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Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Lies on November.
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  Speaker 2: This is a common is a dangerous thing.
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  Speaker 3: All ears right here?
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  Speaker 1: You need to wake up.
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  Speaker 3: On fifty five KRC the talk station. Oh another morning
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  Speaker 3: rocking out the Van Halen. Joe Strucker hard at work
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  Speaker 3: in the fifty five KRC Command Center. Another day, Dan
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  Speaker 3: Carroll in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC Morning Show.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. It is Tuesday, Tuesday, July twenty first, and
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  Speaker 3: my copy of the w CPO nine first Morning Forecast says,
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  Speaker 3: in red letters, this is a WCPO nine first Warning
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  Speaker 3: weather alert day. There could be some severe weather in
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  Speaker 3: our in our near future, uh later this day, so
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  Speaker 3: we will update that in just a few minutes from now.
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  Speaker 3: This is one of those mornings, Joe. You ever have
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  Speaker 3: one of those mornings where you just feel like you
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  Speaker 3: forgot something? Every day? I don't feel like that every day,
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  Speaker 3: but I just say I have the feeling that I
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  Speaker 3: forgot something. I mean, I've got my glasses, got my
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  Speaker 3: my sunglasses are in the car, got my wallet, got
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  Speaker 3: myself with my cell phone. Wait a minute, I don't
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  Speaker 3: have myself. Wait a minute, I don't have I don't
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  Speaker 3: have my cell phone. I don't need it. Maybe that's
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  Speaker 3: maybe now that I'm doing inventory, I think that's what
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  Speaker 3: I forgot. So I did forget something. Yeah, now I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna have to hopefully hope it's at home somewhere. So
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  Speaker 3: there you go. Uh, what do we got going on
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  Speaker 3: a lot to talk about today? I actually I have
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  Speaker 3: food news today. I don't normally talk about food. I
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  Speaker 3: don't talk about I don't talk about a lot about like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like workplace stuff. Uh you know, how to uh,
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  Speaker 3: how to improve your resume, how to you know, get that, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, how to talk to your boss about getting
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  Speaker 3: a raised that kind of I'm really that's not that's
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  Speaker 3: not my wheelhouse and I'm not you know, and anyone
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  Speaker 3: that that does choose to talk about that for their
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  Speaker 3: talk show, I'm not. I'm not denigrating that at all,
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  Speaker 3: but it's just not it's just not me. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I really, unless there's something really really really
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  Speaker 3: interesting along those sort of lines like medical stuff, don't
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  Speaker 3: talk a lot about that. Again unless there's something really interesting,
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  Speaker 3: And it's just say, I mean, those things have never
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  Speaker 3: appealed to me as a listener of talk radio, And
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  Speaker 3: ever since I started doing this, I just really and
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  Speaker 3: not that I'm not I'm not saying that those topics
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  Speaker 3: are not important. I'm just saying that it's just not
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  Speaker 3: my cup of tea. So and I don't normally talk
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  Speaker 3: about food that much, and I don't talk about movies
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  Speaker 3: in Hollywood that much. But I do have a little
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  Speaker 3: I do have a little food news today. I do
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  Speaker 3: have a little Hollywood I would, I guess you would
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  Speaker 3: call it celebrity type things. I want to touch on,
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  Speaker 3: not a lot, but just some I think some interesting
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  Speaker 3: tidbits that I want to talk about. So we will
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  Speaker 3: get into that during the course of the day. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: all the important stuff. I found a great piece my
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  Speaker 3: my buddy Joe Freed, who is a retired forensic accountant
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  Speaker 3: lives up in the Cleveland area, did a breakdown of
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  Speaker 3: some of the stuff that Trump talked about the other night,
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  Speaker 3: and it's really really good. So I'm going to have
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  Speaker 3: that a little bit later on later on. Guest wise, today,
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  Speaker 3: we have Tom Zastowski we the People Convention dot Org.
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  Speaker 3: He's just a great guest And when I first talked
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  Speaker 3: to him on this show when I was filling in
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  Speaker 3: for Brian Thomas a couple of months ago, and I said, Now,
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  Speaker 3: I like this dude a lot, and I've had him
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  Speaker 3: on my show over at seven hundred a few times,
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  Speaker 3: but always great talking to Tom Zastowski. And then Todd
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  Speaker 3: Bensman is going to be here. Todd Bensman is an
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  Speaker 3: interesting guy. Joe, did you and Brian ever have Todd
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  Speaker 3: Bensman on when he was with the Center for Immigration Studies. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but he was. Todd Bensman used to be a straight
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  Speaker 3: journalist and he started working for and I mean he's
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  Speaker 3: and he has done a lot of stuff. But from
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  Speaker 3: twenty eighteen to twenty twenty five he was a senior
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  Speaker 3: National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, and
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  Speaker 3: he traveled all around Latin America. I mean, there was
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  Speaker 3: no better authority to go to when we were talking
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  Speaker 3: about border issues under the Biden administration and how Trump
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  Speaker 3: got things squared away and all the rest of it.
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  Speaker 3: And he's written books. He's written at least three different
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  Speaker 3: books about the border under the Biden administration, and maybe two,
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  Speaker 3: not three, but he talks about He's got a book
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  Speaker 3: called America's COVID Border War, The Untold Story of the
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  Speaker 3: nation's battle to prevent Jihattest infiltration, and so he was.
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  Speaker 3: He for nearly a decade through twenty eighteen, he led
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  Speaker 3: the counter terrorism intelligence for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the guy has done all kinds of stuff
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  Speaker 3: as it relates to the border. And then he recently
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  Speaker 3: I called him one day and I said, hey, I said,
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  Speaker 3: it'd been a little watson Ay had you on the show?
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  Speaker 3: Can I have you on the show and talk about
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  Speaker 3: whatever the topic was that day? I mean, and it
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  Speaker 3: had something to do with the border, And he said,
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  Speaker 3: I would love to be on the show, but I
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  Speaker 3: can't do it. And I said why not? He said,
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  Speaker 3: he said, I'm working with the Trump administration. So for
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  Speaker 3: about the last I want to say, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: a year plus I want me I'm thirteenth. Fine, we'll
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  Speaker 3: ask him later today exactly how long he was with
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  Speaker 3: the Trump administration. But he was working as a senior
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  Speaker 3: advisor to the US Department of Homeland Security, the ICE
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  Speaker 3: Office of Director, and the intelligence community. So it'll be
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  Speaker 3: interesting if I don't know how much he can talk
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  Speaker 3: about the exact work that he was doing, but maybe
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  Speaker 3: you get a broad overview. But he has stepped away
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  Speaker 3: from the Trump administration and is now with the Heritage Foundation.
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  Speaker 3: So we will talk to him at eight o'clock this morning,
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  Speaker 3: and I certainly hope you can stick around for that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he was just a fantastic guest and then
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  Speaker 3: he went to work for the Trump administration. I've had
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  Speaker 3: a few guests that I had on a somewhat regular
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  Speaker 3: rotation that actually went to work for the Trump administration,
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  Speaker 3: and I actually feel kind of proud about that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: You've got these people who I relied on to give
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  Speaker 3: my listeners good information and they wind up working for
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  Speaker 3: the federal government in this president and that it's a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a source of pride. So I don't
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  Speaker 3: mind saying that. I earlier this summer, I was up
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  Speaker 3: in Dayton with a buddy of mine and the high
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  Speaker 3: school baseball playoffs were happening in Dayton, and I live
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  Speaker 3: in Anderson Township, and the Anderson Raptors were in I
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  Speaker 3: believe it was a regional semi final game, and we
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  Speaker 3: just happened to be in Dayton that day and we're
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  Speaker 3: doing some work up there, and we got done with
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  Speaker 3: our work and when we knew the game was happening
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  Speaker 3: at the Date and Dragon Stadium, and we said, well
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  Speaker 3: don't we stop buy and take in the game. So
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  Speaker 3: we stopped by. We go there, We get to the stadium,
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  Speaker 3: and of course, the only way you can't walk up
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  Speaker 3: to the window and buy a ticket, you have to
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  Speaker 3: walk up to the poster that's by the window. Joe,
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  Speaker 3: does this make any sense to you? You can't buy
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  Speaker 3: a ticket at the ticket window, But there's a poster
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  Speaker 3: right there that has a QR code on it, So
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  Speaker 3: you can download the QR code and then you can
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  Speaker 3: I guess pay with a credit card. Then it gives
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  Speaker 3: you a number, then you show that to the person
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  Speaker 3: at the window and you go in that and so hey,
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  Speaker 3: that's the way things are done now. And when the
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  Speaker 3: game was over, there was another game that was coming up.
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  Speaker 3: It was Loveland and I forgot who their opponent was.
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  Speaker 3: Anderson won that game, by the way, But we're leaving,
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  Speaker 3: we're on our way out, and we're walking to the
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  Speaker 3: parking garage where we parked, and there's a guy in
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  Speaker 3: a pickup truck who appeared to be maybe pushing eighty
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  Speaker 3: in his late seven obviously in his seventies, and he
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  Speaker 3: can't figure out how to make the gate go up
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  Speaker 3: and so my buddy Randy stops to stops to help him,
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  Speaker 3: and and the guy's like, I can't figure out how
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  Speaker 3: to get into the garage. I can't make the gate.
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  Speaker 3: And there's cars behind him, people are waiting, and it's
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  Speaker 3: one of those things where there's no room for him
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  Speaker 3: to turn around. He's there, he's at the gate. He's stuck,
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  Speaker 3: and he and he says, how do you make this work?
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  Speaker 3: And and he's and my buddy Randy says, well, you
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  Speaker 3: got to download the QR code. He says, he says,
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  Speaker 3: point to He says, do you have a cell phone?
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  Speaker 3: The guy has a cell phone, points his cell phone
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  Speaker 3: at the QR code. It doesn't work because he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have the app that allows you to download QR counts.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have that on my phone either, And so
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  Speaker 3: I remember talking about that the next night or the
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  Speaker 3: night after that, when I was on the radio, and
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  Speaker 3: I was saying, there's something wrong with that that we
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  Speaker 3: live in a society now where you are the only
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  Speaker 3: option you have to get into a parking garage because
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  Speaker 3: the money, you know, I mean he had money. He's like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm perfectly fine with paying whatever. It was
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  Speaker 3: three fifty four bucks, whatever the case may be, to
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  Speaker 3: get in the garage. But no, the machine, there's not
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  Speaker 3: a machine there, there's no one working there. There's no
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  Speaker 3: way for him to pay cash to get into this
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  Speaker 3: parking garage. The only way he can do it is
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  Speaker 3: to download this QR fund and he doesn't have the
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  Speaker 3: OP on the phone, and there was no way this
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  Speaker 3: guy was going to be able to download all that
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  Speaker 3: information in a timely way to get into the garage.
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  Speaker 3: So we tried to help him. And then his only
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  Speaker 3: his only other than breaking through the you know the
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  Speaker 3: little piece of wood out there that that represented the gate,
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  Speaker 3: the only way instead of damaging that, he had to
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  Speaker 3: go back three or four cars and ask people to
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  Speaker 3: back out of the circular sort of semi circular driveway
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  Speaker 3: there so he could get out and find a place
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  Speaker 3: to park on the street. And so I saw a
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  Speaker 3: posting on Facebook yesterday that reminded me of this take
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  Speaker 3: that I had, and the individual who posted this wrote this,
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  Speaker 3: A society that forces a ninety year old to use
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  Speaker 3: a smartphone in order to access basic rights is not
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  Speaker 3: a modern society. It is a society that has decided
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  Speaker 3: to cast aside its own elders. By twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 3: everything has become an app, a code, a portal. Yet
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  Speaker 3: the very people who built this country with their own
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  Speaker 3: hands now find themselves illiterate in their own homes. If
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  Speaker 3: booking a medical appointment or paying a bill requires the
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  Speaker 3: help of a son or granddaughter, assuming there is one,
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  Speaker 3: then the system has failed. This is not innovation, It
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  Speaker 3: is exclusion. Technology should serve people, not determine who is
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  Speaker 3: still entitled to dignity. When we leave behind those who
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  Speaker 3: came before us, we are not evolving. We are merely
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  Speaker 3: becoming more comfortable and more selfish. And that sums up
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  Speaker 3: my exact feeling in words that I couldn't conjure up myself.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, this is a societal failure when we have
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  Speaker 3: certain segments. And look, I'm not all that savvy with
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  Speaker 3: the and I've dated, and look, I've talked to Dave
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  Speaker 3: Hatter about this many times. I am not if I
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  Speaker 3: go Joe. If I go into a restaurant and the
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  Speaker 3: only way I can order food at that restaurant is
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  Speaker 3: to download a QR code, I'm walking out. I've been
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  Speaker 3: to restaurants before. Can I see a manual?
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  Speaker 1: Police?
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  Speaker 3: Oh well, dude, you got to hit the QR code
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  Speaker 3: right there on your table. Very convenient. Now, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: to win that. I mean, maybe I'm a little over
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  Speaker 3: the top with something like that, but I'm not doing
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to. I don't want to go to
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  Speaker 3: a parking meter in downtown Cincinnati and download their QR code.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to do that. I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: put that stuff on my phone. I don't have that
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  Speaker 3: app on my phone. And so I mean, I'm little
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  Speaker 3: by little, I'm getting boxed out of certain things that
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  Speaker 3: that as an American citizener, a paying customer, I should
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  Speaker 3: have access to. But I mean, that pendulum is really
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  Speaker 3: swinging too far. It started years ago when I went
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  Speaker 3: to a Reds game and you couldn't pay cash for
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  Speaker 3: a beer or a hot dog or anything at the
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  Speaker 3: Reds game. And it's like that at all the venues now.
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  Speaker 3: And I know I'm way over I'm way over late
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  Speaker 3: for a break here, but I saw this and I thought, man,
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  Speaker 3: I mean this really that take right there sums it
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  Speaker 3: up a lot better than I did. Five eighteen, we
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  Speaker 3: got to get to a break Dan Carroll for Brian
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  Speaker 3: Thomas fifty five KRCV talkstation.
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  Speaker 4: This is fifty five KRC and iHeart.
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  Speaker 3: Five twenty two on this Tuesday morning, Dan Carroll for
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  Speaker 3: Brian Thomas want to thank Joe Strucker. He said, he
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  Speaker 3: agrees with you one hundred percent. I was talking about
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  Speaker 3: how we're falling into this trap of just assuming that
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  Speaker 3: everyone has a cell phone, everyone knows how to download
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  Speaker 3: certain things. You know. The problem for me is is
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  Speaker 3: when they start asking questions, and the questions can be
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  Speaker 3: anything do you want A? Or do you want B?
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  Speaker 3: And I never know what the right never know what
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  Speaker 3: the right answer is. Someone told me one time it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't matter what she answered, but maybe it does. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know these things pop up from time to time.
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  Speaker 3: Do you want such and such an app to be
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  Speaker 3: able to make changes to your computer? Well, I mean
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  Speaker 3: maybe I do. I don't know. There's Joe. I don't
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  Speaker 3: normally see a box for I don't know yes or no.
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  Speaker 3: It's all it's all a binary. But no, this guy
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  Speaker 3: and it just it just really struck me because I mean,
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  Speaker 3: here's a guy who's in his seventies or eighties showing
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  Speaker 3: up to the to the ballpark. All he wants to
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  Speaker 3: do is watch his grandson play a baseball game. But
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  Speaker 3: yet he is denied access to the to the parking
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  Speaker 3: garage because I guess it's cheaper for them just to
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  Speaker 3: put a QR code up there and have the garage
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  Speaker 3: work that way. I guess the machines. I mean, there
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  Speaker 3: was a time you could drive up to a machine
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  Speaker 3: and feed some dollars in there, or even scan a
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  Speaker 3: credit card. Can't even do that anymore, got to do
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  Speaker 3: it through your cell phone. So he's he so convenient,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think. So I got to get the guy
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  Speaker 3: on who and his name escapes me at the moment,
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  Speaker 3: but he's down in Florida and he's got he's got
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  Speaker 3: a whole book and he and he's actually in a
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  Speaker 3: case right now talking about the parking scams that are
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  Speaker 3: going on in the United States. And he talked about,
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  Speaker 3: you know when most municipalities, Now I'm here in Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 3: you want to park on the street, you want to
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  Speaker 3: park in a in a a municipal owned parking lot,
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  Speaker 3: there's a QR code there. You've got to pay. I
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  Speaker 3: guess there's a certain base amount you have to pay
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  Speaker 3: and based on how and you have to give him
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  Speaker 3: your credit card information and they can rack up the
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  Speaker 3: charges and and he's got a tott it's not Todd Benman,
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  Speaker 3: Todd Bensman. I guess later today I'm gonna I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: have to look at that. But no, I had him on.
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  Speaker 3: It's a very great guest talking about the whole skin
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  Speaker 3: as it relates to what to parking. But yeah, this guy,
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  Speaker 3: I mean I felt bad, really felt bad for him
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  Speaker 3: and the people behind him, at least the ones that
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  Speaker 3: I saw as we were, you know, we were walking
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  Speaker 3: to our car to get out of there in the
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  Speaker 3: head back to Cincinnati that day again because we were
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  Speaker 3: up and dating at the Dragon Stadium. But at least
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  Speaker 3: those people were doing what they could to slowly back
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  Speaker 3: out of there. And and and this was, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a half an hour forty five minutes before the ball
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  Speaker 3: game started, so people were starting to arrive and at
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  Speaker 3: least they were letting them back out of there. But
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  Speaker 3: it was it was not a good It just bothered me.
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  Speaker 3: So hopefully, if you're a company that is relying heavily
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  Speaker 3: on the QR code, so you can't I think you
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  Speaker 3: need to be mindful of the fact that not everyone is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, as swift as you are when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to doing that stuff on your cell phone. Five fifty
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  Speaker 3: five KRC the talk station. Have you heard the news
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  Speaker 3: had a federal building in New York City ant hide
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  Speaker 3: government five point thirty on this Tuesday morning, Dan Carroll
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  Speaker 3: for or Brian Thomas, I for you know, I for yesterday, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I forgot yesterday? Yesterday was July twentieth,
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  Speaker 3: the anniversary of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon.
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  Speaker 3: Why didn't you remind? Why didn't you put that in
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  Speaker 3: my ear? I should? I should have talked about that yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: You old enough to remember watching that on TV. It
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  Speaker 3: wasn't born yet I was, And I remember that night
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  Speaker 3: and I want to say it was it was late,
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  Speaker 3: like eleven eleven thirty at night that night, and forget
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  Speaker 3: what day of the week it was, but it was summertime,
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  Speaker 3: so it didn't matter. But I remember that night sitting
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  Speaker 3: up and you know, my dad's there and he's got
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  Speaker 3: you Walter Concred on TV and live broadcasting live from
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  Speaker 3: the Moon. Absolutely amazing. I mean I was totally into
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  Speaker 3: the whole Space program and all that. And back then
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  Speaker 3: when I was a kid, my parents back then had
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  Speaker 3: life magazine. Joey old enough to remember Life magazine. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but I mean they had Life magazine, followed extensively the
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  Speaker 3: the the Space program, and I almost set Artemis mission,
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  Speaker 3: but the Mercury missions and then the Gemini missions and
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  Speaker 3: all those and I still I still remember. There was
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  Speaker 3: a there was a photograph of Ed White and I
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  Speaker 3: believe it was the very first e V a extra
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  Speaker 3: vehicular activity spacewalk that was ever done, and there was
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  Speaker 3: a shot at him just floating there in space, and
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  Speaker 3: I must I stared at that picture for hours and
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: just thought it was the absolute coolest thing I had
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: ever seen. And so yeah, as a kid, and even today,
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm all and I've read a lot of
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: books about the Apollo program. Got to interview Jim Level once.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: That was probably the highlight of my broadcasting career, having
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: a chance to talk to him about the Apollo eleven mission,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: or Apollo eleven, but Apollo thirteen. So yeah, I should have.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: I totally swinging a miss on that one. About Neil
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Armstrong walking on the moon. Got to meet him once,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: which was very cool. Tom is on the line this
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: morning again, and Tom, how are you this morning?
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: Oh? I'm not doing too bad.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Great to hear your boy.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah. Likewise, I also had a bit of an
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: issue with the Reds game and the whole QR code.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: I wasn't really QR code is more than the MLB
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: app thing. We had an outing a Pril thirtieth. I
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: remember this year. Uh huh it was. It was the
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: it was the last win the Reds had before they
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: fell back to earth, before they hit that eight game
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: losing streaks.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: It was a day game. My company had an outing
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: and so you know, we we have I don't know,
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: thirty forty people going and we're we're in the power
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: alley whatever that whatever, that patio thing is above the
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: above the Reds dugout, yeah, or not doug out above
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: the red bullpen.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: The bullpen. Yeah, I've been up there. I've been up
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: there before. That's a fun place to watch.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Again, Well, you got all these guys coming in from
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: everywhere else. So they so the boss decided to use
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: the whole MLB app thing and you got to get
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: your ticket on the MLB app And boy that was fun.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Trying to think got its download.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: The app, I'm sure very easy, very streamlined. Just a
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: couple of clicks on your phone and you're good to go.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Well, the yeah, the funny part is is that I'm
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: I'm coming from I'm already out here in Indianapolis that
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: point on a job. So me and another guy that
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: are working here from the Cincinnati branch were driving back
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: and it took me about halfway there to get his
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: ticket figured out because he's a little older than me
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: and he didn't have any of this stuff and his
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: phone was kind of weird. I wound up having to
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: get his ticket on my phone on my app so
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: we'd have bolt tickets so we could both get into
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: the park. It was, it was kind of it was
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: kind of crazy is the stuff they come up with.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: And the other one I don't like is the those
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: machines they put on the table in the restaurant where
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: they want you to pay at the table. They want
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: you to put your credit card in a machine that's
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: been sitting on the table for anyone and everyone to handle.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: I don't think. So you please brint me out a
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: bill and I will give you the credit card. You
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: take it back to a main a main register, which
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: does take a little bit of trust anyway, But I'd
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: rather do that than than try to put my well,
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: at least.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: You've got a real life If there's an issue, you've
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: got a real live person there that you know, that
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: you can you can follow up with. And and I
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: understand I understand it from a business perspective, if if
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: you've got everything streamlined and you can cut costs, and
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, but really, how much cost is
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: their associate? And maybe maybe maybe my perspective on this
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: is uh, you know, not as enlightened as it should be,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: But I mean, is it Is it really that much
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: of an inconvenience to to deal with cash to make change,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: to have to at least have that option available for
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: customers who are willing to pay for your goods or services,
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: It seems to me that, yeah, go ahead.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: The issue comes down. I think the issue comes down
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: to their trying to cut costs by cutting back on
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: their number of employees because uh, you know, it costs
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: money to hire people and pay them to do whatever,
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: And then you've got to put up with their bs. Well,
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: you got a machine or an app. They don't That
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: machine or app doesn't call in sick, doesn't take long,
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: smoke breaks, all the crap that you got to deal
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: with when you're dealing with people, when you're dealing with employees,
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: it's it's uh, I get it. But at some point
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: when you're in customer service, you got to make sure
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: you have that human contact there for people to feel
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: comfortable at your at your establishment.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: But you know, the last time you walked up to
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: a concession stand at and look, I'm not banging on
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: the Reds here, but last time you walk to a
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: concession stand at a Reds game or a Bengals game
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: or any sporting venue and you tap, all you do
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: is tap your credit card or whatever the case may be.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: You're not paying case. There's really next to no interaction
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: with the person behind the counter.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Is the level of service that greatly improved is a
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: level of service something that makes you want to go
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: back and have more interactions with that person behind the
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: counter that's not been mine.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: Well, you're you're bringing up you're bringing up ballparks and
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: says in the stands. The level of the amount of
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: that things cost keep me from even going in the person.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: I'm not I'm not paying those prices for that.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Tom. I mean back in the day
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: when I used to go to a Reds game or
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: a Bengals game, and I I would put X amount
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: of dollars in my pocket. And that pocket was for
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: you know, for for beers, for snacks, for food, whatever
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: concessions I was going to have. And if I spent
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: all that money, then I was going to have a
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: darn good time. And and you know what, if if
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I spent all that money, that was a cue to
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: myself that hey, that money is gone. You are done drinking,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: you are done eating, you're done, you're done with a
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: concession stamp.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: And if that happened, that, yeah.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: If that happened, then I had a darn good time.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: So they wanted you to make They want to make
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: sure you have access to every single dime you can.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: That way, ye spend it.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because the money flow of money flows. And you
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: know what, there's also I want And there's a there's
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: a bar that I walked into and gosh, this was
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: just goes back two or three summers ago. And and
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: the first thing you do when you walk in is
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: you hand them your credit card and then they and
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: they give you a card that if and and and
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: you had to pour your own beer. I remember that
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: and there was there was a window that you walked
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: to up to if you wanted to get a pizza
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: or whatever bar food they had. And that was completely
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: inconvenient because all they did was they took your name,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: they took your card, swipe the card that they gave
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: you swipe and there were no prices on it. You
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: had no idea how much money you were spending. And
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: then they would then then they gave you a number.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: You had to, you know, remember your number, and then
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: when the number came up on the screen, then you
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: had to go pick up your own family. This terrible service.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: The food wasn't even that good, the beer wasn't that good.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: And then at the end of it, you know, when
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: it's time for you to leave, you swipe your card
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: one more time and they say, oh, you owe us
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: this much money and we've got your credit card, thank
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: you very much. How much how much of a tip
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: would you like.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: To give us?
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: And I was like, no, no, I don't wait a minute.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: I poured my own beer, I got my own food,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: I had all this, I had to stand in line,
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: all this inconvenience, walking back and forth. I was like,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: I trust me that the tip was not very generous
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: at night.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, when you gotta sell, when you what part
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: of your part of your experience is self served, the
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: tip's gonna come down. So yeah, that's just the way
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: it does.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Tom, Thanks for the fun.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: Democrats don't vote.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Democrat had words to live by, as always from from
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: our buddy Tom. No, the whole notion of customer service
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: and friendly interaction and all the rest of it is
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: really going out the window in exchange for uh. I
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: guess the convenience of using a QR code, but my
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: experience has been that the QR code thing is not
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: that great. My wife has it on her phone, and
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: if we're we find ourselves in that situation, I just
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: tell you I don't have the patience. I tell her
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: you do it, I'm not doing it. And I sit
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: there and wait five forty Well we got to get
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: to a quick break. Note, Well we don't. Joe, am
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: I late. I'm way late here, Okay, Hank, hang on,
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: we'll get to your phone call next. On fifty five
• 28:12
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• 28:18
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• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Talk Station got a little off off track there, but
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: I think we're back on track now. Let's open the
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: phone and say hello to Hank. Hank, you're on fifty
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: five KRC Worrying Dan Warning.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: So you were talking about your your distaste for using
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: the QR codes.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I'm.
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: Talking to you. I'm talking to you right now on
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: a flip phone. I do QR. I don't do QR codes.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: I don't do our heart media. I don't do any
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: of that crap. And part of the reason several year
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: ago why I decided not to go to a smartphone
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: was because our work in a manufacturing plant. I'm walking
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: through the plant from one end to the other to
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: get something or give somebody something, and I'll see guys
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: that are supposed to be busy working sitting around playing
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: on their phones doing stupid stuff like candy crush or
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: facetiming their baby mama or whatever. And I decided back
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: then I was not going to just be tempted. I know,
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: you know, sometimes my willpower isn't the best.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Well, Hank, I hope that I hope that flip phone
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: lasts you a good long time. Can can you get
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: brand new flip phones right now? Are those still available
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: because at some point that thing's going.
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: To talk about it because I've had I've had this
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: one for like three or four years.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Okay, well maybe you can because I know I had
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: a flip phone and that I was like you, I was,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: I was resistant to getting a smartphone, and I held
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: on that flip phone that I had. I mean, that
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: thing was is almost indestructible. It was and it worked great.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: I could and people would ask me, do you have
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: a smartphone? I said, no, I have a flip phone.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I said. I can send a text message, I can
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: get a text message, I can make a phone call.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: I'm good, I was.
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: It does it does a few other things.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: It's got the calculator and the calendar you can put
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: things in, and you know, an alarm and a tech
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: countdown timer. So when I cook on the barbecue grill,
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: I got a timer. You know. Just it's got everything.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: It's got everything. I want nothing I don't.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Well, the flip phone is awesome. The flip phone is
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: often it's awesome because it takes it back to the
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: old Star Trek days. Yeah, when they when they're whipping
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: open their communicators. Scottie beat me up, Hank, I appreciate
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: the phone call today, and uh, it did just great stuff.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: They're reminiscing about the technology we used to have five
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: forty six, fifty five KRC, the talk stage, all the
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: big moments of fifty five KRC, the talk station five
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: point fifty one. On this Tuesday morning, July twenty first,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: some guy broke the record running the world's fastest mile.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: A guy named Josh Curry's twenty seven years old. This
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: happened at the Diamond League meet in London. Dude is
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: from Scotland posted a blazing three minutes forty two seconds
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: point six six three forty two point sixty six to
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: run one mile. Guys twenty seven years old. There is
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: a there's a drive through that I go to all
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: the time. It is exactly one mile from my own
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: don't know, Joe, I don't know. If I could drive
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: my car there in three minutes two seconds, Maybe ride
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: a bicycle, I don't know. Maybe if I could drive
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: as fast as I wanted to, I could get there
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: in that amount of time. I saw video of this
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: guy running, and I mean he was closing, he was
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: closing the race out, and I mean the dude was
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: just flying. That breaks the previous record by a dude
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: with some name I can't pronounce. The previous record was
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: set in nineteen ninety nine, so this record has stood
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: for what twenty seven years? It was three forty three thirteen.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: This guy won a three forty two six six so
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: what about a little over about a half a second?
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: He broke the world record in front of sixty thousand
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: fans at London Stadium. Says it's very overwhelming with the
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: amount of hype it created. He told BBC Sports it's
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: silly the call the attempt that early because there's a
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: lot of things that go wrong. I'm surrounded by amazing people,
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: he says. I am if I am to leave my
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: mark on the sport as a British legend, following the
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: footsteps of legends behind me, I have to put in
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: those performances. He says. He has the seventh brit to
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: become a record holder in the mile, so I had
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: no idea three minutes and something seconds. He's also a
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: world champion in the same distance in twenty twenty three.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Without the World Championships or the Olympics schedule for this year,
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: he put his focus on setting the record in the mile.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: So there you go, very good, three minutes and forty
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: some seconds, forty two seconds. That's how fair if you
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: want to set a world record in the mile, which
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: you know that's a legitimate record.
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: I mean you see the Guinness Book of World Records,
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: all these people setting different records for different stuff comes,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: you know, some some weird, unusual kind of stuff. But
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: running the mile, that's that's legit, and it's it's amazing
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: with with all the advances in technology and all the
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: advances in sports training and fitness and you know, eating
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: right and all the rest of it nutrition that that
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: record has stood since nineteen ninety nine. That says a
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: lot about the guy who set that record in nineteen
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: ninety nine. But congratulations to that guy, Josh Kerr twenty
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: seven years old. See if he was remember remember that name, Joe?
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: When how many names have you ever remembered when someone
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: says remember that name? I don't remember any of But
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: when when the Olympics come up and that'll be in LA.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Was that twenty eight when the Olympics are going to
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: be here. Yeah, we'll see if that guy makes it
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: through the Olympics. He is the world record holder.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: We got to get to a break here. Little news
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: coming up at the top of the hour, and then
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: we will continue on. And thanks for the phone calls
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: early this morning at five o'clock hour. That was like
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: three phone calls in the first hour of the show.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: I can't remember the last time that happened, but it
• 35:19
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• 35:23
  Speaker 8: At the top of the fifty five krc D talk station,
• 35:28
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• 35:29
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• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Brian Thomas taking the rest of the week off. I'm
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Dan Carroll, Joe who's in for Brian Thomas on Thursday
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: and Friday. Gary, Jeff Walker be here Thursday and Friday.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: I've got today and tomorrow and I always love being here.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Five point three seven fifty five hundred if you want
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: to get on board. US military carried out its tenth
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: consecutive night of strikes on Iran in a push to
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: reopen the Straight of Horn Moves. Central Command set on
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: its social media that strikes are designed to further degrade
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Iranian military capabilities used to attack commercial shipping in the
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Straight of Horn Moves. The strikes have escalated as the
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: US and Iran Vibe for control of the crucial energy
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: shipping route, with Tehran retaliating by launching attacks on American
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: allies Kuwait, Jordan, and Bahrain. And look, Iran is it's
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: a big kint. Iran is the size of Alaska. So
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: they've got military stuff all over the place. I can
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: get my head around the notion that we might not
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: know where all of their stuff is. But when they
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: start launching these attacks on Kuwait, on Jordan, on Bahrain,
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: are we not able to pick that up on satellite?
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Don't we have satellites? I would imagine we have numerous
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: satellites trained full time on Iran right now. When they
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: launch something, are we not able to detect that and
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: strike that site immediately? Seems to me that we should
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: be able to do that, And if we're not doing that,
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: I think a legitimate question is why aren't we doing that?
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump earlier warned on social media every time Iran
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: kills an American soldier, they will pay for that killing
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: many times over. Early Monday, the US launched a ninth
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: night of air strikes on Iran after announcing the death
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: of another American service member killed during a controlled detonation
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: of a down to Iranian drone. The military also identified
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: two soldiers killed in Jordan on Friday while defending against
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Iranian ballistic missiles and drone attacks. Seventeen US troops have
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: been killed since the start of this war. On Monday,
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Trump signed an executive order that would expand the Pentagon's
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: ability to track the raw materials and equipment used in
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: software and gear, with the goal of strengthening domestic supply chains.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: The order would require government contractors, starting in twenty twenty
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: seven to prove their need for waivers when domestic materials
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: are not available. Pete Navarro, the President's senior counselor for
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: Trade and Manufacturing, said during the call with reporters the
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: War Department would also require contractors to map their critical
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: supply chains, from raw materials to the products delivered to
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: the military. Jordan's Armed Force said Monday evening they had
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: shot down three Iranian missiles, adding that there had been
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: no material damage or casualties. White House Press Secretary Carolyn
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Levitt said Trump will be at Dover Air Force based
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Tuesday evening for the dignified transfer of US service members.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: Let's see, I know I have the let me see
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: if I've got the names here. Hold on one second,
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: come on, I know I've got their names in here somewhere.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: I was looking at that and because I I know
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: they identified the two that were killed, and allgan, I
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: don't have those right in front of me. Well that's
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: my bad. But in any case, Marco Rubio was getting
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: off an airplane from wherever he was coming in from,
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: and he was asked about the fallen service members, and
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: of course his response was as classy as ever. And
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: here's Marco Ruby, you're talking about our latest fallen service members.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Joke.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: Can we here cut number one?
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Please?
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Look, obviously, I think sometimes when you look at this stuff,
• 40:17
  Speaker 9: we forget. We take for granted that our military is
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: so effective that the mission they carry.
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: Out is very, very dangerous.
• 40:23
  Speaker 9: And so we lost people in Jordan after there was
• 40:26
  Speaker 9: a strike, a missile got through. We shot down almost
• 40:28
  Speaker 9: all the missiles. One leak through hit the wrong place
• 40:31
  Speaker 9: and tragically, and it's heartbreaking, and our hearts go out
• 40:34
  Speaker 9: to these families. These are heroes that pay the ultimate price.
• 40:37
  Speaker 9: We also lost a service member in a rock unrelated
• 40:40
  Speaker 9: to combat. They were decommissioning a munition and an accident
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: happened in that process and they were harmed. But look,
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: our military all over the world, especially in that part
• 40:49
  Speaker 9: of the world, but all over the world, every single
• 40:51
  Speaker 9: day do very dangerous things. We've had people who lost
• 40:55
  Speaker 9: their lives in training missions. Nothing the military does is safe.
• 40:58
  Speaker 9: It's all inherently dangerous. We're just grateful to have such
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: heroic Americans in uniform in the service of our countries.
• 41:05
  Speaker 9: And obviously it goes without saying we're praying for their
• 41:07
  Speaker 9: families and praying for their souls.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: We are grateful that we have.
• 41:10
  Speaker 9: People like that serving us, both those who we have
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: lost and those who at this very moment are on
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: the watch and defending our interests around the world.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Pentagon said Monday that nearly one hundred uf US troops
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: have been injured over the past two weeks. One hundred
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: injured over the past two weeks as Iran ramped up
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: missile drone strikes on assets American assets in the Middle East.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: Earlier Monday, Pentagon identified the two soldiers who were killed
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: in Iran during the missile and drone attacks at the
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: base in Jordan. Here is First Lieutenant Tyler James Fihan,
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: twenty five years old of Yuo Beachway and Private Isabella Gonzales,
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: just nineteen years old from Carrollton, Texas. The ones who
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: were killed in Jordan, they were deployed to support US
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: michiganinst the Islamic State Group, and the statement said the
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: military says seventeen members have been killed in the war
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: with Iran. The individual that Marco Rubia was talking about
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: right there who was attempting to disarm or deactivate the
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: drone during that mishap, I do not believe that individual
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: has yet been identified. So on the cost of war
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: and are we ready for more of it? I saw
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: a lot of analysis yesterday talking about how if Trump
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: is going to be able to finish this thing off
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: and really get to the point to where Iran is
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: to acquiesce that it's going to require ground troops and
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: instead of hearing numbers like two killed or a total
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: of seventeen killed since the start of this operation, those
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: numbers are going to go up significantly. Are we prepared
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: for that? I think we lose sight of the fact
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: that this is a war that has been going on
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: since nineteen seventy nine, and the idea that and there's
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: a narrative now that's being pushed by the left and
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: the Democrats is that this was a war of choice,
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: that this was that this is an unnecessary war that
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: Trump has gotten us into. I don't necessarily agree with that,
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: but I said it yesterday and I'll say it again.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: I think when it comes to and I really believe
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: we have the capability to turn that place into a
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: parking lot. You with me on that, Joe, Do you
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: think we have the ability to do that if we
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: wanted to? But I think we could. But I also
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: think that Donald Trump is a guy who looks at
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: the overall cost and if we go in there and
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: totally flatten everything in that country, eventually we will pay
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: to rebuild it. And I think, really, I think Trump
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: really has a notion that he wants to destroy in
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: terms of property and buildings and people he doesn't want.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: He doesn't want to He doesn't want to go there
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: and just wholesale kill people. He wants to kill the enemy,
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: but that doesn't mean the Iranian people. And I think
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: he really figures into the equation how much that will
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: cause Austin. So I think he is of a mindset
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: that he wants to destroy as little property as possible,
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: and I think it pains him every time that we
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: go out and destroy more stuff, but we might have
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: to do it. But the introduction of ground troops in
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: Iran is not a prospect that I that I or
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: anyone looks forward to. But at some point it may
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: become necessary if we are to achieve the objective. Six
• 45:26
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  Speaker 3: The Talk Station six nineteen. On this Tuesday morning, July
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: twenty first, another year is flying by, and phone lines
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: are busy this morning. Let's let's start off and go
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: to Al and see what Al has on Al's mind
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: this morning. And Al, you're on fifty five KRC.
• 45:53
  Speaker 11: Well, I guess you know. It's hard sometimes to tell
• 45:56
  Speaker 11: what's on my mind. But Joe, in nineteen seventy nine,
• 46:02
  Speaker 11: I was. I was in the Air Force at the time.
• 46:06
  Speaker 11: I served through six administrations.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: And wow, thank you for your service.
• 46:12
  Speaker 11: Oh, it was my honor, It was my honor. But
• 46:15
  Speaker 11: what happened back then, I remember, you know, and I'll
• 46:18
  Speaker 11: never forget. And it was a it was a dark
• 46:20
  Speaker 11: time for America then. I was never so happy when
• 46:26
  Speaker 11: Ronald Reagan got elected and brought some credibility back to
• 46:29
  Speaker 11: our to our military services. But you were talking about
• 46:36
  Speaker 11: the satellites over there and trying to you know, if
• 46:39
  Speaker 11: they do a missile strike or a missile launch, you
• 46:42
  Speaker 11: know how they could go and hit it. Basically, those
• 46:46
  Speaker 11: launches are one and done. I mean, it's it's like
• 46:48
  Speaker 11: whack a mole. I mean, we know where a lot
• 46:52
  Speaker 11: of their warehouses are and things like that to our satellites. Yes,
• 46:57
  Speaker 11: but the Iranians are very very good at moving their
• 47:01
  Speaker 11: stuff around and hiding it. Uh, you know.
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: What I know. I know, yeah, I know, I've read
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: a lot about that, about that a lot of their
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: missiles are on mobile launchers. But when you when you
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: launch one of those missiles on a mobile launcher, then
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: you've got to go back to, uh, wherever those missiles
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: are stored and load up again and then and then
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: go out again. It's it just seems to me like
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: we should be able to track that movement and and
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: figure out where, you know, where they store these.
• 47:32
  Speaker 11: If yeah, if they can in that respect, yes, they
• 47:36
  Speaker 11: might know where they score them. But uh, as far
• 47:39
  Speaker 11: as getting like an immediate strike on that launcher, there's
• 47:42
  Speaker 11: nothing in the theater that can do that right away.
• 47:44
  Speaker 11: You know, it might take a couple of hours that
• 47:46
  Speaker 11: that's launcher or where they've gone it's long gone, but
• 47:51
  Speaker 11: you are right they can if they pinpointed, they can
• 47:54
  Speaker 11: track it, you know, and they might know where it
• 47:56
  Speaker 11: goes back to reload or like their drones, the Iranians
• 48:01
  Speaker 11: might just say, okay, it's like a big lighter. We're
• 48:03
  Speaker 11: fired at one time, and that's it. It's done, it's gone.
• 48:06
  Speaker 11: They can they can destroy it if they want to.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: We don't care, so al would you would you agree
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: with me that we if we have had ten straight
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: nights of strikes on Iran, that we need to keep
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: this up and just obliterate them to the point where
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: they have no choice but to acquiesce.
• 48:27
  Speaker 11: Not so much obliterate them meaning the Iranian people.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: No, well, the Iranian military and and in the command structure.
• 48:36
  Speaker 11: We need we need to obliterate the i r GC
• 48:39
  Speaker 11: if they need to take them out. That is the
• 48:41
  Speaker 11: mola's support.
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: The Iranian army.
• 48:45
  Speaker 11: They're conscripts. I mean, they're you know, they'll they'll drop
• 48:49
  Speaker 11: their weapons faster than the French did.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: We've seen we've seen that in practice before. Uh, and
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: not not all that long ago in recent memory. Al,
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: I appreciate the fun. I'll call this morning and you
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: have yourself a great day, sir, I appreciate that. Let's
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: see what Jay has that says, then we have mareen Jay,
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: you're on fifty five KRC.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Hey.
• 49:10
  Speaker 7: First of all, I'm going to thank Al for his service.
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 49:15
  Speaker 7: Hey, you know I listening about the people getting killed.
• 49:19
  Speaker 7: It always happens in war. I guess is a father
• 49:23
  Speaker 7: of a twenty one year old, it really brings it
• 49:25
  Speaker 7: into a different light. But the question is, I'm kind
• 49:29
  Speaker 7: of thinking about this whole thing. When we were over
• 49:32
  Speaker 7: there to make sure that they didn't have a nuke,
• 49:35
  Speaker 7: I understood the mission, and it was we were going
• 49:38
  Speaker 7: to obliterate their ability the world sponsor and terrorism. Enough
• 49:43
  Speaker 7: is enough, great, I'm with it. I'm tracking when it
• 49:46
  Speaker 7: now turns into we are fighting them for control of
• 49:50
  Speaker 7: the strait of her mouse. Now I'm thinking what happened
• 49:54
  Speaker 7: about going after the nukes? What happened about regime change?
• 49:57
  Speaker 7: Why aren't we focused on taking out their leadership? Why
• 50:00
  Speaker 7: are we focused on arming their young men of fighting age?
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: And when Trump told the world and told Europe and
• 50:09
  Speaker 7: everybody else. If you want your oil, go get it.
• 50:12
  Speaker 7: I love that comment, which was, we're not fighting this
• 50:15
  Speaker 7: for your oil. Are we now fighting this for the
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: straight of hormones?
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: To what end?
• 50:21
  Speaker 7: So that we can make sure that oil flows to
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: China and Japan and in Europe, you know? Or are
• 50:27
  Speaker 7: we fighting this because oil is a global commodity and
• 50:30
  Speaker 7: we need to get our prices down from four dollars
• 50:33
  Speaker 7: a gallon back down to two dollars and fifty.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: I hope not. I hope not.
• 50:37
  Speaker 7: I would rather pay five dollars a gallon and stay
• 50:40
  Speaker 7: on the mission to go after the malas, go after
• 50:43
  Speaker 7: the the the IRGC opening up the Straight of horrormones.
• 50:49
  Speaker 7: I'm a little confused on what is what? What are
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: we shifting the strategy for to what end?
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: Well, Jay I would say, people, no, I would say,
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: I'm with you on the Straight of Horror moves. When
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: it comes to a battle for control of the strait,
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: I am in total agreement with you that that that,
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: to my way of thinking, should be no contest at all.
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: We should be able to go in and take control
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: of the Straight of Horror moves. And let me read
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: to you what sencom I had to say about that.
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: They Sencom is talking about the Straight of Horror moves
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: and let me see if I can dial up. I
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: just had up their article here just a little while ago.
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: But they were talking about the number of ships that
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: have gone through the Straight of Horror Moves. So on one hand,
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: we have Sentcom and the administration talking about the ships
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: that have gone through, and I think they said ninety
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: ships have gone through or something like that. Well, that
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: is a minuscule number. There was a time, you know,
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: when when that strait is opening and following freely. It's
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: thousands of ships to day that go through the Straight
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: to Horror Moves. And that is the normal flow of
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: commerce through that strait. That that really affects about, you know,
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: almost the entire planet. So I think it's more than
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: just China and Russia making sure they can get their oil.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: It's it's the entire global market. I think also that
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: they are not in a position to have a nuke,
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: not now and not any time in the near future.
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: But it's beyond me why we are not apt to
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: able to absolutely put our foot on the neck of
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: the IRGC or whoever it is that is lobbing missiles
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: and attacking ships going through the strait. That is one
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: question that I have that as I watch all this unfold,
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: why we don't have absolute control of the strait is
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: beyond me. And with that, we got to get to
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: a break and we'll see what Maureen has say on
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: the other side of this fifty five KRC the talk station.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: Not every chimney system is the same.
• 53:05
  Speaker 8: At the chimney.
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: Fifty five KRC the talk station fifty five KRC the
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: talk station six point thirty one, Dan Carol for Brian Thomas,
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: and I was mistaken when I was talking to our
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: last caller about the number of ships moving through the
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: Straight of Horror Moves, at least according to AI, I
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: did that during the brief break there, and AI tells me.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: Before Operation Epic Fury was launched in February of this year,
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: the Strait of Horror Moves operated as the world's most
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: critical maritime energy TOGUE point the normal flow of commercial ships.
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: Between seventy to one hundred and thirty five commercial ships
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: successfully transited the Strait every single day, with an estimate
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: of pre war average of well over one hundred vessels
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: a day. This amounts to more than thirty one thousand
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: transit operations per year. The waterway handled roughly twenty million
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: barrels of crude oil and petroleum pilot products a day,
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: accounting for twenty to twenty seven percent of the global
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: seaborne oil trade and nearly twenty to thirty percent of
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: the global LNG loquified national natural natural gas trade going
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: through the strait every day. Now here's what Sencom says
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: about the military strikes. US forces struck Iranian military command centers,
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and air defense
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: systems to degrade Iran's ability to continue attacking commercial vessels
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: flowing through the Strait of Hormuz. Commercial vessel transits through
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: the vital international maritime corridor continues. Since early May, Sencon
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: sent COM forces have helped facilitate the transit of approximate
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: nine hundred commercial vessels and four hundred and fifty million
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: barrels of crude oil. So since May, nine hundred vessels,
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: So that's May June July and yeah, we're what do
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: we July twenty first, So nine hundred vessels May June
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: July and three months is not that much. When you
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: had averaging more than one hundred per day. That's not
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: that great of a number. We should be in the thousands.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: So the strait may be open, but it is literally
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: a trickle of the commerce and economic activity that flows
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: through there compared to what was going on pre war. Maureen,
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: good morning. You're on fifty five KRC.
• 55:55
  Speaker 12: Good morning, Dan. I originally called to talk about Jaysone
• 55:59
  Speaker 12: called yesterday wondering about whether Ohio's election data got preached.
• 56:04
  Speaker 12: But I've been affold and list to all this about
• 56:06
  Speaker 12: the atallite there, the satellites. We have our space force,
• 56:12
  Speaker 12: which has been significant. I've listened to a panel of
• 56:15
  Speaker 12: retired generals that talked about this subject, and they were
• 56:18
  Speaker 12: talking about how we were able to actually read the
• 56:21
  Speaker 12: badge on the Iranian soldiers that are guarding the uranium dust,
• 56:26
  Speaker 12: and we can see who goes in and out of there.
• 56:28
  Speaker 12: I mean, it's that's how precise this this space force is.
• 56:31
  Speaker 12: So we do have this ability that you're talking about.
• 56:34
  Speaker 12: I don't know the strategy of why it's not moving
• 56:36
  Speaker 12: along quicker, but I'm sure that's a really good reason,
• 56:39
  Speaker 12: far above my pay grade. But I do have utter
• 56:43
  Speaker 12: confidence that we are going to win in this And
• 56:46
  Speaker 12: we do have amazing military and technology.
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely we do. And maybe maybe I'm getting caught
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: up in you know, the the old crutch used to
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: be the fast food generation, where you know, we see
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: television shows that are there that are an hour long
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: and everything was resolved in the you know, wrapped up
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: in a nice, neat package in the span of an hour.
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: It doesn't happen that way in reality, doesn't happen that
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: way in real life. So maybe I'm getting a little
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: bit caught up in that. But and and look, there's
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: no way I would ever downplay the ability of our military.
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: Maybe I'm asking for a little bit too much. I
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: think we have tremendous capabilities, and you know, going in
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: and shutting down a military the size of what goes
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: on and Iran and again very difficult, very rugged terrain.
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: They've got a lot of mountainous areas, They've got assets
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: that are hidden from view, and they've been this is
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: what I mean, this is what this regime is all about,
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: is about fighting war. So they've been on a different
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: footing than we have for the last forty years. And
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: so is it going to be a tough Is it
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: going to be a tough nut to crack.
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: Absolute your thoughts, yes, and will succeed.
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: Yes, and we will succeed. Marien, I'm on the same
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: page with you there.
• 58:08
  Speaker 12: Yeah, But I also believe and I've talked to Brian
• 58:11
  Speaker 12: about this though. Speaking of the uranium dust, I do
• 58:13
  Speaker 12: believe it's going to be traced to Hillary and Obama
• 58:16
  Speaker 12: as far as the uranium one. But that's a whole
• 58:19
  Speaker 12: other story. But I've talked about that with Brian. We've
• 58:21
  Speaker 12: got kind of a beat going there.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: But anyway, back.
• 58:23
  Speaker 12: To Jay's phone call yesterday, anybody that thinks that President
• 58:28
  Speaker 12: Trump's addressed to the nation was a waste of time
• 58:31
  Speaker 12: is utterly very ignorant of the fact. And they did
• 58:35
  Speaker 12: not go to White House dot com and looked over
• 58:37
  Speaker 12: those to classified documents, which I did do, and I
• 58:40
  Speaker 12: also re listened to his speech. And in reference to
• 58:43
  Speaker 12: Jay's call yesterday wondering about Ohio, President Trump did say
• 58:47
  Speaker 12: tens of millions of voters data has been hacked, bought
• 58:50
  Speaker 12: stolen by China in eighteen states. And those eighteen states
• 58:55
  Speaker 12: are Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan,
• 59:02
  Speaker 12: New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Rhode Island. There's
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  Speaker 12: a few more. I don't have the White Team, but
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  Speaker 12: those have all been compromised. That means they've got all
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  Speaker 12: our data or they're able to vote for us. If
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  Speaker 12: there are people I know that have gone to go
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  Speaker 12: vote and they said no, you've already voted, and they
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  Speaker 12: had not. So I think election interference by a foreign
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  Speaker 12: government is an act of war. And I think that
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  Speaker 12: China's not the only country involved in this. Trump said
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  Speaker 12: in his speech that Iran, Venezuela, and then I also
• 59:32
  Speaker 12: in Cuba, Serbia, and Italy are involved. There's a Leonardo
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  Speaker 12: satellite in Italy that was complicit in the theft of
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  Speaker 12: our election. And speaking and going back to space Force
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  Speaker 12: that we talked about in the beginning, they did capture.
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  Speaker 12: I believe this whole what's going on now is a
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  Speaker 12: sting operation. It's a strategic military operation. And spaceports gathered
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  Speaker 12: every vote that we cast in the twenty twenty election.
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  Speaker 12: They have the data and it's going to be repealed.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Maureen, you know what I think. I think you're
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  Speaker 3: onto something. I hope you're right about that, and I've
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  Speaker 3: got some information coming up and some articles. I gotta
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  Speaker 3: get to talking about information that was revealed in the
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  Speaker 3: documents that the President released, so I hope you stick
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  Speaker 3: around for that, but I'm way late for a break.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for the phone call this morning,
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  Speaker 3: and you have yourself a great day. Thank you. Marine
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  Speaker 3: with Tom Zwastowski at seven thirty this morning, and he's
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  Speaker 3: always a great guest to have on Then Todd Bensman
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  Speaker 3: from the Heritage Foundation. That'll happen at about eight oh
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  Speaker 3: five today. The burnbacks one of the things that the
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  Speaker 3: President talked about during his speech to the nation, in
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  Speaker 3: addition to its general corruptibility, and Tim O'Brien wrote this
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  Speaker 3: in the PG Media, one thing you can be sure
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  Speaker 3: of when it comes to the federal government is that
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  Speaker 3: it's probably not a good idea to trust federal employees
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  Speaker 3: to conceal your misdeeds in the bureaucracy. Good enough is
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  Speaker 3: the standard for quality work. And how many times have
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  Speaker 3: we heard that close enough good enough for government work?
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  Speaker 3: So when Trump delivered his address to the nation July sixteenth,
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  Speaker 3: he brought attention to something we should know much more
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  Speaker 3: about but don't yet, the discovery of burnbacks, which Trump
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  Speaker 3: claims contains sensitive documents from the Obama administration. Trump said, recently,
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  Speaker 3: we found significant numbers of burn bags. This is a
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  Speaker 3: group of bags where that were used to destroy information
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  Speaker 3: given by President Barack Hussein Obama to be burned. These
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  Speaker 3: bags were supposed to be at a different level by
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  Speaker 3: different people incinerated, but it never happened. Maybe we got lucky.
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  Speaker 3: As the term implies, burn bags contain material that is
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  Speaker 3: slated for destruction, sending all of the former administration's secrets
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  Speaker 3: into that big shredder in the sky. But someone dropped
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  Speaker 3: the bag and more than a few were left behind
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  Speaker 3: to be discovered by the second Trump administration in an
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  Speaker 3: FBI building. Now that Trump is sitting on a political
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  Speaker 3: treasure trove of data, information that can be used to
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  Speaker 3: expose the left expect a distraction or two whenever the
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  Speaker 3: left panics, you can see some ginned up controversies over
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  Speaker 3: the allegations of Trump stealing our democracy, climate change, Christian nationalism,
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  Speaker 3: or all of the above. Given the seriousness the potential
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  Speaker 3: contents of those burn bags, it wouldn't surprise me if
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  Speaker 3: the Left goes even harder with its lies and wrap
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  Speaker 3: up smears to try and take Trump out using the
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  Speaker 3: twenty fifth Amendment of the Constitution. As a result of
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  Speaker 3: the Trump administration's discovery of the burn bags, the President
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  Speaker 3: ordered the Office of the DNI, Department of Justice, and
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  Speaker 3: the FBI and the CIA to review the documents, analyze them,
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  Speaker 3: and see if any laws were broken. The analysis will
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  Speaker 3: focus on the handling of the sensitive information and the
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  Speaker 3: chain of custody of the documents themselves, and the contents
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  Speaker 3: of the documents that were never destroyed. It must be
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: noted that simply finding some old burn bags doesn't mean
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  Speaker 3: something improper was done. The federal government uses burn bags
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  Speaker 3: as a matter of course, to destroy sensitive materials that
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  Speaker 3: are that will no longer be kept on file. But
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  Speaker 3: the President believes that the bags documents could unearth critical
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  Speaker 3: information that has been concealed from the public eye. And
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  Speaker 3: that's one of the big things about what the President
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  Speaker 3: said the other night is that a lot of this
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  Speaker 3: information has been known for a long time, but the
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  Speaker 3: choice was made to conceal it from the public. And
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  Speaker 3: whenever that happens, that of course raises suspicion. Six fifty
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  Speaker 3: five KRC talkstation. It's summertime, and everyone's ourc the talkstation,
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  Speaker 3: so our regular media, the national media, the CBS's of
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  Speaker 3: the World, the NBCs, the ABC's CNN. Despite what Stelter
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  Speaker 3: had to stay yesterday, Joe, that cut, you gotta admit
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: that cut from Stelter was pretty good, talking about how
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  Speaker 3: CNN needs to be the one that goes in and
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  Speaker 3: looks at all this information and then distills it all
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  Speaker 3: down for you, because obviously you don't have the ability
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  Speaker 3: to do it for yourself. But places like the Federalists
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  Speaker 3: have been looking at the actually looking at the documents
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  Speaker 3: that was released by the Right House, and Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: talked about it the other night, and what they found
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  Speaker 3: was some interesting stuff. As it relates to China, the
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  Speaker 3: Chinese planned to stoke Black Lives Matter riots and other
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  Speaker 3: social unrest in twenty twenty using the corporate media to
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  Speaker 3: launder the narrative in order to tank the election for
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: President Donald Trump. According to documents released by the White
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  Speaker 3: House on Thursday, intelligent summaries from twenty twenty, which were
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  Speaker 3: apparently hidden from the president at the time, showed that
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  Speaker 3: the Chinese planned to encourage violent demonstrations and looting to
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  Speaker 3: increase the appearance of social unrest, all this ahead of
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  Speaker 3: the election, and to exploit US societal fishers and vulnerabilities,
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  Speaker 3: in part by alleging that white people hate black people.
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  Speaker 3: The Chinese were interested in inciting demonstrations and marches as
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  Speaker 3: evidence of racial divides, increasing the level of conflict between
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  Speaker 3: police and anti racism activists, and feeding any sense that
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  Speaker 3: US law enforcement represents or resents the usg and people
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  Speaker 3: of colors. According to one intelligent summary from a sensitive
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  Speaker 3: government agency, the document stated China had developed capabilities to
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  Speaker 3: project themes on these topics into social media like TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
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  Speaker 3: and others, as well as mainstream media through a variety
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: of overt and hidden influencers and media contributors. In other words,
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  Speaker 3: the document highlights the potential that the corporate media fuelling
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  Speaker 3: race riots and unrest in twenty twenty were either knowingly
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  Speaker 3: put wishing Chinese propaganda to alter the election, or they
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: were too dense to realize it. The media encouraged demands
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  Speaker 3: for a racial reckoning corporate capitulation to the BLM mob billions.
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  Speaker 3: And I remember I talked about this at the time
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  Speaker 3: that BLM was was going strong, and they were getting
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  Speaker 3: in some cases tens of millions of dollars from different
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  Speaker 3: corporate entities across the country. And for what so these
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  Speaker 3: corporate so these corporate entities could virtue signal to the
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  Speaker 3: rest of us how good they are, so they could
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  Speaker 3: avoid being targeted by the BLM folks, who, in the
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  Speaker 3: eyes of our media could do no wrong. But of course,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we come to find out that when they
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  Speaker 3: did come into a city that they shook down not
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  Speaker 3: only the corporate entities but the people for everything they
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  Speaker 3: were worth. Big rallies got a lot of volunteers able
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  Speaker 3: to siphon offul lot of money for themselves. They got
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  Speaker 3: one hell of a real estate portfolio out of it.
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  Speaker 3: And the people who run BLM are self declared communists
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  Speaker 3: and socialists. They live like kings. But the people who
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  Speaker 3: supported them, the people who saw to it that you know,
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  Speaker 3: put themselves at risk by being out on the streets
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  Speaker 3: confronting police, causing the unrest the mostly peaceful demonstrations that
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  Speaker 3: we saw on CNN. Those people walked away with nothing.
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  Speaker 3: In September of twenty twenty, the Heritage Foundation highlighted the
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  Speaker 3: possibility of Chinese influence in the BLM riots. Heritage noted
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  Speaker 3: ninety five percent of the riots were linked to BLM
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  Speaker 3: and pointed out evidence that Chinese activist groups were funding them,
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  Speaker 3: stating the US government should connect the dots and investigate
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  Speaker 3: the extent of the Chinese Communist Party support for Black
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  Speaker 3: Lives Matter organization and the riots. One month later, when
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  Speaker 3: the argument started again, or started gaining steam again, only
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: a few weeks from election day, Axios dutifully ran the
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  Speaker 3: headline right wing media falsely ties Black Lives Matter movement
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  Speaker 3: to Beijing. Of course they did so, just some of
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  Speaker 3: the documents that were in the trope of documents released
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  Speaker 3: by a Trump the other night, of course, which our
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  Speaker 3: national media has zero interest. At fifty five KRC the
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  Speaker 3: Carroll for Brian Thomas. I'm so glad to be here.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning at seven six on this Tuesday morning. Been
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  Speaker 3: talking a lot about and great callers earlier this morning.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate everyone that picked up the phone and called in.
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  Speaker 8: This morning.
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  Speaker 3: We were talking about the documents that were released by
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  Speaker 3: the President on Thursday, and my buddy Joe Freed, who
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  Speaker 3: lives up in the Cleveland area, has seen this and
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  Speaker 3: he took a look at some of the documents and
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  Speaker 3: he's written books. He's got a book called The Bunked
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  Speaker 3: talking about the twenty twenty election, and he is a
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  Speaker 3: prolific writer on substack. His substack is free, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: I just go to Joe Fried CPA substack dot com
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  Speaker 3: and he wrote a piece talking about the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: election and the fraud claims, and he writes, we've heard
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  Speaker 3: it many times according to so called journalists, claims made
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  Speaker 3: by President Trump regarding the election cheating are unfounded, disproven,
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  Speaker 3: or debunked. And if you listen to any of the
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  Speaker 3: newscasts that came out before the President's speech, you heard
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  Speaker 3: all those words and more right, no evidence, no evidence,
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  Speaker 3: no evidence, however, irrefutable evidence of large scale twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: election fraud exists. On Thursday, President outlined for specific specific
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  Speaker 3: areas of election concern. I'd like to address one of them,
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  Speaker 3: corrupt Michigan voter registrations in the twenty twenty election. Trump said,
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  Speaker 3: even and when significant evidence of fraud has been detected,
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  Speaker 3: it has been buried or covered up. The President is correct.
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  Speaker 3: Widespread evidence of Michigan fraud was detected before the twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty election. After it was discovered and reviewed by the FBI,
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  Speaker 3: it was concealed by the Biden DOJ. I know this
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  Speaker 3: because I read it numerous I read it in numerous
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  Speaker 3: confidential DOJ email communications. Shortly before the twenty twenty election,
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  Speaker 3: a woman walked into a Muskegon County, Michigan, election office
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  Speaker 3: and submitted eight to ten thousand voter registration applications. An
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 3: alert election clerk named Anne Meisch noticed that many of
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  Speaker 3: the applications were extremely suspicious, with birth dates, addresses, and
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  Speaker 3: signatures that did not match the information on related driver's licenses.
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  Speaker 3: Meish might be mish, but Meisch and co workers made
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  Speaker 3: a largely unsuccessful effort to verify the information by calling
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  Speaker 3: phone numbers on questionable applications. The matter was then turned
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  Speaker 3: over to muskege and local police and state authorities, including
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  Speaker 3: Secretary of State Joscelyn Benton and Attorney General Dana Nessel.
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  Speaker 3: They briefly investigated the matter before the probe was turned
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  Speaker 3: over to the FBI. It was then squelched by the
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  Speaker 3: Biden Department of Justice. The story went dark for almost
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  Speaker 3: three years until The Gateway Pundit published a series of
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  Speaker 3: articles based on state and city police reports. Here's a
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  Speaker 3: short recap of the GP reporting, followed by some confidential
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  Speaker 3: information that has not been widely reported. The woman who
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  Speaker 3: submitted the registration applications has the name of Brianna Hawkins
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  Speaker 3: and was paid eleven one hundred and fifty dollars per week,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 3: not eleven thousand, but one thousand, one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 3: dollars per week and given a rental card to a
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  Speaker 3: reloadable pay card. Her job was to register voters and
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  Speaker 3: help them use the registration to get ballots. The company
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  Speaker 3: she worked for was a Tennessee organization with the name
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  Speaker 3: GBI Strategies. It had numerous branches and activities in many
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  Speaker 3: areas of Michigan and in other locations in the United States,
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  Speaker 3: GBI had a very closed or had very close ties
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  Speaker 3: to high ranking Democrats and left leaning groups. A police
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  Speaker 3: investigation stated or implied in twenty eighteen, GBI was paid
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars by the Democrat
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  Speaker 3: Senatorial Campaign Committee, one million, five hundred and seventy one
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars by the Doug Jones for Senate Committee, and
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  Speaker 3: six hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars by the left
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  Speaker 3: wing New American Jobs Fund. During their investigation sation police
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  Speaker 3: found several semi automatic rifles joined with suppressors and optics,
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  Speaker 3: and customized pistols. Why they were there as a mystery?
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  Speaker 3: Police found dozens of new phones and hundreds of prepaid
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  Speaker 3: payment cards. Why hundreds were people being paid with cards
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  Speaker 3: if they registered and voted. GBI employees told police that
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  Speaker 3: they never advocated that people vote for Joe Biden or
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  Speaker 3: any particular candidate. However, police saw a script in the
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  Speaker 3: GBI office that encouraged people to vote for Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 3: City police went door to door to confirm that the
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  Speaker 3: registration forms possessed by GBI were fraudulent. Ruth Johnson, a
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  Speaker 3: former state Senator and former Secretary of State stated, my
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  Speaker 3: estimate is over eight hundred thousand ballot applications were sent
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  Speaker 3: to non qualified voters in Michigan. So fully understand the
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  Speaker 3: scale of this correcer option and the significance of the
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  Speaker 3: phony registrations, you need to know how easily they can
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  Speaker 3: be converted into votes. Although Michigan law requires a voter
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 3: to request a ballot application, Benson ignored the law and
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  Speaker 3: she automatically mailed out seven point seven million ballot applications
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  Speaker 3: to everyone who was a registered or who was registered,
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  Speaker 3: including four million who were not planning to vote, absentee
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 3: and those with the phony registrations obtained by GBI. To
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  Speaker 3: get a ballot application, no ID was required. The only
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  Speaker 3: voting stateguard in Michigan was signature matching. However, Secretary of
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  Speaker 3: State Joscelyn Benson unlawfully told election clerks throughout Michigan to
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  Speaker 3: presume that signatures matched. Fortunately, Ann miis, the woman who
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  Speaker 3: discovered the scandal, ignored Benson's unlawful instructions. So the Secretary
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  Speaker 3: State tells all these clerks to just presume that the
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  Speaker 3: signatures match, and that's good again. Good enough, for government work.
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  Speaker 3: How many times have we heard that, four months after
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  Speaker 3: the election, Benson's instructions were ruled to be illegal by
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  Speaker 3: a state judge. The mainstream media ignored that ruling, and
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  Speaker 3: no appeal was filed by the Secretary of State. Before
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  Speaker 3: the twenty twenty election, FBI agents knew that the real
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  Speaker 3: number of phony registrations could be several times larger than
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 3: eight thousand to ten thousand registrations originally reported. I have
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  Speaker 3: the specific names of those agents, but will not report
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  Speaker 3: them here. At least one official reported that the number
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  Speaker 3: of phony registrations could change the election results. Nevertheless, Richard Pilger,
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  Speaker 3: the man in charge of the DOJS election crimes branch,
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  Speaker 3: blocked any investigation of the matter prior to election certification.
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  Speaker 3: So Joe Free comes now to his conclusion. Jee Freed
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  Speaker 3: has concluded that registration applications were obtained by GBI in
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  Speaker 3: multiple cities in Michigan and elsewhere. It's clear some of
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  Speaker 3: the registrations were fabricated or obtained by trickery. In some instances,
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  Speaker 3: legitimate registrations may have been obtained, but via illegal financial inducements.
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  Speaker 3: When the Secretary of State automail ballot applications. The seven
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  Speaker 3: point seven million registrants. The people with phony registrations also
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  Speaker 3: received ballot applications. Because four million voters did not expect
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  Speaker 3: to receive a ballot application because they never asked for one,
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  Speaker 3: those applications ended up in the trash cans and landfills,
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  Speaker 3: and it were easily available to political operatives. The registrants,
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  Speaker 3: the real ones, and the phony ones, could fill out
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  Speaker 3: the application forms and obtain ballots without showing identification. Because
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  Speaker 3: of the instruction of jo Joscelyn Benson, all signatures on
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  Speaker 3: ballot applications were presumed to be legitimate. A review of
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  Speaker 3: the FBI and DOJ correspondent shows that some officials were
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  Speaker 3: very concerned about GBI and wanted to investigate before the
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty election. However, Richard Pilger, head of the Election
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  Speaker 3: Crimes Branch, blocked any such investigation until after the election,
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  Speaker 3: perhaps fearing that such an investigation would give credibility to
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: Trump's claim of election fraud. How many Michigan votes were
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 3: created by GBI, how many were produced by Joscelyn Benson's
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  Speaker 3: unlawful mass mailing of mass mailing of ballot applications, and
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  Speaker 3: by her unlawful signature instructions, it is impossible to know.
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  Speaker 3: That's why it was wrong to certify the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: Michigan election. And so that is the kind of deep dive.
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  Speaker 3: And look, Joe Freed is a guy who has been
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  Speaker 3: on this from the very beginning, so a lot of
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  Speaker 3: this stuff was not new to him. But it simply
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  Speaker 3: verifies the information that he's already had and has written
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  Speaker 3: books about. And this is the kind of this is
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  Speaker 3: the kind of reporting that should be going on every
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  Speaker 3: day by CBS, by ABC, by NBC. For all we know,
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  Speaker 3: they have people who are looking into it and have
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  Speaker 3: this information, but they are not choosing to report.
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  Speaker 1: It to you.
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  Speaker 3: that last article was a little long, but I think
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  Speaker 3: Joe Freed does a great job talking about the data
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 3: that was least in the documents, and we need we
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 3: need a lot more of that, a lot more reporting
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 3: about what and when when I find it, I'm going
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 3: to bring it to you. I told you earlier today
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 3: I had some food news and this one, to me
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: was a little bit surprising, Joe. You might find this
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: surprising as well. There is a major grocery store chain
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 3: out there that when it comes to price beats places
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 3: like Walmart and Oldie. As of course, everyone is looking
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 3: for relief from high prices and looking to get the
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 3: best deal they can, especially when it comes to groceries shoppers.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: In this piece from Fox Business News, shoppers looking to
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: stretch their grocery budgets may want to take a closer
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 3: look at Kroger. Yes, Kroger, the Ohio based grocer, has
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 3: the cheapest store brand grocery basket and a new price
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 3: comparison of the four major US grocery chains. New study
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 3: from Restaurant Furniture Plus compared the cost of fifteen store
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: brand essentials at Kroger, Walmart, Al D, and Albertson's. Doesn't
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 3: Kroger own Albertsons, Joe, They might, I don't know, But
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 3: they looked at Kroger, Walmart, All D, and Albertsons, and
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 3: they looked at things like milk, bread, eggs, chicken breasts, spaghetti,
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 3: canned beans, and baking items. For those things, Kroger ranked
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 3: number one with a total basket cost of thirty dollars.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 3: The grocer had the lowest price in ten of the
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 3: fifteen items analyzed, and more than any other retailer in
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 3: the study. Kroger operates roughly twenty nine grocery stores across
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 3: sixteen states. Also offered the lowest price on several pan
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 3: tree staples, including canned dice, tomatoes, spaghetti sugar, as well
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 3: as a dozen large eggs. Walmart came in second with
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 3: a basket total of thirty dollars ninety five cents, followed
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 3: by Audi at thirty three point fifteen, and Albertsons was
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 3: at thirty five fifty eight. So a thirty dollars grocery
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 3: cart of food at Kroger costs ninety five cents less
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 3: than Walmart, what two dollars and fifteen cents, or three
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 3: dollars and fifteen cents less than Aldi and almost six
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 3: dollars less than Alberton's. However, all these storeband dairy products
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 3: stood out as particularly as a particularly strong value. The
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 3: study noted survey did not include cost Costco Trader Joe's
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 3: Pigley Wiggly. Trader Joe's was excluded because it did not
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 3: carry some of the items in the comparison, while Costco's
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 3: bulk model made the single item price comparisons difficult. Southern
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 3: Living reported. The finding comes as many Americans continue to
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 3: feel the squeeze at the grocery store. Food prices have
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 3: climb thirty two percent over the past five years, pushing
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 3: more than one in four working age Americans into credit
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 3: card debt to cover regular grocery bills. According to a
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 3: new Urban Institute study released Monday, groceries are one of
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 3: the largest household budget items for families. Over the past
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 3: five years, food costs have increased substantially. The report said.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 3: This means that families today face persistently higher prices when
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 3: they go to the grocery store, and food affordability remains
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 3: a key concern for many. So that's a pretty good study, right.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 3: I'm actually if someone would have if I would have
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 3: had a wager on that, I think, Joe, I think
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: I might have lost that wager that Kroger was going
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 3: to have the best prices on that kind of stuff. Yeah,
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 3: I would, I would think. And there's an old close
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 3: to the Kroger that we go. We go to the
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 3: Kroger on a regularly. My wife loves my wife doesn't
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 3: want to go anywhere else. But no, there's some things
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 3: that we do get it aldi that it are very
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 3: appealing and that I like a lot. But yeah, if
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 3: you want to get the best value, the best deal
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 3: on when it comes to shopping for your food, do
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: your krogering sore.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: There's a.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 3: No cost to Kroger on that the little that little
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  Speaker 3: endorsement right there. Seven twenty five We got Tom's Owastowski
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  Speaker 3: straight ahead right after this on fifty five krc DE
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  Speaker 3: talk station.
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  Speaker 6: You have financially the talk.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 3: Station fifty five krc DE talk station coming up on.
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  Speaker 3: It is seven thirty on this Monday morning, Monday, Tuesday morning,
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 3: and always great to talk to our next guest, Tom
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 3: Zastowski of We the People conventioned down to Oregon. Tom,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 3: how are you doing this morning? You are you are
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 3: in the northern part of Ohio, are you not, sir?
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm an act.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: We're certainly been getting the smoke up.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 3: Here that yeah, sure, tell me about that, because over
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 3: the last couple of days, I was driving in this
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 3: morning and I felt like I could taste that little
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 3: bit of smokiness in my mouth. But uh, I think
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 3: you guys are getting it a lot worse up north,
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 3: being you know, giving your proximity to Canada there.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and even the you know the rain that we
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 8: got on Saturday, you know, which gave us a break.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 8: After I was over, you know, it came back pretty strong.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 8: I was yesterdays outside with some things and it smelled
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 8: like out of the campground. You know, you could you
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 8: could smell the you know, the burning timber type smell.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: And I mean, I'm just angry.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 8: Because this is this is you talk about man made
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 8: global warming, Well, this is man made Malfeasons that's creating
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 8: a disaster for hundreds of millions Americans. And it's like
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 8: nobody's staying anything about it. This shouldn't be happening. And
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 8: in Ohio there's business is being effect. I had an
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 8: email I put out last Friday that showed that Cedar
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 8: Point had to shut down because of the smoke. Really,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 8: if your Cedar, if your Cedar Point, your your season
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 8: is pretty small right because of our weather, So you
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 8: only have like so many days that you're really making
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 8: money For them to have to shut down the park,
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 8: I mean it's you couldn't even see the rides and
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 8: and so how much did that cost them? Well, where
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 8: do they go to get reimbursed for this? You know
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 8: that was done to them by Canada? And where's Mike
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 8: the wine and where's our other officials you know, saying hey,
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 8: wait a minute, this is wrong. You've got to stop
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 8: this because it's because of Canada not doing the things
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 8: they should be doing to control their forests. It's bad
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 8: forest management, just like in California.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if the if the general flow of air was
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 3: blowing let's say to the north, the northeast, then maybe
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 3: we not we might not be experiencing these problems. But
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 3: I read over the weekend that there are more than
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 3: nine hundred wildfires burning in Canada. Look, Canada's got a
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 3: lot of forest. I think Canada has more forests than
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 3: any other any other country on Earth. So I think
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 3: it behooves them too. They have good forest management, but
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 3: it seems to me that maybe they really have a
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 3: lack of firefighting ability. Are you aware of any US
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 3: efforts to you know, have we sent some some tankers,
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 3: some equipment, some personnel up there to help them deal
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 3: with these fires?
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: This is the point that's nuts.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 8: Okay, they haven't even asked us, they haven't even requested it.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 8: But you know what happens. There was a congressman who
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 8: used to be a firefighter, a forest firefighter, and he
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 8: did a post that said, whenever we have a fire
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 8: in the United States, Canada loves to send their people
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 8: to help us because.
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  Speaker 1: We pay them to come do it.
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  Speaker 8: But now they don't want to pay us to come
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 8: help their fire. And here's the thing that said. There's
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 8: a congressman from Michigan wrote a letter to Carney that
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 8: you know, the primers have said, we were told last
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 8: year that this would be treated with urgency.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: It was not.
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  Speaker 8: We were told the causes chronic underinvestment and forced in
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 8: fuelryduction and prescribe free prescribed burns, along with inadequate enforcement
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 8: against arson were being addressed. The letter read, they were
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 8: not or not adequately enough to matter to the people
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 8: we represent. Provincial leaders have offered excuses instead of results,
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 8: in some cases have ultimately dismissed the health of American
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 8: citizens as an inconvenience to their own summer. That attitude
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 8: is unacceptable from a neighbor and an ally they don't
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 8: care dan they're doing this. It's malfeesus. And Trump has
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 8: now said he's going to charge them tariffs to pay
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 8: for this. But my question is how how do the
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 8: cedar points to the world. How do the hospitals that
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 8: have had and you know, so many more people coming
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 8: in because of breathing difficulties get reimbursed? How does this
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 8: trickle down? Because that's what your representatives should be doing,
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 8: is protecting us against an assault.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 3: Well, no, I mean you make a great point. And
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 3: what court would have jurisdiction over that? What court would
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 3: be able to, you know, find Canada in the wrong
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 3: in order of payment and and I think of legis
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 3: not legislation, but litigation like that that would take years
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 3: and years and years. So any relief that is going
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 3: to come in a timely manner, you can probably pretty
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 3: much forget about that ever happening. So, I mean, you know,
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 3: and I don't know, there is are the are the
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 3: forest fires up?
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: There?
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 3: Are the arson? Are they an act of God? And
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 3: if they're an act of God with a lightning strike
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 3: or something like that, then I don't know how you
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 3: you know, I don't know how you hold them accountable.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 3: But it no, it is a terrible and I feel
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 3: I feel for you, man. I mean, you're you're getting
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 3: you know, we we don't have it that bad right
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 3: here in Cincinnati. I think over the weekend was probably
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 3: the first day that we noticed some haziness in the
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 3: sky and I could, I could sort of feel it
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 3: a little bit. Luckily, I don't have breathing issues, so
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 3: it's not an issue for me. But when you talk
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: about the medical side of it and then the ailments
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 3: and the consequences that come along with that, I mean,
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 3: that is a very real thing.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 8: Hey, the Guardians game was canceled on Friday.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 3: Night, wasn't really What is the cost?
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 8: Yes? I mean in the zoos our zoos were close.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 8: How much is this affecting police officers and people that
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 8: have to be out in the weather.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: I mean it's serious stuff. And where's Mike the wine?
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 8: Where's that strongly worded letter you know, from the governor
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 8: of Ohio to Kinder saying the mass on that yeah, right,
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 8: because he doesn't care.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: About Ohio's right.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 8: I guess if we were Haitians, maybe maybe it was
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 8: down there in Springfield the Haitians were being affected, he'd
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 8: write something.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: What do you think that it was?
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 3: I think you are right on the money right there.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 3: If yeah, if his friends in Springfield were being affected
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 3: by this, he'd be all over TV outraged about it. Tom,
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 3: stay right there. We got to get to a quick
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 3: break and we'll continue on seven thirty six fifty five
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• 1:33:09
  Speaker 3: buddy Tom Zastowski of We the People Convention, don to Oregon. Tom,
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 3: let me get your thoughts on what's happening right now
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 3: with the governor's race here in Ohio. I'm seeing a
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 3: lot of reporting as it relates to the polls and
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 3: that either they are neck and neck or I'm seeing
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 3: some reporting that Amy act And has a slight lead
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 3: over Aviake Ramaswami. And I think to myself, Number one,
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 3: how can that possibly be true? Number two? I saw
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 3: today where Avike Ramaswami put out a ten point list
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 3: of the things that he wants to do for Ohio,
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 3: and I think this is a good move by Ramaswami
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 3: because these are things that people can easily get their
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 3: head around. And here's his list. Slash your property taxes,
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 3: abolish state income tax, cut your electric bills, prosecute and
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 3: medicaid fraud, bring higher standards to our schools, slice your
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 3: healthcare cost, bring high paying jobs back to our state,
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 3: put human traffickers in prison where they belong, Teach kids
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 3: to be proud of our state and our country, and
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 3: crush crime in our cities. When I look at those
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 3: those ten points, I think that boils it down pretty
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 3: well that most people can understand about the Ramaswami campaign.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think those are excellent points, and I do think,
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 8: you know, those are the things people are interested in.
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 8: But now let's let's still with some political reality. Okay,
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 8: So let's let's define you know, what you're doing, whether
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 8: it's successful or not. The Vikes team quote unquote, which
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 8: is basically the case of Team Right, has spent like
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 8: twenty million dollars compared to Amy Actor's five million.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, and they're losing.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 8: They're losing. So that tells you your team sucks. Okay,
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 8: they stink. Second of all, I have said to the
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 8: Veke directly, I said to Rob a colleague directly. I
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 8: said to Matt Huffin directly. I said to all of them,
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 8: we don't believe you anymore. Actions speak louder than words,
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 8: I said to the vik. I handed the vake from
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 8: Aswami in February a plan to get a reform, not
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 8: a repeal, a reform of property taxes on the ballot
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 8: in November because that would show people that he could
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 8: read and that we were taking action. And he was
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 8: all for it until he picked Rob McCauley's lieutenant governor.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 8: And then the Columbus Cartel convinced him, Oh, you don't
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 8: really want to burn your political capital before you get elected.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 8: We'll do that in January. So then what does Tom
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 8: sawas Tawski do? Dan?
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: You know this.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 8: I go to them and say, you got this extra money? People,
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 8: the number one reason people are going to decide who
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 8: they vote for in November is the economy and inflation
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 8: and cost of living. A fox came out in June
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 8: said forty three percent of Ohio voters are going to
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 8: decide who to vote for based on cost a living.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 8: I wrote to the Bank, I wrote to McCauley, I
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 8: wrote to Alex t I wrote to Almas said, here's
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 8: the easiest political thing you could ever do. You have
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 8: one point five billion dollars more money than you need
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 8: in the budget, give us a fuel tax holiday, give
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 8: us our money back between now and the end of
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 8: the year, to show people that you will take action,
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 8: that you actually give a damn And what did they do? Nothing?
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 8: They're losing because they're all talk and no action.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 3: Dan is is the let me ask you this to
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 3: your way of thinking, is the fuel I'm not convinced
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 3: that eliminating or lifting the fuel tax is really a
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 3: solution that's that's going. It's a well, first of all,
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 3: it's not a it's a it's a band aid, and
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 3: it doesn't really I don't think it really has any
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 3: long term consequences. I understand the immediate relief that it
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 3: would bring, but I don't I don't know that it
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 3: that lifting the fuel tax that even for a short
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 3: period of time or whatever length of time results.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 8: It's not about the fill tax. Just like the property tax.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: Is it about property.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 8: Taxes, It's about reforming local government. The fuel tax is
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 8: it about the bill tax. What it's about is the
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 8: sons of solbs took one point five billion more money
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 8: than they need from us, and I had to figure
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 8: out how the hell did we get it back and
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 8: get it back quick and the fastest way to get
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 8: it back. It's every time you sell up your gas tank.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 8: And that's what it was about. It's about you took
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 8: too much of our money. Give some back. So what
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 8: did they do.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: Dan didn't give any of it back.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 8: They spend it all. They spend it all. And now
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 8: I find out out that not only did we have
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 8: one point five billion collected more in in taxes on us,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 8: mostly Incompa's it was one point eight billion, and then
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 8: it's worse standing then it's worth. Then there's eight hundred
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 8: million dollars of money that was budgeted that we didn't
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 8: need because of cuts and things like that, because of
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 8: some of the fraud that we cut. So now there's
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 8: one point eight plus eight hundred million. That's two point
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 8: four six billion dollars, and we give us a dime
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 8: a dime. That's what the fuel tax is about. It's
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 8: just a matter of, Hey, we're hurting and and if
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 8: I could save one hundred bucks a month on my gas, Yeah,
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 8: that's not going to solve all my problems. That's going
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 8: to make me feel like the Republicans care about me
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 8: and the future and they're actually going to do something
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 8: so that they could put out ten points.
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: Till the cows come home.
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 8: But how many of your listeners believe they're going to
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 8: do any of them?
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  Speaker 3: All right, Tom, stay right there. We got to get
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  Speaker 3: to another quick break and I've got some more questions
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  Speaker 3: for you, and we'll do that right after this fifty
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  Speaker 3: five KRC the talk station. If you're the one dealing
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  Speaker 3: with joint page seven on this Tuesday morning, as we
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  Speaker 3: continue on with Tom Zoastowski, we the people can mention
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  Speaker 5: Tom.
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  Speaker 3: I find it distressing in the extreme that the vik
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  Speaker 3: Ramaswami is using the same team that was used by
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  Speaker 3: John Kasik. The last thing I want is a governor
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  Speaker 3: who's going to do anything in the manner that John
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  Speaker 3: Kasick would. But I am seeing a lot of posts
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  Speaker 3: now and a lot of commercials by the Republican Party
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  Speaker 3: here in Ohio attacking Amy Acton for what may be
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  Speaker 3: suggesting that she has a serious drinking problem, suggesting that
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  Speaker 3: she can't hold a job. I guess they went back
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  Speaker 3: and looked at her record, and I guess over the
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  Speaker 3: last number of years she hasn't held a job more
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  Speaker 3: than eighteen months. They're attacking her for that, And to
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  Speaker 3: your way of thinking, is that an effective strategy and
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 3: a way to attack Amy acting.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm glad to see that. I mean, Stan, she's pathetic,
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 14: she's qualified to be anything, okay. And I said that
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  Speaker 14: the they months ago. I said, all you guys got
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 14: to do is go all the video.
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  Speaker 8: Remember they had a press conference every freaking day during
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 8: COVID and she looked like an idiot every day. I said,
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 8: I would be running those every day. That's all you
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 8: have to do. Just run those every day. People understand.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 8: So why aren't they winning? Why can't they get over this?
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 8: And with such a pathetic candidate who doesn't even have
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 8: that much money. And it's because they're not really engaged
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 8: with the people in their base to take the data
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  Speaker 8: center thing. Dan, you and I have been talking about that.
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  Speaker 8: I'm a proponent. I'm trying to educate people about they're
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 8: not as dangerous as they're trying to scare you into
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 8: leaving and all that. But I have said to the
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  Speaker 8: veik and to everyone else in the Republican Party, the
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  Speaker 8: left is dividing us. Our base is reallydivided. And I'm
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 8: talking about the Trump magabase is divided about data centers
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 8: because the Republicans refuse to lead the They should be
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 8: the one saying I hear you on data centers, We're
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 8: going to be the solution. I'm going to make sure
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 8: they don't raise your electric prices, I'm going to make
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  Speaker 8: sure they're safe. I'm going to hold them accountable. The
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 8: Republican Party will make sure we make safe data centers
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  Speaker 8: and that you benefit. They're not doing any of that,
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  Speaker 8: and so we are in serious danger of losing to
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  Speaker 8: someone as pathetic as Amy acting in November because we
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  Speaker 8: don't know how to lead. And that's what I'm most
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  Speaker 8: afraid of because our base, you know what I'm hearing
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  Speaker 8: from the grassroots, and you're wistards could chime in. I'm
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 8: sure they'll let you know. I'm here lots of people
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 8: in our base saying I'm just not going to vote.
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  Speaker 8: I'm just I'm just set up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, Well, you and I have definitely covered
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 3: that ground before and that that is simply not the
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 3: way to go, the idea that you will simply stay
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 3: home not vote because you're disgusted, and then look they're
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 3: there and you just laid out several reasons in the
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 3: short time that we've been talking this morning about why
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 3: people like me and you and people who want to
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 3: see real conservative values brought to the State House in Columbus.
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 3: As we're really tiring of Mike the wine and the
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 3: constant stream of of terrible ideas that he is bringing
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 3: to the four as he gets ready to exit the stage.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 3: But are are too many people holding their hopes on
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 3: when these two finally get on the debate stage together,
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  Speaker 3: because I fully expect him to wipe the floor with her.
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  Speaker 3: But if he follow the advice of the John Kasik people,
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 3: then he will take it easy on her. And I
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 3: don't think that is an effective strategy at all. I mean,
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 3: he needs well, I'll be vike Ramaswami has I think
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  Speaker 3: has every ability to just uh just make her look
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 3: completely foolish if they stand on state So.
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  Speaker 8: Guess what if I'm advising Amy acting, that never happens.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 8: I just never debate him, Right, That's what you do.
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  Speaker 8: You know, you protect against that kind of stuff. You
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 8: touched on a really important point just a second ago
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 8: that I want to get on.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, are you hearing? Are you hearing what I'm hearing?
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  Speaker 8: Our good friend Matt Meyer just wrote a sub stack
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 8: yesterday or the day before talking about well, you know,
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  Speaker 8: if Amy Acting won, it probably be good for Republicans.
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  Speaker 8: They would do they would act more conservative to stop
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  Speaker 8: her than they would if they reap re public In one,
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  Speaker 8: there are people in Columbus who want Amy Acting to
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  Speaker 8: win because they eat their power and they don't have
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 8: to be the consider as they claim they are. That's
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 8: the problem their phonies. Rhino means Republican in name only.
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  Speaker 8: That's the Columbus cartel, and the BIKE needs to differance
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  Speaker 8: themselves from them and instead.
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're Tom. I think you're one hundred percent
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  Speaker 3: right on that. It's it's not too late I think
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 3: for Vivek to turn his ship around and and maybe
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 3: decide to head a different direction. Tom, we got to run.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 3: The time always flies by whenever you're on my friend.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 3: People want to find out more about you. Where can
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 3: they go? We the People Convention.
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  Speaker 8: Dot Org, Yeah, and on except Tom z WTPC, same
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  Speaker 8: with Truce and Getteran, you know all those things. Tom
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  Speaker 8: z WTPC I post fairly often during the day, so.
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  Speaker 3: Z the talk station fifty five KRC the talk station
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  Speaker 3: eight oh six. On this Tuesday morning, Dan Carroll in
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 3: for Brian Thomas and I got to tell you, I've
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 3: been looking forward to this day for a long time.
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 3: Todd Bensman was a great guest on my show for many,
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 3: many different appearances. And I called him one time and
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 3: I said, hey, man, I said, I've got a show
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 3: coming up. I guess we texted, but he said I
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 3: can't right now because I'm working for the Trump administration.
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 3: And I said, hey, brother, I said, rock on. I said,
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 3: when you're done, I want you back on the show.
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 3: And he has just recently stepped away from the Trump administration,
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 3: working now as a senior research fellow for the Border
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 3: Security and Immigration Center or Center at the Heritage Foundation.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 3: And it is my great honor to welcome back Todd
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 3: Benz and Todd Bensman. How are you, sir. It's great
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 3: to have you back on the radio here in Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 2: That's doing great. I'm glad to have a voice back.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 2: Thank you for communications there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you can give me a general description and
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 3: overview of the kind of work you were doing with
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 3: the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 2: So I was senior advisor to the Director of Ice
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 2: and the Borders are and also DHS in general, you know,
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 2: and I did also a stint in the National counter
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: Terrorism Center, different different elements of the same missions. So
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 2: I was doing a lot on the mass deportation program,
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 2: how to get that done faster, quicker, and proposing other
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 2: kinds of fixes to weld the gates shut at the
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 2: border so that another administration can't undo what happened here
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 2: in the Trump administration, and working on the counter cartel
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 2: campaign out of the National counter Terrorism Center.
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  Speaker 3: In So, did you work closely with Tom Homan? Then
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 3: I did, Yeah, what's that like? What's it like being
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 3: around him on a regular basis?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would have liked to have been around him
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  Speaker 2: a lot more, because a guy like that is really
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 2: busy and sometimes, you know, you'd go through long periods
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 2: where you just could barely raise him on something that
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 2: was important. But he always got back to me. So
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 2: it may have taken a while. In fact, I just
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 2: talked to him again last night, So it is episodic
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 2: with a guy like that, a leader like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think he's terrific. I've had a chance
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  Speaker 3: to talk to him a few times when he was
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 3: with the Heritage Foundation, and he just the guy I
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 3: think is totally passionate about the work he does, especially
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 3: when it comes securing the border, because I mean, he's
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 3: seen up close and personal the human cost of what
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 3: happens when we have the kind of border chaos that
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 3: we had under the Biden administration. And you and I
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 3: talked a lot during that period of time about the
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 3: kind of chaos and just the absolute devastation that was
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 3: going on on a human scale there along the border.
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 3: When you talk about the people whose lives were lost
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 3: coming across there, when you talk about the property owners
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 3: who on a daily basis had all kinds of trash,
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 3: all kinds of drugs, all kinds of sometimes dead bodies
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 3: on their property. Give me a contrast in comparison to
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 3: what the border was like then during that time as
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 3: compared to what it's like now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a matt in a Super Bowl football stadium, all
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 2: the way full, seventy thousand and up. People crammed in
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 2: three of those every single month, we're pouring in over
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 2: the border and being allowed in to stay forever. That
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 2: happened for four years straight, three super Bowl stadiums a
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 2: month allowed in. So today you have something that that
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 2: equals out to about two hundred and fifty thousand on average.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: So today you.
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 2: Have about five thousand a month trying the border and
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 2: none of them getting in, all being turned around. So
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 2: it went from you know, a quarter of a million
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 2: a months to zero. And we've never had a border
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  Speaker 2: like this ever. I mean by every metric, we've never
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 2: seen a border like this. Yeah, some people probably get
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 2: through and get through the court on and get through
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  Speaker 2: into the interior, but then there's a mass deportation operation
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 2: going on from the border all the way into the interior,
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 2: and your odds of staying or not that great.
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  Speaker 13: Not like they were.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess that for those whose job it is
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 3: to be on the border every day, how much has
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 3: their situation improved? What is life like for them right now?
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 3: I remember several years ago at a television station I
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 3: was working out here locally in Cincinnati, Fox nineteen. We
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 3: had a guy come to the station and he came
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 3: from l Paso, Texas, And I said, what kind of
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 3: news did you cover in l Paso, Texas? He said,
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 3: I spent a lot of time at the border talking
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 3: about the cartels, the drug running operations, the you know,
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 3: all the illegals coming across. And I said, dude, I said,
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 3: you're going to be bored here because we don't have
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 3: anything like that going on here in Cincinnati. Although even
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 3: here in Cincinnati and in parts of Ohio we have
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 3: felt the influx of the illegal aliens coming here, and
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 3: thank god we have guys like Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones,
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 3: who have been very strong in the enforcement area on that.
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 3: But I talked about how he was going to be
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 3: bored here, and I would imagine that the boredom factor
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 3: maybe up quite a bit because of how quiet things
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 3: are along the southern border right now. Not that it's
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 3: over by any means, but just a day to day
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 3: life for the people who are there every single day.
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 3: It has to have proved immensely.
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got that right.
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  Speaker 2: Boredom is their biggest sort of problem to cope with now.
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, I've been down there since. Of course, the
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 2: border shut down. The border closed. It got like this
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 2: on the very first day on You can trace it
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 2: to January twentieth twenty. First it took one day to
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 2: close it all down. It was never some big comprehensive
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 2: immigration reform to fix a broken system, or some big
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 2: Senate bill that they were saying are root causes in
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 2: other countries that take thirty years to fix nothing like that.
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 2: All you had to do is just turn them all around.
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  Speaker 13: That's it.
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 2: Nobody wants us to drop ten grand to get turned
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 2: around and lose your ten grand. So if you're not
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 2: letting anyone in, you're staying home. The people are staying home.
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 2: And really what happens is, you know, there's still drug
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 2: smuggling and people are still trying to get across. And
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 2: when you know a drug load comes inwhere near a
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 2: border patrol sector, every dude in there is just running
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 2: and running to go get a piece of the action.
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 2: So you've got like, you know, swarms of nothing to
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 2: do border patrol agents, you know, jumping on that one
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 2: load that's coming across. So that's doing pretty good too.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 2: The drug interdictions that is happening pretty well is because
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 2: you got all these guys that are not doing a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, when you see ICE doing their enforcement operations in
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 3: various parts around the country, we have a steady mantra
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 3: now by the left, by the Democrats, by those who
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 3: are running for office, by many elements of the national
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 3: media that constantly malign ICE as being ill trained, ill equipped,
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 3: don't know what they're doing, violating civil rights, all the
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 3: rest of it. When you see that kind of reporting
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 3: about what these ICE officers are doing in the performance
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 3: of their duties trying to round up that I mean,
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 3: we're talking about murderers, drug dealers, rapists, child molesters of
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 3: the absolute worst kind. And these people are portrayed as
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 3: innocent victims who were just minding their own business and
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden they're seized upon by these ICE agents.
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 3: When you see that constant mantra being played out on
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 3: a daily basis, what do you think about the people
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 3: who are constantly putting that narrative out there.
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 2: Well, I've come to believe that that is part of
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 2: a very well orchestrated, well thought out propaganda war that
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 2: the Left is carrying out in order to undercut support
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 2: for ICE interior deportation. That reminds me, the whole thing
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 2: really reminds me more than anything else. Bear with me
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 2: here for a second of what Israel faced when it
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 2: was trying to wipe out Hamas and Gaza. The way
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 2: Hamas would always work this is they would fire a
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 2: rocket from a playground, knowing that the Israelis would have
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 2: to strike it. The strike would kill some people and
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 2: they had videographers out there filming the bloody bodies and
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 2: then pushing it out on social media saying, look at
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 2: these monsters what they did, and that actually was incredibly effective,
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 2: and it's very hard to undo for a government like
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 2: Israel or for an agency like ICE, which is out
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 2: there finally doing the normal job that Congress says they
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 2: have to do. And you have these ruckus groups all
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 2: organized all across the country that are attacking them with vehicles,
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 2: with fireworks, with baseball bats, with everything, just attacking, attacking, attacking,
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 2: and when they respond, as police will always do, you
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 2: can't just be attacked and not get the attacker down
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 2: on the ground. That gets videotaped and that gets pushed
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 2: all around on social media and it looks makes them
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 2: look terrible, and they say, well, these are Nazi thugs carrying
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 2: out a genocide. And I don't know what the answer
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 2: to that is except to because Israel never could get
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 2: over that, I mean, they lost a lot of global support.
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 2: And so that's kind of what I think. It's a
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 2: blame the victim thing, like domestic violence. Got I you know,
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 2: you're arresting somebody for domestic violence and he tells you, well,
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 2: she made me do it where you know, she was
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 2: Malvi and she made me do it, you know, or
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 2: a rapist saying well, she wore a short skirt, so
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 2: what do you expect. That's what That's what you're seeing
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 2: with ice all over the country. And it's really it's
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 2: it's really a difficult public relations, wicked problem to unravel.
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 3: Todd Bensman, stay right there. We got to get to
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 3: a quick break and we'll continue on on the other side.
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• 1:56:38
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  Speaker 3: with Todd Benzman of the Heritage Foundation, most recently of
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 3: the Trump administration working on border issues. I want to
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 3: ask you, Todd, about the piece who recently wrote talking
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 3: about securing America's border and the next step. One of
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 3: the next steps ought to be cracking down on lawyers
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 3: who engage in widespread asylum fraud. But before I get
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 3: to that, I want to ask you about the issue
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 3: of the missing children and the three hundred four hundred
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 3: thousand missing children that came across during the Biden administration.
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 3: And I was watching I don't know what I was watching.
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 3: But this number of three hundred thousand or four hundred
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 3: thousand missing children is another issue in the media that
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 3: constantly gets downplayed, and some are even suggesting that Tom
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 3: Holman is lying about this. And I think the administration,
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 3: Tom Homan has said they've recently recovered over one hundred
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 3: thousand of these kids. We recently had indictments right here
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 3: in Ohio of people who were sponsoring these kids, bringing
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  Speaker 3: them in and subjecting them the traffic and god knows
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  Speaker 3: what horrors. But the notion of the administration lying about
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 3: the number of missing and exploited children that came across
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  Speaker 3: are they lying about that? Is the media just simply
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 3: downplaying that and making it making it sound like it's
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  Speaker 3: not that big of a deal.
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  Speaker 2: No, of course it's true those children were lost in
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  Speaker 2: the system. The Biden administration never had a tracking bureaucracy
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that the foster parents that were signing
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  Speaker 2: up to bring these kids to their homes actually did
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 2: that and following up to make sure that the kids
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  Speaker 2: were okay afterwards. They just never did it, and there
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 2: were several hundred thousand that they just lost track of.
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  Speaker 2: So the priority there was for the Trump administration to
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  Speaker 2: just find out what happened to them, Were they exploited,
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  Speaker 2: Are they okay? Were they trafficked or labor trafficked? Where
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  Speaker 2: are they? And that has been very systematic, very successful,
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  Speaker 2: I think the administration. The latest number I hold is
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 2: about one hundred and fifty thousand have now been located.
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  Speaker 2: We picked up their trail and figured out where they are.
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  Speaker 2: That's very good news to even know that they're safe,
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  Speaker 2: to discount that they didn't get trafficked or something terrible
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  Speaker 2: happened to them. Most of them we have learned, we're
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  Speaker 2: not exploited. We're not we're not labor trafficked or sex trafficked.
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  Speaker 2: They were just simply brought into the country, given to
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  Speaker 2: a foster person who was often just paid money. And
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  Speaker 2: then they moved on to their regular families that were
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 2: hiding here in the country, or friends or you know,
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 2: old next door neighbors or whatever, and you know, went
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 2: to work, went to school, got on with things after
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  Speaker 2: being able to abuse the system that Biden had set up.
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  Speaker 2: But plenty of them did get sex traffic and labor profits.
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  Speaker 1: Too.
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  Speaker 2: Many did get abused, and those are cases that are
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  Speaker 2: being prosecuted.
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  Speaker 3: Now, let's talk about the piece he wrote about the
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration and their push to go after immigration lawyers
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  Speaker 3: who are engaging in what you call mass asylum fraud.
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  Speaker 3: And I've always said, I've always said the border issue
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  Speaker 3: is something that is multi pronged. There are multiple elements
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  Speaker 3: to it, and this is another element that now that
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 3: we have things secure at the border, we can concentrate
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  Speaker 3: on things like this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the whole world knows about the American asylum system
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  Speaker 2: that if you cross the border and claim asylum, you
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 2: get in forever. That's just the way it works, whether
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 2: you asylum or not. As beside the point, it takes
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 2: years for an adjudication to happen, so nobody cares at
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 2: all if they get asylum. They just use it to
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 2: be able to just get into the country and disappear.
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 2: And most of them get that, do carry on with
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 2: an asylum claim, lose so and then nobody ever deports them,
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 2: right under democratic administration. So it's this huge, draw powerful
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  Speaker 2: magnet for mass migration. And what I'm arguing is that
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  Speaker 2: the Trump administration should not just go prosecute the lawyers
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 2: that mass assembly line these people into into the asylum system.
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 2: They should go after the individual aliens who are lying
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 2: on their forms that they were persecuted in other countries
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 2: when they weren't so, and put them in prison, Mom
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 2: and pops, regular people that just lied, and make sure
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  Speaker 2: that that's publicized globally, that there's a chance that you're
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 2: going to end up in prison if you lie on
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 2: your asylum forms. And that's that's really what I'm arguing for.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the appointment of a special attorney in Blanche's office,
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 2: the Attorney General's office that puts in place a process
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 2: where all ninety four US attorneys, you know, the lead prosecutors,
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 2: their appointment positions, do some of these every year to
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 2: send a message, a very important message, because one of
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 2: these guys, you know, Jose or you know whoever it is,
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 2: is that in prison for lying on their assylum application.
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 2: The rest of the world is going to hear about
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 2: it on social media and maybe they won't be so
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  Speaker 2: inclined to do it next time.
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  Speaker 3: Todd Bensmin, We've got to run. But let me ask
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  Speaker 3: you this real quick, if we god forbid, have another
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  Speaker 3: let's say a Kamala Harris or an AOC or another
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  Speaker 3: Joe Biden like Democrat who gets into the White House.
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  Speaker 3: How long will it take for that Democrat to undo
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 3: all the good things as it relates to the border.
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 3: How long will it take them to undo all these
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 3: things that have been done by the Trump administration?
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 2: Approximately one hour?
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  Speaker 3: O my god, oh my god, that's all it takes,
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  Speaker 3: all right.
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  Speaker 2: He shut it down in one hour on his first day.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody can just flick the switch and start letting people
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 2: in on asylum claims again, and.
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  Speaker 3: It's on, and we'll go right back to the chaos
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 3: that we had before. Todd Bensman, so great to have
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 3: you on. I could have you on for the next
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  Speaker 3: two hours, but I know you got to run. Todd Bensman,
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  Speaker 3: thank you so much for the time today. Keep up
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 3: the great work, my friend, and with your permission, I'll
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 3: be calling on you again before too long.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, thank you, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Todd Bensman from the Heritage Foundation. And I'll tell
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  Speaker 3: you what, there's no one who knows more about border
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  Speaker 3: issues than that guy. Eight twenty eight Dan Carroll for
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  Speaker 3: Brian Thomas, fifty five KRCV station Why do You Love Me?
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  Speaker 1: The Talk Station.
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  Speaker 3: Fifty five KRC The talk station Really wanted to thank
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  Speaker 3: Todd Bensman for being here, a great conversation with him
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 3: and what's happening at the border and that question I
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 3: asked him at the end there that if another Democrat,
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  Speaker 3: or God forbid, one of these democrat socialist communists gets
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 3: into the White House again, he literally said, in the
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 3: span of an hour, they can undo all the good
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 3: that has been done at the border under the Trump administration.
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 3: And think about that, in literally one day, we shut
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 3: down the border and the number of illegal border crossings
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 3: says and the Trump administration has said this for months
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 3: now has gone down to zero. And when you think
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 3: about the cost in the toll of human suffering, the
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 3: lives lost, the lives destroyed, the kids who were lost, thankfully,
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 3: and he was working with the Trump administration on this
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 3: where they found some of these kids actually did wind
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 3: up going to families, maybe not the initial ones who
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 3: sponsored them. Some of these kids did wind up not
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 3: being trafficked, not being abused, but far too many of
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 3: them did. And that still doesn't excuse the Biden administration
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 3: for the way they handled this situation with hundreds of
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 3: thousands of kids who found themselves in terrible situations but
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 3: think about that, we are so close to going back
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 3: to that kind of chaos that we had at the border.
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 3: And I would love to go down there sometime and
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 3: talk to some of the property owners because I think
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 3: that was a story that was way way way underreported
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 3: about the and Bill illusion. Fox News back in the day,
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 3: it did a great job of reporting on that kind
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 3: of stuff, the kind of things that people had property
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 3: near the border and they knew the illegals were coming across,
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 3: making them afraid to walk their own property. The trash,
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 3: the drugs, the rapes that were going on on a day,
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 3: on the daily and nightly basis, all that has come
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 3: to an end, and the media couldn't care less about it.
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 3: They really could. They didn't care about it when it
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 3: was going on, even though lawmakers knew about it, and
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 3: there was testimony from people who did know that was
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 3: going on in front of in front of Congress. So,
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 3: and I've said this many times before, I'm so sick
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 3: of this narrative that's out there about Oh, how you
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 3: know how great the Biden administration was compared to the
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 3: Trump administration because they cared about people, really, and they
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 3: let this kind of stuff go on I don't think so.
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 3: It is absolutely one of the most shameful chapters in
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 3: the history of the United States. And someday we'll come
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 3: to realize that eight thirty five fifty five KRC the
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  Speaker 3: by the way, if you want to pick up the
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  Speaker 3: phone five one three seven fifty five hundred. And I
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 3: saw this headline US Coast Guard monitors Chinese ships off
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  Speaker 3: Alaska coast and I'm thinking to myself, well, that's good.
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 3: Chinese ships near the Alaska coast and keep an eye
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 3: on them, Coast Guard. But I'm thinking to myself, Joe,
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  Speaker 3: why is that news. Isn't that what the Coast Guard
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 3: should be doing every single day, monitoring ships that come
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 3: near US territory out there on the waters. It's something
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 3: they should be doing all the time. And look, thank god,
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 3: the Coast Guard is there to do what they want
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 3: to do, or do what they have to do, do
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 3: what they what we need them to do. Thank God
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 3: they are there, and they should be actively monitoring, especially
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 3: Chinese ships that come near the US borders. This week,
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 3: US Coast Guard are to cut a crew monitored to
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 3: Chinese research ships that entered US waters. This was the
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 3: I guess this was the first time this happened this year,
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 3: so maybe maybe that's why it is news. Summer, they
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 3: chased a couple of Chinese vessels away, which seems to
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 3: be a step up from just monitoring them. But it's
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 3: all good. I'm glad they're out there and I'm glad
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 3: they're doing with it. I mentioned at the top of
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 3: the show if you were around at five this morning,
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 3: that I have some celebrity news, which I don't normally do,
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 3: And here is that celebrity news. This one involves William
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 3: Shatner of Star Trek Fame Joe, did you know that
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 3: William Shatner has a heavy metal band. William Shatner is
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 3: preparing to take the stage with his heavy metal band
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 3: and they're going to do a show. The band is
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 3: called the and it's got an asterisk with the letters U,
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 3: C K E R S after it, So I don't
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 3: know what what letter the ask for it stands for,
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 3: but that's the name of his band, and they are
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 3: going to play for the first time at riot Fest
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 3: in Chicago in September. The Star trek Icon will perform
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 3: on September twentieth at Douglas Park, promising fans an unforgettable show.
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 3: He said, I've always believed that music like Space is
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 3: about exploration. Riotfest is exactly the kind of place where
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 3: anything can happen. William Shatner says, We're bringing the volume,
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 3: the intensity, and a few surprises. I can't wait to
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 3: share this experience with the fans. Joe, how old do
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 3: you think William Shatner is. He's ninety five years old.
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 3: Ninety five, He says, this is an event you'll be
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 3: telling your grandchildren about ninety five years old. And Bill
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 3: Shatner is going to get up there in rocket with
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 3: his band. I can't wait. I mean, I'm not going
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 3: to go. If I was in Chicago, I might go.
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 3: I don't think I'm going to be in Chicago come September.
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to see the video of this, Joe.
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 3: If I'm doing this show in September around Honor, around
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 3: September twentieth or twenty first, or whatever the case may be,
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 3: I'm going to find some video and we're going to
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 3: play it on this I'm going to remind everyone I
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 3: told you about the William Shatner William Shatner heavy metal
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 3: band and God bless him. Look, I was a big
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 3: Captain Kirk fan watching Star Trek back in the day.
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 3: A lot of the work that he has done, some
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 3: of the commercials he has done are absolutely some of
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 3: the best things that I have ever seen. And will Shatner,
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 3: he wants to get out there and rocket with his
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 3: heavy metal band. I think that'll be fantastic. I have
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 3: more celebrity news, but don't have time to fit it
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 3: in right here, and I'll do it on the other
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 3: side of the break We've got coming up in about
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 3: a minute and a half. In the meantime, let's go
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 3: to doctor j Rissover, who is calling in this morning.
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 3: And doctor J, how are you this morning?
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 13: I am fantastic, hope you're doing well.
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 1: You sound great?
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you sir. What do you have for us
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 3: this morning?
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  Speaker 13: Well, first, I agree with you on William Shatner. You know,
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 13: he actually made an album once and it was kind
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 13: of him talking and yes, speaking music.
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 3: But did we do a couple of Christmas songs on
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 3: that album too? If memory believe he did.
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  Speaker 13: I'm an old Captain Kirksan myself.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, but I know that.
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  Speaker 13: Tonight, July twenty first, empower you is having its enterprise
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• 2:12:50
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• 2:12:55
  Speaker 13: to come and educate and to learn and to enjoy.
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  Speaker 13: And this should be very interesting. Mike Wilson's giving us
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 13: a great lecture. And he was on the show last
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 13: week talking about his class for individual Use of AI,
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 13: which was really good. If anyone missed it, you can
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 13: catch it at the empower you website. It's a great
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  Speaker 13: You have to register in advance, or you can just
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• 2:13:21
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• 2:13:24
  Speaker 13: kind of above my pay grade, but it's a good thing.
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 13: We have Mike Wilson who knows all about this. He teaches,
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 13: he teaches, he's paid to put AI into other companies.
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 13: And so if you have a small company or you're
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 13: wondering how you could use AI in a more compulicated way.
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 13: This is the class to tune into and find out
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 13: how to do it.
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  Speaker 3: All right, well, doctor j Empower, you does great work,
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 3: and I want to thank you for calling in and
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 3: updating us on that. And you have yourself a great day, sir,
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 3: And there you go. Well, let's go ahead and get
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  Speaker 3: to a break and you will continue on after this
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  Speaker 3: On fifty five KRC, the talk stays the whole the
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  Speaker 3: boom like never before. We've got Joshan in front road
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  Speaker 3: seats for the fifth fifty five KRC the talk station Joe,
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  Speaker 3: this isn't William Shatner's band, is it? I can't wait
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 3: for that. It gives me a reason to look forward
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 3: to September. I told you I had more celebrity news today,
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 3: and this involves our friend or old friend, Richard Gear.
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 3: And Richard Gear gave an interview to the Associated Press. Why.
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 3: I don't know why they wanted to talk to him,
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but the subject of US A I
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  Speaker 3: D came up and Richard Year is apparently big mad
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 3: that that the Trump administration has seen fit to do
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  Speaker 3: away with a lot of the A lot of the
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 3: stupid stuff that USA i D was was paying for
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 3: and Richard Year's mind, well that say, it just doesn't
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 3: sit all that well with him. Let's hear how he
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 3: put it, Joe, if we could, please, let's hear cut
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  Speaker 3: number three.
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  Speaker 10: USA I D was probably the most pure thing that
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 10: America did up to that moment. It was a giveaway
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 10: program to needy people. Whether it was health, was education,
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 10: it was women's issues. It was all kinds of stuff,
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 10: big things, small things. And what they did with HIV
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 10: AD say, tens of millions of blows continuing. He stopped
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 10: that day one, and it was insane. He this is
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 10: a guy who was never in the building USA had
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 10: to do. I was there for decades. He wouldn't even
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 10: know what it stands for. And he has idiots around him.
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 10: Idiots around him have the same ignorance about him. I'd
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 10: be ashamed of her. Yes, there was a good part
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 10: of us. He keeps saying, with the wealthiest, most powerful
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 10: country in the world. Well, what do you do if
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 10: you're the wealthiest, most powerful, can you help get money?
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 10: You help people are doing a.
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  Speaker 3: Health care Yeah, Richard gear all about helping people with
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 3: your money. With other people's money. Joe, how long has
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 3: Richard Gear been making movies? I want to say that
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 3: goes all the way back to the nineteen eighties. That
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 3: guy's been making movies for a long time. I'm sure
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 3: he's been paid millions and millions and millions of dollars
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 3: to make movies. If he's so concerned about USAID stopping
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 3: all the wonderful stuff that they've been doing, he's free
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 3: to write a check to whatever. I would love to
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 3: see Richard Gear write some checks to these NGOs that
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 3: were sustained by us AID money for god knows how long,
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 3: and watch how much of his money gets down to
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 3: the people who really need it. Then I wonder how
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 3: generous he would be when he talks about all the
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 3: wonderful things and the lie that people are dying. Look,
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  Speaker 3: Marco Rubio, the State Department took over USAID functions and
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  Speaker 3: the stuff that was necessary that really helped people. That
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to AIDS prevention or disease prevention, illness,
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  Speaker 3: those kind of things, those kind of things that continue,
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of the stupid stuff has continued too,
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  Speaker 3: because a lot of Republicans in Congress failed to enact
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  Speaker 3: these cuts that were suggested by those and then Richard
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  Speaker 3: Gear goes on to say he has a lot of
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  Speaker 3: idiots around him who have the same ignorance about it. Really, Joe,
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  Speaker 3: would you like to see Richard Gear debate someone like
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  Speaker 3: Steve Would that be? How good? Would something like? How
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  Speaker 3: about Caroline Levitt? I would love to see Richard Gear
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  Speaker 3: walk in with a podium right across from Caroline Levitt
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  Speaker 3: and have them go at it for forty five minutes
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  Speaker 3: or an hour. I would love to see Richard Gear
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  Speaker 3: maybe have talk about the pros and cons of us
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  Speaker 3: AI D with someone like Marco Rubio, because you know,
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  Speaker 3: Trump has all these idiots around him who have all
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  Speaker 3: these ignorance about it. Rapid response, which is Caroline Levitt's
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  Speaker 3: White House outlet on X put this out, what would
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  Speaker 3: the world do without millions for Guatemalan Guatemalan sex changes
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  Speaker 3: or DEI in Serbia Because that's the kind of and
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  Speaker 3: she used the word bs that us AID was funding.
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  Speaker 3: It was a slush fund for radical left activists to
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  Speaker 3: a rich themselves and undermine American interests. And when you
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  Speaker 3: look at the stupid stuff that USAID was funding, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the list goes on and on and on. A transgender
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  Speaker 3: op theater production in Colombia, forty seven thousand dollars, a
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  Speaker 3: transgender comic book in Peru, thirty two thousand dollars for
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  Speaker 3: that language training, seven point nine million for journalists in
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  Speaker 3: Sri Lanka so they could avoid using binary gendered language.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, NGO profited millions of dollars off of
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  Speaker 3: that expenditure. The mind, the mind just reels when you
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  Speaker 3: think about all the money that was going out through USAID.
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  Speaker 3: And Richard Gere talks about the idiots around Trump who
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  Speaker 3: are ignorant of all the wonderful things that they did.
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  Speaker 3: What a clown. It is eight fifty five. That is
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  Speaker 3: it for me. I gotta go. Glenn Beck is up next.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be back tomorrow morning, brighton early at five am.
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  Speaker 3: And I hope you are too. Joe Strecker, as always,
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  Speaker 3: thank you for everything, and we will see you tomorrow
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