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55KRC Tuesday Show - Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: All right, fifty five KRC. He talks stations, Joe Strucker
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Speaker 1: rolling out to Van Hale, and I'm Dan Carroll and
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Speaker 1: for Brian Thomas, who's taking a take a little breather today.
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Speaker 1: So it's my great honor to come before the fifty
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Speaker 1: five KRC audience here in the morning. I got up, Joe.
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Speaker 1: I got up early this morning. Well not up, I
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Speaker 1: mean relatively relative to coming in and doing this show.
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Speaker 1: And I was reading last night about the coronal mass
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Speaker 1: ejection that the sun center our way over the weekend,
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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be here and you're gonna be able
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Speaker 1: to see some Aurora borealis in the Cincinnati area starting
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Speaker 1: about midnight till about three point thirty four o'clock in
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Speaker 1: the morning. So I'm up before three and I'm thinking,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go outside and I'm gonna see the northern lights.
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Speaker 1: I got nothing, Joe, did you even look up this
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Speaker 1: morning when you came outside? It was cold? I mean
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Speaker 1: it felt like it has I mean we have, look,
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Speaker 1: we've had a few cold days, but this morning I
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Speaker 1: was thinking to myself, it really feels like January. But nonetheless,
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Speaker 1: I threw my sweatshirt on ran outside, I'm looking around it.
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Speaker 1: It was a little cloudy, and I'm thinking to myself,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe there's a little bit of an amber
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Speaker 1: hue to this, maybe a little you know, maybe just
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Speaker 1: a little bit of red. And maybe I'm just trying
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Speaker 1: to convince myself that I've actually seen something. But I
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Speaker 1: but upon further analysis, I don't think I really did.
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Speaker 1: And I'm trying. I mean, this is it seems to me.
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Speaker 1: In the last seven eight months, we've had a handful
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Speaker 1: of days where they come out and say, hey, and
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Speaker 1: I've seen some of the pictures on My wife put
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Speaker 1: the put the pictures. She's got the Facebook. I'm on Facebook.
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Speaker 1: I don't look at it all the time. She's got
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Speaker 1: it on her phone. I don't have it on my phone.
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Speaker 1: She looks at it. She hey, look at these pictures.
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Speaker 1: And people in northern Kentucky, people around the around our neighborhood,
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Speaker 1: putting these pictures out seeing the northern lights. And I'm
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Speaker 1: walking outside, I'm looking she's out there with me. No, no,
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Speaker 1: but three or four times in the last few once
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Speaker 1: we tried that hasn't happened. And I heard about this
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Speaker 1: yesterday and I think I thought, well, you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: not going to be up at midnight. Hopefully I'll be
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Speaker 1: in bed asleep at midnight, and when the alarm goes off,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to set it a little bit earlier, a
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Speaker 1: little bit before three. Are going to jump up, run outside,
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna see the northern lights.
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Speaker 2: But nothing.
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Speaker 1: So if you saw something five one, three, fifty five hundred,
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Speaker 1: I'd like to hear if I'm the only one who
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Speaker 1: missed out. And Joe didn't even look. So it was
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Speaker 1: too it was too cold. I don't blame him. It's
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Speaker 1: too cold to look. It's too cold to look up
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Speaker 1: this morning. One of these days and me, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe I'll just have to bite the bullet and get on,
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Speaker 1: you know, one of those trips to Alaska or maybe Greenland.
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Speaker 1: You know, once we take over Greenland, we'll be up there.
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Speaker 1: I mean, what do you really, what do you make
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Speaker 1: of that? Uh, I'm I'm gonna hold my fire. Look,
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Speaker 1: I do not understand. I understand. On one hand, I
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Speaker 1: understand when it comes to Greenland the strategic importance of
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Speaker 1: location wise, and that we need to beat the sovieton
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Speaker 1: not the Soviet Union, but Russia and China and these
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Speaker 1: others to the punch on having control of that. Can
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Speaker 1: I understand why strategically from a military and national security
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Speaker 1: perspective space perspective, that can be very important. But the way,
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Speaker 1: I'll be honest, the way Trump is playing this, I
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Speaker 1: don't know that. I don't see his bigger pece. He's
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Speaker 1: always got a bigger picture. Whenever he makes a move
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Speaker 1: over here, it's it's because of something else that's going
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Speaker 1: on that may not be readily apparent. But the bigger
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Speaker 1: picture on Greenland, I am not an expert on that.
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Speaker 1: Maybe our guest from bite Bart will have some sense.
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Speaker 1: Joe has set up a bunch of guests in the
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Speaker 1: seven o'clock hour and the eight o'clock hour this morning.
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Speaker 1: Brother Andre Ewing is going to be here at seven
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Speaker 1: o five, tom zoatowski seven point thirty, we will talk
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Speaker 1: to the deputy politics editor Bradley Jay of Breitbart and
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Speaker 1: get the inside scoop on that. That'll be at eight
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Speaker 1: oh five, and then Daniel Davis at eight thirty. So
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Speaker 1: the last couple hours of the show are really are
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Speaker 1: really filled up. In the meantime, I've got a couple
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Speaker 1: of things I want to talk about that I've been
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Speaker 1: looking forward to talking about I had a chance to
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Speaker 1: speak yesterday with a young woman. Her name is Julianna Freeman,
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Speaker 1: and she wrote a piece in The Federalist a few
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Speaker 1: days ago. Federal It's a great website always, it's one
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Speaker 1: of the websites I look at every day, especially when
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Speaker 1: I'm preparing for this show or the other shows I
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Speaker 1: do down in the Hall. And so much good coverage.
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Speaker 1: Molly Hemingway is there. She's the editor in chief I
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Speaker 1: believe is her title over there at the Federal List.
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Speaker 1: It just does a great job and saying so many
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Speaker 1: great writers over there, so much great perspective on things.
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Speaker 1: And Julianna Freeman wrote a piece that talks about it's
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Speaker 1: really aimed at younger generations. Even when I say younger generations,
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Speaker 1: younger than mine and Joe Strecker, I think I'm a
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Speaker 1: little bit older than Joe, but he still we're still
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Speaker 1: about the same. Joe. You're old enough to remember when
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Speaker 1: when TV was the three channels, right, ABC, CBS, and NBC.
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Speaker 1: And you were a kid, right if the president was
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Speaker 1: on TV. The president was on every channel. You had
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Speaker 1: no choice, but you're gonna watch, You're gonna so you remember,
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Speaker 1: he's old. He's been around long enough to remember those days.
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Speaker 1: And those days I think were important to us as
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Speaker 1: a nation because whenever there was a big event, at
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Speaker 1: least one third of the nation was tuned into that
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Speaker 1: big event. Last night was the National Championship football game,
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Speaker 1: and congratulations to the Indiana Hoosiers. They won that game.
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Speaker 1: But that was that was a big event. Now we
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Speaker 1: are you know, we are so fragmented and segmented in
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Speaker 1: terms of what we are able to look at for
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Speaker 1: entertainment purposes. I don't know that one third of the
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Speaker 1: country saw that game last night. There's a big game.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you know the ratings were up there. It
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Speaker 1: would all be interested to see how many how many
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Speaker 1: people tuned in, but we don't. The point is, though,
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Speaker 1: back then, we all we all watched the same TV series,
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Speaker 1: We saw the big events on TV. We had a
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Speaker 1: lot of the same shared experiences, and I think that
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Speaker 1: went a long way towards galvanizing us as a nation
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Speaker 1: and getting a lot of Americans on the same page.
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Speaker 1: But now we really we don't have that anymore. You've
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Speaker 1: got when it comes to entertain attainment choices, you've got
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Speaker 1: far more than you can ever in reality be a
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Speaker 1: part of, or look at or spend a lot of time.
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Speaker 1: You can spend a you can spend a little bit
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Speaker 1: of time with each one of them, or maybe a
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Speaker 1: lot of time with maybe just one or two. But
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Speaker 1: there's no way you can see them all. And so anything,
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Speaker 1: any entertainment venue that satisfies your interest is where you're
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Speaker 1: going to go. But Juliana Freemany, a young writer, wrote
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Speaker 1: a great piece about this, and I'm going to get
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Speaker 1: into this here in the first hour because it is
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Speaker 1: just filled with very profound statements and just a lot
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Speaker 1: of truth when it talks. And she relates this to
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Speaker 1: civic responsibility and especially what young people are doing with
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Speaker 1: and how they're running their lives based on technology. And
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Speaker 1: it's not and it's not just in the The brilliant
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Speaker 1: thing about this piece is and I recommend everyone read it.
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Speaker 1: If you go to the Federalist, look it up. It
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Speaker 1: was it was it appeared over the weekend and the
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Speaker 1: title of the piece is parents must actively opt out
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Speaker 1: of turning their kids into digital age zombies. And it
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Speaker 1: was published on January sixteenth, so four days ago. And
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go through this piece, because there's just
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Speaker 1: so much great writing and so much great and great
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Speaker 1: person effective in this. And I had a chance to
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Speaker 1: talk to her yesterday and she really is an excellent
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Speaker 1: young person. So we're going to get into that, and
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Speaker 1: your phone calls as well. Five one, three, seven, four, nine,
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Speaker 1: fifty five hundred as we roll on till nine o'clock
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Speaker 1: this morning. Dan Carroll sitting in for Brian Thomas on
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Speaker 1: this very cold Tuesday morning, fifty five KRCV Talk station
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Speaker 1: w KRC. Since then, right now we have hold on
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Speaker 1: one second, we have eleven at fifty five KRCV talk
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Speaker 1: stations and good morning once again, Dan Carroll in for
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Speaker 1: Brian Thomas. So I was talking about Julianna Freeman and
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Speaker 1: the piece she wrote in The Federalist parents must actively
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Speaker 1: opt out of turning their kids into digital age zombies.
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Speaker 1: And it's really not just about parents, but really it's
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Speaker 1: about all of us. And she starts off about talking
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Speaker 1: about technology and television and when we were younger, we
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Speaker 1: were all warned about television when parents fretted over too
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Speaker 1: many hours glued to the screen after school teachers rolled
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Speaker 1: in a TV on a metal cart like contraband cultural
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Speaker 1: critics caution that the glowing box in our living rooms
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Speaker 1: might rot our brains. Television was the villain of its age,
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Speaker 1: and just like social media today, it existed as a passive,
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Speaker 1: mind numbing force that threatened attention spans in civic life.
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Speaker 1: Neil Postman took that fear seriously, and in nineteen eighty
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Speaker 1: five he declared that we Americans are amusing ourselves to death.
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Speaker 1: What feels almost quaint now is not Postman's alarm, but
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Speaker 1: his target. Television was merely the prototype for the power
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Speaker 1: that cell phones and tablets have over the population. The
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Speaker 1: danger was never the screen itself, but what happens when
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Speaker 1: a society allows its dominant media to define how truth
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Speaker 1: is presented, how politics is understood, and how meaning is measured.
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Speaker 1: Think about that. What happens when a society allows its
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Speaker 1: dominant media? And what is the dominant media today? It's
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Speaker 1: the cell phone, It's what you see on the cell phone.
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Speaker 1: In some cases, it's social media or the websites you
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Speaker 1: look at. But the dominant media is it? It is?
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Speaker 1: And that's I think that's a serious question that we
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Speaker 1: should ask ourselves. Is this defining how truth is presented,
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Speaker 1: how politics is understood how meaning is measured, and she
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Speaker 1: goes on to explain herself further. In this piece, Postman
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Speaker 1: was not arguing against technology. He was warning that every
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Speaker 1: medium carries a philosophy, and that some philosophies are incompatible
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Speaker 1: with serious thoughts. Or Well feared those who would ban books,
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Speaker 1: Postman wrote. Huxley feared that there would be no reason
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Speaker 1: to ban a book, for there would be no one
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Speaker 1: who wanted to read one. George Orwell, the author of
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four, imagined a tyrannical government suppressing the flow
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Speaker 1: of truth and free speech through pain. Aldus Huxley, who
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Speaker 1: wrote the book Brave New World, imagine tyranny through pleasure.
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Speaker 1: The modern digital ecosystem has reignited the debate as to
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Speaker 1: whether the United States will devolve into a vision of
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Speaker 1: Orwell or Huxley. We are not overly constrained by the
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Speaker 1: heavy hand of federal overlords. Instead, atomized citizens entertain themselves
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Speaker 1: into irrelevance. This is how we arrived to a Postman
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Speaker 1: calls peekaboo news information without continuity or consequence. Stories surface, briefly, disappear,
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Speaker 1: and are replaced before they can demand action or reflection.
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Speaker 1: A war, a scandal, a meme, and a sponsored post
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Speaker 1: flash before your eyes, quicker than meaningful comprehension. We are
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Speaker 1: flooded with information postman morn, but starved for knowledge. The
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Speaker 1: algorithm does not ask whether someone or something is true
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Speaker 1: or important, only whether it's clickable. And think about that
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Speaker 1: for a second. Think about and this is something that
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Speaker 1: I've talked about many, many times, is that the news
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Speaker 1: cycle that we have these days, the stories come and
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Speaker 1: go so fast, and stories that years ago would have
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Speaker 1: been major stories, major stories with major consequences, stories that
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Speaker 1: would have led the newscast every morning, every night for
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Speaker 1: days on end, with reporters and news anchors digging deep
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Speaker 1: into these stories to do what to find meeting to
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Speaker 1: find out why things happen, and if it was something
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Speaker 1: that was that was wrong, something that shouldn't have happened,
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Speaker 1: you find out who did it, you find out why
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Speaker 1: they did it, and then you expose the consequences of
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Speaker 1: what their actions were. Do we get that anymore? With
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Speaker 1: so many major major news stories and what she writes
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Speaker 1: here is absolutely true. Story surface briefly, disappear and are
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Speaker 1: replaced before they can demand action or reflection. And I
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Speaker 1: mean as a radio talk show host. This is something
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Speaker 1: I talk about all the time, and I prepare for
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Speaker 1: shows and I'm like, and I see these stories, and
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Speaker 1: I come on and I'm telling you, I am going
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Speaker 1: to talk about this story because it is a major story.
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Speaker 1: And I present these stories, and then then in the
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Speaker 1: course of the same show, there's something of equal importance
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Speaker 1: that happens and gets exposed. So on one hand, we
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Speaker 1: are fortunate that we have all the alternative news sources
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Speaker 1: that we have to bring us this information, but all
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Speaker 1: of it happens so quickly that we do not have
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Speaker 1: the time for meaningful comprehension. We don't have the time
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Speaker 1: for meaning meaningful exploration, and meaningful ferreting out of all
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Speaker 1: the information in these stories. That's one of the reasons
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Speaker 1: I appreciate Brian Thomas and what he does, because he
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Speaker 1: will on stories of that are of great importance or
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Speaker 1: he thinks should be of great importance. He will spend
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Speaker 1: the time to dig deep into those stories and hopefully
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Speaker 1: provide some context and some meaning. And that's that's why
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Speaker 1: I recommend to everyone in this audience to find this
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Speaker 1: piece and to read it. I'm going to continue talking
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Speaker 1: about this on the other side of this little break
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Speaker 1: right here. But it's five twenty five, Dan Carroll and
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Speaker 1: for Brian Thomas on fifty five KRCV talk.
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Speaker 3: Station fifty five KRC now that in New Year.
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Speaker 1: That's one of my all time favorite songs right there,
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Speaker 1: Joe Strecker Scorpions the Zoo. Just great music. I could
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Speaker 1: I just when I got that on an album and
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Speaker 1: just absolutely wore out the grooves on that on that LP.
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Speaker 1: He used to sit around in my dorm room and
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Speaker 1: just crank this up as loud as I possibly could, Unbold,
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Speaker 1: I wanted, I wanted everyone in the building to hear it,
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Speaker 1: and they did. That was fantastic. I want to get
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Speaker 1: back to this piece though, and uh, just make a
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Speaker 1: couple of more points here and then we'll get to
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Speaker 1: Thomas on the line. We'll get Tom I'm here in
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Speaker 1: a minute. But the we're talking about, uh, the the
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Speaker 1: modern digital ecosystem, and we are talking about the piece
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Speaker 1: that it was written by Juliana Freeman in the in
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Speaker 1: the Federalist, and we talked about peekaboo news, how information
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Speaker 1: appears and disappears and we really don't have the time
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Speaker 1: for meaningful COMPREHENSI comprehension anymore. We are We are flooded
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Speaker 1: with information Postman warned, but we are starved for knowledge.
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Speaker 1: So think about that. How true is that we have information,
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Speaker 1: all kinds of information in our fingertips, but do we
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Speaker 1: really have the knowledge to back it up and be
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Speaker 1: able to deal with that information in a meaningful way?
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Speaker 1: The algorithm. The algorithm does not ask whether something is
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Speaker 1: true or important, only whether it's clickable clicks equal revenue
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Speaker 1: for advertisers, big tech company. So in a sense, we
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Speaker 1: are operating both under the imagined societies of Huxley and Orwell.
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Speaker 1: Follow the money, the private public partnerships, and you will
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Speaker 1: find yourself entwined in a web of commercial interests that
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Speaker 1: likely do not bend to your benefit. But that doesn't matter,
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Speaker 1: because you're more concerned with being a participant in the
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Speaker 1: modern world than untangling something you don't understand. And how
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Speaker 1: true is that? I think that addresses so many of
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Speaker 1: the keyboard warriors that we have these days, so many
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Speaker 1: people who just put so much stuff out there that
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Speaker 1: that really carries no meaning at all, but yet to
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Speaker 1: them it does because what because they're getting clicks, and
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Speaker 1: the only reason they're doing it is because they want
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Speaker 1: to be a participant in the modern world, and it
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Speaker 1: does it doesn't matter that. I mean, we have so
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Speaker 1: many people that and I think about this whenever I
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Speaker 1: see someone with a million different apps on their phone
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Speaker 1: and they may be involved in commercial enterprises that do
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Speaker 1: not bend to their benefit. It benefits the commercial and
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Speaker 1: this is something that Dave Hatter talks about all the time.
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Speaker 1: So you want to be part of all that's going on,
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Speaker 1: but you're entangled in something that you really don't understand,
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Speaker 1: and there's just it's just way too confusing to try
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Speaker 1: and separate it all out. Let's go to Tom Tom.
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Speaker 1: You're on fifty five KRC Thy morning, Dan going Tom,
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Speaker 1: I'm going great, great to hear from you what's.
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Speaker 4: Going on and any a very unlikely chance that Brian listening.
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Speaker 4: We certainly hope he feels.
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Speaker 2: Better, absolutely very soon.
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Speaker 4: And then what he's going through, for lack of a
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Speaker 4: better term, sucks.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it sucks. And uh, I would imagine that
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Speaker 1: he's getting some some some shut eye right now, so
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Speaker 1: more more power to him. I hope he's sleeping.
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Speaker 4: All. On that note, during the hours that you mentioned
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Speaker 4: of when you were talking about that Aurora borealis. I
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Speaker 4: too was staring at the back of my eyelids, so
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Speaker 4: uh didn't even actually didn't even hear about it. But
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Speaker 4: even if I did, I'm not gonna bother.
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Speaker 1: With Have you ever have you ever seen the northern lights?
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Speaker 1: Have you ever had a chance. I've looked to.
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Speaker 4: The north that I've seen some lights, So that's I mean,
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Speaker 4: if I'm gonna go do that, like you said, one
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Speaker 4: of these days, we're gonna have to go up and
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Speaker 4: actually see him for real and not wonder if we're
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Speaker 4: really seeing them, you know what I mean. Yeah, so
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Speaker 4: you've got to sometimes you got to go through a
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Speaker 4: little trouble to see something cool. So nothing wrong with that.
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Speaker 4: On your on your topic that you're talking about, say
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Speaker 4: catch twenty two that we were in, because it is
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Speaker 4: it is nice to have, as you said, it's nice
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Speaker 4: to have all these different options available to us. And
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Speaker 4: it takes some it takes some discipline to stop yourself
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Speaker 4: and and research something and look something up and spend
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Speaker 4: some time. Uh. Even an example, people that like read
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Speaker 4: the Bible and they have a they have a website
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Speaker 4: that sends them an email with the verse of the day.
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Speaker 1: Yes, uh and and you'll read a verse.
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Speaker 4: You know, you'll read a couple of sentences and then
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Speaker 4: you'll move on. Do you stop yourself and maybe read
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Speaker 4: that whole chapter, or you know, spend the little time
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Speaker 4: researching that topic, or you just read that one and
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Speaker 4: then move on to do a video of something. You know,
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Speaker 4: we do have to discipline ourselves to stop and look
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Speaker 4: at stuff and research and pay attention.
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Speaker 1: And you know, that's one point. And there's so many,
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Speaker 1: and I see so many, and especially this one goal.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what her name is, but she's got
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Speaker 1: that podcast called I've Had It, and she's out there
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Speaker 1: and she's bashing Trump every time, and been bashing Republicans,
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Speaker 1: bashing conservatives, and I mean, when you really stop and
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Speaker 1: listen to what she's saying, there is really no substance
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Speaker 1: to what she's saying at all. She's simply she's simply
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Speaker 1: repeating the talking points that she gets from the d
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Speaker 1: n C. And and she was repeating stuff that Jasmine
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Speaker 1: Crockett says and stuff that AOC says, and and she
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Speaker 1: and and somehow she's becoming ultra famous because she's able
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Speaker 1: to regurgitate these lines. But there's really there's really no
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Speaker 1: substance to anything that she says. And there's a there's
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Speaker 1: a whole lot of people out there that are capitalizing
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Speaker 1: on on that sort of nonsense.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so we had the we had the big three networks,
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Speaker 4: as she spoke of. But by the way, when you
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Speaker 4: were talking about an LP, I'm curious if there were
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Speaker 4: some how many people in your listening audience even knew
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Speaker 4: what you were talking about.
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Speaker 1: Hey, vinyls making a comeback. Man, there's all there's all places. Yeah,
23:57
Speaker 1: I walk into you walk into stores now and there's
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Speaker 1: racks and racks and racks you can you can find
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Speaker 1: the people are buying turntables and vinyl records again, and
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Speaker 1: it's a it's making a little bit of a renaissance
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Speaker 1: right now. But Tom, we got to run. I appreciate
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Speaker 1: the phone call, brother.
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Speaker 4: Tell everybody don't vote Democrat. Thank you, have a good day.
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Speaker 1: that and he said it's from a Movi movie that
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Speaker 1: I shouldn't know what's heavy though I didn't know. I
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Speaker 1: know it's from heavy Metal. I never did see heavy Metal.
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Speaker 1: Can't win them all, You can't win them while he tried.
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Speaker 1: He tried. He thought I was gonna knock that one
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Speaker 1: the miss. All right, that's on me. Well, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I never saw. Uh, I never saw Ferris Bueller's Day
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Speaker 1: Off either until a few a few summers ago, if
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Speaker 1: some friends of mine had an intervention they forced me
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Speaker 1: to watch it because they because they kept dropping all
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Speaker 1: these references from Ferris Bueller's Day Off and I wasn't
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Speaker 1: getting it, and they said, you got to see that movie.
25:42
Speaker 1: So we went over and watched it. All right back
25:45
Speaker 1: to the piece I'm talking about here, and we were
25:47
Speaker 1: talking about how news comes and disappears. We don't have
25:51
Speaker 1: any meaningful, meaningful analysis of news anymore. But some people,
25:57
Speaker 1: they a lot of people these days, get involved in
25:59
Speaker 1: this stuff and they really don't understand what they're doing.
26:02
Speaker 1: They just want to be part. They just want to contribute,
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Speaker 1: They just want to be out there in the mix.
26:10
Speaker 1: Don't really understand what they're getting into the subtle genius
26:13
Speaker 1: of the digital ecosystem. Unlike Orwell's nightmare, no one is
26:17
Speaker 1: forced to comply, unlike Huxley's. Unlike Huxley, some of no
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Speaker 1: chemical pacifiers required. We volunteer our attention, outsource our thinking,
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Speaker 1: and mistake constant stimulation for participation. The algorithm flatters us
26:34
Speaker 1: by reflecting our beliefs back at us, sharpening tribal lines
26:38
Speaker 1: while dulling our capacity for doubt. Disagreement becomes hostility, Nuance
26:44
Speaker 1: becomes weakness, and silence is interpreted as guilt. In a
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Speaker 1: media ecosystem optimized for affirmation, the pursuit of truth becomes
26:55
Speaker 1: socially costly. Consider that American's obsession politics is a symptom
27:02
Speaker 1: of societal sickness. A healthy society does not experience politics
27:06
Speaker 1: as a twenty four hour performance that flings in your
27:10
Speaker 1: face like fragments from debris from a relentless storm. Postman
27:15
Speaker 1: warned that when politics becomes entertainment, it ceases to function
27:19
Speaker 1: as a serious mechanism for self government. Average citizens do
27:24
Speaker 1: not deliberate. We root for our team instead of trying
27:27
Speaker 1: to persuade others of our perspective. Gen Z is often
27:31
Speaker 1: blamed for this lack of seriousness, but that accusation misses
27:35
Speaker 1: the point. Young people are not the authors of this condition.
27:38
Speaker 1: They are its most complete expression. They grow up in
27:42
Speaker 1: an environment where everything is content, everyone is a brand.
27:47
Speaker 1: The self becomes something to curate, not something to cultivate.
27:53
Speaker 1: A culture cannot think itself out of a medium. It
27:57
Speaker 1: doesn't understand Postman believe that schools or one of the
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Speaker 1: last places capable of resisting technological dominance. Instead, we surrender them.
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Speaker 1: Older gen Z students may remember the elementary school computer
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Speaker 1: lab as a separate class. Technology was something you learned about. Today,
28:18
Speaker 1: it is something you breathe. Media and technology are now
28:22
Speaker 1: embedded into education. It is omnipresent, largely unexamined, and composed
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Speaker 1: of substances few fully understand. Teachers tell children that screens,
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Speaker 1: digital platforms, gamified lessons, and algorithmic feedback are simply how
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Speaker 1: the world works. But as Postmen warned, technological change is
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Speaker 1: not addictive. It is ecological. America did not add media
28:52
Speaker 1: to its learning, It transformed learning. Itself. The gamification of
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Speaker 1: serious subjects subjects has consequences. When everything is designed to
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Speaker 1: be engaging, nothing is allowed to be different. When learning
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Speaker 1: must always entertain, boredom becomes an emergency rather than a
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Speaker 1: teacher or an opportunity to think. America produces students fluent
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Speaker 1: in interfaces but impatient with complexity. Students are comfortable with
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Speaker 1: expression but unfamiliar with thoughts, only to grow up into
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Speaker 1: adults who vote based on the media's emotional current rather
29:36
Speaker 1: than opinions rooted in reason and self of sense or
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Speaker 1: sense of self. I should say some interesting thoughts there,
29:45
Speaker 1: and we'll break that down on the other side of
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Speaker 1: Dwayne Brandstetter says he doesn't think he'd be president of
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Speaker 1: A Little Detroit Rock City Kiss one of the greatest
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Speaker 1: of rock songs of all time. Strucker is killing it.
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Speaker 1: And he asked me earlier to tell my story about
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Speaker 1: about the scorpions and the zoo, So I may do
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Speaker 1: that the next hour, but I want to get back
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Speaker 1: to this piece and she talks. He was talking about
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Speaker 1: education now and how you know, one time when we
30:30
Speaker 1: learned about technology, we used to have computer labs. But
30:33
Speaker 1: computer labs are gone now and technology is in every
30:36
Speaker 1: aspect of education. And she's making the case that we
30:42
Speaker 1: may not have the full understanding that we need to
30:45
Speaker 1: of education. Media and technology are now embedded into education,
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Speaker 1: largely unexamined to compose the substances that we fully understand.
30:55
Speaker 1: The teachers simply say, this is how the world works,
30:58
Speaker 1: so this is what we do. The gamification of serious
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Speaker 1: subjects has consequences. When everything is designed to be engaging,
31:06
Speaker 1: nothing is allowed to be different. When learning must always entertain,
31:10
Speaker 1: boredom becomes an emergency rather than a teacher and an
31:15
Speaker 1: opportunity to think. I mean, think about that. We have
31:20
Speaker 1: this sense now that every moment, every waking moment of
31:23
Speaker 1: the day must be filled with some sort of stimulation,
31:26
Speaker 1: some sort of activity in boredom, As she's making the case,
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Speaker 1: here can be a good thing. The solution is not
31:33
Speaker 1: to abolish technology, but to separate it from immersion. Technology
31:38
Speaker 1: and media should be taught as subjects, not atmospheres. Like
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Speaker 1: history or science. Students would study how digital algorithms shape
31:46
Speaker 1: perspective how data is harvested and sold, how platforms incentivize behavior,
31:53
Speaker 1: how media forms privilege to certain kinds of truth while
31:57
Speaker 1: excluding others. They would learn when not to use technology,
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Speaker 1: just as they learn when not to use chemicals or machinery.
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Speaker 1: America's teachers must inform students that they have a choice
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Speaker 1: between using technology and being used by it. The highest
32:19
Speaker 1: civic skill in the digital age is not coding or
32:24
Speaker 1: content creation, but the ability to look away And when's
32:31
Speaker 1: the when's the last time you hurt anyone? Say anything
32:34
Speaker 1: like that, The ability to look away using technology. Sure,
32:39
Speaker 1: it's a great thing, but letting it run your life
32:44
Speaker 1: is something that we do at our own peril. I
32:48
Speaker 1: really think that's uh, that's what she is, what she's
32:51
Speaker 1: saying here. But schools cannot teach what families refuse to practice.
32:56
Speaker 1: A child cannot learn to look away from technology if
32:59
Speaker 1: every idole is filled for them. Parental discomfort with boredom
33:04
Speaker 1: where emotionally needy children often drives the very dependency educators
33:09
Speaker 1: are called to undo. Today, many children live in dual
33:13
Speaker 1: income households. Both mom and dad are often at work,
33:16
Speaker 1: other parents are divorced, but the outcome is the same
33:19
Speaker 1: a discomforted, confused, and overwhelmingly stressed out child left to
33:23
Speaker 1: their own devices. So the screen offers something irresistibly appealing
33:28
Speaker 1: escape without consequence. Online identity is malleable, Pain can be muted,
33:34
Speaker 1: attention can be curated, and the self can be endlessly
33:38
Speaker 1: reinvented across user names, platforms and digital avatars. And just
33:47
Speaker 1: start to wrap this up. If we want to be
33:51
Speaker 1: a country capable of attention, judgment and self command, the
33:54
Speaker 1: work does not begin with schools, platforms or policy. It
33:57
Speaker 1: begins at home with parents willing to be present, to
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Speaker 1: be uncomfortable, and to raise their own children. And so,
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Speaker 1: I mean, all this stuff that she talks about in here,
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Speaker 1: what our digital society is now, how we view politics,
34:13
Speaker 1: how we allow ourselves to be controlled by the algorithm
34:16
Speaker 1: and the social media and all the rest of it,
34:19
Speaker 1: And what does it all boil down to. It all
34:22
Speaker 1: boils down to what happens in the home and parents
34:27
Speaker 1: who are willing to be a little uncomfortable and be
34:32
Speaker 1: more than just a buddy or a pal to their kids.
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Speaker 1: Thomas taken a little bit of a breathe of today,
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Speaker 1: So I am glad to be here in his stead
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Speaker 1: Joe Streker rolling out the van Halen always love that. Joe,
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Speaker 1: do you want you want me to tell that that
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Speaker 1: story right now about the scorpions. He's not answering. So
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Speaker 1: the last hour Joe Streker rolled out the intro to
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Speaker 1: the Zoo by the Scorpions, and he said, he said,
35:38
Speaker 1: you always tell the story about you know when I
35:40
Speaker 1: played Detroit Rock City And I said, well, I got
35:42
Speaker 1: a story about the scorpions too. So this goes back
35:45
Speaker 1: to when I was in the service back in nineteen
35:49
Speaker 1: eighty one and I went to Okinawa, Japan. And so
35:54
Speaker 1: back then, the you know, whatever was going on when
35:58
Speaker 1: you know Armed Forces radio and television. I mean we
36:00
Speaker 1: had Paul Harvey and you could get stuff on the radio,
36:04
Speaker 1: but stuff you saw on TV. The TV shows we
36:08
Speaker 1: had back then were about I don't know seven to
36:10
Speaker 1: eight months behind what was going on here in the States.
36:12
Speaker 1: You know, I walked into the the barracks that I
36:15
Speaker 1: used to live in, and we had a big room
36:17
Speaker 1: out there with a television in it and everyone sit
36:19
Speaker 1: around and watch TV. And they had on General Hospital
36:25
Speaker 1: soap opera, and for some reason back then, I don't
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Speaker 1: know why, but people were watching General Hospital like that
36:33
Speaker 1: was that was a big thing. And I had been
36:35
Speaker 1: looking at it myself and I and I walked in
36:37
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, well, I've seen this, say this was
36:39
Speaker 1: you know, six months ago back in the States. So
36:44
Speaker 1: also back then when you went to Okinawa, Japan, and
36:49
Speaker 1: you could purchase very high end stereo equipment at a
36:54
Speaker 1: relatively cheap price. So everyone in the barracks you know it.
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Speaker 1: And it was one of the nice accommodations that the
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Speaker 1: Air Force had, was you had your own room in
37:04
Speaker 1: the barracks and it was it wasn't anything great, but
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Speaker 1: it was your own room. And everyone in the barracks
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Speaker 1: had just unbelievable stereo equipment set up well. And you
37:16
Speaker 1: and I saw, you know, you spent the first couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks there and you're checking out, you know, you're
37:21
Speaker 1: meeting guys, and you're checking out, checking out their stereo equipment,
37:24
Speaker 1: and they're explaining things to you, and you know, where's
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Speaker 1: the best place to buy all buy your gear, you know,
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Speaker 1: your your amp and pre amp and turntables and equalizers
37:33
Speaker 1: and speakers and all the rest of it. So so
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at this and I'm listening to the music
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Speaker 1: these guys are playing. And at that time, no one's
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Speaker 1: playing The Scorpions. No one. And before I had left
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Speaker 1: the States, the Scorpions and the and the Zoo, that
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Speaker 1: album was getting a lot of airtime, played on EBN
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Speaker 1: and some of the other rock stations around town. And
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Speaker 1: so I was thinking, well, I wonder why no one's
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Speaker 1: playing any Scorpions. So I get my, I get my
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Speaker 1: you know, I've been there a couple of months. I
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Speaker 1: got a few paychecks under my belt, had some money
38:06
Speaker 1: scraped together, and went out and made the purchase, bought
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Speaker 1: an ice you know, stereo, set up audio gear, and
38:14
Speaker 1: get it all stacked up. And I go out and
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Speaker 1: find a Scorpions album with the Zoo on it, and
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Speaker 1: I'm like, man, like, these guys have never heard this
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Speaker 1: stuff before. Crank that up in the one day and
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Speaker 1: it was like, the first thing I played, I left
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Speaker 1: the door open, I just turned I just cranked it
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Speaker 1: up as loud as I could, and guys start coming
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Speaker 1: from down the hall and they're sticking their head in
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Speaker 1: my door. What is that? What is that? I'm like,
38:41
Speaker 1: that's the Scorpions. I've never heard that before. It was awesome.
38:44
Speaker 1: And at that time the Scorpions had were relatively new
38:49
Speaker 1: to the States. They had some commercial success in Germany
38:54
Speaker 1: and in Europe, so it it's it's not like it
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Speaker 1: is today, when you know, when when some artists drops
39:05
Speaker 1: a song, it's immediately all over the world. Back then,
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Speaker 1: even in the eighties, it took a little time for
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Speaker 1: music to spread from one country to another. So what
39:16
Speaker 1: you heard in Europe and what you heard in the
39:19
Speaker 1: United States could be two completely different things. So the
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Speaker 1: Scorpions were did not have they Then they put out
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Speaker 1: I don't know, three or four albums before this album
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Speaker 1: came out, and so they had some some success with that,
39:32
Speaker 1: but in the United States they hadn't really didn't have
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Speaker 1: much of a following at all. And so when that
39:37
Speaker 1: song came on the radio here, I bought the other
39:40
Speaker 1: in the album, just fool of great songs, just a
39:43
Speaker 1: full of great rock, hard rock, hard rock and music.
39:46
Speaker 1: And it wasn't but a few days later, everyone walk
39:52
Speaker 1: up and down the hall. Everyone is just cranking that album.
39:55
Speaker 1: And we played it continuously, wore the grooves out on it.
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Speaker 1: So that's my that's my star wry about the Scorpions
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Speaker 1: and the zoo.
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Speaker 6: Uh.
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Speaker 1: I want to get into some of the audio that
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Speaker 1: I brought in today, and this is one from a
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Speaker 1: couple of days ago, Josh Hawley. There was a hearing,
40:11
Speaker 1: and you may have heard about this. There was a
40:14
Speaker 1: hearing in the Senate and the hearing was about was
40:18
Speaker 1: about abortion pills and you and I guess now, if
40:22
Speaker 1: if you want to have an abortion, you can you
40:24
Speaker 1: can send away online, you can get the pills delivered
40:27
Speaker 1: to your house. And so they were having a hearing
40:30
Speaker 1: on the efficacy of getting abortion drugs in the mail.
40:36
Speaker 1: And there there are a lot of people who will
40:39
Speaker 1: tell you that, oh, this is perfectly safe. You pop
40:42
Speaker 1: a pill, you have an abortion, no big deal. But
40:45
Speaker 1: in a lot of cases, there can be a lot
40:47
Speaker 1: of complications with these abortion drugs. And so the Senate
40:53
Speaker 1: was having heering a hearing on this is this something
40:55
Speaker 1: that should be continued. And one of the doctors, a
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Speaker 1: doctor named Nisha Verma, it was testifying for the Democrats,
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Speaker 1: obviously in favor of getting your abortion drugs in the mail,
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Speaker 1: was being questioned and Josh Hawley, it was his term,
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Speaker 1: to ask some questions, and he was asking one very
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Speaker 1: simple question that the doctor was struggling with, and it
41:19
Speaker 1: sounded like this, Joe, let's hear cut number five?
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Speaker 2: Do you think that men can get pregnant?
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Speaker 7: I hesitated there because I wasn't sure where the conversation
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Speaker 7: was going or what the goal was. I mean, I
41:31
Speaker 7: do take care of patients with different identities. I take
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Speaker 7: care of many women. I take care of people with
41:36
Speaker 7: different identities, and so that's where I paused. I think, yeah,
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Speaker 7: I wasn't sure where you were going with that.
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Speaker 2: Well, the goal is is the truth? So can men
41:45
Speaker 2: get pregnant?
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Speaker 7: Again? The reason I paused there is I'm not really
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Speaker 7: sure what the goal of the question.
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Speaker 2: Goal is is to establish a biological reality.
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Speaker 8: You just said a moment ago that science and evidence
41:57
Speaker 8: should control not politics.
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Speaker 2: So let's just test that proposition. Can men get pregnant?
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Speaker 7: I take care of people with many identities.
42:05
Speaker 2: But can men get pregnant.
42:07
Speaker 7: Many women that can get pregnant. I do take care
42:10
Speaker 7: of people that don't identify as women.
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Speaker 2: That can Can men get pregnant?
42:15
Speaker 7: Again, as I'm saying, let me just.
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Speaker 8: Remind you testified to a moment ago. Science and evidence
42:20
Speaker 8: should control not politics. So should can men get pregnant?
42:26
Speaker 8: You're a doctor at day.
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Speaker 7: Science and evidence should guide medicine.
42:29
Speaker 8: I do science and evidence tell us that men can
42:32
Speaker 8: get pregnant? Biological men? Can they get pregnant?
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Speaker 7: I also think yes, no questions like this are a
42:37
Speaker 7: political tool and.
42:38
Speaker 8: No, yes, no questions are about the truth. Doctor, Let's
42:40
Speaker 8: not make a mockery of this proceeding. This is about
42:43
Speaker 8: science and evidence. So I'm asking you. You know, the
42:46
Speaker 8: United States Supreme Court just heard arguments yesterday at great
42:49
Speaker 8: lengths on this question. This is not a hypothetical question.
42:52
Speaker 8: This is not theoretical that affects real people in their
42:55
Speaker 8: real lives. And you're here as an expert, called by
42:58
Speaker 8: the other side as an expert, and you've been telling
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Speaker 8: us that you that you follow right, You're a doctor
43:04
Speaker 8: and you follow the science and the evidence. So I
43:06
Speaker 8: just want to know, based on the science, can men
43:09
Speaker 8: get pregnant. That's a yes or no question, it really is.
43:14
Speaker 7: I think I think you're trying to reduce the complexity.
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Speaker 3: Of a low I'm not.
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Speaker 8: I'm trying to get it's not complex. I'm trying to
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Speaker 8: get to an answer. And I'm trying to test, frankly,
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Speaker 8: your veracity as a medical professional and as a scientist,
43:28
Speaker 8: can men get pregnant?
43:29
Speaker 7: I think you're also conflating this extraordinary forgot i'mating, okay, Joe.
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Speaker 1: So look, you get the idea, you get the flat
43:38
Speaker 1: And this went on for five minutes. Hey, when you
43:41
Speaker 1: when you when you're a hearing like that, that's all
43:43
Speaker 1: you get. You get five minutes, say they ask questions,
43:46
Speaker 1: and he spent his entire time. And you've got this
43:49
Speaker 1: doctor nishe Verman. And and in the end, she did
43:52
Speaker 1: not answer the question. She did not. This is a
43:56
Speaker 1: This is a woman who is so ideologically drin, who
44:01
Speaker 1: is so wedded and attached to the leftist agenda. She
44:06
Speaker 1: dares not break rank with that in order to speak
44:11
Speaker 1: the truth. And this is one of the major problems
44:15
Speaker 1: that you have with the left in this country, that
44:20
Speaker 1: the agenda trumps everything everything else, everything including a simple
44:28
Speaker 1: truth that men do not get pregnant. But yet she
44:33
Speaker 1: could not bring herself to speak that simple truth. And
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Speaker 1: this is a doctor. She knows, she knows the answer,
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Speaker 1: but yet she couldn't bring herself to say it. Got
44:49
Speaker 1: to take a break here, We'll continue on with this
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Speaker 1: just played the clip from the Senate hearing with Josh
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Speaker 1: Holly asked asking doctor Niche of Verma if men can
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Speaker 1: get pregnant, and she was She was stumped by that one,
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Speaker 1: a Democrat witness who was there to talk about science
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Speaker 1: and truth and how important that all is, but she
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Speaker 9: I'm great, Dan, Thank you so much for taking my call.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for picking up.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, the technology chat has me very interested. I own
45:51
Speaker 9: a school. We served kids ages three through eighth grade. Okay,
45:56
Speaker 9: and I'm seeing in real time the kids brains have
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Speaker 9: extreme difficulty and problem solving critical thinking. We do no
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Speaker 9: technology at my school until they get to middle school.
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Speaker 9: Then they use it for very specific purposes. But you're right,
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Speaker 9: it does start at home. But I think the schools
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Speaker 9: are going to need to make some radical changes because
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Speaker 9: they are. I mean, daycares are putting two year olds
46:24
Speaker 9: on iPads. I know this for a fact. In my community.
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Speaker 9: It's so outrageous.
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Speaker 1: And a two year old on an iPad that that
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Speaker 1: that that to me just sounds that sounds like an
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Speaker 1: absolute nightmare.
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Speaker 10: It is.
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Speaker 9: It's it's like in the moment, it can be calming, obviously,
46:44
Speaker 9: but the brain gets used to meeting, like you were saying,
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Speaker 9: constant stimulation and constant you know, life and music, and
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Speaker 9: it's it's it's really a problem. I mean, it's really
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Speaker 9: a problem.
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Speaker 1: Well, Jamie, I'm I'm glad you listened to that piece
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Speaker 1: because she makes the case in here that boredom is
47:02
Speaker 1: not a bad thing. Boredom is an opportunity for thought.
47:06
Speaker 1: Boredom is an opportunity to think about things. Boredom is
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to step away from the constant stimulation and
47:14
Speaker 1: rely on your own resources. You know, she writes in here,
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Speaker 1: the solution is not to abolish technology, but separate it out,
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Speaker 1: separate it from immersion. She says, you know, technology should
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Speaker 1: be taught as a subject in school like history or science.
47:31
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be part of every single thing that you do.
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Speaker 1: And it sounds to me like that's what you're doing
47:37
Speaker 1: at the school that you run.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, and let me tell you also, when I get
47:42
Speaker 9: new families, who I mean, I've had kids who are
47:44
Speaker 9: addicted to video games. They'll do like a thirty or
47:48
Speaker 9: sixty day challenge and it is unbelievable. The report is
47:52
Speaker 9: just what you're saying. The creativity increases. They're able to, like,
47:56
Speaker 9: you know, be by themselves and play and work and
47:59
Speaker 9: do something thing without constant simulation. I mean, the feedback
48:03
Speaker 9: from taking it away and it really observing is pretty
48:07
Speaker 9: pretty amazing. And it's hard, it's absolutely hard, but it's
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Speaker 9: completely worth it. I mean, you're protecting your child's brain
48:15
Speaker 9: so that they can think, not only think, but manage
48:18
Speaker 9: their emotions, you know, come against hard things and not
48:21
Speaker 9: completely melt down and then be diagnosed with anxiety and
48:24
Speaker 9: depression because of real life challenges that are going to
48:27
Speaker 9: come for all of us.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what what do you think when you go to
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Speaker 1: a social setting, whether it's a family event or an
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Speaker 1: event where there's people of your own age group who
48:42
Speaker 1: are gathered at an event. And and I see this
48:46
Speaker 1: more even with people of my own age. I like
48:49
Speaker 1: to think that, you know, there's a pretty good group
48:51
Speaker 1: that I hang around with and and uh, and we
48:54
Speaker 1: actually sit around and talk to each other, and the
48:56
Speaker 1: the you know, the cell of the cell phones and
48:59
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff as secondary. But I see
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Speaker 1: time and time again where we go to an event
49:04
Speaker 1: where there's people around and everyone is staring at their
49:08
Speaker 1: cell phone and not talking to each other. I think
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Speaker 1: we have entire generations now who have grown up with
49:14
Speaker 1: that sort of thing as the norm and just something
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Speaker 1: that is accepted and that's that's just what people do
49:20
Speaker 1: these days.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's really heartbreaking because especially young children, they need
49:26
Speaker 9: to be conversing, they need to be talking, they need
49:29
Speaker 9: to be communicating. We don't allow phones like in our
49:33
Speaker 9: car line. We're very you know, we're not controlling about it.
49:38
Speaker 9: We're trying to educate, but we need the kids to
49:40
Speaker 9: arrive to school with their brains available and for every
49:44
Speaker 9: you know, hour on an iPad or some kind of
49:47
Speaker 9: device before they come to school. They're literally not available.
49:51
Speaker 9: They cannot get online with learning for probably twenty to
49:54
Speaker 9: thirty minutes. So it's really insane. I mean, if parents
49:58
Speaker 9: really knew what was happening in their brain, in their kids' brains,
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Speaker 9: I think that they would not be doing it. But
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Speaker 9: it's such an a normalized phenomenon now, and it's you know,
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Speaker 9: I'm hoping the tide is turning with articles like what
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Speaker 9: you just read. So I really.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate that, Jamie. I appreciate you picking up the phone call.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you weighing in on that, and keep up
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Speaker 1: the great work. And thank you so much for weighing
50:23
Speaker 1: in on this this morning. And with that we will
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Speaker 1: move on, Jamie, Thank you so much. Six twenty five
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Speaker 1: cuts that I that I brought in this morning, and
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Speaker 1: this one is the yeah I'm seeing articles pop up
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Speaker 1: from time to time, and they seem to suggest that
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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton, Joe, do you would you think for a
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Speaker 1: minute that Hillary Clinton is a viable candidate anymore for president?
51:20
Speaker 1: I mean, hasn't she run her course? But there are
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Speaker 1: there is I don't want to say it's it's growing
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Speaker 1: or it's big, but there's still a faction out there
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Speaker 1: who thinks that Hillary Clinton, it could be a viable
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Speaker 1: candidate for president of the United States. It may be
51:38
Speaker 1: slightly bigger than the people. There's still some people who
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Speaker 1: think Joe Biden not hot to run again. But Hillary
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Speaker 1: Clinton was on it doesn't matter what she the CNN
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Speaker 1: or MSNBC and what do they call MSNBC, MS and
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Speaker 1: ms now they call it. I don't know. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what they YEA. But she was on
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Speaker 1: one of those shows a day or so ago. And
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Speaker 1: this is not the first time she has said something
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Speaker 1: like this. But we just spent the last hour talking
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Speaker 1: about social media and how it how kids are dealing
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Speaker 1: with it, and how so much of the population is
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Speaker 1: dealing with it. Is something that a lot of people
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Speaker 1: don't really understand, but they get entangled in any way
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Speaker 1: and we need to have constant stimulation and social media.
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Speaker 1: There's no doubt it is a very powerful force in
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Speaker 1: our life today, in society today. And guess who wants
52:44
Speaker 1: to control all of it? Hillary Clinton. Let's hear cut
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Speaker 1: number three.
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Speaker 11: If the platforms, whether it's Facebook or Twitter x or
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Speaker 11: Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don't moderate
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Speaker 11: and monitor the content, we lose total control. And it's
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Speaker 11: not just the social and psychological effects, it's real harm.
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Speaker 1: It's real harm. So there's Hillary Clinton, and God bless her,
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Speaker 1: she's only looking out for what's best for us because
53:15
Speaker 1: people like Hillary and those that she surrounds herself with,
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Speaker 1: and they really are the smart ones. They really are
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Speaker 1: the ones who need to have total, as she says,
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Speaker 1: total control of social media, because we all know there's
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Speaker 1: just so much fake and harmful stuff out there, and
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Speaker 1: I mean there is. But as sovereign American citizens, as
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Speaker 1: sovereign individuals unto ourselves, isn't it up to us ourselves
53:48
Speaker 1: to decide what content we we take in, what content
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Speaker 1: we believe in, what content we act on. Isn't it? It
53:58
Speaker 1: takes a village, According Joe Strecker and Hillary Clinton. But
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Speaker 1: make no mistake, she is still out there and this
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Speaker 1: is something that she has been preaching for a long
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Speaker 1: long time. And she and Bernie Sanders and Occasio Cortes
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Speaker 1: and the squad. And how how grateful would Tim Walls
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Speaker 1: be right now and this mayor in Minneapolis if they
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Speaker 1: could control all the media, if they could control everything
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Speaker 1: that is coming out of Minnesota, and in at least
54:35
Speaker 1: Minneapolis that is quickly becoming an absolute hell home. And
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Speaker 1: Stephen Miller from the administration was on, and I've got
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Speaker 1: a couple of bites from Steve. Stephen Miller is just
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Speaker 1: just absolutely fantastic as a as a White House advisor,
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Speaker 1: and he was on. He was talking about laying it out,
54:57
Speaker 1: why Tim Wall and the mayor there in Minneapolis, why
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Speaker 1: they want us to see what we are seeing on
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Speaker 1: TV right now? Cut number two.
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Speaker 12: What Democrats are doing is vote harvesting, fraud harvesting, ballot harvesting,
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Speaker 12: crime harvesting. Ask yourself, why would Fry, why would Waltz
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Speaker 12: sanction such egregious violence against ice officers? Because they understand
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Speaker 12: that this scheme, this mass migration scheme, is the heart
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Speaker 12: of the Democratic Party's political power. It is their plan
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Speaker 12: for power today and long into the future.
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Speaker 1: So they know that if.
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Speaker 12: This administration to President Trump is successful in reversing this invasion,
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Speaker 12: it will deal a generational blow to Democrat political power.
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Speaker 1: So they're Stephen Miller laying it out as plainly as
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Speaker 1: you possibly can that all the activity that we see
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Speaker 1: whenever there's an Ice agent on the street, all the
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Speaker 1: people out there, and you got Don Lemon rolling into
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Speaker 1: the churches now trying to claim that he's just a
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Speaker 1: journalist just exercising his First Amendment rights. Yes, but Stephen
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Speaker 1: Miller lays it out as plainly as you can possibly
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Speaker 1: lay it out. All part of a bigger plan, all
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Speaker 1: part of we know, we don't want to really talk
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Speaker 1: about the fraud. We don't want to talk about the
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Speaker 1: ballot harvesting that goes on. We don't want to talk
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Speaker 1: about all the other elements that are in play here
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Speaker 1: for Democrats to maintain their grip on power. I almost
56:44
Speaker 1: said unbelievable there, but it's really not unbelievable. It's it's
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Speaker 1: he was talking about how you know he loves all
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Speaker 1: signing autographs, having a great time. So yeah, he got
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Speaker 1: he got arrested. We got the got those open flame
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Speaker 1: laws here in Cincinnati back then that could not be tolerated.
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Speaker 1: One more cut from Steven Miller here, and this is
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Speaker 1: Steven Miller, and he was laying out if you want
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Speaker 1: to get a good handle on what the Minnesota fraud
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Speaker 1: is all about. He lays this out as only Steven
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Speaker 1: Miller can cut. Number one.
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Speaker 14: Believe that the Somali fraud operation in Minnesota is the
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Speaker 14: single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud in
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Speaker 14: American history. We believe that we have only scratched the
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Speaker 14: very top of the surface of how deep this goes.
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Speaker 14: And you're familiar with all the scams, with pretending that
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Speaker 14: children have autism who are not in fact autistic, with
58:50
Speaker 14: pretending to enroll people in food programs when in fact
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Speaker 14: nobody was ever enrolled, and engaging in massive fraud, lying,
58:59
Speaker 14: and theft and grift on a scale we've never seen
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Speaker 14: before in American history. The total bill, the total tab
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Speaker 14: for this is going to be far beyond the numbers.
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Speaker 15: We've already seen reported.
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Speaker 14: We believe the state government is fully complicit in this scheme,
59:14
Speaker 14: and we believe that what we are going to uncover
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Speaker 14: is going to shock the American people.
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Speaker 1: Look based on the.
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Speaker 14: Rutgers that we already have, this is a significant undercount.
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Speaker 14: By the way, seventy five percent of the Somali population
59:27
Speaker 14: in Minnesota is on welfare. That's likely a significant undercount
59:32
Speaker 14: of just how much of a financial burden the Somali
59:36
Speaker 14: reffigee population is imposing.
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Speaker 1: On this country. So they're Stephen Miller and I think
59:44
Speaker 1: that's one of the elements of this story that we
59:47
Speaker 1: are largely forgetting about is not only was this Somali daycare,
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Speaker 1: this was the Feeding our Children program. They called it
1:00:00
Speaker 1: Feeding the Future. And I believe this was really the
1:00:05
Speaker 1: first element, the first component of this that was exposed
1:00:11
Speaker 1: by the investigations that found I believe the number is
1:00:16
Speaker 1: around sixty individuals already convicted in many of these cases
1:00:20
Speaker 1: where they said they were feeding all these children on
1:00:23
Speaker 1: a daily basis, tens of thousands of them, and it
1:00:28
Speaker 1: was being done at a little, tiny restaurant, a restaurant
1:00:33
Speaker 1: that's probably smaller or about the same size as the
1:00:37
Speaker 1: studio I'm sitting in right now. How do you feed
1:00:39
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of children out of a facility this
1:00:42
Speaker 1: size every single day. And the fraud went on for years,
1:00:47
Speaker 1: and they just said, hey, we're feeding all these kids.
1:00:51
Speaker 1: Here's a government check has started doing the wluhan and
1:00:55
Speaker 1: they just kept coming. And then you have the specter
1:01:00
Speaker 1: of signing your kids up. Hey, I've got an autistic kid,
1:01:04
Speaker 1: and God bless anyone with an autistic kid, and I
1:01:07
Speaker 1: hope you get all the help that is out there
1:01:09
Speaker 1: available to you. And this is what they were doing.
1:01:16
Speaker 1: You have just some of the I think who sits
1:01:22
Speaker 1: around and thinks of a scheme like this, Hey, we
1:01:24
Speaker 1: can say we're treating autistic children. You get parents to
1:01:28
Speaker 1: come in, parents, have a baby, cug go visit the
1:01:30
Speaker 1: autistic clinic down the road there and you sign up.
1:01:35
Speaker 1: You get a little kickback, you got some money coming in.
1:01:38
Speaker 1: And then you go to another clinic and you sign
1:01:40
Speaker 1: your kid up there, and another and another and another.
1:01:44
Speaker 1: And then you have the housing aspect, housing for people
1:01:49
Speaker 1: who are drug addicts, people who are veterans, people who
1:01:52
Speaker 1: are elderly supposed to be helping out with some housing
1:01:55
Speaker 1: issues there. That's a whole other component of the fraud.
1:01:59
Speaker 1: So it's a lot more than just the daycare. You
1:02:02
Speaker 1: have the transportation companies.
1:02:04
Speaker 2: Try.
1:02:05
Speaker 1: These transportation companies were set up and they were we're
1:02:09
Speaker 1: giving people rides to their doctor's appointments, people who need help,
1:02:13
Speaker 1: and you know we're doing this. We're doing that all
1:02:15
Speaker 1: this transportation. One hundred bucks a ride, five hundred bucks
1:02:19
Speaker 1: for this, five hundred bucks for that. And after a
1:02:24
Speaker 1: while that starts to add up. So Steven Miller is
1:02:28
Speaker 1: talking about they just scratched the surface on this, and
1:02:32
Speaker 1: so do Tim Walls and do the does the mayor
1:02:38
Speaker 1: need to keep the distractions out there, I mean the
1:02:43
Speaker 1: what do they take over yesterday, Joel Walmart? Not a Walmart,
1:02:46
Speaker 1: but as Target store. What's the purpose of that? What?
1:02:52
Speaker 1: What does what does Target have to do with any
1:02:55
Speaker 1: of this? I don't know, but they were in who
1:02:59
Speaker 1: knows where? Do we know where they're gonna be today?
1:03:02
Speaker 1: Are they gonna take over a Bucky's? They gonna No
1:03:11
Speaker 1: one's gonna be able to get a brisket surround the
1:03:15
Speaker 1: brisket table. You get all the Karen's out there with
1:03:19
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Speaker 1: we'll be kicking around some local issues. I want to
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Speaker 1: just wrap up the audio that I brought in this morning.
1:03:52
Speaker 1: And I saw this cut late last night and it
1:03:56
Speaker 1: appeared on my social media, and this is this goes
1:03:58
Speaker 1: back to twenty ten. And so this whole notion of
1:04:03
Speaker 1: going out and trying to get illegal aliens out of
1:04:08
Speaker 1: the country, it is nothing new. What is new is
1:04:13
Speaker 1: all the angst and all the protests and all the
1:04:17
Speaker 1: phony Bologney gnashing of teeth and people being upset about
1:04:21
Speaker 1: this and AA, these are our neighbors, and we're not gonna,
1:04:25
Speaker 1: you know, we're not gonna let the Trump administration come
1:04:28
Speaker 1: in and do what, you know, act like Nazis and
1:04:30
Speaker 1: the Gestapo and all that. This goes back to twenty ten.
1:04:35
Speaker 1: Here's a blast from the past. Janet Napolitana, who was
1:04:39
Speaker 1: the director of Homeland Security. She was the Secretary of
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Speaker 1: Homeland Security under Barack Obama, and here she is extolling
1:04:49
Speaker 1: all the virtues of the Obama administration and how they
1:04:54
Speaker 1: dealt with the illegals in this country. Joe, can we
1:04:58
Speaker 1: please hear cut number four.
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Speaker 6: We are here today to announce our progress on immigration
1:05:04
Speaker 6: enforcement over the past year. But before I give you
1:05:09
Speaker 6: some of the numbers, I'd like to step back and
1:05:11
Speaker 6: provide some context to our immigration and border security efforts
1:05:18
Speaker 6: as a whole. Since the beginning of the administration, we
1:05:22
Speaker 6: have really I think strengthened the federal government's approach to
1:05:26
Speaker 6: immigration enforcement, both at the border but also in the
1:05:29
Speaker 6: interior of the country. We have deployed unprecedented infrastructure, unprecedented
1:05:36
Speaker 6: technology manpower, particularly along the southwest border, including more than
1:05:42
Speaker 6: seventeen thousand Border Patrol agents and twelve hundred National Guard
1:05:47
Speaker 6: currently stationed at the southwest border.
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Speaker 5: So I am very.
1:05:50
Speaker 6: Pleased to be standing here with our colleagues today to
1:05:55
Speaker 6: say that as a result of this new strategic approach
1:05:58
Speaker 6: and fiscal year two ten, immigration and Customs enforcement has, indeed,
1:06:05
Speaker 6: as the Assistant Secretary said, broken a number of records. First,
1:06:10
Speaker 6: in fiscal year twenty ten, ICE removed more than three
1:06:15
Speaker 6: hundred and ninety two thousand illegal aliens, the most removals
1:06:20
Speaker 6: in our or the highest number of removals in our
1:06:23
Speaker 6: nation's history, and over twenty three thousand more than fiscal
1:06:28
Speaker 6: year two thousand and eight. One half of these removals,
1:06:32
Speaker 6: more than one hundred and ninety five thousand were convicted
1:06:36
Speaker 6: criminal aliens. That is itself another record that, to give
1:06:41
Speaker 6: you some context, is seventy percent more criminal aliens than
1:06:48
Speaker 6: were removed by the previous administration in fiscal year two
1:06:51
Speaker 6: thousand and eight. These record breaking statistics in twenty ten
1:06:57
Speaker 6: built on the historic work that we began in two
1:07:01
Speaker 6: thousand and nine. ICE has significantly increased the audits of
1:07:05
Speaker 6: employers and the prosecutions of employers who repeatedly and egregiously
1:07:10
Speaker 6: hire illegal workers.
1:07:12
Speaker 1: All right, Joe, so Jane, I mean, this cut goes
1:07:14
Speaker 1: on for about four minutes, but I think we get
1:07:17
Speaker 1: the idea there. Listen to listen to Janet Napolitana from
1:07:21
Speaker 1: twenty ten, and listen, this is some harsh language. This
1:07:27
Speaker 1: is and and not even the majority she will what
1:07:32
Speaker 1: she say about half half convictions, half are half engaged
1:07:38
Speaker 1: in criminal activity, the number of illegal and what was
1:07:42
Speaker 1: she called them? Illegal aliens, illegal criminals. I mean, that
1:07:46
Speaker 1: is some That is some harsh. Are we even allowed
1:07:49
Speaker 1: to say that anymore? And you say that these days
1:07:52
Speaker 1: and people want to have a bother? No one's illegal.
1:08:00
Speaker 1: This is the Obama administration. Where were all the demonstrations then?
1:08:05
Speaker 1: Where were all these people who had to go out
1:08:07
Speaker 1: and now they have to go out and stand up
1:08:09
Speaker 1: and protect their name? Where were they then? Did we
1:08:15
Speaker 1: see any of this in twenty ten? All this these
1:08:19
Speaker 1: were democrats. You will never hear a Democrat talk like
1:08:23
Speaker 1: this today, But back then there was no one, no group,
1:08:30
Speaker 1: no political group that was stronger on the idea of
1:08:34
Speaker 1: getting illegals out of the country. And she also said
1:08:37
Speaker 1: in there that what ice. Yes, we had ICE back
1:08:40
Speaker 1: in twenty ten, and they were working with what state
1:08:44
Speaker 1: and local law enforcement. Great cooperation there, and we had
1:08:51
Speaker 1: we had calmness on the streets. We didn't have all
1:08:54
Speaker 1: this crazy crap that's going on now. What changed? What's
1:08:59
Speaker 1: the difference? Something to think about for the rest of
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Speaker 1: Fifty five KRCD Talk Station seven o five. I'm on
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Speaker 1: this Tuesday morning, Dan Carol, sitting for Brian Thomas, who
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Speaker 1: was getting a little getting a little R and R today,
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Speaker 1: so good for him and we we'll see what happens tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: In the meantime, we have my first time meeting brother
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Speaker 1: Andre Ewing, who has graced us with his presence in
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Speaker 1: studio this morning and Andre Ewing, Welcome to fifty five KRC.
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Speaker 1: It's good to meet you, sir.
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Speaker 5: Good to meet you.
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Speaker 16: Well everything everything is beautiful this morning.
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Speaker 1: You are bundled up, my friend. Yes, sir, you're free
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Speaker 1: to take that jacket and that if you if you feel.
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Speaker 16: I'm prepared this how this is how I work out
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Speaker 16: in the gym. I work out to be hot.
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Speaker 5: I'm not.
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Speaker 16: I'm not here to just show off the muscularity. I
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Speaker 16: need to be hot when I'm in the gym.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, it's uh, it's great to meet you.
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Speaker 1: Former Cincinnati Police.
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Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 1: How long on the job?
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Speaker 16: Close to thirty years? Just shotted thirty years, yes sir,
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Speaker 16: yes sir.
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Speaker 1: How hard is it to walk away?
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Speaker 5: Oh? It wasn't hard at all. It wasn't hard at
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Speaker 5: all for you, not at all.
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Speaker 16: I checked all the boxes, did exactly what I needed
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Speaker 16: to do, served to the best of my ability, and
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Speaker 16: just had an awesome time serving the community and doing
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Speaker 16: what was necessary. And it was time to finally just
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Speaker 16: move on to better things.
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Speaker 1: So thirty years on the job. What the things that
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Speaker 1: you do now? You do a lot on social media,
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Speaker 1: you comment a lot on what is happening in and
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Speaker 1: around Cincinnati as it relates to police issues, safety issues.
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Speaker 1: What kind of perspective has that given you? What was
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Speaker 1: given me now that now that you were on the
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Speaker 1: inside and that now you're outside looking.
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Speaker 16: At I would give me a lot of perspective. And
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Speaker 16: I've tried, even in my lengthy career to what I say,
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Speaker 16: exercise my gifts to the command staffs, give them the
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Speaker 16: knowledge of interacting with communities, and it's really given me
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Speaker 16: a true focus on what is happening today. And when
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Speaker 16: I was on here last time talking to Brian, I'm
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Speaker 16: just disappointed in a lot of the community activities and
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Speaker 16: involvement that the police is not being able to do
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Speaker 16: and implement at this pretty time.
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Speaker 5: And we always see that they're always late.
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Speaker 16: When I mean late is is we should have done this,
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Speaker 16: but we didn't do this. The police is not in
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Speaker 16: line with council. Council, UH is not in line with
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Speaker 16: the mayor. The mayor is not aligned with the chief.
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Speaker 16: The chief is not aligned with the city manager. And
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Speaker 16: why what I call it is one big hot mess.
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Speaker 1: It is it is a hot mess. And UH, I
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Speaker 1: don't know if you heard Chris Chris Smithman yesterday. But uh,
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Speaker 1: I I was trying to check myself after the most
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Speaker 1: recent election, and there was a there was a shooting
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Speaker 1: that happened. And this is not the one that was
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Speaker 1: in the West End where the eleven year old girl
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Speaker 1: was killed. This was one that happened, and and it
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Speaker 1: was it was just a day or two after the election,
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Speaker 1: and there and and and I said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: this is what the people of Cincinnati voted for. The
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Speaker 1: people of Cincinnati voted for a city council that does
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Speaker 1: not feel the need to address crime in a serious way.
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Speaker 1: We have a mayor who talks about it and says
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Speaker 1: he's got a plan for this, that and the other thing,
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Speaker 1: and then comes out on his inauguration day and says, hey,
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Speaker 1: we're going to have public we need public safety. We're
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Speaker 1: going to have to ask you to dig a little
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Speaker 1: bit deeper, caugh up a little bit more money. Well,
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Speaker 1: I think we have a city manager who is in
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Speaker 1: over her head when it comes with dealing comes to
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Speaker 1: dealing with serious issues like this. And so I asked
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Speaker 1: Chris smith and I said, am I off base here?
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Speaker 1: Suggesting that this is what the voters the small amount
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Speaker 1: of voters who turned out in this last election cycle.
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Speaker 1: I said, is this what representative of what they voted
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Speaker 1: for to continue these kind of policies? And he said, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'll ask you the same question. Is this what the
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Speaker 1: majority of voters said? We're fine with the way things
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Speaker 1: are going at City Hall because everything that's going on
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Speaker 1: right now now was going on before. And I don't
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Speaker 1: see anything to indicate that there's going to be any
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Speaker 1: sort of meaningful change or this will be addressed in
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Speaker 1: a meaningful way.
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Speaker 16: Correct, to make it straight and simple, Yes, you get
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Speaker 16: what you want. It looked like a duck. Quite like
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Speaker 16: a duck. Walk like a duck. It's a duck. After
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Speaker 16: that was very clear, he said that he was gonna
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Speaker 16: raise taxes, whether it's through the public safety or whether
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Speaker 16: it's through housing. He told everybody he was gonna raise taxes.
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Speaker 16: So at this point, are you surprised? And my surprise,
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Speaker 16: absolutely not, because we've already seen the body of work.
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Speaker 16: So to be honest with you, at this point, no
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Speaker 16: one should be shocked. No one should be surprised because
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Speaker 16: we've seen how the administration operates, and this is what
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Speaker 16: you get when you deal with this type of process,
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Speaker 16: in this type of system, so I keep things straight
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Speaker 16: to the point, Brother Dan, I'm not surprised, and it's
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Speaker 16: going to continue to get worse. The tax are going
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Speaker 16: to get slammed, and this is going to be one
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Speaker 16: of the worst summers that is going to happen here
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Speaker 16: in Cincinnati. I've predicted it several times on my pages,
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Speaker 16: and everything I've predicted has come to pass. Dealing whether
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Speaker 16: it's city issues, whether it's being homicide, whether it's being
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Speaker 16: crime constantly going up within the community. It all has
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Speaker 16: been predicted and come to pass. Just like with the
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Speaker 16: issues that went on with Captain Denita Pettis, I predicted
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Speaker 16: she was going to get everything back, all back paying benefits,
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Speaker 16: and when she was terminated I immediately came out with
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Speaker 16: a post and told her to hold your hell up.
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Speaker 16: How Why? Because I knew the system, I knew how
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Speaker 16: vicious the system could be.
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Speaker 5: I knew she was a target, And here we are
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Speaker 5: today she is.
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Speaker 16: A one hundred percent winner and has been awarded everything back,
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Speaker 16: paying all benefits.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be honest. I did not follow the Thenita
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Speaker 1: Pettiest story all that closely when it was rolling out
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Speaker 1: in real time. But when I saw the statement that
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Speaker 1: Ken Kober put out on this a couple of days ago,
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Speaker 1: I read that and it just just it just smacked
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Speaker 1: to me of that there was heavy handed political influence
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Speaker 1: in everything that surrounded her. Correct, correct, And that, to
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Speaker 1: my way of thinking, that is not what the Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: Police Department should be about. I think we had a
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Speaker 1: long history with the Cincinnati Police Department where they were
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Speaker 1: in a position to resist that sort of thing. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there are stories about Tom Striker when he was the
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Speaker 1: police chief. You know, he would have, you know, the
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Speaker 1: mayor or other political figures would walk into his office
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Speaker 1: and say Chief, I need you to do this, that
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Speaker 1: and the other thing, and he would say, there's the door,
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Speaker 1: get the hell out of my office. So I think
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Speaker 1: the ways that we have things set up now that
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Speaker 1: the chief doesn't have that same ability. And I say
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Speaker 1: resist because I'm not naive enough to believe that there's
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Speaker 1: never any political influence in the police department. But I
1:17:12
Speaker 1: think it's gotten to such a point now to where
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Speaker 1: it's sort of part and parcel of the everyday activity
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Speaker 1: right right.
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Speaker 16: But I'm gonna ask you, brother Dan, what's the truth
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Speaker 16: right now? What is actually the truth where everybody is
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Speaker 16: putting blame on everybody, when I've been very consistent. I've
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Speaker 16: actually said, from the mayor, from the city manager, from the.
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Speaker 5: Chief, get rid of all of them.
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Speaker 16: See, I'm not just gonna point the finger at one person,
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Speaker 16: because this is an entire body of work. And when
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Speaker 16: you have an entire body of work like this, no
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Speaker 16: one gets a pass from me, not one particular person.
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Speaker 16: And this is where we have to be honest and
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Speaker 16: real about the situations. And I have proof just looking
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Speaker 16: at the report, even from the decision from the arbitrators
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Speaker 16: and attorney Kimberly Rotowski is clear and she said it
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Speaker 16: not in her twenty plus years has she ever seen
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Speaker 16: anything as egregious as this particular arbitration filing and what
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Speaker 16: the city did to captain Denita Pettis.
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Speaker 1: So, and you know what, you you asked me, what
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Speaker 1: what is the truth right now? And we got we
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Speaker 1: got a break coming up here. So I will tell
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Speaker 1: you what. I what my perception of the truth. And
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Speaker 1: look what my perception of the truth is may not
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Speaker 1: be actually true, but I can I can I can read,
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Speaker 1: I can look, I can see what's going on, and
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Speaker 1: I know, I know the message that I think that
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Speaker 1: is being sent forth and it's it's it's not one
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Speaker 1: that that we should be proud of.
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Speaker 5: That's right. So that's right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'll expound that. We got to get to
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Speaker 1: a quick little break here and we will continue with
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Speaker 1: brother Andre Ewing on the other side of this, Dan
1:18:57
Speaker 1: Carroll and for Brian Thomas on fifty five ARC. The
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Speaker 1: about being an individual.
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Speaker 5: Come on, let's go.
1:19:12
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Yes, sir, you know did
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Speaker 1: you hear christ Smitherman yesterday talking about his thoughts on
1:19:17
Speaker 1: MLK that he had an hour on with Brian Thomas yesterday?
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Speaker 1: It was that that was just a great hour of radio.
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Speaker 16: He is so passionate. Shout out to Christopher Smitherman.
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Speaker 5: He is amazing.
1:19:28
Speaker 16: He's passionate, extremely intelligent, and the city passed up on
1:19:34
Speaker 16: a very very educated and reasonable man. And I just
1:19:41
Speaker 16: want to give him a shout out. Awesome father, and
1:19:45
Speaker 16: awesome just mentor. And I appreciate him in every way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he loves the city. He loves Hamilton County. He
1:19:52
Speaker 1: wants only the best for this city and it it
1:19:55
Speaker 1: pains him to see the path that that we are
1:20:00
Speaker 1: taking as as a city right now. So you asked
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Speaker 1: me before, you know what, what's the truth? Well, the
1:20:05
Speaker 1: truth as I see it, is that the message that
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Speaker 1: is going out right now is that crime pays in
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Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati. When I see a settlement of
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Speaker 1: eight point one million dollars, that is going to be
1:20:20
Speaker 1: a financial windfall for hundreds of individuals who came into
1:20:24
Speaker 1: our city, that that broke curfew, that damaged property. There
1:20:29
Speaker 1: was a Cincinnati police officer who, thank god he had
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Speaker 1: a kevlar helmet on, that was hit with a bullet.
1:20:37
Speaker 1: The notion that because you had and I remember saying
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Speaker 1: this at the time back in twenty twenty, and I
1:20:48
Speaker 1: would go to my TV every night. My wife would say,
1:20:51
Speaker 1: what what do you want to watch on TV? I'd say, well,
1:20:53
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna watch the riots tonight. See. You know,
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Speaker 1: is it Philadelphia, is it Chicago? Is it some other
1:21:01
Speaker 1: city that has cars overturned and things are burning and
1:21:05
Speaker 1: all the rest of it. You know, we was going
1:21:07
Speaker 1: on in Minneapolis, and so he had all these riots
1:21:10
Speaker 1: that were spreading all across the country, all these different cities, right,
1:21:13
Speaker 1: and then it tried to come to Cincinnati, and I said,
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati police did the right They nipped this in the butt.
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Speaker 1: We had some sort we had what there was like
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Speaker 1: forty different businesses had their windows broken out, damage, all
1:21:26
Speaker 1: kinds of just terrible things that was going on, and
1:21:30
Speaker 1: Cincinnati police nipped it in the butt and did what
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Speaker 1: they could. Then John Cranley comes out, the mayor, and says, Purfew,
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Speaker 1: We're not tolerating this. We're going to shut it down.
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Speaker 1: People go out the next night, they get arrested, hundreds
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Speaker 1: of people. The only place they can go is to
1:21:47
Speaker 1: the Hamilton County Justice Center. Takes a while to get
1:21:49
Speaker 1: them all into the justice center. And so based on
1:21:55
Speaker 1: that that they were you know, they had to sit
1:21:58
Speaker 1: outside for a little while, or maybe they didn't get
1:22:01
Speaker 1: a bottle of water, you know, maybe they didn't have
1:22:03
Speaker 1: their medication with it. So they sue and then we
1:22:07
Speaker 1: turn around and say we're going to pay these people
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Speaker 1: eight point one million dollars. Then Ken Kober comes out
1:22:13
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago and says he's caught wind
1:22:16
Speaker 1: of that there could possibly be a settlement in the
1:22:20
Speaker 1: works for the Hinton family. A terrible tragedy with that
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Speaker 1: young man who decided to boost some cars with some
1:22:28
Speaker 1: buddies of his. They get caught by police, they run,
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Speaker 1: he's got a gun, turns toward police, and all those
1:22:36
Speaker 1: sort of facts get blurred that they're talking about a
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Speaker 1: settlement with him. Then we have the settlement that gets
1:22:42
Speaker 1: announced with the other young man whose name escapes me
1:22:45
Speaker 1: at the moment, who also pointed a gun at police.
1:22:49
Speaker 1: Was there some question there, possibly, but the police were cleared.
1:22:52
Speaker 1: We don't stand behind them. So the message that is
1:22:55
Speaker 1: going out is that crime pays in the city of Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: And I think those who are of such a mind
1:23:05
Speaker 1: look at that, see what's happening, and the results are
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Speaker 1: what they are.
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Speaker 16: Well, the bottom line, Dan, is that there's no trust
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Speaker 16: in this city, zero trust, and crime does pay. Excuse me,
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Speaker 16: And that's obvious from what we see on a daily basis,
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Speaker 16: And there's no real structure of what we see. And
1:23:26
Speaker 16: that's why I said that the city is broken. The
1:23:29
Speaker 16: structure is broken, and something needs to pull back this
1:23:33
Speaker 16: entire process. And of course, since we have four more
1:23:36
Speaker 16: years of administration and council, we're going to get the
1:23:39
Speaker 16: exact same results. There's something that's going on with the
1:23:43
Speaker 16: city manager writing all these checks, feeling very very passionate
1:23:49
Speaker 16: about giving individuals large sums of money regardless of the
1:23:57
Speaker 16: facts or even how the information comes out. And this
1:24:01
Speaker 16: is where we have to really look at what is
1:24:03
Speaker 16: going on with our city leaders that none of them
1:24:08
Speaker 16: are on the same page. And when you lose trust,
1:24:11
Speaker 16: you lose the community. When you lose the community, you
1:24:15
Speaker 16: are in trouble. And this is a clear fact of
1:24:18
Speaker 16: how these situations go. But even taken further when we
1:24:21
Speaker 16: talk about, say the collaborative agreement that everybody brings up.
1:24:25
Speaker 16: But what's interesting, within like a twenty four to fourty
1:24:27
Speaker 16: eight hour period, they have to show the family the
1:24:31
Speaker 16: video tape of what the shooting and what has occurred immediately. Now,
1:24:36
Speaker 16: really that is backfired because emotionally, you bring in a
1:24:39
Speaker 16: father and that's what they're claiming now that he witnessed
1:24:44
Speaker 16: his son being a shot and killed writing on a video.
1:24:49
Speaker 16: But now there was no structure in place, and they
1:24:52
Speaker 16: just allow him to leave without proper council, proper care,
1:24:57
Speaker 16: proper prep to show you what's going on. And he
1:25:01
Speaker 16: leaves this situation and then goes kills Officer Henderson. So
1:25:07
Speaker 16: now they need to re evaluate the entire collaborative agreement.
1:25:12
Speaker 16: And what does it look like for someone to review
1:25:16
Speaker 16: your child or your loved one being murdered. Yeah, that
1:25:19
Speaker 16: would shock anybody. I don't care who you are. That
1:25:22
Speaker 16: will shock anybody. But now what do we do when
1:25:25
Speaker 16: we just allow a system to just tell you and
1:25:28
Speaker 16: demand I never like the situation of just releasing information
1:25:32
Speaker 16: immediately within like twenty four hours, because there's so much
1:25:36
Speaker 16: deeptail that needs to be expressed. And so what do
1:25:39
Speaker 16: you get. You get emotion versus reason. And when you
1:25:42
Speaker 16: deal with that, brother Dan, you get a hot mess
1:25:45
Speaker 16: once again is what you have in this city. But
1:25:47
Speaker 16: you know, I know that. With all that being said,
1:25:51
Speaker 16: I wanted to get on the situation, which you know
1:25:53
Speaker 16: Captain Pettis and how she scored super super high on
1:25:57
Speaker 16: all these exams.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you've brought the receipts right here.
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Speaker 16: I brought the receipts second highest lieutenant score when she
1:26:04
Speaker 16: was twenty fourteen to twenty fifteen, second highest captain score.
1:26:09
Speaker 16: So there was no DEI for Captain Pettis.
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Speaker 5: This woman is brilliant.
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Speaker 16: She has skills. I mean, her resume is incredible. She
1:26:20
Speaker 16: was she served in the Record's commander. She was a
1:26:22
Speaker 16: Special Service Section Commander, Guns Crime Tour Task Force Commander,
1:26:27
Speaker 16: Planning Section Commander, Civil Disturbance Response Team Commander, and a
1:26:32
Speaker 16: subject matter specialist when it comes to promotional exams this woman.
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Speaker 1: That was something yeah, and that was something you mentioned
1:26:41
Speaker 1: to me when you walked in this morning, that she
1:26:44
Speaker 1: is not a DEI Higher And I have not seen
1:26:49
Speaker 1: individuals who are criticizing her in that sort of way.
1:26:52
Speaker 1: But you're telling me that there's a I guess there's
1:26:54
Speaker 1: a faction out there that is suggesting that Captain Pettis
1:26:58
Speaker 1: was a DEI Higher.
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Speaker 16: As Absolutely on the social media pages that that we
1:27:03
Speaker 16: always see that they're saying because she's a black woman,
1:27:05
Speaker 16: she must have just didn't earn it. But I'm here
1:27:08
Speaker 16: to sit back and say it's clear that it's obvious
1:27:12
Speaker 16: that she earned it. And obviously when the arbitrators, three
1:27:15
Speaker 16: of them, mind you.
1:27:17
Speaker 1: And don't know what the hell they're talking about.
1:27:20
Speaker 16: Absolutely, yes, sir, And that's why I said that Chief
1:27:23
Speaker 16: Thiji doesn't get a pass. We can't just put this
1:27:26
Speaker 16: on the city manager, because even in the Chief Thiji's
1:27:31
Speaker 16: own writing, she said, I'm disapproving Chief McKinley's recommendation he's
1:27:36
Speaker 16: a fire chief and recommending Captain Pettis be dismissed from
1:27:41
Speaker 16: the CPD.
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Speaker 5: So don't put it on Cheryl Long.
1:27:45
Speaker 16: Sure a Long messed up by just taking a piece
1:27:47
Speaker 16: of paper and just signing it. You you don't sign
1:27:51
Speaker 16: anything or concur with anything until you read the fine print.
1:27:57
Speaker 16: And this is where counsel and everyone else instead of
1:27:59
Speaker 16: making all these payoffs, even with Michael Washington, I give
1:28:03
Speaker 16: him a shout out. People better start sitting back and
1:28:06
Speaker 16: reevaluating the whole charter on the power of the city
1:28:10
Speaker 16: manager because she is making a wreck of this entire city.
1:28:16
Speaker 16: And how much money do the taxpayers have?
1:28:19
Speaker 1: Well, it seems that and we got to run. But
1:28:23
Speaker 1: it seems to me that her way of doing business
1:28:26
Speaker 1: is to reach into the treasury and write write a
1:28:29
Speaker 1: check in order to address an issue.
1:28:32
Speaker 5: And I will never ever solve anything.
1:28:35
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Pastor, you're also a pastor, leave us with before
1:28:40
Speaker 1: we let you go, leave us with a good word
1:28:41
Speaker 1: that we can we can think about during the course
1:28:43
Speaker 1: of the day.
1:28:44
Speaker 16: What a good word is out of the abundance of
1:28:46
Speaker 16: the heart. The mouth speaks and you have to be
1:28:50
Speaker 16: careful what is in your heart. And so when you
1:28:52
Speaker 16: see somebody today, don't judge them. Go into them, look
1:28:57
Speaker 16: them in an eye, tell them you love them, tell
1:28:59
Speaker 16: them dah bless them. And won't you actually pray with them,
1:29:03
Speaker 16: talk with them just for a moment. You might be
1:29:06
Speaker 16: surprised what you both.
1:29:07
Speaker 5: Have in common.
1:29:09
Speaker 1: Andre Ewing, great to meet you, my friend. Likewise, I
1:29:12
Speaker 1: hope you get a chance to do this again.
1:29:13
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, thank you so much.
1:29:15
Speaker 1: Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas on fifty five KRC de
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Speaker 1: Talk Station Football postseason lip fifty five KRC The Talk Station,
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Speaker 1: Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas, want to thank brother Andrea
1:29:28
Speaker 1: Ewing for being here in studio. First time I had
1:29:30
Speaker 1: a chance to meet him, so that was a great
1:29:33
Speaker 1: conversation and also looking forward to speaking with our next guest.
1:29:37
Speaker 1: Tom Zelatowski runs the website we the People Convention dot
1:29:41
Speaker 1: org and Tom, it's great to have you on fifty
1:29:43
Speaker 1: five KRC this morning. How are you, Good morning.
1:29:46
Speaker 17: Dan, glad to be with you, Thanks for having me on.
1:29:49
Speaker 1: Thank you for being here. You know I told this
1:29:52
Speaker 1: story last week on one of my shows on seven
1:29:55
Speaker 1: hundred and I was saying that in the news business
1:29:58
Speaker 1: here locally, he used to say that every national story
1:30:02
Speaker 1: has a way of touching Cincinnati. And so I see
1:30:08
Speaker 1: this story about Jim O'Neil, Deputy Secretary and the Apartment
1:30:12
Speaker 1: of Human Services came out and he talked about Abukar Osmon,
1:30:19
Speaker 1: who was Somalia's permanent representative to the United States, to
1:30:22
Speaker 1: the United Nations and the UN Security Council, and records
1:30:27
Speaker 1: show that he has ties to Ohio and a Cincinnati
1:30:29
Speaker 1: company that had to pay ninety thousand dollars in restitution
1:30:33
Speaker 1: for medicaid fraud. So it is absolutely amazing, and I think,
1:30:38
Speaker 1: you know, there are calls now by some state lawmakers
1:30:42
Speaker 1: who are talking about investigating some of the daycares and
1:30:48
Speaker 1: other fraudulent situations that may have appeared in and around
1:30:53
Speaker 1: the Columbus area. So when we look at this story
1:30:56
Speaker 1: about what's going on in Minnesota, I think a lot
1:30:59
Speaker 1: of us need to be aware that it's not just
1:31:01
Speaker 1: happening in Minnesota, but really it sort of has its
1:31:05
Speaker 1: fingers and tentacles touching a lot of us right here
1:31:08
Speaker 1: in Ohio.
1:31:10
Speaker 17: Well, you know, people just forget how long this has
1:31:13
Speaker 17: been going on, the Somali problem in Ohio, Dan, you know,
1:31:17
Speaker 17: we were the Tea Party movement was screaming about this
1:31:20
Speaker 17: when they first arrived, you know, fifteen years ago or
1:31:23
Speaker 17: whatever it was. Because what's amazing about this story is
1:31:27
Speaker 17: that it's like Springfield with the Haitians, right, you know,
1:31:31
Speaker 17: where over night these people just show up in your
1:31:34
Speaker 17: community with no plan.
1:31:36
Speaker 1: Right.
1:31:37
Speaker 17: It's not like, hey, we're going to bring ten thousand
1:31:39
Speaker 17: people to your town, and here's federal money for housing
1:31:42
Speaker 17: and for food and for medical and to help with
1:31:45
Speaker 17: you know, interpreters at your schools. Oh no, no, you know,
1:31:48
Speaker 17: Catholic charities just brings them in because they get billions
1:31:51
Speaker 17: of dollars to help, you know, break our immigration laws,
1:31:55
Speaker 17: and they just bring them in and drop them off. Well,
1:31:57
Speaker 17: when they did that outside of Columbus, the sheriff was
1:32:00
Speaker 17: going Bizerko because they were having the same problem they
1:32:03
Speaker 17: had in Springfield. There were car accidents because they were driving.
1:32:06
Speaker 17: They didn't know how to drive our cars, they didn't
1:32:09
Speaker 17: know our rules, they couldn't speak English. The schools were
1:32:11
Speaker 17: a disaster because they were just inundated with all these
1:32:15
Speaker 17: children that didn't speak English, and nobody would do anything
1:32:19
Speaker 17: about it. We brought it to the attention of Chasik,
1:32:22
Speaker 17: you know, and then and then the wine, and look
1:32:25
Speaker 17: at what the wine did with Springfield. He just kind
1:32:27
Speaker 17: of like said, there's plenty to see here, Dan, there's
1:32:31
Speaker 17: plenty to see and it ain't good.
1:32:33
Speaker 1: Well, why do you think that is? Why do you
1:32:35
Speaker 1: think there's at least on the part of the governor
1:32:38
Speaker 1: that there's really no appetite to investigate this or get
1:32:42
Speaker 1: to the bottom of it, or even try and separate
1:32:45
Speaker 1: in a meaningful way what is true and what is
1:32:48
Speaker 1: not true. It is It is amazing to me. Look,
1:32:52
Speaker 1: fraud is fraud. Ripping off the government or ripping off
1:32:55
Speaker 1: anyone is ripping people off. It doesn't matter where you
1:32:59
Speaker 1: come from. It doesn't matter what your heritage is. If
1:33:02
Speaker 1: you're an American, I don't want you to do it.
1:33:04
Speaker 1: If you're an immigrant, I don't want you to do it.
1:33:06
Speaker 1: If you're an illegal alien, I don't want you to
1:33:08
Speaker 1: do it. But yet there's no appetite on the part
1:33:12
Speaker 1: of the governor and his staff, I guess to really
1:33:15
Speaker 1: get to the bottom of this. So now there's a
1:33:17
Speaker 1: growing body of lawmakers in Columbus who want this looked into.
1:33:22
Speaker 1: But as you said, I mean, you know this, this
1:33:24
Speaker 1: horse has been out of the barn for a long
1:33:26
Speaker 1: time already.
1:33:27
Speaker 17: Well, so you know what do we as people do
1:33:30
Speaker 17: you know, as citizens? Because I just think that you
1:33:33
Speaker 17: know again and you were right as listen says you
1:33:36
Speaker 17: earlier in the podcast show here where you know this hold,
1:33:39
Speaker 17: the riots and the anti ice stuff is a distraction
1:33:43
Speaker 17: from the real issue, which is the fraud. What's interesting
1:33:47
Speaker 17: is that, you know, for all of us, you know,
1:33:49
Speaker 17: what's going on up there with Ice doesn't really affect
1:33:52
Speaker 17: I don't have ICE agents knocking down the doors of
1:33:54
Speaker 17: my neighbor's house. I don't have some allays in my town.
1:33:58
Speaker 17: But we all have our tax dollars there. And the
1:34:02
Speaker 17: outrage among the American people about this stuff, I just
1:34:06
Speaker 17: don't think the political class really understands how deep and
1:34:11
Speaker 17: how serious it is. We are pissed, people are angry
1:34:15
Speaker 17: because this isn't just Somali's It's just not in you know, Minneapolis,
1:34:20
Speaker 17: it's here in Ohio, it's in Maine, it's in Washington state.
1:34:23
Speaker 17: Boy boy, wait till we get into Los Angeles. And
1:34:25
Speaker 17: New York. If you want to see what fraud is.
1:34:28
Speaker 17: Our problem is what are our senators and congressmen doing
1:34:33
Speaker 17: to stop it? And my position is not.
1:34:36
Speaker 1: Nearly enough, not nearly enough, absolutely, So I want to
1:34:41
Speaker 1: continue on with this topic and I want to sort
1:34:45
Speaker 1: of pivot into how this is going to relate to
1:34:48
Speaker 1: evak Ramaswami and what he's saying about these issues. But
1:34:51
Speaker 1: we got to get to a quick break right now.
1:34:53
Speaker 1: Tom z Allatowski, stay right there. Will continue on on
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Speaker 1: fifty five KRC, the Talk Station.
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Speaker 5: This is doctor Jesse Mills, host of the Mailroom podcast.
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Speaker 1: KARC the talk station fifty five KRC, the Talk Station
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Speaker 1: seven on this Tuesday morning, continuing our conversation with Tom Zawatowski.
1:35:17
Speaker 1: We the People Convention dot Org and Tom, so, we've
1:35:22
Speaker 1: got a big governor's race coming up in the in
1:35:27
Speaker 1: the fall, and I was talking to Alex trianta Filou
1:35:31
Speaker 1: yesterday and he was talking about the campaign that the
1:35:34
Speaker 1: viak Ramaswami is running. So far, so good, it looks like,
1:35:39
Speaker 1: but I'm also a little bit concerned that h that
1:35:44
Speaker 1: I guess the message that he's got could get could
1:35:48
Speaker 1: get watered down or overrun and somehow, I hope this
1:35:53
Speaker 1: doesn't happen, that Amy Acton could jump up and surprise
1:35:58
Speaker 1: a lot of people come this fall. How how you're
1:36:01
Speaker 1: sizing up that race so far, Well.
1:36:04
Speaker 17: You know, I'm I'm very confident, uh, you know, with
1:36:08
Speaker 17: you know what's going on as far as you know,
1:36:10
Speaker 17: our election here in Ohio. I think, Dan, the biggest
1:36:13
Speaker 17: problem for us is to get our voters to turn
1:36:15
Speaker 17: out without Trump on the ballot. I think that's really
1:36:19
Speaker 17: the issue. And uh, you know, the Bank was on
1:36:22
Speaker 17: last night on Jesse Waters Show addressing you know, the
1:36:25
Speaker 17: situation Minneapolis, and and boy, you know, he's just so articulate,
1:36:30
Speaker 17: and he's so really just clear on his positions. You know, people,
1:36:35
Speaker 17: you know, people ask me, like, you know, we're the
1:36:37
Speaker 17: tea party I you represent you know, the grassroots people
1:36:40
Speaker 17: here in Ohio have for sixteen years, and they say, well,
1:36:43
Speaker 17: what do we want most? We want to restore equal
1:36:47
Speaker 17: justice under the law. We want to restore the rule
1:36:50
Speaker 17: of law. And but they talked about that when he
1:36:53
Speaker 17: said that, you know, we're not going to let Ohio
1:36:55
Speaker 17: become Minneapo Minnesota. We're going to you know, work with
1:36:58
Speaker 17: the federal government. We're going to worst federal law. Even
1:37:01
Speaker 17: though you know, the state doesn't enforce it. They do
1:37:04
Speaker 17: work with ICE and the FBI and the DOJ and
1:37:07
Speaker 17: HHS and all those guys. And it was good to
1:37:09
Speaker 17: see him say that. But it was great you had
1:37:11
Speaker 17: Alex on. I love Alex you know, he's a really
1:37:14
Speaker 17: good leader of the Republican Party. But if you don't mind,
1:37:18
Speaker 17: I want to talk a little bit about some skull
1:37:21
Speaker 17: drudgery that's going on with the Republicans in Ohio that
1:37:24
Speaker 17: everyone in the state should understand. I always say that
1:37:27
Speaker 17: the Columbus cartel, you know, is just as bad as
1:37:31
Speaker 17: the deep state in Washington. And it's and here's a
1:37:34
Speaker 17: perfect example, and involved Cincinnati, and it involves the whole state.
1:37:38
Speaker 17: You know that we wanted to redistrict because Ohio had
1:37:42
Speaker 17: the potential to pick up three seats. We could have
1:37:45
Speaker 17: made Cincinnati more competitive than the first district. We could
1:37:49
Speaker 17: have made Akron the thirteenth district, which was lost by
1:37:53
Speaker 17: only two percent two years ago, we could have won
1:37:56
Speaker 17: that House seat, and then the ninth district up in Toledo,
1:38:00
Speaker 17: where seventy nine year old Marcy Captor has been hanging
1:38:03
Speaker 17: on forever. We were going to redistrict that. So what happened, Well,
1:38:07
Speaker 17: instead of redistricting to win all three seats, they ended
1:38:11
Speaker 17: up redistricting the Toledo district to be like a plus
1:38:14
Speaker 17: ten district, like you could win it with a toaster, okay.
1:38:18
Speaker 17: And they didn't help the first and they didn't help
1:38:21
Speaker 17: the thirteenth. And the whole reason for that, I was
1:38:24
Speaker 17: told was that Rob McCauley, our Senate President, was going
1:38:28
Speaker 17: to run in Toledo, and his Senate district was up there,
1:38:31
Speaker 17: and he expanded the district to include him. Well, then,
1:38:35
Speaker 17: as you guys know, Rob McCauley ended up running with
1:38:39
Speaker 17: the bike as his lieutenant governor. And so we're like, okay,
1:38:44
Speaker 17: we're really mad because President Trump needs as many House
1:38:47
Speaker 17: seats as we can get and they didn't do the
1:38:49
Speaker 17: resisting right. Well, what happens in the ninth district. Just
1:38:53
Speaker 17: this week, all of a sudden, this woman shows up.
1:38:57
Speaker 17: Her name is Madison, she had sh Aha n She's
1:39:03
Speaker 17: twenty eight years old. She's never run for any position ever.
1:39:08
Speaker 17: She was working at ice with Christy Nome for the
1:39:11
Speaker 17: last ten months, and all of a sudden she shows
1:39:15
Speaker 17: up to run for Congress in the ninth district and
1:39:19
Speaker 17: you're like, wait a minute. We got a guy named
1:39:20
Speaker 17: Derek Merin who only lost by two percentage points last time,
1:39:24
Speaker 17: who's leading in the polls. Why do we need this
1:39:26
Speaker 17: new person? And then man, she shows up on Laura
1:39:31
Speaker 17: Trump's TV show on Saturday night, saam out of nowhere,
1:39:36
Speaker 17: down eight year old person shows up. And what I
1:39:40
Speaker 17: want your listeners to understand is this is the problem
1:39:44
Speaker 17: with politics, and it's all about the power and money.
1:39:48
Speaker 17: There's a political operative in Ohio named Bob Paducciic. He
1:39:52
Speaker 17: used to represent Rob Portman, he got involved with with
1:39:56
Speaker 17: Trump and things, and this is all about him getting
1:40:00
Speaker 17: a payday. This is all about We're going to bring
1:40:03
Speaker 17: in this unknown person with millions of dollars and Bob
1:40:07
Speaker 17: Padujik's gonna run her campaign and you know what, He's
1:40:11
Speaker 17: probably gonna get Donald Trump endorse this person, and the
1:40:15
Speaker 17: Ohio voters are not going to have a choice for
1:40:17
Speaker 17: who they want in the in the ninth district. And
1:40:20
Speaker 17: this is what's wrong with our whole system because money
1:40:25
Speaker 17: picks our candidates, not the people. And that's happening right
1:40:29
Speaker 17: here in Ohio and it's just a tragedy. We should have.
1:40:32
Speaker 17: We should flip three seats here and now we're gonna
1:40:35
Speaker 17: be lucky if we put this one with a twenty
1:40:37
Speaker 17: eight year old running well.
1:40:39
Speaker 1: Paducchick's a brilliant guy, so I have no doubt that
1:40:42
Speaker 1: he can pull off just about whatever it is he
1:40:45
Speaker 1: wants to pull off. But it's it's selfish it, I mean,
1:40:53
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. This is not to my way
1:40:56
Speaker 1: of thinking. This is not what conservatives or are Republicans
1:41:00
Speaker 1: ought to be about. You know, it ought to be
1:41:03
Speaker 1: about doing the right thing. And when you're you're running operation,
1:41:07
Speaker 1: the way you're describing to me certainly doesn't sound like
1:41:11
Speaker 1: it's the right thing. Well, so, and this is what
1:41:14
Speaker 1: So I want to pivot back to the Veke now,
1:41:16
Speaker 1: because you know there's people who are saying, oh geez,
1:41:19
Speaker 1: you know Rob McCauley's now is lieutenant governor.
1:41:21
Speaker 17: So the Veke has been captured by the Columbus cartel, right.
1:41:24
Speaker 1: I hope that I can assure you.
1:41:26
Speaker 17: I can assure you guys, that is not the case.
1:41:29
Speaker 17: The Veke is a change agent as much as Donald
1:41:32
Speaker 17: Trump was. The cartel is scared to death of them,
1:41:36
Speaker 17: and that's why you're seeing these hit pieces coming out
1:41:39
Speaker 17: where they're trying to promote amy acting. And and this
1:41:42
Speaker 17: is the John Kasic people, the you know, the Lex
1:41:46
Speaker 17: Wexner people, you know, they're behind this. Don Price guy
1:41:50
Speaker 17: is the one behind all these hit pieces about the Veke,
1:41:53
Speaker 17: you know, pulling up things like he you know, he's
1:41:55
Speaker 17: part of a an investigation in Georgia for an illegal
1:42:00
Speaker 17: takeover some company and stuff. It's gonna get crazy because
1:42:04
Speaker 17: the cartel your listeners write this down. Republicans in Ohio
1:42:09
Speaker 17: would always rather have a Democrat win than a Republican.
1:42:13
Speaker 17: They can't control. They can't control the Bank Ramaswami because
1:42:18
Speaker 17: like Trump, he doesn't need them. He can self fund
1:42:21
Speaker 17: and he's going to do things they don't want. And
1:42:24
Speaker 17: that's why you're sending these efforts to undermine him. It's
1:42:27
Speaker 17: not going to work the bank. It's going to be
1:42:29
Speaker 17: our next governor. You're gonna from real good changes in Ohio.
1:42:33
Speaker 1: You can't, can't, John Kasik, just go back to CNN
1:42:36
Speaker 1: or MSNBC and please leave uss alone Ohio. You know,
1:42:42
Speaker 1: at least money shows up on one of those shows
1:42:44
Speaker 1: you got. You have the ability to turn the sound
1:42:46
Speaker 1: down or turn it off. Tom stay right there, we gotta,
1:42:49
Speaker 1: we gotta work in a quick break on fifty five
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1:42:53
Speaker 5: Are you tired of losing money in the stock mark
1:42:55
Speaker 5: and not winning enough?
1:42:56
Speaker 1: From fifty five krc the Talk Station, Joe Strecker rolling
1:43:06
Speaker 1: out a little homage to all the Hoosier fans out there.
1:43:11
Speaker 1: So congratulations to the Hoosiers winning the national championship. Great game.
1:43:15
Speaker 1: Last night I watched Bits and Pieces. I was trying
1:43:18
Speaker 1: to fall asleep and watch the show. But wrapping things
1:43:22
Speaker 1: up here with Tom z Awatowski, we the People Convention
1:43:26
Speaker 1: Dot Org and and Tom let me be as we
1:43:29
Speaker 1: let you go, let me I want to get your
1:43:31
Speaker 1: thought on this that there is a growing, some growing
1:43:35
Speaker 1: discontent amongst Republicans, including myself, that we have not have
1:43:41
Speaker 1: made any progress. Okay, we passed a big, beautiful bill. Okay,
1:43:45
Speaker 1: that's all fine and dandy, no tax on tips, no
1:43:48
Speaker 1: tax on overtime. But as it relates to voter fraud,
1:43:51
Speaker 1: as it relates to doge cuts, as it relates to
1:43:55
Speaker 1: certain individuals being prosecuted that we thought would be prosecuted
1:43:59
Speaker 1: for their misdeeds, none of that has happened. And so
1:44:04
Speaker 1: the longer that that languishes and those things don't don't
1:44:08
Speaker 1: get done. To my way of thinking, that does not
1:44:11
Speaker 1: accrue to the benefit of Donald Trump and does not
1:44:14
Speaker 1: accrue to the benefit of Republicans who who are currently
1:44:19
Speaker 1: in power in DC.
1:44:23
Speaker 17: Yeah, Dan, there's a lot of there's a lot of concern.
1:44:27
Speaker 17: I have to tell you that I spent yesterday all
1:44:30
Speaker 17: day talking to leaders from around the country, around the state,
1:44:34
Speaker 17: trying to keep them more positive because they're really they
1:44:38
Speaker 17: don't understand why these things aren't happening. I mean, what
1:44:42
Speaker 17: more do you need to invoke the Insurrection Act than
1:44:45
Speaker 17: what's going on in Minneapolis, from you know, breaking into
1:44:48
Speaker 17: our ice vehicles and stealing weapons, you know, to the
1:44:52
Speaker 17: emails that came out saying that the City of Minneapolis
1:44:55
Speaker 17: employees were actually aiding and embedding the anti American, anti
1:45:00
Speaker 17: Ice Marxists to track and hamper ICE agents. We're tired
1:45:05
Speaker 17: of it. We want to see arrest, we want to
1:45:08
Speaker 17: see this stop. We want the rule of law reestablished,
1:45:12
Speaker 17: and we're not seeing it. And you know, I think
1:45:16
Speaker 17: that our patience is wearing thin. And then when you
1:45:18
Speaker 17: get to the Congress, remember and Trump's first term, the
1:45:23
Speaker 17: only thing they passed in four years. Was the tax
1:45:27
Speaker 17: reform in twenty seventeen. Then Paul Ryan who's the House Speaker,
1:45:31
Speaker 17: and mcconnoey and those guys that said it, they sandbag
1:45:35
Speaker 17: Trump for the rest of his time. We can't let
1:45:38
Speaker 17: that happen again. And so now they're talking about another
1:45:42
Speaker 17: budget reconciliation type bill and we're talking about the say back, right, Dan,
1:45:47
Speaker 17: I mean, wouldn't that be a single important thing to
1:45:50
Speaker 17: get passed so that we can stop the cheating this November?
1:45:53
Speaker 17: But we haven't seen anything. And I'm asking your listeners,
1:45:57
Speaker 17: I'm asking people who are you know following this show,
1:46:00
Speaker 17: get on the phone this week, call your center, call
1:46:03
Speaker 17: your House member, and say, don't you do this again.
1:46:06
Speaker 17: We want action. You've got to implement Trump's agenda in legislation.
1:46:12
Speaker 17: It can't just be executive orders. We've lived that before.
1:46:17
Speaker 17: We never want to live that again.
1:46:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, legislation, And I mean that's the thing you go
1:46:23
Speaker 1: out this is this is the agenda, not just Trump,
1:46:27
Speaker 1: but the agenda that he was talking about that people
1:46:30
Speaker 1: voted for. And if you're not going to pass the agenda,
1:46:33
Speaker 1: people are going to say, well, why do why should
1:46:35
Speaker 1: I even bother to vote for you guys, you're gonna
1:46:38
Speaker 1: sit up there and do and literally do nothing. I
1:46:41
Speaker 1: mean it's on one hand, it's easy to say, look,
1:46:43
Speaker 1: Trump accomplished a lot this first year in office. Here
1:46:47
Speaker 1: in the second term, but there's no need to stop
1:46:50
Speaker 1: there because you know what, if the shoe was on
1:46:52
Speaker 1: the other foot, do you think the Democrats will be taking,
1:46:55
Speaker 1: you know, easing up on the gas a little bit?
1:46:59
Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean again, what will they do? You know
1:47:02
Speaker 17: what they're gonna do.
1:47:03
Speaker 18: They get back.
1:47:07
Speaker 1: Absolutely right.
1:47:09
Speaker 17: Let's get rid of the fellow buster. Let's start passing
1:47:11
Speaker 17: this stuff, and let's walk down the border forever. Let's
1:47:15
Speaker 17: you know, get rid of you know, the illegal immigration.
1:47:18
Speaker 17: Let's uh, you know, let's get the ballot process fixed
1:47:22
Speaker 17: because we know they're cheating and and and then how
1:47:25
Speaker 17: about cutting some of the budgets because it's a bunch
1:47:29
Speaker 17: of it is fraud. How about that.
1:47:33
Speaker 1: Six hundred billion in fraud every single year. And it's
1:47:36
Speaker 1: time to start playing some hardball on that on the
1:47:39
Speaker 1: national level. And here in Ohio, Tom, great talking to
1:47:42
Speaker 1: you this morning. We got to run, but keep up
1:47:44
Speaker 1: the great work and all the best to you, and
1:47:47
Speaker 1: I'll look forward to the next time we get a
1:47:48
Speaker 1: chance to talk again.
1:47:50
Speaker 17: Thanks Dan, thanks for setting our friend Brian.
1:47:52
Speaker 1: I hope it gets better, absolutely absolutely, Tom, thank you
1:47:55
Speaker 1: very much for that station, fifty five KRC, the talk
1:48:14
Speaker 1: station eight o six on this Tuesday morning. Good morning,
1:48:19
Speaker 1: glad to be here, Glad you are here as well.
1:48:21
Speaker 1: I'm Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas, who was taking
1:48:24
Speaker 1: taking a little breather today, so I'm always glad to
1:48:28
Speaker 1: be here. Joe Strecker is running the big board in
1:48:30
Speaker 1: the fifty five KRC Command Center. Always glad to have
1:48:34
Speaker 1: Joe Strecker there, and uh Man. Some great guests in
1:48:36
Speaker 1: the past hour, and we continue with some great guests.
1:48:39
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons I love doing this show
1:48:41
Speaker 1: is because Joe's got a great connection with the folks
1:48:44
Speaker 1: over at Breitbart News and I always get to talk
1:48:48
Speaker 1: with great, interesting individuals from Breitbart, and today it is
1:48:52
Speaker 1: Bradley J. Who is the deputy political politics editor at Breitbart,
1:48:58
Speaker 1: and Bradley J. Happy new year to you, and it's
1:49:00
Speaker 1: great to have you on fifty five KRC.
1:49:03
Speaker 15: Happy new year, Dan, great to join you well, Thank.
1:49:05
Speaker 1: You so much for being here. Peter Sweitzer is out
1:49:09
Speaker 1: with another new book. I mean, first of all, Schweitzer
1:49:12
Speaker 1: is amazing. He I don't know where he finds the
1:49:15
Speaker 1: time to write so many books. But this one is
1:49:18
Speaker 1: called The Invisible Coup. How America elites and foreign powers
1:49:23
Speaker 1: use immigration as a weapon, and they're using it as
1:49:27
Speaker 1: a weapon against the United States. And once again we
1:49:32
Speaker 1: find Peter Schweitzer sounding the alarm, and this time it's
1:49:36
Speaker 1: about he's talking about a million Chinese who have US
1:49:42
Speaker 1: citizenship in this country going to the polls in the
1:49:46
Speaker 1: year twenty thirty. Give me a little breakdown on.
1:49:49
Speaker 10: This, Yeah, I mean, this is it's really a truly
1:49:55
Speaker 10: remarkable book from Peter. We've all heard about birthright citizenship
1:50:02
Speaker 10: and how it has been abused. It takes essentially what
1:50:07
Speaker 10: this is is the fourteenth Amendment, which was passed partly
1:50:14
Speaker 10: to ensure that slaves are people who had.
1:50:18
Speaker 15: Been slaves and children of slaves that.
1:50:21
Speaker 10: They could fully enjoy citizenship from the thirteenth Amendment.
1:50:28
Speaker 15: So it's been abused.
1:50:31
Speaker 10: And the Chinese, the Chinese Communist Party, they are dynastic thinkers.
1:50:36
Speaker 15: They don't think like we do. We think you two
1:50:40
Speaker 15: and four and.
1:50:41
Speaker 10: Six year election cycles that the Chinese think like fifty
1:50:45
Speaker 10: in one.
1:50:45
Speaker 15: Hundred years down the road. What they're doing, and what
1:50:49
Speaker 15: Peter has found out through his research is that essentially,
1:50:52
Speaker 15: there are going.
1:50:52
Speaker 10: To be more than one million Chinese with US citizenship
1:50:58
Speaker 10: who grew up in communist China but who will be
1:51:01
Speaker 10: able to vote in American elections, and by twenty thirty
1:51:05
Speaker 10: there might.
1:51:06
Speaker 15: Be one million of them or more who are voting
1:51:11
Speaker 15: through what's called birth tourism.
1:51:15
Speaker 10: What they've done is all of these these Chinese elites,
1:51:19
Speaker 10: and we're not just talking.
1:51:20
Speaker 15: About you know, any Jimmy and Joe. We're talking about
1:51:23
Speaker 15: these Chinese elites.
1:51:25
Speaker 10: Who have had children, often with surrogates, have had children
1:51:33
Speaker 10: on American soil, who have become by virtue of birthright citizenship,
1:51:39
Speaker 10: which is not practiced.
1:51:40
Speaker 15: Around the world. The United States is a rarity here.
1:51:43
Speaker 10: But these children have been granted American citizen citizenship. Then
1:51:47
Speaker 10: they've been shipped back over to China to get indoctrinated
1:51:52
Speaker 10: by the Chinese Communist Party, yet they retain American citizenship
1:51:56
Speaker 10: and they'll be able to vote in the twenty thirty election.
1:52:00
Speaker 10: Really really horrifying to think about, and it's astounding that
1:52:04
Speaker 10: Peter's uncovered.
1:52:05
Speaker 1: With Yeah, and when you talk about all these individuals
1:52:09
Speaker 1: who are going to come to the polls, So what's
1:52:12
Speaker 1: the likelihood that they'll be voting in whatever the interest
1:52:16
Speaker 1: of China is in twenty thirty compared to what the
1:52:21
Speaker 1: best interest of America is in twenty thirty.
1:52:25
Speaker 15: And that's a great question, because look.
1:52:29
Speaker 10: What, I'm not a Chinese Communist Party scholar, but I
1:52:33
Speaker 10: do understand that there is only one party in China,
1:52:38
Speaker 10: only one political party, and when you.
1:52:40
Speaker 18: Go to the polls to vote, you vote who you're
1:52:43
Speaker 18: told to vote for. So my inclination is that, you
1:52:48
Speaker 18: know what, all of these kids who have been raised
1:52:52
Speaker 18: up indoctrinated in the Chinese Communist Party teachings, they're going
1:52:56
Speaker 18: to cast about for exactly who they're told to cast
1:53:00
Speaker 18: that ballot for.
1:53:01
Speaker 10: And here here's the thing, Dan, all of all of
1:53:05
Speaker 10: these people, I don't care if you're a Republican or
1:53:07
Speaker 10: a Democrat.
1:53:09
Speaker 15: You should be concerned.
1:53:10
Speaker 10: About foreign election in our in our own elections.
1:53:15
Speaker 15: This is a big deal.
1:53:16
Speaker 10: And there's been there's been a lot of a pearl
1:53:20
Speaker 10: clutching unnecessarily, I think about false accusations of foreign for
1:53:28
Speaker 10: foreign electionary experience of the year. Well, look, here's the
1:53:30
Speaker 10: thing Peter has uncovered it like this is coming down
1:53:34
Speaker 10: the pike.
1:53:34
Speaker 15: This is an actual, real scheme.
1:53:36
Speaker 10: And if you purport to worry about this, but you
1:53:40
Speaker 10: you are not concerned about this.
1:53:43
Speaker 15: You've been exposed as a fraud. Because this is a
1:53:46
Speaker 15: huge scandal.
1:53:47
Speaker 10: It's a huge scheme, and every single American, regardless of
1:53:52
Speaker 10: political party, needs.
1:53:53
Speaker 15: To be clamoring to get to the phone to.
1:53:56
Speaker 10: Contact their elected official to say you've got to do something, to.
1:53:59
Speaker 1: Say, you know, and you touched on this at the
1:54:03
Speaker 1: beginning of our conversation. It just has to deal with
1:54:06
Speaker 1: the fourteenth Amendment. And there's so many people who want
1:54:09
Speaker 1: to come out and try and make the case that
1:54:12
Speaker 1: the fourteenth Amendment confers birthright citizenship upon anyone who was
1:54:16
Speaker 1: born in the United States. And to me, this is
1:54:20
Speaker 1: one of the more frustrating things that has been going.
1:54:23
Speaker 1: There's a look, there's a lot of things I'm frustrated
1:54:25
Speaker 1: with right now when it comes to action on certain items.
1:54:30
Speaker 1: And when Donald Trump was elected in an office, he
1:54:33
Speaker 1: said he was going to come out and he is
1:54:35
Speaker 1: challenging this notion of birthright citizenship. And so many times
1:54:40
Speaker 1: what gets left out when this story gets reported on
1:54:43
Speaker 1: the news or when you've got pundits talking about it
1:54:46
Speaker 1: on TV, they like to stop and say, well, you
1:54:49
Speaker 1: know what, the Constitution is clear on this because it
1:54:52
Speaker 1: says all persons born and naturalized in the United States
1:54:57
Speaker 1: I get to become citizens. They leave out the part
1:55:02
Speaker 1: here's the text right here, all persons born are naturalized
1:55:06
Speaker 1: in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
1:55:12
Speaker 1: They always leave that part out. And that is the
1:55:15
Speaker 1: key phrase in the fourteenth Amendment, that first sentence of
1:55:20
Speaker 1: the fourteenth Amendment, subject to the jurisdiction thereof. And so
1:55:24
Speaker 1: when you have individuals who come in and do the
1:55:27
Speaker 1: birth tourism that you talk about, they are not subject
1:55:31
Speaker 1: to the jurisdiction of the United States of America. And
1:55:35
Speaker 1: so to my way of thinking, that does not confer
1:55:38
Speaker 1: automatic citizenship just because you happen to be born in
1:55:42
Speaker 1: this country. And there is a well established president that
1:55:46
Speaker 1: backs up that notion. But when we have the debate
1:55:49
Speaker 1: on this, or at least it's carried out in public
1:55:52
Speaker 1: and in the media, it seems that that issue they're
1:55:55
Speaker 1: that particular element of the issue always seems convenient to
1:56:00
Speaker 1: get left out.
1:56:03
Speaker 10: Then anytime the left says that something settled that that
1:56:08
Speaker 10: should send up a red flag. They say the law
1:56:11
Speaker 10: is settled in this or the science has settled.
1:56:15
Speaker 15: Look out. That's like when.
1:56:16
Speaker 10: People call a law or a bill common sense that
1:56:21
Speaker 10: always figgers a red flag. That's that to me, that's
1:56:24
Speaker 10: they're they're trying to tell you up, well, just trust
1:56:26
Speaker 10: us on this. You don't even have to think about it.
1:56:29
Speaker 10: But yeah, this looked at the fourteenth Amendment was passed
1:56:32
Speaker 10: to UH.
1:56:33
Speaker 15: I think it was UH is.
1:56:35
Speaker 10: To undo the dread Scott decision, which had to do
1:56:39
Speaker 10: with your runaway slaves with slaves go into a free state.
1:56:43
Speaker 4: Uh.
1:56:43
Speaker 15: That's where it talks about like the jurisdiction.
1:56:45
Speaker 2: And all that.
1:56:46
Speaker 10: It was not intended to just be a blanket golden
1:56:51
Speaker 10: ticket for either a Chinese mother who just swooped in
1:56:55
Speaker 10: flew into California real quick, or some Pacific.
1:56:58
Speaker 15: Island had baby then flew back. That's not what it's
1:57:02
Speaker 15: meant to do.
1:57:03
Speaker 10: It certainly wasn't meant to do as the Chinese Communist
1:57:07
Speaker 10: Party's exploiting.
1:57:08
Speaker 15: Now these children.
1:57:09
Speaker 10: Who are born to with through birth tourism, when they
1:57:13
Speaker 10: turn like like I mean, it even had it triggers
1:57:18
Speaker 10: birth or chain migration so that even their parents are
1:57:23
Speaker 10: both of their parents are extended citizenship like that is
1:57:26
Speaker 10: not the way that this was meant to be. And
1:57:29
Speaker 10: just a year ago, I mean, look, we're at one
1:57:32
Speaker 10: year now the second Trump administration. One of the first
1:57:35
Speaker 10: things that Trump did was issue an executive order I
1:57:41
Speaker 10: believe it was on birthright citizenship saying we're going to
1:57:44
Speaker 10: put a stop to this. And of course the courts
1:57:47
Speaker 10: are doing everything that they can to impede him, and
1:57:52
Speaker 10: to his credit, Trump has been silently doing the work
1:57:56
Speaker 10: behind the scenes. Stephen Miller, who's my former boss, has
1:58:00
Speaker 10: been one of the leaders in this and trying to
1:58:02
Speaker 10: put a stop to this. Back I mean, gosh, back
1:58:04
Speaker 10: when we worked in the Senate together many many minutes ago,
1:58:08
Speaker 10: but this was one of Stevens big things that.
1:58:11
Speaker 15: We had to put a stop with.
1:58:12
Speaker 10: Is so important, and we didn't even fully realize at
1:58:16
Speaker 10: the time what the Chinese Communist Party was doing. We're
1:58:20
Speaker 10: just now, through Peter's valuable scholarship and now this book,
1:58:27
Speaker 10: are learning the extent of it.
1:58:29
Speaker 15: But this was it was.
1:58:31
Speaker 10: Changes made during the Obama administration that allowed the Chinese to.
1:58:38
Speaker 15: Fully exploit this.
1:58:40
Speaker 10: And now the chickens are coming home to roost unfortunately,
1:58:44
Speaker 10: and honestly, I worry that that Eric Holder.
1:58:48
Speaker 15: And Obama may have known that this was coming and
1:58:50
Speaker 15: didn't care, and it was by a part of why
1:58:53
Speaker 15: they were doing it. But regardless, the consequences are.
1:58:56
Speaker 10: Coming now and it is imperative that lawmakers do something
1:59:00
Speaker 10: to stop it.
1:59:01
Speaker 15: And I think that this is just.
1:59:03
Speaker 10: One of many many blockbuster issues that are going to
1:59:08
Speaker 10: be exposed by invisible coup that comes out today that
1:59:12
Speaker 10: lawmakers will want to do something about, and I believe
1:59:16
Speaker 10: that there will be movement to do something about.
1:59:18
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, of course Barack Obama doesn't care, because he's
1:59:21
Speaker 1: a proponent of the hard left agenda in this country,
1:59:25
Speaker 1: and when it comes to promoting the agenda, that trumps
1:59:28
Speaker 1: everything else. And so that is the major component and
1:59:32
Speaker 1: really the only thing that the left in this country
1:59:35
Speaker 1: is concerned about. But Bradley, Jay, stay right there. We
1:59:38
Speaker 1: got to get to a quick break, and I want
1:59:40
Speaker 1: to use to work with Steven Miller. I want to
1:59:42
Speaker 1: ask you a question about that as we continue on,
1:59:45
Speaker 1: and we will do that momentarily here on fifty five
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1:59:49
Speaker 8: Brian Thomas here for FOURGR fifty.
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1:59:59
Speaker 1: to mis Continuing our conversation with Bradleyjy of Breitbart dot
2:00:05
Speaker 1: Com and Bradleyjay, you mentioned earlier that you used to
2:00:09
Speaker 1: work with Steven Miller, and look, I'm a guy that
2:00:13
Speaker 1: whenever I get a chance on my radio shows to
2:00:15
Speaker 1: play a cut from Steven Miller, I do. I played
2:00:17
Speaker 1: a couple of cuts from him earlier this morning. When
2:00:20
Speaker 1: is this guy always this intense? Is he always this
2:00:23
Speaker 1: on or when you have a chance to kick back
2:00:26
Speaker 1: and sit around the office and talk a little bit,
2:00:29
Speaker 1: I get a sense that Steven Miller is a guy
2:00:31
Speaker 1: that has a great sense of humor.
2:00:36
Speaker 15: She was very funny every now and then. Every now
2:00:40
Speaker 15: and then.
2:00:41
Speaker 10: Look, he was one of the reasons I respected him
2:00:44
Speaker 10: so much is that he was so professional and so focused.
2:00:48
Speaker 10: That was also one of the reasons that not everyone.
2:00:52
Speaker 15: In the Senate liked him. Then it's kind of a
2:00:56
Speaker 15: good old boys club, and that.
2:00:58
Speaker 10: Extends to the staff as well. Many people in congressional staffers.
2:01:04
Speaker 10: I was a congressional staffer for over ten years. They're
2:01:07
Speaker 10: very impressed with themselves. When frankly they shouldn't be. Stephen
2:01:11
Speaker 10: was not there for all that, for the backslapping. He
2:01:14
Speaker 10: was there, he was on a mission. He was there
2:01:16
Speaker 10: to take care of business. But every now and then
2:01:21
Speaker 10: we'd cut up a little bit. And I really like
2:01:26
Speaker 10: Steven learned a lot working working with him, and for
2:01:30
Speaker 10: the last six months or so before he went to
2:01:33
Speaker 10: the to the Trump campaign back in Gosh, I was
2:01:37
Speaker 10: twenty sixteen, sweet fifteen, twenty sixteen.
2:01:39
Speaker 15: He was my direct boss, but great to work with.
2:01:45
Speaker 10: And I'm glad to see him rise to the position
2:01:49
Speaker 10: he is because he is he is a force.
2:01:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is. He is absolutely fantastic, and I just
2:01:54
Speaker 1: get a sense that he actually absolutely loves eviscerating the
2:01:58
Speaker 1: left every chance that he gets. Voter fraud is one
2:02:05
Speaker 1: of the most serious issues that we have. Everything that
2:02:08
Speaker 1: happened in twenty twenty has been exposed. Now there's no
2:02:10
Speaker 1: question that Joe Biden should not have been certified as
2:02:14
Speaker 1: President of the United States. And we've got in Oregon,
2:02:18
Speaker 1: we've got election officials finally beginning to what to purge
2:02:22
Speaker 1: the roles. There more voter fraud in Washington, and this
2:02:25
Speaker 1: just showed up just minutes ago. Bradley Jay on my
2:02:30
Speaker 1: social media and this is in Virginia, and Democrats in
2:02:34
Speaker 1: Virginia have been in power now for forty eight hours
2:02:37
Speaker 1: and they've just introduced a bill. And let me read
2:02:40
Speaker 1: to you part of the text of this bill, election
2:02:44
Speaker 1: results counting machine readable ballots, requires ballot scanner machines to
2:02:50
Speaker 1: be used to count machine readable ballots, and prohibits such
2:02:55
Speaker 1: ballots from being counted by hand for any reason or
2:03:01
Speaker 1: purpose not specifically authorized by the law. So there you go.
2:03:07
Speaker 1: There's Democrats in Virginia, and in my opinion, they're seeking
2:03:11
Speaker 1: to institutionalize and right into law all the voter fraud
2:03:17
Speaker 1: that they want to engage in.
2:03:20
Speaker 10: Well, Dan, look, I read in the New York Times
2:03:22
Speaker 10: that Trump's claims the voter fraud are not credible.
2:03:24
Speaker 15: So I don't know what you're talking about. It's just
2:03:30
Speaker 15: like we were talking about earlier.
2:03:31
Speaker 10: Whenever, whenever the establishment media is like, move on, move along.
2:03:35
Speaker 15: Nothing to see here. This is not credible, this is
2:03:38
Speaker 15: there There is no evidence of this.
2:03:41
Speaker 10: Uh, your your your antennass should perk up. We all
2:03:46
Speaker 10: know that this goes on. It goes on at the
2:03:49
Speaker 10: the micro level across the country and has for many years.
2:03:53
Speaker 15: Increasingly it's gone on.
2:03:56
Speaker 10: At the macro level, on an organized industrial scale, and
2:04:02
Speaker 10: we need to get to the bottom of it. It's
2:04:04
Speaker 10: just like we were talking about with with what Peter
2:04:07
Speaker 10: Schweitzer is uncovered in his book Invisible Coup.
2:04:10
Speaker 1: Uh.
2:04:10
Speaker 15: There, you know, if there.
2:04:12
Speaker 10: Is a loophole something to be exploited, Uh, folks, folks
2:04:16
Speaker 10: are gonna exploit it. And it's a matter of time
2:04:20
Speaker 10: before even our foreign adversaries do it as well.
2:04:24
Speaker 1: All right, well, Bradley, Jay, great talking to you. We've
2:04:26
Speaker 1: got to run What's what's the big story you're working
2:04:29
Speaker 1: on in break Bart today?
2:04:32
Speaker 10: Hey, I'm excited about Davos. I can't wait for Trump
2:04:36
Speaker 10: to go overseas and stick it to the globalists. So
2:04:38
Speaker 10: that's gonna be a lot of fun that speeches tomorrow,
2:04:42
Speaker 10: so stay tuned for that. And then we might get
2:04:44
Speaker 10: a Supreme Court decision today on tariffs and maybe even
2:04:47
Speaker 10: the Voting Rights Act Section two. So that's that's exciting
2:04:51
Speaker 10: as well. Stay tuned at Bridbart dot com.
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Speaker 1: Hey, Breitbart dot com. I look at it every single
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Speaker 15: Looking forward to Dan.
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Speaker 13: Thanks for having me on.
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Speaker 1: Thank thank you for being here. I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of Americans have been trying over the last several weeks
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Speaker 1: ever since the Maduro caper. Well actually, I would say
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Speaker 1: starting with blowing the Venezuelan drug boats out of the water,
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Speaker 1: and then we roll in there and we get Maduro
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Speaker 1: out of there, and he's on trial now, and we
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Speaker 1: just saw a lot of I think it was thirteen
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Speaker 1: individuals who were guarding him come in from Cuba. A
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Speaker 1: lot of people trying to get their head around you
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Speaker 1: why are we taking these actions in Venezuela. And I
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Speaker 1: fought from the very beginning that this is part of
2:06:26
Speaker 1: a larger play on foreign policy with what's happening in Venezuela.
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Speaker 1: Give me your take on what we've seen as it
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Speaker 1: relates to Venezuela.
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Speaker 13: It's a bit of a puzzle, we have to admit,
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Speaker 13: because a lot of the stated reasons seem to have
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Speaker 13: just vanished over not which was always about national security
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Speaker 13: for the United States. It was about keeping the drugs
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Speaker 13: out of the United States, even though by our own accounting,
2:06:50
Speaker 13: even by the administration itself, that the priority are the
2:06:54
Speaker 13: primary number of fentanyl, for example, and even cocaine comes
2:06:58
Speaker 13: out of Colombia, comes out of Mexico. Ironically, even China
2:07:03
Speaker 13: and India. People are not aware of that those two
2:07:06
Speaker 13: especially and a very small amount had even comes out
2:07:09
Speaker 13: of Venezuela. Most of what is produced there goes to Europe. Interestingly,
2:07:14
Speaker 13: so that was the claim. But then we went in
2:07:16
Speaker 13: and we took him out, We knocked out a lot
2:07:18
Speaker 13: of those drug boats, et cetera. And then after we
2:07:21
Speaker 13: take took Maduro. You haven't heard any I haven't seen
2:07:24
Speaker 13: a single report of a drug boat being taken out
2:07:26
Speaker 13: since that time, so I don't know why that would
2:07:28
Speaker 13: have stopped if it was about drugs into the US.
2:07:31
Speaker 13: But then of course we have the focus on Actually
2:07:33
Speaker 13: it's about oil and about taking the oil infrastructure, setting
2:07:37
Speaker 13: up this long term situation where the United States controls
2:07:40
Speaker 13: the oil coming out, and we left the Maduro government
2:07:43
Speaker 13: in the Maduro himself was taken out, but the government
2:07:46
Speaker 13: was left in place. And other than the fact that
2:07:49
Speaker 13: we now have access to the Venezuelan oil, not much
2:07:53
Speaker 13: else has changed.
2:07:55
Speaker 1: Well. I think from the very beginning it was all
2:07:58
Speaker 1: about the oil. And one of Venezuela's largest customers, if
2:08:03
Speaker 1: not the largest customer, is China, and China gets a
2:08:08
Speaker 1: lot of it's oil from Venezuela. I believe Iran gets
2:08:11
Speaker 1: a lot of their oil from Venezuela as well, or
2:08:14
Speaker 1: they've got some kind of relationship going on there. So
2:08:17
Speaker 1: I look at this as a positioning move on the
2:08:19
Speaker 1: part of Trump and Marco Rubio to I guess, facilitate
2:08:26
Speaker 1: whatever it is they want to get out of Iran
2:08:28
Speaker 1: and whatever they want to get out of China.
2:08:31
Speaker 13: Well, yeah, I mean you really can't not acknowledge those
2:08:35
Speaker 13: facts there. And you can add Cuba into that mix
2:08:37
Speaker 13: because they got most of their oil from Venezuela, at
2:08:40
Speaker 13: least a large portion of it. So that's a big
2:08:42
Speaker 13: question what's going to happen to that country internally? That
2:08:45
Speaker 13: that's something that apparently Marco Rubio is quite excited about
2:08:48
Speaker 13: the possibility of bringing down that government. But you know,
2:08:50
Speaker 13: we have to look at it from a national security perspective,
2:08:53
Speaker 13: from a diplomatic perspective in the United States, and I'm
2:08:57
Speaker 13: just not sure how that benefits us and upon what
2:09:02
Speaker 13: basis and what legality or any other kind of morality
2:09:05
Speaker 13: can we just say we're going to take the head
2:09:07
Speaker 13: of state out of a country, We're going to take
2:09:09
Speaker 13: their natural resources and drive China and Russia out of
2:09:13
Speaker 13: that market. I mean, we always talk about how we
2:09:15
Speaker 13: want the global comments to be open to everybody, to
2:09:18
Speaker 13: include areas in Asia and in Europe and in the
2:09:21
Speaker 13: South America, et cetera. We want to keep everything open.
2:09:24
Speaker 13: But now we're saying it's only open to us, so
2:09:26
Speaker 13: we're going to literally drive out other people. And looking
2:09:29
Speaker 13: at when you take actions like this, very often there's
2:09:31
Speaker 13: a tip for tat there's a reaction. People are not
2:09:33
Speaker 13: just going to be driven out of a market and
2:09:35
Speaker 13: do nothing. We could find ourselves potentially being blocked out
2:09:39
Speaker 13: of other markets that we want to be in. So
2:09:41
Speaker 13: it's a problem when we say we want the rule
2:09:44
Speaker 13: of law and the open global commons in one hand,
2:09:46
Speaker 13: but then we take it by force in another. It
2:09:49
Speaker 13: just doesn't play out.
2:09:49
Speaker 1: Well for us. Yeah, that's a good point. Well, let
2:09:53
Speaker 1: me ask you about this. How interested were you to
2:09:56
Speaker 1: read about the operation that conducted to get Maduro out
2:10:02
Speaker 1: of there and the information that came out afterwards about
2:10:06
Speaker 1: these sonic weapons that the United States may have used
2:10:10
Speaker 1: during that operation that incapacitated these guardsmen. And I guess
2:10:16
Speaker 1: you bleed from the years, and you bleed from the
2:10:19
Speaker 1: eyes and all that sort of thing. This use of
2:10:22
Speaker 1: this sonic weapon in order to make this operation take place,
2:10:27
Speaker 1: is that something you knew about or is that something
2:10:30
Speaker 1: that is relatively new on the scene.
2:10:33
Speaker 13: It's relatively new on the scene in terms of its
2:10:37
Speaker 13: production and performance in a real operation. It's been something
2:10:40
Speaker 13: that's been deployed for quite a long time. I remember
2:10:43
Speaker 13: in the mid two thousands, when I was still in
2:10:44
Speaker 13: active duty, I was assigned to the Future Combat Systems
2:10:47
Speaker 13: at Ford Plus, Texas, where we were doing a lot
2:10:49
Speaker 13: of futures things, and one of the weapons systems that
2:10:51
Speaker 13: was publicly being developed at that time was a microwavetop
2:10:55
Speaker 13: technology that does those kinds of things. We didn't hear
2:10:57
Speaker 13: a lot about it after that, but obviously, at least
2:11:00
Speaker 13: according to reports. I don't have any insider info, but
2:11:02
Speaker 13: just according to reports, it just kind of went dark.
2:11:05
Speaker 13: No one was talking much about it. Now, this is
2:11:07
Speaker 13: the first time I'm aware that something has occurred in
2:11:09
Speaker 13: an operational environment. So you can be sure that this
2:11:13
Speaker 13: is like everything else you ever see in war. Once
2:11:16
Speaker 13: it's something that opens on the scene, others are going
2:11:18
Speaker 13: to emulate it. So's it was helpful to us in
2:11:21
Speaker 13: this operation here, but we can probably count on it
2:11:24
Speaker 13: at some point where it's going to be used against
2:11:26
Speaker 13: us as well. That's just the nature of war.
2:11:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, and my next question was going to be, doesn't
2:11:31
Speaker 1: send a message to those who might be our enemies
2:11:34
Speaker 1: that look, here's another component that you're going to have
2:11:38
Speaker 1: to deal with. Yeah, it is.
2:11:40
Speaker 13: I mean that, of course, we see that on routine
2:11:43
Speaker 13: display in the RUSSI of Ukraine War about the development
2:11:45
Speaker 13: of various types of drones counter drone technology, and then
2:11:49
Speaker 13: the other side always emulates it, tries to improve upon it,
2:11:51
Speaker 13: then the other side tries to counter it, et cetera.
2:11:53
Speaker 13: And that is definitely the play here where our adversaries
2:11:56
Speaker 13: are saying, Okay, I see that that works, let me
2:11:59
Speaker 13: develop one. It's been out in the open anyway. I'm
2:12:01
Speaker 13: sure they've ben't doing it anyway. But if if they
2:12:03
Speaker 13: needed any incentive to accelerate their invaluement, it's now.
2:12:08
Speaker 1: In your opinion, how much trouble is the leadership in Iran?
2:12:12
Speaker 1: How much trouble are they in? And the reports of
2:12:16
Speaker 1: this that there are billions, millions or billions of dollars
2:12:21
Speaker 1: that are that are leaving the country, and Scott Descent
2:12:24
Speaker 1: was talking about that over the weekend, that they're they're
2:12:27
Speaker 1: seeing all this money being deposited in other banks around
2:12:30
Speaker 1: the world. How much trouble is the leadership in Iran?
2:12:34
Speaker 1: And in the face of these demonstrations that we've seen
2:12:37
Speaker 1: in the streets.
2:12:39
Speaker 13: Well, there is no question that they are in a
2:12:41
Speaker 13: weekened position from what they were prior to the twenty
2:12:44
Speaker 13: eighth of December, when a lot of this stuff started,
2:12:47
Speaker 13: but I think that it's an exaggeration to say they're
2:12:49
Speaker 13: in a seriously weakened position. So far, we've seen that
2:12:52
Speaker 13: they the regime has been able to handle this. They've
2:12:55
Speaker 13: been able to crack down on a lot of this
2:12:57
Speaker 13: descent that happened. And we also have to acknowledge that
2:12:59
Speaker 13: a lot of the just according to Mike Pompeo, was
2:13:02
Speaker 13: because of we and the Mossad and probably six were
2:13:05
Speaker 13: part of actively trying to foment a lot of this stuff.
2:13:08
Speaker 13: So it's trying to create more because there's already a
2:13:11
Speaker 13: fisher there. There's already weakness because of the regime itself.
2:13:15
Speaker 13: There's also a weakness because of these sanctions we've imposed
2:13:17
Speaker 13: upon them to try to bring their economy to crashing
2:13:20
Speaker 13: to the floor anyway. So a lot of these things
2:13:22
Speaker 13: have existed before, but so far it appears that the
2:13:25
Speaker 13: Iranian government is wathered the worst of the storm here.
2:13:29
Speaker 13: And then the real question is, since that appears to
2:13:31
Speaker 13: be the case, now, what is the Trump administration and
2:13:34
Speaker 13: the Israelis going to do, Because it looks to me
2:13:37
Speaker 13: like that they're getting ready to do something bigger than
2:13:39
Speaker 13: what they might have done earlier.
2:13:40
Speaker 2: This month.
2:13:40
Speaker 13: According to Lindsey Graham, anyway, something bigger is coming and
2:13:43
Speaker 13: a regime change operation is coming. We'll see if that's
2:13:46
Speaker 13: just hyperbole or if we see another attack.
2:13:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, what do you think the next step
2:13:53
Speaker 1: would be? Because I feel pretty confident in saying that
2:13:58
Speaker 1: there really is no appetite in this country to see
2:14:03
Speaker 1: anything that looks like boots on the ground in in Iran.
2:14:08
Speaker 13: That is the real problem to some of these people
2:14:12
Speaker 13: who want regime change. They want regime change on the cheap,
2:14:15
Speaker 13: and they want it with that, with cost free. Lindsey
2:14:17
Speaker 13: Graham and his pronouncement of this last I think Friday
2:14:20
Speaker 13: made this comment that, yeah, once that the regime is dropped,
2:14:24
Speaker 13: it's gonna usher in a whole new era. And I
2:14:26
Speaker 13: just couldn't help but cringe. I'm like, dude, you realize
2:14:28
Speaker 13: that's exactly what the United States said in the Bush
2:14:32
Speaker 13: administration before Iraq in two thousand and three. And we
2:14:36
Speaker 13: see how that turned out, and we see it nearly
2:14:37
Speaker 13: always turns out like that. If you think you can
2:14:39
Speaker 13: go on on the cheap and just throw a few
2:14:41
Speaker 13: missiles out there, and that's going to make the regime fall,
2:14:43
Speaker 13: and it's going to be great after that man, you
2:14:45
Speaker 13: hadn't been paying attention to world history or paying any
2:14:48
Speaker 13: attention to human nature. It's almost certainly not going to
2:14:51
Speaker 13: work out that way. And the regime is aware of
2:14:54
Speaker 13: our plans, and they have plans. They have con continuity
2:14:57
Speaker 13: of government plans. So even if you took out the
2:15:00
Speaker 13: the Ayatola, they said, by the way, that would be
2:15:02
Speaker 13: full and war. And now then they have no reason
2:15:04
Speaker 13: to withhold and they would tack other Americans in the region.
2:15:07
Speaker 13: We don't want a situation to where we bring our
2:15:10
Speaker 13: own troops else in the region under fire. And by
2:15:13
Speaker 13: the way, their missiles can penetrate our air defense out there,
2:15:16
Speaker 13: and if they choose to, they can reach a wreak
2:15:19
Speaker 13: a lot of damage and death on our troops. And
2:15:21
Speaker 13: I hope we don't find out.
2:15:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, when you when you look at green have
2:15:26
Speaker 1: you ever been to Greenland, by the way, as beautiful.
2:15:29
Speaker 13: Colt Okay, been to Austin that had been to Greenland?
2:15:32
Speaker 1: Right, But when it when it comes to Greenland, I
2:15:34
Speaker 1: think it's easy to make the and and understand the
2:15:38
Speaker 1: argument for its its position on the on the on
2:15:41
Speaker 1: the globe, why it would be a strategic importance for
2:15:45
Speaker 1: the United States. Uh, I don't know that I can
2:15:47
Speaker 1: get my head around with. You know what has been
2:15:50
Speaker 1: coming from the administration as far as wanting to have
2:15:55
Speaker 1: more influence in Greenland. How do you size up that situation.
2:15:58
Speaker 13: Look, here's the here's the troubling part about all this,
2:16:00
Speaker 13: this claim that we have to have Greenland or our
2:16:06
Speaker 13: national security will be at risk, and Denmark can't defend it,
2:16:10
Speaker 13: et cetera. Denmark has never defended Greenland. It's always been NATO.
2:16:15
Speaker 13: It's got Article five protections, the same as every other
2:16:18
Speaker 13: NATO country. So I mean, just like you'd say, well,
2:16:21
Speaker 13: you can't say Lithuania, the little Lithuania can defend itself
2:16:25
Speaker 13: against Russia.
2:16:26
Speaker 1: It can't.
2:16:26
Speaker 13: That's why it's a part of NATO, because it wants
2:16:29
Speaker 13: that protection. The same would be for Greenland. But the
2:16:31
Speaker 13: other issue that I talked about is that, look, even
2:16:34
Speaker 13: when you look at Russia, why in the world would
2:16:35
Speaker 13: Russia ever want Greenland to risk an Article five attack
2:16:39
Speaker 13: against a nuclear powered alliance when it already has a
2:16:43
Speaker 13: massive Arctic presence on its own border. China is even worse.
2:16:48
Speaker 13: China wants access to the Arctic for economic reasons, but
2:16:51
Speaker 13: they don't have the military to project naval and air
2:16:55
Speaker 13: power to even make an attempt to seize it. So
2:16:57
Speaker 13: there is literally there is no is from it. Our
2:17:01
Speaker 13: Article five already protects it. And by the way, if
2:17:03
Speaker 13: you want it for air defense or this Golden Dome situation,
2:17:07
Speaker 13: you already have that. With the treaties that we have
2:17:09
Speaker 13: in place, we can expand our footprint. We don't need
2:17:12
Speaker 13: to own it in order to have those things met.
2:17:14
Speaker 13: So I don't really understand, though, what's really at the
2:17:17
Speaker 13: heart of why President Trump seems so emphatic about owning
2:17:21
Speaker 13: it because it comes a great cost to us, and
2:17:23
Speaker 13: I'm talking great cost over an extended period of time.
2:17:26
Speaker 13: I don't know that he's thought through a lot of that,
2:17:28
Speaker 13: because I think if he did, he would see, we
2:17:30
Speaker 13: don't want to saddle our country with billions of dollars
2:17:33
Speaker 13: already going to another country just to keep them afloat.
2:17:36
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Daniel Davis, Lieutenant colonel retired from the Army,
2:17:41
Speaker 1: and thank you so much for your perspective this morning.
2:17:43
Speaker 1: Great to have you on for the fifty five KRC
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Speaker 1: Morning Show, and keep up the great work. I certainly
2:17:49
Speaker 1: hope we can get a chance to talk on down
2:17:51
Speaker 1: the road or too. Thank you lot, all right, thank
2:17:53
Speaker 1: you very much, and with that we will get to
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Speaker 3: Now that a new year is here, Start twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: Fifty five karc DE Talk Station. Dan Carrell sitting for
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Speaker 1: Brian Thomas. Always a great pleasure to come in and
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Speaker 1: be here for the UH one of the probably the
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Speaker 1: greatest audience in Cincinnati radio, the Brian Thomas audience. All
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Speaker 1: the best to him and everything that he's going through,
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Speaker 1: and if he wants to take a day off, I'm
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Speaker 1: here for it. So thanks to Joe Strecker, thanks to
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Speaker 1: Brian for letting me sit in, and if you want
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Speaker 1: to jump on board here in the last seven or
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Speaker 1: eight minutes five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty five hundred, Joe,
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Speaker 1: if I asked you off the top of your head,
2:18:41
Speaker 1: could you name the nine biggest companies in Cincinnati? Okay?
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Speaker 1: But I think most anyone could probably get the top
2:18:51
Speaker 1: four or five easily. And Alexander Coolidge of The Inquirer
2:18:57
Speaker 1: has got this piece out this morning, I identifying the
2:19:01
Speaker 1: nine biggest companies in Cincinnati in terms of in terms
2:19:07
Speaker 1: of money, in terms of revenue, what they're worth. And
2:19:10
Speaker 1: so it starts off with number nine is TQL. Would
2:19:15
Speaker 1: you have guess TQL? And there Joe at number nine,
2:19:19
Speaker 1: not at number nine, but yeah, but it's got And
2:19:24
Speaker 1: this is one of these things that I love this
2:19:27
Speaker 1: kind of stuff because here in Cincinnati, we love our history,
2:19:31
Speaker 1: we love the nostalgia, We love the knowing about our
2:19:35
Speaker 1: local companies and where they come from, how they got started,
2:19:39
Speaker 1: and all the rest of it. And that's what he's
2:19:41
Speaker 1: done here. TQL number nine. Total Quality Logistics freight broker's
2:19:45
Speaker 1: firm helps businesses make connections to get products to where
2:19:49
Speaker 1: they need to go. Founded in nineteen ninety seven by
2:19:52
Speaker 1: Ken Oaks, former produced buyer. So frustrated with unreliable freight
2:19:56
Speaker 1: shipping he started his own company. And the rest history
2:20:00
Speaker 1: and that building they've got out there in Eastgate right
2:20:03
Speaker 1: along two seventy five, absolutely amazing, So congratulations to them.
2:20:09
Speaker 1: American Financial Group comes in at number eight. Eight point
2:20:13
Speaker 1: three billion. Specially Insured traces its roots back to eighteen
2:20:17
Speaker 1: seventy two, when the German American Insurance Company sold its
2:20:22
Speaker 1: first ever policy to a rubber comb factory company changed
2:20:27
Speaker 1: its name because of anti German sentiment during World War Two,
2:20:30
Speaker 1: and then in nineteen seventy three, Carl Linder Junior acquired
2:20:35
Speaker 1: a majority share of the conglomerate and merged it with
2:20:39
Speaker 1: his holding company, American Financial Group. Number seven is sentas
2:20:44
Speaker 1: nine point six billion and sentas of course, they make uniforms.
2:20:50
Speaker 1: They make all kinds of stuff, mops, shop towels, restrooms, supplies.
2:20:56
Speaker 1: I did not know. This company traces its roots back
2:20:59
Speaker 1: to nineteen twenty nine, when a couple of out of
2:21:02
Speaker 1: work circus performers, Doc and Amelia Farmer began an industrial
2:21:07
Speaker 1: laundry business called the Acme Industrial Laundry Company. They collected
2:21:14
Speaker 1: rags thrown out by factories, cleaned them, and resold them
2:21:17
Speaker 1: to manufacturers. So how about that Their grandson, Dick Farmer,
2:21:24
Speaker 1: expanded the business by providing uniforms. So there's that's a
2:21:30
Speaker 1: little little history of the sentas company. Cincinnati Financial found
2:21:36
Speaker 1: that in nineteen fifty comes in at eleven point three billion.
2:21:41
Speaker 1: Core business is casualty insurance, So there's that. Then then
2:21:47
Speaker 1: we get to then we get to the really big ones.
2:21:51
Speaker 1: Everyone knows. Fifth Third Bank comes in that at fifth
2:21:55
Speaker 1: place thirteen point three billion. Fifth third founded an eighteen
2:22:00
Speaker 1: fifty eight as the Bank of the Ohio Valley. Then
2:22:04
Speaker 1: number four is Western Southern thirteen point eight billion, started
2:22:08
Speaker 1: as a small door to door life insurance. Amazing, how
2:22:10
Speaker 1: many life insurance companies and insurance companies have their home
2:22:15
Speaker 1: and started here in Cincinnati. But Western Southern eighteen eighty
2:22:19
Speaker 1: eight started as a door to door life insurance business
2:22:23
Speaker 1: selling policies to local industrial workers. GE Aerospace thirty eight
2:22:28
Speaker 1: point seven billion, and we all pretty much know about GE.
2:22:34
Speaker 1: Then you got Procter and Gamble. Eighty four billion dollars
2:22:38
Speaker 1: is the net worth there? I would suspect that Procter
2:22:42
Speaker 1: and gambles Joe, would you say, Procter and Gamble is
2:22:45
Speaker 1: worth more than eighty four billion? I would I would think, so.
2:22:50
Speaker 1: I think that's that's a low number there. And then
2:22:52
Speaker 1: Kroger comes in at number If it was me, I
2:22:55
Speaker 1: would have put Procter and Gamble in front of Crow.
2:22:58
Speaker 1: I would have thought Kroger is a little bit I mean,
2:23:03
Speaker 1: you know, look, Kroger is a great company. But number
2:23:07
Speaker 1: one Pappas and the papist number one Andrew Pappas. We
2:23:10
Speaker 1: got a couple of minutes here what's uh, what's what's
2:23:13
Speaker 1: gotta be in your bonnet this morning?
2:23:15
Speaker 19: I'm just kind of shocked. There was in a smally
2:23:18
Speaker 19: and run daycare is number one here and there.
2:23:21
Speaker 1: They're quickly moving up the chain.
2:23:24
Speaker 19: I think you need to re evaluate that list.
2:23:27
Speaker 1: They've got great cash flow, so wonderful cast.
2:23:30
Speaker 19: When you have quarantined income and no expenses, it makes
2:23:36
Speaker 19: for an easy bottom line.
2:23:39
Speaker 1: It's a it's a whole new business model. It needs
2:23:42
Speaker 1: to be fully explored.
2:23:44
Speaker 19: I I agree, and I concur Now let's I just
2:23:46
Speaker 19: want to remind everybody that if you have an old
2:23:49
Speaker 19: smelly shoe laying around the house, perfectly burking stock, it's
2:23:53
Speaker 19: apparently at two pm today the Libs are going to
2:23:56
Speaker 19: walk outside.
2:23:57
Speaker 1: What is the deal with that? What is that? What
2:24:00
Speaker 1: is that supposed to me?
2:24:02
Speaker 19: I have no idea what they're doing, but you know,
2:24:05
Speaker 19: a lot of what the Democrats and Liberals do these days,
2:24:08
Speaker 19: much like that church storming with Don Lemon yesterday or
2:24:13
Speaker 19: over the weekend. I just don't understand what the Libs do.
2:24:16
Speaker 17: But I just wanted to give.
2:24:17
Speaker 19: Them something for you know, you get much like a
2:24:20
Speaker 19: pet that's destructive. You've got to give them something to
2:24:22
Speaker 19: focus their energy on. I feel like if you leave
2:24:25
Speaker 19: a pair of stinky, smelly I don't own birkenstocks. I
2:24:29
Speaker 19: think you do, Dan Carroll, you.
2:24:31
Speaker 1: Never had a pair of birkinstuns.
2:24:33
Speaker 19: I think that if you leave them outside, it will
2:24:35
Speaker 19: give them something to chew on for a few minutes
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Speaker 19: and direct their energy into into something less destructive.
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Speaker 1: You think I've got it. I've got an old gym
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Speaker 1: shoe I can put out there to show my solidarity
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Speaker 1: with the what what? What are they walking out for
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Speaker 1: thirty seconds?
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Speaker 19: I think just just general, just general mayhem. I mean,
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Speaker 19: that's what I've heard.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 19: I've saw it online. We shall see. I'll wait outside
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Speaker 19: your office today, so you walk outside at two pm.
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Speaker 1: I'll have to make sure I bring my up put.
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Speaker 1: Don't forget to put your coat on out it might
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Speaker 1: be cold outside. Andrew, we got to run, buddy. We'll
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