12-12-24 Ken Broo in for Willie

All right, twelve oh eight, and welcome in. It's the average American in to the great American.

Here. I'm this Thursday. Glad you are with us?

Yes, yes, yes, we are plowing ahead into another weekend, another day closer to Christmas, another day hopefully of getting this country back on the right track. It's amazing how things are all interweaved, isn't it anymore? It's amazing how when one thing happens, it leads back to another. And some would say, well, wait a minute, what are we talking about conspiracy theories? Well, no, but we're talking about theories that have most of us wondering what the hell's

And I can go back really to following this.

Stuff to the days of the Nixon administration part of the weaponization of justice in America, so he quits. Last February, we had a spy balloon flying over the United States taking pictures of god knows what and sending it back to China. We had drones flying over the state of New Jersey in parts of New York City. The FBI

And now there.

Is this information that has come down on the last week that only thirty seven percent of us have been vaccinated against the flu this year, thirty seven percent. We are right in the middle, right in the teeth of the flu season. Nineteen percent of US have taken the COVID booster shot. Now, dial back in time, dial back just to twenty twenty one, a scant three years ago when if you didn't do either one of those things, you were thinking that you were playing jeopardy with.

Your life or the lives of others.

But it all weaves its way forward into where we are right now, because quite frankly, nobody trusts the government. We just don't what government agency would you trust right now?

The CDC, the.

NIH, the FBI, the DOJ, pick any one of those three initial governments that reside inside the Beltway of Washington, DC and ten tew me which one you really trust? The Department of Homeland Security DHS. Oh yeah, the one that allowed the invasion of what at least eleven million people that we know about, and god knows how many that have been got that are called gotaways from the southern border. Who do you trust? Because invariably the truth will come out. The truth has come out about the

Will wait on that.

You really have to be careful with Burbiage when you have pending litigation, particularly when it involves someone who is accused of murder. Regardless of what the overwhelming evidence is and regardless of what authorities, detectives and what not say, you have to be careful. It would seem like that this is a case that is not going to go well for Luigi.

Whomever.

But we do know that trust in any level right now is shaky at best. I want to bring on somebody I have on the show a lot. I have Todd Furnas on the show because he understands, particularly when it comes to the medical community, exactly what's true, what's not true, what's wrong with healthcare in this country, and how you can solve it.

It's not a difficult thing. He wrote a book about it.

It's an easy, quick read that makes logical and sensible conclusions. It's called Rethinking America's Healthcare, The sixty Percent Solution. Let me bring the author on to talk about this and more. The aforementioned Todd Furnas. How are you on this glorious day?

I am sure, vic Ken, thank you so much for having me today.

I'm glad you're here. All right.

Look, you and I have been talking about COVID, its origins, what it did to the American public, to the world for that matter. We've been talking about that for over five years. And now, finally, as most things do in government, finally, after a laborious road that was taken, this Congressional sub committee concluded that it likely originated in a lab in Wuhan, China. Well imagine that. Who didn't see that one coming right, shocking.

But true, and if anything, this is the report is kind of affirming a lot of the stuff that you and I have been talking about for a long time, which, by the way, I might started off when I was still young and impetuous in many damp but the House Community for Somebody report was very, very critical and very damning for not only a lot of the institutions in the United States and outside of the United States, but very specifically around around individuals who were called out specifically

Fauci, it looks like and together with de Berks and the CDC, they just made up a lot of this stuff. First of all, he flip flopped on everything, so you know, you couldn't really never tell what he was telling the truth.

But I mean, he just said The.

Closed door testimony had Fauci testifying that social distancing was not based on science, that face coverings, that face they knew face coverings weren't going to work. They were fifteen days to slow the growth. It was all made up. It was just stuff they came up with who knows in what state of mind, and we all kind of figured there was something nefarious going on, but we were

Well, and I think you're spot on there.

Dever, Burks admitted in an interview I watched on television some time ago where she said, yeah, this was completely fabricated. There was no basis whatsoever in science now at all that a six front a six foot distance between you and the next person is going to have any impact whatsoever on giving or getting COVID.

But having said that, you know, I think what they are trying to.

Do, in fairness is employ some sense, some semblance of common sense. I mean, if you have a covering over your mouth, one would think they would it would prevent prevent things from moving back and forth.

The problem with is and I like this analogy.

It said, it's kind of like trying to catch mosquitoes or some mosquitos from going from your yard to the next door neighbor's yard using a.

Chain link sense.

The particles for the virus are so small and so transmittable that they can permeate that membrane called the face mask. So that's why the specific types of masks were then later advocated. But the fact that they were mandating these things is where you know, civil liberties get called into play. Business were shut down, and all sorts of other really

Pay and uls three of other things. But the problems get worse and worse the more you read this reform.

Okay, so this report also says that its origin was in this lab in Wuhan, and this is the quote which has a history of conducting gain of function research at inadequate biosafety levels end quote. And then it goes on to say that researchers in that lab were sick with COVID like viruses as far back as the fall of twenty nineteen. We know that the United States has sent money over to that lab for studying gain and

Well, there's certainly an obvious need to confirm what appears to be clear, and so you never want to be.

Overseealousness.

But this needs to be fully developed and fully understood.

But it certainly looks bad for the home team, let's put it that way.

And all of this has a cascading effect. I'm looking at a story in the Washington Post here a couple of days ago, thirty seven percent have received a seasonal flu shot. Nineteen percent have gotten the updated COVID vaccine. The residual effect is, we don't trust these people. We don't trust what they say anymore. We don't trust the CDC, we don't trust the NAH. There are a lot of

Well.

The erosion of the public trust is a terrible thing that is a consequence of the way that this is. Hammon completely agree with you having said that, the other side of the coin is.

It increases the personal responsibility.

We all have to take to be inquisitive and to go do our own homework. I think the other side of the coin is that we've perhaps relied too much on this dogma.

That's been coming out, and what it reminds.

Us of President jaring fashion is that we need to do our own homework and be thoughtful and intentional about how we take our healthcare and.

Our nutrition seriously.

And I think you know, if you know, I'm not promoting or or arguing against by me is the nomination of mister Kennedy. But what he has come out and said is I just want people to be informed. I don't want to take anybody's vaccinations away. I just want to make sure that they're informed as fully as is possible given the library of research it's available on these topics. And what he's really saying is, hey, a lot of stuff is not. The province of the federal government is

Todd Furnish our guest. He's the author of the sixty percent solution rethinking America's healthcare system. You know, you and I talked off the air of five years ago when my dad was still alive. He was in the hospital for a completely different reason other than COVID, but he was tested virtually every day, largely because these hospitals benefited from having patients that not only were there for some other malady, but if they contracted COVID, there was a

Right well, with the hope that you'll invite me back for a really more in depth com She's from this very topic at this point in a few things. There are three types of codes involved in every building system. One is called as from ICD, which is the International Classification of Diseases. It's developed by the World Health Organization, and already you should be nervous that was developed to attract diseases globally, not to be a part of a building system.

And what they're doing is they're saying, hey.

We can with just a slight of a pen, we can change you from one RG to another.

And that has huge billing implications.

But to give you an idea of the magnitude, ICD nine had sixteen thousand codes, ICD ten one hundred and fifty five thousand codes.

Wow, so it's just it's a niche opportunity for fraud.

Yeah, well, apparently there's a lot of that going on. Tell yeah, Todd, it's great catching up with you and yeah, yeah, you know, I every time I call you say yes, so you know I'm going to be calling here pretty soon. We'll get more into that, and I'm sure there'll be something else that pops up each now and then as well. Stay well and we'll visit down the road. Thanks, hey, sons, enjoy Thanks again, you bet. I mean, it's just, you know, the more you don't tell the truth, the less somebody

You?

Me and everyone else? It pays taxes. Let not that be lost in the conversation on the show today, We're going to get into why everybody is so unhappy at their job because I'm looking at a survey by Gallup and actually some testimonial on this from other people that are in the job market business, and everybody is it seems like everybody an overwhelming number.

Everybody's a big word.

An overwhelming number of people are not only unhappy, they have dedicated themselves in twenty twenty five to finding a new job. Why is no one happy with where they work anymore?

What is it?

It's because they have to be there? Is that part of the deal, Like you gotta go into the office now. After we had recess for about six to nine months during COVID, maybe longer than that.

And also.

The guy that shot the United United Healthcare CEO Luigi allegedly shot the United Healthcare CEO Luigi Mangone. Why now are there people like glorifying this guy. Why are people saying that, you know, he's sexy or I'd like to date him, or you know, people are actually buying ornaments and Luigi Mangione paraphernalia. What makes this society like ours gravitate to the quote unquote bad boys. We'll get into that as well here before we're done at two thirty.

Of the Beltway.

Actually the bigger netwits are the people in Massachusetts that keep voting to sender back to Washington, DC. So here was Elizabeth Warren on MSNBC talking about out this whole case of the guy who allegedly shot the United CEO healthcare officer and shot him to death. Here's Elizabeth Warren on MSNBC.

And what happens when you turn this into the billionaires run at all is they get the opportunity to squeeze every last penny. Yeah, and look, we'll say it over and over. Violence is never the answer that this guy gets a trial who's allegedly killed the CEO of United Health. But you can only push people so far and then they start to take matters in their own hands.

Yeah, does that sound like a call to action? As Sicco's out there like we should expect it a breaking news, Liz. You guys, you guys, you got it. You got Obamacare pass. Remember remember there, you remember Obamacare. You know what Obama is all the things that was supposed to solve with our healthcare problems here in the United States.

You can keep your plan.

Almost ten million people lost coverage during the first enrollment period. Or you can keep your doctor, except that over two hundred thousand doctors opted.

Out of Obamacare.

Well, your premiums are going to go down by twenty five hundred dollars. In the first four years of Obamacare, they went up sixty percent. You'll have more access to care. Yeah, except those doctors that opted out of Obamacare. I had one of those. Didn't want to put up with a nonsense quit retired. Pre existing conditions will be protected. Oh no, they didn't, No, they weren't. Didn't prevent anybody from going bankrupt or from dying. The fact there was a survey

To have any kind of insurance.

Honestly, sometimes I think people just want to point fingers and yell. Then, of course we have the flying drones over New Jersey and New York. Maybe people out in this area of the country aren't concerned. What would you do if you had flying drones flying over Dell High or you know, Norwood, like every night for the last month. What do you think the reaction would be. And the government won't tell us what's going on, or they know what's going on and they won't tell us, or they

Please explain to me.

If we can't identify that. What kind of chance do we stand when drones are weaponized and start taking people out, taking buildings out, taking cities out. So they either know and they won't tell us, or they don't know, and that's an indictment too. But anyway, this Congressman Jeff Van Andrew floated a theory two days ago that there might be a quote unquote mothership out in the Atlantic Ocean where these drones are being launched from, and that mothership

But they don't know where they're coming from.

So anyway, this Congressman Jeff Van Drew makes this statement two days ago. He was back on I think it was this from do we get this from Fox? This is from Fox News Today on their morning show, the one that Bill Hemmer is on. And this is what the question was posed to him. Look, hey, the Pentagon says they don't know where they're coming from, and you

Here's and Drew's answer to that.

They've been incredibly stupid and incredibly weak with this. Here's the point. We know they're not backyard drones that some hobbyist is using, because they're much more sophisticated than that. We know that they're not a commercial company within the United States because we don't even have this level of sophistication. Yet we are a full decade behind where China is with drones.

The government claims it's not them.

They say it's not them, So who is it. Well, I had credible individuals who have high security ratings and they came to me and again, these are dependable, credible individuals that have security clearance that felt that they wanted to clear the air. They were, in essence whistleblowers, and said, look, they believe there's a real possibility it could be Iran, that there could be a ship out not right on

They are. Okay, So if that guy is spouting nonsense, then then offers something that would say he's spouting nonsense, other than just say he's spouting nonsense.

Remember, this is the same.

Group the DoD led by a guy that went a wall for two weeks, remember a year ago. Right now, he goes a wall. He's having surgery. He doesn't tell anybody, the DoD and the State Department. These are the same folks that let that balloon from China, spy balloon fly across the United States taking pictures of god knows what back in the winter of two thousand and twenty three, so about two years ago, and they shot it down. These drones allegedly are the size of either Mini vans

All right.

The other thing I want to deal with here before we get any further, there's a lot of buzz in this town about t Higgins staying with the Bengals at the end of the year. As we all know, he's a free agent at the end of the year, and that he has accepted a salary or i'm sorry, franchise tag to keep him here this year. He's making what is it, twenty one million dollars a year. The Bengals can do this, then they can give t Higgins a long term contract. They would have the wherewithal the salary

Yeah, well, we'll.

See after the season and talk.

Have those discussions about you know, what we film needs to happen and things everybody has to do to do what we want and keep the guys around that we need and bringing the guys that we to fill some holes that we need, so those sessions will be had, you know at the end of the year.

Yeah, I hope they save like one hundred dollars so they can invest in a microphone so you can actually hear what the reporters are asking in this news conference. It is, after all, the twenty first century. But anyway, back to what he needs. He's going to be twenty six in twenty twenty five, justin Jefferson will be twenty six next year. He's making thirty five million on an annual contract value. CD Lamb is making thirty four million. AJ Brown thirty two million. They're all roughly the same

Glad you are with us. Out in Pennsylvania.

The man that is charged and allegedly shot in the United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, is fighting extradition to New York to face charges on those particular crimes. He's fighting it, but eventually he will be extradited to New York and they will go forward with the charge and then the legal process in New York City. And as horrific and as heinous as that whole thing was captured on videotape, you know right now the networks are stopping the action

What's going on with our society?

It would seem to me that we've got a real problem here with what's right and what's wrong. Standing by away and on this we've had doctor Vince Callahan on the show before. He is a mental health expert more than three decades of experience in both private practice and in patient hospital settings. It's great to have him back. Doctor Callahan, how are you on this glorious day.

I'm doing great and thank you for having me.

What is our attraction as a society to the quote unquote bad boy? What is our attraction to people that commit crimes like this. And it isn't just this one. There have been others. This is simply the most recent. But why is that such an attractive quality to some people?

Well, to some people, they don't have a conscience or governor as I call it. They don't have the internal thing that says this is wrong, I shouldn't do this, And that to me is mental illness. That's where you get into sociopathic behavior. And that's when you get into one percent of the population. Yeah, about one percent, right.

Yeah, Okay, So sociopaths seems to me that they're popping up all over the place here. If it's one percent, If the population of this country, let's just put it in a round numbers, is three hundred and forty million people, it would seem to me that they're about three hundred and fifty thousand sociopaths around this country right now.

I'll even go one benner with you. There's about sixty million Americans who haven't diagnosed as a middle illness. And of that sixty million, there's nine million that are considered severely mainly ill, which is where this guy would fall, and only about one hundred thousand of those people actually get treatment.

Oh, let's let's just examine what we know about about this guy. First of all, he goes to a prep school in Baltimore. It cost his parents forty thousand dollars a year, apparently very broad Academically, he was the valedictorian of his class. He went to the University of Pennsylvania. Again, not a cheap from a tuition standpoint, place to go

This guy?

From being just so you know, into it with it good friends, seems nice to turn it around and allegedly murdering a healthcare ceo.

Well, we don't know what happened with that back incident, that there's some kind of trauma that's associated there, and he may be one of those folks that are severely mentally ill that can get it together for a little bit time. Sometimes medicine sometimes doesn't and then something just snapped.

Well you know, you know, you raise the med thing.

It as me wondering was he on meds for his back, and was he on the wrong stuff the right stuff? Was he on any stuff for too long? Because as you well know, painkillers are great at masking a problem, they're not good at making the problem go away and could lead to other things like what we've been talking about. So I'm wondering if that might have had something to do with it.

It's possible, and I actually had something this morning that there's a possibility that he had lime disease, and that lime disease can cause psychosis in certain cases. So there's lots of questions that need to be answered here.

Okay, so we've established the fact that we've got about one percent of the population that are psychopathic, and we talked about this stat as to people that are severely mentally ill in this country. But I do think that those aren't the kinds of people that are going on Etsy or Amazon or any place else getting ornaments to say that I defend to pose t shirts on it

Well, I arstly my professional opinion is we've lost our ability to have common sense. You know, we have gotten so involved in the Internet and we've disconnected from people, and we just have lost who we are as in society. And I tell people, even going back to COVID, we lost our collective ability to think when we all went through COVID. Seems like but yeah, to me, it's that flat somebody's buying this merchandise.

Yeah, it is to me.

And you know, it's easy to blame things on social media and COVID, but it's not wrong to social media. It's it's fairytale land. The people that like you or friend you, they're not your friends. They don't like you. Those aren't real people. The people that you need to be interacting with are other human beings, because we are a social people and we know now that COVID destroyed

How do we address that?

We do and we've we've got to do a better job at taking care of the menly ill. We've got to get them the services and make it easier to get their meds and more accountability. There's some things we've got to step up and do of the people that know how to do this instead of just saying all the problem is going to go away and our next way. The things are these kids that have and I'm not against video games, but we've got so many kids that have played violent video games for so many years and

You can't separate.

A lot of these games are so sophisticated now that if you're someone who is not stable, you can't separate fantasy from reality. And these I mean, we all see the games and again you start talking about these things, and there's a certain generation that thinks, Alice, it's just two old guys talking and know what they're talking about. But quite frankly, to the wrong person sitting in front of a screen doing that for any amount of time

It's like it never happened.

And people don't process that stuff the same way if they have other disconnects going into it. So again, I'm not a big censorship guy, doctor, but I am a big antenna guy, and I think a lot of this goes back to the family and mom and dad not being engaged with their kids and thinking they can give the kid everything the kid wants and if that doesn't fix it, just give them more money. When what the kid really needs is more time with mom and dad.

We don't unless we get to a place where we become more attached in our families and start sending the truth right and wrong compass, We're not going to see in each It just happens.

Yeah, we're chatting with doctor Vince Callahan, mental health expert. You've been in private practice, as I've said, you've also been in inpatient hospital settings. If indeed that this this has been a you know, an interweave of social media and COVID, and now all of a sudden, this the thirteen to eighteen group that were isolated through COVID, now three or four years down the road, that eighteen group, the eighteen year old group, they're moving into their twenties.

It takes me a little bit like I was talking to a eleven year old boy this week. So he doesn't like something, he breaks it. It's he wants something doesn't have, he steals it. It'll take me about here to get a conscience in this kid to let him know this is.

Right and wrong.

That's flightening in and of itself, because obviously we were seeing a lot of that. Well, doctor, I appreciate the insight into all of this. I'm disturbed on a number of levels, but particularly for people that want to go online some way, shape or form and get this stuff because they think it's funny when it's not.

It's sick.

It may not be sick to the degree of the one percent in this country that are sociopathic, but it certainly is sick in and of itself.

I appreciate your time do it.

Thank you so much for having me. And I'll just say this, if someone buys that stuff, that's a bit.

Flag to me.

I agree, then you're supporting something that shouldn't be. All right, doctor, doctor Callahan, doctor of Vince Callahan. You can find him at fine dashfl dot com, Fine dashfl dot com.

Thank you, doctor, Thank thank you so much.

Stumbled on my math there, but I said, if there are three hundred and forty million people here in this country, and one percent, as the doctor said, is sociopathic, and he said, sixty million are suffering from great mental illness, I mean really bad mental illness. But just take sociopathic for a moment again. Round numbers, three hundred and forty million in this country. Ten percent of three hundred and forty million is thirty four million. One percent would be

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Bengals are back on the practice field today getting ready for Sunday's road contest against Tennessee. Preview the game tonight on the Cincinnati Tax Resolution powered by Toave Sheldon Roundtable Show live from Long Necks and Wilder at six oh five right here on seven hundred WLW. Now, what about the you know Joe Burrow got burglarized? He did, but then he lobbied hard again yesterday for the team to keep number five T Higgins.

What is he?

Obviously he knows something. I mean just kind of saying, hey, you know, keep this guy.

Seg I've done the numbers here, go ahead, all right, So I'm just saying, is it bigger? Salary cap next year is going to be like two hundred and seven and two hundred and seventy two hundred seventy five million.

That's gonna be the salary cap.

Okay, the Bengals right now, if yous a look at players under contract for next year, they got about sixty million dollars in cap space. If you're going to sign Jamar Chase, which if they didn't, they might as just pack up the tent and head to San Antonio. But if they're not going, if they're going to sign Jamar Chase, and let's just say his average annual value is somewhere between thirty five to forty million, well so I'm just saying it might not be forty million next year against the cap.

It might be I don't know.

Now you're telling me you got money left over to sign T Higgins when you have so many other needs on your roster, not the least of which is the interior offensive line, your linebackers, and your defensive secondary. You're gonna find all of money to go out and get impactful free agents. To kind you signed on day one if you're only walking around out there with maybe like thirty million in cap space.

I don't know.

Maybe Joe Burrow takes a pay cut, maybe he restructures his deal.

I would say so to defer that, you gotta defer his money big time.

Right. Well, I'm just.

Saying you've got to at least I guess exploire those options.

But you know, I don't.

I mean, I don't think they've ever overpaid for one position in their history, and now all of a sudden they're going to do it. And that doesn't even get into what t Higgins wants. Does he want money? Does he want to chase a championship? Does he really want to stay here?

Yeah?

I know he changed agents, But I think there are a lot of moving parts here. When you got a lot of people on social media and these Bengal experts running around saying, yeah, es sign, I'm giving the money you can afford it. Yeah, it's kind of like it. It ain't monopoly money, you know what I'm saying.

I know what you're saying. Maybe go fund me.

They could do a go fundme.

Paige.

I got an email or from one of my many stock, I mean listeners. John He said he saw on ESPN this morning that the Pentagon He's going to call up Joe Burrow to lead Sealed Team six on a mission to take out the mothership sitting off the coast that's been flying drones over our airspace.

See that? Wow?

How about that Sealed Team six with Joe Burrow and he's gonna take out those drones. Joe Burrow is gonna save the world. It's gonna save the world sake. It's gonna save the world.

He's like our uh our deal with Like he's like James Bond of America.

You know what.

We know he's Batman, so maybe he can be James Bond.

Oh that's true. I want to see the Batmobile. I'm not sure that's his that. I'm not sure that's a done deal yet. I'm not sure if if Burrow offers you a ride in the Batmobile, would you do it like in the sidecar like Robin?

Sure?

Would you be boy wonder? Yeah? Why not? You have to put a costume on though, That's all.

Right, okay, and be a fat Robin.

Then, as Nick Clooney one said, if you don't have an act, get.

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You draft that guy, you get a wide receiver and a defensive back.

How about that? You save it all one Salary said, I mean he's gonna go.

Where's he gonna go to the Carolina Panthers or something?

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But what's that thing at six you talked about? Is that a live bar show too? Yeah? What's that one?

That's uh? What is it here?

That's uh the uh Cincinnati Tax Resolution Roundtable show? And who's doing that that's Lance and rock and Rocky and that's at a bar, right, Yeah, where's that bar in Wilder and Wilder. And then we go immediately to after that, we go to the West Miller Show. Correct, that's at the Montgomery in with Dan Hard and Jim and I guess Terry Nelson.

It would be Dan and Terry. Yeah. I feel like I feel like slighted.

I never I never get like a bar to sponsor me, other than of course, little Miami Brewing. But I'm just saying, and that's that's a that's a whole restaurant.

Yeah, but all those guys, all those other guys are jealous of you because you got a beer.

Named after Well, I have several named after but b Miller, ken brewce Brew. I mean, come on, I got it.

I was just confused as to where that was going. Okay, so we're going back to back road shows, is what we're doing.

Correct.

So you realize that the starting quarterback for the Tennessee Titans maybe out this week, Malika, I'm sorry, Will Lovis, and Mason Rudolph may be starting that game. How about that? Mason Rudolph, a late of the Steelers, may be starting that game.

Well, and they're three and ten. They better win that game too, because well, hell's going to break loose.

Man.

I'll just tell you they got they got. Look at these connections. They got Tyler Boyd. He's hurt, but he may play. He's on that team.

Yeah right, Callahan.

Josh Wiley's tight end. I believe he played at the University of Cincinnati. He's on that team. Uh, shout away a woozy A remember him. He's on that team. He's on that team. And I've got a lot and then of course the head coach, They've got a lot of Cincinnati connections on that team.

Huh.

See what happens, Ken saying, Nick, I'm just over. They can knock off the Titans and then come home here for a couple of weeks and then end things in Pittsburgh.

Where's your boy today? I wish him a happy birthday yesterday? How old was he?

Did he turn seventy eight? He's seventy eight. Yeah, he's under the weather today.

I know. I know that.

Why else would I be in here, you know? But I'm just saying that he's really seventy eight. He looks good for a guy that age.

Yeah, I know.

Yeah, so you know, so he's just become a party animal.

Now, well he must be. I don't know.

Said we got anything else here, nothing, ken Brew, nothing, that's about it.

Well you might as well get us out of the We got all.

The sponsors in the more sponsors on a NASCAR team.

I'm telling you, we're just one big fire suit at this place. By the way, what are they doing with the Kentucky Speedway? Do they do anything there, any testing or anything. They're doing nothing, just getting weeds. That's just sitting right there. Tell you, man, turn it into an F one track, Get an F one race. I want to go down there, ken Brew, But I think i'd start crying Entucky Speedway. Yeah, Jerry Carroll, let's start crying too. You lost on that.

He is still I don't know.

Last I heard he was he was doing horse racing in the Bahamas or someplace. He had a horse racing track in the Bahamas.

I don't know, contact with him in a few years. So well that's the last I heard.

And they were they had to ship the horses in, you know, they were flying them in from like Miami or someplace, right right. He was a good man, Amen to that he is good man, say get us out of the Stooge Report.

Ken Brew and utter of a cold day, and you need tempstar quality you can feel. We leave you with the immortal words of the Stood Report.

It is always great to have you amongst us. Thank you again for your health tonight.

You're just saying that because wild Man Walker wasn't available for segment two tonight.

Well think I know who called him first. I gotta go.

I got a ten o'clock gig tonight at the retirement village in Blue Asshore. We're supposed to play Naked Twister.

Well say that was a well written show.

Amen to that, ken Brew, and they canceled the damn thing. When I went to Channel nine, they were they should have taken the idea with you.

See, the problem is in this town people keep toying with my legacy. Maybe I moved around too much, but they keep toying with my legacy.

You should have put should have put a trademark on that. I probably should have. I think we still there's the costume. I think still exists somewhere.

But you know again, it's it's intellectual property of somebody.

Charlie Clifford's desk or something down there at five. Who the new the uh the sports guy down there? Not familiar with him? Maybe Ken Brew. It might be hanging up at Channel five and like the Hall of Fame or something.

It could be right next to maybe like Curtis Fuller. And who else is in it? John London's in the Hall of Fame, John les in the Hall of Fame. Yeah, see, there you go. I don't think they'll be calling me anytime soon to join the Hall of Fame at Channel five.

Well you got you got it in a hall of fame a couple of months ago. You did.

I absolutely doesn't saw you had like a giant picture yourself.

Well, and you know what I heard? You put that in your yard? No, Well, it's.

Hanging proudly in uh an establishment in Loveland, Ohio by the name of Paxton's.

Everybody around that town, those Paxton's. And it's hanging up on the wall.

There you go.

It's just outside the men's room, so you can't.

See it.

About four forty five minutes.

Yes, sir, can Brew, Yes, sir, all right, there's sig He's happy. I'm happy. Are you happy?

Well?

If you're not, I can't help you because we're all about happy on seven hundred WLW.

Well, coming up at about six minutes.

In six minutes down on Tobacco Road, Bill Belichick will be introduced as the new head football coach at the University of North Carolina. A board of meeting before the board of Trustees was hastily called today to approve a five year contract for Bill Belichick. He's seventy two, He's got all those Super bowls, left the Patriots a couple of years ago. Seventy two years old. Well, we know he can recruit. He's got a twenty four year old girlfriend.

How do I know that?

Well, I don't have any information on your job stability. All I know is what Gallup, the survey company, reported last week. It found that employees are actively looking to switch job at the highest rate since twenty fifteen, But unfortunately, because of the cooling job market, they're not finding a whole lot of luck. But why are we so restless now when it comes to where we work, who we work for? A lot of people seem to think COVID made everybody stop and pause. Is this what I really

Good ken, thanks for having me.

Glad to be here.

I'm glad you're here because I have a question that's been burning inside of me for several years now, and that is why, from an employment standpoint, are we so restless now in the United States? Why do we keep looking for that next best thing even though what we have ain't all that bad.

What's going on here?

Yeah, Well, there's a lot of change that happened. Of course, there's the remnants of COVID and everybody switched. So now you have disruption in your workflow, in your personnel and your employee consistency that of course always disrupts things. Then this hybrid work ken has really become challenging. I mean When are you remote? When are you in person? And then when you're remote, when are you working? When do

How long was your lune? There's a lot of suspicion. There's a lot.

I mean business is based on agreements. I mean, let's do business. Can I give you ten dollars? You give me a sandwich?

We just did business.

The foundation of all commerce is agreements. And what this did was it messed up all of our agreements. Now we're wondering how do we work? And then when we come into the office, are the right people that need to be in the office there that we need to collaborate with and to innovate with and are their schedules matching with our schedule? It really disrupted. Then you have inflation, and what did inflation do? It changed the customer's expectations. You're paying more, you want more?

Well, that's how it happened.

You're paying more and you're getting the exact same things that you used to get.

And that.

Frustration and those demands make it very difficult. I mean the customer one's quality and speed and look all this disruption is making us slower, and we got to figure it out. We got to get it right, and we got to get back to understanding our agreements, following through and delivering on that quality of speak better than our competition. So our customer picks us over our competitor.

Right.

Everybody wants it right now, doesn't matter what it is, we want it right now. And therein lies the secret to Amazon. They can give it to you right now. So they've kind of figured it out. But I want to go back to this workforce and away from the office in COVID and all this this hybrid workforce. You made a great point. Okay, So some of these companies have gone to where you got to come in three days.

And do you think that MutS the solution I do, and that is going to keep going back and forth until somebody takes the bull by the horns and says, look, the customer's quality and speed. If we can deliver that quality and speed in two D, let's do it. If it's faster, if it's cheaper, it's the fleas is expensive, fantastic if we can. That's the reason we go back into the office. These mandates that you have to come back in the office because I liked it when you were here.

That's not good enough message.

They'll go somewhere else. So you have to say, look, we delivered it this fast. You have to time stuff. You have to look at from start to completion, how long it took, What was the quality of it. Did it be when we were in person? And if not, we have a business reason to go back into the workplace to go back in person.

So that build a business case. It doesn't have to be just.

Your opinion and what you want. The customer wants it. If we're going to grow our busin if we're going to beat our competition in the market, we've got to be first and we got to be the best in the fastest. So I look at it that way, and then you look at you know, with all these new changes, what we're not getting to can is the number one thing.

That drives engagement.

And if you wanted a silver bullet with the answer to this, if you on a scale of one to five, give your boss a five, you strongly agree that your boss emphasizes your strengths. You get appreciated, you're valued right, you're not taken for granted. Your engagement score goes from under twenty percent to over sixty percent. That's a forty percent jump. Now, what is engagement. It's measured with discretionary effort.

That's not even fair. But what is engagement? You do more than your paig.

You come in early, you stay late, work on the weekend, you help somebody else with their job, and that's not your job you are doing. That's why it's so valuable.

So how do you drive engagement?

The number one if you're looking for the silver bullet number one ingredient that drives engagement is when people feel genuinely, authentically specifically appreciated and they're valued for their strengths. But ken, when's the last time you heard a compliment where they didn't stay butt at the end of it In this business, never right, never, So immediately that manager just showed you, I'm working in my own best interest, not yours.

I've been holding on.

To positive feedback until I had negative feedback to give you. I just showed my hand. I'm working in my own best interest, not yours.

When you can sincerely.

Give positive feedback and not say butt and leave that butt for a completely separate conversation, then you are driving engagement into your business. If you can then connect that celebration, that recognition to the mission and values and the impact your organization is having. Right in the marketplace, people want to know that what they're doing makes a difference, and if you can connect those dots, you can re engage your employees.

And they're not looking, but.

The ones that are looking are telling you that's why they're looking.

I think everything you said is been spot on. I think everything you've said is spot on. But where there's my butt? But where does that next job exist, where there is that kind of encouragement, where there is that kind of appreciation, where there is meritocracy, where if you do the job and then go the extra mile, you're appreciated. It seems to me that this is a if not a generational thing, it's a disconnect between management and employee, and that in truth, whenever you have that, the problem

Bees tell me I'm wrong, getting.

It on, I can't.

You're dead spot on, Ken, That's exactly. We have leaders that don't know how to lead. And if you were promoted because you're the best worker, you have a tough time getting everybody around you to be better at their job. And that's the job of a leader is to make everybody around you better in you're going to need skills to do that in the first skill you're going to need is conflict resolution, because nothing will break engagement faster than conflict. And then you need to understand how to

Yes?

Just leave people alone. You'll be the best boss they ever had. We need we can do better than that, and we need leaders that bring a lot more than that to their business and to the employees that work for them.

I don't think of employers. I shouldn't lump them all into the same category. But I think a lot of them don't understand that the most expensive thing they're ever going to do is hire an employee. The finding, the training and then that of an employee comes back in six, eight, ten, a month, twelve months, a year, and they say, you know what, I I'm going to move on. Then you're back into that cycle again, and you never get out of that that rat wheel. You're constantly looking for new employees.

Yeah, well, you've identified the problem, and the problem is it's expensive to turn over your employees. And you know, averages say that it costs the person's salary to two times their salary to turn them over, So what does it cost to retain them?

Less?

Invest in retaining the employees it's less expensive than turning them over, So that's important that you identify it's very expensive. Now employees are thinking, if I go somewhere else, it's going.

To be better.

The relationship.

The number one thing that drives your engagement and your attention within an organization is the relationship you have with your immediate manager. And again, when you don't have the skills and understand what's expected of you as a leader, it's tough. And you don't possess those skills and you're not bringing it into your relationships. It's tough to engage those employees and keep them. And now what they're leaving for is to go get it somewhere else, and they

Steve mcclatchyer, I guess the author of the new upcoming book. I think it gets released just after the first of the year, Leading Relationships, Building management, build meaningful connections, eliminate conflict, and radically improve engagement. You've been on the Best Times New York Times bestseller list.

A couple of times, right yes.

Yes.

My first book was called The Side and it hit number two and we were really excited about that. In this next book, it does release on February fifth, and it's looking good. The pre sale have it launching as a national bestseller.

So really that's great this one too.

I mean, you can see there's a need for this in the market.

Yeah, yeah, it says here you consult a lot of groups, a lot of companies, including the Baltimore Ravens, who are hated here in Cincinnati. What are you telling them so we can maybe beat the crap out of them when we see him again at some point?

You know, it's funny then when the professional teams put food on the table for your for your family, all of a sudden, you don't hate them. You know, I'm outside of Philadelphia, so yeah, OK, funny when they become customers, all of a sudden, you're.

Rooting for them, right right?

People say ask me all the time, who do you root for us? I'm a fan of the legal tender because that one never fails me, solo.

Never goes wrong. So I appreciate them, I do.

No, So the great detachment as you just as you just analyze there Steve, I mean, is it going to happen? Do you sense in twenty twenty five this unrest for whatever reason is going to carry into the new year?

Oh?

One hundred percent. This is going in the direct It's very difficult to turn around from but the manager, the organizations that do it, the ones that have the leaders that know how to do it, are going to win. I mean, this is a problem, and problems are there to be solved. When there's no problems in the marketplace, there's no work to do. This is the work engagement is the biggest problem. And I keep saying that with my book, it's addressing one of the biggest problems. I mean,

Yeah, good stuff. I hope we can do this again in the meantime. You're available. I understand at alliyear dot com a L L E e er dot com.

Is that where people can find you?

Oh fantastic, Yes, Thanks Ken, yep, a double L double er. My email is Steve atleear dot com. I do conferences, leadership development, keynote speeches, retreats, all that kind of stuff.

Well, we have a couple of fortune five hundred companies in this town and a lot of great businesses.

Sounds like some of them use what you're offering, Steve McClatchy.

You take care, you stay well and best for you and twenty twenty five.

Let's do this again.

Okay, yeah again, this is fun. Thanks for having me, Bet.

I don't know.

I mean, I know that we've had a lot of job movement since COVID, and I know a lot of people are struggling with I got to return to the office. But you look at it from the employer standpoint, what stress is he under? Well, they got these big buildings with rent they have to pay and notes if they own it, so they've got to justify that as well.

Alone at home atmosphere.

And the people that run these companies are a little bit older, and maybe they don't get that yet, but I think there's got to be some of intersection with this because the jobs aren't out there for those that

W welw. Well, after seeing some of the ties you wear on News five, maybe there ought to be a few new ones in your future. Why you ought to see how the Wizard dresses when he's out on the town. He looking clean. It drives the hair. I'm crazy, but I digress.

Hello, quiet, and I'm SKO.

I'm broadcasting.

Now, seg I got about one hundred ties that I never got rid of. I don't know why I'm keeping them because you only need one or two. I mean, when you when you die, you just need to tie. They can only lay out one.

Well, yeah, you had to look styley. Everybody asked look stylish on TV. I mean, look at dartists, look at you know the uh McKee on Channel nine and uh you know all the all the ones on Channel twelve. Yeah, you gotta look, you gotta you gotta look. You gotta look your bead, you know, like Frank Malzulu on nineteen or the people on Night you know TV.

You gotta look your best.

You can't look like you just fell off the back of a turnip truck.

A couple of them do, but I'm not going to say what.

Or or like the woman who might have been president said, like you just fell out of a coconut tree. That's for sure. Ken, if you want any of those ties, I'll give them to you. I got a bunch of ties, like the Nicole Miller, who was a fashion designer, put out a whole line of Beatles ties based on their music. About that, like every single one of them. I don't know what to do with them.

Well, you're the musical genius of the tri State. You gotta keep them.

Or walking them off or something. But nobody, nobody, nobody wears ties anymore. I see people as now they don't want tie. Yeah, that's that's a good point. I mean right like they you know, I always wore tie because I thought it completed the outfit. Now that might be old guy thing, but I'm seeing some of these people here local television even.

They're not wearing ties. They were going unmade bed. Yeah.

Look that's a good point.

You're nice kid.

Yeah, I know, dress up, act like you know. It's an important job.

Ken Brew.

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I just make it up. It does sixty nine hundred spot. Thank you. Roxy.

You need temestar now because well it's going to be cold today and then like fifty or sixty tomorrow.

Is it going up to fifty or sixty tomorrow?

I think it's something fifty something at least, maybe something like that.

That sounded like the flu.

Also, ken Brew, we want to thank Stuoge Report this week special thanks go out to Frank Zibell, the King of acr gun Eyed Pools and Spas are running a holiday special. You can call today and swim this spring acrgun eyed Pools dot com.

Beautiful. If we get to get a hotshub here in the studio and put a diving board in, that'd be interesting. Cannonballs off the diving board into the hot tub.

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To be at a bar somewhere today.

He's in a bar every day, every one of his shows is in a bar.

That adds up.

Thursday night, NFL rams up against the forty nine ers at seven thirty Fox Sports thirteen sixty. He must have a tag. He's got a tab everywhere.

Tad.

That's his middle name, you know, mo Tabagger Haven Tad. I thought only a few people knew that.

That's right.

College football, high school football First Moler Star quarterback Matt Ponatowski has been named the Ohio Division One State Offensive Player of the Year. Colorado Star two way player Travis Hunter is the Associated Press College Football Player of the Year, and I would say he's probably a darn good favorite to win the Heisman Trophy Saturday night.

Could be a number one pick in the draft, could be the number one overall. Sig to who well at this point, I mean Carolina, Jacksonville, Carroll pick some drag.

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Now, would it be nice if that game was on local over the year television?

Bengo, you don't have to pay ESPN.

Who guy knows ESPN has got more money than it needs, right, Well, of course it's bankrupt, But I mean, wouldn't it be nice if it was offered or they would allow one of the local affiliates to televise it?

So damn big? Why is it on local.

Kind of like the like the Thursday night Football if it goes on channel five or twelve or nine, or like Monday Night Football it goes on Channel nine.

I mean, but to the average guy walking around on the street like me, yeah, you know, you're on a fixed income, you got to PLoP down whatever it is for another another streaming service. To to watch all the NFL games this year, you have to have like four different streaming services. Now, let me get an other streaming service. And by the way, you know, I'll go, I'll just call you from bankruptcy court. Why isn't it on local television?

Maybe we can get this on local television somehow. Yeah, that might be good. All right, I'm done, I'm comecom The.

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Now there's a guy that could get it done, that's for sure. How about Bill Belichick seventy two years old? How about that twenty four year old girlfriend? And now he's going to be the head coach at a at a university of college that hasn't won the ACC titles since nineteen eighty.

Good luck to him.

Well he will need it North Carolina. But I you know, can you imagine can you imagine Bill Belichick going into the living room of a recruit trying to recruit the and he walks into the living room and there's the recruit and the recruits.

Sister walks by. He goes, hey, hey, what do you what are you? What are you doing after that? What are you doing after this? Well, the thing of it is, too is like I hope he hopefully he's a little bit more effortvescent and uh, you know recruiting these kids. You know, he's kind of boring to listen to. When he has the question, it's like, we're on to Cincinnati.

Play with me to play for me. Yeah, all right, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna give you some money, so I'm going to give you some TV time. So just sign you don't want to sign, I don't care. I'll go to the next house.

Yes, I guess he's probably done with the well, you know, he's probably done with the pros. I guess for now, but that could be. Uh, you know, I don't know. Recruitment d says ken Brew, as you know is spelled N I L.

I mean when what I mean?

How many local coaches around here walk into a recruits home.

Right, I'm just saying, you know, given my experience and given where I've come from, I'm not against anyone reinventing themselves, right, but this is going to be interesting to see if a seventy two year old guy that hasn't coached college football is going to be able to come in there and on his name alone, get a bunch of kids to come play for him. They where he couldn't get away from him quick enough.

Right, you think he'll he'll wear those cutoff sleeves and like the North Carolina Blue.

Oh, he'll be in a hoodie down sideline Chapel Hill hell, but Chapel Hill Hood.

He's sporting that in November next year. I wonder what Marty thinks about this. He's he's across the pond in Paris now.

He may be one of the guys that's giving them an al money there.

I ain't got a point. You need to get out, you need to get to the bottom of all of this thing. I don't know.

I think Rocky, Rocky knows probably more about it than anybody.

Well, why did why didn't you know? Why North Carolina? Why did he go to North Carol?

Don't know?

That's a good question. Why you're talking about coming out.

Of the blue.

Well, I'm just saying I don't know, and then saying I'm not going to coach, and so he signed a five year deal, which means, you know, seventy seven. They're not hiring a lot of seventy seven year old coaches in the.

Film, that's for sure.

But in all truth, you know, he had a chance to go to the NFL last year, and apparently these teams didn't want to get involved with them, like Atlanta, right exactly.

I'm just saying no, I'm just saying, so I know.

It'll be interesting to see ken Brew how it all shapes out in North Carolina.

Well said, get us out of the Stooge Report. Rocky is going to be in here, and I've got some questions for Rocky about all this stuff that's going on in the world and why people are consumed with trying to get ornaments and sweatshirts and hoodies of this alleged assassin that is fighting extradition in New York. What does that say about us as a society that we want to celebrate that crap.

Ken Brew and honor of a cold day here in the Tri State. But I think warmer temperatures are on the way. According to Jennifer Ketch Mark, Let's hope we leave you with the immortal words of the Stewed Report.

We're sorry about your carpet breaking down today, but we've got to go. We're pressed for time. But wait, Honestly, it was good to see you again. Thanks for coming in. Appreciate it.

Yeah, seeing you is about as pleasant as being with Will every day.

I gotta go.

My carpet is fixed and I'm headed for the fast lane in ten minutes. It's the Wizard's weekly group Therapy with his harem.

You know what I'm saying, stop doing that.

If you see those veils of swaying, Wow, wow, l.

It's always a pleasure.

Sorry. I don't think on any other television.

That was better than Karnak and Johnny Carson.

Absolutely, yes, it looked like it was one giant get hide party.

Writing on that program was stellar. It was unbelievable. Andy Mac It's unbelievable. Whatever happened to him?

Andy Max's coming in tomorrow to preview the shootouts.

I mean the guy that wrote that.

Oh, I thought you were Oh you know, I heard he has a bunch of ties. He does have a bunch of He already has a bunch of ties. Yeah, he wants to. He's got a few ties he'd like those. Uh you know he oughta starters store. Yeah, right, ties to all the room things, my tie store.

SAG. I gotta go.

We'll see yes, stay well until we meet again on seven hundred w welw. We are not about to enter the epicenter, the epi structure of the broadcast day. Yes, I'm merely a bridge to the greatness that beholds us here in just a few minutes. I'm a firm believer in what Dirty Harry said all those years ago.

Man's got to know its limits.

And I do because I understand what lies ahead. And what lies ahead is the enormously talented team of Eddy Fingers and the now seemingly mythical rocket j Boyman Rocky.

How are you in this glorious day? Good ken?

If you're a bridge, you're at that bridge that cut on fire, are you?

No?

Okay, No, No, I'm not that kind of bridge. No, it's not quite that. That bridge right now would be more stable than any bridge I would be in his present condition. Amen, Yeah, I I I dealt with this earlier in the show The Bengals, Right, Okay, So there are all of these people out there chirping, all of these alleged Bengal experts and everything.

Now signed T. Higgins, You've got the money. Signed T.

Higgins, you got the money. I did a little research twenty twenty five. The salary cap is going to be somewhere around two sixty five to seventy five million, probably do let's pick two seventy which is right in the middle.

Right now.

The Bengals cap space for next year right now is sixty million dollars. That's with forty two players under contract. I know that may go up because they may get rid of some of the guys they have now and

So can Burrow restructure is track? Sure?

Understand all that. I know you can play games with numbers, but they never have overspent on one position. This is one position. And t Higgins, who the hell does what he wants? He might want wide receiver money, wide receiver number one money, and he's gonna find it. It's out there. Well, so I don't like, what's the realistic of possibilities of T Higgins being here next year?

I agree with you, Ken, I go through it and you hear the interview of Burrow and you get excited. Maybe he knows something that we don't they're going to restructure, but you start really putting the numbers to it. And to your point, if T Higgins is gonna or shoot me, if Jamar Chase is going to demand thirty eight to forty a year, T. Higgins is likely going to command thirty two to thirty five. You mean to tell me we're going to spend seventy two to seventy five million

Right and with regards to the other positions they have to address. Part of the problem that they have right now is when they go into the free agent market, they never swim on day one. They always get what's left over and on day You're not going to fix everything in free agency, but you want players that will be impactful right away, and they never seem to get those kinds of players in free agency that are difference makers.

And it would it might work ken if this in my opinion, I don't know where you stand on but if this Bengals defense was short one player or one kind of position group.

Okay, but but.

There's I mean, to me, you got to get another pass rusher opposite Trey Henderson. I mean, an elite guy, not like a you know, a decent guy, an elite guy.

The secondary is kind of a mess.

The linebacking corps is starting to age out a little bit. So to me, there's just too many places that you need good players, which costs money. So I just you know, and now, look, if the trade off is a they don't sign T Higgins but they uncharacteristically go active on that first early round of free agency, I mean, that'd be fantastic. That'd be great. I don't know if I

I mean, and they got issues at guard they got to address. I'm not making a comparison. I'm not saying that Burrow is this. So please don't anybody think I'm saying this, but Tom Brady made a lot of pedestrian wide receivers look like stars. I think Burrow has the same capability in him. You give him Jamar Chase, and I think he can make anybody after that look really,

You know, to me, the biggest thing that needs to happen with this team that I don't feel a lot of people are talking about is, to me, the importance is Jermaine Burton somehow someway in these last four games or whatever, showing he can be the number two wide receiver. If he does, if he can, that solves a lot of problems. Now you can say, Okay, now we can feel comfortable with t going and maybe spend a lot of the money and the free agency on the defense.

But we've not seen that happen.

We've not seen Jermaine Burton come up if it's actually been the opposite, So maybe that'll happen in this last month.

That would be a good thing.

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