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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Monsieur, Kelly Nash, Good morning the morning. It is
tomorrow's show, Today countdown Today is till March. Big Marti
Gras Festival is Saturday, all day, we say.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Is that the chili cookoff?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
No? No, no, no no, no. Chili cook Off is Sunday.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Okay, so you're going to do both. I don't know
about Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I'm not sure what's on the schedule for Saturday.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Do they do the thing in Colombia? I honestly, I've
never been to the Marti Gras event in Colombia. Do
they do the thing where if I throw you beads,
you show me your breast?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
No, they don't they. I haven't seen that happen there. Okay,
I could be, I could be. I could stand corrected here,
but that that typically does it go on?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
We're a little more family friendly, Yes we are. And
why do we have it so early? When is it
March first?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah? I don't know why. I think originally it started early.
They haven't moved date to my knowledge.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Anyway, It's supposed to be always on Fat Tuesday, right, Yes,
that's when you get your Marti Graus, when you get
your fatness. But I guess we didn't want to have
to miss a day of work on Wednesday. So they're like, well,
let's get crazy on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Don't We don't get all in like that. Let Marty.
Let New Orleans have their festival, their little festival. Now.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I heard over the weekend that they had to change
it because I guess there's some massive storms are going
to be coming through on Fat Tuesday, or they're expecting
massive storms flooding in the such, so I think they
might be bumping it up this weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
So I do love New Orleans. I'd never been there
on Marti Gras, I can imagine it. I have one
girl describe it as you if you walk down Bourbon
Street during Marti Gras, just know that every part of
your body is going to be grabbed.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You think that's still true in a me too post era?
I don't know. I went to New Orleans. I've been
in New Orleans three times in my life, and the
first time was more than enough for me, and I
never really wanted to go back, but circumstances brought me back.
But I went to a record I don't know if
(02:17):
it was Ready and Records or Billboard or somebody was
having a convention and I was down there, and I
think it was the week after Marti Gras or shortly
after Marty Gras in the city just reeked of urine
and vomit.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Brother it is. I always went. I went for like
ten years in a row, and I always went in August.
Now that is not a popular month for New Orleans, a.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Little bit moist with the humanity.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And the steaming smell of urine on Bourbon Street was
plenty enough. Even after they would hose it down with
those street washers like ten times, you could still smell.
It was a little nauseating. But the food there so incredible.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, I mean, haven't we haven't we successfully turned Charleston
into a cleaner version of New Orleans basically, So I'd
much rather go to Charleston than normal.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Oh, I would too, And the food in Charleston is
plenty enough to book up a weekend of great meals. Yeah,
but I went because it was a radio thing. You'll
love the story. I'll tell it fast. But Kelly used
to be a former record promotereur promoteur, so and I'll
tell this story in such a way anybody could understand it.
(03:38):
But I got a phone call. John calls me at
my room and he says, hey, I'm putting together a
group for dinner. You want to go? And I says,
you're record companies picking up the tab I'm going right.
So we walk into one of bam, what's his name,
the cook.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Bam, Oh, Paul something or other.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Something, And we walked into one of his restaurants. The
place is swamped, sure swamped. It's like fifteen of us.
And we walk in and then said, brother, here's not
a table in sight. He said, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay, when you got a record company money, you ain't
got to worry about.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Don't worry about it. So he walks over to the
matreda and he goes, I forgot the guy's name. He
has Kelly Nash here. Hey, he's in the back. Would
you tell him John's here? Oh okay, So sure enough,
John comes out. He sees the record promoter, big way,
big smile, big hug, so glad to see you. Come
(04:37):
on up, everybody, come on in. You're all welcome. We
go upstairs to this private room with the guy just
lays I said, just do me a favor. Put the
menus down I've got the chefs working on a bunch
of things, so I'm just going to have them bring
it all out. You know, the wine steward up here
is going to bring out some different wines and make recommendations.
Just have yourself a big time boy? Did it? That
was the best male I've ever had. It was incredible.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Those days don't even exist for today's record company.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Guess and I asked the dude later, I said, man,
how did you pull that off? He said, about fifteen
sixteen years ago, I got a phone call from the
VP and he told me he had to have dinner
for ten in New Orleans. He called me at like
four o'clock in the afternoon. He said, do you have
any idea what you're asking me to do? The guy said,
just make it happen, brother, That's why we hired you.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So, as he tells the story, he went to the
manager in the afternoon and said, hey, how are you.
I'm John whatever record company? You have kids? Yeah, I
got two. One of them's four and one of them's five.
It's great. How would you like to go to Disney
World for the next two decades free? An entire week
(05:45):
hotel admission the whole thing. I'd love it great. I've
got ten people for dinner tonight. If you can make
that happen, I'll get corporate to send down the certification.
So you'll see what I'm saying is true. This guy
went to Disney World every year for twenty years free.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
He overpaid for that one. I mean, I had a
guy in DC. All I had to do was I
hooked him up with Robert Plant and he got to
sing with Robert Plant.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And he owned like one of the fancier restaurants by
the White House, and every time I went in there,
it's the same type of deal. I never took more
than two or three people, but it was always like,
put the menus aside, We're going to do the small
meals with the little tiny wine samplings. And yeah, I
got to hook him up to his sing a little
bit with Robert Plant. And he was like, how do
(06:39):
I ever repay you for letting me sing with Robert Plant.
Free food and free wine is not a big deal
for me. It is to me.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
To this day. You could probably go back to that restaurant.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I don't even remember the name of it now. It's great. Hey,
we got a guy in Nebraska with a problem I
cannot believe is a problem. I'm going to read this
to you, Jonathan, and you're going to lose your mind.
So he adopted a girl. All right, she's two years old.
He calls her Carolyn. Okay, well, Carolyn was born I
(07:14):
guess to a drug addict mother, no father, She has
a she does not have a birth certificate. Oh my,
and she does not have a Social Security number. Because
she does not have a birth certificate. The only paper
that exists showing that this girl was born is I'm
(07:38):
just reading this was a computer generated name from the
state of Nebraska. I don't know how they came up
with this. It's computer generated. I think you pronounce it unakite,
which is u nakite thirteen spelt thirteen hotel. Right, that's
her name, Unakite thirteen hotel. Now her father, Jason Kilburn,
(08:02):
is trying to get it changed to Carolyn Kilburn.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It kills me that I wasn't there when she was born.
This never would have happened. Now he's hired an attorney,
and the attorney says the document that is technically her
birth certificate, has the term for government use only on it,
so we cannot use it for anything because it's for
the government only, So we can't use it to apply
(08:27):
for a social security number. We can't. Yeah, he says,
it appears that this child has fallen between the cracks,
and I'm very worried that when it becomes apparent that
this child has fallen through the cracks, nobody at the government,
with any authority, is willing to do anything to fix it.
So until further notice, her name officially has to be
(08:47):
Unekite thirteen hotel. When she enrolls in school, it's going
to have to be Unukite thirteen hotel.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But she also does not have a social security number,
so she won't be able to have a job in
a mayor.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Unbelievable. No, it's not. It's totally believable.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
What's the most frustrating thing you've had to deal with
with the government.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I helped a woman for like two and a half
years get a birth certificate. That was painstaking. She was
born in Blythewood, in a farmhouse by a midwife, no hospital,
no doctor, nothing. Now she was, as you might imagine,
very old, how old, not sure nobody was. She kind
(09:33):
of guessed at her birthday. That's what we went with.
So anyway, Yeah, that's believable.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Just frustration with the government. Maybe we'll get into that tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Nearly as frustrating as trying to prove the Facebook you
are who you are. That can be frustrating, very frustrating.
They don't take the government's word for it.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
There's a new thing that's going around with companies as
we get into an an era of t transparency that
Americans are apparently craving where everything's transparent. And I'm reading
this from something called the Connors Group, and they're talking
about the benefits, the pros and cons of pay transparency.
(10:16):
This would be openly sharing all the compensation details for
everybody in the organization or outside of the organization. We
all know what you would make, and it does. One
of the benefits, it says, is it attracts the top talent.
The top talent sees what you're paying, they know what
it looks like, they know what the top people in
(10:38):
your building are going to make, and they're going to
be one of them. In fact, according to the Society
for Human Resource Management, top professionals in the US are
eighty two percent more likely to submit a resume if
the salary range is included in the job post. If
you just say it's competitive, they're not interested. They're not
interested in even submitting. They want to know that this
job starts at one hundred and ten thousand and pays
(11:01):
one hundred and ten to one hundred and thirty thousand.
They're confident that you're going to pay me one hundred
and thirty thousand if I'm one of the top talents.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Interest.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
It also reduces pay discrepancies. You don't have some people
in here that are making fifty grand a year and
others that are making one hundred and fifty grand a year.
The types of jobs that you're If you're all doing
similar jobs, you're all going to be somewhat similarly compensated.
So there's no need to be jealous and say, well,
how in the hell is Billy driving a Ferrari and
(11:29):
I'm driving a Pinto or whatever. It builds trust.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Grandparents must have let him a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
It builds trust amongst the employees. They all know what
everybody's making. Everybody likes that. It shows that in the
research and the companies that have done this, there is
an increased job satisfaction. There's loyalty added to the company
if everybody knows what everybody else is making. No, obviously
there's some concerns and some cons I can add to
some workplace tension for some folks because they're at the
(11:57):
bottom of the barrel and they don't feel like they
should be at the bottom of the barrel, even though
it's only ten or twenty grand difference. They feel like, well,
I do a better job than so, and so it's
challenging to implement this policy because you have to do
it with the people who didn't know that they were
signing up for that. Oh now I'm being revealed. I'm
being outed.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
You just outed me.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
But what do you think of this idea?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Also, there's also a reduction and negotiation power if everybody
knows what everybody's got. I don't like it, you can't.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
It creates more problems than management is currently able to
manage now.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
But we do do that with staging by the current management.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I know we do that with state employees because I
can go on to the state dot com and just
see what everybody's making. Highest paid state employees are always
like the football coaches.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And I just found out we got a rising cost
of coffee. Do we know what that is? I know
what the rising cost of eggs is. What's the rising
cost of coffee?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
We got mules dying of I hadn't seen that.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, we got like a fifty year high in coffee,
is what was announced on one of the news channels
over the weekend. I did notice when I went to
get my coffee at Dunkin Donuts it was always three
dollars and seven cents because I would show up with
exact change. So the other day I gave her a
ten and seven cents and she gave me a bunch
(13:22):
of change back with my ones, and I'm like, what's
up with this. I didn't listened to her when she
told me the total. Already know the total. I've been
paying three dollars and seven cents for years, so I
just paid it over. So the next day I went
and actually listened. It's going to three dollars and eighteen
cents for a medium decaf of cream and sugar.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well, yesterday's prices are not today's price.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
No, So now I do show up with exact change,
but it's three dollars and eighteen cents. So I saw
the the cost of coffee's going up, But I don't
know what's creating the coffee price height for fifty years.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Wouldn't it wouldn't it just be the highest of all
time because fifty years ago they weren't paying more than
three dollars, So it's the highest ever.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
What happened fifty years ago? I love it when they
say it's the highest coffee price in fifty years. I'm like,
what what were we paying fifty years ago? It's like,
this is the hottest this been on this planet in
seventy five years. Well, what the hell happened seventy five
years ago?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Apparently, according to this there was a massive drought in
twenty twenty four, leading to poor crop estimates for the
coming year. There's also concerns about the tariff that Trump
has threatened on Colombian goods, where apparently the majority of
our coffee comes from Colombia.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
The Colombians are striking back now that are they going.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
To get their opera, the transgendered Opera from the US?
I think they already got it aid Okay, But so
just back to the story for tomorrow. Jonathan Rush definitely, no,
I don't want.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
To create management problems.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Aren't you interested in knowing?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Though?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Wouldn't it be interesting if you found out that insert
employee a who's been here, like you know, one of
the guys from the other stations, if he was making
thirty grand more than you? But how the hell do
you do that?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
What am I going to do with that information?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Use it to go back to management, Go back to.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Management and go, hey, you're paying so and so thirty
grand more. Exactly what are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah? Why is he getting thirty grand more than me? Oh,
suddenly we owe you thirty thousand. Now we got to
play catchup. This was an oversight by hr Well. We
could get away with it when we kept it in there.
And we just keep telling you you're the highest paid guy.
They always tell you that. Sure, I've been told that
my whole life. You're the highest paid guy. Okay, all right,
(15:42):
I'm the highest paid guy. Then I find out, crap,
I'm not the highest paid guy. I'm not even in
the ballpark for the highest paid guy.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I just think this leads to friction between co workers
and management's got no answer for it that I could
to just and then if you find out. I remember
going to a radio station one time for an incredibly
low salary. But I needed a job at the time,
like immediately because I was so mad at my current manager.
So I took the job. And then I when I
(16:09):
when I realized we're all all of us on the
ara making the same amount of money. Did that make
me feel better? No, no, it did not make me
feel better. We're all woefully underpaid. When I my first
star three months, but it was a long three months.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
My first job in radio used to have to go
in and collect your paycheck, right and I can't remember
the guy's name who was the night jock. I was
just a weekend DJ. But we would go in and
for some reason we just the way we timed it.
We were apparently always in line together. There'd be like
six of us waiting to get our paychecks. And he
(16:44):
said the same joke, I guess three or four times
because I'd stuck with me all these years. You know,
forty years later, I still remember his joke. Well, I
see we're all back for our bimonthly insult, And that's
what it felt like. You're being insulted. All that work
I did is worth this anyway. Uh. Finally, tomorrow, Jonathan,
(17:04):
the How Good Is That World Tour will be coming
to Charleston at the Credit One Stadium on June fifth.
It's Old Dominion with Ernest and some new artist named
Red Farren, and we have your free tickets. The word
of the day zephyr.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Well, I'm sorry spell it z e p h y
r Oh. This is a flatulence. This blow you blow
one straight out.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Has somebody.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's, like I said, zephyr.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Has somebody used that on you?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
No, I just know that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
It's actually a gentle breeze from the west.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I always thought it was.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
It's a gentle breeze from the west, away King Zephyr
and the back seat over there.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I thought it was a noisome, gentle beliet breeze.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Remember that a noisome?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Was it noisome?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
A smelly Yes, we thought it had something to do
with audio because of the word noise.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Noisome zephyr.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
But it's just a gentle breeze from the west, from
the west. How not how many breezes we get from
the east or the south or the north, but well,
we've obviously had one from the north reacently because we've
had that damn polar vortex. Glad that's over me too.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Hey, what's going on in your neighborhood we should be
talking about. You know how to reach out to us
on social media. You can also email us. I am
Rush at ninety seven to five US dot com and.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Nash at ninety seven five to be s us dot com.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
We start talking tomorrow. You start talking. It's the same
number you used. You start winning the six thirty. What
you're talking about, We're already giving you the question and
the answer. It's eight O three nine seven eight nine
two sixty seven. And we'll make up a number off
the top of my head tomorrow morning and give you
a shot at winning your old dominion tickets and we'll
throw in some ticket tickets for the chili cookoff that
will be tomorrow morning at six thirty on the Morning
(19:02):
Rush
Hello, Monsieur, Kelly Nash, Good morning the morning. It is
tomorrow's show, Today countdown Today is till March. Big Marti
Gras Festival is Saturday, all day, we say.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Is that the chili cookoff?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
No? No, no, no no, no. Chili cook Off is Sunday.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Okay, so you're going to do both. I don't know
about Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I'm not sure what's on the schedule for Saturday.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Do they do the thing in Colombia? I honestly, I've
never been to the Marti Gras event in Colombia. Do
they do the thing where if I throw you beads,
you show me your breast?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
No, they don't they. I haven't seen that happen there. Okay,
I could be, I could be. I could stand corrected here,
but that that typically does it go on?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
We're a little more family friendly, Yes we are. And
why do we have it so early? When is it
March first?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah? I don't know why. I think originally it started early.
They haven't moved date to my knowledge.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Anyway, It's supposed to be always on Fat Tuesday, right, Yes,
that's when you get your Marti Graus, when you get
your fatness. But I guess we didn't want to have
to miss a day of work on Wednesday. So they're like, well,
let's get crazy on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Don't We don't get all in like that. Let Marty.
Let New Orleans have their festival, their little festival. Now.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I heard over the weekend that they had to change
it because I guess there's some massive storms are going
to be coming through on Fat Tuesday, or they're expecting
massive storms flooding in the such, so I think they
might be bumping it up this weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
So I do love New Orleans. I'd never been there
on Marti Gras, I can imagine it. I have one
girl describe it as you if you walk down Bourbon
Street during Marti Gras, just know that every part of
your body is going to be grabbed.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You think that's still true in a me too post era?
I don't know. I went to New Orleans. I've been
in New Orleans three times in my life, and the
first time was more than enough for me, and I
never really wanted to go back, but circumstances brought me back.
But I went to a record I don't know if
(02:17):
it was Ready and Records or Billboard or somebody was
having a convention and I was down there, and I
think it was the week after Marti Gras or shortly
after Marty Gras in the city just reeked of urine
and vomit.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Brother it is. I always went. I went for like
ten years in a row, and I always went in August.
Now that is not a popular month for New Orleans, a.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Little bit moist with the humanity.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And the steaming smell of urine on Bourbon Street was
plenty enough. Even after they would hose it down with
those street washers like ten times, you could still smell.
It was a little nauseating. But the food there so incredible.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, I mean, haven't we haven't we successfully turned Charleston
into a cleaner version of New Orleans basically, So I'd
much rather go to Charleston than normal.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Oh, I would too, And the food in Charleston is
plenty enough to book up a weekend of great meals. Yeah,
but I went because it was a radio thing. You'll
love the story. I'll tell it fast. But Kelly used
to be a former record promotereur promoteur, so and I'll
tell this story in such a way anybody could understand it.
(03:38):
But I got a phone call. John calls me at
my room and he says, hey, I'm putting together a
group for dinner. You want to go? And I says,
you're record companies picking up the tab I'm going right.
So we walk into one of bam, what's his name,
the cook.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Bam, Oh, Paul something or other.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Something, And we walked into one of his restaurants. The
place is swamped, sure swamped. It's like fifteen of us.
And we walk in and then said, brother, here's not
a table in sight. He said, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay, when you got a record company money, you ain't
got to worry about.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Don't worry about it. So he walks over to the
matreda and he goes, I forgot the guy's name. He
has Kelly Nash here. Hey, he's in the back. Would
you tell him John's here? Oh okay, So sure enough,
John comes out. He sees the record promoter, big way,
big smile, big hug, so glad to see you. Come
(04:37):
on up, everybody, come on in. You're all welcome. We
go upstairs to this private room with the guy just
lays I said, just do me a favor. Put the
menus down I've got the chefs working on a bunch
of things, so I'm just going to have them bring
it all out. You know, the wine steward up here
is going to bring out some different wines and make recommendations.
Just have yourself a big time boy? Did it? That
was the best male I've ever had. It was incredible.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Those days don't even exist for today's record company.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Guess and I asked the dude later, I said, man,
how did you pull that off? He said, about fifteen
sixteen years ago, I got a phone call from the
VP and he told me he had to have dinner
for ten in New Orleans. He called me at like
four o'clock in the afternoon. He said, do you have
any idea what you're asking me to do? The guy said,
just make it happen, brother, That's why we hired you.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So, as he tells the story, he went to the
manager in the afternoon and said, hey, how are you.
I'm John whatever record company? You have kids? Yeah, I
got two. One of them's four and one of them's five.
It's great. How would you like to go to Disney
World for the next two decades free? An entire week
(05:45):
hotel admission the whole thing. I'd love it great. I've
got ten people for dinner tonight. If you can make
that happen, I'll get corporate to send down the certification.
So you'll see what I'm saying is true. This guy
went to Disney World every year for twenty years free.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
He overpaid for that one. I mean, I had a
guy in DC. All I had to do was I
hooked him up with Robert Plant and he got to
sing with Robert Plant.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And he owned like one of the fancier restaurants by
the White House, and every time I went in there,
it's the same type of deal. I never took more
than two or three people, but it was always like,
put the menus aside, We're going to do the small
meals with the little tiny wine samplings. And yeah, I
got to hook him up to his sing a little
bit with Robert Plant. And he was like, how do
(06:39):
I ever repay you for letting me sing with Robert Plant.
Free food and free wine is not a big deal
for me. It is to me.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
To this day. You could probably go back to that restaurant.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I don't even remember the name of it now. It's great. Hey,
we got a guy in Nebraska with a problem I
cannot believe is a problem. I'm going to read this
to you, Jonathan, and you're going to lose your mind.
So he adopted a girl. All right, she's two years old.
He calls her Carolyn. Okay, well, Carolyn was born I
(07:14):
guess to a drug addict mother, no father, She has
a she does not have a birth certificate. Oh my,
and she does not have a Social Security number. Because
she does not have a birth certificate. The only paper
that exists showing that this girl was born is I'm
(07:38):
just reading this was a computer generated name from the
state of Nebraska. I don't know how they came up
with this. It's computer generated. I think you pronounce it unakite,
which is u nakite thirteen spelt thirteen hotel. Right, that's
her name, Unakite thirteen hotel. Now her father, Jason Kilburn,
(08:02):
is trying to get it changed to Carolyn Kilburn.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It kills me that I wasn't there when she was born.
This never would have happened. Now he's hired an attorney,
and the attorney says the document that is technically her
birth certificate, has the term for government use only on it,
so we cannot use it for anything because it's for
the government only, So we can't use it to apply
(08:27):
for a social security number. We can't. Yeah, he says,
it appears that this child has fallen between the cracks,
and I'm very worried that when it becomes apparent that
this child has fallen through the cracks, nobody at the government,
with any authority, is willing to do anything to fix it.
So until further notice, her name officially has to be
(08:47):
Unekite thirteen hotel. When she enrolls in school, it's going
to have to be Unukite thirteen hotel.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But she also does not have a social security number,
so she won't be able to have a job in
a mayor.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Unbelievable. No, it's not. It's totally believable.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
What's the most frustrating thing you've had to deal with
with the government.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I helped a woman for like two and a half
years get a birth certificate. That was painstaking. She was
born in Blythewood, in a farmhouse by a midwife, no hospital,
no doctor, nothing. Now she was, as you might imagine,
very old, how old, not sure nobody was. She kind
(09:33):
of guessed at her birthday. That's what we went with.
So anyway, Yeah, that's believable.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Just frustration with the government. Maybe we'll get into that tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Nearly as frustrating as trying to prove the Facebook you
are who you are. That can be frustrating, very frustrating.
They don't take the government's word for it.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
There's a new thing that's going around with companies as
we get into an an era of t transparency that
Americans are apparently craving where everything's transparent. And I'm reading
this from something called the Connors Group, and they're talking
about the benefits, the pros and cons of pay transparency.
(10:16):
This would be openly sharing all the compensation details for
everybody in the organization or outside of the organization. We
all know what you would make, and it does. One
of the benefits, it says, is it attracts the top talent.
The top talent sees what you're paying, they know what
it looks like, they know what the top people in
(10:38):
your building are going to make, and they're going to
be one of them. In fact, according to the Society
for Human Resource Management, top professionals in the US are
eighty two percent more likely to submit a resume if
the salary range is included in the job post. If
you just say it's competitive, they're not interested. They're not
interested in even submitting. They want to know that this
job starts at one hundred and ten thousand and pays
(11:01):
one hundred and ten to one hundred and thirty thousand.
They're confident that you're going to pay me one hundred
and thirty thousand if I'm one of the top talents.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Interest.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
It also reduces pay discrepancies. You don't have some people
in here that are making fifty grand a year and
others that are making one hundred and fifty grand a year.
The types of jobs that you're If you're all doing
similar jobs, you're all going to be somewhat similarly compensated.
So there's no need to be jealous and say, well,
how in the hell is Billy driving a Ferrari and
(11:29):
I'm driving a Pinto or whatever. It builds trust.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Grandparents must have let him a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
It builds trust amongst the employees. They all know what
everybody's making. Everybody likes that. It shows that in the
research and the companies that have done this, there is
an increased job satisfaction. There's loyalty added to the company
if everybody knows what everybody else is making. No, obviously
there's some concerns and some cons I can add to
some workplace tension for some folks because they're at the
(11:57):
bottom of the barrel and they don't feel like they
should be at the bottom of the barrel, even though
it's only ten or twenty grand difference. They feel like, well,
I do a better job than so, and so it's
challenging to implement this policy because you have to do
it with the people who didn't know that they were
signing up for that. Oh now I'm being revealed. I'm
being outed.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
You just outed me.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
But what do you think of this idea?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Also, there's also a reduction and negotiation power if everybody
knows what everybody's got. I don't like it, you can't.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
It creates more problems than management is currently able to
manage now.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
But we do do that with staging by the current management.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I know we do that with state employees because I
can go on to the state dot com and just
see what everybody's making. Highest paid state employees are always
like the football coaches.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And I just found out we got a rising cost
of coffee. Do we know what that is? I know
what the rising cost of eggs is. What's the rising
cost of coffee?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
We got mules dying of I hadn't seen that.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, we got like a fifty year high in coffee,
is what was announced on one of the news channels
over the weekend. I did notice when I went to
get my coffee at Dunkin Donuts it was always three
dollars and seven cents because I would show up with
exact change. So the other day I gave her a
ten and seven cents and she gave me a bunch
(13:22):
of change back with my ones, and I'm like, what's
up with this. I didn't listened to her when she
told me the total. Already know the total. I've been
paying three dollars and seven cents for years, so I
just paid it over. So the next day I went
and actually listened. It's going to three dollars and eighteen
cents for a medium decaf of cream and sugar.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well, yesterday's prices are not today's price.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
No, So now I do show up with exact change,
but it's three dollars and eighteen cents. So I saw
the the cost of coffee's going up, But I don't
know what's creating the coffee price height for fifty years.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Wouldn't it wouldn't it just be the highest of all
time because fifty years ago they weren't paying more than
three dollars, So it's the highest ever.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
What happened fifty years ago? I love it when they
say it's the highest coffee price in fifty years. I'm like,
what what were we paying fifty years ago? It's like,
this is the hottest this been on this planet in
seventy five years. Well, what the hell happened seventy five
years ago?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Apparently, according to this there was a massive drought in
twenty twenty four, leading to poor crop estimates for the
coming year. There's also concerns about the tariff that Trump
has threatened on Colombian goods, where apparently the majority of
our coffee comes from Colombia.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
The Colombians are striking back now that are they going.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
To get their opera, the transgendered Opera from the US?
I think they already got it aid Okay, But so
just back to the story for tomorrow. Jonathan Rush definitely, no,
I don't want.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
To create management problems.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Aren't you interested in knowing?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Though?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Wouldn't it be interesting if you found out that insert
employee a who's been here, like you know, one of
the guys from the other stations, if he was making
thirty grand more than you? But how the hell do
you do that?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
What am I going to do with that information?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Use it to go back to management, Go back to.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Management and go, hey, you're paying so and so thirty
grand more. Exactly what are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah? Why is he getting thirty grand more than me? Oh,
suddenly we owe you thirty thousand. Now we got to
play catchup. This was an oversight by hr Well. We
could get away with it when we kept it in there.
And we just keep telling you you're the highest paid guy.
They always tell you that. Sure, I've been told that
my whole life. You're the highest paid guy. Okay, all right,
(15:42):
I'm the highest paid guy. Then I find out, crap,
I'm not the highest paid guy. I'm not even in
the ballpark for the highest paid guy.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I just think this leads to friction between co workers
and management's got no answer for it that I could
to just and then if you find out. I remember
going to a radio station one time for an incredibly
low salary. But I needed a job at the time,
like immediately because I was so mad at my current manager.
So I took the job. And then I when I
(16:09):
when I realized we're all all of us on the
ara making the same amount of money. Did that make
me feel better? No, no, it did not make me
feel better. We're all woefully underpaid. When I my first
star three months, but it was a long three months.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
My first job in radio used to have to go
in and collect your paycheck, right and I can't remember
the guy's name who was the night jock. I was
just a weekend DJ. But we would go in and
for some reason we just the way we timed it.
We were apparently always in line together. There'd be like
six of us waiting to get our paychecks. And he
(16:44):
said the same joke, I guess three or four times
because I'd stuck with me all these years. You know,
forty years later, I still remember his joke. Well, I
see we're all back for our bimonthly insult, And that's
what it felt like. You're being insulted. All that work
I did is worth this anyway. Uh. Finally, tomorrow, Jonathan,
(17:04):
the How Good Is That World Tour will be coming
to Charleston at the Credit One Stadium on June fifth.
It's Old Dominion with Ernest and some new artist named
Red Farren, and we have your free tickets. The word
of the day zephyr.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Well, I'm sorry spell it z e p h y
r Oh. This is a flatulence. This blow you blow
one straight out.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Has somebody.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's, like I said, zephyr.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Has somebody used that on you?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
No, I just know that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
It's actually a gentle breeze from the west.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I always thought it was.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
It's a gentle breeze from the west, away King Zephyr
and the back seat over there.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I thought it was a noisome, gentle beliet breeze.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Remember that a noisome?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Was it noisome?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
A smelly Yes, we thought it had something to do
with audio because of the word noise.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Noisome zephyr.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
But it's just a gentle breeze from the west, from
the west. How not how many breezes we get from
the east or the south or the north, but well,
we've obviously had one from the north reacently because we've
had that damn polar vortex. Glad that's over me too.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Hey, what's going on in your neighborhood we should be
talking about. You know how to reach out to us
on social media. You can also email us. I am
Rush at ninety seven to five US dot com and.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Nash at ninety seven five to be s us dot com.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
We start talking tomorrow. You start talking. It's the same
number you used. You start winning the six thirty. What
you're talking about, We're already giving you the question and
the answer. It's eight O three nine seven eight nine
two sixty seven. And we'll make up a number off
the top of my head tomorrow morning and give you
a shot at winning your old dominion tickets and we'll
throw in some ticket tickets for the chili cookoff that
will be tomorrow morning at six thirty on the Morning
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