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55KRC Tuesday Show - Tom Z, Judge McDowell, Breitbart, Deep Dive · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Five o five, the fifty five KRC, the talk station.
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Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: Tuesday. Some say.
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Speaker 1: Will vacation pro and that's the way the news goes.
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Speaker 1: It certainly is the way the news goes. Brian Thomas
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Speaker 1: right here, glad to be Glad to see Joe Chucker,
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Speaker 1: executive producer, Internet research guru, all round, great guy and
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Speaker 1: podcast producer. You gonna be doing Andre a Ewing's podcast, Joe,
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Speaker 1: You're helping him. Good Undre a Ewing Brother Dre joined
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Speaker 1: the program yesterday. I got a little story to talk
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Speaker 1: about that the follow up on the West End cameras. Anyhow,
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Speaker 1: before we get to that, what's going on this morning here?
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Speaker 1: First off, I love hearing from you. If you have
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Speaker 1: a comment you want to make five one three seven
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Speaker 1: fifty hundred eight talk or pound five fifty on AT
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Speaker 1: and T Funds. Of course, I mentioned Andrea, you and
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Speaker 1: brother Dre yesterday for a full hour in studio that
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Speaker 1: podcast right there regarding violence over the holiday time off
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Speaker 1: and programs that have been previously in place that worked,
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Speaker 1: and apparently the current administration isn't interested in pursuing things
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Speaker 1: that work. Rather, put your new people in and have
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Speaker 1: them start over and then not follow up with what
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Speaker 1: the money is going toward and whether the programs that
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Speaker 1: you and I are funding through our taxpayer dollars are
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Speaker 1: actually providing any benefit. We all know that story anyway,
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Speaker 1: Andrea on that fifty five caresee dot com chief Scott
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Speaker 1: Hughes on the violence in Cincinnati Christopher Smith event and man,
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Speaker 1: it was a Smith event yesterday on fire, very passionate,
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Speaker 1: claiming the mayor and city since a city council of
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Speaker 1: blood on their hands. But he was certainly upset, as
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Speaker 1: everyone should be, about the murder of that poor eleven
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Speaker 1: year old girl in the park over the West End
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Speaker 1: the other day. A special Daniel Davis deep dive obviously
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Speaker 1: on Venezuela. Just because we did one yesterday doesn't mean
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Speaker 1: we're not doing one today. Daniel Davis returns as he
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Speaker 1: typically does every Tuesday at eight thirty. We certainly will
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Speaker 1: get the latest from Venezuela. And hey, look it's on
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Speaker 1: the rundown. Russia and Ukrain are still fighting? Is that
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Speaker 1: still going on? Joe overshadowed by some other news, at
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Speaker 1: least momentarily, Daniel Davis at eight thirty preseeded by the
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Speaker 1: Inside Scoop with breit Barton News should be a great one.
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Speaker 1: I mean personally, always think to talk out of the
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Speaker 1: folks from Breitbart is great. But today it's it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be interesting. Never talked to him before. Caleb Caruzo escaped
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Speaker 1: Venezuela in twenty twenty four, now lives legally in Italy.
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Speaker 1: He broke the news of Maduro's capture on the Breitbart
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Speaker 1: site early on Saturday morning, and well native Venezuela began
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Speaker 1: writing for breitbarton twenty nineteen, hired to do a series
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Speaker 1: called My Socialist Hell. M says he spent his days
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Speaker 1: in Venezuela when he lived there struggling to survive. So
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Speaker 1: obviously he's got a personal story to telling. It is
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Speaker 1: to his thoughtful analysis about what's going to happen and
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Speaker 1: what is going on in e Venezuela. Preceded by great
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Speaker 1: in studio a common police judge Christopher McDowell. Apparently he's
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Speaker 1: had his life and his family threatened by one of
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Speaker 1: his defendants. And what a problem it is to be
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Speaker 1: a judge. Can you imagine the pressure. And I may
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Speaker 1: be able to get to it. If you have time,
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Speaker 1: I will encourage you to read the Social media is
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Speaker 1: a trapper politicians article bay oh look good. Natorial candidate
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Speaker 1: Vivik Ramaswami, he's an appeared in The Wall Street Journey
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Speaker 1: yesterday and it's a really great analysis. He's swearingen off
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Speaker 1: social media because it unduly influences people. It's a bunch
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Speaker 1: of crap out there. It's an echo chamber controlled primarily
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Speaker 1: by folks overseas. The angriest and the loudest and the
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Speaker 1: most obscene comments get repeated over and over again, giving
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Speaker 1: some people but not mister Ramaswami, the impression that that
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Speaker 1: is actually what the public thinks and believes. No, it's not.
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Speaker 1: Ignore it, be like vvk ramise from me or be
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Speaker 1: like me. I don't participate in social media mindly for that.
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Speaker 1: Mainly for that reason I've said many times. I never
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Speaker 1: ever and I'm sure there are haters out there in
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Speaker 1: the world that hate me for whatever reason they decide.
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Speaker 1: Here's Brian Thomas not caring. I don't look out there
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Speaker 1: in the world to see what people are saying about
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Speaker 1: my program about me personally. Don't care. I mean I
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Speaker 1: care about my listeners, I love them. I rely on
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Speaker 1: the ratings and my streaming numbers to determine whether anybody's
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Speaker 1: out there listening, and thank god for everybody out there
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Speaker 1: who is. You're welcome to call into the Morning Show,
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Speaker 1: express your approval or disagreement, or bring up topics that
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Speaker 1: maybe I haven't brought up, and also enlightened me because
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Speaker 1: I admittedly don't know everything in the world. I'm smart
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Speaker 1: enough to know that you can't capsize an island like
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Speaker 1: our elected officials sometimes are that dumb. But support of
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Speaker 1: the Morning Show. But anyway, going out into the world
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Speaker 1: and see what other people say, you don't know what's
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Speaker 1: trial and what's fake. You don't know where the majority
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Speaker 1: comes from from on social media. It's impossible. So and
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Speaker 1: you're wondering where all these protesters showed up in support
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Speaker 1: of Medezvels madurod out of nowhere. The woodwork that came
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Speaker 1: out streaming on Saturday morning, moments after the military operation concluded,
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Speaker 1: with professional signs and placards and oh my god, organization
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Speaker 1: all over their social media. You think those folks really
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Speaker 1: truly represent the will of the American people. Certainly probably
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Speaker 1: not the will of the Venezuelans who've been living under
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Speaker 1: the thumb of military oppression. And a dictatorship now since
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Speaker 1: the Javez was around. But anyhow, if you can get
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Speaker 1: a hold of that Wall Street Journal article of E.
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Speaker 1: Dke Romise, why I mean social media as a trivet
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Speaker 1: for politicians. I think he has some outstanding points along
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Speaker 1: those lines. But going back to the judge, Chris McDowell,
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Speaker 1: you know, can you imagine being a judge in a
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Speaker 1: time where we have defund the police and angered prosecutors
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Speaker 1: and people who are a tough on crime. Anybody who's
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Speaker 1: tough on crime they go after Oh my god, you know,
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Speaker 1: that's a lot of pressure and any Oh I almost
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Speaker 1: you know, Joe, I almost had to hit the dump
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Speaker 1: button again on a word that was getting ready to
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Speaker 1: come out of my mouth. Anybody with an Internet access
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Speaker 1: can make a comment and can threaten you. Is it legitimate?
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Speaker 1: Probably not in the vast majority of cases. Might you
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Speaker 1: take it a little bit seriously? Or might it cause
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Speaker 1: some concern in your heart and mind to the extent
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Speaker 1: someone might threaten your family because of a case over
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Speaker 1: which you're presiding on?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Might it influence your judicial decision? Certainly a possibility, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: That's scary stuff right there? I'm glad we're having the
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Speaker 1: judge in studio. That'll take place at seven thirty pre
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Speaker 1: seeded buy the Where has he been? Tom Zawastowski, He's back.
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Speaker 1: We the People Convention dot Org. We'll talk about some
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Speaker 1: state issues. His thoughts on property tax here in the state,
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Speaker 1: the Ohio Minnesota to Somali daycare fraud link and oh look,
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Speaker 1: we had a Somali official, a government official who apparently
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Speaker 1: owned a Ohio daycare company. How did that happen? Governor
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Speaker 1: to whine? Meanwhile, I guess fraud is the cost of
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Speaker 1: doing business or something. Somebody wrote, please resign under the
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Speaker 1: headline Ohio Governor Mike Dwine defends Somali daycares amid viral
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Speaker 1: fraud claims, Joe, is that you that kind of looks
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Speaker 1: like you're handwriting. You don't have You don't have Governor
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Speaker 1: Tim Walltz to kick around anymore. He dropped out. He
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Speaker 1: is no longer running for reelection. Why Somali daycare fraud?
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Speaker 1: So tom's Awastowski returns seven oh five five three, seven
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Speaker 1: four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight two
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Speaker 1: three talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones.
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Speaker 1: Not that I want to talk about myself. But I
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Speaker 1: have admitted from the day I got diagnosed with cancer
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Speaker 1: that I had, and I did it as a count.
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Speaker 1: It just really is an effort to inform the listeners.
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Speaker 1: You got to take kid care of yourself. Little things
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Speaker 1: that are going on in your life. It might be
8:03
Speaker 1: good to see a primary care physician about because it
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Speaker 1: could turn into something larger. It's exactly my little stepping
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Speaker 1: stone on my path to finding out. You know what, Brian,
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Speaker 1: you got lymphoma years ago. I have not been in
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Speaker 1: treatment for five years. I got five years worth of
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Speaker 1: relief thanks to the treatment I had previously been under. Sadly,
8:21
Speaker 1: yesterday I got bad news. I got to go back
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Speaker 1: to treatment again with my with chemo and this other
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Speaker 1: cancer agent that I have to get through a bag
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Speaker 1: just kind of similar to what I went through last time.
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Speaker 1: But my lymph nodes grew. I was really optimistic that
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Speaker 1: the last scan would show that they had gotten smaller.
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Speaker 1: I was on the path to maybe not the recovery.
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Speaker 1: They said I couldn't get cured on this one, at
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Speaker 1: least not yet. Someday maybe, But because the lymph nodes grew,
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Speaker 1: my doctor expressed some concern for me so ergo, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna have to go back into cancer treatment. Listen, you
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Speaker 1: play the hand that it's dealt you. I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: let it get me down. I'm going to be i'd listen.
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Speaker 1: I got a loving family. Everything I think is going
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Speaker 1: to be fine. But you know, I'm just not looking
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Speaker 1: forward to the nausea and everything else that goes along
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Speaker 1: with getting cancer treatments. But for those who regularly ask
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Speaker 1: about my health, and God bless each and every one
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Speaker 1: of you for taking an interest. I'm just saying to you,
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Speaker 1: take care of yourself. And I think about the kind
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Speaker 1: words of support from my wife yesterday. You know, don't
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Speaker 1: want anything to happen to you. I'm worried, you know,
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Speaker 1: don't be. I'm kind of matter of fact about it.
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Speaker 1: I just like I don't think about it. I try
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Speaker 1: not to let it bother me. But if you step
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Speaker 1: back from yourself, and I count it as a blessing
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Speaker 1: that I have people like my mom and my wife
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Speaker 1: and my family and others who really do truly care.
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Speaker 1: Like so many of the listeners have expressed concern and
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Speaker 1: care for me over the years. It is just it's heartwarming.
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Speaker 1: It's uplifting and on Fridays when we play It's a
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Speaker 1: wonderful world, I always say, you know, just got to
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Speaker 1: look for it. Brian got cancer. Okay, that sucks, but
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Speaker 1: you know what, it makes me realize. I'm surrounded by
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Speaker 1: loving people who are concerned. There's a little life miracle,
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Speaker 1: isn't it. So roll the punches, fight the good fight,
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Speaker 1: take good care of yourself. What more can I say?
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Speaker 1: So thanks again to those who have expressed those concerns,
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Speaker 1: and I'll let you know how things go. I'm optimistic
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Speaker 1: that maybe I'll get another five years of remission before
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Speaker 1: I'll be back on the table again. Get in the
10:34
Speaker 1: drip and can I ask out loud? Unrelated topic, did
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Speaker 1: anybody else get a duke bill recently? Joe? Have you
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Speaker 1: recently received a duke bill, like within the last week
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Speaker 1: or so? Was it a lot more than previously? Did
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Speaker 1: it seem much bigger than your prior bills?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 1: You've got even billing? I don't. I have never seen
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Speaker 1: a bill that big in my life. I kept looking
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Speaker 1: at it over and over and over again. What in
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Speaker 1: the hell you know? And obviously, honestly I went back
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Speaker 1: and I didn't use or weed recollectively. We live in
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Speaker 1: a house more more than just me in there. Didn't
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Speaker 1: use more electricity than I did last billing cycle a
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Speaker 1: calendar year ago. And trust me, if I built it
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Speaker 1: up much a year ago, I would have remembered it
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Speaker 1: like I'm gonna remember the one I just paid yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Did the rates go up? Did I miss something? Or
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Speaker 1: is it just me? Anyhow? I thought that. I even
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Speaker 1: said to my wife, I go, you know, I feel
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Speaker 1: sorry for seniors on a fixed income. It's bad enough
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Speaker 1: your property tax bill's gone through the roof. Thanks again
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Speaker 1: to Tom z Awastowski. Were talking about property tax issues
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Speaker 1: in Ohio. But for someone in a fixed income, you know,
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Speaker 1: a few hundred dollars one way or another can make
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Speaker 1: a big difference or cause a lot of pain. That's
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Speaker 1: exactly exactly the sound effect that was going through my
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Speaker 1: my mind yesterday, Joe, and I actually think I was
12:02
Speaker 1: kind of walking a little bit funny as I reacted
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Speaker 1: to the bill.
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Speaker 3: As this tradition five.
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Speaker 1: Seventeen right now, if you five care see the talk
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Speaker 1: station more to talk about, including who who is this
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Speaker 1: batcrap crazy guy who tried to break into jd Vance's house?
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Speaker 1: Question and How in the hell did he get so
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Speaker 1: far that he could walk up the driveway, damages a
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Speaker 1: secret service car, damage the Vice President's car, and smashed
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Speaker 1: windows out of the house before they grabbed him. You're
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Speaker 1: right back after these brief words. Everybody loves the season
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Speaker 1: of giving. But now this five twenty one h Thank you,
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Speaker 1: mister Burkholds for the context message on about my comments
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Speaker 1: on cancer. Appreciate it. That's the kind of guy I'm
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Speaker 1: thinking about when I get to some kind words coming
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Speaker 1: my way. God bless you, sir, one of the most
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Speaker 1: influential men in my education career. One teacher can meet
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Speaker 1: a world of difference in a child's life, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: in a terrible way, but also in a very positive way.
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Speaker 1: Fortunately he was the latter in the case of mister
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Speaker 1: Berkle's my government teacher back in high school. So love
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Speaker 1: you man, really do? Is what's the deal with this?
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Speaker 1: So we got to the Fox nineteen reporting on credit
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Speaker 1: to Mary Labaus and Mike Shelfer letting me know about
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Speaker 1: this the information regarding William Defour, twenty six year old
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Speaker 1: kid who vandalized Vice President JB. Vance's house here in Cincinnati,
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Speaker 1: accues of running up to Vance's house, breaking four windows
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Speaker 1: with a hammer and causing damage to the Vice President's
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Speaker 1: car vehicle. Why are you doing that? No idea? We
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Speaker 1: made you a fall to backcrap insanity. We'll find out.
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Speaker 1: Cord to the reporting, US Secret Service agent witnessed the incident,
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Speaker 1: and as is written, when the agent asked Tofod to stop,
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Speaker 1: he took off running. Sacred Service then called in for
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Speaker 1: the CINCINNT Police to respond to the home at quarter
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Speaker 1: after midnight, saying this suspect was on the run. Court
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Speaker 1: to the Department of Justice. This William DeFore walked up
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Speaker 1: the driveway to the home, attempted to break the driver's
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Speaker 1: side window of an unmarked federal law enforcement vehicle that
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Speaker 1: was blocking the path, refused law enforcement's command to stop,
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Speaker 1: used his hammer to break windows across the front of
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Speaker 1: the house, and damaged security systems. How could all of
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Speaker 1: that happen when the Secret Service is present? Now, maybe
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Speaker 1: there was a lesser presence of Secret Service agents there
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Speaker 1: since JD. Vans had already gone back to DC. I
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Speaker 1: don't know. Property damage estimateted to be twenty eight thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: He was later detained by Secret Service booked into the
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Speaker 1: Justice Center yesterday. Last night, US District Court Dominate Garci
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Speaker 1: outlined the charges against him needs to be the federal charges.
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Speaker 1: Note that there are federal and state charges. Apparently, the
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Speaker 1: federal charges damaging government property, engaging in physical violence against
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Speaker 1: any person or property in restricted building or grounds, and assaulting, resisting,
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Speaker 1: or impeding federal officers. And if you do that today,
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Speaker 1: if you damage more than a thousand dollars in federal property,
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Speaker 1: punishable by up to ten years in prison. Accordingly, they
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Speaker 1: say the impending federal the impending federal charges could carry
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Speaker 1: up to twenty years in prison. Don't hold your breath
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Speaker 1: staying from Secret Service, he was Secret Services coordinating with
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Speaker 1: since a police department of the US Attorney's Offices, changing
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Speaker 1: decisions are reviewed, charging whether the decisions are reviewed. Retired
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Speaker 1: Secret Service agent Denny Schlendwine, speaking with local news, according
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Speaker 1: to his time with the agency, he thinks security around
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Speaker 1: VANCE could be increased. Well, there's a bold conclusion. You
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Speaker 1: have audio from that Joe, you want to roll it?
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Speaker 4: Now?
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Speaker 1: Do you want me to finish the rest of the detail.
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Speaker 1: I know exactly what movie that comes from. You gotta
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Speaker 1: be a Holy Crown Fan. He's coming, He's coming, He's coming.
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Speaker 1: Ah ha. Anyway, thank you, j Just Strekor for the
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Speaker 1: high comedy. Now in terms of local charges facing for
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Speaker 1: those obstructing official business second degree misdemeanor, kind of criminal
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Speaker 1: damaging second degree misdemeanor, kind of criminal trespass fourth degree misdemeanor,
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Speaker 1: and one kind of vandalism fifth degree felony. Not his
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Speaker 1: first time facing criminal charge. Apparently in April, he pleaded
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Speaker 1: guilty to two counts of vandalism after causing more than
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Speaker 1: two thousand dollars worth of damage to a Hyde Park
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Speaker 1: interior design company. Sentenced the treatment at a mental health
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Speaker 1: facility for two years, was required to pay fifty five
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Speaker 1: fifty in restitution five hundred and fifty. You're keeping track
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Speaker 1: at home, so anyway, arraigned will be arragned this morning
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Speaker 1: in Hamilton County Municipal Court. H bond recommended due to
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Speaker 1: his criminal history, and of course there won't be high bond.
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Speaker 1: If he's in front of what Judge Silverstein, Joe, they'll
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Speaker 1: probably give him a cash buddy here, take five thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars and a cookie and juice. That would be Joe
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Speaker 1: Strecker Judge Streker five twenty six more local stories calls
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Speaker 1: I would prefer if you have a comment, feel free
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Speaker 1: to call five one three seven four nine fifty five
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Speaker 1: hundred Chevline first morning weather Word casts. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be overcastnighty, drizzle, probably not anyway, breezy. Ten to twenty
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Speaker 1: miles per hour winds are expected today with a high
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Speaker 1: of fifty six, forty degrees overnight for the love mostly cloudy,
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Speaker 1: partly cloudy tomorrow fifty two, partly cloudy overnight thirty nine
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Speaker 1: and more rains shown up on Thursday afternoon light showers
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Speaker 1: about one between one o'clock and after. It's gonna be
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Speaker 1: a high of fifty eight on Thursday, and right now
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Speaker 1: it's forty two degrees fifty five. K CD Talk Station
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Speaker 1: five thirty on a Tuesday five one three seven four
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Speaker 1: fifty five hundred eight hit Day two three Talk Found
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Speaker 1: five fifty on AT and T phones. Thank you, Tom.
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Speaker 1: I mentioned the outrageous increase of my Duke energy bill
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Speaker 1: and I cannot figure out why it's gone up so
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Speaker 1: much again come month over month over month, I use
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Speaker 1: the same amount of electricity in the Indie monthly bill,
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Speaker 1: but it was just like short changing increase, so Tom
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Speaker 1: had the same kind of experience. Has jumped pretty substantially
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Speaker 1: from the prior month. He said he couldn't figure out why.
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Speaker 1: He said, at least I know I'm not the only one,
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Speaker 1: so I'm not quite sure what's going on out there
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Speaker 1: in the world a duke. But I was reeling from
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Speaker 1: that one. So let's go over to local stories here
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Speaker 1: a continuing a theme after yesterday's program, we're talking about security.
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Speaker 1: Christopher Smitheman on a massive spleen vent of course, Andre
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Speaker 1: Ewing talking about violence in the city and some of
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Speaker 1: the solutions and some of the problems and programs that
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Speaker 1: actually can work. Cameras actually a great idea, and of
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Speaker 1: course those folks in the West End who deal with
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Speaker 1: crime on a regular basis have been promised security cameras.
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Speaker 1: That topics come up of late. As matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: after the beatdown last summer, we remember that Sarah Herringers
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Speaker 1: got her husband's stab. Now she had to move out
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Speaker 1: of town or moved out of town, just got fed
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Speaker 1: up with the city of Cincinnati, and a God bless
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Speaker 1: her and all the best of luck in the world. Sarah.
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Speaker 1: We have the beat down Holly got her face smashed
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Speaker 1: in without any provocation, without any justification. Six people been
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Speaker 1: arrested on that one was in court. Recently, they were
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Speaker 1: promised cameras, and in the response to the crime and
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Speaker 1: the violence that the mayor had to acknowledge, they allocated
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Speaker 1: what five point four million dollars, including a specific allocation
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Speaker 1: of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to expand camera
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Speaker 1: use in the West End. Scott Wartman, if the enquired
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Speaker 1: followed up on this, he asked some questions, kind of
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Speaker 1: frightening that he doesn't have answers to these questions, and
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Speaker 1: I'm glad he was out there asking him on behalf
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Speaker 1: of at least the people in the West End, but
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Speaker 1: people who are concerned about crime in the city generally speaking.
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Speaker 1: City officials have not confirmed whether more cameras have been
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Speaker 1: installed or if any caught the Year's day shooting death
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Speaker 1: of the eleven year old at the West End playground.
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Speaker 1: As he writes, questions instead revealed confusion and contradiction. Here,
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Speaker 1: let me look at my how your neighborhood voted for
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Speaker 1: mayor map that Joe Stracker has plastered up all over
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Speaker 1: the studio in choir reached out the members of city
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Speaker 1: council and city administration pained open records requests over the
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Speaker 1: past several days for surveillance footage to the extent and
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Speaker 1: he exists and apparently no one knows, as well as
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Speaker 1: information on whether or not any additional security cameras have
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Speaker 1: been installed. Here's what Scott tells us. One councilman unnamed,
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Speaker 1: told the Inquirer that as of November, many of the
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Speaker 1: security cameras in the neighborhood weren't operational, which suggests they
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Speaker 1: were up but not working. Another councilman said that the
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Speaker 1: administration told him a camera near the playground is functioning,
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Speaker 1: but as of yesterday afternoon, neither the Sin Sinni Police
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Speaker 1: Department nor sin Sinny City managers off was going to
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Speaker 1: answer those questions, nor had the city fulfilled the Inquire's
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Speaker 1: open records request.
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Speaker 2: Hmmm.
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Speaker 1: Now, of course, we've had a lot of problems in
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Speaker 1: the West End, as he recounts, to go back to
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Dominic Davis eleven, shot and killed near
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Speaker 1: the same playground of the West End. Police chief three
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Speaker 1: Satiji said police would up its use of cameras and
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Speaker 1: patrols in the neighborhood. Of course, you had the brawl
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Speaker 1: that we all talked about, just mentioned it a moment ago.
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Speaker 1: That was after in September when they put with they
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Speaker 1: allocated five point four million dollars of city money to
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Speaker 1: public safety spending package again along with one hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars to expand camera use in the West End.
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Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, that camera promise was made like two and
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Speaker 1: a half years ago and they just allocated the money
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Speaker 1: last year. With all the money they send out to
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Speaker 1: NGOs in the world to do community activism work, they
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Speaker 1: couldn't come up with one hundred and fifty grand to
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Speaker 1: help the West End out deal with its crime problem.
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Speaker 1: Oh but see, that's not existing infrastructure, Joe. You can't
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Speaker 1: blame the railroad sale on that one. There'll be new
22:48
Speaker 1: new cameras are new infrastructure, right, Let's make that argument
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Speaker 1: all day long. Councilman Seth Walsh actually his name is
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Speaker 1: in here told the Inquiry and assistance the administrator told
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Speaker 1: him back at the end of November that the city
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Speaker 1: was still awaiting permission from private property owners or Duke
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Speaker 1: Energy to install many of the new cameras in the
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Speaker 1: West End. Wall said, apparently I did. Wall said, if
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Speaker 1: the cameras are still not operational, if he doesn't know,
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Speaker 1: the administration needs to act quickly.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: We need to make this a true priority and figure
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Speaker 1: out the roadblocks and get the cameras up that we
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Speaker 1: already allocated funding for and not continue to slow roll up.
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Speaker 1: This is an issue that's been going on for years,
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Speaker 1: and we pledge those cameras two and a half years ago.
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Speaker 1: Close quote. Oh, it's it's a priority, but not a
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Speaker 1: true priority. And now though we have another eleven year
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Speaker 1: old shot dead in the park in the west dead
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Speaker 1: among all the other crime that's been going over there,
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Speaker 1: maybe it's now been elevated to a true priority. It's
23:59
Speaker 1: like probation versus double secret probation. According to John Joyce,
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Speaker 1: Duke Energy spokesman, the utility company doesn't have any pending
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Speaker 1: requests from the city to put cameras on utility polls
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Speaker 1: in the West End. Well, well, that's kind of an
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Speaker 1: important element that's missing. At the end of November, police
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Speaker 1: told the West End Community Council that they've identified some
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Speaker 1: cameras in the West End that weren't working and they
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Speaker 1: were in the process of replacing them, as well as
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Speaker 1: installing additional cameras at new location. According to the Galeen Gordon,
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Speaker 1: president of the Community Council, I think it's in the process
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Speaker 1: of happening. It just hasn't happened fast enough. Yeah, since
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Speaker 1: City manager spokeswoman Molly Laire referred all questions regarding the
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Speaker 1: surveillance cameras to this insane police who parenthetically didn't return
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Speaker 1: any messages asking seeking comment from the enquire a message.
24:59
Speaker 1: Here's a s shocking statement, Scott Wortman says, a message
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Speaker 1: that mayor aftab pervol was also not returned. Oh you
25:09
Speaker 1: think he's waiting for clearance through IRIS. There's a possibility,
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Speaker 1: Feel so badly for women these days. We got a
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Speaker 1: guy who's accused of I'll use the pleasuring himself the
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Speaker 1: M word in the women's bathroom and a Planet Fitness
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Speaker 1: in California. Not shocking, that's him So we.
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Speaker 5: Could get into the penalty box.
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Speaker 2: All by himself.
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Speaker 1: Incident caught on camera. It seems to be a default
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Speaker 1: statement in any news article these days, anyway. Grace Hudson
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Speaker 1: claims she filmed what happened at the location in Concord, California,
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Speaker 1: several months ago, only recently got attention online. According to
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Speaker 1: The New York Post reporting on Monday, video shows the
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Speaker 1: person's feet and what appears to be the shadow of
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Speaker 1: male body parts as he was inside the bathroom stall
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Speaker 1: when the initial incid had happened, and she told staffers,
27:29
Speaker 1: but they apparently did not know what to do in
27:31
Speaker 1: these trying times we live in. You know, it was
27:34
Speaker 1: a time when there weren't supposed to be guys and
27:36
Speaker 1: they're junk in women's bathrooms. It was like an arrestable offense, right. Apparently,
27:43
Speaker 1: her boyfriend eventually confronted the man, pointing out that he
27:46
Speaker 1: was a man in a women's bathroom. The man apparently
27:48
Speaker 1: said I'm a transgender and then later claiming not his
27:53
Speaker 1: words but basically boiled down that he was not pleasuring himself.
27:58
Speaker 1: I guess in spite of the video camera evidence which
28:00
Speaker 1: seems to document that he did that. Cord of the post,
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Speaker 1: she regrets not doing more when she saw the man
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Speaker 1: in the women's bathroom, saying I was just really uncomfortable,
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Speaker 1: and honestly, I kind of just wanted to say my
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Speaker 1: piece and get the efford out of there. Looking back,
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Speaker 1: I do it regrets like I should have done more.
28:17
Speaker 1: I should have called the cops yep, and probably was
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Speaker 1: afraid to do so. Kind of common line of the
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Speaker 1: lines of what vvig Ramaswaram he said with regard to
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Speaker 1: social media, you know, if you bother to say anything,
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Speaker 1: if you draw attention to something that is bad and wrong,
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Speaker 1: demonstrably so objectively so there shouldn't be men pleasuring themselves
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Speaker 1: in the women's bathroom, then you might be docksed on
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Speaker 1: social media. They might call you out for being I
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Speaker 1: don't know, transphobic. You know, I'll tell you that has
28:44
Speaker 1: nothing to do with transphobia. I guess it's one thing
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Speaker 1: to argue that the person who identifies as a woman
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Speaker 1: should be allowed in there, and I'm not one that
28:53
Speaker 1: buys into that argument. But just because they're allowed in there,
28:56
Speaker 1: does that mean they engage in acts that this person
28:59
Speaker 1: was conducted in the women's bathroom? Right, going back to
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Speaker 1: the reasons why it shouldn't be allowed, Go ahead, docs
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Speaker 1: stupid Florida man. Pope County, Florida now behind bars after
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Speaker 1: silicone breasts while trespassing at a construction site. Poul Kuty
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Speaker 1: Sheriff Grady Judd said, Matthew Zacharina, thirty nine, of Altamonte Springs,
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Speaker 1: was sitting in a vehicle by himself at a construction
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Speaker 1: site last month. Deputy approached him, said he was wearing
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Speaker 1: a red lace bra with prosthetic silicon breasts. Poul County
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Speaker 1: Sheriff Grady Judd said, then we noticed he was wearing
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Speaker 1: a g string showing off showing off of the boys,
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Speaker 1: you know what I means? Yeah, I do know what
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Speaker 1: you mean, Sheriff. He explained that it's hard to know
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Speaker 1: how dangerous these situations are because under the prosthesis, deputies
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Speaker 1: again found a gun. Sheriff claimed that Zacharen was going
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Speaker 1: to a cup he was packing. That is correct phrasing.
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Speaker 1: According to the sheriff, Zacharyena claimed he was going to
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Speaker 1: a costume party. When debities asked where the party was,
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Speaker 1: that's when he stopped talking. Jud said, can you imagine
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Speaker 1: he's mad at us for trying to find out why
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Speaker 1: he's wearing lace bras with guns and g strings or
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Speaker 1: g somethings. It was ugly. It was so ugly. I
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Speaker 1: guess since he doubled down on the ugly statement, it
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Speaker 1: must have really been ugly. Charged with armed trespassing with
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Speaker 1: a firearm, loitering or prowling and resisting an Ah, that's
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Speaker 1: a lot of feces without violence. Where did that one
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Speaker 1: come from? Joe? That was that was a button bump,
31:06
Speaker 1: button bump bump. Okay, okay, we have an update on
31:17
Speaker 1: the story that you printed on than the man with
31:19
Speaker 1: a sword, Joe, they got him. We got a yipseil
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Speaker 1: a in Michigan, where the standoff ended last night after
31:27
Speaker 1: a man barricaded himself inside a home with a sword
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Speaker 1: for more than thirty hours. Police were to stale mate
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Speaker 1: with the fifty three year old man on West Cross Street,
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Speaker 1: believed to be armed with the sword and hiding in
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Speaker 1: an attic. They used flash bangs, tear gas, loud speaker
31:42
Speaker 1: police worked to get him out peacefully. The incident ended
31:44
Speaker 1: at ten thirty pm last night after he was taken
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Speaker 1: it to custody without anyone being hurt. According to the
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Speaker 1: Westenaw County Crisis negotiators flanked by SWAT team members worked
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Speaker 1: since two thirty pm Sunday to get the man outside
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Speaker 1: safely after charging ipsilan the officers with a sword in
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Speaker 1: one hand phrasing and a stick in the other phrasing.
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Speaker 1: Initial call came after twelve thirty pm Sunday, Please say
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Speaker 1: the man tried getting into a neighbor's home. Officers went
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Speaker 1: to his West Cross Street home's door, where the man
32:17
Speaker 1: allegedly confronted police holding the weapons. Concerned neighbor, who didn't
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Speaker 1: want to be a names, speaking with local news seven there,
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Speaker 1: said that the man practices martial arts and that his
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Speaker 1: mother in law lives on the first floor of the home.
32:28
Speaker 1: Of course, he lives with his mother. Neighbors said he
32:32
Speaker 1: was having a really hard week and a wellness check
32:35
Speaker 1: was called, and it's managed to escalate into basically a
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Speaker 1: high highly militarized situation. The squad has taken over our
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Speaker 1: block and occupied it and created this perimeter and has
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Speaker 1: maintained police believe. Says he kept popping in and out
32:52
Speaker 1: of the homes attic but didn't know the home's exact footprint.
32:55
Speaker 1: Don't understand that quite The Ipsilanti Police said the officers
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Speaker 1: were called to his home at least one other time
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Speaker 1: in the forty eight hours preceding the incident, but they
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Speaker 1: didn't know the reason for the call. Man with a
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Speaker 1: sword and.
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Speaker 2: Stick phrasing.
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Speaker 1: M See how about this United States Postal System driver
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Speaker 1: in Florida now facing criminal charges for quote, trying to
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Speaker 1: run over a ten year old close quote after seeing
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Speaker 1: the child riding a scooter with a package that he
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Speaker 1: had just delivered. Boy was bringing the package to a
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Speaker 1: neighbor's house after he was dropped off at his home
33:36
Speaker 1: by accident. According to officials, what the hell Florida Highway
33:42
Speaker 1: betrol Captain Jason King, speaking of local news, this isn't
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Speaker 1: just a simple OOPS crash with a ten year old
33:48
Speaker 1: on the road. This is an intentional act by a
33:51
Speaker 1: United States Postal worker. Forty one year old William White
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Speaker 1: Junior accused of trying to hit the ten year old
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Speaker 1: when he was riding a scooter again with the package,
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Speaker 1: on Kingfisher Way near his home. Police report states White
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Speaker 1: dropped the package off of the wrong address. The child,
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Speaker 1: whose family owns that residence, saw the package was meant
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Speaker 1: for a different address. The child then grabbed the package
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Speaker 1: placed it on his electric scooter to take to the
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Speaker 1: correct address. White allegedly saw the boy with the package
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Speaker 1: thought he was attempting to steal it. He quote purposefully
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Speaker 1: drove the USPS vehicle toward the child and ran over
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Speaker 1: the scooter. Well it's quote that's in the arrest report,
34:29
Speaker 1: narrowly missing the boy and causing him to injure his ankle.
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Speaker 1: I tried to get out of the way. According to
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Speaker 1: the police report, the child was able to get into
34:36
Speaker 1: the nearby yard prior to the scooter being hit. White
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Speaker 1: started driving away while the boy's parents came outside to
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Speaker 1: confront him. He allegedly yelled at the boy before leaving
34:48
Speaker 1: White question about the incident. Several days later, arrested for
34:50
Speaker 1: aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, petty theft, and criminal mischief.
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Speaker 1: One story I did not get to and kind of
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Speaker 1: scratching my head over at Jes Strecker the recipe for
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Speaker 1: the porn Star martini. That's the entirety of the article.
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Speaker 1: Porn Star Martini serves one prep time, cook time and
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Speaker 1: the ingredients. That's it. I'm not going to read your comment, Joe,
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Speaker 1: what plenty to talk about the six o'clock hour. Feel
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Speaker 1: free to call love hearing from listeners because nobody wants
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Speaker 1: to talk to me today. That's okay. We got stories
35:54
Speaker 1: going on in the world. To be right back.
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Speaker 2: Today's top headlines coming.
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Speaker 1: Up at the top. But then see you just am talkstation.
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Speaker 1: by Thomas here. Wishing will be in a very happy Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: Listener lunch tomorrow. Hope to see a mad Tree Summit
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Speaker 1: up there by myself and enjoy the food there and
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Speaker 1: an ice cold beer, I guess it'll be a good time,
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Speaker 1: but I'd be missing out on the fellowship, which I
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Speaker 2: Love to see you.
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Speaker 1: Always interested in talking to Tom's Awastowski. It has been
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Speaker 1: a while. It'll be one hour from now. He'll be back.
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Speaker 1: We the People Convention dot orgs this website. We have
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Speaker 1: some state topics to talk about, including property tax issues,
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Speaker 1: the Ohio Minnesota, Somali daycare fraud issue, plus VI Bake
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Speaker 1: Ramaswamy for Governor of the State of Ohio. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: get to this fraud issues in Ohio in a moment.
36:48
Speaker 1: If Jay's out there, Hey, I just said the fraud word.
36:51
Speaker 1: Usually the phone lights up immediately. Joe and I were
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Speaker 1: just talking about here in the state of Ohio. Love
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Speaker 1: you Jay. In studio Common Please Judge Christopher McDowell well
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Speaker 1: recently had his life and his family's life threatened by
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Speaker 1: defendant going back to social media, among other things, this
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Speaker 1: powerful influencing force that too many people pay attention to.
37:12
Speaker 1: I'm not blaming him. I don't know where the threat
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Speaker 1: came from, obviously one of the defendants in his courtroom,
37:16
Speaker 1: but illustrating a broader problem we have. How do you
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Speaker 1: impose our enforced laws? How do you keep the peace?
37:22
Speaker 1: How do you well get your politicians to act on
37:26
Speaker 1: behalf of the American people generally when they're under constant
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Speaker 1: threat from random people around the globe. What do you
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Speaker 1: take seriously? And what do you not take seriously? What
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Speaker 1: do he takes seriously? What do you ignore? Good luck
37:41
Speaker 1: sorting that one out in this crazy world we live in.
37:43
Speaker 1: Inside Scoop Breitbart News. Caleb Caruza, he escaped Venezuela. He's
37:48
Speaker 1: a writer for Breitbart, so a former native of Venezuela,
37:51
Speaker 1: not an exile. Now he's living a free life. But
37:53
Speaker 1: he'll be talking about what's obviously going on in Venezuela
37:56
Speaker 1: and what's to come. And I note, with very very
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Speaker 1: great interest and curiosity, how long do you think Cuba's
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Speaker 1: gonna be around? Venezuela? Was the practically exclusive lifeline for Cuba.
38:10
Speaker 1: They are out of oil in essence. So with Venezuela
38:13
Speaker 1: and oil supplies cut off, Cuba is just on I
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Speaker 1: don't even can call it on life support. Donald Trump
38:19
Speaker 1: says he doesn't even have to worry about invading Cuba.
38:21
Speaker 1: We're not gonna do a bay of pigs. It's just
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Speaker 1: gonna fall apart on its own. I just feel sorry
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Speaker 1: for the Cuban citizens. Not really within your hands to
38:31
Speaker 1: change your future when you live in an oppressive regime
38:35
Speaker 1: that regularly prosecutes and often murders the political opposition.
38:41
Speaker 2: So and after that.
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Speaker 1: Daniel Davis Deep Dive. We did get a special edition
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Speaker 1: of Daniel Davis Deep Dive on Venezuela yesterday. We're going
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Speaker 1: to continue that conversation today at eight thirty with retired
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Speaker 1: lieutenant Colonel. If you didn't get a chance to listen
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Speaker 1: you can also hear my conversation with Christopher Smitheman out Man.
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Speaker 1: He was really on fire yesterday. Police Chief Scott Hughes
39:04
Speaker 1: as well as Andre Ewing All talking about violence in
39:07
Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati. Of course, the murder of that
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Speaker 1: eleven year old girl on the West End was just
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Speaker 1: a tragedy that we just cannot explain or understand. But
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Speaker 1: it also reveals a lot of the faults we have
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Speaker 1: with the City of Cincinnati and how it is run
39:20
Speaker 1: and governed. Going back to the whole what in the
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Speaker 1: hell is the story on the security cameras in the
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Speaker 1: West End. If you read Scott Wartman's reporting over at
39:26
Speaker 1: the enquire no one seems to really know. Apparently you
39:33
Speaker 1: got to check with Duke Ennergy before put a security
39:35
Speaker 1: camera on a utility poll. They say they haven't even
39:37
Speaker 1: got any requests from the city. The promise for cameras
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Speaker 1: on the West End made a couple of years ago. Now, yeah,
39:43
Speaker 1: let's go to the phones real quick. Here see what Cj'scott. CJ,
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Speaker 1: thanks for calling this morning. Appreciate you keeping me company.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
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Speaker 6: Oh, thank you, and happy New Year to you.
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Speaker 7: Brian.
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Speaker 1: Thanks man.
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Speaker 5: I hope Brian your law license is still active. It
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Speaker 5: is well because there might need to be a for
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Speaker 5: prosecutors across the country for fraud.
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Speaker 6: There is so much fun.
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Speaker 5: I was watching a report this morning from a guy
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Speaker 5: in San Diego twenty four million dollars and all he
40:11
Speaker 5: does is walk in and get a new certificate for
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Speaker 5: a new daycare in a new building that he just rents.
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Speaker 5: And now he's got twenty four million dollars driving around
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Speaker 5: in a Rolls Royce.
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Speaker 6: I don't know if that is a fake YouTube thing
40:27
Speaker 6: or what. But the reality is is that satire has
40:31
Speaker 6: to have an element of truth behind it. And all
40:34
Speaker 6: of these guys are out there running around and there
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Speaker 6: is so much fraud that I don't think we have
40:39
Speaker 6: enough investigators. I don't think we have enough prosecutors to
40:42
Speaker 6: root this out.
40:43
Speaker 5: The only way you are going to root it out
40:46
Speaker 5: is by cutting some of these programs and stop the spending.
40:49
Speaker 5: But guess what, no Democrat and most Republicans, about ninety
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Speaker 5: percent of them, will not root it out because they
40:56
Speaker 5: don't want to see their name on the nightly news
40:59
Speaker 5: or on some TikTok video next to some four made
41:03
Speaker 5: up AI kids who can't eat.
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Speaker 6: And that's the problem we have. We have so much
41:08
Speaker 6: money in the system. It is much easier to.
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Speaker 5: Be fraudulent and to do the wrong thing than it
41:16
Speaker 5: is to do the right thing. And as Adam Smith
41:19
Speaker 5: said a long time ago. Eventually the invisible hand is
41:23
Speaker 5: going to get you, because only wealth will only follow
41:26
Speaker 5: those who are moral.
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Speaker 1: I agree with all of that, and you're right. I mean,
41:31
Speaker 1: even happens locally. We've been talking about this for a
41:33
Speaker 1: long time. A lot of money handpicked nngos out in
41:36
Speaker 1: the Greater Cincinnati area promising to do some altruistic work
41:41
Speaker 1: needed by the city. Oh my god, we need a
41:43
Speaker 1: program for this. We need a program for that. So
41:45
Speaker 1: they allocate hundreds of thousands of dollars here, Give this
41:47
Speaker 1: group that money, Give group that money. This is how
41:49
Speaker 1: you end up putting money out of the world. Maybe
41:51
Speaker 1: they're doing the work, maybe they're not. But there's never
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Speaker 1: any follow up. There's no report saying, yes, we gave
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Speaker 1: three hundred thousand dollars to this organization for the purpose
42:00
Speaker 1: of doing filling the blank some altruistic thing. It either
42:04
Speaker 1: worked or it didn't. We don't have any results to
42:06
Speaker 1: show for it. This invites fraud abuse. If no one's
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Speaker 1: going to follow up on what you're doing with the
42:11
Speaker 1: taxpayer money, why would you bother lifting a finger to
42:14
Speaker 1: do anything to accomplish the goal you promised to accomplish.
42:19
Speaker 1: You're right, way too much money and there's no built
42:22
Speaker 1: in preventative measures. That's what I was thinking the other day,
42:25
Speaker 1: and I've even commented on it regularly, you know's we
42:28
Speaker 1: talked to Dave Hatter. The first and foremost priority for
42:30
Speaker 1: a software developer should be security. Start with security and
42:34
Speaker 1: then work out from there. But they don't care about that.
42:36
Speaker 1: They want to give you a functioning product and they
42:38
Speaker 1: ignore security for that. It's the same thing. Oh my god,
42:41
Speaker 1: children are starving. We need billions of dollars to throw
42:43
Speaker 1: at a program. Did you put anything in there which
42:46
Speaker 1: prevents the idea of some idiot just signing up for
42:49
Speaker 1: it and getting it without even proving that he or
42:51
Speaker 1: she has maybe a Social Security number or legitimate business purpose,
42:54
Speaker 1: isn't an illegal immigrant or alien or someone. I mean,
42:58
Speaker 1: there's got to be checks and bounds is put in
43:00
Speaker 1: and to stop it from going out the door in
43:04
Speaker 1: the first place. And if those kinds of checks and
43:09
Speaker 1: bounces existed in Minnesota, for example, or maybe even here
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Speaker 1: in Ohio, maybe we would get ahead of that and
43:15
Speaker 1: we wouldn't have to worry about it as much. Was it?
43:18
Speaker 1: The wine said, You know, well, you know, yeah, there's fraud,
43:20
Speaker 1: but that comes that's the cost of these programs. Does
43:25
Speaker 1: it have to be I mean, you all complained about
43:29
Speaker 1: being short on money and short on resources, and we
43:31
Speaker 1: need more money. We don't have enough money to fund
43:32
Speaker 1: all the programs we want. Well, how about funding people
43:35
Speaker 1: who are preventing the fraud, waste, and abuse to the
43:37
Speaker 1: point where you might be able to save billions of
43:40
Speaker 1: dollars from going out into the world fraudulently. There's money
43:44
Speaker 1: that you don't have to worry about making up with
43:46
Speaker 1: additional tax dollars. Hey, there's an idea govern of wine
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Speaker 1: here on the Somali daycare thing, pushing back against these
43:58
Speaker 1: claims that these states Smali run day cares of defunding
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Speaker 1: the public. This isn't about Somalians, and this is how
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Speaker 1: the left traps politicians who are afraid of their own
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Speaker 1: shadow if it happens to involve the Somali community, and
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Speaker 1: it pretty much damn well did in Minnesota. It isn't
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Speaker 1: a racist thing to point out that the Somali community,
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Speaker 1: tight knit as they are, and a lot of them
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Speaker 1: in the Minnesota. State of Minnesota, the largest Somali community,
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Speaker 1: I think in the United States are the second largest. No,
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Speaker 1: we have the second largest. But they're all part of
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Speaker 1: the same community. They're friends with each other, they live
44:43
Speaker 1: next to each other, they're family together. I guess word
44:47
Speaker 1: gets around. It's pretty easy to rip the government off.
44:50
Speaker 1: So this isn't about the color of their skin, their religion,
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Speaker 1: their country of origin. It just happens to be that
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Speaker 1: Somali's in this particular case, we're engaged in widespread fraud,
44:59
Speaker 1: the abuse, to the tune of their thinking, as much
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Speaker 1: as nine billion dollars one state, basically one program. Isn't
45:12
Speaker 1: the point going after the fraud, waste and abuse. But no, no, no,
45:15
Speaker 1: you're you're you're a racist. No, I'm a taxpayer. If
45:25
Speaker 1: invaders from the planet Remulac came in and started abusing
45:28
Speaker 1: the taxpayer dollars and committed fraud, waste and abuse and
45:31
Speaker 1: all these crimes, we go after them. Would it be
45:34
Speaker 1: racist to go after the Remulacans? Fictitious as they are,
45:39
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. So don't cower in the face of
45:44
Speaker 1: this claim. Oh you're just being right. No you're not.
45:49
Speaker 1: It's a coordinated effort anyway. Governor Wine said yesterday, we
45:59
Speaker 1: are as vigilant as we can about fraud. This on
46:05
Speaker 1: the heels of at least some social media accounts alleging
46:08
Speaker 1: that smally owned daycare centers here in Columbus have been
46:13
Speaker 1: receiving public dollars without providing services to kids. Out We've
46:16
Speaker 1: got these citizen journalists going out there. Nick Shirley was
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Speaker 1: one of them, and he is getting a world of
46:22
Speaker 1: heat online. Leftists are coming after me. Why because he
46:26
Speaker 1: exposed Minnesota fraud. If you're really concerned about the Somali
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Speaker 1: community of Minnesota, if you really believe that these young
46:35
Speaker 1: kids need daycare, and they need education and training and
46:37
Speaker 1: all that, and you find out that they're going out
46:40
Speaker 1: and buying expensive cars and real estate and funding terrorist
46:43
Speaker 1: organizations with the taxpayer dollars that you, in your altruistic
46:46
Speaker 1: heart and your you know but where your bleeding heart whatever,
46:50
Speaker 1: think that this money should go to the kids. You
46:52
Speaker 1: should be as angry as anybody else that they're getting
46:55
Speaker 1: ripped off. Nick Shirley, I think something like this would
47:03
Speaker 1: be fraud is bad, But no, now people are coming
47:07
Speaker 1: after me for exposing fraud. And who are all those people?
47:11
Speaker 1: They're leftist? He said, And it's just a moment where
47:15
Speaker 1: they could have really been like, Okay, you guys, let's
47:18
Speaker 1: come together, let's tell everyone fraud is bad. Let's crack
47:23
Speaker 1: down on the fraud. Instead, they come after the person
47:26
Speaker 1: who's exposing the fraud. Yeah, shoot the messenger. And this
47:31
Speaker 1: is a profoundly chilling effect on those who let social
47:34
Speaker 1: media commentary rule their lives. Going back again to that
47:38
Speaker 1: vv Ramaswami article, it's a really important read for you.
47:42
Speaker 1: If you're going to be impacted by what random people
47:45
Speaker 1: out in the world, literally anywhere in the world say
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Speaker 1: about you, or how they analyze what you are doing,
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Speaker 1: accusing you of racism when no, you're just trying to
47:54
Speaker 1: stop fraud from happening, then you're going to be bothered
47:59
Speaker 1: when you're not going to be rather inclined to be
48:02
Speaker 1: like Nick Shirley and try to reveal it and do
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Speaker 1: what you can to well out it. To be a whistleblower.
48:08
Speaker 1: I'm not going to step up for the plate. It's
48:10
Speaker 1: like neighborhoods that are over ridden with crime. I'm not
48:13
Speaker 1: going to be the one ratting the guys out. I
48:15
Speaker 1: don't want to have the crosshairs focused at me. I'm
48:18
Speaker 1: not going to be that guy. You're frightened into submission
48:22
Speaker 1: and then the problem just festers even more. But here
48:29
Speaker 1: in Ohio, courting the governor anyway, we're as vigilant as
48:32
Speaker 1: we can be about fraud. Representative Josh Williams, one with
48:35
Speaker 1: forty other representatives, sent a letter to the Dwine administration
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Speaker 1: asking them to investigate what has been exposed. He claims
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Speaker 1: to Wine that the Department of Children Youths has extensive
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Speaker 1: steps to prevent frauds, such as paying by attendance of children,
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Speaker 1: not the initial enrollment number, audits and surprise visits good
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Speaker 1: according to Governor to Wine quote, does fraud occur? Yes,
48:59
Speaker 1: fraud occurs. Our job is to do everything we can.
49:03
Speaker 1: No fraud is acceptable. Okay. Some have identified a lot
49:13
Speaker 1: of areas of government here in the state of Ohio
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Speaker 1: that seemed to be overrun with fraud, waste, and abuse.
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Speaker 1: Six eighteen fifty five KRC the talk station Plumbtiye, Plumbing's
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Speaker 1: toms Awastowski returns and one of the things he will
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Speaker 1: be talking about maybe the daycare fraud here in the
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Speaker 1: state of Ohio. I guess it's the end of the
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Speaker 1: career of Democratic Governor Tim Watson Minnesota, he announced yesterday,
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Speaker 1: dropping out of his bid for a third term as
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Speaker 1: governor amid stinging criticism over his massive fraud in the
49:47
Speaker 1: state of Minnesota. Here's his statement. And you remember, many
49:55
Speaker 1: people have already pleaded guilty to the c times that
50:00
Speaker 1: have been alleged, and a whole truckload of people have
50:03
Speaker 1: been indicted for criminal behavior relating to this fraud. So
50:05
Speaker 1: there's a whole lot of legal action that's yet to come,
50:07
Speaker 1: and a whole lot more people are going to get
50:09
Speaker 1: prosecuted for this. So this is an ongoing investigation, and
50:12
Speaker 1: the more we find out, the worse it looks for
50:15
Speaker 1: most notably a guy like Governor Waltson Minnesota, who this
50:19
Speaker 1: happened under his leadership. His quote, the political gamesmanship we're
50:23
Speaker 1: seeing from Republicans is only making that fight harder to win,
50:27
Speaker 1: referring to his good natorial race, I guess what political gamesmanship. Yeah,
50:35
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say that out loud, Joe, he said,
50:39
Speaker 1: but as I reflected on this moment with my family
50:41
Speaker 1: and my team over the holidays, I came to the
50:43
Speaker 1: conclusion that I can't give a political campaign my all.
50:47
Speaker 1: Every minute I spend defending my own political interests would
50:51
Speaker 1: be a minute I can't spend defending the people of
50:54
Speaker 1: Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity and
50:57
Speaker 1: the syning superanter differences. Hmm, there's a whole lot to
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Speaker 1: wun package in there. I suppose he wouldn't have to
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Speaker 1: worry about defending his political interest if he was successful
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Speaker 1: in avoiding fraud, wasted abuse in the programs that he's
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Speaker 1: responsible for in the first place. He could be campaigning
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Speaker 1: on that. Look at all I did to prevent fraud,
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Speaker 1: waste and abuse. You know it will be billions of
51:17
Speaker 1: dollars in taxpayer ripoffs if it wasn't for me and
51:19
Speaker 1: my efficient administration. See, he can't say that. And who
51:24
Speaker 1: thinks that he was woodshdded recently by the Democrat Party.
51:29
Speaker 1: And here's one for you, maybe, Maureen, because Kevin McCarthy commented, well,
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Speaker 1: in Minnesota's entire Democrat administration should be resigning over this
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Speaker 1: fraud scandally. So this is not the end of the story.
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Speaker 1: Waltz is trying to leave because he could not win
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Speaker 1: I think the entire Democrat administration is going to have
51:47
Speaker 1: to resign because this will not be the end. Amid
51:53
Speaker 1: swirling suggestions alleging that Democrats were using the money to
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Speaker 1: fund their campaigns, similar allegations, although yet to be proven,
52:09
Speaker 1: with regard to a lot of the NGOs that are
52:11
Speaker 1: funded by the City Council and city government here in
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Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati. Follow the money and does anybody
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Speaker 1: think that ultimately the money trail will lead to these politicians?
52:24
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be an interesting revelation? Six twenty six fifty
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Speaker 1: We hear from Common Police Judge Christopher McDowell threatened he
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Speaker 1: to be? Hamilon County prosecutors decided they will not be
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Speaker 1: pursuing the death penalty against the guy that killed the deputy.
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Speaker 1: Remember May twenty twenty five, Rodney Hinton totally innocent deputy
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Speaker 1: run over by Rodney Hinton. Well, what they determine is
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Speaker 1: that he has serious mental illness and that would disqualify
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Speaker 1: him from receiving the death penalty under Ohio law. This
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Speaker 1: after testimony from a courted pointed psychologist to determine that
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Speaker 1: his mental illness impairs his rational judgment, along with two
53:49
Speaker 1: other medical professionals who agreed with that assessment. Fox nineteen
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Speaker 1: Matt Schaeffer, thank you for reporting credit where credits do.
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Speaker 1: At least we still have some local reporting. Hinton's attorney,
53:57
Speaker 1: Clyde Bennett said, we had an agreement by the State
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Speaker 1: of Ohio that that mister Hinton did, in fact have
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Speaker 1: a serious mental illness at the time of the events,
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Speaker 1: and that mental illness impaired his sense of judgment. He
54:07
Speaker 1: was not in his right mind. That I've said that
54:09
Speaker 1: since day one, so I'm very pleased with the stipulation.
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Speaker 1: Now the prosecutors and the defense agreed to this conclusion.
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Speaker 1: So this seems to be a foregone conclusion that he
54:20
Speaker 1: is not going to get the dent On death penalty,
54:21
Speaker 1: but it's pointed out that Judge Jodi Lubers is going
54:23
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54:26
Speaker 1: death penalty, we had dropped corn at Hamilton County Prosecutor
54:29
Speaker 1: County Pillage says, what we've done in our negotiation. We've
54:32
Speaker 1: talked to Laurie Henderson, who's the widow of the victim
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Speaker 1: in this matter. We've spoken to several her several times
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Speaker 1: and her children. While not totally in agreement, they understand
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Speaker 1: the reasoning for doing this. We've also consulted with the
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Speaker 1: Sheriff's department. Deputy Henderson was employed with the Department's detail
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Speaker 1: that day. They've been advised and they understand why we're
54:53
Speaker 1: doing this as well. So if accepted, Hinton could be
54:56
Speaker 1: re arraigned on non capital charges or face life in
54:59
Speaker 1: prison without p role. Likely going to be pleading not
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Speaker 1: guilty by reason of insanity. Kay, it goes without saying, doesn't.
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Speaker 1: So back to the allegations of fraud of Minnesota, we
55:13
Speaker 1: know about that, but as people have been convicted, many
55:16
Speaker 1: people have been are under prosecution. TikTok here in Ohio
55:25
Speaker 1: talking about this Somali Minister of Foreign Affairs Abda Salaam Ali,
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Speaker 1: who apparently owned a homecare health company here in the
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Speaker 1: state of Ohio. The claim has now gone viral, as
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Speaker 1: you might imagine, been reported in the past that Ali
55:44
Speaker 1: owned Right Choice Healthcare services in Ohio. Made twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: five article from the Somali based publication Somaliland Chronicle. Joe,
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Speaker 1: you still receiving the Somali Land Chronicle electronic or paper
55:57
Speaker 1: paper anyway. It was an article about Somali citizen about
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Speaker 1: US citizens serving in Somali's federal government. Stated that this
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Speaker 1: guy previously built a healthcare business in Ohio, specifically Right
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Speaker 1: Choice Healthcare Services LLC. Records from Ohio State Secretary of
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Speaker 1: State's office going back to two thousand and nine reviewed
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Speaker 1: by Newsweek also lists Ali as a business owner. His
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Speaker 1: official biography with the Somalian Ministry of Foreign Affairs says
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Speaker 1: that he has a bachelor's degree in healthcare business administration
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Speaker 1: from the University of Toledo, and he touted his experience
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Speaker 1: as a founder of a healthcare business, though it did
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Speaker 1: not mention right choice by name. Accord to his biography,
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Speaker 1: before entering public sector, his Excellency, Honorable Abdi Salam Ali
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Speaker 1: established a successful career in the private sector, founding this
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Speaker 1: successful healthcare enterprise. There's been no evidence presented that his
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Speaker 1: business has been impacted by or implicated in fraud. Carently
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Speaker 1: the business does not still appear to be operational in
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Speaker 1: the URL for their website is now defunct. Maybe that's
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Speaker 1: Governor Wine getting ahead of fraud or getting behind it,
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Speaker 1: Mississippi James. Welcome back to the morning show.
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Speaker 7: Sir, All right doing okay?
57:34
Speaker 5: Man?
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Speaker 7: I come in peace, love everybody. There's nothing you can
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Speaker 7: do about it.
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Speaker 2: I like that.
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Speaker 7: Hey man. We got we got waste, fraud and abuse
57:45
Speaker 7: all over the place. Yes, sir, I will ever get
57:49
Speaker 7: our hands wrapped around this from both sides.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, ideally, Mississippi James, if our elected officials
57:58
Speaker 1: owed us, like maybe your financial leonard, a fiduciary obligation
58:03
Speaker 1: and ethical legal obligation to treat your taxpayer dollars with
58:07
Speaker 1: the utmost respect that they deserve, and they could be
58:10
Speaker 1: held accountable for not doing so, maybe we could do
58:12
Speaker 1: something about it. But since they don't care, they collect
58:15
Speaker 1: as much as they want, they have a printing press
58:17
Speaker 1: to print off more than they collect. They don't give
58:19
Speaker 1: a crap. It just goes out into the world. They
58:22
Speaker 1: can say they did something because look, we started an MNGO,
58:25
Speaker 1: we're funding the program. The problem is solved. No, the
58:28
Speaker 1: problem's not solved, and you're not wan minding the store
58:30
Speaker 1: with them where the money is going. But they don't.
58:34
Speaker 7: So we got to come together as the little people
58:37
Speaker 7: to start from the bottom. Again, work all way up.
58:40
Speaker 7: We need all hands on date to put pressure on them, yeah,
58:44
Speaker 7: you know, to challenge them out. Woun't it vote right?
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Speaker 8: You know?
58:48
Speaker 7: And that's the only source we got loan as a vote.
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Speaker 1: Stay in you know, well, James, you know the problem
58:54
Speaker 1: with that, and you are right, and I'm a firm
58:56
Speaker 1: believer in that. And you know, as many times in
58:57
Speaker 1: the past I've suggested, why do we need term limits
59:01
Speaker 1: when you and I have the ability to term limit
59:03
Speaker 1: any politician by just not voting them back into office.
59:07
Speaker 1: People don't pay attention, James, You pay attention. I try
59:10
Speaker 1: to pay attention because this is what I do for
59:12
Speaker 1: a living. You know, I call us weed dwellers. But
59:16
Speaker 1: I mean, look, one in four people who are registered
59:18
Speaker 1: to vote in the city of Cincinnati bothered to show
59:20
Speaker 1: up to vote. How do you expect change when so
59:24
Speaker 1: many people aren't even motivated to cast a vote, And
59:27
Speaker 1: when they do cast to vote, quite often they're not
59:29
Speaker 1: even paying attention to who they're voting for. They've just
59:32
Speaker 1: brainwashed by this ideological obsession that if I am filling
59:35
Speaker 1: the blank type of person, I must vote for Democrats
59:39
Speaker 1: or Republicans. And they just go down the red car
59:41
Speaker 1: or the pink slip or the blue slip. Vote who
59:43
Speaker 1: for whoever? It is quite often an incumbent, and we
59:45
Speaker 1: get the status quo, like the most recent election here
59:48
Speaker 1: in the city. But if you bother to look at
59:50
Speaker 1: the details of what any given politician has done or
59:52
Speaker 1: refuses to do, then you might consider a different path. Sadly,
59:57
Speaker 1: we've got binge watching, we've got Netflix, we've got all
59:59
Speaker 1: kinds distractions, we've got social media. We have lives to live,
1:00:03
Speaker 1: we have families to raise, and who in the hell
1:00:05
Speaker 1: has any time to watch even a half hour segment
1:00:08
Speaker 1: on the news where you get nothing more than a
1:00:09
Speaker 1: sound bite, most of which has to do with access
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Speaker 1: Hollywood type crap.
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Speaker 2: I agree, and I agree, I give.
1:00:17
Speaker 1: That sorry summary of the state of affairs. But you
1:00:20
Speaker 1: know what, talk about it enough, you get people waking
1:00:22
Speaker 1: up enough, and you get enough of this fraud, wasting,
1:00:24
Speaker 1: abuse exposed. This is everybody, of all political stripes, money
1:00:29
Speaker 1: that is being wasted and stolen. To say, is that
1:00:32
Speaker 1: an issue that bears a political stripe?
1:00:36
Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 7: And you know, right here in my hometown of Meridia, Mississippi,
1:00:42
Speaker 7: and I tell them we've been on the bottom so long,
1:00:45
Speaker 7: there's nowhere to go. But uh so, let's start working
1:00:49
Speaker 7: together and projectile this thing up. And I even tell them, hey,
1:00:53
Speaker 7: Maridi can be the template for Mississippi, and Mississippi can
1:00:57
Speaker 7: be the template for the United States if we build
1:01:01
Speaker 7: this thing in the proper way and projectile it up.
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Speaker 7: I call it the sling shot and the board. Now
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Speaker 7: it's been stretched back so far. Now we let it
1:01:12
Speaker 7: go in the right direction and we can make Meridian
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Speaker 7: great for everybody for the first time. I may seem
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Speaker 7: to listen not much action, but they conversation is being
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Speaker 7: put there.
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Speaker 1: That's where it starts. James, you're the kind of guy
1:01:26
Speaker 1: that goes out in the community. We've talked about this before.
1:01:28
Speaker 1: You are an active person. You want to change the
1:01:31
Speaker 1: course of your neighborhood and your community. And if people
1:01:34
Speaker 1: start talking about it, we'll call that phase one. After
1:01:38
Speaker 1: talk and discussion comes action. But if you don't start
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Speaker 1: having that conversation and raising that awareness to where people
1:01:45
Speaker 1: actually consider it a legitimate thing to be talking about
1:01:48
Speaker 1: and a legitimate concern, whatever it happens to be, then
1:01:51
Speaker 1: it's never going to happen. So I applaud your efforts
1:01:53
Speaker 1: and I applaud your optimism, and I hope someday you
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Speaker 1: and I'll be having a conversation about the Wall Street
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Speaker 1: Journal article about Meridian and it's miraculous recovery after years
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Speaker 1: of well be him on the bottom of the pile.
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Speaker 1: Someday we'll have that conversation, James, with people like you
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Speaker 1: working on it. It could very well happen. You just
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Speaker 1: got to get people engaged like you are. God bless you, sir,
1:02:16
Speaker 1: and a happy New Year to you and your bride,
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Speaker 1: and I look forward to seeing you at lunch sometime
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Speaker 1: this summer when you come back to town six forty
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Speaker 1: six at fifty five care see the talk station. Another year,
1:02:24
Speaker 1: another opportunity to save money, be more comfortable. And I'm
1:02:26
Speaker 1: still reeling over my duke energy bill. Has anybody else
1:02:29
Speaker 1: gone through the roof of their energy bill station? And
1:02:31
Speaker 1: Tom's Awastowski after the top of the air news, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I try to get this in with the risk of
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Speaker 1: hopefully not running over. I will read a little bit
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Speaker 1: more quickly, but Viva gramas so I've been talking about
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Speaker 1: his social media is a Trap for Politicians article, and
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Speaker 1: it's a wonderful summary about why maybe you should ignore
1:02:45
Speaker 1: the crap that's going on there, and a message to
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Speaker 1: all politicians don't be influenced by it.
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Speaker 2: You're right.
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Speaker 1: So when I'm in Italian Prime Minister Georgia Maloney during
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Speaker 1: her visit to the US in July twenty four, she
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Speaker 1: told me she never reads or watches news because she
1:02:58
Speaker 1: doesn't want the media to influence her approach to governing. Instead,
1:03:02
Speaker 1: she travels her country and hears directly from citizens. What
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Speaker 1: a beautiful idea, my vdk ramaswam. He's near resolutioner to
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Speaker 1: do something similar. I plan to become a social media teetotaler.
1:03:12
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty six, a New Year's Eve, I deleted
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Speaker 1: x and Instagram from my phone. I spent my newfound
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Speaker 1: time listening to more voters in real world Ohio, developing
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Speaker 1: more policies to make our state affordable, and being more
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Speaker 1: present with my family. I predicted any of my consumption
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Speaker 1: of social media will make me a better leader and
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Speaker 1: a happier man. Amen to the latter comment, my campaign
1:03:33
Speaker 1: team will still use social media to distribute messages and
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Speaker 1: videos on my behalf, but I won't browse any of
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Speaker 1: it myself. There's a fine line between using the Internet
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Speaker 1: to distribute your message and inadvertently allowing constant Internet feedback
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Speaker 1: to alter your message. That isn't using social media, it's
1:03:52
Speaker 1: letting social media use you. As suddenly ran a digitally
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Speaker 1: centered campaign for president. I've seen this effect firsthand on
1:04:00
Speaker 1: myself and my competitors. Politicians want to respond to voters,
1:04:04
Speaker 1: and rightly so, but polls are expensive and infrequent. Social
1:04:09
Speaker 1: media offers a tempting alternative, free, abundant, real time feedback.
1:04:15
Speaker 1: It creates the impression that you're hearing directly from the
1:04:19
Speaker 1: people and responding in kind. Modern social media is increasingly
1:04:25
Speaker 1: disconnected from the electorate. The messages you're most likely to
1:04:28
Speaker 1: see are the most negative and bombasted because they're the
1:04:32
Speaker 1: most likely to receive rapid likes and reposts, and that
1:04:37
Speaker 1: drives revenue for social media content creators. If you click
1:04:40
Speaker 1: on one post about a topic, suddenly that viewpoint of
1:04:43
Speaker 1: fear is everywhere you look, skewing your view of reality.
1:04:47
Speaker 1: That's harmless. If you're a knitting hobbyist, who might overestimate
1:04:50
Speaker 1: how many fellow citizens know the difference between a knit
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Speaker 1: and a pearl stitch on its own. Random people saying
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Speaker 1: outrageous things on the Internet and even making money money
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Speaker 1: from it isn't a major problem. But when those in
1:05:03
Speaker 1: power mistake online commentary for real world consensus, they make
1:05:08
Speaker 1: decisions based on distorted picture of what those citizens really want.
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Speaker 1: You know, as I read that, I'm thinking about this
1:05:13
Speaker 1: whole idea that a man can claim to be a woman,
1:05:15
Speaker 1: and we need to just embrace that. That's a very
1:05:18
Speaker 1: minority opinion. Folks back to him. Worse, the online pulse
1:05:23
Speaker 1: that politicians glean from social media is increasingly manufactured by
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Speaker 1: foreign actors and non human bots. A recent report revealed
1:05:32
Speaker 1: that engagement with the X account for the now notorious
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Speaker 1: white nationalist Nick Fuentes shows signs of being quote unusually fast,
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Speaker 1: unusually concentrated, and unusually foreign in origin close quote. Another
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Speaker 1: investigation showed that hundreds of bots drove the pro Democrat
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Speaker 1: hashtag Blue Crew hashtag, amplifying false claims that the assassination
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Speaker 1: attempt on President Trump and Butler PA was staged. Politicians
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Speaker 1: who think they're taking social media cues from US citizens
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Speaker 1: are often mistaken. My experience, attorney Point USA America Fest
1:06:09
Speaker 1: conference in December was a case in point. Delivered to
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Speaker 1: speech that US is a nation defined above all by ideals,
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Speaker 1: not by shared bloodlines. Based on social media comments beforehand,
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Speaker 1: I expected to be booed you scrolled through them after
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Speaker 1: you believe that's what happened. But in reality, I received
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Speaker 1: the standing ovation from a politically engaged audience of well
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Speaker 1: over twenty thousand attendees. In twenty twenty five, I saw
1:06:32
Speaker 1: a spate of shocking racial slurs and wars on social media.
1:06:35
Speaker 1: Yet that same year, I visited tens of thousands of
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Speaker 1: voters across all of Ohio's eighty eight counties, from inner
1:06:41
Speaker 1: cities to farms, union halls to factories, Republican rallies to
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Speaker 1: one on one discussions with protesters, and I didn't hear
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Speaker 1: a single bigoted remark from an Ohio voter the entire year.
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Speaker 1: Social media's warped projection of reality is reinforced inside modern government.
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Speaker 1: Political staffers on both sides of the aisles skew young
1:07:00
Speaker 1: and hyper attuned to social media. Twitter was built to
1:07:04
Speaker 1: imitate real life conversations, but in modern younger political circles,
1:07:09
Speaker 1: real life conversations are imitating Twitter. As political commentator Rich
1:07:14
Speaker 1: had Any observed last year, young political aids now complete
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Speaker 1: the most based one upping each other with increasingly unhinged
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Speaker 1: positions on race, sex, and who the good guys were
1:07:25
Speaker 1: on World War Two. And if you've ever win sid
1:07:27
Speaker 1: social media post by an official government account, remember the
1:07:30
Speaker 1: person who wrote it is often a young employee who
1:07:33
Speaker 1: takes most of his cues from the Internet. Over time,
1:07:36
Speaker 1: the state itself begins to sound like X sound familiar
1:07:39
Speaker 1: to anybody. None of this is say citizens shouldn't use
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Speaker 1: social media disway politicians. It's their constitutional right to do so,
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Speaker 1: but it's up to elected leaders to know what they're
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Speaker 1: responding to. Most Ohioans I've met want higher take home pay,
1:07:53
Speaker 1: lower electric bills here here, and great education that prepares
1:07:57
Speaker 1: their kids to join the workforce. Yet it's precisely because
1:08:00
Speaker 1: because these issues are so universal that they're among the
1:08:03
Speaker 1: least likely to register on social media. Leaders who depend
1:08:07
Speaker 1: on social media to gauge public opinion are looking through
1:08:09
Speaker 1: a broken mirror. Thomas Jefferson famously observed the man who
1:08:14
Speaker 1: never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he
1:08:17
Speaker 1: who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is
1:08:20
Speaker 1: nearer to the truth. Yes, traditional media is flawed. Broadcasters
1:08:24
Speaker 1: push narratives and sensationalism sells on TV and in print,
1:08:27
Speaker 1: but social media presents a new problem, coordinated influence that
1:08:32
Speaker 1: hides behind armies of avatars, creating a false impression of
1:08:37
Speaker 1: grassroots support. Its organic feel, combined with real time feedback loops,
1:08:44
Speaker 1: makes it effects on elected leaders even more pernicious than
1:08:47
Speaker 1: other forms of media. Think He's onto something. The result
1:08:51
Speaker 1: of that, some of the most powerful politicians in America
1:08:53
Speaker 1: live under constant pressure to please social media, an unenviable
1:08:59
Speaker 1: confinement that we might call Twitter prison. Real leaders must
1:09:03
Speaker 1: break free. It's fashionable these days for leaders to complain
1:09:06
Speaker 1: about the influence of social media on politics but do
1:09:09
Speaker 1: nothing to fix it. Yet the first step doesn't even
1:09:12
Speaker 1: require new laws. We just need to practice what we preach.
1:09:15
Speaker 1: That's easier said than done. My current years resolution resembles
1:09:18
Speaker 1: past ones. I might be back scrolling X by March,
1:09:21
Speaker 1: but for now I'm running the experiment, and I invite
1:09:25
Speaker 1: my fellow Republicans to join me. Who knows it might
1:09:28
Speaker 1: be the extra X factor that helps us secure victories.
1:09:31
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty six, speaking volumes, there viviak Ramaswami stick
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Speaker 1: around Tom's Awastowski after the.
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Speaker 3: News Today's top headlines coming up at the top of
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Speaker 3: the hour every day.
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Speaker 1: It's seven oh six, it is Tuesday, and we are
1:09:56
Speaker 1: going to be hearing from the inside scoop right for
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Speaker 1: our news. Calib caruz I was joining us in an hour.
1:10:01
Speaker 1: He used to live in Venezuela. He got out and
1:10:04
Speaker 1: with good reason. He's going to give us an up
1:10:05
Speaker 1: date in his impressions and thoughts out for what happened
1:10:07
Speaker 1: the other day in Venezuela. Daniel Davis Deep Dive Volume
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Speaker 1: two from yesterday special edition. We'll hear for him on
1:10:12
Speaker 1: the latest in Venezuela at eight thirty and right now,
1:10:16
Speaker 1: the return of Tom z Awastowski. You can find Tom
1:10:18
Speaker 1: and his organization, We the People Convention dot org right
1:10:21
Speaker 1: there at We the People Convention dot Org. Tom, it's
1:10:23
Speaker 1: been a while since we talked. I think the last
1:10:25
Speaker 1: time you and I talked was with regard to an
1:10:26
Speaker 1: empower youth summinar. Welcome back, man, Happy new year to you.
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Speaker 9: Well, good morning, Brian. It's so good to be with
1:10:33
Speaker 9: you and your audience this morning. And happy new Year
1:10:36
Speaker 9: to everyone, and happy turn and fiftieth birthday to America.
1:10:40
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a hell of a year.
1:10:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is, and you know, it's really the passage
1:10:44
Speaker 1: of time. And of course I feel old. I remember
1:10:46
Speaker 1: when we celebrated the two hundredth and the one thing
1:10:49
Speaker 1: I do remember is everyone had bells out whenever the
1:10:52
Speaker 1: declaration or the Declaration of Independence was signed, everyone had
1:10:55
Speaker 1: bells and rang it. I think it was like two
1:10:57
Speaker 1: o'clock or something. But that's about all I can remember
1:11:00
Speaker 1: about the Bisonennial. But this would be a big celebration.
1:11:02
Speaker 1: I know Donald Trump's planning on pulling out all stops
1:11:05
Speaker 1: and making a real big issue of it, and I
1:11:07
Speaker 1: hope maybe this is something that can unite the American people.
1:11:10
Speaker 1: We certainly are in need of something to unify us.
1:11:13
Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 9: Brian, I talked on my podcast this week about the
1:11:16
Speaker 9: fact that we a representative Republic, is not a spectator sport,
1:11:22
Speaker 9: that's participatory. And this idea that you know, Donald Trump
1:11:25
Speaker 9: is going to celebrate our turn and fiftieth anniversary.
1:11:28
Speaker 2: That's just not enough. It's ours.
1:11:31
Speaker 9: And so I called for everybody to start planning to
1:11:34
Speaker 9: celebrate in their community, in their little town and their city,
1:11:38
Speaker 9: in their township and their county, because over two hundred
1:11:41
Speaker 9: and fifty years, Brian, we have done amazing things, and
1:11:46
Speaker 9: I think this is going to be a real turning
1:11:48
Speaker 9: point for our country because for the last twenty five years,
1:11:51
Speaker 9: thanks to the Marxist left, starting with Barack Obama, our
1:11:55
Speaker 9: nation has been subject to what's called negative self talk.
1:11:58
Speaker 9: You stink sure that it's horrible. America is the worst
1:12:02
Speaker 9: of everything. If we can have a year where we're
1:12:04
Speaker 9: all talking about all the great things we've done, I
1:12:08
Speaker 9: think it will bring us together and I think it's
1:12:10
Speaker 9: going to make our country go off in a different direction.
1:12:13
Speaker 9: So this is fortuitous, but it's participatory. So don't sit
1:12:18
Speaker 9: back and just watch Donald Trump. What are you going
1:12:21
Speaker 9: to do to celebrate our tour and fifth with birthday?
1:12:23
Speaker 1: Amen to that. I couldn't agree with you more. And
1:12:25
Speaker 1: I'm hoping we see a lot of maybe veterans organizations
1:12:28
Speaker 1: getting together planning events, and I just I embrace your
1:12:32
Speaker 1: optimism for a collective celebration as opposed to a collective condemnation.
1:12:38
Speaker 1: Going back to viv Ramasamy's article about online social media posts,
1:12:41
Speaker 1: you get the impression that there's not a single human
1:12:43
Speaker 1: being in the world beyond you, Tom and me that
1:12:46
Speaker 1: believes the United States should be proud of its heritage
1:12:48
Speaker 1: and what we've done in spite of our wards. There
1:12:50
Speaker 1: isn't a country out there that doesn't have some warts,
1:12:52
Speaker 1: of course, but you know, we move past those, we
1:12:55
Speaker 1: grew out of them. We've become better and better and
1:12:57
Speaker 1: better every year of our existence, and we, through our
1:13:00
Speaker 1: capitalism and our amazing wealth, have been able to transform
1:13:04
Speaker 1: so many impoverished worlds and provided them with the benefits
1:13:07
Speaker 1: of what capitalism can bring. And that's a crazy thing
1:13:09
Speaker 1: about socialism, Tom. They keep wanting to take the money
1:13:12
Speaker 1: that's earned by capitalists and it ends up ruining everything.
1:13:16
Speaker 1: People quit working. What's the point of work if I
1:13:18
Speaker 1: can enjoy the benefit of my labor without capitalist money.
1:13:22
Speaker 1: You don't clean up pollution sites, you can't afford windmills,
1:13:25
Speaker 1: if that's what you want to buy. It's all built
1:13:27
Speaker 1: on the money created and earned by capitalism.
1:13:31
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, and this is going to be part
1:13:33
Speaker 9: of the discussion, particularly with all the things that are
1:13:37
Speaker 9: in the big beautiful bill that are going to come
1:13:39
Speaker 9: to fruition this year.
1:13:41
Speaker 2: You're going to see capitalism at work.
1:13:44
Speaker 9: You're going to see you know, what's going to happen
1:13:46
Speaker 9: with these reshoring of these manufacturing plants, even the Trump
1:13:50
Speaker 9: you know, the things for the kids that are being
1:13:52
Speaker 9: born to get the thousand domber of Trump funds where
1:13:55
Speaker 9: they go into the stock market. Why didn't we do
1:13:58
Speaker 9: that like fifty years ago. I mean, you know, it's
1:14:01
Speaker 9: just we talked about capitalism, but we've got to teach it.
1:14:05
Speaker 9: And instead of teaching it, we've got schools to teach
1:14:08
Speaker 9: anti capitalism. We've got to turn this around, Brian.
1:14:12
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:14:12
Speaker 1: And they also teach the woke religion that carbon dioxide
1:14:14
Speaker 1: plant food is killing us all which has ruined our
1:14:17
Speaker 1: ability to generate electricity in the name of pursuing this religion.
1:14:20
Speaker 1: Zero carbon, zero carbon one another thing Trump's been able
1:14:23
Speaker 1: to accomplish. And check out the price of gasoline. Energy
1:14:26
Speaker 1: prices have fallen. He's all the above on energy policy.
1:14:29
Speaker 1: We have no longer subsidies for windmills that apparently don't
1:14:32
Speaker 1: provide sufficient electricity. I mean, we're just moving in the
1:14:36
Speaker 1: right direction. Maybe this is the year we rid ourselves
1:14:38
Speaker 1: of that religion and move on to something saner and
1:14:41
Speaker 1: in lo and behold, Tom, I gotta observe. I've been
1:14:43
Speaker 1: a big fan of the concept of small modular reactors.
1:14:46
Speaker 1: Look what it took artificial intelligence operations to get us
1:14:50
Speaker 1: moving in that very sane direction zero carbon output in
1:14:55
Speaker 1: spite of the fact that the green people hated it,
1:14:57
Speaker 1: but yet it produces an abundance of electricity and a
1:14:59
Speaker 1: very tight look. Bill Gates wants it, So I guess
1:15:02
Speaker 1: we now are in a position and may be able
1:15:04
Speaker 1: to get it.
1:15:05
Speaker 9: Yeah, and way too late. I mean again, this is
1:15:09
Speaker 9: the sabotaging of America. This is what we're fighting. All
1:15:13
Speaker 9: of your listeners know this. It's it's not like you know,
1:15:16
Speaker 9: America just can't get it right. It's that literally, people
1:15:20
Speaker 9: we elect to represent us, and many of those are
1:15:23
Speaker 9: stolen elections sabotage us. And it's just like you were
1:15:27
Speaker 9: talking about with the fraud. And it's not just Somali,
1:15:30
Speaker 9: as you said, it's this. The fraud is way bigger
1:15:33
Speaker 9: than anyone can even imagine. It's an all of government problem.
1:15:37
Speaker 9: But why do we have that problem. Well, it's because
1:15:40
Speaker 9: there's people in our government who hate America, who who
1:15:44
Speaker 9: hate capitalism, who believe in Marxism because they didn't get
1:15:47
Speaker 9: an education, they went to college to get indoctrinated. We
1:15:51
Speaker 9: the common sense people of America this year are fighting
1:15:55
Speaker 9: to turn that around and get those people out, and
1:15:59
Speaker 9: you know it's going to be a hell of a fight.
1:16:01
Speaker 9: But I think this year is a tipping point. I
1:16:03
Speaker 9: think this is the year when we finally win the
1:16:06
Speaker 9: war and drive the Marxist out of our government and
1:16:09
Speaker 9: then out of our country.
1:16:10
Speaker 2: And let's hope that's the case.
1:16:11
Speaker 1: I certainly hope that. You know, but even if somebody
1:16:13
Speaker 1: in government doesn't hate America, and I understand that's a
1:16:17
Speaker 1: sinister and real concept that he just brought up. But
1:16:20
Speaker 1: you know, government's almost like an illustration of how socialism
1:16:23
Speaker 1: or communism works. You don't have to earn or make money.
1:16:27
Speaker 1: You merely take it, and by taking it and have
1:16:30
Speaker 1: the elite having the legal authority to take it pretty
1:16:32
Speaker 1: much as much as they want. Considering the varying tax
1:16:35
Speaker 1: rates we face in our country over the years, do
1:16:37
Speaker 1: you want a seventy five percent tax rate used to be?
1:16:40
Speaker 1: That way, they can take as much as they want.
1:16:42
Speaker 1: They don't have to be accountable. They're not subject to shareholders,
1:16:45
Speaker 1: they're not subject to boards of directors who are looking for,
1:16:48
Speaker 1: you know, to improve the bottom line and to increase
1:16:51
Speaker 1: efficiency and effectively manage the taxpayer. Dollars. We need to
1:16:55
Speaker 1: rise up as taxpayers of all political stripes and demand
1:16:58
Speaker 1: the end of for example, the fraud illustrated better than
1:17:02
Speaker 1: anything else. I think I've encountered by what's going on
1:17:04
Speaker 1: in Minnesota.
1:17:06
Speaker 9: Yeah, and it's even worse than you just described, because
1:17:10
Speaker 9: think about it. Who works in government, whether it's your township,
1:17:14
Speaker 9: your county, our state government. I'm not talking about the
1:17:18
Speaker 9: elected officials. I'm talking about the people who are there
1:17:21
Speaker 9: shuffling the papers. Most of them came out of college,
1:17:25
Speaker 9: never work for a business. Do not understand that the
1:17:29
Speaker 9: money you're handling is you got to be protected because
1:17:33
Speaker 9: you depend on it.
1:17:34
Speaker 2: They work in government where the money just shows up.
1:17:37
Speaker 9: Sam, here's another pile of money, and what's your job. Well,
1:17:41
Speaker 9: shovel it out the door as quick as you can
1:17:43
Speaker 9: and don't ask any questions, and they get rewarded for that.
1:17:47
Speaker 9: We have to start to talk to literally to the
1:17:51
Speaker 9: smaller people in government and say, hey, do you understand
1:17:55
Speaker 9: your job is to protect our money?
1:17:57
Speaker 7: Right?
1:17:58
Speaker 9: It's your grandparents' money, it's your parents, it's your brother's money,
1:18:01
Speaker 9: it's your friend's money.
1:18:02
Speaker 2: And you're not doing that.
1:18:04
Speaker 9: You've got to ask the hard questions and don't give
1:18:08
Speaker 9: our money away to people who don't deserve it. But
1:18:10
Speaker 9: that's a cultural thing, Brian, and we've got to start
1:18:13
Speaker 9: to change that culture. I think that's what the vek
1:18:16
Speaker 9: Ramaswami's talking about. I think that you know, he understands
1:18:20
Speaker 9: it's a cultural.
1:18:21
Speaker 1: Problem, truly a cultural problem. Tom's Awastowski, we will continue
1:18:25
Speaker 1: find his website, We the People Convention dot org. Some
1:18:29
Speaker 1: great stuff there from Tom. We got more to talk
1:18:31
Speaker 1: about it. N If you have KCD talk station, you
1:18:34
Speaker 1: can find him at we the People Convention dot org.
1:18:37
Speaker 1: Following issues important to well folks like you and me,
1:18:40
Speaker 1: Tom z Awastowski joined the program back from a long hiatus.
1:18:43
Speaker 1: Since you've been on the program, Tom, and I appreciate
1:18:45
Speaker 1: what you're doing day to day. Let's move over to
1:18:47
Speaker 1: Ohio issue specifically. Now we can talk about the state
1:18:50
Speaker 1: of fraud in Ohio. Governor de Wine seems to suggest
1:18:53
Speaker 1: that they do everything humanly possible to prevent fraud and
1:18:56
Speaker 1: abuse in Ohio. I've heard reports to the contrary.
1:18:59
Speaker 7: Tom.
1:18:59
Speaker 1: I guess my dream in life is that going back
1:19:02
Speaker 1: to this sort of concept of a fiduciary obligation of
1:19:05
Speaker 1: our politicians owed it to us. With respect to our
1:19:07
Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars, maybe there could be better accountability, we just
1:19:11
Speaker 1: have to wait around for an election. But all those
1:19:12
Speaker 1: people behind the scenes that are responsible for day to
1:19:14
Speaker 1: day accounting for the dollars really don't seem to care either.
1:19:17
Speaker 1: So I'm not quite sure where we are on that.
1:19:19
Speaker 1: But isn't there a mechanism that we can put in place,
1:19:22
Speaker 1: Like within the legislation, fraud avoidance and prevention needs to
1:19:26
Speaker 1: bring priority number one. In order to get any single
1:19:30
Speaker 1: dollar issue to a human being or organization, you must
1:19:33
Speaker 1: fill in and do all of the following. Information needs
1:19:36
Speaker 1: to be shared between Social Security and other agencies that
1:19:39
Speaker 1: have the information, so we can determine citizenship, but the
1:19:42
Speaker 1: propriety of Social Security number whatever, But all the frontwork
1:19:46
Speaker 1: could be done to stop it from going out in
1:19:48
Speaker 1: a fraudulent way. Or am I living a pipe dream?
1:19:52
Speaker 4: No?
1:19:53
Speaker 9: I mean, come on, we do this every day in
1:19:55
Speaker 9: our businesses. You know, this is how America works, So
1:19:59
Speaker 9: why does it our government work that way? Particularly Brian
1:20:02
Speaker 9: with the you know, upcoming AI revolution. How much could
1:20:06
Speaker 9: that help us with all this stuff?
1:20:09
Speaker 2: Right? And and the question is having a will to
1:20:12
Speaker 2: do it?
1:20:12
Speaker 9: I mean, I go back to things like remember Josh
1:20:14
Speaker 9: Bendel had introduced the checkbook program where everybody could report,
1:20:20
Speaker 9: you know, they're spending and you can see it online. Right,
1:20:24
Speaker 9: Remember that? And guess what happened to that, folks. When
1:20:26
Speaker 9: Josh left office. He tried to get it put into legislation,
1:20:30
Speaker 9: and they wouldn't do it.
1:20:32
Speaker 8: They wouldn't do it.
1:20:33
Speaker 2: It's not the law that they have to.
1:20:35
Speaker 9: You've got to put your finances on you know, the Internet,
1:20:39
Speaker 9: so that any citizen can see what your township is
1:20:41
Speaker 9: spending or your city is spending. That's the problem. We
1:20:44
Speaker 9: haven't built these tools that can really make a difference.
1:20:49
Speaker 9: And so I think you're going to see some effort
1:20:51
Speaker 9: to do that, you know, now that this fraud thing
1:20:54
Speaker 9: is coming up. I mean, Bob Sprague and Favor and
1:20:57
Speaker 9: those guys certainly have a lot of explaining to do
1:21:00
Speaker 9: because it's really under them. You know, the Treasurer signs
1:21:04
Speaker 9: the checks for these things, and it's responsible for making
1:21:07
Speaker 9: sure these people are eligible. And the auditor is the
1:21:10
Speaker 9: one who audits it. So two Republicans are right there
1:21:14
Speaker 9: in the middle of it. Let's see what they got.
1:21:16
Speaker 9: But they've got to you know, show us the goods.
1:21:19
Speaker 1: Well, as I've observed quite often. You know, republican Ohio
1:21:22
Speaker 1: is a very republican state. You think it wouldn't be
1:21:25
Speaker 1: like hurting cats and Columbus to get people on the
1:21:27
Speaker 1: right path. And yet there seems to be a whole
1:21:29
Speaker 1: lot of infighting and turf battles going on. More it
1:21:33
Speaker 1: seems to be more important to elected officials than actually
1:21:35
Speaker 1: doing right by the Ohio tax payer. Speaking of taxes,
1:21:39
Speaker 1: what's the thoughts on property taxes. They've been trying to
1:21:41
Speaker 1: get some relief for the Ohioans in terms of property
1:21:44
Speaker 1: tax There's a lot of seniors out there that can't
1:21:46
Speaker 1: even stay in their own home even though they own it.
1:21:49
Speaker 1: We got any progress on that one of late time.
1:21:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been We've got to get this done, Brian,
1:21:54
Speaker 2: we just have to. It was egregious what happened.
1:21:58
Speaker 9: You know, this reappraisal of all your properties and then
1:22:01
Speaker 9: you know you don't have any more money, but I'm
1:22:02
Speaker 9: going to charge you thirty percent more in taxes. That's
1:22:05
Speaker 9: just wrong. We've got to fix that. I've been working
1:22:09
Speaker 9: with the ax Ohio tax people to try to help them.
1:22:12
Speaker 9: I spent probably six months trying to raise money to
1:22:16
Speaker 9: help them.
1:22:17
Speaker 2: The problem is the polling.
1:22:18
Speaker 9: Shows that people are afraid of a total repeal, and
1:22:22
Speaker 9: so we're working now on maybe a more modified idea
1:22:26
Speaker 9: of like a roll back and then you know something,
1:22:29
Speaker 9: how about this, Brian, how about at some point you
1:22:31
Speaker 9: actually own your home and the government do have't lean
1:22:34
Speaker 9: on it, Like whether that's if you pay taxes for
1:22:36
Speaker 9: twenty years, you don't have to pay anymore, or something
1:22:39
Speaker 9: like that.
1:22:39
Speaker 2: We're working on it.
1:22:40
Speaker 9: I've been talking to the vag about it because I
1:22:42
Speaker 9: think we've got to get you know, hopefully the next
1:22:45
Speaker 9: governor to buy in on property taxes. And he hasn't
1:22:48
Speaker 9: been on that totally. He's got kind of an income
1:22:51
Speaker 9: tax guy. He wants to get rid of the income tax.
1:22:53
Speaker 9: But we're raking progress. I'm hoping to have some information
1:22:57
Speaker 9: on this, you know, in the next couple of weeks,
1:22:59
Speaker 9: because we have to get it done. And Brian, let
1:23:02
Speaker 9: me just take one more second to say, why do
1:23:04
Speaker 9: we have to get it done. It's not just about
1:23:06
Speaker 9: the cost of your property taxes. The problem for us
1:23:10
Speaker 9: in Ohio is our government at every level is out
1:23:14
Speaker 9: of control. The money they're spending is just beyond what
1:23:20
Speaker 9: the taxpayer can afford.
1:23:22
Speaker 2: And how do you roll it back.
1:23:24
Speaker 9: You can't roll it back by talking to them. You
1:23:26
Speaker 9: can't say, geez, can you cut spending. I think we
1:23:31
Speaker 9: have to have a reset by taking some money from
1:23:34
Speaker 9: them to send the message. Listen, you guys got to
1:23:37
Speaker 9: get more efficient. You're going to have to implement AI
1:23:40
Speaker 9: to save us money.
1:23:42
Speaker 2: It can't just be more and more and more and more.
1:23:44
Speaker 2: And I think the property tax issue is the way
1:23:47
Speaker 2: we can do that.
1:23:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree completely, you know, and I have to
1:23:51
Speaker 1: observe and most people have known this, I've said it
1:23:54
Speaker 1: a million times, and that the school funding mechanism has
1:23:57
Speaker 1: been ruled unconstitutional like twenty plus years ago go by
1:24:00
Speaker 1: the Ohio Supreme Court, and yet it still remains the
1:24:02
Speaker 1: same and in play. So I struggle with that concept.
1:24:06
Speaker 1: And also, since you mentioned about the finite number of dollars,
1:24:09
Speaker 1: how is it that their elected officials approved six hundred
1:24:13
Speaker 1: million dollars for the Cleveland Browns. I mean, if you
1:24:15
Speaker 1: want to talk about an insult to the taxpayer of
1:24:17
Speaker 1: the state of Ohio, that kind of thing really irks
1:24:20
Speaker 1: me and my listening audience.
1:24:23
Speaker 2: Well it should I mean again, they're billionaires. Yeah, I
1:24:27
Speaker 2: mean they can afford their own bloody stadium. What are
1:24:30
Speaker 2: we doing? And then and then it's hilarious because what
1:24:34
Speaker 2: does the community really get out of it?
1:24:35
Speaker 9: Will they claim all this stuff about you know, your
1:24:38
Speaker 9: restaurants and other activities shut up? Wouldn't you love right
1:24:42
Speaker 9: to be able to start a business and to have
1:24:44
Speaker 9: the state of Ohio pay for your building and all
1:24:47
Speaker 9: your equipment.
1:24:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be great. Let's let's do that. Let's not
1:24:50
Speaker 2: called capitalism the folks, now, that's some form of socialism.
1:24:53
Speaker 1: I think it is. And that's how green energy companies
1:24:55
Speaker 1: stay in business. The taxpayers support them.
1:24:58
Speaker 2: Right, huh ah, No chance. We got to stop all
1:25:02
Speaker 2: of this. We're going to We're on the right path.
1:25:05
Speaker 2: I want people to have hope in this year. I
1:25:08
Speaker 2: want you to really.
1:25:09
Speaker 9: People are kind of confused, and this is why, Brian,
1:25:12
Speaker 9: you play such a role. You talked about the whole
1:25:15
Speaker 9: thing about social media. It is so important that people
1:25:20
Speaker 9: have a place to come for truth. Your show is
1:25:23
Speaker 9: more important than ever because we live in a society
1:25:28
Speaker 9: that's based on lies and propaganda.
1:25:31
Speaker 2: That social media, that's all it is.
1:25:33
Speaker 9: You come to listen to Brian Thomas, because he's going
1:25:36
Speaker 9: to give you the truth.
1:25:38
Speaker 2: And that's what we all have to do.
1:25:40
Speaker 9: Don't lie to yourself, don't lie to your spouse, don't
1:25:43
Speaker 9: lie to your family, don't lie to your fellow citizens.
1:25:47
Speaker 9: We must get back to truth and merit, and if
1:25:50
Speaker 9: we do that, America will be great again.
1:25:52
Speaker 1: God bless you, sir for saying that. It's high praise
1:25:54
Speaker 1: from you, Sir. I truly respect your opinion. It's a
1:25:57
Speaker 1: very kind thing of you to say, and I am
1:25:59
Speaker 1: blessed be in a position to try to do my
1:26:01
Speaker 1: part along those lines, and I can only encourage others
1:26:04
Speaker 1: to get engaged and do the same thing. You gotta
1:26:06
Speaker 1: have conversations. You have to elevate these issues to something
1:26:09
Speaker 1: where people start paying attention to it. Because Tom, as
1:26:12
Speaker 1: I pointed out before, and you know it as well
1:26:13
Speaker 1: as I, we all have a lot going on in
1:26:15
Speaker 1: our lives and quite often politics is the last thing
1:26:18
Speaker 1: on our list that we want to pay attention to.
1:26:20
Speaker 1: And that shouldn't be that way. But you got to
1:26:22
Speaker 1: talk get to people talking before they start paying attention
1:26:25
Speaker 1: and really maybe do the right thing at the ballot box.
1:26:28
Speaker 1: Tom Zwastowski, find him at we the Peopleconvention dot Org.
1:26:31
Speaker 1: Appreciate the work you're doing.
1:26:32
Speaker 2: Tom.
1:26:32
Speaker 1: It's been a pleasure having you back on all. The
1:26:34
Speaker 1: best of health for you and your family in a
1:26:36
Speaker 1: happy new Year to you.
1:26:37
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, looking forward to talk with you again.
1:26:40
Speaker 1: Oh you'll be around, Tom, you can count on that
1:26:42
Speaker 1: you're always welcome here. Coming up Hamilton County Common Please
1:26:44
Speaker 1: Judge Christopher mcdowas speak peace court here in the Hamilton
1:26:47
Speaker 1: County in study to talk about what is going on
1:26:50
Speaker 1: in his world. And I remember if the judges have
1:26:51
Speaker 1: a very difficult time right they're on the bench. They
1:26:54
Speaker 1: must preside over very significant matters criminal and otherwise. And there,
1:26:58
Speaker 1: of course a lot of people in the courtroom with
1:26:59
Speaker 1: a p some of them not real please that their brother,
1:27:03
Speaker 1: their husband, their wife, whoever is being tried for murder
1:27:07
Speaker 1: or some other crime or anything else. They have opinions
1:27:10
Speaker 1: quite often that filters over and lands in the judges
1:27:12
Speaker 1: lap in the form of insults, verbal or even threats.
1:27:15
Speaker 1: And then you get the online element that I've been
1:27:16
Speaker 1: talking about a lot this morning. Judge McDowell has experienced this.
1:27:21
Speaker 1: He's got a great legal career. Hamilton County Court of
1:27:23
Speaker 1: Common please. He was appointed by Governor de Wine in
1:27:26
Speaker 1: September of last year. He was with Strauss and Troy
1:27:28
Speaker 1: prior to that, outstanding law firm. Prior to that, Dinsmore
1:27:31
Speaker 1: Shoal another great firm, and of course US Army Judge
1:27:34
Speaker 1: Advocate General Corps between ninety four and two thousand. Thank
1:27:36
Speaker 1: you for your service for our country, Judge McDowell. Great
1:27:39
Speaker 1: to have you here.
1:27:40
Speaker 10: It's great to be here, Thank you very much.
1:27:41
Speaker 1: It's a tough job, isn't it.
1:27:43
Speaker 10: It's a lot harder than I thought, but it should
1:27:44
Speaker 10: be hard.
1:27:46
Speaker 1: Well, Yeah, A tremendous amount of responsibility comes with it.
1:27:49
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're like me, you have a profound
1:27:53
Speaker 1: respect for the law. It's one of the reasons why
1:27:56
Speaker 1: I went to law school. I appreciate it, you know.
1:27:58
Speaker 1: I enjoyed practicing when I did it, but I had
1:28:01
Speaker 1: respect for it. And so many people just want to
1:28:03
Speaker 1: ride rough shot all over it and threatening a judge,
1:28:06
Speaker 1: which I understand happens to you, is one of the
1:28:08
Speaker 1: mechanisms that used to ride rough shot over and of
1:28:10
Speaker 1: course trying to get a verdict, perhaps in a case
1:28:13
Speaker 1: that you otherwise might not render, that is consistent with
1:28:16
Speaker 1: the law. So what happened with you specifically? Apparently your
1:28:20
Speaker 1: family also got threatened.
1:28:22
Speaker 10: Yeah, the threat was directed primarily to my family. Oh my,
1:28:26
Speaker 10: the individual indicator that he was going to kill my
1:28:28
Speaker 10: family if I send him to prison. And I sent
1:28:33
Speaker 10: him to prison because that's where some people belong. Other
1:28:37
Speaker 10: people don't belong there. But some people that's what's in
1:28:40
Speaker 10: their future, and they don't like that that's what's in
1:28:42
Speaker 10: their future, and they lash out. But we can't allow
1:28:45
Speaker 10: that to drive the train here. We have to do justice.
1:28:47
Speaker 1: No, and again going back to my problem with social media,
1:28:50
Speaker 1: same kind of thing. You know politicians, you know vv
1:28:53
Speaker 1: ramosover me with this wonderful op ed that I even
1:28:55
Speaker 1: read on the air this morning. You get this perception
1:28:59
Speaker 1: of the public will, but it's all magnified by foreign actors, bots,
1:29:04
Speaker 1: artificial intelligence, and so you get the perception that this
1:29:07
Speaker 1: is the way most people feel or believe about any
1:29:11
Speaker 1: given issue, when it is not representative of what the
1:29:13
Speaker 1: constituents want. But in your court of law, maybe it explains.
1:29:18
Speaker 1: And I'll ask you to chime in on this. Your
1:29:21
Speaker 1: experience with a verbal threat of death or a threat
1:29:24
Speaker 1: to your family of death, is that maybe The answer
1:29:28
Speaker 1: to why judges are so soft on crime maybe less
1:29:33
Speaker 1: of a political ideology, that these defendants maybe had a
1:29:37
Speaker 1: bad home life, or otherwise we're victims of some sort
1:29:40
Speaker 1: of societal problem and therefore shouldn't be held accountable for
1:29:43
Speaker 1: their crimes. Or maybe it's something like what you experience.
1:29:46
Speaker 1: Any thoughts on that.
1:29:47
Speaker 10: I like to think that every judge does their duty,
1:29:50
Speaker 10: and that no judges acting because they're afraid of what
1:29:54
Speaker 10: may happen as a result of a decision. I think
1:29:57
Speaker 10: that what we see here is a general breakdown in
1:30:00
Speaker 10: the respect for the law in society, and I see
1:30:03
Speaker 10: this every day in my courtroom. The way people dress,
1:30:06
Speaker 10: you see, you know, women wearing yoga pants, you see
1:30:10
Speaker 10: men wearing T shirts, jeans. It's not like it was
1:30:14
Speaker 10: thirty years ago when I began practicing law. The way
1:30:17
Speaker 10: people talk to the court, you know, it's people have
1:30:20
Speaker 10: gum in their mouth, people are yeah, it's instead of yes.
1:30:24
Speaker 10: It's a real lack of respect. And when I was
1:30:27
Speaker 10: a defense attorney, I first began telling people, well, you're
1:30:30
Speaker 10: going to go to court, dress like you're going to
1:30:31
Speaker 10: go to church. But then I realized the people don't
1:30:35
Speaker 10: go to church. And then I'd say, dress like you're
1:30:37
Speaker 10: going to go to a job interview. Then I started
1:30:39
Speaker 10: to realize they don't go to job interviews either. A
1:30:41
Speaker 10: lot of the problems that I see are people who
1:30:43
Speaker 10: just don't know how to adult. They don't know how
1:30:45
Speaker 10: to show up on time, they don't know how to dress,
1:30:48
Speaker 10: and they don't know how to talk because they've never
1:30:50
Speaker 10: been told how to do those things. Because our society
1:30:53
Speaker 10: is breaking down.
1:30:55
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a whole lot to swallow. We're going to
1:30:58
Speaker 1: break down a little bit and see if we can
1:31:00
Speaker 1: figure out some of the reasons why that might be
1:31:02
Speaker 1: break down of the family structure. Perhaps that's my first reaction.
1:31:05
Speaker 1: Hold on seven thirty seven fifty five krecy the talk station,
1:31:07
Speaker 1: we get a word and Thomas with Judge Christopher McDowell.
1:31:11
Speaker 1: Him uncanny common please judge. He sees all kinds of
1:31:14
Speaker 1: cases and most recently was threatened by one of the
1:31:16
Speaker 1: defendants in his courtroom. Actually he was more his family
1:31:19
Speaker 1: had been threatened. Well, that since chills down my spine.
1:31:21
Speaker 1: My friend. You know, I've commented before, I'm sure there's
1:31:24
Speaker 1: a lot of haters of Brian Thomas out in the world.
1:31:27
Speaker 1: I've only received a couple of what I consider quasi
1:31:30
Speaker 1: credible threats, But I never go on social media to
1:31:34
Speaker 1: read anything about what anybody's saying. I'm sure there may
1:31:37
Speaker 1: be more than out there that I know of. If
1:31:39
Speaker 1: I don't see him, they don't bother me. You don't
1:31:43
Speaker 1: have that ability in your courtroom. You're there face to
1:31:46
Speaker 1: face with the defendant and the surrounding family members and friends,
1:31:50
Speaker 1: which I understand is maybe a bigger part of the
1:31:53
Speaker 1: problem in your courtroom.
1:31:54
Speaker 10: Oh yes, it's the people in the gallery often present
1:31:58
Speaker 10: the biggest problem because there can be sometimes fifteen, twenty
1:32:02
Speaker 10: or more family members, and you know, I have security
1:32:05
Speaker 10: in the courtroom, but I don't, you know, if they
1:32:08
Speaker 10: want to bum rush me, it's a real problem. But
1:32:11
Speaker 10: gaining control of the courtroom can be very problematic when
1:32:16
Speaker 10: things don't go the way the family wants them to go.
1:32:20
Speaker 10: So I try to make it very clear that I'm
1:32:22
Speaker 10: not going to put up with any outburst, any hysteria.
1:32:25
Speaker 10: I kick people out of the courtroom quite frequently, tell
1:32:28
Speaker 10: them to go out in the hall, leave the courthouse
1:32:31
Speaker 10: if they can't behave It's not uncommon.
1:32:34
Speaker 1: Well, someone the on's told me it's not the death
1:32:36
Speaker 1: threats or the threats that are you read or hear
1:32:41
Speaker 1: that are the real problem. It's the ones you don't
1:32:44
Speaker 1: hear that are the problem. The most likely to actually
1:32:47
Speaker 1: engage in some sort of active violence toward any person
1:32:50
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, they don't talk about it out loud
1:32:52
Speaker 1: ahead of.
1:32:52
Speaker 2: Time, right.
1:32:53
Speaker 10: I mean, it's it's not just me that is the
1:32:57
Speaker 10: subject of this. It's judges now more and more throughout
1:33:00
Speaker 10: the United States. Judges that are being threatened because it
1:33:03
Speaker 10: is this breakdown of a respect for the law that
1:33:07
Speaker 10: we see in this country. I'll tell you that the
1:33:09
Speaker 10: place that I feel safest is actually in my courtroom.
1:33:13
Speaker 10: I have deputies in the courtroom, and they are very
1:33:16
Speaker 10: highly trained. They are professional. They really do a fantastic
1:33:20
Speaker 10: job of bringing these inmates in and out of my courtroom.
1:33:23
Speaker 10: If I need extra security, I will tell my bailiff,
1:33:26
Speaker 10: you know, get somebody up here right away. Somebody will
1:33:28
Speaker 10: be there in just minutes or seconds. And so I
1:33:32
Speaker 10: feel very secure in the courtroom. You have to go
1:33:34
Speaker 10: through a metal detector to get into the building and
1:33:36
Speaker 10: all that, so I feel secure in the courtroom. I
1:33:39
Speaker 10: got to tell you, it's really leaving my house in
1:33:41
Speaker 10: the morning going.
1:33:42
Speaker 1: To the car is exactly what I was going to
1:33:43
Speaker 1: ask you about, because you can feel safe with all
1:33:45
Speaker 1: that security you have in the courtroom. But you mentioned
1:33:48
Speaker 1: the threat was against your family. Your family doesn't enjoy
1:33:52
Speaker 1: that level of protection, at least I presume not. And
1:33:54
Speaker 1: I'm not going to break down, well, how much is
1:33:55
Speaker 1: protection or security you've got in your own personal home.
1:33:58
Speaker 1: But therein lies the challenge. JD Vance's vice president jd
1:34:03
Speaker 1: Vance's home got vandalized by a kid who was able
1:34:06
Speaker 1: to walk up the driveway well on a police on
1:34:09
Speaker 1: an unmarked a security car and then start hammering on
1:34:14
Speaker 1: the windows while the Secret Service agent he's yelling at him.
1:34:17
Speaker 1: I mean, you'd think they'd beat like the military in
1:34:20
Speaker 1: terms of security going on there, the vice president, and
1:34:22
Speaker 1: that was able to happen. You can't buy one hundred
1:34:25
Speaker 1: percent security anytime.
1:34:27
Speaker 10: No, you can't. You can't at all. The Hamilton County
1:34:31
Speaker 10: Sheriff's Office did volunteer and I did accept to come
1:34:33
Speaker 10: out to my house and do an assessment of my house.
1:34:37
Speaker 10: If if there was a threat that was you know, imminent,
1:34:41
Speaker 10: they would come and they would sit in front of
1:34:43
Speaker 10: my house in the squad car if I wanted that, but.
1:34:46
Speaker 1: Again, you can't.
1:34:46
Speaker 10: You can't live that way. You can't live your life
1:34:48
Speaker 10: that way, and justice cannot be thwarted because of this.
1:34:53
Speaker 10: If we allow terrorists to sort of win, if we
1:34:57
Speaker 10: cave to them, then you just get more of it.
1:34:59
Speaker 10: And so we have to be brave and we have
1:35:00
Speaker 10: to stand up.
1:35:01
Speaker 1: Excellent point is going to ask you about that. I
1:35:03
Speaker 1: think maybe the reason for this increase in threats to
1:35:07
Speaker 1: the likes of judges and others politicians. I imagine a
1:35:10
Speaker 1: part of this as well is because quite often those
1:35:13
Speaker 1: threats bear fruit and they ultimately can get their way.
1:35:16
Speaker 1: They'll either get lenient justice, they will be found not guilty,
1:35:19
Speaker 1: even if they're deserving a guilt, although that will be
1:35:21
Speaker 1: a bench trial, not a jury trial. But they see
1:35:24
Speaker 1: people rioting in the streets, like Black Lives Matter goes
1:35:27
Speaker 1: out and says all police are evil, and big corporations
1:35:29
Speaker 1: start writing them checks. That's a sign of victory for
1:35:32
Speaker 1: those who make those types of threats.
1:35:35
Speaker 10: Absolutely. I mean you see them protesting out in front
1:35:39
Speaker 10: of Supreme Court justices homes indeed, and so basically they're
1:35:42
Speaker 10: trying to get their way through the threat and intimidation,
1:35:47
Speaker 10: and justice cannot work that way. Justice has to be blond,
1:35:50
Speaker 10: and it can't be done because I'm afraid of somebody
1:35:54
Speaker 10: or I'm afraid of the consequences of what is the
1:35:56
Speaker 10: correct decision. And sometimes the correct decision this people need
1:36:00
Speaker 10: to go to prison. Sometimes it's they need treatment. But
1:36:04
Speaker 10: every case is its own individual case.
1:36:06
Speaker 1: And that's what a good judge does. Each case is different,
1:36:09
Speaker 1: It's evaluated differently. The circumstances are weighed, the under given
1:36:13
Speaker 1: the who the defendant is, and what the circumstances are
1:36:16
Speaker 1: in front of the court that day. The facts underline
1:36:17
Speaker 1: the crime that's been committed. But it takes responsible men
1:36:21
Speaker 1: like you to make sure that the system still works
1:36:24
Speaker 1: and to the extent these threats have any impact on
1:36:27
Speaker 1: any judge, this is I mean, I can't see anything,
1:36:32
Speaker 1: anything at all but bad coming out of this. We
1:36:35
Speaker 1: got to stand up to it. Let's let's see we
1:36:36
Speaker 1: can't figure out how we go about doing that. One
1:36:38
Speaker 1: more with common Police Judge Christopher mcdoell, gotta take a
1:36:41
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1:36:52
Speaker 1: with Judge Christopher mcdowan studio talking about the well, the
1:36:56
Speaker 1: trials and tribulations of being a judge in this hot headed,
1:36:59
Speaker 1: angry world we live in, and of course societal deterioration,
1:37:02
Speaker 1: as he pointed out people coming in and sweatpants. I mean,
1:37:05
Speaker 1: you know, I practice law. You had to wear a
1:37:07
Speaker 1: suit and tie, and you had to wear a suit
1:37:09
Speaker 1: and tie, and your clients were always responsible for, you know,
1:37:12
Speaker 1: looking good. It was for their own benefit.
1:37:15
Speaker 7: Me.
1:37:15
Speaker 1: You go in, you have a nice appearance. The judge
1:37:17
Speaker 1: is probably gonna look at more favorably on you than
1:37:19
Speaker 1: if you've got what would you see? Do we say
1:37:20
Speaker 1: in a scarfaced T shirt on when drug defendant in
1:37:23
Speaker 1: your courtroom? Oh yeah, Oh that makes sense speaking of drugs,
1:37:26
Speaker 1: since we were talking off air about it, and I'm
1:37:28
Speaker 1: not sure that you and I can come up with
1:37:30
Speaker 1: a quick solution for what ails society along those lines,
1:37:34
Speaker 1: but suffice it to say, it's crept into your courtroom.
1:37:37
Speaker 1: You have been threatened, and your family has been threatened
1:37:39
Speaker 1: with physical violence, death. Even I like to think since
1:37:43
Speaker 1: you sentenced that man to prison in spite of the threats,
1:37:46
Speaker 1: nothing followed up. Did you hear any follow up threats?
1:37:49
Speaker 1: Or because you sentenced me, you are going to get
1:37:52
Speaker 1: it now that kind of thing, or did it just
1:37:54
Speaker 1: go to go away?
1:37:55
Speaker 10: The deputy sheriffs took care of the matter.
1:37:57
Speaker 1: He was in room A, he was arraigned.
1:38:00
Speaker 10: Judge Josh Burkowitz gave him two hundred and fifty thousand
1:38:03
Speaker 10: dollars bond.
1:38:03
Speaker 1: He's a good guy.
1:38:05
Speaker 10: Judge Burkowitz is a fantastic man. I know, I know
1:38:09
Speaker 10: it's a huge loss to the judiciary.
1:38:11
Speaker 1: That it was a tragic loss. And of course, if
1:38:14
Speaker 1: he was in front of Judge Silverstein, she probably would
1:38:16
Speaker 1: have let him out with no bond. Oh our bond
1:38:18
Speaker 1: right own recognizance. And they're in illustrates of the promiy.
1:38:22
Speaker 1: Is it that they want society to deteriorate? I mean
1:38:25
Speaker 1: they put the entire public at large in jeopardy When dangerous,
1:38:29
Speaker 1: demonstrably violent, with long record individuals are allowed out with
1:38:33
Speaker 1: own recognisance bonds.
1:38:35
Speaker 10: It's a matter of where your focus is. If your
1:38:38
Speaker 10: focus is on protecting society, then you issue a heavy,
1:38:43
Speaker 10: strong bond to make sure that this person does not
1:38:45
Speaker 10: get out and hurt other people. If your focus is
1:38:48
Speaker 10: on the individual, on the defendant, you know, what does
1:38:51
Speaker 10: this defendant need. Oh, he doesn't have a job, he's
1:38:55
Speaker 10: he can't make the bond, so we're going to not
1:38:57
Speaker 10: give him a cash bond. It's the focus is different.
1:39:00
Speaker 10: The focus is on the defendant and what can we
1:39:03
Speaker 10: do to help the defendant versus what can we do
1:39:06
Speaker 10: to protect society. It's an entirely different mindset.
1:39:11
Speaker 1: It really is, well and I would say the key
1:39:14
Speaker 1: leg of law enforcement is the prosecution and punishment is
1:39:19
Speaker 1: the deterrence to other people doing the same thing. You know, sorry,
1:39:24
Speaker 1: it sucks with you. You had a bad life, but
1:39:25
Speaker 1: you've violated someone's rights. You harmed them, you killed them,
1:39:29
Speaker 1: you stab them, whatever the case may be, You're going
1:39:31
Speaker 1: to be the illustration and the example for the rest
1:39:34
Speaker 1: of the people out in the world.
1:39:35
Speaker 2: To not do it.
1:39:36
Speaker 1: You're going to jail.
1:39:37
Speaker 10: That's right. And it's the same thing for people who
1:39:39
Speaker 10: violate probation. If you have terms and conditions of your
1:39:43
Speaker 10: probation and you violate those terms and conditions, there has
1:39:46
Speaker 10: to be a consequence. I can't just continue to put
1:39:48
Speaker 10: you on probation. Again and again sends you back into
1:39:51
Speaker 10: the community. At some point we have to say you're
1:39:54
Speaker 10: not amenable to probation, and so what we need to
1:39:57
Speaker 10: do is separate you from society to protec tech society
1:40:01
Speaker 10: from people who are violent and who are not going
1:40:04
Speaker 10: to change their ways, people who just want to do drugs,
1:40:07
Speaker 10: want to harm people.
1:40:08
Speaker 1: Well, real quick here, since we're almost out of time
1:40:10
Speaker 1: and judgementdal, I guess everything old is new again? Off
1:40:13
Speaker 1: the air, you said that it has been a huge
1:40:15
Speaker 1: increase in powder cocaine cases. It's like nineteen eighties again.
1:40:21
Speaker 1: It is nineteen eighty eight in my courtroom. What is
1:40:24
Speaker 1: old is new?
1:40:26
Speaker 10: I have seen a tremendous increase in powder cocaine. At
1:40:30
Speaker 10: first I thought it was an anomaly. Now it's I'd say,
1:40:34
Speaker 10: almost every day I see cocaine, and I also have
1:40:37
Speaker 10: to ask is this powder cocaine or crack cocaine? And
1:40:41
Speaker 10: I'm also seeing a slight increase too and crack cocaine.
1:40:46
Speaker 1: And that was the wave of in the eighties. It
1:40:47
Speaker 1: sorted with powder, it turned into crack and it was
1:40:49
Speaker 1: all the rage. And you know, here we are back again.
1:40:52
Speaker 1: You would think that the presence of fentanyl in literally
1:40:55
Speaker 1: every street drug out there, would prevent people from going
1:40:57
Speaker 1: out and buying street drugs because oh, that's right, you're
1:40:59
Speaker 1: going to die.
1:41:01
Speaker 10: Yeah, you would think. What's really scary at college students? Yeah,
1:41:04
Speaker 10: college students who think they're taking an adderall or a
1:41:07
Speaker 10: xanax or something and they go into their dorm room
1:41:10
Speaker 10: and they never wake up again.
1:41:12
Speaker 1: Such a tragedy because it's laced with fentanyl. Well, hopefully
1:41:16
Speaker 1: that the Trump policies on the border and the efforts
1:41:20
Speaker 1: to eliminate drugs coming into our country will bear fruit.
1:41:23
Speaker 1: But I think we have no one to blame about
1:41:25
Speaker 1: ourselves for our drug consumption. In large part, there's always
1:41:29
Speaker 1: the demand there and there's always someone willing to fill it.
1:41:32
Speaker 1: Judge McDowell, a great time having in the studio. Real
1:41:35
Speaker 1: pleasure for you. I'm for you to come in. Always
1:41:37
Speaker 1: enjoy talking face to face with folks, and I appreciate
1:41:40
Speaker 1: you standing up for the justice system and being the
1:41:45
Speaker 1: illustration of the type of judge we need these days
1:41:47
Speaker 1: so desperately. And keep up the great work. You always
1:41:50
Speaker 1: got a former venue here to talk about what's going
1:41:52
Speaker 1: on in the court system. I appreciate you coming back
1:41:54
Speaker 1: thank you very much. Happy New Year to you, seven
1:41:57
Speaker 1: fifty seven. Right now inside scoop a bright barton is
1:42:00
Speaker 1: Caleb Caruz. I haven't talked with him, but he is
1:42:02
Speaker 1: a former Venezuelan native fled to the country.
1:42:05
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Speaker 1: Steve Dive at the bottom of the hour. Course, of
1:42:22
Speaker 1: course we'll be talking about Venezuela, as we will with
1:42:24
Speaker 1: my next guest, and it is a pleasure to have
1:42:26
Speaker 1: him on the program. Christian Caleb Cruzer goes by Caleb Cruize,
1:42:29
Speaker 1: we'll call him Caleb. He escaped Venezuela in twenty twenty four,
1:42:33
Speaker 1: but prior to escaping venor at Venezuela, he was hired
1:42:36
Speaker 1: by Breitbart to write a column called My Socialist Hell,
1:42:40
Speaker 1: which he began doing in twenty nineteen. Caleb, it is
1:42:43
Speaker 1: a pleasure to have you on the fifty five KRC
1:42:44
Speaker 1: Morning Show. Welcome, sir good marnin Man. Thank you so
1:42:47
Speaker 1: much for having me, and thank you for being on
1:42:49
Speaker 1: the program. And doing what you're doing. It's so important
1:42:52
Speaker 1: that you were doing what you're doing. And I'll remind
1:42:53
Speaker 1: my listeners as I always do when I start out
1:42:56
Speaker 1: this segment inside scoop at Breitbart News. Book mark the
1:42:59
Speaker 1: site Breitbart b R E I T b A r
1:43:02
Speaker 1: T dot com. You'd be glad you did, and you
1:43:04
Speaker 1: can read what Cale has been writing about. Can I
1:43:07
Speaker 1: ask you it? We'll die have obviously so much to
1:43:10
Speaker 1: talk about to unpackage with Venezuela right now. You were
1:43:13
Speaker 1: writing for Bredebart doing the mysocialist help column from Venezuela.
1:43:18
Speaker 1: Did that present a threat to you given the how
1:43:21
Speaker 1: crazy the administration there was under Biduro.
1:43:25
Speaker 11: Yes, yes, people have told me that. I kind of
1:43:28
Speaker 11: downplay it personally, but it was a huge risk because
1:43:32
Speaker 11: I have this president. This is an actual story. Back
1:43:35
Speaker 11: in twenty fourteen, one of my neighbors happened to be
1:43:38
Speaker 11: a journalist and she got kidnapped in broad daylight the
1:43:41
Speaker 11: righteops at her home. This was covered by Brightbot at
1:43:45
Speaker 11: the time. It was one of the few outlets in
1:43:48
Speaker 11: internationally that actually covered this story. Thankfully, she was able
1:43:52
Speaker 11: to leave Venezuela and safe and sound.
1:43:55
Speaker 2: She was found.
1:43:55
Speaker 11: She was rescued, but I had that president already like that,
1:43:58
Speaker 11: that personal president, that there is always a risk of
1:44:02
Speaker 11: with the regime, because we're talking about a highly authorative
1:44:06
Speaker 11: regime with a brutal, repressive apparacess that has jailed journalist,
1:44:10
Speaker 11: that has jailed people. Last year, they jailed sixty elderly doctor,
1:44:16
Speaker 11: sixty something year old doctor, simply because she posted a
1:44:19
Speaker 11: message on what'sapp critical of the REGIN. So it was
1:44:24
Speaker 11: a risk, yeah, it was. It was definitely worth it
1:44:26
Speaker 11: to get the boys out there. And I appreciate that.
1:44:29
Speaker 11: I'm always thankful to brag, but well then giving me
1:44:31
Speaker 11: that opportunity, because it was a very important thing to say,
1:44:35
Speaker 11: how to tell the story of how things just how
1:44:37
Speaker 11: bad things got down there on the Rumadurova gyms and
1:44:41
Speaker 11: its socialism and policies.
1:44:42
Speaker 1: And judging from what I'm reading about your life in
1:44:45
Speaker 1: vent as well, and nobody better to speak about it
1:44:47
Speaker 1: in spite of the fact that Bernie Sanders and the
1:44:49
Speaker 1: likes of Sean Penn think it was a utopia that
1:44:52
Speaker 1: we all need to emulate. Not quite. So let's talk
1:44:55
Speaker 1: about your mother who had who passed away in Venezuela,
1:44:59
Speaker 1: for one, of medicine that isn't even available in the country.
1:45:02
Speaker 1: How long has this been kind of going on?
1:45:05
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's the healthcare situation in Venezuela is a complete disaster.
1:45:10
Speaker 11: There was lamp and there are still lamp and shortages.
1:45:14
Speaker 11: You just cannot you just cannot go to kind of
1:45:17
Speaker 11: expect to go to a hospital and actually receive treatment,
1:45:19
Speaker 11: even in private clinics. That's just how bad things things were.
1:45:24
Speaker 11: So my mother, she was a doctor, so I was
1:45:28
Speaker 11: always had some insight without the shortcomings of the Venezuelan
1:45:33
Speaker 11: healthcare system under the both public and private. She got
1:45:38
Speaker 11: diagnosed with cancer in twenty fifteen, and by then the
1:45:43
Speaker 11: situation in Venezuela was already collapsed. Getting the treatment she
1:45:48
Speaker 11: needed was outright impossible. We had to get some alternate
1:45:52
Speaker 11: chemos arapy that wasn't the ideal one, but it was
1:45:55
Speaker 11: better than nothing nothing obviously without the right treatment. Eventually
1:45:59
Speaker 11: she passed away in twenty eighteen.
1:46:02
Speaker 1: You know, not to interject personal realities. I literally had
1:46:05
Speaker 1: my update doctor visit with my cancer doctor. I have
1:46:08
Speaker 1: lymphom and I got to go back to treatment. I
1:46:10
Speaker 1: literally said to my wife when I got back from
1:46:13
Speaker 1: my appointment, I'm glad I don't live in Venezuela. As
1:46:16
Speaker 1: upset as I am about having to get chemo again.
1:46:19
Speaker 1: At least we've got it here. Caleb.
1:46:22
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, no, no, but you got this, You got this.
1:46:24
Speaker 11: I'll be rooting for you.
1:46:25
Speaker 1: Well, thanks for him. I'm not looking for Sybothy. I'm
1:46:28
Speaker 1: just thankful for the American medical system. As crazy as
1:46:30
Speaker 1: as it might be from time to time, it's nothing
1:46:33
Speaker 1: like the pain that you're living or that the Venezuelans
1:46:35
Speaker 1: are living through. Also, I understand you had spend a
1:46:37
Speaker 1: lot of your day searching for food on the black market.
1:46:39
Speaker 1: How do every day Venezuelan survive? I just it's beyond
1:46:44
Speaker 1: me to understand that.
1:46:46
Speaker 11: Okay, So the situation in Venezuela has rapidly evolved unchanged
1:46:50
Speaker 11: over the past ten to fifteen years. Back then, when
1:46:53
Speaker 11: I wrote those articles, it was extremely difficult to find
1:46:57
Speaker 11: even the basic things like toilet paper, oil or rice,
1:47:01
Speaker 11: what have you? Even toothpaste. I actually I always say
1:47:05
Speaker 11: this story because I got into a fight over toilet
1:47:08
Speaker 11: paper in late twenty thirteen. It wasn't my proudest moment
1:47:12
Speaker 11: in my life, but it happened. But that's how that's
1:47:16
Speaker 11: how the country situation pushed me to behave that that day.
1:47:20
Speaker 11: Had to fight over people and push people just to
1:47:23
Speaker 11: secure a bit of toilet paper because I were only
1:47:26
Speaker 11: limiting one per person just to have something for my family. Eventually, yeah, eventually,
1:47:32
Speaker 11: the rush the shortages got so severe, especially between twenty
1:47:35
Speaker 11: fourteen to twenty eighteen, that the regime instead of fixing
1:47:40
Speaker 11: things up, they just clamped it down with the socialist policies.
1:47:44
Speaker 11: But they did first was implement weekly rations based on
1:47:48
Speaker 11: the last number of your national edic card.
1:47:51
Speaker 2: Let's stay.
1:47:51
Speaker 11: For instance, mine my Benezula national edit card is in
1:47:55
Speaker 11: the number eight. That meant I was only allowed to
1:47:58
Speaker 11: purchase some of that stuff on Fridays, but by Friday
1:48:01
Speaker 11: there wasn't By Friday there was nothing left. Pretty much,
1:48:05
Speaker 11: eventually this change into a system that doesn't function anymore, thankfully,
1:48:12
Speaker 11: wherein you would have to scan your fingerprint outside in
1:48:16
Speaker 11: supermarkets to be allowed to purchase things. Over time, the
1:48:21
Speaker 11: regym for maybe they saw light, I don't know. They
1:48:26
Speaker 11: ease some of these restradictions and now the thing is
1:48:30
Speaker 11: that you can find things. But the regim pushed everyone
1:48:33
Speaker 11: into such levels of extreme poverty that most people just
1:48:36
Speaker 11: can't afford it and buy food and buy anything.
1:48:41
Speaker 1: Well, you would think even under the least under the
1:48:43
Speaker 1: Biden administration, as open as our border was and as
1:48:46
Speaker 1: many Venezuelans who left the country and flat. I know
1:48:49
Speaker 1: a lot of the wealthy Venezuelans got under the job
1:48:52
Speaker 1: as resume at least that's what I understand. But the
1:48:55
Speaker 1: rest see to be how to make their way to
1:48:56
Speaker 1: the border. You had to escape Venezuela, and he did
1:48:58
Speaker 1: so in twenty twenty four. Was a difficult thing to do.
1:49:01
Speaker 1: Is like escaping you sort of like Nazi occupied Berlin
1:49:05
Speaker 1: or something when the wall was up. What do you
1:49:07
Speaker 1: have to go through to get out?
1:49:09
Speaker 11: Well, the way they do it is that you know,
1:49:11
Speaker 11: they have to save face and pretend that they are
1:49:13
Speaker 11: the good guys fighting the good fight against America and
1:49:16
Speaker 11: the world, et cetera. The way they do it is
1:49:19
Speaker 11: not unlike the Burtling Wall, in which they let they
1:49:22
Speaker 11: contain people in. You can go out, but they don't
1:49:26
Speaker 11: make it easy for you to go out. First of all,
1:49:28
Speaker 11: because not everyone has the money to travel, and secondly
1:49:32
Speaker 11: because getting you can go out, but if you go
1:49:35
Speaker 11: out without your documentation, let's say, passports, their certificates, your work,
1:49:41
Speaker 11: your diplomas. You know diplomas have you have to go
1:49:44
Speaker 11: to the legalization apple still process to be able to
1:49:47
Speaker 11: have some validity of them outside the country. At the
1:49:52
Speaker 11: time my mother passed away, she was undergoing that process.
1:49:55
Speaker 11: So after she died, I have to go to every
1:49:57
Speaker 11: office and get all her diplomas back for safe keeping.
1:50:02
Speaker 11: The way I left Venezuela because maybe maybe it was
1:50:06
Speaker 11: just me. And on the last day my mother died,
1:50:08
Speaker 11: I promised her I would take care of my brother
1:50:10
Speaker 11: because he has he has some disabilities, and I promised
1:50:13
Speaker 11: her that I would take care of him no matter what,
1:50:15
Speaker 11: and I will get him out of the way, find
1:50:17
Speaker 11: a way healthy out of the country. Now I tried
1:50:19
Speaker 11: to do. I tried several approaches. I just did other
1:50:22
Speaker 11: resources or things that I didn't wanted to do it illegally.
1:50:27
Speaker 11: So ultimately my last resource to get my brother out
1:50:30
Speaker 11: was to get him Italian s thediasenship to our father,
1:50:33
Speaker 11: who is an Italian man. This took me several years
1:50:37
Speaker 11: to gather all the documentation and the birth certificates. I
1:50:41
Speaker 11: even had to bribe my way in to get my
1:50:43
Speaker 11: own birth certificate, because that's just how cor OpEd Venezuela
1:50:47
Speaker 11: is nowadays. It took me years, but eventually I, thankfully,
1:50:52
Speaker 11: thank God, I got everything done and the right way,
1:50:54
Speaker 11: and we're here.
1:50:55
Speaker 1: And in spite of the fact that you're now living
1:50:57
Speaker 1: in Italy, you're still reporting on things in Venezuela. I'm
1:50:59
Speaker 1: certain that you have many contacts remaining in Venezuela. Do
1:51:02
Speaker 1: you with the general sense of the population as you
1:51:05
Speaker 1: understand it, Caleb, about the reaction to the capture of
1:51:10
Speaker 1: Nicholas Maduro and his wife and the prosecution of him
1:51:13
Speaker 1: in the United States. What what do you get a
1:51:15
Speaker 1: sense of from the reaction of the people you've talked to?
1:51:18
Speaker 11: Okay, from the people that I've talked to. Dave told
1:51:21
Speaker 11: me that everyone is happy, but you cannot express just
1:51:25
Speaker 11: how happy you are because, Okay, Maduro is gone, his
1:51:28
Speaker 11: wife is gone, but the regime is still there. The
1:51:31
Speaker 11: entire brutal, repressive apparatus is still intact, so you don't
1:51:35
Speaker 11: have the freedom to go out and celebrate in the
1:51:38
Speaker 11: same manner that you see all the Pennezula outside the
1:51:40
Speaker 11: country have been doing right. So I've spoken to some
1:51:45
Speaker 11: relatives and acquaintances have you've told me that the general
1:51:48
Speaker 11: consensus is that everyone has no idea what's going to happen.
1:51:51
Speaker 11: Everyone's in on a shutout of uncertainty. But everyone is
1:51:55
Speaker 11: just trying to live their lives right now because I
1:51:57
Speaker 11: don't playing it safe and don't don't don't don't go
1:52:01
Speaker 11: in out celebrating. This is the smartest thing to do.
1:52:04
Speaker 1: Well, I might go ahead, go ahead, I'm sorry.
1:52:08
Speaker 11: I know people have told me. No, We're just going
1:52:11
Speaker 11: to pretend like nothing happened. They went to work yesterday Monday,
1:52:14
Speaker 11: just like any other day. They came back home, they
1:52:17
Speaker 11: eat some food and the rest, because that's the smartest
1:52:21
Speaker 11: thing to do with unless the one according to the rest.
1:52:24
Speaker 1: Of the regime understood. And we're in a state of
1:52:28
Speaker 1: flux right now. And I understand why the citizen room
1:52:31
Speaker 1: might not be out celebrating given that there's still this
1:52:33
Speaker 1: police apparatus in place, which is run. I know Vice
1:52:37
Speaker 1: President Delsi Rodriguez is sort of a question mark right
1:52:39
Speaker 1: now which direction she's gonna do. But she's currently the
1:52:42
Speaker 1: acting president. But the Interior Minister, a person named Dio
1:52:46
Speaker 1: Sado Cabello, and the Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino sound like
1:52:50
Speaker 1: they're more thuggish loyalists to the Majuro type regime. They
1:52:55
Speaker 1: remain in power, and they also are under indictment here
1:52:57
Speaker 1: in the United States of America. Do you have any
1:53:00
Speaker 1: understanding or expectation what those two individuals, Padrino and di
1:53:05
Speaker 1: Esato Cabello might do by way of response to Donald
1:53:08
Speaker 1: Trump's imploring them to play nice or suffer the same faith.
1:53:13
Speaker 11: Well, President Trump gave Maduro several chances over the past month.
1:53:17
Speaker 11: They gave him several opportunities to leave the country under favorable,
1:53:21
Speaker 11: favorable terms that personally, I don't think he deserved. But
1:53:25
Speaker 11: it is what it is, and we will see. We
1:53:29
Speaker 11: don't know how they're going to react. Because the Socialists
1:53:32
Speaker 11: of Regin the highest, the top brass, let's call it
1:53:37
Speaker 11: that way. The top brass is composed of several suctions.
1:53:40
Speaker 11: You had Maduro and his wife, theos Dad or the
1:53:44
Speaker 11: interior minister, and the defense minister patrinal Ops. They come
1:53:47
Speaker 11: from the military wing of the of the VAGIN. They
1:53:50
Speaker 11: were alongside Hugo Shavis, who was also a military man,
1:53:54
Speaker 11: whereas Maduro was part of the civilian wing of the VAGIN.
1:53:58
Speaker 11: Because he used to be a boss driver and a
1:54:01
Speaker 11: union worker syndicate leader back in the day. Now they'll
1:54:06
Speaker 11: see the current acting president. She's also a civilian. She
1:54:10
Speaker 11: was Maduda's vice president. She was she was also her
1:54:14
Speaker 11: foreign minister and occupied other positions in the past. And
1:54:17
Speaker 11: her brother or her Rodriguez, he is the current head
1:54:20
Speaker 11: of the parliament or the Venezuelan Parliament, which is also
1:54:23
Speaker 11: completely controlled by the Regin. So the Deligous family is
1:54:27
Speaker 11: essentially one of the most powerful families in the in
1:54:31
Speaker 11: the country because you have the sister that he controls
1:54:35
Speaker 11: the executive right now as acting president, and you have
1:54:38
Speaker 11: the brother who controls the parliament. The way I see
1:54:43
Speaker 11: it is that they I hope that they understood that
1:54:47
Speaker 11: President Trump isn't playing and they gave Maduro. He gave
1:54:51
Speaker 11: Maduda several chances. He didn't took any of that. He
1:54:54
Speaker 11: didn't took any of those chances. He kept up playing hard.
1:54:57
Speaker 11: And now he knows the consequences of it because Cavejo
1:55:00
Speaker 11: and Paderno are also wanted on drug trafficking charges and
1:55:04
Speaker 11: they are included in the indictment of that that just
1:55:06
Speaker 11: got on sealed against Madudo.
1:55:08
Speaker 1: Well, the entire world seems to be unified in their
1:55:11
Speaker 1: assessment that Maduro stole the election, meaning Vice President Rodriguez
1:55:16
Speaker 1: is currently in power also the beneficiary of a stolen election.
1:55:20
Speaker 1: Will they in state the properly elected UH president at
1:55:25
Speaker 1: some point, do you think or are we going to
1:55:27
Speaker 1: start all over the brand new election? What's your what's
1:55:29
Speaker 1: your understanding about where we're going to go from here
1:55:31
Speaker 1: on that?
1:55:32
Speaker 11: Well, well, as you mentioned, Delsey is the acting president
1:55:37
Speaker 11: on the Barbia. This is under the assumption that Maduda
1:55:40
Speaker 11: was a legitimate president, which he was not, which he
1:55:42
Speaker 11: was not.
1:55:43
Speaker 7: Uh.
1:55:44
Speaker 11: They are even ignoring the constitution that says that if
1:55:47
Speaker 11: a president isn't unable to serve his functions before the
1:55:50
Speaker 11: first half of his term, you will have to call
1:55:53
Speaker 11: for snap elections, which isn't happening right now. But we
1:55:56
Speaker 11: are that it's a complicated, uncharted scenario in which we
1:56:02
Speaker 11: should maybe probably hold new elections where we are not.
1:56:06
Speaker 11: The conditions to hold free elections are simply not there,
1:56:10
Speaker 11: so we will have to go on terms some sort
1:56:12
Speaker 11: of transition period, little by little until things until the
1:56:17
Speaker 11: conditions for a new election perhaps can happen. And because
1:56:21
Speaker 11: the elegym controls the military. There is no they control
1:56:25
Speaker 11: the electoral Council. The conditions for the free elections are
1:56:28
Speaker 11: simply not there right now.
1:56:30
Speaker 1: Well, and at some point I suppose the US is
1:56:32
Speaker 1: going to have to get involved in maybe bringing about
1:56:34
Speaker 1: some stability for the elections. I don't know how that's
1:56:36
Speaker 1: going to happen. What do you see at this point
1:56:38
Speaker 1: to be the biggest challenge maybe that Donald Trump is
1:56:41
Speaker 1: facing and trying to bring about the stability that we're
1:56:44
Speaker 1: talking about here, sir.
1:56:46
Speaker 11: The biggest challenge would be they'ls herself, because although she's
1:56:51
Speaker 11: allegedly operating with America, she's also acting all tough and
1:56:56
Speaker 11: almighty inside the country. They just pass a degree that
1:57:01
Speaker 11: supposedly Maduro signed on the same day he got captured.
1:57:04
Speaker 11: Don't ask me how, I don't.
1:57:07
Speaker 2: I don't know how.
1:57:09
Speaker 11: Yeah, perhaps maybe, maybe maybe. But the decree there is
1:57:16
Speaker 11: a specific article that says that grants the police are
1:57:19
Speaker 11: law enforcement in Venezuela the authority to unrest and detail
1:57:22
Speaker 11: people who are quote unquote cooperating with the attack on Venezuela.
1:57:27
Speaker 1: Well, sir, I cannot thank enough Caleb Cruzer for spending
1:57:30
Speaker 1: time my listeners and me today. I appreciate what you
1:57:32
Speaker 1: have been doing since twenty nineteen. Yet, Brightbart, and despite
1:57:36
Speaker 1: of the fact that, yes, you were under threat of
1:57:38
Speaker 1: maybe disappearing, as the case may be, you did the
1:57:42
Speaker 1: right thing. You continue to do the right thing. We
1:57:44
Speaker 1: will continue reading what you write and hopefully have you
1:57:47
Speaker 1: back in the program real soon to talk about things
1:57:49
Speaker 1: as they unfold and develop, hopefully for the benefit of
1:57:52
Speaker 1: the Venezuela and people. Caleb, thank you.
1:57:55
Speaker 11: I really appreciate it.
1:57:56
Speaker 2: You can. You can.
1:57:57
Speaker 11: Obviously you can find the stuff right at Bridbirth you will.
1:58:00
Speaker 11: You'll find all the breaking news at the homepage. But myself,
1:58:05
Speaker 11: you can find it mostly at the on the top
1:58:07
Speaker 11: of the international section. I do it several sections, and
1:58:10
Speaker 11: there's one for Latin America.
1:58:12
Speaker 1: I do it every single day. That's why I always
1:58:14
Speaker 1: recommend my listeners bookmark the website brightbart dot com. Caleb Cruiser,
1:58:18
Speaker 1: God bless you, sir. You're always welcome here on the
1:58:19
Speaker 1: fifty five kres Morning Show. Stay well and keep up
1:58:22
Speaker 1: the great work. Eight Station Tuesday, it's time for the
1:58:26
Speaker 1: Daniel Davis Deep Dive this week chapter two. We had
1:58:29
Speaker 1: a special edition with him yesterday. Given the situation of Venezuela,
1:58:32
Speaker 1: and of course we weren't able to unpackage all that.
1:58:35
Speaker 1: Daniel Davis, retired Lieutenant colonel, has his own podcast. You
1:58:37
Speaker 1: can find them wherever you get your podcasts, and I
1:58:39
Speaker 1: recommend you do that. Daniel Davis, dep dive, Welcome back,
1:58:42
Speaker 1: my friend. Always a pleasure talking with you.
1:58:45
Speaker 2: I joy to be here.
1:58:47
Speaker 3: Thanks for going giving me back your second day in
1:58:49
Speaker 3: a week. It's pretty awesome.
1:58:50
Speaker 1: Well, we could talk every single day and still not
1:58:52
Speaker 1: be able to unpackage all this nine cents. I mean,
1:58:54
Speaker 1: let's face it, and we might get to it. There
1:58:57
Speaker 1: is still a war between Russia and Ukraine going on
1:58:59
Speaker 1: out there, but it's it's been overshadowed, of course by
1:59:01
Speaker 1: the military action in Venezuela. And again I got to
1:59:04
Speaker 1: salute the American military. Come down wherever you want on
1:59:07
Speaker 1: the exercise. It's validity or anything, damn it. Our soldiers
1:59:10
Speaker 1: did a hell of a good job, a well oiled
1:59:12
Speaker 1: machine operation that was, and not a single loss of
1:59:15
Speaker 1: American life except a lot of Cubans apparently went down
1:59:18
Speaker 1: in that one. Thirty two has been the reported number.
1:59:20
Speaker 1: And real quick on just on that point, Daniel Davis,
1:59:24
Speaker 1: why was Maduro being surrounded by Cuban protectors and armed
1:59:31
Speaker 1: personnel when he's got his own army, navy, and air force,
1:59:35
Speaker 1: apparently all commanded by Interior Minister Diesato Cabello and Defense
1:59:40
Speaker 1: Minister Vladimir Padrino, who are still issues in this whole
1:59:44
Speaker 1: equation as we move forward. Didn't you have his own people?
1:59:48
Speaker 1: What's with the Cubans?
1:59:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, he did. I think that part of the reason
1:59:52
Speaker 3: for that is to kind of rotate people around as
1:59:55
Speaker 3: an additional means of security, so that you tried to
1:59:59
Speaker 3: avoid what apparently did happen, which is somebody on the
2:00:02
Speaker 3: inside turning against you. And so you had somebody that
2:00:06
Speaker 3: you think is definitely loyal from the outside because Cuba
2:00:09
Speaker 3: literally relies for their economic life on Cuban oil or
2:00:12
Speaker 3: on Venezuelan oil. And I think the idea was, I'm
2:00:15
Speaker 3: gonna have somebody from the outside who can we can
2:00:18
Speaker 3: keep a closer eye on. They don't have connections with anybody,
2:00:21
Speaker 3: They're not gonna conspire with anybody on the ground. Uh,
2:00:24
Speaker 3: and that's gonna keep me safe. And uh, you know
2:00:27
Speaker 3: that's certainly not the way it turned out. I mean,
2:00:29
Speaker 3: they didn't go they didn't go down passively. They they
2:00:32
Speaker 3: did die fighting, but uh yeah, it turned out to
2:00:35
Speaker 3: be not.
2:00:36
Speaker 1: Enough, not quiet enough. Now the as we move forward
2:00:41
Speaker 1: here that it's a big open question about what's gonna
2:00:43
Speaker 1: happen next. Now I mentioned the two military guys, the
2:00:47
Speaker 1: Cabello and Pedrino, who are really I guess, diehard Chavista types,
2:00:52
Speaker 1: the military types. But you also have the current acting president,
2:00:56
Speaker 1: Vice President Delasia Rodriguez. She's seems to be kind of
2:01:02
Speaker 1: playing it, not neutral, sitting on the fence, but she
2:01:05
Speaker 1: hasn't embraced the idea of working with Donald Trump going forward.
2:01:09
Speaker 1: But she hasn't outright rejected it and say no, no,
2:01:11
Speaker 1: We're going to fight to the finish. They're still trying
2:01:13
Speaker 1: to figure out the hand that they've been dealt and
2:01:15
Speaker 1: what they're going to do going forward. Because I know
2:01:18
Speaker 1: that Cabello and Padrina both have criminal indictments against them
2:01:22
Speaker 1: as well. So it's conceivable anyway that another military operation
2:01:26
Speaker 1: could go in and cut off the heads of the
2:01:29
Speaker 1: what what what is of the military there.
2:01:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the implication, that's the threat actually that hey,
2:01:36
Speaker 3: we can come back at any time, but I'll just
2:01:37
Speaker 3: tell you we can't that that card has been played.
2:01:41
Speaker 3: There's you'll you'll never have another opportunity to go in
2:01:44
Speaker 3: like this with the surprise uh and have that success,
2:01:47
Speaker 3: because now then they're aware of how this would work,
2:01:50
Speaker 3: what the what the process is, where the dangers are,
2:01:52
Speaker 3: and now then they'll be ready. Even though they were
2:01:55
Speaker 3: caught with their pants down here. It won't happen twice.
2:01:57
Speaker 3: And if anybody thinks that we can just go in
2:01:59
Speaker 3: with another clean snatch and grab, it's just not how
2:02:02
Speaker 3: it works in the real world. The other thing that's
2:02:05
Speaker 3: that for for Rodriguez especially is like I said, that
2:02:08
Speaker 3: there's pretty strong evidence that there was some sort of
2:02:11
Speaker 3: inside double agent top cooperation, which is one of the
2:02:15
Speaker 3: reasons why we were able to get in so easily
2:02:17
Speaker 3: to the inner sanctum of Maduro himself. And whether that
2:02:21
Speaker 3: person has been identified, whether that's somebody who left with
2:02:23
Speaker 3: the with the with the helicopters, or whether they're still
2:02:26
Speaker 3: on the ground somewhere, there's got to be a fear
2:02:28
Speaker 3: inside of the power hierarchy who else is a double agent?
2:02:32
Speaker 3: So they got to be real careful right now they're
2:02:34
Speaker 3: trying to figure out who they can and can't trust,
2:02:36
Speaker 3: and it wouldn't surprise me if there was a purge
2:02:38
Speaker 3: going on, anyone's even who's even suspected. So they got
2:02:41
Speaker 3: to get their house clean inside first before they can
2:02:43
Speaker 3: feel confident. But she is in a tough position, Rodriguez,
2:02:47
Speaker 3: because she can't just start bowing to Trump, because all
2:02:50
Speaker 3: of a sudden, she's gonna fund resistance within her own
2:02:52
Speaker 3: country because they're going to say, you know, don't just
2:02:55
Speaker 3: hand the keys over. But she obviously can't go too
2:02:57
Speaker 3: far with Trump because whether there's another snatching grab or
2:03:00
Speaker 3: just missiles or something. She realizes that she is indeed
2:03:02
Speaker 3: a risk, so she's trying to trying to find that
2:03:05
Speaker 3: happy medium.
2:03:06
Speaker 1: Now is that risk the consequence of the corrupt I
2:03:11
Speaker 1: would say the people benefiting from the Maduro regimer who
2:03:14
Speaker 1: had been benefiting from it die hard. Potentially Chavistas that
2:03:18
Speaker 1: are still there, because I get the impression and I
2:03:20
Speaker 1: just literally talk with a guy who works for Breitbart
2:03:23
Speaker 1: who lived in escape from Venezuela, Caleb Cruz, a real
2:03:26
Speaker 1: nice guy. The will of the people, although they can't
2:03:29
Speaker 1: go out in the streets and rejoice for fear that
2:03:31
Speaker 1: they're going to be rounded up and disappeared, which is
2:03:33
Speaker 1: typical there but they're pretty darn happy that Maduro isn't
2:03:36
Speaker 1: there anymore. Their lives are terrible in Venezuela. So if
2:03:39
Speaker 1: the people generally support a transition to a pre Chevista
2:03:44
Speaker 1: better economy where they're making money and they have opportunity,
2:03:48
Speaker 1: isn't she on safer ground going that direction? Or is
2:03:52
Speaker 1: this what I would characterize and correct me if I'm wrong, sir.
2:03:55
Speaker 1: Smaller minority of loyalists or well connected people that big
2:03:59
Speaker 1: of a threat to her that she wouldn't bother doing that,
2:04:01
Speaker 1: even if it's the will of the people.
2:04:03
Speaker 3: Well, I you know, I talked to a friend of
2:04:06
Speaker 3: mine here in Washington that has family still in Caracas,
2:04:10
Speaker 3: and he was telling me that his reports from the
2:04:13
Speaker 3: ground there are similar to what your friend said. That
2:04:16
Speaker 3: everybody's still kind of uncertain and afraid. They don't know
2:04:20
Speaker 3: what to think, and they don't even know what to believe.
2:04:22
Speaker 1: In any case, they do know that the.
2:04:25
Speaker 3: All of the power structures of the Maduro regime are
2:04:28
Speaker 3: in place. The only thing that we got taken out
2:04:30
Speaker 3: was the head. But the head is only the head
2:04:33
Speaker 3: of a system, and all the system is still fully
2:04:35
Speaker 3: in place. So they don't have freedom suddenly that they
2:04:38
Speaker 3: didn't have before Maduro was pulled out, and I think
2:04:40
Speaker 3: they're aware of that, but they also know, you know,
2:04:43
Speaker 3: what are you gonna do? You're gonna have a you know,
2:04:46
Speaker 3: some kind of an uprising. Well, the same reason they
2:04:48
Speaker 3: didn't have an uprising under Maduro is still the same
2:04:51
Speaker 3: thing in place here. So there's no freedom in Venezuela.
2:04:54
Speaker 3: There's nothing has been changed on the system level. So
2:04:58
Speaker 3: right now everybody's way to find out what's going to
2:05:01
Speaker 3: happen and listen. We also have to recognize that all
2:05:04
Speaker 3: of the hardships on Venezuela is not just because of
2:05:07
Speaker 3: this management, though that's a big part of it, or
2:05:09
Speaker 3: their corruption, but because of these crippling sanctions we've had
2:05:12
Speaker 3: on them for a long time. So it's that it's
2:05:15
Speaker 3: some of the people in Venezuela are not real happy
2:05:17
Speaker 3: about even what we've been doing because they recognize that
2:05:20
Speaker 3: some of this is being imposed on them from the outside,
2:05:23
Speaker 3: and so they don't really trust us that they're going
2:05:25
Speaker 3: to rise up and think that we're going to come
2:05:26
Speaker 3: and support them because it could cost them their lives.
2:05:29
Speaker 1: That I get. But since the system as you describe
2:05:32
Speaker 1: it is still in place, the head may have been
2:05:34
Speaker 1: cut off, but the system is still there. We just
2:05:37
Speaker 1: briefly touched on the global realities. We got Iran, China, Russia,
2:05:42
Speaker 1: and then of course Cuba, which seems like it's on
2:05:44
Speaker 1: his last legs, all inextrictedly entertrined on some level with
2:05:47
Speaker 1: Venezuela just because Maduro's gone. Their foot in the door
2:05:51
Speaker 1: and the relationship with that with Venezuela generally that hasn't disappeared,
2:05:55
Speaker 1: at least as far as China, Russia, and I understand
2:05:58
Speaker 1: Iran had drone manufactured facilities in Venezuela as well. Those
2:06:02
Speaker 1: relationships remain, Are they on you know, thin ice? Where
2:06:06
Speaker 1: are we with them?
2:06:08
Speaker 3: That's what everybody's trying to find out. I'm talking about Beijing, Moscow, Caracas.
2:06:13
Speaker 3: Everybody's trying to figure out what does all this going
2:06:15
Speaker 3: to mean? And no one knows yet because Venezuela doesn't know.
2:06:18
Speaker 3: Because the United States we kind of opened up this
2:06:20
Speaker 3: can of worms.
2:06:21
Speaker 5: We don't even know.
2:06:22
Speaker 3: We don't know for sure what we're gonna do and
2:06:24
Speaker 3: what we're.
2:06:24
Speaker 2: Gonna have next.
2:06:25
Speaker 3: Because I think that there are people in Washington that
2:06:27
Speaker 3: are fully aware that this snatch and grab was this
2:06:30
Speaker 3: huge military operation but had one solitary objective which they
2:06:34
Speaker 3: went in, they got out and came out relatively unscathed.
2:06:38
Speaker 3: But anything further than that, and you can get yourself
2:06:40
Speaker 3: into a real problem, you know. So we don't want
2:06:43
Speaker 3: to go in real big I think we want to
2:06:45
Speaker 3: pretend like we can and threaten that we will. But
2:06:48
Speaker 3: I don't think there's a big appetite for getting into
2:06:51
Speaker 3: a war that we might just start an open ended
2:06:54
Speaker 3: situation that you can't succeed in. They could be real ugly.
2:06:57
Speaker 3: And then you know, look, China has I think it's
2:07:00
Speaker 3: like eighty billion dollars of loans and other kinds of
2:07:03
Speaker 3: security things that they have given to Venezuela that they
2:07:07
Speaker 3: need to be repaid. So they're going to be working
2:07:09
Speaker 3: hard to make sure their interest are are not sacrificed.
2:07:12
Speaker 3: Russia has less leverage, but they certainly are the same
2:07:15
Speaker 3: interest And then you have even talked about what about Columbia?
2:07:18
Speaker 1: Are they next?
2:07:20
Speaker 3: You know, what about Mexico? There's threatens there Greenland for
2:07:23
Speaker 3: crying out loud. I mean that's apparently on the hit
2:07:25
Speaker 3: list too, apparently coming up within twenty days. We don't
2:07:27
Speaker 3: know for sure what Trump meant by that, but that's
2:07:29
Speaker 3: apparently going to be on the table too, So there
2:07:31
Speaker 3: is a lot of moving pieces here at the same time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm completely perplexed by the whole Greenland obsession. Honestly, sir,
2:07:37
Speaker 1: maybe the greatest piece of real estate in the world,
2:07:39
Speaker 1: but what right does the United States have to it?
2:07:43
Speaker 1: I keep waiting for that question to be answered. Anyhow,
2:07:47
Speaker 1: there aren't any drug boats coming out of Greenland as
2:07:49
Speaker 1: far as you know, are there are there, Daniel, if
2:07:51
Speaker 1: I haven't missed anything.
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Speaker 3: Fishing boats up there, And one wonders if fishing boats
2:07:55
Speaker 3: are going to suddenly be a problem. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't appear as that we're going to have
2:07:59
Speaker 1: to engage agent another failed military exercise like the Bay
2:08:02
Speaker 1: of Pigs. Cuba looks like it's on its last legs.
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Speaker 1: I mean, economically, they were already devastated with the oil
2:08:09
Speaker 1: embargers and the sanctions. I know they were getting some
2:08:12
Speaker 1: gratis oil from Venezuela, which a lot of which they
2:08:15
Speaker 1: were able to sell off in order to help their
2:08:18
Speaker 1: own economy or help themselves and line their pockets the
2:08:22
Speaker 1: authorities in Cuba. But where do you see Cuba going
2:08:26
Speaker 1: if we completely cut off their ability to get any
2:08:28
Speaker 1: energy whatsoever.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'll tell you this is what perplexes me
2:08:33
Speaker 3: even more than the Greenland issues. Really, why this avn't right?
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Speaker 3: Obsession with destroying Cuba. I've been to Cuba and I
2:08:41
Speaker 3: can tell you just about seven eight years ago with
2:08:43
Speaker 3: a church group that went in there to help some
2:08:45
Speaker 3: of the local churches. And they are so poor they
2:08:49
Speaker 3: can barely even feed themselves. They're a threat to literally
2:08:52
Speaker 3: no one. They're lucky to keep the lights on and
2:08:55
Speaker 3: some food in grocery stores. So you had to coach
2:09:01
Speaker 3: the other day a former director of Nashville or a
2:09:04
Speaker 3: deputy national security advisor say that they are a big
2:09:08
Speaker 3: threat to us and now we got to go get them.
2:09:10
Speaker 3: And I'm just like puzzled, what are you talking about?
2:09:13
Speaker 3: There is no threat, and yet you heard Marco Rubio
2:09:16
Speaker 3: is just almost gleeful with the idea of destroying Cuba.
2:09:20
Speaker 3: There's nothing that we need to worry about. Why we
2:09:23
Speaker 3: want to harm them because they don't pose a threat
2:09:25
Speaker 3: to us. I don't understand the obsession.
2:09:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get I think a lot of people remember
2:09:29
Speaker 1: the Cuban missile crisis. Russia actually had military installations ere
2:09:32
Speaker 1: they did have nukes ninety miles away. But you know,
2:09:35
Speaker 1: in a world of hypersonic missiles that can travel halfway
2:09:37
Speaker 1: around the globe and matter of seconds, the geography of
2:09:41
Speaker 1: the location of missiles isn't quite as important as it
2:09:44
Speaker 1: used to be.
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Speaker 3: And plus that was, you know whatever, almost three quarters
2:09:48
Speaker 3: of a century ago.
2:09:49
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that just anymore.
2:09:51
Speaker 3: So there's there's literally nothing there that would cause us,
2:09:55
Speaker 3: as a state objective the destruction of Cuba. And to me,
2:09:59
Speaker 3: I'm it just doesn't look good globally that we have
2:10:02
Speaker 3: this big power to the United States that is claiming
2:10:05
Speaker 3: they're afraid of this tiny little island that can barely
2:10:08
Speaker 3: keep the lights on and we're gonna crush them. I
2:10:10
Speaker 3: mean that that looks like the classic bully and I
2:10:13
Speaker 3: don't think that's gonna help our interests worldwide if we
2:10:17
Speaker 3: carry through with that.
2:10:18
Speaker 1: Maybe it's our interest in bringing the casinos back in
2:10:21
Speaker 1: a vacation destination. You could be right.
2:10:26
Speaker 3: I hope that you're not, because that would be pretty
2:10:29
Speaker 3: pretty callous to destroy a government just so that we
2:10:32
Speaker 3: can get somebody to go in there and make some
2:10:34
Speaker 3: money on it. But justin you can't eliminate that.
2:10:37
Speaker 1: Just ain effort at levity, sir, that's all that was now.
2:10:40
Speaker 11: Really it might not be levity.
2:10:41
Speaker 1: That's probably yeah, all good comedy, there is some grain
2:10:46
Speaker 1: of truth built into it, and real quick anything that's
2:10:49
Speaker 1: really pronounced. Instance ramost at a time between the Russian
2:10:52
Speaker 1: and Ukraine situation, where are we on that one? Are
2:10:55
Speaker 1: we still the status quo that we typically end on her?
2:10:58
Speaker 3: This tomorrow is Orthodox Christmas on the seventh of January,
2:11:02
Speaker 3: so things are kind of paused a little bit on
2:11:05
Speaker 3: the on the front, there's still some activity going on,
2:11:07
Speaker 3: but it's kind of low level. But there's a meeting
2:11:10
Speaker 3: in Paris today where Witkoff and Jared Kushner and the
2:11:15
Speaker 3: UN Ambassador Whittaker are there. I'm sorry, you know, Witcock
2:11:20
Speaker 3: Whittaker are there to try and work on with Zelensky,
2:11:23
Speaker 3: who just showed up a minute ago with Macron. They're
2:11:27
Speaker 3: trying to find nail down security guarantees for Ukraine. Whittaker
2:11:31
Speaker 3: said on Fox News this morning that he thinks that
2:11:33
Speaker 3: are really close. I've heard that before. I doubt that
2:11:37
Speaker 3: that's going to be the case, or at least close
2:11:38
Speaker 3: to what is the question, But at least some diplomatic
2:11:41
Speaker 3: activities are going on. I would look for kind of
2:11:43
Speaker 3: a lull in things until sometime after the seventh and
2:11:46
Speaker 3: then things could heat.
2:11:47
Speaker 1: Back up pretty quick. I hear security guarantees. I think
2:11:50
Speaker 1: of boots on the ground from major several different major countries,
2:11:53
Speaker 1: including the United States. Is that maybe where we're going
2:11:56
Speaker 1: on that that's what they want.
2:11:58
Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to get the American boots
2:12:00
Speaker 3: on the ground, but apparently Zelenski's really trying hard to
2:12:02
Speaker 3: get French and British boots on the ground, and for
2:12:04
Speaker 3: some reason they're interested in talking about that. I don't
2:12:07
Speaker 3: know why they would want.
2:12:08
Speaker 7: To do it.
2:12:08
Speaker 3: Russia has categorically and consistently said any boots that come
2:12:12
Speaker 3: on the ground from any NATO force immediately become legitimate targets,
2:12:15
Speaker 3: and I think they mean it.
2:12:16
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough. I don't want to make fun of
2:12:18
Speaker 1: the French army. It's too easy. Daniel Davis Deep Dive
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Speaker 1: a great week, my friend, and happy New year.
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Speaker 1: and I hope you enjoyed that as much as I do.
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Speaker 1: It's just so brilliant. Judge Edapoltano at eight thirty something
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Speaker 1: tells me he is not going to be approving of
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Speaker 1: the military intervention of them as well. History is any guide.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna wait and find out on that one anyway.
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Speaker 1: Without further Dealt's score to the phones. I mentioned her
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Speaker 1: name earlier, Maureen, welcome back to the morning show. It's
2:13:09
Speaker 1: good to hear from you as always.
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Speaker 8: Hi, Brian. Just a quick bit of news out of
2:13:13
Speaker 8: South Florida here a grand jury is convening in South
2:13:18
Speaker 8: Florida for Brennan Clapper, Hillary and Obama. Scheduled to take
2:13:22
Speaker 8: place this week, next week somewhere in January. And that's
2:13:26
Speaker 8: out of the News of New York Police Department inspector
2:13:31
Speaker 8: Paul Morrow. He was a former News Fox News contributor.
2:13:35
Speaker 8: I thought it might be a little bit interesting to you.
2:13:38
Speaker 1: What's the subject matter of the indictment? What's the subject
2:13:41
Speaker 1: matter of the grand jury?
2:13:42
Speaker 8: Well, the reason it's in Florida is because of the
2:13:44
Speaker 8: mar A Lago raid being unjust. So that's why they
2:13:47
Speaker 8: were able to move it to have it here in Florida. Oh,
2:13:50
Speaker 8: I see, so it's gonna yeah, the Palm Beach County. Yeah,
2:13:54
Speaker 8: the raid of mar A Lago because it was under
2:13:56
Speaker 8: false pretenses and just the connected, just all the things
2:14:01
Speaker 8: that went on.
2:14:02
Speaker 1: All right, well take place, Let's keep our popcorn out
2:14:05
Speaker 1: and see what happens on that one slightly more conservative
2:14:09
Speaker 1: venue than say New York for example. Then you're you
2:14:13
Speaker 1: might you might actually see some justice or at least
2:14:15
Speaker 1: an indictment handed down. I mentioned you earlier, real quick,
2:14:18
Speaker 1: I'm want to put you on the spot. Even following
2:14:20
Speaker 1: what's going on with the fraud of Minnesota. Uh, I
2:14:22
Speaker 1: guess Tim Wallason is called it quits. He is no
2:14:25
Speaker 1: longer running for a third term, and I think he
2:14:27
Speaker 1: was trying to get out ahead of all of it.
2:14:29
Speaker 1: He's going to clearly hit the fans sooner rather than later.
2:14:32
Speaker 1: But he obviously has this massive fraud that happened on
2:14:35
Speaker 1: his watch. He knows he's in somewhat of trouble. This
2:14:38
Speaker 1: has made world global news. But the big question mark
2:14:42
Speaker 1: is that the Democrats may have been using some of
2:14:45
Speaker 1: that fraudulently obtained money to fund their own campaigns. And
2:14:50
Speaker 1: it made me think, well, maybe Waltz knows that's coming,
2:14:52
Speaker 1: and that shoe is going to drop, and he better
2:14:54
Speaker 1: get out and make room for some other Democrat to
2:14:57
Speaker 1: try to make good on running as a Democrat in
2:14:59
Speaker 1: Minnesota before it really hits the fan. And your thoughts
2:15:03
Speaker 1: on that, my pattern observing friend.
2:15:06
Speaker 8: I don't think even if he steps out, that he's
2:15:09
Speaker 8: not going to protect him from what's coming his way.
2:15:11
Speaker 1: No, no, no, but don't protect the party. He may
2:15:14
Speaker 1: he may get the weight of the wrath of God
2:15:17
Speaker 1: from a crono perspective heap down upon him, or public
2:15:20
Speaker 1: scrutiny heap down upon him. But if he gets out
2:15:22
Speaker 1: of the way early enough, some credible and I use
2:15:25
Speaker 1: that term loosely democrat might be able to withstand maybe
2:15:29
Speaker 1: the relationship as being in the same party as Tim Walls.
2:15:33
Speaker 8: Okay, that's true, I believe. I agree with that. I
2:15:36
Speaker 8: agree with that. But seeking of that, did you see
2:15:38
Speaker 8: the craiglist in Minnesota's asking for child actors? They put
2:15:43
Speaker 8: out a craig for child actors. Maybe they're going to
2:15:46
Speaker 8: pose his school kids.
2:15:47
Speaker 1: Honestly, you know, I did see that. But going back
2:15:50
Speaker 1: to the V. V. Ramaswami column about all the social
2:15:53
Speaker 1: media this, that and the other thing that's going on
2:15:55
Speaker 1: in the world, and the fact that there are so
2:15:58
Speaker 1: many deep out there, I don't believe anything I see anymore, Maureene.
2:16:03
Speaker 1: So it's tough for me to take things on face value.
2:16:05
Speaker 1: Was it really a screen cap from a Craigslist or
2:16:09
Speaker 1: did someone make it up whole cloth, which people are
2:16:11
Speaker 1: wont to do these days.
2:16:12
Speaker 8: It could be, it could be a kind of a
2:16:14
Speaker 8: good joke.
2:16:15
Speaker 1: I always got to acknowledge that possibility. The babylon Bee
2:16:18
Speaker 1: comes up with some fun stuff along those lines. But
2:16:20
Speaker 1: at least if it's got a babylon Bee radio or
2:16:22
Speaker 1: a moniker, you know it's satire. Yeah, oh, that's right.
2:16:28
Speaker 1: And just Strekker created aftab Pervol's calendar for the month
2:16:31
Speaker 1: of January, which was mostly vacation days and a reminder
2:16:34
Speaker 1: to make a car payment so you can do that. Maureene,
2:16:38
Speaker 1: I know of you. I appreciate you tuning in from
2:16:40
Speaker 1: South Florida. Hold the fort down there and keep a
2:16:42
Speaker 1: surprise to what's going on with the grand jury if
2:16:44
Speaker 1: you get any more information on it. Thank you for
2:16:46
Speaker 1: the heads up. See here real quick, I guess the
2:16:52
Speaker 1: weird story that I saw this morning. It's not necessarily weird,
2:16:55
Speaker 1: but I feel so badly for the folks in the
2:16:56
Speaker 1: West End struggling with is they do every single day,
2:16:58
Speaker 1: with all the crime that's going on. The whole reality
2:17:01
Speaker 1: that in spite of the fact they were promised these
2:17:03
Speaker 1: cameras in the camera installations for the last couple of years,
2:17:07
Speaker 1: they haven't been dyne. So Scott Wortman, or at the Inquirer,
2:17:10
Speaker 1: started asking some questions of council. No one seems to
2:17:14
Speaker 1: really know anything about it, yeah, said, reached out to
2:17:18
Speaker 1: members of council as well as the administration. They also
2:17:21
Speaker 1: submitted open records request, which is thus far as I
2:17:23
Speaker 1: understand it, been ignored, looking for surveillance footage and any
2:17:27
Speaker 1: information about the installation of those security cameras. Accorded to Whartman,
2:17:30
Speaker 1: one councilman told him that as end of November, many
2:17:33
Speaker 1: of the security cameras in the neighborhood weren't operational. Another
2:17:37
Speaker 1: said the administration told him a singular camera near the
2:17:41
Speaker 1: playground is functioning, and yet no one's produced any video
2:17:44
Speaker 1: from that. Neither the Cincinni Police Department or since a
2:17:47
Speaker 1: city manager's office, could answer any questions. At least as
2:17:50
Speaker 1: of Monday afternoon on this the Enquirer's open records requests
2:17:56
Speaker 1: were not filled. Shocking, so a council of seth Walt
2:18:01
Speaker 1: told the Enquirer an assistant city administrator told him that
2:18:05
Speaker 1: at the end of November, the city was still awaiting
2:18:07
Speaker 1: permission from private property owners and Duke Energy to install
2:18:12
Speaker 1: many of the new cameras on the West End, which
2:18:14
Speaker 1: is fine. Homeowners may be a stumbling block, but pivoting
2:18:19
Speaker 1: over Duke Energy. What if Duke Energy's approval. Duke Energy
2:18:24
Speaker 1: spokesman John Joyce said the utility company doesn't have any
2:18:29
Speaker 1: pending requests from the city to put cameras on utility polls.
2:18:32
Speaker 1: In the West End. Huh okay Wal Stephen acknowledges as
2:18:39
Speaker 1: an issue that has been going on for years. We
2:18:41
Speaker 1: pledged these cameras two and a half years ago. Well,
2:18:44
Speaker 1: apparently you need to ask Duke and that hasn't been
2:18:49
Speaker 1: done yet. Oh look, as I stare at my how
2:18:52
Speaker 1: your neighborhood voted for mayor chart West End eighty approval
2:19:00
Speaker 1: and the current makeup of council. Okay, sticker out or
2:19:03
Speaker 1: sting around Glenbex, coming right up. Thanks,