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55KRC Wednesday Show - Jack Atherton, AFP, Wine, Judge Napolitano, Warbirds · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: 505-F55KRC, the talk station. Happy Wednesday. Soon they hope we will.
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  Speaker 2: Sugar, you was a baby.
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  Speaker 1: Call Kenny Loggins because you're in the danger zone. Yeah, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday. My name is Brian Thomas, host of the
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  Speaker 1: 55KRC Morning Show. Honored to be in that position. And
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate Joe Strecker, executive producer of the program, doing
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  Speaker 1: what he does and being executive producer of the program.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: Lining up guests. I love my Wednesdays. 55KRC Wednesdays. Me
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  Speaker 1: and Jack Atherton, in most cases, unless he's on vacation
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  Speaker 1: or something, you get the picture on that. But it
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  Speaker 1: is the big pictures. We'll call it 705 with Jack
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  Speaker 1: Atherton today. Looking forward to this one, as I always am.
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  Speaker 1: Real tax reform. I wonder what that means. Donovan O'Neill,
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  Speaker 1: Americans for Prosperity. It is Wednesday, 730 with Donovan O'Neill
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  Speaker 1: every Wednesday. He's the state director for Americans for Prosperity
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  Speaker 1: Action in Ohio. AFPAction.com, get involved. Door knock. Help out
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  Speaker 1: the mission to get everybody off their butts in voting
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  Speaker 1: in November, at least the conservative votes. He'll be talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Concerned Veterans for America endorsements. My buddy Keegan Corcoran,
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  Speaker 1: the resident wine sommelier here in the 55KRC Morning Show,
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  Speaker 1: returns with some, actually some vintners. At 8.05, I guess
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  Speaker 1: we're talking Labor Day wine. Why not? Day ending and why?
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  Speaker 1: It's okay with me. King will be in studio with
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  Speaker 1: his guest at 8.05. Judge Ann Napolitano on a Wednesday. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: 8.30 for him every week. Twilight's last gleaming comment or
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  Speaker 1: two about the runaway reckless reality of what we are
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  Speaker 1: dealing with here in the United States of America in
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  Speaker 1: spite of the Constitution. $ 40 trillion in debt and growing
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  Speaker 1: every day. And the inability to stop anybody from doing anything.
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  Speaker 1: Congress is proving to be, well, a bit of a challenge. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: no society or no form of government is perfect. But
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  Speaker 1: when you have warring coalitions and a fairly even split
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  Speaker 1: down the middle on Republicans and Democrats in this country,
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  Speaker 1: really nothing gets done. And I understand that. It used
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  Speaker 1: to be my default position. Well, if nothing's getting done,
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  Speaker 1: isn't that good? They're not heaping down more rules, regulations,
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  Speaker 1: and that kind of thing down on us. Well, that's true,
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  Speaker 1: but they also are not reforming the system. Going back
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  Speaker 1: to real tax reform with Jack Edmund in 705, they're
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  Speaker 1: doing nothing to right the ship. Tax revenue increases when
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  Speaker 1: you lower taxes. That's proven. The one big beautiful bill
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  Speaker 1: is bringing in more money into government, yet the spending
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  Speaker 1: is increased every single year and therefore continues to exceed
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  Speaker 1: tax revenues coming in. It's a further deal. downward spiral
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  Speaker 1: i guess i could call it but the debt grows
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  Speaker 1: and grows and grows and it doesn't ever seem to
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  Speaker 1: stop it doesn't ever stop don't say it doesn't seem
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  Speaker 1: to brian anyhow 513-749-5500 800-823-TALK pound 550 on at &
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  Speaker 1: t phones i don't think you know just a real
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  Speaker 1: quick thing and you know cancer sucks we got another
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  Speaker 1: illustration did anybody dislike dolly parton I mean, you may
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  Speaker 1: not have liked her music. I was no fan that
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  Speaker 1: I never really have been much of a fan of
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  Speaker 1: country music. There's some of it that I really can enjoy,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, for the vast majority of my life,
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  Speaker 1: it's not my thing. So I I'm familiar with some
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  Speaker 1: of her songs. They don't rub me necessarily the wrong way,
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  Speaker 1: but not a big fan follower, but she seemed to
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  Speaker 1: have been a really nice person, you know, over the
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  Speaker 1: decades that she's been a public figure. Um, Just always
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  Speaker 1: seems happy and smiling. She was a charitable woman. Came
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  Speaker 1: from literally nothing. I saw the picture of her house
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  Speaker 1: when she was growing up. One room home and 11 kids.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's the fact I read. You spend a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time outside in rural Tennessee when you have
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  Speaker 1: 11 people in your family and you live in one
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  Speaker 1: single room. Anyway, but she was obviously wildly successful. Praise
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  Speaker 1: being heaped down upon her, the late Dolly Parton, from
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  Speaker 1: people all the way over to Bernie Sanders actually had
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  Speaker 1: some great things to say about her. Donald Trump had
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  Speaker 1: some wonderful things to say about her. And this is
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  Speaker 1: the thing I disagree with, though, because no fan of
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  Speaker 1: celebrity am I. Now, she is a fine person. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of fine people out there that die every single day,
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  Speaker 1: do they get the flags lower to have staff across
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  Speaker 1: this nation? A full week's worth? Yeah, I Don't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: fall in line with that decision. So anyhow, but she
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  Speaker 1: is dead. Cancer sucks. Took another one, and we can
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  Speaker 1: all uniformly get around that. So another bipartisan reality. We
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  Speaker 1: find out that Dolly Parton is uniformly loved across the
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  Speaker 1: political spectrum. And she's also a Second Amendment chick. A.W.R.
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  Speaker 1: Hawkins from Breitbart, who I've had on this program multiple
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  Speaker 1: times for the Inside Scoop, he brought up a previously
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  Speaker 1: reported fun fact about Dolly Parton Pulling out a firearm
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  Speaker 1: in downtown New York City. It was apparently late 1960s
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  Speaker 1: or 70s. She had this interview with Conan O'Brien about 2005,
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  Speaker 1: and AWR dusted it off. So she said she and
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  Speaker 1: her assistant, at the time anyway, assistant Judy Ogle, they
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  Speaker 1: were in New York City, late 60s or 70s. She
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  Speaker 1: couldn't quite remember what year it was. Um, they hadn't
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  Speaker 1: been in New York city before. So they hit the room,
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  Speaker 1: they left their bags in the room, went out to
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  Speaker 1: check out downtown New York city, got back to the hotel.
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  Speaker 1: This is kind of funny. Um, apparently management at the
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  Speaker 1: hotel thought she and her assistant were in their words,
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  Speaker 1: turning tricks, kicked them out of the hotel. She said, well,
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  Speaker 1: we asked if we could please at least leave our
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  Speaker 1: stuff in the lobby. So we were out waiting around
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  Speaker 1: until the time to leave. And we were walking down
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  Speaker 1: the street. We didn't know where to go. She said
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  Speaker 1: they wound up on 42nd Street, in other words, by accident.
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  Speaker 1: And then this guy thought that she and Ogle were
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  Speaker 1: on the make. In other words, guy roaming the street
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  Speaker 1: thought that a guy like the hotel manager thought that
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  Speaker 1: they were prostitutes. And, of course, if you look at
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton's dress choices over the years, you know, quite gaudy, sequins,
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. She was well endowed, to
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  Speaker 1: say the least, naturally so from what I've heard. So
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  Speaker 1: I guess someone could understand maybe making that mistake. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the guy on the street also made the same mistake
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  Speaker 1: as hotel management. She said, at the time, I was
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  Speaker 1: a country girl from the mountains. I had a gun
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  Speaker 1: in my purse. She said, I had a gun in
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  Speaker 1: my purse, and this guy would not leave me alone
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  Speaker 1: because he was just sure I was playing hard to get,
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  Speaker 1: and I really was after it. She said, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know how to get him off me, so I just
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  Speaker 1: pulled my gun out and said, if you touch me
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  Speaker 1: one more time, I'm going to shoot you. Good for you, dolly.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, this being the late 60s, early 70s, I
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  Speaker 1: think the gun laws in New York City changed over time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but there's been a lot of litigation since then. But
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  Speaker 1: at least she stood up for herself. And, yes, good
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  Speaker 1: country girls pack heat. Lesson to be learned from all
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  Speaker 1: of us. Anyway, rest in peace, Dolly Parton. Prayers to
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  Speaker 1: you and your family. And, you know, if you've got
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  Speaker 1: a comment on the half-mast thing, maybe you can react
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  Speaker 1: to my commentary because I'm not about worshiping celebrities. And
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  Speaker 1: I think we should reserve the half-mast, too. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: What should it be reserved to? Well, I guess the
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  Speaker 1: president kind of makes the decision one way or another,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't he? Okay, since I only have a couple minutes left,
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  Speaker 1: just bat crap insanity all over the place. This one
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  Speaker 1: actually could have been the stack of stupid. You know me,
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  Speaker 1: no believer in the man-made climate change thing. I do
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  Speaker 1: not believe carbon dioxide is a pollutant. In fact, I
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  Speaker 1: know it's a plant food naturally occurring. Without the carbon
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  Speaker 1: dioxide in the air, plants wouldn't grow. Crab cycle. And
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  Speaker 1: of course, thankfully, plants produce oxygen. It's amazing how the,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it sort of a divine relationship we have in
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  Speaker 1: this world? Maybe God had a plan for us. Humans
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  Speaker 1: will exhale carbon dioxide, plant food, and plants will exhale, effectively, oxygen.
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  Speaker 1: And they will gloriously work together in harmony, people and plants.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Some suggest that's sort of the divine plan. Either way,
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  Speaker 1: that's the reality of it. But no, it's a pollutant.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to get rid of it. And, of course,
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  Speaker 1: we can bend over backwards and spend trillions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: trying to get rid of it, which leads us to
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  Speaker 1: a new study. I wonder what PETA has to say
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  Speaker 1: about this one. According to the study, and this is
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  Speaker 1: from the United Kingdom, organic eggs, free-range eggs, are bad
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  Speaker 1: for the climate. Worse for the climate than chickens living
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  Speaker 1: in cages. Go ahead and struggle with this one. What
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  Speaker 1: do you want? Less carbon dioxide or free chickens who
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  Speaker 1: can enjoy their lives before they are, of course, slaughtered
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  Speaker 1: or otherwise have their eggs taken from them. Anyway, according
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  Speaker 1: to the study, switching the UK's entire egg production to
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  Speaker 1: an organic free-range model, which is the push from a
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  Speaker 1: lot of activists out there in the world, the animal
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  Speaker 1: rights activists, would lead to greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to...
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  Speaker 1: 2,316,000 tons of carbon dioxide. As compared to keeping chickens
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  Speaker 1: cooped up in a cage, would emit 1.184 million tons
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  Speaker 1: of CO2.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Organic free-range models need more chickens for the same number
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  Speaker 1: of eggs produced as birds living in cages. So if
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  Speaker 1: you let them run amok, they don't make as many eggs.
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  Speaker 1: So you need more chickens. Organic free-range production also scored
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  Speaker 1: worse in its potential for water eutrophication, acidification, and land use.
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  Speaker 1: Chicken mortality also higher when they're running around free. We
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  Speaker 1: have gone around the bend on this stuff, haven't we?
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 1: We'll let the research scientists worried about chicken CO2 and
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  Speaker 1: the folks at PETA advocating for free-range chickens hash it out.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see who wins that battle. You know, Joe, do
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  Speaker 1: you think we could have like a cage match on
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  Speaker 1: that one? Like a WWE kind of thing? You got
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  Speaker 1: a PETA member on one side and you got research
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  Speaker 1: scientists from the UK on the other duking it out.
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  Speaker 1: It would have to be a free-range WWE event. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: no ring. So that would be no cage match then, wouldn't.
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• 11:01
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• 11:06
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• 11:15
  Speaker 1: Artificial Intelligence, read what Bill Gates had to say he
• 11:19
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• 11:22
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  Speaker 1: So 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, and the eclectic stack of random stories
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  Speaker 1: I got in front of me. I got a chuckle
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  Speaker 1: out of this one. And again, going back to the
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  Speaker 1: back crap insanity, okay, so chickens are exhaling. Okay, they're
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  Speaker 1: producing carbon dioxide, so I guess we shouldn't eat chickens
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  Speaker 1: or something. Add that to the list along with the cows.
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  Speaker 1: They spent money doing that study. That's the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure the taxpayers of the United Kingdom paid
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  Speaker 1: for it. Anyway, pipping over to the WNBA, which I
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  Speaker 1: think is just desperate for ratings and ginning up stupid
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  Speaker 1: arguments so people actually turn on the television to watch
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  Speaker 1: these basketball games. I guess. I don't know. But this
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  Speaker 1: ongoing controversy in the W, which stands for Women, NBA,
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  Speaker 1: about whether men could be able to play in it.
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  Speaker 1: They don't seem to care. If you say you're a woman,
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  Speaker 1: the WNBA says, then you're eligible to play. But then
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  Speaker 1: when a guy who says he's a woman says, I
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  Speaker 1: want to play, and that person happens to be former
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  Speaker 1: NBA players like Royce White and Enes Kanter did, Enes
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  Speaker 1: Kanter freed him They stood up, all six-plus feet of them,
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  Speaker 1: and said, I'm a chick. I'm a woman. I'm playing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm eligible. You said I was eligible. Widely circulated reports
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  Speaker 1: that the WNBA has banned both of them and said
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  Speaker 1: they are not qualified to play for the WNBA. Well,
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  Speaker 1: enter former Representative Matt Getz from Florida. He's threatening litigation
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  Speaker 1: against the WNBA. This is a real thing. He said
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  Speaker 1: on Monday this week he's representing– Royce White, one of
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  Speaker 1: the two players... White appeared in a video attached to
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  Speaker 1: Getz's social media post announcing this. Wearing a wig and
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  Speaker 1: accusing the league of rejecting his trans existence. This whole
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  Speaker 1: thing he's asserting, it's a real tongue-in-cheek thing designed to, well,
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  Speaker 1: make fun of the WNBA and its stupid rules. Women
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  Speaker 1: are women. I know he has that viewpoint. Matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: he had a shirt on... In that video with Matt Getz, woman, noun, adult, human, female,
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  Speaker 1: says the shirt. Now, previously this month, White said to
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  Speaker 1: continue to deny black transgender lesbians is tantamount to genocide. Now,
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  Speaker 1: notice he interjected the sexual preference, his sexual preference. So
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  Speaker 1: he's saying he's transgender, which means he's a guy and
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  Speaker 1: he's claiming to be a woman, right? That's the whole
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  Speaker 1: predicate for the WNBA's bat crap insanity. But he's also
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  Speaker 1: pointing out that just because he's claiming he's transgender, and
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  Speaker 1: I've made this point multitudes of times, that doesn't tell
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  Speaker 1: you what the sexuality of the person claiming to be
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  Speaker 1: a woman is. He's saying lesbian. That means when he
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  Speaker 1: declares he's a woman, he is interested in sleeping with women.
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  Speaker 1: Keeping the record straight on that. Oh, that's good. Ennis
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  Speaker 1: Freedom also announced the plans to enter the WNBA. He
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  Speaker 1: was thrown out of the Sunday game on WNBA between
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Sky and Indiana Fever because he wore a
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  Speaker 1: shirt that read, that one I just read, woman, noun, adult, human, female.
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  Speaker 1: You get thrown out of a game for wearing that?
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  Speaker 1: This is the world we find ourselves in. You can
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  Speaker 1: probably wear a shirt to a WNBA game that has
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  Speaker 1: F-bombs and other curse words all over it or something,
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  Speaker 1: and they wouldn't say a word to you, but you
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  Speaker 1: come in with a definition from Webster. Woman, noun, adult, human, female.
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  Speaker 1: It's right there. Go ahead and look it up yourself.
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  Speaker 1: That is offensive? Round the bend, we've gone. Freedom talking
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  Speaker 1: with Fox News earlier, if they don't come up with
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  Speaker 1: a rule, then I am ready and prepared to play
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  Speaker 1: in May and just get ready for the draft in April.
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  Speaker 1: These are the rules that literally they put, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: just literally following the rules. Right. 2026 Collective Bargaining Agreement
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  Speaker 1: with WNBA said only players, this is a quote, only
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  Speaker 1: players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.
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  Speaker 1: Yet the agreement does not specifically define women, which is
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  Speaker 1: In 2026, I know it's been coming for a while,
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  Speaker 1: and they've been saying this for a while, woman needs
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  Speaker 1: to be defined?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Sprinkle a little Orwell 1984 in this. Newspeak, right? Five
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  Speaker 1: minutes ago, woman, you know, defined by chromosomal reality. Also,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the whole idea of twig and berries versus hoo-hahs,
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  Speaker 1: you know? You get it. Simple, easy to determine, scientifically accurate,
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  Speaker 1: irrefutable proof. Now it's all based on a feeling. Yeah,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: that's going to go well. I see Dave and Tim
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  Speaker 1: on the phone. Don't go away, guys. I'm really interested
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  Speaker 1: in getting your calls. I just went on a tear
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  Speaker 1: there and a ramble, and I see that I'm out
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  Speaker 1: of time. But I'll be back just momentarily, so please
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  Speaker 1: don't go away. Going to jump to them. We've got
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  Speaker 1: several callers online. Order in which they received. I think
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  Speaker 1: that means Dave. Dave, welcome to the show, man. Happy
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday to you.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Brian.
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  Speaker 3: This is an old haunt. This is Dave the teacher.
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  Speaker 1: I hear you, man. Recognize your voice as soon as
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: you started talking. Welcome back, man. Long time no speak.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. You hit on two subjects I could talk
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  Speaker 3: about today. I'm going to make this one real quick.
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  Speaker 3: It's not what I really called about. I'm calling about
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  Speaker 3: the CO2. You were talking about the transgenders. I went
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  Speaker 3: to Moorhead State University in Kentucky, and I recently seen
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: one of the girls set a 400-meter record at 56 seconds.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought, my God. I ran 56 seconds in
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: the 400 meters in junior high school on a cinder track.
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  Speaker 3: So don't tell me it doesn't make a difference if
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  Speaker 3: you're a male or not.
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  Speaker 1: No kidding, man. You know, that ship has sailed except
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  Speaker 1: for the absolutely bat crap insane delusional people in the
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  Speaker 1: world out there.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, more bat crap. delusional people, the CO2 and the atmosphere,
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  Speaker 3: and they're talking about the free range. I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: promote these. These are three programs. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 3: I showed one on in my environmental science class. And
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  Speaker 3: Woody Harrelson narrates them. And one's called Kiss the Ground.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: The other one's called Common Ground. And the other one's called,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I believe it's Ground Stuff. And he talks about how
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: we could pull the CO2 out of the atmosphere and
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: by just putting more plants in the ground. And he, they,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: especially the last one, I believe it's ground stuff. They
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: go around the world and show how by planting, by
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: putting plants in and free range cattle, that it has
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: slowed the advancement of the Sahara desert in Africa. And
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: actually it's the greens pushing back and they travel around
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: the world and show how, how this has happened. So
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: free range cattle, I can't believe that. And they show
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: how these feedlots put the CO2 in the atmosphere where
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: the free-range cattle actually help take it out of the atmosphere.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: And they talk about the buffalo on the plains, how
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: that helped and stuff. Of course, I tell my students
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: that the greatest man-made disaster was the Dust Bowl by
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: us cleaning out the plants in the prairie.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: But, you know, I had to jump on my granddaughter
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: for that about the cattle. I said, if they had–
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: it's not the cattle, it's the way they're raised. And
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: they talk about how mono crops versus a field of
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: different crops. And they're interesting. My brother, he's not a climate– oh,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: he's not a CO2 climate change advocate. matter of fact
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: he's the opposite and he watched him and he said
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: i really like those but i mean it just shows
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: you what man could do and in here a few
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: years ago i know i'm rambling.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: You are uh finishing up down in brazil they were.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: They were having a uh climate change conference and what
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: they do. They had it in an area where they
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: went in and had to clean out miles.
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: That was in, uh, in the, uh, Brazilian rainforest or Columbia.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: They, yeah. The, the, the global meeting of all the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: nations to deal with climate change.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: They, they, they tore out rainforest. They built a road
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: so they could get to the hotel or something.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I remember reading about that and just, just could not
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: believe what I was reading.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: There, Well, we can all call them out. Duplicitous, they
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: are without question. Appreciate the call, man. Good to hear
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: from you. Glad you're still around. Tim, you're next. Tom,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: hold on. Tim, welcome to the show. Happy Wednesday.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: Good morning, Brian. I cleaned up my ex since Monday.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: Streetcar stuff.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: Now, do you think these children know there are four seasons,
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: like spring, summer, fall, and winter?
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: The children what?
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: Everything's.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: Do you think the children know there's a season, spring, summer, fall, winter,
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: everything's climate change?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Well, in this day and age, I'd like to think
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: that they do understand the realities of seasonal change. You
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: can't deny it. So, yeah, let's assume that they do
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: know that.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, there are four seasons. There are. Yes.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: Yep. There are. But anyway, I'd put all these global
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: warmers on a streetcar and turn off the air conditioning
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: and let them get global warming on a streetcar. Yes,
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: let it go round and round with no air conditioning
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: on a streetcar.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Sounds good to me. Zero-emission streetcar until you look at
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the source of the power that's running the zero-emission streetcar
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: and you realize that, oh, that's right, it's producing carbon dioxide.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Don't follow the trail on that one because it bursts
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the bubble of the global warming advocate's efforts. Appreciate that, Tom.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, man. Happy Wednesday to you, buddy.
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: Well, good morning.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: I hope you're doing okay.
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I'm here, man. I'm at least quasi-awake. Thank you, Eric,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: for reminding me. It's symbiotic relationship, as I was struggling
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: earlier to come up with the right word.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: Go ahead.
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: How's your mom doing, by the way?
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: She's doing fine. I talked with her. In fact, I
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: had lunch with her on Monday and had a real
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: nice time. She seems to be doing really well. I
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: appreciate you asking about her.
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: That's great.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: I'll try to make this short. Some of the stuff
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: you guys have been talking about reminded me of a
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: conversation I had yesterday. those of us who, who believe
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: in God and the creation, uh, idea of, you know,
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: God took whatever, six, seven days and create everything. Understand how,
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: how that went down, the order it was in and
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: everything was created first. And then God created man. So
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: it was like, everything was set up for us and
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: he created all the plants and, Everything in the world.
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: Then he created all the animals. And then he creates
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: humans and goes, here you go. This is all for you.
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: I mean, you can choose to believe that if you want.
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: But these lunatic leftists, they want to treat everything like
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: they know better than the way it was all set
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: up to begin with. They're lunatics. They make up stuff
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: just to try to control you. That's all they're doing,
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: and they're tinkering with things that are naturally there in place,
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: and they were put there for a reason. And you
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: even mentioned it earlier this morning about, you know, maybe
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: it was playing, maybe God has this divine way of
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: setting things up for us.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Well, even if you don't, even if you're agnostic or atheist,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: it's still set up the way you just described. Plants
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: give off oxygen, which people need. People give off carbon dioxide,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: which plants need. You don't need to say God did that.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: It's just a fact. It's scientific reality.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: Exactly. And I don't want to accept that because it
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: doesn't fit into their little narrative. They can't make other
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: things go the way they want it to go. If
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: you accept that, then it throws out all your other
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: stupid ideas.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Of course not. Because to accept that would defeat their
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: goal to be able to control every single element of
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: our lives.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Right, exactly.
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: And that's the point I'm trying to make. You don't
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: need to control it. You don't need to control everybody.
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: You need to teach everybody how to control themselves. And
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: if we all had a better concept of that and
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: had a better grasp of our own selves and like,
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: you know, I'm not going to let myself do that
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: or I'm going to make myself do this. Then that'll
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: be fine. But, no, we want to assume government is
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: going to control everything. We want government to be the boss. Well, yeah,
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: look how well that's worked out. That's absolutely ridiculous. So
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: don't vote Democrat.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Have a great day.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: I've been waiting for it, Tom. You have a great day, too, brother.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Feel free to give me a call. I've got a
• 25:00
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• 25:03
  Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, and a happy one to you. Turf Club.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the 9th of September, not the first Wednesday of the
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: month for our typical listener lunch because of Labor Day.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: So kick it a week. We get meat together on
• 25:14
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• 25:15
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• 25:17
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• 25:21
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• 25:22
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• 25:24
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• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Over to the phones we go. Before I get to
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: stacking stupid, I got Brian on the phone. Hey, Brian,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: good to hear from you this morning. Happy Wednesday.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: Hey, good morning.
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: So on the whole carbon dioxide thing, follow me real quick.
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: The weight loss management market is somewhere between $ 350 to
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: $ 600 billion, and that's including all the weight loss. That's
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: like everything is extracted from the ground, basically. Advertising dollars,
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: everything we consume, everything, right? Workout equipment, up to $ 600 billion.
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: Do you know how fat actually leaves the body?
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I presume it's because your body will burn it off
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: if it doesn't have sufficient calories to burn real time
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: as you're putting them in.
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: Well, what I'm saying is the actual physical science behind it.
• 26:15
  Speaker 9: It's through your breath. So it changes, the fat literally
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: changes to a gas and we exhale it through carbon dioxide,
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: like 80% of it. So every one of us is
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: putting 80%, so the weight loss management, as big of
• 26:31
  Speaker 9: a market as it is, and as much of a
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: push as it is, with the food supply.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: As bad as it is, and everybody.
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying? Everybody's caught in this trap
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: of how do I lose weight? Well, stop eating all
• 26:42
  Speaker 9: this garbage that like your choices are very limited and
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: it's very expensive to go whole foods. So we're all
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: exhaling 80% of our fat that we're trying to lose
• 26:51
  Speaker 9: back into carbon dioxide, which is the main culprit of
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: what they're arguing.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: That's pretty funny. Well, I think you've stumbled upon the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: reality of global warming alarmist. We, humanity, are the cockroaches,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: are the problem, are the ones that need to be
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: eliminated or pared back.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: Bill Gates isn't president.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I know. I know. And I know my
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: friend Maureen's out there going, yeah, finally he says population control.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I know she's been waiting for me to utter those
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: words out loud. But, I mean, you've got young people
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: that are so caught up in this religion of climate
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: change that, They don't think they should even be alive.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: They're not going to have children in this world because
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: people are killing the planet. That's how infective this thing
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: has become. It's insane.
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: They're doing us all a favor, man, by not having
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: more children, by repopulating the ignorance.
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: Anyway you may have.
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: A freaking crazy statistic and crazy uh scientific information as
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: far as like we exhale i get because i i
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: was just i googled it one day and just said
• 27:51
  Speaker 9: how does body how does fat actually lose the body
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: i think it was like 80 87 percent or something
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: and then the 13 percent is through it's through other
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: orifices in your body basically.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Okay well well let's also just don't forget that you
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: know there's that component of it if you're let's say
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: overweight and you want to lose you're going to exhale
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: more of it into the air i'll take your word
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: at that but You ate way too much to get
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: to the point where you got to lose weight, which
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: also probably contributed to carbon dioxide being in the air, too.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: So don't eat as much, right?
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: Well, just everything being extracted from the ground to create
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: all this. Everything came from the ground. Everything's going back
• 28:25
  Speaker 9: to the ground. I mean, it's that simple.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: Everything.
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: Everything that's here, everything that was made, is made from
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: the ground. And that's a wild thought in itself.
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: Isn't it?
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: The circle of life. Brian, awesome. Take care of yourself.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: 545 at 55KRC, the talk station. Maybe we'll get to
• 28:43
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• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Talk Station. Happy Wednesday. Good morning, Maureen. She is listening. Maureen,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I finally said population control because Maureen's been pushing this
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: whole population control thing every time someone, you know, well,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: does something that suggests we need to have fewer people
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: in the world. That's the goal. That's the agenda. So
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I said it out loud. Instant message. I was literally
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: saying finally when you said that. Maureen, you cracked me up.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Good morning. And I hope you're enjoying Florida weather. Anyway,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: go over to the stack of stupid. I don't know
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: what the hell is with people. Joshua Kohut, who's 51
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: years old, who is no longer the dean of research
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: at the University School of Environmental Biological Sciences. This is
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Rutgers University, former dean. He's on administrative leave.
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: Why?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Because he's been charged with fourth degree invasion of privacy
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: for allegedly filming salacious upskirt videos. Why are you doing that?
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I think we can probably draw a conclusion easily on
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: that one. Attorney General Jennifer Davenport of the Criminal Justice
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Division said, Made this joint press release just yesterday, I believe.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Cohut is alleged to have used his mobile phone to
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: record upskirt videos without the victim's knowledge, Davenport said. An
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: invasion of privacy like this is not just disturbing, it
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: is also a criminal act. We will prosecute accordingly. They
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: apparently seized five devices belonging to this Cohut pervert after
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: a search warrant was executed. They found videos of unidentified persons, quote,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: undergarment-clad intimate parts, close quote, on one of his devices
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: during a forensic review. Criminal complaint alleges that he and
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the victim may have known each other in some capacity.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Rutgers said it placed this pervert on administrative leave after
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: being informed of the extremely disturbing charges, Rutgers said in
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: its press release. The research team is also banned from
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: campus pending the outcome of an investigation, they said.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: Hmm.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Facing up to 18 months behind bars and a fine
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: of $ 10, 000 if he's convicted. New Jersey Attorney General's Office
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: are encouraging any potential victims to come forward with information because,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: of course, they think there may be more of them
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: out there.
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: Jeez Louise.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Ah, we've got Alamont Springs, Florida, where Orange County Battalion
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Chief was arrested as part of a prostitution sting in
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Seminole County. This according to the Alamont Springs Police Department.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: The arrest report, police said they were conducting an operation
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: on Friday into a confidential location or at a confidential location.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: That's in quotes, targeting offenses related to prostitution. Report reads,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: agents located several online advertisements on websites commonly used to
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: solicit prostitution acts. The battalion chief, Stephen Sherrill, who's 45,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: reportedly was busted in the sting. Agreeing to a, quote,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: quick visit for sexual services in exchange for... You got
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: a dollar amount in mind? Joe says 50. Pretty close, Joe.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: You see, were you thinking about which particular sexual service
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: he was paying for? Because I imagine there's a different
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: rate depending upon what you're looking for. You were thinking
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the trailer park. Yeah, well, okay. This is kind of
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: like the story from yesterday, isn't it? Probably. $ 80 is
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the figure. So, Joe, you were awfully close. Didn't say
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: specifically what he was going to get in return for that,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: but let's face it, it was law enforcement. Cheryl subsequently
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: headed into the confidential location, taken into custody by the detectives,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: facing charges of solicitation for prostitution. Doesn't say whether he's
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: married or not. Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Pompano Beach, Florida, where 21-year-old Pompano Beach
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: man is facing child abuse charges. after getting into a
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: fight with an underage teenager. 6 p.m. at the Chuck E.
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: Cheese.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Just walk away.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Isn't a Chuck E. Cheese like the restaurant version of
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: a Walmart, Joe? Do you think that's an accurate statement? Because,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: you know, when we get these kind of crazy stories,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: they quite often happen at Chuck E. Cheese locations.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: Anyway.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Sorry for going down that cul-de-sac. Anyway, the rest form
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: suggests the victim was working inside the establishment and the
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: suspect identified as Vincent Evans. came in the restaurant with
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: another woman. Deputies say Evans approached the victim from behind
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: and dragged him down before the two started fighting, after
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: which Evans and the woman he was with fled the scene.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Ordeal was captured on surveillance footage.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Shocking, no one.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Additionally, investigators say the victim is the boyfriend of Evans' ex-girlfriend,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: who's a mother of a child shared with Evans. Figure
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: that one out. Ann is currently pregnant with a child
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: belonging to the victim. Hold on, I'm having a difficult
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: time processing. Deputies said they took Evans to custody shortly
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: after midnight. He's facing a charge of child abuse without
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: great bodily harm, being held at the Broward Main Jail
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: on a $ 1, 000 bond, which apparently he couldn't pay. Real
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: quick here, we go to San Francisco. Teenager fatally shot
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: after breaking into a Fremont apartment and assaulting its occupants,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: one of whom fought back. fought back, and was able
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: to grab the suspect's gun. According to police, they believe
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: two teenagers... Phrasing. Oh, Joe. First entry into an apartment
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: on San Pedro Drive. It happened last Friday afternoon, assaulted
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: his two occupants. That's when one of the residents took
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: control of the suspect's firearm and fatally shot one of
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: the teenagers. Police found the teenager with the gunshot wound
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: at the residence, later declared dead at a local hospital. Fortunately,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the residents suffered only non-life-threatening injuries. And Tom Knighton, who
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: did the reporting on this, had this to say, Ideally,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: you'll have a gun. When you don't or can't, though,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: taking one from the bad guy and killing him with
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: it is almost as good and kind of wins you
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: some serious badass points in the process.
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: Now, who can argue with that?
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: What a great story you've got to tell. 555-55-KRC-D Talk Station.
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  Speaker 1: wonderful candidate in Vivek Ramaswamy in terms of his abilities,
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  Speaker 1: Jay Ratliff. Pivoting over, Matthew Continetti had some excellent observations
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: about what's going on within the Democrat Party. His op-ed,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Ascendant No More, Democrats are a coalition of the pathetic.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I thought this was some astute observations, which is why
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I want to point it out this morning and bring
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• 38:47
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• 38:50
  Speaker 1: August 25th. That's yesterday. He writes, after winning Michigan's Democratic
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Senate primary, Abdul Al-Sayed got a phone call from Barack Obama.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: The nominee was thrilled. He told embassies meet the press
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: that he hopes Obama will join him on the trail. Quote,
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  Speaker 1: his presence here in Michigan would mean so much to
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  Speaker 1: the coalition that helped elect him. Where that coalition stands
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: today is an open question at first glance. It seems
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: as if the same group that powered Obama's rise, young people, minorities,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: and white voters with college degrees, are behind Al-Sayed. But
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: looks can be deceiving. Michigan has changed since Obama's victories
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: in 2008 and 2012, and the Democratic Party has too.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: What commentator Ronald Brownstein famously dubbed Mr. Obama's, quote, coalition
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: of the ascendant, close quote, is being torn apart by socialist, anti-Israel,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: and downwardly mobile voters who are nominating candidates like al-Sayed.
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Brownstein's theory was that because the demographic groups with which Mr.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Obama was popular, that would be millennials, minorities, and college-educated,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: were growing as a share of the population, Democrats would
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: have an enduring advantage over Republicans. Obama's re-election, in Brownstein's theory,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: proved that. Yet, the coalition of the ascendant soon lost altitude.
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  Speaker 1: Population growth isn't proportional to voter turnout. This is an
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: interesting statistical reality here that he writes about. In 2008,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: more than one-third of the country was non-white. And among
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: those non-whites, voters made up 24% of the electorate. They're
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: basically one in four. So a third of the country non-white,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: one in four voted. By 2024, non-whites had risen to
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: more than 40% of the population. Yet the non-white share
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: of the electorate ticked up only to 28%, a four-point
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: bump when you've got basically a doubling of the population
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: we're looking at here. The Hispanic share of the vote
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: rose by only two points. Young voters, meanwhile, get old.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Obama won 66% of the 18 to 29-year-olds back in 2008.
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  Speaker 1: In 2024, the same group is now 34 to 45%.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: narrowed the partisan divide. Kamala Harris outpolled Trump among 30
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: to 39-year-olds by only six points, and the 40-something vote
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: was split down the middle. Democrats assumed that Hispanics would
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: become as reliably partisan as blacks and Jews. Instead, they
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: have become a critical swing vote. In 2008, Obama won
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: their votes by 36 points, but in 2024, Harris only
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: won them over by five points. that Hispanics are trending
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: away from Trump right now is an evidence of demographic destiny.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: As he writes, swing voters swing. Yeah, here they are
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: in this election cycle. Here they are in the election cycle.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: You can't count on because basically they are swing voters.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: What has replaced the coalition of the ascendant, as Brownstein
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: described them, is a coalition of the pathetic, very online
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: millennials and Zoomers with college and graduate degrees who Few
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: prospects and far-out beliefs. They take their cues from Senator
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and, of course, New York Mayor
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Zorhan Mondami, as well as the Democratic Socialists of America.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: They want to cut off aid to Israel, abolish private
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: health insurance and immigration enforcement, nix the Electoral College and
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: even the Senate, pack the Supreme Court and grant statehood
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. establishment Democrats
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: want to harness its energy while encouraging it, the Democrat
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Socialists and this new coalition of the weirdos, to become
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: more moderate. Of course, the columnist Matthew Gennady says, yeah,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: good luck with that. The problem facing Democrat leaders is
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: that the rise of socialism worsens tensions within the remnant
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: coalition of the Ascendant, that group that brought Obama to power.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: The class divisions over socialism and anti-Zionism are clear from
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Mamdami's victory last year's New York City Democratic primary from Mr.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Al Sayed's win in Michigan. Mamdami fared poorly in working-class
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: strongholds like Staten Island and the Bronx, while winning the
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: far-left upscale areas in Brooklyn and immigrant neighborhoods in Queens.
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  Speaker 1: Sayed cleaned up in the Washtenaw County, home of the
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  Speaker 1: University of Michigan, while losing majority-black Detroit working-class Macomb County.
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  Speaker 1: Grievance drives the new socialism. Outrage that their educational credentials
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: haven't delivered them wealth and status. Yeah, how's that degree
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: working out for you? How's that $ 100, 000, $ 200, 000 debt working
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: out for you when you got no job? Sorry for
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: the interjection. According to Nate Silver, Americans with advanced degrees
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: and incomes of $ 30, 000 to $ 60, 000 are the most democratic
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: voting bloc. Advanced degrees. And you're making 30 to 60.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: You were sold a bill of goods that just by
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: merely getting an advanced degree that you would be in
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: that six-figure income, I guess. Well, welcome to becoming a
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: DSA member. The three largest self-described occupation in the, oh,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: this is amazing. The three largest self-described populations in the
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: 2021 DSA member survey were, quote, unemployed, disabled, retired, close quote.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: That's 15% of their membership. 13% describe themselves as white-collar
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: and teacher-scholar-academic, coming in at 10% of the DSA member survey.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: The quote-unquote well-credentialed are likely to push post-material causes such
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: as climate alarmism, transgenderism, defunding the police, and opposition to Israel.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: But the ideas that motivate the new coalition repel parts
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: of the old one. There's your existential problem for the
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Democrat Party. Sane Democrats are freaked out by these radical
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: ideological positions that the new DSA members are advocating for.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: The greatest difference between Democrats' two coalitions may be mental,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: he writes. Obama's coalition of ascendant looked like a post-racial
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: future of national unity and progress. For all of its faults,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: all of his faults rather, Obama never wavered in his
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: view that there was nothing wrong with America that democracy
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: can't fix. For the coalition of the pathetic, however, America can't.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: is beyond repair. Our history is irredeemable. Our country is unacceptable.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Its people are deplorable. It's time for revolution, for fundamental
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: overhaul of our constitutional structure, economic organization, and way of life.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Not exactly a positive message. And he concludes, no wonder
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: many Democrats are leery of Mamdani, El-Sayed, and their comrades.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: In an anti-incumbent mood, or rather an anti-incumbent mood may
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: be enough for Democrats to win in November. If it isn't,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: blame the coalition of the pathetic. And here's where you've
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: got to ask yourself. Yes, there indeed is an anti-incumbent mood.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: It's happened on the Republican Party too. We've got to
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: throw the old guys out, bring in some new blood.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: But is anti-incumbent the same as anti-American? And I can
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: only pray that it's not. that merely because you want
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: to throw out the old guard, you know, guys that
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: have been around for 9,000 years and are disappearing behind
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: the scenes, and we don't know where they are. Gee,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about Mitch McConnell, shocking that. And I know
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: he's not running for re-election, but, you know, there's old
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: people all around, and I'm not criticizing people. Age can
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: be a wonderful benefit. It brings experience and common sense
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: to the table quite often. So we're in an anti-incumbent mood,
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: but I pray to God that we haven't lost faith
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: in America, generally speaking, and what it stands for and
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: what has made it so successful. For the last 250 years,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: in spite of its war, it's 617 right now. Jay
• 46:52
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  Speaker 2: I will.
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  Speaker 1: welcome to the morning show. Happy Wednesday.
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, Brian. Hey, I wanted to blend together
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: what you were just talking about with Ramaswamy, neck and neck,
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: and a phone call yesterday. I want to have a
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: little bit of fun. I'm going to call this Iron
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: Sharpens Iron. I called in yesterday and talked about how
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: he is kind of half-stepping here on property tax and saying, look,
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: we'll roll it back to pre-2020. Meanwhile, the conservatives in
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: the state are saying the answer is shrink the size
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: of government in Ohio. similar to what Ron DeSantis has
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: done in Florida. And, and our, and our, and I
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: call him a friend drew Pappas.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: When that guy calls in, he's got a sharp wit.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: He's hilarious. He's smart when he does with honor flight,
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: but he, I'm going to have a little bit of
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: fun with him. Cause I think he's got a good
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: sense of humor. So he, he, he texted you and said,
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: what Jay's missing is that Florida is a destination for Right, right, right.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Because, you know, it's like people put up with the
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: cost of living and the bat crap insanity of California
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: because you got that, you know, the beautiful state benefits
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: that go along with it. So people would suck it
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: up and deal with it because let's face it, California
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: is pretty damn beautiful. Well, Ohio can't compete with Florida
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: in terms of destination, vacation destinations or apparently destinations for
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: businesses to shut up shop. But yeah, go ahead.
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: So so I thought, well, OK, let's see what the
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: data says. So I took a look at the data
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: this morning and Florida is a destination state, no doubt
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: about it. And if you take a look at the
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: population over the past 15, 20 years, they had a
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: steady incline.
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: Greater than the US population.
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: However, in the past eight years, it has increased 25%. Now,
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: I don't think people in the past eight years have said,
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: holy crap, you know what's a beautiful state that has
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: a bunch of beaches?
• 48:57
  Speaker 7: Is Florida.
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: No, I think people.
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: Were moving out of high-tax states and taking a look
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: at what DeSantis was doing. And what has DeSantis been doing?
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: He has been shrinking the size of government in Florida.
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: And I mean, not like keeping it flat, but shrinking it.
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: And and what that does is it makes it more
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: business friendly. So businesses start going into Florida and then
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: people start going into Florida and it works every time
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: it's tried. So, so I'm going to stand by my
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: premise that it, that yes, it's a pot, but take Tennessee.
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: How many beaches are in Tennessee that are oceanfront property?
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: None.
• 49:34
  Speaker 8: None.
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: How about Texas? Yes, they have the Gulf of America,
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: but is, Every square foot or every square acre in Texas,
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: there's not a whole lot of it that has oceanfront. Texas, Tennessee,
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: Florida have been killing it. With business growth population, businesses
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: will draw people because they have been shrinking the size
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: of their government and heading in that direction. I think
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: Ramaswamy has an opportunity that he's missing. And I don't
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: think it's about the color of his skin, Brian, so
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: much as Ohio does. conservative Republicans are sick to death
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: of a Kasich, of a DeWine, and they are burned out,
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: and they're waiting for somebody to show up with bold ideas.
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: And Ramaswamy talks bold, but whenever it comes down to, hey,
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: what are you going to do to property tax? Oh,
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: we're going to roll it back eight years.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 50:26
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: We're going to have to stop.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: I can't deny your conclusions with regard to why Florida
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: was such a draw versus, say, an Ohio. That guarantee
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: that really ultimately boils down to dollars and cents reality.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: It's cheaper to do business there, and therefore it's better
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: for profit margins. I get that. Regulatory environment is probably
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: easier there as well. But insofar as whether or not
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Vivek Ramaswamy is likely to shrink Ohio's size of government,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: I think he's probably more inclined to do that. I
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: don't know where Amy Acton is on that subject, but
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: I think I'm a safe man betting that she is
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: not going to pursue that line of.
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: No doubt.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: No doubt.
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: This isn't about him versus Acton. This is about Ohio
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: Republicans getting burned out to say, we're going to take
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: another chance.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: I hear you. And that means because no real Ohio
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: Republican would vote for Acton, right? Can we just concede
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: that point? Correct. So they're not enamored with Ramos for
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: me because he's not out promising to slash the size
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: of government, meaning that's not good enough for them, ergo
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: they're not going to vote, Jay? Is that what you're
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: telling me?
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: And I'm not saying I agree with it, Brian. Let's
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: be clear on that. But I'm saying, yeah, I think
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: that that's what I'm picking up. Meaning? The people are
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: saying to hell with it. I'm just done with it.
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: I'm done with the fight because the Ohio Republican Party
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: keeps failing us. They promise us the world. And then
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: you see all the spending, all the Medicaid fraud, everything
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: else that's going on. So I think people are done
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: saying the Republican Party is going to save us.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: That is just such a foolish position, Jay. I'm shocked
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: that any Republicans out there would go down that road,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: assuring any act in a victory because Ramaswamy is not
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: out loud saying he's going to cut back the size
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: and scope of government. Okay. If that's your position out
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: there in the listening audience, you are doomed for failure
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: here in the state of Ohio, and we'll just continue
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: going down this profligate spending road, and nothing will get done.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Most notably, nothing will probably get done about property taxes either.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it, Jay.
• 52:18
  Speaker 6: I do.
• 52:18
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  Speaker 1: them to move from the neighborhood, be in the name
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: of privacy. Delhi Township, my old hometown, apparently rolled out
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: a transparency portal yesterday. The department said in its statement,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: the public deserves to know not only that we use
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: this technology, but how and why we use it. According
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: to the reporting on Fox 19, Brady Williams. Thanks, Brady,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: for reporting. The portal shares information about usage as well
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: as department policies. Portal includes examples of the camera's use,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: including a case in which a camera near I-71 and
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: Smith Road was used to locate an elderly man reported
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: missing out of Delhi. One of the great uses of
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: flock cameras, I get it, plus law enforcement uses them
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: all the time, and they solve a lot of crimes
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: thanks to flock cameras. That, of course, is the plus side.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: And so if you're a department trying to defend your
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: use of flock cameras and you rely on them to
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: help you solve crime, You're going to want to do
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: your best to rehabilitate the name of FLA cameras and
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: the concept behind it by, well, doing exactly this. Go ahead,
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: run your plate through the portal and see if we've
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: scanned it or used it for some abusive purpose. I
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: don't know if that satisfies the friends in Delhi, but
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: there you go. Cincinnati police arrested a 16-year-old in connection
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: with the fatal shooting of 14-year-old Rakeem Blair Jr. Happened
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: on East Price Hill. Blair shot August 18 on Warsaw
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  Speaker 1: Avenue and died several days later at Cincinnati Children's. Police
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: charged the juvenile with murder in addition to offenses related
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: to the shooting. It is an ongoing investigation, though. 16
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: years old. That kid facing a murder charge and additional
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: charges related to the shooting. No identification of the 16-year-old because,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: of course, the 16-year-old's age does not allow for that
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: information to be released. Police said the department's homicide unit
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: took the juvenile into custody this past Monday. Arrest came
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: less than a week after Blair was shot. Anybody with
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: any information, please contact the Cincinnati Police Department's Homicide Unit, 513-352-3542. 352-3542. Joe,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: isn't it illegal for a 16-year-old to possess a handgun? Yeah,
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: you checked that too. That's what I thought.
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  Speaker 8: Huh.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: Surprising. There's a law in the book on that. People
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: choose to ignore the laws. 635. 55KRC, the talk station.
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  Speaker 1: conversations yesterday with Tom Zawistowski, Colin Madine from Breitbart, and
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Davis with the Deep Dive. Jack Atherton's waiting in
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  Speaker 1: for America endorsements. So without further ado, you know, it's
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: an interesting, it's a site on Facebook called Daily American News.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: And they had an interesting point that Tom Holman made.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: And I think it's astute observation because, you know, in
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: this world full of DSA leftists and crazy fanatics that
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: want to abolish ICE, Daily American News says, you know,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: Tom Holman, Tom Holman, Answer to the abolished ICE crowd
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: was to read them a list of what the agency does.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: By his account, Tom Holman's, this is the numbers that
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: he came out with, 151,000 children found. Those would be
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: trafficked children, sex-trafficked children. Those evil ICE agents liberated children
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: who were being molested.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't want to do that, do we? They
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: also took care of fentanyl seizures, which I'm sure you're
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: familiar with the volume of fentanyl that's been seized by
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: federal authorities, and I guess his figure was enough fentanyl
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: seized to kill every American several times over. And honestly,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: considering the quantities of fentanyl they found, they probably have
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: enough fentanyl transported into our country that could kill Americans 10, 15,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: 20 times over. And Daily American News says, you know,
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: nobody who chants the slogan, Abolish ICE ever finishes the sentence.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Abolish ICE, and then what happens to the traffic in
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: cases already open? Who goes and gets the missing kids?
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: The people demanding it never once have been made to
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: name the replacement because there isn't one. Just prod around
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: the edges of it, ask the question out loud, okay,
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: what are we going to do with rapists and other
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: criminals like child molesters if we don't have prisons and
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: we don't have ICE and we don't have police departments?
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Good question. Never are the DSA folks required to answer it.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: But ICE is doing one hell of a bang-up job
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: cleaning up after the Biden administration's open borders policies for
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: multiple years. Get a load of these figures. July alone,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: number of arrests of illegal immigrants, many of whom are
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: convicted criminals, just shy of 50,000 in one month. And
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: that is a 15% jump over June. The number is 70%
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: more than the just shy of 30,000 arrests reported in February.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: So you see the numbers are going up. Breitbart News
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: reporting Mark Kikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies pointed
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: out that ICE has continued to show its dedication to
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: the president's campaign. Despite the pressure placed on the ICE
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: agents with all these crazy protesters, many of whom many
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: have observed are paid protesters, I guess when you're in
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: retirement and you're an angry liberal, mostly white women with
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: a college degree, you don't have a whole lot of
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: time on your hands, so you take to the streets.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: My commentary, obviously. But it was observed in the reporting
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: by Warner Todd Houston of Breitbart. One of the key
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: ingredients of the rise in arrest is the growing cooperation
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: with state law enforcement. agencies. According to reports, the number
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: of local law enforcement agencies that are working with ICE
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: jumped from 135 when Trump started his second term to
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: now 1,400 agencies. According to the Associated Press, in July,
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: local law enforcement aided in the arrest of 6,500 illegal migrants,
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: which represented 13% of the total number of arrests for
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: that month, described as a huge jump from the only 5%
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: seen in July of last year. Greater cooperation from local
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: law enforcement leads to more arrests. In June, the Department
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: of Homeland Security reported that the total number of migrants
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: arrested so far this fiscal year just north of 350,000. Now,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: of course, that is a tremendous accomplishment, but as some observe,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: it pales into comparison to the, some estimate, as many
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: as 20 illegal immigrants who remain in this country. And again,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: going back to the threat they might represent to us,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: it doesn't take much of an imagination. First off, you've
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: got multiple accounts of many of them. Well, breaking the
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: law and committing crimes. I read that story from the
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: UK yesterday. I couldn't believe it. They've issued a pamphlet
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: for the newly arrived migrant community telling them that it
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: is a crime in the United Kingdom to rape someone.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: You've got to tell somebody that? So we've actually had
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants in our country arrested for and prosecuted for
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: and convicted of, oh, that's right, raping people. as well
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: as murder and all kinds of gang membership. It goes
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: on and on and on. So I think they're doing
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: society a good favor, a good service here. My position, anyway.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: And then life imitating comedy here in the United States
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  Speaker 1: insofar as immigration enforcement is concerned. I'm sorry to laugh
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  Speaker 1: about this one, which I'll talk about when I get
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen the movie, and it's from the
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  Speaker 1: early 80s, Johnny Dangerously? Maybe not. Put it on your
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  Speaker 1: but one specific line ties into this story I want
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  Speaker 1: Water damage is possible. I, fortunately, don't have that problem
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• 1:02:12
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  Speaker 1: Talk Station. It is 651 at 55KRC Talk Station. Happy Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Looking forward, as I always do, after the top of
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: the hour news on a Wednesday. It's 7.05. Big picture
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: with Jack Atherton. Real tax reform, says Jack Atherton. We'll
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: get the details from Jack coming up very shortly. Plus,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: Donovan O'Neill, State Director for AFP Action in Ohio at 7.30.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: Concerned veterans for America endorsements. His subject matter. Without further ado,
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  Speaker 1: I was joking at life imitating comedy. And call it
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: a comedy or not, not exactly comedy. an Oscar-winning movie.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: But the 1984 comedy Johnny Dangerously, there was a gangster
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: character in the movie. It's like rival gang movie, and
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: it's all, it's just pure slapstick comedy. Anyway, the rival
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: crime boss, the subject matter of this sort of life
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: imitates comedy, Roman Maroney was his name. And there is
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: a sort of a scene in the movie where there's
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: a trial, and the headline in the newspaper, Roman Maroney
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: gets deported to Sweden because And Roman Moroney protests. He
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: says he's not from there. Why would you send a
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: guy to Sweden when he's not from Sweden? It's kind
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: of a comedic question, but guess what? Here's life imitating
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  Speaker 1: the fiction of that movie. Six people deported by the
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  Speaker 1: United States to Liberia last week. Didn't want to get
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  Speaker 1: off the plane. They aren't from Liberia. I guess they
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: were screaming. They went elsewhere. Specifically, next stop, Equatorial Guinea.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: which they are also not from. Under a series of
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: secret agreements, the Trump administration has deported thousands of people
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: to a couple of dozen countries that are not the
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants' countries. Immigration lawyers say the practice is being
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: used as a legal loophole to indirectly return some asylum
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: seekers to countries they fled. Well, be that as it may,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: the four Cuban men, a Brazilian man, and Cambodian woman
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: who were on this flight to Liberia. Again, didn't want
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: to get off the plane. We're not from there. Honduran
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: deportee aboard the flight said the group refused to disembark,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: saying Liberia was not their country, his words, and that
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: they would face danger there. They were then separated from
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: the others, he said, spoke on a condition of anonymity
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: because he was fearful of reprisals. He said the other
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: passengers did get off in Liberia because they feared officers
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: would force them. Well, one way or another, you end
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: up in a country that's not yours. Now, is that fair?
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know what fair is. But you know what?
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: I think this is a good projection. What did Joe
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: Biden do? He projected that the United States borders were
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: wide open. And every blank and NGO and criminal enterprise
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: popped out of the woodwork to help facilitate the transfer
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: of illegal immigrants into our country and throughout our country.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: given a lot of assistance by the Mexican drug cartels
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: because they found it was a fat bank thing to
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: get people from Central America all the way through Mexico
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: and over to the United States. So all this is
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: going on over and over and over again. Meanwhile, we
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: do have immigration laws on the books, which they could
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: have learned about, which says you can't be here and
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: you will be subject to deportation. Well, phase two. Deportation
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: includes in the United States of America Sending you off
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  Speaker 1: to one of the four corners of the world To
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: an area of land that you have never even seen
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: In a country that doesn't speak your language You are
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: going to have a tough road to hoe when you
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: get there Warning to those would-be entrants to our country
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  Speaker 1: illegally Yeah, you could end up in Liberia Or maybe
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: even worse, Equatorial Guinea Question Can you find it on
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  Speaker 1: a map real quickly? 6.55. 55KRCD Talk Station. Jack Atherton's waiting.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to give us the real tax reform deal
• 1:06:31
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• 1:06:34
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  Speaker 1: a very happy, happy Wednesday. And to remind you, coming
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  Speaker 1: up in an hour, we're going to be drinking wine
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  Speaker 1: here in studio, theoretically. Keegan Corcoran, our sommelier friend. I
• 1:06:52
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• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: Judge Apolitano at 830. Donovan O'Neill coming up at the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of this hour about Concerned Veterans for America endorsements.
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  Speaker 1: And without further ado, there he is. It's time for
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: the big picture with Jack Atherton. My friend Jack, I
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: truly appreciate you coming on the show.
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  Speaker 10: And I'm glad I got you sober. Thanks so much, brother.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: I don't drink in the studios. You know, Jack, I
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: can't do that. It's against the rules. And you know me,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: I'd never break a stupid arbitrary rule, Jack.
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  Speaker 10: I know you don't drink much anyway, but now that
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 10: the primaries are behind us, one of the biggest issues
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 10: in November is going to be taxes. Let me say
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 10: at the outset, Ainsley and I are not rich, yet
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 10: I'm going to defend the rich, at least the ones
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 10: who earn their money honestly, because Democrats are now threatening to, quote,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 10: tax the hell out of the rich. or to, quote,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 10: tax billionaires out of existence. Those rabble-rousing threats remind me
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 10: of why I love Marxists. Not Karl Marx. My beloved
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 10: Marx brothers. Yes, in A Night at the Opera, Groucho
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 10: loves and, of course, insults the opera's biggest donor, Margaret Dumont.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 10: His brother Chico somehow represents a singer who should be
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 10: making a lot of money. But Groucho offers to pay
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 10: him peanuts and then adds insult to injury. by noting
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 10: that the singer will also have to pay taxes, federal tax,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 10: state tax, city tax, and don't forget the sewer tax.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 10: So Chico asks, how much money can this guy actually
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 10: take home? Well, Groucho says, I think if he doesn't
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  Speaker 10: sing too often, he can break even. Depression audiences understandably
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 10: howled with glee because they were suffering and they loved
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 10: seeing the rich get soaked. But even when it was
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 10: talent and discipline that made them rich, they still wanted
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 10: to take their money, even if the rich were great
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 10: inventors who stood to employ thousands of out-of-work Americans by
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 10: improving everyone's lives. Socialists then and now want to soak
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 10: the rich, even if, by seizing their assets, you still
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 10: cannot provide everything politicians promise. Free housing, free food, free income,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 10: free medical care, free child care, free college, government doling
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 10: out free everything. Until, as Margaret Thatcher warned, you run
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 10: out of other people's money. Conservatives seemed ashamed to mention it.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 10: But 250 years ago, our founders included rich people like
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 10: George and Martha Washington. She was the one with the money.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 10: Yet Martha did not urge George to just relax and
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 10: live comfortably under King George. Instead, as we've discussed, at
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 10: great personal peril, Martha Washington visited the general and his
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 10: troops in their miserable frostbitten camps throughout the eight-year revolutionary struggle.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 10: But more important than rich people risking their necks, our
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 10: founders also included people without much money, like Sam Adams,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 10: whose Boston beer business went bust. Sam still supported the
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 10: American idea of God-given individual rights and responsibilities. Because freedom
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 10: includes the freedom to try and the freedom to fail.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 10: Both rich and poor back then never expected that Americans
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 10: would live off their neighbors without having to work, without
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 10: having to even look for work, or even get training
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 10: for work, which is what Democrats now dangle before their voters.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 10: Being able to live off other people's taxes. Because as
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 10: Barack Obama said of entrepreneurs, you didn't build that. The
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 10: America the Washingtons and Sam Adams founded was all about opportunity,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 10: not redistribution of wealth. So how did we get today's
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 10: Democrat socialism? And what's the better way to set tax rates?
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 10: Apart from the period around the Civil War, our federal
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 10: government never levied income taxes at all until, after bitter debate,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 10: the 16th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1913.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 10: rates began at 1%. They rose to 7%, but only
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 10: on income over $ 500, 000, which in today's dollars would be
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 10: $ 15 million. The idea of broadly redistributing income and punishing
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 10: high earners was never even considered until under post-crash Herbert Hoover,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 10: and especially Franklin Roosevelt, the income tax became confiscatory. the
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 10: highest marginal rate raised to 79%. And then during World
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 10: War II, 91% to fund not just a safety net,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 10: but an ever-mushrooming government. Still, economists seem to agree it
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 10: was not taxation, but total mobilization for war that finally,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 10: after 15 years, lifted America out of the Great Depression.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 10: Expansion continued forever. when peacetime America and private industry rebuilt
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 10: our allies and ourselves. Post-war technology, which is becoming a
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 10: dirty word somehow, technology created millions of new jobs. Nevertheless,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 10: a Democrat, not a Democrat socialist, but a man who
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 10: today would be considered a mega populist, John F. Kennedy,
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 10: thought we could grow even more. As JFK put it,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 10: a rising tide lifts all boats. So the former PT
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 10: boat commander slashed taxes across the board from the top
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 10: marginal rate of 91% down to 65%. Then Ronald Reagan,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 10: with help from many pro-growth Democrats, the Gipper took top
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 10: rates down to 28%. And that actually raised revenue. It
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 10: always does because tax cuts stimulate the economy. Despite ups
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 10: and downs, we are still living off the Reagan boom,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 10: sustained by further tax cuts by George W. Bush and
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 10: Donald J. Trump. Friends, the biggest problem now is not
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 10: tax rates, although they could always be lower. Our biggest
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 10: problem is the politicizing of the tax code, manipulating the
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  Speaker 10: tax code to win elections and to allow outright corruption.
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  Speaker 10: We don't have time to catalog all the loopholes in
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 10: our one million word tax code. But here's one example, Brian,
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  Speaker 10: of abuse and reform by a Republican, reformed by a
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 10: Republican who was opposed by fellow Republicans. From the time
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 10: he was an actor, Ronald Reagan resented sky-high taxes, but
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 10: he hated tax cheats even more. So in 1986, Reagan
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 10: signed a tax reform bill lowering rates, but also eliminating
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 10: a whole slew of loopholes and phony deductions, including deductions
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 10: for so-called white elephant real estate investments, investments that yielded
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 10: no income, but allowed owners to take massive tax write-offs.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 10: Those deductions discouraged the productive use of property, including affordable housing,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 10: politicized tax incentives over the last 80 years, have also
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 10: sent U.S. manufacturing jobs overseas. They've subsidized lifestyles of the
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 10: rich and famous while allowing deductions for everything, from meals
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 10: to yachts, even used underwear. Yes, the Clintons wrote off
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 10: $ 2 a pair. Of course they did. And politicizing the
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 10: tax code has allowed the bloated IRS to target enemies,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 10: the way Democrat Lois Lerner in 2010 targeted the tax
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 10: reform Tea Party starting right here in Cincinnati. I think
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 10: the answer is not to raise taxes on the rich
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 10: or anyone else. Instead, as you know, Brian, I have
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 10: always supported a flat federal income tax with almost no
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 10: deductions or loopholes. The kind of flat tax as low
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 10: as 10% that's boosted growth and revenue throughout the former
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 10: communist countries of Eastern Europe. With a flat tax, if
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 10: you earn 10 or 100 times more than I do,
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 10: you pay 10 or 100 times more than I do.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 10: What's unfair about that? Now, look, I don't imagine we
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 10: can pass a flat tax or a consumption tax or
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 10: any kind of sweeping tax reform in today's deeply polarized America.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 10: What I am saying, friends, don't believe corrupt politicians and
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 10: their paymasters in both parties who demagogue this issue, promising
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 10: that the answer to America's overspending, resulting in our now
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 10: $ 40 trillion national debt, is to wink-wink, soak the rich,
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 10: who will always escape soaking it anyway if they're relying
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 10: on loopholes which we have to get rid of. The
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 10: answer is a simple, straightforward, and fair tax code. And
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 10: we haven't even touched on state and local taxes, the
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 10: reason some states like Florida, Texas, and Tennessee, you were
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 10: talking about that with a caller before, why those states
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 10: are booming, while others like Ohio are just limping along.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 10: And imagine if we elect Democrats in November. But for now,
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 10: is there anything you want to add or deduct, brother?
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  Speaker 1: Well, your thoughts and comments, as always, are truly insightful
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: and brilliant, Jack Atherton. But You know, in the whole
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: concept of never let a good crisis go to waste,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: the $ 40 trillion debt that Republicans and Democrats bear responsibility
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: for over the years, that's a real crisis and it's
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: coming to a head. People are now, you know, alarm
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: bells going off for the amount of money we have
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: to pay for debt service, et cetera, et cetera. I
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: think that's the existential crisis that the Democrats and probably
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: Republicans will use to justify a much higher income tax for, oh,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe, Jack, the literally trillions and trillions
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: of dollars out there in senior 401k accounts you never
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: know what the tax rate's going to be until you
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: pull the money out and they could it could be
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: going back to the 1970s brother 70 to 90 percent
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: if they decide it that's certainly possible oh my god
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: we are going we've spent ourselves into a an oblivion
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: that might wipe out the fiat currency we're coming for your.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 10: 401ks yep 401ks social security entitlements of all kind medicare
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 10: medicaid uh We've talked about that and we're going to
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 10: have to again. Meantime, it's awful to be envious of
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 10: other people, to covet your neighbor's goods and feel that
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 10: someone else's success diminishes your own. In other countries throughout history,
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 10: which is what we talk about every week, there have
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 10: been classes set in stone. We've never had that in America.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 10: Anyone can succeed. My family, not my wife and I,
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 10: right in this generation, but certainly my grandparents, anyone can succeed.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 10: They prove that. Or they can squander a fortune. We
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 10: are not a nation of victims. Though at the core
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 10: of the Democrat Socialist Party are not over-educated, as you
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 10: love to point out, but over-credentialed young people who choose
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 10: to study Marxist poison and then complain that they can't
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 10: make a living.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: I know. Revealing their ignorance in their education choices in
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: and of itself, Jack. And I got to comment real
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: quickly on the tax code. I agree with you absolutely. Now,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: first off, I'm going to say I don't believe loopholes
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: are loopholes. Loopholes suggest that, whoops, somebody screwed up creating
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: an opportunity for someone to take advantage of a tax code. No,
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: I think that's an advantage that they intended. They're too
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: smart to create missed opportunities for for people to write
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: things off. So there's that. But the reason, and even
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: if we weren't in such a partisan divide right now
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: in this country, the reason we can't get a flak tax,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: which makes perfect sense, is because it's the opportunity that
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: our politicians use to manipulate us, both Republicans and Democrats,
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: using the tax code to force us to do things
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: we otherwise might not do in our prudent judgment, like
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: invest a whole bunch of money in green energy projects.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: Because the American taxpayer is going to supplement your investment
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: and give you a great tax advantage. Look where we've
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: gotten with that, Jack Atherton. But that's just one of
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: a multitude of different things that have manipulated our behavior
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: through the tax code. And if you had a flat tax, Jack,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: they would lose that power. And that's why I say
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: politicians of all stripes probably would run away from that option.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 10: You're absolutely right. I'm not going to use the word
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 10: loophole anymore. Instead, I'll talk about that glorious store called Washington, D.C.,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 10: where you can go and buy a politician and get
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 10: a deduction or an exemption or some other way not
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 10: to have to pay Your fair share. Although, again, I'm
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 10: not going to let the other side, including some Republicans now,
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 10: we just heard one this past week locally, talk about
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 10: how the rich shouldn't be allowed to become too rich.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 10: I just don't understand that way of thinking. Let everybody
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 10: try to get as rich as they possibly can, and
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 10: everybody's going to do better.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: Amen, brother. And you said the words fair share. We
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: could probably have another hour-long discussion on what the hell
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: does fair share mean anyway. But if it's a flat tax.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 6: Ten percent.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: Ten percent.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: That's everybody's fair share. Jack Atherton, it's been a wonderful conversation.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: We call it the big picture. Jack joins this program
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: every Wednesday beginning at 7.05. And I just, your brilliance
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: is amazing, Jack. And I appreciate the points you make.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: And you are always welcome here on the 55 KRC
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: Morning Show. As always, best of health and love to
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: you and your better half. We'll talk next Wednesday.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 6: The Talk Station.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: 729, 55 KRC Detox Station. Normally I'd be saying, welcome
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: back to the 55 KRC Morning Show, Americans for Prosperity,
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: Donovan O'Neill, but Donovan's taking a pass on joining the
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: program this morning and handing the opportunity to speak on
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: related issues to Adam Miller, who's with Concerned Veterans for America.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: Adam Miller, welcome to the 55 KRC Morning Show. Glad
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: to have you on board with AFP.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, Brian. Thanks so much for having me.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: Happy to.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 6: And, you know, I.
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  Speaker 1: Personally, I have a tremendous amount of respect for American veterans.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, a profound respect for them. And I view
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: them with such respect. I would like to think that
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: the vast majority of Americans, if you talk about a
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: veteran just generally in isolation, if you speak of what
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: veterans deal with, what they have done in service to
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: our country, I think most people will look on that
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: with a tremendous amount of respect. at least not any
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: sort of negativity swirling around. This isn't Vietnam, and we're
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: not talking about killing babies. We're talking about people who
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: signed on the dotted line and go off literally to
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: the four corners of the world and fight for freedom
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: and liberty, right? So it's a great group of people
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: to advance. And, of course, Concerned Veterans for America advances a, well,
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: a freedom-based American value message. Or do I have that wrong?
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: That is what they're all about, correct?
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you nailed it, Brian.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 7: And we're so excited to roll out some of our
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 7: first endorsements of candidates of this cycle. State Representative Steve Demetria,
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 7: who's running for state Senate in Ohio's 27th district, and
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 7: State Representative Mike Davila, who's running for reelection in Ohio's
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 7: 17th district.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: Now, why just, I guess... I don't want to be critical.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: It's not criticism, but just those candidates. I mean, there
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: are other candidates the CVA is looking into, or, I mean,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: you know, are you making an endorsement in the gubernatorial race,
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: for example, here in Ohio?
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah, there's several races that we're looking at. I don't
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 7: know if we're going to be getting involved in the
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 7: governor's race, and mainly it's more just how we're going
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 7: to prioritize some of our resources as an organization. But
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 7: at CVA, one of our main goals is to elevate
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 7: that unique veteran's perspective and on issues that not only
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 7: impact our veterans and military families, communities here in Ohio,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 7: but all Ohioans. And these two gentlemen have stood out,
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 7: and they've shown that they have a true commitment to
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 7: serving their constituents.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: Well, what exactly, I guess from a policy and principle standpoint,
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: what are they standing for in terms of why they're
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: running and what they hope to accomplish on behalf of
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: the veterans? What specifically is CVA embracing along those lines?
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: So maybe other candidates can get the message and also
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: get CVA behind them.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 7: Well, as a nonprofit advocacy organization, you know, we work
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 7: on issues that not only impact veterans, but all Ohioans. So,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 7: you know, both of these candidates, they've supported the 2.75
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 7: flat income tax rate here in the state of Ohio.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 7: And us as an organization, you know, we believe that
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 7: even getting that to a lower rate could spur more
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 7: economic growth, which impacts obviously veterans, but all Ohioans. And
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 7: we've In the past, we've highlighted some small businesses that
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 7: were owned by veterans who have benefited from tax reform
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 7: at the state level. So both of these gentlemen have
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 7: led on that issue. But also there's education reform. The
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 7: backpack bill was pretty popular and giving parents more control
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 7: over where their kids can receive the education choice within
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 7: their communities. And these are not veteran-specific issues, but that's
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 7: something that CBA advocates for is offering that veterans' perspective
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 7: on an array of issues that impact everyone.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, that's the important part because, as you
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: pointed out, veterans' issues, but also those that directly impact
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: all Ohioans. If we could lower the income tax here,
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: clearly every Ohioan who pays it's going to benefit, but
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: it also is going to be a lure for business
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: and industry to come to Ohio as opposed to, oh,
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe Florida or some other state that
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: keeps getting the benefit of their lower taxed environment. Does
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: Concerned Veterans for America have any position relative to the
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: property tax issue that's swirling around here in the state
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: of Ohio?
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 7: Oh, for sure. And, you know, we certainly believe as
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 7: an organization that retired folks or anyone in the state
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 7: of Ohio, they shouldn't be taxed out of their homes.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 7: And that's, again, why Representative Mike Davila and Representative Steve Demetrio,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 7: they've led on some property tax relief for Ohio families
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 7: this year. But also we think, you know, Moving on
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 7: to hopefully in 2027, if they're both victorious in November,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 7: you know, they can continue to provide property tax relief
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 7: for Ohio families.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: Fair enough.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: Now, in terms of, I know Donovan, I know, regularly
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: encourages people to go to AFPaction.com to get involved, learn
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: how to door knock, you know, get in a group
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: with AFP Action folks, and they'll help you out and
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: teach you the methods and ways to go about having
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: a conversation with total strangers. And they're very successful with that.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: Concerned Veterans for America has a Concerned Vets Action site.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: Is that analogous to the AFP-type site, Adam?
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so for this particular race, I would encourage folks
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 7: to go to BuckeyeBlueprint.com.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 7: And that has a lot more information on this particular
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 7: race and some of the outreach that we're going to
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 7: be doing. But it also highlights and gives a lot
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 7: more background regarding these candidates. And, you know, both of them,
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 7: I'll just say, you know, they– They're selfless leaders. And
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 7: when they left the military, their uniform, it didn't come
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 7: off really. It just kind of took a different form.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 7: And that's something that we're so proud of for them
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 7: as individuals, but also as policy champions for a lot
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 7: of the policies that we work on at CBA.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: And I again, I'm convinced a great messenger, the veterans
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: of America, great messengers for this freedom, loving, patriotic message.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: Give us the freedoms and liberties. Let us run with it.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: We've been effective at doing that for 250 years. Let's
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: continue down that road. Adam Miller from Concerned Veterans of America,
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: I certainly appreciate what you're doing, and thank you for
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: your service to our country. BuckeyeBlueprint.com is where Adam would
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: like my veteran friends in the audience, and literally anybody
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: else who wants to get involved in this effort. And
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: I encourage you to do that, BuckeyeBlueprint.com. Adam, I hope
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: you have a wonderful day, and thanks for spending time
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: with my listeners and me this morning.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 5: Thanks, Brian.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 7: Have a great day.
• 1:27:20
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• 1:27:58
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• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: of things going on. We're going to get all the
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  Speaker 1: details of that at the tail end of the program.
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  Speaker 1: Without further ado, looking up, 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK. Jeff, long time
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: no speak, man. Welcome back to the show.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Brian.
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  Speaker 12: As always, you and Joe are true patriots, buddy.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: Thank you, brother. That means a lot.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it does.
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  Speaker 12: And it's a shame that Dolly passed away. I know
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 12: she was definitely a true patriot.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Well, and you know what?
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 6: I was marveling over.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: On that, and while I may object to flags being
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: flown at half-staff for an entertainer in this country, I'm
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: allowed to have that opinion. It's subjective, but everyone seems
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: to have loved her. It was an amazing expression of bipartisanship, support,
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: and lament and mourning over Dolly Parton's passage yesterday. I
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: think Bernie Sanders even made us out loud statement about
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: what a wonderful woman she was. So, yeah, one person
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: was without criticism, unscathed in this terrible political times we
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: live in. Dolly Parton managed to rise above it and
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: earn everyone's respect for just being a nice person, right?
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 6: Yep, yep.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 12: And we're lucky that Trump's comment about her being a
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 12: nice and good person wasn't heard before the Democrats started agreeing.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 5: True.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 6: True.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: I hope he never comes out.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 12: With, you know, I love dogs because, you know, hey,
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 12: come on, everybody should love dogs.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: It has gotten that bad, right? It has gotten that bad.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: It has.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 6: Jeff, you knew we.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: Jumped the shark in this country when it started becoming
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: that the American flag, the symbol of our country's freedoms
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: and liberties for 250 years, has become, in the minds
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: of leftists, a symbol for right-wing Republican party members or
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: just right-wingers or just MAGA, generally speaking. I'm sorry, I'm
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: getting ready to violate the FCC rules. That just blows
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: my mind and probably irks me more than most anything around.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 12: It's so sad that, again, you know, luckily at my
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 12: game store, we don't, you know, if we talk politics,
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 12: we understand that nobody in the store hates each other, okay?
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 12: I mean, we can have differences of opinion and not
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 12: just turn around and storm off or just basically start
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 12: calling each other's names.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 12: I mean, I just don't understand that.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, we all are American. You do understand it,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: and the crowd in your store understands it. You know, discussion, debate,
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: advancing one's ideological principles, that is normal. We've been doing
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: it forever. Since the dawn of man, we've been contemplating
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: our navels. It's the people who storm off and name call.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: You get it. That means you won. If someone calls
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: you a transphobe because you insist that there's a chromosomal
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: medical reality, what is a man and what is a woman,
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: And they start screaming at you, calling you a transphobe.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: You won the argument. They don't have anything better to
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: counter your biological-based argument with. What is transphobic anyway? Someone
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: who is afraid of or otherwise doesn't want the existence
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: of transgender people? Well, okay, then those people are idiots
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: because they exist in the world like everything else. We've
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: got to live with them and among them. They're not
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: going to go away. So get over your prejudices against
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: trans people. But they can't make you change science. Now
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: can they, Jeff?
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: No, they cannot.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 12: And one other thing before I go off, isn't it
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 12: funny that I know it's happened the entire time I've
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 12: been alive, but isn't it funny that since the midterms
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 12: are coming up that Republicans want to push Grandma off
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 12: the cliff and they want to do away with health care?
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 12: Isn't that funny? I mean, that's been going on for
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 12: a while, right?
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: As long as I've been alive, Jeff. As long as
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: I've been alive.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 5: So funny.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: You ever realize the Republican Party is filled with a
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: bunch of murderers and Nazis, Jeff? I never really quite
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: got the memo on that one. I've never seen it
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: in my life at the right time, but they sure
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: insist that that's the case, don't they? Jeff, God bless you, man.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you calling in today, putting a smile on my face, brother.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: Take care and have a great one. I'm glad you
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: have a good work environment, too. Colin Electric. 751 and
• 1:32:36
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• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: the tariffs are going back and forth in this trade
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: war with Canada now, because Trump wanted to reinstate the
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: taxes are the tariffs and the Canadians got pissed off.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: And so they've a 50% tax on us goods, total
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: value of the tariff from the Canadian side, $ 20 billion,
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: including steel and aluminum. Now, whether or not you think
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: the tariffs are a good idea or not, we are
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: all dealing with the reality of inflation for a variety
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: of reasons. You know, I've pointed out a million times,
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: the Strait of Hormuz shuts down. It's not because we
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: don't have enough oil. It's because it's not moving around.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: It's been taken out of the supply chain. Of course,
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: the price of steel and aluminum, it is what it
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: is from a manufacturing standpoint. Profit built into that, but
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: then you throw in a 50% tax, and it becomes
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: really outrageously expensive, at least by comparison to the rest
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: of the world. And Americans are now paying, at least
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: according to the numbers crunched by the Wall Street Journal,
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: roughly 75% more for aluminum than the rest of the world. 64%
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: more for steel than in, I guess, Northern Europe, collectively speaking. So,
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: you know, I.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: We do eat the cost of the tariffs at some point.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: I know there's a question of fairness out there. Well,
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: they're screwing us over, damn it, so we've got to
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: screw them over too. All of that screwing over comes
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: at a sizable cost to, well, the American population, but
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: generally the global population as well. Over to a story
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: that could have been in the stack as stupid. I swear.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: And maybe this is a good thing. One more story
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: that waters down the notion that racism lurks around every
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: corner in this country. Apparently, the folks in Gary, Indiana
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: got knocked out. They got hit hard with the power
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: outages because of the storms that went through. And we
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: all suffered with that. Utility workers with the local utility
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: company were, well, going around repairing the hundreds of thousands
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: of people who were in power for hundreds of thousands
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: of people. And the power was left out for quite
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: some time. It took a long time. Well, online... Apparently,
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: outrage expressed because of the length of time it was
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: taking the power company to get the power restored to Gary, Indiana,
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: described as a 76.2% black city. Majority of the population,
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: overwhelmingly so, is black in Indiana, Gary, Indiana. So, of course,
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: the reason the power wasn't back on was because of racism.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: People were screaming about it. You know what actually happened there? Now,
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying, I mean, you've got to put hundreds
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: of thousands of people. It is obviously a significant challenge
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: for the power workers, 300,000 people. And, of course, the
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: power company came out. Our men and women are busting
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: their expletive 24-7 to get the power back on for
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: the 300,000 people, spread over three counties. So it's unfortunate
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: and shouldn't have happened. What was unfortunate? What delayed the
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: repairs of the power lines?
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 8: Gunfire.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 6: Gunfire.
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: There were idiots up there shooting at the power workers.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: The company vehicle got hit twice with the bullets. One bullet,
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: they say, became lodged in the back of a headrest.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: Mayor Eddie Melton, let me be clear, this type of
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: violence is absolutely unacceptable and it will not be tolerated
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: in the city of Gary. Well, I appreciate that, Eddie,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: and I would like to think that that is the
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: case all the time. But questions. Why in God's name
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: would anybody in a neighborhood without power shoot at power workers?
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: What possible benefit can you hope to gain from that
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: at all? And parenthetically, bringing down, if Gary has a
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: good name, bringing down the good name of Gary, because
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: apparently it's filled with, well, at least there are certain
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: segments of people in Gary that are shoot at utility
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: workers trying to put the power back on. I don't know.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: I know crazy violence happens all the time. There are
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: crazy people out in the world all the time. But
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: Lord Almighty, someone explain that to me.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: Teenagers getting gunned down the streets of Cincinnati. Someone can
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: explain that one to me, too.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: God knows. Speaking of God, it's like the peace of God.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: This passes all human understanding. Wine doesn't. Keegan Corcoran, who
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: I like to call our resident sommelier. He's the second
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: highest sommelier level on the entire planet. He knows wine.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: And he's going to bring in someone who also knows one.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: We'll be having some wine recommendations after the top of
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: the hour news. Also, we will hear from Judge Ed
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: Napolitano at 830. Plus, the Cincinnati Warbirds' James Stitt joins
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: the program to talk about Labor Day weekend events. Please
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: stick around for the 8 o'clock hour if you can.
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: We put the app in happening.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 6: But that's what's happening in this country.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: 806 here at 55KRC Detox Station. Brian Thomas asking an
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: outlaw question. And knowing the answer to it, is this
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: a day ending in Y? Of course it is. Happy Wednesday, everybody. Andy,
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: that means it's, well, today you can justify drinking. Days
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: ending in Y are enough. And in studio to provide
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: us with some wine suggestions for this time of year.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: I guess we're doing, I don't know, Labor Day wine selections.
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: I like to call him our resident sommelier, Keegan Corcoran
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: from Ignition Wines. He's a wholesale distributor. So if you're
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: someone out there that wants to buy in bulk, excuse me, ignitionwines.com, right?
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: Got that right. Keegan, it's always a pleasure to see you, man.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, Brian. And a reminder to my
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: listeners who are like, who in the hell is Keegan Corcoran?
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: For about, what, almost 20 years you were the sommelier
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: for all of the Ruby restaurants? Yeah, about 20 years.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: You left on good terms. Makes me sound old. And
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: you're so, you left on such good terms that Ruby
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: does buy wine from you. Yeah, for sure. Good, I'm glad.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: I sell a lot of stuff. That's wonderful. So there's,
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: I think that credibility established completely. He's the second tier sommelier,
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: the highest in the world. How many are there in
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: the highest, like 400 total? Yeah, there's like 200 and 280.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 13: Now.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think a couple just passed recently, but that's
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: the next level you've got to reach. That's the next one.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: Well, try and try. People do that test over and
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: over again. I'm going to do it, man. I know
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: you are. Listen, I have ultimate faith and confidence in you,
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: my friend. Hell yeah. But someday you'll be there, and
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: for those interested in finding out how difficult it is,
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: just go ahead and try to find some of the
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: sample questions you might be faced on that, and you
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: too will have your eyes glazed over in disbelief that
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: anyone could know that much. You brought some folks here.
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: It's a whole room full of folks here from the
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: Caesaree Winery in Italy. I have Mike Lindell. Actually, Mike
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: Lindell is with Specialty Wine and Spirits. Yvonne is from Venice, Italy.
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: She actually lives there. And I told her I had
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: like 9 million questions to know what it's like about
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: living in Venice. But she's the export manager for Caesaree Vineyards.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: And the, Marjorie, have I got that? Marjorie, you are
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: the president?
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: And you brought your daughter with you. What's your daughter?
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: It's Lucrezia, if I got that right. Do you have
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: a title yet at the winery? I'm still working on it.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: I don't speak Italian. Yeah, I think there's a language barrier.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: It is a beautiful language. You're still in school, right? Okay,
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: we'll give you time. We've got a job waiting for you.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: Dad's going to see that you're set. So you brought
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: with you. Let me see that one. If we were
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: really allowed to drink in the 55 KRC Morning Studio,
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: we would be enjoying an amazing, I mean absolutely amazing, Prosecco.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: It's called Terra Vizina. Have I got that right?
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: I'm doing okay there. Yeah, there you go. T-E-R-R-A Vizina, V-I-Z-I-N-A.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: And of course, Keegan, you do distribute this one. I do, yeah.
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 6: In Ohio.
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: In Ohio, I do. You would bring a bottle of
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: wine that you don't distribute. No, this is what we got. Sometimes.
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: I play nice in the sandbox. I can support other wines.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: All right, okay, when I taste Prosecco, I mean, my
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: first default, and I think a lot of people probably
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: feel this way, well, this is like champagne. It's light,
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: it's bubbly, but it's not champagne, it's Prosecco. It's very similar.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 11: The production method is a little different, but Prosecco is
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 11: usually very light, refreshing, crisp, easy to drink, and complements
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 11: a variety of cuisine, and then also a variety of
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 11: social situations, too. So you mentioned Labor Day earlier. I
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 11: think this is one of those, and also the benefit
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 11: about Prosecco is is usually it doesn't break the bank.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 11: You know, it's a good cost to quality ratio, you know,
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 11: skewed in the consumer's favor, which, you know, I always support. But,
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 11: you know, it's just one of those things that you
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 11: just pull it out on a Wednesday, hypothetically.
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And enjoy it at 8 o'clock in the morning. Right, exactly. Well,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: you know, there's, what kind of, what's the alcohol volume?
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: ABV and something like this.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 9: 11?
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 3: 11.
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: See, that's very reasonable.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: So you're not going to get all liquored up on
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: it unless you start pounding on multiple bottles of it.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: Which last night we had a few bottles.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 6: Did you really?
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: We had a couple.
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 6: Shocking.
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: Yes, we did. Well, now, very crisp, very refreshing, really
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: wonderful finish. If I actually was able to taste it,
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: those are the things I would probably say about it. Hypothetically.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: On a really hot day, I can see this being
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: the perfect drink.
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: Especially when it's ice cold, like the bottle that I'm
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: holding right now, although not drinking. What do you eat
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: with it? Really anything.
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 11: That's the lovely thing, too, about sparkling wines in general.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 11: They're very, very food flexible. So, you know, hypothetically, you
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 11: could have it even inclusive of something like steak or
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 11: something like that. But, you know, maybe at that point
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 11: you want a nice glass of red wine. But salads, seafood,
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 11: you know, even pastries at the end of a meal, too. So, like,
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 11: you can– I've done, you know, wine pairings, particularly, like,
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 11: with entirely sparkling wines. And it's really neat to kind
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 11: of go along because– You know, it's very, very flexible.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: Well, to me, there's nothing like a tasting because you
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: get the opportunity to compare them next to each other.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: Because when I have wine, I'm always going back to, like,
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: first off, remembering which ones I've actually had. I struggle
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: with that. But also which ones I liked better than
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: the other ones. Like, oh, this is really good. I
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: remember we had this other bottle of Prosecco about three
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: months ago, and I thought that was really good. But
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: if I only had it here to taste it next
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: to each other, I could figure out which one's better,
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: at least based on what I'm having that day.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 11: I find that taking pictures with your phone is like
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 11: the only way for me to remember, because especially once
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 11: you've had a few glasses in and everything starts to
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 11: get a little fuzzy.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does happen that way. I'm not a picture-taking guy. Okay, fine. Listen, never.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: The last thing on my mind is taking a picture
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: of literally anything. I could be the greatest family reunion event,
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: and I'd be the last person there who would ever
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: think about pulling out his phone to take a picture.
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: But what is the price point? You said this is
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: often more affordable, Prosecco is versus Champagne. So, but champagne
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: is all over the board. Well, there's champagne, which is French,
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: definitionally speaking. Correct. Then there's California sparkling wines, right, which
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: also can be extraordinarily expensive. People like to lump them
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: into the same category as champagne, but they are made
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: the same way, right? French champagne, California champagne.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 11: Yeah, officially it's called the method Champenoise or the champagne method.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 11: So usually it's multiple fermentations, the last one taking place
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 11: in the bottle. It's just a different process. Well, how
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 11: is this made, then, by comparison?
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: Usually, so charmat, which is usually injection of CO2.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 6: You can talk.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: Let's hear from the expert here. No, no.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 14: He's saying everything already. He knows everything.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know everything.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 6: I don't know everything.
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 10: It's scary, isn't it?
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 2: No, I don't.
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: It's your winery, and he probably knows more about it. Anyway,
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: can I ask you, Yvonne, about the winery? How big
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: is it?
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 14: How many acres or– Well, we have currently 150 hectares
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 14: of wineyards, mainly grown Glera, which is the grape of Prosecco,
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 14: and Pinot Grigio. These are the two main products we offer.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 14: And then we have red wines like Cabernet, Merlot, but
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 14: the main production is focused on Prosecco and Pinot Grigio.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: Well, in terms of relative size, I guess, how many
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: cases the Casseret vinegar jar?
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 14: In terms of bottles, because cases could be six-bottle cases,
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 14: 12-bottle cases. We are around 1 million bottles. This year,
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 14: we will probably reach 1.2 million bottles.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: Is that going to be a record year for you?
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 14: Pardon me? Yes, it's a record.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 6: Congratulations.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 14: We are increasing every year, Mauro. Our success is.
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: That's wonderful.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 14: Mostly domestic... Okay, 50% is domestic market, 50% is international market.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 14: We are distributed in 18 countries nowadays, from India to
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 14: United States to Canada to Africa. China, Europe, throughout Europe.
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 14: So we are quite proud of our products and our brands.
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: Well, that comes from demand, and the demand is generated
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: because people want what you're making. It's just the great relationships.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: You're making a great wine and more people want it.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: I'm just kind of curious, is the grape collection, is
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: that all still done by hand? I just see these.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: How many people do you need to harvest the grapes?
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 14: Well, we have until three years, until the plants are
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 14: reaching three years, the harvest is made by hand. After
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 14: from three years on, it's automatic. And we have teams
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 14: of people coming for harvest during harvest time to do
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 14: the harvest.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 6: I understand.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: Now, I have to ask this question. I guess you
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: may have gotten the news. We're currently embroiled in a
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: trade battle with Canada, so 50% tariffs on Canadian goods.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: Were your wines subject to, or are they still subject
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: to tariffs right now?
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 14: Sorry, I don't understand.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 5: Tariffs?
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: Import tariffs.
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 6: Taxes.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, currently, yeah.
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 6: Yes, currently, yes.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 14: We are sharing this cost with 3%. We take care
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 14: of that. And 3% is at importer charge. So we
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 14: try to share. And the remaining is at customer charge.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 4: So we.
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: Spreading the pain around. See, that just interrupts your profit margins,
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: and I'm all about big profit margins.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 14: But most important is that since the duties came in,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 14: we have increased our business in the United States. Sounds strange,
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 14: but it is like that.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: That is counterintuitive. Well, good. I'm glad it worked out
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: to your benefit so we can drink more of this
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: wonderful Prosecco. We've got one more to talk about. We're
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: going to take a quick break here. We've got another Prosecco,
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: and this one's a different hue. It's Prosecco Milsimato. Have
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: I got that right? It's a rosé extra dry Prosecco.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: We'll learn about that one when we return with Keegan
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: Corcoran and the folks from Queseret Winery. Don't go away.
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: It's 816 right now, 55KRC, the talk station. This is 55KRC,
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: an iHeartRadio station.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 6: 55KRC, the talk station.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: Right. Yvonne, she's the Queseret wine. She's giving me an update.
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: She's the export manager for these wonderful wines we're enjoying
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: here in a wildly successful winery, Queseret is. And congratulations
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: on your growth, Yuvanna. She was talking about living in Venice,
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: and of course, the ignorant American that I am, I
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: asked her if she had to get around by gondola
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: all the time. No, no, no, those are for tourists.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: Real people who actually live in the heart of Venice
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: and must travel by waterway use real boats with motors
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: and get there more efficiently and effectively, right? Is there
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: an Uber version of that that's there? No.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 2: No?
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 2: Coming to a.
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: Theater near you, Yuvanna. All right, we've been talking about Prosecco.
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: The first one was the Brut, which is dry.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: Is that what Brut means?
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: Well, going back to the whole comparison of Prosecco to Champagne,
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: I know Champagne's more labor-intensive to create and to bottle,
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: but you can find, can you not? I'm sort of
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: asking from a taste perspective. I mean, there's Sec, there's Demi-Sec,
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: there's Brut. There's all kinds of ranges of sweetness to
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: dryness with Champagne.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 7: Correct.
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: So isn't there like a champagne that sort of mirrors
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: the taste of Prosecco? Or am I missing a palate
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: component like I always do with you, brother?
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 8: No.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: Well, yes. Well, first off, loaded question. Oh, I didn't
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: realize that.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 11: Well, and I'll try not to get too in the
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 11: weeds on this. So as far as like flavor-wise, there's
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 11: absolutely a difference between champagne and Prosecco. Because of the
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 11: other steps and the other steps of fermentation with champagne,
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 11: usually the There's a yeastier, more kind of like bready,
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 11: croissant-y kind of like component to those wines. The other
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 11: side of it you asked about was kind of a
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 11: definition as far as like sweetness is concerned. So sec, demi-sec, brute,
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 11: you know, extra brute, dry, et cetera. All those are
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 11: different categories of the amount of sugar effectively that remains
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 11: in the bottle. So with a sparkling wine like this,
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 11: typically the acidity is very high. And then depending upon
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 11: how much sugar is in the final product, you're looking at,
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 11: it's just a different kind of textural component on the wine.
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 11: So it could either be like very, if it's like
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 11: low in sugar, high in acid, then it's very kind
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 11: of like bracing, super, super crisp. Whereas you could have like,
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 11: it's a Dew, D-O-U-X, for example. It's got a palatable
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 11: sweetness that you can detect there. So when I say
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 11: like there's sugar in the wine, it's not necessarily something
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 11: to where it tastes sweet. It's just something that- Like
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 11: a dessert wine.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 6: Correct.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 11: It's just something that balances out the flavor. So to
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 11: most people, inclusive of myself, it's something like a Brut,
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 11: for example. It tastes dry, but there's still some kind
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 11: of sugar in there.
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: A little hint. Correct, yeah.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 11: And we're talking about, was.
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: That nine grams? Nine grams of sugar. Nine grams per liter, right? Oh,
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: that's nothing.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm very sugar conscious in my diet, and I
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: try to keep all sugars out. At least then I can.
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: I know that I'm going to get some in there anyway.
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 6: Good idea.
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: So this would be an ideal thing considering the low
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: sugar volume.
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 13: Yes, Brut.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: And the difference between the Prosecco Milsimato Rose Extra Dry,
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: the grape, compared to the other one. The primary, I
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: can let you talk about this. No, come on. You're
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: in the United States.
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 6: Use some microphone time. You have a beautiful accent.
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: It's so good.
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 14: He has such a high knowledge that it's a pleasure
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 14: to listen to Keegan talk. Okay, here the grape is 85% glera, 15%
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 14: pinot nero.
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 14: Okay, here we have got 13 grams of sugar.
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: More than the last one. Yeah, it does rather, if
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: I tasted it, it would taste sweeter.
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 6: Hypothetically.
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: Caught myself there, didn't I?
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 14: For a rosé, it's more online to have a little
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 14: bit sugar. We also offer brut, millesimato rosé brut, with
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 14: less sugar. But here, they have this kind of option,
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 14: prosecco option.
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 1: All right. So, Casseret Winery, where can you get these?
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: I know, Keegan, if I was purchasing for a wholesaler
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: like you, if I was a restaurant or maybe a
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: wine shop, I could get it through you. Is this available, like, say,
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: at a Jungle Gems? Jungle Gems, absolutely. Jungle Gems, Party Source.
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: Party Source, too. Good, good, good, good, good.
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 6: E & O Restaurant.
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 11: We were actually eating at E & O last night.
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: Liquor City and Quartz. Yeah, Liquor City. You know, many
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: different places. Well, get a bottle or two, folks. I
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: know you will enjoy these wonderful wines from Quesare Winery
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: in Italy. And I'm pleased to have the folks from
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: the winery here. And Keegan, can't thank you enough for
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: bringing in Yovana Maudo. Maudo.
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 2: Maudo.
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: Mauro. I'll get it someday, Mauro. If you come back,
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: I guarantee I'll have it nailed down. Plus, Lucrezia's daughter,
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: all from Quesare Winery. It's been such a delight having
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: you here, and thank you for sharing the love of
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: this beautiful wine. I wish you all the success in
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: the future and further growth.
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 14: Thank you.
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: It's been my pleasure. Thank you. Don't go away. Oh,
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: please do.
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 6: Are you kidding me?
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: I talk politics for four hours every morning. This is
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: a delight. Judge Ananapolitano joins the program as he does
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: every Wednesday at 8.30. He'll be on next. I hope
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: he can stick around. Be right back. 55KRC. 8.33, 55KRC,
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: the talk station. Sadly, he's not there. Something's wrong. Judge Ananapolitano,
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: we exchanged emails yesterday. I received his column, Twilight's Last Gleaming,
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: which makes some really excellent points about the sad direction
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: our country's going in. A couple of back-and-forth emails yesterday
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: with Joe Giannopolitano, but sadly, I look up, he's not
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: logged into the Zoom call. So Joe tried to reach
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: out to him and figure out where he is and
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: what's going on. So I hope nothing is going on.
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: I hope just it's inadvertently... Oh, see, there he is!
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 8: I was.
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 13: My apologies. The internet gremlins are assaulting me this morning.
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, we exchanged texts yesterday or emails yesterday. I'm like,
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: I know he knows this is going on. So, okay,
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: fair enough. It's the gremlins that we face every day
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: here on my program as well. Judge Ed and Napolitano,
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: always a pleasure having you back. Excellent column, Twilight's Last Gleaming.
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: The word's gotten out. Thankfully, I guess we had to cross...
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: $ 40 trillion for people to get the memo about overspending
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: and wasting our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren's future in this country.
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: Judge Napolitano, $ 40 trillion. And we're projecting about $ 2 trillion
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: additional this year and deficits rising to $ 3. 1 trillion. Just
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: the outset of the fun facts in your column this morning.
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: This is unsustainable, Your Honor.
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 13: It is, and you can't blame either party or any
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 13: president because it's both parties and all presidents. I mean,
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 13: You know the last person to balance a budget for
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 13: two years in a row?
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton, correct. 1993, wasn't it?
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 13: Correct, correct. That's when Al Gore, I wanted to wring
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 13: his neck, Al Gore broke a tie in the Senate
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 13: to raise income taxes retroactively. And it went all the
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 13: way to the Supreme Court and said, Congress can tax
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 13: anything it wants. But it balanced the budgets. Today, nobody cares.
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 13: I mean, Trump has been extreme because of the war
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 13: and his fixation on the Defense Department. He wants to
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 13: give them $ 1. 5 trillion, which in one year will be
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 13: spending more than the next 12 defense departments combined, which
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 13: includes Russia, China, Iran, India, Pakistan, you know, countries with
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 13: big militaries. So he's a contributor, but he's not the
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 13: cause of this. I mean, this has been going on
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 13: since Woodrow Wilson. You've heard me use this number.
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 6: Or these stats.
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 13: I'll use them again. He borrowed $ 30 billion, seems small
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 13: potatoes today, to fight World War I. We are still
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 13: paying interest on the $ 30 billion. It's been rolled over.
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 13: It's owed to different people, but it hasn't been retired.
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 13: You know how much interest that's been paid on that.
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: $ 30 billion?
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 13: $ 15 billion. That's 50, 5-0%. Only the federal government dealing
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 13: with taxpayer dollars would pay 50% interest.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: That's the mentality in both parties. Well, Your Honor, in
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: modern monetary theory, they're making the argument that you can
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: just print yourself into prosperity. $ 40 trillion, big deal. Run
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: the printing press and eradicate it, which means the value
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: of the dollar goes down to basically zero. They don't
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: get the whole inflationary reality of modern monetary theory, but
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: I think they've been just riding that theory for years
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: and years and years, ignoring the deficit. You know, I
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: worry about my children, Your Honor. I commented to you yesterday,
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: like my mom will regularly point out, well, You know,
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: if it hits the fan or when it hits the fan,
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: at least at 87 years old, I'm not going to
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: be around to see it. At 60, my age, I'm
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: trying to start to think along the same lines. You know,
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: if I make it to 80, will we be underwater
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: and collapse with this monetary policy we've been following? But
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: then again, I think about my children.
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 13: Yes, your daughter just got married. I mean, what kind
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 13: of a world are she and your son-in-law going to
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 13: bring babies into?
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: That's a great question.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 13: Is Ohio going to be part of the United States
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 13: of America, or is this all going to break off
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 13: into separate republics because the federal government collapsed of its
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 13: own weight?
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, we talk about existential threats all the time,
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: Your Honor, and I have been on record for years
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: saying if there is any existential threat in the world,
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: I don't believe it's a bomb from Iran or Russia.
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: I don't believe necessarily the Chinese are going to be
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: behind it. I believe it's the weight of our own
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: profligate spending which is going to ruin us.
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 13: I mean, look at how difficult. And, you know, it's interesting, Brian,
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 13: you and I rarely spend the bulk of my time
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 13: with you on economics, but this is economics that everybody
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 13: can understand.
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 13: You know, the blue-collar guy who drives to work in
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 13: his pickup or uses his pickup as part of his
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 13: job knows how expensive things have gotten and how fuel
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 13: costs him twice as much today.
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 6: Part of that is the war.
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  Speaker 13: Part of that is inflation. Inflation is going to continue
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  Speaker 13: to get worse because that's what the government does.
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  Speaker 6: That's how it.
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  Speaker 13: tries to cushion the blow of its profligate spending.
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  Speaker 1: Well, inflation is going to get a little bit worse, too,
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  Speaker 1: and I say what you want about tariffs, but a
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  Speaker 1: great Wall Street Journal reporting the new tariffs with Canada
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  Speaker 1: are going to increase. We are already paying in the
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  Speaker 1: United States roughly 70%-ish more on steel and aluminum than
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  Speaker 1: every other country in the world because we're engaged in
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  Speaker 1: this tariff battle. I know there are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: fans that this should be an even playing field, and
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  Speaker 1: I embrace the concept of an even playing field, but
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you're involved in these negotiations with Canada,
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  Speaker 1: and it turns out we're going down the tariff road,
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  Speaker 1: we are going to be and currently are paying a
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  Speaker 1: lot more than we really should. Government policies at work.
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  Speaker 13: Tariff is a sales tax, and it affects Joe Sixpack.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone.
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  Speaker 13: You go to Walmart to buy a toaster. It doesn't
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  Speaker 13: cost you $ 25. It costs you $ 30. The Supreme Court
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  Speaker 13: invalidates the tariffs. Walmart gets back $ 100 billion, $ 100 billion,
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  Speaker 13: I'm rounding out the numbers, that have paid the federal government.
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  Speaker 13: Now it's up to you to go to Walmart to
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  Speaker 13: prove you bought the toaster to get your five bucks back.
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  Speaker 13: It's going to cost you $ 5 in gas to drive
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  Speaker 13: to Walmart to get the $ 5 back.
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  Speaker 10: This is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Government solutions usually are. Judge Ed Napolitano, judging freedom. Get
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: his podcast throughout the week, Judging Freedom. Just search for
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: it where you get your podcasts. Who is on the
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: program today, Judge Napolitano?
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 13: Gilbert Doctorow from Brussels, Glenn Deason from Norway, and the
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 13: great Phil Giraldi.
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  Speaker 1: Regular guest.
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  Speaker 13: I just keep plodding along, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: You do. Oh, and I must interject. We were dwelling
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: on the whole weight of our fiscal irresponsibility, but I
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: have to read one line from your column or two.
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  Speaker 1: But fiscal insolvency is only half the story. What's more
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  Speaker 1: frightening is the simultaneous deterioration of constitutional norms. The column,
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: Twilight's Last Gleaming, find it tonight wherever you get your columns.
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: Just search for it, Judge Ana Napolitano, Twilight's Last Gleaming,
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  Speaker 1: and read it. You'll enjoy it. Judge Napolitano, I always
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  Speaker 1: enjoy our conversations every Wednesday, and I appreciate what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk again next week.
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  Speaker 13: Thank you, Brian.
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  Speaker 6: All the best.
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  Speaker 1: And to you, sir.
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  Speaker 6: 8.46 on a Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday to you. Hey, did you get the memo?
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: It's Labor Day weekend. Labor Day weekend means a bunch
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: of fun stuff and things going on in and around
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  Speaker 1: downtown Cincinnati, which includes the Warbirds. James Stitt from the
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati Warbirds joining the program, returning to the program. It's
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: been a while, but always having great events going on
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  Speaker 1: with the Cincinnati Warbirds. James, welcome back, man. It's great
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  Speaker 1: to hear from you today.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Brian. Great to be on. Yep, it's Labor
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  Speaker 2: Day weekend coming up, and it's time for our Cincinnati
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  Speaker 2: Warbirds Lunkin Airport Days open house for the whole family
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate America's 250th birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Another reason to celebrate. You know, I can't believe it's
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  Speaker 1: been a year. You do this every year, the Lunkin
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  Speaker 1: Airport Days, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: We do every year on Labor Day weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Time flies. So CincinnatiWarbirds.org is where you get in touch
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  Speaker 1: with the group, and learn about the events that they
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: participate throughout the year, and also learn about the warbirds.
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  Speaker 1: What type of aircraft do you have there? These are beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: really wonderfully maintained aircrafts from different, like World War II,
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  Speaker 1: for example. And you bring these around to participate in
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: things like the Lunkin Airport Days. Which particular aircraft do
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  Speaker 1: you have on display?
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  Speaker 2: Well, this year we will be hosting the History Restored Tour,
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  Speaker 2: which features the World War II B-29 bomber dock, one
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  Speaker 2: of only two still flying in the world today, along
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  Speaker 2: with a P-51 Mustang gunfighter, the preeminent fighter in the
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  Speaker 2: European theater for World War II. Both of them will
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  Speaker 2: be offering rides and on static display Thursday through Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Then on Saturday and Sunday, there will be several other
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  Speaker 2: historic military and civilian aircraft. We'll have some helicopter rides,
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  Speaker 2: a classic car show, military vehicles, exhibits, food trucks, and
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  Speaker 2: there'll be a patriotic flag ceremony at noon each day.
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  Speaker 2: And if somebody misses out on booking a plane ride,
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  Speaker 2: we'll also have a flight simulator there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I can't tell you how excited I'll
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  Speaker 1: be if I was lined up for a flight of
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  Speaker 1: the B-29, but even more excited about the P-51 fighter aircraft.
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  Speaker 1: People can fly and get a ride in the P-51
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  Speaker 1: as well, James?
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  Speaker 10: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: What's it like?
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  Speaker 2: It's a fantastic once-in-a-lifetime experience.
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  Speaker 1: Jim, you've been in it, I guarantee. I don't even
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: know that. I'm asking you a question blind, but I've
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: got to imagine you've been up in that thing. What's
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: it like?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's difficult to explain. It's quite a visceral experience.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can see videos and movies and pictures
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 2: and so forth, but until you're actually sitting in the
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 2: aircraft experiencing the sights, the sounds, the three-dimensional space, it's
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 2: just incredible.
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  Speaker 1: I can only imagine. And so, obviously, limited number of flights,
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: you've got a finite amount of time here. Are there
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  Speaker 1: limited spaces available? Are people already buying tickets for these flights,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's on the B-29 or the P-51?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you can book in advance, and I suggest doing
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 2: that because the spots fill up early. On our website, www.cincinnatiwarbirds.org,
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  Speaker 2: will be the links to the websites where you can
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  Speaker 2: reserve those flights.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and a shout-out and praise to the Cincinnati Warbirds
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  Speaker 1: and the Lunkin Airport days. I see that the Friday
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  Speaker 1: morning B-29 flights, have all been donated to members of
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement. I think that's outstanding.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we do that every year. Purchase three or four
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  Speaker 2: full flights on the B-29 and then donate them to
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement and first responders. It's a way of giving
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  Speaker 2: back and showing our appreciation.
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  Speaker 1: Well, being the car guy that I am, I can't
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  Speaker 1: overlook the fact that you've got a classic car show
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  Speaker 1: going on as well.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, classic car show. Generally, we have a Corvette Club
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  Speaker 2: brings some of the British car folks, both on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: and Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: And can people register to get their own vehicles in there?
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: Is that possible, or is it too late, or what's
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: the story on car show entry?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's not a formal registration process, just... Come out
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  Speaker 2: to the car show, and we'll find a spot for you.
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  Speaker 1: Park it.
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  Speaker 2: Park right here. We'll take care of you. Then another
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  Speaker 2: exciting thing is on Sunday afternoon, we'll be conducting formation
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  Speaker 2: flyovers of Riverfest to entertain the crowds waiting for the
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  Speaker 2: EBN fireworks.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's perfect. You know, I love when the warbirds
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  Speaker 1: are flying around because my house is sort of, kind
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: of north, I guess a little bit west of Lunkin Airport.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, a number of miles away. But when you
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: guys are taking off out of Lunkin Airport, I always
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: look up and see it because I can hear the
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  Speaker 1: warbirds playing. They don't sound like modern aircraft at all.
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  Speaker 1: It's just an amazing thing. Like, oh, my God, the
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: warbirds are out. Let me run out in the backyard
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  Speaker 1: and see you guys flying around. So that's a great
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  Speaker 1: thing that you're doing with the flyover for the EBN fireworks, folks.
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  Speaker 6: And food.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, there's going to be food. I have to assume that.
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  Speaker 1: And we've got food trucks and that kind of thing
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  Speaker 1: going on.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, food trucks and some other exhibitors as well. There's
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 2: free admission and parking. It's a great family-friendly, patriotic way
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate the end of summer and America's 250th birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wish you the best on weather and cooperation
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  Speaker 1: along those lines. And let's face it, man, you know it.
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: James Stitt from Cincinnati Warbirds, what an amazing opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: parents to bring young people to an event like this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can't implore people enough to get young
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  Speaker 1: people out at this event.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's one of the reasons we do this. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of this history isn't taught that much anymore. So
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 2: it's important that we try to inspire younger generations to
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  Speaker 2: continue this legacy and educate the public on the price
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  Speaker 2: of freedom.
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  Speaker 1: James Stitt, Cincinnati Warbirds. Go online, CincinnatiWarbirds.org. Get your tickets
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  Speaker 1: and reserve them for if you want to fly on
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  Speaker 1: a B-29 or a P-51. Yes, get your tickets early
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  Speaker 1: because there's going to be limited availability. They also have
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: apparently helicopter flights. But also, you can inspect the plane's
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: ground and cockpit tours going on at Lunkin Airport. It's
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: September 5th and 6th. 10 a.m. is the start time
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  Speaker 1: of 262 Wilmer Avenue, if you don't know where it is.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what, James? Joe Strecker has added a
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  Speaker 1: link to all this information on my blog page at 55KRC. iHeart. com.
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  Speaker 1: So if you can remember the website, like I struggle
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: with since they changed it, head on over there and
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: get all the details. But make sure you get your tickets.
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  Speaker 1: And make sure you show up this weekend. Bring the
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: kids to the Lunkin Airport. James, on behalf of all
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: of my listening audience and me personally, I appreciate all
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: that you are doing throughout the year with the Cincinnati Warbirds,
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: and I know everyone's going to have a great time
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  Speaker 1: at the Lincoln Airport days this weekend.