10-23-25 Ken Broo in for Willie

The average American fills in for the Great American discussing the attempted changes in global politics by the BRICkS nations, the gambling scandal that popped up in the NBA last night, and some tips to help you get that next job.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right, the average American and for the great American
once again on this Thursday. Great to have you with us.
Don't say that capriciously. This is the great medium of
terrestrial radio. But even if you are listening on the
great iHeartMedia app, we welcome you in once again for
the next three hours. A lot going on today, of course,

(00:24):
major news coming out of the NBA gambling scandal, FBI
all over it will have that in just a bit.
We also are watching exactly what's going on from a
geopolitical standpoint between the United States and China. And it's interesting.
Things don't exist in a vacuum when you're talking about

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geopolitical situations. They simply don't. There are other players involved,
allies of certain countries, people that may facilitate what the
major superpowers want to do. And we all have our
eyes on China is our biggest adversary when it comes
to trade, and from a military standpoint, they are a

(01:05):
very formidable foe, and we all know over the course
of the last four years there were an inordinate amount
of military aged Chinese men that were led into this
country with unfettered access to the entire fifty United States,
and now this as the US and China get into

(01:25):
this urinating contest over tariffs, and right now, on November first,
it's apparently going to be a showdown date when more
US tariffs will go into effect. And you have the
Trump administration now considering a plan to curb an array
of software powered exports to China, laptops and jet engines,
all retaliating against Beijing's latest round of rare earth export restrictions.

(01:51):
Now we have this Venezuela becoming a player in China
v the United States. We know what the administration has
been up to with blowing up these boats that are
transporting narcotics off the coast of South America. And we
all know that they view the Venezuelan president, Nicholas Maduro

(02:13):
as illegitimate. And we all know that the CIA has
begin to infiltrate some of those South American countries. But
how is China and Venezuela all interlocked right now and
perhaps being a megapo against the United States. It's not
as simple as it seems. And I don't have to

(02:34):
tell my guests this. Joshua Philip has been on my
show before. He is a senior investigative reporter at the
Epic Times, and he's been digging into this. This is
a man who has been involved in interviewing carteil traffickers,
He's been inside Central America. He's done, as they say
in journalism, the footwork, and now working as this senior

(02:56):
investigative reporter for the Epic Times. He brings it all
to you on shows like Crossroads. And it's great that
he can carve out some time to spend with us
here on seven hundred A w wel w and Joshua,
how are you on this glorious Thursday.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Hey, Ken, great to hear from you, and doing doing well.
No shortage of news at the very at least, right, No, there.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Is not, and and this is concerning. Look, Venezuela to
me has always been kind of a gnat that you
just swat away. Every so often. They have dirty, dirty oil.
The United States bought some dirty oil from Venezuela. Other
people buy oil from Venezuela and just get out of
the way. You know what you're You're you're a ten.
You got a tinpot dictator in you're third world country.

(03:36):
But now being an all in an alliance with China,
they become more of a problem for the United States.
So let's just talk about how oil of this is related.
Are ongoing, urinating contests with China over tariffs and then Venezuela,
who is supplying that dirty oil to China. It's it's
all interlocked, is it not?

Speaker 2 (03:59):
It one hundred percent is And you know, again, as
many issues tend to be, China is the big picture
with Venezuela. So you know, we've all seen some of
the videos I assume of Trump posting them and Pete
Heggs had posted them. They're blowing up these cartel boats.
And you know, when a lot of us think cartels
were thinking Mexico, we're thinking the Mexican drug cartels. We're

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not really thinking like Venezuelan traffickers. Why do they come
from Venezuela. Now, if you had asked me, the real
picture of all this doesn't start the last few months.
The big picture of this actually starts back in twenty eighteen,
and that goes back to the Venezuelan elections. What happened
at the time, Well, Nicholas Maduro, the still current leader

(04:44):
of Venezuela, was accused of rigging the election. He was
accused by Donald Trump. He was even accused of this
by Biden. And you know, in the United States, the
whole allegation of election.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Fraud is one thing.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Even Biden accused Maduro of digging the elections, and both
Trump and Biden recognized the opposition leader as the official
leader of Venezuela. Maduro was seen as the unofficial leader,
labeled also as the leader of the Cartel of the
Sons by both Trump and Biden. The issue back in
twenty eighteen, though, was that you had huge protests on

(05:20):
the streets. It looked like Maduro was going to be overthrown.
They were accusing the US, Oh, you're you know, you're
trying to overthrow our government as they are right now,
right is they're saying right now. And then what happened.
The Chinese Communist Party in Russia deployed forces to Venezuela.
And during this was towards you know, I mean mid

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mid first term of Trump, right, Trump was talking about
intervening in Venezuela. Russia threatened the United States. Russia said
if America intervenes, there will be bloodshed, and Trump actually
backed off with That was the end of the Venezuela story.
You know, during the first Trump term in office. But

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what the story said at the time was that China
was basically trying to protect its investments in Venezuela tens
of billions of dollars, basically bailing out the country and
controlling the country. Venezuela became a puppet state of the
CCP during that time. And the other big picture is
that Venezuela now suffering from economic decline and everything else.

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They want more resources. The big resource just north of
them in Guyana, where they found one of the largest
oil reserves in the world several years back. Eggs On
Mobil is currently doing a lot of the you know,
the operations there. Venezuela then comes out and claims they
have historical ownership over the part of Guyana where the

(06:44):
eggs on Mobile operations are, and so they're getting ready
to start a war there. They're working with Brazil Lula
now back in power, and they want to start a
war basically to retake their quote unquote you know what
belongs to them, they say.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Which is not true.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
By the way.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Marco Rubio actually went down there just a few months
ago and he actually warned Venezuela, if you do this,
you will face the repercussions from the United States and
so and so not everything we see is just about drugs.
Part of it is about the CCP's investments. They're part
of it is about oil. Part of it is it
definitely about drugs. But part of it too is that
they're basically being deemed a criminal regime by the United

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States and anybody who defends them as also being labeled
to stay in like Colombia.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Now, so we have this access right China, Iran, Russia,
U Venezuela is part of that, and that doesn't even
get into what Russia is trying to do with China
on another level from an economic standpoint, and it seems
like it's those group of countries against the United States.

(07:49):
All right, who's the brains in the operation? Is it China?
Is China the center of this?

Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Okay, So what is what does Russia coming? Why would Russia,
as John McCain once famously said, is one giant gasoline station.
Why would why would why would Russia remotely be interested
in a pool of oil in Ghana? Or is it
all China that's really interested in it and as using
Russia as its force.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
So that ties into a broader agenda. So Russia working
with the Chinese Communist Party, working with these Middle Eastern powers,
working with African powers, working with powers throughout Latin America.
They have an alternate world order they're trying to push.
So you know, we all hear about bricks, right, we
hear about the Bricks Alliance. If you actually listen to

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their speeches, they're talking about something else. Russia is talking
about it, the heads of Venezuela talking about African muders are.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Talking about it.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
The CCP is the main model for it. They're talking
about what's called the multipolar world order, and effectively, this
is how they view it. They see that Chinese, they
see that American sanctions. You know, if you abuse your citizens,
if you start a war, if you invade another country,
as you carry out a genocide, you get sanctioned by

(09:04):
the United States. That is part of the packs Americana
where the United States is enforcing our interpretation of government,
which is that government is instituted among people to defend
God given rights. Communist states hate that. Tyrants hate that,
and they believe that if they're going to have power,
if they're going to trade economically, if they're going to

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be you know, economic wheelhouses. They need to destroy that,
they need to destroy the packs Americana. They need to
destroy what they call the unipolar world order, meaning the
American system as the world you know, kind of model
of government, the unipolar world order.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
So what they're proposing is what's.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Called the multipolar world order, which is many countries controlled
different regions. America controls America, Canada controls Canada, probably Cuba
and Venezuela in Brazil control Latin America, and Full of
Powers control Africa like an African alliance. China controls basically
all of East Asia. Russia controls the former Soviet Union,

(10:09):
and then influences you know, western Western Europe knows, yeah,
Western Europe through mostly energy trade, and that's what they want.
They want America just to be a seat at the
paved table, and they want to overthrow the American system
of sanctions.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Well, obviously that would be something that that this administration
would not go for. I mean, there might have been
past administrations that would have entertained that idea, so obviously
that that's that's a non starter for the current folks
in Washington, d C. But still, if you if you
just look at where we are as a country, and

(10:45):
you look at at what you just said, who are
our allies? Because it ain't going to be the United
States aided by Canada that's going to be going in
to fight all for all this stuff if we if
we want that. Now, if it's hockey, it might be
a different story, But this is geopolitical warfare. So I mean,
who's in this fight with us? And that does not
seem to be a fight that's winnable when you factor

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in what China can do economically and what Russia could
do with a madman in charge of that country. Well,
where how do we play that game?

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Well, this is the bigger challenge we have is that
we don't we don't have unified nation alliances. A lot
of this is party based, so a lot of the
left wing governments, the socialist governments of the Europe, socialist
parties of Canada, you know, maybe not the conservatives, but
the socialist sides, you know, they want that too. They
want to say, you know, America does its tariffs, America

(11:39):
does its uh, you know, it's trade policies. They want
things kind of claimed by the status quo. They want
global equity. Europe wants to be able to censor Americans.
They want to be able to suppress what we say
on the internet. They want to be able to tax
American high tech industries because they say we have.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
A monopoly on it.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
They view America as, you know, kind of a powerful city,
and they want equity. They want us to share the wealth,
which turns out we've been doing and a lot of
Americans weren't even where we were doing it. You know,
we subsidize their healthcare system, we pay for the military,
we do everything for them. That's global equity, and that's
what they want in terms of the global agreements, I mean,

(12:16):
the unports or the multipolar world order. It's the same
thing being said at the World Economic Forum meetings. It's
the same thing being said when a lot of these
leaders go and speak at the United Nations. A lot
of them are pushing for it. And you know, China's
even trying to do it too, even through the creation
of alternate economic systems. They were proposing a bricks currency

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to overthrow the US dollar.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
It is true.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Trump has been hitting back on them pretty hard against this.
Trump so that if anybody tries to overthrow the US dollar,
you're going to get one hundred percent sanctioned or sorry terriffs.
And so you know it's a battle right now, but
it's only going to take one leader to stop fighting
that battle for the other side to win.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, exactly. And you know it's funny listening to that
politics and geopolitics. The enemy could be from within. I mean,
there are a lot of people in this country that
are running for office or would like to entertain a
notion of running for office, that are socialists in their
behavior and believe that equity is the way to go
in the United States. So there's a battle that's being

(13:18):
fought outside of the borders of the United States, and
then there could be one politically being fought inside the
borders of the United States. And who knows what kind
of influenced Russia. I'm sorry, China may have. I just
had a guy on yesterday who is plugged into what's
going on with a lot of these Antifa riots and
said he had he had complete evidence that what's going

(13:42):
on in Portland is being funded by the Chinese and
the Chinese Communist government and that they're supplying them with
whatever weaponry. An organization that's being used by the people
that are on the streets in Portland right now. My
point in all of it, being Joshua, is that there
may be elements inside this country that are being in
influenced by this access that may also be a problem

(14:05):
for the United States when dealing with the outside forces.
I don't know if your investigation is taking you anywhere there,
but it certainly is a notion that I've had for
a while that the enemy from within may be worse
than the enemy from without any thoughts on that, it
is true.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
It is one hundred percent true. So I've been working
on some stuff around this. So some of this goes
back to the Cold War. Some of it goes back
to organizations that were started as really like Soviet Front
organizations under the Common Tern. After the collapse of the
Soviet Union, a lot of those systems switched their allegiance

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to the Chinese Communist Party.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
So the CCP.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Became kind of the replacement of what Russia was, replacement
of the Communist International. Right, they just don't call it that.
Instead of calling it the Communist International or the Common Tern,
they call it the China model. They call it Chinese engagement,
they call it Chinese investment.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
I'll give you a few examples.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
We're aware now that this Neville Singh, this Indian guy
billionaire working out of China in Shanghai, is one of
the big funders behind a lot of the far left
of the United States. People are talking about him. That's
one of the big stories, but you have a lot
of other ones. The TIDES Foundation tied in with some
of that money, sorows money, other things. TIDES Foundation also

(15:22):
has a lot of influence over Wikipedia. TIDES Foundation has
investments with Google. Tides Foundation has involvement in a lot
of the protests. Some of the money for Antifa allegedly
is running through TIDES and that's kind of the way
that street goes. You know, BLLL Black Lives Matter. Their
donation page used to go to the Chinese Progressive Association,
a Chinese front organization, one of the bigger factions in

(15:46):
the United States running a lot of these operations, you know,
Democratic socialis America. Of course, they have some ties to China,
if you including some of the delegations actually just recently
doing engagements with China. You can talk about the Rainbow Coalition,
I nowist trained, i e. China trained organization that just puppeteers.
Tons of these movements and backs, a lot of politicians

(16:08):
engage in it. You know, the list goes on. You
have a you know, Freedom Road Socialists. A lot of
these organizations have deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party,
and a lot of these organizations are heavily involved in
the Chaos and American streets, on the agitation operations, within media.
Even some government officials part of these networks. And so

(16:30):
it is, it is concerning, it is inside the country
as well well.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
I enjoy you on Crossroads and obviously your work with
the Epic Times, and this is this is a must
see deep dive into what's really going on with regards
to China and Venezuela and then of course with the
other players in this Iran in Russia. Joshua, every time
I have you on, I feel I'm more informed and
I feel smarter. I don't know if I am smarter,

(16:55):
but I feel smarter and that's a good feeling to have.
And until we talk again, you stay well, okay.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Always a pleasure.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Thank you you.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Bet Epic Times, Joshua, Philip. China is a very very
very big problem inside our country right now. Not to
say the least of what's going on with their involvement
with Venezuela. It is twelve twenty six. I am the
average American. This is seven hundred WLW com Porty, welcome back.

(17:30):
It's the average American in for the great American on
this Thursday. Still to come on the show on nailing
that big job interview, Nailing the big job interview. Who
doesn't want to do that? We'll get into that in
a little bit, among other things. The big story of

(17:50):
the day, of course, is the NBA betting scandal, yet
another one. There have been several in the history of
the NBA, and just a couple of years ago there
was a big betting scandal involving a Toronto Raptors player,
Johntay Porter, And of course there was the betting scandal
that involved an NBA referee about ten fifteen years ago.

(18:13):
And now today the FBI in a wide ranging arrest roundup,
complete with two indictments. They have arrested thirty four people,
two of whom are current NBA personalities. Let's just put

(18:35):
it that way, because Chauncey Billups is the head coach
of Portland. At least it was until last night. My
guess is he's not going to be the head coach
of Portland anymore. And the other guy of note was
Miami heat guard Terry Rogier, along with former Cleveland Cavalier
player and assistant coach Damon Jones. They're all involved in

(18:56):
one way or another with gambling schemes. Billips, again, the
coach of the Portland Trailblazers, was arrested in Portland. He
is charged with a separate indictment away from NBA Gambling
for allegedly being involved in a wide ranging scheme to

(19:17):
rig underground poker games back by four of the five
mafia families in the United States. And there was everything
that was going on with this particular scheme. There were
automatic card shufflers that were not, let's say up to

(19:38):
snuff that they were shuffling cards that were using these
card games that would benefit the house. There was even
an X ray table where from beneath the table, you
know how you lay your cards down, if you're on
a you're playing you're playing cards, where there was an
X ray machine that could look up and see what
the cards were on each particular hand. And not just

(20:00):
a couple of hands here a couple of hands there,
but every single hand, and there were people that were
being built out of tens of thousands of dollars per hand.
So that was Billips. Rosier was arrested this morning in
a hotel at Orlando, Florida. He's accused of participating in

(20:24):
an illegal sports betting scheme using private insider NBA information.
They lost their season opener to the Magic last night.
Rosier did not play due to a coach's decision. Sure
they knew this was coming, and it makes you wonder
why because both of these players, well the coach and
the player. But let's talk about Rosier. He's made one

(20:45):
hundred and thirty five million dollars in his NBA career
ten year NBA careers, made one hundred and thirty five
million dollars. How much could you possibly make by providing
inside information? He's making twenty five million dollars or was
supposed to playing this year for the Miami Heat and

(21:06):
Phillips who had seventeen years as an NBA player, five
time All Star, one hundred and seven million dollars total,
as they said he was the head coach of the
Portland Trailblazers. How much you're gonna make on a card game.
And it raises the question that if you're into gambling,

(21:26):
if you're one of those people that go on the
app and you're doing prop bets and all that, is
this safe haven to bet anymore? I mean, would you
go on and bet on an NBA game now knowing
that this stuff is going on? And I don't gamble
on NBA games. I don't watch NBA game. Most people
don't watch the NBA. I mean, I hate to dissillusion

(21:50):
sports talk hosts all around this country, but the average
regular season NBA game had an audience of one point
five million people last year, those for games on ABC, ESPN, TNT,
and that was down from the previous year million and
a half people watching a national NBA game. There are
three hundred and forty million people in this country. Million

(22:14):
and a half were watching gambling. Probably is what's keeping
the NBA afloat. Haven't heard from the Commissioner, Adam Silver
on this yet today, but I want to turn to
a guy that I have on my show on Sundays
with regards to the NFL, and Lee Sterling is someone
who knows, you know, how bets are made, and for

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him to survive and for his business to flourish. He
has to know that the NBA is on the up
and up, because if it's not, nobody's going to bet
on the NBA. Let alone watch it. Lee Sterling, how
are you on this Thursday? Do we have Lee? I

(22:57):
think he's online? One? Do we have Lee? Okay?

Speaker 4 (22:59):
Good? Lee?

Speaker 1 (22:59):
How Aary?

Speaker 4 (23:00):
Well?

Speaker 5 (23:01):
I think what we're probably going to seek and is
we're going to see maybe limits cut down and they
can always track you.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
I mean the big eye don't lie.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
Just like any crime, you know, murder, any how do
they catch you your phone? You know, they track you
wherever you are, whatever bet you're making. As far as
as wagering, here is concerned.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
And you know they catch people. It's it's it's.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
Everything is electronic now, so you know they there. There's
always a trail and usually there's someone even if someone's
maybe making a wager for something for someone else, you know,
if they're face the jail time, they're going to usually
end up talking.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
To the FED.

Speaker 5 (23:44):
So the Fed, I think it's like a ninety eight
and a half ninety nine percent conviction rate. It's that
way for a reason. The deck is stacked against you.
So and if you are guilty, uh, it's not. You
know a number of people that are just going to
stand there and say, okay, I'll go to trial. Someone's
going to end up talking and they want the best

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possible deal.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
And then you know, if.

Speaker 5 (24:09):
You're left, if you're the one that's left standing, you're
in trouble.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
So it's just shocking to me. You know, I can.

Speaker 5 (24:15):
I'm not saying it could, I agree with it, not
saying I totally understand. But a player, let's say, you
know who is just a fringe player and he gives
someone a tip, Okay, nothing, It's obviously not right, but
I can see it happening, you know, the greed part
of it. But someone like Chunty Billups, someone who made

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multi multi.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
Means is a head coach making a huge.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
Salary, and then Terry Rose here making almost twenty five
million dollars per year, four year contract, almost one hundred
million dollars.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
The fact that they would do.

Speaker 5 (24:50):
This is just it it's almost it's almost unfathomable.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
You know, it goes. Basketball to me has always been
the most susceptible to this kind of I mean, the
year before I was born, they had the big college
basketball point shaving scandal involved several New York City teams.
And then you know, you page ahead and you get
to that inside that that referee what was named Tim
Garritty fifteen twenty years ago, who was providing inside information

(25:18):
to gamblers. And here you have Rogier and Billups. I mean,
you know, Rogier plays right down where you are. He
plays for the Miami Heat. And you're right, both of
these guys have made an excess of one hundred million
dollars in their careers. So it must be the thrill
of it, right, it must be. Hey, I'm living on
the edge a little bit, you know, I'm going to
do this to amuse myself. Then it always goes back

(25:39):
to what I say, for a professional athlete, it's not
the time you're on the court, it's not the time
you're in practice. It's what you're doing the other twenty
one hours of the day. And obviously these guys said
some things going on, but I don't I think this
is the tip of it. And I really think that
they're probably going to be as this. As this goes on,
they're going to find more guys doing this. I just
firmly believe that basketball is the most susceptible of all

(26:02):
of these sports.

Speaker 5 (26:03):
What do you think it is because there's only five
players on the court at one time. Football, if you
get the one player or baseball one player and baseball
is nine players. And obviously, you know, throwing the baseball
in the margin when you hit a baseball between a
home run and a foul ball is just so minute.
Football there's twenty two players on the field at one time,

(26:25):
so one player, unless you've got the quarterback, probably not
much of an edge. So that's why it's much easier.
You know, if they just followed my game, it'saw me playing,
they would think that I'm throwing it all the time.
So it's just it's a total stupidity on Terry Rosier's part.

(26:45):
And Chauncey Billups. I think maybe if I'm just making
a guess, Terry Rosier probably in his downtime does some things.
Maybe he's not going to be able to play tonight.
If he does, he doesn't see himself playing more than
five or ten minutes in the game. And some people
took advantage of it, I mean for him to gain
they only played I think something like thirteen thousand dollars

(27:07):
versus wagers. What are they going to give him three
five thousand dollars to split it? That's not going to
make any difference. The case of Chalky Billups, where he
was maybe involved with a Gambino family.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
No, why, that's out.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Straight out of the Sopranos. That's straight out of the Sopranos.
I think this is and I don't know where it's
going only, but I think this is maybe going to
be an indictment of Adam Silver. Adam Silver, it seems
he was the first of the four commissioners to embrace
legalized gambling, and now he's had he's and that was
knowing the history he had with that referee Garrity, and

(27:41):
now this. If I'm an NBA owner, I'm looking at
this dude saying, wait a minute, this is just sullied
our entire league and you didn't know what was going on.
I think he may be in a little hot water
with his owners.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
Yeah, Tim, donah, He's a totally different situation with an official.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
But like I said, just shows.

Speaker 5 (27:59):
You the different level players have a player involved. Here,
you have someone Chauntsey Billups involved with maybe rigging some
machines in another form of gambling. He obviously coached basketball,
but it doesn't seem like he was involved in fixing
basketball games. Tim Donnie was a basketball official. It looks

(28:23):
like you got in debt and the only way he
could really get out was he thought, was to supply information.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
It's a mess, le Hey, look doesn't affect what you
and I are going to do on Sunday down at
the Holy Grail. But for your time today on this
breaking news, we appreciate it. Thank you, my friend, thanks
so much. A man, thank there. Yeah, yeah, I don't
mean Adam Silver is going to get indicted. I just
mean from his credibility and the leader of a leg
and now here we are again dealing with yet another

(28:54):
issue inside the leg. I know he wasn't the commissioner
when Donna he was the but that was David Stern.
But it is it's an indictment of his leadership that
this was going on and he didn't know. I mean,
it's I'm if I'm an owner in the NBA right now,

(29:14):
I'm saying, dude, what what are we doing here? I mean,
you have these two guys today and you had John
tay Porter before. Now the real problem is going to
be because this is how the FEDS work is if
they get Billups and Rougier in there today or tomorrow whenever,
and they and they flip and they start naming other names.
You may hear other names come out of this, but

(29:36):
this was thirty five people. Thirty four people. Phillips was
involved in a card game that involved one of the
four of the five major mafia families. Good lord, and
you had Billups, who you know, was providing gambling information
to illegal gamblers, and I'm you know, I'm sorry. I mean,

(30:00):
the NBA outside of League Cities is an acquired taste nationally.
The audience for these games is not great. I think
gambling kind of drives interest in the NBA unless you're
a season ticket holder and going to the games. So
they're in a tough spot and we've yet to hear

(30:22):
from the commissioner on this. He apparently popped up, I
want to make sure I get the show right.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
He was on the Pat McAfee show tuesday and he
said the league has been working with its sportsbook partners
to combat attempts at manipulation, so he probably knew that
this was coming down, but so far, no reaction in
the wake of this sweeping FBI pickup. Today, of thirty

(30:49):
four people, it is twelve fifty three. It is the
average American in for the Great American News Radio seven
hundred WYLW. So it's inflation any better today than what
it was a year ago. A year ago we were
gearing up for the election Donald Trump against Kamala Harris,

(31:10):
and inflation was a big deal. Now we got tariffs
to worry about. And you know, when you start talking
about tariffs, people's eyes were on the back of their head.
Oh my gosh, it's money. It's fun, but no, you
feel it when you go to buy goods, when you
go to go buy services. I mean, price of coffee
is through the roof, and a lot of it is
about to get worse if indeed these tariffs go through

(31:33):
what the President is suggesting for China on November first.
Already we've seen a choke back on things that he's
sending to China, like jet engines and some tech stuff.
But coming back the other way, it may make things
a little tight come the holiday season. So what does
it really mean when you hear tariffs? What does it
mean to you and me and everybody else walking around

(31:54):
the street in Cincinnati, and not just something you'd find
on CNBC or Fox, pisness or whatever. We'll get into
that and then down the road if you've got a
job interview coming up, or you think you may how
to nail it, I mean really nail it and get
the gig. All of that and much more, Yes, sir,
between or man between now and three o'clock, seven hundred

(32:16):
WDLW hey hey one ten News radios two one hundred
WLW the average American for the great American on this Thursday.
Great to have you with us. I don't say that capriciously,
for without you, what would I be? I would be
simply one man sitting in a room by himself, babbling incoherently.

(32:40):
And why would I have to leave home to do that?
So the the NBA reeling today thirty four indictments, some
involving an illegal card game scheme that was run by
four of the five major mafia families that caught Chauncey Bill,

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the Portland coach. So he was arrested today in Portland.
And then there was a I suppose inside information that
was being translated to or transported to in some way
to organize gamblers by allegedly by Terry Rogier, who plays

(33:23):
for the Miami Heat, and he was arrested again today.
I mean, this was so big that it went down
in New York and they got cash Pattel out of Washington,
d C. And all the stuff that he's dealing with
right now to come up and lend his two cents
to it.

Speaker 6 (33:39):
As you now know, individuals such as Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones,
and Terry Rozier were taken into custody today former current
NBA players and coaches. What you don't know is that
this is an illegal gambling operation and sports rigging operation
that spanned the course of years. The FBI led a
coordinative takedown US eleven states to arrest over thirty individuals

(34:03):
today responsible for this case, which is very much ongoing.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
I think, and this is just me. I think they're
going to get Billips and Rogier to flip. I think
you're going to hear other people's names coming under this
thing tip of the ice. But that's that's how it works, right,
You get, you get the people in. You know that
you got, and believe me, the FBI ninety seven ninety
six percent of the time. They got you. Once. Once

(34:28):
you're arrested and you're part of an indictment, they got you.
But maybe they'll go easy on you for whatever prison
sentence you're going to do. If you flip and you
name somebody else, I would stand by for that. So
Donald Trump is he's in this urinating contest with the
communist Chinese, with the Xijingping, and tariffs are what is

(34:52):
at stake here because the President believes, I think rightfully so,
that the Chinese government has been ripping off the United
States for decades, and so he wants a better deal
and a fairer deal, and so he is imposing tariffs
on Chinese imports fifty seven percent, so China restricted exports

(35:13):
of rare earth minerals that are key to electronics, among
other things. And now the President has threatened to raise
tariffs to one hundred and fifty seven percent if no
trade deal is reached by November first, next week. So
this sounds like it's all a bunch of you know,
high stakes chest beating. I'm gonna get you, You're gonna

(35:35):
get me. But what does it mean to you and me?

Speaker 4 (35:39):
Now?

Speaker 1 (35:39):
What does it mean to you and me walking around
the street, just trying to make a goal that trying
to buy things at the grocery store, fill or tanks
up with gas, make sure the kids have clothes, make
sure the mortgage gets paid. What do these tariffs mean
to us?

Speaker 4 (35:53):
Why?

Speaker 1 (35:55):
How is this going to affect our lives? Standing via
somebody that probably knows better than the most Dominic, Mezzarindino
has been at the forefront of not just social media,
but interaction, business to business and how things that occur
at the national and international level affect you and me

(36:16):
in real life. He has been on my show many
times before. He has been the CEO of many companies,
and he now runs a business to business company we'll
tell you about here in just a little bit. But
I wanted to get him on today because I think
this is something you're going to be hearing a lot
about between now and this deadline on November the first,
and Dominic, how are you on this glorious Thursday doing well?

Speaker 4 (36:38):
How are you doing?

Speaker 3 (36:39):
My friend?

Speaker 7 (36:40):
Well?

Speaker 1 (36:40):
I haven't been affected yet by the tariffs, and in
any way, shape or form, I think, like most things
in life, I eventually will be. But let's just talk
about you know, you, me and everybody else that is
just walking around on the street. If indeed the November
deadline comes and goes, and that's just about a week
away and these tariffs are placed in effect, what does

(37:00):
that mean for the consumer? What does that mean for us,
just the regular folk?

Speaker 7 (37:05):
You know, I think you said something pretty critical when
you said not necessarily affecting. I think in a way
it's being affected, but almost like that a slow Chinese
torture trip.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
In terms of the water.

Speaker 7 (37:17):
You know, our prices are not necessarily going down.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Coffee is higher than it was.

Speaker 7 (37:24):
We don't make coffee in this country, so it is
directly taroff affected as one example, and I think it's
that tangents that affects you. Another example is Kentucky bourbon.
They were shipping to Canada. Canada don't like Kentucky bourbon.
That's bad. So now you're getting that tangential effect when

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the market says.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
I have friends out of work.

Speaker 7 (37:50):
So I think we are seeing it, but almost like
that slow and on the side effect, And it's going
to probably get louder the more we have situations such
as you know, the beef coming up situation.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
That's a big deal right now.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Yeah, yeah. Trump wants to go outside the country and
bring in beef from Australia or someplace. And of course
the beef industry, particularly those states in the United States
out west, you know, the cattle country, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas,
wherever it may be. Not only are the people out
there not happy about that prospect, but also a lot
of the GOP senators are. But I think what he's

(38:24):
trying to do is threat a needle here dominic. Look
when he came into office, inflation was crazy. It went
up during the Bide administration. It was infinitely more expensive
to live then than it is now. So I think
Trump had had a decision to make. Am I going
to raise taxes, which no Republican wants to do? Or
am I going to play the tariff game. He's elected
to play the tariff game. I didn't see any other

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game he could play if he wanted to get prices down.

Speaker 7 (38:48):
To you, I think it's a tough you know, I'm
trying to think of the best way of.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Hitting it. Parents are not down, sorry, is not down.

Speaker 7 (39:01):
It's steady, which is still higher than history. If you
look at I'm looking at BLS dot Gov but I
think the challenge on the tariffs becomes when you're tariffing
things such as coffee. Well, the purpose of the tariff
tax the local tax consumer. It goes to the federal
budget and gets the consumer to buy more American goods.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
But I'm pointing to coffee because you.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
Can't do it.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
There is no American coffee. It don't exist. Or seasonal items.

Speaker 7 (39:31):
I mean, god forbid, we have a situation where corn
has a blight. Has it happened in history? Yeah, the
diversity of products is the protection. So it's a card
to be played, but I'm not sure and don't feel
high confidence. It's the card I want to play at
times when I just want my morning coffee without drama.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Well, Trump has got fifty terrifying Chinese imports. There's some
people that are saying I could go as is two
hundred percent. The President is saying this week he's going
to have a fantastic deal done with China by this
November first deadline. I mean, we've heard the president issue
deadlines and then deadlines come and go and nothing happens.
I mean, it's just it's just the way of his world.

(40:16):
But the fact of the matter is if you know
that this is a problem, and I know that this
is a problem, one would have to think that the
people that are inside the Beltway in Washington, particularly those
inside the White House, have to know it's a problem.
So how does he get out of this without really

(40:37):
damaging our own economic base, our GDP? How does he
get out of it and not look weak to the
Chinese that.

Speaker 7 (40:46):
Is trying to hit it because I think you know,
first of all, when we're talking to tariffs, we're discussing
a machine with thousands of gears.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
So one other example with the China Chinese tariffs.

Speaker 7 (41:00):
Ends of mine in Canada who are happily ordering that
eight hundred dollars limit and they're ordering products right at
their house. They're laughing saying I can't you guys can't order,
but we can, you know. And I think you have
social media, high communication, people seeing you know, your friends

(41:21):
online ordering this and this, and you know, look what's happening.
Is a great example when you mentioned the beef, I
think it relates to China. When that person is hit.
You have people who are voting for Trump, nice Ranch
in Montana, they're hit, Well, they're not going to be
happy anymore people with China, with trade Paris and China
who are used to ordering that two dollars phone case. Yeah, yeah,

(41:44):
you know that's a concern.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
Yeah yeah, And and and it doesn't even get into
the other aspects of dealing with Choanaman. They're they're not
just a competitor on the international trade market there, they're
also a military power and they It's been no secret
that a lot of people, a lot of Chinese nationals
entered this country over the course of the last four years.
So there's that sub sub almost like that subdivision working

(42:10):
over and above what may be going on economically. When
you're dealing with China. It's never one level, is it.

Speaker 7 (42:17):
When you're dealing with any of this, it's never one level.
It's you know, you're discussing a great example, the fentanyl
and the tariffs that started this, all right, you know,
and we're tiraffing this country due defensean al But the
me tirafhing is to this and it's really the question
figuring out that net some gain. Part of what I

(42:38):
look at every day is all right, so we're adding
a tiiff to Canada as an example to reduce that
twenty four pounds defence.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
All that came through.

Speaker 7 (42:48):
But in the process, how many people in the bourbon
industry have lost jobs? Could we have used that money
for five extra border guards at that point?

Speaker 1 (42:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (42:56):
You know.

Speaker 7 (42:57):
And I'm not saying right nor wrong, des I'm saying
I can't calculate that. God bless the guy who thinks
they can. Yeah, do you know what happens now? If
the Montana guys start going out of business?

Speaker 3 (43:12):
Sure, I'm concerned.

Speaker 7 (43:13):
What happened Argentina starts importing the beef and then our
beef industry gets a little bit of a hit because
it isn't it.

Speaker 4 (43:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (43:19):
Yeah, dude, I'm saying one.

Speaker 7 (43:23):
Hits the other and it becomes a cascating effect.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
But I think for years it is necessarily a good one.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
But I think for years, Dominic we you know, these
these companies have have Trump says, ripped off. I'll use
the term. These these countries have benefited from a very
unfair trade advantage with the United States. We paid more
for their goods than they would pay for ours, if
indeed they would they would ever, would they even allow
those goods into our country? Look at the look at

(43:50):
the automobile industry, my gosh, for forty years, Japanese imports
where skyrocking sales of Toyotas and Nissans and whatnot. But
on the other side, the Japanese weren't all that interested
in buying our cars in the United States, if indeed
it was even allowed by their government. So I mean,
I think he's got a point that there's got to

(44:11):
be some sort of balance, and I think he's using
the specter of inflation and curbing inflation and money back
to the American public with all of these tariffs that
he's announcing.

Speaker 7 (44:22):
You, I think you're spot on, because you know, when.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
You mentioned the Japanese autos is a great example.

Speaker 7 (44:27):
No matter how much you tear Japan, I will bet
you they will not buy more cars.

Speaker 4 (44:33):
No matter what you do.

Speaker 7 (44:34):
Not big, cause we're producing bad cars nor good They
don't fit on the road. Tokyo. The cars ended the
size of a hummer. We produce big cars for a
population that don't want big cars.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Yeah, And I think buying large. I think buy and large.
And this is not to cast an over arching umbrella,
but I think in the United States we revere the
automobile more than most countries out out there. Most countries
look at the automobile is just to get from point
A to point B. We as a society look at
it as some sort of luxury point.

Speaker 7 (45:09):
I agree. I also will add to the mix. I
think when you're using all these factors, all these examples,
one of the things that strikes me is just how
intertwined you're great hit spot on we're never gonna tell
more cars to Japan, but also we loved the automobile.
Is it bad that we're getting in Japanese cars or

(45:31):
is it good because it's making our manufacturers say we
better make a chief of car. They're just doing a
great job and it lights a fire. So I you know,
I am much more personally the advocate that free trade
is great.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
But I think my overall theme is you're talking about
complex issues breaking them down into simple in terms of
you know, this is crazy with Argentina, this is crazy
with this, this is crazy.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
With that, and all the memes.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
We're in a mean world.

Speaker 7 (46:03):
Yeah, but I don't think you can calculate the net result.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
Of all these moving pieces.

Speaker 7 (46:08):
Yeah on reaction, Yeah, it's not going to necessarily get
us where we want to be.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Right now, Well, well, the big thing is we'll see
we're chatted with Dominic Dominic Meserindino x, CEO of retail
wire dot com, current CEO of rtmnexus dot com. And
I mean, this guy has been ahead of the curve
on everything with regard to social media internet media for
over thirty years. Okay, So my gut tells me that

(46:34):
November one is going to come and go and nothing
really is going to change. It just seems to be
the trend here. My also, my other gut tells me
that this is the big one. You know, he gets
it done with China, and you know all the other
little gnats that he's done businesses with kind of like
fly off the map, you know, the smaller countries. I
think China and to a lesser extent but still significant,

(46:57):
India are probably the two big ones he's got left
with these tariffs. And then that's it. What do you
sense happens on November one, if anything, and what do
you sense will happen when and have he and she
sit down for a face to face meeting on all
of this.

Speaker 7 (47:15):
My current current concern is that I think we're playing
a little bit uh.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
Game of chicken.

Speaker 7 (47:22):
We're playing a game of Chicken with a beast, because
right now, for one example, as a predictor, Canada saw
these turfs and county went, okay, I'll try to go
with other countries, thank you very much. China is sort
of doing that now. They are having major investments, for
example in Africa. We're not touching it as pronounced as

(47:43):
they are, and you're seeing those infrastructure moves. So I
worry that you don't play chicken between two mac trucks.
Someone's going to get hurt. Maybe there's a way of
navigating that I am not prepared enough to say, and
that's I will take.

Speaker 4 (48:01):
That right away them.

Speaker 7 (48:02):
Maybe this way I don't see it, and that's okay,
But I am concerned. November second, all these pieces playing,
we're not going to see right now that maybe China
starts heavily trading with this in this partner and they
just look at us like, what's happening now?

Speaker 3 (48:18):
You're reading about soybean is a great example. Soybeans farmers
are saying, we're not selling soybeans to China as much anymore.

Speaker 7 (48:27):
They don't they're buying nail and they're just happily saying,
no worries, I got this and our poor farmers are
throwing the crop on the ground.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
Well, not necessarily a great move now, No, all.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Right, Dominic, good stuff as always.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
My friend, thank you so much for calling me.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
You stay well and you know we will call again.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
Thanks amazing, we'll talk too, and hopefully love the wording.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Yeah, I love the word amazing, Thank you, sir.

Speaker 7 (48:53):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
The rare earth restrictions China, I mean, this is this
is just retaliatory. You know what's going to happen. We
just talked about it. They're going to get together. There's
going to be something they're gonna punt whatever was going
to happen November. First down the road. My guess is
that Trump and and She meet face to face and
they come away with something of framework and everything settles down.

(49:17):
But yeah, I mean, it's a giant, urinating contest between
these two countries, and I'm not sure who's winning right now.
If you put that in juxtaposition to what we talked
about at noon, in that twelve to twelve thirty hour
about China. Now with Russia and with Iran and Venezuela,
it may be that there's more at stake than just

(49:39):
a one on one between China and the United States. Well,
what does that mean to you and me? It sounds
like we're going to be paying more for stuff that
never changes, does It doesn't matter who's in office, we
always seem to pay more for stuff one twenty seven
The average American in for the great American. I hope
it's a good Thursday for you. It is for me
because I get to spended with you on seven hundred

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Speaker 3 (50:02):
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Speaker 1 (50:05):
We called him old Faithful, not old Yellow. Shooting it
off at shooting it off, that's right.

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Speaker 4 (50:30):
Can brew? I am sitting in the antido where I'm
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Okay, you sound like you're coming in from Mars, but
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Yet another thing I wasn't invited to.

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Speaker 1 (51:10):
Yeah, what golf course are you at? I'm sorry because
it kind of muffled there. What are you at? Work out?
What call course?

Speaker 3 (51:17):
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Speaker 1 (51:18):
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everybody's having a good time, all.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
Right, seg Well, Uh, since you're here, Uh, could you
bring us up to data on what is transpiring in
the world of sports besides NBA players getting indicted?

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Wood at six oh five here on seven hundred WLW.
How about this Ken Brew Former Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson,
along with Isaac Curtis and Leifamamar Parrish, are now a
step closer to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. All three,
all three have, all three have are one of thirty

(52:47):
four players now in the Hall of Fame Blue Ribbon
Committee that are still in the running for enshrinement.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
In the Canton Well well, he Ken Anderson should be
in the Hall of Fame. There shouldn't be a Hall
of Fame with that ka being in it and of
the story that is correct.

Speaker 4 (53:01):
Of course, the big story and the big story in
sports today is the scandal involving the National Basketball Association
where Portland Trail Plazers coach Chauncey Phillips Miami Heat guard
Terry Rosier were arrested this morning as part of an
investigation and related to illegal gambling. Also was arrested today

(53:25):
former Cleveland Cavaliers player and assistant coach Damon Jones. And
that is what what what they're accused of doing. I
don't think they're going to be seeing a basketball court
anytime soon with jail cell around it.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Well, you're gonna get some guys. They're gonna flip and
they're going to give some other names. That's what I
think is gonna happen. They're gonna flip me, get.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
Some other names.

Speaker 4 (53:48):
I think you're right about that. And then let's see
soccer news. Evander from Cincinnati one of three players up
for the MLS MVP Award. Nick Haglan is up for
Comeback Player of the Year. But this is an outrage.
Ken Brew Pat Noonan not up for Coach of the Year.

(54:09):
Maybe three of a. Philadelphia, Vancouver and San Diego their
coaches are up for the prestigious honor, but not Pat Noonan.
That to me as an outrage.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
Well, you know, I don't know. I mean, I could
see where he wouldn't be. I'm not sure he would
win it if he was up for it. I mean,
there's just other teams that just did better this year,
not the least of which are you know the team
that won the Supporter Shield Philadelphia did better. Yep, yeah,
and you saw that MESSI signed a contract extension today, right,

(54:43):
Messi signed a contract extension with Inner Miami till through
twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 4 (54:47):
Yeah, three year deal for Lionel Messi. So they keep
one of soccer's biggest names right here in the good
old usf A for the four seal future seg.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Do you know what happened fifty years ago tonight?

Speaker 4 (55:03):
I think it was the Reds winning the World Series?
Was it in Boston? Now?

Speaker 1 (55:08):
Fifty years ago tonight? Listen up fifty years ago tonight.

Speaker 7 (55:12):
Lines in the overtime.

Speaker 8 (55:16):
McDonald McDonald throws it back on the point.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
Ben couldn't keep that in nik Fenn for Jack.

Speaker 5 (55:21):
That comes back to the doky over skidded Ryan McDonald now.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
In finn fifty years ago tonight, SEG. The Cincinnati Stingers
played their first ever home game at Riverfront Coliseum.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
Yeah, how about that, can Brew? How could I miss that?
And they did? They played the Indianapolis Racers.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
They played played Edmonton. They played the Oilers. A little
Andy Mack there, a little Andy Mack played by play.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
There I new Andy Max sounded great. He was always
a great hockey amount there and been.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
Back fifty years ago tonight after playing four straight on
the road. They came home to play the Edmonton Oilers,
and do you know seg who voice was inside Riverfront Coliseum.

Speaker 4 (56:05):
I think that's the musical genius of seven hundred WLW.
That would be Kenneth brew Day.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
So this is what I this is, This is the
story from fifty years ago Tonight'd say. Of course they
come on the ice and I opened the microphone. I say,
here come the stars, and they lead them out. I
think it was no man. Lapointe was the goaltender. He
leads him out, leads him out, and there's circling around
the ice. Well, the PR guy for the Stingers gave

(56:34):
me a list of fifty groups I was supposed to
welcome that night, fifty groups, and I was told I
was told, don't start introducing these groups until the players
hit the ice for the warm up. So I'm going
and we want to welcome, you know, the Old Timers
Club from Westchester, and of course we also want to
welcome the Women's Day Center from you know, from Erlanger.

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And I'm going through. I get about twenty twenty twenty
of the fifty end and the referee guy named Bill
Friday comes skating up to him leans down me and
he says to me, hey, hey, this ain't Toledo, Ohio.
Shut up. We're getting ready to play.

Speaker 4 (57:17):
Wow. And that's it.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
So they dropped the puck and uh and they're calling
down from like the press pot. Why is just saying
the rest of the names. I said, because the referee
just told me to shut up. It ain't Toledo, Ohio.

Speaker 4 (57:31):
I swear to god he was a lucidary referee, Bill
Friday can Brew and you know, I mean, what was
he gonna do? So he had a penalty box or something.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
I don't know. I could have gotten a delayed game
penalty for the franchise. But it was fifty years ago tonight,
the first home game of the now late and momented
Cincinnati Stingers, the likes of Dale Smidsmo and Ron Plumb,
Bernie Chuck Sab Chuck claub Larrose, Jacques lo cop Here, Geeta.

Speaker 4 (58:04):
Great.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
I don't know if he was on that team.

Speaker 4 (58:08):
I know number seven, he was number seven, well not
not yeah, he came later, but numbers later on. I
think he was. I think he started his career with
the Nordeas.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
Seven years fifty years ago tonight, number seven was Brian
Soupy Campbell. Oh boy, I'm looking at the media guide
right here. I kept the media guide that that they
had there, and they had they had Frank Beaton as
one of their up and coming stars. And the picture
of him that they have, he's got a black eye.

Speaker 4 (58:41):
It's buffy there you go, you know, I mean, that's yea.
I should have known that, ken Brew.

Speaker 7 (58:47):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
I love the Stingers.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
Boy, they were great fifty years ago.

Speaker 6 (58:51):
Tonight in the overtime, Ducie McDonald McDonald's throws it back
on the point, couldn't keep that ink fent?

Speaker 4 (59:00):
What jack?

Speaker 5 (59:00):
It comes back to the st.

Speaker 4 (59:05):
Checked away by Afro.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
That's what was broadcast on seven hundred wyl W. How
about that?

Speaker 4 (59:11):
And I remember I remember going down there a few
times to ken Brew when they were in business that
teams would actually change cities, uh like after at the
institute and they would still they would still wear their
old jerseys, but the team moved to another to another city.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Right, the Denver Spurs became the Ottawa Civics. At like
three o'clock in the afternoon and they're still skating around
with the Denver Spurs. Y'all was unbelievable stuff. Well I
want you. I'll talk to you in a little bit
here from wherever you're at. But tell everybody out there
we said.

Speaker 4 (59:46):
Hey, you got it, ken Brew and uh. In honor
of a beautiful day here in the Tri State, we
leave you with the immortal words of the.

Speaker 7 (59:54):
Stude behind the Campbell Campbell reaching for the a far quarter.

Speaker 4 (01:00:02):
The stores.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
Andy Mack did it by himself. No color commentator did
it by himself. All right, seg we'll talk to you
in an hour. It's one fifty one News Radio, seven
hundred w l W Show eight on this Thursday, and

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good afternoon. It's the average American in for the great American.
Glad you are with us. We're here right till three
o'clock today, and then I believe Rocky is back. You'll
join Eddie and all things will be normal on seven
hundred WLW. There is there is data that is out there.
In fact, there was a report that came out maybe

(01:00:50):
two three weeks ago Fletch Jobs twenty twenty five State
of the Workforce Report, and it basically said that half
of us forty eight percent, we'll be looking for a
new job in twenty twenty six and that seventy six
percent of us who will be looking for a new job.
Seventy six percent of us will be looking for a

(01:01:13):
new job because they simply don't want to work in
a business environment five days a week. Prefer to work
in some way, shape or form at home. And as
we know, many companies are saying, eh, you know, we
got this mortgage on this building and we want to
use it, and so you need to come here and
work for us here, not necessarily at home. And with

(01:01:37):
some folks it's not going over very well. The bottom
line is a lot of people are going to be
looking for a new job, and it's tough out there.
There are a lot of jobs that are listed that
simply aren't open. Companies list them for various reasons, maybe
for EOE or maybe just to say, hey, we have
this opening, and then they'll graze to see what candidates

(01:01:58):
are out there when and if they have to hire somebody,
not if they want to hire somebody. So there are
a lot of candidates for jobs that are actually open.
So invariably you're going to do an interview if you
apply for a new job. First interview might be a
telephone interview or a zoom interview, and if you're lucky,
maybe you'll get face to FaceTime inside the business itself.

(01:02:20):
And then you're on the spot, because now you've got
to sell yourself and you've got to tell perspective employers
exactly what you can do, and it better be concise
and clear and to the point.

Speaker 4 (01:02:35):
What do you do?

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
Well, maybe, if you're smart, you turn to somebody that
knows all about these things. Let's do that. Let's turn
to career coach Laura Brown, who's co authored a new book,
Interview Speak What your Interviewer Really wants to Know, and
she's also besides that new book, you can find her

(01:02:56):
at Careercoffee break dot com. I love that career coffee bok. Anyway,
Laura Brown, Welcome to seven hundred WYLW. How are you
on this glorious Thursday.

Speaker 9 (01:03:06):
I am great. Thank you so much for having me today.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
I'm glad you're here because you know, I've gone through
the interview process a lot in my life. Not so
much anymore, you know, I'm kind of like at the
end of the rope here. But the fact of the
matter is that during my time I was on the
spot and I would get called in after an audition
tape was seting people like what I saw, what they saw,
or in case of radio, what they heard. And it's

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not not an unpleasant experience, but it's an experience. You
better be prepared for. Nothing worse than going into an
interview without being prepared for what you want to say
and what the interview er may want to ask you there.
I can't imagine a worse feeling in the world than
being unprepared for that. Why do so many people go

(01:03:50):
into job interviews unprepared?

Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
You know, it's so.

Speaker 9 (01:03:54):
Funny that you said, because I totally agree with you.
I need to be prepared, but I have plenty of
people tell me, no, I want to be authentic. I'm
just going to wing it. I'm going to show up
as I am.

Speaker 4 (01:04:04):
Now.

Speaker 9 (01:04:04):
I do think you should be authentic, but I think
you should be authentically prepared, because if you're not prepared
for common questions, what's going to happen is they're going
to ask you something and you're going to choke and
you're going to later on think to yourself, Man, I
wish I had said that, or I wish I hadn't
said that. So that's why it's so important to be

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prepared and be ready and show up as your best self.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
I don't think many interviewers, whether it be HR or
the actual manager you're going to be working for. I
don't think it takes much for someone like that to
see somebody who's winging it or unprepared sitting in front
of them. You've done one, two, three, four, or five interviews,
you pretty much pick up on the fact that, wait
a minute, this person is here and I don't even

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know why I asked them here in the first place, right.

Speaker 9 (01:04:54):
You know, And you bring up a really good point
because absolutely interviewers pick up on it right away, and
the message they get is not, oh, this person is
trying to be authentic. The message they get is this
person isn't interested enough in this job to spend a
little time preparing and reviewing the job description or getting
ready for answers. So if they're not that interested, we're

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not moving them forward. So that's all you have to
be prepared.

Speaker 1 (01:05:19):
Okay, So how do how do you prepare yourself? I mean,
I'm sure you know everybody does it differently because everybody
is different, but there have to be some boilerplate things
that you do before you go into a job interview.
So what would be like the top three or four
big things.

Speaker 9 (01:05:35):
Well, so let me tell you, first of all what
they're looking for so you can be prepared for it.
So the first thing is they want to know can.

Speaker 5 (01:05:41):
You do the job?

Speaker 9 (01:05:42):
So you need to know you know on your resume
you can show you can.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
Do the job.

Speaker 9 (01:05:45):
And the second one, which most people don't get, is
can you do and are you excited about this job?
So preparation is about really taking a look at the
job description. And in the book, we deconstruct a job
description and we show you how can you take the
job description and pick up on possible questions they're going

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to ask and then think about what would be a
way to answer it and show I'm a motivated and
enthusiastic about this job. In addition, now a whole bunch
of common questions tell me about yourself, why do you
want this job? That you should be prepared for. And
part of that preparation is thinking about a couple of examples.
So what's a good example when I did this, or

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what's a great story I can tell here? So when
they ask you these questions, you're just pulling out the
answers that you're already ready for.

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
Sure, I mean if it's most companies want an answer
to you know, we make money, how can you help
us make money? Tell us how you can help us
be a better and more profitable company. I think that's
probably one that would stand out to me if I
were going into a job interview. The other one would
be tell us how you tell us how you operate

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as a member of the team. What kind of teammate
are you? And I just think they're just so certain
things you have to you have to prepare yourself for.
Imagine yourself as a leader, if you ever got to
a leadership position, what would be the important things for you?
I think I think you can rehearse those. But then
there's the tendency to memorize answers and not come off
as authentic. So how do you how do you balance that?

Speaker 9 (01:07:18):
Oh, I'm so glad you said that, because absolutely part
of preparation is coming up with a good answer, but
you definitely don't want to memorize it. And actually, in
the book we have we have some bad examples, and
one of them is somebody obviously memorized uh, And the
answer and then gets interrupted and then goes back to
the beginning because you can't remember from the middle. You
never want to do that and instead instead what you

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want to do, And I've had plenty of have some
notes in front of you, or have some bullet points,
so it shouldn't be word for word.

Speaker 4 (01:07:47):
It should just be.

Speaker 9 (01:07:48):
For example, if the interviewer asked me, why are you
interested in this job? I should have you know, two
or three bullet points and yes, I probably should have
said it out loud and practiced. And I also recommend
timing yourself so you don't give a five minute answer,
you give a one or two minute answer, but just
have a couple of bullet points and have a story
and make it quick rather than just think about, well,

(01:08:11):
I'm really not sure what to say here and and
I'm so afraid that I have to memorize it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:16):
Yeah, And I mean, you want to tell people what
you can do or what you have done to help
other companies you've been with. You don't want to seem braggadocious.
There's kind of an art to it, but you know,
you got to be yourself because if you start, you know,
getting into a rhythm about what I have to say
it this way, I have to say it that way.
Then you don't come off as authentic, and you probably

(01:08:37):
forget some things that are important that you want to say.
But it's it's kind of a fine line, isn't it Anymore.
You've got to you've got to make sure you sell yourself,
but you also have to make sure after you make
the sale, you get out of the room.

Speaker 4 (01:08:49):
You know what I mean, of course. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:08:51):
So you bring up a really good point and you
said bragging, and I hear that concern a lot. Oh,
I don't want to brag, but it's not about bragging
and making yourself too big. What you need to do
is connect what you do your accomplishments to how as
you said, how you can help the company accomplishments at
this job. This is what I've done in the past.
This is how I could help in the future. And

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it's really important that you also balance using the words
I and we because you mentioned team. So if the
whole time you only say I did this, I did this,
I did this. As the interview, I'm going to say, hmm,
I wonder if this person can work with other people
or on the other side, I've had plenty of interviewers
that all they do is say we we WE week
And so I thought, huh, that's great that the person

(01:09:36):
is good with their team, but what did they actually do?
And so you've got to think about you want to
say both of those things and make sure that you
have the information. The other thing is you can use
a framework to really get the message across.

Speaker 4 (01:09:51):
And we have a couple of them.

Speaker 9 (01:09:52):
So like soa R sore, tell somebody, here's the situation,
here's the obstacle. I was able to work on action A.
So this is what I did, and this is what
the team did, and here's the result. And this is
the kind of result I can have for your company
in this job. So making sure that you're really connecting
it to this job.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
You've worked in business, you've worked. It's saying here you
were a senior talent director of talent development for a
global tech company. What is the one question you asked
when you were looking for a perspective employee? What was
the one question that you had to have answered or
it was like this person's a non starter.

Speaker 9 (01:10:37):
Well, and then so this is going to sound funny
because this is my favorite question. I always ask this
tell me about yourself. And it sounds so general. But
here's why I love it because in like this is
typically in the first you know, two minutes of an interview,
I really want to find out first of all, if
there are red flags, what are they going to say,
how prepared are they? What do they really want me

(01:10:58):
to know about that? And so that gives me some
indications about where we're going with this. And then I
also really want to ask them, why do you want
this job? Because again, if their answers are general, well,
I'm looking for a kind of job that does this,
And I'm thinking, Okay, I know you're looking for a
job because you're in front of me, but why do
you want this job? And if they then can connect

(01:11:21):
to I'm excited about these opportunities. I want to do
this and really connect it, then I think, Okay, if
I hire this person, they're probably a good chance they
will stay for a while rather than just ooh, I
happen to be a job you know that they're looking at.
So I really want to know this job as opposed
to yeah, I just want something in the future.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
Exactly. There's nothing more expensive for a company than to
keep hiring employees, and if the churn rate is pretty high,
chances are well you have probably probably. If the churn
rate is high, you have bad people conducting the interview,
you get bad candidates, and then all of a sudden,
you're back at it again in six or nine months.

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
Lord Brown's are exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:11:58):
She is the author of interviews speaking what your interviewer
really wants to know. She's got a master's degree in
human resources, and she's the creator of coffee break dot Com.
I'm guessing on coffee break dot com we find what
dark ROAs, medium ROAs? What are we flying on it?

Speaker 9 (01:12:15):
What are you offering here, Laura, Oh, it's careercoffee break
dot com. And I like to think I'm giving you.
I'm giving you tips to sip with your coffee in
the morning because it's quick career tip, quick career tips.
And if they go there, they can actually get a
forty discount on the books from the publisher. And I've
also got online classes to help you get a raise

(01:12:36):
at work or help you to negotiate your higher salary
at your next job.

Speaker 1 (01:12:41):
Career coffee break dot com. Did you ever I suppose
interview somebody and you thought this is it. This is
the person and the way companies operate. Now you're going
to do something that is not person to person, you
might do it. You might you might do it in
a zoom. You might even do it just in a
back and forth chat on someplace. And then eventually you

(01:13:04):
get that person in the room and man, you're excited.
You think this is the person. They get in there
and they absolutely drop the ball. Why if so, if
that ever happened, what was it about that person when
they dropped the ball? What was there drop the ball moment?
Besides they're freezing perhaps on the question and tell me
about yourself.

Speaker 9 (01:13:25):
Yeah, And it's so typically when it's something like that,
they've come across really really well and their answers are good,
and so maybe they've been really good at preparing. But
then they come in and then or again on zoom
or you know, there in the office, and then you
ask them something like why did you leave your last job?
So you ask them sort of a more difficult question,

(01:13:48):
and then they stumble because they're like ugh, or sometimes
and I haven't done this, but sometimes you ask them
kind of a weird question, which is a weird question
might be tell me what sort of superhero you would
be if you were superior, because I want to hear
how they handle something when there's no right answer and
when they haven't been able to prepare. What I really

(01:14:08):
want to find out is how do you think and
if they're really sort of stunted or if they get
annoyed or something like that and think, Mmmm, this is
not the right person. So you have to not only
be prepared if you are the person that's sitting in
front of me, you have to be ready for weird
questions or questions you don't like, or questions you don't expect,
because I want to see how do you handle that,
because in real life and work, things don't go the

(01:14:31):
way that you expect.

Speaker 3 (01:14:32):
You need to show me that you can handle that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
I said in a job interview, Laura, Gosh, this is
going back maybe thirty five forty years ago. I would
I don't expect you to know this, but I was
a television anchored news sports, and so I'm at a
television station and I'm an interviewed for a job and
there's three people in the room interviewing me, and one
person asks me, do you like dogs? I looked at her,

(01:14:55):
and I said, yeah, no, I liked dog. What's your
favorite dog? And I'm thinking the only thing I could
think of was Rottweiler. And I don't know why. I
don't particularly like Rottweiler's. I ought more for, like, you know,
but whatever she was and I'm like, I know. My
jaw had to hit the ground when she asked it,
and like one guy is nodding, yeah, Rottweiler's. I like it,

(01:15:17):
and like her she backs up like it's like the
worst thing in the world. And I walked out of
that job interview. It was out of town. It was
I had to fly out of there, and I said,
you know what, I don't even want this job. This
person sitting here asking me what kind of dog do
I like, It's like, what do you care? I'm not
bringing the dog to work, so you're hiring me, you're
not hiring my dog. But anyway, but I think they

(01:15:39):
did that. My point in all of this is they
did that for a reaction. And should you be prepared
for a question that has nothing to do with the job,
just so they can gauge your reaction to a question.

Speaker 9 (01:15:53):
I'm that's exactly it. So, so if I were asked
you know, what kind of dog do you like?

Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
Again?

Speaker 4 (01:15:58):
Weird question.

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
That that don't say.

Speaker 4 (01:16:02):
No, I wouldn't, so.

Speaker 9 (01:16:04):
I might say something, well, you know, I I would
like a dog, you know. I like dogs that are
that are big and friendly and nice, So I think
like a golden retriever. So I've given a reason why. Okay,
but isn't that a nice answer?

Speaker 4 (01:16:18):
I want to know, is right?

Speaker 9 (01:16:19):
All I want to know is that I can you know,
I can answer something that I that it's not expected
that I have a reason there and it comes across
as a as a positive answer, So it doesn't matter.
I mean, you know, you could pick up about any
dog as long as there is a reason why you
say it and it's a reasonable reason.

Speaker 4 (01:16:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
Well, the only beauty for me is is that the
three people that I interviewed with, they were all gone
within ten months.

Speaker 7 (01:16:44):
So okay, this is really interesting, right.

Speaker 1 (01:16:49):
A wise maneuver on my part. Okay, where do we
Where do we get to interview? Speak? What your interview?
Your interviewer or really wants to know. I'm sure it's
on Amazon, but where else can we find?

Speaker 9 (01:16:59):
Well, of course it's on Amazon again, but come to
careercoffee break dot Com because you can get the forty
percent discount on Amazon, you won't get the discount, So
my publisher really wants to incentivize you. Because the whole
point is that you never know when you're going to
get an interview, is you pointed out? You know in
the year twenty twenty six a lot of us are
going to be interviewed again. So start now, get ready,

(01:17:20):
Start to understand what you need to do so you're
prepared when a friend of yours said, hey, there's something
at my company, maybe you should apply for that, be
prepared now.

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
Yeah. And you offer online courses for people to earn
more money at work. Is that at the Careercoffee Break
dot com as well?

Speaker 3 (01:17:35):
Yes, yes it is.

Speaker 9 (01:17:37):
I love to help people make more money, and I
help people to ask for raises, and when they do
get that job offer, there are some keys I give
them to how do you get the highest money possible?
Because the money is really important and people get really
nervous about asking for more. But absolutely you need to
negotiate for yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
Well, Laura, the next time you see a Rottweilers, think
of me.

Speaker 9 (01:17:59):
Okay again, I certainly will. And then it's some wonderful
talking to you.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
I really really appreciate that, right, Laura Brown find her
again at Career coffee break dot com. Thank you, Laura, stay.

Speaker 4 (01:18:10):
Will, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (01:18:12):
Bye bye.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
It's true story. I did. I interviewed it at this
television station. I forget where. It wasn't Dallas, it was
it was it was it might have been Houston. It
was in Texas, that's all. It had to be Dallas.
And it was in Dallas, so it was in Houston.
And they asked me do you like dogs. I'm like, yeah, yeah,
I love dogs. And the only dog I think I

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don't even think I had a dog at the time
going there. I think it was Rottwiler. And the woman
that asked the question, there was two guys and a
woman in this in this room, and she felt almost
backward in her chair and her eyes got like saucer cups,
and it's like the two guys are like, yeah, yeah, yeah, right,
well yeah yeah yeah, we like Rottwilers. And I'm thinking
to myself, why are they asking me this? And then

(01:18:57):
like I don't know. An hour later, when I left
the building, I said, there is no way in hell
I'm going to work there, but they were They all
got canned within ten months. Such is the swinging, swirling
world of broadcasting to twenty seven News Radio seven hundred
WYLW today, it does mark the beginning of the end.

Speaker 4 (01:19:20):
Oh hello.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
Yet and I'm I'm broadcasting.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
Seg, is that a golf tournament? He's had a golf
tournament for Bengals sponsors and it's at Ashton Woods, which
is a lovely golf course. And Seg, what did you
shoot today?

Speaker 4 (01:19:40):
I didn't play, then, Brew, I don't play.

Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
Golf, so you didn't. You didn't play golf, but you
went there for why?

Speaker 4 (01:19:47):
I'm here for entertainment purposes?

Speaker 1 (01:19:52):
Well, are you doing a one man review?

Speaker 4 (01:19:54):
What? What? What? What do you mean?

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
Like your tournament?

Speaker 4 (01:19:57):
I'm going to comedy act and show later on in
and just to get our sponsors to uh renew and
look toward twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (01:20:05):
Now what kind of sponsors are out there? Seg? Who
are these people?

Speaker 4 (01:20:08):
Everybody? And the Pellas down here, Dizzy's for ours, came
for our lunch. All the sponsors a door and window,
they're all here. They're all our Bengal croud Bengal sponsors are.

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
Here and all the sales. The entire sales staff is
there right correct, and left behind our our production and
talent and maintenance.

Speaker 4 (01:20:32):
Not many, not many are there today with all with
all of us here, there were productive and.

Speaker 1 (01:20:42):
It's a beautiful day. It's a good day to be outside,
which is why I've been broadcasting outside all day and
and you're outside. So why don't you fill us in
on what we're missing here? In sports seg Who is
it brought to us by? Who would be the the
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Speaker 4 (01:20:58):
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Oh okay, well, let's think there are you bringing anything
back here for some of the poor of us that
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I'll bring you back a doggie bag.

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Yeah we won't see that. Say please, please suck. We're
never going to see that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:46):
But go ahead, Bengals up.

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hundred WLW. Former Angals quarterback Ken Anderson, along with Isaac
Curtis and Leap and Lamar Parrish, who's going in Sunday
in the Ring of Honor along with Dave Levam. Those
three gentlemen are a step closer to the Pro Football
Hall of Fame in Canton because Anderson, Is Anderson, Curtis,
and Parish are among thirty four players now have that

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are on the Blue Rivet Committee, still in contention and
in the running to be enshrined.

Speaker 1 (01:22:38):
No seg I hope you know, I hope Ken Anderson
should be in the Hall of Fame. That is beyond argument.
I hope that they don't. I hope they don't put
him in the Hall of Fame after he's gone. You know,
they did that to Ken Stadler. They did that to
Ken Stabler. I just think that's so wrong. You know,
if the man is Hall of Fame, where they put
him in while he and his family can enjoy it.

Speaker 4 (01:23:01):
Let's see what soccer ken brew. Of course, our beloved
FC Cincinnati starts the playoffs the this Monday night against
the Columbus Crew. But Evander from SD Cincinnati is one
of three players up for the MLS MVP vote, and
Nick Haglin, the Pride to Cincinnati, looks like he's up

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for Comeback Player of the Year award.

Speaker 1 (01:23:25):
Well, that would be a big comeback. I mean, if
this hit thing holds up, he's he's done well coming
back from that injury. Absolutely it should.

Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
Be that way.

Speaker 4 (01:23:32):
Yes, give it and that of course to the big
news of the day is the NBA as gambling scandal.
Portland Trailblazers coach Chauncey Billups, along with Miami heat guard
Terry Rosier and former Cleveland Cavaliers player and assistant coach
Damon Jones all arrested today as part of a pair

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of investigations related to illegal gambling in both the NBA
and all the poker games.

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
Well, the Chauncey Billups thing is the scene out of
the Sopranos. They did a whole they did a whole
episode in The Sopranos of a card game, this big
card game.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
Yeah, it's like illegal poker operation tied to the mafia.

Speaker 1 (01:24:14):
And yeah, there are four of the five major mafia
families were involved in this thing, and old Chauncey and
apparently they had things like the machines that shuffled the cards.
Those things were shuffling them in an order where you know,
the house, the house would always know what the cards were.
They had X ray machines underneath tables so they could
see cards when the cards were laid down. Now you're

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Chauncey Billups, all right. I'm not saying, you know, Chauncey
is is the brightest ball in the circuit. I don't know,
But I'm just saying, if you're Chauncey Billups and you've
made like one hundred million dollars in your career. What
the hell are you playing in a card game where
you're going to make maybe like four or five thousand dollars. Guy,
the guy was getting paid to coach Portland. He's a coach.

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He made one hundred and seven million dollars playing in
the NBA, and now he's making money coaching and he's
involved in a card game with the mafia.

Speaker 5 (01:25:05):
What's that?

Speaker 1 (01:25:05):
What is this guy thinking that?

Speaker 4 (01:25:08):
I don't know, ken Brew. I guess they tallied up
thirty people so far in the whole thing, so I guess.
And then what's rather quiet? It's that gambling gamble with
the Cleveland Guardians two pitchers. You haven't heard anything about
that lately, No, no, no, But.

Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
You know what, the NBA. I've always said this, The
NBA has always been the most susceptible league to this
kind of thing. There's only five guys on the court
for each team, and all you gotta do is, like,
you know, just you know, lolly gaga shot or don't
play defense, or maybe you miss a few on purpose,
and all of a sudden, you know you can help

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somebody who's got money on the game. And it's been
that way fifty The college basketball and fifty one, the
greatest college basketball betting scandal involved all these New York
City teams. And then you had the Donnage thing with
the that was providing gamblers with information. And then he
had just what a couple of years ago, they had
a guy that played for Toronto that he was he

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was banned for life for gambling. And now you got this,
I guarantee you these two guys are gonna flip. They're
gonna give other names. That's the way it works. With
the fence.

Speaker 4 (01:26:17):
They were talking about like sports books were in multiple
states flagged suspicious betting interest in certain games and stuff.
And I mean this was like in twenty twenty three,
So I mean, who knows, who knows how much that
went on?

Speaker 1 (01:26:33):
You know, so the whole world's work. The whole world
is that whack.

Speaker 4 (01:26:38):
Yeah. Rosier was in a final season of a four year,
ninety six million dollars deal. Well, I mean, do you
how much do you need?

Speaker 1 (01:26:48):
One hundred and thirty five million is what Rosier made.
He was going to make twenty five million this year,
twenty five million this year. And he does that so
he can get a little kick back some from some
amblers allegedly. I mean, come on, man, use your head,
use your head whatever, seg get us out of this,
get us out of the Stooge Report, so you can

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go hobnob with those celebrities. I'm sure that they're looking forward.

Speaker 4 (01:27:13):
To that, all right, ken brew in honor of a
beautiful day here in the Price State. We leave you
with the immortal words of the Stooge Report.

Speaker 1 (01:27:26):
We leave you with the immortal words of the Stooge Report.

Speaker 4 (01:27:30):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:27:31):
There they are all right, see seg Yeah, safe travels
back well, we'll rendezvu tomorrow. On seven hundred WLW two
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Yi asking for a friend.

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someone who understands the meaning of music in sports and relevancy,
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and they're taking over after I'm done. And Rocket, Jay boyman,
how are you fresh back from calling that Middle Tennessee

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Delaware game last night. Let's let's see how Rocky did
in this game? Analyzing something, Aron, let's a.

Speaker 4 (01:29:00):
You'll be the judge.

Speaker 3 (01:29:01):
We go it's I think the tip of that toe.

Speaker 6 (01:29:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:29:06):
Now the fact that the call on the field was
it was a catch. Now that that hangle right there.

Speaker 1 (01:29:11):
Looks like that toe. Yeah, hot analysis here from Rocket
is I nailed that.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
By the way, Ken, I know.

Speaker 4 (01:29:18):
You did that.

Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
You got that right?

Speaker 5 (01:29:19):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:29:19):
I I record all your games and looking which are
the pertinent moments that I could play.

Speaker 8 (01:29:24):
When when you're not even my wife like watches these games, Ken,
and but but you do. But by the way, it
kind of went for a second. That game took four
hours last night. And to quote Troy Aikman, nothing will
ruin a broadcast more than those yellow flags that the
officials throw.

Speaker 1 (01:29:41):
Yeah, that was over officiated last night. But it looked
like a nice night in Delaware. He had fun with us.

Speaker 8 (01:29:45):
Beautiful first date. Yeah, Delaware. Joe Flacco, the whole tie in.
There was great.

Speaker 1 (01:29:51):
Joe Biden played, you know, at the University of Delaware
on the freshman team. Yeah, we did sixty one.

Speaker 8 (01:29:55):
We didn't get him into the broadcast last night.

Speaker 3 (01:29:57):
Maybe next time.

Speaker 1 (01:29:58):
Yeah, I don't know. He claimed games he played against
the Ohio University freshman team in sixty one and got
thrown out of one of the dorms there. He actually
told my daughter that when she saw he was coming
through Athens in two thousand it must have been two
thousand and eight when he was campaigning, and related that
story to her and a group of other people that
were there.

Speaker 3 (01:30:19):
Sounds completely made up.

Speaker 1 (01:30:20):
Di I know, I have no doubt that he was
FOS on that one. Yes, speaking of FOS, what's this
gambit that the Democrats are playing trying? They blocked again
just a clean bill that would just fund the military
and fund the air traffic controllers, and they blocked it
again today. I mean, why are they dying on these.

Speaker 8 (01:30:43):
Hills because they can't They can't vote to get things
moving in the right direction because to do that they
would have to side with some things that Trump wants,
and they can never be seen agreen with anything that
Trump ever stands for even if Trump's that the sky
is blue, well they have to come out and said, no,

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it's actually, you know, purple or something like that. So
and the American people are the ones that suffer, especially
the government employees.

Speaker 1 (01:31:10):
Well, no, I agree on hundred percent. The only thing
that's purple, by the way, is that woman's hair from
where she from Rhode Island. That's the Democrat representative. That's
about the only thing that's that's purple. But the you know,
the fact of the matter is is it's it's going
to start to get real for a lot of people here.
And why they choose to do things the way they

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do to block Trump. Now there's a Democrat that's running
around saying they want to put trackers on ice agents.
This is a political party that I once admired a
lot of people that it is devoid of any ideas
except get Trump, Stop Trump, Orange Mad Band, bad get Trump.
They have nothing else to offer, Rocky nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
No.

Speaker 8 (01:31:53):
They start with the determination that Trump is wrong, and
then they work backwards and trying to find somehow, some
way to make even the smallest, slightest case that that's true.
And again the country suffers, and it's killing them by
the day, though, Ken, because their their stances are increasingly

(01:32:14):
more and more ridiculous. And thankfully now there's more news
on on social media and people can go to some
more trusted sources and find the truth on some things.
The legacy media has zero power anymore. So it's it's
that they think they're fighting back, but they're they're really
killing their own cause here. And I mean the latest
one is the the they're just losing their mind over

(01:32:36):
Trump's construction of a ballroom in the White House, which
that might happened what four or five times in history.

Speaker 1 (01:32:42):
It's ridiculous. You line ten people up on Fountain Square
and ask who's upset about it, and you won't get
one person to say yes, lockt, I gotta go. Apparently
Chauncey Phillips can't make his card game, so they need
me to sit in. It's a big story, Ken, We
got to get the bottom of this there. I don't
want to cut into anymore your time. You guys have
a great show, as you always will when you're together,

(01:33:03):
and you and I will visit down the road, my friend.
Thank you sounds good, Ken. Thanks That duo is standing
by next on seven hundred W l W