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55KRC Monday Show - Smitherman, Money Monday, Cincinnati VA · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Five O five fifty five k r C the talk
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Speaker 1: station Happy Monday.
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Speaker 2: Some sense.
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Speaker 1: Will no idea? What's fine? Not neither tally no idea.
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Speaker 1: Bryan Thomas right here, glad to be hoping. Uh, I'm
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Speaker 1: in a decent morning so far, said how many times
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Speaker 1: is Donald Trump gonna get attempted to be assassinated? The
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Speaker 1: left just sort of angry that, well, these crazy people
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Speaker 1: that want to kill Donald Trump aren't better shots than
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Speaker 1: aren't successful. It's crazy the world we live in now.
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Speaker 1: And uh, swirling around the reactions to the yet most
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Speaker 1: recent attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Will people tone the
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Speaker 1: rhetoric down? Yeah? I think sadly the genie out of
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Speaker 1: the bottle when it comes to angry political rhetoric. Calls
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Speaker 1: for violence from people who are pretty influential over the
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Speaker 1: rest of the world, and the idea that these people
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Speaker 1: are influential over our lives is shocking to me. As always,
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Speaker 1: why would anyone listen to what some you know, online
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Speaker 1: podcast guy would say and take him up on it
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Speaker 1: like the people that have been you know, demanding violence
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Speaker 1: against the Trump administration, some elected officials doing that regularly
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Speaker 1: calling him a Nazi and regularly. Where did this pedophile
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Speaker 1: crap come from? I guess it's because he didn't release
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Speaker 1: the Epstein files because he probably even though he promised
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Speaker 1: to do. That makes Donald Trump a pedophile. And they
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Speaker 1: regularly refer to Donald Trump as a pedophile. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how you get from point A to point beyond
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Speaker 1: that one. There's been no evidence factual otherwise, I mean,
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Speaker 1: except for made up crap in the news that these
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Speaker 1: idiots parrot do suggest that he had anything to do
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Speaker 1: with pedophilia. But okay, he's a Nazi. No he's not.
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Speaker 1: He's not a king. He was a king.
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Speaker 3: Boy.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine the Donald Trump would go down if
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Speaker 1: he had the authority of a monarch? Yeah, anyway, if
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Speaker 1: get your reaction, I'd love to hear from you. Five one, three, seven, four,
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Speaker 1: nine fifty eight two three Talk Time five fifty on
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Speaker 1: AT and T phones coming out. Christopher smitham at seven
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Speaker 1: twenty for the Smith Event, former Vice mayor of the
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Speaker 1: City of Cincinnati, every Monday at seven twenty. That's when
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Speaker 1: he starts, and I imagine he'll be talking about Police
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Speaker 1: Chief Dji and her firing and her lawyer releasing the
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Speaker 1: two hour audio of the predisciplinary hearing the DJ, in
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Speaker 1: which Tiji answered, well, multiple questions, this is the one
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Speaker 1: I guess. Cheryl Long, in her termination letter, said, well,
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Speaker 1: you didn't bring any evidence or witnesses with you anyway,
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Speaker 1: she answered a bunch of questions. If you listen to it,
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Speaker 1: I know Christopher smitham and listening to the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: And I know that he tweeted me or he texted
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Speaker 1: me over the weekend and saying I listened to the
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Speaker 1: entire audio. It's on YouTube. Check it out. She said
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Speaker 1: her relationship with the city leaders hit a breaking point
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Speaker 1: after the shooting the Fountain Square October thirteenth. You might
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Speaker 1: remember that she told her attorney she spoke on the
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Speaker 1: phone with parvol Ah Mayor Aftab and city manager. Cheryl
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Speaker 1: Long on the way to the scene of the shooting.
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Speaker 1: Tried calling parvol again as she was leaving. Fiji said
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Speaker 1: the mayor didn't answer her second call, and that Long
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Speaker 1: called her in a panic. Said, I've talked to Cheryl
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Speaker 1: Long enough times on the phone. I can tell when
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Speaker 1: she's called. I can tell when she's in a panic mode.
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Speaker 1: And she told me she had talked to the mayor.
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Speaker 1: I said, well, I talked to the mayor. He was fine.
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Speaker 1: She said, well, I talked to him. He's not fine.
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Speaker 1: He said, it's me or you. One of us had
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Speaker 1: to go. It has to go. That's the mayor talking
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Speaker 1: to Cheryl Long, as recounted by Police Chief Fiji based
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Speaker 1: on the conversation she had with Cheryl Long, him interjecting,
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Speaker 1: you meaning Mislong or yourself. You know, me or you?
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Speaker 1: One of us is going to go? Is it gonna
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Speaker 1: be the city manager is going to be the chief
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Speaker 1: of police? You said, well, yeah, that's where I believe
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Speaker 1: that she made the decision. I was going to be gone.
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Speaker 1: So you just one little illustration that will maybe Mayor
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Speaker 1: Aftab Parvoll was responsible for this. His office is denying it.
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Speaker 1: His office is denying he had any involvement. And this
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Speaker 1: is where I wrote the word discovery down. Because of course,
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Speaker 1: Police Chief Fiji's fout a lawsuit against the City of Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: I believe naming Aftab Parvoll specifically as an individual defendant,
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Speaker 1: and there's going to be discovery, he said. She said,
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Speaker 1: Cheryl Long's gonna say in speak and be deposed and
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Speaker 1: have to answer interrogatories and produce documents and so is
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Speaker 1: a have to have Parvoll. Everybody's gonna get there say
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Speaker 1: about what happened or what didn't happen. Do you think
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Speaker 1: Parvoll's account and Cheryl Long's account are going to mirror
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Speaker 1: each other? Does anybody believe that Afteret Parvoll didn't have
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Speaker 1: anything to do with this? And did anybody read Fox
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Speaker 1: News's response or analysis of the firing of Police Chief
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Speaker 1: Fiji Cincinnati fires anti white police chief to the extent
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Speaker 1: her reputation has been impacted? When you got a Fox
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Speaker 1: News article that is coming and piling down upon now
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Speaker 1: former police Chief Fiji based upon only what was in
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Speaker 1: Cheryl Long's termination letter, yep, that's going to probably do
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Speaker 1: further damage to police Chief Fiji's reputation post termination. And
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Speaker 1: they determined she was wrongfully terminated. I think the City
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Speaker 1: of Cincinnati taxpayer is going to be on the dime
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Speaker 1: for quite a bit, maybe more than the seven point
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Speaker 1: five million dollars af to have pervol claims. She wanted
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Speaker 1: to resolve the employments dispute before all of this hit
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Speaker 1: the fan, and she was placed on administrative leave and
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Speaker 1: we waited for the law firms to review records and
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Speaker 1: documents and paid them one hundred thousand dollars to do that,
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Speaker 1: only to get the letter from Cheryl Long, which caused
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Speaker 1: people who know anything about this to scratch their head.
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Speaker 1: All of this was known before she got placed on
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Speaker 1: administrative leave. All of this information. You didn't need a
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Speaker 1: law firm to go through it. You lived this. There's
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Speaker 1: nothing new in there. So Smithlming on that one in anyway, Uh,
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Speaker 1: there is an outstanding and salute to Dennis Doyle. He
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Speaker 1: is and lives in Anderson Township, a member of the
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Speaker 1: Inquire board of contributors, and he did an analysis on
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Speaker 1: this and contribute his thoughts and opinions to the Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: Iron Inquire headline FIJI firing sets up a costly legal
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Speaker 1: fight for Cincinnati. Yes it does, and he walks through
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Speaker 1: basically everything in detail, all of the everything that's led
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Speaker 1: up to, Yes, the inevitable lawsuit. He concludes, you know,
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Speaker 1: the firing's done, the accountability is not. And the bill,
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Speaker 1: the real bill, which is the legal fight. The hourly
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Speaker 1: rates that the city will be paying attorneys probably both
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Speaker 1: inside it out. I doubts how I doubt to rely
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Speaker 1: on the city solicitors obviously do to handle the defense
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Speaker 1: on this one and the inevitable sentiment check or jury verdict. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's the bill, you said. The bill is going to
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Speaker 1: start adding up like a cash register gone haywire. So
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Speaker 1: if you get an opportunity to read Dennis's piece, I
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Speaker 1: may try to get to it later as we approach
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Speaker 1: a Christopher Smith mim in at seven twenty coming up. Also,
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Speaker 1: it is Monday, Monday Monday with Brian James. How the
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Speaker 1: energy crisis is spreading across the world. Yes, the closure
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Speaker 1: of the strait of our moves and the ripple effect
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Speaker 1: is getting really really pronounced. More and more people out
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Speaker 1: in the world, more and more countries who are net
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Speaker 1: energy importers are realizing that they are in a world
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Speaker 1: of collective hurt. Something we all learned during COVID. It's
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Speaker 1: better if you make stuff in your own country, and
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Speaker 1: when you can't do that, you're stuck. And yes, the
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Speaker 1: energy crisis is spreading around the world and a lot
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Speaker 1: of countries you are taking big steps rationing fuel, getting
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Speaker 1: out cash handouts, price fixing. Price fixing for gasoline never works.
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Speaker 1: The supply is what is limited, and you can't just
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Speaker 1: price fix yourself out of a limited supply. Fluoride has
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Speaker 1: been delayed. Oh yeah, sure, Straight of Horror Moves. That's
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Speaker 1: where we get most of our fluoride. Anyway, we import fluoride,
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Speaker 1: although we do make some here, and local municipalities have
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Speaker 1: decided we're going to cut back on the amount of
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Speaker 1: fluoride we're putting in water because while the shipping costs
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Speaker 1: for florid have gone through the roof, and of course
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Speaker 1: the price of florid has gone through the roof, Straight
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Speaker 1: of Horror Mooves responsible for just tons of fluoride. So
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Speaker 1: RFK Junior perhaps getting his wish. The key's the one
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Speaker 1: that previously said we don't need to put floride to
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Speaker 1: water and it's probably bad for us something that's a
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Speaker 1: road that many municipalities and some states have gone in.
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Speaker 1: I do believe that Florida has eliminated floride and its water.
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Speaker 1: Ah So, anyhow, lots and lots of ripple effect on that.
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Speaker 1: And Iran apparently just recently offered a new deal for
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Speaker 1: the Straight of Horror Moves. They apparently presented through mediators
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Speaker 1: in Pakistan proposal aim at reopening the Straight of Horror
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Speaker 1: Moves and ending the conflict that would mean, we have
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Speaker 1: to open up the Iranian port. So you open the ports,
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Speaker 1: we open the straight of horror moves, and then we
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Speaker 1: I guess continue discussing. Although the idea of us getting
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Speaker 1: our wish insofar as getting rid of the Iranian nuclear
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Speaker 1: program and grabbing back all of the processed uranium, they're
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Speaker 1: not into that yet. So the concern is that Trump's
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Speaker 1: got to give up leverage if he lets the Iranian
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Speaker 1: ports open back up in return for the straight opening up.
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Speaker 1: That what leverage do we have to stop the nuclear program?
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Speaker 1: Not quite sure. I suppose all of this suggests that
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Speaker 1: we will be in a ceasefire arrangement once those two things.
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Speaker 1: If those two things were to happen, So how do
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Speaker 1: negotiations move forward without some sort of looming threat. Well
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Speaker 1: that's what the administration is trying to work out right now.
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Speaker 1: That is a summary of the state of things going
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Speaker 1: on at least the top stories this morning five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty,
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Speaker 1: five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two three taco a
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Speaker 1: Town five fift on at and t phones. Interesting reaction
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Speaker 1: from a Japanese reporter to this White House. This most
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Speaker 1: recent effort to assassinate Donald Trump and the violent rhetoric
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Speaker 1: that's going on. It paints a pretty sorry, sorry picture
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Speaker 1: question and it will remain a question and we'll find
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Speaker 1: the answer out over the coming months and years. Will
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Speaker 1: the rhetoric be toned down? And if you're toned down
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Speaker 1: the rhetoric coming from the noted notables, the talking heads, politicians,
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Speaker 1: will the rhetoric be toned down among the general population
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Speaker 1: or where that kind of stuff continue to swirl around
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Speaker 1: in an internet world? I think you know the answer
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Speaker 1: to that question, sadly, probably not. Five sixteen fifty five
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Speaker 1: KRC detalk station, no.
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Speaker 2: Coway stream the primary elections live on Fox Local and
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Speaker 2: Fox won.
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Speaker 1: Just have to get the grass cut today five three seven,
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Speaker 1: nine fifty five eight hundred eight two to three talk
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Speaker 1: found five fifty on AT and T phones.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean going.
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Speaker 1: Over to this just one report from one person from
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Speaker 1: Japan and Japanese Reportal was outside the White House Correspondence
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Speaker 1: dinner and wrote this. As my colleagues and I walked
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Speaker 1: toward the Hilton for the White House Correspondence dinner, a
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Speaker 1: man shouted f you right at us, simply because we
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Speaker 1: were attending. Later that night, after the shooting, We were
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Speaker 1: running to the White House for the briefing when we
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Speaker 1: passed three teenage girls glued to their phones reacting to
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Speaker 1: the news. One of them said, quote, ah Man, I
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Speaker 1: wish they got him, while the other two friends giggled
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Speaker 1: and she wre at. That moment stopped me cold. When
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Speaker 1: our young people casually cheer for violence like it's a game,
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Speaker 1: we have a serious problem. Radicalization is in some abstract issue.
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Speaker 1: It's showing up casually in everyday conversations and in our kids' attitudes. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it is a terrible thing, isn't it. Aggdon by parents,
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Speaker 1: egdon by pop politicians, egged on by those who regularly
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Speaker 1: repeat the idea that Donald Trump's a Nazi, that he's
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Speaker 1: going to steal democracy, when democracy is exactly what brought
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Speaker 1: him into office. Yes, we live in a representative government
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Speaker 1: and the people voted him in office. Sorry you're upset
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Speaker 1: about that. You know, there are a lot of people
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Speaker 1: that were really upset, like, for example, when Barack Obama
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Speaker 1: got elected, or you can go back to any other
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Speaker 1: Democrat that's been elected. How upset are you? Very? I
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Speaker 1: it's arm victims of assassination attempts anyway, they tried to
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Speaker 1: kill Ronald Reagan. But most of the time people sort
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Speaker 1: of work through their political differences and wait for another
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Speaker 1: day and campaign and try to elect someone that they
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Speaker 1: hope will win, and the will of the peoples then
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Speaker 1: reflected in the vote. Another illustration of the insanity the
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Speaker 1: Minocua Brewing Company owned by Wisconsin Democrat Kirk Bangstad, former
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Speaker 1: state Assembly candidate he ran for office. Apparently he has
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Speaker 1: use this brewery of his to regularly go after Donald Trump. Well,
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Speaker 1: we almost got hashtag free beer day, he wrote on
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Speaker 1: his social media post What do you minute? What is
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Speaker 1: hashtag free beer day? Well, he's been waiting around for
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Speaker 1: someone to kill Donald Trump and at which time his
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Speaker 1: brewery will give everyone a free beer. Apparently, as long
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Speaker 1: as you're not wearing a red hat or something. He's
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Speaker 1: out there posting this kind of stuff all the time,
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Speaker 1: And after Donald Trump survives yet another assassination attempt, his
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Speaker 1: post is we almost got hashtag free beer day. Either
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Speaker 1: a brother or a sister in the resistance need to
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Speaker 1: work on their marksmanship, he wrote, or he faked another
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Speaker 1: assassination to get a positive news cycle. We'll never know.
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Speaker 1: That's another thing that's swirling around here. This is like
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Speaker 1: a false flag operation. This is a Republican initiated assassination
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Speaker 1: attempt destined to failure because they set it up in
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Speaker 1: order to give Donald Trump a leg up. Really you
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Speaker 1: believe that, Yes, there are people out there who are
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Speaker 1: screaming at the radio going, you're damn right, Thomas, it's
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Speaker 1: what this was. This is all a lie. You can't
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Speaker 1: even believe your own eyes. So mentioned this bangsdad Guy,
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Speaker 1: democratic nominee for Wisconsin's thirty fourth district. Monoqua Brewery sells
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Speaker 1: politically themed merchandise, including shirt sing I wish it was
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Speaker 1: Free Beer Day. So if you know what the Monocoua
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Speaker 1: Brewing Company means by that, there's your Monoculo Brewing Company logo.
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Speaker 1: I wish it was Free Beer Day. That means I
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Speaker 1: wish it was the day Donald Trump got assassinated. Unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: And he's guy his own political action committee. Yes, this
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Speaker 1: bangstad guy, founder of the Monocua Brewing Company super pac,
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Speaker 1: described as targeting Trump and Republicans. Of course does. He
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Speaker 1: also sued to try to keep Trump off the Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: ballot a lawsuit. Who's trying to interfere with democracy? Someone
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Speaker 1: can run for office. This guy doesn't even want him
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Speaker 1: to run for office, suing him to get him off
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Speaker 1: the ballot. Got money too, Apparently he's put together a
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Speaker 1: whole lot of money for fellow Democrats through his Monoqua
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Speaker 1: brewing company, super pac influential. He perhaps is now house candidate.
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Speaker 1: Michael Alfonso, Yes, there's a race going on there. Who's
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Speaker 1: back by Trump had this to say. This brewery is
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Speaker 1: owned by a man named Kay Bangstad, and he's not
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Speaker 1: just some random crazy guy. He's friends with the current
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Speaker 1: Democratic gubernatorial front runner, Francesca Hung. He previously employed TOBACKA. Cook,
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Speaker 1: the Democratic currently running against Derek Van Orden, and was
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Speaker 1: himself a Democratic nominee against in this guy's father in law,
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Speaker 1: Sean Duffy Wisconsin seventh Congressional district where this guy is
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Speaker 1: now running for office. Michael Alfonso, Wisconsin Democrats are so
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Speaker 1: sick in the head and of an attempted murder is
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Speaker 1: that an attempted murder is funny to them? That had
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Speaker 1: a statement from martinc spokesman Daniel or At delaying Bummer.
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Speaker 1: All Wisconsin Democrats, including Rebecca Cook, must immediately condemn this
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Speaker 1: disgusting davior. Don't wait around for it to be condemned.
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Speaker 1: This is full on Trump arrangement syndrome, regularly accusing him
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Speaker 1: of being a multifaceted criminal again, pedophile, rapist, king, and
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Speaker 1: people believe it and to the unhinged out there. Can
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Speaker 1: you imagine how many movies have you seen or scenarios
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Speaker 1: you've seen? I remember going back all the way to
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Speaker 1: The Twilight Zone, the original and watching it on reruns.
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Speaker 1: What would you do if you were given an opportunity
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Speaker 1: to go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: with the benefit of hindsight being twenty twenty. The other
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Speaker 1: guy turned out to be a murderer of millions and
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Speaker 1: millions of Jewish people, not to me, not to mention
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Speaker 1: the guy that we get started World War two and
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Speaker 1: the millions of people who suffered and died as a
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Speaker 1: consequence of a war that he was responsible for. Wow. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: wouldn't it be great if we could go back and
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Speaker 1: kill Hitler? This man, Donald Trump has been labeled Hitler
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Speaker 1: by all of these leftists. Label Hitler ice agents are
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Speaker 1: the modern day brown Shirts. Here's the playbook you've been
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Speaker 1: giving it. This man will do what Adolf Hitler did.
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Speaker 1: If you could get rid of him. You're gonna be
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Speaker 1: louded as a hero. Some twisted, bent, crazy punk jerk
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Speaker 1: sitting in his mom's basement out there is gonna read
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Speaker 1: that and go, Yeah, I could be the hero like
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Speaker 1: Luigi Mangioni shooting a CEO of a healthcare company. Boy,
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Speaker 1: He's just the greatest guy in the world. That happens
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Speaker 1: every single day of these days, doesn't it No wonder
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Speaker 1: people want to kill Donald Trump. There's a whole lot
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Speaker 1: of people that would, indeed hold him out to be
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Speaker 1: a hero. They'll have T shirts with his picture on it,
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Speaker 1: women will send request to get married to his jail cell.
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Speaker 1: It's five twenty six right now. If you've have KC
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Speaker 1: talk station local stories coming up, love to hear from you.
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Speaker 1: Though I get your reaction to this, you need to
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Speaker 1: hear mine. Be right back.
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Speaker 5: This is fifty five karc an iHeartRadio Station thirty.
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Speaker 1: One habby Monday. Try to make it a happy Monday.
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Speaker 1: Five one, three, seven, four nine fifty eight hundred eight
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Speaker 1: two three talk pound five fifty on AT and T
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Speaker 1: phones and look at at the call screen. All is
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Speaker 1: right in the world. Welcome back, Tom. Always a pleasure
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Speaker 1: to hear from you.
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Speaker 6: Good morning, sir. Do you have a good weekend?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I really did. Thank you very much
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Speaker 1: for asking a lot of chores done around the Thomas household.
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Speaker 1: Got my honey duwe list. I was able to scratch
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Speaker 1: off multiple items tom which is a good thing for me,
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Speaker 1: although I've already been told that once I accomplished that list,
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Speaker 1: there'll be.
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Speaker 6: A new way another correct. I actually had pretty much
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Speaker 6: the same weekend. So I went home, went home for
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Speaker 6: the weekend and try to get a bunch of stuff done.
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Speaker 6: And uh, I am not looking forward to it. Three
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Speaker 6: weeks for taking take their daughter out to California. So
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Speaker 6: I'm still telling it so I know. I've tried to
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Speaker 6: talk her out of it.
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Speaker 1: Heartbreaking. Man.
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Speaker 6: Well you know love, love makes you do crazy things.
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Speaker 1: It does, it does, And I think about you, would
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Speaker 1: you would think from the chatter around the Thomas household
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Speaker 1: that my daughter would be getting married like next week.
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Speaker 1: It's end of June, and we're all the preparations we're
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Speaker 1: doing right now for a wedding that takes place. He
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Speaker 1: had the next June, all right, okay, and the June.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, tomorrow. The wedding thread that's tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: I know, I know. That's what my wife is streaming
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Speaker 1: at the radio right now. Damn it, it's around the corner. Okay. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: what's on your mind today today.
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Speaker 6: Is well, you know, uh, this, this is ridiculous. I mean,
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Speaker 6: these people will do anything to win an election, won't.
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Speaker 6: They don't do anything, They'll say anything. I mean, this
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Speaker 6: is crazy. And it's the leadership that has to set
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Speaker 6: the tone and know when to when to say when.
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Speaker 6: They got to know when to stop.
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Speaker 1: But it doesn't But it doesn't benefit them to change
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Speaker 1: the current tone. If you get a crazy guy who's
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Speaker 1: willing to travel across the country and shoot and try
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Speaker 1: to kill the president's administration based upon the idea he
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Speaker 1: has been convinced by the left wing talking heads and
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Speaker 1: they left the officials that he's a pedophile, I mean,
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Speaker 1: then why would you give up on that strategy? All
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Speaker 1: you gotta do is say, listen, we live in a
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Speaker 1: ord with free speech. I'm just summarizing, you know, the
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Speaker 1: our our our opinion attitudes about Donald Trump, which I'm
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Speaker 1: allowed to summarize that some crazy guy out there believed
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Speaker 1: me and took me literally. How can I control that?
20:39
Speaker 1: I can't control what crazy people do. So you get
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Speaker 1: the benefit of a crazy guy knocking off your biggest
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Speaker 1: political opponent while standing by claiming your hands are clean
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Speaker 1: of all this. They're not.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they're they're they're not these these Uh, it's astounding
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Speaker 6: that the length these people will go to to win
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Speaker 6: an election. And and I and I under stand how
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Speaker 6: important it is to win these lections, which which is
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Speaker 6: more proof that this is a democracy. This is not
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Speaker 6: a dictatorship, nor you know, nor is anybody on the
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Speaker 6: on the right in the Republican Party suggesting that it
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Speaker 6: should be anything other than a democracy. That's that's the
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Speaker 6: other fallacy of this whole crap that they throw out there,
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Speaker 6: that oh, they want fascism and they want dictatorship. No,
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Speaker 6: absolutely nothing could be further from the truth. But you know,
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Speaker 6: all I got to do is say it. Somebody will
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Speaker 6: believe it enough people will believe it and they'll vote.
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Speaker 7: What was it?
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Speaker 6: What was the thing that this guy apparently in his
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Speaker 6: talks with his family or something like that, or something
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Speaker 6: he had posted about doing something to fix his country
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Speaker 6: something like that, got to do something to fix his country. People,
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Speaker 6: you know what you can do to fix this country?
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Speaker 6: Real simple upcoming primaries, don't vote for any of these rhinos.
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Speaker 6: Get rid of them. All they are is is wolves
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Speaker 6: in sheep's clothing. They're Democrats posing a Republicans. Everything they
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Speaker 6: do is in the from the Democrat playbook. And of
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Speaker 6: course when when it comes to the general election, don't
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Speaker 6: vote Democrat. Have a great day break.
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Speaker 1: You do the same, Tom, Yeah, read the manifesto for yourself.
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Speaker 1: I need to do something about it. I will not
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Speaker 1: take it anymore. I Am not going to live in
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Speaker 1: a world where Donald Trumpt fill in the blank. Okay,
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Speaker 1: it's all about this guy, huh, twisted, crazy Drange out
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Speaker 1: of his blanking mind. And if you give it a
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Speaker 1: moment's thought, what rational person? I mean? He and in
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Speaker 1: his manifesto you know he as it reads, he's anticipating
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Speaker 1: he ain't gonna be around after he goes through this.
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Speaker 1: Basically it's a suicide note that is a twisted person.
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Speaker 1: Five thirty five. If if I have garsee the talk station
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Speaker 1: away into the stack of stupid, and why not it's
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Speaker 1: five o'clock hour. If you don't want to do the
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Speaker 1: stack of stupid, go ahead and call patron. Upset about
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Speaker 1: the hardness of the bread used for his sandwich, punched
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Speaker 1: the subway and played in the face. Of course he did.
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Speaker 1: Man was arrested for battery. Investigator say Roy McIntosh, who's
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Speaker 1: forty three, showed up Tuesday morning in a subway in Wildwood, Florida,
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Speaker 1: confronting a male employee with a brief verbal interaction. According
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Speaker 1: to the rest report, Macintosh suddenly struck the worker across
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Speaker 1: the left side of his face with an open hand.
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Speaker 1: When a responding officer spoke with a victim of cop
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Speaker 1: a quote observed visible redness and slight swelling to the
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Speaker 1: left side of his face, consistent with being struck. Those
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Speaker 1: quote corner the rest report to abalance footage. Of course,
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Speaker 1: there is Joe McIntosh striking the worker, who immediately stepped
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Speaker 1: backward in apparent shock. Witness who's seated in the restaurant
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Speaker 1: booth told police the six foot two to forty found
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Speaker 1: suspect became verbally upset and slapped the victim across the
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Speaker 1: face before exiting, they tracked down McIntosh, police did he
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Speaker 1: lives about three miles from the subway. Reportedly confessed to
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Speaker 1: striking the sandwich guy, claiming that the victim intentionally gave
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Speaker 1: him old, stale bread on a sandwich that he had
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Speaker 1: purchased ready a week earlier. Well, I guess he let
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Speaker 1: this insult and manifest and fester around in his head
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Speaker 1: for a week before going back to the subway store
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Speaker 1: and striking the guy. He claimed that when he confronted
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Speaker 1: the worker, he just began to laugh, which caused him
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Speaker 1: to strike the victim. McIntosh booked into the Candy Jail
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Speaker 1: for battery, posted the one thousand dollars bond on the
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Speaker 1: misdemeanor charge, and of course, this being a smoking gun article.
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Speaker 1: Court records do not further identify the type of sandwich
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Speaker 1: macinc and Tash ordered, or whether the bread in question
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Speaker 1: was a foot log. Sometimes that's where the comedy comes.
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Speaker 1: In Irvine, California, police there said they uncovered an unusual
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Speaker 1: scam involving Legos and pasta courted Irvine police man Man
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Speaker 1: bought pricey Legos sets from Target stores nationwide on at
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Speaker 1: least seventy separate occasions the total purchase thirty four thousand dollars. Man,
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Speaker 1: they claim, would then remove the lego pieces from the box,
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Speaker 1: filled the box with dried pasta, and send it back
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Speaker 1: to the store for a refund. Suspect caught when officers
25:42
Speaker 1: set up surveillance at a target store. Of course they did.
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Speaker 1: Please identify the suspect as Jurrell Augustine, who's twenty eight
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Speaker 1: arrested for grand theft, booked in the Orange County Jail.
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Speaker 1: Police wrote on Facebook, if your master plan involved swapping
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Speaker 1: legos for linguini, we can promise you your plan will be
25:58
Speaker 1: cooked al Dante. Oh isn't that cute? So let's turn
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Speaker 1: to the phones. Help save me from myself. Joe, welcome
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Speaker 1: to the morning show. Thanks for calling me.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, good morning.
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Speaker 5: I was thinking about the guy from the bury offering
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Speaker 5: free beer.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: How long do you think it would take for me
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Speaker 5: to get arrested if I started offering free beer for
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Speaker 5: his assassination?
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but probably a very short period of time.
26:24
Speaker 1: Double standard. Would it comes to insults and the tacks
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Speaker 1: and threats of violence against Donald Trump, and if anybody
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Speaker 1: else were to do it against someone else, then you're
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Speaker 1: obviously going to be setting yourself up for potential problems,
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Speaker 1: that's for sure.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, well you have a good d ask you.
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Speaker 1: Do the same, Joe. It's a good point question whose
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Speaker 1: ox is being Gord when it comes to these kind
26:42
Speaker 1: of things. I mean, think about what was that Kathy
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Speaker 1: Gifford's or somebody remember with that this severed Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: beheading head back in the first Trump period, Joe, I
26:52
Speaker 1: mean that kind of Thu's been going on since Donald
26:55
Speaker 1: Trump came down the stair were you got the Republican
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Speaker 1: nod and we've been living with Trump de arrangement syndrome
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Speaker 1: ever since. I just try to keep imagining a world
27:09
Speaker 1: what would the Democrats have done if Donald Trump wasn't
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Speaker 1: there to be their whipping boy and the constant source of,
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Speaker 1: like at least their conclusion the problem with everything going
27:19
Speaker 1: on in the world Donald Trump. Look at the multiple
27:25
Speaker 1: and failed efforts on impeachment, the Russia, Colusiah Hoax pencil,
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Speaker 1: next shift. It's just been year after year after year
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Speaker 1: after year of them collectively losing their mind and just
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Speaker 1: pounding it into people's heads. And again only low information people,
27:44
Speaker 1: people who do not pay attention to anything other than
27:46
Speaker 1: a boiled down meme from the echo chamber of which
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Speaker 1: they find themselves and live in. That that resonates. And
27:57
Speaker 1: there are always a handful of crazies in any group
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Speaker 1: of people. I mean batcrap crazy people like people who
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Speaker 1: would go out and drive across country or ride on
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Speaker 1: a train across country to kill somebody. Five forty five
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Speaker 1: ifty five KRCD talk station number one story in the
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Speaker 1: stack is stupid? Is that kind of guy?
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Speaker 4: Station?
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Speaker 1: It is five fifty and fifty five kr CD talk
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Speaker 1: station Monday. Like him or not? Eh?
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Speaker 3: We know.
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Speaker 1: Sacka stupid shooting in a funeral home this in Burlington,
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Speaker 1: following a toddler's funeral. Yeah, of course it'd be a
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Speaker 1: shooting in a toddler's funeral. How are you doing that?
28:41
Speaker 1: I have no idea anyway, led to a chase and
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Speaker 1: crash court to the police, a couple of people facing charges.
28:47
Speaker 1: Quarter after two in the afternoon on a Saturday, officers
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Speaker 1: with the Burlington Police Department showed up at the Rich
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Speaker 1: and Thompson funeral home after somebody called nine to one one.
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Speaker 1: Callers said a fight had started out in the funeral
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Speaker 1: home after the funeral of a two year old out
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Speaker 1: the man what I know? Travante Ya Kwan McGhee McGee,
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Speaker 1: twenty four years old, accused of firing multiple rounds from
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Speaker 1: a rifle please say. McGee then got in a car
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Speaker 1: and a chase began. During the chase, police said McGee
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Speaker 1: threw the rifle out of the car. Chase ended when
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Speaker 1: a driver identified as Kazari Monique Russell, twenty four lost
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Speaker 1: control of the car and crashed it into a house.
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Speaker 1: Nice going there Monique to get a new getaway driver
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Speaker 1: for next time around. Man Russell arrested the crash site.
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Speaker 1: McGee also wrestled to police say he attempted to run away.
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Speaker 1: Charged with possession of a firearm by a fellon, going
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Speaker 1: armed to the terror of the people, discharging a firearm
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Speaker 1: within city Linit's disorderly conduct at funeral homes and leaving
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Speaker 1: the scene of a crash as a passenger. That's a charge.
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Speaker 1: I didn't realize there was a charge of going armed
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Speaker 1: to the terror of the people. That'll write. I'm just
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Speaker 1: read the charges. Russell will charge with going armed to
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Speaker 1: the tear of the people. There it is again misdemeanor conspiracy,
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Speaker 1: reckless driving and failure to stop at a stop signed
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Speaker 1: slash frat flashing red light. You blew the stop sign
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Speaker 1: while you're trying to flee the police officers. That shocks
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Speaker 1: best case, they say is ongoing and they're looking for
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Speaker 1: folks with any additional information. But some idiot showed up
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Speaker 1: with a rifle at a toddler's funeral, Right.
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Speaker 4: Idiots doing idiot things.
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Speaker 1: Because there it is my word. Florida pastor who wrote
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Speaker 1: an advice book on how to love your spouse, well,
30:34
Speaker 1: this guy's been arrested on bigamy charges. Leslie Williams, who's
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Speaker 1: sixty two, got arrested last week outstanding warrant for bigamy.
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Speaker 1: He was arrested near his house in the village's retirement community.
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Speaker 1: Described it as a rumored swingers paradise and know about
30:51
Speaker 1: there are people who live in the villages going no,
30:53
Speaker 1: it's not a swinger's paradise. If you're familiar with the
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Speaker 1: internet viral loofa story and the colored loofs, apparently that
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Speaker 1: is just a viral story. It has nothing to do
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Speaker 1: with the villages anyway. To your own research on that. Pastor,
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Speaker 1: who described as running his own ministry out of this community,
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Speaker 1: wanted in Georgia after the Rockland County Sheriff's Department there
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Speaker 1: he should have warned for his rest for bigamy charges.
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Speaker 1: Williams is being held without bond of the Sumpter kind
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Speaker 1: of detention center while awaiting extradition to Georgia. Details of
31:28
Speaker 1: his first marriage not quite clear. He shared on Facebook
31:32
Speaker 1: in December that he got married to someone named Cindy
31:35
Speaker 1: just apparently recently, right six months ago roughly. Some people
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Speaker 1: even comment, wow, I thought you were already married. Congratulations.
31:43
Speaker 1: Days later, the pastor praising his new wife in another post,
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Speaker 1: thanks for all the wonderful comments regarding my saved, beautiful
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Speaker 1: and talented wife, missus Williams. She's saved for real, Praise God. Okay,
31:56
Speaker 1: what if she's read his book? His book Love her
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Speaker 1: like this? Loving her has never been deeper. I was
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Speaker 1: waiting for that, Joe. Hence the pause. Apparently it says anyway,
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Speaker 1: it guides. This book guides men and loving their wives
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Speaker 1: deeply by addressing common marriage issues and fostering a never
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Speaker 1: failing love. Released in twenty seventeen, so obviously a long
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Speaker 1: time prior to his most recent marriage this past December.
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Speaker 1: The book quote speaks directly to the hearts of men,
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Speaker 1: sharing the deep intent of the type of love a
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Speaker 1: man should have for his wife, deals with common issues
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Speaker 1: that arise in the marriage and that have the potential
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Speaker 1: to destroy a sacred relationship between husband and wife. William's
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Speaker 1: self described an apologist and teacher of the Word of
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Speaker 1: God with relevant and timely messages for the Body of Christ.
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Speaker 1: All right, case you want to join his ministry, It's
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Speaker 1: Leslie Williams Ministry, which also advertises services preparing you for
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Speaker 1: the end of time. Don't know how he navigates the
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Speaker 1: challenges of being a bigamist. Five fifty five fifty five
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Speaker 1: k r c DE talk station. Plenty of time of
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Speaker 1: talk in the six o'clock hour. We do have plenty
33:22
Speaker 1: of going on in the world. I would love to
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Speaker 1: you for you to give me a call, maybe steer
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Speaker 1: the direction of the conversation. Either way we go. We'll
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Speaker 1: go right after the top of the hour. News from
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Speaker 1: over there.
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Speaker 4: They're really there to help to right here. What's called.
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Speaker 1: Six oh six, Well play Joe, it'll change up with
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Speaker 1: the bumper me this morning. So I'm just tool. It's
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Speaker 1: okay with me. Five one, three, seven, nine fifty five
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Speaker 1: on the call screen and I'll take your call. Brian
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Speaker 1: Thomas is my name, host of the fifty five Casey
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Speaker 1: Morning Show. Joe will be Joe Strekker, executive producer, Internet
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Speaker 1: research guru, all around great guy and without whom I
34:21
Speaker 1: could not do the show. Appreciate you lining up guests
34:23
Speaker 1: as always, including every Monday. Christopher Smithman, who I have
34:26
Speaker 1: a feeling, will probably talk about Police Chief Thiji's lawsuit,
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Speaker 1: her termination, and she's implicated Aftab pur Ball claiming that
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Speaker 1: Cheryl Long told her specifically Long's words, it's you or me,
34:41
Speaker 1: meaning Cheryl Long said, after pro Ball fire you police
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Speaker 1: Chief Fiji or I'm gonna have to go. Clearly the
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Speaker 1: decision have been made according to Police Chief Figi, former
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Speaker 1: police Chief Fiji, and so implicated Aftab per Ball, who
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Speaker 1: claims he had nothing whatsoever to do with the mayors
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Speaker 1: with with Fiji's firing. Does anybody believe leave that zero
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Speaker 1: you know? Anyhow, that's why we have Smithment coming up
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Speaker 1: at seven twenty. Good morning, Christopher at your listener. Right now,
35:18
Speaker 1: Money Money with Brian James. It is Monday, eight o five.
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Speaker 1: We do this every Monday with eight o five. How
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Speaker 1: is the energy crisis spreading across the world? And how
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Speaker 1: tax free filing system went from two hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: thousand users to nothing? No one wants the irs to
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Speaker 1: Chris Clue is going to join us talk about some
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Speaker 1: VA issues, and that is the lineup for this morning. Again,
35:40
Speaker 1: feel free to give me a call over to a
35:42
Speaker 1: couple of different analyzes of like the Washington Times reminded
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Speaker 1: me that this is four attempts on Trump's life. I
35:48
Speaker 1: thought it was number three. This is becoming so like
35:51
Speaker 1: every day that, honestly, and this is what kind of
35:54
Speaker 1: really irked me on this. I don't know what your
35:57
Speaker 1: reaction was. Did it come as any shocked that yet
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Speaker 1: another person try to kill Trump? I bet it didn't.
36:06
Speaker 1: We could be angry and frustrated about it. We can
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Speaker 1: talk about how it is a reflection of the left
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Speaker 1: wing rhetoric, lies and evil, lies and labels put on
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, couple with Trump deranged in syndrome, coupled with
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Speaker 1: a bunch of people out in the world who have
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Speaker 1: no idea what's true and what isn't, who parrot lies regularly,
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Speaker 1: and condemned Donald Trump for being some of the worst
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Speaker 1: types of human being on the planet, A pedophile, fascist, bully, authoritarian,
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Speaker 1: killer of democracy, king, go on and on and on.
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Speaker 1: What hasn't he been called? And that a subset of
36:38
Speaker 1: the people who listen to this and don't want to
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Speaker 1: inform themselves about the lies that they are repeating and parroting,
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Speaker 1: a subset of them is absolutely out of their mind
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Speaker 1: crazy And so oh look, a crazy person took us
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Speaker 1: up on our and said they believe what we've been
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Speaker 1: saying about it. Going back to something I mentioned last hour,
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Speaker 1: think about the Hollywood scenarios, the movies and the other like.
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Speaker 7: Uh.
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Speaker 1: I mentioned Twilight Zone because I remember it specifically. What
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Speaker 1: would you do if you could go back and kill
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Speaker 1: Adolf Hitler? This is something people think about. I imagine, Huh,
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Speaker 1: I want to be the guy that got rid of
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Speaker 1: the man who killed millions of people. You had the
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Speaker 1: benefit of hindsight, as I poured it out. You know,
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Speaker 1: Hitler at least he died in his bunker after having
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Speaker 1: committed all of these atrocities. Boy, wouldn't have been great
37:22
Speaker 1: if we could just get out in front of it. Well,
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Speaker 1: if you get out in front of it, would he
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Speaker 1: have done it? Do you even know what's going to
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Speaker 1: happen in the future, of course not. But because he's
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Speaker 1: been labeled eight off Hitler and Ice has been labeled
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Speaker 1: his brown shirts, this is obviously this is eight off Hitler,
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Speaker 1: Mark two, and something's got to be done about it.
37:44
Speaker 1: So anyway, four people have tried to kill Trump in
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Speaker 1: less than two years. So you got all this vile
37:53
Speaker 1: rhetoric out there, including Housemanlier leader Hakim Jefferies calling for quote,
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Speaker 1: maximum warfare everywhere all the time. Close quote just one
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Speaker 1: of many quotes from all these left wingers out there
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Speaker 1: which suggested this is exactly what they want to happen.
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Speaker 1: Jeffreys and other Democrats have accused Trump of, in their words,
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Speaker 1: running a pedophile protection program. That's in quotes. This after
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Speaker 1: the Justice Department initially withheld some of the government's files
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Speaker 1: associated with Jeffrey Epstein. Now I will say that Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump stepped in it when he didn't release everything after
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Speaker 1: campaigning to do it. This has allowed a lot of
38:32
Speaker 1: festering conspiracies out there, including that as a suggestion that
38:36
Speaker 1: Donald Trump ran a pedophile protection program. Why because he
38:40
Speaker 1: didn't release Epstein files. Epstein was the pedophile. Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: may have ConTroll of releasing the files. I don't know
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Speaker 1: why they haven't been but trust me, they have been
38:52
Speaker 1: scoured through and to the extent there's any proof, literal
38:56
Speaker 1: proof in those documents, the Democrats would be waiving whatever
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Speaker 1: document or documents around that provided you with the proof. No,
39:03
Speaker 1: there isn't any, or there aren't any. Rather, now there's
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Speaker 1: just left with this pedophile protection program. Donald Trump's protecting
39:11
Speaker 1: all the pedophiles in the Epstein documents. Okay. They also
39:16
Speaker 1: call a trader because of the January sixth drunken fraternity
39:20
Speaker 1: party riot in the Capitol. They say he instigated that,
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Speaker 1: just ignoring completely the guy who really could have changed
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Speaker 1: the structure of government. The gunmen who went after all
39:31
Speaker 1: of the Republicans at the baseball game talked about that
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Speaker 1: with Brad Winzor by multiple occasions, thanks to Brad being
39:37
Speaker 1: there a doctor, lives were saved that guy had a
39:40
Speaker 1: list targeting all of the Republicans. Can you imagine the
39:43
Speaker 1: balance of power and how that would have impacted had
39:46
Speaker 1: he been successful, even maybe picking off enough to give
39:49
Speaker 1: the Democrats a majority in Congress for a period of time.
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Speaker 1: That was a real threat to government. People running around
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Speaker 1: walking around the Capitol building didn't have the impact of
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Speaker 1: doing anything, and it couldn't have done anything Trader for that,
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Speaker 1: and he didn't instigate the takeover of the Capitol of
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Speaker 1: the alleged ever to take over the Capitol. Some of
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Speaker 1: the accusations appear to me in the manifesto from this
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Speaker 1: crazy Cold Thomas Allen, the one who broke into the
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Speaker 1: White House correspondence the dinner and tried to kill people
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Speaker 1: a list of people who he had prepared in advance,
40:24
Speaker 1: along with a manifesto he released right before he went
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Speaker 1: on a rampage. I am no longer willing to permit
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Speaker 1: a pedophile, rapist, and trader to coat my hands with
40:34
Speaker 1: his crime. I experienced rage thinking about everything this administration
40:38
Speaker 1: is done. He wrote, Oh, it's all about you. You
40:42
Speaker 1: are so stupid and twisted you believe that an administration's
40:47
Speaker 1: actions has some reflection on you. Personally, and you personally, therefore,
40:52
Speaker 1: are going to take it upon yourself to change the
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Speaker 1: direction of history by murdering somebody that you disagree with.
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Speaker 1: If we all held these irrational belief systems, what a
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Speaker 1: wonderful place it would be. Huh. Two months ago, Austin
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Speaker 1: Tucker Martin, twenty one years old. This one was the
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Speaker 1: one I forgot about. Breached the secure perimeter at mar
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Speaker 1: A Lago with a gasoline container and a shotgun. He
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Speaker 1: was dispatched by Secret Service agents. He's no longer with
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Speaker 1: us anymore, and they say his motives may have been
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Speaker 1: related to drum Roll maistoel Pickwe the Epstein files.
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Speaker 4: Hmmm.
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Speaker 1: He apparently had told him acquaintance he wanted to raise
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Speaker 1: awareness about the Epstein Files. I don't know if you
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Speaker 1: read up on the Epstein files, but evil is real
41:39
Speaker 1: and unmistakable, he wrote. Okay, Ryan Ruth, you remember him.
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Speaker 1: September fifteenth, twenty twenty four, rest after Secret Service agents
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Speaker 1: spotted man in a rifle through a fence bordering the
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Speaker 1: golf cars where Trump was playing golf. He disliked Trump,
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Speaker 1: Ruth did supported presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and
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Speaker 1: I guess he was trying to get Trump out of
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Speaker 1: the race by killing him. One document that released by
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Speaker 1: prosecutors out in Southern District of Florida, Ruth had told
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Speaker 1: an associate, send me a rocket propelled grenade or stinger,
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Speaker 1: and I will see what we can do. Trump is
42:14
Speaker 1: not good for Ukraine. Oh there's the Ukraine thing that
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Speaker 1: serves as a justification of killing Donald Trump. Literally, any
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Speaker 1: policy position Trump has taken, someone is out in the
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Speaker 1: world that's angry about it and thinks it's an existential
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Speaker 1: threat to their own existence or somehow they personally will
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Speaker 1: be tainted by an action of a president. Get the
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Speaker 1: hell over yourself. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm speaking generally to
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Speaker 1: people who are out of their blank and mind crazy. Huh, Joe.
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Speaker 1: Are there no right wing crazies out there plenty? They
42:48
Speaker 1: just don't pop their head up as regularly as the
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Speaker 1: left wingers do they that's right. Butler Pennsylvania. Just two
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Speaker 1: months prior to that one, Matthew Cookes killed by a
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Speaker 1: Secret Service sniper. They say his motives are sketchy, but
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Speaker 1: he did try to shoot Donald Trump's head off. Something
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Speaker 1: allows me to reach the conclusion he harbored hatred toward
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Speaker 1: a man. Huh, there's a difficult conclusion to reach. Apparently
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Speaker 1: didn't leave a whole lot of manifesto materially around, but
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Speaker 1: he did choose the President of the United States of
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Speaker 1: America to squeeze a round off and missed him by millimeters.
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Speaker 1: Is it the rhetoric that's causing this? Some say, yes,
43:30
Speaker 1: what's your take on? I got a couple of callers online, folks,
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Speaker 1: don't please New Hampshire Gary and Eddie, don't go away.
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Speaker 1: I'm happy to take those calls that just looked up
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Speaker 1: and realized I am out of time. At six sixteen
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Speaker 1: will be r T twenty one fifty by KCD Talk station.
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Speaker 1: Here's a Babylon b which is a satirical website summing
43:44
Speaker 1: it all up as they quite often do so well.
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Speaker 1: This is a both sides issue, says side that hid
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Speaker 1: President Trump, assassinated Charlie Kirk, tried to assassinate Kavanaugh, tried
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Speaker 1: to shoot Trump again, shot Steve's Scalise firebomb. Governor Shapiro
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Speaker 1: tried to shoot Trump a third time. Continue, Yep, let's
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Speaker 1: go to the phones. Eddie was first New Hampshire Grey,
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Speaker 1: so hang on Eddie, thanks for holding over the breake.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
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Speaker 8: Hey Brian, real quick, The Secret Service dropped the ball
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Speaker 8: here at this at this advent here over the weekend.
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Speaker 3: The video shows him.
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Speaker 8: Hell, the guy ran right past them and he was able.
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Speaker 8: We haven't heard the details yet on how many shots
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Speaker 8: were fired by the bad guy, but we know he
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Speaker 8: fired one and he hit a Secret Service agent in
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Speaker 8: the chest. They have dropped the ball repeatedly, and this
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Speaker 8: is yet another example of it. And it's well, it's ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: I know the video you referred to with the guy
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Speaker 1: where the would be murderer. The assassin goes right past
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Speaker 1: the Secret Service guy at high rate of speed, I
44:47
Speaker 1: might add for being on foot, and the Secret Service guy,
44:49
Speaker 1: you know, jumps to the opposite direction, and then he
44:51
Speaker 1: pulls his firearm out immediately and begins pointing in the
44:54
Speaker 1: direction of where the guy ran off to true, some
44:56
Speaker 1: and I heard from a prior Secret Service agent said
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Speaker 1: that we are trained to toward the risk, calling into
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Speaker 1: question whether whether that guy was trained properly and moving
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Speaker 1: away from the risk. I don't know if I'm in
45:07
Speaker 1: a situation like that. I've never been Secret Service trained
45:10
Speaker 1: but my natural instincts would be to do exactly what
45:12
Speaker 1: that guy did. But the broader question is what can
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Speaker 1: be done Eddie? About this guy he checked in the
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Speaker 1: hotel a day before we all can we have the
45:21
Speaker 1: right to do that? And you know, I think in
45:25
Speaker 1: the murderer from the in Hollywood or in Las Vegas
45:28
Speaker 1: who brought in all those weapons. You know, Las Vegas
45:30
Speaker 1: the home to the shot show. A lot of people
45:32
Speaker 1: come into hotel buildings with weapons, maybe going to be
45:35
Speaker 1: going to the shot show or to demonstrate them. Maybe
45:37
Speaker 1: they work from firearms manufacturer. So the idea that someone
45:41
Speaker 1: might bring a gun into a hotel not shocking. And
45:44
Speaker 1: because we have a second Amendment right, you can probably
45:46
Speaker 1: do that as long as it is inviolative of you know,
45:48
Speaker 1: local laws. So how do you stop that from happening?
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Speaker 1: How much of a perimeter do you have to have
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Speaker 1: around the building? Eddie?
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Speaker 8: And I don't think that's difficult at all.
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Speaker 7: Bran.
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Speaker 8: The the shooter's manifesto talks about the lack of security
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Speaker 8: when he checked in.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, I'm not denying it's hard. I'm not
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Speaker 1: denying the lack of security around the perimeter, and the
46:13
Speaker 1: idea that any place you show up, I mean, there's
46:16
Speaker 1: there's always some holes in security. So how much do
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Speaker 1: you need to do ahead of time? I'm asking the
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Speaker 1: question a lot because I don't know. I mean, it's
46:25
Speaker 1: it's we want to hold them accountable and say they
46:27
Speaker 1: drop the ball, because we get the benefit of looking
46:29
Speaker 1: back and saying that shouldn't have been done. We should
46:31
Speaker 1: have covered the roof, we should have covered this exit
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Speaker 1: or entrance. I just don't know, thinking forward, how you
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Speaker 1: get over those challenges.
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Speaker 8: I don't think locking down a building the side or
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Speaker 8: a floor, I guess they were, but locking down a
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Speaker 8: building regardless of the size doors. It's it's it's not
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Speaker 8: that it's not that complicated. And and the video clearly
46:56
Speaker 8: shows this guy sprinting forged the checkpoint, and they're not
47:02
Speaker 8: paying attention and they're not looking at where the people
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Speaker 8: are coming from, especially a guy sprinting down the hallway.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know how much advance I don't
47:12
Speaker 1: know how much advanced time they had on the sprinting part.
47:14
Speaker 1: I mean, you can see the video. He just bursts
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Speaker 1: through and runs and it was a very short period
47:18
Speaker 1: of time. But he wasn't he already inside the facility,
47:23
Speaker 1: I mean locking down a facility of preventing people from
47:25
Speaker 1: outside coming in. He already had a room there, he
47:27
Speaker 1: was checked in, so he's already correct, reached the initial
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Speaker 1: perimeter the.
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Speaker 8: Yes, and there was no there was no check. I
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Speaker 8: think what we'll find out there was no check who's
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Speaker 8: by the secret service with the hotel, who signed in recently?
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Speaker 8: Who who recently had a room here in the last
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Speaker 8: twenty four hours. I don't think they did anything like that.
47:51
Speaker 8: We may not hear about it right away, but I
47:53
Speaker 8: bet somebody's gonna find it. Somebody's going to say they
47:56
Speaker 8: didn't ask us who checked in.
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Speaker 1: Well, and I understand where you're coming from, Eddie, but
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Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, as I sit here, everybody that
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Speaker 1: goes into a hotel room, everybody goes into a hotel
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Speaker 1: for an event like that. And they said there were
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Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds of people from the four corners of
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Speaker 1: the universe the press conference, So you check in. How
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Speaker 1: quickly can the FBI do a background check? This guy
48:17
Speaker 1: released his manifesto moments before he started, you know, his
48:20
Speaker 1: endeavor to rampage and start murdering people. They didn't have
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Speaker 1: it in hand. Could they have done a background check
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Speaker 1: on all of his social media posts right then and
48:28
Speaker 1: there as he checked in or in advance of the
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Speaker 1: event with hundreds of people to have to do that.
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Speaker 3: I don't know about.
48:35
Speaker 8: I don't know about a background check. I know they
48:38
Speaker 8: could do what Israel does at their airports and they
48:41
Speaker 8: look at everybody and they see who's walking by themselves
48:45
Speaker 8: and unaccompanied. And this is not this is not that
48:49
Speaker 8: complicated to do a simple knock and talk say, hey,
48:52
Speaker 8: this guy just checked in from California by himself.
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Speaker 1: My problem is that, yeah, it's the White House press correspondent.
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Speaker 1: There there are people from all over the world. I
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Speaker 1: quoted that woman from Japan, a reporter from Japan who
49:08
Speaker 1: was appalled at some of the comments of the people
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Speaker 1: in the aftermath, saying, darn if they missed him this time.
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Speaker 1: So we have Japanese people coming in for this, and
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Speaker 1: I can only imagine that there's probably people from multitude
49:18
Speaker 1: or different countries, let alone states in the Union. We
49:21
Speaker 1: enjoy a freedom of travel here in the United States,
49:23
Speaker 1: and I know it's a Trump event, He's going to
49:26
Speaker 1: be there, obviously heightening the level of security. Secret services
49:29
Speaker 1: there would have should have could have done it. I
49:31
Speaker 1: just don't know in this crazy world which we find
49:33
Speaker 1: ourselves that you can really fully vet every single human
49:37
Speaker 1: being who might come within a measurable distance of the president.
49:40
Speaker 1: It's complicated. I'm not disagreeing with you necessarily, but as
49:44
Speaker 1: you start a step back and look at the logistical
49:46
Speaker 1: challenges of something like this, it seems to me to
49:48
Speaker 1: be almost impossible to cover every scenario. Six twenty Sex.
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Speaker 4: Talk Station.
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Speaker 1: Sixty two. If you have krcity Talk station Jay hold
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Speaker 1: on cous New Hampshire. Gary's I kind of enough to
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Speaker 1: stay on hold. Gary, Welcome back to the fifty five
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Speaker 1: KC Morning Show. It's always a pleasure hearing from you,
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Speaker 1: my friend.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Brian. How are you doing. I'm going to
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Speaker 3: give you a couple of thoughts on this. I think
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Speaker 3: we're being gas lit from the extreme that the left
50:17
Speaker 3: has completely adopted violence and they're encouraging it. And I
50:23
Speaker 3: also think at the same time they're denying that it's
50:27
Speaker 3: left wing violence, and they're trying to deflect by saying
50:30
Speaker 3: it's right wing violence. Because we can go all the
50:32
Speaker 3: way back to when the baseball team was attacked according
50:38
Speaker 3: to the FBI at that time that they couldn't find
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Speaker 3: anything other than a manifest that this was right wing violence.
50:48
Speaker 3: You know. So it's a mystery. Same thing with the
50:51
Speaker 3: assassination up in Wisconsin, even though they were Democrats. The
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Speaker 3: two Democrats that were assassinated, the person who did the
51:01
Speaker 3: assassination worked for Tim Maltz yep, and the woman who
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Speaker 3: was assassinated had defeated a bill to remove investigations into
51:15
Speaker 3: immigration fraud. And then we also look at things like
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Speaker 3: the CEO of the CEO United Health right.
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Speaker 1: Right, the Manchioni guy who is now a darling of
51:31
Speaker 1: the left. He shirts with his picture on him, like Chayguovara,
51:34
Speaker 1: and they and sing his praises because he worked for
51:36
Speaker 1: an evil health insurance company.
51:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's another one. There's this guy called It's
51:43
Speaker 3: On Piker, right.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, I've seen his his quotes. I had.
51:47
Speaker 1: I was not aware of this, this crazy left winger
51:50
Speaker 1: before the most recent effort to shoot and kill Donald Trump.
51:53
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's he's really got some awful, awful statements
51:57
Speaker 1: attributed to him.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, he's been hanging out with Omar and
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Speaker 3: Hassan Piker and the mayor of New York City of
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Speaker 3: Mandani and I just read this morning. Besides having a
52:13
Speaker 3: man and Obama, he's also hanging out with Obama. And
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Speaker 3: the first thing I do is I look up Google,
52:20
Speaker 3: and Obama states, even though there's a manifest we can't
52:27
Speaker 3: jump to any conclusion upon this is going. I think
52:31
Speaker 3: we're being gas lit because they're all revolutionaries, and the
52:34
Speaker 3: first thing about revolutionaries is the revolutionaries and killing is
52:39
Speaker 3: no problem.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, in order to be gasolin, you gotta be
52:41
Speaker 1: dumb enough to believe what the Democrat narrative is in
52:45
Speaker 1: the aftermath of an obviously left wing, anti Trump crazy
52:49
Speaker 1: person trying to kill Donald Trump because of matters political. Yeah, no,
52:52
Speaker 1: one's buying into that.
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Speaker 7: Man.
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Speaker 1: And I saw Barack Obama's quote, and I don't know
52:57
Speaker 1: when Obama said what he said. Oh, his motives aren't
53:00
Speaker 1: necessarily known. Had he seen the manifesto yet? It was
53:03
Speaker 1: this an immediate reaction kind of statement before we actually
53:05
Speaker 1: read the thing. I don't know, but it is laughable
53:09
Speaker 1: with hindsight because this manifesto is literally everywhere and it
53:12
Speaker 1: clearly clearly reflects the political ideology and intent of this
53:17
Speaker 1: crazy shooter. Brock read it otherwise, read for yourself. Find
53:23
Speaker 1: the truth, don't expect it filtered through the mouths of
53:27
Speaker 1: some leftist probably responsible for this guy's crazy annex. Maybe
53:34
Speaker 1: I keep going out there. There's a percentage of politically
53:36
Speaker 1: motivated people out there that are literally crazy, and one
53:39
Speaker 1: day I think the left might get their dream and
53:43
Speaker 1: I don't even want to think about that day. Six
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Speaker 1: thirty six, fifty five KRSD Talk Station, Jay, you're not
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Speaker 1: my face. Jay, Welcome back to the show. It's good
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Speaker 1: to hear from me this morning.
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Speaker 9: Hey, good morning, Brian from the New England States. If
54:09
Speaker 9: I knew where Gary lived, I would stop over for breakfast.
54:12
Speaker 9: But I'm listening to you on the iHeart app.
54:15
Speaker 1: Glad it's working this morning.
54:17
Speaker 8: Yeah Yeah, yeah, me too.
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Speaker 9: Hey, this whole assassination attempt, I'm looking at this and thinking,
54:26
Speaker 9: you know, there's got there's some basic level of risk
54:29
Speaker 9: mitigation that I'm concerned is not in place. The first
54:34
Speaker 9: one is, do you really have to go to a
54:37
Speaker 9: White House correspondence dinner where the members of the press
54:42
Speaker 9: that against Trump, this is their night with their spouse
54:47
Speaker 9: on their arm walking down the red carpet if there
54:50
Speaker 9: was zero risk? Can we afford to do it as taxpayers?
54:54
Speaker 9: And why do we want to do it?
54:55
Speaker 6: Why do we want to feed the ego?
54:57
Speaker 9: And I heard on as I was traveling up here.
55:00
Speaker 9: I drove to thirteen and a half hours, so I
55:03
Speaker 9: had some windshield time. I was listening to meet the press,
55:06
Speaker 9: and somebody was talking about that there were three different
55:09
Speaker 9: levels of security, like five blocks out you have to
55:13
Speaker 9: show your credentials, one block out you have to show
55:16
Speaker 9: your credentials, and when you walk into that, before you
55:18
Speaker 9: walk into the ballroom, you had to show your credentials.
55:20
Speaker 9: So there was some failure a debt at those outer
55:23
Speaker 9: levels of security.
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Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait, wait wait, Now we justus understand
55:26
Speaker 1: where you're coming from, Jay, Because the guy checked into
55:29
Speaker 1: the venue the day before, he had a room there,
55:32
Speaker 1: he was already within the perimeters he just mentioned, with
55:34
Speaker 1: the exception of the ballroom perimeter which is the one
55:36
Speaker 1: he sprinted toward. So think about the inside.
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Speaker 8: Think about that.
55:41
Speaker 9: So if it's that easy to get through the outer
55:44
Speaker 9: two levels of perimeter, if I just booked a hotel room,
55:47
Speaker 9: something's very broken. And furthermore, you would have thought after
55:52
Speaker 9: Butler that if Trump just insists, and I'm not sure
55:56
Speaker 9: it's his call. I don't know that the president who
55:58
Speaker 9: we elect, who works for US US, it's a veto
56:01
Speaker 9: pen to take as much risk on as he wants to.
56:05
Speaker 9: But when are we going to start putting bulletproof.
56:07
Speaker 6: Glass up in front of the guy?
56:08
Speaker 9: I would have I would have my vote would have
56:10
Speaker 9: been like right after Butler. So if you have to go,
56:14
Speaker 9: you know, they do make devices that can protect you
56:17
Speaker 9: from from a crowd, but things like that is just
56:20
Speaker 9: off the table, almost like have we learned anything since
56:24
Speaker 9: you know, if he wanted to go do an open
56:25
Speaker 9: air Cadillac down.
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Speaker 6: Down the streets of Dallas, would we go along with that?
56:30
Speaker 9: Almost seems like we can't learn until tragedy happens. Well,
56:32
Speaker 9: and it is like the basic levels of protection aren't there.
56:37
Speaker 1: But you know, it's like the popemobile when they started
56:39
Speaker 1: putting behind plexiglass because everybody in the world wanted to
56:41
Speaker 1: kill the pope for some reason. On me, I don't
56:43
Speaker 1: know to get it, but there you go. But you know,
56:45
Speaker 1: there's a certain level of public perception you got to
56:48
Speaker 1: deal with. Are we gonna is Donald Trump not going
56:50
Speaker 1: to go to any event where there's a whole lot
56:52
Speaker 1: of people that are going to show up. He can't
56:55
Speaker 1: pass on all these things. He needs the the I
56:57
Speaker 1: know that, the optics and him going to ninety percent
57:00
Speaker 1: anti Trump event. Maybe he was trying to show people
57:03
Speaker 1: that he's a strong guy. And yes, I'm gonna be
57:05
Speaker 1: in the middle of the wolf pack and I'm gonna
57:07
Speaker 1: get I'm gonna get in there and stand up to him.
57:09
Speaker 1: It's an opportunity for me to say exactly what I
57:11
Speaker 1: want about the mainstream media. That'd be a good thing
57:13
Speaker 1: for me to do. I'm sure they go through these
57:15
Speaker 1: strategic but Donald Trump is gonna cost a lot of money. Barbara,
57:18
Speaker 1: Barbara Burr. They're gonna weigh things ahead of time. I
57:21
Speaker 1: presume with any large venue is gonna be at see
57:23
Speaker 1: you can't keep them hidden. And then are we gonna
57:26
Speaker 1: lock him behind plexiglass like they do with laundry detergent
57:28
Speaker 1: at stores now because the shoplifting. Everywhere you go, he's
57:31
Speaker 1: surrounded by a bulletproof plastic box. I don't think that
57:34
Speaker 1: looks very presidential necessarily. I mean, you gotta stand up
57:38
Speaker 1: and be bold in the face of potential threats, and
57:41
Speaker 1: that think I think that says something about your character. Yeah,
57:44
Speaker 1: I'm aware that there are crazy people in the world,
57:46
Speaker 1: but I do have secret service. We do try to
57:50
Speaker 1: provide measures of protection for me. But isn't it a
57:55
Speaker 1: sort of a concession that the secret servant is in
57:59
Speaker 1: perfect Airgo, I've got to walk around behind plexiglass or
58:03
Speaker 1: bulletproof glass all the time. You got to show strength
58:06
Speaker 1: in the face of those threats, and I think there's
58:08
Speaker 1: a balance that can be struck. There is the system perfect.
58:11
Speaker 1: No zero systems are perfect. As they stare at this
58:13
Speaker 1: article about fifteen crop spraying drones stolen from New Jersey.
58:18
Speaker 1: These things are so beefy and commercial they can carry
58:20
Speaker 1: a very large payload, and now people are pointing out
58:24
Speaker 1: that is a risk to literally anything part of our infrastructure.
58:27
Speaker 1: The thing can spray chemical gases and kill people. It
58:30
Speaker 1: can be used as right, so you start looking at
58:32
Speaker 1: how to protect yourself against something like a drone flying
58:35
Speaker 1: around and then appreciate the complexities of that. It's impossible
58:40
Speaker 1: to come up with a perfect, perfectly safe environment. So
58:44
Speaker 1: you either sit in a basement like Joe Biden and
58:47
Speaker 1: never ever stick your head out, or you go out
58:51
Speaker 1: in the world. You live your life, and you're strong
58:54
Speaker 1: in the face of these threats. Not recklessly so, but
58:58
Speaker 1: I think there's a projection of strength out there, and
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Speaker 1: I think that's valuable. Six forty six fifty five k
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Speaker 1: See talk station Todd, You're next. Don't hang out, don't
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Speaker 1: go hang up, buddy, I'll be right with you. I
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Speaker 1: want to mention Kate of having Catholic semination. Six fifty
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Speaker 1: to make it so anyway, Christopher Smithman, Yeah, I have
59:18
Speaker 1: a feeling he will comment about Police Chief Diji's firing
59:21
Speaker 1: in the press conference with her lawyer and the two
59:24
Speaker 1: hour conversation that she had when she was before being terminated.
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Speaker 1: Lots of details on that coming up at seven twenty.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones. Todd was kind enough to
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Speaker 1: hold Todd Welcome to the program. Thanks for holding over
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Speaker 1: the brake there.
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Speaker 5: Hey, Good morning, Brian. A little bit of a different
59:39
Speaker 5: take on the whole attempt at assassination. Was there really
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Speaker 5: a failure of the Secret Service?
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Speaker 1: Ah, your channeling. Oh, he's just gonna say something because
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Speaker 1: Chip's like, nobody was shot. Nobody said, well, I said,
59:56
Speaker 1: somebody was shot at One of the agents got hit
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Speaker 1: with his shatka, but his his bulletproof vests prevented him
1:00:01
Speaker 1: from I guess, suffering significant harm. But he at Chip's
1:00:04
Speaker 1: point security work. Nobody got killed.
1:00:08
Speaker 5: Exactly. And the only breakdown I saw was at the
1:00:12
Speaker 5: checkpoint that he sprinted through. The agents, I guess, because
1:00:17
Speaker 5: the event was going on, let their guard down and
1:00:20
Speaker 5: started talking and turned their back to the direction of
1:00:23
Speaker 5: threat would come from. And I think that's how he
1:00:27
Speaker 5: was able to sprint past them, because they didn't have
1:00:30
Speaker 5: their eyes down the hall. And then the other thing
1:00:36
Speaker 5: is and I got it. We got to find out
1:00:38
Speaker 5: who this agent was, and he's got to get big kudos.
1:00:41
Speaker 5: The guy that stood there, climbed up on that podium
1:00:45
Speaker 5: and stood in front of the president like a brick
1:00:47
Speaker 5: wall that need to take whatever came his way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Badassory right there. You're putting your own life on
1:00:53
Speaker 1: the line for the benefit of someone else.
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Speaker 5: And he really he knows what he's doing too. You know, Okay,
1:01:00
Speaker 5: if you're gonna shoot, you gotta get through me.
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Speaker 1: That's a good point right there. And you know what,
1:01:05
Speaker 1: you don't know the political ideology that Secret Service officer,
1:01:07
Speaker 1: do you. I mean you imagine the flip. You always
1:01:09
Speaker 1: think Secret Service probably these conservative rugged you know, pro military,
1:01:12
Speaker 1: you know, guns and all that kind of stuff. But
1:01:14
Speaker 1: you know, Hillary Clinton got surrounded by Secret Service too,
1:01:17
Speaker 1: and from all accounts, she was a pain in the
1:01:19
Speaker 1: keystor to work for. She was an absolute outright witch
1:01:22
Speaker 1: when it came to her treatment of the Secret Service.
1:01:24
Speaker 1: And yet there they are having to put their lives
1:01:26
Speaker 1: on the line for someone like that. Yeah, that's a
1:01:28
Speaker 1: tough job man. And salute to the Secret Service for
1:01:31
Speaker 1: you know, going down that road. But yeah, no one died.
1:01:34
Speaker 1: It is really an important point to remember. And we
1:01:36
Speaker 1: can criticize perhaps the agent who didn't run toward the
1:01:39
Speaker 1: challenge that he was next to when the guy sprinted past.
1:01:42
Speaker 1: I know one Secret Service agent was on Fox News saying, no, no,
1:01:45
Speaker 1: that's not what we were trained to do. We're trained
1:01:47
Speaker 1: to go after the dangerous part to sort of go
1:01:50
Speaker 1: against human nature, which anybody in that situation would definitely
1:01:54
Speaker 1: try to move away from someone who might knock them
1:01:57
Speaker 1: over or otherwise do something bad. So you know, go
1:02:01
Speaker 1: ahead and analyze that with the hindsight twenty twenty. But
1:02:03
Speaker 1: in the final analysis, no one died, and it's an
1:02:06
Speaker 1: important thing to think about and we can all thank
1:02:09
Speaker 1: God for that. It's most notably the secret of Server
1:02:11
Speaker 1: as the agent who apparently took a shutgun blast of
1:02:14
Speaker 1: the chest and got from modern equipment. And Marien, sorry
1:02:20
Speaker 1: you sent me the message. I'm gonna say it. She
1:02:24
Speaker 1: was wondering about why that video is so grainy, said,
1:02:27
Speaker 1: it's very odd an event like that that the video
1:02:29
Speaker 1: footage would not would be that grainy the footage of
1:02:32
Speaker 1: the guy sprinting past the secret Service agent. Of course,
1:02:36
Speaker 1: the camera video footage is ten times better on my
1:02:39
Speaker 1: robotic cat litter box. She's got an Internet of things
1:02:42
Speaker 1: cat litter box camera marine. You're not listening to Dave Atter.
1:02:47
Speaker 1: My point is well grainy, yeah, but you can see
1:02:49
Speaker 1: what's going on, but not the high tech like it
1:02:52
Speaker 1: should be for protecting a president. Well, I don't know
1:02:55
Speaker 1: which video camera was. It could have been a hotel
1:02:57
Speaker 1: video camera pre installed long before the president or the
1:03:00
Speaker 1: White House press conference. Maureene. I don't know, but see
1:03:05
Speaker 1: when I saw that video, my first reaction wasn't to
1:03:09
Speaker 1: come up with why is this video so grainy? Mine
1:03:13
Speaker 1: was my reaction to the Secret services reaction to the
1:03:15
Speaker 1: guy sprint and by which you can clearly see just
1:03:21
Speaker 1: not in high depth. Six fifty five fifty five K
1:03:24
Speaker 1: see the talk station stick around off the top of
1:03:27
Speaker 1: the IRO News got more to talk about? We can
1:03:28
Speaker 1: talk about this. I'll take a phone call from you
1:03:30
Speaker 1: if you like, but we're definitely gonna get the Christopher
1:03:32
Speaker 1: Smithman who using my magic eight ball, will Christopher talk
1:03:36
Speaker 1: about police chief Fiji signs say yes? Don't go away?
1:03:39
Speaker 1: Be right back from over there. This war has been
1:03:42
Speaker 1: one to right here real quick. In top ed piece
1:03:47
Speaker 1: that I want to do, it's the editorial board from
1:03:49
Speaker 1: the New York Post on this whole Trump thing and
1:03:51
Speaker 1: the idea that can can we tone down the rhetoric?
1:03:53
Speaker 1: Does anybody have any optimism that this terrible rhetoric which
1:03:57
Speaker 1: many are pointing to leads crazy people to actually leave.
1:04:00
Speaker 1: Insane rhetoric from these left wingers? Is that going to change.
1:04:06
Speaker 1: I'm frankly jaded and cynecal of that. But anyway, as
1:04:09
Speaker 1: the Post points out, in what we're starting to see
1:04:13
Speaker 1: seems like a pattern, suspect was clearly a radicalized lefty
1:04:17
Speaker 1: mm hmm. Thank god no one was seriously injured at
1:04:21
Speaker 1: the time. But is this what the left wants? Because
1:04:25
Speaker 1: saying democracy living and Americans beginning to wonder what will
1:04:29
Speaker 1: it take to get lefty polls in the media to
1:04:31
Speaker 1: quit their sick, dangerous accusations about Trump, which are surely
1:04:35
Speaker 1: fueling the hostility and deadly violence suspected would be assessed him.
1:04:43
Speaker 1: Cole Allen and his manifesto rights, I am no longer
1:04:46
Speaker 1: willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and trader to coat
1:04:49
Speaker 1: my hands with his crimes. Where did Alan get such
1:04:53
Speaker 1: ideas about Trump and the need to remove him via murder?
1:04:56
Speaker 1: Almost certainly from the left, including from Democrats and positions power.
1:05:00
Speaker 1: Barely a day goes by without a m calling Trump
1:05:03
Speaker 1: an autocrat, a king, a dictator, hitler. They claim he's
1:05:06
Speaker 1: into democracy in America. They cheer the no King's rallies
1:05:09
Speaker 1: as if Trump had actually a royal power. Notably this
1:05:13
Speaker 1: Cole Allen idiot attended to No King's protests in California,
1:05:16
Speaker 1: according to his own social media accounts. Dams have also
1:05:20
Speaker 1: repeatedly linked Trump to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes, despite lack of
1:05:24
Speaker 1: any evidence. Representative Ted lu California endlessly promotes the charge
1:05:28
Speaker 1: that the President raped kids, again with no evidence whatsoever.
1:05:34
Speaker 1: The portrayed Ice agents's Nazi brown shirts under Trump's command,
1:05:37
Speaker 1: and the lefties only slam Trump a romanticized violence. Recent
1:05:42
Speaker 1: New York Times podcast featured this crazy, crazy Hassan piker
1:05:46
Speaker 1: guy who seems to be advocating for murder for the
1:05:50
Speaker 1: greater good. Don't you know? Radicals praised Luisi Mangiot, he
1:05:54
Speaker 1: accused of killing Brian Thompson simply because he was the
1:05:56
Speaker 1: head of United Healthcare as a CEO. Notably, this Cole
1:06:01
Speaker 1: Allen's manifesto makes him sound like a MANGIONI want to be.
1:06:04
Speaker 1: Will the left now turn him into a hero? The
1:06:08
Speaker 1: New York Post asked, rhetorically, you know the answer is
1:06:10
Speaker 1: gonna be yes. Please? How does murder square with democracy
1:06:16
Speaker 1: and law and order? True of the killers are generally
1:06:19
Speaker 1: mentally ill, as Allen seems to be, based on his
1:06:21
Speaker 1: own words, but sick individuals who hear outrageous charges from
1:06:24
Speaker 1: people considered authorities congressmen and governors, etc. Are apt to
1:06:29
Speaker 1: act on what they hear, imagining as Mangioni and Allen
1:06:33
Speaker 1: seem to they're doing the nation a service by taking
1:06:37
Speaker 1: up arms. Tyler Robinson so disturbed over what he believed
1:06:42
Speaker 1: was hateful rhetoric from Karlic Charlie Kirk that he saw
1:06:45
Speaker 1: fit to fatally shoot him. Nick Rosky sought to kill
1:06:49
Speaker 1: Justice Brett Kavanaugh fearing the Supreme Court would overturn Roe v.
1:06:53
Speaker 1: Wade as if it impacted his life personally. And Dallas
1:06:56
Speaker 1: a gunman open fire in an ice rally, killing a detainee.
1:06:59
Speaker 1: In radicals have targeted numerous agents and their violent acts.
1:07:03
Speaker 1: Unable to live with the results of two elections, democracy
1:07:05
Speaker 1: at work, Democrats have been resorting to extraordinary steps ever
1:07:10
Speaker 1: since Trump first one in twenty sixteen, launching smear campaigns
1:07:14
Speaker 1: like the Russian hoax impiaching him twice, slapping him with
1:07:17
Speaker 1: bogus civil and even criminal charges, moving to toss his
1:07:20
Speaker 1: name from the ballot, and of course, betraying him as
1:07:25
Speaker 1: a dire threat to the nation. These steps go well
1:07:27
Speaker 1: beyond the bounds of legitimate democratic politics, which they claim
1:07:31
Speaker 1: they champion. Now Trump has been targeted for assassination, account them,
1:07:35
Speaker 1: I think it's more than three times. It's actually four.
1:07:38
Speaker 1: Violent hashtag resistance won't end well for anyone, and they
1:07:42
Speaker 1: conclude with this, for the sake of the country, it's
1:07:45
Speaker 1: long past time for them to knock off the inflammatory rhetoric.
1:07:48
Speaker 1: Question to you, will they? And I will be the
1:07:53
Speaker 1: first person to admit to the guy that's yelling at
1:07:55
Speaker 1: the radio. No, Well, Trump uses inflammatory rhetoric too. Perhaps
1:07:59
Speaker 1: he as a subjective opinion, I have subjective opinions as well,
1:08:05
Speaker 1: And yeah, I would call some of Trump's rhetoric uncalled
1:08:07
Speaker 1: for and perhaps inflammatory. But I don't recall him running
1:08:11
Speaker 1: around talking about screaming and killing his opponents, wishing they
1:08:15
Speaker 1: were dead, suggesting it would be a great thing if
1:08:18
Speaker 1: any given fill in the black Democrat weren't around any more.
1:08:20
Speaker 1: Pick one, Chuckie Schumer, Alexandrio Casio Coortez, Ilion Omer, picked
1:08:25
Speaker 1: your favorite leftist? Has Trump ever called for their assassination?
1:08:29
Speaker 1: Has Trump ever shown up with a meme showing their
1:08:31
Speaker 1: severed head in his hand? Kathy Griffith, Yeah, No, maybe
1:08:40
Speaker 1: charged politically in his commentary, but he is not an
1:08:43
Speaker 1: equal opportunity offender when it comes to calling for violence,
1:08:46
Speaker 1: as so many on the left have, or at least
1:08:49
Speaker 1: supporting it and lamenting when murderers would be murderers and
1:08:53
Speaker 1: assassins fail in their task like this Cole guy. And
1:08:59
Speaker 1: there were people who regret that Cole didn't get to
1:09:03
Speaker 1: achieve his objective. That's sick, folks, It's sick. Seven fifteen
1:09:09
Speaker 1: right now. Stick around, Christopher Smithmen in the game twenty
1:09:11
Speaker 1: if you have KERCD talk station empty Monday. I always
1:09:14
Speaker 1: love this time of the week. You get to talk
1:09:16
Speaker 1: with a good friend, not just your friend, my friend,
1:09:18
Speaker 1: friend of the entire greater Cincinnati area. Christopher Smithman, former
1:09:21
Speaker 1: counselman for the City of Cincinnati and Vice mayor. It's
1:09:24
Speaker 1: good you have you back on the show, my friend.
1:09:25
Speaker 1: Love your comments.
1:09:28
Speaker 7: Thank you, brother, thanks for having me on. Before I
1:09:31
Speaker 7: get started, I'm just a tad bit under the weather,
1:09:34
Speaker 7: but I'm going to give you everything that I had.
1:09:37
Speaker 1: You always morning, you always do.
1:09:39
Speaker 7: And let me also share with you, Brian that my
1:09:42
Speaker 7: heart goes out to the Secret Service person who was shot.
1:09:49
Speaker 7: You know, law enforcement very dangerous job. Our peace officers,
1:09:54
Speaker 7: no matter what part, whether they're the FBI, tsa secret service,
1:09:58
Speaker 7: share for a police officers. I can't name them all
1:10:01
Speaker 7: that you know, they deserve to go home. And it
1:10:04
Speaker 7: just reminds us just how bad things could get in
1:10:08
Speaker 7: a split second. I mean, just to see him running
1:10:10
Speaker 7: through the barrier, you don't know what is going on,
1:10:13
Speaker 7: what he's doing. These are split second decisions, right because
1:10:17
Speaker 7: he could just be running for his child. He could
1:10:19
Speaker 7: be just running through there because he hurts. You know,
1:10:22
Speaker 7: his mom was having a heart attack upstairs in the hotel.
1:10:25
Speaker 7: No one, you're trying to make these split second decisions
1:10:29
Speaker 7: as he's running by in the hotel. And then it
1:10:32
Speaker 7: wasn't until he discharged his weapon that they're going, Wow,
1:10:37
Speaker 7: this guy's here to kill people. And now so you know,
1:10:39
Speaker 7: that's the part that's so hard for officers, and we
1:10:42
Speaker 7: got to keep giving them grace because they're making these
1:10:46
Speaker 7: split second decisions. Imagine if they would have just shot
1:10:48
Speaker 7: him as he ran through the barrier, and then he
1:10:51
Speaker 7: was like, oh my god, you shot this guy, and
1:10:52
Speaker 7: he was trying to get upstairs you could guess, and
1:10:54
Speaker 7: his mother was having a heart attack on the fifteenth
1:10:57
Speaker 7: floor whatever y you know, then we'd all be second
1:11:00
Speaker 7: guessing him, right or second guessing her. So it's like
1:11:03
Speaker 7: they had to wait to see what his motive was,
1:11:06
Speaker 7: or not what he was, what his intentions were, And
1:11:08
Speaker 7: that was squeezing off around into the chest of a
1:11:11
Speaker 7: secret service person. So luckily that person was wearing a vess.
1:11:15
Speaker 7: The last thing I'll say about it, and I've been
1:11:17
Speaker 7: listening to your show. Look, not all Democrats are doing
1:11:22
Speaker 7: this this this this very disrespectful language, like calling uh
1:11:28
Speaker 7: President Trump hitler. You know, there are things that President
1:11:32
Speaker 7: Trump says or does that I don't like, like, you know,
1:11:36
Speaker 7: there's language that he uses that I don't like. You know,
1:11:40
Speaker 7: there so, but there are ways to communicate that without
1:11:44
Speaker 7: calling him a dictator or calling him hitler. And the
1:11:48
Speaker 7: problem is that's part of the media and I'm not
1:11:51
Speaker 7: I don't know what part of it or what Some
1:11:54
Speaker 7: wing of the Democratic Party just keeps pressing the envelope
1:11:59
Speaker 7: and it's causing this. These people out here who are
1:12:03
Speaker 7: mentally well off to take these kinds of actions, and
1:12:07
Speaker 7: I just believe that and I pray this is a
1:12:10
Speaker 7: third time someone has tried to kill our president when
1:12:16
Speaker 7: I say our president to your listening audience, whoever the
1:12:20
Speaker 7: president is, it's an office. You respect the office of
1:12:25
Speaker 7: the president, no matter who's in there. And so calling
1:12:29
Speaker 7: your president or our president hitler as one example, is
1:12:33
Speaker 7: just unacceptable behavior.
1:12:35
Speaker 1: Well, I agree with you completely, it is. But you've
1:12:38
Speaker 1: got to remember, Christopher, in this Internet day and age
1:12:41
Speaker 1: click and memes, soft language does not translate into clicks.
1:12:46
Speaker 1: You got to have a headline that says, you know,
1:12:48
Speaker 1: so and so called Trump an MF word, or you
1:12:51
Speaker 1: know when you got a senator actually dropping F bombs
1:12:56
Speaker 1: in anger over something Trump or his administration does. That's
1:12:59
Speaker 1: what's going to get you clicks. This angry rhetoric is
1:13:02
Speaker 1: what results in people actually clicking on it and getting
1:13:04
Speaker 1: whatever boiled down, nonsensical rendition of the news they read
1:13:08
Speaker 1: when they read that clickbait, and that's all they'll remember.
1:13:13
Speaker 7: That's the truth. That's what's saying is the absolute truth
1:13:15
Speaker 7: and a strategy, and all the press were there, all
1:13:20
Speaker 7: in one room to see what that clickbait could do,
1:13:24
Speaker 7: because if he had gotten beyond those doors, right, he
1:13:28
Speaker 7: probably would have opened fire, and he just wouldn't have
1:13:31
Speaker 7: hit cabinet members. He would have hit anybody that he
1:13:34
Speaker 7: saw right. And this should also be a message to
1:13:40
Speaker 7: anybody who doesn't like law enforcement who says, let's reimagine it,
1:13:44
Speaker 7: let's let's defund it. Those people on the other side
1:13:48
Speaker 7: of that door, who were Democrats who might have that perspective,
1:13:52
Speaker 7: I guarantee you they are happy this morning that the
1:13:57
Speaker 7: Secret Service and their advanced teams and police were all
1:14:01
Speaker 7: outside to stop that person, because if they had gotten
1:14:04
Speaker 7: on the other side of that door, it would have
1:14:06
Speaker 7: been a totally different message, a totally different situation. We
1:14:10
Speaker 7: would be having a totally different discussion today. That's what
1:14:13
Speaker 7: sometimes is frustrating to me, Like, will the media wake
1:14:16
Speaker 7: up today, all of them, CNN, Politico, MSNBC, they all
1:14:21
Speaker 7: were there. Will they all get on and say, I
1:14:24
Speaker 7: just want to thank the Secret Service, because what you've
1:14:27
Speaker 7: been doing is trying to defund them. You've been saying
1:14:29
Speaker 7: you don't want to fund them, you don't want to
1:14:31
Speaker 7: give them money, you don't like them, They're terrible people.
1:14:33
Speaker 7: They just saved your life. They just saved your life.
1:14:37
Speaker 7: Will they give them that at least today?
1:14:40
Speaker 1: Don't count on it. Christopher Smithen, let's pause. Bring Christopher
1:14:43
Speaker 1: back for more random thoughts and spleen then seven twenty six.
1:14:47
Speaker 1: Right now, if you have karc DE talk station, do
1:14:48
Speaker 1: what I did do with my wife, and I did
1:14:50
Speaker 1: actually give credit to Paul calling Gregory Luster the tree
1:14:53
Speaker 1: health surgeon. Hit some work to do in our yard
1:14:56
Speaker 1: last year and got some work to do this year.
1:14:58
Speaker 1: We're gonna call Gregor.
1:15:00
Speaker 4: The talk station.
1:15:03
Speaker 1: Thirty one if if you have KRCD talk station, Brian
1:15:05
Speaker 1: Thomas talking with former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati,
1:15:07
Speaker 1: Christopher Smithman doing the Smither event. As we joking, we'd
1:15:10
Speaker 1: like to refer to it, Christopher Smithman, what else is
1:15:13
Speaker 1: on your mind? If I had to guess, I think
1:15:15
Speaker 1: I might know, But go ahead, it's your Smither vent.
1:15:18
Speaker 7: No, it's it's ours. You know, Chief Fiji last week
1:15:22
Speaker 7: was terminated. She was terminated by an email that was
1:15:27
Speaker 7: sent to her after thirty five years of service. You know,
1:15:32
Speaker 7: I don't know the best way to do it with dignity,
1:15:36
Speaker 7: but I can tell you if I were the city manager,
1:15:40
Speaker 7: I would have picked the phone up. I would have
1:15:43
Speaker 7: called her and I would have said, this is the
1:15:45
Speaker 7: decision that I'm making. I wouldn't have given a lot
1:15:49
Speaker 7: of words, but the chief would have heard my voice
1:15:53
Speaker 7: and then I would have sent the email. You know
1:15:56
Speaker 7: what by sending the email, because the email is passed
1:16:00
Speaker 7: Brian Thomas and to your listening audience, what can easily
1:16:04
Speaker 7: happen is because she's sending the email not just to her,
1:16:07
Speaker 7: but to the news that you don't know where the
1:16:11
Speaker 7: chief is. The chief just looks up at the TV
1:16:13
Speaker 7: and says, Wow, I've been fired and I didn't know it.
1:16:15
Speaker 7: I know it, us talk to me. You know. They
1:16:17
Speaker 7: just don't understand how to just manage HR with dignity.
1:16:24
Speaker 7: It's like they're fearful to make the right calls. And
1:16:27
Speaker 7: I say the calls meaning the phone calls. But the
1:16:30
Speaker 7: most riveting thing about it all was the press conference
1:16:33
Speaker 7: last week by Chief DG's attorneys and the revelation that
1:16:39
Speaker 7: they had recorded right this meeting that they had with
1:16:43
Speaker 7: the city manager two weeks ago, this quote appeal that
1:16:46
Speaker 7: really just was a kangaroo kind of court because they
1:16:50
Speaker 7: didn't really they didn't ask any questions. I listened to
1:16:54
Speaker 7: the entire tape an hour and forty five minutes, and
1:16:57
Speaker 7: the city manager, their attorneys are no one in the
1:17:00
Speaker 7: room asked one question I don't even know if they
1:17:04
Speaker 7: knew that the meeting was being recruited. But at the
1:17:07
Speaker 7: end of the but at the end of the day,
1:17:09
Speaker 7: because it makes them look really incompetent. It makes them
1:17:12
Speaker 7: look like anybody, Uh, Joe is Joe is gonna gonna
1:17:16
Speaker 7: post that Brian Thomas on your website. Anybody can go
1:17:19
Speaker 7: there and listen to it. The man who's asking the
1:17:22
Speaker 7: questions is Chief Figi's lawyer. He says, here's the allegation
1:17:27
Speaker 7: in Chief Figi's answering her lawyers questions. No one from
1:17:32
Speaker 7: the city asked her one question during that hearing. And
1:17:36
Speaker 7: what was so riveting is she's the insights that she
1:17:40
Speaker 7: gave in her answers. One of those insights that she
1:17:43
Speaker 7: gave to me was that three c DC had come
1:17:47
Speaker 7: up with a plan, right, not not the city manager,
1:17:51
Speaker 7: not the mayor, but three c DC and the and
1:17:54
Speaker 7: the chief said, listen, I don't support this. I don't
1:17:58
Speaker 7: I think this is the wrong move. Steve Leeper I
1:18:01
Speaker 7: consider a friend. But she said, hey, listen, this is
1:18:05
Speaker 7: not the right direction. We can't put all of our
1:18:07
Speaker 7: resources in one neighborhood. We've got fifty two neighborhoods, not
1:18:11
Speaker 7: just downtown. And this is going to be stressful. All
1:18:14
Speaker 7: my cops, my crimes are already stressed out.
1:18:16
Speaker 1: And wait, real quick here lost in the fog of this.
1:18:19
Speaker 1: And when I read Fox News account of Fiji being
1:18:22
Speaker 1: let knows that let go the national headline which was
1:18:25
Speaker 1: at the top of the scroll on Fox News' own
1:18:27
Speaker 1: website nationally anti white police chief fired. And they just
1:18:32
Speaker 1: basically relied completely on what was outlined in the city
1:18:34
Speaker 1: manager's memorandum. And I thought that that didn't help her much.
1:18:38
Speaker 1: But the idea that she rejected the safety plan. Aren't
1:18:42
Speaker 1: we talking about the one where the Governor de Wine
1:18:46
Speaker 1: offers all the resources for the Ohio State Patrol basically
1:18:48
Speaker 1: offers them every day of the week without additional charge. Here,
1:18:51
Speaker 1: you can take them and use them as you see fit.
1:18:53
Speaker 1: That's what Fiji was upset about, because the mayor and
1:18:57
Speaker 1: whoever made the decision said no, we're going to take
1:18:59
Speaker 1: them what for one weekend a month or something. Wasn't
1:19:02
Speaker 1: that the plan that CG was not embracing. She wanted
1:19:05
Speaker 1: all of the resources that were being offered.
1:19:09
Speaker 7: She did, and that came out in that interview. And
1:19:14
Speaker 7: what was so chilling about it is. She said, I
1:19:16
Speaker 7: went to a meeting and council member and Chair of
1:19:21
Speaker 7: Law and Public Safety Scottie Johnson and Irish Rollie were
1:19:25
Speaker 7: present for this meeting with the mayor and the manager,
1:19:29
Speaker 7: and they were the ones that were cutting and saying
1:19:32
Speaker 7: they did not want the governor's staffing involved because they
1:19:38
Speaker 7: weren't trained and they weren't a part of the collaborative agreement.
1:19:43
Speaker 7: So the chief was saying in her back and forth,
1:19:47
Speaker 7: listen in a nice way. The person who was really
1:19:50
Speaker 7: running this was Scottie Johnson and Irish Rollie, and they
1:19:55
Speaker 7: were the ones that were saying, Hey, this can't come
1:19:58
Speaker 7: to the city right because they're not trained. That was
1:20:02
Speaker 7: the pushback. This is why my petition is so important,
1:20:06
Speaker 7: because I've been saying there are too many hands on
1:20:10
Speaker 7: the manager that we can't see. And by what the
1:20:14
Speaker 7: petition does, it's like a subfarine Brian Thomas. It brings
1:20:19
Speaker 7: out the people that are already making these decisions, but
1:20:22
Speaker 7: it puts them in the light on the right all
1:20:25
Speaker 7: can see it and on the record. They're not in
1:20:28
Speaker 7: some conference room at District one directing the chief not
1:20:33
Speaker 7: to bring in assets and then making it look like
1:20:36
Speaker 7: the chief is the one making the decision. She's falling
1:20:39
Speaker 7: on the night. That's what's happening. The other thing that
1:20:42
Speaker 7: was very telling, and she said the mayor, I heard
1:20:44
Speaker 7: you this morning. The mayor said your job city manager,
1:20:49
Speaker 7: your job city manager or the chief that's always said
1:20:52
Speaker 7: to you, the mayor has had his hands on all
1:20:55
Speaker 7: of this.
1:20:55
Speaker 1: And that claimed by Chief Thiji about what was said
1:20:58
Speaker 1: during that conversation flies directly in the face of what
1:21:01
Speaker 1: Pervoll's saying now, which is I didn't have a damn
1:21:03
Speaker 1: thing to do with it. Will bring Christopher back to
1:21:05
Speaker 1: give us some more details. Seven thirty seven right now,
1:21:07
Speaker 1: talk station seven forty one. Here fifty five KERCD talk station.
1:21:12
Speaker 1: It's the smither Vent Christopher Smithment, former vice man of
1:21:16
Speaker 1: the city. Since we're diving through the Fiji firing details,
1:21:19
Speaker 1: and of course, one of the more interesting thing is
1:21:21
Speaker 1: in spite of the fact that the City of sincinn
1:21:23
Speaker 1: I hired two law firms to do a review of
1:21:26
Speaker 1: their placing her on administrative leave, I guess looking for
1:21:29
Speaker 1: some reason to justify her being placed on administrative leave,
1:21:33
Speaker 1: and they really pretty much came up with nothing and
1:21:34
Speaker 1: then when they fired her, they didn't cite anything that
1:21:37
Speaker 1: was released by Frost Brown Todd's review or the second
1:21:40
Speaker 1: law firm, this Jackson Lewis Law firm. And we're still
1:21:44
Speaker 1: scratching our head over what the hell Jackson Lewis did,
1:21:46
Speaker 1: except for maybe providing some advanced legal advice on litigation,
1:21:52
Speaker 1: most notably is going to follow up the firing a
1:21:53
Speaker 1: police chief Thiji, But what the hell was the point
1:21:56
Speaker 1: of that exercise? The city taxpayers are out about one
1:21:58
Speaker 1: hundred grand and we don't see you have gotten anything
1:22:00
Speaker 1: in return for it. Christopher, I agree with you so much.
1:22:05
Speaker 7: I mean, this is yet another example of why the
1:22:10
Speaker 7: petition we believe is the penicillin. I keep coming back
1:22:14
Speaker 7: to it because we have an opportunity to do something
1:22:17
Speaker 7: about it in the future. You know, if this had
1:22:20
Speaker 7: gone before council, council members would have asked city manager,
1:22:25
Speaker 7: why are you terminating the police chief. Notice I'm not
1:22:29
Speaker 7: using a name. I'm dealing with positions. So this is
1:22:33
Speaker 7: a future position where I say, hey, city manager, why
1:22:37
Speaker 7: are you doing this? And then we flush it out
1:22:40
Speaker 7: in the public or they go into executive session. But
1:22:43
Speaker 7: you're not hiring a law firm or two law firms
1:22:47
Speaker 7: to determine after you terminate the police chief why you
1:22:52
Speaker 7: terminated the police chief. Right, And for those positions, that's
1:22:56
Speaker 7: the crazy.
1:22:57
Speaker 1: Part about it, right And for those who are so well,
1:22:58
Speaker 1: wait a minute, what petition may be they haven't been
1:23:00
Speaker 1: keeping up on it. You drafted and are circulated a
1:23:03
Speaker 1: petition to amend the city Charter to require in when
1:23:06
Speaker 1: you're ever hiring a police or fire chief, or firing
1:23:09
Speaker 1: a police or a fire chief, that seven of the
1:23:11
Speaker 1: nine council members must approve or disapprove or whatever they
1:23:14
Speaker 1: have to approve. Because get a fire police if seven
1:23:16
Speaker 1: council members have to rubber stamp that or at least
1:23:18
Speaker 1: get involved in the process of hiring and firing, I
1:23:21
Speaker 1: think that's an outstanding thing. Going back to your point
1:23:23
Speaker 1: in the last segment, which is personal public accountability, you
1:23:27
Speaker 1: have an elected official that made a decision, so to
1:23:29
Speaker 1: the extent you're not happy with it or are happy
1:23:32
Speaker 1: about it, you can either reward them or not by voting.
1:23:36
Speaker 7: And notice Brian Thomas, in the conversation that is now
1:23:41
Speaker 7: going to be posted on your website for everybody to
1:23:43
Speaker 7: listen to. That interview between Chief Biji and her lawyer.
1:23:47
Speaker 7: Is important again to set this up that the city
1:23:50
Speaker 7: manager and her lawyers were all in the room, they
1:23:53
Speaker 7: just didn't ask a question. So her lawyer was interviewing her,
1:23:58
Speaker 7: responding to all of the acts usations, right, and so
1:24:02
Speaker 7: in there she says, the mayor was in that meeting,
1:24:05
Speaker 7: the mayor was in that meeting, the mayor was in
1:24:07
Speaker 7: this meeting. The mayor is directing all of these things
1:24:11
Speaker 7: when it's the city manager's job. But he's telling you
1:24:15
Speaker 7: he doesn't know anything is going on. That's the problem.
1:24:19
Speaker 7: Meaning I speculated, but he even took the next step.
1:24:23
Speaker 7: She said, the mayor this is this is this is
1:24:25
Speaker 7: what Chief Fiji's legal team is saying that the manager
1:24:29
Speaker 7: was told you fire I'm gonna fire you, or you're
1:24:32
Speaker 7: going to fire the chief. That is absolutely an abusive power.
1:24:36
Speaker 7: Let me clarify a point two. First of all, council
1:24:40
Speaker 7: Member Scottie Johnson, who is the chair of Law and
1:24:42
Speaker 7: Public Safety, has a right to be in those meetings.
1:24:45
Speaker 7: I think it's a good thing that he's in those meetings.
1:24:47
Speaker 7: He's an elected official and he's trying to figure out
1:24:50
Speaker 7: what's going on. So it'll be clear about that, and
1:24:52
Speaker 7: I think that that council member Scottie Johnson, I personally
1:24:56
Speaker 7: think that he could be a candidate for mayor throwing
1:25:00
Speaker 7: it out. But let me make it clear here where
1:25:03
Speaker 7: I disagree with a council member is that those discussions
1:25:06
Speaker 7: should have been in his committee, meaning instead of it
1:25:09
Speaker 7: being in the conference room when you're talking about are
1:25:12
Speaker 7: we going to use the governor's assets or not? That
1:25:15
Speaker 7: was a very important conversation. Why are you having it
1:25:19
Speaker 7: on the outside of the public because it's our safety
1:25:23
Speaker 7: that we were worried about. And now we know they're
1:25:25
Speaker 7: in some conference room discussing it and by the way,
1:25:28
Speaker 7: saying we don't want them here, But we didn't know
1:25:31
Speaker 7: who was blocking it. Now we know that possibly based
1:25:35
Speaker 7: on what counts. What Chief Fiji is saying is that
1:25:38
Speaker 7: council members Scottie Johnson did not want them to come,
1:25:41
Speaker 7: and that Irish Rowley was in that room and didn't
1:25:46
Speaker 7: want them to come. And these are all people who
1:25:48
Speaker 7: are making safety decisions about our city and we shouldn't
1:25:53
Speaker 7: have that do everybody should know about what's going on.
1:25:57
Speaker 7: And I thought her point, Chief Fiji, and that tape
1:26:00
Speaker 7: she said, I don't like that missus Irish Rollie is
1:26:06
Speaker 7: intervening on police business. She dealt with that in that
1:26:10
Speaker 7: hour forty five minutes. She's saying, hey, we didn't know
1:26:12
Speaker 7: where the chief was on that issue. She was saying,
1:26:15
Speaker 7: I don't want her showing up to a scene and
1:26:18
Speaker 7: interjecting herself in that. That's not good for our police department.
1:26:23
Speaker 7: I'm saying. There's so many rich statements that she was making,
1:26:27
Speaker 7: and at the end of the day, she Figi's going
1:26:29
Speaker 7: to be victorious. She's going to get paid a lot
1:26:31
Speaker 7: of money because the city, the city manager, the mayor,
1:26:35
Speaker 7: the members of council were very floppy, very period.
1:26:38
Speaker 1: Well, hold on, Chris, we have a couple more items
1:26:40
Speaker 1: want to get through on this very important issue for
1:26:42
Speaker 1: the city and one that I certainly believe supports your
1:26:45
Speaker 1: efforts and getting the charter change to require council members' involvement.
1:26:48
Speaker 1: I hope the signature gathering goes well, and if you're
1:26:50
Speaker 1: a resident of the City of Cincinnati, get the signature.
1:26:53
Speaker 4: You find Kars the talk station.
1:26:58
Speaker 1: It's seven fifty fifty five Karrose Talk Station. A very
1:27:00
Speaker 1: happy Monday to if Brian Thomas with Christopher's smileman kind
1:27:04
Speaker 1: of going through the police Chief FIGI firing and the
1:27:06
Speaker 1: inevitable lawsuit and probably going to pay a whole lot
1:27:09
Speaker 1: of money.
1:27:09
Speaker 7: Uh.
1:27:10
Speaker 1: And you know the great thing about the lawsuit, Christopher,
1:27:12
Speaker 1: is all of the conversations behind the scenes when I'll
1:27:14
Speaker 1: be subject to discovery. Was Iris Trolli there? Did she
1:27:17
Speaker 1: say anything? Did she you know, speaking directly to may
1:27:19
Speaker 1: have to have purval? Did you have any say in
1:27:22
Speaker 1: the firing of police chief dj He did come out
1:27:24
Speaker 1: and say she demanded seven point five million dollars to
1:27:26
Speaker 1: walk away from it. How did he know about that
1:27:28
Speaker 1: during the period of time when she was being held
1:27:30
Speaker 1: in sub scrutiny. I mean, you know her.
1:27:33
Speaker 7: And her lawyer spoke to that, right, he said he
1:27:35
Speaker 7: thought that act was criminal because they were so I'm
1:27:38
Speaker 7: not a lawyer, you are and your beautiful bride, but
1:27:42
Speaker 7: he he, I mean, I'm about Chief Thiji's lawyer said
1:27:45
Speaker 7: this was supposed to be a confidential settlement meeting and
1:27:49
Speaker 7: that him him breaching that was criminal. I don't know that.
1:27:53
Speaker 7: I don't know if it's criminal or not, but that
1:27:54
Speaker 7: was the word that was used. Right, They're saying we're
1:27:56
Speaker 7: going to go after him for releasing that information well.
1:28:00
Speaker 1: And you know, if it was a confidential settlement agreement,
1:28:02
Speaker 1: I guess I have to ask myself, why would he
1:28:04
Speaker 1: even be part of it if the sole responsibility for
1:28:06
Speaker 1: hiring and firing lays in the city manager's hands. In
1:28:10
Speaker 1: other words, he's claiming now he had nothing to do
1:28:12
Speaker 1: with it. He's claiming that. Listen. I don't have any
1:28:14
Speaker 1: role in hiring and firing. That's a city manager's job.
1:28:17
Speaker 1: I don't touch it. But he's involved in something like
1:28:20
Speaker 1: that and yet has no control over it.
1:28:24
Speaker 7: Bryan, it gets this is going to get really bad.
1:28:28
Speaker 7: I would suggest any member of council, anybody who were discussing,
1:28:33
Speaker 7: they probably should get a lawyer, because I would anticipate
1:28:38
Speaker 7: that the Fenny Law firm is going to ask for
1:28:40
Speaker 7: depositions of all of these people, right, and when one
1:28:44
Speaker 7: person starts telling a lie, somebody ends up in serious trouble. Right,
1:28:49
Speaker 7: So everybody's not gonna lie. Right here, we had a meeting.
1:28:52
Speaker 7: What did you hear? I assume that they're going to
1:28:54
Speaker 7: request all emails, text messages, post it notes, you know,
1:28:59
Speaker 7: all all of that kind of stuff. And if there's
1:29:01
Speaker 7: any message from the mayor about the police chiefs. That's improper.
1:29:06
Speaker 7: If there's any messages from members of council to the
1:29:09
Speaker 7: to the chief or to the city manager about this,
1:29:13
Speaker 7: it's improper because they're all saying, I don't know anything,
1:29:16
Speaker 7: we can't get anything on the record, and that there
1:29:19
Speaker 7: lies the petition. The petition will be ready sometime this
1:29:23
Speaker 7: week and citizens who would live in the city of Cincinnati,
1:29:27
Speaker 7: and only those who are in the city can circulate.
1:29:31
Speaker 7: And we've got to get seven thousand good signatures, and
1:29:33
Speaker 7: there'll be lots of people out there collecting signatures. This
1:29:36
Speaker 7: is not going to be driven by Christopher Smitheman, so
1:29:39
Speaker 7: I don't even want to own it that way. But
1:29:41
Speaker 7: you know, lots of people will be out there collecting them,
1:29:44
Speaker 7: taking them to their church festivals and to their churches
1:29:46
Speaker 7: and taking them to their different, you know, holiday events.
1:29:50
Speaker 7: And I feel confident that this energy around it, we're
1:29:55
Speaker 7: gonna we're gonna successfully get the signatures. The question is
1:29:57
Speaker 7: going to be the mayor has already gone on saying
1:30:00
Speaker 7: he's against it. You know, he says that my petition
1:30:04
Speaker 7: makes this more political. How can it be more political
1:30:07
Speaker 7: than it is?
1:30:07
Speaker 3: Now?
1:30:08
Speaker 1: Right? Unaccounted, unaccountable, behind the scenes, folks that the voters
1:30:13
Speaker 1: have no idea are involved in the decision making, that
1:30:15
Speaker 1: they can't vote out of office or otherwise have any
1:30:18
Speaker 1: control over the removal. They're the ones involved in the process.
1:30:21
Speaker 1: I'd say that is highly political, far more so than
1:30:24
Speaker 1: at public discourse with city council members and making these
1:30:27
Speaker 1: important decisions.
1:30:28
Speaker 7: Christopher, I do, and I'm so frustrated that every time
1:30:33
Speaker 7: we go and ask a member of council right now,
1:30:36
Speaker 7: they tell us they don't know, they have no idea
1:30:39
Speaker 7: what's going on now? Will there be somebody from the
1:30:43
Speaker 7: media go and approach you know, MSUs Irish Rowley respectfully
1:30:48
Speaker 7: and say were you in this meeting and were you
1:30:51
Speaker 7: against the governor bringing the assets into the city of Society.
1:30:56
Speaker 7: Did you weigh in on that big decision because lives
1:31:01
Speaker 7: were on the line, we were talking about securing downtown.
1:31:05
Speaker 7: We had a shooter on Fountain Square, opening fire off
1:31:08
Speaker 7: the square and on the square last summer. Why do
1:31:13
Speaker 7: we have someone who has no police background right in
1:31:18
Speaker 7: a meeting like that telling her opinion about, Hey, I
1:31:22
Speaker 7: don't think this should happen. I mean, the one of
1:31:24
Speaker 7: the things I can say about council member Scotti Johnson
1:31:27
Speaker 7: is he's a retired police officer, right, and so when
1:31:31
Speaker 7: he starts talking about police issues, I listen because I'm
1:31:35
Speaker 7: not a retired police officer. And he's also an elected official.
1:31:39
Speaker 7: He's also chair of Law and Public Safety, so it
1:31:42
Speaker 7: makes sense that he would be a part of a
1:31:44
Speaker 7: meeting like that. I don't understand why she would be
1:31:47
Speaker 7: there and why she would be asserting the collaborative agreement.
1:31:50
Speaker 7: People are dying in our street. To the public, we
1:31:53
Speaker 7: need officers, whether it's our sheriffs, whether it's whether it's
1:31:57
Speaker 7: the governor's assets, in order to make sure things like
1:32:00
Speaker 7: the Octoberfest, things like the Pride Parade, Downtown Opening Day,
1:32:08
Speaker 7: those events are safe. It's not about the Collaborative Agreement,
1:32:12
Speaker 7: right It's not about that. Right now, we have special
1:32:14
Speaker 7: events that we need extra coverage for it, and we've
1:32:17
Speaker 7: got to make sure that our guests are safe. That's
1:32:20
Speaker 7: the discussion. That's the discussion, and our common sense has
1:32:23
Speaker 7: to weigh in. Thank you, Brian Thomas. I want to
1:32:27
Speaker 7: salute Chief Fiji and Chief Washington. Chief Washington's decision, Brian
1:32:32
Speaker 7: will come down next month about the three panel judge.
1:32:35
Speaker 7: I believe that this is unfortunate that the city manager
1:32:39
Speaker 7: the lower court has said that she's personally liable. I
1:32:42
Speaker 7: think they're going to go to trial. I think they're
1:32:44
Speaker 7: going to be twelve in the box for Chief Washington.
1:32:46
Speaker 7: And I'm thinking now that I know that you know
1:32:49
Speaker 7: this is public that chi Fiji was asking for seven
1:32:51
Speaker 7: point five million, look for Chief Washington to be asking
1:32:55
Speaker 7: for north of that.
1:32:58
Speaker 1: The number range is get over to get over and
1:33:01
Speaker 1: place your bet.
1:33:02
Speaker 7: Oh I was like three million, and.
1:33:05
Speaker 1: Get over and place your bet on poly market before
1:33:07
Speaker 1: you can't do that anymore, Christopher Smith, and will do
1:33:09
Speaker 1: this again next Monday. Take care man, Thanks for yours
1:33:12
Speaker 1: every week coming up at seven fifty seven Monday to you.
1:33:15
Speaker 1: Try and make it, try to make it so anyway.
1:33:16
Speaker 1: I know there's a allegedly another offer to open the
1:33:20
Speaker 1: Straight of Horror moves back up as long as we
1:33:21
Speaker 1: allow the Iranians to open their ports back up. But
1:33:24
Speaker 1: since it doesn't involve anything with regard to the disposition
1:33:27
Speaker 1: of their nuclear future, this doesn't look like it's going
1:33:30
Speaker 1: to go anywhere. So the straits still close, the ports
1:33:33
Speaker 1: are still closed, and the world is still dealing with
1:33:36
Speaker 1: a massive energy crisis because of the closure of the
1:33:39
Speaker 1: Straight of Horror moves. Welcome back, Brian James. Thanks for
1:33:41
Speaker 1: coming on. Man.
1:33:42
Speaker 4: Well that's just cheery stuff to start my Monday with, sir.
1:33:45
Speaker 1: I know that. Yeah, okay, President almost gets assassinated a game.
1:33:48
Speaker 1: We got crap going on in downtown since say, which
1:33:50
Speaker 1: makes no sense. It looks like we're in a state
1:33:51
Speaker 1: of chaos there. Yes, nothing but gloom and doom out
1:33:54
Speaker 1: of the world. Let's find something that we can be
1:33:55
Speaker 1: happy about.
1:33:56
Speaker 4: But the Reds are in first place. Take you a little.
1:33:58
Speaker 4: Let's look at that way.
1:33:59
Speaker 1: Yeah good, keep the smile on your face over that.
1:34:03
Speaker 1: Although Brian, I gotta say, man, not a fan of
1:34:07
Speaker 1: those weird uniforms they were wearing on Saturday. Do not
1:34:10
Speaker 1: get it, brother.
1:34:11
Speaker 4: You know I'm gonna be honest. I was at the
1:34:13
Speaker 4: game yesterday and I never saw them up close. They
1:34:15
Speaker 4: look different. They have they had them on display there,
1:34:18
Speaker 4: and they have their jerseys have little pin stripes. I
1:34:20
Speaker 4: thought they were kind of cool.
1:34:21
Speaker 1: You and Streker. You and Streker on that side, and
1:34:24
Speaker 1: I guess alone on the other side. I thought they
1:34:27
Speaker 1: look weird.
1:34:28
Speaker 4: Anyway, I like the pinstripes. I'm a fan. No, I
1:34:31
Speaker 4: don't miss the the nineteen nineties white hats with the
1:34:34
Speaker 4: red stripes, that those are the worst uniforms they've had.
1:34:37
Speaker 4: They have not resurfaced.
1:34:38
Speaker 1: Wasn't a fan of those?
1:34:39
Speaker 4: I do.
1:34:39
Speaker 1: I do appreciate the more traditional logo which those red
1:34:42
Speaker 1: uniforms do not have.
1:34:43
Speaker 4: That's true, all right, and that's fair. We'll agree there.
1:34:46
Speaker 1: And they spent money on the new uniforms moving away,
1:34:49
Speaker 1: so at least get the money, all right. It sucks
1:34:51
Speaker 1: if you are a net importer of energy, and a
1:34:53
Speaker 1: lot of net importers dealing with the struggles of the
1:34:56
Speaker 1: closure of the Straight of hor Moves, which I think
1:34:57
Speaker 1: everybody and his brother knows. Now twenty percent the global
1:35:00
Speaker 1: supplies of energy go through that very narrow window, and
1:35:03
Speaker 1: of course it being shut down by the Iranians profound
1:35:07
Speaker 1: impact globally, and I see a lot of governments who
1:35:10
Speaker 1: import a lot of their energy are now rationing and
1:35:13
Speaker 1: dealing with other states of emergency.
1:35:14
Speaker 4: Brian, Yeah, you know, I like that point you just made.
1:35:17
Speaker 4: I think at some point in the future there's going
1:35:19
Speaker 4: to be a trivia question that everybody will know the
1:35:21
Speaker 4: answer to what percentage of money of oilfulness through the
1:35:24
Speaker 4: trade arm moves six twenty percent burned in my head.
1:35:28
Speaker 1: Yes, and what vital anti cavity fighting compound goes also
1:35:35
Speaker 1: through the trade of war moves, which we come to
1:35:36
Speaker 1: learn is also Flora had another shortage out there. But
1:35:38
Speaker 1: this energy crisis is spreading, and I guess there's another
1:35:43
Speaker 1: ripple effect that they're obviously paying more for because limited
1:35:47
Speaker 1: supply means increased price. We're all dealing with that. I
1:35:49
Speaker 1: paid five bucks a down for gas yesterday, so there
1:35:51
Speaker 1: we are living with it. But to the extent all
1:35:54
Speaker 1: of these countries who are rationing, you know, the Philippines,
1:35:56
Speaker 1: and I mean that could go on for an hour
1:35:58
Speaker 1: and talk about the limits of place. But they make
1:36:01
Speaker 1: stuff that we buy. They make things the world buy.
1:36:05
Speaker 1: So if they're dealing with inflationary pressures because they have
1:36:08
Speaker 1: to pay more for gas, they have to ration it.
1:36:10
Speaker 1: Obviously businesses would be struggling too, which suggests to me
1:36:13
Speaker 1: that whatever Japan makes, or tile End makes and the
1:36:15
Speaker 1: Philippine makes that we buy, those prices are also going
1:36:18
Speaker 1: to go up.
1:36:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's very true. And everything is connected, right, whether
1:36:22
Speaker 4: you're a supporter of globalism or not. At the end
1:36:25
Speaker 4: of the day, every country is a customer of somebody
1:36:28
Speaker 4: else and vice versa. So this stuff, it does it.
1:36:30
Speaker 4: There's no way to tap dance through it and not
1:36:32
Speaker 4: be affected at all.
1:36:33
Speaker 3: You know.
1:36:34
Speaker 4: One of the good things about being in the United
1:36:36
Speaker 4: States currently is that the United States is not directly
1:36:40
Speaker 4: as directly exposed to us because we are one of
1:36:42
Speaker 4: the larger producers of energy here nowadays, we're less dependent
1:36:47
Speaker 4: on imports than Europe and Asia, so we do have,
1:36:50
Speaker 4: as Americans consumers, some insulation compared to the rest of
1:36:53
Speaker 4: the world, and there still are, despite the current administration's
1:36:57
Speaker 4: positioning against it. Clean energy is expanding fast, so there
1:37:01
Speaker 4: is slowly less and less reliance on fossil fuels, but
1:37:05
Speaker 4: at the same time, that's not happening fast enough to
1:37:07
Speaker 4: eliminate these short term shocks. And if our customers out
1:37:11
Speaker 4: there meeting the other countries who are net importers of energy,
1:37:14
Speaker 4: if they are having trouble paying their electric and oil bills,
1:37:17
Speaker 4: then they're going to have trouble paying all their other bills,
1:37:19
Speaker 4: which is going to have an effect on US GDP eventually.
1:37:23
Speaker 4: Now at this point, though it still looks like it
1:37:26
Speaker 4: still looks like the powers that be, the experts out
1:37:29
Speaker 4: there are expecting lower energy prices in the near future,
1:37:33
Speaker 4: over the next several years, not in the short run.
1:37:34
Speaker 4: Short run is just going to be a pumpy ride.
1:37:36
Speaker 4: But at this point we don't feel like this is
1:37:38
Speaker 4: systemic yet. This is all a lot of this is
1:37:41
Speaker 4: just self inflicted due to the war that's going on
1:37:43
Speaker 4: right now. But it's not yet at a point where
1:37:46
Speaker 4: we feel like it's going to be permanent. When the
1:37:47
Speaker 4: humans stop interacting with it, the thought is it's going
1:37:50
Speaker 4: to return to some semblance of normal. So we're still
1:37:53
Speaker 4: holding ever breath for that.
1:37:54
Speaker 1: And honestly, Brian my Novice opinion, that seems very reasonable.
1:37:58
Speaker 1: You know, the the fuel, the oil, the potential for
1:38:03
Speaker 1: the gasoline is still exists, it's just not moving. So
1:38:07
Speaker 1: this isn't a shortage of actual supply, it's just shorter
1:38:10
Speaker 1: shortage of the the the open delivery mechanism, that's what's
1:38:14
Speaker 1: the impeded. So I can see that switch getting turned
1:38:17
Speaker 1: off and the price fairly quickly going down because again
1:38:21
Speaker 1: we're going back to whatever we viewed as normalal for
1:38:24
Speaker 1: But that is not the case when it comes to food,
1:38:26
Speaker 1: because we have fertilizer that's been that's been held up
1:38:29
Speaker 1: in the Straight of Horn moves as well, and board
1:38:31
Speaker 1: we all got introduced to that painful reality. And now
1:38:35
Speaker 1: is fertilizer time. I guess you know, the crops are
1:38:37
Speaker 1: getting ready at the appropriate time to be fertilized, and
1:38:40
Speaker 1: the price of fertilizers and some instances doubled. Obviously, the
1:38:43
Speaker 1: farmers are an alert on that if we don't fertilize
1:38:46
Speaker 1: the crops, there's not going to be enough crops out there.
1:38:49
Speaker 1: Of course, that suggests the price of food is going
1:38:52
Speaker 1: to go up.
1:38:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, And these are the that's the you know,
1:38:56
Speaker 4: like you said, the supply is there. It's not systemic
1:38:59
Speaker 4: from that standpoint, the supply is there, the straight of
1:39:01
Speaker 4: Horror moves is not. Therefore we have to have a
1:39:03
Speaker 4: panic over it because everybody is going to scramble to
1:39:06
Speaker 4: get the resources that they need to produce whatever products
1:39:09
Speaker 4: and services that they produce, and that of course drives
1:39:11
Speaker 4: the price up. When the straight of Horror moves opens
1:39:13
Speaker 4: up again and things get a little bit back to normal,
1:39:15
Speaker 4: that will ease. And you know, you can you don't
1:39:17
Speaker 4: have to look any further than the stock market to
1:39:19
Speaker 4: see that. That is the thought right now, I haven't
1:39:21
Speaker 4: seen any good headlines over the past two weeks that
1:39:24
Speaker 4: make me feel like this is going away anytime. So,
1:39:26
Speaker 4: but the market has turned on a dime, and basically
1:39:29
Speaker 4: things are up across the board. Where we were down
1:39:31
Speaker 4: for the year in the s and P five hundred,
1:39:33
Speaker 4: we're now sneaking up on a positive five percent. And
1:39:36
Speaker 4: that literally came to be over this course of about
1:39:38
Speaker 4: two and a half weeks. So at this point, you know,
1:39:41
Speaker 4: take a breath, exhale and just realize that people don't
1:39:44
Speaker 4: get along all the time and this is going to
1:39:46
Speaker 4: shake out one way or another. Don't make any drastic
1:39:48
Speaker 4: decisions based on these scary headlines.
1:39:50
Speaker 1: Well I understand that, and I guess the only thing is,
1:39:52
Speaker 1: you know my contrasting point. The oil is there, it's
1:39:57
Speaker 1: just not moving. The food is dental food. It won't
1:40:02
Speaker 1: be there if it ain't fertilized. So you can't think
1:40:06
Speaker 1: that food prices are just gonna stay the same if
1:40:08
Speaker 1: they aren't producing as much of the crops as they
1:40:11
Speaker 1: anticipated for want of the fertilizer. So that's not something
1:40:14
Speaker 1: can change in a calendar year.
1:40:16
Speaker 4: Not at all. No, And that's the bumpy part, right,
1:40:18
Speaker 4: that's the short run stuff that I was referring to.
1:40:20
Speaker 4: So we are going to have those kinds of things
1:40:22
Speaker 4: where we should be looking for a wider ripple across inflation,
1:40:25
Speaker 4: not just gas prices. We should be looking at it
1:40:27
Speaker 4: for airfare increases, groceries, shipping utilities, manufactured goods, all those things.
1:40:32
Speaker 4: Even if you're somebody who doesn't drive much, you don't
1:40:34
Speaker 4: pay much attention to the price at the pump, you're
1:40:36
Speaker 4: gonna see it sneaking through in extra parts of your
1:40:38
Speaker 4: in all those other parts of your life. Utility volatility
1:40:41
Speaker 4: is just going to remain a planning problem. It's going
1:40:44
Speaker 4: to be something that the powers that be are gonna
1:40:46
Speaker 4: have to deal with. Didn't budget for, you know when
1:40:48
Speaker 4: they set this year's budget, and now they have to,
1:40:50
Speaker 4: which means other things have.
1:40:51
Speaker 1: To fall to the side. Well, maybe at some point
1:40:53
Speaker 1: we'll learn a hard lesson on this one. Never again,
1:40:55
Speaker 1: should we allow a single source for all of this stuff,
1:41:00
Speaker 1: this tiny narrow space. Is there a way around it?
1:41:03
Speaker 1: Do we need to come up with some alternative shipping
1:41:05
Speaker 1: lanes or some alternative methodology for getting things out of
1:41:09
Speaker 1: the region. Where that's a hard lesson, It's going to
1:41:10
Speaker 1: be a long time fixing. But to find out that
1:41:13
Speaker 1: that straight is also responsible for fluoride. As I mentioned before.
1:41:16
Speaker 1: Now I know j or RFK Junior would like to
1:41:19
Speaker 1: eliminate it and has already said he'd intended to direct
1:41:21
Speaker 1: the federal agencies to stop recommending fluoride. There's still seventy
1:41:25
Speaker 1: percent of the water systems out there add fluoride to
1:41:27
Speaker 1: their water, and many of them are pairing back on
1:41:29
Speaker 1: it because again straight or horror moves closure.
1:41:31
Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I would agree the research into newer, better
1:41:34
Speaker 4: ways to do things would be quite vital, but this
1:41:37
Speaker 4: is not the administration that's ever going to allow anything
1:41:39
Speaker 4: like that. I still struggle to see what the threat
1:41:42
Speaker 4: was with wind farms out there, and I can't think
1:41:45
Speaker 4: that Donald Trump really really really spends his late night
1:41:48
Speaker 4: hours worrying about the safety of seabirds. So I'm not
1:41:52
Speaker 4: sure we are willing right now to build the kinds
1:41:54
Speaker 4: of things that will remove us from reliance on fossil fuels.
1:41:57
Speaker 4: We depends on them very much. Swinging the opposite to
1:42:00
Speaker 4: a now, well, now we're gonna We're gonna dig a
1:42:02
Speaker 4: canal across the mountains to the to the west of Iran.
1:42:05
Speaker 4: I'm not sure that we've got another route to get.
1:42:07
Speaker 1: It out of there. Yeah, I think that you'd think
1:42:09
Speaker 1: that a pipeline, so you can run a pipeline that
1:42:12
Speaker 1: wouldn't require the straight of horror moves. I don't know that.
1:42:14
Speaker 1: It seems to be easier solutions. But as far as
1:42:16
Speaker 1: power generation, I mean, we seem to be at the
1:42:18
Speaker 1: dawn of a new nuclear age. Nobody's screaming and running
1:42:21
Speaker 1: around talking about three mile Island. They're talking about small
1:42:23
Speaker 1: modular reactors, the huge AI power demands, and we need
1:42:27
Speaker 1: to satisfy that, And seems to me that's the only answer.
1:42:29
Speaker 1: And oh, isn't it the joy for the carbon concerning friends,
1:42:32
Speaker 1: because it doesn't produce carbon. So maybe the window will
1:42:35
Speaker 1: open for that one and we will have abundant energy
1:42:37
Speaker 1: here without even needing fossil fuel.
1:42:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it's all on the table. We've got to
1:42:41
Speaker 4: be willing to think differently than we thought in the past.
1:42:43
Speaker 4: Right now, the pendulum has swung back the other way
1:42:45
Speaker 4: where we don't want to make changes. We're kind of
1:42:47
Speaker 4: a it's kind of stuck in our ways. We're a
1:42:49
Speaker 4: little bit of a crusty old man right now. Not
1:42:51
Speaker 4: really wanting to be too flexible.
1:42:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of like ignoring the problems we are plagued
1:42:55
Speaker 1: with with social securities, longevity and how long that's going
1:42:58
Speaker 1: to be a round, Yes, another seven or eight years
1:43:01
Speaker 1: at leaves Brian James don't go away. We need to
1:43:03
Speaker 1: talk about, well, the tax free filing system that no
1:43:07
Speaker 1: one apparently is using. More with Money Monday's Brian James
1:43:11
Speaker 1: Talk station. Hey twenty here fifty about KCD talk station
1:43:15
Speaker 1: Happy Monday, Money Money with Brian James from all Worth Financial.
1:43:17
Speaker 1: We'll talk to him every Monday around this time. And
1:43:20
Speaker 1: I know we're going to pivot over to the quote
1:43:22
Speaker 1: unquote tax free filing system. Let the irs do your taxes.
1:43:25
Speaker 1: But I wanted to bring this up to your attention.
1:43:27
Speaker 1: And I know you're not prepared to feel this necessarily,
1:43:29
Speaker 1: but because it does relate to money, it does relate
1:43:32
Speaker 1: to careers and salaries, I thought it was really cool.
1:43:35
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal had an article yesterday aircraft technicians make
1:43:38
Speaker 1: six figures and airlines can't find enough of them. They
1:43:41
Speaker 1: specifically mentioned right out of the gate a local kid,
1:43:44
Speaker 1: Colton Stidham, originally wanted to be a pile, but now
1:43:48
Speaker 1: he's studying to be an aircraft mechanic. He up at
1:43:51
Speaker 1: the Middletown Regional Airport, and they specifically mentioned Middletown's Butler
1:43:55
Speaker 1: Tech Aviation Center, which is a vocational high school where
1:43:58
Speaker 1: he is learning to well service these aircraft engines. He's
1:44:02
Speaker 1: going to be starting at some fat bank and they
1:44:04
Speaker 1: say within several years of starting salary, which I know
1:44:07
Speaker 1: United has at eighty thousand dollars, you can make one
1:44:10
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five thousand dollars before overtime after just
1:44:13
Speaker 1: a handful of years. I mean, this is a and
1:44:15
Speaker 1: you know what, more fundamentally, Brian James, you can't replace
1:44:19
Speaker 1: an aviation mechanic with artificial intelligence. So this kid's locked
1:44:23
Speaker 1: in for life. They need seven thousand new aviation mechanics.
1:44:28
Speaker 1: So I wanted to bring that up because somebody out
1:44:30
Speaker 1: there could do this, They would love to work on
1:44:32
Speaker 1: engines and could paid a great salary for it.
1:44:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's a lot of opportunities out there like that. Brian,
1:44:38
Speaker 4: Butler Tech is that's my neck of the woods. I
1:44:40
Speaker 4: live in the Northern Suburbs and Butler Tech is a
1:44:42
Speaker 4: strong program. In the quarter century that we've lived up here,
1:44:46
Speaker 4: it has gone from you know, a relatively small kind
1:44:49
Speaker 4: of you know, I don't want to say forgotten a program,
1:44:52
Speaker 4: but it's grown to a very powerful, you know, pipeline
1:44:56
Speaker 4: for jobs just like these. And there's not only that,
1:44:58
Speaker 4: there's a whole lot of other things you can do
1:44:59
Speaker 4: about So, but I'm glad people are starting to look
1:45:02
Speaker 4: beyond this. The only way you're gonna find this is,
1:45:04
Speaker 4: like you just pointed out, you have to you have
1:45:06
Speaker 4: to have institutions like Butler Tech on your radar to
1:45:09
Speaker 4: begin with. So if you're somebody out there kind of
1:45:11
Speaker 4: struggling with well, you know, my parents think I should
1:45:14
Speaker 4: go to these kind of colleges, you know, the traditional ones,
1:45:16
Speaker 4: but there's just nothing there that interest me. Expand your
1:45:18
Speaker 4: thoughts and just think of other different things. So, aircraft
1:45:22
Speaker 4: technicians in twenty twenty six, our entry level jobs are
1:45:25
Speaker 4: forty five to sixty thousand dollars. That's enough to almost
1:45:27
Speaker 4: buy a condo. If that, if you can settle into
1:45:30
Speaker 4: that career, and then you can grow mid career sixty
1:45:32
Speaker 4: five to eighty five, you can be making over six digits.
1:45:34
Speaker 4: If you get to the senior level, start working for
1:45:36
Speaker 4: the major airlines and I think it's going to be
1:45:38
Speaker 4: a good long while before we're gonna have robots completely
1:45:40
Speaker 4: doing all of that work there. Yeah, is that possible?
1:45:43
Speaker 3: Yeah?
1:45:44
Speaker 4: Sure, I saw a robot running a marathon the other day.
1:45:46
Speaker 3: So I.
1:45:48
Speaker 1: Know I find that so heartbreaking. I'm not against technology
1:45:51
Speaker 1: part of me, though it feels like I'd be more
1:45:53
Speaker 1: aligned with the luteites from time to time.
1:45:55
Speaker 4: So anyhow, imagine when we don't even have to go
1:45:58
Speaker 4: sweat anymore, we can watch robots play sports.
1:46:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, and fight our wars for us too, Brian, Anyway, it.
1:46:03
Speaker 4: Would be nice.
1:46:04
Speaker 1: How about this free filing tax system apparably nobody's using
1:46:07
Speaker 1: or nobody like this is when the IRS was going
1:46:09
Speaker 1: to do our taxes for us.
1:46:11
Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to argue at that point there were
1:46:13
Speaker 4: a lot of people using it and it got really
1:46:14
Speaker 4: really strong reviews, ninety percent plus satisfaction. Really, Oh yeah,
1:46:19
Speaker 4: it was. It was. It's a simple program. Taxes are
1:46:21
Speaker 4: not complicated, right, Well, true, the IRS already knows what
1:46:24
Speaker 4: you make because they get they when you get your
1:46:26
Speaker 4: W two's, so does the IRS. When you get your
1:46:28
Speaker 4: ten ninety nine, so does the IRS. They have all
1:46:30
Speaker 4: the information and the argument here is that allow the
1:46:33
Speaker 4: IRS to use the information they already have and provide
1:46:37
Speaker 4: a free filing system. And it was very popular right
1:46:40
Speaker 4: up until it was shot down for political reasons, and
1:46:44
Speaker 4: but not because of complaints out of the industry, out
1:46:46
Speaker 4: of the users of it. So there were a lot
1:46:48
Speaker 4: of people using this with it.
1:46:50
Speaker 1: Well, Brian, might there have been accounting lobbying firms out
1:46:53
Speaker 1: there and people who like create easy to do at
1:46:56
Speaker 1: home tax preparation software firms that preussured people to repeal
1:47:01
Speaker 1: this whole thing of the IRS doing it for free.
1:47:03
Speaker 4: Well, Brian, it's funny you mentioned that because I found
1:47:06
Speaker 4: an article that you don't have, because I found it
1:47:08
Speaker 4: on the break here. I wanted to find a little
1:47:09
Speaker 4: supporting information. The Tucson Sentinel, of all places, just had
1:47:13
Speaker 4: a huge study on this and they found that into
1:47:16
Speaker 4: it an H and R. Block have spent about one
1:47:18
Speaker 4: hundred and three million dollars on federal lobbying since two
1:47:21
Speaker 4: thousand and three. Range of issues. One of the big
1:47:23
Speaker 4: ones is free filing. Those companies don't exist, Brian. If
1:47:26
Speaker 4: people are filing their own taxes, and so people are
1:47:28
Speaker 4: paying one hundred to three hundred bucks, the average about
1:47:31
Speaker 4: one hundred and forty dollars a year to get their
1:47:33
Speaker 4: taxes filed. And these are mostly what I call paint
1:47:35
Speaker 4: by number tax returns. Take this number out of this
1:47:38
Speaker 4: box and stick it in that box and click submit,
1:47:40
Speaker 4: and there's your tax return. There are no decisions for
1:47:43
Speaker 4: most people. There are no decisions to be made. You
1:47:45
Speaker 4: are simply plugging your numbers into a great big algorithm
1:47:48
Speaker 4: and paying or receiving what you're told. At the bottom
1:47:51
Speaker 4: of it. You're not deciding on this is this type
1:47:53
Speaker 4: of deduction or I have this type of business. If
1:47:55
Speaker 4: you do, then you should be having You should have
1:47:57
Speaker 4: a CPA. Anyway, look at your tax return because that's
1:48:00
Speaker 4: where you may have opportunities for savings. But what they
1:48:03
Speaker 4: want to do is just make it seem like it's
1:48:04
Speaker 4: terrifying and you're gonna mess up your taxes. And they
1:48:06
Speaker 4: want everybody to believe that if you check the wrong
1:48:08
Speaker 4: box or fill this out wrong, you're gonna get a
1:48:10
Speaker 4: fifty thousand dollars tax bill from the IRS because you
1:48:12
Speaker 4: messed up your taxes. That is just not the case.
1:48:15
Speaker 4: It is a math math equation, that's all it is.
1:48:18
Speaker 4: We are no longer determining deductions. Standard deduction is now
1:48:21
Speaker 4: over thirty thousand dollars, So even if you're donating to charity,
1:48:24
Speaker 4: it better be a heck of a lot more than
1:48:25
Speaker 4: thirty thousand dollars. You're not going to get a deduction anyway.
1:48:28
Speaker 4: You're likely no longer deducting your home mortgage interest. We
1:48:31
Speaker 4: gave a lot of that stuff back with a Tax
1:48:33
Speaker 4: custom Jobs Act.
1:48:34
Speaker 1: Well, you know my immediate reaction when you hear the
1:48:36
Speaker 1: IRS is going to do your taxes and I have
1:48:38
Speaker 1: no way of disputing the happiness people express, and they
1:48:41
Speaker 1: had the IRS do it. Sure you didn't have to
1:48:43
Speaker 1: pay for anybody to do it, you didn't have to
1:48:44
Speaker 1: buy the software. Fine, it's over and done with. But
1:48:48
Speaker 1: government hasn't given us a lot of reasons to put
1:48:50
Speaker 1: confidence in it. And then there's this whole Wait a second,
1:48:53
Speaker 1: If I have my own account, or I'm doing it myself,
1:48:56
Speaker 1: I am looking out for my own best interest. I
1:48:59
Speaker 1: am going to so arch for that loophole, maybe to
1:49:01
Speaker 1: the extent one exists. And trust me, I know how
1:49:03
Speaker 1: laughable that is for regular taxpayer, not just the big corporation.
1:49:06
Speaker 1: But you know you're thinking along the lines of you
1:49:08
Speaker 1: want to maximize your own return or limit your own taxes.
1:49:12
Speaker 1: You have a vested interest in doing it. But the
1:49:14
Speaker 1: IRS seems to be in the polar opposite of that relationship.
1:49:17
Speaker 1: You think you would think that they're going to do
1:49:18
Speaker 1: everything they can to minimize your return or maximize your taxes,
1:49:23
Speaker 1: as the case may be. And I know that may
1:49:24
Speaker 1: not be the case. And I think that's a public perception. Oh,
1:49:26
Speaker 1: that's absolutely a perception.
1:49:27
Speaker 4: There's one hundred and three million dollars worth of lobbying
1:49:29
Speaker 4: that's been spent over twenty years to support it. So
1:49:32
Speaker 4: that's exactly what they want us to think. But if
1:49:34
Speaker 4: you think about it, the IRS is already doing your taxes.
1:49:37
Speaker 4: They just wait until you've done them first. Then they
1:49:40
Speaker 4: come back and they'll say, oh, you missed this ten
1:49:41
Speaker 4: ninety nine, or you know, it'll be two three years
1:49:43
Speaker 4: later and they'll say, hey, in your twenty twenty two return,
1:49:46
Speaker 4: we have this record. You didn't file it on your thing.
1:49:48
Speaker 4: They're already doing it behind you. I would suggest I'm
1:49:50
Speaker 4: a big fan of do it in the opposite order. IRS.
1:49:53
Speaker 4: Go do my taxes with the information that you already have,
1:49:55
Speaker 4: and I pay taxes for you to exist in the
1:49:57
Speaker 4: first place, then present them to me as your understand
1:50:00
Speaker 4: of my taxes. Then I can approve or disapprove it.
1:50:02
Speaker 4: So their way. I'm still maintaining the control, but I'm
1:50:05
Speaker 4: not on the hook for hundreds of dollars to a
1:50:06
Speaker 4: publicly traded company to get it done for me. When
1:50:09
Speaker 4: my tax receiving government uses my dollars anyway to do my.
1:50:13
Speaker 1: Taxes, or maybe north of five to seven hundred and
1:50:16
Speaker 1: fifty dollars. If you have a private accountant do it for.
1:50:18
Speaker 4: You, absolutely, Yeah, And then there's a huge industry and
1:50:21
Speaker 4: those private accountants, they're the great people, great organizations, but
1:50:24
Speaker 4: they struggle to do your your stand. They don't want
1:50:27
Speaker 4: to do a household with a couple of W twos
1:50:29
Speaker 4: and ten ninety nine. They're charging four digits now very
1:50:32
Speaker 4: frequently because that's just not a productive it's tough to
1:50:35
Speaker 4: make that a profitable business and do those kinds of things. Oh,
1:50:37
Speaker 4: if that's the reason, use, if it's not that complicated
1:50:41
Speaker 4: and deternative fact boring. Yeah, if I'm a CPA, I
1:50:44
Speaker 4: don't want to transpose numbers from transmit numbers from ten
1:50:47
Speaker 4: ninety nine's into ten forty. It's not fun. I want
1:50:50
Speaker 4: to help people understand things and make decisions.
1:50:51
Speaker 1: That's an interesting perspective one that I never gave it.
1:50:54
Speaker 1: I always thought that's low hanging fruit. It'll take me
1:50:56
Speaker 1: like five minutes to do an easy return. I make
1:50:58
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty bucks on it. That's how like
1:51:00
Speaker 1: a business model.
1:51:01
Speaker 4: It's the chasing of human beings who didn't give you
1:51:03
Speaker 4: every last bit of information you need to complete it.
1:51:05
Speaker 4: That's the part. That's the time sary shedding.
1:51:07
Speaker 1: A little reality on financial matters, which is what Brian
1:51:09
Speaker 1: James does each and every week. Brian James, I appreciate
1:51:11
Speaker 1: you coming on the show every week and look forward
1:51:13
Speaker 1: to another conversation next week. In between now and then,
1:51:15
Speaker 1: as I always have a great one, my friend, have
1:51:17
Speaker 1: a good week. Go Reds a twenty eight fifty five
1:51:20
Speaker 1: KRCD talk station. Here we are, Brian Thomas, Welcome to
1:51:28
Speaker 1: the fifty five Carssee Morning Show. Now for the first time,
1:51:30
Speaker 1: Chris Klug. He is the chief public Affairs at least
1:51:32
Speaker 1: acting chief public Affairs at the since AVA Medical Center.
1:51:35
Speaker 1: Chris has been on the show quite a few times
1:51:36
Speaker 1: talk about what's going on in the VA and I
1:51:38
Speaker 1: love bringing him on the show to do that, because
1:51:40
Speaker 1: you know how I care about American veterans, and I
1:51:42
Speaker 1: know my friends at the Cincinniava truly do as well.
1:51:45
Speaker 1: But he brought someone with him. Congratulations Zachary Sage, Pleasure,
1:51:48
Speaker 1: tom Meegancy in the fifty five KRC Morning Show you Knew,
1:51:51
Speaker 1: executive director of the Cincinna Va Medical Center. Thank you
1:51:54
Speaker 1: for coming in this morning, Zach to talk about this
1:51:57
Speaker 1: and congratulations on the post. How long you been at
1:51:59
Speaker 1: the helm there?
1:52:00
Speaker 10: Hey, Brian, thanks, I've been there for six weeks.
1:52:02
Speaker 1: This is my sixth week. Six weeks and you're not
1:52:04
Speaker 1: busy at all, are you?
1:52:05
Speaker 4: It's thrilling?
1:52:07
Speaker 1: Then out you got a vision? I mean, what's your
1:52:08
Speaker 1: by way of background? Give my listeners a little idea
1:52:11
Speaker 1: of where you're where you came from to have landed
1:52:13
Speaker 1: the executive director slot. Yeah, I grew up just across
1:52:16
Speaker 1: the river in northern Kentucky.
1:52:17
Speaker 10: I'm a kid from Ellesmere and happy to be home, right,
1:52:20
Speaker 10: So I left the area in about two thousand and
1:52:22
Speaker 10: six after being at Dixie Heights and everybody once to nowhere.
1:52:26
Speaker 10: I went to high school, that kind of thing, But
1:52:28
Speaker 10: I went down to University of Kentucky and went to
1:52:31
Speaker 10: graduate school down there, and then kind of life took
1:52:34
Speaker 10: me with the VA. I started actually working for the
1:52:36
Speaker 10: VA when I was in Lexington. Worked as a front
1:52:39
Speaker 10: desk clerk, right scheduling veterans, very much on the front lines.
1:52:43
Speaker 10: And you know, VA has been great to me and
1:52:46
Speaker 10: it's been the best mission I could ever hope to serve.
1:52:49
Speaker 1: So he's your background in hospital system administration. It ended
1:52:53
Speaker 1: up that way apparently obviously in this role, I'd like
1:52:57
Speaker 1: to think you have some connection with it. But I
1:52:59
Speaker 1: mean I was thinking executive director of the since a
1:53:02
Speaker 1: VA medical center that does not necessarily require service in
1:53:06
Speaker 1: one of the branches of the Armed Forces, but it
1:53:08
Speaker 1: does suggest that it requires some background in hospital administration,
1:53:12
Speaker 1: that's right.
1:53:12
Speaker 10: Yeah, So at Kentucky I have a master's in healthcare administration,
1:53:16
Speaker 10: and I had a lot of choices in where I
1:53:18
Speaker 10: wanted to go serve the public. I mean, that was
1:53:20
Speaker 10: always a call early in my life, was to be
1:53:22
Speaker 10: a public servant. And you know, the inspiration for the
1:53:25
Speaker 10: VA really came from my father, who's a Vietnam VET.
1:53:28
Speaker 10: He is recently passed, unfortunately, but he was the reason
1:53:31
Speaker 10: that I chose VA initial for you and why I
1:53:34
Speaker 10: stay with VA.
1:53:35
Speaker 1: Well, you're serving in a different way. You didn't serve
1:53:37
Speaker 1: necessarily branch of armed forces, but you continue to serve.
1:53:40
Speaker 1: It's like here on the Morning Show. I love dedicating
1:53:42
Speaker 1: time to the American veteran and their causes because I
1:53:45
Speaker 1: did not sign on the bottle the dotted line and
1:53:47
Speaker 1: served directly, so trying to make up for lost time,
1:53:50
Speaker 1: and I think that's important for everybody to do.
1:53:52
Speaker 7: So.
1:53:53
Speaker 1: Zach, you obviously connected with the VA. You were drawn
1:53:56
Speaker 1: to service to the country. Of course you chose the
1:53:58
Speaker 1: right role in working for the since VA. But what's
1:54:01
Speaker 1: your vision for the since AVA Medical Center? Do you
1:54:03
Speaker 1: perceive that it needs changes? Do you envision some sort
1:54:06
Speaker 1: of new approach how it operates? Just give my my
1:54:09
Speaker 1: veteran friends a little understanding.
1:54:11
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think I think the first thing to share
1:54:13
Speaker 10: is what are my guiding principles?
1:54:14
Speaker 1: Right?
1:54:14
Speaker 10: So my guiding principles are safety, veterans experience, and employee experience.
1:54:18
Speaker 1: Right.
1:54:19
Speaker 10: So with safety, I'm very focused on providing veterans high quality,
1:54:22
Speaker 10: safe care, making sure that we're you know, taking the
1:54:26
Speaker 10: right steps to make sure that there's no preventable harm
1:54:28
Speaker 10: at our VA. I want to make sure our veterans
1:54:31
Speaker 10: enjoy getting their care from us. So if there are
1:54:33
Speaker 10: things that we can do to improve their experience when
1:54:35
Speaker 10: they're with us, then I also want to make sure
1:54:37
Speaker 10: I'm taking care of my staff because those are the
1:54:39
Speaker 10: folks that are laying hands on veterans delivering that high
1:54:42
Speaker 10: quality care, and those those guiding principles have really served
1:54:45
Speaker 10: me well in leadership in VA. You know, when I
1:54:48
Speaker 10: think about the Cincinnati VA, I have some big missions
1:54:51
Speaker 10: ahead of me.
1:54:52
Speaker 4: And then also I cast a.
1:54:54
Speaker 10: Longer vision, right, you know, so I'm thinking, you know, five, ten, fifteen,
1:54:58
Speaker 10: twenty years down the road and where we need to
1:55:00
Speaker 10: be as an organization to serve veterans of the future.
1:55:03
Speaker 10: So I'm always thinking about, you know, what is what
1:55:07
Speaker 10: is going to be the best VA for those veterans
1:55:11
Speaker 10: that we're serving right now, but also what's going to
1:55:13
Speaker 10: position us well to serve veterans.
1:55:15
Speaker 1: In the future. Well, let me say I want to
1:55:16
Speaker 1: put you on the on the spot because it may
1:55:18
Speaker 1: require you to acknowledge that there are changes that are
1:55:21
Speaker 1: necessary there. But if you could wave a magic wand
1:55:24
Speaker 1: and immediately change something there for the betterment of the
1:55:27
Speaker 1: VA experience with veterans, what would what would that specific
1:55:30
Speaker 1: thing be or things.
1:55:32
Speaker 10: Well, I think, you know, as as someone that grew
1:55:34
Speaker 10: up in northern Kentucky and had had a veteran father
1:55:36
Speaker 10: who who was in northern Kentucky, I think we have
1:55:40
Speaker 10: an opportunity to bring more specialty care across the river,
1:55:43
Speaker 10: and so I want to do that. But I also
1:55:44
Speaker 10: want to get specialty care out to all of our clinics.
1:55:47
Speaker 10: You know, it's not going to be everything everywhere, but
1:55:49
Speaker 10: I think where it makes sense, we want to get
1:55:51
Speaker 10: more specialty care out to where the veterans are. I know,
1:55:54
Speaker 10: crossing the bridge and getting downtown isn't always the best
1:55:57
Speaker 10: experience for everyone. So I think that's an opportunity for us.
1:56:00
Speaker 10: I also want to make sure that we're we're providing
1:56:03
Speaker 10: you know, the highest level care that we can possibly provide.
1:56:05
Speaker 10: I mean, we have great clinicians, we have great partnerships,
1:56:09
Speaker 10: and we have a lot of folks that want to
1:56:10
Speaker 10: serve veterans, and I want to make sure that's delivered
1:56:12
Speaker 10: in a way that veterans want to receive it.
1:56:14
Speaker 1: And you know, that could be just a question of messaging.
1:56:16
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are still clinging to
1:56:18
Speaker 1: the notions of the VA is still run by Bob
1:56:20
Speaker 1: McDonald and nobody's getting the appointment honored and people are
1:56:23
Speaker 1: sitting in the hallway dying of you know, thirst and
1:56:26
Speaker 1: starvation because they've been ignored. And that is definitely not
1:56:29
Speaker 1: the case. I mean, the since AAVA is transformed over
1:56:32
Speaker 1: the years, and I know you've been receptive over the years,
1:56:35
Speaker 1: not just you and your current role, but when we've
1:56:38
Speaker 1: had prior people there, like, for example, people who preceded
1:56:40
Speaker 1: Chris a welcoming suggestions from veterans asking for complaints to
1:56:48
Speaker 1: be passed along so you can change the experience and
1:56:51
Speaker 1: make it better for everybody. You still have that open
1:56:53
Speaker 1: door policy when it comes to people making complaints, like
1:56:56
Speaker 1: did you realize that I had to Barbara or could
1:56:58
Speaker 1: you change this to you?
1:56:59
Speaker 10: You know what I'm saying, Yeah, I think I think
1:57:00
Speaker 10: we're always listening for a veteran feedback. I mean every
1:57:03
Speaker 10: single time that we get a piece of feedback, you know,
1:57:07
Speaker 10: you know, compliment or a concern or an opportunity, those
1:57:09
Speaker 10: are gifts to make improvements, right, So you know that's
1:57:12
Speaker 10: one thing that I definitely have all ears for for veterans,
1:57:15
Speaker 10: to make sure that we are listening to what veterans
1:57:18
Speaker 10: want us to be for them. I think when we
1:57:20
Speaker 10: do that, you know, we can't be everything to everyone.
1:57:23
Speaker 1: I wish, I wish we could, no, but see, nobody
1:57:25
Speaker 1: could be everything to ever wide. Yeah, it's like you're
1:57:28
Speaker 1: always gonna get someone's gonna complain and it just breaks
1:57:30
Speaker 1: my heart, Like, please focus on the broader reality of
1:57:33
Speaker 1: the great services you get there. You know, that little
1:57:36
Speaker 1: bump in the road is nothing by way of what
1:57:38
Speaker 1: it used to be like there, and it is quality care.
1:57:41
Speaker 1: It's our other surveys and studies out there to show
1:57:44
Speaker 1: the level of care that these veterans are getting at
1:57:46
Speaker 1: this since AVA. I mean, that's another thing like marketing.
1:57:48
Speaker 1: No it's great here, it's not you know.
1:57:50
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think I think the best marketing we can
1:57:52
Speaker 10: have is veteran word of mouths. Right, So the veterans
1:57:54
Speaker 10: that are getting care from us, tell your friends that
1:57:56
Speaker 10: are veterans not not getting care from BA, and tell
1:57:58
Speaker 10: them how good the care is.
1:58:00
Speaker 1: But we do ask veterans. We have surveys like it
1:58:02
Speaker 1: just about every hospital.
1:58:03
Speaker 10: Yeah, we call ours Veterans Signals v signals, and we ask.
1:58:07
Speaker 10: I think one of the biggest boldest questions that you
1:58:09
Speaker 10: could possibly ask someone is do you trust your VA
1:58:13
Speaker 10: to meet your health care needs? And we call that
1:58:15
Speaker 10: our trust score, and our trust scores at ninety four percent.
1:58:18
Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, right there, that speaks volumes. All right,
1:58:21
Speaker 1: we'll pausing zach and Chris back to talk more about
1:58:23
Speaker 1: the VA the importance of getting your VI.
1:58:25
Speaker 4: See the talk station.
1:58:29
Speaker 1: Goo sh i at eight forty nine here I fifty
1:58:30
Speaker 1: got KCD talk station. Enjoy my conversation. Just met him today,
1:58:34
Speaker 1: Zachary saved since AVA Medical Center executive director and of
1:58:37
Speaker 1: course Chris Klugan studio as well. Chris has been in
1:58:40
Speaker 1: a bunch of times talking about this since AVA and
1:58:42
Speaker 1: the importance of getting your Since your VA benefits DD
1:58:45
Speaker 1: two to fourteen discharge is about all you need, right, Yeah,
1:58:50
Speaker 1: come in with your d D two to fourteen talk
1:58:51
Speaker 1: to one of our enrollment folks.
1:58:53
Speaker 2: As soon as you walk into our brand new lobby there,
1:58:56
Speaker 2: look to your right, you'll see helped Us, You'll see
1:58:58
Speaker 2: our enrollment all those types of us. Just come on
1:59:00
Speaker 2: in taking to d D two fourteen and they will
1:59:04
Speaker 2: check your background and see if you qualify for care
1:59:06
Speaker 2: here at since Antivia.
1:59:07
Speaker 1: It's easy to do and that's not the only way.
1:59:09
Speaker 1: I mean, if you have a Veteran Services Commission, every
1:59:11
Speaker 1: county does, they can help you navigate the process to
1:59:13
Speaker 1: the extent you're having a difficult time getting through with it,
1:59:16
Speaker 1: but it's worth it because you get some superior quality
1:59:19
Speaker 1: care that since a VA. Zach Erzay all about that
1:59:22
Speaker 1: and his vision for the future. Technology got some ideas
1:59:26
Speaker 1: about how technology is going to play a role over
1:59:28
Speaker 1: the VA.
1:59:29
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think we have a big project that's coming
1:59:31
Speaker 10: up for us right now. We have the thorough electronic
1:59:34
Speaker 10: health care record. That's the Oracle Cerner ehr M. Maybe
1:59:38
Speaker 10: something tols have read about, but this is this is
1:59:40
Speaker 10: basically taking our electronic health record that that is long
1:59:45
Speaker 10: overdue for an upgrade, and we're going there.
1:59:48
Speaker 4: So our day for that.
1:59:50
Speaker 1: Is June sixth, oh real to roll it out. To
1:59:53
Speaker 1: roll it out.
1:59:54
Speaker 10: Yet we're going live all of all of Ohio is
1:59:57
Speaker 10: Columbus has already been on this system. In the Michigan
1:59:59
Speaker 10: VA went live a couple of weeks ago. It's gone
2:00:03
Speaker 10: really well good.
2:00:04
Speaker 1: So now how is this benefiting the American veteran.
2:00:06
Speaker 10: So this is a system that well, first and foremost,
2:00:09
Speaker 10: the system we have now is kind of dying on
2:00:11
Speaker 10: the vine. It's something that we was implemented many many
2:00:14
Speaker 10: years ago, like.
2:00:15
Speaker 1: The air traffic control system there Zach Well.
2:00:17
Speaker 10: It's it was one of the first electronic health records
2:00:19
Speaker 10: and you know before you know any of the other
2:00:21
Speaker 10: ones that other hospitals might use. So it's it's hard
2:00:25
Speaker 10: to maintain right now. Right, So we're going to a
2:00:27
Speaker 10: more modern system and this is going to help us
2:00:30
Speaker 10: in a few different ways. It's going to help us
2:00:32
Speaker 10: improve our documentation for veterans, make sure we're documenting all
2:00:35
Speaker 10: of the care we're providing. It's also going to help
2:00:37
Speaker 10: us to make sure we're capturing all of that conversation
2:00:40
Speaker 10: more accurately so we can get into the veterans health
2:00:43
Speaker 10: record all of the things that we're discussed.
2:00:45
Speaker 1: With their provider.
2:00:46
Speaker 10: I think there's also benefits for care coordination. You know,
2:00:50
Speaker 10: it's going to lead to better, better outcomes, more safe care,
2:00:54
Speaker 10: So that's always a goal.
2:00:54
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, question are are the veterans other healthcare records?
2:00:59
Speaker 1: Like for example, if a veteran's out there is employed,
2:01:02
Speaker 1: he is insured through his employer or so they have
2:01:05
Speaker 1: that separate resource to get medical treatment, but you can
2:01:09
Speaker 1: also have the VA benefits as well, and it's sort
2:01:12
Speaker 1: of up to the veterans to decide where they're going
2:01:14
Speaker 1: to get the care. Are there records from non VA
2:01:17
Speaker 1: providers going to be merged in some way or accessible
2:01:19
Speaker 1: by the VA, because let's face it, your doctors should
2:01:22
Speaker 1: know about all of your records because something you have
2:01:25
Speaker 1: done over there may be critical in terms of their
2:01:29
Speaker 1: diagnosis or treatment when you're over at the VA.
2:01:31
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think the care coordination aspect is one of
2:01:33
Speaker 10: the things that actually VA is really good at, but
2:01:36
Speaker 10: when a veteran is getting care from non VIA entities
2:01:38
Speaker 10: and from the VA gets a little complicated. We already
2:01:41
Speaker 10: have some capability for sharing records with non VA entities,
2:01:45
Speaker 10: but I do think that our new electronic Health record
2:01:47
Speaker 10: is going to improve that capability, especially once all of
2:01:50
Speaker 10: VAS go to the same system. You know, there will
2:01:54
Speaker 10: be greater what we call interoperability, better interfacing with some
2:01:57
Speaker 10: of those other systems. But one of the biggest things
2:02:00
Speaker 10: that we get from this system is it's essentially the
2:02:02
Speaker 10: same health record that.
2:02:03
Speaker 4: The Department of War uses, Department.
2:02:05
Speaker 10: Of Defense uses, so the DoD went to this many
2:02:09
Speaker 10: years ago, and so I think the idea is that
2:02:12
Speaker 10: there will be essentially one health record that goes from
2:02:14
Speaker 10: the time that the active duty service member becomes a veteran.
2:02:18
Speaker 10: It will flow through and it will become the veterans
2:02:21
Speaker 10: health record.
2:02:21
Speaker 1: Well, and this goes back to one of the first
2:02:23
Speaker 1: things you mentioned when you started talking this morning. You're
2:02:25
Speaker 1: focused on safety and what is a greater element of
2:02:29
Speaker 1: safety than him and a complete medical record when you're
2:02:31
Speaker 1: treating a veteran right there in your office, right, Okay,
2:02:33
Speaker 1: So that's wonderful. Now mental health, I mean, you can't
2:02:36
Speaker 1: get away from a story about mental health when it
2:02:40
Speaker 1: comes to service members. The higher percentage percentage wise commit
2:02:44
Speaker 1: you know, suicide, have suicidal ideation, this whole post traumatic stress.
2:02:47
Speaker 1: You know, you're running twenty four to seven at one
2:02:50
Speaker 1: thousand miles per hour, you get discharged and life dramatically changes.
2:02:54
Speaker 1: That in and of itself can be extraordinarily stressful. But
2:02:57
Speaker 1: what is your it's such a critical need. What initiatives
2:03:01
Speaker 1: and areas do you have going on on now into
2:03:04
Speaker 1: the future that you envisioned it?
2:03:05
Speaker 10: Since a vast so suicide is via as top clinical
2:03:09
Speaker 10: priority has been for years and you know this, This
2:03:11
Speaker 10: is one of the most complex challenges that we face.
2:03:14
Speaker 10: You know, veterans, like you mentioned I do have a
2:03:16
Speaker 10: high risk for suicide. And I think we have to
2:03:19
Speaker 10: acknowledge that, right I think I think everyone in b
2:03:21
Speaker 10: A and I hope hopefully outside of VIA, you know,
2:03:24
Speaker 10: recognizes that you know, one veteran suicide is too many.
2:03:28
Speaker 4: We believe that with our whole heart.
2:03:30
Speaker 10: But we also believe that suicide is preventable, right, so
2:03:33
Speaker 10: we have I think some of the best study, best knowledge,
2:03:36
Speaker 10: best learning, best care around suicide prevention that any veteran
2:03:40
Speaker 10: could get anywhere.
2:03:41
Speaker 1: Uh.
2:03:41
Speaker 10: And I think one of the one of the best
2:03:43
Speaker 10: things that v A can do, and we want to
2:03:45
Speaker 10: do this is to share what we have learned about
2:03:47
Speaker 10: veteran suicide with our community. I think when we recognize
2:03:51
Speaker 10: that this is not only a veterans issue, but it's
2:03:53
Speaker 10: a it's a community issue, you know, suicide in general,
2:03:57
Speaker 10: not just veteran suicide, I think that we can share
2:04:00
Speaker 10: some great lessons learned with the greater community. I think
2:04:04
Speaker 10: one of the things that we want to do more
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Speaker 10: of is partner with organizations that that are interfacing with veterans.
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Speaker 10: And it could be the you know, I always I
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Speaker 10: always think about like the five Am, you know, like
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Speaker 10: Harty's Coffee Club, you know, or some farmers or whomever.
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Speaker 1: My friends over in Northern Kai Patriots landing the woodshop
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Speaker 1: where they make the veterans get together and commiserate and
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Speaker 1: share their experiences and also make craft items that help
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Speaker 1: support the organization. It's it's that concept of you know,
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Speaker 1: the fraternity. I don't want to exclusively to men, but
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Speaker 1: you have this connection by virtue of being with other veterans.
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Speaker 1: You feel in bad one day, guess what that guy
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Speaker 1: over there is too. You can talk about it, and
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Speaker 1: that shared experience is great.
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Speaker 10: So organizations like that, yeah, so we want to interface
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Speaker 10: with those organizations. And I mean it could be anyone.
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Speaker 10: Any organization doesn't have to be a veteran service organization,
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Speaker 10: but especially our veteran service organizations. But if we can
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Speaker 10: get into that group, right, one person in that group
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Speaker 10: that might recognize that Susan or John is, you know,
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Speaker 10: maybe not acting like themselves today. You know, how can
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Speaker 10: we put some tools in their pocket to help them
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Speaker 10: provide great care.
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Speaker 4: To that veteran?
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Speaker 10: And I think we have you know our Veterans Crisis Line.
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Speaker 10: It's nine eight eight. I would love everyone to know
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Speaker 10: about that number. That's the number for the National National
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Speaker 10: Suicide Crisis Line. So veterans dial nine eight eight, then
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Speaker 10: press one and you'll be connected to the VA's Veterans
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Speaker 10: Crisis Line. But that's something any any veteran can call
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Speaker 10: at any time and get assistance.
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Speaker 1: Zachary Sage, the new executive director of the since Ava
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Speaker 1: Medical Center, along with Chris Kluk, who remain rather silent today.
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Speaker 1: That's okay. He had important things to talk about. Chris,
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Speaker 1: you and I be talking again. Keep up the great
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Speaker 1: work of the since AVA And if you are one
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Speaker 1: of those groups out there helping American veterans reach out
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Speaker 1: to the VA, they apparently are an open door. Christopher
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