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A new week has started, that's right, already full of news already, that's right. In this case, federal prosecutors have opened up an investigation into FED chair Jerome Powell. And I guess this has to do with, uh, you know, the two point five billion dollar renovation to the Central Bank headquarters there in Washington, d C. And Powell things it's an intimidation tactic by Trump. So what's who knows those going ons?

Well, here to discuss with us is our good friend Steve Cotton. He is the president of Cotton Wealth Management Associates. He is a financial strategist and his resume as long as my arm. Steve, welcome back to the program.

Well, good afternoon, gentlemen. It's always a pleasure to be with you. Hello Cincinnati.

So, Steve, you heard what Rock was saying there. What is the endgame here? Do you suppose with Trump?

Well, I think it's interesting that dynamics are interesting thing in that Powell Chairman Powell is trying to position this subpoena to a federal grand jury as an intimidation by Trump, who's frustrated because Powell has not reduced interest rates as fast as Trump thinks justified Biden, inflation was running about nine percent. The latest numbers that came out I think yesterday or today put inflation at two point six to two point eight. That's quite a reduction. And yet the

At the broader issue.

The issue really is why have construction costs on the Federal reserves renovation gone from an estimate of one point nine billion to now over two and a half billion. Trump went toward the building the construction site last several months.

Ago with owel.

Trump is a construction expert, and Trump said recently that he thinks the cost could escalate to as much as four billion dollars. And if anybody knows construction, it's Donald Trump. And I think there's I think this issue has other layers to it, and I think that they smell some fraud going on.

So do you feel, in your opinion, Steve, that that this is something that Trump is trying is doing this because he does he wants interest rates lowered, which and rightfully so. He believes that'll help people, you know, make be able to sell their home, buy a new home,

Well, I think I think before Trump did his tour, this was all about pressuring Powell to lower interest rates more quickly, because every time we lower interest rates, it reduces the amount of federal debt service that we have to pay on a national debt. So the President's got an issue there, a fiscal stewardship. But I think when he toured that construction site and he looked into the details of what they were doing and how they were doing it, he was probably appalled and asked that that

So when it comes to doing a project like renovating the Central Bank headquarters, Who's what does the process there? Does that have to go through Congress? Is there a vote? Or is Jerome Powell?

Is he?

Is he the one in control of this? Late? Like who does the buck stop with?

I guess well, the Federal Board of Governors makes those decisions, and the FED is funding this out of their revenues from bank fees and things like that. So it's not tax dollars as in the classical sense, which is the case of the fraud in Minnesota with the Somali things.

We're talking to Steve Cotton and Steve who could actually benefit from these cost overruns. I'm just curious as who could possibly line their pockets.

Well, the contractors. Okay, I would not suggest that anybody was getting a kickback. That would be very common in other kinds of situations, but this is such a whole high profile project that I'm probably thinking it's closer to gross, gross mismanagement than it is fraud. But when you make a criminal referral to the Department of Justice from Congress there is you've got to have some evidence that there's

And he's got a point. And Trump's renovations, by the way, we're all privately funded. And so just aside from from this, what do you do you think interest rates are going to come down? I mean, what is it right now? Is it five point e said? What is I'm blanking on it right now around six percent? Do you think it's going to come down?

Oh?

Yes, I think I think the Fed is on a trajectory for a long time. They said, well, we can't lower interest rates until we see what the impact of the tariff policy is. The tariff policy has been mixed in terms of its impact on inflation. There are some tariffs that have had absolutely no impact on price inflation, and then there are other tariffs, like he's put a

All right, well that's Steve Conton. We will let you go, buddy. We'll see how this all shakes out. Any idea a timeframe on this?

Is this on?

Is this going to take a while or should it be happening in a fairly you know, quick fashion.

Well, the Federal Board of Governors will meet again, probably in March, and we'll relook at the interest rate question. As far as this referral to the DOJ and Federal Grand Jury, that may take some time. But so that's why I would urge everybody to just with old judgment until you know more about why these cost overruns are so out of control, because there's a little smoke there and there might very well be fired.

All right, Well that's Steve. We will let you go, buddy. Always our pleasure, thanks so much, glad to be with you. Thanks Steve.

Steve Cotton our financial strategist and a policy expert. So we'll see how it all goes. Man, It's uh, this is this is above our pay grade. Really, when I see all this happening, I don't know understand the ins and outs of it.

I just laughed because I mean, Trump has so much going on right now, and now now I just throws this on top of it. And you got the thing going on in Minneapolist, I guess we're going to invade Greenland soon.

Well throw this Bat'm right on the pile as well. Let's check in with traffic and weather, what is going on and from.

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I want to know the whereabouts of one Willie cunning Am.

Over the weekend. What do you got?

Well, this happened down in Texas. They happened. It was an early morning robbery at the Zone do Erotica. It's like a like a sex shop or something, an adult novelty shop.

Rock, come on, sorry, get you I mean, I nailed it right outts out of your head. I got an account there.

They mail order, they ship a knife wielding fit thief made off with two hundred and fifty dollars in cash, okay, and one hundred and fifty dollars Penis pump.

You at least one hundred bucks for that on Facebook marketplace.

I'm saying that's the reason I'm wondered if it was Willie and you never know with him the uh do you do? You go in there? That's one of my favorite scenes in die Hard when the Asian dude when they're getting ready to assault the cops, and the Asian Dude bricks and the reaches in the county into the candy countery pulls out. Are Reza covers up. Yeah, I mean that's what he said. Give me the two hundred and fifty oh and I'll take that pump.

No, not that one. No, no, no that one. Yeah. So at last count he was still a large Well well again just check Facebook marketplace and that guy's he's put it on there. He's trying to sell it. Probably right now, maybe he's using it. I don't know.

Well, that's one of those things where if you're going to try to sell it, well, okay, this work. This is a two way street.

You sell it.

Now are you going to buy assumingly? You're gonna have to assume that it was used?

Yeah, that's that's it. You know what I'm saying. They're all the scrubbing in the world, can't rub that. There's only one thing I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go knew, not used. Yeah, would be one of them. Absolutely. Car. Okay, I'll buy a used car. No, huhuh not the use jacket.

Not a.

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Pushback against the DJs probe of the Federal Reserve with the three thirty report. I'm Sean Gallagher breaking now former Federal Reserve and Treasury officials, along with some Republicans in Congress criticizing the Justice Department's investigation and to current FED Chair Jerome Powell.

The Fed chair says the grand jury subpoenis focus on his testimony to the Senate Banking Committee last June. Jerome Powell denied planning extravagant upgrades to the Central Banks headquarters. Powell says the investigation isn't about what he said or how much the project is costing.

Those are pretexts.

In his extraordinary video announcement, Powell said the probe is a consequence of the Fed making its own decisions on interest rates rather than following the preferences of the President. Stephen Portnoy, ABC News Washington.

Hey, bipartisan group of top economic officials released a statement today calling the probe a quote unpresidented attempt to use prosecutorial attacks to undermine the Central Banks independence. Now the latest traffic and weather together.

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The team's looking good this season?

I think so, man. I missed playing football ever since I turned from history. Nineteen sixty nine. At the Orange Bowl in Miami, the New York Jets of the AFL defeat the NFL's Baltimore Colt sixteen to seven Super Bowl three. It was most memorable for the fact that one Joe Namath guaranteed victory and he pulled it out Broadway. Joe Broadway, Joe.

Yeah.

Now do you remember remember that game. Yeah, I mean I was a kid, but I remember it and it was one of the.

I think I was what i've been eleven twelve something like that, and uh, I remember thinking Joe Namath was like the coolest guy on the planet.

I using like underwear ads after that. That's that's what I made him.

That that whole thing right there, and he was man, he was and then he went on. He was in movies and all kinds of stuff after that.

And what was big about it was, I mean, because the a f L and NFL were merging, right, but they were still kind of seeing as like the you know, the right little small league there. And then when they actually came out and won it on top of him, guarantee it that that said the.

Stage when uh I remember the when the a f L was around and and my we whatever race. I don't know why, it always sticks in my brain that we were. We would generally be at my aunt and uncle's house on Sundays, and my my dad really didn't, you know, follow football all that much, the pro football, but my uncle would be sitting there drinking beers and smoking cigarettes and watching football all day, and him watching the a f L I remember thinking, what is who watches the AFL?

What is that?

And I remember the Heidi thing I was at I was at their house when that happened.

So remind the listeners that so that was during the game. Was a playoff game Raiders, I'm believing, or maybe it's a Raider I want to say Raiders and Jets. I don't remember the like a yeah game on an overtime game or came down right it was?

And I forget who's scored with somebody. Let's say it was the Raiders. The Raiders scored like twice in like ninety seconds or something to come back and win the game. But NBC had cut away to show Heidi, a movie based on Heidi. Yeah, if you can find that right quick, who was playing in that game? But yeah, I remember that happening because again my uncle went baton.

Yeah, nineteen sixty eight AFL game between Open Raiders and the Jets, and blah blah blah. Oakland scored two touchdowns in the final minute to win the game forty three

Immediate every man for himself, well every conference right for himself, and that's.

Something that's gonna benefit us, you know, maybe even the next three years, but in the next ten plus years. It's something that that that might not might you know, my benefit is so let's let's.

Talk to Kevin and Columbus. Hey, Kevin, what do you remember about the Heidi game.

Yeah, yeah, it was a regular season game.

There weren't any overtime then, but you know, it's a big dual Naymans out there playing the radio. Two gunslingers, the Raiders had the Monica. And that's how AFL games were. But it got to be seven o'clock and NBC decided to switch to their regular program, you know, because games can sometimes go a little longer. And we missed a

City did it the next year, it wasn't no Fluke.

They tried to.

Say it was all Fluke when he won, when.

The Jets won.

Yeah, so hey, that's all I got to say, thanks, all right?

And yeah, and I guess you know this was a big deal. This this you know show Annie, right, so excuse me. But they even thought like, okay, this would be great, perfect lead in got NFL. Then people be around the television. There was a kids they they get him ready for our main attraction, which is Heidi, which again today seems I mean, could you imagine any movie, any program, anything that they would shut the NFL off for.

Rock and other day in history news. On this date in nineteen fifty nine, a young fella had a vision about music. He borrowed eight eight hundred dollars to start his own record label on this date. That man's name Barry Gordy. Oh, he started Tambla Records, which went on to become Motown. Wow, eight hundred dollars Again, this is whatever. This is fifty nine, so a long time ago. But imagine that eight hundred bucks became the Motown empire in like ten years.

Yeah, I'll say it came pretty quick. Yeah, and a right when rock and roll music was shaping the whole storybook of America and here comes Motown. Well, it was.

It kind of came out of well that the black music had been popular in the fifties and stuff, and then it kind of went away when the Beatles and all that stuff blew it off the charts. And then round about sixty five sixty six the Supremes got rope bad. That's when the front Tops and the Attempts and all those guys came along. And uh so try to imagine that eight hundred bucks turned into billions, billions.

Yeah, took a shot laid it all on the table and look what you created. That's the American dream right there. Well, I got an idea for a record label. Obviously I'm in a band, so I figure that's what you're getting at. You want to you want to kick this thing off the right way right and with having gun Metal, ground.

Metal will be the first act we're going to sign to my new record label. How much money, I don't know how much? Yeah, where that we check in with traffic and weather, what's going on?

Make it real profitable to have a record label and a daycare center on in one You could make.

A ton of money, I'm sure.

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Right back with Eddie and Rocky and Rocky you bring up Joe Nama and all of a sudden you start getting fun. We have full lines talking about James. He's a true star. Still, Let's let's talk to you. Ronald in Florida. Hey, Ron, what's going on?

Buddy?

Hey?

I was I think it was October October sixty eight or sixty nine. The Jets just won the Super Bowl and here they are at Nippert Stadium, the Bengals I think it was the Bingles first or second year, and we're playing Joe Name It and the Jets. I couldn't afford a ticket, but we all climbed up on top of the building surrounding Knippert Stadium and watched this. It was just amazing to watch Joe Namath play. And the big thing was we were throwing the ball. The other team,

Yeah, as well, when you're eighteen, you'll climb up top of his and watch the football game.

Yeah, the Tangimin Center. It's right next to Nipper Stadium.

And uh, I don't only even know.

How a got up there, but there was a bunch of USUF there, you know. And uh, and I don't know people remember that, but the Bengals didn't start, Uh, they started in Nipper Stadium.

Oh yeah, well, and and things. Ron I'm I think I remember the name of the coming to town because he was he was so big man. That was the Circus coming to town, you know, Superstar.

Yeah, that's it. Uh, speaking of NFL Action ed. So you know, normally, you know, this past weekend was the first round of the of the playoffs, and normally that's not usually not the most exciting games, right, And since the league expanded to a fourteen team postseason in twenty twenty, no wildcard round had ever had more than a single fourth quarter lead change across all six scheduled games. That

So, but I think you did the same thing that I did. I yeah, I told my wife. We were just sitting around watching football and stuff, and I was like, I gotta still I'm gonna just do piddly stuff around the house and I waste my time watching this. So you know, the game's on it he goes, you should probably come back in here, and I was like, I'm gonna whatever, And we started talking and uh and put

Yeah, that's the thing. That's again, it's the it's the greatest television program there is. It's so drama filled, there's great person I mean, it's absolutely king, which is kind of what has got us talking about this, right, you know. And it all started kind of going back to you know, Joe Joe Namath and super Bowl three guaranteeing victory and coming up big, and it's it's grown leaps and bounds since.

Let's talk to Tom and Fairfield about Joe Namath. Hey, what do you got on Joe Namath?

Tom, Well, I heard you mentioned about the movie. How are you guys doing? First of all, I can picture him. I remember watching it with my brothers. I have older brothers at the time, maybe I was ten or eleven, But the opening scene, he was a biker that bike club. He would walk it through like a Kroger, just went around, made himself a little sandwich, ate it all, and just pay for a pack of gum when he left the store. I wish I could remember the name of that movie.

Whatever. Hey, Tom, that was that was CC and Company.

Company.

That's right, Thank you guys.

Thank you, Because I have a I have a similar story. My my brother used to make me go to the drive in with him because his his girlfriend's parents would let him go to the drive in with her unless he had somebody with him. So they would take me and h and me and her little sister to the drive in, and my brother would make us sit on the hood of the car.

Yeah he was, I guess he was in there eating popcorn and whatnot. I don't know what they were doing and having a chat.

Uh.

But why did the parents think by simply sending you and the sister that that would cut down on any hanky panky.

Well, I look, my brother didn't care. I know. All I knew was that if I ever came turned around, let alone act like I was going to get in the car, he would curb stop me. Yes, And I was smart enough to realize that I should not do that.

So funny, that's just funny that the parents are like, I don't want our daughter, you know, right making out with this guy. I know, let's send I have an idea and his sister and the brother, and that'll cut down on all.

That stuff, and then I ended up going out with the sister double screw up on dad's part, correct God. And then they weren't thinking very hard. They ended up making us break up because blah blah blah, such a bad influence. Maybe I'd lie about where we were going one time, but anyways, I had to give back my class rooing in the whole nine yards.

It was drama. Bro Oh my god.

So coming up next, we have a guest talking about our friends, the gen Zers. Hey, gen Z guys, we're not picking on you, no, but you're interested. But they're interesting to us.

You make interesting decisions and joys, and we will talk about one of those coming up here.

It's the gen Z in the workplace. Tried to figure it out after the news News Radio seven hundred WLW.

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Relatively short hearing.

The entire thing lasted just about a minute and thirty four seconds. Michael McKee set his name when asked by the judge, but otherwise his public defender did most of the talking, and in court she said he will assert his right to remain silent, he will assert his right to plead not guilty, and he waved his right to extradition.

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His way back to Ohio where he will face charges aggravated murder charges in Franklin County.

ABC's Alex Perez's police tracked down the suspects car thanks to surveillance video near the victims home. Police say they soon found that car in Rockford, Illinois, evidence allegedly linking at back to McKee. Court record show Monique was married to McKee in twenty fifteen, divorced in twenty seventeen. Doctor McKee, the suspect, thirty nine years old, been on the run until Saturday, when police in Illinois took him into custody.

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The headline is survey gen Z workers are ghosting jobs, ditching bosses and chasing side hustles. Then you read on through the article and we'll get into the meat of that. But one little thing caught my eye here that is part of a survey earlier this year found twenty six percent of talking about side hustles, twenty six percent of gen Z workers are using online gambling.

For extra cash.

Wow, and fourteen percent are creating content on only fans.

Yeah, it's like everyone has a side hustle these days, and if you don't, then it's like you're doing something wrong. And throughout I'd say, up until probably ten years ago or five years ago, the trend was you got into it job early in life and you stuck it out and you stay there. And I mean my mom, you know, worked in North Side Banks, started there the day after she graduated high school, worked there for forty four and a half years. And that that just doesn't happen anymore.

Jeff is a he's a speaker. Come on, Jeff, you're a Hall of Fame, You're a Hall of Fame speaker.

Come on. That's awesome, Great, that's awesome.

Thank you so Jeff, what is it with these because we're always we always say we pick on them. But man, there's always some article like this out there, like like Rock was saying, I think the Yeah, as part of this article, the average gen Z job stint last just one point eight years. So it's not like people there are no careers anymore. Man, what's up with that?

No?

Man, Yeah, you said it earlier about you know, working for a company for forty years.

I mean that was kind of the way it was, right, you know, similar.

Like my grandfather worked for General Electric for you know, many decades, got his pensiont and like that was that was the deal. Right Now, everybody's a free agent. Everybody's jumping around moving I mean everything from like nil you know, if athletes to you know, like you said, creators and content creators.

Everybody's kind of looking.

For like a lateral move to shift a little bit, to get an angle, to get some leverage, to move up a little bit. And there's no kind of allegiance or or you know, long term commitment to an entity an organization. And it's funny you talk about side hustles

I think it's not I.

Think it's not like a greed thing.

I think it really is more of an agency and meaning thing. The corollary to that is at work. I don't think it's like all these gen Zers are lazy, right, I think it's a disconnection ideas.

They're not.

They're not lazy.

If they had work that they found meaningful, they would be incredibly.

You know, industrious and passionate about it.

Just they're not.

They're not finding the meaning in the same way.

I think that other generations have in the past.

So Jeff, let's dive into that. If it is in fact that gen Zers with relatively the same jobs that you know that a past generations found fulfillment in, why can't gen zers. Is this a you know, a decreasing of our attention span thing, an instant gratification thing. What is why can't people find meaning in a job and make it a career anymore?

Yes, it's an interesting question.

I think it's pretty complicated, and I'm not going to claim that I'm a generational expert by any means, but I'll pretend to be.

On for the purposes of this conversation.

But I've studied influence quite a bit, and I did this research study all about well, you know what I call every day day influence. And I coined that term everyday influencer because people tend to think that being an influencer is about having a number of followers or a

And his life.

So anyway, this term everyday influencer I love because you know, it kind of gets back to the identity right when you put the R on the word influence. Now you're talking about identity, right, because if you say, are you a influencer?

Sometimes that feels a little icky.

To hear, Like I don't know if I was like it, right, because it has.

That connotation of like I'm trying to tell you something, I'm trying to market, I'm trying.

To use my platform for an ulterior motive or in a manipulative way.

Right.

But everyday influencers are key in the workplace and outside because everyday influencers are the people that make you feel seen and heard and actually you know, listen to and when you have everyday influencers in the workplace, people do sticker out, including gen Z, because they genuinely like their environment, they feel connected to the people they work with, and they feel like they're kind of they're seen in a bigger context like their work matters.

We're talking to Jeff Sivillico and Jeff that I think that's where Rock and I especially I'm a bit older than Rock, and it just always once I got into a job, I didn't pursue a job unless I was pretty sure that I wanted to pursue it as a career in some waste shape or fashion. And it seems like these guys are just getting into something and trying and trying it on for size. You know, Okay, I wonder if this is what I like? Well, I kind of knew what I wanted to do and pursued it.

Yeah, absolutely, I think so, because if you think about it, the gatekeepers are gone now right, anyone really can do anything, and so if you had all of those.

Options available to you, wouldn't you.

Want to check check it out and kind of you know, date.

So to speak before you go steady?

Right, Yeah, it makes sense, you know, I.

Think a lot of it was maybe a lack of awareness.

You know, I'm not you know.

Not judging anything here, but you think about what the Internet has done in terms of opening up everything right now, I mean kids with that now sound like a get get off my lawn like kids today, like kids.

Today you know, grow up with with a phone in hand.

As a performer even I'll tell you now, it's challenging because performers kids grow up with video and they can all edit video, and they can all stream and build these platforms, and then they can't actually do a show because they're not like.

There's all sizzle and no substance.

But they can they can brand and promote and market and monetize themselves as this brand in a way that a lot of the you know, older performers can't. And it's it's it's really challenging.

Right.

So in other words, I bring that.

Up because if if the barrier to entry is gone for so many things now with you know, just YouTube at Google it, you know, use AI, write just some code, build a website. You know you don't know anything about online marketing, ask shat GVT, you know, give you a plan and figure it out, write the scripts, you know. I mean it's it's the possibilities now are just overwhelming and limit less, and I think that makes people not

Better fit for me.

I think you hit the nail on the head. And I also think that's why younger people are getting married less and less for that same reason. The possibilities, the options are endless, right. You got Instagram? You got you know, so why should I you know?

Mary?

Uh?

You know Mary Sue here, who's grow up in my hometown. You've seen these chicks on Instagram, you know what I mean, Like, your mind just starts to get unrealistic about the amount of options you have. I don't know if you know who it? Yeah, And I don't know if you know better than Sue right exactly, And and look, I can show you ten of them right now, and and you know,

Absolutely.

And and by the way, that this is like a whole other conversation which I which I love. But yes, you're talking now about the like do you need to find your passion?

You know? Do you need to does everybody have a passion?

You just got to find it?

Is that the key to happiness?

It's like, you know, or do you want to be the iron iron or smelting goat goat right, and you know, make a ton of money and then fulfill all your passions of you know, fly fishing and traveling the world and you know, doing whatever you want to do, Uh, be the best pickleball guy, you know whatever. And I completely you know, I get that, and I I see the logic of that.

Right.

I'm not one who who has to say, you know, you have to find this kidden passion or.

This secret it's it's there for you, because I do.

Believe a lot of passion comes from being excellent at something. Because again you're talking about agency and feeling you know, authority and command and and really really knowing your stuff right, being respected among your peers, your colleagues in the industry, and having that confidence and respect for yourself that.

Comes with that.

So yeah, although although it's kind of funny, at the end of the day, I show up and juggle and tell tell jokes, and I'm and I'm the guy who's saying, like, you know, yeah, iron or.

Smelting, But I think again, and maybe we're getting off topic, but you found out you had a talent at that or I couldn't do that. Eddie couldn't do that, right, But you had a talent of that, and that that talent turned that into a passion, not I have a passion for this and that turns it. No, it's it's kind of the other way around, like find your talent.

I can take this one one step further here. So you said, you know you had a passion for you know, juggling and performing. Okay, here's here's what really happens. People look at you kind of at a certain point and a retrofit and narrative assuming that you've always had that as your passion, and when you woke up and you were good.

You're like, oh, so.

So frustrating because I don't have something like that.

I never had a passion for, you know, writing papers on influence and doing ynote speaking and you know, performing in Vegas and what it takes a producer show. I was ten years old, just fooling around in my in my kitchen, you know, doing little shows and trying to be the center of attention as the youngest of three boys. Right, I just kept pulling on that thread, and I stayed open and I stayed curious.

So what started off.

As juggling because and now I know, I was an athletic kid and I was an artistic kid, and juggling allowed me to combine both. Right, you have to be fit and coordinated to juggle, but you also now are an artist. When you're performing, you're building routines, building a show. I was the youngest of three boys, so I wanted my own thing. So juggling was uniquely me. That's why it was cooler and more fun to me than you know, just playing on the soccer team or being in the

In high school.

In college, I founded a nonprofit that actually connects professional entertainers with the children's hospitals all over the country. We serve one hundred plus children's hospitals, right It's called Win Win Charity.

That I never knew where that was going.

I never had any vision of that, but people say, wow, how did you know?

I wish I had this.

Passion that I didn't really have that from the beginning, but I did stay open and I.

Did stay curious, you know.

So I think that's a really big piece of this is, you know, don't don't think that you all you.

Have to have it figured out. We're kind of coming back.

To the full circle here of why gen Z and younger folks want to try different things because you know, because you can now right like, and you can kind of follow a passion, and it might take a different platform, might it might take different industry or different community, but you know, eventually, if you stay open and curious, keep pulling on that thread, you'll you'll get to some really good stuff.

You know, where the passions and skill sets intersect.

That's like the sweet spot.

All right with the great stuff, Jeff. We really appreciate it.

Man. People want to find out more about you. Where can they go?

Absolutely, thank you for having me, Jeffsivilico dot com.

And I can't make this up with the timing, guys.

I just dropped my comedy special on Prime and Apple TV and YouTube TV today.

It's called a Sweet Biblical Comedy and Action.

Oh yeah, good stuff, buddy, everything out. I'll check it out tonight. Man, thanks so much. All right, thank you guys, take care, Thanks.

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Roger Bacon these days. Well, so Thursday is our big celebration. It's our fifty fifth annual Sports Stag. So we're the oldest stag in the city and we've had some distinguished winners over the year, yourself made. One of them was years ago. Five years ago, that's five now. Yeah, in five years, been a good time. George Vogel had fireball, yes, and yeah. Yeah, we might have broke records for drinking fireball on stage that night. Yeah, yeah, Lord, George broke the record.

Rocky and I were just witnesses. Yeah, we had a couple of the bulgar that was handled by George. Yes. Yeah, but we had a good time.

Yes.

So that was that's our big night. And so this year our.

Good Fellowship Award is Sean Casey, uh so, the mayor, and he ironically is receiving the Tom Arble Good Fellowship Award. And uh, you know at Roger Bacon, Tom Robble was our mayor. He was everybody loved him, beloved, coach teacher, was there for years and years and unfortunately we lost him a number of years back. And so, uh, Sean Casey getting this award, it's very very fitting, very similar personalities, right absolutely.

And I've told you, I told you off here. But I've seen over the years a lot of people speak and do the guest speaker stag thing. He's the best. He's the best I've seen. He's gonna just knock knock it down. Yeah, I don't have a great that's what we're expecting. Yeah, funny, the whole deal. Everything you want out of a speaker. So so that'd be great. Well, I think we were we were talking. You're going to have to shut him down, man, you' oh yeah, he'll keep going, He'll just keep going.

Yeah.

Flick the lights, yeah yeah.

Well yeah, you know, our our crowd likes to stick around for a while, you know, because the beer will be flowing and guys will be having a good.

One of the best bags, if not the best in town. I've always heard them to a bunch of them and they do a great job there and you have a beer.

It'll be a good time. So, uh, you know, we have uh, we got great food, you know, Hammond's. Uh they sponsor our VIP room and they bring a great spread of food for all the guys in the VIP area. And then the main dinner is sponsored by our very own buddy, Loroso Bacon grab Uh. So Buddy's been very very generous to us for a lot of years now. And so everybody eats well, we drink well, and we have a really good time awesome. And then we gotta we got a new MC this year because normally I do it.

And I'm getting the.

Coaches Award this year, which is kind of weird that I got to talk about me getting the base of its your ward.

Make sure you give yourself a great interrodug Yeah, so I'd like to introduce me.

Yes, so I'm stepping down on Alex Meacham is taking my spot. Okay, so you see bear Cat, yeah you know, and uh Bacon Grant. He was actually in my first class that I ever taught. I actually taught Alex way back when I was young. He's deep in the Cincinnati basketball scene. Correct, Yes, and Alex will do a great job. You know he's he's on TV quite a bit doing

Uh so he'll be the one doing the question and answers with Sean. So looking forward to it. Nice. Nice Now. Now, I was just I just drove by Roger Bacon the other day. There's some construction going on there. There is, Yes, what's going on.

Yeah, we're getting a that's a ten million dollar edition onto the building and it's a it's a chapel, meeting places offices. Uh so, yeah, it's it's under construction. So the parking will be at a premium on Thursday. But we got a lot of you know, the neighbors are really great, so we got a lot of they'll be street parking. Saint John Cemetery, which is right across the street, will be taking parking places as well, and then the

But once they're in they're gonna have a good time.

And what are the ins and outs of it? Mike Forest time as stuff goes.

So it's the doors open at six and there's basically a big reception from six to seven thirty, big social and that's where all the food and drinks will be.

In Michael Rose will be in house. Oh yeah, absolutely, he's the best. Yeah, the Lorosa family, the base of Itch family. Yes, it'll be really nice, very cool, good And how many years you guys have been doing this? This is number fifty five?

Wow, technically fifty six, but we lost one because of COVID, so fifty five and so yeah, you were at.

The fiftieth one fiftieth, that's it. He had to have a special guest. How much did that cost you? Exactly a little money into the table for the church. He had to drive George on that. Yeah, I'm telling you, man, that was a fun night and George was in rare form by George is a great guy.

I mean, let me ask you, Mike, as for fifty five years, you have to have had some really interesting people involved in this thing.

Oh yeah, and whatnot? Yes, we had real a couple of those all for us.

Yeah, we've had Anthony Muno's Chris Collinsworth. When I was a little kid, my dad was a big part of this. So it's kind of come full circle that I'm in charge of it now. And so when I was a little kid, I remember being there with Dad and Pete Rose and Joe Morgan and Spark Anderson would all show up. Marty and Joe, they were around all the time. Like I was a little kid, I would see them at Bacon because they would come to the Stag Wow and I'd be down there helping Dad.

He'd make me unload the car or whatever.

And so, you know, we've had some big, big names of people that you know, Chris Collinsworth has been there lap them. Obviously a lot of local guys you know that have received it. And then you know, lately we branched out a little bit. We had Ocho Sinko a couple of years back. We had Chris Carter last year. Uh so we've had some big, big names come through. What about Uh Corey Kiner, Where's where's he? He ended up with up with the Cardinals, and uh, I believe

Up with the Cardinals. Gotcha. Yeah, I couldn't remember if it was Cardinals first, then Niners or Niners then Cardinals. So so good. He's one of the Roger Bacon's finest. Well, Michael, I really appreciate you stipping by. Tell us one more time. Where the details and where folks you can get tickets?

Yeah, then go to Roger Bacon dot org and we have VIP tickets are one fifty General Admissioner seventy five and they can go to the go to the website, get their tickets and they'll be at will call or they can pay at the door when they get there.

Very cool.

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And Tonight on Sports Talk Lance has Travis Steele, head coach of your undefeated Mimi RedHawks, and also Brandon Phillips that dude, BP dad, dude. Huh, that's cool. That guy was cool big time. Yeah, was he gonna what's he talking about? No, I have no idea. I haven't, I haven't. I don't know what he's up to these days.

I he was on my morning show one time, and it was right around Christmas time, and he was my son, Luke's favorite ballplayer. And Luke was probably in about second grade. I want to say something like that. And so I told I told Deb hold him out of school and bring him into the show so he can meet Brandon. So Deb deb go tells the teacher Luke's kind of dentist appointment in the morning, so he's gonna be coming in late. Yeah, and uh so tears like, okay, just

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Now, man thousands just go on a freaking diet, man, do some workout thousands and thousands of dollars for something like that. Yeah, I know you you know, maybe you've tried everything, but god, that's it. And and to be on it for the like you said, the rest of your life.

I mean that can't be because I also, I mean it's just for men, and I've read about this too, but it also messes with your your your lean muscle mass, right, which you know as you get older you want to try to maintain as much as possible. Sure meant both men and women, and you know it has an effect on you being able to not old and maintain that as well. These drugs. So yeah, it's it's just funny, like and I look and I know these drugs have

But sure, if you if you've got some kind of physical issue that's caught you that you know you really have no control over that you need this stuff. Okay, I get that part. But if you're just if you're just fat because you eat a lot. Boy, just you know, reorient.

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And it's and it's harder than it seemed to believe me. I'm there a couple of years back. Shoot, when you first started, before I started working with you, I probably I was pushing like one hundred and eighty five pounds now I'm steady about one hundred and fifty five. And all I did was just quick. I was stress eating all the time, and you know, drinking beer, you know, just.

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The AFL one and he made the prediction, the guarantee we are going to win this game called his own shot, which is one of the first times that really had happened. I know, you know, I forget one. I think it was after that, but you Muhammad al Lead guaranteed he was a knockout liston and Mark Messier I think guaranteed victory in some hockey game. But yeah, certainly the most easily the most remembered sports victory guarantee.

And well see there's some talk about Babe Ruth whether or not he actually called his shot when he pointed out to the whatever.

Yes, you will say that he was. He has actually two fingers pointed out, like saying, is there like two strikes or one strike? Something like that. I forget.

I've heard different stories on it, but hey, it's better to believe that he said I'm going to hit it out here and nothing to do.

What's the what's the phrase? Uh, when reality overcomes the legend print the legend? Great? Yeah, just let's go with that story.

So Rock and I got to talking about it. Your favorite over the top athlete, somebody that it doesn't matter man, woman, whoever if I've won three, seven, four, nine, seven, eight hundred, the big one. Just uh, somebody who was kind of maybe obnoxious, but yet they always something daring about them. They entertained it, right, they're entertaining. I have a feeling, I know what a lot what certainly somebody here in Cincinnati is going to say in terms of the football

But I'll never forget one. That the famous thing where he grabs the cheerleaders pom poms and does I remember that? I remember, I remember where I was. That was my I think it was my rookie year, and we had a Monday night football game. I was with the Titans, and we were in the locker room of the stadium. We were doing a walk through at the stadium night before.

Well, let's go to the phones five, one, three, seven, eight hundred, the big one talking about flamboyant athletes that you knew and loved. Hey, Beth, your first stuff? What do you have?

Hey, Fellas, I'm sorry, I can't say flamboyant. I just caught on to what you were saying about athletes and the big o Osar Robinson right here in Cincinnati used to I was forcuate enough to run into him several times. I was a I worked at a very popular restaurant down that sat on the river, and he would come in often and always always had a wonderful conversation, always had a wonderful, pleasant attitude and never ever was impolite or anything of that, and I just so respected him

Oh and no doubt about that, Beth, thank you talk about But he wasn't boastful though, was he. No, I'll tell you what. He had every reason to boast.

Oh yeah, it's real deal.

Well we've we've talked about it before and we're taking your calls. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, eight hundred. The big one, Larry Bird. He wasn't real mouthy in public, but apparently was the biggest trash talker in the universe. Yeah, great, that was funny.

Man.

Rob Sanders, the Great Rob Sanders checks in and says, when I was a kid, I wanted to be Brian Bosworth and I remember he was. He was larger than life figure. Yep.

It was also really really good. Let's talk to Jeff and Florence. Hey, Jeff, what do.

You have Hey?

Back in the day, I used to be a big Mark Castan fan. He used to be he used to be the thing that kind of idolyzede Ans and Hill from the Jets.

Oh yeah, oh yeah, New York Sack Exchange. There was a great documentary on him recently. Have you seen it? It was on the New York Sack Exchange. But yeah, he was in a lot of it.

Yeah.

I didn't get a chance to, but I just remember that.

I kind of.

All right, And then thanks Jeff. Get to John. Hey John, what's going on buddy?

How you guys doing today?

Good?

Oh?

My guy is Dennis Roman.

That's a good one. There's something likable about him too. He was nuts. Well, here's the thing.

My daughter was in kindergarten when he played, and I had a Dennis Roben jersey that she wore to school and they made me come and change her shirt.

Really that he was the he was a bad boy man. Well that's funny, but but he was. What's what's crave about him is he was genuinely nuts.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

And thanks John. Uh and this is well, this one comes to mind for me too. Hey, Craig, what's going on in Forest Park?

Hey?

How's it going guys?

Good? Good buddy?

Can you hear me?

Yeah, we got you, okay, I would say, Dion prime time like just what I just the way you carry yourself on the field, and uh. He was electric and he always was a shine. And whether it was doing an interception, holding.

The ball out, well, talk about somebody who could back it up to Hunt Craig. I mean that guy. You know, he wasn't it wasn't no brag, just fat. Was no brag, just fat kind of thing. He was do all that chat man, go out there and kick everybody's butt.

Correct and then.

Yeah, yeah, and thanks Buddy. I remember seeing him a couple of times when he was playing for the Reds just run around the bases like it was like the flash or something. He was like there and then he was over there, and.

He was over there like out ad that world record speed man.

Uh five one three, seven, four nine, seven eight hundred, the big one. Talking about athletes kind of did a little obnoxious, but dang, they were entertaining. How about you, Will and West Carrollton. What's going on, buddy?

Hey, good day guy.

Hey.

What about Ricky Henders?

Yeah, Ricky Henderson man, Yeah, he he talked a little bit. He didn't he talk in a third person? Yeah, Ricky said, Ricky does that? Uh?

And uh and thanks Will. I got to along the way five and three seven four nine, The big one. I along the way I met I got to meet uh and I'm well, there are they are athletes, Randy Macho man Savage.

Oh yeah, yeah, I mean I would I would cut off an appendage too.

Uh well, And the thing was man, as with all of those guys and well a lot of people in the media, off off act, you know, microphone off immediately like yeah, I'm back in when I played baseball.

That was a lot of fun.

And you know, I mean, I'm great memories of Cincinnati, microphone going.

Like you do that now, and let me ask you this. Did He always had the voice though, right, that low kind of growl. Yeah, but it wasn't quite as yeah, I mean, but but I always heard that that was I watched this documentary and according to that, like like that was that wasn't his real voice, but he just adopted it. And he never got out of the like you said he would. He would amp it, right, but he was. He never you know, it's not like he got off air and started talking like you know you were me.

Let's talk to Suzanne and Oxford. What's going on? Suzanne?

Not much?

What's going on, guys, Everything's good.

Good, he reminded me story with the cheerleaders. Tarmie Chill got a touchdown with the Chiefs. He went over and grabbed Tom Palms. It was cheerleading and Mahomes had to go get him.

Yeah, they're lucky Brenant. That guy has a few baby mamas, you know what I mean?

Yeah, that was like, I don't know, two or three seasons ago.

I remember that.

Yeah, and uh and thanks album. U talked to Gavin downtown. Hey Gavin, what's going on?

Buddy? Hey, how's it going?

I was gonna say, uh, the two players you reminded me of one.

I was gonna say, Billy Hamilton.

He always knew how to make a noise when he was on the base path. And then that last story just reminded me of Ocho Cinco. He always knew how to talk and then back it up on the on the next game.

That's the one I was waiting on. I was waiting on somebody to mention that one, because that's you know, he's he was great. What was that was? That was growing up?

You know, he talked, but he always backed it up too.

I loved watching him growing up.

That was Uh, that was him that hid the cell phone in the in the pad on the goal post, right, No, that was Joe Horn. That was Joe Horn. Okay, I thought that was Sinko.

No, he proposed to the cheerleader.

He did thet with the goal post. That's the one I remember put putt with the pylon.

Oh yeah, I remember that one too, And thanks again. The River Dan stance he did a The one I didn't like is when he did the Hall of Fame jacket thing. I thought that was a little green. That was a little yeah he Rick and Taylor Mill.

What's going on, buddy, Hey, good afternoon, guys. I'm gonna go switch gears to a different sport, but I'm gonna throw out John McEnroe. He could talk it and he could back it up. Along with that, I'm gonna go farther back with a guy named Eli Nostasi.

Do you remember any.

Of that nasty Nostas?

Yeah, yeah, that's my guys. I was thinking of a good show, good topic.

Yeah, thank you and thanks. Yeah.

Nastasi who was Yeah, he was like Yugoslavia and he was like some Eastern European back when that mattered, right, and but he was just he wasn't like McEnroe. Mecenroe was just kind of screaming and hot headed. Nastasi looked like he would complain, but he looked like he was wan to kill you. He Steven Monroe, what's going on, buddy?

Everything is hacked so much.

Yes.

I was on a flight a number of quite a number of years ago and I was seated next to Paul Kobe and we just had a wonderful conversation. And as the planet is touching down, he just says.

Well, I gotta thank you brother.

You never wanted to talk about wrestling. You just wanted to talk about light.

That's cool.

Look you're not working. I'm not working.

No.

I mean, if we're talking wrestling, that's your life.

Yeah.

Yeah, and uh and thanks Steve. That's I'll tell you another. Another guy got to meet back in the day was Dave Batista when he was still fighting, when he was still wrestling.

Yeah, and.

I want to say his wife was from Loveland or something. I don't remember. He had some connection here locally, but they were in town and he came into the station. And I mean, he's a giant man, yes, trust me, and the nicest guy.

You'd ever want to meet. I've always heard He was real nice.

I mean, just real low key calm, just because I guess when you're that big, who's gonna you know, got a reason, you know, it's going to mess.

With you for itself?

Correct the bar, right, But yeah, when the microphone goes on and the act he kind of amps up a little bit. Of course with that, we check in with traffic and weather, what is going on.

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All right back with Eddie and Rocky just a little while longer Lance at the top of the hour, of course. Right now, we always love to talk to our good friend Alex Stone from EBC. Now, guys, I'm not real familiar with this case. Please film me in.

Well, I'll fill you in.

Yeah.

So, right after Minneapolis happened last week, there was a shooting later in the week in Portland, involving Department of Homeland Security. In this case, US Customs and Border Protection agents. Similar general description of what went on the DHS put out compared to what went on in Minneapolis, and they had said that shots were fired to two people in Portland who had tried to get away and weaponize their vehicle, which is the same term that they used in Minneapolis,

The chief science they do have some nexus to involvement with TDA. We can confirm that.

So Border Patrol agents say based on the document that we got today that they were after her, but the mail now charged and out of the hospital. Luis Nino Mancata was and he too in the country illegally, was ordered to be deported by judge in Denver in twenty twenty four. They alleged that he drives her for her prostitution work and he too has ties to TDA. But when they tried to stop them in their pickup last week,

Both of these events, the shooting scene itself and then where the victims drove themselves to you, were reported to us via the traditional dispatch system.

So A Nino Makata allegedly admitted to FBI agents that he intentionally rammed the Border patrol vehicle and acknowledged, according to the FBI, that he knew they were immigration enforcement vehicles and immigration agents and that he was trying to

On all right, So this is an illegal criminal. He was trying to be arrested, didn't want to be arrested again. Gang member smash his car and do multiple ICE vehicles. Now are people are people protesting this at all in the same way they are in Minneapolis still or not?

They have been up through the weekend and local police for calling for calm through the weekend. But again the details of it weren't known. Once some of the TDA details came out on Friday seemed to really calm it down. I would suspect that these details now of their backgrounds and what allegedly went on during the traffic stop will

Alex Stone's our guest, and Alex apparently this TDA thing is this obviously it's a huge operation. Is it well known outside of law enforcement or I've never.

Heard of it?

But yeah, TDA is. Remember that gang the Colorado apartment complex during the campaign a year and a half ago, and they were TDA trend Aragua, TDA is. It's a problem nationwide right now and they are a violent Venezuelan gang. They have ties to other countries as well, but the primarily Venezuelan, and federal agents in cities nationwide are are trying to root them out. But it is it's something that is now nationwide.

All right?

With that, Alex, We'll see how this shakes out and hopefully it calms everything down out there.

Thanks Bob, you got it.

Sounds good. Thanks guy.

Let's get to traffic. What is going on? All right?

Back with Eddie and Rocky just a little while longer, Lance at the top of the honor.

Yes, he has Travis Steele and Brandon Phillips, So two good guests for Lance Sports Talk tonight, starting at six o'clock.

Brandon Phillips is a great guy, great interview, super Yeah.

Oh he got that's you know when him and Sag and then dugout they used.

To be that was money, great radio. Yeah, yeah, big time. And he loved doing it too.

Yeah, he did exactly.

Yeah, and.

Are I just don't know if the athletes like doing that stuff anymore. So, I don't know it sound like I'm old, but like they're too full of themselves. Like he just liked having Sag come down there and you know, kind of shoot the bs with him a little bit.

And well, it's like earlier when we were talking about Sean Casey going to be at the Roger Bacon the Stag coming up on I believe it's Thursday night. No, Sean Casey a guy who got it.

Yeah. It was a hell of a ballplayer what he was having a good time doing it. Yeah, And people love that when you're a good player and you're you know, you're just one of the guys and fune.

Yeah, that's kind of the way Joey Vado was. He was weird, but he always acted like he was having a pretty good.

Time doing it. Yeah. Yeah, another news that I got a story here about two plane fiasco's right, which there's no shortage of now. And I looked at the video and these he said. What happened was these two women were pulled off an American Airlines flight in Miami, reportedly for sitting themselves down in first class, so they didn't have first class seats, but they sat in first class.

Like the person who paid for the first class ticket is just gonna go, oh wow, that's cool.

I'll just go sit back there. Yeah, you're fine, you were there first, you got it right. Pople are so delusional, man.

See.

That's the reason I've never flown like Southwest and all that stuff. I don't get the jockey in for. I want to when I get on an airplane. It's not like I fly every week or anything, but when I get on an airplane, I want to say Okay, eighteen A boom, I'll sit right there, thank you.

Yep. Ye know, well in Southwest they just did away with their cattle car seating, right I think so yeah.

I don't know if you have, if it was an optional thing or if they just now you it's all assigned seating.

I think it's all signed. But yeah, I've flown some Southwest. Those are nice when you're like in like zone one and you can get on govern But if you're in like zone fifty like I was, yeah, it sucks.

And and plus cheap flights. My when my son was living in Chicago, he took Southwest several and that was nice because for one thing, I didn't care what hell comfortable?

He was, Yeah, you squeeze your little butt in that.

Well, it's an hour flight, so what you can you know, you can be uncomfortable for an hour. Guess what it's it's going to be about a third of the cost because guess who was paying for it, Daddy not Jackie uh Rock. In other news, now, you and I never had to worry about trying to impress the chicks or trying to connive. I mean, you know, you were a big football hero and I just my looks speak for themselves. This happened in Florida. Go figure Tyler Strack, twenty three,

It's not the worst plan. The execution isn't very good.

But yeah, yeah, I don't I don't know about the device issue. The ladies get a little uh oh, I don't know what do you call it? Creeped out when you do stuff like that, when you track them, when the deer or something, when you track right be like I'm looking at the rear view mirror and you're right behind him in your car, going.

Hey oh, pull over, go to that Starbucks over there.

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