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

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Speaker 1: Five oh five at fifty five KRC, The Doctoration Serious.
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Speaker 2: Friday Eve some sillation. I had no idea, what's fun?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what? Sometimes I don't either. Welcome to
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Speaker 1: the Morning Show. Happy Friday, Eves. I like to call
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Speaker 1: Thursdays and looking forward to the uh well guests that
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Speaker 1: are lined up in the morning Show. Joe Strecker, execun
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Speaker 1: producer fifty five k RC Morning Show has lined up
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Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson. Always great to have Congressman Davidson on
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Speaker 1: the show. He's coming up at seven oh five. We
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Speaker 1: have the final empower You of Spring. It's gonna be
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Speaker 1: a celebration at Glendale y C Him beginning at five thirty.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna have food, gonna have fun, gonna have some
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Speaker 1: great barbecue thanks to my good friend Kevin. Kevin's out
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Speaker 1: there getting rid of me. He's probably in the barbecue
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Speaker 1: right now. In fact, this is one of the friends
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Speaker 1: that I made during from listener lunch. Over the years,
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Speaker 1: Kevin and I become friends shooting buddies out on the range,
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Speaker 1: and he is providing the barbecue because he's so awesome
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Speaker 1: at it. For my daughter and Eric's wedding, Ah that's
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Speaker 1: a great thing. So we're going to enjoy some fantastic
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Speaker 1: barbecue and hear from some great speakers, including a few
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Speaker 1: minutes from Christopher Smithman, who I understand has got a
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Speaker 1: workload that is just mind blowing for him, so he's
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Speaker 1: going to be with us for a while this evening.
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Speaker 1: I have the honor and privilege of doing a little
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Speaker 1: facilitation there, so we'll hear from doctor Jay, who I
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Speaker 1: saw a listener lunch yesterday along with a fantastic group
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Speaker 1: of people, and Kevin was there. I won a battle
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Speaker 1: against cribbage Mike. Yes, I can put another win in
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Speaker 1: the win column with my ongoing uh we listener lunch
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Speaker 1: curbbage game with my submarine or friend cribbage Mike. That
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Speaker 1: was fun. All the folks, we had a really nice turnout.
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Speaker 1: Anderson Pub mcgrow was terrific as they always are, and
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Speaker 1: thanks to everybody who showed up. I met quite a
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Speaker 1: few folks that have never been to a listener lunch before,
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Speaker 1: and of course saw my the regular friends that I
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Speaker 1: always just really just have the great, greatest time with
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Speaker 1: in talking and chatting. Josh Girth was there, which is great.
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Speaker 1: New chair of the Hamilton kind of Republican party along
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Speaker 1: with his former cohort Drew Pappis. I felt like I
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Speaker 1: was in an Anderson Township trustee meeting yesterday. Sit at
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Speaker 1: the table. It's nice chatting going on with those guys.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of chatting, you can feel free to give me
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Speaker 1: a call. Names Brian Thomas. I do host the fifty
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Speaker 1: five Casey Morning Show, and I always welcome hearing from listeners
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Speaker 1: five on three, seven, four, nine, fifty, five hundred, eight
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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty two to three talk or pound five
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Speaker 1: fifty on at and T phones one more guests, of
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Speaker 1: course regular listeners know. On Thursdays, Jay Ratliff, I heart
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Speaker 1: Meat the aviation Expert. He'll be on at eight thirty.
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Speaker 1: Great topics to talk over with Jay, including some always
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Speaker 1: bizarre weird things in the aviation world. So multiple places.
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Speaker 1: I could start this morning real quick here since Tom
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Speaker 1: Zawastowski from We the People Convention was on the other
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Speaker 1: day talking about this anti artificial intelligence propaganda. Don't believe
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Speaker 1: the propaganda AI is never going away. The question is
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Speaker 1: who's going to ultimately dominate it. Is it a problem
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Speaker 1: having an AI facility near you? In most cases probably not.
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Speaker 1: Is the AI facility just gobble up gobs and gobs
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Speaker 1: of water. Not really. When you think about closed loop
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Speaker 1: systems like existing your automobile, you know, anti freezing your radiator.
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Speaker 1: Nobody ever changes that, at least rarely. That's what keeps
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Speaker 1: it cool. It's not going anywhere. So a lot of
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Speaker 1: the arguments against artificial intelligence not what it can do
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Speaker 1: and the problems associated with you know, chat GPT for example,
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Speaker 1: which is a subset of what AI can do. It's
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Speaker 1: more the focus on the anti AI facility propaganda is
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Speaker 1: designed to get you to hate it and not want
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Speaker 1: it in your backyard for a variety of trumped up reasons.
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Speaker 1: I understand energy demands and things like that, but you
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Speaker 1: got to look at where the problem comes from, and
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Speaker 1: it may be the multiple billions of dollars the Chinese
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Speaker 1: Communist Party is throwing at the propaganda campaign. As Tom
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Speaker 1: and Z and I talked about, I've been saying this
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Speaker 1: for a long time. AI is critical to a success
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Speaker 1: in the world. Whether or not you like it, it's here.
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Speaker 1: Question is who's going to control it and dominate it?
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Speaker 1: Do you want free speech America? I know how we
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Speaker 1: have our problems, but would rather have someone who well
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Speaker 1: embraces the concept of freedom of speech and liberty, or
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Speaker 1: would you rather have the Chinese Communists can Party controlled
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Speaker 1: AI controlling the narrative. I know the answer to that
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Speaker 1: question myself. China has been funding an equally expansive, expensive
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Speaker 1: influence campaign equaling to its own AI investment here in
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Speaker 1: the United States to get us to oppose the building
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Speaker 1: these data centers. It's a great article for Newsmax by
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Speaker 1: Paul Bond on this China's spending billions to stop AI
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Speaker 1: data centers in the United States. Secretary Doug Bargram recently said,
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Speaker 1: whoever dominates the field of AI is going to control
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Speaker 1: the world. His words, not mine. Nobody can read the future,
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Speaker 1: but it seems to me that that is exactly which
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Speaker 1: where we are going. So while China spends billions of
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Speaker 1: dollars to expand their IAI industry growth, they're pushing this
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Speaker 1: misinformation and excuse me, misinformation campaign here. They want to
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Speaker 1: stop us building data centers, and they're having some great
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Speaker 1: success on that, including controlling some of our politicians who
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Speaker 1: may very well want the Chinese Communist Party to control
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Speaker 1: the whole narrative. Senator Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Casio Cortez,
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Speaker 1: two of the farthest left idiot politicians we have YEP.
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Speaker 1: They convened a panel on Capitol Hill to discuss what
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Speaker 1: they called the existential threat of AI, claiming the richest,
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Speaker 1: most powerful people in the world are now building a
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Speaker 1: runaway train with no brakes, and they invited a couple
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Speaker 1: of Chinese Communist Party officials to join in the fun.
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Speaker 1: At that meeting, as Paul Bond writes, Sanders did not
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Speaker 1: hide China's interest in stopping USAI development. He asked two
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Speaker 1: of their senior officials to host the panel with him,
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Speaker 1: far lough On equivocally seeking to completely stop US vancement.
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Speaker 1: Sanders and AOC had introduced already a bill to freeze
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Speaker 1: all new US construction of AI data centers, probably penned
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Speaker 1: by the Chinese Communist Party. Apparently, in May, a big
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Speaker 1: report from Bitcoin Policy Institute raising genuine concerns about China's
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Speaker 1: efforts the back to back and so distrust of data
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Speaker 1: centers and block AI programs in the United States. The
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Speaker 1: Institute's report, called foreign Intelligence in the Campaign against American AI,
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Speaker 1: breaks down what it calls a multi year influence operation
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Speaker 1: back by China targeting a USAI data centers. BPI's had
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Speaker 1: a research A guy named Sam Lyman, senior advisor to
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Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary Scott Descent, talked about three different factors Chinese
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Speaker 1: state media, propaganda, US based nonprofit network bankrolled by Neville
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Speaker 1: Roy Singham, the Shanghai based America with huge ties to
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Speaker 1: the CCP some describe as a Marxist along with more
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Speaker 1: than two billion dollars in dark money from foreign billionaires
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Speaker 1: that are routed into these various local groups here in
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Speaker 1: the United States which are demanding moratorium. According to the report,
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Speaker 1: none of this is hidden. Each layer is documentable from
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Speaker 1: primary sources. In other words, this isn't speculation. They can
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Speaker 1: show you where the dollars come from and where they're going.
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Speaker 1: According to the Sam Liman that Sam Liman, the head
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Speaker 1: of research, data centers are critical to winning the AI race.
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Speaker 1: Whoever wins will control the information layer of the global economy,
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Speaker 1: which is why the US, with its commitment to free expression,
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Speaker 1: must win. Going back to my prior point, China media
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Speaker 1: at media outlets published and aired reports warning US Americans
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Speaker 1: that data centers are going to spike our electric bills,
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Speaker 1: strain our power grids contribute to global warming global warming
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Speaker 1: pause on that one think about think about China generally speaking,
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Speaker 1: these are the same outlets trumpeting Beijing's subsidies that slash
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Speaker 1: energy costs for China's own AI business by up to
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Speaker 1: fifty percent, So they have eased the burden on the
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Speaker 1: while they build their AI data centers using I guess,
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Speaker 1: their own taxpayer dollars to the extent they have that
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Speaker 1: concept there. Anyway, the subsidies allow them to gain an
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Speaker 1: advantage over here in the United States. I don't know
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Speaker 1: that AI data centers are being subsidized other than by
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Speaker 1: local projects who might you know, waive tax or in
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Speaker 1: tax increments or whatever. But that doesn't seem to be
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Speaker 1: going on well here. But anyway, they're advancing their AI
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Speaker 1: and helping facilitate the advancement, while they at the simultaneously
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Speaker 1: try to undermine our AI advancement inside the US. Here,
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Speaker 1: the most operationally significant player the web of five oh
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Speaker 1: one c three nonprofits funded by mister Singham. Tax records.
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Speaker 1: Here's the smoking gun we have in paperwork showing that
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Speaker 1: the tech billionaire and Marxist activists has put two hundred
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Speaker 1: and eighty five million dollars or so into activist groups.
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Speaker 1: Over the past multiple years, his wife, co founder of
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Speaker 1: Code Pink far left protest group, has run explicit campaigns
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Speaker 1: against us AI data centers. Doesn't that worry you? These Marxists,
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Speaker 1: these people who are regularly undermining us in all various areas,
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Speaker 1: have sided with the CCP and trying to get us
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Speaker 1: to not go down this road. Hmmm. Movement also getting
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Speaker 1: assistance from leftist billionaires, a guy named Hans Georg Wiz
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Speaker 1: who's described as a billionaire, a Swiss billionaire, along with
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Speaker 1: Britain's Allen Parker and his foundation called Oak Foundation. Together
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Speaker 1: these billionaires have funded more than two billion in the
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Speaker 1: US advocacy thirty nine million dollar million dollars reaching twelve
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Speaker 1: organizations that are designed to actively oppose data center expansion.
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Speaker 1: Put some money behind a campaign, you can sway the
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Speaker 1: hearts and minds of people. Ask Congressman Massey about that.
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Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, that was a thirty nine million dollar
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Speaker 1: campaign roughly, wasn't it? Huh, funded by a bunch of
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Speaker 1: multiple millionaire billionaires. So money does work, especially when people
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Speaker 1: are ill informed about the realities of what's going on
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Speaker 1: in the world. Geopolitical realities that are implicated here when
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Speaker 1: we're talking about AI in the future of the world.
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Speaker 1: A single one point three million dollar grant from that
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Speaker 1: Swiss guy, Hans Georg Wize went to a signatory the
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Speaker 1: December twenty twenty fifth moratorium demand letter, and here you
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Speaker 1: go while a grant using with the grant. I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: the signatory of the letter received the one point three
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Speaker 1: million dollar grant from this guy. That grant used the
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Speaker 1: exact same language that appears in the bill from alexandri
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Speaker 1: Ocasio Cortez and Bernie Sanders. Here we've done the work
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Speaker 1: for you. Use this language in your opposition to AI. Basically,
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Speaker 1: five dozen moratoriums have already passed at the local government level.
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Speaker 1: This demonstrates the success of this misinformation campaign, or this
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Speaker 1: fear mongering campaign, resulting in the pausing of construction of
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Speaker 1: new data centers in multiple states. Beyond claims that AI
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Speaker 1: is causing electric bills to surge, left using environmentalism as
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Speaker 1: an excuse. Of course, everything's got to relate to the
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Speaker 1: global climate change panic. AOC pulled out some dirty water
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Speaker 1: jars at a May twentieth hearing on AI data centers
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Speaker 1: claiming that well the dirty water was a consequence of
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Speaker 1: the AI data center. They apparently the brown water actually
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Speaker 1: came from four private wells. They just said it was
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Speaker 1: probably from the normal construction dirt that started when Meta
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Speaker 1: broke ground. Something that went away, and apparently the stunt
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Speaker 1: still whipped up panic. No one bothered to look behind
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Speaker 1: the veneer of her holding up a glass of dirty water,
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Speaker 1: and it's pointed out water used by most data centers
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Speaker 1: less than the mountain to manage a typical eighteen hole
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Speaker 1: golf course. I suppose that is, if they don't have
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Speaker 1: a closed loop system, in which case I presume the
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Speaker 1: amount of water actually being used is nominal. Hudson Institute
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Speaker 1: Research fellow zenab Raboa talked about a deep ideological driver
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Speaker 1: behind the desperate left wing coalition, a coalition of organizations
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Speaker 1: that includes Get to Go to this disparate group. These
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Speaker 1: folks are behind anti AI, Code Pink, the aforementioned yeah
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Speaker 1: leftist donor NAACP chapters. Can I ask the NAACP what
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Speaker 1: the hell AI centers have to do with the work
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Speaker 1: at the NAACP environmental groups and anti Israeli activist groups.
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Speaker 1: That's a mixed bag isn't it. All of them, though,
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Speaker 1: have this leftist Marxist ideological bent, which means they're on
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Speaker 1: the side of the CCP HM Zenebraboa from the Hudson Ensuits.
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Speaker 1: They hold the conviction that Western capitalism is structurally predatory
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Speaker 1: and that the American technological power is merely colonialism by
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Speaker 1: another name. Where have I heard that crap before? China
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Speaker 1: is building data centers at scale and speed that dwarfs
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Speaker 1: the American build out, he pointed out. And here you
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Speaker 1: go to your environmental concerns, consuming coal fired power with
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Speaker 1: no environmental review, no community consultation, no indigenous land acknowledgment,
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Speaker 1: and there's not a single code pink rally, NAACP resolution
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Speaker 1: or climate justice statement directed at any of China's activities.
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Speaker 1: Nothing to see here, folks. Five nineteen fifty five KRCD
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Speaker 1: talk station. Looks like I got a couple of callers online.
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Speaker 1: I love that. I'll be right back. Let us go
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Speaker 1: over to the phones. Five three seven fifty eight hundred
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Speaker 1: eight two three talk. Bobby first out of the gate.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the morning show.
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Speaker 3: Oh happy Thursday, My brother, faith, flagged family, and God
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Speaker 3: bless the men that wear the.
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Speaker 1: Blues Amen had another shooting overnight eleven fifteen Wednesday, winsd Avenue.
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Speaker 1: Somebody got shot in the head and you'd think right
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Speaker 1: there that that is a life entered apparently non life
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Speaker 1: threatening injury taking a UC medical center. So chalk one
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Speaker 1: another one up there, Bobby, Well.
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Speaker 3: We're handicapping it this week, my brother at five and
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Speaker 3: a half. We think it'll go over. And we got
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Speaker 3: all kinds of things going on in the great city
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Speaker 3: of Polkopolis. We got another big ball suit against the city.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Sarah Heringer murders. Sarah Heringer, her husband Patrick murdered
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Speaker 1: in their home. I've had her on the morning show.
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Speaker 1: She obviously is still dealing with the grief. It's been
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Speaker 1: one year and a wrongful death suit has been filed
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Speaker 1: against the City of Cincinnati in connection with that because
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Speaker 1: Mordisha Black, convicted felon who broke into the couple's home
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Speaker 1: and killed them, had quite a criminal record and although
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Speaker 1: he did he cut his ankle monitor off, didn't show
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Speaker 1: up a halfway home. They lost track of him. The
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Speaker 1: state admitted that spokesperson for the how Department of Rehabilitation
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Speaker 1: and Corrections, quoted by Fox nineteen, is saying, yeah, well, sorry,
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Speaker 1: we lost track of Black after his release from prison
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Speaker 1: and cut off his ankle Monter. According to Joe Dieter's
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Speaker 1: former prosecutor, Mardisha, Black shouldn't have been free. Maybe that's
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Speaker 1: the basis for the lawsuit. How in the hell is
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Speaker 1: it that they lost track of this guy? Why didn't
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Speaker 1: they take steps to go round him up and find him?
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Speaker 1: How could he have been out for so long without
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Speaker 1: an ankle monitor without checking you with a brawl officer?
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Speaker 1: Lots of swirling questions. We'll see if it bears fruit
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Speaker 1: in her lawsuit.
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Speaker 3: Well, look at the stabbing incident at lunch time. I'm
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Speaker 3: not gonna say the great place that had happened, because
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Speaker 3: they're wonderful people and it's a wonderful business. But people
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Speaker 3: don't care. They don't care if it's nighttime or daytime.
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Speaker 3: They'll come out and commit a murder with a firearm,
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Speaker 3: a hatchet, a screwdriver, it doesn't matter. Yeah, that lens
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Speaker 3: a Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: Judge Silverstein at that guy out on a five thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars bond, ten percent cash fives basically got him out
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Speaker 1: in spite of the fact that he had a huge
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Speaker 1: criminal history. And another one of these things that should
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Speaker 1: not have happened. Apparently he had more than twenty charges
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Speaker 1: on his rap sheet. So how do you let someone
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Speaker 1: out for five hundred bucks who is demonstrably a recidivous criminal.
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Speaker 1: Not take that into account? Oh my god. Yes, in
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Speaker 1: fact went out and got all stabby, and now someone
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Speaker 1: has lost their life as a consequence of leniency in
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Speaker 1: the judicial system.
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Speaker 3: Well, everybody, just protect yourself. And remember how the numbers
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Speaker 3: go to twenty three and it's written out there.
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Speaker 1: You go, that's right, isn't that proverbs?
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Speaker 3: Hey, protect yourself, protect your family. Yeah, I want to
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Speaker 3: hear a busy sigma when you call someone.
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Speaker 1: Chapter twenty two, verse three. I think it's proverbs. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: that's the how twenty two to three on Route forty
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Speaker 1: two between Mason eleven and got its name. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: a word of caution from my friend who understands this
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Speaker 1: type of concern. This the terror that could exist, the
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Speaker 1: evils of the world. Bob Katire, he was a listener
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Speaker 1: lunch yesterday, retired Colonel Bob Katyre and I his catchphrase
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Speaker 1: is stave Frosty, And he said, he said, listen July fourth,
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Speaker 1: as much as we want to just be in a
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Speaker 1: celebratory mood America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. You know,
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Speaker 1: red flags, folks, places of high populations, concentrations of people.
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Speaker 1: Be very concerned, stay frosty, and you know in his
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Speaker 1: advice you might want to carry sounds like a solid
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Speaker 1: advice to me. Don't go away New Hampshire. Gary, We'll
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Speaker 1: get your call out of the gate and come back out.
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Speaker 1: Local stories and for other phone calls are all welcome
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Speaker 1: here on the fifty five Carsite Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Be right back fifty five krc.
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Speaker 1: You ever wonder how far an EVY can station by
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Speaker 1: forty two to fifty five Krcit the talk station five one, three, seven, four, nine,
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Speaker 1: We're here to the stacker stupid this morning. I got
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Speaker 1: Jeff on laun Jeff, thanks for holding over the breake there,
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Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Proud of you, thanks man, right
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Speaker 1: back at you.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a there was a caller earlier commenting
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Speaker 4: about the blue ash issue last year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Gary, that's the reason why my wife and I no
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Speaker 4: longer go to Red's games and Bengals games or concerts
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Speaker 4: in Cincinnati can't carry?
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Speaker 1: Is that the reason why, because they prohibit you from
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Speaker 1: concealed carry those events? Or is this not worth it? Both?
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Speaker 1: There you have it. Gun free zones can present a
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Speaker 1: problem to the general public psychologically, if not in reality. Yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: fair enough, stay safe, Jeff. And in the words of
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Speaker 1: Bob Katire, good morning, Bob, stay frosty five W three
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Speaker 1: two three talk pivoting over to the stack of stupid
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Speaker 1: anger that a fellow police officer used the office's micro
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Speaker 1: wave to heat up fish. Never do that. A detective
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Speaker 1: allegedly drew his weapon and pointed it at the officer
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Speaker 1: who was microwaving the fish because of the odor. Idiot,
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Speaker 1: you know on this interject, I love Indian food a lot,
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Speaker 1: but you know for those who do not, is that's
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Speaker 1: the curry flavors can sort of invade the environment in
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Speaker 1: the atmosphere here. I could talk about odor exit right now,
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Speaker 1: couldn't I? Anyway? Moving back over, According to investigators, Michael
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Speaker 1: Debays close Enough, forty six years old, at a police
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Speaker 1: headquarters of Myrtle Beach over the weekend, got into a
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Speaker 1: dispute with the patrolman. Debate confronted the patrolman about warming
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Speaker 1: up fish in the microwave, causing an odor in the office,
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Speaker 1: and during the confrontation, Detective Belaz's debase drew and pointed
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Speaker 1: his department issue handgun at the other officer. Arrested for
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Speaker 1: blusted for doing that, which is a pelony. He booked
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Speaker 1: into the Hordy County Jail, from which he was later
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Speaker 1: released without bail. Court records do not indicate what kind
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Speaker 1: of fish was being microwaved. I love the smoking gun reporting.
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Speaker 1: He was placed on administrative leave after the incident. Subsequent
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Speaker 1: investigation identified in several policy violations, resulting in his termination.
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Speaker 1: Eminent apprehension of grievous bodily harm or fear of death
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Speaker 1: reasonable that justifies pulling out a firearm and using it
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Speaker 1: under no other circumstances. Should you do that? Ever, it's
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Speaker 1: a dumb idea. Sometimes people die doing stupid things like that,
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Speaker 1: and of course people lose their jobs by forty five
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Speaker 1: fifty five KRC detalk station, more stupid, more phone calls.
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Speaker 1: Whichever way we go is going to be a okay
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Speaker 1: with me. It's time for me to mention Suzette loves
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Speaker 1: Looking forward to the next one. W Chandler's Burger Bistro
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Speaker 1: not the first Wednesday of July, because of course fourth
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Speaker 1: of July scheme throws a wrinkle in that one. But
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Speaker 1: we're still doing listener lunch and it'll be on July
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Speaker 1: eighth at Chandler's Burger Bistro on the West Saied anyway
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Speaker 1: over to the stack is stupid. A prominent LGBTQ activist
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Speaker 1: and a drag queen charged with possession of child porn.
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Speaker 1: Berlin performer Jurassica Parker aka real name Mario Olzinski charged
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Speaker 1: with hoarding one hundred and thirty one videos containing suspected
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Speaker 1: child porn five hours and twenty five minutes in length,
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Speaker 1: along with twenty eight images of child porn. This is
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Speaker 1: in Berlin. Public prosecutors confirmed they search his apartment after
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Speaker 1: receiving a tip from US based national from Missing Exploited
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Speaker 1: Children which linked this pervert to the suspected child porn.
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Speaker 1: Once the investigation was opened, it was revealed this guy
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Speaker 1: had previously been convicted in twenty twenty three for acquiring
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Speaker 1: pressure by possessing and distributing child porn. He was handed
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Speaker 1: a reduced sentence at the time because, according to the judgment,
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Speaker 1: he was quote remorseful and confessed the act was spontaneous
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Speaker 1: and the offense had occurred some time ago close quote
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Speaker 1: consequently charged with a fine eleven thousand euros or seventy
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Speaker 1: euros every day for the over the course of one
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty days. He was not immediately charged and
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Speaker 1: attempted to initially defend himself on social media. However, formal
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Speaker 1: charges have now been launched against this pervert after months
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Speaker 1: of investigations. Police submite it clear that the content is
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Speaker 1: independent of the twenty twenty three conviction, involving new materials
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Speaker 1: and new well videos, et cetera. Spokes from the prosecutors
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Speaker 1: off said his prior conviction could have an aggravating effect
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Speaker 1: on the current case. Let's hope it does. He's a
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Speaker 1: recidibus pervert that's the problem with these pedophiles. Apparently they
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Speaker 1: can't get over it. Back in a twenty fifteen interview,
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Speaker 1: because this guy is a social media influencer, look LGBTQ activists,
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Speaker 1: he explained that the true or the urge to wear
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Speaker 1: women's clothes has always been in me, describing childhood memories
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Speaker 1: wearing his grandmother's clothes. In the same interview, he claimed
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Speaker 1: that wearing women's clothes was a way for him to
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Speaker 1: express himself. I have for myself found a channel through
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Speaker 1: which I could release energy. Immediately I was hooked. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: like the child porn.
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Speaker 5: Perio is the biggest douche of the universe, in all
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Speaker 5: the galaxies, there's no bigger douche than you. You've reached
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Speaker 5: the top, the pinnacle of douche dum good going deue
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Speaker 5: dreams have come.
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Speaker 1: True and I'm sure you're right, Joe. In the European Union,
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Speaker 1: he will be able to wear women's clothing in the jail. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we got a probably in New York City. People going
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Speaker 1: in and out of New York City's what they describe
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Speaker 1: as vast subterranean sewer system city wondering what the hell's
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Speaker 1: going on All kinds of video exists in the world,
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Speaker 1: of course, ring doorbell video. You got business cameras, and
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Speaker 1: all of this activity has been captured, and people are
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Speaker 1: they're seeing like mask groups of people jumping in and
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Speaker 1: out of maintenance holes. In fact. One video taken last
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Speaker 1: Friday in Brooklyn show a group of about seven people
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Speaker 1: popping out of a maintenance hole in the middle of
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Speaker 1: an intersection in view of passing cars. Some why are
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Speaker 1: they don't know? Some wearing headlamps, caring what appeared to
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Speaker 1: be shovels and other Toolsparently one narrowly missed getting run
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Speaker 1: over by a vehicle. They came out of the ground
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Speaker 1: through the manhole, phrasing that actually was the name of
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Speaker 1: a bar in Chicago back when I lived up there,
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Speaker 1: Joe the man Hole. I'll leave it to your imagination
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Speaker 1: to guess what kind of bar it was anyway. Another video,
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Speaker 1: group of vets seven people could be seen emerging from
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Speaker 1: a maintenance hold about two o'clock in the morning in Brooklyn.
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Speaker 1: They made their way to a couple of parked cars,
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Speaker 1: pulled out, fresh clothes, changed into them. Police say the
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Speaker 1: group entered the sewers about eleven pm, meaning they were
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Speaker 1: underground for several hours. There were a whole one after
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Speaker 1: another about these. One owner of an auto dealership who
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Speaker 1: caught some of this on video camera, he said he
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Speaker 1: couldn't figure quite out what they were doing out there,
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Speaker 1: but you know red flag. He suspected they were, in
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Speaker 1: his words, up to no good. Considering we have a
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Speaker 1: potential terrorist problem thanks to open borders and millions of
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Speaker 1: people who came in without any vetting procedure, finding all
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Speaker 1: kinds of terrorist organizations among the illegal immigrant propagate population
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Speaker 1: that ICE is rounding up worrying about terrorist activity in
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Speaker 1: the as we hope to celebrate our two hundred and
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Speaker 1: fiftieth anniversary. Going back to the comments of retired Colonel
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Speaker 1: Bob Katyre yesterday, be careful on the fourth of July
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Speaker 1: this year, you gotta worry about this kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: They said, they went down into the sewers, at least
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Speaker 1: in some cases, the check and see if anything was
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Speaker 1: damaged out there. They couldn't find anything, but some of
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Speaker 1: the incidents are still under investigation. How could you possibly
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Speaker 1: cover or deal with all of the access to the
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Speaker 1: underground sewer system twenty four to seven. Hardly have enough
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Speaker 1: police to deal with the activities above ground five point
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Speaker 1: fifty five right now, plenty to talk about in a
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Speaker 1: six o'clock hour. Maybe I'll be able to get into
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Speaker 1: the American Idol comment I made earlier about too many
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Speaker 1: lazy people. Jason Riley did some great commentary on that,
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Speaker 1: and I got it back it up with the work
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Speaker 1: requirement for Medicaid and oh my god, what a burden.
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Speaker 1: Couple of linked articles there, and more to talk about
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Speaker 1: coming up. I hope you can stick around at the
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Speaker 1: top of the hour. Here the top stories of the day.
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Speaker 1: I heard radio. It's six oh five and fifty five
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Speaker 1: kar CD talk station Friday. Friend Thomas right here. Glad
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Speaker 1: to see just Treker Executi producer where he belongs, and
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Speaker 1: glad to see he's got some guests lined up coming
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Speaker 1: up in one hour. Congressman Warren Davidson got a lot
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Speaker 1: to talk about with Congressman Davidson, including the House vote
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Speaker 1: to rebuke Trump over the Iran War. Yes, they passed
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Speaker 1: this Iran War Powers Resolution two fifteen to twoh eight,
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Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson voting for it. Apparently, it will direct Trump
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Speaker 1: to remove US armed forces from hostilities with Iran unless
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Speaker 1: there's a declaration of war or an authorization for use
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Speaker 1: of military force. However, this particular resolution was passed yesterday
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Speaker 1: will not force Donald Trump to end the conflict, described
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Speaker 1: at least in NBC's reporting as a symbolic expression of
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Speaker 1: disapproval of the war with the rod. We'll ask Congressman
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Speaker 1: Davidson about that and get his perception of it, since
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Speaker 1: he voted for it that among other things, we got
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Speaker 1: another filibuster proof package coming from Speaker Johnson, and the
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Speaker 1: Senate also advanced immigration enforcement funding bill as well. Presumably
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Speaker 1: the House be voting on that. Plenty of things with
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Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, and real quick going back to the subterranean
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Speaker 1: groups of people who are roving the sewer systems in
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Speaker 1: New York. Lots of question marks swirling about what groups
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Speaker 1: of people will be doing out there popping in and
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Speaker 1: out of the sewers. According to Marine who sent me
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Speaker 1: this NBC New York report, Are you ready so? The
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Speaker 1: leading theory on why these people are down there, surprisingly mundane.
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Speaker 1: Investigators believe that many of these individuals may be treasure
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Speaker 1: hunters or urban explorers, searching sewers for valuables that have
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Speaker 1: fallen through street grades or washed into draining systems. Law
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Speaker 1: enforcement sources have described this as their primary working theory.
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Speaker 1: I think I'd stick with nefarious activities rather than treasure hunting.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Marnen for that. Thanks every Day made the listener
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Speaker 1: lunch yesterday. Had a fantastic time, wonderful seeing friends, meeting
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Speaker 1: new people, and of course appreciate it. Anderson Pub and
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Speaker 1: Girl for the good grub. Got to be a Chandler's
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Speaker 1: Burger Bistro, second Wednesday in July, if you want to
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Speaker 1: mark that down in your calendar anyway. Going back to
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Speaker 1: a comment that Jack Eddan brought up yesterday, if you
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Speaker 1: didn't get to hear him, his commentary yes say fifty
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Speaker 1: five KRC dot com is pretty good take on clothing
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Speaker 1: making the man. But he commented about the idle individuals
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Speaker 1: here in the United States for whatever reason, in spite
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Speaker 1: of the fact there's roughly seven and a half million
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Speaker 1: open positions, that so many people refuse to work or
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Speaker 1: just don't pick up a finger to even bother to
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Speaker 1: go try and find a job. And with that, I
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Speaker 1: was delighted to read Jason Riley's column about that American idol.
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Speaker 1: The work ethic goes out of style and going back
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Speaker 1: to a comment early in the program for one of
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Speaker 1: the callers, too many lazy people. We've created a system
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Speaker 1: that fosters and encourages it. And as Jason writes, maybe
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Speaker 1: you've seen the old video clip on social media, the
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Speaker 1: one which com meeting Chris Rock explains how to tell
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Speaker 1: a good neighborhood from a bad one based simply on
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Speaker 1: who isn't working in the middle of the day. Chris
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Speaker 1: Rock explains, and I'll quote it, if you're in any
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Speaker 1: neighborhood in America at twelve fifteen in the afternoon on
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Speaker 1: a Wednesday, and you see women with sweatpants on coming
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Speaker 1: out of the gym, pushing babies, riding bikes, Chances are
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Speaker 1: you're in a nice neighborhood. There's probably a Whole Foods nearby.
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Speaker 1: But if you see men's in sweatpants, smoking cigarettes, hanging
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Speaker 1: out with their boys, lifting weights in the yard, riding
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Speaker 1: children's bicycles as their actual transportation, then you are in danger.
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Speaker 1: Clothes quall Chris Rock, and Jason says, you know, mister
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Speaker 1: Rock's funny and insightful bit came to mind as I
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Speaker 1: read last month jobs report which showed that a share
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Speaker 1: of American men in the labor force has dropped to
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Speaker 1: record lows. According to the Department of Labor, one in
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Speaker 1: three men were neither working nor looking for a job
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Speaker 1: in April. Among males twenty and older, the sixty six
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Speaker 1: percent labor force partition participation rate is down from seventy
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Speaker 1: three percent in two thousand and six. Mister Rock was
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Speaker 1: highlighting the correlation between unemployment and crime, but public safety
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Speaker 1: isn't the only concern raised by a large population of
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Speaker 1: idle young men. The premature absence of millions of able
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Speaker 1: bodied men from our workforce, combined with the continuing retirement
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Speaker 1: of the Baby Boomers and significant reductions in immigration, bodes
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Speaker 1: ill for the country. A life without gainful employment has
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Speaker 1: become a viable alternative for an increasing number of American men.
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Speaker 1: COVID job disruptions didn't help, but the problem in men
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Speaker 1: in primary working years twenty five to fifty four exiting
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Speaker 1: the job market long pre dates the pandemic. Demographer Nicholas Eberstadt,
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Speaker 1: in his book Men Without Work, reported that the work
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Speaker 1: rate for men twenty in older fellm by more than
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Speaker 1: thirteen percent between nineteen sixty five and twenty fifteen. During
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Speaker 1: that half century. He pointed out, the fraction of men
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Speaker 1: without jobs of any sort in the broad twenty two
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Speaker 1: twenty to sixty four group went from ten percent to
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Speaker 1: almost twenty two percent, and the percentage of holy jobless
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Speaker 1: prime age men shot from six percent to nearly sixteen percent.
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Speaker 1: The long term rise in male joblessness doesn't stem from
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Speaker 1: an inability to find employment the result instead, or it
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Speaker 1: results instead from an unwillingness to search for work. And
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Speaker 1: while labor force participation rates vary by race and ethnicity,
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Speaker 1: factors other than hiring discriminations seem to be playing a
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Speaker 1: larger role in the disparities. The legacy of prejudice might
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Speaker 1: seem to explain why prime age male work rates and
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Speaker 1: workforce participation rates are lower for blacks than whites today.
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Speaker 1: But according to mister Everstadt, this is what he said.
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Speaker 1: But today they cannot explain why work work rates and
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Speaker 1: labor force participation rates for white men today are decidedly
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Speaker 1: lower than they were for black men in nineteen sixty five,
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Speaker 1: Ebstatt said, nor can they explain why labor participation rates
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Speaker 1: of married black men twenty to fifty four are higher
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Speaker 1: than for never married white guys. In the same age group.
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Speaker 1: Some blame technological advancement and deindustrialization for the increase of
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Speaker 1: male idleness, but those barriers are hardly insurmountable. Like married
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Speaker 1: men trying to support their families, foreign Born males coming
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Speaker 1: to the United States and search for work also tend
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Speaker 1: to have higher work rates, notwithstanding globalization and other macroeconomic trends.
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Speaker 1: Neither married men nor immigrants are stealing these jobs. Rather,
33:37
Speaker 1: they're seizing employment opportunities that others spurn. The more likely
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Speaker 1: culprit is a social safety net full of generous government
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Speaker 1: benefits that allow men who will not work to subsist.
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Speaker 1: Welfare and disability programs at state and federal levels are
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Speaker 1: well funded by the political left, are easily gained by design,
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Speaker 1: and have become a significant source of income for men
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Speaker 1: with no job and sadly no interest in finding one.
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Speaker 1: Because these men often have no problem mooching off the
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Speaker 1: women who take them in, they're able to live on
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Speaker 1: welfare payments send to others in the same household. Democrats
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Speaker 1: in Washington often look to Europe as a social welfare
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Speaker 1: model for the United States, and a recent Wall Street
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Speaker 1: Journal editorial on Britain's workforce woes ought to give them pause.
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Speaker 1: According to a new report from former Labor Health Secretary
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Speaker 1: Alan Milburn, nearly a million Brits under twenty five are
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Speaker 1: not employed in school or in job. Training. Journal noted
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Speaker 1: nearly half of Britain's idle youth now claimed to have
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Speaker 1: a work limiting disability, and around seven to ten youth
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Speaker 1: who claimed the disability benefit are still on it a
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Speaker 1: decade later. Europe's large safety net isn't a model for America.
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Speaker 1: It's a cautionary tale which pivots over quite nicely in
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Speaker 1: an article I found on the Hill. It's a left
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Speaker 1: leaning website, but take it for what it is about
35:08
Speaker 1: Medicaid work requirements making it harder for low income and
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Speaker 1: sick people to maintain health coverage. Point is, if you
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Speaker 1: had Medicaid expansion here in Hio, we took it, expanded
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Speaker 1: the roles. They issued a rule earlier this week to
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Speaker 1: guide the forties two states and DC in carrying out
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Speaker 1: work rules implemented by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act,
35:30
Speaker 1: of course, that passed as a way to combat waste, fraud,
35:33
Speaker 1: and abuse in the Medicaid program. Work requirements set to
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Speaker 1: a take effect this coming January, beneficiaries part of the
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Speaker 1: Medicaid expansion have to work or volunteer at least eighty
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Speaker 1: hours a month, attend school, or participate in job training
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Speaker 1: or here's the ore. They must prove they qualify for
35:54
Speaker 1: certain exemptions like, for example, caring for a child thirteen
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Speaker 1: or younger, or caring for a parent with a disability.
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Speaker 1: But there's a carve out for the quote medically frail.
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Speaker 1: States have a little bit of discretion decide what that
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Speaker 1: actually qualifies for. According to Dan Brollman, Trump Administration's Medicaid director,
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Speaker 1: if your condition significantly impairs your ability to engage in
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Speaker 1: work and the requirements, then you're likely not subject to
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Speaker 1: the work requirements. Well, how do you prove that presently?
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Speaker 1: During the first year of implementation Again, beginning in January,
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Speaker 1: states will allow people to self attest on their Medicaid
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Speaker 1: renewal form that they actually qualify for an exemption. You
36:44
Speaker 1: know how that's going to work out After next year's
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Speaker 1: States are going to have to verify that exemptions using
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Speaker 1: claims data and other available valuable resources. The patients will
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Speaker 1: have to provide documentation if the state doesn't have the data,
36:57
Speaker 1: that's a big ask isn't it. This is like the
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Speaker 1: photo idea requirement. We can't force people. They're not going
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Speaker 1: to be able to provide the documents. They're gonna lose
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Speaker 1: their medical care because well, you know what, it's like,
37:06
Speaker 1: all government benefits comes with preconditions. In order to receive
37:10
Speaker 1: you got to fill out a form. In order to
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Speaker 1: get the medical disability exemption or the medical disability exemption
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Speaker 1: or work requirement exemption, you have to basically fill out
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Speaker 1: a form, in other words, provide some documents showing that
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Speaker 1: you're incapable of work. It seems like a small ask,
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Speaker 1: doesn't It seems like something that's designed to address this
37:28
Speaker 1: lack of work ethic, this modern phenomenon that it's aoka
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Speaker 1: to mooch off somebody else's labor because that's what funds
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Speaker 1: the system. Amendment Oz, talking about the work requirement earlier
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Speaker 1: this week, pointed out, Hey, President Clinton signed a work
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Speaker 1: requirement into law for enrollees and the Temporary Assistance for
37:50
Speaker 1: Needy families. Hey, did the world end? Then that was
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Speaker 1: a Democrat? If I have to remind people, Bill Clinton,
37:57
Speaker 1: he said, we need to get people to try to work.
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Speaker 1: It's a path to prosperity men that I said, we
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Speaker 1: are put here to make a difference. But if you're
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Speaker 1: sitting at home, which is true for millions of people
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Speaker 1: who are able bodied on medicaid on average, you're spending
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Speaker 1: six point one hours watching TV, are just hanging around,
38:19
Speaker 1: That's not why you're here. Yeah, let's go back to
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Speaker 1: thanks for calling this morning, and happy Friday Eve to you, sir,
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Speaker 1: Uh you too.
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Speaker 6: Thank you. Brian, how are you doing this morning?
38:49
Speaker 1: I'm doing really well. Appreciate you asking. I hope you
38:51
Speaker 1: can say the same.
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Speaker 6: So far, so good.
38:54
Speaker 3: Good.
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Speaker 7: Quick comment on the people who have to do the.
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Speaker 8: Work requirements, they have to fill out forms, They might
39:01
Speaker 8: have to go to a.
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Speaker 4: Doctor's office and get a physical.
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Speaker 7: Don't all those things require some sort of government issued ID?
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Speaker 1: More than likely. That's why I commented about that the
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Speaker 1: idea of having to simply provide medical records that are
39:14
Speaker 1: yours and pretty easily accessible seems like a small ask
39:18
Speaker 1: when you're getting just gobs and gobs of money on
39:21
Speaker 1: a social welfare program.
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Speaker 6: Right, But asking for an ID to vote is completely
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Speaker 6: out of the.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely that disenfranchises people. Right Yet, I think most people
39:30
Speaker 1: have gotten the message on that that is a nonsensical
39:33
Speaker 1: and absolutely insulting argument to make. Women couldn't get an ID,
39:37
Speaker 1: Black people can't get an ID. Oh yeah, going down
39:40
Speaker 1: that road again. I'm surprised that that the response didn't
39:45
Speaker 1: come earlier on that nonsense, that people didn't step up
39:48
Speaker 1: to the plate and point out the foolishness and the
39:50
Speaker 1: insulting reality of the argument that Democrats are making merely
39:53
Speaker 1: because they want it to be easy to vote and
39:56
Speaker 1: I think cheat in an election. It's crazy. Good point,
39:59
Speaker 1: Steve Well, This work requirement seems very reasonable ask. The
40:04
Speaker 1: exception to the work requirement is that you're not capable
40:08
Speaker 1: of working. Are we going to trust people in this
40:12
Speaker 1: modern age of well accepted laziness to self report no,
40:20
Speaker 1: I can't work. I got a medical condition. Oh okay,
40:25
Speaker 1: working age men and women, it seems a small ask
40:29
Speaker 1: and it's again it's only eighty hours a month. And
40:31
Speaker 1: I like the idea that you can use job training
40:33
Speaker 1: because that's going to set you down a path of freedom.
40:36
Speaker 1: Going back to mend and Oz comment about that. Anyhow,
40:40
Speaker 1: I got some interesting polling data out of state of Ohio.
40:43
Speaker 1: It's not really looking good. Of course, like the rest
40:46
Speaker 1: of the nation, Ohio views Trump negatively, but it's the
40:49
Speaker 1: baggage that Trump brings to our local or our state elections.
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Speaker 1: Senator Houston forty percent favorable, fifty percent unfavorable. This is
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Speaker 1: a Fox News poll was released yesterday. Sharon Brown fifty
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Speaker 1: three favorable to forty four unfavorable. So he's got it
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Speaker 1: up on Senator Houston. Along those lines, Brown outperforms Houston
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Speaker 1: fifty three to forty five in in head to head matchup.
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Speaker 1: According to those polled, ninety eight percent of the Democrats
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Speaker 1: support Brown. Houston gets eighty six percent report US support
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Speaker 1: among Republicans. Non white voters favor Brown by fifty eight
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Speaker 1: points and the race a dead heat among white voters
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Speaker 1: forty nine forty nine for Brown. Houston tied among voters
41:32
Speaker 1: age forty five and over. Brown leads by twenty three
41:35
Speaker 1: points among those under age forty five. Jared Brown making
41:38
Speaker 1: some in roads and advancing again the baggage that Donald
41:41
Speaker 1: Trump brings to the tables, kind of harming some of them.
41:43
Speaker 1: This is a it's the country wide phenomenon. Six point margin.
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Speaker 1: More Democrats than Republicans say they're extremely or very motivated
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Speaker 1: to vote, and that one kind of bothers me as well,
41:54
Speaker 1: because you've got to get out and vote this November.
41:57
Speaker 1: Got to be enthused to go in spite of how
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Speaker 1: fighting it off. And the seemingly the only thing that
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Speaker 1: unites anyone in America anymore, the fact that we can
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Speaker 1: all uniformly hate cancer. Cancer sucks. Local stories. Someone shot
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Speaker 1: last night. This was hot off the presses and Joe
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Speaker 1: eleven to fifteen at courting Lieutenant Luke Neville since Saint
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Speaker 1: Police Department, we have a person that was shot in
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Speaker 1: I'll get Fox nineteen credit for that. Taking to UC
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Speaker 1: Medical Center. No suspect information released and yes it is
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Speaker 1: still under investigation. Perverts are around. Be careful. We have
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Speaker 1: a fifty four year old man who's been accused of
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Speaker 1: trying to lure a three year old girl with candy.
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Speaker 1: This according to Montgomery Police, Worry Sow was arrested. He's
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Speaker 1: from Shiva at misdemeanor charge of criminal child enticement. The
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Speaker 1: child's nanny reported it happened Tuesday Swain Park on Cooper Road.
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Speaker 1: Nanny says she took the girl out of the car,
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Speaker 1: had her weight in the grass while she took another
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Speaker 1: juvenile from the vehicle. According to the affidavit, a man
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Speaker 1: walking in the grass asked the three year old girl
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Speaker 1: if she knew him and asked if she would like
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Speaker 1: a piece of candy, and walked towards his car. Police
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Speaker 1: based on the child caretaker statements and his quote unquote
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Speaker 1: admission in court yesterday. So pleaded not guilty, and his
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Speaker 1: this is all a misunderstanding or maybe not understanding English
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Speaker 1: quite as well as he should. He has no court
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Speaker 1: record whatsoever, according's attorney, he doesn't understand English. Hamlinkindy Municipal
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Speaker 1: Court Judge Rodney Harris said his bond a fifteen grand.
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Speaker 1: When he is released from jail, he'll be under a
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Speaker 1: court order to wear an electronic ankle monitor. Reminding me
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Speaker 1: of the Sarah Earinger lawsuit that was followed yesterday for
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Speaker 1: wrongful death against the City of Cincinnati. Yeah, her husband
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Speaker 1: was murdered by a guy that was supposed to have
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Speaker 1: an ankle monitor on. If you remember the facts of
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Speaker 1: that one year ago over to King's Island. Visitor speaking
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Speaker 1: out about what she says with a frightening encounter in
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Speaker 1: the park bathroom Northern Kentucky. Woman remaining anonymous said a
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Speaker 1: stranger tried to reach under her bathroom stall and attempted
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Speaker 1: to take photos of her during a visit last weekend.
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Speaker 1: She felt violated, she said her first visit to King's
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Speaker 1: Island great optics. She said she was alone in the
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Speaker 1: park restroom when a stranger entered the stall next to her.
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Speaker 1: She said, I can I hear her struggling. She's audibly
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Speaker 1: making sounds like she's uncomfortable. Woman said stranger reached her
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Speaker 1: hand under the stall and then tried to grab her.
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Speaker 1: She said, I was like, Hey, what are you doing.
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Speaker 1: She didn't say anything back to the woman, said. Woman said.
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Speaker 1: The stranger then slid a phone with the front camera
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Speaker 1: opened under the stall. Said she knocked the phone away,
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Speaker 1: left the stall in me Lean told a park employee
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Speaker 1: that you watched the staff at the escort the stranger
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Speaker 1: out of the area. King's Island, in a statement, said,
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Speaker 1: we are a family friendly environment. We do not tolerate
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Speaker 1: inappropriate unlawful behavior. Guests who violator code of conduct are
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Speaker 1: not welcome in our parks. Thank you, Legal department. Apparently
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Speaker 1: no arrests was made in the stranger's identity identity currently unknown.
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Speaker 1: In spite of that, I guess she's looking on the
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Speaker 1: bright side. When interviewed, she said she does plan on
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Speaker 1: returning to King's Island. Oh, we got a new program
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Speaker 1: for a plan for Hyde Park. The developer behind the
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Speaker 1: plan to redevelop Hyde Park Square which got shut down. Yeah, remember,
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Speaker 1: they've unveiled a new proposal and PLK Communities. The Loring
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Speaker 1: Group and North Point Group announced that they have submitted
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Speaker 1: the revised plan to the City of Cincinnati for a
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Speaker 1: new mixed use development on the south side of Hyde
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Speaker 1: Park Square. So it's a revised The tallest side of
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Speaker 1: the building is now going to be seventy five feet
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Speaker 1: six inches, but at the street front, the facade on
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Speaker 1: on just off the square is going to be sixty
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Speaker 1: five feet tall. Remember the height of the building was
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Speaker 1: one of the impediments and one of the problems that
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Speaker 1: Hyde Park residents had with it. Anyway, this new proposal,
47:11
Speaker 1: and you can read all about it, hinges on changing
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Speaker 1: the zoning and High Park Square to a planned development
47:16
Speaker 1: that requires a more stringent public review process than a
47:19
Speaker 1: typical zoning variance. Remember the one size fits all program
47:24
Speaker 1: that was rolled out by Mayor aftab Pervoll. Sucks to
47:26
Speaker 1: be you. We don't care what you want in your neighborhood.
47:28
Speaker 1: You're going to deal with what we tell you to do.
47:31
Speaker 1: So but we'll still vote for you. I know, Joe,
47:34
Speaker 1: I know, it's just heartbreaking. Anyway, requires the public review process.
47:40
Speaker 1: Before that happens, city planners have to review the developer's
47:43
Speaker 1: submission over the summer hold virtual conferences. That's when you
47:46
Speaker 1: can give your input, and the city's Planning Commission will
47:49
Speaker 1: have to vote to approve or deny the application, following
47:52
Speaker 1: which the City of Cincinnati Council will vote for that.
47:56
Speaker 1: None of the dates for the hearings have been set,
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Speaker 1: so new proposal role out. It's six thirty six right
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Speaker 1: now and fifty five KERCD talk station. At the of
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Speaker 1: our news, Congressman Warren Davidson, who did vote with the
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Speaker 1: other folks who sort of end the war absent declaration
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Speaker 1: of war War Powers resolution. So his thoughts and comments
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Speaker 1: on that and the other bills that are pending included
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Speaker 1: this new reconciliation bill that's being floated around. That's after
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Speaker 1: the news. At the top, we'll hear from my friend
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Speaker 1: doctor j Risto what our friend collectively, doctor j Rissover,
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Speaker 1: who was at lunch yesterday. Good to see you, Jay,
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Speaker 1: eight oh five empower You America dot org. You can
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Speaker 1: tonight at the Glendale. I see him beginning at five thirty.
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Speaker 1: End of the Empower You summonar series for the year
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Speaker 1: Celebratory Mood. We're going to be in America's two hundred
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Speaker 1: as well as the unbelievably awesome barbecue for my friend Kevin.
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Speaker 1: Kevin Nichols, you rock man, looking forward to having your
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Speaker 1: barbecue at my daughter's wedding as well. Anyway, back over
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Speaker 1: to this Fox News poll regarding Shared Brown and John Houstad,
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Speaker 1: Apparently Brown supporters say their vote is mainly for Shared Brown.
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Speaker 1: Going back to the Trump effect, which is what this
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Speaker 1: was diving on into, it's for him rather than against
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Speaker 1: John Houston. So sixty eight percent are voting for Shared Brown,
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Speaker 1: thirty percent are voting against John Houston. Those back in
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Speaker 1: Houston fifty eight say the support is for him. Thirty
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Speaker 1: nine percent are voting for him because they don't want
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Speaker 1: Shared Brown in office. Thirty nine percent of Ohiglands our
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Speaker 1: concerned Brown is too liberal thirteen percent, including thirteen percent
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Speaker 1: of his own supporters. Forty six of the folks that
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Speaker 1: were polled in so far as John Houston is concerned
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Speaker 1: are worried that he's too close to Trump, including ten
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Speaker 1: percent of his backers. Inflation the number one concern, shocking
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Speaker 1: no one I suppose inflation dominating forty three percent say
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Speaker 1: it's the most important issue in their vote. For Houston
49:59
Speaker 1: or behind that healthcare twelve percent, immigration and border security eleven,
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Speaker 1: political divisions nine percent. I scratched my head over that
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Speaker 1: one can't vote for either one of those guys and
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Speaker 1: political divisions maybe, I guess it depends on who you
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Speaker 1: think is going to play more nicely with the opposite
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Speaker 1: side of the ledger there anyway, eight percent on job,
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Speaker 1: seven percent cite Iran and at the bottom here four
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Speaker 1: percent for abortion and crime. In terms of independence, inflation
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Speaker 1: the number one issue fifty percent, and Democrats come into
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Speaker 1: forty four percent on that forty percent. For Republicans, voters
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Speaker 1: focused on infilation favor Brown by fourteen points, along with
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Speaker 1: the healthcare concerned people forty four points. Those prioritizing immigration
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Speaker 1: and border security, of course logically and reasonably go for
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Speaker 1: John Hewest. It's by seventy six percent. And the race
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Speaker 1: for how governor voters divided half backing here's your worry
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Speaker 1: and concern, folks. This is why, and because the poll
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Speaker 1: reveals Democrats are slightly more enthused about going to the
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Speaker 1: polls in November, half are backing Amy Act. And this
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Speaker 1: is across the board fifty or forty nine percent to
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Speaker 1: vive Ramaswami. Of course that's a statistical wash when you
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Speaker 1: factor in the margin of error, fourteen percent prefer Brown
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Speaker 1: in the Senate, go across party lines and support Ramaswami,
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Speaker 1: which that gives me a little bit of hope there.
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Speaker 1: Most Democrats, of course going for Acting ninety three percent,
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Speaker 1: most Republicans eighty nine percent for Ramaswami. Let's get the
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Speaker 1: rest of those Republicans on board, please, so And going
51:41
Speaker 1: back to the AI problem, and I pointed out that
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Speaker 1: China spending billions and billions and dollars to convince you
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Speaker 1: that we're all going to die with an AI center
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Speaker 1: in your yard. It is absolutely based on their desire
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Speaker 1: to dominate the globe with artificial intelligence. Telling us we
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Speaker 1: can't do it, and then convincing you we shouldn't do it.
51:58
Speaker 1: That gives them the advantage over time. Then wonder they're
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Speaker 1: spending billions of dollars to convince you that it's a
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Speaker 1: bad thing. By more than two to one. According to
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Speaker 1: the survey, Buckeye voters oppose having AI data centers building
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Speaker 1: their area thirty two in favor of sixty five opposed.
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Speaker 1: Across political spectrum, this opposition carries. Democrats seventy two feel
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Speaker 1: that way, Independence sixty four feel that way, and fifty
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Speaker 1: nine percent of Republicans are against building data centers. And
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Speaker 1: you're on the wrong side of the ledger on that one.
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Speaker 1: It's here, it's we either deal with it or the
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Speaker 1: Chinese get to deal with it. I'd rather have control here,
52:36
Speaker 1: and most people can manage a data center and don't
52:39
Speaker 1: believe the lies you've been told about. You know it's
52:40
Speaker 1: going to suck up every bit of electricity and the
52:43
Speaker 1: water's going to be polluted. And Tom z Awastowski on
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Speaker 1: the program earlier this week talking about that. We the
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52:51
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Speaker 1: Let's see what Todd's got. Todd, thanks for calling this morning,
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
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Speaker 9: Hey, good morning, Brian. Before I comment on the data centers,
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Speaker 1: for you. What was the other issue that we drove
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Speaker 9: Primarily data centers. I'm not opposed to data centers. The
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Speaker 9: thing I find baffling is they want to find a
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Speaker 9: spot out in the middle of the country, you know,
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Speaker 9: countryside and by hundreds or thousands of acres of land
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Speaker 9: and stick in a data center where there's no infrastructure
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Speaker 9: for it, no power, no water. You know, it's got
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Speaker 9: to be run to it. When we have at least
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Speaker 9: within the it seventy five bell at least three nearly
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Speaker 9: empty shopping malls that are just sitting there doing absolutely
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Speaker 9: nothing good point, that would be wonderful spots for a
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Speaker 9: data center because the you know, utility infrastructure is already
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Speaker 9: right there.
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Speaker 1: Yep. I couldn't agree more. But don't get on the
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Speaker 1: don't don't be a convince of the belief that these
55:45
Speaker 1: things are all massive, multi football field size, as Tom's
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Speaker 1: Awastowski pointed out and talking about this earlier in the week,
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Speaker 1: most of them aren't. Most of them are smaller. You
55:54
Speaker 1: would see one of the buildings. It's the same thing
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Speaker 1: as any other type of building for any use, for
55:58
Speaker 1: any other purpose. And you don't need to be out
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Speaker 1: in a field, out in the middle of nowhere to
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Speaker 1: do that. And I scratch my head over the logistics
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Speaker 1: of doing it that way for the reasons that you
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Speaker 1: point out, but that people choose maybe what you and
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Speaker 1: I would proceed to be stupid areas to put them
56:13
Speaker 1: doesn't mean they're bad, period. And that's the argument we're
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Speaker 1: having right now. People are convinced that all of this
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Speaker 1: is evil, nefarious, can come to know good, and therefore
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Speaker 1: we shouldn't even bother building them. Why participate in this nonsense?
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Speaker 1: All of that ignores the reality that it's here and
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Speaker 1: they are being built, and the Chinese while pointing to
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Speaker 1: us and saying oh, global warming, climate issues, you know
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Speaker 1: you shouldn't be doing that they're building their data centers
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Speaker 1: as quickly as they're building the coal fired plans to
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Speaker 1: power the data centers. It's obvious that they are trying
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Speaker 1: to influence us, so they gain the upper hand on that.
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Speaker 1: And I mentioned that Paul Bond article which you can
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Speaker 1: find at Newsmax dated yesterday, China spending billions to stop
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Speaker 1: AI data centers in US, which mirrors the information that
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Speaker 1: Tom Z gave us earlier in the pro earlier in
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Speaker 1: the week on that. So good points Todd. But that
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Speaker 1: reality doesn't mean we shouldn't embrace it. Maybe just embrace
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Speaker 1: it where it's logic and logical and reasonable to put
57:08
Speaker 1: them anyway, Samsung is the shodenfreud to moment South Korean
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Speaker 1: tech giant, Samsung moving its headquarters from New Jersey to
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Speaker 1: Texas Plano, Texas. Specifically, they have their existing campus there
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Speaker 1: which is now being expanded. Abandoning and here's the exclamation
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Speaker 1: point on that, how much does it suck in New
57:28
Speaker 1: Jersey highest taxation rate out there, it's pretty darn onerous
57:33
Speaker 1: effective top taxation rate eleven and a half percent for
57:37
Speaker 1: companies doing business in New Jersey. So Samsung is abandoning
57:42
Speaker 1: New Jersey and the exclamation comepoint comes from the fact
57:46
Speaker 1: that they're abandoning. Also in doing that, they're brand new
57:50
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy thousand square foot New Jersey headquarters.
57:55
Speaker 1: They've been there eight months and they're washing their hands
57:59
Speaker 1: in New Jersey. The economic climate, of the regulatory climate
58:02
Speaker 1: is so much better there. Going back to the fiduciary
58:04
Speaker 1: obligation argument that the Journal wrote about the other day,
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Speaker 1: what a brilliant idea. As a board of directors member
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Speaker 1: of any major corporation publicly traded, you of a duty
58:12
Speaker 1: to maximize shareholder value. How can you maximize shareholder value? Well,
58:16
Speaker 1: you do a lot of things, but they're now contemplating
58:19
Speaker 1: maybe requiring as a fiduciary obligation to headquarters your business
58:26
Speaker 1: in the place that will allow you to maximize shareholder value. Right,
58:29
Speaker 1: less taxes, better regulatory environment, improves stock value. Congratulations Samsung,
58:37
Speaker 1: Enjoy things in Texas. Six fifty six, right now, don't
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Speaker 1: go away. Congressman Davidson coming up next at the top
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Speaker 1: of the hour fifty five Carose detalk station Ryan Thomas
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Speaker 1: wishing everyone a very happy Friday, even thanking everybody made it.
58:49
Speaker 1: A listener lunch yesterday and always happy to welcome to
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Speaker 1: the fifty five Caroseame Morning Show. It's that day the
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Speaker 1: return of Congressman Orren Davidson. Congressman Davidson, welcome back, my friend,
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Speaker 1: thanks for coming on the program again.
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Speaker 7: Always a joy to talk with you.
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Speaker 1: Brian, thank you well, at least you had three more
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Speaker 1: and your company. Yesterday, you, along with Brian Fitzpatrick, Thomas Massey,
59:09
Speaker 1: and Tom Barrett of Michigan voted to pass this I
59:13
Speaker 1: guess measure to limit Donald Trump's Ukraine War. The vote
59:21
Speaker 1: total was two fifteen to two o eight. I ran
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Speaker 1: Warpowers resolution. What will this do? I mean, assuming the
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Speaker 1: unlikely that it goes and passes in the Senate and
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Speaker 1: it survives a Donald Trump veto, which I think may
59:32
Speaker 1: be inevitable. But what was this design to do?
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Speaker 7: Congressman Davidson, Well, it was really designed to support and
59:38
Speaker 7: defend the Constitution. I mean, so if you look at
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Speaker 7: the War Powers Act, it was passed in nineteen seventy
59:43
Speaker 7: three and Congress had sort of just passively cut the
59:46
Speaker 7: checks for the Vietnam War. They couldn't get control of
59:50
Speaker 7: the floor of the House to really schedule a vote
59:52
Speaker 7: the committee's of jurisdiction tend to be populated by people
59:56
Speaker 7: that are for all the wars and all the places.
59:59
Speaker 7: That's been true really in the post World War two era.
1:00:03
Speaker 7: So the Korean War went on all three years of
1:00:05
Speaker 7: the Korean War. We don't call it the police Korean
1:00:09
Speaker 7: police action. We call it the Korean War because it
1:00:11
Speaker 7: was a war. But Congress would never vote to authorize it.
1:00:14
Speaker 7: The Vietnam War had gone on for a decade in
1:00:18
Speaker 7: nineteen seventy three, and so they passed this War Powers Act,
1:00:22
Speaker 7: which gives you a privileged vote for Congress to be
1:00:25
Speaker 7: able to go on record to say, hey, this is unauthorized,
1:00:29
Speaker 7: and it puts some pressure, albeit public relations pr or whatever,
1:00:35
Speaker 7: on the president to seek authorization for the war. And
1:00:38
Speaker 7: that's what the that's what the Constitution says. Is not
1:00:41
Speaker 7: so much whether you should do this war or that war.
1:00:43
Speaker 7: The Constitution says, Congress is supposed to vote to authorize it.
1:00:47
Speaker 7: And I you have not only a constitutional duty, but
1:00:49
Speaker 7: a moral obligation to the people that you asked to
1:00:51
Speaker 7: wage your wars, to define the mission, to then authorize
1:00:56
Speaker 7: that mission, and then accomplish the mission. So those kinds
1:01:01
Speaker 7: of things happen't happen, and then when you fail to
1:01:03
Speaker 7: do that, that's how you wind up with these aimless
1:01:05
Speaker 7: and endless wars.
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Speaker 1: Well, and defining the mission seems to be one of
1:01:08
Speaker 1: the more critical elements we need right now. And I'm
1:01:10
Speaker 1: with you on your perception of all this, because the
1:01:13
Speaker 1: Constitution says what it says. You need the input of
1:01:16
Speaker 1: Congress in terms in dealing with matters of war. And sorry,
1:01:20
Speaker 1: let me interject, I had to crack up. You said,
1:01:22
Speaker 1: we don't call it the Korean police accidents the Korean War.
1:01:25
Speaker 1: It's one of those Orwellian things. It's like, for example,
1:01:28
Speaker 1: in our current spat with the Iranians, we have a
1:01:31
Speaker 1: ceasefire on paper, and people keep saying it's a ceasefire,
1:01:34
Speaker 1: and yet both sides keep shooting each other. Just don't
1:01:36
Speaker 1: ignore your lying eyes, right, Congressman Davidson.
1:01:40
Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean it was embarrassing when the war
1:01:45
Speaker 7: in Iran first, I guess, renewed really active hostilities on
1:01:51
Speaker 7: February twenty eighth, and people were calling it a war
1:01:54
Speaker 7: and then catching themselves. Well, I mean, you know, conflict,
1:01:58
Speaker 7: you know, kinetic engagement, you know, whatever, every kind of
1:02:01
Speaker 7: thing to avoid saying war. It's you know, it's like
1:02:04
Speaker 7: I don't know what a woman is. Well, of course
1:02:06
Speaker 7: we know what a woman is, and of course we
1:02:08
Speaker 7: know what a war is. And you know, it should
1:02:10
Speaker 7: be self evident what a ceasefire is. But you know,
1:02:13
Speaker 7: President Trump yesterday in a fitting response, people said, what
1:02:18
Speaker 7: do you mean by ceasefire? And he goes, well, in
1:02:20
Speaker 7: that region, maybe it means you go after each other
1:02:22
Speaker 7: a little less intensely. And so you know, as you
1:02:26
Speaker 7: look in the Middle East, and you know, well, it
1:02:28
Speaker 7: is progress. And I will say the blockade part seems
1:02:32
Speaker 7: to be working. I had the privilege of questioning Secretary
1:02:35
Speaker 7: Rubio yesterday, and I think, look, they've done so many things. Well,
1:02:39
Speaker 7: one of the primary focuses was you didn't need to
1:02:42
Speaker 7: change the law to secure the border. You know, border securities,
1:02:45
Speaker 7: national security. This mass migration nonsense that's flooding our country
1:02:49
Speaker 7: with illegals. President trumpet shut off. This administration has been
1:02:53
Speaker 7: very effective, and the national security strategy focuses on that
1:02:57
Speaker 7: that national security begins at our own border, spreads through
1:03:00
Speaker 7: our hemisphere, and then goes out around the world and
1:03:03
Speaker 7: looks at our own interests. I talked about other authorizations
1:03:06
Speaker 7: for force, like, you know, we're still not really dealing
1:03:09
Speaker 7: with the Uranian proxies correctly. We should authorize, you know,
1:03:13
Speaker 7: the activity we should actually authorize. What the administration has
1:03:15
Speaker 7: done is treating the drug cartels as enemies of our country,
1:03:19
Speaker 7: and that migration linkage is exploiting people, killing Americans and
1:03:23
Speaker 7: lots of other people. But then when it comes to war,
1:03:26
Speaker 7: you know that basically every administration says, yeah, we basically
1:03:30
Speaker 7: we can do whatever we want, and that's not what
1:03:32
Speaker 7: the Constitution says. There are a lot of people that
1:03:34
Speaker 7: think it would be better if the Constitution did say that,
1:03:37
Speaker 7: then find him. I'm open to having a debate about
1:03:39
Speaker 7: a constitutional amendment to that. But there are no free wars.
1:03:42
Speaker 7: And that was a big part of the congressional or
1:03:46
Speaker 7: the constitutional debate when the founding fathers were drafting the Constitution.
1:03:51
Speaker 7: That's where they created the tension between Article one and
1:03:53
Speaker 7: the legislature in Article two and the presidency and basically
1:03:57
Speaker 7: gave the president the power to wage the war, but
1:04:00
Speaker 7: Congress the duty to declare the war.
1:04:04
Speaker 1: Well, I guess I'd have to ask even in the
1:04:06
Speaker 1: absence of war powers resolution or obviously the declaration of
1:04:10
Speaker 1: war seems to be even off the table, but you
1:04:12
Speaker 1: retain the power of the purse. Can you not deny
1:04:16
Speaker 1: funds to continue the ongoing efforts against the Iranians? I mean,
1:04:20
Speaker 1: is that not another independent mechanism? I know that's a
1:04:23
Speaker 1: tall ask given the dysfunction in Congress these days, Congressman Davidson,
1:04:27
Speaker 1: But isn't that certainly possible?
1:04:30
Speaker 7: Well, it is possible. But the problem is this is,
1:04:34
Speaker 7: once you've got troops in harm's way, how do you
1:04:37
Speaker 7: not fund them? So there's really the dilemma is, well,
1:04:41
Speaker 7: how do you not give them the resources to do things?
1:04:44
Speaker 7: And the way you really do the resources is, you know,
1:04:47
Speaker 7: when the country is united. But look, it took three
1:04:49
Speaker 7: days after nine to eleven for Congress to vote to
1:04:52
Speaker 7: authorize the war. We knew we should go to war, right,
1:04:55
Speaker 7: But then what failed after that? Well, they didn't define
1:04:58
Speaker 7: the mission. That's where George W. Bush know was out
1:05:01
Speaker 7: on a carrier waving a flag, say, a big banner
1:05:03
Speaker 7: mission accomplished. Everyone knew that wasn't true, except apparently George Bush.
1:05:08
Speaker 7: I think he knew too right. But it was all
1:05:11
Speaker 7: pr and designed to build the support for going into Iraq, Well,
1:05:18
Speaker 7: how did that turn out? How did Afghanistan turnout? Congress
1:05:21
Speaker 7: has consistently failed in its obligation to a define the
1:05:26
Speaker 7: mission and be you know, tie the money to results
1:05:30
Speaker 7: and measure and hold people accountable for actually accomplishing the
1:05:33
Speaker 7: mission instead of just waging the war actually winning the war.
1:05:38
Speaker 1: Well, and I'm glad you mentioned in Afghanistan because it's
1:05:40
Speaker 1: great illustration for those who think since because we have
1:05:42
Speaker 1: the biggest, baddest military in the world, and there's no
1:05:45
Speaker 1: denying that that Afghanistans, these crazy guys with Ak forty
1:05:49
Speaker 1: sevens in the mountains were able to fend off for
1:05:52
Speaker 1: over a long period of time. I camember was it
1:05:53
Speaker 1: a decade? With the Russian invasion and then following that
1:05:56
Speaker 1: we invaded Afghanistan and ultimately really had nothing to show
1:05:59
Speaker 1: for it when we when we pulled out immediately. It
1:06:02
Speaker 1: just shows the tenacity of a very well obviously fundamentalist
1:06:08
Speaker 1: religious group and how much and how long they are
1:06:10
Speaker 1: willing to just wage this guerrilla warfare against major military powers.
1:06:15
Speaker 1: I mean, just because you have a big military does
1:06:17
Speaker 1: not ensure your victory under those circumstances.
1:06:21
Speaker 7: No, I mean their religion Basically, the more they suffer,
1:06:24
Speaker 7: the more it validates, you know, the righteousness of their cause.
1:06:28
Speaker 7: So they just keep digging in and digging in, and
1:06:32
Speaker 7: you know they want more gi hot and everything. These
1:06:34
Speaker 7: people are crazy. Their right to be viewed as enemies
1:06:37
Speaker 7: of our country. I mean, our military is waging a
1:06:40
Speaker 7: just you know, it's just to take out Ayatola many.
1:06:44
Speaker 7: I mean, that was a just action. It was also
1:06:47
Speaker 7: you know, not unprecedented to do something like that without
1:06:51
Speaker 7: congressional authorization, but it is unconstitutional still, and you know
1:06:56
Speaker 7: it's fair if if the public really wants a debate
1:06:58
Speaker 7: on constitutional amendment, and whoever gets elected president gets this.
1:07:02
Speaker 7: You can't forget student debt, but you can go to
1:07:04
Speaker 7: World War three if you want to, you know, you know,
1:07:08
Speaker 7: all those kinds of things. It's like, well, look, I
1:07:11
Speaker 7: want the president to have the flexibility to respond in
1:07:14
Speaker 7: a time of crisis. That's a duty defined in the Constitution.
1:07:17
Speaker 7: You should be able to say, repel an invasion and
1:07:21
Speaker 7: take a decisive, swift action. But you know that's for
1:07:25
Speaker 7: like an exigent circumstance where you don't have the ability
1:07:27
Speaker 7: to convene Congress. And you know, if you look at it,
1:07:30
Speaker 7: the country isn't truly united behind this war, and even
1:07:34
Speaker 7: Republicans aren't and I behind this war. Even some of
1:07:36
Speaker 7: the most enthusiastic people in the initial days after you know,
1:07:41
Speaker 7: early March Show when this began, are starting to go,
1:07:45
Speaker 7: what are we doing here? And why are we doing it?
1:07:47
Speaker 7: And you know, what is the what does victory look
1:07:50
Speaker 7: like here? And those are the kinds of questions that
1:07:53
Speaker 7: you should ask. And that's why you should have the
1:07:55
Speaker 7: debate on the floor of Congress and vote not just
1:07:58
Speaker 7: for funding but for the actual this is the mission,
1:08:01
Speaker 7: go accomplish it.
1:08:02
Speaker 1: Yes, And the Iranians have been, you know, blowing stuff
1:08:05
Speaker 1: up and killing American servicemen and funding terrorist proxies that
1:08:08
Speaker 1: in turn kill people who we are allies with or
1:08:10
Speaker 1: kill our troop. This has going on for well since
1:08:13
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine. The urgency, the imminent threat or the
1:08:16
Speaker 1: eminent concern that I suppose served as a predicate to
1:08:19
Speaker 1: starting a war with Iran, the Operation Epic Fury. I
1:08:22
Speaker 1: think that's a that's something we're hiding behind now, or
1:08:26
Speaker 1: administration's hiding behind, because I think the urgency was because
1:08:29
Speaker 1: they knew that thirty five or so the head leaders
1:08:31
Speaker 1: of the Iranian religious fundamentalist group that runs the country.
1:08:35
Speaker 1: We're in one spot at one time, and we needed
1:08:37
Speaker 1: to hurry up and blow them all up. Whether we're
1:08:38
Speaker 1: in one spot and thinking it was going to be
1:08:40
Speaker 1: more like Venezuela with the decapitation of Maduro and the
1:08:43
Speaker 1: inevitable quick fall of that regime.
1:08:48
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, and look even within the administration to
1:08:51
Speaker 7: pull off the successful decapitation strike, I mean, you know, operationally,
1:08:56
Speaker 7: I mean that was brilliant, well executed mission. I mean,
1:08:59
Speaker 7: as an army I look at it and go, well,
1:09:00
Speaker 7: that was, you know, well executed. Our military has done
1:09:04
Speaker 7: amazing things in combat. But even opset wise, I mean,
1:09:09
Speaker 7: they kept that super tight, even within the Pentagon on
1:09:13
Speaker 7: whether that was even going to be a mission. And
1:09:15
Speaker 7: that's the only way you could accomplish a mission like that,
1:09:17
Speaker 7: And so that's a fair question to say, well, can
1:09:19
Speaker 7: you do these kinds of things in a modern era
1:09:24
Speaker 7: and have a vote in Congress? And you know, the
1:09:28
Speaker 7: right sequence would have been to authorize the combat before
1:09:32
Speaker 7: it took place, but you've had ninety days now, and
1:09:35
Speaker 7: that's not what the War Powers Acts say is by
1:09:37
Speaker 7: the way, but some people claimed that early on, like,
1:09:40
Speaker 7: well the war powers access president do whatever he wants
1:09:42
Speaker 7: for ninety days. Well he's basically done what he wants
1:09:47
Speaker 7: for ninety days. But one of the things that he
1:09:49
Speaker 7: doesn't want to do is come get congressional authorization. And
1:09:51
Speaker 7: I just asked Secretary Review about that yesterday and they
1:09:54
Speaker 7: basically said that we think we have all the authority
1:09:56
Speaker 7: we need.
1:09:58
Speaker 5: We do.
1:09:59
Speaker 1: And this is big because I think since World War Two,
1:10:01
Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, we've just sort of been ignoring the whole
1:10:04
Speaker 1: legal framework upon which war's supposed to be waged. Convenient
1:10:07
Speaker 1: to just let it slide by the wayside, and all
1:10:09
Speaker 1: the other guys did it. Ergo, I'm allowed to do it.
1:10:11
Speaker 1: Let's bring Congressman Warren Davidson back a few more points
1:10:14
Speaker 1: on that, but some other topics as well, including some
1:10:16
Speaker 1: maybe another reconciliation bill. We'll find out with Congressman Warren
1:10:19
Speaker 1: Davidson fifty five K the talk station seven twenty here
1:10:24
Speaker 1: fifty five Kerr see the talk station Brian Thomas talking
1:10:26
Speaker 1: with Congressman Warren Davidson. Sticking with the subject of the
1:10:30
Speaker 1: war with the Iranians. Donald Trump just said, I guess
1:10:33
Speaker 1: yesterday he will not resume what has been described as
1:10:35
Speaker 1: all out war unless Iran kills US troops. Now that
1:10:40
Speaker 1: sounds like a line in the sand, but we've been
1:10:42
Speaker 1: down this road quite a few times. If we don't,
1:10:44
Speaker 1: if they don't do this, if they don't step up
1:10:46
Speaker 1: and do that, then I'm going to start blowing them
1:10:48
Speaker 1: off the map and off the face of the earth.
1:10:51
Speaker 1: This wash, rinse, repeat cycle. I don't know what all
1:10:54
Speaker 1: out means. Does that mean boots on the ground. Are
1:10:56
Speaker 1: we actually going to invade and this raises obviously much
1:10:59
Speaker 1: bigger problems, or are we just going to ultimately pull
1:11:03
Speaker 1: the plug on this because the Iranians have a stranglehold
1:11:05
Speaker 1: on the Straight of Horror Moves and obviously our American
1:11:07
Speaker 1: military is incapable of farying enough boats to get regular
1:11:11
Speaker 1: order going on the straight. Seems like we've got kind
1:11:13
Speaker 1: of a stalemate here with their ports being closed and
1:11:15
Speaker 1: the Straight of Horror Moves being closed. Your thoughts and comments,
1:11:17
Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, Yeah, I.
1:11:21
Speaker 7: Mean, I think you want to be careful not to
1:11:22
Speaker 7: get baited into a conflict. You don't really want to
1:11:26
Speaker 7: let your enemy pick the time in or a place
1:11:28
Speaker 7: of any engagement. You want to dictate that in combat.
1:11:32
Speaker 7: And that's why I think the blockade is effective. The
1:11:35
Speaker 7: navy blocked. I mean, our navy is big enough and
1:11:37
Speaker 7: powerful enough to impose its will on a Ran. I mean, ay,
1:11:41
Speaker 7: we've destroyed their navy and b yeah, Okay, they've got
1:11:46
Speaker 7: drones and they've got stuff that you know, for a
1:11:49
Speaker 7: commercial vessel to drive through a straight you know, they
1:11:52
Speaker 7: risk the whole cargo, they risk the crew. There's no
1:11:54
Speaker 7: way the insurance is going to cover that. And so
1:11:57
Speaker 7: people don't want to risk losing a tanker load worth
1:11:59
Speaker 7: of oil and the liability for the lives that could
1:12:02
Speaker 7: be lost. So the ships stay put and they don't
1:12:05
Speaker 7: go through. But nevertheless, what ELSO doesn't go through is
1:12:10
Speaker 7: there's no commerce going on in Iran right now. So
1:12:14
Speaker 7: this is crippling Iran. I mean, this is you know,
1:12:17
Speaker 7: when maximum pressure forced her into the table in the
1:12:19
Speaker 7: first Trump administration. This is nothing on the kind of
1:12:23
Speaker 7: level of the blockade. So look that as a military operation,
1:12:27
Speaker 7: I mean, I think it's an effective one. I think
1:12:29
Speaker 7: it's if we have the strategic patience to continue doing that.
1:12:33
Speaker 7: I think it can be effective. If you pump oil
1:12:36
Speaker 7: every day. You eventually have to ship oil sometime, and
1:12:40
Speaker 7: I hope it doesn't turn into an environmental disaster, but
1:12:44
Speaker 7: it is putting pressure on Iran. They need resources in
1:12:47
Speaker 7: their economy. You know, they have back door ways to
1:12:49
Speaker 7: get some things across land, but they're fundamentally being crippled
1:12:53
Speaker 7: with this blockade.
1:12:55
Speaker 1: Well, and I suppose the future may be different. A
1:12:57
Speaker 1: lot of hard lessons are being learned. And I saw
1:12:59
Speaker 1: this article by Georgie Kantschev headlined the Horror Moves squeeze
1:13:05
Speaker 1: is redrawing the oil map for good. Saudi Arabia, the
1:13:07
Speaker 1: United Arab Emirates and Iraq are pouring money into pipelines,
1:13:11
Speaker 1: rail in storage to keep the oil flowing even when
1:13:13
Speaker 1: the strait isn't they see the future. They see the present,
1:13:16
Speaker 1: and the future is let's pipe it out and never
1:13:18
Speaker 1: have to rely on the strait of horror moves again.
1:13:20
Speaker 1: So that could be a real positive thing down the road,
1:13:22
Speaker 1: although billions of dollars will have to be spent and
1:13:25
Speaker 1: will take years to accomplish it. They've already ramped up
1:13:28
Speaker 1: pipeline shipping of oil in the area wherever they possibly can,
1:13:33
Speaker 1: along with rail.
1:13:36
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean so look at you a little more
1:13:37
Speaker 7: resilient supply chain. In the meantime, the US is like,
1:13:41
Speaker 7: I hear you guys need oil. We got oil.
1:13:43
Speaker 9: Now.
1:13:44
Speaker 7: The downside is, look, you know we European pressure higher
1:13:46
Speaker 7: prices at the pump in the United States, I think
1:13:49
Speaker 7: we're feeling the pain less than a lot of places
1:13:51
Speaker 7: around the world. That doesn't mean we don't feel the pain,
1:13:54
Speaker 7: but I mean, I want to be clear. Look that
1:13:56
Speaker 7: the price at the pump is the tip of the
1:13:58
Speaker 7: iceberg in terms of the cost of war. And you know,
1:14:02
Speaker 7: I mean the first Sunday after we voted on this
1:14:04
Speaker 7: in March, I got a text from you know, a friend,
1:14:08
Speaker 7: former Ranger guy, but I didn't serve with him, and
1:14:10
Speaker 7: he served much younger than me in Afghanistan and Iraq,
1:14:15
Speaker 7: and he's like, hey, I lost another bat boy guy
1:14:18
Speaker 7: from Ranger battalion to suicide. And you look at the
1:14:22
Speaker 7: cost of war. This guy lost ten friends in the
1:14:26
Speaker 7: wake of war. And if you look at you know,
1:14:28
Speaker 7: another metric for the cost of war, not just twenty
1:14:30
Speaker 7: plus veteran suicide to day on average. But you know,
1:14:35
Speaker 7: in two thousand and five, twenty years ago, we were
1:14:38
Speaker 7: spending about sixty billion dollars a year on the VA,
1:14:42
Speaker 7: and we have a moral obligation to care for those
1:14:44
Speaker 7: people who've served our country and we have and you
1:14:48
Speaker 7: know last year we spent over four hundred billion dollars
1:14:51
Speaker 7: and we still have twenty plus suicide. So like the
1:14:55
Speaker 7: cost of war is enduring and ongoing for the people
1:14:58
Speaker 7: that you asked to wage it. And I think that's
1:15:00
Speaker 7: why the least you could do is expect Congress.
1:15:02
Speaker 1: To vote the least. Congressman Davidson, can you stick around
1:15:05
Speaker 1: for one more segment? Got a few questions about the
1:15:07
Speaker 1: reconciliation bill that's being proposed over in the Senate. Want
1:15:10
Speaker 1: to see where you are on that or not. If
1:15:12
Speaker 1: you don't have enough time, that's great, I understand completely.
1:15:15
Speaker 7: Yeah, heavy to talk. Plenty going on there.
1:15:17
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, hold on one more with Congressman Davidson at
1:15:19
Speaker 1: seven twenty five right now fifty five cares seven thirty
1:15:22
Speaker 1: eight to fifty five care CD talks aasan Brian Thomas
1:15:24
Speaker 1: with Congressman Warren Davidson pivoting over. I guess the Senate
1:15:27
Speaker 1: has now got a reconciliation package number two. We got
1:15:31
Speaker 1: one through earlier, and of course you have to use
1:15:33
Speaker 1: reconciliation because of the Senate filibuster. Democrats are not going
1:15:36
Speaker 1: to give in and do anything to help benefit the
1:15:38
Speaker 1: American people or most notably reasons to go because of
1:15:42
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, but this one regarding immigration enforcement, notably the
1:15:45
Speaker 1: US Immigrations and Customs enforcement and Customs and Border Protection
1:15:49
Speaker 1: funding which has never yet been funded. That's still that
1:15:52
Speaker 1: thing that was the reason for the shutdown. But part
1:15:55
Speaker 1: of the stumbling block and not moving this forward sooner
1:15:58
Speaker 1: apparently is the White House ballroom funding and the Anti
1:16:02
Speaker 1: Weaponization fund, which is rather controversial. I thought Trump had
1:16:06
Speaker 1: backed off on the ladder, but the funding for the
1:16:08
Speaker 1: for the ballroom at over a billion dollars, seemed to
1:16:12
Speaker 1: rub people the wrong way. Anyway, with that out of
1:16:14
Speaker 1: that package, is this going to move forward? And what
1:16:16
Speaker 1: do you think? And will it pass?
1:16:20
Speaker 7: Yeah? I was just at at dinner with some conservative
1:16:23
Speaker 7: senators last night. They feel like they've got a path
1:16:25
Speaker 7: through the Senate finally. I mean, it's just frustrating sitting
1:16:29
Speaker 7: and looking at the Senate. So you know, people back
1:16:31
Speaker 7: home are you know, always say what's up with Thune,
1:16:33
Speaker 7: what's up with the Senate? How are they not taking action?
1:16:35
Speaker 7: On Save America and gazillion other things, and you know, hey,
1:16:40
Speaker 7: I get a ring side seat. It's frustrating. We've spent
1:16:43
Speaker 7: hours and hours and hours passing things in the House
1:16:46
Speaker 7: only to go watch them ignore it and do nothing
1:16:48
Speaker 7: in the Senate and then trip up over our own stuff.
1:16:51
Speaker 7: Like the ballroom goes back to Obama. I mean, there's
1:16:53
Speaker 7: a whole lot of other things that are going on besides,
1:16:57
Speaker 7: you know, under the floor of the ballroom, there's going
1:16:59
Speaker 7: to be other stuff off out of that building. This
1:17:01
Speaker 7: is an idea that's a long time standing, and somehow
1:17:04
Speaker 7: they've turned it into Trump's vanity project. It's like, no,
1:17:07
Speaker 7: it's a common sense thing to have there. You do
1:17:09
Speaker 7: need to appropriate some money and authorize some of the
1:17:12
Speaker 7: things that you need to do there. This isn't the
1:17:14
Speaker 7: perfect bill to do it, but you know, as long
1:17:17
Speaker 7: as Trump's president, Democrats are going to be opposed to
1:17:19
Speaker 7: doing those things. But the real mistake here is look
1:17:22
Speaker 7: last December or last October. Unfortunately the Senate folded and
1:17:27
Speaker 7: let Senate Democrats strip out the Homeland security funding package.
1:17:32
Speaker 7: Let them strip out the funding for ice and border patrol.
1:17:35
Speaker 7: So we've been depleting the one hundred plus billion dollars
1:17:38
Speaker 7: that we've put to you know, plus up the effort
1:17:42
Speaker 7: at ice and border patrol. We've been burning through that
1:17:45
Speaker 7: cash to continue operating ice and border patrol. So you know,
1:17:50
Speaker 7: that's not an unlimited amount of money. We're supposed to
1:17:52
Speaker 7: have ongoing appropriations for ice and bordertrol. So we need
1:17:56
Speaker 7: to send it to take action. And now it's going
1:17:59
Speaker 7: to be as skinny as you can make it. But
1:18:00
Speaker 7: they are finally supposed to put on it today, So
1:18:04
Speaker 7: even if they drag it into the end of the week,
1:18:06
Speaker 7: they'll get it done this week, I believe.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's good to hear that some and maybe you
1:18:10
Speaker 1: don't get everything you want, but I'll take a step
1:18:12
Speaker 1: in the right direction along those lines. But save America,
1:18:15
Speaker 1: that is, as I understand it, since it's not budget related,
1:18:18
Speaker 1: you couldn't put that into a budget reconciliation in order
1:18:20
Speaker 1: to dodge the filibusters.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. Yeah, this is this And I don't
1:18:25
Speaker 7: even think they're going to attempt to do it, but yeah,
1:18:29
Speaker 7: would it's a policy thing. So look, reconciliation is this
1:18:33
Speaker 7: magic word that breaks the sixty vote spell on the Senate.
1:18:37
Speaker 7: So that you can just get us, you can answer
1:18:40
Speaker 7: the actual question, you can call it straight with the Senate,
1:18:43
Speaker 7: and they got to go on record, and a simple
1:18:45
Speaker 7: majority passes things in the Senate. The cloture rule, the
1:18:48
Speaker 7: sixty vote rules what they use to basically prevent an
1:18:52
Speaker 7: actual vote on the underlying topic. And yeah, because it's
1:18:56
Speaker 7: policy related, the rules for budget reconciliation don't allow policy.
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Speaker 7: That's known as the Bird rule, so it would be
1:19:04
Speaker 7: stripped out.
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Speaker 1: Well, and you know what, always, I guess I'm frustrated
1:19:07
Speaker 1: by this when you see the protesters at these ice facilities,
1:19:11
Speaker 1: obviously well funded by massive billionaire infusions of cash, giving
1:19:16
Speaker 1: them all the supplies and resources they need. You got
1:19:18
Speaker 1: people that are twenty four hours a day, seven days
1:19:20
Speaker 1: a week, for multiple days, the same people protesting something
1:19:23
Speaker 1: is amiss there, but that the Democrats are wed to
1:19:26
Speaker 1: the whole idea that they do not want to do
1:19:29
Speaker 1: anything about. And it would rather have criminal illegal immigrants
1:19:33
Speaker 1: released out on the streets, people who have committed horrific crimes,
1:19:37
Speaker 1: convicted in many cases horrific crimes like child rape, that
1:19:40
Speaker 1: they want them released. I don't understand how any rational,
1:19:44
Speaker 1: saying human being could advocate for that with a straight face.
1:19:48
Speaker 1: And I'd like to hope and pray that the vast
1:19:49
Speaker 1: majority of the American population agrees with me on that
1:19:52
Speaker 1: topic and things the Democrats are crazy. What do you
1:19:56
Speaker 1: hear on the hill there when you're talking with Democrats
1:19:58
Speaker 1: about that reality?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean here, it's a total disconnect. Like when
1:20:03
Speaker 7: I talk we poll in our district, and you know,
1:20:06
Speaker 7: it's been a little while since we went out and
1:20:07
Speaker 7: did any kind of polling. But a lot of the
1:20:09
Speaker 7: things that they're not really even partisan issues. I mean,
1:20:13
Speaker 7: you know, illegal immigrations, I legal immigration. Now you know,
1:20:16
Speaker 7: my opponent thinks there's no such thing as illegal people
1:20:19
Speaker 7: and they should be able to vote in elections, you know,
1:20:22
Speaker 7: even if you're here illegally of course, so you know
1:20:26
Speaker 7: there are radicals out there, but that's not a consensus
1:20:29
Speaker 7: position of even Democrats in Southwest Ohio. But when you
1:20:32
Speaker 7: come to Congress, they vote that way. And it's the same,
1:20:35
Speaker 7: like it's bipartisan to deal with scams. I mean, this
1:20:38
Speaker 7: medicaid fraud stuff that's going on, that's not a partisan
1:20:41
Speaker 7: issue in Ohio. To go after that, punish it and
1:20:43
Speaker 7: prosecute people. And in Congress, look if you want to
1:20:46
Speaker 7: go after people that are scamming seniors, there's no partisanship there.
1:20:49
Speaker 7: Democrats are happy to work with me on that issue.
1:20:54
Speaker 6: In any way.
1:20:55
Speaker 7: But when the scam involves ripping off the federal government
1:20:57
Speaker 7: to give money, even to illegals that they wire out
1:21:00
Speaker 7: or leave with to go back to Somaya or Bhutan
1:21:04
Speaker 7: or wherever else, somehow it becomes partisan. I mean, I
1:21:07
Speaker 7: think this stuff is crazy.
1:21:09
Speaker 1: Well, and they try to accuse people of racism when
1:21:12
Speaker 1: people are merely going after the fraud. I did another
1:21:15
Speaker 1: frustrating thing for me that in Minnesota anyway, that was
1:21:18
Speaker 1: the argument, well, we didn't really go after fraud because
1:21:20
Speaker 1: it was racist to do so. And I'm thinking, well, no,
1:21:22
Speaker 1: it isn't that one segment of the Somali population having
1:21:26
Speaker 1: to be fraudsters. I don't care where they came from.
1:21:28
Speaker 1: They could come from, you know, Iowa. If they're criminals
1:21:31
Speaker 1: ripping the American taxpayers off, those are the people we
1:21:34
Speaker 1: are going after. It has nothing to do with the
1:21:36
Speaker 1: fact that they originated from Somalia here legally or illegally.
1:21:41
Speaker 1: They are criminals. That's why we're going after him. And
1:21:44
Speaker 1: shouldn't everyone be going after people who are ripping off
1:21:47
Speaker 1: every single American taxpayer of any political stripe.
1:21:51
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that was the whole point of Doze
1:21:53
Speaker 7: in the first place. And part of this that's coming
1:21:55
Speaker 7: out is because Doge went in and dug into the
1:21:57
Speaker 7: files and said, look, DOGE being the US Digital Service
1:22:03
Speaker 7: legally the brand name when the Musk came in was
1:22:06
Speaker 7: a Department of Government Efficiency DOGE. And they pulled this
1:22:09
Speaker 7: data out. And what really happened as investigative journalists went
1:22:12
Speaker 7: out and started going, well, gee, why would we have
1:22:16
Speaker 7: ninety four LLCs at this same address?
1:22:20
Speaker 1: What is this about?
1:22:21
Speaker 7: And they started going, well, where's our money going? Well,
1:22:24
Speaker 7: it's going to this building right here, and there's ninety
1:22:26
Speaker 7: four LLCs related who's controlling this? And they started asking
1:22:30
Speaker 7: questions that mainstream journalists weren't that. You know, in some cases,
1:22:34
Speaker 7: when I talk to the auditor Keith Faber, he's highlighted, look,
1:22:37
Speaker 7: they're complying with this level of the law, but there's
1:22:40
Speaker 7: stuff going on. He's highlighted, you know, tens of millions,
1:22:44
Speaker 7: if not billion plus dollars of fraud. As the auditor,
1:22:48
Speaker 7: I think he's going to do a great job getting
1:22:49
Speaker 7: after this with prosecutions as Attorney General. I think that's
1:22:52
Speaker 7: where the public's rightly frustrated and say, how is it
1:22:55
Speaker 7: that we have these scams going on? I mean, President
1:22:57
Speaker 7: Trump's getting scrutiny because he's putting pressure on Treasury. We
1:23:02
Speaker 7: get the Bank Secrecy Act that spies on everyone on
1:23:04
Speaker 7: your bank accounts and your money. But somehow this thing
1:23:08
Speaker 7: that's supposed to catch the people that are laundering money
1:23:10
Speaker 7: for the drug cartels and stop North Korea from getting,
1:23:14
Speaker 7: you know, weapons that we don't approve of. That's why
1:23:17
Speaker 7: they spy on you on your bank accounts officially, but
1:23:20
Speaker 7: you can't filter out the people that aren't even legally
1:23:23
Speaker 7: in the country. And now they've got bank accounts I mean,
1:23:26
Speaker 7: and medicaid payments going to them. And this is crazy
1:23:30
Speaker 7: stuff that's going on, and thankfully we're exposing.
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Speaker 1: It, thankfully, and I hope that continues to be a
1:23:36
Speaker 1: big prominent issue as we move into November, because I again,
1:23:40
Speaker 1: to me, this bears absolutely no political stripe. We're being
1:23:44
Speaker 1: ripped off and that has to stop. I hope that
1:23:47
Speaker 1: gets some headway from at least the Republicans are embracing
1:23:50
Speaker 1: the concept of going after it like you, Congressman Warren Davidson,
1:23:53
Speaker 1: thank you for your time today, and thank you for
1:23:55
Speaker 1: your service to our country in the American military and
1:23:57
Speaker 1: your ongoing services. Congressman, I appreciate your willingness to come
1:24:00
Speaker 1: on the program and share thoughts and comments about these
1:24:02
Speaker 1: important issues with my listeners and me, and I really
1:24:04
Speaker 1: can't wait to get you back on again, sir.
1:24:07
Speaker 7: That's always an honor. God bless you and all your listeners.
1:24:09
Speaker 1: Brian and you, sir, Thanks again, seven seven thirty eight.
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Speaker 1: Right now, if you have Kercity talk Station four nine
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Speaker 1: around for the outcome of the California ballot counting, which
1:24:21
Speaker 1: is just stupid the way they do it, and of
1:24:24
Speaker 1: course raises all kinds of eyebrows about you know, cheating
1:24:27
Speaker 1: going on. It's like, how come you know you got
1:24:29
Speaker 1: you know, sixty eight percent of the vote in and
1:24:30
Speaker 1: when this guy's winning by a but giant percentage and
1:24:32
Speaker 1: then overnight almost they get flooded with all these ballots
1:24:36
Speaker 1: that have yet to be counted. The rules are so lax,
1:24:40
Speaker 1: it's crazy. I saw a Babylon be meme on this
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Speaker 1: earlier today and I was just cracking up. Say, California
1:24:45
Speaker 1: has finally determined the winner of the gubernatorial race, Ronald
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Speaker 1: Reagan his won the nineteen sixty six contest. Yeah, that's
1:24:52
Speaker 1: kind of not that far from the truth anyway. Governor's
1:24:55
Speaker 1: race still being decided. Republicans Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt
1:24:59
Speaker 1: on one side, I'd won enough support early in the
1:25:01
Speaker 1: election returns to appear in the November ballot. In the
1:25:04
Speaker 1: governor's race, leads, they say could be wiped out by
1:25:07
Speaker 1: thousands of mail in ballots, and state officials say they're
1:25:10
Speaker 1: not going to be able to get finished counting for
1:25:13
Speaker 1: days or even weeks. Hilton head of all sixty candidates
1:25:17
Speaker 1: in the governor's race as of yesterday morning, twenty seven
1:25:20
Speaker 1: point eight percent of the vote. That's pretty sizable. They
1:25:26
Speaker 1: had sixty three percent of the ballots counted so far.
1:25:29
Speaker 1: But we've seen this play out before. It's like, all
1:25:32
Speaker 1: of a sudden, with a flip of the switch, the
1:25:35
Speaker 1: vote and the outcome dramatically changes state mail's ballots to
1:25:40
Speaker 1: every eligible voter. And think about California, what do they
1:25:43
Speaker 1: consider eligible in California anyway, if you're registered, and I
1:25:47
Speaker 1: think if you go to the DMV and get a
1:25:49
Speaker 1: driver's license, which they give to even illegal immigrants, then
1:25:52
Speaker 1: I suppose they're registered to vote. And I think in
1:25:54
Speaker 1: some elections local ones, certainly not federal elections, which preclude
1:25:58
Speaker 1: non citizens from voting, that they may have immigrants voting
1:26:02
Speaker 1: in their local elections. So that creates an opportunity for
1:26:04
Speaker 1: people to vote. In presidential elections and congressional elections and
1:26:07
Speaker 1: Senate elections. It shouldn't be eligible to vote, but there
1:26:09
Speaker 1: they are. Ballots can be returned as late as eight
1:26:13
Speaker 1: PM on election day if the pre paid envelopes are
1:26:18
Speaker 1: postmarked by that time. State officials have to accept mail
1:26:22
Speaker 1: in ballots for up to seven days after the election,
1:26:25
Speaker 1: long as they have that qualifying postmark. I guess they
1:26:27
Speaker 1: have factored into the equation that the US Postal Service
1:26:30
Speaker 1: can't deliver mail in a very quick fashion. So the
1:26:34
Speaker 1: statewide results actually are not certified until July tenth, which
1:26:39
Speaker 1: gives the state another thirty seven more days to tally
1:26:42
Speaker 1: the results for the governor's race. And history demonstrates that
1:26:51
Speaker 1: in California, the mail in votes have in the past,
1:26:56
Speaker 1: of course leaned Democrat. Making sense because how many people
1:26:59
Speaker 1: in California are still Republican the vast majority of them,
1:27:02
Speaker 1: of course, maybe not too vast, but the majority of
1:27:04
Speaker 1: the folks in California Democrat. So it's it's really disturbing.
1:27:11
Speaker 1: You know, Tom Fitting from the Judicial Watch noted you
1:27:15
Speaker 1: federal courts or federal courts. That's election day day singular,
1:27:20
Speaker 1: not an election week, and certainly not an election month.
1:27:25
Speaker 1: Wait for it, we'll ultimately get the outcome. Wouldn't it
1:27:28
Speaker 1: be a truly amazing thing if a Republican won either
1:27:32
Speaker 1: the LA mayoral race or god, can you imagine a
1:27:36
Speaker 1: Republican governor of California. People have had it and that
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Speaker 1: they would go that route after all these years, Maybe
1:27:41
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Speaker 1: second Wednesday in July. The first one obviously interrupted a
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Speaker 1: little bit by the fourth of July Independence Day of
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Speaker 1: course holiday. Thank you, Joe strecord breaking news. Thank you
1:28:27
Speaker 1: to Fox eight WJW. In Cleveland. Former Cleveland Mayor Dennis
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Speaker 1: Cascinach lost another round to stop the Cleveland Browns from
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Speaker 1: moving out of Greater Cleveland into brook Park, where you're
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Speaker 1: and my money is being spent giving a multi billionaire
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Speaker 1: owner of a Cleveland Browns team six hundred million dollars
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Speaker 1: from the unclaimed funds to build the Dome Stadium in
1:28:48
Speaker 1: brook Park. So it's obviously a worry and concern for
1:28:51
Speaker 1: the city elected officials. So we have the former mayor
1:28:56
Speaker 1: launched this legal action to stop that from happening, and recently,
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Speaker 1: according to the reporting in Cuyahoga County COMMA, please Judge
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Speaker 1: Holly Gallagher dismissed the lawsuit. Caucinach appeal the Browns in
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Speaker 1: the City of Cleveland asked the court to dismiss that appeal. Actually,
1:29:13
Speaker 1: the city of Cleveland also asked them to dismiss it,
1:29:15
Speaker 1: So I guess maybe the elected officials are okay with
1:29:17
Speaker 1: this anyway, He says, the appeal has been dismissed. But
1:29:20
Speaker 1: according to the presiding judge in dismissing this, the appellant
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Speaker 1: Caercentage is an unlicensed attorney, cannot represent the city or
1:29:31
Speaker 1: taxpayers of Cleveland. He does not have standing to bring
1:29:34
Speaker 1: the appeal based upon his individual interests. There's that pesky
1:29:37
Speaker 1: standing thing standing in the way of a lot of
1:29:39
Speaker 1: lawsuits that you and I might file. You have to
1:29:41
Speaker 1: have a unique harm that you showed as a consequence
1:29:45
Speaker 1: of the Cleveland Browns moving out of the city. If
1:29:48
Speaker 1: there is a harm, it's going to be felt by anyone,
1:29:50
Speaker 1: everyone's going to feel it equally. So he obviously is
1:29:55
Speaker 1: not a unique person in this regard. So the court
1:29:57
Speaker 1: threw it out. He plans on appealing to the High
1:29:59
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. Once you go to one of those betting sites, Joe,
1:30:02
Speaker 1: and see what the odds are on this one of
1:30:05
Speaker 1: him prevailing in the Ohio Supreme Court. So I know
1:30:08
Speaker 1: slim left. I guess it is a more rhetorical question,
1:30:12
Speaker 1: although I'm sure people are betting on that anyway. Last year,
1:30:15
Speaker 1: the city Cleveland dropped its fight to keep them on
1:30:18
Speaker 1: the leg front as part of a one hundred million
1:30:19
Speaker 1: dollar deal. They gave up. They're obviously moving. This is
1:30:23
Speaker 1: a thread everyone faces, but I am on record for
1:30:25
Speaker 1: a long long time the idea of taxpayer dollars or
1:30:27
Speaker 1: even unclaimed fund dollars going to a multi billionaire sports
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Speaker 1: owner is nonsensical. Whether it's in Cleveland or and I
1:30:38
Speaker 1: know you voted for it, or in the city of Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: I think they can manage the expenses on their own.
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Speaker 1: It coming up in seven fifty five and after the
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Speaker 1: top of the air news friend of the Show and
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Speaker 1: He's gonna give us all the details about tonight's event
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Speaker 1: my dear friend doctor j Risover is on the phone
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Speaker 1: Great to see it, listener lunch yesterday. Thanks for joining
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Speaker 6: Oh it's my pleasure, Brian, Thank you for having me
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Speaker 6: and thanks for everything that you do. But tonight we
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Speaker 6: We've gone through thirty one semesters, dozens and dozens perhaps
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1:33:20
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Speaker 6: A couple of things about today's event. First off, everybody
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Speaker 1: How could I miss it? I love the whole concept
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Speaker 1: a good way to spend an hour of your time
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Speaker 1: we'll hear from Chrisopher who else, Doctor J.
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Speaker 6: It'll be Chris Manzell. We'll be speaking there were reforming
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1:34:44
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1:34:47
Speaker 6: worked with Dan Reginald in the early years before Empowered You,
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1:34:54
Speaker 6: We also have besides the speakers, we have live music
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Speaker 6: with Farm Chats, a really excellent local band with Pete
1:35:04
Speaker 6: Denoit on guitar, Mike Fletcher on bass and vocals, Acrus
1:35:09
Speaker 6: Chris Lute on lead guitar, and Rick Powell on drums
1:35:13
Speaker 6: and vocals. So really good group. They're playing their unique
1:35:16
Speaker 6: music and some blues and rock.
1:35:19
Speaker 1: You're not sitting in with them, Jay, because I know
1:35:20
Speaker 1: you regularly perform your musical act around town from time
1:35:23
Speaker 1: to time.
1:35:25
Speaker 6: I agree, I'm not gonna I'm not these guys practice together,
1:35:28
Speaker 6: so no, I'm definitely not sitting in with them. We
1:35:31
Speaker 6: also have an amazing thing. We're gonna have an Americana
1:35:34
Speaker 6: almost like a history tent. Since it is in honor
1:35:37
Speaker 6: of our last event before the two hundred and fiftieth
1:35:39
Speaker 6: Birthday of the United States, we're kind of celebrating America too,
1:35:43
Speaker 6: trying to throw everything into this one event.
1:35:47
Speaker 2: So we have.
1:35:49
Speaker 6: Artifacts from World War two and other stuff that Eric
1:35:55
Speaker 6: Eric Barrow Barrow is put together for us who have
1:35:59
Speaker 6: a whole ten of this.
1:36:02
Speaker 1: Well, I want to stand from the notes, he'd been
1:36:05
Speaker 1: collecting these artifacts since he was aged Twelve's got some
1:36:07
Speaker 1: World War two era, World War One era stuff, and
1:36:11
Speaker 1: just a really unique collection of items that are going
1:36:14
Speaker 1: to be very interesting to see. I'm looking forward to
1:36:16
Speaker 1: seeing that myself.
1:36:18
Speaker 6: Yeah, items from the pilot of the Memphis Bell for example,
1:36:21
Speaker 6: even that, Yeah, yes, we're doing that. Two things that
1:36:24
Speaker 6: when ask people to do, who are coming maybe three things.
1:36:28
Speaker 6: This is the beginning of a new era for empower you.
1:36:32
Speaker 6: This would be our first year with Dan helping out
1:36:36
Speaker 6: but not actually running things. That will be this coming
1:36:39
Speaker 6: year he's still gonna be managing, he's still gonna be around,
1:36:42
Speaker 6: still being lecturing, but he's beginning the process of moving
1:36:45
Speaker 6: out of town. And so we really want to celebrate Dan.
1:36:48
Speaker 6: I want everybody to come and say thank you to
1:36:50
Speaker 6: Dan for thirty one semesters. We've been in impeller you
1:36:54
Speaker 6: since twenty twenty twenty one and it's a fundraiser for
1:36:58
Speaker 6: empower you to make sure the next year is even better.
1:37:01
Speaker 6: So if you could bring some kind of a donation,
1:37:04
Speaker 6: we'll have donation envelope. You could take that home with
1:37:06
Speaker 6: you and think about it and nail it back to us.
1:37:09
Speaker 6: No stress at the day of But if you can
1:37:12
Speaker 6: take us some way to donate to empower you, this
1:37:14
Speaker 6: would be very important for the coming year. It empower
1:37:18
Speaker 6: you well. I think I also want to say ahead.
1:37:22
Speaker 6: The food yep, yeah, we have that. You know is
1:37:28
Speaker 6: Chef Kevin Nichols is amazing. Smoked pork old pork sandwiches
1:37:34
Speaker 6: will be there and his homemade baked beans.
1:37:36
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's so good, so good.
1:37:40
Speaker 6: I've not had it, but I've seen pictures of it smoking.
1:37:42
Speaker 6: It sounds amazing. I can't wait to taste it.
1:37:44
Speaker 1: I've been blessed. I've been blessed with Kevin's barbecue nous.
1:37:47
Speaker 1: I mean, we've been friends for a long long time
1:37:49
Speaker 1: and thanks to listener lines for you know, me being
1:37:52
Speaker 1: able to meet Kevin Nichols and finding out about how
1:37:55
Speaker 1: tremendous is barbecue is so tremendous that he's the guy
1:37:58
Speaker 1: we've got doing barbecue for my daughter and Eric's wedding
1:38:01
Speaker 1: coming up. So my mouth is salivating right now just
1:38:05
Speaker 1: thinking about it. But it's not just Kevin's barbecue. It's
1:38:08
Speaker 1: also The Work's Pizza.
1:38:10
Speaker 6: Correct, We have The Works Pizza from Loveland. They are
1:38:13
Speaker 6: giving us a whole bunch of well, they're helping us
1:38:15
Speaker 6: with a bunch of pizza, and we are happy to
1:38:18
Speaker 6: have that. We'll have salad, we'll have polst law and
1:38:21
Speaker 6: Heaven's Baked beans to go with this, plus a little
1:38:24
Speaker 6: cake for dessert. We have lots of fluidge there. We'll
1:38:28
Speaker 6: have pop, and we'll have water. If you want something
1:38:30
Speaker 6: a little stronger, i'd ask people to bring your own bottle.
1:38:33
Speaker 6: Certainly that's acceptable and improved, but we don't really have
1:38:38
Speaker 6: that for everyone, So bring your own bottle if you'd
1:38:41
Speaker 6: like to indulge a bit. Bring your appetite for sure,
1:38:44
Speaker 6: come for some fun. One thing that's helpful if you
1:38:47
Speaker 6: could bring a lawn share. Ye limited chairs, so you know,
1:38:51
Speaker 6: sure you can sit on the grass. Anybody's welcome to
1:38:54
Speaker 6: do that. You can bring a blanket and do that,
1:38:56
Speaker 6: but I think a share might be more comfortable. We'll
1:38:58
Speaker 6: have a few, but not enough for everyone, and we're expected,
1:39:01
Speaker 6: so bring a chair. If you need a bottle, bring that,
1:39:04
Speaker 6: but come and enjoy the fun, eat some food, Listen
1:39:08
Speaker 6: to you Brian Thomas, Chris Smithman, and Chris Monzel. We're
1:39:12
Speaker 6: going to have a great time.
1:39:13
Speaker 1: I assure you of that, yes, and please bring a smile.
1:39:16
Speaker 1: We're celebrating two hundred and fiftieth. We're celebrating Dan Regnold
1:39:20
Speaker 1: and all he has done for our community beyond just
1:39:22
Speaker 1: empower you America. The man's a tremendous guy. And so
1:39:25
Speaker 1: just with that in mind, leave your attitude at home
1:39:27
Speaker 1: and just bring a smile on your face and enjoy
1:39:30
Speaker 1: the fun and the awesome food as well as the
1:39:33
Speaker 1: live music and the speakers. You know, I'm minimize my
1:39:36
Speaker 1: involvement in this one. Got some important work to do
1:39:38
Speaker 1: there tonight, and I'm looking forward to it. Five thirty
1:39:40
Speaker 1: at Glendale. I see him. We made it real easy, Jay.
1:39:43
Speaker 1: Joe has put all this information up on my blog
1:39:45
Speaker 1: page fifty five care seed dot com, as well as
1:39:48
Speaker 1: just go straight to empower you America dot org and
1:39:50
Speaker 1: click on the link right there. It does say register
1:39:53
Speaker 1: to a tend in person on the site so help
1:39:55
Speaker 1: people get an understanding how many folks are going to
1:39:57
Speaker 1: show up. I think that would help.
1:40:00
Speaker 6: At this point. Since it's today, you can do it
1:40:03
Speaker 6: or not. I'm okay with that. We're preparing for an
1:40:07
Speaker 6: onslaught of people and come join the crowd.
1:40:10
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. Enjoy the festivities and the fellowship, just
1:40:13
Speaker 1: like we had yesterday at listener lunch, except much bigger
1:40:17
Speaker 1: and Kevin's barbecue on top of a doctor j Rissover
1:40:20
Speaker 1: is great scene yesterday. I look forward to tonight and
1:40:22
Speaker 1: seeing you again, and I look forward to seeing all
1:40:24
Speaker 1: the listeners who are interested in showing up. It'll be
1:40:26
Speaker 1: worth your time. You'll have fun tonight. Five thirty Glendale,
1:40:29
Speaker 1: I seem Jay, thanks again for giving us the information today.
1:40:32
Speaker 1: See you tonight, Thank you, thank you, see you tonight.
1:40:35
Speaker 1: All right, coming up on eight fifteen, not quite there yet,
1:40:38
Speaker 1: got a little time a few minutes before we get
1:40:39
Speaker 1: to iHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliffe direction as we fast
1:40:43
Speaker 1: approach iHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliffe. Yeah, I talked about
1:40:46
Speaker 1: the Glendale I SIAM event tonight for empower Your America's
1:40:49
Speaker 1: in celebrating the America's two fifty if and of coourse
1:40:51
Speaker 1: celebrating Dan reaganold a Salute to the Man tomorrow. I
1:40:55
Speaker 1: just want to I'm sorry, Saturday, I want to remind
1:40:56
Speaker 1: folks about the flag retirement ceremony that's at Uniontown chip
1:41:00
Speaker 1: Civic Summer Amphitheater. Bring your old tattered flag. Do not
1:41:04
Speaker 1: fly a flag that's tattered. Flirt from that from the
1:41:07
Speaker 1: other day from the Klemat County Veteran Services who were
1:41:09
Speaker 1: promoting this event as well, and thanks to Ken Williamson
1:41:13
Speaker 1: and all the Vietnam Veterans at Chapter six forty nine.
1:41:15
Speaker 1: They do this every single year and I've been pleased
1:41:18
Speaker 1: to have been a part of it for quite some time,
1:41:20
Speaker 1: just a facilitating it. But the Boy Scouts Troop four
1:41:23
Speaker 1: to fifty two is going to be there, Saint Thomas
1:41:25
Speaker 1: Moore specifically Boy Scout Troop four to fifty two, and
1:41:27
Speaker 1: they will show us how to properly retire an American flag.
1:41:31
Speaker 1: You just don't throw it on the ground. You just
1:41:33
Speaker 1: don't throw in the garbage can. It's a questions. It's
1:41:36
Speaker 1: respect is really what we're looking for with the American flag.
1:41:39
Speaker 1: Sort of considered as you would the burial of a
1:41:41
Speaker 1: loved one. You loved them during their life, and it's
1:41:44
Speaker 1: something that you should be respectful of. So don't tear
1:41:47
Speaker 1: it up and make something out of it. Learn how
1:41:49
Speaker 1: to properly retire a flag, and you can do that
1:41:51
Speaker 1: this weekend. First eighteen, folks who show up with a
1:41:53
Speaker 1: flag that needs to be retired are going to receive
1:41:56
Speaker 1: a three a free three foot by five foot flag
1:42:00
Speaker 1: at the end of the ceremony that will be a
1:42:01
Speaker 1: replacement flag. I've already got a tattered flag to bring
1:42:04
Speaker 1: to the event on Saturday, So it starts at one
1:42:07
Speaker 1: o'clock and you can see that information also at fifty
1:42:10
Speaker 1: five KRC dot com. Pivoting over to the plague update,
1:42:13
Speaker 1: Oh my god, we're all gonna die. It's not just
1:42:15
Speaker 1: El Nino, it's a Godzilla El Nino. Of course, the
1:42:19
Speaker 1: folks over the Telegraph need to put a big exclamation
1:42:23
Speaker 1: point on this to get us all ginned up. And
1:42:24
Speaker 1: I love the word could because when I read the
1:42:26
Speaker 1: word could, well, that doesn't mean it's necessarily happened. We
1:42:30
Speaker 1: could get hit by a meteor tomorrow. Do I think
1:42:32
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. Not really, but you could put a
1:42:34
Speaker 1: headline up. World could be blown up with a meteor strike.
1:42:37
Speaker 1: This one about the godzilla el Nino. The world could
1:42:42
Speaker 1: be on the brink of Godzilla Like Elnina, extreme weather
1:42:45
Speaker 1: pattern that could trigger economic and political disruption around the world.
1:42:53
Speaker 1: It's this three time a decade oceanic warming period. We've
1:42:57
Speaker 1: all lived through this before or not. Could impact droughts
1:43:01
Speaker 1: and make storms. And while they point out droughts and
1:43:04
Speaker 1: storms are bad enough, experts say experts, hey, Joe, is
1:43:08
Speaker 1: there a consensus on this one. Let's check that out.
1:43:11
Speaker 1: Could be the strongest El Nini on record. This reminds
1:43:15
Speaker 1: me of a hurricane forecast. Experts predict we're gonna have
1:43:18
Speaker 1: seventeen hurricanes and you look back with hindsight like, well,
1:43:21
Speaker 1: there were six. Could be the strongest Alnini on record.
1:43:25
Speaker 1: Problems could include flooding, landslides, wildfire, wildfire's, famine, conflict, and migration,
1:43:34
Speaker 1: food supply disruption identified as the problem number one. Of course,
1:43:37
Speaker 1: if these will impact crops, clearly it's going to probably
1:43:40
Speaker 1: be a problem. Drought conditions already an issue in some countries,
1:43:43
Speaker 1: so they suggest this may be worse. I say, historically
1:43:46
Speaker 1: onlyin he's been associated with major food crises. The famine
1:43:49
Speaker 1: of eighteen seventy seven, exacerbated by severe weather conditions, killed
1:43:54
Speaker 1: millions across the tropics and exposed deep inequalities in the
1:43:57
Speaker 1: global food system. And to read that and they talk
1:43:59
Speaker 1: about some of the areas that are going to be
1:44:00
Speaker 1: struggling more mightily than others in so far as food production.
1:44:03
Speaker 1: The areas that struggle more mightily already in the great
1:44:06
Speaker 1: in the best possible conditions, already struggle with food production anyway. Gee,
1:44:12
Speaker 1: I mean we live with inequities in the food distribution system. Yes,
1:44:16
Speaker 1: naturally migration al Nina driven droughts can trigger migration, particularly
1:44:25
Speaker 1: in regions going back to my prior point, heavily dependent
1:44:27
Speaker 1: on hand to mouth agriculture occurs within countries rather than
1:44:32
Speaker 1: across borders. According to experts quoted in the article conflict
1:44:37
Speaker 1: zone flare ups El Nino apparently, and the extreme weather
1:44:42
Speaker 1: conditions that might or could come as a consequence of
1:44:46
Speaker 1: it can heighten instability in already fragile states. Going back
1:44:51
Speaker 1: to the point about food production, if you're already in
1:44:52
Speaker 1: a shaky ground in terms of being able to produce
1:44:54
Speaker 1: food at any given time, if you're living in basically
1:44:57
Speaker 1: a war zone and bad weather shows up, things might
1:45:01
Speaker 1: get worse. It's a British article, of course, they talk
1:45:05
Speaker 1: about the impact on Britain, although the UK lies more
1:45:08
Speaker 1: than eight thousand miles from the tropical Pacific. Experts say
1:45:12
Speaker 1: the powerful El Nino godzo alike could there's that word again,
1:45:16
Speaker 1: still brings significant consequences from extreme heat and flooding and
1:45:21
Speaker 1: higher food prices. Britain could feel the effects of climate
1:45:25
Speaker 1: phenomena within the next twelve to eighteen months. There's that
1:45:27
Speaker 1: window of opportunity. It goes on and on. It's just
1:45:30
Speaker 1: one of those articles is like, Okay, I'm sure that
1:45:32
Speaker 1: there are possibilities this might happen, but the way it's
1:45:35
Speaker 1: phrased them, the way it's worded obviously designed to get
1:45:38
Speaker 1: us all on the edge of our seat. Congo's Ebola
1:45:41
Speaker 1: outbreak topic number two in the stack and the plague update.
1:45:46
Speaker 1: Rare strand of a Bola. You probably read about it
1:45:48
Speaker 1: floating around the Democratic Republic of Congo, and now it's
1:45:51
Speaker 1: moved into an area that is absolutely instable, going back
1:45:54
Speaker 1: to the instab unstable regions of the world, an area
1:45:58
Speaker 1: controlled by Islamic st eight militants, specifically militant controlled Mambasa,
1:46:05
Speaker 1: which for warren zvon Fans reminded me of rolling the
1:46:08
Speaker 1: Headless Thompson Gunner. And that song was recorded so long ago.
1:46:11
Speaker 1: They've been having problems in Congo for way longer than
1:46:14
Speaker 1: I've been living. And it's still the epicenter of well
1:46:20
Speaker 1: war stronghold of the Aullied Democratic Forces initial cap on
1:46:26
Speaker 1: all that it's one of a multitude of Islamic state
1:46:28
Speaker 1: affiliated insurgency agencies. This one happens to be fighting the
1:46:32
Speaker 1: Congolese and Ugandan troops. The point of the Ebola related
1:46:36
Speaker 1: point is well, the area so far is in well
1:46:41
Speaker 1: areas controlled by the government where the outbreak has occurred.
1:46:44
Speaker 1: So medical resources and teams are there on the ground
1:46:48
Speaker 1: in the area that is stable to try to deal
1:46:50
Speaker 1: with this outbreak of Abola. Well, now it's in an
1:46:53
Speaker 1: area that is not accessible by the government because it's
1:46:56
Speaker 1: overrun with terrorists. That described as a forested area where
1:46:59
Speaker 1: health workers who are already coping with short supplies and
1:47:02
Speaker 1: local suspicions will not go. There is a compounding problem.
1:47:07
Speaker 1: The local suspicions will prevent people from seeking medical care
1:47:10
Speaker 1: and also of course result in the wider spread of ebola,
1:47:15
Speaker 1: very deadly. And finally, as if that wasn't bad enough,
1:47:19
Speaker 1: headline flesh eating screw worm found in Texas. According to
1:47:25
Speaker 1: the USDA, a single calf in southern Texas tested positive
1:47:31
Speaker 1: for the new World screw worm. It's a deadly flyborn
1:47:36
Speaker 1: parasite has now been detected in US livestock, but it
1:47:39
Speaker 1: hasn't been since nineteen sixty six, So yes, scary phenomenon
1:47:43
Speaker 1: was a three year old calf in Texas. Flesh eating
1:47:46
Speaker 1: parasite can be deadly to animals, but not common in humans,
1:47:50
Speaker 1: and they say it is not a food safety risk.
1:47:52
Speaker 1: What is the risk is that it kills the cows,
1:47:55
Speaker 1: and America's cattle herd already at its smallest since the
1:47:58
Speaker 1: nineteen fifties, according to information from the USDA. Rancher's struggling
1:48:02
Speaker 1: with rising costs drought, of course, is already an issue
1:48:05
Speaker 1: in some estates where they raise beef, and a tight
1:48:09
Speaker 1: livestock market already has driven beef prices through the roof.
1:48:12
Speaker 1: Anybody who goes to the grocery store knows that if
1:48:14
Speaker 1: they're interested in beef, the screwworm could exacerbate that if
1:48:20
Speaker 1: we don't get on top of it. This has been
1:48:22
Speaker 1: your plague update. Stick around. I heart media aviation expert
1:48:25
Speaker 1: Jay Ratlift coming up next. I hope you can do that.
1:48:28
Speaker 1: Fifty five car the talk station, the Simply Money, fifty
1:48:32
Speaker 1: five K the Talk Station eight twenty nine on a Thursday,
1:48:37
Speaker 1: it's a good time to be tuned in the fifty
1:48:38
Speaker 1: five Karrisee Morning Show from my subjective point of view,
1:48:41
Speaker 1: because gain iHeart media aviation expert Jay Rats to join
1:48:44
Speaker 1: the program and talk about sometimes quite comical issues in aviation.
1:48:47
Speaker 1: My friend, welcome back to the morning show. It's always
1:48:49
Speaker 1: great having you on.
1:48:51
Speaker 8: Pleasure to get morning to you.
1:48:52
Speaker 1: My friend, Hey, I can live on what you made
1:48:54
Speaker 1: in an hour. Yesterday, I.
1:48:58
Speaker 8: Hey, Jerry was making dinner. She's making cube steak, and
1:49:01
Speaker 8: I was in my office shuffling a few papers. Looked up,
1:49:04
Speaker 8: saw a couple of stocks that were moving, and yeah,
1:49:07
Speaker 8: she was making the cube steak for dinner. I made
1:49:09
Speaker 8: that a ninety two hundred dollars.
1:49:12
Speaker 1: In an hour. I could live on that hourly rate.
1:49:15
Speaker 1: Joe strekkerd just left the building to go sign up
1:49:17
Speaker 1: for your training class on trading.
1:49:18
Speaker 2: Anyway.
1:49:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what Jay does and he does really well
1:49:22
Speaker 1: at it. Anyways, pivoting back over to aviation news, which
1:49:25
Speaker 1: is why you're really here. A turtle turtle.
1:49:30
Speaker 8: Yeah, in the Dallas Airport, we had a turtle that
1:49:32
Speaker 8: was out sunning itself and he had a plane that
1:49:35
Speaker 8: was departing, and had a rather comical exchange with air
1:49:39
Speaker 8: traffic control saying that, you know, I got this turtle
1:49:42
Speaker 8: out here in the middle of the runway, right on
1:49:44
Speaker 8: the center line, just happy as could be, just sitting there.
1:49:47
Speaker 8: And of course it's an issue because anytime you've got
1:49:51
Speaker 8: a plane landing or taking off, it's a critical moment
1:49:55
Speaker 8: of flight and you don't want to have something out
1:49:56
Speaker 8: there that you're going to strike that could prevent somebody
1:49:59
Speaker 8: from taking off, or an issue with an aircraft landing,
1:50:02
Speaker 8: so it becomes a problem. So it's we have birds
1:50:07
Speaker 8: a lot of times we talk about as far as
1:50:08
Speaker 8: a collision with wildlife, but we also have deer the
1:50:12
Speaker 8: jump fences and they're out there and sometimes get impacted
1:50:14
Speaker 8: by an aircraft. We have that happened quite a bit
1:50:17
Speaker 8: at night. We've had moose that have been hit, alligators, snakes, fish,
1:50:21
Speaker 8: if you can believe it, that aircraft have encountered out
1:50:25
Speaker 8: on the runway. And yeah, turtles. So this was a
1:50:28
Speaker 8: situation where you had some flight delayed because of a
1:50:33
Speaker 8: very content turtle on the runway. And you know, we're
1:50:35
Speaker 8: at the airport a lot of times and see those
1:50:38
Speaker 8: vehicles going up and down the runway. That's what they're
1:50:40
Speaker 8: looking for, any sort of what we call FOD for
1:50:43
Speaker 8: an object debris that might have fallen off of an
1:50:45
Speaker 8: aircraft or could be you know, some wildlife or remains
1:50:50
Speaker 8: of wildlife, you know, that might have been left there
1:50:52
Speaker 8: by another.
1:50:53
Speaker 1: Critter or some crazy random dude comes thinks it's appropriate
1:50:56
Speaker 1: to go running out of the runway and ends up
1:50:58
Speaker 1: getting well mowe over or ingested.
1:51:01
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's that's happened. Well, it's breakfast time. I'm trying
1:51:05
Speaker 8: to be trying to be delicate here, but yes, it's
1:51:08
Speaker 8: not a good thing. When that takes place.
1:51:10
Speaker 1: Okay, since you provided us a list of random animals
1:51:14
Speaker 1: and other critters who have been on runways in the past,
1:51:16
Speaker 1: I just have to ask, because you know I've seen
1:51:18
Speaker 1: shark Nato. I did waste an hour and fifteen minutes
1:51:21
Speaker 1: of my life watching that. Any sharks obviously a joke there, Jay,
1:51:25
Speaker 1: unless you tell me, yes, there's this instance of a shark,
1:51:27
Speaker 1: cause you did mention fish.
1:51:29
Speaker 8: Not yet. Well, yeah, because sometimes bird will catch birds
1:51:31
Speaker 8: will catch fish and drop them and they'll be on
1:51:34
Speaker 8: the runway and that can create a problem if it's
1:51:37
Speaker 8: sucked into an engine, because you know, birds and fish
1:51:39
Speaker 8: and different types of things. But to my knowledge, in
1:51:42
Speaker 8: the thirty six years i've been doing this, I don't
1:51:45
Speaker 8: think I've encountered a shark issue on a runway. But
1:51:48
Speaker 8: you never say never, not in this world.
1:51:51
Speaker 1: Never say never. I will move. Since this is a
1:51:54
Speaker 1: lighthearted topic to talk about, before we get the United
1:51:57
Speaker 1: Airlines and their upgrades and engine fires and not kind
1:52:00
Speaker 1: of thing, let's talk about visibly intoxicated passengers. What's this
1:52:05
Speaker 1: all about with Alaska Airlines?
1:52:07
Speaker 8: Jay, Alaska Airlines have been fined. Well, it's a proposed fine,
1:52:12
Speaker 8: it's not going to be this, But the FAA, federally
1:52:14
Speaker 8: of the AAS Administration is proposing one hundred and sixty
1:52:17
Speaker 8: five thousand dollars fine because in the twelve month period
1:52:20
Speaker 8: of February twenty twenty four to February of twenty twenty five,
1:52:24
Speaker 8: there were eleven instances where passengers boarded aircraft that became
1:52:29
Speaker 8: a problem and in the investigation it was determined, you know,
1:52:33
Speaker 8: these people were pretty intoxicated in the in the gate area,
1:52:36
Speaker 8: and the airline never should have let them on the
1:52:38
Speaker 8: plane because that creates a safety issue for the flight attendants,
1:52:42
Speaker 8: for the crew, for the passengers. Blah blah blah.
1:52:45
Speaker 1: Huh.
1:52:45
Speaker 8: So, yeah, they have this proposed fine, and I keep
1:52:48
Speaker 8: saying propose because that's what it is. It's going to
1:52:52
Speaker 8: be negotiated down to some insane low number as long
1:52:55
Speaker 8: as Alaska promises never to do it again or do
1:52:58
Speaker 8: a better job. We have these maintenance sometimes finds a
1:53:02
Speaker 8: you know, eleven million dollars that's proposed, and they negotiated
1:53:05
Speaker 8: down to one million. If they, you know, promise to
1:53:08
Speaker 8: change this or that. It drives me crazy because I
1:53:10
Speaker 8: want to negotiate down a smeeting ticket, But I don't
1:53:13
Speaker 8: think they're gonna let.
1:53:14
Speaker 4: Me do that.
1:53:14
Speaker 8: I can't go to the irs and say, you know,
1:53:16
Speaker 8: can we negotiate this number down as far as what
1:53:18
Speaker 8: I've got to pay, That's not going to work. But
1:53:21
Speaker 8: with airlines, they they're just no serious consequences a lot
1:53:24
Speaker 8: of times for some of the garbage they keep pulling.
1:53:27
Speaker 1: Well, I gotta imagine this happened, was this would happen
1:53:29
Speaker 1: more often, considering you know, the restrictions on alcohol consumptions
1:53:33
Speaker 1: on planes, and you can't buy like nine drinks. So
1:53:35
Speaker 1: people load up ahead of time and then get on
1:53:37
Speaker 1: the plane because well, some people are stressed out overflying,
1:53:40
Speaker 1: and I can certainly understand that, but this is an
1:53:43
Speaker 1: FAA rule regarding the regarding an existing obligation on airlines
1:53:49
Speaker 1: to prevent drunks from getting on the plane. They I
1:53:51
Speaker 1: mean they knew about this ahead of time.
1:53:53
Speaker 8: Yeah, Because if you see somebody acting in a certain behavior,
1:53:57
Speaker 8: it's it's it is the responsibility the airline to try
1:54:00
Speaker 8: to keep those kinds of problems off off of a
1:54:04
Speaker 8: flight that could create a safety issue or a diverted flight,
1:54:07
Speaker 8: or something else that might happen on board an aircraft
1:54:09
Speaker 8: because you know, you can never say to somebody, you know,
1:54:13
Speaker 8: you appear to be intoxicated, I'm not going to let
1:54:15
Speaker 8: you on the flight. You can say that they appear
1:54:17
Speaker 8: to be under the influence of something that's causing them
1:54:19
Speaker 8: to act this, or that it could be medication, it
1:54:21
Speaker 8: could be a whole bunch of other things that make
1:54:24
Speaker 8: people act in a certain way. Somebody may have spilled
1:54:26
Speaker 8: a drink on them that they smell like alcohol, but
1:54:28
Speaker 8: maybe not had a drink at all, and it's just
1:54:31
Speaker 8: a change in medication that's causing them to act in
1:54:33
Speaker 8: a certain way. So, but the FAA is saying the
1:54:37
Speaker 8: airlines are responsible for making sure that you don't have
1:54:40
Speaker 8: a problem getting on an airplane, and they had so
1:54:42
Speaker 8: many of these in that twelve month period of time.
1:54:44
Speaker 8: That's one of the reasons that the find was proposed.
1:54:47
Speaker 8: And I can't recall ever that we've had the FAA
1:54:50
Speaker 8: do this. I'm sure that they have. But keep in mind,
1:54:52
Speaker 8: these gate agents, a lot of them are short staffed.
1:54:55
Speaker 8: You've got a short window, you are under an incredible
1:54:58
Speaker 8: pressure to dispatch that silver revenue tube on time. And
1:55:01
Speaker 8: oh yeah, by the way, I've got to stop and
1:55:03
Speaker 8: look at every passenger comes on board to make sure
1:55:05
Speaker 8: they're walking straight. Sometimes that's asking a bit much of
1:55:08
Speaker 8: them given some of the conditions that we see, at
1:55:11
Speaker 8: least in today's airports.
1:55:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I would think out of it about it's
1:55:13
Speaker 1: a caution for fear that there might be some repercussions
1:55:16
Speaker 1: against the airline for erroneously flagging someone that they got
1:55:19
Speaker 1: to tread lightly and actually telling someone they can't get
1:55:22
Speaker 1: on the plane.
1:55:23
Speaker 8: We went through tons of training on just how to
1:55:25
Speaker 8: address that specific conversation, let alone to carry it out.
1:55:29
Speaker 1: Well, let's bring Jay Ratliff back other interesting topics, including
1:55:32
Speaker 1: Europe doing something that Jay Ratliff has been advocating here
1:55:35
Speaker 1: on our segment for as long as we've been fifty
1:55:37
Speaker 1: five KRC the Talk station. Have you ever been in
1:55:40
Speaker 1: a cockpit before? Jay Ratliff hass He's I heard be
1:55:43
Speaker 1: the aviation expert that we get the pleasure of his
1:55:45
Speaker 1: company every Thursday beginning at eight thirty for a few
1:55:48
Speaker 1: segments talking about aviation. Is Jay Rattler pivoting over? Hey,
1:55:51
Speaker 1: at least Europe listen to you?
1:55:54
Speaker 8: Well, I mean the idea of consequences for your actions
1:55:58
Speaker 8: on board a flight, I think is something that makes
1:56:01
Speaker 8: common sense. But you know, somebody acts up on a
1:56:04
Speaker 8: flight in the United States, especially when it's a physical altercation.
1:56:08
Speaker 8: You and I've talked about that so many times before,
1:56:10
Speaker 8: where somebody pushes a flight attendant, pushes a passenger, something
1:56:14
Speaker 8: like that, and they're banned from that airline for the
1:56:16
Speaker 8: rest of their life, as they should be, but then
1:56:19
Speaker 8: they can just skip down the counter to another airline
1:56:21
Speaker 8: and off they go. In Europe, they're saying, if you
1:56:24
Speaker 8: have somebody that is aggressively or has assaulted a passenger
1:56:30
Speaker 8: or a crew member, not only should you be banned
1:56:32
Speaker 8: on that airline, but all the European carriers.
1:56:35
Speaker 6: Now.
1:56:35
Speaker 8: I don't know if it's for a period of time
1:56:37
Speaker 8: or if it's a lifetime ban, but certainly I think,
1:56:39
Speaker 8: you know, three years, two years, five years, something. The
1:56:42
Speaker 8: problem is airlines would then be required in the United
1:56:46
Speaker 8: States here to create this database, to share this database,
1:56:50
Speaker 8: and it would take time, energy, money, and they're not
1:56:53
Speaker 8: going to do it because the airlines are cheap. I
1:56:55
Speaker 8: remember when the pandemic was coming around, the government was
1:56:59
Speaker 8: asking for the air lines help in the establishing lists
1:57:03
Speaker 8: of passengers on certain flights so that they can provide
1:57:06
Speaker 8: to the CDC information on anybody that might have been
1:57:09
Speaker 8: impacted or coming from a specific area, and the airline
1:57:12
Speaker 8: said no, it would cost too much money. These are
1:57:14
Speaker 8: the same airlines where the executives pull hamstrings, running to
1:57:17
Speaker 8: the microphones talking about how much they care and how
1:57:21
Speaker 8: safeties are number one concerned and how blah blah blah blah.
1:57:24
Speaker 8: But no, no, no, no, no no. If that were
1:57:26
Speaker 8: the case, actions would actually support those kinds of claims,
1:57:29
Speaker 8: which far too often.
1:57:31
Speaker 1: Do not true. But I mean, we do have no
1:57:34
Speaker 1: fly list. I mean lists are created all the time.
1:57:36
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem to be a big ask. You got
1:57:38
Speaker 1: a person who's obviously identified that airline itself can ban
1:57:42
Speaker 1: and does ban individuals from flying. Ever, again, let's say
1:57:46
Speaker 1: just have them share the information like a central database.
1:57:50
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like that huge of an ask. Jay,
1:57:54
Speaker 1: It's not.
1:57:54
Speaker 8: But it requires effort, money and time. And airlines have
1:57:58
Speaker 8: pushed back on this from the thing that is just
1:58:03
Speaker 8: blowing more brain cells than I can afford to lose.
1:58:06
Speaker 8: Is aren't you caring enough about your employees that you
1:58:09
Speaker 8: would want to keep somebody that has assaulted? I mean,
1:58:13
Speaker 8: what happens if somebody assaults a passenger because of too
1:58:16
Speaker 8: much to drink or whatever on one flight, gets on
1:58:19
Speaker 8: another flight and critically injures a passenger or another flight attendant.
1:58:23
Speaker 8: I would just think from the legal standpoint of wouldn't
1:58:27
Speaker 8: we like to prevent us from being liable for something,
1:58:31
Speaker 8: that there would be a lot more consideration on what
1:58:34
Speaker 8: you can do. But airlines have resisted this, and even
1:58:38
Speaker 8: in Europe they're talking about some of the legal hoops
1:58:40
Speaker 8: are going to have to jump through may make this
1:58:42
Speaker 8: an impossible task. But the idea that there's consequences for
1:58:46
Speaker 8: those kinds of actions, and again during the pandemic, we
1:58:49
Speaker 8: talked about this, but a lot of those were just
1:58:52
Speaker 8: over verbal disputes and disagreements and you know, those kinds
1:58:56
Speaker 8: of things. But when it comes to assault, totally different
1:58:59
Speaker 8: ball game, and I should have totally different consequences.
1:59:02
Speaker 1: Amen, brother, I share that all day long, all right.
1:59:05
Speaker 1: Pivoting back one more, the force retirement age for pilots.
1:59:09
Speaker 1: This issue, I guess has come up again. We've talked
1:59:11
Speaker 1: about this one before too, Jay.
1:59:12
Speaker 8: Ratley, Well, during the you know the shortage of pilots
1:59:16
Speaker 8: and the things that we saw with the pandemic, and everything.
1:59:20
Speaker 8: It was recognized that we need more pilots and we're
1:59:22
Speaker 8: forcing them to retire at sixty five. And a lot
1:59:24
Speaker 8: of these men and women are in great shape, and
1:59:26
Speaker 8: yet we're forcing them and their experience out of the
1:59:30
Speaker 8: flight deck and that's really become a problem. So we
1:59:33
Speaker 8: thought that the easiest thing to do would be, you know,
1:59:36
Speaker 8: and Lindsey Graham was trying to really push this a
1:59:38
Speaker 8: number of years ago, simply raised the retirement age from
1:59:42
Speaker 8: mandatory sixty five to sixty seven. It used to be
1:59:45
Speaker 8: sixty from the nineteen fifties, and in two thousand and
1:59:48
Speaker 8: seven that was pushed to sixty five. And I think
1:59:51
Speaker 8: now sixty seven would be great, but a lot of
1:59:53
Speaker 8: the airlines are resisting it. The Airlines Union is resisting it,
2:00:00
Speaker 8: really and I don't understand why. So it's got to happen.
2:00:04
Speaker 8: And I and now we're seeing more bipartisan support for this,
2:00:08
Speaker 8: and Brian, I'm really holding out hope here that something's
2:00:11
Speaker 8: good is going to happen because what we have are
2:00:13
Speaker 8: seeing far, far, far too often is that we have
2:00:17
Speaker 8: experienced pilots that were kicking out the door that could
2:00:20
Speaker 8: do the job. I think for another five years. But
2:00:22
Speaker 8: at least if we raised it from sixty five to
2:00:24
Speaker 8: sixty seven, it would allow us to you know, slow
2:00:28
Speaker 8: down some of the understaffing that's taking place right now
2:00:32
Speaker 8: with a pilot shortage.
2:00:33
Speaker 1: Well, I guess it seems to me to be well,
2:00:37
Speaker 1: it's this, this this issue suggests that the pilots themselves,
2:00:41
Speaker 1: I would hope, are regularly subjected to some sort of
2:00:44
Speaker 1: medical tests, the cognitive tests to make sure throughout their flying,
2:00:47
Speaker 1: whether they're thirty years old or sixty five, that they
2:00:50
Speaker 1: have the wherewithal to fly the plane.
2:00:52
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, they have their you know, their their physicals
2:00:57
Speaker 8: that they go through and you have to prove that
2:00:59
Speaker 8: you are fit physically mentally to fly and where you go. Now,
2:01:04
Speaker 8: sometimes we're a little soft on the mental side of
2:01:07
Speaker 8: the evaluations, but it's still there. It's still something that's
2:01:10
Speaker 8: in the process. But it's easy for us to do that,
2:01:13
Speaker 8: and I don't see it as being a problem. But
2:01:18
Speaker 8: for some reason, there's been so much pushback from the
2:01:20
Speaker 8: lobbying group with with airlines that this thing is really
2:01:23
Speaker 8: never pardoned me gotten off the ground. And it makes
2:01:26
Speaker 8: no sense to me because it solves a lot of problems.
2:01:30
Speaker 8: Plus it allows us to maintain a lot more experience
2:01:33
Speaker 8: on the flight deck because we're bringing in a lot
2:01:35
Speaker 8: of really young pilots. So you know, there's just nothing
2:01:39
Speaker 8: about it that I don't think is an issue. But
2:01:42
Speaker 8: you know, hopefully we'll wake up one day and we'll
2:01:45
Speaker 8: actually see this, you know, initiated where we've got pilots
2:01:49
Speaker 8: that are going to be able to fly past the
2:01:51
Speaker 8: you know six age.
2:01:52
Speaker 3: Of sixty five.
2:01:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, as we go into the next break here,
2:01:56
Speaker 1: I just have to observe you. I guess there was
2:01:58
Speaker 1: some physician up and wash in DC that gave Joe
2:02:01
Speaker 1: Biden clean bill of health and we all know how
2:02:03
Speaker 1: well that went out. Anyhow, Jay Ratlift, don't go away.
2:02:06
Speaker 1: We've got a couple issues with United and some wake
2:02:09
Speaker 1: turbulence injuring some people. So we'll hear from eighty eight
2:02:15
Speaker 1: here fifty five krcdtalk station Brian Thomas with iHeartMedia aviation
2:02:18
Speaker 1: expert Jay Rattle. Pivoting over artificial intelligence in the airline world,
2:02:23
Speaker 1: most notably United Airlines, I guess is using AI to
2:02:26
Speaker 1: upgrade their systems to deal with delayed and canceled flights.
2:02:30
Speaker 1: This is a positive use of AI, Jay I think.
2:02:33
Speaker 8: So, they've got something called every Flight as a Story.
2:02:37
Speaker 8: It's a program using artificial intelligence to keep passengers updated
2:02:43
Speaker 8: on delays to their flight. And the thought is we
2:02:47
Speaker 8: can provide this in a timely fashion. It gives passengers
2:02:50
Speaker 8: the opportunity, sometimes quickly to change the reservation to another option,
2:02:55
Speaker 8: so that saves their connection. But what they want to
2:02:57
Speaker 8: do now is enhance that even more so that you
2:03:01
Speaker 8: can communicate not only that there's a delay. Maybe it's
2:03:04
Speaker 8: a mechanical