Ep. 3337: Wednesday starring Michael Patrick Shiels

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Live across the Great Lake State. You're connected to Michigan's
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I'm producer and creative director Tony Cuthberts.

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Now in the shadow of the Capitol Dome and Lansing.
He's heard from the beaches of Lake Michigan, to the
halls of power and behind closed doors. Here's Michigan's Michael
Patrick Shields.

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God, I love you.

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I have to just take this moment in I cannot
believe this.

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Look what guy can do.

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Wow.

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Oh, guess what day it is? Guess what day it is?

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Eh?

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Anybody, Julie, Hey, guess what day it is? Come on,
I know you can hear me, Mi, Mi, Mike.

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What day is it? Mike? Guess what today is?

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It's h.

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Camp Day.

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Michael Patrick Shields is on the air.

Speaker 7 (01:09):
Good morning world. Could you imagine going to a baseball
game that ended up being more like a soccer game. Well,
it happened yesterday between two teams that have become sort
of curious foes because the Houston Astros is where our manager,
the Detroit Tigers manager used to manage. Now, of course,

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mister manager, as Ernie Harwell used to say, had a game.
It was the Tigers and the Astros, and you didn't
see any home runs. You didn't see any runs all
the way until you get to a basis loaded situation
and Dan Dickerson as the call three.

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Two pitch, Hello, Hey, walked in Tigers bases loaded, walk
to Glaber Torres. Tigers pour out of the dugout to
mob him at first base. How bout it.

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So exciting to see the only run in the entire game,
a one to nothing win for the Tigers. Walked in
after a basis loaded situation. Wow, Well, this Tiger team
seems to find ways to win. And it's a long
baseball season, as I always say. And if they look
back from the World Series and say, huh, how about that,

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remember that one where it was one to nothing and
we won by walk, I guess you'd be really excited that.
It's a weird thing to be excited for. And so
congratulations to the Tigers who win this time kind of
like walking in backwards, like strange, unusual from the end

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of the World it's Michael Patrick Shields the end of
the road at the top of the world, with the
tail well calculated to keep you in suspense. We get
your Wednesday morning hump day turkey on the road. They're
still talking about that item that's flying toward planet Earth
and it's going to come closer to Mars than anything else,
that space comet, and every day, I know I give

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you an update, I tell you not to worry, but
it's not for me to tell you. I just look
to the experts. Now they're saying there is light coming
off the front of it, not the back of it.
You know, typically you see a commet, there's a tail
on the back of light going behind it. This thing
is making its own light somehow, So you know, I

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don't know what to think. We can only listen to
the experts. But is it like headlights? Is that what
it is? It's smaller than they thought it was too,
and it's going to pass closer to Mars, but a'm
strangely close, and there are some people who still insist
that might be an alien spacecraft. So we'll see. Speaking

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of suspense, one bite, everyone knows the rules, another one
and a very pleasant hump Day Wednesday to you, it's
Michael Patrick Shields and it's not AI. I'm actually real.
I guarantee you that failed and flawed as I may be.
But John Gallagher will be with us. He was a
reporter for thirty two years and a columnist with the

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Free the Detroit Free Press, and he's been, oh, doing
something and I haven't done. He's been fiddling around with AI,
artificial intelligence, and he's got some results and he's written
about it and he's going to share with us coming
up shortly. There's a twist. I promise you. Bar Biram

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will be here. The Aingham County Clerk have been wondering
what this candidate for Secretary of State was going to
say when she heard Donald Trump was trying to ban
mail in voting before the midterm elections. Happen, Should it happen,
I mean, you can guess what she's gonna say, but
let's take a serious look at it. The return of

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Shane Hernandez, who was a state legislator who ran for
lieutenant governor. He's president of the Michigan Forward Network and
they're talking about ranked choice voting. This is another thing
that I'd like to get an honest answer about maybe
you don't want to choose between diet pepsi and diet coke.
Maybe you want to say, hmm, I like diet pepsi

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this much, and in second place, I like diet coke
and orange juice has got to come in there. Can
you vote like instead of one or the other, put
them in order of preference and then come up with
an election result in that fashion. Try that with the
mail in voting and see what happens. Put those two together.
That'd be quite a mess. Probably Larry Olmstead will be

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here because not sure this affects Michigan, but it's something
to think about. There was some shrimp sold from Walmart
that was radioactive, and he wrote a book called Real Food,
Fake Food. Sometimes you'd be surprised where the food you
buy has been before you buy it, and how far

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has it traveled? How far did that shrimp come before
you picked it off the shelf and had a shrimp
cocktail when you had some friends over friend that we're
having over Dennis much more with the Hunting Good Firm
will be here too, And it's a big, big week
in golf, Strange week in Michigan. The Buick Open is
back at Warwick Hills sort of. It's not called that,

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but for those of us who remember how important that
event was and the PGA Tour all those years with
Ben Wright and Ken Venturi and Jim Nantz and all
the rest, the Buick Opened is still a professional event
and some of those players who played in the Buick
Open are still playing in it. And there's a live

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Tour event too in Michigan this week, Is that right
or coming up soon? Now it's this weekend on the
same weekend as a Buke Open. Yeah, it's not really
the Buke Open and the.

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Tour Championship the FedEx Playoff if anybody cares about.

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That, My own a lot of golf. Tony Cuthbert will
update you on that. And Sports Live Tour comes to Michigan. Ah, Okay.
Douglas Ernest will be here too. He's a Desert storm veteran,
the author of the Spirit of a True Patriot, The
instiring story of Captain Douglas j Ernest still talking about

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the potential of peace with the Vladimir Putin and Zelenski.
And we've got some audio too coming up of Caroline Lovett,
who took after the media and anybody who takes after
the media is on it gets a place of honor.
On this program. Tom Graffor will return with the stock
market update, and then an interesting legal situation with Todd Flood,

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the Firebrand attorney. I think it's fair to say, and
I'll ask him if he thinks that's a fair way
to describe him. All that coming up and more thanks
to the rounding up of the unusual suspects of Tony
Cuppert and the Orchestra. It's Michael Patrick Shields through the A,
T and T microphones. It's Wednesday already and we're getting

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close to labor day. To stay right there, We'll be
right here.

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When the day of the ladder hit up seemed impossible
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Know the way.

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Then I look at you, and the world all right
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Just one look at you, and I know it's gonna.

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Speaker 14 (11:01):
John Fogerty is celebrating his new album with an iHeartRadio
Icon's performance. The Credance Clearwater Revival co founder is releasing
re recorded versions of his classic songs Legacy the Cretans
Clearwater Revival years. John's version will give Fogerty full rights
to his old songs for the first time. The twenty

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track album features newly recorded versions of Up Around the Bend,
Have You Seen the Rain, Long As I Can See
the Light, Travel and Band and many more. Khalid has
a new album on the way, After the Sun Goes Down,
will feature his newly released single and Plain Sight. Kalid
says this musical chapter is about taking his power back,

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living his truth and being able to express himself freely.
After the Sun Goes Down will be out on October tenth.
So Much Money rapper DOCI is dropping out of several
upcoming festival appearances. The rapper will no longer perform at
All Points East in London, Forwards in Bristol, and Rock

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and Sent near Paris. All Points East organizers shared a
post on social media Tuesday apologizing to fans for the
abrupt change in lineup, but it did not provide a
reason for the cancelation. Don't She announce her Live from
the Swamp tour earlier this month, but she has not
commented on the recent change to her performance schedule. That's entertainment,

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Speaker 15 (12:44):
Why don't you.

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Focus good news? Bad news?

Speaker 7 (13:08):
Tony Cuthbert and the Orchestra. It's Michael Patrick Chiels, what's
your radio stations across the state of Michigan. That's Doja
Cat by the way you're listening to right there. And
yesterday I went to see the movie Nobody Too with
Bob Odenkirk, who played Saul Goodman and Bettercall Saul and
I'm Breaking Bad. And I was over at the Grove.
It's a place like a retail place, kind of like, oh,

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it's a collection of stores, high ends on the store,
cheesecase factory and all that kind of stuff. There's a
movie theater there, So I went to see the movie
Nobody Too. And while I was there, well, let me
just say, first of all, Nobody Too. You know, the
first one was kind of novel because it's like a
like a homebody father guy who suddenly finds himself having

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to be oh, like a John Wick. You know, I've
got a foot guys, and it's like a surprise, like, wow,
who knew he had it in him? But the second
one is not so much of a surprise because it's
like John Wick all the way. It's novel enough, but
and it's kind of fun. Bob Odenkirk is fun to watch,
and it's a little bit crazy.

Speaker 10 (14:14):
Can I throw something out really quick on that. That
preview was shown before the f one movie that I
took my seven year old, and he did say after
the preview, can we go see that? Would you advise?

Speaker 16 (14:25):
Or no?

Speaker 7 (14:26):
It's comically violent. Oh, let's put it that way. Nice,
But it is a family who goes on vacation to
like it's like they went to a northern Michigan town
with a little amusement park. All right, you're selling me.
All mayhem breaks loose and no people die in the
most comical, like shocking graphic ways. But it has a

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comic edge to it. So it's really kind of weird.
But no, I don't I don't know. I mean, if
if you think of it like a cartoon and he
can handle that kind of strange violence, I mean it's
he said, geez, I don't want to go on vacation
like that, because you know it happens in arcades and
duck boat rides and so it's weird like that. But

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while I was there, they were setting up for a
red carpet premiere of Splitsville, the movie. It's an unromantic
comedy it's called and they were putting all the rope
lines up and all the lights and the press check
in and all that sort of stuff, and it stars
Dakota Johnson, and I was like, I was there in
the morning, but I'm like, Dakota Johnson's gonna walk this

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way and breathe this same air. Holy cow, I should
stick around here. But what it made me think of
is the Netflix movie that I appeared in that's coming
out soon. And I said, hmm, maybe they're going to
have a red carpet premiere bash for the movie. It's
called Unknown Number and it's set in Beal City, Michigan,
and I played the principal and it's a shocking, real

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story of teen cyber bullying. And so so it's coming
out August twenty ninth on Netflix. Unknown Number the high
School Catfish, and they used Burbank High School to be
Beal City High School.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
In so I.

Speaker 7 (16:13):
Contacted the director, sky Borgman, and I asked her as
she said, they are not going to have a party,
and I thought, well, maybe it's kind of weird to
have a party that's about a story about cyber bullying
because it's a serious movie. But it will be on
Netflix and she will join us on this program coming
up in the coming days. The director of the movie

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sky Boorgman featuring and I say featuring in the funniest
kind of way, MPs as the principal of the school.
I did see in the trailer of the principal, and
I do kind of look like him, which is why
they hired me in the first place to play that role.
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body and mind, and you can learn more at BCBSM
dot com. You're listening to Michael Patrick Shields in mediast Virtus.
The truth is in the middle, And lately I've been
really struggling because I think we live in an interesting
time obviously, but the sad thing is you can't get
the straight skinny from the media, and I don't want

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to watch Fox, and I don't want to watch MSNBC.
I'm hoping that CNN would maybe give me the truth,
but no, their coverage has been completely biased. Also, of
these summit meetings between the president and the world leaders
in Vladimir Putin and Caroline Levitt, the young spokesperson for
Donald Trump, opened up her media briefing yesterday and said,

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damn it. Well, she didn't say that, but she said this.

Speaker 17 (17:43):
For one thing that has absolutely not changed is the
media is negative and downright false coverage of President Trump
and his foreign policy accomplishments. From the beginning of this
entire process, much of the left wing media has been
actively rooting against the President of the United States and
the suit of peace. Initially, the media ridiculously claimed that

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President Chump was somehow beholden to Russia for even agreeing
to have a face to face discussion with President Putin
inside of the United States. The media said President Trump
was making a grave mistake by quote legitimizing Putin. They
were aghast that President Chump would treat another world leader
like a world leader. The media relentlessly attacked President Trump

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and claimed he suffered a quote major defeat for not
immediately emerging with a final agreement, even though he said
heading into that meeting, this was a meeting to listen
and to understand how to move the ball forward. All
weekend following those historic US Russia bilateral talks, we listened
to clueless pundits on television trying but failing to claim

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that the President had failed the so called experts in
the foreign policy establishment, whose record is nothing but endless wars,
trillions of wasted taxpayer dollars, and dead Americans, have the
nerve to try and lecture President Trump, who has solved
seven global conflicts in seven months, about peace. This is
the same president, by the way, who brokeer the Abraham

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Accords in his first term, on top of more than
half a dozen other piece deals this year alone. As
I just said, we also saw yesterday the President of
Ukraine and all of the other major leaders of Europe
fly across the Atlantic Ocean to meet President Trump at
the White House because of the progress that was made
and that if you ask, the media failed meeting, but
it was not. It was highly productive and it was successful.

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This is why Americans trust in the mass media is
at the lowest point in more than five decades. Diplomacy
is a delicate process, and instead of reporting the facts
about what is happening here at this White House and
what is happening between this president and other leaders around
the world, many outlets in this room continue to try
to actively undermine the President and sabotage the efforts towards peace.

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That is why I felt the need to set the
record straight.

Speaker 7 (19:54):
Amen to that. I don't care if you like Trump
or not. She's right, She's right.

Speaker 18 (20:00):
Potential link between hearing aids and a reduction in dementia
risk according to new research from the Framingham Heart Study
out of Boston, the nearly three thousand adults studied who
used hearing aids due to hearing loss cut their risk
of dementia by more than half. Researchers say there's no
benefit for adults who used hearing aids after the age
of seventy. The study highlights the importance of early intervention

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and identification of hearing loss. Squirrels with oozing warts are
being spotted throughout the US.

Speaker 19 (20:28):
According to reports from The Daily Mail. Photos of the
zombie squirrels have been captured and shared on social media
since mid twenty twenty three, with a recent surge this summer,
and experts claim the rodents are likely suffering from squirrel fibromatosis.
The viral skin disease is caused by laporoponksvirus and results
in wart like tumors with an oozing fluid. The condition
could become fatal for some infected squirrels, but they are

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reportedly not a threat to humans, pets, or birds, despite
their appearance. I'm Mark Mayfield Health Update.

Speaker 18 (20:56):
I'm Sarah le Kessler.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
It's Big Show starring Michael Patrick Shields.

Speaker 7 (21:03):
Steve Frisbee is a state representative Republican from Penfield in
Calhoun County, who's accountable for the condition of Michigan right now?
And where do we go from here?

Speaker 3 (21:12):
I think it's.

Speaker 20 (21:13):
Probably a waste to start pointing fingers, and I think
it's better energy to start fixing things in a direction
that business leaders know best what they need to be
successful in this state. I think we all need to
start rowing in the same direction.

Speaker 7 (21:26):
Speaking of business leaders, business Leaders for Michigan is united
by an ambitious goal to make Michigan a top ten
state for jobs and talent and a thriving economy. And
it's the direct involvement of the CEOs of the state's
leading employers and member companies that employ more than five
hundred and forty thousand Michiganders and generate over one trillion

(21:49):
dollars in economic activity. And oh, by the way, educate
more than half of Michigan's public university students, guided by
research and diverse perspective. They develop strategies and share public
policy and drive initiatives that bring people on ideas together
to ignite change for growth and shared prosperity and lasting

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progress for all of us. For Michigan, and right now
they talk about innovation and how that's always been central
to Michigan's story and what's needed for our state is
a unified vision and a collective action that draws more
talent and increases investment and creates a healthy pipeline of
scalable companies. Speaking of pipelines, the Line five pipelines under

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the straits of Mackinaw are going to be part of
the biggest infrastructure, one of them in the state's history.
And Ryan Duffy from Enbridge Energy talked about how people
can learn more about the five hundred million dollar Great
Lakes Tunnel that Enbridge Energy will build. They have an
information center in Saint Ignas and if you're going to
the Bridge Walk or you're in that area, you can

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wheel on in and check out this giant science project
and bit of investment. Thanks to Ryan Duffy at ed
Bridge Energy.

Speaker 15 (23:02):
That's two fourteen State Street right downtown Sainting. This our
information center I'm actually going to be headed up there
later this afternoon.

Speaker 21 (23:10):
And we've been busy there with.

Speaker 15 (23:11):
So many people coming in visiting downtown Saint Ingna's in
the summer, taking the ferry over to the island. We
had a lot of people stopping in, so that's just
fun for us and everyone is invited. There's all kinds
of information there on the tunnel project. We have interactive displays.
We have our twenty foot model of our tunnel boring
machine in there, so a lot of people taking a

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look at that. So everything you could ever really want
to know on how the tunnel is going to be built.
And the information center opens at nine most mornings except Friday.
That open the noon and then closed on Sunday.

Speaker 22 (24:01):
NBC News Radio on Michael Kastner, Republican lawmaker is moving
to give the president in definite control over Washington, d
C's police force. Florida Congressoman Anna Paulina Luna introduced a
resolution that would extend the federal takeover of DC law
enforcement with no set end date. A shooting threat forced
protesters to evacuate the Texas capital last night. Demonstrators had

(24:23):
gathered in Austin Tuesday to support Democratic lawmaker Nicole Collier,
who stayed overnight in protest of Republican led redistricting efforts.
The Texas Department of Public Safety says the evacuation was
triggered after a social media post urged violence against those
keeping Democrats under police escort Ryan Chandler, with Moore, the.

Speaker 16 (24:44):
Speaker of the House, allowing Democrats to leave the House
chamber only on the condition that they submit to twenty
four to seven monitoring from an individual DPS officer until
the House reconvenes on Wednesday.

Speaker 22 (24:57):
Nearly a third of businesses are likely to increase prices
in the near future. More from Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 19 (25:04):
A new report by lending Tree found that more than
thirty percent of businesses surveyed said they expect their prices
will be higher in six months than they are now,
while only five percent said that their prices will go
down and sixty five percent said their prices will remain steady.
Lending Trees report also found that businesses in Rhode Island,
New Hampshire, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and Vermont were most likely

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to say they expect to increase prices in the coming months.
Survey results come during a period of uncertainty over President
Trump's teriff rollout and continued pressure from inflation i Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 22 (25:35):
The White House is reportedly looking at Budapest as a
possible site for new peace talks between the US, Russia,
and Ukraine. Sources tell Politico the Secret Services preparing for
a potential summit in Hungary led by Trump, Ally victor
Or Bond On Wall Street, s and P five hundred
futures are slipping. Michael Kassner in bc News Radio.

Speaker 19 (25:57):
Google is getting out ahead of Apple by releasing the
new Pixel Tin series phone ahead of the iPhone seventeen.
Here's Michael Kastner.

Speaker 22 (26:04):
The Made by Google event will be held Wednesday. Apple's
hardware event is slated for September. Tech Crunch reports an
anticipated new feature is called Camera Coach. It will let
Jem and I give you real time tips for taking
better photos. The AI is supposedly able to see what's
going on and suggests the best angles and lighting for

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your shot.

Speaker 19 (26:25):
AI writing assistant Grammarly is getting a design makeover. The
overhaul includes a new document based interface, as well as
a few AI tools meant for students and professionals. A
few of the new features include a citation finder, a
Greater and reader Reaction, which is a reading persona to
get feedback on a user's writing. There's also a feature
that can detect plagiarism and AI generated content and human

(26:45):
resources Giant workday confirming that a data breach has allowed
hackers to steal personal information from one of its third
party customer relationship databases. They did not specify what tech
report a Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 7 (27:12):
He was an old man who fished alone in a
skiff in the Gulf stream, and he'd gone eighty four
days now without taking a fish. In the first forty
days a boy had been with him. But after forty
days without a fish, the boy's parents had told him
that the old man was now definitely and finally salao,

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which is the worse form of unlucky, and the boy
had gone at their orders in another boat, which caught
three good fish the first week. It made the boy
sad to see the old man come in each day
with his skiff empty, and he always went down to
help him carry either the lines or the gaff or
the harpoon and the sail that was furled around the mast.

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The sail was patched with flour sacks and furled and
it looked like the flag of permanent defeats. I know
John Gallagher knows who wrote that, and it wasn't AI.
He's a reporter for thirty two years with the Free
Press and the author of the book Russ Belt Reporter,
a memoir which you can still get. Wayne State University

(28:18):
published that book and he wrote it and he's on
our AT and T line right now. Welcome back to
the program.

Speaker 23 (28:24):
Well, hey, good morning, Michael, how are you.

Speaker 7 (28:26):
Those are the words of Courus of Ernest Hemingway, which
we have a special interest here in Michigan and The
Old Man in the Sea, the award winning novella, and
thank you for being here. And we know that was
written by a guy with a pulse, not artificial intelligence,
right right, Well.

Speaker 24 (28:46):
You know it's funny. You just had a news item
on the cameras. Now AI are going to suggest what's
the best angle to take to shoot a photo. I mean,
some of this stuff is just remarkable that we're saying
with AI what it can do, and it's it's wonderful
and it's scary at the same time.

Speaker 7 (29:04):
You know, Well, I had somebody write an email to
me recently and I said, oh, that sounds strangely formal
from this person. And then it occurred to me somebody
said that that's Ai that wrote the email. So I
asked the person. They said, yeah, I was fooling around
with you know, chat, GPT or whatever, and I recognized

(29:26):
right away that it didn't sound like the person who
was writing to me. You have written a column where
you asked artificial intelligence to write like Ernest Hemingway, he
who wrote the short story up in Michigan as his
very first because he lived in the Walloon Lake area
and man Salona and Pataski in all those places. So
when you asked AI to write like Hemingway, what happened?

Speaker 24 (29:51):
Well, I was schooling around with this, and I said,
you know, very simple experiment, write me fifty words on
taking a bus in Detroit in the style of him.
And it immediately spat out. You know, the bus came,
it was late, men got on, women got on.

Speaker 25 (30:07):
They were saying, you.

Speaker 24 (30:08):
Know, it sort of mimicked the style, but didn't capture
any of that emotion in the you know, the piece
you just read from the Old Man in the Sea,
which is packed with emotion, and this little thing that
AI spit out didn't capture any of that. It just
kind of mimicked the style. So, you know, I'm not
sure it proves anything, Michael, but it is sort of
an interesting how quickly it does it and how it

(30:30):
sort of recognizes generally what it's supposed to do. But
you know, as you said with your friend with the email,
is it really the person, does it sound like them
or is it just mimicry? You know, I don't know.
I guess we're still sort of learning all about this.

Speaker 7 (30:50):
Did you put yourself in there and say, AI write
a column like John Gallagher did for thirty two years.

Speaker 24 (30:57):
No, I didn't, but my editor did because in this
column in the Free Press after anyway, they said, well,
give me William Faulkner, Jane Austin, give me a high coup.
And it kind of in each case to kind of
spat out something that mimics the style without really sounding
like them. So I editor just said, you know, write

(31:17):
me one in the style of John Gallagher, and you know,
it kind of vaguely sounded like what I wrote for
the Free Press about covering Detroit for thirty years. But
you know what AI does, of course, it scrapes the
Internet for whatever's been done before.

Speaker 26 (31:32):
You know.

Speaker 24 (31:32):
Stephen King calls this plagiarism software because it just it
doesn't really create anything. It just kind of takes what's
been done and repackages it. But it doesn't it so quickly.
I mean, it doesn't take ten seconds or five seconds.
It's instantaneous, and that's that's fine. Like I said, I

(31:53):
find it remarkable and also a little.

Speaker 26 (31:55):
Scary, and I think we're just learning, you know, what's
what this.

Speaker 24 (31:58):
Thing can do.

Speaker 7 (32:00):
Tony Cuthbert put into AI. I don't even know how
you do it, but he did it. He asked AI
to write a news article by Michael Patrick Shields about
Mackinaw Island because he knows I'm a travel writer. And
it came out like this, mystique and majesty, Michigan's Mackinaw
Island a timeless treasure. Now, that was the headline, Okay,

(32:22):
And then it says by Michael Patrick Shields. And then
it says, nestled between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas, where
the great Lakes embrace one another, lies a jewel that
has captivated visitors for centuries. Mackinaw Island and if I
wrote that, If I wrote that, I would barf. I

(32:44):
can't stand cliches, you know what I mean. It's clearly
that's a postcard kind of stuff.

Speaker 24 (32:51):
Right exactly. That's sort of why you know, it's funny
when skids are told to write a seam on something. Michael,
when you and I were kids, we used to go
to the encyclopedia maybe and just kind of get some
ideas from that. Now they just put it in AI.
And as you said, a lot of it's cliches, a
lot of it's the most obvious stuff.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
But it's so.

Speaker 24 (33:14):
Easy and so you know, remarkable that it can happen
so quickly. I mean, you could do an entire thousand
word essay in ten seconds. I mean, it's just sort
of weird.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
I don't know what.

Speaker 24 (33:25):
I don't quite know what to think about it. And
I was just as I said, we were just fooling
around with this column to see see what it can do.
But I think there's a lot of answers yet out there.

Speaker 7 (33:36):
And it's most sinister. AI could replicate the voice of
someone you care about and call you and fool you
and coach you out of your money for instance, That's
that's what comes to mind as the most sinister of AI.

Speaker 24 (33:50):
Yeah, I agree. And all these fake videos that are
online now, I mean, you can you can say, do
me a video of George Washington wrestling with Abraham Lincoln
or something, and it'll it'll do it, and it'll look
you know, relatively realistic. But but you know, if you say,
show me a video of you know, Mayor Duggan taking

(34:14):
a bribe, it'll do that and it'll look realistic. And yeah,
some people have no way of knowing what's really what's not.
That's what's scary about this that, you know, the ability
to fool people. I think, and hopefully, you know, we
come up with some kind of controls on this so

(34:34):
that you know we're not just a wash and all
this you know, bs and misinformation.

Speaker 7 (34:43):
I guess it's weirdly tempting. Like if I were under
deadline and I had to get something out quick, but
my soul would not allow me to do that. I mean,
maybe I could have the No, I don't want to
touch it. I do not, John Gallagher want to even
touch it, because I could have it right the and
then I could gussie it up, you know what I
mean and sprinkle through it, that kind of thing. But

(35:04):
I will not give into the devil. I won't do it.
It seems too sinister. And that's why I've enjoyed your
column very much. And do you like to read Hemingway?

Speaker 5 (35:15):
Oh?

Speaker 24 (35:15):
I love Hemingway.

Speaker 21 (35:16):
I've always read Anyway.

Speaker 24 (35:17):
And the Old Man in the Sea, you know, the
past that you read is just just reminds me of
how wonderful it is and how much he could pack
into his stories.

Speaker 7 (35:27):
So you mentioned Detroit real quickly. How about Elmar Leonard.
I don't think AI could replicate that kind of dialogue.

Speaker 24 (35:35):
No, And that's what you know. That's what Elmoar Leonard
Dutch Leonard as we knew him, you know, that's what
he could do so well. I mean, he wrote dialogue
like nobody else could. I can't imagine anybody but him
being able to do that.

Speaker 7 (35:46):
So your book is called russ Belt Reporter, a memoir,
and it's written by John Gallagher thirty two years. Thank
you so much. And you can read his column in
the Free Press where it originally appeared.

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In VC news Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. Russian President Vladimir
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Caroline Levitt said that includes a possible meeting between Putin
and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky that could lead to a
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Speaker 29 (38:25):
Heming Willis told Diane Sawyer about Bruce developing fronto temporal
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Hurricane Aaron likely won't make landfall on the US mainland.
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Speaker 7 (38:57):
Radio, strangest thing in the world continues to baffle me,

(39:24):
and that is I just did an interview about artificial intelligence,
and what shows up in my email box, well, an
article about chat GPT an ad for it. How peculiar
it's Michael Patrick shields through the AT and T microphones
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(40:52):
and they were talk about, of course, peace in Ukraine,
and one of the reporters in the gaggle shouted a
question that Donald Trump seems surprised in context but he answered,
and he answered it like.

Speaker 30 (41:03):
This, ballots are corrupt. Mail in ballots. You can never
have a real democracy with mail in ballots. And we
as a Republican party, are going to do everything possible
that we get rid of mail in balots. We're going
to start with an executive order that's being written right
now by the best lawyers in the country to end

(41:23):
mail in ballots because they're corrupt. And you know that
we're the only country in the world I believe I
may be wrong, but just about the only country in
the world that uses it because of what's happened, massive
fraud all over the place. The other thing, we want
change of the machines. For all of the money they spend.

(41:43):
It's approximately ten times more expensive than paper ballots, and
paper ballots are very sophisticated. With the watermark paper and
everything else. We would get secure elections. We'd get much
faster results the machines. I mean, they say we're going
to have the results in two weeks with paper ballots
the results that night. Most people almost but most people

(42:05):
many countries use paper ballots. It's the most secure form.
So between paper ballots, very very important. Paper ballots and
I think maybe even more important the mail in voting.
We're going to end mail in voting. It's a fraud
if you have mail in vote. Even Jimmy Carter with
this commission they set it up. He said, the one

(42:25):
thing about mail in voting, you will never have an
honor selection if you have mail in it. And it's
time that the Republicans get tough.

Speaker 7 (42:32):
And stop it. I'm willing to take the President on
faith with his argument until the point he says it's
the Republican Party that's spearheading the effort. If he said
that I'm spearheading the effort because it's best for the nation,
that's one thing. But it's immediately partisan when he says
the party is doing it. Barbiram is the am County

(42:55):
clerk candidate for Secretary of State. I've immediately wondered what
you thought when you heard that. Maybe you can share
your opinion with the rest of the state too.

Speaker 31 (43:05):
Well, thank you so much for having me, Michael Patrick.
You know he's right. Paper ballots are the most secure
way to vote, so I'll give him that, But everything
else he said was just false. Mail in ballots are secure,
in fact, so secure he himself voted on a mail

(43:26):
in ballot in twenty twenty, and dozens of countries use
mail in ballots, UK, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Germany. He is
trying to distract, distract from the many things that he
has done. But you better believe, Michael Patrick, I'll be
the first one to fight back against this executive order

(43:47):
once it's finally issued.

Speaker 7 (43:49):
Does he have the juice to get that done? Is
it even possible?

Speaker 31 (43:54):
Well, he has no authority. It is unconstitutional what he
is trying to do. States have the glue of authority
to hold elections, decide voting machines, to decide the paper,
the hours and locations. But candidly, Michael Patrick, he may
bully some states and some governors to maybe not allow
mail in voting, but I am confident Michigan will not

(44:16):
be bullied.

Speaker 7 (44:17):
It is possible, Is it not that the I don't know,
somebody was at my house. Let's say it was a
cleaning lady and they saw a pile of mail and
then she said, oh, looks like maybe he's not going
to mail this in. I'll just do it and mail
it in. Is that possible?

Speaker 31 (44:33):
No, because you still have to sign in Michigan, you
have to sign the back of that en moloche, and
that signature is compared to the signature and the qualified
voter file. And so there are so many protections in
place in Michigan and in other states, quite frankly, to
make sure our mail in voting is just as secure
as in person voting. And let's not forget the people

(44:56):
of Michigan voted overwhelmingly in support of requiring the option
for mail in voting. It's in our Michigan constitution to allow,
for no reason, absentee voting. We call it absent te
voting in Michigan, but it's mail and voting in other states.
It's the same thing, different words.

Speaker 7 (45:17):
Rhanda Santas, the governor of Florida, was saying, in order
to get your absentee ballot, you have to show an
ID and have to turn it in. You also have
to show an ID. I don't know how they do that,
but is that the most safest way to do it?

Speaker 25 (45:32):
Well?

Speaker 31 (45:32):
In Michigan, voters when they register to vote, they have
to show an ID at least one point before their
voter registration is active and before they can vote. So
we have that information. It is absolutely redundant. The intent
is just to make it more difficult to vote, and
I won't stand for any barriers put in front of
a voter and exercising their right to vote.

Speaker 7 (45:54):
It's complicated in only thirty seconds. But what do you
think of ranked choice voting?

Speaker 31 (45:59):
You know, if they get the signatures and it gets
on the ballot and it passes, I am confident that
clerks will do everything possible to make sure the implementation
is as seamless as possible for voters. Clerks we take
a lot. We have seen many changes in election law
and we have done an amazing job serving the voters.

Speaker 7 (46:23):
Ingham County Clerk Barb Byron wants to be Secretary of State.
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Let's start with baseball.

Speaker 34 (47:30):
The Yankees tied a franchise record with nine home runs.

Speaker 6 (47:34):
To crush the Rays for their fourth Stray win.

Speaker 34 (47:37):
Aaron Judge, Cody Ballinger and gean Carlos Stanton went back
to back to back in the first inning and Ballinger
says they're finally on the up swing.

Speaker 35 (47:49):
Yeah, I mean, I think the great thing, you know
with the Yankees is you know, we're never satisfied, and
you know, came come to the park every day to win.

Speaker 5 (47:55):
And that's the kind of that's kind of vibe that
we have right now.

Speaker 34 (47:58):
Labor Torres with a walk off bases loaded walk in
the tenth to lift the Tigers past the Astros one zip.
Houston shut out for the third straight game. They've now
gone twenty eight straight innings without scoring a run. Colts
have named Daniel Jones er starting quarterback over former first
round pick Anthony Richardson NBA News former number one overall

(48:21):
pick John Wall, retiring after thirteen seasons in the league.
That's Sports. I'm Ron Tamoss.

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Speaker 10 (49:36):
Lot of baseball to talk about MPs. It was a
long night in downtown Detroit. First we had a weather delay,
that's beautiful, and then we got the game going and
it went to extra innings, but it was not runs
left and right because you had two very good pitchers
on the mound, led by of course, Derek's Schoobel and
the Detroit Tigers, and they walked off the Astros one
to nothing.

Speaker 7 (49:57):
Last night.

Speaker 10 (49:58):
Schooble struck out ten in that seven inning shutout for
the no decision. Will Vesc got the win. The Tigers
have won eight of their last ten and they will
go for a three game sweep of the Astros this
afternoon in downtown Detroit. Charlie Mortin's on the mound for Detroit.
He won a World Series with the Astros and now
he takes on his former team. This is a getaway day,

(50:20):
so a one pm first pitch, and then the Tigers.
Finally they've played like I don't know, twelve straight days
in a row, so they get tomorrow off. Congratulations on that. Now,
the NPS Division of Major League Baseball, we had a
double header in Chicago yesterday and the Cubs they won
both of them, six to four in the first game
over the Brewers and then four to one in the nightcap.

(50:41):
The Brewers were so hot and now they've lost I
think three of four. The Dodgers no issues with the Rockies,
as one would expect. Eleven to four was the final
on that one. Big news yesterday from the Detroit Red
Wings or are they just trying to sell tickets on
a team that could maybe not be so hot this season.
Sergei Federoff will have his jersey retire number ninety one

(51:04):
iconic for my childhood. I must say January twelfth is
the day they will do it. And yes, that is
on a Monday, usually a slow day in terms of
ticket sales in the middle of winter, but one would
think they will somehow get a sellout for that one.
He will be the ninth number placed into the rafters
at LCA the CJ. Carr give it up. Lloyd Carr's

(51:25):
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He always checks in Lloyd Carr and asks me, how's
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Now I gotta contact him and say, how's the kid.
He's the quarterback at Notre Dame. Not bad coach.

Speaker 19 (51:52):
In VC news Radio, I'm Mark Mayfield. Russian President Vladimir
Ukraine peace pronces, according to the White House. Press Secretary
Caroline Levitt said that includes a possible meeting between Pudin
trilateral with President Trump. Emma Hemming Willis is opening up
about her husband, Bruce Willis's dementia diagnosis. Here's Brian Shook.

Speaker 29 (52:16):
and Yourself On the Caregiving Path, I'm Brian Shook and.

Speaker 19 (52:34):
Mark Mayfield, NBC News Radio.

Speaker 37 (52:49):
In the Northeast, partly sunny skies with temperatures in the
mid seventies to the low eighties from Boston to New York.
Light showers are possible in northern New England. Warman humet
again in the mid atlanting in the south east with
temperatures near ninety from DC down through Atlanta. Scattered thunderstorms,
heaviest along the Gulf Coast and into Florida are expected.
Sunny in the Midwest, with temperatures topping out in the

(53:10):
mid eighties. A few pop up showers are possible in
the Great Lakes region. Warming up in the Plain States
with highs reaching.

Speaker 6 (53:16):
The low nineties.

Speaker 37 (53:17):
Cross Kansas in Oklahoma under mostly sunny skies. Meanwhile, another
scorching day in the southwest, with desert highs topping one ten.
Expect isolated monsoonal storms over eastern Arizona and New Mexico.
California's coastal spots stay mild, with highs in the mid seventies.
Inland valleys will heat up into the nineties under clear skies.
In the Pacific Northwest, partly cloudy skies with temperatures in

(53:39):
the mid seventies along the coast into the eighties inland
from Portland to Seattle. That's your national forecast. I'm Tammy Trheo.

Speaker 22 (54:00):
NBC News Radio on Michael Cassner. Republican lawmaker is moving

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Speaker 16 (54:44):
Chamber only on the condition that they submit to twenty

Speaker 22 (54:57):
Nearly a third of businesses are likely to to increase
prices in the near future. More from Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 19 (55:04):
Lending Tree's report also found that businesses in Rhode Island,

(55:25):
Trump's teriff rollout and continued pressure from inflation. By Mark Mayfield, the.

Speaker 22 (55:35):
White House is reportedly looking at Budapest as a possible
site for new peace talks between the US, Russia, and Ukraine.
Sources tell Politico the Secret Services preparing for a potential
summit in Hungary led by Trump ally victor Or bond
On Wall Street SMP five hundred futures are slipping. Michael
Kasner in BC News Radio.

Speaker 38 (55:57):
Two major companies in the local TV stateation business could
soon become one. Matt Mattinson reports.

Speaker 4 (56:03):
Nextdar Media Group has agreed to buy Tegna in a
deal worth six point two billion dollars. The deal will
need to be approved by regulators, including the FCC, and
is expected to close in the second half of next year.
Next Star is the largest television station owner in the country,
while Techna owns sixty four stations. If the deal is approved,
Nextstar would have two hundred and sixty five full power

(56:24):
TV stations in one hundred and thirty two of the
US's two hundred and ten television markets.

Speaker 38 (56:29):
Just like Beanie Babies in years gone by, the Labooboo
craze is proving to be big business. Chinese based company
Popmart's financial report reveals more than six hundred million dollars
worth of the popular dolls have been sold so far
this year. PopMart first introduced La booboos as part of
its Monsters line in twenty eighteen. They have recently soared
in popularity after celebrities like Black Pink's Lisa Rihanna and

(56:53):
Madonna have been spotted with them. Ten million labuoboos are
expected to be sold each month for the rest of
the year. Google's getting out ahead of Apple by releasing
the new Pixel ten series phone ahead of iPhone seventeen
Michael Kasner report.

Speaker 22 (57:08):
Tech Crunch reports an anticipated new feature is called Camera Coach.
It will let Jem and I give you real time
tips for taking better photos. The AI is supposedly able
to see what's going on and suggests the best angles
and lighting for your shot.

Speaker 5 (57:26):
Us all what.

Speaker 38 (57:32):
The Federal Trade Commission is suing a ticket seller it
says used fake accounts to buy Taylor Swift concert tickets
to sell at a markup. The Fed say Key Investment
Group use thousands of fake ticket Master accounts to buy
tickets for Swift's wildly successful Eras Tour. The company already
sued the FTC in July in an effort to stop
the investigation, arguing the purchases were legal because no automated

(57:54):
software was used to buy the tickets. I'm Monica Nelson
with your Consumer and business news.

Speaker 6 (57:59):

Speaker 34 (58:00):
The Yankees tied a franchise record with nine home runs
to crush the Rays for their fourth straight win. Aaron Judge,
Cody Bellinger, and gian Carlos Stanton went back to back
to back in the first inning, and Bellinger says they're
finally on the upswing.

Speaker 5 (58:19):
Yeah, I mean, I.

Speaker 35 (58:20):
Think the great thing, you know with the Yankees is
you know, we're never satisfied and you know, come to
the park every day to win.

Speaker 5 (58:26):
we have right now.

Speaker 34 (58:29):

Speaker 6 (58:36):
Houston shut out for the third straight game.

Speaker 34 (58:39):
They've now gone twenty eight straight innings without scoring a run.
Colts have named Daniel Jones are starting quarterback over former
first round pick Anthony Richardson NBA News former number one
overall pick John Wall retiring after thirteen seasons in the league.

Speaker 6 (58:56):
That Sports, I'm Ron Tamoss in the North.

Speaker 37 (59:00):
These partly sunny skies with temperatures in the mid seventies
to the low eighties from Boston to New York. Light
showers are possible in northern New England. Warm and humet
again in the Mid Atlantic. In the Southeast, with temperatures
near ninety from DC down through Atlanta, Scattered thunderstorms, heaviest
along the Gulf Coast and into Florida are expected. Sunny
in the Midwest, with temperatures topping out in the mid eighties.

(59:21):
A few pop up showers are possible in the Great
Lakes region. Warming up in the Plain States with highs
reaching the low nineties cross Kansas and Oklahoma under mostly
sunny skies. Meanwhile, another scorching day in the Southwest, with
desert highs topping one ten. Expect isolated monsoonal storms over
eastern Arizona and New Mexico. California's coastal spots stay mild,

(59:41):
with highs in the mid seventies. Inland valleys will heat
up into the nineties under clear skies. In the Pacific Northwest,
partly cloudy skies with temperatures in the mid seventies along
the coast into the eighties. Inland from Portland to Seattle.
That's your national forecast. I'm Tammy Triheo.

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closed doors. Here's Michigan's Michael Patrick Shields.

Speaker 15 (01:00:36):
You like to go from one base to another without
even taking a spikes off.

Speaker 23 (01:00:39):
All right, here's what.

Speaker 24 (01:00:41):
We got you, low Jack.

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
You right now the first lowly out of the dugat.

Speaker 24 (01:00:48):
I do know what that makes.

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
Your Michael Patrick Shields is on the air.

Speaker 7 (01:00:56):
Good morning world. Baseball has been Vetty Betty good to me?
And was it good to Mike Nichols yesterday? Was it
good to Michigan? Was it good to the Tigers? The
attorney at the firm and East Lansing with his wife Wendy.
Mike Nichols loves the Lions and I just say that
because it's nice alliteration. But he also loves the Tigers,

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and he went to the game yesterday, and he's on
the other end of our at and t len our
radio stage right now to tell us the tale. You
had to really love baseball to sit through that one yesterday.
Good morning.

Speaker 39 (01:01:31):
I cheer up for the Tigers, and I'm ready to
tell the tale of the Tigers last night.

Speaker 7 (01:01:37):
You had a tiger by the tail if you went
to that game. First of all, who did.

Speaker 3 (01:01:40):
You go with?

Speaker 39 (01:01:42):
I took my son, Christian, who's about to start his
second year of law school at Cooley Law School, and
I flew flew out of a consultation at five o'clock
to try to get through the construction to get there
for a six forty first pitch, which was wish back,
thankfully because of some rain, so it didn't start till

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seven fifteen.

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
Oh man, it was. It was worth all of it.

Speaker 7 (01:02:10):
So you took your son, so you weren't worried about
the kiss came or anything like that. You take that
off the plate, that's perfectly fine, no problem there, not
that there would be. But you're like me. You like
to be there for the ceremonial first pitch and then
national anthem and all that stuff. Right.

Speaker 39 (01:02:25):
I like to be there when the starting pitcher comes
out of the bullpen because the whole staff this year
has come out with him and they just make it
like a pretty cool entrance. And I missed that, but
that's fine.

Speaker 7 (01:02:40):
What did you do during the rain delay?

Speaker 39 (01:02:43):
We were in the Tiger Dine, so completely protected, no
no issues.

Speaker 7 (01:02:48):
Yeah, yeah, very cozy.

Speaker 39 (01:02:50):
I went and got street tacos.

Speaker 12 (01:02:52):
That's what I did.

Speaker 7 (01:02:55):
Any any hot dogs at the game.

Speaker 39 (01:02:59):
Nope, just street tacos, which might have been a mistake
because my stomach was bugging me all night, but it was.
I mean they're they're delicious, but right, I mean, I've
got that Anglo gastron testeral to some that is not
conducive to that sort of digestion. But Scooby made up

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for it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
Man.

Speaker 39 (01:03:20):
That guy like seventy one percent first pitch strikes and
then the bullpen will vest eighty percent first pitch strikes.
Just locked down the Astros. It was really just an
amazing game.

Speaker 7 (01:03:34):
How many RBIs did you see?

Speaker 26 (01:03:37):
I just won?

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
Right?

Speaker 39 (01:03:39):
Labor Torres got his five hundredth RBI with a walk
off walk their reliever just he's tightened up like you
wouldn't believe.

Speaker 7 (01:03:49):
The weirdest thing. It was like a soccer game. You
saw no scoring until the bases were loaded at the
very end of the game. And this is what it
sounded like.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
Pitch no hey walked in.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
Tigers whom man.

Speaker 9 (01:04:08):
Bases loaded, walk to Glaber Torres, Tigers pour out of
the dugout.

Speaker 7 (01:04:16):
To mob him at first base.

Speaker 12 (01:04:20):
How bout it?

Speaker 3 (01:04:22):
Now?

Speaker 7 (01:04:22):
That is a wild reaction from a crowd for an
at bat that basically doesn't even count.

Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
Well it does.

Speaker 39 (01:04:31):
You have to look in the scoring rule. It does
count as an RBI for Glabor so he that's number
five hundred for him.

Speaker 7 (01:04:37):
It does?

Speaker 25 (01:04:39):
Yep, it does?

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
It does.

Speaker 39 (01:04:42):
You know, the scoring rules are kind of, you know, subjective,
a little bit kind of like scoring standardized shield sobriety tests.
But it's it's a walk off.

Speaker 7 (01:04:52):
Huh. All right, So in that situation, because a run
comes in, it counts as a run batted in even
though nothing was actually bad it But in terms.

Speaker 23 (01:05:02):
Of a of a.

Speaker 7 (01:05:05):
Accounted a bat, let's say, yeah, it's not right, or
I guess it is.

Speaker 39 (01:05:10):
Well, if a guy go ahead that's exactly That's exactly why,
just like standardized field to write testing, sometimes baseball scoring
makes zero sense because I don't think it does count
as an as bad. It does count as an RBI.

Speaker 7 (01:05:25):
Okay, seems a little contradictory, and only your son at
Cooley Law School could probably figure out the details. Oh
you argue that he.

Speaker 39 (01:05:33):
Argued with me about it, and I said, nope, look
it up. Look it up, young man. You know the
only failed old Michael Patrick was the Camerica Park crew
did not bring in bring up the house mic for
Glab's postgame interview with what's her name in Danellen Danella.
So as you're walking out, you're hearing music and you're

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watching him. I mean we were, you know, a quarter
of a mile away if that, you know, talking about
that ad and you couldn't hear it because they were playing,
you know whatever, drive home safety of music they were playing.

Speaker 7 (01:06:07):
When a father who's an attorney and a son who's
studying to be an attorney get in the car after
a game like that and they start arguing a point
like that, how long in the drive does it take
until you either declare it a tie or somebody wins?
The argument, did you make it all the way to Brighton?

Speaker 19 (01:06:26):
Oh no, no, no, no.

Speaker 39 (01:06:27):
It was a very short discussion. He acquiesced my baseball
large so that vault of wisdom he knew.

Speaker 7 (01:06:37):
Did most people stay till the end? It sounded like
a robust crowd.

Speaker 24 (01:06:42):
It seemed like it.

Speaker 39 (01:06:45):
Yeah, I mean a lot of people were down there.
It seemed like people kind of got crowded around the
home plate seats in the lower bowl that are kind
of controversial for the way they reconfigured them. But I
couldn't I didn't hear the crowd count, but it looked
like it was pretty pretty full all around the stadium.

Speaker 7 (01:07:03):
Great to hear. They made it through a rain delay.
They sat through a game with no no runs, and
they saw that the drama at the end just very
quickly there are two.

Speaker 26 (01:07:14):
It was a great defense.

Speaker 39 (01:07:15):
It was great defense too.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
Don't don't forget that.

Speaker 7 (01:07:18):
You gotta love roll.

Speaker 39 (01:07:20):
That play at the plate was, I mean, just classic
fundamental baseball. Carried berries, the balls unburied by Carrie. He
throws it to the cutoff man bullet on a one
hop to Dingler who made the tag, and that was
just sweet.

Speaker 7 (01:07:36):
Well, imagine if you went to a Lions game and
it ended up being two to nothing. A safety was scored,
and that's what it's like. Great, it's a win. Speaking
of wins and losses, just very quickly, one of two
University of Michigan scholars from China accused of smuggling biological
materials into the United States pleaded no contests. What does

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a no contest plea mean?

Speaker 39 (01:08:02):
It means I don't contest the charges against me. The
judge has to look at some other source, like a
police report or maybe a transcript from a lower court
proceeding to determine that the person is actually guilty of
the offense charged. So it's treated as a guilty plea
for like sentencing the person and the person's criminal record.

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But the person doesn't have to say here's what I
did that makes me guilty, which is what you typically
do in a criminal case.

Speaker 7 (01:08:31):
Interesting. Benton Martin, the attorney for this person, said that
she's maintaining her innocence display entering the no contest plea.
The Nichols Law Firm is where you can find Mike
and Thendy, Wendy Nichols and soon their son. I imagine
he's clerking there too, or go to a Tiger game
or a Lions game too, or a golf course near you.

(01:08:53):
It's Michael Patrick Shields through the AT and T microphones.
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Alarm clock starts ringing and good advance, bess saying, and
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Would you have a wake up call?

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It's Michael Patrick Shields, produced by Tony Cuppert and the Orchestra.
You still think I'm crazy standing here?

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Thank you?

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Speaker 7 (01:13:07):
Radio stations across the state of Michigan and worldwide at
MIBiG show dot com. And you heard me say, sort
of very quickly with Attorney Mike Nichols just a minute
ago that at one of two University of Michigan scholars
from China smuggled biological material into the United States and
pleaded no contests. These things actually happen, and if you

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think they don't, we have evidence now in the court
to show that it does. Four Chinese nationals with ties
to the University of Michigan were recently charged with federal crimes.
They smuggled round worms and other biomaterials into the country
on three separate occasions. Now, what are they up to?
What are they doing? It's kind of creepy, isn't it.

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And it's very unusual and it's a criminal case right
now at the University of Michigan. We are with you.
Politics is our family business. Five current members of university boards,
by the way, who are nominated to their positions by
Michigan Democrats, have decided to endorse Mike Duggan, the independent

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for governor. That's got a sting Democrats who put them
in those positions presuming that they would follow the marching orders,
Well they're not. And find that very curious too. It's
Michael Patrick Shields with you. You can rise up and
learn and grow in the greater epicenter of Metro Detroit
at Oakland University. Thank you. Push beyond the four walls

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and think beyond. Get creative opportunities for yourself and learn
more at Oakland dot edu. Speaking of education, there are
I guess three finalists now for the top education job
in the state, and one of them includes an out
of state finalist for the first time in two decades
from Virginia State. The former superintendent there is one of

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the three finalists. The other is from Harrison Community Schools
and Dearborn Public Schools. If you're following that sort of thing.
Oh and speaking of strange and unusual, California man's been
sentenced to eight years in prison. You know what he did.
He shipped weapons and ammunition to North Korea and he
said they were to be used on a surprise attack

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on South Korea. This is a forty two year old
who came to the US from China. Guess how on
a student visa. It happens around us right under our noses.
Politics is our family, business and medias dot vertus. The
truth is in the middle. Shane Hernandez is with us
right now, president of the Michigan Forward Network and he

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was a state legislator and ran for lieutenant governor. Thank
you for being here and welcome back to the program.

Speaker 44 (01:15:49):
Thanks for having me back. It's been a little while.

Speaker 7 (01:15:51):
If you were in the legislature and House Built forty
seven oh seven came in front of you, how would
you vote and what does it do?

Speaker 44 (01:16:00):
I'd be voting yes for it to ban rank choice
voting in the state of Michigan. You were just talking
about strange and weird, and that's what ranked choice voting is.
I don't know. It's a solution in search of a problem.
Right now, one person gets one vote for who they
think is best for the job. I'm not sure what's

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wrong with that. And why anybody wants to fix that.
But ranked choice voting essentially is a system where if
there's four candidates, you would rank those four candidates one
through four, and if none of them get a fifty
percent of the first place votes, then the last person
gets dropped off, and whoever was ranked number two on

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those ballots, then those votes become ones, and you go
on and on with that until enough person gets fifty
percent of the one votes. So I know that sounds confusing,
because it is confusing, and it's going to cause all
kinds of problems with our election system. If rank choice
voting gets put in place in Michigan and.

Speaker 7 (01:17:01):
That process is all done in the tabulation, it's not
like you have to go back and vote again, is it?

Speaker 24 (01:17:06):
Or is it?

Speaker 44 (01:17:08):
You don't have to go back and vote again. But
one of the serious problems with it is if you're
somebody who just you know your candidate, and you just
vote for the first place person and you don't vote
for anybody else, you could have your entire ballot invalidated
if it goes to a second round. If your person
was the last, came in last, and you didn't vote

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for anybody else, then your entire ballot could just be
thrown out and it doesn't even get counted because you
didn't rank a second person. So cause it's all kinds
of problems, you know, I've seen data that says black
voters are two and a half times less likely to
rank votes. So a lot of the proponents of rake

(01:17:50):
choice voting are the people saying voter ID is a
burden that violates civil rights, and then they turn around
and they want a system where the votes of a
black person there are two and a half times more
likely to be thrown out because if they don't have
a second place vote, then their ballots just invalidated.

Speaker 7 (01:18:08):
Interestingly, Barbirom was with us a little earlier, the Ingham
County clerk. She wants to be Secretary of State, and
I asked her what she thought about ranked choice voting,
and she sat squarely on the fence and simply said
that if it's implemented, they'll make sure that it's that
it is facilitated properly. That was her answer to whether
she supported or not.

Speaker 44 (01:18:28):
It's not surprising she's probably trying to tow the Democrat
line and not get in trouble with people who she
hopes vote for in the future. But the reality is,
and this was asked in the hearing yesterday, are there
any clerks who are willing to come out and support this,
because I don't think we've heard of one yet. It
causes all kinds of problems. I don't can imagine trying

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to do a hand recount of ranked choice ballots. I'm
not even sure that's possible. And you have people in California,
they have ranked choice voting in some cities, but when
it comes to re electing statewide candidates like Gavin Newsom,
he vetoed ranked choice voting in the state of California.
It was too radical for him.

Speaker 7 (01:19:09):
So you'd have to write, I want this person first,
I like this one, you know about half as much.
And then if we get down here and you rank them,
these candidates in order, and then it all gets tabulated
and shifted around it. We have enough concern about the
validity of our elections right now. It seems like without
some mysterious system. And Shane Hernandez president of the Michigan

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Forward Network, and if he were there, he would be
voting for a house built four seven zero seven, which
protects Michigan from rank choice chaos. That's what they call it.
Thank you very much and also great to hear your
voice again through the AT and T microphones. It's Michael
Patrick Shields radio stations across the state of Michigan and
worldwide at amibig show dot com.

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Calhoun County, who's accountable for the condition of Michigan right now?
And where do we go from here?

Speaker 20 (01:21:13):
I think it's probably a waste to start pointing fingers,
and I think it's better a energy to start fixing
things in a direction that business leaders know best what
they need to be successful in this state. I think
we all need to start rowing in the same direction.

Speaker 7 (01:21:28):
So we were all geeking out on baseball a few
minutes ago, and Tony Cuthbert made the point that when
you look at someone's batting average, it doesn't tell the
whole story because a walk is a valuable thing to
be able to secure, and in the way baseball does
its statistics, it doesn't even count as an ad bat
So you know, we were going to geek out on
all the statistics here for you. But that's what happened yesterday.

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The Tigers won in a very valuable bases loaded walk
and that was the only run of the entire game. Also, earlier,
we were talking about artificial intelligence, and it's kind of funny.
If I had time, I would have talked to Mike
Nichols about this, because he was at the Tiger game
yesterday and that's what we talked about mainly. But there's
a new movement of women who are in love with

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an artificial intelligence generated man. When we spoke earlier this
morning with John Gallagher, the Free Press columnist about artificial intelligence,
and so this group of women who are in love
with an AI generated man are now claiming that they
are a marginalized group that deserves their own flag, and

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they're quite serious about this. They have sixteen thousand members.
They're calling themselves a community, and they want to have
a flag like a rainbow flag for instance, or any
other sort of pride flag because they're proud that they
are in love with a computer. Pope Leo, who was

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elected pope partly under his sense activity to artificial intelligence
and what it has to do with religion and society
and where we go from here. Now it has to
share living quarters for the first time in modern history
with several of his brethren. They're going to occupy apartments.
He and his brethren, you know, living together. I guess

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there's some sort of Vatican redesign going on. So Pope
Leo has flatmates, and boy, you thought Pope Francis was
rough in it by living in the Santa Maria apartments
instead of the Apostolic Palace. About Leo, Ah, who am
I to judge? It's Michael Patrick Shields. And remember Pope

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Leo was educated in West Michigan and part of his
career all across Michigan. It's Michael Patrick Shields.

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Just a little bit of yo yoma to calm you
down this morning. Take a breath. I know you're very busy.
You're getting your kids back to school, You're getting yourself
in shape, You're working on your physique and your finances
and running around all your appointments. It's Michael Patrick Shields
with you radio across the state of Michigan. Here's some
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He's with us on our radio stage right now, the
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of Michigan. He's not just a great guest, he's a
great guy. Welcome back to the program.

Speaker 25 (01:29:19):
Hello Michael Patrick, good morning. I's glad to be on
your program and talking to you.

Speaker 7 (01:29:23):
First thing, well, I hope that little bit of music
helped you because for a long time, our society put
a lot of emphasis on physical health more so than
mental health. But in the recent years since the pandemic,
that has been blissfully changing.

Speaker 25 (01:29:38):
You are right about that. First of all, I just
want to point out to your listeners at Blue Cross,
Blue Shield and Michigan has long recognized the connection between
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physical health. But unfortunately, our behavioral health care system is
strained by growing demand since the pandemic more identifiable conditions
which have led to longer wait lists and patients to
be seen. And so at Blue Cross, what we're doing
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and supporting the expansion of services to meet that need.

Speaker 7 (01:30:26):
What happens when needs like that go unmet, Well.

Speaker 25 (01:30:31):
What happens is that if you have a mental health
or behavioral health condition, study after study indicate that you
are more likely to forego the type of preventive medical
care that you need to remain healthy. And so if
you have a chronic condition, it's more likely, if you
have an overlying mental health care condition, to let that

(01:30:54):
condition worsen to a point where it becomes very urgent
and very expensive to treat. And so the prevalence of
mental health conditions that go untreated not only lead to
worsening health conditions, they lead to more expensive health conditions,
increasing the cost of care. Increasing the cost of health

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care related losses for businesses as employees, for example, stay
home from work because they don't feel like going to work,
or they can't work because they have a physical health
condition that just becomes worse and worse.

Speaker 7 (01:31:34):
The mind suffers and the body cries out. I remember
was a line in the third Godfather movie. One of
the cardinals was counseling that to Michael Corleone. But mental
health conditions make it harder to get the right care
at the right time for chronic conditions. Can that be true?

Speaker 25 (01:31:52):
It is true, And as I was mentioning, study after
study indicate that there's a tremendous cost associated with that.
In fact, Deloitte recently published a study that stipulates that
mental health care conditions that go untreated account for about
a four hundred and seventy seven billion dollar impact annually

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in the US through higher health care costs and losses
to business productivity, and a projected annual cost of one
point three trillion dollars per year by the year twenty forty.
So at Blue Cross again, what we're trying to do
here in Michigan is then to that curve provide more services,

(01:32:35):
especially services at the point of medical care where we're
doing some innovative things with some of the leading doctors
in the state, but really try our best to expand
the level of services provided allowing people to get their
mental health care conditions treated preventively. Going forward, we have.

Speaker 7 (01:32:53):
Been talking about affordability and the impact of out of
pocket costs with the premiums and taking a broad look
at four hundred and seventy seven billion dollars of annual
impact in the United States, and a lot of that,
as you said, is attributed to chronic conditions. And for
a long time you've been explaining to us that if
you have to go to the emergency room, well that's very,

(01:33:16):
very expensive.

Speaker 26 (01:33:19):
It is.

Speaker 25 (01:33:19):
And those chronic conditions include things like diabetes, which the
Deloitte study says is an eleven point six billion dollar
annual cost, stroke two point nine billion dollar annual costs,
even hypertension three point nine billion dollar annual cost. For
mental health inequities that exacerbate those chronic conditions, and so

(01:33:42):
at Blue Cross, what we're trying to do is work
with our physician community. We've expanded mental health care service
delivery through our physician network, through our program Blue Cross
Coordinated Care it's an outstanding program that has allowed doctors
to hire mental health professionals into their practices so they
can get their patient's conditions identified and treated early in

(01:34:03):
the process.

Speaker 7 (01:34:04):
Three million of the Blue Cross members use the patient
centered Medical Home program. What is that?

Speaker 25 (01:34:10):
That is our program to work with primary care doctors
to expand services for their patients in the clinical setting.
And as I was just mentioning, there are more than
two hundred and seventy five physician practices statewide now where
Blue Cross and the doctors are working together to help
our members know their mental health concerns at the point
of service, get them identified, and get them treated.

Speaker 7 (01:34:33):
I wonder how many office visits are now related to
mental health.

Speaker 25 (01:34:38):
Well, hopefully with all office visits the medical home, the
doctor is talking the patient about their mental health care concerns.
But one in five office visits is now related to
mental health care services. That's the need that we're seeing.

Speaker 7 (01:34:52):
Well, where you appreciate you drawing it to our attention.
And again, if you have an emergency and you must
go to the emergency room, that's obvious the place for you.
But what you don't want is people strolling into the
emergency room with a matter that could be handled with
their regular doctor if they have one, or with an appointment.
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a trilateral with President Trump. Emma Hemming Willis is opening
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Speaker 29 (01:38:25):
and Yourself On the Caregiving Path. I'm Brian Shook and.

Speaker 19 (01:38:44):
Hurricane Aaron Likely won't make landfall on the US mainland.

Speaker 12 (01:39:06):
The summertime in northern Michigan.

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reliable to learn more and curious coincidence. Speaking of northern Michigan,
Tim maguire and his wife Renee were in Charlevoy yesterday
and they ran into my son's mother, Vera Harrison is
his name, Via Ambrose is her name in the parking
lot of a hotel. Small world, isn't it? As they say?

Speaker 21 (01:40:17):
Now?

Speaker 7 (01:40:17):
I mentioned Dennis much More at being in South Florida
and other glamorous locations. Sometimes he's in Detroit, and sometimes
he's in Las Vegas. And well, he's in a glamorous
spot somewhere right now. I bet I wonder where. Good morning, sir,
How are you, sir?

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
Good morning?

Speaker 7 (01:40:35):
What world hotspot are you in today?

Speaker 21 (01:40:38):
I am in green Bay, Wisconsin, not too far from
lambeau Field, at the annual summer meeting of the Board
of Directors of Greenstone Farm Credit Services from Michigan and Wisconsin.
So we have a summer summer event and this year
it's in green Bay.

Speaker 7 (01:40:58):
How about that? In fact, Dennis Muchmore serves on the
board at Oakland University. He's a senior advisor with the
Honigman firm. He was Governor Snyder's chief of staff and
with Greenstone there. You know, the green Bay Packers wear
green makes sense. And you're there a little early for
the Lions game, though, aren't you.

Speaker 21 (01:41:17):
I am a little early, and of course it's sold out,
so you know, there's no chance to get a ticket
in this town. So this is a tough town to
get a ticket in. So you know, I'm looking forward
to the Lions starting off their season with a big
victory and going home and leaving my couple of Wisconsin

(01:41:38):
board members in shambles because they had their Green Bay
stuff on yesterday, So they were walking around puffing their
chests out.

Speaker 7 (01:41:48):
They weren't wearing those cheesehead hats, were they.

Speaker 21 (01:41:51):
You know, they would have been if we'd let them.
They had all kinds of paraphernalia. Dale Wagner and Troy
Celine had all kinds of paraphernalia on yesterday. And Wagner
in particularly is obnoxious about in his love for his

(01:42:12):
beloved Packers.

Speaker 39 (01:42:13):
So, uh, you know, it's fun, it's fun.

Speaker 7 (01:42:16):
Rivalry Jesus part of farming. That's a perfect yeah. Acceptable
at Greenstone there, And for someone who's never been to
Green Bay and maybe never been to a Packer game,
it's really surprising if you look around the NFL at
the cities in which those teams are that that a
market like that supports an NFL team. It's it's it's

(01:42:37):
very quaint, isn't.

Speaker 26 (01:42:38):
It it is.

Speaker 21 (01:42:40):
It's amazing.

Speaker 48 (01:42:42):
Uh.

Speaker 21 (01:42:42):
If you know, if you're a thes In ticket holder,
you don't have equity in the Green Bay Packers, but
you have a lifelong ability to go to games. And
that's of course, what's what this town is built on.
It's a it's a wonderful town and it is uh,

(01:43:02):
you know, it's also the home of of the largest
paper products manufacturers in the world. So they they produce
all kinds of paper. I won't mention which ones, but
they a lot of paper here. So so it's a
great town.

Speaker 3 (01:43:20):
It's fun to be in.

Speaker 7 (01:43:23):
I want to ask you about Donald Trump in a
couple of ways. One he had a hot mic the
other day and he was saying to the president of France,
you know, I think Vladimir Putin wants to get a
deal done for me. I know that sounds crazy, but
I really think. So you worked with Governor Snyder. So
is that a naive thing to say?

Speaker 3 (01:43:46):
I think, Well, I.

Speaker 21 (01:43:49):
You know, you got to you got to question whether
Putin wants to do anything for anybody else other than himself. Uh,
he's a he's a dictator, and he does not represent
the best interests of Russian people, even though he says

(01:44:09):
he does, and they have no freedom and their ability
to have a decent economy is ruined with this foolish
war of attrition that he's running in the Ukraine where
he's trying to run over these folks from the Ukraine.
And why the President has decided to help Bailey Mount.

Speaker 7 (01:44:31):
I have no idea, But do you think somebody at
that level, a governor, a president, a CEO for that matter,
has that much confidence in their personality to say and actually,
do they have to have that much confidence in their
personality to be able to say I can get this
done because I can talk sense to him, I can

(01:44:51):
appeal to them for the art of the deal.

Speaker 21 (01:44:54):
Well, I think that anybody who's president of the United States,
he has a lot more confidence in themselves than you
and I can imagine being possible. It's just goes with
the territory of being President of the United States, most
powerful person in the world, and you've got to have

(01:45:15):
a confidence in yourself or you could never pull off
that job. So I assume that he can have that
kind of confidence. I also think that his adversary, and
I consider the major adversaries, his adversary, Vladimir Putin, has
got more confidence than anybody in the world. Probably he's

(01:45:39):
you know, he runs that country the way he wants
and he does what he wants. So yeah, I think
they've got that kind of confidence.

Speaker 7 (01:45:47):
Just thirty seconds. Why did John Angler seem to have
the power and the juice that Governor Whitmer doesn't have
to marshal his own party into any other parties sometimes
too into submission.

Speaker 21 (01:46:00):
I think John Angler had designed his political career to
build a party, and that was that was what he
wanted to do. And he started out with a design
and he continued to carry it forward, and therefore he

(01:46:22):
exerted a lot more influence over his parties.

Speaker 7 (01:46:26):
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Speaker 34 (01:47:30):
The Yankees tied a franchise record with nine home runs.

Speaker 6 (01:47:34):
To crush the Rays for their fourth Stray win.

Speaker 34 (01:47:37):
Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger, and gian Carlos Stanton went back
to back to back in the first inning and Bellinger
says they're finally on the upswing.

Speaker 5 (01:47:49):
Yeah, I mean, I.

Speaker 35 (01:47:49):
Think the great thing you know with the Yankees is
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Speaker 5 (01:47:55):
we have right now.

Speaker 34 (01:47:58):
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Speaker 7 (01:49:00):
The PGA tour schedule is out and there's one big
shake up. Well, let me tell you about Michigan. First.
The Rocket Mortgage Classic or Rocket Classic whatever they call
it is moving to August instead of the end of
June now, so it will be after the Open Championship
and after all of the majors. But the PGA Tour
is going back to Durell in Miami, Florida, which is

(01:49:21):
now Trump Durell. It'll be called the Miami Championship and
it'll take place April thirtieth through May third. And for
many many years, the PGA Tour was at Durell, started
in nineteen sixty two, and then they lost the sponsor
and the Live Tour has been playing there, and then
there was some talk, you know that the tour doesn't

(01:49:41):
like to play on Donald Trump courses. Well maybe that
silliness is ending and the PGA Tour returns to Durell.
And nothing could make me happier than that on the
PGA Tour schedule, the rest of them. Why don't we
give Greg Johnson a call next to our see we
can reach him. He's a golf writer from West Michigan.
Because there's a lot happening on fair ways and greens

(01:50:02):
in Michigan this week.

Speaker 10 (01:50:03):
Tony Cuthbert, Oh my gosh, MPs and that golf event
that will take place on the PGA Tour next year
at Durell is a signature event, so you will see
each and every single superstar the PGA Tour playing in
that one, unlike some of the other events where you
look at the leaderboard and you have no clue what's
going on. Yes, we have a Champions Tour event at

(01:50:24):
Warwick Hills this weekend, and then the Live Golf Tour
wraps up their season the Team Championship.

Speaker 7 (01:50:30):
It's in Plymouth.

Speaker 10 (01:50:31):
They label it as Detroit, but it's actually in Plymouth
at a new golf course. And they got concerts all
around these things too. They basically they run advertisements for
these golf events. They barely mention golf. They just mentioned
that there's concerts after each and every day of them,
which I find interesting. Also was revealed yesterday that Rory McElroy,
after he won the Masters tournament, he went into the

(01:50:53):
Augusta National Gift Shop MPs and he asked them how
many pin flags, the souvenir pin flags were left over,
and they said one one hundred of them.

Speaker 2 (01:51:03):
So he bought each and every one of.

Speaker 7 (01:51:05):
Them, and they're all being sold on eBay, which is amazing.

Speaker 10 (01:51:10):
If you look on eBay, they're about two hundred dollars
a piece. So Rory is making a mint on all
of this stuff, and there's nothing wrong with that whatsoever.
Speak in with the golf. This is week zero of
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In VC News Radio, I'm Mark Mayfield. Russian President Vladimir
Ukraine peace process. To the White House, Press Secretary of
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Speaker 29 (01:52:15):
and Yourself On the Caregiving Path, I'm Brian Shook and.

Speaker 19 (01:52:34):

Speaker 37 (01:52:48):
Light showers are possible in northern New England. Warman humet
again in the mid atlanting in the southeast with temperatures
near ninety from DC down through Atlanta. Scattered thunderstorms, heaviest
along the Gulf Coast and into Florida are expected. Sunny
in the Midwest, with temperatures topping out in the mid eighties.

(01:53:11):
A few pop up showers are possible in the Great
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reaching the low nineties cross Kansas. In Oklahoma, under mostly
sunny skies. Meanwhile, another scorching day in the Southwest, with
desert highs topping one ten. Expect isolated monsoonal storms over
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(01:53:31):
the coast into the eighties inland from Portland to Seattle.
That's your national forecast. I'm Tammy Trheo.

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Speaker 6 (01:57:58):
Let's start with basebo.

Speaker 34 (01:58:00):
The Yankees tied a franchise record with nine home runs
to crush the Rays for their fourth straight win. Aaron Judge,
Cody Bellinger, and gian Carlos Stanton went back to back
to back in the first inning, and Bellinger says they're
finally on the upswing.

Speaker 5 (01:58:19):
Yeah, I mean, I.

Speaker 35 (01:58:19):
Think the great thing, you know with the Yankees is
you know we're never satisfied, and you know, come to

Speaker 5 (01:58:25):
we have right now.

Speaker 34 (01:58:28):
have named Daniel Jones are starting quarterback over former first

(01:58:51):
pick John Wall retiring after thirteen seasons in the league
that sports i'm Ron Tamoss.

Speaker 37 (01:58:59):
Light showers are possible in northern New England. Warm and
humet again in the Mid Atlantic. In the Southeast, with
temperatures near ninety from DC down through Atlanta, Scattered thunderstorms,
heaviest along the Gulf Coast and into Florida are expected.
Sunny in the Midwest, with temperatures topping out in the

(01:59:20):
mid eighties. A few pop up showers are possible in
the Great Lakes region. Warming up in the Plain States
with highs reaching the low nineties cross Kansas and Oklahoma
under mostly sunny skies. Meanwhile, another scorching day in the Southwest,
with desert highs topping one ten. Expect isolated monsoonal storms
over eastern Arizona and New Mexico. California's coastal spots stay mild,

(01:59:40):
the coast into the eighties Inland, from Portland to Seattle.
That's your national forecast. I'm Tammy Triheo, live.

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Good morning world. Those are two voices you would have
heard on CBS set Warwick Hills all those years for
the Buick Open. Ben Wright and Jim Nantz and Greg Johnson,
a man you've read in a voice you've heard, and
he's an inductee into the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame.
And it's a busy week for him because it's a

(02:01:15):
busy week for golf in Michigan. Thank you for being here,
Grand Rapids, and welcome back to the program.

Speaker 39 (02:01:21):
Hey Michael, how are you today?

Speaker 7 (02:01:23):
I remember the Buick Open with such fondness and I'm
kind of very very happy that some of those players
who were on CBS back then are still playing and
they're doing it again this week in Warwick Hills.

Speaker 21 (02:01:36):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 39 (02:01:37):
I look at the player roster and it's like brings
back a lot of years. In fact, it's like, hey,
some of the young guys are playing. That's how old
I am. There's a second wave. There's a second wave.

Speaker 26 (02:01:52):
Now the.

Speaker 39 (02:01:54):
Sixty eight year old guys have quit playing and now
it's all the new fifty guys who back then were
the flat bellies.

Speaker 7 (02:02:01):
It was like the Ben Crenshaws and the Corey Pavens
and those types that at the height of the Buick
Open were and Tiger Woods for that matter too.

Speaker 39 (02:02:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, Tiger played he played a bunch of times.
He had an arrangement with Buick, which was you know,
huge advantage obviously, and then and Buick was going strong
in Flint then, so thus the Buick Open. I think
I covered twenty five of them. Twenty five Buick Opens
I counted.

Speaker 7 (02:02:30):
It was like a charming stop on the PGA tour too,
because it wasn't in a glamour city like you know,
the tour is going to go back to Miami to Durrel.
I understand next year in the beginning of May. That's
cool because that's an old fashioned historic venue on the
tour as well. But going to Grand Blank wasn't exactly
like going to Miami.

Speaker 3 (02:02:50):
No, it was.

Speaker 39 (02:02:50):
It was a really different in uh and just had
had a certain charm to it, and it had local people.
You saw people that you knew, you know, you do
talking down a fair way, you know, or are hanging
out by seventeen, and you saw a bunch of people
you knew because they all kind of came out for
that one week of golf celebration in Michigan. Now there's

(02:03:12):
so many weeks it's like a little bit chaotics. But
that was, Yeah, it was a special time it was,
and there'd be so many people you'd be holy cow,
didn't you didn't know there were that many golf fans
in Michigan until the Beery Copen happened.

Speaker 7 (02:03:27):
Well, that's the point of it. The town turned out
because you know, what else was there to do in
that area, not that much, and for the big time
event like that show up. I mean, they invented, if
I'm not mistaken, sort of in their own way, the
idea of stadium golf with those bleachers behind those two
par three holes, what is it seventeen and then eight

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maybe on the front nine.

Speaker 39 (02:03:52):
Yeah, they certainly had an impact on that because it
just became a necessity there to kind of control the crowd,
to build something into create something. And they had the
same situation in Arizona at their tour stop, and so
I think it kind of came out of that that,
you know, hey, we can we can control this situation
and not make it so rowdy and and so that

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was the effort then.

Speaker 7 (02:04:14):
And well that didn't exactly work, did it, Because.

Speaker 39 (02:04:18):
It did, but the player, the players did set into
it and they knew it was going to happen when
they got the seventeen, so they were kind of ready
for it, and they would they would throw their balls
in the crowd or throw them in the water, and
you know, they did just made it a fun thing.

Speaker 7 (02:04:32):
It was like an amphitheater and they would do the
wave sometimes. And here's a click by the way from
the nineteen is it eighty six fuzzy math eighty six buick.

Speaker 50 (02:04:43):
Open and Ben Crenshaw after that quite remarkable recovery from
underneath the tree has this pot.

Speaker 7 (02:04:52):
To tie the lead.

Speaker 50 (02:04:54):
And having played a stroke like that Ken Venturi, sometimes
you think this saint takes a hand and this might
have been a winning stroke. Well, they went under that tree, Ben,
and there are not very many players that could hit
the ball left hand, let alone hit the right handed
from there.

Speaker 7 (02:05:09):
But they hit that shot.

Speaker 22 (02:05:10):
That's one of the most miraculous shots I've ever seen.

Speaker 7 (02:05:12):
In this situation.

Speaker 50 (02:05:14):
One of your tips, incidentally, no, not my tip.

Speaker 7 (02:05:17):
I can't hit the left hand. I hit a back handed.

Speaker 3 (02:05:20):
Whoop.

Speaker 50 (02:05:21):
Now there's a marauding insect that there's momentarily untracked and Crenshaw,
it's part. We'll move fractionally to Ben's left. If anything

(02:05:43):
at all, it's got that's a remarkable body and it
ties the lead at seventeen on the bar with Doug
Till Ben Crenshaw making a remarkable coming from the ful fid.

Speaker 7 (02:06:02):
Trouble, fearful marauding and fractionally.

Speaker 21 (02:06:08):
Marauding insect.

Speaker 39 (02:06:09):
Who else can make a bug flying into the guy's
eye that mort is that incredible?

Speaker 7 (02:06:16):
And they were talking about the Ken Venturi stroke saver,
that's what he was referring to him. He was talking
about it, that little feature. The other thing is that
the buick open the scores. Oh boy. We had a
game yesterday at the Tiger Stadium downtown where there were
no runs, just a walk one to nothing. But if
you wanted scoring, you wanted to see birdies and eagles.

(02:06:36):
Warwick Hills was a spot for that, wasn't that.

Speaker 39 (02:06:39):
Yeah, Well, you know what, they hit it at the
time of year when when grass is like perfect in
the chicken and uh, and they always kept that place
perfect and the greens were smooth and they're and they're
relatively not undulating.

Speaker 7 (02:06:50):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:06:50):
There there there are.

Speaker 44 (02:06:52):
Some tough grazer.

Speaker 39 (02:06:53):
It's not as easy as they made it look. And uh,
but I think they set it up because they thought, hey,
this tournament needs to have some kind of you know thing,
so they set it up fairly easy and let the
guys make birdies and it was, you know, twenty five
under twenty three under crazy scores.

Speaker 7 (02:07:10):
The Tour Championship is on this week, but the Live
Tour is in Michigan at the same time at Saint
John's the Cardinal Course, I think is what it's called,
because it's on Seminary Land and Northville somewhere like that.

Speaker 39 (02:07:23):
No, it's in the Plymouth Act, right, it's in the
Saint John's Resort, which is Yeah, it's kind of a
luxury resort that's had twenty seven kind of nondescript golf holes.
But then they they paid Ray Hearn to make it
into a big boy golf course and it's really nice
and beautiful golf course. And Ray Hearn's a Michigan based
architect and he did a nice job. And now they

(02:07:44):
got a live tournament there this weekend. So so yeah,
so there's a lot of golfers, a lot of the
elite golfers in the world are in Michigan this.

Speaker 7 (02:07:52):
Weekend, including you. And how about that down in West Michigan,
they're going to open the week course on the twenty
fifth of August. As I understand it at Harbor Shores
in the Saint Joe Bett and Harbor area where we're
heard on ws j M. Designed by Colin Montgomery.

Speaker 39 (02:08:10):
Yeah, that's that's kind of neat. I U the you know,
the little par three courses in the in those kind
of things for for you know, that can be used
in so many ways, kids to people really trying to
work on their short games. But they're so popular now
and they're in on the act and they got Colin
to help them, who's you know, has a great relationship

(02:08:31):
with you know, playing in the in the senior PGA there.
So it's it's cool. I'm sure it's going to beautiful.
So everything they do there is pretty pretty pretty.

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Speaker 7 (02:12:35):
Everybody's talk about that. Yes, well, we hear that Donald

(02:13:39):
Trump wants to be known as the peacemaker and he
wants to get the Nobel Peace Prize. Is this one
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The inspiring story of retired cat In Douglas j ernest

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On our atn T line rate this very moment. Thank
you for being here and welcome back to the program.

Speaker 23 (02:14:08):
It's a pleasure to be with you this morning.

Speaker 7 (02:14:11):
You really own a Corvette car dealership, I guess, sir.

Speaker 23 (02:14:15):
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Corvette Warehouse dot com, the largest Corvette dealer in America.
We're headquartered here in Dallas, Texas.

Speaker 7 (02:14:25):
Wow. Wait, so you drive one of those babies every day.

Speaker 23 (02:14:29):
I am so fortunate and have the blessings of the
Lord to be able to put me in one of
those cars every day so that I can check them out,
make sure they're servicing ready, and allowing our customer and
our satisfaction department to put these cars back one hundred
percent so that they can be driven and sold across
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I love it. So we can buy one from you
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that's on Corvette Warhouse dot com. Get one, and I
do appreciate the plug. That's very nice of you.

Speaker 7 (02:15:03):
Well, I'm sorry to divert from the topic, but you know,
I get distracted by shiny things, one of them. Are
they They're not going to go all electric Corvette? Are they?
Or are they?

Speaker 23 (02:15:19):
You know, that's a great question. We've had the first
hybrid production car in twenty twenty five with the Corvette
Ere and that's not been very very well received by
the consumer. Consumers want gas corvettes. They've tried the electric approach.
It did not go well. Sales were very very low
and the prices for resale were extremely low. So we

(02:15:40):
see that the consumer wants a gas car. And with
the change of the administration not forcing people to buy
gas car taking away the electric car credit, we believe
that the electric car is going to be a few
more years ahead. To have one hundred percent launched, not
just the hybrid you saw launched in twenty five.

Speaker 7 (02:15:58):
Totally unrelated, but it is dropping the Escape and the
Lincoln Course Air to make more ability to produce selectric cars.
That's just breaking news today. Those mid size SUVs are
gone but have you noticed this is totally anecdotal, but
the latest Corvette models, have they been having any transmission issues?

Speaker 23 (02:16:19):
Boy, you're very informed because you've nailed the hammer on
the heads in twenty twenty when the Corvette came out
the new body style, the C eight Corvette, they actually
had tremendous service issues and we've had hundreds one hundred
of them have gone out on us and have to
be serviced by the GM facility to be able to
bring them back to life. But in twenty twenty we

(02:16:42):
had a lot of transmission issues and other year it's
gotten a little bit better twenty one, twenty two to
twenty three, and that was because we developed the body
of the Corvette to go to mid engine. You know,
some of our European competition and some of the strategic
allies partners of GM across the globe have gone you know,
mid engine on their high level sports car and it
just caused the ruckus and that engine and that drive

(02:17:04):
train and trying to coordinate it with the differential. So
we've had we've had a pretty hard time putting the
transmissions and keeping them on the road for the Corvette.
Hopefully these challenges are behind us now.

Speaker 7 (02:17:15):
Donald Trump told Fox and Friends the other morning, the
President of the United States, that his truest motivation is
that he wants to get to heaven after he dies. Quote,
I want to try to get to heaven. I'm hearing.
I'm not doing well. I'm really at the bottom of
the totem poll. But if I can get to heaven,
maybe this is one of the ways to do it.

(02:17:36):
What did you make of that?

Speaker 23 (02:17:39):
I see a man that has been through the ringer,
a person that has been had an attempt at assassination
on him, someone that takes their heart and goes out
every day and tries to do what they think is
good for the for the for the globe, and trying
to do what's right and maybe give a chance to
pay something back. But then you see this tremendous pushback
by the media and the people, these anti Trumpers and

(02:17:59):
the people with Trump ter rainment syndrome. So you know,
this man, in my opinion, he's my hero. He's the
person that's gone out every day, put his life on
the line, put his identity on the line, put his
freedom on the line. Because he used to have this
great life where he could get up and do anything
he wants to do every day. But now he's working
eighteen hours a day, seven days a week, and he's

(02:18:20):
got to take the bullets every day. The mainstream media
is on him. I was reading all these new feeds
last night. We have such good results coming out of
the Trump meeting, of the Trump vala Denver Zenelfski meeting,
and all you see is the mainstream media bashing President Trump.
The man is trying to stop the senseless warfare that

(02:18:41):
is now killing three to seven thousand per week in
that area of the globe, and he does not get
any credit, and on the contrary, he's getting bullets for it.
You can see it coming from the mainstream media. You
can see it from these Hollywood stars and they're postings
on their social media. It's not just bashing. It is
bullets flying at the man as he's trying.

Speaker 3 (02:19:01):
To do good.

Speaker 23 (02:19:02):
If he can put this peace deal together, his legacy
will be sealed, and I believe he'll be come down
as one of the greatest presidents in the history of
our nation.

Speaker 7 (02:19:10):
Just fifty seconds. But I'm reading in the Telegraph this
morning that Russia is years from victory if they were
to press on and if there was no peace deal,
and it could be two million more casualties before they
could conquer Ukraine.

Speaker 23 (02:19:26):
Absolutely, and those estimates are low. When I went to
military strategy and execution class back in nineteen ninety six,
we had estimated the different approaches of how Russia could
take over different parts of Europe. And some of those
numbers that you gave are actually low, because when you
get into the battlefield and you have the inertial forces
of warfare propelling you forward, there's a lot more collateral

(02:19:49):
damage that comes along with desk.

Speaker 7 (02:19:50):
God, nobody knows it better than Douglas Ernest and his
author is the spirit of a true patriot, and you
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Calhoun County who's accountable for the condition of Michigan right
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Speaker 20 (02:21:13):
Probably a waste to start pointing fingers, and I think
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With inflation and cooling but growth still steady, the timing
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It's been twenty years of this program it's the summer
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And who we got now, Todd Flood Believe it or not.
He was a special prosecutor for the Attorney General in
the Flint Water crisis. High profile attorney in the state
of Michigan. And dare I say, mister Heather Catallo is
on our AT and T line too. With all due respect,
It's nice to meet you, Michael.

Speaker 26 (02:27:57):
The pleasure is mine. Pleasure is mine. Yes, I'm just
a string on the you know, the coattails of Heather T. Tallow,
that's for sure.

Speaker 7 (02:28:06):
Marrying a media person takes a lot of courage. Take
it for me. Yeah, I mean, I'm O for four.
So just go visit performers and see what they say
about that. I also played football in high school. And
uh I also went to CMU to study broadcasting for

(02:28:28):
a little bit. And these two merged together in your
latest high profile case. What happened in Mount Pleasant and
what are you doing about it?

Speaker 26 (02:28:38):
So this is is you know this is I always say,
where are the adults? That's kind of a mantra. Sometimes
we send our kids off the college and you know,
we're entrusting that they, you know, are going to not
have problems with the adults and the supervision that takes
place at the school. Dean Brown with a picture coming

(02:28:59):
out of a Ohio ninety mile an hour fastball well scouted.
He has, as I believe, still hopefully promising career. He
was in Kentucky for a four game series with playing
for CMU. On the last day the last series, last

(02:29:23):
game of the series, he's they have a ritual and
this ritual is is that the coach, the assistant coach
will come by and pump all the pitchers. He's in
between two guys and the assistant coach did a Woody
Hayes move, only worse. He wound up and with Jay,

(02:29:45):
with Dean not looking, punched him. I mean it's a
violent punch in the chests, knocking him over, knocking him back,
and left the pretty serious kintush brew on his chest.
But you know, that's that's one part of the story.
The bigger part of the story is, which is what

(02:30:10):
I can't is unconsortable Dean. Dean is reported to the
head coach later on, and then uh, it goes up
to the athletic director, and what do they do. They
turn a blind eye to them and pine them. They
put them on the pines. They they fit them and
ostracize them and get the other higher you seniors to

(02:30:35):
go against him. The assistant coach, the guy that punched him,
who had some serious problems of his own, which we
lay out a little bit and then give a peak
to sneak preview in the lawsuit, meets them privately and
the practice field and says, hey, we're all good. We're brothers.

(02:30:56):
You understand, We're all good. It's okay, And it talks
to them in the way that is not not a
coach experience. I played sports all my life and this
is this is one of those situations where it's a
bad place for what Dean had to suffered through and

(02:31:18):
that they tried to cover it up. Other players on
the team contacted me. It sketched out exactly what happened,
how it happened. His parents contacted me, and we've shoot CMU,
which is you know, it's a farm. CMU is a good,
good they had, they have had some high recognition in
baseball for certain.

Speaker 7 (02:31:41):
It's interesting when I heard it was a coach bullying situation,
I presumed it was football. It was baseball though, And
basically CMU said to this fella, there's no crying in baseball, but.

Speaker 26 (02:31:53):
In this case there is.

Speaker 7 (02:31:54):
Is it physical damage? Is it mental damage? Is it
damage to his earning potential? What are the injuries?

Speaker 3 (02:32:02):
All three?

Speaker 26 (02:32:02):
So you know all three. He definitely suffered a serious
uh bruse and and you know that part of it.
There was definitely you know, the lack of protection under
Title nine that took place. And there's also you know,

(02:32:23):
he had to stop his career, stop the potential for
him going on forward. I mean, he was a well
scouted situation and now you know, you've got to build
himself back up. Other universities are looking at what why
did you leave? You know, what what happened here? And
you've got to explain it away. And so he he has.

(02:32:46):
But you know that still sets you back, so especially
in college sports and how competitive it is, how how
you know the strength of you know, you know, the
disparity is it's very small, right, there's so many other
players that can potentially jump up, right, So it's one

(02:33:07):
of those situations where it's kind of put him back,
are wrong, which is totally unfair, wrong. And what's the
picture worth nowadays? As an eighteen year old throwing ninety
miles an hour, it's pretty good, you know, and he's
going to do nothing, but it's stronger and bigger and.

Speaker 7 (02:33:22):
Faster, right, So how much are you asking?

Speaker 26 (02:33:26):
You know, I put in the lawsuits enough for the
jurisdictional part, but I'm going to look at the comparables
of what this case is worth around the country and
what has happened with other players. So you're going to

(02:33:47):
see it'll get seven figure case. There's no question in
my mind it'll be a seven figure case. But I
want to make sure it's accurate and on it and
so when we go to a jury in this case,
will make sure that we give a jury and honest
opinion about what this case is worth, and our experts

(02:34:07):
will tell us exactly how much he lost.

Speaker 7 (02:34:10):
That case will take place in Mount Pleasant.

Speaker 26 (02:34:14):
No, it's in federal courts, in federal court because of diversity,
so we filed it. We filed it here in the
Eastern District in Michigan just.

Speaker 7 (02:34:26):
A minute and a half less with Todd Flood. The
you've mentioned the assistant coach who this pregame ritual quote
unquote punched him in the chest, has issues of his own.
What sort of issues he had?

Speaker 26 (02:34:38):
Some drinking problems, inappropriate behavior problems that you know, are
exhibited throughout the team, and people talk about members of
the team talk about.

Speaker 7 (02:34:50):
Is he still working?

Speaker 26 (02:34:51):
You know he is he is.

Speaker 3 (02:34:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 26 (02:34:56):
Again, they attempted to cover this stuff up. I mean,
that's there retaliation. Can you imagine an eighteen year old,
you know, having to go through this.

Speaker 23 (02:35:04):
Well, all right, so this is what we teach.

Speaker 26 (02:35:06):
You about life. You know, we send you off to
college and here's your education.

Speaker 7 (02:35:12):
You know, do you think if the coach had apologized,
it would be a different story.

Speaker 26 (02:35:17):
Yeah. I think if the head coach and the athletic
director apologized and said, hey, listen, we got to figure
this out and have the assistant coach sit down for
a minute as opposed to the player and you know,
take instead of that would have happened. Yeah. I think
a lot of things probably would have been.

Speaker 7 (02:35:32):
Different, and that's something that we're giving we h Yeah,
you'd like to think so and also in this case, well,
we'll follow the story for you. It's a pleasure to
meet you. Todd Flood on radio stations across the state
of Michigan, including near Mount Pleasant there and Big Rapids
Read City WBRN, it's MPs. Have you ever wondered why

(02:36:00):
my health insurance costs seem to keep going up? I
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(02:36:21):
times higher than inflation. It's no wonder healthcare costs or
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I encourage you to take a minute and check OUTMI
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and its impact on your health insurance costs. I've gotta
find Matt Rhodes here at Dustysellar because I want to

(02:37:04):
book a catering order for a social gathering at my
house or maybe I'll have it here at Dusty Cellar.
I gotta know what my options are, and thank god,
there you are, Matt. What are the catering options? Thanks Michael.

Speaker 49 (02:37:14):
You have lots of options that we can cater your
event at home or office or here at Dusty's in
one of our private rooms serving guests of twelve and
up to fifty.

Speaker 7 (02:37:22):
What menu can I order offer for the event?

Speaker 49 (02:37:24):
As of now, we're offering our catering menu for all
of our catering events for both on and off premise.

Speaker 7 (02:37:29):
Okay, I'm going to book something today. I assume I
can still get my six for sixty six dollars wine
clubs and the pastries from the bakery and the full
service at the tap room.

Speaker 49 (02:37:39):
Absolutely all the services are fully functioning. The line clubs
going strong. Catering anytime. The taproom is serving inside and
out while we're still having this great summer weather.

Speaker 7 (02:37:48):
Yeah, you gotta join me at Dusty Cellar. It's on
Grand River in Okamus and online at Dustysellar dot com.
Cheers Matt, Cheers Michael Patrick.

Speaker 19 (02:38:03):
In VC News Radio, I'm Mark Mayfield. Russian President Vladimir
of Caroline Levitt said that includes a possible meeting between
Putin and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky that could lead to
a trilateral with President Trump. Emma Heming Willis is opening
up about her husband, Bruce Willis's dementia diagnosis. Here's Brian Shook.

Speaker 29 (02:38:25):
and Yourself on the Caregiving Path. I'm Brian Shook.

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And Hurricane Aaron likely won't make landfall on the US mainland.
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