and this, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the elected officials in this country, people like you, don't
Speaker 1: have a say in the matter the way they should.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. This thing could turn into complete
Speaker 1: chaos if Trump and his team just say, you know,
Speaker 1: to hell with the law, We're going to do whatever
Speaker 1: we want. But there's that problem on the other side,
Speaker 1: where you've got these judges just running all over the
Speaker 1: place deciding they're going to take this case that case.
Speaker 1: And you get at the end of it all, Jim,
Speaker 1: you get judge shopping And I really don't think that's
Speaker 1: healthy for the country, either of you.
Speaker 2: No, and I would agree, and remember, and I think
Speaker 2: you hit on this, which is important. This judge didn't
Speaker 2: bring this case somebody brought this case to the judge.
Speaker 2: Now the judge made a decision based on the case
Speaker 2: being brought to them, and I'm not too sure you
Speaker 2: can pick the judge at least anytime that I've been
Speaker 2: involved in court matters or usually it's a luck of
Speaker 2: the draw. Now, when you go to d SEE you're
Speaker 2: going to get a Democrat judge, There's.
Speaker 4: No doubt about that.
Speaker 2: So it always depends on where you go and what
Speaker 2: states you're in and what county you're in. But any
Speaker 2: case brought in d C probably is going to be
Speaker 2: ninety nine point nine percent going to be a Democrat judge.
Speaker 2: So it's one of the reasons why I think these
Speaker 2: cases are brought to the DC court because it usually
Speaker 2: is a Democrat judge. But again, wholeraly agree with you.
Speaker 2: These are issues that you know, the American people in
Speaker 2: many cases, the American people like what Donald Trump is doing.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, you have to remember we're
Speaker 2: a divided country, and there are fifty percent of Americans
Speaker 2: who do not like what Donald Trump's doing no matter
Speaker 2: what he does, and there's fifty percent who love what he's.
Speaker 4: Doing no matter what he does.
Speaker 2: And I think that's what the real problem we have
Speaker 2: in our country right now.
Speaker 1: And I think all this talk about impeaching judges and whatnot,
Speaker 1: it's nonsense. It's not going anywhere. These guys are difficult
Speaker 1: to remove. They're there, they're going to stay there. And
Speaker 1: you know, I think those in Congress that think it's
Speaker 1: a good idea, and I think Trump would be well
Speaker 1: advised not to start raising that particular specter anyway. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of intrigue past that too. I don't want
Speaker 1: to get bogged down on that. I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: to you today about tariffs because I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of pros and cons to tariff. We're hearing a
Speaker 1: lot of the cons to tariffs, and I think there
Speaker 1: are probably more of those than there are pros. I mean,
Speaker 1: once you you know, I understand the United States has
Speaker 1: been ripped off from a trade standpoint. I mean, I
Speaker 1: get that. I think they are countries that have taken
Speaker 1: advantage of us and with our willingness over the course
Speaker 1: of time. But getting into a urinating contest with places
Speaker 1: like Canada, Mexico, China, and whatnot. In the state of
Speaker 1: the economy of what it is right now is probably
Speaker 1: not a great thing to do. Yet there are people,
Speaker 1: and there are people that are very well schooled in
Speaker 1: economics gym, that are advising the President to go ahead
Speaker 1: and continue down this course. If you were advising the president,
Speaker 1: what would you be advising him right now about tariffs
Speaker 1: and what it could do to you and me and
Speaker 1: everybody else that are just trying to make it go
Speaker 1: from a day to day standpoint.
Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting about tariffs. You know, this isn't new.
Speaker 2: Prisident Trump brought this up in twenty seventeen, and I
Speaker 2: remember being in the White House with Manuchin and Cohen,
Speaker 2: which were his two advisors. One was his Treasury secretary
Speaker 2: and one was his economic advisor, and both of them
Speaker 2: were telling President Trump tariffs are not good. And he
Speaker 2: attempted to use them a couple times, but I think
Speaker 2: he had people around him then that were saying they're
Speaker 2: not good. They're good for a negotiation tool only, let's
Speaker 2: face it, Ronald Reagan placed one hundred percent tariff on
Speaker 2: Japanese electronics at one point in time to get Japan
Speaker 2: to the negotiating table, and they did, and he was
Speaker 2: able to get some negotiations in place. They're good for
Speaker 2: that purpose, I am never a.
Speaker 4: Believer for their good long term.
Speaker 2: In twenty seventeen, we had something called the back tax
Speaker 2: being introduced border adjustment tax.
Speaker 5: It basically was.
Speaker 2: A tariff on any import coming in, and we did
Speaker 2: enough hearings to determine that it was not good for
Speaker 2: the economy and ultimately it was a hidden tax on
Speaker 2: the consumer. And that's what we have to be so
Speaker 2: careful of these taxes. A lot of people don't understand,
Speaker 2: and some of your listeners might not understand. There end
Speaker 2: up being paid for by the consumer. The person the
Speaker 2: company that pays the tear for bringing the goods in
Speaker 2: ends up passing that on to the consumer as a
Speaker 2: hidden tax. And that's what I fear more than anything,
Speaker 2: because that will cause more chaos to our economy. And
Speaker 2: it's one of the things if I was advising President Trump,
Speaker 2: I would tell them great to use them for negotiations,
Speaker 2: bad to use them for economic purposes, and some of
Speaker 2: the things we're doing right now or economic purposes which are.
Speaker 1: Not good out today. That said that over one thousand
Speaker 1: dollars of added expense this year alone would be added
Speaker 1: on to the you know, the daily bills. One thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year, not on a daily basis, but over
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a year would be added on to
Speaker 1: the taxpayers back if indeed these tariffs continue. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they're a great negotiating tool, There's no question about it.
Speaker 1: And Trump is first and foremost a businessman, and you know,
Speaker 1: he seems to be the kind of guy when if
Speaker 1: he thinks you're ripping him off, he's going to make
Speaker 1: you pay for it. In severalfold. We'll see if they
Speaker 1: continue to go out. He seems to have. He seems
Speaker 1: to have backed off the bluster with Canada and Mexico.
Speaker 1: I think China was always at ten percent, but he
Speaker 1: seems to have backed off a little bit. But it's interesting,
Speaker 1: you know, Jim, when you say it's a negotiating tool,
Speaker 1: Mexico and Canada would have to know that too. I mean,
Speaker 1: all they have to be really is patient, right, They
Speaker 1: just have to let this thing run its course. And
Speaker 1: if indeed it does take a toll on the American taxpayer,
Speaker 1: well it's not going to last very long in this
Speaker 1: country anyway, right.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And by the way, here's something your listeners should
Speaker 2: know as well. The last trade agreements were negotiated by
Speaker 2: President Trump and signed by President Trump in January. In
Speaker 2: June of twenty twenty with Canada and Mexico. So the
Speaker 2: current trade agreements, whether we like him or not, were
Speaker 2: negotiated by President Trump and signed by President Trump in
Speaker 2: June of twenty twenty. So he is now saying he
Speaker 2: doesn't like his trade agreements. That's one issue. The other
Speaker 2: issue is from a manufact facturing standpoint, And I'll take
Speaker 2: the automobile industry. They made a decision twenty five years
Speaker 2: ago to be the North American manufacturer of automobiles.
Speaker 4: So there is a process where.
Speaker 2: Cars are manufactured by moving them from America to Mexico
Speaker 2: to Canada, and each one of these areas has an expertise,
Speaker 2: whether it's chassis, whether it's electronics, whatever it is. So
Speaker 2: we're in North America and manufacture. If you impose these
Speaker 2: tariffs on a sixty thousand dollars car the movement between
Speaker 2: these three countries, it'll raise that car.
Speaker 4: And we knew that back in.
Speaker 2: Twenty seventeen, which is one of the reasons we told
Speaker 2: President Trump, whoa, whoa, whoa, watch what we're doing here.
Speaker 2: Now I do agree it'd be great to have all
Speaker 2: that manufacturing back in the United States. And that's the
Speaker 2: one thing that Trump says, well, just bring back the manufacturing. Well,
Speaker 2: here's the problem. It took us twenty five years to
Speaker 2: make it the North American manufacturing of automobiles. It's not
Speaker 2: going to take one year to bring it back.
Speaker 4: Think about that. How do you bring a plant back to.
Speaker 2: Do the electronics when there's no plants in the country
Speaker 2: right now doing it. That could be seven, eight, ten
Speaker 2: years down the road. So I think the president has
Speaker 2: to be very careful when he does these things and
Speaker 2: when your listeners use the comments, and I hear this
Speaker 2: all the time, which is why I bring enough. Well, Reneci,
Speaker 2: he just wants to bring manufacturing back to America. Hey,
Speaker 2: that's great, but you got to realize it's not going
Speaker 2: to happen overnight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, absolutely no. It's kind of like your grade
Speaker 1: point average in college. Right. It can fall quickly, but
Speaker 1: to build it back up to where it was is
Speaker 1: a long, tedious process. And that's kind of like where
Speaker 1: it is right now. I don't think anybody should be
Speaker 1: under the illusion and all of this is going to happen.
Speaker 1: Crystal bol listening for US Jim. April the second, which
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is calling Independence Day, that's when these additional
Speaker 1: and broader tariffs are supposed to go into effect. I
Speaker 1: have a sneaking suspicion not along about the thirtieth of
Speaker 1: March twenty ninth of March, we're going to hear something
Speaker 1: where there's been some sort of agreement with Canada, with Mexico,
Speaker 1: maybe with China something or other, and they never happen.
Speaker 1: A lot of this is Washington theatrics, at least it
Speaker 1: appears right now. I can't believe that, if indeed you
Speaker 1: have inflation that is still stagnant, he has not passed
Speaker 1: the tax cuts that he wants to pass. I can't
Speaker 1: believe he's going to go ahead and do this on
Speaker 1: April the second, can you now?
Speaker 2: And I'm a person agree with you. And what's interesting?
Speaker 2: And look, President Trump's great at showmanship, and I love
Speaker 2: him for that.
Speaker 4: He will tell you that he.
Speaker 2: Got concessions when really the Prime minister or the president
Speaker 2: of Mexico really didn't do much of anything.
Speaker 1: But he'll say that he got.
Speaker 2: Those concessions, and the American people will love him for
Speaker 2: saying that he was able to get this done, but
Speaker 2: in the end we really didn't get much accomplished through
Speaker 2: met with Mexico or Chime or I'm sorry Canada recently.
Speaker 2: Yet I do think he will have to back down.
Speaker 2: There are some companies in the United States right now
Speaker 2: that I know for a fact that I've talked to
Speaker 2: that if he implements those tariffs, especially with Mexico, those
Speaker 2: companies are on such wire right now as far as
Speaker 2: being able to survive that will they will go out
Speaker 2: of business. And I think he has to realize these
Speaker 2: are large companies now too. I'm not talking about you know,
Speaker 2: mom and pad companies. I'm talking about national companies that
Speaker 2: are in our very operation on very thin margins that
Speaker 2: this will be the inform So I think he has
Speaker 2: to take all that in consideration.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I got about thirty seconds here. You mentioned
Speaker 1: you were in the room with him about seven eight
Speaker 1: years ago when Minusian was in there and advising him
Speaker 1: not to do tariffs. Do you think he is getting
Speaker 1: sound advice from the people he surrounded himself with this
Speaker 1: term for things like this involving money, involving inflation, and
Speaker 1: while involving the general economic health of the country. Do
Speaker 1: you think he's getting that now.
Speaker 2: No, I mean, and again that's probably something that most
Speaker 2: people don't like me saying, but I actually do think
Speaker 2: he had a lot better people around him back then,
Speaker 2: and I think today now the Treasury secretary, the current
Speaker 2: Treasury Secretary, has come out and said he thinks in
Speaker 2: quiet rooms, he thinks that these tariffs are a problem.
Speaker 2: But I think Minuchen and Cohen were willing to say
Speaker 2: that in public. And I think the President has put
Speaker 2: a lot of people around him that are loyalists today
Speaker 2: more than people who will really say, mister President, we
Speaker 2: can't do this, and I think that's one of the
Speaker 2: biggest issues we have moving forward. Hopefully he's going to
Speaker 2: listen to some of the people that aren't in the
Speaker 2: room and not do these stairs.
Speaker 1: All right, Jimmer and Dacy, it's always great catching up
Speaker 1: with you. I know the golf courses up there and
Speaker 1: that you're part of Ohio are not quite as challenging
Speaker 1: as the ones down here in our part. I know
Speaker 1: you'll hit him straight and far up there come down here,
Speaker 1: and of course it might be problematic for you, but nevertheless,
Speaker 1: we appreciate your time here at seven hundred WLW. Stay well,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it as well.
Speaker 4: You take care, all right, all right, all right, yeah,
Speaker 4: I will.
Speaker 1: I'm anxiously looking at April second. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's going to happen. I have a sneaking suspicion it
Speaker 1: will not. It's twelve twenty five News Radio seven hundred WLW,
Speaker 1: twelve thirty nine News Radio seven hundred WLW. Welcome back.
Speaker 1: It's the average American in for the Great American on
Speaker 1: this Thursday on the show today. Well, Hamas and Israel
Speaker 1: are a love and rockets back and forth with each other.
Speaker 1: Apparently there was the hoodies got involved. They got some
Speaker 1: missiles into the Gaza strip last night, and actually there
Speaker 1: was one headed for Israel and it was picked off
Speaker 1: by the Iron Dome. Over and above that, you've got
Speaker 1: sixty college campuses. Sixty college campuses have been warned about
Speaker 1: the anti Semitism on campus. Where did the split come from?
Speaker 1: What happened to America and Israel? Not just from a
Speaker 1: political standpoint, but really from a rank and file standpoint
Speaker 1: in this country. What happens to no daylight between us?
Speaker 1: And why now are all these campuses exploding again? We'll
Speaker 1: get into all of that coming up at one six
Speaker 1: two six today. Okay, look, I knew this story maybe
Speaker 1: once every couple of months, because it won't go away.
Speaker 1: It is a major problem. Tipping. Tipping, tipping is out
Speaker 1: of control. Everybody that interacts with you in a business
Speaker 1: now wants a tip. Here's an idea. How about the
Speaker 1: business pay the employees better so the employees don't have
Speaker 1: to go begging for money when they hands you a
Speaker 1: cup of coffee, or maybe when you're getting to drink
Speaker 1: and you get the laptop or iPad of shame shoved
Speaker 1: in your face. We have restaurants in this area that
Speaker 1: have a place to put a tip for the kitchen help.
Speaker 1: How about paying your kitchen workers better. Don't make a
Speaker 1: U problem a me problem. There's one restaurant, at least
Speaker 1: one in this town that has a quote unquote healthcare
Speaker 1: payment you can put on your bill. You know what,
Speaker 1: you can't afford to own a business, don't own a business.
Speaker 1: Can't afford to pay your employees what they deserve, then
Speaker 1: don't own the business. But don't make a you problem
Speaker 1: a me problem. Pretty fired up about this. We're getting
Speaker 1: into this at two oh six. Pretty fired up with
Speaker 1: what happened last night in Dayton. How about it eighty
Speaker 1: six eighty, Xavier wins it and moves on into now
Speaker 1: the tournament. That was a play in situation last night.
Speaker 1: Now they move on to play Illinois tomorrow night in Olwaukee.
Speaker 1: It's a late tip. Eighty six eighty last night, And
Speaker 1: after the game, Sean Miller said this, you know.
Speaker 6: It's one of the greatest games I've been a part of.
Speaker 6: You know, obviously, the energy of our of the crowd,
Speaker 6: our fans certainly took advantage of the proximity to Cincinnati
Speaker 6: and in that emotion and when we needed him, it
Speaker 6: was certainly a.
Speaker 1: Factor in the game.
Speaker 6: I think all three of these guys would tell you
Speaker 6: that we certainly felt it, really appreciated it. Look, I
Speaker 6: thought we'd beat an excellent Texas team. You know, they
Speaker 6: are disciplined, they have depth and talent. You know Johnson,
Speaker 6: we knew it was going to be you know, a
Speaker 6: tall order to guard him, and.
Speaker 1: It was Yeah, it was is right. Johnson played extremely
Speaker 1: well for Texas. In any event, that would be Trey Johnson,
Speaker 1: by the way, who who was a handful for Xavier
Speaker 1: last night, twenty three points six or fourteen shooting the
Speaker 1: other big story was Marcus Foster of Zaba here eight
Speaker 1: of nine from the field and dropped in twenty two points.
Speaker 1: I think the last I saw this today, I think
Speaker 1: it was in Cincinnati dot Com. The last five games
Speaker 1: Foster didn't deliver twenty two points combined. He delivered twenty
Speaker 1: two last night. In any event, they're moving on, they're
Speaker 1: playing on. The games are underway already today, very early
Speaker 1: on number four seed Perdue is a five to three
Speaker 1: lead right now, and that game is on True TV
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken. Is that where that is? That
Speaker 1: where that game is? Because they're on all over the place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: five to three over high point in the first half.
Speaker 1: About halfway through the nine seed Creighton is leading the
Speaker 1: eight seed Louisville twenty eight to twenty one, and then
Speaker 1: ensuing games later this afternoon. Chasin Deets is the founder
Speaker 1: and CEO of Sportsbook Insider, which is a great place
Speaker 1: to go off want gambling information, break down on matchups
Speaker 1: and games and whatnot. And I asked Jason to check
Speaker 1: in with us today right now, because you know what,
Speaker 1: if you're going to play the game, you might as
Speaker 1: well play to win. And over above that, I like
Speaker 1: his handicapping advice, and he said yes, so standing by
Speaker 1: now and flashing online three euphemistically speaking, of course, is
Speaker 1: the aforementioned mister deets Jason Dates. How are you on
Speaker 1: this glorious Thursday.
Speaker 7: I'm great, Ken, How are you doing?
Speaker 1: We're doing pretty well here in Cincinnati. We thought March
Speaker 1: Madness would be, you know, one and done, maybe if
Speaker 1: it even had a chance to get off the ground
Speaker 1: at all. And here was Xavier last night taking out Texas.
Speaker 1: They move on to Illinois. That's going to be a
Speaker 1: load for there. But hang on, let's talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about Texas here. What were your thoughts on that
Speaker 1: win last night for Texas and did you think that
Speaker 1: Xavier had a chance to pull this thing out?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 8: So, I think I'm one of the few people that
Speaker 8: actually thought the Davier with been a good position to
Speaker 8: win that game.
Speaker 7: Texas was a.
Speaker 8: Really tough smatchup for them, just because of how they
Speaker 8: play their pace of play.
Speaker 7: But Xavier has been a good shooting team all year.
Speaker 8: And to be honest, I think, you know, one of
Speaker 8: the things I'll talk about some other conferences later, but
Speaker 8: one of the things that people have been down on
Speaker 8: this year is just the Big East in general. And
Speaker 8: I think they've got some really strong teams. I think
Speaker 8: you're going to see not the people will spoiler, but
Speaker 8: you're going to see Crichton, I think, play well in
Speaker 8: the opening game as well here down in rupp Arena.
Speaker 7: And so I had a feeling that Zavier was going
Speaker 7: to pull that off off, mate.
Speaker 1: I thought, And this is typical of Sean Miller's teams.
Speaker 1: I mean it just they just are. I mean, regardless
Speaker 1: of what you think of Sean Miller as a coach,
Speaker 1: his teams traditionally get better as the season goes on.
Speaker 1: Having Freemantle healthy again is I mean, that was the
Speaker 1: whole thing for his stretch run during the regular season.
Speaker 1: But they have a good guard rotation, and I think
Speaker 1: moving on to play Illinois on Friday, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: even though Illinois goes I think seven to one, six
Speaker 1: nine sixty nine across the front, and they've got terrific guards. Uh,
Speaker 1: I think just having Freemantle back in the guard rotation
Speaker 1: they have, I think I think they can have I
Speaker 1: think I think they got a shot against Illinois. What
Speaker 1: do you think?
Speaker 8: Yeah, So, just because the matchup is pressed, this is
Speaker 8: actually one of the matches I'm still looking into, but
Speaker 8: I like how Xavier matches up against them.
Speaker 7: I know that Illinois is big.
Speaker 8: I know that they're They've got some height, they've got
Speaker 8: some length there, which I think they could use to
Speaker 8: their advantage.
Speaker 7: But overall, I'm down on the Big Ten.
Speaker 8: And I know I'm going to talk about conferences a
Speaker 8: little bit today, Big Ten, SEC, Mountain West, and we'll
Speaker 8: get into a little bit as well. But uh, you know,
Speaker 8: I'm down. I'm down on the Big Ten this year.
Speaker 8: I just don't think they're a strong conference. And I
Speaker 8: don't look at Illinois having really have a few good wins,
Speaker 8: but nothing that really stands out. And I think that
Speaker 8: Xavier plays in what was a tougher conference this year,
Speaker 8: and I think that we're gonna see.
Speaker 7: That shine through when they play.
Speaker 8: And of course, like you said, Fremance was was you know,
Speaker 8: besides you know the help they got off the bench
Speaker 8: last night. You know Freeman will being back, and you know,
Speaker 8: if he wasn't in foul trouble, I think he would
Speaker 8: have contributed even more to that game last night. So
Speaker 8: as long as he's as long as he stays at
Speaker 8: a foul trouble against Illinois. I think that they're gonna
Speaker 8: it's gonna be They're gonna be tough for Illinois to be.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Conwell too got into foul trouble. That's that's key.
Speaker 1: All right, let's you know you mentioned the Big ten.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Big ten. I got a game
Speaker 1: for you here. It's of interest to us to a
Speaker 1: degree here in Cincinnati because UCLA is coached by Mick
Speaker 1: cronin Cincinnati guy used to be at the University of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Right now, it's u C l A minus four and
Speaker 1: a half minus one ten. The total in this game
Speaker 1: is one forty three and a half. UCLA was I mean,
Speaker 1: that was a ship adrift, and then Cronin goes off
Speaker 1: in a couple of news conferences in January and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, uh U CLA snaps back to attention.
Speaker 1: Uh I think they're a little under seated, you see
Speaker 1: in this tournament. What's your thoughts on UCLA and also
Speaker 1: this game against Utah State.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think there's a few different teams that are
Speaker 8: underseated here.
Speaker 7: I think UCLA is definitely one.
Speaker 8: I think Gonzaga is also another one.
Speaker 7: In general, I don't like the Mountain West in these tournaments.
Speaker 7: And there's a.
Speaker 8: Stature that are just going to throw out there that
Speaker 8: has me leaning UCLA and the points, and that's the
Speaker 8: Mountain West teams when seated ten or lower are one
Speaker 8: in twenty.
Speaker 7: Nine in opening rounds.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, wow, Yeah, Well that's a trend.
Speaker 3: That's a trend.
Speaker 7: That's a trend.
Speaker 8: And and you know, and again I hate to keep
Speaker 8: going back to conferences, but teams can play very well
Speaker 8: in conference play within their conference, if they don't have
Speaker 8: a tough out of conference schedule to open the year,
Speaker 8: they can end up with a really good record. And
Speaker 8: I think the problem with that is that when you
Speaker 8: play a more competitive style of games against the big
Speaker 8: Eastern SEC or something like that, those mean more, you know,
Speaker 8: you get more experience. You might be a great team
Speaker 8: against UNLV and Boise State in Colorado State, which you know,
Speaker 8: to their credit, has done really well the last you know,
Speaker 8: ten or twelve games, but they're not the same level
Speaker 8: of competition.
Speaker 7: And I think that's where some of these teams.
Speaker 8: You know, the line that we see out there are
Speaker 8: looking at records, they're looking at you know, pace of play,
Speaker 8: they're looking at you know, Ken Palm ratings and stuff
Speaker 8: like that, but they're not taking into consideration necessarily their
Speaker 8: the strength of who they play, right, And that's something
Speaker 8: that I really like to look at. I will take
Speaker 8: a team that's ten and eight and you know, obviously
Speaker 8: you know UCLA is not this example, but I'll take
Speaker 8: a team that's ten and eight and the SEC versus
Speaker 8: a team that's you know, fourteen and oher when they're
Speaker 8: Mount West Conference, right, just because of the strength of play.
Speaker 1: So you like UCLA in this game, right, I mean
Speaker 1: you're saying give the points up, taking easy. Okay, there's
Speaker 1: a there's an eight nine matchup and I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk to you about this one, and you mentioned the
Speaker 1: SEC Georgia Gonzaga. This is I think could be one
Speaker 1: of the most interesting games of the tournament, the first
Speaker 1: round of the tournament. This is a four to thirty
Speaker 1: tip today in Wichita. Right now, it's Gonzaga minus six
Speaker 1: and a half at minus one oh two. That's kind
Speaker 1: of a goofy number there, But nevertheless, you got Gonzaga
Speaker 1: having the last six and a half with a total
Speaker 1: of one fifty and a half. Two things on this game.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at number one, I think the total is
Speaker 1: way too high. And two, I know Georgia. You know,
Speaker 1: george is an SEC team, but I'm kind of with you.
Speaker 1: I don't think the SEC is as strong top to
Speaker 1: bottom as maybe it looked like this year. So how
Speaker 1: do you see this when Georgia Gonzaga and what about
Speaker 1: the SEC?
Speaker 8: Yeah, so first of all, I got to know where
Speaker 8: you found the minus one oh two. The best line
Speaker 8: I found was FanDuel minus six and a half or
Speaker 8: minus one fourteen, which is a little juicy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Lookten I just mentioned I think along with usc LA,
Speaker 8: Gonzalga is an underseated team in this tournament. I think
Speaker 8: that that is a little bit because.
Speaker 7: Of some of the losses they had. They had overtime
Speaker 7: losses to West Virginia. Let's not go there.
Speaker 8: I'm sure you have some listeners that would like to
Speaker 8: weigh on the West Virginia un see debate, but.
Speaker 7: Let's not go there.
Speaker 8: But they have overtime losses to West Virginia in the UK,
Speaker 8: and I think if they didn't, if they had come
Speaker 8: out on the other side of those, I think they
Speaker 8: would have been higher seated.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 8: I think those weighed against them, but they're overtime losses,
Speaker 8: and I don't think that we should, you know, throw
Speaker 8: off the red flag because of that. That being said,
Speaker 8: as you mentioned, the SEC this year is strong.
Speaker 7: Don't get me wrong. You have very very good teams.
Speaker 8: You've got a lot of SEC teams in here, and
Speaker 8: when looking at it, Georgia went eight and eleven the SEC.
Speaker 8: You've got Missouri, You've got Tech A and M, You've
Speaker 8: got all Auburn. You have a ton of teams that
Speaker 8: played much better in here. And I think that because
Speaker 8: the strength of the SEC overall was strong, it kind
Speaker 8: of propped up some of the lesser teams.
Speaker 7: And that's why I.
Speaker 8: Think Georgia is in this position right, Otherwise I don't
Speaker 8: think they would have been in the tournament. That being said,
Speaker 8: I'll say two things right. One, there's actually a really
Speaker 8: interesting trend when you go back the last few years,
Speaker 8: ninees that are underdogs typically beat eight that are favored,
Speaker 8: right because of that close matchup. There's a trend there, however,
Speaker 8: And I do think and now I'll give a little
Speaker 8: extra pick here, I do think that Crichton upsets Louisville
Speaker 8: in this first game. That's one of my picks something
Speaker 8: that I'm on this morning. But I think that this
Speaker 8: is a situation where Gonzaga shouldn't really be an eight seed.
Speaker 8: So I don't look at it as a traditional eight
Speaker 8: versus nine. I look at it as really a four
Speaker 8: versus nine or a three versus nine, And I think
Speaker 8: because of that, I lean really heavily towards the Zaga
Speaker 8: minus six and nine.
Speaker 1: By the way, I got the minus one oh two.
Speaker 1: It's actually now up to one oh five at bet
Speaker 1: MGM just in case.
Speaker 7: Okay, I'm putting that down there you go.
Speaker 1: I'm helping you out. This is crazy. You know, we're
Speaker 1: we're right over the river from Kentucky, and uh, Kentucky
Speaker 1: is kind of a you know, when they're healthy. I
Speaker 1: think they're really, really a good basketball team. There's no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. They got that super senior Kobe Brea.
Speaker 1: I think he's playing terrific. Miles Rigsby with Troy might
Speaker 1: be an answer for him, but I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think Kentucky has the advantage there. I think Kentucky's
Speaker 1: got the advantage of power for that's center. I mean,
Speaker 1: this should be easy work for Kentucky in this game.
Speaker 1: My question, though, is is as you look at this
Speaker 1: game and understanding that you know these these these anything
Speaker 1: can happen, but rarely in a game like this. As
Speaker 1: you look as you look at this game, and you
Speaker 1: see the number that's out there for Kentucky in this game,
Speaker 1: it's Kentucky minus eleven and a half at minus one ten,
Speaker 1: that's I get goofy. Well I am goofy, but I
Speaker 1: get goofy. Strange number gets into double digits like that.
Speaker 1: What about you? I think Kentucky wins, but I'm not
Speaker 1: comfortable at minus eleven and a half. What do you think?
Speaker 8: Yeah, so this is an interesting matchup. There's been a
Speaker 8: lot of talk about Troy, and I know that there's
Speaker 8: definitely a little bit of money coming in on that side.
Speaker 7: Here's what I look at. Troy had zero wins against
Speaker 7: the field.
Speaker 8: They've played Oregon, they played Arkansas, they played a couple others.
Speaker 8: They didn't have a lot of games against the field, right.
Speaker 8: They didn't play a lot of teams.
Speaker 7: That are in the tourney.
Speaker 8: They played a lot of act State and people in
Speaker 8: their conference and out of conference.
Speaker 7: They didn't have really high matchups.
Speaker 8: So I'm going back to that and I just look
Speaker 8: at the fact that, you know, UK in a really
Speaker 8: tough conference. The SBC is shore. The lower teams a
Speaker 8: bit cropped up by them. But I think the higher teams,
Speaker 8: if you're keenan eight or you're eleven and seven or whatever,
Speaker 8: ten and eight like UK, are against the SEC teams.
Speaker 7: With and they've got wins against Florida, Florida I have
Speaker 7: winning the entire thing spoiler alert, but wow that they have.
Speaker 8: They have very very strong they have a very strong record,
Speaker 8: and I do think that Troy can match up well
Speaker 8: against them, which is which is why I'm with you.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't necessarily take either side of this. I don't
Speaker 8: like this matchup. I think UK wins, but I'm not
Speaker 8: going to lay all the juice on the money line.
Speaker 7: I think it's like minus minus six something minus six
Speaker 7: sixty or something like that, minus six.
Speaker 8: Hundred, So I'm not going to lay all that juice.
Speaker 8: If you want to include it in the parlay, that's
Speaker 8: your choice. But the eleven line looks weird in this one.
Speaker 1: You've got you've got Florida going the distance. Huh.
Speaker 7: I like Florida a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, listen, you're the pro I'm just the Joe
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Speaker 1: Wow, Seriously, they.
Speaker 8: Are the I saw a comparison and I'm a Celtics fan.
Speaker 8: I'm originally from Boston. I'm a Celtics fan, and I
Speaker 8: the best comparison I saw for them is they play
Speaker 8: like the Celtics. They take a ton of threes and
Speaker 8: they force turnovers. And as far as I'm concerned, that's
Speaker 8: all I need to see.
Speaker 1: You see, Sandy, are you serious? You know who they're
Speaker 1: playing in the first game, right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're playing Michigan.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: See the other thing too about that game. Not to
Speaker 1: get too deep in the weeds on that is, when
Speaker 1: that line came out, it was Michigan minus two and
Speaker 1: a half. At minus one ten is least the best
Speaker 1: I found. I found minus one to eight somewhere, but
Speaker 1: I think one ten is basically the line.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 1: Some smelt fishy in that game. But what you're saying is,
Speaker 1: and honestly, I'm not an expert on San Diego, but
Speaker 1: if they jack threes, just watching Michigan's defense throughout the
Speaker 1: Big Ten tournament, you can you can hurt that team
Speaker 1: deeply with their their I don't think they're very good
Speaker 1: at defending against the three, so you may be honest
Speaker 1: on in there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's where I think the good matchup is.
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Speaker 1: all right, let's do it. Yeah, Florida to win it all.
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Speaker 1: MY one on nine. It's the average American and for
Speaker 1: the great American on this Thursday. Great to have you
Speaker 1: with us as always as we press on now through
Speaker 1: the afternoon, and lot going on in the country right now.
Speaker 1: We're seeing campus protests again bubbling up from what appeared
Speaker 1: to be Palestinian pro Palestinian activists, some of whom are students,
Speaker 1: some of whom just might be people that are stirring
Speaker 1: up these protests. You know, you got a kid, You
Speaker 1: got a kid in college, You got a lot of
Speaker 1: free time on their hands. Somebody gets into a conversation
Speaker 1: at a coffee shop and all of a sudden, you
Speaker 1: got somebody who's a fertile mind that just may get
Speaker 1: flipped from one thing to another, or possibly from absolutely
Speaker 1: no idea of what a subject's about. Hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: what the hell, I'm free on Thursday. Let's go protest.
Speaker 1: A judge on Wednesday said that that Columbia student Mahmood
Speaker 1: Khalil must remain in the United States for now, but
Speaker 1: moved his challenge to the legality of his arrest and
Speaker 1: possible deportation from Louisiana to New Jersey. Why well, cause
Speaker 1: New Jersey is a little more liberal court than the
Speaker 1: circuit were Louisiana sitts. Meanwhile, Manhattan based US District Judge
Speaker 1: Jesse Furman denied a bid by the Trump administration to
Speaker 1: dismiss the case, agreed with the Justice Department that he
Speaker 1: did not have jurisdiction because Khalil was held in New
Speaker 1: Jersey at the time. His lawyers first challenged the arrest
Speaker 1: in New York. Meanwhile, across the ocean, they're at it again.
Speaker 1: Last night, Israel said it intercepted a missile launch from Yemen,
Speaker 1: believed to be launched by the Houthis. Gaza remains a
Speaker 1: war zone. Hostages have still not been released to Israel,
Speaker 1: and over the weekend the US struck over a hoothy
Speaker 1: attack taking a ship in the Red Sea out of commission.
Speaker 1: US attacks have killed at least thirty one people. I
Speaker 1: thought there was supposed to be a truce. Thought there
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a ceasefire. Thought there was supposed
Speaker 1: to be hostages exchanged. The hell is going on. Israel
Speaker 1: has now launched new strikes, killing more than four hundred people.
Speaker 1: That's according to the Palestinian Territories Hamas run Health ministry.
Speaker 1: Of course, you can't believe a lot about what's being said.
Speaker 1: It's one side against the other, it's the fog of war.
Speaker 1: But to try and steer us through that and get
Speaker 1: to the facts of the situation. Standing by is one
Speaker 1: of those Middle East experts that we turned to in
Speaker 1: times like this. We've had doctor ASEF. Romerowski on the
Speaker 1: show before. He's the executive director of Scholars for Peace
Speaker 1: in the Middle East, trained as a Middle East historian,
Speaker 1: holds a PhD in Middle East and Mediterranean Studies from
Speaker 1: King's College, very prestigious college in London in the UK.
Speaker 1: And doctor Romerowski, how are you on this glorious Thursday done?
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: What happened to the ceasefire in the Middle East? How
Speaker 1: did that thing literally go up and smoke?
Speaker 3: Well, it's a powder keg, I mean, you know, the
Speaker 3: Middle East politics or Middle East politics. I mean it's
Speaker 3: to contextualize your point. So it's been fifty plus days
Speaker 3: since Phase one ended. And Phase one, to remind your listeners,
Speaker 3: was when we slowly did the driven and grabs of
Speaker 3: the hostages, with all the parading and the theatrics that
Speaker 3: we saw on the stages as they released. Of course,
Speaker 3: the most horrific situation was when the family of the
Speaker 3: youngest of the to just their bodies were returned, and
Speaker 3: then they were supposed to have the mother's part of
Speaker 3: in the casket and she wasn't there.
Speaker 5: There was a lot of back and forth.
Speaker 3: Eventually that did take place after a lot of emotional
Speaker 3: and psychological turmoil, which is part of the psychological warfare.
Speaker 3: Since Phase one ended, Israel has been trying to extend
Speaker 3: the cease fire, but with the demand of releasing larger
Speaker 3: amounts of hostages and not just these ribs and drabs,
Speaker 3: which again coincided with the witcough Trump demand that there
Speaker 3: would be more released, including the five Americans, one alive
Speaker 3: and four dead back to Israel. The Kamas, of course,
Speaker 3: refused to do that as a result of the fact
Speaker 3: that they wanted to kind of flex their muscles. And
Speaker 3: as a result of all of this situation, you're now
Speaker 3: seeing Israel starting the war itself, because they said, you know, again,
Speaker 3: if there's not going to be if you're not going
Speaker 3: to comply with the situation, we're going to move this forward.
Speaker 3: It's important to note, of course, that the existence of
Speaker 3: the hostages is Hamasa's only lifeline, so they play around
Speaker 3: with them as pawns, knowing exactly that Hamas is in
Speaker 3: the Slamist organization that could care less about the value
Speaker 3: of life where they know israelis due and they have
Speaker 3: been willing to negotiate and release active terrorists to fortify
Speaker 3: their bench in exchange for innocent civilians. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: been the game that we, unfortunately have been observing now
Speaker 3: for over a year and a half of this tumultuous,
Speaker 3: longest war that Israel has ever fought.
Speaker 1: All right, let's you're the expert, and you're right, the
Speaker 1: only thing that Hamas has right now are hostages. If
Speaker 1: those people didn't exist, this thing would be over in
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes. But the fact of the matter is
Speaker 1: they do. Do we know they do? Though, doctor, is
Speaker 1: there any indication that the number of hostages they claim
Speaker 1: they still have are still alive?
Speaker 3: So that's the big question we know, So we're the
Speaker 3: estimation is fifty nine, a combination.
Speaker 5: Of dead or alive. What we do know.
Speaker 3: That in the last phase, the last people that were released,
Speaker 3: some of the hostages we know about evidence and their
Speaker 3: accounts that they know of the conditions of the other hostages,
Speaker 3: that were released. That's where we're basing the evidence. In
Speaker 3: addition to whatever intelligence the Israelitis have been able to
Speaker 3: gather as they arrest more and more members of Hamas,
Speaker 3: they've been putting pressure as far as gathering human intel
Speaker 3: and trying to put pressure to find out more intel
Speaker 3: about these individuals. But it's a game and it could
Speaker 3: change on a dime. As we saw before, uh if
Speaker 3: Hamas feels and this is the risk because it's exactly
Speaker 3: what is happening domestically inside of Israel that if Hamas
Speaker 3: feels the.
Speaker 5: Pressure, they could literally.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, basically sacrifice and basically uh, and they
Speaker 3: will kill hostages in order to create the you know,
Speaker 3: the effect of domino effect that they that they want.
Speaker 3: And we know from mounting evidence from the released hossages
Speaker 3: about the suffering, the abuse that's going on and from
Speaker 3: their perspectively correct. Any day that this prolongs, they are
Speaker 3: at risk of uh, you know, they are significant risk.
Speaker 3: So that's the challenge uh, you know that we're going through,
Speaker 3: which is exactly where the Israelis are trying to put
Speaker 3: pressure to say, look, you know, if you want to
Speaker 3: survive to live another day, you know this is something
Speaker 3: that needs to happen now. But as you as you
Speaker 3: we've discussed. I mean, it's a you're dealing with a
Speaker 3: with a non democratic entity, to say the least, they
Speaker 3: don't they don't comply or operate.
Speaker 5: Based on the same rules we do.
Speaker 1: You know, doctor again, you're the expert. I'm just asking
Speaker 1: the questions. But it seems it seems to me we've
Speaker 1: seen this before in other theaters of the world. This
Speaker 1: is really about I mean, it's Israel and Hamas, but
Speaker 1: it's really the United States in Iran. You know, in Vietnam,
Speaker 1: it was really North Vietnam, South Vietnam, but it was
Speaker 1: really Russia and the United States. So to get to
Speaker 1: for this thing to come to a head and come
Speaker 1: to a significant and decisive conclusion, Uh, the United States
Speaker 1: is going to have to deal with Iran. And that's
Speaker 1: all there is to it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: There are other things that play in this. Of course,
Speaker 1: You've got You've got what's going on in Ukraine with Russia.
Speaker 1: Russia is aligning with China. I mean, there are other
Speaker 1: things that are bubbling in and around this that may
Speaker 1: affect what the United States does or doesn't do with Iran.
Speaker 1: But it seems to me the only way that this
Speaker 1: thing is absolutely settled, peace returns and Israel goes about
Speaker 1: its life again is if the United States takes on Iran,
Speaker 1: because if not, Iran is going to keep funding and
Speaker 1: fostering these Hamas and these Huthis that are going to
Speaker 1: keep doing what has happened here in the last couple
Speaker 1: of nights and what's occurred since this ceasefire ended. So
Speaker 1: I really think it boils down to what the United
Speaker 1: States does with Iran, don't you.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: I mean, look, you are correct to.
Speaker 3: Point down that this is part all of this has
Speaker 3: been part of the multi front war with Iran. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's Iran and Iran's proxies. You know, winning the war
Speaker 3: requires not only winning the war on the ground, requires
Speaker 3: winning the patrons who allowed ten seven to happen on
Speaker 3: us came into vacuum, and to your earlier report, also
Speaker 3: dealing with Hamas in America, which has happened and living
Speaker 3: and you know, living and breathing, you know well on
Speaker 3: American college campuses. But what we see now in contrast
Speaker 3: to the previous administration, is that we are seeing that
Speaker 3: Jerusalem and Washington are on the same page with the
Speaker 3: goal of re establishing the terrence in the region and
Speaker 3: establishing red lines, and that means going after the head
Speaker 3: of the high draw and that is the Islamic Republic
Speaker 3: of Iran. And it's it's important to note that, of course,
Speaker 3: every one of the fronts that Israel has been fighting
Speaker 3: are indeed American enemies. And so now you are seeing
Speaker 3: an alignment where the alliance is working going after the
Speaker 3: very enemies. And there has to be significant consequences. And yes,
Speaker 3: Iran needs to be on the on the chopping board.
Speaker 1: Yeah, doctor Romerowski, let you touched on it. The stuff
Speaker 1: that's going on now in campuses. We saw it again.
Speaker 1: We saw it happened last spring. College presidents were called
Speaker 1: in one of a congressional committee. I think three of
Speaker 1: the four presidents wound up losing their jobs. The Education
Speaker 1: secretary find this amusing. Linda McMahon, who has been charged
Speaker 1: with ending the Department of Education nevertheless is wrote it
Speaker 1: as written to sixty institutions, many of which were the
Speaker 1: side of lengthy and very fractious protests last year, telling
Speaker 1: them they would face potential enforcement action. In other words,
Speaker 1: they lose money if they didn't bring all of this
Speaker 1: to an end and make sure that Jewish students could
Speaker 1: go to do what they are there to do, which
Speaker 1: is learn, and they're paying a lot of money to
Speaker 1: go to these schools to learn. The government canceled four
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars in grants to Columbia. That's a drop
Speaker 1: in the bucket to what Columbia takes in each year
Speaker 1: in terms of grants. Nevertheless, it is four hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: This stuff that's going on on campuses. To me, there's
Speaker 1: no doubt in my mind that these are organized and
Speaker 1: that these people that control the these uprisings, they just
Speaker 1: move from campus to campus and recruit people that maybe
Speaker 1: have nothing else to do, or maybe they think that
Speaker 1: they've got a real firm opinion as to what's going on.
Speaker 1: But whatever, I think, these things are well organized. Federal government,
Speaker 1: at least under Biden, didn't seem to know what the
Speaker 1: hell to do. Do you have any any faith that
Speaker 1: Trump is going to end this nonsense and make sure
Speaker 1: that if you pay money to go study at a university,
Speaker 1: regardless of your faith, you have the right to go
Speaker 1: there and unin HND, unmolested, unencumbered to go to school,
Speaker 1: Go to school there and learn what you're there to learn.
Speaker 1: Do you have any any doubt that this is going
Speaker 1: to be dealt with differently now than what it was
Speaker 1: last year?
Speaker 3: Well, I think that the steps of the administration that
Speaker 3: Trump and this Rick is currently taking are indeed step
Speaker 3: in the right direction. Let's be clear here, none of
Speaker 3: this has been happening in the vacuum. The Islamist groups
Speaker 3: hamassd Palestinian ideology has been investing in American college campuses
Speaker 3: for decades. They have played the long game and they
Speaker 3: have bought the education, and so what you're seeing now
Speaker 3: is a byproduct of that, basically that same ideology of
Speaker 3: winning the hearts and minds of the West. And what's
Speaker 3: more nefarious about all of this is that they're taking
Speaker 3: American institutions and turning them on their heads and trying
Speaker 3: to basically turn America against America. And so this is
Speaker 3: all part of a plan that they've been utilizing and
Speaker 3: putting into action that we've seen amplified clearly since the
Speaker 3: war began. But again, these universities have been operating like
Speaker 3: alic head funds hedge funds, and there needs to be
Speaker 3: accountability and transparency to what's going on here. And again,
Speaker 3: if you're paying ninety thousand dollars a year to go
Speaker 3: to university and there's no discourse but in doctrination, what
Speaker 3: makes that different than any kind of madrasale in Tehran
Speaker 3: that goes against every possible feature of the Western liberal institution,
Speaker 3: and that needs to change. Furthermore, I would argue my
Speaker 3: bigger concern is that American institutions may no longer be
Speaker 3: American if you take a case study like Columbia, where
Speaker 3: between fifty seven and fifty eight percent of the undergrad
Speaker 3: student body is foreign, and so there is.
Speaker 5: To be a better job on the.
Speaker 3: Admissions process as far as students, and on the hiring
Speaker 3: and firing practices when it comes to the kind of
Speaker 3: faculty that we're coming in and are basically allowed to
Speaker 3: take over the podium and indoctrinate students and teach a
Speaker 3: legitimate terrorism in American college campuses.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, doctors, I like to say, good
Speaker 1: luck with that, because you know where all of this
Speaker 1: winds up, right, winds up in court and once you
Speaker 1: get there and you have to be a host of
Speaker 1: a judge who may or may not be liberal or
Speaker 1: conservative whatever. I mean, those things go either way, right,
Speaker 1: it's all going to wind up in court.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that's that's a good tool that we have.
Speaker 5: But I think at the point that has been you.
Speaker 3: Know, lost in translation, is that the religiosity of academic
Speaker 3: freedom and free speech on American campuses.
Speaker 5: This is not the case to my mind.
Speaker 3: This is a matter of national security, and so those
Speaker 3: are the things that we need to push along as
Speaker 3: far as allowing for terrorism to seep in the way
Speaker 3: it has under the guise of so called scholarship, but
Speaker 3: really it's propaganda on these very campuses.
Speaker 1: Doctor Assaf Romowski. He is the co author of Religion, Politics,
Speaker 1: and the Origins of Palestine Referee Refugee Relief. All right, doctor,
Speaker 1: it's good to hear your voice again. Stay well, we'll
Speaker 1: check in again real soon. Thank you, Thank you as always. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean three of the four college presidents lost their job,
Speaker 1: didn't they after their poor performance on Capitol Hill last spring?
Speaker 1: And now it's rearing its ugly head again. The Columbia
Speaker 1: University quote unquote student Mahoo. I'm sorry, Ma, Mood Khalil
Speaker 1: has to remain in the United States, cannot be deported.
Speaker 1: Why because well, the judge said, so six hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five federal judges just all running around this country
Speaker 1: and their black robes, and now every one of them
Speaker 1: thinks they can do whatever the hell they want to do,
Speaker 1: to dictate foreign policy, dictate domestic policy, dictate where this
Speaker 1: country goes litigation. Ain't that America? One twenty seven News
Speaker 1: Radio seven hundred WLW. I'm making an opening statement.
Speaker 8: Oh hello, quiet, and I'm Scots.
Speaker 1: I'm broadcasting.
Speaker 9: God said, did you watch that game last night? Saw
Speaker 9: some of it? There ken very unbelievable, Andy Mack, I
Speaker 9: got to go to bed, you know, come on.
Speaker 1: I couldn't go to bed. I had his don always addicted.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable.
Speaker 9: Down what thirteen in the second half and come back
Speaker 9: and win and Xavier gets it done.
Speaker 1: Man. You know, I think it was set on this
Speaker 1: radio station that Sean Miller's teams get better as seasons
Speaker 1: move on. In other words, they're really not hitting their
Speaker 1: stride early, largely because I think they overschedule early on.
Speaker 1: They play a lot of tough teams. But as the
Speaker 1: season gets into January and then February and March, they
Speaker 1: seem to get better. Seg, have you noticed that I
Speaker 1: agree with you? I agree with you, ken Brew. What
Speaker 1: was his opening statement. I didn't hear his opening statement.
Speaker 9: He's going to have one here in a few minutes. Oh,
Speaker 9: thank god, ken Brew. They stood reporters of proud service
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Speaker 9: conditioning on or the heat, you know, Seg.
Speaker 1: I was doing it on and off the other night.
Speaker 1: I have one of those remote things back and forth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you sit in a chair.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was laying in bed, okay, and I'm like, it's
Speaker 1: like one o'clock in the morning, and it was too hot,
Speaker 1: and I put it on cool, and I woke up
Speaker 1: at three o'clock it was too cool, so I put
Speaker 1: it back on hot. It was going back and forth
Speaker 1: and back and forth, and I woke up in the
Speaker 1: morning and I was cold. I said, well, I got
Speaker 1: to put the heat on. And I put the heat
Speaker 1: back on, but I was still cold. And then when
Speaker 1: you got a call temp star. Well, I think I
Speaker 1: might be getting hot flashes that might well, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking as I get older in life, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 9: I have medication for that, so take it easy. Well,
Speaker 9: I'm on more pills than Elvis right now, Den Bver.
Speaker 9: We also want to thank Ron's Roost. Yes, the world's
Speaker 9: greatest fried chicken. It's clucking good. Yeah, sixty five years
Speaker 9: on the good old west side in town and thirty
Speaker 9: eight to fifty three race road at five one three
Speaker 9: five seven four two two two. Young Pam brought our
Speaker 9: lunch down today. It was delicious. Yes, and we go
Speaker 9: to the NCAA tournament update.
Speaker 1: Think about how many chickens have given their lives up
Speaker 1: Ron's roost and they're all heroes. Well, they probably should
Speaker 1: have like a picture of every single chicken that gave
Speaker 1: his or her life up. Well, chickens are female, right,
Speaker 1: I think so roosters are male. Yeah, the last I checked.
Speaker 1: But in this day and age, who knows, But every
Speaker 1: single chicken that is putting her life up on a
Speaker 1: point there for a good you know, saute chicken sandwich. Amen,
Speaker 1: I think they should have a picture that chicken hanging
Speaker 1: up in Ron's roost ken Brew.
Speaker 9: This NCAA Tourney update brought to you by a C. R.
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Speaker 9: Frank because he's running a special. Let's see right now
Speaker 9: at Rapparita, with about eleven minutes to go, the Creighton
Speaker 9: Blue Jays are beating up on the Louisville Cardinals sixty
Speaker 9: five to fifty.
Speaker 1: Not a surprise. Jason Deese was with me an hour ago.
Speaker 1: He picked Creighton to win that game.
Speaker 9: And let's see at the half right now, Perdue leads
Speaker 9: high point thirty seven to twenty seven, so that's a
Speaker 9: low point for that. Just underway, it's Montana and Wisconsin
Speaker 9: coming up at two. SIU Edwardsville against top seed Houston,
Speaker 9: Alabama State and Auburn around three o'clock. Arkansas coach cal
Speaker 9: and Bill self in Kansas at seven tonight.
Speaker 1: Bill, I'm out for myself.
Speaker 7: There he is.
Speaker 9: And then Utah and Mick Cronin's UCLA plays late tonight
Speaker 9: at nine to thirty.
Speaker 1: It's gay. The VCU B YU game should be good too.
Speaker 1: I love them looking forward to that one, and you're right,
Speaker 1: I agree, that that UCLA. Where's Mick? Is Mick in Louisville?
Speaker 1: Where's that game?
Speaker 9: I don't you know, I don't know. I haven't I
Speaker 9: don't have I don't know. I have to look it up.
Speaker 9: I think it's a rough I think it's I think
Speaker 9: I'll be right down the road.
Speaker 1: I think I think. I think Mick finally got into.
Speaker 9: Repperina, Jessee the Troy Trogan Trojans. The Troy Trojan Trojans
Speaker 9: will play Kentucky tomorrow in their regional first round. It's
Speaker 9: seven on ESPN fifteen thirty. Dayton won last night in
Speaker 9: the first round of the n I T. The Flyers
Speaker 9: are still on the road Saturday against Tennessee Chattanooga in
Speaker 9: the second round eleven thirty. That's because ud Arena is
Speaker 9: being used as the finals for the and for the
Speaker 9: Ohio High School Athletic Association.
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say the Circus.
Speaker 9: Well and Aiken. Good luck to Aiken. They play for
Speaker 9: the Division III title there tomorrow. Congratulations against Louisville. Yes,
Speaker 9: that's near Campton, Kentucky. No, No, you know what else
Speaker 9: is near Campton? The Hall of Fame Akron. That's true,
Speaker 9: that's where that guy from Lakota East beating Miami and
Speaker 9: then Miami got ripped off by the n T Bingo
Speaker 9: taking Kent State instead of Miami.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Game last night was just incredible.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it had every I saw some highlights
Speaker 9: and it was like, you know, I mean it was
Speaker 9: you know, you get down, you get down thirteen to
Speaker 9: a team like Texas and the SEC. I mean, you know,
Speaker 9: they don't lose that many times. They don't lose that
Speaker 9: many times.
Speaker 3: Sick.
Speaker 1: Can I bring you some thoughts from Marcus Foster, who
Speaker 1: had twenty two points last night? Go ahead?
Speaker 10: Really, my teammates just found me in the open spots,
Speaker 10: and you know, I was just confident in my shot
Speaker 10: and I just shot in and went into Yeah, it's
Speaker 10: a good day. I mean, we needed performers for us
Speaker 10: to pull out the victory. And like I said, I'm
Speaker 10: glad my teammates were confident in me. I knows the
Speaker 10: three r C. They found me a couple of times,
Speaker 10: so I was able to get some clean looks.
Speaker 1: And that's what we need.
Speaker 10: We need players to step up during these times to
Speaker 10: pull out wins.
Speaker 1: See that that's an actuality there, right, I know how
Speaker 1: about that first. Well, you know the other thing too,
Speaker 1: is Marcus Foster at twenty two points the last five games,
Speaker 1: he didn't have twenty two points combined. Correct, came out
Speaker 1: of nowhere.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's usual Conwell and Freemantle and swaying a few
Speaker 9: other guys. But you know now now that Marcus Foster's
Speaker 9: made an appearance, look out.
Speaker 1: Well, you know Conwell, not Colwell as Freeman. I'll put
Speaker 1: on a cowboy hat and did the hook them horns
Speaker 1: thing the horns down. That's correct, he did. So he
Speaker 1: was really rubbing it into those taxes people.
Speaker 4: That were there.
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Speaker 9: going to host veteran Guard Senator Lucas Patrick on a
Speaker 9: free agent visit tomorrow. Patrick played has played with the
Speaker 9: New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, good for him. I mean it's about you know,
Speaker 1: you're down right now. I mean you're bottom feeding on
Speaker 1: on free agents at this point, right, and you're scrambling
Speaker 1: to get people at this point. Red's update one week
Speaker 1: one week from today. Oh, I hope it's as nice
Speaker 1: as it is today, I do. I'm not sure about that.
Speaker 9: Check in with Jennifer Ketch, Marker, Steve Rawley or somebody
Speaker 9: over there at nine stands for news, Yes it does.
Speaker 9: One week from today is opening day the Reds and
Speaker 9: Royals Cactus League today three point thirty with the Arnel
Speaker 9: Carriers inside pitch on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. And let's
Speaker 9: see ken Brew there's a field of thirteen horses packed
Speaker 9: field for the Jeff Ruby Steaks and seven and seventy
Speaker 9: seven thousand dollars Jeff Ruby Steaks on Saturday night.
Speaker 1: That was miche I like that.
Speaker 9: At at Turfoay Park, poster is the five to two
Speaker 9: favorite posts and California Burrita. The poster is gonna come
Speaker 9: out of the number nine post and California Burrito at
Speaker 9: nine to two out of the number three.
Speaker 1: Those are the two favorites. That's not like Joe Biden's
Speaker 1: breakfast tacos, right, I don't think so. It's completely different.
Speaker 1: It's a different state. Now, Hey, I want I want
Speaker 1: to play something here for you. Can I play something?
Speaker 1: Is it music? Listen to this? Okay, to listen to
Speaker 1: this song?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Jerry Reed? God right, buddy, but she got the better hand.
Speaker 1: But it all sounds mad a funny, yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: too much to man. She got the gold mine. I
Speaker 1: got this, Yeah, I say, you know why I am
Speaker 1: playing this.
Speaker 9: It's his birthday today because he'd been alive, Jerry Reid
Speaker 9: would have been eighty eight years old today.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 9: Now you know he had guitar man Eastbounding Down right exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And when you're hot, You're hot, yep, all that.
Speaker 1: Jerry left this earth in September of two thousand and eight,
Speaker 1: but he would have been eighty eight years old today.
Speaker 1: He I saw him in Lawrenceburg, Lawrenceburgh, by gosh, how
Speaker 1: about that? That back in the nineties he was at
Speaker 1: I believe he was at Lawrenceburg High School. How about that?
Speaker 1: Just kind of I don't know.
Speaker 9: They had a concert there at Lawrenceburg High School, the
Speaker 9: home of the Tigers.
Speaker 1: Jerry Reid, Baby, I'm there. How about that? Yeah? Did
Speaker 1: he sing the faithful song Eastbounding Down?
Speaker 9: He sang everything? Okay, he had that crowd whipped into
Speaker 9: a froud. I got you, I got you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know smoking the banded thing too?
Speaker 5: I know?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the theme song for that. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: That was he's bounding down, loaded up and trucking. Yep.
Speaker 1: We're going to do what they say can't be done.
Speaker 1: We always do that here at seven hundred, don't we,
Speaker 1: especially on the stood report, Ken Brow. It's unbelievable with that.
Speaker 1: By the way, you know the cyclones are home this weekend.
Speaker 1: You know, yes, they are Sunday. I think I'm going
Speaker 1: to the game now about that. It's huge. You know,
Speaker 1: they're going to have all the characters from Bluey there
Speaker 1: right down to your alley.
Speaker 9: I'm telling you, that's one of your favorite shows in
Speaker 9: the morning, right when you wake up.
Speaker 1: If you like Australian sheep dog animation, this is for you.
Speaker 1: And I'm into it, totally. Australian sheep dog animation.
Speaker 7: Here you go.
Speaker 9: He tells me, Hey, Ken, we've got some Australian sheep
Speaker 9: dog animation over here.
Speaker 1: You're there, I'm over there.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: So but anyway, they're in town this on Sunday. I
Speaker 1: think it's a mattinee on Sunday, oh like at three
Speaker 1: o'clock starting. I think they play the Indie Fuel. I
Speaker 1: don't know who they play. I just hope you know
Speaker 1: because a lot of the kids will be there. I
Speaker 1: just hope there's a lot of fights, because that's why children.
Speaker 1: The first time the cyclones this is going back away,
Speaker 1: but I remember this the first time they had one
Speaker 1: of those education specials, they dropped the puck at eleven am,
Speaker 1: right exactly. Yeah, I had all these they had all
Speaker 1: these kids that were there in students and schools. I
Speaker 1: mean that thing, that thing was in ten seconds into
Speaker 1: the game, and there were people just squaring off and
Speaker 1: beating them the Jesus out of each other right off
Speaker 1: in the opening face off. You want to go, yeah,
Speaker 1: why not? Why not? Let's go see let's go make
Speaker 1: make an example for the kids. Do you want to
Speaker 1: go to health and talk about you know, under arm deodorant,
Speaker 1: or do you want to go see two guys beat
Speaker 1: the snot out of each other? You know, probably beat
Speaker 1: the snot out of each other. Well, there you go.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a great idea for for a
Speaker 1: lot of people. There you go. There's another thing that
Speaker 1: was like twenty five your blink seg and twenty five
Speaker 1: years goes by just like just like just like for sure,
Speaker 1: I don't I mean, I don't know where it's all going,
Speaker 1: but I know where it's been, and that's one of
Speaker 1: the things I remember.
Speaker 9: Ken Brew, let's say, nine minutes to go now sixty
Speaker 9: nine fifty four, creating over Losville. You're just underway in
Speaker 9: the second half. At where's this set? Purdue is ahead
Speaker 9: of high point point thirty nine twenty nine in Providence,
Speaker 9: beautiful Providence, Rhode Island.
Speaker 1: Well, I wouldn't go that for but yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: then he got all these other games to say, afternoon.
Speaker 9: That's where you gotta fly into play play the New
Speaker 9: England Patriots. I thought that was the goofiest thing of
Speaker 9: all time.
Speaker 1: Seg were you the one telling me a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago what Jamar Chase can do? How much he
Speaker 1: makes a minute?
Speaker 9: Correct dollar twenty eight a minute? I think that's what
Speaker 9: it was, yeah, or second or something.
Speaker 1: Whether he's playing or not.
Speaker 9: I think so when he's alone, when he's either asleep
Speaker 9: or awake, he's got it.
Speaker 1: He's making money.
Speaker 9: So I just saw a picture he just bought a
Speaker 9: what was it, a Lamberg Special, Lamborghini or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll keep him in touch with the common folk,
Speaker 1: that's right, Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, maybe can go to the restaurants here in town
Speaker 9: and get acclimated to the good food we have, or
Speaker 9: maybe he.
Speaker 1: Can bring in chefs you know, the way you want food.
Speaker 1: Call that's true, You're right. I mean, you know, he
Speaker 1: said said about the other food, and like, you know,
Speaker 1: like there were like at least a half dozen restaurants
Speaker 1: I go there were saying, what the hell is this
Speaker 1: guy talking about?
Speaker 9: Yeah, not way to go. Give me all that money
Speaker 9: and look here dumping on the city.
Speaker 1: I don't know, SI, the whole world's out of whack.
Speaker 1: The only people in steps seem to be you and me.
Speaker 1: Agree with that, ken Brew. May look around the building
Speaker 1: right here, right now, you can't find anybody in this
Speaker 1: building with a search warrant. It's you, it's me. It's
Speaker 1: a couple of people in the graff's department and the sheriff.
Speaker 1: There's nobody else here. That's true.
Speaker 9: We're essential, we're essential employees.
Speaker 1: Does that mean that the entire sales staff is not
Speaker 1: not essential employees? I don't think so. I think they
Speaker 1: are sorry twice a week they are. Yeah, say get
Speaker 1: us out of the stooge report before we liabel anyone.
Speaker 9: Else, ken Brew, in honor of March madness underway with
Speaker 9: Ted McKay. Today we leave you with the immortal words
Speaker 9: of the Stood Report.
Speaker 7: You get a w you get on the plane.
Speaker 1: That's right, Vic vic best right, mexicoing to Villanova. You
Speaker 1: think so? No, oh, okay, you La where it's Sonny,
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty days of the year. You want
Speaker 1: to go to Philadelphia where you get indigestion from cheese steaks.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on with LA City. I love La.
Speaker 9: Like Randy Newman saying about absolute Do you think there's
Speaker 9: a rodeo drive in Philadelphia? You ever been to Philadelphia?
Speaker 9: I think that's where that well, I don't know. I've
Speaker 9: been to Philadelphiaeah, I've been once. Yeah, that's the old vet. Right,
Speaker 9: that's that's true. You're right about that.
Speaker 1: That is unbelievable to me, Andy Mack. There you go.
Speaker 1: So Mix got a game in at Rup tonight. Finally
Speaker 1: got a game in Rough. You got a UCLA to
Speaker 1: get a game in Rough. Couldn't get couldn't get one
Speaker 1: when he was here in u s right, No, no,
Speaker 1: awayn Helly was going around. He'd go to Keenland. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he would never get a game at Row exactly. Maybe
Speaker 1: he said as Keeenland and session. He might be there now,
Speaker 1: he might be.
Speaker 9: I took the team there for a little bonding before
Speaker 9: tonight's game down there.
Speaker 1: In the paddock with the team. Anyway, Sagay got to go.
Speaker 1: What I'll see in about an hour? You got it,
Speaker 1: ken Brew, Thank god, because I wasn't coming back unless
Speaker 1: you were going to be here. Yes, sir, I'll be
Speaker 1: here on seven hundred WLW by welcome back to eight.
Speaker 1: It's the average American and put the great American on
Speaker 1: this Thursday. Great to have you along with us, because,
Speaker 1: as I like to say, without you, I would be
Speaker 1: one man sitting in a room by himself babbling. And
Speaker 1: why would I have to leave home to do that?
Speaker 1: You go anywhere these days and what do you see?
Speaker 1: You see a tip jar? You go anywhere these days
Speaker 1: and you get a cup of coffee, maybe a sandwich,
Speaker 1: maybe it's just you know, a burger on the run,
Speaker 1: and when you go to pay for it, what do
Speaker 1: you get flipped around? Is that iPad of shame which
Speaker 1: has tip suggestions fifteen percent fifteen twenty percent? Why of
Speaker 1: course twenty five percent? Now you're talking is what you
Speaker 1: might get from behind the counter. Fact of the matter,
Speaker 1: is there was a time in this country where tipping
Speaker 1: was reserved simply for outstanding service, not necessarily expected when
Speaker 1: someone gives you the bare minimum service, maybe somebody behind
Speaker 1: the counter that looks like they would rather be anywhere
Speaker 1: except there doing their job. Maybe it was for someone
Speaker 1: who would actually bring your food, explain it, maybe before
Speaker 1: you ordered it. Maybe when they presented it looked great
Speaker 1: as opposed to just throwing a plate in front of
Speaker 1: you and then expecting you to leave them a little
Speaker 1: something something on top of that. And worse are some
Speaker 1: of these restaurants Now you've probably been to one or two,
Speaker 1: because there's a few here in the greater Cincinnati area
Speaker 1: that one who have on their bill a kitchen fee,
Speaker 1: a kitchen fee for Floyd in the back who's flipping
Speaker 1: the burgers whatever. Rather than his employer pay Floyd a
Speaker 1: better salary, the employer wants to make his problem your problem.
Speaker 1: Where have we gone with the service industry in this
Speaker 1: day and age? Where has good service gone? And why
Speaker 1: is it a shock and expected to elicit some sort
Speaker 1: of great payment because of it will standing by someone
Speaker 1: I think who knows. I've had Richard Wilman on the
Speaker 1: show before for almost thirty years, he's been honored to
Speaker 1: show business owners and professionals alike around the world a
Speaker 1: path to proven business growth and success. In other words,
Speaker 1: this guy knows what it takes to make a successful
Speaker 1: business and he joins us now here on seven hundred
Speaker 1: wylw and Richard Wilman, how are you on this glorious Thursday.
Speaker 11: Just fine, Ken, good to hear your voice. It's beautiful
Speaker 11: here in Florida. That's where I am today, and I
Speaker 11: hear is great and sense Edie as well. So well, No,
Speaker 11: actually you've been misinformed. It's not great here today. It's
Speaker 11: cloudy and it's cold. Where are you in Florida? If anywhere, Richard, Sarasota, Florida,
Speaker 11: sunny day and out of cloud in the sky. You
Speaker 11: ought to be here Sarasota in one room and broadcast
Speaker 11: from here.
Speaker 1: Brother, there you go, maybe at the Sarasota Yacht Club,
Speaker 1: or maybe at the Columbia Restaurant out there in Saint
Speaker 1: Arman's Circle. Maybe I could go out there place. They
Speaker 1: have good Cuban sandwiches there. Maybe I could do that.
Speaker 5: And they got great salads too, right.
Speaker 1: Right, the seventeen eighty nine salad or whatever. You and
Speaker 1: I could do a show from there, Richard, I should
Speaker 1: just could come on, come, come on down. How did
Speaker 1: we get off the rails on this tipping stuff, because,
Speaker 1: as I said, there was a time when a tip
Speaker 1: was was given for service that was outstanding. It was
Speaker 1: not something that was expected. This went off the rails
Speaker 1: at some point. When did that happen?
Speaker 11: But I think a couple of things came to play here.
Speaker 11: And I work with a lot of business owners and
Speaker 11: they're under tremendous cost pressure. We all know the inflation
Speaker 11: doesn't just affect the customer. It affects the cost of goods,
Speaker 11: the cost of running a restaurant, supplies, et cetera. So
Speaker 11: they're caught between a rock and a hard spot. So
Speaker 11: everybody said, well, they ought to increase their wages, are
Speaker 11: the workers? Well, what the business owner saying is, I
Speaker 11: can't even I barely got the margin left now with
Speaker 11: the cost. So we're just going to put in an
Speaker 11: automatic what's often called the digital tipping process. And that's
Speaker 11: how they sort of got around the corner of higher
Speaker 11: cost without having to raise salaries, which they don't think
Speaker 11: they can do the hourly wage. And now they pass
Speaker 11: that on to the consumer with this digital payment checkout
Speaker 11: system is what I call it, And you're exactly right.
Speaker 11: They turn the screen around, as you know. And if
Speaker 11: it's ten percent, that's sort of a miracle. It's fifteen,
Speaker 11: twenty twenty five. I've seen it as high as thirty
Speaker 11: and it really is annoying. But that's what's happened, is
Speaker 11: the cost for everybody's gone up.
Speaker 5: So what do we do.
Speaker 11: We pass that on, not with a higher menu cost,
Speaker 11: but we go for an automatic tipping process, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 11: It's a tipping culture that's out of control.
Speaker 1: You know, Richard. It is not just two guys on
Speaker 1: the radio complaining about this. There's a survey out wallet Hub,
Speaker 1: which is a fairly reputable company. It found that nearly
Speaker 1: ten nine and ten Americans that would be ninety percent
Speaker 1: see that. I know that. I think that tipping has
Speaker 1: gotten out of hand, and nearly three and five of
Speaker 1: us think businesses are replacing employee salaries with customer tips.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the rub here. I see restaurants
Speaker 1: now with a kitchen fee. If I ever see something
Speaker 1: like that on a bill that comes to me, that
Speaker 1: was not something that I could It was not elective
Speaker 1: on my part. It was just something that was added
Speaker 1: to the bill. I'm never going back to that place again.
Speaker 1: There are a couple of places I've been to recently
Speaker 1: where they had a healthcare fee on it, in other words,
Speaker 1: paying for the cook with the waitresses health benefits. And
Speaker 1: you know, I look at that stuff, and I'm saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, if you have to do that to
Speaker 1: own a business, you should not own a business. You
Speaker 1: just get out of it. Let somebody who can run
Speaker 1: it the right way. And isn't that strapped for cash?
Speaker 1: I think this is a This is a problem for
Speaker 1: owner and operators of these businesses, whether it's a coffee shop,
Speaker 1: a restaurant, a hardware store, wherever this plate, wherever this
Speaker 1: tipping thing is going on, or these other fees are
Speaker 1: going on. If you can't afford that business without those
Speaker 1: kinds of things, get out of that business. Would you agree?
Speaker 5: Absolutely right?
Speaker 11: And it's deceptive marketing to have a kitchen fee or
Speaker 11: a healthcare fee and in placed on the bill of
Speaker 11: the customer. That's basically a hard cost for running a business.
Speaker 11: Let's just tell the truth. So what you're doing is
Speaker 11: showing me a lower price let's say on the menu,
Speaker 11: or on the sign out front, or in your advertising.
Speaker 11: But then when I come in, I end up paying
Speaker 11: a higher price than what I thought because I have
Speaker 11: to cover your hard cost, which if that's the case,
Speaker 11: that should have been put in the initial pricing. So
Speaker 11: it's just deceptive marketing. And what here's the problem that
Speaker 11: business owner does not understand LTV lifetime value of that customer.
Speaker 7: And you're exactly right.
Speaker 11: Ken, I'm going to pay it one time, but you
Speaker 11: can rest assured.
Speaker 1: We're never going to go back. Yeah, So you know
Speaker 1: it's transaction oriented. You're all about customer service. I mean,
Speaker 1: we know, we've had you on the show several times
Speaker 1: and I know that, but it just seems to me
Speaker 1: that they're not. And this is a generalization, and I
Speaker 1: apologize for this in advance, but it doesn't seem that
Speaker 1: you get to a place of business where it's a
Speaker 1: service oriented business, a restaurant, a coffee shop, whatever, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like there are a lot of happy employees,
Speaker 1: the people that you talk to, you interact with. There
Speaker 1: are exceptions, of course, but it almost seems like the
Speaker 1: last place in the world they want to be is there. Now,
Speaker 1: are these great jobs? Are they going to be able
Speaker 1: to retire comfortably on the salary they're making? No, of
Speaker 1: course not. But I also think those are the kinds
Speaker 1: of jobs where maybe you start and aspire to something
Speaker 1: greater than that. But it just seems anymore that anytime
Speaker 1: I'll go in to one of those places, it's absolute Dresden.
Speaker 1: The bombs are falling from the ceiling before you ever
Speaker 1: get to the register. Why are people so unhappy? It
Speaker 1: would seem to me. And I'll ask you, why are
Speaker 1: people so unhappy with those kinds of jobs because it's
Speaker 1: the only thing they can get. The job market is
Speaker 1: too tight. Is there an explanation for it?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 11: I think there's two points there, and I think you
Speaker 11: absolutely nailed it. The first part is if historically tipping
Speaker 11: is down, in other words, and a sit down restaurant,
Speaker 11: let's just say it's a sit down and walk up
Speaker 11: where you're getting your fruit at accounter, although you know
Speaker 11: they want you to tip there as well, but tipping
Speaker 11: is way down from twenty nineteen. In other words, the
Speaker 11: average diners is tipping less. Okay, so people feel unappreciated.
Speaker 11: That's one. Two, there's a sense that if I'm a server,
Speaker 11: and you see this as well as I do, some
Speaker 11: people are treated really badly as servers. I mean, people
Speaker 11: are just flat rude. I mean that's about so. If
Speaker 11: you have that influx of attitude coming at you all
Speaker 11: day every day, it's hard for most people, perhaps all
Speaker 11: of us, to stay positive, enthusiastic, et cetera. A tip
Speaker 11: is really if you're going to get a good tip
Speaker 11: as a server. And I've worked with a lot of
Speaker 11: restaurant change and the thing that I always teach them
Speaker 11: is remember it's a blend of your heart, your mind,
Speaker 11: and their wallet. If you go in there with a
Speaker 11: cheerful heart and a positive mindset, you're going to get
Speaker 11: a bigger share of their wallet as a tip. And
Speaker 11: we've proven it over and over again. But it's hard
Speaker 11: because they put up with a lot of rude people,
Speaker 11: They put up with tough hours. Their food business particularly
Speaker 11: is really a tough business to be in perium, So
Speaker 11: it's hard. Now I'm going to tell you, I think
Speaker 11: there's a huge change coming and here's what's going to happen.
Speaker 11: I believe just got a call with the CEO this
Speaker 11: morning about this in the food business and he's what
Speaker 11: do you think about what's going to happen with no
Speaker 11: tax on tips? If no tax on tips comes in.
Speaker 11: Just think about it this way. If you're working in
Speaker 11: a restaurant, you have a one hundred dollars tip night
Speaker 11: right now, with that really equal forget about state tax,
Speaker 11: and you just look at the federal tax level. For
Speaker 11: the average server, they're going to commit at about they're
Speaker 11: going to end up with seventy five bucks. Let's just
Speaker 11: round it down. They got a twenty five percent tax basis,
Speaker 11: Well do that five times a week. That's one hundred
Speaker 11: and twenty five dollars you sent off to the government. Well,
Speaker 11: if that one hundred and twenty five stays in your pocket,
Speaker 11: you got a whole different dynamical worker. You get a
Speaker 11: whole different dynamic award system. And as I told him,
Speaker 11: I think you're going to see people gravitate to that
Speaker 11: type of occupation. You're not going to have it increase
Speaker 11: your base rate. But the bottom line is their income
Speaker 11: is going to jump up depending on their tax rate
Speaker 11: for a whore from twenty two to twenty seven percent,
Speaker 11: which is a pretty big lift for a single mom,
Speaker 11: or for a student or a gentleman who's out there
Speaker 11: working support in his family. This is a big lift
Speaker 11: for them in the overall of a year. So I
Speaker 11: think what you're going to see is that this no
Speaker 11: tax on tips, if it becomes law, it's going to
Speaker 11: have a profound effect on the service business. Now, the
Speaker 11: problem is is it going to affect the service we get?
Speaker 11: That's the the culture has to change for that to change. Well,
Speaker 11: it may, you know, it may.
Speaker 1: Just indeed, with that, I don't know how familiar are
Speaker 1: with the greater Cincinnati area. We're not one large metroplex
Speaker 1: like Dallas, not a big city like Miami or anything
Speaker 1: like that. We're towns that make up a city, and
Speaker 1: each one of those towns has various mom and pop businesses.
Speaker 1: We still have family run hardware stores, we still have bars,
Speaker 1: corner bars or bars and grill or whatever or not.
Speaker 1: And people are very loyal to a place in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Loyalty is a huge thing, as I think you well
Speaker 1: know in the Midwest, and particularly when it comes to
Speaker 1: where we spend our money and how we choose to
Speaker 1: dine and where we choose to go. And I think
Speaker 1: when you mentioned no tax on tips, and if indeed
Speaker 1: it is cumulatively another one hundred and twenty five hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars in the pocket of a server during
Speaker 1: the course of a week. That server may tend to
Speaker 1: stay at that establishment longer than maybe what the case
Speaker 1: is now. I don't have complete animosity towards people that
Speaker 1: operate businesses that are living from day to day, customer
Speaker 1: to customer to stay open. It's tough to keep employees
Speaker 1: because people are in that business are nomadic. They'll move
Speaker 1: from one job to the next, one restaurant to the next.
Speaker 1: But if what your your math is correct, and I
Speaker 1: think it is, it may keep those servers, those cooks
Speaker 1: or whatever at those restaurants, those baristas at those coffee
Speaker 1: shops longer because the money is better, and so therefore
Speaker 1: there may be some sort of bond or interaction over
Speaker 1: and above what do you want to eat or how
Speaker 1: much cream do you want in your coffee? There may
Speaker 1: actually get to a point where you actually know the customer,
Speaker 1: and maybe that makes for a more comfortable atmosphere. And
Speaker 1: I think if that's the case, then maybe a lot
Speaker 1: of what we're talking about goes away. Would you agree?
Speaker 11: I think so, And I've been studying that you know
Speaker 11: as a marketer, and I speak on these topics and
Speaker 11: write about these topics all the time, and I'm studying
Speaker 11: what's going to happen in this case with the tip
Speaker 11: thing particularly.
Speaker 1: And I really believe you take the average service.
Speaker 11: You look at the average server that's out there making
Speaker 11: you know, as I said, one hundred dollars a night
Speaker 11: on a good night. So if you do the map
Speaker 11: and that they're making twenty five thousand a year, well,
Speaker 11: if they stay at that particular bar or restaurant, they're
Speaker 11: going to be making thirty two or thirty three thousand
Speaker 11: a year with no change.
Speaker 4: Well that is a big dynamic for them financially.
Speaker 11: It also puts us in a far better position as
Speaker 11: business owners that we know that our employees perhaps to
Speaker 11: your point, will stay longer. And you and I both
Speaker 11: know it's a wonderful thing when you walk into a
Speaker 11: restaurant can and the guy and the gal says, oh, Ken,
Speaker 11: so good to see you again, which like your regular
Speaker 11: that means everything. Now you're going to keep going back.
Speaker 11: And in Cincinnati, and I have friends and clients there,
Speaker 11: have been there many times speaking and I know that
Speaker 11: it's really it's a true Midwestern culture where people are
Speaker 11: very loyal to those with whom they do business and
Speaker 11: that treat them as not just as a customer, but
Speaker 11: they really want to build a relationship with them. So
Speaker 11: I think it's going to be a boom for the
Speaker 11: service industry, primarily because of the fact that people are
Speaker 11: going to have incomes that are not going to be taxable.
Speaker 1: Richard Wildman, our guest researcher, author, consultant, serial entrepreneur and
Speaker 1: helping businesses do business the right way and stay successful. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I know there's no right answer to this, but Richard,
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask it anyway. If you do go
Speaker 1: into a restaurant and you do get service that is
Speaker 1: above and beyond, I mean not just somebody dropping something
Speaker 1: on your table or whatever it may be, what would
Speaker 1: be an appropriate tip? What is an appropriate Is there
Speaker 1: a one size fit all answer to that.
Speaker 11: I don't think there's a one size spits all. I
Speaker 11: think it really depends. And it comes back to my
Speaker 11: point about blending heart and mind. I think if the
Speaker 11: service really positive, they go the extra mile. You don't
Speaker 11: have to way even get them to come over to
Speaker 11: bring you more water or more ernal Palmer or another drink, whatever,
Speaker 11: but they're attentive without being interferenced. My sense is today
Speaker 11: a twenty percent tip is fine. I personally have a
Speaker 11: lot of friends that feel, listen, the service was great,
Speaker 11: let's give them twenty five percent. Now, obviously, if you're
Speaker 11: gonna find dining restaurant the bill's four hundred bucks, you're
Speaker 11: not gonna put one hundred on the table. You know,
Speaker 11: a twenty percent tip. But for the average, if I
Speaker 11: go to a diner for breakfast and the civil that
Speaker 11: I go to for breakfast and the service is really good,
Speaker 11: I have no problem if it's a twenty dollars breakfast
Speaker 11: to leave that individual by five dollars. I mean, I
Speaker 11: don't see that as an issue that they're being over tip.
Speaker 11: They gave me great service, They kept the coffee refreshed,
Speaker 11: the bacon and eggs were hot, and most importantly, they
Speaker 11: were friendly and kind.
Speaker 1: And if they're that, I think that's it.
Speaker 11: So I think you have to judge at number one
Speaker 11: by how attentive they are, how kind, consider it, thoughtful,
Speaker 11: empathetic they are, and if they are twenty five percents
Speaker 11: reasonable like a diner. But if you're going to find
Speaker 11: dining restaurant twenty percent about probably your cap out now
Speaker 11: there is I've tipped more than that. Somebody gives us
Speaker 11: exceptional service. I have the whole family, have fifteen people
Speaker 11: for Thanksgiving or whatever, and the check is huge. But
Speaker 11: it doesn't matter. I'm going to give the guy of
Speaker 11: the gall more. That's it because they've done a great job, Richard.
Speaker 1: Dining out for breakfast, no doubtly at the Blue Dolphin
Speaker 1: Cafe on Saint Armand Circle. Sounds like a place you'd
Speaker 1: go to, Richard, really does. That's exactly good information, and
Speaker 1: I think hopefully things that will guide us through what
Speaker 1: has become a very uncomfortable situation on a lot of levels.
Speaker 1: All Right, Richard, you stay well, enjoy the Sunshine events.
Speaker 1: It'll make its way up here to the Midwest, and
Speaker 1: you and I will visit again. Thanks so much, look
Speaker 1: forward to it.
Speaker 11: Thanks ken We'll push this sunshine towards you.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, I blow it north to twenty five
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Speaker 1: Don't get any don't don't, don't say anything. No, no,
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Speaker 9: twenty five. It starts to count. Here we go, how
Speaker 9: about this? Yes he got here. Oh, the master's dinner
Speaker 9: is set for April eighth. The Master's right around the corner.
Speaker 9: Scotty Scheffler, Scottie Scheffler, the two time champ.
Speaker 1: He was right around the corners. Exactly. That's true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. You're right. Yeah, he won't won't forget that.
Speaker 9: The menu has Scotty Scheffler's couple of childhood's favorites, his
Speaker 9: father's meatballs and ravioli dish. The appetizer cheeseburger sliders served
Speaker 9: Scottie style with a with firecracker shrimp to kick off
Speaker 9: the evening. Does that is that when you come with
Speaker 9: a defibrillator? I don't know, maybe someone might need it.
Speaker 9: For the first course. You're going to enjoy Texas style chili,
Speaker 9: Oh Boy, heartburned City. The main course course, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 9: The main course is a choice between wood fired Cowboy
Speaker 9: ribbi or black and red fish.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: This is not sounding good. This is sounding like this.
Speaker 1: Both served brew, both served in true Texas fashion. But
Speaker 1: you cook it yourself, including macaroni and cheese.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's like the wagon trade the top off the evening.
Speaker 1: If you're there, that that far.
Speaker 9: Warm chocolate chip skillet cookie paired with vanilla bean ice cream,
Speaker 9: all in honor of the chap.
Speaker 1: And last rites performed by the Catholic Church in Mercy.
Speaker 9: That's great Mercy sakes. Yeah, what would you tell if
Speaker 9: you want to masters? What would you have on your menu? Well,
Speaker 9: I'd begin with.
Speaker 1: Some sort of soup like a lobster bisk okay, got
Speaker 1: to be good. And then I would have a salad.
Speaker 1: I would have some sort of salad like a chop
Speaker 1: salad or perhaps a Greek salad like maybe a freddy
Speaker 1: salad from Jeff Ruby's. That would be great, all right,
Speaker 1: Carlo and Johnny, but yes, absolutely, a freddy salad. And
Speaker 1: then I would go to and then after that I
Speaker 1: would have a choice. I would have a filet mignon,
Speaker 1: or if we used to call it back in the neighborhood,
Speaker 1: a flat magnan. And then I would also have.
Speaker 9: Some sort of fish, because I think fish is healthy,
Speaker 9: particularly a cold water fish like a salmon or something
Speaker 9: like that. All right, And then after that for dessert,
Speaker 9: I would have two things. I would have I would have.
Speaker 1: Like fruit, like a fruit berries with a very light
Speaker 1: whipped cream, and then afterwards I would have I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe like everybody got like four or five shots at
Speaker 1: tequila and then some vodka afterwards. That way you drink
Speaker 1: the vodka that the achille brings the you have tequila
Speaker 1: a little burn, right, yeah, so you gotta have lightly
Speaker 1: to just to just kind of narrow it down, is
Speaker 1: what you did? A little burn then and later and
Speaker 1: then a little cappuccino to finish the night. Oh well,
Speaker 1: that's not bad. No, that's what I would do. But
Speaker 1: they probably don't have any of that. Augusta, Georgia. They
Speaker 1: can get it, they can say have you ever heard
Speaker 1: this song? Go ahead? I thought it was Jerry Reid again. No,
Speaker 1: you know the song busted Flat and then Janis Joplin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, waiting for rock and roll. It's unbelievable. Seg
Speaker 1: forty four years ago today, No, stop me, stop me
Speaker 1: while I'm hot hold it fifty four years ago today. Yes,
Speaker 1: this was the number one song in the country. How
Speaker 1: about that fifty four years ago today? How about that?
Speaker 9: Written by Chris Christofferson, a great songwriter right there, Ken
Speaker 9: Brew and.
Speaker 1: A guy that owned a record label in Nashville by
Speaker 1: the name of Fred Foster. A lot of people think
Speaker 1: he wrote this song about Janis Joplin, but he didn't.
Speaker 1: He wrote it about Fred Foster's secretary, whose name was
Speaker 1: Bobby McKee Kate Ee. And of course Janis Joplin took
Speaker 1: this to number one year after her death. Seg I
Speaker 1: just play this because I like Christofferson and I like Joplin,
Speaker 1: and today was an excuse to play it. How about
Speaker 1: had hit it? Like about four songs that Jerry Springer
Speaker 1: could sing at a bar and this was one of them.
Speaker 1: And you have been there. You got to have some
Speaker 1: bliquor to make it sound good.
Speaker 9: That's maybe anthter your Master's dinner. You can have a
Speaker 9: singalong off Terry Oki.
Speaker 1: Did you ever see Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits, an album
Speaker 1: that came out in seventy three. There's there's a picture
Speaker 1: of Joplin on a motorcycle and it's in a park
Speaker 1: and the park is Eden Park, and she's on a
Speaker 1: motorcycle that her boyfriend gave her and it was literally
Speaker 1: a Cincinnati photographer took the picture how about that? And
Speaker 1: gave it to her agent. Now, this is about three
Speaker 1: or four months before Joplin DIESKA. She was a concert
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis and then the next night or two nights
Speaker 1: letter she was in Louisville. So she stopped off in
Speaker 1: Cincinnati because she had a boyfriend in Cincinnati. And so
Speaker 1: she's just killing time at summer fair in eden Park
Speaker 1: and the photographer said can I take your picture? And
Speaker 1: she said yeah, And then the agent was there and
Speaker 1: he says, hey, can I have the film? He goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can have the film. And and that's how that picture.
Speaker 1: I know this because the guy called me one day
Speaker 1: on the air. How about that? Yeah, absolutely unbelievable. Any So,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of there's some things in there. You
Speaker 1: can win a bar bat with you. That's why you're
Speaker 1: a musical genius. I'm Casey Kasem. And keep your feet
Speaker 1: on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. There
Speaker 1: you go. It's all out of control, Sid, It's absolutely
Speaker 1: out of control. So we've got Illinois and Xavier tomorrow night, correct, right?
Speaker 1: Or like about the nine nine fifteen that's up in Millwalk.
Speaker 1: You've got UK tonight right again.
Speaker 9: Tomorrow from UK's tomorrow with Troy the Trojans at seven
Speaker 9: o'clock e ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 1: So they're not they're not interfering with each other. You
Speaker 1: could watch the UK game, then you could watch the
Speaker 1: Xavier game. You would think that would time out pretty much.
Speaker 1: What a Friday night. What a Friday night. So I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm stoked, as I like to say.
Speaker 5: For all of this.
Speaker 9: It's right, It's March Madness is underway, Ken brewis right. Now,
Speaker 9: let's go get did you get your bracket in for
Speaker 9: the illegal gambling that's being conducted?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't do that stuff. I never I
Speaker 1: can't figure that stuff out. I mean, it was like
Speaker 1: ten bucks of bracket and then for some reason, there's
Speaker 1: no tax on it if you win. So yeah, it
Speaker 1: seems to me that there might be a problem. I'm
Speaker 1: not suggesting that. No, No guy, the FBI, which is
Speaker 1: located just a building away from this, investigate, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying we'll come here first. I didn't fill out
Speaker 1: a bra I didn't fill it on it. I didn't
Speaker 1: fill one out either. No, no, no, not me, no FBI.
Speaker 9: Let's see halftime, Ken Brew, it is Houston fifty two. Yeah,
Speaker 9: And as soon as they play this replay for the
Speaker 9: eighteenth time, fifty two to twenty four, Houston up fifty
Speaker 9: nine seconds to go, Purdue leeds high points seventy one
Speaker 9: to sixty.
Speaker 1: That one is in the bag. I think, yeah, say
Speaker 1: get us out of the Stewoge Report. It's been an
Speaker 1: honor working with you. I don't know what americ, ken Brew,
Speaker 1: You're on your own tomorrow.
Speaker 9: I have no idea what's happening to more, neither do I,
Speaker 9: ken Brewie, thank you, and March Madness is underway.
Speaker 1: It is with Ted McKay. We leave you with the
Speaker 1: immortal words of the stew Report.
Speaker 9: Make it easy now, or I'll predict that you'll get
Speaker 9: stuck on a roof in Indian Hill like that boob
Speaker 9: on the radio, who, by the way, lost marbles years ago.
Speaker 1: Who's he talking about? I have no idea. It might
Speaker 1: be the same guy that's stealing octagenarians money on a
Speaker 1: golf course as we speak.
Speaker 9: No, he's waiting for the It's it's almost three o'clock,
Speaker 9: can Brew. What are you talking about? Oh, it's it's exactly.
Speaker 9: That's where they have the roast beef, mashed potatoes and
Speaker 9: uh and suck attash tonight with a free drink on Thursday.
Speaker 1: At one of the cafeterias down there we have, like
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Speaker 1: meal and throw it into a blendering brogwery it rolls
Speaker 1: in butter optional. Then you just drink it. You just
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Speaker 9: You've been there then, not quite on my way? Good working, Yes,
Speaker 9: there can brewcee you later, take care of the.
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Speaker 1: way for two titans of broadcasting. That would be Eddie
Speaker 1: Fingers and Rocket Jay Boyman, who just happens to be
Speaker 1: standing by to join me. Here in studio, Rocket, how
Speaker 1: are you on this glorious day. I'm wonderful, Ken, how
Speaker 1: are you? If there's any better, Rocky, I would be you.
Speaker 1: That's how I have two questions. One sport. One's political.
Speaker 1: Number one. I'm glad to see that Jamar Chase and
Speaker 1: t Higgins sign. That's great. You know what, the Bengals
Speaker 1: finally spent some money and this is wonderful and it's
Speaker 1: going to be wonderful and all that. But my other
Speaker 1: concern is Duke Tobin said about three weeks ago at
Speaker 1: the combine, I just don't want to spend more money
Speaker 1: for the team I had last year, And by a
Speaker 1: large he's got the team he had last year for
Speaker 1: a hell of a lot more money. Yeah, they still
Speaker 1: need guards, they still need at least the way I
Speaker 1: look at I need another couple of linebackers and they
Speaker 1: probably could use another safety. So how are all these
Speaker 1: positions going to magically appear when you only have six
Speaker 1: draft choices this year? Well that's the thing. You got
Speaker 1: to prey on the draft.
Speaker 12: And yeah, you're bringing back essentially everybody from a team
Speaker 12: that went what nine to eight last year? And I
Speaker 12: agree with the signing because I don't the Bengals aren't
Speaker 12: loaded with top tier players, so that you got to
Speaker 12: keep the ones you have, So I think it had
Speaker 12: to be done. But I mean, look, we always kind
Speaker 12: of circle back to this, don't we ken is the
Speaker 12: fact that the Bengals have missed on some drafts, especially
Speaker 12: on the defensive side of the ball. The strategy we
Speaker 12: always we all knew what it was. It was we
Speaker 12: got Joe Burrow, we got the piece no one else
Speaker 12: can seem to find. We got him, got it, we
Speaker 12: got explosive offense. Will pay them, but let's keep the
Speaker 12: defense cheap by getting in rookie contract guys, but guys
Speaker 12: that'll produce early in their career, and that hasn't happened,
Speaker 12: buy and large, and that's that's a big problem. It's
Speaker 12: the reason why the Eagles were so successful this year,
Speaker 12: and we saw it front and center in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 12: I mean, most of all their players were all homegrown
Speaker 12: guys that they drafted, and they drafted well. So then
Speaker 12: when you draft well, you can go spend big money
Speaker 12: on a Saquon Barkley or and AJ Brown or those
Speaker 12: kind of players. So it comes back to drafting well
Speaker 12: and the Bengals hopefully got to figure this one out.
Speaker 1: Well, for every Burrow, Higgins and Chase, you got Miles Murphy,
Speaker 1: and you got Joseph Sign, you got Sign Zach Carter.
Speaker 1: I mean, all right, here's my other question. Yes, so
Speaker 1: there are six hundred and seventy five federal judges in
Speaker 1: this country, all running around in their black robes. We
Speaker 1: got about forty here in the Greater Cincinnati area, twenty
Speaker 1: four to twenty five of which are active judges. If
Speaker 1: every one of those federal judges starts deciding that they're
Speaker 1: going to stick their nose into politics and how the
Speaker 1: American political system, foreign and domestic, conducts business, we're going
Speaker 1: to have absolute chaos. And yesterday I thought John Roberts,
Speaker 1: who never disappoints, had an opportunity to say something and
Speaker 1: he didn't. Rather than condemning Trump and whoever wants to
Speaker 1: have a judge impeached, he should have kept his mouth
Speaker 1: shut or said something like, yes, we need to figure
Speaker 1: out who does what judicially in this country because if
Speaker 1: we don't, we're just going to have mass chaos. Would
Speaker 1: you agree? I would absolutely agree. It's you know, activist judges.
Speaker 12: Trump has had what are a record amount of injunctions
Speaker 12: placed on him in his short term here.
Speaker 1: Well, he's had He's had fifty nine between Trump one
Speaker 1: and what we have now.
Speaker 12: Which is which is yeah, which is more than Joe
Speaker 12: Biden had in four years, which is more than Barack
Speaker 12: Obama had in eight years.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, I think everyone can see the game plan.
Speaker 12: The game plan is to you know, when you're when
Speaker 12: you're not on the side of where most American people are,
Speaker 12: you got to just cause chaos. And they're hoping to
Speaker 12: just gum up the works, get the court system involved,
Speaker 12: and you know, Trump's gonna win most of these injunctions,
Speaker 12: but you know, the court system takes time, and they're
Speaker 12: hoping that they just wear down this president. Well, guess
Speaker 12: what I got news for you. I don't think he's
Speaker 12: gonna wear down. I think he's gonna keep going at
Speaker 12: it with you know, the amazing energy that he has,
Speaker 12: and you know, you got to it might take a
Speaker 12: little more time, but I think the things will come
Speaker 12: his way, and hopefully there's there's an example set there
Speaker 12: where you know, they always argue about you know, you know,
Speaker 12: Elon Musk and unelected bureaucrats having a say in the government. Well,
Speaker 12: a lot of these judges are doing the same thing.
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't elect them, did you. No, I don't remember
Speaker 1: voting for any of these people. Well I do know this.
Speaker 1: You and Eddie are next, and it's the highlight, the zenith,
Speaker 1: if you will, of the broadcast. So I am going
Speaker 1: to shut up and listen and do the things that
Speaker 1: every listener in this area should do, and listen to
Speaker 1: two titans of broadcasts, extrapolate like no one else, and
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