6-25-25 Ken Broo in for Willie

The average American fills in for the Great American discussing the fallout from the strike on Iran, the Reds news starting pitcher, and how will the Big Beautiful Bill affect Medicaid?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
By twelve.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Wait, it's the average American in for the great American.
How are you other than hot? On this hot and
humid Wednesday, it is. It's a smoker out there again today. Hey,
but the Reds must love the heat, right, two in
a row over the Yankees and a chance to sweep
them tonight. And there is nothing wrong on the face

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of the earth about that, not at all. Meanwhile, over
at the NATO summit meetings, reporters continue to spar with
President Trump and his Secretary of State Mario Rubio over
this report that was released that the bombings that took
place on Saturday. This is low level confidence in this report.

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But of course the media has seized on this because
the media hates Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
They may hate you, but they hate Donald.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Trump even more. And so did it really work out?
Was it really this way? Did you really do a
lot of damage? It's embarrassing to me what the profession
that I spent forty five years in my life in
has become. It is absolutely embarrassing. But nevertheless, that's going

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on over at NATO. There was a question asked if
Trump when they asked him, look, if you catch Iran
trying to rebuild its nuclear power plants and maybe trying
to get back to the business of building another bomb
that might have nuclear capacity. Would you bomb them again?
And he said absolutely sure. It's like, come on, if

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you got to ask a dumb question, then expect an
answer that comes your way back.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
So yeah, he would. It's been a successful trip.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
He's gotten other NATO nations to pony up to the
share that they should have been spending on NATO all along.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Everybody but Spain now is at five percent.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
But of course, you know, when you've got somebody on
the run, and there are desperate people in desperate times,
they do desperate things. And we have no idea in
this country right now how many Iranian nationals are here.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
We have absolutely no idea are here.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
We do know how many that have been encountered at
the border between February twenty one and November twenty four,
it was about seventeen hundred and fifty.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
We don't know how many were in those gotaways.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
And there were a lot of gotaways that simply rushed
the border and overwhelmed the border patrol or snuck by
the border patrol. Under Joe Biden's America, So what of
these sleeper cells that might have been planted here just
waiting for the ghost signal from Tehran standing by the way,

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And as somebody who's as concerned about this as me
at the under for Immigration Studies, there's no one more
revered than my guest, Andrew Arthur is a writer extraordinaire
on all things border, all things illegal, all things threats
to this country. And I wanted to get Andrew on
to talk about this because these trusts written today published
a terrific story about all of it. So let's bring

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him on in. Andrew Arthur, how are you on this
glorious Wednesday, Dan.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
I'm doing great, and thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
I read your story this morning and several other things
that you've written about this. It would seem to me
that Iran, which is a very difficult country to leave,
would let all of these Iranian nationals leave and go
to our southern border and enter into our country unless
they had the blessing the knowledge by the man that

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runs that country, the Ayahtola. So that's why I'm skeptical
about whether or not these people that came through the
border are here to do damage. When I look at
the Chinese nationals, those of those men of military age.
And I see these numbers of Iranian nationals, I'm thinking
to myself, they're not here just because they like in

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and out burger. They're here for something else, and I
think it might be the sleeper cells. Am I wrong?
Am I walking down the road? Am I trying to
be you know? The sky is falling here? Or do
you think there is something to this?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah? No, there's a lot of questionable factors that are
weighing into all of this. As you mentioned, there were
seventeen hundred and fifty apprehensions of Iranian nationals by border
patrol agents under the Boden administration, and that's especially curious
because they have mandatory conscription in Iran and if you're

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a military age male, you're not allowed out of Iran.
That's a twentyfold increase compared to the period twenty fourteen
to FY twenty twenty. So we seem to have a
whole lot of the audience coming to the United States,
all under the Biden administration, all taking advantage of the
Biden border fiasco.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
You mentioned in your article that the border patrol encountered
an additional seventy two hundred and sixty in admissible Iranian
nationals at the port of entries.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
That's over and above who were.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Coming in over the river or through the woods or
whatever it might have been along Texas. And that's a
sixty percent increase over the physical year period of twenty fourteen.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Through twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
All right, so we know that they can't get out
unless there's a reason for them to get out. Where
do they go when they get here? What's your suspicion.
Did they all migrate to the big city Chicago, New York,
Los Angeles? Could they be here in Cincinnati. Could they
be in Columbus, Cleveland, Indianapolis, just sitting there waiting for
the go sign from Tehran.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, And you know that leads to another problem with
this population of people, because the Biden administration released about
eighty eight percent of all of the inadmissible aliens we're
apprehended at the ports and by border patrol, and it
really didn't keep track of any of them. They could
have gone anywhere in the United States. And you know,

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now it's up to you know, Tom Homan and Donald
Trump to go out and find the ball, run them down,
figure out why they're here, and make sure, they don't
post a danger to our country.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Okay, So sleeper cells just by definition, and tell me
if I'm wrong on this definition. They're spies, they're terrorists,
they're operatives from countries like Iran, and they just go
and they assimulate into the community. Maybe they find jobs,
maybe they're paid under the table, who knows what. But
they always have a contact. There's someone that they that

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is in charge of contacting them. It might be somebody
that's also in this country who's in contact with someone
in Iran, but there's always someone that they answer to.
There could be a chain like this. We saw it
by and large with sleeper cells after nine eleven, where
at that point it was the Talle band that was
operating in places like ton of Wanda, New York and

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other places. And these these sleeper cells just kind of assimulate.
They just assimulate and they just kind of lay low
until that call. And that call might be tonight, it
might be tomorrow, it might be a year from now,
it might might be five years from now. But that's
what they're placed here for. Is that the definition of
a sleeper cell.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
That's the exact definition of a sleeper cell. And It's
important to note ken that the real power in Iran
is held by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps the i
rg CD, which is basically the storm troopers of the
Malas in Tehran, and they run very sophisticated intelligence networks.

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They run very sophisticated terrorism networks all around the world,
so you know, you know, they have the ability to
move those people into the United States, to send orders
them in the United States, and to have them carry
out the will of the IRGC in the United States
or anywhere else in the world that we might have asset.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
So basically they're tools.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Okay, from what I understand, they may be recruited through
religious contacts, social media and that you look at someone
and you say, Okay, you know, you really can help
the cause out, you really can help COMMANI out. You
can really help take down the great State in America,
and you can help take down the little Satan Israel

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because of all this injustice and religious persecution that's going
on in your life. They get to these people from
by a very emotional path.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
In is what I've been told? Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, no, that's exactly in it. And it's important to note
the fact that we have large Iranian populations in the
United States, and nearly all of those people are patriotic.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
They're here because they.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Don't like what's going on in the Islamic Republic. They
want to be Americans, they want to contribute to our society.
But it's all too easy for bad actors to insinuate
themselves into those communities and to you know, take action. Fortunately, again,
we have a lot of patriotic Iranians who are willing
to help identify those people, but sometimes it's very difficult

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to find them. We also have the problem that you
reference of people who become radicalized in the United States.
You can look at any college campus. American citizens here
for five generations are becoming radicalized by some of these thoughts.
And so, you know, that's another concern that we have.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Reading here from a news story I think is from
News Nation, they quot a retired special agent in the FBI,
a man by the name of James Gagliano, who said
that if you go back as far as September eleven
individuals who have actually entered the country legally, had we
checked their visus properly, obviously, we would have known about

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nine eleven and because we would know. Then the difficult
part of all of this is the fact that this
due diligence was not in place, and therefore nine to
eleven happened. But it could be people that have come
through here illegally. We don't know. I mean, that's the problem.
You know, America is the land of the Free, and
we have open borders now, but certainly it used to

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be you had to go through a process to become
a citizen in this country. Still do We'll see how
many continue to do that, but you still do have
to go through that process. But even if you go
through that process, you're never really totally sure if that
person is coming to this country to be a good citizen,

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contribute to society, pay their taxes, become a member of
a community for the good. You really don't know. And
I would also use as a caveat to that too, Andrew,
is you really don't know about people that were born
here and are here by birth and whether or not
they've been compromised by some from the outside world. This

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radicalism that goes on all around the world, it touches
not just people that come here illegally. It can also
get the people that are here, born here, live here,
and for the most part, are good citizens. Then who
knows the button is pushed, the word gets out, and
all of a sudden, all hell breaks loose. You never
really do know, do you?

Speaker 3 (11:19):
No, you don't. And that's especially a problem when you're
talking about Iran. The reason that President Trump put Iran
on his travel band.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
List is because we don't have the ability to.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Vet anybody who is coming out of Iran. It's not
like the Iranian government is going to tell us that
somebody is an IRGC member, or you know, has a
criminal background, or you know, any other bad information in
their past, and you have very little information about I
think it's ninety million people who live in Iran, so

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it's going to be very difficult to find the bad
actors and separate them from the good ones.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Now, the mainstream media, the NBC's, the CNNs of the world,
they would have you believe that all of this consternation
over sleeper cells is overblown, that there's really nothing to it,
that it's always been bubbling below the surface, but that
America is more vigilant than what it was in twenty
oh one. I'm just wondering, your guy who makes his

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living study and immigration. Your guy that not just saw
what happened, You understand deeply what happened. Ever since Joe
Biden took office to when he left office back in January,
how concerned are you that this sleeper cell problem is
real and dangerous.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
I believe that it's absolutely a certainty that there are
Iranian agents living in the United States and operating in
the United States. If the Islamic Republic were to actually
order them, and we could prove it that they were
here to act against the American people, it would be
a suicide note sent by the Malas to the American people.

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They would be asking for the United States Air Force to.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
Go back into Iran. But you know, there's always.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
The possibility that they'd be able to carry out an attack,
and then you know, Iran would deny they had anything
to it. You know, we're completely innocent about this. You know,
we can't do anything about our people that you've led
into our into your country. So yeah, I mean they're
definitely operating here. The likelihood that they're going to carry
out an attack is too big a risk for us

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to take.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, Andrew Arthur Center for Immigration Studies, Our guest. We
saw major ruling by the Supreme Court this week with
regards to Trump and deportations, and by and large the
green light has been lit. We also see how difficult
it is anymore because of these activist mayors, guy in Nashville,
of course, the cesspool that is Los Angeles. We see

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how difficult it is for ICE to carry out its work.
We just had a judge up in, a guy by
the name of Brian Murphy, nominated to the bench by
Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, confirmed to the bench after
the twenty twenty four election in the lane duck period
of the Senate forty seven to forty five. Biden was
the person who nominated at the request of Warren and

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Markey nominated Brian Murphy to the district bench in Boston.
And by and large, this guy is just going to
defy the Supreme Court. He said that, you know, it
doesn't matter what the Supreme Court ruled earlier this week.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
My ruling remains in effect.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
And so there's another judge that thinks he rules the world,
if not the nation, when it comes to things like
this and others. I'm just wondering there's a major piece
of legislation that is sitting before the Supreme Court, and
we may get a ruling out of it as early
as tomorrow, which would put all of these district judges
in play in their place as opposed to where they

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are now dictating law of the land for and sitting
on a bench with a very limited purview. If indeed
the Supreme Court does the right thing Andrew and they say,
look in this case, Judge Murphy, in other cases Judge Boseburg,
and all these other ones, they think that they run
our immigration policy. If indeed the Supreme Court comes out

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tomorrow hopefully and says, look, you got a nice little
courtroom there, but it doesn't run the world. How much
easier does that make Trump to enforce his immigration policy
that's being met at all angles, it seems like by
not just activist judges, but by mayors and governors of states.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Does it make it easier in your opinion?

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Or will it still be this battle that goes on
every time an ice agent tries to grab an illegal
alien and send him back to wherever he or she
has come from.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
It will be much ease.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
You're in Congress intended for it to be much easier
than the process that is working right now. In the
Immigration and Nationality Act, Congress has stripped district court judges
of most of their ability to make orders at all,
all the Supreme Court, and I'm familiar with those because
I actually wrote some of them back in two thousand

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and five.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
When I was on the hill.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
All it requires is for the Supreme Court to force
district court judges to comply with those restrictions that Congress.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
Has already put on them, and.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
This process is going to work a lot more quickly.
It doesn't mean that Trump's going to win every case.
They're still going to be heard by the Circuit Court,
but it's going to stop this piecemeal litigation where judges
feel that they can just shut down entire immigration policies
because they don't like how the immigration officers are acting.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Well.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
John Roberts is not a fan of Donald Trump's. I
think that's evident. But I think he's got to do
the right thing here because if not, you'll have what
is now chaos to the nth degree. And regardless of
whether you believe that Donald Trump ie is right or wrong,
whatever it may be, there will be at some point
down the road a Democrat in office. And unless the

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Supreme Court actually takes a stand on this thing in
a very definitive way, that Democrat is going to have
the same problems. Maybe a different case. Maybe it's not immigration,
it might be something else with a bunch of other
district judges popping up trying to dictate which way this
country should go. So this is a big stay in
your lane vote. And I hope the Supreme Court does

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the right thing, because all it's done now is ignore
the thing and turn to all of these judges loose
with regards to sleeper sales, Andrew, I'm with you. I
think they are here, and I think the FBI is
now has its eyes on that as opposed to school
board meetings and Catholics wanting to get communion. So hopefully

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with cash Betell in charge of that group, now maybe
they're a little more vigilant about this stuff too, But
we really need to keep our eyes open and as
average citizens, I mean it used to be back in
nine to eleven days, see something, say something.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
I think that applies here now too, do you not.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, no, absolutely, I mean eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty. And you know, in this uncertain world, where
we have enemies on every side. Hopefully President Trump's going
to make.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
The world a little bit more peaceful.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
But in the interim, everybody needs to be aware and
we need to get out of ice this way and
let them do their job.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Andrew Arthur, you can find him at CIS dot org
all things immigration, and they have been on top of
this issue for a very very long time. Okay, Andrew,
appreciate your time.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Stay well.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
We need to hear your voice until next time. Thank
you for your time right now, thank.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
You, Thank you so much. Ken It's coming up.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
On twelve twenty seven on a smoking Hot Wednesday, Smoking
hot show with a smoking hot well, I don't want
to take it that far. News Radio seven hundred a
WLW seven hundred WYLW Welcome back.

Speaker 5 (19:06):
It is the.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Average American and for the great American.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Got a lot to get to today, and we shall
get to it because we are not going to delay
reds Baseball one iota as they go for the sweep
tonight against the dreaded New York Yankees.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
How to pick up on something.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
That that Andrew Arthur just said about immigration.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Nearly one million illegal.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Immigrants, nearly one million, most of whom have probably come
into this country under the last administration. Nearly one million
have self deported under President Trump. And so we see
the video all over the country of ICE agents going

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in and you know they're they're grabbing people.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
They have masks on. Why are they wearing masks?

Speaker 2 (19:58):
They shouldn't wear masks, because we have some people in
big cities that are doxing these guys and exposing them.
That's their job. They're going after people that are here illegally.
And while they're getting all of the headlines, and you
see it on the nightly news, and isn't this terrible

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the headline that nobody seems to be paying attention to.
Of course, because it's not as sexy, it's not as
vigil a visual. You don't get the clicks with stories
like this. Said, almost a million of these people have said,
you know what, I'm getting the hell out of here
before I get thrown in a van and sent back
to wherever I came from. And I'll try it the
right way, which is what it should have been all along. Now,

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the reasons why it was that way under Joe Biden,
we can speculate. I mean, there are some theories that
make more sense than others. But by and large it happened.
We saw it, and the Center for Inrogation Studies, Andrew, Arthur,
Todd Bensman, who have had on this show quite a
bit bit to a lesser degree, Fox and to no

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degree CNN, ABC and NBC, CIS and Ben'sman and Arthur
had been on top of this story since Joe Biden
took office. Fox got hiped to it maybe two years later.
The other networks the only time they covered the problem

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is when there was some sort of consternation or some
sort of fight between the state of Texas, for example,
and the federal government, and you had these masses of
immigrants that were huddled underneath overpasses waiting to either get
through the border or storm through the border. They couldn't
give one rat's patuity about it until then, and then

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it became a humanitarian issue.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
So here we sit.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
In June of twenty twenty five, after we just bombed
but Jesus out of Iran, after we did something that
every single president before Trump should have done but did
not because they didn't have the brains or.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
The guts to do it.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
Here we sit with all of these people that are
in this country illegally from Iran. Arthur mentioned something that
I think needs to be reiterated, and I said the
same thing about China. Military aged able bodied people do
not leave their country in Iran, or in China and

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several others. But those particular countries, they don't leave unless
they have the blessing of someone in that government, whether
it was the Ayatola himself in Iran or she in China.
They don't what those let people that are of that
age and of that particular physical stature, they don't let

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them out of the country. But we let them right
in the central on on the southern border. And now
we got this problem. And so while some media folks
will tell you it's nothing more than chicken little, this
guy is falling. We've seen how sleeper celles operate in
this country before. Now we've got a new regime in

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this country. We have a new leader of the FBI
who's been on the job I believe since February, so
a little more than four months has Cash Betel been
on the job. The guy he replaced, and the guy
that guy replaced seemed to be more interest in ideology

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and political ben than actually doing the job, and so
it became a weaponized arm of the Department of Justice.
And we can relitigate everything if you want. I mean, look,
we can talk about COVID and what was enforced. Then
we can talk about schools, we can talk about Catholics,
we can talk about whatever.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
We know it we saw it.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
And so now this new group has to put fresh
eyes on the problem of where are these people that
came into this country illegally? The seventeen hundred and some
odd Iranian nationals that were encountered at ports of entry
during the Bidom administration and then let into the country.
What happened when they we get to a point of entry,

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they would be confronted by the border patrol and then
they would be handed you know, almost like a greeter
at Walmart. They would be handed Yeah, come back in
three years from this coming Tuesday, and we'll have your
court appearance. They're not coming back. And that says nothing
of at least the two million people that simply got away.
They got they just ran across the border into the

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night where they went to do what God only knows.
But anyway, if you want to stay on top of that,
I'm I'm just telling you I get no money for
saying this, but cis dot org is just absolutely terrific.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
So we got we got that down.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
We're going to talk about what life is going to
be like if this regime falls in Iran, and one
would think it would. The economy is ruined in that country,
the sanctions that have been put on that secondary sanctions
have been put on Iran, and that means that any
country that tries to do business with Iran is thereby
sanctioned by the United States. Iran's got Iran basically has

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two things. It's got oil and it's got a depleting
amount of missiles.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
And that's it.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
As John McCain once famously said about Russia, it applies
to Iran. It's just one big giant gas station. And
if they can't sell their oil, they can't function, you know,
And because of that, there is abject poverty along the
streets of Tehran and places in that country, and eventually

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the proletariat, if you will, become upset with the leadership,
and that's when regime change comes from within. And I
don't know, I think that's you know, once I think
the people that country saw just how Israel and the
United States pounded them militarily. Well, then there is you know,

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the Ayatola who apparently speaks on a daily basis with God.
How awcome God didn't tell you it was coming.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Anyhow?

Speaker 2 (26:36):
So I'm watching this Reds game last night. Let's talk
about something happier. Watching this Reds game last night, and
I saw something that just kind of struck me.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
They brought Chase Burns up.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Chase Burns, I think was the twelfth rated minor league
prospect in oil of baseball. He was taken with the
second round in last year's Major League Baseball Draft. Now,
in years past, the Reds, ever or payroll conscious, would
not bring a player along that quickly because it starts
his major league clock, and what starts then, well, his

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road to arbitration and then his road to free agency.
And the last thing that the Reds have wanted to
do historically was have to pay a lot of money
too soon for one of their ballplayers. But yet here
they are at forty two and thirty eight, very much
alive for a playoff berth, and they had to win
last night's game. This wasn't about let's bring Chase Burns

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up here and get them some major league experience. This
was they had to win last night's game, and they
took on the Yankees, who coming into this series had
a record of forty five and thirty two. They were
one of the best teams in baseball, had a pretty
good road record before coming in here twenty one and sixteen.
But Burns got onto the mound last night and I said,
the last thing you want to do with any player,

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but particularly a pitcher, is hurry them along and throw
them into a situation where they are not ready. Chase
Burns got out there last night and just melted on
the mound. The last thing the Red should have done
was to keep him up here and send him out
again and see if he can get a couple of starts,

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and then we'll send him back down on the miners
so as clock stops ticking. No, they didn't do that,
and he didn't do that, and he has certainly earned
himself another start in the rotation, particularly with the injuries
that they have to Hunter Green and to the guy
that was going to fill his spot, Wade Miley, Chase Burns,
I hope you saw what he did last night. The
line says five innings, pitch six hits, three earned runs,

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eight strikeouts. This is what Chase Burns did. If you
didn't see this, it would be difficult to describe. But
I'll try. Struck out the side in the first inning,
including Aaron Judge. Struck out Aaron Judge. Second inning, strikes

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out the first two guys. He sees Bellinger and Goldschmid
gives up a single, strikes out Volpi. Now he's got
six straight strikeouts. Go to the top of the third,
Scarless gets a couple of groundouts, strikes at another guy.
This guy's humming along, and yeah, he gave up. He

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gave up three runs. He gave up three runs, gave
up a home run to Rice uh Friedo. I think
miss Playwi. I'll think he misplayed a ball in center
field and two more runs scored, albeit earned. But nevertheless,
I think in a perfect world, freedom makes that play.
And maybe it's only one run in. But by and large,

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Chase Burns was terrific last night, Absolutely terrific. And he admits,
you know, going in he had to watch himself a
little bit. He was he was a little lamped up.

Speaker 6 (29:52):
Yeah, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't amped up.
But I felt at ease if anything. Definitely, emotions were high.
But I could just go out there and smile. So
it was fun to do. But yeah, that's all I
can say. It's so fun.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Then here's Terry FRANCONA right guy, comes out of retirement.
He's in the Hall of Fame. It's only a question
of when he comes out of retirement and he gets
to Cincinnati. He looks at his ball club. Wow, Hunter Green, Yeah,
pretty well, Hunter Green's hurt. Probably gone to at least
the All Star Game, maybe after that. Well, he got
Austin Hayes. You know, Austin Hayes. That was a pretty

(30:27):
good pick up, kind of a pillow contract. But nevertheless,
this is a guy a couple of years ago.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Is good.

Speaker 7 (30:32):
Here.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Austin Hayes has been on the injured list three times
so far in twenty twenty five. He's got an everyday
eight that includes Ellie data Cruz terrific, great ballplayer, no
argument there. What else you got? I got Tyler Stevenson. Yeah,
good catcher. See how durable he is. It's been a
problem with him, but he's coming out of retirement to

(30:55):
manage a team.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
He thinks.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
You know, if I just do this, I just do that,
and it really he hadn't fallen into place here until recently.
And he's out there in the dugout last night. He's
watching what this guy Burns does. That was called up
the antithesis of what the Reds have traditionally done with
a young player.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
And you know how fran ConA felt about that. I
mean you have to know, you know, we kind of.

Speaker 8 (31:18):
Watched for everything, and he didn't get too excited. I
think he I think he enjoyed the competition. There's a
lot to like the scout. What's what's just? I know
he's here tonight, Eddie, Eddie Layer. Yes, I can go
kiss him right on the lips. I mean a kid,

(31:38):
you know he got. I think he was probably for
him a little over amped because you could tell he
was starting to run out of gas.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
A little bit. Yeah, yeah, he was.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
He was talking about Burns, not then maybe the maybe
the scout ran out of gas too. But here's Chase
Burns right. A couple of years ago, he's pitched it.
Last year he's pitching in the College World Series, and
now here he is on a major league mound facing
the Yankees and arguably the best all round player. I mean,

(32:07):
shohe Atani is right there too in baseball and Aaron Judge,
Hey strikes him out first hitting. So when he was
asked what his favorite strikeout was of the aid he
accumulated last night, here's Burns.

Speaker 6 (32:24):
I don't even know. I don't even can't remember a
lot of them. I guess you gotta say, Judge, you
know that's you know, I've watched him, so he's a
big dude.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
So I think more of the best hitters in the game.

Speaker 6 (32:35):
So that's probably my favorite one.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, well it should be. It absolutely should be.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
And you know, this is not a condemnation of any
manager that's been here over the last ten years, fifteen years.
They've been good. A lot of them have been hamstrung.
David Bell was hamstrung with the roster that he had
to work with for much of his time here. Brian
Price as well. I mean, he was the guy that
followed up Dusty Baker. And you know, Baker basically wasn't

(33:03):
here or stop. His tenure ended here because the Reds
knew they were gonna dump salary and it wouldn't work
with Dusty. But here's Frank Cone. You know, This is
a guy I think all along in his career says, Okay,
I gotta deal with this. How do I make it work?
What what you know? What do I he makes it work.
You can see the wheels turning in the dugout. You
can just see it in the dugout. Guy always seems

(33:25):
to be a step ahead, a step ahead. He gets
to the seventh inning, his team's down three zip. Uh,
there's an out and a walk and he Reese Hines
reaches on an infield single. You got bases loaded, and

(33:49):
you got a decision to make. You got Christian N. Carnassi,
O Strand coming up, got a right hand pitcher on
the mound Luisa for the Yeahkees, And conventional wisdom would
tell you, well, I got left handed hitters on my bench.
But over and above that, and Carnassi oons Strand at

(34:12):
certain times this year has just seemed to be bigger
than the moment, and he was last night. Doubles, three runs,
score all the sense of three to three game. What
looked like would be a coast for the Yankees. At
three to zero going into the bottom of the seventh,
uh Francona thinks ahead and says, you know, what. I

(34:34):
trust this guy. I know what this guy can do
against this picture. I know what this picture can do,
but I kind of trust this guy.

Speaker 8 (34:41):
I'm trying to take away one of their best pitches,
the best you can, and you started loading up on
lefties and they had their changeups, their best pitch, and
they got reverse splits for a reason. So just you know,
I mean, it's no guarantees or anything, but it was
nice to see those guys come through.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
It was and it goes to extra. They give up
a run in the eleventh, but they come right back.
Steers singles, He gets McLean Holme, who was the ghost
runner on second, Dyala Cruz who had reached down an
infield single. He gets to second, then there's a wild pitch,
then Stevenson walks, and then Gavin Lucks, one of the

(35:20):
guys he could have gone to Francona in that seventh inning.
Gavin Lucks jumps up hits for Hines, game winning hit,
Red's win five to four.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Lucks after the.

Speaker 9 (35:32):
Game, I mean, yeah, that's the best feeling in the world,
you know, getting a job done for your boys, especially
coming off the bench where they played their ass off.
You know, all ten innings right there. But yeah, I
mean that's a great team over there, so to take
two there, and we've been playing really good team baseball,
so we're just trying to keep it going.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yeah, they're playing excellent team baseball right now, playing a
little bit above themselves.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
Well maybe so, I don't know. I do know this.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Playing good in or playing well in June. What you
want to play are meaningful games in September. What you
want to be is in a race as July begins.
What you want to be is in the postseason. They're
playing like a team that's kind of figured it out
amongst them. We'll see if some of these talent deficiencies

(36:22):
catches up with them. And there are no question right
now tonight Brady Singer, that's good.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
He pitched for the Royals.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
He knows what the Yankees are all about, and what
they're all about tonight is a great pitcher. Nine win
pitchers so far this season in Max Freed. That's the matchup.
That's the game you'll hear right here on seven hundred WT.
Well w when we come back, if iron falls, what next?
Then down the road? The big beautiful Bill, is it

(36:53):
really going to be passed? By the Senate in a
version later this week. And if so, when it's right
and siled, what exactly do you and I get out
of it, particularly from a medical standpoint. We'll get into
all of that and much much more on seven hundred WLW.

(37:18):
All right, welcome back, seven hundred WLW. It's the average
American in for the great American on this cooker of
a Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Relief is in sight? Is it not?

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Christmas is comings? I remember when I worked in Washington, DC. Yeah,
and Mary are out there is His name was Marion Barry,
mayor of some repute. And Washington, d C, the nation's capital,
had a lot of things that were wonderful. They had
a lot of things that weren't wonderful. Like when I
lived there, they didn't have recycling. It was like the

(37:51):
the emphicenter of government. They didn't have recycling in the city.
This is back in the late nineties. But they also
had a major snowstorm ones and for what well probably
for lack of funding, but they couldn't get the snow
off the streets. And uh, I remember the it was
I think it was the station I was working at.

(38:12):
They ran out and they interviewed Marion Barry, and they said,
mister mayor, what are we going to do here? You know,
I mean we had all this snow on the street.
You can't get the snow on the street. I mean,
what are your answers here? You looked at the camera.
He said, spring is coming.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
So if you're too danged hot right now and you don't.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Have acy, just remember Christmas is coming and we'll all
be complained about how cold it is. Anyhow, on this Wednesday,
welcome back. Great to have you with us. John Thune,
the majority leader in the Senate, claims that the big
Beautiful Bill will be passed by the July fourth recess
that would be this Friday, unless they keep these these

(38:52):
clowns in Washington and make them actually work a little bit,
you know, delay that, delay that trip to the lake
a couple of days. But the fact of the matter
is he thinks it's going their version of it is
going to get passed before they break for their July
fourth recess. And then, of course it has to have
reconciliation with the House. And there are a lot of GOP,

(39:15):
a lot of Republican moderates that are going to be
yelling and screaming about any changes to the Medicaid and
Medicare portions of that bill as well.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
They should.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
I just don't think you can just slice things out
of a budget that people who become used to Medicare
is tied to social security, and social Security is out
of control. We don't have the funding for it. It's
eventually on the current course, going to go bankrupt. Medicaid affects,

(39:48):
in a large sense, a lot of rural areas in
this country. So I think one of the things that
I think the House wants to do is get any
Medicaid that's being paid to people who are in this
country illegally off the books. But allegedly this is all
going to be rectified and the one big, beautiful bill
is going to be passed. Meanwhile, if border security is financed,

(40:15):
if indeed they can get the rest of Trump's wall built, indeed,
they can make what happened over the last four years stop.
That's great, That's what we spent the majority of the
last hour talking about. But there's an even greater problem
in this country, and that's who's in it. It's not
just Iranians who are may or may not be part

(40:35):
of sleeper cells. There's a lot of other people that
are in this country. We mentioned the Chinese. Chinese military
age men in this country is a huge problem, China
buying up land in this country is a huge problem.
And people in this country from other countries that are
here illegally and again wanting.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
To do god knows what.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
So I thought it'd be a good day and a
good time to welcome in somebody that I've had on
the show several times before. His name is doctor Assef.
Let me reset the mouth there, doctor Assef Rimerowski, who
is a student and now a doctor of Mid Eastern studies.
He is someone who has written books about it, someone

(41:22):
who is not just well versed about it, but his
opinions matter to the right people in this country, and
I wanted to get him on. He's based out of
the Philadelphia area. About just the general makeup of this
country right now, the unrest that's in this country right now,
some of it agitated by people who are not from
this country, but others who have been influenced by those people,

(41:44):
and just where we are right now with things like
sleeper sells. But over and above that, what happens to
Iran when comane falls and he will fall. What happens then,
because if Iraq is the blueprint, we're in trouble. We

(42:05):
don't nation build very well. The President says he doesn't
want to, but we don't do it well anyway. And
if that regime falls from pressure from within, who takes over?
Do the Turks make a move? Russians make a move,
Siria go in there. So I wanted to get him
on the show today just to talk about all of this,
and he's kind of enough to stand by and give

(42:26):
us some of his time here on seven hundred at
W WELW. I'm right, am I not a doctor that
you know this is just not an Iran problem that
we should be concerned about.

Speaker 10 (42:36):
Well, I think it's a bigger problem, and I don't
disagree with you at all. And I think that we've
seen a lot of these issues play out.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
Since the course of the war.

Speaker 10 (42:45):
You know, I would say even more so as a
result of the encampments on American college campuses, when you're
seeing the significant amount of foreign influence and foreign students
on American college campus on the one hand, Secondly, also
in candem, if you look and track the latest that.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
Took place in Boulder, uh and in Washington.

Speaker 10 (43:06):
As far as immigration status, the individual uh you know
who was responsible professor in the attack in Boulder was
an Egyptian who outstate, who overstate his visa. I mean,
there there are problems upon problems within our immigration policies
on the one hand, and on you know, and to
your earlier point, the you know, groups and Islamist organizations

(43:30):
and individuals who are looking to do harm for the
United States are taking advantage from this laxitude, you know,
very lax way of doing business when it comes to
background checks and our and our immigration policies, and that
is allowing them to ferment their ideology and in many
of them, whereas I think it's very nefarious able to

(43:54):
try to take over democratic American institutions and turn them
on their head, you know. Even more to the point
you look at the current mayorial race that's happening in
New York City and the contributors an example gave to
Mamdani's campaign, groups like the care the Council on American

(44:16):
Islamic Relations who have ties to terrorism and things of
those sorts. I mean, so you're seeing also a direct
correlation into the American political system.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Yes, you are a federal Yes, absolutely. Now I want
to talk about something else that is maybe a little
bit on the other side of this argument, but certainly
relevant to what we've just talked about, and that is
what happens when this current regime falls, and it will fall.
It's teetering. The only thing they have there is gas
and weapons. They got nothing else going on in Iran,

(44:48):
and you have religious zelots in charge of that country
and have been for the last forty five forty six years.
Anytime you have a zealot in charge of a country
is bad. When it's a religious zealot worse because these
people think God talked directly to them. So I'm wondering
when this falls, and it will fall, how confident are

(45:08):
you that there are people and groups in Iran which
hasn't you know, They've got many different factions in Iran
right now, but I guess the largest of which is
the National Council of Resistance of Iran that has been
operating in the shadows for the last forty six years.
How confident are you that when and f and I
think it's more when this regime falls, that there won't

(45:30):
be absolute chaos inside that country that could lead to
a nefarious player such as Turkey or Russia or maybe
Syria moving in and trying to take over that country.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
Well, we don't know.

Speaker 10 (45:43):
We don't know yet, I mean, and things are happening
and are very fluid as things move along.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
It is worthy of notes.

Speaker 10 (45:50):
And to your point that historically speaking up until you know,
forty six years ago, I mean before the rise of
the Shop, before they are removal of the shop, and
and the and the rise of from of the of
the of the Iranian revolution. You know, Iran has Western sentiment.
They had ties with Israel, the United States, if you

(46:12):
go back to the Green Revolution. There are Western elements
that are looking for for the preserve the preservation of
freedoms and rights and things like that that we all
care about.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
UH.

Speaker 10 (46:23):
And this tyrannical UH ideology, you know, the poetry that
has been that has been abusing the Iranian people has
really is coming to a head now at this point
as a result of all that UH you are seeing now,
which I think it is very worthy of note that
the last fun of the shop, Uh Plavi, who is Indian,

(46:45):
who's here in the United States, is the one who's
reaching out on social media to the Iranian people as
far as you know, reform and change and whatnot. You know,
the hope is that with the removal of this tyrannical
regime that will all allow for room to change. It's also,
I think very anecdotally telling that every time the attacks
have come in from Israel in the United States, but

(47:07):
in particular from Israel, you saw on social media out
of the apartment buildings people are calling death Dehamenei, uh,
you know, which I think is very telling.

Speaker 4 (47:16):
About how they've been used and abused by this own regime. Uh.

Speaker 10 (47:20):
But again we're not there yet, uh, you know, and
this is not you know, Iran is not a rock.
It's not Afghanistan. It's Iran.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (47:29):
There's a long change that that that that needs to
take place here. And you're right, I mean we should.
We should be concerned about uh, other outside forces like Turks,
like the Russians, like the Chinese trying to get involved
with Iran. But I don't think that Iran is going
uh is going down quietly into the night. That's not there.

(47:49):
It's not in their DNA.

Speaker 7 (47:51):
UH.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
And we're not at that point yet. I think that
what we did here.

Speaker 10 (47:54):
What we saw here is the culmination of US Israel
shared intelligence operationally and no delitarily coming together to remove
a significant threat of the entire region during our world
at large. When it comes to the Iranian nuclear program.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
You said Iran will not go quietly into the night,
and I believe that. I mean, we have a ceasefire
right now, tenuous though it may be, there is a
ceasefire between Israel and Iran. At this point, Iran has
been from all accounts, beaten into submission, first by Israel
and then what the United States did over the past weekend.
Nobody should trust Iran. There is no reason, there is

(48:33):
no evidence that has been delivered to us over the
last forty five years that Iran should be trusted. But
we have to trust them right now that at some
point they come to their senses. Now, I don't think
that's naive. I just think it's giving peace a chance.
But we also have to believe that if peace happens,
it will run against the grain of what's been going

(48:55):
on in Iran for over these many years.

Speaker 10 (48:57):
Right look, coming, I will continue. I mean, you know,
Iran is a very large country. They have ballistic capabilities,
which they obviously were seeing them use.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
UH. There has been concerned about even prior.

Speaker 10 (49:10):
To the attacks, whether or not they'd be able to
smuggle out any kind of weaponry along the way. Their
you know, odds are are lower, but again still a possibility.
There is a question here, and I think that this
is really the regional question, and that is are they
able to activate what they've been trying to do their
proxies uh At Israel not devastated Hazbalam in the Pager operation,

(49:35):
you would have seen ballistic missiles coming in from the
north of Israel, from from from.

Speaker 4 (49:40):
Lebanon, right. You know, when the Iranian.

Speaker 10 (49:42):
Attack began to join their fellow travelers, you are seeing
the Hutis who.

Speaker 4 (49:47):
Are indeed joining them.

Speaker 10 (49:48):
The larger question, to my mind is whether or not
how they're Russian, the Chinese and the Turks, who are
indeed allies of Iran, are they going.

Speaker 4 (49:56):
To get involved with all of this?

Speaker 10 (49:58):
But as I said, it's not in iron Dna UH
to this basically tried to go quietly, and you're even
seeing them try to use Now if you followed yesterday's
a Rachi's press conference, you know they're trying to use
the international community, International Court of Justice that there you know,
it's an act of war. You know, we we were

(50:20):
you know, we were only developing medical uh you know,
development when it comes to nuclear capabilities, et cetera, et cetera.
And so there is this blame game trying to you know,
try to get the international community this stand behind him,
playing victim, the victim card. But you know, I think
that you know the and the other part and if

(50:40):
you and I think we need to believe Donald Trump
at this point, uh, and we should because he's been
right that he was very clear about it that you know,
if this continues, this was not a one and done,
there will be you know, he will indeed execute more
uh operations. Uh when it comes to if Iran continues

(51:01):
at all this And I think that that's also important
for them to know and for our adversaries to see
that we mean what we say and when red lines
are crossed, there will be consequences.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Yeah, I think you highlighted just something that I think
is a concern at this point. By the way, we
are talking with the esteem doctor Aeso. Romerowski, who is
a MIDI scholar, executive director of the Association for studies
in the Middle East and Africa. You raised on something
I think that's key right now. There is a large

(51:31):
amount of uranium that has gone missing in Iran, enriched
or otherwise, and that would be of great value to
some of those players in that area around Iran, could
be used as a bargaining chip by Iran for places
like Turkey, for places like Russia or even China. And

(51:52):
I think the next key for this country, among which
should be completely disarming and at least trying to bring
the Homini regime in, if not completely let it topple
from the inside, is to find that uranium, because that's
that's something that could be a problem down the road.
And you know, the uranium was there not to make

(52:14):
them a nuclear society and bring great medicine studies and
things like that. No, the greatest resource they have is oil.
That's what they are. They're an oil nation, and you
don't need to build a bunker three hundred feet below
the ground just to become a nuclear society. So they
got to find that uranium, don't they.

Speaker 10 (52:34):
Uh Yeah, I mean, And I think look, I think
we are now post the attack, we are in what
is considered to be the BDA phase, the battle damage assessments,
and I think that the assessments are still going on,
as far as stot of light footage, as far as
looking to see exactly what we've done, you know, in
the three sites that we're attack when it comes to

(52:56):
if Shahan Pordo, you know, and and so all of
that and the pause and so the you know, this
is all taking place here, and the concern is, to
your point, whether or not there is residue of nuclear
material that is being transported or relocated around the country,
and those are concerns, you know. Thankfully, the Israelis actually

(53:20):
have boots on the grounds. I mean, they had intelligence
on the ground, they had a masade operation, they had
an entire drone space inside of Iran, allowing lawaws take place.
And let's let's not be naive about this. This is
not like take place from one day to the next.
The Israelis have been planning this for years and so

(53:40):
you know, I think that based on what we've seen
over the past few days now and in general, I
think that there's been a great deal of shared collaboration
between Israel and sencom H and all the proper agencies here.

Speaker 4 (53:52):
And I think that.

Speaker 10 (53:53):
Uh, these are the things to look out for, uh
as we look at all the fluidity and the changes
in the region and to crack down on all of this.

Speaker 4 (54:02):
But undred percent I think it is a concern.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Well, it certainly gives you a lot to talk about
and us to worry about, there's no question about that.
But it's always great having you on, doctor, doctor acev Ramowski.
How do people find you?

Speaker 4 (54:15):
Doctor?

Speaker 2 (54:15):
You sound like a man of great knowledge and wisdom
when it comes to things like this. And if somebody
wants to contact you or find out more about you,
how do they do that?

Speaker 4 (54:24):
You're kind. Our website is spme dot org.

Speaker 10 (54:28):
H and all the information and all our work on
the website and it's the best way to you know,
find out all the information you need.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Until our next time. Thank you for your time here today.
Thank you doctor.

Speaker 4 (54:40):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Yeah, find that uranium too, It's got to find that uranium.
Get a hold of that stuff. My fear is is
that it's somewhere where it is undetectable, protected by people
we don't get along with, and they may not be
the Iranians. Think about that one for a second while
we step away. It is up one twenty seven already

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Speaker 1 (55:05):
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Speaker 4 (55:19):
I'm broadcasting in.

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Speaker 4 (55:26):
Now?

Speaker 11 (55:26):
That was Tom Davis. Apparently the bear that's loose is
now it was what sheriff? It is in Huber Heights. Yeah, yeah,
there's a bear loose around Huber Heights. To watch out.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
That's not the cocaine bear that was in Kentucky.

Speaker 5 (55:41):
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Speaker 1 (55:41):
I don't think so. No, okay, I think he went
to the zoo or something. Good to see it, said,
you look well today.

Speaker 11 (55:47):
Same here, ken Brew, good to see you yesterday. It
does entertaining watch. Wow, what a what a what a
sports crew that was in one place.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
I'll tell you what. I was surprised.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
I was surprised that the boat house could actually hows
all those egos.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
It was unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
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Speaker 1 (56:12):
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Speaker 11 (56:15):
What less than thirty days now, I guess to training camp,
and they got to get mister Hendrickson, you know what,
whatever's going to happen with him and mister Stewart and
mister Knight and who knows what's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
I got a lot of guys that are unsigned.

Speaker 11 (56:28):
And then they only got what today's the Today's twenty
fifth in June thirtieth, a big day in Bengal history too.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
Well it will be this is smelling like a lease extension,
not a new lease, and so that might be two
more years. And I kicked the can down the road.

Speaker 4 (56:44):
Is what it.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Smells like like the rest of the city. Well, that's
what it's like, the rest of the city. Yeah, you
think the rest of the city smells Is that what
you're saying?

Speaker 11 (56:52):
No, I think that you know, they got like maybe
they'll have you know, marathon bargaining sessions downtown and though
you know they'll u the midnight oil will be uh
you know, you know between mister Brown and Alsia Reese
and the maybe the Bengals management will get into a
room with the commissioners and they'll go up until the

(57:14):
midnight hour.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
Well let's just say this, You and I and everybody
else in our sports department will not be joining the
boat House and Perspective clients for lunch if they are
the Mexico City Bengals.

Speaker 11 (57:29):
Yeah, well, you know what if that happens, I want
to hear I want to hear Dave Lopham describe the
game in in Spanish or something that would be that
that would be even uh, you know, but I don't know.
I mean, I don't think they're going to go anywhere,
ken Brew. I think they're going to stay here and
they're gonna know the can kick the can down the road.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
I'm telling you, if you could make book on it,
it's going to be a two year extension.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Then go then to worry about it in the year
a year from exactly, ken Brew.

Speaker 11 (57:56):
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Speaker 2 (58:13):
ST you know, Wyoming Air, all these h VA c SIGs,
f SEGRE. They're making a lot of money here this week.
You're not kidding, You are not kidding. I mean, if
you don't have NBC, you're hanging out the window with
your tongue to the ground.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
You're not kidding.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
And dog dogs are teaching how to get air, that
is if you don't yeah, exactly.

Speaker 11 (58:35):
And take care of those pets too, don't be leaving
them out and all that stuff and everything.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
Yeah, and your tender vegetation. Make sure you water that too,
Amen to that. And also ken Brook.

Speaker 11 (58:45):
The Stooge report with the hot weather headed by a
c R gun I fools and spots called it a
swim this year.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
Then we'll get you going. You never seen a girl
man do this? Have you? I can't.

Speaker 11 (59:04):
I'd be hospitalized. I'd be intraction. Did you dance like
Buster Poindex? Hang on, let me stand up. What do
you think?

Speaker 7 (59:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (59:14):
I think so.

Speaker 6 (59:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (59:16):
You know you put you know, you get that hair going,
ken Brew, and he look just like him. Damn, We're
gonna have to put more product in my hair. Red's update.
Those Reds go for the sweep tonight against the Yanks.
Nine game winner Max Freed goes up against seven game
winner Brady Singer.

Speaker 1 (59:34):
It looks like a good old good one.

Speaker 11 (59:35):
Tonight coverage begins six to ten Sports Talk rnel carriers
inside Pitch the Kelsey Chevrolet Extra Inding Show after the game.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
You know Terry Francona wanted to kiss a scout on
the lips last night?

Speaker 1 (59:47):
Did you know this?

Speaker 11 (59:48):
I know I heard his I heard his comments. Yeah
late this morning, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Listen.

Speaker 4 (59:52):
You know we kind of watched for everything, and he
didn't get.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Too excited talking about Chase Burns. I think he. I
think he enjoyed the COMPETI loved it. Yep.

Speaker 8 (01:00:01):
There's a lot to light who scout? What's what's just?
I know he's here tonight with Eddie Eddie Layard. Yes,
I can go kiss him right on the lips.

Speaker 4 (01:00:10):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
How about that he wants to kiss Eddie Laird on
the lips?

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
I would do? What do you think Eddie Lairt thought
about that?

Speaker 11 (01:00:17):
Well, he probably is thinking, yes, I got I got
you some new I got you some good talent there
in one Chase Burns.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
Because Eddie lad saying I don't want to kiss on
the lips. I want some green on a palm for
doing that, and.

Speaker 11 (01:00:28):
My Waller Green the second overall pick in last year's
July Draft. There Ken Brew first pitcher in the Expansion
era to strike out the first five batters he faced
in his debut m and of course he got big
Aaron Judge in that in that inning too. Yeah, and
Gavin Lux with the with the walk off hit in

(01:00:49):
the eleventh.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
Let's see.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
You know, Gavin Luck's middle name is David, all right,
they call him Gavin d Lux.

Speaker 11 (01:00:59):
Spencer Steer right into Spencer Steer tied the game. I
walked down right into that one. No, I made it
up so and Cees Yes, Christian N. Carnassi owned strand
to you, Ken Brew it is with that three run
double tided in the seventh. And the Reds were zero
to thirty coming into last night, when trailing after the
sixth inning. Now they're one in thirty. See this will

(01:01:22):
get him right well, and Sig they're they're you know,
they're right there, they're right there. I mean, you know, Frankcona,
you know, he could have pinched hit for Cees right
he had he had he had a couple of left
handed bats on the bet on the bat including looks
yeah that's true.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
No, no, no, I'm gonna keep my powder dry exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:01:39):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
Let's see soccer.

Speaker 11 (01:01:40):
Following a ten day break, FC Cincinnati back in action
tonight Pat Noonan up against the CF Montreal the North
of the Border seven o'clock with the Boys on ESPN
fifteen thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
You think Pat Noonon gets excited about anything every time
he talks, whether they want or they lose. He sounds
the same now of Pat Noonan's air conditioning went out
today on all days. Yeah, that he would be that
calm talking to the AC guy. You don't think he'd
be yelling and screaming. Guy never yells in screams.

Speaker 11 (01:02:08):
I think he yelled. He yells and screams of his
team every so often.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
Well, they need it, to be honest with you, you know.

Speaker 11 (01:02:13):
But I know I I think he's like mister cool. Yeah,
he's every time he and he you know, he answers
every question. Great, you know, so they got a good
one right there. He's kind of like the Bill Belichick
of soccer. He doesn't have like a a lot of
Cincinnati okay, a lot college basketball can brew. According to ESPN,

(01:02:37):
they know everything. Decision on whether or not to expand
the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments are going to
be made in the upcoming weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
He's wondering which way they're gonna go, well.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
What don't they just think if the state of Ohio
do you like the Ohio High School, Let everybody in there.

Speaker 11 (01:02:53):
If you're gonna expand it, let everybody. That's what Indiana does,
right with football.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
So what Ohio does with basketball?

Speaker 7 (01:02:59):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
I think so?

Speaker 11 (01:03:00):
And then the expansion would be this year, this year,
and but it would expand no more than seventy six teams.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Yeah, so that's what.

Speaker 11 (01:03:10):
Twelve more than what they have and that's sixty sixty four.
Now you know why, because TV wants it. They want
the money. They got the money. You don't think they're like,
I say, no, we don't want to expand. No, they're
going for the green salad of salvation. That's what they're
going on. I'm just telling you it's sag. The answer
to all of your questions in life is yes.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
What is the answer to all of your questions in life?
If it makes the dough, bring it on, If it
makes the dough, give some rate to me. You know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
It's a wise man once, thank you, And they got it.

Speaker 11 (01:03:43):
And they got to do that because they got to
pay these players nil money. Now bingo, So I mean,
you know let everybody in from eight tozight a to
z It's.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
Like Oprah, you'll get a car, and you'll get a
car and you'll get a car.

Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
Yeah. There you go, sliced one with those big old
she used to wear. Oh my goodness.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
You know I'm a former radio DJ that became a singer.
How about that?

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
There you go again. Your musical genius too.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
If I'm not mistaken, it was the first rock and
roll integrated rock and roll band.

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
Number three. There you going know it all? I know it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
Unbelievable and yep, Cynthia got a horn to blow. Dance
to the music. Great line from that, I think it
was his sister, Cynthia. Cynthia got a horn to blow,
and she did, and she did let it that little
brass section going on seg we've gone off on a tangent,
and I feel badly about that. If you'll just get
us out of this, we'll come back and talk about

(01:04:39):
more pertinent things here in just a little.

Speaker 11 (01:04:40):
Bit ken brew and utter of another hot day in
the tri States, Stay hydrated and cool it. Today we
leave you with the immortal words of the Stewo Report.

Speaker 4 (01:04:53):
CNN is scum and so is MSDNC.

Speaker 5 (01:04:56):
They're all and frankly the networks aren't much better.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
He was on a roll. Man, Wow, he was on
a roll, you know kidding? Did you see him drop
the F bomb? That was amen? I was unbelieved. I
love I loved it.

Speaker 12 (01:05:10):
They have two countries that have been fighting so long
and so hard that they don't know what the they're doing.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
Do you understand that?

Speaker 4 (01:05:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
I did, Now you do. And then the reporters are
there going ev Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:05:23):
He just walks off with his us A hatan on
the Marine one and now over in the Netherlands.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
And I'm getting on a chopper. You people can go
home in your accords, all the Atlanta accords.

Speaker 11 (01:05:34):
He's getting on storm, gonna go across the pond a
little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
Yes, sir, you do look good today. Thank you. On
seven hundred w l W all right to eight.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
The average American in for the great American on this Wednesday,
and all because of you or without you, I would
be simply one man sitting in a room babbling to himself.
And why would I have to leave home to do that?
John Thune is the Senate Majority leader. He is the
guy that replaced Mitch McConnell, and he is promising that

(01:06:13):
the Senate will sign off on the big beautiful bill
before they break for their July fourth recess. That would
most probably be this Friday, could be Saturday, regardless. The
Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, has said that whenever
they sign off, then the House will be ready for
reconciliation and maybe get this thing as law as early

(01:06:34):
as next week. We'll see. There appears to be a
big hurdle, and it involves healthcare because more than a
dozen House Republicans have worn they will not support the
Senate's version of the tax and spending bill because proposed
Medicaid cuts are too steep. Most of these Republicans are
in vulnerable districts, and of course everything is on a

(01:06:57):
two year cycle in the House. Everybody that gets elected
in one November begins campaigning for the next November the
next day after getting elected. But anyway, the Senate Finance
Committee wants to clamp down on two things that states
used to boost Medicare funding to hospitals, state directed payments
and Medicaid provided taxes. The restrictions are a major concern

(01:07:21):
for rural hospitals. And then there's all kind of rhetoric
that is emanating from various parts. Mitch McConnell says, apparently
in a closed door meeting yesterday that yeah, you know what,
the people back.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
Home, they'll get over it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
And then you've got a group of Democrats using something
that was released by researchers at Yale University and the
University of Pennsylvania that says, even if it's just the
House version of the medical portion of this big beautiful bill,
even if it's that without any kind of change for
the worst inside the Senate, in their opinion, fifty one

(01:07:58):
thousand people will die annually. So there's a lot of
nonsense that's being knocked around with all of this. Let's
get to the truth and some sanity. And when it
comes to truth and sanity and healthcare, I turned to
one person. He is the author of the book The
sixty Percent Solution, Rethinking Healthcare, and he's our good buddy,
Todd Furnas And Todd, how are you on this glorious Wednesday?

Speaker 5 (01:08:22):
I am doing dandy Ken, How the heck are you?

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
I'm hotter than a matchstick. I don't know where you are,
but where I am. Literally the old fry the egg
on the sidewalk I think would work.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
But be that as it may.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
This rhetoric surrounding what's in the quote unquote big beautiful
bill and what the Senate wants to do with it
with regards to Medicaid, let's just talk about medicaid. Where
is the truth in what appears to be a lot
of fiction.

Speaker 5 (01:08:50):
So the first thing we start with is what are
the numbers that are being referred to? And let's imagine
that hypothetically it's something like seven hundred billion dollars. Well,
that's measured over a period of ten years, so we're
really talking about seventy billion dollars. Now, let's remember what

(01:09:13):
the budget is for CMS for a Yeah, a CMS
I think was a trillion dollars. Okay, so we're talking
about seven percent right annually. Now that's before you get
tenny real hard work on cost cutting. But let's just

(01:09:34):
assume that the number is great. What you really find
is this challenge between the states that expanded medicaid and
allowed the medicaid to be given to.

Speaker 4 (01:09:49):
People who are not.

Speaker 5 (01:09:49):
Here legally, people who aren't who are able bodied but
are not working, and a few other categories.

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
So what the current bill says is.

Speaker 5 (01:10:01):
Now we're going to go back to doing the way
we used to do it when there was a work requirement,
and we're going to require a few other things. Now,
what you would also find is this typically ends up
being a blue state versus a red state issue, because
more often than not, those states who expanded healthcare, I've

(01:10:25):
been for Medicaid.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
Or blue states.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
So as I read this, the Senate Finance Committee includes,
and I think this is what you're talking about, significant
cuts to taxes that states can levy on medical providers.
And the way the system works is states impose these
taxes on providers to boost their federal Medicaid contribution, which
then direct them back to hospitals in the form of

(01:10:54):
higher reimbursements. And you know, it seems like a shell
game with money that's going on here?

Speaker 1 (01:11:00):
Is it one giant show game.

Speaker 4 (01:11:03):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (01:11:04):
Now there's another trick here, which is you're correct in
identifying that there's a matching going on. So what happens
is the state put up a portion of the money
and the Feds put up the other portion of the money,
and that's how it Medicaid is funded.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
Now, obviously the states.

Speaker 5 (01:11:23):
Are doing things to try and make sure that number
looks bigger so that the Fed's obligation is greater. And
this is the very endemic, our pandemic problem we have
in the business model of healthcare is everything is a
cost plus model, and so everybody wants to inflate the
numbers for all the wrong reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
Yeah, yeah, What do you make of this research out
of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. Let's again
just point out these are Ivy League schools. But anyway,
the public health and policy researchers at these two universities
warren that if it's just only the house build and

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nothing that is added on or subtracted from the Senate build,
if it's just that more than fifty one thousand people
would die annually. That's from loss of coverage, disenrollment in
Medicare benefits, elimination of Medicaid services for things like nursing homes,
nursing cutbacks, and things like that. What do you make

(01:12:24):
of that? That sounds like And of course some Senate
Democrats just leaped on that like a fresh piece of meat.
Just that seems a bit draconian. I mean, if indeed,
if it's just what the House is passed. Is it
really going to be that kind of thing or are
we just here with political gamesmanship?

Speaker 5 (01:12:45):
Well, I of course would think it falls in the
latter category. But it's all around the assumptions you're making
to build the model, and I would take issue with
their assumptions.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
And their assumptions are probably based on research that I mean,
if you want an outcome, you tend if you're one
of these advocacy places like these universities, if you want
an outcome, you research to that outcome. You don't necessarily
research to the best outcome. Okay, so you got I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:13:15):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:13:15):
I don't necessarily buy the outcome the output of that study.
I just it's strange credulity, right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
Okay, So the Senate wants more cuts than what the
House has, and the House has some Republicans that are saying, well, look,
if it's what we're hearing out of the Senate Finance Committee,
then we're going to have trouble with it. The devil
is in the politics, obviously, but I don't think there's
any question that there's some sort of reconciliation that gets them.

Speaker 1 (01:13:43):
Home on this thing.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
I just don't, yeah, because there's too many other things
tied to this bill that nobody wants their name tied to.
And that is, if Trump's tax cuts aren't made permanent,
then everybody gets a giant tax bill starting in January,
and it costs you roughly twenty two percent more to
live than what it does right now, and Democrat Republican,

(01:14:05):
nobody wants that attached next to their name. I think
there's a lot of things to get you home, but
I think that's the thing that gets everybody home.

Speaker 5 (01:14:13):
I think you're absolutely right on that point. And I
think the other thing that's troubling to me is that
if you were in any business whatsoever, and I recognize
the federal government's not run like a business, but if
you had any business whatsoever and you were told to
cut expense by five or ten percent, you'd figure out

(01:14:33):
a way to do it and the company would still
be around and people wouldn't die.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
But if you're a politician, there are three things you want. God,
a politician wants your money so the politician can campaign
and then get your vote.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
That's two.

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
And the third thing of the politician wants is nothing
that's attached to his name. These people don't want to
vote on anything because they're no, you know, they're going
to be held accountable to it. So sure, in a
private enterprise you can do that and still chrug right along.
But in politics, my gosh, you know what, you're just
writing a campaign ad for your opponent in the next election.

(01:15:14):
And so I think that's why it operates a little
bit differently than it does in corporate America.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
But be that as it met, you're absolutely right.

Speaker 5 (01:15:22):
The only thing I would say, I thought three things
you were telling gonna coming about was fear uncertainty in doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
No, that's only in the mind of the people that
do the voting. But how much fraud, in your opinion,
is there in medicaid? You know, you mentioned earlier about
the illegals that are in this country and getting that
particular benefit, and that if you eliminate that, you're on
a road to starting to save money. But fraud in
any federal program is inherent, it's everywhere in the federal government.

(01:15:53):
How bad is it in your opinion with medicaid?

Speaker 5 (01:15:58):
I think it's very difficult to wantify, in part because
we're using words that to be perhaps misconstrued let's just
say that people are getting it that perhaps shouldn't be
getting it, or people are enrolled where they shouldn't be enrolled.
So for example, if you're you know, one of the

(01:16:19):
examples has becided quite often is when somebody moves from
one state to another and they enroll in medicaid in
the second state, they're still in the roles of the
first date, so that the first state gets money because
they're in the roles, and the second state gets money
because the role. Okay, so that's an example. I don't
know that that's necessarily fraud. Somebody probably didn't think, hey,
I got to go on and roll in.

Speaker 4 (01:16:39):
State number one.

Speaker 5 (01:16:40):
The second example would be the one around people who
come into the country illegally, and that is a substantial number.
And what happens there is the burden was shifted first
of all into the federal government and the state government
who share the responsibility, and then ultimately down to the

(01:17:03):
local level where public hospitals were providing that care, and
then tapping into their engigent fund revenues where they were
not getting compensated for those people because of Medicaid or
Medicare or a commercial church provider, so they were they
were dipping in the in our case, property tax revenues,

(01:17:26):
so the property tax revenues are actually going to the
county hospital to support the Haney Hospital. So it's just
a question of who's entitled to get properly entitled to
get the coverage, and then are only those people getting
that coverage. So I don't know that the falls under fraud,
waste for abuse. It's just money that shouldn't be spent,

(01:17:47):
and I don't and that that number by itself is material.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
So okay, So McConnell shot his mouth off, I guess
in a closed door meeting yesterday it leaked out. Gosh,
imagine that in Washington, d C. They're about a million
and a half people in Kentucky who are enrolled in Medicaid.
Cincinnati is a major metropolitan area, but most of Cincinnati
is individual towns. And then, of course, like most of America,

(01:18:13):
around these large cities are rural areas, and the fear is,
or at least from the rhetoric from Democrats and those
opposed to any cuts to Medicaid, is that if you
start cutting Medicaid, you start affecting medical care in these
rural areas. With these rural hospitals where there aren't a
lot of doctors or nurses or a lot of hospitals

(01:18:35):
to begin with. Is there validity to that argument that
if they go in and start making these cuts to
Medicaid that it will adversely affect these rural hospitals and
healthcare providers.

Speaker 5 (01:18:47):
I think there's some legitimacy to that concern, and I
think what it'll likely do is encourage other types of
service becoming more adopted more rapidly. So, for example of
things that is taking off everywhere it can is telehealth. Right, So, now,
if you have a phone, you have access to a

(01:19:07):
doctor under certain circumstances. Well, let's imagine that we really
relieve the license restrictions around that to some extent, and
now all of a sudden, you're able to deliver medical
advice over a cell phone. And now you've got a
different set of providers. So what that really means is
you're looking at emergency rooms and more critical care level

(01:19:31):
one trauma stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:19:32):
Uh huh, Okay, yeah, And you're right, totally right about telehealth.
I mean, I'll go to a doctor and I'll walk
out of the office and I'm thinking to myself, I
could I could have easily have done this over the
phone or zoom or whatever it may be. You know,
often oftentimes that's what it is. There's nothing traumatic about it.
So okay, so it sounds like that, you know, the

(01:19:54):
devil here in the details. Now that we know what
it is, it's how much are we going to pay?
How much we're not going to pay. But at the
end of this, at the end of this big beautiful
bill that allegedly both sides seem to think will get
passed in some way, shape or form, what do you
think the end result looks like for Medicaid and would
it have Is there any tangible effect that this will

(01:20:20):
have on Medicare at all?

Speaker 5 (01:20:25):
I don't know the answer on Medicare yet. But again
I think that that people are going to be less
likely to tinker with Medicare in the way that they
are with Medicaid because of the access to Medicaid being
a little bit more porous.

Speaker 1 (01:20:44):
More porous in what way.

Speaker 5 (01:20:47):
Meaning people don't have to try and get a job
before getting on Medicaid, or they don't have to be
in school, or they don't have to work for charity
or getting education of some sort, or they can move
from one safe to another. These issues are making a
little bit more easy to access MEDICAIDS resources.

Speaker 1 (01:21:07):
Right because the House It's just because.

Speaker 2 (01:21:10):
The House bill says, look, if you're between the ages
of nineteen and sixty four, you have to go to work,
but exempts I believe it exempts people with the dependent children.

Speaker 1 (01:21:22):
The Senate.

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
Puts the requirements on parents with children over the age
of fourteen. There is a work attachment, is what you're
saying to Medicaid, where with Medicare there is not because
obviously most of the Medicare recipients are people who are
retired or very close to retirement. So that's the difference
between the two in terms of you know where the
cuts may potentially be.

Speaker 5 (01:21:46):
Well, they're evening allowing you to volunteer. So if you
volunteer eighty hours a month, then you can still qualify
for Medicaid.

Speaker 2 (01:21:55):
How many hours a month? Eighty eighty hours a month, Well,
that doesn't seem like a lot of time.

Speaker 5 (01:22:02):
Well, you're basically halftime a week the twentieth week.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
So that could be reading to the blind, it could
be school assistant, it could be could be anything that
benefits the community.

Speaker 5 (01:22:14):
Yeah, you could be the school crossing garden.

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
You could be the school crossing guard.

Speaker 2 (01:22:18):
So when it's all said and done, you think this
gets done, this will not be a problem because of
if nothing else, the other things that are in this bill,
and it'll just percolate forward. And do you think and
this is I know, crystal ball, but I got to ask, anyway,
do you think it's for better or for worse?

Speaker 4 (01:22:34):
I think it'll be for better.

Speaker 5 (01:22:37):
And the reason I think that is because what only
a few people are talking about is the fact that
we stand on the precipice of these very significant entitlements
going bankrupt, like the Medicare Trust Fund.

Speaker 1 (01:22:52):
Yeah, yep, yep, absolutely, And that's.

Speaker 5 (01:22:55):
What nobody really wants to address. That is the giant
elephant in the room.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
Yeah, well, nobody wants to touch it because again it
goes back to my three things a politician wants, and
they just, you know, I'll kick it down down the road.
Half of these guys and women that are in Washington,
d C. Or seventy plus, they figure by the time
it's a problem, they're dead or they've just you know,
decided they were going to get the hell out of Washington,
which you know, maybe some do, some don't, But I

(01:23:23):
just don't think anybody wants to deal with that because
if they do, then that adversely affects their ability to
get re elected, and therein lies a problem with just
the way the country is operating at this point.

Speaker 1 (01:23:35):
Toddy, You're absolutely right.

Speaker 5 (01:23:36):
I had somebody tell me this very point, make this
very point. He said, you know, people think that people
are good or bad based on the issues, but the
reality is they're otherwise unemployable.

Speaker 2 (01:23:49):
Yeah, what skill set do you have? Well, I was
a politician. Oh good, I'm actually a lawyer. Well, there's
certainly not a there's certainly a real darth of those.
So yeah, come back here and join us. Good stuff, Todd.
The book is the sixty percent Solution. It's out there
right now. It's a good read. It is a read
as to where we should be going. And where we're

(01:24:10):
going right now is it looks like back and forth
between the House and Senate.

Speaker 5 (01:24:14):
All right, So we're going to be going to the
Cincinnati Opening together.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
We are. I'm going to meet you at the Cincinnati open.

Speaker 2 (01:24:21):
That's going to be exciting, and I guarantee you as
hot as it is now, it's going to be even
hotter in August. But that's the way we like it.
That's the way we like it. We'll see you then, Todd,
and we'll talk, if not sooner. Thank you, cheers, Thanks
so much, Todd. Furnace on a daylight today. Furnace is
the operative word to twenty seven News Radio seven hundred

(01:24:43):
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Speaker 1 (01:24:45):
Hey you with the bows o hair, You got a
big mouth.

Speaker 12 (01:24:49):
Anyone ever told you that you got a better chance
of playing Bozo?

Speaker 4 (01:24:52):
How about that?

Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
What do you think I'm funny like a clown? Funny? Huh?
I'm done with you all of years. I'm out of here.

Speaker 12 (01:25:00):
Up at a big Daddy's Liquors at Newport for some
cognac and then back to the tent.

Speaker 1 (01:25:04):
For cigars, poker and a little dancing.

Speaker 12 (01:25:07):
Oh yeah, Andy Mac the Wizard likes to dance, bringing
girl number five, the one with the golden veils is
that Valerie. Don't come a knockings if you see the
wizards tent a rock.

Speaker 5 (01:25:24):
Hello, Buiet Scots, I'm broadcasting.

Speaker 2 (01:25:31):
Who was that guy that was from the Bob shreve
a Theater of the Absurd.

Speaker 11 (01:25:36):
The past, prime prime Playhouse, the PPP.

Speaker 1 (01:25:40):
Well at one.

Speaker 11 (01:25:41):
Time for for for college credit. I was sitting on
the set of Channel twelve, like where Nick Colooney used
to sit, and Bob Shreve was in doing his his thing,
and one of the guys, I can't remember the guy
that was the guy that was working there, said, hey,
come down, get some extra credit. I said, sure, said,

(01:26:03):
we're gonna We're gonna answer phones like all night long
with Bob Shreve in the past Prime Playhouse, you know,
he ran. He was sitting behind the bar, you know,
and he said, well, what we got to do first
is when he goes on, we got to throw stuff
at him. They had like seven thousand of these stuffed
animals and stuff, and we're throwing the you know, the
rubber chickens and everything at him. And then when the

(01:26:24):
movie's going on, we go into the newsroom like on
the set of Channel twelve way back when, and take
calls from people saying, Hey, this is lou and Norwood.
I'm watching the movie here. Say hello to me, and
we write it down and give it to Bob Shreve.
And then the next break he said from Norwood, hey,
thanks for watching, you know Joe from Joe from Cocomo,

(01:26:47):
how you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:26:47):
And all this stuff. It was.

Speaker 11 (01:26:49):
I mean it was like it was unbelievable. I mean
we got calls all night long up until like I
think he was on from midnight to five or something
like that.

Speaker 1 (01:26:59):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
It was something. When I was in Cincinnati. This is
in seventy five, I think I first got here, and
my wife at the time was working out out of
a Channel twelve. She was working with all the broadcasters
to get when you actually had to work to get
your license renewed. Yeah, And so she and I had
lunch in the cafeteria Channel twelve they used to call

(01:27:22):
it Frieda's over the Rhine Cafe. And I'm sitting there
with her having lunch, and to my right was Bob
Shreve eating a hold as soup.

Speaker 1 (01:27:29):
How about that getting better than that now, ken Brew.

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
I looked at him, I said, are you Bob Shreeve?
And he looked at me, and he put his finger
to his lips and said he was something else. He
was amazing guy.

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
He could do anything right.

Speaker 2 (01:27:44):
Every market had a guy like him, Amen, But no
market had a guy like him.

Speaker 1 (01:27:48):
That's for sure. That's for sure, ken Brew.

Speaker 11 (01:27:50):
The stood reporters of Proud Service of her local tame
star heating in air conditioning dealers, tame star quality you
can feel in beautiful northern Kentucky any weather heating and
air at eight five nine seven, eight, one forty eight
two spots. Red Legs go for a sweet tonight of
the Yanks. Max Freed up against the Brady Singer and

(01:28:12):
I got something here ken Brew on X from the
one and only illustrious Charlie Goldsmith, who says that that
let's see what's he say here? A player's only meeting
has turned around the Reds season. Charlie Goldsmith says that
the Reds entered June six with a thirty and thirty

(01:28:34):
three record. They had lost a lot of games, beating themselves.
This and that everybody knows that something was missing. So
around four o'clock on that day the team was late
getting onto the field, Lux and catcher Jose Travina were
leading a player's only meeting in the clubhouse.

Speaker 5 (01:28:52):
Wow.

Speaker 11 (01:28:52):
And from that, from from that, from since that meeting,
the Reds are twelve and five.

Speaker 2 (01:28:58):
Self policing seg there's nothing like it. How about that?

Speaker 11 (01:29:01):
Self police Charlie Goldsmith with the with the reporting action
of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
The choir is good they miss him already. I think
they're gonna rue the day that guy left.

Speaker 1 (01:29:13):
Amen to that.

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
He was very good. He's kind of obsessive, which I
like in a reporter. He's very fair, right, and and
that's what you have to do, you know, fairness and
reporting newspaper, television or otherwise is a lost art today,
that's for sure. I think they're going to rue the
day they let that guy go. Amen to that, and
also Ken Bruce. Since it's hot outside hot, it's hot.

(01:29:36):
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Speaker 1 (01:30:27):
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Speaker 11 (01:30:30):
Montreal, tonight AND i THOUGHT i read they don't have
too much success against C F, montreal but they they
better start to get with. It although they're still all.
RIGHT i, mean you, KNOW i think they're all right
in the standing as far AS i, know you know
what They're they've been off for ten. Days you, know
somebody asked pat noon and what they got done on
those stats ten.

Speaker 7 (01:30:50):
Days, Yeah i've had some good, discussions good discussions just
around our overall, play both sides of the, ball both,
sides good feedback from the guy back of what they,
see what they feel.

Speaker 1 (01:31:04):
In moments for clear. THROAT i think maybe we're not
on the same. Page well maybe they're. Not who.

Speaker 7 (01:31:09):
Knows he found, some you, know some good solutions to
a lot of things with the time we've had to.

Speaker 1 (01:31:13):
Work, yeah what's? Hope what's? Hope that's the.

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
Thing the, Actor, yeah he played the Character Mini max
in that that video was directed By Michael. Scorsese But Wesley,
snipes who did time in the jint For Tax, evasion.

Speaker 1 (01:31:30):
He he was in that. Video pretty good. MOVIE a
movie actor, too What Wesley?

Speaker 2 (01:31:36):
Snipe, yeah for a while until they he went to
The Big house for tax of.

Speaker 11 (01:31:39):
Asion, yeah that's not. Good, no you never want to do.
That SO i guess he didn't hear OF h AND r.
BLOCK i guess he didn't hear of THE I R.
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Speaker 1 (01:31:50):
Know, Somebody, yeah SOMEBODY i don't.

Speaker 4 (01:31:53):
Know is that?

Speaker 11 (01:31:54):
IT i think that's, it Ken. Brew i'm Gonna i'm
gonna go sit on a block of, ice all. Right
i'll see how in about and see in about ten
seconds how it's going to.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
Melt we'll try to get a fan in, here because
you're sweating And i'm. Sweating but get us out of
This Stooge, report if you, would.

Speaker 11 (01:32:09):
Ken brew And, hunter of a hot day here in
The Tri state and Go, reds sweep Them Yanks. Yankees
we leave you with the immortal words of The Stooge.
Report let me gaze into my crystal for some. Knowledge,
no not crystal in accounting, this, crystal my crystal.

Speaker 1 (01:32:26):
Ball. Oh i'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
What the writing on that show was second to, None
Emmy award winning it, was and it was so good
that when the head writer, left they canceled the.

Speaker 11 (01:32:37):
Show, no, yeah it's a. Shame it. Is just imagine
where The wizard would be. Today i'd be doing you
know what The wizard would probably be, doing like A
Bob shreves show right. Now it could be On channel
five from midnight to. Six he could be selling tense At.
Dick's is what he could.

Speaker 1 (01:32:54):
Be doing over here In kenwood. Exactly, no you know
what we all might be doing.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
That thank, You, sex stay cold And i'll talk to
you when to talk to, you all, right Ken brew
take care sees seven HUNDRED. Wlw of, course ALL i
am is a. Bridge it's All i've ever been in my,
life to lead people from one side of the river
to the. Other and of, course when you get to

(01:33:20):
the other, side as we are led to, believe As
god fearing, people at the other side is some sort of,
heaven some sort of angelic existence that will allow us
to develop into even better versions of. Ourselves and that's
what awaits us all, now because come out here in
just a matter of, minutes it is the epicent of
our broadcast. Day it is The eddie And Rocky. Show

(01:33:41):
That i'll take you right up till six, o'clock and
one can only imagine what that nirvana may be by
the time they're done at six. O'clock but, here perhaps
for a taste to snip, out if you, will a little,
appetizer a little teas tease is one rocket j, Boyman,
rocky how are you on this glorious?

Speaker 13 (01:33:56):
Day i'm doing, Good, ken speaking of, angelic you AND
i along with the other broadcast mavens of this radio.
Station we're now at the the Boat house, yesterday and
if that place had any more just, energy it would
have exploded.

Speaker 1 (01:34:11):
Right right with me and you in the, room you,
know redheads.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
Heads, together we got A Vandy dalton showed. Up THE
fbi would be. OUTSIDE i COULDN'T i couldn't. BELIEVE i
couldn't believe the boat house could house that many.

Speaker 1 (01:34:23):
Egos it's no. Doubt sure if somebody had a problem with.

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
Something, yeah well we had a very nice time and
it was. Great, uh it was a, great a great
day down. There Now i've got this thing That i'm
reading here about The bengals in their. Lease, uh if
The bengals wanted to break the, lease and by the,
way the lease is up at the end of the,
month where they have to at least move, on either
give them two years renewal or. Whatever but according to

(01:34:50):
the state, budget if The bengals want to leave and
go TO i don't, Know Mexico, city first they've got
to see if there's anybody In Hambleton county that wants
to buy the. Team so my question is is who
In Hamilton county would be able to pony up the
one point eight or nine billion it would cost to
buy that.

Speaker 13 (01:35:08):
Team see, Lender John barrett And. WILLIE i mean those
three together would have that money tomorrow right they got
there and then their couch cushions ken.

Speaker 1 (01:35:18):
Come, on, yeah, absolutely that's that's exactly what it. Is
you Imagine willie running AN nfl, Franchise, NO i. COULD
i couldn't imagine him running The fest.

Speaker 13 (01:35:26):
Franchise, correct you wouldn't let him run my not whole baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:35:31):
Team but my point is is that this is smelling
like to me a two year. EXTENSION i don't think
they're going to come to the new. LEAGUES i think
they're going to kick this. Can, yes, YES i would.

Speaker 13 (01:35:43):
Bet every DOLLAR i have can That no one's going
to make a, major like really, tough hard decision that's
going to disappoint some. People they're going to boot it
down the way for a couple of, years and then
we'll probably boot it down another two years after.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
That and then what will they need that's four years,
down five years down, there they're going to need a
new stadium then in five, years not just refurbished, gating
a new.

Speaker 1 (01:36:05):
One maybe that's the diabolical.

Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
Plan, WELL i don't, know but you, know as you,
know it's public money for THESE i, mean, yeah we're
gonna build an.

Speaker 1 (01:36:13):
Arena we're gonna have public. Money we're gonna.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
There nobody wants to spend public money on arena in
football stadia. Anymore what's gonna happen, is you, know although
that franchise will get to be worth two and a
half three billion dollars and you, know sell it at that,
point it only costs you seven million in the first.
Place and that was back in nineteen sixty.

Speaker 1 (01:36:31):
SEVE i, mean it can.

Speaker 13 (01:36:33):
Happen AND i mean What Genie buss just sold part
of The, lakers, right so if they can get, sold
but the bengalsures that can get, sold so you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:40):
Never, Know, rock if there's the right money out, there
anything can be, Sold, amen, brother even your soul in
my sol.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
Damn straight for the right. Price what are?

Speaker 2 (01:36:48):
You what are you And eddie? Extrapolating oh, boy right
out of the. Gate we have a General robert Dez
on with. Us he's a retired.

Speaker 4 (01:36:55):
General.

Speaker 1 (01:36:55):
Uh really good.

Speaker 13 (01:36:57):
Guests gonna just kind of bring us up the speed
with what's going on With israel And, iran the, ceasefire
no ceasefire all. That then wey Of Mike Petralia trags
is going to join us at three thirty five to
talk About Chase burns big night last, night these red
hot reds much much.

Speaker 1 (01:37:14):
More, Again well that's what we.

Speaker 2 (01:37:16):
Like we like much much more because that means you've
only plotted the show out for the first, Raptly, ryan.

Speaker 1 (01:37:20):
That's i'm still working on four pm. One, ken come,
on you know how this business.

Speaker 2 (01:37:24):
Works, well you guys have a great show And, rock
that was great seeing you yesterday and we will talk.

Speaker 1 (01:37:30):
Again when we talk, Again.

Speaker 4 (01:37:32):
Ken you're the.

Speaker 1 (01:37:32):
Best thank, you and let that be a lesson to
all of.

Speaker 2 (01:37:36):
Us do not ever let friends go, Unserviced do not
ever put friends. Aside always make time to have a
little bit of time with the people you, like and
that's what we. Did it's three o'clock now in The
Tri state hod as it may be on seven hundred
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