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Kevin Gordon in for Brian 7/14/2026 · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Fifty five k the Talk Station and now Kevin Golden
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Speaker 1: filling in for Brian Thomas on fifty five KOs the
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Speaker 1: Talk Station.
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Speaker 2: Five minutes after five o'clock. Thank you so much for
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Speaker 2: being there. I certainly appreciate it. We're going to just
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Speaker 2: have all kinds of fun today. If you check out
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Speaker 2: my Facebook page, you'll know that I, as always, I
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Speaker 2: usually post what not, Usually you always post what we're
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Speaker 2: going to have going on, and pretty much from here
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Speaker 2: until seven thirty, it's going to be you, me and
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Speaker 2: the phones, and I might slip in an opinion or
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Speaker 2: two along the way. At seven thirty, we're going to
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Speaker 2: be talking to Tom Zewastowski. We're gonna be talking about, well,
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Speaker 2: the website we the people Convention dot org. Why are
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Speaker 2: Republicans running away from suspending the gas tax? Well, greedy
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Speaker 2: little kind of comes to mind there every dime that
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Speaker 2: you Well, we'll get into that a minute here. Well
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Speaker 2: should I start off with an opinion right off the
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Speaker 2: pat Well, heck yes, But anyway, Uh, eight oh five,
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Speaker 2: we're going to be talking to bright Bart News Randy
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Speaker 2: Clark by bright Bart News Border Reporter. I've got a
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Speaker 2: couple of articles that are interesting now getting back to
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Speaker 2: the gas tax. As you may know, I host America's
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Speaker 2: Trucking Network on our sister station, and you can go
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Speaker 2: to my Facebook page and look up the times or
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Speaker 2: go to that and all that sort of thing. So
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Speaker 2: don't advertise the other station on your own on the
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Speaker 2: show you're on, as they tell me. But as part
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Speaker 2: of that, I see the gas prices on a daily basis,
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Speaker 2: talk about gas prices on a daily basis, talk about
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Speaker 2: oil prices on a daily basis, and what has going
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Speaker 2: on in the Middle East, because that affects the trucking industry,
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Speaker 2: but it affects everybody everything. Every There isn't a business
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Speaker 2: out there that isn't affected by energy prices. If energy prices,
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Speaker 2: if we didn't have energy, you wouldn't be hearing my
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Speaker 2: voice right now. There'd be no lights on in the studio,
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Speaker 2: attorney's office, there would be no lights and well, no,
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Speaker 2: wait a minute, maybe that's not such a bad idea.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, factories, everything runs on energy, so it goes
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Speaker 2: across all sectors of the economy and why it is
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Speaker 2: so important and why we need to pay attention to that.
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Speaker 2: So in addition to that, I see these different states
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Speaker 2: rolling back their gasoline taxes, and if you go online
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Speaker 2: to Triple A, they will give you the national average
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Speaker 2: for gas prices, and then they show you the map
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Speaker 2: in terms of who has the highest gas price and
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Speaker 2: who has the lowest gas prices. And I believe it
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Speaker 2: was a little over a month ago, maybe a month ago,
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Speaker 2: Indiana lowered their gas tax to the point where because
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Speaker 2: of eliminating the gas tax or holding that in abeyance,
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Speaker 2: they are now and usually a step back a moment,
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Speaker 2: usually the lowest gas prices you can see in Texas,
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Speaker 2: sometimes Georgia, sometimes Mississippi a lot of those stations, and
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Speaker 2: once in a while Alabama. So it usually bounces between
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Speaker 2: those because they have the lowest taxes and whatever. But
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Speaker 2: over the last month, Indiana, who had been kind of
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Speaker 2: mid range along with Ohio and so on, they are
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Speaker 2: now the lowest gas prices in the country, and by
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Speaker 2: the equation of that an averaging actually a dollar thirty
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Speaker 2: lower than the highest gas prices in the country, which
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Speaker 2: right now happens to be Hawaii. For the longest time
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Speaker 2: it was, and it probably will be soon because California
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Speaker 2: has increased their gas tax. They had always been one
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Speaker 2: of the highest that and what's amazing about that is
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Speaker 2: that there are no refineries in Hawaii. There are no
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Speaker 2: oil wells in Hawaii, so everything, so every bit of
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Speaker 2: gasoline that has to be used there has to be
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Speaker 2: taken by ship, So that adds an additional cost to that.
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Speaker 2: So you would expect their gas prices to be higher.
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Speaker 2: But for the longest time, the highest gas prices were
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Speaker 2: in California because they've got something almost like a dollar
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Speaker 2: fifty or so in additional taxes above what the normal
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Speaker 2: taxes are. But for the state of Ohio, if you're
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Speaker 2: in the on your if you're on the western border
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Speaker 2: of Ohio, I'm sure people are going over to Indiana
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Speaker 2: and filling up because the lower gas prices are over there.
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Speaker 2: And you mean to tell me that a state, and
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Speaker 2: especially a state that is fiscally responsible supposedly is controlled
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Speaker 2: by Republicans, you would think that, being for the people,
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Speaker 2: that they would lower these gas prices. Again, you would
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Speaker 2: be wrong. So I'm sure we'll get into that and
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Speaker 2: the wise wherefores and all that sort of thing. So anyway,
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Speaker 2: during today's show, there's a couple of myths that I
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Speaker 2: would like to bust. One I've been hearing news at
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Speaker 2: the top of the hour driving in and every time
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Speaker 2: there is a segment on MS now or CNN or
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Speaker 2: some of these other places, they always talk about it.
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Speaker 2: They always make some sort of a snide comment about
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Speaker 2: the war with Iran, and they'll say something stupid like, well,
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Speaker 2: haven't we accomplished a lot? The strait of horror moves
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Speaker 2: was wide open, and then we attacked ran and then
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Speaker 2: the strait got closed, and now we've opened it. So
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Speaker 2: what have we gained? And so we'll get into that
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Speaker 2: a little bit. Also out there has been all these
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Speaker 2: comments and it seems that with the commy takeover of
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Speaker 2: the Democratic Party, and of course, you know they call
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Speaker 2: it democratic socialists and all that sort of stuff, which
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Speaker 2: you know is a nice and general way, but if
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Speaker 2: you listen to what they have to say and how
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Speaker 2: they say it, they are flat out communists. And now
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Speaker 2: that the Democrats have allowed the nose of the communist
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Speaker 2: camel into the tent because you know, after all, they
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Speaker 2: do have a big tent and they're a big tent party,
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Speaker 2: which means that. And if you listen to Hakeem Jeffreys
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Speaker 2: and Chucky Schumer, they will tell you that, oh well,
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Speaker 2: you know, we are a big tent and we bring
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Speaker 2: in everybody that we can and then we will you know,
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Speaker 2: they will work alongside us and we will kind of
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Speaker 2: show them the robes type of thing. You don't understand.
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Speaker 2: Apparently you haven't read your history books. And we'll talk
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Speaker 2: about that a little bit as well. Also got a
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Speaker 2: couple of things. Oh well. And one of the people
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Speaker 2: that's sounding the alarm, which is kind of interesting given
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Speaker 2: his background, is James Carvill. And you know, based on
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Speaker 2: some of his comments in the past and some of
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Speaker 2: the stuff that he's said over the years, it's interesting
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Speaker 2: that all of a sudden now he decides that he
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Speaker 2: wants to be relevant. So we got a whole bunch
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Speaker 2: of things to talk about, and it just infuriates me.
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Speaker 2: And I've said this before, getting back to taxes and
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Speaker 2: so on. You know, when you get into some conversations
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Speaker 2: with people, and especially obviously politicians, and they start talking about, well,
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Speaker 2: I was a thing, this was a coup several years ago,
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Speaker 2: and this economics professor from Notre Dame University of Notre
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Speaker 2: Dame was talking about how much the federal government is
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Speaker 2: getting ripped off, ripped off basically in his estimation because
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Speaker 2: of the mortgage interest deduction and that the amount of
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Speaker 2: loss revenue from that, and the way he was talking,
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Speaker 2: you know, everybody was kind of like nodding along, and
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Speaker 2: finally I just raised my hand and I said, you know,
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Speaker 2: the way you talk is typical of most liberal economists
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Speaker 2: and people attuned to the government, in that every time
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Speaker 2: we make is yours. You think it's all part of
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Speaker 2: the government. We think in terms of when we get
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Speaker 2: our paycheck and we see the net pay we look
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Speaker 2: at that and say, okay, that's our part that we
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Speaker 2: get to keep, or that that we earn after we've
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Speaker 2: paid our taxes. No, in the idea of these politicians,
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Speaker 2: that is the amount of money they let you keep.
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Speaker 2: They think they own it all, and if they had
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Speaker 2: their way, in a lot of instances, it would be socialism.
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Speaker 2: You would be working for the government. And let's not
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Speaker 2: forget from you know, being a recovering accountant and going
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Speaker 2: back to and you don't hear this talked about very
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Speaker 2: often anymore. You know, you have April fifteenth as tax Day.
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Speaker 2: You also have tax liberation Day, the point at which
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Speaker 2: during the year that you have paid all your taxes
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Speaker 2: in if they were to confiscate every one of your
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Speaker 2: paychecks from the beginning of the year to that point
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Speaker 2: is where you have worked for either the federal, the county,
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Speaker 2: the state, the city to pay your taxes. And that
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Speaker 2: number kept getting pushed back further in and further into
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Speaker 2: the year, or push forward, however you look at it,
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Speaker 2: into the year to the point where you know, April
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Speaker 2: fifteenth came along, but Tax Freedom Day was like May
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Speaker 2: the first, May the fifteenth and so on, and they
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Speaker 2: stopped reporting that because people were going, wait a minute,
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Speaker 2: I'm working twenty five percent of the year or a
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Speaker 2: third of the year, is however much to just to
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Speaker 2: pay my taxes? And basically you are working for free
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Speaker 2: for those three four five months until you get tax
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Speaker 2: Liberation Day. So again, that's some of the things that
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Speaker 2: I rail on and that people need to understand. And again,
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Speaker 2: when you get into all the waste, fraud and abuse
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Speaker 2: and all that sort of thing that you see, you
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Speaker 2: kind of wonder, why can't they cut a budget. Why
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Speaker 2: can't they reduce their budget when we have to reduce hours.
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Speaker 2: Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty five hundred, one,
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Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three Talk one eight hundred eight
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Speaker 2: two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty
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Speaker 2: AT and T wireless phone. I'm Kevin Gordon in for
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Speaker 2: Brian Thomas. Fifty five krs the talk station.
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Speaker 3: Our iHeart Radio Music Festival.
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Speaker 2: Five twenty in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas.
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Speaker 2: Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty, five
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Speaker 2: hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk one eight
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Speaker 2: hundred A two three eight two five five pound, five
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Speaker 2: point fifty AT and T wireless phone, tant rested and ready.
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Speaker 2: Joe Strecker is back. That's good to have him. Love
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Speaker 2: working with him because he does such a great job.
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Speaker 2: So there you have it. One of the things I
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Speaker 2: didn't mention yesterday because for some reason I missed it
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Speaker 2: last week and didn't bring it up on my show.
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Speaker 2: And I don't understand. I don't know why people don't
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Speaker 2: talk about this on the four wheelers side. But cbsa
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Speaker 2: road check blists checks for secure records and cargo. However,
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Speaker 2: they are also this week they are checking for speed
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Speaker 2: and for reckless driving. Now, I had mentioned yesterday that
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Speaker 2: we were out of town for the weekend and driving
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Speaker 2: a three and a half hours for our granddaughter's fifteenth birthday,
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Speaker 2: and spent the weekend with our son and just had
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Speaker 2: a great old time. But on Friday when we drove
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Speaker 2: up there, it was kind of clear sailing and it
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Speaker 2: wasn't too bad. A lot of traffic on the road,
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Speaker 2: which is good because as you see people on vacation,
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Speaker 2: you know, that's good for the travel and leisure organization
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Speaker 2: part of the economy. And then when you see a
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Speaker 2: lot of trucks, you know, most and let's you know,
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Speaker 2: when you see a lot of trucks, it seems like
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Speaker 2: it's an aggravation because they're you know, they're slower than
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Speaker 2: the rest of the traffic, and when they're trying to pass,
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Speaker 2: they hold up traffic, et cetera. But you know know
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Speaker 2: full well that when they're doing that, though, are the
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Speaker 2: many trucks out there. That's why you have the food
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Speaker 2: on the shelves, to clothes in the clothing department, the
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Speaker 2: furniture and so on. So again with that, but coming
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Speaker 2: back on Sunday, it seemed like, well, going up, I
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Speaker 2: think I only saw three State troopers off to the side.
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Speaker 2: Coming back, I think I counted about ten of them
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Speaker 2: and in a three and a half hour dry or
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Speaker 2: a three and a half three and a half hour
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Speaker 2: road trip, that's a lot of highway patrolman to see.
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Speaker 2: So uh, it's kind of interesting that they're out there
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Speaker 2: in force and they're they're doing their bit to clamp
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Speaker 2: down on reckless as they talk about reckless driving now,
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Speaker 2: of course they're looking for all kinds of things in
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Speaker 2: terms of speed, unsafe lane changes, texting using cell phones,
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Speaker 2: distracted driving, and so on. And I'll tell you, based
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Speaker 2: on what I was seeing on the way back and
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Speaker 2: on the way up, people are getting worse and worse
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Speaker 2: on the highway and I think a lot of people
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Speaker 2: have just absolutely lost their mind. So again, it's interesting
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Speaker 2: to see how that So it's going on. It started
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Speaker 2: on the twelfth and it will go on until the eighteenth,
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Speaker 2: so it'll be interesting to see how that plays out
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Speaker 2: and how many well last year, And I'll kind of
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Speaker 2: get into some of the statistics maybe later on. I
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Speaker 2: think I pulled the wrong story here because this is
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Speaker 2: the one referring to road check on brake systems and
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Speaker 2: so on. But from the topic I talked about yesterday,
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Speaker 2: it seemed like year well, I'll get this distics later on,
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Speaker 2: but just be aware that over the next few days
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Speaker 2: well as always, safe driving is important, but make sure
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Speaker 2: that you pay attention at least until the eighteenth, because
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Speaker 2: they're going to be out in full force and they're
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Speaker 2: going to be issuing tickets. It seemed like the ratio
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Speaker 2: was for every between the warnings and the actual tickets written.
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Speaker 2: For the trucking industry, it was the number of site,
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Speaker 2: the number of warnings versus a number of actually traffic tickets.
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Speaker 2: Traffic tickets were about fifty seven percent on the four
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Speaker 2: wheelers side, it was one hundred and ninety one percent higher.
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Speaker 2: So they were really cramping down, clamping down on speeding
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Speaker 2: and all that sort of stuff last year, and I
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Speaker 2: would assume they're going to be doing the same thing
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Speaker 2: this year. So again, forewarned is for armed be careful
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Speaker 2: out there because you know you want to get home safe.
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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what, it's getting worse and worse
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Speaker 2: out there on some of these uh I call him
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Speaker 2: out of control drivers. I mean, you know, when you
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Speaker 2: when you're driving in congested traffic and everybody else is
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Speaker 2: traveling along at about sixty sixty five miles an hour
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Speaker 2: and somebody decides that they want to go eighty and
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Speaker 2: uh weaving in and out of traffic and all that
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Speaker 2: sort of stuff. That is quite a danger anyway, So
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Speaker 2: my little rant there, uh five phone numbers five one, three, seven, four, nine,
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Speaker 2: fifty five one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one
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Speaker 2: eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound
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Speaker 2: five point fifty on that at and T wireless phone.
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five care see
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Speaker 2: the talk station.
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Speaker 4: Gas prices, growth prices.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, jump the gun there. Saw him in the
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Speaker 2: hallway and I knew that he was going to be
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Speaker 2: doing traffic. But he'll be up at the next break.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, some local headlines that we were covering for
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Speaker 2: you this morning. More ramps to permanently close as part
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Speaker 2: of the Brent Spence Bridge corridor. Of course, you know
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Speaker 2: we've known about this, and as you know that I
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Speaker 2: participated in the group back in twenty thirteen that when
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Speaker 2: they wanted to toll the Brent Spence Bridge or the
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Speaker 2: Companion Bridge, that they had to pass some legislation through
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Speaker 2: the Kentucky House and Senate in order to do that.
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Speaker 2: A group of us pushed back on that and avoided
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Speaker 2: that because they kept saying, well, it's going to be
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Speaker 2: a public private partnership that we need the bridge right here,
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Speaker 2: right now. It can't wait, can't wait another minute. And
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Speaker 2: so in twenty thirteen we pushed back because they were
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Speaker 2: going to have tolls, and as we talked about tolls
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Speaker 2: are taxes, and the amount of money that they claimed
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Speaker 2: that they were going to collect versus what they knew
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Speaker 2: they were going to collect but not telling us was
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Speaker 2: just astronomical. And then of course with the with the
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Speaker 2: infrastructure bill that was passed, there was money available for
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Speaker 2: the Brent Spnz Bridge or the Companion Bridge. And even
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Speaker 2: though that was done, what now four years ago, and
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Speaker 2: let's not forget, okay, twenty thirteen, this bridge according to Ohio, Kentucky,
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Speaker 2: Indiana Regional Council of Governments, the Chamber of Commerce in
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Speaker 2: Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky both chambers, it had to be
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Speaker 2: built right here, right now, we can't wait another minute. Well,
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Speaker 2: when the funding got available for it, four years later,
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Speaker 2: they're starting to do the construction. So how busy was it?
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Speaker 2: And then when you look at the projections back then
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Speaker 2: in terms of the traffic that they were expecting. That
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Speaker 2: was it never panned out in terms of the amount
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Speaker 2: of the traffic that they said that they thought the
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Speaker 2: projections were going to be. And of course COVID had
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Speaker 2: a little bit done to that, so kind of sidetracked there,
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Speaker 2: we're supposed to do the news here, Kevin, get back
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Speaker 2: to that. Westbound US fifty sixth Street Viaduct to Guest
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Speaker 2: Street will permanently close around eight pm on Tuesday. The
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Speaker 2: detour will follow Lynn Street and West sixth Street service Road.
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Speaker 2: I seventy one northbound ramp to Second Street will temporarily
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Speaker 2: close around eight pm on Wednesday. The I seventy one
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Speaker 2: to Second Street Exit one A will be closed until
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Speaker 2: fall of twenty twenty eight. The detour will follow I
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Speaker 2: seventy one northbound to Fifth Street and so on. I
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Speaker 2: will post this on my Facebook page, and I would
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Speaker 2: imagine that somewhere around on some of the other pages
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Speaker 2: you'll see that as well. And so I'll put that
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Speaker 2: on my Facebook page, by the way, which is cleverly
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Speaker 2: named Kevin Gordon. You can go there and we'll put
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Speaker 2: this story up there. Since I Public School Board DeLay's
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Speaker 2: tax levy vote approves budgets with cuts since I Public
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Speaker 2: School Board approves a budget Monday night, also voting to
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Speaker 2: delay a decision not placing a tax levee on the
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Speaker 2: November ballotte. Came roughly two weeks after the district announced
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Speaker 2: a fifty eight million dollar budget cut. The approved budget
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Speaker 2: includes a two percent expenditure reduction, decreasing planned spending by
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Speaker 2: twelve point seven million. Well planned spending that would mean
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Speaker 2: probably deferred maintenance, which we'll come back and bite them later.
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Speaker 2: On tax levy decision postpone, the board is considering placing
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Speaker 2: a new levee on the November ballot for the first
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Speaker 2: time in a decade. Members are weighing these three options.
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Speaker 2: Two different property tax measures, and an earned income tax.
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Speaker 2: I think I saw it's not in this particular story,
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Speaker 2: but they would do this earned income tax for a
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Speaker 2: period of time, and there would be a sunset on that.
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Speaker 2: That is another lie that the government tells you. There
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Speaker 2: is no such thing as a sunset tax. As a
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Speaker 2: matter of fact, I'll talk about say I'll save that
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Speaker 2: for the next segment when we're doing a little bit
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Speaker 2: more opinion. I see Joe in there smiling. I think
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Speaker 2: he's thinking that we're in for it today, so anyway,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna have a lot of fun. But anyway. Eighty
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Speaker 2: six year old man assaulted in Green Township parking lot
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Speaker 2: after a fender bender. Eighty six year old man is
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Speaker 2: recovering after he was assaulted in a parking lot along
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Speaker 2: Glenway Avenue last Wednesday. The incident began when the victim
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Speaker 2: was backing up in a parking lot aisle and collided
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Speaker 2: with another driver who was also backing out of a
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Speaker 2: parking space. The other driver insisted that they not call
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Speaker 2: the police and demanded money from the victim. Victim's money
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Speaker 2: phone was thrown, man knocked to the ground. When the
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Speaker 2: victim pulled out his phone, the other driver snatched it
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Speaker 2: and threw it on the ground. The driver then threw
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Speaker 2: the older man to the ground before fleeing the scene.
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Speaker 2: Investigation is underway to suspect a suspect. Identified authorities are
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Speaker 2: investigating the incident as an assault. The victim said the
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Speaker 2: actual owner of the assailants vehicle had been identified, and
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Speaker 2: he believes police have also identified the assailant. No arrest
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Speaker 2: has been confirmed. The victims said he anticipates having to
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Speaker 2: sue for repairs. For his vehicle. The case came to
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Speaker 2: the attention the reporters after the victim's daughter posted on
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Speaker 2: social media. So again, in a parking lot, you would
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Speaker 2: think that they would have cameras and be able to
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Speaker 2: kind of identify that a little bit. But from some
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Speaker 2: of the video cameras that I've seen on some of
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Speaker 2: these stores, being able to make out certain faces or
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Speaker 2: license plate numbers might be a little difficult. But again,
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Speaker 2: who knows phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty,
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Speaker 2: five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk one
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Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound
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Speaker 2: five point fifty AT and T wireless phone, Kevin Gordon
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Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas fifty five krs the talk station.
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Speaker 5: The semifinals are set for the twenty fifty five krs
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Speaker 5: the talk.
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Speaker 2: Station five thirty nine in the morning Kevin Gordon and
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Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas fifty five krs the talk stations. Phone
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Speaker 2: numbers five one, three, seven four nine, fifty, five hundred one,
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Speaker 2: eight hundred eighty two three talk one, eight hundred eight
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Speaker 2: two three eight two, five five pound five point fifty
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Speaker 2: on that AT and T wireless phone. And speaking of
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Speaker 2: which to the phones. We go, let's talk to Tom.
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Speaker 2: Tom fifty five kr C, Thanks for calling, certainly appreciate it.
23:36
Speaker 2: How are you this morning?
23:39
Speaker 6: I'm doing great?
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Speaker 2: Good. Great.
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Speaker 6: Were you were saying, why didn't Ohio suspend the gas taxes?
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Speaker 7: Ah, well that's how we Yeah, that's how we fund
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Speaker 7: our road improvements and rebuild new roads.
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Speaker 6: And Indiana only has about one hundred and seventy something
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Speaker 6: thousand lane miles. We've got two hundred and ninety thousand
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Speaker 6: lane miles in Ohio and if we don't keep fixing them,
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Speaker 6: we're gonna have to pay the tax.
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Speaker 2: Well, they're not fixing them now, Tom, I mean, what
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Speaker 2: are they doing with the money that they're collecting. I
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Speaker 2: mean if they're not, if they're not repairing the roads
24:12
Speaker 2: the way they're supposed to, then then what are they
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Speaker 2: doing with the money. And they can shift funds around,
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Speaker 2: they can figure out a way of doing this temporarily
24:22
Speaker 2: to help them. It's not like you're going to repeal
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Speaker 2: the gas tax. It's just temporarily suspending it. And oh,
24:29
Speaker 2: by the way, one of the things I had a
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Speaker 2: conversation again interviewing on another program show I host somebody
24:37
Speaker 2: from the It's oh Ida, the Owner operator Independent Drivers Association.
24:44
Speaker 2: They are opposed to repealing a revocation of any gas
24:49
Speaker 2: taxes because again that goes into the Federal Highway Trust Fund.
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Speaker 2: And as I discovered, as I talked about earlier working
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Speaker 2: on that issue as far as the Brent Spence Bridge
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Speaker 2: in twenty thirteen, I discovered that thirty three percent of
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Speaker 2: everything that is paid into the Federal Highway Trust Fund
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Speaker 2: is wasted. It is spent on the light rail system,
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Speaker 2: that Northeast Rail system, in the Northeast Amtrak. Part of
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Speaker 2: the money is spent on turtle tunnels, spent on hiking
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Speaker 2: and biking trails. All that comes out of the Federal
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Speaker 2: Highway Trust Fund. So thirty three percent of the dollars
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Speaker 2: come there. And when they start whining about the shortfall
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Speaker 2: in that, then they should be putting And I joke
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Speaker 2: about this, but why can't they if they if they,
25:40
Speaker 2: you know, they keep telling us that they need to
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Speaker 2: toll roads and have these tolls because it's a user fee.
25:46
Speaker 2: If you use it, you pay for it. Why aren't
25:48
Speaker 2: they paying Why aren't they hikers and bikers paying for
25:51
Speaker 2: the for the hiking and biking trails they could pay
25:54
Speaker 2: they could put a little bit of a tax on
25:57
Speaker 2: the helmets, all the equipment, the bike and all that
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Speaker 2: sort of stuff to fund that, but instead of taking
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Speaker 2: out of the Highway Trust Fund. So again, I mean,
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Speaker 2: I didn't mean to, but you have some more points
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Speaker 2: about the gas tax.
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Speaker 8: And yeah, I just think the bicycle a lot of
26:12
Speaker 8: bicycle lane miles. We plow them, we have to pay them,
26:16
Speaker 8: maintain them, and those bicycles are not paying any lane mile.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, keep on that. But I think the gas tax,
26:25
Speaker 2: at least temporarily could be rolled back. I think there's
26:28
Speaker 2: other ways that they could do this. Now. As a
26:31
Speaker 2: matter of fact, you know, when I was talking about
26:34
Speaker 2: these taxes that are talked about as far as the
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Speaker 2: City of Cincinnati their public schools, and they were talking
26:39
Speaker 2: about doing this earned income tax tax, earned income tax
26:45
Speaker 2: that with a sunset clause, these taxes never have a
26:50
Speaker 2: sunset clause. Back in the day, when they did the
26:53
Speaker 2: Ohio Turnpike, that was supposed to be paid off, and
26:57
Speaker 2: once that was paid off, they were no longer going
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Speaker 2: to collect tolls. But under what was his name? The
27:05
Speaker 2: name escapes me right now, but the governor at the
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Speaker 2: time decided that okay, well instead of this sunset clause
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Speaker 2: in eighty eight, they then renewed it and then they
27:18
Speaker 2: wount Kasik was the guy. Eventually, what they did is
27:22
Speaker 2: they said, well, we're going to renew this again. So
27:25
Speaker 2: they leveraged the revenue off the Ohio Turnpike and had
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Speaker 2: industrial revenue bonds for that, and then took that money
27:35
Speaker 2: and started repairing roads and doing maintenance, building new roads
27:40
Speaker 2: in southeast Ohio and other places around the state. So
27:45
Speaker 2: the people up there paying the toll on the Ohio
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Speaker 2: Turnpike were in fact paying for road construction elsewhere. And
27:55
Speaker 2: you know, these tolls, they never go away. Earned the
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Speaker 2: city says, hey puts this earned income tax on, it'll
28:05
Speaker 2: never go away. So these taxes once and I got
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Speaker 2: another one for you that I'll bring up in a
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Speaker 2: little while. But uh, it's just it is infuriating when
28:15
Speaker 2: you dig into the numbers and you see where the
28:19
Speaker 2: money goes, and why nobody is trying to do anything
28:23
Speaker 2: to stop that, and why people aren't pointing that out.
28:27
Speaker 2: But that's why you have me here, because I will
28:29
Speaker 2: point that out for you. Phone number seven four nine
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Speaker 2: fifty five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred one,
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Speaker 2: eight hundred eighty two three Talk one eight hundred eight
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Speaker 2: two three eight two five five pound, five point fifty
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Speaker 2: AT and T wireless phone. William, You'll be coming up next.
28:44
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, the
28:48
Speaker 2: Talk Station. This summer on iHeartRadio, we'll win a trip
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Speaker 2: to see.
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Speaker 5: Brian five krs KEEP Talk Station.
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Speaker 2: Five forty nine in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for
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Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, fifty five KRS the Talk Station. A little
29:13
Speaker 2: side note on the air quality index. I've mentioned in
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Speaker 2: the past that where my wife and I live in Wilder, Kentucky,
29:22
Speaker 2: we overlooked the Licking River Valley and we've got basically
29:28
Speaker 2: a two hundred and twenty degree angle to where we
29:31
Speaker 2: can see downtown and a Latonia across the river and
29:36
Speaker 2: Fort Wright, Fort Mitchell, all that up on the hill
29:38
Speaker 2: and everything, and so we can kind of see where,
29:43
Speaker 2: you know, it's sort of getting hot and humid, and
29:45
Speaker 2: the hayes and all this sort of stuff. So I
29:48
Speaker 2: looked it up over the weekend and what is weird
29:52
Speaker 2: is that the hayes that we're seeing out there and
29:54
Speaker 2: part of our air quality is wildfires out west that
30:00
Speaker 2: up in the jet stream and had our way, and
30:04
Speaker 2: we get visits from our fifty first state up above
30:07
Speaker 2: us that the wildfires up there trickled down. And one
30:11
Speaker 2: of the other things that's kind of creating this layer
30:15
Speaker 2: of a bit of a heat dome, if you will,
30:18
Speaker 2: is Sahara Desert dust that is up in the atmosphere
30:24
Speaker 2: five thousand miles away from the Sahara Desert and that's
30:28
Speaker 2: up in the jet stream and all that sort of thing.
30:30
Speaker 2: So you know, as far as the from our the wildfire,
30:34
Speaker 2: I mean, shoot, you get fired, you get wildfire smoking
30:39
Speaker 2: stuff from the west, which is one of our states.
30:41
Speaker 2: So we might as well have the fifty first state
30:43
Speaker 2: being Canada, since we have to put up with their
30:46
Speaker 2: smoke and small So anyway, it's my two cents worth. Anyway,
30:50
Speaker 2: let's get to the phones and speak to with William.
30:52
Speaker 2: William fifty five krs. How are you this morning?
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Speaker 3: I am going wonderful. You mentioned earlier they're not repairing
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Speaker 3: roads in different things Kentucky, in particular Exit one. It
31:07
Speaker 3: has always been an ongoing thing where I've called the
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Speaker 3: local district of Highway to fix at least five to
31:16
Speaker 3: six potholes that have been open for about two years now.
31:20
Speaker 3: If you come northbound, that's southbound, and then if you
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Speaker 3: get two seventy five.
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Speaker 2: One way, an one ninety two exit.
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Speaker 3: Would be that twelfth Street exit.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, twelve Street.
31:34
Speaker 3: Exit, twelve Street right across the bridge. Okay, So you
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Speaker 3: get that, and there's like five or six right there
31:42
Speaker 3: that have I've called. I contacted the Kentucky Department of
31:46
Speaker 3: Transportation down in Frankfurt. I have no resolve at all. Additionally,
31:51
Speaker 3: northbound past to seventy five, there are potholes in the
31:56
Speaker 3: second lane that have continued to get larger, and I
32:01
Speaker 3: just I've never been able to get anybody to address those.
32:04
Speaker 3: And those are things that if you don't fix them now,
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Speaker 3: they'll become bigger and bigger.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, department in the Kentucky Department of Highways now District
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Speaker 2: six in Kentucky is the one for the area there.
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Speaker 2: You can call their phone number. You can look that up. Oh,
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Speaker 2: I have got Okay.
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Speaker 3: That's my point. I have called repeatedly over the years,
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Speaker 3: and nothing has been done.
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Speaker 2: Now with that that being an interstate highway that is
32:33
Speaker 2: more federal and so you should don't get me started,
32:41
Speaker 2: you should call our congressman in the fourth district that
32:44
Speaker 2: is so busy grand standing on everything else, even though
32:48
Speaker 2: he's on the Transportation committee. You would think maybe his
32:52
Speaker 2: office would be open to maybe having some of these
32:55
Speaker 2: potholes repaired in the fourth district. Give his office a call,
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Speaker 2: Thomas Massey. Thomas Massey, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 3: It's just aggravating because, yeah, that the Department of Transportation
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Speaker 3: District SICK is responsible for that jurisdiction, but they have not.
33:15
Speaker 3: And the guy once told me, he said, well, we
33:18
Speaker 3: have limited funds. I'm like, okay, we're talking about a
33:21
Speaker 3: few shovels full.
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Speaker 9: Of how much more kinetics it can't and as the
33:30
Speaker 9: amount of money that they waste on the hiking and
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Speaker 9: biking trails.
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Speaker 2: And the the Amtrak in the Northeast Corridor. They've got
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Speaker 2: the funds, they're just misspending them.
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Speaker 3: Now I have given up on them.
33:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know about in Kentucky, but I know
33:47
Speaker 2: in Ohio. I should know this. But if you report
33:51
Speaker 2: a pothole in certain jurisdictions and if there is damage,
33:56
Speaker 2: once they have been notified that there is a there
34:00
Speaker 2: is a suit, you can file a lawsuit against the
34:04
Speaker 2: state in order to collect that money. So and I
34:07
Speaker 2: think that money sent it. And it's funny they have
34:10
Speaker 2: money set aside to pay for damage as opposed to
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Speaker 2: putting money aside to prevent the damage in the first place.
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Speaker 3: Well, I just hope this being on the air, that
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Speaker 3: somebody is listening and say, oh my gosh, this guy's
34:27
Speaker 3: been right. We haven't fixed any of these things.
34:31
Speaker 2: Called Thomas Massey's office, he's got a local office here
34:35
Speaker 2: in uh, I think it's the Florence area. Just look
34:38
Speaker 2: it up and I'll look it up during the break
34:42
Speaker 2: and if you're going to be hanging on, I'll mention
34:44
Speaker 2: that phone number. But he's so busy grand standing and
34:48
Speaker 2: I guess whining because he lost his primary that that well,
34:54
Speaker 2: a member of the Transportation Committee, he hasn't done a
34:58
Speaker 2: darn thing for Northern Kentuck in terms of that particular
35:02
Speaker 2: agency that he's been part of or overseeing that anyway,
35:05
Speaker 2: coming up, Uh, well, well we'll get into some more
35:09
Speaker 2: mischief here. I want to get a touch based on
35:12
Speaker 2: these XIZ taxes and stuff like that, as far as
35:15
Speaker 2: the gasoline tax, just a little bit uh phone numbers, uh,
35:18
Speaker 2: top the hour of five, one, three, seven two three,
35:23
Speaker 2: Talk one, eight hundred eight two, three eight two five, five,
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Speaker 2: pound five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin
35:29
Speaker 2: Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC the talk station.
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Speaker 10: The iHeartRadio app where we put the app, the talk station.
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Speaker 1: And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on
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Speaker 1: fifty five KOs the talk station.
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Speaker 2: Six minutes after six o'clock. Thank you so much for
36:02
Speaker 2: being there. Certainly appreciated. Phone numbers five one, three, seven,
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Speaker 2: four nine, fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two
36:09
Speaker 2: three talk one, eight hundred eighty two, three eight two
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Speaker 2: five five and pound five fifty on that AT and
36:15
Speaker 2: T wireless phone. You know, last hour we were talking
36:19
Speaker 2: about taxes and how they never go away. Tolls on
36:23
Speaker 2: roads never go away. Now how about this one? Okay,
36:28
Speaker 2: the the this unbelievable. Going back to earlier this year,
36:36
Speaker 2: American Trucking Associations applauded congressional leaders for introducing legislation to
36:41
Speaker 2: repeal an antiquated federal excise tax on the purchase of
36:46
Speaker 2: new trucks and trailers. Now, this excise tax that is
36:50
Speaker 2: paid goes into the federal Highway Trust Fund, and as
36:55
Speaker 2: we talked about in the previous hour, thirty three percent
37:00
Speaker 2: the amount of money that goes into the Federal Highway
37:04
Speaker 2: Trust Fund is spent on items like the Northeast Amtrak
37:09
Speaker 2: rail system, you know, the one that Joe Biden used
37:12
Speaker 2: to brag about that he and you know at least
37:14
Speaker 2: compliments to him on one item is that he took
37:18
Speaker 2: that train home every night to be with his family.
37:21
Speaker 2: Now he's only paying a couple of bucks each way
37:24
Speaker 2: when he should be paying a lot more. But that
37:27
Speaker 2: was subsidized by our gas tax money and excise tax
37:32
Speaker 2: the truckers pay all right. Then, in addition to that,
37:35
Speaker 2: you have these hiking and biking trails, and as I
37:38
Speaker 2: mentioned during the discussion about Companion Bridge to the Brent
37:44
Speaker 2: Spence Bridge in twenty thirteen, they said, well, you know
37:47
Speaker 2: a toll, it's a user fee. If you use it,
37:50
Speaker 2: you pay for it. Well, if you find out highways
37:53
Speaker 2: or hiking trails and biking trails are being paid out
37:56
Speaker 2: of that, where is the user fee on that? That
38:00
Speaker 2: the amount of money, Off the top of my head,
38:02
Speaker 2: I wasn't planning on talking about it, but I believe
38:05
Speaker 2: that off the top of my head. That is anywhere
38:08
Speaker 2: that is about an eighteen billion dollar industry and the
38:14
Speaker 2: net worth or the earners of that are in high
38:18
Speaker 2: income ranges. With the hiking boots, the sticks, the shorts,
38:23
Speaker 2: the boot and I think boots, the helmets for the bikes.
38:29
Speaker 2: Think of all the accessories for the bikes. If they
38:32
Speaker 2: would just put a maybe seven percent five percent tax
38:37
Speaker 2: on that, they could fund all the hiking and biking
38:39
Speaker 2: trails that they want. And then when you take into
38:43
Speaker 2: consideration what is done and how the highway system was
38:48
Speaker 2: first originated. The original bill for that was the National
38:55
Speaker 2: Defense and Highway Act, done by Dwight and howerback in
39:00
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty six because of his experience in the army
39:05
Speaker 2: in nineteen twenty after the end of World War One
39:11
Speaker 2: where they took a convoy of vehicles from Washington, d c.
39:17
Speaker 2: To San Francisco to see how long that would take.
39:20
Speaker 2: When it took two and a half to three months,
39:24
Speaker 2: that was unbelievable. And then during World War Two, as
39:28
Speaker 2: the commander in chief of the Allied commander saw how
39:33
Speaker 2: Germany had developed the autubahn and they could move troops
39:37
Speaker 2: rapidly from one end of the country to the other,
39:40
Speaker 2: and he came up with the Interstate Highway System. Ninety
39:43
Speaker 2: percent of the original highway system was paid for by
39:48
Speaker 2: the federal government. A lot of these roads, I think
39:52
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty nine different roads or routes are
39:55
Speaker 2: still used by the Defense Department. Why not shift some
40:00
Speaker 2: of the burden on those roads to the Defense Department.
40:04
Speaker 2: That was the original intention of the federal or of
40:07
Speaker 2: the initial bill, the Defense Authorization Act and Highway Bill
40:14
Speaker 2: of nineteen fifty six. So why aren't some of the money,
40:18
Speaker 2: Why isn't some of that money coming from the Defense Department?
40:21
Speaker 2: Lord only knows they got plenty They get plenty of money.
40:24
Speaker 2: And so when the reuse of this money eliminate the
40:28
Speaker 2: thirty three percent waste as far as going to other
40:32
Speaker 2: items that aren't highway related, there would be plenty of
40:36
Speaker 2: money in the Highway Trust Fund, and maybe we could
40:39
Speaker 2: get some of these roads fixed. Now, what is egregious
40:43
Speaker 2: is that I mentioned previously that the American Trucking Associate
40:48
Speaker 2: applaud of the congressional leaders for introducing legislation repeal the
40:51
Speaker 2: antiquated Federal excise tax, the federal excise tax on new
40:57
Speaker 2: trucks and so on adds about twenty four thousand dollars
41:01
Speaker 2: to the price of those vehicles. And when do you
41:04
Speaker 2: suppose that this tax was imposed. The federal excise tax
41:09
Speaker 2: began in nineteen seventeen to help finance World War One. Today,
41:15
Speaker 2: the highest percentage of federal excise taxes at twelve percent,
41:19
Speaker 2: leving it on any project around amount to six billion
41:23
Speaker 2: dollars annual, and mostly in the trucking industry. So a
41:28
Speaker 2: tax that was supposed to be temporary to fund World
41:32
Speaker 2: War One, we still have that. And if I'm not mistaken,
41:36
Speaker 2: I could be wrong. I'll have to look this up,
41:38
Speaker 2: but I think World War One ended, so funding that
41:43
Speaker 2: war I don't think is necessary anymore. We can probably
41:46
Speaker 2: take that out of the budget. But it is just
41:49
Speaker 2: amazing how the fact that you put these taxes on,
41:54
Speaker 2: you put these tolls on, they're supposed to go away.
41:57
Speaker 2: There's a sunset clause, there's all this sort of stuff
42:00
Speaker 2: that's supposed to be done, and it never ever goes away.
42:04
Speaker 2: There's a I think Reagan. I think maybe Reagan said
42:10
Speaker 2: that that, you know, maybe they should have done Dracula
42:14
Speaker 2: as the tax Man, because taxes never die. I don't
42:19
Speaker 2: know some sort of phrase along those lines. But it
42:22
Speaker 2: is just insidious the way that and the way this happens,
42:28
Speaker 2: and that people forget about it. It's like it becomes commonplace.
42:34
Speaker 2: You get used to it, and when you get used
42:37
Speaker 2: to it, you just kind of forget about it. You
42:40
Speaker 2: just kind of roll with the punches. But when you
42:42
Speaker 2: take the time to step back and look at some
42:45
Speaker 2: of these things and you see how much is wasted
42:50
Speaker 2: and how much has gone to pet projects and so on,
42:53
Speaker 2: people should be more active. If one thing I am,
42:57
Speaker 2: and apparently I've been labeled an active, but you know
43:04
Speaker 2: it's your money. For crying out loud, you have a
43:07
Speaker 2: stake in this and to say to the and I've
43:11
Speaker 2: heard people odd infinitum that will say, I'm not interested,
43:15
Speaker 2: I don't follow politics, I'm not interested in politics. Well,
43:19
Speaker 2: politics as sure as heck interested in you. And they
43:23
Speaker 2: follow you, as a matter of fact, they're constantly following you,
43:26
Speaker 2: grabbing at your wallet, trying to get more extract more
43:30
Speaker 2: money from you. And if you're not paying attention and
43:33
Speaker 2: if you don't ask the question, and I've talked about
43:37
Speaker 2: this on several occasions, when you know, you get all
43:39
Speaker 2: these politicians and some of them still do door to
43:42
Speaker 2: door or they handle these town hall meetings. I would
43:45
Speaker 2: suggest going to some of these town hall meetings and
43:49
Speaker 2: taking a couple an hour out of your day or
43:52
Speaker 2: something like that. During the election cycle. And these people
43:56
Speaker 2: when they're campaigning and they're advertising and they're out there
44:00
Speaker 2: asking for your vote, they're basically interviewing for a job.
44:05
Speaker 2: It is a job interview, and you are the boss.
44:08
Speaker 2: You are the person that hires that person. So if
44:12
Speaker 2: you have questions, if you want answers, you should interview
44:16
Speaker 2: them and ask them certain questions and get the answers,
44:20
Speaker 2: and if the answers aren't compatible. I know. One of
44:23
Speaker 2: the things that I've talked about this before is I
44:25
Speaker 2: have five criteria when I'm talking to a politician. I
44:28
Speaker 2: want to know where they stand on the Second Amendment,
44:31
Speaker 2: where they stand on the life is issue, where they
44:34
Speaker 2: stand on their support of Israel, where they stand on immigration,
44:40
Speaker 2: illegal immigration in particular, and where there's what their stand
44:43
Speaker 2: is on taxes. If I know where they stand on
44:46
Speaker 2: those issues, I pretty much know everything I need to know.
44:49
Speaker 2: And when I ask the question of somebody running for
44:52
Speaker 2: city council and I ask them their stance on Israel
44:55
Speaker 2: or something else. They'll say, well, you know, we usually
44:58
Speaker 2: don't get involved in that, and we don't you know
45:00
Speaker 2: as our local city, you know, cold Spring or Highland
45:05
Speaker 2: Heights or Fort Thomas or whatever, we don't get involved
45:08
Speaker 2: in that kind of stuff. Well, my answer to them
45:11
Speaker 2: is that you're generally a fairly you know, generally it's
45:14
Speaker 2: young people in their maybe late twenties, early thirties, and
45:18
Speaker 2: that is not going to be their only job in politics.
45:22
Speaker 2: So they're going to go on from there. And I
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Speaker 2: just tell them right off the bat, if I don't
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Speaker 2: know your stand on that, and if we're not compatible
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Speaker 2: with that, I might as well not vote for you
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Speaker 2: and eliminate you from an elective office now, because it's
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Speaker 2: tougher once you're an incumbinent you're a known item. But
45:38
Speaker 2: if you're not square on where these issues are, you know,
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Speaker 2: to come up later on and develop that idea simply
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Speaker 2: because you're trying to get anyway. It's just one of
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Speaker 2: those things that a criteria that I talk about. And
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Speaker 2: if they don't ask the if you don't ask the questions,
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Speaker 2: you're not going to get the answers. And I would
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Speaker 2: suggest that you do that because again when you have
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Speaker 2: a tax is still on there from nineteen seventeen, that
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Speaker 2: is absolutely nuts. Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty,
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Speaker 2: five hundred one, eight hundred eighty two three talk one,
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Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three eight two five, five pound
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Speaker 2: five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon
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Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the talk station.
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Speaker 11: If you're the one dealing with joint pain, you know,
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Speaker 11: the hit, pay knee, paying back pain, it's very limiting,
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Speaker 11: you know that.
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Speaker 5: But what about your friends and talk station.
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Speaker 2: Six twenty one in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for
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Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the talk station. Phone numbers
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Speaker 2: excuse me, five one, three, seven, four nine fifty, five
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Speaker 2: hundred one, eight hundred a two three talk one, eight
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Speaker 2: hundred a two three a two five five pound five
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Speaker 2: point fifty on that AT and T phone. At the
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Speaker 2: beginning of the show I talked about Now this is
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Speaker 2: again this is in interesting because I didn't see this
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Speaker 2: much in terms of in the what they refer to
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Speaker 2: as the four Wheeler Group Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance CVSA
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Speaker 2: operations Safe Driver Week campaign kicks off North America July
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Speaker 2: the twelfth through the eighteenth. Now, they are out there
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Speaker 2: on the highways, and you may see an additional if
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Speaker 2: you're out on two seventy five, seventy one, seventy five thereabouts,
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Speaker 2: you may see a little bit more heavy presence of
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Speaker 2: police out there. But again they are looking for unsafe
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Speaker 2: behavior including speeding, distracted driving, fatigued drowsy driving, following too closely,
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Speaker 2: impaired driving, failure to wear a seatbelt, unsafe lane changes,
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Speaker 2: and disregarding traffic signals. Now, in terms of the citations
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Speaker 2: that they issued last year, let's see, they issued thirty
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Speaker 2: two hundred warnings and eighteen hundred and thirty nine tickets
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Speaker 2: for commercial motor vehicles and as far as passenger vehicles,
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Speaker 2: three hundred and forty five warnings and six hundred and
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Speaker 2: sixty five tickets. So beware, be warned, and be forearmed.
48:17
Speaker 2: They are out there looking. You'll, like I said, you'll
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Speaker 2: probably be noticing a little bit more police presence out
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Speaker 2: there as you're driving along the highway. So back it
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Speaker 2: off a little bit, give the person in front of
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Speaker 2: you a little bit of break. They don't, you know,
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Speaker 2: they really don't need to see your headlights, you know,
48:37
Speaker 2: on top of them, they're you know, you're not they're
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Speaker 2: not you know, and you're and especially you know if
48:43
Speaker 2: you're if you're driving down the highway and there are
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Speaker 2: ten cars in front of you, and then all of
48:50
Speaker 2: a sudden, some well you fill in the blank comes
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Speaker 2: up roaring behind you and starts tailgating you. Where the
48:59
Speaker 2: what the where are you supposed to go? And so
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Speaker 2: you know, it's like I just start ignoring them. I
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Speaker 2: don't even pay attention and just kind of, you know,
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Speaker 2: just ignore them that it's just infuriating me. Some of
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Speaker 2: the nuts out there. And I would applaud this reckless driving,
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Speaker 2: following too clothes and so on that the highway patrol
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Speaker 2: are going to be doing over the next well till
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Speaker 2: I think it's Saturday the eighteenth when they stopped. So
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Speaker 2: again that's interesting. So fore warned is forearmed. So I
49:35
Speaker 2: should have given a rundown. But we'll do that a
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Speaker 2: little bit a little bit from now. But I mentioned
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Speaker 2: and I want to get into this probably in the
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Speaker 2: next segment when we come back. This myth of the
49:50
Speaker 2: Straight of Horror moves being open, that it was open before,
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Speaker 2: that it was free flow, that Donald Trump came in
49:59
Speaker 2: and messed things up up, and then Iran started closing it,
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Speaker 2: doing the attacks and the straight of hor moves and
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Speaker 2: then claiming that it was back open during that ceasefire that, oh,
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Speaker 2: by the way, lasted for eleven what was it, eleven
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Speaker 2: minutes or eleven hours basically before Iran started violating it.
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Speaker 2: And what was funny about that too, is that they
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Speaker 2: actually said that shooting down their rockets that were being
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Speaker 2: shot into other countries who had nothing to do with
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Speaker 2: our attack and an Israel's attack on Iran to stop
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Speaker 2: their nuclear program, that shooting down those vehicles or those
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Speaker 2: missiles and those rockets was a violation of the ceasefire. Really,
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Speaker 2: so if you defend yourself that that is a violation
50:53
Speaker 2: of a ceasefire. The purpose, I ran of a ceasefire
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Speaker 2: is you cease firing. What part of the that don't
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Speaker 2: you understand? Phone numbers five one, three, seven, four nine,
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Speaker 2: fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two three talk
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Speaker 2: one eight hundred eight two three eight two five five pound,
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Speaker 2: five point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon
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Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs.
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Speaker 11: The talk station Prestige Interiors has been proving the way
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Speaker 11: families come together in the kitchen.
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Speaker 5: See the talk station.
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Speaker 2: Six thirty in the morning Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
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Speaker 2: fifty five krs the talk station. Some local headlines that
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Speaker 2: we're covering for you this morning. More ramps to permanently
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Speaker 2: close as part of the Brent Spence Bridge Corridor project.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to have to get up to date on
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Speaker 2: this because I know that as they do the approaches
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Speaker 2: and if they change some of the ramps, some of
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Speaker 2: these ramps are going to permanently close. Some of them
51:55
Speaker 2: are going to be temporarily closed until they rework it
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Speaker 2: and whatnot. But according to this story here Brensce Bence
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Speaker 2: Bridge Corridor has announced that two ramps will be closed
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Speaker 2: starting on Tuesday, that would be today, my friends. Westbound
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Speaker 2: US fifty sixth Street Viaduct to Guest Street will permanently
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Speaker 2: close around eight pm on Tuesday. The dtour will follow
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Speaker 2: Lynn Street and the West sixth Street service Road. I
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Speaker 2: seventy one northbound ramp to Second Street will temporarily close
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Speaker 2: around eight pm on Wednesday. The I seventy one to
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Speaker 2: Second Street Exit one A will be closed until fall
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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty eight. The dtour will follow I seventy
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Speaker 2: one northbound to Fifth Street, Exit one C and Race Street.
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Speaker 2: I'll post this on my Facebook page again cleverly named
52:48
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon, so that you will have that information there
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Speaker 2: at your fingertips, and of course pay attention to our
52:56
Speaker 2: traffic reports because they'll probably get you around that. And
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Speaker 2: I'm sure the want you know. I wonder how quickly
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Speaker 2: the GPS does that and updates that, but well, I
53:07
Speaker 2: guess we'll find out over the next few days. Since
53:09
Speaker 2: he public school board delays tax levee vote, approves budget
53:14
Speaker 2: with cuts since a public schools Board of Education approved
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Speaker 2: its budget Monday night, also with voting to delay a
53:22
Speaker 2: decision on placing a tax levee on the November ballot.
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Speaker 2: They decided to two weeks ago to cut about fifty
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Speaker 2: eight million dollars from the budget. The approve of budget
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Speaker 2: includes two percent expenditures reduction, decreasing planned spending by twelve
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Speaker 2: point seven million. District Treasurer Mike Gustin and they said
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Speaker 2: the reduction can be achieved through cost shifts to identified grants,
53:46
Speaker 2: new budget structures, existing budget adjustment measures, including THAC compliance
53:53
Speaker 2: only hiring and delay of services. Board is considering placing
53:57
Speaker 2: a new tax levee on the November ballot for the
53:59
Speaker 2: first time in a decade. Members are weighing three options,
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Speaker 2: two different property tax measures and one income earned income tax.
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Speaker 2: They voted to delay that and they're trying to determine
54:12
Speaker 2: whether to put that on the November ballot. An eighty
54:15
Speaker 2: six year old man assaulted in Green Township parking lot
54:19
Speaker 2: after a fender bender. Eighty six year old man is
54:23
Speaker 2: recovering after he was assaulted in a parking lot on
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Speaker 2: Glenway Avenue last Wednesday. Began when the victim was backing
54:29
Speaker 2: up in a parking spot lot aisle and collided with
54:32
Speaker 2: another driver who was also backing out of a parking space.
54:35
Speaker 2: The other driver insisted they not call police and demanded
54:39
Speaker 2: money from the victim. When the victim pulled out his
54:42
Speaker 2: phone to call the police, they knocked the phone. He
54:44
Speaker 2: knocked the phone out of his hand snatched it through
54:47
Speaker 2: it on the ground. The other driver then threw the
54:49
Speaker 2: older man to the ground before fleeing the scene. Victims
54:52
Speaker 2: industry in injuries, including a cut on his nose, which
54:56
Speaker 2: was a glued shut with a road burn on is
55:00
Speaker 2: right elbow. He sustained a broken no broken bones, and
55:03
Speaker 2: required no stitches. Now authorities are investigating, the victim said
55:07
Speaker 2: he anticipates having to sue for repairs to this vehicle.
55:11
Speaker 2: The victim said the actual owner of the assailants vehicle
55:14
Speaker 2: has been identified and he believes police have I also
55:17
Speaker 2: identified the assailant. No arrest has been confirmed as of
55:21
Speaker 2: this point. A house fire, two adults and their children
55:27
Speaker 2: safely escaped the North Side fire overnight. According to Cistina
55:30
Speaker 2: A Fire Department, family will be displaced for a short time.
55:34
Speaker 2: According to the district fire chief, Nathaniel Cash, smoke was
55:37
Speaker 2: coming out of the attic vents when Cruz responded to
55:40
Speaker 2: a nine to point one call reporting a house on
55:43
Speaker 2: fire in the forty three hundred block of Virginia Avenue
55:47
Speaker 2: just before midnight. Firefighters found a small fire in the
55:50
Speaker 2: attic area and quickly knocked it down. The cause of
55:53
Speaker 2: the blaze remains under investigation. No smoke detectors were found,
55:57
Speaker 2: according to the fire department. A damage was not immediately available.
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Speaker 2: If you don't have smoke detectors, get them installed for
56:06
Speaker 2: you the safety of your family. UH phone numbers five one, three, seven,
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Speaker 2: four nine, fifty five hundred one, eight hundred eight two
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Speaker 2: three talk one, eight hundred eighty two three eight two,
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Speaker 2: five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone.
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs. The
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Speaker 2: talk station.
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Speaker 5: Driller in the extreme I heeartly.
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Speaker 2: Six thirty nine in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for
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Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, fifty five krs. The talk station phone numbers
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Speaker 2: five one, three, seven, four nine, fifty five hundred one,
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Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three talk one, eight hundred eight
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Speaker 2: two three eight two, five five pound, five point fifty
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Speaker 2: AT and T wireless phone. This is kind of interesting.
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Speaker 2: Wish we would have seen this yesterday. But on July thirteenth,
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Speaker 2: nineteen forty nine, the Vatican release is the Decree against
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Speaker 2: Communism to the public. I wonder how that would fly
57:05
Speaker 2: with the DSA here in the United States. Cold War Area.
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Speaker 2: Edict issued by Pope Pious the twelfth on July first
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Speaker 2: excommunicates all communist Catholics. Pope Pious the twelfth authorized the
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Speaker 2: Holy Office to expel from the Church any Catholic who
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Speaker 2: joined or even collaborated with godless Communists Since the nineteen
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Speaker 2: seventeen Bolshevik Revolution, with its classless, atheistic underpinnings, Communism has
57:37
Speaker 2: posed a profound existential threat to Catholicism. Now there's a
57:42
Speaker 2: use of existential, which is overused today. Let's not forget.
57:47
Speaker 2: When somebody's talking about existential, they are talking about the
57:52
Speaker 2: threat to the existence of So the profound existential threat
57:57
Speaker 2: to Catholicism. Like his predecessors, the Vatican, Pious the twelve
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Speaker 2: feared that communism spread would upset longstanding social order and
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Speaker 2: undermine the foundation of Christian civilization. With Eastern Europe quickly
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Speaker 2: regrouping under the Soviet wing directly after World War Two,
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Speaker 2: those fears accelerated. Pius also had personal reasons for his
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Speaker 2: anti communist leanings. While serving as a Vatican diplomat in
58:25
Speaker 2: Munich nineteen nineteen, he had been confronted by Communist revolutionaries
58:30
Speaker 2: who had broken into his residence and demanded his car
58:34
Speaker 2: at gunpoint. So, and that interesting is that retroactive? Does
58:40
Speaker 2: that still apply? Can we excommunicate Catholics that become a
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Speaker 2: Communists or become part of the un Unles's not mince words.
58:51
Speaker 2: The Democrat Socialists of America is just a front for
58:55
Speaker 2: the communism, and it's kind of interesting that how they
58:58
Speaker 2: try to sugarcoat that and let everything kind of pass by.
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Speaker 2: So it's kind of an interesting take on this. On
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Speaker 2: July the thirteenth, back in nineteen forty nine, let me see,
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Speaker 2: let's see many priests, especially communist government countries like Poland
59:17
Speaker 2: and Hungary or ignored the decree, which is interesting, which
59:21
Speaker 2: is kind of along the lines of what a lot
59:23
Speaker 2: of the Catholics do today when the pope says certain things,
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Speaker 2: which I got to admit, there's some well, you know,
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Speaker 2: the thing is about a pope when they put out
59:36
Speaker 2: at an encyclical that is to be followed. Now, some
59:40
Speaker 2: of these edicts and stuff based on the decrees or
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Speaker 2: whatever aren't enforceable, but I believe that this one was
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Speaker 2: the way it is worded, and so on. But some
59:51
Speaker 2: of the things and some of the suggestions that the
59:54
Speaker 2: popes have done over the years have been kind of
1:00:00
Speaker 2: given the fact of they have they tend to have
1:00:03
Speaker 2: sometimes socialist leanings in their discussions. Pope Francis kind of
1:00:10
Speaker 2: lean leaned towards that a little bit. But that's a
1:00:13
Speaker 2: story for another day. Let's get to the phones. Let's
1:00:16
Speaker 2: speak with Jay Jay fifty five KC. Thanks for calling,
1:00:20
Speaker 2: certainly appreciate it. How are you today, I'm doing good, Sarah.
1:00:24
Speaker 12: He love your rant on anti communism. We certainly need
1:00:30
Speaker 12: less of it, not more of it. And you know
1:00:33
Speaker 12: it isn't it isn't.
1:00:34
Speaker 4: Just the left.
1:00:35
Speaker 12: It seems to be in love with it.
1:00:37
Speaker 13: We have, you know, one of.
1:00:38
Speaker 12: The oldest comedies in the in the Senate, Elizabeth Warren.
1:00:43
Speaker 12: I just got joined by one of the newest comedies,
1:00:45
Speaker 12: I guess Barnie and Marino, who walked across the aisle
1:00:49
Speaker 12: on a complete surrender and said, hey, can I help
1:00:51
Speaker 12: you increase a communist program called social security? And can
1:00:56
Speaker 12: we come up.
1:00:57
Speaker 7: With a solution?
1:00:58
Speaker 12: Only one? There's only one solution, which has increased the taxes. Uh,
1:01:03
Speaker 12: so there is no cap. We'll just tax everybody until
1:01:06
Speaker 12: they die. There will be no max. And he calls
1:01:09
Speaker 12: it a conversation on the Brian Thomas Show, and Brian
1:01:11
Speaker 12: interviewed him. I call it a complete surrender. She didn't
1:01:15
Speaker 12: move one inch to the right. He went all all
1:01:17
Speaker 12: full on COMMI as if that's the only solution versus
1:01:21
Speaker 12: going after the frog, waste and abuse so security was
1:01:25
Speaker 12: born out of FDR another fine communist. You know, there's
1:01:29
Speaker 12: nowhere in the Constitution to to say that that the
1:01:32
Speaker 12: federal government has the authority to transfer wealth from one
1:01:35
Speaker 12: American to another. And uh, you know, when my parents
1:01:39
Speaker 12: and they're getting up there in age, when they ain't help,
1:01:41
Speaker 12: I'm gonna help them. When my kids need help, I'm
1:01:43
Speaker 12: gonna help them.
1:01:44
Speaker 4: That's my family.
1:01:45
Speaker 12: So what I'd like to have is nine more callers.
1:01:48
Speaker 12: I'm gonna call him. We need ten callers today to
1:01:50
Speaker 12: call his office and say how unimpressed we are with
1:01:54
Speaker 12: him his surrender.
1:01:55
Speaker 2: Now, if I could stop you for a moment, Jay,
1:01:58
Speaker 2: what is your solution? Now? The Social Security tax is
1:02:03
Speaker 2: there on the employee and the employer, so it's not
1:02:07
Speaker 2: a transfer of wealth per se. Now, how they have
1:02:11
Speaker 2: separated that and not put that as part of an
1:02:14
Speaker 2: individual account for individuals that they've just thrown it into
1:02:18
Speaker 2: a pool. That is a problem. The fact that you
1:02:23
Speaker 2: are taxed on this, your company is tax or your
1:02:25
Speaker 2: employer is taxed, and they don't separate that out. And
1:02:29
Speaker 2: then the federal government because there's a pile of money
1:02:32
Speaker 2: there at the beginning, because people weren't retiring right away.
1:02:36
Speaker 2: They got their grubby little hands in there and put
1:02:39
Speaker 2: in IOUs and the IOUs were at no interest or
1:02:43
Speaker 2: a little interest. So the fund and then you start
1:02:47
Speaker 2: doing the supplementals of security income payments to people that
1:02:52
Speaker 2: haven't paid into the system. The amount of people that
1:02:55
Speaker 2: are illegal aliens that are allowed to draw out of
1:02:59
Speaker 2: the system for other things is well, the reason why
1:03:02
Speaker 2: the fund is growing bust. But again these are the
1:03:05
Speaker 2: things that need to be cleaned up, not I mean,
1:03:08
Speaker 2: you know, the fund is there, the amount of money
1:03:12
Speaker 2: is being put in on an individual basis, so that
1:03:15
Speaker 2: should be protected. In fact, the old idea of a
1:03:19
Speaker 2: lock box wouldn't be a bad idea. So where do
1:03:22
Speaker 2: you stand as far as that's concerned.
1:03:25
Speaker 12: Well, it is a transfer of wealth. I think I'm
1:03:27
Speaker 12: going to disagree with you on that. I know for
1:03:30
Speaker 12: all of my life, if I would have been able
1:03:32
Speaker 12: to keep that money that the constitution does not allow
1:03:36
Speaker 12: the federal government to take, I would have had and
1:03:40
Speaker 12: so would you, and so what have everybody else. If
1:03:41
Speaker 12: you take all the money you paid into Social Security,
1:03:44
Speaker 12: put it into a conservative investment, let's say five to
1:03:48
Speaker 12: seven percent, it's two million dollars by the time you
1:03:51
Speaker 12: hit sixty five, sixty seven somewhere around there. Instead they're
1:03:55
Speaker 12: going to give us crumbs because why they took my
1:03:58
Speaker 12: money and they gave it to somebody else.
1:04:00
Speaker 2: Well, again, again a mismanagement of the fund. And I'm
1:04:06
Speaker 2: not sure. I mean, it's a nice theory, just like
1:04:10
Speaker 2: communism is in theory and democracy in a republic is
1:04:16
Speaker 2: in theory. Uh, you know, not workable, but we've made
1:04:20
Speaker 2: it work. The fact that in theory, if people had
1:04:25
Speaker 2: access to that money and invested it, that their money
1:04:29
Speaker 2: would pay off for them. But how many people do
1:04:32
Speaker 2: you think would actually do that?
1:04:35
Speaker 12: That's right there, you landed on the debate. The question
1:04:39
Speaker 12: is should government take care of me? Or can I
1:04:43
Speaker 12: take care of me? The left communism says man cannot
1:04:47
Speaker 12: govern themselves. And this is what Rush Limbaugh said years ago,
1:04:50
Speaker 12: the difference between a liberal and a conservative. A liberal
1:04:54
Speaker 12: will say man cannot govern themselves, and you need central planning,
1:04:57
Speaker 12: big federal government and they'll be your taker. A conservative
1:05:02
Speaker 12: like me says, I don't need the government to do
1:05:05
Speaker 12: a damn thing other than take care of trade and
1:05:08
Speaker 12: take care of the military.
1:05:10
Speaker 2: As there's a few more things on that that would
1:05:13
Speaker 2: have to be done as far as the federal government
1:05:15
Speaker 2: is concerned. But I'm lake for a break. Tom. I
1:05:17
Speaker 2: appreciate the call, and I'm getting all kinds of signals
1:05:20
Speaker 2: that we need to go to a break. Uh five
1:05:23
Speaker 2: one three seven four nine fifty one eight hundred eight
1:05:26
Speaker 2: two three talk one eight hundred eight two three eight
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Speaker 2: two five five pound, five point fifty AT and T
1:05:31
Speaker 2: wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KR.
1:05:35
Speaker 2: See the talk station.
1:05:37
Speaker 11: When it comes to your import car service needs, there's
1:05:39
Speaker 11: only one place you see, talk station.
1:05:46
Speaker 2: Six fifty two in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for
1:05:49
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, fifty five KR, see the talk station. Kind
1:05:53
Speaker 2: of my thanks to Tom for calling in and bringing
1:05:56
Speaker 2: up things about so security. It's it is always an
1:06:00
Speaker 2: interesting topic to bring up and to talk about. Of course,
1:06:04
Speaker 2: anytime that the Republicans were to bring that up and
1:06:08
Speaker 2: we're talking about maybe doing some sort of a shift
1:06:12
Speaker 2: into private investment accounts for one K type things or whatever,
1:06:16
Speaker 2: the Liberals would come in and we're trying to throw
1:06:19
Speaker 2: granting off the cliff. We're trying to eliminate social security,
1:06:23
Speaker 2: et cetera. And yes, there is a lot of discussion
1:06:26
Speaker 2: about that, and of course bring up a point about
1:06:30
Speaker 2: taking that money individually and putting it into an account
1:06:35
Speaker 2: and could do better than what the federal government's going
1:06:37
Speaker 2: to give you at the end a lot of times,
1:06:39
Speaker 2: but in some instances people take out more than they
1:06:43
Speaker 2: put in. One of the things that needs to be
1:06:45
Speaker 2: stopped and stopped as soon as possible. You know, if
1:06:48
Speaker 2: you're going to have the supplemental security income that's coming
1:06:51
Speaker 2: out of Social Security, that is just flat out theft.
1:06:55
Speaker 2: Now in terms of saying to individuals that we're going
1:06:58
Speaker 2: to depend on you to invest your own money, you
1:07:02
Speaker 2: know as well as I do that people aren't going
1:07:04
Speaker 2: to do that. So what do you do at that point? Also,
1:07:07
Speaker 2: you take into consideration and I'm telling you what I
1:07:11
Speaker 2: am seeing more and more people and we can get
1:07:13
Speaker 2: into a whole lot of discussion about this in terms
1:07:16
Speaker 2: of the clot shot and COVID nineteen and everything going
1:07:22
Speaker 2: on with that. The number of people that are dying
1:07:27
Speaker 2: at rapid rates before they even hit sixty five, and
1:07:30
Speaker 2: when you die, and when these people die, whatever is
1:07:35
Speaker 2: in social Security is bye bye. Let you know, some
1:07:37
Speaker 2: survivor benefits there, but there are people that you know,
1:07:42
Speaker 2: leaving money on the table. Why isn't that given to
1:07:45
Speaker 2: the survivors. Why isn't that paid out over a period
1:07:49
Speaker 2: of time or something along those lines. There's a whole
1:07:51
Speaker 2: lot of questions that need to be answered by this,
1:07:54
Speaker 2: and I wish that there was some sort of a
1:07:57
Speaker 2: by partisan commission, if you could ever get that, that
1:08:02
Speaker 2: would come up with a workable plan on how to
1:08:05
Speaker 2: fix this. Now, they did a little bit of this
1:08:08
Speaker 2: back during the Reagan years. Now, they didn't go far enough,
1:08:12
Speaker 2: and they screwed some things up. But again, the idea
1:08:15
Speaker 2: of just throwing more money and increasing the taxes is
1:08:18
Speaker 2: not the answer. But that course is probably something that
1:08:21
Speaker 2: we needed. A topic we need to set up on
1:08:24
Speaker 2: a separate day. But anyway, that's my two cents worth,
1:08:27
Speaker 2: which I guess if they're eliminating pennies, I guess I'll
1:08:30
Speaker 2: have to call it my nickels worth. Anyway. Phone numbers
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Speaker 2: point fifty AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in
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Speaker 2: for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC the talk station America Talkstation.
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Speaker 1: And now Kevin Golden filling in for Brian Thomas on
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Speaker 1: fifty five KOSS the talk station.
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Speaker 2: Seven o five in the morning. Happy bass Steel Day
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Speaker 2: to you, celebrated annually on July the fourteenth, the national
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Speaker 2: day in France, commemorating the storming of the bass Steel
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Speaker 2: Prison in seventeen eighty nine, which marked the beginning of
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Speaker 2: the French Revolution. It's widely celebrated with grand military parades,
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Speaker 2: fireworks and the public festivities. It is their independence day
1:09:39
Speaker 2: that they celebrate there when we celebrate hours on July
1:09:44
Speaker 2: the fourth, so a very important date for them. Don't
1:09:47
Speaker 2: lose your head today, I should say, because with the
1:09:53
Speaker 2: overthrow of the monarchy and whatever, the taking over, that's
1:09:57
Speaker 2: the guillotine was introduced and kind of a nasty period
1:10:02
Speaker 2: of time. But the revolutionary storm bas Steel medieval fortress,
1:10:06
Speaker 2: the political prison in Paris. While it was held a
1:10:09
Speaker 2: few prisoners at the time, the fortress was a symbol
1:10:12
Speaker 2: of absolute power and tyranny of the Bourbon monarchy. Taking
1:10:17
Speaker 2: it provided the revolutionaries with much needed gunpowder and served
1:10:21
Speaker 2: as a pivotal turning point ultimately led to the end
1:10:24
Speaker 2: of the Axian regime. Bas Steel Day was officially declared
1:10:29
Speaker 2: a national holiday in eighteen eighty to foster French unity
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Speaker 2: and celebrate the birth of the modern republic. Today of
1:10:35
Speaker 2: the day is marked by several other traditions and so on.
1:10:38
Speaker 2: As we talked about, so again, it has to be
1:10:40
Speaker 2: Bass Steel Day. Now. If you went online and checked
1:10:43
Speaker 2: out my Facebook page, because I always post what we're
1:10:46
Speaker 2: going to be having in terms of guests and what
1:10:48
Speaker 2: the show lineup is, you'll notice that the seventh, at
1:10:51
Speaker 2: the bottom of the hour, we're going to be talking
1:10:53
Speaker 2: with Tom zamwa'z Toski from the We the People Convention,
1:10:59
Speaker 2: and then at eight oh five we're going to be
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Speaker 2: talking to bright Bart News. And in the meantime we
1:11:04
Speaker 2: will squeeze in as much information and your phone calls,
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Speaker 2: by the way, five one, three, seven, four nine fifty,
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Speaker 2: eight hundred eighty two three eight two five five pound,
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Speaker 2: five point fifty on that AT and T wireless phone.
1:11:20
Speaker 2: One of the things I want to talk about briefly
1:11:23
Speaker 2: here is, uh, you know that all this talk about
1:11:27
Speaker 2: straight of horror moves this straight of horror moves. That uh,
1:11:31
Speaker 2: that it was open and that's always been open, and
1:11:34
Speaker 2: that the people on these talking heads, and of course
1:11:39
Speaker 2: these spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media will pick
1:11:42
Speaker 2: up on that and just pairrot their talking points without
1:11:46
Speaker 2: doing any independent investigation on their own or digging into
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Speaker 2: the numbers or doing any background information, fact checking or anything.
1:11:55
Speaker 2: But they will say stuff like, well, you know, the
1:11:58
Speaker 2: straight of horror moves was open. The Trump administration and
1:12:03
Speaker 2: Israel attacked Iran as if there was no warrant for
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Speaker 2: that or there's no reason for that, and act as
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Speaker 2: though that it was something that wasn't prompted after forty
1:12:14
Speaker 2: seven years of attacks by them, they declared war on
1:12:18
Speaker 2: US forty seven years ago, and we basically haven't done
1:12:21
Speaker 2: anything about it. But that's the story for another day.
1:12:24
Speaker 2: But they kept talking about, well, we went to war
1:12:26
Speaker 2: with them, the strait was wide open, and then we
1:12:30
Speaker 2: went to war, and now it's open again. So what
1:12:33
Speaker 2: have we accomplished, Well, aside from the fact you eliminate
1:12:36
Speaker 2: a nuclear threat, which they didn't do with North Korea,
1:12:39
Speaker 2: they messed around with that, kicked the can down the road,
1:12:42
Speaker 2: and North Korea wound up with the nuclear weapon. Thank god,
1:12:45
Speaker 2: they're not as nuts as the Iranians are, because they
1:12:49
Speaker 2: just as soon burned the whole place down because of
1:12:51
Speaker 2: their religiosity and the theocracy of their country and their beliefs.
1:12:59
Speaker 2: Now they act as again as the Straight of Horror
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Speaker 2: Moves has been open all this time. Iran has issued
1:13:07
Speaker 2: numerous threats and staged countless localized harassments over the decades,
1:13:13
Speaker 2: but the most severe total disruption commercial traffic occurred in
1:13:17
Speaker 2: two major distinct historical periods, the nineteen eighties the Tanker War.
1:13:23
Speaker 2: During the Iran Iraq War from nineteen eighty one to
1:13:26
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eight, Iran carried out roughly one hundred and
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Speaker 2: sixty eight attacks on merchant vessels in the Persian Gulf
1:13:36
Speaker 2: and the Strait of Horror Moves, directly disrupting and severely
1:13:40
Speaker 2: curtailing international shipping traffic. And then also here recently during
1:13:45
Speaker 2: February the twenty eighth, after Epic Fury. But going back
1:13:50
Speaker 2: through time a little bit, back after the nineteen seventy
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Speaker 2: nine revolution, where the islam Make Revolutionary Guard and the
1:14:02
Speaker 2: Islamic Republic came into existence, Iran has claimed authority over
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Speaker 2: the Strait of Horror moves since nineteen seventy nine Iranian
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Speaker 2: Revolution that deposed the American Backshaw and created the Islamic
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Speaker 2: Republic of Iran. Throughout the decades, the tense relationships with
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Speaker 2: the United States and Iranian regime has repeatedly threatened to
1:14:24
Speaker 2: shut down the Strait of horror moves plunged the global
1:14:27
Speaker 2: oil market into chaos. Now, one of the people that
1:14:31
Speaker 2: I interview on a regular basis a fellow by the
1:14:33
Speaker 2: a m of Phil Flynn Vice. He is a senior
1:14:37
Speaker 2: market analyst with Price Futures Groups out of Chicago. He
1:14:41
Speaker 2: is one of the foremost authorities on worldwide markets in
1:14:45
Speaker 2: terms of oil and so on. Is respected. He has
1:14:49
Speaker 2: a frequent guest on Fox Business News talking to him
1:14:53
Speaker 2: that over the years, there is what we see, whatever
1:14:57
Speaker 2: the gas or the oil prices are, there is a
1:15:00
Speaker 2: built in risk assessment in there in terms of how
1:15:04
Speaker 2: Iran has operated near the straight of horm moves over
1:15:08
Speaker 2: these years, over these decades, and there is a premium
1:15:12
Speaker 2: built into that price of oil, assuming that at some
1:15:16
Speaker 2: point in time during thead during the period that things
1:15:20
Speaker 2: could fluctuate and the strait could be closed down. We
1:15:23
Speaker 2: have had certain harassments and so on along those time,
1:15:27
Speaker 2: along those periods of time, and there is a timeline
1:15:31
Speaker 2: in terms of how many times the Straight of Horror
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Speaker 2: Moves has been shut down or people have been harassed.
1:15:39
Speaker 2: Let me see, in nineteen eighty four Iran Iraq war
1:15:42
Speaker 2: raged for eight years Gulf War, harassing any ships from Iraqi, Kuwaiti,
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Speaker 2: Saudi tankers. In nineteen eighty eight, the Iranian mind damage
1:15:54
Speaker 2: the USS Samuel B. Roberts. They were escorting ships through
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Speaker 2: the Strait trying to protect them and this ship got
1:16:05
Speaker 2: hit by a land mine and under operating Praying Operation
1:16:10
Speaker 2: Praying Mantis during the Reagan administration, they sank or crippled
1:16:15
Speaker 2: much of the Iranian navy. Later that year, the US
1:16:19
Speaker 2: warships accidentally shot down Flight at six point fifty five,
1:16:23
Speaker 2: killing all two hundred and ninety passengers, which was unfortunate.
1:16:28
Speaker 2: Twenty twelve, more sanctions prompt Iranian threats. In two thousand,
1:16:34
Speaker 2: Iran's contested nuclear weapons program became the target of increasing
1:16:38
Speaker 2: harsh economic sanctions from the US European allies. In two
1:16:43
Speaker 2: thousand and eight, Iran threatened to seal off the Straight
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Speaker 2: of Horror Moves if sanctions weren't lifted, a move that
1:16:50
Speaker 2: US authorities said would amount to an act of war.
1:16:53
Speaker 2: When the European Union announced the total embargo on Iranian
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Speaker 2: oil in twenty twelve, the Iranian regime once again promised
1:17:02
Speaker 2: to close the Straight of Horror Moves, a move that
1:17:05
Speaker 2: would disrupt the flow of oil. So this is not
1:17:08
Speaker 2: the first time that this has happened. Let's see twenty
1:17:12
Speaker 2: fifteen to twenty twenty four. International shipping lanes through the
1:17:15
Speaker 2: Straight of horm Moves are very narrow the twelve At
1:17:19
Speaker 2: some point they're what twenty one miles wide, but part
1:17:23
Speaker 2: of that is considered twelve nautical will they claim The
1:17:27
Speaker 2: Iranians claim that twelve of the nautical miles are their shoreline.
1:17:32
Speaker 2: On April twenty eighth, twenty fifteen, Iranian patrol boats sees
1:17:37
Speaker 2: the Marisk Tigers, a Danish owned containership, after firing warning shots.
1:17:44
Speaker 2: Iran claimed that was part of a legal dispute with
1:17:47
Speaker 2: the ship's owner. Twenty nineteen, a British flag oil tanker
1:17:51
Speaker 2: was also seized, and in twenty twenty four, Iranian special
1:17:54
Speaker 2: forces captured in oil tanker. Now in this story interesting
1:18:00
Speaker 2: from the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media. They
1:18:05
Speaker 2: also point out in twenty twenty five, but I'll get
1:18:09
Speaker 2: to that in a moment. What they failed to point
1:18:12
Speaker 2: out in this and list is part of this. January
1:18:15
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, ten US Navy sailors were captured by Iran's
1:18:20
Speaker 2: Revolutionary Guard. Our armed Iranian forces forced them onto their knees,
1:18:27
Speaker 2: can you remember that photo? Well, on their hands, on
1:18:30
Speaker 2: the back of their heads at gunpoint. Iran released photos
1:18:33
Speaker 2: of the videos and videos of the captive sailors just
1:18:37
Speaker 2: hours before President Obama's final State of the Union address.
1:18:43
Speaker 2: They said that too. In the US Navy Riverine Command
1:18:46
Speaker 2: boats were traveling from Kuwai to Bahrain, a mechanical issue
1:18:50
Speaker 2: caused them to veer into Iranian territorial waters, which instead
1:18:55
Speaker 2: of just allowing them to pass, brought that up. There's
1:18:58
Speaker 2: a couple more instances that we want to talk about,
1:19:00
Speaker 2: but okay, the but let's forget all about that. Apparently
1:19:06
Speaker 2: everything that I read according to the liberals and the
1:19:09
Speaker 2: spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media didn't happen. Apparently
1:19:14
Speaker 2: I missed the fact that some of these closures or
1:19:17
Speaker 2: threats of closures that apparently it's been open all this
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Speaker 2: time with no threats or whatever. Five one, three, seven
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Speaker 3: Music Festival presented by Capitol One.
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Speaker 5: He's coming back the talk station.
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Speaker 2: Seven twenty in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
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Speaker 2: fifty five krs the talk station. Kind of finishing my
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Speaker 2: point on the closure of the you know, the Strait
1:20:03
Speaker 2: of Her Moves that was open all these years and
1:20:07
Speaker 2: just recently been shut down as a result of our
1:20:10
Speaker 2: attack on Iran, putting that little lie to the rest.
1:20:15
Speaker 2: Let's see back in twenty twenty five, Iranian parliament votes
1:20:18
Speaker 2: to close the strait. With the geographic proximity to Iran,
1:20:22
Speaker 2: Israel has long been deeply concerned about the prospects of
1:20:26
Speaker 2: nuclear armed Iranian regime. On July thirteenth, twenty twenty five,
1:20:30
Speaker 2: Israel launched a massive air strikes targeting military and nuclear
1:20:34
Speaker 2: sites in Iran. The first directed Israeli attack on Iranian soil.
1:20:39
Speaker 2: Ran responded with the drone of missile attacks, and whatever
1:20:42
Speaker 2: global oil prices spiked, investors worried after the let me see,
1:20:47
Speaker 2: the US joined the fight on June the twenty second,
1:20:51
Speaker 2: deploying B two bombers the bunker Busters. Ran promised a
1:20:55
Speaker 2: swift retaliation to launch rockets after the US strikes, and
1:20:58
Speaker 2: Iranian press hoarted that it's parliament had voted to close
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Speaker 2: the straight of horror moves to international oil shipments, but
1:21:05
Speaker 2: no such closure happened before a ceasefire was announced a
1:21:10
Speaker 2: few days later. So again that there's always been these threats,
1:21:17
Speaker 2: and as I mentioned, Phil Flynn pointed out in his
1:21:20
Speaker 2: energy reports and whatnot, that there has been this oil
1:21:25
Speaker 2: premium or this risk premium built into the oil prices.
1:21:30
Speaker 2: And the sooner we get rid of this cancer, the
1:21:33
Speaker 2: bully of the Middle East, the better off will be.
1:21:36
Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones real quick and let's talk
1:21:38
Speaker 2: to Joey Joey fifty five. Care see, how are you
1:21:41
Speaker 2: this morning? Thanks for calling, great man. How are you
1:21:44
Speaker 2: doing great? Fantastic?
1:21:47
Speaker 7: Yep, you do a good job. I'm enjoy listening to you.
1:21:49
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate that. Wait a minute, you enjoy
1:21:52
Speaker 2: listening to me occasionally morning, Well that's true. Well you
1:21:58
Speaker 2: know you can you can go back, yeah, thank you,
1:22:02
Speaker 2: but you can go back and re listen to the
1:22:04
Speaker 2: podcast and just keep you know, replaying them so you know,
1:22:07
Speaker 2: if you miss my voice.
1:22:08
Speaker 14: So I just could that would be kind of weird.
1:22:11
Speaker 7: And then my first talking.
1:22:12
Speaker 13: To you too.
1:22:14
Speaker 2: There you go, all right, I'm sure that's not why
1:22:18
Speaker 2: you called.
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Speaker 14: So no, anyway, I'm just messled with you now. I
1:22:22
Speaker 14: just wanted to bring you a couple of points up. One,
1:22:26
Speaker 14: if you go back into the city, you followed it
1:22:28
Speaker 14: all the way through. Carg Island seems to be the
1:22:31
Speaker 14: diamond that that seems to be the heartbeat of everything.
1:22:35
Speaker 14: That is where it really happens.
1:22:38
Speaker 7: And he recently at the beginning he said, you know,
1:22:41
Speaker 7: I'm going to take carg Island, but he didn't, and
1:22:44
Speaker 7: he recently even bombed around it and didn't go right
1:22:48
Speaker 7: into it because it is the most valuable asset that
1:22:52
Speaker 7: they had. And I think that he needs to just
1:22:56
Speaker 7: go in there and take that like he has recently taken,
1:23:00
Speaker 7: and other things are different problems going on in other countries.
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Speaker 15: He needs to go in there and take that, not
1:23:06
Speaker 15: to make it an American property, but to take control
1:23:08
Speaker 15: of it for a while, get the right people in
1:23:10
Speaker 15: place to run it, get the right people in place
1:23:13
Speaker 15: to guard it, and slowly turn it back over to
1:23:16
Speaker 15: them if they follow the rules, that will bring them
1:23:18
Speaker 15: to their knees. And that's a strategic piece that a
1:23:21
Speaker 15: lot of people haven't talked about anymore. The other thing
1:23:24
Speaker 15: with that that that is their cash flow.
1:23:27
Speaker 7: And some people don't understand that they're military. And I've
1:23:30
Speaker 7: listened to a lot of specialists to denote this and
1:23:33
Speaker 7: talk about this, but they're military. It is nothing more
1:23:37
Speaker 7: than a bunch of thugs and mafia. All those people
1:23:41
Speaker 7: on the top and the highest ranks, we're all on
1:23:45
Speaker 7: the take. They're all millionaires, all their generals, everybody that
1:23:49
Speaker 7: wields any type of power is on the take. And
1:23:52
Speaker 7: it's just like the mafia.
1:23:53
Speaker 15: If you don't follow them, or you don't do what.
1:23:55
Speaker 7: They say, you're gone, man, your history, you're never seen again.
1:23:59
Speaker 7: You're killed or blatantly killed, or I'm the seven example,
1:24:03
Speaker 7: or so on and so forth.
1:24:04
Speaker 6: It's just like.
1:24:05
Speaker 7: Buggish things that mafia does. That is the heartbeat of
1:24:08
Speaker 7: everything that needs to be taking a call of them,
1:24:10
Speaker 7: bring them to their needs exactly.
1:24:12
Speaker 2: And I wish that there was, and I hope these attacks.
1:24:16
Speaker 2: I mean, when you start hearing numbers like eighty one night, ninety,
1:24:20
Speaker 2: the next night, one hundred and forty, it's like, how
1:24:24
Speaker 2: many freaking military targets can there be? Now? I understand
1:24:28
Speaker 2: the country is big, what is it three times about
1:24:32
Speaker 2: three time? Is it three times the size of California
1:24:35
Speaker 2: or thereabouts? Are California and Texas combined. It's a lot
1:24:38
Speaker 2: of territory, but you know, three hundred targets after the
1:24:43
Speaker 2: devastation from two months ago. I mean, it just infuriates
1:24:49
Speaker 2: me the fact that they haven't caved to this point.
1:24:51
Speaker 2: We're not putting enough pressure on them. And I feel
1:24:54
Speaker 2: sorry for the Iranian people. Fifty two thousand of the
1:24:58
Speaker 2: protesters have been killed over the period of time. When
1:25:02
Speaker 2: we said help is on the way, Well, you know,
1:25:05
Speaker 2: at some point in time, the cavalry has to come
1:25:07
Speaker 2: over the hill, and the cavalry has to come over
1:25:10
Speaker 2: the hill and save the people. And uh, I don't
1:25:13
Speaker 2: want boots on the ground. And if carg Island can
1:25:17
Speaker 2: be secured and taken, possibly that they're well, the whack
1:25:22
Speaker 2: jobs that there are over there, they would probably launch
1:25:25
Speaker 2: missiles into that. If I can't have it, you're not
1:25:29
Speaker 2: gonna have it mentality. So I don't know. It's one
1:25:32
Speaker 2: of those things that I wish they would decapitate a
1:25:35
Speaker 2: few more people. Given the fact that today is Bass
1:25:38
Speaker 2: Steel Day, that would be a perfect day to do it.
1:25:41
Speaker 2: So Donald, if you you know, pick up the phone,
1:25:44
Speaker 2: call the show and we'll discuss it. Five one, three, seven,
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Speaker 2: don't know if we're going to be able to take
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Speaker 2: any phone calls. We've got a guess coming up at
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Speaker 2: the bottom of me ear so anyway, I'm Kevin Gordon
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Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas, fifty five kr see the talk stations.
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Speaker 2: Seven thirty one in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for
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Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, fifty five krs. The talk station. A pleasure
1:26:28
Speaker 2: to welcome to the program. Somebody I haven't talked to
1:26:30
Speaker 2: you before. Tom Zoastowski. He is. The website is we
1:26:34
Speaker 2: the Peopleconvention dot org. And welcome to the program, Thomas.
1:26:38
Speaker 2: Pleasure to talk to you.
1:26:40
Speaker 13: Yeah, nice to meet Stu. I appreciate you having me on,
1:26:43
Speaker 13: and you're doing a great job selling it for Brian.
1:26:45
Speaker 13: I always, you know, listen to the station and you do,
1:26:48
Speaker 13: you know, just a great job.
1:26:49
Speaker 2: So thanks for appreciate it. I appreciate that. So it
1:26:55
Speaker 2: tells us here the subject appears to be Ohio Republic
1:27:00
Speaker 2: running away from suspending the gas tax.
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Speaker 13: Yeah. Yeah, I'm pretty hacked off about that, Kevin. You know,
1:27:09
Speaker 13: I don't know if you ag about it, but because
1:27:14
Speaker 13: you know, I was not for repealing or suspending the
1:27:18
Speaker 13: gas tax uh at the beginning, because I felt, you know,
1:27:22
Speaker 13: the war would finally come in end and prices would
1:27:24
Speaker 13: come down and all that. What triggered me in May
1:27:28
Speaker 13: was when we learned that the state had taken in
1:27:31
Speaker 13: one point three billion dollars more in taxes on us
1:27:36
Speaker 13: to people, uh than they needed that was in the budget.
1:27:40
Speaker 13: It was just like extra money. And so I'm saying, well,
1:27:43
Speaker 13: wait a minute. You know every poll I've seen shows
1:27:47
Speaker 13: that the number one issue for this election in the
1:27:50
Speaker 13: fall coming up is affordability. It's just you know, getting by,
1:27:56
Speaker 13: you know, week to week, month to month with your bills.
1:27:59
Speaker 13: And Fox poll came out around the same time and
1:28:02
Speaker 13: showed that of all the issues, immigration, you know, what
1:28:06
Speaker 13: have you, the number one issue was affordability, and forty
1:28:10
Speaker 13: three percent of people said, now I'm going to vote
1:28:13
Speaker 13: on the party that does the most to help me.
1:28:16
Speaker 13: So I write to the bank, and I write to
1:28:19
Speaker 13: you know, McCauley and Huffman and all the powers a being.
1:28:23
Speaker 13: I go, guys, this is a no brainer. It's not
1:28:27
Speaker 13: even your money, it's our money. I'm just asking you
1:28:29
Speaker 13: to give it back to us, right, And the quickest
1:28:32
Speaker 13: way for you to give it back to us, in
1:28:34
Speaker 13: the most echeable way would be to suspend Ohio fuel tax,
1:28:38
Speaker 13: which is thirty eight and a half sense per gallon
1:28:41
Speaker 13: for automobiles and forty seven cents for gawn for diesel.
1:28:45
Speaker 13: And I'm like, this is the egiest thing you could
1:28:48
Speaker 13: ever do. Yeah, and do it, Kevin, well.
1:28:51
Speaker 5: And do it well.
1:28:52
Speaker 2: Now, Tom, step back a moment in your own personal
1:28:57
Speaker 2: budget when you have a get bonus or you find
1:29:01
Speaker 2: some you know, tax refund or money that you didn't expect.
1:29:05
Speaker 2: Don't you go out and blow it. You don't save it,
1:29:08
Speaker 2: you just throw a party for the neighborhood and everything.
1:29:10
Speaker 13: I mean, come on, that's that's a real conservative position, right,
1:29:15
Speaker 13: don't put it into the kids, into the kids.
1:29:17
Speaker 2: Really? Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, yeah,
1:29:23
Speaker 2: but this is what the government does with our money.
1:29:25
Speaker 2: But anyway, I'm kidding obviously, no. But when they have
1:29:29
Speaker 2: a surplus like this, yeah, when they have a surplus
1:29:32
Speaker 2: like that, don't you don't need to spend it once
1:29:35
Speaker 2: in a while kind of give back. I mean that
1:29:38
Speaker 2: what they tell us all the time.
1:29:40
Speaker 13: Well, so then add insult injury. So in May there
1:29:45
Speaker 13: was one point three billion, but by the end of
1:29:48
Speaker 13: the Cisco year on June thirtieth, they had one point
1:29:53
Speaker 13: eight billion dollars left over. One point eight billions. It
1:29:57
Speaker 13: would only cost a billion to suspect end the gas
1:30:00
Speaker 13: tax to the end of the year, right, And our bill,
1:30:04
Speaker 13: we even wrote the bill for it, says we will
1:30:06
Speaker 13: suspend the gas tax either until the end of the
1:30:09
Speaker 13: year or until the price per gallon is under three dollars,
1:30:12
Speaker 13: whichever comes first, which would have helped people. Not get
1:30:16
Speaker 13: it's not going to solve all your problems, but we're
1:30:18
Speaker 13: one hundred dollars a month help you. You know, it
1:30:21
Speaker 13: would absolutely if you're if you have a you have
1:30:24
Speaker 13: a big attractor trailer, we show we figured out it
1:30:27
Speaker 13: would save them five thousand dollars every big truck you
1:30:31
Speaker 13: see out there run by an ohioan. And then the
1:30:33
Speaker 13: third thing, which is just crazy to me, is if
1:30:37
Speaker 13: we lowered Think about it. If at Cincinnati everyone's gas
1:30:41
Speaker 13: was thirty eight and a half says less per gallon,
1:30:44
Speaker 13: what would the people in Kentucky and Indiana do they
1:30:47
Speaker 13: come across the border to buy gas?
1:30:49
Speaker 2: Well, maybe not Indiana because right maybe not Indiana because
1:30:53
Speaker 2: they already did their u the gas tax. They lowered
1:30:56
Speaker 2: that a couple of months ago. In fact, when you
1:30:58
Speaker 2: go on Triple A's Way website, they are the lowest
1:31:02
Speaker 2: gas prices in the country, you know, average wise.
1:31:07
Speaker 13: But yeah, funny how that works? Well, Well, I wouldn't
1:31:10
Speaker 13: Ohio do the same thing exactly.
1:31:12
Speaker 2: We need to take a quick break here. When we
1:31:14
Speaker 2: come back, we discuss this a little bit more. I'm
1:31:16
Speaker 2: sure there's some phone numbers that we need to call
1:31:19
Speaker 2: and some people, particularly that we possibly might need to
1:31:23
Speaker 2: nudge a little bit respectfully, I might add, but we're
1:31:26
Speaker 2: doing that. My guest is Tom zowas Towsky. He is
1:31:30
Speaker 2: with We the People Convention dot org. I'm Kevin Gordon
1:31:34
Speaker 2: in for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC, the talk station.
1:31:40
Speaker 5: In the extreme Higheart Radio, the talk station.
1:31:49
Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, the
1:31:53
Speaker 2: talk station. Continuing our conversation with Tom Zoastowski. He is
1:31:58
Speaker 2: with the Free We the People Convention dot org, talking
1:32:02
Speaker 2: about the Ohio gas tax, possibly a rollback there. Again,
1:32:08
Speaker 2: thank you for being with us, Tom, I certainly appreciate it.
1:32:12
Speaker 13: No, I'm glad to talk about this particular subject because
1:32:15
Speaker 13: I just think that people are frustrated in Ohio, particularly
1:32:20
Speaker 13: that the Republicans they talk a lot, but they don't
1:32:23
Speaker 13: do a lot, and we're looking for some action and
1:32:28
Speaker 13: this type of thing, which, like I said, how could
1:32:31
Speaker 13: it be any simpler from a political standpoint, You know,
1:32:34
Speaker 13: they were we weren't saying, hey, cut the budget by
1:32:37
Speaker 13: a billion dollars and give us money back. We're saying, hey,
1:32:41
Speaker 13: you already took one point a billion of our money.
1:32:44
Speaker 13: That you don't even need. We're just asking you to give
1:32:47
Speaker 13: it back because things are a little tough right now.
1:32:51
Speaker 13: And they basically said f you, and we're like, well,
1:32:55
Speaker 13: f you, because we're a sick in time of this
1:32:57
Speaker 13: and we want, you know, somebody that cares about our families.
1:33:01
Speaker 2: And so do they not want to be reelected? Do
1:33:04
Speaker 2: they not want to stay in power? I mean, what
1:33:07
Speaker 2: is the deal? Do they think they have such a lock,
1:33:10
Speaker 2: good looks, charm and personality is going to pull them through.
1:33:14
Speaker 13: Well, unfortunately we see a lot of that. We think
1:33:18
Speaker 13: that they do feel like you'll remember the Lesser of
1:33:21
Speaker 13: two Evils. They've been selling us for thirty years now.
1:33:24
Speaker 13: They're just like, well, you know, we're gonna win even
1:33:27
Speaker 13: if we don't do anything that you want us to do,
1:33:30
Speaker 13: because you don't have a better choice. But here's the problem.
1:33:33
Speaker 13: When I'm hearing, and you may be hearing on your
1:33:35
Speaker 13: show in other places, lots of people are saying, I'm
1:33:39
Speaker 13: not going to vote. I'm not showing up this fall.
1:33:42
Speaker 13: There's nothing for me on the ballot right And that's
1:33:45
Speaker 13: where they're gonna get in trouble because the Dems are
1:33:48
Speaker 13: going to turn out and if the you know, the
1:33:51
Speaker 13: real conservatives don't show up, we could have amy activist governor.
1:33:55
Speaker 13: How do you like that?
1:33:55
Speaker 2: Oh, dear God, right now, that doesn't give you the
1:34:00
Speaker 2: peace shivers. I don't know what does. But just give
1:34:04
Speaker 2: you a little bit off, Yeah, give you a little
1:34:06
Speaker 2: rundown here. Indiana, when they were lowered theirs, they're now
1:34:10
Speaker 2: currently at three dollars and twenty two cents statewide. Pennsylvania
1:34:14
Speaker 2: is at three ninety seven, West Virginia three seventy nine,
1:34:17
Speaker 2: Kentucky is at three point fifty one, Michigan at three
1:34:20
Speaker 2: ninety one, and if Ohio were to lower their gas
1:34:24
Speaker 2: tax at thirty eight and a half cents, that would
1:34:26
Speaker 2: take us down on an average of three thirty nine,
1:34:29
Speaker 2: So we'd be lower than most of our neighbors, with
1:34:32
Speaker 2: the exception of Indiana. Why wouldn't they want to do this?
1:34:37
Speaker 13: I've literally asked that question. I've literally and those exact
1:34:42
Speaker 13: same works. I said, give me a reason why you
1:34:46
Speaker 13: wouldn't do this, and they didn't. And then what do
1:34:49
Speaker 13: they do. They hold a special session right before the
1:34:52
Speaker 13: end of the month and they spend it. And so
1:34:55
Speaker 13: they're saying, well, you know, we have all this extra
1:34:58
Speaker 13: money but we're not going to give it back to you.
1:35:00
Speaker 13: We're just going to spend it. And the one that
1:35:03
Speaker 13: just kicked me off was they put thirty five million
1:35:07
Speaker 13: of the money into the state's rainy day fund. Okay,
1:35:11
Speaker 13: taking that funds total to four billion dollars, which is
1:35:15
Speaker 13: the quote highest balance ever. I want to ask your listeners,
1:35:21
Speaker 13: how's your ringing gig fund going right? How do you
1:35:24
Speaker 13: do it with your any fund? When you get your
1:35:26
Speaker 13: fill up your car, it's seventy bucks to fill up.
1:35:30
Speaker 13: Your two seniors are going to Applebee's for launch and
1:35:33
Speaker 13: it's cost them freaking fifty dollars. And this is where
1:35:36
Speaker 13: the disconnect is because they don't live like the regular people.
1:35:41
Speaker 13: You know. They're they're doing just fine. They got these
1:35:43
Speaker 13: state jobs, they make a good salary, they got way
1:35:46
Speaker 13: better for their benefits than any of us. And it's
1:35:48
Speaker 13: all we're saying is have some concern for your voters.
1:35:53
Speaker 13: And this was the simplest thing I could ask them
1:35:56
Speaker 13: to do, and they.
1:35:57
Speaker 2: Didn't need to contact who do we need to put
1:36:01
Speaker 2: the pressure on? And maybe we should hold that for
1:36:04
Speaker 2: the next segment. Let's hold that for the next segment.
1:36:06
Speaker 2: I want to get some we want to get some
1:36:08
Speaker 2: phone numbers, we want to get some action on this.
1:36:11
Speaker 2: And I'm sure you've felt or that you've well, maybe
1:36:15
Speaker 2: it's different in Ohio, but in Kentucky, if a state
1:36:20
Speaker 2: legislator gets twenty five, fifteen, twenty twenty five messages about
1:36:27
Speaker 2: an item that the people want, it grabs their attention
1:36:31
Speaker 2: big time, and sometimes they act on it. It took
1:36:35
Speaker 2: a little bit of us in northern Kentucky, about nineteen
1:36:40
Speaker 2: of us to put pressure on the different cities the
1:36:44
Speaker 2: counties to pass resolution opposing tolls on the Brent Spence
1:36:48
Speaker 2: Bridge back in twenty thirteen, and just a ragtag group
1:36:52
Speaker 2: of people that spent no money actually defeated the fifty
1:36:57
Speaker 2: thousand dollars of the lobbyists that we're trying to get
1:37:02
Speaker 2: the state legislature to pass a public private partnership which
1:37:07
Speaker 2: would have built that companion bridge so it can be done.
1:37:10
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the same. Maybe we can
1:37:12
Speaker 2: pick that up on the other side of the break.
1:37:14
Speaker 2: My guest is Tom Zoistowski is with We the People
1:37:18
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Speaker 2: Seven nine in the morning, Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
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Speaker 2: fifty five krs the Talk station, continuing our conversation with
1:37:41
Speaker 2: Tom Zoistowski. We the People Convention dot org. Write that
1:37:48
Speaker 2: website down. We the People Convention dot Org. Now, Tom,
1:37:52
Speaker 2: we need to get some action on this. And what
1:37:55
Speaker 2: is it like in Ohio? Do they pay attention to
1:37:57
Speaker 2: the voters? If people call, uh, leave messages obviously respectively
1:38:03
Speaker 2: or respective respectfull, I should say, does that help? Well?
1:38:09
Speaker 13: It does help, And you need to, you know, make
1:38:13
Speaker 13: your representatives listen to you when particularly in a case
1:38:16
Speaker 13: like this where you really have, you know, a good argument.
1:38:20
Speaker 13: So I think the opportunity for us now is Okay,
1:38:23
Speaker 13: they had one point eight billion, they then spent one
1:38:27
Speaker 13: point two billion of it, so there's six hundred million
1:38:31
Speaker 13: dollars left over, right, So I think if we call
1:38:35
Speaker 13: House Speaker Matt Huffman and Senate President McCauley LL McCauley
1:38:41
Speaker 13: and just say, hey, okay, you took your cut of
1:38:44
Speaker 13: the one point eight billion, how about now giving us
1:38:48
Speaker 13: the rest and we want it back in a gas
1:38:50
Speaker 13: tax suspension and so I can give out their phone
1:38:54
Speaker 13: a movie you'd like, and people can write them down
1:38:56
Speaker 13: and then just just politely call and say, listen, I
1:38:59
Speaker 13: heard a story on the radio, and you know, you
1:39:02
Speaker 13: guys have this extra money from us that you you know,
1:39:06
Speaker 13: you collected in taxes that you don't even need. Could
1:39:09
Speaker 13: you give us some of it back in the form
1:39:11
Speaker 13: of a guest tack suspension.
1:39:12
Speaker 2: Now, in the state of Kentucky, we have the Legislative
1:39:16
Speaker 2: Research Office, which is kind of like the like the
1:39:21
Speaker 2: the House and Senate switchboard there where you can call
1:39:25
Speaker 2: and you can give and tell them who your congressman,
1:39:27
Speaker 2: senator is, or even if you don't know, you just
1:39:29
Speaker 2: say where you live. Does Ohio have a centralized system,
1:39:35
Speaker 2: because like in Kentucky, you can just call the Legislative
1:39:38
Speaker 2: Office and they will get the message to the individual representatives.
1:39:42
Speaker 2: And of course we want to have their individual numbers themselves,
1:39:45
Speaker 2: But do they have a you know, for somebody because
1:39:48
Speaker 2: you don't want to just hound them. You want to
1:39:50
Speaker 2: hound your representative and say, you know, ten fifteen people
1:39:55
Speaker 2: from you know, that particular district. Then he gets that
1:39:59
Speaker 2: she gets at whatever. They can then go to the
1:40:02
Speaker 2: leadership and say, hey, I'm getting pounded on this.
1:40:05
Speaker 13: Help me here, well, and we you know, we've actually
1:40:09
Speaker 13: been through that process in the last month and many
1:40:13
Speaker 13: many people, many of our representatives wanted to vote on this,
1:40:17
Speaker 13: and the leadership wouldn't even bring it up for a vote.
1:40:20
Speaker 13: When they were allocating how we're going to spend this
1:40:22
Speaker 13: one point eight billion, they would not let them bring
1:40:25
Speaker 13: up the gas tax suspension. All right, So the bottleneck
1:40:28
Speaker 13: is the House Speaker and the Senate leader, and they
1:40:31
Speaker 13: would have to bring it up. So we want to.
1:40:34
Speaker 2: Call those guys their cell phone or anything like that.
1:40:37
Speaker 13: No, no, no, their office, Yeah, And Matt Hoffman's office is
1:40:41
Speaker 13: six one four four six six six three four four
1:40:46
Speaker 13: six one four four sixty six six three four four.
1:40:51
Speaker 13: And the president Senate President, Rob McCauley's office is six
1:40:55
Speaker 13: one four four sixty six eight one five zero six
1:41:00
Speaker 13: one four four sixty six eight one five zero. That's
1:41:04
Speaker 13: Rob McCauley, the Senate President, and then Matt Huffman, the
1:41:07
Speaker 13: House Speaker. It's up to them, you know, the people
1:41:11
Speaker 13: deserve a break because affordability is our biggest problem, right
1:41:16
Speaker 13: And see, if you want to win in the fall,
1:41:19
Speaker 13: maybe I could get something like this, people would feel
1:41:22
Speaker 13: like you're really pooling.
1:41:23
Speaker 2: For them exactly. And again I would caution people, we've
1:41:27
Speaker 2: done this. I can tell you that if you call
1:41:31
Speaker 2: the US switchboard for the congressman Senate, that is probably
1:41:35
Speaker 2: one of the best groups that I've seen, in addition
1:41:40
Speaker 2: to the Legislative Office in Kentucky. But they are very
1:41:44
Speaker 2: helpful if you don't know who your congressman senator are,
1:41:47
Speaker 2: and if you don't know, you can ask them now
1:41:51
Speaker 2: when you call, be respectful, don't get all outraged and everything.
1:41:56
Speaker 2: Just said, I would like to leave a message for
1:41:58
Speaker 2: Matt Huffman. I would like to leave a message from
1:42:01
Speaker 2: Ron McCauley. I'm and you know, I'm a constituent state
1:42:06
Speaker 2: of Ohio, and I would like to see a little
1:42:09
Speaker 2: bit of relief on our gas taxes. You've got the money,
1:42:12
Speaker 2: you've got the budget, you've got the surplus. Let's use
1:42:16
Speaker 2: it for the people.
1:42:17
Speaker 13: So I think it's a great message. I think you're
1:42:20
Speaker 13: you know, your listeners can make a difference if they
1:42:23
Speaker 13: start down on the phone, and.
1:42:24
Speaker 2: It's not that difficult. You just pick up the phone,
1:42:26
Speaker 2: make the phone call, and it takes what a couple
1:42:29
Speaker 2: of minutes out of your day, and if the gas
1:42:33
Speaker 2: tax comes through, you get the opportunity of breaking your
1:42:36
Speaker 2: arm by patting yourself on the back.
1:42:38
Speaker 13: So I love it. I love it. Yeah, it's about
1:42:43
Speaker 13: citizen action, it is. You know, we've got to hold
1:42:46
Speaker 13: these people accountable. And I just think this is really
1:42:48
Speaker 13: an egregious situation where again, we didn't ask them to
1:42:52
Speaker 13: cut the budget to give us a tax cut. We
1:42:55
Speaker 13: just said it's our money, give it back to us.
1:42:58
Speaker 2: That's pretty simple, exactly. Well, Tom, it's been a pleasure
1:43:02
Speaker 2: talking to you again. My guests has been Tom Zawistowski.
1:43:05
Speaker 2: We the People Convention dot org. And again the phone
1:43:09
Speaker 2: numbers for Matt Huffman are six one four or is
1:43:13
Speaker 2: six one four four six six six three four four
1:43:18
Speaker 2: Ron McCauley six one four four six six eight one five.
1:43:23
Speaker 2: Oh and I'll put this on my Facebook page again.
1:43:25
Speaker 2: Cleverly named Kevin Gordon. Tom has been a pleasure talking
1:43:29
Speaker 2: to you. Nice meeting you, and I certainly appreciate you
1:43:32
Speaker 2: calling talking to you today.
1:43:34
Speaker 13: Yeah, I hope we get to do it again.
1:43:36
Speaker 2: Ay, bet all right, Tom, take care. This is a
1:43:41
Speaker 2: no brainer. Folks. Pick up the phone, make the phone
1:43:44
Speaker 2: call b be nice, don't you know. Don't raise your voice,
1:43:48
Speaker 2: be calm, Just tell them what you want and let's
1:43:51
Speaker 2: get this done. I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas
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1:43:58
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Speaker 2: All the time.
1:44:03
Speaker 7: I feel like information was held.
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1:44:29
Speaker 2: Eight o six in the morning. Kevin Gordon here. Uh,
1:44:32
Speaker 2: we want to welcome to the program. Somebody haven't had
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1:44:39
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1:44:43
Speaker 2: certain appreciate you spending time with us today.
1:44:47
Speaker 4: Absolutely. Good morning, Kevin.
1:44:48
Speaker 2: How are you fantastic? Got a bunch of stories. I
1:44:52
Speaker 2: don't know where to begin. I'll tell you what I guess.
1:44:55
Speaker 2: I'll start with the one that gets my blood boiling
1:44:57
Speaker 2: the most. Mexico threatens legal action against Ice overshooting of
1:45:03
Speaker 2: illegal Let me just go to the quote here from
1:45:08
Speaker 2: Mexican President Claudia shinbamb we cannot allow the mistreatment of
1:45:12
Speaker 2: our brothers who are in the United States. Keep up home.
1:45:18
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, go on there you go.
1:45:22
Speaker 4: So it is very rich, Kevin, because if you look
1:45:26
Speaker 4: at what's going on in Mexico under Claudia shinbamb she's
1:45:29
Speaker 4: not much concerned about her brothers inside her country, right
1:45:33
Speaker 4: because we know how many thousands have been killed by
1:45:36
Speaker 4: the cartels, and most of those murders they go unsolved.
1:45:40
Speaker 4: It's over half a million in the last twenty years.
1:45:43
Speaker 4: And just under her, you know, that total keeps climbing.
1:45:47
Speaker 4: You know, it's it's literally about fifty to fifty five
1:45:50
Speaker 4: murders per day, and you can say experts say sixty
1:45:54
Speaker 4: percent of those are cartel related. Many will never be resolved.
1:45:58
Speaker 4: We know thousands go missing each year, and it's men, women, children,
1:46:03
Speaker 4: it's innocent people caught in the crossfire. It's folks that
1:46:05
Speaker 4: are extorted for money and kidnapped and are never heard
1:46:08
Speaker 4: from again. So it's kind of rich that she's worried.
1:46:12
Speaker 4: She's looking into the deaths of fourteen people in custody,
1:46:16
Speaker 4: in ice custody. Well, okay, I get it, but that
1:46:20
Speaker 4: ice custody number of deaths is way lower than the
1:46:23
Speaker 4: national average on people that die in custody and state
1:46:27
Speaker 4: in federal prisons each and every year.
1:46:29
Speaker 2: Well, aside from the custody issue, how many of the
1:46:33
Speaker 2: illegals from Mexico have murdered, raped and taken you know,
1:46:39
Speaker 2: fraud from our welfare system. How about we start billing
1:46:44
Speaker 2: them for that and filing legal action against them for
1:46:48
Speaker 2: the murders and the rapes of our citizens. I mean,
1:46:52
Speaker 2: you know this can go, you know, to do a
1:46:56
Speaker 2: little legal term here. This is an Uno modus strata
1:47:01
Speaker 2: one way street, my friend.
1:47:05
Speaker 4: Well and there, certainly I think that would end the
1:47:07
Speaker 4: rhetoric right away. And that's what Claudia Steinbaum is very
1:47:10
Speaker 4: good actions, very good at rhetoric, not very good at action.
1:47:14
Speaker 2: Well, on the spoon feder regurgitators and mainstream media, you're
1:47:16
Speaker 2: going to pick up on that big time. So again
1:47:20
Speaker 2: there we go dovetailing to that. As you mentioned the
1:47:23
Speaker 2: number of people going missing, more cartel gravesites discovered in
1:47:27
Speaker 2: Mexico border city numbers are missing increase daily, so you
1:47:32
Speaker 2: kind of touched on that a little bit.
1:47:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Mexico keeps a registry of missing and unaccounted
1:47:40
Speaker 4: for persons. It's a national registry. And you know, just
1:47:43
Speaker 4: since Claudia Shinbaum came into office, there's been sixteen thousand,
1:47:48
Speaker 4: over sixteen thousand missing since she took office. That's nearly
1:47:52
Speaker 4: one a day. So maybe even sometime while we're talking,
1:47:55
Speaker 4: one person's going to go missing at the hands of
1:47:58
Speaker 4: these violent cartels. And when you look at you know
1:48:02
Speaker 4: who is missing. It's not rival cartel members only. It's children,
1:48:08
Speaker 4: it's women, it's mothers. It's just whoever makes the most
1:48:11
Speaker 4: noise against the cartels, that's who they make disappear. Right,
1:48:15
Speaker 4: It's a lot of journalists as well. You know, it's
1:48:18
Speaker 4: the worst place to be a journalist and try and
1:48:21
Speaker 4: report honestly on cartel activity because you're not going to
1:48:24
Speaker 4: be around very long.
1:48:25
Speaker 2: Uh huh. And now being the border reporter, you have
1:48:29
Speaker 2: spent time down there, you got to feel like the
1:48:32
Speaker 2: lone ranger because I'm sure there is not anybody from
1:48:35
Speaker 2: MS NOW or CNN or whoever down there.
1:48:39
Speaker 4: You know, it's funny they didn't show up when when
1:48:42
Speaker 4: you know, the Biden years when the border was out
1:48:44
Speaker 4: of control, they're not showing up right now to show
1:48:46
Speaker 4: the great job that President Trump is doing. Oh, I've
1:48:49
Speaker 4: spent thirty two years in the border troll, so I've
1:48:52
Speaker 4: seen it at its best and its worst. And most
1:48:55
Speaker 4: of my sixty years have been spent on the US
1:48:58
Speaker 4: Mexico border. And what we're we're seeing right now, on
1:49:01
Speaker 4: the one hand, is phenomenal. It is historic. Fifteen straight
1:49:06
Speaker 4: months of apprehensions by the border patrol that are less
1:49:10
Speaker 4: than ten thousand per month. That's what we were seeing
1:49:14
Speaker 4: during the Biden administration on the worst days of ten
1:49:17
Speaker 4: to fourteen thousand apprehensions each day. So the results are phenomenal,
1:49:24
Speaker 4: But the Mexican cartels don't give up. They're so diversified
1:49:28
Speaker 4: in they what they do. It's like a frozen river.
1:49:31
Speaker 4: All of the mess we saw, you know, under the
1:49:33
Speaker 4: Biden administration has been practically erased by this administration and
1:49:37
Speaker 4: by this president. But there's an undercurrent of cartel activities,
1:49:42
Speaker 4: still trying to move fentanyl, still involved in extortions and kidnapping,
1:49:46
Speaker 4: still running guns back to Mexico to fight their federal
1:49:49
Speaker 4: government and their army. And there's still many great amounts
1:49:53
Speaker 4: of money from the United States headed back to Mexico
1:49:56
Speaker 4: each and every day.
1:49:57
Speaker 2: Well, you know, they fight it so hard because it's
1:50:01
Speaker 2: so profitable. My guess is Randy Clark Breipbart news reporter,
1:50:07
Speaker 2: And you know it's a it's a it's profitable for them,
1:50:12
Speaker 2: it's it can't afford to lose that money stream. If
1:50:15
Speaker 2: you're going to live, you know, the high life and
1:50:18
Speaker 2: enjoy the fruits of your ill gotten gains, they're going
1:50:21
Speaker 2: to fight like hell for it.
1:50:24
Speaker 4: Well, and a lot of people think that these cartels
1:50:27
Speaker 4: are nothing but a bunch of street level thugs. And
1:50:31
Speaker 4: the reality is is if you and I invested our
1:50:33
Speaker 4: money as well as these folks learned how to diversify
1:50:37
Speaker 4: into criminal enterprises, we would be wealthy.
1:50:40
Speaker 15: You know.
1:50:41
Speaker 4: They, like I say, their core business is moving narcotics
1:50:44
Speaker 4: into the United States.
1:50:45
Speaker 2: So you're telling me I made the wrong career decision.
1:50:48
Speaker 13: So did all? Right?
1:50:51
Speaker 4: Fuel theft, mining and logging, real estate, agricultural thefts in
1:50:56
Speaker 4: Mexico and billion dollar avocados and lime industry, real estate transactions.
1:51:02
Speaker 4: If it's there, it's kind of like the you know,
1:51:04
Speaker 4: the Italian mob in the United States and the twenties.
1:51:07
Speaker 4: If it's there to be had, they will steal it,
1:51:10
Speaker 4: or they'll corrupt it, or they'll get involved human trafficking,
1:51:13
Speaker 4: sex trafficking, you name it.
1:51:15
Speaker 2: Y, cargo trafficking, cargo theft. Yeah, absolutely, Now how much
1:51:21
Speaker 2: do they get involved in the cyber theft and stuff?
1:51:25
Speaker 2: Is that all part of this?
1:51:27
Speaker 4: Well, so it's one. It's great you mentioned that because
1:51:31
Speaker 4: in Cincinnati alone, just in January, they arrested a US
1:51:36
Speaker 4: citizen who was actually using a Chinese money laundering syndicate
1:51:41
Speaker 4: to launder the drug cartel's money and get them their
1:51:45
Speaker 4: money in Mexico. And that was happening out of Cincinnati.
1:51:48
Speaker 4: That was the case, you know in your neck of
1:51:50
Speaker 4: the woods. Yeah, these folks, their tentacles are everywhere, and
1:51:53
Speaker 4: yes they are involved. If there's money to be had
1:51:56
Speaker 4: or stolen, they're going to be there. They're going to
1:51:58
Speaker 4: have their hands in it. And they are present in
1:52:01
Speaker 4: every community. You know, you'll hear, uh, You'll never hear
1:52:06
Speaker 4: a person who's addicted to meth say I can't find meth.
1:52:10
Speaker 4: I'll say I can't find money to buy meth. But
1:52:12
Speaker 4: but he's not going to say I can't find the math.
1:52:14
Speaker 4: Once you find the money, these cartels have moved that
1:52:17
Speaker 4: product into every city. Vent and meth airwin cocaine in
1:52:21
Speaker 4: the United States.
1:52:22
Speaker 2: Has this slowed down Annie as it or as they
1:52:25
Speaker 2: just found have they just found different avenues to go.
1:52:29
Speaker 4: Well, the seizures have actually increased because what happens on
1:52:32
Speaker 4: the border is when you have you know, thousands of
1:52:36
Speaker 4: people showing up at the invitation of the former president
1:52:40
Speaker 4: every day, the border troll and customs officers are there
1:52:45
Speaker 4: taking care of them and changing diapers and you know,
1:52:48
Speaker 4: watching them and transporting them and feeding them. They don't
1:52:52
Speaker 4: have much time to go out and look at the cartels.
1:52:54
Speaker 4: That doesn't mean the activities there, It just means it's
1:52:57
Speaker 4: a holiday for the cartels and they get to move there,
1:52:59
Speaker 4: you know, their products into the United States and their
1:53:02
Speaker 4: money south with very little chance of getting apprehended. Well,
1:53:05
Speaker 4: right now the opposite is true. Places along the border
1:53:09
Speaker 4: in between ports are now being patrolled regularly by the
1:53:12
Speaker 4: border patrol, the customs folks, customer immigration and Customs enforcement,
1:53:17
Speaker 4: and customs and Border protection at the ports of entry
1:53:19
Speaker 4: that we're doing the same kind of humanitarian work and
1:53:23
Speaker 4: parolling people into the United States under Joe Biden are
1:53:27
Speaker 4: now looking heavily at that cargo you were talking about.
1:53:30
Speaker 4: They're looking heavily at people coming in in vehicles and
1:53:33
Speaker 4: smuggling there. So the seizures go up, and that's not
1:53:37
Speaker 4: an indication that more is happening. That's an indication that
1:53:40
Speaker 4: more is being caught because more enforcement efforts are being
1:53:43
Speaker 4: dedicated to that.
1:53:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you just cringe that, Okay, for what we found?
1:53:48
Speaker 2: What haven't we found? And that is frightening it and
1:53:52
Speaker 2: of itself. We need to take quick break. My guest
1:53:54
Speaker 2: is Randy Clark. He is Bride Barton who's Border reporter,
1:53:58
Speaker 2: and we'll be coming up and talking to him. Coming up.
1:54:00
Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC,
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1:54:05
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Speaker 2: Eight nineteen in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
1:54:18
Speaker 2: fifty five KRC, the Talk Station, continuing our conversation with
1:54:23
Speaker 2: my guest Randy Clark. He is Bright bart News and
1:54:28
Speaker 2: we're talking about stuff going on down on the border. Randy,
1:54:33
Speaker 2: thanks so much for hanging with us. Certainly appreciate it absolutely.
1:54:38
Speaker 2: Now one of the other stories need to cover is
1:54:41
Speaker 2: the Tech Texas group facing terrorism charges for alleged Sinaloa
1:54:49
Speaker 2: Cartel weapons pipeline.
1:54:53
Speaker 13: Well, so a.
1:54:54
Speaker 4: Very integral part of how the cartels remain in business
1:54:57
Speaker 4: is there in a constant battle with on law enforcement
1:55:00
Speaker 4: and honest Mexican military officers that are trying to capture
1:55:04
Speaker 4: their leaders, and so they need these weapons that you know,
1:55:06
Speaker 4: it's an active battle. It's unlike anything we've seen in
1:55:10
Speaker 4: the United States, certainly since the Civil War, where you
1:55:12
Speaker 4: have these armed groups battling government soldiers and killing their
1:55:16
Speaker 4: own soldiers almost on a daily basis. So they need
1:55:20
Speaker 4: those guns. The best way to get them is through
1:55:23
Speaker 4: straw purchasing activities in the United States. So in this case,
1:55:27
Speaker 4: that was a crew out of Amarillo, Texas that were,
1:55:31
Speaker 4: you know, purchasing numerous weapons and sending them into Mexico,
1:55:35
Speaker 4: you know, on behalf of the Sinaloa cartel. Those weapons
1:55:38
Speaker 4: are going to find their way into shootouts, They're going
1:55:41
Speaker 4: to find their way into these Mexican cartels, and sadly,
1:55:45
Speaker 4: you're going to have some law enforcement officers in Mexico
1:55:47
Speaker 4: and some military that are not going to be around
1:55:49
Speaker 4: after these shootouts are over because of these activities. So
1:55:53
Speaker 4: this can happen anywhere you know, it's happened in the
1:55:55
Speaker 4: valley in Texas, it's happened now pass, that's happened in
1:55:58
Speaker 4: San Diego, California. Those guns moved that they saw and
1:56:02
Speaker 4: that's one of the ways they get these weapons.
1:56:06
Speaker 2: That is just unbelievable, the amount of the amount of
1:56:10
Speaker 2: weapons going through there, and some of the numbers that
1:56:13
Speaker 2: I'm seeing here are just astounding. And again, I mean,
1:56:16
Speaker 2: it's is this part of that campaign don't lie for
1:56:19
Speaker 2: the other guy that they're trying to involve major public
1:56:23
Speaker 2: awareness blitz.
1:56:25
Speaker 4: Well that's going to be focused in the San Antonio
1:56:27
Speaker 4: area because they too have had some cases here of
1:56:31
Speaker 4: straw purchases. And they're not just you know, you're here
1:56:34
Speaker 4: every day. They are fifteen styled firearm or your AK
1:56:39
Speaker 4: forty seven. They're they're purchasing belt fead rifles that you know,
1:56:45
Speaker 4: resemble something that you would see on a battle field
1:56:48
Speaker 4: more than anything else. And so they're finding all kinds
1:56:52
Speaker 4: of weapons to purchase and to get south and it
1:56:57
Speaker 4: really isn't a good situation.
1:57:00
Speaker 2: Well, when I look at these names of some of
1:57:04
Speaker 2: these people who have been indicted, are we are are
1:57:08
Speaker 2: we looking at illegal aliens in this country? Or are
1:57:14
Speaker 2: we looking at US citizens that are involved in these indictments? Uh?
1:57:20
Speaker 2: This one out of let me see where is it?
1:57:24
Speaker 2: The federal judge the city Mexican cartels is foreign terrorist
1:57:30
Speaker 2: organizations Texas based group facing terrorism charges? Are we or
1:57:36
Speaker 2: is it both? I mean is it? Uh?
1:57:39
Speaker 4: So it can be both. Uh if if you can
1:57:43
Speaker 4: grab the cartel, you know members and operatives that are
1:57:47
Speaker 4: working to get and receive these while they're in the
1:57:49
Speaker 4: United States. It could be somebody illegally in the United States.
1:57:53
Speaker 4: But the straw purchaser, you know, it's tough to buy
1:57:56
Speaker 4: a gun nowadays. You've got to go through the background
1:57:58
Speaker 4: checks and you got to check all the blocks, and
1:58:01
Speaker 4: so you're going to find that they are US citizens
1:58:04
Speaker 4: and they are purchasing these because they can. They have
1:58:07
Speaker 4: no criminal background and they think this is an easy
1:58:10
Speaker 4: way to make money. All I got to do is
1:58:12
Speaker 4: buy the gun, hand it to you. Who's going to
1:58:14
Speaker 4: find out? And trust me, the government will find out. Eventually.
1:58:19
Speaker 4: They'll seize these weapons, whether they're in Mexico or here,
1:58:22
Speaker 4: and that tracking mechanism will lead back to the firearms
1:58:26
Speaker 4: dealer that made the sale and they'll find out who
1:58:29
Speaker 4: the purchaser was, and it just rolls from there. But
1:58:33
Speaker 4: in many cases, in all the cases, practically the straw
1:58:37
Speaker 4: purchasers are going to be legally to have the legal
1:58:41
Speaker 4: right to make that purchase. That's why they are sought
1:58:43
Speaker 4: after by the cartels.
1:58:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, and according to this, a fifteen year in fifteen
1:58:48
Speaker 2: years in prison and a two hundred and fifty thousand
1:58:50
Speaker 2: dollars fine for the straw purchaser. Now, in a lot
1:58:54
Speaker 2: of cases, I would imagine that this is a small
1:58:57
Speaker 2: or a small cog in the bigger we So a
1:59:01
Speaker 2: lot of these might possibly get plea bargained or rat
1:59:06
Speaker 2: on somebody else higher up. But again it's just you know,
1:59:12
Speaker 2: you know, this all gets to Randy Clark, the fact
1:59:16
Speaker 2: that people have to have a little bit of empathy,
1:59:21
Speaker 2: if you will, a little bit of forward thinking that
1:59:25
Speaker 2: if I'm buying a weapon and I'm turning it over
1:59:29
Speaker 2: to somebody, obviously if he's not buying it, apparently he's
1:59:33
Speaker 2: not eligible to buy it, and he's not going to
1:59:36
Speaker 2: go go home and use it as a trophy on
1:59:38
Speaker 2: his wall. That it's going to be used and somebody's
1:59:41
Speaker 2: probably going to get killed as a result of that.
1:59:44
Speaker 2: I don't know how people don't how they can live
1:59:48
Speaker 2: with themselves and do this.
1:59:51
Speaker 4: Well, I think they don't look at it any farther
1:59:55
Speaker 4: than just handing it over. Now, you just did a
1:59:58
Speaker 4: line of thinking, that's what might It's all they're thinking is, look,
2:00:01
Speaker 4: I buy a thousand dollars gun, and these folks give
2:00:04
Speaker 4: me three four thousand dollars for that's a lot of profit.
2:00:07
Speaker 4: What they what they do with it is between them
2:00:10
Speaker 4: and God. And I think that's how these people get away,
2:00:13
Speaker 4: you know, emotionally with doing something like that, is they
2:00:15
Speaker 4: don't think about it. Well, that's not on me, that's
2:00:18
Speaker 4: on you. I'm just you want it, I'm selling it,
2:00:22
Speaker 4: and so you know, and I guess a gun dealer
2:00:24
Speaker 4: could say the same thing. Look, you're selling guns. They
2:00:28
Speaker 4: could be used for home defense, they might be used
2:00:30
Speaker 4: for something nefarious. You really don't know. These people are
2:00:33
Speaker 4: pretending that they're in a legitimate business doing the same thing,
2:00:37
Speaker 4: and they're not because they are not conducting those record
2:00:40
Speaker 4: checks that are required by law. So it's it's you know,
2:00:43
Speaker 4: it's a lot of greed.
2:00:45
Speaker 2: Again. But again, I go to bright bart News and
2:00:48
Speaker 2: read up on this and get informed because this is
2:00:51
Speaker 2: some great stuff and it was a pleasure talking to
2:00:54
Speaker 2: you because a lot of this stuff that you know,
2:00:56
Speaker 2: we don't hear about. I mean, they, as I call them,
2:00:59
Speaker 2: the spoon federalgurgitators in the mainstream media. They're not going
2:01:02
Speaker 2: to They're just going to regurgitate the talking points that
2:01:06
Speaker 2: they're handed. It's people like you that actually do the investigation,
2:01:10
Speaker 2: that actually boots on the ground and do the legwork
2:01:13
Speaker 2: to come up with these stories, and a lot of
2:01:15
Speaker 2: times they're just ignored by the big media, which is unfortunate.
2:01:23
Speaker 4: Thank you, Kevin, thanks for having me, and I appreciate
2:01:25
Speaker 4: anybody once more on this, they can go to our
2:01:27
Speaker 4: Cartel Chronicles World page at bregbart dot com.
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Speaker 2: All right, my guest has been Randy Clark, Breitbart News
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Speaker 2: New News Border reporter. Randy, thanks so much for spending
2:01:37
Speaker 2: time with it. I certainly appreciate it. Take care. I
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Speaker 2: Westbound US fifty sixth Street Viaduct to Guest Street will
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Speaker 2: need to know about. Cincinnati Public Schools board delays tax
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Speaker 2: said he was going to pull out, well, actually pulled
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Speaker 2: out his phone. The other driver snatched it threw it
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Speaker 2: on the ground. The other driver then drew through the
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Speaker 2: older man to the ground before fleeing the scene. Victim's
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Speaker 2: injuries included a cut on his nose, which was glued shut.
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Speaker 2: No stitches were involved, a road burn on his right elbow.
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Speaker 2: He sustained no broken bones and required no stitches. How
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Speaker 2: brave have you to take on an eighty six year
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Speaker 2: old man, I'm thinking and to myself, that isn't part
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Speaker 2: of the story. Authorities are investigating the incident as an assault.
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Speaker 2: The victims said. The actual owner of the assailants vehicle
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Speaker 2: has not been or has been identified, and he believes
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Speaker 2: the police will have to be identified the assailant and
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Speaker 2: so on. So nasty story there, so anyway. Phone numbers
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Speaker 2: five one, three, seven four nine, fifty five hundred one,
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Speaker 2: eight hundred eight two three talk one eight hundred eighty
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Speaker 2: two three A two five five pound, five point fifty
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Speaker 2: AT and T wireless phone. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
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Speaker 2: fifty five KRC the talk station.
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Speaker 1: She came to America less than a year.
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Speaker 5: Fifty five krs the talk station.
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Speaker 2: Eight forty in the morning. Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas,
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Speaker 2: fifty five KRC the talk station. Phone number seven four
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Speaker 2: nine fifty five hundred one eight hundred A two three
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Speaker 2: talk one eight hundred eighty two three eight two five
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Speaker 2: five pound five point fifty AT and T wireless phone.
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Speaker 2: We've gotten some good economic news at the top of
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Speaker 2: the hour, top of top of this hour, eight o'clock,
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Speaker 2: they pulled out the National Federation of Independent Business And
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Speaker 2: this is kind of an interesting gauge because again, this
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Speaker 2: is a survey of small independent businesses, and if you
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Speaker 2: add up the employees of all small businesses, that is
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Speaker 2: way more than the Fortune five hundred companies and so on.
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Speaker 2: So when you get news from them that their optimism
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Speaker 2: has increased rows two point one percent in June to
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Speaker 2: ninety seven point four near its nearing its fifty one
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Speaker 2: is it fifty two year high average, So that is
2:08:17
Speaker 2: good news there. We also got some this was released
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Speaker 2: right at eight thirty the Consumer Price Index. This has
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Speaker 2: gone down to actually decrease point four percent. Now that
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Speaker 2: would have to do with the energy prices. And as
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Speaker 2: I mentioned earlier, one of the things when we're talking
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Speaker 2: about affordability, as we were talking with Tom Zoistowski, when
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Speaker 2: we're talking about gas taxes and talking about affordability, which
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Speaker 2: is the buzzword that the Democrats are using this year
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Speaker 2: to try to promote them. The energy crosses all sectors
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Speaker 2: of the economy. I mean, you can't escape it, whether
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Speaker 2: you're in an office, in a studio, a radio studio
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Speaker 2: like I am right now. Electricity is part of the
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Speaker 2: energy grid, and the energy prices are affected by that.
2:09:09
Speaker 2: With energy prices coming down as a result of some
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Speaker 2: of those oil prices coming down as a result of
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Speaker 2: the barrels going through the straight of Horror moves. Hopefully
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Speaker 2: this brief uptick that we're seeing currently as far as
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Speaker 2: inflation is concerned, or as far as oil prices are concerned,
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Speaker 2: that this will be short lived and get those back
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Speaker 2: down now. One of the things that I got to
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Speaker 2: absolutely rail about here is when they these as I again,
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Speaker 2: the spoon fed regurgitators in the mainstream media, they just
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Speaker 2: can't help themselves. They are so beholden to the liberal
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Speaker 2: talking points that they just don't have any independent thought.
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Speaker 2: Now when they say that inflation goes up and we
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Speaker 2: know that it's temporary. We saw how gas prices went
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Speaker 2: up after the February twenty eighth initiation of Epic fury.
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Speaker 2: We saw prices go up, we've seen them come back down,
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Speaker 2: and they started heading in the right direction until I
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Speaker 2: guess Iran didn't understand the whole idea of a cease
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Speaker 2: fire means that you cease firing, and so they violated that.
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Speaker 2: And now it's back to a full blown well not
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Speaker 2: as much as it was during Epic Fury, but still
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Speaker 2: being hit. And there's a concern about straight upforar moves
2:10:37
Speaker 2: and so on. So we're seeing gas price or oil
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Speaker 2: prices go up. But for people to make the comment
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Speaker 2: that with inflation going up, the Federal Reserve may increase
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Speaker 2: interest rates, Folks pick up any kind of conversation in
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Speaker 2: terms of interest rates themselves, and every time they mention this,
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Speaker 2: they'll say, when you increase interest rates, you slow down
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Speaker 2: the economy. The economy doesn't need to be slowed down.
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Speaker 2: The interest rates need to actually come down because when
2:11:21
Speaker 2: you look at our rate now, the Federal Reserve controls
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Speaker 2: the rate that banks charge each other when they are
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Speaker 2: borrowing money. If they need cash on a particular day
2:11:32
Speaker 2: and they don't have it and they have to borrow
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Speaker 2: the money, this is the rate that they pay now
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Speaker 2: that trickles down to our credit cards trickles down to
2:11:41
Speaker 2: any of the credit cards, in any of the payments
2:11:45
Speaker 2: that we make as far as vehicles are concerned, and
2:11:48
Speaker 2: eventually it makes its way into the mortgage community. And
2:11:51
Speaker 2: as those rates go up, you are spending more and
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Speaker 2: so or you're costing you more, so you would slow
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Speaker 2: down the economy. That is not what we need now.
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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, if you look at that rate,
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Speaker 2: which is currently now at three point five to three
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Speaker 2: point seventy five, compare that to the rest of the
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Speaker 2: developed world their numbers. There was a story the other
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Speaker 2: day that Japan raised their rate for the first time
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Speaker 2: in thirty years, and people were going nuts. They raised
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Speaker 2: it a whopping quarter of percentage point from zero point
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Speaker 2: seven five to one percent. They are a full two
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Speaker 2: and a half percent lower than our more than our
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Speaker 2: rates as far as the individual banks, when you look
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Speaker 2: at their mortgage rates, their mortgage rates in France, in
2:12:40
Speaker 2: the Netherlands, Belgium, England, Germany, their mortgage rates are down
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Speaker 2: around two and a half percent to three percent, and
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Speaker 2: ours are approaching six percent and more even six and
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Speaker 2: a half percent. You want to see some boom to
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Speaker 2: the economy. Lower those interest rates and again when they
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Speaker 2: say they want to slow down the economy, that is
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Speaker 2: not what we want to do. We want to grow
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Speaker 2: the economy. They're just getting their adjectives wrong. You don't
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Speaker 2: want to slow you want to grow the economy. Talk
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Speaker 2: a little bit about this coming up. Phone numbers five one, three, seven,
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Speaker 2: four nine, fifty, five hundred one, eight hundred eight two
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Speaker 2: three talk one eight hundred eight two three A two
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Speaker 2: five five pound, five point fifty AT and T wireless phone.
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas to wrap this up.
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Speaker 2: Coming up, Kevin Gordon and for Brian Thomas. Fifty five
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Speaker 2: KR see the talk station.
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Speaker 4: Gas prices growth, the pricey five.
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Speaker 2: K R the talk station, eight fifty in the morning.
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC the
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Speaker 2: talk station. You know again this talk about the Federal
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Speaker 2: Reserve raising interest rates, that is just pure insanity. Any
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Speaker 2: even discussion of that, even if the inflation rate were
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Speaker 2: to go up a little bit, knowing that it is temporary,
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Speaker 2: that it will ease once the oil the cancer in
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Speaker 2: the Middle East is taken care of and gas prices
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Speaker 2: come down, as we've seen over the last couple of weeks,
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Speaker 2: now they've jacked back up again. But again, this is
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Speaker 2: not a situation where they should be raising interest rates.
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Speaker 2: In fact, in my humble opinion, they ought to be
2:14:33
Speaker 2: lowering interest rates. As a matter of fact, our interest
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Speaker 2: rates that the banks charge each other, instead of being
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Speaker 2: three point five to three point seventy five, should be
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Speaker 2: somewhere in the two and a half range. So they
2:14:47
Speaker 2: ought to cut that interest rate by a full percentage
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Speaker 2: point and watch this economy take off, which is just
2:14:54
Speaker 2: absolutely frustrating that some people that these so called economists
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Speaker 2: don't get it. But again, you know, when you go
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Speaker 2: back and I hope I can get this quote right.
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Speaker 2: An economist is somebody who can tell you tomorrow why
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Speaker 2: what he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. And as Ronald
2:15:16
Speaker 2: Reagan said, if economists were to write or to process
2:15:24
Speaker 2: trivial pursuit, there would be three hundred questions and three
2:15:29
Speaker 2: thousand answers because again the economists, and you know, they
2:15:34
Speaker 2: talk about that that the economist was a career invented
2:15:38
Speaker 2: to make weathermen look better. So again, these are kinds
2:15:42
Speaker 2: of the things when I start reading information about economists,
2:15:45
Speaker 2: you got to know where they're coming from. And so on.
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Speaker 2: But like I said, if you look at the industrialized
2:15:51
Speaker 2: area and look at some of these other countries Japan, France, England,
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Speaker 2: their rate as far as their banks charge each other
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Speaker 2: are two and a half half per points below us.
2:16:02
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, in Japan they are two
2:16:05
Speaker 2: and a half to two point seventy five below us.
2:16:09
Speaker 2: So again that needs to be looked at. Well, folks,
2:16:11
Speaker 2: it's been a blast here my thanks to Tom Zoastowski
2:16:18
Speaker 2: Zoeistowski talking about the gas tax. I want to remind
2:16:22
Speaker 2: everybody before we get out of here that Ohio trying
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Speaker 2: to his group the we the people, We the people,
2:16:32
Speaker 2: let me get this right. We the People Convention dot
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Speaker 2: org are trying to get the legislature to lower the
2:16:39
Speaker 2: Ohio gasoline tax, which is currently a three thirty eight
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Speaker 2: and a half cents per gallon. Now that would put
2:16:47
Speaker 2: us in competition, would lower our gas prices down to
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Speaker 2: three thirty nine Indiana currently their average is three twenty two,
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Speaker 2: Pennsylvania three ninety seven, West Virginia three seventy nine. Hours
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Speaker 2: at three thirty nine would make us very competitive and
2:17:02
Speaker 2: would actually spur more gas purchases in our state, which
2:17:08
Speaker 2: would probably offset some of the cuts, but as Tom
2:17:11
Speaker 2: pointed out, we do have the budget surplus that instead
2:17:15
Speaker 2: of turning that back over to the American people that
2:17:18
Speaker 2: they are keeping to themselves. And again, uh, phone numbers
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Speaker 2: for Matt Huffman six one four four six six six'
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Speaker 2: three four four And ron McCauley six one four six
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Speaker 2: four six six eight one five. Zero, Again i'll put
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Speaker 2: that on My facebook page and you can go. There
2:17:38
Speaker 2: and of course our conversation With Randy clark From breitbart,
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Speaker 2: also we kind of talked a little bit today about
2:17:44
Speaker 2: the strait of horror, moves how it's never really been
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Speaker 2: truly open and has not been affected by the once
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Speaker 2: and whims Of, iran so any of this narrative that
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Speaker 2: they keep talking about is absolutely. False well, again, folks
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Speaker 2: it's been a, pleasure been a blast spending time with.
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Speaker 2: YOU i certainly appreciate. It I'm Kevin gordon in For Brian,
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Speaker 2: thomas fifty FIVE, krc The Talk Station.
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Speaker 5: America ladies and, gentlemen