Speaker 1: All right, here we go again. January two, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Some people working today. I think most people that took
Speaker 1: the day or the time off Christmas week, they're not
Speaker 1: back at work. Look who I'm filling in for. But
Speaker 1: I think most people that took the Christmas week off,
Speaker 1: I think they're off today. It's nice, long break. It's good.
Speaker 1: You got three days left of that and then it's
Speaker 1: back to absolute hell. But listen, you'll worry about Monday
Speaker 1: when Monday rolls around, right. I mean, if you plan
Speaker 1: too far and ahead to get too worried about what
Speaker 1: is on the horizon, you miss the beauty of the
Speaker 1: sunrise or the sun set, or whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: As a wise man once said, great to be with you.
Speaker 1: It's the average American in for the great American right here.
Speaker 1: Until you see football this afternoon, you see the Liberty
Speaker 1: Bowl against Navy. This is going to be, as they
Speaker 1: say it, tough out for UC. UC doesn't have its
Speaker 1: top quarterback. Brendan Soresby is in the transfer portal, which
Speaker 1: by the way, open today. This whole nil thing is
Speaker 1: just turned college football in college basketball on its head.
Speaker 1: You're rooting for uniforms. Now you realize that it's the
Speaker 1: old Seinfeld joke. You're literally each year you're not rooting
Speaker 1: for players, you're rooting for uniforms because the players they
Speaker 1: come and they go. But anyway, the Liberty Bowl is
Speaker 1: coming up three thirty airtime today, and that'll be Dan
Speaker 1: Horde and Tony Pike and I believe Moeggar is down
Speaker 1: there too in Memphis. All of that on our horizon. Look,
Speaker 1: the one thing I think we all want to be
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six is better than what we were
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. I think, both as people in
Speaker 1: our personal life and our family life, at our job.
Speaker 1: I mean, it'd be pretty sad if you didn't want
Speaker 1: to be better than you were last year in any
Speaker 1: of those things. I also think we all want to
Speaker 1: be better off financially at twenty twenty six than what
Speaker 1: we were in twenty twenty five. But that requires a
Speaker 1: little bit of work, not a lot of work, a
Speaker 1: little bit of work. And if you work at it
Speaker 1: coupled with what should be coming this year with tax cuts,
Speaker 1: it could be that way. So you're saying, well, okay,
Speaker 1: little bit of work, a little bit, what's the work here? Well,
Speaker 1: the work is strengthening your safety net. Look for other
Speaker 1: income opportunities and listen to Mark Hamrick from bankrate dot com.
Speaker 1: He is their chief financial analyst. This is a guy
Speaker 1: who's been around for a while. In fact, at one
Speaker 1: point he ran the business news operation for the Associated
Speaker 1: Press in Washington, DC. Did that for twenty years, past
Speaker 1: president of the National Press Club in Washington, DC. And
Speaker 1: the survey is out for twenty twenty six, and this
Speaker 1: survey from bank rate says one in three, about thirty
Speaker 1: four percent of us say we believe our personal finances
Speaker 1: will get better in twenty twenty six. Eleven percent of
Speaker 1: us believe it will significantly get better. Now. That's down
Speaker 1: from where it was in twenty twenty four. Younger generation
Speaker 1: more optimistic. Why not, they have more opportunity at their feet.
Speaker 1: Among those who believe their personal finances will get better
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six, the top reason is rising income,
Speaker 1: followed by better spending habits. So what else can we do?
Speaker 1: The aforementioned Mark Hamricks standing by it, and I want
Speaker 1: to get him on today because it all starts, well,
Speaker 1: it started yesterday, but it all starts really from a
Speaker 1: business standpoint, this coming Monday, Mark how are you on
Speaker 1: this glorious day after New Year's Day?
Speaker 2: Ken, There's no one I'd rather be able to speak with,
Speaker 2: and that's such a great opportunity.
Speaker 3: I appreciate your kindness very much.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm looking at this survey and it's on a
Speaker 1: number of levels. It's encouraging. On a number of levels,
Speaker 1: it's not. I guess the discouraging part is that only
Speaker 1: one in three of us a little more than that,
Speaker 1: believe that our personal finances will get better in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. And it cuts across political lines, as most
Speaker 1: of these things do. But if you're a Democrat, you're
Speaker 1: not so optimistic. If you're a Republican, you're a little
Speaker 1: more optimistic, and if you're younger, you're a little more optimistic.
Speaker 1: So I suppose there is the good and the bad,
Speaker 1: I guess is the way I would put it. Right.
Speaker 2: Well, it's America, right, I mean, that's number one. And
Speaker 2: we talk all the time about the economy which favors
Speaker 2: the wealthy here so called K shaped economy. People who
Speaker 2: own their home, people who are invested in the stock market,
Speaker 2: and they are just building further financial momentum that of
Speaker 2: course existing within the result of inflation, which is affordability
Speaker 2: challenges which have really, in a sense unfairly claim casualties
Speaker 2: among middle income and lower income Americans. So you've basically
Speaker 2: got something for everybody in the economy, and you've got
Speaker 2: something or not for everybody, as it's seeing in this
Speaker 2: in this survey. But I would say ken, and this
Speaker 2: isn't undermine the survey because I love the survey.
Speaker 3: I run this survey every year.
Speaker 2: Is that it is somewhat backward looking, meaning that people
Speaker 2: were reflecting on their recent experience with their personal finances
Speaker 2: and the economy, and none of us really know what
Speaker 2: the year will bring and then and that's part of
Speaker 2: the risk and opportunity. So if things turn out for
Speaker 2: the better, then maybe people will be more even more optimistic,
Speaker 2: and we run this a year from now, and if
Speaker 2: it's not, then you know that'll be the consequence as well.
Speaker 1: Well. I guess the current inflation rate is three point
Speaker 1: one percent, and that's up a little bit from where
Speaker 1: it was last month, but the fact of the matter
Speaker 1: is it's down significantly from where it was in the
Speaker 1: summer of twenty twenty two. So I don't know, do
Speaker 1: you think Americans are still paralyzed by that, or do
Speaker 1: you think they're actually feeling And I know this is
Speaker 1: your opinion, it's not necessarily as whole, but do you
Speaker 1: think they're actually feeling that when they go to shop,
Speaker 1: either for groceries or for something during the holiday season?
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, they tell us that that is
Speaker 3: the case.
Speaker 2: When those who expressed the pessimistic point of view or
Speaker 2: ask why is your outlook for worse personal finances? Number
Speaker 2: one was continued high inflation, interestingly enough, in a very
Speaker 2: political environment, and this, of course a national survey where
Speaker 2: we have politically polarized views. Four out of ten said
Speaker 2: they're pessimistic because of quote the work by elected officials,
Speaker 2: and you know, I would paraphrase that to say, perhaps
Speaker 2: the lack of work by elected officials as well, but
Speaker 2: you know, can Here's an important distinction with respect to
Speaker 2: your question, and that is, I know you are a
Speaker 2: very well informed individual, and your questions are always the
Speaker 2: best that I get in the many media interviews that
Speaker 2: I do. Most Americans don't look at the rate of inflation.
Speaker 2: They look at their lived experience with affordability issues, and
Speaker 2: that's why they go off when they see something that
Speaker 2: like eggs have gone from two today dollars a dozen,
Speaker 2: even though that's not going to have particularly massive consequence
Speaker 2: on their personal finances, and more recently spent things like coffee,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: The drill.
Speaker 2: So the reality is it's about affordability. Inflation is something
Speaker 2: that creates affordability challenges or not. And so you know,
Speaker 2: a three percent annual increase of inflation means you've gone
Speaker 2: up a couple of more stare steps with the price
Speaker 2: changes that have occurred roughly twenty five percent since early
Speaker 2: two thousand and twenty, I should.
Speaker 1: Say, yeah, and you're right. It is more of an
Speaker 1: experience than it is in number. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: always been that way. The number seems to exist for
Speaker 1: political purposes, and the experience exists for the rest of us.
Speaker 1: The good in this report that I saw is that
Speaker 1: four and five of us, in fact, it comes to
Speaker 1: eighty five percent have financial goals for twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: and of those four and five of us, the main
Speaker 1: financial goal is to create is to create an environment
Speaker 1: for themselves where they pay down debt and have more
Speaker 1: control of spending. Look, the government might not have more
Speaker 1: control of its spending it's incumbent upon us to have
Speaker 1: it because the banks aren't exactly as forgiving for us
Speaker 1: as they might be for the government. So this is good.
Speaker 1: I think that people understand you can't live the rest
Speaker 1: of your life in debt, or you're just going to
Speaker 1: live the rest of your life in squalors. So I
Speaker 1: think that's that's something I think I take out of
Speaker 1: this that's really really positive, And.
Speaker 2: It's also meaningful, Ken, in the sense of, you know,
Speaker 2: if we were to start our financial lives as you
Speaker 2: and I young men again, that certainly would be something
Speaker 2: that I would have tried to correct my earlier behavior with.
Speaker 2: But I also note the second part of the goals
Speaker 2: in ranking here, which is fourteen percent of Americans say
Speaker 2: they want to get a higher paying job or additional income.
Speaker 2: And you know, we just had a job report. It
Speaker 2: was relatively lackluster, the unemployment rate at the highest level
Speaker 2: in four years, but still at historically a low level.
Speaker 2: And Ken, I'm sure you see, as I do almost
Speaker 2: every day, just how enterprising people are in this economy,
Speaker 2: many of whom are people who've come to the United
Speaker 2: States for the opportunity to work and perhaps escape some
Speaker 2: horrible things, or at least less than optimal things in
Speaker 2: their home country. Point is that there is opportunity out there.
Speaker 2: It may not be you know, a slam dunk, to
Speaker 2: use a sports analogy with respect to employment, but so
Speaker 2: many people take advantage, for example, of the gig economy,
Speaker 2: or we've had surveys in the past that told us
Speaker 2: that the youngest of Americans a pretty fair percentage want
Speaker 2: to start their own companies.
Speaker 3: So there is opportunity out there.
Speaker 2: And sometimes I think I might be part of the
Speaker 2: problem in the sense that we talk so nuanced about
Speaker 2: the way the economy is changing, and the reality is that,
Speaker 2: you know, we can to some degree create our own
Speaker 2: reality out there through enterprise and hard work.
Speaker 1: You know, you raise an interesting scenario. If I went
Speaker 1: back and talked to my thirty five year old self,
Speaker 1: it would be a rather lengthy conversation in it. But
Speaker 1: if there's one thing that you could go back and
Speaker 1: talk to your thirty five your old self with regards
Speaker 1: to finances, what would it be?
Speaker 2: You know, probably three things, Ken, and I'll just sort
Speaker 2: of level set the ground a little bit. Is that
Speaker 2: I came from a very much working class family where
Speaker 2: money was not discussed at all. If anything, it was
Speaker 2: discussed in the context of a situation that wasn't going
Speaker 2: particularly well for my parents, and so I had to
Speaker 2: learn everything essentially on my own and through experience, and
Speaker 2: then other than great opportunity to do the work I
Speaker 2: do these days.
Speaker 3: But again, three things.
Speaker 2: Number One, I did have a job when I was
Speaker 2: fifteen in radio, by the way, in coffee Bill, Kansas,
Speaker 2: not far from where you worked once in Tulsa, and.
Speaker 3: So I did have income.
Speaker 2: I should have done a better job of putting that
Speaker 2: income to work through investing in saving.
Speaker 3: That's number one.
Speaker 2: And if I had saved in the equivalent of an
Speaker 2: S and P mutual fund back then, i'd.
Speaker 3: Be talking to you from a yacht right now. That's
Speaker 3: number one.
Speaker 2: Secondly, I would have been more diligent about managing debt
Speaker 2: because I did not do a good job.
Speaker 3: With that when I was early in my career.
Speaker 2: And making let's say sub are incomes and broadcasting that
Speaker 2: both people are familiar with that scenario. But I would
Speaker 2: say those are the two major things I've been very
Speaker 2: blessed with my career. But the payoff for that was
Speaker 2: a little long in coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it is it's it's interesting. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's that's an interesting dynamic if and it's an interesting
Speaker 1: thing to sit down and think about. At some point,
Speaker 1: what would you what would you say to yourself? So
Speaker 1: maybe you're at a different destination in life. Mark Comrick
Speaker 1: is our guest. He joined bank Grade twelve years ago,
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. He is the guy at bank Rate and
Speaker 1: it'd worked for many, many years. He mentioned he worked
Speaker 1: in radio, also was business news for Associated Press Broadcasts
Speaker 1: for two decades and past president of the National Press Club.
Speaker 1: We keep hearing, and I want to just crystal ball
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six a little bit. We keep hearing from
Speaker 1: the administration, the Trump administration, Scott Best in particular, that
Speaker 1: it is going to be a robust twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: You just wait and see what happens. All of this stuff,
Speaker 1: the tariffs is going to pay off. Often. We might
Speaker 1: even be getting two thousand dollars checks each of us
Speaker 1: from the president. And I'm thinking to myself, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess that could happen. But a lot of times
Speaker 1: in politics it's paid no attention to the man behind
Speaker 1: the curtain. You know. It's I just don't I just
Speaker 1: don't know where we're going, and I'm not sure anybody does.
Speaker 1: But if you had to pick between encouraged or discouraged,
Speaker 1: what would it be.
Speaker 3: I just wrote a piece about this for LinkedIn that'll
Speaker 3: show up later this year.
Speaker 2: The Federal Reserve in its meeting recently actually upgraded the
Speaker 2: AULA for twenty twenty six. And among the reasons is that,
Speaker 2: for example, the tax bill will take effect and whether
Speaker 2: you love hate or somewhere in between, the so called
Speaker 2: one Big Beautiful Bill, it is a tax cut and
Speaker 2: there's going to be more money going into American's bank
Speaker 2: accounts because of income tax refunds. That's going to prove,
Speaker 2: that's going to provide some tail winds pushing the economy
Speaker 2: forward early in the year. I obviously can you know
Speaker 2: me well enough that I don't align myself with any
Speaker 2: politician that's that would be foolish.
Speaker 1: But well there's that.
Speaker 2: But you know, their primary motive is to employ rhetoric
Speaker 2: toward a political end, and it's our job, and I
Speaker 2: think we both do it with trust, is to try
Speaker 2: to see through that. And so I'm telling you that
Speaker 2: based on everything I can see and you know the facts,
Speaker 2: I think there are reasons to be optimistic for twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six.
Speaker 3: Are there risks?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 3: Sure are If.
Speaker 2: We think about the things that really hindered the economy
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five, Two of the three were self
Speaker 2: inflicted tariffs, the federal government shut down, and persistent inflation.
Speaker 2: I think inflation probably should be alleviated somewhat in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six, But geopolitically, I'm very worried because the world
Speaker 2: is an unsafe place right now.
Speaker 3: If just one thing sort of.
Speaker 2: Unraveled and you name, you know, you name the location,
Speaker 2: much the same as Russia's invasion of Ukraine created another
Speaker 2: leg up for inflation, that could really be the one
Speaker 2: thing that knocks us out of Kilder. But those things
Speaker 2: always exist in the sense of a risk. So I'm
Speaker 2: sort of looking to measure the things I can measure,
Speaker 2: and I think between the pig is moving through the
Speaker 2: python and the sense of one time price adjustments with
Speaker 2: tariffs that should further level out in the coming year,
Speaker 2: And so I'm hoping we get better news with less inflation,
Speaker 2: that we have more affordability out there. For Americans, they
Speaker 2: get the benefit of the tax cut and perhaps the
Speaker 2: worst of the job market woes will be behind us.
Speaker 2: And also we also get a bit of a push
Speaker 2: early in the year because if they can avoid another
Speaker 2: federal government shutdown at the end of January, then we
Speaker 2: should be able to restore some, not all, the lost
Speaker 2: economic activity that was caused by that unnecessary event.
Speaker 1: The pig is moving through the python. Well that'll be
Speaker 1: in my few days. Yes, indeed, Mark Hambrick, Happy new
Speaker 1: year for you and for your family. A robust twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six and we will visit down the road. Thank you.
Speaker 2: The same to you, my friend, Thanks so much. I
Speaker 2: appreciate it him. They'll look forward to speaking with you
Speaker 2: again in the new year.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, Yes, sir, Mark Hamrick Bankgreat dot Com. Of
Speaker 1: those who believe their personal finances will not improve next year,
Speaker 1: the top reason by a wide margin is continued high inflation.
Speaker 1: Well this was done then, the I guess the survey
Speaker 1: was done prior to the inflation numbers coming out for
Speaker 1: the month of November. I mean, it's inflation is coming out.
Speaker 1: The problem is Trump said he was going to lower inflation,
Speaker 1: and in essence he has. But inflation is a compounded number.
Speaker 1: So when you hear well, inflation is at two point
Speaker 1: nine percent. Yeah, well that's two point nine percent on
Speaker 1: top of where it was the year before. And if
Speaker 1: you go back to the bad old days of Biden
Speaker 1: when inflation was it nine percent, that was nine percent
Speaker 1: above where it was the year before. So it's shipping
Speaker 1: away at This is not anything that's going to happen overnight,
Speaker 1: but the indicators are. It's it's coming down, interest rates
Speaker 1: coming down. The Fed is going to have a new
Speaker 1: leader after May. I guess of this year. Jerome Palace
Speaker 1: has been very reticent to lower the prime He's been
Speaker 1: doing it in twenty five about a quarter percent is
Speaker 1: what he's been doing it. He's very proditious on that.
Speaker 1: And it's not going to effect the cost of a
Speaker 1: house or the mortgage of a house directly, but it
Speaker 1: will have an effect on it. So these are the
Speaker 1: things hopefully that it will jump start this thing and
Speaker 1: get it back on the track again. I think it is.
Speaker 1: You look at energy rates. Energy rates are back on
Speaker 1: the track. Diesel fuel is coming down. That's what powers
Speaker 1: this country. It gets product from point to point B.
Speaker 1: But it's not going to happen overnight. So mixed bag
Speaker 1: here on the bankrate dot Com analysis for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: It's probably be a good thing to hang on to
Speaker 1: and see where we are in a year. Right, We're
Speaker 1: going to file it right there, coming up on twelve,
Speaker 1: twenty six, it's the Average American in for the Great
Speaker 1: American News Radio seven hundred WLW. I don't know about
Speaker 1: the boys this summer, but what about now, I could
Speaker 1: use one of those heat waves this summer. Welcome back
Speaker 1: the Average American in for the Great American on this
Speaker 1: January second, twenty twenty six. Great to w with us.
Speaker 1: We have used football this afternoon, Yes one more time.
Speaker 1: Those who have remained in uniform are going to play
Speaker 1: today for the University of Cincinnati. It's I mean, it's not.
Speaker 1: Some of these teams that show up for bowl games.
Speaker 1: They're a shadow of what they were in the regular season,
Speaker 1: and some are not. Some have their full go and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what Navy has today. The team that you
Speaker 1: see will face. Of course, in the Naval Academy, there
Speaker 1: is no such thing as the portal. The portal probably
Speaker 1: gets you on a boat. No Navy, there is no
Speaker 1: such thing as that you are in one of the
Speaker 1: major institutions military institutions and you go on and serve
Speaker 1: this country in uniform, so their entire football team will
Speaker 1: be there today. It's a football team that runs the ball, run,
Speaker 1: They run an option offense, very difficult to defend, and
Speaker 1: they have a quarterback that runs it marvelously. And you see,
Speaker 1: of course, doesn't have its quarterback. Brendan Sorosby is in
Speaker 1: the portal going to somewhere as you have to be determined,
Speaker 1: as are several other players. Several players just sitting it
Speaker 1: out getting ready for the NFL Draft or the Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl or whatever. But we will have all the play
Speaker 1: by play for you beginning at three. I'm here to
Speaker 1: three thirty to help you get ready for that and
Speaker 1: very happy about it. We talk a lot about what
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six will bring. We were talking about financial prosperity,
Speaker 1: and we're talking about health and all of that. One
Speaker 1: thing I hope it brings is a more appreciation, a
Speaker 1: better appreciation for employees. I just think that there is
Speaker 1: a pervasive attitude throughout business in this country that the
Speaker 1: smartest people are the people that run it, and the
Speaker 1: rest of the people that work there are just worker
Speaker 1: bees to get the job done. All of these corporate
Speaker 1: all of these corporate giants, all of these c suite managers.
Speaker 1: They yap about culture, but in the final analysis, there
Speaker 1: is no culture except get the job done. And then
Speaker 1: when they don't need you anymore, what do they do? Audios?
Speaker 1: Don't let the door hit you where the good lord splitcher.
Speaker 1: And it's even worse now because there is a tendency
Speaker 1: among big companies like Amazon among others, to fire or
Speaker 1: let go of employees remotely by zoom or some other things.
Speaker 1: I mean, it has happened with US. I mentioned Amazon,
Speaker 1: some online companies, US mortgage Company for example, Better dot
Speaker 1: Com fired nine hundred workers over zoom this past year. Carvana.
Speaker 1: You hear a lot about Carvana. They let twenty five
Speaker 1: hundred workers go in the same way. And it seems
Speaker 1: to me, if you're going to hire somebody and the
Speaker 1: hiring is a personal process, then why shouldn't the termination
Speaker 1: be a personal process. It was a movie made about that,
Speaker 1: I think years ago. We'll find out now from somebody
Speaker 1: who believes that remote firings are just not a good thing.
Speaker 1: He is John Bowerman. John Bowerman is the chief operating
Speaker 1: officer of Stealth consulting, which works with companies to try
Speaker 1: and make them better. That's what consultants. And one of
Speaker 1: the ways you make companies better is to better appreciate
Speaker 1: the people that actually do the work for you. And
Speaker 1: I wanted to get John on today to talk about
Speaker 1: this because this is a trend that's disturbing. I don't know,
Speaker 1: we seem to be a more distant society. We seem
Speaker 1: to be a society that would rather text each other
Speaker 1: than talk to each other. But I wanted to get
Speaker 1: his thoughts on this because he has a company that
Speaker 1: addresses this kind of thing, and so he was kind
Speaker 1: enough to carve out some of his time today to
Speaker 1: join us for a few minutes. And John Bauerman, how
Speaker 1: are you in this glorious January the second?
Speaker 4: Hey, good afternoon, Ken, I'm doing good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad you're with us here. Look, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you saw the movie back in two thousand and nine,
Speaker 1: right up in the air. George Clooney was in it,
Speaker 1: and it was a movie built around this same topic
Speaker 1: where companies just virtually fire employees. They don't do it
Speaker 1: face to face. They do it either by a conference
Speaker 1: call or whatever it may be. When did we get
Speaker 1: to be so impersonal about telling somebody that their services
Speaker 1: are no longer needed.
Speaker 4: I know, as soon as we tipped over the edge.
Speaker 5: Of describing easy as efficiency, unfortunately, you know, unfortunately had
Speaker 5: to let go several hundred people, and over the course
Speaker 5: of a few decades there's several different companies, and in
Speaker 5: each one still I believe that you have to show
Speaker 5: up and treat people as human and even if that
Speaker 5: process only takes sixty to ninety seconds, you still owe
Speaker 5: it to the people at your company.
Speaker 1: Easy as opposed to efficiency. Sometimes easy is efficient, as
Speaker 1: you well know, but this seems like the coward's way
Speaker 1: out to do this. You're right, these are people that
Speaker 1: have real lives and real people depending on them, and
Speaker 1: the network that goes out from those other people extends
Speaker 1: au infinitems. So I'm just easy can be efficient delineate
Speaker 1: the two of you.
Speaker 5: Could for us, absolutely, And it's also very short sighted
Speaker 5: because in the short term it feels like, well, okay,
Speaker 5: we're going to be able to virtually eliminate even if
Speaker 5: it was one hundred positions, and instead of having to
Speaker 5: have ten minute phone call set up, we're just going
Speaker 5: to send it out in mass, And what's really shortsighted
Speaker 5: about that is two things.
Speaker 4: One is your reputation.
Speaker 5: So if you are if someone has a great experience,
Speaker 5: they're going to tell one other person, if they have
Speaker 5: an awful experience, they're going to tell one hundred. So
Speaker 5: you're looking at just what is this, how is this
Speaker 5: going to affect one hundred people, and not thinking about
Speaker 5: how's this going to affect one hundred times one hundred people?
Speaker 5: Is one and two what you're doing is also opening
Speaker 5: up the door for very costly problems. So people we
Speaker 5: look at technology today as it never goes wrong. I've
Speaker 5: seen it at numerous times, especially in these kind of
Speaker 5: circumstances where the wrong people get on the list, and
Speaker 5: now all of a sudden is you're opening yourself up
Speaker 5: to potentially losing great people that you never intended to
Speaker 5: in the first place, all in the name of efficiency.
Speaker 4: That doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: When you're showing up in person.
Speaker 1: How prevalent is this? This virtual these virtual firings or layoffs.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm reading where Amazon laid off like fourteen
Speaker 1: thousand employees last month, and some learned of their faith
Speaker 1: by a text message telling them to consult their inboxes,
Speaker 1: which is pretty dang to cold. But I'm just are
Speaker 1: more companies than not doing this? And I would guess
Speaker 1: it would be larger companies. It would be hard. I
Speaker 1: would think for somebody that has maybe one hundred employees
Speaker 1: to do this, I mean they could, but it certainly
Speaker 1: would want ramp it through that company and probably lead
Speaker 1: to a lot of other people leaving on their own.
Speaker 1: But these bigger companies, how how how prevalent is this,
Speaker 1: these these virtual firings in virtual layoffs.
Speaker 5: Typically you only see this in large enterprises. I think
Speaker 5: in your in your medium mediums, a small business, you
Speaker 5: would rarely uh see a virtual.
Speaker 3: Layout, but.
Speaker 4: You know people are. But I see that shift.
Speaker 5: Happening where it will become more common occurrence the smaller
Speaker 5: and smaller the company. And here's the excuse that's being
Speaker 5: put out there is that.
Speaker 3: Well, this is what the next generation prefers.
Speaker 5: The next generation would prefer not to have a phone call,
Speaker 5: would prefer not to be on camera, and so that
Speaker 5: represents the justification. All we're doing is giving the people
Speaker 5: what they prefer, and that is a you know, unfortunately,
Speaker 5: is a really misguided excuse, because no one prefers that
Speaker 5: one of the most pivotal moments in their in their life, uh,
Speaker 5: to not be treated uh is that is if they matter.
Speaker 4: And it should.
Speaker 5: It should correlate with the expectation that they've had every day.
Speaker 5: And maybe they've been there for a year or two
Speaker 5: years and they've been expected to show up every day
Speaker 5: in this one very uh uh pivotal moment, you know,
Speaker 5: you need to be able to show up for them.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a chicken crap way to end unemployment,
Speaker 1: it really is. I mean, it just shows. So it's gutless,
Speaker 1: is what it is. And if you don't want that
Speaker 1: cease week position, then don't take the difficult things that
Speaker 1: come along with it. And the difficult things aren't always
Speaker 1: keeping the investors or the board or whatever happy. We
Speaker 1: have become a less personal society since the invention of
Speaker 1: personal technology, whether it be Twitter, whether it be emails,
Speaker 1: whether it be i Ams, whatever it may be. And
Speaker 1: the younger as we become younger in the corner suite,
Speaker 1: we become populated in that corner suite and therefore in
Speaker 1: middle management with younger people who grew up on two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty characters as opposed to face to face meetings,
Speaker 1: for using a phone simply to text as opposed to talk.
Speaker 1: And I'm just wondering if this isn't all a product
Speaker 1: of just where we are as a society.
Speaker 5: What do you think, Yeah, that's interesting because in many
Speaker 5: ways it's contradictory. So we are, you know, we're past
Speaker 5: the age of industrialization, We're we're living now in the
Speaker 5: age of authenticity. People want authenticity more than ever. We
Speaker 5: we don't want to see the stock photo. We want
Speaker 5: to see what we're really going to get. You see
Speaker 5: the emergence of craft versus mass production, and it's what
Speaker 5: people want. They want the real thing and this and
Speaker 5: while technology enables that, going virtuals on things like this
Speaker 5: really goes against what people are really craving, which is
Speaker 5: connection and authenticity where you know, we're more connected and
Speaker 5: feel less connected more than ever.
Speaker 1: You said something a couple of minutes ago. One of
Speaker 1: the one of the things that you said that that
Speaker 1: really stuck out with me is that what do you
Speaker 1: have a bad experience, whether it's at work, whether it's
Speaker 1: at a restaurant, department store, where it may be, if
Speaker 1: you have a bad experience, you won't be shy about
Speaker 1: telling other people. If you have a good experience, chances
Speaker 1: are you're not going to tell anybody. You'll just have
Speaker 1: that experience, say hey, that was nice at all.
Speaker 3: Leave.
Speaker 1: If you have a company that is doing these kinds
Speaker 1: of things, and I'm not talking about you know, the
Speaker 1: companies that employ a million people worldwide or wherever, not
Speaker 1: not the Amazon dot Coms of the world, but just
Speaker 1: the companies that might have an employee base of one hundred,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty two hundred people. You start doing
Speaker 1: something like this, not only will it create the unrest
Speaker 1: inside your company, but true to try and attract good
Speaker 1: people to come and work or replace them, or whenever
Speaker 1: you're ramping up for more business, the world will be
Speaker 1: out on the street. It's it's kind of it's kind
Speaker 1: of counterintuitive, is it not?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 5: And I would venture to say there's probably a lot
Speaker 5: of companies that are doing virtual layoffs, and they would
Speaker 5: send you a pamphlet on their core values and it
Speaker 5: probably includes work like integrity and people first, and you know,
Speaker 5: we're a family and in all of that, and then
Speaker 5: you know, this is the behavior that is actually projected unbelievable.
Speaker 1: You're with stealth consulting. You started Stealth consulting? What is that?
Speaker 1: What are are these some of the things you consult
Speaker 1: companies on?
Speaker 5: Absolutely a past Life grew a very large digital agency
Speaker 5: and we were focused on large scale growth, exited that
Speaker 5: that industry and wanted to get a little more hands
Speaker 5: on with companies and so Stealth was a way that
Speaker 5: we could do that to bring in fractional marketing teams
Speaker 5: to companies versus trying to go out and find that unicorn,
Speaker 5: uh that's going to do everything. And that's a that's
Speaker 5: allowed me to get you know, real hands on with
Speaker 5: multiple C suite executive teams where behavior and decisions really
Speaker 5: need to start, you know, because there's a there's a
Speaker 5: lot of misguided perception that well, we can expect differently
Speaker 5: from the team than they can.
Speaker 4: Expect of us.
Speaker 5: And one of the big things we go in and
Speaker 5: do is shift that perception.
Speaker 1: Yeah, can you teach management? I mean, if somebody doesn't
Speaker 1: really have great management skills, can you really teach management
Speaker 1: to anybody? Because this is what we're talking about here,
Speaker 1: I think anyway, is how you treat employees, how you
Speaker 1: manage those employees to get the most out of them.
Speaker 1: So that the company becomes profitable. But I think I
Speaker 1: think you probably would find so a lot of people
Speaker 1: just get promoted so the company doesn't lose someone they
Speaker 1: view valuable, but yet they get promoted to a position
Speaker 1: where they have no business being I think that happens
Speaker 1: a lot, don't you.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, And it's you know what I would what I
Speaker 5: would inform people of and cover in the book not
Speaker 5: lost you're just starting? Is that really everyone, even if
Speaker 5: you work for a company. So there's a big misconception
Speaker 5: around on spreneurship that to be an entrepreneur you have
Speaker 5: to start a business. And my belief is that everyone
Speaker 5: in the world should show up like an entrepreneur. And
Speaker 5: what that means is that you're the CEO of yourself.
Speaker 5: So Ken is the CEO of the Ken Company, and
Speaker 5: even if Ken works for another company, you show up
Speaker 5: as if the company you work for is one of
Speaker 5: your clients. And when you look at your employer like
Speaker 5: a client, then you know that guess what I could
Speaker 5: that client I could lose at any time, And so
Speaker 5: you're better prepared for any moment, even if it's a
Speaker 5: virtual layoff that okay, I've got a backup plan and
Speaker 5: I'm looking out, I'm going to negotiate on behalf of
Speaker 5: myself and you just approach approach the world differently, and
Speaker 5: you're in a better position.
Speaker 4: To have to have to change paths.
Speaker 5: And as I was considering that for my kids, was
Speaker 5: that in helping coach them as to.
Speaker 3: You know, what should they go to college?
Speaker 5: What what career should they pursue? In all likelihood with
Speaker 5: the world that's ahead, they might have to change that
Speaker 5: a dozen times and they need to be prepared for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Again, the book is You're not lost, You're just starting,
Speaker 1: and it's available on Amazon dot Com. If indeed Amazon
Speaker 1: has enough employees to get it to you, that's true,
Speaker 1: that's a conundrum. You've got a great book. Now. You
Speaker 1: hope Amazon doesn't lay off as many people as they
Speaker 1: say they're going to John Bowerman, it's it's been enlightening.
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Stay well. Yours is a voice that
Speaker 1: needs to be heard, and hopefully we can visit down
Speaker 1: the road.
Speaker 3: Thanks all right, appreciate you bet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and I think I go back to
Speaker 1: what we talked about. It leads to morale problems and
Speaker 1: then when you try to hire someone else you know
Speaker 1: words out look, this is this company doesn't treat people
Speaker 1: all that well. And look what happened to Joe or
Speaker 1: Mary or whomever. They just got canned. They didn't have
Speaker 1: the chance to plead for their case or even get
Speaker 1: the respect of an in person in firing. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's something I don't get. But can I see it coming? Yes?
Speaker 1: Can I see AI being involved? Yeah? Can I see
Speaker 1: good companies doing it? Gosh, I hope not coming up
Speaker 1: on twelve fifty four, it's the average American in for
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Speaker 1: have just been so dramatic. I mean, I watched that
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Speaker 1: won the national championships at the FCFS level, now at
Speaker 1: the FBS level, even his coach taking a hike on
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Speaker 1: forty seven yard field goal, Yeah, forty seven yard field
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Speaker 1: a just I mean just really a what It's one
Speaker 1: of the things that that's wrong with athletics these days.
Speaker 1: But leaves on November thirtieth. They put defensive coordinator Pete
Speaker 1: Golding in charge, and he's been the interim guy since then,
Speaker 1: then promoted to fill the vacancy at the top of
Speaker 1: the staff. They asked Golding after the game, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of teams at this time of the year
Speaker 1: are teams that you didn't project to get this far,
Speaker 1: including yours. What is it about your team? Listen to
Speaker 1: what he had to say about his team, I think you're.
Speaker 7: Gonna have the right guys. What I mean by that,
Speaker 7: I think they gotta be tough. I think they gotta
Speaker 7: be competitive. I think we gotta love football. And I
Speaker 7: think you got a lot of guys on other teams
Speaker 7: that don't love football. There's one thing about this group.
Speaker 7: They love football. They love competing, they like practicing, they
Speaker 7: like preparing, and they like playing. And I think at
Speaker 7: this point in the year, you better have a group
Speaker 7: of guys that still wants to play, because every time
Speaker 7: you go out there and you spot the ball, you're
Speaker 7: playing for another opportunity to play.
Speaker 1: And these guys aren't tired of playing. And it's fun
Speaker 1: watching them that Next up, next up Miami in the
Speaker 1: Fiesta Bowl. Miami, of course, is the team that sent
Speaker 1: Ohio State packing. Yeah, that was the terrific weekend of
Speaker 1: college football. It really was. And again it's you see
Speaker 1: a Navy in the Liberty Bowl coming up at three
Speaker 1: point thirty today, All right, coming up here, Iran is
Speaker 1: boiling up? Is it boiling over? And would there finally,
Speaker 1: after some fifty years, be regime changed there and the
Speaker 1: end to what has just been a suffocating Dictatorship straight
Speaker 1: ahead on news Radio seven hundred WLW one O seven
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Speaker 1: see in the Liberty Bowl right here till three point thirty.
Speaker 1: That's airtime. By the way, the University of Cincinnati quarterback
Speaker 1: I guess X quarterback. According to twenty four to seven Sports,
Speaker 1: Brendan Soresby is set to visit Texas Tech and LSU
Speaker 1: back to back. That is from cbssports dot com relayed
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Speaker 1: a rumored destination for him for quite a while. LSU
Speaker 1: is a new player, be careful what you ask for
Speaker 1: down there in Baton Rouge with Lane Kiffin. But nevertheless,
Speaker 1: he is seeking a new home and according to twenty
Speaker 1: four to seven sports portal rankings, he is the number
Speaker 1: two quarterback. So there you go. Everybody knew Soresby was
Speaker 1: going to take a hike after this season, and you know,
Speaker 1: the money is much greater at Texas Tech. Texas Tech
Speaker 1: allegedly was the best college football nil destination. They went
Speaker 1: out and just bought a team. It was twenty eight
Speaker 1: million dollars. I believe that Texas Tech spent on players
Speaker 1: this past year. Well, it got them to the playoff.
Speaker 1: But nevertheless, Brendan Sorosby is looking like he's going to
Speaker 1: be an even richer man before all of this transfer
Speaker 1: stuff is over. Iran is boiling over and I don't
Speaker 1: know if it leads to regime change. We'll find here
Speaker 1: in just a moment what one expert thinks. But there
Speaker 1: is a lot going on in Iran right now. President
Speaker 1: Trump said today that the United States is quote unquote
Speaker 1: locked and loaded to respond if Iran kills protesters. Protesting
Speaker 1: has been happening in the streets of Iran for about
Speaker 1: the last four or five days. It started as a
Speaker 1: market protest. Those are the vendors that work the streets.
Speaker 1: The economy in Iran is crumbling. They have nothing over
Speaker 1: there except oil. Other than dirt and oil, they got
Speaker 1: nothing else going on over there. And when the United
Speaker 1: States took out their nuclear facilities by and large, or
Speaker 1: crippled them greatly, would be a better way of putting
Speaker 1: it back In the summer, it dealt around a serious
Speaker 1: blow to its economy that was already struggling, and now
Speaker 1: you have unrest in the street, not just because of
Speaker 1: the economy, but for other reasons as well, not the
Speaker 1: least of which their water over there is horrible. They
Speaker 1: have water management problems over there. The other thing that's
Speaker 1: going on over there is soaring inflation, systematic oppression, religious persecution,
Speaker 1: executions if you dare say anything against the quote unquote
Speaker 1: holy people that are in charge over there, And this
Speaker 1: denial of basic freedom is causing unrest to build, not
Speaker 1: just among the marketers, not just among the vendors, but
Speaker 1: among the common everyday people. There have been shots that
Speaker 1: have been fired on both sides, and Trump is saying
Speaker 1: that if Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which
Speaker 1: is their custom, the United States of America will come
Speaker 1: to their rescue. Now what that means, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Put that against the backdrop of Ukraine, Russia and what's
Speaker 1: going on in Venezuela and other hotspots around the world.
Speaker 1: Standing by the way, in on. This is someone who
Speaker 1: was born in Iran, grew up in Iran. He was
Speaker 1: once the dean of College of Engineering at the University
Speaker 1: of Connecticut. He now teaches mechanical engineering at the University
Speaker 1: of Connecticut. And he seems to be somebody that's plugged
Speaker 1: in as to what is going on over there in
Speaker 1: Iran right now. He is doctor Kazim Kazarunian. And doctor
Speaker 1: Kazarunian is someone who is at the very least anxious
Speaker 1: to see what becomes of his country that he fled
Speaker 1: from under the oppression of the Shaw long before all
Speaker 1: of this happened with Ayatola Hoomani and those that followed him. So,
Speaker 1: doctor Casaronian is standing by to join us right now.
Speaker 1: And doctor, how are you on this glorious day?
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
Speaker 8: I'm delighted to be with you today on this called
Speaker 8: winter day.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I know you're watching what's transpiring on the
Speaker 1: streets of Iran, and it seems like there's great unrest.
Speaker 1: It also seems like that the government there is cracking
Speaker 1: down on some of these protesters. It began from what
Speaker 1: I can tell as a protest by shop managers because
Speaker 1: of the economy which is predicated largely on their nuclear program.
Speaker 1: Their economy is in some sort of collapse over there?
Speaker 1: Am I right about that?
Speaker 4: You're absolutely right?
Speaker 8: Yeah, yes, what started as an economic protest has become
Speaker 8: a nationwide uprising. You know that, I would use the
Speaker 8: word boiling rather than simmering. It's the uprising has expand cities, universities,
Speaker 8: and many marginalized provinces in Iran. The protests are the
Speaker 8: professors are attacking regime symbols. They're not only asking officials.
Speaker 8: They want a total regime change.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 8: Chants are very explicit now, they are political. Probably the
Speaker 8: main core chant is death two dictators, death too common
Speaker 8: ae and the regime. The regime has started using live ammunitions,
Speaker 8: which to me it signals that they have a fear,
Speaker 8: They have an existential fear for their own survival.
Speaker 1: Well, this is yes, it began as an economic uprising,
Speaker 1: but I mean there there is just untold oppression that
Speaker 1: goes on in our country. From what I'm told, you
Speaker 1: have religious persecution, executions if you question the government, basic freedoms.
Speaker 1: Water is not in great supply over there, so this
Speaker 1: is blossomed. It might have started as a protest among
Speaker 1: those in business, the shop managers and whatnot who are
Speaker 1: feeling the effects of an economy that is a cratering,
Speaker 1: but also just the whole lifestyle over in Iran. I
Speaker 1: don't know how to describe it to anyone unless they
Speaker 1: have actually been there. You've been there, you were there
Speaker 1: when the Shah was there. I'm sure you know people
Speaker 1: who live there now and is what is it like
Speaker 1: living there?
Speaker 8: So throughout my life in Iran, the first twenty first,
Speaker 8: twenty first year of my life in Iran, all the
Speaker 8: time through my years as a university is student in Iran,
Speaker 8: My family and I lived on their fear under show.
Speaker 8: In many ways, hominy and the current regime that we
Speaker 8: have is the result of the suppression and of shorts
Speaker 8: regime Show created Slovak. There were so many instances that
Speaker 8: I was in the class in the university and the
Speaker 8: Slovak police shows. Security police came into the class, took
Speaker 8: some students away because you know they have read the
Speaker 8: wrong article, or.
Speaker 4: They have.
Speaker 8: Where they were carrying the wrong paper or the wrong
Speaker 8: book and you would never see or hear of those
Speaker 8: people again.
Speaker 4: And that type of suppression.
Speaker 8: That to a fundamentalist regime like Homeni, which has become
Speaker 8: a threat to to to Iran.
Speaker 4: So it has always been whether.
Speaker 8: Before nineteen seventy nine revolution or after, it has all
Speaker 8: always been a dictatorship as long as I know, probably
Speaker 8: for the past one hundred years. And on the other
Speaker 8: side of the coin is that people have for the
Speaker 8: past century Iranian people have struggled for freedom. Iranian people
Speaker 8: and their rich is very clear. They want democracy, They
Speaker 8: want the secular government, they want a republic form of government.
Speaker 8: They don't want crown, they don't want turbine, they don't
Speaker 8: want a religious dictatorship, they don't want a monarchist dictatorship.
Speaker 1: The change, as you well know, must come from within.
Speaker 1: Rare is it that there's an outside force that can
Speaker 1: command and foster regime change and then preside over regime change.
Speaker 1: This country has been guilty. Our country has been guilty
Speaker 1: of trying to do that in many, many instances. How
Speaker 1: strong do you think this resistance is, this uprising is
Speaker 1: in Iran? And from what what you can piece together,
Speaker 1: do you think it's enough to force regime change? This
Speaker 1: has been a regime the how many regime change has
Speaker 1: been in existence for almost fifty years now is it
Speaker 1: strong enough this internal uprising.
Speaker 8: Yes, if you take a very serious look at the
Speaker 8: Iranian regime, they have lost many of the cards they
Speaker 8: had to play.
Speaker 4: They have lost the credibility on nuclear threats. They have
Speaker 4: lost their proxy forces.
Speaker 8: In the region that they were using to blackmail the
Speaker 8: region and blackmail the world, and that they have lost
Speaker 8: a lot of power on the streets of Tehran and
Speaker 8: on people. And at the same time, you know, you
Speaker 8: refer to what can the world do you know? I
Speaker 8: was listening to President I was reading President Trump's statement
Speaker 8: on how he supports and is ready to support the
Speaker 8: Iranian people on the.
Speaker 4: Streets, And that statement, to me, matters a lot because
Speaker 4: it sends a.
Speaker 8: Clear warning to the regime that mass killing will not
Speaker 8: be ignored. Moral and political support for Iranian people is important,
Speaker 8: especially when the regime relies on silence to escalate violence
Speaker 8: in Iran. But at the same time, I should say
Speaker 8: that this uprising does not belong to Washington, does not
Speaker 8: belong to any other capital in the world, and it
Speaker 8: does not need to be managed from outside. Iranians are
Speaker 8: not asking for intervention or.
Speaker 4: Boots on the ground or imposed and engineered solutions.
Speaker 8: They're asking for a space to decide their own future,
Speaker 8: without bullets, without prisons or executions, but support matters, and
Speaker 8: support should mean standing with the people's right to resist,
Speaker 8: people's right to self determination, holding the regime Iranian regime
Speaker 8: accountable for their clients, and isolating the IRGC. So in
Speaker 8: those ways, I really appreciate the American administration and many
Speaker 8: other administrations in Europe to have to have enhanced the
Speaker 8: sanctions against IOLOGC and the Iranian rulers. The future of
Speaker 8: Iran must be written.
Speaker 4: By the Iranians, by.
Speaker 9: People in Iran, not by the clerics, not by monarchists,
Speaker 9: not by the remnants of shots a Walk or short.
Speaker 8: Family who are who might be dreaming of coming back
Speaker 8: and becoming kings again.
Speaker 4: All five powers.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the i r GC for those that don't
Speaker 1: know that, as the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps. Basically it's
Speaker 1: the military in Iran. The military over there has been
Speaker 1: successful in its attempt to squash down these uprisings, maybe
Speaker 1: not as big as what we're seeing now, but I
Speaker 1: mean that's the only way you're going to get what
Speaker 1: you're talking about is if somehow, some way THERGC is compromised,
Speaker 1: either by laying down their weapons or being threatened by something,
Speaker 1: maybe an attack from an outside force. Life the United States,
Speaker 1: we did pretty well with their nuclear plants there back
Speaker 1: in the summertime. But the fact of the matter is,
Speaker 1: as long as the IRGC is still operating, this is
Speaker 1: going to be a very difficult thing for this uprising
Speaker 1: to be successful. I'm just wondering, how vulnerable do you
Speaker 1: think this Islamic Revolution guardcore is.
Speaker 8: So I don't believe that IRGC is an ideological force.
Speaker 8: There might have been maybe decades ago, but right now
Speaker 8: there are a group of thugs.
Speaker 4: That control the corruption in Iran.
Speaker 8: They have been they have been sending a lot of
Speaker 8: money to through their own family ties, so outside the country,
Speaker 8: getting ready to escape Iran. When the time comes, and
Speaker 8: the time is almost here, is here, And so I
Speaker 8: don't think that when they see there and clearly they
Speaker 8: are going to resist, they're going to escape. And we
Speaker 8: are seeing those cracks right now, We are hearing those
Speaker 8: cracks right now within IRGC, and at the same time,
Speaker 8: no ILGC is one of the several military and military
Speaker 8: forces that Iran has.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of fighting among them for power.
Speaker 8: There's a lot of fighting among various factions in Iran
Speaker 8: for power.
Speaker 4: So I think that at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: they're going to put up some resistance.
Speaker 8: I don't think that toppling them would be very easy,
Speaker 8: but that resistance is at the same time have.
Speaker 4: Been forming inside Iran through.
Speaker 8: The resistance units of the National Council of Resistance of
Speaker 8: Iran and People's Giving Organization of Iran, who are the
Speaker 8: main opposition groups fighting the.
Speaker 4: Iranian regime for the past five decades.
Speaker 8: So when when the the power is going to shift
Speaker 8: in Iran and we're seeing the beginning of it, and
Speaker 8: when when the IRGC members see that they're not going
Speaker 8: to resist they're not ideological.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the n c r I. I know these
Speaker 1: are a lot of initials, but that's the National Council
Speaker 1: of Resistance of Iran, and that seems to be the
Speaker 1: force that would at least initially go in there and
Speaker 1: and try to establish a more demo democratic government in Iran.
Speaker 1: This is a this is a group in exile, the NCRII.
Speaker 1: I know there are a few of the ncri I,
Speaker 1: quite a few actually based here in the United States. Doctor,
Speaker 1: you know what's going on over there, and you know
Speaker 1: the strength of the particular resistance groups that are based here.
Speaker 1: What do you think is the outcome of this uprising?
Speaker 1: Leave beside your hope what you hope for, but realistically,
Speaker 1: what do you think the outcome of this this uprising
Speaker 1: in Iran will be?
Speaker 8: So the current uprising that started a few days ago,
Speaker 8: I cannot predict what is where it will be next
Speaker 8: week or a few days or next month. But one
Speaker 8: thing that is utterly clear in my head is that
Speaker 8: the Iranian regime has been accelerating down in its power,
Speaker 8: in its great on the country, and the economy is
Speaker 8: totally broken. There's a water bankruptcy inside Iran, and it's
Speaker 8: and and and then shocking water shortage in Iran. There
Speaker 8: the Iran in regym is losing its greep on hour.
Speaker 8: So and then at the same time you see that
Speaker 8: resistance have been unascending. The resistance units have been increased significantly,
Speaker 8: both in numbers and the quality of the tactics that
Speaker 8: they use. So when you when you draw these two lines,
Speaker 8: there is no doubt in my mind looking at it scientifically,
Speaker 8: that these two lines are going to intersect.
Speaker 4: How soon that could be, I don't know. It is
Speaker 4: very soon. But I cannot predict the day.
Speaker 1: Doctor. We appreciate your time here on seven hundred w
Speaker 1: l W. I know it's a very per and passionate
Speaker 1: thing for you. Thanks for enlightening us here as to
Speaker 1: what's going on there, and hopefully we can phone you
Speaker 1: up and do this again as this situation develops, and
Speaker 1: I think you're right. Who knows where it goes, but
Speaker 1: it will develop. Thank you again, doctor, and all but
Speaker 1: save everything safe, happy in health in this new year.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you and much.
Speaker 4: That was my pleasure to be with you, sir.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we've seen this before in in lesser
Speaker 1: things around Iraq. I'm sorry, in Iran, and it's it's
Speaker 1: obvious that what happened in the summer with the nuclear attacks,
Speaker 1: you know, the attacks on the nuclear sites there in
Speaker 1: Iran has had a devastating effect on their economy that
Speaker 1: was in pretty bad shape before all of that. Now
Speaker 1: where it leads to, I don't know. I don't have
Speaker 1: the same kind of hope that doctor Heronian had about
Speaker 1: the actual police over they're the military or whatever. Maybe
Speaker 1: they're hired guns, maybe they're not. But I think it
Speaker 1: all depends on whether or not the Islamic Revolution Guard
Speaker 1: Corps would be faithful to the Homani regime, or if
Speaker 1: it would just you know, in essence, be be what
Speaker 1: they are hired guns, and they might realize that all
Speaker 1: of that's transpired there in the wake of the Shah
Speaker 1: being disposed and sent into exile back in nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1: It's been fifty years. We'll see. I don't know. The
Speaker 1: change though, has to come from within. It's not going
Speaker 1: to be somebody like the United States or Russia or
Speaker 1: anybody like that coming in and trying to do a
Speaker 1: regime change. It just it never works. We will keep
Speaker 1: an eye on. It's something that's just popped up in
Speaker 1: the last five days and I think a very interesting situation.
Speaker 1: I hope you did too. Twenty seven on this Friday
Speaker 1: News Radio seven hundred WLW Mickey Mouse and the copyright
Speaker 1: that Disney has on Mickey Mouse is expiring at the
Speaker 1: end of this year, and that means that the character
Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse can be used for anything. Could Mickey Mouse
Speaker 1: be in porn? Hello, quiet Skokes, I'm broadcasting seig mouse porn,
Speaker 1: mouse porn. You're a big fan of mouse porn, aren't you? No,
Speaker 1: I am Mickey Mouse alone. Mickey Mouse is in the
Speaker 1: public domain. Well, steamboat Willy is in the public domain,
Speaker 1: seg so that means he can be used for anything.
Speaker 1: Uh whatever, we got like everything else, right, Betty Boop
Speaker 1: just went into the public domain. Wait a minute and
Speaker 1: stand by, because I guess in like three years. According
Speaker 1: to Dave Keaton, our produmer, Fudd keeps trackless, no snow
Speaker 1: white in the Seven Dwarfs. No way, I'm telling that's it.
Speaker 1: That's it. I've had it. You could.
Speaker 10: You could have those people doing anything. Dope be sleepy
Speaker 10: and the rest of them.
Speaker 1: And songs, two songs come into the public It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It's going to be happening here.
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Speaker 10: Now, let's see ken brew. Indiana smokes Alabama. Last night
Speaker 10: in the Rose Bowl, Oregon knocks off Texas Tech and
Speaker 10: Old Miss upset the Dogs of Georgia. So now the
Speaker 10: semi finals are set next Thursday, Fiesta Bowl in Arizona, Miami,
Speaker 10: and Old Miss Friday, January ninth, and the Peach Bowl
Speaker 10: of the atl It gonna be Oregon and Indiana.
Speaker 1: I like Indiana. I think Indiana wins that game. Yes,
Speaker 1: not sure about Old Miss. I think the Hurricanes are
Speaker 1: gonna win. That one. Yeah, the Hurricanes are playing good.
Speaker 1: Old Miss might have had their best swing at it
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 10: And the the big and mighty Southeastern Conference now in
Speaker 10: bowl games this year two and six?
Speaker 1: How about Old Miss? Their coach leaves Miss leaves goes
Speaker 1: and grabs the money, right, and so now his team,
Speaker 1: they point the defensive coordinator is the head coach? Correct?
Speaker 1: Keep the same team? Yep, team plays great. And now
Speaker 1: Lane Tiffin's down there in LSU trying to get some
Speaker 1: of his assistants to join him from Old Miss. And
Speaker 1: he can because they're still playing football. Correct?
Speaker 10: And how about the and Lane Kiffin who left last month?
Speaker 10: As you know, yes I do, received a half million
Speaker 10: dollar bonus from his new employer at LSU thanks to
Speaker 10: his former team winning last night. The bonus is part
Speaker 10: of an agreement LSU reached to with the coach to
Speaker 10: lure him out of Old Miss.
Speaker 1: I love when people get lowered, that's that deal. I
Speaker 1: love when people get loose.
Speaker 10: So he's made nine hundred thousand dollars on Old Miss
Speaker 10: and he's not there anymore.
Speaker 1: And look at me. I was trying to scrap together
Speaker 1: enough money to go get a salami sandwich.
Speaker 10: Thank you and also can brew. The poor is open.
Speaker 10: Thank god, the door is open. Brendan soarsby. The former
Speaker 10: UC Bearcat number one quarterback, apparently in the portal rankings,
Speaker 10: could earn up to five million.
Speaker 1: He's gonna, he's he's set up.
Speaker 10: He's visiting Texas Tech today in LSU tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Say, the whole world's out of whack? Have you noticed
Speaker 1: that you're not kidding? And college football you're not. You're
Speaker 1: not rooting for players that you're rooting for uniform correct,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean you have to Half the time
Speaker 1: you don't know who these people are. They show up
Speaker 1: in the uniform. So of Cincinnati basketball, I'm sure if
Speaker 1: you were into it, knee deep into it, you're following
Speaker 1: it every day. I mean, I you know, I try
Speaker 1: to stay as on top of it as possible. This
Speaker 1: season began back in October of that. Who are these people?
Speaker 1: I never I never saw them before? Where do all
Speaker 1: these players come from? Today?
Speaker 10: In college football, there's more players as Memphis, Tennessee, the
Speaker 10: site the home of the King, the Liberty Bowl will
Speaker 10: take place as Cincinnati Bearcat. It's a number twenty two
Speaker 10: Navy three point thirty right here on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 1: Here's your problem with that game? Yeah, Brendan Soorsby has
Speaker 1: taken interviews at Texas Tech right in LSU. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: there's not a single Navy player that's entering the portal.
Speaker 1: The only portal they're entering is the one that gets
Speaker 1: them on a boat for a submarine. Exactly.
Speaker 10: College basketball tomorrow Big twelve opener for the Bearcats. They
Speaker 10: host eighth rated Houston one thirty here on seven hundred
Speaker 10: WLW Big East. Tomorrow, Xavier's in Chicago take on De
Speaker 10: Paul at one thirty fifty five KRC fourteen to oh.
Speaker 10: The Miami RedHawks are home to Malett Hall. Hopefully it's
Speaker 10: packed against the Akron Zips.
Speaker 1: You know, I think about Dan Horde a lot. Yes,
Speaker 1: we've intersected. He's the Bengals play by play guy. I
Speaker 1: used to be the Bengals play by play guy. He
Speaker 1: is on local TV here, I was on local TV here. Correct.
Speaker 1: What game do you think has the best chance of
Speaker 1: ending in a win for Dan Horde? Would be the
Speaker 1: UC football game today now at the Liberty Bowl now,
Speaker 1: or the UC basketball game tomorrow against Houston. It'll be
Speaker 1: the Bengals on Sunday. Well, I only put those two
Speaker 1: out because they were the kay cut. By the way,
Speaker 1: the quarterback at Kentucky is in the transfer I know
Speaker 1: who isn't. Well, I don't know who isn't the portal.
Speaker 1: If you could go in the transfer portal to any
Speaker 1: radio station in the world, would you enter the portal? Now,
Speaker 1: which of the celebrities that host shows here on seven
Speaker 1: hundred W WELW, which one do you think would be
Speaker 1: the one that would garner the most interest in the
Speaker 1: radio transfer portal? William D. Cunningham. Ah, but you got
Speaker 1: to ask yourself. Got to ask yourself or Lance, got
Speaker 1: to ask yourself. Oh okay, I'm gonna ask myself. Popularity
Speaker 1: with age, how much time? How much can you give
Speaker 1: where you're going? Tom Brown? Hey, well there you go.
Speaker 1: Now you're thinking. Now you're thinking a younger, younger, got
Speaker 1: younger compared to most of us here, younger guy, and uh,
Speaker 1: he would command I think a lot of attention and
Speaker 1: moolah if he were to enter the radio transferred portal. Now,
Speaker 1: a guy like me at one time, maybe, but not
Speaker 1: at my head.
Speaker 10: But they're probably gonna end up with the senior transfer
Speaker 10: portal now, you're talking and then like a like a sophomore,
Speaker 10: like a freshman talking sophomore, junior and senior, like like
Speaker 10: like this college you're supposed to go to.
Speaker 1: If they ever had radio programs for the home, I
Speaker 1: think we could put together an all starline to enter
Speaker 1: that unbelievable Are you kidding? We call ourselves whom the home,
Speaker 1: and we'd all be in that portal, that's correct. The
Speaker 1: only guy at in wheelchairs, you know, Brennaman probably wouldn't,
Speaker 1: Rocky probably wouldn't. Now Eddie Fingers, he may open the
Speaker 1: door of the portal. He got willing. Yeah, oh Sloan's
Speaker 1: nose spring shipping. Now you're getting to Gary Cheff. Now
Speaker 1: you're getting to Sterling. I mean we're talking about one
Speaker 1: for the aged here. I mean, thank God said that
Speaker 1: you and I are on the right side of that argument.
Speaker 1: Amen to that.
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Speaker 1: David Fulta. Do you know who the hardest working man
Speaker 1: is on Bengal game days? Mike Mills. That's correct and
Speaker 1: extrawd in air here that keeps us on the air.
Speaker 1: That's true. That guy is. That guy is packing and
Speaker 1: unpacking equipment like he's headed for some cruise. Man, He's
Speaker 1: just throwing stuff in a trunk, opening the trunk at
Speaker 1: the next place, set it up, and throwing it in
Speaker 1: the trunk and then driving back.
Speaker 10: Chase Brown's gonna play Sundays and Charlie Jones and Joseph
Speaker 10: o'sire out.
Speaker 1: For a while. O size in his contract.
Speaker 10: Heres, sir, EHL Hockey Tonight, I beloved Cyclones are along
Speaker 10: the Big River downtown against Toledo. What if they go
Speaker 10: on strike after the first period. I don't think so.
Speaker 10: They just got a five year deal. But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 10: Maybe they maybe they just they're not walking out.
Speaker 1: You have no idea, no, nobody has any idea what
Speaker 1: happens when.
Speaker 10: They do the play the hole Leagu's gonna fold in
Speaker 10: a week. It's gonna be like the.
Speaker 5: W h A.
Speaker 10: Well, they're only paying those guys ten to fifty an hour.
Speaker 10: I think they got I think they're up to minimum
Speaker 10: wage now. According to the President, Winter Winter Classic gets
Speaker 10: set for tonight in Miami at Lone Depot Baseball Park,
Speaker 10: ken Brew the New York Rangers and Florida Panthers playing
Speaker 10: in a baseball park.
Speaker 1: Some people don't like this.
Speaker 10: They wanted the you know, they wanted a pond hockey
Speaker 10: and up north and snowing and cold, and but you know,
Speaker 10: the Tampa Bay in a month, Tampa Bay, on February first,
Speaker 10: is going to host the game at Raymond James Stadium
Speaker 10: in Florida.
Speaker 1: Just that's that's that's crazy. I mean, I'm just looking
Speaker 1: at at Florida right now. Right it's it's like seventy
Speaker 1: eight degrees in Miami, right and Tampa what are they
Speaker 1: in Tampa February. First, it's gonna it's gonna be eighty degrees,
Speaker 1: seventy five degrees. I think you had. The ice is
Speaker 1: going to melt. They'll be putting on swimming expeditions, exhibitions.
Speaker 10: Down look, good, look at the summer games. Then I'm
Speaker 10: just oh, let's see the New York Rangers can brew
Speaker 10: are five and oh in these outdoor games.
Speaker 1: How about that? That's pretty impressive inside not so good? No,
Speaker 1: that's true. So I'm saying saying that a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of times you try to reinvent the wheel,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Well, that's trying to be
Speaker 1: the smartest guy in the room. Games in Florida, the
Speaker 1: ice is gonna melt.
Speaker 10: Well, what a couple of years ago they had it
Speaker 10: when it was at Ohio Stadium with the Jackets.
Speaker 1: That's right. Now, I've got an idea. You and I
Speaker 1: talked about this idea several years ago. All right, one
Speaker 1: of the most underused facilities in the world is pay
Speaker 1: Corpse Stadium. Right, Yes, why couldn't you put on a
Speaker 1: Winter Classic at pay Corpse Stadium and you would have
Speaker 1: two games in there? Yes, you would have the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Cyclones in the Indie Fueld taking on taking on the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Lumberjacks Minor League hockey game, and then and then
Speaker 1: say you would put on eyes the Columbus blue jacket
Speaker 1: against the Chicago Blackhawks a double head. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they get sixty three thousand, but
Speaker 1: I bet you they'd get forty five fifty thousand. And
Speaker 1: then you know what happens after that. Then people say, wow, Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: why don't they have a franchise in the National Hockey League.
Speaker 1: And that's some dude with a lot of money, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe living out in some you know ranch with six
Speaker 1: girlfriends in Las Vegas, diamonds dripping off everyone, cash coming
Speaker 1: out of his pocket like it's lint. He's going to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I might want to finance that. It all begins with
Speaker 1: a seed said, it all begins with an idea.
Speaker 10: There you go, Ken prew We'll see what I Maybe
Speaker 10: Bill de Witt'll come back.
Speaker 1: He's still here, Yeah, Saint Louis. I think I saw
Speaker 1: him the other day up here Indian Hill.
Speaker 10: He's still here. So I mean, bring him back here,
Speaker 10: bring them back where they probably got the uniform still
Speaker 10: down there, Bryan Hea, can is he still alive?
Speaker 1: Oh? Bring him back? Yes?
Speaker 10: You get John Barrett from Western Southern about the sentas guy.
Speaker 1: Now we're talking there, you go. All you need now
Speaker 1: is an arena some dude with two billion dollars to
Speaker 1: get a franchise and ice. After that, we're all set. Okay,
Speaker 1: sech get us out of the Stooge report.
Speaker 10: Ken Brew in honor of a sunny day here in
Speaker 10: the Tri State and temperature's going up, Thank goodness.
Speaker 1: We leave you with the immortal words of the stew Report. Well,
Speaker 1: what if they unleash Goofy on Mickey Mouse and Goofy
Speaker 1: takes Mickey Mouse out and that's it? And then Goofy
Speaker 1: is like he's like a fourth or fifth line character.
Speaker 1: Nobody cares what Goofy's going to do. I mean, they
Speaker 1: could really have a lot of fun with this and
Speaker 1: really traumatize a lot of children.
Speaker 10: Not kidding. What about Pluto and Mini Mouse? What would
Speaker 10: Mini Mouse do?
Speaker 1: Hang on? Stand BYO is in the public domain this year.
Speaker 3: Uh oh.
Speaker 1: He was an early character. He was Rover. Initially he
Speaker 1: was Mini Mouse's pet, but then he was unleashed as
Speaker 1: the main character. So Pluto is out there in the
Speaker 1: public domain. So you're saying snow White and the Seven
Speaker 1: Dwarfs are next. I'm telling you this thing could be
Speaker 1: the They could be all kinds of just absolute What
Speaker 1: about what about Mary Poppins, Well, I know, I think
Speaker 1: she's I think she's safe for a while. I think
Speaker 1: Mary Poppins is safe for a while. What about the Dalmatians.
Speaker 1: Dick van Dyk is like a hundred, so he could
Speaker 1: be in the he could be at the public domain
Speaker 1: at any moment. You could have all kinds of degenerate
Speaker 1: things out there with these characters being unleashed for god
Speaker 1: knows what. I think we ought assume them. And we're
Speaker 1: sitting around here worrying about Venezuela drug boats and Ukraine
Speaker 1: and Russia. We should be worrying about Mickey Mouse characters
Speaker 1: in the public domain doings. What on film, Walt Disney's
Speaker 1: terrorizing children and god fearing people all over the world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm That's what I'm wrapped up there right,
Speaker 1: All right, there we go, seg I'll see you in
Speaker 1: an hour. Yes, their ken Brew. All right, I'm glad
Speaker 1: we could get to the bottom of these things me too.
Speaker 1: God knows where that leads to. Well, it's coming up
Speaker 1: on two fifty three. Stand by, we've got the top
Speaker 1: five New Year's resolutions for twenty twenty six. Oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, say, did you know that eighty percent of
Speaker 1: New Year's resolutions never get realized, just get punted? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Thank you? And in the first two months. It's a
Speaker 1: staggering number. It's like seventy percent of it happens in
Speaker 1: the first two months. Or what about the first few hours?
Speaker 1: I would yeah, or days? What about today? You may
Speaker 1: made a resolution the other day it's already gone. You
Speaker 1: make a resolution when you're drunk. You wake up in
Speaker 1: like four or five hours, and I said, what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do? What I'm gonna do that way? And the
Speaker 1: hell I'm doing that?
Speaker 3: Correct?
Speaker 1: One f three News Radio seven hundred.
Speaker 11: W l W two.
Speaker 1: Seven on this Friday, January second, nineteen hundred. Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: miss that one. By about twenty six years, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Great to have you with us, the average American in
Speaker 1: for the great American. I think a lot of us
Speaker 1: are trying to live better in twenty twenty six, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, as I talked about a few hours ago,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. You can do nothing about the only
Speaker 1: thing we have really is today, but really is this
Speaker 1: year that we're in. And a lot of what we
Speaker 1: try to do to make life better for us is
Speaker 1: out of our control. A lot of things that happened
Speaker 1: from an economic extense, be it inflation, be it the
Speaker 1: cost of fuel and whatnot, we don't have any control
Speaker 1: over that. We can just you know, suck it up
Speaker 1: and suffer the consequences and move on, or get bogged
Speaker 1: down by that thought and just absolutely get paralyzed by it,
Speaker 1: or we can we can do other things that make
Speaker 1: ourselves better. And it's funny, you know a lot of
Speaker 1: the people that make New Year's resolutions, they don't followed
Speaker 1: through on them. I just saw this the other day.
Speaker 1: Most people don't high rate failures of New Year's resolutions,
Speaker 1: often around eighty to ninety percent. And a lot of
Speaker 1: those resolutions that you make, you're not resolving yourself to
Speaker 1: do just two weeks into a new year. But there
Speaker 1: is a poll out top five New Year's resolutions for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. You gov is the upholster, and it
Speaker 1: revealed that thirty one percent of us will come up
Speaker 1: with a resolution set of goal heading into twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: and the number one on that list is exercise more.
Speaker 1: Twenty five percent of us say that's what we want
Speaker 1: to do. People that were surveyed under forty five they
Speaker 1: want to save more money, not thirty percent. Well, that's
Speaker 1: that's one poll that's out there. How about somebody that
Speaker 1: knows a little bit more about that than what you
Speaker 1: gov does? I think she does. We've had Lisa W.
Speaker 1: Mill around with us many times before or She is
Speaker 1: a nationally known researcher, keynote speaker, and author, and she's
Speaker 1: been in places like The Wall Street Journal, NBC, Nightly News, Fox,
Speaker 1: and other places around the country. She has just completed
Speaker 1: a survey on resolutions, and it's great to have Lisa
Speaker 1: with us again. Lisa, how are you on this glorious day.
Speaker 6: I am doing great. Thank you so much for having
Speaker 6: me in the Happy New.
Speaker 1: Year, Happy and healthy new Year to you as well.
Speaker 1: I think that I don't doubt that people say to
Speaker 1: themselves on New Year's Eve, you know what, I'm going
Speaker 1: to do this in this case twenty twenty six. I
Speaker 1: am going to be better at this, better at that.
Speaker 1: But we seem to as a people lack the resolve
Speaker 1: with our resolutions. Why do you think that's the case.
Speaker 6: Well, I think that's a pretty easy one, honestly, is
Speaker 6: that we get so distracted with you know, day to
Speaker 6: day living and that old adage of it takes twenty
Speaker 6: one days to create a new habit. And so that's
Speaker 6: why a lot of people by you know, the third
Speaker 6: week of January. They've even started coining it a name,
Speaker 6: which is by you know, by the third week of January,
Speaker 6: like how are you doing on your New Year's resolution?
Speaker 6: But for me, what I always think about is how
Speaker 6: do you think of it? Less about this you know
Speaker 6: date on the calendar, and really instead of a new
Speaker 6: Year's resolution, it's really just you know, people want to
Speaker 6: be happier. Sure, people want to save money and drink
Speaker 6: more water and exercise all those things that are on
Speaker 6: that you gov poll. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 6: generations are different and kind of what we need as
Speaker 6: humans kind of varies by the life.
Speaker 3: Stage we're in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, there's no question about it. You reach a
Speaker 1: certain stage in life and things like wealth or building
Speaker 1: more wealth is just I mean, it's just almost impossible.
Speaker 1: But when you're younger, all things are at your footstep
Speaker 1: and your your poll you pulled genders and I've thought
Speaker 1: a lot of this thing. A lot of the this
Speaker 1: poling was interesting, financial intensity, digital boundaries. With the younger crowd,
Speaker 1: with the gen Z crowd, this is getting more more
Speaker 1: traction than with some of the older the millennials and
Speaker 1: the and the boomers and people like that. What is
Speaker 1: it about gen Z that made it interesting to you
Speaker 1: to survey them?
Speaker 6: Well, and my survey was eighteen plus years old, and
Speaker 6: so I can talk about not only gen Z because
Speaker 6: that was really fascinating, but how they compare to millennials
Speaker 6: and gen X and boomers depending, you know, a lot
Speaker 6: of different listeners out there. But for gen Z, why
Speaker 6: it caught my eye was that the number one gap,
Speaker 6: meaning that they were significantly higher than total population, was happiness.
Speaker 6: They were full fourteen points higher on the idea I
Speaker 6: just want to be happy. And it goes in line
Speaker 6: with the fact you know that all the jobs, you know,
Speaker 6: there's all this press that all the AI is taking
Speaker 6: all the jobs, you know, unemployment and all of these things,
Speaker 6: and so being happy is just pretty foundational. But to
Speaker 6: your point that financial intensity the fact that at a
Speaker 6: much higher rate, it's you know, the time value of money,
Speaker 6: you know, like a guy like Dave Ramsey, It's like,
Speaker 6: if you start at gen Z, then if you start
Speaker 6: saving money, the compounding effects. So they're kind of getting that.
Speaker 6: But then this idea of you know, putting down their phones,
Speaker 6: you know, creating those digital boundaries. We know that generation
Speaker 6: and is really the first to grow up, you know,
Speaker 6: the whole Their phones were in their hands when they
Speaker 6: were thirteen years old versus millennials they came later. And
Speaker 6: so they they're realizing that destruction is just not good
Speaker 6: and it's not good for their goals. It's not good
Speaker 6: for their mental health, which is also one thing that
Speaker 6: you know, we the gen Z are working on as
Speaker 6: well as just eating better. So when you're younger, you
Speaker 6: definitely are more all in on New Year's resolutions. But
Speaker 6: it's just interesting to see what out of thirty things,
Speaker 6: these are the items that really scored higher for gen
Speaker 6: Z than the rest of the rest.
Speaker 1: This, yeah, be happier. Now we have a quarterback for
Speaker 1: our football team in this town. You may or may
Speaker 1: not have heard of Joe Burrow, but he's making hundreds
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars. He's very good.
Speaker 6: I know, I know of him.
Speaker 1: So his last news conference of the season was just
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, and someone asked him what
Speaker 1: his year New Year's resolution was, and he said, be happy.
Speaker 1: And he's a he's a borderline gen z Er, he's
Speaker 1: at the upper end of gen Z. But he said
Speaker 1: be happy. And I said that struck me at you know,
Speaker 1: a money can't buy happiness. You and I both know that.
Speaker 1: But with your survey in mind, why why is that
Speaker 1: in your opinion? Why is that such a big thing
Speaker 1: for gen Z Are they Are they just not a
Speaker 1: happy group? Or is it something else?
Speaker 6: Well, definitely the data shows that they are by far
Speaker 6: not the most lonely, you know, with all the digital connectivity,
Speaker 6: they are highly like highly lonely. In fact, two times
Speaker 6: more lonely, four and ten gen Z actually report feeling
Speaker 6: lonely versus about twenty three percent for the rest of
Speaker 6: the country. And if you think about this, think about
Speaker 6: maybe when you were twenty years old or twenty five
Speaker 6: years old at that time, we lived in a different error,
Speaker 6: even millennials for that matter, you know, things were you
Speaker 6: didn't have this constant violence on your phone, whether it's
Speaker 6: you know, school shootings, violence within cities, wars, tragedies happening.
Speaker 6: And then the other thing is even just simple things
Speaker 6: about corporate you know, bad behavior and corporate CEO salaries
Speaker 6: and all these things. We didn't have that growing up
Speaker 6: in this generation. You know, since they were thirteen years old,
Speaker 6: all of that's been in their pocket, and so it's
Speaker 6: it's kind of tainted in a way, you know, the possibilities.
Speaker 6: They just have had a lot more exposure to things
Speaker 6: that the rest of us didn't see till way later.
Speaker 6: And so as a result that idea of just that
Speaker 6: basic happiness, you know, can We've talked so a lot
Speaker 6: of times over the years, and you know, every single
Speaker 6: day there is joy and happiness around us, but sometimes
Speaker 6: it's hard to see just because there's so much negativity
Speaker 6: around us. And so that's why I think gen Z
Speaker 6: is just ultra all in on you know, finding you know,
Speaker 6: being happy, just the simple basic being happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think it plays into something else that
Speaker 1: you have in your survey, thirty two percent of gen
Speaker 1: z ers aim to reduce screen time. That's a twelve
Speaker 1: point gap, so thirty two percent digital boundaries look, the world,
Speaker 1: as you just mentioned, is full of bad news. All
Speaker 1: you have to do is doom scroll and you'll find
Speaker 1: all of it. Again, this is a phenomena of the iPhone,
Speaker 1: which came in I think two thousand and five, two
Speaker 1: thousand and six. But the fact of the matter is,
Speaker 1: it stands to reason if you put digital boundaries on yourself,
Speaker 1: all of these outside forces will not affect the way
Speaker 1: you think. Certainly, you've got to stay up on what's
Speaker 1: going on in the world for safety and other reasons,
Speaker 1: but over and above that, you don't have to be
Speaker 1: constantly on that device. This group, the gen Z group,
Speaker 1: tends to get that more so than others. I think
Speaker 1: that's encouraging, don't you.
Speaker 6: I do. And I think the other thing, there's two
Speaker 6: other trends that are kind of bubbling up, and we'll
Speaker 6: see where they go. Particularly gen Z. You know, they're
Speaker 6: hearing how AI is going to take all the jobs
Speaker 6: and all the entry level and there's some merit to that.
Speaker 6: But the thing that's interesting they're finding, Yes, they use
Speaker 6: gen Z a lot compared to other age groups, but
Speaker 6: they also are getting the cringe factor. So you know,
Speaker 6: we've seen newsletters in our inboxes and we read social
Speaker 6: media posts and you know, the longer they get and
Speaker 6: then they just there words that are not what that
Speaker 6: person might speak. And so gen Z is like onto it,
Speaker 6: like in the transparency, like you know, don't be lazy.
Speaker 6: You know, if social media, particularly, I think there's going
Speaker 6: to be a little bit of a backlash and we'll
Speaker 6: see how it gets to all this AI generated content
Speaker 6: and and things like that, and where humanity and being
Speaker 6: human sounds crazy as it is being human and those
Speaker 6: human characteristics are going to be you know, harder to
Speaker 6: find but even more important because of all the AI
Speaker 6: sure content and such.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I mean, the company that owns this radio
Speaker 1: station is onto it. iHeart has got a whole campaign
Speaker 1: out that we're totally human, we're not AI. But unfortunately,
Speaker 1: there are so many things that are out there, not
Speaker 1: just in radio but in in social media. Who knows
Speaker 1: where else you could certainly find it. Certainly if you
Speaker 1: go on to a newspaper's website and you'll see a
Speaker 1: disclaimer some of this was AI generated. So I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe they maybe they do get the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: I might trick mom and dad, but it's not going
Speaker 1: to going to trick me and I I maybe and
Speaker 1: that's a lesson probably for mom and dad. Would you not?
Speaker 1: Would you not? Agree?
Speaker 6: Definitely? And that's what's you know, I have kids that
Speaker 6: are in their twenties, and when you look at it,
Speaker 6: you know, I try to learn what I can from
Speaker 6: their generation. I have two gen zs and one millennial actually,
Speaker 6: and you know you as parents, we do have to
Speaker 6: kind of keep up with what's going on and and
Speaker 6: try to live a day in their world. I'll tell
Speaker 6: you one thing on this gen Z idea and around
Speaker 6: being happy, honestly, And if there's parents out there, maybe
Speaker 6: you can relate to this, which is if you have
Speaker 6: a child, whether maybe you know, middle school, high school,
Speaker 6: college or whatever, and you're maybe frustrated to say, maybe
Speaker 6: they're not doing exactly what you want them to doing,
Speaker 6: whether it's you know, applying a job or you know,
Speaker 6: finding that job or finding you know, that college application.
Speaker 6: As parents were like when I was you know, when
Speaker 6: I was your age, this is what I did. That
Speaker 6: is the death and I mean guilty is charged. And
Speaker 6: the fact of the matter is they're growing up in
Speaker 6: a materially different.
Speaker 3: World than we did.
Speaker 6: And I know every generation probably has said this, but
Speaker 6: it's actually it is very much true that this generation
Speaker 6: has grown up so differently, and it does start with it.
Speaker 6: You know, two thousand and seven, you know when the
Speaker 6: iPhone came out, it changed everything.
Speaker 1: Lisa W. Miller is our guest. She's a researcher and author.
Speaker 1: She's done her own survey about New Year's resolutions and
Speaker 1: the gen Z crowd. The top one is be happier.
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering this has really more the way you
Speaker 1: go about this. Polling is such a difficult thing anymore,
Speaker 1: particularly in politics, to get to get the right amount
Speaker 1: of people from the right demographic, to make sure you
Speaker 1: come to the right conclusion. How difficult is it to
Speaker 1: do surveying and polling in this day and age where
Speaker 1: a lot of people if they see a number they
Speaker 1: don't like, they don't answer, or if they see a
Speaker 1: text they don't care about it, they let it go.
Speaker 1: It's difficult. This polling difficult.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think two things on that. Ken is
Speaker 6: so when I do my surveys one thousand people every
Speaker 6: single month, and believe it or not, from the pandemic
Speaker 6: March twenty twenty, I'm up to ninety thousand consumers surveyed
Speaker 6: over that FOT. Yeah, it's crazy, But what I have
Speaker 6: to do each and every time is that you know,
Speaker 6: quality data is so important in my work, and that
Speaker 6: we have to make sure that the sample is representative
Speaker 6: across geography, age, income, ethnicity, so many variables because garbage
Speaker 6: and garbage out. But the other big thing is in
Speaker 6: the today's world in research, you have to be worried
Speaker 6: about bots taking surveys, and so there's a lot of
Speaker 6: safeguards that are put into place to make sure that
Speaker 6: a human is actually taking the survey. So that's another
Speaker 6: kind of thing that in my world we have to
Speaker 6: worry about. But the other thing, specifically when I'm talking
Speaker 6: to gen Z in a separate survey, not this necessarily
Speaker 6: New Year's literally at the front of the survey ken,
Speaker 6: I said, I am an independent researcher. I don't work
Speaker 6: for a company or I want to know your true
Speaker 6: heartfelt thoughts and opinions on these questions. And the reason
Speaker 6: I did that was to have them really think about
Speaker 6: what the questions were and not just be an automatic
Speaker 6: pilot taking it. And on the back end, I said,
Speaker 6: what else would you want to tell me? And literally,
Speaker 6: I had hundreds and hundreds people saying, you get me.
Speaker 6: It's the first survey that I feel like understands my generation.
Speaker 6: Thank you for doing it. I wish you the best.
Speaker 6: It was insane, and so when you ask different questions
Speaker 6: and you ask good questions, people want to share their opinions.
Speaker 6: So that's part of getting good quality data.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sitting here thinking, why wouldn't a major political
Speaker 1: party hire you? Maybe they have, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: hire you because all this pulling that we see in
Speaker 1: and around election time, most of it is just absolutely inaccurate.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking to myself, why wouldn't they hire somebody
Speaker 1: like you to do that? Are you? Are you involved
Speaker 1: with that end of it when it comes to polling.
Speaker 6: Well, here's the sunny thing, Ken is so I was
Speaker 6: a political science major when I started college, and then
Speaker 6: I turned to marketing. I turned to marketing. So I
Speaker 6: am one of those crazy people that I geek out
Speaker 6: a lot and political polls and such, because honestly, I
Speaker 6: do feel like I could ask better questions. But to
Speaker 6: answer the question, has anybody ever hired me to do
Speaker 6: polls for politics?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 6: But I will say in the different elections since I've
Speaker 6: been doing this, mine has definitely predicted the outcome, and
Speaker 6: you know, with precision kind of can tell why. So
Speaker 6: I think asking better different questions you get to better answers.
Speaker 1: Yes, all of this polling you've done with gen Z,
Speaker 1: this particular one, the other poll you mentioned gen Z,
Speaker 1: I think it's a bad rap. I really do. I
Speaker 1: think it's a different You have to engage a gen
Speaker 1: Z or differently for all of the reasons we just
Speaker 1: talked to. But I think when I look at that,
Speaker 1: make it a age group and using understandably this as
Speaker 1: an umbrella and not necessarily in any specific way, but
Speaker 1: I'm encouraged by that group. I just think you've got
Speaker 1: to you got to understand what makes them tick, and
Speaker 1: if you do, I think you're going to get a
Speaker 1: lot back in return. That's how I found it, just
Speaker 1: anecdotally in my everyday life.
Speaker 6: It sounds like you have to, Oh my gosh, Ken,
Speaker 6: that is exactly why I did the survey among gen
Speaker 6: Z because I feel like they are getting a bad
Speaker 6: rap and it is so annoying to me when I
Speaker 6: see headlines that say gen Z is not employable. I
Speaker 6: saw a survey in one of the large you know papers,
Speaker 6: national papers, and it was a university professor that tested
Speaker 6: a hypothesis to say gen Z's unemployable. And then I'm like,
Speaker 6: well great, So then gen Z sees all these negative
Speaker 6: headlines and like, well, everybody's out to get me. And
Speaker 6: so yeah, my whole mission, you know, since I've started
Speaker 6: this work, is giving gen Z a voice because they're
Speaker 6: very onto the very creative. And if you want people
Speaker 6: to help figure out the next phase, next phase of
Speaker 6: growth and digital transformation, and AI hire gen Z. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, if you if you try to ask gen Z,
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, if you ask AI the questions that I ask,
Speaker 6: you get bogus answers. But nobody's taking the time to
Speaker 6: really say if AI is giving you good quality data,
Speaker 6: and a lot of times it's not. So beware out
Speaker 6: there there's a lot of bad data, you know that's
Speaker 6: being quoted in AI.
Speaker 1: A university professor saying, is are gen Z people employable?
Speaker 1: And if I'm sure he came to the to the
Speaker 1: conclusion no, but just go ahead and keep sending me
Speaker 1: your money so I can educate your kids so they're
Speaker 1: not employable. I mean, it's just yah, Well.
Speaker 6: But the crazy thing on that particular newspaper article was
Speaker 6: the fact that what they did was a survey and
Speaker 6: they basically said what matters to gen Z at work,
Speaker 6: and then what matters to managers at work, and then
Speaker 6: because there was not a high overlap, it just says
Speaker 6: gen Z is unemployable. And I'm like, maybe there's a
Speaker 6: different outcome, which is maybe you know, we have to
Speaker 6: adapt and you know it's a different world and leverage
Speaker 6: their strengths versus always saying calling out there lazy or
Speaker 6: unemployable because they're not.
Speaker 1: Absolutely Lisa W. Miller you can find her at lwmdash
Speaker 1: Associates dot com. Lwmdash Associates dot com. It's it's great
Speaker 1: talking to you again, and I say this all the time.
Speaker 1: We need to hear your voice. So stay well and
Speaker 1: hopefully we can do this again real soon.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Thank you so much, Ken, and happy New
Speaker 6: Year too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I do think gen z ers are getting a bad rap.
Speaker 1: And it'd be to say like boomers. Now Boomer says
Speaker 1: something on Twitter or some other and everybody, okay, Boomer,
Speaker 1: Well that's that guy. It's not every guy. It's not
Speaker 1: every Boomer. It's not every gen Z person. But unfortunately
Speaker 1: that's what we want to do. We want to drop
Speaker 1: drop tags on people and and things like that. Not
Speaker 1: here though, not here to twenty seven, counting down to
Speaker 1: you see football at three point thirty today, you see
Speaker 1: a Navy in the Liberty Bowl. News radio seven hundred WLW,
Speaker 1: And where are the Cleveland Browns?
Speaker 4: Hello?
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Speaker 1: Seguy wouldn't bro broadcast or boast of being the Cleveland
Speaker 1: brown now, just saying no, that's true. You're right. Do
Speaker 1: you ever see that that movie Draft Day with Kevin Costner,
Speaker 1: who's the general manager of the Brown Yeah, I'll watch
Speaker 1: that show way it is now? I guess yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess it is now. But that guy was wheeling and dealing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: wheeling and dealing. I don't see.
Speaker 10: You can't too much wheeling the dealing when you got
Speaker 10: what Deshaun Watson in two hundred and ninety dollars in
Speaker 10: there and it's like, okay, what do we do now?
Speaker 1: Well, see, that's why I say he played a lick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, those are the reasons why
Speaker 1: SEG we watch sport, not necessarily to see who wins correct?
Speaker 1: See who melts down at his correct can? And where
Speaker 1: are the Cleveland Browns? Good luck to you? That could
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Speaker 1: Shoot, what do you think, seg who wins this game?
Speaker 10: I think Navy's got They're gonna run it like crazy.
Speaker 10: I mean there's no uh you know. I mean, Dante
Speaker 10: Corleone's not playing a couple of the other defensive guys.
Speaker 10: You know, there's running backs out. I guess he's got
Speaker 10: a whole team to play. I don't know what are
Speaker 10: you gonna do?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the way I look at this
Speaker 1: way is most of these bowl games don't matter they're
Speaker 1: they're exhibitions, right, What are these teams? One team just
Speaker 1: declined to go to any ball game because they didn't
Speaker 1: have that state, Kansas State. Yeah, it's just like I
Speaker 1: look at these things. I think I think these these
Speaker 1: non playoff bowl games or dying breed. They're floated only
Speaker 1: by ESPN money. And as soon as the mouse does
Speaker 1: an audit of ESPN and see how much waste is there,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of these bowl games go by
Speaker 1: the wayside.
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Speaker 6: Two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just saying, do you have a New Year's resolution?
Speaker 10: I don't do that stuff, do you. I tried like
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Speaker 1: They get bigger. If I don't, who's gonna know that
Speaker 1: I broke my New Year's Resolution's right?
Speaker 10: And you're not that statistic. What is it two days
Speaker 10: after or something that eighty percent of people break it?
Speaker 10: But you know, like in the month of January or something,
Speaker 10: it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's every they stay within by
Speaker 1: January ninety percent of these resolutions. You go to a
Speaker 1: gym and you see all these people you haven't seen
Speaker 1: before in your life, and three weeks later they disappeared. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're back to they're back to you know.
Speaker 10: Plus exercise, it's a weight, it's smoking, it's drinking, you know, everything.
Speaker 1: Just there running around. Yeah, dogs and cats living together.
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Speaker 1: you got to get us out of the Stooge Report. Here,
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Speaker 1: the Liberty Bowl. We're all waiting for the Liberty Bowls.
Speaker 10: You're going to talk about America leading into the Liberty Bowl,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about the cracking the bell is
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Speaker 1: a show. That's something you could talk to. That's true.
Speaker 1: If he ever comes back to work, he could he
Speaker 1: could tackle How did the Liberty Bell get its crack?
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