10-23-25 Ken Broo in for Willie

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

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

(00:24):
major news coming out of the NBA gambling scandal, FBI
all over it will have that in just a bit.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
We also are.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Watching exactly what's going on from a geopolitical standpoint between
the United States and China.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
And it's interesting.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Things don't exist in a vacuum when you're talking about
geopolitical situations. They simply don't. There are other players involved,
allies of certain countries, people that may facilitate what the
major superpowers want to do. And we all have our
eyes on China is our biggest adversary when it comes

(01:02):
to trade, and from a military standpoint, they are a
very formidable foe. And we all know over the course
of the last four years there were an inordinate amount
of military aged Chinese men that were led into this
country with unfettered access to the entire fifty United States,

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and now this as the US and China get into
this urinating contest over tariffs, and right now, on November first,
it's apparently going to be a showdown date when more
US tariffs will go into effect. And you have the
Trump administration now considering a plan to curb an array
of software powered exports to China, laptops and jet engines,

(01:45):
all retaliating against Beijing's latest round of rare earth export restrictions.
Now we have this Venezuela becoming a player in China
v the United States. We know what the administration has
been up to with blowing up these boats that are
transporting narcotics off the coast of South America. And we

(02:08):
all know that they view the Venezuelan president, Nicholas Maduro
as illegitimate. And we all know that the CIA has
begin to infiltrate some of those South American countries. But
how is China and Venezuela all interlocked right now and
perhaps being a megapo against the United States. It's not

(02:31):
as simple as it seems. And I don't have to
tell my guests this. Joshua Philip has been on my
show before. He is a senior investigative reporter at the
Epic Times, and he's been digging into this. This is
a man who has been involved in interviewing cartel traffickers.
He's been inside Central America, He's done, as they say

(02:52):
in journalism, the footwork, and now working as this senior
investigative reporter for the Epic Times. He brings it all
to you on shows Life Crossroads, and it's great that
he can carve out some time to spend with us
here on seven hundred w wel w and Joshua, how
are you on this glorious Thursday.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Hey, Ken, great to hear from me, and doing doing well.
No shortage of news at the very at least right, No, there.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Is not, and and this is concerning.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Look, Venezuela to me has always been kind of a
gnat that you just swat away. Every so often. They
have dirty, dirty oil. The United States bought some dirty
oil from Venezuela. Other people buy oil from Venezuela and
just get out of the way. You know what you're
You're you're a ten. You got a tinpot dictator in
you're third world country. But now being an all in

(03:40):
an alliance with China, they become more of a problem
for the United States. So let's just talk about how
all of this is related. Are ongoing, urinating contests with
China over tariffs and then Venezuela, who is supplying that
dirty oil to China. It's it's all interlocked, is it not?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
At one hundred percent?

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Is and you know, again, as many issues tend to be,
China is the big picture with Venezuela. So you know,
we've all seen some of the videos I assume of
Trump posting them and Pete Heggs have posted them. They're
blowing up these cartel boats. And you know, when a
lot of us think cartels were thinking Mexico, We're thinking
the Mexican drug cartels. We're not really thinking like Venezuelan traffickers.

(04:25):
Why do they come from Venezuela. Now, if you had
asked me, the real picture of all this doesn't start
the last few months. The big picture of this actually
starts back in twenty eighteen, and that goes back to
the Venezuelan elections. What happened at the time, Well, Nicholas Maduro,
the still current leader of Venezuela, was accused of rigging

(04:46):
the election. He was accused by Donald Trump. He was
even accused of this by Biden. And you know, in
the United States, the whole allegation of election frauds one thing.
Even Biden accused Maduro of rigging the elections, and both
Trump and Biden recognized the opposition leader as the official

(05:07):
leader of Venezuela. Maduro was seen as the unofficial leader,
labeled also as the leader of the Cartel of the
Sons by both Trump and Biden. The issue back in
twenty eighteen, though, was that you had huge protests on
the streets. It looked like Madua was going to be overthrown.
They were accusing the US, Oh, you're you know, you're
trying to overthrow our government as they are right now,

(05:27):
right is they're saying right now. And then what happened.
The Chinese Communist Party in Russia deployed forces to Venezuela.
And during this was towards you know, I mean mid
mid first term of Trump, right, Trump was talking about
intervening in Venezuela. Russia threatened the United States. Russia said

(05:49):
if America intervenes, there will be bloodshed, and Trump actually
backed off. That was the end of the Venezuela story.
You know, during the first Trump term, in office. But
what the story said at the time was that China
was basically trying to protect its investments in Venezuela tens
of billions of dollars, basically bailing out the country and

(06:09):
controlling the country. Venezuela became a puppet state of the
CCP during that time. And the other big picture is
that Venezuela now suffering from economic decline and everything else.
They want more resources. The big resource just north of
them in Guyana, where they found one of the largest

(06:30):
oil reserves in the world several years back. Eggs On
Mobil is currently you know, doing a lot of the
operations there. Venezuela then comes out and claims they have
historical ownership over the part of Guyana where the eggs
On Mobile operations are, and so they're getting ready to
start a war there. They're working with Brazil Lula now

(06:52):
back in power, and they want to start a war
basically to retake their quote unquote you know what belongs.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
To them, they say, which is not true. By the way.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Marco Rubio actually went down there just a few months
ago and he actually warned Venezuela, if you do this,
you will face the repercussions from the United States and
so and so not everything we see is just about drugs.
Part of it is about the CCP's investments. They're part
of it is about oil. Part of it is it
definitely about drugs. But part of it too is that
they're they're basically being deemed a criminal regime by the

(07:23):
United States and anybody who defends them as also being
labeled to stay in like Colombia.

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

Speaker 3 (07:49):
All right, who's the brains in the operation? Is it China?
Is China the center of this? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Okay, So what is what does Russia coming? Why would Russia,
as John McCain wants famous, he said, is one giant
gasoline station?

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Why why would.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Why would why would Russia remotely be interested in a
pool of oil in Ghana? Or is it all China
that's really interested in it and as using Russia as
its force, So.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
That ties into a broader agenda. So Russia working with
the Chinese Communist Party, working with these Middle Eastern powers,
working with African powers, working with powers throughout Latin America.
They have an alternate world order they're trying to push.
So you know, we all hear about bricks, right, we
hear about the Bricks Alliance. If you actually listen to
their speeches, they're talking about something else. Russia is talking

(08:39):
about it, the heads of Venezuela talking about African muders
are talking about it. The CCP is the main model
for it. They're talking about what's called the multi polar
world order, and effectively, this is how they view it.
They see that Chinese, they see that American sanctions. You know,
if you abuse your citizens, if you start a war,
if you invade another country, as you carry out a genocide,

(09:03):
you get sanctioned by the United States. That is part
of the packs Americana where the United States is enforcing
our interpretation of government, which is that government is instituted
among people to defend God given rights. Communist states hate that.
Tyrants hate that, and they believe that if they're going

(09:23):
to have power, if they're going to trade economically, if
they're going to be you know, economic wheelhouses. They need
to destroy that. They need to destroy the packs Americana.
They need to destroy what they call the unipolar world order,
meaning the American system as the world you know, kind
of model of government, the unipolar world order. So what

(09:43):
they're proposing is what's called the multipolar world order, which
is many countries controlled different regions. America controls America, Canada
controls Canada, probably Cuba and Venezuela in Brazil control Latin America.
Handful of powers control Africa like an African alliance. China
controls basically all of East Asia. Russia controls the former

(10:08):
Soviet Union, and then influences you know, western Western Europe. Yeah,
Western Europe through mostly energy trade, and that's what they want.
They want America just to be a seat at the
paved table, and they want to overthrow the American system
of sanctions.

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

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

(11:07):
in what China can do economically and what Russia could
do with a madman in charge of that country. Where
how do we play that game?

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Well, this is the bigger challenge we have is that
we don't we don't have unified nation alliances. A lot
of this is party based, so a lot of the
left wing governments, the socialist governments of the Europe, socialist
parties of Canada, you know, maybe not the conservatives, but
the socialist sides, you know, they want that too. They
want to say, you know, America does its tariffs, America

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

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Have a monopoly on it.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
They view America as, you know, kind of a powerful system,
and they want equity. They want us to share the wealth,
which turns out we've been doing and a lot of
Americans weren't even where we were doing it. You know,
we subsidize their healthcare system, we pay for the military,
we do everything for them. That's global equity, and that's
what they want in terms of the global agreements, I mean,

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

(12:39):
currency to overthrow the US dollar.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
It is true.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Trump has been hitting back on them pretty hard against this.
Trump said that if anybody tries to overthrow the US dollar,
you're going to get one hundred percent sanctioned or sorry terrifs.
And so you know it's a battle right now, but
it's only going to take one leader to stop fighting
that battle for the other side to win.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
And you know it's funny listening to that politics and geopolitics.
The enemy could be from within. I mean, there are
a lot of people in this country that are running
for office or would like to entertain a notion of
running for office, that are socialists in their behavior and
believe that equity is the way to go in the
United States. So there's a battle that's being fought outside

(13:19):
of the borders of the United States, and then there
could be one politically being fought inside the borders of
the United States. And who knows what kind of influenced Russia.
I'm sorry, China may have. I just had a guy
on yesterday who is plugged into what's going on with
a lot of these Antifa riots and said he had

(13:40):
he had complete evidence that what's going on in Portland
is being funded by the Chinese and the Chinese Communist
government and that they're supplying them with whatever weaponry. An
organization that's being used by the people that are on
the streets in Portland right now. My point in all
of it, being Joshua, is that there may be elements
inside this country that are being influenced by this access

(14:02):
that may also be a problem for the United States
when dealing with the outside forces. I don't know if
your investigation is taking you anywhere there, but it certainly
is a notion that I've had for a while that
the enemy from within may be worse than the enemy
from Without any thoughts on that.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
It is true. It is one hundred percent true. So
I've been working on some stuff around this. So some
of this goes back to the Cold War. Some of
it goes back to organizations that were started as really
like Soviet Front organizations under the Common Tern.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
After the collapse of.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
The Soviet Union, a lot of those systems switched their
allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party. So the CCP became
kind of the replacement of what Russia was replacement of
the Communist International. Right, they just don't call it that.
Instead of calling it the Communist International or the Common Tern,
they call it the China model. They call it Chinese engagement,

(14:58):
they call it Chinese investment.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
I'll give you a few examples.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
We're aware now that this Neville Singh, this Indian guy
billionaire working out of China in Shanghai, is one of
the big funders behind a lot of the far left
in the United States. People are talking about him. That's
one of the big stories, but you have a lot
of other ones. The TIDES Foundation tied in with some
of that money, sorows money, other things. TIDES Foundation also

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

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

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

(16:28):
these networks. And so it is, it is concerning, it
is inside the country as well well.

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

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

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Okay, always a pleasure.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Thank you you bet Epic Times, Joshua, Philip. China is
a very very very big problem inside our country right now,
not to say the least of what's going on with
their involvement with Venezuela. It is twelve twenty six. I
am the average American. This is seven hundred wlw WE Porty,

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

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

(18:12):
years ago. And now today the FBI in a wide
ranging arrest roundup complete with two indictments, They have arrested
thirty four people, two of whom are current NBA personalities.

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

(18:55):
all involved in one way or another with gambling schemes. Billips, again,
the coach of the Portland Trailblazers, was arrested in Portland.
He is charged with a separate indictment away from NBA
Gambling for allegedly being involved in a wide ranging scheme

(19:17):
to rig underground poker games back by four of the
five mafia families in the United States. And there was
everything that was going on with this particular scheme.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
There were.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Automatic card shufflers that were not let's say up to
snuff that they were shuffling cards that were using these
card games that would benefit the house. There was even
an X ray table where from beneath the table, you
know how you lay your cards down, if you're on
a you're playing you're playing cards, where there was an

(19:54):
X ray machine that could look up and see what
the cards were on each particular hand and not just
a couple of hands here, a couple of hands there,
but every single hand, and there were people that were
being built out of tens of thousands of dollars per hand.
So that was Billips. Rosier was arrested this morning in

(20:19):
a hotel at Orlando, Florida. He's accused of participating in
an illegal sports betting scheme using private insider NBA information.
They lost their season opener to the Magic last night.
Rosier did not play due to a coach's decision. Sure
they knew this was coming, and it makes you wonder

(20:39):
why because both of these players, well the coach and
the player. But let's talk about Rogier. He's made one
hundred and thirty five million dollars in his NBA career
ten year NBA careers, made one hundred and thirty five
million dollars. How much could you possibly make by providing
inside information? Made twenty five million dollars? Or was supposed

(21:02):
to playing this year for the Miami Heat. And Phillips,
who had seventeen years as an NBA player, five time
All Star, one hundred and seven million dollars total, as
they said he was the head coach of the Portland Trailblazers.
How much you're gonna make on a card game. And

(21:24):
it raises the question that if you're into gambling, if
you're one of those people that go on the app
and you're doing prop bets and all that, is this
safe haven to bet anymore? I mean, would you go
on and bet on an NBA game now knowing that
this stuff is going on? And I don't gamble on
NBA games. I don't watch NBA game. Most people don't

(21:46):
watch the NBA. I mean, I hate to dissolusion sports
talk hosts all around this country, but the average regular
season NBA game had an audience of one point five
million people last year for games on ABC, ESPN, TNT,
and that was down from the previous year million and
a half people watching a national NBA game. There are

(22:09):
three hundred and forty million people in this country. Million
and a half were watching gambling. Probably is what's keeping
the NBA afloat. Haven't heard from the Commissioner, Adam Silver
on this yet today, but I want to turn to
a guy that I have on my show on Sundays
with regards to the NFL, and Lee Sterling is someone

(22:32):
who knows, you know, how bets are made and for
him to survive and for his business to flourish, he
has to know that the NBA is on the up
and up, because if it's not, nobody's going to bet
on the NBA. Let alone watch it. Lee Sterling, how
are you on this Thursday?

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Do we have Lee? I think he's online? One do
we have Lee? Okay? Good le?

Speaker 5 (23:01):
Well.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
I think what we're probably going to seek and is
we're going to see maybe limits cut down and they
can always track you.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
I mean the big eye don't lie.

Speaker 6 (23:11):
Just like any crime, you know, murder, any how do
they catch you your phone? You know, they track you
wherever you are, whatever bet you're making. As far as
as wagering here is concerned.

Speaker 5 (23:23):
And you know they catch people.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
It's it's it's.

Speaker 6 (23:26):
Everything is electronic now, so you know they there. There's
always a trail and usually there's someone even if someone's
maybe making a wager for something for someone else. Uh,
you know, if they're facing the jail time, they're going
to usually end up talking.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
To the FED.

Speaker 6 (23:44):
So the Fed, I think it's like a ninety eight
and a half ninety nine percent conviction rate.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
It's that way for a reason.

Speaker 6 (23:52):
The deck is stacked against you so and if you
are guilty, uh, it's not. You know a number of
people that are just going to stand there and say, okay,
I'll go to trial. Someone's going to end up talking
and they want the best possible deal. And then you know,
if you're left, if you're the one that's left standing,
you're in trouble. So it's just shocking to me. You know,

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

(24:36):
made multi multi means is a head coach making a
huge salary, and then Terry Rose here making almost twenty
five million dollars per year, four year contract, almost one
hundred million dollars.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
The fact that they would do this.

Speaker 6 (24:51):
Is just it it's almost it's almost unfathomable.

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

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

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

(26:02):
of all of these sports.

Speaker 6 (26:03):
What do you think it is because there's only five
players on the court at one time. Football, if you
get the one player or baseball one player and baseball
is nine players. And obviously, you know, throwing the baseball
in the margin when you hit a baseball between a
home run and a foul ball is just so minute.
Football there's twenty two players on the field at one time,

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

Speaker 2 (26:37):
All the time. So it's just it's a.

Speaker 6 (26:42):
Total stupidity on Terry Rozier's part and Chauncey Billups.

Speaker 5 (26:46):
I think maybe if I'm just making a guess.

Speaker 6 (26:49):
Terry Rosier probably in his downtime said some things, maybe
he's not going to be able to play tonight. If
he does, he doesn't see himself playing more than five
or ten minutes in the game. And some people took
advantage of it, I mean for him to.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
Gain they only played I think something like.

Speaker 6 (27:05):
Thirteen thousand dollars versus the wagers. What are they going
to give him three five thousand dollars to split it?

Speaker 2 (27:11):
That's not going to make.

Speaker 6 (27:11):
Any difference the case of Chauncey Billups, where he was
maybe involved with a Gambino family.

Speaker 7 (27:18):
No, ight, that's out.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
Straight out of the Sopranos. That's straight out of the Sopranos.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
I think this is and I don't know where it's going,
but I think this is maybe going to be an
indictment of Adam Silver. Adam Silver, it seems he was
the first of the four commissioners to embrace legalized gambling,
and now he's had he's and that was knowing the
history he had with that referee Garrity, and now this.
If I'm an NBA owner, I'm looking at this dude saying,

(27:46):
wait a minute, this is just sullied our entire league
and you didn't know what was going on.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
I think he may be in a little hot water
with his owners.

Speaker 6 (27:54):
Yeah, Tim, donah. He is a totally different situation with
an official. But like I said, just shows you the
different level players. You have a player involved here, you
have someone Chaunky Billups involved with maybe rigging some machines
in another form of gambling. He obviously coached basketball, but

(28:16):
it doesn't seem like he was involved in fixing basketball games.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Tim Donnie was with.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
A basketball official.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
It looks like you.

Speaker 6 (28:23):
Got in debt and the only way he could really
get out was he thought, was to supply information.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
It's a mess y hey, look, doesn't affect what you
and I are going to do on Sunday down at
the Holy Grail. But for your time today on this
breaking news, we appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
Thank you, my friend, Thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Man. Thank there.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, yeah, I don't mean Adam Silver is going to
get indicted. I just mean from his credibility and the
leader of a leg and now here we are again
dealing with yet another issue inside the leg. I know
he wasn't the commissioner when he was the but that

(29:02):
was David Stern. But it is it's an indictment of
his leadership that this was going on and he didn't know.
I mean, it's if I'm if I'm an owner in
the NBA right now, I'm saying, dude, what what are
we doing here? I mean, you have these two guys today,
and you had John Tay Porter before.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
Now the real problem.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Is going to be because this, this is how the
FEDS work, is if they get Billups and Rougier in
there today or tomorrow whenever, and they and they flip
and they start naming other names. You may hear other
names come out of this, but this was thirty five people.
Thirty four people. Billips was involved in a card game

(29:42):
that involved one of the four of the five major
mafia families. Good lord, and you had Billups, who you know,
was providing gambling information to illegal gamblers. And I'm you know,
I'm sorry, I'm I mean, the NBA outside of League
Cities is an acquired taste nationally. You know, the audience

(30:08):
for these games is not great. I think gambling kind
of drives interest in the NBA unless you're a season
ticket holder and going to the games. So they're in
a tough spot and we've yet to hear from the
commissioner on this. He apparently popped up, I want to
make sure I get the show right. Yeah, he's on

(30:29):
the Pat McAfee show Tuesday, and he said the league
has been working with its sportsbook partners to combat attempts
at manipulation, so he probably knew that this was coming down,
but so far no reaction in the wake of this
sweeping FBI pickup. Today, of thirty four people, it is

(30:51):
twelve fifty three. It is the average American in for
the Great American News Radio seven hundred WYLW. So it's
inflation any better today than what it was a year ago.
A year ago we were gearing up for the election
Donald Trump against Kamala Harris, and inflation was a big deal.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
Now we got tariffs to worry about.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
And you know, when you start talking about tariffs, people's
eyes were on in the back of their head.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Oh my gosh, it's money. It's fun. But no, you feel.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
It when you go to buy goods, when you go
to go buy services. I mean, price of coffee is
through the roof, and a lot of it is about
to get worse if indeed these tariffs go through what
the President is suggesting for China on November first. Already
we've seen a choke back on things that he's sending

(31:42):
to China, like jet engines and some tech stuff. But
coming back the other way, it may make things a
little tight come the holiday season. So what does it
really mean when you hear tariffs? What does it mean
to you and me and everybody else walking around the
street in Cincinnati, and not just something you'd find on
CNBC or Foxiness or whatever.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
We'll get into that.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
And then down the road if you've got a job
interview coming up, or you think you may how to
nail it, I mean really nail it and get the gig.
All of that and much more, Yes, sir, between or
man between now and three o'clock, seven hundred WDLW hey

(32:22):
hey one ten news radios, one hundred WLW the average
American for the great American.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
On this Thursday.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
Great to have you with us.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
I don't say that capriciously, for without you, what would
I be? I would be simply one man sitting in
a room by himself, babbling incoherently. And why would I
have to leave home to do that? So the the
NBA reeling today thirty four indictments, some involving an illegal

(32:53):
card game scheme that was run by four of the
five major mafia families that caught Chauncey Phillips, the Portland coach.
So he was arrested today in Portland. And then there
was a I suppose inside information that was being translated
to or transported to in some way to organize gamblers

(33:19):
by allegedly by Terry Rosier, who plays for the Miami Heat,
and he was arrested again today. I mean, this was
so big that it went down in New York and
they got cash betel out of Washington, d C. And
all the stuff that he's dealing with right now to
come up and lend his two cents to it.

Speaker 8 (33:39):
As you now know, individuals such as Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones,
and Terry Rozier were taken into custody today, former current
NBA players and coaches. What you don't know is that
this is an illegal gambling operation and sports rigging operation
that spanned the course of years. The FBI led a
coordinative takedown across eleven states to arrest over thirty individuals

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

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

(34:27):
of the time. They got you once. Once you're arrested
and you're part of an indictment, they got you. But
maybe they'll go easy on you for whatever prison sentence
you're going to do. If you flip and you name
somebody else, I would stand by for that. So Donald
Trump is he's in this urinating contest with the communist Chinese,

(34:47):
with the Xijingping and tariffs are what is at stake
here because the President believes, I think rightfully so, that
the Chinese government has been ripping off the United States.
It's for decades, and so he wants a better deal
and a fairer deal, and so he is imposing tariffs

(35:08):
on Chinese imports fifty seven percent, so China restricted exports
of rare earth minerals that are key to electronics, among
other things. And now the President has threatened to raise
tariffs to one hundred and fifty seven percent if no
trade deal is reached by November first, next week. So

(35:29):
this sounds like it's all a bunch of you know,
high stakes chest beating. I'm gonna get you, You're gonna
get me.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
But what does it mean to you? And me. Now,
what does it mean to you and me.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Walking around the street just trying to make a goal
that trying to buy things at the grocery store, fill
or tanks up with gas, make sure the kids have clothes,
make sure the mortgage gets paid.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
What do these tariffs mean to us?

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Why?

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

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

Speaker 2 (36:38):
How are you doing? My friend?

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

(37:00):
that mean for the consumer?

Speaker 3 (37:02):
What does that mean for us just the regular folk?

Speaker 9 (37:05):
You know, I think you said something pretty critical when
you said not necessarily affecting. I think in a way
it's being affected, but almost like that a slow Chinese
torture trip.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
In terms of the water.

Speaker 9 (37:17):
You know, our prices are not necessary going down.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Coffee is higher than it was.

Speaker 9 (37:24):
We don't make coffee in this country, so it is
directly paroff affected as one example, and I think it's
that tangents that affects you. Another example is Kentucky bourbon
they were shipping to Canada. Canada don't like Kentucky bourbon.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
That's bad.

Speaker 9 (37:42):
So now you're getting that tangential effect when the market says,
I have friends out of work. So I think we
are seeing it, but almost like that slow and on
the side effect, And it's going to probably get louder
the more we have situations such as you know, the
beef coming up situation.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
That's a big deal right now. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Trump wants to go outside the country and bring in
beef from Australia or someplace. And of course the beef industry,
particularly those states in the United States out west, you know,
the cattle country, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, wherever it may be.
Not only are the people out there not happy about
that prospect, but also a lot of the GOP senators are.
But I think what he's trying to do is threat

(38:26):
a needle here dominic. Look, when he came into office,
inflation was crazy. It went up during the Bide administration.
It was infinitely more expensive to live then than it
is now. So I think Trump had had a decision
to make. Am I going to raise taxes, which no
Republican wants to do? Or am I going to play
the tariff game. He's elected to play the tariff game.
I didn't see any other game he could play if

(38:47):
he wanted to get prices down.

Speaker 9 (38:48):
To you, I think it's a tough you know, I'm
trying to think of the best way of.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Hitting it. Parents are not down, is.

Speaker 9 (39:00):
Not down, it's steady, which is still higher than history.
If you look at I'm looking at BLS dot gov.
But I think the challenge on the tariffs becomes when
you're tariffing things such as coffee. Well, the purpose of
the tariff tax the local tax consumer. It goes to
the federal budget and gets the consumer to buy more

(39:23):
American goods.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
But I'm pointing to coffee because you can't do it.

Speaker 9 (39:26):
There is no American coffee. It don't exist. Or seasonal items.
I mean, god forbid, we have a situation where corn
has a blight. Has it happened in history? Yeah, the
diversity of products is the protection. So it's a card
to be played, but I'm not sure and don't feel

(39:46):
high confidence. It's the card I want to play at
times when I just want my morning coffee without drama.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Well, Trump has got fifty terrifying Chinese imports. There's some
people that are saying, if you go with highs two
hundred percent. The President is saying this week he's going
to have a fantastic deal done with China by this
November first deadline. I mean, we've heard the president issue
deadlines and then deadlines come and go and nothing happens.
I mean, it's just it's just the way of his world.

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

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

Speaker 9 (40:46):
Is trying to hit it, because I think, you know,
first of all, when we're talking to tariffs, we're discussing
a machine with thousands of gears. So one other example
with the China Chinese tariffs, we have friends of mine
in Canada who are happily ordering that eight hundred dollars
limit and they're ordering plants right to their house. They're

(41:07):
laughing saying, I can't. You guys can't order, but we can,
you know. And I think you have social media, high communication,
people seeing you know, your friends online ordering this and this,
and you know.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
Look what's happening.

Speaker 9 (41:25):
Is a great example when you mentioned the beef, I
think it relates to China. When that person is hit.
You have people who are voting for Trump, Nice Ranch
in Montana, they're hit Well, they're not going to be
happy anymore people with China, with trade Paris and China
who are used to ordering that two dollars phone case. Yeah, yeah,
you know that's a concern.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
And and and it doesn't even get into the other
aspects of dealing with Chohanami. They're they're not just a
competitor on the international trade market, they're also a military power.
And it's been no secret that a lot of people,
a lot of Chinese nationals entered this country over the
course of the last four years. So there's that sub
sub almost like that subdivision working over and above what

(42:11):
may be going on economically. When you're dealing with China,
it's never one level, is it.

Speaker 9 (42:17):
When you're dealing with any of this, it's never one level.
It's you know, you're discussing a great example, the fentanyl
and the TIFFs that started this all all right, you know,
and we're tiraffing this country due to fensanyl, but then'
tiraffing this to this And it's really the question figuring
out that net some gain. Part of what I look

(42:39):
at every day is all right, so we're adding a
tiiff to Canada as an example, to reduce that twenty
four pounds defence ma al that came through. But in
the process, how many people in the perman industry have
lost jobs? Could we have used that money for five
extra border guards at that point?

Speaker 3 (42:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (42:56):
You know, And I'm not saying right nor wrong as
much as I'm saying I can't calculate that. God bless
the guy who thinks they can.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Do you know what happens now?

Speaker 9 (43:08):
If the Montana guys start going out of business?

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Sure, I'm concerned.

Speaker 9 (43:13):
What happens Argentina starts importing the beef and then our
beef industry gets a little bit of a hit because
it isn't it.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (43:19):
Yeah, dude, I'm saying one hits the other and it
becomes a cascating effect.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
But I think for years it is necessarily a good one.

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

(43:51):
the automobile industry. My gosh, for forty years, Japanese imports
where skyrocking sales of Toyotas and Nissans and whatnot. But
on the other side, the Japanese weren't all that interested
in buying our cars in the United States, if indeed
it was even allowed by their government. So I mean,
I think he's got a point that there's got to

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

Speaker 9 (44:22):
You, I think you're spot on, because you know, when you.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
Mentioned the Japanese autos is a great example.

Speaker 9 (44:27):
No matter how much you tear Japan, I will bet
you they will not buy more cars, no.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Matter what you do, not because.

Speaker 9 (44:35):
We're producing bad cars, nore good.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
They don't fit on the road Tokyo, the cars to
the size of a hummer.

Speaker 9 (44:44):
We produce big cars for a population that don't want
big cars.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Yeah, And I think buying large. I think buy and large.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
And this is not to cast an over arching umbrella,
but I think in the United States we revere the
automobile more than most countries out there. Most countries look
at the automobile is just to get from point A
to point B. We as a society look at it
as some sort of luxury point.

Speaker 9 (45:09):
I agree. I also will add to the mix. I
think when you're using all these factors, all these examples,
one of the things that strikes me is just how
intertwined you're great. HiT's spout on we're never gonna sell
more cars to Japan, but also we love the automobile.
Is it bad that we're getting in Japanese cars or

(45:31):
is it good because it's making our manufacturers say we
better make a cheap of car. They're just doing a
great job and at lights a fire. So I you know,
I am much more personally the advocate that free trade
is great. But I think my overall theme is you're
talking about complex issues breaking them down into simple in

(45:53):
terms of you know, this is crazy with Argentina, this
is crazy with this, this is crazy with that, and
all the memes. We're in a mean world. Yeah, but
I don't think you can calculate the net result of
all these living pieces. Yeah on reaction, Yeah, it's not
going to necessarily get us where we want to be
right now.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
Well, well, the big thing is, we'll see we're chatting
with Dominic Dominic Meserindino X, CEO of retail wire dot com,
current CEO of rtmnexus dot com.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
And I mean.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
This guy has been ahead of the curve on everything
with regard to social media internet media for over thirty years. Okay,
So my gut tells me that November one is going
to come and go and nothing really is going to change.
It just seems to be the trend here. My also,
my other gut tells me that this is the big one.
You know, he gets it done with China and you

(46:47):
know all the other little gnats that he's done businesses
with kind of like fly off the map, you know,
the smaller countries. I think China and to a lesser
extent but still significant, India are probably the two big
ones he's got left with these tariffs. And then that's it.
What do you sense happens on November first, if anything,
and what do you sense will happen when and have

(47:10):
he and she sit down for a face to face
meeting on all of this.

Speaker 9 (47:15):
H My current current concern is that I think we're
playing a little bit, uh, you.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Know, game of chicken. We're playing a game of chicken
with a beast.

Speaker 9 (47:25):
Because right now, for one example, as a predictor, Canada
saw these tariffs and county went, okay, I'll try it
with all the countries, thank you very much. China is
sort of doing that now. They are having major investments,
for example in Africa. We're not touching it as pronounced
as they are, and you're seeing those infrastructure moves. So

(47:47):
I worry that you don't play chicken between two mac trucks.
Someone's going to get hurt. Maybe there's a way of
navigating that I am not prepared enough to see, and
that's I will take that right away. Them Maybe this
way I don't see it, and that's okay, But I
am concerned. November second, all these pieces playing, we're not

(48:09):
going to see right now that maybe trying to starts
heavily trading with this in this partner, and they just
look at us like what's happing now you're reading about
soybean is a great example. Soybeans farmers are saying, we're
not selling soybeans China as much anymore. They don't they're
buying nail and they're just happily saying, no worries, I

(48:32):
got this, and our poor farmers are throwing the.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Crop on the ground. Yeah, well not necessarily a great
move now, No.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
All right, Domina, good stuff as.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
Always, my friend. Thank you so much for calling me.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
You stay well and you know we will call again.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Thanks amazing. We'll talk too, and hopefully love the word.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
Yeah, I love the word amazing, Thank you, sir.

Speaker 5 (48:53):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
The rare earth restrictions.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
China, I mean, this is this is just retaliatory. You
know what's going to happen. We just talked about it.
They're going to get together. There's gonna be something they're
gonna punt whatever was going to happen November.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
First down the road.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
My guess is that Trump and and She meet face
to face and they come away with something of framework
and everything settles down. But yeah, I mean, it's a giant,
urinating contest between these two countries, and I'm not sure who's.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
Winning right now.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
If you put that in juxtaposition to what we talked
about at at noon in that twelve to twelve thirty
hour about China now with Russia and with Iran and Venezuela,
it may be that there's more at stake than just
a one on one between China and the United States.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
Well, what does that mean to you and me?

Speaker 1 (49:43):
It sounds like we're gonna be paying more for stuff
that never changes, does It doesn't matter who's in office,
we always seem to pay more for stuff one twenty
seven the average American in for the great American.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
I hope it's a good Thursday for you.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
It is for me because I get suspended with you
on seven hundred w welw.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
There he is. I mean old Faithful.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
We call him old Faithful, not old Yellow. Shooting it
off all every hour? Shooting it off.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
That's right? Oh, hello, by it, I'm broadcasting.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
God seg I'm sitting here. Where are you? You're supposed
to be in here with me?

Speaker 5 (50:30):
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feeling like Jim Nance today.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
Okay, you sound like you're coming in from Mars, but
you're at a golf tournament.

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Another thing I wasn't invited to.

Speaker 5 (50:54):
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Speaker 1 (50:57):
Well, I sponsored angle with my voice.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
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Speaker 1 (51:04):
At one time, moving life to left to right across
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Speaker 5 (51:08):
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Speaker 1 (51:10):
Yeah, what golf course are you at? I'm sorry because
it kind of muffled there. What are you at work?
Got what call course?

Speaker 2 (51:18):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (51:18):
Yeah, I played that. That's a good course.

Speaker 5 (51:21):
There is beautiful today, a little windy, little chilly, but
everybody's having a good time, all right.

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

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(52:26):
You're on seven hundred WLW. How about this, Ken Brew
former Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson, along with Isaac Curtis and
Leifa Lamar Parrish, are now a step closer to the
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all three have are one of thirty four players now

(52:48):
in the Hall of Fame Blue Ribbon Committee that are
still in the running for enshrinement into Canton Well.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
Well, Ken Anderson should be in the Hall of Fame.
There shouldn't be a Hall of Fame with that ka
being in it. End of story.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
That is correct, of course. The big story and the
big story in sports today is the scandal involving the
National Basketball Association where Portland Trail Plazers coach Chauncey Phillips
Miami heat guard Terry Roseier We're arrested this morning as
part of an investigation and related to illegal gambling also

(53:24):
was arrested today. Former Cleveland Cavaliers player and assistant coach
Damon Jones, And that is what they're accused of doing.
I don't think they're going to be seeing a basketball
court anytime soon with jail cell around it.

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

Speaker 5 (53:48):
I think you're right about that. And then let's see
soccer news. Evander from Cincinnati one of three players up
for the MLS MVP Award. Nick Haglin is up for
Comeback Player of the Year. But this is an outrage.
Ken Brew Pat Noonan not up for Coach of the Year.

(54:10):
Maybe three of a Philadelphia, Vancouver and San Diego their
coaches are up for the prestigious honor, but not Pat Noonan.
That to me as an outrage.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
Well, you know, I don't know. I mean, I could
see where he wouldn't be. I'm not sure he would
win it if he was up for it. I mean,
there's just other teams that just did better this year,
not the least of which are you know, the team
that won the supporter shield Philadelphia did better.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
Yep, yeah, yep, and.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
You saw that Messi signed a contract extension today, right,
Messi signed a contract extension with Inner Miami till through
twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 5 (54:48):
Yeah, three year deal for Lionel Messi. So they keep
one of soccer's biggest names right here at the good
old US off A for the four seal.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
The future seg. Do you know what happened fifty years
ago tonight?

Speaker 5 (55:04):
I think it was the Reds winning the World Series?
Was it in Boston? Now?

Speaker 3 (55:09):
Fifty years ago tonight? Listen up fifty years ago tonight?

Speaker 4 (55:12):
Lines again in the overtime.

Speaker 9 (55:16):
McDonald McDonald throws it back on.

Speaker 5 (55:18):
The plain ink. Ben couldn't keep that in Nick Fenn
for Jack.

Speaker 9 (55:21):
That comes back to the dopey over skid it Ryan McDonald.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Now in Fentner.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Fifty years ago tonight, seg. The Cincinnati Stingers played their
first ever home game at Riverfront Coliseum.

Speaker 5 (55:33):
Yeah, how about that, can Brew? How could I miss that?

Speaker 2 (55:36):
And they did?

Speaker 5 (55:37):
They played the Indianapolis Racers.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
They played played Edmonton. They played the Oilers.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
A little Andy Mack there, a little Andy Mack play
by play there new.

Speaker 5 (55:45):
Andy Max sounded great. He was always a great hockey
amount there and been.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
Back fifty years ago.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Tonight, after playing four straight on the road, they came
home to play the Edmonton Oilers. And do you know
saying who the voice was inside Riverfront Coliseum.

Speaker 5 (56:06):
I think that's the musical genius of seven hundred WLW.
That would be Kenneth Brew today.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
So this is what I this is the story from
fifty years ago Tonight' say, of course they come on
the ice, and I opened the microphone. I say, here
come the Stings and they lead them out.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
I think it was no man. LaPoint was the goaltender.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
He leads him out, leads him out, and there's circle
around the ice.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
Well, the pr guy for.

Speaker 1 (56:32):
The Stingers gave me a list of fifty groups I
was supposed to welcome that night, fifty groups, and I
was told I was told, don't start introducing these groups
until the players hit the ice for the warm up.
So I'm going and we want to welcome, you know,
the Old Timers Club from Westchester, and of course we
also want to welcome the Women's Day Center from you know,

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from Erlanger.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
And I'm going through.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
I get about twenty twenty of the fifty end and
the referee, guy named Bill Friday, comes skating up to him,
leans down me, and he says to me, hey, hey,
this ain't Toledo, Ohio.

Speaker 3 (57:13):
Shut up. We're getting ready to play.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
And that's it.

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

Speaker 3 (57:31):
Fort of got it.

Speaker 5 (57:32):
He was a lutheridary referee, Bill Friday brew and you
know what was he going to do? So he had
a penalty box or something.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
I could have gotten a delayed game penalty for the franchise.
But it was fifty years ago. Tonight, the first home
game of the now late and lamented Cincinnati Stingers, the
likes of Dale Smidsmo and.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
Ron Plumb, Bernie.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
Chuck Sab Chuck u LaRose, Jacques low cop Here, Geeta.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
I don't know if he was on that team.

Speaker 5 (58:08):
I know number seven he was number seven.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
Well not not yeah, he came later, but.

Speaker 5 (58:14):
Numbers later on. I think he was. I think he
started his career with the Nord.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
Seven years fifty years ago tonight number seven was Brian
Soupy Campbell.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
Oh boy, yep, I'm looking at the media guide right here.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
I kept the media guide that that they had there,
and they had they had Frank Beaton as one of
their up and coming stars. And the picture of him
that they have, he's got a black eye.

Speaker 5 (58:42):
It's buffy there you go, you know, I mean, that's yea.
I should have known that, ken Brew. I love that.
I love the Stingers.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
They were great fifty years ago.

Speaker 10 (58:52):
Tonight in the overtime, Duncan McDonald McDonald throws it back
on the point intent couldn't keep that in what Jack?

Speaker 5 (59:00):
It comes back to the dope you ever skated checked
away by AFRO.

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

Speaker 3 (59:11):
How about that?

Speaker 5 (59:11):
And I remember I remember going down there a few
times to ken Brew when they were in business that
teams would actually change cities, uh like after at the institute,
and they would still they would still wear their old jerseys,
but the team moved to another to another city.

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

Speaker 5 (59:48):
Got a ken Brew and uh in honor of a
beautiful day here in the Tri State, we leave you
with the immortal words of the stud.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
Behind the Campbell Campbell reaching for the back of the
park quarters.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
The stores.

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

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and good afternoon. It's the average American in for the
great American. Glad you are with us. We're here right
till three o'clock today and then I believe Rocky is back.
You'll join Eddie and all things will be normal on
seven hundred WLW.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
There is there is data that is out there.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
In fact, there was a report that came out maybe
two three weeks ago Fletch Jobs twenty twenty five State
of the Workforce Report, and it basically said that half
of US forty eight percent we'll be looking for a
new job in twenty twenty six, and that seventy six

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percent of us who will be looking for a new job.
Seventy six percent of us will be looking for a
new job because they simply don't want to work in
a business environment five days a week. Prefer to work
in some way, shape or form at home. And as
we know, many companies are saying, eh, you know, we
got this mortgage on this building and we want to

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use it, and so you need to come here and
work for us here, not necessarily at home, and with
some folks it's not going over very well. The bottom
line is a lot of people are going to be
looking for a new job, and it's tough out there.
There are a lot of jobs that are listed that
simply aren't open. Companies list them for various reasons, maybe

(01:01:52):
for EOE or maybe just to say, hey, we have
this opening, and then they'll graze to see what candidates
are out there when and if they have to hire somebody,
not if they want to hire somebody. So there are
a lot of candidates for jobs that are actually open.
So invariably you're going to do an interview if you
apply for a new job, first interview might be a

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telephone interview or a zoom interview, and if you're lucky,
maybe you'll get face to FaceTime inside the business itself.
And then you're on the spot, because now you've got
to sell yourself and you've got to tell perspective employers
exactly what you can do, and it better be concise
and clear and to the point.

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
What do you do?

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
Well, maybe, if you're smart, you turn to somebody that
knows all about these things.

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
Let's do that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
Let's turn to career coach Laura Brown, who's co authored
a new book, interview Speak, What your Interviewer Really wants
to Know. And she's also besides that new book, you
can find her at careercoffee break dot com. I love
that career coffee break dot com. Anyway, Laura Brown, Welcome

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to seven hundred WYLW. How are you on this glorious Thursday.

Speaker 7 (01:03:06):
I am great. Thank you so much for having me today.

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

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not not an unpleasant experience, but it's an experience.

Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
You better be prepared for.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
Nothing worse than going into an interview without being prepared
for what you want to say and what the interview
er may want to ask you there. I can't imagine
a worse feeling in the world than being unprepared for that.
Why do so many people go into job interviews unprepared?

Speaker 7 (01:03:53):
You know, it's so funny that you said, because I
totally agree with you. I need to be prepared, but
I have plenty of people tell me, no, I want
to be authentic. I'm just gonna wing it. I'm going
to show up as I am. Now. I do think
you should be authentic, but I think you should be
authentically prepared because if you're not prepared for common questions,
what's going to happen is they're going to ask you

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something and you're going to choke and you're going to
later on think to yourself, Man, I wish I had
said that, or I wish I hadn't said that. So
that's why it's so important to be prepared and be
ready and show up as your best self.

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

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

Speaker 7 (01:04:54):
You bring up a really good point because absolutely interviewers
pick up on it right away, and the mess they
get is not, oh, this person is trying to be authentic.
The message they get is this person isn't interested enough
in this job to spend a little time preparing and
reviewing the job description or getting ready for answers. So
if they're not that interested, we're not moving them forward.

Speaker 4 (01:05:17):
So that's all you.

Speaker 7 (01:05:18):
Have to be prepared.

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

Speaker 7 (01:05:35):
Well, so let me tell you first of all what
they're looking for so you can be prepared for it.
So the first thing is they want to know can
you do the job? So you need to know you
know on your resume you can show you can do
the job. And the second one, which most people don't get,
is can you do and are you excited about this job?
So preparation is about really taking a look at the

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job description. And in the book, we deconstruct a job
description and we show you how can you take the
job description and pick up on possible questions they're going
to ask and then think about what would be a
way to answer it and show I'm a motivated and
enthusiastic about this job. In addition, now a whole bunch
of common questions tell me about yourself why do you

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want this job? That you should be prepared for. And
part of that preparation is thinking about a couple of examples.
So what's a good example when I did this or
what's a great story I can tell here? So when
they ask you these questions, you're just pulling out the
answers that you're already ready for.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Yeah.

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

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

Speaker 7 (01:07:19):
Oh, I'm so glad you said that, because absolutely part
of preparation is coming up with a good answer, but
you definitely don't want to memorize it. And actually, in
the book we have we have some bad examples, and
one of them is somebody obviously memorized uh and the
answer and then gets interrupted and then goes back to
the beginning because it can't remember.

Speaker 5 (01:07:36):
From the middle.

Speaker 7 (01:07:37):
You never want to do that and instead instead what
you want to do. And I've had plenty of have
some notes in front of you, or have some bullet points,
so it shouldn't be word for word. It should just
be you. For example, if the in viewer asked me,
why are you interested in this job? I should have,
you know, two or three bullet points and yes, I
probably should have said it out loud and practice. And

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I also recommend time yourself so you don't give a
five minute answer, you give a one or two minute answer,
but just have a couple of bullet points and have
a story and make it quick rather than just think about, well,
I'm really not sure what to say here and and
I'm so afraid that I have to memorize it.

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

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

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:08:50):
Well, yeah, so you bring up a really good point
and you said bragging, and I hear that concern a lot. Oh,
I don't want to brag, but it's not about bragging
and making yourself too big. What you need to do
is connect what you do your accomplishments to how, as
you said, how you can help the company accomplishments at
this job. This is what I've done in the past.

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This is how I could help in the future. And
it's really important that you also balance using the words
I and we because you mentioned team. So if the
whole time you only say I did this, I did this,
I did this. As the interview, I'm and to say, hmm,
I wonder if this person can work with other people.
Or on the other side, I've had plenty of interviewers

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that all they do is say we we WE week
And so I thought, huh, that's great that the person
is good with their team, but what did they actually do?
And so you've got to think that you want to
say both of those things and make sure that you
have the information. The other thing is you can use
a framework to really get the message across. And we
have a couple of them. So like soa R sore,

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tell somebody, here's the situation, here's the obstacle. I was
able to work on action A. So this is what
I did, and this is what the team did, and
here's the result. And this is the kind of result
I can have for your company in this job. So
making sure that you're really connecting it to this job.

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

Speaker 7 (01:10:38):
Well, and so This is going to sound funny because
this is my favorite question. I always ask this, tell
me about yourself, and it sounds so general. But here's
why I love it, because in like this is typically
in the first you know, two minutes of an interview,
I really want to find out first of all, if
there are red flags, what are they going to say,
how prepared are they? What do they really want me

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

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

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
In the future exactly.

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

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
Laurd Brown's our guest, exactly.

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

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
What are you flying on it? What are you offering here.

Speaker 7 (01:12:16):
Laura, Oh, it's careercoffee break dot Com. And I like
to think I'm giving you I'm giving you tips to
sip with your coffee in the morning because it's quick
career tip, quick career tips, and if they go there,
they can actually get a forty discount on the books
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to negotiate your higher salary at your next job.

Speaker 1 (01:12:41):
Got you career coffee break dot com. Did you ever
I suppose interview somebody and you thought, this is it,
This is the person and the way companies operate. Now
you're going to do something that is not person to person.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
You might do it. You might you might do it
in the zoom call.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
You might even do it just in a back and
forth chat on someplace. And then eventually you get that
person in the room and man, you're excited. You think
this is the person. They get in there and they
absolutely drop the ball. Why if so, if that ever happened,
what was it about that person when they dropped the ball?
What was there drop the ball moment? Besides they're freezing

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perhaps on the question and tell me about yourself.

Speaker 7 (01:13:25):
Yeah, And it's so typically when it's something like that,
they've come across really really well and their answers are good,
and so maybe they've been really good at preparing. But
then they come in and then or again on zoom
or you know, they're in the office and then you
ask them something like why do you leave your last job?
So you ask them sort of a more difficult question,

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

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

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go the way that you expect. You need to show
me that you can handle that.

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

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

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

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
But anyway, but I think they did that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
My point in all of this is they did that
for a reaction, and should you be prepared for a
question that has nothing to do with the job, just
so they can gauge your reaction to a question.

Speaker 7 (01:15:53):
I'm that's exactly it. So so if I were asked,
you know, what kind of dog do you like?

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
Again? Weird question.

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
That that don't say what I know?

Speaker 7 (01:16:03):
I wouldn't, so I might say something, well, you know,
I I would like a dog.

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:16:09):
I like dogs that are that are big and friendly
and nice. So I think like a golden retriever. So
I've given a reason why. Okay, but isn't that a
nice answer? I want to know, is right? All I
want to know is that I can you know, I
can answer something that I that it's not expected that
I have a reason there, and it comes across as
a as a positive answer. So it doesn't matter. I mean,

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you know, you could pick up about any dog as
long as there is a reason why you say it
and it's a reasonable reason.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
Yeah.

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

Speaker 10 (01:16:44):
So okay, this is really interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:16:49):
Right, A wise maneuver on my part. Okay, where do
we where do we get to interview?

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
Speak?

Speaker 1 (01:16:54):
What your interview your interviewer or really wants to know.
I'm sure it's on Amazon. But where else can we
find Well, of course it's.

Speaker 7 (01:17:00):
On Amazon again, but come to Careercoffee Break dot com
because you can get the forty percent discount. On Amazon,
you won't get the discount. So my publisher really wants
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Speaker 4 (01:17:10):
Because the whole.

Speaker 7 (01:17:11):
Point is that you never know when you're going to
get an interview, is you pointed out? You know the
twenty twenty six a lot of us are going to
be interviewed again. So start now, get ready, Start to
understand what you need to do so you're prepared when
a friend of yours said, Hey, there's something at my company,
maybe you should apply for that, be prepared now.

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:17:29):
And you offer online courses for people to earn more
money at work. Is that at the Career Cooffee Break
dot com as well?

Speaker 7 (01:17:36):
Yes, yes it is. I love to help people make
more money, and I help people to ask for raises,
and when they do get that job offer, there are
some keys I give them to how do you get
the highest money possible? Because the money is really important
and people get really nervous about asking for more. But
absolutely you need to negotiate for yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
Well, Laura, the next time you see a Rottweilers think
of me.

Speaker 7 (01:17:59):
Okay again, I certainly will. And it is some wonderful
talking to you. I really really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
Laura Brown find her again at Career coffee break dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
Thank you, Laura, stay well, thank you so much. Bye bye.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
It's true story I did. I interviewed it at this
television station. I forget where. It wasn't Dallas, it was
it was it was It might have been Houston. It
was in Texas, that's all. It had to be Dallas,
and it wasn't Dallas, so it was in Houston. And
they asked me, do you like dogs. I'm like, yeah, yeah,
I love dogs. And the only dog I think I

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don't even think I had a dog at the time
you go in there.

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
I think it was Rott Wilder.

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
And the woman that asked the question, there was two
guys and a woman in this in this room, and
she felt almost backward in her chair and her eyes
got like saucer cups, and it's like the two guys
are like, yeah, yeah, yeah, right, well yeah yeah yeah,
we like Rottwilders. And I'm thinking of myself, why are
they asking me this? And then like I don't know.
An hour later when I left the building, I said,

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there's no way in hell I'm going to work there.

Speaker 3 (01:19:03):
But they were.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
They all got canned within ten months. Such is the swinging,
swirling world of broadcasting. To twenty seven News Radio seven
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Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
Today does mark the beginning of the end.

Speaker 9 (01:19:20):
Oh hello, quiet, and I'm I'm broadcasting.

Speaker 3 (01:19:29):
Segs that a golf tournament.

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
He's had a golf tournament for Bengals sponsors, and it's
at Ashton Woods, which is a lovely golf course.

Speaker 3 (01:19:37):
And seg, what did you shoot today?

Speaker 5 (01:19:40):
I didn't play, then, Brew, I don't play.

Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
Golf, so you didn't. You didn't play golf, but you
went there for why?

Speaker 5 (01:19:47):
I'm here for entertainment purposes?

Speaker 3 (01:19:52):
Well, are you doing a one man review?

Speaker 5 (01:19:54):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
What?

Speaker 3 (01:19:55):
What? What do you mean a tournament?

Speaker 5 (01:19:57):
I'm going to comedy act and show later on and
just to get our sponsors to renew and look toward
twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
Now what kind of sponsors are out there? Seg? Who
are these people?

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
Everybody?

Speaker 5 (01:20:10):
The pelas down here, Buzzy's for ours, came for our lunch,
all the sponsors, a door and window, they're all here.
They're all our Bengal croud Bengal sponsors are here, and.

Speaker 1 (01:20:22):
All the sales the entire sales staff is there right
correct and left behind our our production and talent and maintenance.

Speaker 5 (01:20:33):
Not many, not many are there today with all with
all of us here.

Speaker 1 (01:20:36):
There, you're productive, and it's a beautiful day. It's a
good day to be outside, which is why I've been
broadcasting outside all day and and you're outside, So why
don't you fill us in on what we're missing here
in sports seg Who is it brought to us by?
Who would be the the sponsor that brings us this report?

Speaker 5 (01:20:58):
Ken Brew, the s Twote reporters, A croud service of
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We love Schmidt.

Speaker 5 (01:21:14):
You need to eat now.

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Yeah, turn it up, turn it up, turn up the heat.

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:21:19):
We also want to thank Ron's Roost Restaurant and Bar
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outing today.

Speaker 1 (01:21:33):
Oh okay, well let's think the Are you bringing anything
back here for some of the poor of us that
have to work.

Speaker 5 (01:21:40):
I'll bring you back a doggie bag.

Speaker 1 (01:21:42):
Yeah, we won't see that. Say please, please suck. We're
never going to see that. But go ahead.

Speaker 5 (01:21:48):
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hundred WLW. Former Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson, along with Isaac
Curtis and Leap and Lamar Parrish, who's going in Sunday
in the Ring of Honor along with Dave Levam. Those
three gentlemen are a step closer to the Pro Football
Hall of Fame in Canton because Anderson, Is, Anderson, Curtis,
and Parish are among thirty four players now have that

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

Speaker 1 (01:22:38):
No seg I hope, you know, I hope Ken Anderson
should be in the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
That is beyond argument. I hope that they don't.

Speaker 1 (01:22:46):
I hope they don't put him in the Hall of
Fame after he's gone. You know, they did that to
ken Stadler. They did that to ken Stadler. I just
think that's so wrong. You know, if the man is
Hall of Fame, where they put him in while he
and his family can enjoy it.

Speaker 5 (01:23:01):
Let's see what else soccer ken Brew. Of course, our
beloved FC Cincinnati starts the playoffs this Monday night against
the Columbus Crew. But Evander from SD Cincinnati is one
of three players up for the MLS MVP vote, and
Nick Haglan, the Pride to Cincinnati, looks like he's up

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for Comeback Player of the Year award.

Speaker 3 (01:23:25):
Well, that would be a big comeback.

Speaker 1 (01:23:27):
I mean, if this hit thing holds up, he's he's
done well coming back from that injury.

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
Absolutely it should be that way, yes.

Speaker 5 (01:23:34):
And that accord to the big news of the day
is the NBA gambling scandal. Portland Trailblazers coach Chauncey Billups,
along with Miami heat guard Terry Rozier and former Cleveland
Cavaliers player and assistant coach Damon Jones. All the rested
today as part of a pair of investigations related to

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illegal gambling in both the NBA and also poker games.

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

Speaker 5 (01:24:10):
Yeah, it's like illegal poker operation tied to the mafia.

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

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

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

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (01:25:05):
What is this guy thinking that?

Speaker 5 (01:25:08):
I don't know, ken Brew. I guess they tallied up
thirty people so far in the whole thing, so I guess.
And then what's rather quiet? It's that gambling gamble with
the Cleveland Guardians two pitchers.

Speaker 6 (01:25:22):
You haven't heard anything about that lately, No, no, no,
But you know what, the NBA.

Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
I've always said this, The NBA has always been the
most susceptible league to this kind of thing. There's only
five guys on the court for each team, and all
you gotta do is, like, you know, just you know,
lolly Gaga shot or don't play defense, or maybe you
miss a few on purpose, and all of a sudden,
you know you can help somebody who's got money on

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

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And now you got this. I guarantee you these two
guys are gonna flip. They're gonna give other names. That's
the way it works with the Feds.

Speaker 5 (01:26:17):
And they were talking about like sports books were in
multiple states flagged suspicious betting interest in certain games and stuff.
And I mean this was like in twenty twenty three,
So I mean, who knows, who knows how much that
went on?

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
You know, So the.

Speaker 3 (01:26:35):
Whole world's work, the whole world.

Speaker 2 (01:26:37):
Is that a way?

Speaker 5 (01:26:39):
Yeah, Rosier was in a final season of a four year,
ninety six million dollars deal. Well, I mean, do you
how much do you need?

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

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you can go hob nob with those celebrities.

Speaker 3 (01:27:11):
I'm sure that they're looking forward to that.

Speaker 5 (01:27:14):
All right, ken Brew in honor of a beautiful day
here in the Price State. We leave you with the
immortal words of the Stooge Report.

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

Speaker 3 (01:27:30):
Thank you there they are all right?

Speaker 1 (01:27:34):
Seg Yeah, safe travels back well, we'll rendezvous tomorrow on
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last night?

Speaker 3 (01:28:55):
Let's let's see how Rocky did in this game? Analyzing
something Eron's a.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
You'll be the judge.

Speaker 10 (01:29:01):
We go it's I think the tip that toe yeah,
Now the fact that the call on the field was
it was a catch. Now that that hangle right there
looks like.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
That toe yeah, well, hot analysis here from Rockets.

Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
I nailed that. By the way, Ken, I know you
did that. You got that right, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:29:20):
I I record all your games and looking which are
the pertinent moments that I could play when.

Speaker 10 (01:29:24):
When you're not even my wife like watches these games, Ken,
and but what you do? But by the way, it
kind of went for a second. That game took four
hours last night. And to quote Troy Aikman, nothing will
ruin a broadcast more than those yellow flags that the
officials throw.

Speaker 1 (01:29:41):
Yeah, that was over officiated last night, but it looked
like a nice night in Delaware.

Speaker 3 (01:29:45):
He had play with us beautiful first date.

Speaker 10 (01:29:47):
Yeah, Delaware, Joe Flacco, the whole tie in there was great.

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

Speaker 10 (01:29:55):
We didn't get him into the broadcast last night.

Speaker 3 (01:29:57):
Maybe next time, Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:29:59):
He he played against the Ohio University freshman team in
sixty one and got thrown out of one of the
dorms there. He actually told my daughter that when she
saw me he was coming through Athens in two thousand
it must have been two thousand and eight when he
was campaigning and related that story to her and a
group of other people that were there.

Speaker 10 (01:30:19):
Sounds completely made up, dic, I know, I have no
doubt that he was FOS on that one.

Speaker 1 (01:30:25):
Yes, speaking of FOS, what's this gambit that the Democrats
are playing? Try and they blocked again just a clean
bill that would just fund the military and fund the
air traffic controllers, and they blocked it again today. I mean,
why are they dying on these.

Speaker 10 (01:30:43):
Hills because they can't They can't vote to get things
moving in the right direction, because to do that they
would have to side with some things that Trump wants.
And they can never be seen agreen with anything that
Trump ever stands for. Even if Trump's is that the
sky is blue, well they have to come out and said, no,

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

Speaker 1 (01:31:10):
Well, no, I agree on hundred percent. The only thing
that's purple, by the way, is that woman's hair from
where she from Rhode Island. That's the Democrat representative. That's
not the only thing that's that's purple. But the you know,
the fact of the matter is is it's it's going
to start to get real for a lot of people here.
And why they choose to do things the way they

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

Speaker 5 (01:31:53):
No.

Speaker 10 (01:31:53):
They start with the determination that Trump is wrong, and
then they work backwards and trying to find somehow, some
way to make even the smallest, slightest case that that's true,
and again the country suffers and it's killing them by
the day, though, Ken, because their their stances are increasingly

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

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Trump's construction of a ballroom in the White House, which
that mights happened what four or five times in history.

Speaker 3 (01:32:43):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (01:32:44):
You line ten people up on Fountain Square and ask
who's upset about it, and you won't get one person
to say yes.

Speaker 3 (01:32:50):
Lockt, I gotta go.

Speaker 1 (01:32:51):
Apparently Chauncey Phillips can't make his card game, so they
need me to sit in.

Speaker 10 (01:32:54):
It's a big story, Ken, We got to get the
bottom of this there, Wild.

Speaker 1 (01:32:58):
I don't want to cut into any o your time.
You guys have a great show, as you always will
when you're together, and you and I will visit down
the road. My friend Thank you sounds good, Ken, Thanks
that duo is standing by.

Speaker 3 (01:33:09):
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