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55KRC Thursday Show - Cong Davidson, Jonathan Pearson, Vivek, Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: 505-55KRC, the talk station. Friday evening.
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  Speaker 2: I had no idea what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? Neither do I. I appreciate that sound bite.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Strecker, executive producer. My name is Brian Thomas, host
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  Speaker 1: of the program, which is 55 KRC Morning Show. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a placeholder. Somebody else will follow me and do the
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  Speaker 1: 55 KRC Morning Show, just like I follow my father
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  Speaker 1: doing the 55 KRC Morning Show. It's not the Brian
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Show. It's the Morning Show. And good morning. Coming
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  Speaker 1: up with the 55 KRC Morning Show. 705 with Congressman
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  Speaker 1: Warren Davidson. How is his campaign going? I can only
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  Speaker 1: presume it's going well. It's one of the few ones
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  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about. See, and I say that out
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  Speaker 1: loud and hell, I might wake up next Wednesday and go,
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  Speaker 1: what in the heck has happened here? Yeah, we need
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  Speaker 1: to get out and vote. And will anything be done
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  Speaker 1: in the lame duck session of Congress? I know Congressman
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  Speaker 1: Massey's presented that new bill allowing farmers to actually slaughter
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  Speaker 1: cattle on their property. No big deal to me. I
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  Speaker 1: think that'd be great. There's a lot of reasons for that.
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  Speaker 1: Why do we have the current system we have in place?
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  Speaker 1: And the question that was posed on that one, apparently
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  Speaker 1: you're allowed to slaughter up to 20,000 chickens on your
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  Speaker 1: property if you're a farmer, but you can't slaughter any
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  Speaker 1: beef at all. So what's with it? And I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a great illustration of the stupidity of regulations. And
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  Speaker 1: the proposed bill, too, this was great because his proposal
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  Speaker 1: is to allow up to 25 cows. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was 25. The number really doesn't matter. It's the specific number, though,
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  Speaker 1: that's the point. Would allow up to 25 cows to
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  Speaker 1: be slaughtered annually on a property. Someone asked the legitimate question,
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  Speaker 1: which is one I would ask, what's 25? Why not 26?
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  Speaker 1: whose sphincter did 25 come from, and why is it
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  Speaker 1: limited at that, or why isn't it fewer or more?
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  Speaker 1: These are all legitimate questions, which pushes me over to the,
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  Speaker 1: why in the hell are people prevented from doing that anyway? Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that's Davidson. I don't know that we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: to Congressman Davidson about that particular piece of legislation, but
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  Speaker 1: it is one that is out there and could be
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  Speaker 1: addressed and dealt with before the new session of Congress.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see if Congressman Davidson has any bills floating
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  Speaker 1: around there that he's behind. We can get done before
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  Speaker 1: the next term. Jonathan Pearson, of course, he's a candidate
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  Speaker 1: for the county commissioner's position. I hope you know that.
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  Speaker 1: He is Republican running for county commissioner here in Hamilton County.
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  Speaker 1: And Vivek Ramaswamy, he is running for governor of the
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  Speaker 1: state of Ohio. Vote Vivek Ramaswamy. He'll be on at
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  Speaker 1: 8.05 to talk about that. I think he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be back on tomorrow, maybe even. All the opportunity in
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  Speaker 1: the world to give Vivek on the program, explain, and
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  Speaker 1: some updates on what's going on here in Ohio with
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  Speaker 1: Amy Acton as well, and that stupid ad that's dominated
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  Speaker 1: the conversation. Distraction? Absolutely. Being Friday Eve, Jay Ratliff. Got
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  Speaker 1: a great list of topics with Jay Ratliff, as we
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  Speaker 1: always do with iHeartMedia Aviation Expert. Ending the show on Thursdays, 8.30. Tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: Tech Friday with Dave Hatter and Jack Windsor from the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio Press Network. So good stuff, good stuff. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Strecker. Well, look, fast approaching election day. Get this
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  Speaker 1: one real quick. Last week to vote early for next
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday's general election. Here are the rules. So you can
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  Speaker 1: no longer request an absentee ballot. That was Tuesday of
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  Speaker 1: this week. Have to mail that ballot in. Make sure
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  Speaker 1: you put two stamps on it if you're doing the
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  Speaker 1: mail-in ballot. And it better damn well be in before
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  Speaker 1: to the Board of Elections. You're best off. The ballots
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  Speaker 1: mailed have to be received by the Board of Elections
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  Speaker 1: by close of polls on Election Day in order to
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  Speaker 1: be counted. Now, here's your question. Are you going to
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  Speaker 1: rely on the United States postal system to deliver that
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  Speaker 1: ballot on time? If you're really interested in having your
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  Speaker 1: vote counted, I would say the answer to that is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely not. But if you do want to mail it, remember,
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  Speaker 1: two stamps, $ 1. 11 in postage, two forever stamps is what
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  Speaker 1: it takes to get it mailed from point A to
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  Speaker 1: point B. But if you want to make sure it's
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  Speaker 1: on time, drop it off at the Board of Elections
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  Speaker 1: drop-off box, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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  Speaker 1: And somebody can answer the question, is there a camera
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  Speaker 1: on that? Because you're not allowed to ballot stuff or
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  Speaker 1: stuff the ballot box with other people's ballots? If you
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  Speaker 1: plan on handing in a family member or person with
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  Speaker 1: disabilities ballot, you have to do it in the main
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  Speaker 1: office of the Board of Elections during business hours. And
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  Speaker 1: then you also have to complete a ballot delivery attestation.
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  Speaker 1: Simply dropping it off is insufficient. Okay, early vote center hours.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday through the, let's see, 28th to the 30th, that
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  Speaker 1: will be today, tomorrow, 7.30 a.m., 7.30 p.m. This Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, it's open 1 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: to 5 p.m. That is the last day of early voting.
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  Speaker 1: No voting on Monday. Then you can show up on
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday if you waited. So Deputy Director Sam beat the crowds.
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  Speaker 1: Vote early this election. Early voting, a quick and easy
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  Speaker 1: way to cast your ballot on your own schedule. The
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  Speaker 1: world's an imperfect place. Screws fall out. Election Day may
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  Speaker 1: present some challenges for you, so there's still an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to make sure it actually happens. And, of course, one
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  Speaker 1: of the critical things we need to think about judicial races,
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  Speaker 1: I know I've talked about it a lot, but it's important.
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  Speaker 1: We've only got a few more days left, and here's
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  Speaker 1: maybe a reason why. I'm talking a lot about Judge
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  Speaker 1: Bloom's juvenile court and how terrible things are and how
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  Speaker 1: she runs a very, well, I was going to say
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  Speaker 1: loose ship, at least insofar as holding juveniles accountable for
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  Speaker 1: their crimes and especially ones that end up in front
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  Speaker 1: of her repeated times, only to get yet another slap
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  Speaker 1: on the wrist or release into the general public. Bad
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  Speaker 1: things have been happening. Bad things are well documented with
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  Speaker 1: these recidivist juveniles going on to commit big boy crimes, murders,
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  Speaker 1: for example. And then ultimately they become adults. And then
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  Speaker 1: Judge Bloom no longer has control over their destiny because
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  Speaker 1: they're now in big boy court. Springfield Township Police Department
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  Speaker 1: reported that an 18-year-old's been arrested, charged with murder. Police
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  Speaker 1: responded to the South Meadows Circle on Tuesday for an
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  Speaker 1: intrusion alarm. Got there, officers found a man, 66-year-old Rodney Gray,
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  Speaker 1: dead inside the home. An investigation led to the arrest
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  Speaker 1: of 18-year-old Caden Hotchkiss of Cincinnati. Now, the police are
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  Speaker 1: still looking for your help. If you've got any information
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  Speaker 1: related to this, give them a shout. 18-year-old Caden Hotchkiss,
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  Speaker 1: pivoting over to Signal 99, has been talking about this
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  Speaker 1: a lot and who's documented a multitude of cases analogous
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  Speaker 1: to this. And I always take her to work. She
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  Speaker 1: comes with the receipt. She gets the information from reliable sources. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Well, she also points out up front that
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  Speaker 1: this arrest for the stabbing of the 66-year-old, well, it
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  Speaker 1: was a flock camera that pinged the suspect's location because
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  Speaker 1: he stole the victim's Mercedes and was tooling around town
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  Speaker 1: on it. So her shot against people who hate flock cameras, yes,
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  Speaker 1: flock once again helped catch a murderer. But putting that aside.
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  Speaker 1: Had a juvenile record of aggravated arson and aggravated burglary.
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  Speaker 1: She also says, in a violent temper, one of Bloom's
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  Speaker 1: magistrates put him back on the street. Caden got a gun,
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  Speaker 1: then put five bullets through a rival's living room window.
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  Speaker 1: She says, not sure what charges Caden faced for that,
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  Speaker 1: but more if Bloom even allowed Caden to be charged.
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  Speaker 1: But they kept giving him a pass, even let him
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  Speaker 1: go to Florida. She says he escaped that home as well.
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  Speaker 1: I escaped. Prosecutors consistently requested that he be sent to
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  Speaker 1: a Department of Youth Services because he was a violent offender.
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  Speaker 1: Those requests refused by the juvenile court. They ignored the
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  Speaker 1: evidence and the detective. Kaden put in the Lighthouse Youth
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  Speaker 1: Division facility rather than the Department of Youth Services and
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  Speaker 1: he quote-unquote escaped from Lighthouse last year and in August
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  Speaker 1: of 2025. CPD issued a runaway alert for this young man.
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  Speaker 1: And then he went and got a gun and killed
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  Speaker 1: this guy, allegedly. Now, again, he's now an adult, so
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  Speaker 1: out of the reach of juvenile court. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I know I think the common police court in dealing
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  Speaker 1: with adults is a little bit more, well, Thoughtful in
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  Speaker 1: handing out sentencing and holding violent offenders accountable, more so, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: than the juvenile court. I mean, there are still some
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  Speaker 1: leftist judges in Hamilton County Common Police Court, but in
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  Speaker 1: the final analysis, finally, I guess, society would be protected
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  Speaker 1: from this kid. Juvenile court had an opportunity to get
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  Speaker 1: him into the system and maybe get him some help,
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  Speaker 1: maybe get him into one of those classes that are
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  Speaker 1: offered over at the Department of Youth Services, like education.
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  Speaker 1: maybe violence, dealing with your violent tendencies, maybe a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of counseling to work through anger management issues. These
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  Speaker 1: are all the things you're supposed to be doing over there.
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  Speaker 1: I think that environment would have been far better than
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  Speaker 1: letting him out and letting him continue to commit crimes,
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  Speaker 1: which is clearly what he did. The system in this
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  Speaker 1: particular case failed everyone, most notably the late 66-year-old Rodney Gray. 513-749-5500-800-823-TALK.
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• 10:00
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• 10:16
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  Speaker 1: all about, 55KRC. iHeart. com. Let us see here. Oh, and why
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  Speaker 1: not move away from politics just for a minute?
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  Speaker 4: Because the.
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  Speaker 1: Fulfillment probably would be categorized as one of my worst
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  Speaker 1: nightmares and something I would never consider doing. Because he
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  Speaker 1: asked me if I thought it was a good idea
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  Speaker 1: to choose this path as a place to live in
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  Speaker 1: retirement or even as a remote worker. Living on a
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  Speaker 1: cruise ship is probably the least appealing option on the planet.
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  Speaker 1: I've been on one cruise in my life. I intend
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  Speaker 1: on going on no more. Never. It just stuck on
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  Speaker 1: a boat is not my idea of a good time.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I'm tired of doing whatever is available on
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  Speaker 1: the boat because I'm not a gambler. There's only so
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  Speaker 1: much you can drink. And I'm not interested in a
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  Speaker 1: feeding trough that is, even though the food is pretty
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  Speaker 1: decent on a boat, cruise ship food. Some people go
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  Speaker 1: on them just because it's unlimited food. That is not me.
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  Speaker 1: So there's really no draw there. Plus I'd like a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of control over where I'm going and when
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  Speaker 1: I'm going. I was on a boat. I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: the shore. We're up in Alaska doing the inside passions cruise.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I want to go over there in my head.
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  Speaker 1: And of course you can't. Oh, we'll be docking tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I'm stuck for a full day before I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: get my feet on dry land. I've got no control
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  Speaker 1: over it. So the, all these reasons. And then I
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  Speaker 1: would be thinking of the floating Petri dishes that are
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  Speaker 1: cruises and all the times that people have gotten sick.
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  Speaker 1: Vast numbers of people on cruises gotten sick. I remember
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  Speaker 1: the cruise where the toilets backed up and there was
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  Speaker 1: no toilet facilities. Just one thing after another. Living on
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  Speaker 1: one all year long forever?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: And guess what happens if you do that? Well, the
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  Speaker 1: world's an imperfect place. The price of fuel goes up.
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  Speaker 1: And then your cruise ship says, sorry, we can no
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  Speaker 1: longer operate. Find a way home. from Cambodia. It was
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  Speaker 1: about $ 100, 000 was the base minimum, roughly, for people to
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  Speaker 1: get on this boat called the Odyssey to live. They
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  Speaker 1: bought cabins for, again, a years-long voyage around the world,
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  Speaker 1: although there was a number, I mean, you could buy
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  Speaker 1: it for a shorter period of time, but a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people bought into this to just live on the
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  Speaker 1: boat and float around and go to places all over
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  Speaker 1: the world. Apparently, they stopped in more than 60 countries.
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  Speaker 1: It's been out floating around since October of 2024. However,
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  Speaker 1: as a consequence of the unknown variables of the world,
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  Speaker 1: the Iran conflict, with the price of oil going through
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  Speaker 1: the roof, left the vessel struggling to pay for or
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  Speaker 1: even secure fuel. So it was just this week, Monday morning,
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  Speaker 1: they got a message when they woke up, the passengers,
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  Speaker 1: that unfortunately we were unable to secure the fuel necessary
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  Speaker 1: to continue operations. As a result, Odyssey will enter a
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  Speaker 1: temporary layup this afternoon. giving the passengers until 2 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: that day to leave the ship in this port town
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  Speaker 1: in Cambodia and find your own way home. Journalist talking
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  Speaker 1: to a guy named Johan Boden, a Swedish-born carpenter living
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  Speaker 1: on the Odyssey with his girlfriend. They've been on there
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  Speaker 1: for two years, and he's been posting the video of
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  Speaker 1: his antics and his trip on YouTube. Hey, here it is.
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  Speaker 1: They paid $ 100, 000 for, and here's the other component that
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't appeal to me at all, for a 144-square-foot cabin.
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  Speaker 1: That's a little tight. I love my wife, but, you know, well,
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  Speaker 1: you've got all the boat to walk around on. There's
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  Speaker 1: space out there. How much time are you going to
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  Speaker 1: spend in your cabin? Well, if it's 144 square feet,
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  Speaker 1: not much, but I would like a little bit more. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: get a load of this. So you pay $ 100, 000. You
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  Speaker 1: get 144 square feet. Then it's a $ 3, 500 monthly maintenance fee,
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  Speaker 1: but wait. That can go up. And guess what?
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  Speaker 3: It did.
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  Speaker 1: So you got the maintenance fee, three meals a day,
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  Speaker 1: twice weekly laundry, Wi-Fi, housekeeping, and a two, count them, one,
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  Speaker 1: two alcoholic drinks with lunch and dinner. Beyond that, you
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  Speaker 1: pay for more. So Bowdoin, this guy that bought into this,
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  Speaker 1: said the company, Villa V, guaranteed at least 15 to
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  Speaker 1: 20 years worth of sailing for the residents. That's a
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  Speaker 1: long time. Bill Lee said in 2024 the Odyssey was 85% sold,
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  Speaker 1: but the passengers said, no way. There's no way it
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  Speaker 1: ever came close to reaching maximum occupancy, which was 650 passengers.
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  Speaker 1: Then the price of shipping fuel jumped through the roof
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  Speaker 1: as a consequence of the war. I guess in other factors, too.
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  Speaker 1: Passengers were then asked for a $ 6, 000 one-time payment to
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  Speaker 1: keep sailing, which is comparable to your timeshare thing. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, we're going to have a monthly fee here.
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  Speaker 1: An assessment. You have no control over that. So there's
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  Speaker 1: another variable that would keep me from going down this road.
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  Speaker 1: Then they raise the monthly service fee for new passengers
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  Speaker 1: to just shy of $ 9, 000 monthly. In a video posted Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: this Bowdoin guy on his blog, Residential Cruising, number of
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  Speaker 1: passengers apparently dropped to around 200 from 350 at its peak.
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  Speaker 1: Bill LeVit, in a statement earlier this week, said the
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  Speaker 1: monthly fuel expense had risen to between $ 6, 000 and.
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  Speaker 3: $ 8, 000.
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  Speaker 1: Per cabin, up from what was $ 1, 800. In their announcement,
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  Speaker 1: the company cannot simply pass an increase of that scale
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  Speaker 1: onto residents, and the resulting shortfall has placed its current
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  Speaker 1: operating model under unsustainable financial pressure. And then there's that.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I'm not suggesting prescient, with the exception of the
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  Speaker 1: fuel price going through the roof. I think all the
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  Speaker 1: other illustrations or problems that I identified up front, again,
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  Speaker 1: make me think that my choice in never, ever considering
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  Speaker 1: something like that is probably an accurate one. You draw
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  Speaker 1: your own conclusions. I'm entitled to mine, but I just
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  Speaker 1: don't get cruises. 525, 55KRC, the talk station. A little
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  Speaker 1: non-political diversionary tactic right there. Don't go away. Local stories
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  Speaker 1: will save me from having to come up with some
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  Speaker 1: other topic, or you can call Then we get to
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  Speaker 1: Stack is Stupid.
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  Speaker 5: Be right back.
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  Speaker 3: Have you heard the news?
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  Speaker 4: A midterm prediction.
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  Speaker 1: From Trump.
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  Speaker 3: 529.
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  Speaker 5: Friday Eve.
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  Speaker 1: Local stories. Oh, Joe Strucker said that Amy Acton was
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  Speaker 1: over the line, you said, Joe? You said Fox 19
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  Speaker 1: had video of it? Joe was wondering out loud to me,
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  Speaker 1: he said, do you know if the acting campaign approved
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  Speaker 1: of that? Did they get permission to videotape her? Because
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I know she's got some strict rules about getting filmed, photographed,
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  Speaker 1: strict rules about answering questions, which is I will not
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  Speaker 1: answer any. Of course, she won't debate.
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  Speaker 5: Right. Right.
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  Speaker 1: One person shot in Walnut Hills happened Tuesday evening since
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  Speaker 1: a police spokesperson, Brad Underwood, talking about this the other day,
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  Speaker 1: 945 p.m., 400 block of East McMillan Street. Police got there.
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  Speaker 1: They found one person with a gunshot wound, he said,
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  Speaker 1: a victim taken to the hospital for treatment. The last
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: reporting on it, Fox 19, said condition unknown. Joe Strecker,
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  Speaker 1: update this morning, fatal. That person is now dead. No
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  Speaker 1: details given about the suspect, but the spokesperson said the
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  Speaker 1: shooting was an isolated incident. Nothing to see here. Isolated incident.
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  Speaker 1: One person airlifted to the hospital after being hit by
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  Speaker 1: a vehicle yesterday. Hamilton Butler County Dispatch confirmed Main Street
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  Speaker 1: near the intersection of D Street and downtown Hamilton. Police
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: scanner indicated that a pedestrian was hit around 10.30 p.m.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Four minutes later, police said the victim was unresponsive underneath
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: the vehicle.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Jeez.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Victim taken to Kettering Hospital via air flight. Condition unknown
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: at this time. Driver involved. Stayed at the scene. Which is,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: of course, what you're supposed to do. Five-year-old Covedale Elementary
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: School student was dropped off at the wrong bus stop
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: and was missing for more than two hours, the family said.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Young girl walked about a mile all alone across the street,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: chased by a dog, the family said, and they're wondering
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: what in the hell is going on here. Jalessa Caesar
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: and her sister Anastasia rode the bus from school for
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the first time on October 13th. They ride separate buses,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: it's reported. Anastasia dropped off on time. Jalessa, however, never
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: arrived at her designated stop at the Boys and Girls
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Club in Price Hill, according to her stepmother, Valerie Conner,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: speaking with Fox 19. So Conner started making calls, said
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: she was first told Jalessa's bus was running behind. She
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: said 2.36 was the drop-off time. 2.36 came and went
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: and there was no Jalessa. Finally got someone who informed
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: me that the bus driver was three to four minutes away.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Three to four minutes came and passed. Ten minutes came
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: and passed. Still no Jalessa. Connor said that after a
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: lot of back and forth, she learned that Jalessa had
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: been dropped off at the wrong stop, 4200 block of
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Delridge Drive. She walked away from that area. Connor said
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: she was missing again for more than a couple of hours.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: connor said she told us she was chased by a
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: dog so she ran and she didn't know where she
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: was going just running she ran when she no longer
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: saw the dog anymore she just kept walking Jalessa's parents
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: say a teacher found her at Pedretti and Mayhew Avenues
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: in Delhi Township, according to Apple Maps. A 21-minute walk,.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: 9 miles from where she was dropped off. Apparently she's
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: had some problems since then. Conner said she hopes changes
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: are made if something like this can't happen again. According
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: to the family, the school principal took part in the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: search for the child. Families said they're grateful for all that,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: but still want to know how in the hell this
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: mix-up happened. Since they had public schools in a statement,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: it was relieved the student was found District said the
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: bus driver released Jalessa at the wrong stop after confusing
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: her with another child and failing to follow required route
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: verification procedures. CPS said it communicated with the bus provider
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: and the provider promptly terminated the driver's employment. Well, Alex
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Trevinsky was on the stand yesterday. No, he was originally,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: you remember when this beatdown happened, Holly was almost killed.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: This trial was going on for Patrick Roseman, who the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: prosecutors claim is the one that was responsible for punching
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: her square in the face and almost ending her life
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: during the beatdown. Remember Alex Trevinsky, the Russian who a
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: lot of politicians at the time blamed for starting all
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: of this? Many politicians demanded that among the people arrested,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: there must be a white guy. You must arrest Alex Trevinsky.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: He's the one responsible for this, as if he forced
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: everyone to beat the living crap out of the surrounding people. Right,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: that guy. Described as a victim now. Testified yesterday in
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the trial of Patrick Rosman. Rosman, for his part, a
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: 39-year-old indicted on two counts of aggravated riot, three counts
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: each of assault and felonious assault. And the last defendant
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: in connection with this beatdown, the balance of them were
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: already processed and have either pleaded or otherwise processed. Their
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: cases have been adjudicated, and all of them did suffer
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: some fate. Now, you might call it insufficient in terms
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: of whether they were placed on probation, had to do
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: community service, but Mr. Roseman's the last one. Originally, police
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: charged Chervinsky with misdemeanor disorderly conduct, but municipal judge Dante
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Johnson dismissed the case earlier this year after the two
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: subpoenaed witnesses didn't bother showing up for trial, and that
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: was the third time the witnesses hadn't shown up. Guess
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: they weren't really interested in the Russian guy. And he
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: testified yesterday when Greg Nickel pointed to the guy that
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: hit him To the group of the people, he was asked,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I went to the group of guys and tried to
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: stand up for my older friend because I don't think
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: that's right. He said he was standing on the corner
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: of the street when all of a sudden somebody hit
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: me in the back of my head. Prosecutor asked him
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: whether he had any angry words toward anyone. He said, no,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: absolutely not. Trevinsky said he was trying to defend his
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: friends before he was hit. He said that he went
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: to a man, touched his face and said, stop it.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Would you like that? That's all I said, he said.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: And he said that was when he was struck again
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: in the back and everyone started circling and beat me up.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Defense attorney Mark Coleman asked Stravinsky whether people were saying
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: racist things toward him or about him. He said yes.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: When Stravinsky was asked if he said anything in return,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: he said no. And where did the claims that he
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: started this by uttering racist comments come from? Apparently, the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: prosecution and the defense, it's reported, were open to a
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: plea deal. If Roseman pleaded guilty to two counts of
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: felonious assault and one count of aggravated assault in the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: fourth degree, that would end the thing. Apparently, the victims
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: were talked to about this, including Holly, and they were
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: all in agreement that that was okay. Roseman, for his part,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: refused the plea deal, and ergo, the trial resumed. Wait
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: and see what's going to happen. Where is the accountability
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: for those people who are quick to rush to judgment
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: and want to crucify the Russians? Because we need to
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: charge a white guy. That sounds awfully racist to me. Well,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: it sounded racist at the time they were saying it, too. 536,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: stupid stack.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Coming up.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: 540 here at 55KRC Detox Station.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: 513-749-5500-800-823-TALK.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Did you know Joe Strecker does podcasts? Just a real
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: quick reminder. If you want to do a podcast. You
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: too could be wildly successful, Joe Strecker, doing the podcast editing.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: It's really good work that he does. You can stumble
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: around and fumble around, and when it comes out the
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: other side after Joe's editing on it, it all sounds really,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: really good. I know this for a fact because he
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: does that for me all the time. Anyhow, Joe Strecker,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: just call him up and ask him to do that.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: You do have to pay him, but it's a very
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: reasonable charge. Joe could use the work.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: How's that?
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Back to the Stack of the Stupid. This is kind
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: of crazy. We go back to last Friday in Amish
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: community in Salem, Indiana. According to probable cause documents, 53-year-old
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Malk walked up to a girl who was outside
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: her home and asked if her family sold any eggs.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: The girl told police she said no and walked away.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: According to the Washington County Sheriff's Department, Malk grabbed her
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and threatened her with a gun, telling her to get
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: into the car.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: What?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Officials said the girl's family heard her screaming and came
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: to the rescue. Court documents say the girl's father and
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: sons were able to restrain Malk while waiting for the
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: police to arrive. One of the responding officers said he
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: found a pair of black handcuffs lying on the ground
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: underneath Malk and could smell what he believed to be
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the odor of alcohol coming from Malk. Well, his belief
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: turned out to be true. According to court documents, Malk
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: admitted to having been drinking and then a chemical test
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: determined that he had a blood alcohol content of Two
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: nine two point two nine two. Yeah, that's liquored up.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: He's facing six charges, including attempted kidnapping and, of course,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: driving while intoxicated. But coming to the rescue of Malk's family,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: they believe he's been wrongfully charged. They interviewed his sister
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: and a hall. It's a huge misunderstanding, she said. Everything
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: that's being stated right now is very out of character
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: for what me and my family know. Now, sister and
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the brothers know that he wouldn't do anything like that.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Whatever.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: And here's what they say in support of their assertions. Well,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: at least his sister. This may be one of the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: reasons in the stack is stupid. He has a tattoo
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: of a blue, the blue bear. I'm reading the quote,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: mind you. This is not me stumbling over, which I
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: occasionally do. He has a tattoo of a blue, the
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: blue bear, because that's what he is. He is, you know,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: just not aggressive. Close quote.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Well, let's drop the charges then. I think she was
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: probably liquored up when she offered that excuse or explanation. Anyway,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Washington County Sheriff's Department called the incident, in their words,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: extremely disturbing. They also said it's thankful that this young
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: girl was able to get away and that her family
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: acted quickly. Sheriff's Department statements also said that anybody who
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: attempts to harm or abduct a child in Washington County...
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: will meet with serious consequences, including the full force of
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: law enforcement. Now, who can argue with.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: That?
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: But the blue bear, Joe.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: Phrasing.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: And the handcuffs were black, Joe.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the first.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, we always joke about the description of the gun.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: The gun was a black handgun. It was a silver handgun.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: Whatever.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Black handcuffs. Important fun fact. We go to Toledo, Ohio,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: where surveillance footage released by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: shows a person throwing, are you ready, a box of
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: cockroaches at a staff member. Why are you doing that?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: At the Kent Branch Library. It happened earlier this week.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Library spokesperson confirmed the throwing of the box of cockroaches
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: at the library worker. Not immediately shared what led up
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: to the cockroach attack. We may be without answer to
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the question. The library was said to have gone into
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: restricted access before closing the rest of the day for
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: cleanup and remediation. It opened the following day. That would
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: be just yesterday. Officials did not say whether anyone would
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: be facing any charges. So, we don't know why it happened,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: we don't know the circumstances, and we don't know what
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: the ultimate outcome is. But what we do know, it
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: made it to the stack of stupid because someone thought
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: it appropriate to throw a box of cockroaches. Question, where
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: does one obtain a box of cockroaches? Can you get
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: that at a bait store? You know, I heard tell,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: speaking of bait stores, college antics of one young man
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: and fraternity brothers who went to a bait store and
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: got a big bag full of, I believe it was crickets. And,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: you know, there are sororities up on Clifton and they
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: have mail slots on the front doors.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: Phrasing.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: So at night when the doors are locked, you know,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the mail slot still opens up and that's a big
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: enough slot there that you could put a bag full
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: of Crickets. Not that I ever saw that happen. 545-55-KRC,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: the talk station. QC Kinetics. That's right. QC Kinetics.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: Talk station.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: It is 5.15.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Station. Well, happy Friday Eve to you. Let's see. Return
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: to the stack is stupid. A headline with underwear on head. Yeah,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: that's going to make it into the stack is stupid.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: We go to, I think it's Brussels, while wearing underwear
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: on his head. As is tradition. It's like, okay, does
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: it really matter what this guy did? He had underwear
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: on his head, and it made national headlines. Man armed
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: with a knife attempted to rob a supermarket before stealing
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: a funeral company's vehicle and heading to Brussels to buy cocaine.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: As is tradition.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: A 36-year-old appeared in the court earlier this week regarding
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: a string of alleged offenses committed within the wee hours
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: of July 14th and 13th. According to prosecutors, requested an
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: 18-month prison sentence for these charges, including weapons offenses, attempted extortion, arson, assault,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: cocaine possession, and vehicle theft. extraordinary sequence of events from
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the city of Brandy. The man in question ended up
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: in a hospital after mixing prescription medication and alcohol. Feeling
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: that he was well enough and had been treated properly,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: he fled the hospital and went to his ex-partner's home. However,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: the man had been subjected to a restraining order from
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: the court prohibiting him from contacting her. Still intoxicated and
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: in a haze due to the medications, he ransacked the
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: apartment before coming across an old electric carving knife used
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: for slicing meat. He removed one of the blades and
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: decided to use it to rob a nearby market. Presumably
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: because he feared being recognized by closed-circuit TV cameras, he
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: put on a jumper to hide his tattoos and then
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: put underwear over his face to conceal his identity. Knife
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: in hand, he reportedly threatened a 16-year-old student working in
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: the supermarket checkout, allegedly told her that he knew where
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: she lived and would be coming to look for her.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Student worker, they said, stood her ground. Man eventually left
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: without any money. After leaving the market, he reportedly decided
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: to destroy evidence that might identify him, entered the communal
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: entrance hall of an apartment building, and set some of
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: his clothing on fire. That smoke spread.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Through the building.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: That's not over.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: The smoke from his burning clothes spread through the building,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: triggered the fire alarm, and forced the residents of the
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: building to evacuate. At that point, He took off again,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: this time trying door handles of various cars parked along
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the streets, stumbling upon a Mercedes Benz belonging to a
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: funeral home, which he claimed had been left with the
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: keys inside. Got in that vehicle, found bank cards inside,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: later using them to buy cigarettes at two gas stations,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: both of which were, in fact, equipped with closed-circuit TV cameras.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: That's when he drove to Brussels, heading to an area
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: where he could purchase cocaine After returning to the vehicle,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: he was then arrested and taken back to the police station.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Once in the holding station, he attempted to intimidate officers.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: That's when he was forcibly restrained and suffered a broken
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: leg in the process. Now here, of course, we'd immediately
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: make allegations of police brutality, just ignoring everything the guy
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: did up to that point. His lawyer said earlier this
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: week that his client was already facing 40 months in
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: prison as a result of previous sentences, even before any
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: punishment was imposed in a new case. Therefore, considered the
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: prosecution's request reasonable and asked the court not to impose
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: a harsher sentence. You got to wait for November 17th
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: when the court will deliver its final judgment. I'm not
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: having a whole lot of sympathy for this guy. Oh,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: and I don't have to go through the five-page article,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: single space. Woman 31 dies. After chat, GPT convinced her
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: it was a good idea to change medication dosages. You moron. Yeah,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: a woman was being treated for seizures through medication. Apparently,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: she died. Her parents, living in China, wondered why she
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: wasn't returning their phone calls. They had to contact somebody
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: to do a wellness check on her, which is really bizarre.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: When they did the wellness check, the person doing the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: check had a video feed going directly to this woman's
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: mom and dad at the time. So the video feed
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: allowed them to see their daughter dead in the Seattle apartment. Anyway,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: pro tip. I'm going to boil it all down. Don't
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: listen to JetGPT for advice on your pharmaceutical dosages. You
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: want to talk to your physician about that. Just saying
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: it might be a good idea. 555-55KRC-D Talk Station. Plenty
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: coming up. A 60, caught up on 606-55KRC-D Talk Station.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Happy Friday Eve. All geared up for Halloween. For at
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: least in our house, for the lone doorbell that will ring,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: leaving the Butterfinger Bowl all to me, although I don't
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: eat them really anymore. Try to cut back on sugar. Anyhow,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson coming up in one hour. How's the
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: campaign going? Anything going to get done in the lame
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: duck session between now and when the new folks are
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: sworn in? And really, what is the balance going to
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: look like after the election on Tuesday? I'm praying. I'm
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: praying and praying and praying. Jonathan Pearson, he's a good
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: candidate for county commissioner. He'll be on the program at
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: 730 to talk about that race and what he'll do
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: for the county. as the lone Republican on the county
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: commissioner board. Vivek Ramaswamy, running for governor. We'll talk about
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: him in just a minute. He'll be on at 8.05.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Give any more reasons to vote for him. And notably,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: the huge, golly, massive, massive difference between the qualifications between
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Ramaswamy and the lack of For Amy Acton, we'll get
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to that in just a second. Jay Ratliff, yes, it's Thursday,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Friday Eve. Jay Ratliff, iHeartMedia aviation expert, joins the show
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: every Thursday at 8.30, and he's going to do it today.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Got some good stuff, as always, to talk about with Jay.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: You can talk to me, too. I'd love to hear
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: from you. 513-749-5500, 800-823-TALK, pound 550 on AT & T phone.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Props to Barton Swaim over at the Wall Street Journal.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I thought he did a good job on this, breaking
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: down this Amy Acton ad, which has got everybody pulling
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: their hair out for reasons unknown. No, I know the reasons,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: because he points it out a little bit in his ad.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: It's just how unbelievably biased the media is. It's easy
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: to just say it, but then when you're faced with
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: this stark, stark bias in connection with the gubernatorial race
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: here in Ohio, it's just undeniable. Anyway, Barton Swain. Every
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: two years, the commentary writes, it wrings its hands about
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: a nasty attack ad. The hand-wringers tend not to deplore
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: or even notice the dirty ones aimed at candidates they
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: dislike and to exaggerate the meanness of the ads targeting
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: their favorites. I love this memory of this one that
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: he brought up. People my age will remember this. He
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: writes the National Security Political Action Committee's 1988 ad. Remember
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: this featuring Willie Horton? lives on in the liberal imagination
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: as the meanest thing ever done. Although it was neither racist,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: as often alleged, nor was it unfair, Mr. Horton, sentenced
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: to life in prison for murder, really did get a
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: weekend prison furlough in Mike Dukakis' Massachusetts, fled to Maryland,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: viciously attacked a couple, and repeatedly raped a woman. The
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Revolving Door ad with Willie Horton. If Vivek Ramaswamy wins
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: the Ohio governor's race, he writes, His despisers on the
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: left will blame the TV ad his campaign ran last week.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Much of the political class has spent the intervening days
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: conveying their disapproval of an ad featuring the mom of
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Vivek Ramaswamy's opponent, Amy Acton. He says more on that
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: in a moment. On Monday, an ad circulated on social
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: media intended to affect the Michigan Senate race, which Abdul
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: El-Sayed's polling neck and neck with Republican Mike Rogers. That
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: ad promoted online by left-wing influencer Cenk Uygur, expresses the,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: as Barton Swain puts it, the blame-the-Jews balderdash in terms
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: so crude that even Israeli fixated Mr. Al-Sayed declined to
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: embrace the ad, although he didn't criticize it. The ad
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: suggests illogically that Americans can't afford groceries because, well, the
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: United States sends so much money to Israel, which then
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: uses it for, quote, killing Palestinians, close quote. Yet this
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: work of lame brain propaganda didn't attract a tenth of
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: the outrage from the media gatekeepers that Mr. Ramaswamy's ad did.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: An unbiased observer might begin to think that outrage over
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: distasteful ads has more to do with partisan outcome than
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: moral import. Really, you think? Back to the Ohio race.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: He says the spot scandalizing everyone features Donna Arthur, Democratic
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: nominee's estranged mother, calling Ms. Acton a liar.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Ramaswamy makes a reasonable point when he notes a September
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Acton ad, which a guy named Norm says the Republicans
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: biotech company, quote, pushed an Alzheimer's drug that he knew
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: didn't work, close quote, and made, quote, hundreds of millions,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: close quote, off the scam. Untrue. Grossly unfair. But the
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: press didn't clutch pearls about that one. No, you didn't
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: read too much about that, did you? And they come
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: out screaming about it being an absolute outright lie. They
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: accused him of a crime, a pump and dub scheme.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Wasn't true. It isn't true. It's still out there.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: Hmm.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Still, Barton writes, as unfair ads go, the one starring Ms.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Acton's mom scores high. No normal person would take Ms.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Arthur for a truth teller. Now, this is where you
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: have to know the backstory. And this is where Brian
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Thomas finds himself. Because how could I find an ad
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: offensive if I don't know anything about what happened in
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Amy Acton's childhood? That's all the information that kind of
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: came out later. Our only astute observers going back to,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I guess, 2020 when that issue first came up remembered
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: And how widely was that reported? And does it have
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: any bearing on her qualifications for the governor's race? Anyway,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: backstory is critical to understand her even being critical of
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: the ad featuring Ms.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Arthur.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: That's my take. Of course, she's got a bad past.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Amy accused this woman's late ex-husband, or rather stepfather, rather,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: for abusing her when she was 12. He pleaded not guilty,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: then fled the scene. He didn't face prosecution. Both he
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: and Ms. Arthur convicted of felony theft in 1996, something
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: I also didn't know. And her stepfather's been dead since 2004.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: So with all that, and fine, you can go ahead
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: and point to that. But Barton suggests this. The ad
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: could have one of two effects. And I thought this
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: was an astute observation. Voters, helped by an enthusiastically pro-acting
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Ohio press, could find it disgusting and punish Mr. Ramaswamy
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: for lack of scruple. A plainly troubled elderly woman denouncing
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: her daughter as a liar isn't an easy sight to endure.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: But.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: voters can hold two thoughts at the same time. Some
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: significant minority, in other words, I think that's enough to
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: push Mr. Ramaswamy over the top in a neck-and-neck race.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: So a significant minority might very well conclude the ad
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: was done in poor taste, but also that it confirms
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: their suspicions that Ms. Acton has her own troubles and
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: perhaps isn't the ideal person to run the state. Most
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: of the Ohio press have shown a studied lack of curiosity.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: about Ms. Acton's background. But a few worrying details have
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: circulated at the same time. Governor Mike DeWine appointed her
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: to run the State Department of Health in 2019. She
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: resigned in June 11, 2020. That is about three months
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: into the COVID-19 pandemic. To put the matter bluntly, a
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: short time into the greatest leadership challenge of Ms. Acton's career,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: she quit. She later portrayed her decision to resign as
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: a principled one, taking because the legislature demanded the county
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: fairs be open, and she felt she couldn't sign off
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: on such a policy without violating her Hippocratic Oath. That
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: claim strains believability.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: Ms.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Acton remained employed as Mr. DeWine's chief health advisor for
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: two months after she quit her prior job. At the
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: time of her resignation, she blamed burnout. She didn't cite
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: a principled reason until The New Yorker ran a gushing
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: profile in late 2020. Some evidence suggests she didn't handle
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: the job with poise. Reports of her breaking down, for example,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: during the job in April, NBC News reported that in
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: August 2019, police were called to her Bexley, Ohio home
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: over a domestic dispute. The police report indicated that the
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: health director had pulled a mirror from the wall, shattering
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: the glass, and told the cops she'd been drinking and
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: had taken some unspecified sum of prescription drugs. No charges
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: were filed. The Acton campaign first disputed the police report.
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: Later, Ms.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Acton's husband, Eric, took the blame. The spokesman in June
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: described the episode as an ordinary argument that lots of
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: people can relate to. Good point, Barton. Few married couples
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: I know have had the police check in on their fights. Hmm,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: he said quarrels. All this seems a good deal more
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: relevant than what Ms. Acton's mom thinks of her. But
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: don't discount the possibility that Mr. Ramaswamy's head will suggest
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: to voters that his opponent has enough troubles in her
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: life without adding the duties of a governor. Which is
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: an excellent point. Is she really qualified for this job?
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I think the answer is a resounding hell no.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Hell no.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: She hasn't done much. Oh, and I guess it gets
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: worse than that in terms of what she has done.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Interesting article by Emily Kopp over at Daily Caller, I think.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: I can get the details on that, including her loan
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: research paper. You're going to find this hard to believe. 615-55-KRC-TheTalkStation. TheTalkStation.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: That is 620-55-KRC-TheTalkStation. Happy Friday. Can we go over to
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: the phones here? Yeah, Acton's campaign claims Ramaswamy's ad accused
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: her of lying about the childhood sexual abuse, and it
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: doesn't say anything about that. Even the left-wing ABC News
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: looked at the ad and said, no, it doesn't say
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: anything like that. Like I needed someone else to look
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: at it to confirm what the ad actually said.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: It didn't.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: They extrapolate that and then ignore the fact that Amy
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Acton's team, well, there was a guy in one of
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Ramaswamy's campaign ads. I don't think they had any idea.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: He was a background figure. Oh, look at that guy.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Wait a second. They dug up a 20-year-old conviction when
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: that guy was involved in minor family members. A conviction
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: involving minor family members and then put him and his
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: victims in a statewide spotlight.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: Huh.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: And then went on to accuse Ramasamy's campaign of weaponizing
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: sexual abuse, calling it grotesque.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: That one specifically said out loud that his campaign ad
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: had basically a molester in it. What about the trauma
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: for the victims in that particular case? Nothing to be
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: said on that. Not a word. Anyway, Carl, thanks for
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: calling this morning. Thanks for holding. Welcome to the program. Jamie, Bobby,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: hang on. Carl, good to hear from you.
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: Hey, good morning, Brian.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: Hey, I have a voter alert.
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: Regarding the upcoming election. If you live in St. Bernard, Madeira, Wyoming,
• 45:20
  Speaker 7: or Harrison, you are going to be voting on changing
• 45:22
  Speaker 7: your city charter. I would suggest that you read the
• 45:25
  Speaker 7: ballot language before you go to the voting booth. Many
• 45:27
  Speaker 7: of the changes appear to be housekeeping changes. However, some
• 45:30
  Speaker 7: changes raise my eyebrows.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: One, in St.
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: Bernard, the law director will no longer be elected.
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: The new person will be hired by the Municipal administrator, mayor,
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: and city council. Two, if you live in Harrison, I
• 45:44
  Speaker 7: can't tell you what the ballot language says because someone
• 45:47
  Speaker 7: did not provide the ballot language to the League of
• 45:49
  Speaker 7: Women Voters newspaper. Three, the city of Madeira wants to
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: modernize gender references and numerous other things such as changing
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: the planning commission's source of authority to include municipal legislation.
• 46:04
  Speaker 7: That's kind of interesting. Four, if you live in Wyoming.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: you will.
• 46:07
  Speaker 7: Be voting to replace gender-specific pronouns with gender-neutral references.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Lord Almighty.
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes.
• 46:15
  Speaker 7: Gender references and pronouns seem to be a hot issue
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: this election season.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: I'm always reminded of Orwell's Ministry of Truth when people
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: start talking about changing the language, as if they can
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: refer to more than one, or can refer to a
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: single person. I am they, them. What? No, you're not.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: You're an individual, lone, singular human being. Don't go changing
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: the English language on me.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't get it.
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: I don't either.
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 46:46
  Speaker 7: As a sidebar, there is organized opposition to issue four,
• 46:50
  Speaker 7: which is the Cincinnati public school tax levy. And I
• 46:53
  Speaker 7: have never seen that before. One of the things that
• 46:57
  Speaker 7: I noticed is, once again, it is very disappointing to
• 47:00
  Speaker 7: see that the Republicans have not provided responses to the
• 47:03
  Speaker 7: League of Women Voters newspaper. You know, if you listen
• 47:07
  Speaker 7: to the polls in this election, it could be a
• 47:10
  Speaker 7: very close election, and you were just speaking about that
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: a little while ago.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Well, Joe Strecker, I think, is accurate. He just said, well,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: you know, you've got to appreciate the fact that the
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: League of Women Voters is a bunch of left-leaning folks anyway.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: That's his broad-brush conclusion, but there may be something behind
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: that and why the Republicans didn't do that. But I
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: agree with you, not everyone, sharing that information or responding
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: to them does look like a ball dropped, knowing much
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: more about the behind-the-scenes elements on that decision-making. Yeah, it's
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: not good optics. I'll concur with you on that, Carl.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: But thanks for the heads-up about the gender pronouns. You're
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: going to be voting on that. I hope you pay
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: close attention to that. I'm sure you know which way
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: I'm leaning on that particular vote. Jamie, thanks for calling
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: this morning. Welcome to The Morning Show.
• 47:53
  Speaker 8: Hey, good morning, Brian. I'm just now tuning in, so
• 47:56
  Speaker 8: I apologize. This is not a... voter information call, but
• 48:02
  Speaker 8: I wanted to bring to your caller's attention Moms for
• 48:07
  Speaker 8: Liberty Group, which is an amazing group, reported yesterday a
• 48:12
  Speaker 8: brand new AI software program that they have that they
• 48:17
  Speaker 8: are pulling all kinds of things from school boards, and
• 48:22
  Speaker 8: they're finding a lot of things such as DI vendor contracts,
• 48:26
  Speaker 8: curriculum changes, gender policy changes, and they're desperately in need
• 48:33
  Speaker 8: of human people to get involved, to receive this information,
• 48:37
  Speaker 8: and to get involved in their local school board. So
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: if you don't know anything about Moms for Liberty, please
• 48:43
  Speaker 8: check them out. We do have a local chapter for
• 48:47
  Speaker 8: Liberty Township in Westchester. So if frustrated moms are looking
• 48:52
  Speaker 8: for a way to get involved, that's a wonderful way
• 48:54
  Speaker 8: to do it. They are a phenomenal organization that is
• 48:57
  Speaker 8: having incredible influence.
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: Great.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: And that website is momsforliberty.org. And it's easy. They have
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: their own pull-down menu to find your own chapter. So
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: you can, of course, find the one in your area.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: But I appreciate your bringing that resource to everybody's attention, Jamie.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: I know you're on top of issues like that all
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: the time. The Montessori mom.
• 49:18
  Speaker 5: Jamie, thanks.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: 625 right now.
• 49:18
  Speaker 5: Bobby.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Get your call coming up. Got local stories.
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: 630. Friday Eve.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: Head on into Halloween weekend.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: 513-749-5500. 800-823-TALK.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Pound 550 on AT & T phones.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: 55KRC. iheart.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: Com for podcasts when you can't listen live. and the
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: materials that Joe Strecker posts up there related to the
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: morning show. Welcome back, Bobby. It's always good to hear
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: from you. Happy Friday Eve.
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: Well, good morning, my friend. Faith Flag Family and today's
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: Handicapped Thursday.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's right it is, isn't it? So the over
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: and under on how many people are going to get, well,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: be victims of violent crime, if I remember what you're doing,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: or is it people who died as a consequence of violence?
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: No, it has to do with violent crimes, my friend.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: We've got one of.
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: The best medical facilities in the country.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: That's right. I should remember that. Anyhow, Bobby, what's your call?
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: It's Halloween weekend. Does that factor into it?
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: Hey, they all factor in, my friend. When they wear
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: masks over the weekend, I mean, anything can happen.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Well, when I was a kid, the night before Halloween
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: was called Damage Night. And that's when the neighborhood guys,
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Tom Murray, you're out there, would smash pumpkins on your
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: front porch. They'd grab them and smash them. Which reminded
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: me of the time my dad put pins in through
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: the inside of the pumpkin out because you couldn't see
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: them when it was dark out. And you had what
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: looked like that Hellraiser movie figure with pins sticking out,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: except they went from the inside out so the sharp
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: part was on the outside. And when you grabbed the
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: pumpkin that you couldn't see the pins, obviously you were
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: met with a bit of a surprise there. So anyway,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: that was dad's way of dealing with smashed pumpkins taken
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: from the front porch.
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: Go ahead, Bobby. I think that's a great deterrent. The
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: troops are restless out there now, my brother. The troops
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: are restless, and we've already had a murder at Walnut
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: Hills overnight.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Let me try to cover myself. I'm not suggesting anyone
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: do that, but that was dad. Go ahead, Bobby. Over
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: and under.
• 51:16
  Speaker 5: Three and a half, and we're being gracious.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: And you're going with over or under?
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: Always take the over, my friend.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: Always take the over, so you're not feeling optimistic today.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Three and a half.
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: I feel optimistic. I think three and a half is great.
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: I mean, it could be a lot worse than that
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: if they report the true acts of violence around Cincinnati.
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: It would be over that all the time. But they
• 51:37
  Speaker 5: don't want people to know.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be something if Cousy started doing a Bobby
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: weekly over and under bet where you could actually bet
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: on it?
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: Well, I got a good over and under also. It
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: has to do with our red and green flag flying
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: Democratic Socialists, you know. What would they do if they
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: found out that our governor right now elect is of
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: Jewish faith? How can they follow their doctrine that way?
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: They don't know. Yeah, they don't even know that.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're the first person who brought that
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: to my attention. I even asked out loud, is that true?
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Because I hadn't heard that. But then again, I hadn't
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: heard anything about her childhood either.
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: Very true.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Very true. Well, the Democrats are the party of anti-Semitism,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: it appears, Bobby. I have read that many people have
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: reached that conclusion, including many of my Jewish friends who
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: previously voted Democrat.
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: Well, the DSAs are at my adversary. That's exactly the
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: way it is. You either have a friend or foe
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: or an adversary or an enemy. And I'm being very
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: gracious today when I say an adversary.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Extraordinarily so. Extraordinarily so.
• 52:42
  Speaker 5: They're coming.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Appreciate the call, Bobby, and place your bets, place your bets.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: Let's go over to Springfield Township. Police reported an 18-year-old
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: had been arrested and charged with murder following a death investigation.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: They were over at South Meadows Circle on Tuesday for
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: an intrusion alarm. According to police, they got to the
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: scene and they found a dead man, 66-year-old Rodney Gray.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: According to police, that led to the arrest of 18-year-old
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Caden Hotchkiss of Cincinnati. If you have any information regarding this,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: the police would love to hear from you. 513-729-1300, Springfield
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: Police Department. and that, of course, is the subject matter
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: of a new Signal 99 post, which brings to our
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: attention all the times Mr. Hotchkiss had been in juvenile
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: court and treated with kid gloves, only to go out
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: and commit more crimes and be released into the public again.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: This time, he's 18, now finds himself in big boy court.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: Walnut Hills. We have another shooting. One person shot in
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: Walnut Hills happened Tuesday evening since a police spokesman, Brad Underwood,
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: talking to Fox 19, said quarter to 10 p.m., 400
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: block of McMillan Street is where it happened. Police got there,
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: found one person with a gunshot wound. As of last reporting,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: it said he was condition unknown, but we found out
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: this morning, thanks to Joe Strecker update, that person has
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: since passed on. And in Hamilton, a person was airlifted
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: to the hospital, got hit by a vehicle, happened Wednesday night.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Hamilton-Butler County dispatch confirmed Main Street was the site of
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: the accident near D Street, downtown Hamilton. Dispatchers said police
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: scanner showed the pedestrian hit at 1030. or scanner traffic
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: said it happened at 10.30. Four minutes later, police said
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: the victim was unresponsive underneath the vehicle. Still can't get
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: over that. Victim taken to Kettering Hospital via air flight.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Condition unknown at this time. The driver did stay at
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: the scene and talk to police. 6.35 at 55 KRC
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Detox Station. Kitchen remodeling. Think prestige interiors and think... 55
• 54:37
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• 54:47
  Speaker 1: I think, Drew Pappas, the answer to your question, the
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: article you just posted to me, the answer is no. Question,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: will she denounce this, she being Amy Acton? And I
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: literally just found out about it. Last night, a person
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: was stabbed outside of a campaign rally for Trump on
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: stage at the Shoemaker Center, Ohio University, Chillicothe Campus. This
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: is according to a video of the scene and accounts
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: from people there. This is reporting from the Scioto Valley Garden,
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: and it has been circulated all over the place, including
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: just on Facebook. They said police showed up at the area,
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: detained one person, scrambled into the area, they said. Witnesses
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: showed the video. In the footage, the victim appears with
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: a pocket knife sticking out of the side of their
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: lower back. I looked at the photo. It appears to
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: be sitting there calmly with a knife sticking out of
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: their back. Anyway, incident outside the venue while Trump was
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: addressing the crowd in the rally featuring John Huston was
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: there as well as other Republicans. Security for the event
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: led by the U.S. Secret Service. Of course, local law
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: enforcement was involved as well. Further details on the victim condition, identity,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: the person detained, charges not immediately available late last night,
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: and I haven't seen anything this morning. So maybe, Jeff,
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: you want to follow up on that and see if
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: they've arrested anybody. But, yeah, I can't imagine that was
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: a Trump supporter that stabbed a Trump supporter in the back.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: Draw your own conclusions. Wait for it, though, until we
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: get to all the information. Pivoting over, this article from
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: Emily Kopp, I believe it was Daily Caller. Anyway, it
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. The factual information is there. And not only
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: is it a shot at Amy Acton's, well, lack of credentials,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: I should say, to be governor, also lack of credentials
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: to be the Ohio medical director. So she has a
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: shot at Mike DeWine as well as Amy Acton here.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: So the newly inaugurated governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine, was
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: picking someone to run the 640 million Ohio Department of Health, 2019.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: He only asked Amy Acton a single question. What was
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: your childhood like? According to Acton, in public comments from
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: October of 2023, quote, it was February 2019. I got
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: a call out of the blue. The governor really wants
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: to meet you. He said to me, tell me about
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: where you grew up. Tell me about your childhood. That's
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: the only question he ever asked. She said, and there's
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: something about him. I just got very real. I just
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: got very real. Her words. because I wanted him to
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: understand the social determinants of health or detriments of health.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: I said I had really rough childhood in Youngstown, stuff
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: I didn't usually share with people in a large way.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: COVID-19 arrived next year. Acton, Ohio's Anthony Fauci had no
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: track record of assessing health data in scientific literature. This
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: is the other part. She's not a virologist. How did
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: she come to the conclusion she came in so far
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: as the lockdown, draconian as they were, if she didn't,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Didn't have any studies in virology, nor did she ever
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: practice medicine, which is another thing. She got a medical degree,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: as Emily Kopp points out, master's in public health in Ohio,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: taught at Ohio State University. But beyond that, pretty thin
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: resume for someone who, well, went to specialize in public
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: policy rather than clinical medicine. Search of Acton's PubMed, the
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: repository for medical papers hosted by the National Institutes of Health,
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: turned up just a single article One lone study from
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: 2020 that she did about horse injuries. Horse injuries. Yet
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: she issued directives mandating policies restricting the lives of millions
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: of people. Now she wants to succeed.
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: DeWine is governor has centered her experience as a public
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: health official, as the core of her political identity. Political
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: action groups, ad campaigns, acting as a doctor, not a politician.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: Is that a panned ad featuring acting as a strange mom,
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: once again, diverting attention from her pandemic policies to her upbringing? Well,
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: she started as the health director, DeWine's chief medical advisor.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: We had the mask mandate, including indoor and outdoor locations. See,
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: I forgot about that, having to wear masks outdoors. I'm
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: reminded of that one guy that got arrested on the
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: beach by himself. Same kind of stuff happened in Ohio
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: here under her mandates. All children had to wear masks
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: in school, despite the low, low, low incidence of COVID
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: harming children, very low risk of injury there. Obviously, the
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: impact on children's education was profound. We were the first
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: in the nation to announce school closures. April 2020, Ohio
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: announced schools will remain closed the entire year. However, remember
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: this one? Bars were permitted to resume in some operations. Children,
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: you can't go to school, but drink up. She resigned
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: in August 2020 as people started looking to have the
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: COVID lockdowns eased because she claimed it would violate her
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Hippocratic Oath, to do no harm by easing up on
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: the lockdowns. There's a cardiologist and health policy commentator, Anish Kauka,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: who had this to say. Her judgment was awful, but
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: very much in keeping with the rest of public health
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: establishment and the recommendations at the time. It demonstrates a
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: lack of critical thinking and inability to analyze primary data,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: a willingness to follow marching orders, somebody willing to say
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: the sky is green despite evidence of the contrary, so
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: I'm sure she'll make an exceptional foot soldier. Now, back
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: to the singular paper that she authored. No, it wasn't
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: about virology. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. A retrospective study
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: showing a decline in the number of people with horse-related
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: injuries at the emergency room. Thanks, Amy. Non-fiddle horse-related injuries
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: treated in emergency departments in the United States, 1990 to 2017. Oh,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: the report concluded it was a 46% decline in those injuries,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: in case you're wondering. According to her CV, she doesn't
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: bother pointing to all the information and her credentials in
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: virology or anything else, highlighting her positive coverage in the media.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: That's what she's hanging her hat on. She notices she
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: had added a new high-level position at the Department for Diversity, Equity,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: and Inclusion. Hey, look what I did. New DEI department.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: Her own CV says Acton's widely acclaimed leadership and inspiring
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: guidance was seen in daily news conferences as COVID exploded
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: in the spring of 2020. Huh, that sounds very Fauci-esque.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: After the pandemic, she incorporated a company called Acton Wellbeing LLC,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: described as a consulting business, and then started making speeches
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: about COVID. Well, there you have it. Nothing in there
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: that qualifies her for being governor. How come the media
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: isn't all over this? Why do I have to go
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: to Emily Kopp over the Daily Caller to find out
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: this additional information? Shouldn't this be really wildly or widely discussed?
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: Silence is deafening on this. Again, reflecting the obvious media
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: bias that's going on out there.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: Excuse me.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: Thank God for the cough button. Now, there's no denying
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: that artificial intelligence may be a very big problem. And
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Bill Gates just the other day made it sound a
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: lot worse. Now, the question's swirling. I think what he
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: says may be accurate. I don't know enough about AI
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: to know how much damage it can do. But he's
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: demanding governments get involved with this, saying these companies cannot
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: be left with the responsibility of policing their own product.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: He was on a recent episode of a podcast called Decoder.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: My big concern is this 20-year transition period where they'll
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: have winners and losers and a lot of disruption. And
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: we'll have to get through that in order to get
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: to that period of abundance, which he thinks will arrive
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: sometime down the road. But he also said AI's dangers
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: dwarf those of other regulated injuries, which he says are
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: not a millionth as dangerous as artificial intelligence. Said no
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: single business can be expected to police it. Once you
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: have multiple competitors, the level of responsibility cannot be with
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: the companies. It's completely obvious. The responsibility becomes the government's responsibility,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: just like it is with every other dangerous product. Dangerous product.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: Although the magnitude there and the degree of change is
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: minuscule by comparison. Said AI could put destructive capabilities within
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: the reach of individuals rather than nations. And, you know,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: we got nations that are tinkering with genetics to make
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: things more of, make diseases more contagious. Remember COVID?
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: You don't want to enable bioterrorism, Gates said. We've created
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: something that takes out of the hands of nation states,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: actually the larger of them, the ability to do dramatic harm.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: If this was just a machine that could work in
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: medicine or just law or just in education, that alone
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: would be incredibly disruptive. But it won't stop there. Every
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: area of human activity so far is white-collar intellectual work,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: but fairly soon, here's the problem. It will be physical
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: activity and blue-collar work as well through humanoid robots. If
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: we don't choose to massively slow down or stop, then
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: we will have robots that can build houses, grow food,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: do surgery, and none of the things that human labor
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: provides to the economy will be necessary for most of
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: the goods and services. I hate being the bearer of
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: concerning news, he said on this, but it's even worse
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: to not tell people that this is coming. We have
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: choices as humans to make about how we shape it. Apparently,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: excerpts of this were released by NBC News. Here's a quote,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that you
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: know cause a billion deaths. Nothing to see here, is there?
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: This is, I think, behind. How can anybody doubt that?
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know about the government being capable of reigning
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: in this technology and keep it out there just for
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: the good and avoid the harms that can come up,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: but I think this is the reason why people don't
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: want data centers in their backyard, more so than noise
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: or water or anything else. But does anybody think this
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: can be stopped? Legitimate question. 655-55-KRC-D Talk Station. Congressman Warren.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: It's 706-55-KRC-D Talk Station. Brian Thomas wishing everyone a very
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: happy Friday Eve. And welcoming back to the 55-KRC Morning Show,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson. We have a handful of good ones.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: Of course, Congressman Davidson. Is in that category. Welcome back, sir.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure speaking with you here on the
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: 55 KRC Morning Show.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, likewise, Brian. Happy Friday Eve to you.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, the media bias in Ohio could not be more
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: profoundly illustrated than the gubernatorial race. And whether you want
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: to comment on that or not remains to be seen.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: I'll let you do that. But how's your campaign going,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson? You are up for reelection, and I presume
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: that the voters will do the right thing and vote
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: you back in.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's always been an honor to represent Ohio's 8th District.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: And the lines move.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 9: I think as I'm out talking to people, a lot
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 9: of folks in Hamilton County don't realize where the lines
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 9: have moved. So in the new map, when you go vote,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 9: people on the east side will be able to vote
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 9: for Warren Davidson for the first time this cycle, except Sharonville.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 9: We've had Sharonville on the current map, but it goes
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 9: all the way down to Blue Ash, part of Indian Hill,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 9: part of Madeira, part of Marymount.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 4: Sadly, we're going to lose part of the west side.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 9: But hopefully that helps Sarah Conroy defeat Greg Lansman. And
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 9: so we're excited about the prospect of more Republicans. We've,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 9: as I say, I asked for your vote and some reinforcements.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 9: So if you can vote for me, please vote for me.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 9: If you can't, please send reinforcements. And so hopefully we'll
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 9: get some.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: Do you perceive this midterm race as consequential as I
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: think many people do? The sort of like the future
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: of America seems to be at stake here. We're either
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: going to go full on socialist moving, moving toward communism or,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: We're going to keep the republic that we've got here.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: But do you believe this race to be as critical
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: as it's being made out to be?
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I've been thinking about, you know, when
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 9: I first went to Joe Dieter's office when he was
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 9: a Hamilton County prosecutor, of course now Justice Joe Dieter's
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 9: at the Ohio Supreme Court, he had a big plaque
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 9: on the wall, and it was a quote from Joshua
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 9: Lawrence Chamberlain. He was a colonel, led the 20th Maine
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 9: in a famous battle, a little round top. It was
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 9: part of the Battle of Gettysburg. And on the second
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 9: day of the battles, a three-day battle at Gettysburg, because
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 9: it wasn't a two-day battle. And the reason a two-day
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 9: battle didn't happen is Chamberlain said, if we lose this
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 9: piece of ground, the whole army will be rolled up
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 9: and all will be lost. You know, we must defend
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 9: it to the last.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 4: And they did.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 9: I mean, they lost a lot of people there. They
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 9: fixed bayonets. They charged down the hill. They beat off
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 9: the challengers, the Confederates that wanted to defeat them. And,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 9: you know, when I say keep calm and defend freedom,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 9: That doesn't mean it's going to be easy. These guys
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 9: fought heroically in a real physical battle in a war,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 9: but because they held the ground. I mean, ground you
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 9: won't defend, you can't hold. They held the ground that day.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 4: You got to the.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 9: Third day, and the Union Army defeated the Confederates up
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 9: the middle. And from that point on, the Confederates really
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 9: stayed on the run.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: That was the turning point in the war.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 9: And I really feel like in our country right now,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 9: if we can stay on offense right now and continue
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 9: to do the things that are already underway with this president,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 9: this administration, we can build on that and continue making
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 9: America great again. But if we lose ground, I mean,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 9: just remember what happened. I mean, the Inflation Reduction Act
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 9: was passed to fuel inflation, not to reduce inflation. I mean,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 9: it turbocharged inflation. Inflation was 9% under Joe Biden. It's
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 9: going the right direction under this administration. The border was open,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 9: and now we have a secure border. We're still dealing
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 9: with a lot of consequences of that. Crimes down, overdoses
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 9: are down, our cities are getting cleaned up, things are
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 9: going in the right direction. So- Man, I just, it's
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 9: incredibly consequential in this election. So I hope people get
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 9: out and vote.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: And you're out on the campaign trail. What are you
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: hearing from constituents? What are they worried about? Because I
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: know the price of gasoline is high, but I keep
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: going to the fact that it was higher under Biden
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: because of like your Inflation Reduction Act point, all these
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: green new deal, these green energy policies were intended to
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: drive it up. The policies were designed to make it
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: more expensive. And I don't know why people have lost
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: sight of that. They seem to be. It's evil orange
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: man and this ridiculous war that's going on. I get
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: all that. But that's temporary. War-created circumstances, which, of course,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: will end at some point. But that's dominated everybody's or
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: blurred everybody's vision in terms of what the reality is
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: in terms of policy. The left-wing policies are only going
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: to exacerbate inflationary pressures and problems, expand the size of government,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: which has failed us regularly. I just don't know how
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: people have lost sight of that bigger picture. Congressman Davidson,
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: do you feel that that's what's going on out there?
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 9: Yeah, look, I mean, they call it the K-shaped economy.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 9: For a lot of people, things are going fine. But
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 9: for a lot of folks, you know, an extra buck
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 9: or two at the pump is really going to change
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 9: a lot.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: Of things in life.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 9: I will say housing prices are finally starting to move down.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 9: Part of that's when you pull out all the illegals
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 9: that flooded our country and you keep building houses, things
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 9: are going in the right direction in that.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 4: But there's still gas and groceries.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 9: If it's a gas and groceries election right now, they're upset.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 9: And of course, the controlled media is out there saying
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 9: it's all Trump's fault or it's all Republicans fault because
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 9: they are in the majority. And a lot of times
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 9: that's the case. But let's look at these guys are
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 9: the wreckers. They're the ones driving all this. You can't
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 9: build a refinery to process You can't build more American
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 9: energy under Democrats.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 4: They call this a feature under the Green New Deal.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 9: They were going to shut down the Miami Fort power
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 9: plant because it runs on clean, beautiful coal right now.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 9: And they were like, that's fine. We can convert it
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 9: to natural gas. Like, no, no, that's dirty. Naturally, you
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 9: don't want natural gas either. We just want solar and wind.
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  Speaker 9: You know, this is this is what the Democrats want
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  Speaker 9: to do. This is the kind of nonsense.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 9: Brown went there and voted for Greg Lansman votes for
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 9: all this stuff. They go out and seem like they're normal, regular.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 9: Most of the people in Ohio that are Democrats, they're
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 9: not for the stuff that the crazy elected officials vote for.
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  Speaker 4: They show voter ID. They go vote.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 9: They don't believe men are women and they're birthing people
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 9: instead of Mother's Day. They don't believe all that nonsense.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 9: It's not partisan in a lot of these cases until
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 9: you call the votes. And electing these people, they want
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 9: I mean, I just can't believe that the public would
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 9: seriously consider it. I think it's going to be interesting
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 9: to see whether the polls are more right or Kalshi
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 9: and the prediction markets, you know, Polly Market, all these
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 9: prediction markets. So it's going to be a foregone conclusion.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 9: Everything's like 70 percent or better. This is who's going
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 9: to win this race. And the prediction markets have confidence that,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 9: you know, Amy Acton is going to be our next
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 9: governor and Sherrod Brown is going to be, you know,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 9: our next senator. and Greg Lansman's going to win. I
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 9: like their prediction on my race. I like that they
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 9: think I'm going to win. But I think the question is,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 9: are the people going to go vote and change that outcome?
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 9: The polls are far less clear than the prediction markets.
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  Speaker 1: I understand they've got a poor track record polls and
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: the way the dynamics have changed in terms of how
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: polling is conducted and the Republicans' open unwillingness to participate
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: in them really just makes it virtually impossible, I've learned,
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: to get an accurate poll. But You've got a lot
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: of Democrats running around now talking about the Republicans stealing
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: the election. And more and more of them have chimed
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: in on that. So assuming that you have a perception
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: that the polls are wrong and that maybe this blue
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: wave does not happen, they're going to run around screaming
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: in the streets claiming that Trump or somebody stole the
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: election from them. Look at what the polls said. How
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: is it possible the Republicans showed up in all these
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: numbers and actually win?
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 4: Well, they have a contingency plan for sure.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 9: And look, I'll say like up north, not only do
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 9: they have Al Sayed as a candidate for Senate in Michigan,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 9: they get this Alyssa Slotkin. I mean, I guess she
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 9: was a former CIA officer. She was on the dark side.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 9: You got Eric Conroy right here in Cincinnati. He's one
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 9: of the good guys. Slotkin's up there talking all about,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 9: you know, basically planning for a coup and targeting anybody
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 9: that would dare work for a Republican. We're going to
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 9: ruin your life, basically. If we can't put you in jail,
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 9: we're going to make you unemployable. And that's the kind
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 9: of tactics these Democrats are using. And I say, look,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 9: that's not the same kind of way a lot of
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 9: our friends and family members and neighbors do. But in
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 9: the power system, in our government right now, that's why
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 9: this is such a critic. It's like the second day
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 9: of Gettysburg. You've got to hold this ground.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: No question about it. I mean, draw a parallel. Look
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: what happened to Bolsonaro in Brazil. He had to get
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: out of the country because within a couple of minutes
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: of Da Silva being claimed the victor in the election,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: the government ordered him to give up his passport. He
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: was going to be prosecuted and locked up, so he
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: had to flee the country. This is what they do.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, look at history. Congressman Davidson, hold on. I
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: want to find out what's going on in the lame
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: duck session. Will anything be accomplished between now and when
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: the new people get sworn in? 715 right now, 55KRC,
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  Speaker 1: the talk station. Let me give you a fine word
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: for Gregory Station. 719, 55KRC, the talk station. Brian Thomas
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: with Congressman Warren Davidson. Congressman Davidson, I saw you were
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: speaking with the Association of Mature American Citizens the other
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: day out in Fairfield. I understand you fielded questions about
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: Social Security among other topics. We have all been forewarned.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: There seems to be no partisanship in connection with the
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: reports that Social Security is kind of going to have
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: run into a real problem a couple of years from
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  Speaker 1: now with people taking like a 22%, 25% cut on
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: the monthly Social Security payment because it's an upside-down sort
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: of Ponzi scheme-like design program. It's not on a sustainable track,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: and I've been hearing about this my entire life. Congressman Davidson,
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  Speaker 1: we're at a point where something must be done. Were
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: the seniors you were speaking with worried about that, and
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: how do you address that as a topic? Do you
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: think anything's going to be done? I know that's a
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: compound question.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, no, it's a, there's a lot there, but yeah,
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 9: you know, our whole life we've known the math doesn't
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 9: really work out the right way.
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  Speaker 4: And the current law recognizes it too.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 9: In current law, it says in 2032, when payroll taxes
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 9: stopped fully covering the cost of social security, that we're
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 9: just going to cut it 20%. Well, we're not going
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 9: to cut it 20%. And so, but they still model
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 9: it that way. The question is, are we going to
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 9: do anything about it? What I'm doing is I continually
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 9: offer an amendment. So when we could do these cuts,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 9: Like in July, I offered an amendment that.
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  Speaker 4: Offered $ 4.
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  Speaker 9: Trillion worth of cuts that we didn't get a vote on, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 9: It would be about $ 400 billion a year in cuts.
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  Speaker 9: And all that money would go towards saving Social Security.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 9: And part of the reason that we don't ever cut anything,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 9: you're like, oh, well, that's a good cause. Oh, yeah, well,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 9: that's a good cause, too. Well, this isn't the greatest program,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 9: but we can't really turn it off, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And let me guess, none of those none of those
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  Speaker 1: you're alluding to have anything to do with the third
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: rail of politics, do they? No one's going to lose
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: an election or otherwise die as a consequence of those
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: programs being cut.
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  Speaker 4: Well, right.
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  Speaker 9: And, you know, all nice things, but they've done away
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 9: with the whole concept of scarcity.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 9: So, sure, let's just print money and send that out.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 9: Let's just print more money and do that. And inflation
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 9: is a real tax. That's what we're talking about in
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 9: the affordability, you know. If you think of the economy
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 9: as a 30-gallon barrel of regular economy and you pull
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 9: $ 5 trillion out in taxes, but you dump $ 7 trillion
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 9: back in in spending, well, of course, the level rises.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, by design, you're creating inflation. You're distorting the
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 9: economy with all this excessive government spending. But people start
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 9: becoming very dependent upon it. And you're like, well, what
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 9: are we going to do about it? Well, some of
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 9: that stuff is more optional than others. When you look
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 9: at seniors, they can't respond to this. This has never
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 9: been a means-tested program. They stole part of every paycheck
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 9: that you've gotten. And I think it's a complete responsibility
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 9: of the federal government to honor that. Now, if they
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 9: want to make a different deal to people that aren't
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 9: even yet on payroll, they're in high school right now
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 9: instead of listening to the radio. And, you know, great.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 9: They're not yet on payroll. They haven't started being made
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 9: the promise. But everybody else, you made the promise that
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 9: you give us some money now. We're going to manage
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 9: this poorly run retirement plan. But in your senior years,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 9: we're going to have money for you. You have to
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 9: deliver on that or it's fraud. So I think we
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 9: have to protect it. And that's the amendment I continually do.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 9: Because when you say, well, this is an OK idea. Well,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 9: but is it better than saving Social Security? And that's
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 9: the framework I really want to get to so that
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 9: we restore the whole concept of scarcity. And that may
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 9: help us towards the balanced budget that is undermining the
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 9: whole problem. I mean, that is undermining so many of
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 9: our systems and wrecking our way of life. People are
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 9: fighting over all kinds of things. And in reality, we're
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 9: destroying the money.
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  Speaker 1: Well, are the Democrats, and I'll just accuse the Democrats,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: and I know a lot of Republicans are to blame
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: for refusing to cut any program. I'm sure in the
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: $ 4 trillion you proposed, there was a lot of Republican
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: turf on there, like, oh, you're not touching that business
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: in my state kind of crap. So everybody's guilty of this.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: But is it a foregone conclusion? Has somebody had a
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: meeting in the back room, unbeknownst to the American people,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: where they just have realized that we are on an
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: unsustainable trajectory and there's no way we can write the ship.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: Our fiat currency is ultimately going to tank because of
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: this runaway printing of the printing press inflation, runaway inflation
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: is expected. I mean, we are on that trajectory and
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: yet no one seems to have this like existential perception
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: of it. Like I do.
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  Speaker 3: Well, a lot of people do get it.
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  Speaker 9: But the question is, you're just like you're on the train,
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 9: but you're powerless to change the course of the train
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 9: or powerless to hit the brakes or anything else. You know,
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  Speaker 9: Scott Besson had a good interview question recently. I think
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 9: he was talking to Brian Kilmeade. And, you know, he's
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 9: posing the same kind of question. And he said, well,
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 9: so far, every presidential election, people said, well, that's not.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: On my watch.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 9: So they put it off. Well, bad news doesn't get
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 9: better with time. It would have been responsible to take
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 9: action really quickly. Our whole lifetime, Brian, as we've said,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 9: we've talked about every president our whole lifetime has known
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 9: this problem is coming. But in 2028, everyone who's on
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 9: the debate stage to run for president in 28 is going.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 4: To say, well, it is going to be on your watch.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 4: It is out there.
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  Speaker 9: So his hope is that it's going to get attention
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 9: in the 2028 cycle. Now, what's left unsaid is it's
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 9: probably not going to get a lot of attention before then.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 9: Besson didn't frame it that way, but that's basically saying, yeah,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 9: we're probably not going to do much about that now.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 9: But in 2028, it's going to have to be answered.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 9: And that doesn't give you as much runway. You don't
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 9: have as many options because you're closer to the mountain.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 9: If you want to bypass a mountain, you can turn
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 9: slightly when you're 50 miles away. But when you're, you know,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 9: 500 feet away, well, you're going to have to go
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 9: all the way around the whole mountain. It's a lot harder,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 9: you know, turn that you're going to have to make.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 9: And that's going to be hard for us. But we
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 9: are going to have to confront that challenge. And I think,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 9: why not start now with responsible spending cuts?
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: So you don't have to just tear the Band-Aid off
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: and experience all the pain at once?
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, crazy idea.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 9: But, you know, a lot of times, you know, we
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 9: have a friend who became a Christian way later in life.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 9: And he's like, I think God will bring you the
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 9: easiest way you'll go. He said, my way was pretty hard.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 9: I think a lot of times reality is you've got
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 9: to suffer a little bit before you realize, oh, yeah,
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 9: don't touch the hot stove.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: Well, and I appreciate your comment about the, quote, unquote,
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: powerless to do anything. But, no, that's a choice that
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: every elected official has made. They do have the power
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: to right the fiscal ship that we are currently sinking in.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: They just chose not to do it. couldn't suffer the
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: political consequences of cutting some stupid program in their state,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: regardless of political affiliation. Congressman Davidson, I wish you all
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: the best. I just truly hope that my listeners will
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: get out and vote for you. And of course, bring
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: friends with them that can vote Republican. We are in
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: the middle of a huge, huge election cycle here, which
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: may determine the fate and the future of the United
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: States of America. Congressman Davidson, I know you do everything
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: you can to salvage what we've got left. And Hopefully,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: my listeners will turn out in large numbers, at least
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: on or before Tuesday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well said. Crawl, walk, run, ride, drive, but get
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 4: to the polls and bring a friend. God bless you
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 4: and all your listeners, Brian. Thank you.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: 7.31 here at 55KRCD Talk Station. Tick-tock as we get
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: closer and closer to Election Day next Tuesday. Good having
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson on to talk about important issues and
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the 55KRC Morning Show. We do have
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: a Republican running for county commissioner here in Hamilton County.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: His name's Jonathan Pearson, and he's back to talk about
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: the race. Jonathan, welcome back to the morning show.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: Well, good morning, Brian.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: Good seeing you today. Ran into you when I was
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: at lunch with my friend that was in town from France. So,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: Jonathan walking around. Were you out on the campaign trail
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: over near the restaurant?
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 3: No, ironically, I was going to a luncheon that occurred
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 3: after a funeral.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 4: Oh, well.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 3: So completely unrelated.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: So how's the campaign going, Jonathan? You out there shaking hands,
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: meeting people and talking about the issues here in Hamilton County?
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 3: You know, it's been very interesting because I do something
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 3: a little bit, I can't say unique, but radically different
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 3: in regards that I go to what I call the
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 3: dead zones. And that's areas where there's not a single
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 3: Republican registered. And the reason I do that is because
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 3: in Hamilton County, I need some of those Democrats to
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 3: vote for me. And what I'm finding is a lot
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 3: of them are like, I like your ideas. And my
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 3: idea is simple to move our taxes on our houses
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 3: to what we paid for it, not for what they've
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 3: said it's worth.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, so you weren't taxed on unrealized capital gains, Jonathan?
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 3: A hundred percent of that. Yes, Brian. And the biggest
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 3: thing is what I like is the fact that that
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 3: 3.5 mil levy that they say, oh, we're not raising
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 3: your taxes, even though your house was reevaluated for another $ 200, 000.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 3: they have to come back and actually ask for the 5.9, 7.4,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 3: 11 point something. And the school levy for CPS right
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 3: now would be astronomically higher if they actually were honest
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 3: about how they taxed.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: Well, I just did the math on the children's services levy.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: That's a huge, huge increase.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 3: It's a massive increase. And I'll be honest with you.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 3: I'm not convinced that it's needed. The challenge that we
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 3: face is Nobody ever actually sees what's the budget. And
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 3: most of these particular tax levies, countywide, citywide, whatever, they
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 3: appeal to the, it's for the children. And I'll be
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: honest with you, Brian, it's not for the children, it's
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 3: for the adults because we're the ones that write the check.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 3: And we're the ones that take care of the kids ourselves.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 3: And we know whether or not we need to pay
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 3: that kind of money for stuff. And at a certain point,
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 3: we have to start being honest about our budgets because
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 3: And we just keep raising budgets because nobody ever asked why.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 3: They just said, yeah, it gets more expensive.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: Well, aren't we given metrics, how many children were served,
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: the increased burden on the children for the services offered
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: through the children's services levy? I mean, do we have
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: any way of gauging the amount of money that's needed?
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 5: We do. We do.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 3: And the amount of monies that go through, because remember,
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 3: a lot of monies does go to the actual families.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 3: Those are helping the children and stuff like that. But
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 3: we also have to remember that a lot of these
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 3: agencies get pretty top-heavy. And what you really end up
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: paying for is not services rendered, services just being talked about,
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 3: bandied about, and meeting at their various offices. CPS is
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 3: a living example of that with the number of layers
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 3: they have in their administration.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hmm.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 3: Well, we never really talk about that because we keep
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 3: looking at children. Oh, if they don't get this, then
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 3: they're going to cut up the bus service. If they
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 3: don't get this, these kids won't be helped. And, you know,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 3: we have some beautiful things. Judge Winkler, who's running, keeps
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 3: his budget in his office doing very well. And he's
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 3: well known as the adoption judge. And a lot of
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 3: those adopted children are ones who were taken away from
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 3: their abusive parents through the children's services. And he adopts
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 3: them back out to good people that will actually treat
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 3: these children properly. And yet somehow he manages in his
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 3: office without making any wild increases in his office. How
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 3: come he's happening to do that?
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 5: Oh, wait a minute.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 3: It could be the R behind his name. Those have
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 3: a lot to do with it because he's not looking
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 3: at it from a standpoint of how much money we
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 3: need is how effective can we be? There's a big
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 3: difference in the mentality.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: In this day of artificial intelligence and leaning out of
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: offices because it can take over the responsibilities of human beings,
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: I would imagine that power could be brought to government
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: services in order to lean it out and provide us
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: with a more efficient program or, in this particular case,
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: children's services.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 3: Well, I would think a lot of this stuff, AI
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 3: and all those different things, we panic about that it's
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 3: going to take jobs. Well, wouldn't it be great if
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 3: it took government jobs?
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: That's kind of what my point is. I know.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 3: I know everybody's watched The Terminator. I love The Terminator.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 3: I don't think Skynet's going to suddenly appear in Hamilton
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 3: County and take us over because of that.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: Honestly, Jonathan, we were half joking about this. I think
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: government jobs will be the last place that artificial intelligence
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: has any impact in terms of reducing the size and
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: scope of the bureaucracy.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 3: The problem that we're dealing with right now, Brian, is
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 3: the lack of intelligence. So artificial intelligence would be an improvement.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: Ooh, let's pause on that note. We'll bring it back
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: and talk about these ideas that people are embracing as
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: he goes into the talk station. That's 740-55-KRC, the talk station.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: There's actually a Republican running for Hamilton County Commissioner. Not
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: giving up. He's got, well, you know an uphill battle
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: when you face one Jonathan Pearson. I know how much
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: of a challenge it is to even consider running as
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: a Republican in Hamilton County, which has just gone so
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: blue over the years, and it just breaks my heart
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: to realize that. But when you're walking around, and what
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: do you describe dead zones, which you said were areas
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: where there aren't any Republicans within Hamilton County, and it's
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: easy to find those areas. So you're not having the
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: door slammed in your face, people are willing to talk
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: with you, even though you're talking with Democrats, Jonathan?
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 3: What I have found so far, those who opened the door, Admittedly,
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 3: I know that, you know, it's kind of like, you know,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 3: when the missionary comes to your door and you're like,
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: we're not answering it. Well, same type of mentality. But
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 3: um no the ones that do open the door um
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 3: we've had there's been a few spirited conversations but nothing
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 3: i can say mean i'll be honest with you i
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 3: can't say that that you know there's the comments i'll
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 3: get as well you know i'm gonna vote for you
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 3: can't put your sign in the yard but i'll vote
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 3: for you and we'll see if that happens in the
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 3: regards that you know if they don't grab their blue
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 3: sheet and just go straight down the line but the
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 3: the They look at what I'm proposing and say, that
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 3: makes way more sense. I talk to a lot of
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 3: renters too, by the way.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 5: But the people I.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 3: Talk to, I have to remind them that renters are
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 3: paying property tax. Landlords are not that benevolent, but they're
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 3: not putting property tax on the renter fee. So when
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 3: people say renters don't pay taxes, they're just idiots. I'm sorry.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 3: There's no nice way of saying that because.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: It's a legitimate point.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 3: It just irritates me when I hear that.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: I know, but it's a very valid point to make
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: because people don't think beyond the, I just pay rent.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: I am not an owner of property. It's like saying,
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: I just pay rent. You still have to pay the
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: electric bill. You still have to pay utility bill. And
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: guess what? The landlord, of course, is offshoring the property
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: taxes he pays to you, at least in part. So
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: that's just a normal expense of owning a building. So
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you keep bringing that up because it's an
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: undeniable truth.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: A lot of people don't know, Brian, in Hamilton County,
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 3: if you own a four-unit or bigger, there's a premium
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: put on your property tax. It can be substantial, between 10%
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 3: and 40%. That's a substantial increase to the owner who
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 3: has to pass it on to the renters. Wow. If
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 3: I get tagged with an extra $ 1, 000, that equivalent property
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 3: tax in a four unit would get a $ 1, 400 increase.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: Well, but upon what is that justified taxing the, the,
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: the apartment owners more than just the regular owner of
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: a property?
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 3: Has the government ever looked for justification for taxing?
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: That's expecting that Jonathan. I really was, but you see,
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: that's one of those crazy policies. They don't realize that they're,
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: The price of an apartment is going to be more expensive.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: Rent is going to go up.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 3: The logic is that there's going to be more services
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 3: required because of the police and fire. I think that's
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 3: kind of a straw hat moment because the firemen are
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 3: not coming to that four unit four times more. I
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 3: just don't believe that.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: That's a very valid point.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 3: I'd love to see the statistics that bear out that
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 3: actual statement. But the reality is that's what they say
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 3: it's for. I could see us cutting that back to
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 3: which would benefit the, the, we have a lot of
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 3: people that rent in this County. Yes, we do people
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 3: in my opinion, but if we could cut some of
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 3: those things back, imagine when it does for the renter.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 3: So instead of it being 1500 a month, it might
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 3: be more like 1200.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: And that will be wonderful. Now is that within the
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: power of the count of money?
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 3: When you start going an extra two to 300 times 12,
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 3: that's a lot of money in the pocket because the,
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 3: The usual renter is somebody who can't come up with
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 3: the cash to put a down payment on a house.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 3: They're not necessarily broke. They just don't have enough to
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 3: be able to set that kind of money aside. And
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 3: then the landowner gets tagged with a big increase because
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 3: they say, oh, your rental property is worth $ 600, 000, so
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 3: we're going to tax it at this. And the renter
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 3: is trying to figure out how to save some money,
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 3: and he's all of a sudden tagged with an extra $ 200, 000.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: And the landlord in many cases, isn't trying to add
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 3: in any extra profit. He's just trying to cover his
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 3: new tax bill.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: Is that within the power of the County commissioners to
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: change Jonathan?
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: I have to look at that.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 3: I'll be honest. I don't know about the premium that
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 3: we could draw back. This is a starting point. There's
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 3: other things that my whole thing is that the, the
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 3: voice of the commissioner is powerful, you know, is exactly
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 3: the fifth largest County. We can have a very large
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 3: voice in Columbus and, If my idea passes, it changes
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 3: all 88 counties. That's good for Ohio because until we
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 3: start looking like we're honest about how we tax in
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 3: this county, we're not going to attract businesses. And the
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 3: more businesses we attract, the less we need to raise
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 3: taxes because we keep drawing in more people who are
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 3: working and making decent incomes and the income taxes and
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 3: the others will help offset the need to increase taxes.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 3: But nobody thinks that way. They keep thinking, well, it's
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 3: just the guys in front of me. I'm going to
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 3: get an extra.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 5: Dollar from them.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Pearson, pause. I want to bring you back. You
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: mentioned these spirited discussions and people in these Democrat districts.
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 4: KRC, the talk station.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: It's 750 here, 55 KRC, the talk station. Happy Thursday.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas with candidate for Hamilton County Commissioner, GOP, Jonathan Pearson.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: Jonathan's talking about the issues. And I really applaud you
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: for going out into the, you know, the dead zones
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: as you refer to them. where there are no Republicans,
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: at least in any majority or close to it, and
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: finding out what people on the Democratic side of the
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: ledger are aware of. You said you've engaged in spirited
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: discussions with folks that are willing to talk with you.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: You said that a lot of them have said, you
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: know what, that sounds great. I like the ideas that
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: you're running on, or even, you know, I'll vote for
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: you because of what you just told me. Do they
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: have any concept of what the opponent, Mika Owens, is
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: running on? Have they said, no, no, no, I like
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: Mika Owens, because she's all about environmental sustainability, for example.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: Has anybody brought the environment or the Green Cincinnati Plan
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: or the Climate Focus Committee that she spearheaded up in conversation, Jonathan?
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 3: I have encountered that a few times.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 5: Have you?
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 3: And there's a few people I run into that are–
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 3: I'll be honest with you. It's been very nice when
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 3: I deal with somebody who's actually very politically astute. I
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 3: may disagree with them. But I at least admire the
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 3: fact that they're keeping themselves abreast of what's going on
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 3: in their party. Good. As opposed to just saying, oh,
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 3: I just blindly do this. So, you know, at least
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 3: I admire that. I have to admit, because at least
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 3: that means they are getting involved, even if I disagree
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 3: with where they stand. But, you know, the challenge with
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 3: this whole environmental sustainability and all the other BS that's
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 3: out there is we get so caught up in watching
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 3: the right hand wave that we don't see the left
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 3: hand swinging at you to take your tax dollars. Because
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 3: that's really all this is. It's a smoke and mirrors thing.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 3: We've seen this in the so-called climate change and everything else.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 3: And yes, do we have pollution in this city, which
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 3: is one of her issues?
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 5: Well, here's a thought.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 3: Maybe if we actually understood science, we might understand why
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 3: in the middle of the summer we have high amounts
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 3: of pollution stuck in Cincinnati. And that's because we have
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 3: the compounding factor of the valley we live in where
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 3: that stagnant air just sits. Unless we have a big
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 3: fan that's about a half a mile wide blowing air east,
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 3: it's not going to change ever, and it never has
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 3: since I moved here in 84. Every single summer. Oh,
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 3: my gosh, it's really stagnant, and the pollution is big
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 3: in Quinton Terrace. Well, of course it is. It will
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 3: always be that way.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 3: They try to make it sound like Los Angeles and
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 3: those type of things are in the middle of a
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 3: forest fire type of thing. And so we play these
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 3: games and everybody's like, oh, they're really trying to help us.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 4: No, they're not.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 3: They're just saying somehow we need more tax dollars to
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 3: fix a problem that's not really fixable per se, other
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 3: than just having the companies make sure that they put
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 3: the scrubbers, which helps clean. It's like a turbo on
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 3: your car. It reburns the exhaust. And That's pretty much it.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 3: I know they'll say, oh, we can do this and that,
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 3: but no, there really isn't.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: Well, it's all cloaked in carbon dioxide removal. That's a
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: global problem. We can do everything we want to eliminate
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: carbon dioxide from production within the county limits or city
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: limits in case of Meek Owens, but that doesn't do anything.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't even register on the radar.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 3: No, the irony is the increase of CO2 has made
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 3: the earth greener.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 3: Which has actually allowed more farmers to grow more food,
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 3: so we've been able to feed 8.5 billion people with excess.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: Plant food. That's why I always call it plant food.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: It is not a pollutant. It is literally something that
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: plants grow on. Why would we be against that? But
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: it's a question of priorities. Even if you've got the
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: most rabid green person out in the world... I think they, too,
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: want the roads and the infrastructure maintained. If you don't
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: have enough money for everything, you've got to say, all right,
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: what is most important? And I would argue that focusing
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: on the global climate here locally should be lower on
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: the priority list.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 3: I work outside. If I win, it'll be the first
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 3: inside job I've ever had. That's how much I am
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 3: serious about what I do and how much I understand climate,
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 3: because guess what I do? I work in the climate
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 3: every day.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: A valid point. Any other of your credentials you want
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: to bring to people's attention before we part cover today?
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Pearson.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 3: The biggest thing is to just know that, you know,
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 3: simplistically for the Metro sewer, I would like to have
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 3: a every Monday or every other Monday meeting with the
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 3: guys and say what's going on just so we can
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 3: keep abreast of what's going on and keep them to
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 3: task and budget as to what's really going on in
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 3: terms of the federal mandate of splitting the the storm
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 3: sewer and the sanitary sewer. Cause that's a big thing,
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 3: especially in that July flood we had, but it's a
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 3: big expense because remember we all had a three month bill.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 3: Then they made it a one month bill, but kept
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 3: it the exact same price. So they tripled our bill
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 3: and they continually keep increasing it.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: Just whittling away at our paycheck at every corner. They can.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: It's just over and over again. Sounds like you got
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: some good ideas, some solid ideas. And it sounds to
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: me like Jonathan Pearson, you're going to be a person
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: who is all about transparency.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 8: I am.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: Well, there's a reason to vote.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 3: Very much so.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Pearson, GOP candidate for county commissioner. Vote Pearson on Tuesday. Jonathan,
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: I wish you all the best in the world. It
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: sure would be nice to have an alternative voice representing
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: the state. the county here on the commission.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 5: Well, thank you, Brian.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: Good luck, man.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 3: 755-55-KRC.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: Vivek Ramaswamy. It's good to have you on the program, sir.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Brian.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 5: Good to be out.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: Well, we just talked recently. I just want to find
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: out as we fast approach Tuesday where you will be elected.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: Not a lot of talk about it. I don't want
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: to deviate the attention away from you and your credentials
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: versus Amy Acton, but your running mate, Rob McCauley, is
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: a solid guy. I think a lot of my listeners
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: are painfully aware that it won't be Amy Acton running
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: the office. It'll probably be her lieutenant governor running mate,
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: David Pepper. There's some concerns swirling about that, but a
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: word or two about Rob McCauley?
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Rob McCauley is great. It's why I selected him
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 2: for this role. He's only 42 years old. He's the
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: president of the Ohio Senate. And he has been a
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 2: champion for bringing down the tax burden in this state.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: And it's one of the reasons I chose him, because
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 2: he faced the same questions that I face about my
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 2: plan to reduce taxes. People used to ask him, where
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: do you get the money? And we've now proven it.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 2: We get the money through economic growth. Ohio got $ 1. 6
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: billion in extra revenue this year from bringing down income
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: taxes over the last several years. So Rob is a
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 2: champion of that. And look, it's the first decision I
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 2: had to make as the hopefully next governor of this
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: state was who my running mate would be. I'm an outsider.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: I'm somebody who comes at this as an entrepreneur with
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: fresh solutions. But I needed somebody who understood the process
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 2: of legislation. And there's arguably nobody in Ohio who's been
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 2: more effective at that at a young age than Rob.
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 2: And that's why he's on this ticket with me. And
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: we're going to be working together to work hard for families. And,
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: you know, God forbid if my opponent is elected. You've
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 2: got somebody in Amy Acton whose only qualification for this
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 2: job was a short-lived stint as health director when she
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: shuttered our economy, shut down small businesses, shut down our schools,
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 2: created many of the problems that are contributing to higher
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: costs and learning loss today, and has picked somebody as
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  Speaker 2: her running mate, which I think is inexcusable for the
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: kind of decision-making she would show as a governor. So
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 2: that's why she's not going to win, and we're going
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: to be in a position, Brian, to lead this state
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: to greater heights than we've seen and to fight for families,
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: to have a better life, which is what this election
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 2: is about.
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  Speaker 1: Well, at the time of her resignation as medical director,
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: she cited burnout and then pivoted over to, well, I
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: couldn't stay on because I'd be violating my Hippocratic Oath,
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: being a physician, although she never practiced medicine. Hippocratic Oath
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: is do no harm. Can anyone be more blamed for
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: the harm that she actually did in shutting down schools
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: and keeping our children away from from an educational opportunity
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  Speaker 1: and all the damage it did to their mental health
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: and loss of learning? I mean, isn't that in and
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: of itself doing harm?
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  Speaker 2: I think there has been no public official in the
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: 21st century who has done more harm to the lives
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 2: of Ohioans than Amy Acton in her short stint as
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 2: health director of this state. But worst of all, to
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  Speaker 2: top it off, Brian, when she couldn't handle the pressure
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: to correct course, she quit the job. I will never
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: quit on the people of this state. We're going to
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 2: fight for the people of this state. And this election,
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 2: for all of the noise and all of the tension
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 2: of an election, this comes down to one very simple question.
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 2: Who's going to make your life better? Actually, in a
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: real true sense, who do you believe is in a
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 2: better position to improve your family's life, to put more
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 2: money in your pocket, to bring high-paying jobs to the state,
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 2: to bring down some of those Costs like property taxes
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 2: and electric bills and health care costs where a governor
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 2: can make a difference to provide relief on those grocery
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 2: prices and gas prices by putting more money in your pocket.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 2: Who do you think can actually do that? And I
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 2: think if everyone looks themselves in the mirror and then
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 2: goes out to the polls and votes accordingly, we are
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 2: going to win this decisively because it's not even close.
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  Speaker 2: Amy Acton had her shot. She ruined the state. She
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 2: caused families to pay the price, and then she quit
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 2: on them. By contrast, I've created thousands of jobs. I've
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 2: created life-saving medicines. I am ready to fight and to
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 2: serve this state. I don't report to anyone else. I
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 2: don't have special interests or lobbyists. I'm self-funding. And that
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: means that I report to the people of this state,
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 2: not to special interests. I'm going to fight for you,
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: but I need the patriots across the state to fight
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 2: for us for just five more days so I can
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: fight for you for four years. And we are going
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 2: to next year deliver the biggest property tax cut the
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 2: state has ever seen. I want to investigate how those
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 2: local dollars have been used in areas where it's more
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 2: than doubled. I'm going to launch scrutiny and give the
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 2: public transparency they deserve. And speaking of transparency, Brian, this
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 2: is an important point. Democrats like to talk a big
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 2: game about government transparency. Do you really believe that the
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 2: woman who won't show up to a basic debate, that
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: won't allow video or audio recording at her events, that
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 2: she's going to be the one who's transparent with the public?
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 2: I believe in the people of the state. We're wise people.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 2: Ohioans are smart. And I think when they think about it,
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 2: who is going to improve your life? The answer to
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 2: that in this race is it's me, not Amy Acton,
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 2: and I want you to vote accordingly.
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  Speaker 1: Vivek Ramaswamy, Governor Vivek Ramaswamy, what would you consider job one?
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  Speaker 1: You're sworn in. What would be your first priority? If
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: you could magically make something happen on day one, what
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: would you identify it to be?
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think it's embarking on the property tax relief
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: package across the state. Let's get to the details, expose
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: it for the public, how the public's dollars have been spent,
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 2: and then deliver within months the biggest property tax relief
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 2: package we've ever seen. And there are some other day
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 2: one executive orders, launch Medicaid fraud investigation.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: To end sanctuary city status, including in Cincinnati, to make
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 2: our streets safer. But we've got our day one executive
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 2: orders lined up. And that puts us, Brian, on a
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 2: path to taking this state to the next level, to
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 2: actually allowing families to live a safer life, particularly in
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 2: our cities, and a more affordable life across the state.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: Those are things I know I can deliver on. And
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 2: God forbid, if Amy Acton's elected next year, property taxes
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 2: will more than double electric bills will more than double
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 2: in contrast to cutting both of those things in half.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 2: That's the economic choice on the ballot. And I think
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 2: every family, you know, as hard as you fight for
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 2: your family every day, as hard as you work every day,
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 2: you deserve a government and a governor that works as
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 2: hard and fight this hard for you. And that's what
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you. We just got to get
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 2: in there to do it.
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And before we part coming today, Vivek Ramaswamy, uh, I,
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: Going back to the data centers, it's all the rage
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: to be against them. And I understand my belief is
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: that the opposition to data centers has more to do
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: with how it's going to impact humanity rather than the
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: fact that there's a data center in any given location.
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: But you've always championed data centers bringing their own power,
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: which is one of the out loud challenges people have.
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: Are you engaged in outreach with the federal government? Will
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: you be engaging in outreach? Because my understanding is small
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: modular reactors, and you and I have talked about this,
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: is the solution for so many of our energy problems,
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: but that's going to involve federal regulation reform. Do you
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: have a plan for that? Have you engaged with... Absolutely.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: I was with President Trump last night, and we're going
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 2: to get past the Ratepayer Protection Act at the federal level.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 2: We're going to ensure that we're bringing more energy into
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 2: our grid. And part of the reason people are paying
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 2: more electric bills, Brian, is also a lot of out-of-state mandates,
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 2: even via PJM, indirectly. for climate change misguided Green New
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 2: Deal policies that are causing Ohioans to pay more in
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 2: their electric bills. That is a big part of the
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 2: hidden cost here, too. So we need a governor who's
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 2: going to be assertive, who's going to put Ohioans first.
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 2: And I said this last night. President Trump says his
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 2: job is to put Americans first. That's correct. But my
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 2: job in this state is to put Ohioans first, to
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 2: fight for the 12 million people of this state to
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 2: have a better life, period. That's it.
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: That's the whole ballgame.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: Safer streets, lower costs, bigger paychecks, better schools. This is
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 2: what a governor can deliver. It's not rocket science. It's
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 2: just having the will to actually do it. And the
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 2: beauty of our country is that this choice, we don't
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 2: have to argue about it. This choice belongs to you.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 2: It belongs to us. It belongs to we, the people.
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 2: We don't have to complain about it. Just get out
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  Speaker 2: and vote. Early voting is open today.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 5: It is open tomorrow.
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 2: But if you get out there and just take 30
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 2: minutes out of your day to get out and vote
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 2: and take five more minutes to text five other people
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 2: to do the same thing, to remind them, to bug
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 2: them if you have to, that's how we protect our state.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 2: We don't want to become a version of what's happening
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 2: in Paris or socialist New York City or L.A. or
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 2: Minneapolis or Dearborn, Michigan. We don't have to accept this
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 2: spread of socialism in Ohio. We can stand for who
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: we are. We can stand for our state's values. Faith, family, patriotism,
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 2: hard work, freedom over socialism and communism, common sense over communism,
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 2: economic success for your family, higher paychecks through high-paying jobs
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 2: and lower costs through lower property taxes and lower electric bills.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 2: This is common sense. but it's in your hands. And
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 2: I think that for those who vote in a presidential year,
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 2: but don't always vote in a midterm year, this one
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 2: is a fork in the road. It's either, it's a
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 2: binary choice between going a communist direction or going in
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: the direction of common sense. That's it. And especially this year, Brian,
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: it's an emotional year because this is the 250th anniversary
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 2: of the birth of the United States of America, the
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 2: 250th anniversary of the signing of the greatest mission statement
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 2: ever written for a nation, the Declaration of Independence. Our founders,
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 2: they staked their lives, their honor, their fortunes. They fought
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 2: a revolution. Many of them died. Many of them actually
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 2: gave up their entire fortune and their entire treasure to
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 2: sacrifice it for this country so we could enjoy these
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 2: freedoms 250 years later. All we have to do to
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 2: protect it is get out and vote. And if on
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 2: America 250 people don't make the time to do that,
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 2: I think that's almost disrespectful to our founders. And the
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 2: people of this state love this country. We love our state.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 2: And I believe in the Ohioans in this state to
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 2: see through a lot of the standard lies, to see
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 2: through a lot of the deflections. And just ask the question,
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 2: who's going to allow you to live a more free life?
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 2: Who's going to allow you and your family to live
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 2: a higher quality life in Ohio? I know that Rob
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 2: McCulley and I and our administration, we're going to deliver
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 2: that for you. We just need to get there. And
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 2: that means if you get out to vote and get
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 2: your family members out to vote and get your colleagues
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 2: and neighbors out to vote, that's what we're asking you
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 2: to do. And you fight for us for those five
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 2: more days. We're going to fight for you for the
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 2: next four years. And Ohio will soon be the envy.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 2: Texas and Florida and other states across the country. That's
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 2: coming soon. A better life for every family in this state,
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 2: starting with lower property taxes, that number one agenda item.
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 2: We're ready to deliver. We just got to win this.
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 2: And I'm confident we will with your help. So thank
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 2: you for having me, Brian. And God bless everybody listening
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 2: to this and your families. We're ready to take this
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 2: state to the next level.
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  Speaker 1: Dear God, let's pray that you do. Vote Vivek. Vivek
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio. V-I-V-E-K-F-O-R. Ohio.com is where you find the website. Vivek,
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: I wish you all the luck in the world, my friend.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: On to Tuesday and the best of luck.
• 1:50:07
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• 1:50:14
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• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: expert Jay Ratliff. Lightening things up. At least we try to.
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: Sometimes some really bad news floating around in there. Welcome back,
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: Jay Ratliff. It's always great having you on my program.
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 6: A very pleasant good morning to you, my friend. A
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 6: lot to be thankful for today.
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: I'll go off the list because you expected less jet
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: Boeing 737 MAX 8 damaged after colliding with a catering
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: truck in Toronto. Did you see that one?
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 5: I did.
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 6: And they happen. And these are low speed collisions. And,
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 6: you know, when you clip a winglet or touch.
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 5: A wing or.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 6: Anything happens, I mean, everything stops. I believe this aircraft
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 6: was being towed at the time. So it happens. And
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 6: if there's one thing that drives us in airline management
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 6: nuts is to have a Low collision or low-speed collision.
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 6: That should never happen. And it totally takes that aircraft
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 6: out of service, which means you've immediately inconvenienced, let's say,
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 6: 150 people. That plane's going to be used for three
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 6: other flights that day and another 150 times three. You've
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 6: got 600 people that have just been impacted because sometimes–
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 6: you know, irresponsible behavior. Sometimes people just let their attention
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 6: kind of wane. Sometimes you don't have the proper support
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 6: personnel around you to make sure that you're doing it
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 6: correctly and nothing's in the way. And, you know, A
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 6: lot of times when these individuals have questions, they just
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 6: don't stop and check it out. They just kind of
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 6: keep going and hope things are going to work out. And, Brian,
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 6: every month something happens where you've got some aircraft damage
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 6: around the country that, again, nobody's life is endangered normally.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 6: It's just an aggravation to everybody involved. And when you
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 6: have two planes that clip wings, now you've doubled the
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 6: issue and you're incommunicating all kind of people.
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  Speaker 1: I just find it hard to believe that it can happen. Again,
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: you're talking about a giant aircraft being slowly towed across
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: the tarmac. It's like, Lord Almighty, how can this even
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: be a thing? But it is. All right, let's get
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: back to the list. United Flight had to return to
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. What happened? What was the security threat, Jay?
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 6: A passenger was on board, and a flight attendant was
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 6: walking the aisles, glanced down, and this guy was typing
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 6: to a friend about hijacking the airplanes.
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the flight attendant just keeps on walking,
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 6: goes up to the cockpit, tells the captain what's going on.
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 6: Captain immediately tells the passengers, there's an issue with the airplane.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 6: They've got to come back to Vegas. Everybody thinks it's
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 6: a mechanical problem. They turn around and come back and land.
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 6: The air traffic control tower, when you listen to the tapes,
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 6: they say, hey, look, you have the passenger restrained. And
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 6: the captain says, he doesn't even know what's going on.
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 6: So they all come off the airplane. He comes off.
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 6: He gets arrested. And initially, Brian, I've got to be honest.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 6: I thought, okay, did the flight attendant really see this?
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 6: Did she just want to go back? You know, I've
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 6: got all these things in my mind because that's been
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 6: known to happen.
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 5: Really?
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah. You know, you'd be surprised sometimes. Somebody's leaving
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 6: their boyfriend. They don't want to. And some mysterious odor
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 6: causes the flight to go back. But in this case,
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 6: the guy comes back and he is detained and then
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 6: he's arrested. So obviously they found something there that was amiss.
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 6: And he's later admitted to it. But look, he's never
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 6: going to fly Delta Airlines again. He's going to get
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 6: a fine from the FAA for probably $ 20, 000, $ 30, 000. He
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 6: could face civil penalties, obviously. And I suspect Delta might
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 6: send him a little bill for that return to Las Vegas.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 6: And at today's fuel prices, that could be $ 40, 000 in
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 6: its own right. So he said it was just a
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 6: drunken joke. And typically, you have a lot of times
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 6: where people are making these kinds of what they think
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 6: are offhanded.
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 5: Light remarks.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 6: And you and I have talked about it before, Brian.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 6: When people fly, they get very nervous. Some of them
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 6: are just very anxious. And when they do, a lot
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 6: of people just talk, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 6: And I've had people come up to my counter that
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 6: in that emotional state, they'll try to make a joke
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 6: that ends horribly, where they say, oh, yeah, when you
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 6: scream in the bag and you see the bomb, don't worry,
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 6: it's an inert. Or it's something stupid along that line. Well,
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 6: not only are they not flying, but everybody in their
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 6: group is going to be taken out and interviewed by
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 6: law enforcement, which could take two or three hours, and
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 6: maybe the airline will let them back on. Most of
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 6: the time, they're just going to refund their money and say, look,
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 6: go somewhere else. So you have one person acting like
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 6: an absolute idiot at one brief moment in their life
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 6: that's ruined everything for everybody.
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: Can I ask you this? There used to be a
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: federal no-fly list or watch list. Is that still out there?
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: It's still there. And would this guy be placed on that?
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 6: He would not because this– remember, the airlines don't share
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 6: their individual lists. And you might be talking about the
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 6: terrorism watch list.
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 6: That is– that individual would– you've got two different lists here.
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 6: One is just the airlines– You know, something happened where
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 6: you assaulted a flight attendant, caused a diversion, whatever. You're
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 6: never flying us again, but they can fly any other
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 6: airline that they want. But the federal Homeland Security care
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 6: watch list, yeah, if you're on that, you're not flying
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  Speaker 6: any carrier in the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's go ahead and get this other one in
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: because it's sort of analogous. The United flight, the passenger
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: threat had caused that flight to have to return to
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: its base.
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  Speaker 6: International flight coming out of Miami United just had taken off,
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 6: still climbing, and apparently the passenger was having a conversation
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  Speaker 6: with a flight attendant who I believe was still seated
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 6: at the time, and he was wanting something, and she
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 6: was saying no, and he was not happy with what
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 6: he heard, and he made the comment, that's okay, I'll
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 6: take care of you when we land. Well, she communicates
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 6: that to the lead flight attendant who tells the captain,
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 6: and that plane comes around, lands in Miami, and that
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 6: guy's arrested and taken away. So I don't– hopefully the
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 6: charges of threatening and things like that will actually stick.
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 6: A lot of times airlines just don't want to take
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 6: the time and energy to pursue those charges because it
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 6: takes a lot of people out of the line of service.
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 6: which just frustrates me to no end. But they're still
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 6: facing fines from the FAA and a possible bill from
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 6: United for bringing that airplane back. So we're at a
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  Speaker 6: point right now, Brian, where we've got, I won't say
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 6: more of these taking place, but anytime they happen, it's
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 6: just stupid. And if I'm ever on a plane and
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 6: somebody starts to act up, I'm praying, shut your mouth,
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 6: shut your mouth, shut your mouth, because if not, you're
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 6: in Topeka, Kansas before you know it, instead of going
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 6: to San Diego because they're letting somebody off of a
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 6: flight that they had to land to kick off.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and you did anticipate my next question. I was wondering,
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: we have this seemingly de-evolution of humanity, ethics, morals, and
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: all the basic social interactions have devolved to a state
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: where everything is in an argument. I'm just kind of
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: wondering your experience, and you've got decades of experience in
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: the aviation industry. Do you believe these incidents are more frequent,
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 1: or is it just because we have social media and
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: the internet now that we get immediately alerted to the
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: fact that, yes, there are jerks in the world who
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: cause this kind of thing to happen?
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  Speaker 6: You know, we've always had issues, but Brian, we've got
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 6: more people flying now than ever before. So that tells
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 6: you from a number standpoint, the frequency per thousand flights
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 6: is going to be up. So we're having more of
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 6: these than we've ever had. And some of that can
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 6: be attributed to the fact that you have more people flying.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 6: But look, there's also a in the days of travel, 20, 30,
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 6: 40 years ago, you had fewer people flying that most
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 6: of them were business travelers and you had some of
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 6: the leisure travelers as well. But you were paying such
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 6: a price for the ticket that typically, you know, people
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 6: risk a lot of money. They're going to behave themselves,
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 6: have a good time. Now, some of these fares are
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 6: so cheap, it's like a bus ticket. They just jump
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 6: on it and go. And sometimes people that come on
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 6: are just, they, they, they're not respectful. They, they just,
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 6: I mean, there's all kinds of things that go with it.
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 6: And it just, I don't want to say that there's
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 6: a correlation between how much you pay and your behavior.
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 6: Cause I think that would be too wide a brush,
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 6: but I do, I do think that factors into it though.
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 6: And I'm not going to ignore that.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough. You're the one with all the experts, all
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: the experience. That's why you are the iHeartMedia Aviation expert.
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: We'll come back. We'll talk about some fares. Are they
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: going up? Are they going down? Does it matter to
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 1: the airlines plus profit and travel action?
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 5: See the talk station.
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 4: You ever been in a cockpit before?
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: It's 840-55KRC, the talk station. Jay Ratliff has. He's iHeartMedia
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: Aviation expert. We get the benefit of his company every
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: Thursday for a few segments. Before we get over to
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: profitability and airfares, Jay, what is the story with this
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: travel expert losing 50,000 frequent flyer miles?
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's Katie Nastro. She is someone that is often
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 6: giving travel tips and different types of things and does
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 6: a good job. And recently, somebody hacked into her American
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 6: Airlines account, frequent flyer account, and swiped 50,000 miles. Now,
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 6: she later said, well, one of the issues is I
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 6: use the same password for everything. And when my password
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 6: was exposed, my frequent flyer account was targeted. Now, this
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 6: is a frequent target for hackers because our frequent flyer
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 6: miles is not really top of mind for a lot
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 6: of people. So it's not something you might check as
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 6: frequently as, say, your bank account or some other account
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 6: that you keep a close eye on. And somebody went
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 6: in there, grabbed 50,000 miles, and it was a while
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 6: before she was aware of it. She contacted American Airlines.
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 6: The frequent flyer department, she had to have a local
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 6: police report, had to jump through a lot of hoops.
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 6: I think she did eventually get the miles back. But, Brian,
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 6: what surprised me was that a lot of times those
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 6: miles are not restored. So that's certainly an issue. Now,
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 6: the thing that I'm still lost at is any time
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 6: that I burn any of my American Airline frequent flyer
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 6: miles or Delta, I'm getting immediate emails. Hey, thanks for,
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 6: you know, using your frequent flyer miles and buying this ticket.
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 6: That type of notice is immediate. You would know something
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 6: was up. So I'm not sure how that was missed. But,
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 6: you know, the bottom line here is keep an eye
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 6: on them. And for some people, they let them accumulate
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 6: to the point they're never going to use them. And,
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 6: you know, I always like if you're not going to
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 6: use them to donate them, there's a lot of great
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 6: charities around that you can donate those miles to. And
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 6: just keep an eye on them because, sadly, people get
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 6: in there and try to steal from us. And for
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 6: a lot of them, it's just low-hanging fruit because so
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 6: many people are just kind of oblivious to those accounts.
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  Speaker 1: It's a nice thing if you're not thinking about the
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: frequent flyer miles, besides the problem you just mentioned, because
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: you'll find out one day that when you do want
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: to fly and you want to fly in an affordable
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: way with your family, there they are. They certainly came
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: in handy when we went out to Yellowstone National Park
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. It was like, oh my God,
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: that's right, I got frequent flyer miles. So after like
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: 20 years of just sitting on them and every time
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: I use a credit card, I get some miles for it,
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: I finally found myself in a position to use them.
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  Speaker 1: But Other people are using them all the time.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Brian, it's a good point because, you know, sometimes
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 6: you have a last-minute need that comes up where you've
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 6: got to fly from here to somewhere else. And, goodness,
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 6: if you don't have the advance of three months in
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 6: advance to buy your.
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 5: Ticket, you've got two weeks.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 6: So instead of paying a really, really high airfare, you
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 6: can go, hey, I've got some of those miles. And
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 6: even if you can't pay for the entire trip with
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 6: your miles, you maybe can pay for some of it,
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 6: most of it, and it at least softens the blow
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 6: just a bit.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Look, a lot of these airline credit card miles, like
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 6: the Citibank card for American, you're spending $ 100 a year on.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 6: So you're paying for this. So as you earn these miles,
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 6: please use them.
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: Good point. I don't know which carrier you select, because
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: I've been an American frequent flyer mile collector for all
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: those years. It's because I was in Chicago at the time,
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: and all my flights typically were American, but not as
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: many choices here at CVG with that.
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 6: Well, I've got a Delta SkyMiles. and an American Airlines
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 6: Advantage card, credit card that I run through my business.
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 6: So I'm able to accumulate quite a few miles every year. And,
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 6: you know, a lot of times I'll just give them
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 6: to my sister to come out and visit mom. Or,
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 6: you know, if we've got a relative that needs to
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 6: fly somewhere off, we fly less now than we ever have.
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 6: And I'm very quick to pass these on. And, of course,
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 6: sometimes you think, gee whiz, I'm spending money on these
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 6: cards that if I'm not going to use the perk,
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 6: let me find something that I do.
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: Fair enough. I'm going to talk about profit. Frontier, what's
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: their story? And fares are increasing, and airlines do not
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: seem to mind. Plus, hub delays. We'll talk about that
• 2:02:57
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• 2:03:01
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  Speaker 1: Jay Ratliff. Pivoting over, Frontier, one of your favorites, right, Jay?
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: They did a pretty decent quarter, didn't they?
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 6: I'm a big fan of Frontier. Remember, Frontier is what
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 6: brought the low-cost carriers to CBG when they brought their
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 6: one flight a day from Dayton to Denver down to
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 6: CBG all those years ago. And boy, it's been great
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 6: ever since. But they recorded a quarterly profit, record revenue
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 6: for the quarter, $ 1. 4 billion. Their stock rose 8% as
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 6: a result. And look, even with higher fuel costs, I
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 6: think it was 56% higher fuel costs than what they
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 6: had to pay earlier. That's $ 150 million in the quarter.
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 6: They still ended up with a nice profit. And when
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 6: you threw in some of the other accounting stuff, it
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 6: actually came out to a loss, but the initial report
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 6: was a profit, which is good news. Brian, the only
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 6: kind of negative aspect to The report was their advanced bookings,
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 6: not as strong as they would like. They said they're
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 6: actually at a five-year low, so certainly that's a concern
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 6: moving forward. But some great news. Look, any time I
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 6: see a low-cost carrier that's doing well, as Frontier is,
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 6: even with some of these rising fuel costs, I'm thrilled.
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 6: That means that people are supporting them not only here
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 6: at CBG but in airports around the country, and I'm
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 6: just thrilled to see it.
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  Speaker 1: Amen to that. And, you know, again, God bless Frontier
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: Airlines for starting the trend here at CVG, which was
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: the most expensive airport in the country at one point, wasn't.
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 3: It, Jack?
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 6: It was. And when they came here, people thought, you
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 6: have got to be crazy. That's where low-cost carriers go
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 6: to die. And they were here. The community responded in
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 6: such a way. I was so proud. And then Allegiant,
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 6: who never flew into large airports before... individuals at the
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 6: Cincinnati administrative team, whose names I've been sworn not to mention,
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 6: begged and pleaded and said to Allegiant, look, you can
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 6: make money here. And they talked Allegiant into coming in
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 6: right after Frontier. And the next thing you know, Southwest,
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 6: who's in Dayton, says, hey, we want to get in
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 6: on this. They closed the Dayton operation, moved it to Cincinnati. So,
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 6: I mean, you've got all of these low-cost carriers that
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 6: have been flocking to Cincinnati. The airfares have dropped so much.
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 6: I mean, you can go round trip to Atlanta, sometimes Florida,
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 6: a hundred bucks, 150 bucks round trip. Uh, it's incredible.
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 6: And yes, a frontier is the one that broke the
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 6: door down and they will always be one of my favorites.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and I just think back when, when it
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: wasn't that way, CVG was so expensive, you could get
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: a substantially cheaper flight out of Dayton. And for me,
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: you know, driving from since township down to CVG, it's
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: like a 45 minute drive. It's not that much more
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: to go up to Dayton. So we've done that. And then,
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: Lo and behold, you got to lay over in Cincinnati,
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: fly down to Dayton. It's like, what?
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 6: Well, some people would get off in Cincinnati. They'd fly Dayton, Cincy,
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 6: Cincy to L.A. They'd come back through there, and they're like, eh,
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 6: I'm just going to get off here.
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 6: Because somebody dropped them off in Dayton, and they would.
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 6: So you'd have this calm air flight that was leaving
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 6: Cincy going to Dayton. It's supposed to have 49 people,
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 6: and there's 13 on there because a lot of people
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 6: just got off closer to home.
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: Well, real quick, before we leave the Frontier Airlines topic,
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: you mentioned the advanced booking is down. That's people buying
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 1: an early flight to lock in a fare.
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because part of each airline's infrastructure is individuals that
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 6: look for computer programs that look at future bookings to
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 6: see how strong they are, to see which markets are
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 6: doing well, which markets are not. Typically, Brian, what happens
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 6: is when you see a market that's lagging, the decision
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 6: is made to throw out some cheaper fares, not a lot,
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 6: a few of them, so that you can put as
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 6: many butts in seats as you can because once that
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 6: door is closed, as you and I have talked about
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 6: so many times before, it's a perishable product. Airlines lose money,
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 6: and so they want to fill up every seat they can.
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 6: But that's how they used to think. One of the
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 6: trends that we're seeing right now, and it's on your
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 6: list that I sent you, is that airlines are seeing
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 6: these reduced bookings And they're not throwing out cheaper fares.
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 6: They're in essence drawing a line in the sand and says, look,
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 6: if we've got to operate this flight with 80% load factor,
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 6: we're going to do it. And if you want to fly,
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 6: here's the price. Now, it's going to be fascinating to
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 6: see how this goes because you've got consumers that are
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 6: proving that they'll pay whatever to fly. And airlines are thinking,
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 6: you know, if we stop offering some of these types
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 6: of deals, people are going to come around to flying
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 6: or they won't. So who's going to blink first, the
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 6: consumer or the airline? It's going to be fascinating as
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 6: we move forward to see how this is going to happen.
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 5: But look, the CEO.
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 6: For Delta United American have all been asked, When the
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 6: price of fuel drops, will we see these airfares that
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 6: you had to increase drop as well? Every single CEO
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 6: has said, no, we're going to keep the fares pretty
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 6: much where the market demands, which is reflected in that
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 6: previous analysis of how airlines are operating right now. So, Brian,
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 6: it's going to be interesting. If people stop flying, they
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 6: will come back to the table. But if we keep paying,
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 6: airfares are going to go up.
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 1: Well, my, my static rule is if it's eight hours
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: or less, I'm driving, you know, period, end of story.
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: So I know I have a higher tolerance for driving
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: than a lot of people because I really enjoy driving,
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: but that's it. And I won't fly unless I have to.
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 1: And that's the point I always arrive at. The question is,
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: do you really.
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 6: I'm with you there as well.
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: Do you want to get there?
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 6: I fly a little less now than we ever have.
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: I find that hard to believe, considering the stockpile of
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: frequent flyer miles you have there, Jay Ratliff. What's going on?
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 6: We've got like 800,000 or 900,000 miles, and it continues
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 6: to grow. So, yeah, we could fly to Europe and
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 6: back first class a couple times.
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Eric heard us talking about this. He said, I
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: don't know anything about that, meaning he's stocking up miles
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 1: and not paying attention to them. He's got more than
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: 600,000 accumulated. He said he's planning on going to Reykjavik
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: sometime before the end of the decade.
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 6: They haven't sent us pictures. That's a beautiful, beautiful place
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 6: in Iceland.
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: Well, he's got a few years left before the decade ends.
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: It's on his bucket list. Eric, good morning. Jay Ratliff,
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: we always end on Hub Delays. How's it looking out
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: there for air travel?
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 6: You're talking about how good it is. I've got to
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 6: go to Guadalajara, Mexico to find you a delay, brother.
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 6: So that should tell you just how good it is
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 6: in the States.
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 1: Well, Guadalajara won't do. Jay Ratliff will every week on
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: Thursdays beginning at 8 p.m.