2/19/24-- Ken Broo in for Bill Cunningham

Great medium of terrestrial radio or perhaps on the iHeartRadio app. We welcome you on in on this holiday Monday, and they're celebrating along the southern border by letting in a lot of Chinese nationals. Thirty seven thousand Chinese nationals, thirty seven thousands were detained by the US Southwest land border in twenty twenty three, nearly ten times the year earlier thirty seven thousand. That's a physical year twenty

twenty three, which of course ended on September the thirtieth. Of this past year, many thousands more have been pouring in some down near San Diego, about sixty miles east of San Diego. There is a four foot gap at the end of a border fence where these Chinese nationals seem to be pouring in the latest thing we need to worry about in this country with regards to illegal

immigration. Let's think about this for a second. Kind of buying up so much farmland in this country, Why was a China balloon, a balloon from communist China allowed to transverse the United States, unabused, unmolested, just transverse the United States two summers ago. Ask yourself why? And now we have

all of these Chinese migrants crossing illegally through the southern border. Do you think for one moment that President Shi of China, do you think for one moment that he would allow anybody to leave his country and come to the United States without his blessing or knowledge. I'll give you the answer here. It's not real difficult. It's no believe me, he knows what's going on. But

what's going on with our country right now? This as the House has adjourned its home, there's not going to be any kind of, at least for the next few days, any kind of movement on a border bill, largely because the Senate, controlled by Democrats, want to tie this bill where it may. The last bill we saw it was tied to the border. It's a bill basically to fund the war in Ukraine and some other dollars going to humanitarian aid for the Palestinians and to Israel weapons to fight Hamas. That's the

bill. The border thing was only thrown in there. One third of it, I might point out, only one third of it. One third the amount of money that was earmarked for Ukraine was going to go to the border for enforcement to the largest invasion of this country, ever, and so the House won't take it up. They're not going to consider the Senate bill. The Senate bill is sitting there. There are enough neo cons in Washington that want to fund this proxy war in Ukraine at the expense of what's going on

at the southern border. And they thought they would throw the Republicans a few crumbs in that bill and that everybody would be happy. Well, not everybody was happy. The neocons in the in the Senate were happy. The people that say they're Republicans that really aren't Republican, they're happy. People that like wars, they're happy. But the actual funding to stop what's going on in

the southern border to any great extent was not in that bill. And there might be a good reason why standing by to join me somebody that understands this inside out. He writes for the Center for Immigration Studies. His name is Andrew Arthur. We've had Andrew on before to talk about this stuff. He's carving out some time today from a vacation he's on and I can't tell you how grateful I am for him to do that. And Andrew, how are

you on this glorious Monday? Can I'm doing great. It's a real pleasure to speak to you into all of your listeners. Glad you're here. Before we get into the bill and what and what it did not do and how it opened your eyes, let's just talk about these in order number of Chinese nationals that are crossing our southern border. You know, economically, at least we are the sworn enemy of China, and we may be even more than that in a couple of years, if indeed China makes a move on Taiwan.

I'm more concerned about Chinese nationals coming in through our southern border than any other group that has come through there. Tell me I'm wrong now, you should absolutely, you're absolutely correct. You know I've been doing this now for thirty years, can and I can remember when if we got one hundred Chinese nationals a year was an exceptional year. People are pouring into the United States right now from the People's Republic of China, the ones from across in San

Diego. We're primarily flying into Tijuan and other international airports at the hop skipping to jump through the hole in the fans right into the United States. And they're coming now. But we don't know anything at all about them. It's not like we could ask the Chinese government who these people are, why they're coming. But that's not even the most shocking, Well that is pretty shocking, But the most shocking thing is that they're probably all going to get granted

asylum. The asylum rates for nationals the People's Republic of China are sky high because we don't know anything about them. They can tell us anything that they're you know, house Christians, or that they've suffered from the child control policy that hasn't existed in China you know, for years anyway. But yeah, and basically we have to accept everything that they say unless we could you know, trip them up and a lie, we're never going to be able to

vet their their asylum planes. And they're going to not only be allowed to come here, they're going to be allowed to immigrate their family to the United States as well. So this actually is a big part of this problem that Joe Biden has created. You know, another administration that can Haley, Donald Trump, RSK Junior, you name it. They can come in and they can beef up the border. But the Biden administration has now created these smuggling

pipelines from countries that we never got people from before. And you know, once you tighten up the border policy, you're still going to be dealing with those smuggling pipelines for a generation to come. So one more thing we had to take the BIB administration for. And a lot of the pictures I can only speak anecdotally because I'm not there. I don't see everyone of the people

that are crossing into this country along the southern border. But since day one, when this became a crisis in January of twenty twenty one, the overwhelming majority demographically of people that were crossing the border were young men, men of military age, not just from China, but from all walks of life. We're talking about eighteen twenty twenty five year olds, and that's that was concerning. But these these pictures that I saw sixty minutes did a whole story on

it. About a week ago. The pictures that I saw these again look like military aged Chinese nationals. And why would President she allow somewhat of that age and that abled body to leave his country knowing full well that it is a military society, and knowing full well that they are probably gearing up for something with Taiwan. That to me was as striking as anything in that report

that I saw. What about you? Yeah? No, And you know, sometimes when people go through my whole bio one of the things that they'll trip across is what I would say of the National Security Law Division at the

ions under the Clint administration. And if we were seeing an influence of people like this from the people People's Republic of China, I'd be getting a call at my house at eleven o'clock on a Friday night from Jana Rino, the Attorney General of the United States. But you know, today this is just standard operating procedure. It's as if people, you know, the people who are in charge of making the rules in Washington. This relates to immigration,

not Congress that people are supposed to be doing it. But whoever in DHS or the White House is doing it is completely nonshased by any of this.

Everybody should be concerned about this because, as you note, you know, this is a country that is at best a frenemy of the United States and the worst, you know, has interests that are adversely hostile to this country, you know, but you also have to add in, can there are hundreds of thousands of Chinese students who are studying in the United States, you know, studying defense related technology. This is the craziest thing ever. If

you're from Libya, you can't study rocket science. If you're from China you can. None of that makes sense in this day and age. I think it's time that Congress start tightening up all the rules all the way around as relates to countries that have interests that are adverse to the United States. And top of that list is the People's Republic of China, you know, the MPP and the Chinese Communist Party. I mean, it's it's absolutely mind boggling

and shocking. Even if sixty you know, if sixty minutes is doing this story, it's got to be big. First of all, there an organization, CBS News is an organization that's very sympathetic to the current administration and to Democrats as a whole. And for them to do this story a week ago means that it's caught their attention to and I guess good for them. You wrote something on the Center for Immigration Studies and the headline was I was wrong

about the good in the Senate border bill. It won't curb asylum abuses. I read the story and it gets into the semantics inside the bill. Suffice to say that that bill had the Department of Homeland Security my Orcis's fingerprints all over it. And I would not be surprised that if we really ever did get the full story on how that part of the and I don't even call it a bill to be on a border bill, Andrew, it's the Ukraine war funding bill that just happened to have a little bit of border funding in

it. But I might if we ever find out the truth about this thing, I would bet you that we would find Mayorcis not only has his fingerprints on this bill, but probably wrote a good deal of it. Would you agree, Yeah, no, I would. In fact, you know you're going to hear even in conservative media Newsbackpox news, that this ends catch and release and that it makes it harder for aliens to make asilent claims at the Southwest border. If you actually get into the bill, this not only doesn't

end catch and release. Can get ready for this. It reverses one hundred and twenty one years of law that mandates the people to come in the United States, I legally are supposed to be detained. In fact, it's called

mandatory release in the bill. If you come here and you make it asylum claim, they Allehundra New York. It's the same man who's being impeached in the House of Representatives worked with the Senate to you know, add a provision that gives him more power to do exactly what he's doing already, which is causing the border crisis, and that is releasing legal migrants into the United States so long as they make even you know, the faintest trace of an asylum

claim. This is a problem. We need to be vetting all of these people, Chinese, Mexican, you know, El Salvador, and they could be Swedish, I don't care. We need to know why they're coming here and what their real claim is, and we should never release them until they're either granted asylum or they're removed from the United States. But that's exactly what

this bill does. And you know, with respect to the asylum part of this, where you know, toughens up the rules, it actually does it in a very artful way that makes it look like it's a huge improvement. I read this thing twice all the way through, and it's like yeah,

okay, that's an improvement. And then I really got into the language and realized that this is probably one of the greatest con jobs that's ever been inflicted on the United States, because I have no doubt that you know, Jim Lankford of Oklahoma, Kreson Cinema of Arizona, and Chris Murphy of Connecticut, three people that you know worked on this bill, really thought it was doing good. None of them is an immigration expert. They're not top top,

they're not Ted Cruz, they're not Likely of Utah. You know, these are people who more or less believe what they're told, and I think that that's exactly what happened in the drafting of this bill. But you know, it's all the worst can because you know, conservative media, you know, looks at that and they're like, oh, yeah, no, that's an improvement when it's really not. You really have to One, you have to know what you're talking about, and unfortunately, I don't think anybody in the

Senate who worked on this did. But two, you really have to read every word in that three hundred and seventy page bill to understand how the Senate and the American people would get screwed if it ever went over the law. Well, a lot of this, and you point out in your story a lot of this is based upon you know, these these asylum laws, and in this particular bill and law that was in effect before this, the bar you have to jump over and does get into semantics without getting knee deep in

a lot of those semantics. I mean, we're talking about things like reasonable fear as opposed to credible fear, and I you know, again, it just seems like this was written by somebody at DHS. And that's why I default to mayorcis what are they doing here with reasonable fear and well founded fear and credible fear? What just explain if you could, in layman's terms what

that means. Sure, So, credible fear is the screening standard that they use at the border, and they have since nineteen ninety six to determine, you know, who has any asylum claim and who has no asylum claim at all. They made some cosmetic changes to that standard. They literally swapped at

one adjective for another that means absolutely nothing. In order to be granted asylum, you can show as low as a ten percent chance that you're going to be persecuted if you get sent back home on a cant and you raise your religion, nationalities, membership in particular group of political opinion, poverty, war, all those things don't count. But what this does is it makes it an even lower than that ten percent standard. You know, what is it?

Five percent? Seven percent? And you know once that if that bill ever saw the light of day, it would be Alejandra may york As who would be writing the rules to interpret it, and he would write it to his taste. And we've seen what Alajandra and may york As the case are. When it comes to asylum claims at the border, it's let everybody in and in a decade and a half, for twenty years, you know,

we'll figure out whether they have an asylum claim. But then they'll have a house and a family and a job and you know, a bank account. We're never going to get those people out of the United States. The way that the law is written right now is everybody that chows up I legally gets detained, and they get detained again until we grant him asylum or they get deported. This does so many things that would undermine that system. All in

the all in the name of border reform. This would literally make the border worse, not better. That's probably the simplest way to say it. Yeah. Yeah, And I think the Senate showed its hands last week when they said, okay, if you're to the House, okay, if you're not going to pass, if you're not going to pass this border bill, which is really a Ukraine bill, we'll do our own funding. We'll do our

own funding for Ukraine and for a few other countries and Israel. And so they passed a ninety five point three billion dollars four an aid bill and completely left the border out. And to me, I'm like, why didn't why did first of all just admit at the beginning of this thing it was a Ukraine funding bill? Or secondly, and this drives me crazy, and I know you have no answer to it. I don't have any answer to it. We ought to just have things that pass as standalons and not be tied

to something else. You want to fund Ukraine, vote on that, you want to fund the border, vote on that. And this is what drives I think a lot of common people just walking around places like since Eddie, like me, why can't you just do that as opposed to goop it up with other stuff you want to do. And that's exactly what's happened here.

And now we'll see if the house holds firm on this foreign you know, the funding for these foreign wars and conflicts, or they actually try to make this really work in the Senate and get the Senate's attention on the border. But I fear they will not, just because I've lived in Washington, d C. And I've seen how the sausage is made. And my fear is Andrew is just not going to happen. But that drives me crazy? Does

that drive you crazy? They just can't say, Okay, here it is, here's some money, we're going to vote on it right now, as opposed to tying everything else in the world to it. Doesn't that drive you crazy? Sure it does. But you know, legislation is a series of trade offs. That's you know certain. You know, there are certain laws that I worked on, the real Id Act of two thousand and five that

was linked to the tsunami funding bill, if you can believe it. But you know, there were a lot of bills I worked on, the Homeland Security Act, the Secure Fence Act that did what they said, we created a Homeland Security Department. You know, we authorized and mandated in places the building of fencing along the southwest border. Congress can do that again, they

just have to have the will right now. You know, Unfortunately, you've got one chamber that is controlled by Chuck Humer, you know, the ultimate deal maker, and you've got another chamber that is controlled by Speaker Mike Johnson, who is probably one of the most principled men ever in Washington. And you know, I hope that Speaker Johnson is not naive enough to fall for any of this. I don't think he is. He's a guy who really

knows the border. If Mike Johnson had been in that room, can't think about it, If he had been in that room when they were doing the Senate bill, he would have identified all the problems in about six hours after this thing dropped on a Sunday night. By the way, it's seven o'clock on a Sunday night. If that's not skeavy enough. You know, he was on Twitter saying this thing's dead on arrival. He identified all of the

problems in six hours. And you know, it could have been a much better process, but it was and so right now, you know the ball is in the House's court and you know they're taking their time. They're not going to be forced on this. They want to secure the border, but they want to do it the right way. Well, Andrew Arthur, keep fighting the good fight again with CIS Center for Integration Studies CIS dot org. Thank you so much for carving out some time today and stay well. I

know we will talk again. Thank you, Andrew. I love forward to it. Ken, thank you, and my best to all your listeners. There you go, wishing his best to you. It is twelve twenty seven. It's the average American still baffled by the way this country conducts its business in Washington, DC, and probably will for as long as I live seven hundred WLW. Meanwhile, in the enchented forest, there's a very gunmother. I bet you're going to see Cinderella. I suppose are you going to make

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die, trust me. Also, one in five Americans are smoking dope. Twenty percent of us are just walking around high. I mean you could smell it too. You know, there's nothing there's no real camouflage for somebody that's been doing the old tootsy wootsie? Is there? How was out and about

this weekend? You walk by some people, you know it. I mean, it's there's the next The next great invention waiting for all of us in this country is something that would camouflage you and your clothing from other people noticing that you have been lighting up, because you could tell right away when you walk by somebody if they've been smoking dope. You know what they smell like.

They smell like a skunk. So think about that. The next great invention will be someone who comes up with some sort of body spray or some sort of dope that doesn't smell like dope and lets everybody know that you've been smoking dope. Now, scientists of the world, let's get busy on that. They're not busy on that they're busy diagnosing disease X. Yes, yes,

it's coming, it's coming. About a month ago at the World Economic Forum, which the WHO was involved with, they were talking about disease X. And now the director of the WHO, General Ted Rose, Grabrasius. He goes by Ted Rose. Now he is telling everybody that in all likelihood, disease X will break out. It's a matter of if, I'm sorry, it's a matter of when not if it's going to strike and it's going to be twenty times worse than COVID. Tetrose, who is not a medical

doctor. By the way, he is once again teuted the urgent need for a global treaty to be agreed upon by May, for all nations of the world to agree upon this treaty by May. And this treaty shall state that when disease X strikes, nobody knows what disease X is, Nobody knows what's going to happen. Nobody is saying it is coming. But you know, Tetros is, you know this is a power grab. He wants a treaty that when disease X breaks out, it will be a global a global defense

system against it. Not the United States, which has the best doctors, which has the best medical research, that has the best I'm going to choke saying this pharmaceutical companies in world. No, it won't be the United States.

It will be a one health approach. Oh and by the way, if anybody, anybody so deems it necessary to criticize the one health approach or what the who is going to do, they will have an army of people ready to give out what their version of information is and point out whatever version contradicts their version of information shall be labeled misinformation or disinformation. But no, it's not a powergraph. Don't worry about that. We don't trust health organizations

anymore. They let us down during COVID, particularly the WHO, but certainly in this country, the CDC, NIH, Deborah Birks Faucci, that entire group. What they did, either in the name of medicine or in the name of science, or the name of self eagertizement, whatever it may be, what they did is they destroyed one belief that we should always cherish, and that is the belief that these organizations will take care of us in a

time of need. And they didn't. And now the Biden administration is about to sign off on this treaty that would grant all of this power to the World Health Organization, the WHO and disease X. Kevin Stockland writes for the Epoch Times, and he's been on this since that World Economic Forum meeting in late January, and he's here to join us right now to talk about disease X, what this is all about, and why General Tetros is so consumed

with it. He's kind enough to carve out some of his time here on this Monday and Kevin Stockland, how are you on this glorious President's Day. I'm doing well. Thank you for having me on the show. Anything that involves international health is a red flag for me. I don't know if it is for you, but just given the way things have transpired in the life last three or four years, it's kind of a red flag for me whenever I see something like this, and knowing who the players are, I'm just

wondering. As you research your story, it's very in depth. I mean, it really outlines it. Well, what red flags did it raise for you about this disease X? You know, like you, I tend to be a little bit suspicious whatever I see centralization of authority and unelected officials, whether their health officials or anything else, looking to dictate to people how they can make their private decisions about their health and their behavior, and also to

constrict their rights of movement and free speech, et cetera. So these were kind of red flags that I saw in this. A lot of the effort behind this is really to try to centralize authority in WHO and public health officials when this so called disease X may hit. But there's very little effort to protect personal rights, to protect people's right to gather their own information and make their own health decisions. And so those are my concerns. This sounds like

we don't know what this disease is. We don't know what the next pandemic is, but boys, we better be we better be ready for it because we've got to do that seven letter word control. That's what it sounds like. Things kind of got out of control with COVID after the fact and shed

light on the way things were controlled during COVID. This almost sounds like that what this group is doing, the World Health Organization is doing is is let's make dang sure that when this thing happens, whatever it may be, whatever it may be, whatever we may deem a pandemic, let's make sure we have control over the messaging. That to me is the ultimate red flag here.

Would you agree? Yeah? And you know it's not just the World Health Organization, So we also have the World Economic Bom that just bet and Davos switzerlane last week, all the elites gathered there and they identified misinformation and disinformation and their words as the number one risk factor facing the world today. And so they're also on board with all efforts to fight this and you know, to censor opinions that are our wrong thank or or giving people bad ideas.

You know, this is going on at the time that there's a case before the Supreme Court of Zuri versus Biden where a number of people are charging that the Biden administration has been leaning heavily on social media companies and tech companies to censor American speech regarding COVID, regarding climate change, and even in some cases things like the Hunter Biden laptop. Yeah, well they still have Facebook and YouTube in their pocket. Elon escaped a little bit, but you can

see how they're going after Elon on another level here. But it goes all to me. It all goes back to trust. Kevin, I don't know. I got this from from your story as well, but there there there doesn't seem to be any trust, particularly in this country when it comes to NIH and with the CDC. I think those the trust in those organizations were blown up by Rachelle Willinski and Anthony Fauci. And on a global level, you look at the w h O, it's it's it's run by a guy

that the Chinese put in charge. So I think that's the big thing for me post COVID is I don't. I don't trust any of these people. And it's the wrong way to feel. You're supposed to trust these people implicitly with your health, with your betterment, and it's it's not there anymore, I think for most most most thinking people. Again, would you agree, Well, you know, all of this is taking place in the context of

kind of the undermining of our institutions. So as you say, I think a lot of Americans no longer trust the CDC, They no longer trust people like doctor Anthony Fauci, they no longer trust the WHO or the UN because these organizations have led them throughout the COVID pandemic. And so you know, when the pandemic first hit, we saw about eighty percent of the US population

willing to take the vaccines that were being pushed on them. Now, when we're down to Booster four or five, or whichever number it is, I'm not sure only about twenty percent of the people are willing to take them. So I think all of this effort to centralize authority is happening at a time when people are just not willing to go along with the program, and they don't trust the so called experts. Disease X. This is what this grand plan is. They have no idea what that would be. But correct me

if I'm wrong. Was it disease X. This whole plan formulated about six seven years ago, back in twenty eighteen. So disease X are the thinking about. It was in place before COVID hit, right, Yeah, that's correct. So the concept of disease X was fabricated by the World Health Organization at twenty eighteen. They call COVID nineteen the first disease X and now we're

gearing up for a second one. And what they're doing really to prepare for whatever this disease X may be, and you know when it may come. So they've set up a global what they call one hundred days mission to crank out vaccines within one hundred days. And you know, during that interim period they would rely on you all the things that we saw, the masking and the lockdowns and the social distancing and the surveillance, et cetera. So that's

one leg of it. The other leg of it is certainly an effort to fight what they call misinformation about the disease. And then the third leg of it is the Pandemic Treaty that's now being circulated by the WHO I must spoke calling it a treaty. They're calling it in an accord, so it doesn't require congressional approval. But this would really centralize a lot of authority when a health emergency comes in the World Health Organization, and they would make decisions on

things like allocating resources to treatments and medicines. You know, who can declare whether we're in a pandemic emergency or not. And then also encouraging member states to fight this information. Okay, so the just something you mentioned. They're crank out vaccines within one hundred days. Most vaccines. I don't know how old you are, Kevin. I'm old enough to remember polio vaccines and things like that. Most of those took years, a tremendous amount of vetting.

We saw during the pandemic. They cranked out a vaccine within I think eight or nine months. That seemed rush. Now we're going to go ahead and take a disease. We have no idea what it's about. Even in COVID, we had no idea where it originated. It's still a matter of contention. Was it fabricated in a lab? Did somebody bite the head off an animal in China and spread it? I mean we still have we still have no real transparency about where that came from. And now for a disease we

don't even know anything about. They're going to try and crank out a vaccine in one hundred days. I mean that borders on the absurd. Well, it is a bit worrisome, and you know, normally you would expect that it would be well tested and we'd be able to see some longer term effects on people. You know, for example, with COVID, you know, we learned after the fact that it was not anything that was a serious threat to children or generally young healthy people, and yet all of them were being

compelled to take this vaccine. In stays By California, you needed to take the vaccine to be able to go to school, and the Biden administration tried to force people to that they would lose their jobs if they didn't take this vaccine. So now we're looking at condensing this to one hundred days, all

of the testing, you know, all of the searching for results. It looks a lot more experimental than it was even during COVID, and then after the fact, I suppose we'll find out what the long term effects might be. Kevin Stockland Epoch Times and we're talking about his story that's on there right now on this disease X. Now, this it just it bothers me. The you know, the whole medical thing bothers me. But it's it's what

we touched on earlier about misinformation disinformation. Who's determining what the misinformation and disinformation is? I mean, we saw like four or five people at Twitter whose obvious political views did not jibe with the president at the time Trump. Who's you know who? Who who's handling the information and missing disinformation and misinformation?

There were a lot of great doctors voices that were silenced during COVID simply because they had an alternate view as to what was going on, Men that were just and women that were just as learned as the ones that were allowed to speak. So long as you spoke the narrative, right, I didn't who's determining all of this? Who? Who's who? Who are the gatekeepers in this? Well? The answer is the question, so who is looking?

Ok? Yeah, right, So they would be one of the parties presumably or national governments or you know, that's not really spelled on the in the pandemic a core, but we can that that would probably be the source of it. And you know it wasn't just during the pandemic. This censorship is going on even today. There's a number of doctors and experts that we've spoken to that have done studies that say they're very critical of the lockdowns and they

say they created so much more harm than good. These studies are not being published in medical journals, they're being attacked in the media. So, you know, whatever sensor and doctors as well. There's a law pass in California that that doctors would be punished for spreading this information about COVID vaccines. So you know, this censorship has not stopped, it is ongoing. It's still with us today. Yeah, another reason not to live in California. Kevin.

I enjoyed the article thoroughly. I enjoyed our talk about EVS that we had a couple of months ago, and I want to back maybe a week or two ago, it might have been right after Christmas, and I watched your documentary on the meltdown in two thousand and eight. They's just a tremendous piece of work that you have. So you're on it. Man. I love your stuff, and I thank you for giving us some time here today.

Thanks. I appreciate that, you know. And part of the everybody talks about the fallout from COVID and what was the worst part about it, Well, sure, the millions of lives that were lost. We can begin there the isolation of children and how there is probably going to be and we're already maybe seeing the effects of that already of how isolation at a very young age away from friends may affect the emotional and the mental growth of a child.

We're already seeing that in the schools, that children are behind where they should be academically. We're seeing all of the effects of the fallout of COVID, But the biggest effect, in my opinion, is the lack of trust that we lost in our federal government and some of these agencies like the CDC, like nih that we're supposed to trust implicitly and we were let down. And now we've got General Tedros who was saying that anybody that this is he's

already preparing for this thing. You know, he wants every single nation. On the same page, he's saying it's a power grab by the wayhow it will see sovereignty to the way show will give the WAHOW powers to impose lockdowns. These are some of the lies that are being spread. They are claims utterly, completely and categorically false. He's already preempting the criticism. He's going to get more than what does that tell you about what the wahow really wants?

And a push comes to shove. Don't you want someone in your community that knows you, that knows what's best for you, treating you in your time of medical crises as opposed to a one world health approach and maybe the philosop fees and the ideologies of a doctor that's halfway across the world. Keep your eye out for disease X according to who It's coming to a neighborhood near

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are you from? Atlantic? In the news today, some Republicans are all right back on the big one. It's the average American into the great American. And Happy President's Day to you. Nobody once asked me who's your favorite president? I don't know, you know, I mean, I guess. The first president I ever remember was John Kennedy, and I vividly remember his inauguration speech. I obviously visibly remember his assassination. Kennedy really never accomplished much

because he wasn't around long. Johnson tried to keep his agenda going. But Johnson got sucked into the Vietnam War. He played ball with the military leaders and got us into that quagmire, and then it ultimately cost him his presidency. It's fascinating. I was in Austin two three years ago and went by the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library. It is a fascinating place. It is huge, as you would expect, because Johnson's ego was probably unmatched for anyone that's

ever occupied the Oval office. I mean it's so big. As you enter his presidential library, there is a limousine in the foyer, and it's not even the limousine he wrote around in when he was president. It's not the president's limousine. Of the social agenda that we now have in this country, much of it, I mean a grand portion of it was just great. Johnson was a deal maker. He was a former senator, so he knew how to get things done. Died at a very young age. I think

he died at sixty four, massive heart attack. If you go to his library, you can actually see on the wall the speech that he gave the teleprompter copy of the speech that he gave in late March of nineteen sixty eight when he announced he was not going to run for re election. So that was a fascinating place. Carter was a bust. It just wasn't happening.

Nixon was too small for himself. Nixon did open up the United States to a lot of international diplomacy, but he just, you know, he's he didn't think presidentially, he thought legally, and it got him into a lot of you know, hot water. Obviously with Watergate, no pun intended Carter was a bust. Carter just was I thought he was one of those guys. It was really an intelligent man, but just not really attuned to the day to day workings of the average person you, me, and everyone else.

Reagan, for better, for worse, whatever you thought of the guy, this country was just on its ass when he took over, both from a fiscal standpoint and from a morally standpoint, from an ethically standpoint, from all of the things that go into what constitutes a society, and he lifted everybody up. Everybody did well under Reagan. Eventually, first couple of years were rough. Bush forty one he was someone that I thought Bush forty one

was a smart guy. I didn't think Bush forty one really was dynamic, didn't really have a grand vision for this country, and I think Americans were tired of Republican rule by the time his four years were up. Clinton, I thought, was a really smart guy and brought his ideology more in line with the country and saved his presidency after Nut Gingrich was elected in a Republican wave to the House of Representatives. Gingrich Republican wave. Gingrish becomes Speaker of

the House, and Clinton got things done. Now. He had other problems, obviously, but I think Clinton got a lot of good things done for this country, and if you look back, somebody that even Republicans were warming too towards the end. Bush forty three was the right guy at the right time, the right guy at the right time. Gore was stiff but still had the residual effect of Clinton. Yet he would not embrace Clinton when it

came time to campaign, and it befuddled me. Clinton's popularity waxt and wane. It was pretty good when he left office, but Gore didn't want him out there working for him on the campaign trail, and of course we all know how that ended with the hanging chads in Florida. But Bush forty three was exactly what this country needed at that time. Obama was interesting. I

would not call Barack Obama a unifier. He was certainly more conservative than the current guy in the White House and understood politics a lot better than the current guy in the White House. I think that he did. I think he took Joe Biden out of necessity because Barack Obama, if you remember, was only in the Senate for a very short amount of time before it ran for President Trump financially. This country did well. We were not really at war.

Trump just couldn't. It's the same problem he as now. He just he can't dial it back. And he does. He opens his mouth and says things and picks fights he doesn't need to pick. And unless that changes, regardless of who the Democrat nominee is, and I'm still not convinced it's going to be Joe Biden. Unless that changes, he's going to have he's going to have a tough time in November, regardless of how well he may be doing politically right now. And of course there's all the other stuff,

all the other drama that's going on. And gerald Ford, God bless that guy. This country was just an absolute in array, disarray, complete disarray. People have lost trust in the government because of Nixon, and in a lot of ways, gerald Ford saved it. He did at his own expense by pardoning Nixon. Everybody thought Jerry Ford was kind of a dullard. He wasn't. He was a brilliant guy. Went to his presidential museum in Grand

Rapids last summer, very interesting place. But he got, at least from a morale standpoint, everybody back up on the balls of their feet, had no chance of getting elected president on his own, but still at all could have gone down a different road politically at the expense of the country and chose not to. And I thought that was very noble. If you're of a certain age group and you're looking to buy a house, you know, it's tough. There's not a lot on the market. Millennials are having a tough

time. And guess who's getting the blame for all of it. Yeah, yeah, mom and dad. They're blaming the boomers because, according to this study done by Redmen, boomers are staying in their homes longer. And why is that, Well, they're living longer. Why aren't they selling? Why aren't they downsizing? Because interest rates suck? And because mom and dad, if they were smart two years ago, refinance their homes. So why would

you move selectively or electively right now? If you're sitting in a home with a three percent mortgage and trying to go out and you know, let's see what and you got to get a seven and a half percent mortgage? Do the math? How much more would that be on a monthly rate? But boomers are being blamed for not a lot of product on the market. And I'm just wondering if that is sound or if that is just making boomers the

fall people again. Mark Johnson, Managing Partner, Recruiting Insight. This is a firm that works with seventy five real estate brokers and owners in one hundred markets across the United States tries to help them grow and expand their market share.

He's kind of like the godfather of real estate. I've had Mark on the show a lot of time, and I want to find out if boomers are really the culprit here, and he's standing by to join us here on seven hundred W welw and Mark Johnson, how are you on this glorious Monday. I'm doing fantastic and it's always a joy to spend time with you. You know, they love their home. I think for a number of reasons.

The most logical would be that if they were really sharp and on top of it two or three summers ago, they could have refinanced whatever the mortgage they had for a mortgage that was somewhere around a three percent and now, of course it's double that and more in some places. So really, I think a lot of boomers are reluctant to sell or move just because of that

alone. Oh absolutely, And what we're seeing across the US and in Cincinnati and in the US they're just in February of twenty nineteen, across the US,

we had eight hundred and twenty thousand homes for sale. Today there's four hundred ninety four thousand in Cincinnati. In Cincinnati February twenty nineteen, we had about sixteen hundred homes for Salem. Right now they're seven hundred and fifty and so you can see you can see that that constraint is causing you know, some multiple offers, the people getting you know, people knocking on their door. You want to sell your home, want to sell your home. That

happens to me too quite a bit. I guess. You know, in reading this story, they tried to hang it all on boomers. But I don't necessarily think that it's just one age group that's that way, because, as I said, you might have millennials in homes that they did the same thing two or three summers ago exactly. So you know, obviously there's some

tax implications in some high cost areas for boomers. You know, I think the latest stat I saw from the National Reverse Mortgage Association is at two thirds of the equity in the US is held by people fifty five years and older. But if we go back to the last downturn in two thousand and eight, builders started under building. Then we had a period of almost free money

that allowed owners to upgrade their home. Most of us had to sell our home in traditional markets, but because of the free money environment, they could keep their first home, turn it into a rental and upgrade, and so that takes product off the market. Then we had investors chasing returns coming into real estate. Then we have the boomers, and we have the millennial. So there's really besides the article, we can't blame it all on the boomers.

I think there's really five significant trends that are contributing to this shortage of inventory. Yeah. Absolutely, you go, and I'm reading some of the else you sent me here too. There's tax implications in some areas of the country when people want to sell. What is the two thirds of the equity in the US fifty five and older? Okay, so I get that, but you also get into the problems of selling and how you got to deal

with Uncle Sam on all of this too. Yeah, So let's say you're in a high cost area, you know New York, you know Miami, the coastal areas, and maybe you have a couple who bought their home in nineteen seventy for you know, two hundred thousand dollars and now it's worth two million. Well, there's some significant text implications there that's going to make them

think before they sell their own. Sure. Sure, and you know, as you well know, as you get older, your needs change, and maybe the kids are gone, maybe it's just you and your spouse or whatever it may be, and you want to downsize. Well, because of what you just talked about in two thousand and eight, there are very few places anymore to downsize too, and if you do, they're probably more expensive because they're due than what your home is. So, I mean, there are

all kinds of EBB and flow money situations here. Well, what would you tell somebody if they get to a point where they're very frustrated. Let's say they're in that thirty five to fifty age group and the family has expanded and you've got kids and you're trying to raise a family in a good neighborhood. What would you tell them about this and the lack of product on the market

and how to navigate through it. Yeah, it would be. And this is why it's so important for them to seek out a local professional because each market is so unique. But in many markets there's homebuilders that are trying to catch up and build inventory and address this issue. Many of the municipalities are starting to work closer with new homebuilders and make it more easier for them to

get developments and these kind of things. So the first thing we have to look at is in your local area, are there some homebuilders that are working with folks in that situation? Are homebuilders still and I don't know. In the good old days they used to, you know, they would be plenty of incentives when you got down to having to finance and whatnot. Does that

still go on with builders? It does, And again it's situation will depend on supplying demands, what we're seeing, you know, when when things slow down a little bit, and since its start to come out, when things tighten up a little bit and sentings tighten them up. So a lot of it just depends on your local market and what's happening there. And as I talk with agents from Alpaso, Texas to Cincinnati to Washington, d C. The Bakersfield, they're all different. To the dynamics in that local market are

slightly different. The big trends are similar, but as you get into local markets, there's some nuances because of local supplying demand or for restrictions or non restrictions on building. Several metrics go into what ga Zillo did, I want to say about four or five months ago, but they said Cincinnati was like the second hottest real estate market in the country. And obviously there's as we

talked about earlier, there's very little product on the market right now. But you know, who would have thought even four or five years ago that Cincinnati would have been one of the hottest real estate markets in the country. We were always here, Mark. If things got bad, it never really got that bad here. If things got really good, things never got really good here. We're just you know, average Midwest and we just kind of like

take everything in streat every day. But now apparently we're red hot here in Cincinnati. What's happening here? Well, one, you have a beautiful market with lots of culture and things new. You know, I lived there for about six months. I'm all sure that no, you didn't know well,

way back in my military days, I had a temporary assignment. But you know, you have a median less price of about three hundred and forty dollars, so you know, you have affordable housing, you have amazing culture jobs, you know, real estate jobs, and market there's really three thanks right, jobs us you know, mortgage rates jobs, you know, and the local kind of culture. And you know you have all three of those really

working for you. Yeah, and obviously you know, I've spent the majority of my adult life here, so that you know, for me, it worked perfectly. I mean, it's there's so many things to sell about Cincinnati that we here in Cincinnati know, but it's kind of cool to see it get that that reputation. Now we're chatting with Mark Johnson. We're talking about

real estate. We're talking about how there is just a real shortage of product on the market everywhere, it seems like in the United States, and how it's affecting some of the younger buyers because people that are aging are hanging on to their properties longer. So we talked to it, you have to partner with somebody that knows what's going on and can work you through the labyrinth of what it's like trying to buy and sell a home in this day and age.

But you also have to, I think, have a few other things in your in your tool kit here. If you are a millennial, or if you're somebody that is approaching into the waning stages of boomerism, you know you've got to You've got to have something more than just somebody good to work with. What else do you need? Well, you need a good financial advisor, right for sure. And to your point, you know, I

was just looking at this article that Redfinn put out. We're showing, you know, forty percent of boomers have lived in their homes for at least twenty years. It's almost double what it was you know, not too long ago. You know, the average time in your home with sixty seven. So you need a low You need to surround yourself with a couple of local professions.

You know, a great strong wheeltor a financial planner, you know, your tax advisor and consultant, because these are all the folks who can really help you make sense out of these complex things as you come into you know, and they're big financial many times this is the biggest financial transaction that the family will make right right, No, absolutely, you know, I have to really address the future here with you because it's as important as the present

I think right now. I mean, and it depends on where you live and what the market will bear. But I know on average through to your fixed mortgage is somewhere around just north is seven and a half. Where do you see it going? I mean, how much does it come down? And you have to, of course weigh that, although it's not a direct line, you have to weigh that against what the Fed is doing visa v

inflation. But seven and a half percent for a boomer that's in a house with a mortgage right now of three percent, and that boomer doesn't have to move, He's not moving anytime soon. So what do you see these rates, let's say the next nine to twelve months. Yeah, not not only the boomers, the millennials. Whoever has a home at three percent isn't right right exactly unless they have to. And many of the people that are being

professionally relocated by their bigger companies are getting the gap covered for them. Like let say I'm a professional that's being moved from Cincinnati to LA for temporary assignment. They're not. They're employers not penalizing them on that increased mortgage. They've covered that gap for them. Otherwise they wouldn't move right right exactly. But all the pundits, and I have a tracker from all the predictive pundits, were saying by summer, we were going to see five percent mortgage rates.

Well they've gone up, right. And I'm not a predictor of mortgage rates. I wish I could figure this out. But there's a gap to the tenure treasury bond, and currently the gap is the biggest it's ever been. Right, the gap is, and sooner or later that gap is going to shrink. But investors want that gap to to compensate them for the risk return they see and buy new bonds. And until that switches, I don't want to get into politics at the moment, but if you look at our national

debts, that's that's a problem exactly. It ripples through all the economy and the affects quite a few things. I think the you know, an inflation rate too. I was just looking at Lauren June, he's the chief economist from any of our publisher that the FED likes to run around a two percent inflation rate. We've got it down to about three percent, so there's still a gap there that that needs to be addressed. So all of these factor

in. But the pundits that were predicting five percent rates so far not yet. Not yet. Yeah, but eventually. Uh if I was, you know, a betting man, I would you know they're gonna They're gonna have to come down eventually. Yeah, I agree, because there's so many different businesses that are so tied to the housing industry. I mean, we're talking about contractors, the people that do the contracting work, subs and all that. I mean, it affects so many different areas well. Mark and lightening.

This is enlightening. How do people find you or maybe even some perspective, real estate companies find you? Because everybody in this world needs guidance and guidance, and you sound like you got some. I do. And before I do that, though, because I wanted to comment on your economic thing, for every two homes that are sold or resold, there's one job sustained or created in the local market. Wow. So think about that. Just years ago we had one million, you know, we were selling six million

homes a year, and now we're down to four million. That's job job loss or job creation. Yeah, so anyway how they find me is that recruiting insight dot net. Recruiting insight dot net. And whether you're a broker, owner or a consumer, would love to talk to anybody and help them out as best we can to navigate through this challenging market. Yeah. Amen to that, Mark, stay well, thanks again for this and as I say, stay well, because we need to hear your voice. Thank you,

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do that. And it comes across as you snubbing your nose. And when it comes across that way, why would it come across that way because you have the power to get away with it, and this abusive and that is what has happened, and it has elevated a level of disgust that is coming in their direction. Not all okay, but some of them are collectively because y'all on the court together, you're gonna take the brunt of this. You're gonna get your money, you gonna get your shine and all of this other

stuff. But folks ain't gonna forget it because that effort last night, nearly four hundred points being scored at an embarrassment. It is a travesty and anybody that participated in that game last night should be ashamed of their damn self. Oh hello, quiet, and I'm broadcasting god seg. Wouldn't you like to

hear a coach of a Cincinnati based team talk that way? I mean, just after a game come out via stephen A. A lot of well, they were yelling, they were defense, defense, they were yelling last night in Indianapolis, and I guess they forgot to play it. You know, holy cal I will say this upfront. If they were playing in the NBA All Star Game in my backyard, I would close the drapes. Thank you

me too. Do you know there were two hundred and eighty nine shots attempted in that game and and the losing the Karl Anthony Town's got fifty points for the West. What Lebron James had eight? Where? What? What? What do he do? What he leave or something? Did he go to Saint Elbows and have shrimp cocktailers, load management, load management, load managements? There were there were a grands hotal get this, a grands total of five free throws in that game last night. Why, I mean, what

do you what do you do with that game? I mean, what you know you went back to thank you used to have you know, you used to have team Lebron in this. Then they picked their teams and in this and that. Then they went back to the East versus West. Now, I mean it's a joke. Well you know what NFL figured it, What the NFL did this year was a joke too, with the flag football correc Yeah, but I watched that for like fifteen minutes. Yest night, I

watched for ten minutes and I turned it off. I couldn't watch it. It was horrible. I watched the pregame Stuff is good with Shaq and Charles Barkley and those guys. At the beginning they got to just sit there and talk about life and basketball and everything else in the world. I'd rather watch that than what time did the game actually start? Because I started watching it at eight o'clock. They kept interviewing players. I'm going when you all going

to start the game, like nine ten o'clock at night? I would rather watch two porcupines, mate, Thank you. Then watched that crap last night. It was unbelievable. Guys were jacking shots up from Dayton. You know, it was just jack is shot up, try a slam dunk, don't play any defense. I mean there were five free throws attempted in that game. That's how bad that game was last night. Brutal. It's I mean just, I mean, we don't have a team here, thank goodness and

everything else, but I mean that's just. I mean, what do you do I mean, if you're Adam Silver, the commissioner, I mean you're sitting there going, you know, you know, we want a competitive game and this and that and everything else. Then they roll out with that and they're going, well, they made the Commissioner rec League game that had more defense than that, and and honestly, the only All Star game that works is the Baseball All Store Game, right, you know, and even that's

not all that great. I mean it's it's you know, because guys aren't thrown inside and you know there's not you know, they'll play it in a and leave and all that. Some guys skip it completely. Hockey can't do it, hockey, you know, it says this team for this game,

this team three on three winners meet, right. You know, why don't all of these leagues just admit the only reason why they hold these things money so they can suck money out of the town and correct held in correct money out of the networks and suck money out of guys like you would make Well, I'll tell you one thing, if I had a ticket to that last night, I'd sue the NBA if if I pay, I don't know what

the ticket prices are going. Nobody listening to us in Indianapolis maybe can call us, but if you, if you whatever you paid, it was too much because you got ripped off. I would rather watch six monkeys on a fence, thank you, dancing. I would rather watch bumblebees buzzing around people. I would rather watch people swatting away flies. I would rather watch anything. I would rather watched the rain drops at Daytona than that. Seg.

Let's get some sports going here, because obviously we're more very upset. That's true, ken Brew. The stood reporters of Proud Service, every local Tamestar heating and air conditioning dealers Tamestar quality you could feel in beautiful Cincinnati called Sheldon Braun at Broun Heating at five one, three, three eight, five seventy seven sixty five spots. Thank you. Let's calm down here, ken Brew. Because the Reds are going through their first full squad workout today. Most

of the position players are there, were there a week ago. Tack This league openers Saturday against those Guardians. I haven't heard yet who's going to start, so we'll see what happens. Yeah, they say it's not a given that Hunter Green is going to start open an opening day, right. Nicolodolo, of course, limited to US seven starts last season with that left tibbia problem, looks good. A Mound Sessions expected to be on track for opening

day. Emilio Pagan had off season hernia surgery. He won't be ready for Saturday's Oasburner, but he'll be ready for the season. Alex Young with back sornis he was the first guy that was hurt, remember that last week. Missed a few days. Feeling better. Could resume throwing soon. What about general soreness? Has he shown up yet? I think it's all over the place down there line. I think it's catch up. He'll be General soreness will show up here in just a little bit. Also, Ken Brew Yukon

is the unanimous number one this week in the AP College Basketball Poll. Houston is second. Purdue is down a spot the third after they got beat yesterday at Ohio State. Twenty one and four. Dayton Flyers remained sixteenth this week. Kentucky jumps five spots to seventeenth. Seventeenth correct for a second week in a row. Dayton starred Deron Holmes the second Atlantic Ten Conference Player of the week. Good Holmes averaged twenty six and a half points a game and ten

rebounds and flyer victories over to Caine and Fordham. I mentioned Daytona. The rain delayed Daytona five hundred set for four o'clock today. The Infinity opener was supposed to go at eleven am. They have now pushed that back to after nine o'clock tonight because of early rain. Wait a minute, So the five hundred will be before the Infinity race. Correct, And there's some guys are gonna run both, So they're gonna be They're gonna be racing for like eight

nine hours into the night at Daytona. Well, they may not be any defense in those races. Maybe not, I don't know, but wow, let's see. Uh, let's see what else is going on here. How about FC Cincinnati takes on Cavalier FC Thursday, Ken Brew, as you know, first round of the Conker Calf champions Cup Series. That's not here, No, it's in Jamaica. Yeah. Well, I would hope because it's not going to be very warm here. MLS, well it better get warm

Sunday because it's the Orange and Blues MLS home openers Sunday versus Toronto. How about that they're already they already starting soccer it's unbelievable and believable that this is. I think they just stopped playing fifteen to twenty minutes ago, right from last I think I think they did. I think they the supporters shield was here about two weeks ago, and and then they come back, you know, they go to training camp and then here they are again. They don't

play defense in the MLS. Yeah, I mean they don't have too much scoring they had last night, but NFL ken Brew the franchise tag window opens tomorrow. I can't and the runs runs through March the fifth. If you could open that window, get that franchise tag, breeze that exciting, and I guess T. Higgins is going to get that here pretty soon. Higgins go make a lot of money next year. We can go as a contract or not. Bengals special teams assistant Cold Anderson is off to the Tennessee Titans,

and Brian Callahan is the new special teams coordinator for the Titans. Remember this guy Paul Gunther, Yeah, he's joined Mike Zimber in Dallas as the Cowboys defensive run game coordinator. Wow, so they got run game coordinators and assistants to special teams coaches unbelievable. And then also the Buffalo Bills have name a man of Moeller, Matt Edwards, as their assistant defensive line coach. Wow. Wow, everybody's got an assistant sake, I don't have an assistant.

I don't know. I don't know. I think you know what we need here. We need here a special teams coordinator at the Big one. You think we could get one of those? Uh no, no way, not no, no, not in the h not in the current status of the financial problems there. So there's no way we could get a special teams coordinator at the Big One. I don't know. I just you know, I just want to see people who haven't seen in two or three weeks,

weeks, by month's years, I mean something. I mean. Also high school sports Ken Brew, we say congrats over the weekend Simon Kent, Walton, Roona, and Ryle girls win state wrestling titles. I want to mention this. Simon Kenton senior Gabriella Ocassio wins the one hundred and forty five pound title. She went forty six and oh in her senior season. How about that. That's getting it done in high school and we also getting it done and we also say congratulations to my cousin Jane Keller. Oh, now we're

talking about family member these. She just retired after forty five years at Macy's. What did she do. She was in the tax department, in the tax department. Correct, did she prepare your return? Seg? No, No, she saw all my stuff that I bought at Macey Eastman's. So she was with me before it was federated. Correct, So she's a lifer, correct and correct, done for years, forty five years. Well, congratulations to her, that's what amen. And also we say congrats to Miami

University volleyball coach Carolyn Condon. Yes, who announced that in October this was going she was going to retire after the twenty twenty three season. Yes, well, she completed her fortieth season, leading the RedHawks program into forty four seasons and the college head coach seven and eighty one wins. She is the longest tenured current Division one coach in the nation. I did a little you

know, they had a big bankwood for her a few months ago. Yeah, and they asked me to do a little video tribute, you know, And I did it wearing my Ohio University pullover. That I have here. Oh I tanned the camera down to show the logo, and apparently I was roundly booed at that function. But as I quickly edited my tribute, well, you gotta let me show this because like you beat Ohio University every time

you played it, Give me a little sum here, right. Coach Condent was honored with a was given an honorary degree during Saturday's Miami game in basketball. So congratulations to the coach. That's a heck of a tribute. Amen, that's a heck of a career right there. So what else anything else say? I'm still still, you know, trying to decipher the defense and last night's NBA All Star Game. Glad I didn't stay up and watch that mess. You know who would have fit right in in that game? Willie

Yes, because he never plays a defense. Dude had one assist in his entire high spaking career. Called it a mistake exactly yeah, he gave the ball and the other guy shout, what, don't do that again? He called the guy exactly exactly right. So I don't know, but we'll see what happens. What's uh? I don't think there's no other All Star games? Going on. Is there the NHL had Toronto, NBA head to Indianapolis.

It's over. Uh. I think that's about it. Seg get us out of the Stewge Report, because I've got a guy here that's telling me one in five Americans are smoking dope right now. So let's see, wow, hitting here, hitting things early. Huh. I'm here. We got Drew at the controls. Yes, and we got two sales guys. So one of the two of us, two of us are probably high ken Brew and honer of this beautiful President's day. We leave you with the immortal words

of the Stoode Report. Avery bangs it off the rim, no good rebound, chased down by Skillings and the buzzer sounds. Cincinnati wins it. Seventy six, seventy four. Has the bear Cats complete the regular season sweep? How the uc F tights there? You go? Yeah? Bad at all? Yeah, that wasn't beat at all? Yeah all right? Seg yes their ken Brew? You need you see in a little bit now coming up next, one five Americans are smoking dope as we speak. What's going on

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bad of the bowl, bad the bone of the bowl. All right tooa wait, welcome back the average American and for the great American. On this President's Day twenty twenty four. Are you high? Just asking because apparently apparently one in five of us, one in five of us now smoke marijuana. Americans record marijuana smoking has more than doubled since twenty thirteen when Gallup first asked the question in its Annual Consumption Habits. Age is significant factor in smoking.

About a quarter of young adults ages eighteen to thirty four say they have smoked marijuana twenty six percent, but it falls to eleven percent for those age fifty five and older. Well, you would think those aged fifty five and older who would be lighting up a little more, they got more time to burn, no pun intended. I mean, you know that that's into the retirement

crowd there. But the fact of the matter is several states, including the state of Ohio, have legalized marijuana, and places like Colorado, which was a forefront forerunner of this, Washington, Alaska, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, all of these states have legalized recreational marijuana, and apparently it's becoming more and more of, if not an issue, a trend in these states. But really and truly is that a very large number.

Five. A separate question found that half of adults fifty percent of us say that we've at least tried marijuana. Here now is somebody who's not only tried marijuana half the world thanks he invented it. Jerry Joyner is an outspoken advocate for the marijuana industry, host of a TV show on a podcast called Weed and Whiskey, and he's standing by to join us right now here on seven hundred wl WN. Jerry Joyder, how are you on this glorious Monday.

I'm doing any better? I'd need a twin brother, did you I have? I have THAC in the system, though you have THAC in your system? Okay? Is it legal? I mean there's certain states where it's legal, and that's okay. By the way, I heard you. You mentioned me on your last podcast. Is that right? I did? At the end of the podcast, I said, make sure you go to Imjmandett dot com and listen to me and Kim Burwe from Cincinnati on seven hundred WLW and

give you a little puck there. How about that? That was very nice to you, Jerry. I appreciate that now twenty percent one in five Americans are smoking right now smoking marijuana. Maybe a little bit more than that. It's a holiday, as you well know. But question, do you think that number is right? About twenty percent of us are smoking right now. Yeah, I think that twenty percent number for smoking ken is a is a fairly accurate number. But Gallup, who's a great survey taker, a poll

taker, didn't ask the correct question. It shouldn't be smoking marijuana. Are you ingesting some form of THC product? Because gummies are huge, And when you say smoked, my wife would say, no, I don't smoke marijuana, but she ate a gummy last night, and and and and so it's not It's the same thing, right, I mean, it does the same way. It's it's THC that gets into your body, that's regulated by that

indol cannabinoid system. Okay, But so when we when we ask these polling questions, I can I can tell you dozens of friends of mine that say, no, I don't smoke marijuana if somebody asked them. But if you said, well, do you eat a gummy that's got THC in it? That does the same thing as smoking marijuana, just takes a little longer. This. Oh yeah, I do one of those every night to go to

sleep or when my back's hurting. So so I think the use of a cannabis or a THC product, especially CBD products are huge, but even THC if the numbers are much higher. If you drilled down in how people are actually using these things now, Ken, Now it says about a quarter of young adults the eighteen to thirty four crowd smoke marijuana about twenty six percent, but it drops all the way down to eleven percent for those of US aged at fifty five and older. I would think it would be I think that

number fifty five and older would be it would be larger. I mean fifty five and older. You gotta take it. I think it's thirty or thirty five. I think it's thirty or thirty five percent. If you added in, are you using a THC coming, Are you using a THC pincher? Are you using a THC cream that might not get you high, but it gets THC into your into your system? Or are you doing edibles? Because so many people look, I'm sixty four, I'll be sixty four on four

to twenty. I don't love that much. Yeah, yeah, apparently I was born to do this, Ken, but I don't even smoke as much now. My patrons say Wiman Nelson, he hardly ever smoked marijuana, but he takes edibles every day because as you get older, your lungs, you know, it's just not as it's not as healthy for you, but your body kind of wants this THC in there. Depending on how much you need

to regulate your indocannabinoid systems, some people don't need any at all. I've got a lot of friends and say, man, I don't use that. I don't need that. And then I got some people that use it, maybe too much. So again I want to get a handle on this because it apparently is growing. I mean, it was twenty thirteen, it was

seven percent. Now it's twenty percent. I would imagine even if twenty percent is the real number, and we both say it isn't because it only takes into account people that light up as opposed to ingest, let's just say twenty percent is the right number. It would stand a reason that when they do this again, I don't know, five years from now, that twenty percent probably would be up around thirty. Right. I think you're right, you

know. I think young people they start off with smoking and are vaping. Vaping's a big thing now with the young folks, okay, and as they get smarter and older, they realize, hey, I like the way this makes my body feel. I like it better than alcohol. A lot of kids aren't drinking alcohol now because they started using these THAC products. But I think they gravitate a little bit away from the smoking and using it in every fashions drinking THC. Ken. I tried one of these cans with weed in

it, and I couldn't keep it lit. Okay, but this is huge where people are now drinking just like they were a beer something that's got THC. It's a low dose, so you don't get zonked out of your mind like drinking one or two beers. Well, you said you couldn't keep it lit. You have to like put it over a flame or something. What are you talking about there, Jerry, I've tried to be funny about lighting that can. Maybe I had too many gummy Hey, that shows you might

the depth of my knowledge all of this. I'm thinking maybe like you got to put it over like a campfire and then drink it. I Total Wines has just got to deal with several different brands of having THC infused beverages in two hundred and fifty stores here in Texas, as in up in Minnesota. It's huge. The drinks, and the youth are starting to gravitate towards these drinks, And it seems like as we're a little bit older, we're gravitating

towards the gummies. But I don't see it ever getting up real much higher than it is now. For the smoking aspect of it, I think we kind of see that kind of camping out because there's a lot of negative things that go along with the smoking of it. Well, so a lot of time that's the only way you could get THC in your system. Well, no, wait a minute, now, recreational marijuana it's not legal where you live. Is it regulated? Marijuana is not. You can get in twenty

four states. Ohio, you've got the most recent state that came on board with your last election. Can adult use is legal Hexas. You can get a federally legal due to the farm Build a Hip twenty eighteen farm bill, a pack of book of buzz gummies or a buzz me up drink that has THC. You a test positive for a drug test, you get a little buzz from it. And there are two hundred and fifty stores here in Texas. They're everywhere, not just here. You can go online, Can and

order what it's called THHCA. It looks like marijuana that you smoke. It smelled marijuana that you smoke, and for most people it gives them a psychotropic defect. Forty five states. You can order that online. Heavy. No, I did no idea. Ain't that America? Ain't ain't that America. Now, let me ask you a question. I think you and I had

this discussion. I want to know if you put any thought into this, the next great money to be made will be a perfume, body spray, or a version of weed that doesn't smell like weed and sticks on you. Because about four or five times this weekend I was out and about walking in the Greater Cincinnati area and somebody would come by me and I knew instantly that

that person had been blowing dope. I think we need to come up with an idea, something that when you're done, you either spray it on you, or there's something about the paper or something where it doesn't smell like skunk. Whoever comes up with a an anecdote to that smell is going to be the next great billionaire in this country. Would you agree? Well, I think I think you got a good point there, and that'd be a great

invention, whether it's cannabis or nicotine. That's a kind of an offensive smell. I smoked cigarettes for thirty seven years, and thank you, I finally quit smoking those cigarettes. And when I'm around somebody now that's a cigarette smoker, I'm kind of offended by that smell. And I know that it's a turn off with people with the with the marijuana. So people should do that

where it's not going to offend other people. Or as I mentioned earlier, this bay thing that's become so popular, so much of that kim doesn't have an odor. Well, when you asked about the next big money, major thing involving weed, there's something they've uncovered called thhc VCV. It makes you not be hungry. It's an appetite suppress it ken we smoke marijuana to get the monkeys. Well, you know what hey think about this? That surgery that a lot of people have that you know, they go in they tie

your stomach up or whatever, very expensive surgery. If you've got something on the market that can curtail appetite like that, it may revolutionize the medical industry. Way it's sure. Could you know that it's amazing the things that they are finding out about this plant that are good things. This appetite suppressant strain called THHCV is really starting to come on kind of strong as being an appetite suppressant. So do whatever thought that there are so many people with illnesses that

get they do get benefit from this. They say that their pains going away. Our veterans say it helps them with their PTSD and their depression. So I'm excited more and more research is being done about what and be good about this plant and making sure what's bad about this plant we avoid. Well, there's some states that will never legalize it. You realize that, right, I mean, it's just not far one of the last ones down here in

Texas. Well, I don't sense now. I mean, I have no idea what the politics are in various other states, but I would say when you get into some states like Alabama, Mississippi, it may be it may be a while before it's legalized. You know that you brought up a good point, but that that that Delta nine totally legal THHC from because of the Hemp Bill is available in Alabama, in Mississippi, uh Idaho, and Nebraska.

I believe are the only two states that you're not allowed to sell excuse me, in Colorado that you're not allowed to sell the Delta nine products. Uh. While cannabis is illegal in Texas because hemp is legal because of this farm bill. It's a probably four billion dollar industry. You guys in Ohio will be up giving Michigan competition shortly because all your oh your patients don't have to drive there to get some cannabis. Now, yeah, well in September,

I guess, well, I guess I guess we'll see. But yeah, I know a lot of people that we're doing this. We're chatting with a j man, Jerry Joyner. We're talking about this Gallup poll that came out study research that about one in five people now are smoking on a daily basis. Jerry thinks that number is greater than that because it doesn't get into gummies, which would drive that number up, and it's more prevalent among younger

adults eighteen to thirty four than older adults. As a matter of fact, more Democrats are likely than Republicans to smoke dope Democrats and twenty two percent Republicans

at twelve percent, Independence at seventeen percent. So it cuts across political lines with this as well, Jerry, But I guess, I guess the big thing here is Gallup is actually researching this, and it will be interesting, I think in the future if they do a similar study, and I'm sure Gallup does, if they do a similar study comparing alcohol use, because I kind of think, and again it's anecdotal, it's not no research that I have in front of me. This number will go up for the use of

cannabis and it will go down proportionally for the use of alcohol. And I would not be surprised within the next fifteen years to see those two numbers intersect. What about you, I agree with you that we're seeing that now. They're surveys and reports that are showing us, especially with young people. Young

people that are using cannabis aren't using as much alcohol. But the real thing that I think cannabis is starting to do, it's making a dent into the amount of opioid use that's going on in America, which we know how huge a problem this is. My mother in law, seventy five years old, would never smoke a joint ken. She's been taking the hydra codone for her

back pain. She started taking some of these bucketbus gummies and she doesn't take that hydro hydro cotone at night to go to sleep, and I think that's a real positive thing. Well, j Man, what is your next podcast, your next TV show, Weed and Whiskey and what will the topic be about? Well, this Friday, we got one that drops at four twenty and we're gonna have History Written in Stone. We're going to do a review of a show that we produced called History Written in Stone. There's eight episodes

and we're going to show you some bits from both of those. And are you sober when you do these shows, Jay manor or are you like on something? Or how do they what state of mind do you win when these happened? Well, well when when when you say sober? Okay, we've covered a lot of bases there. I don't take too many nips or tops of the whiskey or any type of beverages during the daytime. I didn't stop you. I'm not a cop. I didn't stop you right now. Yes,

she meant to me. At a couple of those, she gives me the stink I once I'm if I try to order a third one but I literally am eating a gummy or smoking a little bit of a joint all day long. And that's why you're You're perennially in a good mood from from every time I call you on the phone or get ahold of you through text or email or whatever. You always in a good mood. So maybe that has something to do with it. Jay was soon. How do you have so

much energy you're supposed to be slouching on the couch. Just doesn't affect me that way. I've got a lot of friends that it does. And this is your job, right Your job is we didn't whisky the podcast. You don't have any other job, do you? Well? Yeah, I kind of do. I promote products for people. I am jaman dot com. You can go follow my annex with Jay Leno and Adam Carolla a few people

like that. I'll be down at Willie Nelson's that March the thirteenth and fourteenth for a big fundraiser for farm Aide, and then we have what's called the Luck Reunion on March the fourteenth. It's at Willie's backyard and there'll be about thirty five bands that will play all day long. You got me into that, Jay Man, you got any tickets, you know, I told all my fluck to give my ticket. I'll send you some pictures this Luck Reunion

that really does. He'll be ninety one ken and they literally quadrupled the price. And I understand why. It's just, you know, there's only going to be so many shows that everybody wants to go to these things. I'll be I'll be probably up in a tree watching it, you know, from the from the sidelines. But we'll enjoy it. We'll bring you a report next time we talk. How's that, jam Man. I'll tell you what

I tried. I'm trying to get tickets or I've tried to get tickets to see them out in I think it's Mesa, Arizona in April, and lawn seats at their version of our Riverbend. We have a you know, a beautiful, great facility, beautiful facility on on the river here, the Ohio River. They're charging for lawn tickets out there in Arizona two hundred and three hundred dollars just to sit on the lawn and see him play. Well, you know, Jen, it's not just really it just seems like music.

Like so many they're going out to eat. Everything is just getting so much more expensive. I know. Next thing, you know, listening to us doesn't cost you anything, folks, That's right, that's gonna say. Next thing, you know, people won't be able to afford any weed, Jeredy, Stay well. I am J Mann. That's his uh, that's his website. I am JMA and dot com. All right, stay well. J Mann will be in touch. Talk to bye bye. He is twenty percent of us right now. Hi, everybody's smoking, lighting up, doing

the two see wootsie. And if you're older, less likely. If you're younger, well, I hope whatever we're doing today is more entertaining. It is two twenty six the average American and for the Great Americans seven hundred. WLW Is there a special time you like to listen to Sconslan? I love listening to his show while I'm getting a pedicure. Tell me more. I like to listen to his show while I'm at my twelve step meeting. Really, I love listening to his show at the zoo. The monkeys like it

too, Oh time out? Now you being serious? I listen to his podcast when my wife is watching one of those stupid romance movies. I guess anytime is the right time first loaning. That's what we've been saying Tomorrow morning at nine on seven hundred WLW and check out his podcast on the free iHeartRadio app. Are you a business owner, CEO or responsible for marketing? If you are, I heard media can help you reach your goals and find new

customers. People think it is. Really that's what Dave. Dave Campbell, who lived in San Diego for a lot of years, said, it is an absolute paradise place to live. Pitch fal ball and if you can live that long in San Diego, California, and say that about San Point, Idaho, your soul on sand Point, Idaho. Oh yeah, because San Diego ain't all bad. I bet they got some pretty good French fat taters up there. You think so you believe that? Hello, quiet, and

I'm broadcasting. I've been to San Diego. I've never been to Idaho. They got good French fried taters up there? Uh huh okay, Although I uh, I would have to figure that it's a little cheaper living in Idaho than San Diego. I would say, so yes, And let me quickly point out I would not want to live in either place Idaho. Yeah, Idaho is not the place for me either. I mean, I mean,

I'm sure it's gorgeous, big sky. You know, you got snow in the wintertime, it's probably got the probably like Buffalo, they get the hot weather for two weeks and then start snowing again. And at San Diego it's just you know, it's like it's you're always on vacation, which I don't, right, but and then you know, I mean, weather guys out there are always right, right, correct, Yeah, they look outside it's so, well, is it going to be sunny in eighty eighty five?

Today? I work with a weather guy once. Yeah, I'm told me what he wanted to invent is a weather rope, a rope, weather rope rope. It's a piece of rope. And he was going to say he's going to put his name on it, and you know, is hey, here is so and So's weather rope. I said, well, what do you do with the weather rope? He said, What you do is you

hang it outside a window. I said, guy, he says, if it's if it's blown back and forth, it's windy, if it gets wet, it's raining, if it's nice and dry, it's sunny, and so the rope would help you predict the weather. I said, So that's how they do it at five, nine, twelve and nineteen. Huh. You know what they do they well, that's how they do it. They walk out the back door, they look up and they go okay, partly, Sonny, No, you know what that's the secret for Jennifer Ketchmark. I

didn't know that. I might point out, that would have been the only sports anchor in America, in America sick that had his own wet BOWLB And I don't know why I had that, but it was just in case one of the meteorologists you go to the doctor for that. No, no, it's a wet bowl. Meteorology experts know what I'm talking about. And I just had a spare one just in case the meteorologist at my station had a broken wet bowl. Oh okay, I'm just saying. I looked out for

all facets of the broadcast ken Brew. They stood reporters of proud service. Every local Tamestar heating and air conditioning dealers Tamestar quality. You could feel in Cincinnati called Stacy Heating an air solution. Call him at five five, one, three, three six seven h E A T spot. Thank you Roxy. She just get a little lancy. I believe it. I bet you

she's got the weather rope out. She might have the weather rope hanging outside her when Redze hold their first full squad workout today at spring training camp. And guess who's there, Uh Joey Votto, the boss who mister Castellini himself is on the scene as well. Oversee everything. You might as well see what your P and L statement looks like. Amen to that one hundred and six million or something like that, though, I like that. Yeah,

yeah. Cactus League open her Saturday against those Guardians. The action on Fox Sports thirteen sixty, two thirty five with the RNL carriers inside pitch for you, Ken Brew. And you know why it's on thirteen sixty because on seven hundred we have uc basketball. That is correct again. Speaking of basketball, yukon unanimous number one this week in the APE Basketball poll, Houston is second, Purdue down to spot the third. Those Dayton Flyers at twenty one and

four remained sixteenth This week. Kentucky jumps five spots to seventeenth, and for the second week in a row and the fifth time this season Dayton's Doron Holmes. The second is the Atlantic ten Conference Player of the Week. That young man average twenty six and a half points for a game and ten rebounds and Flyer wins over Ducane and Fordham. How about that Flyers are on a roll to the super Bowl. Now we got uh, you know, we just had Valentine's Day? What last week? Yes, okay, I'm a lover.

Yep, Travis Kelcey back in the news. Oh no, spend sixteen grand on Tata for Valentine's Day. Yep, sixteen thousand, putting us all to shame. Ken Brew, we check himself into rehab after that? What we do too? He spent two thousand dollars on bouquet of roses, two of them, two and fifty roses apiece. I think he just went into the greenhouse and bought it. Thirty one hundred dollars on a rose sculpture, a rose sculpture, just a sculpture of a rose. For thirty one hundred.

He bought luxury I guess luxury brands, and a beret, a handbag and a shawl for Miss Swift. Well, you start picking out clothes for a woman to wear, you could get yourself in trouble. Well also that next thing is engagement. And then here we go. Well, here we go is right? You know, here we go, here we go. They play the first game of the year next year, right on a Thursday

night. How about that's right? That there are rumors that they're going to play the Bengals again, and it could be maybe at halftime, oh, rather than you know, the Kansas City Marching Band or whatever halftime entertainment that they have, marching chiefs, whatever it is. It's bring out a giant heart with roses all around it. Uh oh, And this is when he's gonna want one knee, and here we go, America, There we go. This is what America is waiting for. Let's see, it's a doubleheader

today and tonight at Daytona. Of course, rain washing out the action over the weekend. The Daytona five hundred, the Great American Race is set for a green flag after four pm today, and then they had rain this morning at Daytona. The Infinity Series opener was supposed to roll off at eleven am. Now that's pushed back after nine o'clock. After the five hundred tonight. Oh, he's gonna be fenders all over the place. It's gonna be a late night in Daytona, Florida. Say let me play something for you.

Go ahead, recognize this song. You know what I say all the time at the Big One. I second that emotion to give me sweet. You know who this is, right, Smokey Robinson? Correct, you know I'm playing this seg in honor of Valentine's Day with Taylor and Travis. It may be, but it's also birthday number eighty four for Bill Smokey Robinson. How about that? Eighty four years old? Donel look at day over forty Well, he went vegetarian back in nineteen seventy two. There you go back in

nineteen seventy two from Detroit, Michigan. Bill notown e Robinson, Well, eighty four years young. Today it has to be the king of Motown. Done hear one of them? Well it could be, you never know. I mean, there was never a more talented musician to come out of that talented spot for musicians. Eighty four years old of the best, right there, ken Brew that's I just thought you just pop that out of nowhere, just in case anybody was saying to themselves, Gee, I wonder who was

born today? You are mister music. Don't tell anybody you are mister music. Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. You write that down. That's pretty good, it is, Oh, you know, and ken Brew says, oh, okay, keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. What else we got, Seig, That's all I got, ken Brew? Well, you know, just having you here today with me as a little slice of heaven, no doubt about

it. On this President's Today, who's your favorite? President Gerald Ford? Really? You know, I read this morning in the USA Today. He used to be a model before he got into politics. Right, he is the only Eagle Scout that ever became president of the United States. My favorite is probably Abe Lincoln because my namesake was his postmaster general. Oh really, his name was said to no William Oh, William Dennison. Okay, Okay, maybe maybe he was. I don't know. You know, he was

quick with the mail, so you know, something like that. I don't know. Someday, get me to tell the story about my interview with President Gerald Ford. Oh, I thought you were going to say, Abe Lincoln. I thought, wait, a minute. Now, that's great at Vale, Colorado at the Gerald Ford Celebrity Golf Classic. Okay, I have to tell that something, but I need time to tell I don't I can't do it now right all right, many years ago. It's another one of my

close encounters of the third kind. Seg you stay well. I will visit with you again at a date yet to be determined. You got a ken Brew, and please get us out of the steage report ken Brew in honor of today's President's Day. Yes, we leave you with the immortal words of the stood Report. I'm coming down to Jackson this winter. And besides playing golf a lot and free loading off of you and Ash, we're going to Jackson. We're gonna do a little bit of CT and out. We got

plenty of places to do. I'm gonna got a hot Hollywood video crew to video tape it. They don't have to go far. We can do it in the front yard. I think mart get the billy coach. I think Marty missus date the cow tempts a thing will fall and fall on him. Marty misses the Cowboy. I can tell you that, Oh shucks. We we didn't even get to the NBA All Star Game, can brow. Well that's a good thing. All the action on that one. If they were

in charge of the defense of this country. Oh, we'd be saying President Putin by now you see you said it? Oh, two forty eight News Radio, seven hundred WLW. Meanwhile, in the enchanted forest, snow White happily walks the path to a tiny cottage. Yeah, this angry queen is out to get me. So I hang out with my seven friends. Seven friends in one tiny cottage. Yeah, they're sort of small. And what did you all do? We listened to Eddie and Rocky. They get all

of us laughing. Really well, everyone but Grumpy. But I could have sworn I heard him snickering a couple of times at and Rocky give your day a fairy tae ending Eddie and rock this afternoon at three on seven hundred WLW. In this week's Marketers Report, Dana Nusbaham, Executive Vice President. A former president not just someone who strove to be the best of the best,

but someone who achieved the best of the best. And we're talking about the former class president at Stax High School and the former class president at Notre Dame, and that would be the guy that takes over at the top of the hour along with Jason Williams today, I might point out, and that would be our good friend Rockett j Boyman Rocket. How are you on this glorious President's Day? Ken, I am great, but I must correct you. I was beat out for Stax's class president by Dave Doyle. Dave Doyle,

Dave Dave's doing all well, he's doing pretty good. He's like an investment banker in Columbus, so he's he's doing okay. You're not pretty good for him? Is it a nasty campaign? Oh yeah, just mud slinging everywhere. Were you making like wild promises or oh I was? I was. Yeah. We were going to get pop machines and the cafe tier, you know, all the stuff that the kids really want. That's what I was for. And uh, it didn't work out. I was beat out by

a better man. My kid ran for a class president that is that is elementary school. And and his he said, Dad, Dad, Dad, what do you think of the speech? And uh it was it was at a it was at Saint Andrews in Milford, and he began his speech, It's morning in Saint Andrews. I said, did you come up with that on your ard? He goes, oh, I didn't. Did some presidents say that? I go, you know what you ought to do is drop out of this race right now is what you ought to do? Well?

My uh, my former play by play guy, I claim Matt Thak his kid was in junior high this a couple of years ago. I was running for class president and uh He's like, yeah, he's got a campaign put off signs. I'm like, yeah, you know, you know you didn't he any money? Can I help you know with that campaign fund? He said, yeah, he's taking donations like fifty my fifty bucks. How expensive a race is this? Because are in seventh grade? God, oh my

god. Who was in your mind, not necessarily your lifetime, but in your mind the greatest president that we've had in these United States? Obviously it wasn't around, but it's hard to argue it wasn't Abraham Lincoln, right, I mean kept the Union together. I mean talk about just I mean, if you've read books, I mean I have, like you know, just every day of his life was miserable, the country hanging in the balance.

This is wrong, that's wrong. The Union is losing the war, can't find a general sort of thing, and then finally he's the country, keeps the country together, and what month two later is killed. So yeah, pretty exceptional man. Yeah, there's been some guys that were duds. There's been there's been some guys that were exceptional. But I think you would be hard pressed not to go with Abraham Lincoln. I you know, it's it's funny. I I always look for like the different off ramp and I like

Gerald. And the reason why is you probably weren't even alive, were alive after after Watergate. Now, I was born in eighty so it was long, long ways down the road. This country was teetering, not necessarily on anarchy, but belief in the country as to whether or not there were really really was a United States and there really was uh any any level of justice in this country, not unlike where we are right now. And to his political disadvantage, and it cost him, he just said, well, you

know what, we're we're gonna take all it. We're going to fix all this, We're gonna put you know, we're gonna we're moving past Nixon. It makes no sense going after Dixon. I'll take I'll take the shot for doing that. And you know, he easily could have gone down a different road if he was a political animal like most of them are today, and he chose not to. He he chose he chose country over self, and unfortunately, what we see a lot of in Washington, d C. Today

Is self over country. And so I was very you know, as somebody who was in his early adulthood, I was very impressed with that. And that was a pretty yeah, like you said, defining moment. And yeah, today wouldn't happen, but both Biden and Trump are at each other's throats, and you know, Biden's you know, using the federal government and went ways to prosecute Trump, and Trump would probably do the same thing to him.

But yeah, credit Forward for saying, you know what I mean, every president campaign's on, hey, we're gonna you know, move past when I unite the country, Well that's how unite the country said, Look, we're not looking the past, we're not going after Nixon, We're going to move forward here in divining moment. I'm sure he got a lot of crap for it at the time, but it was a right enough yeah, yeah, yeah, he had no shot when when the seventy six election rolled around.

And anyway, so you're in today with Jason Williams. Yes, who's still you know, he's a sport you know, he's into sports full time now, but still taking some slings and arrows politically from some of the inquiring readers. But I'm just wondering, what's on your docket today to discuss funny you should ask? Is right out of the gate, we have a David Niven poli psai. You see great guests of the show here. Obviously, these primaries are coming up. What March nineteenth, oh two, one ship

seat is up for grabs. Sheriff Brown's running. Who got some what three gup contenders in that race? It's another race. I felt that no one's talking about. That's what Jason and I were discussing. No one's really talking about these because they're pretty big. I have imagine a lot of it's fatigue. People are just wore out by the constant you know, Trump v. Biden, all this sort of stuff. But here's some big races. We're going to dive into him a bit here with David Navin at three or five.

You know, he's nobody talking about and maybe it's because he's become an afterthought as RFK Junior, and I thought there would be more discussion about him and he would have more of a more traction, particularly in a country that is dissatisfied half dissatisfied with the other half. But I mean's he's just a non starter, which to me. You know, he does have the backing of a party, which you know is going to hurt him financially. But

there's nothing that's captivated anybody's imagination about the guy. So let me ask you this, Ken, Does he help Trump or Biden more him being in the race. Does he? Oh? I think if he's in the race, in my personal opinion, it affects Biden more. It doesn't affect Trump because Trump has got his cores. The people are going to vote for Trump, are going to vote for Trump. It's like if Nicki Haley for some way, in way, shape or form, becomes the Republican nominee, she's she's

she's finished because the Trump voters aren't going to vote for Haley. They'll stay home. You know, everybody saying, wow, Haley can beat but be Biden. Well, okay, yeah. In February of an election, year. But come November, if it's Haley against Biden, you know, the Trump people aren't going to say, hey, yeah, NICKI Haley, she's good. I'm going to go with her. She's she's and I just don't

think people are going to come out and support her. But I do think it's at Biden's expense if RFK runs, because regardless of what you think about his political beliefs, he's still affiliated in name with the Democrats, and I still think people look at him and think, well, you know, that's Democrat lineage right there, Democrat royalty. But I don't know. The last thing I predicted was what I was going to have for dinner last night, and that was just me. That was wrong. That was just by accident.

You guys have a great show. Thanks Ken. All right, there he is Rocket, Jay Morman and Jason Williams. They are next on seven hundred WYLW News Traffic and Weather News Radio seven hundred w l W Cincinnati Break Now. In the case of a double murder on a college campus, this is the three o'clock report. I'm Matt Reece Breaking Now. Tense weekend leads

to relief at a branch of the University of Colorado. There's an arrest now in the murder of two people inside a dorm at the school's campus in Colorado Springs. Two victims found after a call the shots had been fired. After staying pretty quiet about what they knew involving the killer, Colorado Springs pol East now say they have made an arrest. It came Monday morning, and the suspect and victims were known to each other. Was not a random crime.

Twenty four year old University of Colorado Colorado Springs student Samuel Knopp and twenty six year old Ceely Montgomery, who is not a red