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55KRC Wednesday Show - Jack Atherton, AFP, Leah Dinkelacher, Judge Napolitano · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: 505.
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  Speaker 2: The 55KRC. The Talk Station.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Wednesday.
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  Speaker 4: Call Kenny Loggins because you're in the danger zone.
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  Speaker 2: Getting close, aren't we? Happy Wednesday. Brian Thomas right here.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to be host of the 55KRC Morning Show. And
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  Speaker 2: Joe Strucker, executive producer of the Morning Show. Glad he's there.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm glad when you call in, feel free to
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  Speaker 2: do that this morning after I mention who's coming up.
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  Speaker 2: 7.05 on a Wednesday. Big picture with Jack Atherton today.
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  Speaker 2: Halloween monsters and victims. So, let you. Sort of ponder
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  Speaker 2: that one because I'm pondering it too, and I have
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  Speaker 2: no idea which direction he's going to go, which is
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  Speaker 2: the great thing about Jack Gavin. It's always great in
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  Speaker 2: the final analysis. Donovan Neal, Americans for Prosperity, State Director for.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be running down a list of topics, and, of course,
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  Speaker 2: obviously that will involve getting you engaged and getting out
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  Speaker 2: to vote. Says we'll be watching some lame duck issues
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  Speaker 2: here in Ohio. High on the priority list, data centers.
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  Speaker 2: How can Ohio welcome investment while making sure families and
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  Speaker 2: small businesses don't pay for the power and infrastructure those
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  Speaker 2: projects require?
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  Speaker 5: Good.
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  Speaker 2: It's an important topic. I think Vivek Ramaswamy is all
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  Speaker 2: over that one. Bring your own power, build them out
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  Speaker 2: where no one lives, that kind of stuff. Rain, should
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  Speaker 2: elected lawmakers have a meaningful role in reviewing regulations with
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  Speaker 2: significant economic costs before they take effect? And finally, regulatory
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  Speaker 2: relief and universal sandbox. How Ohio can make it easier
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  Speaker 2: for entrepreneurs to test new ideas and bring useful products
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  Speaker 2: and services to the market. How can Ohio do that? Well,
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  Speaker 2: Get out of the way would be my recommendation. Reduce
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  Speaker 2: the regulatory burden, lower the taxes, including property tax. Somebody's
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  Speaker 2: going to figure the property tax one out. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's something else to consider. Who's more likely to lower
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  Speaker 2: your property taxes, Amy Acton or Vivek Ramaswamy?
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It would be the latter for those not quite sure
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  Speaker 2: on that. Donald O'Neill at 730, followed by Leah Dankalocker.
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  Speaker 2: Vote Dankalocker. She's a great, great judge. Judge Leah Dankalocker. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, her father. Apple fell right at the bottom
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  Speaker 2: of the tree, so close to her father, Pat Dinkalocker,
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  Speaker 2: and they're just outstanding people. These are the type of
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  Speaker 2: people you want to keep or put on the bench.
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  Speaker 2: Got some important, important races. We'll get to that in
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  Speaker 2: just a second. Late Dinkalocker, 805, and then Judge Ernest
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  Speaker 2: Apolitano on basically war and the roughshod nature that every
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  Speaker 2: administration since Eisenhower has run over the Constitution, the limits
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  Speaker 2: of the Constitution. declarations of war, and it's been fast
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  Speaker 2: and loose ever since World War II. And this is
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  Speaker 2: where we find ourselves today. There's no parameters anymore. Presidents
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  Speaker 2: can willy-nilly just wage war whenever the hell they want
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  Speaker 2: without a forethought, without a game plan, without articulating and
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  Speaker 2: identifying a goal before the conflict starts. It's frightening stuff,
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  Speaker 2: but it's true. Okay, yesterday was the last day you
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  Speaker 2: could request an absentee vote by mail. That is over.
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  Speaker 2: It's done. You can no longer request an absentee vote
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  Speaker 2: by mail ballot. With that said, today being Wednesday, what
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  Speaker 2: do you need to do? Mail your ballot back to
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  Speaker 2: the Board of Elections with $ 1. 11 in postage. That will
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  Speaker 2: be two forever stamps. Two of them. One insufficient. Mail
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  Speaker 2: ballots must be received at the Board of Elections by
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  Speaker 2: the close of the polls, 7.30 p.m. on Election Day.
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  Speaker 2: That will be next Tuesday, November 3rd, in case you forgot. So,
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  Speaker 2: Make sure it is received or it has been received.
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  Speaker 2: You can drop it off. Don't worry about the Postal Service.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't rely on the Postal Service. If I'm really
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  Speaker 2: concerned about my ballot being cast, I'm going to swing
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  Speaker 2: by and put it in the drop box. 24 hours
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  Speaker 2: a day, seven days a week. It's right there at
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  Speaker 2: the Board of Elections. Must be returned by the person
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  Speaker 2: who received the ballot. You can't just bring in a
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  Speaker 2: whole bunch of them. There are other things you have
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  Speaker 2: to do if you have other people's ballots to drop off.
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  Speaker 2: 24-7 box available only to voters returning their own personal ballot.
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Someone's out there gathering ballots and piling them up and
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  Speaker 2: getting ready to stuff them all in the box. That's
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  Speaker 2: not the law in the state of Ohio. If you're
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  Speaker 2: returning a ballot on behalf of a family member or
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  Speaker 2: a person with a disability, you must return those ballots
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  Speaker 2: in the board's main office during business hours and have
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  Speaker 2: to complete what they call a ballot delivery attestation process.
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  Speaker 2: It's Form 12P if you want to make a note
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  Speaker 2: on it. I'm sure that they'll be able to quickly
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  Speaker 2: provide you with the form if you're showing up with
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  Speaker 2: someone else's ballot. The point is you're not allowed to
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  Speaker 2: ballot stuff. And I'd like to think that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: everybody hates flock cameras. We need to get away with those.
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  Speaker 2: Do the people who hate flock cameras think it's a
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  Speaker 2: bad idea to sort of maybe have a video monitoring
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  Speaker 2: the Dropbox? Now, I say that not knowing whether there
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  Speaker 2: is a camera observing the antics around the Dropbox, but
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  Speaker 2: we've seen those in other cases. And whatever happened to
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  Speaker 2: that investigation from the last election? All right, so early
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  Speaker 2: voting center. Hours are extended for the last week of
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  Speaker 2: early voting. They'll be here. So you got Wednesday through Friday.
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  Speaker 2: That's today through Friday, 7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. The
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  Speaker 2: early vote center. Saturday, October 31st between 8 and 4 Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: November 1st between 1 and 5. That is the last
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  Speaker 2: day of early voting. Let me repeat that. Sunday is
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  Speaker 2: the last day of early voting. There is no voting
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  Speaker 2: on Monday. They've got to get their act together for
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  Speaker 2: the big day. And widely reported that the polls have
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  Speaker 2: been packed. Lots of folks early voting. They're anticipating this
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  Speaker 2: is going to be a record year for early voting,
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  Speaker 2: which maybe also suggests, and Christopher Smithman is going to
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  Speaker 2: shout out to you this morning because he talked about
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  Speaker 2: it yesterday. He was texting me back and forth. Republicans
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  Speaker 2: have to get out and vote. Now, he, of course,
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  Speaker 2: identifies as an independent but leans Republican, and he's worried
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  Speaker 2: about the future of our country as much as everybody
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  Speaker 2: else should be. You know, the idea of the Democratic
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  Speaker 2: Socialists of America leanings dominating politics from this point forward
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  Speaker 2: in the Democrat Party is frightening. It's just scary. And
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  Speaker 2: the county is already scared. so overwhelmingly Democrat, and it
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  Speaker 2: has been for a while. I'm not telling you anything
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  Speaker 2: you don't know, but how do you feel about how
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  Speaker 2: things have turned out in the city and the county
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  Speaker 2: over the period of time they've been in charge? Hell,
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats have been running the city of Cincinnati for decades.
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  Speaker 2: How's that working out for you? You feel safe? You
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  Speaker 2: happy with the infrastructure? You happy with their priorities? You
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  Speaker 2: happy with the state of the policing, which is in
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  Speaker 2: dismal state only because the morale's gone through the toilet.
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  Speaker 2: The administration hates the police or doesn't want to do
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  Speaker 2: anything about them. Low numbers, a overtime out the wazoo
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  Speaker 2: can't get people to lateral hire into because everyone is
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  Speaker 2: painfully aware of F to have per of all the
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  Speaker 2: council members basically the county generally turning its back on
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement in the name of some woke ideology I
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  Speaker 2: don't know Democrats been running the show for a long
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  Speaker 2: time and with so far as the judicial races are
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  Speaker 2: concerned there are nine contested judicial races and Five of
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  Speaker 2: them are Republicans trying to keep their seats. Nine of
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  Speaker 2: the 16 common police judges are currently held by Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, well, that's better than half. The seven remaining seats,
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  Speaker 2: what the inquirers Aaron Glenn and Kevin Groshek call the
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  Speaker 2: last frontier for the Hamilton County Democratic Party. We, they
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  Speaker 2: want the remaining judicial seats, all of them.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because then they would control every damn seat in the
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  Speaker 2: city of Cincinnati and Hamilton County with the exception of
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  Speaker 2: the county engineer. Pretty non-political position, the county engineer.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They hold every seat of the Cincinnati City Council, Hammond
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  Speaker 2: County Board of Commissioners. Of course, the mayor. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm old enough to remember a time when Hamilton County
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  Speaker 2: was solid red. This is the direction the country is going.
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  Speaker 2: And then, you know, you move from solid red to
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  Speaker 2: sort of blue. Those centrist blue Democrats, you know, they're
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  Speaker 2: all sane. They're all okay. There's nothing to fear from
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  Speaker 2: a good old-fashioned John F. Kennedy Jr. Democrat, but that's
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  Speaker 2: not them anymore. Democrats are moving over to a form
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  Speaker 2: of hardcore leftism that just is not in any shape
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  Speaker 2: traditional Democrat Party stuff. But you've all been brainwashed, my
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  Speaker 2: Democrat friends, into believing that's in your best interest. We
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  Speaker 2: can't have those evil Republicans. Oh, Orange Man. Got to
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  Speaker 2: mention Orange Man these days whenever you mention the Republican Party.
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  Speaker 2: So there, I mentioned Orange Man. Can't have that going on.
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  Speaker 2: But are you seeing what's happening within your own party?
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  Speaker 2: Do you want the inmates to run the asylum? Is
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  Speaker 2: your party then going to be dominated by greed and envy? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I guess so. Get a load of this. It was
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  Speaker 2: an interview with the aforementioned reporters from the Enquirer. Republicans
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  Speaker 2: target juvenile court judge Carrie Bloom. The subject matter of
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  Speaker 2: the conversation we had with Signal 99 the other day,
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  Speaker 2: and if you're not a friend with Signal 99 on Facebook,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of new entries are posts on her page
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  Speaker 2: with more revealing information about the judicial situation downtown since
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  Speaker 2: our Hamilton County specifically. You should probably read that. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: speaking of Bloom, Judge Bloom, running for re-election. Susan Lukens,
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  Speaker 2: the choice on that one. Josh Gerst said in a statement,
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  Speaker 2: Bloom's decisions, he said, are directly responsible for children being raped,
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  Speaker 2: people being killed, and lawlessness taking over the community. And
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  Speaker 2: you can draw a line between those and read Signal
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  Speaker 2: 99's posts on that. You let someone out with no bond,
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  Speaker 2: a recidivist juvenile in your court, and that person goes
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  Speaker 2: out and rapes someone. That's why Josh Gerst said she
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  Speaker 2: is directly responsible for it. Believe it or not, that's
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  Speaker 2: the facts behind the matter. He said voters, regardless of
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  Speaker 2: partisan affiliation, need to know what's happening in juvenile court
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  Speaker 2: and decide whether or not this can be allowed to continue.
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  Speaker 2: Kid Glove bloomed. And more interesting, Democratic Party Chair Alex
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  Speaker 2: Linzer quoted as saying, First, and it must be said,
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  Speaker 2: the Republican Party has no business talking to voters about
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  Speaker 2: protecting children. Wait for it, folks. Wait for it. since
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  Speaker 2: it has repeatedly enabled pedophile protector politicians who vote to
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  Speaker 2: hide the Epstein files. Oh, this, yeah, this local race
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  Speaker 2: is about Epstein files. Nice dodge there, buddy. No, this
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  Speaker 2: has nothing to do with Epstein files. Why don't you
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  Speaker 2: take a look at Magistrate Broom and see all the
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  Speaker 2: people she's let out on the street who are demonstrably dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: Marcy's Law, anybody? Any consideration for the victims of the
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  Speaker 2: crime or the families of the community? Generally speaking, no,
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  Speaker 2: not at all. We cannot have a juvenile held accountable
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  Speaker 2: in Hamilton County is apparently Judge Bloom's default position, regardless
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  Speaker 2: of what they've done. Hiding firearms charges. Don't charge him
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  Speaker 2: with firearms. We don't have to worry about him being
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  Speaker 2: labeled someone carrying firearms under disability. We wouldn't want a
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  Speaker 2: young person to have that now, would we? Elections have consequences.
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  Speaker 2: We need to save the county from the hardcore leftists
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  Speaker 2: who do not care about crime. Everyone suffers with this philosophy.
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  Speaker 2: Every neighborhood. 516-517-55KRC, the talk station. We'll get phone calls
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  Speaker 2: when we come back. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK. Pound 550 on AT &
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  Speaker 8: 55KRC.
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  Speaker 9: Get in the spirit.
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  Speaker 2: It is 520. Holly, victim of the beatdown, almost got
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  Speaker 2: killed by the crazy attack, the mob attack we know
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  Speaker 2: so much about in downtown Cincinnati. Yeah, you feel safer
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  Speaker 2: in downtown Cincinnati. Edmund County Democratic Party Chair Alex Linzer,
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  Speaker 2: go back to him and his statement. He said the
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  Speaker 2: Democrat judicial slate has Diverse, highly qualified attorneys whose lived
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  Speaker 2: experiences bring wisdom and perspective to the bench. Lived experiences.
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  Speaker 2: Don't we all have lived experiences? Isn't our entire being
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  Speaker 2: sort of built on the various experiences we have lived
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  Speaker 2: throughout our lives? I don't even know what that phrase
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  Speaker 2: means to be quite candid with you. Anyway, he went on,
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  Speaker 2: Democratic judges have protected our wallets, cut courthouse waste, made
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  Speaker 2: neighborhoods safer, and protected abortion rights.
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  Speaker 5: Whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Liam. Josh Gerth, for his part, Hamilton County
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  Speaker 2: Republican Party Chair. Hamilton County Democrats had six years of
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  Speaker 2: control of the courthouse, and their soft-on-crime philosophy has made
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  Speaker 2: our community worse. We can't even expect traditions like opening
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  Speaker 2: day to be protected, and yet Hamilton County Democrats want
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  Speaker 2: you to rehire them to do this job poorly for
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  Speaker 2: another six years. Good point, Josh.
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  Speaker 7: Crimes.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see what Bobby's got this morning. Bobby, welcome to
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  Speaker 2: the morning show and a happy Wednesday to you.
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  Speaker 7: Happy Wednesday, my friend. Faith Flag family and inquiring minds
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  Speaker 7: would like to know.
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  Speaker 2: Would like to know what?
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  Speaker 7: Well, a lot of times people don't, you have to
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  Speaker 7: wonder why people don't talk about specific things, especially with
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  Speaker 7: this election coming up, Governor, our state. You got these red, green,
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  Speaker 7: flag-flying socialists keep talking about my next governor, Vivek, of
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  Speaker 7: being a Hindu. Why haven't you heard anything about acid
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  Speaker 7: Amy being Jewish? You got these red and green flag
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  Speaker 7: flyers going to vote for a Jewish governor?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, she's Jewish.
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  Speaker 7: Here I am.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me. Hold on. Apologize for that. I did not
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  Speaker 2: know that Amy Acton was Jewish, honestly. So me admitting that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I don't have all the factual information stuffed
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  Speaker 2: in my head and it's more and more difficult for
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  Speaker 2: me to retain factual information the older I get. But
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  Speaker 2: if she is, I guess I have to take your
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  Speaker 2: word on that one. I also similarly wonder. Joe's verifying it.
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  Speaker 2: So my fact checker, internet research guru, all-around great guy,
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  Speaker 2: Joe Strecker. Yes, you are right, Bobby. So maybe my
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  Speaker 2: listening audience is aware of that and I apologize for
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  Speaker 2: my ignorance on that. But Given that Jews are a
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  Speaker 2: real problem for a lot of the Democrats, of course,
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  Speaker 2: the far left wing, the DSA, Abdul Al-Sayed and crew
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  Speaker 2: seemingly out loud hate Jews. And some recent polling, Bobby,
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  Speaker 2: that I don't know. I know we all don't believe
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  Speaker 2: in polling anymore, but I saw this over on Breitbart.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was as early as this morning, recent
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  Speaker 2: as this morning or yesterday, that the Jewish community has
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  Speaker 2: lurched over to the Republican Party in very large swaths
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  Speaker 2: because of the anti-Semitism embrace of by the Democrat Party,
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  Speaker 2: which makes perfect sense to me that they would choose
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  Speaker 2: to turn their backs on the Democrats.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I just don't understand why you haven't heard it
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  Speaker 7: from any mainstream media. They don't want people to know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, maybe that's one of the questions Amy Acton wants
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  Speaker 2: to dodge. Amy Acton, you find yourself on the left-wing
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  Speaker 2: side of the ledger. How do you feel about your
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  Speaker 2: political party, the Democrats, embracing what appears to be anti-Semitism
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  Speaker 2: as a platform? Would you mind answering that question? No,
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  Speaker 2: screw you. I don't answer any questions. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: quit taking video of me.
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  Speaker 1: You're not allowed. That's about all you get out of her.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Joe Biden strategy. The next thing I have
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  Speaker 1: is very simple. Keep holding that torch of freedom high
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  Speaker 1: and bright, my brother.
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  Speaker 10: We need it.
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  Speaker 7: More than what people realize.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm talking to the wind, Bobby. I've
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  Speaker 2: mentioned that before in the past, but I'll keep trying.
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  Speaker 2: I'll keep trying. I'll just get my money out and
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  Speaker 2: vote next week. Do it. You can vote through Sunday.
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  Speaker 7: Pass that information on. Maybe it'll get on the wires
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  Speaker 7: in the next six days. We hope so.
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  Speaker 2: Hope so. Bobby, hang in there, brother. Do appreciate the support.
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  Speaker 5: Don't vote Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: There he is.
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  Speaker 2: like somebody's calling in, but before we get to that, hey, yes,
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  Speaker 2: Holly testified in trial yesterday. Detective and the woman who
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  Speaker 2: was beaten unconscious, Holly, y'all remember her name? I talked
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  Speaker 2: to her here on the 55K RC Morning Show. It
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  Speaker 2: was July 2025, what is widely described as the beatdown
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  Speaker 2: at 4th and Elm Street. Since I pleased Detective, Barnabas
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  Speaker 2: Blank testified that Patrick Roseman, who's the one that's on trial,
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  Speaker 2: 39 years old, Kennedy Heights, threw the punch that knocked
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  Speaker 2: out Holly. She's still being identified as Holly, no last name.
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  Speaker 2: And I appreciate the measure of respect at least local
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  Speaker 2: media has had And she's not a private person necessarily. She,
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  Speaker 2: of course, has went on news and talked about how
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  Speaker 2: badly she was injured in that. And she talked about
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  Speaker 2: that yesterday in testimony in trial. Prosecutor asked blank, well,
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  Speaker 2: you have to see clearly who did it. Who was it?
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  Speaker 2: It was Patrick Rosemond. Of course, Rosemond. they say, was
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  Speaker 2: just merely a bystander. And when the beating started, he, well,
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  Speaker 2: jumped in and started beating people up just for no
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  Speaker 2: other reason than to be violent. Blank said at the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of the chaos, I believe Mr. Roseman had injected
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: himself because it was an opportunity to strike people and
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: be in an altercation with others. Prosecutor, at any point
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: did he try to end the violence? He being Patrick
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Roseman is responsible for punching Holly in the face and
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: almost killing her. Blank, no, not at all. He did not.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Did anyone try to stop him? Blank. Numerous people. Nobody
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: was able to stop him from going after victims. He
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: said Roseman continued to attack people when they were knocked down.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: He said when Roseman was separated from the victims, he
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: was seen on the video taunting the victims of the beatdown.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Holly described his emotional during a testimony. Said it was
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: very chaotic. It was Very chaotic. I just kept saying,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: please stop, please. She was celebrating a birthday party downtown.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: She said, having a good time. Then, of course, all
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: hell broke loose. She said, I felt pretty scared. I
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: remember some pretty nasty comments, our direction, as she was
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: coming out of wherever she was. People taunting the group
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: for no other reason than to just give them a
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: hard time, I guess. She described seeing others being attacked.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I just remember being overwhelmed and paralyzed with fear when
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I saw them getting their faces bashed in and stomped
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: with blood just everywhere. So it was probably 20 to
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: 30 people that just jumped in to annihilate them. I, Holly,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: was attacked from behind. I remember grabbing Alex. Alex, the Russian,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: who many demanded be charged with a crime. This is
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: amid the whole, a white person must be charged. charged
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: in this. You had elected officials saying that. Yeah, that's good. Yeah,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: that's really great for the community. Just charge any white
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: man you can, which is exactly what happened. The Russian,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: they exonerated him and said, yeah, no, there was nothing there.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: We apologize for charging him. Anyway, I was attacked from behind.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: She said, I remember grabbing Alex and helping him get
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: to his feet. It was lights out. Then it was
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: lights out. She was rendering assistance to a guy who
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: had been severely beaten, being a good Samaritan, and for that,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: she almost lost her life. It's disturbing. Let's go to
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: the phone and see what Cleveland Owls got. Cleveland Owl,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: thanks for calling this morning, and a happy Wednesday to you, sir.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: Hey, good morning. I appreciate you taking my call. Just
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: something a little bit lighthearted in regards to compassionate judging
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: versus the neglect that seems to be rampant in Cincinnati.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: I grew up in rural Wayne County, and in the 70s,
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: our menu of trouble that we could get into is
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: rather limited. So Some friends of mine and I went
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: out cow tipping one night, and I ended up getting caught.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: The other three got away, and I ended up in
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: front of a judge who sentenced me to eight weeks
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: of hard labor on the farm that I was caught on.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: To say the least, it changed the direction of my life.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: I never became a recidivist cow tipper. And I'm a
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: successful adult.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Cleveland out. Let me guess. You never decided you wanted
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: to be a farmer after that moment, did you?
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, actually, believe it or not, I became great
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: friends with the Amish family, and I actually came to
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: respect cows and realize that they are absolutely wonderful animals. So, actually,
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: farming would have been.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: A fun thing.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Career had I not gone the direction that I did.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: At least I didn't become a recidivist. Let me talk
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: you off that sort of theoretical ledge you're standing on.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I married the daughter of a dairy farmer, rural, about
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: in the middle of nowhere, Pennsylvania, dairy farmer, and that
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: man was never able to leave the farm. You got
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: to get up in the morning, milk the cows, milk
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: the cows again in the afternoon. You don't milk them
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: every day, they no longer produce milk, and you are
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: out of a job. It is the toughest life on
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: the planet, being a dairy farmer. There are other farmers
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: out there that I have massive respect for just because
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: they do it because they like it. They're not going
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: to get rich. They're not going to get a big house.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: They're going to work their butts off, and they do
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: it because they enjoy that lifestyle. And thank God for
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: people who do because they're in short supply these days,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: my friend, short supply. But I'm glad you had a
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: positive experience of it. I really am. I don't want
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: to talk anybody away from the idea of it. If
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: you enjoy a modest rural life, then be a farmer
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: and help us all out. Appreciate the learning lesson, Al.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Well played. Perfect timing. Have a great one, man. Thanks
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: for tuning in. 835-55-KRC-D Talk Station. Galaxy Concrete Coatings. Love
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• 23:15
  Speaker 2: It's 540-55-KRC-D Talk Station. Wednesday. Next week, listener lunch. I
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: will acknowledge now. We're either going to be.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Crying over our beers or hoisting them in celebration. Either way,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be there. And if it's the former,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: don't leave me alone to wallow in my own misery
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: post-election if things don't work out real well. That is
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: certainly a possibility. You can stop that possibility by getting
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: out and vote. Get down and vote. Stack is stupid.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Or you can call. 513-749-5500. 800-823-TALK. Go to Florida.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: Why not?
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Stack is stupid. We usually start out or end or
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: remain for the entire stack. A Florida guy that has
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: been charged in a 2021 killing and dismemberment of a
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: woman made what is described as an unusual offer to
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: a judge as the jury selection began in his murder
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: trial a couple days ago. Robert Kessler, who's 74, representing himself,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: we all know what that means, fool for a client,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: facing first-degree murder and abuse of a dead body charges.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: This related to the death of a woman named Stephanie Kroenig.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: who was 47, during the hearing before the Hillsborough Circuit Court.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Judge Nick Nazartian, if you're keeping track at home of
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: the jurist. Anyway, the judge told Kessler he could enter
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: an open plea, receive a life sentence, and avoid trial.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Kessler said he would consider it in exchange for a
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: specific meal. I'll do that, he said, for a Philly
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: cheesesteak and an order of fries and a Pepsi. When
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: asked to clarify, he is representing himself. I think he
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: may have negotiated better terms. Anyway, Kessler expanded on the request,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: saying he wanted a cheesesteak with onions and mayonnaise, along
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: with fries and peppers. He said that deal would save
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: the taxpayers. Judge declined, telling Kessler he could not provide
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: food in exchange for a plea. I can't obviously give
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: food to people to enter a plea. That would be
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: wrong in a thousand ways, the judge says. Kessler later
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: told the court he did not want to enter a
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: plea and asked to continue with jury selection. Authorities allege
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Kessler killed Cronover Holt after she had been staying at
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: a home he shared with his daughter. A fisherman found
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: her dismembered remains in Tampa's McKay Bay. Court records indicate
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: witnesses saw a man matching Kessler's description, throwing bags into
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: the bay. They also say Kessler's daughter told him that
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: she had seen him arguing with this woman before she
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: disappeared and that the woman had asked him for money
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: to leave. Seems like it. Sweet deal, though, for the
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: price of a cheesesteak and a Coke and some fries.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: You save the taxpayers a pretty significant amount of money
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: on a case that I think has a foregone conclusion. Now,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: this is a bizarre one. Melike Yeter, that's the woman's name,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: a 28-year-old employee of a children's entertainment center in Turkey,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: attempting to fix a mechanical malfunction in a pin-setting machine
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: at a bowling alley. This happened just a few days,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: or last week, according to local authorities. She was suddenly
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: struck by the machine, which automatically gathers and resets bowling pins.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you're familiar with the concept. Take them to
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: the hospital. They're being crushed. Discharged after initial assessment, outlets reported,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: but she later was rushed back to the hospital by
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: family members after falling ill at home. Subsequent examination revealed
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: the crushing force of the pin-setting machine ruptured her liver,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: causing severe internal bleeding, and she later died from her
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: injuries at the hospital. Gee, she had only recently got engaged.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Talk about a bizarre accident. You know, that reminds me,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: when I was practicing law in Chicago, one of the
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: attorneys had a case involving a bowling pin machine. And
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: there aren't a whole lot of legal experts out there
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: on product liability assistance with a bowling machine. Anyway, the
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: owner of the facility, the bowling alley, comes in and
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: finds one of the employees had in fact been, it
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: looked like the employee had been eaten. by the bowling
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: machine on the back end side of it. The employee
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: apparently was servicing it or something, but the machine ended
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: up killing him. They could never quite figure out how
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: it happened. Bizarre bowling machine accidents. Memphis, Tennessee. Tennessee State
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Senator Brett Taylor having to deal with, well, past indiscretions
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: that resurfaced just before Election Day. He's running for re-election
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: to the State Senate and Tennessee's 9th Congressional District, Nashville Scene,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: which is the reporting outlet, yesterday, I think, reported that
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: multiple sources told the publication they'd received or seen unsolicited
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: nude photos from this guy.
• 27:54
  Speaker 11: What?
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: The Republican senator acknowledged sending the photos.
• 27:59
  Speaker 10: What?
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: I know.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Describing them as part of his past, calling them, in
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: his words, youthful indiscretions. You moron. According to the report,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: person received a nude photo from Taylor as recently as
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: 2021 when he was 53 years old. Quoted as saying
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: in the report, whatever story you think you've got, my
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: wife is well aware of it and we've worked through
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: it a long time ago. My God, my wife have
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: forgiven me and I would consider everyone else doing the same.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: He released his statement. That may be a good idea, Joe. Well,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I guess this signals where we are in the campaign
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: and who the frontrunner is with seven days left until
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Election Day. I'm willing to acknowledge my past indiscretion. The
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: frustrating part is that my wife now has to relive
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: this nonsense we've already worked through years ago together and
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: moved on from. Tennessee Niners aren't concerned about my family
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: or this type of nonsense. They're concerned about their family
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: and the prices they're paying at the grocery store and
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: gas station. That's why I'm running for Congress. To stop
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Democrat Socialist Justin Pearson, he served in the Senate since 2023.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: His opponent said, men of faith, let alone men who
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: are married in their 50s and in public office, have
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: no business sending unsolicited nude photos to women. Yeah, I
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: think I'm in agreement with the opposition there on that. 546-55-KRC,
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• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Let's see what Pat's got today. Pat, welcome to the program.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Happy Wednesday.
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: Happy Wednesday to you, Brian. And thank you again for
• 29:47
  Speaker 9: being a light in the darkness that has the gall,
• 29:50
  Speaker 9: the cojones to tell the truth in spite of what
• 29:52
  Speaker 9: all the other nonsense that dulls our brains is.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let me seriously ask you a question, Pat, because
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. I truly do, and this is not
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: me sort of questioning your statement there. But honestly, does
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: it really take huevos, cojones, to speak out loud about
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: what one personally observes and sees? I mean, I'm only
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: reporting on the information that's available to me and drawing
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: my conclusions based on it. I don't know that it
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: takes any particular set of huevos.
• 30:19
  Speaker 9: Well, it seems nowadays that people that want to tell—
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: The truth and a contrary story to what we're supposed
• 30:30
  Speaker 9: to believe, you know, national news is going to always
• 30:32
  Speaker 9: tell you the truth. You get attacked for a different
• 30:36
  Speaker 9: opinion and rather than just have a discussion about this
• 30:40
  Speaker 9: is what's really going on here.
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: Oh, no, no, no, no.
• 30:43
  Speaker 9: That's not what they said. Well, who said? Where did
• 30:45
  Speaker 9: you get your information? What quality did that person have
• 30:49
  Speaker 9: that divulged this right that everybody's supposed to believe?
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I guess I don't feel like I'm being attacked. I mean,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: you could call up here and you could disagree with
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: me and throw a contrary opinion my way, and we
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: can engage in hopefully a somewhat level of thoughtful debate
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: within the constraints of time. But I've said it multiple times,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: and if you disagree with me, just call up and
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: let's talk about it. No one does that.
• 31:15
  Speaker 9: That's the thing, Brian. They don't have the cojones.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: See, they don't. They don't have cojones.
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: But morons do not have the guts to challenge a
• 31:25
  Speaker 9: person who actually presents the truth in a factual way,
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: backed up with information that's genuine, and they don't have
• 31:33
  Speaker 9: the guts to do that.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: And that's a.
• 31:35
  Speaker 9: Part of the liberal, communist, whatever mentality. They don't have
• 31:39
  Speaker 9: the guts to face somebody that can back up why
• 31:42
  Speaker 9: they have the reasoning and the information that they do.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: And so what do they do? They default to name
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: calling and condemnation of you, your personality, and without sort
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: of drawing, raising awareness so that you are not telling
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: the truth. No, it's an attack on your personal, your person,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: which is not argument, which is why I always discount that.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: You know, the world is filled with people who can
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: criticize me for whatever reason. That's okay. I'm ugly. I'm stupid.
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: Whatever.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: That's fine. But that doesn't go to the substance of
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: what I'm talking about on the radio program. So I
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: just ignore that. Why does anybody care what someone else
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: says on social media or any other outlet about you?
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: If they don't know you, if they're lying about you,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: just screw it. I don't care. I can't stop that
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: from happening, and it doesn't bother me. I think the
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: problem here we're getting down to is that too many
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: people are too worried about someone saying something bad about them. Well,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: don't be. Don't be.
• 32:36
  Speaker 9: You have a foundation. Now, last night I was going
• 32:39
  Speaker 9: to try to watch– I have the same kind of
• 32:42
  Speaker 9: thing in the evening, Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, preempted
• 32:47
  Speaker 9: by baseball. But in the meantime, here are all these
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: moron commercials going on and on and on about politics.
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: And one of the.
• 32:55
  Speaker 9: Things that galls me– and it finally just got me
• 32:57
  Speaker 9: to where I had to say something to somebody– The
• 33:00
  Speaker 9: business with our electric bill going up so high, why
• 33:04
  Speaker 9: don't we talk to Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden about
• 33:06
  Speaker 9: shutting down all these power plants?
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: Oh, they were coal-fired.
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: They were evil.
• 33:11
  Speaker 9: Well, they had scrubbers. And I delivered hydrogen to these places.
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: You couldn't smell anything. They were clean. And the strength
• 33:19
  Speaker 9: of America was energy and electricity. And that allowed us
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: to do things well that most other countries didn't because, well,
• 33:28
  Speaker 9: they didn't want this here. And, you know, we didn't
• 33:30
  Speaker 9: feel right about it because they listened to idiots, ignoramuses.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: No, they were useful idiots who did listen to the lies.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: The lies were built on the idea that carbon dioxide
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: was somehow bad for the planet when plants survive on it.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: The strength of America, yes, you are right, and therein
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: lies the problem with the left. The strength of America
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: built on an abundant supply of energy. And, of course,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: the freedoms that we allow ourselves to have here still
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: in the United States of America protected by the whittled-away Constitution.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: But strength of America for the left is the problem.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: They don't want us strong. They don't want us more
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: wealthy or wealthier than anybody else. Europe is five steps
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: ahead of us or a baby step ahead of us
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: in the direction they left once ago. Financial collapse, people
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: riding in the streets, and a bringing about of equal
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: misery shared by all, built upon the income earned by
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: someone who's actually productive. It's insanity. But strength of America,
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: we have always been an outlier for so long, so
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: much stronger, so much wealthier. so much more productive than
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: the rest of the world, that pisses the left off.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: How do we stop this from happening? Well, we come
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: up with an idea that this strength and this consumption
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: and this abundance is literally killing the planet. Oh, my God,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: those evil capitalists, and they're belching out of carbon dioxide.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Plants are pretty happy, but everybody else is pissed off
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: about it. We solve the pollution problem. You pointed out
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: scrubbers have been incorporated into coal plants for a long,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: long time. They weren't polluting the environment, so what do
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: they have to default to? Carbon dioxide? Yeah, right. Well,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: that's the trick. Stupid people believe it. They want to
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: cripple American might. Best way to do that? Shut off
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: the electricity. 557-55KRC, the talk station. Feel free to chime in.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Maybe you disagree. Go ahead. Give me a call. Either
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: way we go, we're going to go after the top
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: of the hour news.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Will socialism be a crisis? And this time of year.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: A real October surprise. It's only a matter of time.
• 35:28
  Speaker 11: We have some big surprises coming up.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Stay alert.
• 35:31
  Speaker 14: Be ready for anything.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: The big surprise. On 55KRC, the talk station.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: It's 606 at 55KRC, the talk station. Happy Wednesday. Brian
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Thomas here. Joe Strucker, executive producer. Producer of your podcast, too.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Another shout out for Joe Strucker's side business. He'll produce podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: So if you've got an idea and a thought and
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: you want to. We'll memorialize in podcast form, add it
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  Speaker 2: to the growing ranks of podcasters out there. He is
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: the man for the job. 705, the man for commentary job. Brilliant.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: He always is. Big picture with Jack, having him coming
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: up in one hour today. And we'll speculate on it
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: until he starts talking about the subject, which is Halloween
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: monsters and victims. Donald and the Americans for Prosperity with
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: a huge topic list to go through. And yes, it is.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: The clock is running out to get out and vote.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll chime in on that as well. Leah Dinkelhocker,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: let's get Dinkelhocker reelected or elected to the bench. Leah
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Dinkelhocker will join the program at 8.05, a superior choice.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Going back to the judicial races in Hamilton County, why
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: would you allow the Democrats to take over the balance
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: of power in the entire county? There's only a handful
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: of judges that are Republican right now, and the Democrats
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: are running hard to take over the entire county. So
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: you'll be left with a Republican engineer. That's it. And
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: just step back from your party affiliation. You happy with
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: what's going on in Hamilton County? Are you happy with
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: the city of Cincinnati for the multiple decades it's been
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: run by Democrats? You happy with the decision they have
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: to have Pearl Ball made? And, oh, yeah, the city manager,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Cheryl Long. Got them all in a lot of legal problems,
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Cheryl Long, just going it on her own and doing
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: whatever the hell she wants. This relationship with Iris Rowley
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: is a real problem, taking us back to judicial races.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: If you're concerned about crime in the city of Cincinnati
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: and you, like most people, think there's a problem going
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: on downtown, as opposed to listening to the no-nothing-to-see-here narrative
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: from the elected officials, Then you might want to consider
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: voting for the pink ticket judges. Those would be on
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: the Republican ticket. They're not running under R or D,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: which makes it a little more challenging for the voters
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: who haven't paid attention to the judicial races ahead of time,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: which is why I'm spending extra time right now reminding you,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: check out the judges. Leah Denkelacher is one that is
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: worthy of your vote. Judge Anna Napolitano on war and
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: presidential disregard of all limitations on war, taking the ball
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: and going it on their own since 1950. And he's
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: got some great points on that. Tomorrow, Congressman Warren Davidson,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Jay Ratliff, and it says Vivek Ramaswamy. One more time
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: on the morning show in advance of Tuesday. Okay, here
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: you go. Yes, I do believe that the nation's future
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: is very, very much on the line in this election.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: If not, we're just getting one step closer to losing
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: all control and all of our constitutional rights and freedoms
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: and liberties, which the Democrats hate. And, of course, the
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: concept of private property and private ownership. I still cannot
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: justify morally, under any circumstances, the I concept that if
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: you have a wildly successful company and brought something to
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: the world that it obviously wants because you got successful
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: because of demand, you created something the public wants. That
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: equals success, at least in a country like America. That
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: somebody can come in and just take it from you.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: You didn't build that. That's Robert Reich, and, you know...
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: This is quite revealing. Former Labor Secretary Rob, you know,
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: the little tiny guy, the economist Robert Reich. You remember him?
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Robert Reich on Sunday. We've got to defend Musk. Of course,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Elon Musk. And when I say defend or defund Musk,
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: you know, 75 percent of his wealth is dependent on
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: taxpayers who are buying Starlink systems for the Department of Defense.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: I guess it's because they want him, Robert. And if
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: it wasn't for Musk, I'm thinking Starlink wouldn't be out
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: there and available. Defund Musk, he said. I mean this.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: If we have a Democratic administration and the Democrats ought
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: to be starting this, not just with oversight hearings, but also...
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: starting laying the groundwork for, ready? Nationalizing Starlink and SpaceX. SpaceX,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: which can make a rocket efficiently. for less money than
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: the government can make a rocket. And I'm not dissing
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: the NASA space program, which took a man to the
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: moon back when I was a child. But, you know,
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: private industry can make rockets now, too. And that's why
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: we rely on SpaceX for rockets, getting satellites into space.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: And I guess a private company with rockets can also
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: create the Starlink network to everyone's benefit. Anyway, nationalize it,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: he said, with reference to those statements. It should be
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: a public corporation. By what right? He went on. Well,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: he knows that if the Democrats take over the House
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: and possibly the Senate, one of the things they're going
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: to be doing is focusing on Elon Musk. I mean,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: he's really going to be targeted, and he knows it.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: And he's going to be using his 360 million followers
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: or 260 million followers on X, kind of give him
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: a buttress against that. Well, that's because he's wildly popular,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Robert Reich. Anyway. And he's going to use litigation. And
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: I mean this when I say this is exhibit A
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: in terms of the billionaire takeover of America. This is
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: the oligarchic problem. This is, Musk represents the power of
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: oligarchy in America over democracy. And it's something like what
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: happened in the first Gilded Age when we had the
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: robber barons. I mean, he's the equivalent of the robber
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: barons of the first Gilded Age. But he's much, much,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: he's even worse than Bigger, even more corrupt in terms
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: of trying to bribe his way into politics. And he
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: also ends USAID. To the cheers of a lot of
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: people in my listening audience. Yeah, USAID that was funding
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: all types of crazy non-governmental organizations and pumping in LGBTQ
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: literature and learning and methodologies into countries around the world,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: funding shrimp on treadmill research for whatever God knows reason.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know the litany. You have your favorite
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: illustrations of what you and I were paying for with USAID.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: I'm just happy to see it go down or at
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: least get limited curb information brought to our attention. Here's
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Robert Reich pissed off that Elon Musk even opened the
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: door to look into the corruption that exists in that.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: He is arguing in favor of continuing corruption and, frankly,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: just outright waste. He concludes, well, the Dems have to
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: have it on their list of the many things to
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: do to fix and hold people accountable for. Taking over
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: private firms and nationalizing them. That's hardcore commie right there.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: And then over to the editorial board of the Washington
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Times on this topic. Just sort of putting an exclamation
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: point on the end of this rant. This is the
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: season of the thief. The Mongols, Huns, and their barbarian
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: brothers were incapable of creating wealth. They could only loot
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: it from the civilizations they conquered. The Democrats are an
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: updated version of these ravenous hordes. On Sunday, former Labor
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Secretary Robert Reich, who served in President Clinton's cabinet, called
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: for robbing Tesla co-founder Elon Musk, the wealthiest and possibly
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: most creative man on the planet. Reich wants to nationalize
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: two of Mr. Musk's most successful operations, SpaceX's and its
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: satellite division, Starlink, SpaceX, worth an estimated, ready, $ 2 trillion,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: while Starlink generated $ 11. 4 billion in revenue in the end
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: of 2025.
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: Huh.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Government has sold as a solid record of running businesses
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: into the ground. Mr. Reich evidently jealous of Mr. Musk's
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: success and furious that Musk's support for Republican candidates, fair enough,
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Does this mean that if Republicans have power, they should
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: confiscate the businesses of left-wing donor George Soros, who has
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: directed vast fortunes toward candidates on the other side? Here's
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: me wanting to nod in approval on that wealth confiscation.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: But no, I'm not advocating for it because, again, it
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: shouldn't be a question of whose ox is being gored.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: It's just morally and ethically wrong. Anyway.
• 43:57
  Speaker 10: Mr.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Rice's scheme to confiscate Scarling would probably run afoul of
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: the First Amendment's free speech clause and the Fifth Amendment's
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: prohibition of taking a private property without just compensation. Not
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: that the Democrats ever let a little thing like the
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Constitution stay out of the way. And I'll echo the point,
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: because the DSA's platform calls for the eradication and elimination
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: of multiple sections of the Constitution, i.e. they don't like
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: you having the freedoms and liberties protected most notably by
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: the First Ten Amendments, First Ten Amendments, 1 through 10.
• 44:26
  Speaker 14: Anyway.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Michigan Democratic Senate, oh, plus the whole structure. I'm sorry,
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: I hate to overlook that, the three tiers of government.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: They want to eliminate that as well. Anyway, Michigan Democrat
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who claims to be a capitalist,
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: has called for public ownership stakes in artificial intelligence, on
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: which America will increasingly rely for its national security and
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: economic growth. Swell. On November 3rd, California is going to
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: be voting on a billionaire's wealth tax, which may be
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: the dumbest idea yet for despoiling the most productive Proposition 40,
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: a quote-unquote one-time 5% tax on those worth a net
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: worth of $ 1 billion or more. The goal, they say,
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: is to raise $ 100 billion over five years from 200 billionaires.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: The scheme is already backfiring. According to research by the
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Stanford-based Hoover Institution, tax-driven departures by corporations and high earners
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: are eroding state revenues and employment opportunities. Oh my God,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: you mean these evil billionaires employ people? Who then go
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: and pay taxes as well? Yeah, damn right they do.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: If Proposition 40 passes, that exodus will accelerate. And honestly,
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: no one argues against that point. It's already happening. It
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: happened in anticipation of this getting on the ballot. People
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: were fleeing because it's retroactive. Multiple businesses, well-documented, are fleeing California,
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: statistically overwhelming people out migrating and coming into the state.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: This is a fact. If California can levy a special
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: tax on billionaires, and here's where you, my friends, are
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: in the crosshairs, why not the one on millionaires or
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: one on anyone with an income above the national average?
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Ask the French about that. Yeah, they delve into the
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: incomes of people who are not even making the national
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: average to try to support the crazy welfare state that
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: is literally falling apart before your very eyes. Yeah, let's
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: go do what France did.
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Reich, Mr. El-Sayed, and the proponents of Prop 40 are
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: great at confiscating wealth, but have never actually generated any.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Most of these policy architects have spent their entire lives
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: in government, academia, or the media. Their proposals are preposterous,
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: and they are the new face of the Democratic Party. Amen.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: Washington Times Editorial Board. And I'm sure they don't mind
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: my interjections and personal commentary throughout that. It's just really,
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: this is real, people. This is genuine. This is happening.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: And it's epic failure wherever you turn. Look around you. 617-55-KRC,
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: The Talk Station. The Talk Station.
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: 622-55-KRC, The Talk Station.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: Hadn't heard from anybody who went to Honor Flight last night.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: I hope it was a glorious welcome home ceremony for
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: the veterans. A lot of them were Vietnam War veterans
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: and certainly deserved a welcome home. So maybe if you
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: showed up at that, you can give me a call
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: and let me know how it went. I'll just keep
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: my fingers crossed. Nothing but positive news to report and
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: widespread allergy outbreaks, which is usually the case at a
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: welcome home ceremony for Honor Flight Tri-State. Well, here's another one.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: Chicago Union, Teachers Union. This is hard to take. We
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: have a woman named Carolyn Boryshenko. She's a self-described anti-communist.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: And so she monitors, you know, publications and meetings and
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: posts information that she gathers about that on the Internet,
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: of course. She got some footage from a Chicago school nurse. Well, actually,
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: it's a Chicago school nurse who was making statements at
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: a Chicago Teachers Union meeting. It was a call hosted
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: by the Chicago Teachers Union. So it wasn't just... I
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: guess teachers' union members, but there were leftist student activists
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: on the call. Quite revealing. And you might want to
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: consider by extension what your children are being taught in, well,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: public teachers' union schools. She referred to a far-left student
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: activist on the Zoom phone call who said, I think
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: that our challenge will be to get people to move
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: like they're doing in France. It will be getting people
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: to be completely destructive and allow our fellow Americans for
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: there to be freedom. The U.S. government must fall. There
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: must be destruction to the material wealth that they've built.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: There must be a willingness to kill. Wow. See, the
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: thing is, they're saying the quiet part out loud now.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: And they have no reservations doing it. Now, it's obviously
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: a bunch of people on this call, how she was
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: able to infiltrate it. And yes, I do have a
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: measure of jaded cynicism and skepticism as to whether this
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: is actually real, given that we just found out. that
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: there are some local Russian-generated artificial intelligence ads that are
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: running against Democrats here in the state of Ohio. What
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: in the hell kind of world are we living in?
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: So I'm acknowledging the potential that this may be made
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: up or fake. I don't believe it, though. Get people
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: to move like they're doing in France. completely destructive. And
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: most bizarrely in this statement, for there to be freedom,
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: the United States government must fall. Now, therein is a
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: terrific illustration of the epic, overwhelming, and impossible to believe
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: stupidity that these communists have. They are dumb as a
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: box of rocks. Have you ever looked at a communist nation, ma'am?
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: Have you ever studied what happens, purges? Look, Balasnero had
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: to flee Brazil because they were worried about a purge
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: of the current, well, some say questionably elected, leftist leader
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: of Brazil now. It was a squeaker election, but he
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: had to flee the country.
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: Huh.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: Berlin Wall, remember that? They built that to keep people
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: in or out of East Germany. Right, to keep them in.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: The purges after the communist revolution in Russia. Many people,
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: millions and millions of people died under the thumb of
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: oppression in communist nations. We talk about lockups. I mean,
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: oh my God, on and on and on. Look over
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: to the east and you look at what happened in Laos.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: You look at what happened in China. I mean, every
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: totalitarian nation, every communist nation has to do everything it
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: can to purge it of the intellectuals, the people who
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: see through this crap. who study history and realize that
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: this is a recipe for absolute destruction of the country
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: and misery. Blowing it down to its finest terms, I
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: always refer to socialism or communism as the equal distribution
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: of misery. Yeah, but that's unless you're in the party.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: And if you're a high-up hoo-ha in the party, you're
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: not going to have to deal with this crap. And
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: I think that's why a lot of these billionaires embrace it,
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: because they see the writing on the wall, they look
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: at France and know the final outcome, like every other
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: nation that's tried it, is going to be disaster, but
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: they'll be well taken care of in this post-capitalist world
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: that they want to live in. You'll suffer though, but
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: it'll be equal suffering. It'll be the eradication of covetousness
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: and envy. That's the theory anyway. But then look up
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: at the party members' houses and look at what they
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: are eating and look at what the cars they are driving.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: And look at the lines they don't have to stand in. 627-55KRC,
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: the talk station. Speaking a lot loud. 632-55KRC, the talk station.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: Happy Wednesday. Yeah, real quick. I mentioned yesterday I was
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: going to meet my friend from France. He was in
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: town doing some errands he had to run. He doesn't
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: come into the United States very often. It's been years
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: since I saw him, but I had lunch with him
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: yesterday as he was driving through town doing his errands
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: on his way down to Miami to visit his daughter
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: who just moved there. So we were, of course, talking
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: about France and the riots and the burning and the looting.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: I asked him, I said, because he said, you know,
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: you and Paulette need to come visit us. And he
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: and his wife, he's invited us before. He said, you
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: really need to come. We really have an enjoyable time, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: And I said, well, let's wait till the riots are over.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: And he just looked at me. He started smiling. He said, oh,
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: there are always riots going on in France. We burn
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: stuff down all the time. That's just kind of the
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: French thing. He was pretty much serious about it. Like, serious?
• 53:08
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: And that became the running joke of the day. Every
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: time there was a dispute, we were talking about, oh,
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: just burn it down. Burn it to the ground. Maureen,
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: welcome to the program. Happy Wednesday to you.
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: Good morning, Brian. You were just talking about the Bolsonaro's.
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: I think that's such a good parallel for what's going
• 53:24
  Speaker 6: on here and what happened in 2020 election. But Flavio
• 53:28
  Speaker 6: is actually coming to Florida here. His brother Eduardo is
• 53:32
  Speaker 6: in Texas, and his father is in prison. So they
• 53:35
  Speaker 6: were trying to confiscate his passport, his Flavio, after he
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: was leading in the runoff. Last time I called, we
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: talked about that. And then they come to the event
• 53:46
  Speaker 6: on Sunday, and then they stop it for two hours.
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: You may have already talked about that.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: They extended the hours to vote by unilaterally. One judge
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: on their Supreme Court, whose buddies with the leftist candidate,
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: extended the hours by two hours. Sounds a lot like COVID,
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: doesn't it, Maureen?
• 54:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly. Another thing you brought up in the beginning
• 54:06
  Speaker 6: of the show, you were talking about where they're going
• 54:08
  Speaker 6: to put drones over the drop boxes.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: No, no, it's a camera. I don't need a drone flyer.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: You just put a fixed camera because it's a fixed
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: drop box. I'm just saying, you know, people who hate
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: flock cameras, do they have any problem with maybe the
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: idea of monitoring a drop box? Because in the state
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: of Ohio, you are not allowed to bulk drop ballots
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: at the drop box.
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, kind of like 2,000 mules.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, whatever happened to that one, Maureen?
• 54:33
  Speaker 13: Yeah, well, it's still going to come out.
• 54:36
  Speaker 6: I'm still waiting. But there is a great interview I
• 54:40
  Speaker 6: saw with Jerome Corsi. I think you may have had
• 54:42
  Speaker 6: him on a time or two where he's a conservative
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: author and commentator.
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 54:48
  Speaker 6: And he wrote the Swift book that took down John Kerry. Well,
• 54:51
  Speaker 6: he also just now wrote a book called Democrats, and
• 54:54
  Speaker 6: it's about how the Democrat Party– became the secretly Marxist, jihadist, communist, Democrat,
• 54:59
  Speaker 6: socialist of America. And he argues that the Democrat Party
• 55:04
  Speaker 6: has been taken over, as we can pretty well see.
• 55:07
  Speaker 6: And he said that it's basically for the clinically insane,
• 55:11
  Speaker 6: psychologically disturbed, violent insurrectionists, and the nihilistic godless, the gender confused,
• 55:18
  Speaker 6: sexually disturbed, and the anti-American malcontents. And he has this website,
• 55:23
  Speaker 6: and it's called TheElectoralList.com. And in it, you can track
• 55:27
  Speaker 6: people's ballots. That's how it ties to what you're talking
• 55:30
  Speaker 6: about with watching the drop boxes. But if you go
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: to this website and you have to join and you
• 55:36
  Speaker 6: can watch every ballot, you can see ballots dropped to
• 55:40
  Speaker 6: portalettes in a field in Iowa or a nursing home
• 55:43
  Speaker 6: with only 20 beds receiving 200 ballots and where they
• 55:47
  Speaker 6: end up and how they end up in the hands
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: of the NGOs. And it's really going to track ballots.
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: the steal, basically. It's kind of a sting operation. So
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: I think, yeah, yeah, we can watch it in real time.
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: Just everyday ordinary people will be able to see it.
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: And in all of the ways that he has been
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: able to, or that site has been able to identify
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: ways that the election can be stolen, those are all
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: things that could be remedied by fixes to the voting
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: laws in any given state. Am I right?
• 56:15
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 56:16
  Speaker 10: Exactly.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: And why would anyone want Illegal ballots to be cast, Maureen,
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: he asked rhetorically.
• 56:24
  Speaker 6: Well, that's pretty obvious.
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: There you have it.
• 56:26
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 56:28
  Speaker 6: And those polls are very deceiving. They're being done to
• 56:32
  Speaker 6: cause everybody to be demoralized on the right. But I
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: have faith that we are going to– there's going to
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: be a massive red wave. But everybody has to get
• 56:43
  Speaker 6: out and do their part. And I want to go
• 56:45
  Speaker 6: back to Amy Acton. I have one thing to say
• 56:47
  Speaker 6: about her before I go. She caused such significant distress
• 56:54
  Speaker 6: in my family. My daughter was an ICU nurse during COVID.
• 57:01
  Speaker 6: And she had to write letters to family members that
• 57:04
  Speaker 6: could not come visit their family members in the ICU.
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: And as soon as Amy Acton enacted that, the people
• 57:12
  Speaker 6: lost hope. They didn't have their family members by their side.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 57:17
  Speaker 6: And they would deteriorate before my daughter's eyes, and she
• 57:21
  Speaker 6: would have to write last letters to the family members.
• 57:24
  Speaker 6: She would have to receive last letters from the family
• 57:27
  Speaker 6: members to that dying patient. They weren't necessarily dying of COVID.
• 57:30
  Speaker 6: They had other ailments. But can you imagine how traumatic
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: that is for all involved?
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: No, I cannot. Any activist needs.
• 57:38
  Speaker 6: To pay the price.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: Well, let's hope she does.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: She cannot be governor. But Maureen, isn't it rather odd
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: your daughter was able to be there with the loved ones?
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: Your daughter, who had no connection with the loved ones,
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: but was right there at their side because she was
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: providing medical help and care as a nurse. But it
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: was okay for a stranger nurse to be there, but
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: a family member wasn't able to be there, even if
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: that person didn't have COVID. Makes sense of that.
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: It's insane, Maureen.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: It makes no sense at all. I hear the emotion
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: in your voice, and I'm sorry that she and you
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: had to suffer through that, but you are not alone
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: in the suffering brought about by Amy Acton locking down Ohio.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: Appreciate that. I've got a whole row of dates to
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: go through since you provided an opportunity to springboard on
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: this Ohio Press Network post from our friend Jack Windsor.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: I can get to that in just a moment. Thank
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: you very much. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK. For more than 80 years.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Happy Wednesday. Thank you, Marsha, for the quick text here.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: She said, Friends voted yesterday, said most were getting pink sheets.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: She was very encouraged. I'll take all the words of
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: encouragement I can get because, you know, honestly, the Democrats
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: are getting under my skin and getting me worried about
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: next Tuesday.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, to the extent that's what they want with
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: this false polling information, you got it. How can you
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: not be at least a little bit disturbed on that? Anyway,
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: going back and springing from Maureen's comments, Carl, hang on.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: I see you there, but I got to get this
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: out of my system here because Maureen brought this stuff up,
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: reminding people about Amy Acton's antics and what a wonderful
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: job she did for the mental health of a lot
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: of people and far beyond the school age children that
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: were well prohibited from going to school. March 11, 2020,
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: restricted nursing home visits, ordered visitor limits and screening at
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: nursing homes and long-term care facilities. Going back to Maureen's
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: profound point, the emotional devastation that that did just cannot
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: be calculated. March 12, day later, banned large gatherings of
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: 100 or more people statewide. Yeah, well, that's a violation
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: of your constitutional rights, both under the Ohio Constitution and
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: our nation's constitution. Freedom of assembly kind of impacted there. Yeah,
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: a little bit. March 15th, close restaurants and bars to
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: dine in. So you can only get carryout and delivery. Carry-out,
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: of course, necessitates you going in and picking up your food,
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: although I do know they gave curbside delivery, so your
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: interactions within six feet were limited to the one person
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: coming to your car. Of course, it didn't limit the
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: human interaction, though, did it? Plus, you got that mask on.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: We all know what the masks were able to do. Nothing, literally.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: Closed primary polling places March 16th. This is one of
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: the more egregious ones. There was an emergency order signed
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: that we closed in-person polling places for Ohio's March 17th primary.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: that's a violation of law. That was when the primary
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: was set. Was there a legal change in that?
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: No.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: Sorry, fast and loose. We're in the middle of an
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: emergency here. We can't be bothered with following the law,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: like your constitutional rights, for example. March 19th, closed personal services,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: ordered hair salons, barbershops, nail salons, and tattoo parlors to close.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: Other businesses were, of course, allowed to operate. Go figure
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: that one out. Discrimination much? Small business attack much? Folks
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: with the least amount, presumably, of revenue, not enough to
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: pad the closed-down business. I have a friend who had
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: several businesses during COVID. They were small businesses, and he
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: lost them all. March 22nd, statewide stay-at-home order ordered Ohioans
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: to stay home with the exception of essential work and activities.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: What is the definition of essential? Isn't that sort of subjective,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: meaning that meant absolutely nothing and, of course, was also
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: a violation of your legal rights? March 24th, restricted child care,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: ordering child care centers to close, except for children of
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: certain essential workers. I'm merely reading what Jack Windsor posted.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: I trust Jack with the accuracy of the post, all right?
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: Let me just get that out of my system, too.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: March 30th, extended K-12 closures. Buildings closed through May 1st,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: later extended to the end of the school year. April 2nd,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: extended stay-at-home orders. modified the prior stay-at-home restrictions, clarified what
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: businesses counted as essential. Ah, here's the clarity you were
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: clamoring for. Stay safe, Ohio order, April 30th, 2020. Started
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: a phased business reopening while keeping restrictions on workplace safety requirements.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: Social distancing and masks, right now. And then May in 2020,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: set safety rules for reopened businesses, including the social distancing
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: and cleaning products, or rather protocols. And then, of course,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: June 11th, she quit. 646, 55KRC, the talk station. Several
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: callers calling in. I'll be right with you. KRC, the
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: talk station. 650-55-KERCETY-TALK-STATION. Coming up next, Jack Atherton waiting on
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: the wings to tell us about Halloween monsters and victims.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, several callers online. We'll see if we
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: can get all of them. Starting with Carl. Thanks for holding, Carl. Welcome.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 15: Hey, good morning, Brian. Say, I have a taxpayer alert
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 15: for everybody. There are 22 tax levies on the ballot
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 15: here in.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 10: Hamilton County this election time.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 15: And I have found a tool that will help property
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 15: tax owners determine whether or not they can afford to
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 15: pay the property tax. If you are a property tax owner,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 15: you want to go.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 10: To the Hamilton County Auditor's.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 15: Website, which is hcauditor.org, and click on the levies option
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 15: over to the right and type in your address. Well,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 15: you need to type up in your address before that.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 15: And once you click on the levies, it will bring
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 15: up the levies.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 10: That are proposed.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 15: And this puts it in black and white as to
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 15: what you're looking at. Here in the city of Cincinnati,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 15: everybody's in the county, everybody's looking at the.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 10: Children's services levy. That's a renewal.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 15: Levy and an increase, and it will tell you exactly
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 15: how much more taxes you're going to be paying.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 10: Also, if you live in this.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: HCAuditor.org is where people can go.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: Carl, that is a slice of valuable information. You don't
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: need to go through all of them. We've got a
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: couple other callers that want to get their thoughts and
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: comments out, but you always bring the goods, and I
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: appreciate that type of information, Carl. You're constantly reliable on that.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: Right there, HCAuditor.org. Find out what it's going to cost you.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: Let's see who's next. Joseph, Mike. Mike, welcome to the
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: morning show.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 5: Hi, Brian.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 11: Me and my wife, we were getting tired of all these.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 9: Commercials we were seeing on TV and all that stuff.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 11: But we were saying the best commercial we could have
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 11: had is when we found a bunch of people that
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 11: lost their companies because she shut them down and just
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 11: made testimonials and stuff.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 5: Just one big commercial.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 7: That would have tore them.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: That would have.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one. My former small business-owning friend
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: could have commented on that. Yeah, good point. That would
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: be an excellent commercial. Maybe we'll see that some other
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: time in the future when, God forbid, Amy Acton is
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: running for re-election. Let's see what Jay's got. Jay, thanks
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: for calling this morning. Happy Wednesday.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 7: Hey, happy Wednesday, Brian.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 14: Hey, first of all, I'll answer Carl's question.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 15: No, you can't afford more property tax to vote no
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 15: on all the levies.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 14: Let me tell you where we could find some money
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 14: to lower property taxes. Seven years ago on this show,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 14: you informed me and the rest of the listening audience
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 14: about Americans for Prosperity did a lawsuit, FOIA lawsuit, to
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 14: get the mandatory report from CMS on Medicaid fraud. And
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 14: at that time, 2019, Ohio ranked number one, worst in
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 14: the country, at a 43.3% improper payment rate. I found
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 14: a site called openmedicaid.org. You won't find it on the
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 14: CMS site. They're still keeping a pretty high shush, but
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 14: this site shows the latest rankings from 2025. Good news, Brian.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 14: We went from worst in the country. I was hoping
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 14: we would get like, you know, to mediocrity. It hit
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 14: maybe like number 25. We didn't get quite that good.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 14: We're at number nine. So we're still ninth worst in
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 14: the country. And instead of 6 billion being wasted every year,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 14: it's up to 8 billion. Instead of $ 41 billion of
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 14: Medicaid spend in our annual Ohio budget, it's 49 billion.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 14: So now instead of 43.3 cents being wasted on every dollar,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 14: it's only 25 cents wasted on every dollar. But because
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 14: our spend went up, it's getting worse. So $ 8 billion
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 14: of Medicaid fraud could pay half of the $ 16 billion
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 14: in school tax that Ohio pays every year. And that
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 14: would reduce your property tax by half. So maybe that's
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 14: something Bernie Marino should focus on instead of trying to
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 14: sign up Trump accounts for everybody that's middle-aged, 40 years
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 14: old and younger and driving up the debt. But it
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 14: doesn't seem like any Ohio politicians, and we wonder why
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 14: the Republican Party is struggling.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 10: Have a good day, Brian.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 14: Don't vote Democrat, and don't vote for any levies. They
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 14: have more than enough money right here in the frauds.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: Appreciate the call, Jay. Yeah, there is a lot of fraud, waste,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: and abuse, and I know Vivek Ramaswamy has promised to
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse in the state of Ohio.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: It's on his campaign page. He's said it a million
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: times here on the morning show, and he'll be on
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: tomorrow and probably Friday to remind you again his promise
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: to get rid of fraud and abuse and lower your
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: property taxes. I don't hear Amy Atkin advocating for any
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: of that. 655. Jack Atherton will be up next after
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: the top of the hour news. Always brilliant commentary from Jack.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: You can count on him. Donovan Neal, Americans for Prosperity,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: with a variety of different topics. 805 with Judge Leah Dinkalocker.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: Vote Dinkalocker. And Judge Anna Napolitano in this sorry state
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: of affairs with us waging war without any limitations, without
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: any curbs like the Constitution. Since 1950. Don't go away,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: Jack Atherton.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 10: Next.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 4: The future of America. If you want socialism, let's start
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: with you.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 5: You first, buddy.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 4: Is heard here. Your midterms elections.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: It's 7.05. And on a Wednesday, that means kick back,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: get your popcorn out, and enjoy the big picture with
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: Jack Atherton. Lawyer, anchorman, also author, philosopher, and historian. Brilliant.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: He always is. Welcome back, my friend, Jack Atherton. It's
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: great to have you on the show again.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 8: Good morning, man. Thanks for having me back, brother. Let
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 8: me ask you, in honor of Halloween, who is your
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 8: favorite movie monster?
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll just substitute my wife's because I have to
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: think about that. Dracula.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 8: Okay. I can see how the women went for him.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my wife really loves him.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 8: You've got to dress like him, Brian. You've got to
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 8: keep wooing her.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 8: My favorite monster was the original King Kong from 1934. Oh, sure.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 8: What an actor. Much more believable than the people in
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 8: the movie. Although as a teen, I thought Fay Wray
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 8: was great in her torn dress. But Kong, you really
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 8: pitied the big guy. I mean, here he was, happy
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 8: on his island, battling dinosaurs long before Jurassic Park, eating, yes,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 8: the occasional human who strayed onto his territory, but then
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 8: wicked hunters kidnap him clamp on giant chains, and shove
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 8: him on stage so everyone can jeer at King Kong
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 8: as a freak, a monster, a victim. During the Great Depression,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 8: the heyday of classic monsters, most of them were victims
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 8: of forces beyond their control. Boris Karloff was made into
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 8: a monster by Victor Frankenstein. Then he was misunderstood by everyone,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 8: most tragically the little girl with the flower. Lon Chaney Jr.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 8: got bitten by a werewolf and turned into a werewolf himself.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 8: We didn't know how Paulette's favorite, Bela Lugosi, became a vampire,
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 8: but that elegant guy had to keep attacking people especially
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 8: pretty girls, or he'd disintegrate in his coffin. It wasn't
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 8: so much, I want to suck your blood, as give
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 8: me a break. I have to suck your blood. Audiences
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 8: back then identified with monsters because they had been turned
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 8: into victims themselves. Greedy bankers and investors, mostly, we have
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 8: to admit, establishment Republicans, rigged the stock market so you
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 8: could buy shares anywhere on margin, meaning for a few
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 8: pennies on the dollar, until their house of cards collapsed.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 8: The Great Depression left 25% of America's labor force, one
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 8: in every four workers, lining up at soup kitchens, begging
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 8: for apples, hoping to land one of the new government
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 8: jobs created by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. But the Depression
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 8: did not end until America re-industrialized for World War II.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 8: which put everybody back to work fighting Hitler and Dojo.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 8: Prosperity returned after we won and then rebuilt America and
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 8: the world, including Germany and Japan. Since the Great Depression
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 8: and World War II, America, kids, I hate to break
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 8: this to you, has been doing great. We've become the
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 8: most prosperous nation in the history of the world, providing
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 8: jobs and material comforts to the broadest swath of citizens
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 8: and non-citizens ever. We've helped those who cannot help themselves
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 8: and millions who could help themselves, but got hooked on
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 8: Democrat cradle-to-grave welfare. Welfare that Democrats running for office today
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 8: insist should be paid to anyone, even if they refuse
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 8: to work or look for work or just train for
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 8: work free of charge. But folks, it's not just lack
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 8: of money that's made us victims. Most Americans until recently
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 8: have been literate. Then Democrats turned schools, especially inner city schools,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 8: into graduation assembly lines for the benefit of teacher unions.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 8: Worse still, how about equal rights? America belatedly, but at
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 8: long last, truly guaranteed equal rights under the law for women,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 8: racial minorities, and most recently Americans of whatever sexual orientation.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 8: We ask only that Democrats, not use drugs, or worse still,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 8: surgery to try changing the sex of children. Yet for Democrats,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 8: that request turns children into victims. So am I saying
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 8: everything is hunky-dory today?
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 8: Even in this land of limitless opportunity, there have been
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 8: economic dislocations, like the dot-com bubble bursting in the 1990s,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 8: or the mortgage banking collapse of 2008, or Or how
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 8: about gas and diesel prices in 1973 during the OPEC
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 8: oil embargo and again under Joe Biden? Regular gas soared
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 8: to an average $ 5 a gallon. Not because Joe went
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 8: to war with a terror regime seeking nuclear weapons. Because
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 8: Democrats declared war on fossil fuel. Folks, if they regain power,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 8: you think that strategy is going to make gas and
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 8: diesel more affordable? Donald Trump made us independent of OPEC
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 8: with the GOP's all-of-the-above approach to energy. And once Trump
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 8: finally stops dithering, going back and forth and back and
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 8: forth for seven months now on whether he wants to
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 8: negotiate with Iran's terrorists, if he instead consistently strangles them economically,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 8: gas prices will come crashing down. Meantime, friends, my point
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 8: is that nothing, Nothing in America for the past 80
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 8: years has approached the misery of the Great Depression and
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 8: World War II, thank goodness, when people understandably felt they
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 8: were victimized, turned into pitiable creatures by forces beyond their control.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 8: So let me ask you, this is the question, why today?
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 8: Do so many people still think they're victimized? Why does
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 8: today's pop culture turn monsters into victims unless they're Republicans
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 8: like evil orange man Donald Trump? The most obvious example
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 8: is somebody who seemed like a villain even during the
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 8: Great Depression, the Wicked Witch of the West from The
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 8: Wizard of Oz. I'll get you, my pretty, and your
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 8: little dog, too. I don't know about Frank Baum's books,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 8: But in the 1939 movie, there was no explanation for
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 8: the Wicked Witch's villainy. She was just plain evil. And
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 8: we accepted that. Not today. Today, when everyone is a victim,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 8: we get the musical Wicked, the title of which is
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 8: meant to be sarcastic.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: Do we lose him? He fell over, Joe. What do
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: you mean? Well, should we give him a few moments
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: time to regroup? I don't hear him. He's gone. Joe
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: has declared that he is gone. Well, that's sad. I
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: just chime in before we take a break here. His
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: point on, you know, people seem to be so miserable
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: and unhappy in spite of the fact that, you know,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: we are living the best lives that we've ever been
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: able to live in this country. And to his point, no,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: nothing is perfect. This is when they start playing on
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: Envy those evil billionaires and substitute, oh, how about Jews?
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: Like if you go back to Nazi Germany, when the
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: economic collapse, they had to blame someone. So let's conveniently
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: blame the people that have been demonized for basically their
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: entire existence, for all the calamities that befall us. It's
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: their fault. It's their fault. You know, you can get
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: played so easily. But, you know, I think we need
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: to dwell a little bit more on what really, truly,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Equals happiness? Is it taking and tearing
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: down someone else's lived life and lived experience and what
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: they are choosing to do and how they got to
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: where they are just because you haven't, well, achieved or
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: whatever your measure of success is, you aren't there and
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: therefore we need to tear them down? conclude that it
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: wasn't fair that they arrived at the place that they
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: are in, not because of their work or their effort
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: or their brilliance or their ideas, that they brought something
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: to the market that we all wanted and therefore bought,
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: making them successful. That they could do that and did
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: do that probably made life better for a whole lot
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: of people merely because they became so wildly successful bringing
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: to the world whatever it is they brought to the
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: world that made them so wildly successful. But why does
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: that make it wrong that they end up having more?
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: And we can all collectively criticize the stupid, stupid, stupid
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: things that a lot of rich people use their money on,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: the things that they buy. But remember, there's also an
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: economy that's supported by their seemingly stupid purchases. I mean,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: if I had a billion dollars, I wouldn't go out
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: and spend it on a $ 500 million boat. What the
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: hell is with that? But they all seem to want
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: to do that, at least a lot of them, not
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: all of them. But the boat manufacturers and the people employed,
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: the craftsmen and the tradesmen and all those that make
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: the boats that those people float around in, burning up
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: fossil fuels and polluting the planet, they're all happy that
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: they're dumb enough to go out and spend money on
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: things like that. But, you know, it's their life decisions.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: They can make them. That's freedom and liberty. There's no
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: right for us to be envious of them. I'm never
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: going to be there. Let them have their wealth and
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: thank them for, well, providing jobs and employment and all
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: that's right, a lot of tax revenue to keep afloat
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: all the social programs that we've enshrined in law here
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: in the United States of America. 7.15, remember, it's never enough.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: There's never enough money. Look at what's going on in
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: California and look at what happens after you tax the
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: hell out of everyone on all levels, even lower and
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: middle class folks. France, that's what happens. 7.15, 55KRCD Talk Station.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: See if Jack's okay. 55KRCD Talk Station. Dead Kennedys. Dustin,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: that went off, eh, Joe? 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound 550 on
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: AT & T phone. Yeah, real quick. I mentioned my
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: wife in the context of Dracula. She used to love
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: Bram Stoker's Dracula, which is a decent movie, until I
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: ruined it for her. That's one with Gary Oldman and
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: Winona Ryder and Oldman, of course, the vampire. And at
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: one point in the movie, He's getting ready to bite her. Fulfilling,
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: I guess, her wishes because she says something to the
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: effect of, take me away from all of this death.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: And all of this death, of course, is coming from
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: the vampire who's getting ready to bite her at her behest. Okay,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: does that make sense to anyone? No, it didn't make
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: any sense to me. And so finally I uttered it
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: out loud. I go, what the hell is that? Take
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: me away from all this death? She's getting ready to
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: hook up with a guy. She's going to be surrounded
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: by death. Well, at her hand, she becomes a vampire.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: Bubble burst. and she's never forgiven me for ruining that
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: movie for her it's tough to watch a movie with
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: me I do I'm free with my commentary on movies
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: as we go through but further to Jack's point on
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: the Iranian how to defeat the Iranians, I think Michael
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: Hanlon over at the Wall Street Journal, he's a researcher
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: at Brookings Institution, foreign policy program. And I think he
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: had some astute observations about it because Donald Trump's suggesting
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: maybe we'll start bombing after the election. Some are suggesting
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: that will be a bad idea, but I think probably,
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: and what he concludes is he has, Donald Trump has
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: found the least bad military strategy for the war going forward,
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: blockading the Strait of Hormuz, escorting friendly shipping through. He says,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: unless Iran acts or escalates first, stick with this plan,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: time's on America's side. Costs, yes, are high, but they
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: are limited to the price of the pump. Suggesting renewed
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: or intensified air war would cause even more problems and
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: exacerbate them, plus the cost of the war. It was
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: calculated so far $ 49 billion, I will interject. But consistent
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: with Daniel Davis' deep dive points on this, we've done
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: 30,000 additional U.S. combat sorties, strike missions, attacking some 13,000 targets,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: less effective against other targets, one-third, two-thirds of Iran's missile
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: force put out of action but rebuilt. Rebuilt. Drone production
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: continues apace, he notes, and that's consistent with what Daniel
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: Davis points out. They can manufacture drones regardless of the
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: amount of bombs get dropped because they're easy to manufacture
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: in small spaces dispersed widely in a country that's twice
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: the size of Texas. Regional allies are under Iranian attack,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: as you know. So he says the best U.S. strategy,
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: keep doing what we're doing now militarily while thinking through
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: where we can be somewhat flexible in negotiations with Iran someday,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: maybe even as far out as 2029.
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  Speaker 5: Patience.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: Oil inventories from Iran on ships around the world are
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: almost completely out. Supply routes have been pressured. Income sources
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: into Iran have been curtailed dramatically with the restrictions on
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: global banking and other sanctions. One need not support the
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: decision to start the war to reach the conclusion that, well,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: they are being degraded economically, significantly so. A renewed U.S.-Israeli
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: air war would face extreme uncertain prospects, given that available
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: target sets have already been heavily attacked and that air
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: campaigns rarely achieve decisive results, another point Daniel Davis has
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: regularly made. And finally, a major bombing campaign would run
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: a near-certain risk of intensified Iranian retaliation in the region
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: and maybe even beyond, which they've already threatened. Any American
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: interest literally anywhere, is how I interpret that, is subject
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: to potential attack by Iranians and their sympathizers in Lord
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: knows there's enough Iranian sympathizers running around the world to
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: cause some problems really anywhere there might be an American interest. Yeah,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: like that transformer station around the corner from your house.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: And they conclude, sometimes in life the most important choices
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: are between bad options and resisting the temptation to swing
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: for the fences. The U.S. overall isn't in a bad
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: place on the Iran war compared with other plausible scenarios,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: even if the war might have been a dubious idea
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: in the first place. Caution and patience should guide us
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: going forward. And, Mr. O'Hanlon, I think I'm going to
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: have to boil it down and agree with you on
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: that one. Life is not easy in Iran right now.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: The question is, who's going to start the shooting war again?
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: And will it come out to a positive conclusion, given
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: the swirling uncertainties that actually exist right now? It's time
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: of the week. 7.30 means Donovan O'Neill. I'm a state
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: director for Americans for Prosperity Action. We have a topic
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: list to go over with Donovan. The talk station. 729-55-KRC-D
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: Talk Station. Just got an email from Jack Atherton. I
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: did not fall down drunk. We actually had an internet crash,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: so that's why Jack Atherton had to leave us prematurely.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: Not his fault. We'll get him back next Wednesday for
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: another hopefully full edition of The Big Picture. And without
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: further ado, it's that time of week where we hear
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: from Donovan O'Neill from Americans for Prosperity. We've got a
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: topic list today to go over. Donovan, welcome back to
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: the morning show. Is AFP still knocking doors as we
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: fast approach Election Day? Oh, you know it, Brian. We
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: don't stop. It's only getting started. Well, I asked that
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: question as a predicate to ask you, are you hearing
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: anybody talk about this ridiculous non-issue that is the Amy
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: Acton ad?
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 16: Actually, it's interesting you bring that up, Brian, because that was,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 16: you know, while I was consuming that just like you
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 16: and probably most of, you know, Capitol Square, Ohio Politico's,
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 16: One of the things we noticed is folks actually weren't
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 16: talking about it at the doors.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: You know, it took.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 16: But I'll be honest, we've started to hear a little
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 16: bit about the governor's race and rumblings. But I wonder, though,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 16: if that's not, you know, one, we're focused on the
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 16: Houston race. That's what we're going to people's doors with.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 16: So that's where the conversation usually lives. I think we're
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 16: finding those more folks are locking in on. who they're
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 16: going to be voting for. And so they're more open
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 16: and comfortable sharing their plans for voting. I'll be honest, though,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 16: that ad has not has not come up in a
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 16: meaningful way at the doors.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: How about that? Maybe that means it's not meaningful in
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: the sense that people are all crazy and I can't
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: believe Vivek Ramaswamy would have the nerve. Good. That actually
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: reflects maybe people are smarter than the Democrats are making
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: them out to be. You know, there's things that you're
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: focusing on Houston. I had this conversation with Strecker before
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: the program started, and I just chimed in with him
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: real quick while you were talking to make sure that
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: I was accurate before I said it out loud. He's
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: reached out to Houston's campaign quite a few times and
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: nothing to be on the morning show to spread the word.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 2: So I'm kind of question marking that.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 10: Interesting.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, they, I mean.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 16: You know, they're burning up the rubber around the state.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 16: We've done a few door launch events. And one we
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 16: did in Columbus a little over a week ago in
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 16: high spirits and working hard.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. We should maybe have Joe push
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: them a little harder. Well, maybe me saying it out loud.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: There's someone out there that's on the campaign that might
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: get the word over that it would benefit him perhaps.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: Maybe he views it as non-beneficial to be in the
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: morning show. I don't know. I'd love to have him on.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: You're a great program. I want to get him elected.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: You know, that's my goal.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: Anyhow, what are you hearing and door knocking? Is the
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: data center issue still a huge issue for Ohio voters?
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: Not honestly, no.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 16: That's also dropped off while it spiked, I would say,
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 16: in June and July. I think really what it comes
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 16: down to, maybe this is, you know, connected in some
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 16: way to that. It's cost of living, right? It's energy bills.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 16: It's it's gasoline. It's it's food at the grocery store.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 5: And what?
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: You know, the message we're delivering, because we're still focused.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 16: On these swing independent voters, and there are a number
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 16: of them still trying to make their minds up, believe
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 16: it or not. The thing that's pulling at their hearts
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 16: is they know Sherrod Brown was part of the problem
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 16: and why we're in the situation we're in. They voted
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 16: two years ago for change and they want to see
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 16: it happen. The message we're delivering is we didn't get
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 16: into that problem overnight. We're not going to get out
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 16: of it overnight. And the real choice here is do
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 16: you go backwards to the guy who voted for the
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 16: green energy new deals that made energy more expensive? Do
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 16: you vote for the guy who passed the Unaffordable Care
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 16: Act that made your health care more expensive?
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: Do you vote for the guy who who, by the way,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: Sherrod Brown, that.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 16: Voted for the Bidenomics Inflation Reduction Act that made everything
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 16: cost more, or do we vote for John Husted, a
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 16: common sense clear path forward, right? Been there 20 months
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 16: and voted on legislation like the working family tax cuts
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 16: that delivered results for families. And if we send him back,
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 16: We'll be voting for the kinds of things we need
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 16: to get us out of the problems we're in today.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 16: So that's what we're talking to folks about as they're
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 16: torn on that cost of living dynamic that I think
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 16: has dominated over half, if not 75 percent of the
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 16: conversations I think our folks are having out there these days.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: Well, do you get the impression that in spite of
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: the fact that we're living with some painful times, diesel
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: and gasoline price wise, and of course, energy price wise,
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: that they get the point that you just made that
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: I've been hammering home over and over again? they were
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: more expensive and gas was more expensive under Biden, brought
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: to you by legislation, an intentional increase in the cost
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: of production of gasoline for the purpose of making it
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: more expensive. Do people get it? I know it's difficult
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: to say and feel like, I don't want to reward
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: the party that is forcing me to pay six bucks
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: a gallon for diesel fuel. But by the same token,
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: I don't want to reward the party that put policies
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: in place, not economic realities interfering or impacting the price
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: of gasoline, but literally policies that will keep the price
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: at an inflated level versus what the market would actually
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 2: be charging if you allowed a little bit of freedom
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 2: and a regulatory environment that will recognize the need for
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: fossil fuels. Do they get it?
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 16: Well, nobody's going to admit they're wrong to a stranger
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 16: on the front porch, Brian, but I will tell you,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 16: we see folks you know, there's a number of folks
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 16: who will make that concession, right? And I think, you know,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 16: part of what we want to do, right, is we
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 16: talk to those people in the spring, in the summer,
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 16: in the fall.
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  Speaker 2: We follow that up with mail and digital.
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  Speaker 16: And, you know, there's the other campaigns that are out
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  Speaker 16: there doing what they're doing to elevate that message. And
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 16: so the hope is, right, that conversation where we provide
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 16: somebody with a counterpoint to maybe what they're hearing in
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 16: the negative ads or their cousin who's a raging liberal
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 16: has told them, you know, at the family picnic this summer,
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 16: that we can move them. And so we see it.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 16: We see the gears turning. It's why we continue to
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 16: do what we do, because these folks are winnable. We
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 16: have to go out there and present them with those
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 16: facts to help them make the best decision when they
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 16: go into the ballot box next week.
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  Speaker 2: Fair enough. We're going to bring you back. We'll be
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: talking about regardless of who wins, and I know the
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: polling suggests this is going to be a big blue wave,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: but we can deal with the challenges that presents. And
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: I know AFP is going to be out there hammering
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: home the issues that really will make Ohio a better place.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about a few of those. The Talk Station.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: 740-55-KRCD Talks Station. Brian Thomas with Donovan O'Neill from Americans
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: for Prosperity, helping you get involved for the benefit of
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: all residents. of the state of Ohio. Okay, we're going
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: to have to deal with Tuesday. Hopefully, we will come
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: out on top. We, the conservative, logical, reasonable-minded people and
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: not the left-wing crazies that want to, well, rule every component,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: rule every aspect of our life. That's my take. Agree
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  Speaker 2: or not. But If the Democrats do end up with
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: a blue wave, Donald O'Neill, that's not the end of
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: AFP actions work here in the state of Ohio. We've
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 2: got some serious issues to continue knocking doors on and
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: discuss it by way of priority. What in your mind are, well,
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 2: let's say the top three, Donald?
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  Speaker 16: Well, yeah, I mean, here in the state, you know,
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 16: at AFP, we do the political work we do because
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 16: we're working to achieve transformational public policy. And there's still
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 16: some open items. We talked about data centers in the
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 16: last segment.
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  Speaker 2: The legislature left that as.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 16: An open-ended conversation from their summer session this year. The
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 16: other areas that we've got to think about, one of
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 16: the things Governor DeWine vetoed was the RAINS Act. That's
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 16: regulatory reforms that would really put the executive in check.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: Remind my listeners in the context of Ohio what that meant,
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: because I'm struggling to understand that veto.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, so RAINS Act is regulations from the executive in
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 16: need of scrutiny. And so when the legislature passes laws,
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 16: there is an intent they're supposed to put behind them,
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 16: and the executive's job is to execute those laws. But
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 16: what we found over the years, and you see this
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 16: famously at the federal level with taking 1970s environmental rules
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 16: and stretching them and contorting them to apply to preferred
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 16: policy outcomes right now.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 2: What the Raines Act does is it puts a stop
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: and a check on that.
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  Speaker 16: And it says anything over a certain dollar amount is
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 16: usually how these legislations crafted. Anything that would have a
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 16: certain dollar amount impact on the economy through the regulations
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 16: has to actually be affirmatively approved by the legislature before
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 16: it goes into effect. And so it puts a check
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 16: on the executive. and enables the legislature from laws that
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 16: were passed six months ago to laws that were passed
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 16: 60 years ago to do its job and actually affirm, yes,
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 16: when we wrote that legislation, or yes, when that legislation
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 16: was drafted 60 years ago and is still in effect,
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  Speaker 16: we agree that is the proper use and intent of
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 16: that law. It's power to the people, Brian.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 6: It is.
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  Speaker 16: And of course, you can imagine the bureaucrats and the
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 16: executive branch dislike it. And unfortunately, even some in the
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 16: legislature dislike it because, believe it or not, it makes
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 16: them do a little bit more work and have to
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 16: actually take some votes on things they may otherwise want
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 16: to cover their eyes and close their ears to. It's good,
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 16: but it's good government legislation, and we're all behind it.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: Votes that might make them uncomfortable to certain of their
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: lobbyists and campaign contributors, perhaps, Donovan. That's an element. It's possible,
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: isn't it? Wow, that never happens in politics.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 16: It's easier to just say, well, you know, that dang
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 16: governor there in the mansions just making these laws.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for the cover, Mike. Appreciate that veto. You kept
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: me out of trouble, and you saved me some extra work.
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  Speaker 16: So it's good all around, and it was included in
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 16: the state budget, believe it or not. It's an open
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 16: veto item, and it's something, again, Um, we're, we're kind
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 16: of triangulating around with some other coalition partners. Our grassroots
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 16: were fired up for it, as you can imagine. Uh,
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  Speaker 16: it's passed in over a dozen states, uh, in just
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 16: the past 12 months.
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  Speaker 2: And, uh, we're gonna, we're gonna make.
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  Speaker 16: A push to see if we can't get this thing
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  Speaker 16: done during the lame duck.
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  Speaker 2: Um, it's going to be critical legislation for sure. Short
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: window of time to do it. But finally, like something
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: that we could all use a big dose of is
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: regulatory relief. Uh, I guess, how is it possible that
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: it is difficult for entrepreneurs to test their ideas and
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: bring useful products and services to the market here in
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 2: the state of Ohio? And why are there impediments that
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 2: haven't already been removed, Donovan? This just irks me to
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: no end.
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  Speaker 16: Well, as you can imagine, in a world where there
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 16: is emergent technology and emergent innovation every day, it feels
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 16: like right now, right?
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  Speaker 5: Certainly.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 16: One of the big question marks for investors, for entrepreneurs,
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 16: for folks who want to bring their business or idea
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 16: and do it here in the Buckeye State is what
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 16: will the regulators do, right? Will someone find it unsavory
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 16: and regulate me out of existence? Or worse yet, will
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 16: the big tech companies, right, the Googles, the Metas, the
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 16: big boys of the world in the industry, when you're
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 16: trying to disrupt them, guess what they do? They go
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 16: in and they build friendships, just like you're talking about,
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 16: with the lawmakers, with the regulators. And they create the
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 16: rules in a way that favored them. There's legislation out there, though,
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 16: called regulatory sandboxes. And what this legislation does is it
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 16: creates sort of the safe space, if you will, for
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 16: the innovators to operate. They sort of raise their hand
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 16: and say, hey, we have some new technology that's not
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 16: really clear what the regulation is. You know, they contact
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 16: the office office. of regulatory oversight, I forget what it
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 16: would be called in the legislation, but they sort of
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 16: raise their hand and say, hey, we're not regulated right now,
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 16: but we've got some stuff that we think is going
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 16: to be really great and create opportunity for a lot
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 16: of people. We're going to innovate and we want to
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 16: kind of communicate and work with you folks, rather than
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 16: the regulators coming in and squashing us or the folks
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 16: with insider access, like the existing technologies or industries. regulating
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 16: the amount of existence, these folks sort of get to
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 16: operate in a safe space and build up their business,
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 16: identify where public safety regulations might be of some level
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 16: of necessity, but also avoid unnecessary regulations while they are
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 16: building and growing and creating that next innovation and opportunity.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 16: right here in the state of Ohio. So regulatory sandboxes
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 16: sounds a little wonky. Basic idea is create a safe
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 16: space where government can't come in and start squashing these
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 16: businesses before they've even taken off.
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  Speaker 2: That's what bothers me so much. They're stopping the progress
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: in its tracks ahead of time before they're able to
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: see what the ultimate product turns out to be. I mean,
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 2: people will still be liable if they rush to judgment
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: and put something out on the market free of regulation,
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: that harms folks, where they're going to be liable for
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 2: the harm caused by what they brought to the market.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 2: There's always opportunities for recovery of damages, but to stand
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: in the way of the full development of something before
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: the benefits are fully realized or known, that to me, conceptually,
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 2: that bothers me.
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  Speaker 7: Well, absolutely.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 16: And again, one of the things we've educated lawmakers on
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 16: around this who say, you know, they're concerned about environmental
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 16: impacts or what a particular, if someone will try to
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 16: find a loophole through this, we already have.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 2: A lot of those protections and, you know, air quotes protections, Brian,
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: in place.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 16: The reality is the existing regulatory regime creates problems. That's
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 16: why the RAINS Act is important, to avoid it from growing.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 16: But the sandboxes are important to allow that next emergent
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 16: technology or innovation or opportunity to be developed right here
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 16: in Ohio and flourish to serve the world. It's good government. Again,
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 16: good government stuff, I think, is going to be the
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 16: theme of this lame duck. And it's something our folks
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 16: are going to be dialed and focused in on.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 10: Wow.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 2: And I hate to go back to France, but that's
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: one of the problems they face in France is the
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: impediments to development of a business and industry. It's sort
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 2: of the default position is, no, we will not change things.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 2: It's sort of status quo is the only acceptable norm.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: And if you try to move forward, it's just not
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 2: a business environment at all. It's terrible. That's one of
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 2: the reasons they struggle. The intellectual talent leaves environments like
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 2: that and goes someplace else. Oh, like the United States. Well,
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: a lot of that also, I understand, protects entrenched interests.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 16: Folks 20 years ago were able to write the laws,
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 16: create the regulations, create all the value and wealth off
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 16: of something, and then they've used government to build a
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 16: moat around themselves that somebody up and coming isn't able
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 16: to break into.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 13: It's horrible.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 10: It's wrong.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 16: And these regulatory sandboxes are a way to sort of
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 16: break that stranglehold and create opportunity.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 2: I'm reminded of the cab drivers who were pulling their
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: hair out when the concept of Lyft and Uber came out.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: There were a lot of efforts by the cab drivers
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 2: to protect their own interests through regulation and law. So
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: can't handle the new technology. Going back to that whole
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: buggy whip analogy in that movie. Yeah, there was a
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: lot of buggy whip manufacturers out there, and ultimately there's
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: only one left, and that one went out of business too.
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: Because the car got to move forward with modern conveniences
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 2: and technologies. And look, the world's able to adjust accordingly.
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: It's happened everywhere. over and over again throughout this country's
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: history and throughout the history of mankind. Don O'Neill, how
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: can we help out? There's still work to be done
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 2: throughout the year, even after the election. So what do
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 2: we need to do?
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 16: Well, if you want to help us in the final
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 16: stretch at AFP Action Knocked Doors, go to afpaction.com. If
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 16: you like what you're hearing on some of these policy
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 16: things and you want to help us during the lame
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 16: duck session, go to BuckeyeBlueprint.com. And either way you do it, folks,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 16: we need help. You know, you don't get a bolder,
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 16: better Buckeye State sitting on the sidelines.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 4: This show on earth. It's a big, beautiful, big tent party.
• 1:37:50
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• 1:37:51
  Speaker 7: Tent.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 13: A big tent.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 4: And keep it here for the latest. 55KRC, the talk station.
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  Speaker 2: 805, you're a 55KRC, the talk station. Very happy Wednesday
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: to you. And a very happy welcome back to the
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 2: 55KRC Morning Show. Fast approaching next Tuesday. It is Election
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: Day next Tuesday, and I've been focusing quite a bit
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: on the judicial races here in Hamilton County. Democrats basically
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: hold every single office in the county with the exception
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: of a handful of judicial benches and, of course, council,
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 2: mayor's office, county commissioners. And you get what you vote for,
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 2: and clearly the Democrats are in this woke ideology on
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: the bench. And they don't believe in holding criminals accountable
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: for the crimes they commit and someone who has a
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 2: better view of life. That's Judge Leah Denkelacher, who we
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 2: need to keep on the bench. Welcome back, Judge Denkelacher.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: It's always a pleasure to talk with you and have
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 2: you on the 55 KRC Morning Show. How's it going
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 2: out there on the trail?
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 5: Good.
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  Speaker 13: It's going, Brian.
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  Speaker 17: As you said, well, first of all, thank you very
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 17: much for having me back on the show. As you said,
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 17: we're less than a week away. I am tired, but
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 17: I have to admit that, but.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 13: I've been everywhere. I've been working my butt off.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 17: I've been getting my name out there, meeting wonderful people
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 17: in this county, and I'm doing this all because I
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 17: have three little kids that I'm raising in this community,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 17: and I care about their safety as well as the
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 17: safety of our entire community. So I'm doing this all
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 17: for the right reason, because I truly care about our community.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 13: But it's going well.
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 17: I'm almost there, and I am going to do this
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 17: next week. But thank you very much for having me back.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: I'm happy to have you back on, and I appreciate
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 2: you anticipated my first question, which... In this very difficult
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 2: political climate we find ourselves in and the very difficult
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 2: position it is being a judge on the bench and
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 2: having to be, well, oftentimes or at least if you
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 2: have the appropriate understanding of most notably the criminal justice system,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 2: it's going to have to be harsh treatment for certain
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: people because they have exhibited a tendency to break laws repeatedly.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: That's what you have to do. But that brings about
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: attacks and personal attacks, maybe doxing kind of things. There's
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 2: a weight of responsibility that goes with being a judge
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 2: that I don't think your salary compensates you for. But
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 2: there's got to be a reason behind it. You will
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 2: suffer that type of abuse and that type of criticism
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 2: and the public nature of the job for the purpose
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 2: of the residents of Hamilton County to keep us all safe.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 2: You've got children you're invested in. You want them to
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 2: have a safe community. So do I, and I think
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 2: so does every rational thinking person.
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 7: I agree.
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 13: I mean, we live here.
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 17: I'm a lifelong resident. I was born and raised on
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 17: the West Side. Now I'm raising my family here. I
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 17: want everyone in this county to be able to raise
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 17: their family in a safe community. And that's why I
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 17: do what I do.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 13: And I have.
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 17: you know, the experience to do the right thing. You know,
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 17: I was a prosecutor for almost 13 years before getting
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 17: appointed to the bench. I was in the juvenile, municipal,
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 17: felony divisions. I worked my way up through the office
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 17: and ended as an assistant chief of the juvenile division
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 17: before I got appointed judge. I tried cases in the
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 17: common police court that I'm now a judge in, you know,
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 17: including murder, rape, felonious assault, robbery. You know, I argued
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 17: bond missions as a prosecutor. And now as a judge
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 17: in my year and a half, I've presided over 10
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 17: different jury trials, eight criminal, including two murder trials, felonious
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 17: assault of a police officer, and two civil matters. One
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 17: was a medical malpractice, multimillion dollar verdict. I'm saying this
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 17: because I have the required and qualified experience. You know,
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 17: and I'm here to work. I'm here to give everyone
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 17: their day in court. I listen to everybody. I want
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 17: input from all sides. And my opponent, from what I
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 17: can tell, the research that my campaign was able to do,
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 17: has not handled one case in the Hamilton County Court
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 17: of Common Pleas General Division in at least the 10 years.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 17: So do you want someone like her determining the sentence
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 17: or in the bond? Or do you want someone like
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 17: me who has that experience to determine a sentence and
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 17: a bond and work to keep our community safe? So
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 17: that's what I just hope, you know, all the listeners
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 17: out there are considering when they go to vote next Tuesday.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: And, you know, I'm looking at your opponent's website. She worked,
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 2: says she worked closely. With legal aid and the public
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 2: defender's office, apparently she has some experience representing children who
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 2: are victims of abuse and neglect. But beyond that, she's
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: a lawyer and she's a mediator and a concrete construction
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 2: business owner. I don't know how that qualifies you compared
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 2: to your resume, which is obviously quite extensive.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 17: Right. I think I'm the more qualified candidate, and my
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 17: experience shows that, and my work on the bench shows
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 17: that as well.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, are the things that you're aware of
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: that need to be addressed by way of how the
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 2: process in the court system works in Hamilton County? I mean,
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: we've been focusing a lot on the morning show on
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 2: the juvenile court system. Judge Bloom apparently is just, I
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: don't even know how to interpret her actions, but she
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: apparently has no interest whatsoever in getting the juveniles the
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: help they need. That help is brought about by dealing
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 2: with them a little bit more harshly on crime. But
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 2: she doesn't. And she lets it's the revolving door of
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 2: justice in the juvenile system. Is there anything analogous to that?
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: Because in the criticism of Judge Bloom also carries over
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 2: into an area where you work, which is the prosecutor's office.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: And I'm getting the sneaking impression that the current Hamilton
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 2: County prosecutor shares this sort of woke ideology when it
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: comes to prosecuting crime. What do you sense is that?
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 2: Are you aware of anything like that? Do you see
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 2: things that need to be changed? Leah Deke Locker.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 13: Well, as I always say, I have to be careful.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 13: As far as... The one thing I'll say is when
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 13: I was a— obviously, I just said I was a.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 17: Prosecutor for almost 13 years. I started my career in
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 17: the juvenile division, so I was a brand-new attorney. And
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 17: then I ended my career as an assistant chief of
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 17: the juvenile division. And just based on my personal experience,
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 17: the amount of violent crime in juveniles increased tremendously just
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 17: in those 13 years from when I started and when
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 17: I ended. You know, I— What I will say is,
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 17: you know, there has to be consequences for actions. I
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 17: think that's common sense. I mean, I learned that as
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 17: a little kid in school. I learned that from my parents.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 17: And it's no different, you know, under the law. We
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 17: don't want a lawless society. We want to live in a, like,
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 17: I just think it's common sense, I guess is what
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 17: I'm trying to say. And under the law as well,
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 17: you know, The purpose of felony sentencing and why, you know,
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 17: the kind of punishment you're supposed to or sentence you're
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 17: supposed to come up with has to protect the public
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 17: or be one that reflects protecting the public, punishing the
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 17: offender and promoting effective rehabilitation.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 13: So it's right there.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 17: In the law as well. And obviously, every case is different.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 17: I'm going to consider every case individually. You know, what
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 17: is the victim looking for in this case? What's the
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 17: defendant's background, defendant's history?
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 13: Is he working? You know, is he in school? He
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 13: or she, sorry. And, you know, what was the nature
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 13: of the offense?
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 17: You know, things like that. So I took a note
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 17: to follow along. I take it very seriously.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 2: Yes, you do. And you've demonstrated that on the bench,
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 2: Judge Leah Dinkalocker. And, you know, the juveniles that you mentioned,
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 2: and I think everyone can sort of agree, at least
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 2: from what we read in the papers and the information
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 2: that I've been given, you've been given this explosion, this increase,
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 2: I will call it, in juvenile crime. The juveniles in
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 2: juvenile court who are committing crimes do quite often end
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 2: up in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court with criminal charges
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 2: against them as adults, do they not?
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean, it is very common to have 18, 19,
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 17: 20-year-olds on my.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 13: Docket, yes.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well.
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 2: That's why they need to be brought into this justice
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 2: system and dealt with accordingly. You know, it needs to
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 2: serve as a message. That's part of the criminal justice
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 2: system is sending a message out to the other would-be criminals.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 2: You're going to be dealt with harshly if you commit crimes,
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 2: so don't do it. That's why there are laws on
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 2: the books, for God's sake.
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 13: No, I totally agree, Brian.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 2: Keep JudgeDinkalocker.com's website. You can still donate. I guess you
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 2: still need campaign contributions, Judge Dinkalocker. We are running short
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 2: on time, aren't we?
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 17: Yeah, we are a week away. I mean, I have
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 17: a lot of things out there. People have been so
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 17: great to me, and I am forever thankful for everyone's support.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 17: And I'm just asking, like I said, less than one week,
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 17: please keep spreading the word. These judicial races are important.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 17: Vote the entire ballot. I am the last judge on
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 17: the ballot. So please look for me out there. And
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 17: I just, Brian, thank you so much for your support.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 17: Thank you to all the listeners out there. I couldn't
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 17: do this without you. And I am looking forward to
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 17: the opportunity to continue to serve each and every one of.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 13: You from the bench.
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 17: And I hope I get to do it for a
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 17: long time.
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  Speaker 8: Exactly.
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it, Judge Dinkalocker-Demonsley. On the bench, you've shown you
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: are a qualified candidate and you are qualified to stay
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 2: on the bench more so than your opponents. And we
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 2: need to have consistent justice in Hamilton County before we
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 2: have to bring the flag out. Judge Dinkelhocker, have a
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 2: great race. I wish you all the best and prayers
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 2: for you and your family. I know how tough this
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 2: has got to be, which is I would never want
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 2: to run for office. Jeez Louise.
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 17: No, it's, but my family has been the best and
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 17: it's why I'm able to do it. And my, like
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 17: I said, there's three little kids of mine, my eight,
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 17: six and three year old, they motivate me to do
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 17: this every day. And I'm going to keep it up
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 17: because it's, it's all about them and the rest of
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 17: our community. So I just, I've dedicated my entire career
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 17: to public service. And like I said, I hope I
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 17: get to continue to do it.
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  Speaker 2: And I hope you do, too. Judge Lea Denkelocher, it's
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 2: been a pleasure having you on. All the best of
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 2: luck as we fast approach Tuesday. Folks, make sure you
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 2: have your judicial selections before you go into the polls.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: There's no R & D. I would strongly encourage you
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 2: to check out the pink slip from the Republican Party.
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 2: They've made some excellent, excellent choices. And, of course, they
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 2: do endorse Judge Leah Denkelacher on top of, yes, Judge
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 2: Lucan for the juvenile bench. Please plan ahead. Please, please.
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 2: 820 and 55 KRC, the talk station. Happy Wednesday. Judge
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 2: Anna Napolitano next.
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  Speaker 10: War.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 2: The general subject matter, war in the constitutional framework, has
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 2: been waged without any oversight whatsoever. Since 1950, in essence.
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 2: That's the subject matter in Napolitano's column, and I can't
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 2: argue with him about that. It is true. We've had
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 2: these conversations about the authority to wage war. Anyhow, as
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 2: we contemplate the Iranians' next move and our next move,
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 2: troubled times we live in. Going back to artificial intelligence,
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 2: I mentioned the other day about the 60,000 layoffs over Microsoft,
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 2: of course, AI-related. And I saw John Kieswetter's article over
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 2: at wvxu.org. He still writes for them. Media Beat is
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 2: his column. But Scripps has laid off a whole bunch
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 2: of people. They eliminated 431 positions nationwide yesterday. And locally,
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 2: he said, multiple sources tell me Channel 9 eliminated half
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: of its 12-person photo staff and two producers. It is
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 2: also gone, he writes, are some assignment editors, a video editor, engineers,
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 2: and other employees for a total ranging from 11 to
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 2: 16 people. So his suggestion, don't be surprised to see
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 2: reporters shooting iPhone videos for other stories. And it sounds bad,
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 2: and I know we have a problem with local media.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 2: There's not enough, it seems, to report on all the
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 2: important activities going on in and around the city of Cincinnati.
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 2: Some people think, well, they have a bias in media generally,
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 2: and I think we can all agree they probably do.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 2: So maybe they're ignoring things that you and I think
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 2: they should report on. But he does point out that
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 2: they're going to have more people out in the field.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 2: This is going to help them get more local stories
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 2: out there, and I trust him at their word, and
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 2: why not? Using modern technology like a cell phone, you
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 2: don't have to take an entire video crew out to
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 2: do what you're doing. And my thoughts went back to
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 2: the broadcast museum at a Voice of America park, which
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 2: is the coolest thing. You got to go out there
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 2: and just look at it from, at minimum, the Cold
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 2: War connection. It's just like frozen in time. But when
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 2: you look at the equipment that used to be used,
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 2: and when you look at photographs of production studios and
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 2: sound stages, and you talk to a guy like maybe
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 2: Rob Ryder, he used to be on the Bob Braun show,
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 2: and you think about the just insane number of people
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 2: it took to produce a program, it doesn't take that
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 2: much anymore. You're not lugging around a 9,000-pound camera on
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 2: a dolly. You don't need all of the people in
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 2: the behind-the-scenes resources, you know, splicing tape and doing editing
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 2: work in an old-fashioned way that was very time-consuming and
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 2: very labor-intensive. AIs change that. You know, I do commercials
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 2: after the show and Joe Strecker is always, you know,
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 2: polishing them up. I don't have to worry about starting
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 2: from scratch and redoing them because maybe I flubbed a
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 2: word or maybe I paused or had to cough during
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 2: the mid-commercial. You just click, it's gone. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 2: that was the work of perhaps more people than just
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 2: Joe Strecker in the old days, but you don't need
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 2: it anymore. So maybe this is a bad development, maybe
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 2: it's a good development, but development it is. And I'm
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 2: sure that WCPO is going to be able to survive
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 2: the challenges with fewer people. Scripps, generally speaking, will be
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 2: as well. And I think we'll still get the news.
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 2: It's just going to be given to us and presented
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 2: to us in a format that doesn't nearly require as
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 2: much people to do. Obviously, going back to AI, how
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 2: bad is it going to be? How many jobs will
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 2: be eliminated? And what's it going to look like on
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 2: the other side? I think this is really primarily, and
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 2: I've said it before, the drive behind the anti-data center rush.
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 2: I I understand. I have admitted I would love AI
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 2: to stop in its tracks right now. Maybe I'm old school,
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 2: not capable of dealing with the modern challenges of life.
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 2: But this does seem to be like a horse of
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 2: a different color in terms of the overwhelming number of
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 2: jobs that AI can eliminate. I mean, it's brave new
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 2: world stuff going on out there quite seriously. Fast approaching
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 2: 825 at 55KRC, the talk station.
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 12: Coming up next, a very happy guest this morning. I'm
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 12: having trouble figuring out why.
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 2: Let's see.
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 12: Well, the price of Halloween candy is way too high.
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 4: His costume's done.
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 12: Oh, there it is. His New York Giants are in
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 12: first place. The judge is next. Chuck Ingram on 55KRC,
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 12: the talk station.
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 2: See, I get the benefit of seeing Judge Napolitano's reaction
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 2: to Chuck Ingram's comment. He's looking down. He's shaking his
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 2: head back and forth like, what in God's name is
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 2: this guy talking about? Welcome back, Judge Ann Napolitano. It's
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 2: that time of week. We get the benefit of your insight,
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 2: constitutionally grounded wisdom. It's good to always have you on
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 2: the program at this time. Judge, welcome back.
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Brian.
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 7: It's always a pleasure.
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 3: And I love Ingram, no matter what he says. And
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 3: the Giants are in first place.
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 7: Surprise, surprise.
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 2: They are indeed. Is that your team?
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 3: How's Joe Burrow? Is he injured yet?
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 2: No, don't say things like that. Now it's going to happen.
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 3: Listen, I wish him well. I'm an admirer of his athleticism,
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 3: and I want my friends in Cincinnati to be happy
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 3: unless they play the Giants.
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 2: Well, okay. We'll take that caveat, and I agree with you.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 2: And he is one hell of an athlete. There's no
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 2: doubt about it. Guy can throw a pass, man. Anyway,
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 2: I loved your column. I refer to it as brilliant.
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 2: America's deadly addiction to war. And it was sort of
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 2: an objective oversight of the realities since 1950 that presidents
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 2: have sort of just unilaterally waged war without sort of
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 2: a defined objective. And the predicate for the various military
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 2: conflicts we've been in is an agenda populace that's worried
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 2: about some existential threat to our existence, only to find
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 2: out when the bombs drop that we don't ultimately get
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 2: the outcome we've hoped for. And that's when mission creep
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 2: and changes come. And we find ourselves in a place
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 2: like Afghanistan for 20 years. Only to pull the plug
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 2: with terrible results. I know I'm just boiling down your
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 2: brilliant column very quickly, but I don't know how anybody
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 2: can disagree with you about the realities of what you write,
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 2: Judge Napolitano. We do have a Constitution.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 3: You're nice to say that. We do have a Constitution
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 3: totally obliterated, utterly ignored by a feckless Congress that would
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 3: rather criticize from the sidelines than prevent these things from happening.
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 3: We'll see what the Congress does if it's controlled by
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 3: or dominated by the Democrats. I'm not looking for better
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 3: things from the Democrats than the Republicans, but we'll see
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 3: if they can put a brake on Trump's wars. So
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 3: many people feel betrayed by a president who promised an
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 3: end to endless wars, and here.
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 7: We are again.
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 3: We're in the middle of two of them.
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 7: The CIA is.
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 3: Finding targets in Russia for Ukraine to hit. We are
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 3: funding the Israelis in Gaza.
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 7: And of course, we're in.
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 3: A bit of a pause now, but every other day
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 3: seems to be threatening to resume attacks on Iran so that, quote,
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 3: it can't take out Los Angeles, an absurd, absurd threat
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 3: that no serious military analyst believes is even possible, much
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 3: less feasible.
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 2: Well, do you actually expect the Democrats to do anything
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 2: about this? Because I'm looking at your list, and I
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 2: don't think it's a comprehensive one. Korea, Vietnam, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine, Iran, and, well, others.
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 2: I don't recall any political party being the major challenger
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 2: to those actions or stepping up and endeavoring to stop them.
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 3: The only thing they'll do is, because they detest him personally,
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 3: is try to make Trump's life miserable for him.
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 3: But many of the Democrats... probably secretly, I'm not a shrink,
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 3: I can't tell you what, compare what they say probably
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 3: to what they think inwardly, support all this military activity
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 3: for the reasons articulated in the piece. It gives them
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 3: a feeling of power. It enriches the military-industrial complex. The
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 3: military-industrial complex is all over the United States. in many, many,
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 3: many congressional districts. They don't want those people to lose
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 3: their jobs, even if their jobs are based on borrowed
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 3: dollars going to the Pentagon.
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad you said this. The next place I
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 2: was going to go, you read my mind. You mentioned funding. Okay,
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 2: people are all pissed off. We fund Israel.
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 14: Fine.
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 2: You're either against it or you're for it. But our money,
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 2: taxpayer borrowed dollars, goes to Israel for the purpose of what?
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 2: Acquiring arms, which money goes back to the U.S. manufacturers
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 2: of arms benefiting the military-industrial complex. But that's the way
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 2: it is in any country that we give money to
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 2: for the purpose of acquisition of arms. It's buying from
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 2: our U.S. companies and building up and keeping their profitability.
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 7: Correct.
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 3: In the case of Israel, much of the money goes
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 3: directly to the arms manufacturers so that Israel doesn't have
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 3: to wait. So those huge military planes that carry cargo,
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 3: I forget what they're called, they land two or three
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 3: times a day in Israel with the gear right there.
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 3: In the case of Ukraine, it's an actual cash transfer.
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 3: The Europeans are paying American manufacturers who are then shipping
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 3: supplies either directly to Ukraine or to the Pentagon to
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 3: replace the what the Pentagon is shipping to Ukraine, if
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 3: all of this makes sense to you.
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 4: In both cases, it is.
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 3: The federal government borrowing money, paying for wars that have
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 3: nothing to do with American national security, but your children
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 3: and your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren, as yet unborn, will
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 3: be paying higher taxes to pay back the debt that
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  Speaker 3: was created by this borrowing.
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  Speaker 2: And the corollary being they will also be living in
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  Speaker 2: a less free society because Lord knows if we are
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  Speaker 2: under any form of threat, existential, created or otherwise, if
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 2: you gin up enough concern over it, then that's when
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 2: your civil liberties are eradicated and you find out the
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  Speaker 2: NSA is literally listening to every phone call you've ever made.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the NSA is listening to every phone call you
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  Speaker 3: and I have made since 2001 because of 9-11. even though,
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  Speaker 3: according to the federal government, everybody that caused 9-11 is
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  Speaker 3: either dead or incarcerated in Cuba. But the feds took
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  Speaker 3: the power that the Congress gave them in October of
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  Speaker 3: 2001 and retained it. And that power expires every five years,
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  Speaker 3: and every five years, there's this narrow, narrow, narrow vote
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  Speaker 3: in the House of Representatives, and it passes by one
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  Speaker 3: or two votes.
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  Speaker 2: You don't think that's planned? Of course it's planned.
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  Speaker 3: Congressman Johnson, Mike Johnson, who's the Speaker of the House,
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  Speaker 3: was a fierce opponent of the NSA when he was
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  Speaker 3: a just congressman. Now that he's Speaker of the House
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  Speaker 3: and receives periodic private visits from the intelligence community, gee,
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  Speaker 3: I wonder what they're showing him. He comes out in
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  Speaker 3: favor of all the spying. I mean, this happened literally
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  Speaker 3: last time. when he left the Speaker's chair to go
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  Speaker 3: on the floor and cast a vote. And the reauthorization
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 3: of the spying authorities passed the House by one vote.
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  Speaker 2: Again, you don't think that was.
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  Speaker 7: What is our.
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  Speaker 3: Friend Thomas Massey going to be doing in January? Do
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  Speaker 3: we know?
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  Speaker 2: I do not know. He's probably going to go back
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 2: to enjoying the benefits of his multiple patents and the
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 2: income he generates off of that, enjoy life on his
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 2: successful off-the-grid farm where he is raising his own beef
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  Speaker 2: and having it slaughtered locally for local consumption. And of course,
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 2: he's continuing to ask the question, why can't local farmers
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 2: butcher their own beef? He's got a new bill out
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 2: that hoping to advance that common sense reality. Why can't
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 2: we Why do we have to go to some major
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 2: corporate-owned slaughterhouse to have beef processed at a significant increase
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  Speaker 2: in cost to you and I?
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  Speaker 3: Because Congress can regulate interstate commerce, and therefore it can
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 3: regulate anything that affects interstate commerce, and therefore, according to
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 3: Justice Clarence Thomas, it could regulate a Tupperware party if
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  Speaker 3: it wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: This is absurd. Congressman Massey is 100% correct.
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  Speaker 3: The government should have nothing to do with this.
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  Speaker 2: Agreed. Well, that's why he introduced the Red Meat Inspection
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  Speaker 2: Exemption Act. So what bell is rung can be unrung
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 2: in the name of freedom and liberty and common sense
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  Speaker 2: for that matter. Let's free it up. And I think
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  Speaker 2: he'll still be hard at work and maybe not in,
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  Speaker 2: of course, in a representative capacity, but because he has
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 2: experienced knowledge and he's been such a profound advocate for
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 2: these free market freedom loving principles, he'll continue to work
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 2: towards those efforts. I'm just confident he will. He can't
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  Speaker 2: give up. He's a man of principle, Judge Napolitano.
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  Speaker 7: Correct.
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  Speaker 10: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. I'd love to see him as the governor of
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 3: Kentucky or as the junior senator from Kentucky. Imagine Rand
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 3: Paul and Thomas Massey as your senators.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: I'd write a check in support of that campaign. I
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  Speaker 2: write very few checks in support of campaigns. Judge Napolitano,
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 2: Judging Freedom is the podcast. You can find it wherever
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 2: you find your podcasts, including iHeartMedia.com. Judge Napolitano, standard cast
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 2: of characters on a Wednesday? Or you got someone different today?
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  Speaker 3: I do have Jeff Sachs, Professor Sachs, to analyze what
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 3: we hope is a result in the Israeli elections. Otherwise,
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 3: Pepe Escobar from Thailand and Phil Giraldi.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're still waiting on that outcome. It looks like
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 2: it was basically tied.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, it does.
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  Speaker 3: It does look like a tie. And Whoever is going
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 3: to form a new government is going to have to
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 3: deal with the Arab parties who have a huge number.
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 3: They have three times the numbers in the new Knesset
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 3: than they do in the present one. This is going
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  Speaker 3: to cause a lot of head scratching.
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  Speaker 14: It is.
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  Speaker 2: And they're both sides are a little bit worried about
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 2: forming a coalition with those Arab factors. But isn't it
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 2: remarkably interesting for those who think that only Jewish people
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 2: and Jews are capable of getting elected to higher office
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 2: in Israel? There you go. They have Arab coalition and
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 2: they have Arabs in positions of power in Israel.
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  Speaker 3: One of the members of the Arab coalition is a
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 3: Jewish Israeli.
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  Speaker 7: Go figure.
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 3: As Yogi Berra would say, only in America.
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  Speaker 2: Is that cognitive dissonance or a Stockholm syndrome kind of thing?
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 2: I guess we'll have to worry about and wonder about
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 2: that psychological diagnosis. DSM-5 probably. Judge Ed Napolitano will do
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  Speaker 2: this again next Wednesday on the 55 KRC Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: I always appreciate your columns. Get a copy of it
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 2: after midnight tonight, America's Deadly Addiction to War. God bless you, sir.
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 2: Have a great week.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, Brian. All the best.