Speaker 1: I wonder if I could get it on that thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I got some stuff I got to do. Do you
Speaker 1: think I'm eligible for that day? Probably not. Hey, welcome
Speaker 1: on in. It's the average American in for the great
Speaker 1: American on this Wednesday. We are more than thrilled that
Speaker 1: you are with us. I say that and I mean it,
Speaker 1: because without you, what would I be? I would be
Speaker 1: one man sitting in a room by myself, babbling, and
Speaker 1: I would not have to leave home to do that. Well,
Speaker 1: the news is all over the place today, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Iran is blowing up. It looks like they're going to
Speaker 1: execute a very high profile individual over there who is
Speaker 1: the leader of their resistance movement. Meanwhile, tens of thousands
Speaker 1: of people on accluding to some reports, have already been
Speaker 1: executed in response to the uprisings that we've seen in Iran. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: back close to the home, the Homeland Security Department told
Speaker 1: the website Just the News that millions dollars of cash
Speaker 1: have been leaving not just the Minneapolis Airport, but also
Speaker 1: John Glenn Columbus International Airport since November of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Millions of dollars in bulk cash and where is it
Speaker 1: headed Well, typically, according to the HSA, typically they go
Speaker 1: to Minneapolis, drop off the cash, and then a subsequent
Speaker 1: courier travels aboard from Minneapolis to Dubai through Amsterdam. The
Speaker 1: officials say that they have uncovered a massive cash movement
Speaker 1: that gathered money for multiple Somali immigrants in communities in
Speaker 1: the West like Columbus, Ohio, and Minneapolis, and is being
Speaker 1: sent back to Somalia. Of course, if you're the governor
Speaker 1: of Ohio, as your spokespersonan said last week, it's fraud.
Speaker 1: Is just the cost of doing business. And meanwhile, of
Speaker 1: course we're waiting on the Supreme Court to rule on
Speaker 1: Trump's tariffs. Trump is in Michigan or wa was yesterday
Speaker 1: flipping off a worker. The worker apparently has been suspended.
Speaker 1: A lot of stuff going on, And when a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff goes on, we turn to someone who has
Speaker 1: one of the finest political minds of our time, someone
Speaker 1: whose mind is so honed in on politics that it's
Speaker 1: impossible sometimes to get him to join us on this
Speaker 1: radio show because he researches, he dives into materials so deeply.
Speaker 1: It's very often that he comes up but Anthony Russo
Speaker 1: has come up on this Wednesday and he's joining us
Speaker 1: here now on seven hundred W. Well w and Anthony Russo,
Speaker 1: how are you on this glorious Wednesday?
Speaker 2: Gosh, you're really fluffing my muffin before I get on
Speaker 2: the air, aren't you.
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of muffins you like, boy,
Speaker 1: but I'll get him for you. You just tell me.
Speaker 3: How well man? I'm all right, I'm doing pretty good.
Speaker 4: How you doing?
Speaker 1: Here's what I don't understand. Trump's trying to get stuff done.
Speaker 1: And Trump's not a politician. We know Trump doesn't kiss,
Speaker 1: but we know that Trump does it his way or
Speaker 1: it's the highway. Of course, it ruffles feathers. But I
Speaker 1: can't ever remember the Republican Party in my lifetime being
Speaker 1: as much of an obstructionist party as the Democrat Party
Speaker 1: is now and frankly has been for the last ten
Speaker 1: or twelve years. Can you?
Speaker 3: No? Definitely not.
Speaker 2: But again, like you said, he ruffles some feathers, and
Speaker 2: fact is there is the question is is there really
Speaker 2: one party? Is there two parties? Is there three parties?
Speaker 2: Is there this Thomas Matthews of the world? Is he
Speaker 2: separate as the America. First, there is a major dissension
Speaker 2: in what is the Conservatives and what is the Rhinos
Speaker 2: at this point, and the Rhinos are just part of
Speaker 2: the Democrat Party, and I think we're exposing that now.
Speaker 2: Am I saying that this is the area that I
Speaker 2: like what Trump is doing. I think he's exposing just
Speaker 2: the complete fracture and all political parties. There are some
Speaker 2: things he could be doing better, but in this case
Speaker 2: what we are seeing especially, I think that you're leaning
Speaker 2: towards the direction of the the ACA and the Obamacare
Speaker 2: and how you know, the Conservatives and the Republicans have caved.
Speaker 2: But he is somebody that is at least trying to
Speaker 2: push the metal and figure out who is truly America.
Speaker 3: Ferson who is not well.
Speaker 1: I've often said I might have said it to you
Speaker 1: that in Washington, d c. Every Democrat is a Democrat,
Speaker 1: but not every Republican is a Republican. And there are
Speaker 1: some weak need Republicans and we know who they are.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's every time a boat comes up and
Speaker 1: they have to attach their name to it, they go
Speaker 1: running for the shadows. But my point in all of
Speaker 1: it is is, yeah, I do think that there are
Speaker 1: a number of different factions, and I think Trump's base
Speaker 1: is a strong, solid base, both with the country and
Speaker 1: inside the Beltway in Washington, d C. But it's not
Speaker 1: big enough, and I don't know how you build on that.
Speaker 1: I just saw a poll that came out two or
Speaker 1: three days ago, I believe Gallup did it, that there
Speaker 1: are now more declared independents in this country than there
Speaker 1: are members of the rept Publican party. And Trump needs
Speaker 1: independence to get elected. He needed them desperately in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, and he got them. We can argue about
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election all we want. He didn't win.
Speaker 1: I mean, in essence, he didn't wind up in the
Speaker 1: White House in twenty twenty. I'm just wondering, is this
Speaker 1: bull in the China closet that he is is that
Speaker 1: winning over independence enough to not only keep his agenda alive,
Speaker 1: but also to keep his successor alive in twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 1: And that would be I would think jd Vance alive
Speaker 1: in the sense that he would be a candidate that
Speaker 1: could get elected.
Speaker 3: What do you think I actually think Trump. Trump's hurting
Speaker 3: jd Vance's cause.
Speaker 2: The cool part about the fact that we are moving
Speaker 2: to a country full of independence, is the fact that
Speaker 2: we are realizing how broken our political system is. The
Speaker 2: problem is the Democrats and the Republicans still hold so
Speaker 2: much power that they will not be able to rely
Speaker 2: linquish the fact that we, as an American base, probably
Speaker 2: fifty percent or more at this point, know that our politicians,
Speaker 2: our political system is broken beyond repair and needs a
Speaker 2: complete reformation.
Speaker 3: Now. When it comes to Trump and.
Speaker 2: The way that he is in the way that he
Speaker 2: is influencing the independence is based on his rhetoric, and
Speaker 2: his rhetoric is still very, very very poor. His explanation
Speaker 2: of some of the actions are very poor, his unwillingness
Speaker 2: to at knit sometimes that things are not perfect under him,
Speaker 2: or that there might be a fault. It hurts the
Speaker 2: independence belief system on the current Republican party.
Speaker 3: So it does hurt Jade Vance.
Speaker 2: I think as a country, it puts us in a
Speaker 2: position that we need to start relooking at the whole system.
Speaker 2: Problem is, how do you fix the system where the
Speaker 2: people that need to fix it are the ones that
Speaker 2: are also in charge.
Speaker 1: Exactly, and to fold it back to Trump, Trump was
Speaker 1: viewed as a disruptor in twenty sixteen. He's still that.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at it the way he
Speaker 1: goes about it, you know he's at odds with people
Speaker 1: in his own party that sit in the Senate and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But to do what you're talking about, it would take
Speaker 1: a disruptor. Everybody thought Obama was that, and he really wasn't.
Speaker 1: He was a divider, certainly, but a disruptor can also
Speaker 1: be a unifier. So I don't know who's out there
Speaker 1: that would be palatable to this country as a unifier
Speaker 1: as well as a disruptor because people buy and large
Speaker 1: and I put myself in that category as well. People
Speaker 1: don't like change. I think they want I don't think
Speaker 1: they want drama from that particular area of government, the Senate,
Speaker 1: the House. They don't want drama, but they certainly don't
Speaker 1: want change. So how do you get change if you
Speaker 1: don't have a disruptor that goes in there.
Speaker 3: No, that's true.
Speaker 2: But there's a way to be a disruptor and not
Speaker 2: a divider, and he is being a little bit of both.
Speaker 2: I'll be very honest, and I think things are a
Speaker 2: little bit different in the second term than I think
Speaker 2: in the first term. I think people had hope, the
Speaker 2: hope for change. That's why he won this in twenty two,
Speaker 2: twenty four. But again the hope would be be the
Speaker 2: disruptor and then leave away the comments on people like
Speaker 2: Rob Reiner because I know it sounds small, and nobody
Speaker 2: cares about Rob Reiner across the board, especially conservatives.
Speaker 3: He's a piece of crap.
Speaker 2: We didn't like him, but there was no need to
Speaker 2: tread on his grave, and those little words affected a
Speaker 2: voting base to say, man, maybe this guy really is
Speaker 2: the jerk that the other side thought he was.
Speaker 3: So it's the little things.
Speaker 2: And of course when you don't have the media on
Speaker 2: your side, it's going to keep getting blown up and
Speaker 2: blown up and blown up. So he has to be
Speaker 2: delicate on certain areas, be harsh and disruptive on others.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to the humanity conversation, he needs
Speaker 2: to be a little bit more tactical, and he has
Speaker 2: lost that tactical ability in this presidency.
Speaker 3: So yes, disruptor is good. Jade Vance.
Speaker 2: His words are very disruptive when he follows up on
Speaker 2: stuff like the ice shooting. What he is being disruptive
Speaker 2: yet at the same time logical and hard to take
Speaker 2: from a non humane perspective.
Speaker 3: He's being exactly what we need.
Speaker 2: And the problem is Will Trump's not middle ground rhetoric
Speaker 2: hurt JD and hurt the country in the end, because,
Speaker 2: like I said, we're not going to miraculously be able
Speaker 2: to switch to a third party.
Speaker 3: We're not going to realize that.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, big money, pharmaceuticals, all these run our government to
Speaker 2: the point where they can't actually make any real change.
Speaker 2: We're not going to be able to do that theoretically
Speaker 2: in the next four years, so we're still going to
Speaker 2: need somebody like a Jdvans to hold on. Otherwise, we've
Speaker 2: got Governor Newsom that's going to be the heir apparent
Speaker 2: that completely will flip this country on the one way
Speaker 2: train to democratic socialism. And that is a scary, scary
Speaker 2: Venezuelan type thought.
Speaker 1: Yet they're the GOP right now, I think is overpopulated
Speaker 1: with people who believe that Ronald Reagan is coming back
Speaker 1: from the dead and he's going to resurrect the party
Speaker 1: along with him, and it will be Reagan Republicans in
Speaker 1: charge in running this country. And I say to people
Speaker 1: that say that that boat sailed, that the person that
Speaker 1: is going to run this country next is going to
Speaker 1: be like Trump in the sense that they're a populist.
Speaker 1: People's party identification, I think, and this is particularly I
Speaker 1: think with the under forty crowd, I think their political
Speaker 1: identification identification is not as strong as it is maybe
Speaker 1: for boomers and whatever may be left to the greatest generation.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a populist. It's going
Speaker 1: to be somebody like Trump that is going to be
Speaker 1: this disruptor that we're talking about. And this is where
Speaker 1: I have trouble with with with Trump. I don't think
Speaker 1: he realizes that his legacy can live on if he
Speaker 1: just play it a little different. I don't know who's
Speaker 1: in his ear telling him to be this way, but
Speaker 1: he could get a lot done. He's certainly never going
Speaker 1: to get it done with the media. The media in
Speaker 1: this country, particularly at that level, is as corrupt as
Speaker 1: I've ever seen it. And I spent forty five years
Speaker 1: in local television. The media is as corrupt as I've
Speaker 1: ever seen it. In Washington, DC. They all want to
Speaker 1: get Trump. It filters down, oftentimes to the local level,
Speaker 1: and then because of that, he can't get his message out.
Speaker 1: First it was Epstein files. Now you know what's coming next.
Speaker 1: It's going to be Obamacare subsidies, then it's going to
Speaker 1: be funding for ice, and we're headed right to another
Speaker 1: government shutdown here in a couple of weeks. So why
Speaker 1: doesn't he who's in his ear that's telling him to
Speaker 1: be as belligerent as he is because it's counterproductive in
Speaker 1: so many ways?
Speaker 2: Completely agree, And honestly, I don't think he has anybody
Speaker 2: in his ear that says any because I think people
Speaker 2: are afraid of him.
Speaker 3: You see what he does. You see how he.
Speaker 2: Turns his back on probably one of the best people
Speaker 2: in Congress, Thomas Massey, like if you disagree, or even
Speaker 2: Marjorie Taylor Green, not saying she was the best in
Speaker 2: any way, shape or form, but she was somebody that
Speaker 2: actually stood out and was a disruptor. But if you
Speaker 2: go against Trump, he turns it. He doesn't He doesn't
Speaker 2: have that bone in his body and his brain to
Speaker 2: just realize that you can agree to disagree, you can
Speaker 2: fight back and forth. And I'm afraid that's what happened.
Speaker 2: What's happening with jd Vance that maybe you know jd
Speaker 2: Vance is brilliant. I would love to know the conversations
Speaker 2: that go on. Is jd Vance suggesting something else and
Speaker 2: Trump isn't listening, or is jd Vance even afraid to
Speaker 2: suggest something?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I really don't know. I don't know
Speaker 3: exactly who's in his ear.
Speaker 2: But honestly, I think Trump does what Trump wants and
Speaker 2: in some ways it works. Like what's going I'll be
Speaker 2: very brief, but what's going on with Greenland? I think
Speaker 2: that he's pushing this envelope, pushing, pushing, pushing. It looks ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I think he is overshooting the runway so that he
Speaker 2: can get a deal made where he still has very
Speaker 2: strategic ties to Greenland. Same thing with the Supreme Court
Speaker 2: ruling that's coming up today on tariffs. He knows that
Speaker 2: he's pushing the envelope, probably too much, but he's trying
Speaker 2: to test the waters to see how much he really
Speaker 2: needs congressional approval. He'll still get the tariffs done. He
Speaker 2: just has to go a different way if this gets
Speaker 2: shot down.
Speaker 3: He's doing.
Speaker 2: He's being very intelligent in some ways, but it's the
Speaker 2: rhetoric of the speech.
Speaker 1: We're chatting with Anthony Russo. He is be the change.
Speaker 1: That's where you can find him. Also, the truth will
Speaker 1: set you free. The truth will always set everyone free.
Speaker 1: If the Democrats take back the House, are you convinced
Speaker 1: as I am, that their first order of business will
Speaker 1: not be anything to help the country. It will be
Speaker 1: how do we get Trump? Finally get Trump? Get Trump.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you the day after the election, if the
Speaker 1: Dems take the House, they'll start impeaching. They'll start an
Speaker 1: impeachment process against Donald Trump. I lay I'll lay any
Speaker 1: amount of money on that. Right now. They don't want
Speaker 1: to improve the country. They just want to finally get
Speaker 1: Trump and they haven't been able to do it. Do
Speaker 1: you have any doubt that the day after this coming election,
Speaker 1: if the Democrats take the House, first order of business
Speaker 1: impeach Trump.
Speaker 2: I mean, I wouldn't vet my life savings on it,
Speaker 2: but it would be smart for them for the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty eight election, it would be it would be the
Speaker 2: intelligent place. Again, it's all politics. They don't care about
Speaker 2: the country. It's the fact that now they can continue
Speaker 2: to say how broken the Republican Party is, how broken
Speaker 2: the MAGA group is, and how ridiculous the people are
Speaker 2: in this country that voted for him. They can use
Speaker 2: the invasion of Venezuela. They can impeach for a bunch
Speaker 2: of different reasons on very very very very very loose ground,
Speaker 2: which will start the proceedings, and all they will use
Speaker 2: it as is a bargaining chip for the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: eight election. The media will run with it and say again,
Speaker 2: impeached again, criminal, terrible, horrible, horrible, So yes, again, what
Speaker 2: I bet my life savings? No, but I do think
Speaker 2: that that would be the smart play for them, because
Speaker 2: that's how they play.
Speaker 1: And in your opinion, how much on life support is
Speaker 1: the GOP in this upcoming November election, both in the
Speaker 1: House and the Senate.
Speaker 3: We'll look at the poly market.
Speaker 2: Polymarket's saying it's going to be a full control by
Speaker 2: it with a percentage of eighty three percent right now,
Speaker 2: eighty three percent chance it goes full blue. So, just
Speaker 2: based on the fact that the poly market was pretty
Speaker 2: dang accurate and the twenty twenty four election, they're pretty
Speaker 2: good at judging these things. In the status that we
Speaker 2: are at right now, where we are sitting, I would
Speaker 2: say that the chances are that it's going to go
Speaker 2: blue across the board.
Speaker 1: So okay, So if you're if you're Johnson in the House,
Speaker 1: if you're throwing in the Senate, if you're Trump in
Speaker 1: the White House, who if you are leading the RNC
Speaker 1: right now, I don't even know who it is. But
Speaker 1: if you're leading the RNC right now, you have to
Speaker 1: know that too. What are you doing?
Speaker 2: Like we just said before, Somebody's got to get in
Speaker 2: Trump's here and just basically change the rhetoric. And they
Speaker 2: also have to find a way to start coming together more.
Speaker 2: I think Johnson Johnson is just getting shot down at
Speaker 2: all levels. And unfortunately, you've got the Lindsay Grahams of
Speaker 2: the world that are actually agreeing with Trump. And I
Speaker 2: know that sounds weird for me to say, like a
Speaker 2: Republican visits, shouldn't it be a good thing. No, You've
Speaker 2: got these old, these old school Republicans that a lot
Speaker 2: of us have disliked for a very long period of
Speaker 2: time that are now siding with the current administration, which
Speaker 2: makes it look even worse, which therefore lose. This is
Speaker 2: the independence that wanted to go against that version but
Speaker 2: still would vote for Trump and still would vote that way.
Speaker 2: And we're seeing that the that the current Republican status
Speaker 2: without without proper leadership. And again, I do think Johnson
Speaker 2: has its good points, but he's also weak in a
Speaker 2: lot of areas.
Speaker 3: He's not the leader that they need. Thune, I think
Speaker 3: is a little stronger. But that's a different conversation for
Speaker 3: a different day.
Speaker 2: I think that they need to be discussing a way
Speaker 2: to galvanize the base outside of politics and continue to
Speaker 2: step further away from the big federal government stronghold that
Speaker 2: Trump in some ways is still sticking to, and find
Speaker 2: a way to at least advertise that they are trying
Speaker 2: to go back to a small, small style government, right.
Speaker 1: Right, and and the and the media will not run
Speaker 1: with that because they will say that it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what happens with Thune, with Johnson or what they're trying
Speaker 1: to do. The overarching influences Donald Trump. And I think
Speaker 1: that's the I think that's probably the vote that that
Speaker 1: party is in right now. Would you agree?
Speaker 3: I would agree, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Good, Well, let's go. Well we end on an agreement
Speaker 1: for crying out loud, that's a good day for us.
Speaker 1: How do people find you, Anthony? There's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that want to find you. I know this. How
Speaker 1: do they find you? Are you are you going back
Speaker 1: undercover again? No?
Speaker 3: No, I mean you can always find me.
Speaker 2: I actually even did a little political stuff on my
Speaker 2: personal page, even though I try to avoid it. But
Speaker 2: at Anthony Michael Russo on Instagram and at Truth will
Speaker 2: Set You Free USA on Instagram is the best way
Speaker 2: to find me.
Speaker 1: Well, Anthony Michael Russo. As always, we thank you for
Speaker 1: your time, stay well. Yours is a voice we need
Speaker 1: to hear. Thanks for the insight today.
Speaker 3: I appreciate your brother. Take it easy, all right?
Speaker 1: There he is. I think he makes great points. Lighting
Speaker 1: up Francis is what I'd be telling Trump right now,
Speaker 1: if indeed he wants to keep this party on track.
Speaker 1: And if I'm the Democrats, man, I'm looking my I'm
Speaker 1: looking my chops about November right now. But I guarantee
Speaker 1: you it doesn't It doesn't matter how many they get
Speaker 1: in or what the majority is in in in November,
Speaker 1: their first order business. We know what it is already,
Speaker 1: get Trump, Stop Trump, Impeach Trump. That is box number
Speaker 1: one they're going to check in November. Why we've seen
Speaker 1: this movie before twelve twenty six on this Wednesday. It's
Speaker 1: the average American in for the great American News Radio
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Speaker 1: The Supreme Court was supposed to rule on the Trump
Speaker 1: tariffs today. They did not. They were supposed to rule
Speaker 1: on it last week. They did not. So it makes
Speaker 1: one wonder about whether or not this is going to
Speaker 1: be a clear cut up or down for Trump and
Speaker 1: his tariffs. It sounds like, as a guest said on
Speaker 1: my show over the weekend, they may be trying to
Speaker 1: split the baby here. Maybe uh, stop Trump with his tariffs,
Speaker 1: but allow him to keep the money he's already collected.
Speaker 1: Maybe do it on a case by case basis. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but apparently the ruling on this is at
Speaker 1: least one more day away. Anyway, at one oh six,
Speaker 1: we're going to be talking with someone who understands the
Speaker 1: ramifications for you, for me about these tariffs. It's not
Speaker 1: just some big, urinating contest between Trump and all of
Speaker 1: these other countries. They have a direct effect on you
Speaker 1: and me and the amount of money you and I
Speaker 1: can bring in in any given year or two our families.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that at one o six two oh six.
Speaker 1: Today Iran is blowing up, and they're not only shooting
Speaker 1: protesters over there, they being the government, the people that
Speaker 1: are in charge of that country, the clerics, the quote
Speaker 1: unquote holy men over there are not only shooting these protesters.
Speaker 1: There is a central figure that is supposed to be
Speaker 1: executed today. And uh, at two oh six, we're going
Speaker 1: to talk to somebody who was once a pol political
Speaker 1: prisoner in Iran and yet has successfully and legally immigrated
Speaker 1: to this country. So that's a two oh six today.
Speaker 1: And of course along the way, a lot of fun intriquolity.
Speaker 1: AI is everywhere. I heard I was. I just heard
Speaker 1: it again today. I was at the gym and there
Speaker 1: was a couple of people talking about AI and how
Speaker 1: they don't understand it and how they're afraid about their
Speaker 1: job and how AI may come and take their job away.
Speaker 1: And I think it's a legitimate concern. Depends, of course,
Speaker 1: on what kind of job you have, but it's a
Speaker 1: legitimate concern. Nobody wants a machine to take their job
Speaker 1: away and render them obsolete. Of course, a lot of
Speaker 1: this is possibly just getting worked up over nothing, a
Speaker 1: lot of it is true. And then there are things
Speaker 1: called AI hallucinations. AI hallucinations. And I was reading an
Speaker 1: article online on the internets a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: It was penned by a man named Raheel Malik. Now
Speaker 1: Rahel Melik is a marketing professional and calls himself an
Speaker 1: AI generist, a generalist generalist. I'm sorry, does that mean
Speaker 1: he's more up the command than an AI major or
Speaker 1: a lieutenant. No, a generalist, an AI generalist, and he
Speaker 1: works for a company called Code Launch. All of this
Speaker 1: seems intricate, but I wanted to get to the bottom
Speaker 1: of what exactly AI hallucinations are and whether or not
Speaker 1: they're plaguing our society. And what do you know, I
Speaker 1: have tracked were Heal Malik down. He works again for
Speaker 1: a company called Code Launch, and he's standing by to
Speaker 1: give us some of his time here today. And Rahel,
Speaker 1: how are you on this glorious Wednesday.
Speaker 4: I'm doing well, Ken, doing well. Thank you so much
Speaker 4: for having me. How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm well too, But I am totally confused, which is
Speaker 1: not a state of mind that is unusual for me.
Speaker 1: What are AI hallucinations? I keep hearing about AI hallucinations.
Speaker 1: What is an AI hallucination? And does it involve any
Speaker 1: illegal drugs?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: AI hasn't come that far yet to consume anything. But
Speaker 4: you know, in Layman's terms, the best way I can
Speaker 4: say it is is you know, bad information results in
Speaker 4: bad data, right, So AI hallucinations occur when the source
Speaker 4: material may not be the most accurate and then it
Speaker 4: spits out an inaccurate answer. So that's why you'll see
Speaker 4: that we're seeing so many different AI I guess systems
Speaker 4: is the best way to put it for your audience
Speaker 4: to understand. And it's like think about the varying brands
Speaker 4: of cars. You know, do you have a Mercedes that
Speaker 4: has its Mercedes phinoage and capabilities, and then you have
Speaker 4: you know, you're maybe not Mercedes, and you know your
Speaker 4: your Kios or your Hondas that are still cars that
Speaker 4: will get you there. But there are different varying degrees
Speaker 4: of quality and deliverables and those things, and that exists
Speaker 4: in all technologies.
Speaker 1: So if you're going to if you're going to can
Speaker 1: I guess compare it to when computers first came out,
Speaker 1: or when they first came into existence, back in the
Speaker 1: bad old days, where a computer consumed in the entire room.
Speaker 1: It was the old garbage in, garbage out. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you throw a lot of crap into something, they're
Speaker 1: just going to spit it right out. There's no filter,
Speaker 1: no human filter for it. But therein lies the rub
Speaker 1: because I wanted to know from jump about AI who
Speaker 1: was actually riding herd on this stuff, and everybody would say, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, we don't want any we don't want bumpers,
Speaker 1: We don't want anybody doing any kind of filtering here
Speaker 1: because that would only places behind other company countries that
Speaker 1: are using AI, like China and Japan. But I mean,
Speaker 1: there has to be some kind of filter, some kind
Speaker 1: of oversight as to what's being spit out here, because
Speaker 1: so many industries are relying on this, and I'm reading
Speaker 1: here right now eight and ten workers using AI in
Speaker 1: the office are using it with little oversight. That's extremely
Speaker 1: dangerous on a number of levels, to say the least
Speaker 1: of which would be legal. So don't we need somebody
Speaker 1: being an overlord on this?
Speaker 4: Well, I think you do. And there's a fine line
Speaker 4: between microuging that employee or maximum the productivity with all
Speaker 4: the tools available. Right, I'll share with you. You know a
Speaker 4: lot of large corporations, and I won't say the name,
Speaker 4: but my wife works for one of the largest banks
Speaker 4: in the country, in the world actually, and they have
Speaker 4: an internal some built proprietary that they are welcome and
Speaker 4: encouraged to use. Right, So they've got the gates in
Speaker 4: a dated system that they built custom that is specifically
Speaker 4: for them. Now, what do I tell my wife? I said,
Speaker 4: you know, every question you put in that thing is
Speaker 4: them figuring out how to put a robot to do
Speaker 4: your job. So be very careful on how you use
Speaker 4: this thing, because every time you ask it a question,
Speaker 4: it's figuring out the best way to replace you and
Speaker 4: the rest of your team. But if you can make
Speaker 4: your day to day more efficient, you know, it goes
Speaker 4: back to the days of Remember there was a there's
Speaker 4: a big uproar about the calculator when it came out, right,
Speaker 4: there was a big uproar about about you know, computers
Speaker 4: and you know doing the real math and our human
Speaker 4: computers as right. So the question to your point, yes,
Speaker 4: there is dangerous to that in proprietary information. I have
Speaker 4: a background in cybersecurity, and what we always said was
Speaker 4: the one thing we can't solve for in any technology solution,
Speaker 4: the human being element. Right, A person is going to
Speaker 4: click that thing, right, A person is going to try
Speaker 4: to get ahead or try to use whatever tools they
Speaker 4: can to make their life easier. So how do we
Speaker 4: solve for the human element? I think we're going to
Speaker 4: see a big uptick in a lot of companies building
Speaker 4: her own AI systems. But what does that leave you know,
Speaker 4: the middle the middle market and the and the small
Speaker 4: moment pops. Well, maybe it's one of those things where
Speaker 4: they can design and implement it using you know, technology
Speaker 4: groups that we're affiliated with through our parent company, improving
Speaker 4: that build customs solutions, and maybe it's finding strategic partners
Speaker 4: to achieve that. But uh yeah, it's got it, Heery,
Speaker 4: I will agree with you there, Kin, But again, I
Speaker 4: mean change always is right through the decades, certainly.
Speaker 1: So here's what I think is happening. I think you
Speaker 1: got a lot of these I get I think you've
Speaker 1: got a lot of these middle managers, maybe the people
Speaker 1: they answered to in Company X and they're saying, nag
Speaker 1: your workload for the week, or this has to be
Speaker 1: done within the next ten days, or whatever they say
Speaker 1: to one of their people that they manage, and oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, you need to embrace AI. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: an inordinate amount of work, but if you use AI,
Speaker 1: you'll be able to get that work done. And so
Speaker 1: I think they turn some of these employees, you know,
Speaker 1: often let them do whatever they want with AI, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they've got they got the work done.
Speaker 1: And who knows if the work is right, the work
Speaker 1: is wrong. I guess they eventually find out about it.
Speaker 1: But I think where they're they're telling employees to use
Speaker 1: this tool, it's wonderful. I think what they're really doing
Speaker 1: is just using that tool to don't more work on
Speaker 1: the employee. I think I think a lot of that's
Speaker 1: going on right now. And I know that's anecdotal, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong. I don't know any research, but I
Speaker 1: kind of think that's what's going on.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, if you think about it, what did
Speaker 4: a combined harvester allow farmers to do? Right before the
Speaker 4: combine harvester, you know, a farmer and his son and
Speaker 4: his family and they were all going out there and
Speaker 4: harvesting you know, maybe an acre a day or whatever.
Speaker 4: That looks like. I don't know the exact statistics, but
Speaker 4: the capability and capacity of what a combine harvester allows
Speaker 4: you to do, you know, the tech tar So the
Speaker 4: goal being, you know, yeah, do more work. What's the
Speaker 4: corporate mantra, right, more with less? Those middle managers say, oh,
Speaker 4: this was great, this is shiny.
Speaker 1: This is good.
Speaker 4: Let me just send it up the chanting. But to
Speaker 4: your point, I think the expectation is absolutely increased. Right
Speaker 4: now all these are available, worker, you can get done,
Speaker 4: You can do more with less. But yeah, you asked
Speaker 4: a great question. When we figure that out, I think
Speaker 4: the company to figure out how they can protect and
Speaker 4: create those guardrails going to be the most successful.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't think there's any question about that. We're
Speaker 1: chatting with Raheel Malik. He's one of those guys that
Speaker 1: has embraced AI and somebody that understands how it can
Speaker 1: help you, help me and everybody else. But certainly, if
Speaker 1: you've got a business, code Launch is a company that
Speaker 1: can provide the software solution that you need and then
Speaker 1: to maximize your your growth as well. You know, I
Speaker 1: do think you use the combine harvester strategy. I agree
Speaker 1: with that, and the Internet was a good comparison to
Speaker 1: I think eventually all of this stuff works out, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think we're stuck today, you know,
Speaker 1: six seven, eight, ten years with this. I think basically
Speaker 1: this is an evolving tool that can be used and eventually,
Speaker 1: eventually it's going to become something that's just an everyday
Speaker 1: way of life. I just think there's just growing pains
Speaker 1: with a lot of this, right.
Speaker 4: I think they're spot up can and you know, one
Speaker 4: of the things that we have to consider is the
Speaker 4: strategic intrinsic value of that.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: What is our competition on the global scene doing right?
Speaker 4: How are we arming our kids and educating them to
Speaker 4: be the leaders in this thing? But you couldn't be
Speaker 4: more spot on. I mean, AI is already part of
Speaker 4: your life, whether you know it or not. Like everybody,
Speaker 4: if you have an iPhone and you've used Siri before,
Speaker 4: that was an early iteration and its capabilities are only growing.
Speaker 4: If you think about what's recommended to watch on Netflix?
Speaker 4: How does it know that that's an algorithm that that
Speaker 4: shows you and tries to pump more things that you
Speaker 4: to watch. So whether you know it or not, and
Speaker 4: whether you like it or not, this thing is. This
Speaker 4: thing is here to stay and it's only going to
Speaker 4: be more and more U in part of your life.
Speaker 4: And I'll give you an example of how how embedded
Speaker 4: in my life it is. I'll share too. I use
Speaker 4: AI to prep for this call with you today.
Speaker 3: You did?
Speaker 4: They did?
Speaker 1: And what were you doing?
Speaker 4: What were you doing?
Speaker 1: What were you doing? What were you're running on the
Speaker 1: background check on me trying to at the rat really
Speaker 1: had fifty thou were you doing?
Speaker 4: No? I was doing? I wanted to know more about you?
Speaker 4: Who's this guy I'm getting on the radio with in Cincinnati?
Speaker 4: And I learned. I learned just enough about you to
Speaker 4: be comfortable on this call, and I shared with it
Speaker 4: you know what we were talking about? And I said, hey,
Speaker 4: you know what should I talk about? And it helped
Speaker 4: me just prep for this thing. And I'll go I'll
Speaker 4: tell you one step even deeper. I stopped wearing a
Speaker 4: watch my wife got me for my first There's an
Speaker 4: AI Assistant tool that you can clip to your collar.
Speaker 4: You can wear it as a as a wrist on
Speaker 4: your watch, and it's very discreet. It looks like a
Speaker 4: little microphone in your world, right that you know, and
Speaker 4: when you turn it on, it just records conversations that
Speaker 4: you're having live in person. And then at the end
Speaker 4: of it, when you're done with that meeting or whatever
Speaker 4: you're it will create a synopsis with everything that happened
Speaker 4: to that meeting and everything you need to do and action.
Speaker 4: It is the next steps, and it can go so
Speaker 4: far as to say, here's what you need to do
Speaker 4: to win the contract. Yeah I am. I am heavy
Speaker 4: in these tools, and I'll share with you. In my
Speaker 4: circle of friends, I might be still a light user
Speaker 4: or an early early level guy. Like people are leveraging
Speaker 4: these tools and these technologies on a scale that you know,
Speaker 4: you wudn't even know, right, They've just become part of
Speaker 4: their lives and we won't even understand it until it's
Speaker 4: all in front of us.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what's going to happen. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: right now, Rae Heal. You're a guy in your forties, right,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm guessing you're somebody in your early forties. There's
Speaker 1: somebody right now that's like fourteen fifteen that guy is
Speaker 1: going to go blowing by you guy twenty years and
Speaker 1: you're going to be saying, what is he using? And
Speaker 1: what the hell happened to the stuff I used to use.
Speaker 1: It's just the way things evolve, right.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and then we are and nothing's going to change it. Right, So,
Speaker 4: you know, we have a thing in technology and business
Speaker 4: and for me at least, it's it's a doctor.
Speaker 1: Died, right.
Speaker 4: I mean, we go the way of the dinosaur. You're
Speaker 4: going to fight it, or or you ride this way
Speaker 4: to jump on the surfboard and you know, keep it going.
Speaker 1: Well, there's probably a lot of people interested in AI
Speaker 1: and probably some businesses I would guess. You know, we
Speaker 1: have a pretty far arranging signal here that might be
Speaker 1: interested in contracting you or maybe somebody else there at
Speaker 1: code Launch or maybe the growth strategy firm. How do
Speaker 1: people get a hold of the now seemingly mythical re
Speaker 1: heal my league? How do people get hold of you? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Certainly so you can. You can reach out to me
Speaker 4: at Rahel at First Genagency dot com. That is a
Speaker 4: growth strategy consulting firm that I run, and you can
Speaker 4: definitely check out code launch dot com if you are
Speaker 4: a technology startup, early stage startup or looking for that
Speaker 4: level up that you need to get your technology startup
Speaker 4: off the ground. Checkout code launch and then lastly, our
Speaker 4: parent company that that is grecious enough to put the
Speaker 4: bill for for all these code launch events that happen
Speaker 4: around the country. Uh, improving dot com is your technology
Speaker 4: partner and solution provider. There so a lot of information
Speaker 4: at you, but if you'd like to talk to me
Speaker 4: and learn about growth, Rare Heel at R A H
Speaker 4: B E L AT first F I R S T
Speaker 4: gen G Nagency dot Com.
Speaker 1: I got to ask this, are you AI or you're
Speaker 1: a real human being?
Speaker 4: I'd pribe you I'd be a really good model. But
Speaker 4: you know, i'd like to think that somebody's spent lots
Speaker 4: of money.
Speaker 1: If I was right, Ray Heels, thanks for your time, man,
Speaker 1: I hope we can talk again and good good insight.
Speaker 4: Thanks, thank you very much for your time in having me,
Speaker 4: and I'll look forward to our next conversation. Ken truly
Speaker 4: there you go.
Speaker 1: Hey, It's like anything else, you either embrace it or
Speaker 1: you fight it. And I think it's foolish to fight it.
Speaker 1: I think you should learn as much about it as possible,
Speaker 1: so it becomes in essence a friend and not an
Speaker 1: enemy to take your job away. Yeah, it changes on
Speaker 1: a daily basis. But unless you're changing on a daily
Speaker 1: basis and what you do, you ain't gaining your trailing.
Speaker 1: The average American is in today. The great American is
Speaker 1: out seven hundred w l W welcome back one eight
Speaker 1: on this Wednesday, it's the average American in for the
Speaker 1: great American. And it's supposed to be a big day
Speaker 1: for the Supreme Court of these United States today. The
Speaker 1: Supreme Court was supposed to issue a highly anticipated ruling
Speaker 1: on the legality of the President's tariffs, but it was
Speaker 1: not issued today. It was, as they say, sometimes punted.
Speaker 1: Now will it be tomorrow. But this is the second
Speaker 1: straight time that the Court is not released it's ruling
Speaker 1: on these tariffs, second straight time that they have postponed it,
Speaker 1: which is interesting for the Supreme Court. One would think
Speaker 1: that there is at the very least some sort of
Speaker 1: wrangling inside Scotis over the wording of what whatever the
Speaker 1: decision it is. Maybe there's even some sort of wrangling
Speaker 1: over or some handwringing over potential Supreme Court justices vote
Speaker 1: don't know, but there's no ruling today, and that again
Speaker 1: has thrown the economy you and me indirectly into limbo. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: we have the chairman of the Fed, Jerome Palell, claiming
Speaker 1: that he's under indictment by the federal government, which was
Speaker 1: a wrong choice of words by the Fed chair. There
Speaker 1: is an inquiry going into whether or not he is
Speaker 1: overspent and denied overspending a renovation of the building that
Speaker 1: houses the Fed, and whether or not his testimony to
Speaker 1: Congress that seemed to run concurrent to that might place
Speaker 1: him in the crosshairs of contempt of Congress. Anyway, it
Speaker 1: looks like pal is out. I mean, Trump wants him
Speaker 1: out and he's gone. Pal seems to think this is retribution.
Speaker 1: The market is a little queezy on this right now,
Speaker 1: and there's even some thought that perhaps the economic future
Speaker 1: of this country may weigh heavily on what the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court of the United States does. Now you're saying, well,
Speaker 1: what does that have to do with me? It has
Speaker 1: everything to do with you and how much you may
Speaker 1: be able to spend it on goods and services in
Speaker 1: this calendar year, and what kind of bills you're going
Speaker 1: to be looking at not just in terms of taxes,
Speaker 1: but in terms of what you're going to pay for
Speaker 1: these goods and services. I don't know the amount of
Speaker 1: knowledge that it would take for me to analyze something
Speaker 1: like that, but I do know somebody who is pretty
Speaker 1: danged good at it, and I've had Steve Cotton on
Speaker 1: the show many times, as recent as just before Christmas.
Speaker 1: He is a financial strategist and policy expert and someone
Speaker 1: it understands what all of this is, if not the
Speaker 1: implications spring them on in Steve Cotton, how are you
Speaker 1: on this glorious Wednesday?
Speaker 5: Hey Ken, good morning, in good day to all my
Speaker 5: friends in Ohio.
Speaker 1: You bet morning where you are? Afternoon where I am?
Speaker 1: Tell me? Are you surprised that Scotus did not rule
Speaker 1: on this again today? What's going on in your opinion inside?
Speaker 5: I'm not really surprised. Usually they make assignments on which
Speaker 5: justice is going to write the majority opinion and who's
Speaker 5: going to write any minority opinion. They had major testimony
Speaker 5: yesterday on the girls or men and women's sports issue,
Speaker 5: which took a great deal of time. They're juggling lots
Speaker 5: of plates, so I wouldn't read too much into a
Speaker 5: delay at this point. But the potential tariff ruling is
Speaker 5: absolutely going to be huge for not only the president's
Speaker 5: executive authority under AEPA that federal law going back to
Speaker 5: seventy seven, but it's going to be huge in terms
Speaker 5: of implement implications for tariff's tariff collections and whether they're
Speaker 5: going to have to refund all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. And as someone said on my show
Speaker 1: last weekend, they just wind up splitting the baby on
Speaker 1: this thing that you know, Trump gets to keep or
Speaker 1: the United States gets to keep the tariffs already imposed,
Speaker 1: but going forward there would be some sort of change
Speaker 1: of policy as to what he can and can't do
Speaker 1: under the Emergency Act, or they could make the administration
Speaker 1: give the money back to all of these countries and
Speaker 1: then go back and renegotiate on a case by case basis.
Speaker 1: Let's just talk about the implication if indeed we got
Speaker 1: to give the money back. That can't be good news
Speaker 1: for me and everybody else walking around here in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: can it? Well?
Speaker 5: Not necessarily. We're on the way to collecting approximately six
Speaker 5: hundred billion dollars worth of tariff revenues, and the estimate
Speaker 5: is close by the end of the year could be
Speaker 5: eight hundred billion, with a trending line toward a trillion
Speaker 5: dollars worth of new revenue. Now, the President has a
Speaker 5: purpose in mind for this revenue. He would like to
Speaker 5: give every American under a certain amount of income a
Speaker 5: two thousand dollars tariff dividend check. This could be very
Speaker 5: helpful to lower and middle income Americans. Ultimately, I think
Speaker 5: the President wants to move us away from the income tax,
Speaker 5: back to the system which we used to have in
Speaker 5: this country, where we ran the government on the basis
Speaker 5: of tariff revenues. And that's not as far fetched an
Speaker 5: idea as you might think, because we've got a much
Speaker 5: broader set of tariffs now than we ever did back
Speaker 5: in the seventeen eighteen hundreds. But this Supreme Court ruling
Speaker 5: is going to have huge ramifications not only for the
Speaker 5: president's executive authority, but for him and his power to
Speaker 5: use trade for good policy outcomes, which is what this
Speaker 5: president's been trying to do.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's hit the brakes there. I know what you're saying.
Speaker 1: The President is not a fan of the irs. I
Speaker 1: don't know too many regular folks that are a fan
Speaker 1: of the IRS to begin with, but he's not a
Speaker 1: fan of the IRS, and he certainly does want to
Speaker 1: see us become more of a tariff based operating system
Speaker 1: for this country. So I just want to go back
Speaker 1: to that vision. The income tax, the federal income tax
Speaker 1: that we pay, is not something that was historically based
Speaker 1: inside the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights
Speaker 1: or what the founding fathers even envisioned. In fact, they
Speaker 1: were trying to get us away from something like that.
Speaker 1: But if there were, there was, indeed a tariff funded
Speaker 1: federal government. Is it your opinion or could you envision
Speaker 1: not having any federal tax that I would owe, you
Speaker 1: would owe, or anybody would owe.
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's a bridge too far to think
Speaker 5: that we could do away with the income tax in
Speaker 5: it's just as a concept, and tariff revenue is variable.
Speaker 5: Tariff revenue depends on exporters, it depends on importers, it
Speaker 5: depends on consumer and business choices. And I don't think
Speaker 5: you can run a government on varying levels of revenue
Speaker 5: from one fiscal year to the next. So there will
Speaker 5: be some problems with that approach. But I think the
Speaker 5: other thing that President Trump would really like to do
Speaker 5: is dramatically reduce our federal deficit, which is running close
Speaker 5: to a trillion dollars and our thirty six to thirty
Speaker 5: seven trillion dollar federal debt. I think he's got strategies
Speaker 5: and plans way on beyond where we are talking now,
Speaker 5: and the tariff issue is just one of the tools
Speaker 5: to get there. But if the Supreme Court limits the
Speaker 5: president's tariffing authority, it will not have any positive effects
Speaker 5: for our economy or our government, or are even our
Speaker 5: ability to deal with our trading partners.
Speaker 1: And to say nothing of the fact that this should
Speaker 1: be a matter for Congress. It shouldn't be a matter
Speaker 1: for the Supreme Court. And I don't you know, again,
Speaker 1: I don't know whether or not. I'm not of legal mind,
Speaker 1: so I don't know whether or not they had any
Speaker 1: business sticking their nose into this. It certainly was in
Speaker 1: other courts on the way up to them. But be
Speaker 1: that as it may, it's there. So again to go
Speaker 1: back to my original question, if indeed the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: shoots this thing down and they say no, no, you
Speaker 1: can't do that, what kind of plan B is that?
Speaker 1: Because there's no way that that won't adversely affect the
Speaker 1: everyday guy at some point, somehow somewhere. So do you
Speaker 1: think they have Plan B in the works in the
Speaker 1: administration if this happens.
Speaker 5: It's a good question. I don't know whether they do
Speaker 5: or not. You know, there are two parts to the
Speaker 5: terriff issue. One issue is, you know, setting two tariffs
Speaker 5: on imported goods. The other issue that hasn't gotten much
Speaker 5: attention is the president's ability to push our trading partners
Speaker 5: into lowering their non tariff barriers. And let me give
Speaker 5: you an example. Countries can say, we want to export
Speaker 5: our products to you, but we're going to put on
Speaker 5: so many rules and regulations and clarifying characteristics of what
Speaker 5: you want to export to us that we're going to
Speaker 5: make it practically impossible for you to sell your widgets
Speaker 5: in our country. And Trump has been trying to push
Speaker 5: these non tariff barriers down as well. That is a
Speaker 5: more complex issue than the teriffs because it involves domestic
Speaker 5: politics of those countries and those and the quality of
Speaker 5: leadership in those countries.
Speaker 4: But if.
Speaker 5: The Supreme Court rules against the president's power to address
Speaker 5: tariffs under the AIPA Statute, which Congress passed back in
Speaker 5: the seventies. It would effectively knock his legs out from
Speaker 5: under him. I don't know that he's got a plan B.
Speaker 5: I think they're keeping their fingers crossed and just praying
Speaker 5: that even if there's a mixed ruling from the Supreme Court,
Speaker 5: it won't deprive him of a very powerful and so
Speaker 5: far very beneficial and non inflationary trade tool. Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this is fascinating again. At two day delay,
Speaker 1: you don't read a lot into that. It could be
Speaker 1: just you know, who is over writing the opinion, might
Speaker 1: have had the flu or whatever, and it could be
Speaker 1: anything that's delaying it. But it's eventually going to get out.
Speaker 1: Steve Cotton, financial strategist and policy expert, our guest, we're inundated.
Speaker 1: It seems like every day with some sort of financial
Speaker 1: indicator or what you know. Core inflation today was the PPI.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get too deep into the weeds
Speaker 1: what every everything means, but the PPI today producer price
Speaker 1: index that was released PPI, and that doesn't include food, energy,
Speaker 1: things that are wacky. They'll be volatile, but the core
Speaker 1: PPI it grew big in October, not so big in November,
Speaker 1: but it was up in November. Take that with GDP,
Speaker 1: which was an astounding number five point two percent for
Speaker 1: I think it was second or third quarter this year,
Speaker 1: and then look at the numbers of jobs created and
Speaker 1: jobs created and unemployment claims. Where is it right now?
Speaker 1: Where is the economy right now? Because it seems there's
Speaker 1: a huge disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street. Where
Speaker 1: is this thing or is it just flopping around so
Speaker 1: bad nobody knows exactly where it is.
Speaker 5: I think the Trump administration in the Congress, working together,
Speaker 5: have put some amazing things in place that are going
Speaker 5: to prove very beneficial to the economy and to the
Speaker 5: financial markets going forward. In twenty twenty six, they reauthorized
Speaker 5: the president's twenty seventeen tax cuts plus expanded it with
Speaker 5: no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and they
Speaker 5: gave every Social Security recipient under a certain income level
Speaker 5: a six thousand dollars tax credit against their Social Security income.
Speaker 5: That means they pay six thousand dollars less in taxes
Speaker 5: on their Social Security income. That's big for low income
Speaker 5: and people on fixed incomes. The trade stuff is having
Speaker 5: a huge positive impact without much inflation impact so far.
Speaker 5: You know, inflation ticked up from like two point six
Speaker 5: to two point seven, which is not very much. We
Speaker 5: are still considered to be at full employment with a
Speaker 5: ford to four point two percent unemployment rate. The signals
Speaker 5: are good. Even though hiring has been slow. Companies have
Speaker 5: held back looking at the trade situation. I was in
Speaker 5: Washington during the Reagan years. I watched what he did
Speaker 5: and rebuilding the defense budget, cutting taxes, cutting the budget,
Speaker 5: cutting the regulations. And let me tell you what I
Speaker 5: have seen this administration do in one short year working
Speaker 5: with the Congress is potentially one hundred times bigger than
Speaker 5: what Reagan did. And what Reagan did had positive economic
Speaker 5: effects that went all the way into the Clinton years.
Speaker 5: What Trump is putting in place could be one hundred
Speaker 5: times bigger to the positive.
Speaker 1: Wow, well, Steve, this is more palace intrigue, I think
Speaker 1: to most people than it is anything else. But FED
Speaker 1: Chair Jerome Powell is under federal criminal investigation to this
Speaker 1: two and a half billion dollar renovation to the Central
Speaker 1: Banks headquarters. And then his testimony in front of Congress,
Speaker 1: which which would probably run concurrent to what he had
Speaker 1: been saying in front of them vis a vis what
Speaker 1: apparently this building renovation costs. I say palace intrigue because
Speaker 1: for Palette may be a very big thing, but to
Speaker 1: you and to me, it's I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: Because Pal's out anyway, and you know Trump is going
Speaker 1: to kick him out. He thinks it's retribution from Trump
Speaker 1: for that, and also because he's not or has not
Speaker 1: cut interest rates to Trump's liking. The market's all over
Speaker 1: the place. Since this was revealed on Sunday. How much
Speaker 1: of an issue is that for the markets? For my
Speaker 1: four to one K for things like that, Because anything
Speaker 1: other than change is good, this would appear to be change.
Speaker 1: I mean, is it a big deal other than just
Speaker 1: palace intrigue to the average person.
Speaker 5: Well, let's let's look at what happened. Annapoline Luna, who
Speaker 5: is a congresswoman from Florida. She's a republic and she
Speaker 5: sits on the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee, made
Speaker 5: a criminal referral to the Department of Justice, implying that
Speaker 5: Chairman Powell had not been truthful in his testimony before
Speaker 5: Congress on the renovations to two Federal Reserve buildings. They're
Speaker 5: working on two buildings. The initial estimate cost estimate to
Speaker 5: the renovations was one point nine billion dollars. It's now
Speaker 5: two point five billion dollars, and went.
Speaker 1: Well, I think we lost Steve. Think Steve dropped out there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was two point five billion and now
Speaker 1: it's two point five billion. It was one point nine billion.
Speaker 1: Paulina is I believe her district is Tampa. I'm let
Speaker 1: me let me get you. We lost you there. Per second,
Speaker 1: You've got the numbers out two point five as opposed
Speaker 1: to one point nine. So if you could pick it
Speaker 1: up from there.
Speaker 5: And President Trump went over there and you know, with
Speaker 5: the TV cameras, toured the facilities, looked at the renovation
Speaker 5: and construction blueprints. If there's anything this president knows its construction.
Speaker 5: His estimate was the real end up cost could easily
Speaker 5: go to four billion dollars on two relatively small buildings.
Speaker 5: Now for them to make a criminal referral to the DOJ,
Speaker 5: and Trump was not involved in that. This came from
Speaker 5: the congresswoman from Florida. That tells me there may be
Speaker 5: more to this than just politics. So I would urge
Speaker 5: listeners to withhold judgment until there's an investigation. Basically, DOJ
Speaker 5: has issued a federal criminal subpoena to Pall to testify
Speaker 5: before a grand jury. And if his testimony before the
Speaker 5: grand jury difference from what he told the Congress, he's
Speaker 5: in real trouble.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't want to yeah, exactly tell
Speaker 1: the truth. And it looked like even when that TV
Speaker 1: the TV camera was there and the two of them
Speaker 1: were standing there, it looked like he got taken back
Speaker 1: by surprise that Trump actually had the receipts, which it
Speaker 1: made for some good television. Steve. Always great catching up
Speaker 1: with you, Steve Cotton Cotton Wealth Management Associates, and I
Speaker 1: have a sneaking suspicious suspicion you and I'll be visiting
Speaker 1: again down the road, Steve. But for your time today,
Speaker 1: thank you. We appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Well, you're very welcome. Always glad to be on your program.
Speaker 5: Excellent programs, one of the most outstanding programs in the nation.
Speaker 1: And it's an honor. Now you got me, blessing, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1: Coming up, well, thank you. One six News Radio seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW. And that's how it should be. So that'd
Speaker 1: be a said, I'll shut up and open it up
Speaker 1: with questions.
Speaker 6: He hello, by it, and I'm I'm Broadcasting.
Speaker 1: If I had told you before the start of the
Speaker 1: sea in that the last coach standing in the A
Speaker 1: North would be Zach Taylor, you would have said.
Speaker 6: What, you're out of your mind. Nothing against coach Taylor,
Speaker 6: but I mean, this is unbelievable, Andy Mack, I mean
Speaker 6: Stefanci Cleveland, Baltimore and now Mike Tomlin nineteen years and
Speaker 6: how about this, can Brew There have been more popes
Speaker 6: of the Catholic Church than Steeler's head coaches since nineteen
Speaker 6: sixty nine. There have been six popes and three Steeler coaches.
Speaker 1: Well, some would have thought there that Chuck Nole was
Speaker 1: a pope, Hope Chuck, and probably some people thought that
Speaker 1: coach Kawer was probably one. Two. Do you want to
Speaker 1: know a little something here, a little trivia question? Go ahead.
Speaker 1: My in laws are entombed in the same Catholic mortuary
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. What do you call those things?
Speaker 1: We were above the ground or whatever? Lee maaslyum, thank
Speaker 1: you sick. There they are entombed right across the wall
Speaker 1: from Chuck Knowle. How about that? How about that? How
Speaker 1: about that in Pittsburgh that's called Big Country. Admit to that?
Speaker 1: Wows Yeah, Holy moly, Chuck's in the same shape as
Speaker 1: everybody else at Maslyum. Thank you go sure exactly what
Speaker 1: that means? Wow, Mike Tomlin, Now let me ask you
Speaker 1: a question here, sir, Yes, sir, this is a rhetorical question. Okay,
Speaker 1: how do you think Mike Tomlin would play in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: as the head coach of the Bengals.
Speaker 6: I think he'd do a good job with the offense.
Speaker 6: I mean, he'd have a heck of a lot better offense.
Speaker 1: Really look at him, the collection of men in the
Speaker 1: depth of that talent. Thank you. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin actually worked in Cincinnati. He was on I
Speaker 1: believe it was Rex Ryan's defensive defensive staff at the
Speaker 1: University of Cincinnati.
Speaker 6: But now, I mean, he's not gonna He said he's
Speaker 6: not going to coach in twenty twenty. So they got
Speaker 6: an opening at Fox with Jimmy Johnson gone and Matt Ryan.
Speaker 6: His last show on the NFL today was Sunday He's
Speaker 6: gonna what be the president of the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1: Right there's there are going to be some coaching opportunities
Speaker 1: that are going to open up in Tampa. The Tampa
Speaker 1: guy's not is not long for the world, Todd Bowles,
Speaker 1: and that's it. That's a plum job right there. But
Speaker 1: I mean, does Tomlin do TV for a for a
Speaker 1: while or what? Yeah, he'll park himself on TV for
Speaker 1: a year and then there'll be some other thing that
Speaker 1: will open up. What all these coaches want over and above,
Speaker 1: you know the coach is they want control of the roster,
Speaker 1: right and they don't have control of the roster right now.
Speaker 1: He didn't at least and his and and and the
Speaker 1: other thing that Tomlin had is he had a winning
Speaker 1: record every year. They kept tell me he's never had
Speaker 1: a losing record. He's never had a losing record. Will
Speaker 1: be cause of that, you never get to draft to
Speaker 1: the top of the draft where all the great quarterbacks correct. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they lose Roethlisberger and they still haven't replaced him,
Speaker 1: and yet he's he's milk and wins with you know,
Speaker 1: like justin fields, for God's sake. So I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if he had the opportunity. Now I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he does. I don't think he does. Pretty evident he doesn't.
Speaker 1: But if he had the opportunity to coach the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 1: Do you think the town would accept that? The film
Speaker 1: would say so. Yeah. I mean, if he wins, if
Speaker 1: he believe me, he wins, I put a statue up.
Speaker 1: Well that's my that's my point. That's my point.
Speaker 6: He got, you know, if he has a few. I mean,
Speaker 6: he's been a winner for nineteen seasons.
Speaker 1: I think even with understanding the popularity of Harbor right right,
Speaker 1: and he's literally the most popular candidate out there for
Speaker 1: the head coach openings, I think Tomlin would become the
Speaker 1: number one. He would be the number one candidate if
Speaker 1: he chose to stay in coaching right now, that's true.
Speaker 1: I agree with him. Yeah, yeah, I know it's not
Speaker 1: with the fan base here. I know it's not a
Speaker 1: popular opinion, but I won't stopped caring what other people think. Seg.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that I think Mike Tomlin is a
Speaker 1: phenomenal coach. I really do. I agree.
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Speaker 1: Does Brett answer the phone and no, Sue? Does? Sue answers, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: But Brent would answer it if it's ringing and there's no.
Speaker 1: If it's an emergency, he usually he usually answers, Well,
Speaker 1: that's my point, right, proceed, ken Brew.
Speaker 6: Let's see. Uh the Miami RedHawks. They may be like
Speaker 6: the Miami Dolphins. This is unbelievable. Eighteen and zero after
Speaker 6: dumping Central Michigan last night by what forty? Some are
Speaker 6: close to forty points. Brent Byers with twenty four freshman
Speaker 6: Justin Kirby off the bench, was seventeen and those RedHawks
Speaker 6: now are now one of four unbeaten teams left in
Speaker 6: college football. They Miami, Vanderbilt, Arizona, Nebraska. Man, make us
Speaker 6: just an enlightened comment here, if that's possible, go ahead.
Speaker 6: We all know Travis Steele couldn't get out of his
Speaker 6: own way at Savior, right right right. It seems to
Speaker 6: me that Travis Steele was a man made for nil
Speaker 6: and portal. Now, obviously, the NIO money at Miami's not great,
Speaker 6: it's a it's a max school, but it's it's probably
Speaker 6: not bad. But the portal, it seems like you look
Speaker 6: at Oxford, you look at the history there and you
Speaker 6: look at a guy like Steel who's a you know,
Speaker 6: a good basketball coach.
Speaker 1: It was out over his skis a little bit at Xavier, right.
Speaker 1: I think this whole era of transfer nil and all,
Speaker 1: I think it was made for a guy like Travis Steele.
Speaker 1: And when you mix in his ability to coach and
Speaker 1: his staff that he has there, I think is no
Speaker 1: small reason why a lot of these basketball players would
Speaker 1: look at hey do I what do I want to
Speaker 1: finish my career? Or where do I want to go
Speaker 1: for the last couple of years, not even taking into
Speaker 1: consideration about recruiting. I think he's a guy. I think
Speaker 1: he's a guy that absolutely this whole, this whole college
Speaker 1: sports era that were is he was tailor made for this,
Speaker 1: and I think that's one of the reasons why he's succeeding.
Speaker 1: I agree with you there. I mean, I'm just saying
Speaker 1: they're on a roll.
Speaker 6: And it's it's an outrage that they're not in the
Speaker 6: AP top twenty five. Yet, you know what said, I
Speaker 6: don't care what conference you're in. If you're eighteen and
Speaker 6: zero's you got to get in there.
Speaker 1: Right You're you're you're relying on other people's opinions about you,
Speaker 1: And you know what, do you really care what other
Speaker 1: people's opinions are of you?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 6: No, Big twelve of action tonight ken Brew at fifth
Speaker 6: third Arena right there in beautiful Clifton, twelve and one
Speaker 6: Colorado Buffaloes in town to meet our Bearcats six point
Speaker 6: thirty right here on seven hundred W ball. That'd be
Speaker 6: The Cats are eight and eight and zero to three
Speaker 6: and the Big twelve, Well, they're do for a little
Speaker 6: change of fortune here, aren't they?
Speaker 1: I would hope. So they've they've been playing, they've been
Speaker 1: losing close games. Yes, tells you that they probably they
Speaker 1: don't know how at this point to close out a
Speaker 1: game correct. And I don't know if that's because they
Speaker 1: don't have a go to guy, or they don't have
Speaker 1: the right plays drawn up, or the other guy's just
Speaker 1: simply that much better. But they seem to have trouble
Speaker 1: closing out games, and that's disturbing. I think if you're
Speaker 1: a UC fan.
Speaker 6: Because I think on the horizon you've got Iowa State
Speaker 6: and Arizona coming up next.
Speaker 1: It's the best basketball conference in America, and I kid
Speaker 1: could put on you could put on two deadbeat teams
Speaker 1: from from the Big twelve, and that might be the
Speaker 1: best game of the night on television anywhere. Butler takes
Speaker 1: on Xavier.
Speaker 6: Thad Mada comes back to town, Big East Place tonight
Speaker 6: at Cintas Center, six o'clock on the home of Dale
Speaker 6: Donovan fifty five KRC.
Speaker 1: See thad Mada right, Yep. There was a great book
Speaker 1: that was written, You Can Never Go Home. Remember that book.
Speaker 1: It was out in the sixties and Joseph Heller wrote
Speaker 1: that book. There is a man in thad Mada that
Speaker 1: disproved that particular theory in that book, that's for sure.
Speaker 6: Kentucky Wildcats Big Blue Nation is on the road tonight
Speaker 6: up against LSU at seven on ESPN fifteen thirty. Let's
Speaker 6: see Red's update. Red's Fest set for Friday and Saturday downtown. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and pitchers and catchers report to training camp February ninth.
Speaker 1: I must correct it. Wasn't Joseph Heller. I brain farted there.
Speaker 1: It's Thomas Wolfe wrote that book. It's a great book.
Speaker 6: Also ken Brew. Good luck to to that a native
Speaker 6: Quinn Daylinger. He's a freestyle skier who specializes in arioals.
Speaker 6: He has made the Olympic team next month at the
Speaker 6: Winter Games in Milan, Italy.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: That's excellent. So there you go. Good luck to him.
Speaker 1: You're looking forward to the Olympics.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's gonna be crazy because
Speaker 6: most of the stuff is going to be over, you know,
Speaker 6: taking taking as you know, taking part overnight, taking place overnight,
Speaker 6: and we'll be right in the middle of it here
Speaker 6: in the morning.
Speaker 1: But what do you do? I mean, where's Jim McKay
Speaker 1: when you need him?
Speaker 3: You know who's that?
Speaker 1: You know who that is on trumpet? Uh, it's all
Speaker 1: come on, al it's uh, come on, who's the guy
Speaker 1: with the hat? Al Hurt? Oh it wasn't him. I
Speaker 1: just made that up. Thought it was herb Albert. What
Speaker 1: what's your favorite Olympic sport?
Speaker 6: I enjoy the the U I of the hockey, of course, yeah,
Speaker 6: I like the I like the speed skating, skating, the
Speaker 6: ski jumping is unbelievable because when Mike McConnell i went
Speaker 6: over courtesy of Coca Cola UH in ninety two in Albertville, France,
Speaker 6: they took us to see ski jumping in person.
Speaker 1: Wow, and ken Brew the guy he was they were
Speaker 1: they were skating.
Speaker 6: They were going from the top of the of the hill,
Speaker 6: and I thought the one guy was going to end
Speaker 6: up flying over our head and ending up in Batavia.
Speaker 1: You know, the guy. I mean, it's remember the guy
Speaker 1: that was the Agony of defeat. Yeah, well I think
Speaker 1: he's still alive, is that right? I think he is. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I mean just this.
Speaker 6: You know, they look like they're going to come right
Speaker 6: over the top of you, and they come down and
Speaker 6: they hit with such force that that those ski's just
Speaker 6: smacked that ice, and I mean it wakes you up.
Speaker 1: The noise. But it's uh, I don't know.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 6: I kind of like curling every so often. Curling is interesting.
Speaker 6: I like curling, you know, I mean just something different,
Speaker 6: you know. I mean, I like I like ice dancing.
Speaker 1: There you go, guys dance, but I think they need
Speaker 1: to I think there's a I would change ice dancing
Speaker 1: in a in a way, this is what I would do. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they're out there, they're dancing around. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the hell they're dancing to whatever, Mozart or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would go to every National Hockey League team and
Speaker 1: I would say for the Olympics, you have to allow
Speaker 1: your team goon to go to the Olympics. And then
Speaker 1: on each ice dancing Paris, it's out there. The goal
Speaker 1: is not to dance and do they have to skate
Speaker 1: away from the goon because if the goon catches them,
Speaker 1: you know, all he'll get that.
Speaker 6: Get that what that six seven defenseman from their New
Speaker 6: York Rangers?
Speaker 1: That that big guy. So what you would have as
Speaker 1: you would have elements of ballet with ice dancing, you
Speaker 1: would also have elements of the W W E R
Speaker 1: the elements of hockey. Now you tell me people wouldn't
Speaker 1: tune in to watch that. I would think, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you get the guy who's on that team, all he
Speaker 1: wants to do is beat the Jesus out of somebody,
Speaker 1: and he's an Olympian. And then these two ice dancers,
Speaker 1: if they're so good, they got to dance away from them.
Speaker 6: Another thing I like is the downhill skiing. I like
Speaker 6: downhill ski man. What was that Lindsey Vaughn Lindsay was
Speaker 6: getting hurt? John Claude Keeley, the famous Frenchman.
Speaker 1: What was the other guys? Brody somebody or other from
Speaker 1: about twenty two? Oh yeah, that's right, yeah, Brody Miller. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's very good.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that, and I do you know what else
Speaker 1: I like too?
Speaker 2: Is I like.
Speaker 1: The individual figure skating. I think that's good. You gotta
Speaker 1: be you gotta be really good to do that good
Speaker 1: balance when they when they throw all the pears and
Speaker 1: well they I'm just and the one person out there,
Speaker 1: you know, right, well yeah, yeah, and one thing could
Speaker 1: just you know, wipe out what five six years of
Speaker 1: workouts to practice and you're done, and then everybody's going
Speaker 1: to bed upset. You don't want that, and no, no,
Speaker 1: what else is happening? Sick? And that's about it, ken Brew.
Speaker 1: All right, So we've covered a lot of bases here, yes, sir,
Speaker 1: And I just I just think Mike Tomlin is my
Speaker 1: kind of coach. And I know people in Cincinnati dissest
Speaker 1: the Steelers. I get that, but I look at that
Speaker 1: guy and all I see is I mean that dude
Speaker 1: is the winner. Anything to win right, anything to win right,
Speaker 1: and he gets his players buying in on it. But
Speaker 1: if you told me the last guy's standing in the
Speaker 1: AFC North would be Zach Taylor, I would be like,
Speaker 1: what are you nuts? Harvar for life, Tomlin for life.
Speaker 1: But so it goes seg. Life is a series of
Speaker 1: left hand turns. No doubt about that right hand turn
Speaker 1: that comes up. You better be able to make it, Amen,
Speaker 1: ken Brew, say get us out of the Stewge Report.
Speaker 1: I've got someone who used to be a prisoner in Iran.
Speaker 1: It's going to join me here just a little.
Speaker 6: Bit, ken Brew, in honor of a now cold day
Speaker 6: in the Tri State. It's miserable rain to snow, to
Speaker 6: cold and everything else. We leave you with the immortal
Speaker 6: words of the Stewed Report.
Speaker 1: And so I'll be quiet, man and answer your question
Speaker 1: so I can get the work. Oh man, say all
Speaker 1: gets you to work? Probably another forty five minutes were there,
Speaker 1: ken Brew will be here. I'll be standing by with
Speaker 1: baited if not bad breath, Yes, sir, on seven hundred
Speaker 1: w wel w.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: The average American with the great American idols Wednesday. As
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know, in Iran, the uprising continues, and
Speaker 1: so does what appears to be the slaughtering of these
Speaker 1: protesters in the street. Some figures have at least three
Speaker 1: thousand killed and more than ten thousand arrested as people
Speaker 1: are rising up against the Iranian dictatorship, the Ayatola and
Speaker 1: what appears to be an economy that is in a
Speaker 1: free fall. And now we're told that President Trump is
Speaker 1: weighing his options because Trump wants to get involved. This
Speaker 1: is going to be tricky for the president. It's not
Speaker 1: like what he did last summer with regards to the
Speaker 1: nuclear facilities. The leaders that are behind the atrocities in
Speaker 1: Iran have scattered, apparently, and so one target or two
Speaker 1: targets may not be plausible to take the leadership out,
Speaker 1: even more so where they've scattered two our populated areas,
Speaker 1: and you have to be extremely careful not to make
Speaker 1: an attack against a leader and take out some of
Speaker 1: the very people that are rising up in protest against
Speaker 1: what that leader and his administration in Iran have done
Speaker 1: now for over forty years. I don't have to tell
Speaker 1: my next guest all about that, because she knows she
Speaker 1: was a political prisoner in Iran. Fifteen years old and
Speaker 1: during the nineteen seventy five Iran Revolution, Suran Nehreman was
Speaker 1: arrested for her activism and she became one of the
Speaker 1: youngest political prisoners of her time, enduring severe torture inside
Speaker 1: a prison and some of the things she witnessed first
Speaker 1: hand were absolutely, absolutely atrocious. Upon a release, she has
Speaker 1: relocated to the United States, but the fight for her
Speaker 1: country in Iran still continues, and it's great that she
Speaker 1: has given us some of her time here today on
Speaker 1: seven hundred w Well Wn, Sharon Nareman, How are you
Speaker 1: on this glorious Wednesday, Good.
Speaker 7: Afternoon, Thank you. I'm good considering the bat news that
Speaker 7: you are hearing.
Speaker 1: Okay, a few things first about you. How long were
Speaker 1: you in that prison in Iran? How many years?
Speaker 5: Two years?
Speaker 7: I was in prison for two years.
Speaker 1: Yes, And you were in prison because you were part
Speaker 1: of a pro democracy movement. The shaw was had already
Speaker 1: fallen or was about to fall, and you were working
Speaker 1: as a pro or one of a large number of
Speaker 1: people that wanted Iran to move to a democracy. It
Speaker 1: did not, obviously, it moved to a brutal dictatorship, and
Speaker 1: so you were thrown in jail two years and tell
Speaker 1: me what you saw when you were in jail.
Speaker 7: Well, actually, I was arrested after the fall of Shaw
Speaker 7: and I had witnessed the revolution of nineteen seventy eight
Speaker 7: seventy nine. Then in two years after, when there was
Speaker 7: a still some semi shadow of the democracy still was
Speaker 7: going on, I was arrested because I was a supporter
Speaker 7: of major Dinnami Kay at my house, no other reasons,
Speaker 7: because my family was very well known in the neighborhood
Speaker 7: and they attacked our house and they arrested me. And
Speaker 7: unfortunately I had to not only go through torture myself,
Speaker 7: but also I think the worst part was to witness
Speaker 7: what happened in prison. I was forced to grow up
Speaker 7: quickly and to tolerate pain because not only I had
Speaker 7: to see friends and family members, classmates or cellmates that
Speaker 7: have been severely tortured, but also had to go through
Speaker 7: that nightly executions in Iran. Every afternoon they called out
Speaker 7: a list and they would ask them to pack up,
Speaker 7: and we knew what that meant. It meant the executions.
Speaker 7: Back then they used firing a squad. So when these
Speaker 7: people and when they left each timon saying goodbye, knowing
Speaker 7: that that person is not going to be alive in
Speaker 7: few hours. That was the worst thing for me. I
Speaker 7: cannot tell you how many times my friends told me,
Speaker 7: don't forget me and continue my work. And and you
Speaker 7: know I had to go through that. They would kill
Speaker 7: them by firing a squad and then they would do
Speaker 7: the cook the graund, which is the last shot on
Speaker 7: the head. So that's how we knew how many people
Speaker 7: were executed each night, seventy eighty one hundred, three hundred
Speaker 7: and then because they.
Speaker 1: Were all because they were they were they believed in
Speaker 1: democracy and the people that were doing this, these carrying
Speaker 1: out these particulars assassinations murders was at the behest of
Speaker 1: the Ayatola, the Iotola homemade correct.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, he gave a fatwa to get rid of
Speaker 7: any voices that it was for freedom and democracy. You know,
Speaker 7: thirteen year old, what the thirteen year old could have
Speaker 7: done just because her brother was a supporter of Emmy
Speaker 7: kay or a mother. I cannot tell you how many
Speaker 7: times mother were executed because after severe tortures, they were
Speaker 7: not willing to disclose to the regime where their three
Speaker 7: children were hiding or pregnant women. One of my my
Speaker 7: cellmates was pregnant when she was executed. You know that
Speaker 7: the exact thing that is happening right now. What do
Speaker 7: you think the young people in Iran want right now?
Speaker 7: They want liberty, they want freedom, they want democracy, and
Speaker 7: they want the human dignity of having a good life.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and you know sharing. The other thing too
Speaker 1: is the economy there has been so isolated that people
Speaker 1: are living impoverished. I guess this began as a quote
Speaker 1: unquote market uprising. Some of the people that operated the
Speaker 1: various markets in and around Tehran, they began this and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it became a populist movement. The
Speaker 1: economy in Iran, it's in free fall because it's been
Speaker 1: isolated by most of the rest of the free world.
Speaker 1: Am I right?
Speaker 7: Well, it's also because there is a big dismanagement in
Speaker 7: Iran and also the IERGC controlling the whole buzzaar and market.
Speaker 7: So anyone who wants to have any company they have
Speaker 7: to have a part there from IRGC members. And then
Speaker 7: also many of them have stole literally stole money from
Speaker 7: the banks, from the investments, and they brought it outside
Speaker 7: of your own they have believe it or not there
Speaker 7: or they have investment properties and investment companies that right
Speaker 7: now operate even in the heart of US and Europe.
Speaker 7: So it's what you can imagine the amount of corruption
Speaker 7: that is going on inside of your own and people
Speaker 7: are not capable of providing food for their children. If
Speaker 7: they could buy five breads today, tomorrow they would be
Speaker 7: able to work buy one. Somebody told me from Iran
Speaker 7: when I contacted them, they told me that, you know,
Speaker 7: yesterday I could buy five breads, today I'm just buying
Speaker 7: one bread because that's how much the percentage of the
Speaker 7: inflation is going on. So all of that, you have
Speaker 7: to consider all of that. And you're right, it has
Speaker 7: started with the economy reason. But because of the pressure
Speaker 7: that you know, the suppression that decision is has done
Speaker 7: towards its citizens, it got to a point that people
Speaker 7: cannot take it and they revoked. Look at it right now,
Speaker 7: although we are seeing all these bodies piled up, but
Speaker 7: people know that they have to go out and they
Speaker 7: have to fight the regime, knowing that many of them
Speaker 7: are not going to be alive anymore.
Speaker 1: Well, for example, for example, there are. There have been
Speaker 1: over ten thousand arrests, three thousand killed. There there is
Speaker 1: a very fear that is growing that another detained Iranian
Speaker 1: that has gotten a lot of attention in this country
Speaker 1: Earth and the Sultani maybe next to be executed, perhaps
Speaker 1: as early at some point today. So it's not stopping.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing about dictatorships and iron you know,
Speaker 1: iron fisted rulers, is they will stop in nothing to
Speaker 1: keep power. So what has to happen now, in your opinion,
Speaker 1: so these executions and these arrests stop, what should the
Speaker 1: United States and your opinion be, what should President Trump
Speaker 1: do now to have not stop it completely but curtail it.
Speaker 7: Well, Actually, as Zom set up correctly, very correctly, decision
Speaker 7: is not going to stop at killing. We have reports
Speaker 7: that this twelve twenty thousand. Somebody told me yesterday that
Speaker 7: from the news that she has is about fifty thousand.
Speaker 5: We don't know.
Speaker 7: We don't know until everything is over and the internet
Speaker 7: is open back up and then we can find out more. However,
Speaker 7: what can be done is did you know that the
Speaker 7: Iranian of Iranian Country Office, they have offices in the
Speaker 7: DC and in New York shut down their offices, Expel
Speaker 7: them immediately, don't even give them two hours. Tell them
Speaker 7: that you have to live our land right now, and
Speaker 7: freeze all their assets and ask our allies to freeze
Speaker 7: the assets of i Irigy is not still in the
Speaker 7: terrorist list in Europe, so they have to put them
Speaker 7: in the terrorist lists. They have to shut down all
Speaker 7: the embassies, all the lobby firms, all the uh the organizers,
Speaker 7: different organizations that Iranian regime have kept making to be
Speaker 7: here to deploy its proxies in America, Canada and Europe.
Speaker 7: So all of them they need to be expelled immediately
Speaker 7: from from our countries and also they should be they
Speaker 7: then they should regime get the message that the West
Speaker 7: is done with them, nor negotiation and no more tom right.
Speaker 1: That would be a very easy thing for this country
Speaker 1: to do. Unfortunately, there were previous administrations Obama and Biden
Speaker 1: that wanted to pay Iran off with palettes of cash,
Speaker 1: and that only fueled the terror that continues in Iran. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I think that would be a very easy thing for
Speaker 1: them to do. And Trump has got to be very
Speaker 1: careful about what he does from a military standpoint. But
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering in your opinion, how long can these
Speaker 1: protests go on if you have you know, we don't know,
Speaker 1: and what we know is at least ten thousand arrested
Speaker 1: and at least three thousand killed. How long do you
Speaker 1: think it could go on?
Speaker 7: Well, people and they leave, you know some video perhaps
Speaker 7: seen some videos that they say a young man for instances,
Speaker 7: I'm going out because I have nothing to lose. I
Speaker 7: rather to die, that Iran would be free as well.
Speaker 7: Other people have the opportunity to leave. And Iranian people
Speaker 7: know that if they are go back to their houses,
Speaker 7: decision is going to even kill more and more. So
Speaker 7: they know either they have to go, they have to
Speaker 7: win or the regime wins, so they have to be
Speaker 7: out there. That's why this sad last night in Tehran
Speaker 7: a huge generally by Iran, by the Terranists people in
Speaker 7: living in Tehran and shouting death to harmony. Also the
Speaker 7: footage that we see in morgues that when people go
Speaker 7: to pick their the body of their loved ones, they
Speaker 7: they shout death to how many that it means that
Speaker 7: Iranian people are resilient. They are fed up with decision
Speaker 7: and they know they have to go to the end.
Speaker 7: And if anything wants to be done, you have to
Speaker 7: have a political game behind it. Iranian people have to
Speaker 7: be able to choose their own leader.
Speaker 1: And that would be my next question. If how many falls,
Speaker 1: what happens. There are some that would like to see
Speaker 1: it go back to the ruling class of the Shaw family.
Speaker 1: There are others that want nothing to do with the
Speaker 1: Shaw I mean, what would be the best course of
Speaker 1: what would what would be best for Iran if indeed
Speaker 1: how many falls and there is a new government, Because
Speaker 1: I would think if he falls, there would be chaos
Speaker 1: in the country. Any country would be in chaos if
Speaker 1: their government fell and the leader's left. What would be
Speaker 1: the best course of action for Iran if that happened?
Speaker 7: I think I think we had this admminisation and everyone
Speaker 7: has to look in to see what organization has already
Speaker 7: established an infrastructure inside of Iran National Council and Resistance
Speaker 7: of Iran has been saying it for past few years
Speaker 7: that they are having thousands and thousands of you resistance.
Speaker 7: You need see Iran that are ready to fight back.
Speaker 7: So we need to recognize the rights to fight back
Speaker 7: because as you saidhip is not going to go easily.
Speaker 7: You have to fight back. You have to liberate the country.
Speaker 7: We have to have the National Liberation Army inside of Iran,
Speaker 7: and we do have it. And I think that in
Speaker 7: a session should look and see who has that infrasecture
Speaker 7: already and also who has the real plan. National Council
Speaker 7: of Resistance had the ten point plan over fifteen sixteen
Speaker 7: years and also it has a plan of how to
Speaker 7: go through the changes. I can tell you one thing
Speaker 7: with the Reza palaty Resa Paladi is a recipe for
Speaker 7: a civil war in Iran and that would spill over
Speaker 7: to the region. Why because more than seventy persons of Iran,
Speaker 7: based on the survey that they did themselves, pro Parladi
Speaker 7: people did it. Seventy persons of Iranian are rejecting monarchy.
Speaker 7: We do want one person comes in and decide for everything.
Speaker 7: We don't want to change one dictator, trade one detail
Speaker 7: dictator for another one. We want a republic of Iran.
Speaker 7: We want freedom. We want our people to be able
Speaker 7: to go to the ballots and give their votes a
Speaker 7: vote and decide who they want to support. So I think, yeah,
Speaker 7: he's the recipeople.
Speaker 1: No, I think I think what you want is democracy.
Speaker 1: You want you want to be able to rule your
Speaker 1: own destiny with your own people who have a common
Speaker 1: goal and a common good for the state of Iran.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Charen Merriman,
Speaker 1: How did you get out of How did you're a
Speaker 1: political prisoner there for two years? How did you get
Speaker 1: out of prison and get to the United States?
Speaker 7: The only thing when I think back is miracle. I
Speaker 7: came as a refugee to America. I landed as a
Speaker 7: refuge I'm your typical refugee with eighty dollars in her pocket,
Speaker 7: but I had relative living.
Speaker 1: Yeah, get out of prison. Who let you out if
Speaker 1: you're in prison? Somebody?
Speaker 7: Well, because because when I was arrested, everything was you know,
Speaker 7: so we had a little bit of democracy, and so
Speaker 7: they didn't have any base to keep me. So after
Speaker 7: two years, and I have to say, my mother worked
Speaker 7: very hard, meeting anyone that she could meet and telling them,
Speaker 7: you know, she was just sixteen years or sixteen years
Speaker 7: old when you arrested. She didn't do anything. And finally,
Speaker 7: through pressure and also some bribe moneys, I was released
Speaker 7: because they had literally I had done nothing. They arrested
Speaker 7: me in my house. You know I was, you know,
Speaker 7: it was a Friday morning at home. So I was arrested,
Speaker 7: so I was released. I wasn't allowed to leave the
Speaker 7: country for free years or five years, and then again
Speaker 7: through some network that I found, I was able to
Speaker 7: live herround and I landed in America.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what. You're a strong voice for Iran,
Speaker 1: what it's going through right now, and what I think
Speaker 1: most normal thinking people would want for your country going forward.
Speaker 1: Keep fighting the good fight. I know that the NCRII
Speaker 1: the National Council of Resistance of Iran, is very strong
Speaker 1: with deep roots here in the United States. And hopefully
Speaker 1: someday you can return along with whomever is now in
Speaker 1: charge of Iran once how many falls, And I think
Speaker 1: you will eventually, because the best uprisings are the ones
Speaker 1: that happen inside a country, not from outside forces. And
Speaker 1: maybe at that point, Sharon Nerriman, we can visit again.
Speaker 1: But for your time today, we thank you.
Speaker 7: Stay well, Okay, thank you very much for giving me
Speaker 7: the opportunity, and hopefully we see Google go to your
Speaker 7: own and host you there. You know as a guest, I.
Speaker 1: Would welcome that. I would I hope that place opens
Speaker 1: up to the entire world and very soon. Thank you, Shiron,
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. It is coming up on two twenty
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Speaker 2: Oh hello, quiet, and I'm broadcasting.
Speaker 1: God seg Yes, Ken Brogs. I have a theoretical question
Speaker 1: for you. Go ahead, This is about green Is this
Speaker 1: about Greenland?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: But have you ever been there? Flew over it? Oh?
Speaker 2: You did?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we went to France in ninety two for the Olympics.
Speaker 1: But you flew over Greenland.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: You take that big arc and you roll right into Frankfurt, Germany.
Speaker 6: I would like to see Greenland, you know. I went
Speaker 6: to Iceland last summer. Yeah, but Iceland has greenery and
Speaker 6: Greenland has iceery.
Speaker 1: Correct. So I don't know. I don't understand the naming
Speaker 1: of these places because Greenland should be really called Iceland
Speaker 1: and Iceland Greenland. Well maybe that's what they're arguing today
Speaker 1: about the you know, you know, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it's always it's always about nomenclature. Correct. Now,
Speaker 1: what's your question? Well, I have a theoretical question for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Okay, theoretically, in the history of Cincinnati sports
Speaker 1: that you've been around for now, I know you can't
Speaker 1: address this, Pat, and it's same with me too. In
Speaker 1: the history of Cincinnati sports, Yes, sir, was there one
Speaker 1: player that you wished either the Bengals or the Reds
Speaker 1: had pursued when that particular player was in his prime
Speaker 1: and available for either trade or free agent science.
Speaker 6: I wish that Ken Griffy Junior didn't have as many,
Speaker 6: you know, injuries that he had, but probably this year
Speaker 6: Kyle Barber, So you're keeping his prime, you're keeping well,
Speaker 6: I don't know, that's a that's a that's a good one.
Speaker 1: I mean this Reds are is that everybody angles Reds
Speaker 1: are Bengals that they they obviously did not make a
Speaker 1: play for but could have. Ooh, that could be anybody
Speaker 1: with the Bengals. Now see, I'm just I'm just saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm throwing this out, not not having any particular answer
Speaker 1: that you know, I thought would be philosophically, you know,
Speaker 1: but I'm just you know, the one player in my opinion, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: I wish the Bengals had pursued Retchie White. Ooh, that's true. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the ramifications are or whatnot, But
Speaker 1: can you imagine what that guy would have done as
Speaker 1: a Bengal and the ferocity with which he would have
Speaker 1: brought it? Yeah? Yeah, I remember he played for the
Speaker 1: Eagles from eighty five to ninety two, correct, and then
Speaker 1: ninety two was the big year. That's when he went
Speaker 1: to the Packers. So what would the Bengals defense have
Speaker 1: look like? Oh, in nineteen eighty eight he had him
Speaker 1: and in a few other ones, if you had Reggie
Speaker 1: White on that defensive line, no points allowed. I keep
Speaker 1: wondering about that. Now, the other question would be who
Speaker 1: who would be the worst free agent signing in the
Speaker 1: history of the Reds or Bengals. These are things that
Speaker 1: keep you up at night. By way, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you know, just when you think the ambient had kicked in,
Speaker 1: then you get questions like this in the back of
Speaker 1: your mind.
Speaker 6: That's a I know, I'm just that's that's Yeah. A
Speaker 6: lot of names come to mind, but oh, I mean
Speaker 6: some were out of the realm of the purview of them.
Speaker 6: But guy to keep I keep coming back to is
Speaker 6: Antonio Bryant. Remember him?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he signed with the Bengals, I think twenty ten
Speaker 1: million dollar, four year contract, and I think he had
Speaker 1: like one practice and that was it. What about t
Speaker 1: O wasn't here along?
Speaker 3: Was he?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: The reason why t O was here is that o
Speaker 1: Cho Senko. I think it was. I think it was
Speaker 1: because they saw what Antonio Bryant and it wasn't working out.
Speaker 1: What about James Harrison? James Harrison was an interesting study.
Speaker 1: I don't think he was you know that in relationship
Speaker 1: to the Mike Tomlin. You know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: James Harrison ever, you know, really bought into what was
Speaker 1: going on here. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I said a load to him a couple of times.
Speaker 6: I thought he was gonna like tear me and half
Speaker 6: road out. He just kind of looked at me, like, right, yeah, James,
Speaker 6: how you doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, it didn't matter to day. He wasn't doing
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Speaker 1: the Eddie and Rocky Show. It's coming up in just
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Speaker 1: the three most ravishing redheads in the greater Cincinnati area.
Speaker 1: That would be Rocket J Boyman, who has arrived in
Speaker 1: the studio earlier to join me. Rocky, how are you
Speaker 1: on this glorious day? Can I am great? How are you?
Speaker 1: I was any better? I be triplets and then I
Speaker 1: could get some things done. You get a lot done
Speaker 1: if you were in troubles. Yeah, I could wallpaper, I could,
Speaker 1: you know, plant some flowers. I could probably solve the
Speaker 1: world's problems. But there's only one of me, thank God,
Speaker 1: thank God. Yes, Mike Tomlin. I'm not suggesting anything here,
Speaker 1: but if anybody said at the beginning of summer camp
Speaker 1: that the last coach standing in the AFC North would
Speaker 1: be Zach Taylor, I think everybody'd say what But nevertheless
Speaker 1: he is now. I'm not suggesting anything here because you know,
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor is the head coach and they're joined at
Speaker 1: the hip with Mike Brown. I get hold of that.
Speaker 1: But would Mike Tomlin play in Cincinnati as a head
Speaker 1: coach knowing the inherent absolute hatred that exists among Cincinnati
Speaker 1: fans for not only the fans of Pittsburgh, not only
Speaker 1: the Steelers, but the city of Pittsburgh, would he work
Speaker 1: in this town?
Speaker 8: I think bengalstans early on would be reluctant. But if
Speaker 8: they calm down a little bit and realize the caliber
Speaker 8: of coach that he is and hasn't had a losing
Speaker 8: season in nineteen seasons, and the fact that what's the
Speaker 8: biggest issue with the Bengals right now offensive defense.
Speaker 1: Defense.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's a defensive guy and would add an edge
Speaker 8: I think to that. So I think for that reason,
Speaker 8: hypothetically it would work. I think largely you want offensive
Speaker 8: coaches in the NFL because of the innovation and everything.
Speaker 1: But I mean, look at New England.
Speaker 8: They got a defensive coach and that guy has I mean,
Speaker 8: you know, they take over the identity of Mike Rabel, right,
Speaker 8: And I think this Bengals team and defense, which is
Speaker 8: clearly the part of this team that needs a lot
Speaker 8: of work, maybe that would give them an edge. So
Speaker 8: I think, yeah, fans bulk at it for a second,
Speaker 8: but if you thought about it, yeah, I think it
Speaker 8: would work well.
Speaker 1: I think all you'd have to do is splash a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl ring, which he has. Now, there's the knock
Speaker 1: against them is that there were two Mike Tomlins. There
Speaker 1: was the night Mike Tomlin from I think twenty ohs seven,
Speaker 1: maybe the twenty sixteen, and then there was the guy
Speaker 1: since twenty seventeen, who really wasn't as effective as the
Speaker 1: first Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 8: So well, the first Mike Tomlin had Ben Roethlisberger, so
Speaker 8: that helped, and he hasn't been able to get a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Since absolutely fair, and he hasn't because of his own
Speaker 1: moderate success. When you're drafting in the mid teens and
Speaker 1: the upper teens, because of your your success, you're not
Speaker 1: going to get the great quarterback that's out there as
Speaker 1: the first or second pick. Correct, But I think I
Speaker 1: think he would have to not reprove, but just kind
Speaker 1: of re establish who he's all about, particularly for some
Speaker 1: of the younger players that are coming in. But I
Speaker 1: think this guy plays anywhere. I think he's the most
Speaker 1: attractive coaching candidate that's out there. He's not available, obviously
Speaker 1: because he's under contract to Pittsburgh through twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: But nevertheless, I think he could go anywhere, as could
Speaker 1: you for that matter. But thank god, you're not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: You're here in just a couple of minutes with Eddie.
Speaker 1: What's topic one for you?
Speaker 8: Well, that's a good lead in because at four o'clock
Speaker 8: we have an Adam Crowley of ninety three to seven
Speaker 8: the fan in Pittsburgh and he's going to go over.
Speaker 8: He's in the belly of the beast there, so going
Speaker 8: to talk about what's going on with Tomlin. The feeling
Speaker 8: of I feel there's a difference in how people view
Speaker 8: Mike Tomlin from the outside versus how they view him
Speaker 8: in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: So ask him about that. Ask him what Tomlin's next
Speaker 1: move is, is it TV?
Speaker 8: And if so, where? And then does how bad? Does
Speaker 8: he probably want to get back into coaching. So ask
Speaker 8: him all those questions and then'll be at four o'clock.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he can coach my team anytime.
Speaker 8: Anyplace you got like you got a grandson with like
Speaker 8: a like a youth team or something, maybe he can
Speaker 8: get him to coach that a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why not?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 1: Twenty seven? Then bingo, he could be the hottest market
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