Speaker 1: With the inquirer. Your benefits plans are coming up here,
Speaker 1: people with Medicare and stuff, and I don't know what
Speaker 1: I should do about that because I'm sixty eight years old.
Speaker 1: You know what, Let's let's get our guests on this
Speaker 1: is cool to have. I can actually get a free
Speaker 1: consultant here. But what we're talking about here when you
Speaker 1: go in it is that time of year when you
Speaker 1: you know, have to go back in and do your
Speaker 1: insurance work. Insurance YEP, and medicare as a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: that we're talking about pretty healthy jump in price here
Speaker 1: to discuss daniel leboard lebroad from Healthcare Benefits. He's our
Speaker 1: healthcare benefits expert. And daniel what are we looking at here?
Speaker 2: You know, I think we're in for a shot this year.
Speaker 2: We were kind of in our industry were.
Speaker 3: Kind of warned about it earlier in the year that
Speaker 3: we're see big increases. But I'll tell you, you know, we position.
Speaker 2: Clients typically to say, hey, you're gonna have to look
Speaker 2: at an eight to ten percent each year. You kind
Speaker 2: of budget for that, and our goal is to always,
Speaker 2: you know, hopefully get that down further.
Speaker 3: I'll bringing an option that lower.
Speaker 2: That, but right now across the US, we're seeing I
Speaker 2: mean ten is on the low side. We're seeing twenty
Speaker 2: and thirty percent increases, which is unheard of.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: And the youse don't even have to do with, you know,
Speaker 2: any particular reason. It's just it's across the board, particularly
Speaker 2: the small employers, those with under fifty employees who are
Speaker 2: the hardest hit. They're gonna get destroyed this year. And
Speaker 2: that hurts employees as well because they got to pick
Speaker 2: up a portion or all of that increase as well.
Speaker 1: So, Daniel, let me ask, and I think everybody's asking
Speaker 1: the same question in their brain right now, is how
Speaker 1: come on both sides of the aisle. Every year, every politician,
Speaker 1: it seems like, running on we're going to get healthcare
Speaker 1: prices under control, We're going to lower them this, that
Speaker 1: and the other, and now stuff like this happens, and
Speaker 1: it looks like, as you just said, you're we're telling
Speaker 1: people to build in that cost for basically the rest
Speaker 1: of your life. Why can't this be controlled.
Speaker 2: The only it can be controlled? And that's the problem,
Speaker 2: The issue, the biggest issue we have right now is
Speaker 2: the system is controlled by really two parties. You're controlling
Speaker 2: it's controlled by the larger healthcare systems. You're you know,
Speaker 2: in Dallas we've got big Textans Health and Presbyterian and Baylor,
Speaker 2: Scott and White. Across the nation, you've got very large
Speaker 2: healthcare systems and they work. You know, their primary payer
Speaker 2: are the insurance companies. In my opinion, the two of
Speaker 2: them are in collusion. You know, they're they're battling and
Speaker 2: working on contracts to get paid by the insurance companies.
Speaker 3: Thescurance companies are trying to pay them. But overall the
Speaker 3: two of them are.
Speaker 2: All they worry about is profit, and they have to
Speaker 2: answer their boarder directors, and so there's a misaligned incentive
Speaker 2: when it comes to the employers and the and the
Speaker 2: public because we just want good healthcare and a reasonable rate.
Speaker 2: But they're trying to but they're having an answer. They're
Speaker 2: having answer shareholders, and they have to make profit. And
Speaker 2: you know, it just doesn't work. And that's why rates
Speaker 2: cup every year because they everyone has to give themselves
Speaker 2: a ten percent raise every year. They have to go
Speaker 2: to the board and say, hey, how do we make
Speaker 2: more money? Well, we got to raise rates, how do
Speaker 2: you that's it?
Speaker 3: You raise race.
Speaker 2: You have to do that, you have to pay providers.
Speaker 2: It's just this back and forth between the two of them. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: we're sitting back here going we're footing the bill. So
Speaker 2: there are ways, there are ways, however, to stop that,
Speaker 2: and we're doing it at our company and a lot
Speaker 2: of broken around the country.
Speaker 3: But I'll let you kind of ask the next question.
Speaker 3: I'll get into that.
Speaker 4: Well, that was going to be my next question was
Speaker 4: how do you break up? How do you break up
Speaker 4: that party in exactly? How do you get more competition
Speaker 4: in there?
Speaker 2: And yeah, so it's not even competition. So it's comes
Speaker 2: down to contract. So the largest payer of healthcare in
Speaker 2: the United States and Medicare, they could everything is based
Speaker 2: off of them.
Speaker 3: So here's a good example and a way to understand.
Speaker 2: How healthcare works with the health insurance company, the health care,
Speaker 2: the health systems. If I get a h you said
Speaker 2: you're sixty eight, I think ed right, you know, on
Speaker 2: a day over forty, just so you know, So if
Speaker 2: you go and get a procedure done and Medicare pays
Speaker 2: that health system one thousand dollars for it, right, that's
Speaker 2: the basis of all of all negotiation of all contracts.
Speaker 2: Medicare is a basis. So Medicare pays that provider one
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. Done, the health system says, hey, signa, we're
Speaker 2: going to bill you six hundred percent Medicare. So they
Speaker 2: bill signa six thousand dollars for that procedure, right, six times.
Speaker 2: Now Sigma though says, hey, wait a minute, we have
Speaker 2: a contract with you. We're going to go ahead and
Speaker 2: we're going to We're gonna give you a fifty percent discount.
Speaker 2: What happens then it goes down to three thousand. That
Speaker 2: is still three hundred percent Medicare. We are paying three
Speaker 2: times what that true rate of the procedure is. And
Speaker 2: that's the problem with the system. The two of them
Speaker 2: are overpaying. We're overpaying for care that we shouldn't be
Speaker 2: We should be doing the same, and the public should
Speaker 2: be paying the same amount of Medicare, or what we
Speaker 2: call reference face pricing.
Speaker 3: We pay a little bit more.
Speaker 2: We say, okay, Medicare doesn't make it really profitable for
Speaker 2: healthcare systems. I mean there might be a couple of
Speaker 2: percentage points with a profit. We say, hey, we're going
Speaker 2: to pay your fair. Reason about let's call it one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five one hundred and fifty percent of medicare.
Speaker 2: The healthcare systems make money. We pay a lot less
Speaker 2: for the healthcare we're getting. And that's how you keep control.
Speaker 2: That's how you controlled the cost of health care by
Speaker 2: reducing the amount we're paying for claims.
Speaker 3: And in that case, everyone wins.
Speaker 2: The healthcare systems get paid, the employees get their health coverage,
Speaker 2: and our rates stay down.
Speaker 3: The only one not happy about it is the insurance company.
Speaker 1: Daniel Lebrod is our guest. He is the CEO of
Speaker 1: Ovation Health and Life Services. And so daniel who who
Speaker 1: needs to make this change? Can we as people? I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously we're the ones that are taking it up the
Speaker 1: you know, and what can we do about it? Politicians
Speaker 1: aren't doing anything about it? How can we change this?
Speaker 2: So we're changing this. What we say is and I
Speaker 2: have a mastermind group. We talk about this a lot.
Speaker 2: We're changing one employer at a time. In my opinion, honestly,
Speaker 2: it starts with the employers. The employers have to be
Speaker 2: fed up and they are getting set up because they
Speaker 2: can't afford it.
Speaker 3: They can't afford to offer benefits.
Speaker 2: The employers need to first of all, know there are
Speaker 2: options and ways to do things, and these are things.
Speaker 2: Number one, you need to go self funded, and we
Speaker 2: can do self funding down to the smallest employer of
Speaker 2: two people all the way up to thousand thousand. The
Speaker 2: biggest companies in the nation use self funding as a
Speaker 2: mechanism to control costs. You need to be working with
Speaker 2: a consultant or a broker that embraces level funded self funding,
Speaker 2: captives alternative funding situations. And some people think, well, that's new,
Speaker 2: I've never heard of it. Well, first of all, it's
Speaker 2: been around forever, and the ACA actually made it more
Speaker 2: viable to do it for smaller groups. But actually, now
Speaker 2: sixty four percent I believe the number is about sixty
Speaker 2: four percent of all US employers are doing some sort
Speaker 2: of self funding health plan. But that's still a lot
Speaker 2: of those are the big employers. But still everyone is
Speaker 2: starting to embrace that because of realizing it's the only
Speaker 2: way to make change.
Speaker 4: So my open enrollment's coming up in my company, whatever
Speaker 4: they offer me, that's that's what I got. Or is
Speaker 4: there a way to even is there an even little
Speaker 4: tricks of the trade to kind of, you know, nibble
Speaker 4: around and save yourself a few bucks.
Speaker 2: You know, if you're getting through your employer, it really
Speaker 2: has to go into the employees complaining to the employer, like,
Speaker 2: we can't afford this, we need we need to look
Speaker 2: at I heard about these alternative strategies which are becoming
Speaker 2: the mainstream now. So you just say, hey, why are
Speaker 2: we why are we fully insured? Why aren't we looking
Speaker 2: at these other things, these other options? Have you talked
Speaker 2: to our consultant ever broker about that. Unfortunately, the employees
Speaker 2: don't know what they don't know, and they're just taking
Speaker 2: what the employer gives them, and they don't have the
Speaker 2: power to make necessarily make that change. I know in Texas,
Speaker 2: if you're out in the you say, well, maybe I
Speaker 2: can go to the individual market under you know, healthcare
Speaker 2: dot gov and get a policy. Well, Texas, all that's
Speaker 2: available is HMO with and nobody likes it, you know,
Speaker 2: and so everyone is kind of stuck in. And even
Speaker 2: those rates are terrible for the most part, they're going
Speaker 2: up every year.
Speaker 3: It does start, in my.
Speaker 2: Opinion, it does start with the employer, but the employer
Speaker 2: is not going to be making changes until either it
Speaker 2: hurts their pocketbook or the employees complain enough that I
Speaker 2: just can't do this. I can't afford this, And so
Speaker 2: it is it's got to be there's got to be
Speaker 2: that pain to make that move.
Speaker 3: And I think this year is gonna be the year
Speaker 3: of pain.
Speaker 1: Daniel Lebron is our guest from Ovation Health and Life
Speaker 1: and Daniel talk about that as I As I said,
Speaker 1: I'm not on medicare yet, but definitely thinking about it.
Speaker 1: What should I get a consultant? Because I hear so
Speaker 1: many people say, hey, talk to consultant, They'll tell you
Speaker 1: what to do in the plans, blah blah blah. Where
Speaker 1: should I just go home with these government websites and
Speaker 1: look it over. What's the best option?
Speaker 2: So as you come about Medicare, Medicare is really confusing.
Speaker 2: We have we actually, you know, I have an in
Speaker 2: house specialists for that. We help people get a Medicare
Speaker 2: because it has so many options, you know, and you
Speaker 2: see people we have someone on our on our staff
Speaker 2: that turned sixty five last year.
Speaker 3: Or in March, and you know they helped with it.
Speaker 2: She's like, oh my god, I turned sixty four and
Speaker 2: a half. I started getting My mailbox is full of
Speaker 2: stuff on medicare, and I'm so confused, So I think
Speaker 2: you need There's a lot of options out. There's Medicare supplements,
Speaker 2: there's Medicare advantage plans. I personally like Medicare advantage plans.
Speaker 3: I think they're they.
Speaker 2: Give you the best coverage at the lowest cost. And
Speaker 2: basically your your Medicare is paying a health insurance company
Speaker 2: to pull you off of the Medicare books. Basically you
Speaker 2: get better coverage through a private through a private insurer,
Speaker 2: and it helps Medicare because now that the claims go
Speaker 2: to the insured, not to Medicare, which helps to help
Speaker 2: the Medicare system.
Speaker 3: Fine.
Speaker 2: Everything the financial decisions though, you have to look at
Speaker 2: it and say, what's the coverage of those, what's the
Speaker 2: cost going to be, and what is my best what's
Speaker 2: best for me financially, And that's everything.
Speaker 3: We have to be asked what HSA's earlier, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm not a big fan.
Speaker 2: Of HSA's any longer, but they have their purpose for
Speaker 2: some people. You have to wait it out financially for yourself,
Speaker 2: your family and what is best for you. And that's
Speaker 2: where you definitely need whether it's a medicure consultant or
Speaker 2: your employee benefits consultant, at your at your employer.
Speaker 3: Somebody needs to be able to guide you.
Speaker 2: Along that pathway, and you should be getting that kind
Speaker 2: of service from your broker, consultant partner.
Speaker 4: Anyways, you know, it's says she said about the HSA.
Speaker 4: I just started doing one a couple of years ago,
Speaker 4: and I like it a lot. It's maybe it's just
Speaker 4: a mind thing where I'm like, Okay, there's a bill
Speaker 4: that comes in as my kid went to the doctor,
Speaker 4: and it's seventy five bucks. I'm like, okay, well I
Speaker 4: didn't I didn't budget for that this month. Well okay,
Speaker 4: no worries because I had enough in my HSA to
Speaker 4: cover it. And you know, so it obviously still comes
Speaker 4: out of your paycheck. But I don't know, I've kind
Speaker 4: of come to like that. Why don't Why aren't you
Speaker 4: a big fan?
Speaker 2: It's in very So let's go back to an HCA's
Speaker 2: came out originally, when they came out years ago, it
Speaker 2: was it was the whole idea was that there was
Speaker 2: a big cost difference between an HSA plan and say
Speaker 2: a copay plan, So.
Speaker 3: I could have my fifteen hundred dollars double copay plan.
Speaker 2: It's five hundred dollars and my HSA plan is three
Speaker 2: hundred dollars. Awesome, I say two hundred dollars a month,
Speaker 2: I put it in an HSA account. Now it's twenty
Speaker 2: four hundred dollars a year in that HSA account. I'm
Speaker 2: saving money and I still own the cash, and I
Speaker 2: only use it if I really need to. Makes total
Speaker 2: financial sense. I've had h ANDSA plans. The problem nowadays
Speaker 2: is the HSA premiums have caught up to the copay plans,
Speaker 2: and so now employers put that in and the employee says, well.
Speaker 3: I can't afford it. He said, I can't afford.
Speaker 2: A doctor business this month, I have nothing, And employees
Speaker 2: are not putting money into an HSA account any longer.
Speaker 2: And so what ends up happening is the employee says, well, basically,
Speaker 2: I have no coverage on my health plan, so I'm
Speaker 2: just not going.
Speaker 3: To go to the doctor.
Speaker 2: And they're so they're getting crappy your coverage for the
Speaker 2: same price you go. Now I have other other clients
Speaker 2: that say, hey, I don't use it. If I do,
Speaker 2: I can afford a doctor visit, and I want to
Speaker 2: use that agency to funnel, you know, eight thousand dollars
Speaker 2: a year for my family tax free. That's where we
Speaker 2: see most people doing it, is they're using it as
Speaker 2: a tax free you know, put money away tax free,
Speaker 2: and that makes financial sense.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, daniel Lebroad we could talk about this forever,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure we want to talk to you again.
Speaker 4: Good stuff.
Speaker 1: People want to find out more about what it is
Speaker 1: you do there at ovation Life. Where can they go?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: You dan Lebroad on LinkedIn great way to connect with me,
Speaker 2: and then you can go to ovationlife dot com and
Speaker 2: connect with us.
Speaker 3: There as well.
Speaker 1: Daniel thanks so much, man, Hey, thank you. Take care,
Speaker 1: take care. And uh, it's also confusing. That's the reason
Speaker 1: I brought it up because obviously all my friends are
Speaker 1: about my age and everybody's is always talked about medicare
Speaker 1: and trying to get on that, but even healthcare. I'm oh,
Speaker 1: I'm I've had a healthcare system, you know, a plan
Speaker 1: working at every job I've had, and every one of
Speaker 1: those things, I was like, uh, just do what I
Speaker 1: did last year. That's what I do a lot. I mean, frankly,
Speaker 1: you know what everybody does.
Speaker 4: Frankly, take right, Frankly, you take it for granted, Oh, absolutely,
Speaker 4: Like yeah, it's I mean, I'm saying we shouldn't should
Speaker 4: certainly I shouldn't.
Speaker 1: You know, the order are pretty important. It is yes.
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Speaker 1: No? Not really.
Speaker 4: The last good solid I did there, last good Solida
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Speaker 7: Listening people tell her, I trust me.
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Speaker 1: besides all this foolishness, we you do have some stuff
Speaker 1: going on. And my lovely wife does do her for
Speaker 1: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati and and I'm
Speaker 1: so proud of what she does, and she does a
Speaker 1: great job. And you guys got some cool stuff going on.
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, thanks for let me talk about it, because
Speaker 7: there's a couple of things. In addition to we always
Speaker 7: need people to volunteer, So please consider becoming a mentor.
Speaker 7: There's kids out there. We have a couple hundred on
Speaker 7: the waiting list to think about. You know, you've got
Speaker 7: an hour every week or two and you can give
Speaker 7: it and a kid would really benefit. But in addition
Speaker 7: to meeting mentors, we always need funds to help support
Speaker 7: these matches. And so next Tuesday we have this. It's
Speaker 7: our seventh, i think our seventh annual Big Breakfast event.
Speaker 7: It's a three pavilion and we have some amazing panelists.
Speaker 7: Mike l Rossa from obviously l Rosa's being, Gregory from
Speaker 7: Montgomery and Dick Williams from Skyline are giving us their
Speaker 7: time and coming out to talk about the importance of
Speaker 7: mentoring in their personal and professional lives, and so we
Speaker 7: have almost a full house, but some individual tickets are
Speaker 7: still for sale if people want to kind of want
Speaker 7: to look us up and for some reason you can't
Speaker 7: make it.
Speaker 15: We have the Raffle of Raffles, which is food.
Speaker 7: From each of these places for a year. So there's
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Speaker 7: hope everybody can come, but if you can't come, you
Speaker 7: can still get involved. And then the Reds ended up
Speaker 7: donating this giant basket with donated bottleheads and signed items,
Speaker 7: and so there's all kinds of ways folks can get involved.
Speaker 1: I love this, I love this panel.
Speaker 4: These are three awesome guys, Stick Williams, Bean Gregory, Mike Lorosa,
Speaker 4: all guys with great.
Speaker 7: Home hometown heroes exactly exactly, and they're they're just they
Speaker 7: mean so much to the community, and you know, big
Speaker 7: Brothers Speak Sisters was founded here in Cincinnati in nineteen
Speaker 7: oh three, and so we thought, what better way to
Speaker 7: honor the whole agency than to bring in people who,
Speaker 7: you know, carry on a tradition of all the amazing
Speaker 7: things they do in the community today.
Speaker 4: Dean Gregory is an incredible storyteller. And I say that
Speaker 4: with the like that guy, I could sit and listen
Speaker 4: to his stories Burle Burle Love and I had him
Speaker 4: on our podcast The Quire a couple of years ago,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, just keep the tape rolling, because the
Speaker 4: stories that that guy tells are just it's incredible. Is
Speaker 4: he gonna Is he gonna have that opportunity or is
Speaker 4: there is this pretty okay?
Speaker 1: Nice? So it's only worth the events only like an
Speaker 1: hour and a half gong, is it?
Speaker 4: I mean, oh you need you need, you need to
Speaker 4: expand it out to like three or four hours and
Speaker 4: then have it. You have a little cigar hour as well,
Speaker 4: and he'll just hold court.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they all get.
Speaker 7: A chance to tell their stories. We asked them about,
Speaker 7: you know, just kind of their experiences in town and
Speaker 7: and it is it's.
Speaker 15: A quick hour. We have a seven to eight.
Speaker 7: Have some breakfast and then it's eight to nine and
Speaker 7: they tell their stories and we have our big and
Speaker 7: Little brother of the Year who were telling their stories,
Speaker 7: and it's it's just there's just a lot going. It's
Speaker 7: a packed hour. But I'm telling you the stories that
Speaker 7: we've heard over the last seven years. It's just amazing
Speaker 7: what you walk away from in terms of, you know,
Speaker 7: perspective and appreciation, whether it's for the lives they've lived
Speaker 7: or they're impact here and just mentoring all together.
Speaker 1: Well, see you actually you have mentored what three four girls, three.
Speaker 15: Three little girls.
Speaker 7: I would always go over to Newport Elementary and our
Speaker 7: primary and just you know, it's for me. It was
Speaker 7: forty five minutes a week at her school, at their school,
Speaker 7: and so that worked out great. So we have those programs,
Speaker 7: which I was amazed by how much forty five minutes
Speaker 7: a week during a school year meant to a kid.
Speaker 7: It was stunning to me how much she looked forward,
Speaker 7: they look forward to me coming by and just kind
Speaker 7: of having lunch and talking about it and our community
Speaker 7: based program. You go and pick them up at their
Speaker 7: home maybe a Saturday or maybe on a Tuesday evening
Speaker 7: when you both have time, but you can make it work.
Speaker 7: You can make it work. And we have kids out
Speaker 7: there who would be so grateful, and a lot of
Speaker 7: bigs who are are best recruiters talking about the impact
Speaker 7: it makes on them too, and not just the kids.
Speaker 7: It's pretty incredible. These kids go to college, or they
Speaker 7: go into a trade, or they go to the military,
Speaker 7: and they end up being terrific members of society who
Speaker 7: give back on their own and the ripple effect in
Speaker 7: our communities is incredible because they're working and supporting their
Speaker 7: families and being really really great people to look up to.
Speaker 1: Cool well, and I think that's and we're talking to
Speaker 1: my wife Deborah and w we you and I've talked
Speaker 1: about it, and I know what you guys do and stuff.
Speaker 1: But I think that's a common misconception that you have
Speaker 1: to dedicate a day or a weekend or whatever the
Speaker 1: case might be to these kids. And as you said,
Speaker 1: I mean forty five minutes a week. It ain't nothing,
Speaker 1: but man, it can help a kid.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you barely knew. I was gone, That's what I
Speaker 7: was and then, but it is. It's just because it's
Speaker 7: somebody showing up for them who in their lives they
Speaker 7: don't necessarily have a lot of structure, and people who
Speaker 7: say they're going to show up don't. And so when
Speaker 7: I would walk through that door, or when any big
Speaker 7: walks through the door, those kids are just so appreciative
Speaker 7: that you have come back because you said you would,
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Speaker 7: so much of your time. Think about adding this person
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Speaker 7: or that's what you do for lunch one day a
Speaker 7: week on a Thursday. And we work really hard to
Speaker 7: make sure it doesn't cost people a bunch of money.
Speaker 7: We have a ton of activities and free things, and
Speaker 7: God love folks at the zoo, the nature Center, the
Speaker 7: museum Center, King's Island, all the sporting teams in town
Speaker 7: offer us tickets to get to our matches so that
Speaker 7: they could do those things the kids wouldn't have a
Speaker 7: chance to do.
Speaker 1: That's all.
Speaker 4: As I was gonna ask you about, like what are
Speaker 4: some things you can do? And then you know where
Speaker 4: does Big Brothers, Big sisters come in and help in
Speaker 4: that way. You mentioned the school, So does you guys
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Speaker 7: Sure, we have certain there's certain schools that we have
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Speaker 7: like some people would want to go like for me,
Speaker 7: I left the office and went over to Newport. Some
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Speaker 7: have a lot of things. Trust me, if you want
Speaker 7: to volunteer with our agency, we will find a way
Speaker 7: and you can look at the website and just see
Speaker 7: the work that we're doing so results with the kids
Speaker 7: and just realize that it can work for you. And
Speaker 7: so that's you know, that's say when we have that
Speaker 7: kind of support from the community who want to volunteer,
Speaker 7: and then also the support from corporations and individuals like
Speaker 7: with his breakfast on Tuesday when it all comes together.
Speaker 7: We're so grateful that people think of us in that
Speaker 7: way to give us that support and that backing. It's
Speaker 7: just it's it's incredible.
Speaker 4: Really Big Bigs for Kids dot org.
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Speaker 1: All right, darling, I will see you shortly and one
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Speaker 7: That website it's it's BIGS for Kids and that's f
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Speaker 1: My wife Deborah. Thank you, singing a bit, thank you,
Speaker 1: good stuff, thank you. Uh yeah, but I'm I am.
Speaker 1: I talk a lot of crap, but I'm so proud
Speaker 1: of what she does. They do great, great work.
Speaker 4: And you can tell deb is so passionate about it.
Speaker 1: And she's been doing over twenty years. Yeah, and she.
Speaker 4: Walks to walk and I mean she does it too.
Speaker 4: You know, she mentors and just works there, but does
Speaker 4: does the work. So that's great.
Speaker 1: One of the little girls that she mentored back when
Speaker 1: this girl came from a horrible home and was a
Speaker 1: real problem kid in school. And but you know, talking
Speaker 1: with Deb and Deb was her big sister for four
Speaker 1: or five years probably, and now that little girl has
Speaker 1: grown in college.
Speaker 4: That's awesome. So yeah, it gives me goosebumps. Turned it around,
Speaker 4: ayttle bit. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Alexander Coole is from the Inquired Business Reporter, talking about
Speaker 4: Dolly's being here and gone right. I didn't even get here, right.
Speaker 1: I think tomorrow is Everything's supposed to be a closed door.
Speaker 4: And big boy yep. Everything So.
Speaker 1: Now is fresh is going to try to make a comeback.
Speaker 1: There are fishes around, I know that, but is this.
Speaker 1: Were they going to come back in and go, okay,
Speaker 1: let's reclaim this and come back or they're just going
Speaker 1: to turn I forget who we talked to the other day.
Speaker 1: It was Nick Knakis, right, well, it was no from locally.
Speaker 1: It was Dan Munk from Channel nine from the I
Speaker 1: team who had been reporting on this as well. And
Speaker 1: he was talking about if some restaurant doesn't come in
Speaker 1: and claim these places, I'm going to just start parceling
Speaker 1: it out. And these are prime locations. Pricio's was always
Speaker 1: known for that, So that could be a car wash there,
Speaker 1: or a gas station or whatever. So I was thinking
Speaker 1: about it today. Actually, Jason, if if you would have
Speaker 1: told me, if you were told anybody who grew up
Speaker 1: around here, maybe ten years ago, you could kind of
Speaker 1: see it kind of circling the drain a little bit,
Speaker 1: because I was starting to go downhill and stuff. But
Speaker 1: certainly if you had told me twenty years ago that
Speaker 1: Frishes would be gone from this area, I would have
Speaker 1: told you you were nuts.
Speaker 4: I mean, Fishes was an institution here, correct Skyline Chili, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean that literally. It would be like every chili
Speaker 1: place goes out of business, you know, it's like every
Speaker 1: Skyline closed, every gold Star closed, whatever.
Speaker 4: But Frish has gone away. I'm never, in my wildest dreams, never.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've got one right down the street from
Speaker 4: my house. We used to go There're a lot my
Speaker 4: kids were smaller. They're little now, I mean, but when
Speaker 4: they were littler, we go there for the Saturday breakfast bar.
Speaker 1: That's why.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you it just it turned bad, not the food,
Speaker 4: just the service and the cleanliness of the restaurant. And
Speaker 4: it's like, e, that's what happened with us. I told
Speaker 4: that one the other day, exactly the same thing. When
Speaker 4: my kids were little, there was a freshes not too
Speaker 4: far from us, and you know they that's when your
Speaker 4: kids wouldn't get up. And believe me, if you don't
Speaker 4: have little kids yet, you better be ready to eat
Speaker 4: breakfast at six thirty seven o'clock on a Saturday morning,
Speaker 4: because if you ain't giving them cheerios, you better be
Speaker 4: ready to head someplace that opens early. And that's what
Speaker 4: we would do. We'd head to Fishes and do the
Speaker 4: breakfast bar. And I saw it just in the two
Speaker 4: or three years that the kids were little. I saw
Speaker 4: it just kind of man, after a while, that's pitiful,
Speaker 4: pet like you could just tell it like you just
Speaker 4: felt the yuck of the tables, like you never I
Speaker 4: never really knew if the table was clean or not.
Speaker 4: And like the door when you you know, go out
Speaker 4: the door or whatever, like it's like I'm usually pretty
Speaker 4: careful about that. I wear long sleeve which is one
Speaker 4: of the reasons why I do so. I always tuck
Speaker 4: my hand in. But I'm not really a German Poe.
Speaker 4: But like there, I was like, well this is yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm I don't worry about I do that around here.
Speaker 4: I can't remember the last time. I can't remember the
Speaker 4: last time I went to Frishes.
Speaker 1: At this point, I agree, uh, never turned down an
Speaker 1: onion ring or a big boy. But that big boy's good.
Speaker 1: And that's a I made. I tried to make my
Speaker 1: It's funny and we say, we're talking about this right
Speaker 1: now because I tried to make myself a fake buddy
Speaker 1: boy today. Oh really, because we had some good ham
Speaker 1: in the fridge. Yeah, and so I tried to fashion
Speaker 1: it and I got some Frishes tartar sauce we always
Speaker 1: have in the fridge, and it was nothing like it,
Speaker 1: but it was pretty damn good. Now, so I told
Speaker 1: my wife, was like, it's not a buddy boy, but
Speaker 1: it's a damn fiam sandwich. What is the buddy boy
Speaker 1: ham fresh's tartar sauce, cheese, cheez Yeah, a little little pickle,
Speaker 1: a little okay lettuce.
Speaker 4: That sounds good. Yeah. Now the good news is that
Speaker 4: the freshest tartar sauce is here to stay, because remember
Speaker 4: that's another company that has that.
Speaker 1: And that's not going anywhere. We get a guess about it.
Speaker 1: We talked to that lad. Yeah, yeah, Well we're going
Speaker 1: to be talking to Alex Koolidge coming up next about Dolly's.
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Speaker 1: The first time County's thing that really, it surprised me
Speaker 1: what a big deal it was. I mean, I get
Speaker 1: the whole freshes thing kind of full, and I've gotten you.
Speaker 1: I've gotten a couple of emails from people saying there
Speaker 1: are good frishes around. I get it there totally are, yes,
Speaker 1: but they are you know, they're think about I have
Speaker 1: no idea. I wish I had that number in front
Speaker 1: of me. How many fishes there were in this in
Speaker 1: the Tri state area, and every one of it. If
Speaker 1: you walked into frishes, you knew what you were getting.
Speaker 1: It was going to be good, The service was going
Speaker 1: to be good, it was going to be clean, everything
Speaker 1: was going to be the food was going to be
Speaker 1: spot on. Boom boom boom. And that just kind of
Speaker 1: trickled away, and then these Dolly's things come in and
Speaker 1: it's almost like people resented them for they were taking
Speaker 1: over the old big boy locations, right correct, Yeah, Dolly's
Speaker 1: Burgers and uh, what was it? Burgers and shakes? I
Speaker 1: never went to one. Well, let's talk to your Campadre. Oh, buddy,
Speaker 1: Alexander Coolidge, Alex, welcome back to the program. Hi guys,
Speaker 1: you going good? And buddy you you've been reporting on
Speaker 1: this since since the get go? And so is it,
Speaker 1: Alex almost that these they were a victim of people
Speaker 1: kind of resenting them, almost like they came in and
Speaker 1: forced fishes out when all they were doing was coming
Speaker 1: in and taking over these locations. Or is it more
Speaker 1: just they didn't know how to manage restaurants.
Speaker 15: I'm not sure.
Speaker 19: What exactly it was. There were signs early on that
Speaker 19: there were some issues. Just to take it back a
Speaker 19: little bit for review a year ago, you know, all
Speaker 19: through fall and well into winter, Fresh's Big Boys at
Speaker 19: a massive falling out with its prime landlord, and it
Speaker 19: went from having about eighty restaurants plus grand total, you know,
Speaker 19: including well over a dozen here just in Cincinnati, to
Speaker 19: having they only have about thirty one total locations now
Speaker 19: and a lot of those are actually licensed and franchised
Speaker 19: out to other operators, not not even run by Fresh's
Speaker 19: itself for saying that sort of thing. So they they
Speaker 19: were actually they went through eviction processes. They were like
Speaker 19: just dungeons of these things. They closed last winter and
Speaker 19: their their landlord said, you know, you always more than
Speaker 19: four point five million dollars in back rent, uh, and
Speaker 19: we're kicking you out.
Speaker 3: And then it got.
Speaker 19: Really interesting because it turns out that same landlord started
Speaker 19: talking the Big Boy out of Michigan, which is a
Speaker 19: related they're not related, they're like sibling companies. Big Boy
Speaker 19: first appeared in California. California. Big Boy was trying to
Speaker 19: figure out how to expand uh, and he discovered the
Speaker 19: dawn of franchising.
Speaker 11: He cut a deal with.
Speaker 19: Frishes back in the you know, the forties, saying, hey,
Speaker 19: here's your territory, use my brand name, that sort of thing. Well,
Speaker 19: he cut us a similar deal with a group of
Speaker 19: brothers out of Michigan and did the same thing then.
Speaker 19: And what this is like going back to the forties
Speaker 19: and fifties all that. Later on, the Michigan folks bought
Speaker 19: out California, and so there's sort of these two historic
Speaker 19: brands that have existed for eons, Harry. So the landlord
Speaker 19: talks to Michigan, Michigan says, hey, you got a bunch
Speaker 19: of old restaurants and are closed, We'll take them over.
Speaker 19: So that's how this whole thing started with that.
Speaker 1: That's how the dollies thing came along, right, Yeah.
Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, Well, Henry, what happens is Chriscia's big boy
Speaker 19: gets the wind of it, and then he said, wait
Speaker 19: a minute, you can't come in here and open up
Speaker 19: big boys operating big boys with.
Speaker 1: Our names in our territory.
Speaker 19: Yeah, because what happened was there was there there have
Speaker 19: been multiple agreements over the decades about the use of
Speaker 19: the name, and what Frish has said was, wait a minute,
Speaker 19: we have a trademark. Your company is called Big Boy,
Speaker 19: but we own Big Boy in Cincinnati and throughout much
Speaker 19: of Ohio. So that's where the uh so, Big Boy
Speaker 19: Michigan is in the mid ends of this expansion, and they're.
Speaker 1: Like, going, well, i'll tell you what.
Speaker 19: Well, let's just call it Dollies for now, named after
Speaker 19: Big Boy's girlfriend in the comic books from back back
Speaker 19: in the day, and we'll just sort of see it
Speaker 19: from there. But there was this ongoing lawsuit over the
Speaker 19: trademark for these past several months, and then and then
Speaker 19: there were signs of problems that emerged quickly after they
Speaker 19: opened the Dollies. They opened the first couple very close
Speaker 19: to each other here in Cincinnati in early March, and
Speaker 19: at the time, the folks from Big Boy Michigan said, Hey,
Speaker 19: we're going to reopen fifty of these things, and we're
Speaker 19: all gonna you know, they're all going to operate under us.
Speaker 19: And they always described Dollies as sort of a working
Speaker 19: title name, meaning it was just going to be sort of.
Speaker 1: Temporary that sort of thing. But then and they were
Speaker 1: interviewing people, they.
Speaker 19: Were soliciting people to apply for jobs, and upwards of
Speaker 19: twenty of these things in the spring. But then all
Speaker 19: of a sudden, all that disappears by about April. What
Speaker 19: the last location of Dollies that opened was in April,
Speaker 19: and that was in Dell High. It was in that
Speaker 19: far from my house actually, and I've eaten there a
Speaker 19: few times. I ate there a few weekends ago. Thought
Speaker 19: it was fine, but it was very, very very underpopulated
Speaker 19: that yeah, And I drove past it several times. I
Speaker 19: would notice just mine. I was like, I was always going, hey,
Speaker 19: I got to write an update about these guys, And
Speaker 19: I'm like going, man, they should have don't have a
Speaker 19: lot of people in the park lot.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what's up with about that.
Speaker 19: So that's kind of at a roundabout, uh recap, I guess.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you, Alex. So we were talking
Speaker 1: about their kind of that was supposed to be like
Speaker 1: a temporary branding. Was the hope that eventually they were
Speaker 1: going to get the Frish's name to use, or were
Speaker 1: they going to rebrand.
Speaker 19: It off all together. They didn't want to call it
Speaker 19: Frish's Big Boy. They just wanted to call it Big Boys.
Speaker 19: So if they won, they would have you would have
Speaker 19: had Big Boy Restaurants, and then you would have had
Speaker 19: Fish's Big Boy Restaurants here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: So that would have been the issue.
Speaker 19: I think part of what might have well.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 19: This is a part of the show called we don't
Speaker 19: know because both of these companies are private energies and
Speaker 19: there's only so much disclosure in all the court filings.
Speaker 1: But we'll call it I I.
Speaker 19: Don't know what I think. Uh, it's possible that the
Speaker 19: fact that the temporary branding might have hurt them, A
Speaker 19: lot of people might not have. There was there was
Speaker 19: a lot of hype about this, a lot of a
Speaker 19: lot of news, a lot of stories written by myself
Speaker 19: and many other outlets saying, oh, here's Dolly's there related
Speaker 19: the Big Boy, but they're fighting with this other big
Speaker 19: Boy that sort of thing. But a lot of people
Speaker 19: might have missed that, and they might have been just going,
Speaker 19: what the heck is this Dolly's concept? I don't, I don't,
Speaker 19: I don't know anything about it, that sort of thing,
Speaker 19: and I'm busy and I don't have enough money. And
Speaker 19: by the way, what's up with all these temporary signs
Speaker 19: they keep putting up. They were like putting these like
Speaker 19: tarts up. You said dollies on.
Speaker 4: Your story. Yeah, from your Yeah, that's right. It just
Speaker 4: looks looks pretty uh pretty low rent. You got a question, Alex,
Speaker 4: so tomorrow all the doll all these clothes by October
Speaker 4: twenty three, reading from your sorens and saying dot com, meanwhile,
Speaker 4: are the are the Frishes big boys that are still around?
Speaker 1: Are they remaining open? Are they also closing tomorrow?
Speaker 19: No, they're They're They're gonna stay open. And they even uh,
Speaker 19: they were like crowing, uh you know, the same day
Speaker 19: that they shut.
Speaker 3: Down, and it's like, we're open.
Speaker 1: It's wonderful, it's great.
Speaker 19: Gotcha they were all but they were all the thing
Speaker 19: ding dong, which is dead. Yeah, it's crazy. Now they
Speaker 19: haven't changed their giant wave of closures you know was
Speaker 19: uh I think it. I don't remember when the last one, uh,
Speaker 19: when they were doing their mass closings, I don't remember
Speaker 19: when the very last one happened.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 19: They were doing it almost in the in the undercover
Speaker 19: of the night. But it was either this past January
Speaker 19: or or in just basically but they have thirty I
Speaker 19: think thirty one locations in Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio all together,
Speaker 19: and that has remained stable for several months now.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I I'm just real curious to see how
Speaker 1: all this shakes out. And and let me ask you too.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Alexander Coolidge from the Inquire Cincinnati dot com. Alex,
Speaker 1: it seems that so for a company that you know,
Speaker 1: is so big as the Dollies whatever you want to
Speaker 1: call them, branch of this were and operating all these
Speaker 1: stories in Michigan and California. Yeah, everything I heard about
Speaker 1: him was that they had staffing issues, they had supply issues.
Speaker 1: That people were going in there and I want a
Speaker 1: big boy or whatever and they'd be, oh, well, we
Speaker 1: don't have any Hamburgers today. I mean, not that drastic.
Speaker 1: Maybe not that drastic, but it was stuff like that,
Speaker 1: I mean, how can that happen? Well, that's pretty crazy.
Speaker 19: A lot of there's a lot of there's a lot
Speaker 19: of common ones in the restaurant industry. To add to it,
Speaker 19: I think a lot of a lot of restaurants, not
Speaker 19: just Dollies, not just Freshes, are also struggling with just
Speaker 19: pricing uh. Cumulative inflation since the since just before the
Speaker 19: before the pandemic outbreak, is the cost of living is
Speaker 19: twenty five percent plus more than it was five a
Speaker 19: little over five years ago.
Speaker 3: It's it's uh.
Speaker 19: And unless you've gotten uh twenty five percent worth of raises.
Speaker 19: At whatever job you're working, you're you're making Consumers are
Speaker 19: making less money than they used to so and then
Speaker 19: restaurants are caught in the middle. They have higher prices,
Speaker 19: they have to charge more or figure things out, and
Speaker 19: then they have customers who don't want to spend as much.
Speaker 9: My last the last time I went.
Speaker 19: To Dolly's, I was like, my father in law wanted
Speaker 19: to try, you know, go there for like a family breakfast.
Speaker 19: We three people, We ate fifteen bucks of plate and
Speaker 19: we're talking like eggs and you know, pancakes, that sort
Speaker 19: of thing. That's you know, that was not the most
Speaker 19: outrageous meal I've ever had. But you know that's not
Speaker 19: exactly that. There's no booze involved.
Speaker 1: They're having mimosas. Bloody Mary's right.
Speaker 19: It's you know, going out to eat in twenty twenty
Speaker 19: five is a lot different than it used to be,
Speaker 19: and it's it remains it's people are those who do
Speaker 19: go out are being very choosy. And you know that's
Speaker 19: part of an ongoing saying the restaurant industry. The reason
Speaker 19: there was an opening for Dollies was because Frishes we
Speaker 19: was struggling so mightily with these same with these same factors.
Speaker 1: So all right with with that, Alexander Coolidge, we appreciated
Speaker 1: alex Thanks so much, buddy, good stuff friend. All right,
Speaker 1: tell you Alexander Coolidge from the Inquirer Cincinnati dot man.
Speaker 4: He's been all over this big boy, Frish's Fresh's big boy.
Speaker 1: We've talked to him a couple of times.
Speaker 4: Dolly's whatever. That my head spinning from all the names
Speaker 4: and who's doing what? He's been all over that story.
Speaker 1: Go back to what I said earlier, I can't believe
Speaker 1: that Frishes has basically gone away.
Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 1: me Rockaby back tomorrow. So, Jayson, I ever since I
Speaker 1: was a kid, I've wanted to be on some kind
Speaker 1: of game show. I don't care if I could see
Speaker 1: I could see that with you, you know, being the
Speaker 1: radio guy all those years and wow, no, I just well,
Speaker 1: I wanted to be on it, not announce it. I'm
Speaker 1: wanted to be on Prices, Riot or freaking whatever. Pick
Speaker 1: one of them ten thousand dollars. Well, whatever is now
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars pyramid. You just wanted to see
Speaker 1: Barker's beauties, Well, no doubt about that. I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I kind of bind for
Speaker 1: a couple of those girls, and apparently so did Bob.
Speaker 1: But but this local woman that we're about to talk
Speaker 1: to actually realize that dream, my dream, Amanda. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: get it to Amanda. Tolkien's our guest and Amanda, so
Speaker 1: let's first off, congratulations for making it there. Amanda's a
Speaker 1: local attorney working at for Carl Lewis and the at
Speaker 1: that agency, and uh so explained the process from jump
Speaker 1: it would do people caepe telling you, hey, Amanda, you
Speaker 1: should try to get in there, and did that kind
Speaker 1: of thing or what happened.
Speaker 21: So I've always been huge in the trivia. I've been
Speaker 21: playing bar trivia around the town. It's probably fifteen twenty years.
Speaker 21: And I have applied to Jeopardy since I was in college,
Speaker 21: so probably close to twenty years. You take the online
Speaker 21: anytime tests and then if you do well enough, they
Speaker 21: have you taken another test pre COVID. It was in person,
Speaker 21: but now it's they have a camera on to make
Speaker 21: sure you're not cheating, and then you do well enough
Speaker 21: on that they have you on a Zoom interview with
Speaker 21: eight or nine other people and if they like what
Speaker 21: they see, you could get a call anytime in the
Speaker 21: next two years to come out to LA.
Speaker 4: And they liked what they saw. How when did this
Speaker 4: process then from that moment start and how long before
Speaker 4: you end up ultimately getting on air getting.
Speaker 3: That call.
Speaker 21: This time around? I think I took the test in January,
Speaker 21: and it's actually kind of funny. The Zoom interview. I
Speaker 21: forgot that my laptop mike didn't work and so I
Speaker 21: was freaking out. They couldn't hear me and we had
Speaker 21: to reschedule it. But I did it again, I want
Speaker 21: to say, in May or June, and then I got
Speaker 21: a called August and they said, hey, can you come
Speaker 21: out here in September? And I said I'm already going
Speaker 21: out for Oasis and they said you should just stay.
Speaker 4: Wow, So what.
Speaker 1: So how what a happened stance that was? And what
Speaker 1: two entirely different things that is?
Speaker 21: Unfortunately I could not stay in LA for two weeks.
Speaker 21: My brother lives in Santa Monica. So I took two
Speaker 21: trips in a week to La So and that's how
Speaker 21: I got the Rose Bowld question. I was there the
Speaker 21: week before.
Speaker 1: Well see, yeah, that's the thing, and I got it
Speaker 1: and I got to tell you. But what described before
Speaker 1: we get into the actual show itself with you being
Speaker 1: up on stage and stuff, what's the prep? Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: how how do they stage this? Are they? I would
Speaker 1: assume they're shooting multiple episodes at a time?
Speaker 7: Huh five a day?
Speaker 1: Five a day?
Speaker 7: Okay, five a day.
Speaker 21: So they told me I had to be out there
Speaker 21: for at least two days.
Speaker 1: So where are you during? Are you in the audience?
Speaker 1: Are you sequestered someplace round? Does that work?
Speaker 21: They're actually pretty good about suppressing. If you haven't played yet,
Speaker 21: you get to see a live feed of the episodes,
Speaker 21: but all the contestants are kept in a green room
Speaker 21: until you fly.
Speaker 4: And is there any way to prepare for what you're
Speaker 4: gonna what the categories are going to be? And I
Speaker 4: know you've you've been preparing for years, I mean, doing
Speaker 4: trivia all over the place. And obviously I'm sure you're
Speaker 4: an avid reader and you know, consuming all kinds of
Speaker 4: history and current events and everything. But is there any
Speaker 4: way that you then in that moment, like you know
Speaker 4: you're going to go on stage ahead of that, are
Speaker 4: you doing any kind of a crash course on you know,
Speaker 4: something that you think they might they might be a category.
Speaker 21: So I watched tens of old episodes, but then I
Speaker 21: also ordered a few encyclopedias and just did everything I
Speaker 21: could that. I've always been the kind of person that
Speaker 21: if I have questions, I'll just go down Wikipedia hole.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and.
Speaker 21: We read lots of news and if I'm curious about something.
Speaker 21: I'm actually in an online trivia league as well learned league,
Speaker 21: so that helped a ton. And I had a really
Speaker 21: good friend who went on a few years ago, so
Speaker 21: she kind of trapped me a little bit too in
Speaker 21: terms of just what to expect, and but she went
Speaker 21: during COVID, so that was a very different experience.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: So let's and we're talking to Amanda Tolki, who was
Speaker 1: on Jeopardy just the other night. I've always when I've
Speaker 1: heard people talk about being on that show, that the tree,
Speaker 1: and I think Ken Jennings one of the big things
Speaker 1: he had was you got to learn how to hit
Speaker 1: that quick clicker at the right time or it's a right.
Speaker 21: Is the buzzer? Yes, And unfortunately that's one of the
Speaker 21: weirdest things to try to practice. I would watch the
Speaker 21: show with you know, kind of a clickie pen. Okay,
Speaker 21: but until you get there, you can't really practice on
Speaker 21: their system.
Speaker 4: So the moment the first time you're using that is
Speaker 4: that when the when the on air camera comes on,
Speaker 4: the bright lights go on.
Speaker 21: Well, thankfully they let us do two rounds of rehearsal
Speaker 21: before we found any episode.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, well let me uh, let me ask you
Speaker 1: what's what's Ken Jennings like?
Speaker 21: Oh he was so personable, unfriendly and so much fun
Speaker 21: to talk to. You could tell he really liked trivia
Speaker 21: and are kind of behind the scenes thing at the
Speaker 21: end of the episode when you can hear him or
Speaker 21: see him talking to us, but you can't hear it.
Speaker 21: He will actually ask people how they got questions. He
Speaker 21: didn't know, so when he first gets the questions that day,
Speaker 21: he goes through and he plays a lot.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's cool.
Speaker 21: Yeah, well he asked me about one of mine and
Speaker 21: it felt so good.
Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you, Amanda that watching the last
Speaker 1: question see I'm I always make fun of my wife
Speaker 1: because if we're watching any game show, I don't care
Speaker 1: if it's Jeopardy or especially Price is Right. I don't
Speaker 1: know why, but you know, Price is Rights On the background,
Speaker 1: I'm in there eating lunch or doing work or whatnot,
Speaker 1: and she's yelling at the TV screen. You any it
Speaker 1: is fine thousand dollars. And I the other night I
Speaker 1: was going Tom Brokell, Tom Broke, call Tom.
Speaker 21: Broke, all, Oh, I'm going to be checking myself for
Speaker 21: years over that.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you when you heard did you go damn?
Speaker 1: I knew that.
Speaker 21: Yeah, it was definitely. I mean, I'm just pretty close
Speaker 21: with Dan Rather, but yeah, that was just the person
Speaker 21: that came to mind. And it just happens for crass
Speaker 21: like thirty seconds.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 1: Well, I would, I would. I would think that your
Speaker 1: mind is going ninety thousand different directions at a moment
Speaker 1: like that. Right.
Speaker 21: Well, the first thing I thought was, this isn't a
Speaker 21: celebrity author question? That was the category?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 1: Right? So you're you're think is going to be like
Speaker 1: Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 21: I love to listen on my drives in to work
Speaker 21: to audio books of celebrity memoirs. I feel like you
Speaker 21: get so much more when you hear them, either unworse right, right,
Speaker 21: So that's what I expected.
Speaker 1: Did you have any how many people were in the
Speaker 1: studio audience?
Speaker 21: Generally, I would say probably thirty to forty people.
Speaker 1: Okay, did you have anyone there as your special guest?
Speaker 21: My brother thankfully?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 21: Oh yeah. I told him as soon as I come
Speaker 21: out on stage, raise your hands. I know where you're at.
Speaker 1: Nice were you were you?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 4: Go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 21: I was just gonna say it was so nice to
Speaker 21: be able to touch base with him on Sunday before
Speaker 21: it aired, to make sure, like, hey, I'm not gonna
Speaker 21: look stupid, right.
Speaker 1: See, that's the I would hate to go on that
Speaker 1: show and just sit there and look like a complete
Speaker 1: dummy because I would dummy up and my mind would
Speaker 1: go vacant. And the fact that Chiquin thing at all,
Speaker 1: kudos to you, my friend.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 21: Oh, I wanted sports, and I'm so thankful I got
Speaker 21: a sports category because that's what I was aiming for.
Speaker 21: And the funniest thing is I get off stage and
Speaker 21: his first thing is, I can't believe you didn't know
Speaker 21: who Vin Scully was.
Speaker 7: Like I did.
Speaker 21: I just didn't buzz in in time because there's tons
Speaker 21: of questions I knew, but the competitiveness took over and
Speaker 21: as soon as I got the first one right of.
Speaker 1: His game on yeah cool, nice, well we got it
Speaker 1: handed to you. Because I mean, I'm not lying, Amanda.
Speaker 1: If I was in a situation like that, I would
Speaker 1: totally freeze up. And the fact that you you competed
Speaker 1: and you were you were there and capable of winning,
Speaker 1: not me. I would have been zeroed across from jump.
Speaker 21: I appreciate that was question I answered. I remember sitting
Speaker 21: there doing the math in my head, like I need
Speaker 21: to get this right.
Speaker 7: So it's on a runaway.
Speaker 2: Game and no.
Speaker 4: Typically again, I don't know if they say it. At
Speaker 4: the end of Jeopardy way they say, oh, we have
Speaker 4: some nice party ifs for you. Did you get those?
Speaker 4: And if so, what were they?
Speaker 21: So they gave us all a Jeopardy hat and a
Speaker 21: tote bag and a few odds and ends. But second
Speaker 21: place gets three thousand and third place gets two thousand.
Speaker 21: Nice because they didn't pay for anything in terms of
Speaker 21: flight or anything.
Speaker 11: Exactly.
Speaker 21: Well so not completely, but I played to win.
Speaker 1: I wanted to come back well, Amanda, let me ask
Speaker 1: you this before we let you go. Are you allowed
Speaker 1: to reapply? Can you go back and try again sometime?
Speaker 21: I don't think so. Unfortunately, unless they call me, which
Speaker 21: I would love to go back.
Speaker 3: And a heartbeat, I.
Speaker 21: Will say for the Cincinnati fans during the rehearsal, Jimmy
Speaker 21: from the Cuck crew, who used to do all those
Speaker 21: clues around the world is now the stage manager. And
Speaker 21: he pretended to be and Jennings and he said, Hey,
Speaker 21: ask me a question. And I asked him, what's your
Speaker 21: favorite clue crew? And he said when I went to
Speaker 21: the Steelers' training camp, and he was taken aback when
Speaker 21: I responded, was that pre or post Roethlisberger?
Speaker 9: You love?
Speaker 21: Talk about it? And he goes, why would you say that?
Speaker 21: Some Bengals fan for the rest of the day. But
Speaker 21: see Jimmy, I say, who day? And thankfully it was
Speaker 21: before the Minnesota game.
Speaker 1: But well, really fun again, congratulations and thanks for talking
Speaker 1: to us. We appreciate it. Thank you, Amanda Tolki. She
Speaker 1: worked for the Carl Lewis Law practice, and uh that
Speaker 1: and and I'm not kidding Jason, I mean I consider
Speaker 1: and talking to this Michael all the you know, all
Speaker 1: day long, but standing in front of cameras with a
Speaker 1: bunch of people watching me trying to do trivia. I
Speaker 1: could sit in a bar and drink beers and do
Speaker 1: dumb trivia with a couple of my buddies. But standing
Speaker 1: up there with that kind of pressure, I would fold
Speaker 1: dude right and then.
Speaker 4: And then happened to dance and then on. You got
Speaker 4: to be so quick to do it. And I mean,
Speaker 4: it's that's an intense.
Speaker 1: Well's like I said, that's what I always heard that
Speaker 1: you got to the You obviously have to be quick
Speaker 1: of the mind. Would you have to be that clicker thing?
Speaker 1: You think about it?
Speaker 4: I mean, we didn't ask her, but I bet this
Speaker 4: is probably only twenty two to twenty three minutes worth
Speaker 4: of a show.
Speaker 1: It's a recording.
Speaker 4: See you think about that, the intensity of that in
Speaker 4: twenty two minutes.
Speaker 8: Yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good job Amanda with the plays to win. And
Speaker 4: you know what, I love that. I love that and
Speaker 4: she almost did with that. We check in with traffic
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Speaker 1: his TV experience. And I also because you brought up
Speaker 1: a good point, Lilli seems like like he would have
Speaker 1: been a great contestant on Jeopardy.
Speaker 4: I totally. I mean, the guy he knows his current
Speaker 4: events and history. He's one of those guys that knows
Speaker 4: a lot about a lot because he's I mean, he's
Speaker 4: probably like Amanda, just avid reader. I don't know if
Speaker 4: he plays bar trivia. I can't see Willie hopping around
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Speaker 4: I do know that that guy is a avid, avid
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Speaker 1: Here's where Willie would go down. Pop culture. Pop culture, yeah,
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Speaker 4: I agree overall, but man, he does. He does seem
Speaker 4: to know is Taylor Swift and he knows his Tate. Well,
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Speaker 4: It might have been Tata and Travis. I think I
Speaker 4: might have been it.
Speaker 1: There was, Well, he's still stuck on Belichick and his
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Speaker 4: He did harp on Tata and Travis for a while,
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Speaker 4: Belichick thing. Yeah, Jordan's Jordan's bill. Well, that's you're right.
Speaker 4: I think I think Willy. I think movies would take
Speaker 4: Willy out. Movies and music. He wouldn't know which is
Speaker 4: where you would come in.
Speaker 1: Well, if if we could be teams, I would know
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Speaker 1: asked him, you know, show her Bill Cunnyham and see
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Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: And so the guy explained, this guy's a talk show
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Speaker 1: totally is talking about you all the time and thinks
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Speaker 1: picture and his quin Deater's quote was and she looks
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Speaker 1: that's kind of apocryphal, if that really happened, but in
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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know, really is such a handsome guy. Well,
Speaker 4: that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I would say you if I looked at him, I
Speaker 1: would go, well, because I'm of a certain age igo
Speaker 1: Alfred Newman. I think he was in the Archie comics
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Speaker 1: All right back on the Eddie and Rocky Show. Rock
Speaker 1: will be back tomorrow. Jason Williams from the Inquirer Cincinnati
Speaker 1: dot Com is with me, and right now, Jason, we
Speaker 1: are joined by this fellow right here who's calling in
Speaker 1: for vacation. By the way, talk about working thing. My handsome,
Speaker 1: very very handsome, very very handsome man. William Uh William
Speaker 1: Jefferson Cunningham is with us, being brought to you by
Speaker 1: the fine folks at Joseph Autumn and Willie. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about We just talked to Amanda Tolki, who was on
Speaker 1: Jeopardy the other night. Now, Jason and I were talking
Speaker 1: about the fact that you seem like you would be
Speaker 1: a fine contestant for Jeopardy. Did you ever consider it?
Speaker 15: You know, when Jennings was kicking ass like mister asked
Speaker 15: for like forty thousand games in a row. I knew
Speaker 15: the two or three questions he did not know the
Speaker 15: answer to, And so I want to somehow. I'm going
Speaker 15: to get involved in Jeopardy it somehow because I know
Speaker 15: a little bit about everything a lot about nothing. And
Speaker 15: that's exactly what you need if you're on Jeopardy, would
Speaker 15: you agree a lot just general knowledge about different arts
Speaker 15: and sciences and factual information and Shakespearean plays and world
Speaker 15: capitals and geomorphology and geology and those issues I've dealt
Speaker 15: with my whole life. So I'm going to try to
Speaker 15: get on. She did a pretty good job, but let's
Speaker 15: face it, the pressure is on anybody to make a
Speaker 15: five foot putt when it doesn't matter. You got to
Speaker 15: make the putt when it does matter. And Ken Jennings
Speaker 15: is the king of all time.
Speaker 1: When the money is on the line, you gotta sink
Speaker 1: that putt.
Speaker 15: Son Now, when you've seen the Western Hill stick a
Speaker 15: putter or two.
Speaker 1: For all of the marbles, absolutely with the bright lights on.
Speaker 1: And I and I remember choking one time when you
Speaker 1: were gonna win like a thousand dollars and Mac does
Speaker 1: and I win a thousand, and I'm like Wow, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to say through the game.
Speaker 15: Jason was worse than that. He hit a ten foot
Speaker 15: putt and I said, all you got to do is
Speaker 15: two putts and we win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he had.
Speaker 15: The first putt was five feet and the second putt
Speaker 15: was four feet. The ball never got to the hole
Speaker 15: after two times. Never got there.
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's sorry, now, Willie. Jason and I were talking.
Speaker 1: I think your your downfall might be unless it's about
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and his young girlfriend, it might be your weakness.
Speaker 1: Your downfall might be pop culture and that type of thing.
Speaker 1: Would you agree with that?
Speaker 15: I don't know. I watch Inside a Dition and I'm
Speaker 15: pretty up on RadarOnline dot com. TMZ's one of the
Speaker 15: websites I check in every day.
Speaker 9: Told you I know about Jordan Hudson.
Speaker 15: I do Jordan Hudson and the wedding plans. She told
Speaker 15: her girlfriend she wants to start a family with Bill Belichick,
Speaker 15: and about three more weeks from now, they're gonna have
Speaker 15: a lot.
Speaker 19: Of time to hook up.
Speaker 15: I think he's gonna be fired at some point where
Speaker 15: he's gonna say, what the hell, I can't do it.
Speaker 19: Then they have lots of free time.
Speaker 4: Bill Bill Belichick starting a family at age seventy two.
Speaker 15: I mean, come on, now, well, she wants a family.
Speaker 15: She's only like twenty four, and she's in her prime,
Speaker 15: shall we say, and she wants children. And right now
Speaker 15: she has about eight to ten million dollars of property
Speaker 15: transferred from Belichick to her name. She has three or
Speaker 15: four different LLCs where she's the majority share owner and
Speaker 15: Bill Belichick is supposed to provide content. Did the HBO
Speaker 15: thing that was canceled because things are growing so bad?
Speaker 15: North Carolina officials said, we don't want any more cameras
Speaker 15: inside this locker. We got enough problems winning on the
Speaker 15: field against PCU and against California. The Golden Bear stink,
Speaker 15: and so they canceled that. But Jason, you're in sports
Speaker 15: and so many other things. Have you seen an icon
Speaker 15: fall from heights to depth in such a quick fashion?
Speaker 15: That would be impossible for a Bill Parcells or for
Speaker 15: a Don Shula, impossible for that to happen, But it's
Speaker 15: happened to Belichick. Why is he doing this? What's he
Speaker 15: getting out of this relationship?
Speaker 1: I've wondered this.
Speaker 4: I've wondered a lot about this because I listened to
Speaker 4: your show every day and that's all you talk about.
Speaker 4: And so it's made me ponder it quite a bit.
Speaker 4: And I I mean, I guess the one thought I
Speaker 4: have I probably can't share on air, but that would
Speaker 4: be my only thought on I otherwise, like is what
Speaker 4: are you doing?
Speaker 1: What do I talk about?
Speaker 15: Well? Right, what relationship?
Speaker 9: William?
Speaker 2: You and I?
Speaker 1: You and I have talked about it off the year,
Speaker 1: and Rocky and I have as well. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: your legacy was secure. You're going to go down, if
Speaker 1: if not the greatest, certainly top five greatest football coaches
Speaker 1: of all time. And now all people are going to
Speaker 1: talk about is remember that old guy that hooked up
Speaker 1: with a twenty four year old that does.
Speaker 4: The UNC Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, Willie.
Speaker 15: Program fifty million? And can you imagine Vince Lombardi or
Speaker 15: Don Shula or I don't know any of Paul Brown
Speaker 15: at the Paul Brown in his prime, the father of
Speaker 15: football at East in Ohio, Ohio State Cleveland brown Sins
Speaker 15: night Bangles. Can you mention Paul Brown when he was
Speaker 15: like seventy five years old, cooking up with a twenty
Speaker 15: five year old and talking about having children.
Speaker 4: I mean, what I mean, think about those to me,
Speaker 4: I'm good.
Speaker 15: I'm plumb e spot. I don't know where to turn
Speaker 15: for answers. I want answers, and I don't see any.
Speaker 15: I don't see answers to any of this because by
Speaker 15: the time you're in your seventies, Arlie said, the all
Speaker 15: the in and the out it is not that important anymore.
Speaker 15: So what's he getting out of it?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean you mentioned those guys, and you think
Speaker 4: that you think about those guys. Those guys are iconic
Speaker 4: as well, not just because of their football success, but
Speaker 4: you thought of them as like kind of men, you know,
Speaker 4: like in every sense of the world. You know, some
Speaker 4: of them were you know, Paul Brown was a gentleman,
Speaker 4: but you thought of them as like, you know, gentlemen
Speaker 4: and men and who were revered and like you throw
Speaker 4: this on here, like Belichick I think probably would have
Speaker 4: thought that of him too, right until this all happened, right,
Speaker 4: kind of a stick of the mud personality wise, but
Speaker 4: like you're like, from just a football COMMI Spence alone,
Speaker 4: You're like, cool, there's a man. There's an iconic right there,
Speaker 4: figure in our football American football history.
Speaker 9: And now you know.
Speaker 15: When you had Nick Saban getting together, Nick Saban getting
Speaker 15: the other Bill Belichick. You know, the greatest college football
Speaker 15: coach of all time. I think it's Nick Saban between
Speaker 15: LSU and Alabama, whether it comes back or not, the greatest.
Speaker 15: And then you got Bill Belichick. They did things together,
Speaker 15: they went to events together. You said, this is the
Speaker 15: two greatest coaches of all time, with all due respect
Speaker 15: to Vince Lombardi and Paul Brown. They well, Paul Brown
Speaker 15: did win something in the range of ten American Football
Speaker 15: League championships with Otto Graham, but that wasn't when football
Speaker 15: was football. It's not the same today when football flourished.
Speaker 15: I'm thinking Nick Saban the greatest of all time, and
Speaker 15: it's real Belichick. I can't conceive of Nick Saban doing
Speaker 15: any of this stuff. I can't conceive of that happening.
Speaker 15: Nick say, I don't think he's married to a nice
Speaker 15: girl from West Virginia.
Speaker 24: And Belichick was married to an oil heiress from a
Speaker 24: hess Oil that was his fiance girlfriend for ten years,
Speaker 24: a wonderful woman twenty five years younger.
Speaker 15: But what the hell? That's almost the same generation in
Speaker 15: one or two, but not three generations. And to ruin
Speaker 15: your legacy on something like this. Yeah, I don't get it.
Speaker 15: Old enough to be his daughter, hell's old enough to
Speaker 15: be his great granddaughter. How in the hell does that happen?
Speaker 1: That's what gets me. And I go back to what
Speaker 1: I said before of being just totally tearing down your
Speaker 1: legacy over something like this. I mean, what old guy
Speaker 1: doesn't want the attention of a beautiful young woman. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, you gotta look at yourself in
Speaker 1: a mirror and go, why, gee, I wonder why she
Speaker 1: likes me. It's pretty freaking obvious, dude, And I wonder
Speaker 1: why he likes her?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 15: A little quick story. I don't know if justice showed
Speaker 15: you once told I'll tell the story about two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: To go ahead, because I gave the like the five
Speaker 1: second version of it. I said, I never got it straight.
Speaker 1: But do tell.
Speaker 15: He's at a wedding with Tanyo O'Rourke. It was a
Speaker 15: high end affair. One of Joe Dieters's relatives, cousin, nephew whatever,
Speaker 15: is getting married and the bride was a good friend
Speaker 15: of Jordan Hudson. And I said, you got to be
Speaker 15: kidding me that the bride was age appropriate, like in
Speaker 15: her twenties, and this is one of Joe Dieters's distant relatives.
Speaker 15: But Tanya wanted to ow and okay, we'll drive to
Speaker 15: North Carolina and then walks Jordan Hudson to the wedding
Speaker 15: and they got pictures and them together with Jordan Hudson
Speaker 15: and Justice Shows said you could not find a nicer,
Speaker 15: kinder person than Jordan Judgin. Now Belichick wasn't there. It
Speaker 15: was on a weekend. He was getting beat I think
Speaker 15: by California the Golden Bears that it was like two
Speaker 15: weekends ago. But he said she was wonderful and friendly,
Speaker 15: took pictures with everyone. Jordan Hudson was the star of
Speaker 15: the wedding and she wasn't the bride, and he couldn't
Speaker 15: speak more highly of her. How about that one? Yeah,
Speaker 15: I got pictures of Joe Dieters with Jordan Hudson.
Speaker 4: And what's gotten into the old tough prosecutor, you know
Speaker 4: he's gotten It's got a little softer, a little a
Speaker 4: little star struck, a little starstruck.
Speaker 15: Yeah, so back he and Joe wanted to get pictures
Speaker 15: with Jordan Hudson. Well, I would Eddie if you were
Speaker 15: in an outing with her. Wouldn't you get pictures with her?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Absolutely I would, but absolutely So here you're saying that
Speaker 1: Joe has no pictures of him with her.
Speaker 15: I say, well, he didn't want to show him to me,
Speaker 15: but he said he's he didn't wanted to get out,
Speaker 15: you know.
Speaker 8: Me.
Speaker 1: Getting kidding me.
Speaker 15: It's on my ext account. And he said she couldn't
Speaker 15: have been a nicer person, couldn't. I say, well, i'd
Speaker 15: be nice too.
Speaker 1: You're very attractive too, though. Well, you know, if I
Speaker 1: was a twenty five year old multi I'm multi millionaire,
Speaker 1: I'd be a pretty nice person too.
Speaker 15: He's a wonderful person. But I'm thinking this is not
Speaker 15: going to end well at some point either. Bill Belichick's children, who,
Speaker 15: by the way, in their forties and fifties. He's got
Speaker 15: two of them, and I think he has grandchildren. We
Speaker 15: are going to say, Dad, what the hell are you
Speaker 15: thinking about? What are you doing here?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I would assume they'd probably already have done that. Well
Speaker 1: with that, you know, we will let you go get
Speaker 1: back to your golf game, or get back to your
Speaker 1: your early afternoon like dinner thing you're probably doing sitting.
Speaker 15: I'm at my double wide near near Naples, my double wide.
Speaker 1: All right, fun, best of the judge, thank you, Yeah
Speaker 1: there is it's yeah, just kills me. But yeah, and
Speaker 1: and he see, here's the deal. I've known Joe Dieters
Speaker 1: for a long time, yes, and basically I think maybe
Speaker 1: longer than I have Willie. But if you and he's
Speaker 1: smart enough to know, and I know he's smart enough
Speaker 1: to know that if he gave him pictures, Willie, pictures
Speaker 1: of him with Jordan Hudson, he would never hear the
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Speaker 1: All right, back here on the Eddie and Rocky Show
Speaker 1: a little while longer rock out today. Jason Williams from
Speaker 1: the Inquire since Nay dot Com is with me. But
Speaker 1: before we get on out of here, let's talk about
Speaker 1: this government short shutdown in week three now, and Ben Siegel,
Speaker 1: the ABC News to a Deputy political director, is with us. So, Ben,
Speaker 1: are we seeing any movement on this stuff at all?
Speaker 25: We're seeing a lot of movements, but not a lot
Speaker 25: of motion towards resolving the government shutdown. We're seeing Republicans
Speaker 25: senators at the White House today with President Trump, they
Speaker 25: seem pretty dug in. They say this is Democrats that
Speaker 25: have to come to the table. Democrats are seeing pretty
Speaker 25: satisfied with what's happening. They're encouraged by these protests over
Speaker 25: the weekend, these anti Trump protests, and say that they
Speaker 25: think public opinion is on their side. So both sides
Speaker 25: are still really dug in. As we approach a lot
Speaker 25: of interesting dates on the calendar where you could see
Speaker 25: a deal coming together, but again we're still a ways
Speaker 25: off from that.
Speaker 1: You'll kind of take off some of those dates for
Speaker 1: us if you would.
Speaker 25: Well, if you go back to the beginning, Democrats launched
Speaker 25: this whole fight over government funding because they wanted to
Speaker 25: protect subsidies for Obamacare for healthcare plans purchased on these
Speaker 25: marketplaces in the states. Well, open enrollment to sign up
Speaker 25: for those for those plans starts on November first, so
Speaker 25: in many places now it's too late for those subsidies
Speaker 25: to take effect. They're going to expire at the end
Speaker 25: of this year and not carry into next year, So
Speaker 25: the sticker shock for health insurance is already going to
Speaker 25: start hitting Americans. Democrats believe that voters will punish Republicans
Speaker 25: and blame them for this increase. So in a way,
Speaker 25: the political incentives have disappeared a bit after November one.
Speaker 25: So that's the first date. The second date is November
Speaker 25: twenty first. That's important because the deal on the table
Speaker 25: right now for Congress is a short term stop gap
Speaker 25: bill to fund the government for seven weeks. The seven
Speaker 25: weeks end on November twenty first, So once we get
Speaker 25: past that date, Speaker Mike Johnson is going to have
Speaker 25: to bring Republicans back to Washington at some point in
Speaker 25: order to pass something because the deal on the table
Speaker 25: will no longer be valid. And then the third date
Speaker 25: is one we circle every year on all of our calendars,
Speaker 25: which is Thanksgiving and all the holiday travel that comes
Speaker 25: with that. We're seeing some strain already by air traffic
Speaker 25: controllers having to work without pay, and that is a
Speaker 25: very critical time of the year, and now the party
Speaker 25: wants to be holding the political hot potato when more
Speaker 25: air traffic controllers fall and sick because of family issues
Speaker 25: in this very important stretch of the year as they're
Speaker 25: forced to work without pay. So those are just three
Speaker 25: dates in November to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: And Ben, what about what you're talking about the air controllers,
Speaker 1: How about the TSA guys? Is that does that come
Speaker 1: into play?
Speaker 25: It's the same thing. They're all being forced to work
Speaker 25: without pay.
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 25: It's possible that Trump administration is trying to, you know,
Speaker 25: find ways to pay people by moving money around, take
Speaker 25: it from one pot and put it in the other pot.
Speaker 25: But that's just the band aid of you know, questionable legality.
Speaker 25: That's not a long term fix. That doesn't solve the shutdown.
Speaker 25: So it may stop the fighting for a little while,
Speaker 25: but you know, big picture, this is is a battle
Speaker 25: that's still going on, and neither side appears to be
Speaker 25: willing to come to the table.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Ben, all we can do is kick
Speaker 1: back and watch these guys do nothing. Really appreciate I
Speaker 1: had better news for you, I know, so do I
Speaker 1: Zota's everyone, Ben, thanks so much? Thanks and yeah, Ben
Speaker 1: SI good good stuff the shut down. As we talked
Speaker 1: to Steve Cotton earlier, this is fun stuff, isn't it.
Speaker 1: But sure it's about to get real, isn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well apparently, but Jason, other news, Yes, Oh, we have
Speaker 1: other other fish to fry, or other wings to fry.
Speaker 1: This happened in uh in Texas. According to court papers
Speaker 1: filed just the other day, a Travis County jail official
Speaker 1: was monitoring an inmate's phone calls on an unrelated incident.
Speaker 1: He must have been trying to get some drug, smogot
Speaker 1: in or something when the man told a relative that
Speaker 1: quote a correct corrections officer had provided him with chicken
Speaker 1: wings after he sent the officer money on a cash
Speaker 1: app So so, so a cop is taking money under
Speaker 1: the table to get to smuggle this guy's some wing.
Speaker 4: That's what the phone calls were him smuggling wings. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know what not the.
Speaker 1: Guy in jo he was also trying to get some
Speaker 1: crack or so. But they all through that. They discovered
Speaker 1: that he was also having this a cop smuggle him
Speaker 1: some wings.
Speaker 4: Someone say, chicken wings are like crack.
Speaker 1: Oh big time. Specifically, the inmates said that the officer
Speaker 1: had agreed to supply him with Hobin Yiro mango chicken
Speaker 1: wings from wingstop and return for fifty dollars. My man
Speaker 1: was craving some wings.
Speaker 4: Yes, he was fifty dollars. Hopefully he got a lot
Speaker 4: of them.
Speaker 1: A subsequent review of jail surveillance video showed a food
Speaker 1: delivery arriving at the Travis County Correctional Complex in suburban Austin.
Speaker 1: After the paperbag was run through an X ray scanner.
Speaker 1: Amos Uh not Away twenty five picks up the bag
Speaker 1: and eats some of the wings himself. And this is
Speaker 1: that non Away guy who was just hired last year
Speaker 1: by the police department. Takes several wings from the bag,
Speaker 1: places them on paper towels, and hands them to an inmate,
Speaker 1: and the inmate walks away with the chicken wings and
Speaker 1: eats them. These guys, these guys are not master criminals. Bro,
Speaker 1: These aren't the guys that rob the louver.
Speaker 4: Would you imagine being the door dash or delivery person
Speaker 4: rolling up?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh the corp finals don't identify the guamate
Speaker 1: blah blah blah investigator. I've attained a search warrant for
Speaker 1: a cash app added to determine the extent of nonaways
Speaker 1: involvement in bringing in contraband and to assist and identify
Speaker 1: other incidents. He was busted just the other day on
Speaker 1: a misdemeanor contraband charge, citing Texas Penal Code thirty eight
Speaker 1: point one one four and an arrest. Avid David notes
Speaker 1: that quote chicken wings are not provided for or or
Speaker 1: authorized to be provided to inmates. So now you know,
Speaker 1: if you go to the joint, ain't allowed no chicken wings.
Speaker 4: Let's hope for the safety of everyone in that prison.
Speaker 4: That's the only thing that he has smuggled in his
Speaker 4: chicken wings.
Speaker 1: Well, see, if you're gonna get busted for something, don't
Speaker 1: you want to You know that's not gonna look good
Speaker 1: for you as far as in the inmate population. No,
Speaker 1: it's not. Hey man, I got some weed. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I got a bottle of you know, rum, I got
Speaker 1: some wings from Wingstop Abernio Mango. What that's they're just
Speaker 1: gonna take out beach up on principle.
Speaker 4: At least, at least you have a little bit of
Speaker 4: have a little bit of street crowd and get the
Speaker 4: absolute hottest wings you can get, Bring the hottest wings
Speaker 4: you can bring in there.
Speaker 1: But I that's when you get a craven for wings man.
Speaker 4: Apparently you can't. You'll go to you'll go to great
Speaker 4: lengths to get him.
Speaker 1: And you're the confident agreed to do it for you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah. With that thought in mind, we had
Speaker 1: to traffic and weather.
Speaker 8: What is going on