9.25: One Hit Wonders - Hour 3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Seven oh five here at News Radio eight forty whas,
thanks for hanging out with us here on a Thursday morning.
So the big, big national story is what I'm sure
that those listening right now are aware of. But there
was a shooting yesterday at a Dallas ICE facility, so
a deadly shooting. Of course, there were a couple that

(00:22):
lost their lives, but it was at a US Immigration
and Customs enforcement facility in Dallas, and it's now being
treated as a targeted attack on federal law enforcement. The gunman,
a twenty nine year old man by the name of
Joshua John, opened fire yesterday morning from the roof of
a law office across the street. And I'm sorry. It
looks like there's one detainee that was killed and critically

(00:43):
injured two others before dying of suicide. And the FBI
says shellcasings at the scene were engraved with anti ICE messages,
including one that just said anti ICE on it. And
this is someone who you would assume was there to
try to assassinate ICE agents. But in fact the individuals,

(01:04):
the individual killed and the others that are critically injured
were those that were being apprehended by ICE. So just
a tragic situation all the way around. And if you're
someone that is anti ICE and don't agree with President
Trump's enforcement of getting those out of this country that
are here illegally regardless of their I guess situation. Again,

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you're entitled to your opinion, but the I guess demand
from some to have these individuals that work for ICE
be public, meaning where they can't hide their face and
their identity when you see that someone showed up to
try to kill them. I mean, I don't think you're
going to see much resistance from those who have say
so as far as them being able to attempt to

(01:50):
remain anonymous while while on the job. And I mean
the timing here not ideal for Gavin Newsom. I mean,
he was on I'm not even sure what show it was,
but one of the late night TV shows discussing his
you know, his his thoughts on on ICE, and I
think it was what maybe a day later this this happened.

(02:13):
And I'm not the biggest fan of of of Gavin Newsom,
in fact, I think he's awful, But I really do
mean this when I say it. It has really nothing to
do with I mean, I don't agree with a lot
of things he says, but to me, he's he's he
screams that he's just above everything that the Trump administration
is about, as far as just the way they go

(02:34):
about things, which is understandable. I mean again, I mean,
Trump is somebody who clearly does not hide at all
that he he hates his enemies, and you can tell
he's fueled by the hate they have for him. I mean,
he even as much said at Charlie Kirk's service that
he he wished, you know, he actually I'm not sure
if he said he wishes he could be more like
Charlie Kirk, but he did. He did acknowledge their differences

(02:54):
because he embraces the hate, and I think he wants,
maybe not everybody to hate him, but he's not trying
to win anybody over or bring anybody together. He's clearly divisive.
But you know, there's so much noise from the other
side about just being professional and you know, kind and

(03:15):
all that kind of stuff. And I'm not saying that
stuff doesn't matter, because I think that it does. But
I mean, Newsom is you know, I guess stooping to
Trump's level as far as just the way in which
he goes about things. Put it this way, I'm dancing
around it. But Trump has broken this man like he's
become a version of Trump who he claims to loathe,

(03:36):
and he's at times nastier than anybody as far as
how he goes about it. And I'm not bothered by
it because I really don't. I'd be a liar for
I said that. I truly care what Gavin Newsom does
or says. But I mean, I have a hard time
thinking he wouldn't at least not feel responsible. But to
have said this just what roughly a day after I'm sorry,

(03:58):
a day before one showed up to try to kill
ice agents. I mean, got to make you feel some
type of way.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's happening in the United States of America. Masked men
jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing, no due process,
no oversight, zero accountability happening in the United States of America. Today,
people asked, well, is authoritarianism? You're being hyperbolic. We're being
hyperbolic if you're a black and brown community. It's here
in this country. And so I'm deeply proud that I

(04:30):
had the privilege of signing the nation's first bill to
address the issue of masking also to require you have
simple identification. To your point, I mean, if some guy
jumped out of an unmarked car in a van with
a mask on tried to grab me, I mean, by definition,
you're going to push back. And so these these are
not just authoritarian tendencies. These are authoritarian actions by an

(04:52):
authoritarian government. You saw what Stephen Miller said last week,
this should put chills a fine called the Democratic Party
an extremist organization, basically a terrorist organization, saying he's going
after his enemies. You saw the tweet that Donald Trump
sent out True social basically telling Pam BONDI I want
these three people taken out. That's happening in the United States.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
So he goes on to say you know that. And
I don't want to misquote him because his quote is important,
but he's hitting a level of and again I'm trying
to be careful with my words because I think if
he'd just left it the way he started it there,
and again, the majority of what he said I don't
really have any issue with as far as just you know,

(05:36):
I think he makes valid points to an extent, but
I just have a hard time seeing any real genuineness
at this point, because I think he just hates Trump's
It's just a war between these two guys. I mean,
and of course there's seemingly a war between political parties
right now. But yeah, the attempted I guess assassination. I

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guess that's what this looks like as of right now.
If those who work in ICE and I mean those
wanting these guys to be a little more transparent as
far as their visibility and not have their identity, I
think what happened yesterday in Dallas is going to make
that much less likely as far as anybody taking action
to enforce it. All right, quick break, We've got traving
weather updates on the way, and I'll tell you something
that probably won't surprise you, and that is just how

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much groceries are how much groceries have gone up in
prices now compared to where it was pre pandemic. I mean,
it's probably a bigger jump than you might even expect.
So we'll get to that in a lot more right
here on News Radio eight forty whas. I wouldn't be
shocked if everybody listening right now has had a trip
to the grocery in the last I don't know, a

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couple of years, probably even longer than that actually, and
you realize you have not that many items, items that
you wouldn't really assume are that expensive, and then you
see the total and you just think something's got to
be wrong here, and not wrong, that's just how expensive
groceries have become. And that I mean to see the

(07:07):
actual number as far as the percentage that that that
it's gone up compared to what it was prior to
the pandemic. Maybe this number is right on where you
would have guessed, but twenty nine percent higher now than
pre pandemic. And I wish I could say that that
really surprises me, But now that I think about it,

(07:28):
it doesn't. I mean, I went to because we do
a grow we do a grocery trip at our house. Well,
we don't make a trip, we do the we get
it delivered, which is very beneficial whenever, you know, whenever
it works. Times they don't bring certain things or whatnot,
but more often than not it's worth doing it. But
we probably do that every two weeks, but in between
there'll be certain things that we do have to go
get that that are needed more so than just on

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a twice a month basis, And I mean if I
can walk up to I guess it all. Really it
depends on what you get. But I'll go to Walmart, Kroger, wherever.
I'm not I'm not exclusive with any grocery store. Whatever
is convenient, whatever's near me really more than anything. If
I know where to get it, if I know where
it is in the store, that'll likely lead me to
end up going there. But just the the you know,

(08:11):
little things here and there. I mean, some things are
like double the price like then what it was five
six years ago, and that's how you end up with
that big of a big of a jump. And I
don't know when we're going to see any real change
in that. I hope that we do, but I mean
it's been this has been, this has been an issue
for a while now. I mean this isn't brand new,

(08:34):
but yeah, the Consumer Price Index shows grocery prices row
zero point six percent from July to August. So that's
just within the last couple of months, and it's the
steepest one month gain in nearly three years. Compared to
a year ago, groceries are two point seven percent higher
and nearly thirty percent higher than before the pandemic. So again,

(08:55):
the trade policies that that's a factory here, and there's
other factors as well as far as just a drought,
extreme weather, those kind of things that can drive up
foods costs across the country at certain times. But there's
so many out there that I assume they don't they
don't really care why it's happening. They don't, they don't
really get get into it. They just know what they

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see when they check out at the grocery store, and
they're understandably so uh not pleased with it. And I
get it. I don't do our grocery shopping as far
as the online ordering, but I mean, honestly, anywhere you
go to get anything, I feel like it's probably the
surprise has probably faded, Like I'm no longer really shocked
when I see the price of anything, just because that's

(09:39):
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News Radio eight forty whas coffee company with you. Mayor

(11:01):
Greenberg going to join us to start the eight o'clock hour.
He'll be on after our eight o'clock hour newscast or
eight am hour newscast, I should say, so stick around
for that. A lot of things to discuss, including the
record turnout that we had for these past two weekends
with both Bourbon and Beyond and Louder than Life four
hundred and fifty thousand people in attendance for those two events,
which is awesome for a variety of reasons. And again

(11:23):
we'll talk about that with Mary Greenberg coming up here
in about thirty minutes. All right, sticking with our conversation
about how expensive things are, right, groceries obviously twenty nine
percent higher now than before the pandemic. That's what just
the cost of groceries are. So now that we've talked
through it and I really think about it, that's not

(11:43):
as surprising as I would have expected, because I mean,
we see it every day when we pay for anything,
seemingly that it's just much more expensive now than it
used to be. Look, cost of living is always going
to go up. You're always going to see things that
rise over the years as far as price. The amount
in that amount of time is is what stands out

(12:05):
to a lot of people. All Right, So this is
something I did not know was a thing, but I
guess I get it. I can't relate, don't think I
would ever I would ever do it. But gen Z,
they are they're doing something to make it a little
easier to buy a home for the first time, because
of course that's that's something that you know is also

(12:29):
really really expensive. But they're partnering with somebody that's not
a romantic partner to go in and buy a home together.
And I'm not passing any judgment. You have a right
to do whatever the heck you want, but I cannot
imagine buying a house with somebody that I don't share
a life with. I mean, I could maybe be a roommate.

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And the reason I say that is because of the
commitment that is purchasing a home. I mean, it's see
a co Buying home is gen Z's creativeth path. Creative
path the ownership. And again, if you want to buy
a home, and this is the most effective way to
do it. As far as the financial side of it,
I mean, I guess I get it, But I mean
I was very fortunate. I never had any room. I

(13:16):
had roommates. It's Saint Catherine College. That was it. Other
than that I lived. I lived at home. And then
when my girlfriend who is now my wife, when she
and I became young adults and were in a serious relationship,
I guess, as serious as you can get at nineteen,
we moved in together in an apartment and we've been

(13:36):
together ever since. So I've never really experienced what it's
like to live with somebody that you're not really really
close with and that you've spend a ton of time with.
So maybe that's just why it seems odd to me.
But more than anything, it's not about it being somebody
that it could be somebody that I that I like that.
I enjoy being around. I'll be roommates with you, will

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sign a lease together, but a thirty year mortgage or
whatever it is, that's just it's a little bit different.
But today the median age of a home buyer is
fifty six years old, which of course is out of
reach for most gen Z. And now we have co buying,
and this really does surprise me as far as just
the amount. Fifteen percent of Americans have already purchased a

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home with somebody who is not a romantic partner. So
co buying is clearly a thing I wasn't familiar with it.
I mean, it's not to say that I didn't know
anybody that's ever that's owned a house together with somebody
that they're not dating. But a recent survey shows seventy
percent of gen Z say they'd be willing to do
this too, So those that haven't done it, many of
them are willing to do it. And of course the
appeal is splitting mortgage payments, bills and you build equity together.

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But the risk, of course, there's a lot of them.
I mean, if it's a friendship or partnership breaks down,
it could turn into something that resembles a messy divorce, right.
I mean, I think about how lucky I've been as
a homeowner to never have a neighbor that is a
real issue. I've never had any real although I did
have a neighbor one time that called code enforcement on

(15:04):
me because I had a flat tire that on a
vehicle we weren't driving, and I left it there for
like forty eight hours. I don't know if you were
working with me at the time or not over heard.
The story became a big thing on a show because
I was I was in the process of replacing a
tire and it wasn't even like completely flat, but I
got a code enforcement ticket on my front door, and
I knew exactly who did it, and he was kind

(15:26):
of a pain in the you know what. But overall,
I've had pretty good neighbors to where like, they don't
bother me, I don't bother them, and we occasionally, you know,
exchange pleasantries that kind of thing. But you can have
a neighbor that can ruin your life, and that happens
probably more often than people realize. But it's one thing
to buy a house with somebody and then it become
a contentious situation and you have to live together. I mean,

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talk about the petty wars that you would see within
that home. But it's what I guess, it's the most,
I guess, the easiest path to become a homeowner with
the current climate financially right. I mean, it's I just.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
I blame the older generation for not teaching my generation
how to be smart with money. I think that's a
big issue. I'm smart with money, and I feel like
I was thankfully raised the right way in that regard to,
you know, be able to build up something to be
where I can. You know, my wife and I bought
a house at a pretty reasonable age, I feel like.
But I feel like the previous generation really just failed

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hours kind of teaching people how to be smart with money.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
You think it's more so just budgeting or building and
thinking long term? Probably both a little bit of both.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
YEA. In budgeting, I don't know anybody other than a
few people that I know that like friends of mine,
that know how to actually budget money.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah. I mean, look, sometimes it works itself out because
you're living that much of a check to check situation
to where the budget is done, because as soon as
you get it, you got to you got to pay
your bills. Yeah, but you know, I guess more so,
budgeting becomes an issue when you know that you have
some expendable income and you just are are are are
silly with it and you don't you don't prioritize it,

(16:58):
and you you know, you waste it on things that
you really don't need. But when it comes to thinking
like long term about like again, yeah, you're right, because
I when we were in an apartment, we knew it
was going to be extremely short term because we wanted
to purchase a home and you know, have an asset
where we could have equity and not just pay rent

(17:18):
with nothing to show. And I don't know if that's
as much a priority for for the younger generation. You're
I think you may be right. What led to you
being so good with money? Because you are, you're very
You're a responsible young man in general.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
But I think some of it is just natural instinct
with it personality too, because that's how it was when
I was younger. Yeah, Like I wouldn't want to spend
any money that I got on stuff. I'd always wanted
to save it up for whatever reason.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Well, I wish I was more like you and and
I'm sure others do as well, because you know, you
if you are somebody that is that is very aware
of anything coming out of any of your accounts, checking savings,
whatever it may be, and you track it, you keep
up with it really in good detail. I mean, that's
the way. I mean again, people do whatever they want.
But I know I'm not alone and wishing I was

(18:05):
a little bit more on top of our finances. My
wife does a pretty good job too, at least I think. Again,
I say this as a as a joke, like we
could be bankrupt. I don't know about know it. She's
she's always handled all that kind of stuff. So but yeah,
she's she's very I mean, she works in the financial
financial industry, and she's always been not necessarily a tight

(18:26):
wad by any means, but she she budgets really well
and is always looking for bargains and whatnot. So I
guess I'll give her the credit. But yeah, co buying
a house, I just I would probably sacrifice rent for
a while before I thought of buying a home with
somebody that I didn't plan on sharing a life with.
Just that's just my you know, my personal preference, all right,
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So we've got sports coming up here in just one moment.
We talked about a little bit earlier when Scott was

(20:57):
in and I'm I don't have a clue what's really
going on with Isaac Brown. I mean, I would assume
we can take we can take Jeff Brown at face
value here, that him and Duke Watson, your two top
running backs, two guys that were a big factor and
why there was so much excitement this offseason. They they're
they're dealing with lower leg injuries. And I hope it's
not serious. With Duke. He didn't play at all against

(21:20):
against Bowling Green. But Isaac Brown did get in but
not for long, So that's a good sign that it's
not like a severe injury. But to hear Jeff Brom
say on his Coaches Show recently that we could see
Colin Lacey get reps at running back. Yes, he's a weapon.
Put him anywhere he might be able to make some
place for you. But it also makes me a little
more worried that they are just expecting to not have

(21:42):
those guys, because if you have them, why would you
need to mix in. I mean, when healthy, the deepest
position on your rosters probably running back. So we'll see,
but they're gonna certainly need Isaac Brown, not only for
the rest of the season but on Saturday against Pitt
Not to say they can't win without him, but the
the We're not entitled to know every bit of info

(22:03):
about these guys when it comes to their health, but
when it's your star player, a guy that, realistically speaking,
if healthy and playing well, which he has since he's
been here, I mean, he could be an All American candidates.
So I know I'm not the only Louisville fan that's
hoping to see him out there on Saturday, not only
because it helps the team win, but it would make
me not as worried about this season maybe not having

(22:23):
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