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55KRC Thursday Show - Warren Davidson, Rand Paul, Empower U, Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: The talk station five o five at the five k
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Speaker 1: It is, isn't it? Happy Friday? E Brian Thomas here,
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Speaker 1: host of the fifty five care Morning Show. Hey, early
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Speaker 1: voting is open. Did I mention that over the last
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Speaker 1: couple of days. Yeah, I had a great event last night.
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Speaker 1: Got to introduce Christopher Smithman and the beautiful home up
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Speaker 1: in arf Mount Hope on Yah what site. And uh,
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Speaker 1: he's excited and the people in the room very excited
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Speaker 1: for Christopher Smithmen. A lot of praise for Christopher good Man.
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Speaker 1: Just appreciate everything he's done for the city and what
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Speaker 1: he will do for the city when he's re elected
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Speaker 1: hopefully to CINCINNTI City Council. Got an option there, and
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Speaker 1: remember the advice from Christopher Smithman. You got to you
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Speaker 1: can vote for nine, don't vote for all nine spots.
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Speaker 1: There aren't nine good candidates running for since I City Council.
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Speaker 1: Least that's my subjective opinion. You draw your own conclusions.
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Speaker 1: Just please do your research. Coming up at the fifty
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Speaker 1: five CARC Morning Show seven oh five with Congressman Warren
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Speaker 1: David said, yes, the government is still shut down. Senate
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Speaker 1: went through the whole motion again yesterday, and of course
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Speaker 1: the Democrats sticking to their guns saying no to reopening
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Speaker 1: the government. Is it breaking your heart? And a little
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Speaker 1: alarm alarm bell ringing for me. I saw this headline
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Speaker 1: in the Wall Street Journal. I read the article Republicans
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Speaker 1: cautioned White House on inflicting shutdown pain. You know, Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump had said the other day that within four or
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Speaker 1: five days, the Office of Management and Budget would provide
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Speaker 1: him with the list of all those extra agencies and
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Speaker 1: employees in government that really aren't necessary and probably should
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Speaker 1: have been fired a long time ago, being unnecessary, and
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Speaker 1: of course responsible for part of the bloat in federal government.
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Speaker 1: They're saying, hey, hey, hey, you might not want to
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Speaker 1: go down that road because it might give the Democrats
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Speaker 1: a leg up in the argument over who is responsible
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Speaker 1: for the shutdown. The suggestion being if Donald Trump goes
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Speaker 1: through and fudge a bunch of people, then they're going
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Speaker 1: to point to that and say, see, here's the reason
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Speaker 1: the government was shut down. Donald Trump just wanted to
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Speaker 1: be in a position where he could shut and fire
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Speaker 1: and close down various departments. Look, he's at it. There's
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Speaker 1: the revelation right there. They can try. I mean, you'd
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Speaker 1: have to throw that argument out in the face of
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Speaker 1: the repeated arguments from Democrats that they want to continue
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Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen era gift, which was no premium for Obamacare.
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Speaker 1: How can you get away from the fact that it
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Speaker 1: was a COVID nineteen related thing. Was it necessary at
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Speaker 1: the time? Right, Well, with hindsight we might say no.
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Speaker 1: Was it necessary to shut the entire economy down during
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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. Well, with hindsight you might say no. Do
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Speaker 1: we learn a lot of lessons for the future about
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Speaker 1: what we need to keep open and shut down? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I think we did. As there been a lot of
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Speaker 1: litigation over the unconstitutional closing of businesses, churches, free exercise
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Speaker 1: of religion, right to free assembly, et cetera, et cetera.
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Speaker 1: Firing people for not getting COVID nineteen. Yeah, a lot
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Speaker 1: of them, and most of them went the favor of
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Speaker 1: the people who were subject to the abuse, The people
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Speaker 1: who lost their jobs because they wouldn't get a COVID
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Speaker 1: nineteen vaccine. You got your job back and you got
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Speaker 1: some back pay. So yeah, we learned a lot. So
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Speaker 1: all that was going on and all these abuses of
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Speaker 1: our rights were taking place, they thought it was appropriate
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Speaker 1: to give us relief on COVID night or on Obamacare.
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Speaker 1: Those days are over. The predicate doesn't exist anymore. So
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Speaker 1: who wins that argument? Well, if people out in the
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Speaker 1: world are actually paying attention and they walked through the motions,
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Speaker 1: they realize that, yes, it's the Democrats again. We're looking
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Speaker 1: at a cr that they rejected yesterday that keeps the
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Speaker 1: government funding at Biden era funding level. Schumer's got nothing
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Speaker 1: to complain about other than the far left of his
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Speaker 1: party who are insisting that you and I be well
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Speaker 1: permanently held hostage under a one size fits all, which
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Speaker 1: never fits everybody form of medical care from the government. Golly,
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Speaker 1: you know, I rail against the idea of, you know,
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Speaker 1: your life being dependent upon the government. I've always looked
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Speaker 1: at like, for example, moving over to pharmaceuticals, do you
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Speaker 1: want your life to be contingent on getting a drug
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Speaker 1: from a pharmaceutical company? I wouldn't. Nobody wants to be
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Speaker 1: in that position. But once you're there, you're kind of
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Speaker 1: on shaky ground. Is that company always going to be
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Speaker 1: there is regulation going to take the drug away from me.
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Speaker 1: Is some FDA going to say, oh my god, that
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Speaker 1: drug's no longer approved and you no longer have it.
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Speaker 1: Your life's inm pariled. Somebody is responsible for your life.
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Speaker 1: That would be you under a government medical program. Can
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Speaker 1: you sue the government for denying medical care? Probably not.
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Speaker 1: They're usually immune from liability. Can you sue an insurance
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Speaker 1: company for refusal to pay a claim that should be
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Speaker 1: covered under your policy. You're damn right you can, and
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Speaker 1: you can sue them for bad faith. That kind of
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Speaker 1: litigation goes on all the time. The rights are in
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Speaker 1: your corner. You have a contract, you're paying your premium.
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Speaker 1: They have obligations that they owe to you. It's a
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Speaker 1: sort of a free market concept out here in the
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Speaker 1: real world of medical care. You can just take that
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Speaker 1: and flush it down the toilet. I'm sorry, due to
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Speaker 1: limitations on government. We have a massive debt, we have
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Speaker 1: debt service, we have all these obligations. We're cutting back
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Speaker 1: on your medical program. That's the future and an a
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Speaker 1: one size fits all approach where government is that one
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Speaker 1: size That is not something I view positively at all.
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Speaker 1: You draw your own conclusions Senator Ran Paul seven thirty
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Speaker 1: with the Senator shut down Senates and uh well peace
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Speaker 1: in Israel. We do have a glimmer of hope and
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Speaker 1: it's a really beautiful thing that happened yesterday. Get to
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Speaker 1: that minute. Power are you? Hunter Oswald is going to
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Speaker 1: join the program at eight to five talking about the
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Speaker 1: future of jen Z Conservatism and yeay, the return of
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Speaker 1: iHeart Media. Aviation expert Jay Rattluff got some really good
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Speaker 1: topics to talk about him, including a batcrap insane idea
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Speaker 1: from west Jet. I'm not going to do a reveal
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Speaker 1: on that one, but Jay got in touching the yesterday
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Speaker 1: and opened my eyes to that one. Wow is all
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Speaker 1: I can say. So we'll hear from him at eight
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Speaker 1: thirty five, one, three, seven, four, nine to fifty five hundred,
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Speaker 1: eight hundred and eighty two to three talk pound five
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Speaker 1: fifty on AT and T phones. Will the protests end? Hmmm? Well,
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Speaker 1: Hamas has agreed to the peace deal. Yes, the one
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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump pushed in an effort to end the
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Speaker 1: war in Gaza and get the hostages return happened yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Trump announced it yesterday. I am very proud to announce
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Speaker 1: that Israel and Hamas. Israel and Hamas together have both
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Speaker 1: our now in the first phase of our peace plan.
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Speaker 1: This means that all of the hostages we were released
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Speaker 1: very soon in Israel withdraw their troops to integrate uponline.
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Speaker 1: As the first step towards a strong, durable and everlasting peace.
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Speaker 1: All parties will be treated fairly. This is a great
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Speaker 1: day for Arab in the Muslim world, Israel and all
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Speaker 1: surrounding nations, and the United States of America. We thank
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Speaker 1: our mediators from Cutter, Egypt, Turkey who worked with us
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Speaker 1: to make this historic and unprecedented event happen. Blessed are
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Speaker 1: the peacemakers hmm. John Sad expects the hostages to be
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Speaker 1: released by Monday. Now it's not sure whether he's going
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Speaker 1: to go, but net and Yahoo and did invite him
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Speaker 1: to address Israeli's parliament on Parliament on Sunday. Photos from
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Speaker 1: the negotiation room show senior officials embracing and shaking hands.
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Speaker 1: Hamas leader Khalil al Hayaya, as well as other senior
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Speaker 1: Hamas officials appeared to be smiling. According to reporting from
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Speaker 1: the meeting. Israel Prime Minister net Yahoo, in a statement
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Speaker 1: with God's help, we will bring them all home. A
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Speaker 1: great day for Israel. Tomorrow, I'll convene the government to
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Speaker 1: approve the agreement and bring all of our dear hostages home.
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Speaker 1: I thank the heroic soldiers of the IDF and all
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Speaker 1: the security forces. Thanks to their courage and sacrifice, we
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Speaker 1: reached this day. I think from the bottom of my heart,
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Speaker 1: President Trump and his team were mobilizing the sacred mission
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Speaker 1: of freeing our hostages. Oh praise for Trump. There's one,
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Speaker 1: Hamas announced in a statement. After responsible and serious negotiations
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Speaker 1: conducted by the movement and the Palestinian resistance factions regarding
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Speaker 1: President Trump's proposal with the aim of ending the war
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Speaker 1: of extermination against our Palestinian people and the withdraw of
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Speaker 1: the occupation from Gaza, strip Hamas announces the reaching of
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Speaker 1: an agreement that ends the war on Gaza, provides for
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Speaker 1: the withdrawal of the occupation, allows the entry of aid,
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Speaker 1: and implements a prisoner exchange. Humas on board. They also said,
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Speaker 1: we greatly appreciate the efforts of the mediators in Cutter Egypt, Turkey,
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Speaker 1: and oh my god, here's another one. Thanks US President
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump for his efforts to bring about a final
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Speaker 1: end of the war, and they'll full withdraw the occupation
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Speaker 1: from God's a strip. Oh my God, am us in
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Speaker 1: a statement praising Donald Trump for his efforts on this
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Speaker 1: Who among my listening audience think the left is actually
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Speaker 1: angry over this development, that they're pissed off because Trump
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Speaker 1: made some headway into getting this ridiculous, bloody conflict resolved. Huh,
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Speaker 1: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cutter announce that the agreement
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Speaker 1: was reached tonight on all terms mechanism for implementing the
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Speaker 1: first phase of the Gaza sees Fire Agreement first phase,
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Speaker 1: and that's an important thing to note now. According to
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Speaker 1: Israeli officials, the living hostages are expected to be released
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Speaker 1: in a single phase that would take place, they say,
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Speaker 1: within seventy two hours. However, of the forty five or
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Speaker 1: so hostages that are within the control of Hamas, apparently
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Speaker 1: only about twenty are alive. Hamas has reported that locating
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Speaker 1: the bodies of the dead hostages may prove to be
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Speaker 1: a bit of a challenge because they're not located in
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Speaker 1: areas under its control, or at least all of them are,
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Speaker 1: and they've got bodies strewn all over the place. I
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Speaker 1: guess they lost track or where they park them. The
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Speaker 1: hostage families released a statement say the hostage families wish
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Speaker 1: to express deep gratitude too. Oh there's another reference, US
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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump and his team for the leadership and
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Speaker 1: determination that led to this historic breakthrough, an end of
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Speaker 1: the war, and a comprehensive agreement to return all the hostages. Well,
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Speaker 1: now there are certain terms of the agreement remaining unclear.
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Speaker 1: Now the hostage part seems to be locked in. Israel's
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Speaker 1: going to give up the hostages it's holding and those
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Speaker 1: that they have sentenced to prison. AMASA is giving up
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Speaker 1: the ones that are alive, as well as returning the
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Speaker 1: dead bodies. But what else is going to happen now?
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Speaker 1: Under the original agreement, AMAS would have to completely disarm
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Speaker 1: in exchange for the operation to end the war. More
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Speaker 1: humanitarian aid for the Palestines would have to be pushed
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Speaker 1: into the area, and planning for the reconstruction of Gaza
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Speaker 1: that is still to be determined how and who's going
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Speaker 1: to manage all of that? But can you imagine the
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Speaker 1: reconstruction of Gaza? Think of like post World War II
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Speaker 1: Europe bombed out, Yes, but what emerged from the other side,
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Speaker 1: with great assistance from the United States, who perceived, hmm,
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to build a great block of trading partners
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Speaker 1: and lo and behold, welcome to the NATO Alliance and
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Speaker 1: Western Europe join forces with the rest of the Western
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Speaker 1: world and bringing about massive success, only to be undermined
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Speaker 1: by the radical shift to the left toward socialism. See
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Speaker 1: the economies of Germany and France right now. Anyway, Sorry
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Speaker 1: to interject that Hamas under the original terms also to
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Speaker 1: have been granted amnesty for willingly giving up their arms,
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Speaker 1: So no ramifications for those who engage in hostilities against Israel.
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Speaker 1: Specifics on various aspects of the deal are ambiguous according
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Speaker 1: to the reporting, including the international quote Board of Peace
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Speaker 1: close quote that apparently is going to be headed by
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump as well as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Speaker 1: Board of Peace. The question is what troops are going
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Speaker 1: to be supporting, you know, by way of the muscle
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Speaker 1: that this Board of Peace, you know, insofar as the terms, conditions,
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Speaker 1: the how things unfold in Gaza in the aftermath of
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Speaker 1: the ceasefire, so you're going to have to have something
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Speaker 1: there to provide this strength to move forward with this
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Speaker 1: board of pieces proposals, and so far as Palestinian statehood,
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Speaker 1: there's no indication of how that could be accomplished. There's
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Speaker 1: a big looming question mark out there, because of course
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Speaker 1: we all know that's one of the big demands, most
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Speaker 1: notably the protesters out looting and ransacking various cities in
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Speaker 1: our country included. Trump warned that if mass did not
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Speaker 1: agree to the deal, Israel would have had the full
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Speaker 1: backing of the United States to unleash a world of hurt.
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Speaker 1: So there's that piece through strength that Trump's been harping on.
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Speaker 1: Oh he's evil, he'd get us in the middle of
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Speaker 1: all these wars and conflict. He sometimes you got to
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Speaker 1: flex your muscle. Donald Trump, well, basically gave free reign
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Speaker 1: to the Israelis to unleash a world of hurt. We're
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Speaker 1: no longer going to be holding back. I guess we're
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Speaker 1: going to give them arms. And you know it's going
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Speaker 1: to get worse than Gaza if you don't sign this deal.
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Speaker 1: You think that may have helped bring them us to
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Speaker 1: the table. Something suggests to me. Yeah, But in the
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Speaker 1: final analysis, this is a good thing. It's a positive thing.
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Speaker 1: No more bloody death and Gaza. Hopefully Jay's on the phone.
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Speaker 1: You I'll take your card just a minute, got to run.
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Speaker 1: It's five nineteen. This is fifty five KRC and iHeart
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Speaker 1: oh because Jay's on the line. Decided to hold over
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Speaker 1: the break. Welcome back, Jay, good to hear from you
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Speaker 1: this morning.
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Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, Brian, Hey, welcome to Day nine of freedom.
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Speaker 2: I did the math. I did the math, and it's
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Speaker 2: we are now up to forty eight billion dollars of savings,
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Speaker 2: which is, to put that into context, that is twenty
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Speaker 2: percent of the total DOGE savings. I think DOGE is
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Speaker 2: up to two hundred billion. And in nine short days
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Speaker 2: of having twenty percent of the government shut down, we're
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Speaker 2: up to forty billions, and which is fantastic. But what
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Speaker 2: kills me as I listened to Americans for Prosperity and
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Speaker 2: I love those guys, and listen to your segment earlier
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Speaker 2: this morning here that they're Republicans and the Conservatives are
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Speaker 2: freaking out where we got We have Americans for Prosperity
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Speaker 2: and Senator Lankford trying to pass Stop Government shut Down Act. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: how about we start bonusing them? How about we go
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Speaker 2: the other way, we start like million dollar bonuses for everybody.
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Speaker 2: We we know everybody and works in Washington, DC as
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Speaker 2: a politician is just a horror.
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Speaker 1: They pay them extra to fulfill a core function of
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Speaker 1: their job, which is the past twelve appropriations bills annually.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's get that done. When they can shut
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Speaker 2: government down.
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Speaker 1: We're paying young people to not commit crimes. That's a
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Speaker 1: theory launched by the left.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well, they're just a bunch of horrors of
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Speaker 2: money talks, and just like corporate bonuses. If they can
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Speaker 2: shut the government down for fifty percent of the year
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Speaker 2: and put in save that money for the American people
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Speaker 2: and they go home, let's give them millions of dollars
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Speaker 2: to do it. It's the only thing that's going to
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Speaker 2: drive the behavior is money. And but for crying out loud, Republicans,
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Speaker 2: quit acting like it's a crisis. When the government is
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Speaker 2: shut down, what they should be doing is sitting down
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Speaker 2: keeping their mouths shut, instead of trying to tell government.
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Speaker 2: To tell President Trump, this sounds like something right out
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Speaker 2: of Central Committee. The Central Committee is trying to tell Trump,
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Speaker 2: you better be careful, don't cut the size and cost
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Speaker 2: of government. We don't want to take the advantage of
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Speaker 2: cutting the bloat. The first time we've had this opportunity.
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Speaker 3: In a lifetime.
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Speaker 4: You better not do that.
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Speaker 2: Because we'd rather we're we're more concerned about the optics
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Speaker 2: than about what the American people were paying for all
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Speaker 2: this crowd Republican Party.
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Speaker 1: The concern about the optics of who's going to be
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Speaker 1: blamed for the what will ultimately be temporary shutdown. So
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Speaker 1: you said, I get it.
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Speaker 2: They're more concerned about that than cutting the size of
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Speaker 2: government and saving us money as we're looking at a
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Speaker 2: thirty seven trillion dollar deficit. That's where their priorities are.
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Speaker 2: It is where they're focusing, Isn't that.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that a badge of honor? Jay? Yeah, okay, I'll
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Speaker 1: take the blavor and shut of the government down because
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Speaker 1: I got to accomplish what we were wanting to do
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Speaker 1: for blanket ever we reduced jo There you go. I
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Speaker 1: like that message.
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Speaker 2: That's what That's what I'm sharing. I want trying to
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Speaker 2: cheer this on, but I'm hearing American for Prosperity saying
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Speaker 2: we're behind this, Uh, you know, don't shut government down Act.
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Speaker 4: It's like, are you kidding?
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Speaker 3: Me.
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Speaker 2: Were any conservatives left out?
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Speaker 1: No, no, no. That that I think is a good thing.
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Speaker 1: It takes all of the wind out of the whole
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Speaker 1: concept of government shutdowns. There's no harm with the government shutdown.
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Speaker 1: Things remain kind of status quo.
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Speaker 2: This this contract, Yeah, we contain, we continue to fund
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Speaker 2: it at Biden's level.
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Speaker 4: That's the that's the a little bit.
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Speaker 1: There's no more hostage taking with this shutdown.
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Speaker 3: I'll take it.
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Speaker 2: Take the hostages, you know, I hear about I hear about, Well,
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Speaker 2: these poor people in the federal government. I mean, they
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Speaker 2: have some uncertainty with their job. Now, isn't that true
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Speaker 2: for all of us?
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Speaker 1: But the shutdown one.
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Speaker 2: Of us out here in the rural world, we could
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Speaker 2: be fired today and we'd have to go figure it out.
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Speaker 2: These people in the federal government are coddled adult children
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Speaker 2: who don't work that hard. Usually federal union employees figure
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Speaker 2: it out.
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Speaker 1: I'll concede that point. Considering what's going on at our
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Speaker 1: heart media right now, all I'm gonna let it go
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna leave it at that. Jay close up
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Speaker 1: with your statement because we're ount of time.
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Speaker 2: Art, Thank you, and an conclusion. Adult vote Rhino and
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Speaker 2: don't vote Democrat. I really appreciate you giving me the
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Speaker 2: last five Thanks.
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Speaker 1: Jay, appreciate it. That's five twenty seven. If I've seen
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Speaker 1: the station, now's the time you got to reach out
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Speaker 1: the cover since it's owners been Warren Davidson, followed by
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Speaker 1: Senator Ran Paul. That'll take place at the seven o'clock
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Speaker 1: out Cutter Oswald doing an empower youse seminar on the
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Speaker 1: future of gen Z Conservatism and Jay Rattlift Love Jay
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Speaker 1: Ratliffe love having the conversation with him. We got a
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Speaker 1: particularly interesting and comical topic with Jay coming up an
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Speaker 1: eight thirty the mean time. Over the phones, Tom, thanks
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Speaker 1: for calling this morning as always. Welcome back.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, good morning, and uh yeah love listening to Jay's
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Speaker 3: phone call. Yeah, he needs he needs to be a
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Speaker 3: little more passionate though, I mean, I know you can't.
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Speaker 3: You can't really tell how he feels about that. I
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Speaker 3: appreciate Jay, keep up the good word, buddy.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I'm looking at these two different stories. You got the
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Speaker 3: government shut down and then you got the craft going
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Speaker 3: on in the Middle East, and they have some similarities
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Speaker 3: and some distinct differences. Obviously, you got two sides lobbing
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Speaker 3: stuff at each other. And over in the Middle East
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Speaker 3: actual literally people are dying.
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Speaker 1: Literally, I mean people are.
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Speaker 3: Getting killed literally, and over here you got the Democrats
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Speaker 3: saying people are going to die. So that's a bit
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Speaker 3: of a difference. But there's still things going back and
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Speaker 3: forth and all that, and we want it we I mean,
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Speaker 3: we generally want both of them to stop. And so
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Speaker 3: it's good thing that the fighting at least the fighting
19:53
Speaker 3: is sot to stop. So if the if you know,
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Speaker 3: in over in the Middle East, if if nobody's firing
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Speaker 3: and bullets at each other, that's a good thing. We
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Speaker 3: we applaud that. Yes, thank you very much everyone involved
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Speaker 3: in that. But just like what the government shut down,
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Speaker 3: though even when the government gets back together, it is
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Speaker 3: fully functioning again, what's really changed, What what's really gonna
20:18
Speaker 3: be different? And I think that's the part that that
20:22
Speaker 3: people get scared about and causes them to make a
20:26
Speaker 3: decision to do something they didn't want to do because
20:28
Speaker 3: they know if they don't like you brought up Trump's threat, Look,
20:32
Speaker 3: you guys are gonna accept this plan. We're just gonna
20:34
Speaker 3: start giving Israel more more weapons and they're just gonna
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Speaker 3: demolish it and and so maybe that's what moved them
20:41
Speaker 3: the masta finally go okay, okay, all right, all right,
20:44
Speaker 3: let's talk let's talk serious here, and something like that
20:47
Speaker 3: is probably going to make the left, the Democrats go,
20:51
Speaker 3: you know what, Okay, enough's enough, because this is actually
20:55
Speaker 3: now we're to the point where it's gonna hurt. I
20:57
Speaker 3: don't know what that is. Because right now, if the
20:59
Speaker 3: government were to go back to get and start functioning,
21:03
Speaker 3: a lot of these people, if not most of them,
21:05
Speaker 3: are gonna get back pay. And so you know, Jay's
21:08
Speaker 3: got figures that he's keep a track of how much
21:10
Speaker 3: of those figures will still be in place once everybody
21:13
Speaker 3: gets their back pay. I don't know if how much
21:16
Speaker 3: of a savings it'll be we actually paid people. We're
21:19
Speaker 3: gonna pay people to not do anything. But seems to
21:21
Speaker 3: be like a government way of the handling thing, not
21:24
Speaker 3: just Democrats but Republicans. Do you know, like here, here's
21:27
Speaker 3: some money to go do nothing? Like what what what
21:30
Speaker 3: are we talking about here? I don't understand. This doesn't
21:33
Speaker 3: make any sense. I know that's not true in my
21:36
Speaker 3: world and for for most of us who are out
21:38
Speaker 3: there going to work every day. If I don't do anything.
21:41
Speaker 3: I don't function and produce something. At least show up
21:45
Speaker 3: for work and be there and try. I'm not getting paid. Well,
21:48
Speaker 3: I think that's a great incentive for people to have.
21:51
Speaker 3: We should make sure that that's always there so that
21:54
Speaker 3: keeps people motivated. It'd be nice if people were self motivated,
21:57
Speaker 3: but they're not. I mean, we just just be honest.
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Speaker 3: It takes something to drive us to do things. That's
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Speaker 3: that's how we are. So that's okay.
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Speaker 1: The paper, Well, we.
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Speaker 3: Gotta have adults. We gotta have adults. Keep that there.
22:09
Speaker 3: You gotta have parents to teach the children. There's consequences. Oh,
22:14
Speaker 3: here's some good things you'll get if you do this.
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Speaker 3: You got to hold them to it. People got to
22:18
Speaker 3: be held accountable, period. It's it's the only way to
22:21
Speaker 3: do it. And there's too many people who don't want
22:23
Speaker 3: to be held accountable. They want whatever they want, They
22:26
Speaker 3: want it for nothing. They want their way and they're
22:28
Speaker 3: going to stump their feet and thrash on the floor
22:30
Speaker 3: until they get it like a five year old. That's said,
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Speaker 3: and that's on both sides of the aisle. Don't vote Rhino,
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Speaker 3: don't vote Democrat. Have a great game, Brian.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Tom, I appreciate your through talk station and a
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Speaker 1: very happy Friday Eve. Stack is stupid calls are welcome,
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Speaker 1: but in the absence there, oh, we can dive into
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Speaker 1: the stack of stupid. It's been a while since we've
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Speaker 1: really gotten through a stack of stupid, but I ferk
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Speaker 1: phone calls anyway. Five fifty two three talk. Let's start
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Speaker 1: with a typical Friday story showing up on Friday Eve,
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Speaker 1: Florida well being booked. While being booked into a Florida
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Speaker 1: lock up on drug and trespassing charges, man named Walter
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Speaker 1: Freimeyer had to go through the X ray machine the
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Speaker 1: jailers used to well prevent attempts to smuggle contraband into
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Speaker 1: the jail. Fifty one year old Fremeyer not found to
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Speaker 1: established weapons or narcotics on his person, but they say,
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Speaker 1: according to the Smoking Gun Funny website, he was still
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Speaker 1: packing and there's an X ray image. I guess it
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Speaker 1: was from him during the going through the X ray machine.
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Speaker 1: As senior the adjacent image when Fremeer went through the
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Speaker 1: body scammer corrections, workers spotted what they described as a
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Speaker 1: full size thermos inside the detainee's body. You hit the
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Speaker 1: nail on the head there, Joseph, I love the commentary
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Speaker 1: from the smoking gun. Sadly, police records did not include
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Speaker 1: the manufacturer or dimensions of the thermos, which entered Fremeyer's
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Speaker 1: body a day earlier. What Via, according to the pol
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Speaker 1: County Sheriff Grady Judd, quote the exit ramp close quote phrasing. Farmar,
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Speaker 1: described as having a lengthy criminal record, busted Saturday evening
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Speaker 1: by for trespassing on an Amtrak property in winter Haven.
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Speaker 1: Frisk turned to a glass pipe with burned residue consisting
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Speaker 1: of methan fhetamine it. They note in the Affidavid that
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Speaker 1: the Fremeer reportedly admitted to using methan fetamine for the
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Speaker 1: last twenty eight years. What while being taken to jail,
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Speaker 1: allegedly warned an officer, quote if you arrest me, I
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Speaker 1: will find you and kill you close quote. What they
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Speaker 1: reminded him was illegal to make such a thread. He
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Speaker 1: then said, good, I'm going to kill you, so charge
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Speaker 1: meaning charge. Fri Meyer locked up in lieu of a
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Speaker 1: twelve thousand dollars bona two felony and two misdemeanor counts.
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Speaker 1: The thermos was removed from fremeer's ractum at a local hospital,
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Speaker 1: although he has not been charged with trying to smuggle
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Speaker 1: prohibited items into the jail. Is there reminded that South
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Speaker 1: Park episode Joe a couple of them. Ye okay, now
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Speaker 1: you draw your own conclusions on this. Does bad taste
25:35
Speaker 1: allow people to allow police to prosecute you? We go
25:39
Speaker 1: to Kentucky, Stanton, Kentucky, particularly where a guy's facing charges
25:42
Speaker 1: over his Halloween decorations. Stanton, just outside of Lexington, where
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Speaker 1: they say please say. Fifty year old Stephen Markham displayed
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Speaker 1: fake hanging body bags that were labeled quote district judge
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Speaker 1: close quote and another one labeled simply mayor some had
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Speaker 1: ropes around the next Markham charged with intimidation and terroristic threatening.
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Speaker 1: I got a kick out of this. His arraignment postponed
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Speaker 1: after the judge recused himself, and I wonder who the
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Speaker 1: district judge was that he was depicting in his front
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Speaker 1: yard anyway. According to Eddie Barnes, Powell County Judge, execative,
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Speaker 1: if you're going to express yourself, don't do it in
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Speaker 1: a way that could be harmful to others or threatening
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Speaker 1: to others seeing by seeing those hanging up and the
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Speaker 1: representatives marked on them. It's somewhat alarming, but is it
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Speaker 1: ticket worthy. I'm not saying this is done in good taste.
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Speaker 1: But Markham, apparently in dispute with the city over some
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Speaker 1: zoning violations, found to hook up legal utilities, creating what
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Speaker 1: the city called potential fire hasards, sanitations, and health risk
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Speaker 1: at his property, and last month a judge find him
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty bucks and gave him thirty days
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Speaker 1: to comply. Shortly after that is when he put up
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Speaker 1: the threatening Halloween decorations. I think, while it is in
27:03
Speaker 1: bad taste, I wouldn't recommend anyone doing something like that.
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Speaker 1: I think it's protected. And I made all this swirling
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Speaker 1: anger against political parties back and forth again going back
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Speaker 1: to while it is a bad idea, there may be repercussions.
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Speaker 1: People might judge him based upon the content of his
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Speaker 1: speech and draw conclusions about the content of his character
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Speaker 1: because of what he did. He may suffer as a
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Speaker 1: consequence of what he did. The public at large may
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Speaker 1: reject him. But I don't think what he did is criminal.
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Speaker 1: Five forty five fifty five KR see the talk station
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Speaker 1: go over to the phones five one three, seven fifty
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Speaker 1: five eight hundred eight two three talk for a die
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Speaker 1: back of the stackers too. But I've got Karl on
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Speaker 1: the line. Karl, Happy Friday E.
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Speaker 6: Welcome Cappy Friday Eve. Brian Say, on October sixth, you
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Speaker 6: had Judge Christopher McDowell on your radio show and he
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Speaker 6: was speaking about shenanigans at the courthouse. Yes, sir, he
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Speaker 6: was mentioning that a lot of important court cases have
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Speaker 6: been removed from the Clerk of Court's.
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Speaker 1: Website, specifically felony murder cases, not all of them, just
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Speaker 1: some of them, leading him to question how some got
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Speaker 1: removed from the docket, therefore not available for folks like
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Speaker 1: you and I to see, but some didn't. So he's
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Speaker 1: still investigating that. He's issued some directives to find out
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Speaker 1: and uncover the reasons behind that.
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Speaker 6: Yes, well, I performed my own independent investigation yesterday. I
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Speaker 6: went down to the courthouse and I sat in on
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Speaker 6: three cases, and none of the cases were listed in
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Speaker 6: the court index newspaper. And let me explain what the
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Speaker 6: court Index newspaper is to your listeners, that is a
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Speaker 6: newspaper that gets printed daily down there that has all
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Speaker 6: of the activities, all of the cases that are being
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Speaker 6: heard in the courthouse, and there were some pretty interesting cases.
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Speaker 6: I would like to follow up on the cases at
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Speaker 6: some point and find out what the resolutions to these
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Speaker 6: cases are. The one case, Judge Peck had a failure
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Speaker 6: to stop after an accident and the defendant was found
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Speaker 6: not guilty in that case. Judge laid dank Locker had
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Speaker 6: a case where a pizza delivery driver was involved in
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Speaker 6: a fatal car accident. There were eight lawyers in the
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Speaker 6: room for that case. They are seeking a fairly high settlement.
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Speaker 6: Judge Virginia Talent, who happened to be the former assistant
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Speaker 6: city manager, was charging the jury in a felonious assault case. Now,
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Speaker 6: if there are any members of the media who are
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Speaker 6: listening to this this morning, they may want to start
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Speaker 6: covering the courthouse because there's a lot of interesting cases
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Speaker 6: that are occurring.
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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, down at the courthouse.
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Speaker 1: That was the judge's point. There are some really interesting
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Speaker 1: cases the public might want to know about. But how
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Speaker 1: would the media know about it if it's not in
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Speaker 1: the court docket. That's the boiled down point. I'm with you.
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Speaker 1: I'd like to know, But you know what, he just
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Speaker 1: revealed a story that mainstream media should or local media
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Speaker 1: should be reporting on. How in the hell is it
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Speaker 1: that cases are not listed on the docket, which is
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Speaker 1: the public record we're entitled to have. Let's start there
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Speaker 1: and then maybe we'll get some reporting on the actual
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Speaker 1: underlying cases themselves. Carl, appreciate it, Thanks for the call,
30:26
Speaker 1: Becker of the stack is stupid. Apparently, minutes after vandalizing
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Speaker 1: seventeen cars in Missouri college parking lot, a nineteen year
30:36
Speaker 1: old sophomore engaged in what they describe as a lengthy
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Speaker 1: chat GPT conversation during which he had confessed to the
30:44
Speaker 1: crime and asked about the possibility of getting caught and wondered, quote,
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Speaker 1: is there any way they could know it was me?
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Speaker 1: He asked out of chat GPT. This according to the
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Speaker 1: probable cause statement issue by the police. The guy, Ryan Schaeffer, arrested,
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Speaker 1: charged with felony property damage and for a rampage Sunday
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Speaker 1: at the Missouri State University parking lot. They led Schaeffer
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Speaker 1: shattered car windows, ripped off side meares Dennenhoods broke windshields
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Speaker 1: all around three am. When confronted with surveillance footage, Yeah yeah,
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Speaker 1: they have that as well as other evidence, Shaffer said
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Speaker 1: that he could see the resemblance between the suspect and himself.
31:19
Speaker 1: Will thank you, And at that point Schaeffer reportedly consented
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Speaker 1: to a search of his phone. That review of the
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Speaker 1: device revealed the location data putting him at or near
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Speaker 1: this scene of the crime, as well as quote troubling
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Speaker 1: dialogue exchanged. This defendant seems to have had with artificial
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Speaker 1: intelligence software installed on the phone. Idiots doing idiot things
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Speaker 1: because they're idiots, aymen, brother. The chat gept conversation filled
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Speaker 1: with typos they acknowledge open with Schaeffer asking howfforded am
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Speaker 1: I separately asking will I go to jail? He actually
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Speaker 1: spelled a quill I go to jail without the you,
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Speaker 1: but will I think is what he intended and after
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Speaker 1: the AI program quote gave tips about the potential outcome
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Speaker 1: of getting caught or being involved in this kind of behavior.
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Speaker 1: Shaffer type quote what if I smashed the S word
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Speaker 1: out of multiple cars? This is of course all on
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Speaker 1: his cell phone that he gave to police cops, says Shaeffer,
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Speaker 1: began to become aggressive towards chat GP thing, saying I
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Speaker 1: will kill all u f orders. Upon return to the
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Speaker 1: Springfield apartment, Shaffer began to quote wind down a bit,
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Speaker 1: declaring I got away with it last year, and I
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Speaker 1: don't think there's any way they could know my face,
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Speaker 1: adding it felt really nice to f their s word up.
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Speaker 1: This guy should have been a playwright. His eloquence with
32:53
Speaker 1: the English language and grammatical accuracy is just really mind numbing,
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Speaker 1: acknowledging that he warded up all those useless f warders cars,
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Speaker 1: writing also that the victims all deserve to get raped
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Speaker 1: and murdered. Class act. You dumbass, thank you bus out
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Speaker 1: of nowhere, Joe. I appreciate that when fivety six efty
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Speaker 1: five cares to the talk station Plenty to talk about
33:26
Speaker 1: the six o'clock hour, calls are welcome. Then we get
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Speaker 1: the Congress from Ward David sid at seven oh five,
33:29
Speaker 1: followed by Senator Ran Paul at seven thirty. I'm sure
33:32
Speaker 1: who we can stick around for that Today's tough headlines
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Speaker 1: got you're involved in all sides, rather of the Ledger
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Speaker 1: that were involved all the countries that help with negotiations
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Speaker 1: Amas Israel, all specifically mentioning and giving credit to Donald Trump,
33:45
Speaker 1: as much as that really angers the left, and I'm
33:48
Speaker 1: sure they are pulling their hair out success for Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump in so far as the Middle East piece is concerned,
33:54
Speaker 1: continuing a tradition see the Abraham Accords. You know, I
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Speaker 1: don't put much value on a Nobel Peace Prize anymore,
34:02
Speaker 1: considering Barack Obama got one for doing literally nothing, and
34:05
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's not the only one. But can you
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Speaker 1: imagine how angry the Nobel Peace Prize committee would be
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Speaker 1: to have to consider even consider Donald Trump as worthy
34:18
Speaker 1: as he might be for that. Anyway, two years of
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Speaker 1: war in Gazam may very well be coming to a halt.
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Speaker 1: We're going to find out. And you know, I, recognizing
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Speaker 1: who the parties in this agreement are, Hamas terrorist organization
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Speaker 1: in Israel, I can certainly envision this thing falling apart.
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Speaker 1: But a huge positive step in the right direction yesterday
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Speaker 1: with the announcement of well both sides signing off on
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Speaker 1: phase one of this peace plans. Critical to that and
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Speaker 1: I didn't mention in the last hour, but I got
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Speaker 1: to get this in here. Because where the Palestinians were
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Speaker 1: going to go? Where are the residents of Gaza going
34:55
Speaker 1: to go? They're all starving, They're in a war zone.
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Speaker 1: Nobody wanted to open their borders. No one wanted the
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Speaker 1: flood of refugees coming in. But apparently the crossing at
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Speaker 1: Rafa Rafa crossing with Egypt will be open for the
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Speaker 1: purpose of facilitating aid deliveries and allowing for the entry
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Speaker 1: and exit of Palestinians. So that pretty significant hurdle right there,
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Speaker 1: I think probably helped a long way to get this
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Speaker 1: UH Phase one process going Phase two. Question mark Phase
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Speaker 1: three is profit though? Right? Joe five one, three, seven, four,
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Speaker 1: nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to
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Speaker 1: three talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones
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Speaker 1: real quick here. We want to let you know Congressman
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Speaker 1: Warren Davidson's coming up at seven oh five talk about
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Speaker 1: the government shutdown. Yes, they voted again to keep the
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Speaker 1: government shut down. Thank you Democrats in the Senate. Peace
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Speaker 1: in Israel. We'll talk about Congress with that with Congressman Davidson,
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Speaker 1: followed by Senator Ran Paul on the shutdown, the spying
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Speaker 1: going on in the Senate, talked about that yesterday with
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Speaker 1: Judge Ednapolitano, as well as peace in Israel with Senator
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Speaker 1: Ran Paul. At seven thirty, Hunter Oswald he's runing Power
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Speaker 1: You Seminar. He's going to be talking about the future
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Speaker 1: of jen Z servatism at class I believe take place
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Speaker 1: to ninth. That's tonight at the Empower You Seminars showroom.
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Speaker 1: There are studios there a three hundred Great Oaks Drive
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Speaker 1: in the Great Oaks campus or stream it online. It
36:15
Speaker 1: should be a really good conversation with Hunter. We'll learn
36:17
Speaker 1: about that at eight oh five, and of course Thursdays.
36:20
Speaker 1: Last Friday, Eve I Heart media aviation expert Jay Ratliffe.
36:24
Speaker 1: Some of that else talked about with Judgennen of Poltano
36:26
Speaker 1: and Congressman Thomas Massey. If I think we did talk
36:28
Speaker 1: about with MASSI the subject has come up before, and
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Speaker 1: it's the subject that I agree completely with Napolitano about
36:34
Speaker 1: this whole eminent threat thing about blowing up boats in
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Speaker 1: the Caribbean, thousands of miles away from the US border.
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Speaker 1: We have the authority to launch in wage war indiscriminately,
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Speaker 1: I would argue, the answer apparently is yes, at least
36:46
Speaker 1: as far as the Senate was concerned, yesterday they shot
36:50
Speaker 1: down a measure that would have required President Trump to
36:53
Speaker 1: seek Congressional approval before authorizing military action in the Caribbean.
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Speaker 1: I would argue, as well as elsewhere. See your United
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Speaker 1: States Constitution forty eight in favor fifty one against obviously
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Speaker 1: party lines, with Lisa Murkowski and yes, Senator Ran Paul
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Speaker 1: voting with the Democrats in favor of the measure. Fetterman,
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Speaker 1: Democrat from Pennsylvania. He just sided with the Republicans, which
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Speaker 1: he's been doing a lot of late. Senator Ted Cruz
37:21
Speaker 1: didn't vote, took a pass on it. So we've been
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Speaker 1: launching the tax on boats. Have been four of them
37:27
Speaker 1: so far. You've seen the video footage, I presume of it.
37:30
Speaker 1: Out of nowhere, rocket blows a boat up. They're all dead.
37:34
Speaker 1: And Donald Trump goes on television and the screen and
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Speaker 1: just praises the idea that our military blew people up
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Speaker 1: and claiming why he did designate them as a terrorist organization.
37:45
Speaker 1: It's not an imminent threat under any circumstance, I would
37:48
Speaker 1: argue anyway. The White House described the strikes as part
37:51
Speaker 1: of its campaign against these Latin American groups for smuggling
37:54
Speaker 1: fentanyl and cocaine to the US, which of course is deadly.
37:58
Speaker 1: They designated the drug cartels and other groups as foreign
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Speaker 1: terrorist organizations and claiming that by labeling them as such,
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Speaker 1: they can use lethal force. Now take it out of
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Speaker 1: the context of the United States government and put in
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Speaker 1: the context to some other government. They label us a
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Speaker 1: terrorist organization and justify military force against the United States
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Speaker 1: of America or at least some of its people, the
38:24
Speaker 1: ones that they identified. That's a dangerous road to go down,
38:27
Speaker 1: particularly given modern military technology, which is readily available to
38:30
Speaker 1: anybody who has an Amazon account. Anyway, the measure was
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Speaker 1: introduced by a couple of Democrats. Anyway, They cited the
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three War Powers Resolution that requires presidents to
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Speaker 1: obtain congressional authorization for hostilities abroad. Now, I would argue
38:48
Speaker 1: that the War Powers Resolution itself is unconstitutional. If you're
38:51
Speaker 1: going to wage war, you must declare war. There's no
38:56
Speaker 1: authorizations for use of military force packed in our constitution.
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Speaker 1: That's sort of a now overlooked over the years. But
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Speaker 1: you know, I tend to be a literalist and a
39:03
Speaker 1: traditionalist when it comes to my views of the Constitution anyway,
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Speaker 1: there is the War Powers Resolution Act. It does require
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Speaker 1: presidents to obtain congressional authorization. That's the point I made yesterday.
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Speaker 1: At least go to Congress and get an authorization for
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Speaker 1: you some military force, because it legitimizes that. It doesn't
39:18
Speaker 1: appear as if you're going it alone. You've got this
39:20
Speaker 1: support of elected officials, which represent the will of the
39:23
Speaker 1: American people. Seems like a reasonable step to go through anyway.
39:29
Speaker 1: This shot down proposal in the Senate would have barred
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Speaker 1: the United States forces from engaging in combat against non
39:36
Speaker 1: state actors like drug smugglers unless formally approved by Congress.
39:43
Speaker 1: Republicans in the debate yesterday said the measure would limit
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Speaker 1: the president's authority as commander of chief, wouldn't allow him
39:48
Speaker 1: to take swift action if America was attacked by a
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Speaker 1: foreign enemy. I'm throwing a giant Barbara streisand flag on that.
39:55
Speaker 1: He does have the power if we are under threat,
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Speaker 1: if someone is attacking us, the president does not have
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Speaker 1: to go to Congress and had a War Powers Resolution
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Speaker 1: authorization or a declaration of war. He's a commander in chief.
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Speaker 1: It requires immediate action. That's that concept of eminent threat.
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Speaker 1: What immediate threat do we face from the cartel boats
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Speaker 1: floating around two thousand or one thousand miles away from
40:20
Speaker 1: US zero? Where is the boat going? I don't think
40:24
Speaker 1: we really know. We can assume it's coming here. United
40:28
Speaker 1: States is where the profits come from. But there's a
40:31
Speaker 1: whole lot of islands and other opportunities for that boat
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Speaker 1: to pull over before they reach our international or our waters,
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Speaker 1: subject subjecting them to YES Coastguard law enforcement, and prosecution
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Speaker 1: in American court systems where they would not be eligible
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Speaker 1: for the death penalty, I might quickly interject. Democrats made
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Speaker 1: a point. The Constitution clearly and intentionally places the power
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Speaker 1: to declare war in the hands of this body Congress. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, I hate to have to I agree with
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Speaker 1: shift on anything. But Senator Tom Cotton, Republican said, quote
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Speaker 1: the resolution prevents the president from taking offensive action, claiming
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Speaker 1: that Trump wouldn't be able to act quickly to protect
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Speaker 1: the US allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia. Is
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Speaker 1: that what this is about? Act quickly to protect Israel
41:29
Speaker 1: and Saudi Arabia. Now, I don't know how that came
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Speaker 1: up in conversation. I guess they were considering the scope
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Speaker 1: and breadth of how this, if passed, piece of legislation,
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Speaker 1: would impact the President. But I'm wondering about this defense
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Speaker 1: obligation with Israel and Saudi Arabia, neither of a while
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Speaker 1: both of whom are considered I guess, on some level
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Speaker 1: allies in the United States, what would prevent us from
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Speaker 1: engaging militarily in those regions? And do we really have
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Speaker 1: an obligation to do that. More fundamentally, would an attack
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Speaker 1: on Israel or Saudi Arabia represent an eminent threat to
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Speaker 1: the United States of America? And there are many who
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Speaker 1: would argue no, those countries are thousands and thousands of
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Speaker 1: miles away from US, even though we're friends with them.
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Speaker 1: It isn't an eminent attack on the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: And I honestly do not understand or know whether we
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Speaker 1: have a mandatory defense obligation likely do with NATO countries
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Speaker 1: for Israel in Saudi Arabia. I tend to think not.
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Speaker 5: So.
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Speaker 1: Senator Paul I'm sure we'll chi chime in on this
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Speaker 1: since he's one of the ones that voted know on it,
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Speaker 1: But he is, like Congressman Thomas Massey, a believer in
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Speaker 1: what the language of the Constitution says, and go back
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Speaker 1: to the fact that Donald Trump's not going to be
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Speaker 1: president forever. You've got to find that amount of time.
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Speaker 1: Will a Democrat ever get elected again? Will someone that
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Speaker 1: you disagree with get elected again? Will someone you disagree
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Speaker 1: It's good to hear from you.
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Speaker 7: Good morning, Brian. I just would like to comment on
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Speaker 7: the President doing his preemptive actions with these drug boats.
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Speaker 7: I can see his points. I think a lot of
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Speaker 7: what's going on here is pretty much gorilla warfare with
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Speaker 7: a non shooting war We're looking at one hundred thousand
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Speaker 7: citizens being killed by the drugs every year. So it
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Speaker 7: may not be an imminent threat these boats, but it
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Speaker 7: will result in many, many deaths. If they'd make it
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Speaker 7: to the United States.
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Speaker 1: It would and deliver their Well was that boat? Was
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Speaker 1: that boat headed to the United States? Or there's four boats?
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Speaker 1: Were they headed to the United States?
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Speaker 7: I think ultimately the drugs are going to make it.
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Speaker 5: To the United States. You think where another They.
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Speaker 7: May be going to the Bahamas.
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Speaker 1: And but you don't know.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, you don't know for sure.
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Speaker 1: There you go. That's the point. And no, that's the point.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, this is at gerrilla warfare though well.
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Speaker 1: No, I mean, you know, you can call it what
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Speaker 1: you want. You can call them narco terrorists, you can
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Speaker 1: call them, I don't know, people trying to make a
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Speaker 1: living whatever. They're a thousand miles away from us. This
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Speaker 1: is not something we should be able to just go
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Speaker 1: ahead and unilaterally decide to blow up. We don't know
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Speaker 1: where those people were going. And what if they got
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Speaker 1: it wrong. What if the boxes that are on that
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Speaker 1: boat were just like food supplies and they were headed
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Speaker 1: to some island nation of delivered aid or something whoops, Sorry,
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Speaker 1: I mean that's what the whole concept to do process about.
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Speaker 1: That's why we have a coastguard. If they get near
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Speaker 1: our waters and have drugs in the boat, it's illegal
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Speaker 1: to be ferrying narcotics in US waters. Arrest them for that,
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Speaker 1: lock them up, and throw away the key. I don't
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Speaker 1: even problem with being harsh on drug dealers. They're not
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Speaker 1: subjected to the death penalty in the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: And I hate the idea of governments being able to
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Speaker 1: unilaterally decide who gets to live and who doesn't, because
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Speaker 1: there but for the grace of God go I.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely well, I understand. And so that's what debate's all about.
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Speaker 7: Amens as always, don't vote Democrat or Rhino.
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Speaker 1: Wonderful, thanks al See, that's the idea of the exchange.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't have to agree with me. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to defend drug dealers. I hate them. But every time
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Speaker 1: we talk about drug dealers, I want to turn back
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Speaker 1: and say, who's creating the demand? You are? Drugs are
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Speaker 1: bad for you. They will kill you, They'll ruin your life.
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Speaker 1: They'll turn you against family members, They'll turn family members
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Speaker 1: against you. You'll end up homeless out on the street.
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Speaker 1: You'll die a painful death. Look at the faces of myth.
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Speaker 1: You're guaranteed to look like one of those images in
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Speaker 1: about a couple of years. Maybe if you're continuing to
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Speaker 1: use math, it will kill you. Isn't that enough of
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Speaker 1: a deterrent. I'm not saying, you know, I used to
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Speaker 1: be let people do what they want. I'm against criminalization
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Speaker 1: of self abuse, but you know what, I kind of
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Speaker 1: turned around the corner on that a little while back,
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Speaker 1: because this self abuse ends up rippling over and impacting
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Speaker 1: you and me. We end up paying the price. Homeless
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Speaker 1: encampments filled with just chronic drug abusers, defecating everywhere, throwing
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Speaker 1: garbage around. They don't care about keeping their space clean
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Speaker 1: and free to be and nice looking. It detracts from
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Speaker 1: property values. It ruins cities that closes business, It increases crime.
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Speaker 1: The ripple effect is the problem. If this boiled down
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Speaker 1: to someone abusing themselves and then dying in a corner
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Speaker 1: on their own, yes we can have some sympathy for them.
47:25
Speaker 1: Yes we can hopefully can find some resources they can
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Speaker 1: get into rehab. But because you and I end up
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Speaker 1: shouldering the burden for all the downside that goes along
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Speaker 1: with just letting people do whatever the hell they want. No,
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of against the concept anymore. But this is
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Speaker 1: bigger than that. This is activity that could end up
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Speaker 1: getting us into a literal shooting war. I know. Venezuela
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Speaker 1: doesn't pose any existential threat to America. Their military couldn't
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Speaker 1: last five minutes against the American military. We would bomb
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Speaker 1: the living crap out of them if they declare war
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Speaker 1: on us, because we're declaring war on their people. They
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Speaker 1: want to go down that road knock themselves out, But
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Speaker 1: that's the risk you run. Do you want to jeopardize
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Speaker 1: your son or daughter serving the American military because some
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Speaker 1: president at some future point in time decides he's going
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Speaker 1: to unilaterally drop a bomb on a country that I
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Speaker 1: don't know, may very well too, if not unilaterally, with
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Speaker 1: the help of their supporters, engage in a coordinated effort
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Speaker 1: to go back after us because of something we did. Militarily.
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Speaker 1: Venezuela is CosIng up with the Russians. Venezuela is coosing
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Speaker 1: up with the Chinese indirectly. China's coosing up of the
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Speaker 1: Russians and all other quote unquote adversaries in the world.
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Speaker 1: What if they joined forces and said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: we're not going to stand for that kind of thing anymore.
48:52
Speaker 1: Just a thought. That's why the use of military forces
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Speaker 1: should come after serious contemplation and approval of at least
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Speaker 1: so some of our elected officials in Congress by way
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Speaker 1: of a seventy three War Powers Act Authorization for use
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Speaker 1: of Military Force, despite how I feel about that particular Act.
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Speaker 1: It's the debate AFTEB per All against Corey Bowman. Here
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Speaker 1: University and Ohio Debate Commission and Cincinnati City Cable. So
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Speaker 1: if you can get in there and vote for Corey Bowman,
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Speaker 1: So here's the rules. No backpacks, purses, bags larger than
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Speaker 1: Prohibited items camera bags, cinch bags, brief cases, computer backpacks,
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Speaker 1: can't bring political signs. You can't bring noisemakers. You can't
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Speaker 1: I suspect no political flyers, campaign materials, or other signage
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Speaker 1: answered my question. I was wrong on my presumption on that.
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Speaker 1: So you can't display anything outside Cintas Center or on
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Speaker 1: Xavier University property. Hmm. My constitutional free speech brain is
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Speaker 1: trying to contemplate that debate rules emphasizing mutual respect for
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Speaker 1: the candidates and the moderator. We'll wait and see how
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Speaker 1: that unfolds. Now, how to watch it? You have several options.
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Speaker 1: Local twelve is also going to simulcast it, but we
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Speaker 1: believe Joe and I believe since it's not currently on
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Speaker 1: I wish Corey Bowman all the best I got to
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Speaker 1: see him last night at the Smithaman fundraiser. He made
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Speaker 1: of sales consumer products containing intoxicating hemp, including THHC infuse
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Speaker 1: beverages and gummies. Now my understanding of intoxicating hemp. Hemp's legal.
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Speaker 1: It's got like point three percent or or outher point
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Speaker 1: zero three percent of THC in it. It's some really
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Speaker 1: low amount. Well, they figured a way to concentrate that
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Speaker 1: and turning into a concentrated amount, so it's not under
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Speaker 1: as long as it has no more than point three
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Speaker 1: percent of delta nine THHC, which is what produces the high.
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Speaker 1: So we are allowed to have industrial hemp in CB
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Speaker 1: CBD oil and CBD products are not subject to this ban.
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Speaker 1: had a brilliant idea. I want to elaborate on it
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Speaker 1: for tonight's Bowman Purvole debate a drinking game. So every
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Speaker 1: time someone says the word it was Trump, correct a
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Speaker 1: shot when Trump's name or the maga word, that's one shot. Now,
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Speaker 1: Joe did not specify what type of beverages Joe's gonna
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Speaker 1: go with Shlivovitz. You may choose something that's a little
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Speaker 1: milder in terms of alcohol content. Now, if anyone says
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Speaker 1: the word he utters jd Vance's name, or says jd
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Speaker 1: Vance's half brother or brother or words to that effect,
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Speaker 1: that is a chug moment. So whatever's left in your glass,
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Speaker 1: you must consume completely. Is there a requirement for the
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Speaker 1: size of glass we're talking about, Joe, your discretion? All right, Well,
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Speaker 1: shot glass would be no different than I mean, under
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Speaker 1: the rules of the game, chugging or taking a shot
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Speaker 1: will be the same. So I reckon at least a
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Speaker 1: six sounds class that would be drunk by eight ten. Well,
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Speaker 1: I rarely stay awake after eight o'clock since I get
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Speaker 1: up at two thirty, Joe, so I'm not quite sure
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Speaker 1: I could make it. But if I did watch through
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Speaker 1: the whole debate, I would probably be a physical wreck
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Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. Anyway, if you've got other rules of the game,
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Speaker 1: feel free to chime in give me a call without
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Speaker 1: further ado, though, I found this to be extraordinarily troubling,
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Speaker 1: related to really not much of anything we're talking about,
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Speaker 1: unless you want to consider the concept that Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: has labeled Antifah antifa. If you prefer a domestic terrorist organization,
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Speaker 1: going back to my conversation earlier, if you label someone
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Speaker 1: in a domestic terrorist organization, that's domestic. If you're able
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Speaker 1: to an international terrorist organization, you can blow them up
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Speaker 1: anywhere in the four corners of the world. Now you're
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Speaker 1: going to be blowing up Antifa folks here in the
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Speaker 1: United States. What is the prerequisite for use of deadly force?
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Speaker 1: If you're on American soil and you're a citizen, you
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Speaker 1: have to have eminent apprehension of grievous bodily harm or death,
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Speaker 1: and it must be reasonable. I thought I was going
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Speaker 1: to die. This guy's lunging at it from me with
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Speaker 1: a deadly weapon. You can shoot them. Now. If Antifa
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Speaker 1: is not engaged in eminent apprehension of bodily harm, they're
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Speaker 1: just throwing molotov cocktails. That's a crime. If it's organized.
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Speaker 1: It could be a reco charge if they're organizing amongst themselves,
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Speaker 1: and go after them and throw them in federal prisons
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Speaker 1: for a very long time. But you couldn't kill them.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine the outrage if your favorite group was protesting.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they got a little out of control, maybe they
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Speaker 1: engaged in violent behavior, but they didn't threaten anybody's life
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Speaker 1: and the authorities responded with deadly force. Say, oh, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, Kent State University. Maybe that's not something we
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Speaker 1: embrace conceptually here in the United States. But this, in
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Speaker 1: spite of that reality, is extraordinarily troubling. You might want
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Speaker 1: to consider where you're sending your young people to college.
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Speaker 1: City University of New York Graduate Center is offering a course.
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Speaker 1: It's described as an English course. It's titled Global Antifa.
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Speaker 1: Accord to Washington Times reporting, the required coursework includes completion of,
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Speaker 1: in the words of the syllabus, research projects that contribute
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Speaker 1: to the work of global movements fighting fascism. A director
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Speaker 1: of an outfit called Defending Education, which is an organization
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Speaker 1: fighting for to avoid indoctrination and classrooms, Ryan Staley I,
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Speaker 1: said courses such as this have no place in American institutions.
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Speaker 1: A higher education putting up in similar militant co research
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Speaker 1: is actually showing up in k th K through twelve
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Speaker 1: education as well. But the course offered by the City
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Speaker 1: University apparently has learning goals that include familiarizing and again
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Speaker 1: going back to the syllabus, students with contemporary theories of
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Speaker 1: fascism and anti fascism. Pause on that contemporary theory of
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Speaker 1: fascism and anti fascism. You know what that means. That
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Speaker 1: means a rewarding the definition of what fascism is, because
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Speaker 1: these idiots don't know what it is since they go
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Speaker 1: around accusing Donald Trump but being a fascist. B Ah, yes,
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Speaker 1: I set it out loud again anyway, familiarizing students with
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Speaker 1: contemporary theorist of fascism and anti fashion, as well as
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Speaker 1: related critical theories concerning racial capitalism, gender and sexuality, imperialism,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. That's core to the report from Defending Education.
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Speaker 1: Given the topic of the seminar to this class will
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Speaker 1: explicitly interdisciplinary will also oriented is also oriented towards militant
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Speaker 1: co research, and students will be encouraged to develop research
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Speaker 1: projects that contribute to the work of global movements fighting fascism.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna pay for this course. I'm sure there's some
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Speaker 1: young militant that will say out loud, yes, I will.
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Speaker 1: The course explore quote ways in which the realm of
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Speaker 1: esthetics in general and more specifically particular domains such as
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Speaker 1: literature and visual culture relate to fascism and anti fashion fascism.
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Speaker 1: Discussions of various research methodologies with a focus on histories
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Speaker 1: and examples of militant co research. Close quote. I have
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Speaker 1: no idea what that is. Psychobabble. You love this? The
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Speaker 1: professor teaching the class Global antifall got a PhD from
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Speaker 1: Chlobing University works in the fields of ready environmental humanities
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Speaker 1: and post colonial eco criticism. I swear they're making this
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Speaker 1: stuff up as they go along. Postcolonial echo criticism. That's
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Speaker 1: a field. That's a bunch of people sitting around a
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Speaker 1: table in a drum circle, getting high and contemplating their
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Speaker 1: nabels and making up stuff. Now, can Trump launch a
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Speaker 1: drones strike into that classroom since they're anti file folks
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Speaker 1: and they're engaging in domestic terrorism by preaching their anti
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Speaker 1: file like like theories and ideology. Part of me wants
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Speaker 1: to say yeah, But practicularly speaking, the answer is no.
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Speaker 1: Six forty seven right now, Mike, hang on, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: thanks for holding over the brake. Welcome to the program.
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Speaker 4: Hi, Ryan, about your drinking game for tonight?
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Speaker 3: Are in the debate?
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Speaker 4: You get at ice a illegal alien to.
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Speaker 1: That ol you know, and speaking of that, we did
1:01:53
Speaker 1: have some illegal alien problems here locally. Announcement of an
1:01:57
Speaker 1: arrest of some organized criminals. Uh from gosh, where was
1:02:03
Speaker 1: it South America or something like that. I just saw
1:02:05
Speaker 1: that local story. Yeah, and if.
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Speaker 4: They say illegally, then you gotta take a shot at
1:02:09
Speaker 4: Jose Corba.
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Speaker 1: Well, no, we can't paint with that kind of broad brush, Mike.
1:02:13
Speaker 1: Someone might think you're being racist because not all illegal
1:02:16
Speaker 1: immigrants come from areas that make tequila. Let's be firm
1:02:20
Speaker 1: on that game, and remember that you can qualify your
1:02:23
Speaker 1: comments along those lines. Don't you be painting with a
1:02:25
Speaker 1: broad brush or casting dispersions on my South American friends
1:02:28
Speaker 1: or Mexican friends. But tequila is the drink of course
1:02:31
Speaker 1: for the drink or the drink of choice for the
1:02:33
Speaker 1: drinking game there in the interest of fairness, medello, then, Joe,
1:02:41
Speaker 1: does that make it better? Anybody? See the report on
1:02:51
Speaker 1: the guy that was arrested accusing of sparking the Palisades fire.
1:02:55
Speaker 1: One dude, twenty nine year old kid named Jonathan Rinderknick
1:03:01
Speaker 1: charged with destruction and property by means of fire. Mandatory
1:03:04
Speaker 1: minimum prison sentence five years if convicted. I you know,
1:03:08
Speaker 1: it's it's early in the reporting, and I'm going to
1:03:11
Speaker 1: acknowledge that up front, so I'm not going to draw conclusions,
1:03:13
Speaker 1: but i will say that the conspiracy theory flag sort
1:03:18
Speaker 1: of waving in my head. How did they know where
1:03:22
Speaker 1: that fire started? They claimed they do know, and for
1:03:25
Speaker 1: such a long time they blamed it on the utility
1:03:27
Speaker 1: companies fire to maintain and up keep the utility lines,
1:03:29
Speaker 1: and they sparked, and they dropped to the ground and
1:03:32
Speaker 1: they caused fires. And this particular case, they say they
1:03:38
Speaker 1: know it's an incendiary fire and that the subject was
1:03:42
Speaker 1: arrested started it. So what kind of evidentiary trail did
1:03:47
Speaker 1: they follow from the path where they say this guy
1:03:50
Speaker 1: had stopped his uber and got out and walked down
1:03:53
Speaker 1: the path to the fire starting, And how did they
1:03:56
Speaker 1: link him to it? I'm willing to just sort of
1:03:59
Speaker 1: assume that they got the right guy, and he was
1:04:02
Speaker 1: this apparently left wing nutcase. He has his own manifesto,
1:04:07
Speaker 1: I believe, as so many of these crazy people do,
1:04:09
Speaker 1: so at least he wasn't some crazy right winger providing
1:04:12
Speaker 1: he left with a bunch of opportunities to say it's
1:04:14
Speaker 1: his evil right wingers. When we have one string or
1:04:16
Speaker 1: one crime after another and one horrific murder or active
1:04:20
Speaker 1: of violence after another that is well attributed to left
1:04:24
Speaker 1: wing nutcases, just food for thought. So keep your popcorn
1:04:29
Speaker 1: out on that one anyway. Uh, I'm sure to think
1:04:33
Speaker 1: it was anything else when we get oh real quick,
1:04:41
Speaker 1: that unrelated to anything. Uh. Doctor Marbres, a professor at
1:04:46
Speaker 1: the Hadasha Hebrew University Medical Center, lead author of a
1:04:51
Speaker 1: study saying, uh, you may end up with a significantly
1:04:56
Speaker 1: higher risk of mood disorders and suicidal thoughts and suicidal
1:04:59
Speaker 1: ideation if you're using Propecia yep finesteride aka Propecia, the
1:05:07
Speaker 1: hair growing drug approved by the US Food and Drug
1:05:09
Speaker 1: Administration back in the nineteen ninety. Studies now have linked
1:05:12
Speaker 1: this drug to long term brain inflammation and changes in
1:05:16
Speaker 1: the hippocampus. The Brain Center for Learning, Memory, and Emotions
1:05:21
Speaker 1: FDA added depression as a potential side effect of this
1:05:24
Speaker 1: drug back in twenty eleven. Suicidal ideation and behavior added
1:05:28
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. So this guy did some studies
1:05:32
Speaker 1: and finding out that, yeah, this comes with a significant risk,
1:05:34
Speaker 1: so you might want to factor that into the equation
1:05:37
Speaker 1: and just sort of let nature take his course. I
1:05:40
Speaker 1: suppose six fifty five at the five KCD talk station
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Speaker 1: Warren Davidson after the top of the ur news and
1:05:45
Speaker 1: then Senator Ran Paul at seven point thirty. I hope
1:05:48
Speaker 1: you can stick.
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Speaker 8: Around today's tough headlines coming up the talk station.
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Speaker 1: Seven oh five, the fifty five PARISD talk station, Happy Thursday,
1:06:15
Speaker 1: Slash Friday, Eve's looking forward to the return of irbdy
1:06:18
Speaker 1: aviation expert Jay Rally of eight thirty looking forward to
1:06:21
Speaker 1: talking about Senator Ran Paul at the bottom of this hour.
1:06:23
Speaker 1: And I am always excited and pleased to welcome with
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Speaker 1: the fifty five KRSEY Morning Show, Congressman Warren Davidson, Welcome back,
1:06:28
Speaker 1: my friend. Pleasure having you on the show.
1:06:31
Speaker 8: Brian, It's always an honor great to talk with you.
1:06:34
Speaker 1: Let us dive on into Well, we're still in a shutdown,
1:06:36
Speaker 1: said a voted again said no. Democrats are insisting that
1:06:39
Speaker 1: we extend the COVID area era, basically premium supplements covering
1:06:45
Speaker 1: the American taxpayers covering the cost of the Obamacare premiums,
1:06:49
Speaker 1: which successfully expanded the program. They doubled the size of
1:06:52
Speaker 1: the Obamacare folks during COVID nineteen, but that was the
1:06:56
Speaker 1: predicate for allowing these supplements. COVID nineteen. Oh my god,
1:07:00
Speaker 1: We're all going to die. Businesses are shut down, people
1:07:02
Speaker 1: need relief. Let's give them free insurance, which isn't really free. Well,
1:07:05
Speaker 1: that period of time has gone he yet the Democrats
1:07:08
Speaker 1: and an obvious effort to get everyone under one size
1:07:11
Speaker 1: fits all medically run government healthcare or government run medical care.
1:07:16
Speaker 1: They're fighting and that looks like they're going to die
1:07:19
Speaker 1: on this hill? Or are they? Congressman Davidson, what's your
1:07:21
Speaker 1: assessment on this? I know you had some very strong
1:07:25
Speaker 1: words about the Continuing Resolution which kept the Biden era
1:07:28
Speaker 1: funding levels to try to get this through. So where
1:07:30
Speaker 1: are we on this, Congressman Davidson, Yeah, I mean.
1:07:34
Speaker 8: That's basically it. Democrats could have chosen to just keep
1:07:37
Speaker 8: the funding level that they helped implement. I mean, this
1:07:40
Speaker 8: isn't like a partisan funding bill. This was the Republicans
1:07:45
Speaker 8: had the House, the Democrats had the Senate. Joe Biden
1:07:48
Speaker 8: was the president, and this is the same policy, same
1:07:51
Speaker 8: funding level, the pass at that we haven't passed a
1:07:54
Speaker 8: different funding bill. We've had lots of debates about it,
1:07:57
Speaker 8: but that's the whole point is we could continue in
1:08:00
Speaker 8: the debates and call the votes on other policy issues
1:08:04
Speaker 8: with a government that's open, or we could have this shutdown.
1:08:07
Speaker 8: And you know, Democrats decided that they were going to
1:08:10
Speaker 8: hold their votes and not supply the seven that you
1:08:13
Speaker 8: need in the Senate. We hit pass it out of
1:08:14
Speaker 8: the House because we just need a majority, and a
1:08:17
Speaker 8: majority of the Senate's passed it. You've got fifty six
1:08:19
Speaker 8: senators that say yeah, let's keep the government open, so
1:08:22
Speaker 8: that's bipartisan, but you need four more Democrats frankly, to
1:08:25
Speaker 8: join and say let's keep it open. And realities, we
1:08:28
Speaker 8: know we need less government, we need a budget that balances.
1:08:30
Speaker 8: Democrats said, no, if you don't give us a one
1:08:33
Speaker 8: and a half train dollars that we can spend on
1:08:35
Speaker 8: our priorities, which includes I'll care for illegals, includes you know,
1:08:40
Speaker 8: COVID plucks ups for Obamacare, which what never worked in
1:08:45
Speaker 8: the first place. It was failing in twenty twenty one,
1:08:48
Speaker 8: and they used COVID as a pretext to flood it
1:08:50
Speaker 8: with even more cash, and now it's expiring, and they're like, oh, well,
1:08:55
Speaker 8: maybe if we subsidy it more, it'll keep you know,
1:08:58
Speaker 8: we'll reach this magic tipping point where somehow it'll be affordable.
1:09:02
Speaker 8: And it's like, no, you know, I'm almost timpted to say,
1:09:04
Speaker 8: you know what, you should triple them, because just to
1:09:08
Speaker 8: prove the point, the subsidies aren't lowering the costs, not
1:09:12
Speaker 8: helping people get lower health insurance. Now it benefits to
1:09:15
Speaker 8: people who get the subsidy, for sure, but for the
1:09:18
Speaker 8: broader average consumer, it's raising the premiums and the quality
1:09:24
Speaker 8: of care. Since Obamacare hasn't done better. Health outcomes haven't
1:09:27
Speaker 8: done better since Obamacare was worked. So when are we
1:09:30
Speaker 8: going to finally concede that Obamacare didn't work? And Democrats
1:09:34
Speaker 8: want to shut the government down over that and other
1:09:36
Speaker 8: priorities they've.
1:09:36
Speaker 1: Got, Yes they do. And you know it's funny because
1:09:40
Speaker 1: the premiums going basically going directly to healthcare providers like hospitals.
1:09:45
Speaker 1: I mean, the American people aren't seeing any of that.
1:09:47
Speaker 1: So it is it is continuing to support, but it's
1:09:50
Speaker 1: not they haven't gone away. I think that's a really
1:09:52
Speaker 1: critical point here. It's not it doesn't become free just
1:09:55
Speaker 1: because the government says, well, now it's free. They're not
1:09:57
Speaker 1: providing health care for nothing. The American taxpayer is covering
1:10:00
Speaker 1: the nut of the premium. That's your one point five
1:10:02
Speaker 1: trillion dollars right there, basically, or maybe hundreds of millions
1:10:05
Speaker 1: of dollars, billions of dollars anyway, Yeah.
1:10:09
Speaker 8: That portions hundreds of billions. They've got all kinds of
1:10:11
Speaker 8: other stuff in there. They want to restore USAID funding,
1:10:13
Speaker 8: which we intentionally turned off. They want to restore our
1:10:17
Speaker 8: funding for NPR, which we intentionally told them to go
1:10:20
Speaker 8: fund themselves. And you know, all these things they want
1:10:24
Speaker 8: to relitigate that we've already had the votes on, and
1:10:26
Speaker 8: they just want to use the government shutdown as extortion.
1:10:29
Speaker 8: So you know, I hope we put single things in there,
1:10:31
Speaker 8: Like you know, right now, you know, we've got essential
1:10:33
Speaker 8: people working, and you know that begs the question why
1:10:36
Speaker 8: do we have non essentially? But if you say, all right, well,
1:10:39
Speaker 8: these people are so important that they need to keep working,
1:10:42
Speaker 8: why isn't the payroll clerk that pays them so important
1:10:45
Speaker 8: that the payroll clerk keeps working so we can put
1:10:48
Speaker 8: some line at them bills on there, so that it's like, Okay,
1:10:51
Speaker 8: if you don't want to fund the government all the way,
1:10:53
Speaker 8: could we at least fund the payroll clerk so that
1:10:56
Speaker 8: our troops can get paid this month.
1:10:59
Speaker 1: That's a good idea, Davidson. But now, what of the
1:11:02
Speaker 1: concern that I have that Republicans now seem to be
1:11:07
Speaker 1: maybe wavering a little bit headline Wall Street Journal, Republicans
1:11:10
Speaker 1: cautioned White House on inflicting shut down pain, referring to
1:11:14
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's comment earlier this week about the Officer Management
1:11:16
Speaker 1: and Budget compiling a list of folks that will be
1:11:19
Speaker 1: fired or departments that will be permanently closed. He did
1:11:22
Speaker 1: suggest that was coming our way in a matter of
1:11:24
Speaker 1: four or five days. Now we're down to maybe three
1:11:26
Speaker 1: or four days for that. But isn't that something that
1:11:30
Speaker 1: we kind of want out of this shut down? An
1:11:32
Speaker 1: opportunity to reduce the size and scope of government, which
1:11:36
Speaker 1: some of these wavering Republicans are saying, well, wait a second,
1:11:38
Speaker 1: that'll give the Democrats a win in the who's responsible
1:11:41
Speaker 1: for this shutdown argument? Aha? See, the only pretext for
1:11:45
Speaker 1: this is Republicans want to cut out the government, and
1:11:47
Speaker 1: oh my god, people are going to die or whatever,
1:11:50
Speaker 1: but I don't care. I would think you could wear
1:11:52
Speaker 1: that as a badge of honor. Yes, I did shut
1:11:54
Speaker 1: the government down for the purposes of getting it smaller.
1:11:57
Speaker 1: We campaigned on doing exactly that.
1:12:00
Speaker 8: Well that's the thing. Look, I voted for the cr
1:12:02
Speaker 8: so we could keep having this debate because frankly, I
1:12:05
Speaker 8: want the outcome of a smaller government. So you know, okay,
1:12:09
Speaker 8: if we're going to have a revote, and I can
1:12:11
Speaker 8: take credit for helping get Russ vote to power to
1:12:14
Speaker 8: start aligning a budget with our priorities, well good, that's
1:12:19
Speaker 8: exactly what we've been fighting to do. With the appropriations process,
1:12:22
Speaker 8: it's broken and so all you've really got left is
1:12:25
Speaker 8: executive power. And you know, the administration put out a
1:12:28
Speaker 8: budget earlier this year. I would be surprised if they
1:12:31
Speaker 8: don't start doing basically what they said they believe the
1:12:34
Speaker 8: budget should look like, and they send over, you know, ideas,
1:12:37
Speaker 8: and then Congress just well, yeah, but we can't do that,
1:12:40
Speaker 8: and they never get around to doing it. So, you know,
1:12:42
Speaker 8: Russ voted at office management and budgets got the task
1:12:45
Speaker 8: of saying, look, I have to follow the law. I
1:12:48
Speaker 8: have to pay people that we're considering essential. You know,
1:12:51
Speaker 8: the prisons guards at the federal prisons, they're going to
1:12:54
Speaker 8: have to show up to work, keep the prisoners locked up.
1:12:56
Speaker 8: The FAA is going to have to work and keep
1:12:58
Speaker 8: the planes in the air, et cetera. But there are
1:13:02
Speaker 8: agencies that they said, for example, we don't think we
1:13:05
Speaker 8: need as many IRS agents. So they're talking about for
1:13:08
Speaker 8: a lowing or eliminating a substantial portion of the IRS.
1:13:11
Speaker 8: I think forty six percent. I want the whole place closed.
1:13:15
Speaker 8: But you know, it's a good start to get rid
1:13:17
Speaker 8: of forty six percent of it.
1:13:19
Speaker 1: Couldn't agree more. It seems to me that you know,
1:13:21
Speaker 1: a lot of jobs out in the world are threatened
1:13:23
Speaker 1: by artificial intelligence, Congressman Davidson, isn't that sort of a
1:13:26
Speaker 1: role that artificial intelligence may be able to fill quite nicely?
1:13:29
Speaker 1: It is just dollars and cents and calculations based upon
1:13:32
Speaker 1: an obscenely thick and fat tax code.
1:13:36
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, look, the tasticulously complex. That's why we
1:13:39
Speaker 8: need a different way to tax people and get rid
1:13:42
Speaker 8: of the income tax, which also serves as a giant
1:13:44
Speaker 8: surveillance tool. Pretty nosy, all the things you have to
1:13:49
Speaker 8: disclose in it. But anyway, it is one hundred percent right.
1:13:53
Speaker 8: For more automation and more tech and the innovation that
1:13:57
Speaker 8: can happen there is going to eliminate a lot of
1:13:59
Speaker 8: jobs ters of compliance. But in the meantime, when we're
1:14:03
Speaker 8: operating the government, look we've got tons of agencies. I mean,
1:14:06
Speaker 8: if you look at HUD, for example, housing an urban development,
1:14:10
Speaker 8: they had like forty four percent coming into the office period,
1:14:15
Speaker 8: not like every day of the week, but like coming
1:14:17
Speaker 8: into the office period. There's still This is when I
1:14:21
Speaker 8: was talking with Secretary Fudge before the current administration. You know,
1:14:25
Speaker 8: Marcia Fudge, a former remember of Congress from Cleveland area
1:14:29
Speaker 8: here in Ohio, became Secretary of HUD and she's like, look,
1:14:33
Speaker 8: you can't get all these people to come in. COVID
1:14:35
Speaker 8: is long since gone, and they still couldn't get people
1:14:38
Speaker 8: to show up to work. You've got the same dynamic
1:14:40
Speaker 8: and IRS, same dynamic and Social Security administration. So a
1:14:43
Speaker 8: lot of these people that haven't come into work, the
1:14:45
Speaker 8: Trump administration has already tried dealing with them. They've offered buyouts,
1:14:49
Speaker 8: they've done all kinds of things. There are lots of
1:14:51
Speaker 8: positions like that. We can say, you know, maybe we
1:14:54
Speaker 8: just don't need all these people.
1:14:56
Speaker 1: Congress and Warren Davids, one more question on this shutdown,
1:14:59
Speaker 1: will as before we take a break and bring it
1:15:01
Speaker 1: back and talk about an amazing development. Yesterday regarding peace
1:15:04
Speaker 1: in the Middle East, there was a floated around proposal
1:15:07
Speaker 1: which is widely described as bipartisan, extending these tax supplements,
1:15:13
Speaker 1: these credits that were COVID nineteen era related for one year,
1:15:18
Speaker 1: sort of as a way to kick the can down
1:15:19
Speaker 1: the road, so we'd have a new expiration date for them.
1:15:22
Speaker 1: But is that something that you would be willing to
1:15:24
Speaker 1: go along with, because I think it's a step in
1:15:26
Speaker 1: the wrong direction.
1:15:27
Speaker 8: Personally, No, the status quo is completely broken, and I
1:15:32
Speaker 8: don't think it's a good idea to extend them for
1:15:34
Speaker 8: one month. Personally, I think we should have already repealed
1:15:36
Speaker 8: Obamacare and gone on to a more market oriented approach.
1:15:41
Speaker 8: But if we're going to do a dime for these
1:15:43
Speaker 8: COVID era plus ups for Obamacare, I hope we triple
1:15:47
Speaker 8: them ten x them. Whatever. Proof once and for all
1:15:50
Speaker 8: that subsidies don't work, and it proved that, Okay, we
1:15:54
Speaker 8: can't arrive at a crash site. People act like money
1:15:57
Speaker 8: is irrelevant and we can just print it. Well you don't.
1:16:01
Speaker 8: Can you not connect the dots that the massive spending
1:16:04
Speaker 8: causes inflation? And they're like, oh no, it's corporate greed,
1:16:07
Speaker 8: and you're like, then the companies always want to make money.
1:16:09
Speaker 8: But when you spend massively more money, it causes inflation.
1:16:14
Speaker 8: And we're seeing that in the areas that you subsidize
1:16:17
Speaker 8: the most, like education and healthcare, you get the most inflation.
1:16:22
Speaker 8: And in the economy when you spend massively more two
1:16:24
Speaker 8: trillion more then we generate in revenue. You're dumping two
1:16:31
Speaker 8: trillion extra dollars into the economy every year. How do
1:16:34
Speaker 8: you not have inflation? And for some reason people can't
1:16:37
Speaker 8: do this cause effect relationship.
1:16:39
Speaker 5: It's mind blowing.
1:16:40
Speaker 1: That's a failure of the US education system. I would argue. Anyhow,
1:16:44
Speaker 1: we'll continue the Congressman War and Davidson peace in the
1:16:47
Speaker 1: Middle East, the concept within our reach. Maybe seven to
1:16:51
Speaker 1: sixteen fifty five krc DE TALX station US five KRCD
1:16:54
Speaker 1: talk Station Brian Thomas with Congressman Warren Davidson follow by
1:16:57
Speaker 1: Senator Ran Paul Bottom of the hour, Congressman Davidson a
1:17:01
Speaker 1: wonderful revelation yesterday Hamas and Israel agreed to Phase well,
1:17:05
Speaker 1: I guess they're calling it Phase one. A lot of
1:17:07
Speaker 1: devil's devil in details, a lot of things to be
1:17:09
Speaker 1: ironed out, but a remarkable advancement toward peace between Israel
1:17:14
Speaker 1: and Hamas, the terrorist organization Israel's agreed to withdraw. There's
1:17:18
Speaker 1: some question marks about where the lines of withdraw are
1:17:20
Speaker 1: going to be drawn and who's going to be providing
1:17:22
Speaker 1: sort of a peacekeeping force there. But I guess the
1:17:27
Speaker 1: Egyptian border at Rafa is now open, which allows Palestinians
1:17:31
Speaker 1: to exit the area and allows for if food deliveries
1:17:34
Speaker 1: to be brought in. This seems to be a huge accomplishment.
1:17:38
Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, what's your perception of where we are on
1:17:41
Speaker 1: this look?
1:17:42
Speaker 8: I think Donald Trump has been very clear that his
1:17:45
Speaker 8: goal is peace. He wants people to stop dying. He's
1:17:48
Speaker 8: been very active on the world stage, and what a
1:17:51
Speaker 8: great use of America's influence around the world and Donald
1:17:54
Speaker 8: Trump's personal role in it. And it's been amazing to watch.
1:17:59
Speaker 8: He's been incredibly effective. No, I mean, no one really
1:18:04
Speaker 8: believes there's going to be peace in the Middle East.
1:18:06
Speaker 8: Whenever you starts working on it, you're like, well, okay,
1:18:09
Speaker 8: why don't you have tilted some other woodmill. This is
1:18:12
Speaker 8: a very entrenched conflict and it's amazing to see that
1:18:15
Speaker 8: he's brought the parties together to get to a point
1:18:17
Speaker 8: where they're close to peace. They're agreed to do it. Now,
1:18:20
Speaker 8: let's see if they actually do it, and you know, exchange,
1:18:24
Speaker 8: you got to give up the hostages. Yeah, and you've
1:18:28
Speaker 8: got to stop. You know, Hamas cannot govern Gaza. That's
1:18:32
Speaker 8: the base thing for Israel and then for you know,
1:18:35
Speaker 8: the people of Gaza. All right, if those things are met,
1:18:37
Speaker 8: then Israel can start pulling troops out of the Gaza area.
1:18:42
Speaker 8: And if it changes, well then okay, then it's all
1:18:44
Speaker 8: back on. But hopefully peace we'll get there. I've spent
1:18:48
Speaker 8: a lot of time praying for this peace and it's
1:18:50
Speaker 8: just terrible to see what's going on. War is a
1:18:52
Speaker 8: horrible thing.
1:18:54
Speaker 1: Well, in part of me wants to believe the Democrats
1:18:56
Speaker 1: are actually quite upset about this, inspite of the fact
1:18:58
Speaker 1: it's going to lead to maybe fewer and maybe even
1:19:01
Speaker 1: a broader piece like the Abraham Accords we're bringing around.
1:19:04
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that extending throughout the entire region. Hey,
1:19:07
Speaker 1: let's live together independently, but play together nicely for the
1:19:10
Speaker 1: purposes of everybody's economic benefit. And what an odd concept that.
1:19:15
Speaker 1: But I thought it was wonderful that all of the
1:19:17
Speaker 1: parties to these negotiations, from Hamas to Israel to cutter
1:19:21
Speaker 1: to Egypt to Turkey, all much to the chagrin of Democrats,
1:19:25
Speaker 1: giving Donald Trump specific praise for his efforts along these lines.
1:19:29
Speaker 1: I mean, as much as I have no value in
1:19:32
Speaker 1: the Nobel Peace Prize ever since Barack Obama got one
1:19:35
Speaker 1: for doing literally nothing, but this makes Donald Trump really
1:19:38
Speaker 1: quite eligible, if not well deserved, of a Nobel Peace Prize.
1:19:43
Speaker 8: Yeah, and that's what makes them lose their minds over it.
1:19:46
Speaker 8: I mean, you've kept people trying to overdose on talent
1:19:49
Speaker 8: OneD just because Donald Trump pointed out that talent all themselves,
1:19:52
Speaker 8: and Harvard did a study that said, hey, take in
1:19:54
Speaker 8: talent all while you're pregnant could be bad for you.
1:19:58
Speaker 8: Talk to your doctor. And so there are people that
1:20:01
Speaker 8: are literally going to the ICU because well, to own Trump,
1:20:04
Speaker 8: I have to do this. And so now you see,
1:20:07
Speaker 8: on the biggest world stage possible, Donald Trump getting a
1:20:11
Speaker 8: win which is, you know, win after win after win
1:20:14
Speaker 8: in all kinds of areas. They just can't stand it.
1:20:18
Speaker 8: And even if it meant more war, they would be like, well,
1:20:22
Speaker 8: but Trump can't succeed. I think one of the funniest
1:20:24
Speaker 8: things I saw was, you know, kind of one of
1:20:26
Speaker 8: those Babylon d type headlines, is Federal judge rules that
1:20:30
Speaker 8: Trump cannot does not have the authority to facilitate peace
1:20:34
Speaker 8: in the Middle East. You know, but this is the thing.
1:20:37
Speaker 8: Anything to stop Trump is basically the only thing that
1:20:39
Speaker 8: the Left stands.
1:20:40
Speaker 1: For these days, no question about it. Well, and the
1:20:43
Speaker 1: other component of this that remains a mystery to me
1:20:45
Speaker 1: because as we see all these pro Palestinian pro Hamas
1:20:49
Speaker 1: agitator agitators tearing up college campuses and overrunning cities, I
1:20:53
Speaker 1: didn't see any reference to the question of a Palestinian state.
1:20:59
Speaker 1: Is this have any open sort of at least wiggle
1:21:03
Speaker 1: room for that to be brought about. Is that something
1:21:05
Speaker 1: that wasn't touch by this. I didn't hear any I
1:21:07
Speaker 1: didn't really quite read anything which definitively answers that question.
1:21:10
Speaker 8: Congressman Davids, Yeah, that was very intentionally not included in
1:21:14
Speaker 8: this because there's just no way that there's going to
1:21:18
Speaker 8: be a discussion about that that involves Hamas, and so
1:21:21
Speaker 8: the condition is Hamas can't govern in Gaza, and then
1:21:25
Speaker 8: there's a lot of rebuilding that needs to take place
1:21:27
Speaker 8: before that's even ripe. And there are a lot of
1:21:30
Speaker 8: people that are pushing for it, including some of the
1:21:32
Speaker 8: European Union, Democrats, radicals, campus folks in particular that you're
1:21:38
Speaker 8: talking about, and you know the ten seven massacre when
1:21:42
Speaker 8: Hamas you know, went out and massacred innocent civilians in Israel.
1:21:48
Speaker 8: A lot of what their demand was is a separate state.
1:21:51
Speaker 8: I mean, you can't reward that massacred, the ten seven
1:21:55
Speaker 8: massacre with talking about a separate Palconian state, but you
1:22:00
Speaker 8: can restore peace. And so it looks like they're well
1:22:03
Speaker 8: underway towards that and hopefully it continues.
1:22:06
Speaker 1: Amen to that, Congressman Warren Davidson, I certainly appreciate your
1:22:09
Speaker 1: willingness to join my listeners of me and have a
1:22:11
Speaker 1: discussion on these important issues. And I truly appreciate you
1:22:15
Speaker 1: and your standing on these matters as an elected official.
1:22:17
Speaker 1: We need more people like Congressman Warren Davidson, and I
1:22:19
Speaker 1: want to thank all of your voters for putting you
1:22:22
Speaker 1: in office, and hopefully we'll have continued great relations with
1:22:25
Speaker 1: you here on the fifty five Carise Morning. Should Congressman Davidson.
1:22:30
Speaker 8: Yeah, always an honor. Thanks Brian God bless you and
1:22:32
Speaker 8: all your listeners.
1:22:33
Speaker 1: Thank you. Right back at you. Coming up next, Senator
1:22:35
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1:23:01
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Senator Paul. It's a pleasure having you on
1:23:03
Speaker 1: the show today.
1:23:05
Speaker 9: Good morning, Brian, thanks for having me.
1:23:06
Speaker 1: Another bite at the apple. Another resolution shot down. Senate
1:23:09
Speaker 1: said fifty four to forty five no, rejecting the proposal
1:23:13
Speaker 1: to continuing resolution and funding levels at Biden Era level,
1:23:16
Speaker 1: which passed in the House. You were one I think
1:23:19
Speaker 1: you were the only the lone Republican to vote against
1:23:21
Speaker 1: yesterday's measure. My listeners are aware that this is all
1:23:26
Speaker 1: revolving around the Democrats desire to continue COVID era tax credits,
1:23:30
Speaker 1: which covids over. This comes at a very expensive cost
1:23:33
Speaker 1: of the American taxpayer and also allows illegal immigrants to
1:23:36
Speaker 1: get hooked up to Obamacare. Now, with that in mind,
1:23:39
Speaker 1: explain to my listeners your rationale for saying no yesterday
1:23:42
Speaker 1: and previously.
1:23:45
Speaker 9: You know I'm against the Obamacare subsidies. I've voted against
1:23:48
Speaker 9: every addition to Obamacare since the very beginning, and we'll
1:23:51
Speaker 9: continue to oppose that. What we had before us, though,
1:23:55
Speaker 9: is two different spending proposals. One is a Democrat proposal.
1:23:58
Speaker 9: It has the obamacareb these in it, and it also
1:24:01
Speaker 9: has about a trillion dollars more in spending for a
1:24:04
Speaker 9: three trillion dollar deficit. So I'm imposed of that package
1:24:07
Speaker 9: as well. Now. The Republican alternative, though, isn't a lot better.
1:24:11
Speaker 9: The Republican alternative continues the Biden spending levels from last December,
1:24:15
Speaker 9: and it will lead to about a two trillion dollar deficit.
1:24:18
Speaker 9: So basically, the Republicans we have this two trillion in deficit,
1:24:22
Speaker 9: the Democrats three, and I'm not for either of those,
1:24:25
Speaker 9: but I've put forward an alternative. My alternative is called
1:24:28
Speaker 9: the Penny Plan, and they voted on it about two
1:24:31
Speaker 9: weeks ago, and we had thirty six Republicans, which is
1:24:35
Speaker 9: the most we've ever had before. Thirty six Republicans supported
1:24:38
Speaker 9: the Penny Plan, which balances the budget within five years,
1:24:42
Speaker 9: dramatically reduces the deficit in the first year, and we
1:24:45
Speaker 9: lost sixteen big government Republicans you can probably guess who
1:24:49
Speaker 9: they are, and then we lost all the Democrats. So
1:24:52
Speaker 9: there aren't the numbers yet to do the right thing,
1:24:54
Speaker 9: but there still has to be somebody up here we
1:24:56
Speaker 9: as trying to do the right thing and votes against deficits,
1:24:59
Speaker 9: whether they were Publican or Democrat.
1:25:01
Speaker 1: How do you see this playing out? Because Wall Street
1:25:04
Speaker 1: Journal reported that some Republicans are saying, Eh, you might
1:25:08
Speaker 1: want to watch what you're doing, Donald Trump, because you're
1:25:10
Speaker 1: talking about laying off chunks of employees permanently and closing
1:25:14
Speaker 1: certain offices of the government through the omb reduction thing
1:25:19
Speaker 1: that he's mentioned before. I guess I'm wondering what's your
1:25:24
Speaker 1: take on that. Do you see Republicans capitulating it all.
1:25:27
Speaker 1: I know there's one proposal out there that you would
1:25:29
Speaker 1: never vote for which extends these supplements for one year,
1:25:32
Speaker 1: kicking the can down the road. But what of moving
1:25:35
Speaker 1: forward with this quote unquote pain Donald Trump is planning
1:25:39
Speaker 1: on inflicting via the OMB and the layoffs and firings.
1:25:44
Speaker 5: Yeah.
1:25:44
Speaker 9: Well, when you look at this and you look at
1:25:46
Speaker 9: the logic of how people are voting on this, get
1:25:50
Speaker 9: every Democrat vote in December of last year for these
1:25:53
Speaker 9: same spending levels, that's when they first became known as
1:25:56
Speaker 9: the Biden spending levels. Every Democrat supported him. This is
1:26:00
Speaker 9: the exact same bill. This is no different than what
1:26:03
Speaker 9: they voted for, absolutely no difference. I think really the
1:26:06
Speaker 9: pain is going to be on Democrats to explain why
1:26:08
Speaker 9: they were for these spending levels before they were against
1:26:12
Speaker 9: these spending levels, and so I think Republicans should stay
1:26:15
Speaker 9: the course. I do think eventually the Republicans will capitulate,
1:26:20
Speaker 9: not me, but the rest of them will probably capitulate
1:26:22
Speaker 9: and give them the Obamacare subsidies. People have to realize though,
1:26:26
Speaker 9: also these are not the original subsidies from when Obamacare passed.
1:26:30
Speaker 9: These were add on subsidies for richer people. So basically
1:26:33
Speaker 9: a lot of people who don't live in poverty are
1:26:36
Speaker 9: now getting Obamacare subsidies, significant subsidies only since twenty twenty three.
1:26:42
Speaker 9: And the reason they're expiring now is not because Republicans
1:26:45
Speaker 9: are making them expire. The Democrats designed them to expire
1:26:49
Speaker 9: because of the way the rules are written. The Democrats
1:26:51
Speaker 9: were spending so much money they had to eventually let
1:26:54
Speaker 9: these things expire. But now they're playing a game basically
1:26:57
Speaker 9: trying to blame it on Republicans, when in fact, the
1:27:00
Speaker 9: Democrats actually wrote the rules such that these subjecties would expire.
1:27:03
Speaker 1: Now, it's such a clear concept. The idea that the
1:27:08
Speaker 1: concern and about Donald Trump maybe moving forward with omb
1:27:12
Speaker 1: reductions is going to provide the Democrats with an argument that, aha,
1:27:15
Speaker 1: this is why the government shut down because Donald Trump
1:27:18
Speaker 1: merely wanted to use it as an opportunity to reduce
1:27:20
Speaker 1: the size and the scope of government. I think that's
1:27:22
Speaker 1: kind of laughable. They're going to argue about who wins
1:27:26
Speaker 1: the declaration of who's responsible for the government shutdown, something
1:27:30
Speaker 1: that really doesn't impact most Americans. I think that's kind
1:27:33
Speaker 1: of childish to even focus on that one issue the
1:27:36
Speaker 1: winner loss.
1:27:38
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think the Democrats have trouble overcoming the fact
1:27:40
Speaker 9: that they've already voted for these spending levels and now
1:27:43
Speaker 9: they're going to vote against the same spending levels. Essentially,
1:27:45
Speaker 9: they've moved the goalpost. So these Obamacare subsidies are not
1:27:49
Speaker 9: part of the annual spending proposals. They're separate. So they're
1:27:53
Speaker 9: trying to drag something in that's expiring. That's expiring because
1:27:56
Speaker 9: they wrote the legislation to expire, and they're trying to
1:27:59
Speaker 9: drag that into the spending debate. But the spending debate
1:28:03
Speaker 9: is pretty clear cut. These are the Biden spending levels,
1:28:06
Speaker 9: and the Democrats have all voted for them. The rumor
1:28:09
Speaker 9: is that the Democrats are worried to death about their
1:28:12
Speaker 9: left flank. They're worried about the socialist flank and the
1:28:15
Speaker 9: party and the socialists are hot and heavy, you know,
1:28:18
Speaker 9: for some of these incumbents. So like there's rumors that
1:28:21
Speaker 9: AOC wants to run against Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer is
1:28:24
Speaker 9: afraid of his own shadow now and that he will
1:28:27
Speaker 9: basically do whatever it takes to show them how strong
1:28:30
Speaker 9: he is. And a lot of people think that there's
1:28:33
Speaker 9: a big rally with the Socialists on the mall this
1:28:35
Speaker 9: we can yeah, and they think that the Democrats have
1:28:38
Speaker 9: to get through that rally, show the people all they
1:28:40
Speaker 9: stood up to Republicans, and then they'll have to sort
1:28:43
Speaker 9: of put forward something saying, oh, Republicans have agreed to
1:28:45
Speaker 9: negotiate on these Obamacare subsidies, and I think the Republicans
1:28:49
Speaker 9: are going to negotiate with them. I think they'll declare
1:28:52
Speaker 9: victory and then the Democrats allow the government to open.
1:28:55
Speaker 1: Back up fair enough and pivoting over to you perhaps
1:28:59
Speaker 1: being spied on. You among the senators who identified that.
1:29:02
Speaker 1: Jack Smith launched an inquiry a couple three years after
1:29:06
Speaker 1: the January first drunken fraternity parties I like to refer
1:29:09
Speaker 1: to it, but in twenty twenty three he subpoenaed phone
1:29:13
Speaker 1: records from eight senators and one House member, with no
1:29:18
Speaker 1: reason to believe any of them were involved in criminal activity.
1:29:21
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a profound civil rights violation from
1:29:24
Speaker 1: my perspective. What's your reaction to this happening, Senator Paul.
1:29:29
Speaker 9: Absolutely, and I think there's going to be repercussions in
1:29:32
Speaker 9: the court system against who's doing this. So there's a
1:29:35
Speaker 9: famous couple famous cases. Riley versus California and Carpenter versus
1:29:40
Speaker 9: the US, the Supreme Court decided, and in these cases,
1:29:44
Speaker 9: they decided that certain of your records deserved for Amendment protections.
1:29:49
Speaker 9: So subpoenas have a lower standard. You can get a
1:29:52
Speaker 9: subpoena of people's banking records and phone records without saying
1:29:55
Speaker 9: probable cause. What the Supreme Court said was that some
1:30:00
Speaker 9: of your records are so private that you should have
1:30:03
Speaker 9: for the Amendment protections. And among those records that are private,
1:30:07
Speaker 9: or your geolocation. So if I call the phone company
1:30:10
Speaker 9: and I want to where's Brian Thomas every moment of
1:30:13
Speaker 9: the last week, I can tell a lot about your
1:30:15
Speaker 9: life that's really none of my business or none of
1:30:17
Speaker 9: the government's business. And I shouldn't be allowed to do
1:30:20
Speaker 9: that unless I say, you're committing a crime. And that's
1:30:23
Speaker 9: why we you know, we present evidence that you're committing
1:30:25
Speaker 9: a crime. And so I think that he did this illegally.
1:30:28
Speaker 9: I think he did it through a grand jury subpoena.
1:30:31
Speaker 9: But the Carpenter case, Supreme Court Justice Roberts actually wrote
1:30:36
Speaker 9: that the subpoenas will still be able to get records,
1:30:39
Speaker 9: but there will be certain records that have privacy interests
1:30:42
Speaker 9: where they'll have to have probable calls and a Fourth
1:30:45
Speaker 9: Amendment warrant to do it. And so I think that
1:30:47
Speaker 9: absolutely he did something that the court's going to rule against.
1:30:51
Speaker 9: And I think these representatives actually have standing against the
1:30:55
Speaker 9: phone company because the phone company basically, unfortunately, the phone
1:31:00
Speaker 9: company doesn't do a very good job at defending your
1:31:01
Speaker 9: liberty for your records they want, and they just give
1:31:04
Speaker 9: them to the government. In fact, the government can wink
1:31:07
Speaker 9: at the phone company and they'll give you all your records.
1:31:09
Speaker 9: I mean, it's just disgusting. So I hope they do
1:31:13
Speaker 9: sue their phone companies. I love business. I love successful business.
1:31:17
Speaker 9: I don't like a business it's turning over my private
1:31:19
Speaker 9: records to the government without a fight.
1:31:21
Speaker 1: No, And they can fight. I mean they've got lawyers
1:31:24
Speaker 1: in their massive companies and legal teams that could you say, no,
1:31:27
Speaker 1: we can't give you this because of the aforementioned case,
1:31:29
Speaker 1: and we're not going to do it because we used
1:31:32
Speaker 1: to have the battles when I was in house over
1:31:34
Speaker 1: at Anthem, Blue Cross and Blue Shield all the time.
1:31:36
Speaker 1: You get subpoenas, so you have an obligation I think
1:31:38
Speaker 1: to perfect protect the interests of those individuals who are
1:31:41
Speaker 1: working with your company, in this case to get phone service.
1:31:44
Speaker 1: Senator Rampaul in the late remaining moments of our time together,
1:31:47
Speaker 1: and I sure appreciate our time together. Your reaction to
1:31:50
Speaker 1: the phase one of the Gaza deal. It looks like
1:31:54
Speaker 1: Amasa has agreed to release the prisoners. Israel has agreed
1:31:57
Speaker 1: to pull back its forces. It looks like we might
1:31:59
Speaker 1: have some cease fire unfolding here. Devil's in the details
1:32:03
Speaker 1: that need to be ironed out. But I viewed this
1:32:05
Speaker 1: as a really positive step.
1:32:06
Speaker 9: Your reaction, absolutely, And if it's true and the hostages
1:32:11
Speaker 9: are free in the next few days or a few hours,
1:32:13
Speaker 9: I think everybody will rejoice. If the killing can be
1:32:17
Speaker 9: discontinued in guzz that people will rejoice. And I think
1:32:20
Speaker 9: this is something that Donald Trump deserves, if it's successful,
1:32:23
Speaker 9: deserves a lot of credit for because the one thing
1:32:26
Speaker 9: you can't discount about Donald Trump is he has this
1:32:29
Speaker 9: force of presence, this this ability to be you know
1:32:35
Speaker 9: this sometimes at bully and a China shop, but sometimes
1:32:38
Speaker 9: one that will stand up even into our allies like
1:32:40
Speaker 9: Israel and say it's time to make a deal. And
1:32:43
Speaker 9: I think he has gotten his room to make a deal,
1:32:45
Speaker 9: whereas I think that Yahoo Uh struggles to make a
1:32:48
Speaker 9: deal because he struggles against criticism at home for being
1:32:51
Speaker 9: too soft, which I can't imagine how they can describe
1:32:54
Speaker 9: him as to solve. But the thing is, I think
1:32:56
Speaker 9: Trump inserting himself in this, I think has hopefully pushed
1:33:01
Speaker 9: it on. And you got to wonder why, Howmas wouldn't
1:33:05
Speaker 9: you know, settle? I mean, they've been decimated, most of
1:33:07
Speaker 9: their leaders have been killed, probably three fourths of their
1:33:10
Speaker 9: soldiers or not soldiers, terrorists have been killed. And my
1:33:14
Speaker 9: goodness is they could give up the hostages. You know, they're,
1:33:18
Speaker 9: like I say, will rejoice and hopefully they will work
1:33:21
Speaker 9: and end well.
1:33:22
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be a wonderful thing? And wow, all in
1:33:25
Speaker 1: Trump's first term, so much progress, Senator Rampaul.
1:33:30
Speaker 9: First year.
1:33:32
Speaker 1: It's amazing, it really is. This has been a whirlwind
1:33:35
Speaker 1: of activity I've never seen the likes of which in
1:33:37
Speaker 1: my entire life. Senator Rampaul, thank you again for your
1:33:39
Speaker 1: time today. Keep up the great work and I'll look
1:33:42
Speaker 1: forward to having you back on the show real soon.
1:33:44
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Speaker 1: August twelfth. Surveillance cameras and licensed plate readers helped authorities
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Speaker 1: catch them all. Four suspects booked at the Butler County Jail.
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Speaker 1: Garcia Salis forty six Heraldo I guess a mononym forty
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Speaker 1: two Rodriguez forty in the US illegally. Did you hear that?
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Speaker 1: In the US? Illegally? They say they burglarized homes in
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Speaker 1: Indian Hill, Montgomery and Amberley Village. Task Force scorek hear
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Speaker 1: in Ohio has already led to charges against members of
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Speaker 1: five separate theft gangs, who were reportedly mostly made up
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Speaker 1: of Chilean nationals. Said they came to the United States
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Speaker 1: legally using tourist y as these Chilean nationals, and then
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Speaker 1: they received training on how to burglarize homes. One of
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Speaker 1: the gangs charged with burglarizing Bengals quarterback Joe Burrows home.
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Speaker 1: You remember that December of last year. Another separate gang
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Speaker 1: targeted homes in Indian Hill, as well as they say
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Speaker 1: wealthy suburbs in Detroit and Indianapolis. Another separate gang accused
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Speaker 1: the committee more than eight burglaries and attempted burglaries in Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan,
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin between August of last year in April this year,
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Speaker 1: stealing more than five million dollars worth of people's property.
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Speaker 1: Westchester Township homes Mason Homes. According to the documents. A
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Speaker 1: gang preyed on business owners of Indian, Middle Eastern and
1:38:13
Speaker 1: Asian descent as well. So isn't it nice that we
1:38:20
Speaker 1: have local law enforcement officers picking up people who are
1:38:23
Speaker 1: responsible for committing crimes and I suspect given the venue
1:38:29
Speaker 1: of this law enforcement activity. Westchester Township notably that they
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Speaker 1: will cooperate with ICE to the extent they're in our
1:38:39
Speaker 1: country illegally, Maybe saving the American taxpayer the cost of
1:38:43
Speaker 1: imprisoning them in our prisons. Perhaps just sending them back
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Speaker 1: to their country of origin will solve the problem. Just
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Speaker 1: food for thought. Stick around on. We're gonna hear from
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Speaker 1: the importance in addressing national security matters. Tonight an important conversation.
1:40:34
Speaker 1: He'll be speaking about the future of gen Z conservatism.
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Speaker 1: Hunter Oswald, Welcome to the Morning Show. It's a pleasure
1:40:39
Speaker 1: to have you on today.
1:40:41
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me on, Brian.
1:40:42
Speaker 1: All right, let's break down these Okay, boomers are nineteen
1:40:45
Speaker 1: forty six to sixty four. Welcome to me. I'm the
1:40:48
Speaker 1: first year of jen X, sixty five to eighty. The
1:40:51
Speaker 1: millennials were born eighty one and ninety six, So gen
1:40:54
Speaker 1: Z is nineteen ninety seven to twenty twelve, making the
1:40:58
Speaker 1: folks that you're talking about thirteen twenty eight years old.
1:41:01
Speaker 1: This is the future of American politics, is it not?
1:41:05
Speaker 5: It is.
1:41:05
Speaker 4: In fact, gen Z has been really taken in American
1:41:10
Speaker 4: politics since really the twenty twenty four election. I mean,
1:41:13
Speaker 4: if you want to be even farther back to twenty twenty,
1:41:15
Speaker 4: but twenty twenty four, this past election cycle, we really
1:41:18
Speaker 4: saw major shifts in gen Z when it came to
1:41:21
Speaker 4: who voted for who, because traditionally speaking, gen Z has
1:41:25
Speaker 4: always been perceived as way more progressive that than people thought. Yes,
1:41:29
Speaker 4: but when twenty twenty four Halt twenty four, we saw
1:41:32
Speaker 4: Trump game six percent of that vote compared to twenty twenty.
1:41:37
Speaker 4: So we are definitely seeing gen Z as having a
1:41:40
Speaker 4: major hold in American politics as of now.
1:41:43
Speaker 1: Well, you're following this quite closely. What do you hear
1:41:45
Speaker 1: from the I'll call them converts. You know, he who
1:41:49
Speaker 1: is not from the left as a youth has no heart,
1:41:51
Speaker 1: He who is not from the right as an adult
1:41:53
Speaker 1: has no brain. Obviously they're waking up at a much
1:41:55
Speaker 1: younger age. What's driving this more conservative shift?
1:41:59
Speaker 4: Hunter, Yeah, So what is basically driving this shift is
1:42:04
Speaker 4: the combination of stuff, and one of them is what
1:42:07
Speaker 4: we are definitely seeing is somewhat of a religious revival
1:42:10
Speaker 4: in America that is taking more a traditional approach to issues,
1:42:15
Speaker 4: whether that's on abortion, transgenderism, all the more social issues
1:42:20
Speaker 4: we are definitely seeing amongst gen Z. But also I
1:42:23
Speaker 4: would say one of the things as a gen Z
1:42:26
Speaker 4: individual myself, is just the major skepticism of our institutions,
1:42:31
Speaker 4: and people are like, okay, Hunter or gen Z, why
1:42:35
Speaker 4: you say skeptical, Well, basically since the day we're born,
1:42:38
Speaker 4: if you want to really get like you said nineteen
1:42:40
Speaker 4: ninety seven and for me like two thousand and one,
1:42:43
Speaker 4: gpticism is kind of part of our nature where you've
1:42:46
Speaker 4: had politicians from say right and left or really Democrat
1:42:50
Speaker 4: Republican that have told us, hey, if you do certain things,
1:42:53
Speaker 4: we'll give you this and that, and we haven't seen anything.
1:42:56
Speaker 4: We've been told everything, we've been promised to everything, and
1:43:00
Speaker 4: none of that's happened. So there is certainly a skepticism
1:43:03
Speaker 4: within gen Z towards intutions like Congress, the presidency, and
1:43:10
Speaker 4: even the Spring Court. And that has translated into an
1:43:13
Speaker 4: approach that seeks, hey, why do we want to give
1:43:16
Speaker 4: more power over to these institutions that have lied to us? Yes,
1:43:21
Speaker 4: and that's also been a major driver towards conservative and
1:43:24
Speaker 4: also just the simple desire for truth. We've been told
1:43:28
Speaker 4: to think a certain way, you know, not to question
1:43:31
Speaker 4: our folks in the classroom, and then when we try
1:43:34
Speaker 4: to actually have a discussion about issues, we are actually
1:43:37
Speaker 4: diving in these issues way more than people anticipated. We
1:43:41
Speaker 4: want the truth and we don't want these institutions to
1:43:43
Speaker 4: say you're going to think a certain way or else.
1:43:46
Speaker 1: Well, that's interesting, and I suspect that, I know one
1:43:49
Speaker 1: of the things you're going to be talking about, and
1:43:50
Speaker 1: in addition to the meaning of conservatism, talking about what
1:43:54
Speaker 1: issues are really critical to this movement, but the role
1:43:57
Speaker 1: of technology. I mean, I'm in that that that generation
1:44:01
Speaker 1: hunter that if you really wanted to pay attention to politics,
1:44:04
Speaker 1: you had to subscribe to magazines, you know, like The
1:44:07
Speaker 1: New Republic or Atlantic, or you know, subscribe to major newspapers.
1:44:11
Speaker 1: You had to get a copy of the Wall Street Journal,
1:44:13
Speaker 1: you had to watch the McNeil LAIRIR News Hour on
1:44:15
Speaker 1: Sundays if you wanted any substantive conversation. So it was
1:44:19
Speaker 1: easy to gloss over it. We have the Internet, welcome
1:44:22
Speaker 1: to reality in this modern day and age. And I
1:44:25
Speaker 1: suspect because kids spend young people, I would argue, spend
1:44:28
Speaker 1: a lot of time on social media, they're actually engaging
1:44:31
Speaker 1: in political discourse and following the issues that are impacting them.
1:44:36
Speaker 1: It's created a wonderful opportunity for them to educate themselves.
1:44:39
Speaker 1: In spite of what the left wants to how they
1:44:41
Speaker 1: want to control them precisely.
1:44:44
Speaker 5: Yeah.
1:44:44
Speaker 4: I mean one of the jokes we say about gen
1:44:47
Speaker 4: Z as Generation Zoomer because we are the digital kids.
1:44:51
Speaker 4: You know, you had your millennials prior that were like, Okay,
1:44:54
Speaker 4: we're finally getting the Internet. But then now the gen
1:44:56
Speaker 4: Z my group is now signed, we have social media.
1:45:00
Speaker 4: We have way more platforms to engage people in ways
1:45:03
Speaker 4: that I don't think many of us original thought could
1:45:06
Speaker 4: be even possible. And that's why you're seeing a lot
1:45:08
Speaker 4: of people on social media, whether that's X, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok,
1:45:15
Speaker 4: all those platforms right now are being used to spread
1:45:19
Speaker 4: more information than I think anybody could imagine. I think
1:45:23
Speaker 4: that's also where the rise of conservatives is just the
1:45:26
Speaker 4: fact that social media is offering an alternative to the mainstream. Indeed,
1:45:30
Speaker 4: you can actually have you can actually have discourse without
1:45:34
Speaker 4: major networks studying it down overnight and saying well, if
1:45:38
Speaker 4: you have the wrong opinion, you can't say this. Well, no,
1:45:41
Speaker 4: we want a platform, and these alternative media is providing
1:45:45
Speaker 4: that platform for gen Z.
1:45:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, unlimited amount of material, and we get to be
1:45:49
Speaker 1: our own editor in terms of what material we choose
1:45:51
Speaker 1: to consume and digest. We're not being dictated to by
1:45:54
Speaker 1: some behind the scenes person and some probably left leaning
1:45:57
Speaker 1: network who's picking and choosing what informa to feed us.
1:46:00
Speaker 1: It's all out there for anybody who chooses to want
1:46:03
Speaker 1: to go after it. I gotta hit on something, Hunter,
1:46:05
Speaker 1: as I want to ask you this directly because I
1:46:08
Speaker 1: think it is probably, if not the one of the
1:46:11
Speaker 1: primary mechanisms for this awakening young people are having, and
1:46:16
Speaker 1: this rejection of leftist ideology. And you mentioned it before,
1:46:19
Speaker 1: this idea that we need to accept someone's personal choice
1:46:23
Speaker 1: on what gender they are. Now, I don't care personally
1:46:26
Speaker 1: that there are transgenders in the world.
1:46:27
Speaker 5: You know.
1:46:28
Speaker 1: I can live under that umbrella as long as you're
1:46:30
Speaker 1: not forcing me to say out loud that yes, they
1:46:33
Speaker 1: are indeed a sex that they're not born with. I'm
1:46:35
Speaker 1: a purist when it comes to medicine X and y
1:46:38
Speaker 1: X and a X determined your sex period, end of story.
1:46:40
Speaker 1: You want to believe you're somebody else, hey, go ahead,
1:46:42
Speaker 1: But you can't force me to say you're a woman
1:46:46
Speaker 1: if you're a guy, and you shouldn't be allowed in
1:46:48
Speaker 1: a female locker room if you're a guy. There's a
1:46:50
Speaker 1: whole lot of risk that goes along with that. Is
1:46:52
Speaker 1: that as prominent a reason for this conservative shift as
1:46:56
Speaker 1: I'm kind of perceiving it to be, because it's like
1:46:58
Speaker 1: the biggest batcrap in scene element out there, almost on
1:47:02
Speaker 1: the left hand side of the ledger.
1:47:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think you're even wrong about that, because
1:47:07
Speaker 4: even I I would essentually I would actually agree with that,
1:47:11
Speaker 4: because what you're seeing is the left, especially in our institutions,
1:47:16
Speaker 4: has hit so hard with these radical ideologies. You know,
1:47:20
Speaker 4: like you said, you know, somehow a man can become
1:47:22
Speaker 4: a woman and vice versa, or if you use the
1:47:25
Speaker 4: wrong pronoun or mischigender, somebody like you see in Colorado,
1:47:28
Speaker 4: you can actually be arrested or be denied service from
1:47:33
Speaker 4: senior kids in corn You know, you have all these
1:47:36
Speaker 4: radical proposals, and it's like, look, we don't care if
1:47:41
Speaker 4: you're gay or lesbian or a transition. We really don't care.
1:47:46
Speaker 4: Just don't impose your ideology on somebody and force them
1:47:51
Speaker 4: into something they don't simply agree with. Right, Nobody, I
1:47:54
Speaker 4: would say gen Z in some ways is kind of
1:47:56
Speaker 4: mix of conservatives but also libertarians.
1:47:59
Speaker 1: There libertarians, that's me. I'm a little el litertarian hunter
1:48:02
Speaker 1: with Oswald I. I I think we can all play
1:48:05
Speaker 1: nicely under the under the under the banner of freedom,
1:48:08
Speaker 1: you know, the right to control our own individual destinies
1:48:12
Speaker 1: without intruding into someone else's life. Hell, yes, I'll go
1:48:15
Speaker 1: for that all day, man.
1:48:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, but yeah, I mean it's kind of
1:48:19
Speaker 4: and that's where I would describe gen Z in some
1:48:21
Speaker 4: way as a fusion Like we've heard this, you know,
1:48:24
Speaker 4: amongst conservative fusionism between conservative ideas and groups with libertarians,
1:48:30
Speaker 4: and that's been there for a long time, but I
1:48:32
Speaker 4: think it's certainly growing again, and especially you're seeing that
1:48:35
Speaker 4: in gen Z because like I've said and others have said,
1:48:38
Speaker 4: is we don't care if you or this or that,
1:48:42
Speaker 4: just don't impose your will or use the state for government.
1:48:46
Speaker 4: How do you want to call them to put your
1:48:49
Speaker 4: ideas on us and then say if you don't follow
1:48:51
Speaker 4: our rules, if you don't like what we you have
1:48:53
Speaker 4: we have for you to say, then we're going to
1:48:56
Speaker 4: shut you out. We're not going to give you these privileges.
1:48:58
Speaker 4: We're not going to allow you to practice your fundamental
1:49:00
Speaker 4: rights as a human being. Because I think at the
1:49:03
Speaker 4: end of the day, what conservatism offers that the progressives
1:49:07
Speaker 4: they don't is given an idea of what is human dignity,
1:49:12
Speaker 4: what is being able to be free to do what
1:49:14
Speaker 4: you'd want to do, so long as you're not infringing
1:49:17
Speaker 4: on other people's right to do the same. And I
1:49:21
Speaker 4: think that's where gen Z is finally realizing conservatism. Libertarianism
1:49:25
Speaker 4: is offering that alternative, and it's always been there, it's
1:49:29
Speaker 4: just our institutions haven't been willing to say, oh, yeah,
1:49:32
Speaker 4: they got a point, because progressism is a fundamentally denial
1:49:38
Speaker 4: of what those ideals, those universal truths.
1:49:41
Speaker 1: Are indeed, and of course when you're a Marxist, you
1:49:45
Speaker 1: hate religion, the concept of something higher power than the government.
1:49:48
Speaker 1: Of course, the Founding fathers were well aware of that.
1:49:50
Speaker 1: That's why we have inalienable rights in the Bill of Rights.
1:49:53
Speaker 1: They are God given rights. And if you don't believe
1:49:55
Speaker 1: in God, you can still believe in that concept. Consider
1:49:57
Speaker 1: the state of nature, as I point out all the time,
1:49:59
Speaker 1: if you're play down in the middle of field magically
1:50:01
Speaker 1: by the flying spaghetti monster and born in as where
1:50:04
Speaker 1: there is no one around you, you can literally do
1:50:06
Speaker 1: anything you want as soon as another human being lands
1:50:09
Speaker 1: next to you. Then you have to observe their rights
1:50:11
Speaker 1: and freedoms. You can't harm them, they can't harm you.
1:50:14
Speaker 1: But can you defend yourself? Yes, in natural law you can.
1:50:18
Speaker 1: Can you go out and feed yourself, Yes you can.
1:50:20
Speaker 1: It's that whole idea of natural law, and that's you know,
1:50:25
Speaker 1: it springs from sometimes a religious ideology. I guess I'm
1:50:28
Speaker 1: just wondering. Like turning point, Usa, Charlie Kirk very religious guy.
1:50:32
Speaker 1: His political message was cloaked in faith, but he wasn't
1:50:36
Speaker 1: trying to force you to be a Christian. He was
1:50:38
Speaker 1: trying to explain the value of it for you as
1:50:42
Speaker 1: an individual. It's uplifting, It gives you hope, it gives
1:50:44
Speaker 1: you freedom, it gives you I mean, there's a lot
1:50:46
Speaker 1: of reasons that he encouraged Christianity, but he wasn't going
1:50:50
Speaker 1: to force you to become Christian. Just say out loud,
1:50:54
Speaker 1: Hunter that you're a Christian immediately results in this venomous
1:50:58
Speaker 1: attack by the left. Is stupid. What do you believe in?
1:51:01
Speaker 1: The in the philag Spagheti monster too and they just
1:51:04
Speaker 1: immediately attack you merely because you're a person of faith.
1:51:08
Speaker 1: Is is it a reaction from young people to now
1:51:11
Speaker 1: start turning to faith because of that response. I mean,
1:51:16
Speaker 1: you know what, that's ridiculous, and I'm gonna look into
1:51:18
Speaker 1: this concept of faith and religion.
1:51:22
Speaker 4: Precisely.
1:51:23
Speaker 3: Yeah.
1:51:23
Speaker 4: No, gen Z is definitely being a revival in faith,
1:51:28
Speaker 4: especially towards Christianity. So me personally, I'm a Roman Catholic.
1:51:31
Speaker 4: I've been a Roman Catholic since the day i was born.
1:51:33
Speaker 4: I'm proud to be Roman Catholic. Now people would say, Hunter,
1:51:37
Speaker 4: what about you know, the Catholic Church and stuff, because
1:51:40
Speaker 4: that's one of the argument today before young people who
1:51:42
Speaker 4: are going towards say more traditional Masses or traditional Christianity
1:51:49
Speaker 4: amongst gen Z and they like you said, all you're superstitious.
1:51:52
Speaker 5: What do you believe in?
1:51:53
Speaker 4: It's like, look what the Blessed has done for the
1:51:57
Speaker 4: past few decades is promote this idea of pure secularism
1:52:01
Speaker 4: that somehow faith should be entirely separate from political, even
1:52:06
Speaker 4: at more or less even cultural life. And they've been
1:52:10
Speaker 4: promoted in this new idea called new atheism, which you
1:52:13
Speaker 4: hear people would say like you're rich your Dawkins, you're
1:52:17
Speaker 4: Christopher Higginson's who are saying that you know, faith is
1:52:20
Speaker 4: not just useless, it's fundamentally dangerous to society because it
1:52:25
Speaker 4: promotes quote, these superstitions that bring us backwards and away
1:52:29
Speaker 4: from science. Well, it's like, look, if you look at Christianity,
1:52:34
Speaker 4: it has been immensely impassible for human dignity. It is
1:52:37
Speaker 4: promoted those universal truths that have allowed us to enjoy
1:52:40
Speaker 4: the very freedoms we have today. I mean, we see
1:52:42
Speaker 4: this as you know Thomas Aquinas who argues that you know,
1:52:46
Speaker 4: reason and faith are one and the same. The ability
1:52:50
Speaker 4: to reason is a gift from God. So when you
1:52:53
Speaker 4: have young people today being told that being religious or
1:52:57
Speaker 4: being a person of faith is backward, they fundamentally deny
1:53:02
Speaker 4: the fruits of what and the very wisdom of Western civilization.
1:53:06
Speaker 4: They deny the very principles that allow us to get
1:53:10
Speaker 4: to this very own place. What's and that's the best
1:53:13
Speaker 4: part about being a person of face is you see
1:53:16
Speaker 4: all this once you open your eyes. Because another important
1:53:19
Speaker 4: thing is what new atheism failed, that is driving gen
1:53:23
Speaker 4: z towards faiths. It's failed to give us purpose. Why
1:53:27
Speaker 4: are we here on this earth? Why are we doing
1:53:29
Speaker 4: the things we're doing? What is our ultimate goal in life?
1:53:33
Speaker 4: And religion? Has offers those answers. New atheism failed to
1:53:37
Speaker 4: funamlity address that question, which is what purpose do we
1:53:42
Speaker 4: have in our lives under Oswald?
1:53:45
Speaker 1: It's going to be an amazing conversation. Empoweroamerica dot org
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1:54:00
Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough for what you're doing. And
1:54:02
Speaker 1: maybe you just now stumbled upon the reality of why
1:54:04
Speaker 1: they hate religion because that Christian faith through Judeo Christian
1:54:09
Speaker 1: ethic built Western civilization. What are the Marxists and leftists
1:54:12
Speaker 1: hate more than anything in the world Western civilization period?
1:54:16
Speaker 1: End of story. So we got to attack the root
1:54:18
Speaker 1: cause of it. Maybe that's one of the reasons.
1:54:19
Speaker 4: Why absolutely yeah, no, and and I hope to see
1:54:25
Speaker 4: everybody there, and we'll be having even more discussions about
1:54:28
Speaker 4: what conservatives that means means today for gen Z, the
1:54:31
Speaker 4: future of gen Z conservative as such, and what can
1:54:34
Speaker 4: we learn especially to bridge the gap between order conservatives,
1:54:37
Speaker 4: younger since conservatives and hopefully bring about even brighter future
1:54:41
Speaker 4: for everybody.
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Speaker 1: From boomers to millennials to the gen zers. Get everybody
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Speaker 1: watching this seminar, Hunter Oswall to wish you the best
1:54:48
Speaker 1: on to keep up the great work. Maybe you and
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Speaker 1: I can talk again sometime down the road here on
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Speaker 1: the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
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Speaker 4: Would be more than what Hey, thank you again Brian
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Speaker 4: for having me.
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Speaker 1: On My pleasure man. Enjoy the seminar tonight. It's eight
1:54:58
Speaker 1: twenty one right now, folks. Jay Rattler C Detalk Station.
1:55:02
Speaker 1: It is a very happy Thursday, as it always is
1:55:04
Speaker 1: at this time because we get to talk to unless
1:55:05
Speaker 1: he's on vacation like last week or out. I heart
1:55:08
Speaker 1: media aviation expert Jay Roratliff. Welcome back, my friend. You
1:55:12
Speaker 1: know I love talking with you.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 10: You take one vacation in a blue moon, somebody smacking
1:55:19
Speaker 10: your chops could be back.
1:55:21
Speaker 1: I can't wreck. I don't think we had anybody filling
1:55:23
Speaker 1: in for this segment in the last week's show, so
1:55:25
Speaker 1: you sort of leave me to my own devices, and
1:55:27
Speaker 1: I'd much rather have a guest on. And I love
1:55:30
Speaker 1: our conversations because again they typically are light. But let's
1:55:33
Speaker 1: start with one that's not so light. Oh my god,
1:55:35
Speaker 1: We're all gonna die. According to the US Travel Association president,
1:55:41
Speaker 1: a guy named Joff Freeman. He said US Travel Association,
1:55:45
Speaker 1: this is costing US one billion dollars in a counter week.
1:55:49
Speaker 1: Travel is inovation longer, tsa line, flight delays, airports reducing flights,
1:55:53
Speaker 1: entire controlled covers going dark longer. This drags on the
1:55:55
Speaker 1: worst cascade. The damage will be for local communities, for
1:55:58
Speaker 1: small businesses, and for the country. His group claims US
1:56:01
Speaker 1: economy lost one or losing one billion dollars per week
1:56:05
Speaker 1: because of those issues. Yet Willie Wallace, a director and
1:56:08
Speaker 1: general airline lobby group the International Air Transportations Association, said no,
1:56:14
Speaker 1: there's been no significant disruption. There has been no stop
1:56:17
Speaker 1: in the recruitment of new air traffic controllers. There were
1:56:19
Speaker 1: no significant impacts to date. So who's right on this one? Jay?
1:56:23
Speaker 10: I'm assuming the former did not vote for Donald Trump.
1:56:26
Speaker 10: That's just going out there on a limb. But the
1:56:31
Speaker 10: last few days I've had several TV and radio interviews
1:56:35
Speaker 10: where people are freaking out over the fact that the
1:56:37
Speaker 10: Burbank Airport had no air traffic controllers and we had
1:56:42
Speaker 10: to pivot and have another air traffic control center. Take
1:56:45
Speaker 10: care of the arrivals and departures at that airport. It's
1:56:47
Speaker 10: as though this guy is falling. It happened in Nashville
1:56:50
Speaker 10: where we had a shortage, so and of course I've
1:56:53
Speaker 10: got my referee shirt on the whistle and I'm blowing
1:56:55
Speaker 10: a time out trying to get these people to stop,
1:56:58
Speaker 10: so I can tell them that in the last nine months, Brian,
1:57:01
Speaker 10: that's happened a thousand times, right.
1:57:04
Speaker 1: Well, and didn't Bourbon close a bunch of times in
1:57:06
Speaker 1: events of this as well, because.
1:57:07
Speaker 10: It does, it does, and we've got we've got redundancies,
1:57:10
Speaker 10: we've got sistems in place, procedures in place, and it's like,
1:57:14
Speaker 10: wait a minute, if this is such a big time issue,
1:57:16
Speaker 10: now where were you the other thousand times it happened
1:57:21
Speaker 10: in just the last nine months. So it's it's an
1:57:25
Speaker 10: obvious to me and not surprisingly moved by people that
1:57:30
Speaker 10: are trying to push back on the administration saying that
1:57:34
Speaker 10: you know, this is endangering the lives of everybody who flies,
1:57:37
Speaker 10: and it's it's it's a horrific time to fly, and
1:57:40
Speaker 10: all this is taking place, and I'm saying, no, it's
1:57:42
Speaker 10: being brought upon because we have a shortage of bear
1:57:44
Speaker 10: traffic controllers, period, and that's why all of those thousand
1:57:48
Speaker 10: occurrences took place, and that's why it's happening now.
1:57:51
Speaker 5: Now.
1:57:51
Speaker 10: It's a little bit different now, And Brian, I can
1:57:54
Speaker 10: certainly understand. You have a lot of men and women
1:57:55
Speaker 10: who are going to get a partial paycheck on Tuesday
1:57:58
Speaker 10: the fourteenth, and then two weeks at after that, on
1:58:00
Speaker 10: the twenty eight they're going to get hit no paycheck.
1:58:02
Speaker 10: And these air traffic controllers are being asked to show
1:58:05
Speaker 10: up to work and their pay is to be delayed.
1:58:09
Speaker 10: And some of them are saying, and I know this
1:58:12
Speaker 10: to be the case. I've got bills to pay, I've
1:58:14
Speaker 10: got to put food on the table, and I don't
1:58:16
Speaker 10: have six weeks of income saved up. I do have
1:58:19
Speaker 10: a secondary job. I can go do that. I'll get
1:58:22
Speaker 10: paid right now. For so I'm going to call in
1:58:24
Speaker 10: sick even though I don't want to, and I'm going
1:58:26
Speaker 10: to go work where I know I'm gonna get paid.
1:58:28
Speaker 10: So I've got the money to survive on because that's
1:58:32
Speaker 10: what I'm forced to do. So I'm certainly not going
1:58:35
Speaker 10: to fault the men and women if that's the route
1:58:38
Speaker 10: they've got to go. To the air traffic controllers. They're
1:58:40
Speaker 10: already overworked, they're being forced into overtime, they're morale is down,
1:58:45
Speaker 10: they're using equipment that is just beyond archaic. So there's
1:58:49
Speaker 10: a lot of things right there that I do understand.
1:58:51
Speaker 5: Now.
1:58:51
Speaker 10: I wish they wouldn't do it because that puts a
1:58:54
Speaker 10: strain on the people that they're working with. But when
1:58:56
Speaker 10: it comes down to should I be there for my
1:58:59
Speaker 10: teammates that I'm working with, or do I need to
1:59:01
Speaker 10: make sure I've got food on the table for my kids,
1:59:03
Speaker 10: I'm sorry, I know which way that's going to go
1:59:06
Speaker 10: each and every time. So the bottom line is we're
1:59:09
Speaker 10: six weeks away from the busiest travel week of the year.
1:59:12
Speaker 10: We've got to get this resolved now so that we
1:59:16
Speaker 10: don't get into November and start having an issue with
1:59:19
Speaker 10: uh oh, having this type of a scenario take place
1:59:22
Speaker 10: when it's the busiest travel time, that's when we will
1:59:25
Speaker 10: have a problem.
1:59:26
Speaker 1: We'll continue with iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliff, including a
1:59:30
Speaker 1: common or two on West Jet figuring out yet another
1:59:33
Speaker 1: way to anger its passengers eight thirty five Right now
1:59:36
Speaker 1: fifty five k c DE talk station see a thirty
1:59:39
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1:59:43
Speaker 1: expert Jay Ratliff definitely has. We are fortunate to have
1:59:46
Speaker 1: them every week on the fifty five CARSCEN Morning Show
1:59:48
Speaker 1: beginning at eight thirty through the end of the program.
1:59:50
Speaker 1: And let's pivot over to cigarettes buggling. Oh my god,
1:59:54
Speaker 1: the Russians are shutting down airspace. It's the Chinese Communist
1:59:56
Speaker 1: Party with a drone strike. Uh, maybe it isn't. Maybe
2:00:00
Speaker 1: it's people who don't want to pay taxes on cigarettes.
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Speaker 1: This is kind of crazy.
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Speaker 5: Jay.
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Speaker 1: I saw the reporting on this when it first came out,
2:00:07
Speaker 1: a cigarette delay.
2:00:09
Speaker 10: You know, I'm trying to figure out what delay code
2:00:11
Speaker 10: we could have used with this. But he had an
2:00:13
Speaker 10: airport Lithuania shut down because of the fact that it
2:00:16
Speaker 10: was unsafe for aircraft to approach the airport because they
2:00:19
Speaker 10: had I think it was twenty five balloons, large ones
2:00:22
Speaker 10: that had been lifted off that were in essence carrying
2:00:27
Speaker 10: cigarettes that were being smuggled, and it affected about thirty
2:00:31
Speaker 10: some flights that were coming in. They said thousands of
2:00:33
Speaker 10: passengers were impacted by this because the fact that they
2:00:36
Speaker 10: had so many balloons in that airspace that represented a
2:00:40
Speaker 10: problem for approaching aircraft, and it's you know, I think
2:00:43
Speaker 10: the only other bizarre kind of story would be like
2:00:46
Speaker 10: if you went back a gazillion years ago to the
2:00:48
Speaker 10: man that put a bunch of balloons, healing balloons onto
2:00:54
Speaker 10: his lunchair and lifted himself up.
2:00:56
Speaker 1: I remember that, and up and up, Brian.
2:00:59
Speaker 10: I think he he got up to like fifteen thousand feet.
2:01:02
Speaker 10: I'm crazy in a lawn chair.
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Speaker 1: Did he have a big did he have an air
2:01:06
Speaker 1: rifle with him to shoot the balloon one of the time?
2:01:09
Speaker 5: That way he could come down.
2:01:10
Speaker 10: His wife's on the radio, tell him to come down.
2:01:12
Speaker 9: And look.
2:01:13
Speaker 10: I was a skydiver for a bunch of years, but
2:01:17
Speaker 10: I'm not a big fan of heights, So the thought
2:01:19
Speaker 10: is going up in a lawn chair to any altitude
2:01:25
Speaker 10: like that. I mean, I'm sorry, that's just crazy. But yes,
2:01:29
Speaker 10: the cigarette smuggling balloon situation that shut down an airport
2:01:32
Speaker 10: is certainly one of the reasons I'll never tell you
2:01:35
Speaker 10: that that you know, I've seen it all because you
2:01:39
Speaker 10: never underestimate people in what they're capable of doing.
2:01:42
Speaker 1: Ever, no doubt about it. And I guess it's kind
2:01:44
Speaker 1: of funny that was an extraordinarily low budget smuggling effort,
2:01:48
Speaker 1: considering they just used helium balloons. If they had gotten
2:01:51
Speaker 1: an actual drone, they probably would have been far more
2:01:53
Speaker 1: successful getting the cigarettes to the location they wanted to
2:01:56
Speaker 1: send them to.
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Speaker 10: That's kind of hard to control where a balloon goes
2:02:00
Speaker 10: to somebody, I know, yeah, and where they're going to
2:02:03
Speaker 10: land and such. So I guess it's a crapshoot which
2:02:05
Speaker 10: way things are going to go.
2:02:07
Speaker 5: But you know who knows.
2:02:08
Speaker 10: You probably laugh at the people that were doing it
2:02:11
Speaker 10: because they may not have had well, they had enough
2:02:13
Speaker 10: intelligence to get the thing's airborn, So I got to
2:02:16
Speaker 10: give them credit for that.
2:02:17
Speaker 1: Okay, And you're how many? I hate to put you
2:02:19
Speaker 1: on the spot, but I know how would you are?
2:02:21
Speaker 1: You don't have to say it. Let me a cur
2:02:23
Speaker 1: How many decades have you been in the aviation business field? Expertise,
2:02:28
Speaker 1: knowledge and that kind of thing. How long have you
2:02:29
Speaker 1: been following closely aviation?
2:02:32
Speaker 10: Well, I started working in nineteen eighty.
2:02:35
Speaker 5: One, in October. Okay, so I've been associate.
2:02:37
Speaker 10: I've been associated with the airline industry going back to
2:02:40
Speaker 10: just after deregulation took place in nineteen seventy eight.
2:02:43
Speaker 1: On planes, in planes, in management, and variety of different roles.
2:02:47
Speaker 1: You've seen it all, so I guess that's the predicate
2:02:49
Speaker 1: for my question. Not all, but yeah, Well, like cigarette smuggling, balloons,
2:02:55
Speaker 1: say down airports, every day is a new day with
2:02:57
Speaker 1: that caveat. I see another article headline drunk New Jersey's
2:03:03
Speaker 1: sisters arrested after meltdown for being kicked off Frontier Airline's
2:03:06
Speaker 1: flight and attacking a worker. And this is all on
2:03:08
Speaker 1: body camera footage. Now, this is one among a seemingly
2:03:14
Speaker 1: endless number of incidents like this where people get out
2:03:17
Speaker 1: of hand, they start getting all punching and fighty and belligerent,
2:03:20
Speaker 1: and they get chucked off of an airline. Is it
2:03:23
Speaker 1: just the internet and pervasive, ubiquitous nature of cell phone
2:03:28
Speaker 1: cameras that we are aware of this, or has this
2:03:32
Speaker 1: a newer phenomenon? Is this becoming far more frequent because
2:03:36
Speaker 1: people getting kind of disrespectful of authority figures and really
2:03:40
Speaker 1: not have any sense of ethics and morality. That is
2:03:43
Speaker 1: a common problem across the board that appears to be growing.
2:03:45
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, in so far as airline incidents, is
2:03:47
Speaker 1: it a growing phenomenon?
2:03:51
Speaker 10: I think to a certain degree, it is, but it's not.
2:03:54
Speaker 10: I mean, we were dealing with it back in the eighties,
2:03:57
Speaker 10: rights in the nineties, because we would always have individuals
2:04:00
Speaker 10: that had a disrespect for authority, didn't want to be
2:04:03
Speaker 10: told what to do, and different types of things where
2:04:06
Speaker 10: they were just absolute, very difficult people to work with.
2:04:11
Speaker 10: And sadly, sometimes that took place when the aircraft was airborne.
2:04:14
Speaker 10: A lot of times it was alcohol involved, and you
2:04:17
Speaker 10: had a lot of situations that required us to kind of,
2:04:21
Speaker 10: you know, pivot with regards to what was going on
2:04:23
Speaker 10: with the aircraft, the operations, or.
2:04:25
Speaker 5: Things of this nature.
2:04:26
Speaker 10: It becomes much more of an issue now because with
2:04:29
Speaker 10: the advent of everybody having the ability or to record
2:04:34
Speaker 10: what's happening and then post it immediately, where a situation
2:04:38
Speaker 10: goes viral, not once it hits the mainstream press, but
2:04:41
Speaker 10: once it hits social media and it's shared around the world,
2:04:44
Speaker 10: it becomes much more of an issue that people are
2:04:46
Speaker 10: aware of, and sadly, we're seeing, you know, more and
2:04:49
Speaker 10: more examples of this front and center, where you've got
2:04:52
Speaker 10: these individuals that are telling uniform flight attendant they're not
2:04:56
Speaker 10: going to do what they're being told to do, which
2:04:58
Speaker 10: is a federal offense. Are causing a situation where an
2:05:01
Speaker 10: aircraft is delayed in departing, or creates a diversion, or
2:05:05
Speaker 10: any of these other things. And Brian, it's when you
2:05:07
Speaker 10: have individuals that attack passengers, shove flight attendants, rush the cockpit,
2:05:14
Speaker 10: whatever it might happen to be. These people are clearly
2:05:17
Speaker 10: in individuals that should not be flying on any US
2:05:19
Speaker 10: carrier in the country. Sadly, these two individuals from Frontier
2:05:23
Speaker 10: will be banned for life from flying Frontier, thank you.
2:05:26
Speaker 10: They should be, but they're free to fly any other carrier.
2:05:29
Speaker 10: And you and I've talked about this so many tis
2:05:32
Speaker 10: why are we going to allow knowingly these individuals to
2:05:36
Speaker 10: fly on other carriers? And there needs to be some
2:05:39
Speaker 10: sort of consequence if you act up, if it's an argument,
2:05:43
Speaker 10: you're having a bad day. Believe now, I don't want
2:05:44
Speaker 10: to ban you from flying, but if I shove a
2:05:47
Speaker 10: flight attendant or I attack a passenger, I should be
2:05:50
Speaker 10: you know, putting time out fly wise for like three
2:05:52
Speaker 10: to five years. I don't think that's anything that's outside
2:05:56
Speaker 10: the the you know, it would be considered extreme here,
2:05:59
Speaker 10: but airlines won't do it because it costs them money
2:06:02
Speaker 10: to track it, and that's why they say that they
2:06:05
Speaker 10: refuse to do it.
2:06:06
Speaker 1: We got a no fly list, jay ry love. If
2:06:08
Speaker 1: if they can track no fly lists, which obviously are
2:06:10
Speaker 1: bigger and contain people who don't deserve to be on
2:06:12
Speaker 1: the no fly list because of errors in government, they
2:06:14
Speaker 1: can have a list like this. Is this something the
2:06:17
Speaker 1: FAA could mandate if they chose to do so.
2:06:20
Speaker 10: Oh they could, they could. The problem is the airlines
2:06:22
Speaker 10: tell their government what they're going to do instead of
2:06:24
Speaker 10: the other way around. And we're in a very residential
2:06:29
Speaker 10: administration friendly environment here where everybody gets along and everybody
2:06:35
Speaker 10: kind of can push things. And this is not the administration,
2:06:38
Speaker 10: even though I'm a big fantom of the Trump administration
2:06:41
Speaker 10: what he's doing. They're not going to be held accountable
2:06:44
Speaker 10: and to be forced to do this type of thing,
2:06:46
Speaker 10: even though they should. And that's why when I see
2:06:49
Speaker 10: all these CEOs from airlines talking about how much they
2:06:52
Speaker 10: care about their passengers and employees, I just want to
2:06:54
Speaker 10: throw up because I'm thinking, stop it, because you're saying
2:06:58
Speaker 10: one thing and then doing something completely different. If you
2:07:01
Speaker 10: really cared about your employees and you really wanted to
2:07:03
Speaker 10: protect them. You would spend whatever money it took to
2:07:06
Speaker 10: keep these individuals that have been convicted of these types
2:07:10
Speaker 10: of actions off of your flight, and if it happened
2:07:13
Speaker 10: on a Southwest flight, you're making sure they don't fly
2:07:16
Speaker 10: you on American or Delta or United or South South
2:07:19
Speaker 10: trus whatever it is. But we're not doing it. During
2:07:22
Speaker 10: the pandemic. The airlines were asked early on to provide
2:07:26
Speaker 10: and track information and give it to the government, and
2:07:28
Speaker 10: they said, well, we don't have the main power to
2:07:30
Speaker 10: do it. And they said, well, this could help us
2:07:32
Speaker 10: actually prevent the spread of COVID if we could have
2:07:35
Speaker 10: this information. I'm sorry, we're not going to be able
2:07:39
Speaker 10: to do it. Again, the airlines telling the government what they're.
2:07:42
Speaker 5: Going to do instead of the other way around.
2:07:44
Speaker 1: That's amazing. And to your point earlier, I don't care
2:07:47
Speaker 1: how bad a day you're having. Nothing can justify you
2:07:51
Speaker 1: assaulting or battering another human being that has no connection
2:07:54
Speaker 1: with your bad day. Well and more with, we're going
2:07:57
Speaker 1: to find out how many ways you can anger a
2:07:59
Speaker 1: c We're West Jet creating a new way to anger
2:08:02
Speaker 1: its air traffic passengers plus hub delays are going to
2:08:05
Speaker 1: find out how good it is to travel today more
2:08:07
Speaker 1: with Jay Ratliff. After this brief word these brief words
2:08:10
Speaker 1: from plan if any five t c DE talk station
2:08:14
Speaker 1: one more time, I heart me. The aviation expert Jay
2:08:17
Speaker 1: Ryloff intentionally held on the the goofiest and the dumbest
2:08:21
Speaker 1: for the last. Jay, you gave me a heads up
2:08:23
Speaker 1: on this one yesterday. My reactions is like, you've got
2:08:25
Speaker 1: to be kidding me. Tell them what west Jet's doing.
2:08:28
Speaker 5: Now, Well, they have.
2:08:33
Speaker 10: They've decided to give passengers the opportunity to take advantage
2:08:38
Speaker 10: of a premium seating option on their flights.
2:08:41
Speaker 1: Of course that's first class, right, that's first class premium
2:08:44
Speaker 1: seating they kind.
2:08:46
Speaker 10: Of I think read find the word premium Brian. In essence,
2:08:51
Speaker 10: if you want to seat the reclines, they're going to
2:08:53
Speaker 10: charge you more. Now, I mean, we we've talked about,
2:08:57
Speaker 10: oh my gosh, what are we being charges for oxygen?
2:09:00
Speaker 10: It used to be you could take any seat you wanted,
2:09:02
Speaker 10: and then they said, you know, people will actually pay
2:09:04
Speaker 10: money to get their seats assigned in advance, okay, and
2:09:08
Speaker 10: then they said, you know some people prefer window seats
2:09:10
Speaker 10: over middle seats, so we can start charging them more
2:09:12
Speaker 10: for that you know, some people prefer aisle seats, and
2:09:14
Speaker 10: then they decided let's give them a little bit more
2:09:17
Speaker 10: leg room, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Now here's
2:09:19
Speaker 10: how this is going to be sold to the American
2:09:21
Speaker 10: traveling public. So many people, the airlines will say, are
2:09:24
Speaker 10: having fights over reclining seats and it's really creating a
2:09:28
Speaker 10: customer service problem. So us as the airline, we're going
2:09:32
Speaker 10: to make sure that we can alleviate those problems. So
2:09:35
Speaker 10: we will make every seat on the airplane incapable of reclining.
2:09:40
Speaker 10: We'll have them all this flight angle and everyone will
2:09:43
Speaker 10: have the same and nobody can recline it. So that's
2:09:45
Speaker 10: how we're going to take better care of our customer.
2:09:48
Speaker 10: Of course, ps in behind closed doors, they can now
2:09:51
Speaker 10: put an extra two rows on every aircraft so they
2:09:54
Speaker 10: can make more revenue. Okay, that's the reason they do it.
2:09:57
Speaker 10: So now they're going to say, we're going to give
2:09:59
Speaker 10: you some premium seat in west Jet I think it's
2:10:01
Speaker 10: twelve seats per seven thirty seven that they're going to
2:10:03
Speaker 10: have this on. You can actually pay for these seats
2:10:07
Speaker 10: for the ability to recline, and that's going to be
2:10:10
Speaker 10: an additional service, and it just you know, and you know,
2:10:15
Speaker 10: congratulations to them for finding another way to squeeze more
2:10:19
Speaker 10: money out of us. Because from a business standpoint, it's like,
2:10:23
Speaker 10: you know, we used to check bags and it didn't
2:10:25
Speaker 10: cost us a penny. Now we have to pay for it.
2:10:28
Speaker 10: We used to actually be able to carry bags on
2:10:29
Speaker 10: an airplane, Now we got to pay for it. We
2:10:32
Speaker 10: actually used to be able to sit in the seat
2:10:34
Speaker 10: that had a little button that could push us let
2:10:36
Speaker 10: our seat recline for free. No, now we're gonna have
2:10:39
Speaker 10: to pay for it.
2:10:40
Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 10: You watch what's going to happen here. West Jet is
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Speaker 10: the first airline yep, the leader brother, buckle up and
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Speaker 10: brace for impact.
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Speaker 1: This reminded me of the I think BMWEN the first
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Speaker 1: automat auto manufacturer. But it's kind of become a popular
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Speaker 1: thing to equip the cars with all the technology but
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Speaker 1: then charge you to actually activate it.
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Speaker 5: So doubt. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So like a heated seat, it's in there, but you
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Speaker 1: got to pay fifty bucks a month or whatever under
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Speaker 1: some performance package to make it work. So my question,
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Speaker 1: insofar as the seats are concerned, you mentioned the button,
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Speaker 1: are they just going to disable the reclined mechanism, so
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Speaker 1: that saves them having to replace the seats. So the
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Speaker 1: technologies in there, it's just been blocked out. Or are
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Speaker 1: they actually going to change the seats out to be fixed.
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Speaker 5: I don't think they change the seats out.
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Speaker 10: I think that would make it because it would be
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Speaker 10: too expensive. But I'll tell you this, as future airplanes
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Speaker 10: are ordered, you will have airplanes with these seats with
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Speaker 10: the slight recline that there's no way they can be reclined.
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Speaker 10: And of course, some people have these knee blocker type
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Speaker 10: devices that you can buy and I'm not advocating you
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Speaker 10: do this, and you can actually put it in the
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Speaker 10: seat in front of you that prevents the seat from reclining.
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Speaker 10: And yeah, the knee blockers or whatever they're called, if
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Speaker 10: flight attendants really get upset us when we use them,
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Speaker 10: because when somebody tries to reclient a seat and can't
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Speaker 10: and has found out what happened, you know, probably the
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Speaker 10: person before you put them on.
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Speaker 1: They're not you, but right it becomes.
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Speaker 10: It becomes I'm not suggesting you do this, but it's
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Speaker 10: it's airlines are getting tired of, you know, some of
2:12:15
Speaker 10: the stuff that flight attendants have to deal with, and
2:12:17
Speaker 10: certainly flight attendants are getting tired of being the referee
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Speaker 10: between people that reclient seats, don't reclined seats, and all
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Speaker 10: this and that, because there's a lot of arguments and
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Speaker 10: a lot of the low cost carriers have aircraft that again,
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Speaker 10: the seats don't recline, They've got a slight recline to them,
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Speaker 10: and they're not super comfortable seats, but you're not in
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Speaker 10: them for an extended period of time, and they're lightweight,
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Speaker 10: and they can also put more seats on the airplane.
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Speaker 5: So that's the case.
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Speaker 10: But when I when I saw that, I thought, oh,
2:12:45
Speaker 10: you gotta be kidding me. One I thought, why didn't
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Speaker 10: I think of that? Because you know it's something, because
2:12:51
Speaker 10: it's so ridiculous, Sure we're going to do it.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of experts I could use on that
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Speaker 1: was because you're not, say, a jerk, you didn't think
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Speaker 1: of that because you would find the concept to be
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Speaker 1: offensive to the consumer. Anyway.
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Speaker 5: You and I are not wired dead way, brothers.
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Speaker 1: No we are not. No, we are not, as we
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Speaker 1: always Let's talk about hub delays. What's it looking like
2:13:14
Speaker 1: out there today for travel? Jay Ratlift, This entire.
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Speaker 10: Week has been a mess because especially with some weather
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Speaker 10: that's been coming in off the Northeast. But today is difference,
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Speaker 10: and I'm thrilled to say the mess in the northeast
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Speaker 10: has gone. Really if if I was getting paid for delays,
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Speaker 10: it would be it'd be a light day because Seattle
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Speaker 10: is about the only airport hub that's going to be
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Speaker 10: impacted because of weather. Everything else has been pretty well
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Speaker 10: cleared out. Even I think some of the turbulent areas
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Speaker 10: where we could be experienced turbulence have really subsided. So
2:13:44
Speaker 10: if you pick the day, you get like a triple
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Speaker 10: gold star because it's just gonna be an incredible day
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Speaker 10: to fly. You pick the perfect perfect day to take
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Speaker 10: to this.
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Speaker 5: Guys love it.
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Speaker 1: We can end on a positive note and typically the
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Speaker 1: entire conversation is positive. Jay Ratlift, love having you on
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Speaker 1: the show Man. Look forward to next Thursday with an
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Speaker 1: other air traffic or a airline report or aviation report,
2:14:05
Speaker 1: and as always, I hope you and your better half
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Speaker 1: have a wonderful day and week.