10-23-25 Ken Broo in for Willie

All right, the average American and for the great American once again on this Thursday. Great to have you with us. Don't say that capriciously. This is the great medium of terrestrial radio. But even if you are listening on the great iHeartMedia app, we welcome you in once again for the next three hours. A lot going on today, of course, major news coming out of the NBA gambling scandal, FBI all over it will have that in just a bit. We also are watching exactly what's going on from a

Hey, Ken, great to hear from you, and doing doing well. No shortage of news at the very at least, right, No, there.

Is not, and and this is concerning. Look, Venezuela to me has always been kind of a gnat that you just swat away. Every so often. They have dirty, dirty oil. The United States bought some dirty oil from Venezuela. Other people buy oil from Venezuela and just get out of the way. You know what you're You're you're a ten. You got a tinpot dictator in you're third world country. But now being an all in an alliance with China, they become more of a problem for the United States.

It one hundred percent is And you know, again, as many issues tend to be, China is the big picture with Venezuela. So you know, we've all seen some of the videos I assume of Trump posting them and Pete Heggs had posted them. They're blowing up these cartel boats. And you know, when a lot of us think cartels were thinking Mexico, we're thinking the Mexican drug cartels. We're not really thinking like Venezuelan traffickers. Why do they come

Fraud is one thing.

Even Biden accused Maduro of digging the elections, and both Trump and Biden recognized the opposition leader as the official leader of Venezuela. Maduro was seen as the unofficial leader, labeled also as the leader of the Cartel of the Sons by both Trump and Biden. The issue back in twenty eighteen, though, was that you had huge protests on the streets. It looked like Maduro was going to be overthrown.

Which is not true.

By the way.

Marco Rubio actually went down there just a few months ago and he actually warned Venezuela, if you do this, you will face the repercussions from the United States and so and so not everything we see is just about drugs. Part of it is about the CCP's investments. They're part of it is about oil. Part of it is it

Now, so we have this access right China, Iran, Russia, U Venezuela is part of that, and that doesn't even get into what Russia is trying to do with China on another level from an economic standpoint, and it seems like it's those group of countries against the United States. All right, who's the brains in the operation? Is it China? Is China the center of this?

Yeah?

Okay, So what is what does Russia coming? Why would Russia, as John McCain once famously said, is one giant gasoline station. Why would why would why would Russia remotely be interested in a pool of oil in Ghana? Or is it all China that's really interested in it and as using Russia as its force.

So that ties into a broader agenda. So Russia working with the Chinese Communist Party, working with these Middle Eastern powers, working with African powers, working with powers throughout Latin America. They have an alternate world order they're trying to push. So you know, we all hear about bricks, right, we hear about the Bricks Alliance. If you actually listen to

Talking about it.

The CCP is the main model for it. They're talking about what's called the multipolar world order, and effectively, this is how they view it. They see that Chinese, they see that American sanctions. You know, if you abuse your citizens, if you start a war, if you invade another country, as you carry out a genocide, you get sanctioned by

So what they're proposing is what's.

Called the multipolar world order, which is many countries controlled different regions. America controls America, Canada controls Canada, probably Cuba and Venezuela in Brazil control Latin America, and Full of Powers control Africa like an African alliance. China controls basically all of East Asia. Russia controls the former Soviet Union, and then influences you know, western Western Europe knows, yeah, Western Europe through mostly energy trade, and that's what they want.

Well, obviously that would be something that that this administration would not go for. I mean, there might have been past administrations that would have entertained that idea, so obviously that that's that's a non starter for the current folks in Washington, d C. But still, if you if you just look at where we are as a country, and you look at at what you just said, who are

Well, this is the bigger challenge we have is that we don't we don't have unified nation alliances. A lot of this is party based, so a lot of the left wing governments, the socialist governments of the Europe, socialist parties of Canada, you know, maybe not the conservatives, but the socialist sides, you know, they want that too. They want to say, you know, America does its tariffs, America does its uh, you know, it's trade policies. They want things kind of claimed by the status quo. They want

A monopoly on it.

They view America as, you know, kind of a powerful city, and they want equity. They want us to share the wealth, which turns out we've been doing and a lot of Americans weren't even where we were doing it. You know, we subsidize their healthcare system, we pay for the military, we do everything for them. That's global equity, and that's what they want in terms of the global agreements, I mean, the unports or the multipolar world order. It's the same

It is true.

Trump has been hitting back on them pretty hard against this. Trump so that if anybody tries to overthrow the US dollar, you're going to get one hundred percent sanctioned or sorry terriffs. And so you know it's a battle right now, but it's only going to take one leader to stop fighting that battle for the other side to win.

Yeah, exactly. And you know it's funny listening to that politics and geopolitics. The enemy could be from within. I mean, there are a lot of people in this country that are running for office or would like to entertain a notion of running for office, that are socialists in their behavior and believe that equity is the way to go

It is one hundred percent true. So I've been working on some stuff around this. So some of this goes back to the Cold War. Some of it goes back to organizations that were started as really like Soviet Front organizations under the Common Tern. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a lot of those systems switched their allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party.

So the CCP.

Became kind of the replacement of what Russia was, replacement of the Communist International. Right, they just don't call it that. Instead of calling it the Communist International or the Common Tern, they call it the China model. They call it Chinese engagement, they call it Chinese investment.

I'll give you a few examples.

We're aware now that this Neville Singh, this Indian guy billionaire working out of China in Shanghai, is one of the big funders behind a lot of the far left of the United States. People are talking about him. That's one of the big stories, but you have a lot of other ones. The TIDES Foundation tied in with some of that money, sorows money, other things. TIDES Foundation also has a lot of influence over Wikipedia. TIDES Foundation has

I enjoy you on Crossroads and obviously your work with the Epic Times, and this is this is a must see deep dive into what's really going on with regards to China and Venezuela and then of course with the other players in this Iran in Russia. Joshua, every time I have you on, I feel I'm more informed and I feel smarter. I don't know if I am smarter, but I feel smarter and that's a good feeling to have. And until we talk again, you stay well, okay.

Always a pleasure.

Thank you you.

Bet Epic Times, Joshua, Philip. China is a very very very big problem inside our country right now. Not to say the least of what's going on with their involvement with Venezuela. It is twelve twenty six. I am the average American. This is seven hundred WLW com Porty, welcome back. It's the average American in for the great American on this Thursday. Still to come on the show on nailing that big job interview, Nailing the big job interview. Who doesn't want to do that? We'll get into that in

Good? Lee?

How Aary?

Well?

I think what we're probably going to seek and is we're going to see maybe limits cut down and they can always track you.

I mean the big eye don't lie.

Just like any crime, you know, murder, any how do they catch you your phone? You know, they track you wherever you are, whatever bet you're making. As far as as wagering, here is concerned.

And you know they catch people. It's it's it's.

Everything is electronic now, so you know they there. There's always a trail and usually there's someone even if someone's maybe making a wager for something for someone else, you know, if they're face the jail time, they're going to usually end up talking.

To the FED.

So the Fed, I think it's like a ninety eight and a half ninety nine percent conviction rate. It's that way for a reason. The deck is stacked against you. So and if you are guilty, uh, it's not. You know a number of people that are just going to stand there and say, okay, I'll go to trial. Someone's going to end up talking and they want the best possible deal.

And then you know, if.

You're left, if you're the one that's left standing, you're in trouble.

So it's just shocking to me. You know, I can.

I'm not saying it could, I agree with it, not saying I totally understand. But a player, let's say, you know who is just a fringe player and he gives someone a tip, Okay, nothing, It's obviously not right, but I can see it happening, you know, the greed part of it. But someone like Chunty Billups, someone who made multi multi.

Means is a head coach making a huge.

Salary, and then Terry Rose here making almost twenty five million dollars per year, four year contract, almost one hundred million dollars.

The fact that they would do.

This is just it it's almost it's almost unfathomable.

You know, it goes. Basketball to me has always been the most susceptible to this kind of I mean, the year before I was born, they had the big college basketball point shaving scandal involved several New York City teams. And then you know, you page ahead and you get to that inside that that referee what was named Tim Garritty fifteen twenty years ago, who was providing inside information to gamblers. And here you have Rogier and Billups. I mean,

What do you think it is because there's only five players on the court at one time. Football, if you get the one player or baseball one player and baseball is nine players. And obviously, you know, throwing the baseball in the margin when you hit a baseball between a home run and a foul ball is just so minute. Football there's twenty two players on the field at one time, so one player, unless you've got the quarterback, probably not much of an edge. So that's why it's much easier.

No, why, that's out.

Straight out of the Sopranos. That's straight out of the Sopranos. I think this is and I don't know where it's going only, but I think this is maybe going to be an indictment of Adam Silver. Adam Silver, it seems he was the first of the four commissioners to embrace legalized gambling, and now he's had he's and that was knowing the history he had with that referee Garrity, and

Yeah, Tim, donah, He's a totally different situation with an official.

But like I said, just shows.

You the different level players have a player involved. Here, you have someone Chauntsey Billups involved with maybe rigging some machines in another form of gambling. He obviously coached basketball, but it doesn't seem like he was involved in fixing basketball games. Tim Donnie was a basketball official. It looks like you got in debt and the only way he could really get out was he thought, was to supply information.

It's a mess, le Hey, look doesn't affect what you and I are going to do on Sunday down at the Holy Grail. But for your time today on this breaking news, we appreciate it. Thank you, my friend, thanks so much. A man, thank there. Yeah, yeah, I don't mean Adam Silver is going to get indicted. I just mean from his credibility and the leader of a leg and now here we are again dealing with yet another

Yeah.

He was on the Pat McAfee show tuesday and he said the league has been working with its sportsbook partners to combat attempts at manipulation, so he probably knew that this was coming down, but so far, no reaction in the wake of this sweeping FBI pickup. Today, of thirty four people, it is twelve fifty three. It is the average American in for the Great American News Radio seven hundred WYLW. So it's inflation any better today than what

As you now know, individuals such as Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones, and Terry Rozier were taken into custody today former current NBA players and coaches. What you don't know is that this is an illegal gambling operation and sports rigging operation that spanned the course of years. The FBI led a coordinative takedown US eleven states to arrest over thirty individuals today responsible for this case, which is very much ongoing.

I think, and this is just me. I think they're going to get Billips and Rogier to flip. I think you're going to hear other people's names coming under this thing tip of the ice. But that's that's how it works, right, You get, you get the people in. You know that you got, and believe me, the FBI ninety seven ninety six percent of the time. They got you. Once. Once you're arrested and you're part of an indictment, they got you. But maybe they'll go easy on you for whatever prison

Now?

What does it mean to you and me walking around the street, just trying to make a goal that trying to buy things at the grocery store, fill or tanks up with gas, make sure the kids have clothes, make sure the mortgage gets paid. What do these tariffs mean to us?

Why?

How is this going to affect our lives? Standing via somebody that probably knows better than the most Dominic, Mezzarindino has been at the forefront of not just social media, but interaction, business to business and how things that occur at the national and international level affect you and me in real life. He has been on my show many times before. He has been the CEO of many companies, and he now runs a business to business company we'll

How are you doing?

My friend?

Well?

I haven't been affected yet by the tariffs, and in any way, shape or form, I think, like most things in life, I eventually will be. But let's just talk about you know, you, me and everybody else that is just walking around on the street. If indeed the November deadline comes and goes, and that's just about a week away and these tariffs are placed in effect, what does that mean for the consumer? What does that mean for us, just the regular folk?

You know, I think you said something pretty critical when you said not necessarily affecting. I think in a way it's being affected, but almost like that a slow Chinese torture trip.

In terms of the water.

You know, our prices are not necessarily going down.

Coffee is higher than it was.

We don't make coffee in this country, so it is directly taroff affected as one example, and I think it's that tangents that affects you. Another example is Kentucky bourbon. They were shipping to Canada. Canada don't like Kentucky bourbon. That's bad. So now you're getting that tangential effect when the market says.

I have friends out of work.

So I think we are seeing it, but almost like that slow and on the side effect, And it's going to probably get louder the more we have situations such as you know, the beef coming up situation.

That's a big deal right now.

Yeah, yeah. Trump wants to go outside the country and bring in beef from Australia or someplace. And of course the beef industry, particularly those states in the United States out west, you know, the cattle country, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, wherever it may be. Not only are the people out there not happy about that prospect, but also a lot of the GOP senators are. But I think what he's trying to do is threat a needle here dominic. Look when he came into office, inflation was crazy. It went

To you, I think it's a tough you know, I'm trying to think of the best way of.

Hitting it. Parents are not down, sorry, is not down.

It's steady, which is still higher than history. If you look at I'm looking at BLS dot Gov but I think the challenge on the tariffs becomes when you're tariffing things such as coffee. Well, the purpose of the tariff tax the local tax consumer. It goes to the federal budget and gets the consumer to buy more American goods.

But I'm pointing to coffee because you.

Can't do it.

There is no American coffee. It don't exist. Or seasonal items.

I mean, god forbid, we have a situation where corn has a blight. Has it happened in history? Yeah, the diversity of products is the protection. So it's a card to be played, but I'm not sure and don't feel high confidence. It's the card I want to play at times when I just want my morning coffee without drama.

Well, Trump has got fifty terrifying Chinese imports. There's some people that are saying I could go as is two hundred percent. The President is saying this week he's going to have a fantastic deal done with China by this November first deadline. I mean, we've heard the president issue deadlines and then deadlines come and go and nothing happens. I mean, it's just it's just the way of his world.

Is trying to hit it because I think you know, first of all, when we're talking to tariffs, we're discussing a machine with thousands of gears.

So one other example with the China Chinese tariffs.

Ends of mine in Canada who are happily ordering that eight hundred dollars limit and they're ordering products right at their house. They're laughing saying I can't you guys can't order, but we can, you know. And I think you have social media, high communication, people seeing you know, your friends online ordering this and this, and you know, look what's happening. Is a great example when you mentioned the beef, I think it relates to China. When that person is hit.

Yeah yeah, And and and it doesn't even get into the other aspects of dealing with Choanaman. They're they're not just a competitor on the international trade market there, they're also a military power and they It's been no secret that a lot of people, a lot of Chinese nationals entered this country over the course of the last four years. So there's that sub sub almost like that subdivision working over and above what may be going on economically. When

When you're dealing with any of this, it's never one level. It's you know, you're discussing a great example, the fentanyl and the tariffs that started this, all right, you know, and we're tiraffing this country due defensean al But the me tirafhing is to this and it's really the question figuring out that net some gain. Part of what I look at every day is all right, so we're adding a tiiff to Canada as an example to reduce that twenty four pounds defence.

All that came through.

But in the process, how many people in the bourbon industry have lost jobs? Could we have used that money for five extra border guards at that point?

Yeah?

You know.

And I'm not saying right nor wrong, des I'm saying I can't calculate that. God bless the guy who thinks they can. Yeah, do you know what happens now? If the Montana guys start going out of business?

Sure, I'm concerned.

What happened Argentina starts importing the beef and then our beef industry gets a little bit of a hit because it isn't it.

Yeah?

Yeah, dude, I'm saying one.

Hits the other and it becomes a cascating effect.

But I think for years it is necessarily a good one.

But I think for years, Dominic we you know, these these companies have have Trump says, ripped off. I'll use the term. These these countries have benefited from a very unfair trade advantage with the United States. We paid more for their goods than they would pay for ours, if indeed they would they would ever, would they even allow those goods into our country? Look at the look at the automobile industry, my gosh, for forty years, Japanese imports

You, I think you're spot on, because you know, when.

You mentioned the Japanese autos is a great example.

No matter how much you tear Japan, I will bet you they will not buy more cars.

No matter what you do.

Not big, cause we're producing bad cars nor good They don't fit on the road. Tokyo. The cars ended the size of a hummer. We produce big cars for a population that don't want big cars.

Yeah, And I think buying large. I think buy and large. And this is not to cast an over arching umbrella, but I think in the United States we revere the automobile more than most countries out out there. Most countries look at the automobile is just to get from point A to point B. We as a society look at it as some sort of luxury point.

I agree. I also will add to the mix. I think when you're using all these factors, all these examples, one of the things that strikes me is just how intertwined you're great hit spot on we're never gonna tell more cars to Japan, but also we loved the automobile. Is it bad that we're getting in Japanese cars or is it good because it's making our manufacturers say we better make a chief of car. They're just doing a

But I think my overall theme is you're talking about complex issues breaking them down into simple in terms of you know, this is crazy with Argentina, this is crazy with this, this is crazy.

With that, and all the memes.

We're in a mean world.

Yeah, but I don't think you can calculate the net result.

Of all these moving pieces.

Yeah on reaction, Yeah, it's not going to necessarily get us where we want to be.

Right now, Well, well, the big thing is we'll see we're chatted with Dominic Dominic Meserindino x, CEO of retail wire dot com, current CEO of rtmnexus dot com. And I mean, this guy has been ahead of the curve on everything with regard to social media internet media for over thirty years. Okay, So my gut tells me that November one is going to come and go and nothing really is going to change. It just seems to be the trend here. My also, my other gut tells me

My current current concern is that I think we're playing a little bit uh.

Game of chicken.

We're playing a game of Chicken with a beast, because right now, for one example, as a predictor, Canada saw these turfs and county went, okay, I'll try to go with other countries, thank you very much. China is sort of doing that now. They are having major investments, for example in Africa. We're not touching it as pronounced as they are, and you're seeing those infrastructure moves. So I worry that you don't play chicken between two mac trucks.

That right away them.

Maybe this way I don't see it, and that's okay, But I am concerned. November second, all these pieces playing, we're not going to see right now that maybe China starts heavily trading with this in this partner and they just look at us like, what's happening now?

You're reading about soybean is a great example. Soybeans farmers are saying, we're not selling soybeans to China as much anymore.

They don't they're buying nail and they're just happily saying, no worries, I got this and our poor farmers are throwing the crop on the ground.

Well, not necessarily a great move now, No, all.

Right, Dominic, good stuff as always.

My friend, thank you so much for calling me.

You stay well and you know we will call again.

Thanks amazing, we'll talk too, and hopefully love the wording.

Yeah, I love the word amazing, Thank you, sir.

Uh.

The rare earth restrictions China, I mean, this is this is just retaliatory. You know what's going to happen. We just talked about it. They're going to get together. There's going to be something they're gonna punt whatever was going to happen November. First down the road. My guess is that Trump and and She meet face to face and they come away with something of framework and everything settles down.

There he is. I mean old Faithful.

We called him old Faithful, not old Yellow. Shooting it off at shooting it off, that's right.

Oh, hello, hello, bye, I'm broadcasting.

Seg I'm sitting here. Where are you? You're supposed to be in here with me?

Can brew? I am sitting in the antido where I'm feeling like Jim Nance today.

Okay, you sound like you're coming in from Mars, but you're at a golf tournament.

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Yeah, what golf course are you at? I'm sorry because it kind of muffled there. What are you at? Work out? What call course?

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Yeah, I played that. That's a good course.

There is beautiful today, a little windy, little chilly, but everybody's having a good time, all.

Right, seg Well, Uh, since you're here, Uh, could you bring us up to data on what is transpiring in the world of sports besides NBA players getting indicted?

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In the Canton Well well, he Ken Anderson should be in the Hall of Fame. There shouldn't be a Hall of Fame with that ka being in it and of the story that is correct.

Of course, the big story and the big story in sports today is the scandal involving the National Basketball Association where Portland Trail Plazers coach Chauncey Phillips Miami Heat guard Terry Rosier were arrested this morning as part of an investigation and related to illegal gambling. Also was arrested today former Cleveland Cavaliers player and assistant coach Damon Jones. And

Well, you're gonna get some guys. They're gonna flip and they're going to give some other names. That's what I think is gonna happen. They're gonna flip me, get.

Some other names.

I think you're right about that. And then let's see soccer news. Evander from Cincinnati one of three players up for the MLS MVP Award. Nick Haglan is up for Comeback Player of the Year. But this is an outrage. Ken Brew Pat Noonan not up for Coach of the Year. Maybe three of a. Philadelphia, Vancouver and San Diego their coaches are up for the prestigious honor, but not Pat Noonan. That to me as an outrage.

Well, you know, I don't know. I mean, I could see where he wouldn't be. I'm not sure he would win it if he was up for it. I mean, there's just other teams that just did better this year, not the least of which are you know the team that won the Supporter Shield Philadelphia did better. Yep, yeah, and you saw that MESSI signed a contract extension today, right, Messi signed a contract extension with Inner Miami till through twenty twenty eight.

Yeah, three year deal for Lionel Messi. So they keep one of soccer's biggest names right here in the good old usf A for the four seal future seg.

Do you know what happened fifty years ago tonight?

I think it was the Reds winning the World Series? Was it in Boston? Now?

Fifty years ago tonight? Listen up fifty years ago tonight.

Lines in the overtime.

McDonald McDonald throws it back on the point.

Ben couldn't keep that in nik Fenn for Jack.

That comes back to the doky over skidded Ryan McDonald now.

In finn fifty years ago tonight, SEG. The Cincinnati Stingers played their first ever home game at Riverfront Coliseum.

Yeah, how about that, can Brew? How could I miss that? And they did? They played the Indianapolis Racers.

They played played Edmonton. They played the Oilers. A little Andy Mack there, a little Andy Mack played by play.

There I new Andy Max sounded great. He was always a great hockey amount there and been.

Back fifty years ago tonight after playing four straight on the road. They came home to play the Edmonton Oilers, and do you know seg who voice was inside Riverfront Coliseum.

I think that's the musical genius of seven hundred WLW. That would be Kenneth brew Day.

So this is what I this is, This is the story from fifty years ago Tonight'd say. Of course they come on the ice and I opened the microphone. I say, here come the stars, and they lead them out. I think it was no man. Lapointe was the goaltender. He leads him out, leads him out, and there's circling around

Wow. And that's it.

So they dropped the puck and uh and they're calling down from like the press pot. Why is just saying the rest of the names. I said, because the referee just told me to shut up. It ain't Toledo, Ohio.

I swear to god he was a lucidary referee, Bill Friday can Brew and you know, I mean, what was he gonna do? So he had a penalty box or something.

I don't know. I could have gotten a delayed game penalty for the franchise. But it was fifty years ago tonight, the first home game of the now late and momented Cincinnati Stingers, the likes of Dale Smidsmo and Ron Plumb, Bernie Chuck Sab Chuck claub Larrose, Jacques lo cop Here, Geeta.

Great.

I don't know if he was on that team.

I know number seven, he was number seven, well not not yeah, he came later, but numbers later on. I think he was. I think he started his career with the Nordeas.

Seven years fifty years ago tonight, number seven was Brian Soupy Campbell. Oh boy, I'm looking at the media guide right here. I kept the media guide that that they had there, and they had they had Frank Beaton as one of their up and coming stars. And the picture of him that they have, he's got a black eye.

It's buffy there you go, you know, I mean, that's yea. I should have known that, ken Brew.

I love that.

I love the Stingers.

Boy, they were great fifty years ago.

Tonight in the overtime, Ducie McDonald McDonald's throws it back on the point, couldn't keep that ink fent?

What jack?

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That's what was broadcast on seven hundred wyl W. How about that?

And I remember I remember going down there a few times to ken Brew when they were in business that teams would actually change cities, uh like after at the institute and they would still they would still wear their old jerseys, but the team moved to another to another city.

Right, the Denver Spurs became the Ottawa Civics. At like three o'clock in the afternoon and they're still skating around with the Denver Spurs. Y'all was unbelievable stuff. Well I want you. I'll talk to you in a little bit here from wherever you're at. But tell everybody out there we said.

Hey, you got it, ken Brew and uh. In honor of a beautiful day here in the Tri State, we leave you with the immortal words of the.

Stude behind the Campbell Campbell reaching for the a far quarter.

The stores.

Andy Mack did it by himself. No color commentator did it by himself. All right, seg we'll talk to you in an hour. It's one fifty one News Radio, seven hundred w l W Show eight on this Thursday, and good afternoon. It's the average American in for the great American. Glad you are with us. We're here right till three o'clock today, and then I believe Rocky is back. You'll join Eddie and all things will be normal on seven hundred WLW. There is there is data that is out there.

What do you do?

Well, maybe, if you're smart, you turn to somebody that knows all about these things. Let's do that. Let's turn to career coach Laura Brown, who's co authored a new book, Interview Speak What your Interviewer Really wants to Know, and she's also besides that new book, you can find her at Careercoffee break dot com. I love that career coffee bok. Anyway, Laura Brown, Welcome to seven hundred WYLW. How are you on this glorious Thursday.

I am great. Thank you so much for having me today.

I'm glad you're here because you know, I've gone through the interview process a lot in my life. Not so much anymore, you know, I'm kind of like at the end of the rope here. But the fact of the matter is that during my time I was on the spot and I would get called in after an audition tape was seting people like what I saw, what they saw, or in case of radio, what they heard. And it's not not an unpleasant experience, but it's an experience. You

You know, it's so.

Funny that you said, because I totally agree with you. I need to be prepared, but I have plenty of people tell me, no, I want to be authentic. I'm just going to wing it. I'm going to show up as I am.

Now.

I do think you should be authentic, but I think you should be authentically prepared, because if you're not prepared for common questions, what's going to happen is they're going to ask you something and you're going to choke and you're going to later on think to yourself, Man, I wish I had said that, or I wish I hadn't said that. So that's why it's so important to be prepared and be ready and show up as your best self.

I don't think many interviewers, whether it be HR or the actual manager you're going to be working for. I don't think it takes much for someone like that to see somebody who's winging it or unprepared sitting in front of them. You've done one, two, three, four, or five interviews, you pretty much pick up on the fact that, wait a minute, this person is here and I don't even know why I asked them here in the first place, right.

You know, And you bring up a really good point because absolutely interviewers pick up on it right away, and the message they get is not, oh, this person is trying to be authentic. The message they get is this person isn't interested enough in this job to spend a little time preparing and reviewing the job description or getting ready for answers. So if they're not that interested, we're not moving them forward. So that's all you have to be prepared.

Okay, So how do how do you prepare yourself? I mean, I'm sure you know everybody does it differently because everybody is different, but there have to be some boilerplate things that you do before you go into a job interview. So what would be like the top three or four big things.

Well, so let me tell you, first of all what they're looking for so you can be prepared for it. So the first thing is they want to know can.

You do the job?

So you need to know you know on your resume you can show you can.

Do the job.

And the second one, which most people don't get, is can you do and are you excited about this job? So preparation is about really taking a look at the job description. And in the book, we deconstruct a job description and we show you how can you take the job description and pick up on possible questions they're going to ask and then think about what would be a way to answer it and show I'm a motivated and

Yeah.

Sure, I mean if it's most companies want an answer to you know, we make money, how can you help us make money? Tell us how you can help us be a better and more profitable company. I think that's probably one that would stand out to me if I were going into a job interview. The other one would be tell us how you tell us how you operate as a member of the team. What kind of teammate are you? And I just think they're just so certain things you have to you have to prepare yourself for.

Oh, I'm so glad you said that, because absolutely part of preparation is coming up with a good answer, but you definitely don't want to memorize it. And actually, in the book we have we have some bad examples, and one of them is somebody obviously memorized uh, And the answer and then gets interrupted and then goes back to

It should just be.

For example, if the interviewer asked me, why are you interested in this job? I should have you know, two or three bullet points and yes, I probably should have

Yeah, And I mean, you want to tell people what you can do or what you have done to help other companies you've been with. You don't want to seem braggadocious. There's kind of an art to it, but you know, you got to be yourself because if you start, you know, getting into a rhythm about what I have to say it this way, I have to say it that way. Then you don't come off as authentic, and you probably forget some things that are important that you want to say.

You know what I mean, of course. Yeah.

So you bring up a really good point and you said bragging, and I hear that concern a lot. Oh, I don't want to brag, but it's not about bragging and making yourself too big. What you need to do is connect what you do your accomplishments to how as you said, how you can help the company accomplishments at this job. This is what I've done in the past. This is how I could help in the future. And it's really important that you also balance using the words

And we have a couple of them.

So like soa R sore, tell somebody, here's the situation, here's the obstacle. I was able to work on action A. So this is what I did, and this is what the team did, and here's the result. And this is the kind of result I can have for your company in this job. So making sure that you're really connecting it to this job.

You've worked in business, you've worked. It's saying here you were a senior talent director of talent development for a global tech company. What is the one question you asked when you were looking for a perspective employee? What was the one question that you had to have answered or it was like this person's a non starter.

Well, and then so this is going to sound funny because this is my favorite question. I always ask this tell me about yourself. And it sounds so general. But here's why I love it because in like this is typically in the first you know, two minutes of an interview, I really want to find out first of all, if there are red flags, what are they going to say, how prepared are they? What do they really want me to know about that? And so that gives me some

Exactly. There's nothing more expensive for a company than to keep hiring employees, and if the churn rate is pretty high, chances are well you have probably probably. If the churn rate is high, you have bad people conducting the interview, you get bad candidates, and then all of a sudden, you're back at it again in six or nine months.

Lord Brown's are exactly.

She is the author of interviews speaking what your interviewer really wants to know. She's got a master's degree in human resources, and she's the creator of coffee break dot Com. I'm guessing on coffee break dot com we find what dark ROAs, medium ROAs? What are we flying on it?

What are you offering here, Laura, Oh, it's careercoffee break dot com. And I like to think I'm giving you. I'm giving you tips to sip with your coffee in the morning because it's quick career tip, quick career tips. And if they go there, they can actually get a forty discount on the books from the publisher. And I've also got online classes to help you get a raise at work or help you to negotiate your higher salary at your next job.

Career coffee break dot com. Did you ever I suppose interview somebody and you thought this is it. This is the person and the way companies operate. Now you're going to do something that is not person to person, you might do it. You might you might do it in a zoom. You might even do it just in a back and forth chat on someplace. And then eventually you get that person in the room and man, you're excited. You think this is the person. They get in there

Yeah, And it's so typically when it's something like that, they've come across really really well and their answers are good, and so maybe they've been really good at preparing. But then they come in and then or again on zoom or you know, there in the office, and then you ask them something like why did you leave your last job?

You need to show me that you can handle that.

I said in a job interview, Laura, Gosh, this is going back maybe thirty five forty years ago. I would I don't expect you to know this, but I was a television anchored news sports, and so I'm at a television station and I'm an interviewed for a job and there's three people in the room interviewing me, and one person asks me, do you like dogs? I looked at her, and I said, yeah, no, I liked dog. What's your favorite dog? And I'm thinking the only thing I could

I'm that's exactly it. So, so if I were asked you know, what kind of dog do you like?

Again?

Weird question.

That that don't say.

No, I wouldn't, so.

I might say something, well, you know, I I would like a dog, you know. I like dogs that are that are big and friendly and nice, So I think like a golden retriever. So I've given a reason why. Okay, but isn't that a nice answer?

I want to know, is right?

All I want to know is that I can you know, I can answer something that I that it's not expected that I have a reason there and it comes across as a as a positive answer, So it doesn't matter. I mean, you know, you could pick up about any dog as long as there is a reason why you say it and it's a reasonable reason.

Yeah.

Well, the only beauty for me is is that the three people that I interviewed with, they were all gone within ten months.

So okay, this is really interesting, right.

A wise maneuver on my part. Okay, where do we Where do we get to interview? Speak? What your interview? Your interviewer or really wants to know. I'm sure it's on Amazon, but where else can we find?

Well, of course it's on Amazon again, but come to careercoffee break dot Com because you can get the forty percent discount on Amazon, you won't get the discount, So my publisher really wants to incentivize you. Because the whole point is that you never know when you're going to get an interview, is you pointed out? You know in the year twenty twenty six a lot of us are

Yeah. And you offer online courses for people to earn more money at work. Is that at the Careercoffee Break dot com as well?

Yes, yes it is.

I love to help people make more money, and I help people to ask for raises, and when they do get that job offer, there are some keys I give them to how do you get the highest money possible? Because the money is really important and people get really nervous about asking for more. But absolutely you need to negotiate for yourself.

Well, Laura, the next time you see a Rottweilers, think of me.

Okay again, I certainly will. And then it's some wonderful talking to you.

I really really appreciate that, right, Laura Brown find her again at Career coffee break dot com. Thank you, Laura, stay.

Will, thank you so much.

Bye bye.

It's true story. I did. I interviewed it at this television station. I forget where. It wasn't Dallas, it was it was it was it might have been Houston. It was in Texas, that's all. It had to be Dallas. And it was in Dallas, so it was in Houston. And they asked me do you like dogs. I'm like, yeah, yeah, I love dogs. And the only dog I think I don't even think I had a dog at the time

Oh hello.

Yet and I'm I'm broadcasting.

Seg, is that a golf tournament? He's had a golf tournament for Bengals sponsors and it's at Ashton Woods, which is a lovely golf course. And Seg, what did you shoot today?

I didn't play, then, Brew, I don't play.

Golf, so you didn't. You didn't play golf, but you went there for why?

I'm here for entertainment purposes?

Well, are you doing a one man review?

What? What? What? What do you mean?

Like your tournament?

I'm going to comedy act and show later on in and just to get our sponsors to uh renew and look toward twenty twenty six.

Now what kind of sponsors are out there? Seg? Who are these people?

Everybody? And the Pellas down here, Dizzy's for ours, came for our lunch. All the sponsors a door and window, they're all here. They're all our Bengal croud Bengal sponsors are.

Here and all the sales. The entire sales staff is there right correct, and left behind our our production and talent and maintenance.

Not many, not many are there today with all with all of us here, there were productive and.

It's a beautiful day. It's a good day to be outside, which is why I've been broadcasting outside all day and and you're outside. So why don't you fill us in on what we're missing here? In sports seg Who is it brought to us by? Who would be the the sponsor that brings us this report?

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Oh okay, well, let's think there are you bringing anything back here for some of the poor of us that have to work.

I'll bring you back a doggie bag.

Yeah we won't see that. Say please, please suck. We're never going to see that.

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No seg I hope you know, I hope Ken Anderson should be in the Hall of Fame. That is beyond argument. I hope that they don't. I hope they don't put him in the Hall of Fame after he's gone. You know, they did that to Ken Stadler. They did that to Ken Stabler. I just think that's so wrong. You know, if the man is Hall of Fame, where they put him in while he and his family can enjoy it.

Let's see what soccer ken brew. Of course, our beloved FC Cincinnati starts the playoffs the this Monday night against the Columbus Crew. But Evander from SD Cincinnati is one of three players up for the MLS MVP vote, and Nick Haglin, the Pride to Cincinnati, looks like he's up for Comeback Player of the Year award.

Well, that would be a big comeback. I mean, if this hit thing holds up, he's he's done well coming back from that injury. Absolutely it should.

Be that way.

Yes, give it and that of course to the big news of the day is the NBA as gambling scandal. Portland Trailblazers coach Chauncey Billups, along with Miami heat guard Terry Rosier and former Cleveland Cavaliers player and assistant coach Damon Jones all arrested today as part of a pair of investigations related to illegal gambling in both the NBA and all the poker games.

Well, the Chauncey Billups thing is the scene out of the Sopranos. They did a whole they did a whole episode in The Sopranos of a card game, this big card game.

Yeah, it's like illegal poker operation tied to the mafia.

And yeah, there are four of the five major mafia families were involved in this thing, and old Chauncey and apparently they had things like the machines that shuffled the cards. Those things were shuffling them in an order where you know, the house, the house would always know what the cards were. They had X ray machines underneath tables so they could see cards when the cards were laid down. Now you're Chauncey Billups, all right. I'm not saying, you know, Chauncey

What's that?

What is this guy thinking that?

I don't know, ken Brew. I guess they tallied up thirty people so far in the whole thing, so I guess. And then what's rather quiet? It's that gambling gamble with the Cleveland Guardians two pitchers. You haven't heard anything about that lately, No, no, no, But.

You know what, the NBA. I've always said this, The NBA has always been the most susceptible league to this kind of thing. There's only five guys on the court for each team, and all you gotta do is, like, you know, just you know, lolly gaga shot or don't play defense, or maybe you miss a few on purpose, and all of a sudden, you know you can help

They were talking about like sports books were in multiple states flagged suspicious betting interest in certain games and stuff. And I mean this was like in twenty twenty three, So I mean, who knows, who knows how much that went on?

You know, so the whole world's work. The whole world is that whack.

Yeah. Rosier was in a final season of a four year, ninety six million dollars deal. Well, I mean, do you how much do you need?

One hundred and thirty five million is what Rosier made. He was going to make twenty five million this year, twenty five million this year. And he does that so he can get a little kick back some from some amblers allegedly. I mean, come on, man, use your head, use your head whatever, seg get us out of this, get us out of the Stooge Report, so you can go hobnob with those celebrities. I'm sure that they're looking forward.

To that, all right, ken brew in honor of a beautiful day here in the Price State. We leave you with the immortal words of the Stooge Report.

We leave you with the immortal words of the Stooge Report.

Thank you.

There they are all right, see seg Yeah, safe travels back well, we'll rendezvu tomorrow. On seven hundred WLW two fifty five News Radio seven hundred WLW says a brand new Food Fighters song.

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We go it's I think the tip of that toe.

Yeah.

Now the fact that the call on the field was it was a catch. Now that that hangle right there.

Looks like that toe. Yeah, hot analysis here from Rocket is I nailed that.

By the way, Ken, I know.

You did that.

You got that right?

You know.

I I record all your games and looking which are the pertinent moments that I could play.

When when you're not even my wife like watches these games, Ken, and but but you do. But by the way, it kind of went for a second. That game took four hours last night. And to quote Troy Aikman, nothing will ruin a broadcast more than those yellow flags that the officials throw.

Yeah, that was over officiated last night. But it looked like a nice night in Delaware. He had fun with us.

Beautiful first date. Yeah, Delaware. Joe Flacco, the whole tie in. There was great.

Joe Biden played, you know, at the University of Delaware on the freshman team. Yeah, we did sixty one.

We didn't get him into the broadcast last night.

Maybe next time.

Yeah, I don't know. He claimed games he played against the Ohio University freshman team in sixty one and got thrown out of one of the dorms there. He actually told my daughter that when she saw he was coming through Athens in two thousand it must have been two thousand and eight when he was campaigning, and related that story to her and a group of other people that were there.

Sounds completely made up.

Di I know, I have no doubt that he was FOS on that one. Yes, speaking of FOS, what's this gambit that the Democrats are playing trying? They blocked again just a clean bill that would just fund the military and fund the air traffic controllers, and they blocked it again today. I mean, why are they dying on these.

Hills because they can't They can't vote to get things moving in the right direction because to do that they would have to side with some things that Trump wants, and they can never be seen agreen with anything that Trump ever stands for even if Trump's that the sky is blue, well they have to come out and said, no, it's actually, you know, purple or something like that. So and the American people are the ones that suffer, especially the government employees.

Well, no, I agree on hundred percent. The only thing that's purple, by the way, is that woman's hair from where she from Rhode Island. That's the Democrat representative. That's about the only thing that's that's purple. But the you know, the fact of the matter is is it's it's going to start to get real for a lot of people here. And why they choose to do things the way they do to block Trump. Now there's a Democrat that's running around saying they want to put trackers on ice agents.

No.

They start with the determination that Trump is wrong, and then they work backwards and trying to find somehow, some way to make even the smallest, slightest case that that's true. And again the country suffers, and it's killing them by the day, though, Ken, because their their stances are increasingly more and more ridiculous. And thankfully now there's more news on on social media and people can go to some more trusted sources and find the truth on some things.

It's ridiculous. You line ten people up on Fountain Square and ask who's upset about it, and you won't get one person to say yes, lockt, I gotta go. Apparently Chauncey Phillips can't make his card game, so they need me to sit in. It's a big story, Ken, We got to get the bottom of this there. I don't want to cut into anymore your time. You guys have a great show, as you always will when you're together, and you and I will visit down the road, my friend.