Greg Ruminski - Ford Oval of Honor

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By fifty five KRS, the talk station.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Eight o six Pity About Car CD talk Station, Happy Wednesday.
You know, it's good to be Brian Thomas sometimes and
one of those times is going to be this Sunday,
May twenty fifth of Great American Ballpark, because I have
had the distinct honor and privilege to be affiliated with
the Ford to Ool of Honor event at the Salute
to the American Veterans at the Great American Ballpark which
has taking place this Sunday, and joining me in the

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fifty five KRCY Morning Show the Ford Regional sales manager
and he's been involved in this for a lot of years,
Greg Raminski. Greg, thanks for coming to the studio today
to talk about this.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Oh, thanks for having me Brian.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
This is an exciting time for us, and you'll be
the first person affiliated with Ford for me to thank
personally for including me again. I just speak a few words,
you know, just I thank the veterans for what they
do and just offer my comments and just send people
on their way.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Man. It's just it's a cool event. Yeah, it really is.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
It's a great opportunity and you always do a great
job with some very heartfelt words. I mean, not'd be
a lot of words, but their heartfelt words. I know
that means a lot to the veterans that were there
to recognize well.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
And there's some terrific veterans, not that all veterans aren't terrific.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
But you someone goes out in the world.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
I think Jerry Dinuzio has part of it, former sales
agent here at he's since retired, but he's remained involved.
But how do the veterans that are specifically honored get selected.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
It's it's a tough choice, as you can imagine. As
you said, there's so many worthy folks out there, but
our team works with a bunch of veteran organizations and
they find those that are local, that really have a story,
that are that are deserving, and again they all are,
so it's so hard to choose, but they narrow it
down and local locally. About ten or so veterans each
time we do this get recognized at the REDS event,

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which is it's a great opportunity for everyone involved.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
And salute to Ford for for for this event generally
and choosing to honor the American veteran.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
How many years has this been going on?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
This started back in twenty eleven on the tenth anniversary
of nine to eleven, and it's grown. It's it's here
locally at Great American Ballpark with the Reds, but we've
also done it many other places.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Over fifty five ceremonies.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
At this point, over five hundred veterans have been recognized
through this program.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh my word, five hundred. Yeah, because you know at
the event there's usually ten.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yes, it's usually ten to fifteen or so per and
you can imagine doing the math how many that's been.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
And we could.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
We'd love to do more, but obviously it's tough to
get this all put together. It takes a lot of work,
but it's a labor of love for many people, including you,
And again, thanks for all your contribution.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
That's the least I can do. I didn't serve my country,
so I've kind of taken on veterans and the American
military is sort of a personal cause to try to
make up for what I didn't do, you know what
I mean?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
No, I get that, and I hear that every every
year in your comments, and I'm in the same boat.
But it's the least we can do, as you'd say,
it is. It's such a great opportunity to recognize those
folks and give them some love, which they all deserve.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Amen, And this is the honor Fly tri State Day
of this. Folks are on their way to DC if
they haven't gotten already, So let me just interject an
opportunity to mind folks. Nine pm at CVG tonight the
welcome home ceremony. It's just something that you should not
miss if you've never been. It's really quite moving. And
of course the vast majority of the eighty eight veterans
are Vietnam veterans who did not get a welcome home

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when they came back from their service to our country.
So who's going to be honored this this Sunday. We've
got ten local veterans.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
I'll go ahead and read the list, both Bill Luken,
Frank Bailey, Fred Moore, Mike Donnelly, Walter B. Stitt, Ed Greeves,
Ed Radcliffe, John B. Murray, William J. Ston and William T.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
Miller.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
And what branch of the service, and are these senior folcus.
It's usually quite a mixed ban. It is usually a
variety and that is one of the goals.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
We have veterans from all branches of the military, all
ranges of experience, some that had just gotten out, some
that have gone through World War Two at times we've
had so it's a great variety and a good opportunity
again to not only recognize the veterans themselves, but they're
families who are in attendance, so you can tell really
appreciate the event and the love and the spotlight on

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their folks.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
So it makes it great.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Well, and my listeners can show up with the game,
I trust there's still tickets available. Now, they won't be
sitting up in the private space with the veterans, but
they do throughout the game have little different things that
go on that include the honored American veterans.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Correct, we find ways and the Reds do a great
job sat the Cincinnati Reds for working the folks, and
we'll usually have one bring the lineup card out to
the umpires before the game, and there's opportunities we shine
on them on the jumbo tron to show where they're
sitting and let them wave to the crowd and give
let the crowd give them, give the crowd an opportunity

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to thank them and appreciate them as well.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Well, it sounds to me like a lot of family
members for the veterans are going to be there this year.
Because I mentioned Jerry de Newsia every year that I
do this, he offers me a handful of tickets and
he said, Brian, uh, we got a lot of people
coming this year. So you're you're stuck with two normally
have to bring the kids or you know, my daughter
or fiance or we had plans to do that.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Are like, that's okay, that's good news, which is great. Yeah,
it's it's fun when it's a packed house, and it
usually is. It would be great if the rumor a
little bit bigger, as this event has grown. But it's
fun just to pack the pack the space the Hall
of Fame theater and do that event in there with
the veterans and with their families.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Well, and understand that you got something special going on
at four an opportunity if you let my listeners know
about this handshake deal for America.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Since you're here, let's talk about that.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
It's it's the from America for America campaign America campaign
which we launched a few months ago it was supposed
to be for a very short period of time. It
allows consumers to get the a planned discount, which is
what employees get. It's truly the same discount that I
get as a Ford employee is now passed along to
anyone who comes in and wants to buy a vehicle
across the lineup on most everything. And it's been extended

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through the fourth of July, so now it goes through
the seventh of July.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
And understand that EV buyers actually get even a better deal.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, they get a free home charger, which is a
program we oh wow really yeah. Late last year we
launched that and it's worked really really well. It's it's great,
it's super simple. I know a lot of people that
have done it, and it's it's clock like clockwork, turnkey simple.
Oh no kidding to come out and install the charger
in your garage once you buy the vehicle. Well, and
that you've already been by by doing that overcome a challenge.

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I guess a lot of folks that might be considered
it EV. Well, if I get one of those, I'm
gonna have to pay to have a charger, correct and
go through the difficulties of buying one, choosing one, lining
up an electrician, and we do all that for you.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
How about that? And so what of the tariffs? Is
Ford impacted by the tariffs in any way, shape or form.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
That's it's an ongoing issue. As you could imagine, things
seem to change pretty often. So, yeah, there's been We've
taken a little bit of pricing on a few of
our vehicles. We do make eighty percent of our vehicles
here in the United States, which is great, that's more
than any other manufacturer, but those that we bring in
from other countries have had some tariffs. We have had
a little bit of pricing adjustments going forward on that,

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but overall the impact hasn't been too bad, and fingers
crossed it won't be.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you too.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Huge fan of the Ford mustang am I I had
you on back in two thousand and one. After nine
to eleven, Remember all everything went to zero percent finance
because the whole world kind of came to a screeching halt.
And was at that point I said, you know what,
I know that because I looked online there were two
SVT Cobras in the area and I was like, you

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know what, I've always wanted a muscle car. It was
the four point six Leader had I think factory rated
flywheel horsepower three twenty seven, which back then was was sizable,
you know, compared to modern figures. The current GT Mustang,
what does it got? Four fifty at the flywheel amazing
And then you go up to like the GT five
hundred or whatever the higher ends, and they're just sick, fast,

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sick horse power and torque. I love the own one,
but a big fan of the Mustang. We can help
you out with that. I'm sure I know some people
who know some people, Brian.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
I bet you do.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
As the what the regional sales manager, you probably find
one of those form.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, Mustangs are great no matter what year.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Obviously in the sixties up through today is it's amazing
car shows.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
It's so fun to go to and see.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
The variety of Mustangs and the passion behind it.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
And it's one of the few that you can still
get with a manual shift.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yes, yeah, there aren't many choices out there with a
male trains and going the.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Way the du that's your uh, your millennical what did
they call it? The millennial theft deterrent feature because nobody
out there really knows how to drive a stick shift anymore.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
My boys do. That's one thing they learned early on.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Oh yeah, we taught our kids too, Yeah, both of them.
So yeah, it's uh love the manual shift. Anyhow, back
to this, Uh, Sunday, May twenty fifth, What time do
things get started? Because I forgot the start time of
the game.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
The game I believe is around Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, usually, since we get there early, I don't pay
attention to exactly when the game starts, right, We roll
through everything, do the presentation. Then by the time we
get out, it's about time for the first pitch to happen.
So it should be great, should be a great afternoon.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Oh well it always is so.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Greg Raminski's a guest in studio, Ford Regional Sales Manager
and a salute to Ford for the Ford Oval of
Honor event again been going on for years. Tenth anniversary.
I can't believe how time is flown. And thanks again
for allowing me to help out just a little bit
with this event. A salute to the American veteran God
bless you and everybody at Ford for doing this. It's
been pleasure having you in Greg.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
Thank you, thank you so much, appreciate all your time
and thanks for having me in.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
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