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Speaker 3: You know, it's good to be Brian Thomas sometimes and
Speaker 3: one of those times is going to be this Sunday,
Speaker 3: May twenty fifth of Great American Ballpark, because I have
Speaker 3: had the distinct honor and privilege to be affiliated with
Speaker 3: the Ford to Ool of Honor event at the Salute
Speaker 3: to the American Veterans at the Great American Ballpark which
Speaker 3: has taking place this Sunday, and joining me in the
Speaker 3: fifty five KRCY Morning Show the Ford Regional sales manager
Speaker 3: and he's been involved in this for a lot of years,
Speaker 3: Greg Raminski. Greg, thanks for coming to the studio today
Speaker 3: to talk about this.
Speaker 4: Oh, thanks for having me Brian.
Speaker 2: This is an exciting time for us, and you'll be
Speaker 2: the first person affiliated with Ford for me to thank
Speaker 2: personally for including me again. I just speak a few words,
Speaker 2: you know, just I thank the veterans for what they
Speaker 2: do and just offer my comments and just send people
Speaker 2: on their way.
Speaker 1: Man. It's just it's a cool event. Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 2: It's a great opportunity and you always do a great
Speaker 2: job with some very heartfelt words. I mean, not'd be
Speaker 2: a lot of words, but their heartfelt words. I know
Speaker 2: that means a lot to the veterans that were there
Speaker 2: to recognize well.
Speaker 3: And there's some terrific veterans, not that all veterans aren't terrific.
Speaker 1: But you someone goes out in the world.
Speaker 3: I think Jerry Dinuzio has part of it, former sales
Speaker 3: agent here at he's since retired, but he's remained involved.
Speaker 3: But how do the veterans that are specifically honored get selected.
Speaker 2: It's it's a tough choice, as you can imagine. As
Speaker 2: you said, there's so many worthy folks out there, but
Speaker 2: our team works with a bunch of veteran organizations and
Speaker 2: they find those that are local, that really have a story,
Speaker 2: that are that are deserving, and again they all are,
Speaker 2: so it's so hard to choose, but they narrow it
Speaker 2: down and local locally. About ten or so veterans each
Speaker 2: time we do this get recognized at the REDS event,
Speaker 2: which is it's a great opportunity for everyone involved.
Speaker 3: And salute to Ford for for for this event generally
Speaker 3: and choosing to honor the American veteran.
Speaker 1: How many years has this been going on?
Speaker 2: This started back in twenty eleven on the tenth anniversary
Speaker 2: of nine to eleven, and it's grown. It's it's here
Speaker 2: locally at Great American Ballpark with the Reds, but we've
Speaker 2: also done it many other places.
Speaker 1: Over fifty five ceremonies.
Speaker 2: At this point, over five hundred veterans have been recognized
Speaker 2: through this program.
Speaker 1: Oh my word, five hundred. Yeah, because you know at
Speaker 1: the event there's usually ten.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's usually ten to fifteen or so per and
Speaker 2: you can imagine doing the math how many that's been.
Speaker 1: And we could.
Speaker 2: We'd love to do more, but obviously it's tough to
Speaker 2: get this all put together. It takes a lot of work,
Speaker 2: but it's a labor of love for many people, including you,
Speaker 2: And again, thanks for all your contribution.
Speaker 3: That's the least I can do. I didn't serve my country,
Speaker 3: so I've kind of taken on veterans and the American
Speaker 3: military is sort of a personal cause to try to
Speaker 3: make up for what I didn't do, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean?
Speaker 2: No, I get that, and I hear that every every
Speaker 2: year in your comments, and I'm in the same boat.
Speaker 2: But it's the least we can do, as you'd say,
Speaker 2: it is. It's such a great opportunity to recognize those
Speaker 2: folks and give them some love, which they all deserve.
Speaker 3: Amen, And this is the honor Fly tri State Day
Speaker 3: of this. Folks are on their way to DC if
Speaker 3: they haven't gotten already, So let me just interject an
Speaker 3: opportunity to mind folks. Nine pm at CVG tonight the
Speaker 3: welcome home ceremony. It's just something that you should not
Speaker 3: miss if you've never been. It's really quite moving. And
Speaker 3: of course the vast majority of the eighty eight veterans
Speaker 3: are Vietnam veterans who did not get a welcome home
Speaker 3: when they came back from their service to our country.
Speaker 3: So who's going to be honored this this Sunday. We've
Speaker 3: got ten local veterans.
Speaker 2: I'll go ahead and read the list, both Bill Luken,
Speaker 2: Frank Bailey, Fred Moore, Mike Donnelly, Walter B. Stitt, Ed Greeves,
Speaker 2: Ed Radcliffe, John B. Murray, William J. Ston and William T.
Speaker 4: Miller.
Speaker 3: And what branch of the service, and are these senior folcus.
Speaker 3: It's usually quite a mixed ban. It is usually a
Speaker 3: variety and that is one of the goals.
Speaker 2: We have veterans from all branches of the military, all
Speaker 2: ranges of experience, some that had just gotten out, some
Speaker 2: that have gone through World War Two at times we've
Speaker 2: had so it's a great variety and a good opportunity
Speaker 2: again to not only recognize the veterans themselves, but they're
Speaker 2: families who are in attendance, so you can tell really
Speaker 2: appreciate the event and the love and the spotlight on
Speaker 2: their folks.
Speaker 1: So it makes it great.
Speaker 3: Well, and my listeners can show up with the game,
Speaker 3: I trust there's still tickets available. Now, they won't be
Speaker 3: sitting up in the private space with the veterans, but
Speaker 3: they do throughout the game have little different things that
Speaker 3: go on that include the honored American veterans.
Speaker 2: Correct, we find ways and the Reds do a great
Speaker 2: job sat the Cincinnati Reds for working the folks, and
Speaker 2: we'll usually have one bring the lineup card out to
Speaker 2: the umpires before the game, and there's opportunities we shine
Speaker 2: on them on the jumbo tron to show where they're
Speaker 2: sitting and let them wave to the crowd and give
Speaker 2: let the crowd give them, give the crowd an opportunity
Speaker 2: to thank them and appreciate them as well.
Speaker 3: Well, it sounds to me like a lot of family
Speaker 3: members for the veterans are going to be there this year.
Speaker 3: Because I mentioned Jerry de Newsia every year that I
Speaker 3: do this, he offers me a handful of tickets and
Speaker 3: he said, Brian, uh, we got a lot of people
Speaker 3: coming this year. So you're you're stuck with two normally
Speaker 3: have to bring the kids or you know, my daughter
Speaker 3: or fiance or we had plans to do that.
Speaker 2: Are like, that's okay, that's good news, which is great. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's fun when it's a packed house, and it
Speaker 2: usually is. It would be great if the rumor a
Speaker 2: little bit bigger, as this event has grown. But it's
Speaker 2: fun just to pack the pack the space the Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame theater and do that event in there with
Speaker 2: the veterans and with their families.
Speaker 3: Well, and understand that you got something special going on
Speaker 3: at four an opportunity if you let my listeners know
Speaker 3: about this handshake deal for America.
Speaker 1: Since you're here, let's talk about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's it's the from America for America campaign America campaign
Speaker 2: which we launched a few months ago it was supposed
Speaker 2: to be for a very short period of time. It
Speaker 2: allows consumers to get the a planned discount, which is
Speaker 2: what employees get. It's truly the same discount that I
Speaker 2: get as a Ford employee is now passed along to
Speaker 2: anyone who comes in and wants to buy a vehicle
Speaker 2: across the lineup on most everything. And it's been extended
Speaker 2: through the fourth of July, so now it goes through
Speaker 2: the seventh of July.
Speaker 3: And understand that EV buyers actually get even a better deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they get a free home charger, which is a
Speaker 2: program we oh wow really yeah. Late last year we
Speaker 2: launched that and it's worked really really well. It's it's great,
Speaker 2: it's super simple. I know a lot of people that
Speaker 2: have done it, and it's it's clock like clockwork, turnkey simple.
Speaker 2: Oh no kidding to come out and install the charger
Speaker 2: in your garage once you buy the vehicle. Well, and
Speaker 2: that you've already been by by doing that overcome a challenge.
Speaker 2: I guess a lot of folks that might be considered
Speaker 2: it EV. Well, if I get one of those, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to pay to have a charger, correct and
Speaker 2: go through the difficulties of buying one, choosing one, lining
Speaker 2: up an electrician, and we do all that for you.
Speaker 3: How about that? And so what of the tariffs? Is
Speaker 3: Ford impacted by the tariffs in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 2: That's it's an ongoing issue. As you could imagine, things
Speaker 2: seem to change pretty often. So, yeah, there's been We've
Speaker 2: taken a little bit of pricing on a few of
Speaker 2: our vehicles. We do make eighty percent of our vehicles
Speaker 2: here in the United States, which is great, that's more
Speaker 2: than any other manufacturer, but those that we bring in
Speaker 2: from other countries have had some tariffs. We have had
Speaker 2: a little bit of pricing adjustments going forward on that,
Speaker 2: but overall the impact hasn't been too bad, and fingers
Speaker 2: crossed it won't be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you too.
Speaker 3: Huge fan of the Ford mustang am I I had
Speaker 3: you on back in two thousand and one. After nine
Speaker 3: to eleven, Remember all everything went to zero percent finance
Speaker 3: because the whole world kind of came to a screeching halt.
Speaker 3: And was at that point I said, you know what,
Speaker 3: I know that because I looked online there were two
Speaker 3: SVT Cobras in the area and I was like, you
Speaker 3: know what, I've always wanted a muscle car. It was
Speaker 3: the four point six Leader had I think factory rated
Speaker 3: flywheel horsepower three twenty seven, which back then was was sizable,
Speaker 3: you know, compared to modern figures. The current GT Mustang,
Speaker 3: what does it got? Four fifty at the flywheel amazing
Speaker 3: And then you go up to like the GT five
Speaker 3: hundred or whatever the higher ends, and they're just sick, fast,
Speaker 3: sick horse power and torque. I love the own one,
Speaker 3: but a big fan of the Mustang. We can help
Speaker 3: you out with that. I'm sure I know some people
Speaker 3: who know some people, Brian.
Speaker 1: I bet you do.
Speaker 3: As the what the regional sales manager, you probably find
Speaker 3: one of those form.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mustangs are great no matter what year.
Speaker 2: Obviously in the sixties up through today is it's amazing
Speaker 2: car shows.
Speaker 1: It's so fun to go to and see.
Speaker 4: The variety of Mustangs and the passion behind it.
Speaker 1: And it's one of the few that you can still
Speaker 1: get with a manual shift.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, there aren't many choices out there with a
Speaker 2: male trains and going the.
Speaker 3: Way the du that's your uh, your millennical what did
Speaker 3: they call it? The millennial theft deterrent feature because nobody
Speaker 3: out there really knows how to drive a stick shift anymore.
Speaker 4: My boys do. That's one thing they learned early on.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we taught our kids too, Yeah, both of them.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's uh love the manual shift. Anyhow, back
Speaker 3: to this, Uh, Sunday, May twenty fifth, What time do
Speaker 3: things get started? Because I forgot the start time of
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 4: The game I believe is around Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, usually, since we get there early, I don't pay
Speaker 2: attention to exactly when the game starts, right, We roll
Speaker 2: through everything, do the presentation. Then by the time we
Speaker 2: get out, it's about time for the first pitch to happen.
Speaker 2: So it should be great, should be a great afternoon.
Speaker 1: Oh well it always is so.
Speaker 3: Greg Raminski's a guest in studio, Ford Regional Sales Manager
Speaker 3: and a salute to Ford for the Ford Oval of
Speaker 3: Honor event again been going on for years. Tenth anniversary.
Speaker 3: I can't believe how time is flown. And thanks again
Speaker 3: for allowing me to help out just a little bit
Speaker 3: with this event. A salute to the American veteran God
Speaker 3: bless you and everybody at Ford for doing this. It's
Speaker 3: been pleasure having you in Greg.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you so much, appreciate all your time
Speaker 4: and thanks for having me in.
Speaker 1: Anytime, brother, anytime. It's eight fifteen right now.
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