Latest / Chuck Douglas / Honorary Degrees and Krogers stopping SHIP service

Transcript

Honorary Degrees and Krogers stopping SHIP service · Chuck Douglas

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Greeting salutations. Welcome my friends to another edition of Deep
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Power Owl on six ten double UTV and on Chuck
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Douglas you know who you are. We take it from
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: there my number eight to one nine eight eight six
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: eight two to one WTV and we get one hour together,
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: which means I talk really fast and you must listen
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: even faster. The Anchor baby debate, we haven't heard anything about.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: That for a while.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Haven't heard much about immigration for a while. It's been
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: kind of quiet on that front. However, the anchor baby thing,
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: I think it'll be back. We'll be all of the
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: headlines here in the next couple of days, and Columbus,
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Ohio will be in the forefront stand by because uh yeah,
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: you'll uh you'll.
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: Be so proud, seriously you will.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: Before I get into that, though, couple of notes here Kroger.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: First of all, Kroger just can't seem to get any
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: good headlines lately. Zach, have you noticed that everything that
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: we see about Kroger just seems to be a negative
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: connotation to it.
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, shutting down things, Yeah, the overcharging for things. They
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: tried to do a merger and it didn't work out.
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: Not too long ago, so they're on a roll.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's been.
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: It's been kind of a bad few months for Kroger.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: They are in the news again today quietly shutting down
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: what they called the Kroger Ship, which I'm not even
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: familiar with Kroger's ship, are you?
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: No, I've never It.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: Was an attempt, apparently by Kroger to compete with Walmart
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: and Amazon. They stopped operations back in March informed their
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: customers through just a fac page on their website. Launched
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, customers could receive orders over thirty five
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: dollars delivered to their doorstep, which is like the Kroger Boost.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: The chain said the service would allow customers to shop
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: when and how they wanted. They expanded the ship platform
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: by allowing third party sellers to offer items in twenty twenty,
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: and then entered a partnership with bed, Bath and Beyond
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. While the Ship has been discontinued,
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: Kroger does still offer the option of placing orders online
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: through it's pick up and delivery services. Again, that's the
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: Kroger Boost, which I've already said we won't be renewing.
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: Just the Queen's very unhappy the third of the stuff
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: she you know, clicks on her list and then then
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: we get a slip saying it wasn't available or whatever.
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: So she'd just rather go to the store. As much
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: as she hates going to the store, she'd rather go.
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: I don't mind going.
• 2:24
  Speaker 3: But almost every single time they don't have something, Yeah,
• 2:27
  Speaker 3: when you order it from a third person getting it,
• 2:30
  Speaker 3: And I don't know if that's people who are just like,
• 2:32
  Speaker 3: you know what, I'm just not going to look for this,
• 2:34
  Speaker 3: or I think I've done here and everything else, I'm
• 2:37
  Speaker 3: just going to say they don't have I don't know.
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: There's too many variables.
• 2:40
  Speaker 3: But when I shop, I get ninety nine percent of
• 2:43
  Speaker 3: the stuff that I want. But when I order it.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, different right, And it's is that because it's not there,
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: or because I don't know the person doing the shopping
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: didn't want to bend over to the bottomshelf, or you know,
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: you have no idea. And here's here's the deal. I
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: don't everything online. When it comes to groceries, canned goods,
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: prepackaged stuff, that's one thing. You know, Uncle Ben's rice
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: can only be one way. However, like meat and produce,
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: that's a personal thing for me. I've got that. Actually
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: you need to lay eyes and hands on that stuff,
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: so I never get that through there anyway. So you
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: would think it to be pretty easy because it's all
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: prepackaged type stuff, but no, it's usually about a third
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: of it that is not available.
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: So anyway.
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: It comes as Amazon continues to dominate the e commerce marketplace.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: Walmart has revamped their delivery system as of last month,
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: unlocking same day drop offs to more than twelve million
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: American households. That's a big deal. Well, you don't have
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: to schedule that far in advance, and you can actually
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: wake up in the morning and do and say hey,
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: I need this, and they bring it that same day.
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: You got it in time for dinner or whatever. That's
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: a big deal. Kroger has not announced the reason behind
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: the platform termination. Experts and social media users have various
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: opinions on why they may have decided to shut it down.
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: A few customers said they were angered by the decision
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: admitted they would no longer shop at Kroger because of
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: the ship removal. Others said they weren't surprised by it.
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: I think the main reason Kroger acting ship is that
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: the service just didn't gain ground in the way Kroger
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: was hoping it would. That's a global data. A guy
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: named Neil Saunders talking to Daily Mail, which is, by
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: the way, where I get all my best American news
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: stories from the UK Daily Mail.
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 4:29
  Speaker 3: Why I do the same thing.
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: And if I want to know what's going on in Columbus,
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: I go to the Cleveland Plane Dealer. It's just I'm
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: like that Kroger was a bit part player. It just
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: didn't do enough to convince shoppers to use the service.
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: The guy continued. He said it will now focus on
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: traditional grocery delivery, which provides better prospects for the corporation.
• 4:50
  Speaker 2: So there you go.
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: If you were one of the people who had Kroger Ship,
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: not Kroger Boost, but Kroger Ship, it is it is.
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: No longer available to you.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: They're pulling the blog about that Maryland the commonwealth? Is
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: Maryland a state or a commonwealth? And actually what's the difference? Well,
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what the difference between a state
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: and the commonwealth are. I know that the New England
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: states like Massachusetts is a commonwealth. I think Pennsylvania as
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: well as a commonwealth. But I have no idea what
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: the difference between a state and a commonwealth actually is.
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: Do you know that, Zachary?
• 5:24
  Speaker 3: I had to look it up. Okay, for ken that
• 5:27
  Speaker 3: I know, But commonwealth refers to specific specific term used
• 5:30
  Speaker 3: at official names of for states Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Virginia.
• 5:35
  Speaker 3: These are designated as commonwealths for historical and symbolic reasons.
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: Only I would have thought you would have known Kentucky.
• 5:41
  Speaker 3: I knew Kentucky was. No, I just didn't know exactly
• 5:44
  Speaker 3: what commonwealth was.
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: But I mean, is there any technical difference that they
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: don't have a different No.
• 5:49
  Speaker 3: It's just a symbolic thing for whatever reason.
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, so Maryland is state. Then Maryland has
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: their first black governor in office, which I didn't know.
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: And Maryland's first black governor has vetoed a bill that
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: the legislature passed.
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: You know what was for Did you already see the story?
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: You know what was for reparations?
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: Yes, the first black governor of Maryland has vetoed a
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: bill from the legislature.
• 6:16
  Speaker 3: Well, he's racist though.
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: Maryland Governor Wes Moore vetoed SB five eighty seven legislation
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: sponsored by State Senator c Anthony Muse, Democrat of Forest Heights,
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: that would have established the Maryland Reparations Commission. The Commission
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: would have been asked or tasked with providing recommendations by
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven relating to appropriate benefits to be offered
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: to African Americans impacted by slavery and historic inequity or inequality.
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: And can I just say, it's twenty twenty five, there
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: are no African Americans impacted by slavery. I'm just putting
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: it out there. I'm just putting it out there. The
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: same people who tell me, well, the Second Amendment doesn't
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: apply because that was back at the seventeen hundred and
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: the world has changed. Yet, Well, guess what so was slavery.
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: So you can't have it both ways anyway, Moore. Governor
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: Moore did not issue his veto in any sort of
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: opposition to the overall idea. He said, I applaud the
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: Legislature's work on the bill. I think the Black Caucus
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: for their leadership. We have moved into partnership with leaders
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: across the state to uplift black families and address racial
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: disparities in our community. This is in the context with
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: which I have made this difficult decision. Moore took issue
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: with the potential for more of bureaucracy that the resolution
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: would offer. Now it's not the time for another study,
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: he said. Does this guy know he's not a Democrat?
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: I'm just somebody should tell him. Now it's not the
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: time for another study, he said, citing other recent commissions established,
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: including the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Committee. Now is
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: the time for continued action that delivers results.
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: For the people we serve.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: So there you go, first, black governor of Maryland vetoing
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: the reparations bill.
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: What do you got?
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: First of all, how are you gonna pick and choose
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: who was affected by slavery? That you can't. It's been
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: three hundred years, for goodness sake, you can't. There's no
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: way to do it. You can't. And if you're gonna
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: compensate people who you know are descending some people that
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: they can claim were slaves or verify even that they
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: were slaves, how about we need compensation for all the
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: white people who should have been able to be slave
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: owners and rich living on plantations down south, but their
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: families were poor. America let them down and held them
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: hostage too, didn't they say, all those white folks who
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: are descended from poor white folks, they ought to get
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: some money too. I'm just saying the whole concept is stupid.
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: It truly is. But believe me, Maryland will not be
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: the last state where they try to do this. And
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: in fact, you know Ohio to give us time. Speaking
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: of Ohio, Ohio State University, the Ohio State University to
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: vote on giving an honorary degree.
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: Did you see this one.
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: Zack, because this will this will offend me, This will
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: offend me.
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: So you already know the story.
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: Ohio State, the Ohio State University to vote on giving
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: Lebron James an honorary degree for what? For a most
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: successful sucking I mean, come on, for what?
• 9:52
  Speaker 3: According to Ohio State, he's redefined philanthropy. No, he hasn't
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: a revolutionary model for community building in his hometown of
• 10:01
  Speaker 3: acron So.
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: So then let Akron give him an honorary degree in acronism.
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: That's a lot of words for not being specific about
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: what he is.
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: Yes it is, Yes it is. Lebron James did not
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: come to Ohio State University. He left high school with
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: directly into the NBA. His son did not come to
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: a le Ohio state university to play basketball here before
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: joining the Lakers, and I'm grateful for that because the
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: last thing that team needed was to have Lebron James
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: down here second guessing the coach. Sorry, but that's truthful.
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: And you know that's exactly the kind of team father
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: he would be. He knows better, he will always know better,
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: much like you know, Dion Sanders. I think we're seeing
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: the results of you know, Dion a wonderful job as
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: a coach out there in Colorado, but you know, as
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: a as a dad and a representative. One of his
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: sons fired him as their manager. I forget which one
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: it was.
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: Milo.
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: Is that the kid's name. I think it's Milo fired
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: him as the manager. And he's spouting off at the mouth.
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: And there are some teams he wouldn't let his sons
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: play for, and all this kind of stuff. I n
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: FL team, you thought your son was gonna go in
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: the first round? What what? What did Sanders go in
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: like the eighty eighth.
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: Round or something?
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, and now Cleveland is kind of I
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: think regretting that, and they're trying to balance the budget
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: and all that kinds of So you know, some parents
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: just are there this their stage parents, as they call him.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: They've got to be constantly involved. They always know more,
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: they want to they want to override and uh and
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: if you don't do what they want you to do,
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: then they take their kid and go home. And I
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: just I I wouldn't have wanted Lebron's son. I can't.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I can't say Bronny that just said. I
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: feel like he's named after paper towels. I can't say
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: Brini Lebron's son. I wouldn't have wanted him on the
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: OSU basketball team.
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: Seriously.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: So anyway, according to the university's Born or Trustees Agenda,
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: the board will vote on whether to give James an
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: honorary doctor of Public Service degree, not even an honorary
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: Batchler's degree for the guy who got out of high
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: school and went straight to the NFA, but a doctorate
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: of public service. Now he has more money than me,
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: he has more cast to throw around, he has more
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: dollar signed to throw around. I get that, but you
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: know what, where's my doctor to public service? Because I've
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: done some public service? Baby, Come on, OSU, where's my
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: doctorate during his twenty two seasons in the NBA, James
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: has won four championships, which I think qualifies him right there.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: They say he's also made an impact outside of basketball.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: The Ohio State says James has redefined philanthropy to create
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: a revolutionary model. Before making it to the NBA, he
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: launched the Lebron James Family Foundation to help children and
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: families in Acron. Before making it to the NBA, he
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: went from high school to the NBA. Right he did.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: There was no college, Boult, there was no nil before,
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: So just a high school kid, he established the foundation. Okay,
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: if he gets this honorary degree, he'll join several others. Now,
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: see what's in common here, several others who received such
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: a degree, including Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Anthony Falci, Joyce Baity,
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: Tim Cook, Jamie Diamond.
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, George W. Bush. I mean, you gotta have
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: your token Republican in there.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: Do you see a direction at all?
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: Again?
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: James went straight from a high school into the NBA
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: at nineteen years of age, went to the Cleveland Cavaliers,
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: where I was actually happy to see him play because
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: he was a high school kid and I was talking
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: about him while he was in high school. I just
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: had no idea his head was going to get as
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: big as it did.